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_a score of 27 -20, the sixteenth straight win for the Bobcata, . l'eru, leading 7-6 at ~time, ·bolstered that lead to The PERU PEDAGOGIAN needs staff 27-6 by the ti.Ille three minutei 11111mbera in all capacities. There had elapsed in the fourth are openings !or everyone·, whatquarter. At that ti.Ille Coach Al ever the individual talent. . Wheeler sent in his substitutes 1 1 Because of his brilliant · I! the only newapaper exper1 ·play in the Ha11tinga gaae, his I ience you have had i• the , powerful running plqs, _cauaed Peru frosh o! 1953-54 held a wt.ting out of paper dolls or ·hiM to be awarded the Olllha. meeting to elect their officers. the uldJlg of Napoleon hats, .World Her'1des Sta.I' of the Week . Ron Van Laningh811, a' Phys, Ed, the PElllGOOIAll can wte you. honors; major fro• W1J110re, was elected CoM to Science JOJ., ·tor !urpresident, Other officers elected tllir 1D!Ol'llillOll. ~"""',.,..,.,,_..__ _....j were1. Ann'Fellows, _o! Malvern, ·Iowa, vice-president; Barbara Lockwood, Brock, i!ecretuy; and Ion Bath from Aullllrn, treasurer. . Kq Phelps, Belle'vue, ' and Gloria O'Hara, Aullurn will repres,ent the freshlllan clus as ileiibers of the Student Council, Dr. Peter J anetos is facult7 sponsor of the clais.

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Peru State's defer.ding ch3.11pioJ11 successful held b¥k all second half scoring threats by the powerful Panhandle cluli to take a 1)-6 decision, A lar~ opening gaae crowd was on hand. ilr the Oak Boyl, ~hursday, September ll, to witneaa a victorr which marked Peru's fo1111teenth consecutive gridiron win.

The Oklahoma boys were behilid practically {ro111 the very start, for in the ·ope$1g lllinutes quarteJ<. back Ned Ecklllan 'uncorked a thirtJ· yard touchdown pass to Red Holaee in the end zone.

The try for extra-point failed, A reception honoring freslnlen and a 6-0 Bobcat lead held Ulltil and new studei;tts of p .S.T .C. waa /the second quarter when Panhandle held Wednesda)>' afternoon, Sept4ijlbe retaliated with their lone marker 16, at the home of Predident and · of the gll!lle. llra, Goll!On, : The score did not re!llain tied ·Greeting the. students were the long, !l"jever •. OkJ.a!ioma receim Gomons, Dean of the College· Dr a cllpp~ penalty when Eckman 'Lester N, Downing and Mrs, Downi~, tried anotluir end zone. pass and tm Dean of Wo11en, Marguerite 11aupn ·Bobcats lined up at one-;yard •arlcfl!I Dean of Students,. Dr. Harold Bor~ !or a goal-line stab, The verr. and Mrs. Borass.

J capable Mr. Eckman .then went over Assisting at the serving table wert .Oil ·l quarterback sneak, and also l!rs. George Rath, Mrs , -Robert- ·. . •Ide .good the co1IVersion. The °'1-ndle, Mrs, Ted Benford, a.nd Kr• )IM:!M .score; 13-6.

Darryl Manring, , • A deterained Panhaiidle club · There was a large turnout at · - · back in the ucond-half and ~.and ffVYOll•. iaiared i\. rtllJ;r applied the pressure. Th.• -.1en. de!enae .was put. to a. test. and pro'9d i'llgged in the tighter s!'O'r Twice, an '~Ollie,p broke .aw.:r, ~aedly in the 'open, only to " . llliled !r0111 behind by a speedy.- p.., ~ckle • The hoae ~ana breathed easier .in the finiil crucial minute! of the fourth period, Wbl!n Glllll Larsen intercepted a Panhandle paa1 •nib ling' Coach llhe~ler 1 s fightinc lads to all but. wrap up -the ·g8Jle, Pei::!!te Blue am White aade a Terr cOaendable '8howing against Panhandle, who t'~ co-champion of efr ollll loop, the New Mexico Conference, last se&Bon• Altho\!gh ·there was shown a need for 11ucn illprove111ent, the Bobcats made i~ ·plain that their ,conference oppon,. eits are in for rough sledding ,again this season.

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EDITORIAL

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Mr, NMl S Qomon~· prelrldent ~of ' N!braska State T.eachf'rs College at Peru, is well known ffgure. on could not get it to ;rou sooner, but the new format exacts techniques the c,.npus of a Thou~and Oaks. '. that· are dift~ent from the old 111stem. Also, this edition was put President 9ornon came to Peru in. ·out:.with a skeleton orewi new etaff members are riow ,with 'us, and our Sept.ember, 19$0, head. of the . piper ~ coM out hereafter on schedule, once every two weeks.

Languace Arts Division. lie became B;r refemng to this year'• "Ped" as the •new" Peru Pedagogian presldent of P.s.T.C, .iii Msy, 1951 we '11ean not onlytthat it 'tll.11 co111e out on a regualr scliedule, but that Mr. Gomon left the position it Will contain featurn of general and part'icular interest to the of fl.eld representative for the student. There will be ii comic strip, and, in the next issue, one Nebraska Stat Educ"l.tion Associaother cartoon. There will be, in each issue, a student, an athletic, tion.Prior to his servl.ce with: and a faculty feature, NSEA and NEA, he was superintendent.

11 11 Our reason for changing the format, another new feature of this of schools at Niobrara,· Alvo, and 1 year s paper is inainlJ'' a m"tter of econoll\Y, We are able to use all of Wymore repective)y, remaining at the pictures we wish. without going be:yond our oudget. The allotment each for two years', Mr, Gomon' s of money turned over to the school paper is now adequate. Another rea earlier teaching' career includes 1 son for the- change is to benefit those persona serving on the staff positions as instructor, of journ· Who are interested in journalism and who wish to learn to put appaper alism in' the University of Omaha, together. The "Ped" is co111pletelf a11eltlbled by the staff J there is head of the di vision of journalism no professional help other than/ in the actiial printing of the paper, and speech in Baxter Seminary at the student is, in this Wirf, introduced to the writing of news article~ Baxter, Tenn,, a~ instructor in .the writing of reartures and editiorial8. He is.also responsible for the Bancroft (Nebr.) 'high school. writing headlines and cspti6llll, and for themmake-up of the .pages.

