Rockford College - Recensio / Cupola Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

Text from Pages 1 - 96 of the 1941 volume:

Rockford College ARCHIVES THE 19 4 2 C Doris Chase Ruth Huktek Editor Business Manager The 1942 CUPOLA is the expression in halftones, zinc etchings and copy of the year 1940-41 at Rockford College. It is you, the students. It is the hockey games you played, the friends you had, the honors you won, the professors under whom you studied, and the day-by-day events which made this year. We who were on the staff hope that we have achieved our intended purpose in this 1942 CUPOLA. PRESENTED BY THE JUNIOR CLASS ROCKFORD COLLEGE ... To an effectitive administrator of the college community ... an organ- izer of the plans for the library ... a genial friend of all students To . . . Dr. Mary Ashby Cheek, President of Rockford College we dedicate these pages. Ground Breaking Ceremony Laying of the Cornerstone The news that there was to be a new Library came to the campus early in the spring of 1939, but the first spade was not turned until fall. By Charter Day the time had come for the laying of the cornerstone. This fall, returning students exclaimed over the splendor of the new finished John Hall Sherratt Memorial Library. The building is situated on West Campus, overlooking the Rock River. It is a two-story building of modified Georgian architecture, and constructed of red Virginia brick with limestone trim. Much of the credit for this distinctly different college library goes to Miss Jean M. Sharpe, librarian, who, in conjunction with the architect, Willis Hubbard, formulated the plans. Jnder Construction Doorway To Learning The Finished Product The Rare Book Room A CARREL FOR QUIET STUDY In the Art Room The charging desk The Rockford College library is a unique library. Instead of following the conventional pattern of large reading rooms, there are four divisional reading rooms, each devoted to a branch of the liberal arts. Those books not on reserve shelves are placed in the stack rooms, which are always open to students. Space was provided for conference rooms and carrels. These features of the library all tend to foster the Rockford spirit of independent study. Though the furniture had not arrived when school opened this fall, it soon came. Individual desks, round tables, and comfortable chairs fill the rooms and make studying a pleasure. The informal atmosphere of the old library has been success- fully retained in the new building. Wisdom, courage, temperance, justice , Plato says, should be the cardinal virtues of a governor. These virtues should be embodied in everyone, not by coercion, but by creating an appetite for them through books. In practically every group there is a political authority or government. Everything affecting the lives of men at some time receives attention from government; it is the principal social coordinator and regulator and, hence, it behooves every student wishing to be com- petent and informed to acquaint herself with governmental functions. PRESIDENT MARY ASHBY CHEEK To relate and coordinate activities of trustees, faculty, stu- dents, alumnae, and friends of the college is the time-consuming task of President Mary Ashby Cheek. As the head of the administration, she acts with the Board of Trustees in outlining general college policies and in determining the general program of major college events. She presides over convocations of the college, meetings of the faculty, chapel services and other more informal college functions. DEAN RUTH STEELE BUFFINGTON The role of friend, guardian and confidante of some three hundred girls is not an easy one and frequently may become a trying one, but the active cooperation and friendly advice of Dean Ruth Steele Buffington have helped many students over the stumbling blocks encountered in the course of any college career. In addition to these duties, Miss Buffington is also official college hostess and consulting adviser of the Judicial Council, College Government Association Board and the college body in general. COLLEGE GOVERNMENT The College Government Association gives to every Rockford College student a chance to participate representatively in deciding the policies of the government under which she lives while in college. Members of the faculty and officers of the administration are also members of the Association. Under