Highland Community College - Trail Blazer Yearbook (Highland, KS)

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Engineers Howard Fralin QSu1nme1'fieldJ. Raymond Wagner fTroy5. Howard Batchelder KHiawathaJ. Wai-ren Sechler lLeonaJ. John Gilmore lHighlandJ. A physics lab. Going my way? Eugene Loyd iHia- wathab. Harold Gilmore CHigh1andJ and 'Warren Corbet fHighlandJ. Julian Nelson fTroyJ. David Batchelder CHiawathay. Alvin Ackei' LHighlandJ. They'1'e in the navy now. Warreli Schwab CBendenaJ.

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A PROVERB FOR UTOPIA If we could stand back and 'Swatch ourselves go by, how amused and cliagrined we would be at our antics and capers! ttNew models would speedily blos- som t'orth as soon as analyses of skin, hair, personality, etc., could he made, and pro- cesses of tearing down and reconstructing had been completed. If we frowned, dragged ourselves list- lessly from class to class, or slumped in our seats, we would certainly have some improvements to make. VVe would soon acquire, with persistence, a swing to the step, a sparkle to the eye, and warmth to the smile. Mannerisms would speedily be dis- carded with other old habits, voices would be re-modulatedg fluttering, awkward gestures of hands would be replaced by graceful, soothing motions. All affeeta- lions would be abandoned for their ab- surdity. Little girls would brush their hair, and little boys might evien wash rtheir faces. What an unnatural world ours would be if all this could be brought about, but the latter is doubtful. MORAL: If you Want to keep on being fperfectlyl happy, don't try to see yourself as others see you! PER ASPEIQA There was a day when- lt took all day to make a trip to and from 'town in the horse and buggy, the driver could go to sleep, and yet the horse would arrive home safely without guid- ance. VVomen wore rats in their hair, learned how to play the piano, sew, cook, and keep house. They were married and lived happily ever after. People went to church and Sunday school, were hospitable, and had ten and twenty guests to dinner each Sunday. The meals were huge and wholesome. People owned big farms and were prosperous twe are toldl, but were conservative and saved their money. The gentleman called at the door for his lady friend and assisted her to the buggy. In that day no one knew of swing, radio political addresses, the New Deal, or cod-liver oil capsules. Financial troubles, nervous breakdowns, alarm clocks, and for so we're toldj term papers in every class had not yet. come into existence. Folks went early to bed and early did rise, lived happily and simply, and always wished their neighbors A Merry Christ- mas and A Happy New Year. Then came to-day, when- Autos zip down the road approach- ing the corovzcf' at 60 m. p. li., and trains are being streamlined so t.hat they can beat the autos to the crossings. The boy friend impatiently honks a car horn in front of the house till t.he girl friend rush- es out. People go golfing or fishing on Sunday, and eat dinners out of cans and sacks. - Next-door neighbors are bare ac- quaintances, and may speak to each other if they aren'l rushing from a bridge party to a committee meeting. Home is a con- venient place to go bet.ween parties. Gon- versation is limited to the weather. People read 'tGone VVith the VVind, talk in puns, patronize beauty salons, and buy on the in- stallment plan. This is an age of breaking broken records by air and land and sea. lt is the age of women in business, of divorces, after-dinner speeches, societies and clubs, jazz, slang, modern poetry, psychoanalysts, political bosses, reform- ers, and alphabeticism. If you still think life is a trail worth blazing, Vile agree with you. Fifteen

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SINF, CCDSINF AND TANGENT NGINEERS-the second largest group enrolled in any one course in Highland .Junior College-have a language all their own. t'Sine, cosine, tangent, differential, integral, focus, quan- tum, these words and many others they speak sound to outsiders like Hottentot gibberish. Miss Culbertson is the only woman who can attempt to understand them tthere are no women engineers, you knowj and even she cannot understand somle of the engineers' crack-brained theories. The engineers' course consists primarily of math, chem, math, physics, math, and math. From this, one logically deduces that many of our mathematical geniuses emerge l'rom the engineering de- partment. It has often been said that an engin- eer has a one-track mind, that he thinks only in concrete terms, of mass, length, velocity, energy-in short, only in terms of engineering. The '39 Engineers of H. J. C. have irrefutably proved that their in- terests are many and diversified. Let us consider for a moment the hypothetical situation of H. J. C. without engineers. Think of the Highlander and the Trail Blazer without Loyd, the quartet without Parsons, a play without Mully, a basket- ball game without its quoto of Engineers. What. would a party, a darkroom session, thc Camera Club, the Men's room cushions, the Y. W. room, or the bowling alley be without engineers? Our engineers are en- gaged in every line of activity in the col- lege. Without our engineers, travel would suffer a serious decline, for twith due deference to the journalism departmentj some of our most noted hitch-hikers are engineers. From Texas to North Dakota, from Illinois to California, the gently in- sistent thumbs of our engineers have made their way. One common characteristic betrays every engineer. It distinguishes him from all others, it is a mark of gentility by which one may always know him. He is always broke. No matter when, no mat- ter where, no matter how happy, he is broke. Why? Because he is an engineer. Every engineer has two ambitions: one, to finish his formal education at Kansas State, two, to attend the Open House at Manhattan when he is a sopho- more here. Fate nor :fortune may not al- ways permit, but always he strives to satisfy these ambitions. This year on Senior Day, the Engin- eers of H. J. C. held their own miniature 'tOpen House. Visiting seniors were treat- ed to demonstrations of everything from the accidental receiving of an electric shock to the mysteries of a photo-elec- tric cell. They will ever carry on their search for the solution of mysteries. Seventeen