Santa Ana Junior College - Del Ano Yearbook (Santa Ana, CA)

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Y. M. C. A. President William Adamson Vice President Martin Gulick Secretary-Treasurer Claude Hayvvard Meetings Steele Metzgar Faculty Advisor E. J. Hummel The Y. M. C. A. of Santa Ana Junior College was organized to create, maintain, and extend throughout the school and community, high standards of Christian char- acter. The Association meets every two weeks and holds a discussion on the Social Principles of Jesus. Once a month a speaker is ol)tained to tell the memhers of some of his experiences and to give them a broader view of life. The FuUerton J. C. Y. inendjers were the guests of the local assoriatiim at one of the opening meetings. The men of the J. C. were also guests ol llir ' l . M. (.. . At Asilomar each year the Y. M. C. A. s of the Colleges of California hold a conference to further the interests of the Y. in the local associations. Julian Baires. a student sent to the United States hy the government of his country. Honduras, was the representative to the Conference in Decemhci.

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Founded on the highest ideals of fellowship, character buildin ,. self deveh)p- nient. and service, the Y. W. C. A. work has contrihuted consistently to the dexelop- nient of a high type of college spirit. Just two vears have passed since the organization of the Y. W. C. A. on thi campus. In that time tlie association has become affiliated with the National Organi- zation, has been granted a charter, has sent representatives to the Asilomar Confer- ences, and to Southern California Conferences, and has gained an enviable place in the work of the field. The closing of the vear has brought to Santa Ana the first Southern California Junior College Y. W. C. A. conference. More than one hundred delegates from Junior College Associations of the South were on this campus in conference with Miss Alice Hoyt, field secretary in the Asilomar division and Miss Lillie Margaret Sherman, secretary of the Association on the campus at the University of California. The local Association has been further recognized bv the appointment of the directing secretarv. Miss Isabel Anderson, as a member of the student council of the Asilomar division, which is a council of five members chosen from all student associations in the division, to govern in the interim between National conventions. Miss Anderson has also been appointed chairman of a committee to plan a special group of Junior College councils at the Asilomar Conference in August. Activities for the year have been chiefly centered in the development of the organization and the advancement of Y. W. spirit among the girls of the college. Discussion groups, which have gone deeply into vital problems and have added much to the intellectual and spiritual life of the Association, have been successfullv conducted bi-weekly at the home of Miss Lasby The most important day of all the year for the local Association was the dedica- tion of the Y. W. Hut on April 15. Mr. Schrock of the Congregational (Church de- livered the dedicatory sermon. Mrs. Eleanor Northcross and Miss Isabel Anderson spoke of the various ways in which the hut was to be used. The beautiful painting, presented by Mr. W. A. Griffith, hung over the fire place, giving the touch of beauty the building needs. The color tones of the picture are repeated in walls and rugs and draperies. The next evening, April l(). a reception was held for all the sliidcnis and farultv and for the people of the communilv. To promote college life on oui- canipus ihcic wcic tuo li(ui c pailics at Madame Modjeskp ' j, several luncheons on the lawn, picnics at the beach antl two barupiets. The organization has given the girls a taste of what college life really is. and has done much to promote a college spirit on the Junior College campus.

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Our J. C. is Invited to the National Y. M. C. A. Last year, for the first time in the history of tiie Junior (Colleges of Southern California, an invitation was extended to them liy llie Y. M. C. A. to send official representatives to the National Student Conference at Asiloniar. which was held during the Christmas vacation of 1922. Such an event should he of the greatest sianificance for these new institutions as it means that their value as educational units is being recognized and ap|)roved, hv as important an association as the Y. M. C. A. The purposes of these annual conferences is to give the college students liroadcr views of life than those that the average man can get in the universities: to create in them a more human and Christian spirit; to acquaint them with the great religious, social, economic and political problems of the nation and of the world; and to make them realize all the needs of our complex present society. In short, they are intended to form a more worthv, efficient and desirable type of men. A number of the most prominent men in Sociology, Politics, Economics and Religion hold a series of conferences uhich are both interesting and helpful for the students. The former lines would account tor the real benefits of the conference. Now. to be just, it is necessary to mention the opportunity to have a good time during the trip and at the camp. I honestly believe I had never before enjoyed myself as thoroughly nor laughed so much as when I was going to and coming from the Con- ference. Then, at the camp, the best students of the Western colleges and universities were present, and every one was trying to make the most friendly and attractive atmosphere. Asilomar is beautiful and picturesque, the week ' s lime very well dis- tributed, and the program of conferences, games, sightseeing, etc., very attractively arranged. Every one who goes is necessarily delighted. The one thing that I regret, however, is that this year I was the onix incrnlitM of our Student Body fortunate enough to take advantage of this admiraiiic opporlunitv. Mav 1 hope that in the vear to come there will be many representatives ot our .1. C. at tliis conference as it has a value which from every sland[)oint cannot be oMTcsti- malcd. The results arc lieneliiial lo ihc sluilcnl. lo ihr i illrgi ' . ami |o tlic c cuiuMMnitv. -JULIAN n. I! ll!i:s. IMkc Twcnl.vfo