Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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according to his own statement, began life on a farm near Ulv Summit, in New York. He assigns April ig, 1873. as the date. Attended the common schools and a seminary at Easton, New York, also the high school at Greenwich in the same stale. While yet seventeen, he began teaching school, and at nineteen years of age came to Washington. I le taught one term, and went to California to recup¬ erate. A year later he returned to Washington and entered the Prep, department of the W. A. C. He finished the Freshman year then, taught country school, returning to college in ’t;8. Was captain of Company ‘‘IF’: has done a good deal of tutoring, and has starred for two years as an inspector in Ferry Hall. Thesis: “ ' Design of Traction Engine Boiler and Running Gear.” CHARLES TI. GOODSELL, otherwise Fat” was born at Howard Lake, Minnesota, November 23. 1879. After a checkered earlier career, he came to Spokane, which lias since been his home, lie entered the NY. A. C. in the fall of ’95, and look¬ up the course in Mining Engineering. Has starred on the football team for six. seasons. Was on the track team tor two years. Knows more tales about old limes in the Dorm, than could he recorded in a year. President Mining Engineers’ Association, ’oo; vice president, ’99. and president of the Ath¬ letic association, ’oo-’ot. Took a prominent part in the changing of the college colors. Thesis “The Development of a Silver-Lead Mine in the Coeur d ' Alenes.” •J PATRICK J. LYNCH was not born in the “ould country. He started toward fame and for¬ tune at Chehalis, Washington. March 12, 1878. He says he received some early education in the coun¬ try schools on the borders of the Yakima Indian Reservation. After spending three years in the State Normal at Ellenshurg. entered the W. A. C. in the fall of ' 97, and enrolled in the Mining En¬ gineering Course, believing that was the host course in school, and that there is nothing loo good for the Irish. Last fall he gave the powers to under¬ stand that for his degree he would submit a thesis on The Development of a Mine.”

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Foreigner number two. I 1 AXS MUMM, Jk. Hans was born in Schleswig. Germany, July 21. 1878. When two years old. he started toward America, never stopping until Rosalia was reached. Here Hans attended a little red country school house. When seventeen he entered the State Nor mal School at Cheney and remained a year and a half. On February 22. 1897. entered Department of Civil engineering W. A. C. Has been on base ball team every year and is captain ‘oi ; was on the track team of 00: warbled in the (dee Club; attained the rank of captain in the Cadet Corps: received ap pointment as United States Deputy Mineral Sur¬ veyor for Idaho in 1900. Thesis: “Ratio Between the Rainfall and the Runoff in the Palouse Valley.” FRANK FIELDING NALDER. the other for¬ eigner, started toward the day o f examinations at Penshurst. Province of Victoria. Australia, Novem¬ ber 4. 1874. The first seven years of his life were spent in New Zealand, coming to America in t88. . He settled on a farm near Waitslnirg. Washington. In his eighteenth year entered Waitsburg Academy. In the year of ' 96-97, he entered the class of Naughty-One at W. A. C. Was lieutenant in the Ca del Corps, 98- vj. Orator 011 Washington’s birthday program for the Washington. ‘00. Member of inter¬ collegiate debating team, in debate with the U. of W.. 99. and leader of the team. ’oo. Won first prize in State Anti-Saloon League’s Oratorical Contest at Se¬ attle, ' oo. between Whitman. U. of W. and W. A. C. Local editor Evergreen. ' 98-’99; editor-in-chief. ’00- oi. Thesis: “The Government Ownership of Rail¬ roads in Australia.” GRACE LULA COLBURN is a farmer’s daughter, having begun life in Latah County, Idaho. July 20. 1880. So you see. she is the youngest of the grave and reverend tribe. Well. Grade went to “dcestrick skulc” near Deep Creek until some time in March, 1896, when she joined the Naughty-Ones. Her favorite color is la ender; her predominant characteristic, loyalty. She represented the class at Senior Prep. Graduation, also the Washington So¬ ciety on Washington’s birthday in 99. She has taken the English course and will submit a thesis on “The Indian in American Literature.”

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MABELl-E BENTON BEA ' ITIE is a girl whom the Xaughty-Ones recently adopted. She was born in Indiana, at New Bedford, May .?o, j88o. She went to public school just like the rest of the Seniors till she was thirteen, then moved with her parents to Bethany, a suburb of Lincoln. Nebraska. Studied at Cotner University and when sweet six¬ teen went to Peru. Nebraska. She stayed there till she graduated from the State Normal. Last year she studied at the State University at Lincoln, and to cap the climax of her schooling, she came to VV. A. C Thesis: “The Satan of Milton: A Comparative Study of Sources and Poetic Person¬ ifications of Evil VAN EATON WILLIAMS happened to get horn in Whitman County, February n, 1878. At¬ tended grammar school and spent two years in the Tacoma High School where he reached the tenth grade. After some experience in an immigration office at Seattle, taught school one term, then joined the Northern Pacific Mineral survey in the spring of ' () . Came to the W. A. C. in the fall of ' 97. entering on Freshman work in Economic Science and History. Has been prominent in athletics and literary societies, president of the Washington, ’oo; field manager of the Athletic Association. ' 98: played on base ball team. ' 98: captain. ’99; first lieutenant in the Cadet Corps: assistant business manager and business manager of tile Evergreen. ' 99-°o; charter member of the S. C. L. Thesis: “The Financial History of the State of Washington.” WILLIAM HELL OLTMAN was born at Wailsburg, Washington, May 6, 1877. He received bis early training in the public school. Between his seventeenth and nineteenth years taught several terms of school. Entered the W. A. C. in Sep tember. 1896, taking tip the course in Economics Was one of the representatives of his class at their graduation from Prcpdom: class president during his Freshman and Sophomore years: represented the Washington on Washington’s birthday program. qS. with a declamation ; attained the rank of captain in the Cadet Corps: member of the debating lean which defeated Whitman. 99; business manager and later editor-in-chief of the Evergreen. ’99-’oo: won home oratorical contest. 00. and second place in the intercollegiate contest: president of the Wash¬ ington. ’99-00: manager base ball team. 01. Tliesi : “ The Recent Rise of Labor Legislation in the United Stales.”