1945-05-30; Central Michigan Life

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Orchestra  Dance
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MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1945
NUMBER 24
Second Recognition Convocation Assembly Tonight
Mary Eddy Leads "Jane Eyre" Cast
Male Title Role     ♦
Goes to Congdon
Mary Eddy, Ionia junior, has been
chosen for the title role in "Jane
Eyre," a dramatization of the novel by Charlotte Bronte. Playing opposite her as Edward Rochester is
Frederick Congdon, Kenosha, Wis.,
sophomore.
Congdon is a member of the Masquers, and this will be his third
leading role for this year's dramatic
season.
The supporting women of the cast
will be: Kathryn Dryer, Monroe
sophomore, as Mrs. Fairfax; Isabel
Greenhoe, Sheridan junior, Adele
Varens; Ardith Osborn, Saginaw senior, Nora; Margaret Kaufman,
Saginaw junior, Grace Poole;' Marion Pendall, Saginaw junior, Bessie
Leaven; Eileen Jones, Big Rapids
senior, Bertha; Eleanor Philp, Bad
Axe junior, Dowager Lady Ingram;
Lillian Beene, Mason sophomore,
Lady Mary; Dorothy Ayre, Caro
senior, Lady Blanche; and Lillian
Keefer, Three Oaks sophomore, Zi-
ta.
The supporting men of the cast
are: Robert Bovee, Plymouth junior, Sir Wilfred Lynn; Jack Iskin,
Brooklyn sophomore, Dr. Carter;
Joseph Leadem, Trenton, N. J. junior, Richard Mason; and William
Cramer, Detroit sophomore, Reverend John Rivers.
The play which was previously
scheduled for June 4, 5, and 6, has
been postponed to June 11, 12, and
13. Costumes for the play, which
are being furnished by the Brooks
Costuming company of New York,
win not be available until that date.
Blossom Camp
Host to CCF
Twenty-eight members of the
Chippewa Christian Fellowship will
journey to the Appleblossom lodge
in two trucks this Saturday to have
their annual conference
'Chairman for the C.C.F. conference ds Emma iShafer, Ludington
junior, assisted by Eleanor Annis,
Maple Rapids senior; Alice Kngrin,
Tustin sophomore; and Morrison
Ismond, Houghton Lake sophomore.
Jane Hollingsworth, Augusta,
Georgia, the Inter-varsity representative for this district, will be
present and also an outside speaker
whose name is as yet unknown. Dr.
M. L. Smith, head of the rural Edu-.
cation, will act' as the group's chap-
erone.
The program for the week-end includes recreation supervised by Lea-
tha Griffin, Stanwood senior; evening meeting with a song service,
speech, and campfire ceremony, on
Saturday. Breakfast, devotions,
morning worship, vesper service,
supper, and evening service, are
Sunday's activities.
J. JR. Club Elects
1945 Officers
The foUowing people were elected officers of the International Re-,
lations chra, at their regular meeting May 21: president, Erma Kil-
gue, Sebewaing sophomore; vice-
president, Harriet Walters, Bay City
sophomore; secretary-treasurer, Hazel Koopman, McBain freshman;
program chairman, Wilma Luck-
hard, Sebewaing freshman.
The club has also planned a picnic for June 4 from 6:30 until 8:30
p.m. at Island Park. Virginia Smith,
Portland sophomore, is in charge of
this annual affair.
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HALDORA  GUDMdNDSEN,
winner of the 1945 Jane McNinch
Scholarship.
Battalion Dance
Will Be June 15
"The Crew's Cruise," Naval unit
battalion dance, will be June 15,
and the V-12's promise that it will
be the most colorful three and a
half hours of entertainment they
have ever had a part in.
Bill   Hodge,   Middletown,   Ohio,
sophomore, is general chairman of
the dance. Jack Iskin, Brooklyn,
New York, sophomore, is in charge
of the floor show. Tickets and programs are being planned by Bob
Thompson, Chicago, Illinois, sophomore. George Borgione, Cleveland,
Ohio, sophomore, and Jerry Foy,
Ellsworth, Wisconsin, sophomore, are
working on the decorative theme.
