1946-05-29; Central Michigan Life

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VOLUME 27
Classes Resume
Friday
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY,  MAY 29,  1846
NUMBER 25
Centrals Building Program to Start Soon
Dramatics Season Ends Next Week
with "Career Angel" Presentation
Three Act Comedy Is Offered by Play Production Class;
Speech and Stage Crafts Students Prepare Sets
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The last play of the 1946 season,
to be presented by the play production class, "-Career Angel" will
take place in the college auditorium
at 8:15, June 3, 4, 5.
Members Of the cast as announced by Mr., Fred Bush, dramatic department head, are Beverly "Marzolf as Sister Mary Gregory, Janet
Duncan as Connie McAdames, Jane
Goff as Abigail Garvey, Iris Wilcox
as Sister Fidelis, Meta Chinhold by
Joan Muntz, Gwen Gwinn as Sister
Seraphim, Jean Chisholm as Angel
Guardian, Donna Ingersoll as Dottie
Devaise, Virginia Smith as Sadie
Puller, Elonore Brietzke as Mrs. J.
Mosely, Pat Jahnke as Sister Whal-
dus, Jane Corraline as Joe Hurdles,
Arlene Kerton as Norma Glinsky,
Ruth Hall as Francie Thompson,
Betty Olmstead as Jeannie Rinn,
Joan Foltz as Anna Chevosker and
William Lanshaw as Jefferson.
"Career Angel", a three act comedy by Gerald M. Murry, has had a
Broadway run and was also produced by the famous Blackfriars
thea.tre organization.
Admission is 35c for students
a^id 60c for adults on a season dramatic ticket. The sets for the play,
are being made by the speech and
stage .craft classes.
Ballantyne Heads
Panhell Society
Bessie Ballantyne, Plint junior,
was installed new Panhell president
Wednesday night, May 22, during
an impressive candlelight ceremony
conducted by Dean D. Louise
Sharp.
Other .new officers installed for
the coming year are: vice-president,
Louise Slykes, Ionia sophomore; recording secretary, Jean Rogers, Far-
well sophomcire: corresponding
secretary, Roberta Lanshaw, Alma
junior; treasurer, Beverly .Hendrick,
Keeler Union women's lounge. Jean 'Muskeg0n sophomore; Student
Chisholm, Flint junior, assumed the  ■council representative, Pat Jahnke,
W JUL Installs
1946-47 Officers
• The 1946-47 officers of the Women's Recreation Association were
installed at an open meeting at
8:30 p. m. Monday evening, hi the
Jean Chisholir*, Flint junior, will
play the title role.in "Career Angel"
next week.
presidency.
Other officers for next year are
vice-president, Phyllis Hartman,
Midland sophomore; t secretary.
Helen Anderson, Muskegon sophomore; treasurer, Eleanor Schnepp,
Riverdale, sophomore; and publicity
manager, Eleanor Haskell, Kalamazoo  freshman.
The retiring' officers are Jane
Bradshaw, president; Evelyn Vas-
sau, vice president; Phyllis Hart-
man, secretary; Wanda Upham,
treasurer; and Jo Hedges, publicity
manager. .
New managers for the various
sports were installed in a.group.
Pat Blackmore
Home Ec. Head
The newly-elected officers for the
Home Economies' cluib next year
are: president, Patricia Blackmore,
Vassar sophomore; president-elect,
Betty Dickerson, Reed City freshman; vice-president, Jean Signs,
Ionia sophomore; secretary, Lois
Courier, Charlevoix freshman;
treasurer, Barbara Roth, Breckenridge junior; and college repesenta-
tive to . state association,, Lucille
Voorheis,' Hemlock sophomore.
Barbara Jean Force was awarded
the Jane McNinch scholarship at a
dinner last week.
Saginaw sophomore; Student Social
Activities .representative. Lillian
Beebe,  Mason junior.
After the ceremony, the girls adjourned tc the dining, rooms for
dessert and coffee.
