University of Northern Iowa - Old Gold Yearbook (Cedar Falls, IA)

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HIGH As a perennially active campus organization Women's League kept its place in the foreground of college affairs again this year. With orientation of new women on campus as an initial problem, it provided get-together meetings designed to give the girls a chance to become acquainted with the campus and its surroundings. Tours of the various buildings of the campus, picnics to iorm new acquaintanceships, and shopping tours were arranged and car- ried out under the guidance of upperclassmen under the reassuring title of campus sisters. Senior advisers met weekly with president Ruth Cameron to consider the reports of the campus sisters as to the success of the meetings, difficulties, and suggested remedies; scholarship advisers also helped the newcomers to adapt themselves to the new routines of study which they encountered. After the rush of the orientation program was completed, the Women's League launched on a program of events for the betterment of social and leisure time activities. The social swing was started on its way by a Pep Rally Dinner held at the Commons on October 13, under the chairmanship of Jean Norris. This was followed by the popular Femmes Fancy on the nineteenth of November. Under the direction of Zelma Abben as general chairman, the League then inaugurated a series of hobby group meetings with the idea of presenting activities to fill leisure time with worth while hobbies. Meetings were held in the Commons on Thursday afternoons on a variety of subjects, among which were knitting, contract bridge, clay modelling, and weaving. Top Row: Cameron, Brand, Gregory, Trunnell, Stein- kamp. Second Row: Abben, Mor- gan, Kenderdino, Lund, Miller.

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Top Row: Hartleib, Church, G. Hughes Second Row: Natvig, Bacon. B. Hughes Third Row: Jensen, Miner, Trefzger Men's Union, the only organization at Teachers College to which every man is accorded membership, was headed this year by Randall Hartleib. Hartleib was elected to that office at the end of the spring term during 1937. At the same election, men students chose Harold Church, George Hughes, and Davis Natvig to the positions of Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer respectively. Noel Bacon was elected as the senior representative, and Ed Trefzger and Bernard Hughes were picked to represent juniors. Paul Miner was given the office of sophomore representative. At the beginning of the Fall Term the freshman voters placed Milo Jensen on the executive board to represent them. The executive board controls the organization, plans and works out the program for the coming year. During the year the freshman orientation pro- gram was probably the most important activity, and was carried out during the fall term to provide programs for freshmen, designed to help new men become adapted to college life, and to learn to live a more successful life while in college. During the fall term a Men's Union dance was sponsored, and a Men's Union play night took the spot-light of the winter term. Active in all college activities, Men's Union plays an important part in the program of student government by cooperating with the Student Coun- cil and the Women's League in nominating new members for the Council, and in making recommendations for the furthering of an active campus program. Paqe 26

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 The most beautiful and the most practical recreational or social center on any campus in the northwest, is the way the Commons building has been described. Completed five years ago, the Com- mons has become the nucleus for all social activities on the campus. When the tomfoolery and boisterous activity of the frat house subside, or when there is little to do in Bartlett Hall, the boys and girls flock to the Commons in search of a suitable place to expend that surplus energy. Every Monday night finds the proverbial stag, the steady couple, and most of the rest of the students tripping the light fantastic to the tune of the Campus Playboys as they swing into the latest numbers for the weekly recreational dance hour. Fellows get the date for the coming weekend that they have been yearning for, and the girls retaliate by getting their men. Quite naturally, the all-college dances are held in the long ballroom of the Commons, under the sponsorship of one or more of the numerous organizations on the campus. Southeast comer Page 28