The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 18, Number 11

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THE JAYSEE ECHO
VOLUME   XVIII
ROCHESTER,   MINNESOTA,   FRIDAY,  MARCH   16,  1951
NO.   11
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"Double  Door" cast smiles jubiliantly after performance.
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flonday, February  19, the
|g   for   the   Booster   Cup
was   held.     The    candi-
nere  Jule   Block,   "Pinky"
I and Jim Hammer,
first Booster Cup was pre-
|to the   Rochester   Junior
by a group of business-
Ithe spring of 1925. Since
ie, the Booster Cup award
Bn presented' to a student
Bar who has shown strong
of Junior College activi-
fwo names were engraved
cup that year, those of
§i Briese and Logan Mundt.
Jien twenty-five names have
jdded, and a new cup was
tea1 for "the college by
po'dddrd and Mr. Singley.
J945 the awards have gone
|rald Farrington, Wayne
Hiam Sandberg, Deloran
Robert Hentges, and
iBirkelo.
jaward will   be  presented
sQr at the spring  banquet.
Hubbel House is Scene
Of Gamma Rho Dinner
Gamma Rho, the journalistic fraternity of Rochester Junior College, met on Monday, February 26. The purpose of the meeting was
fo elect new officers and to make plans for the initiation banquet.
Margaret Masson was elected president, and Trudy Rankenburg, secretary-treasurer.
At the annual banquet twenty students became official
members of Gamma Rho at the initiation ceremony which
was held in the Hubbel House at Mantorville, on Thursday,
March 15, at 6:30. To become a member, a student must
have participated in the activities of the Rajuco or the Jaysee Echo throughout two quarters.
The committee in charge of the     ~   "        ~
fla/in JuAsifiel Plaifd
9n Minnesota Band
program was headed by Tom
Moran. The main speaker for the
evening was Miss Ryan, social science instructor for Rochester
High School, who spent a year
as exchange teacher in England.
She stressed the type of journa'
John Zweifel, son of Mrs. Pearl
Zweifel of Rochester, will play in
the centennial  concert given  by
ism   in   England,   its  differences,    the University of Minnesota band
and spoke of some of the school     at 3 p m_ tomorrow in Northrop
papers there.
Musical selections were presented by Lois Peterson, Gloria
Frutiger, and Greta Nelson, and
Dean R. W. Goddard and Miss
Marie Matt, advisor to the organ-
auditorium on the university campus.
John is now a freshman at the
University of Minn, and plays a
French    horn    in   the   centennial
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Mane Matt, aav.sor to rne _,«_,,- ^^   ^ mapy q. ^ ^ ^
ization, spoke briefly to the old ^^ }  Q  ^ ^ ^ ^
and new members. eamed q popu|Qr nam_ for
Norma'Koplin was In charge ^ ^^^ of music and
of food arrangements and table Best of luck, John.
(Continued on page 8, col. i)
Meladtiama,   Sat.,   MateUt  10
Mystery and suspense shrouded the Central Auditorium as the
curtain rose Saturday evening on "Double Door" by Elizabeth Mc-
Fadden, the annual production of the RJC players. The scene was
the second-story living room in the ancient Fifth Avenue mansion of
the aristocratic Van Bret family.
The atmosphere was one of excitement as the household was
preparing for the wedding of Rip Van Bret, George Ploetz, fo Anne
Darrow, Gloria Frutiger, a nurse who had helped him to recover from
an almost fatal illness. Everyone but austere, commanding Victoria
Van Bret, Greta Nelson, shared Rip's and Anne's happiness. Because
Victoria felt that Anne was not worthy of bearing the Van Bret name,
she, in her hateful manner, threw every possible barrier in fhe path of
the lovers. She kept her brother constantly away on business appointments, would not offer her friendship to Anne, but kept her in
the seclusion of their own rooms, and finally, created a triangle by
bringing back Anne's former lover. The climax came in the scene
  when Victoria called in the detective, played by Bob Ripple,
whom she had hired to follow
Anne. He reported before Rip,
Anne, Dr. Sully, and the ^friend
of both the lovers, portrayed by
Tom Moran, and Victoria's lawyer, Mortimer N e f f, Mickey
Owens. The scene ended in the
laying of the death trap for
Anne.
Only two members of the
household knew about the
"double door"—Victoria and
her sister Caroline, Lois Peterson. The doors concealed
a sound-proof chamber
which their father had built
so that he might retire from
the noise of Fifth Avenue
traffic. At one time, many
years before, Victoria had
put Caroline in the chamber
as punishment, and Caroline
lived in utter terror of it
ever since. After Anne's
strange disappearance (Victoria had induced her into
the vault to get the famous
Van Bret pearls and then
had maliciously left her
there) it was Caroline who
was finally induced to tell
about the chamb' . .' nne
was found safe, and Victoria's vicious motive, were frustrated when Rip, Anne, and
Caroline left the hou;e and
Victoria with her Van Bret
shrine, and the famous
pearls.
The cast is to be congratulated
(Continued on page 8, col. 2)
g. e. AUum
Active in GUy,
County Politic*.
Rochester Junior College is
well represented by its alumni in
county and city government.
Frank G. Newhouse, a Rochester
cttorney and former JC student
in 1924 and 1925, was recently
appointed county attorney by the
county board of commissioners.
Mr. Newhouse received the unanimous vote of the five commissioners on their first ballot. After
graduating from RJC, he attended the University of Minnesota
and received his bachelor of laws
degree in 1929. He was admitted to practice in state and
federal courts on September 20,
1929, and was appointed special attorney for the state at St.
Paul. In 1945 he was appointed special municipal judge by
Governor Thye, and was re-elected to the post in 1940. In July,
1949, he formed a law partnership with Arthur R. Swan.
Thomas J. Scanlon, county
probate judge, attended Junior
College 1926-28. While a student here, he was a member of
Phi Theta Kappa, Alpha Literary
Society, and Student Council.
The present county register of
deeds, Tom Moore, is also an
alumnus of JC, attending in 1945-
49.     Lester  Stiles,   head   of  the
(Continued on page 8, col. 1)