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

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Y. W. C. A. lvlerfs Club Twenty-six Campus Carnival Capers. Adeline Parker fHighlaudJ. Josephine Davis in the Y. W.'s most comfortable rocker. Henna Nawrocki fHigl1- landl. Tidy? Convention time at Wichita. The popular front stoop. Joyce Welsh fSeveranceJ. Billie Crabtree CHighla.ndj. Dinner at Hutch's. Robert Banner CWl1ite Cloudy. Charles Lyness CTroyJ. Norman Jones fTroyJ. Max Myers fwathenaj. Robert Hawks fHia- wathal.

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'tBonjours and the strains of 'tLa Marseillaisen echo- ing down the corridor announced each meeting of 'tLe Cer- cle Francais , a group of petite mademoiselles and beaux messieurs who assembled regularly to chatter or to stammer over their teacups. ' At the first few meetings, Mesdemoiselles Sterz and Neale conversed fluently, each second year student brushed the cobwebs from his memory, and the new members ex- ercised their newly acquired vocabnlaries. The total of this renaissance was, Je ne comprends pas , tl do not under- standj, and Je ne sais pas , tl do not knowj. VVith time and practice their conversational faculties developed, and they turned their thoughts to amateur dramlatics. The first venture was the French version of 'tThe Gratchit's Christmas Dinner, accompanied by bread, apple- sauce, and Monsieur Bell's timely remark, Voila le tele- phone . After the club had struggled through its first dramatic enterprise, it felt sufficiently self-confident to make its brilliant debut. and presented for convocation the comedy, t'Pauvre Sylvie tPoor Sylviaj. A piano solo and Monsieur Booth's melodious interpretation of 'tMa Reverien further ornamented the dramatic triumph of the club. At the annual evening meeting a man of French de- scent., Mr. Ralph Delmare ol' Atchison, spoke of his youth- ful difficulties. Ftegular meetings, picnics, and luncheons furnished ample opportunities to improve fluency of speech, to pro- mote international understandings. and to enjoy friendly social contacts-the goal ot' Le Gercle Francais. French The French Club carols. Emblems. Horseplay in drama. Twenty-five

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MEETINGS TUESDAY MOFQNINGS OFTLY padded benches for lounging, light monkscloth drapes waving in the breeze, tables for studying. a coat rack nobly bearing the weight ot' loo many wraps, scattered books, pencil stubs, wads of paper-these are all distinctive marks of the Y. EW. C. A. room. Regularly weekly meetings and monthly cabinet luncheons blazed the trail for a successful year of Hpromotin' l'. Girls from high schools in northeast Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska dodged raindrops as they rushed from meeting to meeting, banquet to barracks, breakfast to chapel. But of course a rain was expect- ed-in fact the girls would have been dis- appointed if it hadn't rained. Anyway, the Retreat, with its theme, t'Every Girl and Her Quest, was obviously success- ful. This year, for the first time, the club sent representatives to the Student Chris- tian Movement of America held at VVichi- ta. Our delegates were: Anna Mae Kern, Virginia Shoemaker, Hattie Smith, and Mrs. Van Scoyoc. The Cabinet was composed of Maxine Banta. presidentg Hattie Smith, vice-pres- identg Betty Stetler, secretaryg Betty Lou Davis, treasurer, Luella Poister, pianist, Mrs. Van Scoyoc, sponsor. Committee chairmen were: Virginia Shoemaker, Hen- na Nawrocki, Dorothy Denton, Mary Jane Hanny, Dorothy Albers, Anabel Ledington, Jeanne Ukena. On September 15, a large group of freshmen and sophomore men met 'lo re- organize the Men's Club of H. J. C. The program and the policies for the year were planned. After the launching ot' the club pro- gram, the more serious endeavors were intermingled with recreational consider- ations of a. soft ball and a volley ball tour- nament. One of the outstanding events of the year was the CCC sponsored jointly by the Y. VV. and the Men's Club. In De- cember the club supplied the convocation program, featuring a clown band with Batson as a guest artist. Joint meetings of the Y. W. and Men's Club were held once each semester. In every way t.he club was a success. The old study table was replaced by a larger table with desk writing lamps. Soft padded benches around the room increas- ed the scholastic standing ol' the members noticeably, for by increasing the sleep- ing facilities the boys reduced their ten- dency to sleep in class. The significant accomplishment of the Men's Club, how- ever, was the good fellowship promoted among its members. Twenty-seven