The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 20, Number 8

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ROCHESTER,  MINNESOTA,  THURSDAY,  JANUARY  29,   1953
NUMBER  8
;inal Cast Chosen
;or College Play
"Good   Housekeeping," the  comedy  so  successful   in  the  Straw
IICircuit a few years ago, will be presented by the J. C. players
[March 20,  in the Central Auditorium.
Here is the amusing' story of Marian Burnett, mother, psycholo-
and general handywoman.    Marian, armed with her handy psy-
L0gy book, tries to solve the many problems which her family of
(patient  husband  and  two  charming  daughters   manage, to  have.
s whole family fry to  put up with Marian's over industrious per-
lality, as well  as solve a few personal and' political  problems of
I - own.    Their problems are  definitely solved  in the end with  a
Ling family argument, and as all  good stories do, the play ends
Ipiiy-
Ihe members of the delightful
rnett family will be LeRoy Hart,
the patient and dignified
|orles, Marilyn Koenig, as his
eriy ambitious wife, Marian,
line Harvey and Marilyn Ernst
[the two charming daughters,
Iristine and Katy, and Tom Con-
lily and Don Capriotti as Eddie
Nat, two very devoted lov-
sof Christine and Katy. Ken
incis will play the part of the
lliticai boss, Jim O'Neal, Gloria
lofoulias  is the  efficient  maid-
ll-work, Mary Williams will be
drum    majorette,    and    Bill
iiistopherson will  make his ap-
pance as the policeman. . The
|C. cheerleaders and pep band
iladd their talents to the play
\ parading   down   Main   Street
the   dignified   Charles   Bur-
on their shoulde-rs.
Benefit Game
Coach Joe Rockenbach and
the J. C. basketballers cleared $83.30 in their benefit
game for the March of Dimes
against Northwestern of Minneapolis. There were 194
basketball fans, who brought
in $99.20 in paid admissions.
Elshoff's Bakery of Rochester
donated $30.00, which paid
for the traveling expenses of
Northwestern. After $15.90
in taxes was withdrawn from
the gate receipts the remainder was turned over to the
"March of Dimes."
ommittee Plans
bring Calendar
|Hie  Spring   Social   Committee
ibeen chosen early so that the
pure can   go   into  the   Rajuco.
newly  chosen   committee   is:
f Rye,  chairman,  Jack  Gove,
l< Kiefer,   Sherrill   Davies,   Bill
fistopherson, Bob Toddie, Clar-
* Herzog and  Elois Ferdinandt.
Is committee will   meet  in  sev-
|l weeks to set tentative dates
lie spring parties.    The spring
("tal, a picnic and the banquet
be some of the more impor-
events  to   be   planned,   but
! committee hopes to come up
'some new and different ideas
r dances and parties during the
3 quarter.
Classes Pause
For Broadcast
Some, classes were dismissed
Tuesday, January 20, to hear the
Inaugural Speech of President
Eisenhower. For this purpose the
radio was turned on in the library as has been a customary
practice for years when an outstanding speech was broadcast.
The vpices of Mussolini, Hitler,
(translated by Miss Matt), King
Edward on his abdication from
the throne, Winston Churchill,
Roosevelt, and now Eisenhower
have been heard by students and
faculty on these occasions.
Kortz Interviewed
Mr. Phillip Kortz was interviewed by Burnie Lusk on his Sports
Program concerning the Rochester Junior College-Northwestern
Polio Benefit game held Tuesday
night, January 20th at the armory.
Robert Brown
Heads Optics
A few students know that on
January first a new member was
added to the RJC faculty. He is
Mr. Robert E. Brown, who heads
the Ophthalmic Optics course
here at RJC, to replace Mr. Don
Krebs, who has been transferred
to Bloomington, Illinois.
His optical experience came to
him the hard way. He started in
1933 as an apprentice lens grinder in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, then
from 1937 to 1938 he was at
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, where
he worked as an all-around optical lab man. Mr. Brown then
went back to Eau Claire where
he. was a resident manager. On
January 1, 1953, he came to
Rochester where he took over the
Benson Wholesale Laboratory,
and joined the RJC faculty. Mr.
Brown attended Eau Claire State
where he studied science.
Since the optics course is new
and Mr. Brown is taking over a
big job, he was asked what he
had to say about the Ophthalmic
Optics course. His answer was
that the instructors want to make
the course interesting and give
the student the type of educaion
that he expects. The perpetuation
of the course will come about
naturally, he thinks, since he expects students who have graduated from this path of study to tell
others about the school and its
benefits.
Mr. Brown is married and has
three daughters aged 16, 8, and
6. His hobbies are fishing, and
out-of-door cooking at picnics.
National Writers
To Be \Discussed
"Cultural Patterns in Literature" is the theme of a series of lectures to be sponsored by the Rochester Council of English Teachers,
in cooperation with the Rochester Evening College. Last year's series
of lectures, "Modern Life in Literature," was so popular that the English teachers this year are offering' a second series of lectures, which
will attempt to show that, though men are superficially different, there
is a basic unity in humanity which may be discovered by comparative
study of literature.
The series has been divided into four separate lectures, each
stressing one phase or one man of a particular national group and
pointing up the national peculiarities and the common tendencies of
each in relation to the other.
      February   3   —  Major   Figures   in
19th Century Russian Literature — Richard R. Marsh, Associate Professor of Humanities at Hamline University in
St. Paul, will trace the major
trends of Russian Literatures
as they appear in such great
writers as Dostoevsky and
Tolstoi.
February 17 — The German Novelist, Thomas Mann — Dr.
Frederick Pfeiffer, Associate
Professor in the German Department at the University of
Minnesota and an Authority
on the writings of Thomas
Mann and Goethe, will draw
comparisons between t h e
Faust-Idea in Thomas Mann
and in Goethe and Marlowe.
March 3 — 19th Century French
Literature — Dr. Francis Barton, Chairman of the Department of Romance Languages
at the University of Minnesota, will indicate the thought
of French Literature up to
World War I and trace its
influences on other national
literatures.
March 10 — Scandinavian Folklore — Dr. Theodore Jorgenson, Chairman of the Norwegian Department at St.
Olaf College in Northfleid,
will show how the Scandinavian culture and the people
are reflected in the folklore
of the Scandinavian countries.
Each meeting will be followed
by a discussion period, during
which the lecturer and the group
as a whole may go into greater
detail.
Tickets may be purchased from
ony member of the English Council; in the Evening Community Col-
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Grads Receive
W Scholarships
Among ten University of Minnesota students, who each received
$200 scholarships from the Nash
Foundation for the academic year
of 1952-1953, are two graduates
of Rochester Junior College,
James R. Brough, and Carl C.
Chumbley. The Nash Foundation,
inc., of Minneapolis, established
the scholarships iast August.
Both students are seniors at the
U. of M., Brough is majoring in
zoology and plans to be a science teacher following post-graduate work, and Chumbley is majoring in accounting with tentative
plans to work in the Twin Cities
after  graduating.
Committee Polls
Student: Opinion
The Merry-Go-Round Committee recently distributed a questionnaire to all J. C. students in
an attempt to test student reaction
to the Merry-Go-Round. The
questionnaire is primarily intended to find how many students do
not go to the Merry-Go-Round
and their reasons for not going.
Students are urged to air any
complaints because the results received will determine what future
action, if any, will be taken. Regardless of whether or not the
students go to the Merry-Go-
Round, it is asked that they please
fill out the questionnaire and return it to the boxes of Frank Roller or John Dreher.