College of Emporia - Alla Rah Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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STHHS IH THE PHUDUCTIUH

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Salida lla lfze Seniaai If everything goes well, twenty-eight seniors will receive degrees on May twenty- fifth in Memorial Chapel. These seniors have been doing something besides studying. Last fall when they first took their chapel seats, they realized that they were an excep- tionally small graduating class and that they would have to work diligently to do what other classes had done before them. In speaking of sports, the football season reigned last fall and so did our King and Queen. Rees, Neill, Wiedmer, Marlin, and Aitken did their bit to make the games in- teresting. No one will forget the special train to the McPherson game. Even though we miss Dick Rees now, we will remember his being chosen for the All-State football team. After the last football game, Neill and Wiedmer merely changed into basketball suits and showed us action on the court. Wiedmer thrilled many a crowd with his long shots. Pardon me if I seem to dwell on Neill and Wiedmer but they are the senior track men, too. The E club was very active during the year. In speaking of music, senior recitals are in the limelight. Kathryn Musil, Larry Shorer, and Marjorie King gave brilliant performances on the piano and Kathryn Musil, Grace Taylor, and Fred Reinert applied Miss Merritt's teaching to their vocal chords and gave voice recitals. Fred Reinert and Grace Taylor were soloists on the annual Christmas Vesper Service at the Civic Auditorium. Margie King, Kathryn Musil, Grace Taylor and Virginia Beck did solo work in violin, piano, and voice on the Women,s Glee Club trip. Virginia Beck should be praised for her marvelous work as first soprano with the Women's quartet for the past two years. The orchestra will miss the loyalty of King, Musil, Shorer, and Reinert and the band will need two underclassmen to take the drum major positions of Betty Orr and Grace Taylor, and three to fill in for Larry Shorer, Margie King and Lynn Taylor. In speaking of dramatics, the list of seniors should be headed by Marion Hale, who so ably directed the lines of Mrs. Wilkie's religious play, Claudia Procla, Wife of Pilate. Other seniors in the production were Grace Taylor, Betty Orr, and Katy Mu- sil. Wendell Campbell took a prominent part in the winter production Don't Darken My Door. Ardis Taylor presented the C. of E. news each week on the college broad- cast. In speaking of honors, our student commission president, Lynn Taylor, and our senior class president, John Aitken, deserve high praise for the work they have done for the success of the school year. Ardis Taylor received a scholarship to Northwestern University to complete an M. A. degree. Arnold Olson received a fellowship to Van- derbilt for the coming year. Arnold has also received many honors in his debate work. Simon Nieto was given a government job as a translator in a censorship office. Ruea Pendergraft has been teaching in the Emporia Business College. Speaking of love life of the seniors, we head the list with Merton Wisler and Mary Ann Ott. Of course Nieto, Mrs. Wolfe, and Campbell are already married but Wisler and Ott both reached this crisis in life during their senior year. Engaged seniors in- clude Hale, Sharp, Neill, Musil, and Lynn Taylor. W'ith the more important ones out of the way, we turn to the courting stage. King carried on a correspondence courtship with Culp until Ashcraft came to school. Sid Marlin started out the year with Mary Lou Walker, on to Beitz, and from there no one knows, not even Sid. Olson courted Dando, Beck, and Walker. Ruea remained faithful to her Dick in the army and Jean- ette Abell to her Roy in the marines. Betty Orr kept busy with O'Donnell, Aitken, and Wilson, while Grace Taylor kept busy trying to keep Millwee away from the other girls. I14l

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In speaking of social life, the senior girls started it off by inviting the freshman girls to a clever gold miner's party and asked them to stake their claim of membership in Alpha Beta Chi. The Mu Phi gave a tea for all the musically inclined girls on the campus and the Senior Tassel followed with a musical in Dunlap Hall parlors. Pi Gam- ma Mu meetings are social and the underclassmen get to enjoy intellectual papers writ- ten by seniors. Of course there were many more social activities on the campus such as dime dances, formals, parties, etc. Seniors worked faithfully to make these successful but so did the juniors, sophomores, freshmen, and faculty. Virginia Beck and Fred Reinert are the senior social committee representatives. We mustn,t omit senior sneak day to Kansas City. They met at the Lop at 4:00 a. m. and started for K. C. in four cars with Rees, Wiedmer, Pendergraft, and Nieto at the driver's positions. They visited Nelson Art Gallery, Liberty Memorial, and the Forum. The latter was for lunch. The afternoon and evening was spent going to shows and the ice hockey game, visiting the airport, and just messing around in gen- eral. They arrived home by 4:00 a. m. the following morning to stacked rooms and comfortable pallets on the parlor floors. It didn't take them long to get to sleep or to start dreaming about pink elephants on the ceiling. Another important social event was the surprise for Larry Shorer at the Topic. He didn't want to go but was carried to the bus by his roommates. Everyone enjoyed the steaks as well as the song Anne Boleyn as sung by Marion Hale. For the first time in the history of Dunlap Hall, the senior members of such walked down Commer- cial at 11:30 p. m., accompanied by the senior boys and Dr. Flournoy. It was quite a sight to see these same girls slip into the dormitory at midnight in their stocking feet. Senior girls were also guests of the A. A. U. W. at a tea in Morse Hall parlors. Recognition chapel was another highlight of the senior year. Larry Shorer read the class history, Grace Taylor the class will, and Virginia Endly the prophecy. Professor Coldren, the senior class sponsor, gave the faculty talk and John Aitken, class president, gave the response to the underclassmen talks. The seniors are not through with social activity. They will be guests of the juniors at the annual junior-senior banquet, guests of the faculty at the faculty-senior dinner, and will take in the alumni dinner and dance, Baccalaureate and Commencement. THE SEHIUHS. E161