Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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 . 4 V ;C r ,r F v ■5 v» V v y krV'1 f —A ’ ' I f ' r L Y . •- V— DAYS STAFF Standing, left to right—Itillr llooprr, I.i»rll.t Kolinrr, I’allv FeKkc, Terc a Suapp, John Tollcfv n, liror c SchormT, lt.uh.irn Wheeler, Murirl Smith, (.‘eraMine Konklc, Wavcrlv Wrmlorf. Sratrd—Sit» itirkliolz, Dean JohiiMon, Mnurinc Carter, Jane Kiaus Pori Stockton, Mr. (trim, Shirley DeWitt, Mary Ellen Wri kr, l.tirillr Van AlMinr Weiske Edits '47 Frosli Days Following tradition, the fresh- men of ’4.' edited and published an issue of the College Days. Mary Ellen Weiske was appointed by Dean Graham to fill the posi- turn til editor-in-chief. KUEBLER SPEAKS TO SORORITIES Ripon Delegates Go To Speech Senate Ru.-icll Hoiperm was the asso- ciate editor; Lucille Van A Istinc, l irk'iurst, news editor; Geraldine Bukholz. Lyle, society editor; Ger- ald Birkholz, sports editor; Marga- ret Rather, Lyle, circulation, and Patricia Fclske, Duffic, mechanics. Mary Ellen was the senior edi- tor for the Ripon High sclvxil an- nual, and she was also social re- porter on the high school paper. Russell Holpcrin was business manager for the high sdxxil annual of Eagle River, Wis.; Geraldine Birkholz worked as spirts editor, associate editor, feature writer and in the clerical department of the Otnro High sclxxil newspaper. Ger- ald Birkholz also worked on the In line with his intention to know th student of Ripon, Dr. Kuebler im- v ued the four ► •- rority houses aiui Harwood mens lull during tin year He began by expressing his in- tentions towards improving the sclnxil He discussed frankly the housing conditions. Commons sit- uation. additions to faculty and curriculum. He listened under- standingly to gripes” and student suggestions, opinions and com- plaints. Results of these sessions influenced, lor example, the recent advantageous arrangement with Medill -vlxxil of journalism, the engaging of Mr IVterman for the music department, and Lester Schwartz as resident artist for next year, and other steps not yet an- nounced. Ripon college, along with Be- loit, Carroll, Knox. Kocktord and the University of Wisconsin, was • pn « nted at the annual Midwest Student Sniatc, which was held Mar. 17 and 18 in the state capt- tol building at Madison The proposition that the Unit- ed States should cooperate in es- tablishing and maintaining an in- ternational police force after the defeat of the Axis was discussed according to parliamentary proce- dure and at the close of the forum a resolution creating a post-war in- ternational police force was drawn up and passed. Prof Jacob acred as parliamen- tarian during the forum and the following senators represented Ripon college: Dean Johnston, Caryl Pederson, Jean Piehl, Elma Lockwood, and Shirley Franz. V eiske i 'r.;,i Tci ’45 D.js ftliio, Next year's Days staff will headed hy an editorial Kurd seven members, as announced ccntly by if»». hoard of publicatu beaded Uy Dean .1 (’lark Grab, The newspaper will Ixr st.ilTcd Mary Jane Kraus, editor in eh Mary Ellen Weiske. associate tor; Tom S mu. news editor; M iel Smith, literary editor; D Johnston, Inusncss manager; G aldmc Konklc, circulation man tr, and Geraldine BirklKilz, soct editor. Editor Mary Jane Kraus promoted to her position from tl of associate editor. Her high sell work consisted of fulfilling tl fame position on that paper. 5 has also worked in the offices The Aurora Daily Beacon Net Associate Editor Mary Ellen Wt kc began her journalistic career the Ripon high schixil paper a this year acted as a reporter the Days staff as well as editor- chief of the freshman edition that pajvr. New- Editor Tom Scott scry for two years as a reporter on t Days and received experience t the bus'iicss end of newspaper ai animal publications m his luj •chi«'I. Muriel Smith, acting as e itor of the newly founded litcra page, obtained her experience as feature and news writer. Business Manager Dean Joh ston has been promoted from f position of circulation manage which Geraldine Konklc has Ivi appointed to fill. Geraldine Bir holz comes to the position of $ ciety editor with a year of expel dice m helping out in that dcpai mem. New frosli will be allowed serve as cub reporters on the sta next year, and will lv augmenti by the veteran staff which scrv during the last three quarters. sports page of this newspaper. Margaret Rather worked in the circulation departmen in her high school, and Patricia Fclske had been associate editor and feature editor in her high sclnxil at Racine. Each of the preceding students worked on the Days gtaff during this year. Studes Burn Midnight Oil As Exams Approach Faculty Holds Party The a nual faculty Xmas par- ty was held at 8 o'clock Sunday evening. Dee. IV. in the faculty lounge of Lane library For gosh sikes, give me anoth- er cigarette, and please pour me the rest of the coffee- you don't need it- you’ve had seven and