Senior Chapel Wednesday Promises Hilarious Event
Senior Chapel humor is planned for Wednesday with seniors in charge of arrangements.
24 May 1938
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Newspaper
The Cornellian
Location
Mount Vernon, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1938
Page
1
Senior Chapel humor is planned for Wednesday with seniors in charge of arrangements.
Directed by Dean J. B. Mac Gregor fifteen Cornell professors teach the first Summer School session from June 7 to July 11. Two visiting instructors join education and elementary training classes. Miss Ruth Messenger teaches American Literature for future high school English teachers. New typing and shorthand course meets state commercial subject requirements.
The Cornell yearbook Royal Purple will be issued Thursday morning with a chapel bell announcement. Editor Don Lawson and business manager Howard Johnson led a large junior class team. It is printed at Hawkeye Record Press Mount Vernon with photography by Roy D Young Studio Mount Vernon and engraving by Tru Art Cedar Rapids.
Alethians and Thalians wrap up season with events Saturday. Alethians host at Hotel Roosevelt Cedar Rapids with George Cervenka Orchestra. Thalians dine and dance to Earl Harrington in Iowa City Memorial Union River Room. Celts perform at Cedar Rapids Country Club with Len Carroll Orchestra.
With dress rehearsals underway for Daughters of Atreus cast and crews focus on precision. Under Mary Samson costume work advances dyeing and sewing while Ruschmeyer Blair push stage and prop details for warriors. Har tungu directs technical work as publicity and ticket requests flow from graduating families and out of town guests.
Renowned American poet and biographer Carl Sandburg will present a program in the lower chapel at 7 30 Wednesday night. His past presentations have been enjoyed for their engaging style and insightful readings.
Thirty five tickets remain for a Carl Sandburg evening in Dr Tulls office South Hall at twenty five cents. The program will include a resume of adventures a reading of verse prose and guitar performances of American folk songs by Sandburg.
Eleanor Gough, student of Miss Helen Venn, presents a recital next Sunday at 4 in the chapel. She is accompanied by the Cornell Symphony Orchestra under Professor Lloyd Oakland. Gough travels to New York City to compete for a $1000 Matthay Scholarship to study with Mr Matthay in London.
Margaret Hedges, after completing a four year elementary training course, is chosen for an exceptionally fine third grade position at Bryant school in Algona. She will receive the largest salary ever given to a new elementary teacher from Cornell, competitive with top secondary teacher salaries in Iowa. Also at Algona next year Marian Blair will teach Latin and English. Ruth Welle has accepted a mathematics teaching post at Oregon, Illinois.
The Torch association will hold an initiation ceremony for eight new members at Miss Betts apartment on Wednesday afternoon. The new initiates are Ethel Brown Edith Chambers Phyllis Hoffman Elizabeth Isaacs Gertrude Ann Holmgren Jeannet te MacDonald Betty Mount Frances Porter.
The Cornell college summer theatre opens with the English comedy Call It a Day on June 17. From then on plays will run Fridays and Saturdays with a weekly matinee, some for children, featuring both classic and modern works from Shakespeare to O Neill and a juvenile cast in Midsummer Night's Dream.
The Cornellian closes its 1937 38 run of 33 weekly editions tonight and gears up for a sixtieth year starting with the new semester on Tuesday September 13. Kathleen Wilson becomes editor and Martin Kestenbaum takes over as business manager succeeding Francis Gilliland and Earl Edwards.
One hundred six seniors are set to receive diplomas at the eighty fifth commencement on Monday June 6. The list includes three for Bachelor of Music ten for Bachelor of School Music and about 93 for Bachelor of Arts. Dr Charles Reynolds Brown Yale Divinity School emeritus dean will deliver the address.
Keys will be awarded to two men from each class senior junior and sophomore for campus activity participation. Recipients are Wayne Barber Herbert Kaselow Donald A Anderson Robert Swenson Miles Knight and Neil Swanson.
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