Westminster College - Blue Jay Yearbook (Fulton, MO)

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-q GILBERT F. CLOSE St. Louis, Mo. Beta Theta Pi, Debate, 1, 2, 3, 4, Pi Kappa Delta, Y. M. C. A. President, 4, Glee Club, Fofrtnightly Staff, Quartet. Some limp, some are supported by others, but they are all there, and the upperclassmen admire their pluck and somehow wish they were going through it again for the first time. After the Dean is through most of them decide to specialize in mathematics. At nine freshman registration starts, and the faculty are at their posts with dreadful expecta- tion mirrored on their visages, for ing about girls- they still say girls, for they h a v e n't taken enough of the col- legiate m a n n e r and v e n e e r to use other words w h e n speaking of the painted- and-perfumed sex fthe future jellies do thisj g inquir- ing about the town prides for dates, movies, ice cream, etc. fthe Scotch do thisj. Usually this evening all fresh- men get their taste of the real college bull session. C. K. MCCLURE, JR. St. Louis, Mo. Phi Delta Theta, President, Debate, 3, 4, Pi Kappa Delta, Y. M. C. A. Cabinet, Vice-President, 3, 4, Razz- bewies, M ust ar cl Seeds, Track Squad, 1, 2. some of the lads no more know their own mind than they did on the day of their birth, and likely as not have signed up for Theism, Social Path, and Embryology-just because the words are new to them. From twelve o'clock Wednesday until their first class the following day they are free, and the time is usually spent in a number of waysi getting settled in their room fthe mama's-angel- child type does thisj, buying chapel seats from upperclassrnen fthe gullible does thisj, inquir- Bull slinging is an ancient, honorable, and ever-to-be popular sport at Westminster. All during these three days the Pan-Hell council f gentle reader, don't be startled, I am not swearing. Hell is an abbreviation for Hel- lenic, meaning Greek. No, we do not have Greeks on our campus, a Greek is merely a fra- ternity man. But as I was saying before I so rudely interrupted myselfl-all during this time the Pan-Hell council has been conducting Rush Week. That means that different fresh- Tlley're Selecleel I Tappmeyer, Finks, McClell , Wh l S' l Baker, Reeves, Dowell, Gfrilnles, Ugbizh, Wqigiilhgbiglhomes ten ,

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men wonder why they had to be subjected to that talk instead of the upperclassmen, who really need it. But now they sit up straight and l i s t e n, popeyed a n d wondering, b e l i e vi-ng-and quite truly--that they can never be like the ideal Westminster man painted by the speaker. But, thank goodness, that address lasts only an hour, and then all the ideals are quickly forgotten as they are herded into the English placement tests, where the little dears are asked the meaning of such awful words as hallucination, radioactive, and megathamolopod, and are then told to punctuate sentences and write a short story. It is too cruel, really gentle reader, but it must be gone through with because it is a tradition. As the youths stagger out of the room they find a sign-if they are observant-on the bul- letin board urging all athletically inclined men EMMETT R. STUBER B.S., University of Missouri. . Coach of Football and Track. to report to the football field that afternoon for foot- ball practice. And so that afternoon at two about sixty of the selected one hundred thirty are found down on the field mauling and pummeling each other in brave but futile attempts to emulate the old m e n w h o a r e back. By three- thirty all the available pieces of clothing have been used and Coach Stuber, who has aged twenty years in the last hour and a half, yells for everybody to line up, and then the fun begins, for nobody is in training. They do push-ups, knee bends, zigzag running, kicking, passing, charging, and then a lap around the field. That night twenty of the sixty quit foot- ball and wonder how anyone can enjoy playing in such a brutal sport. The next morning they are all back again in the chapel, this time to hear the Dean's address. Fosrm N. WILEY Creighton, Mo. Dorm Club, Skulls of Sev- en, Football, 2, 3, Captain, 4, All-State End, 4, Track, 3, 4, W Club. , Top Row-Abell, Patton, Thomas, Bloom, Reeves Second Row-Clark, Morrow, Smith, Holman, C. Porchey, Leech, Yates Third Row-Barber, Crews, Cox, Tolliver, Corder, Rodenbaugh, Farrell Fourth Row-Fisher, McClanahan, Books, McClarol, Warden, V. Porcrhey, Blanton. Wiley,Bell nine

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RICHARD GRIER PEOPLES Professor of Greek and Latin, Sausser Professor of New Testament Greek B.A., LL.D., Erskine Col- lege men h a v e been visiting the fra- ternity h o u s e s and making good impressions a n d smoking and tell- ing crude high- school jokes. By Wednesday eve- ning the upper- classmen have b e c o m e t i r e d soft-soaping t h e innocent boys and decide which ones they will pledge, so as to have someone to take their spite out on for the past three days. Later that evening the With the Y. M. C. A. reception on F rid a y evening the first official week of school life closes for the freshmen. From time irnmemorial on the first Friday of the school year, the one distinctly religious organi- zation on this Presbyterian campus has held a freshman recep- tion. T a lk s are made by a num- ber of alumni, ministers of Ful- ton, and Y. M. BILLY RODENBAUGH Mexico, Mo. President of F r e s h m a n Class. neophytes are looked up and informed that they have been pledged. Thursday morning during chapel hour all the freshmen are led through the Columns and one of their number is selected to make an extemporaneous reply to the welcoming speeches which are made at that time by of- ficials of the student body. This is a very sacred part of tradition, for no man goes through those two middle Columns again until he is a senior and graduates-then he goes through them for the second and last time. C. A. ofiicers, portraying the part of the Y. M. C. A. in college and the part of the individual in Y. M. C. A. Refreshments are served after the talks, and the new men get their introduc- tion to FroZan ice cream. At the end of the first month of college the freshmen are supposed to know each other well enough to elect their class officers. In the elec- tion they get their first taste of politics on the campus and learn what it means to obey when the upperclassmen say vote for this man or that man. They find out they aren't much in The Cream of llne crop i Phillips, McGill, Van Natta, Sizemore, Hesley, Lampe Reed, Lampe, Thomas, Fewell, Mcllroy, Darner eleven