The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 9, Number 11

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ROCHESTER,  MINNESOTA,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH   19,   1941
NUMBER  II
Prop Wash
by Don Franke
An interesting article on army
eyesight, explaining why only 2,000
men out of 10,000 applicants passed
mental and physical exams during
February, 1941, is to be found in the
March 10th issue of "Life." Interesting also is page 27, picturing the last
five airline crashes and the possible
causes. No blame attaches to any
particular one, it seems. The August   31   Lovettesville,   Va.,   crash,   kill-
. ing all 25 humans aboard, was caused
by a thunderstorm pressure and
sound   waves   which,   when   discharg-
\_ed, -stunned the pilots and caused
the uncontrolled liner to dive into
a cornfield at 300 miles per hour.
The Salt Lake crash of Nov. 4th
was caused by a faulty beam, unnoticed for three hours by CAA
neophite observers. The Chicago
crash of last Dec. 4th was blamed
on an undershot landing by a pilot
who overshot and ran into a fence
two days prior. Bad weather caused
miscalculations of an instrument
landing, and St. Louis was the scene
of a crash Jan. 23rd.    Last we have
[■the Feb. 26th Atlanta crash which
is unexplained as yet, except for
the knowledge that the pilot was at
50 feet when he should. have been
at 500 preparing for a beam landing.
Add to the list of Rochesterites
leaving for air corps training: Jack
Bannon (RJC '40) and Glenn Schroe-
der.
12 Students Elected
to Phi Theta Kappa
The Phi Theta Kappa, national
honorary fraternity in Rochester
Junior College, has recently elected
the following students to membership: Beverly Barber, Winston Cornell, Harriet Doty, Venetia Farrar,
Joan Gordon, Kay Hayward, Willis
Hubler, Jean Hulcher, Delia Kruse,
Irene Link, Doris Papendick, and Jane
Schmelzer.
To be eligible for this organization a student must have a "B"
average in twelve credit hours of
S. L. A. work. It is the highest
scholastic honor that a junior college
student may receive. The Phi Theta
Kappa is the same type of organization as the Phi Beta Kappa for
four year colleges  and  universities.
Election takes place once a year.
The new members will be initiated
during the first weeks in April.
Gamma Rho to
Initiate New Members
Fourteen pledges will be initiated
into the journalistic society of Rochester Junior College, Gamma Rho,
on Thursday, March 25. The informal initiation will be carried out during the day, and in the evening,
new members will take the oath at
the banquet which will be held at
the Hotel  Martin at 6:30 o'clock.
Students who have been active on
the Jaysee Echo staff and who have,
fulfilled the requirements of the
initiation are eligible for membership
in Gamma Rho. Outstanding for
their work on the Jaysee Echo are
this year's editors, Jerald Farrington
and Charles Murrell. Other students
who have contributed to the success
of the paper and are therefore eligible are Doris Papendick, Ray Thompson, Dora Tenti, Gloria Hillmond,
Doris Fritsche, Esther Saabye, Don
Sanders, Virginia Schanke, Shirley
Jones, Arthur Swan, Harriet Doty,
Jack Ripple, and Lloyd Caulfield.
The main speaker of the evening
will be Dr. Percy Ryberg of Buenos
Aires, Argentina, who will give his
personal account of the Austrian
Anchluss by Germany. Musical selections will be rendered by Jacqueline Vincent. After the banquet, new
members will be formally admitted
into  the  Gamma   Rho  fraternity.
Initiation and banquet plans are
being formulated by the present officers, Betty Lou Hamlin, president,
and Elfi Ossendorf, secretary, and
by various committees headed by
Betty Lou Wright, Richard Tarara,
and Bettie Jones, with the help of
Miss Marie Matt, the society's adviser.
Our Town" Will
in the Central
Faculty Members
Attend Junior
College Convention
Seven hundred delegates from
nearly every state in the Union, Canada, and the Panama Canal Zone
attended the annual meeting of the
American Association of Junior Colleges held in Chicago the 27th and
28th of February and March 1st.
The outstanding event at the meeting was the annual banquet at which
j President Robert M. Hutchins of
the University of Chicago gave the
address. All seminars, as well as
the banquet, were held at the Stevens  Hotel.
The     principal     concern     of    the
; meeting was the development of a
terminal education program, which
was discussed from two angles: first,
how such a program could best serve
the needs of the community, the
medical secretarial course being
cited here; secondly, aside from the
needs of the community, how this
program might aid the national defense  program.
Dean Goddard states that fifteen
years ago he attended a seminar,
at which delegates and speakers
concerned themselves with the question: How can junior college students be prepared for the junior
year in a college or university. At
this year's meeting, this subject was
hardly mentioned as it has been
(continued   on  page   two)
be Presented
School Auditorium
The Thornton Wilder play, "Our
Town" is different in many ways
from former junior college productions; in fact, it is different from
most American plays in that it has
a minimum of dramatic scenes and
stage settings. A picket fence and
some hollyhocks suggest a home. A
door distinguishes the inside from
the outside of the house. And up
stage is Main Street. That's all.
The characters are all as familiar
as your next-door neighbors: the
newsboy who collects as well as scatters news; Howie Newsome, milkman
and weather prophet; the doctor
home from a night call; members of
the church choir in action; lovers
quarreling, making up, and finally
marrying in the village church. All
told, "Our Town" portrays the life
of any man in any town from the
cradle to the grave. All important
scenes are annotated by a genial
Main Street philosopher known as
the Stage Manager. For him Graver's Corners, New Hampshire, is the
stage, and all his friends and neighbors are the players.
The climax of the play has for
its setting the village cemetery on
a windy hilltop, where the audience
sees again acquaintances of scenes
which transpired nine years before.
The newcomer, Emily Gibbs, feels ill
(continued  on  page  jour)
Front row, left to right:. Beverly Barber, Theresa O'Neil, Jean Griffin, Ellen Hennings,
Doreen LeBlanc, Margie Lou Fredricks; second row: John Ripple, Ross Burdick, Warren
'i"rapp Harry Smith, Jerry Farrington, John Fitzgerald, Richard Tarara; third row: Alan
Hailing   Roger Drinkwalter,  Donald  Franke,  James  Guy,   Lincoln  Eckman.
First Radio
Program Scheduled
The R. J. C. radio plans are going
along smoothly. Mr. Wing of KROC
having allotted 7:15 on Monday evenings to the Junior College, the first
program, a round table discussion
on "America's Part in the World
Crisis," is tentatively scheduled to
be given Monday, March 24. Participants in the discussion will be
Art Swan, Jack Ripple, Esther Saabye, and Winston Cornell.
An audition was given to several
J. C. students last Wednesday in
the KROC studios. Students who
had their voices tested, criticized,
and complimented were Don Franke,
Charlotte Armstrong, Doreen Le
Blanc, Ray Thompson, Esther Winters, Marietta Sonnenberg, Harold
Perry, and Mary Sitton. Mr. Waltman
of the /KROC staff was very pleased
with the quality of their voices, as
were the students also, and gave
I them many valuable tips about radio
announcing.