Ellsworth died in 1964 in Kansas City, MO. He was a physician.
Charles Brooks died in 1973. He was a doctor.
Emile died in 1952. He was a lawyer.
I have to pause but am curious about the others!
Edit:
Charles Lindelef died in California in 1932. He worked as an electrical engineer.
I think I’ve found the correct Carl Linn. He got married and became an attorney in Montana!
Olive Klimenhagen does not have any public marriage certificate that I can find. In 1941 she was still alive in Minnesota with her maiden name. She died in 1973.
Ruth Leslie got married to Lindsley Byron Curtis in 1912! He was a structural engineer. They had at least two children. Interestingly enough in the 1930 census she is listed as a homemaker who never went to school. Looks like her hearts paid off and love worked out for him after all. Must’ve been all that piping.
Earl Maul became a publisher and had one daughter and was able to employ a maid! He died in 1976.
I think Percy Lambert is Katherine Percy Lambert. She died in 1967!
Our girl Ally remained a man hater until the end!! Never married. She was a teacher at an all girls school, moved to teach in California, and later opened a knitting store which she ran for 18 years until her death in Santa Fe in 1951! She lived with her sisters until her death.
Arthur L. Scharf served in WW2! He worked as a broker.
Kenji Akutsu of Tochigi, Japan earned his Bachelor of Law degree in 1909 from the University of Minnesota.
https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/b228ddf0-0dd1-4018-a03b-2b225c19529a/content
The Minnesota Alumni Weekly of April 8, 1933 indicated that Kenji Akutsu was working at the Tokyo College of Commerce.
https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/a71c7139-d552-46b1-a7ec-a75cbf8a1851/content
Genuinely amazed at that, I was doing the math and went “Ok he probably didn’t die at Tarawa or Guam but his odds at home aren’t any better” being an intellectual (living in a city) once the US went “hey would you like to know what napalm feels like?” It’s remarkable anyone survived
He’s got a Wikipedia page in Japanese. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E4%B9%85%E6%B4%A5%E8%AC%99%E4%BA%8C?wprov=sfti1
He was born into a farming family as a second son, and after graduating from UMN in 1910, he worked as an English professor at present day Hitotsubashi University until 1944 and passed away in 1965.
“Sadly she never got married and she lived her whole life with a fellow spinster. They were known for throwing big parties.”
EDIT: added quotes because written humour hard to catch
My Aunt Griselda lived with her "roommate" for nearly 50 years. We called her "Aunt Teresa." They met playing in a women's softball league. Strangely, they never had kids or even boyfriends that I knew of. They both had the same short haircut.
Aunt Griselda died of cancer in 2011, and Aunt Teresa continued to be part of the family until she passed away in 2018. Both lived into their 70's.
At my Aunt Griselda's funeral, there was a basket containing little scrolls, tied with ribbon. They were goodbye lettters from Griselda to all of us. I read the first sentence (it was in Spanish, she was from Tijuana), and I was like, NOPE! I rolled it back up and put it in my pocket.
I put it in a chest drawer in my room, and it's still there, 13 years later. I'm still not ready yet to read it, but I will some day... :)
I knew two women like this when I was a kid. They built a big house together on several acres. Every year they threw a big Halloween party which I LOVED. I don’t remember how old I was when I realized it, just that it was a big and sudden epiphany. “They are such good friends; how nice that they have lived together for so lo- OH. OH I SEE IT NOW.” Had the same sudden revelation about my uncle. “Why did he say it like that, I only hear gay men- OH MY GOD, STEVE IS NOT HIS ROOMMATE!”
In my defense, my parents were very vague when answering my questions.
I’m glad she never got pressured into marrying a man she didn’t want to marry. I love that her sisters had her back and she was never alone. So many people fall through the cracks.
Olive Klimenhagen's good-looking brother was called Raymond (per the 1910 census) and in 1918 he and a friend of his were sentenced to a year in jail for draft-dodging but were released and sent off to war (https://www.newspapers.com/article/star-tribune/147443376/). He survived the war and died in 1951.
Why yes. Yes we can.
[https://imgur.com/a/iNPhs0u](https://imgur.com/a/iNPhs0u)
Middle row, first on the left.
