The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 17, Number 5

              en House
Nov. 8
will observe "American Edu-
Week"   by   holding   open
on Tuesday evening, Nov. 8.
M.   Kortz   is   chairman   of
Activities and also a  member
general   committee  for the
and rflHschool system, which is head-
'°PPo^HMi'. Laurel Pennock.
'*f|e the purpose of "American
|ion Week" is to acquaint the
with the purpose of educate faculty members are mak-
e  following   plans:  Mr.   Karl
bert and Gerald W. Paul are
g  on  publicity,  as are Miss
Matt and Miss Louise Barthel-
Miss Mildred  Hillestad  and
Jiarles E. Singley have plan-
dispiay  which   will   be  set
window of the J. C. Penney
Company;   Miss   Ethel    Evans   will
put the  invitations.    A series
spot   announcements   over
and   KLER   has   been   plan-
5 well as a 30 minute panel
ion of Plato's "Republic" by
humbley, Virginia Stellmach-
 p Robert McGarry.    This will
LO. ■■sample of the way in which
ome o;  : ,      lasses are conducted
according   to  Mr.   Walter
pn, advisor.
fogram will be given in Coff-
all;  this  has  been   planned
|ss   Flora   McGhee   and   Dr.
Howard    Roy.    George    Bingham,
minued on page 9,' col. 3)
COMING  EVENTS
ophs:    Don't  Miss  Your
Picture Appointments.
ember:   Harvest Dance,
aturday,  November 5.
orthington  Game —
turday — November 5
2:30  P.M.
JCILS
9
S
[
way
Aoc/tedfol jJtuUw College
TH^ JAVJSEE ECHO
VOLUME   XVII
ROCHESTER,   MINNESOTA,   WEDNESDAY,   NOVEMBER   2,    1949
NO.   5
Sophs Vote On
Picture Bids;
Merz Chosen
The Sophomore class met Tuesday, October 25, at 10 a.m. to act
on bids that photographers had
submitted for the graduation portraits. The bids received came
from . the folowing studios: Rutz,
Merz, Cutshall, Harold's, Newman
Kraft, Priewert, and Irish.
Students were urged to take into
consideration the quality of work
as well as price when selecting the
photographer for the job. It was'
also pointed out that having all
the pictures taken by the same photographer had some definite advantages. First, if eliminates extra
work encountered when gloss prints
of various sizes are submitted, because all prints will be of uniform
size. Second, the same spacing
and the same degree of lightness
and darkness on every picture
makes for a better looking page
in the annual. Third, most photographers give a special rate to
a large group wanting individual
portraits.
Students were asked to vote
Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
the students' choice to be announced Thursday. The deadline for
sophomore pictures has been set
at December 16.
J. C. Faculty
Attends MEA
While the students of Rochester
Junior College were enjoying a
two-day vacation on the twentieth
and twenty-first of October, the faculty members were busily attending lectures at Minneapolis and
Winona as part of the activities of
the Southeastern Minnesota Educational  Association  convention.
Perhaps the only criticism of
the S. E. M. E. A. proceedings
was that there were just too
many lectures and speeches at
the same time to allow the educators to attend them all.
The bearer of one of the pieces
of information that is of great interest to the students of  R. J.  C.
was Mr. Singley.    Mr. Singley, as
athletic representative of R. J. C,
attended a meeting of the officers
of the Northern and Southern junior college athletic heads.    At this
meeting  a   playoff  game was arranged between the best basketball
team     from    the    Southern    and
Northern  parts of the state.    This
game will   be  played  at the ertd
of  the   basketball   season   on   the
court of the Northern school.
Representing the J. C. language department at a conference for college  English  and
language instructors which was
held in Memorial Union at the
University  of  Minnesota  were
Miss   Matt,   AAiss   Barthelemy,
(Continued on page 9, col. 4)
Harvest Dance To Be
Held Saturday Night
Two Trips Made
By Dean Goddard
In Past Month
In the past month Dean Goddard
has made two important trips for
the RJC. He attended several lectures and dinners at Pueblo, Colorado, at a meeting of the Council
of North Central Junior Colleges
held October  13,  14 and  15.
The other trip Dean Goddard
made was to the Minnesota Junior College Deans' Association
meeting on the campus of the University of Minnesota October 20
and 21. The highlight of the meeting was a lecture on "Research
Findings on Minnesota Junior Colleges" by Dr. Robert J. Keller, Associate Director of the Bureau of
Research at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Keller has also published a pamphlet on his research.
Dean Goddard would like to
point out that the result of Dr. Kel-
i ler's studies shows a high correla-
tion between Rochester Junior College grades and those of the University of Minnesota. Therefore,
he sees no reason for raising or
lowering the present standards of
grading.
e cast, standing, from left
prge  Ploetz,   Violet  Woodworth
o right: Kay Olson, Owen Spring.
Tom  Moran  and  Jean LaFavor.
Sitting, from left to right
"Emily" Given
On October 18,
Is Successful
"The Nine Lives of Emily," a gay
fast-moving comedy, written by
John Kirkpatrick, was presented to
the RJC student body on October
18, in the Central Auditorium, under the direction of Miss Flora McGhee.
The story, itself, was centered
around the present day conflict between generations. In this case the
parents found it difficult to comprehend their daughter's very modern methods of "trapping" men.
Both girls had entirtly different approaches but got the same results.
Although the parents exhibited utter horror at many of their daughters' actions, they were chagrined
by a recollection of their courting
(Continued on page 8, col.  1)
The  next  big  attraction  for all
the Junior College students will be
the  Harvest  Dance  scheduled  for
November 5 from 9 to 12 p.m.
Jim Lundquist secured Clayton  Tiede's 5  piece  orchestra
to play for this dance.    There
will be a program, but it is to
be kept under cover until the
big night.    The social committee   will    undoubtedly   "come
across" with something sensational.
The   decorations   will   carry   out
the   Harvest  theme,   and   it   is   rumored  that the  "Blue   Room"  will
be in the middle of the North Gym.
As usual, everyone will wear
old clothes or costumes, and a
prize  will  be  offered  for the
most original get-up.
Optics Frat     jj
Holds Banquet
At the first banquet in the 1949-
50 school year" of the newly-formed fraternity, Omega Pi Tau, guest
speakers outlined and highlighted
the formation and fruition of the
initial Ophthalmic Optics course
offered at Rochester Junior College.
Before the largest Optics class
to date Mr. Will Anderson, president of the N. P. Benson Co., welcomed the new students and expressed for his company the great
satisfaction which they received in
cooperating to found this course.
Dr. William L. Benedict, Chief of
the Ophthalmological Department
at the Mayo Clinic for the past 26
years, outlined the history of Opti-
cianry. He hearkened back to his
own youth in a country general
store where farmers tried on glasses
until they found a suitable pair for
which they paid twenty-five cents.
The next development he referred
to was the appearance of the optometrist who specializes in the refraction of the eyes. Dr. Benedict
emphasized ihe ■ fact that in
modern medicine the field of Ophthalmology was the first to set up
a board of examiners to determine
those who would be qualified to
practice in the surgery and pathology of eyes. He closed his ad-
(Continued on page 8, col. 3)