The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 23, Number 10

              TRE JAYSEE ECHO
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, MARCH  2, 1956
NUMBER 10
JACKETS WIN SMJCC CROWN
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team's Win Over Concordia Students Name Cast Works
limaxes Sensational Season s°Ph Boosters
The Rocehster Yellowjackets have just completed the  most suc-
sful regulation season in history. The sensational season was diked February 25 when fhe Jackets clinohed' the SMJCC title by de-
ping Concordia, thus winning their first crown in history.
At the season's beginning, Coach Joe Rockenbach knew he had
| material for a good squad but that they might be handicapped by
; of experience. The squad was composed of local and area high
lool stars of great ability. Such players were Joe Harding, Roch-
pr High graduate and' all-conference guard in the rugged Big Nine
iference. From Lourdes Catholic state tournament team were
brds Jack Streiff and Bob Wilson. Streiff gained recognition when
Iwas picked on the all-state Catholic tournament team.    Also from
RHS team was Bill Gustine, a iegular forward of two years ago,
|ter Ron Kothenbeutel, the biggest man on the team.
Area stars included Tom Smith, a former great Eyota high school
|r.   Among Smith's feats were naming to the All-State six man foot-
team and fhe tallying of 41   points in one cage game.    From
bbashc'came Rich Gosse, who averaged upwards of 20 points a
|me hi? senior year.
j\mong the returning lettermen
e a pair  of  RHS   graduates,
rck Hanson   and   Art  DeWitz.
I ison   was    voted    captain
[his teammates  while   DeWitz
* the smallest, and fastest man
the team.
fhe Jackets opened' the season
'raveling to Mason City, Iowa
a non-conference tilt. The
jxperience and lack of playing
[ether were prevalent as the
:kets wen* down to a 72-65
'eat' Starting that first game
re Smith and Hanson at for-
rd$,   Gustine   at   center,   and
ding and DeWitz at guards.
CQUse of a badly sprained an-
Austin and RJC
To Give Concerts
The next two months are going to prove to be a very busy
time for the Junior College Choir,
as there are two big events
scheduled for the coming weeks.
The first event is the exchange
choir festival with the Austin Junior College Choir. The date for
this choir festival is March 20th,
at Central Auditorium, and March
22nd, at Austin.
The  program will  consist of a
^_^_^^^__^^^__ group of selections sung by each
Sufi     ^ BKMH3l3S!!
TCred in practice Streiff did     choir, and, at the end of the pro-
V' gram, the choirs will join together
to sing  several  arrangements  as
a mass choir.
.   The next event on schedule is
a choir tour of the high schools
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Ne*t,  the   Jackets   took   their
lnto the Iron   Range country
jjackle Hibbing  and  Virginia.
Pester  dumped   Hibbing,   the
The freshmen and sophomores
had a meeting on Wednesday,
February 22, at which they nominated sophomore students for the
Booster Cup award, which is tp
be given at the Spring Banquet.
George Joyce presided, and Ann
Armstrong was the secretary.
Nominated were: Tom Barton,
Kerry Clark, Chuck Hanson,
George Joyce, Johng Lim, and
Bob Zeller.
Tom Barton, a pre-business student, is the sophomore class president, Student Council vice-president, publicity representative to
the Post-Bulletin, and was in the
choir and on the basketball team
during 1954-'55.
Kerry Clark, a pre-forestry student, is active in Scout work, president of the Newman Club, sophomore class representative to the
Student Council, and was a member of the Echo staff in 1954-'55.
Chuck Hanson, a Business Administration student, is the captain of the basketball team, on
the Winter Social Committee, a
member of the Rajesters and the
choir, and does part-time work in
the J. C. bookstore.
George Joyce, a pre-dentistry
student, is the Student Council
president and representative at
large, member of the Winter Social Committee, a member of the
Rajesters, having been in two
productions, "Antic Spring" and
"Mrs. McThing," and a member
of Delta Psi . Omega. He also
writes the Echo Council Notes.
Johng   Lim,   a   pre-agriculture
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Day and Night
On Spring Play
Those students you see wandering about the halls in a daze
are merely the members of the
cast of the Rajesters' annual
spring play. Long rehearsals and
memorizing lines have begun to
show on the local Thespians'
youthful faces.
The play is The White Sheep
of the Family, a farce set in England in our times, with "a bit of
mystery" to enliven the proceedings. The tentative date set is
March 16; the place is the Central Auditorium; the time is 8:00
p.m.
Directed by Miss Flora McGhee, the play, or the tiny
amount of plot we could discover, is about Peter Winters, who
decides he is going to leave the
traditional family "work," but is
finally lured back into the fold.
The cast is as follows:
Roger Nelson—Mr. Winters, the
father; Romaine McKnight—Mrs.
Winters, the mother; Pat Hamilton—Pat Winters, the daughter;
Al Brauilette—Peter Winters, the
son; Gay Miller—the maid, Janet;
Mary Jo Devlin—Angela, Peter's
girl friend; Chuck Hanson—absent-minded vicar; Paul Streiff—
Commissioner from Scotland
Yard; Jim Odland—Sam Jackson,
friend of the family. Johng Lim
is working on the sets, and Kathleen Beckley is in charge of properties.
It was also divulged that the
Rajesters are contemplating inviting city policemen to the play as
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Initiation Held
For Journalists
Tuesday, February 28, the Markay Dining Room was the scene
for this year's Gamma Rho initiation and banquet. Gamma Rho
is the junior college Journalistic
Honor Society open- to all members of the Echo and Rajuco
staffs. This year's president is
Ginny Lund, Rajuco editor, and
Janice Honer is the club's secretary-treasurer.
Tuesday morning, members
were busy painting the Greek
symbols for Gamma Rho on the
foreheads of the candidates. In
the afternoon these candidates
could be found anywhere around
town performing various stunts
assigned to them for their informal initiation. Weber & Judd
was the spoi selected for a jazz
session put on by three initiates;
around the corner two others
were scrubbing sidewalk squares
with tooth brushes; Daytons was
the site for a turtle race guided
by two candidates, and the Justice of the Peace welcomed two
Gamma Rho initiates who pleaded to be married immediately and
then found themselves talking
him out of it after he consented.
Tuesday night, after a turkey
dinner with all the trimmings,
there were reports from each
group on their experiences that
afternoon, followed by the formal
initiation. Each candidate repeated the pledge and entered
his name in the club's membership book.
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