. ®f)e... jHontana Alumnus 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 The Montana Alumnus is published in October, December, March and June by the Alumni Association of the State University of Montana. Subscription: 75c a year; subscription and annual dues of Alumni Association combined, $1.50 a year. 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.