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

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YW.C.A. Studios Book b jones HRIST'S Alternative to- Communism, by E. Stanley Jones was the book used by the Y. W. C. A. for their study and discussion this year. Parts of the book were reviewed at general meetings, and the reviews were followed by dis- cussion by the group. In the chapel program presented by the Y. W. C. A., some of the girls reviewed a portion of the book in order to show the student body the type of study work being done by the organization. Those who reviewed chapters were Doris Buss, Ellen Kittrell, Anna Ruth Maus, and Fern War- ren. At the beginning of the year a tea was held in the club room to which all the college girls we1'e invited. About 20 girls responded to make up the membership for the year. The first meeting ex- clusively for members was an induction service held in the Methodist Church. The general meetings we1'e especially interest- ing this year. Although the study and discussion of the book, Christ's Alternative to Communism. formed the main part of the meetings, several other worthwhile and interesting things were taken up. Miss Pauline B. Sleeth, the head sponsor of the club, read selections from Kagawa's poems at several meetings, and his work in Japan was discussed. Activity was not limited to their own group, however. The girls were of service not only to the school and community, but, through the leadership of Miss Sleeth, they contributed to Oriental miss- ions. These contributions were given in the form of small paper lanterns, which the girls filled with pennies, nickels, and dimes. At Thanksgiving time the group sponsored a drive for food donations, which were given to the Red Cross for distribution to the needy. The week before Christmas about 25 needy children were guests of the organization at a Christmas party. The children enjoyed games and stories until Santa Claus himself came to give each child a gift. As usual, the Y. W. C. A. finance committee sponsored the college book exchange this year to help students find books they needed and buyers for their old ones. The girls also decorated the club room for the Christmas season. At the beginning of the second semester a new membership drive was begun. A covered-dish sup- per, to which all members and girls interested in the club were invited, was held at the home of lireda Wilson, president. Another outstanding event of the year was a vesper tea, held at the Presbyterian Church, Feb- ruary 9. This affair was planned by the community Y. W. C. A. for the junior and senior high Girl Reserves, the junior college Y. W. C. A., and their mothers. All those present enjoyed the affair, and it is hoped that the event may be repeated every year. The officers of the college Y. W. C. A. for this year were Freda Wilson, presidentg Kathleen Adams, vice presidentg Rachel Foltz, secretary: Ellen Kittrell, treasurerg Dorothy Ewing, music chairman: Helen Belt, program chairmang Ruth Walker, service chairman, and Doris Buss, finance chairman. Miss Pauline B. Sleeth and Miss Thglma Hall are sponsors of the organization. Mendy Having lived to a ripe old age, I find pleasu1'e in remembering the joys of my childhood. One of my dearest memories is of the tiny old woman who kept the candy shop on Main Street. All the children in my home town bought their candy at Mrs. Mendenhall's. We never dignified her with so formal a nameg to young and old she was merely Mendy . It was in her tiny store that we spent the pennies and nickels begged from indulgent fathers, and there the older women gathered around the coal stove for a Saturday afternoon chat. A low scarred bench stood before the glass counter that held the tempting sweets. Grayhaired men often watched us climb up on the bench and told us they, too, had stood on that bench while deciding such momentous questions as to whether to buy licorice or lemon drops. It was hard to go past Mendy's without buying something. On Sunday she kept careful watch lest some of us spend our Sunday School collection in the wrong place. Mendy was always there, for she lived in a room behind the shop and never went farther away than across the sidewalk. When she became too ill to wait on customers we lost our taste for candy. After her death the shop remained unchanged for a time. The peppermint jar still stood in the center of the show window, flanked by the jars of red-hots and peanuts. Recently a fruit and vegetable store has begun business in Mendy's old building, and sweet potat- oes replace the chocolate and gum. It makes me wonder if the children of today enjoy the candy they buy at the grocery store as much as we enjoyed that we bought at Mendy's. -Frances Gordon PAGE 25

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Skornia Coaches College Debaters HE question for debate this year was Re- solved, that Congress should be allowed to override, by a two-thirds majority vote, de- cisions of the Supreme Court declaring acts of Confrress unconstitutional. This question is a vital one at the present time because cf the recent decisions of the Supreme Court involving the New Deal legislation of the present administration. Therefore the material for both thi- alfirmative and the negative sides of the fi'i':ft.iot1 was to be found in many current news- papers and magazines, as well as in the political fpeeflics of the representatives of both political parties. As the members of the team were late in get- ting started on their collections of data and ma- terial to be used in their speeches, they are to be coinmended for their show'ng at the first practice tournament which they attinded. It was held in VVinfield on Friday and Saturday, December 6 and 7. They only attended one other tournament, also a practice, at Hutchinson, February 7 and 8. The members of the team were furnished with the same general iraterial which all the debaters of the various schools used. In addition, they are expected to read articles in current publications to secure more material for their speeches. In order to clinch their arguments for or again- st the question for debate, the speaker must have many references and much evidence with which to prove his points. He must have many quota- tions taken from the speeches, sayings, and let- ters of famous leaders all over the country in or- der to prove that his statement is backed by the opinion of someone who has carved out his niche in the Hall of Fame and who, therefore, may ex- press his opinions and thus win the respect and backing of his followers. It is also especially ef- fective to have a statement from either one of the Suprenxf- Court judges or a member of Congress who has been rash enough to commit himself u.ga'nst his own faction. In that way a debate! may confuse the opposing team cnsiderably. There are various technical terms in a debate whicli the debater must learn to recognize and rse. He must also be able to be a forceful speaker, impressing his listeners and the judge with his knowledge o the question and his firm belief in his opinions and arguments which must, as stated before, be backed by conclusive evidence. There are certain procedures for each speaker to follow, for instance, the second negative speak- er must first sum up the opponents arguments i'.'.Gl'1 24 which have been refuted by his colleague, the first negative speakerg he must then name those that he is going to disprove and then do sog he must give his own constructive speech, as well as building up his colleague's case again if it has been torn down by the first affirmative speaker. These are only some of the things the second negative speaker has to do, and there is a certain procedure for each of the speakers to follow. Thus, one may sie that debate has a great deal of work connected with it. and that, since each de- bater must be first on one side of the question and then on the other, he has a lot to lea1'n in the time in which he is preparing his material. Debate activities are a vital part of the school's activities, and a team needs encouragement just as badly as a basketball or football team. The debate team of the junior college this year consisted nfostly of new members, all of the for- mer ones having graduated last year, Milford Rawlings was the only one who had been out for debate at any other time in Arkansas City, and Gladys Cowen had had one year of debating eX- perience in high school at Cullison, under Miss Elsie Penfield, a former member of the Arkansas City debating squad. Those who went out for debate this year were Gladys Cowen. Anna Ruth Maus, Helen Ward. Selby Funk, Bill Hamilton, Milford Rawlings, and George Reynolds. Harry Skornia is the coach. The Firelight It leaps and writhes, casting grotesque shadows about the surrounding room. A sharp, white Hame will suddenly leap from the smoldering red log. Its tongue is quick as that of a snake. Small yellow points of fire dance about and on the logs, giving me the impression of demons leaping glee- fully. Now there is a flare as a log falls apart and a shower of sparks lights up the whole room, caus- ing the furniture to loom against the brightened walls. As the flare dies down a few feeble sparks cling to life. Then nothing is left but a bed of red hot coais to be reduced in time to cold gray ashes. -Nina Maurine Davis.

