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

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Page 24 THE JAY!-:AWK JUNIOR COLLEGE MEN IN SERVICE SGT. K. M. FENDORF Co. B. 187 R.C.T. A.P.O 301 cfo P.M. San Francisco, Calif PFC. CHARLES A. HARRIS AF 17321641 3565th Maintenance Sqdn. james Connelly Air Force Base Waco, Texas PFC. HAROLD D. FAST AF 17289278 6923rd -Personnel Processing Sqdn.' Brooks Air Force Base San Antonio. Texas AIC RICHARD P. TRAST AF l72B2618 Unit P.O. No. 1, Box 1148 Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas PETER R. WERP, E.T.S.R. 345-59-30 U.S.N.T.C., Co 51-192 San Diego, Califomia WILLIAM R. ZEMITES AA 345-39-73 N.A.T.T.C. Olathe, Kansas PVT. RICHARD A. KLASINSKI R:A. 17321771 Co. C, 15th A.I.B. Sth Armored Division Camp Chaffee, Arkansas PVT. LEROY E. CORNWELL 3380th Installation Sqdn. Keesler Air Force Base Mississippi PVT. GEORGE R. BARTLETT AF 17299128 3310 Technical Tng. Group 3317 Student Sqdn. Box 62 Scott Air Force Base, Illinois PVT. MICHAEL L. SPAIGI-IT AF 17322762 3747 Tmg. Sqdn. 3740 B.M.T.G. Flight 1058 Sheppard Air Force Base Wichita Falls, Texas PVT. VERNON R. COOPER AF 17322760 3747 Trng. Sqdn. 3740 B.M.T.G. Flight 1058 Sheppard Air Force Base Wichita Falls, Texas PFC. LESTER A. BRUNKER AF 17299068 Headquarters Bn Headquarters Sqdn. 3545 P.T.W. Base Goodfellow Air Force Base San Angelo, Texas PFC. ROBERT PRITCHETT AF 17299010 3468 Student Sqdn. F. E. Warren Air Force Base Cheyenne, Wyoming CPL. EARL C. STANTON AF 17289333 Box 1452 Vance Air Force Base Enid. Oklahoma ROY J . BOWERS 5701 Warrington Avenue Philadelphia 43, Pa. STEVE F. YARSULIK AA 277-35-89 B.O.Q. U.S.N.A.S. Olathe, Kansas PVT. VICTOR W. JACKSON US 55054688 Co' nA,, 17th A.E.B. Fort Hood, Texas TOWN HOUSE AND BROTHERHOOD BUILDING Adding to the desirability of jun- ior College as a meeting place for teachers' meetings, conventions, and student affairs is the new Town House hotel built by the people of Kansas City, Kansas, and located just two blocks east of the Horace Mann building. ' The Town House, now nearing completion, will in future years, be the site for student affairs such as formal parties and banquets. It can be used to house guests for the track meets, basketball, tennis, and golf toumaments, also YMCA-YWCA and iorensic conferences. For years Junior College has been handicapped by not having suhicient housing facilities to ask other colleges to hold conventions here. Now the residents of Kansas City have sup- plied that need in the Town House. Another attraction is the new Brotherhood Building just one-half block east of our campus. Besides being convenient to our college site, it is the place of employment for many Junior College students. The building is also a shopping center, being a miniature city with all its little shops on the first Hoor. The attractiveness of the building is enhanced by the Terrace Club on the top floor which has a beautiful ter- ace that can be seen from our campus. These two new building are sym- bolic of the growth of our city and of our college. -FRANCES FAGAN. PVT. JAMES ROYER 2610 Arm. Camp Chaffee, Arkansas LT. ARTHUR L. LINDBERG, USAF Pacific Division Military Air Transport Service Hickam Air Force Base Honolulu PVT. DONALD G. COCHRAN .US 55088910 Btry, D, 2nd F.A. Tng. Bn. lst F.A. Tng. Gr., F.A. R.T.C. Fort Sill, Oklahoma 1ST LT. JOHN D. STEWART AO 699870 B.O.Q. Box 3304 Randolph Field, Texas v,wvs Counselors from Other Colleges In response to invitations from the guidance department, four Kansas colleges sent representatives to Jun- ior College in March and April to confer with students who wished to gain information about further edu- cation. Colleges included were Kansas University, Kansas State College, Emporia State Teachers College, and Pittsburg State Teachers College. Dean Paul Lawson of the College of Liberal Arts of the University of Kansas spoke on the topic Today Is a Good Day, when he addressed the student body at an all-school convocation April 16. The four other deans from K.U. who visited junior College with Dr. Lawson were: Assistant Dean of Women, Martha Petersen: Assistant Dean of Men, Dr. Donald Aldersong Dean of Fine Arts, Thomas Gorton, and Dean of Engineering, T. DeWitt Carr. Emporia State Teachers College was represented by George A. Com- stock, Director of Student Personnel Services, and Herman B. Boehr of the Commerce Department. Dr. Clay Deford, public relations supervisor of Pittsburg State Teach- ers College, visited junior College April 26. Kansas State College sent as rep- resentatives Dean Margaret Justin of the Home Economics department and Dr. M. A. Durland of the School of Engineering. Many students took advantage of these opportunities to learn more about the four year colleges in Kansas.