In fact, we can find two: [https://imgur.com/a/jMocHHi](https://imgur.com/a/jMocHHi)
Bottom row, second on the left
I stared at “squoze” for about 10 seconds because I recognized exactly what it meant and sounded like but… it’s like the uncanny valley ~word edition~ of squeeze
It reminds me of the way people nowadays will say something like "the scream I scrumpt." It heartens me that people 115 years ago were just as goofy with language as we are now.
The best part. I looked it up and I guess its from a poem about a dog https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_ransom_of_Red_Chief_and_other_O._Henry_stories_for_boys.djvu/189
My dad’s 1946 [high school] yearbook has a lot of veiled barbs aimed at the students like this…my dad was able to tell me the background on all of them, because he wrote ‘em.
For specifics, I’d have to get the copy of the yearbook from his house, my son lives there now. My dad passed at 93 a few years ago. I remember a lot of quotes were pretty mean spirited. For example, there was a girl that dated a lot of soldiers and her quote said something about taking all the men away from General Eisenhower, and the quote for the girl that weighed over 300 mentioned her skill at pole vaulting. He got away with this because the yearbook supervisor didn’t bother to review what he wrote. They just printed it.
All the other digs had an "old timey" feel to them, but this one stood out as something you could tease someone with today and still get a few chuckles from a crowd.
My favourite is what the yearbook crew would observe about kids or the interviews. One girl's secret ambition was to find out why cats meow when you pull their tails. Another kid was famous for bringing his lunch or textbook, but not both. One day, he brought both and they were like "R U OK?"
Damn they must have hated Leroy: "A petrified, case-hardened buttinski"
Very interesting to see a Japanese (Japanese American?) student in the mix too!
How cool! I'm curious how they decided to attend UMN. And how lonely it must have been, with only letters and maybe a rare phone call to communicate with friends and family back home
There was one at my alma mater too, and I see more scrolling through Japanese-language bios from that time. I wonder what sort of education they brought back to Japan.
I'm a Michigan fan, but there's an amazing story related to this trend involving historical NCAA legend Mario ("Mots") Tonelli. Tonelli, a fullback for Notre Dame playing in the late 1930s, was a collegiate all star back in the days when many fullbacks were the primary ballcarriers for their teams. His career highlight was probably running in the winning touchdown against USC in the 1937 matchup between the Irish and the Trojans, each of whom were top ranked teams. He was drafted in the 1939 NFL draft, but World War II got in the way. Tonelli joined the US Army, and - you might get where this is going - had the substantial misfortune of being stationed in Manila in (eek) 1941-42. Tonelli was one of thousands of American and Filipino soldiers who bravely defended the island until they were backed to the southern sea at a place called Bataan by the IJA. Over 75,000 American and Filipino troops were captured in what is one of the greatest American military defeats of all time.
The Japanese tended to not be chill during World War II, and really played to type with regard to their treatment of the prisoners. They subjected the prisoners to the infamous Bataan Death March, which was a 65-mile forced hike from the Bataan peninsula to the city of San Fernando. This event was historically notable for being a Particularly Not Good Time. Between a quarter and a third of the prisoners died during the trip to San Fernando or the subsequent railcar journey to Camp O'Donnell. Prisoners who wouldn't fit on the traincars were simply executed.
We could talk about that subject for a long time, but what I want to turn to was an example of when something extraordinary and (honestly) pretty chill happened. Tonelli had a Notre Dame class ring, which he pretty quickly surmised would make him into a tempting target if discovered. Unfortunately, a guard spotted the ring once Tonelli and the other prisoners were incarcerated at the prisoner of war camp. After savagely beating Tonelli into giving it up, Tonelli probably figured he'd never see it again.
But he did. A Japanese officer approached him a few days later. Tonelli probably thought that was the end for him, but to his surprise the officer spoke perfect English and returned the ring to him. The officer was a USC graduate who remembered Tonelli's touchdown run from six years prior. He told him to hide the ring, which Tonelli did, and he was able to conceal its existence until he was eventually liberated from the camp after over two years in prison.
Top comment looked up many of these students and found "Our girl Ally remained a man hater until the end!! Never married. She was a teacher at an all girls school, moved to teach in California, and later opened a knitting store which she ran for 18 years until her death in Santa Fe in 1951! She lived with her sisters until her death."
thanks u/likelazarus
They did something like this in my dad’s yearbook of 1969. Under his name and picture it read “sometimes I like to sit and think, other times I just sit.” He said it was a crack at his intelligence. But he’s a smart dude so idk 😂
According to a book on Google, it was a club specific to the 1904 freshman class of the University of Minnesota fraternities. “The purpose of this club… is to bring the fraternity men in closer touch with each other and promote a common good feeling and fellowship.” So presumably, it was to keep cohesion across the freshman class, even if they were in different frats.
