McPherson college, McPherson, Kansas, friday, September 30, 1938
NUMBER THREE
VOL XXU
Hundreds See New Building Monday Eve
Prominent Guests Guided Through Modern Gym On Campus
Guided by eight college students, several hundred visitors inspected the new physical education building in an informal "open bouse" last Monday afternoon and night.
The visitors freely commented upon the neat and trim appearance of the entire building. The floors and lighting seemed to be especially attractive, Most of the persons who entered the building were amazed at its size.
Men showed more interest in the large gymnasium, the men's dressing room conveniences, and the trophy cases while the women were attracted by the coziness of the offices and general cleanliness of various rooms.
Among the guests last night were President Kaufman and Business Manager Goering of Bethel college at Newton. Acting President Emory Lindquist of Bethany college, and Dean Deere and Professor Johnson from Lindsborg were also guests. Dr. C. A. Stoll, president of Central col-lego and three members of his faculty, attended the "open house" party.
Students who directed the tour were Geraldine Spohn, Lenore Shirk, Edith Spangler, Audrey Hammann, Wayne Albright, Stephen Stover, Bob Frants, and Gordon Yoder.
Members of the foods class, instructed by Miss Esther Atkinson, served refreshments during the period and other faculty members assisted in the occasion. Flowers were furnished by various families interested in McPherson college.
Doc Calls All Aboard For Intellectual Fun
Students Hear Bright Show Vital Needs To Get Adventure
Spicing his talk with well con-cealed mirth, Dr. Bright addressed the chapel Friday molding on "in-tellectual Adventues", First he showed how only a privileged few, 14%, ever attend college after graduation from high school.
Using Hughes recent round the world flight for an illustration, Dr. Bright told the students that many safety devices—seemingly unnecessary precautions are valuable when preparing for intellectual development. In his humorous undertone, he mentioned that even the traditional belt line tor freshmen may have its value.
"Tarzan does the impossible", and any student who "asks for more and harder tests, who demands longer laboratory and class, who wants to write more papers, enter more discussions, read more books” is well prepared for an intellectual adventure.
Dr. Bright pointed out four things which make for a more vital adventure, namely, speed. spirit, stamina, and strength. Finally, this training must be continuous. .School teachers cannot go stale on the job: pro-fessionaists must have hobbles; politicians must continue to study their problems. Read for pleasure, for information, for insight on social problems.
His concluding challenge was "All aboard for an Intellectual adventure".
Minister Sees Need For Large Religion
Rev. E. C. William Suggests More Uses For Belief.
Emphasizing the fact that everyone needs to expand his religion to meet new situations, Rev. E. C. Witham, minister of the First Bap-list Church, addressed the McPherson college student body Wednesday morning in chapel.
With Miriam Kimmel at the piano, the audience sang "Abide With Me" under the direction of Prof. Nevin Fisher. Dr. V. F. Schwalm led in responce reading. An octette composed of Gladys Shank, Opal Hoff-man, Frances Campbell, Lillian Pauls, Wesley DeCoursey, Dean Frantz, Gordon Yoder and Raymond Flory, sang the closing benediction.
"If you hare a growing religion which is worthwhile, you should put it into lite," Rev. Witham declared, "Religion needs vitality and room for expansion."
Instead of reducing religion to cling to old tradition, the guest speaker suggested everyone should follow the example of Jesus by increasing capacity of religion.
"Often the theme of today is ‘How little faith can I have.' when we should delve into the depths and not touch upon the surface," Rev. With-am added.
In concluding His speech, the Bap-tist minister said one should be willing to do God's will, take notice of and watch for God in everything, and not live as if life were easy or simple.
To Study Chamber Works
The Faculty Trio, composed of Prof. Loren Crawford, violinist. Prof, Ralph Stutzman, violoncello, and Prof. Nevin W. Fisher, pianist, has been organized and is preparing to study chamber works during the year. The first appearance of the trio was made in chapel last Monday morning. The players will probably appear in several recitals this winter.
