The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 15, Number 12

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ilNGS TO LOOK FOR
iTonight—Freshman  Party
jEASTER   VACATION:
Friday,  March   19
to
Monday, March 29
jrry-Go-Round
llcome Addition
J. C. Campus
■oWn three flights of stairs,
| block West, and half a
South—Stop! You're
Within your immediate
Iange. looms the Merry-Gold, J- C.'s latest campus
■don.
this happy haven  flock
students   who   purchased   a
'ticket, thus allowing them
[bership.    If, being the shy
you   haven't   crossed   its
lals as yet, dig deep, buy a
It. and come on over.
|he velvet  carpet   is   rolled
long about 9:00 A.M. with
final  exit   being   made   at
I P.M.  when  the  younger
""^^ration takes over.
I If.   sometime    between
anisb   III   and   Organic
Ibemistry , you   feel    the
leed of a few calories, they
ave  food   galore   at   the
pove-mentioned  location.
Ice cream sandwiches, pop,
loughnuts, and coffee are
In  deck   all   day;   being
■ipplemented at noon by
jandwiches selling at only
|0c.    That's two nickles,
Itzel.
RocAedJ&i flitnian, Gollecje
THE JA13SEE ECHO
VOLUME  XV
ROCHESTER,   MINNESOTA, FRIDAY,   MARCH   19,   1948
NO.   12
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u t   clubroom   committee,
^^ Cadwell,  chairman, Betty
-^■nwell.  Del  Thurber,  Dede
p, and Bob Wolters have
Iced  hard   to   obtain   these
looms.   They can't inhabit
alone.
Fry Explains
Television
Last Friday at an assembly in
Central auditorium Junior College students were given a look
into the future of television in
our country. Mr. Ted Fry,
manager of the Rochester Telephone Company office, gave as
an opinion that although television is still not a thing of the
immediate future, many of us
may be seeing television broadcasts by 1950.
Mr. Fry gave an interesting
account of the beginning of television and the conditions under
which it is now being developed,
along with demonstrations of
Photo-electric cells, cathode ray
tubes, and various other bits of
equipment used in the process of
"seeing radio." Although to
many the principles of image reproduction, photo transmission,
etc., are incomprehensible, Mr.
Fry left us with an idea of how
television works.
The coaxial cable from Des
Moines to Minneapolis to be
completed in June 1948, will
carry some television broadcasts
from the Twin Cities, but the
possibility of Rochester residents
receiving such programs with
much clarity is rather slim.
"0h   *7/te  4*odA"  ^o^UcfU
Tonight, the frustrated occupants of the hallowed Third
Floor—namely, all students of Rochester Junior College who
have been busily occupied the past week with frenzied cramming
for the mid-semester exams will find welcome respite for their
worries in what the freshmen regard as the most important social
event of the year:    The Freshman Class Party,
Freshman Class President Bob Hentges wishes to dispel all
rumors which have been circulating recently about the party.
ELECT HENTGES
Bob Hentges was elected to
the position of Student Council
Representative at Large for the
ensuing school year. It will be
his duty to organize the future
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Phi Theta Kappa Initiates
Twelve Hapless Neophytes
J«sidcs, here's a good chance
pt to know that girl in
frican History or that boy
) wears checked pants. It's
Pnderful opportunity to be-
f a smail part of J. C.
In passing,  a word of
anks should (be extended
Miss Curry who sug-
ted to the Y. W. C. A.
'at Junior  College   stu-
fl ^Jents could make good use
^p the Merry-Go-Round.
he  Student   Council   and
Clubroom Committee have
■t I m possible this Rec Room.
' ^H 5tudents  alone can make
PWe its success.
Jaysee Chorus
Reduced to Faithful
Since cooperation from J. C.
students who voiced their desire
at the beginning of the year to
be in the J. C. chorus has been
very unsatisfactory, Mr. Sidney
Suddendorf, director of the
group, announced recently that
he has cut the membership to a
minimum of those students who
have been coming regularly to
rehearsals.
Plans were originally
made at the beginning of
the semester to give Faure's
"Requiem" with the high
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Thursday, March 11, 1948, j
is a date that will live in the
memory of all true-blue R. J. C.
students. For that exceptional
Thursday was the date of the
Phi Theta Kappa initiation,
and students were baffled by
sights such as respectable male
J. C.'s running around wearing
mis-mated shoes and socks, reeking with perfume, and actually
carrying the books of female
students; and female students running around with their
hair in ribbons, their noses
painted red and their lips devoid
of lipstick.
These were some of the
conditions imposed by the
scheming P. T. K. sophomores on their unwary initiates. It seems there is
more to getting into the
Greek academic honor society than just being intelligent; one must also endure the "informal" Initiation Day—which has often been regarded as a definite discouragement to the
high scholastic standing of
this institution.
formal initiation was held. Each
new member took his oath to
Phi Theta Kappa, which was
read by President Ted Cadwell.
Chuck Carney, Vice President,
read the constitution, after
which Warren Wiese, Treasurer,
explained the key of Phi Theta
Kappa and Secretary Gloria
Gray read the history of the society.
Then Dean Goddard,
who with Mrs. Goddard
was a guest at initiation,
gave a short speech reminding the initiates not to bury
the talent for which they
were receiving recognition,
and the initiation was concluded. Miss Louise Barthelemy, who is the adviser
of the local chapter, was
also in attendance, seeing
that all the kinks were
straightened out of the
meeting. Miss Barthelemy
especially enjoyed Bob
Hentges' story earlier in the
evening when he described
the three Greeks, "Phi,
Theta, and Kappa."
This party has been organized
by the frosh for the entertainment of the ENTIRE student
body. Both freshmen and
sophomores are invited to attend; all arrangements and preparations have been made by
members of the Freshman Class.
The refreshment committee,
capably headed by Dagmar Gus-
tafson, will have plenty of delicious food on hand for people
like Bill Sandberg. The decorations for,the North Gym will
be handled by a committee under Donna Whitney, whose
work with the Homecoming
dance and the Women Pay-All
dance needs no mention here.
Program committee
chairman Howard Sandum
has procured the services
of Hentges Himself as Master of Ceremonies. The
Student Council Court Jester can be counted on: to
make a very witty evening .
of it. Also featured on
the all-freshmen program
will be the newly-organized Freshman Quartet and a
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The arrangements for the
banquet were capably handled
by. a committee consisting of
Gloria Gray, Claire Budde, and
Carol Finke. Haven Skogen,
Warren' Wiese, Gloria Gray,
Carol Finke, Claire Budde,
Chuck Carney, and Ted Cadwell had charge of the informal
initiation.
After the day's "informal"
high-jinks, the organization,
both initiates and old veterans,
proceeded" - to -Gar-roll- s White
House,   where the  dinner' and
.
The harried but happy initiates were: Donald Ewing, Bob
Hentges, Mary Kepler, Marion
Kinneberg, Robert Ludden,
Robert Macken, Dede Peters,
James Schneider, Donna Whitney, John Mieras, John Wells,
and Johnmiles Johnson.
A REMINDER:
School Starts
Monday, March 29
At 8:00!
Psyche Students
Make Field Trip
This week our "hats off" de/i
partment salutes Dr. M. C.
Peterson for taking time off
from his duties to present a lecture on mental illness to the psychology students and medical
secretaries who journeyed out to
the State Hospital on Wednesday, March 3.
Dr. Peterson discussed
subjects pertaining to the
origin, characteristics and
treatment of mental illness,
and personality. After givr
ing a brief resume of the
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