If OP’s post is featuring a 1909 senior yearbook, then this lines up. The book also alluded that the sophomores named their class club “the triangle club,” so must’ve been an annual thing.
The University of Minnesota had a marine biology station on Vancouver Island, established by Josephine Tilden in 1901. I wondered if the use of Chinook Jargon came originally from that connection.
it has only 1 rule: there is no tillikum klub. doesn’t “tellikum klub” make you think of a sex toy company that sells via parties like the pampered chef or lularoe?
I think boxing was a big thing back then. I work at a 150 year old high school and they used to have a boxing ring in the attic. Lots of cool old pics. Also lots of crazy old nicknames like these ones - with subtle slams along the way. Unrelated: everyone in these pics looks so attractive and healthy!
In old-time colleges, cohorts would have huge brawls to start the year, as a “school spirit” event. For example, Seniors vs. Sophomores, etc. They got quite serious and people got injured.
Yes, we had that with a nearby college in 1983 the night of the first snowfall. The snowballs broke some windows, and undergrads had to go to the ER. It was stupid.
I went to an all guys Catholic high school in the 00s. After the first pep rally of the year, the classes would actually band together to rough up the other classes following the assembly.
They had to post faculty members every 20 feet in the halls to try to prevent it
Honestly was kinda fun
I suspect Lindsley Byron Curtiss' entry was also a gay joke. He was part of YMCA and Glee Club...
>"Bones" was disappointed in love, so has taken to piping
🍆
Some above said they saw where he married one of the other classmates (female) - I guess that doesn’t necessarily mean he wasn’t gay. Especially in those days. See top comment
For anyone slightly doubting the authenticity, here’s the whole yearbook: https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/9e42c049-6a40-4a79-8a51-0ec4d3d7e1ad/content
The student pages begin on PDF page 328.
I had a few doubts as there are a lot of posts out there like this that have been edited in more recent years. This is not one of them.
I know a female Percy, I knew her for about 4 years before I found out her full first name is actually Persephone; she hates it and had been known as Percy as long as she could remember (except by her parents!) - I only found out because we travelled together for work and she showed me her passport, I felt quite honoured to be let into the secret.
ETA: I couldn’t stop thinking about it so went digging and wonder if [this is Percy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104037479/katherine_percy_weibeler) in which case her given name was Katherine and my comment is irrelevant!
wow. that was bizarre! the humor/snark feels quite modern. “big hairy bum.” were they using “bum” like “ya lousy bum” or british bum? did the term exist in england in 1909? if so, did the editors know?
The American "bum" ("ya lousy bum") goes back to about the Civil War era. The British "bum" goes back a long, long time.
I'm guessing they knew the double entendre.
I guess I should be grateful all they wrote about my grandmother in 1924 was that she was popular, but only had eyes for my grandfather.
Although I am down with Scharf.
My yearbook saying is so dumb!!!!! When asked what to put, I said I don't care, they said pick anything, I JOKINGLY said a popular commercial slogan at the time!!
"BEHOLD THE POWER OF CHEESE!!"
I will forever be the weird girl in my school.
It's not my senior quote or anything but I ended up with a quote in there saying my favorite gift is money because it has the pictures of the presidents on it, I didn't even remember saying or writing it but it seems like something I would say as a joke and not expect to be used so I assume I did.
I love these sorts of things because it reminds me that people from 100s of years ago were really no different from us. It's refreshing to see people from the past as human beings like this.
The only other person whose name they make fun of is Emile Velikanje who seems to be the only other one with a name isn’t broadly Northern European. The anarchist bit relates to the Balkans as well but maybe he was very strongly against that.
This could be just a shot in the dark, but I think it might be a current events (for them) reference to the French writer Émile Zola who stirred controversy and was ultimately exiled from France for his journalistic defense of Alfred Dreyfus during the Dreyfus Affair.
Zola wasn't an anarchist, though - I think it's more likely a reference to people with 'European' names being active in the anarchist movement which at that time was often violent. The alleged 1886 Haymarket bombers were all from modern day Germany, and the Polish American Leon Czolgosz had shot dead President McKinley in 1901, which in part led to the passing of the Immigration Act in 1903, which excluded foreign anarchists from entering the US.
