Occidental College - La Encina Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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ERNEST JOHN CUMMINGS, C. CARPENTERIA A pensive soul given to poetic musings and occasional utterings of effusions on Spring or The First Rain. Studious search of Classic Myths results in the marvelous embellishment of these productions. At times he leaves the pouring out of his soul over the Hill Club piano to engage in the tender care of an infant. He never goes without a chaperon. REBECCA PEARL ELLIS, L. WHITTIER It has always been a matter of the profoundest wonder that a class, so frivolous as is the present Senior aggregation, could have retained a person of such serious temperament and deeply religious turn of mind as Miss Ellis. Never would she countenance a cut from chapel, and as for being absent from Y. W.! Imagination ceases operation under such a strain! Such devotion to a cause is unparalleled. MARGARET GORDON GRANT, C. LOS ANGELES This Scotch lassie of the Senior flock is a problem for faculty and student body. Her one great failing is her wholesale cutting of chapel and similar exercises. Her frivolity, which perhaps is brought about by undue grief over the absence of the missing Senior is unbounded. She is young, how- ever, and it is hoped that in time she will outgrow it. JAMES PERCIVAL HAGERMAN, C. SAN BERNARDINO This is the greatest honor conferred on Mr. Hagerman since he entered Occidental College. If it is not, he will leave the institution one week from next Wednesday, and never darken these halls of learning again. Percival is withal so modest, so retiring that information about him is difficult of access. Those who know him have frequently urged him to participate in student politics or athletics, but he has persistently resisted all such impulses, declaring that he is interested only in the intellectual life and that he detests athlomaniacs. Here is a health to Hag, our friend and pride. PHILIP BENJAMIN KENNEDY BELOIT, WISCONSIN Kennedy has come to Occidental from Beloit. He is reported to be an orator, but we cannot say. However, he wears a Senior gown wellg that we do know. ' 22

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SYDNEY McKEE, L. LOS ANGELES A very noble man, literary and an orator. His languid air is the result of feverish effort to catch up with that forlorn hope, the Senior Class. Mr. McKee's talks on Ethical Culture are enjoyed by many students-under compulsion. We are not at liberty to announce his plans to aid benighted students. Let all know that the brevity of this notice is due to lack of space rather than appreciation. A JAMES MCMICHAEL, c. WINNEBAGO, ILL Mac is a gentleman who comes to us from Monmouth, Beloit and Coe. He is granted to be a good student, a splendid orator and a kind friend. By his broad views and untiring zeal he has done much to help the Senior Class to come out of the trance into which they had fallen while worshiping their ancestors, the great Dan and Haw Basileus Cleland. CARL WALLACE PETTY LOS ANGELES Petite is the dapper young assistant to the Dean of Men. His chief accomplishment is the ability to talk for a long time without breathing. He is well known as the youth with the loud ha! ha! but he styles himself the ladies' man. He named the junior Annual LA ENCINA. Oh, yes! CATHERINE EDITH POWELL, L. AZUSA This maiden is one of the greatest sources of pride to this Senior Class. Divinely tall and most divinely fair, she sweeps resplendent through the corridors of 0. C. Renowned as a society queen, it is remarkable that she, of all girls is most in need of that very useful article, an umbrella. Why? Surely you know that of all days, she prefers one that is Raney. S ANGELES GEORE NYE STEIGER, C. L0 The Great Exponent of Dress Reform. Born and raised in aristocratic surroundings, he takes the leadership of all great movements. His speeches are like to those of Burke or Webster. Fortunate the age in which he lives as an example of greatness in public and private life. None but himself can be his parallel. 23