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i Published by the ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Missoula Montana

VOL 4 JANUARY, 1926 NO. 3 ... Wfy e ... Jftontana Alumnus VOL. 4 NO. 3

Entered as second-class matter November 1, 1922, at the postoffice at Missoula, Montana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. HELEN NEWMAN ...... ______Editor GERTRUDE BUCKHOUS ....Associate Editor WINIFRED FEIGHNER ....Associate Editor J. B. SPEER______Business Manager

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Table of Contents, January, 1926 Page

Alumni News ......

A thletics ...... 13

Campus Activities 17

Clems N e w s...... 20

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION of the STATE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA

Executive Committee, 1925-26 WILLIAM J. JAMESON, ’19...... President GRACE BARNETT, ’21...... V ice-President HELEN NEWMAN, ’24...... Secretary-Treasurer MORRIS McCOLLUM, ’23...... Three-Year Delegate THOMAS C. BUSHA, ’17...... Three-Year Delegate GEORGE A. SHEPARD, ’21.. .Three-Year Delegate HARRY DAHLBERG, ’21...... One-Year Delegate GILBERT PORTER, ’23...... One-Year Delegate FRED WHISLER, ’15...... One-Year Delegate •=» ALOMMII MEWS •=»

HOMECOMING at 12 o’clock noon on Thursday. Fol­ lowing their arrival, a parade led by Singing on the Steps opened the cel­ the Bobcat band proceeded down Hig­ ebration for Montana’s Homecoming gins avenue to Kelly’s corner where on November 25. William J. Jameson, a pep meeting was held. Jr., of Billings, class of ’19. president Four thousand people were in the of the Montana Alumni Association, new bleachers to watch the Grizzlies was the principal speaker of the eve­ send the Bobcats to a crushing defeat ning; Oscar Dahlberg, president of A. with a score of 28-7 Thanksgiving af­ S. U. M., welcomed all alumni, former ternoon. Billy Kelly tore the Aggies’ students and other Homecoming vis­ defense to shreds and scored all four itors to the University. The Grizzly of the Grizzlies’ touchdowns. The band played several selections before Fangs, sophomore honorary fraternity S. 0. S. began. The yell king led the at the State College, and the Bear students in yells and songs during the Paws at the University put on a stunt observance of the tradition and after between halves of the game. The S. 0. S. the students assembled around Fangs put on a fight between their a huge bonfire back of Craig hall, bobcat and a dummy bear, with the where they snake danced and yelled bobcat winning. They paraded about until the fire burned out. At 8:30 the field with a cow with a sign that they formed in line behind the Grizzly read “ This is no bull; we want bear band and proceeded to the president’s meat.” The Bear Paws’ stunt consist­ house where they gave Prexy an ova­ ed of a funeral act and march cere­ tion of yells. President Clapp respond­ mony, and the burying of the coffin ed with a short talk, after which the and the Aggie. snake dance continued down through About 150 alumni and former stu­ the main part of town. During the dents attended the Homecoming din­ bonfire the “ M” on Mount Sentinel ner given at North hall at 7 o’clock was lit with red fuses by the freshman Thursday night. W. J. Jameson, Jr., class. of Billings acted as toastmaster; More than 150 people attended the speeches were given by President C. reception for alumni, former students H. Clapp, Miss Jeannette Rankin, Pro­ and members of the faculty, given at fessor Barges, professor of public the home of President and Mrs. Clapp speaking at the State College, and from 8 to 10 on Wednesday night. Coach Click Clark. Those in the receiving line were Presi­ Homecoming dances were held dent and Mrs. C. H. Clapp, Mr. and Thursday night in the men’s gymnasi­ Mrs. W. J. Jameson, Professor and um, Craig hall and South hall. The Mrs. F. C. Scheuch, Professor and Mrs. dance in the gymnasium was the Home­ M. J. Elrod, Professor and Mrs. J. P. coming dance for alumni and former Rowe, Dean and Mrs. T. C. Spaulding, students, who were admitted free, and Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Jesse, Dean and the dances in the two dormitories were Mrs. C. W. Leaphart, Dean Harriet R. given by the students at the University Sedman, Mrs. Warren Wilcox, Dean for the students from Bozeman, who A. L. Stone, Dr. J. H. Underwood and were also admitted free. All three J. B. Speer. dances were crowded with students, Hundreds of Homecomers and vis­ alumni and former students, and guests itors were in Missoula Wednesday and from Bozeman. Thursday. A special train with nearly All classes and laboratories were 300 Aggie rooters arrived in Missoula open to Homecomers on Friday. Fri- 4 THE MONTANA ALUMNUS

day night the Masquers presented their ALUMNI ENGAGED IN fall play, “ Captain Apple jack,’ ’ to a MANY OCCUPATIONS packed house at the Liberty theater. The play, a farcical melodrama by Thirteen hundred and eighty-one "Walter Hackett, was in three acts. graduates now compose the alumni of Act I, the Adventure; Act II, the the State University of Montana. In Dream; Act III, the Romance. The 1898 the first graduating class con­ scene of the first and third acts was sisted of two members, Mrs. Ella Robb laid in the library of Ambrose Apple- Glennv, who now lives in Minneapolis, john’s mansion, Polperren, Cornwall. and Eloise Knowles, who died in 1916. The second act took place on board an The class of 1925 numbered 182 gradu­ old pirate ship, where a great number ates, who are now scattered all over of characters met for a night of ad­ the United States. venture and romance. Thirty-two per cent of the total num­ ber of graduates, according to the BRENNAN RETURNS alumni files, are engaged in teaching, FROM THE ORIENT with nearly three times as many wom­ en teachers as men. Although prob­ Wallace Brennan, ’25, returned re­ ably all marriages of alumni have not cently after nearly three months spent been recorded, it is safe to estimate in the Orient. He shipped from Seat­ that 40 per cent of the graduates are tle on the S. S. President Jefferson as married, and that about 12 per cent bookkeeper to the first assistant en­ have married either University gradu­ gineer and during the trip had the op­ ates or former students. portunity to visit many points of in­ The following table shows the vari­ terest in the Philippines, Japan and ous other occupations in which the China, being in the latter country while alumni are engaged: the civil war there was at its height. Occupation— Men Women He visited Victoria, Yokohama, Accountant ...... 1 Kobe, Magai, Shinonasaki, Shanghai, Architect ...... 1 Hongkong, Osaka, Tokio, and Manila. Army and Air Service.... 2 He observed the progress Japan is Artist ...... 1 making in recovering from the earth­ Attorney ...... 98 3 quake of two years ago in which thou­ Banker ...... 12 sands of lives and millions of dollars Broker—Investments, etc. 4 in property were destroyed. Chemist ...... 12 1 Tokio, Mr. Brennan says, is a typ­ Dentist ...... 1 ical American city and has made won­ Dietitian and Laboratory derful strides in cleaning up its ruins Work Technician...... 5 and rebuilding structures wrecked by Doctor ...... 8 1 the earthquake. Modern buildings, Electrician...... 2 paved streets and other improvements Engineer ...... 37 make an attractive place of the Japan­ Entomologist...... 1 ese capital. In Yokohama, another Farmer ...... 14 1 town hit hard by the shock, he found Forestry ...... 45 conditions practically the reverse. General Office Work— Vast areas of wreckage still are as they Secretaries included.... 41 18 were following the quake. This is due Geologist ...... 5 partly to the lack of modern equipment Government W ork...... 3 for clearing away the debris. Oxen Insurance ...... 10 and hand power have not been sup­ Journalist ...... 36 14 planted by modern methods and conse­ Lumber ...... 9 quently the progress has been slow. Librarian ...... 21 Yokohama cannot be compared with Managers ...... 5 3 Tokio, neither in enterprise nor in Merchant ...... 13 methods. Minister ...... 2 THE MONTANA ALUMNUS 5

