1944-12-20; Central Michigan Life

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VOLUME M
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1944
NUMBER 5
Many ProblemsIre Considered
by Policy Formulating Council
Students and Faculty in This Group Have Discussed Campus Measures Since Origin in 1941
The students and faculty of Cen-^
tral have the Policy Formulating
Council to congratulate for benefits
worked out to help both parties.
Students and faculty make up this
council which had its first meeting
November 13, 1941, at which time |
Dr. Trout, Dean of Students, was
elected chairman. Its first meeting
this year was held November 14,
1944. Members of this Council are
elected by virtue of special offices
which they hold.
Discusses Improvements
From the first meeting in 1941 to
the present time a brief scan of, the
minutes will show the following as
some of the discussions for improvements made by the group: campus
parties, work loads, academic standards, better assemblies, assembly at-
tendance, discipline procedures,
skating rink project, dorm regulations.
Plans for "Who's Who"
This year the Council is working
out a different system for selecting
students to be listed in "Who's Who
Among Students in American Colleges and Universities." Since this
system was not approved wholeheartedly by students and faculty,
the Council is now working on another plan for selecting nominees.
Accomplishes Much
The following is a summary of
work accomplished by the group
during the last school year, 1943-
44: (1) All students required to take
physical education each semester
in residence but students who matriculated prior to the opening of
the first semester of the academic
year, 1943-44, were not required to
offer for graduation more than three
semesters of physical education
practice, (2) It was recommended
that a skating rink be set up. (3) It
was recommended that registration
and preliminary registration be
combined so far as students in residence are concerned. (4) The feasibility of the three-point system to
the four-point system was studied.
It did not carry. (5) It was recommended that the college collect as
part of the student's local fees in
amounts sufficient to finance the
publication of the annual and to
present to each student a copy. It
is not yet acted upon. (6) The Council recommended to the administration that the students be given
representation on the Curriculum
Survey committee. This policy was
approved administratively to become effective with the autumn semester, 1944-45.
Has Large Membership
Members of the present Council
are Bette Baldwin, Tuscola senior;
Robert Calkins, Clio senior; Ivan
Cole, assistant professor in English
department; Mary Eddy, Ionia senior; Ronald Finch, head of the
health and physical education department; William Gregory, Plain-
well junior; Prof. Margaret Koopman, history and social science department; Park Lantz, superintendent of the training school; George
N. Lauer, dean of men; Mary Moore,
Gladwin senior; Dr. Richtmeyer, director of instruction; Betty Ruete,
Remus senior; t)r. D. Louise Sharp,
dean of women; Louis Stasaski,
Iron River sophomore; Mrs. Opal
Thorpe, registered nurse in college
health unit; Dr. David M. Trout,
dean of students; John Wareham,
Glendale, California junior; Ava
Wilcox, Lansing senior; Nancy
Fletcher, Birmingham junior; Mary
Jean Coon, Ionia senior; Charles
Plumb, Yotes Center, Kansas sophomore.
Erhard to Leave
for California
Lt. James A. McDonell, formerly
of Mt. Pleasant, is to be the new
navy doctor here to replace Lt. (j.
g.) R. F. Erhard, M.C, U.S.N., who
is leaving Mt. Pleasant, December
23, to report to Fleet Hospital 113,
San Francisco.
Lt. McDonell, who is just back
from active duty in the Aleutian
islands, attended Central from 1929
to 1932. Previous to the war he was
practicing in Lowell, Michigan. His
wife and family will accompany him
here.
Commerce Club
Plans Banquet
for January 8
Membership in the Commerce
club will close on December 22,
according to plans set up at the
business meeting on December 8.
Any persons wishing to join should
leave their names with Dorothy
Sharrard at Sloan before the next
meeting which will be a banquet
on January 8, 1945 in Keeler union.
Committees for this are Dorothy
Sharrard, Peck junior, general
chairman; Pat Preston, Mt. Pleasant sophomore, food; Mr. Claude
Love, associate professor in the
commerce department. Mary Moore,
Gladwin senior, will act as toast-
mistress.
Officers of the club for this year
are Dorothy Sharrard, Peck junior,
president; vice-president, Mary
Moore; secretary, Dorothy Freeman,
Mt. Pleasant sophomore; treasurer,
Zelda Montague, Mt. Pleasant senior.
After the business meeting, games
were played. Refreshments of homemade ice cream and cup cckes were
then served.
Department Has
Fifteenth Sing
Here This Noon
The foreign language department's annual Christmas carol sing,
which has become an outstanding
tradition on Central's campus for
the past fifteen years, will take
place today at 12:45 in Keeler
union lobby.
