Secret Societies Directory at Franklin College
A fragment lists student secret societies and their presidents at Franklin College. Names include Y. M. C. A. Jerry Nelp Chewing Gum club Yandell Cline Freeman Library Stanley Shuck Own Made Jerry Naugle Cupid bureau Leslie Dunkin Bug Association Cactus London Beech Nut club Hunk Campbell Robert's club Miss Beach Rouge Consumers Miss Dolan Gossip Dodgers Miss Myers Sister's club Billy Watkins World Owners Yandell Cline.
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Franklin
Jerry Nelp
Chewing Gum Club
Yandell Cline
Freeman Library
Stanley Shuck
Jerry” Naugle
Cupid Bureau
Leslie Dunkin
Bug Association
Cactus
London
Beech Nut Club
Hunk” Campbell
Robert's Club
Miss Beach
Rouge Consumers
Miss Dolan
Gossip Dodgers
Miss Myers
Sister's Club
Billy Watkins
Army Y M C A Personnel and Camp Shelby Ties
A list of individuals connected to the New National Army and Army Y M C A including George Alvin Barnett at Camp Taylor Kentucky Ruth Marie Bell a clerk at State Life Insurance Indianapolis Agnes Brown Dunkin Camden Indiana Charlotte Eliza Cook a high school teacher at Fowler Indiana Reuben Arthur Craig New National Army Vance Stanley Curtis a Scipio North Vernon teacher Elmer Hugh Dill Army Y M C A secretary at Camp Shelby Mississippi Donald Judson Dunkin pastor at Camden Indiana Mary Dema Foster at home Franklin Indiana William Michael Gillespie chemist Dupont Powder Co City Point Virginia Esther Marie Griffith married to J Leroy Finkenbiner at Camp Shelby Mississippi.
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Barnett
George Alvin
New National Army
Dill
Elmer Hugh
Army Y. M. C
Camp Shelby
Hattiesburg
Mississippi
Dunkin
Donald Judson
First Baptist Church
Camden
Indiana
Foster
Mary Dema
Franklin
Gillespie
William Michael
Dupont Powder Co
City Point
Virginia
Griffith
Esther Marie
J. Leroy Finkenbiner
Miss
Alumni list shows Indiana locals in military and teaching roles
The roster includes Marguerite Hall at Maunee Township High School Woodburn Indiana and Greta Robertson in Lebet Indiana while Ben Hanna serves in the New National Army 36 Company 9 Battalion 159th Depot Brigade Camp Taylor Louisville Kentucky Clarence Protsman and others hold ministry teaching or seafaring posts across Indianapolis Bloomington and surrounding towns. Several entries note apprenticeships and avionics training in Columbus Ohio Newport Rhode Island and Iowa with several teachers listed in Indiana high schools.
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Hall
Marguerite
Maunee Township
Woodburn
Ind
Hanna
Ben
New National Army
159Th Depot Brigade
Camp Taylor
Louisville
Kentucky
Helm
Regina
Woman's Missionary Training School
Chicago
Mlinois
Jayne
Clarence Protsman
College Avenue Baptist Church
Indianapolis
Broadway
Merrill
Wayne Locklin
Newport
Rhode Island
Nelp
Wilhelm Borchers
Columbus
Ohio
Pavy
Roy Gilmore
Chicago University Divinity School
Chcago
Mt. Robertson
Greta Mae
Lebbt
Rhode
Hulda Emilia
Hingis
Estherville
Towa
Schmith
Magdalene Marie
Alumni Proposes Franklin Song Contest Ideas
An alum from the class of 1916 sends a letter urging Franklin College to develop new songs that capture school spirit. He praises three existing tunes, argues for better singing tempo, and encourages broader student and alum participation to portray Franklin in song.
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SDAP
Franklin
Roscoe Gilmore Stott
The Devils Press for More Copy in Alumni Insert
A humorous exchange shows the Editor pleading for thousands more words to fill an alumni insert. The Devil insists on adding four thousand more words as the Editor reveals he will supply them by dashing out material.
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Devil
Letter from A. R. Mather on mission work in Rhodesia
A. R. Mather writes to Dean Belknap from Mount Silinda South Rhodesia detailing travel from Indianapolis to Mt Selinda and experiences aboard post transport. He notes language study, potential January teaching at the normal school, and hopes to hear how the Franklin war effort is faring.
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Dean Belknap
Mather
Franklin College
Faye M. Smith
South Africa
American Board of Foreign Missions
Chicago
American Board of Mission Schools
Rhodesia
Mount Silinda
Melsetter
South Rhodesia
Belknap
Indianapolis
Mt. Selinda
Japan
China
Manila
Straits Settlements
Ceylon
Natal
Johannesburg
Franklin
Thomasine Allen
Tokyo
Yokohama
Benninghoifs
Tomijiro Kochi
St. John
Hong Kong
Singapore
Franklin College to revive Periclesian Society on merit
Alumni and current Franklin College students learn plans are set to reconstitute the Periclesian Literary Society as a democratic merit based group. President Goodell backs oratory and debate, aiming to raise Franklin’s presence in state forensic circles by creating a nucleus around which a new merit driven organization will form.
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Franklin College
Franklin College Band
Franklin Colege
Franklin
A. E. Davis
Samuel van Nuys
Goodell
Periclesian
Penn
Feorgi
Fran
Abraham Lincoln
O. P. Morton
Millard Fillmore
Jas. Buchanan
Independent Literary Society
Peri
Independent Society
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A. E Davis
Secret Societies Directory
Curtis
Vance Stanley
Scipio High School
North Vernon
Phillip Arthur
Sheek
Ralph Waldo
Greenwood
Sheen
John Herman
Stevens
Helen Alice
Needmore High School
Bedford
Ruth Frances
West Point
Storms
Roxye M
Kempton
Sutton
Amy Elizabeth
Swenson
Swan Mandel
Iowa
Thom
Jay Webb
Indiana University
4Th Street
Bloomington
Walden
George Ballard
Eli Lilly Go
Wilson, Russell, Conwell
Wood
Mary Josephine
Waldron
A. R. Mather
Franklin Graduate
Old Literary Sociey
Independent
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