their guidance the students have an invaluable opportunity to develop a sense of governmental organization and responsibility which closely approximates their duties as American citizens. The Association is headed by an executive group, the Board of the College Government Association, whose duty it is to discuss problems of the student body and to make recommendations to the administration, faculty, college organizations and to the Association. Since college activities are so closely interrelated, it is generally true that every person in the student body, the faculty and every organization in the college has at least one representative among the Board members who include the officers of the C. G. A., the faculty representative, presidents of all the classes, of Tolo, Y. W. C. A., Dramatic Club, W. A. A. , Forum, and of the town students and house students. With the adoption of a new constitution in March 194f, student government superseded college government. The Student Government Association consisting only of students is headed by a board consisting of officers of the S.G.A., presidents of the four classes, and house and town student presidents. The editor of Purple Parrot is a non-voting member. Under the new constitution, all clubs and other organizations are represented in the Council of Organizations. Betty Ann Southwick COLLEGE GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION McInnis, Hamilton, Knickerbocker, Fanshier, Ripley, Southwick, Secrist, Voss, Winchell, Lewis, Russell, Turpin, Beck, Miller, Godfrey, Carpenter, Dodaro. 15 Ann Ripley v JUDICIAL COUNCIL A self-governing community under the Honor System becomes a workable reality at Rockford College under the intelligent guidance of the Judicial Council. This is a committee whose responsibility it is to consider cases of non-conformity to college regulations and to suggest to the administration measures for treating such cases. It is this group that introduces incoming freshmen to the honor system at Rockford College, a system by which each student is bound in responsibility to the group for her behavior. A maximum of cooperation on the part of students in upholding this tradition has resulted in a minimum of restraining regulations, and privilege of many liberties, particularly in the use of the library and the laboratories. Under the new constitution Judicial Council becomes Judicial Commission, consist- ing of a president, house president, and representatives from the three lower classes. Sanem, Secrist, Turner, Ripley Hall Schulz Paulson Jean Coleman Dodaro Secrist Slick P. Smith Rod well O ' Guin Alford Knickerbocker Mills TOWN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION To centralize responsibility for administering and considering problems of the Town Student Association, to appoint committees to take charge of town student activities and special events, and to make rules governing the use of the rooms in lower Adams Hall, a Town Student Board, a president, vice-president, |and secre- tary-treasurer is elected by the town students. The Board is also responsible for seeing that its regulations are carried out and administering penalties for minor infringements of the rules. HOUSE COUNCIL Order in the dormitories is maintained and house problems discussed by the House Council. This body has the power to assess fines or to inflict other penalties on offenders. The council consists of the president of the House Students, who acts as chairman, the presidents of the other buildings and the corridor representa- tives. 17 M. Hansen Mills M. Johnston Hamilton Mrs. Thompson Christensen Simon Hamilton Lewis Neumann McGowan Dauderman P. Smith Hueter Miller Betty Robinson Rivard McGuire MADDOX COMMITTEE Maddox Committee is the keeper of the keys for Maddox House, the place for coca cola, good books, bridge, or perhaps studying. This committee whose chairman is ap pointed by Board assists at the monthly teas and is responsible for the building when the Tea Room is closed. T O L O Social life at Rockford hums with the tempo set by Tolo, an all-college organiza- tion which plans dances, parties, and all kinds of fun. In the fall, the tables are turned and the incoming class entertains Tolo with initiation stunts. 