A Master Idealist-Organizer 



His volume, :< Four-leaved Clover," dealing with "Four- 

 fancies both grave and gay, forms a delightful le ed 

 record in verse of much that gave color to the early 

 days at Stanford. None of our other versifiers had 

 his light and joyous touch, a poetic link between 

 him and his father's well-known cousin, Eugene 

 Field. 



But to speak of "Charlie Field" is to think of Shirley 

 Baker, his mate, another "Pioneer," whose fine voice and 

 lovable personality lent joy to every gathering at which he 

 appeared. When these two graduated, our community lost 

 something of its characteristic flavor. The appearance the 

 next autumn at the Football Show of the " Bakersfield Brothers" 

 dressed as "hoboes" and singing an original song entitled "In 

 the Cold, Cold World," indicated that life for them, also, had 

 perhaps taken on a somewhat sterner cast! 



The best known of all the graduates of Stanford Homer 

 (because probably the best-known man in all the 

 world) is Herbert Clark Hoover, also of the "Pioneer 

 Class" and the first one to whom I assigned a room 

 in Encina Hall, this being No. 38. His varied 

 experiences and accomplishments as mining engi- 

 neer, corporation director, investment expert, rescuer 

 of American tourists in Europe, savior of Belgium 

 and northern France, United States Food Adminis- 

 trator, World Food Controller, Chairman of Ameri- 

 can Relief Administration, European Children's 

 Fund, and founder of American Relief Warehouses l 

 abroad, have served as the theme of many records 

 and eulogies. Into this fascinating story I need not 

 go, for it has recently been fully dealt with in two 



1 The last two charities organized and conducted solely in his capacity as 

 a private citizen. More recently as Chairman of the European Relief Council, 

 made up of eight great American relief societies, he has undertaken to nourish 

 and nurse 3,500,000 children in Eastern and Central Europe. 



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