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Friday, February 9, 1940 THE RIMROCK ECHO Page Three Second Year Students Direct School Luncheons A school luncheon such as the one last Wednesday is served with such expedition and smoothness that many of the students do not realize how much planning has been done in ad- vance by students who do not figure prominently in the actual serving of the meal. There are, in addition to the A, B or C section of the first year class (probably 50 students) who do the serving, dishing up, and cleaning up, about a dozen second year students who pull the strings that make the show go off so smoothly. These stu- dents serve in connection with every luncheon, and by the middle of the year they have become so proficient that the luncheons move to comple- tion without a bobble. Those who have served this year in such administrative capacity are: general chairman, Maxine Ruppel; kitchen chairman last quarter, Ei- leen Parks; kitchen chairman this quarter, DeLois Wiley; serving chair- man, Sigfrid Helgeland; dishwashing chairman, Clyde Davis; Clean-up chairman, Orville Thompson. First Year Students Serve The first year students become proficient, too, and though they may at first be somewhat shocked to learn that they must aid with one luncheon each quarter, they soon fall into the routine and accept their obligation as a matter of course. Approximately 25 have the task of setting the tables and serving the meal; perhaps eight work in the kitchen, dishing up the food; about 20 clean away the food and put the kitchen in order after the meal. All this is done skillfully and cheerfully under the supervision of the second year chairmen named above. The who le luncheon set-up is unique, but it is a cooperative effort which affords much valuable ex- perience. HAYRIDE PROVIDES FUN Miss Jean Tyson was hostess Thursday, February 1, at a party given in the apartment of Ila Mc- Clain and Fern Paterson. The eve- niiig's entertainment consisted of a hayride, after which refreshments were served in the apartment. Those present were Lucille Davis, Selma Johnson, Ruth Phares, Dixie Hogan, Mary Axtell, Virginia Mar- kovich, Mary Etta Whitmyer, Ila McClain, Fern Paterson, Miss Tyson, Clinton Tracy, Dwight Mason, Jack Lewis, Bud Stachley, Thornton Fu- son, Lloyd Gering, Orville Thomp- son, John Ball and Tommy Wil- liamson. LEAP YEAR PARTY GIVEN The second year students gave a leap year party Friday night, Jan- uary 19. Much of its success was contributed by the faculty members, who conducted the evening's enter- tainment. Mr. Manion, as master of cere- monies, introduced a \bewigged and bundled - up\ Mr. Hoheisel, who played a few piano selections in collegiate fashion. This was followed by a humorous recitation by Mrs. Abbott, two vocal solos by Miss Stevenson, and a clever tumbling act by David Hill and Bill Chase. The final number in this dramatic, comic, operatic melodrama was a reading by Miss Dewey in Irish brogue. Waltz Prize Awarded Mary Worth and Marvin Tilden sang several solos as their contribu- tion to the festivities. Dancing to the strains of the \Naughty Waltz,\ Martin Tucker and Betty Cox were chosen the best waltz couple of the many pairs competing in the prize waltz, and were presented with min- iature busts of famous musicians. Judging the couples were the fol- lowing people: Miss Meek, Miss Stevenson, Dr. Cooper, Gerry Nel- son, and Dale Bryson; this group gave honorable mention to Phil Fiske and his partner, Jean Berkley. Jitterbug addicts were satisfied when they were given the floor for a few numbers. Refreshments were made available during the evening. Members of the party committee were Zola Warthen, Juanita Huppert, Jack Lewis, and Orville Thompson. Bob Morin: Do you know how long girls should be courted? Dr. Dean: The same as short ones. \Bathing Is a Cinch\ Say Normal Men An interesting feature of the Nor- mal School is the number of boys that are doing light-housekeeping in apartments near the school. More than 30 boys are \baching\ and they are doing very well, thank you. It is the ideal way of living for boys who must save money, and who is not included in that group nowadays? Rent for these apartments aver- ages about seven dollars and food about ten dollars per person. The