The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 27, Number 8

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THE JAUSEE ECHO
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ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1960
NO.  8
'ajama Game Readied for Rochester
Dress Rehearsals
To Begin Tonight
Tonight at seven p.m., Rochester Junior College's winter production, the musical comedy Pajama Game by George Abbot and
Richard Bissel enters the home stretch as the entire cast, all the
crews, and the orchestra begin their technical and dress rehearsals.
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The Pajama Game cast sparkles on "Seven and a Half Cents"
ionor Societies
list Candidates
Phi Theta Kappa, the National Junior College honor society
Bnounces the nominees for the club's 1960 initiation as follows:
Leon Bushee, Mary Busian, Gary Engal, Verdelle Enstad,
livid Harms, John Husband, Clayton Kirkland, David Kirkwood,
jilip Larson, Geraldine Morris, Sandra Bertonasco, Marion
pian, Don Opheim, and Barbara Wilson.
To be eligible for Phi Theta Kappa, the student must main-
Bn a minimum  of a  B average  in  twc  consecutive  quarters,
life carrying a minimum credit load of fifteen hours, twelve
Jwhich must be from S.L.A. courses.
Tau Alpha Pi, the national scholastic honor society for
Iminal vocational students announces the candidates for initi-
jion into the organization.
Those eligible  for  nomination  are  as  follows:
prilyn Back General   Secretarial   Finishing
pn Burrows General   Secretarial   Finishing
p Ann Busian Medical   Secretarial   Finishing
tbara Worle General   Secretarial   Finishing
ft Engal Engineering  Technology
Gaile Clerical and  Business Machines
|m Hammel Busines Administration
l"fyn Henry General   Secretarial   Finishing
lie McCarter Medical  Secretarial   Finishing
pn Pankow General   Secretarial   Finishing
!Schoonover Medical   Secretarial   Finishing
era Sellin Medical   Secretarial   Finishing
eligibility for Tau Alpha Pi is determined by grade point
*aS% for terminal courses. The organization was begun
rec°gnize the achievements of students in these courses who
Maintained a B average for two quarters.
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Avoid Pox
Smallpox vaccinations will be
given February 24 in the nurse's
office in the Central building,
room 224, it was announced February 2, by nurse, Donna Weeks.
This innoculation is another aspect of the Junior College's
Health Service. Students who
have not been protected Within
the last five years were notified
by the nurse's office.
J. C. Boosters
Nominated at
Pep Assembly
The Pep Assembly held last Friday in Coffman Hall will be remembered as one of the best
ever. Although attendance was
low, the cheering more than made
up for this. Jaycees have rarely
been so enthusiastic or yelled so
loudly—This may be due to the
fact that Dean Hill led the cheers.
Dean Hill, along with three
other faculty members, was sentenced by "Judge" Joe Brough
and his student jury to perform a
barbershop quartet number and
lead the student-body in a cheer.
Dean Hill, Mr. Lavine, and Mr.
Bateman proved to be good
sports, however, and the Pepfest
was successfully launched by their
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David Veeder,  Dave  Lostegaard  and  Joann  Hammond,  part  of
the large production crew for the show.
Pajama Game, a light, gay
musical comedy set in a pajama
factory, has very good character
parts and an excellent musical
score. Pajama Game is the biggest undertaking ever attempted
by the J.C. dramatics department,
requiring more student participation, more scene changes, and
consequently more sets.
This show will set several firsts,
since it is the first major musical
produced by the school, represents the first time a J.C. show
has ever been scheduled to be
performed two nights, and is the
first time an orchestra will be
used for the music.
Despite the magnitude of this
undertaking, which will employ
over 100 students, not counting
the orchestra, Mr. Robert O. Wise
Jr., director of the production,
said, "Progress on The Pajama
Game has been excellent. We
are where we should be in our
rehearsals, and the show has
been  progressing steadily."
When the show Pajama Game
appeared on Broadway, it set
some firsts in its own right, for it
was the first "shirt-sleeves" musical comedy ever produced successfully, in which the action is
set in an everyday American situation with ordinary people as the
principal characters.
The story revolves about the
issue of whether or not the garment workers in the factory are
going fo strike to receive a seven
and one-half cents raise from the
Sleep-Tite Pajama Company. The
characters in the order of their
appearance are as follows:
Hines, the jealous time-study
man, played by David Kirkwood;
Presz, the Don Juan president of
the labor union, played by Vern
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