Digitized by the Internet Archive
in 2012 with funding from
CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois
http://www.archive.org/details/index1943illi
ILLINOIS STATE NORMAL UNIVERSITY, NORMAL, ILLINOIS
LOIS WHEELER- Editor RUTH KO LTVE IT- Business Manager
VOLUME 53
COPYRIGHT 1943
EDUCATION is a heritage of freedom —
Vital in peace, Imperative in war.
A coii
ood educ
a
I to the
in
body
ivin
an
Jo the soul all the beauty and all the Perfection of which they are capable
Plato
For Our Tomorrow They Gave Their Today
V*. "<*V
»% ^f-t.
he*
|
5* >f&.S.' |
v |
||
|
YV |
* ^ ' |
{S'.f |
|
|
V » *■* |
|||
|
I |
& L#/ JF<? Forget. . .
Mario Lawrence Biava (1937-40) Lieut., Army Air Corps Plane Crash in California— March 15, 19«3
Deane Opperman Birckelbaw (1937-39)
Pvt, Army
Killed in New Guinea— Nov. 21, 1942
Floyd Lawrence Bogner, '38 Corp., Army Air Corps Plane Crash in Indiana— Dec. 12, 1942
Robert Wright Booker (1937-41) Lieut., Army Air Corps Plane Crash in Massachusetts— April 21, 1942
John Andrew Lafferty (1931-32)
Assistant to Captain of U.S.S. Houston Missing in Pacific— March 20, 1942
Charles Jackson Leonard (1936-39) Lieut., Army Air Corps Missing in North Africa— Dec. 18, 1942
Louis John Lochner (1939-42) Cadet, Army Air Corps Plane Crash in Texas— March 7,
1943
Raymond Anthony Morrissey (1935-36) Lieut., Army Air Corps Shot down in Action, February 13, 1943 in the South Pacific
Harold Reginald Purdy (1939-40) Lieut., Army Air Corps Plane Crash in Florida— Sept. 7, 1942
Clarence R. Rimke, 40
Capt., Army Air Corps Missing in North Africa-
-Feb. 22, 1943
Edward Clement Schmillen (1937-41) Lieut. Army Air Corps Missing in Pacific— Feb. 27, 1942
John Richard Scott, '40
Military Police, Army Air Corps Missing in the Philippines— June 25, 1942
William Charles Stauter (1936-37) Lieut., Army Air Corps Missing in Pacific— June 23, 1942
Alfred August Voss, '40
Lieut., Army Air Corps Plane Crash in Michigan-
-Oct. 15, 1941
W. A. Kiper— I.S.N.U. (1930-1942)
Eugene Wilson Wade (1938-39) Pvt., Marine Corps Missing in Pacific— Jan. 30, 1942
Carl Leon Wene (1935-37, 1938-39) Ensign, Naval Air Corps Missing in Pacific— Jan. 30, 1942
Albert Jesse Woodard (1938-41) Lieut., Army Air Corps Plane Crash in Louisiana — Aug. 13, 1942
Donald Earl Workman (1937-39) Lieut., Army Air Corps Missing in Pacific— Feb. 27, 1942
CAMPUS VIEWS
Old Main
Cook Hall
Nlilner Library
10
Thomas Metcalf Training School David Felmley Hall of Science
11
CONTENTS:
ADMINISTRATION
UNIVERSITY
ACTIVITIES
ATHLETICS
Foreword
The 1943 Index is a record of a dynamic year. Tra- dition and change are side by side: Old Main may be blacked out for the duration, but the Tower Clock will still strike the hours as always. The Index staff hopes that this year's book not only has caught the impact and vitality of a war year, but also has kept the greater part of the beauty and tradition that is the heart of our school. To present this picture of a changing scene, we have chosen a formal treatment — a treatment that represents stability in a chaotic world. We have accomplished our purpose if the 1943 Index is a cher- ished record for students on both the home-front and the battle-front.
— Lois Wheeler
12
J
00* • #*
40:
Administration
: . . ...
14
Mr. Otto Beich, Resident Board Member.
STATE OF ILLINOIS
Dwight H. Green
Governor
DEPARTMENT OF REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION
THE TEACHERS COLLEGE BOARD
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS Frank G. Thompson
Director of Registration and Education (Springfield)
Chairman
Vernon L. Nickell
Superintendent of Public Instruction (Springfield)
Secretary
APPOINTED MEMBERS
1937-1943 1941-1947
Mr. Otto G. Beich Bloomington Dr. Preston Bradley
Mr. J. D. Dill Carbondale Mr. Russell L. Guin
Miss Harriet Mclntire Mendota Mr. Lindell M. Sturgis
1939-1945
Mrs. Jacob E. Alschuler Aurora Mr. Edward V. Miles, Jr
Mr. Charles E. McMorris Marshall
Mrs. Helen Rose Peeelow Mattoon
. . .Chicago . . .Danville . Metropolis
. Acting Coordinator
15
Dean Scliroeder, President Fairchild, Mr. Carrington, Mr. Goodier, Dean Linkins Dean Barton, Miss Brenneman, Dean Keaton, Mr. DeYoung
ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL
Pedagogues, Preachers, Practitioners
Concerned with the investigation and consideration of the development of general university activities, disciplinary matters, and immediate decisions, the ad- ministrative council has proved its value time and again in its five years of existence. Headed by Presi- dent R. W. Fairchild, and claiming as members Dean H. H. Schroeder, Dean O. Lillian Barton, Assistant Dean Anna L. Keaton, Dean R. H. Linkins, Mr. J. W. Carrington, Mr. Floyd T. Goodier, Mr. C. A. De Young, and Miss Elsie Brenneman, the council this year gave special attention to Mar activities on the campus. An outgrowth of their work on this problem was the War Service Council.
Looking to the future, the group considered build- ing plans for the university, and have rather definite hopes for "when the Avar ends." Students of coming
years may benefit from those structures that we but picture now, much as we make use of the faculty counselling system and the probation system, all of which started with the germ of an idea in the council. At the East Bay Conference in the summer, the work of the eight standing committees created by the administrative council Mas coordinated in a two-day session of all the faculty. Striving toward Improve- ment of Teacher Education, these committee members are concerned with such problems as character and re- ligious development, extra-class activities, personal growth and development, physical well-being, profes- sional attitudes, scholarship, social interests and atti- tudes, and skill in teaching. Chairmen of the commit- tees are on the faculty, and each instructor is assigned to work with one of these groups. Research, much original thinking, and far-sighted planning lie behind the actions of the body as a whole. To this group we owe credit for the functioning of each department.
16
PRESIDENT R. W. FAIRCHILD
17
ROUTINE ADMINISTRATION
Smooth Functioning Depends on Them
The men and women behind the scenes: The reg- istrar sitting at her desk in a neat office; the grounds crew mowing the campus; the cashier handling the money; the fireman working in the heating plant; the school doctor feeling the pulse of the student body; the night watchman passing long hours in vacated buildings; the business manager with all sorts of financial matters; the recorder who can tell us (and hiring principals) every grade we made; the director of the Bureau of Appointments, who is besieged by men wanting teachers and teachers wanting men wanting teachers, — these are the persons who make up that indispensable part of a university, the routine administration.
The registrar, Miss Elsie Brenneman, and the re- corder, Miss Feme Melrose, share the same office in Old Main where enormous file cabinets make us gape at the thought of facts they contain. What a dis- covery to find that on a desk not too far from the door was a card for each person in school, telling where he or she was at what hour. What nerve it took to stroll in past Miss Elba Zanni and flip through the alphabetized unknowns until that certain name stared up at you, and you found that Fate had placed you both in North Hall at the same time! Long hours
Dr. Cooper, Mrs. Peters, and Mrs. Breeding Watch Campus Health. • Tcllaro, Cole, Prange, Dippel, and Gathmann. • Registration Day — Get Your Text Books Early! • Back Row — West, Miss Sluder, Miss Melrose, Bauer, Mrs. King. • Front Row — Miss Boundy, A'liss Zanni, Miss Russell, Miss Roscman.
18
are spent here going over details necessary before the student can receive his degree.
Whether you were here one year or four, you saw the campus in nearly every stage of growth and bloom: sweltering summer days, the first cool days of October, grey November heralding sleet and snow, February vascillating between cold and warmth, rough March, then spring at last. Through it all the grounds crew, headed by Mr. Harry Johnson; the janitors, directed by Mr. Dick Lawson; and the men in the heating plant were performing various duties.
A tree has been cut here, a new one planted there, evergreens enhance the new facade of Fell Hall; every- where we see evidences that the campus caretakers were never idle, always keeping us proud of the ap- pearance of our college.
"All bills must be paid through Miss Feme Rose- man." Those who had actual dealings with the finance realized a little more than most the tremendous task she had; the cashier's window, to most of us, was merely a place to pay our fees oil registration day or to cash a small reimbursement from home.
Just across the corridor in the room marked simply "Business Office," Mr. Lawrence Irvin, business man- ager, Mrs. Ruth Clem, and Miss Helen Russell dis- posed of pyramids of work such as only a university can create.
The first time you remember seeing the Bureau of Appointments was that day when you, a freshman, were taken on a campus tour. It meant little then, but you noticed later that seniors and some sophomores made daily pilgrimages to that mecca of job-seekers. Credentials, recommendations, pictures, — these were the headaches turned over to Mr. John Carrington, Director of the Bureau, to become the "very thing wc were looking for." Miss Sarah Fox and Mrs. Lorene
Back Row — Mr. Irvin, Mr. Mead. • Front Row — Mr. Law- son, Air. Johnson, Mr. Speers. • Miss Brenneman, Regis- trar. • Mrs. Meeker, Mr. Carrington, and Miss Fox — The Bureau of Appointments. • Mrs. Clem and Mr. Irvin — The Business Office.
Meeker helped to keep the office running smoothly.
Only those intimately connected with these people can know the tremendous amount of work required for the efficient functioning of these offices. Without their vigilancy, Normal students could not enjoy smooth sailing in their college careers. Everyone has a distinctive activity, yet everyone cooperates in a spirit well worthy of commendation.
So it is that janitor, registrar, office girl, business manager — all these and more — work together to make our college life a path unhampered by falling boulders and impassable ruts.
19
Back Row — Mitchell, Catlin, Mershon. • Middle Row — Johnson, Runge, Wheeler, Clark, Fish, Porter, Mr. Hibler, Callahan, o Front Row — Finley, DePew, Orr, Stephens, Rieger.
STUDENT COUNCIL
It Had Four Prexies — and a Finger In Every Pie
Student Council was a panorama of elections, vacan- cies, and re-elections this year with four presidents and four vice-presidents holding office. Only stable member of the vasodilating officers was secretary Jean Mitchell. President Bob Von Bergen commenced Council activities of the 1942-43 school term and under- took the responsibility of organizing the Council, as- signing duties to various boards and committees and getting the work started.
Holding Council membership were seniors: Jim Finley, Paul Harris, Bernice Danforth, and Ray Runge. The juniors elected Emilie Dutczak, Evelyn Rieger, Dorothy Catlin, and Jean Mitchell. Sophomores boasted Jane Caviezel, Phil Porter, Corinne Clark, and Dick Dorsey, and the freshman representatives were
Dick Price, Mary Jane Fish, Lem Callahan, and Robert Mershon. Ex-officio members were Vidette editor Avery Stephens and Index editor Lois Wheeler.
Came Homecoming and the Council members were found busily working on plans for the alumni registra- tion booth. Congenial Mr. Francis Hibler, sponsor of the Student Council, was the originator of the "Good Neighbor" policy between I.S.N.U. and Wesleyan. The Council saw to it that the Homecoming bonfire was a Normal monopoly by drafting the "supermen" of the campus to guard it. Another offspring was "The Jinx" — propaganda for the pep session before the Wesleyan game.
Von Bergen announced his withdrawal from school on November 16 because of ill health and resigned as president. His position was filled by vice-president Jim Finley. "Rusty" Harris succeeded Jim as vice-presi- dent. Jim took charge with characteristic efficiency and the activities of the Student Council were sys-
20
tematically carried on. We suggest bouquets to the group for its effort and accomplishment in stimulating and publicizing war activities on campus.
The call to service the third week of the second semester caused Jim Finley to leave the presidency open again for the third time. Capable Glenn John- son, chosen by the members to fill the senior vacancy left open by "Rusty" Harris, was elected vice-presi- dent and automatically was boosted to the head of the Council. Business-like Dottie Catlin was elected the fourth vice-president. She later assumed presidential duties when Glenn left for naval service. Other new second-semester members were speechster Marian DePew, Bob Campbell, Barbara Orr, and new Vidette editor Rose Kuzmiski who replaced Avery Stephens.
Keeping the Student Lounge spick-and-span was also in the hands of the Council, and a committee was appointed to investigate lounge conditions and concessions including the furniture, cleanliness of the room, the working condition of the indispensable candy dispensers, and the much-used supply of maga- zines.
Sponsoring pep sessions and rallies to arouse the "we" feeling among the students when athletic events rolled around was also undertaken by the student government. The Council did much to help stir up school spirit.
Despite upheavals in membership and leadership, the Student Council members represented the students well and carried out prescribed duties commendably. Mr. Hibler as counsellor and sage was of inestimable value in aiding the members to form policies and vote on issues.
Danforth, Mitchell, ex-Prexy Finley, Sponsor Hibler. • Elec- tion eve and campaign speeches. • Wesleyan football pep session — Al ("Bubbles") Trumpy. • "The Jinx" under the knife.
21
BOARDS
Boards That Battle For Campus Causes
fSocial Life and Organizations Board — Back Row — Catlin, Mr. Linkins, Price, Dorsey, Porter, iVlr. Stombaugh, Runge. • Front Row — Mitchell, Miss Keaton, Miss Barton, Miss Russell, • Student Activity Board— Miss Russell, Miss Connell, Mr. Horton. • Housing Board — Back Row — Caviczel, Mershon, Mrs. Warren, Mr. Linkins. • Front Row — Miss Keaton, Miss Barton, Catlin.
"Of the people, by the people, and for the people" can well be the general theme applying to the system of boards organized for the purpose of making I.S.N.U. a better institution. Collaborating their ideas and energy on these boards are students and faculty mem- bers who are stationed behind the scenes to see that campus activities, events, and organizations function at their best.
People who deal with the calendar and the clock when the Social Life Board meeting is called are Dean Ralph H. Linkins, chairman, Dean Lillian Barton, As- sistant Dean Anna L. Keaton, Mr. Ray Stombaugh, iMrs. Mae Warren, Dorothy Catlin, Dick Dorsey, Dick Price, Phil Porter and Avery Stephens. The Social Life Board's chief function is to prepare the calendar of campus events and set the time and place for club activities.
Insurance for seeing that the Lowell Mason mem- bers can confidently meet at a certain place at a certain hour on a certain day is the result of the Organizations Board. Another function of this board is to cast an eagle-eye on applications of new clubs and see that we don't get too extra-curricular. Mr. Victor Houston is the chairman of this board and his assistants are Mr. Ray Stombaugh, Miss Elizabeth Russell, Jean Mitchell, Jane Caviezel and Phil Porter.
Those lengthy questionnaires concerning values and objectives of your organization were prepared and scrutinized by the Activity Board. Working on this board are Miss Elizabeth Russell, chairman, Mr. Clif- ford Horton, Miss Regina Connell, Jim Finley, and Bernice Danforth.
Curfew for underclass women during the week days is 10:30 p. m. No telephone calls are to be re- ceived or made after the same time, and callers are to say their adieus before the stroke of half-past-ten. Down in black and white (or is it orange?) are the mutual obligations which housemothers and students must meet. To wit: "Hot water three times a week, and a thorough cleaning of the rooms during Christmas and spring vacations — " these are the customary prac- tices found in the rooming houses off campus. In charge of determining such rules for maintaining suit- able housing standards arc members of the Housing Board headed by Dean O. Lillian Barton. Holding- membership on this board are Assistant Dean Anna L.
22
Keaton, Dorothy Catlin, Jane Caviezel and Bob Mer- shon.
The Forensic Board was established for the purpose of determining policies relating to forensic activities, planning trips on the basis of the funds provided, and allocating funds for speech activities, contests and tournaments. Success of the annual I.S.N.U. Invita- tional Debate Tournament also depends upon Dr. F. L. D. Holmes, chairman of the Forensic Board, and his co-workers: Miss Mabel Clare Allen, Mr. Fred Sorrenson, Mr. Charles Harper, jVlr. Leslie Isted, Emilie Dutczak, Marion Gillespie, Dorothy Rutledge, Maxine Tiffany and Earl Scarbeary.
Lecturer iVlrs. Aase Skard, distinguished psycholo- gist, came to Capen auditorium October 19 and de- scribed the brutal tactics the Nazis use to keep the Norwegian people under Hitler's domination. On December 9, Richard Crooks, American tenor of the Metropolitan Opera association was heard in a recital in McCormick gymnasium singing the songs we re- member as his favorites on the Monday evening "Fire- stone Hour." Carveth Wells, distinguished explorer, engineer and author appeared on campus on January 6 lecturing on the "Coming Battle for Tin and Rubber," and linguist Aloha Baker spoke on "Australia Now," February 23. The Entertainment Board is credited with selecting this kind of entertainment. Taking a cross-section of campus interest, the board decides the programs for the school term. Succeeding Mr. John Fraley, who is now in the armed service, Dean Lin- kins heads this board and is assisted by Miss Margaret Peters, Miss Katherine Thielen, Mr. Ralph Gooding, Mr. Wayne Sherrard, Mr. Harry Admire, Evelyn Rieger, Mary Jane Fish, and Lem Callahan.
The people behind the "show must go on" tradition for "A Murder Has Been Arranged," and "Letters to Lucerne," University Theater productions which were presented this year, are the members of the Theater Board. Their chief function is to handle the technical angles of University plays such as business, property, lights, costumes, and make-up. Members, who are also active participants in plays are Marian DePew, presi- dent of Jesters, Howard Hoover, president of Theta Alpha Phi, Don Thomsen, Patty Weldon, and Marion Gillespie.
Keeping the students and faculty conscious of when
Forensic Board— Back Row— Mr. Isted, Mr. Harper, Mr. Sor- renson, Mr. Holmes. • Front Row — Rutledge, Gillespie, Dutczak. • Entertainment Board — Back Row — Mr. Admire, Mr. Gooding, Mr. Sherrard, Thomsen, Mr. Linkins. • Front Row—Mks Thielen, Rieger, Weldon, Miss Peters, Calla- han. • Theater Board— Gillespie, DePew, Weldon, Thom- sen, Miss Allen. • Health and Hospitalization Board— Dr. Cooper, Mr. Horton, Miss Dean.
23
Athletic Board — Back Row— Mr. Ivens, Mr. Young. • Front Row — iYlr. Hancock, Miss Clay ton, Mr. Horton. • Apportion- ment Board — Back Row — Miss Brenneman, Mr. Fairchild, Fin- ley. • Front Row — Dutczak, Mr. Adams, Mr. Miller, Miss Day, Herrmann. • Assembly Board — Back Row — Mershon, Mr. Gooding, Air. Linkins. • Front Row — Miss Peters, Rieger, Miss Thielen.
to take the white pills and when to change to the pink, and maintaining health facilities and standards on campus and in the community arc the aims of the mem- bers of the Health and Hospitalization Board. At work on this committee are Mr. Clifford Horton, Miss Eliza-
beth Dean, Miss Neva McDavitt, Phil Porter, Corinne Clark, Dick Price, Rusty Harris and chairman Dr. Rachel Cooper.
Football in the fall, basketball in winter, and base- ball in the spring — responsibility for supervising these athletics rests with the Athletic Board, chairman Mr. Clifford Horton and his staff: Mr. John Green, Mr. Howard Ivens, Mr. J. E. Young, Miss Irene Clayton, and Mr. Harold Five. Other added responsibilities are awarding monograms, giving recognition to sports and players, providing ticket-takers at the games, and plan- ning the scheduling of athletic events throughout the year.
Apportionment Board operates very much like a court when a meeting is called for the purpose of distributing the student activity fees among university organizations. Those considering the reasons and evi- dence for a certain club's asking .002 of a cent more than last semester are Mr. L. W. Miller, chairman, Mr. Howard Adams, secretary, President R. W. Fairchild, Miss Elsie Brenneman, Miss Alta Day, Emilie Dutczak, Leonard Pourchot, Mary K. Herrmann, and James Finlcy. The fees are distributed among the following organizations: athletic association, assemblies, bands, chorus, classes, films, forensics, health and hospitaliza- tion, Honors Day, Index, lecture board, men's glee club, University theater, Vidette, Women's League, Women's Recreational association, and Wrightonia.
Miss Margaret Peters, chairman of the Assembly Board, and her committee consisting of Miss Kath- erine Thielen, Mr. Wayne Sherrard, Robert Mershon, Corinne Clark, and Evelyn Rieger have the very dif- ficult assignments of satisfying the slapstick-entertain- ment demands of freshman Sue (section III, row Q, seat 3 ) and at the same time nourishing senior Bill's (section I, row J, seat X ) demands for a program which stimulates intellectual growth. The fact that little grumbling was heard this year in connection with as- semblies was all the evidence needed to prove that the results of the effort of the Assembly Board members was most satisfactory.
The Vidette Executive Board keeps the newspaper office ticking and busy. Determining the policies of the newspapers, supervising the finance of the publi- cations, setting up a schedule of the dates of issues of the Vidette, organizing "beats," and selecting the editor each semester are the main duties performed by this board. The news-hawks responsible for keeping the office cheerful and cooperative are editor Rose Kuzmiski, who is also chairman of the board, man- aging editor Ruth Ann Orr, business manager Elinor Leigh, sports editor Charles Yahr, advertising manager Ruth Lee, news editor Dorothy Marsh, bookkeepers Bob Meyer and Alvera Beatty, and Mr. Edward John- son, sponsor.
24
In making the Index furnish practical experience, faculty members from the English, Art, Commerce, and Education departments act as advisers to the staff members. These representatives who make up the Index Governing Board are Miss Esther Vinson, Mr. Edward Johnson, Mr. Floyd Goodier, Miss Gladys Bartle, Miss Ruth Henline, and Miss Margaret Peters.
The "Voice behind the voice of the campus" alias the Publications Committee formulates the policies and supervises the student publications, the Vidette and Index. Chairman Miss Esther Vinson, vice-chairman Mr. Herbert Hiett, and secretary Miss Ruth Henline head this committee. They are assisted by Mr. Edward Johnson, Mr. Lawrence Irvin, and Miss Florence Teager.
Nearly every student and faculty member is aware that many machines must be put into operation before he can partake of the many opportunities, pleasures, and conveniences offered by the University. The laurels can be bestowed upon these specific boards es- tablished for the purpose of working "behind the scenes" of various activities. Through the functioning of campus boards comes the smooth operation of most campus activities.
Vidette Executive Board — Back Row — Marsh, UphorT, Beatty. • Front Row — Mr. Johnson, Kuzmiski, Stephens, Leigh. • Index Governing Board — Back Row — Mr. Goodier, Mr. John- son. • Front Row — Miss Vinson, Miss Peters, Miss Bartle.
STUDENT COUNSELORS
Consult the Counselors When in Doubt
Cook, Irvin, Cyrier. • Pruden, Herrmann.
• Timely tips to frightened freshmen come under the head of "counseling." When to wear hats, how to keep all grades above a "B"; how to calculate honor points (!), how to take Con. Civ. reading notes — all these and more are the weight}' problems which are brought to the sympathetic ears of these campus consultants.
When Women's League saw that student guidance would be a welcome help to freshmen girls, groups were assigned to a counselor and her assistant who acted as advisers in three areas: guidance, social af- fairs, and instructional matters — everything from giv- ing parties to making study schedules.
The Student Counselors' Training Course, carrying one step further last year's innovation was open to all students this year. Because of the felt need, "Guid- ance in Wartime" was adopted as the unifying theme for the ten lectures given by the faculty members to train counselors for future service.
Careful plans were worked out for group meetings, which were friend-to-friend, informal and companion- able, and the happy part about the whole idea was this: someone was bound to gain — if the freshman needed little help, maybe they could give some points to the counselor herself.
EMERITUS
Olive Lillian Barton, A.M. (1906)
Dean of Women
Associate Professor
A.B., University of Illinois; A.M., University of Chicago;
Illinois State Normal University
Herman Henry Schroeder, A.M. (1913)
Dean of the University and
Director of the Summer Session
Professor
Ph.B., Cornell College; A.M., University of Chicago;
Teachers College, Columbia University.
f
/%
One hundred and seventy years of faithful service to Illinois State Normal University — that is the accumulated record of these patient counselors and teachers. Although they are retiring from active par- ticipation in school life, they "will long be remembered for their friendly interest in students and their inspiring leadership in our school.
