Central Methodist University - Ragout Yearbook (Fayette, MO)

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and made enough money to buy books for the Christmas oratorio, which was just as big a success. We had a good student body show the night before everybody went home for the vacation, a melodrama of the SCurse you, Jack Dalton, type that allowed us to boo and cheer to our heart's content. They finally sent us home for Christmas with some of us taking records of our voices home for Christ- mas presents. Johnny Dover was sell- ing them. Was that the same Johnny Dover we saw leading the band at Leaven- worth last year? The same. Swinney Con- servatory of Music always places its graduates. Speak- ing of music. that was tl1e time when the broadcasting companies got into all the trouble with the ASCAP and a lot of music was pushed olf the air for a month or two. Some of them we didn't mind not hearing. The National Guard linally left with a minimum of weeping and wailing and fond good-byes before we got back from Christmas vacation. There was the usual crop of wedding tillfl engagement rings brought back as Christ- mas presents. With draft and Facully goes In mrnnzelirenzelzl. Naliunnl Gzmrzl yues lo rrmzp. -. ,, Page 17 all, more students than ever got mar- ried that year. '5Did you, Daddy? No, that was before l met your mother, but there was a little fiery- eyed brunette girl-3' What, Daddy? Nothing. As l was saying. the next lyceum event was a speech by the artist. Grant Wood. who told us lots of interesting stories about his life in Paris and why his trees were so round. That old band director you saw started a custom of passing around a badge of dishonor called Egbert to the people in the band who made mistakes during rehearsals. lt moved around K, ,W . . . Y ,'. - 'Wan' - 'M nf ,..q,.3-Ia'

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Uul of the llllflltf into llle rlflze of fu-affix, body else III the play Wiillltxtl to lull tllltl pretty Iltxtlfly PV0l'ylJOtly did. We were pretty Wl'Ull,lIlll up over the Nazis tllltl patriotism Elllfl all tllat that year. l l't'IllttIlllN'I' tllat the lltilltllS tlashicst llOI'IlltlllOll was UIIQ w llCll they ll0I'lllt'fl a Hag with ditl'ere1lt colored lights. tlllfl lllt'Il sang 'God Bless A111613 ica'. the patriotic song ol' the llltlllltxlll. :XllOlll0I' llllllg that we did Ctlllllll- ually was to llSll'll to quiz llI'019QI'ilIIlS. We were always lllflllllzfl ou the radio just to hear Stjllltxlbtltly ask SOIllt'lJOfly else how far it was l'I'0lIl SOIIIP place to SOIIIP place else. lt looked lille every- body wanted to prove how tlllllllb every- llody else was. liven Ilftlfllllllll 'l'uclter. the local theater IIltllltlQt'I'. SIJOIlSUI'0tl a IJI'OQ'I'illll like tllat Oll his stage hefore the year was over. The whole l'all we were all husy trying to do all the outside things alld Illillxtl till llllpl'0SSlUll Ull the teachers at the Stlllltx lllllti. We were PYPII too llllSj' to have a Sllltlvlll llody trip to Lillerty Zllltl all the husses had to he CZlllC9ll9tl. The crowd SOt'lllt'tl lIl0I'0 tlIlXlUllS to go llt'1ll1O or just stay at school illlfl sleep. tm several occasions tllat year we got religious illlfl tllltfllfltxtl church school ill large IlllIllllPl'S. There were some llllt' prograllls there iilltl lots of opell CllSCllSSlOll Ull IllillllQI'S of all lilllflS. Very lIlYlQOI'tllll1Q'. 'T-Xlld. sillce Illy lllllltl seems to he Pltlllllllg' l'I'UIll the Slllllllllt' to the ridi- culous. l tllll relllillded tllat allout that llllltf the ,Ntollls tllltl lleta Sigs all- ll0llIlCPfl pledges ill tllat order. Hlltl the hell weeks afterwards were lots of llllll for CYPl'ylJOtly hut the poor pledges. 'I'he cllorus put oll a broadcast progralll that featured everyone fI'Olll Marian AllCl0l'SOIl to Charlie KIcCartlly Page I6

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pretty fast until the band concert later in the year. when no one deserved it. Bob Moore played a piano number with them that year. and the program was line. We had a little bout when tl1e Collegian suggested in an editorial that if Hendrix was dropping football. we might find it expedient. but that trouble didn't last long. We had big- ger and better worries with examina- tions coming up. 'l'hey crammed all the cramming and examining into one week end and made it a little tough for the laggards who hadn't studied regularly. James Rothwell really got a prize when he graduated at the semester and got a legacy that had ll69I1 left hin1 on the condition that he graduate by January. I9-ll. fl wiriler Ialyl t'The basketball season was in full sway by this time. and the only thing certain about the M. C. A. U. was that the Central crackerbox would be full for every game. We had some excel- lent games that year. l remember two in particular. Once a guy named Nel- mark from Kirksville put on a one-man vaudeville act at the game. The other one l remember was when we trounced Westminster for the big surprise in a season full of surprises. Central was unbeatable that night. We had a reversal dance that year with the girls doing the dating and paying. lt was a big success. as the other dances all were. Did you go. Daddy? No, l was trying to settle down and improve my grades about that time. . ., ,v X4 cliff'-.ff i ' x 92 33.1 ,R ,C V e sk, - 4 61:-' irc. 'Jigga i !yv 0 f V fast A 1 I' 1 g 4, 1' - PfF!.?.',?, ' 5 ESQ . -. Pfakrl 7101 In-Q'.' J , J, 31-1 if - .r