1944-04-19; Central Michigan Life

              Gkatt&i,
Matten,
By 'Ann Gidilewich
"Here is my observation
Upon my latest infatuation:
That Cupid
Rhymes with stupid."
Of course, it's plagiarism, but then.
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We begin the original part of
our weekly blurb with a note
from one Bob L. P. addressed to
"Miss Chatter Matter," which by
the way is the strangest mispronunciation we have ever come in
contact with during a lifetime of
strange mispronunciations. He
says that according to Prof. Kendall P. Brooks, Easter Sunday is
the first Sunday after the first
full moon after the spring equinox.
We know what Easter is. We
know what a full moon is. But
nobody ever gets past the full
moon to explain what in the
name of heaven an equinox actually is.
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Our Editor's editorial dignity has
slipped momentarily. Her birthday
was Monday and her cohorts offered congratulations with the customary spanking. However, by this
time her dignity should be restored
to its usual serene condition.
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"I'm goin' back to where I came
from
Where the honeysuckle smells so
sweet it  dura near makes me
sick."
Our   musical   roommate   tried
that one and it wasn't the honeysuckle. It was our roommate.
peech Students
to Give Operetta
"Cinderella and the Cat", a musical story operetta in three acts, will
be presented May 29, under, the
direction i>f Miss Virginia Vincer,
Mt. Pleasant senior, with matinee
and evening performances. The
theme is the original story of Cinderella with a delightful musical
background.
Speech students to take part in
this production include Rosemary
Skelton, Bay City senior; Gwendolyn Gwinn, Ludington freshman;
Shirley Hagenbuch, Lansing .senior;
Eleanor James Richardson, Manistee senior; Marge Wise, St. Clair
Shores junior; Virginia Peterson,
Grayling senior; Elma June Neely,
Lakeview sophomore; Bette Baldwin, Tuscola junior; Velma Munger, Freeland senior; Fran Mewmaw, Royal Oak junior, and Bertha Croftchik, Ashley senior. Rehearsals are now under way.
Miss Frances Fitch and the
theatre arts class are in charge of
stage sets and scenery, and Miss
Celia Segerman will supervise the
dances.
Fourth Company
Takes Unit Honors
This week's honor company is
company four, with company two;
taking second place. Company four
is commanded by A. D. Berg, Detroit junior, and the company petty
officer is E. A. Pepper, Rhinelander,
Wisconsin, junior.
Members of company four will
enjoy liberty during the week starting at 1630 (4:30 p. m.) and ending
at 2200 (10 p. m.) They had liberty
until 2400 (12 p. m.) Sunday night.
Platoon one of u company four,
commanded by L. a Stier, Milwaukee, Wis!, junior, received only three
demerits.;
VOLUME 25
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1944
NUMBER M
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CAA-WTS Unit Has
New Flight Officer
Lt. (j.g.) Jesse Ray Replaces
Lt. Russell Kennedy.
Lt. (j.g.) Jesse M. Ray arrived
here Friday at the CAA-WTS unit
to replace Lt. (j.g.) Russell E. Kennedy, resident naval aviator who
was transferred to a Naval Air
transport.
Lt. Ray assumes his duties as
flight officer here after a year as
instructor at the Naval £ir..station
at Ottumwa,. Iowa, v/here he was
sent after completing his basic
training at Corpus Christi, Tex. He
was an instructor at a W. T. S".
school at Fort Worth, Tex., prior
to the war, was an A. V. T. officer
and had both his commercial
pilot's and instructor's licenses. For
eight days prior to his call as a
Navy instructor, Lt. Ray was a private in the U. S. Army.
Born in San Saba, Tex., Lt. Ray
attended Lamar college at Beaumont, Tex., and Southwestern Baptist Theological seminary at' Fort
Worth. Following his graduation he
was known as "Jimmy" Ray, singer
of semi-classical and religious
music, in charge of religious educa-
cation and music at the Baptist
church at Fort Worth, Texas.
Lt. Ray has a wife and four-
months'-old son who will remain in
Ottumwa until he establishes residence here. His brother, Capt. J.
Melvin Ray, is an Army chaplain
serving with the forces in England.