Piano Students
Present Recital
The outstanding piano students
under the direction of Miss Mary
Lu i Reeder, instructor,' performed
last Monday in, the annual piano
recital in the auditprium. Students
participating were Bonnie Horman,
Shirley Block, Marjorie Wocd-
mansie, Janet Schneider, Douglas
Lee, Barbara Borcher, Harvey
Brien, Betty Wilcox, Lillian Anspach, Beverly Marzolf, Jane Wa-
trous and Esther Lauer.
Faculty Are Injured
in Automobile Crash
M|iss Florence MtoClinchey, associate professor in the English department, and Miss Frances Fitch,
former assistant professor of art,
received extensive injuries in an
automobile crash near Houghton
Lake Sunday night.
Both are in Central Michigan
Community hospital.
Chippewa
Being Bound
, This year's Chippewa, has been
printed and is now at the binder's
in Lansing, it was announced by
Marjean Brewer, St. Louis senior,
the editor-in-cnief. •
The Chippewa is being bound in
artificial leather of school colors
and will consist of about 128 pages.
The unusual and clever division
pages were done by Donna Ingersoll, North Branch sophomore and
art editor, assisted by Carol Tessin,
Freeland senior. The printing of
the book was done'by Mr. Campbell,
and many of the student activity
pictures were taken by Mr. Ivan
Cole, professor in the English department, and Mr. .Campbell.
Members of the faculty can reserve a book by paying $3.00 on
Wednesday, June 5, in the first
floor foyer of Warriner. Students
who enrolled in March may also
reserve a Chippewa by paying $1.50
on Wednesday, June 5, and Thursday, June 6. The remaining $1.50
was paid with tuition.
Pauline Nelson, Cadillac senior,
is business manager; with Lillian
Beebe, Mason junior, assisting.
Other . editors are: photography,
Marilyn Lee, Petoskey junior; features, Jane White, Ellberta junior;
faculty division, Shirley Fisk, Battle Creek junior; class division, Hilda Densmore, Ashley senior; sports,
Marge Kelly, Cadillac senior; organizations, Janet Duncan, Clare
junior; and Greeks, Jane Watrous,
Caro senior.
College Awards Building Contracts
to Bay City Construction Company
Work on Dormitory and Foods Commons to Begin As Soon
As Company Secures 50 Percent of Necessary Materials
Henry C. Weber Construction company of Bay Gity has
been awarded the contracts to build the new women's dormitory and foods commons and also the Arts and Crafts building, according to announcements made last week by the college administration and the state administrative board.
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Beck Gains Fame
for Folk Songs
Dr. E. C. Back has acquired the
new title of "Lumberjack Tune Detective."
William J. Duchaine has written
an article in, the May issue of the
"American Forests" on Dr. Beck's
unique hobby of tracking down the
unwritten, ballads of American
.woodsmen.
Dr. Beck has • been collecting
songs and stories of the Michigan
lumberjacks from sawmill towns
and lumber camps for the last fifteen years. He has traveled from
New England to the Pacific Northwest hunting down clues.
In 1933 he organized the lumberjack orchestra composed of veterans
of the ax, saw, and conthook. The
group of old timers has since traveled all over the country, and has
gained fame as the "best bunch of
lumberjacks around." The majority
of the group are past eighty years
old; but are still, rated as the best
cracker-jack fiddlers of old tunes.
Four of Dr. Beck's favorite finds
were published along with the story
of his hobby. "A Shantyman's Life,"
"Louie .Sands and Jim^McGee,"
"The Druee", and "Bung Yer Eye"
seem to be among the favorite tunes
of the old time lumberjacks.
Keeler Residents
Vary Wed. Dance
The Keeler dormitory men added
something new to the twilight
dance last Wednesday night when
they served a buffet supper during
intermission.
Potato salad, baked beans, cold
meat, coffee and soft drinks were
served. Comments such as: "Why
don't we do this more often," and
"AH this meat and more potatoes,"
were heard during the meal, testifying to the fact that the affair
was successful.
Foreign Students
Speak ai Bad Axe
Tpwo of centrars foreign students
Eli' Engeri, Norway freshman, and
Ragnar Georgsson, Iceland junior,
accompanied Dr. Margaret Koopman went to Bad Axe, May 27, to
Speak at the Rotary Club luncheon.
