Cowley College - Tiger Daze Yearbook (Arkansas City, KS)

Page 24 text:

Public Speaking Department Active UBLIC speaking department of the Arkan- sas City Junior College has made a name for itself locally and in the state. Ever since the organization of the department, it has served as a bureau of entertainment for the whole community, and its members have had the opportunity to put on whole programs for clubs in the city and for rural schools throughout the southern part of the county. Its players and readers have been in constant demand, and have appeared on as many as sixty-five outside pro- grams in one year. Last year, members of the class provided a guest program for the English Club of Southwestern College in Winfield, and have an invitation to give a choral reading program for the same club in the near future. This is one of of the few schools in this part of the state which has developed a reading choir. Whether of the nature of comedy or tragedy, the plays produced have always been of a high type and have received the Commendation of the public. Among the long plays produced in the past are: He and She and Everyday by Rach- el Crothersg Second Childhood, Covington and Simpsong You and I, and The Youngest, Phil- lip Barry, The Enemy, Channing Pollockg 'tMary Rose, by James Barrie, and The Garden of the Moon, by Arthur Jearue. For the last two yars the annual speech play has also been given in Cedar Vale as a number of the Lyceum in that town. In the state and district contests Arkansas City Junior College has ranked high, having received a number of firsts and seconds in both reading and oration. Last year Edward Bowlby won second place in oration, and Joy Maurine Parman, second in reading in the district contest. The preceeding year Ray Sandefur won first in reading. Those who have done well in this department have in some cases won immediate recognition in other colleges to which they have gone, and in some cases have been granted advanced standing. Members of the class who have gone into teach- ing positions have found much use for the training received in this department. Another feature of the department is the College Dinner Club, which provides opportunity for de- lightful social contact as well as for practice pro- grams. It meets once a month. All former mem- bers of the class are welcome to attend at any time. Members of the class are: Dorothy Ewing, Louise Clark, Dora Gillig, Sarah Elizabeth Gots- chall, Helen Hart, Geraldine Kantzer, Ellen Kit- trell, Anna Ruth Maus, Elsie Patton, Gaye Stites, Marguerite Thomas, Fern Warren, Ruth Walker, Edith Wilcox, Dale Davis, Kenneth Franklin, Selby Funk, Robert Somers, and Maxine Le Faivere. Miss Pauline B. Sleeth is the istructor. Reward Time-you open-handed thief, Stealing all the golden brief, Sweet hours of life--what bold defense, What calculated recompense Can you oH'er'? Who's to pay For the loss of each glad day A? Time is silent, but the thought Of memories that can't be bought Comes to solace me, as though Time had always willed it to. And I smile to see, each day, Time to snatch the hours but leave the pay. -Miss Inez Johnson. PAGE Z2 To A Live Coal A weird pulsating glow, a crimson heart, An everchanging oft-times fading light. Thought nought but just a piece of anthracite, T'is now transformed-a mystic work of art. Dids't ever dream a thousand years ago That this would be thy end '? Thy final goal? For waving plant to ever turn to coal, And glow there, as the dying fire burn low! Be thou content, Oh Rock, could I but have A life as long and odd as thine has been, Though knowing I'd be ashes by and by, T'would be a soothing balm, a healing salvc To find that in one thousand years or ten, Like thee, I'd glimmer there-till time to die. -Marguerite Thomas.

Page 23 text:

i ae: aa. if A ...J ff-ff ...W M iss -ug ,TTY ,.,. .VW , , 5 W..- ,A-. J ,WM 1i'N'lf ,M ,w.M' Sv.. af.: 55 4 W.-r .- ff W , , Az Z7 ff.-f Z N- 541 PAGE 21

Page 25 text:

'WI' Public Speaking UPPER PANEL ' TOP ROVV, Left to right: , Miss Pauline B. Sleeth, Ruth Walker, Elsie Patton, Max- ine LeFaivere, Geraldine Kantzer, Edith Wilcox, Dorothy Ewing, Selby Funk. Louise Clark, Ellen Kittrell. SECOND ROW: Dora Gillig, Helen Hart, Fern Warren, Kenneth Frank- lin, Marguerite Thomas, Anna Ruth Mans, Gaye Stites. Debate LOWICR l'ANl'Il, STANDING, Left to right: Bill Hamilton, Selby Funk, Milforrl Rawlings, Glzulye Cowen, George Reynolds. SIQATICD: Helen Ward, Harry Skornizt, Anna Ruth Mans. Moonlight The entire city was covered with a silvery sheen and a soft glow that only the light of the moon can produce. Beautiful things were more pronounced and even dullcr objects had taken on an aspect of beauty. Trees shinimered in the moonlight like delicate pieces of cut glass, giving forth twinkling lights as they swayed back and forth in the breeze, reflecting the light of the moon on their shiny surfaces, looking too fragile to be touched. Harsh colors were now softened to more pleasing qualities, and the world seemed to be wrapped in a blanket of deep silence. The tranquillity of the scene added to its splendor and made one forget his daily cares and worries R-Jack Axley The Approaching of the Fog The other evening as I was driving east of town under a clear sky and the light of a nearly full moon, I had the opportunity of seeing the approach of a fog. Far to the north it appeared, coming toward me as a low cloud of smoke. Closer and closer it came until at last I was engulfed in it. The first cloud of fog passed quickly and I saw it moving into the south as a passing cloud of dust. Shortly after came another cloud of fog so dense that the bright moon became only a blotch of dim light. In this short time the clear beautiful evening had been converted into a dismal damp area of darkness. -Donald Beatson PAGE 253