Kansas City Kansas Community College - Owaissa Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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THE JAYHAWK Page 17 Speech Festival Six Junior College speech enthusi- asts and their coach, Miss Mary Ellis Graham, attended the State Junior College Speech Festival April 6 and 7 at El Dorado. Eighty-five students from nine junior colleges throughout the state entered the speech contests. The ratings given were based on a QU Superior, C25 Excellent, CU Good, and C41 Fair, grading scale. Junior College, represented by twelve entries, received three Supe- riors, eight Excellents, and one Good. Harry Schanker received the only Superior in Poetry Reading and a Superior in Interpretive Reading. Harry also rated an Excellent in the Bible Reading event. Derlene Meyer received a Superior in Story Telling and ranked as the best story teller in the festival. She received an Excellent rating for her Original Oration and was asked to make a recording of it for the chair- man of the division. Carol Cawood received Excellents in both the Poetry Reading and In- terpretive Reading divisions of com- petition. Robert Dunnuck's After-Dinner peech not only received an Excel- ent rating but was chosen as one f those that were given at the eve- ing banquet. V Two Excellents were received by ill Sanchez for his Original Oration nd his Oratorical Declamation. Mary Ellen Driver earned an Ex- ellent for her Story Telling entry nd a Good for her Bible Reading. Each participant received a certi- cate of award giving his rating. Brotherhood Panel Honoring Brotherhood Week Feb- uary 18-25, the Speech II class under he direction of Miss Mary Ellis Gra- am, held a panel discussion on World rotherhood and the spread of big- try. David Gilman, chairman, pre- ided over the panel, composed of hree sophomores and two freshmen. embers were: Gayle Granberg, rances Fagan, Bob Dunnuck, and erlene Meyer. Miss Granberg and Mr. Dunnuck, ho discussed the causes for bigotry, ere followed by Miss Fagan, who old how bigotry can be squelched. he last speaker, Miss Meyer, told hat great strides have been made oward world brotherhood through BROTHERHOOD PANEL Robert Dunnuck, Frances Fagan, Gayle Granberg, Derlene Meyer SPEECH FESTIVAL STANDING: Robert Dunnuck, Bill Sanchez. SEATED: Harry Schanlcer, Carol Cawood, joan McFadden, Derlene Meyer, Mary Ellen Driver. AAVNvmA the United Nations and other govern- mental organizations. The central thought of the panel was not only to live and let live, but to live and help live. Two weeks after the discussion was held before the student body of Jun- ior College, the panel talked for the History Club of Kansas City, Kansas. On April 12, they were invited to speak before the Wyandotte County UNESCO, and were received with great enthusiasm. Dean J. F. Wellemeyer had to re- fuse other calls for the group to speak before club and church groups be- cause of interference with the stu- dents' work and studies.

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Page 1 6 THE JAYHAWK PLAY CAST STANDING: Harry Schanker, Bill Sanchez, jim Tice, jack Haden. SEATED: Woodyne Bengtson Mann, McFadden. jean Johnston, Frances Fagan, joan - .vvvv Delta Psi Omega The Sigma Alpha cast of Delta Psi Omega, national dramatics fra- ternity, initiated ten new members on January 8. The students had become candidates after the presentation of Suspect, in which they did out- standing acting or production com- mittee work. An examination board consisting of Mrs. Berneice I-Ioudek and Miss Christine .Wenrich of the faculty ad- mitted the following candidates: Carol Cawood, Carole Kobets, Jean Johnston, Harry Schanker, Jim Crates, Jim Tice, Jack Haden, Lois Henry, Sue Peniston, and Bill San- chez. The cast members elected ofhcers as follows: Harry Schanker, presi- dent: Jack Haden, vice-president, and Carol Cawood, secretary. The group had its first activity of the season when the members formed a line party to see the University of Kansas City Playhouse production of Cyrano de Bergerac, January 14. March 1 was set aside as Delta Psi Omega Day in tribute to the national organization. As a symbol of recogni- tion, the members wore a pink rose, the flower of the fratemity. Woodyne Bengtson Mann and Fran- ces Fagan, who became members af- ter last year's production Jane Eyre, were