Dr. and Mrs. D. W. Bittinger will be guest parents at the family style dinner sponsored by the

M.C.A.

The dress - up family style dinner is for the mass meeting on Thursday. Nov. 21. It will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the social room of the church.

Irvin Wagner will lead group singing with additional music provided by the Ladies' Trio. Pop and Mom Bittinger will be the

guest speakers.

The Philo Class at the Church of the Brethren plans to prepare the meal, a turkey dinner. Hosts and hostesses, members of the Macollege Family, will assist at each table.

All students and faculty members are invited to attend. Tickets. priced at $1.00, are being sold by M.C.A. cabinet members. Judy Brammell. Lois Fager. Dar-ry Melton, Mario Oltman, and Norma Watkins.

In order for the Philo Class to have time to purchase the food and to plan the complete meal.

Students Begin To Pre-enroll

Pre-enrollment for the second semester of the school year started Nov. 11 and will continue through Dec. 13.

Students should pick up their enrollment cards and program of studies in the registrar's office. The counselors will assist each student in planning his program Enrollment cards should then be returned to the registrar’s office.

A list of counselors' has been posted on the bulletin board in Sharp Hall.

Organists To Meet For Dinner In Salina

A dinner meeting for the Guild of Organists will be held at the First Methodist Church in Salina Monday at 6:30 p.m.

The dinner will be for the clergyman and presidents of three colleges, Kansas Wesleyan, Bethany. and McPherson.

Mrs. D. W. Bittinger, Rev. and Mrs. James Anderson, and several Macollege students will accompany Mrs. Audrey San Romani to Salina. Dr. Bittinger will be unable to attend the dinner.

Jerry Hedges, minister of mu-

c for the Methodist Church Choir in Salina, and Rev. He-deen. president of the Kansas Lutheran Conference will be on the program.

International Students To Visit Miss Fee

Six international students have been invited by Miss Fee. retired dean of women at Macollege, to spend this weekend at her home in Stafford. Kas.

These students will entertain some of Miss Fee's friends and relatives during their visit.

Mary Gatewood. Anna Vassil-off. Rossie Monk. Ruth Barcelo, Lillian Aotaki. and Sherland Ng are the students.

Juanita Fike. representing McPherson College as an exchange student in Germany arrived in Bremerhaven. Germany, August 11. after a very pleasant voyage.

After a briefing session in Kassel. the 25 exchangees went their separate ways. Juanita went to Lemgo. where she lives and works at Eben Ezer. an institution for epileptics and the mentally ill. There are about 800 patients.

Juanita works mainly with a group of 24 children from the ags of six. to thirteen. These children appear quite normal at first, but in working with them Juanita finds small abnormalities in them.

They are starved for love and affection. They stand in awe. to pat her clothes or plaster her with

kisses.

The field work is done by the patients. Juanita took a large group of children to the field to pick up potatoes one afternoon She said working in the field and with Holstein cows made her think of the farm on which she grew up near West Plains. Mo. Some of Juanita's duties are taking walks with the children, supervising their play, and keeping their clothes in condition. Pol

Zeller’s Topic Will Be “Big Words: Therefore”

Rev. Harry K. Zeller’s topic for the Sunday morning service at the Church of the Brethren will be “Big Words: Therefore.”

ster, Bob Dell; Mr. Scratch. Noel Grove; The Fiddler. Dwight Olt-man; Justice Hawthorne, Duane Fike; Justice Hawthorne’s clerk. Kenny Thompkins.

The crowd: Lewis Dorris. Elsie Lucore, Rita Beam, Roy Stem, Carl Harris, Danil Olmstead. Hazel Miles. Dean Anne Vance, the jury. Norris Harms. Ed Switzer. Winston Beam, Danny Crouse. Dick Landrum.

How to Propose

“How to Propose” is an illustrated lecture on the history of proposals from the caveman era to present day Brooklyn. The lecturer hires actors to act out situations of proposing.