one half cups already and it's only 3 a. m. Aw, shut up. this U.S history is driving me batty and Evie isn’t helping with that monotone m Deutsch. If you haven’t caught on yet, shall we give you a hint? What happens about three times a year, at the end of each three months (three month.s off tor ■acatimt, you know) as regularly the ages pass, and as inevitably as death? You guessed it exams! Those methods contrived by the faculty to approximate as closely as possible the torture performed during the period of the Inquisi- tion! Anil tee arc the unwitting victims. Extra-curricular work has piled up so high on willing heads that scIhxiI work has been aban- doned lor the most part until three days before finals begin Take for example, first quarter when exan reared their frightful phut abut, a week before Christmas. Natt rally, everyone was t x busy wit shopping and packing to worr about studying. Second quarte the distracting feature was the out flux of ASTP's and the farewell t love and devotion for the rest 1 the year Of.course, lovely eye were so bedimmed with NTnnvfn tears (m other words, the gal were yelling their heads lf) tha (Continued on jisrc 17)

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Student Council Adopts New Resolutions Introduced by Miller S'lTDENT Cnl NCIL: l.rft to Ri kt—Millie Edwards Bern McCnmh, John Tollcfxm, Carol Maas Jane llnrbcr, Jack Ho rack. Mary Hockcnhiill, Geo. Doll. MacDonald, Miller Head Survey of Post-War Buying Plans in City The Student Council under the ijership of President George I'll accepted tin; ten article rcso- t:«m introduced by Henry Miller (ring the first meeting of the year, it 15. [Tltc resolution included such ins as setting up and supporting program of civilian-army panic- ttun in school social events, as i» in dances, house parties, in pnusc socials, and. week-end ac- mes. The second article suggested that j Student Council would take jvv interest in the conduct of jents at all social activities, both campus and olF. Also, an in- action into the recreational jlities of the Student Union ild be made so that the student could make the best possible jof them. irticle three incorporated the i of instituting a well planned [conceived program designed to i the army men on the campus ecomc, m the literal sense of word, a part of the student | article four the Student ncil pledged to support and my school or student activity ned to give civilian students f relations with the adminis- m and faculty of the college, [c Council believed that any [I or student activity which as its avowed and admitted jthc assistance and. facilitation je war effort should be sup- si rigorously. je council promised in article i take an active interest in the ion and publication of the k Days as it believed an en- ned and excellent college pa- I extremely vital during war k Student Council, in article | wished to lv recorded as jly supporting a wise and table extracurricular activity fh articles eight, nine and ten, udent Council proposed to bn actively along with the [committee, and to support thlctic program instituted, all, the council announced [ire for comments and sin- pinions on such matters as ting to its scope of action on of the student body, [complete plan was initiated fcffort to promote and cstab- c activities of the regular [ body on such a basis as to je with the army curriculum, thereby having the two groups work as a unit. Later in the year, the Council took charge of the plans for the Diamond Ball, appointing commit- tees made up for civilian students, and also promoted the sale of stamps and bonds until the War Council was organized. Godfrey Visits Hill Dec. 15, Miss Alice Godfrey arrived in Ripon for a two day visit to the campus. Miss Godfrey is a traveling secretary of the World Student Service Fund and came to the college as the guest of the WSGA. From 8 to II, Thursday morn- ing, Dec. 16, Miss Godfrey visited classes at Ingram, which were in- terested in the work she was car- rying on. Miss Godfrey graduated from Macalcstcr college in St. Paul, Minn., and had a year of graduate work in the divinity school at Yale university. She obtained experience along executive lines while on the cabinet of the college YWCA, as head of the student counselors at Macalcstcr, as secretary of student government and as an officer of her college class. While at Macalcstcr she was prominent in working for the cam- paigns of the World Student Serv- ice Fund. Miss Godfrey has known personally many foreign students who were in America and have since returned to war-torn coun- tries. The student service fund is an active branch of the National War fund. Miss Godfrey explained its activities and helped students un- derstand how they could coordi- nate their fund-raising activities with the United National appeal. In a report issued to all college organizations, the Student Council announced the beginning of the World Student Service Fund cam- paign, Nov. 16, 