Milwaukee School of Engineering - EMF Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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€ »1 % ,f THE 1920 EMF' iEugtnming III

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mr:- 'U .................. C.....':::■ -- TELE 1192(0 EMF OX BEHALF OF THE CLASS There is no doubt that the class includes many an unknown geninus but— we can’t tell off hand who they are. and some are a bit backward in admitting it, so if the reader happens to be one of us and finds himself omitted from tile roll of honor, let him unburden his wrath upon the nearest inanimate object as the editor intends to retire to Alaska for the three months following the publication of the E. M. F. The entire population of term three (every member counted once) num- bers 26, from the census taken January 14, 1920. The jolly company owes its formation entirely to the workings of fate and consequently is composed of individuals with a most confusing variety of appetites, appellations, and as- pirations ; however, we shall try to group them according to some general standard for the purpose of more intelligent discussion or rather, description. Beginning alphabetically we might first consider brother Ezra Adelsbcrger —very modest chap; is 23 years of age; has been across with the A. E. F. in France for three months and never mentions it. Yes, girls—a very nice look- ing fellow when his hair is cut. Next it would be well to consider the jolly tars Mcrriam, Davis, Hcntershec and Smith. 'I'lic first two have already been mentioned so we shall revert to H. L. I-Ientershce and Bernard or as he is familiarly known: Barney Smith. Of course it's unnecessary to say they are both dangerous male-vamps (gobs, donchuno!) The former is 22: hails from Fall River, Mass., and says his downfall is due to the fact that he first became sentimentally, or rather, inti- mately acquainted with the gentler sex at a private school in Vermont at the innocent age of 14—hm. terrible. Barney on the other hand received his early acquaintance while in the Navy, at the sweet age of 19, and the girls say those ‘thailors are justlit thimply awful.’ The S.A.T.C. now deserves our attention ; the following have been it’s vic- tims: R. J. Bauer, B. E. Hogue, E. M. Poage and B. W. Tolbert. Bauer, generally known as Fcrdie, blew in from Bloomer. Wis. He is just 21. and maintains that his hobby is “wimin-n dancing.” It might also be added that lie is one of the countless numbers that help pay the expenses of the Wis- consin Telephone Co. You know what we mean—ding (signifying one jitney has found a happy home') then: “Hello, is that you dear?” etc., etc. Now E. M. Poage, or Entry as he is called, is different. Why he never looks at a girl—unless lie happens to be on a windy corner on a windy day. He is just a youngster of twenty; is 6 ft. 2 in. or better and wears number 8j4 shovels. His favorite pastime is murdering poor, defenceless rattlesnakes in Wyoming. Just imagine the poor snake battling with one of those 8j4’s; it’s simply in- humane. B. E. Hogue, a serious young man of 20. hailing from Greenwood, Wis., seems to have little to say. He is somewhat out of the ordinary as lie has never attempted to obtrude upon the patient tolerance of the class with any literary or verbal compositions to which temptation nearly all, at some- time or other, fall prey. It has been decided to award him a medal, accord- ingly. B. W. Tolbert, just turning 20, dropped in from Greenwood. S. C, where he attended the Baily Military Institute. He’s just becoming a social mixer at present, in Milwaukee, and will no doubt be quite a game getter when the chicken season opens in the spring. Page One Hundred Thirty-nine