Thomas Morse Barger, M.S., (1913)
Assistant Professor of
Physical Science
A.B., M.S., University of Illinois; Illinois State Normal
University.
Rachel Merrill Cooper, M.D., (1928)
Director of University
Health Service
M.D., University of Illinois; Women's and Children's
Hospital, Chicago; New York Post Graduate Medical
School; Washington University Medical School.
Alma Mary Hamilton, MA. (1915)
Assistant Professor of
the Teaching of English
B.S., Illinois Wesleyan University; B.Ed., Illinois State
Normal University; M.A., Teachers College, Columbia
University.
Harvey Andrew Peterson, Ph.D. (1909)
Professor of Psychology
Head of the Department of Psychology
A.B., University of Chicago; A.M., Harvard University;
Ph.D., University of Chicago.
26
IT <*
28
Back Row — Mr. DeWecs, Mr. Douglass. • Sitting — Mr. Hudelson, Mr. Young, Mr. Green.
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
Do They Have a Victory Garden7.
Books, tables, chairs, desks, apparatus, bulletin boards, and University Farm all help make the Agriculture department tops, but it is six men, the "staff" that really top things off.
Way back in 1920 Mr. C. W. Hudelson, a pioneer in the field of agriculture, came to Normal. Mr. Hudelson brought to the campus along with his ex- ecutive and farm-managing abilities, a conviction that everyone must have a hobby. His is collecting articles of historical and sentimental value — especially Indian artifacts. His vocational specialties are agronomy and genetics.
Mr. Thomas J. Douglass has been a conscientious worker in the department since 1928. In spite of his responsibilities with the horticultural aspect of the department work, he finds time to attend basketball games, and go hunting and fishing occasionally.
Something wrong with the tractor, or do you want to remodel the barn? Just call in Mr. O. L. Young
if you need any good counsel. He's quiet, friendly, well versed in his field, and likes woodwork and sleight-of-hand tricks for avocational interests. Mr. William DeWees has a compound specialty of dairy husbandry and adult education. He likes to spend free hours at home with the family and a book or the radio.
If you are having trouble with rationing or balanc- ing the budget, see Mr. John Green. His chief inter- ests are agricultural economics and home landscaping —with an occasional eye for taking pictures.
Mr. Lavern Laubaugh (on leave of absence for the present) comes from Michigan where the men are full of zip, fun, and enthusiasm. His specialty is animal husbandry, his past-time joy is gardening and hunting.
Also under the watchful eyes of this agrarian group is the University Farm, some ninety-three acres of real farm land where "ag" majors can put into practice all those new-fangled ideas about rotating and soil treat- ment. Strictly up-to-date is this mass of sprawling acres. There's nothing antiquated in the methods the Ag. department advocates about harrowing, plowing, or planting. These tillers-of-the-soil not only know all about pruning and grafting (not the political kind!) but they'll be only too glad to show you around an arboretum or pinetum any time.
Here they are — these sons of Ceres — six busy men. Incidentally, I've been having a little trouble with that little hunk of herbaceous material that I brought from home. Wonder if they can help me?
29
SENIORS 1943
AHRING KIESEWETTER
BATEMAN MEINHOLD
BOWMAN PARRILL
KERBER SPRAU
HARVEY A. AHRING; Highland; Gam- ma Delta 1, 2, 3, 4, Vice-President 3; Uni- versity Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Maize Grange 3, 4; Agriculture Council 3, Vice-President 3; Alpha Tau Alpha 3, 4, President 3; Vice- President 4; Texas Livestock Judging Team 2 • ROBERT D. BATEMAN; Mans- field; Glee Club 1; Intramurals 1, 2; Maize Grange 1, 2, 3, 4, Master, 3, 4; Hieronymus Club 4; Agriculture Council 3, 4; Alpha Tau Alpha 4, Treasurer 4 • S. FRED BOW- MAN; Egan; Maize Grange 1, 2, 3, 4, Master 4; Alpha Tau Alpha 2, 3, 4, Treas- urer 3; Science Club 4; Hieronymus Club 3, 4; Fort Worth Livestock Judging Team 2 • LEO D. KERBER; Anchor; Maize
Grange 3, 4, 5; Alpha Tau Alpha 4, 5; New- man Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Intramurals 1, 2, 3, 4; Agriculture 4; Class Vice-President 4. • ELMER L. KIESEWETTER; Metamora • DONALD W. MEINHOLD; Wash- burn; Maize Grange 2, 3, 4; Alpha Tau Alpha 4; Agriculture Club 1, 2, 3; Men's Glee Club 1 • KENNETH L. PAR- RILL; Farina; Hieronymus 1, 2, 3, 4; Uni- versity Club 2, 3, 4; Agriculture Council 1, 2; Alpha Tau Alpha 2, 3, 4; Science Club 2, 3, 4; Maize Grange 1, 2, 3, 4; Judging Team 1 • HENRY E. SPRAU; Belle- flower; Baseball 4; Intramurals 2; Alaizc Grange 4; Gamma Delta 2; Alpha Tau Alpha 1; Agriculture Council 1.
30
ALPHA TAU ALPHA
These Fellows Go Through "Harrowing Experiences
An honorary professional agricultural fraternity is Alpha Tau Alpha. The Xi-Hopkins chapter of Alpha Tau Alpha was organized in 1935 in order, "to de- velop a true professional spirit in the teaching of agri- culture, to help train teachers of agriculture who shall be rural leaders in their communities, and to foster a fraternal spirit among the students in teacher training for vocational agriculture."
The organization selected Mr. J. W. Green to act as its sponsor for the school year. Twice a year the agriculturists sort the seeds and elect leaders. The first semester officers were: president, Francis Kiesewetter; vice-president, Harvey Ahring; secretary, Ray Dun- can; treasurer, Donald Bateman; historian, Raymond Binder; sergeant-at-arms, Trenouth Adams.
The 'Aggies" won seventh with their float in the vic- tory parade with the theme, "When Pa was Courtin' Ma with Dobbin and the Buggy". They topped the Homecoming events for the alumni with the annual 12:30 A.M. breakfast Sunday morning in the judging pavilion at the University Farm.
Several weeks later the annual Red Bird Royal Judging Contest was held at the farm and in the green- house. Fred Bowman retained the grand championship of the contest. The champion grain judge was Art Henderson, while Fred Bowman was the champion livestock judge. The Holbert Medal contest which selects the "Corn King" was not held this year — dis- continued for the duration.
The members elected the following officers for the second semester: president, Meryl Rogers; vice-presi- dent, John Stubblefield; secretary, Fred Bowman; treasurer, Richard Quinton; sergeant-at-arms, Leo Kerber; historian, Elmer Kiesewetter.
The annual Ag-Home Ec. party was sponsored by the A.T.A. Many attended the party which was in the form of a dance. During the year eleven of the fifteen active members of the organization went to join Uncle Sam's forces.
If you've wondered what a Poland China pig is made of or what a furrow looks like, just ask any one of these boys. They know their "onions" about agri- culture. This club has developed into one of the most forceful organizations on campus. Right here on campus we have the makings of a huge "land army" that may solve the foods problem. From the initiation that carries with it the traditional denim overalls, blue shirt, and red bandana to his senior year, the "Aggie" finds plenty of fellowship and sociability that makes the A.T.A. a warm spot in his memories.
So ended a pleasant year of fun, farming, and frolic. Most of the fellows won't be back next year, but the spirit of A.T.A. will carry on.
Seated — Kerber, Ahring, Mr. Green, Rogers, Stub- blefield, Kiesewetter. • Standing — Bowman, Springer, Meinhold, Quinton, Parrill, Bate- man, Herrman.
31
|
•#30 :t:::W. ' gk * ptojH |
|||
|
C r\ rt O |
f |
H^lBttk.^9BW "■'■ .-. |
|
|
*% 1?* |
|||
|
^b ^B ft& 4S?; lp^ ■r V . A |
Mi |
Top i?ooi- — Ahring, Win- ter, Engel, Yahr, Bateman, F. Kiesewetter, Stubble- field, W. Quinton, Ker- ber, Siegworth, Herrman, A. Henderson, Springer, Sharp. • Third Row — - Meinhold, Ring, Barnes, Watkins, Smith, Parrill, R. Henderson, M. Wieg- man, Sprau, Frederickson, Smith, Sparks, Glatz, R. Wiegmann. • Second Row — E. Kiesewetter, Horn, Stokes, Bundy, Mr. DeWecs, Bowman, Jo- hannes, Forcht, Carlson, R. Quinton. • Front Row — Kridner, Grichnik, Bale, Cline, Karloski, Chandler, Elliott, Parret.
MAIZE GRANGE
This Is One K/nd of Mai^e That Isn't Corny
Aiaize Grange, or officially "Chapter 1S47 of the Patrons of Husbandry," revealed the current interest in farm and rural life with a prosperous and eventful year on the campus. That the enrollment has dropped considerably could never be told by taking Maize Grange as an example. The first four degrees of the Grange were administered to fifty-four new members at the beginnings of the semesters.
One of the campus activities supervised by the Grange was the float parade at Homecoming. In keeping with the times, the Grangers decided to sponsor a Victory Parade rather than retain the usual Hobo theme. This new idea was heartily accepted by the organizations on the campus and Grange float depicting Uncle Sam and Miss America was awarded third place.
Mr. W. I. DeWees, sponsor, Lillian Forcht, Don Bateman, Fred Bowman, and Kenneth Parrill repre- sented the organization at the state convention and banquet held in Peoria, where, in an impressive cere- mony, Bowman and Parrill received the fifth, sixth, and eighth degrees.
Interesting programs during the year included a book report and talk by Mr. V. M. Houston, informal initiation of new members, as well as the formal initia- tion and the installation of officers. Alaize Grange was honored by being featured in the November issue of the Illinois Granger. A picture of the club was shown accompanying a description of Grange achievements and functions on campus.
Although the Grange operates mainly because of the work it has to do, some recreational features are included in its yearly calendar. Among these are ex- citing skating parties at Circus Park Roller Rink, the Barn Dance at the University Farm, and the annual Spring picnic. Officers faithfully serving Maize Grange and its sponsor. Prof. W. I. DeWees, during the thir- teenth year of its existence were: Master, Fred Bow- man; Overseer, Earl Sprau; Secretary, Ruth Hender- son; Treasurer, Lillian Forcht; Steward, Kenneth Par- rill; Assistant Steward, Richard Quinton; Lady Ass't Steward, Betty Wiegmann; Lecturer, Shirley Bolinger; Chaplain, Marie Johannes; Gate Keeper, Elmer Kiese- wetter; Ceres, Grace Stokes; Pomona, Helen Bundy; and Flora, Elsie Carlson.
This year rounded out a lot of memories for the actives of the patrons of husbandry. The club is asso- ciated with both the national and state Granges. Each member of the organization receives The National Grange Monthly and the Illinois Granger. They are the future farmers and farmerettes of America, and as such, will take their places in the agricultural in- dustry.
32
Miss Goldmann, Miss Miller, Miss Bartle, Mrs. Parker.
\
i *a
ART EDUCATION
Your Smock
and Beretj Madame
If you feel that your talents are being hidden under a palette, your creative genius drowning in a bottle of India ink, your inspirations hardening in mounds of modeling clay — if these symptoms are yours, see the Art staff.
Of course, you remember seeing the oils, water- colors, and sketches exhibited in the Milner Art Gal- lery. These representative works of student artists drew half-envious sighs, sincere praise, and admiring- glances from art enthusiasts. There's no use reminding you of the tile you made for Art Appreciation because after chiseling, scraping, and subjecting its smooth surface to the blows of your irate knife, it is not likely that you soon will forget; however, you did feel a glow of pride when you saw your masterpiece stand- ing among its comrades in the lobby of Milner.
One hears tell that in the modeling class, students are allowed to enter the eerie attic of the Science hall, and not only to view the much-whispered-about cadavers — but to studv them! — and they learn to en-
joy it! Think of this the next time you see the models lining the glass cases at the west end of the Industrial Arts building.
From behind clay-smeared smocks and paint-filled brushes the Art staff lift Raphaelite countenances from a study of a delicate Renoir and we introduce:
Miss Gladys Bartle, acting as head of the Art De- partment, an extremely neat person, painstaking and methodical, who has a passion for lovely vases.
The lively grin you see topped by a swirl of dark hair belongs to Miss Edith Goldmann, whose tastes run from red convertibles to hand craft arts.
Miss Marion Miller contributes poise and dignity to the staff. She helps Phys. Ed. Majors and Business Education people to pick out what Rembrandt's works have that Salvador Dali's don't, and vice versa — also teaches elementary students fundamental art principles.
Do you like to save things, big and little? Then a woman after your own heart is Miss Alice Ogle, patient and systematic wielder of the aesthetic brush. Newcomer to the staff is pert /Mrs. Mary Parker, who gets excited over "little" things, such as a week-end in Chicago or a new idea for Index. Mrs. Parker fills the position left open by Mr. Donald Weissman, who has been granted a leave of absence for the duration and now instructs cadets in the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command. These, my artistic fellows, are the leaders of the palette and easel party, the protagonists of the plastic arts, the delineators of delicate designs.
33
-
SENIORS 1943
CAPRON PHILLIPS
HADLEY ROBB
LOGEE WARRICK
HARRIET JANE CAPRON; Springfield; Art Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Vice-President 3; Gam- ma Delta 2, 3, 4; Nature Study 3, 4, Publicity Chairman 4 • LOIS G. HADLEY; Hud- son; Art Club 3, 4, Treasurer 4 • LAURA JANE LOGEE; Charles City, Iowa; Trans- fer from Park College, Parkvillc, Missouri; Treble Chorus 2; Art Club 2, 3, 4, Treasurer 3, Vice-President 4; Index 4, Art Editor 4.
JUNE V. PHILLIPS; Oak Park; Art Club
1, 2, 3, President 4; Industrial Art Club 1,
2, 3, 4, Senior Representative 4; Y.W.C.A. 2; Bloomington Art Association 3, 4; W.R.A. ington; Art Club 1, 2, 3, 4, President 4; Jes- ters 3, 4; Kappa Delta Pi 4 • MARY E. WARRICK; Lincoln; Art Club; Concert Band; Clarinet Quartette.
34
ART CLUB
Frisky Frescoes,, Monumental Murals, and Plaster Plaques
Composed of paint-smeared budding artists with aims to create and develop an interest in current art move- ments, this organization discusses Cezanne, Renoir, Rembrandt or Hogarth with ease. (I always have to hunt up my Chicago Art Museum guide.)
The army created havoc for a short time within this club when sponsor Mr. Donald L. Weismann, the "prof" with the dynamic personality and crew hair- cut, not to mention his unusual artistic talents, joined its ranks. Miss Edith L. Goldmann, who manages the extension work in the field of art, undertook the task of completing the year's work. To quote the mem- bers, "she did a grand job."
Bigwigs in the organization were James Robb and Laura Jane Logee, alias "Lolly," the Index art editor. Mary Ellen Warrick was secretary; Lois Hadley, juggler of funds.
Homecoming offered plenty of hard labor, manual and mental, to the art clubbers. Main-spring Evelyn Rieger burned midnight oil in planning and construc- ing a float for the parade. Finally, one was secured, and Miss Liberty, holding a Redbird in one hand, and towering over a miniature replica of Old Main, won the second prize. The alumni were invited by this
group to attend a luncheon at Roland's.
In January couples waltzed gracefully through "Winter Wonderland" to the sweet strains of Hank Messer's orchestra at the Beaux Arts ball. Carrying out the Winter Wonderland theme was a gigantic prob- lem, requiring diligence, concentration, and aspirins, to transform a number of straggly evergreens into glistening works of art. Huge snowflakes (paper) covered the walls, while frisky fauns (also paper) capered gaily in the winter landscape.
Second semester saw Hal Kearney bidding farewell to his art comrades as he left for army air-corps dis- cipline, while Prexy Robb left for the navy April 29. Those remaining devoted themselves to a crafts project at Chanute Field. Mary Ellen Warrick headed the committee of five in charge of the work. Every Thursday found Lolly Logee, Phyllis Wilson, Del Johnson, Lois Hadley, and Mary Ellen Warrick Chanute-bound in Miss Goldmann's car. These artists enlightened the soldiers at the Red Cross hospital and recreation center with craft demonstrations in leather- work, soapcarving, sketching, and woodcarving. They did an excellent job in morale-boosting for the ambula- tory patients by providing diversion and entertain- ment for them.
With Spring came the annual spring picnic. It was especially enjoyable this year although the clubbers missed many of their former actives who are now in service.
Every second Tuesday night each month, undoubt- edly, somewhere a former Redbird turns his thoughts to the meetings held at seven o'clock in 1-107. Perhaps he sighs as he shines the toe of his G.I. shoes, or polishes his buttons, — "The good old Art Club . . . gee!"
Seated — Warrick, Had- ley, Miss Goldmann, Robb, Logee. • Stand- ing — Rieger, Wilson, Ruff, Kraft, Johnson, Capron, Blundell.
35
Seated — Miss McAvoy, .Miss Royce, Miss Gray, Miss Dean. • Standing — Mr. Young, Miss Hart- line, Mr. Lamkev, Mr. .Miller.
BIOLOGICAL
SCIENCE
EDUCATION
Formaldehyded Frogs Don't Phase Them
When you sec a he-spectacled soul equipped with a butterfly net strolling ahsentmindedly ahout you may think, "Ah, a true biologist"; hut there's another side — we present our biology department as evidence:
If you want to learn, Mr. Ernest Lamkev, head of the department, can help you, but don't expect to have knowledge poured to you with a smile. He'll smile all right, but you dig for the knowledge. Net result: you learn something and you respect that learning.
Miss Blanche McAvoy is the master pedagogue who leads apprentices to the light by showing how to make Jane and Johnny behave and like it. She has a very ready and winning smile, too.
He'll lure you into a game of ping-pong if you aren't wary! Or he may haul you out of the hay at five A.M. for a bird hike. In either case, you'll have a good time and maybe learn a fancy stroke or a special
species of aves. He's amiable; he's capable; and he's most upsettingly active — Mr. Jesse Young.
That quiet little lady who carries the big books around is Miss Nina E. Gray. Dissection of dozens of cadavers way up there in the attic of Science Hall hasn't affected her amazing liking for people.
Meet Miss Bertha Royce. She thrills at the sight of a scarlet tanager (who wouldn't?) and she knows ex- actly when the first robin yanks his first worm out of her yard. She owns one-fourth of a horse which is her pride and joy, and like everybody else on the biology staff, the best friend you have, if you need her.
Amidst plant keys, strange creatures in battle, and microscopes, we might find a class and its instructor checking up on the knowledge of photosynthesis. The instructor will tell you there's no boss, but somehow the learning takes place. Beautifully groomed and light-haired — iVIiss Opal Hartline.
Whether it concerns preparing a well-balanced meal, vitamins, skeletons, or just every-day talk; she's busy on them all. She's congenial with a good sense of di- rection toward the fire where oranges, coffee, and rolls wait after her early-morning hike with enthus- iastic clubbers. That's Miss Elizabeth Dean.
Nature seems to have something that does things to people and so does jYIr. L. Wallace Miller. How much more interesting are those algae when we are lured into active participation by his enthusiasm. He's ca- pable and always has a friendly greeting. Assembly- arranger, Mr. John Fraley, former member of this scientific group, is now in national Red Cross work.
36
SENIORS 1943
CROSS
DeBOIS
STOWELL
WEHLING
GEORGE A. CROSS; Carmi; University Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Science Club 4; Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4 • ELON DeBOIS; Clinton; Sci- ence Club 1, 2, 3, 4 • EWELL A. STO- WELL; Ashland; Science Club 2, 3, 4; Na-
ture Study Club 2, 3, 4, Secretary 3, Presi- dent 4; Gamma Theta Upsilon 3, 4 • LES WEHLING; Marthiton; University- Club 4, Vice-President 4; Nature Study Club.
37
NATURE STUDY CLUB
Birdsj BlossomSj Bees, Are Their Business
Back to Nature! That's the way it was in the he- ginning and that's the way the trend is these days with rationing making gardeners out of us. For first hand information about what makes carrots orange and who put the iron in the spinach — see the most informed per- sonalities on campus. These walking seed catalogues, authorities on the birds, bees, and flowers, will give you all the directions you need to have a successful plot in your back yard.
As late in the fall and as early in the spring as pos- sible, these wild-life enthusiasts were out on field trips. Guest members of the faculty accompanied them and made the trips more interesting by helpful discussions on the things that they observed. To take the place of these little excursions in the winter, meetings were held indoors with lectures by Dr. Miller and Dr. Lathrop from the faculty. A guest, Dr. Ries, from Starved Rock attended one of the meetings and spoke on Conservation.
Was the trip out to Miller Park for coffee and jelly rolls or was it to see the birds? The birds were the first objective, but the second objective was taken
with much spirit. On this excursion, guests accom- panied the group. In fact, nearly every department of the university was represented and also guest members of the faculty who made the trip interesting by point- ing out the important phases of wild life.
Homecoming found the Clubbers busy as bees, working on decorations for the House Prize. Their efforts were rewarded when they received the third prize and also the $10 WJBC prize for the best use of a radio theme. Major project of the year was the planting of shrubs and nut trees in the conservation area at Lake Bloomington. .In cooperation with the State Department of Conservation and also through Mr. Graham Thomsen, the region around the WJBC broadcasting station was converted into a Wildlife Refuge. This program took the place of the annual spring all-day distance trip which could not be made this year because of transportation difficulties.
As sponsor, Mr. J. E. Young can be proud of the work done by his group. President for this year was Ewell Stowell; vice-president, Ruth Pence. Those en- trusted with keeping up records and counting money were Edith Dvorak, secretary and Ruth Slown, treas- urer.
This year carried plenty of good times for these bird chasers. If you see bewildered bits of femininity or masculinity strolling across the campus (not on the grass, we hope! ), on the lookout for a new kind of insect (Japanese beetles are stabbed on sight), or armed with peculiar looking snoods called butterfly nets, mark down my words you're not coping with an escapist from Doc Hibler's Mental Hygiene class — you're look- ing at a Nature Study Club member.
Top Row — Goodell, Allonby, Huss, Waddell, Stringer, DeBois, Ruffin, Mrs. Holmes, Mrs. Young, Mrs. Ries, Wehl- ing. • Middle Row — Mr. Lamkey, Steele, Ca- pron, Gordon, Knobloch, Price, Mott. • Front Row — Carlson, Slown, Mr. Young, Dvorak, Pence, Stowell, Mr. Ries.
38
Seated— Miss Webb, A4r. Williams, Miss Day. • Standing — Mr. Koepkc, Miss Hansen, Miss Peters, Mr. Admire.
BUSINESS EDUCATION
These 'Busy-Bodies Are in the Commerce Curriculum
Teaching secretarial science, accounting and law, marketing and business, no small assignment for any faculty — that's the work of the Business Education Staff.
Telephone Cook Hall at any time of the day and you will be greeted by a vigorous and enthusiastic voice. Head of the Business Education Staff, Mr. Arthur Williams, who teaches law, economics of busi- ness, and advanced accounting, is an expert at helping people make out their income tax reports ( and is he popular these days! )
Long-hand, back-hand, right-hand, or left-hand, Miss Alta Day can still teach you shorthand. In the spring and summer Miss Day turns to her favorite pastime — landscape gardening and, you guessed it, cardinals.
"Did you say he was from India? Who, Mr. Wells the lecturer? What, Slim Williams from Alaska?1' If you hear one of the women in the Business Education
staff asking these questions, you'll know it's Miss Peters arranging another assembly program. Typing, office practice, and marketing are the business courses she teaches.
So you want to do student teaching in shorthand at U-High! Then meet Miss Webb, critic and friend of the bewildered student teacher. Miss Webb teaches both high school and college classes.
Then there is Air. Admire, a credit, not a debit, to those needing a leader for group singing. Teaching accounting and elements of business and working on committees keep him busy.
Did you ever hear of the seven C's? No, they're not a new singing group, they are the seven essentials taught by Miss Hansen in Business English. Miss Hansen also teaches salesmanship and supervises stu- dent teaching at Trinity.
My balance sheet doesn't balance. What shall I do? This is what you are likely to hear in Mr. Koepke's class as he collects the daily accounting problems. Besides teaching and supervising college students, Mr. Koepke is kept busy teaching and supervising his two little daughters.
If you are wondering where these busy people work, wend your way to the building on west campus that looks like a castle. Once inside, you find yourself in a perfect maze of rooms (sans numbers) and stair- ways. By putting two and two together you realize why these Business Ed. people are so intelligent. It takes that plus to find your classroom each day. Delve into the recesses of Cook Hall and you'll realize why.
