Butler Community College - Grizzly Growl Yearbook (El Dorado, KS)

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Gri nzz row COLLEGE ANNUAL Early in the fall a vote taken by the student body showed a large majority in favor of publishing an annual. In November, therefore, the College Student Coun- cil chose Max Nixon for editor-in-chief of the Grizzly Crowl. In addition to capable and careful editing Max has done all of the art work for this book in his usual inspired manner. At the same time the council appointed Ruth Creswell as assistant editor and Frank Ellis as business mamager. Pe.ggy Smith ond Harley Holecek were selected lat er. Miss Milford was the sponsor. Other teachers and students whose contributions have helped to make this annual a success are Dean Walker, Keith Allen, June Speechly, John Stackley, Dick Hudson, Danny ' Lewis, Janet Courtright, Virgil Tyler, Wayne Tarman, Maxine Walker, Howard Belew,, Marjorie Neumann, Mildred Hughes, Mr. Mossman, ' Smitty Baker, and Gordon Davis. After looking at the many fine annuals which have been published before, the members of the Annual Staff felt that they must work with all their might to have a book which could be termed a little better than the average. Regardless of the handicap of our crowded condition, E.J.C. has had a won- derful year. We have had our ups and downs; our bad days and our good; we have succeeded, and at times we have failed; never-the-less we can surely say that this year has been one of the most successful years for E.J.C. When viewed in retrospect the past nine months present a pleasing picture of well rounded student achievement, and it is this picture which the annual staff has tried to preserve for you. — P.S. M. Nixon, F. Ellis, R. Creswell, H. Holecheck, P. Smith

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Student ounci The student Council is that student-governins body of the school that has remained so silent (so very silent) concerning its actions on making the college a better place to spend our leisure time . But since there isn ' t much bettering to be done, could we expect them to be so dreadfully active — definetely no. Each semester three members from each class are elected to serve for one semester. These, to- gether with the class president and the student president, compose the membership. The presi- dent of the Sophomore class presides while the president of the Freshmen class acts as secretary. The council ' s power is mostly that of recom- mendation, having little legislative authority — some ironical person would probably say none. However the council has passed on a great many of school problems, and on other plans for the betterment of the school. One of the outstanding plans which the council has taken up had to do with the building up of better school spirit. The council had a committee study this problem. The recommend ations from this committee set forth that better school spirit could be accomplished through the cooperation of all organizations and the school paper, as well as the individuals in the school. For the first semester these were the members of the council: Dorothea Bear, John Stackley, and Frank Ellis represented the sophomore class,- while Gordon Cary, Caroline Lindenbaum, and Bill Rice represented the freshmen. Dick Hudson acted as presiding officer and Bob Steiger as secretary. The second semester membership was changed to the following: Kenneth Secrist, Marjorie Gibson, and June Speechly representing the Sophomores, while Smitty Baker, Clarence Borger, amd Dorothy McCully represented the Freshmen. Gerald Groves acted as president, while Clarence Borger acted as secretary. Howard Belew was elected Student President at the beginning of the schoool year. The duties of this office are to represent the school at any time, and to serve as toastmaster at the spring banquet. For advice on troubling situations and problems the council resorted to their sponsors, Miss Beuchat, Dean Walker, and Mr. Shumway. Back row: J. Stackley, M- Baker, D. Hudson, H. Belew, G. Cary, J. Borger, B. Steiger, F. Ellis, C. Borger. Front row: K. Secrist, D. McCully, C. Lindenbaum, G. Groves, M. G ' bson, J. Speechly, Miss Beuchat, sponsor.

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Gri nzz COLLEGE PAPER rowls The Grizzly Growl is the official school paper, published weekly with the exception of Christ- mas week. This year the staff has been quite large; they have worked hard to make every paper a success. Clark Owens has been a very able and efficient editor throughout the year. Ruth Cres- well acted a-s assistant editor first semester while Peggy Smith served as assistant second semester. Mr. Nixon held the position as chief boss, putting in and extracting news and gossip here and there. While almost all of the staff members were without previous experience, several persons were found who were quite proficient in news gathering and writing various features and columns. Jack Stoltz wrote a column, similar to that of O. O. Mclntyre, called EJ.C. Week by Week; items of school interest were commented upon and random thoughts were jotted down. Ruth Creswell (with the aid of others who told her the happenings from time to time) managed to compile the well-known column called Sweep- ings. Throughout the year Gertie ' s column held the high point of interest. — Why, as soon as the papers were out everyone got theirs to see if they had not been casually mentioned, or mentioned perhaps in a still more abrupt manner. Besides the work of writing news, the paper was instrumental in getting the opinion of the students on various subjects such as school dances. These votes were considered as indices of the school opinion by the board of education. The staff is very proud to have had several scoops . The play casts of both Pi Delta Theta plays have been announced for the first time in the News. The write up of the fall play appeared in the Grizzly Growls before any other paper obtained it. Since the paper is put out weekly it is quite hard to get a scoop. Another Im- portant scoop was that of both sponsoring and giving out the first notices of the winners of the Juco King and Queen. Toward the end of every year the staff spen 1 : nights and nights working on the souvenir edition, containing some fifteen pages devoted to the Grizzly Growls. So all in all the staff bids you adieu by Thanks a Million for your support. K. Locke, J. Stoltz, J. Courtright, H. Belew, M. Nixon, M. Neuman, V. Tyler, W. Tarman, R. Creswell, C. Owens, P. Smith