Upsala College - Upsalite Yearbook (East Orange, NJ)

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were quite good and the team wound up With a five-hundred percentage for the year,s play. Twenty-five years ago the trustees of this college elected Mr. Karl J. Olson t0 the post of treasurer of the institution. This was a great honor. However, Mr. Olson soon found out to his dismay that all he could flnd in the purse 0f the college was the bottom. With indomitable spirit, the new treasurer tackled the financial problem and liked it. Now, that the bottom of the purse is no longer Visible, Mr. Olson is convinced that the work which he acquired with the title was greater than any honor that went along with it. But as he has said many times, it was well worth the effort to see Upsala grow from Kenilworth propor- tions to its present ones. With the new year 1941 came a new ar- rival to our campus, in the person of Mrs. Lawson, following her marriage to our Presi- Welcome, Mrs. Lawson One Hundred Forty KARL J. OLSON, Treasurer dent on December 27th. The coeds of Upsala arranged a welcoming tea in her honor under the leadership of Virginia Finney. It was held in Kenbrook Hall late one Friday afternoon. All the girls and some of the faculty wives attended. Mrs. Lawson, Miss Eldora Lawson, and the feminine class oiiicers graced the re- ceiving line. In an adjoining room, the table was at- tractively set with roses, candles, dainty sandwiches and cookies. There was some consternation over the supply of refresh- ments, but fortunately our coeds are also concerned over their figures. Miss Grinde- land and Miss Carman poured. We hope that this will be the beginning of many more pleasant associations with our new friend. Twenty-five years of keeping the records deserves just more than recognition. We, as students of the institution to which Mr.

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match. Added to these lettermen were two Freshmen, Bob Fuleihan and Bob Scott. The latter showed up well in practice and earned the Number Two position on the team. Vero Ajello, the agile left-hander was the Number One man, and he and Scott went through the season with only one set- back. The first match was played in New York City, amid the rumbling trolleys and noisy ells, against N.Y.U. School of Commerce. We lost that one by a close score. However, for the next few matches we hit our stride and volleyed and smashed our way to a couple of well-earned Victories. The highlight of the season was the south- ern trip during which they engaged Franklin and Marshall College and Lebanon Valley. Chaperoned by Professor Alfonso Reyna, the boys left on Thursday morning and arrived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for their match with Franklin and Marshall at 2:00 P.M. The match was hotly contested and Upsala almost ruined F and Mls long unbeaten streak. However, the team lost, 5-4. It was a heartbreaker to lose. After an interesting stay on the campus of Franklin and Mar- shall College, the team left for Annville, Pennsylvania to play Lebanon Valley. This also turned out to be an even match; only this time Upsala came out on top, 5-4. Later on in the season, such teams as Drew University, Newark University, St. Peter,s College, Webb Naval Academy, Stevens Tech and Rider were played. The results THE TENNIS TEAM- TTfive loveTl eAt ease

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Olson has devoted so much valuable time, pay grateful tribute to the man who is largely responsible for the growth of Upsala. This year was indeed memorable, for dur- ing the early part of November, the famous brook Hall so that we might have the op- portunity to see it. It was at this time that Carl Sandburg, the eminent poet and biog- rapher of Lincoln dedicated the collection. We certainly hope that in time we will have Dr. Bjorkman displays his Lincoln collection Bjorkman collection of Lincoln lore passed into our possession. Dr. Valentine Bjorkman began collecting Lincolnia over forty years ago and at the time of his death in 1940 it had grown to be one of the most complete collections in the country. It is divided into several individual parts. One part contains the newspapers and scrapbooks, another photographs, and still another portraits, statuary, and books. Perhaps one of the most striking of the objects is a replica of the emancipatofs hand cast in bronze. 50 life- like is this bit of sculpture that few can resist touching it. During mid semester exams, Dr. Lawson, Prof. Arnold and Prof. Nilson worked hard to temporarily display the collection in Ken- a place to permanently display the collec- tion, for it is really worth seeing. Dr. Lawson and Carl Sandburg talk Lincoln