18 YOUNG WOMEN ' S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION In order to learn to live with one another as Christian women and to aid others in improving their lives, Rockford has an active Y. W. C. A. Along with its social purposes the Y. W. C. A. plans the chapel programs, promotes world fellowship, and contributes to the religious interests of the college with its vesper services on Sundavs. FACULTY - STUDENT RELATIONS COMMITTEE It is typical of the informal atmosphere of Rockford College that there should be a committee of faculty and student members who meet to discuss problems common to both groups and to suggest to the C. G. A. Board measures for the solution of such difficulties. An excellent device for encouraging cooperation between student and faculty members, the committee has proved to be a service- able clearing house for problems of both groups. Hanna Shepard Dauderman schaefer COBURN TuRPIN RlSS Simon Gray Miss Underhill Coburn ISGRIG RODWELL Miss Richardson southwick Ripley 19 FACULTY F A C U L T Mildred Berry, Ph.D. English Lorena Church, M.A. English, Registrar Helen e Magaret, Ph.D. English Abbie Potts, Ph.D English Helen Richardson, Ph.D. English Esther Swenson M.A. English Isabel Abbott, Ph.D. History Elizabeth Brush, PI History Ruth Buffington, M.A. History Myrtle Davidson, M.A. Home Economics FACULTY Andreas Fugmann Music Mizzi Fugmann Music FACULTY Ludwig Schmidt Music Dorion Cairns, Ph.D. Philosophy, Psychology Irene Clayton, M.A. Physical Education Cecelia Moore, B.S. Physical Education Joyce Palmer, B.S. Physical Education Frances Johnson, Ph.D. Physics Charles Goff, D.D. Religion Leslie Koempel, Ph.D. Social Science, Sociology Meno Lovenstein, Ph.D. Social Science, Economics Hardy Wickwar, Ph.D. Social Science, Political Science STAFF MEMBERS Ruth Ahlberg College Nurse Mabel Bailie Director of Residence Hall Janet E. Butterworth Assistant to Dietician Mrs. Eleanor DeGolyer Director of Admissions Mrs. Gertrude DeLaney Mrs. Evalyn Feeney Service Desk Assistant to Director of Ad- missions Mrs. Marie Flanigan Service Desk Helen Granath Assistant to Librarian Lillie Johnson Secretary to Registrar Mrs. Lorn B. Perks Assistant to Director of Ad- missions Marjorie Johnson Assistant in the Library 24 STAFF MEMBER V. B. MacDonald Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds Mrs. Mabel J. Peterson Secretary to President Mrs. Helen Rutledge Alumnae Secretary Florence Schenck Bursar Laura Selby Assistant in the Library Mrs. Margaret Thompson Virginia Townsend Director of Maddox House Assistant to Director of Ad- missions Lillian Traner Secretary to Bursar Elizabeth Wheeler Office Secretary Jane Williams Secretary to Director of Ad- missions Bv reading the student exchanges shadow for substance, and she becomes more interesting to those around her. Even the most informal conversation turns to literature and through its evaluation, hungry minds are enriched by varied opinion. It is in the middle of such discussions that deep friendships are born. Through literarv experience, one learns to understand others. With this feeling of intellectual sympathy, hearts remain in har- monv. [ ZABEL AJEMIAN English MARIAN BAWDEN Economics PHYLLIS BECK History DOROTHY BELL Botanv ELIZABETH BELK - Latin I MARJORIE BRIGHAM Home Economics 29 JEAN COLEMAN Zotll Og Y CLASS DOROTHEA DAUDERMAN Spanish NANCY deBEERS Art JO OF 19 4 1 MARY JANE GRAY Sociology CELENE KELLER English 31 LOUISE KENNEDY English MARY KNICKER- BOCKER Art LUCILLE LINDEN Home Economics JEAN WALLACE McGOWAN History MARY EARLE MARSH Home Economics 32 33 KATHERYNE- GRACE RUSSELL History EDNA MAE SECRIST History 34 SENIOR OFFICERS 35 First we were freshmen Then came sophomore year and crew caps And on Junior Day w e wore white IN RETROSPECT Freshman Show . . . Miss Abbott ' s history course . . . the formality of the dining room . . . gaining weight . . . chronological charts . . . the seniors ' beautiful basketball team: Buddy, Prex, Smejk ... the canoe trip . Miss Mutschler ' s engagement . . . Kreutzberg . . . Freshman Prom . . Miss Cheek ' s inauguration . . . skirts begin to shorten, copper-colored stockings . . Faculty Porch ' s wicker furniture and Indian pottery Josephine . The summer house is no more . . . Peer Gynt . . the Bed-Making Corporation first Dad ' s Day . . . Playing the records Mad About the Boy and Deep Purple . . . hockey at 6 A.M. . . . the new dean: Miss Buffington . . Louis Gottschalk speaking on Charter Day ... the Kenyon invasion . . . hot