Ursinus College - Ruby Yearbook (Collegeville, PA)

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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

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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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ANNA DOROTHEA GRIMM. Flame-haired South Hall Sandwich-shopper . Even-tempered. Always calm, even when editing Weekly as associate during senior year. Already set for committee woman career: Women's Dorm, Central Nominating. Student Expenditures. Permanent position as play prompter. Dabbles in: Y.W. (vice-pres.). Music Club, Glee Club, May Day pageant. One unworried Senior Ball Committee member. President of South Hall's sorority: Alpha Sigma Nu. Widely travelled, including Europe and Fatherland. College professor's daughter. Prefers Demas fraternity men. Would sooner sew than teach. GEORGE GIVANT. ( 1 red rose city. Suave, clever, subtle, cynical. One of history's better students. Converted to Dean White's following in senior year. Plenty of skill used intermittently. Added glitter to Weekly,” substantial support to Ruby as chief assistant write-up man. Plunked along with string ensemble as green freshman. Also cross-countried to show he could take it. Another happy crooner. At home as actor, securing early admittance to Curtain Club. Contains sparks of genius which fly only on occasion. Deserted Derr Dogs to join Curtis Clan. Bridge fiend. Greatest joy: bull-sessioning as a tearer-downer. LOUIS GOLDBERG. Another courageous pre-med student continually kept on the jump by Brownback. Extra-curriculars limited to James M. Anders' Pre-Medical Society and to daily games of ping-pong in day study, principally with Sacks. Great supporter of greater Phoe-nixville High football machine, champions of Perkiomen Valley. Quiet commuter, escaping payment of room and board. Also escapes college meals. Occupied in protecting sophomore brother Harold from snares of scheming coeds. Can be seen daily, wandering silently between day study and science building. Often struts his stuff in intra-mural athletic scramble. RUTH IRENE HAMMA. Four years in French class without missing one nasalized vowel. Constructs anything in French from pastry to the Eiffel Tower. Blossomed out in senior year from usual grind of French poetry, verbs, and ’ A getting to make Glenwood's reception hall pleasant abode for the right reverend. Motto: late to bed and early to rise. Mainstay of Lantern's” poetry dept. Deep, philosophical, ambitious, worked way through college with every minute budgeted. Success as practice teacher, idol of the Royersford cherubs. Final semester, stooged for men debaters by working at Carter's Forensic Castle. Boonton's boom to the modern languages. 29