The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 10, Number 9

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Why is it that people who are
usually pretty nice people—usually—
drink too much coffee and overcome
their insomnia by making up verses,
bad verses at that, about other
people? I don't know the answer to
the above question, but I was merely
softening the blow, shock and general
physical and mental degeneration
suffered by people who read the sort
of thing printed below. If you sit
with the J-C cheering section you
will recognize the meter and poetic
feet and stuff, but the words are all
my own, almost.
If you have a babe,
Watch out for Snell
When he's loose,
He wolves like
Hit him  high
Hit him low
Then run like heck!
Maybe it doesn't rhyme, but
they're kinda strict about things like
that.
Ho-Hum
Don't   tell   me   that   you   survived
that one; 1 probably won't.
Ho-Hum
And   have   you   heard   about   the
punning   postman   who  delivers   mail
to  Joyce  with  this  remark,   "Special
delivery   for   a   queen   called   King."
Ho-Hum
To those kind souls who offered to
lend me a bowl and scissors I extend
my deepest thanks, and a simple
explanation; I'm doing all for the
sake of Art (please don't say Art
Who?) that is, I am allowing my
hair to grow long and luxuriant so
that it will take a better curl when
"The Lady of Letters" is produced.
At that, I feel better than Abie E.,
who must develop a full-grown bald
spot within a month.
Ho-Hum
Unanswered question Dept: Who
were the "bat boys" who caused
the trouble about the clubrooms?
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VOLUME X
Rochester,  Minnesota,  Friday,  February 27,   1942
NUMBER 9
First Smorgasbord Hits The Spot
"Lady of Letters"
Event of March
Chosen as the Rochester Junior
College production for March 18
is "Lady of Letters," a comedy by
Turner Bullock. Life in collegiate
circles provides the theme of the
play, for which the setting is a small
town in the Southwest.
In the story, Adelaide Willifer,
an undistinguished member of a well-
known family, seizes an opportunity
to purchase a novel from its discouraged young author. She renames the
work, "The Cuckoo's Nest" and a-
chieves fame when it becomes a best
seller.
Although her adventure into literature embarrasses her family, it makes
her the "woman of the hour" in her
community. Southern Union college
creates for her a new degree, "Lady
of Letters."
As the comedy develops, the
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"Blossom Time"
Selections Recorded
After all the practicing and the
long hours the chorus members spent
on the operetta, they were quite
surprised at the outcome of the first
two recordings they made Monday
night. The first recordings sounded
more like a four-alarm fire than
"Song of Love," and the second reminded one of those records you
heard 10 or 15 years ago. but don't
get alarmed, the trouble was soon
remedied. The machine had just
been recording too fast.
Mr. Nelson, the director of the
light opera "Blossom Time," did the
recording, while Miss Helen Church,
more familiar to many as "Churchie,"
took the honors as music director.
The chorus, which was composed of
both High School and Junior College, sang all the familiar songs from
the operetta, such as "Song of Love,"
"How the World Laughs," and ,,Hail
to the Spring." Jackie Vincent and
Martin Adson harmonized on "Tell
Me Daisy," which was one of the
sweetest songs in this production.
Melvin Henderson and Jackie also
reproduced "Only One," and Joyce
King recorded "How My Heart Is
Beating."
Happily enough, the rest of the
recordings were better than the first
two that were made, and they should
be a source of joy to "Churchie's"
heart if she ever plays them in future
years, and to ours if we listen to
them.
Student Portraits
THE  INSEPARABLES
In the halls and at the game,
Wherever  they  are,   it's  aiways  the
same,
Whenever you see them, they're always together.
Aren't   they   ever   apart?   Well,    I
should say never!
You know them as—
Melvin, alias "Hardy" Henderson,
The now famous operatic star—
And Jerry, "Laurel" Hilliard,
The smaller half of the pa(i)r.
Course in Radio
Planned at R.J.C
R. J. C. is soon to be taking part in
a vital part of the war effort. As
soon as all arrangements can be
made, a course for beginning radio
technicians will be given by the
college. This course is not open to
regular academic students carrying a
normal load of subjects. The aim of
the course is to give high school
graduates training in the basic elements of electrical knowledge and
certain basic notions in radio that will
enable them to go into various
branches of radio needed by the
government. A few of the possible
advance jobs that these people will
do are in maintenance, trouble shooting, as code operators, and perhaps
factory work if need be.
This radio course is comparable to
the C. A. A. course in that it is a
basic first course in radio. The minimum requirements are: the student
must be a high school graduate, must
have at least two years of mathematics and at least one year of Physics,
and must show a certain amount of
aptitude and background for this
type of work.
Approximately 24 to 36 students
are expected to take the course,
which will consist of nine hours of
class per week, of which approximately three hours will be in the laboratory. The class will meet three nights
a week for sixteen weeks. The back
part of room 3 17 is to be fixed up
with benches and equipment and will
be used for lab. The cost will be a
$10.00 deposit for breakage, which
will be refunded minus the cost of
breakage at the end  of the course.
Quite a bit of new equipment
has been ordered—an oscilloscope,
an audio-frequency oscillator that
produces "noises" that the human ear
can detect, a radio-frequency oscillator that will cover the broadcast
frequencies and intermediate frequencies. The audio-frequency oscillator will produce oscillations which
range from 30 per second to 15,000
per second. The course will also have
available quite a good deal of equipment that the local "Ham" club has
offered for use in the training program.
The course is to be conducted by
Mr. Willard, who will take care of the
lectures, and Mr. Hickman, who will
teach the lab sections.
Students, Faculty
Eat and Are Merry
Cold meat, lettuce, potato chips,
olives, ritz crackers, cheese, cookies,
and coke highlighted the J. C. Smorgasbord held in the club rooms on
February 19, from 5:00 o'clock until
7:00, followed by general fun and
games.
Dagwood sandwiches of mammoth
size seemed to furnish most of the
entertainment. However, the usual
card fiends gathered in the game
room for their heated battles over
bridge, whist, and what have you?
A few of the more music-minded
boys and girls danced to the strains
of. . . . Al Halling's and Elaine
Daly's records.
The turn-out for this party was
the largest of any so far this year,
and credit is due to the following
committee members: Publicity, Al
Hailing and Bob Leiferman; Food,
Mary Cronin, Virginia Ripple, Dora
Tenti, Dick Monroe, Joyce Ekman,
Mary Hamm, Marie Furth, and Elizabeth Hindman. Many many thanks
go to Dean Goddard for his splendid
suggestion. It is a common agreement among the students that we
should have many more social functions such as this one.
"Live for Your
Country" is Keynote
of Dean's Address
At a special convocation Thursday
morning, Feb. 19, Dean Goddard
outlined the wartime role of students.
Prior to his address, the Star Spangled Banner was sung by the assembly. Jacqueline Vincent sang "America My Own," and the octet,
composed of Leo Kisrow, Jean Anderson, Melvin Henderson, Lyle Dahl,
Robert Leiferman, Joyce King, Jacqueline Vincent and Charlotte Peterson sang "The Ramparts We Watch."
Both vocal selections were accompanied by the orchestra under the
direction of Miss Wagoner.
Ouoting Marcella Gosch, dean of
women at the Worthington .Minnesota, Junior College, the Dean said:
"If students fail in their college work,
they are really failing their country,
for they will be unable to take their
rightful position in society." He went
on to say that every possible assistance is being extended to youth, by
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