Independence Junior College - Inkanquil Yearbook (Independence, KS)

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Dmmatics The Independence junior college does not have a special department of dramaticsg nev- erless, students and faculty have kept up a good deal of interest in the amateur pro- ductions of plays. Several plays, all of a good type, have been presented, and these have given ample opportunity for the dra- matic talent of the college. Most of the productions have been under the direction of Miss Austin of the college faculty, although valuable assistance has been given by Miss Ingleman of the high school dramatic department, who has always been willing to help the college students. The first play staged by the college was Mrs, Partridge Presents, a comedy in three acts given in May of last year. This was a typical college play, and required a great deal of work from the characters for its production. The cast of characters was as follows: Ellen, the maid-Josephine Blades. Philip Partridge-George Allred. Delight Partridge-Verna Perkins. Stephen Applegate-Wallace Scott. Maisie Partridge-Rachel Gansel. Katherine Everett-Ruth Wylie. Sydney Armstead-James Gilmore. Charles Ludlow-John Pinkston. Clementine-Wilma Allen. Miss Hamilton-Dorothy Joines. Madame La Fleur-Beatrice DeVore. Among the big successes of this year was the Creaking Chair. In this play both col- lege and high school students took part, and both Miss Austin and Miss Ingleman directed in the production. It included the best talent of both schools. It was a superb mystery play thrilling the audience to the final cur- tain. It is judged one of the best plays ever staged by the Independence school system. College students in the cast of the Creak- ing Chair were: Anita, Latter's wife-Tessianna Blakeslee. Silvia, Latter's daughter-Rachel Gansel. Philip Speed, a journalist-Frank Clam- pitt. Egyptian-Karl Feldman. Edwin Latter, an archaeologist-James Gilmore. The annual college play presented for this Page 20 year was The Dover Road . This was a real college play, and the cast called for highly skillful talent. Miss Austin, assisted by Miss Ingleman, coached the play. The plot in this play centers about a Mr. Latimer, an ec- centric gentleman, who considers himself Quite an authority on the science of matri- mony. His great delight is to capture elop- ers and by detaining them in his home show the two lovers to one another in the most unromantic light. Such a plot gives much room for action and there is a grand mixup as a result of Mr. Latimer's provoking policy. The play was altogether a big success. The cast of characters was as follows: The House Domenic-Alford Prescott. The Staff-Ruth Wylie, Harold Shile, Millard Knock. Latimer-James Gilmore. The Guests Leonard- Wallace Scott. Anne-Alice Featherngill. Nicholas-Floyd Colburn. Eustasia-Bernice Shile. In addition to the three major plays, col- lege talent gleamed forth in several smaller productions. At the college Christmas par- ty, held in the basement of Nees Hall, was presented one of Shakespeare's most stirring tragedies. Well, yes, it followed rather close the original manuscript, but there were a few alterations made during the process of production. With due respect to Mr. Shake- speare the title Hamlet was changed to Ome- let. The names of the characters were also changed to meet the occasion. Also, con- trary to all known precedent in Shakespear- ean dramatics, the gifted stars were per- mitted to exercise their vocal abilities in the rendition of these once famous lines. Harold Shile outshone even John Barrymore in his interpretation of the diflicult role of Omelet. Several of our learned profs readily admit- ted they had never heard such yelling, not even from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera Company. The W. A. A. also sponsored a short play which they presented in chapel. This was a play without words. In view of this fact it was well received by the student body and only the agonized expressions of the actors 'told the painful story.

