Ursinus College - Ruby Yearbook (Collegeville, PA)

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DAVID ROBERT HESS. From the apple country of old Virginia comes this stalv art son of the South. Has plugged away conscientiously for four years, pecking the typewriter under Jing's direction. Active interest in the sciences; preparing to be a doctor. Member, Biology Club; Hall Chemical Society. Eager participator in all pursuits. Always willing to lend a helping hand. Never has much to say about the fair sex. Got his start at Ursinus waiting under the Webb regime. Familiar figure detecting crashers at football games. Best gateman on the force. While not actively engaged in athletics, lends whole-hearted support to every Ursinus team. EVELYN MAE HOOVER. Fair Miss from Fircroft-on-the-hill. Active figure in campus life. Likes to dance; regular customer at Rec Hall. Hiking activities surrounded by utmost secrecy. Basic interest in teaching racket. Supplementary interests of more personal nature. Smiling, friendly, curious. Has variety of activities: Chi Alpha Tau, Inter-Sorority Council, Y. V . C. A., Junior Play Committee, English Club. Congenial to all, devoted to her intimate friends. Treks to the dining room every morning for breakfast. Likes nothing better than a good, rousing, snowball fight. Willing, enthusiastic, keen sense of humor. DOROTHY ELMIRA HORNE. Petite, efficient. Tireless v orker in every activity. Excellent student, crackerjack with figures. Associate editor of Weekly ; Council on Student Activities; Student Expenditures Committee; Junior Play Commitee; Central Nominating Committee; Women's Dormitory Committee; International Relations Club imposing record. Still has time to knock down equally imposing string of marks, as well as to preside over Y. V . C. A. Always busy; works twice as hard and twice as efficiently as most of us. Thorough, neat, precise; pleasing manner, cheery greeting for all. Successor to Pocohontas as Mr. Man's Domestic Sciencer. RODMAN BLAIR HUNTER. chief of the Zeta Chi tribe. Short, looks tough, but isn't. Clanged cymbals in band three years, then retired to make debut in Rec Hall dancing. Wrestled as a flea weight for Carlton as a frosh; sang second bass or something for Hartenstine's Nightingales as a soph. Became Chancellor of the Exchequer for the class and Business Group in last two years. A four-year Curtis Marine. Chief ad-getter and business boss for the Ruby ; has well-directed aims toward business world. Charter member of Hunter-Pole duo. Full of sharp wit and humor. Friendly: Mike's more than O. K. 31

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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

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ROY JOHNSON. JR. terland. Sot aside milking pail to come to Ursinus; now dodges blocking backs instead of cow's tails. Just another farmer as freshman; then Demos took him under its wing. Next came lure of Rec Hall. round expression in art of dance, now almost a smoothie. One of fow three-letter men in major sports. Piloted court-men as senior, team's high scorer two years. Ace right-hander of Jing's pitching staff. Varsity Club. Majors in math, expects to inflict knowledge of triangles and circles on young America. Sipped wine of love, hold it like a gentleman. now a total abstainer. But there will come a day! CRAIG JOHNSTON. JR. Ridley Park flash almost made good. One of English Group's lit hounds along with Rappoport, Ehly, other notables. Served three years as bard around King McClure’s Anglo-Saxon Round-Table. Proficient in Curtain Club: was there as Youngest. Three Live Ghosts were produced; played part of Black Flamingo in play of same name. Managed Junior, Senior Plays. Y. M. C. A. Choralist: can sing both crescendo and diminuendo, usually ending in basso profoundo at Krupp's. Frosh football manager: owns genuine red sweater with honest-to-goodness U on it. Go-a-little-a-lot-lightly champ. Unexcelled in art of procrastination. Expectant business man. MARION ELIZABETH KERN. Personification of quiet simplicity. Dropped Music Club membership after two years to join selective English Club, over which she now rules along democratic lines. Debating Club momber for three years, but avoids heated arguments. Plays piano well, in spite of few public appearances. Another Omega Chi, who this year represented her sisterhood on Sorority Council, becoming keeper of records and recorder of deeds. Participant in yearly May Day galaxy on green-swarded East campus. Systematic, dependable. Knows her way around in library. On Y. W. C. A. Cabinet in junior year. One of Glenwood's more serious-minded debutantes. EDWARD JOHN KNUDSEN. Pilsner, prime product of Mantua, N. J. Entertains business aspirations, ace of Prof. Bone's economic administratorsf?). Chief mercenary of intor-dorm basketball, e. g., Freeland. Stme, Derr. Pony guard on Grizzly machine. Played memorable role in 7-7 Villanova epic. Marked success in all games of chance, ovon in has-senpeffer. Loquacious Varsity Clubber. Stands high as thespian, three major productions. Vivacious, virile, victorious as Stooge in Double Door. Dominating Demas dictator. Beneath brusque, irresponsible surface hides depth end sincerity. In crisis, howls like hyena; after crisis, cools quickly. 32