The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 13, Number 7

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The Jaysee Echo
Just about every other day you
[can find an essay or a little poem
telling that life's greatest pleasures
are free.   Personally, I have always
believed    in   the    statement,    but
somehow I've never been able to
practice it—if you know what I
mean.    But last Sunday I had a
wonderful time and it didn't cost a
dime.    I had promised Mr. Heintz
that I would bring him some copies
[of the pre-Civil  war  newspapers
and I started looking through the
old files for them.    I found them
all right, but only after I had forgotten that   I    was    looking for
them.    The files are stored in an
j'old barn along with all the other
family treasures.    The first interesting item I discovered was a document I had written when I was a
sophomore in high school.    It was
truly a masterpiece, and I am astounded that the world has struggled  along  these  past  few  years,
lacking the    knowledge    that has
been hidden away in that old barn
I in a sleepy Minnesota village. Biologists and economists will all be
elated  to  learn  that  Farrington's
treatise on The Economic Importance of the Housefly has been discovered, and is now available for
': their   study.      (Frankly   fellows,
I the  thing was horrible,  precisely
the sort of theme one would ex-
I pect from a 15-year old boy inter-
'  ested   in    neither   economics  nor
.  houseflies).   Next I stumbled over
a filing cabinet which contained a
series of letters    my    father   had
'-.  written to the 4th assistant to the
Postmaster General back in 1923,
■'.  requesting that he be reimbursed
I for $18.78 worth of coal he had
bought over and above the amount
provided for in the fiscal budget.
It was very interesting reading, for
■   father was really eloquent in his
description of  the  bitter  Dakota
[  winter and his impassioned pleas
for repayment of the $18.78.   He
got it, but only after spending 4.36
[ for postage.    Then, just before I
found the old newspapers, I picked
| up several bundles of neatly be-
ribboned letters that some of my
older brothers   had   neglected   to
i   destroy.    Oh, those careless boys!
Ho-Hum
I did have   another   paragraph
;  for this column but our bossy ol'
{  editor made me throw it away, so
I quit. ,
VOLUME XIII
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, MARCH 29,  1946
No. 7
J. C. Journalists Visit Kasson
J. C. ENTERTAINS
R. H. S. SENIORS
On the afternoon of March 5,
the Junior College student body
entertained the Rochester High-
School students at an Open House.
The event was planned so that
graduating seniors might have a
chance to inspect RJC class rooms
and facilities before spring regis-
for various groups who toured the
tration.
College students acted as guides
class rooms, labs and library. Several of the JC classes were held at
special hours so that the seniors
might visit them. After the inspection tour the seniors were
served punch and cookies in the
college club rooms.
At four o'clock both seniors and
J-C students went downstairs to
Coffman Hall where Lexie Par-
lova's orchestra provided music for
a twilight dance.
Louis Thomas, sophomore class
president, was in charge of arrangements for the day.
DEAN GODDARD ATTENDS
MEETING AT "U. OF MINN."
While J-C students were struggling through their mid-semester
exams last Thursday and Friday,
Dean Goddard was attending a
meeting of the Minnesota Junior
College Association at the University of Minnesota.
According to the dean, the most
important business considered was
the development of a sound program for the junior colleges in
Minnesota. Most educators have
agreed that both the number of
students in junior colleges and the
number of junior colleges will increase rapidly during the post-war
period.
Another problem confronting
the association is the difficulty in
securing instructors for the expanding program. Much attention was
given this difficulty and various
methods were discussed concerning
plans for inducing young people to
adopt teaching as a profession.
A new charter for the junior
college association was adopted at
the meeting.
RAJESTERS SCHEDULE
ONE-ACT PLAYS
FOR APRIL 26
Local dramatists have already
started working on a one-act play
which will be produced in Central
Auditorium on April 26, when a
group of Austin J-C students will
come here for a one-act play festival similar to the one held at
their school earlier in the year.
SHAM, a social satire written
by Frank G. Tompkins, will be
the Rajester offering. Tryouts are
now being held with the following
students reading lines: Art Gordon, Thelma Alfsen, Milton
Lentz, Maurice Bentley, and Mary
Jo Gerlicher.
Miss Flora McGhee, director of
the Rajesters, said that the local
club is going to present only one
play at the festival because so
much  effort  and  dramatic  talent
will be expended in entertaining
the guests from Austin and local
J-C students at the party after the
festival.
The party, which will be held
in the north gym of the Coffman
building, offers a few innovations
in collegiate entertainment. The
gym will be transformed into "Mc-
Guffy's Tavern'Vhich will feature
Parlova's orchestra and a most
unusual group of entertainers including Fred Arab, Helen Skar,
Dean Williams, Barney Englund,
George Pougiales, Collette Lyon,
Norma Skogen, Milton Lentz,
Jean Marsh, Art Gordon, Marilyn
Postier, Bill Tysseling, Don Capelle and Jerry "Orson" Farring-
ton-Wells, who is writing, directing and producing the affair. He
also will sell hot dogs between acts.
The initiation banquet of the
Gamma Rho journalistic society
was held Thursday evening, Mar.
14, at the Kasson Hotel with
twenty members and two guests.
Dean and Mrs. R. W. Goddard,
present.
Before the banquet the group
visited the office and shop of the
Dodge County Republican, where
they examined the presses, linotype, and other pieces of printing
equipment. The eleven candidates
for initiation then received their
assignments and instructions to return to the hotel with a story.
Considerable difficulty was encountered by the youthful reporters, particularly by Thelma Alfsen,
who found the fire station, but no
firemen to tell when the village had
experienced its last fire. Goldie
Dugstad also had a little trouble
finding out about the price of caskets; it seems the undertaker was
out of town, and his wife considered such information a professional
secret.
Fred Arab got so hungry he
couldn't wait for the banquet to
start, so he went down to the Boston Cafe and panhandled a hard-
boiled egg. Nadine Pavlish interviewed Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Syverson, who recently returned from
India. Mr. Syverson, a former
RJC student, served with the army
in the CBI theater, where he met
his bride, a former British WREN.
Jerald Farrington, pre-war
Echo editor and news editor of this
year's paper was the master of
ceremonies and introduced both
speakers of the evening:Dean Goddard, who spoke briefly on journalistic ethics, and Nadine Pavlish,
editor of the Echo, who thanked
the students for their contributions
to the paper.
For the first time in the organization's history, guests were present at the candlelight initiation
ceremony, when Mr. and Mrs.
Goddard witnessed the pledging of
eleven students and the signing of
the society roll. Members initiated were: Nadine Pavlish, Elizabeth McConnell, Maxine Cavanaugh, Fred Arab, Marcelene Kidd,
Norma Skogen, Gertrude McCon-
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