Miss Anna Barnard, retired for
eign language department head, originated the idea with the help of
students from her foreign language
classes, several years ago.
The program always includes the
singing of native carols in French,
German, Spanish, and Latin languages, besides some of the old familiar English versions.
Sheets containing the words of
the Christmas songs will be distributed. Jane White, Elberta sophomore, will accompany at the piano.
The large attendence each year
and the number of former Central
students' letters received by Miss
Barnard, stating how much they
miss the annual carol sing, indicate how popular this tradition has
become.
Art Appreciation Class
Decorates Ad. Building
The air tingled with the spirit of
Christmas gaeity, the spicy aroma
of greens, and fragments of the
song "Deck the Halls with Boughs
of Holly," last Friday morning,
when Miss Miidred Fairchild's 10
o'clock art appreciation class applied
a dash of Christmas colors to the
stairway and windows of the Administration building .
The class had a lot of fun participating in and adding to the prevailing Christmas spirit of the
campus
New Year's Eve
Dance Saturday
Students of Central Michigan college will see the old year out and
the new year in, for the second
time, on campus rather than at their
homes.
The big event of the weekend will
be an orchestra dance Saturday evening, sponsored by the Student Social Activities committee. Dancing
will be in Keeler union ballroom
from 9 to 12 p. m. to the music of
Jim Gile's 11-piece orchestra from
Alma.
The committee in charge is: Mrs.
Grace Niggeman, chairman; Miss
Grace Fettig; Norval C. Bovee; Connie Denison, Marysville junior;
Mary Jean Coon, Ionia senior; Bill
Gregory, Escanaba junior; and Don
Friedlander, Lakewood, Ohio, freshman.
This dance is being held Saturday
night rather than the traditional
New Year's Eve because of the fact
that that evening comes on Sunday.
The non-dancing committee of
the S. S. A. C. is sponsoring a New
Year's den party on Saturday evening, December 30. Co-chairmen of
the affair are Betty Hampton, Clare
junior, and Marje Kelly, Cadillac
junior. The party will be held from
8 to 10:30 p, m.
A Cappella Choir
Program Tonight
IS
The A Cappella choir will present its pi'ogram of Christmas music
in Warriner hall auditorium at 7:30
tonight.
The program, which features new
arrangements of unusual Christmas music from many lands, as follows: Group I: "We Bring You
Glad Tidings," Bohemian; "O
Nightengale Awake," XVII Century
Swiss, duet sung by Rosemary Skelton, Bay City senior, and Roberta
Lanshaw, Alma sophomore; "Lay
Down Your Staffs, O Shepherds,"
French; "I Wonder As I Wander,"
Kentucky mountains, solo part by
Joyce VanPetten, Vassar senior.
Group II: "Jesu Bambino, "vocal
solo by Isabel Greenhoe, Grand
Rapids junior.
Group III: "Shepherds Quickly
Wake," Tyrolian: "Jesu, Thou Dear
Babe Devine," Hayti, Women's
Chorus, solo by Helen Teal, Imlay
City junior.
Group IV: "No Candle Was
There," Lahmann, vocal solo by
Virginia Rice, Grand Rapids junior;
"Beautiful Savior," Christiansen;
"Angels We Have Heard On High,"
French; "Sleep, My Jesus Sleep,"
Dutch, solo by William Gregory,
Plainwell junior; "Silent Night,"
arranged by Warren from Gruber,
Women's Chorus, solo by Charles
Lacy, Detroit V-12.
Three of the numbers, "Lay Down
Your Staffs, O .Shepherds," "Shepherds Quickly Wake," and "Angels
We Have Heard On High," are from
the repertoire of the Trapp Family
Singers.
Lorentz Hansen, instructor in the
music department, will play the
violin obligato, and Miss Mary Lu
Reeder, instructor in the music department, will accompany at the
piano.
The program will be concluded
with the audience singing Christmas carols from slides projected on
a screen.
"Best Lectures
in Fifty Years
-Dean Barnes
"Central's lecture course series is
the best in 50 years," stated Dean
C. C. Barnes,  last week.
The first number on the lecture
course was Roland Hayes, world
famous negro tenor. The latest entertainers were the famous Austrian
Trapp family singers. Future personalities will include. Ruth Draper,
one woman theater; Louis Anspack-
er, dramatist; and the San Carlo
Opera, presenting "Carmen."
The committee members are now
looking for a substitute for Max
Werner, who was unable to keep
his appearance date, and have been
contemplating Ernie Pyle, Joseph
Grew, Eric Johnson, or Louis Lack-
ner as a possible substitute. Any
suggestions for such a substitute
from the faculty or student body
would be welcomed by the committee.
