The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 27, Number 1

              ELCOME   FRESHMEN!
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THE JAYSEE ECHO
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ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1959
NO. 1
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Mr. Lavine helps a freshman, Elroy Verplank, plan his program.
lurses to
Lttend JC
le male students in Rochester
Iwili be happy to learn that
Ing students from St. Marys,
le rate of approximately sev-
|a quarter will join the ranks
. students for a one-quarter,
[iaur terminal course, in chem-
taught by Mr. Wignes.
le class is to consist of four
Ires a week, plus a Saturday
ling laboratory session. About
jsfudent nurses will take the
le during the fall and winter
prs, a new group starting
(quarter. The Saturday morn-
lab session is an innovation
har, necessitated by schedule
Music Groups
Remain Active
The Rochester Junior College
Students who participated last
year in some of the small groups,
organized with the assistance of
Mr. Willard Johnson, were active
this summer, also, representing
J.C.
The R.J.C. male quartet, composed of Harold Nelson, Gary
Peters, Barry Clapper, and Charles
Caflish sang as a part of the musical entertainment to honor Mrs.
Elsie Wheelock, a Methodist Hospital employee of twenty-five
years service. The reception was
held in the Regency Room of the
Kahler Hotel.
Charles Caflish has also been
active as a soloist at various weddings during the summer months.
McKeehan Joins
College Staff
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At  the   beginning   of  another
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school year we are  increasingly
mindful of the fact that a college
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is becoming more of a necessity
in  our complex society.
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The success of any college rests
upon  the unity,  loyalty, and  integrity of its students and faculty.
For all of us, this will be a year
of new opportunities, new friends,
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and new experiences.
,T° each of you
dent, we extend  c
"W successful yec
, whether a  new' student or a  returning
)ur sincere welcome and  best wishes for
r at RJ.C.
Charles  E.  Hill,  Dean
Mr. Charles McKeehan, the new
Rajuco advisor and English instructor at the Junior College this
fall, received his B.S. Degree at
Illinois State Normal University,
a teacher's college, and his M.A.
from the University of Chicago.
He took further graduate study
in the field of American Literature
at the state University of Iowa".
Mr. McKeehan has had a great
deal of teaching experience before he came to J.C. He taught
five arid one-half years in the
Illinois public school system; four
years at Eureka College, Eureka,
Illinois, a church college; and one
year at the State University of
Iowa.
Mr. McKeehan is married and
has one child, a six-month-old
baby girl named Joy Renee.
Freshmen Oriented
To College Program
Freshman orientation week began Monday, August 31 at 8:15
with a convocation in Coffman Hall, with Mr. Singley acting as master
Of ceremonies. A welcome was extended to the students on behalf
of the School Board by Mr. Willes, president of the Board, followed
by a welcome from Dean Hill, who also explained that the purpose
of orientation week is to acquaint the new student with the college
and its machinery, to aid him in attaining good study techniques, and
to allow him to get acquainted with faculty members and fellow-
students.
New Lab to
\n Soon
Ope:
The Junior College is soon to
be blessed with a new chemistry
laboratory that will be, according
to Mr. Wignes, a great improvement.
Although the new laboratory
facilities were scheduled to be
available at the opening of the
fall quarter, due to some minor
changes that have been made,
the opening will be delayed a
period or two, at most.
The new laboratory will place
a new emphasis on the work of
the individual student, for there
are 160 individual drawers, ennobling each student to have an
assigned space of his own, and
much more room for storage than
had been previously possible.
A new design will enable elimination of the overhead pipes that
were before so great a nuisance
to both teacher and student, and
each student will have almost all
of the equipment he will be using
for most experiments right at his
desk.
This will be a great improvement over the former cramped,
crowded   conditions.
JC'ers In
Civic Play
Several people from the Junior
College participated in the Rochester Civic Theater's Summer performance, "Country Girl" by Clifford Odets.
Starring as the director of the
play, was Mr. Robert Wise, J.C.'s
(Cont. on page 5, col. 2)
The lecture for Monday was
given on the subject of "Studying
in College" by Miss Barthelemy,
one of J.C.'s English and foreign
language   teachers.
Following this lecture, group
metings were held at Which advisors further explained to the
students how to use their study
time to best advantage, and to
answer any questions that may
have arisen during the morning's
session.
Then the long siege of tests
began, with the English classification tests for those who were
required to take them, followed
by the M.S.A.T. and Cooperative
English Tests, and the special tests
for secretarial  students.
The convocation on Tuesday,
again emceed by Mr. Singley, was
an explanatory session with talks
by Mr. Paul on the Success of
Junior College Graduates; Miss
Endicott on Scholarship Expectations, Honor Societies, such as
Phi Theta Kappa and Tau Alpha
Pi, and awards,- Mr. Davis on the
counseling bureau apd veteran's
affairs,- Mr. Davis on the scholastic committee, general attitudes
and the rules concerning attendance,- and finally, an explanation
of the school health program by
Miss Weeks.
The convocation ended with a
brilliant violin solo by a Rochester
Junior College orchestra member,
Ted Caron.
Miss Matt then gave a lecture
on "Reading in College," and Mr.
Bateman, one concerning "Note
Making in College," both of which
were designed to help the student
attain good study techniques to
make the achievement of good
grades easier.
(Cont. on page 6, col. 1)