REMINISCENCES 1916
Retrieved and
transcribed by Nanci Headley Kotowski.
Cecil B. Richards President
’16
“Red”
Football team ’14 and ’15
Member Webster Debating Club
“The first in glory,
As the first in place.”
Ruby A. Roberts, Secretary ’16
“Mom”
Assistant Editor “Reminiscences”
“Reproof on her lips,
But a smile in her eyes.”
“Bud”
President Webster Debating Club
“Industrious, earnest in every act,
A practical man, a man of fact.”
Lillian Davis, Treasurer ’16
“Billy”
Domestic Science Editor “Reminiscences”
“She is pretty to walk with,
And witty to talk with,
And pleasant to think on.”
Joseph H. Rosenshine, Business Manager “Reminiscences”
“Rosie”
Vice-president Webster Debating Club
“Work-work-work,
His labor never flags.”
Nan
“Sweetheart”
“Very sweet, very small,
Always gentle, kind to all.”
Anna Holme DeBerry
“Holmsie”
“Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are.”
C. Dean Ward
“Shrimp”
Baseball ’16
Editor-in-chief “Reminiscences”
Secretary Webster Debating Club
“Every man is the architect of his own
fortune.”
Katherine Ernst
“Patty”
“She moves a goddess and looks a queen.”
John Koblegard
“The world has known only two,
That’s
Bernyce Rush
“Rusty”
“Infinite Ideality!
Immeasurable Reality!
Infinite Personality!”
James Lutton
“Deacon”
Football ’13
Baseball team ’14, ’15, ’16
“There fun in everything we meet,
The greatest, worst, and best.”
Olive Vernon
“Little Girl”
“Laugh and be fat.”
Clifton Cotrill [sic]
“Tip”
“I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty,
I woke, and found that life was duty.”
Theo Wells [female]
“Bingville”
“A man! A man! My kingdom for a man.”
James Barnes
“Jimmie”
Football ’14, ’15
Baseball ’15, ’16
“I lay me down to sleep with little care,
Whether my waking finds me here or there.”
Ruth Boggess
“A friend whose friendship ne’er will face,
Good, amiable and jovial.”
Despard Bailey
“Dep”
Basketball ’15, ’16
“Least, but not least heard.”
Virginia Vandegrift [sic]
“Ginny”
“When she passed it was like the ceasing
of exquisite music.”
Oral Frashure
“Hard worker and an earnest student.”
Cecelia Healy
“A quiet and earnest disposition.”
Kenneth Haught
“Kenn” [sic]
Football ’15
“His virtues will plead like angels
trumpet-tongued.”
Gladys Davies
“Thy soul is like a star, and dwelt apart.”
Paul I. Davis
“Brick”
“and when a lady is in the case,
You know all other things give place.”
Frank Farrenbaugh
“Nebuchandezzar”
President Webster Debating Club
first semester
“None but himself can be his parallel.”
Ruth Gaylord
“Ruthie”
“Thy modesty is a candle to thy merit.”
Joseph Caramella
“Jerry”
Football team ’14, ’15
“True as the needle to the pole,
Or as the dial to the sun.”
Mildred Wines
“Quiet, friendly, gentle and modest.”
Maurice Reed
“Moxie”
Basketball ’15, ’16
“No storm ever ruffled the current of his life.”
Mabel Souders
“Ah, why
Should life all labor be?”
Cecil Weekly
“Cec”
Basketball ’15, ’16
“He does what’s right
With all his might.”
Elinore Tierney
“Nell”
“Jolly, good-natured, full of fun,
If you want a good friend, here is one.”
Clarence Crawford
“Mutt”
Baseball ’16
“Possessed of all the qualities
That go to make a man.”
Elizabeth Downs
“Lizzie”
“O, lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is
the reflection of thy nature.”
Dorsey Cole
“Bigleaguer”
Baseball ’15, ’16
“He hath a few flashes of delightful silence.”
“She will be rewarded according to her merits.”
William Hinkle
“Bill”
Football ’15
“The muscles of his brawny arms are
Strong as iron bands” [sic}
Emma Darquenne
“Frenchy”
“A bright consummate flower.”
Reggie Frashure
Baseball ’16
“His way is to begin with the beginning.”
Nola Simmons
“Noble in every thought and so in
every deed.”
Raymond Stout
“Ike”
“Steady work turns a genius to a boon.”
Dora Womack
“Dorrie”
“The temple of thought is—silence.”
Harry Cox
“Coxy”
“A man’s a man for a’ that.”
Grace McCarl
“Mac”
“None know her but to love her,
None name her but to praise.”
Arthur Waggoner
“Artie”
Football ’15
“He is a man who acts like a man.
The master derives honor from his art.”
Mabel McCune
“Cuney”
“A merry heart goes all the day;
A sad, tires in a mile.”
Edward Payne
“Doc”
“No two on earth in all things can agree,
All have some darling singularity.”
Virginia Zerbey
“Jinny”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
Russell Twyman
“Jocko”
“No heart more true to Atha
That beats within his breast.”
Veva Williams
“Ve”
“Gentleness is a virtue of womankind.”
Darrell Price
“Xmas”
“Nature may stand up and say,
To the world, ‘This is a man.’”
Francenia Goldsmith
“Franc”
“Silence is more eloquent than words.”
Charles Gavelda
“Charley”
Member Webster Debating Club
“He conquers who endures.”
Louise Rogers
“Peggy”
“The very flower of youth.”
Malcom Chorpening
“Mac”
“What his heart thinks his tongue speaks.”
Frances Stealey [female]
“Frank”
Class Historian
“Her voice was soft, gentle and low;
an excellent thing in a woman.”
Aubrey Wilson
“Aug”
Football ’14, ’15
Member of Webster Debating Club
“His looks were ever turned to ‘Stone.’”
Burke Morris
“Pap”
Member of Webster Debating Club
“All our knowledge is ourselves to know.”
Mary Strader
“Marydear”
“The all-seeing sun ne’er saw her match
since first the world begun.”
“Foxy”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
Leslie Drummond
“Les”
Basketball ’16
“A merry heart maketh a cheerful
countenance.”
Edna White
“Ed”
“A perfect woman nobly planned.”
Bryan Gaston
“Peanut”
Football ’15
“We grant, although he had much wit,
He was always shy of using it.”
Howard Hurst
“Hank”
“He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.”
Fannie Wiseman
“Si”
“A girl that we know will sure be worth
while.”