Bay City Junior College - Crucible Yearbook (Bay City, MI)

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ete tC Re Cal Bak E 7 a = BP neg aN a A‘ 2 Front Row—Bessie Tepper, Jane Fowler, Helen Ossipove, Lorraine De% aele. Second Row —Kobert Friers, John Kavanagh, Win1- fred Bamford, James Finkbeiner, assistant editor, William Groening, editor-in-chief, Richard Weadock, Ione Smith, Jack Korn, Joe Biller The Crucible HE Crucible is now completing its most successful season thus far. The 193]-32 year witnessed the publication of fifteen bi-weekly issues and this Graduation Edition. The paper was three-columned during the fall months, but permission to add a fourth column was obtained from the Student Council in December, and the larger Crucible made its first appearance on January |2. Since the appearance of the four-column paper, the student body has taken a much greater interest in the Crucible than has ever before been mani- fested. The staff has really felt that its efforts have been appreciated this year. William Groening, who was editor during the second semester of 1930-31 returned to take charge in September. He has been the guiding light in all of the current year’s improvements. Graduating this June after three semesters at the head of the staff, Groen- ing enjoys the distinction of having had the longest tenure of office of any Crucible Editor. James Finkbeiner, a freshman who joined the staff in September, showed such remarkable promise that he was elected assistant-editor at the close of the first semester. During the second semester he executed his duties in a very capable fashion, and he will succeed Groening to the editorship next fall. The increasing interest in Junior College athletics led to the improvement of the sport page, which this year was under the direction of Francis Barnett, Joseph Biller, and Robert Wood. An especially popular feature of the sport page was “Bask etball Person- alities,’’ a series of cartoons of Coach Hood and his team. This series and several other cartoons appearing from time to time were drawn by Frank Williams, the Crucible’s talented cartoonist. Paul Belknap inaugurated a series of special interviews with representative business and professional men which met with popular approval. The most popular humor columns were ‘“‘Schnozzle,”” by Henry Hart, “The Nutcracker,’ by Stewart Brams, and “Junior College Day by Day,” by Jack Kavanagh. Richard Weadock and Jack Korn assisted with the headline-writing, proof-reading, and make-up work. Other staff members during the current year included David Kahn, Madelyn Race, lone Smith, Margaret Berka, Joseph MacPhail, Edith Davis, Helen Ossipove, Jane Fowler, Winifred Bamford, Robert Friers, Lorraine DeWaele, Ethel Vallender, Bessie Tepper, Richard Doty, Mary Richards, Robert Boyse, and Fred Tonks. [13]

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TREC CR Ute iD serE slic) Front Row—Dorothy Kuehl, Maria Kirchman, Ruth LeRoux, Manan Meisel. Second Row-—Lynn MacPhail, Joe MacPhaii, Dean George E. Butterfield, Lester Freidinger, Ralph Waehner. The Student Council INANCIAL and social problems came to the fore this year more than usual in the work of the Council. Because of the closing of the local banks and the consequent tie-up of Junior College funds, frequent revision of the budget was necessary, and some of the activities were curtailed for lack of sufficient funds. The Women’s League Student Loan Fund was, however, given first consideration. Athletics, Crucible, assemblies, awards, con- ferences, debating, Tetra Sci Club, social activities, Engineers Club, Law Club, Glider Club, J.C. Y. and the Chorus, all received some of the appropriation from the Student Activity Fund. The play, “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,” and the dances on October 16, Janu- ary 22, and March 18, were successful financially, as well as socially. At the beginning of 1932, the Council approved the plans to increase the size of the Crucible, changing it from a three column to a four column paper. Several innovations were made by the Council this year in the regulation of the J. C. Parties and in its relations with the social committee. The problems of restricting the admission of outsiders to J. C. parties and of securing chaperones have been happily solved, the one by the use of a rigid permit system, the other by the united efforts of the student body, the Social Committee, and the Council. Better cooperation between the various committees and the Council was obtained by the ruling that all decisions of that body be communicated in writing. The weekly assemblies were varied and well-planned, those featuring the J. C. Chorus, the illustrated lecture on Alaska by Rev. Thornton B. Penfield, the lecture on “‘Personality,’’ by Professor McCluskey of the University of Michigan, on ‘Prohibition,’ by Ira Land- rith, on ‘Peace and Disarmament” by T. Q. Harrison, and on “Wise Investments,’ by Reverend C. E. Doty of Saginaw. OFFICIALS AND COMMITTEES Council Chairman, Ralph Waehner; Secretary, Maria Kirchman; Assemblies, Lester Freidinger; Athletic Manager, Russell Amhrein; Budget, Joseph MacPhail; Graduation, David Kahn: Pins, Florence Carpenter; Social, Madeline Race; Scrapbook, Jane Fowler; Improvements, Marian Meisel. [12]

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Ty Eee Ro Cri er Front Row—William Fogg, Helen Ossipove, Emiline Anderson, Alice DeWaele, accompanist, Lorraine DeWaele, Dorothea Rippberger, Beryle Voight, Bessie Tepper, lone Smith. Second Row—Emery Glancz, Llewellyn Immerman, Mary Lourim, Jennie Jones, Mary Richards, Edna Heglund, Jessie Jones, Margaret Berka, Maria Kirchman, Marian Meisel. Third Row— Russell Amhrein, director, Lynn MacPhail, Don Donnelly Joe Dan Hartingh, John Kavanagh, Paul Harvey, Harold Fogg, Henry Hart, Joe MacPhail, Erwin Moessner, Wesley Timm, Lester Freidinger. J. C. Chorus | Nes Junior College Chorus for this year has far surpassed any previous effort in this field by the students. There was such considerable interest manifested in choral pos- sibilities that the group was formed on a purely voluntary basis, which alone makes this year’s success the more outstanding. The work was undertaken in the latter part of October when the services of Russell Amhrein and Alice DeWaele as director and accompanist, respectively, were found avail- able. Those who made up the group were mostly experienced singers, having had much training in the high schools. For the first few meetings the men of the chorus were con- spicuous by their absence, but, when once members, they were among the most faithful to the very end of the year. It was necessary, Inasmuch as no provision had been made in the Student Activity Fund budget at the beginning of the semester, to borrow the first few songs from the high school music department, to whom the chorus feels indebted. The chorus during the year has made seven appearances before audiences. The first was on December |, when the group was introduced to the college at its assembly. The compliments were many and encouraging on this first appearance. The second appearance followed shortly afterward when the chorus sang between the acts of the Junior College play on December 4. With much pleasure the groups accepted the invitation to sing at the Wenona Hotel for the Exchange Club on December 13. On this occasion the chorus did remarkably well. The last appearance before the holidays was before some 400 members of the Central—J.C. P.T.A. at which time several Christmas carols were rendered. One of the chorus’s most outstanding success came early in February when, after many special rehearsals, the college chorus made up most of the chorus of 70 voices for the American Legion Minstrel Show. They did exceptionally well on each of the two nights the show was presented. The last appearance of this musical organization came on the last day of May when they presented an entire assembly program of songs for mixed voices, male voices, and quartet numbers, with instrumental numbers interspersed. This group filled an important mission during the college year and is to be commended on its fine work. [ 14]