Besides his positions 'as an edWe trust it is not .necessar;r to remind you, as students, that this ucat11r, Mr, G1lmon has been a reis your paper, and that we will welcome auggestions and contributions porter for the Lincoln "Sta;" from you. It is our purpose to cover all cam)l1l!I activities, and it assistant editor of the Methodist would: hep ' Book Concern of New York, and dir•. would help us very 111uch if all organizations would· contact us when· ,of Convention News ~rvice. they have infomation of genera.1 interest. We shall welcome all new President Gamon is a graduate staff members witli open 81'111S., for 11e are reallf ahor-he.nded, There of Albion High.School. He recei are still editors posts open 1 Iii e shall welcome aiso aey. art work his A.B, degree from the Universi that 111ar be submitted provided it is dmle .in black ink, or possobl.y of Nebraska in 1931, ·his M.A. in paint, We could use a photographer, several trPista, reporters, lay- in schooLadminstration in 1945, out persomel,. editors, advertising editors. If you can do ruzything, and will complete his work, for his .you will find a place for yourself on the •Peru Pedagogian." We feel Ed .D,. degree in J\lile 19Slr frOll the that these posts should soon become among the most sought after nosi-' University of Nebraska. tiona on campus, and carry the h3.ghea prestige. By se!;'V:\.ng the .. Nrs, Gomon, the fomer Marion fynon of Bancroft, and M;'. Go110n "Ped, " you 1te in on everything I Our next issue Will be out the Friday before homecoming, carrying l were married. in 1941. 'rll:e;r,.jlave again •Arnold, n and, we hope, ~Little Man on Campus," starring Wortha three children1 David, age three, and the sadistic Professor Snarf. I would have carried, except that To111111;)', age eight, a!l(I. Georgette • we did not have a pho:tograpl'(f editor, a pict\ire of the "new" administ ·age three, Mr, Gomon has two professional ration· .building." objectives that he is working toward, Tile first is the izicreased certification standards for Nebr, teachers and the second is the reorganization of school districts in Nebraska, .

Al though Mr, Gomon is kept ve17 Nlli&dd'lll'ia; ·11ie•.moot-fN1\by. !be~ o1aa1. busy with his a&ninstrative dutiet he still finds some ti.Me for his October 1, 1~53 tilo hobbies, sports and music both of wliich he enj07s vezy much.

Bnlel'ed at ,die. Pe11t Oh • Peru. Nilbrulttii. aa Socond ' Clan M~r. SUI·'*' Sin(le Cop, so. .

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A prime reasmfor the co.ntin- , ued success of the Peru football team is the cony coaching staff, comprised of Wheeler, Pitts, and Johnson, pictured above, Their de -sire to allow all of the players to participate, andpllrfection, their constant striving for has seemingly paid dividends, They have helped make the Bobcats a power on the gridiron, and have endmred the team lli th a great potential, a match for · 11q team. They have also raised the spirit of the school, made students proud to be a part of Nebraska State Teachers College at Peru,

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OJ11etown is Oberlin, Ohio, attended high school _and As a collegiate, he as Ellen is peylll in football, baseball, atl!l d as Ellen is · l. The Oberlin football t, a freslnnan from onlJ' three games in as ns and Al was ll&llled All;·been underway for er-back two years straig)lt the play is shapin!I captian of the basket1rding to Mt• Moore,_, tw.o years, at Iowa State. :la Mae Alden, stu- ' arst College, in Mus- ' a sophomo re from Coach Wheeler's baseball five chBJ11pionship crowns s, He also handled --=== there, for three seasons, leting graduat& work Game Statistics 1 University, Al brought ways to P.S.T .c. , First Downs- Peru, 6 Panhandle, n 19)8, and he had had 9 1 success ever since.

Passes attempted- Peru, 10 Pan' head basketball coach handle, 6 ' , 61 taking his teBlllS to Passes co111pleted- Peru, 2 PanAill tournment five diffhandle, l . s. He handled the Navy Yards gained passing- Peru J8 here, in 1944-45. .

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a touchdown. he tl'f to oomert Taking the cue f Pom their big was ill-fated and the score at brothers, the NSTC Bobcats, the halftime was, 6-0.

Peru Prep Bobld ttens have gone second half action no equ,allr through the first three gmnes of divided as the teruns pul!hlld 'baclt the 1953 season without defeat. As' and l:orth, waiting and loold,ng tor a matter of fact, they have been . a poesible scoring oppcrt.1lllity • scored upon only once in the cam- · A cha~ge of pace occured in the OROS (cont,) paign, that lone tally coming at fourth quarter when H~g 1 e the hel:lrle of Hamburg, whom they de- Wildcats swung ·to a single-wing football games. They meet every feated 13-7. offense and began to arch d<JTmo Monday from 6: JO to ,7 :_OO P •M· at Their other two victories were field, Eliza Morgan Hall with )!iss Row- won at Weeping Water, t>;o, and. at The Iowans scored a touch\iOllll oldt and Mrs, Boraas as Sponsors• Sidney; 13-0. In both games Prep and added the extra point t.o take waa riddled With injuries, but over the lead, and the four ~ti!

