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

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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.

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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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Page 26 THE JAY1-:AWK THE NIGHT BEFORE TELEVISION fWith Apologies to Mr. Moorej T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads. And Mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap Had just settled down for a tormented nap, When inside the room, there burst such a clatter, I sprang up in bed crying What is the matter? A voice from the corner came shouting at me, A deep and accusing voice, laughing with glee: Your children are tucked in their wee little beds, But worry and complex beseige their poor heads. Then what to my wondering eyes should appear But a miniature man, whose face bore a leer. He was heavy and mean, and he frowned so at me I knew from his sneer it was Mister TV. Much closer and closer to me--on he came, And he whistled and shouted, and called sets by name: RCA Victor, you just take your pick, Motorola, or DuMont, or General Electric. To the right of the armchair, near the door to the hall, Be sure that your set can be seen by us all. Oh, no! I cried. No, I say. Oh dash it all! I can't buy TV with no money at all. Then in a twinkling I saw his eyes gleam. fHis eyes red from watching a sixteen-inch screen.J My friend, he said softly, presenting his case, Your children will stagnate-they'll feel out of place. Frustrated, all outcasts, sub-normal they'll be, You simply must give them a brand new TV. For it's Hopalong Cassidy, hero of all, The bigger he finds them the harder they fall. Kukla and Ollie as well as the fights, Without them your cherubs just won't sleep at nights. Education! he yammered. Education's the key. Amuse them and teach them with modern TV. Stop! Stop! I cried loudly, My headls in a whirl. Washington, Shakespeare and now Milton Berle! Just one small down payment and then in a year, The set will be yours-just like that-do you hear? I hear, I moaned softly, oh, please go away. But think of your children, I then heard him say. Their lives will be dull, he was now growing bold. They won't know a head lock from a good scissors hold. For it's baseball, football, Kate Smith, and Lights Out. Don't you see that TV you can't be without? You win! I screamed then, at the end of my rope. With Mister TV I no longer could cope. Aha! he laughed harshly, his voice now a whine. He whipped out a contract. Just sign on this line. I know I was weak but I had to give in. I just couldn't stand it-that clamor and din! So I ordered a set, though I 'knew it was wrong, And I'll surely regret it my whole sad life long. He spoke not a word, having finished his work. Then folding the contract and tuming-the jerk !- And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, out the window he rose. He sprang to the roof top and then gave a whistle, And away he then shot like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, as he flew out of sight, Happy eyestrain to all and to all POOY CYCSighf- ll I-RUTH ANN MEYER. On Rainbows Rainbows are bridges of Heaven. They appear after a heavy rain to welcome the sunshine just as the robin appears after a cold winter to welcome the spring. Science explains that rainbows are formed by the refraction and reflec- tion of the sun's rays falling upon watery particles in that part of the heavens opposite the sun. Tradition tells us that at the end of a rainbow is a pot of gold. When I was a child I always won- dered how I could get to the end of the rainbow and claim that pot of gold. In my mind I imagined all the ice cream and candy I could buy with so much wealth. Now I realize that this feat is quite impossible, because in order to Find the end of the rainbow you must first find the beginning. Maybe the people are being to realistic about the pot of gold. It ma not be real gold at all, but just th gold in the sunshine that comes afte a rain and remains after the rainbo has disappeared. Looking at a rainbow can be challenge to people who think tha all their days are cloudy and rainy A rainbow may be looked upon as symbol of happiness, and no matte how cloudy and rainy days may seem a rainbow will always appear an bring sunbeams of happiness to chas away the clouds of worry. When I gaze at a rainbow and se all the beautiful colors I realize tha someone higher than man must hav created it. In Genesis is the record And it shall come to pass, when bring a cloud over the earth, tha the bow shall be seen in the sky. -Dokorx-xv CRISP. Famous Last Wo1'ds Jack Haden at KCKN five min utes before going on the air- Mis Graham, I forgot my script. Gayle Granberg when asked by Mr Hammer why she had cut sociology I had to study for a speech test. LaVerne Alt after hearing a lon, dissertation by one of our professor on his home town- Where's Ar cadia? Mitzi Hurt two minutes before th chorus starts to sing for graduation I talked so much today, Mr. Rees that I lost my voice. A college education is one of th few things a person is willing t pay for and not get. -Wm. Low Bryan, Pres. Emeritus of Indian University.