Ursinus College - Ruby Yearbook (Collegeville, PA)

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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

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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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CHARLES EDWARD HARVEY. B. •• : i ad shouldered, shy. retiring. Christened Fire-chief as Marines' alarm clock tester. Has been mainstay in football and baseball for four years. Drafted for Y. M. C. A. president in junior year, but declined honor. Sleeps anytime. anywhere, and most soundly when he should bo in class. Haircut indicates he's from Germantown. Provides Marines' principal diversion. Dubbed Wheezer because of high-powered oratory. Member of Varsity Club and of Ape's hairy clan. Frequently goes on a spree kicking waste cans, to utter distress of ov ners. Does not bite his toenails or play the zither. IONE BEATRICE HAUSMANN. and talented. Fircroft's dashing damosel, dancer, and dater. Versatile: writes for Weekly. Lantern, Ruby ; played in Three Live Ghosts ; secretary of class in junior year; member, Chi Alpha Tau, Curtain Club, Senior Ball Committee; ether class committees. Familiar figure on campus. Has: flair for driving cars; scrapbook large enough to hide two stationary stores; more dates than a calendar. Likes the modern languages, wants to be a schoolmarm. Ardent supporter of Women's Dorm Committee, always starting sale for the promotion of something or other. Active, energetic, and always going somewhere. Better yet, she gets there. JESSE GIBSON HEIGES. m ios: : . :: m Bred- beck. Leading brain-truster of Mr. Man’s crowd. Genoral-issmo of forensic experts; tepee's co-debater and roommate. Worked way to editorship of Weekly from lowly reporter job; responsible for many improvements in said scandal sheet. Care-taker of Ruby writeups; member. Zeta Chi, Student Council. Rates ace high with history, pol. science big guns from one-time 1. R. C. president to Nick's bridge opponent and Skipper’s conversationalist on current questions. Not a bronzed athlete, yet Varsity Club member by virtue of swinging wicked racquet. Staunch early to bed, early to rise exponent. Really in the know. THOMAS GABRIEL HEPNER. 'Jnassummg. trusivc grappling minister. Industrious, obliging, diligent. Active hill-and-daler in first two years, took managerial job in last year. Grunts and groans with best of Wieneke's proteges. Specializes in toe-holds; claims regular 145-pound berth. Out for distances on track team first two years. Numbered among U men. Divides time among athletics, studies, young lady of Trappe. Usually wandering toward Trappe Sunday afternoons. Attends chapel regularly as loyal Brotherhood of St. Paul follower. Carrier of gospel on evangelistic deputation teams. Does more FERA work in one week than all the other relief boys combined. 30