exam week. Scotty ' s appendicitis . . . ground-breaking ceremony . . . Army-Navy game . bustles and pinafores . . . With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair . . . Junior Day . . . the new library growing girder by girder, brick by brick . . . model congresses . . . C. G. A. elections . . . American Yough Congress in Washington, D. C. . . Ann Belknap as May Queen . . . speed boat rides going to Commencement and thinking next year it will be our class. Rockford star is lighting the evening sky Come all seniors, follow and let it rise A song we ' ll sing, together we ' ll make it ring A song that never dies Before you stands the senior class United by true friendship ' s ties Watch the seniors pass To meet the echo from on high, on high Listen to the song we sing as we go marching Let your song ring out. let Rockford shout For the class of ' 41 Our president says I do . Posing Maddox -bound: Tootie, B.A., and Spooks Havin ' fun There may not be many We ' re seniors now! of us JUNIORS Hueter, Betty Robinson, Rodwell, Chase, Wincheix. We ' re the gay, notorious, all-victorious junior class We ' re bombastic and yet scholastic; we ' re sure to pass, We came, we saw, you conquered us. Some day we ' ll make you proud of us. Meanwhile we ' re just delirious Live, love, laugh, and be happy. Can ' t you hear it? The Junior spirit is in the air. It ' s outrageous and yet contagious; we ' ve got you there, That ' s the story of, that ' s the glory of our Junior class. We ' re the gay, notorious, all-victorious class. McCarren, Pawlan, Myers, Norton, Muehlemeyer, Slick, Hutchison, Sanem, R. Myers, Voss, Jacobs, M Hansen, Fillmore, Harper, Dahlstrom, Emerson, Jane Coleman, Hurd, Toops, Alwood, McMarran, Shepard, Schaefer, Larson, Pattison, D. Smith, Ryan, Harrison, Rodwell, Winchell, Chase, Hueter, Wolff, Koweleski, Bleier, Sher- win, Pope, M. Johnston, Patten, Betty Robinson, Fluty, P. Rankin. Reserved! ! ! We ' re the J-U-N-I-O-R-S Winch and Frannie play the game Stoogie, Beanie, Alice ' n Burchie Larson and friends On the steps of Lathrop Jo turns 20 with help from Suzie ' n Dottie Charlotte 39 Cronk B Olson, Paulsen, Tierney, Davey, Stark, Dallas, Schalck, Hobbs, Barron, Finnell, Campbell, Knapp, Clover Speier Hopper, L Johnson, Fisher, Hudson, D. Wheeler, Fleming, Anderson, Foster, Neumann Hanna, L Smith T Olson Hart, Ogilby, Schermerhorn, E. Rankin, Branch, Phillips, Byrnes, DeLong, Green, Parker, Aus t n Nestor McGonagle, Lund, McHugh, Schulz, Saucier, Turner, White, McWethy, Petersen, Burchell, D. £ to Iles, Peach, Matthews, Michel, Foulkes, Beckwith, E. Robinson, Hartlep, Williams, Alsover, Huffman, Brow N . Donnely, Merchant, Cassiday, Alford, E IL er, Avakian, Fisk, Paulson, Lewis, P. Smith, Bruce, Fecht, MacDonald, Zoechler, Barr, Haas, Chapello. We wear the purple, white for dear R. C. And to her loyal we will ever be Her name we ' ll keep in dearest memory. And best of all recall the class of ' 43 For every sophomore gal you ought to know She ' s full of style, and good old pep and go Forever you ' ll hear us sing it out, proudly shout — ' 43 The Roommates Snowbound A drive for education Q?— Where is Lovey? Sunkist Behind the bars Northward bound Sophomore smoothies 41 FRESHMEN To our alma mater dear We ' ll be true forevermore We are proud of the right to fight For the purple and the white, And the class of ' 44 We ' re the class of ' 44 We ' re the freshmen brave and true As our vict ' ry song we sing Loud and long the echoes ring, For the school we love so well, we love so well A. Johnson, Beebe, C. May, Hall, McInnis. Brown, Naylor, Cochrane, Worfel, Engstrand, Hoesli, Jacobson, A Johnson, Waldschmidt Holm, Madsen, Wood, Mitchell Parry McGuire, M. Wheeler, Nyman, Reed, Pearson, Englehardt, Solar, Bratrud, Clements, RY, Gardner ,C !. May, D? Robinson, Kuhns, Thomas, Schmidt, Manley, Cromer, B. Porter, Jones Thompson Isgrig, Beebe. H ll. Strom, McInn is, Bingham, Hutton, Radke, Hornstein, Braid, Evans, Gilbert, New, Laird rutz, Bristol, Westin, Oleson, Robeson, Danielson, Merrill, Hauser, Pelgrim Carlson, Slue, B nghart,J Eun,- man, Burmeister, Menke, D. Johnson, Hoffman, Printy, Graham, Lindgren, Winne, B. Johnston Rivard, Hampel W ol tott Bush S Ucobs Pierce, Weum, Glomp, Crandall, Frank, w eisenburger, Englehart, Seem an, Downer, Krueger, D nnu j tndstritw ' PkIce, M. Porter, McCullagh, Frithiof, Marvin, Cxrlson, Day, G. Johnson, M. Paulson, Meals Felici, Waggoner. Gwoop pitcher Ski Heil You can always tell a freshman Ditto— but smoother 2nd Lathrop October Day Ski trip victims Class day SOCRATIC HONOR SOCIETY Socratic Honor Society has three classes of members: faculty members of Phi Beta Kappa or Sigma Xi; permanent members who are elected from the senior class on the basis of their academic records for 3 years; associate members who are elected to one year membership. The purpose of the society is to recognize outstanding scholarship. TASSEL Tassel is a senior honorary society. Five seniors who have participated in a minimum of three activities and who have an average .3 above the campus average are tapped for membership at supper the night of May Party. Members of the faculty who are members of Mortar Board are advisors. Herzog Studio, Rockford, Illinois May Party is the most beloved and important of our many Rockford traditions. On this day the May Queen is crowned. She is elected by the college community from a list of eligible seniors who have been in school three years, are in good academic standing, and representative of the Rockford spirit. She shall be enthusiastic in her loyalties, temperate in conduct, and dignified and gracious in bearing, hne s ha 11 be widely interested and generously sympathetic, and hence related to the life of every group. She shall have thought constructively for the welfare of the college and have shown both conviction and courage in up- holding its ideals. . . Her name is not revealed until she appears with her attendants on May Day. 1 he queen of the previous year returns to crown the new queen with violets, and is herself crowned with a wreath of forget-me-nots. She is attended by two members of the senior, junior, and sophomore classes, and two freshman heralds. A dance festival is presented in the queen ' s honor on this day. A theme based on an old English fete, about the year f 700, was used for this year ' s May Party. For several years we have made Mother ' s Day a part of May Party. 45 The Queen ' s Attendants Now comes the lyric day on which we choose To tell ourselves that we again are free, Able to fashion hope and memory— The thoughts we cherish and the dreams we lose Into an old explicit pageantry; To this fair form of action let us bring Hearts that are joyous with the mood of spring. Yet not unconscious of solemnity. In crowning you today a Rockford Queen, We ask as poets that you represent The vital art for which our lives are spent, Thus give new function to a formal scene. Be this the honor of your lilac throne, That in your royalty we find our own. —Genevieve Blane 1930 Dancers wove the pastel ribbons of the maypole in and out, in and out. and then the archers and hoop-rollers contested on the greensward. A tired stilt walker leans against a stalwart tree, and soon the puppeteer presented Harlequin and Columbien. 47 The Greeks ' way of saying it was a healthy body makes a sound mind . This phrase could well be applied at Rockford College, for without frequent exercise of both mind and body we become stagnant, dull, and unable to concentrate. After participating in sports the cobwebs are brushed from our brains and we can learn more easily. Sports exercise the body and books exercise the mind — a relation essential for physical and mental fitness. Books, indeed, are necessary in sports; they are one source of the rules without which we would not know how to play the game intel- ligently, cleanly, and fairly. Susan Godfrey WOMEN ' S ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION The Women ' s Athletic Association was formed to foster a spirit of co-operation and sportsmanship, and to promote higher physical efficiency among the students. Anion the activities of W.A.A. are the annual fall and Memorial Day picnics at the college farm, the Army and Navy hockey game, the inter-class telegraphic swimming meet, basketball and tennis tournaments, the annual ski trip to Iron Mountain and this year a Spring vacation trip south. 