The college lecture series affords
an excellent opportunity for Centralites to witness performances of
famous ' artists. This year's course
cost twice the amount spent in any
previous year, according to Dean
Barnes.
Christmas Ball
Begins Yuletide
Activities Her
Y. M. C. A. Hears Drury
Clifford Drury, state secretary of
the Y.M.C.A., addressed the members of the Central "Y" on the topic,
"What the Y.M.C.A. Is Doing in
Michigan" at thejuf regular meeting,
Monday, December 18.
One hundred and fifty couples
danced to the music of Jim Giles
and his 11 piece orchestra last Saturday night at the annual Christmas ball, which was sponsored by
three campus groups: Student
Council, Associated Women Students and Men's Union.
The Christmas ball originated
back in 1930 when the manual arts
department sponsored a dancing
party in the gym and a group of
student and faculty members, originating :in the Student Affairs
committee, sponsored a party in the
women's commons at the same time.
The price at either party was the
donation of canned food.
In 1933 the price was changed
to 25 cents and a 10 cent toy gift.
The toy gifts were auctioned off by
C. C. Barnes, the dean of men.
Later in the 1930's the Women's
league, which is now AWS, took
over the sponsorship of the ball
which had by this time become a
tradition here at Central. The pro-
cedes were added to a loan fund
which was begun to make short
term, interest free loans.
In 1942, the.Student Council and
Men's Union joined with the Associated Women Students to sponsor
the ball.
Since the outbreak of the war,
the proceeds have been given to the
Victory Loan Fund.
See—XMAS BALL—Page 6
President Talks
at Annual AWS
Christmas Tea
Joy Stevens, Lois Greening
and Jean Borske. Present
Solos
Associated Women Students sponsored the annual Christmas tea
which took place Sunday afternoon,
December 17, in the ballroom of
Keeler union.
A talk by President Charles L.'
Anspach; piano solo by Joy Rene
iStevens, Saginaw freshman; vocal
solo by Lois Greening, Breckenridge
sophomore; and violin solo by Jean
Borske, Manistee senior, comprised
•the program.
Incidental music during the tea
was furnished by Rosemary Skelton, Bay City senior; Helen Voelker, Reed City sophomore; and
Jane White, Elberta sophomore.
In Receiving line
The receiving line consisted of:
Mary Moore, Gladwin senior and
AWS president; Mrs. Charles Anspach, wife of the president; Dr. D.
Louise Sharp, dean of women; Barbara R. Force, Saginaw sophomore
and chairman of the tea; and
Connie Denison, Marysville junior,
AWS vice-president.
Pourers were Miss Mayme Smith,
associate professor in the speech
department; Mrs. Brooks, wife of
K. P. Brooks, head of the physics
and chemistry departments; Mrs.
E. C. Beck, wife of the head of the
English department; and Miss Irene
Jorae, head of the biology department.
Many Are  Hostesses
Rosemary Lawless, Portland sophomore; Mae Jewel Stevens, Mancelona junior; Mary Eddy, Ionia
junior; Marion Pendell, Saginaw
junior; Jane VanDerbeck, Saginaw
freshman; Joan Peterson, Coral
senior; Shirley Fisk, East Leroy
sophomore; Maxine Elliot, Houghton Lake sophomore; Ava Wilcox,
Greenville senior; Jean Chisholm,
Flint sophomore; Mary Jane Pel-
ton, Bentley senior; and Dorothy
Sweeney, Mt. Pleasant junior,
served as hostesses.
Students of Miss Hogue's home
economics classes helped to prepare
sandwiches which were served by
Barbara Brueck, Saginaw sophomore; Corinne Wolverton, Ionia
sophomore; Mildred Vanderlip,
Gowen sophomore; Virginia Stipe,
Saginaw freshman; Janet Waldron,
Belding junior; Pearl Parker, Detroit sophomore; Sally Carnahan,
Mt. Pleasant freshman; Marjorie
Lynch, Detroit freshman; and
Gloria Cook, Detroit freshman.
Assisting Chairman Force were:
Marie Larson, Vassar freshman, and
Lornajean Schneider, Petoskey
senior, decorations; Jeanette Beut-
ler, Weidman sophomore, foods;
Gwen Gwin, Ludington sophomore,
hostess chairman; and Helen Voelker, Reed City sophomore, invitations.
YWCA Program
Well Underway
A Christmas sing, book review,
Red Cross Work, Ice Capades and
weinie roast, discussion . meeting,
white elephant sale, and a joint
meeting with the YMCA, will be included in the YWCA program for
the first semester.
The "Y" has already this year
sponsored a breakfast for the freshman girls, an informal get-together
and a joint parfcy with the YMCA at
the local recreation center, "The
Tepee."
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