Nurse ...... 1 CHICAGO CLIPPINGS Optometrist ...... 1 Osteopathy ...... 1 Earle Duffy, now working as indus­ Pharmacist ...... 57 16 trial writer with the Portland Cement Real Estate ...... 2 1 Association, 111 West Washington Salesman ...... 9 street, Chicago, and Ritchey Newman, Social Work ...... 3 manager of the Chicago district for the Store Work—buyers, etc. 3 Cheek-Neal Coffee Company, 6345 Student ...... 20 11 Magnolia avenue, have sent in news Teaching ...... 125 308 of alumni and former students now Unknown occupations or living in Chicago. not working ...... 58 30 Herbert Bloom, ’25, is in the legal Writer ...... 1 department of the Kemper Insurance Company. The chief difference be­ GRADS OPEN LAW tween Missoula and Chicago, says FIRM IN BILLINGS Herb, is that in Missoula 52 clean shirts will last a year while in Chicago Announcement has been made of the it takes 365 or 366. opening of the law firm of Simmons Jack Stone, ’23, is in the editorial and Allan in Suite 1, Montana Nation­ department of the Chicago Daily News al Bank building, Billings, Montana, occasionally—the rest of the time he on January 1, 1926. is out “ on the street” looking for The firm is composed of Kenneth R. choice bits with which to brighten up L. Simmons, who received his B.A. de­ the mundane existence of the Chica­ gree in law from the University in goan. 1924, and Roy (Red) Allan, who re­ Ole Bue, ’23, is also on the Daily ceived his B.A. and LL.B. degrees from News. Ole, who has been in Chicago the University in 1924.* Kenneth has since September, says there are still been with the law firm of Orimstad a lot of people in Chicago who don’t and Brown in Billings since his grad­ know him. uation and Red has been with the law Ralph Bell, ’23, is a copy reader on firm of Earle Genzberger in Butte. the sports copy desk of the Chicago Herald-Examiner. FORMER STUDENT Mary Ryburn, ex-’23, is a student at WINS ART PRIZE the National Kindergarten school. Margaret Anderson, ’25, is connected Irvin “ Shorty” Shope, ex-’25, was with the office of this school. awarded second prize in the illustra­ Rex Healy, ex-’23, is associate ed­ tion and figure drawing division at itor of The Radio Digest, Chicago. Rex the Minneapolis Federal Art School ex­ says he is going to rest up after the hibit, held in connection with the Min­ 60,000 mile jaunt he took through the nesota state fair at Minneapolis. Orient in 1924. The drawing which took second place George P. Stone, ’12, is a re-write was a black and white carbon pencil man and special writer for the Chi­ drawing of a rider on a bucking horse, cago Daily News. 32 by 24 inches in size. Luke Hunt, ex-13, is assistant city According to rulings sent out by the editor of the Chicago Daily News. Federal Art School, only the best of its students were allowed to enter the Arthur Carstens, ex-’25, is pit re­ contest. There were four divisions porter for the Chicago Journal of made by the entries and from 475 Commerce. drawings submitted, 122 were selected D. D. “ Dud” Richards, 12, who was and hung in the exhibit. Many of the radio editor of the Chicago Post, is entries were the work of professional now assistant director of WLS (Sears artists. Roebuck broadcasting station). He 6 THE MONTANA ALUMNUS has charge of the extension work of the ination was made by President Cool- station in the rural service depart­ idge. ment. “ I appreciate the honor in being ap­ Charles “ Chuck’’ Keim, one time pointed to this important federal of­ yell leader at Montana, is attending fice in Montana,” said Mr. Rankin, Northwestern University. His address “ and, of course, it will be my purpose is 1321 North Dearborn street, Chicago. to administer the duties of the office Luke Garvin, ex- ’24, is attending the efficiently. ’ ’ University of Chicago. He may be Mr. Rankin obtained his Bachelor of reached at 18 S. Hamline avenue, Science degree from the State Univer­ Apartment 3, Chicago. sity in 1903; he then attended Harv­ Roger Deeney, ex-’24, visited with ard college, securing his A.B. degree a number of former Montana students from that institution in 1905 and the while on a business trip to Chicago degree of Bachelor of Laws from the during December. Harvard Law School in 1909. Ruby Parker, ex-’27, and Edna Mor­ Immediately after leaving Harvard ris, ’25, are living at 1409 Dearborn Mr. Rankin entered the law office of Avenue, Chicago. Walsh & Nolan in Helena, Montana, where he remained for two or three Mike Blinn, ex-’20, is now doing ac­ years. He then entered the practice counting work for Ernst & Ernst and of law for himself in Helena, where lives at 7740 Paulina street. He is the he has remained ever since. In 1920 proud father of a boy born April 13. he was elected attorney general for the Bill Edgington, ex-’27, is selling State of Montana, in which capacity he bonds and can be located at the Sigma served for four years. Chi house, Evanston. Ray Daniels, ex-’26, is employed by R. N. OSLUND SPEAKS Sears & Roebuck in the advertising de­ TO BIOLOGY GROUP partment and is taking a course in art. Newell Robertson, ex-’26, is attend­ Dr. Robert N. Oslund, ’20, speaking ing the Chicago Art Institute and lives before the annual convention of the at the Three Arts Club. American Societies for Experimental Maurice Dietrich, ’18, of Deer Lodge Biology at Cleveland recently, gave his was in Chicago recently on a business conclusions proving that the theories trip to get personally acquainted with upon which the “ rejuvenation” opera­ Chicago banking connections. tion is based are false. Dr. Oslund, Fred Stimpert spent part of his va­ now of the University of Illinois, has cation last summer in Chicago and conducted a number of experiments “ the waves at Edgewater Beach still along this line. sing of Prof. Stimpert’s beach comb­ He claims that persons who have ing activities.” undergone such operations, if subject­ ed to a cross examination, likely would admit that they feel no younger today, W. D. RANKIN APPOINTED and on the whole may be worse off U. S. DISTRICT ATTORNEY than before. Dr. Oslund obtained his A.B. degree ■Wellington D. Rankin, ’03, former at­ in Zoology at the State University in torney general for the State of Mon­ 1920, then attended the University of tana, was appointed United States at­ Chicago, and later obtained his doc­ torney for the district of Montana on tor’s degree at the College of Medi­ December 23 to succeed John L. Slat­ cine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, tery of Glasgow. The appointment Tennessee. He is a member of Alpha was confirmed by the Senate through Delta Alpha fraternity, and won the Senators T. J. Walsh and Burton K. Duniway prize in 1915-16 and in Wheeler on the same day that the nom­ 1919-20. THE MONTANA ALUMNUS 7

STREIT IS SUCCESSFUL AS Towner, N. D., on June 14, 1925. They NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT made an automobile tour of the Black Hills and Yellowstone Park and then Clarence Streit, ’20, who has been both attended summer school at the acting as foreign correspondent for University. eastern newspapers, most recently for the New York Times’ Wide World Florence Benson, ’19, was married Service, has recently returned to Paris on December 28, 1924, to Louis A. Ut­ from Morocco, according to the house recht in Floodwood, Minnesota. Her organ of the New York Times. While address is now Lincoln, Nebraska. in Morocco Streit covered French mil­ itary operations out of Fez, where the Gregory Powell, ’16, was married to French had their headquarters during Miss Ruth Griggs of Casper, Wyoming, the recent Moroccan insurrection. in September. They will live in Mid­ Streit’s services in this campaign west, Wyoming, where Mr. Powell is were considered the best and most ac­ with the Midwest Refining Company. curate of any of the few correspond­ ents who managed to gather authentic Ralph Christie, ’25, was married to news and get it past the strict censor­ Miss Zella Zee Howard of Hamilton in ship established by French officials. December. They will live in Hamilton, Since entering the foreign correspond­ where Ralph is a member of the teach­ ence field he has made and upheld the ing staff of the Hamilton high school. reputation of being among the first in every crisis that has arisen on the con­ Ethel Ross, ’25, and Jasper H. Wil­ tinent. liams of Burns . City, Indiana, were Streit received his B.A. degree in married in Missoula the latter part of Journalism from the State University December. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wil­ in 1920. He received the Rhodes schol­ liams are teachers in the high school arship in 1920, being the first man ap­ at Bliss, Idaho, where they will make pointed after the war. He entered Ox­ their home. ford in January, 1920, but resigned his scholarship before proceeding to a de­ Ruth Gonser, ’28, was married on gree and became foreign correspond­ December 31 to Howard Lease in ent for the Philadelphia Public Ledger Great Falls, Montana, where they will in Rome. make their home.

MARRIAGES Avon Fraser, ’24, was married to Dorothy Skulason, ’27, on January 6 J. Lamar Doull, ’27, and Miss Bessie in Missoula. They will live in Los Ham of Butte were married in Sacra­ Angeles, California. mento, California, on November 10. Frederick Greenwood, ’09, was mar­ Carrie Maclay, ’20, was married to ried to Miss Grace Mildred Tucker on Mr. Ewald T. Grether of Lincoln, Ne­ November 11 at Grace church, San braska, on October 24 in Kansas City, Francisco, California. Mr. Greenwood Missouri. They will live at 1417 R is president of the Portland branch of street, Lincoln, Nebraska. the Federal Reserve Bank of San Fran­ cisco. They will live in Portland. Martha Stone, a former University student, was married on Armistice day Ruth James, ’23, was married to Ray to John G. Weruli of Los Angeles, Cal­ Keyes of Corvallis, Montana, on De­ ifornia. They will live in South Pas­ cember 30, in Anaconda. adena. Gertrude Karcher, ’23, was married Charles E. M. Bauer, ’16, was mar­ to Russell Beeson of Sonora, California, ried to Miss Karen Belle Johnson at on January 4 in Kalispell, Montana. 8 THE MONTANA ALUMNUS

FUTURE CAMPUSTERS practically every city of the United States and Canada as a member of a I A son, Leonard Morton, was born to nation-wide chain of intercollegiate! Mr. and Mrs. Morton Ivarson (Mildred alumni hotels. In New York and Chi­ Carpenter, *21) on September 18 at cago three hotels will be designated. Santa Barbara, California. The actuating motive behind the j plan is to provide a common meeting ; A son, Gerald, was born to Mr. and ground for college men and women un- ! Mrs. Russell Cocks (Cora Sellers, ’24) der conditions that will make for so- j at Black Diamond, Washington, in Au­ cial congeniality, thus furthering and I gust. strengthening the coordination of 3 alumni interests, upon which every higher educational institution must de- ! A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. pend to a great extent. F. W. Grawe (Mildred Himes, ’22) on November 16. The alumni magazines of all the par- ] ticipating institutions will be kept on file in the reading room of each inter- ' A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. collegiate alumni hotel. Lists contain­ Miles O’Connor, ’24, at Livingston ing the names of local alumni will also .. early in November. be maintained by the alumni maga­ zines. A daughter, Marion Evelyn, was The committee having the work in born November 21 to Mr. and Mrs. charge is selecting hotels which evince Kirk Badgley in Missoula. Kirk grad­ a cordial spirit of cooperation with the uated in 1924 and is now assistant movement. In most cities the leading business manager at the University. hotels are taking very kindly to the plan and will in the course of the next A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Wil­ six months begin to display the offi­ liam Walterskirchen of Kewanee, Il­ cial insignia adopted by the commit­ linois, during December. Bill gradu­ tee. ated in 1921 and Mrs. Walterskirchen All college men and women who (Virginia McAuliffe) graduated in travel regularly will soon be able to 1920. chart their course so that they can move from one alumni home to an­ Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Kent, Jr., an­ other, meeting friends wherever they nounce the arrival of Hugh Kent, the go and resuming old friendships. third, on October 12. The Kents now A national publicity campaign will live at 788 Highland avenue, Elgin, inform alumni of the cooperation which Illinois. will be extended by the designated ho­ tels and an effort made to have all A daughter, Phyllis May, was born alumni activities center in them. to Mr. and Mrs. Marion C. Anderson Anyone wishing to secure informa­ (Dorothy Luttrell, ’20) on June 14 at tion concerning the plan, which in­ Plains, Montana. volves many additional interesting de­ tails, may write to Levering Tyson, 311 East Hall, Columbia University, or to Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman (Mary Fer­ any other member of the Honorary gus, ’07) have a fifth child, a son, born Board listed below: in the fall in Seattle, Washington. Walter R. Okeson, Lehigh Univer­ sity, Bethlehem, Pa. INTERCOLLEGIATE E. N. Sullivan, State College, Penn­ ALUMNI HOTELS sylvania. E. F. Hodgins, Mass. Inst. Tech., The associated alumni of seventy Cambridge, Mass. leading colleges and universities in R. W. Sailor, care Cornell Alumni America are designating one hotel in News, Ithaca, N. Y. THE MONTANA ALUMNUS 9