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Y. W. C. A. Left to Right-Bowen, Wylie, Gansel, Krebs. Y. W. The Y. W. C. A. began its year's program with unusual spirit and enthusiasm last fall, and let everyone know it was in existence. At the very beginning of the school term, the Y. W., together with the Y. M., gave a party which proved a social ice-breaker in I. J. C. But the Y. W. C. A. was not only enthusias- tic regarding the social affairs of the school, but also about the helpfulness of the club. The new cabinet was installed promptly, and a year of beneficial and enjoyable pro- grams were begun. At the first Y. W. C. A. meeting of the year, Supt. J. H. Clement ad- dressed the club, and this proved one of the most instructive and inspirational gatherings of the organization. A very original meeting in charge of Bernice Shile was the one in which a well known newspaper was blue- penciled to display the upward and down- ward trends of modern journalism. The pro- grams varied greatly this year: they ranged from exhortation by prospective mis- sionaries to well-presented music recitals. The Y. W., again assisted by the Y. M., pre- sented one of the peppiest of the college chapels this year. At Christmas time, the Y. W. aided in stag- ing a party for the Mexicans children living in and around Independence. Each Y. W. girl was given the name of one of the little Mex- icans for whom she was to plan a gift, and those girls who attended the party felt re- paid for the effort to which they had been put by the joy their work brought the child- ren. C, A. The college Y. W. assisted in the spring Vesper service. Also several of th girls took part by singing, ushering, or by acting -in the pageant. Mrs. Sanford, the director, highly complimented the girls upon the service they had rendered. The college girls' rest room was made possible only as the result of effort put forth by the college Y. W. C. A. And although the room is as yet inadequately furnished, it af- fords a little nook that the college girls can feel is really their own. With the enthusiasm that is shown now, it is certain that next year will bring improvements in this san- ctuary not even dreamed of now. Last year a representative was sent from the Independence junior college to the state Y. W. C. A. conference, but never until this year has the club planned to send a delegate to the conference at Estes Park. The delegate, however, has not been selected as yet, but it is certain that the club will be better for having sent her, and it is expecting her to bring back workable plans for its betterment. The Independence club has adopted the national college Y. W. C. A. constitution, which makes the local organization a full- fledged college club. And as it follows the rules of this constitution, it is sure to con- tinue to grow, and to hold not only the inter- est of the girls who compose it membership, but that of the college as a whol :. - -Ruth Johnson Page ,19

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W. A. A. Left to Right-Featherngill, Gansel, Lanning, Wylie, Brighton WOMEN'S ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION Last spring a group of college women in- terested in the future of women's athletics in the Independence Junior College met and formed an organization which was destined to become a chapter of the national W. A. A. It is now a chapter of the national organiza- tion, and credits earned in the local club may be transferred to chapters at any other col- lege having a W. A. A. club. The officers of the Independence club are- Ruth Wylie, president, Alice Featherngill, vice president, Rachel Gansel, secretary, and Elizabeth Brighton, treasurer. Heading the departments of the various sports are-Beu- la Bowen, swimming, Blanche Harris, hik- ingg Rachel Gansel, tennis, Cleta May Elder, basketballg and Elizabeth Scott, health chart. Prof. Alice May Austin is sponsor for the local club. Any woman in college is eligible to mem- bership in the W. A. A., provided she is pas- sing in ten hours of college Work, and has earned a hundred points in accomplishing work required for members. Two hundred and fifty points entitle a girl to a W. A. A. emblem, eight hundred to a sweater, and an additional hundred to a chevron. The points may be made by playing tennis, basketball, hiking, swimming, dancing, bowling, and keeping health charts. Fifty points are a- warded to those making a team, or for a cap- taincy. A tennis tournament has been planned for this spring, and the two girls who go to the final matches in this contest will compose the tennis team which will meet other junior college teams. Hikes of three, five, seven and a half and ten miles have been made by members of the Independence club, with pic- nics in connection with some of them. A point a mile is given as credit for hiking, and the girls must walk at an average rate of three miles an hour. Once this year, the club hiked to Bolton, Kansas, and it is be- ing prophesied that local hikers may reach Cherryvale and other neighboring cities, this spring. Each Tuesday night after school, the swimming pool in the high school building is kept open for members of the W. A. A., and this has been a great help to many of the girls in earning additional points. One point is awarded for each hour of swim- ming, and one hour is the maximum time the girls are allowed to remain in the pool. Instruction is given those who can not swim by comrades versed in aquatic lore, or by Miss Zella Spradling, school swimming instructor. Several of the W. A. A. girls are working on the Red Cross life-saving tests, and it is probably that there will be several proclaimed life-savers from the group of aspirants. This is the first year a girls' basketball team has existed in the college, and under the leadership of Elizabeth Brighton, the first team has been very successful. Bowl- ing, although new as a sport here among the college girls, has several followers. Five points are given for each game bowled. The W. A. A. health chart is made up of six health rules which everyone should prac- tice, and any girl who follows any four of the rules every day for a month is given twelve points. If she keeps the chart for three suc- cessive months, she is awarded fifty extra points. t The outstanding social activity of the W. A. A. was a banquet given in honor of the foot- ball team at the close of the season last fall, and this function was followed by an all- school reception. The W. A. A. also engin- eered other social activities, such as skating parties, moonlight hikes and hayrack rides. Page 21