Dr. L. K. Bowersox is planning to discontinue his services on the faculty of McPherson College at the close of the summer session
the latter part of July. His successor will be Raymond L. Flory who has signed a contract as As-
sistant Professor of History and Political Science. He received his 11. S. at McPherson in 1940 and his A. M. at the University of
Mr. A. R. Mann, architect of Hutchinson. Kansas, was on the campus March 31, to confer with some of the college authorities in reference to plans for the building program that has been authorized by the Board of Trustees. The plans call for a dining hall and kitchen, a men's dormitory, and an addition to the library.
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Kansas in 194 2. Next September he will have completed his course requirements for his Ph. D. at the University of Kansas.
Mr. Flory was Principal and teacher at the Appanoose High School near Pomona, Kansas from 1942 to 1946. Mrs. Flory is also a graduate of McPherson College.
The annual spring election for
Student Council President and Treasurer will be held April 11 it was announced yesterday by Robert Burkholder. If a primary election is necessary it will be held April 11 with the final election being on the 14.
Baseball Practice Attracts Seventeen
Like all the other baseball teams in the country, the Bulldogs are in spring training. And as is usual, the creak of aching muscles predominates the early practices.
During the past week the diamond enthusiasts have been concentrating on hitting and fielding. Chalk talks are in order with fielding plays and base-running being stressed.
The following boys are out for the Bulldog baseball team:
Winston Beam. Vernon Blicken-staff, Theodore Furry, Lawrence Gayer, Bob Hill, Gerald Hutcheson, Lawrence Lowrey, Francis Markham, Morris McClung, Duane Ramsey, Louie Rogers, Elmer Roth, Don Smith. Jim Stull, Carol Tillman. Dean Ward, Loren Weyand.
Stage Theme Of Players Banquet
"All the World Is a Stage", was the theme of the McPherson Col lege Players Banquet, which was given Friday. March 28, at the Blue Room of the Hotel Warren. There were symbols depicting the various stages of life—a baby’s rattle, a schoolboy’s hooks and an old man’s cane, placed around the table. Blue and gold crepe streamers were used for decorative purposes, presenting a colorful atmosphere to the banquet ball.
Covers were laid for twenty players and their guests, which included Monty Ash, his wife, and Miss Della Lehman, bringing the total attending to forty.
Clifford Shultz acted as toast master, carrying out the program of the evening in an informal manner. A Shakespearean aria was sung by Miss Esther Miller. Monty Ash gave a reading, and Miss Wine and Miss Lehman starred in a play concerning ‘‘inmates’’ of an old lady's home. The latter being the method in which Miss Wine was initiated into the organization as faculty advisor. Nine persons were initiated into the dramatics club, by reading reversed parts from the play, "George Washington Slept Here.”
Receives Chow
During the past week, there have been several contributions to the "Dog House.’’ The contributions were as follows. Women’s Work of the McPherson Church, $100; an un-named friend, $50: Mrs. J. D. Bright of Topeka. $10, and an offer to give the fifth dollar of money raised by students and faculty (20% of total raised.)
The above contributions are greatly appreciated by the Snack Bar committee, and will help the movement for securing funds to better the facilities of the campus refreshment center.
by Marie Miller April 2
“Greatness” Theme Of Chapel Speech
In observing Holy Week. Dr. J. Russell Throckmorton, District Superintendent of the Central Conference in Kansas of the Methodist Church, spoke in Chapel Wednesday morning. Greatness was the theme of his talk.
Greatness has a great variety of meanings. The best meaning and the one which should be applied is that “he who would be great among you is your servant.” As the pages of history are turned back it will be found that those men who have received greatness are not the ones who are idle and are waited upon but are those who serve others. Abraham Lincoln, as one example, accepted the invitation to greatness and gave his life for it. It is easy to reject the opportunity for greatness, yet, today it is easier than ever before to become great because of the unlimited opportunities surrounding us. Misfortune and suffering are an invitation to be great as is human need. With these fields in which to work, more than ever before should go down in history as great men and women.
The invitation to greatness goes out to everyone but few will likely respond unless the spirit of Christ gets into them.
The Red Cross drive has been in full swing this week. Certain persons have been designated to contact everyone in the school. There have been signs to remind students and faculty of the drive posted on bulletin boards.