Paul G. Tomlinson, Princeton Alum­ Whit broke away and left to try re­ ni Weekly, Princeton, N. J. porting in the semi-tropics. W. B. Shaw, Univ. of Michigan, Ann “ Bunch of applesauce!” Joe had Arbor, Michigan. snorted to Whit, as the latter leaned Miss Marion E. Graves, Smith Col­ over the rail of the Honolulu-bound lege, Northampton, Mass. steamer. “ Hurry up and get the roam­ J. L. Morrill, Ohio State Univ., Co­ ing idea out of your head and get back lumbus, Ohio. here to work. I ’ve got my opinion any­ J. 0. Baxendale, Univ. of Vermont, way of a bird that aspires to beach Burlington, Vt. combing! ’ ’ Robert W. Harwood, care Harvard Alumni Bulletin, 50 State St., Boston, Whit smiled as he recalled the fare­ Mass. well of his newspaper buddy and Robert Sibley, University of Califor­ paused as he allowed “ Dear Joe:” to nia, Berkeley, California. dry on the paper. The soft strum, strum of guitars f WHEN ARE YOU COMING BACK? came to Whit’s ears as a party of Ha­ waiian lads strolled toward the sands. The distant hum of a sea-plane from (This letter written by Bill C ogsw ell. ’23. is reprinted from the Christmas number of "Para­ Pearl Harbor purred into distinctness dise of the Pacific,” Hawaii's Illustrated Month­ ly Magazine.) and out again. Guess the pilot was try­ ing to test the searchlight batteries “ . . . And when are you com­ around Diamond Head. Whit grinned ing backf Coming back to where.life and started the letter. is interesting t I would think that you “ I ’m sure ashamed of myself, Joe, would tire of that lonely life in Hawaii old man, for my inexcusable neglect in and make some effort to get back where writing to you. I suppose you are things happen. Remember you can have turning out as snappy an edition as the city desk any time you want to— ever, and I sure wish I could send you just drop me a line and I ’ll fix it up a good story that would enable you to for you.” scoop the world. Then Joe had signed his name. It “ Really, Joe, I don’t know why I was a dandy letter, and Joe was an old have been so neglectful. Guess its be­ peach for showing so much interest. cause I have weakened and become a Whit leaned back and puffed his pipe. part in this uninteresting Hawaiian life In the next cottage someone was that you mentioned in today’s letter. I practicing on the uke. From further ought to have written you from Hilo up the walk came the squawking of when I first hit the island, but—well, as Mike’s loud speaker. Mike must have I say, I suppose I have to blame it on hooked up the coast tonight, thought this quiet existence. Funny, too. You Whit. Whenever a good dance program would think that when a fellow is iso­ was on, Mike pointed the radio funnel lated in the way of which you write, out the window and let all Waikiki he would have more time for cor­ know he had tuned in on something. respondence. But I guess I ’m just part “ Too bad a fellow can’t use a confi­ of the monotony. dential radio set to carry on his own “ I was still laughing when I landed correspondence with his friends,” in Hilo about the farewell you gave mused Whit. “ It would save me an­ me. It didn’t take me long to find swering this letter tonight and relieve out how Hawaii lacked interest. Hadn’t Joe about my loneliness. Oh well—” been on the sheet a month down there, Whit’s pen scratched over the rippled when old Kilauea, the big fire box in stationery. He felt it his duty to write Hawaii National Park, cut loose with an Joe right then, because he hadn’t explosive eruption—the first in 170 dropped him a line for over a year. Joe years. Of course that was the biggest was still with the Herald—state ed­ story we had, and I mustn’t lead you itor’s desk—the same job he held when to think that it was as big an affair 10 THE MONTANA ALUMNUS as one of those divorce cases that you calling it ‘interesting’ was the type of write the screamer heads for. Boles, Uncle Sam’s gobs. Really, Joe, you the park superintendent, forbid every­ couldn’t get a bunch of finer fellows one but park officials and newspaper­ on any college campus in America, and men to go beyond a certain line. Guess on pay-day you found a line three and he didn’t care a hang about newspaper­ four blocks long in front of the post- men, knowing that there is always an­ office, where they were salting away other one to fill a croaked one’s place. their pay into postal savings. The tourists stood a couple of miles The admiral arranged for an enjoy­ away and watched the old baby shoot, able series of dances on the decks of while we went down and ‘covered’ it. the big battlewagons, let us prowl It was qui$e a sight, but as I say, I around all parts of the ship and drink suppose it couldn’t come up to some of some great punch, made by the ship’s that domestic relations stuff that you cook. But fox-trotting under the muz­ fill the Sunday paper with. zles of a flock of 16-inch guns ain’t so “ However, the old lava guzzler did interesting, is it, Joe? carry somewhat an element of interest “ They lit the entire fleet up one and was a good sport, for when she night, and turned on all the search­ saw a bunch of us coming down to lights. My girl and I went up on cover it for the papers, gave us a bit Punch-bowl, extinct crater within the of our own medicine and tried covering city limits of Honolulu, to see the dis­ us with ashes. But in the same light play. Some darned admiral got funny as you ‘city fellers’ view things, that and. put a big beam on us up there, and was about the only interesting thing there we were, right up on a sort of about it. stage where everyone in Honolulu could “ Finally landed back in Honolulu see us—if they looked that way. But where I ’ve been going through the same that was the most interesting part uninteresting kind of life. Had the po­ about it, I guess—my girl said it was lice run for a while, but there’s not too darned interesting! much interest there either. Once in a “ Of course, I mustn’t forget about while we have a good opium raid story, the time the fleet had getting here. The and although it may seem uninteresting, United States Army was defending the it is at least humorous to see some of islands against this synthetic attack the these good-natured Hawaiian cops sailors were trying to pull off. Once in take a shivering little oriental to the a while the monotony of the place was cooler. Then, once in a while, a Fil­ broken, when something like 100 air­ ipino gets gay with a cane-knife, after planes were in the night skies at one becoming somewhat annoyed at a fel­ time, monkeying around trying to find low-countryman for running away with the enemy. Searchlights were combing his wife, but outside of a bunch of ex­ the skies from one end of the island cited speech making to the Hawaiian po­ to the other, and even if it wasn’t in­ lice lieutenant, there’s not much inter­ teresting, it was at least pretty. Soon est there either. after that, the whole bunch pulled out “ The United States fleet dropped in to Australia, and when they came back on us for a month or so, but thunder, I all we could hear on all sides was what guess that wouldn’t come up to one of a wonderful country that is down there. your wild party stories leaking out of But shoot! Guess Australia is too far Smith’s Roadhouse. They brought a away to be interesting, isn’t it, Joe? few sailors with them and a bunch of Sure! I might take up your offer and officers. I think there was some little come back to a place where things are handful like 40,000 in town. That event exciting. alone carried a bit of interest, but as “ Oh yes, I forgot to mention that you say, it must be nice to be back with the fleet came a bunch of news­ where things happen. The most inter­ papermen. Hal Smith of the New York esting thing, if you will stand for me Times, Arthur Sears Henning of the THE MONTANA ALUMNUS 11

| Chicago Tribune, and Carter Field of expressed in language that would make the New York Herald-Tribune, in par­ some of our own good statesmen sit up ticular were down and I had a bunch of and take notice. But let’s pass over nice talks with them. They say that this stuff, Joe—I know you will not find I those three know more about the United it a bit interesting. Gee, I wish I could I States government than any of the gov- get back where things happen! I ernment officials. But I suppose that “ Then there was another little bit of [ isn’t so interesting to you as getting a excitement, Joe, that jarred us. I sup­ talk with some of those ‘Miss America’ pose you have heard of this guy John candidates, is it, Joe? Rodgers and his crew setting out for “ After the departure of the fleet for Hawaii in an air buggy from San Fran­ Australia things got back to normal cisco, seeing if they could make the trip again and the same old monotony was without stopping to change tires. Poor noticeable. They held some sort of a old John ran out of gas, so they say, [ meeting here, let’s see, I think they and paddled around at sea for nine and called it the Institute of Pacific Rela- a half days. I don’t know whether [ tions, or something like that. It was that is interesting, but at least it gave just a little parley, but it did carry a us on the paper a little extra work. It t bit of interest. They had big men from wasn’t very interesting because every­ | Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand, one had believed Rodgers and the crew America—in fact all countries bordering to be a bunch of soaking corpses on the the Pacific, to talk over different ocean bottom, but of course when they things. I know as far as interest goes, found them, there was nothing to it. I it isn’t as important as a meeting of guess the most interesting part was the the directors of your city league, but fact that all the ships in the navy yard that is life in Hawaii for you. We are were out combing the seas, and on top prone to enlarge upon the weightiness of that they radioed the whole fleet as of such stuff here, but there is some it was returning from Australia, to put consolation in knowing that we are not ahead at full speed and join in the alone, for at this particular meeting was search. It was funny for them to go a delegate from the League of Nations to so much bother, I suppose, because Executive Council. The whole thing one little submarine was the thing that was unofficial as far as governments go, did the trick. but you know yourself, Joe, the satisfac­ “ Rodgers landed on a little island we tion that comes from playing a game have down here named Kauai, and out­ of bridge with the boys—when you can side of the fact that they had been sail­ sit around in your B. V. D.’s—in com­ ing the ocean in just an ordinary sea­ parison to a social affair where you plane for nine days without food or wear a boiled shirt and tuxedo. water was the most unusual thing about “ This conference really was a bit in­ it. But shucks, Joe, remember the ex­ teresting even if it did happen in far citement we used to have together when off Hawaii. Joe, I know that if you the story broke that some tramp had had heard some of those oriental schol­ bummed over the Continental Divide on ars get up and propound good sound the tender of a freight locomotive when theories in the purest English you might the weather was 40 below zero ? have found it interesting too. Of course, “ So you see, it’s just a few breaks it would not have stirred you to the we have had to fulfill our desire to get extent that the mayor of your city the big stories. Of course, we are so would while speaking about some mu­ lonely out here that we enlarge on such nicipal bond issue, but Joe, you would trivial events. I suppose a fellow has have enjoyed it, I ’m sure. There was to dig up his own interest, and it’s get­ nothing exciting, of course, and prob­ ting monotonous to be in a place where ably not even interesting. But at least nothing happens. it was unusual to hear about the vari­ “ Once in a while a fellow gets in the ous problems of the different countries, mood to become interested, but as you 12 THE MONTANA ALUMNUS say it doesn’t last long. Lot of times to see at the Great Western Rodeo and I get somewhat of a kick out of condi­ Roundup. You can always see old tions around us here. If we want a Chinese ladies running around in suits little relief from the day’s work, we go which look like black pajamas, and gen­ out to Waikiki and try surfing with erally all the Hawaiian girls come to some of the Hawaiian boys out there, the games with flower garlands around who are still old-fashioned enough to their shoulders. The Portuguese girls get enjoyment out of the sport of their inevitably wear red hibiscus blossoms forefathers, namely riding the combers in their hair at such gatherings, and on surf-boards and outrigger canoes. At its nothing to see their escorts drag other times we prowl around and visit in an ukulele upon which they strum the legendary places associated with during the progress of the game. There Hawaiian history—in the spots associ­ is a lot of army and navy officers in­ ated with ancient Hawaiian mythology. terested in sport here, and once in a But as Henry Ford says, ‘ History is the while we get a kick in seeing a bunch hunk’ and one soon tires of it. You see, of gobs attend the games en masse. But Joe, there was a time when the various gee, remember how interesting the governments of the world were trying to crowd was at the Saturday night pic­ get control of Hawaii, and there are lots ture show ? Lots of times we see a whole of places where queer events took place, Japanese family attired in native garb but being down here, with nothing much riding around in a Twin Six, but of to think about, we are inclined to take course I don’t get the kick I used to, such things too seriously. Gosh, how I when we watched the lady members of would like to be back shooting pool with the Municipal Hiking Club start out on you in 0 ’Brian’s—first pool hall west their Sunday excursions. of the Rocky mountains! “ Well, Joey, old kid, this letter is a “ It might interest you to know that long one, but you know how it is when I had some nice little chats with Galli there is nothing to do. We rave and Curci, Fritz Kreisler, and Charlie Pad- rave about trivial things just for the dock when they landed here to take in sake of writing a letter, and I ’ll know the sights. Interviews were nothing you’ll understand. I know there isn’t sensational, of course, because as they much interest embodied, but well—| were talking, they were flipping pennies you’ve got to do your best in a place over the boat rail for the Hawaiian div­ where there is nothing going on. I ’ve ing boys who were swimming around in got to quit for tonight. Four boats ar­ the harbor. Ghee whiz, Joe, remember rive early tomorrow morning from four the time you and I interviewed ‘ Soakem countries, the States, Japan, Australia Sweeney,’ the prospective heavyweight and Panama, and I ’ve got assignments champ ? He was sure interesting, wasn’t on two of them. That means early rising. “ Write me again, old fellow. After he? reading this letter you’ll understand “ You know, in my loneliness, I often how contact with the outside world is think of how we used to watch the appreciated, and of how monotonous life crowds at the Sunday ball games, and is down here. Yessir, I would sure like comment upon how interesting, they some real educational contact—where I were. I was out at the ball park just wouldn’t feel I was getting narrowed the other day, looking over the crowds down. Do you still spend your spare and was thinking about the times we time in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium? used to have studying human nature. Write me, because I ’m sure darn near Over here though they are not as inter­ buried in this Honolulu monotony. esting, but you must remember this is a Merry Christmas! different place. There are a lot of Jap­ Fraternally, anese women attend the games here in WHIT.” silk kimonos, and some of them have little Japanese papooses strapped upon P. S.—Heard David Starr Jordan in their backs, like the Indians we used a splendid lecture last night. THE MONTANA ALUMNUS 13

