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EDWIN RALPH GROTON English "Toby" Pocomoke City, Maryland Pocomoke High School Irving Literary Society; Secretary, Y. M. C. A., '25; Black and White Club; Vice-President, Student Council, '24; Monthly Staff; President, Varsity Club; Manager, Basketball, '24; Varsity Baseball, '24, '25; Varsity Football, '22, '23, '24; Captain, Football Team, '23. " ''[is not the whole of life to live, 'Nor all of death to die." "TOBY'S" earlier environments were Pocomoke City and Randolph-Macon Academy. If his records there were as worthy as his record at Western Maryland, "Toby" was badly missed when he came to college. For he's a man clear through-physically, mentally and morally, Four years of Varsity football and baseball have won the athletic medal for "Toby." Mentally, he and Epictetus, the champions of the "Stoics," daily threaten to usurp the chair of Philosophy at the college. "Toby" represented his class on the Student Government Board, and at all times in his college life has supported the right, speaking his convictions without regard for criticism and acting as well, influencing others by the weight of his character. "Toby" sympathizes with La Follette, and has selected the "Reds" as the party he will pursue in life. The element we would stress in "Toby's" makeup is his fearlessness. On the football field his aggressiveness against men far overtopping him marks this trait. In the classroom he stands for the right and upholds his principles. But the places where his influence is most felt are the minds of his classmates, where "Toby's" ever-willingness to champion fearlessly the highest and the best will not soon be forgotten. [47]