The Commerical Club met Tues- came through behind the brilliant remaining made things look bl&ok day ~vening September 15, in the quaterbacking and passing of Bob for the Bobkittens, The PqiW, Or.'lllll Commerce room in the. Administra" lloore, the fine running of Sid put everything into a tin&l tftelRc tio Building. There were Twenty Brown and Buck '\Viningham, and line and was rewru:ded when ~ four present. They selected play of Glen Haywood, Moore sent Brown t.hro1Jih 11 del'enKenneth Hoag }>resident, Tom Bos·The big ·teat is tonipt, Peru sive leak for the winning ucore. worth Vice-president, Janet Chris Prep is way up !or the..traditional The try for extra point wu good, tenson secretazy and Ronald Ahl gime With neighboring .i.uburri High final a~ore: Peru, l3J !!&'Iburg, 7, as treasurer.· A program com1t- School, 11!i01p they have yet to de· Football game fans sa11 a mtob tee and a committee to start-work feat, Coach-Jerry Stober, llho to that old fairy, tale a.bout "the 1 on the Homecoming displey were moulded a fine toaa out of a very kittens who lost their mittem~ in selected also. At the' end of the small, light aggree;ation, wants ·Peru Prep'$ opening gane of the meeting, a waternelon feed was , this one for the bo19, Auburn, who season, furnished by Miss Hazel Weare, has not fared 11'1111 this season, .

Bobkit Sid Brown .was almost wants it, too,· and the geme, to be thrown for .a loss b;r his own pants sponsor.

The Commerical Club pl•""'d in Auburn, ahould be a !ine as· he scored the wi-'M ithe s open to acy business student. ._.'""""' touchdoim.. and meets tne first Tuesda.- of · ona, Feruvisns, who have not seen Mr. Brown quickly recovered, in the. h ' the ldttens in notion !ol' two weeks end zone, as his team mates oblig·· eac month from 7:00 to B:oo P.M, sre urged to attend, ingly went into a huddle around 1 him.

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by Glenn Trump, -£eason for both teams, rivals in "One Garsantuan problem today The Dramatic Club 'tht Tri-State Conference; The meets the third Tuesday evening , game, played at the Peru State Coll confronts Nebraska Co1".ege Conference members with championship ege field, wasn't too eventful in the Little Theater with Mr, untl.1 early in the second quarter ambitions1 Moore serving as sponsor. n•Who 1s.. going to stop Peru~·· when Brown ,tore over left guar,d for "Al G. Wheeler's potent Bob, cats marched to their sixteenth , 's\,r1rlght victory last week by pou ndi:l~ a tout.ed Hastings eleven,

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"The only other outfits 'left With spotless NCC-records now are IVesleynn and Kearne-y-and they hnven' t iudicnted they'll be any toUi;her than llastinBs. ' "Peru, after invading Chadron this week, wil\ be host to \'lesleyon October 10 and bllllgs into Kearney on tho· Antelopes field Now.>1.~ bar 6, ' ' "That siime Kearne)' field we.s whero Peru lost its last league encounter, 19-14, two yeara ago.

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Ben's future, however, will not be in the field of music. He has · been accepted in the Manhattan (Kansas) Bible College for theological study, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, He hopes in time, to receive a Doctor of · Divinity degree, but his present and foreseeable goal is to· be a pastor in the Christian Church, He approaches the vocation · with a broad and humane intent, and hopes to utilize the knowledge he has obtained here as a basis of guiding the spiritual lives of Ben DucrZcct his congregations, Duerfelt feels that there is no real descrepency between teaching and preach:l'ng, Respected by faculty members H f and ttudents alike, Ben Duerfelt, e eels, too, that Jiis knowl.edge of music will • put him in good president of the student body, stead as a minister. will be the first student to lie featured in the new 11 Pedagogian. 11 , . Ben is now teaching_ part-time in the .Bratton Union High School, Ben, born in Nemaha, June 17, where he ·offers music l:lasses at 1933, is a graduate of Nemaha ' both the grade and high school High School where he was saluter- : levels• ian of his senior class and · preach~ the baccaulaurate services to the graduating class, ARNI OLD Now a senior at Peru, he car1 ries a major in music and a minor;. MEET "ARNoiD" (see page ·2), a Dell' in English. In his own field of FEATURE of 'the PEDAGOGIAN, He '11'111 endeavor, Duerfelt has . heen a · appear each 'isaue and go through member of the PeruVian Singers for; his madcap, pseudO..intellectual me four years, pleyed flute in the ' anderings through the ivy-clad, band from 1950-1953, is a member ' venerable old walls of 01 1 Clutch• of HENC, and has participated in ' moor, formerly the University of. the operettas perfoI'IJ!ed on camnua Minnesota, but not too much diffas Ralph Rackstraw in "H.M.S. Pin- erent from .01 1 Peru. afore" in 1950, Gonk:i:dder· in "The Red Mill" in 1951, aud the Duke of Along 'Ill.th "Arnold," we hoii- in Dunstable in "Patience" in 1952. . our next issue to bnng you Little Aside from musical activities, Man on Campus. See the EDITORIAL Ben has 1 shown a great interest in .. for details. ' other campus functions. He is a i So don •t miss a single issue ot member of Kappa Delta Pi, and won tt-P freshman awa~ offerd by that your •new" PEDAGOGIAN, issued to you FREE twice a month, we hopel

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The Peru State Marching Band, under the direction of Professor Robert Grindle .and led by the baton of Miss Vickie LeCure, is sporting new uniforms, complete with plumes •.

The Marching Band, which made its debut at the Hastings game, was one of the major· . ·features of that occasion, For the short tille in which Mr. Grindle had to train his group, they did remarkably well, This week-end, the band and its uniforu travels. with the team to'"'Chadron, to entertain the students there, and to in~ spire the team to its seventeenth straight football victory.

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ecome Welcome Alums1 Agatn theo From 4130 p.m. to 6100p. !ebrask1vState College at m,, following the football Peru we1comes its eraduates game, there will be another md fonner studt>nts to the coffee break to be held in !The '*1ipus of a Thous and the Student Union, Delzel 1 ~aks ,'" to take part .in the Hall. Alumni will attens as an.,ul\l Homecoming events. guests of the College, College officials are co From 5:30 until 7:30p.m~ )perating ·with the students will be dinner hour, and at to make this Homecoming the 7: 30 the curtain will go up rinest in the school's hist for the Homecoming play. )ry. There will· be. many ev"Edwina Black," a melo!nts for the expected crowd drama in three acts, under lf Old Grads. Credit is due the direction of Robett D. Dr. Harold Boraas, chairman Moore, and the student dir~ of the Homecoming Conunittee ection of l!.rs, John Alden and l!r. Kenneth M. Heywood co-stars Virginia Ferguson, for the success of the day.