They discussed foreign students in
this country.
AWS Honor
'46 Seniors
Blue and white irises' and pink
tulips furnished the general theme
of decorations for the spring tea
honoring seniors and sponsored by
the Associated Women Students, on
Sunday, May 26, from 4 to 6 p.m.
in Keeler Union ballroom. Guests
were presented with corsages of
lavender, white and pink sweetpeas.
On the program were several trio
numbers by Mr. and. Mrs. Lorentz
E. Hansen and Verna Gilbert, Traverse City freshman; and vocal
solos by Virginia Scrafford, Gladwin junior, and Lois Greening,
Breckenridge  junior.
The reception line consisted of
Mrs. Charles L., Anspach; Dr. D.
Louise Sharp, dean of women;
Barbara Force, Saginaw junior and
president' of AWS; and Joan
Hedges, Chicago sophomore and
general chairman of the tea.
Mrs. Judson W. Foust, Mrs. Norval C. Bovee, Miss Frances Martin,
and Miss Mary Lu Reeder poured.
Dr. Pratt Writes
Chapter of Book
Dr. Karl C. Pratt of the* psycho!
ogy and education'. department is
the author of one chapter in the
Manual of Child Psychology, published this month by John Wiely
& Sons, New York.
The volume is edited by Leonard
Carmichael,s president of Tufts college, and is an attempt to collect
the essence of important periodical"
material in the field of child
psychology in one easily accessible
book. Each section of the book is
the result of painstaking research
on the part of an expert in that
field of the subject.
Dr. Pratt's contribution is an examination into what has been published concerning the neonate (newly born infant), and brings up to
date the groundwork which forms
the basis for studying the behavior
of the child.
When the company has approxi-'
mately 50 per cent of the materials
on hand or under contract, the
dormitory and foods commons
building will begin. As these buildings are self-liquidating, they must
be completed at a specified time.
Work on the Arts and Craft Building will be completed as soon as.
possible. .   •
The one-story, men's dormdtory
plans are being held since Ceniral
is receiving 50 addition family units
for veterans. Within three or four
years the Keeler Union addition
will be completed for the men.
Fifty-two apartment units for
veterans are being received from
the government. These will consist of a combination living room-
dining room, two bedrooms, kitchenette, bath an,d closet, and heating units. The'apartments are metal
construction and have never been
used.
A dormitory which is an apartment arrangement of 19 sections
and accommodating 144 men will be
available. Each section, will house
eight men, have two study halls, one
bath, and four bedrooms.
Tickets on Sale
ior Dinner-Dance
Tickets go on sale today for the
Senior Dinner dance at the Midland Country club June 26, and will
be available for one week. The capacity of the club is 200.
Andy Stone, Bay City, is general
chairman for the dance and Louise
Newton, Mt. Pleasant, is dinner
chairman,. Other committee chairmen, are: Beverly Preston, Grosse
Pointe, orchestra; Marion Pendell,
Saginaw, invitations and chaperones; Jacqueline Barret, Detroit,
programs; and Jane Goff, Grand
Rapids,  program.
Tickets may be secured from
Andy Stone, Louise Newton, Margaret Ketchum, Eleanore Bugby
May, and Shirley De Grass.
Freshman Class
Plan Picnic Soon
Freshman co-cnainmen of their
class picnic at Cathedral Woods
June 6 at 5 p. m. are Cliff Clack,
Ionia, and Virginia Guy, Saginaw.
Joan Bush, Mt. Pleasant, and Harold Saibin, Hale, have charge of
food; Ann Ensign, Alba, publicity;
Natalie Hagland, Oscoda, entertainment; and Dick Zellers, Trenton,
utilities. Men and women softball
games are planned as chief entertainment. Picnic expenses will be
covered from the class treasury.
Fred Bush to Conduct
Memorial Day Singing
Mr. Frea; Bush will conduct the
Memorial Day outdoor community
sing in Keeler Union court at 4
p.m. tomorrow. The entire student
body and faculty, are invited.