39
BUSINESS EDUCATION
.#«
flcl
|
ANDERSON |
BACOPULOS |
BELT |
|
BLATNIK |
DODSON |
DOHRS |
|
DONOVAN |
EMERY |
GARRISON |
|
GATHMANN |
GRAVES |
HEFT |
|
HERRMANN |
HEWITT |
HOFFMAN |
WENDELL G. ANDERSON; Bensenville; Index 1, 2, 3, 4, Business Manager 3, Staff Photographer 4; Business Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4, President 3; Kappa Phi Kappa 3, 4; Debate 3; "Abe Lincoln In Illinois"; "You Can't Take It With You" • BLOSSOM BACOPULOS; Monticello; Women's Recreational Association 3; Women's League, Cen- tral Board; Business Education Club 4; Treasurer 4, Program Committee 4; Physical Education Club I • ARDETTA P. BELT; Lyndon; Business Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4.
JOHN BLATNIK; DePue; Pi Omega Pi 3, 4, His- torian 4; Kappa Phi Kappa 3, 4, President 4; Busi- ness Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4; University Club 1, 2; Senior Class Advisory Board 4; Intramurals
1, 2, 3, 4; Index 3, Sport's Editor 3 • DORIS J. DODSON; Morrisonville; Business Education Club 1, 2, 3; Intramurals 1, 2; Women's Recrea- tional Association 1, 2; Physical Education Club
2, 3; Pi Omega Pi 3, 4; Kappa Delta Epsilon 3, 4 • ALICE RUTHALIA DOHRS; Modesto.
A. ELLSWORTH DONOVAN; Jacksonville; Business Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4; University Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Pi Omega Pi 3, 4, Vice-President 4; Nature Study Club 1, 2, President 2; Vidette 2, 3, News Editor 3 • REVA E. EMERY; Maroa; Business Education Club 1; Orchestra 2, 3, 4; Band 4; University Choir 4 • CHARLES GERALD GARRISON; Divernon; Industrial Arts Club; University Club; Football 2; Intramurals 1, 2, 3, 4.
WAYNE H. GATHMANN; Forest City; Gam- ma Delta 2, 3, 4, Vice-President 4; Kappa Phi Kappa 3, 4, Vice-President 4; Business Education Club 2, 3, 4; Marching Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Concert Band 1; Intramurals 1, 2, 3, 4 • ROBERT J. GRAVES; Princeville; Pi Omega Pi; Business Education Club; Social Science Club; Kappa Phi Kappa; Men's Glee Club; University Club • ESTHER L. HEFT; Latham; Business Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Y.W.C.A. 2, 3, 4, Cabinet 2, 3, 4; Wrightonia 1, 2, 3; Treble Chorus 2, 3; University Choir 4; Honor Council 4; Freshman Counselor
3, 4.
MARY K. HERRMANN; Rochelle; Women's League 2, 3, 4, President, 4, Central Board 2, 3, 4, Executive Board 3, 4, Honor Council 4, State Sec- retary 4; Fell Hall Honor Resident 3, 4; Women's University Chorus 1; Newman Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Business Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Apportionment Board 3, 4; Co-op Council 4, Secretary 4; War Service Council 3, 4, Secretary 3, 4; War Liter- ature and Library Board 3, 4, Secretary 3, 4; Pi Omega Pi 3, 4 •' JANE M. HEWITT; Steward; Fell Hall Honor Resident 3, 4; Business Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Treble Chorus 1, 2; Women's League Executive Board 4; Pi Omega Pi 3, 4; Kappa Delta Epsilon 3, 4 • M. JEAN HOFF- MAN; Mansfield; Business Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Social Science Club 3, 4; Orchesis 2; Treble Chorus 1; House President's Board 4; Central Board 4.
40
SENIORS 1943
DORIS L. HOWELL; Winnebago; Concert Band 1, 2, 3, 4; W.R.A. 2, 3, 4; Physical Education Club 3, 4; Honor Council 3, 4; Senior Advisory Board; Hieronymus Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Pi Omega Pi 3, 4; Business Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Student Coun- seling • F. RICHARD HOWELL; Jersey ville; Hieronymus Club 3, 4; Social Science Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Business Education Club 2, 3, 4; Men's Glee Club 1 • GLENN H. JOHNSON; Normal: University Club 2, 3, President 3, Executive Coun- cil 2; Student Council 3, 4; Class President 1; Ad- visory Board 2, 3, 4; Community War Service Board 3, 4; Intramural Basketball; College Day Chairman 3; Apportionment Board 2, 3; Social Life Board 3; Co-op Council 2, 3, Treasurer 2; Student Counselor Training Corps.
RUTH S. KEMP; Wenona; Hieronymus Club 2, 3; Y.W.C.A. 2, 3, 4, President 4, Treasurer 3; Business Education Club 4; Central Board Wom- en's League 4, Executive Board 4 • ANITA R. LAMAR; Rosiclare; Business Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4; W.R.A. 1, 2; Concert Band 1, 2 • TRESSIE R. LEACH; Braidwood; Business Edu- cation Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Treasurer 4; Physical Edu- cation Club 2, 3; Intramurals 1, 2, 3; W.R.A. 1, 2, 3; Newman Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Treasurer 4; House President's Board 4.
WILMA D. LEASMAN; Saybrook; Business Edu- cation Club; Y.W.C.A., Y.W.C.A. Cabinet; House President's Board; Central Board of Women's League; University Choir; University Orchestra; University Women's Chorus • HELEN T. McCLERNON; Streator; House President 4 • ROSEMARY MONNIER; Elizabeth; Business Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Pi Omega Pi 4; Kappa Mu Epsilon 4; University Concert Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Women's Brass Sextet 2, 3.
EDWARD H. NEUMANN; Chicago; Kappa Phi Kappa; University Club 4, President 4; Business Education Club; Concert Band 1; Men's Glee Club 3, 4; University Choir; Football; Basketball; War Council 4, Chairman Americanism Board • JANE J. OWENS; Bradford; Pi Omega Pi 3, 4; Kappa Delta Epsilon 3, 4; Newman Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Business Education Club 2; University Choir 3; Treble Chorus 2, President 2 • DOROTHY C. PEMBERTON; Bloomington; Newman Club 1, 2, 3, 4; University Choir 3; Treble Chorus 1.
KATHLEEN M. POTTS; Bloomington; Trans- fer, Rosary College; Newman Club 3, 4 • CHARLOTTE E. RIEMER; Springfield; Busi- ness Education Club • DOROTHY JUNE SHORT; Paxton; Lowell Mason Club 1; Women's University Chorus 1, 2; Business Education Club 1, 2.
HOWELL KEMP
LEASMAN
NEUMANN POTTS
HOWELL
LAMAR
McCLERNON
OWENS
RIEMER
IOHNSON
LEACH
MONNIER
PEMBERTON
SHORT
41
SENIORS 1943
JOHN J. SISEVICH; Catlin; Kappa Phi Kappa 3, 4, Secretary-Treasurer 4; Pi Ornega Pi 3, 4 Business Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4, President 4 N Club 3, 4; Basketball 1, 3; Football 3, 4 Track 1, 2, 3, 4; Wrestling 2; Intramurals 1, 2, 3, 4, Director 4 • DELMA TORNQUIST SLATER; North Henderson- Treble Chorus 1; W.R.A. 1, 2, 3, 4; Business Education Club 1, 2; Intramurals 1, 2, 4; Physical Education Club 2, 3, 4 • RUSSELL STEELE; Ross- ville; Cross Country 2, 3, 4; Track 1; Intra-, murals 2, 3, 4; Business Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Pi Omega Pi 3, 4; Vidette 3, 4 N Club 2, 3, 4; Nature Study Club 4.
AVERY L. STEPHENS; Normal; University Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Business Education Club 1, 2, 3; Student Council 4; War Records Board 4, Chairman 4; Advisory Board 4; Vidette 2, 3, 4, Editor 4; Kappa Phi Kappa 3, 4, Program Chair- man 4 • LORENE C. THEMER; Elgin; Treble Chorus 1; University Women's Chorus 1; Gamma Delta; Business Education Club • LORETTA M. VAN CUREN; Hammond; Business Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Physical Education Club 3, 4; W.R.A. 2, 3, 4; Concert Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Treble Chorus 2; University Chorus 3, 4; Intramural Sports 1, 2, 3, 4.
WILMA M. VOGEL; Loda; Treble Chorus 1, 2, 3; Jesters 3, 4, Treasurer 4; Theta Alpha Phi 4; Central Board 2; Student Counselor 3, 4; Advisory Board 4; Business Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4; W.R.A. 1; "Brief Music" • BILLY JO WADDELL; Latham; Kappa Delta Epsilon 3, 4; Pi Gamma Mu 4; Business Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Social Science Club 2, 3, 4; Hierony- mus Club 3, 4, Program Chairman 4; Treble Chorus 2, 3, Secretary 4; Central Board Wom- en's League 3; Freshman Counselor 3, 4; Honor Council 4; Y.W.C.A. 2, 3, 4; Cabinet 4 • DANE F. WALKER; Sidell; Class President 3; Basketball 1, 2, 3, 4; Captain 4; Intramurals 1, 2, 3, 4; N Club 1, 2, 3, 4.
MARY E. WALLINGFORD; Carbon Cliff; Business Education Club 3 • JOHN W. WALTERS; Farina; Men's Glee Club 1; Mixed Chorus 2; Business Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Pi Omega Pi 3, 4; Kappa Phi Kappa 4.
SISEVICH
STEPHENS
VOGEL
WALLINGFORD
SLATER
THEMER
WADDELL
WALTERS
STEELE
VAN CUREN
WALKER
42
BUSINESS
EDUCATION
CLUB
They Balance the Budget and Keep the Books
Torrid typists, busy budgeteers, and producers of cursive curley-cues crowd the ranks of the members of the Business Education Club. Have you a yen for those large yellow balance sheets? Are you physically able to tote Gregg's typing manual plus Zutavern's Business Principles plus Gregg's Speed Studies without flinching? Can you run to the top floor of the old Castle without puffing? If your head wags affirmatively to these questions, then drop around to Cook Hall the first Tuesday evening of every month and join one of the largest organizations on campus.
Homecoming heaped honors on the Cook Hall clan when the Business Education "Victory Float" walked off with the first prize. (Literally "walked," too, with chairman Jim Houghtby and Ambrose Picci directing those loyal members who helped pull the float down Main Street.) Responsibility for the Homecoming House Decorations committee was taken over by com- mittee co-chairmen Wayne Gathman and Blossom
Bacopulos, dyed-in-the-wool Bus. Ed. majors.
Becoming frosty-haired over arranging programs was social-events chairman Richard Howell, who ap- pointed committees right and left for the monthly meetings. His companion in program production was studious Eunice Smallwood who acted as mistress of ceremonies. Quizmaster Mr. Arthur Williams put the Quiz Kids through their paces during the November meeting. Representatives from the freshman and senior classes came through in fine shape, shooting answers back almost as fast as the crowd gets to the Co-op after a game. December found the group limbering up muscles dancing folkdances at the Christmas party in the Women's Gym. Sports-writer Russ Steele tripped many a light fantastic with the female clubbers.
Spring brought thoughts of love and the annual picnic with everything from pickles to potato chips. This year's affair was in the competent hands of officer Richard Howell, former munitions-worker Joe Ma- tone, Marian Rouse, and Virginia Prange.
Credit for the smooth sailing of this active organiza- tion goes to the executive committee with football- player John Sisevich at the head. Richard Howell arranged the social events while pianist Esther Heft made notations in the secretary's book. Petite Tressie Leach kept the club strictly out of the red.
This lively club boasts many a yeoman in the navy, men in the naval and army air corps, and the other branches of armed services. Although this year the membership was hit hard, this conglomeration of com- mercial comrades goes merrily on balancing budgets, tickling keyboards, and getting fingers smeared with red ink.
Top Row — Graves, Pol- ley, Bumgardner, Win- ings, Van Curen, Mon- nier, Bug, Piazzi, Bennett, Gross, Tiffany, Oko, Rouse, Koepke, Gath- mann, Matone. •
Fourth Row — Riemer, Stuebe, Cole, Prange, Herrmann, Hewitt, Fro- land. • Third Row- — Hood, Norton, Mitchell, Sorensen, Zelle, F. Hew- itt, Short. • Second Row — Pumphrey, Kolt- veit, Waddell, Hanks, Cowles, McCready, Ba- copulos. • Front Row — Campbell, Smallwood, Sisevich, Miss Day, Heft, Howell, Adair.
43
Top Row - - W e b b , Dickey, Herrmann. • Third Row — Chase, Mon- nier. • Second Row — Hewitt, Piazzi, Walters, Dohrs, Graves, Bauer, Mr. Admire. • Front Row Blatnik, Hanks, Howell, Hansen, Donovan.
PI OMEGA PI
They 'Figure
In the Business World
Here's to the Business Education brains on campus who have a 2.2 average in Business Education courses, junior standing, and 1.5 in other courses {including History of Civ.)! This group who believes in "mind over matter" are the Pi Omega Pi'ers who get together every month under the sponsorship of Miss Olivia Hansen.
"Service, loyalty, progress" is the well-lived-up-to motto of this goal for all Business Education majors. The members started on their year of varied meet- ings with a party for all the freshmen. October's initiation brought Rosemary Monnier, Gloria Piazzi, and Alice Dohrs into the organization as actives. Miss Lucy Tasher edified the group at the November meet- ing with a discussion of business law.
An answer to "What are the possibilities for ad- vanced work in business education?" was found in Mr. Harold Koepke's talk at one of the meetings. The April meeting included an interesting tour of the State Farm insurance building in Bloomington. A repre- sentative from Brown's Business College in Bloom- ington answered queries about the school in January. An innovation this year was the publishing of the "Newsletter" by journalism-minded actives La Verne
Hanks and Russ Steele. Steele's call to the air corps in February left editor Hanks in charge of forth- coming issues.
War-conscious Pi Omega Pi members introduced the plan of buying war bonds with the funds usually appropriated for publishing and mailing of the "Theta News." One war bond already stands in the books of the society as an asset and the members plan to buy many more.
Wedged in between celebrating presidents' birth- days in February, actives still found time to augment their group by initiating Eunice Smallwood, Jane Bug, Janette Pfanz, Ruth (Index Business Manager) Kolt- veit, and Nadiene Wenderoth.
Doris Howell headed the list as president; Ellsworth Donovan occasionally grabbed the gavel in his ca- pacity as vice-prexy. Donovan also performed the duties of a good social chairman. (Imagine the re- quired work for the Homecoming banquet which featured "Camp Pi Omega Pi.") "I promise to write down all motions carried and not carried," said La- Yernc Hanks as they handed her the secretary's books. Keith Davis became so interested in the financial status of the club that they gave him the position of treas- urer for the first semester. Joybelle Dickey stepped into Davis' shoes at the beginning of the second term. Historian John Blatnik recorded necessary informa- tion for future Pi Omega members.
Efficiency in the Pi Omega Pi cabinet of officers was the result of a careful selection of the governing body. These officers, together with Miss Hansen, made the organization function so as to fulfill the objectives set up by the actives.
44
Standing — Mr. Hacker, Mr. Lancaster, Miss Burris. • Seated — Miss Cooper, Miss Force, Miss Rice. fjj
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
'Little Red School of the Campus
A bright, sunny playroom, yellow tea tables, paint pots and brushes, A Child's Garden of Verses, hop- scotch, penny -bubble gum, jumping rope, shiney new roller skates, the Palmer method, short-division prob- lems, fractions, square root, kids in yellow braids and bobby sox, kids in short pants with pockets full of screws and apple cores: these phrases suggest chil- dren growing up.
Youngsters and their education are the vital con- cern of our Elementary Education staff. Its six mem- bers teach, supervise, attend innumerable committee meetings, and slave over guide sheets and lesson plans. Results: Number one, four-year elementary students find themselves enrolled in countless education courses; they stew over psychology notebooks and drill end- lessly on class-room techniques. Number two, chil- dren don't "just grow" like Topsy; every minute of their learning is planned intelligently.
Head of the elementary division is Miss Margaret
Cooper, with her headquarters in her homey office on Metcalf's second floor. Friendly, cordial, she finds time in her busy schedule to be active in the A.C.E. and to sponsor the new Elementary Forum. For a hobby she collects angels (the glass and waxen kind).
Specializing in kindergarten primary work and edu- tion subjects is Aliss Agnes Rice. She loves children and enlivens her classes telling of her many amusing experiences with them. One of her favorite stories is of her visit to the nursery of the Dionne quintuplets. Secondary pupils know her as their observation-and- reading instructor. Miss Thelma Force is a nature lover with several favorite diversions. She collects dolls, articles from China, writes and gathers poetry. Her education students know her for her humor and readiness to help them. Aliss Ethel Burris conducts classes in reading methods and classroom technique. Remedial reading work for children is her specialty. Miss Rose Parker, director of the rural division, is another of the education teachers. This year she has been the state president of Delta Kappa Gamma. Mr. Thomas Lancaster mixes wit with his principles of psychology and is famous for the quizzical lift of his eyebrows after he tells a joke.
The staff includes these student supervisors: Aliss Grime, Miss Hayden, Airs. Buehler, Aliss Arnold, Aliss Russell, Miss Thoene, Aliss Clemans, Aliss Finger, and Aliss Imboden. Next time you tangle with a problem child, or develop a stutter, take your troubles to the elementary staff.
45
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
ELEANOR JEAN BARTON; Yorkville; 4- Year Elementar>r Club 1, 2, 3; Elementary Forum 4; Gamma Theta Upsilon 3, 4, Treasurer 4; Kappa Delta Epsilon, Historian 4; Y.W.C.A. 1; W.R.A. 1, 2; House President's Board 3 • B. JEANNE BATTERSHELL; Roodhonse; Elementary Forum 4 • MARCELLA E. CAMPBELL; Lincoln; Kindergarten Primary Club 1, 2, 3; Gamma Theta Upsilon 3, 4; Elementary Forum 4.
M. PATRICIA CANTON; Klamath Falls, Ore- go?!; Treble Chorus 1, 2; Intermediate Club 2, 3; Women's Intramurals 1, 2, 3, 4; Newman Club 2; Jesters 4; Vidette 4; Elementary Forum 4; "Brief Music" • LOIS M. CHALLACOMBE; Oak Hill; Gamma Theta Upsilon; Kindergarten Primary Club • ANNA M. CROSS; Venice; YAV.C.A. 3; Treble Chorus 2, 3; Gamma Theta Upsilon 4; Negro Chorus 2, 3, 4; 4-Yr. Elementary Club 3.
MARIAN H. CUFAUDE; Mason City; Elemen- tary Forum; Women's Chorus; Transferred from Blackburn College • RUTH H. DeFELL; Lovejoy; Y.W.C.A. 3; Treble Chorus 2, 3; Negro Chorus 2, 3, 4 • PRISCILLA A. DONALD- SON; Chicago; Kappa Delta Epsilon, Correspond- ing Secretary; Gamma Theta Upsilon; Elementary Forum; Fell Hall Honor Resident 3; University Women's Chorus 1, 2, 3; University Choir 4.
ANNE JVI. DRENOVAC; Hartford; Newman Club 1, 2; Jesters 2, 3, 4; W.R.A. 1, 2, 3, 4; Y.W. C.A. 1, 2, 3, 4; Treble Chorus 1; Kindergarten Club 2 • MARGUERITE L. FECHTER; Peoria; Pringle Hall 1, 2; Gamma Theta Upsilon 3, 4; Nature Study Club 2 • A4ARVEL M. FRALICH; Plainfield; Y.W.C.A. 3, 4; Intermediate Teachers' Club 2, 3, 4; Elementary Teachers' Club 1; Treble Chorus; University Choir.
RUTH M. GREEN; Braceville • MADALYN G. HARRIS; Yorkville; University Chorus; Hier- onymus Club; 4-Year Elementary; Elementary Forum; Gamma Theta Upsilon; Honor Resident Fell Hall; Kappa Delta Epsilon; War Board; Kappa Delta Pi; Honor Council; Science Club; A.C.E. • MARGARET M. HEINTZMAN; Bloomington; 4-Year Elementary 1, 2, 3; Elemen- tary Forum 4; Newman Club 3; Intramurals 1, 2.
BARTON
CANTON
CUFAUDE
DRENOVAC
GREEN
BATTERSHELL CHALLACOMBE
DeFELL FECHTER
HARRIS
CAMPBELL
CROSS
DONALDSON
FRALICH HEINTZMAN
46
SENIORS 1943
BARBARA JEAN HENRY; Lincoln; Y.W.C.A. 3; Treble Chorus 2, 3, 4; Kindergarten Club 2, 3 • MARJORIE A. KRAFT; Normal; Transfer from Rosary College; Newman Club 2, 3, 4, Social Chairman 3, 4; Gamma Theta Upsilon 3, 4, Secre- tary 4; 4- Year Elementary Club 2, 3, Vice-Presi- dent 3; Elementary Forum 4, President 4; Hier- onymus Club 1 • MARY JANE LOCK; De- catur; 4- Year Elementary Club, Treble Chorus; Elementary Forum; A.C.E.; S.C.T.C.; Gamma Theta Upsilon.
VIRGINIA HARVIN MEACHUM; Chicago: Elementary Forum, W.R.A. • BURMAN L. MILLER; Normal; Elementary Club 2, 3, 4; Hier- onymus Club 3, 4; French Club 2 • MAE I. MYERS; Normal; Band; Orchestra; Elementary Forum.
FRANCES C. PETRI; Rankin; Newman Club; Band; Treble Chorus; 4-Year Elementary Club • BEATRICE E. PHILLIPS; Homezoood; 4- Year Elementary Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Activity Board 3; University Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4; String Ensemble 3; String Quartette 4; A.C.E. 4; Central Board 3, 4; Treble Chorus 1, 2; University Choir 3; Laboratory Choir 4 • ELIZABETH POWELL; Bloomington; Delta Kappa Gamma; Kappa Delta Pi.
ROSALIE E. SHANNON; Onarga; Band 2; Nat- ural Science Club 1; 4-Year Elementary Club 2, 3; Treble Chorus 4 • LA VONNE SPIERS; Brace- ville; Gamma Theta Upsilon 3, 4; Trippers' Club 3, 4, President 4; Elementary Forum 4; Pi Gamma Mu 4 • GENEVIEVE M. SUHOMSKE; De- catur; Elementary Forum 2, 3, 4; Newman Club
1, 2, 3, 4; Pi Gamma Mu 4; Nature Study Club
2, 3, 4; Intramurals 1; Treble Chorus 2, 3; Social Science Club 1.
MARGARET I. THATCHER; Normal • E. LUCILLE THOMPSON; Bloomington; Kinder- garten-Primary Club 1, 2; College League of Women Voters 4; 4-Year Elementary Forum 4 • VERA M. VITTON; Kincaid; Kappa Delta Pi.
|
HENRY |
KRAFT |
LOCK |
|
MEACHUM |
MILLER |
/MYERS |
|
PETRI |
PHILLIPS |
POWELL |
|
SHANNON |
SPIERS |
SUHOMSKE |
|
THATCHER |
THOMPSON |
VITTON |
47
SENIORS 1943
MARIAN R. AVENGER; Edwardsville; Kappa Delta Epsilon 3, 4; Gamma Theta Upsilon; Ele- mentary Forum 1, 2, 3, 4; Honor Council 4; Women's League 3; University Chorus 1, 2, 3; Y.W.C.A. 2; Maize Grange 2 • WINNIE P. WILLIAMSON; Chicago; Wrightonia; Intermedi- ate Club; Elementary Forum; Y.W.C.A.; Negro Chorus • NANCY R. WRIGHT; Streator; Transfer Student from National College of Edu- cation, Evanston, Illinois; Kindergarten Primary Club; 4-Year Elementary Club; Women's League.
WENGER
WILLIAMSON
WRIGHT
Annual Sport's Day — famished femmes proceed to feed and sing mightily between strenuous athletic rounds.
48
Back Row — Moore, Foley, Nash, Frame, Eyer, Foster, Sallee, Odell. • Middle Row — Muirheid, Thompson, Miller, Travis, Speers, Mottershaw, Anderson, Brinkman. • Front Row — Eimen, Thomas, Hinshaw, Shell, Hawes, Carter, Wilken.
TWO-YEAR GRADUATES
Remember That Bug Collection for Natural Science?
It doesn't seem so long ago that bright, exuberant freshmen whom we were to know as "two-year" stu-
dents arrived on campus, survived the maze of registra- tion and whirled through a week of "mixers" and teas to begin a college career. This spring they graduate, diplomas in hand, the last of their race.
The history of the two-year grads goes back to the first days of Illinois State Normal University when all students were two-year graduates. The 1908 com- mencement found the first four-year grads in the tradi- tional black gown with the knowledge of eight inten- sive semesters of study tucked beneath their tasseled caps.
In 1941 the two-year elementary curriculum went out of existence, but all enrolled in it were allowed to continue working toward graduation.