*«=» ►=* ATHLETECS ■te=>t (By Jesse Lewellen, ’26)

FOOTBALL RESUME Fletcher, Burrell, Sugrue, Beeman, Ritter, Plummer, Vierhus, Axtell and After a rather slow start the Grizzly Hanson. Coach Clark and Student football team concluded the season Manager Bob Nofsinger also received with a strong finish, taking two of letters. their last four games, including the 20-14 conference triumph over Idaho BASKETBALL and a 28 to 7 win over the Montana Aggies, and making excellent showings Getting away to a bad start on the against Southern California and O. A. initial western trip of the season, the C., although dropping both contests. Grizzly basketball team is unable to Montana also has consolation in the shake the jinx, which has usually fact that Billy Kelly, sensational tagged at the start of every season. Grizzly quarterback, was placed on the The western trip resulted in dire dis­ all Pacific coast team for the second aster for the Montanans, the team consecutive year, this time being vir­ losing all six games, five of which were tually the unanimous choice of coaches Pacific Coast conference contests. and critics for the quarterback berth. Inability to find the basket has been Last year Kelly made the all coast as one of the chief causes of the Grizzly one of the halfbacks, quarter going to defeats, for Stewart's team does not Stivers of Idaho. The scrappy Irish seem to have the range of the hoop, back finished the season even more although getting lots of shots. A short­ brilliantly than last year, running age of guards has been one of the other amuck against the Aggies to score all reasons why the club has delivered the four of the Grizzly touchdowns on performance usually exhibited. The brilliant runs. loss of Oscar Dahlberg, who completed Three games were won by the his three years of conference basket­ Grizzlies, four were dropped, and the ball last year, is severely felt. Coach Gonzaga game ended in a 14 to 14 Stewart is only using Russ Sweet, bril­ deadlock, the Montana crew crowding liant Grizzly guard, half time in order Oregon out of seventh place in the Pa­ to save him for the track season, this cific Coast conference. No successor proving another handicap. has yet been named to Coach Click The team lost the following games Clark, whose contract expires at the on the recent road trip: W. S. C. at end of the season, although the Mon­ Pullman, 19 to 28; Idaho at Moscow, tana mentor announced his resignation 18 to 19; Washington at Seattle, 19 to in November. Among those who have 33; 0. A. C. at Corvallis, 19 to 31; Ore­ been named as possible successors are: gon at Eugene, 19 to 40; all Pacific Bart Spellman, line coach of the Uni­ Coast conference contests, and Gon­ versity of Washington; Tom Lieb, as­ zaga at Spokane, 33 to 45. Montana sistant to Knute Rockne at Notre also lost to Oregon in a return game Dame, and Charley Moran, Center col­ here, January 25, the powerful and lege mentor; although athletic officials speedy undefeated Webfooters handing refuse to affirm the possibility of any the Grizzlies a 35 to 17 beating. It of these men coming to Montana. was the first home game of the season The following men received football for the Grizzlies. letters at the close of the season: Seven games remain on the Montana Kelly, Illman, Martinson, Cogswell, schedule, four of which are Coast con­ Coleman, Ostrum, Dahlberg, Sweet, S. ference tilts; one is with Gonzaga, and Kain, Whitcomb, Brittenham, Griffin, the other two are with the Montana 14 THE MONTANA ALUMNUS

Aggies. Montana opened the season by the long trips of each team, result­ with a non-conference game, defeating ing in a loss financially. Mt. St. Charles college of Helena, 33 Led by Captain Milton Ritter, star to 21. quarter miler, the Grizzly track team The outstanding feature of the will make a strong bid for coast honors team’s play so far this season has been this year, with the two greatest Mon­ the brilliant performances of Captain tana stars, Russell Sweet and Arnold Ted Illman, playing his last year with Gillette, available for track duty. the Grizzlies. Ted is topping his mates Sweet, beaten only once last year— in total scoring for the season. Clar­ losing to Hubbard of Michigan in the National Intercollegiate meet at Chi­ ence Coyle, former Alberton forward, cago—looms up as the brightest col­ is also playing a strong game, pressing lege sprint star in the country, and Illman closely for scoring honors and has an excellent chance to make the showing up in sensational style on the 1928 Olympic team, if he can maintain floor with his speed and passing. the clip he set last season. Much is expected of the State Uni­ BASEBALL-TRACK versity track and field squad this spring. Baseball will be a regional sport this The football, basketball and base­ spring according to the decision ball teams are not considered potential reached by Pacific Coast conference champions of the Pacific Coast con­ executives at the annual December ference. But oh, you track team! meeting. There are to be two confer­ The Grizzlies should be . stronger ence divisions, the one west of the than in 1925, when they won all of Cascades to include "Washington, O. A. their three dual meets by handsome C. and Oregon; while that east of the scores and tied with the University of Cascades will include Montana, Idaho Washington for first place in the relay and W. S. C. carnival. The Gonzaga Bulldogs withdrew Take the material left over from last from the Northwest conference at this season. Sweet, Coyle, Neill and Simp­ meet in company with the “ big six” son, sprinters, will all be back in har­ of the circuit, Montana, Washington, ness. Ritter, Davis and Stark are fine W. S. C., Oregon, 0. A. C. and Idaho, quarter milers. Gillette, Lowary, Emil resulting in the dissolution of the old Blumenthal, Williams and Hanson will Northwest conference. Gonzaga will be the best bets in the distance runs. be a free lance school in athletics as For the hurdles Spaulding, Thompson the Bulldogs were never in the Pacific and Coyle will be ready to show even Coast conference. The new Northwest better form than in 1925. conference or association now consists A1 Blumenthal will have the main of Whitman, Willamette, Linfield, Col­ burden of the weights events on his lege of Idaho, Pacific and College of broad shoulders. For the pole vault Puget Sound. there are Coyle, Baney and Coulter. Under the new system Montana will In the jumps Sweet and Baney will compete with conference teams on be available. Pearce, Coyle and Byrd, “ this side” of the conference, while javelin tossers, will be shooting the the far western coast teams will play spear again this spring. So much for each other. After the close of the the veteran material which Coach regular season, the winner in this re­ gion will play a series of games with Stewart will have on his squad. the winner of the Coast region, to de­ Some first-class re-enforcements are termine the Pacific Coast conference coming from the Cub squad of 1925. championship. The system of region­ Jake Miller is a fine jumper and is al baseball was adopted because of the expected to prove good enough to give great expense of the old system caused Sweet a rest from some of the field THE MONTANA ALUMNUS 15 events. Whitcomb will help Blumen- UNIVERSITY SPORTS thal in the weights. SCHEDULE FOR 1026 Otto Bessey has thrown the javelin more than 180 feet. McDonald, Adams State University athletes will per­ and Donlan are all fast sprinters. Mil­ form at home in eight basketball con­ ler, Donlan and Kiesel are capable of tests, four baseball games, two track some mean leaping in the hurdles. meets, and three football encounters Snow and Griffin are good middle dis­ during the year 1926. tance runners. Five of the basketball games will be Last spring Montana started the with Pacific Coast conference teams, season with a bang, surprising all the Oregon, the Oregon Aggies, Washing­ experts with a 73-58 victory over ton State, Idaho and the University of Washington State college at Pullman. Washington being due to perform here. Four Pacific Coast conference baseball Bussell Sweet won both the short games, two each with Idaho and Wash­ dashes and both the jumps in this con­ ington State, are on the home program, test. with a probability that two baseball Montana State college was handed games will be arranged with Montana a terrible beating, 97-34, failing to .win State college. a track event. Idaho was overcome, Idaho is the only Coast conference 79-52, in a hard-fought and interesting school due to come here for a dual engagement featured by spectacular meet in track and field sports, though events. the Grizzlies are to face the other col­ At Seattle the Grizzly relay teams leges of the state in an all-Montana won the half-mile and medley relay meet. The gridiron program brings races, while Sweet won the special 100- the Oregon Aggies, Idaho and Whit­ yard dash and Blumenthal placed in man to Missoula, it being the first step for the farmers from Corvallis, the shot put. The relay team won both Ore., to the Treasure state. events in which it entered. Russell Sweet ran the 100 in 9.8 sec­ Basketball Schedule. onds, Coyle in 10 flat. Sweet cut the January 9—Mount St. Charles at record for the 220-yard dash to 21.4 Missoula. seconds. Ritter ran the quarter in less January 15—Washington State at than 51 seconds and time and again Pullman. astounded with his strong finishes. January 16—Idaho at Moscow. Gillette ran the half-mile in 1 min­ January 18—Washington at Seattle. ute 59 seconds, with Lowary and Emil January 19—Oregon at Eugene. Blumenthal cutting fractions off two January 20—Oregon Aggies at Cor­ minutes in the event. Gillette made vallis. the mile in 4 minutes 18 seconds. January 22—Gonzaga at Spokane. Steve Hanson stepped off the two-mile in 4 minutes 19 seconds. January 25—-U. of Oregon at Mis­ soula. Clarence Spaulding in the high hur­ January 29—Washington State at dles was another sensational fast fin­ Missoula. ish performer, cutting his time down February 6—Gonzaga at Missoula. to 16 seconds at the end of the season, February 9 — Montana State at while Coyle and Thompson did the low Bozeman. hurdles in 26 seconds. February 12—Idaho at Missoula. Sweet got away with a broad jump February 19—Montana State at of 21 feet 11% inches. Coyle’s best Missoula. vault was 11 feet 7 inches, a new rec­ February 22—Washington at Mis­ ord. Cal Pearce threw the javelin 161 soula. feet 6 inches in the Idaho meet. February 27—0. A. C. at Missoula. 16 THE MONTANA ALUMNUS