Phyllis Constant, M\I'Vil Praise is due also to Home- Miller, and Howard Ulin, coming ColllI:littee member~.

Following the play, the Activities will commence Gym wil'l be the site of the at ten o'clock in the morn !lomeceming Dance. This Will ing, with the judging of a wind up the festivities of group of displays made for the 1953 Homecoming. the occasion by student org anizations. At trophy will The DAY'S EVENTS: lOzOO a.m.: be awarded to the display JUDGING DISP.LAYS deemed best by the Student 10:30 to Noon: Council.

REGISTRATION AND COFFEE From 10:30 a.m. to 12: IN FRONT OF ADMINISTRAT00 noon there will be reg!Oll BUILDING istration in front of the 12:00 Noon: ~dministration Building at LUNCH HOUR. FORMER ATHlrhich t:ilne coffee will be LETES EAT WITH TEAll served.

2:00 p,m,: Former Peru State athFOOTBALL: PERU STATE VS letes will have lunch with NEBRASK> WESLEYAN: OAK the football team at noon BOWL and are expected to suffer 4:30 to 6:00 p,m•. : pre-game jitters with them AFTER-TllE-GA!!E-COFFEEat noon-day training table AND-VISITING: DELZELL . At 2:00 p.m, the Bob5:30 p.m,1 cats will be featured in a DINNER HOUR: cotLEGE conference footbaJ.l game CAFETERIA ~ainst a strong Wesleyan 7:30 p.m,: ~am. The contest will be HOMECOMING PLAY: "EDheld in the Oak Bowl. Peru WINA BLACK": COLLEGE lrill attempt to extend its AUDITORIUJ.! string of consecutive Wins 9:30 p,m,: to eighteen.

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SPECIAL HOMECOMING ISSUE, OCTOBER 10, 1953

.NUMBER TWO

Peru Looks For 18th In A Row; Lead Conference AlUlllni re turning to the this week end will find the old Blue and White bat~ing·to continue, and extendi', the college's longest winning streak, And if last year's contest is ~ indication, Peru faces a threatening challenge on the afternoon of Homecoming as they lock horns with the strong Nebraska Wesleyan ag gregetion.

The Plainsmen from the capitol city hold.high hope of spoiling Peru 1s Homeco!Ding festivities, It was the Wesleyan squad that. handed the Bobcats the big , fright last season taking the half time lead 7-0, It was only great fighting spirit that allowed the' 1\'heeler.nen to come back in the last half and win, 27-7; This year's Methodist squad bases its claim to on twenty-two returning let termen,. inclµding qual'.terback Marv Macy, wh'o gained honorable ment:ton.on the AP THF P'2RU l!ARCHINO IUD SALUTES ALU¥NI AT HOMECOMING Little All-America team for ~r 1952; 200 pound Sanford Nel son, veteran fullback; and halfback Rollie Weigers, an Homecoming is not cotnAll Air-Force player last plete ll'ithout a Homecoming ·season, The team has also Queen and her attendent.s, three 1950 veterans who are This year's Peru State just back from service, Queen is Virginia Ferguson The Peru fans will agree and her attendents Marilyn thBt the Bobcats have what Hawxby and Phyllis Davenit takes when the pressure ~ort (pictuz:ed left). is on, They have some of The Homecoming Queen is league's top performers in to be crowned during halfNed Eckman, All-America Bob time activities· at the Peru Lade, Bob Simpson, not to Wesleyan football game, mention Rosenquist, Clarke Robert Grindle 1s newly8Jld Applegate; Argabright .clad Marching Band will be and Cederburg and Allen, No there, too, to entertain, injuries mar the starting lineup, and the N,S,T,C.Bob cat goes into the fracas at Play Notto· full strength, Be Performed At present,· Peru shares top conference honors with Due to certal.n unforseen Kearney, another dangerous circumstances, as well as foe. illnesses, the ple.y "Edwina Black, 11 will not be perform N.C.C. Standings ed tonight, according to Mr · Robert Moore, director. wL T Opening night will be a2 0 0 PERU bout two weeks hence, about' 2·0 0 Kearney the t.wenty-fi!th of the moDoane 1 0 'l nth of October, 1 0 l Waymi; The cast and others conWesleyan 1 1 0 nected with the play, join Hastings 0 2 0 Mr. Moore in expressing rel!idland 0 2 0 gret thnt the curtain won' Chadron 0 2 0 rise on Homecoming ni~ht,

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Peru State's Bobeate re;lllllined undomestic as they clnwed .Chadron 33-6 for vie toi::y number seventeen Sat urday aftert\oon in Chadron .The - Perdvians racked up a very subst~tial 21-6 halftime margin ·while Winning -their second ·conference vic.tory of the .eaasonbefore ·.the :Eagles' .home c.rowd.

Quarterbm:k Eckman be.gan the .day's .festi.vities for Peru with .a punt deePin t.o Eagle . territory, When Chadron fumbled on the five Peru fresbman Del S:t;ol ten:ierg tore . t;hru the middle for the tally. The margin increased to 14--0 in the 2d period when Eckman fired a.44yard pass to Bill Allen .for the second TD; · After .Chadron scored ona .fifty-four yard push, .Allen crossed over for Mother Peruvian goal, ·Eckman made good all three ·conversions in the fil'St)haif.

"Wflrthal stumbled flVer Prof. Snarf in·the city the other nightThe Eagles' attempts .to Seems he carries that camera every place he goes." hold ·in ·the second half. failed, arid 1 Cat Ken Clarke · shook loose for a fifteen yard trot into the end-zone A final touchdown came off the assembly line in the fourth quarter when ·Peru •·s Rodger ·Majors lunged over the goal line following a costly Chlldl'on penalty.; . narrell · Rosenquist, j.r. from :Essex, Iowa, :aJlc;i ~ob Simpson, senior from.Falls City, sparked the Bobcat

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Eckman Signs With Cardinals

.Ned Eckman, Peru State~ outstanding quarterback,h signed a baseball contr~· with the St.Louis .Gardin. for next season, The twenty-year-old j . ior from Pawnee City is signed his first ·pro be , lVith the Omaha Cards of t , Western League.

