Milton College - Fides Yearbook (Milton, WI)

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Left to right, top to bottom: . V. Whalen. 8. B. Daland; G. Krueger; I. Polan; A. 1. Back Row: H. McFarland; H. FooLe: '. H. McFarland. Griffey. G. Krueger; B. Brown; V. Whalen; . W. Hurley; D. Weber. 9. H. McFarland; I. Polan; V. Hammill: D. Weber; D. Lippincott; D. Crandall; . E. Lipke. B. Ruosch; HA Kemmerer; I. Farman; H. Kemmerer; H. Pearson; A. Stew- I. Forrestal; M. Woerpel; I. Hirchert; K. Dawson. art. FirSt row: I. Polan; M. Woerpel; E. Gilbertson. 10. M. Babcock; I. McIlree; H. Foote; M. Babcock; M. King; A. Vickerman; . M. Nelson; S. Gallagher; V. Whalen; H. McFarland. M. Striegl. L. Westlund. Thirty-six

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PUBLICATIONS BOARD g Top row, left to right: Prof. L. C. Shaw; R. Williams; I. Top row, left to right: Prof. L. C. Shaw; Prof. O. T. Bab- Cunningham. Bottom row: Prof. O. T. Babcock; cock. Bottom row: V. Whalen; MF Babcock; A. G. Krueger; H. Foote; R. Hippe. Schiefelbein. Top row, left to right: B. Garwig; L. Seger; D. Kull; M. Maclaurin; H. Pearson; A. Schiefelbein. Bottom row: L. Duff; M. Babcock; L. Westlund; G. Krueger; I. McIlree; M. King. FIDES STAFF Associate Editor F F F F F F F F F F F Mary Babcock Associate Editor F F F F F F F F F F F F F Alice Schiefelbein Business Manager F F F F F F F F F F F F F F Dorothy Kull Assistant Business Manager F F F F F F F F F F Louise Westlund Photographer F F F F F F F F F F F F F F Herbert Hugunin Etchings by Gene Krueger Thirty-two

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The GYM speaks . . . . 'lI may be the last to speak, but I am not the least important, for I have seen many 1 things. My walls have resounded to cries of triumph. I have heard the soliloquies of Hamlet, the choruses from the Messiah and Elijah. I have witnessed humorous accidents on the Shakespearean stage. I have sighed when my proteges, the music students, have done poorlyel have applauded when they have done well. Mostly I have lbeamed' my approval for I have had reason to be proud of my heritage. HI remember the day when Julius Caesar was being played. The red grease paint on Caesar's sweating face melted and dripped on his tunic. Chuckling, the gym continued. Other things have happened too. Prof Stringer tells many an awe-inspired freshman ol the time we gave The Tempest' and how the stage effects were accentuated by rain beating little hammers on my roof. Once Petruchio, in The Taming Of The Shrew,' hadn't praCa ticed in his white gown for fear of tearing it. Hence on the big night, when he picked up Katherina he got all tangled upedropped her and fell himself . . . . Only last year Mary Babcock, playing Dromio of Ephesus, lost her clay nose to the floor. The audience roared and so did I, as Mary nonchalantly picked it: up and stuck it on again. HBut enough of such frivolity. The first Shakespearean play was presented in 1903 in the presidents home on the hill. That home is now the Music Studiow-a building with per- sonalityeand the radio equipment, which I will speak of later, is situated there. Mrs. William C. Daland was the director and rehearsals were social affairs. In 1905 Miss Agnes Babcock directed the first public performance of Shakespeare, which was lA Midsummers Nights' Dream'. Commencement was held in a tent on the hillside- or so I hear, for this was all before my day. For six years plays were given in the tent, but only once did the cast encounter difficulty. lI-Ienry VIII' was played in a terrific thundera storm. It seems the audience put up umbrellas and the actors floundered around in pools of water. One of the best productions ever given of lI'Iamlet' was when Prof L. H. Stringer took the title role under the direction of Mrs. Janet Day of Ianesville, who coached five of the plays. Of course lProF was a good Hamlet. uIn 1913 Prof Stringer directed his first playe- I'welfth Night.' Miss Anne Post coached two plays during the wars when Prof was absent and Miss Zea Zinn relieved him twice in later years. Altogether, however, Prof Stringer has directed twentyaeight Shakespearean plays in my halls. Proudly the building spoke, squaring his shoulders. But, he continued don't think that is all Prof Stringer has done for Milton College. Look at the Glee Club. He organized it With the help of Prof Albert Whitford in the fall of 1912. Oh, yes, of course there had been other college choruses, even as far back as the eighties, when Dr. Stillman was in charge, but none like the Glee Club. What fun Thirtyafive