Modesto Junior College - Buccaneer Yearbook (Modesto, CA)

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Buccaneer I936 Page 77 CLUBS STAGE ACTIVE YEAR ArT,.Hammurabi and Scribblers' Groups are Formed, Club AcTiviTies are Excep+ionaIly EvicIenT AT Noise Paracle and Annual Spring Frolic. BUSY ORIGINATORS OF CLUB ACTIVITIES . . . STanding, Louis, Day, Crow, Chow, McCauley, Vlach, Reuss, Bowles, Frederikseng kneeling, Drake, Koehn, Websfer, Turner, Nunes' seafed Porfer, Lilley, Clip er, Taylor, Glock, Kizer, Jeffers, Libby, Klick By RAY MINNERS The pasT year has been marlced by an increasing amounT oT club acTiviTy on The campus, wiTh The TormaTion oT several new ones, and oThers rising To new heighTs oT accompIishmenT and service. New clubs which have been or- ganized are The Scribblers', The I-lammurabi and The ArT club. The College Players presenTed a Three-acT play, Journey's End and various one-acTs in The Cellar TheaTer and many high schools. The Lambda Alpha raised a scholarship Tund Tor a music sTu- denT. Radio programs over KTRI3 and The NBC neTworlc have 'been sponsored by The BroadcasT club. An assembly program and weelcly evenTs have been sponsor- ed by Th Alpha Gamma Sigma. The YIVICA and YWCA presenT- ed a ChrisTmas -program aT The PirsT MeThodisT Church. The ArT club has designed over 600 posTers Tor acTiviTies and made The seT Tor The Opera. Messages To all parTs oT The world have been senT by The Radio club. BoTh The BeTa Phi and The I:oresTry club have Talcen Trips. Dancing lessons were given by The ParTheneia. A ChrisTmas chariTy drive was insTiTuTed by The I-Iome Ec. A nighT club parTy was held by The Press and Camera clubs.

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Page 76 Buccaneer I936 CAMPUS SPEAKERS WIN HONORS Phi Rho Pi, Honorary Debafing SocieTy, EnTerTains Campus Wi'l'h ln'l'eresTing Weekly Noon Deba'l'es. Typical Subiecf, Resolved, a Hale ln The Sfocking ls Be'H'er Than a Shiny Nose. TWO MONTHS EQUAL ONE DEBATE . . Sfanding, Alice Frederiksen, Lois Drake, Mary Vincenfg seaTed, Dean McCauley, Carolyn Nelson, Theodore Olson. By MARGARET VINCENT A progressive sTep in debaTing was Taken This year in The Toren- sics deparTmenT by The Training oTa larger-group oT speakers Than usual. Emphasis was placed on boTh inTramural and inTercol- legiaTe debaTing and ModesTo Junior College was ably repre- senTed in clashes wiTh Sacramen- To, San Francisco, San Jose, San lvlaTeo and BakersTield. TheTimelyquesTionTorTheyear was Resolved ThaT Congress should be permiTTed by a Two- Thirds voTe To override decisions oT The Supreme CourT in declar- ing acTs oT Congress unconsTi- TuTional. AcTiviTies oT The Phi Rho Pi, na- Tional honorary Torensic socie-Ty, were direcTed by Dean McCauley during The Eall and Lois Drake in The Spring. On March 27 Two Teams parTicipaTed in The PaciTic CoasT Phi Rho Pi TournamenT aT Los Angeles. New members iniTiaTed This year included Jean Turner, Alice Erederiksen, Mary VincenT, 1 Bill Campbell, KaThryne Spivey, Ed SmiTh, Joseph Jones, Ted Olson, l-loward Erickson, John Den Dulk and Oren l-lewiTT. Over 40 sTudenTs parTicipaTed in inTramural debaTes held in The assembly hall under direcTion oT Dr. E. O. SmiTh, debaTe coach.

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Page 78 Buccaneer I936 OUARTERDECK HONORS TWENTY-ONE Honorary SocieTy's Members Are Chosen on The Basis of Leadership, Fellowship, Scholarship ancl Service: Dr. D. C. Baker Is Adviser of Group. REPRESENTATIVES FROM SCHOOL'S ACTIVITIES TwenTy-one represenTaTives oT seven Tields oT school acTiviTy comprise The all-college honor so- cieTy, The QuarTerdecl4, which is supervised by Dr. DwighT C. Balc- er. They are chosen Trom The ExecuTive CommiTTee, AThleTics, DramaTics, lvlusic, AWS, Publica- Tions and DebaTing by virTue oT Their leadership, scholarship, ren- diTion oT service and Tellowship. The members oT The Eall sem- esTer included Audrey Gurney, Alice Erederilcsen, Evelyn BarneTT, Lois Aldrich, Barbara l.ongsTreTh, Elaine Nichols, Georgia Parker, lVlargareT VincenT, BeTTy Allen, PaTTi Taylor, Frances Day, John Babcock, Bob Reed, Judd STurTe- vanT, Bob Sawyer, Erances Perry, Jaclc Weaver, Qmer Crane, l-ler- man Kliclc, Phillip Knorr, and Verna Belle Reuss. New members eIecTed To Till vacancies Tor The Spring semesTer were Elmer Winger and I-larvey Koehn. Bob Reed relinguishec his duTies as presidenT Tor The TirsT Term To Bob Sawyer who servec during The second haIT oT The year. lniTiaTion parTies were held' aT The home oT Dr. and'Mrs. Baker. lvlembers acTed as ushers Tor The ChrisTmas program, parTicipaTed in The Spring Erolic, and ended The year wiTh a Tarewell picnic. During The Spring semesTer acTivi- Ties, new names were suggesTed and adopTed Tor oTTicers oT The QuarTerdecI4 SocieTy. The new TiTles were adopTed because iT was ThoughT To be more appropri- aTe and in lceeping wiTh Theso- cieTy's pin which is gold wiTh a ship embossed on The Tace and The N W S E direcTions on iT. The names corresponding To Those oT ships' oTTicers are: PresidenT as capTain, vice-presidenT as TirsT maTe, secreTary as logger and Treasurer as purser.