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forward wall in this game.• Peru faii an 18-11 edge in first downs, and piled up. 291-94 yards .rushing. Al Wheeler's lads prov:°ed super ior aerial-wise alao witn an 88-54 advantage over the Chadron .Eagles.

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"six Peru State Cottege seni.on shown above were recently.honored by being named to member .. p Who's Wbo Among Students in American Colleges and Universities •. Those nam:d ue chosen Oil asls of outstaqdlng schol.mhip and leadership qualities, participation rn exuacurncular activities romise for future success. in the front row. left to right, are Cunis Sederburg. Essex. Iowa; Phyllis Heinke, Omaha and

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Six 11udeots at Peru State College, all senlon, were named lhb week 11 the 1953-54 selectloos foi membe.nhlp In Who'• Who Among Students lo American Uni· versltles and colleges.

The organization annually namea ouliundlog 11udents from colleges and uolverlltlet who meet the qualifications of ·excellence and sincerity In scholarship, leadership and participation lo exuacurrlcular and academic activities, cltlzemhlp.and service ro lhe school, and promise of fu111r• ·usefulnell to buslnen and society.

Candidates for the honors on the Peru campus were selected by • committee made up or students, teachers and. admlolsttators, They are Loren Abgabrlght, Nemaha; Ben Duerfeldt, Barnard, Mo. , Phyllb Heinke, Omaha; Bob Lade, Tecumseh; Charlotte Merritt, Council Bluffs, la. ; and Curtis Sederburg of Enex, Iowa, Ml11 Heinke II the daughter of Mn. Dorothy Heinke, Omaha, and a graduate of Nebraska City high school In 1950. At Peru she has malcred In Physical Education and Biology and plans to become ateacher following her grad'ua.tlon.

Hcractlvlitea hav.eincluded membership In the band. Poretsn Language club, Sigma Tau Delta Kappa Dela Pl and Y.W, C, A, She lw served 11 prealdent of Tri-Beu (aadonal honorary bologlcal fratemtty); prealdeat of the campus chapter of Kappa Delta Pl. (Natlooal educitloaal fraternity) and vice preildentof the women's dormlrory council, During her frelhman year me w111 majorette wldi the. Peru State marching band and bas found time throughout her four yean ro augment her finance. bf working In the college library.

A career lo the mlnlltty II the ultimate goal of Ben Duerfeldt, 100 of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Duerfeldc of Barnard, Ml11ourl. A 1950 graduate of Nemaha high school, lien ha• been an act! ve leader In all campu11fral11 during 1hll collegiate career and'cumued .bll 1C1vlce ro the school 11 preil • 1dent of the lludent council. Pas· ~sencd of 1 fine tenor voice, he ,has been prominent lo Peru musical 'procluc!IOlll and b11 had the male lead In Piru'1 operettas for four yean. He h11 1110 1uog the tenor lead In three oratorloi.

His orpolzatlon act1v1tles havt locluded membenhlp ln the college band, chorus and orchesua, Music Educator• National r.onference, Kappa Delta Pl (nabooal education fraternity), Slue Devl11 (men'• pep organization), pres!· !lent or lh• men's dormitory coun• ell, and prelldeot of the Junior cliN. A1 a f1111hman he was win· .ner of the Kappa Delta Pl award glv111 aMually ro the nrn year .t1Uclent. who lli0ws lhe m"lt promlM ,Jn tht fltld QI tducallon. . Bob Lade ls tht 1on or Mr. and Mn: £111111 1.ade of Tecumseh *'141 the m0tt outstanding athlete In the.blltory of Peru State. lie h

a graduate 01 Tecumseh high school.

The first Nebraska college player ever to be named to· the Associated Pten Little All-Am· erle1n elever., Lade Is also a three-time all-conference uckle, has won the Carriker Award given annually to the outsundlng lineman In the NCC and has participated In b11ketb1ll and nack.

His acilvltleslnclude member· ship In the dormitory council, Lutheran Club, Blue Devlb(meo'1 pep Olganlzatlonj, the lnduaulal Arts Club,and the student council, He h111e1ved also as president/of the Sophomore class, president of the "P" club, and prelldent of the campus hqnorary mathematlci fraternity, Alpha Mu Omega.

Lade plans a career lo profes· slonal football .following his graduation next spring and expects to eventually enter the coaching field.

Curtis Cederburg II lhe 100 of Mr •. and Mn. Arnold Sederburg of Essex, Iowa, where he graduat· ed from high school In 1950. His Immediate plans following gra· duallon Involve fulfllllng hll mil• ltary obligations ~fter which he pl1111 to teach lndusula!'Aru and secure additional college training.

Sederburg hat been a regular on Coach Al Wheeler's Bobcat eleveru 1lnce his· enrollment at Peru. He has also ierved 11 pres!· dent of the Industrial Arts Club, iecretary of l!psllon Pl Tau (national profeulonal organization In the Industrfal AIU field), and h111 been a member ofBlue Devils, the student council, the Lutheran Student!' A11ocl1tloo and the •p• club for a11ue11c letter winnen.

Charlotte Meritt, who graduat· ed from Peru· Prep In 1948, · Is a daughter of Mn. James Meritt of Council Bluffi, Iowa. She has been a reacher for two years In the Council Bluffs 1y1tem before resigning to return to Peru and complete requirements for her de· gree.

Last year she was president of the Peru State Art Club and ar present heads the women's dormitory council. She has appeared also ·1n campus mualcal production• and Is 1 member of White Angels (women'! pep organization), Kappa Delta Pl · lNatlonal educational fraternity) and Sigma Tau Delta (national profelllonal English fra· ternlty). She expecu to conllnue teaching, her goal being 1 polltloo 11 art supervltor In a large csbool system.