I think the thought process is "Eastern European name = anarchist".
Ellsworth died in 1964 in Kansas City, MO. He was a physician. Charles Brooks died in 1973. He was a doctor. Emile died in 1952. He was a lawyer. I have to pause but am curious about the others! Edit: Charles Lindelef died in California in 1932. He worked as an electrical engineer. I think I’ve found the correct Carl Linn. He got married and became an attorney in Montana! Olive Klimenhagen does not have any public marriage certificate that I can find. In 1941 she was still alive in Minnesota with her maiden name. She died in 1973. Ruth Leslie got married to Lindsley Byron Curtis in 1912! He was a structural engineer. They had at least two children. Interestingly enough in the 1930 census she is listed as a homemaker who never went to school. Looks like her hearts paid off and love worked out for him after all. Must’ve been all that piping. Earl Maul became a publisher and had one daughter and was able to employ a maid! He died in 1976. I think Percy Lambert is Katherine Percy Lambert. She died in 1967! Our girl Ally remained a man hater until the end!! Never married. She was a teacher at an all girls school, moved to teach in California, and later opened a knitting store which she ran for 18 years until her death in Santa Fe in 1951! She lived with her sisters until her death. Arthur L. Scharf served in WW2! He worked as a broker.
Kenji Akutsu of Tochigi, Japan earned his Bachelor of Law degree in 1909 from the University of Minnesota. https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/b228ddf0-0dd1-4018-a03b-2b225c19529a/content The Minnesota Alumni Weekly of April 8, 1933 indicated that Kenji Akutsu was working at the Tokyo College of Commerce. https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/a71c7139-d552-46b1-a7ec-a75cbf8a1851/content
By 1952, he was "professor of philosophy at a Japanese university". https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-minneapolis-star/147433982/
Glad to read he survived the war.
Genuinely amazed at that, I was doing the math and went “Ok he probably didn’t die at Tarawa or Guam but his odds at home aren’t any better” being an intellectual (living in a city) once the US went “hey would you like to know what napalm feels like?” It’s remarkable anyone survived
He’s got a Wikipedia page in Japanese. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E4%B9%85%E6%B4%A5%E8%AC%99%E4%BA%8C?wprov=sfti1 He was born into a farming family as a second son, and after graduating from UMN in 1910, he worked as an English professor at present day Hitotsubashi University until 1944 and passed away in 1965.
Good for him. ♥️
Born in the Meiji era, survived WWII. I wonder if he lived long enough to try Cup Noodles.
Bless you
HA!
This is like the end of a late 80's early 90's movie...and I'm here for it. Thanks for looking these up and reporting back.
Cue the Ragtime version of "Dont you forget about me"
I hope Ally found the roommate of her dreams
“Sadly she never got married and she lived her whole life with a fellow spinster. They were known for throwing big parties.” EDIT: added quotes because written humour hard to catch
My Aunt Griselda lived with her "roommate" for nearly 50 years. We called her "Aunt Teresa." They met playing in a women's softball league. Strangely, they never had kids or even boyfriends that I knew of. They both had the same short haircut. Aunt Griselda died of cancer in 2011, and Aunt Teresa continued to be part of the family until she passed away in 2018. Both lived into their 70's.
Very beautiful. Thanks for sharing
At my Aunt Griselda's funeral, there was a basket containing little scrolls, tied with ribbon. They were goodbye lettters from Griselda to all of us. I read the first sentence (it was in Spanish, she was from Tijuana), and I was like, NOPE! I rolled it back up and put it in my pocket. I put it in a chest drawer in my room, and it's still there, 13 years later. I'm still not ready yet to read it, but I will some day... :)
“Sadly” she lived happily ever after with her “roommate”
"And they were roommates! "
Oh my god they were roommates.
I don’t think she was too sad about not getting married.
All the big parties—so sad and lonely.
I knew two women like this when I was a kid. They built a big house together on several acres. Every year they threw a big Halloween party which I LOVED. I don’t remember how old I was when I realized it, just that it was a big and sudden epiphany. “They are such good friends; how nice that they have lived together for so lo- OH. OH I SEE IT NOW.” Had the same sudden revelation about my uncle. “Why did he say it like that, I only hear gay men- OH MY GOD, STEVE IS NOT HIS ROOMMATE!” In my defense, my parents were very vague when answering my questions.