The play ends in a hilarious situation with a determined young lady and the innocent lecturer. One can learn more of the art of proposing through this play.

Members of the cast arc the Lecturer, Glen Faus; George. Billy Joe Hildreth; Cave Woman. Karen York; Sir Montmorency. Dick Ferris; Lady Ermintrudc, Pat Johnson; Mr. Butts. David Hykes; Vera, Venita Howell.

Mr. McBean. Larry King; Butch. Kay Wallerich; Cookie. JoAnn Negley; Kent. Ron Harden; Elaine. Sandra Mitchel.

The Revolt of Mother

For the first time in their married life, mother goes against father's dictates in “The Revolt of Mother.”

Adoniram Penn has promised his wife. Sarah, a new home. The new home turned out to be a new barn. During the absence of Adoniram one day. Sarah calmly moves her furniture into the barn before the livestock have a chance to move in.

Will Dad give Mom a new home? Will Mom's tricks influence Dad?

Characters of the play arc Sarah Penn. Glenda Wine; Adoniram Penn. Vernard Foley; Nanny. Valerie Miller; Sammy. Terry Spit-zer. Nanny and Sammy arc Sarah and Adoniram’s children.

George. Jon Burkholder, is engaged to Nanny. Emeline Adkins, Marilyn Hanley, is the neighbor.

Each of the plays has a student director. Duane Fike will direct ‘The Devil and Daniel Webster." and Joan Walters has "How to. Propose." "The Revolt of Mother" will be directed by Glenna Hawbaker.

In The Alumni Office

Mrs. Robert Martin is secretary to Paul Wagoner in the Alumni Office. Working on news releases in the Alumni Office is JoAnn Negley. sophomore.

Glen Faus

The Business Staff

Twenty - nine prospective basketball players reported to the first meeting held on last Tuesday afternoon by Coach Sid Smith. Macollege director of athletics.

The returning lettermen for the Bulldogs include Ronald Anderson. a 6'1" senior; Bob Nelson, a 6'3" senior; Ed Sink, a 6'.4" senior; Jerry McPherson, a 6'3” junior; Don Widrig. a 5'10" junior; and Dennis Brunner. a 5'11' sophomore.

Others are Bernard Whirley a 6‘ senior and Ed Delk. 6'1” sophomore.

The remainder of the squad is composed of 10 freshmen, eight sophomores, and six juniors.

Coach Smith says that the squad will have a tough season ahead of them and that they will need much hard practice.

The 1957-53 basketball schedule af the McPherson College Bull-dogs is as follows;

Nov. 29 McPherson at Southwest ern

Dec. 5 &7 Tournament at Moundridge

Dec. 10 McPherson at Sterling Dec. 14 St. Benedicts at McPherson

Dec. 17 Open

Dec. 20 Southwestern at McPherson

Dec. 26. 27. & 28 Christmas Tour nament

Jan. 4 Sterling at McPherson Jan. 8 McPherson at Baker x

The Editorial Staff

Reporters and Writers

The McPherson College Bulldogs came from behind in the fourth quarter to defeat the Bethany College Swedes 19-14 in the last game of the season for both teams.

The passing defense of the Bulldogs was sharp even though they had trouble in holding back Swede linemen. The Swedes completed only one of 14 pass attempts.

Bethany scored first in the opening period. They capitalized on their successful pass completion by covering 45 yards for the touchdown. Herb LaMar caught the aerial. Ralph Anderson kicked the extra point.

The Bulldogs came right back after the kickoff. On the first play. Tom Ragland out-ran two Swedes and went all 65 yards for a Macollege TD. Ed Delk’s try at the extra point was a failure.

With 10:10 remaining in the second quarter, the Bulldogs rallied again. Delk received a pass on the Bethany nine and went the rest of the way to score. Delk’s conversion was good and the Bulldogs took a 13-7 com-mand.

