Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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28 THE HAMMER. usual self-composure and accepted. Nevertheless, they are living perfectly happy in their cosy little cottage on one of the Wayne County lakes. Frequently they go to New York to attend a good concert or some fine dramatic performance. Miss Rena Laurer in her earlier years always showed great interest in the architecture of her land, not so much in the rarely found brick or stone mansions which have been built regardless of expense, and which, though sometimes over-ornamented, seem almost perfect both in architecture and arrangement, but to the erection of the ordinary dwelling houses. Miss Lauver shortly after her departure here went to Wellesley, where this idea to beautify and adorn constantly increased in interest. She attended Pratt, taking the special course in architecture. While attending there she received many orders for her works. The last number of the Ladies' Home. Journal, her favorite paper, has just devoted several pages to Miss Lauver’s “Original Designs for Modern Homes ’ Miss Conklin was a girl of wide interests while at school. She made for herself a prominent place on the gymnasuim floor when basket ball was in session. She was a conspicuous figure on the tennis court when tennis was in season. She had an important place boating on the lake, when that sport was in season, and had no minor part on the campus when “snapping” was in season. For several years along all these lines she developed rapidly after leaving school, and she added to her accomplishments golf and hunting. Then suddenly, we know not why, Miss Conklin gave up all these indulgences. She took up the cause of woman’s suffrage. The powers of her bold, dashing manner, which she displayed here, are now spent in going from town to town of the United States trying to bring men to her way of thinking. And in her methods she seems bound to rival the once much-talked-of Carrie Nation. She visits the polls where women are not allowed to cast any votes. She tries by force to discontinue the election until the men solemnly vow they will ever afterward favor woman’s suffrage. We will now consider our elocutionist. During our public entertainments at school she seemed to have very promising

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CLASS PROPHECY. 27 happily with her husband, a Lutheran minister, in Altoona, Pa. Her husband's congregation, I have heard say, are completely captivated, and talk much about their minister's wife, who is such a charming and brilliant conversationalist. Miss Maud G. Hostetter seemed always fond of vocal music, along which lines she rapidly developed upon leaving school. She has studied under the most talented teachers of our land, and has now entrusted to her care the voices of the most promising music pupils of the New York Chautauqua. There was another of our class who believed most heartily in a rounded-out character. While we were with him we saw him studying, in addition to his text-books, art, vocal music, the violin, poetry, oratory, and about a dozen other things which I have forgotten. Upon leaving school, Mr. Willis W. Hackman turned to a new subject, sculpturing. Along this new channel he has made the most progress. He is now in London, and although he pursues this occupation most closely, his spare moments are, as of old, devoted to rounding out his character. Grover Cleveland Chandlee—the name might suggest to the stranger a young man of a political turn of mind. But though interested as a looker-on of politics, we, who thought we knew him, on the contrary thought he would make a grand “Little Minister. But though we thought we were good readers of character, he has shown us his was no usual character to read. Much to the surprise of all, he attended the University of Pennsylvania for the purpose of becoming a physician. After his graduation there, in 1909, a physician and friend of his in Boston persuaded him to make that city his dwelling place. Here he has worked up for himself an extensive practice. Now I will relate the history of the young lady from Wayne County. It would take too long to relate the entire history of the class, so I am, therefore, mentioning only the most important events of their eventful histories. The most important event of Gertrude C. Mcliale’s life was when some youth, a former resident of Scranton, whose name is Mr. Walters and whose height is four feet and eleven inches, had the audacity to propose to this sedate maiden. It is whispered that she, for a brief minute, lost her

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CLASS PROPHECY. 29 powers as an elocutionist. She has, however, gone far beyond our expectations. She has just made an European tour together with her husband, Mr. Smythe, the well-known vocalist, and Mr. Leopold, the famous violinist. I allude, classmates, to her who is familiar to us as Grace Castner. One of us was of an extremely benevolent disposition. This statement does not necessarily exclude all the rest from the possession of that most admirable trait; but at least we were reminded most often that this lady possessed such a virtue. In surveying class many were the times she told us people weren’t so stingy in Blair County. In surveying class it meant only a difference of a few perches; in recent years it has meant a difference of many square miles. Miss Jeannette Wertz was never known to shirk work, and the habits of close application which she formed here were naturally continued when she got out in the world. She has prospered, and from her money has made frequent and generous donations to the various cities of the land —by no means excluding Tyrone, her native town—for the purpose of erecting almshouses and hospitals. From present appearances she will continue to make much money and dispose of it in the same way until from overwork she will be compelled to stop. Then she will realize what the rest of us already know—that self must be considered as well as others. Miss Hilda Steel, one of the tallest ladies of the class, who has such a stately appearance and who makes her superiority felt everywhere, is president of a Woman’s Club, San Francisco. This position she accepted after her graduation from Smith College in 1908. In glancing over the San Francisco newspapers during the past few years, I find the following are some of the themes upon which Miss Steel has lectured to the Club: “Moral Suasion,” “Darwin’s Theory of Evolution,” and “Predestination.” During our Senior year we were fortunate to have among our number two gentlemen who possessed rare abilities as to class management. It was not necessary for the class to worry about programmes for sociables or Class Day. Oh, no; these gentlemen very kindly took this difficulty from them. They planned everything during a few of their leisure moments in the summer