Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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' Temptation Most striking innovation in Parkonversa- tions of the year were those famous last words of a Aveak wallet, ‘‘Let’s go down to the J. R.” Whether the Ioav price of recreation afforded by its non-profit policy saved cash for for¬ tunate patrons or merely lured them to more and better ways of squandering the allowance may l e a point for debate. The merits of the enterprise, a project grandly opened in the fall and Imilt up under the happy efficiency of Mrs. Dorothy Yingling, are not even mild¬ ly questionable. The Jolly Roger, Avith the biggest dips of ice cream, the sweetest records, and the friendliest soda jerks in town, has moved after-hours activity from village to campus. P. S. With “pin money” for the am¬ bitious. I I l age Fourteen

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The I’resiileiit George Irwin Rohrbough President Rohrbough came to Park in July, 1945. Faced with the task of realigning the college on a civilian basis after its three years as a navy instru¬ ment, the president undertook the solution of many difficult problems inherent in any such readjustment. He had, in addition, the immediate goals of prepara¬ tion for increased enrollment with the postwar influx of returned veterans. Freshmen G. I.’s, and hundreds of other students who had postponed college during the years of the war. Among the concrete evidences of Dr. Rohrhough’s efforts are the new student recreation unit, now an indispensable part of campus life, and the buildings for veterans’ housing. As president he has re-outlined the administrative and faculty organizations. Park students are familiar with Dr. Rohrbough’s fluency and skill in the use of the right phrase, the most lucid illustration, and his outstanding presence as a chapel speaker. Freshmen classes of ’45 and ’46 will recall one quotation from the president’s wide reper¬ toire which concludes “. . . keep me still unsatisfied.”