Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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Infirmary hi time of need— home away from home. Twenty-six cases of scarlet fever on a college campus in the middle of the second quarter is not a situation over which to breathe sighs of relief; but the Board of Trustees, faculty and student body found some comfort and satisfac- tion in the college infirmary, which had been organized not long before the epi- demic broke out. Due entirely to the efficiency of the staff , the outbreak was cut off and recurrence prevented. The cases were light, and but one patient suffered from the after effects of the dis- ease. When the shadow of epidemic and plague hovers not over the campus, the infirmary readjusts the bones of ath- letes. serves as a convalescent ward for students suffering from study-shock, assures freshmen that homesickness is not an incurable disease, and some- times is the clearing house for class and chapel excuses. Located on the ground floor of Bart- lett. it consists of two rooms for men. one for women, and a doctor's and nurses’ office. The faculty women fur- nished the girls' room as a dedication to the memory of Mrs. Robb Wood- mansee. and the R” Club financed the equipping of one of the men s rooms. Its staff consists of Dr. Edgar C. Barnes and Dr. Paul L. Eisele, who give unlimited time to the needs of the students, and two registered nurses. Miss Annette Kewley and Miss Marie Alberts, who are hired on a full-time basis. The infirmary is part of the newly created Department of Health and Physical Education, and is under the directorship of the head of the depart- ment. Carl H. Doehling. 13—

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Satire A college is an institution. It is com- posed of buildings, professors, and stu- dents. The professors get paid (us- ually) for what they do and the stu- dents pay (theoretically) for what they’re supposed to do during the year. Both groups think they’re get ting gyped. The professors lecture in various rooms in these buildings on five days of the week. It's their way of earning a living. Groups of stu- dents listen to these lectures an hour at a time, and during the hour they draw caricatures, whirligigs, and oth- er specimens of art in their notebooks. It is their way of reacting to the mag- netic personality of the professors. In spite of being handicapped by the dis- turbing voice of the professor, the note- book creations are quite interesting, and a fair amount of success is at- tained. The students are divided into four groups, namely freshmen, sophomore junior, and senior. The only difference between a freshman and a senior is that the senior has been here four vears and owes a larger bill. During four years in college the senior gets to know a lot of things. He learns that a good pen. a few sheets of paper, and a good- ly supply of adjectives are the only essentials one needs to pass an exam- ination. A few facts are used occa- sionally. but they are so unnecessary. He finds out that it is a good policy tc quote professors. They like it and us- ually remember it when making out grades. Grades are another word for liberal education. He gets to think of an eight o’clock class as a concoction of the devil and carried out by married professors who have numerous off- spring in the family and can't sleep in the morning anyhow. If the senior passes everything, re- gardless of the method, he will he grad- uated in June. The graduation exer- cises are very ceremonial. The senior wears a cap and gown in order that no one may mistake him for a freshman. He lines up with the other seniors and, in what is called a procession, goes into the chapel in time to music, that is. in his own good-natured time. Sometimes he tries to keep in step, but usually, by the time he is three pews past where his father and mother are seated, he aban- dons his efforts. A distinguished man gives a speech. It is always a distinguished man. be- cause distinguished men always add prestige to an occasion and much pres- tige must always be present as a grad- uation. because it is a momentous even It is a momentous time because, as the distinguished man says, a wide world of opportunity awaits you young men and women with glad open arms. And the seniors, not liking to keep the wide world waiting any longer than neces- sary. wish the speaker would hurry and get through. However, this is the dis- tinguished man’s speech and he stops when he gets good and ready, which takes him quite a while sometimes. After this is over the seniors march up ro the platform one by one. get their diploma, have the tassle on their cap flipped (included in the graduation fee), and go bac k to their seats. They are now graduated. In the afternoon they usually go on swimming dates. This is not a parr of the graduation exercise, but it is a relief from listening about wide worlds and ‘wide open arms which no one believed, least of all the speaker. Freshmen may be a little awed by all this. However, they have been in col lege only a year and still have three years in which to acquire their liberal education.

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Alumni To date. Ripen alumni have success- fully organized eight distinet Alumni organizations. The groups are as listed: Chicago Edward T. Pares, presi- dent. Other officers elected in a recent meeting, on January 31. to be exact, are: Secretary-treasurer. Miss Ruth Fehlandt. '28. Executive Committee: Trustee Wil- liam R. Dawes. ’84; Kenneth Falconer. 32: Edgar Raddant, '32. At this time fifty alumni, former stu- dents. and other friends of Ripon at- tended a dinner in honor of Dean Grace G. Goodrich in the Old Town Room of Hotel Sherman in Chicago. At the meeting following the dinner, it was moved and approved that the Ripon almuni group merge into a more inclusive ‘ Ripon-in-Chicago Club” which would take in not only gradu- ates. but also ex-students, trustees, and parents of present and past students and former residents of Ripon. T h c approximate membership of the or- ganization before merg- ing into the new club was sixty. The mem- bership now will no doubt increase in great numbers. Milwaukee Har- old Haun. president. Meetings are held frequently in Milwau- kee and the approxi- mate membership is one hundred and fifteen. Chippewa Valley Henry Christofferson. President. Kenosha - Racine David O. Jones. Presi dent. The last meeting of this unit was held at the home of President Jones at Racine Wednesday. January thirtieth. Special guests were Dean Goodrich, Dr. Mack T. Henderson, and trustee Dr. D. Ken drick Roberts. Lakeshore—Dorothy Zufeldt Mikal- afsky, President. Madison -Harold A. Engel. Presi- dent. Twin Cities Nellie Sanford New- comb. President. New York Rcinhold Gehner. Pres- ident. The New York group numbers about forty. Most of these organizations have a meeting at least once every years. The meetings are usually held in some one of the officer’s or member’s homes, and besides having a jolly reunion, they keep up the work of interesting high school students in their old Alma Ma- ter. Other than these eight alumni or- ganizations. many of our sororities and fraternities have alumni groups that meet and interest stu- dents in their particular houses. A publication, given the fitting name. The Ripon Alumnus,’ is is- sued in the months of January, March, June, and October of each year by the Ripon Col- lege Alumni Associa- tion. The editor is Clemens E. Lueck, ’2 3. Association officers arc President. Howard 13. Temine. Racine: vice president, Mrs. M. L. Aldridge, Stoughton; treasurer, Harry A Cody, 33. Ripon. and secretary, Clarence G. Busse, 29, Green Lake. —14—