The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 13, Number 4

              The Jaysee Echo
VOLUME XIII
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA.   THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1945
No. 4
School Ends With
Christmas Party
The Gamma Rho will again
give its annual Christmas party.
Students and faculty of Junior
college will gather in the library
this afternoon at 3 to participate
in the last school function of 1945.
The  program  committee,  Joan
Miller,   chairman;   Viola  Hanson,
Allan Funk and Glenn Sower, has
planned a program   of   carols,   a
-Christmas reading and gifts. Every-
„one attending the party is asked to
1 bring a small ten-cent gift which
Santa Claus will distribute.
Marian Meyer, chairman; Alice
Anderson and Nancy Anderson
will decorate for the get-together.
• Those programs you found in your
boxes were    also    made    by this
!; group.
Nadine Pavlish. chairman;
Maxine Cavanaugh, Betty McConnell, Marcene McGlothlin, Norma
Skogen, and Jean McComb will
see that everyone has plenty to eat.
We hope you will all attend and
—don't forget to bring your gift.
If you don't feel in the spirit of
the holiday season now, you will
when you leave our party. Will
iyou participate?
Students Have Convocation
J. C. Librarian
Resigns Position
J. C'ers were sorry to learn that
'Mrs. Howe, who presides over the
~library, resigned the position she
.has held here since 1940, in order
ffto be with her husband, who has
j; just been discharged from the service.
A former J. C. student,   Mrs.
Howe transferred to the University
of Minnesota for her junior and
senior years and also took her postgraduate training there.    She has
worked in libraries since the eighth
; grade; her career includes positions
! in high school, at J. C. and at the
University.
Her father, who lives in Roch-
; ester, is an avid reader, and Mrs.
i Howe has always liked to read.
Her other hobbies are art and
nature study. Her husband, whom
she married in 1943, is employed
iin forestry and conservation. They
will   live  up   north   after  leaving
•here, and next year both will attend a university.
DEAN HONORED
ON ANNIVERSARY
A dinner was held at the Martin Hotel Ivy Room on the evening of December sixteenth at six-
thirty in the honor of Dean R. W.
Goddard, who recently celebrated
his twentieth anniversary as dean
of Rochester Junior College. He
came here from the Virginia Junior College in the fall of nineteen
twenty-five. Lt. Singley,, who is
teaching at Annapolis at the present time, is the only member of the
faculty who has been here longer
than Dean Goddard. Lt. Singley
plans to return to Junior College
soon.
Twenty people were present at
the dinner and presented the Dean
with a gift certificate for a portable
radio to take on those famous
hunting expeditions up north.
Then each faculty member reminisced about his early and later impression of the Dean. Mrs. Edward Wood sang several selections
accompanied by Mrs. Emil Heintz.
Messages were sent by the following members of the faculty
now on leave of absence: Lt. Singley, Lt. Hickman, stationed in the
Navy at California; and Corporal
Wayne Willard who is working
with radar in Florida.
Miss Matt headed the committee which planned the dinner. She
was assisted by Miss Barthelemy
and Mrs. Creal.
Faculty and students alike congratulate Dean Goddard on his
exemplary record at J. C. and wish
him success in the years which lie
ahead.
Gustav Sorenson Speaks
at Student Assembly
On Dec. 6' Dean Goddard of
our college introduced our guest
speaker, Gustav Sorenson, a widely traveled student of geography,
whose topic was, "We Remake the
Map of the World," at an all-
student convocation.
If we remap the world on a human basis, we will see and understand many of the things which
were hidden to us before.
Mr. Sorenson explained the
world is shrunk today because of
all the modern means of transportation. The air itself must be
treated with care.
The questions in which India's
peasants were most interested were
these:
(a)   What do you do for a living?
(b) Who are your gods?
(c) Do most of you work with
muscles or machines?
It was the human side of life
he was interested in.
Many people wonder why Britain doesn't give India her freedom.
An old Indian described India to
Mr. Sorenson in this way. India
was like a beautiful vase, it had an
intricate pattern, had fine jewels,
but it has been broken many times
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WE
WISH
YOU ALL
A      MERRY
CHRISTMAS
T
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ECHO    STAFF
Students Organize
For Dramatics
All students interested in dramatics work will organize for the
production of one-act plays the
second semester.
First on the list is a nonsense
program of music, original skits
and readings for club members and
guests. The theatre -will - be the
"Rec Room."
The next two programs will be
in cooperation with Austin Junior
College. A committee is now reading plays for one suitable for production when the group goes to
Austin and also for another to
present when Rochester is host to
the Austin players in the spring.
Members of the reading committee include Helen Skar, Collette
Lyon, Elizabeth McConnell, Jean
Dugstad, John Higgins, and Bruce
Lundholm.
At 10:50 this morning the students and faculty of Rochester
Junior College began their Christmas celebration with a formal assembly in Coffman Hall.
John Higgins, of the student
body, announced the program
which consisted of the following:
The chorus sang "Alleulia" by
Mozart and "Once, Long Ago,"
an old Bohemian carol. Herman
Matthees, a B-24 navigator, veteran of the past war, presented a
talk, "Home For Christmas."
Aleen Welch played a piano solo
and Louis Thomas gave a talk,
"Peace,   1945."
The orchestra and chorus united
to play and sing, "Jesu, Joy of
Man's Desiring" by Bach and
Christmaslike" by Bourdon.
John Higgins extended the season's greetings.
The orchestra personnel: Alice
Anderson, Martha Anderson, Peg
Brown, Arthur Dahlberg Jr., Lorraine Beyer, Olive Prinz, Carllie
Luedtke, Dean Austin, Alexis Par-
lova, Mary Jo Gerlicher, Lester
Brehmer and Bonnie Jeanne Utley.
Miss Priscilla Wagoner is the di-'
rector.
Chorus personnel includes:Aleen
Welch, accompanist, Marian Meyer, Lorraine Beyer, Shirley Burgan,
Shirley Ormand, Norma Jenewein,
Marcelene Kidd, Carllie Luedtke,
Jacqueline Schlitgus, Cecelia Gorman, Martha Anderson, Evelyn
Rahm, Alice Anderson, Anna Mae
Parsons, Jean McComb, Joyce
Sheffer, Helen Skar, Betty Jean
Johnson, Maxine Cavanaugh,
Margaret Cooper, Gloria Harkness,
Collette Lyon, Nancy Anderson,
Marcene McGlothlin, Helen Stellmacher, Viola Hanson and Helen
Waelawek. Miss Helen Church
directs this group.
Pacific Entertainment
ARDIS SAMP
(Based on a letter written by Ardis'
brother in Oct. 1944)
The islands of the South Pacific
offer many weird and amazing
sights. One of the most thrilling
spectacles on the island of Guam
is the bloody sport of cock fighting.
The U. S. S. "Belle Grove" put
into port at Guam on September
9,   1944;  and with 24 hours of
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