Back Row — Peithman, Warning, White, Mounts, McCambridge, Reid, Pie- ratt, Warbinton. • Middle Row — Gillis, Honn, Morrissey, Ross, Harms, Douglass, For- neris, Glatz, Lawsche. • Front Row — Cluster, Edelman, Trecker, Stas- ell, Peel, Dippel, Heike.
49
ELEMENTARY FORUM
Five Are Now One
Elementary Forum — that may sound like radio's town meetings and brain battles, but it's the elemen- tary curriculum's new est creation. Discontinuance of the two-year curriculum was something of a "block- buster" to I.S.N.U. custom and routine, especially to the five elementary clubs, Pringle Hall, Four- Year Ele- mentary, Intermediate Teachers, Kindergarten and Rural Curriculum. Not the least daunted, the mem- bers put their heads together, and by combining pur- poses, aims, and memberships, brought forth the Ele- mentary Forum. From a cabinet of ten, they chose Marjorie Kraft to wield the gavel and Marcella Camp- bell to serve as vice-president. Helen Ever kept the minutes, and Virginia Price, treasurer, took care of the club's strong-box. From the role of Four Y. E. sponsor, Miss Margaret Cooper stepped up to become godmother to the Forum clubbers.
Chairmanships were given to the remaining members on the E. F. cabinet. Emogene Mott planned for the parties, lunches, and the spring banquet; Madalvn Harris provided program themes; and Janet Lee Fred- rickson, as alumnae chairman, instituted an alumnae
file. Other efficient heads were Yerna Miller, com- munity; Edith Anderson, publicity; and Lucille For- neris, membership.
No gilligimps invaded the Forum headquarters, not even a single gremlin hung around, for the clubbers have made their initial year a brilliant one. Glancing into its annals, you would find the autumn tea in the student lounge the day after classes convened; and open house for alumnae and students at Miss Cooper's home during Homecoming week-end.
The Elementarians concentrated on hobbies, indulg- ing in everyone's favorite at a Homecoming basket lunch. The informal initiation was staged in Metcalf playroom, and after new members had been put through the paces, they were treated to an indoor wiener roast. Two formal ceremonies swelled the Forum ranks to some seventy members.
Each monthly meeting featured a hobbiest. There were Airs. Raymond Fairchild's display of old glass, Miss Cooper's collection of angels. Miss Ruth Zim- merman's discussion of books as hobbies for children, Mr. A. VV. Dragoo's campus movies and the doll collection of Miss Edna Gueffroy.
Forum goers topped a year of fun and success as being one of the newest clubs on campus with a May- time banquet. Fair weather and sociability went hand in hand to make this day a successful climax to a year of activity and fun. So far, the Elementary Forum has proved its value as a combination of five elementarv groups. The Forum had a gigantic task to fill the needs of those ordinarily affiliated with five different clubs. The report: highly satisfactory. Next year's officers plan even bigger things for this baby of campus clubs.
Top Row — Zilly, Jenkins, Irwin, Harms, Heintz- man, Challacombc, Brig- ham, Foley, AlcCam- b ridge, Warbinton, Shelby, Barton, Odell, Goodell. • Third Row — /Myers, Coay, Parker, Wilken, Brinkman, Thatcher, Dillon, Eimen, Thompson, Russell, Cy- rier, Robison, Piepcr, G u i t h e r , A 1 1 o n b y • Second Row — Forneris, Anderson, Campbell, Price, Miss Cooper, Kraft, Eyer, Harris, Fredrick- son. • Front Row — Mott, Radcliff, Carter, Peithman, Morris, Dippel, Peel.
50
ASSOCIATION OF CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
They're Aces in Education
So you think that an ace is something you pull out of the deck in double solitaire? Wrong again. It's a hopping bunch of would-be teachers kindergarten- bound. Almost any afternoon, if you wander through Aletcalf, you can see student teachers cleaning paint- pots, straightening desks or erasing those 2 + 2 == 4 (or is it 3 + 1?) problems from the blackboard. To these pedagogic aspirants, high card is the Association of Childhood Education.
First of all, the A.C.E. is a nation-wide association with headquarters in Washington, D. C. Its some 480 branches scattered across the United States are organs through which everyone who is interested can pro- mote more educational opportunities for children.
The campus A.C.E. is governed by a cabinet com- posed of ten students chosen in the spring of '42 from the five elementary clubs then existent at I.S.N. U. These organizations were dissolved last year when the two-year curriculum was abandoned. President Lucille Forneris, with her corps of officers from this all-powerful decuria, and the club sponsor, Miss Elsie Grime of the kindergarten department, worked hard to give the twenty-five A.C.E. members a good year. Virginia Price, vice-president, kept up a volumi- nous round-robin correspondence with other A.C.E. branches. Margaret Travis was chosen minute-woman
to keep the records straight. Purse-string holder was Norma Foster.
Highlights of the year for A.C.E. 'ers everywhere are the state conventions. Representing Normal at Springfield October 17, were President Forneris, Helen Ever and Miss Grime.
Helen Ever as social chairman made the monthly meetings scintillate with sagacity as well as sociability. At Christmas-time, the clubbers reviewed Christmases in other lands. First-hand information about Christmas in Hawaii came from former Hawaiian resident, Margaret Thatcher, junior in the four-year elementary curriculum. In January Miss Edith Goldmann of the art department showed what can be done with scraps of paper and skillful hands in handicraft; results were napkins, crossword puzzles, and wood necklaces.
Fortified with umpteen application forms, the at- tendants of the February meeting carried out a mock job interview with Mr. John Carrington of the Bureau of Appointments who played high school principal for the evening. The Junior Red Cross found willing helpers in the A.C.E. group in April when the mem- bers made scrapbooks and repaired tovs for the Babv Fold.
Some other valuable members of the organization were Iva Jean Schmidt, publicity head; social chair- man Eileen Ross; scrapbook-paster Madalyn Harris; Verna Miller, interested in community relations, and Emogene Mott, who pushed the membership.
Back Row - - Mott, Leach, Stasell, Freid- inger, Foley, Harris, Harms, Sallee, Carlon. • Middle Row— Gold- mann, Mansfield, Schei- \ve, Hawes, Jenkins, Brinkman, Goodell, Guither, Allonby • First Row — Schmidt, Fyer, i\Iiss Grime, Sponsor, Forneris, Fos- ter, Price.
51
HIERONYMUS CLUB
There Farmers-At-Heart Have ' l Rural Rhythm
If you pipe-dream of retiring some day on your teacher's pension to that little chicken farm along the creek, borrow some money for dues and be voted into the Hieronymus Club. This aggregation strives to pro- mote better living and leadership in rural communities.
Richard Howell, president-elect, was here in the fall to start the club on its new year. Doris Howell filled the vice-presidency until Dick absented himself from this officers' corps in March for a rank in Uncle Sam's army. At the same time, treasurer Burman Miller tossed the keys of the club to Janet Lee Fredrickson. Nadiene Wenderoth kept the minutes in her huge grey ledger book. Program chairman Billy Jo VVaddell whipped up a little yellow program pamphlet and served her fellow members monthly meetings of fun, lectures, and learning while Fred Bowman as publicity head kept the outsiders posted on the insiders.
"American Youth's Place in the World Today" was the theme for the year and was emphasized at the Jan- uary meeting in Miss Lucy Tasher's discussion of youth's responsibility toward government.
Homecoming and the campus organizations launched
their full offensives in full swing. Hieronymus club- bers with Virginia Lockhart as committee chairman moved to the front with a Homecoming breakfast in the Normal Presbyterian Church. Mr. L. W. Hacker was guest of honor; and the Hacker award, a rotating cup, was presented alumna Martha E. Greene of De- catur who held the highest scholastic average among the rural students of 1942.
Bertha Harper, Kenneth Parrill, and Mr. Hacker attended the national meeting of American Country Life Association at Carbondale. In February second- time delegate Bertha Harper was accompanied by sponsor Mr. O. L. Young to the state convention at Champaign where she was chosen president of the Illinois branch of the national organization.
The Hieronymus aggregation was fortunate in having a Lincoln hobbiest for a sponsor. Mr. Young has visited most of the Lincoln haunts and has studied their history and legends which he told and illustrated with his own photographs at the February meeting.
Hieronymus Club has always held a deep spot in the hearts of those who are interested in teaching in rural schools. Their meetings stress the problems of country communities and propose workable solutions.
In May members picnicked, and between bites of potato salad and meatless (ah, rationing! ) sandwiches, they elected officers for the next year. Hieronymus has grown by sixteen new members, and the roll book now has thirty-some names of students in nearly every curriculum. Thus the club has grown and flourished. Today we can say with conviction: "Higher and higher goes the Hieronymus Club!"
Top Row — Lockhart, Fredrickson, Hinshaw, Shell, Harper, Brigham. • Middle Row — Houk, Allonby, Brigham, Thome, Wad dell, Scheiwe, Parrill. • Front Row — Miss Tasher, D. Howell, F. Howell, Mr. Young, Wenderoth, Miss Parker.
52
Seated ■ — Mr. Johnson, Mrs. Pricer, Miss Nelson, Miss Keaton, Mr. Palmer. • Standing — Miss Teager, Miss Hinman, Miss Okerlund, Mr. Hiett, Miss Vinson, Miss Hen- line.
ENGLISH EDUCATION
Litterateurs, Grammarians, and Philologists
More than "readin' and writin'," more than English 110 — or if you are lucky, English 111 — comes under the expert eyes of the English staff. Students of world literature, followers of the English poets and prose writers, lovers of Shakespeare, proud devotees of American literature, and aspiring masters of a com- pelling style crowd into the sunny rooms of North Hall to steep themselves in immortal thoughts and words.
Head of the English department is Mr. H. H. Hiett, who knows Shakespeare "backward and forward" as any member of his classes can tell you. Soft-spoken, classical-minded, and pleasant Mr. Hiett stands high in the respect and admiration of students.
The glimpses he gives of the golden fields of litera- ture, his breadth of knowledge, and abounding energy for living will ever endear Mr. George M. Palmer. No higher compliment can be paid to him than the one so often given in connection with his name: "He made us think."
Mrs. Laura Pricer brings the spice of the South to classes in grammar. Amusing tales are interspersed with rules for the uses of the subjunctive mood. Droll Miss Esther Vinson clears the way for a better view of human nature; a lively manner and forcefulness of expression characterize this small, refreshing teacher. Keen of insight, brilliant of mind, Miss Florence E. Teager's popularity rests secure. In her concise, laconic- manner lies the secret of her success. Students follow petite Miss Gerda Okerlund through literature made to live again. Pleasant and smiling, she gives her classes a feeling for the charm of writings from ancient times to the present.
Adviser to the Vidette, pickwickian Mr. Edward R. Johnson is an amiable instructor and genial friend to college journalists. Bookstore lady Miss Ruth Hen- line, engaging and enthusiastic, in addition to serving as adviser to the Index, teaches freshman English. Quiet, deliberative Miss Thelma Nelson also has the task of making the Industrial Arts or Physical Edu- cation majors know the value of composition. Miss Anna L. Keaton, dignified and gracious, is the person to consult if you want some information on diction- aries; she has made no small contribution to them. Children's Literature? One mention of this course and Miss Hinman's name comes to mind. Students revel in their childhood favorites from pure fairy tales to Alice in Wonderland. In the reserved realm of Miss Hinman's classroom, the students enthuse over the good tales — formally ostracize the poor.
If you're having any trouble reading Shakespeare or understanding My Antonia, drop around.
53
ENGLISH
JEAN ALLAN ALBEE; Bloomington; Index 1, 2, 3, Associate Editor 3; Women's League, Central and Executive Board 3, 4; Advisory Board 2; Canterbury Club 3, 4, Secretary 4; Honor Council 4, Secretary-Treasurer • MURIEL EL BELL; Glencoe; Treble Chorus 1, 2; Philadelphia 2, 3, 4; Y.W.CA. 3, 4; Jesters 4; Central Board Wom- en's League 3; Negro Chorus 1, 2, 3, 4 • MAR- JORIE A. BITTING; Ellsworth; Student Coun- cil 2; Jesters 3, 4; Latin Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Hierony- mus Club 2; "Gillean."
WILMA L. DAVIS; Lansing, Michigan; Latin Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Social Science Club 1; Sigma Tau Delta 4 • ALETA H. DILLON; Sandwich; Social Science Club 2, 3, 4; Pi Gamma Mu 3, 4; Kappa Delta Pi 4, Secretary 4 • BETTY J. DUNCANSON; Green Valley; Latin Club 1, 2, 3; Philadelphia 2, 3, 4, Treasurer 3, President 4.
MARIE E. GORMAN; Raymond; Newman Club
1, 2; Sigma Tau Delta 3, 4, President 4; Kappa Delta Pi 3, 4; Kappa Delta Epsilon 3, 4; Pi Gamma Mu 4; Central Board, Women's League 4 • AUDREY C. HAERLIN; Springfield • JEAN C. HENLEY; Elgin; Treble Chorus; Y.W.CA. 1,
2, 3, 4, Treasurer, Vice-President; Radio; Debate 3.
M. LOUISE ISENBERG; Saunemin; Women's Chorus 1; W.RA. 2, 3; Latin Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Vice- President 4; Sigma Tau Delta 4; Women's League • MARY ANN KNUSMAN; Chicago Heights; Social Science Club 3, 4; Newman Club 1, 2; Counselor 2, 4 • ROSE MARIE KRAUS; Springfield; University Orchestra 1; Newman Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Latin 4.
ROSE L. KUZMISKI; Springfield; Latin Club 1,
2, 3, 4, Vice-President 2; Newman Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Jesters 4; College League of Women Voters 2, 3; Sigma Tau Delta 3, 4; Vidette 2, 3, 4, Managing Editor, 4, Editor 4 • RUTH E. LEE; Spring- field; Band 1, 3, 4; Treble Chorus 1, 3; University Choir 4; Wrightonia 1, 3, 4; Vidette 2, 3, 4, Busi- ness Manager, Summer 3, Advertising Alanager 4; Vidette Executive Board 4 • ELINOR LEIGH; East Lynn; Women's Chorus 1, 2, 3; French Club 1, 2, Maize Grange 1, 2; Advisory Board 3; Vidette
3, 4, Circulation Manager 3, Business Manager 4; Honor Council 4; Sigma Tau Delta 3, 4, Vice- President 4; Freshmen Counsellor 4.
54
|
ALBEE |
BELL |
BITTING |
|
DAVIS |
DILLON |
DUNCANSON |
|
GORMAN |
HAERLIN |
HENLEY |
|
ISENBERG |
KNUSMAN |
KRAUS |
|
KUZMISKI |
LEE |
LEIGH |
C. GENE LITTLE; Lawrenceville; Men's Glee Club 1, 2; Social Science Club 1; Latin Club 2; Intramurals, Basketball, Softball; Sigma Tau Delta 3, 4 • LOUISE E. PANCAKE; Bloomington; Treble Chorus 1, 2, 3; Social Science Club 2; Latin Club 1, 2, 3, 4, President 3; Vidette 3, Desk Editor 3; Sigma Tau Delta 3, 4, Secretary 4; Kappa Delta Pi 3, 4 • JANETTE A. PFANZ; Pekin; Y.W.C.A. 4; Women's League 4; Pi Omega Pi 4; Sigma Tau Delta 4.
DOROTHY E. RUTLEDGE; Heyworth; Latin Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Philadelphia 1, 2, 3, 4, Treasurer 2, President 3, Contest 1, 4; Debate 1, 2, 3, 4; Pi Kappa Delta 3, 4, Secretary-Treasurer 3, President 4; Sigma Tau Delta 3, 4, Treasurer 4; Forensic Board 3, 4; "Abe Lincoln In Illinois" • EVELYN SCHUTZ; White Hall; Latin Club 2, 3, 4; Sigma Tau Delta 4 © JEANNE FRUTCHER SHER- WOOD; Normal.
DARLENE SPEAGLE; Mattoon; French Club 1, 2; Latin Club 3, 4 • RUTH E. SPENCER; Normal; University Women's Chorus 1, 2; Jesters 3, 4; Sigma Tau Delta 4 • LORENE M. TALLON; Bloomington; Treble Chorus 2; Gam- ma Delta 1, 2, 3, 4, Secretary 3, Social Chairman 4; Physical Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4.
LITTLE
RUTLEDGE
SPEAGLE
PANCAKE SCHUTZ SPENCER
PFANZ
SHERWOOD
TALLON
SENIORS 1943
55
SIGMA TAU DELTA
Creative Children of Calliope
Sigma Tau Delta, the goal of aspiring and perspiring genius, stands as the emblem of inspiration to those who seek with pens to "glean their teeming brains." This national honorary English society is the epitome of creative writing on the campus.
If you would make this group happy, give it an elegy to analyze, a madrigal to scan, or a playwright to discuss. The members live and thrive by the thesaurus and rhyming dictionary. Oh, happy day that finds you with the writer's cramp and one of those black and red ribbons that identify you as one of the select group. Junior standing, a field in Eng- lish, good scholarship, and Carl Sandburg tendencies give you a healthy chance for membership.
Pleasant memories of the year start with the candle- light ceremony of the October formal initiation.
Christmas time brings to mind the yuletide trek of music-minded members who warbled impartially on and off key beneath faculty windows.
The meetings of the year evolved from the central theme of "Literature of the War." This timely motif was brought out in the delightful reading of Alice Duer Miller's White Cliffs. The meeting was in charge of versifier Jean Mitchell and Imogene Henderson.
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers was discussed by Helen Fanelli and Elsie Fulton at the January meet- ing. Mary Ruth Lemons and Nettie Davenport were leaders of the annual Shakespearean meeting at Dr. Hiett's in April where a lively discussion about the Stratford bard took place. Shakespearean authority, Dr. Hiett, aided by the mathematical dog Lucifer, di- rected the meeting.
There was a mad scramble when the winter issue of The Rectangle came out. Reason: Actives, Marie Gorman, Jean Mitchell, Juanita Hancock, Jan Ann Pfanz and Imogene Henderson broke into print.
Other programs of the year were in charge of Louise Isenberg, Ruth Spencer, Wilma Davis and Lorraine Janda. Last of the meetings was marked by the an- nual Spring banquet, supervised by the collective ef- forts of Barbara Elder, Dorothy Marsh, officers Louise Pancake and Elinor Leigh.
Spring saw the initiation of the "Pekin Poet," Jan Ann Pfanz; Vidette-stafi helpers: Ruth Ann Orr, Eve- lyn Rieger and Patty Clayton; physical education major, Alma Uphoff and Evelyn Schutz.
Guiding light of the organization is genial Miss Vinson. The president for the year was capable Marie Gorman, aided by diminutive Elinor Leigh as vice- president. It was Louise Pancake who took accurate meeting notes while Vidette columnist, Dorothy Rut- ledge, balanced the books. Rose Kuzmiski was the girl who prodded you about Rectangle contributions.
There you have them — an energetic, creative group. Take down these names for some day you may see them in print. Sigma Tau Delta are Greek letters which represent Normal's best in literature and writing.
Top Row — Uphoff, Schutz, Rieger, Daven- port, Hancock, Clayton, Orr, Pfanz, Isenberg. • Middle Row — Marsh, Rutledge, Leigh, Miss Vinson, Gorman, Pan- cake, (Mr. Johnson. • Front Row — Fulton, Lemons, Elder, Mitchell, Fanelli.
56
Seated — Miss Ellis, Miss Whitten, Miss Carver. • Standing — Miss Connell, Miss Ebel.
LANGUAGE EDUCATION
l s. n. a—
Crossroads of Languages
When your dashing marine or your favorite WAAC sends you a V-letter with "ego amo te," "Je t'aime," "ich lieber dich," or "yo te quiero," the Foreign Lang- uage staff of I. S. N. U. can ease your anxiety and curiosity.
Head of this enlightening department is versatile Miss Jennie Whitten who joined the faculty in 1919. Holding three degrees, she has trodden the halls and pathways of five institutions of higher learning, the University of Illinois, the University of Wisconsin, Northern Illinois State Teachers College, University of Grenoble, and the University of Chicago. As a result, she knows her German, French, and Spanish from verbs to interjections.
Miss Margery Ellis speaks and translates French as well as the best French-speaking Frenchman. Sponsor of the Le Cercle Francais, she served the clubbers doughnuts and strong draughts of cider at her salon the first meeting. As a vagabond, she has studied abroad at the University of Paris, Ecole Normale de Seine and
Oise, and Institut Phonetique, University of Paris. She has a rare hoard of sagas and narratives concerning the gay-spirited Frenchmen who lived life so blithely and nonchalantly before the marching days of Adolph.
Crisp, decisive Miss Alice Ebel can floor any Latin major or minor with her knowledge of Latin. In ad- dition to teaching Latin, she also teaches social science. It is known that for recreation she is quite agile at the art of jitterbugging.
Dark-haired Miss Regina Connell listens patiently to the translations from all Virgil pursuers. She teaches Universitv High School pupils conjugations, declen- sions, and other basic principles. To the majors and minors in prose and composition, she explains fluently and simply the intricacies of the subjunctives as well as clarifying the hundred and one complexities of Latin Grammar. Miss Connell received her basic training on this campus.
Beloved is Miss Katherine Carver who holds a revered spot in the hearts of all. Coming to ISNU in 1922, she has made many friends with her keen sense of humor and profound and astonishing knowledge of Latin, Greek, French, and German. Her collections of books and other curios are objects of curiosity and interest to the Latin Club members, whose sponsor she is. No student who has ever sat in one of her classes, be it Cicero, Livy, or Etymology, will ever forget the tiny professor who quotes passages without hesitation as well as translates the most difficult with ease. To her, students are never "Miss" or "Mr." She readily remembers first names as well as last ones.
57
SENIORS 1943
HEISTER
JUANITA E. HANCOCK;
Morton; Kappa Delta Pi 3, 4; Sigma Tau Delta 3, 4; Latin Club 1, 2, 3, 4, President 4; Social Science Club 2; Vidette 2, 3, 4; Honors Day 3 •
Bloomington; Concert Band 4; Orchestra 1; Latin Club 1, 2, 3, 4; French Club 1, 2, 3, 4, President 3 • HARRIETT A. SELTZER; Bloomington; Latin Club 3; French Club 2;
MARY ANNE HEISTER; Kappa Delta Pi.
58
Seated— Wood, Miss Ellis, Seltzer, Orr, Beamer. • Standing — Clayton, J. Zadrozny, M. Zadrozny, Janda, Riggs.
FRENCH CLUB
r
They All
"Parlent Francais" At This Organisation
The spirit of the gay free Frenchmen prevailed this year in Le Cercle Francais with a petit replique of French customs before Herr Hitler. Once each month, the members of this organization entertained them- selves with French works in literature and music, games, and speaking and giggling in French.
Miss Margery Ellis, sponsor of the French club, in- vited the clubbers for their first meeting. This con- genial instructor added interest and enjoyment, for she has been a student at the University of Paris. Harriet Seltzer was elected presideute. Ruth Ann Orr was given the duties of Secretaire-treasariere.
One meeting was devoted to evaluating the club; at others, games and charades were played. Songs that have floated across the Rhine climaxed most of the monthly get-togethers. A pleasant evening was spent in the Carnegie room at Milner Library. A scene from Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme called upon every- one's French vocabulary. A fable of La Fontaine brought smiles to many faces. (Was it translation or
the story itself? ) The Le Cercle Francais also heard the sonnet La Femme Inconnue.
The atmosphere in A4212 was abounding with French accents as French clubbers read exerpts from Andre Maurois' Les Trois Fantomes de UAmerique. The Yankee Frenchwomen discussed the selections and conversed about the various ideas held by the French in regards to the Americans. In April, drama had full sway in Le Cercle Francais. Patty Clayton was the competent director of La Farce Du Aivier at which Helen Riggs, Nadine Wood, and le presidente, Har- riet Seltzer, made their stage debuts. These thespians tripped lightly through the dialogue with appropriate gestures, expression, and actions, in true French style. This is one French Club that truly expressed the Amer- ican spirit of France. This "parlez-vous Francais" group is noted for its linguistic enthusiasm and skill.
"Au revoir" said the members at the picnic in May at which there was a great deal of savoir faire. Two male members rated the roll book this year — brothers Mitchell and John Zadrozny, who bade adieu to the club in February when the enlisted reserve corps was called. This typical French picnic climaxed the year as the French students gathered for one more meeting before the club disbanded for the summer. Another pleasant year of memories was closed and the erst- while Frenchies resolved to meet again in the fall in the true spirit of the Fighting French. Until then, they will rely upon the Modern French Dictionary to keep up their "speaking1' acquaintance with this foreign language.
59
LATIN CLUB
Venitej Venite
Ad Latinum Concilium
Laying aside their grammars, dictionaries, and dog- eared Cicero's and Livy's, individuals majoring or minoring in Latin met together the last Tuesday of every month for an hour or two of fun in true Roman style.