Lcxen Argabright, ion of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Argabright, 811" duated from Nemaha high school In 1950, He faces mllltary service after spring graduation but' expecu ro follow 11111 with graduate work and eventual! y go lnro the teaching profeulon. His two primary extracurricular lnteresu have been football and mu1lc. He h11 been an outstanding halfback with the Bobcats and a four·year member of .the college choir, with pro" mlneot p1rt1 In operetta produc·

The combined errorts or several departments should make the music department's operetta a thouough success. working under the general direction of Mr Darryl Manring are the following faculty : Dr. Ben Collins, in charge ot sets; Miss Norma Did dle, art director; Mrs. Al Wheeler, in ohargeot dancing and choreograph er• Mr. Robetr Moore,in oh~rge or directing th& spoken lines; Mr. Robt.

Benford; aooompaniast.

This happy conciliation of the Seven Arts should pay dividends when Oscar Straus' "The Chocolate Soldier" is presented tomorrow.

Stude.nts are admitted ipon presentation of student body cards and others may obtain tickets at the business office.

THANKSGIVING RECESS MIXE HARTZELL, BEN DUIR1EL'l' 1 AND MR DARRYL Th~nksgiving vacation is here with nr, :ic;.1in, MANRING R!HEABSE lOR "'l'HB CHOCOLA'l'B SOLDIER" For some of tho ctuclcnts it will be their first oppol'tunity to ;;;o home ainca tho se1nester st.D.rled. 1 Classes will b6 disril.ssod after the last class Ucdn·~s­ day, ;Jovcnbcr 25, ilnd will reconvene at the regular hours on Jlondny, -..:ovomber JO. tloos all four years, He h11 twice been elected ro membership In the student council and this year Is Its treasilrer.

He Is a member of Alpha Mu Omega (honorary m1thermatlc1 fraternity), and has been tteasurer of Blue Devlll(men'1 pep organlza· · don) and hat been active In th• national educational fraternity, Kappa Dela Pl and In the •p• Club.

FRED APPLEGATE ROBERT LADE

Honor 6~.tlobcats 31x T.lobcri tr: c;o.ine~ honored µo~itlon5 on the All-NCC Team recent ly roickecl by the iiqrldliernld1 with tho o.idof the coo.cha::; riround the oonf pi.~enoe, And for the second stralsht year, Perurs great llnem,,.n,Bob Lctde, we.s u ununlmoun choice.

Darrel~ RC>senquisi and Bob Sirnpoon 'filled in tho gunrd ::iluto, while ~'red Applegate topped al! chnl!engers for the center poslticn.

The hard ~riving Ken Clark gained the honvrs a~ the fu.Ll-buok µositlon,azl'l at quarterback there w:1£ Nod Eckman, whu was tocredited us being tho spnrk or the ;ioworfu.L Boben t o:t'fen-

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PERU PEDAGOGIAN

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Nebraska. to ,submi subjects c tional we ·The fc taken fro 1894. l\'.Ii S'ome the youn :teeling H for physi· ized the l The Cor arms for :state fur In 188£ organized a few y1 distinct cadets, bi band an dated ur. son, who ond Lieu Improven been the the conso A Batt panies A, giving a work.

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MARY SHERROD MICHAEL TREAT

Go11ch ~!heeler :it~te that, 11 Som0 uf thoe 1'he nn ski11 od wrlLcr of h i.stnry wl10 i~ unnchools in consideraable to temrori :rn l1otwcon t'rn fads of 11i story and tion m~.y b~ rnvoreu' be th0 hnman as11cc ts which r,ivc tho facts monni.11r J s forcn.uso of t:1elr large ced to choose \iot.wcr11 the<n,.. One 1uay .con ll.Y learn the . 'l'hP- pos~ibili.ty that :;ize, bUt 1 II und )le eoo liis:tor.icol datn c.oncer11in~: our scl10.ol, iltatod "" hnrc· .f':1c s foru in:i.gnt be · invlt0d, 11 on to say, tlle Bobcat hit onJ(i'.V co11scio1w, ].nhori.011r; effort can he ]c:irn the ' to pfoy in tho Cigar hn.vo o.r. imprcn~i vo n J'eal .str.mii'ica,nce of npcru 1.1 .4i1 it mn.Y '><·: ro.1d i.nto th0se Bowl, nt T;1"1l'u, 1«lu. ,hus rocord ~.G :~ny ;,nd :;.,an facts ;.y the story of the efforts of t 110r;c 1ho have lrthorec crccto-:: much intercc.t n V<:JrJ eood chance fo to 1iake this schonl a worthwllil.e. institut.i 011, hore, sit ·c;hn cnmpun of ;. hi.d,ll .

A history of our r.c''ool as it shonl.d· he would be the n Tl1our.nnd Oi'1c1, 'l'h<• t tho !'oru :.:tal:tr story of different Pcrsonali ties interwoven into one rrand W:nnwhl.lo, tho Bob01111 une or the finest rattern. The facts ma.v onl.v be interpiretcd in such a .way. c:i t,c, . ure wurklntj out n rr:cor<ln in 1;hc nnti.on Institutions, howcvGr rreat, nre not of them:1elvos somecoul'lu uf tl1M3 each there ~s Ettlc Coubt:. thi~t insti.~uti,ons· do not h11ve ideah and asrir~ti.ons, week, l.n cs; rie they 11re 'In tho ,,ririt four ·yer.zi·r. hopes 1 and fears; these oxlst only in, the r:iinds of the peoincluded in the Clcor l;hn.1 h::'/fl boon turned peonle i<l\o compose them; BoHl eelecti.onn, to bo bock only. I+ tlni">s l . It is impossible, or at least inaccurate, to assir:h tlie announce, ?n two wockr.:, 37 contc3ts, fouii<litir,.'"of our school to any particular person, Pe~. is Conch l'.11oeler <luo:;n' t 'l'hclr 21-grune the result of the laf1ors of many, of the strivinr:s of a W[l]lt hJ.S buyr. tu be ntronl' etretchoe bac r:roup·, net of an individual.. But of course some fir:urcd C'l.ucht unprepared, to 19)1, includes mol'o pro·ninently than others; and t11e story hin~cs upon Poru state is one or conference crowns nn4 them, · · · si.x- colloG' ·r; bcin:.; conehnre of t!10 title w.;.

