The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 15, Number 4

              THINGS TO LOOK FOR    •
f Worthington Game—Nov.  7
Open House—Nov.  13
Hard Time Party—Nov. 21
|"Jeans and
lugs" for
iDogpatch Hop
Here we go, Clem. Time to
Idirty up the overalls, hollow out
|a new corn-cob pipe, and get the
■jug down off the shelf. It's
|R. J. C.'s annual Harvest Dance
|in Dogpatch style.
This   most   formal   of   all   the
Iyear's dances is to be held Friday,
[November 21, in the North Gym
from 9:00 till 12:00.    Admission
lis listed at 35c a single,  and 50c
[per    couple plus    one    button,
[which, you're being told now to
{save embarrassment later, will be
[removed from the attire of each
|party-goer.
Students will trip the light fantastic, or in some cases trip fantastically, to the noisy notes of the
[Five Naturals.
Refreshments under the auspices
[of the food committee, consisting
of Barbara Bach, chairman, Claire
Budde, Izzy Schultz, and Dagmar
Gustafson, will be served to fill the
cavities of those attending.
Volunteers for decorations were
asked for, and the following have
agreed to donate their time and efforts: Phyllis Hendricks, Dede
Peters, Gloria 'Obst, and Bill
Moore.
Bob Pemberton and Bill Prinz
will take tickets at the door. Following this, there will be a magnanimous door prize presented to
the lucky winner.
Mr. and Mrs. Collins plus Mr.
and Mrs. Bateman have consented
to act as chaperones for this gala
(Continued on page 8, col. 4)
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The Jaysee Echo
VOLUME   XV
ROCHESTER,   MINNESOTA,   FRIDAY,   NOVEMBER   7,   1947
NO.   4
Argentine Girl
Audits Courses
The newest addition to the Junior College's list of students from
far away places is Senojrita Irene
Franz, of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Miss Franz, who is recuperating
from a recent leg operation at the
Colonial Hospital, is auditing Biology, English A, and Spanish to
improve and supplement the English which she took in high school
at Buenos Aires. She will remain
•n Rochester only until the end of
December, at which time she will
return to her native Argentina with
her mother.
FOUR J.C. THESPIANS
IN PRODUCTION
Despite minor discrepancies, the
Rochester Community Theater
presented George S. Kaufman and
Moss Hart's play, "George Washington Slept Here" last night at
the Mayo Civic Auditorium and
will continue tonight and tomorrow night, November 7 and 8.
(It seems some people contend that
George Washington never, never,
slept in Minnesota!)
Four Junior College students
have featured roles in the show.
They are Aline Jennings (Rena
Leslie), Bob Walters (Tommy),
Richard Maass (Clayton Evans)
and Howard Sandum (Steve El-
dridge). Regardless of its title,
"George" is a modern show which
deals with a city couple who buy
a run-down old house in the country on the strength of a legend that
George Washington once slept
there (It was really Benedict Arnold!) The house is windowless,
waterless, and almost roofless, but
Newton Fuller buys it so he can
have "a little place in the country
all his own." One hilarious situation piles on top another as the
Fullers look for water, quarrel with
a neighbor (who owns not only
the brook but the very road leading
from the highway to the house),
cope with the week-end guests, and
try to keep daughter Madge from
eloping with a summer theater actor.
Rehearsals have been in progress
for the last five weeks, and the
play is of professional caliber as
far as the acting is concerned.  Oth-
(Continued on page 5, col. 4)
VARSITY   CLUB
GIVES   DANCE
The Varsity Club-sponsored
dance after the Mankato game attracted a large crowd of enthusiastic dancers. Everyone danced to
the music of a juke box. Later
they refreshed themselves with apple cider and cookies served in a
most masculine manner by the
members of the Varsity Club.
Joe Daly planned the dance, and
he gave school dances a new feature when he furnished the dancers
with an intermission program. Bob
Weiberg, Bob Hentges furnished
the hilarity with a black faced skit.
Poll Reveals
Student Attitudes
One Hundred and Eighty-Nine
Rochester Junior College students
co-operated in a research study designed to measure satisfaction with
various spheres of college life. Representatives of the college Student
Work Committee presented questionnaires to Rochester Junior College students for the purpose of locating sources of dissatisfaction
which might result in the student's
poor achievement or in his discontinuance of school. Results of the
study show students to be dissatisfied with the housing of the junior
college in the same building with
the high school.    They also feel
(Continued on page 4, col.  2)
Social Schedule Planned
At the request of its faculty advisors the social committee has
drawn up a tentative schedule of
the semester's activities. The Dean
has alloted approximately $100
from the school fund to provide
for the following parties:
October 31—Varsity Club
Dance—North Gym.
November 21—Hard Time
Party—North Gym.
December 8—Christmas Formal—Country Club.
Because of the increased demand
on every student's time during semester exams, there will be no parties in the month of January.
Also the social committee has
placed a box in the library to invite any ideas or suggestions the
students might -have regarding the
on-coming social events. Students
are urged to further the fine reputation that has already been begun
by contributing any new plans
that will help make J. C. parties
a success.
1,500 CONVENE
AT S.E.M.E.A.
The two day conference of the
Southeastern Minnesota Education
Association, held October 23 and
24 in Rochester, had as its theme
"Strengthening Public Education."
Dr. Kenneth McFarland, superintendent of schools, Topeka, Kansas, opened the first session of the
convention with a talk entitled
"Tomorrow's Teachers," which
was given in the Central school
auditorium. He kept his audience
in the palm of his hand with numerous amusing ancedotes which
illustrated the points of his talk.
This Texas girl's definition of a
college is one of them:
"A college is a bunch of old
buildings set back from the street
a bit, with ivy a 'creepin' around
on the outside and faculty a "creep-
in' around on the inside."
Rev. Harold Trost, pastor of the
First Methodist church of Rochester, gave the invocation, and Eugene W. Cutshall, president of the
board of education, officially welcomed the delegates.   A short mu-
(Continued on page 7, col. 3)
Dean Hunts Deer
- On November 10th Dean Goddard, accompanied by his wife and
several others, will leave on his
annual deer hunting trip to Lake
Vermillion. The Dean has been
taking these yearly outings since
1918 and, . proudly enough, has
never come home wth less than
half a carcass. Each summer he
cuts two weeks from his vacation
to provide a like number of days
for this well-earned outing. Here's
happy hunting to you, sir.
Subscribe Now
For Annual
If the annual staff is to put
out a good annual this year they
need the cooperation of the students. The subscription blanks
that were in your mail boxes a
short time ago must be filed out
and returned, if you want an
annual.
As you all know 250 subscriptions must be returned before the staff can go to work
on the 1948 annual. On
Thursday the 30th of October,
a total of 185 subscriptions had
been returned. The veterans,
who must pay cash for their annuals, are behind the non-veterans but it is expected that now
after the first of November more
of them will be subscribing.
REMEMBER, this will be
your only opportunity to order
an annual; so if you want one,
order it as soon as you possibly
can.  .  .  .