Baseball Gaines. CLARK OFFERS SCHOLARSHIPS May 6 and 7—Idaho at Missoula. May 12 and 13—Washington State W. A. Clark, Jr., of Butte has agreed at Pullman. to pay at the beginning of every year May 14 and 15—Idaho at Moscow. the tuition, board and room of five promising high school graduates who May- 17 and 18—Whitman at Walla attend the State University of Mon­ Walla. tana. May 19 and 20—Gonzaga at Spo­ The scholarships are awarded by a kane. committee composed of three members May 26 and 27—Washington State of the University faculty and three at Missoula. others nominated by the president of Four games with Montana State to the University and appointed by Mr. be arranged for the first two weeks in Clark. The scholarships are tenable June, unless Montana should win east­ for only one year and the holder is ern division title of the Coast confer­ not eligible for a second year. The scholars are chosen on the basis of all- ence schedule, in which case a post­ around activity and excellence in high season series will be played in June school. with the western division winner. The scholarships cover only actual The Track Program. living expenses, exclusive of clothes and student supplies. The tuition of April 24—Quadrangular meet with the holders is paid directly to the Uni­ Idaho, Washington State, and Gon­ versity as well as the board and room zaga at Spokane. of those living in the residence halls. May 1—Invitation relay carnival at Seattle. BREVS May 8—-Dual meet, Idaho at Mis­ soula. Theta Sigma Phi, women’s national May 12, 13 and 14—State Interschol­ journalism fraternity, will award a astic meet at Missoula. silver loving cup to the writer of the May 15—State Intercollegiate meet best Kaimin story of the year. with Montana State college, School of Mines, Mount St. Charles, Intermoun­ Challenges from girls’ rifle teams at the Universities of Oregon, Vermont, tain college and Dillon Normal at Mis­ Kansas, Washington and Cornell, to soula. shoot off dual matches, have been ac­ May 21 and 22—Pacific Coast con­ cepted by the girls’ rifle team at the ference meet at Palo Alto, California. University. 1926 Football Schedule. More than 60 students at the Univer­ October 2—Oregon Aggies at Mis­ sity were enrolled in the new German soula. courses offered last quarter for the October 9—Idaho at Missoula. first time since 1917. The courses were October 16—Washington State at elementary, the advanced work not be­ ing given until the spring quarter. Pullman. October 23 or 30—Montana State at Sigma Alpha Iota, women’s nation­ Bozeman or Butte. al honorary music fraternity, was in­ November 13—-Whitman at Mis­ stalled on the campus in December. soula. November 19—California Aggies at Practical gifts and toys were given Sacramento. to more than 60 poor children at the November 25—Southern California annual Christmas party given by the at Los Angeles. University Y. W. C. A. THE MONTANA ALUMNUS 17

*=- CAMPUS ACTIVITIES *=-

VARSITY DAY STUDENTS AIDED BY LOAN FUNDS Montana’s third annual Varsity Day was held on Wednesday, November 18. Forty-five students at the State Uni­ The first general ASUM convention versity were given financial aid from and the cross-country run were fea­ student loan funds during the past tures of the day. Taking the place of school year, amounting to $3,951.77. The present loan funds are limited Sneak Day, Montana now sets aside to juniors and seniors, not over $100 this day on which her athletes are hon­ being loaned a year and not over $200 ored. Cammie Meagher, president of to any individual student. On account the M men, was this year’s manager of of insufficient funds, many deserving events. applications for loans cannot be grant­ Freshmen-sophomore contests opened ed. the day at 9:30 a. m. and included the The Montana Bankers’ Association sack race, obstacle race and tub rush. and the alumni of the University of The two classes split the points in the Nebraska residing in Montana have sack race; the sophomores won the ob­ each established loan funds, which are stacle race and the freshmen won the available for students in the junior and tub rush, not a frosh being ducked. senior classes of any of the institutions In the afternoon fights, the freshmen of the University of Montana who are won the push ball contest and the soph­ unable to continue their studies with­ omores carried the flag to the M. out financial aid. The students seek­ L. T. Williams of Willow Creek won ing such loans must be satisfactorily the cross-country run in the afternoon, recommended as to character and schol­ covering the distance of about 3Y2 arship by the dean or director of the miles in 23 minutes, 30 seconds. The department in which the applicant’s runners started at Main hall, went major work is done. The loan to any around the oval, out Van Buren street one student is limited to two hundred to the tourist camp, back to the cam­ dollars during his course, and not more pus, around the oval and ended in than one hundred dollars in any one year. Loans must be repaid within one front of the hall. year from the time of borrowing, or A general convocation was held at in exceptional cases, one year after 11 a. m. in Main hall. Yell King Walter graduation; and bear interest at the Sanford led the yells and spoke of the rate of 2 per cent. rally to be held before the Thanksgiv­ ing game with the Aggies. Changes in ERECTION OF NEW the constitution of A. S. U. M. were DORMITORY DELAYED also discussed. A burlesque on the Montana-Aggie Lack of power in the State Board of game, teams being led by Strawberry Education to appropriate excess re­ Stark and Jake Miller, was put on in ceipts from self-supporting activities the afternoon. The husky six-foot of the University units barred the Montanans overcame the five-foot Ag­ board from acting on a proposal of gies, with a place kick by Captain Missoula business men to underwrite Stark. The Aggie team members were the cost of erecting a woman’s new dressed as farmers. Score, 3-0. dormitory at the University, to be paid After the game, a dance was held in for out of receipts from the dormitory the men’s gym and continued during group. Special legislation was de­ the evening. clared to be necessary. 18 THE MONTANA ALUMNUS

GLEE CLUB act as proctors. These proctors, who were scattered throughout the stu­ A novel musical program will be giv­ dents taking the examinations, were en by the Men’s and Women’s Glee unknown to the students. Clubs of the State University at the So far as the examinations for the Wilma theater on April 9. fall quarter were concerned, the new The program to be offered will in­ system was apparently successful, ac­ clude ensemble music by the clubs col­ cording to President Clapp, but wheth­ lectively and individually, presenting er it will continue to be so, is not known. Very few cases of actual cheat­ choruses from late musical comedies ing were reported. and comic operas as well as regular choral songs; men’s quartet, a wom­ en’s quartet, a mixed quartet, and so­ FACULTY FACTS loists, including Dean DeLoss Smith. The Men’s Glee Club will make its Bertha Kraus of Pittsburgh suc­ annual tour of the state the early part ceeded Grace Reely as head cataloguer of March. The itinerary includes: in the University library on November Deer Lodge ...... March 3 1. Miss Kraus graduated from the Ohio State College and Pratt Institute Butte ...... March 4 in Brooklyn, New York. Livingston ...... March 5 Big Timber ...... March 6 Captain Jack W. Howard, formerly Columbus ...... March 7 of the R. 0. T. C. staff here, is in the Billings ...... March 8 foreign service department of the in­ Roundup ...... March 9 fantry school at Fort Benning, Georgia. Harlowton...... March 10 Captain Howard and Captain R. E. Lewistown ...... March 11 Cummings will attend school there for one year, when Captain Howard ex­ Great Falls ...... March 12 pects to continue his foreign service Helena ...... March 13 in the field for a period of two years. Missoula ...... March 17 Harper & Brothers have contracted NEW PROCTOR SYSTEM to publish a series of college mathe­ ADOPTED FOR EXAMS matics texts by Dr. N. J. Lennes and Dr. A. S. Merrill of the mathematics department of the University. Examinations were held at the Uni­ versity last quarter under a new sys­ President C. H. Clapp spoke on tem, supervision of student proctors. “ Technical Schools and Business” at In order to curb cheating and pro­ the Dillon meeting of the Montana Ed­ tect honest students,, the faculty voted ucation Association held the latter part recently to adopt a system of proctor- of October. ing examinations, faculty members to act as proctors, with all examinations Dr. F. 0. Smith, head of the Psy­ being held in the men’s and women’s chology department of the State Uni­ gyms. However, the students, with versity, will teach graduate courses at the consent of President Clapp, voted to the University of Colorado, Boulder, adopt the student proctor system, next summer. whereby all examinations would be held in the two gymnasiums and a sufficient number of students appoint­ Dr. R. T. Young, professor of zoology ed by the President of A. S. U. M. and at the University of North Dakota, has approved by President Clapp, would been appointed to fill the vacancy in THE MONTANA ALUMNUS 19 the department of biology at the Uni­ Director of Athletics, J. W. Stewart, versity caused by the resignation of no selection of a successor to Coach Humphrey G. Owen last fall. He will Clark has yet been made. begin his work on February 10. Dr. Young is the author of many scientific Miss Frances Corbin has returned papers and of “ Biology in America.” to resume her teaching duties at the He has taught at the University of University this quarter. She was called North Dakota since 1906, first as an to California last quarter by the se­ instructor, then as assistant professor, rious illness and death of her sister. and then as professor, which title was given him in 1914. Professor and Mrs. W. E. Schreiber President C. H. Clapp attended the spent the Christmas holidays in Still­ annual meeting of the National Asso­ water, Oklahoma. ciation of State Universities, held in Chicago, Illinois, on November 16, 17 The infant son of Professor and Mrs. and 18. Sidney H. Cox died on November 18 after a brief illness. Mr. Cox is act­ Dean A. L. Stone attended the meet­ ing chairman of the English depart­ ing of the Associated School of Jour­ ment this year during Professor Mer- nalism Professors, held at the Pulitzer riam’s absence. School of Journalism at Columbia Uni­ versity, New York, on December 28, 29 and 30. SUMMER SCHOOL

Dr. J. P. Rowe, head of the geology The State Board of Education at its department, has been asked to take December meeting allotted $4,000 from charge of the work in geology at Cor­ state funds for the 1926 summer school nell University next summer. How­ at the University, which is one thou­ ever, he has already signed up with sand dollars less than the appropria­ Columbia University and cannot, there­ tion last year. fore, accept the Cornell offer. The Missoula Chamber of Commerce has agreed to underwrite the summer An article on the Little Theater by session to the extent of $5,000. A Alexander Dean, director of dramatics drive will be put on by the Chamber at Montana during the years 1920-22, of Commerce during January for rais­ appeared in the October number of the ing the money to make the 1926 sum­ Drama magazine. It is the first of a mer session a success. series of two articles which have been selected from a chapter in Mr. Dean’s A daughter was born to Mr. and “ Little Theater Organization and Man­ Mrs. Bert Williams (Lois Allen, ex’26) agement,” which will be published by in Seattle, Washington, in November. Appleton and Company. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Mar­ A son was born to Lieutenant and cus O’Farrell (Salome Torrance) Jan­ Mrs. H. J. LaCroix on November 21 uary 5 in Butte. in Missoula. Lieutenant LaCroix is a member of the R. 0. T. C. staff at the University. George Masters, ’22, was married to Isabelle Henson of Kansas City, Mis­ Earl “ Click” Clark has resigned as souri, on December 12 in Kansas City. football coach at the University. Al­ They will live in Sioux Falls, S. D., though nearly a hundred applications where George is managing editor of for the position have been received by the Sioux Falls Press. 20 THE MONTANA ALUMNUS