Revealment
They planned for Christ a cruel death;
Steel pierced His hands and feet and side; They mocked His last expiring breath,
And thought their hate was satisfied.
They wagged their heads and said, “Lo, He Would crush our temple and in three days Restore its beauty. Come and see This boaster gone death’s quiet ways.”
They did not know that on that hill Eternal love was satisfied;
That Christ, who hung there, triumphed still, . . And only cruel death had died !
—John R. Moreland.
Preliminary Plans
Made For Banquet
The Seventeenth Annual Booster Banquet for McPherson College will be at the Community Building Friday, April 18 at 6:45 P. M. The speaker for the occasion is the Honorable Frank Carlson. Governor of Kansas.
Committees are at work planning for the event and a large attendance is anticipated. The members of the Ticket Sale Committee will attempt to contact the various business and professional men and women in McPherson as well as other interested friends of the College.
Ten Basketball Letters Awarded
In older to win a letter in basketball, a player must have par-ticipated in at least one-half of the halves. Although the Bulldogs did not win the Conference championship, they had a successful season. The following fellows will receive a letter for the 1946-47 season:
Vance Carlson, Verlyn Fisher, Lyle Goering, Gerald Hutcheson, Carl Kasey, Bernard Nordling, Lee Nordling, Bob Odle, Don Smith, Loren Weyand.
Because Francis Markham and Don Unruh played for an outside team, their letters are being withheld temporarily. By playing on another team their eligibility was forfeited. At a conference meeting in May their eligibility will be ruled upon. Marvin Heidce-brecht will be awarded the manager's letter.
Easter vacation begins today at 12:10. For three and one-half days Macollegites will enjoy freedom from studying. Classes will again convene Tuesday morning at 8:00 o’clock. Happy Easter, everyone:
W. H. Upton, pastor of the Congregational Church in McPherson, spoke on “being popular” to those who attended Chapel Monday morning. But it was a different kind of popularity than is normally associated with the word.
This popularity upon which he spoke was the kind Jesus had on Monday, the day following his triumphant entry Into Jerusalem. On that day Jesus could have shown his vengeance upon all who hud opposed him but instead he spent the day forgiving those in need of forgiveness.
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Harlan is a member of the SCA Cabinet and of the Dormitory Council of Fahnestock Hall. He has been a hand member for two years. Harlan attended Fort Hays Kansas State College two years. Photography is Harlan’s hobby, and he belongs to the McPherson Camera Club.
April 11. Piano Recital.
April 13, Vocal Recital, 3:30 P. M., Kent Naylor and Paul Wagoner.
April 1G, McPherson College Players Production.
April 18, Booster Banquet. April 19, Piano Recital. 3:30 P. M., Miss Mugler’s students.
I would like to convey my most grateful appreciation to my many campus friends tor the many beautiful cards, the cheering words of those who visited my room, and the numerous other kind expressions of concern while I was a patient at the McPherson Hospital. Especially do I wish to remember the thoughtfulness of the "Married Macs” and my fellow student ministers for their sympathetic understanding in the purse of $25.00.
OLIVER C. DILLEY.
Spring Stars!
Some of the star-gazers of McPherson College had a chance to gaze at the stars that were shining in broad daylight out on the roof of Arnold Hull this week. Unobstructed views were obtained through a small mimic telescope. which was placed at the foot of the steps at the side entrance of Sharp Hall.
Admission for the view was five cents per look. The stars were the girls of Arnold Hull in their first sun basking of the year. It is believed that the telescope was used only by those who are far sighted, for the views were very good without using any me-chanical devise to better them.
The first Senior in this year’s list is Orlo Allen, who hails from the timber country around Big Like, Minnesota. Orlo has distinguished himself as an Industrial Arts Major. During his second and third years, he was a member of the Dormitory Council of Fahnestock Hall. In some of his spare time, over in the Industrial Arts laboratory. Orlo makes and repairs odds and ends, and refinishes antique furniture. For three years now Orlo has been Handicraft Director at a YMCA Summer Camp. He likes that sort of work because, as you may have guessed, handicraft is his hobby. After his graduation Orlo plans to teach Industrial Arts—“somewhere.”
