The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 11, Number 7

              THE  JAYSEE  ECHO
Rochester Junior College Official Publication
VOL. XI
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, MARCH 26, 1943
NO. 7
Faculty Tid-Bits
Mr. Hickman's sister-in-law from California is visiting here. She reports
that there is a barrage balloon just a block
from her house in Los Angeles and that
they can watch dog fights overhead everyday.
Mr. Shaw is taking part in the Russian
play "Squaring of the Circle" being given
by the Little Theater of Rochester.   The
play is being coached by Miss McGhee.
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Have you ever seen anyone as absorbed
in, and as enthusiastic about her work as
Miss Endicott? Her students are constantly amused and surprised at her delight in finding a round worm, or a liver
fluke in a frog.
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Miss Matt spent last week-end at  her
home in St. Paul.
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Dean Goddard plans to attend three
Junior College conferences soon. March
19 and 20, he was on the program of the
Minnesota Junior College Deans Association meeting at the University of Minnesota. In Chicago March 24 and 26, he
is now present at the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
Also in Chicago, March 25 the Dean is
attending the North Central   Council   of
Junior Colleges conferences.
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Somehow news during the week before
and the week of mid-semesters is hard to
find. Maybe everyone is staying close to
the books. The teachers maintain that
that week is just as hard for them as for
the students, since it takes 12 to 14 hours
to make out one test.
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Miss McGhee went to Minneapolis
March 13 and saw the stage production
"Arsenic and Old Lace" featuring Boris
Karloff, who, she says "is really an artist.
It was wonderfully done".
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Mr. Gerken has been busy this week
administering the Co-operative examinations with the help of other faculty members. The Co-operative General Culture
Test given to all sophomores, is slated for
Friday afternoon. A grand Finale to
Mid-Semesters.
Gamma Rho Society Initiates
New Members
On the evening of March 30, an initiation banquet for Gamma Rho will be held
at the Green Parrot dining room at six-
thirty o'clock, for all the new members on
this year's Echo staff. The committee in
charge is composed of Margaret Johnson,
president of Gamma Rho, Patricia Forester, Ella Timmons, and Esther Jane
Jensen, the remaining sophomore members of this journalistic fraternity.
Those to be initiated are Bobby Harmon, Larry Haggerty, Kathleen Anderson, Ed Taylor, Mary Cronin, Elizabeth
Hindman, Ronnie Anderson, Viola Hubbell, Doris Horn, Elizabeth Magath, Jean
Putzier, Gean Sower, Richard Jacobs,
Maxine Snyder, Mildred Koski and Sanna
McKenney.
The faculty advisor is Miss Marie A.
Matt.
WM. LYDGATE EXPLAINS
HOME FRONT NEWS
Today, more than ever, public opinion
is a vital factor. That statement gives
the keynote of the lecture given by William Lydgate, editor of the Gallup Poll,
under the auspices of the College Women's
Club, March 17.
Formerly a member of the staff of the
Time and the New York Times, Mr.
Lydgate has had much experience with
public opinion, and as editor of the Ga'-
lup Poll, which has about 1,100 interviewers, he is well qualified to speak on
the subject. The   purpose  of   P.   Q.
polls is to forecast elections and trends,
for we have begun to realize the power and
importance of public opinion, that it puts
men in and out of office, that it is the
final court of appeals.
Mr. Lydgate described certain
methods of polling that must be
followed to have accurate results.
He illustrated by explaining that the
failure of the Literary Digest in 1936,
was due to the fact that they drew their
people from lists of those who had phones
or who owned cars. By doing this, they
missed the lower group which includes
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J. C. PARTICIPATES
IN LITTLE THEATRE
The Little Theatre is producing Squaring the Circle by Valentine Kataev, translated and adapted by Eugene Lyons, a
United Press correspondent who spent six
years in Russia, and Charles Malmuth,
instructor of Russian at the University
of California.
Squaring the Circle is a rollicking Russian comedy in which the Communistic
dialect is applied to domestic problems
during a housing shortage in Moscow.
One of the grooms is Everett Shaw who
suffers much from a coddling wife with
intellectual shortcomings. As a result
his affections stray into the next apartment where the bride is a famous party
leader. This role is played by Alice Harrison, a teacher at the Lincoln Building.
The part of Sashka, a young Octobrist,
will be portrayed by Marie Burmeister
of the Northrop School. Carmen Kottke
of Hawthorne School will assist in group
scenes.
On the production staff will be Gordon
Witte and Malcombe Crawford, R.J.C.
photographers, and Esther Jensen, who
will furnish chalk drawing of Lenin and
other Communists for the apartment
walls.   The director is Miss Flora McGhee.
CHORUS MEETS FOR
NIGHT SONGS
One Wednesday evening not so long ago
the J. C. songbirds, altos, sopranos, seconds, and even a few feminine baritones,
thronged a Rochester High School class
room to pour forth girlish enthusiasm in
song. Miss Helen Church presided at the
piano in all her glory. The selections that
appealed most to the assemblage were
Rudolph Frimal's "Only a Rose" and "Oh
Beauteous Morn" from Jean Sibelius
"Finlandia".
During the evening the girls managed
to snare a high school tenor into the
group, much to his consternation and their
delight.
Tentative plans for an Easter program
were made. The chorus also hopes to
have a choral party in the near  future
The regular meeting for the J. C.
chorus will be on Tuesday evenings.