S. C. M. Drive Gets Off To Good Start
Budget Prepared For Coming Year;
Commissions Begin
The annual membership drive of the S. C. M. is now underway. Every person on the campus is invited and urged to join this organization, faculty members as well as students. There is no definite fee but each member gives as he is able. However, a fee of one dollar or more entitles one to a Y. M. C. A. or a Y. W. C. A. card. Ah S. C. M. card is given to every member.
The cabinet has adopted a budget of $200 and 0it will take the cooperation of everyone to raise it. The budget is an increase over last year's due to two emphasies. The cabinet is planning a large program of speakers this year, including Dan West, Dr. Warren D. Bowman, and perhaps Edwin C. Aukey.
If students have not been contacted for a membership, they should see the following cabinet members: Luther Harshbarger, Don Newkirk, Esther Sherfy, Elina Minnick, Delbert Barley, Stephen Stover, Opal Hoffman, Elmer Dadisman, Raymond Flory, Gladys Shank, Vera Heckman. Elizabeth Ann Mohler, Mary Elizabeth Hoover, Dwight Horner, Addison Saathoff, Rosalie Fields, or Dale Stucky.
New Plant Replaces Old Eye-Sore
Dr. Cordier Coming
Dr. Andrew W. Cordier, head of the history department of Manchester college in Indiana, will be in McPherson October 20 and 21 to speak at the college on the general European situation. Dr. Cordier has spoken in McPherson on previous occasions and is well known here.
Dr. Cordier was in Europe last summer. He spent 10 daysin Czech-oslovakia in conference with various government leaders. He was also in London, the Scandinavian countries, Berlin, Vienna, Budapest and Ge-neve. He is a trained historian, hold-ing a Ph. D. degree from the Uni-versity of Chicago. He has been to Europe on various occasions in the last 10 years and will be able to speak with authority on conditions as they now exist. He will also speak at Friends university at Wichita while visiting in Kansas.
New York University is now offering degree credit courses in safety education.
Profs. Lose Dignity Playing
Ball at Annual Get-Together
If you want to have some honest-to-goodness fun then try watching a faculty picnic from behind the bushes us we did
A base ball game was in progress when we parted the branches to take a peek at the noise coming from the mob of "inmates." “Lefty'’ Bright was on deck and Miss Warner was on the mound throwing the ball down the dark alley. Can King swing? When he came to bat Miss Warner gave him such a good ball that he sent one out into out-field. Intended for Ardys Hershey, but Ardys missed it and the ball came straight for the bushes and almost hit us.
And when Mrs. Martin came to bat she swung like a washer-women but she hit it anyway. Did they have a time! Even Dr. Schwalm was in the game and when he got wound up he gave that good bat of his a toss and the way it settled into the grass we just thought that it would come in handy for homeless hen, if she would just happen along while it was there.
They really must have been having a good time because when they were called to stop they didn't even go promptly to chow. We never saw anyone so slow in going after food.
They finally congregated around the long table and from the looks of things they were a hungry bunch. Did Miss Koerber learn to spear pickles in Germany? She pulled out three at one jab, anyway,
Mr. Crawford and Mrs. Stutzman didn't seem to want to eat with the rest because they spread a blanket on the ground a little way from the group and sat and ate with crossed legs like little kids. Guess they
Violin Choir Has Large Personnel
Plan Heavy Concert Schedule; Group More Skilled Than Ever
Entering its third year of activity, the McPherson College Violin Choir. has started its year's work. The choir has been segmented this year and has eleven members, the largest personnel since the choir was organized three years ago. Four sections of violins, a violist a "cellist, and a string bass player are included in the group. Only advanced players are admitted to the ensemble and the standards of study and performance have been gradually raised during the past several years until the group has gained a reputation for excellence. Last year, the choir appeared in concerts in McPherson, Winfield, Augusta, and Marquette. Several out of town concerts are planned again, besides the regular concert which will be given in McPherson in the Spring.
The program this year includes some of the finest literature written for this type of ensemble and includes works of Bach, Grieg, han-del, Chopin, and Edward German. A featured number will be the suite for oboe and strings by Robin Milford. Miss Gladys Shank, soprano, will appear as soloist with the choir and Miss Vena Flory will be retained by the group as accompanist.