1900 L. M. Sheridan was a product of the old Secretary, Charles Avery, Durston Build­ engineering department of the University. ing, Anaconda, Montana. After leaving here, he took a post graduate Dr. P. S. Rennick was a Homecomer from course in Smelter Design at Anaconda. He Stevensville. married Miss Clara Peters in 1907. Since Unclaimed—Caroline H. Cronkrite (Mrs. that time the Sheridans have gone wherever U. T. D. Grubs), Eben Murray, Sidney new smelters were to be designed and built. Walker. They have lived in British Columbia, Ore­ Hugh E. Graham, ’01, is now vice presi­ gon, Nevada, Texas and Mexico, and are dent of the Mercer-Fraser Company engaged now in Ontario, Canada. “We shall always in the general contracting business in Eu­ be glad to welcome University students and reka, California. He has been associated graduates to our part of the work and with this firm since 1906 when it was in­ wherever possible, lend a helping hand to corporated. They do all kinds of contract- those seeking a niche in our part of the ing, including bridge building, highway con­ professional world. I will be glad to hear struction, street paving, harbor work and from graduates seeking positions,” writes building construction. Mr. Sheridan. He is president of the Eureka Rotary 1904 Club this year and was elected delegate to Secretary, Mrs. Roxy Howell Derge, 901 the International Convention of Rotary West Copper St., Butte, Montana. which was held in Cleveland during last June. Mrs. Graham accompanied him on Page S. Bunker is state forester of Ala­ the trip to Cleveland and after the con­ bama and also lieutenant-colonel O. R. C., vention they visited the principal cities of U. S. A. the east, including New York, Chicago, Unclaimed—Moncure Cockrell. Washington and Kansas City. While at 1905 Washington they met Sadie Catlin Sumner Secretary, Mrs. Frank Borg, 321 Daly Chica-oVeled With her from Washington to avenue. Of the eleven living graduates of the Mr. Graham received his B.S. degree in class of 1905, four of them live in Missoula ^ mistlX .inT1901- He was a member of Sigma Chi, Hawthorne Literary Society, and attended Homecoming: Mr. and Mrs. t l # i § d> and Played on the var­ W. O. Dickinson (May Avery), C. E. Si­ sity football team in 1899-1900. mons, and Mrs. Frank Borg (Blanche Simp­ son). anln t w \ ? e marriJed Jeanette McClellan, fs thinlL h e °ne daughter, Barbara, who 1906 is tnnteen years old. Secretary, Fred Buck, State Capitol, Hel­ ena, Montana. 1901 Fred Buck was a Homecoming visitor in aims)Mins) werewereMTTo Homecoming H: Rittenoilr visitors. (Jimmie Missoula. Professor T. C. Spaulding, dean of the r!,s nAIain-?l“~Emily Estelle Bovee (Mrs Forestry School at the University, recently O. wflson!tman ’ Ge°rge Westby- Katherine built a new home on Beckwith avenue. It is built in English colonial style with 1902 gabled roof. During the Christmas holidays Mr. Spaulding underwent an operation at f c P I SonEtanSahelidan' 818 l l St. Patrick’s hospital but has now resumed in Misso»1a for his teaching work at the University. Homecoming dtonei over nfe SP° ^ at. the 1907 KUOM, at open forums, to the gfrls' at "ttm Secretary, King Garlington, 630 Eddy av­ dormitory and to various classed “ “ enue, city. Mrs. E. D. Cole (Sue Garlington) is liv­ comerrsa?rdom ButteE- Hoffle- ing in Marion, North Carolina. Mrs. Frances Nuckolls Kelly was here for Homecoming. 1903 Deer SR Unclaimed—Joseph Streit, 1908 H o m S fn g . D‘ RanMn Was itt Missoula for Secretary, Winifred Feighner, State Uni­ versity, Missoula, Montana. holidays in MissoulaS SPGnt the Clll'istmas Vincent Craig is living in Fresno, Cali­ fornia. THE MONTANA ALUMNUS 21

Winifred Feighner spent the Christmas Stephen Reardon is now living at 205 N. holidays in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Washington street, Butte, Montana. Herman C. McGregor is superintendent of Mrs. Donald B. McGregor (Edith Steele) the Improved Risk Department of the Liver­ is now living at E 2421 Illinois, Spokane, pool & London & Globe Insurance Company. Washington. Ltd., and the Star Insurance Company of 1912 America, located at 444 California street, San Francisco, California. This company is Secretary, Mrs. Nina Gough Hall, Poto­ one of the largest fire insurance companies mac, Montana. in the country and does a big business on Daniel M. Connor was in Missoula for the Pacific coast. Mr. McGregor has been Homecoming. with them for five years and says that DeWitt G. Warren has been practicing “neck of the woods” is the best place in law in Glendive since 1918. Prior to that the world in which to live. The McGregors time he practiced in Sidney, Montana. In live in their own home in a fine section 1914 he married Anna Beck, ex-’15. They of the Berkeley Hills and have a wonderful have four children, Luana, age 9; Robert, view of the Golden Gate and the Bay dis­ age 7; Eleanor, age 5, and Christina, age 4. trict. He commutes over to San Francisco Last year the Warrens took a tour through every day except Sunday and often sees southern California and met several gradu­ Charles Eggleston on the boat, who used to ates and former students of the University, do a lot of cartoon work for the University. among whom was Chester Boddy, who is Also he often sees Captain Morgan on the writing a series of stories published by the boat. They have a son now three years old. Times Mirror Press and also scenarios. He McGregor sends the season’s greetings to is also engaged in the publishing business. all his friends in Montana. Three of Mr. Warren’s youngsters are in the Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Trexler (Nell Bul­ public schools in Glendive and he expects lard) are now living at 944 Seventh street, eventually to have all of them enrolled in west, Birmingham, Alabama. the University. Alice Hitchcock, thirteen-year-old daugh­ Azella Savage Becker is living in Mis­ ter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hitchcock soula. (Ethel Ambrose) recently won first place Leo Baker is now living at 3215 Berkeley in an oratorical contest in the Glendale, avenue, Los Angeles. California, high school. The winner gets Unclaimed—Florence DeRyke. twenty dollars and the chance to represent 1913 the school in a final contest, in which a representative from each of the ten largest Unclaimed—Cornelia McFarlane Macdon­ high schools in southern California will com­ ald, Helen Metcalf (Mrs. George Dewey), pete. Clyde Stieb. 1909 Carl Dragstedt, ’23, and Elmer Dragstedt left Missoula recently for Portland, from Secretary, Mrs. Ida Bush, 322 Blaine where they will go to San Francisco. Their street, city. brother, Robert, ’25, will join them in Port­ Unclaimed—Paul L. Mitchell, Edna C. land for the trip down the coast. Carl will Pratt (Mrs. J. F. Carlton), Alice Wright. sail January 23 for Shanghai, China, where 1910 he will be employed by the Henningsen Pro­ Unclaimed—H. R. Deuel, Alberta Satter- duce Company. Elmer and Robert will con­ th waite Morse, Helen Whitaker (Mrs. tinue by motor to Los Angeles and then Charles Donnelly). eastward, expecting to return next summer. 1911 1914 Secretary, Mrs. Harold Rounce, Sidney, Secretary, Mrs. Wm. Ferguson, 510 Mad­ Montana. ison, Helena, Montana. Pete Ronan, ex-’14, of Helena was in Mis­ Mr. and Mrs. William Ferguson (Mary soula for Homecoming. Elrod) were in Missoula for Homecoming Unclaimed—Cornelius Bol. and visited with Mrs. Ferguson’s parents, Dr. and Mirs. M. J. Elrod. 1915 Mary Hansen is now field representative Secretary, Mrs. Gordon S. Watkins, 4312% for Wyoming for the American Red Cross. Burns avenue, Los Angeles, Cal. Her address is 1709 Washington Avenue, St. Ruby Jacobsen Montgomery was in Mis­ Louis, Missouri. soula for Homecoming. Merle Kettlewell, Ralph W. Smith is with the Westinghouse Ruenauver of Plains was also here. Electric & Manufacturing Company, Johns­ Ruth Cronk is teaching English in the town, Pennsylvania. His address is 47 North Central high school in Spokane. Her Messenger street. address is No. 7 Kelner Apartment, Pacific Unclaimed—H. G. Spencer, Arthur Bishop, avenue. Spencer Crosby, Lucile Marshall (Mrs. Hu­ Dr. and Mrs. E. D. Allen will return to bert Deming), Lucia Rolfe (Mrs. Chas. the United States from Europe some time Pierre), M. D. Simpson. in April. During the past year Dr. Allen Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Kuphal took a trip has been doing medical research work in to California during the Christmas holidays. Vienna. While there he was elected vice 22 THE MONTANA ALUMNUS president of the American Medical Associa­ practicing law. He has been in the state tion. When he returns to Chicago he will legislature for six years and at the last become a member of the staff of the Pres­ session of the legislature missed being made byterian hospital. speaker by a very narrow margin. Unclaimed—Bill Breitenstein, Evelyn Ste­ phenson (Mirs. F. R. Wheatley), Henry Guy 1918 Woodward. Christian Bentz of Trail City, South Da­ 1916 kota, Mr. and Mrs. J. Maurice Dietrich Otis Baxter, Arthur B. Cook, Mr. and Mrs. (Helen Prescott, ex-’20), and Mr. and Mrs. Leo Horst (Vera Pride), Mr. and Mrs. How­ Ernest Prescott of Alberton were in Mis­ ard Johnson (Alice Schwefel), Ann Rector, soula for Homecoming. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. “Belgian” Daems (Helen Monica Frances Burke, business director Buckley, ’17), Lloyd S. Roberts, Mr. and of residence halls at the University, has Mrs. Payne Templeton' (Gladys Lewis) were followed Flapper Fannie and had her hair in Missoula for Homecoming. bobbed. Ann Rector left on January 1 for Ecua­ Jerry O’Hara Grant is taking work in the dor, South America, where she will be sec­ Law School and acting as secretary to the retary to a large mining company there, re­ members of the Law School faculty. placing Helen Sanders, ex-’21. Catherine Mr. and Mrs. Rex Nelson (Sylvia Lane, Sanders, ex-’23, left Helena in November ex-’18) have recently moved to Billings, for Ecuador to meet Helen. They are re­ Montana. turning by way of the Panama canal, New M. C. Gallagher is at Two Harbors, Min­ York, and Washington, D. C. They expect nesota. to be back in Montana some time in Feb­ ruary. Unclaimed—John Breneman, Katherine Pearl Clark is now Dean of Women at Farrell, Mary Della Wright. Chaffey Junior College, Ontario, California. Gertrude Skinner is teaching music in the Bryant school in Spokane. Her address is 301 Close Inn Apartments. ALUMNI PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY Dr. Archie B. Hoel is employed as re­ search chemist by the Atlantic Refining Company in Philadelphia. His address is DREW-STREIT CO. 930 South Conestoga street. Mrs. John A. Slayton (Eunice Dennis) is GENERAL INSURANCE living in Laving, Montana. Mr. and Mrs. Bonds Real Estate Insurance Slayton visited Mrs. Sam Wright (Hazel Hawk) in Mjissoula in September. Mary, Missoula Montana age 4, and John, age 2%, accompanied their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Wright also have two interesting children, Eunice Marie, three years old in April, and James Philip, JOHN F. PATTERSON, ’20 two in June. Unclaimed—Ching-Han Chen, Paul Har­ per, Mamie McJilton. 501 Montana Building, Missoula 1917 Secretary, Hazel Swearingen, Rozale Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York Apartments, Missoula, Montana. Charles Tyman of White Sulphur Springs was a Homecoming visitor. Paul Bischoff, ex-’17, who has been in C. J. FORBIS, *12 South America as manager of the Mengel Company in Nicaraugua, has returned to the ARCHITECT United States and is now touring the United Montana Building States. He plans to make his home in Cali­ fornia. Ed Simpkins, also of the class of Missoula Montana *17, has replaced Mr. Bischoff as manager of the Mengel Company in Nicaragua. Eleanor Little is teaching at the Garfield school in Spokane, Washington. Helen Shull has resigned her position in the Tacoma public library and is now at ASK home in Missoula. Unclaimed—Marion A. Duncan (Mrs. Ar­ thur Reiquam), Ira Gwin, Thos. Irvine, R. WHISLER D. Jenkins, William Richardson, Regina Sei­ fert, Ralph Weiss. REAL ESTATE INSURANCE Lloyd Fenn is now superintendent of schools at Kooskia, Idaho, where he is also THE MONTANA ALUMNUS 23