One of the many Senior Chemistry Majors this year is Evelyn Argabright. Evelyn is from Dallas Center, Iowa. This year she is an assistant in the chemistry laboratory, and during her first two years here in school, she belonged to the Chemistry Club. She was a member of the Choral Club for three years. Not too long ago Evelyn’s surname was Royer, but Mr. William Argabright modified it somewhat. Evelyn states that she plans on the future to which all good housewives look forward.
Jane Bell, of Langdon, Kansas, is our next Senior. Since Jane is a Chemistry Major, one would expect to find her quite often in the chemistry laboratory. That is quite the fact, for Jane is a part-time laboratory assistant in the Chemistry Department this year. As Secretary of the Senior Class, Jane has charge of all the minutes, other records, and the like. Jane has been a member of the Dormitory Council of Arnold Hall the last two years; this year she belongs to the Women's Council She served as Publicity Chairman on the WAA Cabinet. Jane lists sports as her hobby. She intends to work in some Chemistry laboratory for at least a year after she graduates.
One of the musicians of the Senior Class is Lucy Blough, who comes from Waterloo, Iowa. Her musical achievements here at McPherson College are outstanding, for she has been a member of the Choral Club, a Cappella Choir, and Women’s Quartette for four years. Last year Lucy was both President and Assistant Director of the A Cappella Choir; she has been student director of the women’s quartet to which she belongs for the last two years. Lucy attended the School of Musical Northwestern University during the summer of 1 945. Lucy has been a member of the Women’s Council the last two years. For the last three years she belonged to the Recreational Council. After she graduates, Lucy intends to do music instructing in public schools.
Next we find a mathematician
Harlan Bowman, of Quinter, Kansas. Following the path of his uncle, he has been a laboratory assistant in the Physics Department for two years now. He spent three years with the Geode-file Survey in CPS. At present
For their impersonations of the “characters” whose elbows most frequently dust their counter, the waitresses of the “Dog House” were awarded first prize on stunt night. The audience recognized some of the portrayals immediately. since the girls did a good job of dressing and acting like the people whom they impersonated.
Second prize went to the boys' dorm. In their stunt, they humorously depicted the woes of living three in a room, the shower line, and a hull-session. The S. C. A. dramatized the 8 o’clock English class, showing the students coming to Prof. Hess’ classroom. They won third prize.
Other stunts were presented by the girls dorm, W. A. A., Spectator. Freshmen class, and the Slub Club. Kent Naylor was the master of ceremonies. Between stunts, the audience was entertained by college talent. Miss Lehman gave a reading, the Jar-hoe brothers presented Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, Doris Coppock and Dorris Mur-duck sang solos, and Bonnie Alexander played a piano solo.
In Student Council last Wednesday the replies from the questionnaires concerning hand letters were read and discussed.
Snack Room plans for the room were discussed.
It was announced that letters are soon to he sent out asking for contributions so that the project may he finished by next fall if at all possible.
The Snack Room Drive committee suggested that the student go in groups of two to solicit the business men of the town.
Petition Protests Three-To-A-Room
Residents of Fahnestock and prospective residents presented a petition to the Administration Committee meeting in special ses sion, March 27. The petition signed by 56 college men protested the proposed plan of the administration to put three boys to a room next year. This plan is being considered as a posible so-lution to the housing shortage next year.
A committee of three presented the petition and the reasons that the protest was being made, asking that other solutions to the problem be considered first.
Buhler Wins
It has been reported that the class "A" basketball tournament was won by Buhler, Kansas. The Coach of the Buhler team Is Verie Ohmart, who is an alumnus of mcPherson College.
Five Debaters and Hess Represent McPherson
The top debaters and orators of McPherson College will leave for Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, with Professor Hess at noon today.
They are going to Ohio for the Sixteenth National Intercollegiate Convention of Pi Kappa Delta.
McPherson College will be represented by two debate teams. These are Elsie Schnorr and Catherine Little. the women’s team, and Robert Yoder and Theodore Geisert, who compose the men’s team. Carl Stucky will participate in Oratory and Extemporaneous speaking. Miss Schnorr will also compete in the women’s oratorical contests, and Miss Little will participate in extemporaneous speaking. Mr. Yoder and Mr. Geisert will also be in discussion groups. Thus McPherson representatives will participate in all seven events of the convention.
