Central Methodist University - Ragout Yearbook (Fayette, MO)

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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

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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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Did anybody ask you to go? Uh-and then there was the 'C' Club tournament when we showed the high school boys around the school and saw some good games one week-end. T he Collegian sponsored a survey to find out which organization had the best grade average, and the Scribblers got a free show for their scholarship. That proves, son, that it is 11ot what you know but how you say it that gets you places in the world. The campus was overrun with dance bands in 1940-41. Wie started the year out with Charlie ATIIISTIGHKVS orchestra, led by Bob Smart. but before long competition arose in the band led by Johnny Dover. Then later we had an amalgamation. Dover took over the baton of Armstead's band and bought out the interest of the maestro from Glasgow. 5'The last lyceum number was the Belgian String Quartet, who talked not a whole lot better English than we could talk French. They spoke to us in the international language of their instru- ments, and were a huge success. The commerce department elected Nannie Mae Payne ideal secretary, and the Ragout held elections for beauty queens. Charlie didnlt want to put the blame on himself or any famous person. We had a noble pause while we emphasized religion for a week. with several excellent ministers roaming the campus in and out of classes. The Players were busy emphasiz- ing Shakespeare. and presented a bang- up job of 'The Taming of the Shrewf that showed us that The Bard was funny even without footnotes saying 'joke' They swung back around to the em- phasis on religion in their last play. 'The Passing of the Third Floor Backf All those clubs in that book were going strong all year, and we even had a new one formed by, for. and of the econ students. Of course. there were all the informal breakfast clubs each campus group used to have meet regu- Plzelps wriles. ll'orulp11I'IIls, and boil: f UIllf'l-flllft' lo Ilvceum pruyrunz. .-lfleruvzrds comes lhc ll'6H-kll0Il'I1 recepliun. Page 19