Sponsor of this "do-as-the-Romans-do" organization is Miss Katherine Carver, beloved of every person who has crossed the threshold of M-108 to mingle with the classical writings of Caesar or rub shoulders with the sayings of Plautus. This amiable lady possesses not only a rare knowledge of "Latinum" but also a keen sense of humor which makes the dullest of translations and passages entertaining. Other officials were capable Juanita Hancock, friendly Louise Isenberg, and the only male member, Kenneth Miller.
Scene of the first meeting where officers were elected was Miss Carver's apartment at Payne Place. As a consequence of persistent concentration and baffle- ment, the group was only too delighted to turn its thoughts (and appetites, too) to draughts of chilled sweet cider and freshly baked doughnuts.
At the meeting held before Christmas vacation, members discussed the Roman calendar. Those present learned the art of filling their little red books in the
same manner as did the toga-clad girls of Caesar's time. Dates filled with marshmallows topped off the eve- ning entertainment.
Quiz-mistress Rose Kuzmiski managed the January get-together. Questions were fired concerning the classical allusions found in Horatius at the Bridge. The quiz-kids were Nettie Davenport, Darlene Speagle, Marjorie Bitting, and Barbara Elder.
A meeting devoted to reports about high school Latin clubs allowed the Latinites to harken back to their own high school days. This program was for the benefit of the seniors who would be teaching "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres" next fall.
At the March meeting the history of writing from the time of hieroglyphics to Roman times was dis- cussed. Miss Carver passed around an example of early figure writing for examination.
According to an ancient tradition, a typical Roman banquet was served to the clubbers in the Spring. A gala time was had by all as they feasted upon "vinum" (grape juice to you Phys. Ed. majors) and Roman dishes. The entertainment, too, was truly representa- tive of the old Roman fetes. Even Virgil would have reveled at the festivities, and Martial could have found some inspiration for whipping up a few epi- grams on the social side of life of a typical Latin Clubber at I.S.N.U.
Thus, the Latin club rounded out another pleasant year with memories of edifying discussions and good fellow ship. And while "tempus fugits" this club goes merrily on its way unearthing fascinating material out of the Roman private lives.
Top Row — Elder, Talbot, Schutz, Rutledge, Riggs, Hitting. • Middle Row — Davenport, Eisen- hower, Kuzmiski, Fanelli, Kietzman, Theis, Mat- thews. • Front Row — Miller, Isenberg, Han- cock, Miss Carver, Tel- laro.
60
Seated — Miss Gueffroy, Miss Crompton, Miss Mc- Davitt. • Standing — Mr. Holmes, Mr. Lathrop.
GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION
IsothermSj Isobars and Icicles
Since Pearl Harbor, weather forecasts have been banned and we have realized that people are discussing something pretty important when they talk about the weather. Taking advantage of our curiosity, the Geog- raphy staff supplied itself with a weather vane, which was placed atop North Hall, and an interesting little white box that — shhhh — contains all sorts of gadgets for telling when a "high" is coming to town, where the "lows" will be, and in which direction they are traveling, and of what intensity the last earthquake was. This box is placed in a conspicuous place west of North Hall, so that it would torment us each time we passed until we discovered what it contained.
Weather isn't the only thing this group is interested in. In fact, every question you might ask concerning anything from fossil formation to the geography of deepest Africa could be answered by one of these people. Mr. H. O. Lathrop, head of the department, is a thoughtful, industrious man especially concerned
with the effect of geography on world problems. Ar- ticles he has had published and speeches he has given show the meditation and deep study that he has made.
Kindly Miss Mabel Crompton knows Illinois "down to bed rock," nor has the geography of Europe escaped her studious eyes. Red Cross workers, eager to knit for their bit of contribution, find a willing teacher in Miss Crompton.
If you would like to know more about that island where your particular interest is stationed, orderly Miss Edna Gueffroy is the person to see. What's more, she also has a storehouse of information about Africa, Australia, and Alaska.
Miss Neva McDavitt is a woman who "never met a stranger." A friend to all, she makes her office a home to everyone who enters there. Economic geog- raphy takes much of her time — do you know about the production of the leading commodities of the world?
Jolly Mr. Leslie Holmes reads maps. Not that he is solely occupied with gazing at the longitude and lati- tude, the meridian or the contour lines, but it may surprise you to know that he is of invaluable help to seniors who want to know all about "Podunk Center" before going there to teach.
Confess — have you studied the mineral displays in the corridor of North Hall, the daily weather maps on the bulletin board, the relief map of the United States, and the forecasting instruments in the glass case in the wall? Hmmm — then come, and we'll look at them together.
61
SENIORS 1943
HAROLD E. GORDON; Bloomington; Gamma Theta Upsilon 2, 3, 4, President 4; Science Club 3, 4; Nature Study Club 3, 4 • LEO C. POL- LAK; Chicago Heights; Gamma Theta Upsilon 4, Vice-President 4; Social Science Club; Smith Hall Club; University Club.
GORDON
POLLAK
'Geography" Holmes joins the "Shovel Leaners Brigade.''
62
GAMMA THETA UPSILON
They're in a 'Tiygjy
About Typhoons and Tempests
Before someone named Shickelgruber started mess- ing up the world map, these atlas-readers could grab a globe and point to any one of the twenty-eight United Nations without batting an eye. Now these Rand- McNally perusers have to think twice before they can locate you geographically by means of latitude and longitude. These devotees of doldrums call them- selves a geographical fraternity with a purpose: to promote activities of a geographical nature among students of the University. Long after the Con- tinental Glacier covered these parts, in fact in 1928, Gamma Theta Upsilon was created. To date, it has some five hundred members — all as enthusiastic about isotherms and geological deposits as a math major with a new theorem.
Historical geologist Harold Gordon guided this group through another, year of worthwhile meetings by planning vicarious travel experiences for the club by arranging for speakers. Madalyn Harris took the job when Harold left for the army. Leo Pollak was vice-president of the organization until he was also called into the armed service. Marcia Holtje served
the club wisely and well as keeper of the money-bags. Jean Barton stepped into her shoes when Marcia left at the end of the first semester. Marjorie Kraft as the secretary has a complete record of the "goings-on" of the club throughout the year. Marian Wenger kept the programs varied and interesting: Mrs. Mar- garet Thatcher's talk on living in Hawaii; the geo- graphical quiz; and Mr. A. W. Dragoo's pictures of western United States.
A new project was launched by the actives this year — a news letter that was sent to all of the five hundred and fifty alumni and boys in service. The club also gave liberally to the Red Cross.
Enthusiastic about this mighty group of meridian measurers is Mr. H. O. Lathrop who, in addition to acting as sponsor of the local Alpha chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon, serves as president in the national geographical fraternity.
Of especial interest to members of the club has been the summer geography tour, taken first through the eastern parts of the United States, and on the follow- ing year through the West. Discontinued for the duration of the war, these trips are eagerly anticipated by the wandering spirits who haunt the recesses of North Hall on "meeting nights" discussing the rela- tive beauties and geographical significance of each section, as well as the pros and cons of sleeping in tents, washing their own clothes, and dressing in hiking togs nearly every day so as to see the miracles often studied about, as opposed to leading a sheltered existence looking at the maps and pictures of the "seven wonders." As may be guessed, the pros far out-weierh the cons!
Top Row — (Morrison, Pice hi, Fred rick son, Talbot, Allonby, Hend- ricks, Betzelberger. • Middle Row — Stowell, Cross, Harris, Carlon, Donaldson, Kiester, Til- ton, Darling. • Front Row — Mr. Lathrop, Pol- lak, Holtje, Kraft, Barton, Lock, Gordon. j
63
Seated — Miss Bally, (Miss Bergland, Miss Frey, Mr. Horton, Miss Clayton • Standing — Mr. Cogdal, Mr. O'Conner, M i s s Thielen, Mr. Hancock.
HEALTH AND
PHYSICAL
EDUCATION
Now Well Do the 'Situps
Stroll down to the gym any hour of the day and you will find a bee-hive of activity as instructors shout "One, two, three, four — stuuretchhh, two, three, four — burpee!" Hard hit by the war, the Physical Edu- cation department carried an increased load this year with a smaller staff, but these men and women of muscle and brawn came through with the same stam- ina they show in all their work.
Over on the women's side of the gym is brisk Miss Irene Clayton, who teaches, among other things, what
to do when a need arises in your school for some sort of recreation. Miss Elsie Bergland, pert and vivacious, gives major pointers on coaching and officiating, and shows Red Cross students how to apply a tourniquet, bind a wound, or keep from fainting at the sight of blood.
If your heart beats in three-four time, or if your knees bend the wrong way, and your toes turn under after strenuous exercise, Miss Bernice Frey will see that you get your share of "play." If you are a major, she is the person who will show you how each muscle works with the other (that is, if they are coordinated, which some of ours are not).
Miss Katherine Thielen is the exponent of the mod- ern dance on campus. Petite, graceful, she is the guiding light for Orchesis. iMiss Winfred Bally gathers the little children in Metcalf around her for outdoor and indoor play-time.
Crossing the hall to the men's side of the building, we find Mr. Clifford Horton, head of the department, who can do everything in his field.
Mr. Howard Hancock's football teams are the main attraction on McCormick field in the fall, and almost any afternoon will find him training a team that will work together in a true sportsmanlike fashion. Basket- ball fans thank the powers that brought Mr. Joe Cogdal here, for where he is, there is a fine basket- ball team or track squad also. Mr. Burton O'Connor holds the respect of the U. High athletes.
Gone this year are Mr. Harold Frye and Air. Eugene Hill, who have entered active service.
Tete-a-tete on a spring board — Mr. Horton and mermaid.
SENIORS 1943
CAMPBELL CHICAS GILBERTSON HENSON
HOSPELHORN MURPHY TURNER
ROBERT P. CAAIPBELL; Wenona; "N" Club
2, 3, 4; University Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Co-op Coun- cil 3, 4, President 4; Smith Hall Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Vice-President 4 • SAA4 A. CHICAS; West- ville; Football 1, 2, 3, 4, Captain 4; Baseball I, 2, 3, 4; "N" Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Newman Club 3; Carter Harris Trophy 2 • SHERWIN G. GILBERTSON; Newark; Basketball 1, 2; Base- ball 1, 2, 4; Intramurals 1, 2, 3, 4; "N" Club 2, 3, 4, Secretary -Treasurer 3; Gamma Delta
1, 2,
ANDREW T. HENSON; Broad-
lands; Intramural Basketball and Football.
CECIL W. HOSPELHORN; Hudson; Foot- ball 4; Wrestling 4, Captain 3; "N" Club 4 • GLEN EDWARD MURPHY; Danville; "N" Club 2, 3, 4; University Club 1, 2; Wrestling 2, 3; Baseball 3, 4; Football Manager 2, 4 • WILLIAM F. TURNER; Chicago; Football 2, 3, 4; Baseball 1, 2, 3, 4, Captain 4; "N" Club 1, 2, 3, 4, President 3; Advisory Board 3, 4; Executive Board 4.
65
SENIORS 1943
L_JIUi
CAROL MAE AEMISEGGER; St. Jacob; Trans- fer from McKendree College; Physical Edu- cation Club 2, 3, 4; W.R.A. 2, 3 • MARY M. BLUE; Sheldon • BERNICE DANFORTH; Onarga; W.R.A. 1, 2, 3, 4, Board 2, 3, Recreational Council 4; Physical Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4, President 4; University Women's Chorus 1, 2; Orchesis 1, 2, 3; Kappa Delta Epsilon 3, 4; Intra- murals 1, 2, 3, 4; Advisory Board 3, 4; Student Council 3, 4; Entertainment Board 3; Student War Activity Board 3; Student Activity Board 4; Re-' medial Board 4.
HILDA D. DeHART; Hartford; W.R.A. 1, 2, 3, 4, Board 3, 4, Vice-President 4; Physical Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Intramurals 1, 2, 3, 4; Orchesis 2, 3, 4; Y.W.CA. 1, 2, 3, Board 2, 3; Jesters 2, 3; House Presidents' Board 3; "Seven Sisters" • YANLrTA F. ELLEDGE; Westmont; W.RA.
1, 2, 3, 4, Board 3, 4; Physical Education Club
2, 3, 4, Vice-President 4, President 4; Orchesis 2, 3, 4, Secretary-Treasurer 4; Index 3 • HAZEL E. GILES; St. Louis, Missouri; W.R.A. 4; Physical Education Club 4; Intramurals 3, 4; Women's League.
ETHEL TRILLING GROVES; Bloomington; W.R.A. 1, 2, 3, 4, President 4; Intramurals 1, 2, 3, 4; Physical Education Club 1, 2, 3; Orchesis 1, 2, 3; Women's League 1, 2, 3, 4, Executive Board 4; District President 3 • NORA ELIZABETH KILLIAN; Bloomington; W.R.A. 1, 2, 3, 4; Physi- cal Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Orchesis 3, 4; New- man Club 1, 2, 3, 4 • EVELYN A. KLUNK; Alton; Transfer from College of St. Francis, Joliet; W.R.A. 3, 4; Physical Education Club 3, 4; New- man Club 3; Orchesis 3.
JEAN A. OLSON; Wataga; Transfer from Knox College; W.R.A. 3, 4, Board 3, 4; Physical Educa- tion Club 2, 3, 4; Intramurals 2, 3, 4; Sportshead
3, 4; Honor Teams 2, 3, 4 • BETTY L. TREN- ARY; Danville; Transfer from Eureka College; W.R.A. 3, 4, Archery Chairman 4; Physical Edu- cation Club 3, 4; Social Science Club 4; Pi Gamma Mu 4 • ALMA A. UPHOFF; Sbelbyville; W.R.A. 3, 4; Physical Education Club 3, 4, Secre- tary-Treasurer 4; Sigma Tau Delta 4; Vidette 2, 3,
4, Women's Sports Editor 4.
BETTY E. Von ALLMAN; Bloomington; WR.A. 1, 2, 3, 4, Secretary 4; Physical Education Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Tennis Squad 1, 3; Kappa Delta Epsilon 3, 4; Executive Board 3; Honor Council 3, Presi- dent 3; Fellowship Chairman 3; Homecoming Queen 3; Advisory Board 1, 3.
|
AEMISEGGFR |
BLUE |
DANFORTH |
|
DeHART |
ELLEDGE |
GILES |
|
GROVES |
KILLIAN |
KLUNK |
|
OLSON |
TRF.NARY |
UPHOFF |
|
Von ALLMAN |
66
Top Row — Whited, Storts, Larson, Hilt, Van Curen, Swanson, Jacobs, Novaria. • Third Row — Miss Bally, McMillin, Wheeler, Kiester, Toliill, Tallon, Olson, Koltveit, Killian, Dabney, Ellis, Guyot, Miss Bergland, Miss Clayton. • Sec- ond Row — Bow den, Klunk, Dawson, Elledge, Frey, Uphoff, Clark, Cox, Scheffel • Front Row — Dunklin, Miss Thielen, Pratto, Caviezel, Cullen, jMathewson, Wilson.
WOMEN'S PHYSICAL ED. CLUB
How Far Can You Throw a Sandbag?
Can yon jump over McCormick gym three times in rapid succession? chin yourself on the towers of Old Main seven consecutive times? broad-jump from Mil- ner library to North Hall in sixty seconds flat? Stop! You're bound to be a P. E. clubber.
Once a month the majors and minors in the phys. ed. curriculum meet to discuss the problems of their curriculum. After the more business-like phases are tossed about, the club adjourns for some fun. At the first meeting of the year, the freshmen are called upon to prove their worth. Trying to please the actives is no small task, but they go cheerfully about beating their heads against the wall, doing twenty sit-ups or attempting a Highland fling. (Hm, sounds like an endurance test or the survival of the fittest.)
They are concerned about the war, so a meeting was taken up by a report on the Red Cross and the Women's Motor Corps. All the auxiliary branches of military service made a good topic for the second
meeting this year. The annual stunt show given by the classes unearthed the yearly award — a loving cup which is given to the winner. (Confidentially, this cup is an antiquated drinking cup which is autographed by the winner and left in the department for future years! )
Everyone looked forward to the club breakfast held at the Co-op in the spring. A fair day, a good turn- out, and a merry time was the report. . Each class is responsible for one program during the year; hence, a varied year results. An evaluation of the club and its objectives were undertaken in October. A panel discussion by the principles class was conducted at one meeting. The purpose of this meeting was to give the history of physical education. The freshmen program in February enlightened the group on the topic of "Good Manners." Later in the year a movie was sponsored by the sophomores.
The spirit of good fellowship is never lacking at these meetings, although its main purpose is a profes- sional one. Vim and "vimmin," fire and femmes are the elements that go to make the Physical Education Club the delight of the lasses who frequent the south end of the campus.
If you want to limber up those little-used muscles, drop in at iMcCormick gymnasium almost any day. You'll find those Phys. Ed. clubbers batting balls, danc- ing folkdances, running around in "flit" suits, or doing calisthenics.
President for the first semester Mas Bernice Dan- forth; for the second semester, Vanitta Elledge. Sports- writer Alma Uphoff proved capable in handling the office of secretary-treasurer. Miss Bernice Frey, spon- sor, guides these girls who believe in wholesome sports and clean living.
61
WOMEN'S
RECREATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
'Fun
is Their Password
"Goin' over to Play Night tonight?"
"Sure thing, my muscles have to have a little enter- tainment, and occupying one seat in Milner for a couple of hours isn't my idea of fun. If it weren't for these play nights, I never would get a look inside the gym for a little exercise."
Sponsored by W.R.A. in conjunction with Men's Intramural Department, these Play Nights held about once a month have been the source of much enjoy- ment for students on campus who might otherwise have been the victims of dry rot.
The Women's Recreational Association is open to all women students who participate in any one physi- cal recreational activity and express a desire for mem- bership. The girls to maintain their membership must show a continued interest in the organization. In this way any woman on campus can become a member, for the club's main purpose is to promote wholesome
physical recreation as a contribution to the Recrea- tional Life at I.S.N.U.
The board, or governing body of the association, consists of officers and a recreational council. Those serving in this capacity were: First-Semester President, Ethel Trilling Groves; Second-Semester President, Marilyn Whited; Secretary, Betty Von Allmen; Treas- urer, Mary Blue. The council was made up of Betty Trenary, Yanitta Elledge, Corinne Clark, Mildred Scheffel, Jean Olson, Bernice Danforth, Pat Cullen, Kitty Kiester, Alma Uphoff, Eva Cox, Dorothy Hilt, Kay Wheeler, and Esther Morris.
Freshmen women were welcomed by a wiener roast given by W.R.A. and Women's League in the fall. All new girls became acquainted with both the organi- zations and some of the upper classmen. This year play days held in the spring and fall were limited to the women on campus and were carried out with traditional enthusiasm. Competition in such sports as archery, tennis, golf, badminton, and softball proved exciting; recreational dancing after lunch proved re- laxing. Highlighting the year was the annual Christ- mas party for all women students. The "White Christmas" theme was carried out in several unique ways under the guidance of general chairman Alma Uphoff.
Miss Irene Clayton, head of the department of women's physical education guided the girls with wise counseling and helped them to achieve their objectives for the year — recreation, cooperation, and good sports- manship.
Top Row — Elledge, Ol- son, Clark, Uphoff, Cox.
• Middle Row — De- Hart, Groves, Miss Clay- ton, Von Allmen, Blue.
• Front Row — Whited, Scheffel, Cullen, Kiester.
6S
Rouse, Koltveit, Dunklin, Wheeler, Oko.
Cox, Koltveit, Oko, Wheeler, Rouse.
ORCHESIS
If You Have Troubles 'Flit Your Woes Away
If you're in the mood to trip the "light fantastic," just dash down to the women's gym any Monday night between 7 and 9 o'clock and join the graceful dancers "flitting" around the room. Or if you feel that you aren't getting enough physical fitness exer- cises (especially after an hour of calisthenics), just drop in for an hour of dancing and limber up those muscles.
Just what is Orchesis? How can I join? What does it do? These are some of the questions you may ask. Orchesis, a national dance society, is open to every girl on the campus whether she is an expert dancer or not. The only requirements are that she attend at least eight meetings and present an original dance in the spring. The girls are divided into two groups, the junior Orchesis and senior Orchesis. Miss Katherine Thielen, a graduate from the University of Wisconsin, is the sponsor of this lively group of dancers and does her part to instill rhythm, movement, and pattern in the dancers. Vanitta Elledge, a senior in physical educa- tion, is president of this organization.
These girls, attired in bright jersey knits of all colors of the rainbow and leather sandals, meet weeklv with
their phonograph and records to interpret the music in their own individualistic way into dances. They have been kept busy this year arranging dances which they have been called upon to present for the Wom- en's Day Assembly, College League of Women Voters Assembly, the W.R.A. Christmas party-dance, and other campus functions. These agile dancers can take out the phonograph, listen to a record, and whip up an interpretative dance to fit the proper mood in no time at all, as was evidenced in the preparation of the pioneer-women dance for one of the assembly programs — with stamina and late hours taken into consideration.
If you should come down to the women's gym on some Monday night and see someone crawling around on her hands and knees and then lying down and roll- ing over and over, you might think something was wrong somewhere, but you'd soon discover that the interpretation is of Pluto the Dog, which inspired Miss Thielen when she was doing her Christmas shopping among the toys on the counter. Or then again you might notice someone interpreting characters from "Bambi."
The active members are Alary Dunklin, Kay Wheeler, Alice Frank, Virginia Mathewson, Vanitta Elledge, Natalie Pollock, Lilijane Tohill, Ruth Kolt- veit, Eva Cox, Phyllis Oko, Marian Rouse, Delores McMillin, and Kitty Kiester.
If you want to express yourself via physical motions, we'll be seeing you at Orchesis one of these days. Down at the gym you'll find plenty of opportunities.
69
Seated — Miss Buell, Miss Conkey, Mrs. Stombaugh. • Standing — Miss Tuck- er, Miss Ross, Mrs. War- ren.
HOME ECONOM- ICS EDUCATION
These Are the Women
Who Can Conserve and Preserve
The woman who can order groceries nowadays and keep her points straight is a genius. And right here on our campus we have a corps of Home Economists who can tell the government a thing or two on "do- mestic arts." Heading the corps is Commander-in- Chief Conkey. This able head of the department is one of those rarely found persons — an all-round good sport. Some term it "a radiating personality" but we sum it all up in Miss Frances Conkey.
Next on the list comes Miss Mary Buell. This little lady is bustling with activity these days with her Nu- trition class and her Canteen dinners. Vickie — short for Veni Vide Vici — is her pet cat, and plays a big- part in all Home Ec. classes.
Miss Josephine Ross, our quartermaster, skillfully handles the clothing situations. Her chuckle passes off many "major tragedies" such as sewing sleeves in back- wards, and makes clothing Lab. a barracks of "beauti- fying activity."
Double-duty Warren keeps two fronts going by
keeping Fell Hall "on the beam," and handling cloth- ing and foods classes. Airs. Mae Warren likes her knick-knacks, her girls, and her books.
Miss Bernice Tucker, one of the critic teachers, is learning how to garden — and surprise!! — she can look at a worm and smile now. Student teaching days needn't be a bug-a-boo to Home Ec. seniors with such a super-sweet person as Miss Tucker around. And while we're on the subject of student teachers, we mustn't forget Mrs. Ray Stombaugh. This petite lady is a special favorite of every Home Ec. girl.
This is their year. Rationing this year puts the limelight definitely on those interested in the culin- ary arts. These women have learned to calculate groceries with a cunning born of points-knowledge and stamp-conservation. Lighthousekeepers with "points-problems" should step into this department of beehive activity. There they can learn everything from how many points for a can of soup to what sugar stamp expires today.
If you are having trouble with your summer ward- robe planning, see the Home Ec. staff who can straighten you out faster than you can say "French seam."
They're a grand bunch of faculty, full of vim, vigor, and vitality. Endeared to the hearts of those they teach, "practicality" is their password. Combined, they make the Home Ec. department definitely a "woman's world." Homemaking is the topic they de- velop with interest and care. The girls in this depart- ment are interested in developing active interest and leadership in homemaking.
70
HOME ECONOMICS
RITA BELLE BARNES; Colfax • SHIRLEY E. BOLINGER; Springfield; Treble Chorus 1; Home Economics Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Maize Grange
2, 3, 4; Chairman of House Presidents' Board 4; Executive Board 4; Canterbury Club 3, 4; Counsel- ing 3 • BETTIE M. BROWN; Normal; Home Economics Club; Maize Grange; Kappa Delta Epsilon; Honor Council; Executive Board; Central Board, Canterbury Club.
