McDonogh School - Dragon Yearbook (Owings Mills, MD)

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THE DRAGON,1919' on his arrival in France, and was getting along well. Eggen had been offered a commission, but he had refused it, as he would have had to part from his friend Bayly. They were in the hospital seeing some wounded soldiers who were in their company. The four of us, Bayly, Brandau, Eggen and I, after seeing that Brandaufs wounds had been properly attended to, sat down and had a pleasant chat about hIcDonogh. They had not seen any of their classmates, but had heard that Sammy hIoore, another crony of theirs, was somewhere near their sector, with a rank of lieutenant-colonel. The splendid training he received While he was at h'IcDonogh had stood him in good stead. He had been decorated with the Legion of Honor and the hrlilitary hiedaille for conspicuous bravery. After several hours, which were spent in talking over our past days, we parted-Bayly and Eggen to their company, and Brandau and I back to our trenches, where I turned Brandau over to the guard. Since then Ihave not heard of him, whether he has escaped or not, I do not know. About six weeks later, one fine morning, I Was called up before my superior officer and was told that I could have six Weeks furlough. Imagine my delight- I could go back to America, see my old friends and the good old school once more! On my arrival in America, after I had passed the necessary examinations, I got off the boat and was on my Way to a restaurant, asI Was nearly famished. I happened to cross a street Where they were fixing up the street car lines and my eye was caught by one of the laborers, who Was supposedly busy digging up the earth between the tracks. In order to get a better look at this certain individual, as his figure looked strangely familiar to me, I walked over to Where he was digging. As I got there he looked up and lol it was Ikey hlichael. Ihappened to know the man in charge of the gang in which Klichael was working, and got permission from him to take lXIichael aside and have a talk with him. After I had told him everything I knew about my other classmates, he finally began talking about himself. It seems that, after he had entered high school, preparatory to going to Yale, he found that it Was a hard thing to Work his Way through college, and when he at last got to Yale he had to work so hard in order to meet expenses that he fell to the bottom of his class. 30

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THE DRAGON, 1919 Class Prophecy T was the summer of 1929. The Great YVar was slowly drawing to a close. The Germans had been driven back to the Rhine defenses, and our guns were now engaged in hammering away at them. I was sitting in the doorway of my dugout, smoking and reminiscing of by-gone days, when our officer came along and told us to get ready to go over the top. 'We were all excited and nervous-waiting for the signal. It came at last, and we swept over the German trenches as a flood sweeps over the land. We left nothing standing-everything was wiped out in our victorious advance. VVe had driven about ten miles into the German lines, and were taking prisoners by the hundreds. Imagine my surprise when, on passing a wounded German officer, I recognized one of my classmates, Otto Brandau. At first I was not allowed to speak to him, but after I told my superior officer who he was he permitted me to speak to him, warning me, however, of the penalty I would have to pay if I let him escape, as he was a big prize. He and I then went into an uninhabited dugout and talked over our past school days. I learned from him he had come over to Germany to study con- structing engineering, and that the German Government had seized him and put him in the Imperial Army. I-le had fought in various battles, had been promoted to be a colonel, and had been awarded the Iron Crosses of the First and Second Orders for his bravery and for his knowledge of warfare. I-le went on to tell me how he had often met Alu Aschemeier, who was also in the German Imperial Army. He had been awarded different medals for bravery and had fought on several fronts. The last he had heard of him was that he had been shot for disobeying orders. As Brandau was wounded, I got permission to go to the hospital back of the lines to have the wounds treated. While I was looking about the hospital who should l meet but Xlartin Bayly and his old chum and crony, klohn liggen. liayli' and lflggCI1 had both studied engineering after leaving Xlcllonogh, and had made quite a name for themselves. Bayly had been promoted to :1 captaincy 29

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THE DRAGON, 1919 He had gone to Yale with the intention of becoming a civil engineer, but had repeatedly drifted down and down until the best he could do was to hire himself out as a laborer. I was greatly astonished at what he had said, because while he and I were at lNfIcDonogh he had always proved to be the brightest and smartest fellow in the class. I then told him that I would keep on the lookout for a better position for him, and that as soon as I found one I would let him know. As I was hungry, I asked him to direct me to a good restaurant. He pointed out a capacious- looking place to me, and I said good-by, feeling very sorry that one of my class- mates should drop as low as that. As I drew near I looked in the window and saw on it, in large letters, Harvey,s Restaurantf' I was puzzled at first, as the name was familiar to me, and the thought came to me that it might be another of my old schoolmates, VVilliam Harvey. VVhile I was standing there, meditating, the proprietor came to the door, and lol it was NVilliam Harvey. I asked him why he was in such a profession, and he confessed that since he had left McDonogh he had never been able to get enough to eat and had finally decided to go into the eats business himself. I was no more overjoyed to see him than he was to see me, so he took me inside and Htreatedn me, as I had done him many times while at school. IVC talked over olden times together, and he made me tell him about the fellows I had seen while I was in France. YVhen I started to tell him about Michael he laughed, and said that he often saw him. Wfhile I was eating-I was sitting near the orchestra-I happened to see two faces that looked familiar. I asked him who they were. He laughed and said: Don't you recognize them? IYhy, they are 'Chaunceyl Tuttle and II-'illiam Randolph. He then took me over to where they were, and we talked over past days, I learned from Tuttle that after leaving hlcDonogh he had tried to go through college but had been unsuccessful. :Xfter wandering around the country he had come to Harx'ey's, and had accepted a position as head of the orchestra, not because hc wanted to, but because it was the best he could do. 31