Kansas City Teachers College - Ye Pedagogue Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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YE PEDAGOGUE .. . 1934 CALENDAR OF EVENTS SEPTEMBER 5. Here we are back in classes again after three months of lo-afing. SEPTEMBER 9. lt seems funny to be going to school on Saturday. Oh, well, it is still just five days a week. SEPTEMBER 16. T. C. steps out ahead again. The day demonstration classes are exciting considerable com- ment here and elsewhere. SEPTEMBER 19. You have to hand it to those club girls, Just two weeks of schoo-l and they are talking of dis- continuing the lit contest. The student council held its first meeting with Roberta Hayden directing its destiny. They appointed the ing committees for the first semester. SEPTEMBER 20. The freshmen won the grand prize of Mr. Shirling's flower show. CThe goat probably should have received at least honorable mentionj SEPTEMBER 26. Mr. James Green, a graduate of Yale and representative of youth groups at the League of Nations, talked in assembly today of the activities of the League. OCTOBER 3. Today the Scout Weekly becomes a bi because of economic reasons. OCTOBER 14. A red-letter day for T. C. The all-school picnic sponsored by the Nature Association was held this afternoon at Swope Park. OCTOBER 16. Dr. G. V. Price turned literary on us and published a book. Optimistic America sounds interesting. Page Thirty -weekly Good luck, Doc, you'l1 need it: so many authors are starving to death. Seriously speaking, however, it is a fine book and has received favo-rable comment from such famous people as: President Roosevelt, ex-President Herbert Ho-over, Newton D. Baker, Howard C. Hill of Chicago University, Merl Curti of Smith College, Pitrim Sorokin of Harvard Uni- versity, Eugene Fair of Kirksville State Teachers College. C. L. Ellwood, Howard C. Jensen, Superintendent W. H. McDonald of' Trenton, and Mayor Bryce B. Smith. OCTOBER 19. Election week! II The directors of two great publications are to be chosen. Results of election: Lavery with the assistance of Shirling will edit Ye Pedagogue. while Dillenbeck, Robins, and Wright share the honors on the Magazine staff. fThat confusion ticket polled a great majority of the votesj OCTOBER 24. Mary Louise Keirnan is nominated for the luckiest girl of the week. Mary Louise received a letter this week from Bess Streeter Aldrich. CNeed I add that Bess Aldrich is the author of Mziss Bishop?j OCTOBER 31. Dr. Slutz gave an interesting talk, This is a Truth Session, in assembly. NOVEMBER 4. This is the week of music and song. The Pall Festival has taken us around the world in music to Hawaii, England, Ireland, and other countries. lt's hard to get used to American jazz after all of this good music. NOVEMBER 9. Debate try-outs start today. We have an abundance of good material, but time will tell. NOVEMBER 13. Mr. Zolly Lerner of the Y. M. H. A. talked today of the current production at the Resi- dent Theater, the Dybbuk. The student body would like more of this. NOVEMBER 14. Second quarter starts and the juniors and seniors again are engaged in that ever popular pastime, practice teaching. NOVEMBER 29. Now for a short but welcome vaca- tion, Thanksgiving. Satur- stand- 1 l

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YE PEDAGOGUE .. .IQ34 FACULTY MISS PIERSON MR. PLOESSER DR. PRICE Librarian Science Social Science MISS SERL English MR, SI-IIRLING MISS STANLEY MISS STRACI-IAN Science Clerk Psychology I f gli.. gi 'V ,, ' ' 1 MISS WARD Education MISS WILSON Parent Education Page Twenty-nine

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YE PEDAGGGUE. .I934 DECEMBER 4. Back at it again. Flash! The sophomores won the T. C. endball championship, with Winnie Branch officiating as cheerleader. DECEMBER 12. The stage in our auditorium became the scene of a real Indian war dance as Chief Eagle Plume of the Black Feet performed for the combined student bodies of T. C. and Jane Hayes Gates. DECEMBER 23. It may sound to people who do not know us, as if we are lazy, but we are not. However, we do enjoy a good'vacation and this Christmas is not to be an exception. 'ASO long, see you in '34. JANUARY 1. i'Happy New Year, are you resolving to burn midnight oil, too? JANUARY 2. A new and welcome innovation at T. C.: A student assembly with no members of the faculty pres- ent. It looks as if the lit contest lost all of its friends when the faculty walked out. JANUARY 9. The Literary Contest was officially pronounced dead today when the school cast its ballot fo-r the repeal of the activity. JANUARY 25. The new officers of the Student Council elected today are: Mercedes Latshaw, Presidentg Jane Had- den, Vice-President: Miriam Dickey, Secretary, and Stella Koutelas, Treasurer. QThere seems to be a bit of a political machine in operation in our fair schoolj FEBRUARY 1. Another election: The Scout Staff for the second semester. Gertrude Tuxson and Mildred Holland are managing the paper this semester. FEBRUARY 10. The Senior and Junior Classes elect their ballots. FEBRUARY 15. Mr. Beam of the Nelson Art Gallery talked today of the interesting history of the treasures in the Gallery. MARCH 1. Publicity and propaganda agents from our Alma Mammy are traveling about the city interesting high school students in our school. ! MARCH 7. President Diemer returned today from Cleveland where he attended the N. E. A. Superintendent's meeting. MARCH 14. A scoop!! The walls of T. C. expanded to hold 400 dynamos of pep on High School Day. W MARCH 22. Wedding bells for Helen Daniels-she's now l Mrs. Robert Owens. APRIL 3. The Fourth Quarter begins and now the Sopho-- mores take up the gentle pastime of teaching for practice. APRIL 12. Both of Mr. Diemer's aides announce that they will soon be middle aisling it. APRIL 26. We are all taking those tests that don't affect your grades at all. MAY 4. The Freshmen take field-glasses and with notebook and pencil in hand hie it to the woods to look for birds. MAY 19. If every day were like Field Day wouldn't school life be one grand picnic? MAY 27. The critic teachers and student teachers meet. but 1 not for a conference fthe students entertain with a tea at JUNE 3. We all go to church to hear the Baccalaureate Service. the Athenaeumy. JUNE 4. The upper classmen are entertained with frolic and food by the freshmen and sophomores on Class Day. JUNE 5. We all middle aisle it, but in black robes instead of white lace. Q We, meaning the Juniors and Seniors. of coursej Our globe-trotting English teacher starts off 1 on a trip around the world. Bon Voyage, Miss Serl! JUNE 8. 1t's time to sing of No more pencils, et cetera. JUNE 9. Happy Vacation!! See you next year!! Page Thirty-one