The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 9, Number 13

              BHHHBHHapllHHBHHBNnHaHBB.
T
HE
AYSEE
CHO
VOLUME IX
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1941
NUMBER  13
Prop Wash
by Don Franke
Sometimes I wonder. On the aviation program (of our J. C. Monday
night radio series) Louise Berkman
expressed her feeling that women
are just as much a part of the coming field of aviation as are men.
When she was suddenly asked why
women shouldn't be trained as fighter pilots, as long as she felt that
they were equal to men in everyday
flying, she came back with that classic excuse for everything you might
think of: "Women are more nervous,
and . . . well . . . you know." Well,
you have to hand it to them. They
make the most of what they have
... or don't have.
With the coming of warmer blasts
from anxious props, flying clubs
seem to be springing up faster than
tulips these days. A new private
club of business and professional
men was recently organized. Then
there is the Piper Cup Coupe Club
which Art Glassnapp is attempting to
organize. This club has temporary
$14.00 per month membership fees.
Once a member, pilots need only
pay for their gas and oil. Our graduated C. P. T.'s should be interested
in this economical means of building
up their flying hours. Louise Berkman,
lest we forget flying females, is pushing the organization of an all-women
flying club. These clubs are for any
pilots, and also those who wish to
learn the aeronautical art. Anyone
interested should communicate with
the above organizers.
We, hope, for the sake of several
nightly occupants of the airport parking lot, that this proposed airlines
"night flight" into Rochester doesn't
go through. That would require the
use of the field and runway floodlights, and also the bright plane
landing lights, all of which would
make a brilliant spectacle, and probably draw a crowd of spectators. The
sad part of it all is that our parked
friends would be forced to forage
I for new space.
To those of you who are wondering why the fellows in the advanced
training course sit in the library
listening through earphones to what
comes out of a queer little black
box, I might explain that they
are not crazy (quite) but they are
learning to take messages in Morse
Code. The box is full of dots and
dashes.
One  would  think  that the  world's
military aeroplanes had about reached the top speed possible, but in the
April   "Aero   Digest,"   we   read  that
continued on page two
Phi Theta Kappa
Initiates New
Members
Ten pledges of Rochester Junior
College were initiated into Phi Theta
Kappa, national honorary fraternity,
at a banquet held at the Martin
Hotel last Thursday evening. Preceding the formal initiation, the
pledges presented an original program. With Jean Hulcher as the
Professor, the group showed its ability to answer questions on an original quizz program. However, even an
A average would not help in answering such questions as "Why is a 9
like a peacock?" Each initiate also
contributed to the program by giving a reading, and Beverly Barber
played a piano solo.
Gene Bloom, president, and Jack
Ripple, Art Swan, and Harry Smith,
also officers of the club, conducted
the formal initiation. After this a dinner was served. Gene Bloom, as
roastmaster, introduced Miss Bar-
thelemy, sponsor, who welcomed the
new members into the society. Miss
Doris Larsen, an alumnus of the fraternity, spoke about her experience
as a member of Phi Theta Kappa.
Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Goddard.
Dean Goddard gave the principal
address of the meeting, in which he
stated that we are now in an important transition in history, and an
era of transition has always brought
forward great leaders—people who
had vision, who were willing to pioneer. This should strike a note of
optimism  for the  future  in   us.
The new members in Phi Theta
Kappa are Beverly Barber, Harriet
Doty, Venetia Farrar, Joan Gordon,
Kay Hayward, Willis Hubler, Jean
Hulcher, Delia Kruse, Irene Link, and
Doris Papendick.
JUNIOR COLLEGE SPEECH
FESTIVAL TO BE HELD AT R. J. C.
Work in Club Room
Is Now Finished
Students returning to school after
vacation were happy to see that work
on the club room has finally been
completed. The floor was refinished,
walls painted, and draperies were
hung on the large windows.
The room is used mainly for studying and visiting. The dancing classes
push all the furniture aside two afternoons a week and brush up on the
latest steps.
