This is a glass negative of the McKinley Literary Society at the International YMCA Training School, now called Springfield College. This image was probably taken at Springfield College’s 25th Anniversary Celebration in 1910 and shows club members from the classes of 1903, 1904, and 1905. The students shown are [back row, L to R] Irvin A. Laudenslager (1904), Albert A. Marquardt (1905), Bohumil T. Pest (1905), James W. Stafford (1904), August E. Metzdorf (1905), William G. Currier (1904), Woseph W. Ricketts (1905), Elmer Berry (1903), Charles F. W. Cunningham (1904), [front row] Erich L. Moraller (1904), Paul B. Samson (1904), Porter T. Woolworth (1903), G.B. Gilman (1905), John H. Gray (1904), William E. Lewis (1904), Augustus Maier (1904), Roy F. Seymour (1904), and Edward S. Elliott (1904).
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