1919 are quite a number of ex-University people Secretary, Francia Theis, Billings high there, among them Erton Herring, Jean school, Billings, Montana. Savage, Mary Murphy Savage, Vera Black Mr. and Mrs. Holmes Maclay (Ruth Da­ Forsyth, so many Montana and Anaconda vis), Barbara Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. William people about that it is hard to realize some­ j. Jameson, Jr. (Mildred Lore, ’22) and times that she lives in South America. Her Brenda Farrell, were in Missoula for Home­ address is Cassila-B, care Andes Copper coming. Company, Antafagasta, Chile, South Amer­ Edna Montgomery is teaching chemistry ica. in the Whitworth College, Spokane, Wash­ Unclaimed—Ruth Hamilton, Estelle Han­ ington. son Morris, Ruth Kleinoeder Edwards, Mel Woods is now with The Woods Com­ George Fritz Peters. pany, Portland, Oregon, which deals in Bill Kane is now located in Fort Worth, loans! discounts and acceptances. Texas. Address P. O. Drawer 1001. Charlotte Shepard Erwin is living in 1921 Spartansburg, South Carolina, where her Secretary, Hans Hansen, Worden, Mon­ husband is in the wholesale grocery busi­ tana. ness. Frog DeMers. Wilda and Verne Linder- Barbara Fraser is teaching in the Helena man, Helen A. Little, John Driscoll, and high school. She says her work is strenu­ Margaret Wickes were in Missoula for ous but interesting. Homecoming. Grace Armstrong is teaching commerce in Roscoe E. Jackman was re-appointed grad­ the high school at Twin Falls, Idaho. For uate assistant in Inorganic Chemistry at the past two years she has been in Oregon. the University of Minnesota. He has a Elsie Johnson writes that she is living on good berth with the University concert “Main Street” in her old home town of band and with the University symphony or­ Hamilton, but nearly all her waking hours chestra. He has been assigned space in the are spent at the high school where she large new research laboratory with every teaches mathematics and coaches girls’ bas­ convenience a researcher could ask for and ketball. has a program of interesting studies. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Beil (Hazel Margaret Wickes, wffo has been visiting Baird) have moved to Spokane, Washing­ her parents in Missoula for the past four ton, from Tacoma. Mr. Beil will have months, left shortly after Christmas to re­ charge of the retail business of the Baird- sume her work in the Presbyterian Mission Naundorf Lumber Company. School at Manila, Philippine Islands. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Abbott (Gretchen Margaret Farrell is teaching in the Baker Van Cleve, ex-’19) are now living at 1224 high school at Baker, Montana. South Frankfort street, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. Wade Riechel are teaching Mr. Abbott is with the W. O. Ligon Com­ in the high school at Hedgesville, Montana. pany. Lois Thompson is teaching at Fairview, Unclaimed—Florence Benson. Montana. Unclaimed—Ralph Ballard, Edna Belknap. 1920 Harold Fitzgerald, Arthur Johnson, Leon­ Secretary, Ruth Dana, 603 9th Ave., ard Radtke. South, Nampa, Idaho. 1922 Charlie Baldwin, Mary Farrell MacDon­ Secretary, Mrs. Wm. Jameson, Jr., 127 ald, Cleve Westby, and Helen Neeley Lar- Wyoming avenue, Billings, Montana. rabie, ex, were in Missoula for Homecoming. Jimmy Harris, Ray Nagle, David, Paul Nellie Gunning is teaching at Gannett, and Kelsey Smith, and Pearl Degenhart Idaho. were here for Homecoming. “Lynn” Walters was elected treasurer of Grace Baldwin is doing graduate work at the Montana State Pharmaceutical Associa­ the University this year. tion last July at the druggist convention. Elizabeth Wickes is teaching in the Du­ Mrs. Walter Mack (Hazel Whitesitt) Pont School, a short distance from Camp writes from Twin Falls, Idaho, that they Lewis, Washington. lost their home and everything in the Wil­ Raymond Garver of Dillon, now doing low Creek bank failure. She is looking for­ graduate work at the University of Chica­ ward to the time when her two boys will go, is one of the nominees of Allyn and play on Dornblaser Field. Her address is Bacon, publishers for membership in the 346 46th avenue, east, Twin Falls. American Mathematical Society. Allyn and Mrs. Fred Schramm (Elva Burt) is now Bacon are sustaining members of this so­ living at 430 38th street, north, Portland, ciety and are entitled to nominate. Oregon. Kathleen Broadwater is spending the win­ “Mack” Gault has been spending the ter in Los Angeles, California. Christmas holidays in California; to be Frank Hutchinson is with the State Forest exact, in Eagle Rock where “Mjynie” lives. Service in Wellington, New Zealand. Clara Johnson is teaching in the Hardin Isabelle Johnson is teaching in the Billings high school at Hardin, Montana. high school this year. Mrs. Harry Barteau (Dorothy Powell) Ruth Johnson is working for the D. C. writes from Portrevillos, Chile, that there Smith Drug Store, Missoula. 24 THE MONTANA ALUMNUS

Clarence B. May is living at 1121 Wood­ ward avenue, Portland, Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sargent (Mildred; Rohrer) are now living in Kalispell, Mon­ tana. Unclaimed—Helen Fitz gibbon Haraden, Elsie Holloman. Lucile Lenon, Aaron Mc- Dougall, Pearl Mitchell, Hazel Rabe Riley,; Earl Reever, Omar and Philip White. 1923 Secretary, Margaret Rutherford, 1734 Colorado Boulevard, Eagle Rock, California. “The Montana-IJniversity of Southern California game was marvelous. It was a good victory even though the score did happen to be a little on their side! Wish you could have seen it. Wish all of you could have been with that little bunch of us, cheering our heads off—with the team down there in that immense coliseum. We sure were proud of them! It was great. The day was perfect, too. Maybe a little too bright and warm we feared after those ANACONDA COPPER MINING snowy battles at home. But I guess the sun didn’t hinder them any! And, by the COMPANY way, those new sweaters made quite a h it! “Lewina and I got there early and we sat LUMBER DEPARTMENT in the Montana rooting section craning our Manufacturers of necks to see familiar faces. We’re strong and many down here, but in a place like Western Pine and Larch Lumber that one can feel so lost! Then Dorothy Risley and her family came in and Dot and BOX SHOOKS, LATH, MOULDINGS I carried on a lively conversation, mainly of gestures and anxious looks. Finally the GENERAL SALES OFFICE AND MILLS battle was on, and by that time the gang Located at Bonner, Montana had arrived and it was great to see them all there together. We yelled like good scouts and when Kelly made that touchdown — ! Say, even the crowd about us that had never seen Montana yelled for us as though they knew all about the mighty Grizzlies! And twice we were within a yard of an­ other touchdown. Talk about suspense! ^ T H g ECONOMY CENTER* J The team held the Trojans like they used to hold the Aggies! (And still do, but my thoughts run in the past tense.) A Quarter Century of Service “So that’s th at! The fight was over and 1900 1925 we all felt as though we had been down on the field with the boys. After it was all over we could say ‘hello’ to everybody and we were just beaming at each other and at MISSOULA PUBLIC SERVICE all the world in general! Let’s see, who COMPANY all did I see! There was Mabel Simpkins Smith and husband ‘Al,’ Nell Simpkins, Masonic Temple Building Frances Pope, Marie Dion, Dorothy Hutton Meade, Ruth Dougherty, Marybel Spellman Missoula Montana Allison, Marjorie and Lloyd MacRae, Clyde Murphy, Mary X and Joe Ann McCarthy, John Smith, John Harvey, Gene Murphy, Florence Roethke, Edith Jorgenson, Row­ land Rutherford, Bruce McHaffie. There J. M. LUCY AND SONS was ‘Dude’ Cook, ‘Shorty’ Lester, Helen Fredericks, ‘Boob’ Fredericks, Myrtle Wan­ COMPLETE derer Whaley, Margaret and Lester Sterret, Edna Peterson Worden, and Frank Worden, HOME FURNISHINGS Ruth MCHaffie and Lloyd Robinson, and Marion Leach. There were many others, MISSOULA MONTANA too, maybe pretty soon the names will dawn on me—right now all is blank! We surely THE MONTANA ALUMNUS 25