MARTHA JEAN BROWNING; Perry; Concert Band 1; Maize Grange 1, 2; Home Economics Club 1, 4; Science Club 3, 4; Kappa Delta Epsilon 3, 4; Class Secretary-Treasurer 4 • EUDORA M. BUNGE; Chicago; Transfer from St. Olaf's Col- lege; Home Economics Club 1, 4; Gamma Delta 1, 3, 4 • BETTY L. FARNHAM; Normal; Home Economics Club 1, 4; Advisory Board 1, 2; Gamma Phi 2.
MARY C. GOURLEY; Ancona • MARY FRANCES GRADEN; Raymond; Treble Chorus 1, 2, 3; Home Economics Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Y.W.C.A. 4 • MILDRED B. HARMS; Saybrook; Home Economics Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Vice-President 2; Treble Chorus 1, 2, 3; Science Club 3, 4; Kappa Delta Epsilon 3, 4, Vice-President 3, Secretary 4; Gamma Delta 2, 3, 4, Social Chairman 3, 4.
RUTH A. HENDERSON; Minier; Home Eco- nomics Club; Maize Grange, Hieronymus Club
• JACQUELINE Q. KARCH; Belleville; Uni- versity Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4; Concert Band 2, 3, 4
• DOROTHY M. McKAY; Venice; Home Eco- nomics Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Secretary 3; Maize Grange 1, 2, 3, 4, Secretary 3; Band 1; Merrill-Palmer 3.
BARBARA M. ORR; Normal; Women's League, Forum Chairman 2, Social Chairman 3, Fellowship Chairman 4; Women's Chorus 1, 2; Home Eco- nomics Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Calendar of Events Board 1, 2; Advisory Board 1, 2, 4; Student Council; Student Chairman of Red Cross Knitting • ALICE P. RIDENOUR; Normal; Home Econom- ics Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Maize Grange 3, 4; Kappa Delta Epsilon 3, 4; Women's League Executive Board 2, 3, 4 • MARJORIE H. SMITH; Mil- ford; Treble Chorus 3, 4; Home Economics Club
3, 4; Nature Study Club 4; Central Board Wom- en's League 3; Maize Grange 4.
BARNES
BROWNING
GOURLEY
HENDERSON
ORR
BOLINGER
BUNGE
GRADEN
KARCH
RIDENOUR
BROWN FARNHAM HARMS McKAY SMITH
71
SENIORS 1943
MARY E. SORRENSON; Normal; Home Eco- nomics Club 2, 3, 4; Science Club 3, 4; Class Ad- visory Board 1, 2; Wrightonia 1, 2, Vice-President 2; Debate 1 • VERNA SWAIN; Garden Prairie; Home Economics Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Maize Grange 2, 3, 4; Central Board Women's League 3; House President's Board 3; District President 3; Merrill-Palmer School, Detroit, Michigan 4 • AIARY JEAN TALBOT; Roberts; Social Science Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Home Economics Club 3, 4; Col- lege League of Women Voters 3, 4, President 4; House President's Board 3, 4; Executive Board 4; Central Board 4; Chairman of Ford County Com- mittee 3, 4; Red Cross 3, 4; Gamma Theta Upsi- lon 4.
ALLEGRA H. TYLER; Lowell, Indiana; Home Economics Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Maize Grange 1, 2 • GLADYS M. WATKINS; Springfield; Home Ec- onomics Club 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Home Economics Radio Programs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Hieronymus 2; Maize Grange 2, 3, 4 • AIARY ELIZABETH WIEG- MAN; Moweaqua; Home Economics Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Hieronymus Club 1, 2; Maize Grange 2, 3, 4; Concert Band 1.
SORRENSON TYLER
SWAIN WATKINS
TALBOT WIEGMAN
"Doc" Hibler and partner swing a vicious ping- pong paddle at the Home Ec. party.
72
HOME
ECONOMICS
CLUB
"Six Points for Soup
Number 27 Expires Today" —
These Girls Have Ration Worries
Perpetrators of cuisine crime, mean slingers of hash, whippers-up of bouillon, compote, or ambrosia — these are the Home Ec. Clubbers. To me who can just barely manage to wield a can-opener without losing my temper and two perfectly good fingers, these recipe-raiders are A-l. These ardent believers in the old adage "the best way to a man's heart" were led by Alice Ridenour who beat up a busy year for the club.
Menu-manipulator, Allegra Tyler, acted as program chairman. The social committee, headed by Julie Cline, recognized wartime problems in planning social func- tions. Bette Belle Irvin publicized the club, and Mary Glenn led the membership committee. Miss Frances Conkey, head of the Home Economics department, was club sponsor for the year.
Peoria's Pere Marquette Hotel was the scene for the annual state convention of the American Home
Economics Association held early in the fall. Miss Conkey presided over the association this year. Of- ficial-delegate Phyllis Burnett, did Normal proud.
'Army, Navy, or Marines? Which do you prefer?" was the question that greeted those club members and their guests who attended the "stag" party early in December. After miniature hats representing differ- ent branches of the service had been distributed ac- cording to the desires expressed, everyone was ready for the fun that followed. Helen Karloski, Emma Chandler, Julie Cline, Phyllis Burnett, and Elsie Carl- son headed the various committees who planned the party.
Consumer education of the public is one of the war- time problems that the Home Economics club concen- trated on this year. The club sponsored a consumer- information center which put some valuable pamph- lets on the subject on display at the Normal Public Library. During the year man}' different displays of interest to the public have been seen there.
High point of the meetings was the talk given by Miss Ann Bargin, head dietician at the Mennonite Hospital. Also of great interest was the demonstration on the use of cosmetics given by the specialist Mrs. Minerva White from the Walgreen store in Bloom- ington. One meeting was devoted to I.S.N.U. men now in service. Boxes of food were prepared and packed; letters were written; and several scrapbooks were made — all of which were shipped out over the world to camps where former students are stationed.
Lois Froelich and Marjorie Enns left the local organi- zation for the second semester when they enrolled at the Merrill-Palmer Home Economics school in Detroit.
Top Row — Smith, Horn, Bundy, Waters, Sparks, Waddell, Harms, Blod- gett, Cooke, Guard, Froe- lich, Miller, Cline, Oko, Catlin, Orr, Skaggs, Al- lenspach, Lockhart. • Third Row — Barnes, Wiegman, Bunge, Gun- sten, Chandler, Kesinger, Johnson, Schoneweis, Op- perman, Enns, Clauson, Tombaugh, Brenkmann, Brewer, Tyler, Olson, Graden, Brenkman, Ring, Schilpp. • Second Row — Karloski, Krug, Glenn, Ridenour, Miss Conkey, Krug, Carlson, Gourley, Johannes, Elliott. • Front Row — Reardon, Holmes, Burnett, Irvin, Gorman, Sorrenson, Farn- ham, Rich, Scheeler, Watkins.
73
Mr. Stombaugh, Mr. Hammerlund, Mr. White, Mr. Dragoo.
INDUSTRIAL
ARTS
EDUCATION
Of Machines and Men
iMen and lathes, men and blueprints, men and wooden planks — this theme sings itself to the tune of whirring wheels and pounding hammers as the Industrial Arts students go about their work. Intricate wood inlay and bulky sea-worthy boats are handled with the same delicacy and precision by these skilled artists, but to see these people swishing about in great aprons that are nearly ankle-length one would almost think that such meticulousness was a fable.
The disturbingly woody smell of sawdust and shav- ings from freshly planed planks permeates the ground floor of the Industrial Arts building, and the confused noise of the lathes and planers merging with the hum of the press and the clatter of the linotype makes it a place for the idler to avoid. Upstairs, drafting is studied, and out in the machine shop the fellows are busy with such things as bench metalwork, sheet metalwork, forging, and welding.
Head of this busy crew is Mr. Ray Stombaugh, a man who has a friendly twinkle in his eyes, a way with students, and a skill of teaching. Incessantly at work, and seemingly untiring, Mr. Stombaugh has this year taken on his shoulders new war-time duties in the machine shop. Symbolic of something-or-other, no doubt, are the vine that overhangs the front of his desk and the plants in the windows of his office.
To know Mr. C. M. Hammerlund once is to know him always. Thoughtful, ever-helpful, he is a "Good Joe" — an all-around fellow. Woodworking and draft- ing find a champion in Mr. Hammerlund.
Mr. Alva Dragoo teaches boys and girls alike the joy of making something with their own hands and viewing the finished product. Mr. William White shows students techniques of printing in his small shop equipped with all the essentials. Here are printed all University publications with the exception of the Vidette, the Index, and the annual bulletin. Mr. K. S. Fletcher, away this year on a leave of absence, works with both printing and metal work.
If you feel an urge to dream up a little cabinet to store some sugar in, re-upholster the old chair, or do a bit of printing on the side, stroll over to the Indus- trial Arts building and put in your bid. Here you'll find an enthusiastic staff all ready to welcome any stu- dent who needs some expert advice on the subject of hatchets versus ratchets. They'll be glad to show you the intricacies of everything from buzz saws to "T" squares. For industry in the arts, they rate.
74
SENIORS 1943
JOHNSON
MILLER
TRUMPY
YOUNG
FREDRIC K. JOHNSON; Jewell, Iowa; Transfer from Iowa State Teachers College, Illinois Wesleyan University; Glee Club; In- dustrial Arts Club • EDWARD A. MILLER; Onarga; Baseball Manager 1, 2, 3, 4; Marching Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Men's Chorus 1, 2; Glee Club 3; Basketball 1; "N" Club 2, 3, 4, Vice-President, 4; Band 1, 2, 3; Industrial Arts Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Secretary-Treasurer 3, President 4; Advisory Board 2, 3, 4; Gamma
Phi 3; University Club 3, 4; Fort Worth Live- stock Judging Team 1; 'Abe Lincoln In Illi- nois" • ALBERT M. TRUMPY; South Pekin; Football 1, 2, 3, 4; Track 1; "N" Club 3, 4 • ANDREW A. YOUNG; Muncie; Football 1, 2, 3, 4; Track 1, 2, 3, 4, Captain 4; Basketball 1, 2; "N" Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Industrial Arts Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Advisory Board 3; Ath- letic Board 4; House President 3.
75
INDUSTRIAL ARTS CLUB
They re All Busy Little Bees
The Industrial Artists, those lads who can spin aluminum or build a house — well, at least a bird house —lost officers and members fast and furiously, but only because of the call to colors. Elected to the presidency in the fall, Ashley Miller took up his duties enthusiastically and planned great things for the club, but shortly he was given a bid by his draft board and, not liking to decline their invitation, left. Vice- prexy Dean Blomgren then took up the tools, only to be given the same signal. He too hit the trail for K.P. and P.X.'s. Sole surviving officer was Walter Bartz, who assumed, in addition to the duties of secretary- treasurer, those of president and vice-president. As if all this were not enough, Sponsor Mr. Ray Stombaugh was occupied with war activities over in the machine shop. Almost mortally wounded by these effects of the war, the club limped through the year with a stiff upper lip.
Harking back to Homecoming you will recall that those all-inclusive programs were edited and published by the members of the Industrial Arts Club. Bringing greetings from the campus leaders, showing what was
happening every hour of that week-end crammed to the hilt with "something important," telling of the registration of alumni, after-the-game reception, intro- ducing the football teams and the "royalty," recog- nizing the cross-country men and the band, picturing former house-decorations and floats — what else need we say to show that this was no simple task?
Relaxing with a movie, the club in December saw "Industrial Arts in Chicago Schools." Before another meeting at the beginning of the year the group had dwindled to one-third of its membership. So that those who have been called will know their buddies in the. old club are aware of what they are doing, the boys have invested most of the club's funds in war bonds.
Dire calamities face the male members of the future Industrial Arts Clubs. Standing by, ready to help, are the women of the school, but think of this masculine club being converted to a woman's organization! Nevertheless, physical fitness has entered the lives of the girls, and these lassies may enter the realm of these artists for mere relaxation. At any rate, it would be a novelty to watch a fluttering female drape herself in robes of denim and take the acetelyne torch not to carry, but to employ properly. This year, the only feminine figure to take part in the activities of the club was Oraleen Schroeder, who doubtless is looking for- ward to the time when she can teach other girls the "art" of the industrial arts. (Well, it always was a mystery to us how to hit a nail without crushing our fingers! )
The Industrial Arts Club as such may not exist next year, but we won't talk about that. The way these boys have managed shows that the spirit of this group will continue.
Top Row — Gerfen, Gar- rison, Hammerlund. • Fourth Row — Canning, Hodge, Young. • Third Row — Schroeder, John- son, Tolbert. • Second Row — Kienle, Mr. Stom- baugh, Bartz. • Front Row — Blomgren, Miller.
16
Miss Flagg, Air. Mills, Miss Atkin, Mr. Poppen.
MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
Two and Two Are Four They Say
Since the day our fur-attired ancestor gazed around his cave and counted the number of mouths he needed to find sustenance for, mathematics has been an ex- ceedingly important part of our lives; but never, surely, was it more in the limelight than today. With the tireless and gasless V-8 a thing of the past, and hopeful V-l's, V-5's, and V-7's very much things of the present, a heavier burden has been placed on the mathematics instructors. Realizing that some day they may owe their lives to a principle learned in one of these courses, alert fellows earnestly seek to master the complications of higher math.
Nor are girls barred from enjoying the fascinations of calculus, trig, and other such delights of the mathe- matical mind. To those who, in the realm of mathe- matics, hold communion with her visible and invisible forms she speaks a various language, and teaches them to speak it so that the unfortunates whose sole grain of such knowledge is packed in the axiom "the short- est distance between two points is a straight line" are
left in the dark.
Men and women who figure in the mathematical pic- ture are these: Mr. C. N. Mills, department head who is a "whiz," becomes to members of his classes a para- gon of mathematical precision. Students soon find him exceedingly definite in what he expects from them.
Painstaking in her efforts to make every step of the problem clear to each one, Miss Edith Atkin patiently waits for the fog to clear from the minds of her stu- dents, then continues her explanation.
Mr. Henry Poppen's math classes are a pleasurable duty because of his geniality and amenity. Though Miss Elinor Flagg may bring a shame-faced flush to the faces of some of us when demonstrating what should be expected of youngsters, still we learn.
Man of the hour is Mr. A. H. Larsen, who arrives as punctually for his classes in math as for those in education, and manages to keep both groups employed.
They have the answers, do these mathematics in- structors, and not because they look in the back of the book! For the math staff is an up-and-coming department with more theorems and hidden postulates than Old Main has steps. The beauty of it all is that everything can be proved according to some law or other.
But to get back to our original proposition — what is this about two and two anyway? All this talk about polygons and triangles has me in a dither. It used to be so simple before they started pushing axioms and theorems into the picture. Maybe I'd better stick to my field!
77
SENIORS 1943
k*ii
BAUER BRAKENHOFF DeBARR
HEINLEIN UNDERWOOD
MILDRED E. BAUER; Nokomis; Kappa Mu Epsilon 2, 3, 4, Secretary 4; Kappa Delta Epsilon 3, 4, Treasurer 4; Pi Omega Pi 4, Vice-President 4; YAV.C.A. 1 • MAR- JORIE L. BRAKENHOFF; Nokomis; Kappa Mu Epsilon 3, 4; Historian Cajori 4; Gamma Delta 2, 3, 4, Secretary 4 • ROB- ERT G. DeBARR; East Moline; Kappa Mu Epsilon 3, 4, Vice-President 4; "N" Club 2, 3, 4, President 4; Golf 1, 2, 3, 4, Captain 3, 4; Baseball 2, 4; University Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Ex-
ecutive Council 3, 4; War Service Council 4.
LOIS L. HEINLEIN; Collinsville; Business Education Club 3, 4 • (MARY M. UN- DERWOOD; Bloomington; Newman Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Program Chairman 2; Social Sci- ence Club 2; Treble Chorus 2; University Chorus 3; University Choir 4; Kappa Mu Epsilon 3, 4, President 4; Kappa Delta Epsi- lon 3, 4; Honor Council 4; University Or- chestra 3, 4.
78
KAPPA MU EPSILON
A Square Root Is Not a Biological Specimen
Mathematical master-minds will rind friends who speak a common language at Kappa Mu Epsilon, but to the student whose knowledge of computation is limited to mastery of point rationing, the "common" language might as well be Homeric Greek. Upper- classmen with a teaching field in mathematics and a high scholastic average are eligible for membership in this honorary mathematics fraternity.
Squaring off a worthwhile year, the facts-and-figures brigade chose as leaders: president Gauss Mary Under- wood, vice-president Pascal Robert DeBarr, secretary Ahmes Mildred Bauer, treasurer Napier John Dick- man, historian Cajori Marjorie BrakenhofT, social- director Lilavati Amber Grauer, corresponding secre- tary Descaites Mr. C. N. Mills, and sponsor Miss Edith Atkins.
In October, games with a mathematical tang gave newly initiated members a taste of what was to come. October witnessed, too, the Homecoming breakfast for returning alumni who had been in the fraternity during their days at I.S.N.U. If "x" plus the number
of empty chairs equals "y" minus the number of oc- cupied chairs, it can be proved by a complicated pro- cedure which requires an intimate acquaintance with calculus that many of the absences were due to the call of the armed services and other types of war work.
"There's secrecy in numbers," according to Mildred Bauer and Mary Underwood's discussion of codes at the November meeting. Miniature Santa Claus Gene Weed, holiday-minded in December, distributed toys which were placed under the tree in Dean Barton's office to be given to needy children.
Parliamentarian Earl Scarbeary earned his title when he was elected to the office created at the evaluation meeting of the organization.
After the members of the history-of-math class had told some ancient methods of computation, the group was agreed that our ancestors not only had their problems, but worked them, too. Mr. Mills delighted March star-gazers with his talk on the relationship be- tween mathematics and astronomy. At the same meet- ing, new "planets" in the form of pledges entered the K. M. E. universe.
Since banquets were rationed along with food, mem- bers preserved the spirit of the annual spring banquet with a wartime supper. Publishing of the "News- letter," which contains information about alumni, stu- dents, and the club's activities, rounded out the year.
In a world geared to war-time living, mathematics is becoming one of the foremost curricula on campus. With feminine interest aroused more than ever for "facts and figuring" Kappa Mu Epsilon may have to go for the duration on a strictly feminine basis, but go it will! This organization has helped to make mathe- matics a living, vital force in the lives of its members.
Top Row — Mills, Cyricr, A. DeBarr, Monnier, Meisinger, Robinson. • Third Row — Lower, Scarbeary, Miss Flagg, Grauer, Mr. Mills, Hood. • Second Row — Brack- enhoff, Dickman, Bauer, Underwood, R. DeBarr, Miss Atkin. • Front Row — Weed, Jahnke.
79
Seated — Mr. Peithman, Miss Tipton, Miss Knud- son, Mr. Thompson. • Standing — Mr. Sherrard, Mr. Isted, Miss Westhoff, Miss Boicourt.
MUSIC EDUCATION
Overtures^ Fugues are a Snap
Does Stokowski haunt you? Does Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony" send shivers down the spine? Can Kostclanetz give you a dizzy sensation? Then you'll he at home with the Music staff!
The influence of the music staff is shown in the marching band as it steps out to a snappy martial air; the entire stage of Capen filled with string, wind, and percussion; the pep band (this year with girl mu- sicians!); and the impressive yule-tide Messiah.
Center of activity for future Sousas is the music office "just west of Four Corners." Step in any day and you will see either bustling activity or desolation because wherever go the music people, there goes action.
You have seen Miss Emma Knudson, acting head of the department, many times in assembly. She is the one who conducts the group singing. Even her speak- ing voice is melodious. Always cooperative, Miss Knudson is called upon again and again to help some group with its harmonics. Somehow she manages to
make all discordant tones dulcet.
Beneath his mustache lies a warm grin which is the key to Air. Wayne Sherrard's personality. Master of almost every instrument, he directs the marching band, concert band, and pep band. His is the booming note you most usually feel when the pep band puts the spirit in "Here's to Normal!"
Aliss Margaret Westhoff is the lady responsible for the symphonious melodies issuing from the throats of the Treble Chorus. The girls in this group sing to their hearts' content under her capable leadership. Mr. Leslie Isted with the lowering of his baton can bring forth such a flood of melody from the Concert Band as would fill the hearts of all music lovers.
The Men's Glee Club has Miss Blaine Boicourt to lead them in their songs, and many more know her for the Music Appreciation classes where they struggled to recognize the difference between a canon, aria, a recitative and a fugue. Miss Gladys Tipton, of the light step and sunny smile, keeps music majors education-minded. University High School students look to Mr. L. W. Peithman for musical advice.
Now you realize that music teachers aren't long- haired specimens with flowing string ties, black suits and slightly frayed shirts that you pictured, but ordi- narv pleasant human beings, and you think regretfully of the musical genius you might have been if you had heeded your mother's gentle warnings about practic- ing your violin lessons.
Well, what are you waiting for? Didn't you say vou were due at chorus rehearsal at 7?
so
SENIORS 1943
WILLIAM T. BENEDICT; Royal Oak, Michigan; Marching Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Men's Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; University Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4; University Concert Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Pep Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Lowell Mason Club 1, 2, 3, 4; University Choir 2, 3, 4; University Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Smith Hall Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Assembly Organist 1, 2, 3, 4; Glee Club Tour
1, 2, 3 • RAY BESSMER; £<wf Moline; Men's Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4; University Mixed Choir 3, 4; Concert Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Concert Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4; Orchestral Ensemble 2, 3, 4; Pep Band 1, 2, 3; Marching Band 1, 2, 3, 4, Drum Major 4; Men's Quartet 3, 4; Brass Sextet 1, 2, 3; "Abe Lincoln In Illinois"; "Our Town," Stage Manager 1 • W. EMMETT BEST; Collinsville; Concert Band 1,
2, 3, 4, President 4; Concert Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4; Aden's Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Business Manager 3, Publicity Manager 4; University Choir 2, 4; Uni- versity Brass Sextet 1, 2, 3, 4; University Ensemble
2, 3; Blackfriars; Lowell Mason Club 1, 2, 3, 4, President 3; Gamma Delta; University Club; En- tertainment Board 3.
MELBA A. HENDERSON; Bloomington; Uni- versity Band, University Orchestra; Treble Chorus; University Women's Chorus; University Choir; Lowell iYIason Club; Negro Chorus • LOIS FAYE HOUK; Canton; University Women's Chorus 1, 2, 3; University Choir 2, 4; University Concert Band 1, 2, 3, 4; University Orchestra 2, 3, 4; Hieronymus Club 4; Lowell Mason Club 1, 2,
3, 4; Pi Gamma Mu 4 • WILLIAM L. JOHN- STON; Kenney; Concert Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Concert Orchestra 1, 2^ 3, 4; Marching Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Male Chorus 1, 2; Men's Glee Club 3, 4; University Choir 3; Blackfriars 1, 2, 3, 4; Lowell Mason Club 1, 2, 3, 4.
VIRGINIA A. PRUDEN; Elgin; University Or- chestra 1, 2, 3, 4; Band 1, 2, 3; String Trio 1, 2, 3; Choir 3; Kappa Delta Epsilon 3, 4, President 4; Honor Council of Women's League 3, 4; Head Counselor 4; Fell Hall Honor Resident 2; Lowell Mason Club; Executive Board • MELVIN D. REIN; Morton; Band 1, 2, 3; Orchestra 1, 2, 3; Men's Glee Club 2, 3; University Choir 1, 2; Lowell Mason Club 1, 2, 3; Philadelphia 1, 2, 3; Kappa Phi Kappa 3; Male Chorus 1 • RAY F. RUNGE; Springfield; Concert Band 1, 2, 3, Vice-President 3; Concert Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4; Marching Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Pep Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Men's Chorus 1, Vice-President 1; Men's Glee Club 2, 3, 4, Vice-President 3, President 4; Mixed Choir 2; Cornet Trio 3, 4; Lowell Mason Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Secretary 3; University Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Executive Council 4; Gamma Delta 1, 2, 3; Black- friars 2, 3, 4; Smith Hall Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Vice- President 3, President 4; Student Council 4.
LEX G. SAMARAS; Hoopeston; Transfer from the University of Illinois; Men's Glee Club 3, 4; Marching Band 3, 4; Concert Band 3, 4; Orchestra 3, 4; Wrightonia 3, 4; Wrightonia Contest 3; Lowell Mason Club 3, 4; Blackfriars 3, 4; Abbott of Blackfriars 4; Men's Quartette 3, 4 • EILEEN
1. WEBER; Bloomington; Concert Band 2, 3, 4, Secretary 3; Concert Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4; Kappa Delta Epsilon 3, 4; Class Secretary 3; Women's League Secretary 4; Women's Chorus 1; War Service Council 3, 4; University Choir, Secretary
2, 3, 4; Lowell Mason Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Senior Ad- visory Board 4; Counsellor's Training • RE- GINA K. WENZEL; Collinsville; University Concert Band; University Orchestra; University Women's Chorus; University Choir; University String Ensemble; Lowell Mason Club; Clarinet Quartet.
