The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 11, Number 5

              THE  JAYSEE  ECHO
Rochester Junior College Official Publication
VOL. XI
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, MARCH 1, 1943
NO. 5
CONTACT
By  ANDY
Here's some good news for you. The
Vought-Sikorsky "Corsairs" have gone
into action in the South Pacific. No reports as to their performance have yet
been released, but you can bet your
bucks they're accounting for plenty of
dead Jappos.
Next time you're at the airport, stop
in the Airlines Administration Building.
The army has set up a Link Trainer for
leaching instrument flying. This "animated box," as the pilots have named
it, is identical to the one lost in the
Winona airport fire which, alone, accounted for $10,000 of the total loss.
Just because you haven't been hearing very much about Chennault and the
boys in China, don't think they haven't,
been busy. In the past five months the
"Skydragons" have shot twenty Nippo
planes for every American plane lost.
Thus far they've lost but eight pilots
and nineteen planes. Kind of reminds
you of Chennault's "Flying Tigers."
One of the most recent O. W. I. news
released states that a radical change
will be made in the P-39. What'll it be?
New engine? New armament? Or will
the engine be placed up in the nose?
Anway your guess is as good as mine.
A far cry from the armor of today's
battle planes was the stove-lid on which
Ihe World War I pilot sat. The fliers
would put them in their planes to deflect enemy ground fire.
ARMY INTERFERES WITH
EAST LYME
Greetings from Uncle Sam have played havoc with plans for a presentation
°f the old melodrama "East Lynne" in
abbreviated form. Only a few rehearsals were held. George Pougiales and
William Miller took turns playing the
villain with black moustache and a
diabolical laugh. Meryl Wiese was
growing into the role of the young heroine, "winsome as a sunbeam;" John
Christianson, Alfred Schuman, Ronnie
Anderson, George Tietze, Sanna McKen-
ny. Mildred Koski, and Marcella McAdams would have completed the cast,
with   Malcolm   Crawford   and   Gordon
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TAKE HEED
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R. J. C. almost slipped into the
social limelight. The student council had announced to our unbelieving ears that there would be a
card party in the clubrooms on
the evening of February 26. The
party was postponed because of
a change in the basketball schedule.
Dear Doris Hare and Committee:
We all think that you are just
wonderful because you did such
a perfectly swell job on the last
party.
Thanks.
JC-ites
THE J. C. OF TOMORROW
We girls are having a great deal of
fun these days. Our school work keeps
us busy during the greater part of the
week, but we make up for it during
weekends.
Little does it matter that 95 per cent
of the males—eligible and otherwise—
are scattered over all other parts of the
earth outside this section of Minnesota.
However, Rochester High School is still
wide open for our womanly wiles. Just
the other day I saw one of the J. C.
girls walking arm in arm with an eighth
grader. They made a very attractive
pair even if he was six inches shorter
than she. Yes, indeed, we get along
beautifully!
Despite the fact that much of our love
life has disappeared, spring fever affected us all as usual. Work has become
a thing of the past. We find ourselves
reminiscing, trying desperately to recapture the feeling of anticipating a date.
Some of us have come to the conclusion
that it's just a waste of time, especially
when we've forgotten whether the girl
calls for the boy, or vice versa, and who
pays for everything.
Oh, yes, we girls are having just loads
of fun these days! Who cares if man
has come to be a completely foreign
creature to us?   We're happy I
Wittee as stage managers.
A few scenes will be rehearsed for
club presentation on or before March 4.
CLUBS PLAN JOINT
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Apples, cookies and pop corn, all you
could eat and then some, were the
bright spots of the J. C. party on Friday, February 5.
Ten card tables set up in the physics
room proved to be the main attraction
of the evening as those fortunate enough
to have a table held on to it, and the
remainder of the guests looked on longingly. The clubroom was used for
dancing.
At exactly 9:01, the sound of voices
singing "Happy Birthday" filled the
rooms. The honored recipient of the
bee-utiful song was Viola Hubbell, who
now has one more year to her credit.
This was the first social activity sponsored by the newly merged Girls' Club
and Student Council. Those in charge
of the arrangements were: Phyllis
Teska, Phyllis Gunnary, Doris Hare, John
Allen, Barbara Towey, Esther Jane Jensen,  Ella Timmons,  and  Lorraine  Pruett.
Phi Theta Kappa Elects
New Members
Eight students, on the basis of first
semester grades, have been elected to
the local Omicron chapter of Phi Theta
Kappa, Junior College national honorary
scholastic fraternity. Those students are
the following: Norma Stahl, Kathleen
Anderson, Roberta Harmon, Ronnie Anderson, Jack Dallmann, Edward Engels,
Alfred Schumann, and John Menefee.
Active members of the Rochester
chapter are Meryl Wiese, president, Mildred Bolduan, secretary, John Allen, and
Don Bannon. Other members of last
year's organization include John Saari,
University of Minnesota, DeWayne Matt-
son, Army Air Force, Howard Costello,
who is in Louisiana, and Mrs. Van
Demark.
Miss Louise Barthelemy is faculty advisor to the chapter.
Mrs. Guthrie in geography class,
(quote?) "I want you to know that the
state of Alabama is so fine that it
doesn't need propaganda."