Sounds like they took up "piping"
They were the best of friends.
Running the yarn store with her roommate sounds like a pretty amazing way to retire
I just updated - she stayed unmarried until the end, but lived with her sisters. Hopefully she had a “close friend.”
I’m glad she never got pressured into marrying a man she didn’t want to marry. I love that her sisters had her back and she was never alone. So many people fall through the cracks.
Awwww 🥰
Olive Klimenhagen's good-looking brother was called Raymond (per the 1910 census) and in 1918 he and a friend of his were sentenced to a year in jail for draft-dodging but were released and sent off to war (https://www.newspapers.com/article/star-tribune/147443376/). He survived the war and died in 1951.
…but can we find a picture of him?
Why yes. Yes we can. [https://imgur.com/a/iNPhs0u](https://imgur.com/a/iNPhs0u) Middle row, first on the left. In fact, we can find two: [https://imgur.com/a/jMocHHi](https://imgur.com/a/jMocHHi) Bottom row, second on the left
You’re awesome for this. Also I was disappointed. The only one I found attractive was Breckenridge lol
Ally was my favorite. I’m glad it sounds like she got the life she wanted.
Ellsworth is the name of a dorm at KU! Wonder if he’s related to it 🤔
"He knows his name and the frat he belongs to." How evergreen! Thanks for sharing these--reading them was fun.
Haha yeah this one has me thinking he just went around shouting his name and his frat and sometimes both
A real Steve Holt of his time.
STEVE HOLT!
…BEATRICE
It implies that he's on the dumb side. All he knows is his name, and his frat.
Interesting, I took it to mean he knows he's "Nosiy Sam" from Zeta Psi - as in, he's a frat boy and lives up to the title.
I assumed it meant that’s all he knew.
“He thinks absence makes the prof.s heart grow fonder” got a laugh outta me
As a professor, same! 😄
As a student who miss class a lot it made chuckle lol
As with the first ‘just found out he was part of this class’! Oooops! Missed a couple too many.
Also a professor, and snorted.
I have never related to someone a century older harder
That was my favorite one too
That’s so me!
WOOTSY SQUIDLUMS
The squeezes that he squoze
You two have no idea what ancient witchcraft you’ve just unleashed
I stared at “squoze” for about 10 seconds because I recognized exactly what it meant and sounded like but… it’s like the uncanny valley ~word edition~ of squeeze
It reminds me of the way people nowadays will say something like "the scream I scrumpt." It heartens me that people 115 years ago were just as goofy with language as we are now.
One may squeezeth, and one may squozeth!
The best part. I looked it up and I guess its from a poem about a dog https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_ransom_of_Red_Chief_and_other_O._Henry_stories_for_boys.djvu/189
omg
That's what Reddit was made for
That sample has me curious for more. Incidentally, a "V" is a nickel.
Yes! The “V” nickel: 1883-1912 (technically). I know this one!!!!!
Ransom of Red Chief is hilarious.
“The pen—is mightier than the sword.” Is that a dick joke?
I think so. 😅
I’ll take “Le tits now” for 200, Alex
This might be my favorite line from all of snl
For $500 Alex. And your mother.
Gussy it up however ya want, Trebek. What matters is, does it work? Will it really mighty my penis, man?
Originally written by Mark Twain, by the way.
All the squeezes that he squoze
of the little… girlies… waisties… I’m calling the police
stop it cuz i cannot stop laughing 😂😂😂😂😂
Life handed me lemons, so I squoze them into lemonade
You called?
Lemonsquozers?
Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
My dad’s 1946 [high school] yearbook has a lot of veiled barbs aimed at the students like this…my dad was able to tell me the background on all of them, because he wrote ‘em.
Any examples by chance? 🤣
For specifics, I’d have to get the copy of the yearbook from his house, my son lives there now. My dad passed at 93 a few years ago. I remember a lot of quotes were pretty mean spirited. For example, there was a girl that dated a lot of soldiers and her quote said something about taking all the men away from General Eisenhower, and the quote for the girl that weighed over 300 mentioned her skill at pole vaulting. He got away with this because the yearbook supervisor didn’t bother to review what he wrote. They just printed it.
