Emporia State University - Sunflower Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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under R. G. Cremer as switchboard oper- ator this semester and as she pinch-hitted for the other secretaries occasionally she decided that her shorthand could be im- proved and audited a course in shorthand taught by Miss Adelaide Kauzer and took typing from S. J. Turille. She joined the Commerce Club-meetings sparkled by Vic Hiett jokes. She was taking stage- craft from R. Russel Porter and spent long tiring hours backstage creating scen- ery for Gilson Player productions. ITH SO MANY activities to occupy their time the sephomore year passed quickly, and after Joe and Betty had promised to write often and to return in September they bade each other good- bye. Betty worked in the local bank dur- ing the summer and J 0e followed the har- vest, both eager to earn enough money to send themselves back to school. Summer passed and with it the peace that America had cherished. A crisis with Japan was impending. Soldiers were in training and troops were being conscripted. Joe enlisted in the Naval Reserve V-7 and came back to school to begin a more comprehensive study of physics and mathematics under able masters of the sometimes absent mind. Betty was made a member of the Gil- son Players, begotten by Dr. F. L. Gilson, head of the Speech Department and author of the beloved little red speech text. This was the event of Bettyis junior year. The Gilson Players! Gilson plays, including assistant directing 0f the tradi- tional Freshman Play, kept Bettyis time occupied and Joe was busy with his ac- tivities as a sergeant in the pre-induction army of Vie Trusler. HE TIME Betty and Joe had together came less and less as the weeks went by. One afternoon when J 0e strolled into Dr. F. L. Gilson, head of the Speech Department, will long be remembered in the state as the origi- nator of the Gilson Players. 'He. is always ready and Willing to help plan and present. pageants and plays in small communities in the state. Dr. Minnie M. Miller, head of the Foreign Lan- guages Department, livens her. classes with first- hand accounts of intriguing foreign countries. 13

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Dr. Luil rates just after God and Roosevelt to the children in the Laboratory School. For that mat- ter, even college students. in the Education Depart- ment stand in awe of him. 12 HE SECOND YEAR Joe ventured into Science Hall, where he became some- what acquainted with physics as treated by Dr. S. W. Cram, an ardent applicant of the lever principle-with a fishing rod. Here he learned the general principles in- volved in mechanics, sound, and heat, and failed to assimilate the knowledge regard- ing the Wilson Cloud Chamber. Betty was taking psychology and even the eXplanations by the dignified Puri- tanic Ed Geldreich 0f the synapse, rod and cone principle of color blindness, and Pavlovts experiment with the dog to de- termine conditioned and unconditioned responses failed to help her understand the co-ordinated workings of the human mind and the human body. T WAS THE next semester that Betty and Joe attended the funeral services held for the library. The legislature had ap- prOpriated $250,000 for a new library and with great pomp and ceremony the Stu- dent Council had sponsored a wake to celebrate the occasion. Betty and J 0e still study in the poorly lighted, stuffy library -priorities, you know. Betty didntt enjoy the party as much as she should have. Her course in prin- ciples of geography from Guy A. Buzzard was worrying her as she tried to learn the geographical situations that produce great cities, when, as she eXplained it to Joe, all Buzzard points out to us is the end of his finger and- Joe needed a job, so he; approached Dean MacFarlane, dean of men, history teacher and news commentator tfrequent references to Scotch ancestors included at no extra casteprices for bag-pipe con- certs furnished upon requestL He got the job, sweeping out Albert Taylor Hall at five otclock in the morning under the supervision of oneof the schools many janitors. Betty was working in the general office C. P. Baber, head librarian, helped make the plans for the new library which we have not been al- lowed to build on account of material shortages. But we have not given up hOpe.

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14 tLefti Dr. Edwin J. Brown is one of the most versatile men on the campus. His interests include e.very- thing from poetry to professionail baseball. He and Mrs. Brown are seen often sponsoring all-schooll parties. tAbovei Dr. H. E. Schramu mel expounds one of his theories in his vigorous. way. His chief inter- ests in life are tests and his dog. tLefti Dr, M. Wesley Roper, head of the Sociology Department, is a much-envied faculty member. He has the most interesting experiences -and all under the title of ttSociou logical Experimentation? OPPOSITE PAGE: tLefti Dr. S. Winston Cram, head of the Physics Department, has been busy receiv- ing rattles: from students and pass- ing out cigars since the birth of his baby. tRighti Dr. J. W. Breukel- man is a lucky man. He has per- mission from the state to shoot any kind of bird, in or out of season. He is a friend and protector of non- poisonous snakes.