1 •m ■ 1 W l ■ i 1 IT ' v. f - ; f ! o •ji • • HUETER Turner Bawden Riss Fluty Godfrey Carpenter McGowan Christensen Shepard Miss Moore On the hockey field HOCKEY Although class hockey games are played, the main event of the year is the Armv and Navy hockey game which is held on Dad ' s Day in the fall. ... brave old army team . . won the honors in 1940. The Junior-Senior hockey game was never played so that both are now ties for the title of inter-class champion. . the all -victorious junior class BASKETBALL After Thanksgiving recess the athletes among us turn their thoughts from hockey to basketball. Basketball, one of the most popular sports on the campus, develops into inter-class tournaments during the winter. This year ' s competition was won by the Junior class. 54 Sophomores win ! CREW Rockford College not only has an extremely high percentage of crew caps pe r capita, but it also possesses a real honest-to-goodness crew. The Memorial Day picnic and crew races at the College Farm are one of the highlights of the year. The outcome of the race in 1940 was a tie between the Juniors and Seniors, but for this year ' s victor you must consult the picture on this page. A S P O R T FOR Clare Patten aims for the bull ' s eye. Spring finds archery enthusiasts out on the range next to the hockey field. During the spring and fall months the tennis courts are the Mecca for tennis fans. Jan Fleming waits for a shot while Betsy Hanna watches. Are you in the mood for swimming? The college pool is located in the base- ment of Lathrop. Here are a group of swimmers lined up and ready to dive. EVERY INDIVIDUAL After the last word is written in the last bluebook for the last examination in February, it is time for the annual ski trip to Iron Mountain, Michigan. Here is an opportunity forffour days of glorious fun on skis. Rockford College golf enthusiasts must go to Sin- nissippi for a game, but spring finds many a hopeful swinging a club on the campus to polish up her game. Here is Betsy Haas practicing on East Campus. The first floor of Sill Hall is the traditional place to keep bicycles at Rockford College. Fine weather brings most of these bicycles out of doors where they are used either for transporta- tion or recreation or just exercise. Hostel trips are a popular feature of college life. Here are Jean Mac- Donald, Helen Speier, and Jean Clover ready for a ride. 57 The extra-curricular activities which make up our social lives are designed to enable us to put into practice that which we have gained from our books and studies. The experiences and thoughts of authors, speakers, and teachers are reinterpreted and evaluated so as to provide a frame of reference by which we may apply the practical problems which fact us. We trv in this way to provide a means by which our academic knowledge may become a part of our every-day life. SOCIAL SCIENCE ROOM OF LIBRARY It is especially fitting that students of the social sciences should study in Julia Clifford Lathrop Room, for she was a student at Rockford College, the f director of the Children ' s Bureau, and a pioneer in social research. The J Addams Alcove and the Mary Ashby Cheek Alcove form a part of this room. 60 Haas Foster Hanna Huffman D. Wheeler Fleming Fecht Chase Pope Pawlan Finnell Knapp Hart Ftsher Russell Miss Abbott Carpenter Toops McGowan Voss Simon Beck. Secrist Fluty Cassiday Harper MacDonald Gray Fleming Ryan Simon Merchant Pope M. Johnson Hart Harrison Larson Beck Mrs. Wickwar Gray Miss Buffington Schaefer Miller INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB The International Relations Club meets fortnightly in an informal group at the home of Miss Abbott to discuss current events affecting the international situation. The club also tries to bring interesting contemporary events to the attention of the student body by maintaining a bulletin board and a display table in the library. LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS The Rockford College chapter of the League of Women Voters consists of stu- dents interested in increasing their knowledge of the various economic, political and social problems confronting them in the world today. 