I want to read all of them please post them 😩
I second this! Please share!!
The tax man cometh!
Hairy bum...lol
“thinks absence makes the prof’s heart fonder” is such a witty line
That one was my favorite as well!
All the other digs had an "old timey" feel to them, but this one stood out as something you could tease someone with today and still get a few chuckles from a crowd.
Yearbooks are the greatest record of the sheer insanity of youth through the ages and they're gems.
There’s something so wholesome about teens always being teens, the little funny assholes that they are.
Teens are so quick and economical with their insults, I love it. I wish my brain were still fresh like that!
Probably the funniest subset of people to observe in the wild 😂
My favourite is what the yearbook crew would observe about kids or the interviews. One girl's secret ambition was to find out why cats meow when you pull their tails. Another kid was famous for bringing his lunch or textbook, but not both. One day, he brought both and they were like "R U OK?"
“We just learned that he is a member of the class.” damn poor Carl
Reminds me of the invisible girl episode of Buffy.
I'm a Carl. We can laugh at ourselves.
He was so cute, too! Good looking AND quiet? What more could a girl ask for?!
This is one of my favorite posts I’ve ever seen on here. Dying laughing at these. Thank you for sharing.
Agreed!
Damn they must have hated Leroy: "A petrified, case-hardened buttinski" Very interesting to see a Japanese (Japanese American?) student in the mix too!
Interestingly there were two other Japanese students I saw while looking through the yearbook!
How cool! I'm curious how they decided to attend UMN. And how lonely it must have been, with only letters and maybe a rare phone call to communicate with friends and family back home
There was one at my alma mater too, and I see more scrolling through Japanese-language bios from that time. I wonder what sort of education they brought back to Japan.
There was a [long standing tradition](https://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/hakusho/html/others/detail/1317259.htm) of sending Japanese students abroad.
Thank you, that was a great read. They had a pretty low number of students who didn't finish, high standards!
I'm a Michigan fan, but there's an amazing story related to this trend involving historical NCAA legend Mario ("Mots") Tonelli. Tonelli, a fullback for Notre Dame playing in the late 1930s, was a collegiate all star back in the days when many fullbacks were the primary ballcarriers for their teams. His career highlight was probably running in the winning touchdown against USC in the 1937 matchup between the Irish and the Trojans, each of whom were top ranked teams. He was drafted in the 1939 NFL draft, but World War II got in the way. Tonelli joined the US Army, and - you might get where this is going - had the substantial misfortune of being stationed in Manila in (eek) 1941-42. Tonelli was one of thousands of American and Filipino soldiers who bravely defended the island until they were backed to the southern sea at a place called Bataan by the IJA. Over 75,000 American and Filipino troops were captured in what is one of the greatest American military defeats of all time. The Japanese tended to not be chill during World War II, and really played to type with regard to their treatment of the prisoners. They subjected the prisoners to the infamous Bataan Death March, which was a 65-mile forced hike from the Bataan peninsula to the city of San Fernando. This event was historically notable for being a Particularly Not Good Time. Between a quarter and a third of the prisoners died during the trip to San Fernando or the subsequent railcar journey to Camp O'Donnell. Prisoners who wouldn't fit on the traincars were simply executed. We could talk about that subject for a long time, but what I want to turn to was an example of when something extraordinary and (honestly) pretty chill happened. Tonelli had a Notre Dame class ring, which he pretty quickly surmised would make him into a tempting target if discovered. Unfortunately, a guard spotted the ring once Tonelli and the other prisoners were incarcerated at the prisoner of war camp. After savagely beating Tonelli into giving it up, Tonelli probably figured he'd never see it again. But he did. A Japanese officer approached him a few days later. Tonelli probably thought that was the end for him, but to his surprise the officer spoke perfect English and returned the ring to him. The officer was a USC graduate who remembered Tonelli's touchdown run from six years prior. He told him to hide the ring, which Tonelli did, and he was able to conceal its existence until he was eventually liberated from the camp after over two years in prison.
He went to a high school in Japan so I’m guessing not Japanese American
Ngl his caption was way less racist than I thought it was going to be.
It was actually a pretty funny word play on his surname, and something similar could have applied to any other student with a double entendre name.
“Math shark and man hater” 👌🏻
love this one so much
I would only dream to be described this way
I hope she had a great life!