1943. This cam- paign, in which college students throughout the world were solicit- ed, proposed to aid students and teachers victimized by the war. These include refugee students in the lands of the fighting allies, ref- ugee students in this country or in a neutral nation, and students wlio Surveying the post-war attitudes of the town of Ripon, college stu- dents visited each house, equipped with a questionnaire to be filled out by the family concerning their purchasing plans for the future. These were later collected and sent to Washington where they were tabulated with like surveys from all over the country. Under the direction of Claire Kleinschmit. general student assist- ant to committee heads Robert Mc- Donald and Henry Miller, colle- gians were sent out from Feb. 19 to Mar. 4 in this task. A chair- man for each house was appointed to supervise the work of that group. They were as follows: Kay Kohl, Harwood: Marcia Russell, Duffic; Ruth Ferdinandsen, Lyle; Lois Kriedeman, Parkhurst; and Dean Johnston, Harwood men. Re- alizing the survey's value, the aca- demic departments strongly sup- ported the work of the students and a faculty committee of Dr. Dudycha, Dr. M(x a Dr. Web- ster, and Mr. Casdno aided in planning and executing this work. On the questionnaire each fam- ily checked the civilian gixxis they are prisoners of war. The Student Council appointed as a special committee for the drive Mary Miller, Harwood: Ma- ry Hockcnhull, Parkhurst; Jane Barber, Dutfie, and Henry Miller as chairman. Dr. C. H. Mixirc served as faculty adviser. Contributions were received from Ripon college students, ASTP sections, the faculty and ad- ministration, and special organi- zations on campus. plan to buy at the close of the war and indicated from what source the money for these purchases would come; i. e., from current income, installment credit, cashed war Ixmds or Kinked savings. Town Girls Organize Dean Margaret Gunniggim met with all the town girls in the Stu- dent Lounge Wednesday, Nov. 3, for the purpose of discussing and deciding upon the actions neces- sary for the organization of a Town Girls’ club. Miss Cunniggim made several suggestions as to the benefits ac- cruing from such a plan Among these were the following: repre- sentation on the Student Council and WSGA which up to this time had not been afforded the girls; the furnishing of a room for the exclusive use of these girls; posting of the notices read in Commons; formation of an athletic team for town girls. Jane Barber and Mary Ellen Weiskc were elected to the offices of president and secretary, respec- tively. Work was begun immedi- ately on the Town Girls' Room, which was located in the basement of Bartlett All furniture was do- nated by parents and friends of the girls. Chamberlain Initiates Musical Open Houses Prof. Harold Chamberlain an- nounced a series of musical open houses this year. These took place each week-end during the winter quarter. The thousand record col- lection in East building was avail- able for this project. Sponsors Drive For W.S. S. F. Funds

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Kleinschmidt, Minar Head AXA Reorganization, Pledging,Dance ALPHA CHI ALPHA: Isft lo rif ftt—Mmirinc Carter, Mart Perrin, Wand Jean F-'.llis Li rtci Rolmer, llnrharn Wlicrler, Lnui«r Minar, Claire Klcinx-limi Jane Kraus Dori» Stockton, Muriel Smith. Stuart, Creative Class, Krauj Edit Scribbler For Year A policy of reorganization was carried on by the memlvrs of Ai- plu Chi Alpha as they carried to a successful dose a full calendar nf events. With the graduation of President Mary Miller at the end ui the first quarter, Claire Klein Munit tixik over the leadership of this national journalistic fraterni- ty at the beginning of the second quarter. The activities for the year in- cluded cleaning the Rare Books Roun in Line library, cataloging and arranging the rare books in the chapter room and complete re- organization of the alumni tiles. The annual Sadie Hawkins dance was given March 4; a booklet pro- duced exclusively by the members of AXA was published during third quarter. On April 19 Maurinc Carter. Wanda Jean Ellis, Dorothy Neese Evans, Mary Jane Kraus. Louise Minar, Margaret Ogilvic, Lisetta Rohner, Muriel Smith, and Bar- bara Wheeler were initiated into the local Delta chapter. The officers for next year are Louise Minar, president; Mary Jane Kraus, vice president; Mau- rute Carter, secreta ry-treasurer; and Doris Ca bellem, editor. A rushing tea was held on May S m the faculty lounge for girls win had shown interest in jour- nalism or creative writing in the past year. Twelve girls were pledg- ed to the fraternity on May 12: Billc Hooper. Jerry Konkle, Mary Egerman, Mary Ellen Weiske, Waver I y Wendorf, Bette Belle Limb. Myra Middleton. Gene- view Horsford, Virginia Gehring, Peggy Curry, Patty Fclskc, arid Roberta Jackson. On June 28-30, D u Minar and Claire Kleinschmit represented the Delta chapter of Alpha Chi