Jack Hornung, Detroit sophomore, is
publicity chairman.
Many Central Students
Receive Honors Tonight
The following students wni receive awards and recognition at tonight's second annual Recognition
Convocation Asembly to take place
in Warriner auditorium at 8:15 p.m.
Sigma Tau Delta: Nancy Water-
son president, Dorothy Barritt, Beth
Becker, Addison Beckley, Mary Jean
Blazo, Frederick Congdon, Veronica
Dalton, Shirley DeGrass, Hilda
Densmore, Shirley Fisk, Barbara
Force, Philip Austin, Ruth Frost,
Ann Gidelewich, Ruth Horn, Jack
Iskin, Elaine Jessup, Margaret
Ketchum, Shirley Kieley, Noleta
King, Stuart Kirvan, Charles Lacy,
Marilyn Lee, Mary Lerg, Orthella
Miller, Lucille McClarry, Richard
Robison, Fran Rose, John Taplin,
Janet Waldron, Jane White, Ann
Wilcox.
Delta Omieron: Barbara Houghton president, Lillian Anspach, Jean
Borske, Fay Christenson, • Esther
Fultz, Isabelle Greenhoe, Lois Greening, Dorothy Allen, Roberta Lan
shaw, Beverly Marzolf, Marian
Ranee, Helen Teal, Jane Watrous,
Mary Weibel, Celeste Williams,
Mary  Jean Wolverton.
Kappa Delta Pi: Mary Comstock
president, Dorothy Barritt, Hazel
Hansen, Iola Devine, Mary Eddy,
Doretta Esh, Ruth Horn, Marion
Johnson, Margaret Ketchum, Mary
Lerg, Mary Moore, Mary Jean Pel-
ton, Dorothy Sherrard, Jane Sherwood, Geraldine Swayze, Dorothy
Sweeney, Barbara Swindler, Nancy
Waterson, Jane Watrous, Alta Webster, Celeste Williams.
Kappa Mu Epsilon: Joyce Sherwood president, Anna Anderson,
Addison Beckley, Allen Bower, Robert Bovee, James Cunningham,
Donna Crandall, James Gillingham,
George Gregory, Barbara Harkness,
James Hodge, John Hornung, Margaret Ketchum, Dorothy Michner,
Zelda Montaque, Pauline Nelson,
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Mary Comstock
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Dr. Howard McClusky Will Be Main Speaker as Nearly 270
Students Are Honored; Anspach to Present Awards
Central's second annual Recognition Convocation Assembly will
take place in the college auditorium at 8:15 tonight.
Dr. Howard Y. McClusky, professor of Education and Public
Relations Head at the University
of Michigan, will deliver the main
address. Dr. C. L. Anspach, Central's President, wjll make the
Awards.
Nearly 270 students who have distinguished themselves in scholarship and campus activities will be
granted awards and recognition. Included are the following awards:
Band award, Athletic awards for
football and basketball. Speech
awards, Chippewa award, Pi Kappa Delta award, McNinch Home Economic award.
MEMBERS OF Sigma Tau Delta,
Delta Omieron, Kappa Delta Pi,
Kappa Mu Epsillon, and Pi Kappa
Delta, honorary societies, class
presidents, Navy Company Commanders and Company Petty Officers, Organization presidents, and
all candidates for graduation honors will receive recognition.
*The following scholarships will
be awarded: Student Council, Betty Wilcox and Herbert Tompkins;
A.W.S., Patricia Jahnke and Mildred Busch; Panhellenic, MariUa
Parfitt; junior class, Marian Stimer; E. C. Warriner, Zelda Mont-
que; U. of M., Mary Comstock.
A complete list of all others receiving recognition will be found
elsewhere in ,this edition.
The band, under the direction of
Preston Mayhew, instructor- in the
music department, will present the
following program at the assembly:
"Skyliner," a concert march by
Harry L. Aiford; "Turkey in the
Straw" arranged by Max Denmark;
"Clarinet Polka," Polish folk tune,
arranged by David Bennett; "Stormy Weather," a descriptive fantasy
by Ed Kochler and Harold Allen
arranged by David Bennett, and
"Yankee Doodle," symphonic variation by Newell Long.