The settlement of Peru hei:;an in 18S5, the year after nl:clcred by th& Bowl Com· Do Gllfl 3 yen!' s ago,' the or~ani?.atinn of Nebraska ~s a territory, It f'.!'ew m:..ttoo, Othor8 on the It is 1·180 of into up as the result of tho establisli1ient of a boat list ar•o: Missouri Vnlest to note that t' l.a11dini:;, <rnd was named npcru 11 by some .. · _..,._.. loy und Ln Cros:::e, of lus:; Pe, u handocl the settlers from Peru, Illinois. It was ~'iisconsin; Sflm :Ioust·on, Fm1h1JJ1dle crew this se one of ti,e. earliest towns in tho terri•rexr.s; Iovrn \·Josleyo.n; son, is the only settory, and it ~row rather raridly, soon nlsb tho UnJ.v.,r~.ity of bnck the :.g£;i'or> had ti hecoming a t1riving li.ttle cent~r ofllllrle •rnsnpo. un..J Stetson Uni-

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•She.a 1Stq avq frrim me, J'OU beutl 1 I-EEEEE\I The18 ll'e 11ome crapbic quotatiolll !rOll the Dort of literature that ii readi:l~ anilable to eTe17 11ix-1earold in'Alllerica, In the lfon111ber iaaue of the LADIF.S'· BOO. JOIWL, Dr. Fredric Wertbara, co111ultinc p11chi1.... trbt of the Depart.ment :of Bo1pitall, Hew York City, ex lildne• the 1adin and pornocraph pre1ent in "What Parenta Don't Know About Comic. Boekl~.

In the 90,000,000 •cold.c• .bookl !aerican children re ad 1m117 111onth, 1111 Dr. Wertba, are example• o! eTery kind of pel'l'erted and criminal behaior; Children are aotuU, taught to break lau bT :illuttraiion. One pub lication, for illlltance, pna careful, technical de•• cription ot •ho~ dmce1 t "I pushed back 'flff 111leen in.a·'U:Chteninc..lib ~e and dett:i, 1llpped the pen under a wide elut1c blll:l vbich I wore under rq fore

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Althouch publi•hera of the comice defe!Xl tbB111elTe1 by •¢111 that crime 11 al1111• punilhed in their picture atorie1, the~ ii near:i, ahrq• incidental to the WIT paces. ot featured brutality~ Dr. Werthlll poiat:s out, He blames COiiie books for the increue in Tiolet juTenile delinquenq within the lut tin year1; and cites. cr1me1 OOll!litted bT children vbo adllitted ~. • d cotten the' idea 'trcia .a ce.1:o book.

When the queetioli"O~ ceillor1hip o! colllic books ari1ea Bql Dr. Werth111, the ieaue beCC11181 not the diltribution o! haratul literaturo but the in!rillCllllilt of freedom of the preH. Actualq, he remiooe, all macadnel and neva paper• for adult• are cenaored in 1011e vq or other b;y the editor1--but the children'• readinc matter ii allowed to 10 its untr1111111eled vq, Lecal coat:rol of the ir publication, he belieTea1 i. an ablolute nece111itr if the clorUication of crime and Tiolence in the lllind• o! _children ia"to be CU1'bed, ·

Dr. Chish9lm Speaks to Students on School Districts At convocation on Friday October 23, Dr. Leslie Chisholm, of Lincoln, addressed Peru State students and faculty members on 11 Reorganizing Nebraska's School Districts.11

Dr. Chisholm is chairm.,,, of the department of school administration in the Teachers College,University of Nebra~ka, He is nationally recognized as a leader ~n the reorganization field,

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(con timed) \"or it sel"V'ed in trar!e an lnreasing nuinbGr of peonle, havi.n~ aCC'!S~ to the iver transportation of t"e rlays, It roes without say ; n" t'1nt life in t:ie frontier town was ere.de, :·,ut s001e o the far-seeinr, and pror,ressi.ve spirits were looking tvwar· the future, and as early as 186o a charter was granted . the territorial ler,islat·1re for the estoblishment of a sch, of coller:e ~rade in Peru.

Time passed, however, a'ld for five years the seed which was to he the collep:e lay dornant, Then the seed beP.an t aprout.; throurch a. series of incidents a1< interest in a sch was r enewe d • As a sui.table locat'on was needed, Dr,_ J.F, Neal, Rev, Burch, and '·lrs. C.ll. HcKenzie donated sixty acres of lan.d to t"e trustees, It was nla,ined to erect a t'1ree-story ~"1ildinv. of brick'. and stone, and as a site the top of tlie hiE w!lere tloe ;iount Vernon Dor~itocy now stands was chose Tho cornerstone for tloe_ b<1ildi.n 7 was laid in the spring o 1866~t::~~ ei,ht tlious<fud dollars had heen secured·~):! tlie

•From nov on--I' • uld.nc dough tbe eu;y Vi\T·--With a cunt

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Cadet Earl

H.

Webb

A first solo flight was made by Naval Aviation Cadet Earl H. Webb Jr, ,son of Mr. and Mrs. Frances Webb of 407Nth 14th St,,Nebraska City.

He attended Peru State/ Teachere's College before enterinll: the Naval Aviation Cadet Flight Training Program at the Naval Air Station in I.incoln.

j

There was notliin~ inviting or hospitable. about the site ·of the scliool then. The '1ills were covered with shrubbery, with only liere and there an occasional tree and over all wild life was abundant. The true beauty of the location :ms not anpreciated ·1ntil later. · The work of t'1e b·1ildinr. proceeded slowly for var .:.ous . reasons, There was some difficulty encountered in collect in" the subscriptions. S11itable materials for .tlie erecti of a l<Jr~e hli.ildinr. were difficult to secure, When cold weather set in l<te in the fall, the difficulties were m\1ltiplied, hut the work continued,

He is part time coordinator of the School District Organization Program. of the · Midwe$t, sponsored by the Unive~sity of Chicagb.

