University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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GEORGE MILROY MAYER, Capt. Co. B Frostbiirg, Rid. Mechanical Engineering. Vice-President and Treasurer of Athletic Association, ' ice-President of tlie Rossbourg Club, Vice-President of the Morrill Literary Society, Man- ager of Orchestra ' 04, ' 05, ' 06, Assist- ant Humorous Editor of Reveille, Chairman Music and Reception Com- mittee Y. M. C. A., Class Secretary ' 05, Property Manager of Dramatic Club, Chairman of Floor Committee June Ball Organization. A great observer and he looks quite through the deeds of men. — (( Ccasar, I, 2. Temper is so good a thing that one should never lose it. — Anon. Mayer, familiarly known to us as Roy, was born at Eckhart, Allegheny County, Md., June 23, 1884. The founda- tions of his education was received at the Bell High School of Frostburg, Md., his parents having taken him to that town to live while he was very young. Entering M. A. C. in the Fall of 1901, lie became a hard student, and has continued so since. He takes a great interest in Y. M. C. A. work, was chosen as one of the delegates to attend the convention at Nashville, Tenn. Although he steps out of the path when some of the boys worry him, he is brought back by his room- mate — Ingram — the deacon of the M. A. C. In athletics he has done fine work, especially in football, being one of the pluckiest ])Iayers M . A. C. has ever had. It has been said that if you were to tear him to pieces in one game and sew him together again, he would be ready for the next. Roy is very p()])ular among his classmates and schoolmates, and will not be soon forgotten by the boys at M. A. C. Although his chief desire was to receive a letter from Frostburg, yet he would find time to spend an evening once in a while with some of the fair sex in W ' asbinglon. He has alwa s had a talent for mechanical work, and has done great things in that dcpartnienl. lie expects to follow this work after leaving College, and we wish him success.

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. Iiieleside, I I( J. JESSE T. GRAHAM, Capt. Co. A Chemical Sciuntii-ic Course. Vice-President Y. M. C. A. ' o4- ' o5 Junior Herald, Secretary Morrill Lit- erary Society ' 05-06, Editor Re- veille ' 06, Class Football Team 04. ' 05, Secretary June Ball Organization. Love at t vo-and-i venty is a ter- ribly into.xicating draft. — Riiffiiii. Science is a first-rate piece of fur- niture for a man ' s upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor. — Holmes. Born January 28, 1884. Ingleside, Md., is not a very large place, nor had it renown other than that it was upon the Eastern Sho ' of Maryland. But it reached its zenith when it gave birth to James Jesse Thomas Graham. Judging from his career at M. A. C, this young gentleman must have cut his teeth upon German grammar, and mi.xed mud pies accordingly to chemical formulas. Jesse, after completing the course at Ingleside Academy, spent a year in the hardware business with a brother, but at the end of that time he resigned his business for a college life, and M. A. C. was the gainer thereby. Graham ' s entrance into College was a marked success. Marching into the main entrance, he met Johnnie Green on the first floor. Dropjiing his suit case and advancing with a dilTerential bow and extended hand, exclaimed, President Silvester, I believe! Now Jesse really knew better, for he had been to M. -V. C. before with an older brother, but this piece of diplomacy has brought him many an extra ; and even now on Sunday ' s, when he makes a second huge piece of mince pie disappear, if one notices carefully he might see an innocent smile playing around the diplomat ' s mouth. Graham doesn ' t like being called a ladies ' man, but two of his classmates have made a wager that he will lie tlie first to experience love in a cottage for two. 17

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JOHN WALLACE MITCHELL Boston, Mas Civil, Engineering. Business Manager of the ' 06 Dra- matic Club, Assistant Business Man- ager of the Reveille. Under the weight of his knowl- edge, a man cannot move so lightly as in the day of his sim])licity. — Ruskiii. Mitchell, alias Mitch and Gen ' l. first saw the light of day in New Bed- ford, Mass., perilously close to The Hub of the Universe, on October 22. 1885. Yes, he was born near Boston, and, though he is now graduating from a college of the South, his coun- tenance still reminds one of that cool atmosphere peculiar to high latitudes and altitudes — especially the high alti- tudes, for Mitch is 6 ft. 2 1 inches in height. Gen ' l tirst attended school at a kindergarten in lUiffalo. From there he went to Florida, but that was too hot a climate for the Bostonian. It seems that during these years, for some reason or other, gravity — that great ])owcr known to physicists — was suspended, and had no influence upon him; but, suddenly, that irresistible force got the better of him, and he was drawn back to The Hub. He tarried there only a short while, however — soon taking up his abode on the banks of the Hudson. Here he remained for three years; but that magic force again got hold on him and he went back to Boston. There he attended several schools and graduated from the grammar school in the Spring of 1900, entering the High School the following Fall. He was graduated from that institution in the Spring of 1904, and entered M. A. C. in the Junior Class in September of that vear. ] Iitch has always been a good student, especially in mathematics. Gen ' l is verv fond of argument, and nothing suits him better than for some one to sav something funny about The Hub, so that he can remark. That ' s all vou know about Boston. He is absolutely dotty on ba.seball. and it is firm ly believed that, some day, he will be manager of the Boston Baseball Club. Mitchell takes no active part in the athletics of College, but he is always ready with his sage advice. He is a regular walking edtion of sporting statistics, for -ou can hardlv stump him on a single record that has been made or broken in tlie sporting field within the last ten years. 19