Sacramento City College - Pioneer Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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The Debating Society closed the spring semester of 1923 with the en¬ viable record of having triumphed in every contest in which it had taken part and claimed among its opponents the Nastoria Debating Society of Stanford University. Anxious to maintain the interest which had been aroused, the society began the fall semester with much enthusiasm. Manager Broughton promptly secured a triangular debate with Modesto Junior College and Fresno State Teachers College on the question: Resolved, that the United States should enter the World Court according to the Harding-Hughes proposals. Ed Smith and Paul Bruton upheld the affirm¬ ative and Percy Westerberg and Phil Broughton the negative. On the 19th of December the affirmative team traveled to Modesto and were able to carry the day by a unanimous decision. Three weeks later, on January 9th, the two supporters of the negative met the Fresno team in Sacramento. Here the tables were turned, the college losing by a three-to-nothing decision. Our team was handicapped by the fact that one of its original members was unable to take part, making it necessary for Phil Broughton to take his place just a few days before the debate, but we have no alibis to offer and hope to square accounts with Fresno in the near future. This year for the first time the debaters of the Junior College had the opportunity of meeting a team from a state university. On the 18th of December Phil Broughton and Merle Shreck journeyed to Reno to meet the lower division team of the University of Nevada. They upheld the affirmative of the question: Resolved, that compulsory arbitration should be used in the settlement of all labor disputes. Our team upheld the honors of the school and the outcome was in doubt until the judges, who included an ex-Governor of Nevada and a federal judge, rendered a two-to-one decision in favor of the Reno team. No debates have been scheduled this semester, due to the fact that studies must come first, but all are looking forward to next year with the hope that our teams will continue to climb the ladder of success. May our future debaters carry on and may they make the name of the Sacramento Junior College one to be respected in inter-collegiate competition in the state, for no student activity can be more beneficial to the college than debating and more profitable to the participants.

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Engineering Club This year the Junior College was able to realize what some of its students have been hoping and working for since the school first came into existence, an engineering society of some sort, a society that would live through the coming years of the school’s growth, a group of fellows that would not disappear at the first sign of work or approaching hardship. We believe that the college has at last got this kind of society in her midst, at least present conditions signify as much. An engineering society first made its appearance in 1922,. soon after college had been resumed after the World War reprieve. This society was evidently doomed for a short life, for when school was commenced after the summer vacation period all traces of the former society seemed to be “nihil.” Now, due to the efforts of a few of the students who were members of the club in 1922 and who remained loyal to its ideals, Mr. Thorpe, our present engineering instructor and enthusiastic backer for the club, and also Mr. Lillard, our ever helpful president, we have a strong foundation for an A-l organization. In February of this year (1924) the aforementioned group of organizers sought the advice and aid of the Sacramento chapter of the American Asso¬ ciation of Engineers, which society immediately took us under their wing and helped us to get going. A number of meetings were arranged for and held under the auspices of this group to arouse an interest in the movement among the Junior College engineering students. The idea of going to the National Association for aid was one of the wisest and best things that could have been done. We are organized as a student branch of the senior association, and have nearly as many privileges as the seniors. They invite us to all of their meetings and their social affairs. After the business part of the program has been finished, then comes the entertainment part of the meeting. It is at these meetings that we get a view of the possibilities of the future. We also have our own meetings, presided over by our own officers, and, although we do not have any set form for them, we try to have them as near like the meetings of senior society as is convenient. As might be expected, our meetings are a little lighter and more for entertainment than those of the senior society. As soon as our organization grows a little more homogeneous we intend giving some active forms of entertainment for the school. When the engineering society was first organized it was understood that the society would be composed of only civil engineering students, but it was not long until a number of the students from the chemistry department were expressing a desire for admission. We did not have the heart to refuse them, so, as a result, we embrace almost every branch of common engineering known. There should be no danger of this society evaporating because of a lack of variety. We have amongst us fellows interested in mechanical, mining, electrical, hydraulic, chemical and civil engineering . The Sacramento Junior College Engineering Society promises to be an added feature of the school and one of its strongest organizations. At present we are a 100% organization.

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The dramatic activities that have taken place in the Junior College this year have been under the auspices of the Art of Acting class, which comprises the active membership of the Drama Club. The several public appearances of this group of students are written up in detail below, so it will be sufficient to merely call attention to them here. The work of the class for the first semester was on one-act plays, among which were “Enter the Hero, ' 1 “Two Crooks and a Lady,” “The Twelve-Pound Look,” “Trifles,” “The Wonder Hat,” and others. This work was splendid preparation for that done in the second semester on longer plays, somewhat more pretentious. Before any of the plays have been presented in public, they have been carefully worked out in class. The instructor of this class and the coach in all the plays, is Miss M. A. Murphy. The class is heavily indebted to her for her ready and valuable assistance. She has assisted us at all times to a full realization of what the plays and the parts have meant. The president of the club during the first semester was Roy Portman; during the second, Verna Hannah has served in this capacity. Due to the efforts of these two able executives, members of the club were able to secure reduced rates to a number of worth-while productions, among which were “To the Ladies,” by the Wheeler Hall Players, the Stuart Walker Portman¬ teau Plays, and Tony Sarg’s Marionette presentation of the Willow Plate story. “Spreading the News” The first public appearance of the organization was in “Spreading the News.” This Irish comedy, written by Lady Gregory, was given as a feature of the Carnival held in the Auditorium on October 12. There are many amusing situations in this play, all of which were very well brought out by the cast. While the plot is simple, it is highly interesting. Through the misunderstandings of Mrs. Tarpey, the deaf apple-vendor, Jack Smith was supposed to have been killed by a pitchfork at the hands of Bartley Fallon, after a quarrel between the two over Smith’s wife. The villagers were greatly 29