61 Pawlan, B. Olson, Watkins, Sanem, Mrs. Berry, Neumann, Marvin, Fleming, , Cassiday, Hutchison, Turpin, Russell, Voss, Hanna. FORUM The Forum encourages forms of public speaking through the medium of inter- collegiate debates, panel discussions and round tables which serve to broaden the student ' s college experiences and to establish interesting contacts with other colleges. Those elected to Delta Sigma Rho. a national forensic society, are chosen from among the members of the Forum. Norton Burchell Merchant Gray M. Johnston Nestor Miss Koempei, McMarran Mills] deBeers Gordon Hudson Fluty Pawlan Russell Fisher Cassiday Foster Mr. Lovenstein Iles SOCIOLOGY CLUB The Sociology Club was organized in the fall of 1940 by students interested in applying their knowledge of sociology to- practical problems. Discussions and projects have been earned out by members of the organization on such subjects as housing, delinquency and recreational activities in Rockford. AMERICAN STUDENT UNION The Rockford chapter of the American Student Union strives to further the spirit of democracy on the campus by educational discussions on foreign and domestic affairs as thev relate to the American student. 63 HUMANITIES ROOM OF THE LIBRARY The Alumnae Room serves students in the language and literature classes. Students in these fields are fond of studying in front of the large fireplace which is on the east wall. In this room also is the Blanche Walker Burpee Lounge donated by the alumnae in the city of Rockford. MacDonald FlNNELL Knickerbocker Myers Fluty Hamilton Wolff RODWELL Sherwin Ryan Larson Harrison Emerson Shepard Toops Hurd Bleier Jane Coleman Slick Fluty M. Johnston Norton Schaefer Mr. Paxson Chase Hueter Mrs. Berry Harper Pope PARROT Monday night always finds the editor of Purple Parrot and her co-editors in Parrot Perch typing all the college news and wracking their brains for items to fill the empty spaces. This weekly paper acts as the voice of Rockford students. CUPOLA Cupola, a book of memories presented to the seniors by the junior class, reflects the atmosphere of college life and activities. 65 ROCKFORD REVIEW A much -awaited publication of the college is the annual Rockford Review which is made up of writings, etchings, woodcuts and other pieces of art contributed by any members of the student body and faculty. HANDBOOK The Handbook is a helpful guide to the Rockford College student which she never allows far out of her reach. It is edited annually by the College Government Association and contains information of all campus activities and the constitutions of all campus organizations. College rules and regulations and a calendar for the academic rear are found here. Watkins Mrs. Paxson Williams Donnely Manning Barron Kennedy Dr. Cairns Pattison M. Hansen Hamilton Dooaro Erikson 66 Cochran McDonald Dauderman Fanshier B. Johnston Frank Slive Waggoner Austin Laird S her win Radke Waldschmidt McCullagh Christensen M. Porter Fillmore Carpenter Slick P. Smith Hebbs SPANISH CLUB Carramba y caspita! say the Spanish Club members when in disgust. Tl club was organized in 1938 by Spanish students to create an interest in Spam culture. It sponsors Spanish fiims,poetry, contests and gives parties through wm. the entire student body is able to learn about the Spanish-speaking peoples. GERMAN CLUB All German students are potential members of the German Club, the purpose of which is to promote general interest in the German language. 1 his club joins the other language clubs at Christmas time in giving the language clubs play. A German table is sponsored in the dining room sometime during the year at which the German language is spoken. 67 Banghart, Fan- SHIER, McMARRAN MacDonald, Har- per, Hart, Green, Donnelly, Bur- chell, Radke, Mc- Gowan, Byrne, Danielson, Simon, Michel, Miller, Reed, Hueter, Day, Crandall, J. Olson, Miss Brag- ington, Marvin, Keller, D. John- son, Alford, Mc- Cullagh, Peter- son, Beckwith, McCarren, Slive, Stewart, Paulsen, Hinkle. Pierce, Laird, Austin, Riss, Green, Reed, Mc- Cullagh, Coch- ran, Sherwin, Fanshier, Bleier, Alford, Dodaro, Hueter, Miller, Coburn, D. Smith, Harper, Toops. CLASSICAL CLUB The Classical Club is composed of members of the Greek and Latin classes. The annual activities consist of monthly meetings, one of which is marked by a visiting speaker. The gala event of the year is the club banquet at which all members appear wearing togas and Roman sandals. FRENCH CLUB French Club, composed of those who have studied French, sponsors several French movies, lectures, and a French table in the dining room to acquaint the students with the spoken French language. This club also takes part in the Christ- mas pageant and party given by the language clubs. 