Union College - Stespean Yearbook (Barbourville, KY)

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STESPEAN, 1926 The Log of the U. S. S. Union SEPTEMBER 15 — The early bird catches the worm. Prof. Dyer arrives early. The good ship Union sets sail. 18 — We all get acquainted at Saturday night mixer. 21 — Who ' d a thought Chick was old enough to begin losing his teeth? 2 — Miss McKeehan and Miss Sewell give a recital. 3 — Union wins first football game of the sea- san. U. C, 38 ; Jellico, o. 5 — Prof. Cook arrives from Chicago. 7 — First issue of Orange and Mack, now a college publication, comes out. Carol Rip- pere and Stanley Black, editor and man- ager. 10 — Dean Vogel says we are all as lazy as we dare to be. (Somebody ' s been telling on us.) 13-17 — Swarthmore Chautauqua delights all who attend. 19 — Everybody goes to see the Ten Command- ments — broken. 20 — Stespean Staff is organized, with Helen Rapp, editor, and Frank Davidson, man- ager. 21 — Six weeks tests show how little we know. 23 — Union contributes to Old Ironsides fund after an address by Mr. Chitwood of Cor- bin. 26 — Seniors ' outing to Pineville. Ask Bar- bara, Frank, and Ida if the Pine Moun- tain lions can roar. 27 — Misses Ward and Taylor entertain Pro- fessors Cook and Dyer at a rook party. 30 — Latin Club elects officers. 31 — Big Halloween blow-out; social success of the season. Cy has his heart broken by one of the fairer sex. NOVEMBER 4 — The Orange and Black drive is on. Pock- et hooks grow lighter. 5 — Ruth kills Lady Macbeth and she dies. 8 — Cubie has a broken hand and won ' t tell how he got it. 11 — Armistice Day celebrated at the fair ground. Faculty sack race feature of the day. 14 — Latin Club entertained by Speed Hall girls. 15-21 — Education week. Prof. Cook gives educational talks. 20 — Special chapel in the afternoon with Bishop Henderson. 25 — Thansgiving holiday. Dean Vogel marries in Newport, Kv. 28 — Mildred assures us that she has never had her head shingled. Oh, no, quite the re- verse. 30 — La Societe Francais meets with the Misses Lay. DECEMBER 5 — Seniors give a kid party. io-ii — Miss Weeks attends State Convention of Teachers of English in Lexington. 11 — Girls, Hi boys start the season with vic- tories over B. H. S. 12 — Miss Weeks says Cleopatra was old enough to have known better. Wisdom, Wise and Otherwise, From Student Papers James Messer was given a permanent berth on the team. At least we never caught him napping in it. Genius is that innate quality that gives the general the wit to outwit the other fellow. Jeremy Taylor advised us to get up early once in a while to see the sunset. Milton wrote blank verse in a rolling order — higher in the middle and lower on the ends. A new murder law: A man has the right to kill if he doesn ' t interfere with others. The theme of the play is the fundamental idea that struggles around in the center of the play. Milton sat up late at night studying Pluto ' s problems. A biography gives an account of a man ' s internal affairs. Page twenty-seven

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STESPEAN, 1926 A Few Lines By the Seniors IT WAS an ancient Thracian custom that every man deposit daily in an urn a white pebble, if the day had been happy; if otherwise, a black one. In a way the Class of ' 26 has followed this classical example, but instead of pebbles, we have acquired mem- ories, for the most part white, and far more precious and important than the mere svmbols of the Ancients. Indeed, we of the graduating class, in parting from our pleasurable college activities, feel that college days are the best of our lives. In the years to come we shall recall the good old times on the campus, regretting that we cannot be there still; but we must go on, each in his own way, hoping to put that which he has learned to some profit in the world. To those who have guided our fickle minds along the paths of knowledge, we present here our apologies for the multitude of absurdities we have committed. The patience of our professors deserves pages of praise, but as we have only one at our disposal, we offer this humble apology, assuring them that their earnest efforts have driven home far more to our stupid minds than they think. We shall not forget the hours spent in their classes, and it will no doubt be satisfying to them to know that Boyles ' Law, H-SO 4 , the Reform Bill of 1832, and Ibsen, will continue to be familiar names, even though we don ' t know what they stand for. And, schoolmates dear, one point, please, about which we are very sensitive: Don ' t call us — don ' t even think of us as Alumni; it sounds so much like Aluminum, you know, and such an association grates upon our dignity as Seniors. We desire rather to be truant Unionites in danger of demerits for failure to keep appointments. This point of view will lend excitement and give us the feeling that we are still full-fledged students on the old campus, and with this impression we might even drop in at times for chapel to hear the Awakening Chorus. We congratulate the President and Board of Trustees on the steady progress we have seen from year to year. We are sure that an ever-broadening influence waits Old Union in the future. Our best wishes are extended to all. And now, friends, having made our apologies, having expressed our best wishes, and having given our congratulations, we of the Union College Class of 1926 will gather up our robes and depart while our dignity is still intact, for we have fears that we shall not be able to hold this pose much longer. Hail and farewell ! We thank you. E. G. P. Scene Most Appropriate for Strindberg Plays Stage and curtains draped in unrelieved black, characters from Insane Asylum or College. Orchestra plays in low heavy tones. A great American audience who otherwise would be at a movie if it were not for the commands of the Great God Art. The performance begins. A Vampire, a Daughter of Eve, the Strindberg Woman, weaves her unscrupulous web about the poor, feeble, passive member of the Stronger Sex. This Villain is no longer an individual, but a universal personage, the Woman of the Garden of Eden, Delilah, Cleopatra, and our own wife, daughter, and grandmother. The audience shrinks, fascinated; divorce lawyers distribute their professional cards. The curtain descends; three shots ring out as one; glum, impassive ushers carry out the suicides; the orchestra, unnoticed, continues its monotonous notes. Sad! Sad! SAD! My handkerchief ! Page twenty-six

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STESPEAN, 1926 College Juniors Kathryn Boggs Taylor Jarvis Helen Rapp Oscar Jarvis Frances Congleton Dorothy McPhail Thomas Hignite Page tia-enty-eiglit