1945-06-06; Central Michigan Life

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Concert of Girls'
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Tomorrow Night
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1945
NUMBER 35
Comstock and Horn to Be Speakers on Class Day
Rallies, Parades
Given for Local
7th War Loan
Jack Iskins Is One of Two
Speakers in Mt Pleasant
The Seventh War Loan drive
came to a climax last Saturday
when a rally was staged in Mount
Pleasant last Saturday afternoon. A
parade, which started at the high
school and proceeded through town
to the court house, featured an amphibious jeep, a pep band from the
college, and a platoon from the V-12
unit. At the rally, which was staged
on the court house lawn, free rides
were given to purchasers of War
bonds-
Apprentice Seaman Jack Iskin,
Central Michigan V-12 trainee who
wears the Purple Heart, talked on
his experiences aboard the famous
"Battleship X."
Goxwain Davidson, a veteran
Coast Guardsman who is now stationed in the Detroit area, gave a
short talk on his overseas experiences.
A similar rally and parade were
put on in Shepherd on Saturday
evening. Both occasions were sponsored by the Appleblossom club
which is in charge of all publicity
in Isabella county for the Seventh
War Loan drive.
$1500 in war bonds were sold in
Mt. pleasant and $1300 at Shepherd.
The auction scheduled at Mt. Pleasant was cancelled because of the
weather.
Annual Spring Conceit
Presented by Glee Club
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MARY EDDY, Ionia junior will
play the lead in the production of
"Jane Eyre" June 11, 12, and 13.
Extension Directors
Hold Conference Here
Extension directors from the
teacher's colleges at Kalamazoo.Yp-
silanti, Marquette, and Mt. Pleasant attended a conference here at
Central, last Tuesday and Wednesday, May 22 and 23. The conference
took place in conjunction with the
state board of education and the
council of presidents. Unifying extension practices in teacher's colleges, broadening the field of extension work, and adult education
were considered.
The Girls' Glee club under the*
direction of Mn£ Myrle G. Thiers,
assistant professor in the music
department', will present their spring
concert in Keeler lobby tomorrow
night. June 7, at 8:15 p.m.
Numbers by the group of 20 girls
will include, Open Thy Heart by
Bizet, Solvejg's Song by Grieg, You
Spotted Snakes by Dans, The Call
by Andrews, The Dying Flower by
Rbtolie, Bedtime by Buck, Peter Pan
by Stickles, Let There Be Song by
Klemm, A Violin Is Singing, a
Ukrainian folk song, Windy Nights
by Maliu, Oh Mother A Hoop, an
English folk tune, The Bird Flew
by Clokey, and Rain and the River,
by Fox.
As added features, Frederick
Congdon, Kenosha, Wis. sophomore,
will give two readings: a cutting
from The American Way by Kaufman-Hart and Gunga Din by R.
Kipling, and Jean Borske, Manistee
senior will play the following solos
accompanied by Helen Voelker, Reed
City sophomore: Canto Amoroso by
Sammartini-Eiman, Waltz by Weber Burmester, Serenade Espagnole
by Chaminade-Kriesler, and In an
Irish Jaunting Car by K. Whitfield.
A girls' quartette formed from the
Glee club will also present a series
of numbers. This group is composed
of Madeline Merritt, Madelyn Gallagher, Betty Wilcox, and Marcia
Higgs.
Personnel of the Girls' Glee club
consists of first sopranos, Dorothy
Butterfield,   North   Branch   freshman, Beth Cole, Walkerville senior,
Helen Holmstrom, Ludington freshman, Helen Mahs, Clifford senior,
Dorothy Marr, St\ Louis freshman,
Madeline Merritt, Bay City junior,
Margaret    Jean    Morrison,    Peck
freshman, and Helen Starkweather,
Winn  freshman;   second  sopranos,
Doris Cohoon, Midland senior, Helen
Fenstermacher, Big Rapids senior,
Madelyn Gallagher, Ahna freshman,
Ruth Gillett, Evart freshman, Harriet Nelson, Belding freshman, and
Wilma Jean Taylor, Detroit sopho-
mare;    contr&hlaes,   Daretta.   Esh,
Fairview    senior,    Marcia    Higgs,
Grosse    Pointe    freshman,    Eileen
Jones, Big Rapids senior, and Betty
Wilcox, Ionia freshman.
Ruth Horn
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by A. C. P. Rating
Central Michigan Life was recently awarded First Class Honor
Rating by the Asociated Collegiate
Press in their 1944-45 first semester
All-American Critical Newspaper
Survey. The Associated Collegiate
Press headquarters are at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Two other Michigan colleges were
rated in the survey as having All-
American standings; they were the
Michigan Daily, newspaper of the
University of Michigan; and The Detroit Collegian, a paper published
three times weekly at Wayne University.
Mary Comstock Is Valedictorian,
Ruth Horn Is Salutatorian
Mairy Comstock
The history and social science
departments were in charge of a
discussion of the Dumbarton-Oaks-
Bretton Wood bill and the San
Francisco Peace conference at a
faculty meeting yesterday. The discussion was in the form of a panel,
and opportunities for questions were
given.
Juniors Honor
Seniors Friday
The annual, informal junior-senior reception staged by the junior
class to honor seniors will take
place Friday night in Keeler union.
Connie Denison, Marysville junior,
is general chairman.