There will be eight rounds of debate, four rounds of oratory, and four rounds of extemporaneous speaking in which all teams will compete. Then the eighteen highest will compete for the finals.
There will probably be one hundred chapters of Pi Kappa Delta, from Ohio and California attending the convention.
Professor Hess has the honor of holding the chairmanship of the Resolutions Committee.
The teams plan to return Sunday, April 13. We hope they will return victorious.
Services Observe Holy Week
This week, McPherson College is observing Holy Week, by cooperating with the churches of the city and in providing suitable programs at the assembly and chapel hours at the College chapel.
Reveiend W. H. Upton. Pastor of the Congregational Church, and President of the Ministerial Alliance. spoke at the college Monday at 9:50. and Dr. J. Russell Throckmorton. District Superintendent of the Dodge City Conference of the Methodist Church, spoke Wednesday at 9:50.
The public was welcomed and there was a large attendance for both sessions.
Nakamura New | President Of WAA
The officers of the Women’s Athletic Association were an-nounced at the formal banquet of the organization. The new president is Masako Nakamura, who will be a second semester Junior in September. Vice-president is Arlene Rolfs, who will be a Senior. Mary Metzler, Junior, will be secretary. Bernice Lind-strom, Junior, was elected as treasurer, and Joan Finfrock, senior, is the new publicity chairman.
Best wishes to the officers, and may next year be a good one for WAA.
Translation Bureau Established
The Language Department hns established a translating bureau where letters which you or your friends might receive from foreign contries will be translated, either by the teachers or by students under supervision of teachers. The charge for a letter up to two pages is 50 cents. The charge for translating letters from English to a foreign language is 60 cents up to two pages. The money will be used for relief purposes.
Dr. Edith Kern,
College Players Polish
Play, “None So Blind"
The McPherson College Players are hard at work polishing the play "None So Blind" for produc-tion April 16, Under the direction of Monty Ash, who wrote the play, it is becoming a fine ama-teur production. Publicity com-mittees are at work and tickets will soon be on sale
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Engagements
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Dell announce the engagement of their daughter. Mary Jo, to Melvin Christy at an engagement party last week. Miss Dell’s home is in McPherson, and Mr. Christy’s is at Garrison, Iowa. The wedding date has not been announced.
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Student Volunteers met in the SUR Tuesday morning for an interesting Easter program centered around the cross. The program consisted chiefly of musical numbers. Donna Johnson sang, “The Old Rugged Cross.” accompanied at the piano by Ruth Hol-sopple. Ruth then played several selections which had special significance in relation to the cross. Eulalia Crist read a poem entitled. “I Am the Cross.” The whole group sang “Beneath the Cross of Jesus." and Warren Hoover closed the program with a prayer.
At the SCA program Thursday evening of last week, Dorris Murdock sang “Prayer.” She was accompanied by Cora Emmert at the piano. Dr. Metzler gave a short talk on sacrifice. He said that some people are more concerned about the amount of money they can obtain rather than the amount
Choir Sings At Congregational Church
The Holy Week services began in the Congregational Church sanctuary Sunday evening with the McPherson College A Cappella choir giving a musical program followed by an address by Dr. J. Russell Throckmorton.
The Holy Week services are being held in the Congregational church every night this week except Thursday, when each church held their own special services.
Adv.—Repigger Cigarettos are now on sale in the Dog House. The price is ten kronen. They are red cork-tipped and last longer than any other cigarettos on the market.
The President’s Corner
This is the Spectator just before Easter Sunday. Is this Easter to be just another day, or will it be meaningful and enrichening for our lives? If meaningful and enrich-ening, it is up to us individually to make it so by reading or hearing the story; by reflecting upon it; and by allowing it to stimulate our thinking and to enoble our behavior.
May all the students, faculty, trustees, and friends of McPherson College have an enjoyable and spiritually satisfying Easter.
There are opportunities and youth are taking an interest in working for world peace. A recent dispatch from the American Friends Service Committee tells of the constructive peace program that they are promoting.
“More than 400 young people of high school and college age, of all races and religions, are expected to participate in work and study projects sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) in Mexico, Europe and all parts of the United States this summer.
