University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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William L. Finley 03 was an astute politician as well as editor of the Calif ornian in his senior year. He has attained fame as an ornithologist since, and his articles on bird-life, illustrated by rare photos of birds on the wing, are prominent in many eastern magazines. California probably never had an athletic idol so worshiped as was Ovie Overall, ex ' 04. His salary as a professional baseball pitcher in the big Eastern league has just been raised $500 per year. Arthur L. Price ' 04, who edited the Blue and Gold for his class after Wyllis Peck left college to go to China, has made good as a newspaper man in the Scripps- McRae Newspaper League. He attained special eminence at the time of the San Francisco earthquake. Bruce Wright ' 03, once president of the A. S. U. C., is now principal of a grammar school in Alameda. George Mansfield ' 03, another editor of the Cali- fornian, is in charge of a daily in Oroville. Sam Stow 04 was a hero in college and has proved his mettle since. He recently received a Car- negie medal for rescuing a man from drowning in a lake near the paper mill where Stow is employed in Ore- gon. When we were fresh- men Max Thelen was head of the student body. A debater, a student leader and class medalist his record in college was a long one. He went to Harvard after graduating and having com- pleted his law work there, is now practicing in San Fran- cisco. Happy Dehm ' 05 of whom more anon, succeeded him as president and then came Prent Gray ' 06. Ralph Merritt, the present incumbent, is one of the few men who start out as a leader and remain in front throughout their

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The Passing of Naught Seven. By WITHIN a few short weeks the class of 1907 will have left the university and be a thing of the past as far as campus activities are concerned. Some of its members have become prominent in college, others have rather grown notorious. HDW long will they be remembered, even by the members of the present freshman class? When 1907 were freshmen there were two brothers in college. One Ligda was a track man, the other was simply a Russian. At one of our first field days, Victor Ligda was a close second near the finish of a race. Brother Paul jumped up on the bleachers and called : Run, Victor, run. Maybe he vill fall down and denn you vill beat him ! From that day on Ligda was as well known about North Hall as Abadie ' 04, or any of the other men who really made records. We Seniors can look back and clearly see in memory the men who loomed largest in college affairs or whose names were most often on the college tongue when we came to college. Some have quite dropped from sight, others are more or less prominent in various occupations. Every class has men who, at the time of their work, it seems would last forever in California traditions. When we came to Berkeley we looked upon Dick O ' Connor ' 04 as a deity whose heights we could never hope to attain. How often do you hear his name mentioned to-day ? He hung around, smoked a pipe and didn ' t know if he ever would graduate, just like Al Fletcher ' 07. He is over in San Francisco now. Not many know it, for he is doing hard work on the big dailies. J. G. White ' 05 and L. D. Bohnett ' 06, former Californian editors who raised a little stir in their time are remembered by but few.

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four years ' course. His remarks at a recent University meeting concerning the death of a graduate, Reno Hutchinson ' 00, were made with a simple sincerity which showed him at his best. The men who were at the front in the class of 1 906 are of course known to all of the present generation except the freshmen. Jackson Gregory, who edited the Blue and Gold for that class is now teaching at lone. William Cooper, their senior president is now with the Southern Pacific Company in San Francisco. 5am Hellman the famous yellow journalist of 1906 is wandering the world around, still in quest of journalistic dope. Rumor has it that he is to meet Edwin Loeb ex- ' 08 in London. Farnham Griffiths, one of the Phi Beta Kappa men of 1 906 is to leave in October for Oxford where he will study for two years as Rhodes scholar from California. Among all the recent classes, elections brought forth men who will be remem- bered for a long time. Billy Cnttenden ' 05 has gone to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. Al Coogan ' 06, Junior president was as prominent a politician as he was an athlete. As yell leader Phil Carey ' 04 be- came so well known that he is still prominent on the campus. Ed Roadhouse ' 04 was his assistant and usually led the singing at university meetings during his senior year. Buck ' 05 held the yelling arena during the next year, and was followed by the Gold Dust Twins, Walter de Leon ' 06 and Ted Rust ' 06. These two yelled, sang or played clown with equal ease and were always popular. But to return to 1907. It is peculiar in many ways. It always could have done without Pelly. If we wanted to laugh, for a long time we surely had plenty to laugh at. There was that Ophelia Clark who rewrote Shakespeare and turned our Filipino into a Chinaman (of which he was very proud), made a skeleton out of Jim Rhea, and forced the whole audience to laugh at himself, not to mention many others. Of the men who started with 1907 a number who gave promise of doing well left altogether too soon. Claud Kern in football and track, Harry Lane in journalism and tennis and Kenneth Hamilton in baseball, filled gaps which have never since been filled. To be sure there is Bert Campbell, of several classes ago, who couldn ' t resist waiting for ' 07 to graduate, but one good man for many is hardly a fair exchange.