The reception will begin in Keeler lobby at 8:30, followed by dancing
in the ballroom, to music by the
Navy band.
Helen Turppa, Rhodes, is chairman of the invitations committee,
which consists of Befniece Jensen,
Lakeview, and Barbara Swindler,
Royal Oak. Verone Day, Edmore,
is chairman of the refreshment
committee, and she is assisted by
Alta Webster, Fremont, and Adeline Pharis, Saginaw.
The decorations committee consists of Eleanore Annis, Maple Rapids, Chairman; Dorothy Allen, Maple Rapids; Jane Goff, Grand Rapids; and Maxine Merritt, Bay City,
Music and entertainment will be secured by Marjeah Brewer, St. Louis, chairman; Jane Watrous, Caro;
Anita Everts, Owosso; and Eleanore
Philp, Bad Axe.
• Mary Comstock, Traverse City,
has been named to deliver the valedictory address on class day, June
17, to Central's graduating class of
'45. Ruth Horn, Pinconning, will
give the salutatory speech.
Mary is president of Mercier club;
president of Kappa Delta Pi, national honorary educational fraternity; vice-president of inter-Faith
council,; and a member of Kappa
Gamma sorority. She was listed in
this year's Who's Who Among students of American Colleges and
Universities.
Ruth has been active in dramatics at Central and is a member of
Masquers, the dramatic organization of campus. She is vice-president of Pi Kappa Delta, national
honorary speech fraternity; vice-
president of Sigma Tau Delta, national honorary English fraternity;
and a member of Kappa Gamma
sorority. Ruth, also, was listed in
Who's Who Among Students,
The annual senior class day and
swing out will take place on the
college campus in a combined outdoor program.
The program will consist of the
class president's speech, the valedictory and salutatory addresses,
and an address delivered by President Charles L. Anspach.
ELECTRICIAN'S MATE
Thompson in Atlantic, Pacific
By Dowdd Harington
North Atlantic patrol and'.duty
in both theatres of the war has "taken Robert Thompson, Chicago
sophomore, "into the far reaching
corners of the world. With more
than two years of sea duty, he feels
perfectly at home on the high seas.
Bob was called to active service
in January, 1942, and received h#s
boot training at Great Lakes. From
there he was sent to an electrician
school at Detroit, where he attended classes for one month and taught
classes for three months.
An electrician in civilian life, his
occupation was to help him immensely in his work in the Navy,
He soon attained the rating of Electrician's Mate first class and
worked as a refrigeration technician
aboard three destroyers during his
tour of the Atlantic and Pacific.
His first ship was the destroyer
UjSjS. Quick and as one of her com
missioning crew, he served aboard
her for several months on patrol in
the north Atlantic. In the invasion
of Casablanca his ship was the first
to go in.
After Casablanca he was transferred to the UjSjS. Conner, another destroyer that was soon to be
commissioned and soon to see plenty of action. A trip through the Panama Canal put him in the Pacific
where he was to encounter an enemy of different tactics and more determination.
The battles were frequent and
furious for hint in the Pacific: He
participated in the raid on Wake
island and every major battle that
was to take place while he .was in
those waters. Most notable of these
battles were the Marshall campaign, Kwajalein, Rabaul, Saipan,
Tinian, Truk, Guam, the Volcano
island, Iwo Jima and the Bonin
Island campaign.
In the Bonih Island campaign,
the navy task force of which the
U.S.S, Conner was a part, encountered  a large  Japanese fleet,
inflicting heavy losses and damages
to the Imperial Navy. Three enemy cruisers and four destroyers
were sunk and several more were
severely damaged. Bob's ship took
several hits and was compelled to
return to Kwajalein for repairs.
While there, Bob was transferred to
his third destroyer, the U.S.S. Izard.
Soon afterwards Bob was notified
that he had been accepted for V-12
training and upon returning to the
states, reported to the pre-V-12
school at Asbury Park, New Jersey.
He was sent to the University of
Wisconsin and then to Central in
November 1944.
This is Bob's last semester at
Central. He will enter NROTC immediately upon returning from his
leave.
V-12's Plan
June Dance
A cruise, in the form of dancing
and entertainment sponsored by
the boys in the V-12 unit, is to be
held in the Keeler ballroom Friday
night, June 15, from 9 to 12:30.
This is a free dance, open to everyone on campus, and will be semi-
formal. Corsages are optional.
Vance Puzar, now playing at the
civic opera house in Grand Rapids,
will provide the music for the occasion. His orchestra consists of
twelve pieces and a vocalist and is
one of the top rating orchestras in
Grand Rapids.
Jack Iskin, New York sophomore
and chairman, of entertainment, announces that included in the evening's entertainment will be a jitterbug contest, a draw prize, skits
and several surprises.
Shellbacks Give
Farewell Party
The Shellback club gave a fatewell
party for members who will be leaving at the end of this semester at
Moss' Country club, Saturday, June
2, at 8 p.m.
Although many members wili be
detached from this unit, some going
to NROTO and several back to the
fleet, the Shellback club plans to
continue next semester.
Refreshments were served and a
good time was had toy all hands
in the evening of dancing and entertainment.
Robert Thompson, Chicago sophomore, was general chairman of the
affair.
Chaperones were Lt. and Mrs* M.
R. Kelso, Lt. A. D. Ardis, and Mr.
Herman Fuller of the physics department.
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