O
^PP*^l^i
mtm
|
BENEDICT |
BESSMER |
BEST |
|
ENDERSON |
HOUK |
JOHNSTON |
|
PRUDEN |
REIN |
RUNGE |
|
SAMARAS |
WEBER |
WENZEL |
LOWELL MASON CLUB
From Song to Symphony They Fill the Bill
The bow-tie-bedecked pledge of Lowell Mason Club will never forget his "hell-week" trek around campus weighted down with a sample of hen-fruit to be auto- graphed by every member of the music faculty; nor will he forget the singing of the school song every hour on the hour at Four Corners. This club is open to all majors and minors in music, whether they arc specializing in swing, jazz, or classical; and to all those who are learning to teach the do, re, mi's.
Their pride and. joy at the Homecoming game was a new feature for the army to investigate; the very latest thing on rollers — a collapsible tank, which crossed the finish line with fourth place.
Music major Chuck Procasky found himself in an embarrasing situation after an evening of Christmas caroling. He went to class the next day — voiceless! Not to be forgotten were the apples heaped upon our merry songsters during the course of the evening bv the faculty members whom they had serenaded.
To the Lowell Mason Club go high honors for a most entertaining assembly program in the form of a
Minstrel Show, with a huge cast of blackened music makers who began with a scintillating arrangement of "Dixie." A few of the specialists on the program were Betty Bremer, who will be remembered for her sweet rendition of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny." Keep- ing in time with the second line, "that's where the cot- ton and the CORN and taters grow," Lex Samaras, Bill Calvin, Emmet Best, and Ray Runge did a great job of planting corn as the end men, while interlocutor Ray Bessmer kept peace at this one big happy "planta- tion party." Other soloists of the hour were Onalee CopJan, Ray Laine, Jim Baker, and Clyde Williams.. The Grand Finale to the tune of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" saw the end of a rousing show-. A tribute goes to all the loyal workers of the club and honor to the sponsor, Miss Margaret Westhoff.
The scene for "Musical Moods," worked out by the tango, jazz, and a unique church setting with ap- propriate music displaying a religious mood, was the contribution for the spring stunt show.
Plans for the annual Spring Festival were carried out, and after misplacing a few fiddle bow s and tripping down the steps in Sherwood Forest, the final program was perfectly played.
This year witnessed a change in the governing body of the club. An executive board was appointed by Chairman Charles Procasky, a junior from Belleville. Those serving on the board were Melvin Rein, pro- gram chairman; Mary Selk, publicity; Bill Calvin, treasurer; Margaret Reeves, membership; and Mary Ellen Price, secretary. With these officers, the club warbled through another year of fellowship.
Top Row — Cope, Broitz- man, Williamson, Neil, Singlcy, Whitehead, Sa- maras, Benedict, Fisher- kellcr, Pruden, Bessmer.
• Third Row — L'Heur- eux, Pike, Hamilton, Mar- lin, Schueneman, Baker, Kanning, Hull, Spalding, Laine, Williams, Reeves.
• Second Row — Lin- coln, Calvin, Rein, Miss Westhoff, Price, Procas- ky, Mc Vicar, Chesebro, iMader. • Front Row — Coplan, AIcGuire, 1 louk, Weber, Bremer, Brcen, Frank.
Seated — Mr. Adams, Mr. Fogler, Mr. Ivens, Mr. Barger. • Standing — DeBarr, Thomsen, Mr. Gooding, Mr. Rine, Mr. Smith.
PHYSICAL
SCIENCE
EDUCATION
Do You Burn to he am of Gavimetrics7.
Haunting the laboratories of the science building are scientifically-minded students surrounded by glass tubes, rubber hose, Bunsen burners, bell jars, and little bottles of perfectly harmless looking liquids that belie their appearance. One never knows by a glance through the glass-paneled doors, whether he is look- ing at another Madame Curie on the verge of isolating an unknown element, or Isaac Newton about to give forth with a world-shaking theory.
If you are tormented by a mania to learn the identity of certain anions and cations, or if thermodynamics, electronics, electrostatic fields, and Doppler's principle mean something to you, then here at last you may find your place in the ultra-violet rays of the center of the universe.
Mr. Howard Adams heads an all-men staff and has his office on the third floor. He is one good reason we have for our association of the terms "scientist" and "scholar."
Mr. R. VV. Fogler, with an infectious smile, wins his students immediately, and Mr. Ralph Gooding's efficiencv and friendliness make an unbeatable combi- nation. Precise, exacting Mr. Thomas Barger makes sure that every principle is indelibly imprinted on the minds of his pupils.
The slow drawling manner of Mr. Leon Smith pain- lessly eased us into the molecular realm of physical science when we were freshmen. Mr. Howard Ivens should never be puzzled by optical illusions since his main interest lies in the field of optics.
Although Mr. Clarence Cross was granted a leave of absence this year, teaching of the C. P. T. classes kept him closely connected with the campus; also in- dispensable in carrying out the stepped-up program of the department were student helpers Don Thomsen and Bert DeBarr.
Here they are — physicists in every sense of the word —just waiting their chance to expound some new- scientific theory or propose some new ideas. Any day, you can find this energetic bunch busily analyzing H.O into its elements and synthesizing the elements back into H20 (vicious circle, isn't it? )
A new course on campus, "Fundamentals of Radio," which closely follows the outline of government-spon- sored courses in radio, keeps the I.S.N. U. student "dit- da-da-dit" unconscious. The second half of this course is appropriately titled the "vacuum tube theory." Everything from toothpaste to coldcream is stirred up in the labs of the Consumer's Science class. A new course in Safety education gives the means employed for inculcating habits of safetv.
83
FINLEY THOMSEN
COOPER SMITH WEED
SENIORS 1943
JOHN R. CARLOCK; Blooviington; Marching Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Concert Band 1,
2, 3, 4; Orchestra 1, 2; Science Club 3, 4; Nature Study Club 3, 4; Kappa Phi Kappa
3, 4 • ROBERT W. COOPER; Bloovi- ington • E. JAMES FINLEY; Hudson; Concert Band 1, 2; Advisory Board 1; War Service Council 3, 4; Index 1, 2, Editor 3; Student Council 1, 2, 3, President 4; Ap- portionment Board 3; Kappa Mu Epsilon 3, 4; Counselor's Training Course 3.
LLOYD T. MINER; Cornell • NEL- SON R. SMITH; Maroa; Advisory Board 1,
2, 4; Social Science Club 1, 2, 3; University Publicity, Photographer 2, 3, 4; University 1, 2, 3, 4 • DONALD R. THOMSEN; Normal; Thcta Alpha Phi; Jesters; Gamma Delta.
SETH EUGENE WEED; Bloomington; Kappa Delta Pi 4; Kappa Mu Epsilon 3, 4; Science Club 4; Social Science Club 2, 3.
S4
SCIENCE CLUB
They Know How to Use the Scientific Method
Students of science are these members of the Sci- ence Club, an organization open to every member of the science and other related departments. Outstand- ing students from the fields of mathematics, geography, home economics, agriculture, physical science and bi- ology can apply for admission. Each department represented presents one program a year with both students and faculty participating.
Being scientific-minded, clubbers felt no feminine shudders when Miss Bertha Royce's class told about the various members of the now-obsolete phylum Ver- mes (worms, to you). It seems that the old axiom "Big fleas have lesser fleas" can as well be applied to these sinuous invertebrates.
Geographer Mr. Leslie Holmes told listeners the principles of map reading and explained the number of processes before a map is completed. Now they know why it is that every time another country changes identity the mapmaker swallows a box of aspirins!
From the University of Illinois came Dr. H. G.
Fuller to discuss with the leaders of tomorrow South America and her part in the world of science. (Roses are in order for the promoters of a working Good Neighbor policy).
Methods of saving money are always appealing to a conscientious college student, but professors too perceived the practicability of the Home Ec. stu- dents' demonstration of how to plan a low-cost diet. Biologist Mr. L. M. Miller brought thoughts of spring with his talk on Flowers of Illinois and maybe even a shame-faced look to some as they realize the quan- tities of blossoms there are in comparison to those they could not identify. Challenging, at any rate, was his contribution. Any day this spring you could see a Science Club member counting the petals of a "posey," hoping to learn its family, species, genus, etc., etc.
Programs such as these enable teachers to keep abreast of developments in the broad field of science and give students a desire for further scientific study. Serving the club as president this year was Miss Opal Hartline, vice-president Dorothy Catlin, and secretary- treasurer Madalyn Harris.
If your soil refuses to yield a harvest in that much- cultivated Victory garden, your two's and two's don't make four, the weather takes advantage of you, the waffles won't brown and the plants in your sun-parlor die, consult the members of this club for the gruesome details on how to remedy the situation. These are the scientists of today and tomorrow, joining hands to march onward in their eternal search for knowledge in the scientific world.
Top Row — Miss Ross, Miss McAvoy, Miss Royce, Catlin, DeBois, Mr. Holmes, Mr. Young, Dvorak, Cross, Ruffin, Wehling, Stringer. • Fourth Roto — Rainey, Mr. Lamkey, Mr. Miller, Brauer, Underkofler, Sto- well, Parrill, Slown. • Third Row — Clauson, Bergschneider, Harms, Henderson, Cline, Swain, Sorrenson. • Second Row — Calhoon, Harper, Allonby, Price, Browning, Robinson, Mr. Adams. • Front Row — Cyrier, Irvin, Tombaugh, Gordon, Shields, Harris, Miss Hartline.
85
.„
: F I • I •
^rviWVfifr
Seated — A'liss Ebel, Miss Waldron, Miss Stephens, Miss Marshall, Miss Tash- er, Mrs. Brunk, Mr. Bey- er. • Standing — Mr. Harper, Mr. Glasener, iMr. Kinneman, Air. Moore, Air. Orr, Mr. Browne, Air. Elhvood.
SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION
They Know
Whafs Gone With the Wind
Does history repeat itself? Will inflation follow this war? Who was Stanislaus Lesyczynski? Why is 1660 important? Take your questions concerned with his- tory, economics, and sociology to the various intellects of the social science department where you will dis- cover versatilities in interests as well as in personalities.
The director of the extension work of I.S.N. U. is fluent Mr. Clarence Orr, the prof who amuses Con. Civ'ers with tales of his family life. Mr. Charles Harper is noted for the unusual democratic procedures em- ployed in his History of Civilization classes.
Mr. Richard Browne and Mr. John Kinneman are the names found upon the title-page of that elegant- looking blue-black-and-gold text, America in Transi- tion, with which all Freshies become thoroughly ac- quainted. Air. Robert Ellwood, who can aid you in solving your problems of teaching social science, collaborated on Living With Others with Mr. Kinne- man,. and The American Citizen with Mr. Kinneman and Mr. Browne. Both of these writings are used in
high schools throughout the nation.
Brisk Miss Lucy Tasher is the sponsor of the Social Science club. She is an alumna of the University of Southern California. Having studied law, she knows her laws from customary to statute. Sponsor of Pi Gamma Mu, the hall of fame of social science majors and minors, is Mrs. Dorothy Brunk. She ranks among the graduates of I.S.N. U. and is greatly interested in Biblical archeology.
A vagabond is Miss Nell Waldron. She has taught in Japan and the Philippines as well as having toured many spots of the world which recent events have brought to the headlines. Miss Helen Marshall is very enthusiastic over her new home. She has entertained many a class with stories of her life in New Mexico.
Anyone needing any lessons on how to bait a hook can acquire a few pointers from Mr. Russell Glasener, who can spin yarn after yarn about his fishing excur- sions in western Ontario. Another Izaak Walton of this department is A4r. William Beyer, the guiding light of these professors.
At any basketball game, you can find Mr. Clifford Moore, who is a lover of this indoor sport. He is also interested in real estate and possesses a farm in the southern part of Illinois.
Rounding out the fourteen members of the depart- ment are Miss Alice Ebel and Miss Gertrude Stephens. Both of these instructors are critics of social science in the University high school. Normal is old stamping ground for Miss Stephens, for she received her train- ing on this same campus.
86
SENIORS 1943
JOHN D. DICKMAN; Pontiac; Social Science Club 1, 2, 3; Newman Club I, 2, 3, 4; Kappa Mu Epsilon 3, 4; Kappa Phi Kappa 4 • PAUL B. HARRIS; Normal; Advisory Board 1, 2, 3, 4; Stu- dent Council 2, 4, Vice-President 4; Blackfriars
1, 2, 3, 4, Treasurer 2; Concert Band 1, Marching Band 1, 2; Canterbury Club 2, President 2 • SHIRLEY L. HARVEY; Streator; Social Science Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Pi Gamma Mu 3, 4; Intramurals
2, 3, 4; House President's Board 4.
THERESA L. HILDEBRAND; Chicago; Phila- delphia; Kappa Delta Pi; Pi Gamma Mu, Vice- President; Social Science Club • E. DARLENE HINSHAW; Cropsey; Social Science Club 1, 2, 3; Pi Gamma Mu 3, 4; Vidette 4; College League of Women Voters 4 • WENDELL HOWARD HOOVER; Gibson City; Men's Glee Club 1 Social Science Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Pi Gamma Mu 3, 4 Jesters 2, 3, 4; Theta Alpha Phi 3, President 4 University Theatre Board 3, 4.
CLYDE MEACHUM; Clinton; University Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Social Science Club 1, 2, 3; Pi Gamma Mu 3, 4; Advisory Board 3, 4 • AVIS L. MOELLER; Oak Park; Art Club 2, 3, 4; Social Science Club 1, 2, 3; W.R.A. 1, 2, 4; Bloomington Art Association 4 • WILLIAM D. MORTON Gilnian; Class President 4; "U" Club Secretary 4 Men's Chorus 1, 2; War Service Council 4; "U' Club 1, 2, 3, 4.
VIRGINIA E. PENNELL; Springfield; W.R.A. 1; Social Science Club 1, 2, 3; Y.W.C.A. 2, 3, 4, Secretary 3, Decoration Chairman 4 • LELA RAINEY; Clinton; Pi Gamma Mu; Gamma Theta Upsilon • LAWRENCE H. ROUSE; Munde- lein; Social Science Club 1, 2, 3, 4, President 4; Pi Gamma Mu 3, 4, President 4; Sigma Tau Delta 3, 4; Kappa Delta Pi 4; Men's Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Secretary 3, Business Manager 4; Intramurals 1, 2, 3, 4; Advisory Board 4.
JEANETTE M. SHORT; East Alton • H. JANET THOMPSON; Blooviington; Social Sci- ence Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Y.W.C.A. 2; College League of Women Voters 3, 4; Gamma Theta Upsilon 4 • LEON WEINER; Chicago; Pi Gamma Mu • AVIS L. YOUNGBERG; Chicago; Social Sci- ence Club 3, 4; Pi Gamma Mu 3, 4, Treasurer 4; French Club 3, 4; 'Abe Lincoln In Illinois"; "Letters to Lucerne"; Transfer from Maine Town- ship Junior College.
SHORT
|
DICKMAN |
HARRIS |
HARVEY |
|
HILDEBRAND |
HINSHAW |
HOOVER |
|
MEACHUM |
MOELLER |
MORTON |
|
PENNELL |
RAINEY |
ROUSE |
|
THOMPSON |
WEINER |
YOUNGBERG |
87
Portion of club working on stunt show: Stand- ing— Lowe, Brigham, Jones, Whitver, Helmick, Kendrick, M. Rouse, Janda, Grover, Young- berg, Langer. • Seated — Peaco, Hildebrand, Miss Tasher, L. Rouse, Herrick.
SOCIAL SCIENCE CLUB
They Know Their Dates From B. C. to A. D.
Breathes there a social science student with soul so dead who never to himself hath said, "Social science club tonight." Sponsored by iVIiss Lucy Tasher, the club promised that "anything could happen" in its endeavor to promote and maintain interest in social j science. First organized as a trying ground for those • who might be prospective Pi Gamma Mu'ers, it now has a personality and purpose all its own.
Following the democratic policies it preaches, the organization is open to all students interested in social problems. Composed of sixty members, it had an executive council presided over by Prexy Larry Rouse. During the first semester, his assistant was Jeanette Short; during the second semester, Margaret Her- mann. Ivan Bodine, one of the E.R.C. fellows who left the campus in February, was treasurer. In March Janet Thompson was elected to fill the vacancy. Lor- raine Janda Roberts served as recording-secretary. Chairman of the program committee was Billie Her- rick. Ann Prescott was designated as chairman of the
social committee. Avis Youngberg was membership chairman. Howard Hoover, Lucile Hildebrand, and Carol Kersten were the three students elected-at-large from the club to complete the personnel of the execu- tive council.
In addition to the executive council, there were other officers. Barbara Elder held the position of cor- responding secretary. Custodian Wayne Newell and sergeant-at-arms Wallace Jones, who became buck privates in Uncle Sam's forces at the early part of the second semester, were replaced by Harmon Peaco and Charles Yahr.
In October, the social science clubbers dabbled in paint and cardboard as well as searched for artistic ideas as they prepared their entry for the house decora- tion contest. Panthers and Redbirds struggled on the lawn of 212 Normal Avenue during the weekend of Homecoming.
At one get-together, student teaching was the theme. Three critic teachers from University High School spoke upon the problems of student teachers of social science — Miss Alice Ebel, Miss Ethel Stephens, and Mr. Robert Ellwood. Mr. George Palmer, pro- fessor of English, had charge of another meeting. Us- ing some of his collection of books and pamphlets about world peace, A4r. Palmer discussed various plans for post-war planning.
The activities of the social science group for this school term were climaxed with a picnic. Even the annual baseball game did not affect those clubbers who had been victims of the physical recreation program.
PI GAMMA MU
"Ye Shall Know the Truth and the Truth Shall Make You Free"
So Caesar was doublecrossed in 44 B. C. and Rome wasn't built in a day! As a reward for knowing these historic indispensables (and a few other things like being a junior or senior with a minimum of twenty hours of B in social sciences! ) Pi Gamma Mu offers you a place of honor on her roll of members.
This national honorary society, founded at I.S.N. U. in 1929 as the Illinois Theta Chapter, launched forth last fall with a program devised to inculcate success- fully the ideals of scholarship and social services in the study of social problems.
At an early meeting, clubbers used their franchise to install Larry Rouse as wielder of the gavel for nine months. Lucile Hildebrand joined the officers' ranks as vice-prexy. Responsibilities of secretarial duties were given to Jeanette Short for the first semester, Margaret Herman for the second. To Avis Youngberg were entrusted the matters of finance. Airs. Dorothy Brunk served as sponsor and corresponding secretary.
"Get-togethers," said the constitution, "will be held every fourth Tuesday." Panel discussions were given on the topics of: "The Problem of India," "France and the Post-war World," "The British Empire," and
"Western Hemisphere Relations." To each subject, special emphasis was given by the clubbers as to the related problems which would be confronting us and would arise when a peace had been won.
Two initiations were held in the student lounge dur- ing September and February. Neophytes who faced the grilling and gruelling of the "authorities of social science" were Lois Houk, Wallace Jones, Eileen Kirch- ner, and Rosalie Shannon. (Example: How long did the Thirty Years' War last? )
Pi Gamma'ers did their bit toward making Home- coming a memorable event for returning alumni by holding a banquet at the Y.W.C.A. for forty present and former students who renewed acquaintances and revived memories.
Outlet for the clubbers' spring fever was offered by the annual spring picnic which emphasized sandwiches and potato chips. Another opportunity for a good time was Mrs. Brunk's invitation for an evening of fun and food at her home.
The January meeting saw graduates David Ellison and Ralph Jacobs enlivening the discussions for the last time. Leon Weiner, on the other hand, succumbed not to the charms of a sheepskin but to Uncle Sam's "I wantcha."
Each member of the organization was the recipient of the society's official journal Social Science. This quarterly publication promotes the ideals of the so- ciety through the articles submitted by chapters throughout the nation.
Considering the chaotic condition of the world, members of Pi Gamma Mu realize how priceless their motto is: "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."
Top Row — Trenary, Su- homske, Hinshaw, Wad- dell, Harvey. • Mid- dle Row — Weiner, Hend- ricks, Gorman, Kiester, Meachum, Ceresa, Bo- dine. • Front Row — ■ Youngberg, Short, Rouse, Mrs. Brunk, Mr. Beyer.
89
M r . Sorrenson, Mr. Holmes, Miss Allen, Miss
Yates.
SPEECH EDUCATION
Your Epiglottal Glide Is Showing!
While in the process of making what you prayed would be an impressive after-dinner speech, the action of your speech mechanism is jammed — when your in- structor of history civ. or gen. methods asks for a con- tribution to the recitation and you display a degree of cerebral confusion as a result of ambivalence — you need not travel far to receive laryngosopical exami- nation or seek the assistance of a professional in the field of psychotherapy. Ah, no! the members of the speech staff on our campus will diagnose the contrib- utory factors, state the prognosis, and facilitate the process of correction.
After the final tabulation is in and you energetically try to decipher the phenomena of your speech dis- order, you will probably come to the conclusion that nature certainly went to an undue amount of trouble in producing voice. (Pardon, phonation.)
The speech department at I.S.N.U. diverges into four main fields: Mr. F. Lincoln D. Holmes, who heads the speech department, maintains campus argu-
mentation with his debaters. If we should wander into the field of literature, we would find Miss Ruth Yates leading the prosaic reader to a deeper love of literature and a richer understanding of it. Mr. Fred Sorrenson is the amiable professor who takes aspiring orators, eliminates their imperfections and replaces them as smooth elocutionists.
Miss Mabel Clare Allen's field lies in drama and the theater. Miss Allen guides and assists ambitions young actors and supervises stage scenery and adornment so that when the curtain goes up the night of the play, the stage at I.S.N.U. has a professional atmosphere.
Forever active, the speech department presents a busy round of campus activities. Here you can learn the speech necessities from the palate up. YTou study histrionics with a phonetic flair or learn to say "Jack, I didn't think you'd do it!" in eight different ways. Remember the old days of Voice and Diction when you were "fa fi fi fa-ing" all over the place?
Remember the shock of hearing your voice boom back at you from the record you were required to make as a freshman — the record which evaluated your speaking voice into its various components: pitch, rate, quality, volume. Remember the night you crammed for your speech exam trying to learn the "puff theory"?
Innovation in the speech education department this year was the classification of incoming freshmen into different speech classes. This homogenous grouping has been most effective in helping freshmen with their speech problems.
90
SENIORS 1943
DePEW JOHNSON MYERS
STAPLES WALTER
MARIAN G. DePEW; Bloomington; Jes- ters 1, 2, 3, 4, President 4; Commerce Club 2, 3, 4; Advisory Board 1, 3, 4; Class Vice- President 1, 4; Student Council 4; Theta Alpha Phi 2, 3, 4, Historian 3; Kappa Delta Epsilon 3, 4; University Theater Board 4, Business Manager 4; "You Can't Take It With You"; "Seven Sisters"; "Candida" • HELEN O. JOHNSON; Jacksonville; Transfer from Western State Teachers Col- lege 3; University Women's Chorus 3, 4; Librarian 4; Debate Squad 3, 4; Pi Kappa Delta 3, 4, Vice-President 4; Jesters 4; Phil- Wright Contest 4; Edwards Medal 3, 4; "The Far Off Hills"; "Ladies of Cranbury";
Philadelphia 4 • ETHEL E. MYERS; Geneseo; Gamma Delta 1, 2; Debate 2; Jes- ters 2, 3, 4; Theta Alpha Phi 3, 4; Secretary- Treasurer 3; "Candida"; "A Murder Has Been Arranged"; "The Emperor's New Clothes," Assistant Director.
YJEAN I. STAPLES; Gary, Indiana; Uni- versity Chorus 2; Y.W.C.A. 2; Wrightonia 2; Honor Council 3; Girl Reserves Adviser 3; Negro Chorus 2; Jesters 3 • LOWELL M. WALTER; Belvidere; Pi Kappa Delta; Theta Alpha Phi; Jesters; Kappa Phi Kappa; Wrightonia; Radio; Orating.
91
PI KAPPA DELTA
They Challenge Arguments
"Get some information about Pi Kappa Delta," the Literary Editor screamed at me as I was warily sneak- ing out of the Index office, thinking blissfully of one whole night of sleep.
"Who — me? Why, I don't know a proposition from a preposition. I don't even know an issue when I see one. I can't tell the difference between inference and reference. I . . ."
"Get that copy."
Oh, well, I always did see both sides of everything — even a debate. Wending my puffing way to M305, I found a group bandying the words of Webster, dis- puting comprehensive arguments, and refuting pros and cons like experts. These students, the members of Pi Kappa Delta, honorary forensic fraternity, were all steamed up over something or other about a Federation of Nations.
