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

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CAMERA CLUB Back Row: Mildred Parks, Berniece Denton, Miss Sterz, Donald Loyd, Maurice Batson. Betty Rex Davis. Front Row: Marion Waggoner, Ester Wollen, Mary Ellen Gilmore, Silvia Johnson, Virginia Meyer. Camera THE COLLEGE CAMERA CLUB was organized in 1938 to work with the Trail Blazer staff in obtaining the informal pictures for the year- book. Miss Sterz, who was appointed sponsor of the group. busied herself during the first year in learning to use her camera. while the darkroom work was left to several boys. The club prog'1'essed so rapidly last year that it was decided to add a well fitted dark room to the club equipment. To gain experience, each member was required to expose and develop his own film. In addition the club developed films for other students to pay for the darkroom equipment and to make the club selt'-supporting. The members met the second and fourth Thursdays of each mouth to dis- cuss impersonally the good and bad points of their pictures and to hear summaries of instructive articles on photography. They exper- imented with flood lights and portrait and filter afttachments for superior pictures. A club bulletin hoard was installed on which stu- dent pictures were placed and reprints of these pictures were made and sold. President - - - Mary Ellen Gilmore Vice-President - - - Virginia Myer Secretary - - - Betty Rex Davis Sponsor - - - Miss Sterz Club

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Highlander THE HIGHLANDER, the college paper, is published by the student staff under the guidance of the sponsor. Miss Sterz. The ot'l icial col- lege paper was first published in 1857 and is one ot' the oldest publi- cations of its kind in the state. The paper started under the name ot' Nuncio and has existed since then under the titles ot' Newsletter and Highlander. The student reporters persistently trail the college news and alumni notes and catch the choice bits of gossip for their columns. Other students sell ad space and secure publicity write ups for our school in other papers. These plus lengthy press conferences with an ener- getic sponsor have enabled the staft' to publish the Highlander every f our weeks. To record the little things and the big ones which make up a well rounded school life, to give the prejournalism students a taste ol' newspaper work, and to enable the alumni to keep in touch with the college are the goals ol' the Higlilander sta.l't'. Editor ---- - - Eugene Loyd - Della May Thomas - Betty Ann Shear Assistant. Editor - Business Manager - SDOHSOI' ---- s - - Miss Sterz HIGHLANDER STAFF Back Row: Marjorie Sawyer, Mary Ellen Gilmore, Virginia Van Bebber, Virginia Shoe- maker, Della May Thomas, Eugene Jones, Romney Ketterman, Charles Lyness. Front Row: Miss Sterz, Paul Veach, Eugene Loyd, Maurice Batson, Helen Richards, Betty Ann Shear. TVVEYHLY-tl'lI'6G

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French Club LE GERGLE FRANCAIS, an organization composed of fifteen French students, is an active group of young people. Its purpose is to gain interest in French and to improve its members' conversational ability. This group meets the first and third VVednesday afternoons of each month, and meetings are conducted in French. This year at the Jan- uary meeting the members gave Le Diner de Noel , an excerpt in play form from Dicken's The Christmas Carol. One of the unusual meetings was the opportunity to attend the movie Mayerling at Atchison. At another time the students enjoyed a supper together where the conversation was all in French. The Cercle also presented a French play Qui a Laisse Les Fleursw at con- vocation. It is an animal custom for the club to have as its guest a speaker of direct French descent or a. brilliant French student who gives a. lecture to the members in French. The students in this club carry on correspondence with young men and young women in France who are studying English. President - - Barbara Beans Secretary - - Ann Lee Nelson Treasurer - - Marilee Nelson Sponsor - - - Miss Sterz FRENCH CLUB Back Row: Eugene Loyd, Eugene Jones, Maurice Batson, Neal Ukena. Middle Row: Marjorie Sawyer, Bette Lee Smith. Charlotte Bunuell, Mary Ellen Gilmore, Betty Rex Davis, Virginia Van Bebber, Miss Sterz, Front Row: Ann Lee Nelson, Barbara Beans, Marilee Nelson. Twenty-five