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

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William Purrington Cole, Second Lieutenant Company C Towson, Md. Civil Engineering. M in baseball, ' 09. Manager baseball team. Business manager, May Ball Or- ganization, ' 09. Secretary-Treasurer, Rossbourg Club. Business manager, June Ball Organization. Secretary Athletic Council. Member conference committee. Senior orator. Humorous editor Reveille. Sergeant Junior year. ■■ HAT man near Sus? That ' s Cole, W. P. 1 I At least it usually is and it ' s a safe bet that tJ it is now. He was a pup when Sus entered M. A. C, but he trailed along something less than five j ears later. He hails from the same vicinity. That is to say, Towson is his birthplace, his home and he saj ' s he wishes he knew he ' d die there. He ' d never go from there again then. In due course of time, Towson High School received the signal honor of his matriculation and became a repository of anthracite for the following — years. While there, he developed a penchant for baseball, later to be utilized at M. A. C. and an admiration for what goes with big hats and high heeled shoes. Later on he graduated, pocketed his sheep skin and migrated to M. A. C. Arriving here he was bunked with Sus and to our knowledge has not left him since. In the endea- vor to match some of Grason ' s flights into hyperbo- lated fiction W. P. has unfortunately acquired quite a propensity for stretching that well known rubber band, the truth — and will probably follow law on making his exit from this institution. Speaking of athletics. Cole is a wonder. He has been known to watch the team play base- ball for hours at a time. Strange to say he would as leave see a foot ball game and we have it from him that he experiences no tired feeling even after watching others perform manual labor for hours. To enable him to further develop his mental love of outdoor sports, as well as to afford some instruction along the line of practical economics — he was made manager of the baseball team for the season of 1910. As to that C. E. which he means to attach to the coal car of his train of erudition in the coming June, it will get there alright. W. P. is a devout follower of Doc Tolly and possesses one of the most complete surveying suits in the class. As incomprehensible as it may seem, it so closely resembles human habiliments that not a few have taken him for an upright biped, genus homo. As a lover, even at this early date, he is an adept and we predict further success in lieu of the broad diversity of experience afforded in diverting the facts by the mighty profession he expects to honor. May every man in the class be as able to prove an alibi at 2 a.m. as will Cole. 21

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Wilson Graham Cole, Clean sleeve Baltimore, Md. Civil Engineering. Manager Lacrosse team. Chairman invitation and program committee, June ball. Treasurer Y. M. C. A. Assistant business manager Triangle. Assistant business manager Reveille. Treasurer New Mercer Literary Society. c ' OLE-coal-anthracite, all but the head — that ' s bituminous. No relation to the other Cole. And glad he isn ' t somebody has said. Maybe the other Cole is glad too. Ever think of that, Graham? Graham Cole was born in Baltimore, April 18, 1890 and died on matriculation at M. A. C. That is began to die. We have no doubt the business end of the Reveille and the lacross team will finish him before long. He first attended the public schools of that city and then decorated Baltimore City College for 4 years. On graduating, he devel- oped a mania for Civil Engineering and came to M. A. C. to indulge the same. Among the most remarkable events of his career aside from lugging a transit, is the fact that he main- tains the dignity and distinction of being a Senior Private. The honor is a high one, and marks the man at once as out of the ordinary, whom the faculty considers too good to wear out a part of his young life shouting commands at a fraction of a refractory battalion. Aside from this, as though one distinction were enough. Cole has avoided the lime light. He has so far escaped being hung, shot, drowned or otherwise expeditiously disposed of and unless the present possibilities go far amiss, will no doubt end his days peacefully in the poor house. In other words he intends to make a living out of the B. O. R. R., and any man that can keep from being crooked at that will land in the alms house. He would be absolutely immune to association. As an athlete Cole shines in lacross. This game is as yet in its infancy as far as M. A. C. is concerned, but Graham possesses the distinction of being one of the husky warriors of the not brave enough to suffer the inevitable defeat of the first time. Cole also has a hobby, two of them in fact. Most men are satisfied with one. His two are gathering adds for the Reveille and writing to L . Like John Alden, his letters are full of the name of — L , to misquote Longfellow. The future, he says, looks roseate, from a matrimonial standpoint and otherwise. It is to be hoped that matrimony will not com- pletely swallow up the otherwise. At all events, whatever the undertaking, we wish him success. 20

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John Levi Donaldson, Principal musician. . Biological. Berwyn, Md. Solo cornet, orchestra. Chief bugler, sophomore year. Chief musician, junior year. Associate editor Reveille. Class poet. Class Prophet. f ' OHNNIE first saw the light of day in Char- lotte, N. C, and early astonished the native tarheels by his precociousness, by his words of wisdom spoken from the cradle. At the tender age of seven Johnnie tired of the old north state and moved up among the Pennsylvania Dutch; but a few years residence there proved sufficient, and he moved into the more cultured and aesthetic atmosphere in the vicinity of College Park. While still a youth of but thirteen summers, and with rosy cheeks and curly locks, he made his debut at A. C; and as one. of our buglers right valiantly did he toot. Johnnie ' s hobby has been chevrons; and as he always manages to get a pair that cover his whole arm, we often wonder whether it is attributable to the size of the chevron or the absence of size in the boy. Early in his collegiate career we began to realize that this young classmate of ours was to be a man of letters. His themes were the delight of Bommy, and had Johnny deigned to stoop he might have made many a pretty penny writing themes for delinquents. After graduation he tells us he intends to drop the study of botany, and add B.A. to his name, and then take up the attack on Blackstone. As a lawyer he will undoubtedly shine, but we predict the necessity of a cheese box as a pedestal, in order to raise his head to a com- manding altitude. Feminine wiles have of late inveigled this youth, and fain would we warn him, but we know that experience must be his teacher, and even as Daniel came forth from the Lyons den, we are sure Johnnie will soon recover, and continue his life ' s work, all the better off for his experience. 22