Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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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

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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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Food, a baisc necessity, plays an important role in life at Alma College. Preparation of three well-balanced meals a day, nine months out of the year, for three hundred famished young folks is the responsibility of Chef Victor Manzullo and his staff. Vic has efficiently performed this task since September, 1938. Waiters serving the meals in the dining-room are students. Dr. Dunning, and Vic select from the files of work applications those whom they feel deserve the work and will be best adapted to it. Certain requirements in regard to scholastic ability and personal appearance must be met by the boys. Supervision of the waiters falls to the head waiter and his assistant. Vic, with the help of the Dean of Women, appoints a senior and iunior to these respective positions. To maintain an orderly dining-room and a smooth-working serving system is their iob. Bruce Lindley has been the head waiter, and Jerry Duvendeck assistant head waiter throughout the past year. Another duty of the head waiter is attending to the rota- tion of seating arrangements at the tables which occurs monthly. Each table in the dining-room has a hostess, appointed from the iunior and senior women. The two faculty tables are headed by Dean Gillard and Mrs. Hutton. During the year there were three all-college banquets in the Wright Hall dining-room. The first was an informal Thanksgiving dinner, at Christmas there was a formal affair, and Easter was commemorated by a breakfast on Palm Sunday morning. Many other banquets have been successfully staged under Vic's supervision. Listed among these was the formal W.A.A. banquet for the women of the college, the A Club, the Alumni, the sorority and the fraternity banquets. Teas at various intervals complete the activities participated in by the Kitchen Staff. FOOD