The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 13, Number 6

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.... by Jerry
.. Since I have been honored by
appointment to the publicity committee for the prom, it logically
fell upon my scrawny shoulders
and stubby fingers to bat out a
press release concerning the event.
While engaged in that task I commenced cogitating upon the fact
that it costs more to import a date.
Of course I don't want to accuse
anyone, but isn't it possible that
• .some of our more influential females lobbied this measure through
knowing full well that no man of
. modest circumstances and in his
right mind is going to spend two
bucks, to bring one gal when he
can take another just as beautiful
 maybe—-for only a buck and a
half.    But then, if you really love
her," fifty cents isn't too much.
After writing that first paragraph, I began to realize that I'm
going to look awfully silly standing alone in the stag line while
big handsome marines and airplane
drivers with shiny wings go walt7
ing around the floor with the local
beauties just because they, the marines not the beauties, have the requisite two dollars. For after all,
it's the money that does it, because
||one man is just as good as another.
At least, that's what I keep telling
■myself. -■/
Ho-Hum
Now that people are talking
about proms and things, it's about
time for me to visit the Echo's
-morgue and exhume my favorite
prom joke. A guy went down to
the florist's to order a corsage and
out of force of habit asked for
Four Roses.
Ho-Hum
The Jaysee Echo
VOLUME XIII
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1946
No. 6
Rajester Club Presents Plays
Gee, this column is just as bad
[as the last one, nothing in it ex-
fcept a lotvof chatter about boys
.and girls and romance and stuff.
Surely. there must be something
lelse around here of interest to write
about- I know there must be
■something else, but I'll be damned
|jf I can find it.
Ho-Hum
Mr.   Van    Roekel,    a   former
chemistry teacher at J. C; has returned and is now teaching   the
I accelerated course in chemistry to
| the veterans.    Mr. Van-Roekel is
,;'a graduate of the University   of
Iowa with a major in chemistry
and a'minor in physics and biology.
Commencement
Exercises Arranged
The Commencement Exercises
will be held May 30, 1946. The
speaker will be T. Raymond McConnell, the Dean of the Science,
Literature, and Arts College at the
University of Minnesota. The exercises are to be in conjunction with
the high school as has been the
custom in former years. The graduating class this year constitutes
twenty-one candidates for the two-
year course and five candidates for
the one-year course. Those candidates are:
John.Allen.
Stella Brown.
Betty Fahrman.
Robert Faust.
Viola Hanson.
Betty Johnson.
Donald Kuehn.
Betty" Newcomb.
Mary O'Neil.
Shirley Ormand.
Annamay Parsons.
George Pougiales.
Robert Riege.
Jacqueline Schlitgus.
Joanne Slorby.
Louis Thomas.
Helen Waelawek.
Aleen Welch.
Thelma Alfsen.
Carllie Ann Luedtke.
Mary Lou Wood.
One Year Course
Frances Decker.
Marcelene Kidd.
Marjorie Lloyd.
Lois Reemsnyder.-
Joyce Sheffer.
SIX STUDENTS
ELECTED TO
PHI THETA KAPPA
Richard Daly, Martha Anderson, Marcene McGlothlin, John
Higgins, Phyllis Hendricks, and
Nadine Pavlish have been elected
to the Omicron chapter of the Phi
Theta Kappa, National Junior
College Honorary Scholastic Society, which is equivalent to the Phi
Beta Kappa society for four-year
colleges. The formal initiation
and banquet will be held some
time in March.
GAMMA RHO
BANQUET TO BE
HELD AT KASSON
Nineteen candidates will be initiated into Gamma Rho, the junior college journalistic society, at a
banquet scheduled for March 14.
These candidates have been selected on the basis of their contribution to the Jaysee Echo. They
are: Nadine Pavlish, Elizabeth McConnell, Maxine Cavanaugh, Fred
Arab, Marcelene Kidd, Frances
Decker, Norma Skogen, Gertrude
McConnell, Thelma Alfsen, Gol-
die Dugstad, Tara Mathur, Art
Dahlberg, Mary Elton, Jean McComb, Norma Jenewein, and Marian Meyer.
Gamma Rho members in charge
of the initiation and banquet are
Lloyd Caulfield, Mary Lou Wood,
Jerald Farrington, Viola Hanson,
and Carllie Luedtke.
JUNIOR COLLEGE PLANS FIRST
PROM TO BE HELD SINCE '42
litgus, Peggy Brown, Helen Skar,
Patty Bowing and three husky
males, as yet unidentified. (Volunteers wanted).
The college social committee announced last week that plans have
already been made for the annual
spring prom which will be held
in the Isaac Walton League Cabin
at Silver Lake sometime in May.
Viola Hanson of the student body
and Mr. Schneider of the faculty
are in charge of the event.
Delegated to serve on the decor
Goldie Dugstad is chairman of
the refreshment committee. She
will be assisted by Dorothy Hel-
finstein, Annamay Parsons, Margie
Lloyd and Lois Reemsynder.
Financial arrangements are being
ation   commitee    were:    Marilyn handled by Art Gordon and a staff
Postier, chairman, Jacqueline Sch-| (Continued on page 4)
Members of the Rajesters, RJC
dramatic club, were entertained by
Austin Junior College at a One-
Act'Play Festival Thursday evening, February 21. Four plays were
presented, two by each of the
schools.
From a dramatic standpoint,
Sod, written by Stuart Mck. Hunter, and presented by a group of
Austin players was the outstanding
production of the event. All members of the cast, Charles Siegfried.
Marcella Schutte, Marjorie Geragh-
ty and Oliver Nasby gave their
roles a depth and vividness that
made their effort particularly
worthwhile.
In contrast to that sombre portrayal of prairie life was The Warrior's Husband by Julian Thompson. This brief, witty comedy of
flirtation was delightfully presented by Audre Radke and Milton
Lentz of the Rajesters, and was
climaxed by a most convincing bit
of amorous osculation.
Triumph in Ashes by Paul S.
McCoy was the other Austin play
and was presented by the following students: Eva Koch, Bonita
Anderson, John Watkins, Donald
Cronan, LaVonne Rugg and Virginia Kellogg. The Rajesters'
second offering was The Robbery
by Clare Kummer. The cast included Fred Arab, Helen Skar.Dean
Williams, Richard Truax, and
Goldie Dugstad.
Following the plays, a party was
held in the school cafeteria at which
several musical selections were presented by the Austin J-C girl's
sextette. After the girls finished
their numbers, Jean Marsh, Fred
Arab, Helen Skar and Dean Williams gave an impromptu piano
recital of selections ranging from
Bach to Barrelhouse, which everybody appreciated.
April 26, the Rajesters will be
hosts at a similar festival which
will be held in the Central Auditorium.
Miss Flora McGhee is director of
the Rajesters and Miss Lucille
Knuts/n is director of the Austin
group.