The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 22, Number 12

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THE J AUSEE ECHO
lUME XXII
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1955
NUMBER  12
FTA Meeting
|emed Successful
ie FTA convention with the
n Junior College and the
jester Junior College group,
March 15, at Rochester, was
ssful in its purpose to help
nts interested in teaching
letter understand the prob-
of young teachers.
ie meeting started with region and a tour of RJC. At
the groups convened to hear
Ik by Melvin Voxland, prin-
|l of Rochester Junior High,
purpose  of  his talk  was  to
up the topics  which   were
ined    to     four     discussion
ips.   These topics were: how
ige students  may encourage
Est in teaching and  FTA or-
pations   among   high   school
community   groups,   current
Jems of teacher certification
preparation,  personal  quali-
[ions   needed   for   successful
er training  and experience,
present day opportunities in
leld of teaching.    The groups
reconvened to hear reports
fie discussions.
dinner meeting was held at
find's from 5:30 to 7:00.    Mr.
Christian,   director  of  ele-
ary education   in   the   Roch-
public schools, spoke on
portunities in Elementary Ed-
jon." A question and answer
Pn followed in which interest-
and useful information on
subjects as prospects for men
lementary teaching, oppor-
jes for advancement in ele-
[Qry teaching, methods used
« teachers in their work, and
views with prospective teachware brought up and dis-
[d.
pmbers of the Rochester club
! helped arrange the meeting
|Mary Jane Huntsinger, Janet
p. Sandra Harding, Char-
llumers, Janice Honer, Dave
fer- Roger Rood, Don Kruse,
Waldemar, Carol Boyum,
I ^strong, Victor Batzel, and
h v°n Osten.
r Rockenbach and Mrs. Creal
l°dvisors for the chapter.
Activities Begun By
Honor Society Chapters
Eight Junior College students
have been elected charter members of the Epsilon Chapter of
Tau Alpha Pi, a national scholastic honor society for terminal
and vocational students. Only
those students who place in the
upper 10 per cent of all students
enrolled and maintain a "B" average are entitled to membership.
The students elected charter
members at the meeting Monday,
March 21, are: Kathleen Beckley, general secretarial finishing;
Mary Fuchs, medical secretarial
finishing; Gloria Klingsporn, medical secretarial finishing; Eloise
Koelsch, medical secretarial finishing;    Idanna    Kuehn,    medical
(Continued on page 4, col. 5)
Omicron Chapter of Phi Theta
Kappa Society, National Junior
College Honor Society, will have
its regular dinner meeting this
spring, followed by a formal induction of newly elected candidates into the society.
Induction into this society is the
highest scholastic honor that a
Junior College student can receive. To be inducted into the
society a candidate must maintain a B average and carry fifteen hours, of which twelve must
be in the Science, Literature, and
Arts. Members must also maintain this high average throughout
their Junior College course to retain membership in the society.
Students recently elected to the
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George Joyce Elected
55 Council President
George Joyce, a freshman in pre-dentistry, won the election for
student council president for 1955-56. George, better known as
"Squirt," met strong competition in the primary race from Bill Tervo
and Tom Barton. Barton and Joyce competed, March 23, in the final
election which was reported to be a very close one.
At the nominating convocation     	
March 18, seven nominations
were presented which included
Tom Barton, Ray Bush, Sharon
Hammond, Janice Honer, George
Joyce, Bill Tervo, and Bob Zel-
ler. Four of these students declined because of insufficient time
or the probability of not being
at RJC next year. The meeting
closed with Tom Barton, George
Joyce and Bill Tervo as candidates.
The primary election was held
Monday, March 21, with Barton
and Joyce receiving the most
votes. The final election was
held Wednesday, March 23.
Don Kruse, this year's student
council president, presided at the
meeting, and Mary Jane Huntsinger, council secretary, recorded the nominations.
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State Award Won
By Future Student
Peggy O'Neil of Rochester High
School, who plans to attend
Rochester Junior College, scored
the highest among local high
school girls in the "American
Homemaker of Tomorrow" tests
conducted in January. She will
now be entered in competition for
the state's Homemaker of Tomorrow title and $1,500 scholarship,
and if successful, will be national
candidate for a $5,000 scholarship. For her local achievement,
she receives a gold award pin
and cook books for herself and
her school.
Peggy O'Neil plans to take up
nursing, and after attending RJC,
she is going to become a nurse.
George  "Squirt"  Joyce
Talent Festiva
Set for April
Saturday evening, April 23, the
second annual Talent Festival will
be held in Central auditorium.
Attending the festival will be five
junior colleges: Bethany, Concordia, Austin, Worthington and
Rochester. Last year the festival
was held at Concordia in St.
Paul.
The festival will commence at
7:00 p.m. and is open to the
public. Each school will present
a program about one-half hour
in length, which will include choir
numbers, speeches, dramatic presentations, or anything else that
they wish to present.
Following the festival, refreshments will be served in the cafeteria to the students who participate. Arrangements for the refreshments are being made by
the Secretarial Club.
Hosts and hostesses for the
evening are: Sandra Harding and
Jim Evans for Austin; Don Kruse
for Concordia; Roger Ranfranz,
Worthington; Sharon Hammond,
Bethany.
The Talent Festival is sponsored by the student council. Mary
Jane Huntsinger is handling the
publicity for the festival.
Choir Presents
Easter Cantata
The Rochester Junior College
choir, under the direction of Mr.
Sidney Suddendorf, presented a
cantata, "The Seven Last Words
of Christ" by Theodore Dubois
on March 30 in Central auditorium.
Soloists were Dorothy Lofgren,
soprano; Jim Evans, tenor; Alan
Heath, and Raymond Bush, baritone.
The choir was accompanied by
an orchestra consisting of Junior
College students, faculty members and high school students.
Students from JC participating in
the orchestra were Beatrice Sandum, Carol Orpen, Perry Campbell, Roger Rood, Carol Boyum,
and Sharon Fountain. Faculty
members were Theodore Bronson,
Richard Guy, Larry Goodrick, and
Karl Dubbert. Musicians from
the high school in the orchestra
were Ruth Ann Huntsinger, Pam
Brown, Nancy Clagett, Ann Ol-
sen, Barbara Clagett, Marilyn
Prickman, Alison Keith, Joyce
Carter, Donna Larson, Lila Williams, Paul Brinson, Tom Keyes,
and Nancy Streifert.
The choir members are James
Ackerman, Carlene Anderson,
Beverly Bailey, William Barnes,
Neal Barton, Barbara Betts, Charlotte Blumers, Charles Bond, De-
lores Brower, Kay Brown, Robert
Brown, Paul Clayson, Martha
Cooke, Robert DeVries, Art DeWitz, Thomas Erickson, Frank
Evangelist, Barbara Fischer, Doris
Fossum, Richard Foster, Patricia
Haggerty, Patsy Hamilton,
Charles Hanson, Harlon Hebig,
Janice Honer, Lowell Hovren,
AAary Jane Huntsinger, Lu Ann
Iverson, Richard Jensen, Mary
Kieffer, Gloria Klingsporn, Don
Kruse, Loey Mae Lange, Virginia
Lund, Konstant Mamasis, Daphne
McDonnough, Patricia Moe, Carole Myhre, Janet Nelson, Jerome
Pribyl, Patricia Roland, Margaret
Rolfs, June Simso, William Tervo,
Charles Willing, Mary Zeek and
David Ihrke.