University of Wisconsin Whitewater - Minneiska Yearbook (Whitewater, WI)

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SENIOR ACES STANDING at the top are twelve students selected bV the facultV as the outstanding students of W. S T Cathe senior aces. In the commercial Held they select: 101m Dettmamz, Phi Chi, Wesley president and busi- ness manager of the MINNIE; Harris Lyon, in- dependent, senior president and basketball star; Eldred Speck Phi Chi vice- -president, Pi Omega Pi president and Roval Purple editor: Lomse Bayer, Theta Sigma editor of the Roval Purple and MINNIE; W'ilma Hasx, independent, W. A. A. president; and Arlene Rose, inde pendent. Those selected among the academic students are: Garfield McG'mw, Sigma president; Lowell 117175012, independent, Photo Club and Academic Vice-president; Amm Lou Riexcb, independent, straight A student; Odemz Richards, Alpha Sig- nm; and Betty Rogers, Alpha Sigma president. Bernice Harper stands head and shoulders above the rest in the primary department. At the annual Tri Sigma sweater swirl the men vote Lois F'III'Iey, Alpha Sigma sophomore, as the most popular girl on the campus. Bruce Sinat- tuck, Phi Chi, basketball star, is selected by the women as the mast popular man. Standing: Wilson, LVon Dcttmann Speck, Richards Rogers Lois Furley, Bruce Shattuck w! McGraw. Seated: BaVer, Hass Rose, Riesch Harper, I5

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JUNIOR PROM JUNIORS have their most important meeting of the year for discussion of the itJunior Promf, They declare that it shall be bigger and better than any before or any after. Jim Mullen is elected to be king and chairman over all chair- men, and Thomas Rennemo is appointed assistant general chairman. Finances arc of nrst concern, but publicity and broadcasting committees start at once. The most popular man at this time of the year is, of course, his majesty who keeps the girls guessing! Time passes. The court of honor is announced, and the Purple lets the queen out of the bag of secrecy Irene Cbape. AY 6 arrives and with it comes last fiurry 0f hnishing touches appointments at the beauty parlor, trouser pressing, parades, shoe shining, shaving, etc. Formals fall into filmy folds as the danee-minded campus iiEdsiT and iiCoedsT, drive or walk to Hamilton gym. The receiving line welcomes all. They dance to the sweet swing of I06 Sudy and his orchestra. After :1 bit of a shamble, they amble upstairs for a snack and a quencher at the convenient iicock- taileless cocktail loungeii 0n the balcony. VVTMJ puts Whitewater 0n the air, with Bob Heiss announcing. For threc-qunrters of an hour, friends and proud mothers and fathers listen to the swing to which their sons and daughters iitrip the light fantastic? Queen Irene Chape and King James Mullen smile while Joe Sudy and Bob Heiss announce the grand march. thlawT Lefiingwell, Ketter, Ransom. Rogers, XVeiss, XValker, Chape, Mullen, Romaine, Fronek, Edwards, Place, Hahn, Molnar.

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l ,, I 0 Copy edit0r5, O7Ca7mell; Meuler, and- 1921111573011 check final proof5 , , MINNIESKA 1. 0 Behind MINNIE cover5 are Grccnlnalgb, 1I1Iarx, Bayer and Dettmawz. f i' Behmd Minnie Headlines 5 - , 1 .1' ELL, here it is! Xour 1940 AIINNEISKA, with a record of everything you or your neighbor has done in the past school year. With two All- American ratings behind the staff, the 1940 members are ready to udig inIy at the be- ginning of the vear to live up to the standards set by other staffs. Work begins fm Louise Baye1',editor,e21rly last year when contracts are to be made and old cuts to be filed 21w ay. An early beginning puts 0 Ken Brown 5pend5 many 51eeple55 nights in the photo dark room. 16 II'z'llimn Dubats, Berry Rogen, and Betty Jane Sundberg in the limelight when group pictures are taken out-of-doors on October IO and 1 1. The order of business is interrupted somewhat when I ouise and her assistant 11111111011 Marx pack up their troubles and start for Des AIoines, Iow21, with members of the Roval P111ple staff, to attend the National Scholastic Press Association Com vention. T heV return with many new ideas plus bad cases of fatigue. EFORE long the first discount date, Decem- ber 15, rolls around and that means plenty of all night sessions for the IIroving pho- tographcrs an Acben and Kenneth 131101572. 147112516 II olff with her assist1nt, C1110! Y0de1', Ieally begin to hound the seniors about their Mr. B11611, 1141111, 1Mr. Graham, Bayer di5c1155 the band picture.