The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 21, Number 2

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THE JA1JSEE ECHO
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1953
NUMBER 2
Elaine Campion, Alice Benedett, Kathryn Joyce,  Donald Riess, Elvina Mundt, Dave Anderson, Paul
Collins, Lowell Balzum are about to tour the grain  market. 	
College Econ Classes
our Cities Plants
Wh September 17, 1953, the
Rochester Junior College Economics classes and Economics instructor, Mr. Philip Koi-tz, toured the
Minneapolis Grain Exchange. The
twenty-five members arrived at
the Grain Exchange office at
10:00 A.M., where they were ushered into the room of the board
of directors and met by Mr. Wii-
kins, assistant secretary of the association.
The fourteen members of the
board of directors are elected by
the association which is made up
of people who use the market.
The group was shown a slide
fi'lm entitled "Strictly Public,"
which explained how the Grain
Exchange operates. After this,
Mr. Wilkins took fhe group to the
visitors' balcony on the fifth floor,
which looks out over the pit and
the cash grain tables on the
fourth floor.
Everybody in the pit watched
the blackboards where girls wrote
down price quotations which they
received over headphones or from
ticker tapes that recorded prices
in various sections of the country. The price of grain influenced1
bidding in the pit. The ability
to buy or sell grain in the future
provides dealers with some "price
insurance" or hedging as it is
commonly called. Among those
who buy and sell in the pit are
"speculators." Generally they
have only private interests and
they try to buy grain when the
price is low and sell it when the
price goes up. They do this in
the future, and if the price does
not go up the speculator suffers
a loss.
After dinner in the cafeteria the
groups went to the laboratory
where grain is tested by state
employed inspectors. These men
test between eight hundred and
nine hundred carloads of grain
per week. v When a car comes
one of the men goes out with a
probe and gets a uniform sample
of the grain in fhe car. This is
then tested for germination, quality, weight, and percentage of
dockage. The results of their
tests are sent to fhe Grain Exchange where they are checked
by the company that owns the
grain.
After this the groups met in
the reception room at Munsingwear Co. The group was split
in two for this tour. The guide
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RHS Grads Lead
RJC Enrollment
The largest junior college freshman class in a number of years
has enrolled. Besides the 133
new freshmen there are 78 sophomores, a total that makes a large
student body. Most of the students
come from Rochester, but we have
a good showing of students from
surrounding towns and states.
Those from Rochester High
School include these new freshmen: Glenn Ammundson, Bonnie
Anderson, Neil Anderson, Beverly
Bailey, Catherine Baskin, Victor
Batzel, Dolores Beilke, Beverly
Berndt, Carol Birkelo, Charlotte
Blumers, Delores Brower, Robert
Brown, John Caffes, Perry Campbell, Steve Campbell, Gus Chafoulias, Richard Clabaugh, John
Coggims, Robert Coosen, Ronald
Deitschman, Robert De Witz, David Dunn, Donald Elford-, Karen
Eichinger, Thomas Erickson, James
Evans, Patricia Fahy, John Ferguson, John Haack, Sandra Harding,
Carolyn Hardke, Joe Harrop, Gerald Hortert, Gene Hawkins, Glen
Hermann, David Hilts, Mary Jane
Huntsinger, Richard Jensen, Silas
Jarvis, Gerald Jphanns, Carolyn
Johnson, Naomi Kothenbeutel,
David Kungen, Don Kruse, Idanna
Kuehn, Franklin Kvam, Ivey Lange,
Nadlne Laudon, Donald Lecy, Jim
Liegl, Arline McCue, Patricia Mc-
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Students Introduced
At General Meeting
A freshman-sophomore get-acquainted convocation was held
Tuesday, September 11, in Coffman Hal'l, with fhe highlight of the
program being the presentation of a $100 scholarship in ophthalmic
optics. Dr. Charles Sheard presented the scholarship to Clifford Lawrence who has moved here with his family from McComb, Mississippi,
to attend J. C. After the scholarship was presented, Clifford thanked Dr. Sheard and 'bis son for fhe honor, and1 the faculty for their
help through his first year at J. C. Dr. Sheard' and his son, by this
scholarship, hope to encourage other citizens in the community to
establish similar scholarships for outstanding students in various fields.
David Allison, president of fhe Rochester Lions Club, presented
a book on the Olympic Games to the R. J. C. library. Miss Merle
Ingli, college librarian, accepted- it in the name of the college.
Trophy Sparks
Mixer Picnic
A mixer picnic was held Wed1-
nesday night, September 23, at
Shady Oaks Roadside Park. It
was decided at the Sophomore
class meeting to hold this picnic
because the social committee will
not be in office until  later.
'The general chairman for the
picnic was Sherrill Davies. On
the food committee were Frank
Smith, Dick Kiefer, Rosie Moon,
Pat Cooper, and Clarice Herzog.
The transportation committee was
composed of Jack Gove and Don
Fredrickson. Bob Haueter and
Mary Williams were on the publicity committee. Beverly Honer,
Gloria    Chafoulias,    and    Elaine
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I. R. C. Club to
Visit Winona
The International Relations
Club is planning to attend a talk
to be given by Pierro Guadagnini
at St. Mary's College in Winona
on the 28th of September at 8:00
P.M. Mr. Guadagnini is the Consul General of Italy and will
speak on "Italy Today." St.
Mary's has also invited the St.
Theresa and Winona I. R. C.'s
to  attend.
Thus far Dave Waldemar, Helen Lawniczak, LeRoy Christopherson, Dewey Rasmussen, Jon
Richmond, Don Riess, Ronald
Deitschman, Joe Harrop, LaVone
Nelson, Sherrill Davies, Mary
Williams, Dave Dunn and Mr.
Walter Bateman are planning to
attend.
MR. SINGLEY, the chemistry
professor and also the faculty
member with the longest service
at J. C, introduced the newest
faculty member, who is here for
his first year after serving as
Dean of the Creston, Iowa J. C,
DEAN CHARLES E.  HILL.
Dean Hill expressed his pleasure at being a member of a college that has as high standards
and which is as widely recognized
as ours. Three main points which
he brought out for the success of
the students' education were:
study, co-operation, and understanding.
The program presented a fighter note with a roll call being taken to determine the high schools
from which the students have
come. The Rochester High School
and Lourdes graduates constitute
the majority of the enrollment of
fwo hundred and thirty-six.
Twelve students are from Olmsted
County, but out of Rochester,
while other Minnesotans numbered twenty-two.
Bags of candy were given to
the following: Dave "Wiener"
Wernecke, tallest man (6' 5"; to
Polly Sorida, shortest girtl, (4'
7%"), and also for being the
greatest distance from home, Hawaii; to Bob Egge, for living the
shortest distance from school; to
Don Ray, Margaret Lee, Sue Rye,
for their three-letter name:; to
LeRoy Christopherson, for the
longest name, and to six married
students. The prizes were distributed by Frank Smith and Mary
Williams.
Dave Sperling, fhe president of
fhe student council, acted as master of ceremonies.