Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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One Jane Stauffacber, Barbata Cottrell Fay Deuster, Charmaine Weyer. Fund Drive organizations. Due to the efforts of the students, the generosity of the Ripon merchants and the able direction of Joe Larscheid and Mr. Gordon Minch, this year's drive was more extensive and successful than any other pre- vious one. The One Fund Drive was initiated in 1953 for the expressed pur poso of soliciting funds from the local business people only once during the school year The contributions received through the drive are dis- tributed, according to their respective needs, to the seven participating organizations--Ripon College Theatre Ver Adest, R Club, the Crimson, Ripon College Band and Choir. Personnel lor the drive is recruited from these Student Director foe Larscheid and Advisor Go:- 29 don Minch.

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L a n g u a a g e C 1 u b s The object of the language clubs in Ripon College is to encourage cttempts for a better understanding of the people and customs of those countries whose language is studied in the classroom, as well as pro- moting the study and use ot these languages on a conversational basis. For this purpose, meetings are held each month at which movies are shown and the life and literature of these countries are discussed in their respective tongues. SPANISH CLUB Nancy Short Sandra Edvscrds. Sharon Sommers, Jim Hughes. Gerry Pastar. Pat Perrett, Lois Panetti. Pat Clift. Jose Vilar. Xavier Fendt. Ronell Bradbeer. Francisco Flores. Janice Hump, Mariella Beliz. Cathy Farley. Tony Ramos. Rosemary Syck

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This year it is possible to say v ith complete honesty the things that are usually said about the Theater club. The year's productions were all good and they all played to the biggest houses in the theater's history. The season opened v ith Mr Roberts at homecoming, the sec- ond play was Beaux Stratagem' and the final, and by fur the best production, was ‘ The Importance of Being Earnest. In his last year at Ripon Mr Boughton took full advantage of the actors and technicians that he had trained and produced polished performances that surpassed any previously given in the Ripon Theater. Usually, at about this point, the writer of articles such as this starts to praise unsung heros of the theater and waxes lyrical about lighting and scenery and the guy who pulled the curtain (and maybe only missed one cue all year). This year it hardly seems necessary to throw compliments at these people. They all know when they did bad jobs and when they did good ones. All of their jobs were good enough that the audience was never aware of the mistakes and they can rest com- fortably in the knowledge of a job well done without a lot of flowery 30