The first public function to be
held in the club rooms will be an
informal dance after the speech
festival,  Friday night, April 25.
The Girls Club contributed the
money for the drapes and paint and
will keep the room cleaned up. Miss
McGhee, assisted by Richard Tarara
and John Fitzgerald, hung the drapes.
Primary C. A. A.
Course Completed
The R.J.C. C.A.A. primary course
will finish their ground school this
week, and will receive their private
licenses shortly.
The Secondary unit will have their
final exams May 20th. At present,
the students are struggling valiantly
with the radio code—trying to get
more than five words per minute. To
pass the final examination next
month, they must be able to send
and receive fifteen words per minute. To assist in this the college has
purchased an "instructograph" machine, which will send code at the
rates from 3 to over 20 words per
minute.
CALENDAR
April 25—
Following the dinner meeting
which concludes the Speech Festival, April 25, there will be an
informal dance held in the new
Club Room.
April 28—
Listen   in   next  Monday  at  7:15
over   KROC   for   a   RJC   sports
program   to    be    presented    by
Ray  Thompson   and  Art Swan.
May 6—
Don't forget that hilarious three-
act   comedy,   "The   Old   Home
Town,"  which  will  be  presented
by  the   "Ham  Actors   League."
Radio Programs
Will Continue to
End   of  Year
Since the last edition of the Echo
three Junior College radio programs
have been broadcasted. On Monday,
April 7, John Fitzgerald, Doreen Le
Blanc, and Ruth Puterbaugh read
several recent foreign letters received by J. C. students. Don Franke
presented a very interesting aviation
program with guest speaker, Miss
Louise Berkman, on April 14. Last
Monday Jackie Vincent, Rilla Mae
McGrew, Betty Lou Homlin, and
Adeline Rude offered a delightful
musical program. Students presenting these programs would appreciate it very much if more people
would   listen   in   and   offer  criticisms
Sponsored by Speech Class and
International Relations Club
Members of the Speech classes together with the newly organized International Relations Club will sponsor a Pan-American program on Friday afternoon, April 25. Participating schools include Tracy, Worthington, Albert Lea, and Austin Junior
Colleges.
Panel discussion groups will take
up a good share of the afternoon
program, the subject being on various phases of Pan-American relations.
Rochester students engaging in the
discussion are Charles Swan, Jack
Ripple, and Winston Cornell of the
debating group, and also Archie
Scanlan. Meetings are scheduled for
rooms 302,  307, 315, and 316.
The interpretative reading section
will be represented by Therese
O'Neill, Jean Griffin, and Doreen
LeBlanc. The selections to be given
are "I Like Americans" by Nancy
Boyd; "The White Cliffs," by Alice
Dwer Miller; and war poems by Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Hardy. The
meeting is to be at the Central
Auditorium. Of the students competing in newscasting one will be selected to take part in the radio program
to be broadcasted from KROC between 4:15 and 4.45. The audience
will listen from 307. The students participating are Winston Cornell, Marietta Sonnenberg, John Fitzgerald,
and Don Franke. The dinner meeting
will occur in the new Central cafeteria at 6:15. Doreen LeBlanc, president of the International Relations
Club will act as chairman at the evening program. Speakers include
chairmen of the discussion groups,
the winner of the Interpretative
Reading section, and the Newcaster
judged the best on the radio program.
Judges appointed are Mrs. Clay
d'A. Gerken, Miss Rosaline Fischer
of Austin, and Miss Mary Elizabeth
Smith of Albert Lea for the reading
section, and Lavelle Waltman of
KROC for newcasting. The concluding speaker of the evening will be
Reverend G. Sheridan of the Congregational Church.
John Fitzgerald, Clarence Stearns,
and Richard Tarara are chairmen of
student committees in charge. The
public is invited.
and comments on them. Try to put
aside Monday evenings at 7:15 to
7:30 from now on till the end of the
year, to hear these programs.