68 ART ROOM OF THE LIBRARY Entering the library from John Barnes Hall, one steps into the Emmy Carlson Evald Room where students of the fine arts spend many an interesting , hour In addition to a useful library of books, a collection of approximately 3000 art reproduc- tions and photographs and frequent exhibitions of prints and painting make this a center of interest in the college. Alumnae and friends of the college have provided the Sarah Anderson Ainsworth Memorial Alcoves, the Harriet Wells Hobler Lounge, and the Sarah Burton Wright Alcove in this room. Marsh Bawden deBeers loHl RN Fluty Riss Fan shier schaefer d adder man ElLER Knickerbocker Iles Allman Fanshier Haan deBeers Mitchell White ™ 49 I C mm i 1 • IT DRAMATIC CLUB According to its constitution the purpose of the Dramatic Club is to develop the art of drama in Rockford College . The members receive practical experience in the production of plays from the building of scenery and working of lights to acting. ORCHESIS Orchesis is a modern dance club, the members of which are advanced dancers elected into the organization when their performance is considered by the whole group to merit the honor. Technique and original composition are particularly emphasized in the several recitals that are given every year. 70 ART CLUB The Art Club was organized over ten years ago for the purpose of stimulating interest in art in the college. Etchings, paintings and books are acquired by he dub and it contributes etchings to the display made at Maddox House. In the spring this organization sponsors the annual Beaux Arts Ball. GLEE CLUB The Glee Club is always associated in the minds of the students with the special occasions of the college. ' The entire group presents a Christmas candle light seryte and a spring concert every year The choir, a smaller group selected from the members of the Glee Club, sings for religious chapel services, vesper services and special occasions. Oleson, Fleming, D. Wheeler, Brown, Dunning, Downer, Allman, Jacobson,Weisen- burger, Hartlep, deBeers,Knicker- BOCKER, RlSS, Shepard. Anderson, Braid, R. Myers, Laird, E. Rankin, Dahl- strom, Wald- schmidt, Paulson, Williams, Weig- ler, Neumann, Graham, Hanke, Robison, Bang- hart, Hauser, Sherwin, Mitch- ell, Winne, M. Wheeler, Kowel- esk.i,Beebe, Hall, Pelgrim, Brucf, Hampel, Clem- ents, Alsover, Green, Burmeist- er, Hoffman, Kreuger, Price, Pierce, Cromer, Crandall, Mer- chant, Glomp, D. Johnson. 71 ALPHA THETA The Alpha Theta Honorary Musical Society includes in its membership students of the theory of music who are studying either instrumental and vocal music. HOBBY CLUB The Hobby Club was organized this year and is devoted to those who are in- terested in handicraft of all types. The members meet and work in one of the turret rooms in Adams Hall. Avakian ElLER Austen P. Rankin Kanne DODARO SCHULZ MlIEHLEMEYER burchell Laird Pelgrim Sass McWethy Jacobs Reed Day TlERNEY Cochran Westin ISGRIG Fluty Felici 72 SCIENCE ROOM OF THE LIBRARY Future scientists, home economists and psychologists climb the stairs to the West Room. There they find their reserve shelves, and study beside windows commanding a beautiful view of the Rock River. The Cummings Home Economics Lounge and the Jewett Science Alcoves add to the charm of the room. 73 SCIENCE-MATH CLUB The Science-Math club was formed as a merging of the formerly separate Math and Science Clubs. Discussions are held and speakers on interesting discoveries and theories in the various scientific fields are brought to the campus. The club also maintains a large reserve shelf in the library containing new and interesting additions to the science alcoves. MEMBERS Fillmore Winchell Chapello McWethy Peach Porter Pawlan CAMERA CLUB The Camera Club, organized in 1937-38, welcomes all he budding ; photog raphers of R. C. to its ranks. They take pictures for all college V n nd photography of campus life in general is encouraged. Individual mterest is stim Slated by the two annual salon exhibits. Discussions, lectures, and exper.mental development of pictures are some of the club ' s weekly activities. HOME ECONOMICS The Home Economics Club gives an opportunity to students and faculty mem- bers in that department to meet and discuss topics of mutual interest and value. Its program includes meetings, lectures, and teas. Parry McCullagh Garav P. Porter Peach Cochran Reed Chapeixo Hartlep Matthews DODARO Miss Davidson Bleier Larson Peach Olson Miss Watkins Marsh Brigham E. Rankin Linden Muehlemeyer Sass D. 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