Elmhurst College - Elms Yearbook (Elmhurst, IL)

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Bachelor s Ease ROOM 318 Ted rriauch fllichigan City, Indiana Ted Braun UJebster Groves, EQissouri Model Tenants Paul Kehle fllonroe, UJisconsin Herbert Fritzsche Forest Park, Illinois ROOM 312 Honorable Mention UJinners of the 1941 GLfllS contest for the best furnished room in South Hall, according to a student ' s point of view, here show a typical example of bachelor house- keeping at its greatest efficiency. The inspection tour before the decision of the model room revealed that a number of residents of the men ' s dormitory this year had spent considerable time in making livable quarters of their two rooms. Room 318, below, is a sample of what a few boxes and fish poles, hand-me-down furniture, and rugs and other contributions from home can do to make an other- wise bare dormitory room a bit of home. Gven this year ' s group of freshmen, according to proctors Kenneth Taylor and Robert Ilolte, have been ambitious in decorating their rooms during the year. The dormitory council, with the aid of the administration, set the pace in decoration and up-keep this year, however. According to dormitory president Harold Kamenz, the first floor reception room underwent a complete renovation early in the year. Paint and the new drapes accom- plished the miracle. SOUTH HALL 10

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SOUTH HALL This is home. ITlanY a student visiting parents during a school year holiday embarrassingly finds himself remarking, I have to be going back ' home ' soon. Glmhurst truly becomes a second home before many months of residence on the friendly campus. This year three dormitories came to be home to the resident stu- dents on the campus. Irion Hall — to locate, ask a man — houses the coeds, South Hall, above, is where the men hang their hats, and Senior Lodge is an overflow dormitory for selected men of the senior class. These social calls on the campus homes of out-of-town students would be incomplete without a stop at the private homes where, ac- cording to an estimate by Dean Genevieve Staudt, nine or ten of the students, mostly coeds, exchange services for room and board. Illany of these students find real homes with Glmhurst families. Homeward Bound 9

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Paraphrasing the popular song (now you can guess when this COPY was written), If practice makes perfect, let ' s sweep this roorn again, let ' s dust that desk again; we can ' t stand this dirt here now. UJell, it may not have been a theme song for the coeds at Irion Hall this year, but it seemed so to the privileged male who inspected the girls ' choice of a model room. The weeks of experimentation with the comparatively luxurious furniture provided gives a real oppor- tunity to practice on those invaluable home-making arts. The room below is typical of those housing the thirty-two coeds in Irion Hall. fl single snap of the camera shutter misses most of the real life at Irion Hall. Regular housekeeping under Gleaner ' s competent eye is only one part of the life. There are the dreary campused days. There are the spreads engineered outside the watchful scrutiny of Dean Staudt. There are those long talks with the outside world from the cloister of the phone booth. The afternoon siestas, the midniaht oil— all combined soell home for Glmhurst ' s coeds. If Practice Makes Perfect . . ROOM 207 IRION HALL rriagdalene Berger, Venedy, Illinois 11