Ursinus College - Ruby Yearbook (Collegeville, PA)

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BERTHA IRENE FRANCIS. Chemist, forensicist, editorialist, athleticist. Not a women's intercollegiate sport she isn't in. Spends winter on skates and skis. Another phys-edder. Two year member o( W.A.A. Women's sports editor of Weekly. Captain of the coed shin-cracking hockeyites. Interested-interesting debating artist. Developed a liking for violin and salutatorian in junior year, retains admiration for both. Host for philosophy seminars. Pledges allegiance to amalgamated Omega Chi. Not averse to books. Local girl who made good. Has little time for study, needs little, does it well. ROBERT RITCHIE FRANTZ. Senior me:::: : Derr's menagerie, but only in point of age. Krebs really got him that way. Hails from South Philadelphia, but spends spare time at Lehighton learning about farming and other little things in life. Big, portly, business-like. Got that way as Supply Store manager, where he was chief ice cream and candy tester. One of the Ruby's” advertising agents. Head of Sophomore Ring Committee. Member of lames M. Anders outfit. Most of his time taken up in looking for the things Brownback talks about. Greatest pleasure—eating. Spouts Pennsyl- vania Dutch, but never lived in Reading. MILDRED GETTINGER FOX. A bright red coat and unique giggle that goes up the scale and never comes down. It's Midge Alpha of the Phi Psi’s. Where are you going, Midge? Oh, I have a meeting. Probably Debating Club, Inter-Sorority Council, Curtain Club, or French Club. Chief assistant to lane Stephen in W. S. G. A. ‘Weekly writer. V orried chairman of Lorlei festivities. Rec Hall devotee, who never cuts that course. One of few women to make T. K. A. as sophomore, now its vice-pres. Member of more committees than any other two seniors. Prefers woody products of coal regions. Friendly, laughing, in reality a cheorer up per. MAUD BEST FUNK. Dark, different, dancer, lei ater. F ur year Fircrofter. Quiet, demure Miss, loves fun and frolic, always ready for good time. Outstanding forensicist: manager debating team, member Debating Club, T. K. A. Active in host of organizations: Y. M. C. A., I. R. C.. Chi Alpha Tau, and others. Member Junior Prom Committee. One of few Ursinus females who specializes in math and desires to teach it. Secretary of class in senior year, kept up precedent of never keeping minutes. Belongs to Ladies' Auxiliary of Rec Hall, hostess to snow bound students between semesters. Able, sincere, conscientious; has plenty of initiative. 27

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 EDWARD SAMUEL ELLIS. Rods, scion of long line of Welshmen. Gentleman and scholar. Born in V ales, typical Briton. Quiet, reserved, modest. Bites his tongue in heat of battle. Excellent student in sciences. Enjoys literary work. Patron of the legitimate stage. Warbles operatic arias in that bathroom baritone, or what have you. Business manager of the 'Lantern , then associate editor. Member of Curtain Club. Performed admirably in Three Live Ghosts. Has swapped half-nelsons with soccer ball for four seasons. Dabbles occasionally in touch football. John Bull's carrot-topped son doing well by Uncle Sam. RUSSELL SAGE FISHER. Bronzed, bashful, bald. Qui magician, making most of hair disappear while here. Keeps trick secret. Brave banner bearer of stars and stripes through three years of bloody battles on gridiron. Captained Baker's soccer shin-s’niners after three years' kicking. Able receiver of ling's hopeless hurlers: rewarded with captaincy senior year, tryout with Connie's Athletics. Swung meat cleaver for Chase's slaughter house company. Morganthau of Beta Sigma Lambda. Quite a pugilist, practices with punch boards. One of Nelson's men on the flying trapeze. Appointed to College A. C. Ablest phys-edder in class. WILLIAM HERBERT EVANS. Blue-shirtod. mustachioed Shenandoah coal miner. Persists in asking profs questions after class. Actor of renown for four years. Reached greatest heights as one of original Three Live Ghosts. Also performed admirably in The Young Idea, The Firebrand, Death Takes a Holiday. Man of diverse interests: yodeled in Glee Club and Y. M. C. A. Chorus; three-year president of Hall Chemical Society; member of Y. M. C. A. Cabinet; Ruby staff. Caretaker of Studio Cottage. Drives ambulance during summer. Aims to be a medico. Knov s all the oldest gags. Always laughs at his ov n jokes. MILDRED ALICE FILE. :?h Einstein's understudy. Fourth dimension means nothing. Logarithms and astronomy, mere child's play. McClure's lit, a pleasure. Sat in on Women's Debating Club meetings for three years. Dramatics uppermost, resulting from love of movies, particularly Leslie Hov ard. One of select few in select honorary dramatic fraternity, of many in unselect Music Club. Favorite indoor sport: knitting and betting on Ursinus-St. Joe football games. Favorite outdoor sport: croqueting. Favorite pastime: listening to Glen Gray. Believes seven is a lucky number. 26

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BERNARD GELLER. Smiling, rosy-cheeked commuter from Wyncote. Neither rain nor hail nor sleet nor snow, and all that, ever prevents him from paying his daily respects to old man Zachunas. Now on indenite leave of absence. Aspires to be a pill-shnger. Member, Anders Pre-Medical Society. Modest, self-effacing lad with a keen sense of humor. The kind that drags the wolf away from the door to make a fourth at bridge a real opportunist. Always busy at his appointed rounds. Up to his senior year, wouldn't be dragged from ancestral fireside. Persona non grata of dean's team. Now the forgotten man. ROBERT BROWNING GIBBEL. Poetic name this man has, with background of Lancaster County hills. Rugged athlete and social light of no mean repute. Ran with Rubin harriers, played at'' basketball and baseball. Member, Varsity Club, Demas. One of the leading local thespians; stage lover who makes 'em love it. Will be remembered as London ''bull in Three Live Ghosts. Stage manager of Curtain Club. Performed in Passing of the Third Floor Back, Double Door. Center on Curtis' championship football team. Ringleader of notorious Drexel Dragon rebellion. Has knack of getting around, cackles like a spinster on a squeaky chair. CHARLES HOWARD GILL. Emmy, Butterball. Flat-on-the-back Gill, of Norristown. Good-natured Saturday seller of staff of life. Fair, curly-haired attendant at J. D. Hartenstine's cathedral of music and banquets. Star tonsil-torturer on Choir, Glee Club, Y.M.C.A. Chorus. Fat freshman footer of trumpet in College band. Mathematician with attentive eye for figures. Consultant and adding machine in business division of Ruby. Four-year bench and locker-room performer for pigskin toters. Weight man on Sigma Rho team. Senior Ball Committeeman. Lover of onions, sauerkraut, all other kinds of food. CHARLES WILLIAM GEORGE. Crash! Clatter! Bang! There will be a meeting of the Podunkus Club at ... ’Tis our coal-cracking head-waiter from Shenandoah in limelight again: sober, cool-headed, devilish, yet a student. Math is child play in his hands. Expects to teach: will it be addition of scientific calculations or power of feminine figures? Multiplied interests with baseball of southpaw variety, soccer. hence Varsity Club. Divides effort between Y. M. vice-presidency. Student Council, Math Group presidency. Revisor, sponsor, protector: council constitutional changes. Extracted capital from mob for Ruby . Qualities: all positive, no minus values. 28