Independence Junior College - Inkanquil Yearbook (Independence, KS)

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LITERARY SOCIETY Top Row, Left to Right-Lanning, Gansel. Center Row-Dumbar, Salisbury, Gilmore Greenlee, Elder. Bottom Row-Brewster, Larery, Kratz, Shile. Literary Society Every member has entered into the spirit of the work, and almost every member has submitted work to be read at every meeting. -From the Inkanquil, 1926. Those, it seems, were the palmy days of the society. Now everyone is enthusiastic until he has been initiated. Since we are well organized, and have been acclaimed successful, we'don't have to work muchg moreover, the society is now affiliated with the Pen and Scoll Cwhich means that it has periodical tryouts, and that the members feel important and pay duesjg so like all who, after long labor, have attained the goal, we have retired, so to speak. Continuing the comparison, like the retired man who happily exhibits a successful busi- ness or manufacturing concern, we show, as a concrete result of our labors, a paper, The Lark, which flew high, and returning, brought a clear profit of fifty cents into our treasury. Having recently acquired three new members on whom the burden can be placed, we are anticipating another Lark, But do not think the literary society is not worth while. It is. What would we do dur- ing activity periods, if there were no literary society meeting? If that case were true, we might have to study. But most of us are sin- cere, some of us are even ambitious, a few have talent, and several are even willing to work. On the whole, we are above the aver- ageg and anyway, what is a school without a literary society? There is but little else to say regarding the literary society. It is here, and it is here to stay. It was brought into existence only af- ter a long, hard fight against all odds con- ceivable, and it is not a thing that will go without a harder fight than the one which brought it into being. -Kathryn Kratz. Page 17

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L. GIRLS' GLEE CLUB Top Row, Left to Right-Brighton, Clemens, Ellsworth, Krebs, Calkins. Center Row-Featherngill, Wylie, Hardy, V. Dunbar, Bassett, W. Dunbar. Bottom Row-Brandenburg, Gansel, Bowen, Stark, Sturges, Mangan, Budke. GIRLS' GLEE CLUB This, the second year for the girls' glee club in the Independence junior college, was decidedly successful for this musical organi- zation. The club won recognition with the beautiful little operetta, The Quest of the Gypsy, which it presented with the aid of the boys' quartette. This operetta was given in college chapel, as well as on the booster trips made into the territorry surrounding Independence to advertise the college. The Middy Maids, another operetta, was equally successful, and great credit is due Miss Hazel Helen Hardy, who directed the club. The personnel of the glee club is- First sopranos: Mildred Clemens, Grace Mangan, Vida Dunbar, Ruth Wylie, Beula Bowen, Ruth Budke. Second sopranos: Charlotte Ellsworth, Wil- da Dunbar, Rachel Gansel, Alice Feathern- gill. Altos: Audrey Stark, Dorothy Sturges, Al- ene Bassett, Elizabeth Brighton, Vera Calk- ins. Accompanist: Nina Krebs. -Alice Featherngill. BOYS' QUARTETTE The boy's quartette for this year deserves especial praise, not only because of the fact that its members have rendered some exceed- ingly good musical numbers in the college chapels, and have ,done their bit toward ad- vertising their college to the outside World, but for the fact that they have persevered and continued to work in the face of many ad- verse circumstances. They had no special time in which to meet for practice and there was a lack of interest Cthough not on their partsb. Members of the quartette assisted in presenting The Quest of the Gypsy, pre- sented by the girls' glee club, and in which Wallace Scott and Millard Knock sang lead- ing parts, in the roles of the Gypsy Man and the Country Boy, respectively. Millard Knock sings first tenor in the quartette, Floyd Colburn second tenor, Wal- lace Scott baritone, and Verlin Ringle bass. BOYS' QUARTETTE Left to Right-Knock, Colburn, Scott, Ringle. Page 16

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. Y. M. C. A. Left to Right- Bullock, Heckert, Potter, Sanders Y. M. The college Y. M. C. A. was a mythical or- ganization the first semester of the school year. Most of the cabinet-elect did not re- turn in the fall, and the school was without the organization the first of the year. By the middle of the first semester, how- ever, the newness and disorder had worn off, and considerable sentiment was voiced on the part of college men in favor of a Men's Association. Things and activities had been in a bad state of affairs, and there was need for leadership in the men's activities. A meeting was called by Profesor Kirby one evening and a cabinet was elected. It was composed of the following: Harold Bullock, Jack Sanders, Bob Heckert, and Ted Potter. Plans were outlined for the remainder of the Page 18 C.A year, and among the results were several important events. There was a stag hike for college men only, a Y. M.-Y. W. party, and an all-school outing. Another feature of Y. M. activities has been the Wednesday weekly meetings. These were held in the mornings, before school, and they proved a source of inspiration to all who attended. We make no apologies for the organization this year, although we were only partially successful, due to the fact that we were labor- ing under handicapsg but we firmly hope that the men may have another and more success- ful association during the coming year. -Harold Bullock.