The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 24, Number 1

              J. C.'s faculty: Top row, from left to right: Louise Barthelemy, Walter Bateman, Mrs. Hazel Creal, Leonard Davis, Mable Dickinson, Karl Dubbert, Alice Endicott,
Ethel Evans, Mary Goette, Emil Heintz, Merle Ingli; bottom row: Philip Kortz, Flora McGhee, Grace Madden, Marie Matt, Jerry Paul, Dean Charles Hill, Paul Rockenbach, Charles Singley, Sidney Suddendorf, Ruth Towle, William Walton.
arly Figures
Ihow Increase
Freshmen
|arious   reports  show that  as
August 29,   165  new students
been accepted at Rochester
lor  College.     As   classes   be-
on September   10,  fhe  num-
doubtlessly will  have chang-
[considerably.
week ago, the top four en-
nent coursese were as follows:
| engineering;   second,   Busi-
Administration,-   third,    Pre-
Icarion,   and   fourth,   Medical
retarial.     The . breakdown   on
■the courses was as follows:
pence,    Literature    and    the
6; Pre-agriculture  and  for-
\, 2; Pre-business, 5; Pre-edu-
pn,   18;   Pre-engineering,   30;
2;  Pre-medicine  (includ-
Identistry), 6; Pre-business, 19;
■ness   Machines,    1;    General
fical,   0;   General   Secretarial,
Senerai   Secretarial   Finishing,
Medical Secretarial,  13; Medl-
I Secretarial  Finishing, 4;  Pre-
Inalism,   3;   Pre-medical   tech-
pgy, 7*; Pre-physical education,
gineering   Technology,   11;
occupat'onal Therapy, 1; Pre-
I Medicine, 1; General, 10; oth-
3.
Ihe students enrolled  in these
Irses include  19 from  Lourdes
§i School  and 71 from  Roch-
V High School.
here are also  many • students
the   following   surrounding
and villages:-
Itewartville,   Elgin,   Eyota,   St.
Pries,   Byron,    Dodge   Center,
Island,  Spring  Valley,   Har-
h, Ortonville, Beardsley, West
rcord,  Grand Meadow, Wan-
|igo, Houston, Mantorville, Red
J3/ Faribault, Owatonna, Fron-
|Qc.. Wood Lake, Lake City, St.
Preston.
Jur of state students include
|se from Alma, Eau Claire, and
|m City, Wisconsin; Cresco, Em-
l^urg, and Riceville, Iowa; Cops, Ohio; Joliet, Illinois; Mar-
II, Missouri; Trenton, New Jer-
RocUe&tei JJumaxvi GoUeqe
THE JAUSEE ECHO
VOLUME XXIV
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA,  FRIDAY,  SEPTEMBER  7,  1956
NUMBER 1
At the beginning of another school year we would remind
ourselves that a college exists only for fhe students.
Rochester Junior College must be evaluated in the terms
of what it does for its student body. Students in turn need to
grasp a realization of the vast opportunities which are available
to them through a college education, as in the words of Wood-
row Wilson, "You cannot educate a man; he must do that for
himself."
What has been accomplished here in the past has been
made possible through the cooperation and loyalty of our students and faculty, supported by the Board of Education and
the citizens of Rochester.
GkadeA- &. Jfdl
Engineering Technology Course
Revised After Consultations
Since the inception of the Engineering Technology course in
1949-50, the opportunities and demands for engineering technicians
have changed considerably. In recent years the faculty has been
studying the program with the idea of developing a course more in
keeping with present demands. To assist them in their thinking they
enlisted professional engineers and business and industrial leaders
in positions directly related to engineering. Meetings with these
people and with representatives of such concerns as Honeywell culminated this study and .resulted in definite recommendations and the
following revised course of study.
