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

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T bee) @ Bay CBRL. Publications Top Row—Tucker, Washington, Morrow, Lourim, McCauley. Second Row—Birchard, Bailey, Ceglarek, Lang, Wenger. ne wee Miss McGregor, Fritz, Clymer, E. Arnold. Fourth Row—Watson, Bessyngier, Sullivan, A. Arnold, Beyer. HE Staff which published this annual graduation edition of the Crucible was headed by Edmund Arnold, editor-in-chief. Bruce Hayden was photo- graphy editor and Alice Arnold had charge of the copy. The staff was divided into four sections; classes, activities, sports, and art. Edna Smith, Rosamond Lang, Margaret Morrow, Virginia Bialey, Marie Ceglarek, and Clifton Wenger worked on the graduate section of the book. Recording campus activities were Robert Birchard, Georgia Washington, Jack Tucker, Betty Clymer, Ruth Watson, and Milton Brown. The sports staff was made up of Winifred Thompson, Clifford Swanson, Katherine Lourim, and Francis Barnett. Helen Sullivan, Irene Bessyngier and Dolores Beyer did the art work. Miss McGregor was the faculty advisor. During the past year the Crucible staff was granted the office space for which it had been asking for years. On authorization of the Student Council, one of the conference rooms off the Jaycee reading room has been set aside for the use of publications staffs and equipment is being purchased by the Council. The editor for the 1935 annual has not been named. Changes made in the Student Union constitu- tion last year provide that the yearbook editor shall be named during the first semester of the year of the book’s publication. The book, as usual, was financed by appropria- tions from the Student Activity Fund. All the woik on the book was done by students; no professional help was used in either photography or makeup. Distribution was free to every regularly enrolled Jaycee student. Editor [24]

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TEE CR 0'C PB iE The next day the season closed with one of the season’s best debates, when Jackson traveled to Bay City. Arnold and- Nickel defended the proposition and Patterson and Guiles Ten Eyck, meanwhile having taken the negative of the question. The audiences that followed the team’s schedule were given a series of interesting discussions. The question was one of current interest and the defense and attack on it were carried out on varied and original lines. Political science, history, economics, and current events, especially pertaining to the N. R. A. or European politics, were ranged in argument. The method of debating was the newly adopted Oregon Plan. In it, the constructive speaker is cross-questioned by his opponent who then delivers the rebuttal. Mr. H. C. Klingbeil, head of the speech department, who coached the team, points to the 1934 season as one of the best that Jaycee has ever achieved. Orator HE Speech Department was represented by a strong squad of forensic T competitors in the 1934 season. Jack Shaler’s oration on the ‘Versailles and Afterward” won the local prize in the annual Peace Oration contest and was eliminated only by a slight margin in the finals of the state competition in Lansing. Edmund Arnold spoke on “Propaganda Toward Peace,” Ira Butterfield’s entry was “It Can Be Done”, and Paul Harvey gave “The New Patriotism’’. Bay City’s delegation to the seventh annual Model League of Nations at Ann Arbor was one of the most prominent at the convention. Eric Timm was amember of the credentials committee and Arnold was one of the guest speakers at the International Relations club’s luncheon for the delegates. Harvey and Timm represented Spain and Arnold and Butterfield the Irish Free State.. They served on committees on Tariffs and Trade Barriers, Disarmament, and Min- orities. Mr. H. C. Klingbeil, speech coach, accompanied the delegation. Butterfield and Shaler represented Bay City at the first convention of the Anti-War League which was also held at Ann Arbor. Top Row—Harvey, Hewitt, Mr. Klingbeil. Second Row—Schade, Hannan, Hart.

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Fines We Bil, E fession, the Crucible was published this year as an all-student projcct. A S A Laboratory for students who plan on entering the journalism pro- New editorial policies and a new typographical dress made the bi-weekly newspaper a popular organ of campus news. Edmund Arnold, editor-in-chief, headed a particularly strong staff, which ‘included five former editors of high school publications. Alice Arnold was associate editor in charge of copy. Bruce Hayden, Walter Cramer, Francis Barnett, and Katherine Lourim made up the sport staif. Members of the re- portorial staff were; Jack Bannister, Virginia Bialy ,Robert Birchard, Marie Ceglarek, Betty Clymer, James Crocker, Rosemary Dunlop, Walter Hewitt, Walter Moeller, Emmett O’Hare, Robert Rush, Edna Smith, Helen Sullivan, Winifred Thompson, Jack Turner, and Ruth Watson. It is the practice at Bay City for the outgoing editor to choose his successor. Betty Clymer, whose nomination was confirmed by the Student Council, will take over the Crucible editorship for the next year. The highlights of the Crucible’s reportorial efforts was the publication of the first interview ever given the press by Cornelia Otis Skinner, famed actress, who was interviewed by Alice Arnold. Edmund Arnold was granted an interview with Richard B .Harrison, ‘“‘de Lawd”’ of ‘‘The Green Pastures” and, with George Sarle, reported the usually taciturn author Paul de Kriuf’s views on college education. The annual custom of conducting the campus popularity contest was con- tinued with thirteen students being named. Crucible staffmen also acted as tellers for the primary Student Council elections. The Christmas issue of the paper was a special literary issue and featured the poetry of several of Jaycee’s aspiring poets. The ponular ‘“‘Ghost Writer’? who ladled out school gossip was Jack Tucker. Edmund Arnold conducted the chatter column, ‘“‘Around the Campus,” and Walter Cramer dashed off ‘“‘Snort Shorts’. Arnold, Arthur Crebassa, and Mary Jane Kirchman were “The Poet Scorners’’. Miss Nellie McGregor was the Staff advisor and members of the faculty committee on nublications of which she is chairman, are Miss Matilda Schroeder and Mr. A. E. Stiles. Top Row—Hewitt, Lourim, Rush. Second Row—E. Arnold, Miss MeGregor, Thompson, Cramer. Third Row—Ceglarek, Smith, A. Arnold: Fourth Row—Clymer, Sullivan.