The Jaysee Echo (Rochester, Minnesota), Volume 27, Number 14

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RocAedtek JJmmwsi College
THE JAYSEE ECHO
ME XXVII
ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1960
NO. 14
nnual Banquet Attracts 325
Students and Guests
Honor Awards Winners
At Spring Banquet
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AWARD WINNERS — Eileen Pankow, Recognition;  Dick Edwards, Activities Parties
pation; Dave Bozikowski, Booster Cup; Warren Litynski and Eloise Mieras, Golden R's.
' - Clinic Meetings     Jansen to Join
lovide Work Program J-C Fall Faculty
pter Junior College and
TPy° Clinic personnel have
(ing on a plan to re-
Ke students here, to im-
|£ offerings through clinic
Y and personnel, and to
^nd maintain good rela-
|s between the college and
objectives   will   be   at-
thr°ugh scholarships offer-
,he Clinic in the form of a
Iative education program in
which the Clinic will employ medical and general secretarial students part time, besides having
representatives speaking to high
school groups.
A specific program will be
started in fhe fall at a conference
for principals and counselors from
about 100 high schools. A similar
conference for commercial teachers will be held later next year.
Representatives will also schedule
visits with high school groups.
R.J.C. will have a new instructor in its teaching department
starting fall quarter when Leonard Jansen, a Social Studies
teacher at LeSueur High School
will teach history, psychology,
sociology and geography.
Mr, Jansen is a graduate of
Mankato State College, obtaining
his Bachelor of Arts degree there,
and his master of arts from the
University of Minnesota.
The Annual Junior College
Spring Awards Banquet was held
Thursday, May 2dj at 6:15 p.m.
at the Elizabethan and Royal
Coach Rooms of the Kahler Hotel,
with 325 students, faculty members and  guests attending.
Ron Smith 'acted as master of
ceremonies for the affair, and
Earle Lewis opened the evening's
activities with the traditional candle-lighting ceremony, passing
the light, symbol of guidance and
leadership to JoAnn Williams,
head candlelighter in the name
of Truth, Culture, and Knowledge.
JoAnn then passed the light to
the other candlelighters, Doris
Wilkins, Carol Osmundson, JoAnn
Hammond, JoAnn Sargent, Sandra Sawinski, Diane McCarter,
Blake Smyth, Judy Whiting, Dianne Hammond, and Jan Larson.
Miss Marie Matt then presented
the Activities Participation Award
to Dick Edwards, saying, "this
whirlwind swept into Junior College, and dust hasn't settled yet."
She praised Dick for the enthusiasm he has exhibited, founded
on loyalty. Among the activities
that Dick has participated in are
Rajesters, Delta Psi Omega, I.R.C,
writer and assistant editor of the
J.C.   Echo,   member • of   Gamma
Rho,   and   set   designer   of   Teahouse of the August Moon.
Mr. Leonard Davis, of the J.C.
counseling bureau led the prayer,
and Ted Caron played a violin
solo, Czardas.
Dean Hill gave the greeting,
saying that this has been the
most outstanding year in the last
six years as evidenced by the
following: The highest enrollment
in the history of the Junior College, with 725 daytime students,
an increase of 144% since 1953;
full accreditation from the North
Central Association; the outstanding J.C. Echo of the last six years,
as evidenced by the Columbia
Scholastic Press Association's recognition; the J.C. production, Pajama Game; the largest choir in
J.C. history; the outstanding student council; the fact that the
council of the N.C.A. has chosen
Rochester for its meeting place
next October; J.C, the first chapter in Minnesota of the Minnesota
Society of Professional Engineers;
the article by Dick Edwards and
Dave Kirkwood appearing in the
June issue of Seventeen magazine; and the Y.M.CA. scholarships given to J.C. students this
year for the first time.
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