In addition, Mr. Pickett said nearly 40 institutes of International Relations, International Service seminars and Peace Caravans will be sponsored in the United States by the Committee to stimulate interest in achieving world peace. Thousands of students, teachers and other interested persons are expected to attend these conferences.
People who participate in these service and educational projects do so voluntairly, and, for the most part, pay their own expenses.
Approximately 50 Americans, through the Quaker International Voluntary Service, will join with young people from various European countries in repairing and rebuilding homes and community facilities in Finland, Italy and possibly some other countries this summer.
Workers in Mexico will work in five communities. The work of the women’s group will include helping in clinics and hospitals, visiting homes with public health nurses, teaching in some schools, and leading recreation for children.
Men in Mexico will help improve school facilities in a remote Indian village; in Yautepec, they will work on projects in public health engineering as well as assist in a program of teaching illiterates to read and write.”
Glenn S. Strickler of Ramona, Kansas, who received his diploma from McPherson College in May,
Mr. Strickler, after his graduation front McPherson College, became interested In sports. He
served as secretary-treasurer of the county independent basket-ball and baseball leagues for eight years (1923-1931). Other ac-complishments of bis career include: oily councilman from 1923-1939, mayor of Ramona for five years, State Representative from
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Dr. Bowman Caught With Blankets
At midnight Thursday night, Brown Browni was caught climbing the fire escape of Arnold Hall to have a secret rendezvous with Baroness Erica Irmgart, von Kaufmann, Browni has been taken into custody and is expected to be exiled to Zanzibar shortly. The Baroness von Kaufmann who came to this country from Frank-furt-on-Rhine, Germany, has been sentenced to remain in her room, closely guarded by Matron Etha Mae Brustky. She is believed to have tried to convert many of the Bolsheviks believers into Nazism.
Later It was revealed that Baroness von Kaufmann threw blankets out of her window, and heaven knows what else, to her lover Browni. They were un-doubtedly trying to make their escape in the still of the night,
! but Generalissimo Reeveski’s secret police, the Cheka, were on the prowl.
of policy for the press but could only lie on his back and grin as his usual hearty laugh issued forth from his buccal cavity, thrilling all the bystanders.
GILES—HALITOSIS CONTROLER
Ivan Giles has made his mark in the eyes of the national party as he accepted the newly created post of chief “Halitosis Con-troler.” The appointment came as a shock to all but the faithful roommate, Westovok and a friend Miss Berrystoy. Generalissimo Reeveski said today that he felt sure that he had made the proper choice and awarded the position for loyalty and faithfulness as leader of the “Belchers,” an underground group.
Monday 3:00 p. m. Meeting of all Reevsky Youth in the chapel.
Tuesday 8:00 p. m. Hanging of Effigy on the Flagpole (Guess Who).
Wednesday Meeting of all Laborers to learn the new school song.
Friday. Free Vodka for everyone in the memory of one week of
Bullshevism Saturday night. Ze Ballet A Rushin—Please dress to come. (In formals that is.)
Adv.—Pinkyk Stinky soap is, your best buy! Are you tired of
dishwater hands? Then use your feet!
Adv.—“How to learn to cuss in Russian in two easy lessons”, by Priest Miller, has just been released and is now on sale at all the McPhersoni newsstands and bookstores.
Marion County in 1944 and 1946, and director of the Ramona Rural High School board of education for the past twelve years.
At present Glenn Strickler is Manager of a retail general store in Ramona, a position he has maintained for the past 25 years. He resides with his wife, the former Nellie McGaffey, and their two children. The children are: Ruth, age 13 and John, age 10.
“I believe I can say that my interest in McPherson College has dimmed only slightly (if at all) in this past quarter century,” says Mr. Strickler. “This could be due in part fact that Ramona still sends a fair number of students to McPherson. The quality of the teachers that we get from McPherson over the years must be the best advertisement of all for the college.”
ALBRIZHT PUBLIC MORALE
The change of administration showed marked improvement as Nicholas Billy Albrizht assumed his post as “Stabilizer of Public Morale.” He had no statement
All we can do to beat inflation, says the Des Moines Register, is to keep our feet on the ground and our money in our pockets.
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The National Party today bestowed the highest honor of the country on Mr. and Mrs. Arga-brightnovaski as they became the parents of triplets. |  |
