Charley's way

This was originally published in the Ohio State Phoenix two weeks after Charley's death. The Phoenix was a publication by and for freshmen. It was first published on Monday, Jan. 17, 1921, and Charley became its business manager the next fall. I do not currently know when The Phoenix ceased publication, but it might have been as early as 1925.

CHARLES HULS

In the fall of 1921, among the incoming class of freshmen, was a young man from Logan, Ohio. Possessing a fine record in activities in high school, he was soon selected as business manager of the Phoenix and did much toward putting the publication, which was then in its second year, on a firm foundation. This young man was Charles Huls. From that humble beginning, he rapidly rose in campus prominence, attaining the highest honors that the university offers, among them being the editorship of the 1924 Makio. A fortnight ago he died, and in his death the university lost one of the finest men that have ever been enrolled here.

    We never had the pleasure of meeting Charley, as he was called by every one who knew him, but it seems as if he had almost been a friend of ours, so much did we hear about him. But if we had known him we are sure he would have been just as cordial to us, a mere freshman, as to the best friend he had. That was just Charley's way.

    Mere words of sympathy can not express our sentiments in any wise and the least we can do is to strive to live as full and as rich a life as did Charley Huls.

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