Manchester College - Aurora Yearbook (North Manchester, IN)

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The Oak Leaves Staff All the news that ' s fit to print, so saith Oak Leaves. And some they make up is what people might add who have read that they have done something they weren ' t aware of hav- ing done. Mrs. Sadie I. Wampler has been directing successful senior plays for so long that no one else would dare try. Christmas would not be Christmas in North Man- chester without her pageant. 28

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Oncjllsk Fred R. Conkling is Deer Teechur to most freshmen. He is their class adviser and has to be initiated each year. His pet lady friend, next to Mrs. Conkling, is Miss Min- nie Mum Essentials. He knows a lot about grammar, Fred. R. Conkling, A.M. too. Rabbits and Refuge are his specialties. One of the playwrights on our faculty is Professor Lloyd Hoff who dashes plays off in his free moments. Music is another love of his Lloyd M. Hoff, Ph.D. Theme Returned R . C. Wenger, B.D., A.M. The M. E. M. Board which he follows by playing a viola in the string ensemble. Green ties are Professor R. C. Wen- ger ' s favorites. Maybe that ' s due to the fact that he teaches freshman comp. He is an authority on children ' s poems and spends a lot of time collecting them. He used to teach the Bible courses here so that accounts for his interest in that field. He is adviser to the Volunteers. 27

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Sadie Stutsman Wampler, A.M. Vernon Van Dyke, A.M. Pageantry Class In the fall she has her pageantry class write and give a pageant, and in the spring the play production class gets their turn at being directed by her. Life is just one play after another to her. Costumes are important to the suc- cess of a play, but the way she can take a scrap of material and a bit of ribbon and have something elegant when she is done, seems miraculous. Prof. Van Dyke is the Karl Marx of our faculty. The reason is that he ' s Speech Class The Costume Room just been out of college a few years, and he is working on his doctor ' s degree from the University of Chicago. His speech classes give after-dinner talks, hold ban- quets consisting of apples only, discuss weighty mat- ters, get into the warmest arguments, and enjoy them- selves immensely.