Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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It was with the aim in mind to produce a larger and more formal -yearbook, one which would hold the interest of all students, that the Scotsman staff started work in the early days of 1942. ln order to produce a yearbook which would present a satisfactory cross-section of campus life, editor Jack King chose a large staff which included students engaged in almost every activity and organization in the college. Instead of leaving it to the printer, all art work and cover designing was carried out by the art students of our own college. Following the theory that, in time, the copy in the book would be of as great interest as the pictures, this yearbook contains more written material which, along with the pictures, will stimulate many fine memories when it is re-read in the distant future. Back Row: George DeHority, Guile Graham, Professor Seaman, Durell Emling, and Sutherland Hayden. Middle Row: Don Peters, Rose Simmons, Rama Kirkwood, and Jack King. Bottom Row: Jean Beckwith, Betty Pecsenye, Helen Lindsay, and Dorothy Champ. 99

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HLMHNIHN Rack Row: left to right: Helen Lindsay, Wilbur McCrum, Dorothy Champ, Sutherland Hayden, and Helen Dehnke, Front Row: James Cotter, Jean Beckwith, .lack Crittenden, Elizabeth Miller, and Carney Smith. The task of handling the weekly campus newspaper was accomplished capably by editor-in-chief Elizabeth Miller and the associate editor, Sutherland Hayden. Elizabeth is the second girl to occupy the editor's chair in the history of the Almanian. Faculty support was given by Carney Smith, while .lim Cotter, assisted by Maryhelen Con- nolly, managed the business and circulation. For the third consecutive year Jack Crittenden was sports editor, aided by Marian Spalsbury as girl's sports editor. Jean Beckwith, Helen Lindsay, and Dorothy Champ were in charge of the features which added much of the personal touch to the Almanian, especially Alma Matter and Knowsey Knews, the author ot which remained shrouded in mystery. A weekly in- formative article The World ln Review was written by George DeHority on the out- standing events ot the war. Wilbur McCrum, Helen Dehnke, Bruce Mellinger, Dorothy Walton, Guile Graham, and Robert Henney played an important part in their con- tribution ot news. 98

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l HRT The Art Department has had four busy years developing as a center or a workshop for the good of the whole community-that each individual might find satisfaction and fun-through feeling himself grow in appreciation or understanding and by enlarging his experiences through actual participation. Each step in the development of the department has been an answer to a demand or a need of the individual, the campus or the community. The students have had the privilege of helping to plan, design and build their own workshop, to sponsor exhibits on the campus, lectures and the added thrill of bringing several skilled craftsmen or artists to the campus. The class for children has been organized and planned by the college students in order to establish a free happy place where children might work together. The children come to create, and to grow through experience and to develop their own self expression. This year the students have been busy attempting to make the classrooms more attractive. This work has required informal discussions with the teachers and students of other departments in order to sense and feel their classroom needs. This type of co-operation also offers an opportunity for many more individuals to have a part in this growing experience and the solving of real art principles. Art is a creative force-a force for good living, for stabilizing and simplifying human relationships, for the understanding of today's needs and responsibilities. It brings great joy and happiness, expands social duties by the attitudes towards the environ- ment-it keep the real pioneering spirit alive. 'IOO