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

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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.

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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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Out of the many who still remain with the class there are some real wonders. For example there is Julius Klein. A beardless youth of nineteen summers (to quote the San Francisco Bulletin, I he wrote that wonderful essay about the treaty which dosed the Mexican war. He protests strongly about the beardless pro- position, but on what grounds his friends can never see. R. R. Rankin has done a few stunts of his own, Bill Davis can still play the violin, S. Y. L. M., etc., Jee handles the Oriental vote to perfection and in journalism has taken the place once held by Jiro Harada ' 05. Shorty Sherman is over six feet tall and made Phi Beta Kappa, Maynard McFie helped kill the Psi U bear, Jack Fletcher works for Henry Morse and can always afford cigars, and Ejle Daveler bloomed out wonderfully at the opening of Senior Hall. In military 1907 saw many changes. It saw the passing of Colonel Waite and the revolution which attended the crowning of rex Nance. Shortly after that revolution Bill Hale ' 05 took a run down to the ranch at San Diego, and Robert Hays Van Sant, Jr., decided that another year of military training might be beneficial and ensure his graduation. W. B. Weston has made his shoulder straps, King Sweesy is still the star of the band which S. Frederick Long ' 07 improved so much. That last name reminds me of a funny little story. About the time the 1907 Blue and Gold went to press, S. Frederick rushed into the San Francisco office one day. Where is Gabbert ? demanded the bandmaster. The editor promptly appeared. Gabbert, I don ' t think you are treating me right. I hear you haven ' t much money to spend and won ' t run my picture with the band story in the B G. Now. if money is all the difficulty; I ' ll pay for my own cut. The bargain was made, and a few days afterwards the cut came around. It was a whole page affair. Of course there was no room for it, and Long soon found it out. He went to the press room foreman, explained that he had been given an unfair deal, paid a little money, bought candy for the proof readers, and had an extra page inserted, as he thought, without the knowledge of the editors. If the book had ever appeared wouldn ' t Long have been pleased to find that picture in the josh department with a little wnte up of how it all happened ? Our class had the unenviable privilege of seeing the big stir on the campus, caused by the appearance thereon of three Blue and Golds, but not of its own. Gene Hallett ' 05 got out the biggest book ever, after which he didn ' t want to beat Heiny Heitmuller for class prex, but just took the job anyhow. As secretary to the President he has since been succeeded by F. P. Griffiths ' 06, who now in turn is to be followed by Ralph Merritt ' 07. Happy Dehm ' 05, who helped Hallett get out the monster book, became A. S. U. C. president and then a lawyer. M. J. Samuels ' 05, who managed the finances, is also a lawyer. As far as 1907 is concerned, we hope our book would not have been used to start fires