This program will take the place
of the annual band cojneert.
Mary Comstock
Receives Award
Winer of this year's $400 University of Michigan scholarship is
Mary Comstock, Traverse City senior.
Miss Comstock entered Central in
1941 and lias followed a secondary
teaching course with majors in
Spanish and history..     •    *
This year she is president of the
Mercier club and for two years previously she held the position o|
Interfaith Council representative
from that organization. As a member of the Interfaith Council, she
held the offices of secretary and
vice-president.
Miss Comstock is also president
of Kappa Delta Pi honorary education fraternity this year and is
a member of the Kappa Gamma sorority.
She expects to get her master's
degree at the university next year,
after which she will go into teaching as a life's work. Her accent in
post-graduate work will be on
Spanish.
VET OF PACIFIC
Gretsinger Was on "Mighty I"
By Donald Harrington
This is the third of a series of
articles relating the experiences of
some of the fleet men in the navy
V-12 Unit at Central.	
A typical example of the men who
make up the fighting teams aboard
our navy ships is Kenneth R. Gretsinger, Ellsworth, Ohio, sophomore.
Grets, as he is called by his ship-
mattes, graduated from high school
in 1938 and worked on various jobs
in Texas, Ohio, and Maryland until the war broke out. With the outbreak of war, he immediately volunteered for reconstruction work at
Pearl Harbor.
Tiring of waiting for transportation to Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the navy to sneed his
rendezvous with the enemy in the
Pacific. He was sent to boot camp
at Norfolk, Virginia, in March
1943. On April 30 he reported
aboard the USS Indiana as part
of   the    original   commissioning
crew. Several months were spent
on shakedown cruises and coordination drills in order to turn
the green crew into a coordinated
team of well trained macs.
Grets spent a total of 23 exciting
and dangerous months on the Indiana, taking part in several major
battles. The most notable of the
battles were the Solomon campaign,
*ew Georgia, the Marshalls of which
the Tarawa battle was the most
famous, the Gilberts, Marcus, and
the Marianas islands. As petty
officer in charge of a damage control party, he was indispensible to
the operation and functioning of
this mighty ship.
The USS Indiana became known
as the "Mighty I" by her crew and
is respected by all navy men and
feared by the enemy. She has had
five skippers, three of whom have
been promoted to Rear Adminal and
one to the rank of Commodore.
Grets apphed for V-42 training
and was one of the seven accepted
out of 150 who applied from his
ship. On returning to the states he
was granted 30 days leave and then
ordered to report to the pre-V-12
school at Asbury Park, New Jersey.
He   was  sent   to  Case   school   of
Applied Science at Cleveland, Ohio,
in July, 1944 and while there was
elected president of the freshman
class. He came here last November.
Grets expects to return to the
fleet next July and resume his
work as shiipfitter first class.
AWS Gives Tea
Honoring Seniors
A tea sponsored by the AWS wni
take place on Sunday, June 10, from
4 to 6 p.m. in the Keeler Union
ballroom. This is an affair honoring
>t!he   seniors.
The faculty, Navy Personnel, and
seniors wni receive formal invitations. The Navy and rest of the student body are cordially invited to
attend.
Barbara Force, Saginaw sophomore, is general chairman. Helping
her in the committees are flowers,
Dorothy Pratt, Flint sophomore;
invitations, Betty Hampton, Clare
sophomore; decorations, Mary Eddy,
Ionia junior; and Pauline Nelson,
Cadillac junior; publicity, Donna
Ingersoll, Lake City freshman; pro
gram, Lilli>*K Anspach, Mt. Pleasant? junior; and Shirley Fisk, Battle
Creek sophomore.
Chippewas Ready Soon
Students are asked to watch the
bulletin board in the foyer for an
announcement of the arrival of the
Chippewas which are to return
from the binders within the next
week.
The Chippewa will be distributed
by business manager, Pauline Nel
son, Cadillac junior; and her staff
from the check room across from
Dean Barnes' office. Every student
who has been registered and paid
his activity fee will be entitled to
a book without further payments. A
few extra copies will be avaUable
for sale at $3.00.
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