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THE JAYHAWK Page 23 Governor Edward F. Arn, Alumnus Edward F. Am was not born in a log cabin, nor did he chop down a cherry tree,-but through his perse- verance and keen desire to succeed, he overcame obstacles and attained the high honor of being elected as chief executive of the state of Kan- sas. Because of the death of his father, he and his mother both worked to support themselves. He did so even while he attended Lowell grade school and Wyandotte high school in his home town, Kansas City, Kansas. Twenty-five years ago Ed Arn was a freshman at junior College, study- ing mathematics, English, and chem- istry in the classes of Miss Lucy Dougherty, Miss Christine Wenrich, and Mr. W. F. Asendorf. Although he was working at the time, Ed Arn received above average grades, served on the Student Council, and entered many other school activities. As an athlete Ed Am may be better known as the fullback on the foot- ball team and a guard on the basket- ball squad of 1927. He also entered the annual tennis tournaments in the singles and doubles divisions of play. Several stories have been recorded conceming Gov. Arn's days on the Junior College athletic teams. He re- ceived his football letter at an oyster supper at which he and two team- mates recited a new version of Mary Had a Little Lamb. The 1927 basketball team was con- sidered to be a rowdy group, but hey felt safe for one time during he year when they played in Iola here Ed Arn's uncle was chief of olice. Another tale is told in the 1927 ayhawk: Well, the gang arrived at entworth at just about game time nd found that their suits were all ied up like rag dolls. Someone had oured water in Ed Arn's case, so he ntered the HOCT all wet. It was during the 1926 football eason that the Junior College team ame was changed from the Blue- irds to the Blue Devils. Ed Arn was business manager of he Owaissa, the school annual, and ssistant business manager of the 'Scrawl, a Junior College magazine. During his two years at Junior ollege Ed Am attended many dances nd parties and must have been very UMNI light on his feet, for he was chosen as the dancer on a poll taken to determine the Answer to a Maiden's Prayer. He brought his dramatic abilities to the surface when he became the hero and perfect lover of The Mellerdrammaf' a play in which he a-salted the villain and won his lady love. In reply to a letter sent by a member of the Jayhawk staff, Gov- ernor Arn said: Nearly twenty-Five years after I had graduated from Junior College I was campaigning in Lawrence and at a meeting there I was so happy that it nearly brought tears to my eyes, for I saw two of my Junior College instructors, Lucy T. Dough- erty and Christine Wenrich. Although nearly a quarter of a century had elapsed, neither of them had changed a bit. They had maintained, as they always will, that intellectual sparkle, pleasant and even-tempered person- ality, so typical of the faculty of KCKJC. The acquaintances I made there with both fellow students and faculty made a lasting impression, and I can only say that of all my school days, those at junior College were the most enjoyable. Edward F. Arn I Govemor, State of Kansas Govemor Arn will retum to Junior College May 23 to deliver the grad- uation address. Alumni Awards A Junior College alumnus, Bob Mackish '48 and former student, Vic- tor Jackson '47 have-both been reci- pients of awards at Fort Hood, Texas. Both of the boys, 'now privates in the army, were mentioned promi- nently in a recent issue of the Fort's paper, The Half-T-rack. ., Private Mackish, a former star of the Blue Devils cage team, has con- tinued his superlative performances on the basketball court in the army and has been awarded a gold trophy and a sweater for his commendable sportsmanship while performing in :an intra-fort basketball tournament.. Al- though his team did not win 'the tournament, Bob was a leading scorer in the tourney which consisted of teams from various elements stationed at Fort Hood. Private Jackson has been awarded the American Spirit Medal, the first to be given at Fort Hood, for -his excellent leadership abilities displayed while he was ,attending the leader- ship school at that military establish- ment. 'Z This award is given to 'iany en- listee or inductee, who having no previous military experience ,or as- signment to any unit other :than a leadership group, best displays the attributes of a good American4honor, loyalty, initiative and high example. In addition to receiving the above award, Victor also graduated top man in his class of forty-eight from the leadership school, the fifth such class to be graduated. Honors to Alumni Two former Junior College students received scholastic honors as members of the graduating classes of two out- standing universities this spring: '48 earned Robert Marks Blair recognition from the University of Michigan for being an honor student in the School of Natural Resources. Because of his outstanding scholastic work, he was admitted as a member of Tau Beta Phi, Engineering Honor Society, established in 1885. Bill Knepper, a Junior College stu- dent in 1946-47, received a Phi Beta Kappa award from the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the Uni- versity of Kansas. This is a coveted honor since only the upper seven per cent of the graduating class are elig- ible for placement on the rolls of this national honor society.