the fraternity's only second- year participants. Later in the spring a dinner party was held after which the group at- tended a stage play. The group is sponsored by Miss Mary Ellis Graham. uSuspect The Junior College Players pro- duction of the suspenseful drama, Suspect, kept the audience on the edge of their seats until the final curtain came down. The plot lay in the probing of a shrewd newspaper magnate into an unsolved murder that had occurred thirty-tive years before. It was not until the last second of action that the audience could be absolutely cer- tain who had really committed the famous VVishart Nlurders. The cast: Mrs. Smith .......... Woodyne Bengtson Robert Smith ...................... Jack Haden Sir Hugo Const ........... Harry Schanker Lady Const .................... Frances Fagan Goudie ........,.. ......... J can Johnston Dr, Rendle ,,.,.......,............ Bill Sanchez Janet Rendle .............. Joan McFadden Rev. Combermere .................. Jim Tice The committee chairmen were as follows: Stage, Jim Cratesg Proper- ties, Lois Henryg Make-up, Jim Tice: Tickets, Carole Kobetsg Programs, Carol Cawood, and Advertising, Sue Peniston. Carol Cawood served as the script reader and the entire production was under the direction of Miss Mary Ellis Graham. fv-- AA,vvJv-vN DELTA PSI OMEGA STANDING: Bill Sanchez, Woodyne Bengston Mann, Frances Fagan. SEATED: Harry Schanker, Carol Cawood, Jack Haden, Carole Kobefs. Jim Crates.

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Page 18 THE JAYHAWK .. i , ni 5ii 'f:' .. A RADIO PRODUCTION STANDINIG: jeff Hampton, jerry McLaughlin, William Kerr, Victor Peck, Wally Smith, Don Ayers, jack Haden, Bill Sanchez, Roy Swearengin, Mary Cederland, Carole Kobets. SEATED: Mary Yulich, joan McFadden, Doris Yendes, Frances Fagan, Carol Cawood, Eleanor Straub. POETRY CONTEST Carol Cawoocl, jack Haden, Mitzi Hurt. wvvw. AAAA VV Cover Design This year's JAYHAWK cover de- sign, drawn by Jim Tice, was chosen from a group of seven submitted for consideration, by a committee com- posed of faculty members and stu- dents. The contest closed April 6 when the committee met to make its decision. Mr. Neal Evans, Biology instructor, was chairman of the committee. Other members were: Faculty-Mrs. Ber- neice Houdek, Mr. Herman Grundy, and Dean J. F. Wellemeyerg Students Radio Production In its second year as a Junior College speech course, Radio Pro- duction attracted twenty-six students who were interested in radio tech- nique. Among the bi-weekly performances over station KCKN, four were out- standing: the National Education Week program, There Were Voices in the Land g a beautiful Christmas story, The Juggler of Our Lady g a program in behalf of the Wyandotte County Tuberculosis Association, Education of Hilda g and the fa- mous morality play, Everyman For each broadcast there was a student director who chose his pro- gram, selected a cast, and arranged for practice, under the guidance of the instructor, Miss Mary Ellis Gra- ham. John Masefield Poetry Reading Contest One of the most interesting ac- tivities of the dramatics class was poetry reading contest conducted ac cording to the contest plan devised by John Maselield to be used in the Speech Festivals of England. The entire class read poetry i the first round. From this reading four of the best readers were chose to read in the second round. Two o these readers were chosen for th third round from which one bes reader was chosen, Mitzi Hurt, Caro Cawood, Jack Haden, and Willia Sanchez were the second roun readers. Mitzi Hurt and Jack Hade were chosen for the third round o reading--Jack coming out the victor Poems of Carl Sandburg were use for the first roundg poems of Am Lowell and Robert Frost for the sec ond reading, and Edwin Markham' A'Lincoln, the Man of the People wa used in the third round. The judges were Dean J. F. Welle meyer, Mr. Herbert Ragsdale, an Miss Christine Wenrich. t -William Strumillo, Jack Haden and Mary Margaret Hurt. Those submitting designs were Victor Peck, Jim Tice, Harry Schanker, Joe Solis, and Walt Has, kins. All the designs were suitable fo: the booklet and all were so attrac- tive that the committee had a dif- ficult time in making a selection. Jin' was awarded a box of chocolates b the Jayhawk staff. Others who en tered the contest will receive extr copies of the booklet.