Northwestern Military Academy - Yearbook (Highland Park, IL)

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THE TARGET IQ Class History, '05 -Continued C. J. Zipprich entered the same year as his Hseedyw friend and has taken honors as a star man. He played on the football team for three years. Chicago is his home, and business his future. In September, 1903, Fargo, N. Dak., sent to join us D. C. Benton, Who highly distinguishes himself in scholarship. He expects to be in Prince- ton University next year. G. J. Blass came that year from Little Rock, Ark. If the United States, according to his statements in the civics class, were composed of states like his, We should have a queer Union, indeed. Will go into the mercantile business. September, 1904, saw four new men enter the senior class. D. S. Lee played left tackle last fall on the football eleven, is a good track and baseball man. He has many Scotch expressions, since he comes from Scotland, Ill. He has ambitions along the collegiate line, and Will probably enter Wisconsin University. D. H. Slead is one of the leading members of the band, and comes from Evanston, Ill. Will enter Wisconsin University next year. L. R. Sarles is another man from the Flickertail State and a band man, although he Would rather bugle at a card party than practice. Last but not least in height is E. R. Sarles, from the executive mansion of North Dakota. He is a good track man and is also in the band. The Two Sarles will join the class of '09 at Wisconsin University. . E. C. MARBLE, Historian. + ' H , Ax' l - fx-, ,T -iw twlllll. ll 1 . if-r in

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13 THE TARGET Class History. 505 N S t ber 21 1901 gathered a number of young men from in S theerllldicrih, East, South and West, who were to become the A distinguished class of 1905. Five men remain from those fi? who started in their career at N. M. A.: O. N. Yule, P. io. Mark, J. D. Mylrea, E. G. Marble and G. L. Yule. The oldest member of the original class is O. N. Yule, who entered in September, 1900. Mark came at Easter, '01, and the others in September, '01, G. K. Gooding joined us at Christmas, ' -'02. 01 Our class is now the largest senior class in the school history, and is composed of fourteen members. Our success has been due to the interest and energy we have put into all branches of the school Work. Our scholarship has always been of the highest, and we have been well ad- vanced in athletics. This year six men were represented on the foot- ball, three on the indoor baseball, and three on the outdoor baseball teams, and eight on the track. O. N. Yule, our president, is from Kenosha, Wis. He was captain of the football and indoor baseball teams, and holds the highest military rank, captain and adjutant. Will take special work at Wisconsin University. J. D. Mylrea appeared- from Wausau, Wisconsin, and has always been a prominent Hgure in the school. He was one of the fast halves on our football team and is a good track man. He is treasurer of the class. G. K. Gooding is another 'fhodagn chosen from the same place as our treasurer. He is also a football and track man. He delights in telling of the famous Wisconsin hodags. He holds the position of vice-presi- dent of the class. In company with his chum and colleague, J. D. Mylrea, he will enter the Vanderbilt School of Forestry. P. C. Mark is a good track man. He can do anything from leading a band to running a locomotive in the school-room. He is a pipe man from Zanesville, Ohio, and is a good man on the air brakes. His future efforts will be directed in the line of business. G. L. Yule represents us in striving for deportment. The first year he received that medal- and the next had the highest deportment, al- though debarred from receiving the medal. He is from Somers, Wis- consin. Next year will find him at Armour Institute. E. G. Marble played on the football team for two seasons, on the in- door baseball three, and the outdoor four. He comes from Austin, Ill., and expects to iinish his scholastic career at the University of Pennsylvania. OH September, 1902, M. R. Shumway joined the class. He has played for three seasons on the indoor and two on the outdoor teams. He is also a deportment man, and his home is in Rockford, Ill., where he will go into business. P. if si

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20 THE TARGET Prophecy.. 1 05 the foreman, but here is a leaden box which waslunearthed by that OOM! A professor connected. with an expedition for mediaeval research was excavating in -the year four 'thou- TSE XS S sand near the supposed site of the ancient city of Chicago. Running up to the foreman, who was blasting, he ac- costed him: Anything new? Not much, replied blast Opening it they drew forth numerous papers, among Which was one which read thus: Prophecy of the class of '05, Northwestern Military Academy. Yule, O., known among his classmates as Berger, was our much- esteemed and respected president. He was the one who proposed the wearing of class rings, which were plain gold with the school coat of arms and the figures '05 neatly raised on the face. Yule is now the president of a large wagon manufacturing concern in the great city of Kenosha, and lives in the summer at his beautiful estate among the dells of Northern Wisconsin. Mylrea and Gooding, the only remaining representatives of the hodag bunch, after graduating with honors from N. M. A., completed their education at the Biltmore School of Forestry. They are now owners of the largest lumbering concerns in Central America. They occasionally re- turn to the happy haunts of theirwyouth and never fail to visit the old academy at which their education was so successfully begun. A Marble, commonly known as Griwab, is now a professor of Latin in Yale University and attributes all his success in that line to his ex- cellent training in the Latin classes at old N. -M. A. Although his knowl- edge was not' quite as high Cfrom the groundj as that of some of his classmates, he has most thoroughly overcome his early hatred for the classics and has proved a brilliant success. Yule, O., but never called anything but Middy, in his school days. is, as his inclination away back intimated, a most enterprising architect in New York City, and has distinguished himself by having drawn the plans for several new buildings to be used by the rapidly progressing Northwestern Military Academy at Highland Park, Ill. Mark, who was always chosen as society editor for our various class papers and the TARGET, is now a lieutenant at a military post in