The personnel of the chair is as follows: Frances Campbell, Vera Flory, Autumn Lindbloom, Dorothy Ledbetter, Donna Jean Johnson. Ramona Fries, Dorothy Braid, Helen Burton, Evyln Amos, Ralph Stutzman, and Morton Widiger. Frances Campbell is concert master of the choir and Loren Chawford is the conductor.
Freshmen should already be looking forward to seeing the seniors act like little children. The "green cappers" will discover the seniors can act as silly if not worse than they can. In other words there is going to be a freshman-senior kid party at eight o'clock on a Friday that's not far away.
fiddle around together so much any-way, that they just can't separate. We know they meant well.
Some of the faculty couldn't even lose their dignity at a picnic for they stayed dressed up hut Miss Warner and Miss Lehman really know how to take a picnic in hand and enjoy it. Miss Lehman, did you get that bandana in Mexico?
After everyone had helped his plate with creamed chicken and potato salad, sweet pickles and coffee, each separated into his own favorite clique to inhale his vittles.
Was it an insult or a mosquito that brought that "gentle" pal from Miss Shockley to Paden's downs cheek? And, speaking of mosquitos, Dr. Schwalm wished someone would import a different brand. We suggest that Dell speak to the Town Council about this since he seems to be in line for F. B. I. The way everyone waved their arms in the air and stomped their feet we decided that maybe the mosquitoes were a little bothersome.
And say, the way the young profs went hack for more coffee would in-dicate that they had papers to grade —or was it that?
Going back to mosquitoes, there must have been a healthy one near Mrs. Boitnolt—else why did she drop that dipper of ice cream?
Dr. Flory seems to like creamed chicken. Bet they don't have it at Oxford.
After being weary of fighting those pests that fly and being full of ice cream and pie the faculty brought the picnic for this year to an abrupt close, and we had to leave our bushes and go watch another group.
Grandpa Hoerner Watches Passers-by
Scurrying up the Euclid Avenue to the early eight o'clock class, the new student may scarcely notice short, heavy-set Grandpa Hoernor who sits on his porch across the street west of the church and watches, as he has for many years, the long line of student pedestrians and the steady stream of cars that show and overwhelming desire to get to the morning class.
Now almost ninety-four years of age, Daddy Hoerner is still alert, lively, and ambitious. Frequently he may be seen working in the small garden with his flowers and schrubs, or just sitting in the swing with a morning newspaper before him.
Knees which quake and quiver before an audience may be stiff-jointed in later life. But not so with Grandpa Hoerner! Early this fall he descended to his hands and knees and began pulling dandelions,
Daddy Hoerner has watched this youth parade for many years—the personnel of the campus-trotters changes a bit from year to year, but soon he’ll wave to you as heartily as if you were his Huckleberry Finn of Tom Sawyer fame.
Lehman and Trio Appear in Chapel
Two Numbers
Students enjoyed a pleasant a double-feature program in chapel last Monday when the new faculty] string trio played and Miss Della Lehman spoke.
In its first appearance this year the faculty string trio, consisting of Nevin Fisher,. pianist: Loren Craw-
ford, violinist; and Ralph Stutzman,
violoncello, played two melodic num-bers by Rudolph Friml. The first was “Love Song," and it was fol-lowed by an encore, "Valse Luclle."
Although she "saw no bandits rattlesnakes, or revolution", Miss Lehman had an enjoyable and excit-ing stay in Mexico.
"People travel to shed things ideas, and take on something new." With these words Miss Lehman showed why travel broadens one. She said traveling grows on one, be-comes a habit, exhilarating and stimulating. One can travel profit-ably without any great purpose in mind except that of enjoyment, "I have no thesis to offer. I had a good time."
Miss Lehman noticed in particular the courtesy of the Mexican peo-ple. They make many polite phrases in their already delightful language. Miss Lehman said that she played a game making herself understood in Mexico, She became acquainted first with polite sayings because they are so important in that country.