April Freezes Bring
Sneezes to Central
"Sprig, sprig, beautiful—ah-h-ah
choo!" Such seems to have been the
plight of a good many Centralites
during the past few weeks. With old
man Sol beaming on one day and
the icy blasts <of winter sweeping
down the next, the Health service
has been doing a rushing business
in pink pills, gargle, cough medicine, and other kindred concoctions
designed to give a lift to ailing coeds and Navy men.
Colds and sore throats were the
biggest item on the sick list, according to Mrs. Jesse Thorpe, Health
service nurse. However, said she,
only a few girls arrived to have
their throats' swabbed, while 18
Navy fellows were confined to sick
bay two weeks ago. That figure
.varied little for several weeks, but
at present the miniature epidemic
is well in hand with only a few
cases lingering on.
Proxy to Be
AssemblySpeaker
President Roy Hamilton from Alma will speak- at a required assembly at 8:15 p. m. tonight. In Dr. C.
L. Anspach's absence, Dean C. C.
Barnes will be in charge of the
assembly. A skit advertising the
Co-ed carnival will be given under
the direction of Eleanor Richardson,
Manistee senior, Carnival chairman.
17 Central V-12's
Score Hiah in Test
Ball and Cover Lead in National Percentile Rankings.
Seventeen apprentice seamen in
Central Michigan's V-12 unit scored
in the upper 15 percent of all V-12
trainees in the country who took the
last Navy Achievement test March
17. The below named men, listed
alphabetically, are the representatives of this unit.
Name Pet.
Alber, M. L 96
Ball, R. P 99
Brown, R. C 85
Cover, J. H -. 97
Englander, M. E 94
Gonia, C 94
Griffin, J. L  86
Grander, B. G 93
Hunsberger, P. C 88
Johnson, R. J 96
Judge, J. F 90
Lacy, C. L 91
LeRoux, E. F 87
Morse, G. D  94
Rogers, O. C  97
Steinhoff, J. C 88
Strong, R. K 92
AWS to Sponsor Women-Only Affair;
Band, Fun House, Arcade Included
Eleanor James Richardson Is General Chairman, Assisted
by Jean Camper, Nancy Fletcher, June Ross.
The Co-ed carnival, a rollicking women-only affair, will be
staged in the gym on.Friday, Apri 28, from 8 to 9:45 p. m.
The carnival is sponsored by the AWS, with each sorority
taking charge of a booth. The art, home economics, and industrial arts departments will also each have a display.
carnival band, house  of fun,^ ~~ '
A
penny arcade, "Men Only" side
show, and many surprises have been
planned for the evening by Eleanor
Richardson, general chairman of
the carnival. Assisting Eleanor on
the central planning committee are
Jean Camper, Nancy Fletcher, and
June Ross.
S to Sponsor
Box Packing Bee
. This semester's third Box-packing
and Letter-writing bee will be
staged April 26 in Keeler union
League lounge from 7 to 9 p. m.
Co-eds have previously packed 40
boxes and written approximately 200
letters to Central's many servicemen scattered all over the world.
Again it will' be handled on a
percentage basis for sororities, but
all organizations and others are invited to attend.
This is sponsored by the AWS,
and at the close of each bee the
girls are treated to cokes.
'Share the Ride'
Program Started
A new "share the ride" program
is being started at Central for fae*
ulty members, students, and others
connected with the college.
The general office will keep the
schedule. Any faculty member or
student who is driving anywhere
is requested to come into the general office and fill out a blank concerning where he is going, what
time he is leaving, returning, and
how many riders he can take with
him.
Then any person desiring a ride
may go into the general office, look
over the schedule, and if he sees
his desired ride there, make arrangements with the driver.
The success of this plan depends
upon the cooperation of the driver
in filling out the blank in the
general office. Remember — the
driver might want to be a rider,
sometime.
Some Come. Some Don't—Most Don't
Finds Harassed Lecture Committee
Frank Gervasi, foreign war correspondent who was to have been the
last number of the college lecture
course, has cancelled his appearance,
as he is being sent overseas.
Central has had a > great deal of
difficulty seeming numbers for the
lecture series this season. The first
three numbers, Anne Brown, Metropolitan opera star; the American
Opera company, and the Don Cossack chorus filled their scheduled
appearances. Since then substitutions have had to be made.
Raymond Clapper, renowned
newspaper   correspondr.
killed; Major Alexander de Seversky, author of "Victory Through
Air Power," cancelled his' talk because of illness; and Bishop G.