FRESHMAN   YEAR
English 11-12-13 or
English  51-52-53
Drawing 13
Drawing  15
Drawing   17
Mathematics  61-62-63*  or
Mathematics  5-8-9*  or
Mathematics  11-12-17*
Mathematics  10**
Chemistry   5-6  or
Chemistry 11-12
Engineering 7
Orientation  5
Freshman  Composition  or
Communications
Engineering Drawing
Descriptive  Geometry
Applied Engineering Drawing
Math, or Engineering Technology
Higher Algebra & Math. Analysis
College Algebra and Trigonometry
and  Analytic  Geometry
Computation and Problems Lab.
Intro.   Gen.  Inorg,   Chem.  or
General  Inorganic  Chemistry
Engineering   Orientation
Freshman   Orientation
Electives
Credits
W
3
5
S
3 or
5
3
5 or
5 or
5
16-18
17-19 16-18
SOPHOMORE    YEAR
Credits
F
W.       S
Physics 31-32-33
General Physics
5
5        5
Engineering   81-82-83
On-the-Job  Training
4
4        4
Drawing   35
Applied Descriptive Geometry
2
Drawing  36-38
Industrial  Drafting1
2        2
English 81
Business Communications
3
Business 61-62-63
Elementary   Accounting
2
2        2
Secretarial 21***
Beginning   Typewriting
1
or 51-52-53
Business  51-52
Introduction to Business Machines
2        2
ICont
mued on page 4, col. 5)
17      15      15
'Mathematics, requirement will depend on high school experiences and mathematics
aptitude of the student.
♦•Students  enrolled  in  Mathematics  61-62-63  will  delay  enrollment in Mathematics
10 until sophomore year.
***Not  required   of  students   with   high   school   credit  for  typewriting.
Orientation Week Features
Lectures to Help Frosh
To orient is to acquaint oneself with the existing situation, according to Mr. Webster. And, according to the faculty of Rochester
Junior College, Freshman Orientation' Week is to help the new students of the Concrete Campus become accustomed to college life.
This week is preparing freshmen for the year ahead—studies, exams,
library work, and socid life.
This week, September 4 through 7, devoted entirely to incoming
students, has been co-chairmened by Miss Endicott and Miss Towle.
They and their committee prepared the Freshman Orientation Booklet,
subtitled a Guide for Freshmen. In it are found letters from the
faculty, Dean Hill, and the President of the Student Council, a "Spar-
row's-Eye View of RJC," explanations of the Student Council's duties,
library rules, useful data on reading, a basketball schedule, school
yells, and The Yellowjacket Song.
The program of the week included classes in. Notemaking, by
Mr. Bateman, Budget of Time, by Mr. Paul, Reading, by Miss Matt,
and How to Study, by Miss Barthelemy. To simplify this week's procedures, students were given a colored tag—blue, green, red, or yel-
'low, to indicate the group to which they were assigned for lectures.
The various activities of RJC were explained by sophomore students
and faculty advisory—I. R. C, drama, the Echo, the Rajuco, sports,
honors, honor and journalistic societies, the health program, and the
counseling bureau department.
At the first convocation on
Tuesday, September 4, Student
Council President Jim Haueter,
Dean Hill, the President of the
School Board, and the Superintendent of Schools greeted the
freshmen. The rest of the day
was filled with registration and
the extensive testing' program—
the Iowa Reading Tests, the English Classification Tests, A. C. E.,
and Cooperative English Tests.
Each day of the week began
with a convocation, with Mr. Singley as master of ceremonies, at
which announcements were made
and explanations of school activities were given. The rest of
the days were filled with classes,
reglstiation by appointment, and
purchasing   of   books,
(Continued on page 4, col. 5)
Your Bookstore
Aids Activities
The bookstore, managed by
Mr. Rockenbach, is run for the
students. Both new and used
books are sold there, and the
students may sell their books
back to the bookstore at the end
of a quarter or the end of the
year.
The profit made in the bookstore, which was $2,000 in the
1955-1956 school year, goes into
the Student Activity Fund.
Mr. Rockenbach urges the
freshmen to get their books early. The bookstore has a list of
the books needed for all classes.