University of Nebraska Kearney - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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Goodbye until next time is what we really mean. There is always a next time for everyone. Students leave for week-ends, Christmas vacation, summer vaca- tion—-and come back again. Even the most important goodbye of all, graduation, is not the end of college association. Naturally, commencement seems very final at the time. Being a senior is a difficult experience. That required course can’t be put off any longer, and of course one must set a good example for the freshmen. Clubs, hon- orary fraternities, social affairs, and studying crowd the year. It all leads up to commencement. The prospec- tive graduates listen to the commencement address, and then, armed with facts, principles, and certificates, they prepare to follow their career in a stricrly prac- tical spirit. And from the college they get practical help, even after graduation. Graduates who are teaching in the Nebraska schools find that Kearney gives them tangible aid in solving educational problems after they enter the teaching field, as well as while they are in training. Extension courses help the readier in working for advanced degree, or in taking the latest course offered in his individual field. The Book Demonstration Team and the Home Economics Demonstration Team are always available for talks before the school or before the P.T.A. of the smaller towns near Kearney. The teach- ers in every department can be depended upon to fur- nish pamphlets, teaching material, and a quantity of excellent advice for graduates who are out in their first position. College after graduation is often something more than hazy memories of ivy and brawny men with letters on their chests. After one has spent even a year in a college, it be- comes a part of bis thinking, part of his personality. No senior has the same outlook on life that he had when he was a freshman. There are associations, ideas, friendships, A peculiar significance is attached to a tree on the campus, or the gymnasium, or the gate at the from entrance where there are usually a group of fellows loafing and smoking. The senior may have worked in the cafeteria, or perhaps he may hive been a lab assistant. That senior may have known someone at the dormitory, or some faculty member in the class room. Each contact the senior has made, makes him the kind of person he is when he leaves college with a diploma in his hand. Every senior, whether he realizes it or not, has been influenced by his stay in college. At commencement the future is important; college life is behind. The seniors leave college with relief, with regret, or just as a matter of course; but they always say, quite firmly, Goodbye.” But, then in a few months, they come back. Four vital years of study, planning, or playing, cannot be stowed away as a tidy memory, or as a Method. A tie with Kearney remains through years of travel, teach- ing, or just working. Students, who nave attended other schools after leaving Kearney, come back to visit, and many to enroll again. Alumni wander back to the campus, to the Friday dances, to a chat with the in- structor whose classes they methodically cut during their sophomore years. Perhaps it’s a longing for what is called collegiate atmosphere, or perhaps it may be a realization of what college has meant to them. At least they always return. It is never quite good- bye. Like all other young people the members of the graduating class live largely in the future. The pres- ent is unexciting. The past unimportant. They us- ually cannot wait to get away from everything that smacks of college and plunge into the future and a real job. The average student goes through school engrossed in the future, vaguely aware of the college, its philosophy, its customs, its traditions, but not realizing the tre- mendous influence of all these factors on his thinking. He regards them as belonging to a period in his life that is closing.

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f f J The Faculty is Human There are certain things about teachers which students like to remember. These certain things might be called personality traits, or the little things that make the instructors human beings. No stu- dent who has taken an English class under Mr, Ry- an will forget his jokes about poor grammar, es- pecially the one about the woman who had four quarts of tomatoes spoil on her. Students who were at the debate party' at the ship will remember the jiving exhibition of Mr. and Mrs. Hansen. Then there was the shower given by the Forgotten Fathers’ League for Mr. Cerny. Incidentally, the names of the instigators of the shower were not released for publication. We do know that they were faculty members, and that Mr. Fo. was seen carrying the box of gifts to the auditorium just before the convocation. We also suspected Mr. Klier and others of having something to do with the plot. The box containing the ar- ticles was presented by Wayne Frazer after the con vocation program was through. Even more inter- esting than the box or the articles in it, were the captions attached to each gift. There was a hook on Child Management labeled, What Every Fa- ther Should Know.” There was a pair of rubber trousers with a little card saying, To Protect Fa- ther’s Sunday Best,” A package of baby shirts en- titled, Scherbo in Brown;1' and a bib had the cap- tion, Bib, Bib, Hurra!’ Sometimes the faculty members like to get away from their classroom and flee to the collegiate at- mosphere of the Club House. Here, over cokes or cups of coffee, they talk and talk about their classes, books they have read, or places they have been. The students will remember bow Mr. Nichols, Mr. Klier, and Mr. Fox used to look each other up and then stroll over to the Club House together for a smoke and a coke. Mrs. Powell always seemed to be too busy to re- lax. She used to dictate letters to her stenographer, Shirley Green, while she and Shirley sipped a coke. Sometimes, Mr. G, L. Doughty used to talk to his students while he relaxed between classes. We al- ways suspected they talked about music. Dean Parker was another Club House addict in his spare moments. Some of the college’s most loyal sport followers were Mr. and Mrs. Stout. Mr. and Mrs, Fox used to follow the football and basketball teams, too. The editor and staff camera man of this annual are almost jealous of three of the instructors, jealous 25 This look as if Cerny were raying to Appel man, Rnlph, we just !o t the harp!” of their ability to get good pictures. You’ll all re- member the pictures Mr, Appelman took for the advertisement of Blossom Time.” He does his own developing and printing, Mr. Watkins, while he was out at Yellowstone last summer, took a lot of pictures of the park. Then at one of the convo- cations lie showed the kids what Yellowstone looks like through his camera lens. Mr. Foster photo- graphs the campus and just about every important thing that happens on it. It wasn’t unusual to see him up in the Biology lab adjusting the light and his camera for a picture of a giant toad-stool. He likes to take unusual pictures and does a great deal of experimenting with tuning and lighting. These three are not the only camera addicts on the camp- us. Both Mr. Fox and Mr, Ryan bought cameras this year. Other instructors will be remembered for expres- sions they have. These expressions give them a dis- tinctive personality. No one who has taken Math under Miss Hanrhorn will forget her, Be specific, man!” And there are the jokes Mr. Stout tells in his Education class. Some people say he doesn’t take living too seriously, and they’re probably right. Most of the faculty men and women have inter- ests outside the classroom; however, die most pub- licized is Mr. Apel’s interest in inventing games. He has a copyrighted game on the market called 12 high” or Who's elected?” The people who have played the game say that it is more fun than bridge.

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Four Years of Progress Someone had a brilliant idea. That person wrote a play for the seniors. It was a play about progress; not the usually heavy boring play about the subject, but a comedy of four acts which contained everything from satire to music. That play was given in convo- cation. In the first act, the seniors reenacted freshman reg- istration. Ray Roth ran about with a mike interview- ing the poor freshmen, and occasionally giving the mike over to Duane Cornelius so that he might an- nounce that Education 415 at eight o’clock had dosed. Reuben Sitzman, in knee pants, was one of the regis- tering freshmen. One of the girls that Roth inter- viewed announced her phone number, which is said to be typical of freshmen. The second and third acts were probably pretty badly written, for no one seems to remember anything about them. That is the way with sophomore and junior years. No one remembers them. In the fourth act, a scene was enacted from the senior sneak day. It took place in a hotel room in Den- ver, Colorado. The seniors were amusing each other by giving readings, speeches, and musical selections. Lorrayne Lanka gave a reading about a person who didn’t want to dance with a certain man, but who said that she’d be just too glad to. Incidentally, the read- ing was by Dorothy Parker, Kathryn Smith played a French horn solo. Paul Priebe told jokes. It was easy to see that the seniors had made a great deal of progress in four years. They looked a little older in the fourth act than in the first; they were more serious. Many of them looked as tired as Mar- garet Cushing does in the picture at the right. 25