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THE JAYHAWK Page 25 Space Sitting in a quiet comer of the library, I experienced a trip that could not be taken by car, train, or plane. I had been reading the as- signment concerning gravitational at- traction in my physics book when it suddenly occurred to me how essential and forgotten is this automatic force. So I ventured into an area where gravitational force does not aid the inhabitants. I visited space. Leaving the earth in my V-9 rocket, I realized an unusual sensation of being four times my weight, and since I am a girl, I found this feeling dis- tressing. But then I remembered that in such extreme speed away from the earth, weights of bodies are ac- tually magnified. I had only to con- sole myself with the thought that in space I would weigh nothing. Of course, in higher altitudes, hrough which I was zooming at an enormous speed, the oxygen content of the atmosphere becomes greatly reduced. Being a member of the ani- al kingdom, I had to maintain my xygen supply in some manner. Plants re the balancing force in nature for his purpose, for they utilize carbon ioxide and give off oxygen into the ir. Consequently, I had already stablished a garden in my rocket efore I left. I fed it with plant food hemicals and used sunlight, of which here is an abundance in space, to eep it growing. As my spaceship cleared gravity, turned off my jet engine for in pace, beyond the gravitational at- raction of specific bodies, the ship oasted freely, using its momentum, nd I was able to save my fuel for he trip back. At this point, I settled back to o some navigating. Sitting strapped o a chair bolted to the body of the ocket, I held the board on my lap. o tables, bookcases, or loose chairs ere used, for they are useless in pace. On earth they satisfy the func- ion of keeping things up against he pull of gravity. In space, where here is no gravity, this function is eaningless. My lap board was a iece of magnetized metal which was ble to retain such articles as my on pencil and nickel T-square. My aper was held by two iron bars cross the comers. This was neces- ary, for in space nothing has weight, nd all bodies float freely unless con- rolled by some forces like magnetism. LITEH HY I had to be strapped down or I would not have had the power to push my pencil across my paper. I especially had to be careful about my erasure dust, for if I simply brushed it away, it continued to float in space. I found housecleaning to be much easier in my rocket than it is at home. In my ship I used a vacuum tank cleaner to clean the air as 'well as the walls. Gravity being absent, such things as bread crumbs floated around as easily as lint in the air on earth. Yes, floating breadcrumbs in the eye can be very annoying, so they had to be removed from the air. Bed making is eliminated in space flying. In order to go to bed in space, I lashed a piece of rope around my waist, tied the end to the wall fixture, and relaxed. During the nap if I drifted too far from the wall, I used the rope to get back again. Certainly I had the softest of mattresses-air. My eating habits had to be changed considerably when I left the gravita- tional attraction of the earth. Pre- paring for a meal, I placed my mag- netic drawing board on my lap and set my stainless steel plate on it. This plate deserves some description, for it was equipped with a spike like an old-fashioned desk spike for pa- pers on which 'food could be filed for ready reference. Knives were found to be very impractical, so I cut my steak with a pair of scissors, holding the pieces with a pair of tweezers instead of a fork. I used a pair of gadgets resembling a duck's bill, manipulated like tweezers, for a spoon. In space, drinking water has a bad habit of misbehaving. On earth, under the iniiuence of gravity, water wets the side of a glass slightly but re- mains in the glass. In space the water quickly climbs out the side and runs all over the thirsty individual. This situation is disturbing when one wants a drink. I found the only solution to the drinking problem to be a large rubber bottle equipped with a nipple. The container had to be rubbed to aid in displacing the water. just as I was about to cast my English book out the cockpit window to drift, I hoped, to unknown parts, I realized my free period was just about over. I would have to get back to English. Recovering my book, I zipped back to earth. -MARGARET Fou.E'r'r. Against the Drooping Maple Tree Parody on The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Against the drooping maple tree The village loafer leansg The loafer, a lazy man is he, Without a penny in his jeans: And the muscles of his scrawny arms Are as weak as ever seen. His hair is limp and brown and long, His face is like the tang His brow is wet with dirty sweat, He avoids work all he can: And dares not look one in the face, For he owes every man. Day in, day out, from morn till night, You can hear him humming low: You can hear him sing his lulling song, With measured beat and slow, Like a mother crooning to her babe, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Would stop and listen, for They loved to hear his merry tune, And they would ask for more: And ask him why he was always there, And why he was so poor. He goes on Sunday to his church, And sits up in the choir: He hears the parson pray and preach, And hears his husky voice Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. Loafing-laughing-singing, Onward through life he goes: Each morning sees him by the tree, I-Ie will sing awhile, then dozeg Nothing tried, nothing done, But he is free from woes. -CAROLE Koaers. Definitions breaks a Gold-digger: A girl who date when she goes out with him. -Jack I-laden. which is Grass: The green stuff crowded out by dandelions in the yard but grows like mad in the flower garden.-Frances Fagan. A Bus-A vehicle that always has plenty of empty seats when going the other direction.-Bob Dunnuck. A Woman: The only thing I am afraid of that I know won't hurt me.-Gene Thomas. A Stethoscope: A spyglass for look- ing into people's chests with your ears.-Keith Gallehugh.