Late in the second quarter the Swedes started a drive on their own 38 yard - line. Jim Ostlind ended the drive by going over the goal line from the ten. Anderson converted to put the Swedes again in the lead.

After the half, the ball changed hands several times on intercepted passes and fumbles.

The Bulldogs began a drive late tion by downing College of Emporia 25-0. They have a 3-3 record. C. of E. is in sixth place with a 2-4-1 standing.

Bethany and Friends are both in the cellar with 0-6 records. They will battle it out this week for their final positions.

interest in the field of recreation and crafts. In 1939 he was instrumental in organizing the Recreational Council, a campus extracurricular organization which provides opportunities in leadership development in recreation and crafts.

During the second semester and the summer of 1955. Professor Dell was granted a leave of absence to work with the Brethren Service Commission in Europe. He gave leadership in recreation and crafts at various locations, and during the summer, when Mrs. Dell joined him. he toured work camps and gave leadership in these projects.

Mrs. Dell graduated from Macollege in 1925. She hod served in secretarial positions before coming to her present position in 1951.

She was Spanish instructor at McPherson College for one semester.

The Dells have three children: Mrs. Leona Ikenberry, who lives in California with her family; Mrs. Mary Jo Christy, who lives with her family in McPherson; and a son Robert, who is a freshman at Macollege.

Professor and Mrs. Dell live at 1123 E. Euclid in McPherson.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third. — Cicero

When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. — Herbert Spencer

By Dr. D. W. Bittinger Quite frequently I talk with students about their roommates.

I hear two reactions.

One is: we like each other so well that we hove roomed together for two years, or three years, or even four years. We feel almost as if we were married to each other.

One of the hard things to give up when college is finished will be not to be able to live with such a fine roommate.

I have observed that such people likely continue a friendship which is almost closer than the brother and sister friendship, even after they are out of college. and for as long as they live.

I hear other reactions to room mates, however.

Some find that adjusting to roommates is very difficult. It sometimes becomes almost impossible. These are example statements:

Some roommates have such strange hours. They want to sleep in the day and stay awake at night. They study best from 1:00 to 4:00 in the morning.

They cannot read more than two lines in a book without stopping to comment about that, or something totally separate from what is in the book.

They like to study to radio music. They like hi-fi, and instead of having it low. they turn it loud enough to blast one out of the room.

They cannot study without eating and they cannot eat quietly. They never pick things up. or sweep out, and the room, therefore. must be taken care of by one person or become very dirty.

They are too sensitive, and always seek for a hidden meaning in what you say.

Occasionally, I hear a student say. "I am going to get married so that I can pick my own roommate and will not have to be bothered with this one which is as

School Praises Block Teachers

Ed. note: Many Macollege students are engaged in student teaching under the block system at the present time. Recently Prof. Merlin Frantz, director of the secondary student teaching program, received this letter from a school in which Macollege students were student teaching.

Mr. Merlin Frantz McPherson College McPherson. Kansas Dear Mr. Frantz.

Just a word to let you know the student practice teachers we have here are all doing splendid work. They are most cooperative and are able to handle young people in a commendable manner.

We like them very much and appreciate their help. We trust that they are getting that which student teacher is expected to receive in this type of work. Sincerely.

(Name withheld by request.)

Student Teachers Hold Dinner For Supervisors

Supervising teachers were the guests of the Macollege student teachers at a dinner in the college cafeteria Tuesday evening. One hundred twenty persons were present at this dinner.

Miss Ruth Stout, director of Field Program for the Kansas State Teachers Association and vice president of the National Education Association, was guest speaker. Miss Stout was formerly dean of women at Wasburn University in Topeka.

Marlo Oltman, Macollege sen-

r, was toastmaster and Dean Wayne Geisert gave the welcome address.

Supervising teachers and principals from McPherson. Inman, Moundridge, Canton. Little River. Hutchinson. Galva. Lehigh, and Windom were present.