Al- pha at the national convention held at Vermillion. South Dakota. Dr. Coogan Reviews Plays for German Magazine The February issue of “Monat- dvcftc fur Deutsche» Unterrioht contains, in the hx'k review sec- tion. an article written by Dr. Dan- id F Coogan, Jr., of the language department. His article deals with two plays hy Bruno Frank, Zwolftausend -iui “Nina.” Because of the wide [difference in theme of the two three-act plays, they should provide interesting reading for intermedi- ate students of German, MAJ. L. I). FARGO RETURNS TO CITY Ripons war hero, Major Lynn D. Fargo, graduate from the class of 1936, was in town for a few days winter quarter. Returning from the Italian front, he had breakfast in Casablanca and was in New York the following morning. He spent only a few days here be- fore leaving for army ground force headquarters in Washington. Major Fargo pleaded for a con- tinuation of the ROTC program. “Almost 98 per cent of the officers arc reserve officers from schools, many of them similar to Ripon. That is one basis of our military success. I hope that the ROTC is not abolished. Two silver stars for gallantry wi action, two Purple Hearts for shrapnel and machine gun wounds, and a prospective presidential ci- tation arc among the honors Major Fargo has received. He is exceed- ingly modest about his achieve- ments. He preferred to praise his outfit, the third division, “which probably saw as much, if not more, action than any unit in the front row. He enjoyed meeting buddies from Ripon—George Peck, Roland Horky, Bill Bruhy, and Brig. Gen. Eagles. Dr. Tracy Strevey Speaks On March 17 On Mar. 17, the student body of Ripon college had as its speak- er, Dr. Tracy Strevey. Dr. Strev- ey, professor of history at North- western university, spoke on the Changing Patterns of American Democracy. He stated that de- mocracy is dynamic, its conception and patterns changing over the years. Changes either grow imme- diately out of the force and impact of woe, or they gradually come into effect after being crystallizing over half a century or more. The twentieth century looms as the century of change and transi- tion. Certain principles must sur- vive through this war and peace. Dr. Strevey called particular at- tention to the doctrine of individ- ual freedom, equality of opportu- nity, social justice, principle of popular government, and mainte- nance of proper division of power, and faith in the idea of progress. For the first two quarters, the senior class in composition edited issues of the Scribbler, Ripon college's literary magazine. Norma Jean Stuart, Harwood senior was chosen first quarter’s ed- itor. Specimens of work from both creative writing classes and outside students were published. Second quarter’s magazine was edited by a board consisting of the entire class, Norma Jean Stuart, Henry Klaus Miller, and Tom Scott. This quarter’s publication will be in the hands of the advanced composition class under Dean Graham. Despite the war and critical pa- per shortages, the Scribbler” will continue. This quarters editor, Mary Jane Kraus, Duffie, sopho- more. whose experience and talent have been exhibited in high school and in work on the College Days” promises that the spring issue will reach all former high standards. The Scribbler contains student material in the shorter forms— short story, poetry, essays, vig- nettes and reviews. It provides the honored opportunity for the em- bryo author to sec actually “his word in print. It is tangible rec- ognition of the literary talents of campus writers. Red Cross Drive Shows Increase The participation of Ripon col lege. led by Bob McDonald, in tin nationwide American Red Cross drive wjfs extremely successful with a total contribution of $144.76. Henry J Maxwell, in charge of the drive in the city of Ripon, ex- pressed great pleasure with the re- sults of the college drive. A chair- man from each house worked in conjunction with Mr. McDonald on the drive. Major Barncr rep- resented the army and organized the manner in which they would contribute. The workers from the various campus dorms were Dean Johnston, Harwood men; Betty McComb, lyle; Millie Edwards, Harwood! women; Barbara Wheel- er, Parkhurst; Mary Jane Kraus, Duffle; and Harriet Ketchpaw, Bartlett hall. This contribution from the col- lege was in addition to the $50 raised in the presentation of the all-star girls’-boys’ basketball game. The percentage of each group giv- ing to the Red Gross was quite equal. The members of the ASTP alone donated $100 in voluntary contributions. What’s Cookin’ This Week Fhuredny: 4:00 Inst final exam over Friday: 8:00 p. m. Dr. Hugh B liner Drown will speak at the bacca- laureate ceremony in the college chapel. Afternoon, all students, their parenta, faculty. ind alumn e are invited to a ten In the faculty lounae of lame library. President Kuebler will be the host. Saturday: 10:00 a. m. Commencement exercises. Dr. Carter David- son will be the speaker.