President Dotty Rutledge explained the whole de- bate technique to me. First, you've got to get an issue — a perfectly good, first-hand, unused issue. When you've got one cornered, you sneak up on it from behind, tackle it, and you're set for the season. Second, you purchase quantities of small white cards. (These
are used merely for writing notes telling your col- league that the opposition doesn't know what he's talking about.) Fourth step (the third one was some- thing about preparation but wasn't really important, anyway) is to develop a bombastic style of delivery so that you can blast the judge into a decision. Fifth, you are initiated into Pi Kappa Delta.
Now, let's look at the other officers of Pi Kappa Delta. Short in stature, but tall in ability is vice-presi- dent Helen O. Johnson. Lowell Walter served this argumentative aggregation as secretary-treasurer until his induction into the army. The P.K.D.'ers also lost Earl Scarbeary and Robertlee Holley to the same cause.
First proposition in the year's activities was the fall reception by the Forensic board for the freshmen. A joint Homecoming breakfast with Gamma Mu was the second point. Big event of the year was the Provincial tournament on this campus, March 18-20. A banquet in the Spring commemorated the organization's twen- tieth anniversary. At this time initiates Lois Wheeler, Marjorie Thompson, Rosemary Browne, iVlarguerite Elledge, Mae Miller and Marjorie Munns were sworn into active service in the fraternity.
Air. F. Lincoln D. Holmes is the sponsor of this group interested in persuasive speaking. Under his guidance, the fraternity saw a year of successful debate tourna- ments with Normal representatives "doing themselves proud" with discussion and debate trips.
"Gee whiz," I said as I backed out. "There are more intellectual 'lights' here than there are in Capen audi- torium. I'm going back to the old Index crowd."
Seated — Mr. Holmes, Rutledge, Johnson. • Standing — Weldon, Gil- lespie, Scarbeary, Walter.
92
Seated — Mr. Lancaster, Miss Rice, Mr. DeYoung, Miss Cooper, Mr. Larsen. • Standing — Mr. Hack- er, Miss Force, Mr. Wag- goner, Mr. Goodier, Mrs. Henderson, Mr. Cole.
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
They Know All About 'Core Curriculum] 'Variant si 'Constants
Unquestionably, a "teacher-training institution" must offer many courses in Education for which professors are required. Meet our educators!
Well-known for their work in the field of both secondary and elementary education are these teachers headed by affable Mr. C. A. DeYoung, a traveler and former resident of India. Illustrations and breadth of knowledge make his classes pleasant. Dean H. H. Schroeder, much-respected and learned follower of Kant, teaches advanced philosophy to those who still feel up to it after Philosophy of Education. Another expounder of philosophical thought is the courteous and considerate Mrs. Stella Henderson.
Deep-voiced Mr. Floyd Goodier is ( 1 ) concise, ( 2 ) friendly, and (3) full of vitality. Mr. A. H. Larsen, mathematically exact, shows a glowing satisfaction in his work and Mr. C. E. Decker genially jokes with the pupils (emphasis on the 'pills') in and outside the class- room. Mr. John Carrington brings to students a hail- fellow-well-met spirit that puts everyone at ease. On the third floor of Old Alain is the office of a man who
will always be "one of us," who lends a sympathetic- ear to any of our problems, and who advises us wisely — Mr. Victor Houston. Efficient Mr. Sherman Wag- goner demonstrates the value of doing daily work as it comes — with timeliness as its own reward, while Mr. L. W. Hacker gravely grapples with the task of driv- ing home the facts of public education in America.
If you have a field in the elementary curriculum, Miss Margaret Cooper is the person whom you will seek for counsel. Wiry, droll i\!r. Thomas Lancaster will "send you to the library often." Mr. Edward Cole twinkles while he talks to his classes; Miss Ethel Burris makes Reading more than something we took in the grades.
Kindergarten-Primary students grow familiar with competent Miss Agnes Rice's realm, and rural students find Miss Rose Parker a storehouse of information for them. Miss Thelma Force brings bits of poetry, some especially apt literary expression and gems of thought into the lives of her pupils.
Because of the purpose of our school, the education faculty performs a vital function. Without it, pro- fessional training would not be the reality that it is. As examples and guides, these faculty members are indispensable.
This, then, is the Education staff. Thev can give you the lowdown on Morrison, Breed or Bossing. They know their John Dewey backwards and for- wards. And they know the answers to all sorts of edifying questions like: "How many schools in the United States," or "Which is the best program, en- richment or acceleration?" No finer tribute could be given them than this: They teach us how to teach.
93
Mr. Malmberg, Mr. Hib- ler, Mr. Peterson, Mr. Marzolf.
PSYCHOLOGY EDUCATION
And How Are Your Motor Reflexes Today7.
Compensation docs not refer to the "fee received for a service rendered," and rationalization has nothing to do with the little stamp books you carry with you, as you will learn from the psychology staff. Rats in a maze are no more bewildered than Gen. Psych, stu- dents the first six weeks poring over experiments cloaked in such terms as "motivation," "maturation," "perception," and "retention," but by the end of the year they are matching terms with Woodworth and Ruch. Intelligence tests in Ed. Psych, would have been annoying if we had served as the "guinea pigs"; and we would still like to know who observed whom when we made "observations." We developed the symptoms of every new psychosis when we took Mental Hygiene, and felt that normally we were disturbingly abnormal.
Air. H. A. Peterson, whose work in his field has won wide recognition, is head of this department. That newly organized syllabus you used for Ed. Psych, this year was the result of hours of work on the part of both Mr. Peterson and Mr. C. F. Malmberg.
Wavy white hair and a military bearing are things we shall remember about Mr. Malmberg. Friendly, and with a humorous turn, he likes to give illustrations that bring a smile.
Enthusiastic and jovial Mr. Francis Hibler carries his own interest in his work to the students, and the result is an alert, lively class. If we had not dipped deep into the alluring story of our own life at the re- quest of Mr. Hibler, we might have died unaware of our possibilities — and limitations. By the way, have you read your autobiography recently?
Can you ever forget Mr. Stanley iMarzolf's clipped, precise manner, and the void feeling that filled you the first day he waited for someone to start asking him questions? An incessant reader, informed on al- most any subject, and determined to set his students thinking, he makes psychology apply to everyday life, and, had we not been past the point of being amazed, he would have amazed us with his rare good humor and fund of facts.
This staff is "psychologically on the beam," as we found out when we enrolled in our psychology and mental hygiene courses. Do you know if you are suffering from a mental psychoneurosis? Do you day- dream abnormally? Do you have schizophrenic tend- encies? Do you see black spots before your eyes at night? Then something should be done about you! Hop over to the Psychology offices and sit you down with an Alpha Beta test and give yourself the psycho- analytic diagnosis. There is nothing like finding out to the last decile whether you are a highgrade moron or a borderline case.
94
KAPPA DELTA PI
"Knowledge Dutyj and
Power"
Cream of the educational crop goes to make up the membership of Kappa Delta Pi. Members of this hon- orary fraternity, although regarded by fellow students as intellectual giants, are sufficiently human to have a sponsor, elect officers, and meet for programs just as other groups.
To help make better teachers — that is the major idea behind the more specific purpose: "to encourage high professional, intellectual, and personal standards and recognize outstanding contributions to education." Madalyn Harris occupied the presidential chair; the sponsor was Dean H. H. Schroeder; vice-president, Lucille Massock, whose absence at the close of the first semester demanded Harriet Seltzer's filling the office; secretary, Aleta Dillon; and treasurer, Jim Robb.
At the Homecoming Banquet, held this year at the Normal Baptist Church, old and new members listened as Naval Officer W. J. Logsdon spoke on "Education and the War." The seven pledges who became active members at the time were Ycrna King, Janette Sanchen,
Harriet Seltzer, Wesley Stephens, Elizabeth Powell, Larry Rouse, and Vera Vitton.
"Loose Ends in Education" was the theme apropo of the state of the world, and everyone had something to say when time came for the discussion of unsolved problems in the teaching field. Married teachers, stu- dent teaching and classwork, interneship, and teaching as a profession each had its share of the pros and cons of group opinion.
The epidemic of club evaluations caught Kappa Delta Pi also, but the club took its medicine dutifully because the organization came back twice as strong with the value of scholarship exercising its power.
The club held a lively discussion on the objectives and functions of the organization and came through with a determination to make K.D.P. mean even more in the future.
Marie Gorman, at the February meeting, reviewed Howard Smith's Last Train from Berlin w ith an idea of helping determine which books are authentic, and which are mere propaganda. Closely following this revie\\r was the discussion of the effects of war on the men who fight.
Spring and banquets go hand in hand, so the Spring Banquet, the last meeting for the seniors and final one of the year for others, was made a memorable one with the latest pledges being initiated, and old members reminiscing about what Kappa Delta Pi had meant to them. Making no claims to having tied up all the "loose-ends" of education, at the end of the year these young men and women have gained some insights into their profession that they will earn- with them into schools, homes, and cities scattered throughout the world.
Seated — Dillon, Harris, Mr. Schroeder, Robb, Seltzer. • Standing — Vitton, Hildebrand, Han- cock, Rouse, Gorman, Powell.
95
KAPPA DELTA EPSILON
This Is a Circle
of Well-Trained Teachers
What could be a better theme for the all girls1 edu- cational sorority Kappa Delta Epsilon, than "Educa- tion for Living?" Who could be better qualified to discover all the phases of this motto than the women who have been chosen from juniors and seniors with good, well-rounded scholastic records and super grades in education courses?
During the present year, the sorority sisters strived to broaden their background, culturally, socially, and professionals. The sponsor, Mrs. Stella Henderson, helped the girls to achieve their goal.
Throughout the year, they had a varied program consisting of speakers from the faculty. Those who discussed timely topics at meetings during the year were Mr. Donald Weisman, Miss Gertrude Stephens, Mr. George Palmer, Mr. John L. Kinneman, and Dean H. H. Schroeder. In the fall and in the spring, in- formal initiation finds the pledges loosening the veil of dignity in an effort to please the actives. This torture is forgotten, however, when they array themselves formally for the more serious formal initiation. Later
at a solemn and impressive ceremony, the pledges are taken in as full members of the sorority.
While there were still a few males left on campus, a dessert party with Kappa Phi Kappa was held in the student lounge. Future pillars of the world were dis- cussed, and weighty problems aired.
To the members of this organization, the club means more than social functions and good times. The ob- jectives for the sorority have become actualities for the growing group of members.
Not forgotten, amidst social affairs and scholastic fervor, the Red Cross received its share of cooperation . from the sisters of K.D.E. who helped to collect and reprocess old yarn.
Highlighting the year was the annual Founder's Day Program. In reality, it was a celebration of the birth- day of K.D.E. During a beautiful, dignified, candle- lighting ceremony, the history of the sorority was re- cited by a number of girls, each representing a certain year. This service helps to keep the memories fresh in the minds of those who know and love K.D.E.
This year's president was Virginia Pruden, a music major from Elgin. Martha Jean Browning served as vice-president; Mildred Harms and Priscilla Donald- son Neumann were recording and corresponding sec- retaries, respectively. The watchful eye of Mildred Bauer supervised the treasury and Jean Barton had the honor of holding the office of historian.
And so another year, a successful one, has passed. The K.D.E. 'ers still personify their motto: "A circle of well-trained teachers." When the members of this organization go out into the "field" they will carrv with them unforgettable memories of K.D.E.
|
ri jljm^u 19HIE-. mk Pi! M9 |
|
1 ttf InEK-my Ci Ww i\ t ■ -* I jfl |
|
**^»^B fcs*^ ^*^1b!f"^ Rct tH |
|
51 B3&~ 1 «WwHPBmWjI |
|
iQO^yjf^^JH |
|
A^K^^K^BC^p^^KkM^^^^H^ |
|
;|\ 1 i\ 1M fcM ,, . ftVJ 1 Sill |
|
I L^dMi _± liiiHI |
Top Row ■ — • Gorman, Bauer, Clauson, Catlin, Mitchell, Mrs. Hender- son, Kiester, DePew, Orr, Ridenour, Wilson • Third Row — Donaldson, Harms, Browning, Miss Stubblefield, Miss Webb, Pruden, Von Allmen, Danforth. • Second Row — Underwood, Wad- dell, Jahnke, Smallwood, Salisbury • Front Row — Harris, Barton, Shields, Irvin, Gillespie, Fulton, Wenger.
96
Seated — Neumann, Gath- mann, Blatnik, Anderson, Stephens. • Standing — Dickman, Rein, Walters, Silverstrini, Bodine, Pour- chot, Graves, Howell.
KAPPA PHI KAPPA
Still Peppy
Despite Thinned Ranks
The Kappa Phi Kappa is the clan for men who arc- juniors with a B average and have six hours in educa- tion chalked up in their favor.
Prexy John Blatnik burned midnight oil making plans for the organization. Wayne Gathmann held the office of vice-president. John Sisevich was recorder- of-facts and guard of the money bag. Wendell Ander- son plied ink and pen as part of his duties as corre- sponding secretary. Last spring. Dale Shulaw had been nominated to this office, but was called into Army service in the Fall. Program chairman was the Vidette editor, Avery Stephens; sponsor of this stag group was Mr. E. L. Cole.
Although the purpose of this organization is profes- sional advancement in the field of education, 1943 saw a different and new objective. The K.P.K.'ers tried to do various practical things which would aid each one to adjust himself to the chaotic condition of the dav.
Captain George Waters of the Automotive Trade School in Bloomington addressed the society in Jan-
uary, relating some of his personal experiences in World War I. The fellows were especially enthus- iastic about the excellent pointers Captain Waters offered them which would be of service to them upon being inducted.
Mr. Constantine Malmberg, associate professor of psychology, spoke to Kappa Phi Kappa in February on Modern Psychology and War.
At a semi-formal ceremony in November, Leonard Pourchot, John Dickman, Ivan Bodine, John Walters, Ed Neumann, Dick Howell, Melvin Rein, Bob Broitz- man, and Tulio Silverstrini joined the ranks of the K.P.K.'ers. Mr. Ralph W. Pringle, former principal of University high school, Mr. Malmberg, and Mr. Cole assisted with the "inducting" service.
Chairman Wendell Anderson, Ed Neumann, and Tulio Silverstrini made up the committee who believed "If you don't write, you're wrong." Form letters were sent to all former members of Kappa Phi Kappa now in Uncle Sam's ranks. Those K.P.K.'ers who know members personally added individual "P.S.'s" to the letters.
One of the highlights of the year was the joint dessert party with Kappa Delta Epsilon. Leonard Pourchot, Ivan Bodine, and John Walters were the calorie- collaborators.
At the present time, doubt reigns as to whether or not there will be an active society next fall. Perhaps the stag picnic held this spring will go down in then- journals as the last get-together for Kappa Phi Kappa "for the duration."
97
Mr. Waggoner, Principal of University High School.
Mr. Carrington, Director of Training School.
Miss Cooper, Director of Elementary Education.
ELEMENTARY-UNIVERSITY
They Supervise The "Last Lap
How does it feel the first day? You stand quaking behind the desk with the lesson plan before you, feel- ing dumber than ever before — your throat gets dry — your knees shake — and for some reason the lesson you thought you knew so well — those inspiring phrases you rehearsed so carefully over and over again the night before — refuse to come out. Then the blurr of blank, staring faces in front of you takes shape. You see a roomful of expectant pupils, eager for knowledge, (well, eager, anyway) awaiting calmly the first utter- ances of their new teacher. Everything is still. Forc- ing a weak smile, you start the lesson.
After the first fright comes a wonderful sense of power and confidence; you even find yourself trying to apply a few of those principles you learned in psy- chology and Gen. Method classes.
Such might be a student teacher's story of her first class; but always there to lend a helping hand in every- thing from making lesson plans to satisfying some little fifth-grade genius with a yen for asking inconvenient questions, is the student supervisor.
There are some fifty training-school teachers who instruct and supervise classes in the Metcalf Elemen- tal) School and University High School. Besides teaching, they give demonstrations and often conduct college classes. They meet once or twice weeklv with their student teachers to advise them, give them con-
98
ELEMENTARY SUPERVISING TEACHERS
Standing — Miss Ogle, Miss Hayden, Miss Cooper, Miss Arnold, Miss Bally, Miss Grime, Miss Clemens.
boden, Miss Finger, Miss Thoene, .Mrs. Buehler, Miss Russell.
Seated — Miss Im-
HIGH SUPERVISING TEACHERS
structive criticism or help make lesson plans.
The training school teachers welcome visitors to their classes. They're anxious to serve, in any way possible, the faculty, university students and visitors from off the campus. The opportunities to observe teaching methods in action, students, and classwork
through these classes are invaluable to the college groups studying psychology, classroom techniques, or character education.
In the words of genial Miss Margaret Cooper, "The supervisors are indispensable. We couldn't get along without them."
|
' ' |
mmmmsM |
||||||||||
|
m |
fLJ |
\ |
w - 1 |
■ m |
|||||||
|
W Jita» |
|||||||||||
|
[™ |
F |
?T |
" 31 |
V |
Vf |
W wk: |
^ ^ |
' |
|||
|
1 a |
Mtk. ' |
' |
k:: |
||||||||
|
■ |
H |
¥' |
1 f |
iSd |
« |
? |
1 |
i |
|||
|
'# |
| |
f |
■ : |
1 n |
S» ' |
t |
I' |
\ |
WM-\ |
||
|
■■»■- |
w ft *** |
If' |
0 |
UNIVERSITY HIGH SUPERVISING TEACHERS
Tup Row — Mr. Larsen, Mr. Marzolf, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Rine, Mr. Admire, Mr. Peithman, .Mr. Ellwood. • Middle Row — Miss Huggins, Miss McAvoy, Mrs. Fraley, Miss Thielen, Miss Winegarner, Miss Ebel, .Miss Council, Miss McDavitt, Miss Stubble- field, Mr. DeWees. • Front Row — Miss Whitten, Miss Stephens, Miss Hamilton, Miss Stroud, Mrs. Stombaugh, Miss Webb,
Miss Ellis, Miss Flagg, Miss Tucker.
99
ENTERTAINMENT
Campus Mousetrap — They Beat a Path To Our Door!
A jam in the bridge between Old Alain and Indus- trial Arts building, a display of activity tickets, and a clamoring for fifth row center seats usually meant the Lecture and Entertainment Board had planned another evening of glorious entertainment.
This year's programs took us to Norway and Aus- tralia and presented several popular and celebrated artists. Mrs. Aase Gruda Skard, famous Norwegian child psychologist, writer, teacher, and lecturer com- menced the season October 19 when she spoke on Nazism in conflict with Norwegian mentality. Mrs. Skard was jointly presented by the local chapter of American Association of University Women and I.S.N.U.
Aase Gruda Skard, who Mas studying in Sweden when the Nazis overran her native country, Norway, brilliantly related the tale of Norway's temporary enslavement and exclaimed "The Norwegians are striv- ing for peace, justice, honesty, and truth, all that makes life worth living."
Mrs. Skard, a distinguished psychologist, viewing the war situation as a dangerous factor in changing the entire moral characteristics of the people said that Norwegians have always been a just, and peace-loving race, but war with Germany changed all this. "Lying, cheating, and dishonest)' is life to the Nazis. And from these merciless attackers Norway has learned to lie, cheat, and distrust. LTntil the war came we didn't know how much we loved peace and justice. Knowing this, Norway stands united."
An enthusiastic audience crowded McCormick gym- nasium on December 9 to hear the famous Metropolitan opera tenor Richard Crooks who was presented jointly by I.S.N.U. and the Amateur Musical Club of Bloom- ington. Several of Crooks' highly applauded selections were "Comfort Ye My People," from "Messiah" by Handel; "On Wings of Song" by Mendelssohn; "Were You There? " — Negro spiritual; and "Land of Hope and Glory" by Elgar.
Rieger, Richard Crooks, Wcldon — America's favorite tenor was generous with encores. • Mr. Baker, Aloha Baker, (Miss Peters — She's "The Most-Traveled Woman in the World!" • Thom- sen, Carveth Wells, Mr. Glasener. Mr. Wells "played checkers with the moods of his audience."
100
Mr. Crooks, who recently has been presented with the annual Award of Merit as the "best male classical vocalist" by the radio editors in the United States and Canada in the annual radio poll, spent several years in acquiring his extensive repertoire. He has studied many branches of musical literature with masters in many countries including Germany, France, Italy, Russia, and Norway. Having lived with these people enables him to sing his songs in the true spirit of their country.
On January 6 Carveth Wells, outstanding author, entertainer, radio and television personality, presented a lecture on "The Coming Battle for Tin and Rubber." Mr. Wells has studied the planet on which we live from the air, on the surface, beneath the sea, in the caverns, under the ground, in the arctic, over the desert, and through the jungle. He has led expeditions to Africa, Russia, the Caucasus Mountains, Near East, Lapland, Panama, and Mexico. He has the only pic- tures in America of Singapore and Malaya which have been taken since war was declared. In presenting his program of facts and figures, Mr. Wells played checkers with the moods of his audience.
We turned to Australia for our next lecture. The "world's most traveled woman," Aloha Baker, author- lecturer, presented the timely and authentic lecture on "Australia Now," February 23. A very dynamic- speaker, Mrs. Baker claims that title since she has visited 85 countries in all parts of the world, having begun her travels when she was seventeen years old. Educated in France, Mrs. Baker has a "speaking ac- quaintance" with about fourteen languages and speaks German, French, Spanish, and Italian fluently.
Mrs. Baker pointed out that the Japanese had not caught the Aussies napping even though the fifth column was active in obtaining information of the conditions in Australia. Speaking on their military matters Mrs. Baker said, "Their army, their navy, and their air force have all seen service for other countries." The Australians are quite serious about their work; they have one slogan — 'Work, fight, or perish'."
Included in Mrs. Baker's illustrated program were the important animals of the country including the kangaroos, which she said are not bothered by the 35-mile-an-hour speed limit of America but hop along at 45 miles an hour, and the original teddy bear, the Kaola. She also revealed that all men in Australia be- tween the ages of 18 and 60 are subject to military duty. Concluding, Mrs. Baker stated, "Yes, they are doing a good job, Americans and Australians together."
Brazilian Concert pianist, Madame Guiomar Novaes, called by some the greatest woman pianist of today, appeared in a recital here on March 15. An ardent patriot and advocate of Pan-Americanism, Brazil's famous artist began studying the piano when she was five years old. She made her debut as a mature artist at the age of sixteen.
After showing extraordinary talent studying under Chiaffarelli, she was sent to study at the Paris con- servatory. Madame Novaes placed first among 338 candidates who enrolled in competition for the twelve available places at the conservatory.
This year's entertainment season, with its galaxy of international celebrities, was endorsed by every stu- dent on the campus.
Mrs. Skard, Mrs. Gooding, Miss Tarrant, Mr. Fraley — "Norway stands united."
Madame Guiomar Novaes — advocate of Pan-Americanism, brilliant pianist.
101
SENIORS
Freshman Partjj Sophomore Cotilliorij Junior-Senior Promj Curtains for the Seniors!
They've handed in their 'last term paper for Gen. Method, sipped a final coke at the Co-op, and cut Philosophy of Ed. for the last time. At the end of four exuberant years, they close their chapter at I.S.N. U. They have penetrated into the far depths of thirty-six months of training. Leaders of today and tomorrow, they are the campus presidents, editors, and captains.
Cast your thoughts back over the graduating class of 1943 and you'll think of enthusiastic Bill Morton who accepted his presidential duties with zeal; vice- president Marian DePew, a pleasant and attractive ad- dition to any organization or activity be it a university play, Student Council, or Jesters; and peppy Martha Jean Browning, secretary-treasurer.
Survey Prexy Morton's advisory crew who ingen- iously initiated the "500" club and boosted school spirit at athletic events. In this board of familiars, we find Larry Rouse, president of the Social Science club and volleyball captain; movie-machine operator Nelson Smith; versatile Glenn Johnson, member of the War Service Board and Student Council president. Well think of "Rusty" Harris, Blackfriar prodigy; Russ Steele, cross-country star and sports-editor of Vidette, John Blatnik, Kappa Phi Kappa president; and Doris Howell, gracious executive of Pi Omega Pi.
Wilma Vogel was the assistant director of "Letters to Lucerne"; Don Thomsen Mas the lighting director of University Theatre Board; 1942 Homecoming Queen, Betty Von Allmcn was active in W.R.A. and Women's League. We'll remember Ray Runge as the pep-band director and Council member; Ed Neumann, president of University club; Avery Stephens, editor- in-chief of the Vidette; Jim Finley, ex-editor of Index and Student Council president.
Reminiscing, we'll recall Mary Kay Herrmann, pres- ident of Women's League and secretary of the War Service Council. Co-op parties remind us of Coopera- tive Council chairman Bob Campbell. Elinor Leigh
Johnson, Wenzel, Banker, Stephens. • Senior Advisory Board
dance. • Orr, Blatnik, Morton and Morton, DePew, Chicas
stop for a dance chit-chat. • Nash, Harris, Price, Rouse,
Howell, Norton try their hand at cards.