American Common Man by Lead-ie M. Clark surveys Whitman’s writings to discover what this great poet meant when he referred to the common man.

The Criterion Book of Modern American Verse edited by W. H. Auden Is an anthology containing poems from 81 famous American poets of the twentieth century.

Home Ec Club Initiates

New members of the Home Economics Club were initiated at the regular meeting Wednesday evening. In the initiation ceremony each of the old members lighted her candle and received her membership card then the new members lighted their candles.

For-the program Arlene Rolfs, junior, demonstrated the making of party favors.

Read and heed the Spec ads.

Don't Read It . . .

By Norris and Carl

Students of the world, unite! Too long have we slaved under merciless taskmasters, only to be driven to a mere subsistence grade. The time of rebellion is at hand.

We must unite and overthrow our capitalistic teachers. They monopolize our grading system, forcing us to compete with one another. This results in a lot of hard work and makes the curve hard to crack.

In the past, various student organizations have attempted to remedy this situation. Back in 1932 the CIO (College Idiots Organization) was attempted, but was declared unconstitutional,

Ten years later the American Federation of Learners, the AF of L. was organized, but it became infiltrated with Nazis.

But now the time is right for a newer and stronger union. We have organized one. called the Unified Suffering Student Revolution (USSR).

Its objectives will be 1. A general lowering of the curve. 2. An over-all decrease in study hours which will be brought about by:

3. Shorter assignments and 4. A general inflation of grades.

The organization will be modeled after our great American labor unions. It is of course necessary that every student belong to the union, because only a few dissenters will prevent the accomplishment of our objectives.

This will necessitate a Union

4.    No student shall study more than 15 minutes for a test. This is to insure all an equal chance.

5.    No student shall work over ten minutes for any one assignment.

6.    All students shall watch for T.E.O.T.S.

7.    This includes Faus and Foley.

8.    There shall be a general inflation in grades. The grades A. B, C. D. and F shall be replaced by AAA. AA. A. and A-.

9.    No union leader shall receive a grade lower than AAA.

By Faus and Foley

This is the orbit, outer space. I work here. I’m a dog. My name is Laika. Dum da dumm dumm!

I was working the darndest beat. Direct assignment under the Marshall. I accepted the assignment because they told me I'd really go places.

The following is a record of my case. It started at 10:30. The sun was shining in the east — no, the west. Anyway, I was writing out my resignation. The job was driving me crazy. Why I had to blow that noise maker into the transmitter was beyond me. Those beeps were driving me crazy.

12:15. Took a break: walked over to the pay radio. (You pay for everything in Russia, even fame, at least so Mr. Kruschev says) To continue. I put two bis-

10.    General student strikes may be called at any time, especially at nine weeks and semester exam times.

11.    Anyone caught breaking any of the above rules shall go to jail. Go directly to jail, do not pass Go. do not collect $200.

Now in closing we again remind you, keep watching for T. E.O.T.S.

cuits in the radio. It was KFBI. They played “Hound Dog" and "Around the World In 80 Minutes."

12:57. Have just finished energy - consumption reports. I find I work best under pressure — atmospheric pressure, that is.

3:05. Instrument check completed. This job sure keeps me on pins and needles. But one nice thing. I don't have to drink to get lightheaded.

4:39. Pounding at my door proved false alarm. It was only meteorites.

6:47. Am writing a song in my spare time. Will call it "Spooning with a Shepherd in the Satellite.”

8:06. Have just turned off KFBI. Found out that if I ever try to get this crate back to Russia. I'll end up as a hot dog.

9:00. Dinner is just over. This eating cafeteria style gets mo down, as the food tastes so old.

10:00. Bedtime. End of report. • Note: We advise every discerning reader of the Spec to disregard Harms and H a r r i s's "Watch for E.O.T.S" This is flagrant, manifest, promulgation of a Machiavellianism intent. Instead. we advise the discriminating person to watch for O.V.N.C.

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