The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 20, Number 9

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TRE J AUSEE ECHO
ROCHESTER,  MINNESOTA,  WEDNESDAY,   FEBRUARY   11,   1953
NUMBER 9
^Py
irst of Lecture Series
Searches Russian Soul
In Coffman Hall, on Tuesday evening, February 3, was held the
t in the series of lectures entitled, "Cultural Patterns of Literature"
Lored by the Rochester Council of English Teachers and the Eve-
Community  College.    Th  speaker  chosen  for the evening  was
thard R. Marsh, Associate Professor of Humanities at Hamline Uni-
fcity in St. Paul.    It was he who introduced the Humanities Course
^Hamline, where he is an instructor in Russian Literature.
For his topic, Mr. March discussed Major Figures and Trends in
\\ Century Russian Literature.    He limited his topic to include the
Mature and writers between the period of the French and Russian
solution.
■The    lecture     was     centered
Bund the principal writers of this
liod, those  being  Chekov and
jorky,   dramatists;   Tui-geniev,
ptoevsky and  Tolstoi,  novelists;
fen,   and    Alexander    Block,
pis.   An interesting point in his
ftussion was devoted to the re-
ion between the topography of
'land and the trends and set-
p found in  much  of the  Rus-
P Literature.    This topography
Pgs about a feeling of "Indef-
iwess, changelessness and sta-
Ity," which   is   found   in   much
J tlie  literature   of  this   period.
|fesor Marsh  also stated  that
e hard struggle of the peasant
f existence and his violent con-
■■ with nature and. the elements
f8 the literature a  paradoxial
Fast  of   life;   love   and   hate
F^ugh opposites, are frequently
Hope Increases
For State Aid
Dean Roy Goddard, a member
of the legislative committee for
the Minnesota Association of Junior Colleges, recently attended a
meeting of the St. Paul Legislature for a second time. The
meeting was held in the interests
of legislation for state aid to junior colleges. On February 2, he
again attended another such
meeting at which the Association
gave a dinner at the St. Francis
Hotel for all members of the Senate and House Education Committees, and also- Senators and
Representatives from districts in
which junior colleges are organized.
Regional IRC
To Meet Here
The first big college convention in ten years will be held on
Friday, March 20 by J. C.'s International Relations Club. At
last Tuesday's meeting, tentative
plans were laid and several committee appointments made. Overall chairman of the event will be
John Dreher, the committees being appointed as follows: Dave
Hunt, dinner; Frank Roller, speaker; Gene Clabaugh and Don
Riess, discussion topics; and Alice
Dodge and John Edstrom, invitations and registration.
The general topic of discussion
will concern the United States new
foreign policy in the Far East.
Program plans call for two dis-'
cussion periods in the afternoon,
followed by a dinner and a
speaker. After the speech the
convention goersNvill be invited
to the Junior College dramatic
club's production of "Good
Housekeeping."
Between seventy-five and one
hundred people are expected
from Austin J. C, Winona T. C,
St. Mary's, St. Teresa, Coe of
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Grandwater
of Des Moines, Waldorf of Forest
City, Iowa, Carleton and St. Olaf.
Last year's regional convention
was held at Waldorf College in
Forest City, Iowa. Rochester students attending were Bob Too-
good, Bob Ripple, Alice Dodge,
and Donna Mathison.
iKontinued on page 6, eol. 3) (Continued on page 3, col. 4)
Statewide Workshop
Convenes at "U"
Five business instructors from
R. J. C. attended a condave February 7, at Continuation Center
on the University of Minnesota
campus.
Miss Ethel Evans, Grace Madden, Ruth Towle, Mrs. Hazel
Creal, and Mr. Philip Kortz, all
instructors in the business field at
R. J. C, attended this one-day
meeting, which was actually a
follow-up to the conference held
during the M. E. A. convention
last fall. The purpose of the
meeting was to clarify and solve
thejmany problems which confront
educators in the business and secretarial field.
(Continued on page 8, col. 3)
Tonight's Meeting
Decides Club Room
Recently the Merry-Go-Round has come into the news through
committee reports to the student council and because of the questionnaire which was distributed to the student body. At the present
time the dilemma facing the committee is a lack of support of the
entire program. Attendance figures have been so low that the Friday
night program was cancelled almost before it began. And so few
people buy their lunch there that the menu is necessarily limited and
expensive. Without a sudden drastic increase in attendance it is virtually certain that the Merry-Go-Round will not be open during the'
month of May.
However, there are several promising facts which may serve to
brighten the future. The ping pong and bridge tournaments are
well under way with quite a few people competing, there is a new
Friday night program with square dancing in the offing, and there
may soon be changes in the menu at the Merry-Go-Round.
As of Wednesday, February
4th, when the Merry-Go-Round
committee met with members of
the Y. W. C. A. board the Merry-Go-Round has a twenty-five
dollar deficit. The breakdown of
the year's finances is as follows:
income $907 from food and $312
from rent paid by the Junior College; expenses, $842 for food
purchased and $402 for the
wages of those working there.
Total income was $1,219, total
expenses, $1,244, leaving the $25
deficit. September was the poorest month of the year, showing a
$79 debt. October gave some
profit which was destroyed by a
$42 deficit in November. Since
November the Merry-Go-Round
has managed to show a slight
profit.
According to Miss Holloway of
the Y. W. C. A., the poor financial record can be blamed on
low attendance. During the school
year of' 1950-51 the average
daily attendance at fhe Merry-
Go-Round was eighty students.
Last year this slipped to about
forty-five to fifty per day and
this year the attendance fell to
between thirty and thirty-five students, in '51 the Merry-Go-Round
made a very slight profit in September but last year showed a
deficit for that month. Last year,
however, the deficit was easily
overcome by later profit. Tnis
year there have been no profits.
In order that the Merry-Go-Round
be open during May it is necessary to have a cushion of about
$175. From September to April
the Y. W. C. A. is under contract
(Continued on page 6, col. 4)
Weekly Tours
Scheduled for
Health Class
The Community Health class of
Mr. Rockenbach has planned a
series of trips in connection with
community health in Rochester.
The trips are taken from three to
five on Friday afternoons and
serve as a laboratory for the
class. The first trip that the class
took was to the Health Center
on January 16. Members of the
class made cultures of bacteria
from a fingerprint, a hair, and1
dust from the floor. They saw
how tests are made for pure water and how fhe bacteria count
is determined in milk. The students also saw slides showing the
common organisms found in water and milk.
On the second trip, the class
toured the Marigold Dairy of
Rochester. They were taken
through the laboratory and shown
how the dairies test for bacteria
in milk. Then they went through
the plant viewing the processes
that the milk must go through before it reaches the consumer.
The most recent trip was a tour
of the new sewage disposal plant.
Before starting through the plant,
they saw a chart of the new plant
and had the process explained
to them. The class was impressed by all the new equipment and
the layout of the plant. Future
trips will include St. Mary's Hospital and the State Hospital.