Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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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

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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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Alma College has always had an unusual variety of social activities sponsored by its campus organizations to suit every taste. The school year T941-42, had, beside these traditional activities, many new additions. A warm-up for the year's activities took the form of the Student Council Swingout Mixer. The sports program soon got under way, and October 9 was the dedication of the new chapel. This was a formal, academic ceremony, with a Presbyterian dignitary for guest speaker and an organ recital. Homecoming provided its usual good fun and loyalty. After the Frosh Frolic, on November Sth, the smoker season got under way, an extemp contest was held, and the football MIAA Championship cinched the possi- bility of a one-day vacation from classes. Just before the Thanksgiving holiday, the first vesper service was held in the new chapel. The dance calendar began to fill now, with the Zeta Open House, the A club party, and the Pi Sig girl-bid. The musical life of the campus was enriched by the Saginaw concert series and the Wednesday evening musicales under the direction of Miss Schaafsma. The Chapel Choir went on tour to southern Michigan for five days early in December, at other times they were heard over different radio stations. The Christmas spirit took shape in an all-Frosh party, fraternity and sorority gather- ings, the Y.W.C.A. Christmas Party, the all-college formal Christmas dinner, and the choir concert. After vacation talk began to be circulated about the possibility of summer school at Alma and a wartime schedule. There was a change in the atmos- phere. Plans for an Alma College plate to commemorate college days were announced. Fraternities began to have their annual formals. The MIAA Championship was won by the basketball boys again. Shortly before the swing into Religious Emphasis Week, Colonel Chou spoke in chapel of plans for after-war reconstruction and the Sunday evening hour groups took this up as their theme. The week itself was headed inspir- ationally by Dr. Silas Evans, President of Ripon College. The third vesper service of the year was the evening of Palm Sunday, the moning of which had already been marked by an Easter morning breakfast. The rest of the year whizzecl by unbelievably, with the J-Hop on April ll, followed by a Pioneer Open House, the choir trip to New York, Sadie Hawkin's Day, Campus Day on May 14, and concluding with Senior Week and the close of school June first.