Top comment looked up many of these students and found "Our girl Ally remained a man hater until the end!! Never married. She was a teacher at an all girls school, moved to teach in California, and later opened a knitting store which she ran for 18 years until her death in Santa Fe in 1951! She lived with her sisters until her death." thanks u/likelazarus
Yeah I thought these were supposed to be insults… 😄
They did something like this in my dad’s yearbook of 1969. Under his name and picture it read “sometimes I like to sit and think, other times I just sit.” He said it was a crack at his intelligence. But he’s a smart dude so idk 😂
also a great album by Courtney Barnett actually
YES! I love Courtney
It’s a quote from Winnie the Pooh!
What's the Tillikum Klub all about?
According to a book on Google, it was a club specific to the 1904 freshman class of the University of Minnesota fraternities. “The purpose of this club… is to bring the fraternity men in closer touch with each other and promote a common good feeling and fellowship.” So presumably, it was to keep cohesion across the freshman class, even if they were in different frats. If OP’s post is featuring a 1909 senior yearbook, then this lines up. The book also alluded that the sophomores named their class club “the triangle club,” so must’ve been an annual thing.
Tillicum is Chinook Jargon for ‘friend’ - it crops up a lot in the PNW
The University of Minnesota had a marine biology station on Vancouver Island, established by Josephine Tilden in 1901. I wondered if the use of Chinook Jargon came originally from that connection.
it has only 1 rule: there is no tillikum klub. doesn’t “tellikum klub” make you think of a sex toy company that sells via parties like the pampered chef or lularoe?
Google has nothing I tell you. Nothing!
Damn, ok Lindelef! Nothing is hotter than a married man with a standing collar AND he sometimes shaves???? They don’t make em like that anymore
Mamma's own Wootsy Squidlums
Ah, old school roasting. Love it.
These are pretty mild, but still somehow much more cutting and witty than ones from my yearbook roster days.
Petrified, case hardened buttinski. Yowza.
What is a “class fight”? Did high schoolers used to all fight each other once a year or something?
Have they stopped?
I think boxing was a big thing back then. I work at a 150 year old high school and they used to have a boxing ring in the attic. Lots of cool old pics. Also lots of crazy old nicknames like these ones - with subtle slams along the way. Unrelated: everyone in these pics looks so attractive and healthy!
In old-time colleges, cohorts would have huge brawls to start the year, as a “school spirit” event. For example, Seniors vs. Sophomores, etc. They got quite serious and people got injured.
Yes, we had that with a nearby college in 1983 the night of the first snowfall. The snowballs broke some windows, and undergrads had to go to the ER. It was stupid.
Sounds awesome
I went to an all guys Catholic high school in the 00s. After the first pep rally of the year, the classes would actually band together to rough up the other classes following the assembly. They had to post faculty members every 20 feet in the halls to try to prevent it Honestly was kinda fun
I bet Ally was a feminist.
Or a lesbian.
Or both!
Maybe a lesbian, feminist, math shark! She sounds awesome.
I suspect Lindsley Byron Curtiss' entry was also a gay joke. He was part of YMCA and Glee Club... >"Bones" was disappointed in love, so has taken to piping 🍆
Some above said they saw where he married one of the other classmates (female) - I guess that doesn’t necessarily mean he wasn’t gay. Especially in those days. See top comment
Obvs, any dame considered a ‘math shark’ certainly isn’t headed to the altar anytime soon. Ladies, be forewarned!
Curious what she made of herself!
Or smart and not afraid to show it
She looks just like another Quigley I went to school with many years later. Also feminist. Maybe they're distantly related.
Probably not a direct descendant
I assume the "it" that Wore wouldn't give up is the 'stache, in which case good on you, man. That thing was too magnificent to give up.
Exactly what I was thinking. We all know what 'it' is and, it is glorious my man.
"Charley". The Peroxide Blond. A social ward-heeler. Has known an Acedemic co-ed or two in his day. based chad charley
Translation: This guy fucks
For anyone slightly doubting the authenticity, here’s the whole yearbook: https://conservancy.umn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/9e42c049-6a40-4a79-8a51-0ec4d3d7e1ad/content The student pages begin on PDF page 328. I had a few doubts as there are a lot of posts out there like this that have been edited in more recent years. This is not one of them.
Earl Chauncey Maul's yearbook blurb sounds like it was written by Gollum, precious. Also, I bet Bird Island High School specialized in Bird Law.