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Tigers Win Conference Vjctorjes OACH Harry Skornia, of Michigan State, brought the Tigers fiom the underbrush in the 1935 football season. Conference victor- ies crowned its efforts for the first time since 1931. The team defeated two conference oppon- ents. The football squad was large and looked like conference champions until many of the men quit school, leaving the squad weak. The remainder who stayed out had what it takes, and were deter- mined to cariy the Orange and Black to victory. The Tigers began the season by journeying to Independence. They ran up against a large and fast team, and here they were handed their first defeat. A bad break came in the last minutes of play when the Bengals punted from their 6- yard line to the Independence 37-yard line, and the Pirate quarterback carried the ball back around the entire Juco team for a touchdown. The game ended 7-0. El Dorado entertained next. Here the Tigers were unorganized. They met a good team and were defeated again, this time by a 23-0 count. The following week, in the first home game of the season, the Tigers met a large team from Coffeyville. The Jucoys offense couldn't penetrate the Red Ravens' defense and the team went down again on the short end of a 14-O score. The boys put up a hard fight and showed that Ark City did have a football team. During the fourth week the team seemed to have the fighting spirit that they had lacked the preceding weeks of practice. Friday rolled around and as they went into the dressing room to get their final instructions from Skornia, they were all talking about winning from Parsons. The coach gave them an inspiring talk, and when they came out on the field they had blood in their eyes. One could tell from the start that the team had more fight than they ever had before. The Tigers carried the ball over for their first touch- down in the second quarter and missed another by a few inches. The team again carried the ball over for the final counter in the third quarter, I lllli 1 5 ll lllli HM' flu I pg W 4 PAGE 26 making the score 12-6, where it 1'emained for the rest of the game. This marked the first con- ference win in four years. The next week was vacant.'7 It looked as though no one cared the following week because of a non-conference game. The Tigers journeyed to Tonkawa, where they suffered their worst de- feat of the season, 33-6. In the next tilt the Tigers played the confer- ence champions from Fort Scott. The team put up a stiff fight at the start of the game, and it looked as though there would be an upset. Al- though Fort Scott sent in several substitutes, it didnt seem to weaken their team. Coach Skornia didn't have many substitutes, and Fort Scott soon wore the local gridmen down, and defeated them 111-O. The season's final game came November 19, with Hutchinson. Two weeks before, the Hutch- inson Leam had held the Fort Scott team to an 8-6 count. The two teams marched out on the field, and f1'o1n the starting whistle it was a fight all the way. One team got a break, then the other. Arkansas City's big break came in the third quarter when Gann intercepted a pass, and ran 90 yards for a touchdown. So the game ended 6-O-the Tigers' second win of the season. The boys who dese1've credit are: John Gann, right end, Ralph Waldeck, right tackle, Herbert Glasgow, left guard, Dan Marks, left tackle, Vic- tor Gillespie, left end, Donald Evans, quarter- back, Troy Quinton, half back, Paul Wifineinger, tackle, Dale Davis, end, Karl Perry, guard, Robert Randall, end, Richard Teehee, half back, Jeriy Wees, guard, Selby Funk, guard, Gail Rutter, center, Curtis McLaughlin, back, Harold Schwartzendruber, end and back, George Miller, quarterback, Cail Utt, back, George LeUnes, back, Hampton Barton, guard, Carroll Adams, back, Howard Frambers, center, Garth Snodgrass, quarterback, Millard White, tackle, and Lyndon Symes, center. At the end of the season the boys convened in a post-mortem council and selected Herbert Glasgow, regular guard and two letter man, as honorary captain of the 1935 team. Graduation will be lenient on the roll of men taken from the ranks of the Orange and Black this year. Only th1'ee players will have to go by this route. although all of them drew regular starting berths. They are Captain Herbert Glas- gow, Gail Rutter, and Selby Funk. At least nine lettermen from this season's squad and possibly three more from last years team a1'e slated to re- turn for action next year, which should form the nucleus for fairly good prospects.