Miss Lehman showed the amusing twists that some of our old maxims take when the Mexicans repeat them in their own language.
"Dreamy Mexico city, with its banana trees and sugar cane, is a land of legends hundreds of years old." The Aztecs and Spaniards left traces of so ancient civilisation, fascinating to the traveler.
Miss Lehman found the Mexican people gracious, friendly, and courteous. She said that at present there is a social clash between the peons and the others higher class who have more advantages.
Ending with an amusing story that illustrates the slow, phlegmatic way of old-world living that la practiced by our southern neighbors. Miss Lehman said that when a girl asked what was holding op traffic on the street, another girl, quite in-ocent that a vendor was selling his wares and displaying them across the sidewalk, said, "Why. it's just Mexico."
The Rockefeller Foundation has made a grant of $18,000,000 to American University to bring gov-ernment employes of Latin American repuuiicn to U. S. for study of our government.
Music Groups Selected For Coming Year
A Cappella, Choral Club Plan To Give Many Public Concerts
Choral organizations on the McPherson College campus have again come into the limelight since results of the tryouts were announced by Prof. Nevin Fisher at noon Monday. The A Cappella Choir membership is two less than last year's thirty-six. The Choral Club is approximately the same as last year.
Membership of the Choral Club is not yet definite enough to publish. The membership of the A Cappella Choir of McPherson College is as follows: First soprano — Gladys
Shank, Rowena Frantz, Millicent Nording, and Mary Ellen Slead. Second soprano-—Opal Hoffman. Miriam Kimmel, Mamie Wolf, and Gladys Wiggins. First alto—Frances Camp-ball, Ramona Fries, Evelyn Amos, and Lois Kennedy. Second alto- -Rilla Hubbard, Lillian Paula, Esther Sherfy, and Ruth Smith,
First tenors—Wayne Albright,
Wesley DeCoursey, Orville Beehler, and Joseph Briggs. Second tenor--Delbert Barley, Dean Frantz, and Eugene Eisenbise. First bass—Gordon Yoder, Lyle Albright, and Berie Miller. Second bass—Keith Pierce, Raymond Flory, Luther Harshbarger, and Ernest Reed. The decrease in numbers is in the boys' ranks. Prof. Fisher feels that the boys volume makes up for their fewer numbers.
Plans for both the A Cappella and the Choral Club are indefinite as yet. However, as usual, the choir plans to present a formal concert in the
city auditorium this winter or early spring. Following the concert, the choir will make an extended tour probably into southeastern Kansas. The Choral Club plans two concerts for the winter season of music. They will again present a sacred concert and in addition a secular concert. All members of both organisations will sing in the oratorio, "The Creation”, by Haydn which the McPherson Choral Union will present for the second time this year.
Practices of the Choral Club will again be held on Monday nights at 7 o'clock. The A Cappella will re-hearse from four until five-thirty on Monday and Thursday afternoon.
Prof. Nevin Fisher stated that he was pleased with the number of people who tried out for the two choral organisations. There were sixty-eight who warbled before the sing-ing master. He also stated that the varsity and ladies quartets would be announced soon.
Rehearsals have already commenced. Election of officers of the Choral Club will probably take place Monday right. The officers of A Cap-pella Choir who were elected last spring are as follows: President, Gordon Yoder, Secretary: Miriam Kimmel, Treasurer, Dean Frantz, and, social Chairman, Rilla Hubbard.
Thespian Tryouts Tuesday
Tryouts for the Thespian Club will be held next Tuesday afternoon between 2:30 and 4:30.
Each aspirant is urged to bring some play, in which he has partici-pated, or some reading. The judges will be Miss Della Lehman, sponsor; Dr. Claude Flory, head of the English department; and Miss Frances Campbell, president of the organisation.
And After Thirty Years—
They met again. Who? Two girls on McPherson College campus, Ruth Stump and Esther Sherfy, have discovered through a picture which each has in her picture album, that they were babies together at Bloom, Kansas, and played together until two years of age when both moved away.
Who said. “And never the twain shall meet"?