I had some dandy write-ups and Kelly’s name job in the state land office. This position I blazed forth all the same size type that will afford Louise wonderful training as she [ ‘Doug’ Fairbanks uses! has three people to dictate to each day. “Following the game the Grizzly squad Mrs. Eugene Harpole (Ruth Spencer) I were guests of honor at a roof garden dance whom you remember I met in Wool worth’s I over the Forhan theatre in Los Angeles. last fall, was shopping in the M. M. pre­ I given by former Montana students and ceding Christmas holidays. She stopped me and tried to hand me an awful line about I graduates.” what a wonderful hunter she was. She Edna Leopold, a former Montana student, claimed that she killed a deer—can’t re­ [ is with the California Chanters and broad- member the specie—near her home in Su­ I casts over the West Coast theater. perior—a few minutes after leaving the Arthur Driscoll, Earl Duffy, Mr. and Mrs. house. One would almost think she had I Leland Harper (Roselyn Reynolds). Ted majored in journalism instead of physical [ Ramsey. Tick Baird. Francis Gallagher, education with an imagination like that. I Charlotte Knowlton. Ray Murphy, Welling­ Maybe She did shoot a “dear” though—if so, ton Napton, Jr., Lillian Speer, Alva Straw, the papers have sure been quiet about it. and William Steinbach were Homecomers Bernice MacKeen, who is teaching in Bur­ I Thanksgiving day. ley, Idaho, is rumored to be engaged or Letha Williamson is working for the Pub­ practically so, to some Idaho man. These lic Drug Company in Great Falls, Montana, people who go out teaching sure do sow f Esther Nelson is teaching in the high their oats. school at Roundup, Montana. I Ruth Thranum is teaching in the high Bernice writes that Virginia Lebkicker is school at Gooding, Idaho. teaching Spanish and English at Hammett, Unclaimed — Marguerite Thibaudeaux, Idaho, and expects to teach there for the John Scott, Mildred Wagy Hearst. Jennie remainder of the winter, if she passes the Marie Carlisle, M. Laurene Lovejoy Maspero. Idaho teachers’ examinations and doesn’t Charles H. McDonald. Edward Madsen. marry a sheepherder before spring. If she Eunice Moffett, Harriett Taylor. George marries a sheepherder it’s a cinch she’ll re­ L Wiedeman, Jr. ceive wonderful treatment—sheepherders are Lloyd Mjadsen is coaching football at said to live very lonely lives out with sheep Roslyn, Washington. all the time. Helen Streit, who has spent the past two Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Riley (Katherine years abroad, will sail for America in Jan­ Rudd) spent Christmas with Mrs. J. A. Rudd uary. in Missoula. Home cooking is sure great Bert Guthrie is in the advertising depart­ after living for months on canned goods. ment of the Thomas-Boyce Company, Attica, I met Mrs. William Wallace (Ella May New York. Danaher) on the brdige in a terrible fog one night recently. She had spent the day 1924 in the village conferring with a local dentist Class secretary, Sol Andresen, 217 Blaine and stated that she was crazy about ranch­ street, Missoula, Montana. ing with Billy up at Jens. She didn’t have Dear Aluminum: her horse with her when I met her. They I This is Friday, January 15, the day on both couldn’t leave the ranch so Billy stayed which this epistle is due—so guess maybe home. I’d better get going and tell you all I know William Avon Fraser arrived in the me­ and even more than I know. For inspira­ tropolis during the Christmas holidays and tion I decided to gallavant out to the jour­ had the use of O. K. Moe’s Ford sedan nalism shack. But who can receive inspira- while here. I thought he had just come back L tion from this place now? Everything is to renew old acquaintances and look over so immaculate in comparison to the old the improvements of the campus, etc. But days when we used to wade through papers on January 6 he up and married Dorothy thrown promiscuously at random, and grab Skulason, ex-something or other. They were any typewriter that would write. Why married at Dorothy’s home at 9 in the morn­ even the typewriters are in the pink of con­ ing and left soon afterwards for Berkeley, dition—in fact this contraption I’m using California, where Avon is in charge of em­ at the present time seems to know more ploying and training men for a book com­ about what I intend saying than I do myself. pany. Dorothy is planning on attending I’m anticipating much peace and quiet, how­ Mills college after they get things put in ever—as everyone highbrows me and I re­ place in their new home. turn the compliment. Jerry Reed, another one of our illustrious Now for the gore—One of the most inter­ journalists, is now helping his father hold esting events of the season is the engage­ down the farm in the Bitter Root valley. ment of Delbert Cawley, bill collector for the M. M. Company, who you remember lost He spent Christmas with Ann Ross in Kal- his appendix last September in a local hos­ ispell and had a keen time, according to pital. He asked Louise Eckley, ’25, if she reports. wouldn’t like to pack his pin around and Marjorie McRae is attending the Univer­ she said “sure.” This happened the night sity of California, Southern Branch, this before Louise left for Helena to accept a year. 26 THE MONTANA ALUMNUS

Red Allen, Ralph Christie, Mr. and Mrs. William Wallace, Frank Fryer, Eleanor BUSINESS DIRECTORY -Continued Meagher, O. K. Moe, Gordon Reynolds, Jerry Reed, Florence Sanden, Lucile Speer, Bernice Thompson, Neil Wilson, Ralph PETERSON DRUG CO. Crowell, Roger Deeney, Forrest Foor, Flor-! ence Himes, Cresap McCracken, Earl Lock- “A Good Place to Trade** ridge, Russel Marsh. Dan O’Neill, Lenore Thompson were all here for Homecoming. 2 Stores Many of these were here in spirits, while others who could not come were here in Missoula Montana spirit. Ethel Ross who is teaching at Bliss, Ida­ ho, this year, came home to spend the holi­ days, and incidentally to get married to MISSOULA TRUST AND Jasper Williams. I presume they will live in Bliss. SAVINGS BANK Laura Wehman is teaching in Casper, Wy­ oming. More power to her—that’s where one can sure earn the shekels. Capital and Surplus, $250,000 Violet Crain is teaching English to 130 students in Roslyn, Wash., and has charge of the school paper and dramatics. In the last issue of “The Frontier” she wrote a T H E L E A D E R poem about “Pain.” I’ve been wondering if she received her inspiration in Roslyn. Missoula's Largest and Most Popular It was certainly realistic, to say the least. Women’s Apparel Shop Gordon Hulett is working in a bank in Downey, California, this year. That’s one MISSOULA MONTANA good place for a person to get money. Isabel Skelton is teaching at Castle Rock. Wash. A place with another inspiring at­ mosphere, judging by the name. THE WESTERN MONTANA Margaret Keiley, who was on a paper in NATIONAL BANK American Falls, Idaho, for some time, is now back at her home in Butte. “Mugs” Capital and Surplus, $250,000.00 has been numbered among the class in­ valids practically since her graduation, but Established 1889 is now reported to have gained 24 pounds— Missoula Montana since, I don't know when. Mrs. Josephine Converse is teaching in the School of Mines, Butte. Arthur Yenson is teaching science and coaching in Okanogan, Wash. Please tell me where Okanogan is? I wonder what Art is coaching— THE UNIVERSAL CAR Esther Johnson is teaching at Saco. She is also reported engaged or practically so Cars—Pa rts—Service to a Helena man. H. O. BELL AND COMPANY Ralph Christie, who is teaching and coach­ ing in the Hamilton high school, was mar­ ried during the holidays to Zella Zee Howard MISSOULA DRUG CO. of Hamilton. They spent Christmas with Ralph’s folks in Spokane. They must have We run our store to been well received as they remained there please you—service as long as they had originally planned. This is positively all of the dirt I’ve ac­ and prices are right cumulated for this time. Before closing I want to wish all of you speedy recoveries MISSOULA MONTANA so that you may write me and tell me the gospel truth about yourselves. Fleur d’ amour until next time— BARNETT OPTICAL CO. Sol. Specialists in Fitting Glasses 1925 D R I k R. BARNETT Secretary, Ellen Garvin, Old National DR. D. R. BARNETT, ’19 Bank, Spokane, Washington. Modern Grinding Plant and Fitting Rooma Jiggs Dahlberg, Marion Fitzpatrick, Peg 129 E. Cedar Garber, Mark Good, Sam Goza, Jr., Kath­ MISSOULA MONTANA erine Keith, Doris Kennedy, Hub White, TUB MONTANA ALUMNUS 27

Fred Martin. Marion Prescott, Lawrence B. ton, ’24, has charge of the commercial de­ Quinn. Dorotha Rector, Myrtle Shaw, Harry partment and the orchestra. Welton, Henrietta Wilhelm. Helena Wright, Vern Needham is working for the Holly Miriam Woodard, Lurena Black, Ruth Bry­ Sugar Corporation at Sidney, Montana. son. Elmer Carkeek, Melvin Davies, Dora Raymond Hall, Earl Lenigan and Jay Dykins, Susan Fenn, Ruth Fryer, Ben Gor­ Loveless, graduates of 1925, are employed don, Ruby James, Helen McLeod, Spud by the Western Electric Company of Chi­ Oechsli, Roderick Smith. Lucille Steele, cago, Illinois. Furnace Van Iderstone, Dorothy White Hildegard E. Steger is teaching history were Homeeomers from the class of ’25. and Spanish in the high school at Denton, Anna Beckwith has entered the nurses’ Montana. training school at John Hopkins Medical Helen Adams is teaching at Naches, Wash­ School. Baltimore, Maryland. ington. Lena Partoll is now a member of the staff Hub White is now working on the Ana­ at the Missoula public library. conda Standard. Roscoe B. Taylor is superintendent of Harold Seipp is sports editor of the Aber­ schools at Stanford. Montana. Elva Dick­ deen, South Dakota, American. son has charge of the history department Mr. and Mrs. John Bye are teaching in and the high school library, and Dean Thorn­ the high school at Fargo, South Dakota.

FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-TREASURER OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION July 1, 1925, to December 1, 1925 Receipts: Balance (July 1, 1925) Cash in Bank...... $328.60 Advertising in “ Alumnus”...... 65.00 Annual Dues and Subscriptions to the Alumnus ...... 329.00 $722.60 $722.60 Disbursements: Printing June issue of Alumnus (2500 copies—sent to all alumni and to those former students whose present ad­ dress we have) ...... $180.00 Cut for Alumnus ...... 11.50 Postage—Class secretaries’ letters...... 1-64 Circular letters (sent to all alumni in cooperation with Ath­ letic Field Corporation and Athletic Board) ...... 20.10 Postage ...... 20.00 Half tone for Alumnus...... 6.00 Telegrams ...... -60 Printing October Alumnus...... 134.00 $373.84 $373.84

Balance in bank ...... $348.76 Liberty Bond (purchased Certificate of indebtedness from the Alumni Athletic Field Corporation with this bond. Payable in ten years or less; 7 per cent interest)...... 123.37

Total Assets of Alumni Association ...... $472.13 Cashier’s check for $42.80, contribution from American Legion Club of State University for use as memorial fund—placed in fund for purchase of bronze memorial tablet now on campus. __ HELEN NEWMAN, Secretary-Treasurer, Alumni Association. 28 THE MONTANA ALUMNUS

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