Bromley Oxnan failed to appear because of the Methodist Bishops"
crusade. Two vacancies were filled
by Dr. C. J. Hambro, former Norwegian president of the League of
Nations; ahd Leland Stowe, war
correspondent, who spoke on Russia.
Frank Gervasi was to have ended
the current season.
The board of administration will
have a meeting this week to decide
on another number for the lecture
series.
All Home Comforts
for Beck's Students
Something new in education has
been discovered by Dr. E. C. Beck,
head of the English department. It
seems that Dr. Beck has an eight
o'clock five times a week, and the
girls in this class arise about 7:55,
and dress on the way to class. They
enter the class all period in various
stages of dress—or undress. For
those who arrive at an early, and
perhaps a bit embarrassing stage,
Dr. Beck has placed a screen. Behind this the girls may quietly
finish dressing while listening to
the lecture, and the rest of the
class progresses as usual.
Frosh Class Votes
Two Scholarships
The freshman class has voted two
scholarships' to be awarded to top
ranking students in that class.
Names of the winners will be announced sometime in May.
Miss Karolena Fox, secretary of
the scholarship committee, mailed
out blanks of scholarship application tb the high schools of this area
last week.
Committees Named
Other committees working on the
carnival are as follows: Publicity—*
Dorothy Pratt, chairman, Margaret
Loomis, Lorraine Greiliek, Marge
•Hendershot, and Virgie Alexander.
Refreshments—Shirley Fisk, chairman, Pearl Parker, Mildred Vander-
lip, Jane White, and Iris Wilcox.
House of Fun — Shirley Adams,
chairman, Jean Chisholm, Joan
Hanson, Joan Polcyn, and Phyllis
Sundquist.
General decorations-^Maxirie Elliott, chairman, Lois Cummings, Jan
Duncan, Ina Gaylord, Barbara Roth,
and Jeanne Wile. Clean-up—Virginia Smith, chairman, JuliannFedewa,
Marilyn Lee, Shirley Rasmussen,
and Shirley Suesz. Bingo—Alice
Provost, chairman, Lillian Beebe,
Chisholm, Anna Hisong, and Gloria
Souci.
Carnival Band
Carnival band—Jan Waldron,
chairman, June Brail, Verone Day,
Mary Lerg, and Beverly Zubler.
Co-eds working on the sorority
booths are Pat Hart, Jean Freeland,
Donna Field, Joyce Shadley, Margaret Peterson, Mary Eddy, Virginia
Sargeant, Lucy Warner, Shirley
Hagenbuch and Mary Kay Wilson.
Bernie Booker, Anna Mary Kane,
Dot Sweeney, May Jewel Stevens,
Phyl Keeney, Ruth Zubler, Beth
Booth, Ruth Horn, Joan Peterson,
Mildred Anderson, and Ila Jensen
will each help with her sorority's
booth.
Broom Swingers
Since the carnival is to be done
entirely without male help, each
sorority has appointed several girls ■
to assist in cleaning up the gym
afterwards. Kappa Gamma will
be represented by Ila Jensen, Ruth
Horn, Joan Peterson, and Mildred
Anderson. Swinging the brooms for
the Pi Kaps will be Helen Conger,
Emma Skinner, and Monica Thomas; and for the Delta Sigs, Jan
Doyle, Andree DuFresne, and Kay
Wirth.
Connie Denison, Jackie Barritt,
and Irene Butkowski will help clean
up for, Alpha Sigma Tau, while
Marian Smith, Barbara Marsh, and
Barbara Houghton work for Sigma
Phi Omieron. Pat Bates, Shirley
Heilbronn, and Jane Bradshaw will
use the elbow grease for Alpha Sigma Alpha, and Helena Fitzner*
Fontaine Sugden, and Jean.Borske
for the Theta Sigs.
Everything will toe free at the
carnival. AU women students," faculty women and wives, and office
workers are invited.
Ten Gobs and a: Guy'
Will Play for Dance
The new V-12 band, "Ten Gobs
and a Guy," under the baton of
Glenn Hfoffman, Crandon, Wis.
junior, will be featured at the all-
college dance Saturday, April 22 at
Keeler union. Jane Watrous, Card
sophomore, and Norvall Bovee are
co-chairmen of- the dance.
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