Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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age quad agis RUBY D. LEECH fama semper vivat H PAUL S. KANTZ

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28 CLASS PROPHECY RUBY D. LEECH. FEW years ago as I was looking through my old papers and note E books, I discovered an old diary dated 1918, and while glancing through it I found many interesting things. Many notes were such that took me back in memory to the almost forgotten year of 1908 spent in Valparaiso University. A diary kept by a woman of thirty some years is not like that of a young girl. The latter usually consists of full, lengthy accounts of everything just as they seem to her. But the notes of an older woman are simply notes and leave us to fill in details ourselves. Such were the hurriedly jetted down notes that I found in this little book. First I found the words: HGrood time, traveling. That made me think. What did I do? 0, yes! That year I took most of the summer OH? to see sights, to Visit friends, and to try to find out what had become of others of whom I had heard nothing for several years. On June the first I noted the arrival of Nan Neighbors in New York. I immediately telegraphed her to meet me there in a few days. She did, and I was overjoyed at seeing her smiling face after her long stay in the Philip- pines. She went there to teach but took up nursing and was soon established as head nurse in one of the most prominent hospitals there. A short time afterwards I was staying in a city in New York. When looking over the hotel register I found the name, Albert Wedeking, and on inquiring about him was told that he was professor of German in the college V which was situated in that town. After a hard days work he was seen sitting in a straight chair in his bachelor's apartments thinking solemnly of his lonely lot, and at last he sank back with a groan, saying, itO, Heck! I can stand this no longerW About this time I heard of Henry Teigan, a great preacher and evangelist, second only to Dwight L. Moody and popular among a large class of working people, chieiiy on account of his socialistic views. He has written a book on Socialism which is now taken as the most authoritative of all socialistic books. In it he often refers to Bryan, saying, uIf this man had been in office, Socialism would have been much farther advanced, and this country would therefore have been in a much more prosperous condition.H I found G. F. Sisson in charge of a ladies7 boarding school, which was attended mostly by pretty girls. He seemed to be a great favorite among

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25 them, especially in the line of athletics, and they all affectionately call him iiSissyW Paul Moody is now singing With a grand opera company, and has made quite a iihitW especially among the girls. He has also had several of his poems published and set to music. Among them is iiI Like the Girl Who Made the Latest Hit. Thomas Matney has attended a university Whose main purpose seems to have been to broaden the Views of men. At least he no longer thinks that everyone is narrow in his beliefs, and strangest of all to relate, he has become a very earnest and efficient orthodox preacher. Elliott James has prospered financially since he left Valparaiso. His well known antipathy towards the tobacco trusts of his state led him to use all his knowledge and Wit to work against them until he formed a union stronger than theirs. And he is now at the head of one of the greatest tobacco trusts of the South. Henry Kinsey Brown has at last given up hopes of seeing Bryan elected and has consented to have his own name put forward for the next nomination, and is now out making stump speeches. His success in Winning the people over to his side is well known, for When he raises his voice to a high pitch in eloquent appeal for his cause, Who can say him nay? Raymond Bressler is known as a man of many talents. He occasionally sings at moving picture shows, and has played in a number of light comedies. He also taught Latin and English in high school, but he had played the ilfoolli so many times that the students copied his example, and at last sent him back to iiHalifaXW Martin Teigan is a lawyer and has settled down in a small town in the eastern part of Nebraska. He is as hard to understand as ever. I am not sure Whether he is merely an honest lawyer or a cunning politician. But from What I heard I believe that he is the latter. He tried to get an office in his state a few years ago, but ran as slowly as he walked around the streets of Valparaiso, and so was as late as he used to be in arriving at some of his classes. J . E. Caldwell is president of a college for negroes in Northern Louisiana. He has practically built it up himself and is doing good work in it. He is also using his spare time to invent telescopes With Which he may explore the celes- tial region, for he has already become an authority on astronomy. Paul Kantz is no longer looking for a girl. He has at last found one Who ARCHIVES VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY