21 May 1935
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Newspaper
The Cornellian
Location
Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1935
Page
1
The 1936 Royal Purple yearbook will be released on campus by next Tuesday with a chapel bell announcement for bookstore distribution. Editor Evangeline Dennis notes focus on student creative activities and outside interests, featuring full length action photos and offset printing for greater variety.
The International club will hold a meeting Tuesday evening with an election of officers. Charles Mason will lead the session and discuss Rearmament in Europe.
The W. A. A. hosts a tea at Miss Alice Betts' apartment on Thursday May 22 at 4 00 to honor senior members. Awards will be presented and all W. A. A. members are invited. Active Class of 1935 members listed include Alva Benson Marjorie Coleman Eleanor Culver Dorothy Gilmore Sue Kepler Ava Schnittjer Stella Petersen Esther Schlue Ruth Trump and Winifred Witzigman.
Poet Carl Sandburg will visit the Cornell campus on May 28 as guest of Phi Beta Kappa. After the ban qu et, new members will be inducted and Sandburg will present a free recital he calls his Annual Report to the student body.
Darrell Harvey was selected by sophomores as editor of the 1937 Royal Purple at a Monday meeting. He has edited As We Are and contributed to the Sioux City Journal and The Cornellian earlier this year. Joe Fink will serve as next year’s business manager.
The faculty and all students are invited to an all college dinner at Bowman and Pfeiffer halls at six o'clock on Wednesday evening. Committees for seating and decorations are listed for Bowman and Pfeiffer. Toastmasters will be Franklin Littell at Bowman and Joe Fink at Pfeiffer with various committee members named.
Edgar Walker was elected president of the C. C. A. for next year at chapel Monday morning. Ruth Newell was chosen vice president Genevieve Greenwood secretary and Dale Sieben treasurer. This year the C. C. A. was headed by Paul Wilkinson.
An art room described as a curiosity shop filled with stage sets and tin flower trays. The space showcases watercolors, charcoal, and dry paints among chapels, portraits, and trees. Artists sand and enamel trays for chapel decorations and May Festival.
Eight students join the Cornell chapter of the National Collegiate Players in Iowa. New members are Frank Alagow, Stuart Frazier, Gerald Guthrie, Glenn Low, Alice Lubbock, Constance Root, Ava Sehnittjer, and Carl Weber. The group promotes drama with twenty eight national chapters.
Summer school runs June 3 to July 6 and July 8 to August 10 at the Cornell program. Highlights include international theatre and music study led by Jacques Jolas of the Juilliard Foundation, a geology field trip in Colorado mountains, and art instruction for individuals and classes. The drama department opens with Squaring the Circle, an American premiere of a modern Russian comedy, directed by Prof. Albert.
Harriet Porter wrote Purple Patches a one act play directed by Constance Root will be produced on campus Wednesday at 3 00 and Thursday at 7 30 The play entered in the Purple Masquerone act contest was shown at Lisbon high school last night as part of the senior class program.
The Illinois Club schedules a July 14 picnic at Spring Lake Rochelle Iowa for its summer reunion. The program features swimming a diving exhibition and a 5:00 picnic lunch chaired by Charles Berve. Last year fifty Cornell alumni attended and this year hopes rise for more attendees.
The Cornellian earned second place in the editorial division at the nineteenth Iowa College Press Association convention in Cedar Falls. Drake Times Delphic led overall with top honors in news and ad categories. Evangeline Dennis was elected one of four directors of the association.
The Pal senior class will be entertained by Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Burgstahler at a breakfast Sunday morning at 8 30 in the Palisades venue.
The first Cornell Chapbook edited by Prof Clyde Tull will be released for sale next week. It features poems by Jay G Sigmund Cedar Rapids poet and is titled Burroak and Su mac a thirty two page book, the first in a series devoted to Iowa writers to follow.
Professor Clyde Tull will attend the Poetry Week event in Des Moines on Thursday. The Iowa Authors' Club sponsors the meeting and Mr Tull will be interviewed on radio by Forrest Spaulding, director of the Des Moines public library.
Seventy one seniors will receive bachelor of arts music or public school music degrees at the eighty second annual commencement at Cornell June 2 and 3. Bishop Edgar Blake will deliver the commencement address at 10:00 a.m. on Monday June 3. Dr. Lucius Clark will speak at the graduation vesper service on June 2 at 7:00 p.m. Bishop Ralph Cushman will present the baccalaureate address at 10:30 a.m. Sunday June 2. Those earning BA degrees on June 3 include Francis Baker Alva Benson Douglas Bey Raymond Stublitz and others.
Second hand books will be purchased at the Bookstore on May 29 and 30. Local buyers can bring in used volumes for appraisal and sale.
The last Husk issue of Cornell Literary magazine for the school year will be released next week on campus. It features Marjorie Williams' poem Old Hunger and prose from new contributors Lorin Johnson Jane Synwolt Armando Vergara and Richard Poladian with works Welding Week End Without a Song and Day into Night.
Fourteen members of the W A A traveled to Ames Saturday for the state W A A sports day. Attendees include Ruth Coffman Margaret DeWolf Jayne Culver Marygertrude Bellamy Jean McIntosh Anne MacArthur and others. Morning featured a baseball game with Drake. Cornell won 9-6. A luncheon followed with a short program and afternoon activities included baseball tennis and additional events.
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