living budget of these housekeeping boys is nearly ten dollars a month cheaper than the more inexpensive boarding houses and \baching\ of- fers an incomparable amount of freedom and independence. Hear what one of the \bachers\ says about it: \In the first place, you can eat whenever you darn please, provid- ing it hasn't been too long since you have heard from home; sleep as long as you want to, except when you have classes, sometimes when; come in from where you have been (we won't say where) about any time, providing you don't make too much noise; and, last but not least, you can have company whenever you can find guests who will risk their lives on your cooking.\ 1 After the Carroll-Normal basket- ball game last Friday night Virginia Markovitch invited a group of her friends in for chili at her apartment at 936 North Thirtieth. They included Lucille Davis, Jean Tyson, Fern Paterson, Ila McClain, Mary Axtell, Dixie Hogan and Mary Etta Whitmeyer. Edna Halverson and Elaine Ess- man were guests at the meeting of the Young Business Girls at the home of Dr. Bridenbaugh, 1109 North Thirty-second street, January 25. CHOIR WILL SING The girls' choir will present a musical program at Elder Grove next week, singing \Wagon Wheels\ and \The Spanish Dance,\ specially ar- ranged for them by Miss Nourse. Jessie Walker will play a piano solo, \Twinkle-Toes and also a piano duet, \Skating\ with Roberta Kil- patrick, who is the piano accom- panist for the choir. This choir, which sang the carols for the Christmas play, is continuing its work this quarter under the supervision of Miss Nourse, who helps them a half hour each Wed- nesday afternoon. The members are Peggy Jean Bent, Kathryn Peterson, Letha Saunders, Jessie Walker, Helen Essington, Roberta Kilpatrick, June Chitwood, DeLois Wiley, Ruby Fred- rickson, Gladys Stenberg, and Mil- dred Andrews. POLLY RYAN WITHDRAWS Pollyanna Ryan has been home from the hospital since Saturday, January 19, where she had been for ten days as a result of a ruptured appendix and an attack of periton- itis. She will not return to school this quarter and has not yet decided whether she will r on to graduate. Faculty and Students Entertain Worden P.T.A. On February 17 the Worden P.T.A. will celebrate the national founder's day of the Parent-Teachers, organ- ization with an appropriate program and entertainment. The principal speaker will be Mr. L. R. Foote of the Eastern Montana State Normal School. Miss Stevenson and Mr. Bjorgum will also be in attendance, accompanied by eight girls from the E. M. S. N. S. picked from the tum- bling and dancing classes. They will give an exhibition of tumbling, tap dancing, and folk and square danc- ing as one of the features of the program. \Have you the firmness of charac- ter that enables a person to go on and do his duty in the face of in- gratitude, criticism, and heartless ridicule?\ \I ought to have. I coached a los- ing basketball team.\ Mr. Abbott: Have you finished making up your map? Mable Swandal: No, I can't find my compact. Second Year Programs Are Pain in the Neck A freshman thinks with longing of the time when he can choose the subjects he would like to take and leave out the undesirable ones. When he finally attains the high status of a sophomore, disillusionment comes. After three or four days of anxious study, he finds the favorite subjects either clash or come too early in the morning. So he picks a few he likes and fills the rest of his sched- ule with the least undesirable of those remaining. He still thinks it's a pretty good schedule until he starts attending classes. Then he finds he has classes all day long part of the time and no classes at all on other days. During one quarter he has all solid subjects, and the next he takes almost all physical education, assuming that since his brain didn't get him any grades his feet may do the trick. He then decides that the good old freshman days, when he merely signed on the dotted line and was through, were nicer after all—less complicated, at any rate. TIE FLIES AND CATCH FISH Who likes to dig worms or use a net to snare grasshoppers and gnats in order to catch trout next sum- mer? Well, you don't have to dig or snare if you join Mr. Ridgely's class in fly-tying, which will be offered in the spring quarter. Be- sides, if you become skillful in tying flies you may be able to make money selling them to the dudes and other eastern tourists. The materials which help build a fly, according to Mr. Ridgely, come from many countries. Some materi- als even have to be brought through the war blockade. Sign your name on the paper on the bulletin board and insure suc- cess in fishing next summer. Emily Jorgenson Marries Emily Jorgenson of Poison, who entered the school last fall as a transfer from Montana State college at Bozeman, was married at Mis- soula on January 20 to Maurice Yerrington of Billings. The young people returned to Bil- lings, and Mrs. Yerrington is con- tinuing her work. She expects to graduate in June. What Is Your Class? The question often asked by irreg- ular and transfer students is \Am I a first or a second year student?\ In the registrar's office all those whose credits are sufficient for them to graduate by August are listed as second year students. It frequently happens that students who have had one year of college work at another institution will have almost all their classes with the first year class. But they are unable to hold office in the first year class or to belong to the class organization, though their pro- gram requires them to assume re- sponsibilities for the luncheons with the A, B or C divisions. 4 - HERE'S A SUGGESTION \Misery loves company.\ The prin- cipal misery of our beloved institu- tion is a shortage of males. The Poly also has troubles, the difficulty being that the school is fresh out of girls. At the dance after the first Poly game the floor was simply packed with those great big handsome men and from what I hear, we aren't so bad either, girls. A series of Poly- Normal dances and parties would be enjoyed by both groups and would provide enough company for any old misery. SHOWER GIVEN FOR BRIDE Mrs. Larimore and Etoile Helmer gave a miscellaneous shower at the home of the former in honor of Mrs. Maurice Yerrington on Tuesday night. The bride was the recipient of many useful and attractive gifts. The entertainment for the evening was \Cockeyed Bridge,\ played at three tables with two prizes awarded at each. Those present besides the host- esses were Bettye Cox, Beg Barrin- ger, Breta Faeistone, Billy Flaherty Meeker, Sue Meer, Borghilde Rol- se Jessie Walker and June Wheat. Students Give Parties; Birthdays Celebrated Birthdays proved to be festive oc- casions for several students during January. Among those who enter- tained was Miss Maxine Ruppel, who gave a birthday party for Miss Ada Duell on Saturday night, Janu- ary 27. The evening was spent skat- ing at the North park rink, and refreshments were served in Miss Ruppel's home afterward. Guests included Mildred Olson, Vivian Hall, Helen Hagerman, Em- ilie Nadler, Marjorie McDonald, and Mary Worth. Miss Ila McClain was honored on her birthday when a group of her friends gathered at her apartment at 1044 North Twenty-sixth street for the evening. Those present were Fern Paterson, Jean Tyson, Lucille Davis, Eleanor Olson, and Mildred Olson. A surprise birthday party was given Miss Eleanor Olson by her sister, Mildred, on Saturday, Janu- ary 20, at their home on Minnesota avenue. The evening was spent in- formally in playing \Coody.\ High honors went to Don Nave and Helen Hagerman. Those invited were Jean Burkley, Ada Duell, Maxine Ruppel, Vivian Hall, Miss Olson, Don and Cecil Nave, Jim Watson, Clyde Davis, and Dale Bryson. Anne Mehling and Virginia Mar- kovich gave a chili supper in the home of Mrs. N. C. Abbott Sunday evening. The evening's entertain- ment consisted of \rummy\ and \hearts.\ No prizes were given. Guests included Jean Burkley, Virginia Lanouette, Marjorie Pres- ton, Ruth Phares, Mary Etta Whit- meyer, Selma Johnson, Emma Mehl- ing, Clara Leis, Olga Ottonichar and Letha Saunders. Elizabeth Hunter, Dale Burns and Johnny Hunter were dinner guests of Betty June Worst, Sunday, Jan- uary 28, at her home at 1002 North Twenty-eighth. Miss Helen Essington was hostess to a group of her friends January 20 in her home at 212 Lewis avenue. Guests included Miss Gwendolyn Parker, Miss Virginia Hedstrom, Miss Jane Fosgate, Miss Essington, Philip Fiske, Jack Lewis, Dwight Mason, and John Ball. A group of Normal School girls met at