Elizabethtown College - Conestogan / Etonian Yearbook (Elizabethtown, PA)

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October ' s end of our year was X ull harder, you landlubbers! cries a red-faced sophomore, his hands gripping tightly the taut rope. His classmates sink their feet into the earth, grit their teeth, heave, and jerk the rope in violent frenzy. Suddenly we hear the splash of water across the corner of Lake Placida. The freshmen have been pulled in! Sides are exchanged and the tug- o ' -war goes on. Now the sopho- mores are defeated. Which team will win the final match? The annual tug-o ' -war is the main feature of Homecoming Day. If the freshmen win they are no longer required to wear their dinks. This fact is an unques- tionable stimulus to vigorous and determined frosh. Another important annual event is the All-College Players ' production. Organized three years ago the Players is an in- dependent dramatic group, de- riving its membership from both faculty and students. It is not unusual to see Dr. Apgar portray- ing a Hebrew ruler or Mrs. Heil- man as an irreconcilable woman, while the students play equally important roles. K. Ezra Bucher and Mrs. Herr serve as directors; Dr. Stambaugh is ingenious in providing properties. Everyone enthusiastically performs his du- ties. The ensuing fel 1 wship between students and fcculty is reason enough for the existence of the organization. However, the fact that all profits are put into a fund for improving campus facili- ties is a more valid one. With each year the Players ' popularity increases. We are proud of their achievements. While the Committee on Men ' s Affairs has nothing to do with dramatics, they do function in a valuable capacity. It is their duty to solicit the administration ' s aid in providing improvements for the men ' s dormitories, to act as in- termediaries in problems created by men students, and to make campus life more pleasant. Each year the men students elect six members to the com- mittee. Headed this year by Bob Allison, they have made an im- pressive record. Sophomores losing ground in the second try as they inch toward the lake on Homecoming Day. They lost two tries out of three to the freshmen. Arlene Reinhold, Julius Belser, Prof. Carl Heilman, and Dr. Bessie Apgar in a scene from The Rock , All- College Players production. Adina, her husband, Simon Peter, and her mother, Deborah, greet her uncle Ucal (seated). Robert Allison, chairman of the Committee on Men ' s Affairs, shares a student cartoon with Lane Shank, Gerald Roland, John Bolton, Paul Rice, and Nelson Kline, members of the committee, before the Alpha Hall bulletin board. 27

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By the routine well defined. och Wednesday evening the call of the organ amplified from the Memorial Tower reminds us to put aside our studies for awhile and refresh our spiritual selves at the meeting of the Stu- dent Christian Association. These hours of fel- lowship pass quickly as we meditate, worship, discuss questions on Christianity, and listen to the ideas and beliefs of others. Other hours of time out for us are spent at the college store. Our stor e is more than just a place where the hungry may obtain choco- late milk and Mrs. Smith ' s pie between classes. Here the men receive letters from sweethearts and checks from the family. The table in the corner is used as a polling place for campus elections. Why go uptown when here we can get anything from textbooks to toothpaste? Theory becomes reality for senior education majors as they travel to neighboring public schools to take over the classrooms for a new concentrated eight-week period. Situations once discussed in class and studied in textbooks develop as the prospective teacher meets the children in actual classroom experiences. Student Christian Association of- ficers plan a cabinet meeting agenda. President Alan Whitacre checks plan for commissions as Jean Roland, secretary, Paul Rice, treasurer, and Levi Zeigler, vice- president, assist. Mrs. Ellen Howell, manager of the college store, sells a textbook as Christine Buccieri, at the cash register and Shirley Young, at the cooler, both student assistants, wait on Merrill Leonard, Larry Adair, Harry Thomas, Lucy Mussel- man, and Paul Rice. Prof. Elmer Hoover briefs elemen- tary and secondary student teachers on professional ethics. Listening at- tentively are John Bolton, Dorothy Oxenford, Lamar Gibble, Janice Croman, Richard Shupp, and Arden Benfield. 26

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Nation and David Newcomer, business manager of the Conestogan, assigns advertising territory to senior members of the business staff. William Bausman covered Middletown. Peggy Walzl and David Ebersole covered Lancaster city. Planning the November 4 campus election are Political Science Club members Robert Allison, Jay Frey, and Shirely Deihl, presi- dent of the club. Assisting are Shirley Junkin, freshman, and Elizabeth Boeger. Jean Roland, Robert Allison, Peggy Walzl, and Shirley Diehl watch the polls in the college store on election day. All voters had registered earlier and were checked as they came to vote. I n this country the people share a voice in governmental affairs. Usually, however, they are content to allow politicians to do their thinking. The problem of under- standing the plan and the functions of our government and of realizing the methods and techniques utilized by political parties is seldom the concern of the masses. Our Political Science Club alleviates a fraction of this lethargy. By learning parliamentary procedure, by attending the Intercollegiate Conference on Government, and by par- ticipating in political situations club members prepare for improved citizenship. , Preparation of another sort goes into each yearbook. From the first photograph to the last caption the job is a tedious but rewarding one. A primary problem is provid- ing necessary finances. Part of the cost is covered through the activities fund, while the rest is left in the hands of the business staff. From store to store they go pleading and entreating, begging and enticing prospective advertisers. They may often be turned down and sometimes discouraged, but they always meet their quota of advertisements. 28