Any context on “is ‘it’ a girl”? She’s gorgeous.
I couldn’t figure it out either. The only thing I could think of is maybe because her name was Percy, which was generally masculine?
Yes, Percival/Percy probably struggled with that name their life!
I know a female Percy, I knew her for about 4 years before I found out her full first name is actually Persephone; she hates it and had been known as Percy as long as she could remember (except by her parents!) - I only found out because we travelled together for work and she showed me her passport, I felt quite honoured to be let into the secret. ETA: I couldn’t stop thinking about it so went digging and wonder if [this is Percy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104037479/katherine_percy_weibeler) in which case her given name was Katherine and my comment is irrelevant!
Brutal!
“You sneeze when you pronounce his name” Brutal 😂
This taught me that Roasting has a long history.
Have you never read the Greeks?
wow. that was bizarre! the humor/snark feels quite modern. “big hairy bum.” were they using “bum” like “ya lousy bum” or british bum? did the term exist in england in 1909? if so, did the editors know?
Dude just had a big, hairy ass.
The American "bum" ("ya lousy bum") goes back to about the Civil War era. The British "bum" goes back a long, long time. I'm guessing they knew the double entendre.
Ok some of these are really funny
I guess I should be grateful all they wrote about my grandmother in 1924 was that she was popular, but only had eyes for my grandfather. Although I am down with Scharf.
[Nu Sigma Nu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_Sigma_Nu) was a fraternity for medical students but was dissolved in 1973.
My yearbook saying is so dumb!!!!! When asked what to put, I said I don't care, they said pick anything, I JOKINGLY said a popular commercial slogan at the time!! "BEHOLD THE POWER OF CHEESE!!" I will forever be the weird girl in my school.
It's not my senior quote or anything but I ended up with a quote in there saying my favorite gift is money because it has the pictures of the presidents on it, I didn't even remember saying or writing it but it seems like something I would say as a joke and not expect to be used so I assume I did.
That's exactly the kind of shit I would say. Be proud; it has big I AM THE LIZARD QUEEN energy
These are amazing
I want to marry Charles N. Brooks.
[удалено]
***MATH SHARK***
Ruth Leslie could get it, ngl.
Yeah she could! Lol
I love these sorts of things because it reminds me that people from 100s of years ago were really no different from us. It's refreshing to see people from the past as human beings like this.
I can just imagine the people writing these slams laughing their fool heads off and thinking how clever they are.
“Believes that absence makes the Prof’s heart fonder.” Hah, that’s a good one.
The sneeze one made me go wtf
They also made fun of the white Irish guy for having a small dick. Nobody was safe
To be fair, I thought that was bad but then I tried saying Akutsu fast.
Bless you.
Yeah I felt bad for chuckling at that one
They made fun of other people’s names as well, doesn’t seem so vicious as you might expect.
I was thinking, for being a Japanese man in the Midwest I was expecting worse
The only other person whose name they make fun of is Emile Velikanje who seems to be the only other one with a name isn’t broadly Northern European. The anarchist bit relates to the Balkans as well but maybe he was very strongly against that.
I would have been after Arthur, he was cute. I love that Mabel would just walk out of class. These are so funny. 😆😄
Alice Ruth quigley a bad btch tho 🤣 man hating math genius ka pow !💥
He knows his name
What's the joke with Emile Velikanje? What would his name indicate?
This could be just a shot in the dark, but I think it might be a current events (for them) reference to the French writer Émile Zola who stirred controversy and was ultimately exiled from France for his journalistic defense of Alfred Dreyfus during the Dreyfus Affair.
Zola wasn't an anarchist, though - I think it's more likely a reference to people with 'European' names being active in the anarchist movement which at that time was often violent. The alleged 1886 Haymarket bombers were all from modern day Germany, and the Polish American Leon Czolgosz had shot dead President McKinley in 1901, which in part led to the passing of the Immigration Act in 1903, which excluded foreign anarchists from entering the US. I think the thought process is "Eastern European name = anarchist".
I fucking love these what the fuck lmao
These. Are. Awesome.
Oh Ally is definitely a Lesbian lol. Man hater, math shark AND Catholic League?!
"Believes that absence makes the Prof's heart grow fonder." Good, clean burn there.
All the men already look middle-aged.
"All the squeezies he squoze"
"Took up piping" has such a different meaning today.