Vaughn Munsell's apartment January 2 after the first Carroll game. Those attending the card party were Marjorie Redmond, Borghilde Rolseth, Thelma Miller, Margaret Stuhlreiter, and Jessie Walker. Last Sunday afternoon Mrs. H. C. Abbott entertained for the girls who live at her home, 921 North Thirty- first, with a tea. The guests included Anne Mehling, Thelma Swandal, Ruth Holmes, Bes- sie Hyde, Jessie Hyde, Selma Lee, Emma Mehling, and Betty Holmes. Their guests were Virginia Marko- vitch, John King, Rex McWhirter, Mae W a r k, Gilbert Easton, Lola Kimball and Katherine Green. GIRLS' TRIO IN DEMAND One of the Normal School's most active and insufficiently publicized groups is the Girls' Trio, composed of Maxine Ruppel, Ada Duell, and Vivian Hall. This trio sings for the unity meet- ings at the Odd Fellows hall on Tuesday nights and also gives per- formances for the Methodist Ladies' Aid and other organizations. Those acting as accompanists on these oc- casions are Selma Lee and Geraldine Neumann. On Monday evening, January 8, the three girls entertained vocally for the Garfield and North Park Parent - Teachers' association, with Selma Lee at the piano. Shirley Fuller gave a recitation \Society Stuff\ on this program. Popular renditions by the trio are \Down Mexico Way,\ \Chinese Lul- laby,\ \Umbrella Man,\ \South American Way,\ \Deep Purple,\ and \Over the Rainbow.\ Selma Lee also plays an original arrangement of \The Bells of St. Mary\ for the piano. Pooh Corner... Blow the whistle, beat the drum ! The year of years has finally come. To the leap year custom the men surrender Now wallflower's a noun of mascu- line gender. Incidentally, leap year does not come every four years. There won't be one from 1996 A. D. until 2024 A. D.—but don't let it worry you. Of course, there are those who contend that the girl have always done the hunting anyway, only this year it's legal. Speaking of hunting — a Scotch terrier should make a good hunting dog. Being Scotch, he could sure hang onto a scent. Which brings up the fact that few of us stop to think of the part which animals play in our lives. You never hear a dog complaining about the housing problem, even though many of us spend most of our time in the doghouse. And then there was the cat with Christmas spirit—he walked across the desert and got Sandy Claws. And, as Jim Walpole points out, in movie courtroom scenes, some law- yer is always referring to something as being \immaterial and it-ele- phant and ir-elephant never forgets. Marg McDonald thinks alum is what they make alumni out of - - - No, Marg, alum is something you put pictures in, like a photograph alum. Poor Mrs. Dann—she admittedly knows little about basketball, but she is determined to learn. During one game, when both teams were playing wild ball, she tried desper- ately to understand the various pen- alties and the purpose of several of the plays. Finally, as someone made a wild pass, and the team \en masse\ leaped after it, Mrs. D. smiled hap- pily. \I think I understand\' she beamed. \The object is to throw the ball on the floor and jump into the basket.\—Poor Mrs. Dann. And now, as Orville Thompson says, \I'll see you in the spring—if you go through the mattress.\ And if you happen to be taking tumbling, after the spring comes the fall. Also, according to Dorothy Davis, summer dumber than others. Honestly, some people will season any opportunity to be punny. They don't know winter stop. But I do - - - Love, Pooh. HERE'S TO THE TEAM They're on the floor and gaily they FISKE about. The ball goes west 'n EASTON then goes out. With a score to MAC QUIRE they losing the ball? But now it's in play—didn't matter at all. Now GARNET proves to a be a jewel— A basket for the Normal School. The Dwight MASON 'other shot And the team is getting hot. The opposition says he mu'S'MITH the basket But he makes it, pretty as you could ask it. They pull ahead BRYSON snappy plays It mOSTBY the other team's in a daze. The crowd's highLEE excited— We're maKING them fight. Let'SCO—VILL win this game to- night. He batters his way down to shoot again. You can TRACY's path by the downtrodden men. The whistle blows; ho HUM IS TON The team JONES the ranks as a victorious one. If there's anything more you want to know about, you can OSCAR coach.
