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

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Svminr Gilman CC0utinuedl Lillian Maria Merrill, B. L. Harriet Alice Snyder, B. L. Abigail Lucinda Lane, B. L. John Wesley Beard, B. L. Frank Peer Beal, B, L. Fairy Abiah Means, B. L. Maud Imogene Muratt, B. A. Mary Katherin Daniel, B. L. Elizabeth Anne Horton, B. L. Charles Herbert Cleveland,,B. L Marie Alden Hopkins, B. A. Samuel Clark McKee, B, A, 26

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Seninr igiatnrg The present Senior class has been with us four years, and we have co1ne to love both the class and its members. Collectively they stand for college spirit and class loyalty. Individually, their names appear in every department of college activity. VVe regret to see them go out of our midst into the world-that broader and higher university of life. As Freshmen, they gave promise of an active life, and an ability to cope with its various hazards. Victory was theirs in the class rushes. The boys made names for themselves in athletics, while Occidental is proud of the trio of 'O7 girls who have been the mainstay of her basket- ball team for four years. During this year they organized a strong and popular literary society. The next year the boys again proved their physical prowess in the class scraps. As social leaders they introduced the innovation of house parties. They continued to make reputations in athletic and literary lines, and won honor for the college in oratory. The second president of the associated students was elected from their ranks. . It was as juniors, however, that the class really began to be promi- nent in the life of the institution. The group had become a unit, and the class of '07 became a potent factor in every department of college life. Wfhat might be mentioned in the winning of the triple champion- ship? In student alifairs they became leaders, and again the chief execu- tive of the student body was chosen from their number. They continued to give evidence of great ability along literary lines, a lasting monument of which exists in the first Junior annual. In the presentation of the first Junior play the existence of musical and histrionic talent of a high degree was proven. In debate and oratory, they held prominent places honoring themselves and the school in whatever they undertook. The honors which have been bestowed upon them as Seniors serve only to show the regard and esteem in which they are held. Their last year has shown them at their best, holding the highest positions of re- sponsibility in the school, in the student body, on the paper, and as rep- resentatives of the school. They have done consistent and brilliant work on gridiron, track and diamond, both their men's and women's teams winning the class championship in basketball, In every phase of human life, physical, mental, spiritual, in every de- partment of college life, athletic, literary, musical, social, oratorical, they are unsurpassed. As leaders of student thought and activity, as an in- iluence and power for good, as moulders of the Christian sentiments and principles for which Occidental stands, they are pre-eminent. We are proud of the records and triumphs they have achieved in the past, and our wish is for the success which we know will crown their efforts in the future. It is to students such as these have been, and to alumni such as they are about to become, that an institution owes its greatness. 28 in