This address by Di. Chisholm is the ffrst of 'a series of critieal issues i.n Nebraska etjucation that will be studies at Peru State College. President Gornon will announce the. dates and. topics bf' the other p1'ogra1ns ~t alater date.

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~oach\Johnson,

.' 'Perfectionist Coach :Bill Johnaon, who

·. to , Peru s campus las.t 1

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.d nothing less th:an,. · Williaa.1-0. Johnson went F:llJJll)re High School; •rir; and att,ddedJ!Ollt' ·. ar.a; 1cat ;1Mlli7'dlle State chert .College,. He was a ~sport letterman the.re, 1L an AJl,.stater . tor. two .are on a Maey:ville basket team that .won a con.ence · crown and took sec · , ,, in . a national .tonrna-

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Johnson · earned his. Mas~·'' Degree ·at the Unift?lt)' otHissouri. Then; at

had tl,

inton High School 1ri Mi:a-

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iketball1 ti>otball,. and . ck~<· ·lliile. at .Ciintont' helped w.· organiie..the ..........,,_ral Ho. Coaehes and or;.; call.. Aasociation• Hit· adkeytufll rtlllld .. s aketbaU telill9 at Clinton · {UJ>' im.pressbe recOrds conference champe: live

rs1goilng.'1Uldet.eated ...tout' .. f;cthose ,aeuone. Hie.1toot-

•-•"'1·~::.~,,,turned•out:.eqm.;

.. o~atanding.

"ree-story ·. e top of tlie .nds was chosen• the spri~ of ,c\1red '1JY. tlie .e about .the covered with :casional tree, :'\le beaut". of

Coach Johnson aened 3 ars .in the Ha'f1<&11.a i:hr· ical titnes• . instructor d. plqed wittk>the .HOrtolk ~ Air Station cage11teaae ·.nation's number.: one: 'f1 team in the season of .45.

Peru's capableJtead .bastball · ment.or and assistootball coach. is liared and bas tM> .childnn, borab 5, and ~dall 3.

111118 his leisure·· time

Mcd~e·· C,ba:nges

in

After his two ye;,rs at Allbion, he a,ccepted ~he position of 1•.lementary l'rit\ci;:le in Declo, Idaho where ·he stayed unt U he rrntr:r8d I.hi'! military service rl1.ri.n1' I.he war. ..

11.eturni n1~ from oversea r.i:rvlce, IJr.iJowni.nr~ P.nt• red the UniverMty o;, Utah al:.

Lor:an,where he received his H~A • .degree in 19h7 and his i1aster in l'.1li9.

Followinr, the granting of his !last.er degree, JJr. 'Downing bec.ame Dis.trict Superintendent at Arimo., ~d­ are, for one year and from there he hecame Director of Count:r-Wide. Guidance Ser~ vice in Pocatello , ldaho whitc)2 he left to cet hi~ :!:d.Jl. at Greeley, Colorado.

In.19Ul,while serving·as r.lementary l'rinciple i.n .De., clo ,. he met Mrs. powning, the former lt.iss Ruth ilgbert who was the first grade teacher there~ lbey were married in 1942, and they now · have· thrl:e children, two r,irls and one boy; CarolY!l, Dean.Downing ar:e 7; Lauralee, a"e 6· and Galen, aee 3, · ' Dr • .Jowning is still ~in­ Uoctor Lester N. Uownin<' terested .in sp0rts andtakes is a busy l!lan, but he took a great deal of pleasure in tble-ont to relate some of them, even thoµgh he no lonthe incidents and facts. of ger participates in ver.y his life so. that the stud~nts on the reru · Campus , many except in•the specta~ ter's role; bnt he does admight get to know him betmit that. he would like to ter. find the ti.Me. to take in a Dr •..uowning is..well fitlit~le hunting .and.fishing ted : for the .position of along the l«isso:1ri River ?ean of tolleg,e.He received ~s. doctorate in education . and 3lhi'fs.• 1 !11951,f.rom:Color.&do:·State.

Collegec ot ' Edu'cat±on · at Gree'l:ey; with :a111ajor. in· Kqucational Psychology and . tnid'.111ce ,and a minor. in·· Ed:.. ucat1onal.Admiriistration • Aside from thr.ee and one. half years during the Second World. war, wheri he- was stat~"ned in England,. Dr. ·Downingihas · spent: .the rest of . his life in the "educational and,guidance fields •.

Degree ·Require,ments Of ma,jor interest to ali students of Peru state . are th? clmnc0s in co118 rJ 'requir.e:aents o.f all students seeking decrees, that wer:e a?opted by the Policies Comm1tt~e at its last roi:;ular meeting • Ther.e were no c~anges , made in ,,aj or and m 11 or requirements· though •.

Students. w.ay make req;icsts' · fcn:.substitution of special methods courses as education credit and .they s.hall be referred to th: head of the ~vision in the major and mmor fields 1 the head. ot education division and the dean of the collc;;e.

The requirements chan"es are as follows: v Laboratory Sciences from 12 or 16 hours to 6 hours. , F.ine Arts from 4 hours to 2 · hours, Health and Phys. Ed'. from 7 to 5 hours. · .

EdUcation from 28 hours to 24 hours.

Social Studies and Language Arts remain. the same, These changes makes a specified 5& :ours ·of re-quired subjects as co:npared': .with the 72 or. more hOilrs required previ'ousl:y.

Th,is.. will make for. greater elasticity·m thal.~'hOilrs required for:graduation+ These requimnents. as adopted more, than ;meet .the requirements ,as set i'ort.h b:y the. Jlo&rd: of .E:dil.cation ·ot State Nor.mal. Sehools. and the American Assn• Of .Colleges for.Teacher Education.

Operetta· Cast Appflarinc in the

J

STUDENT FEATURE

1010-,..., . rta will, be Harlene Rattioi · sell, Bett1 Hocue, .Slii.nlJ . bbies are 11emorisilng;po- Gewce.,. Ben. Du•r!eldt, Vicki LeCure, Buetord Riclaun,. Iori· s3.:Lt..'. Lake Citr .could , rt·and also :Usbing)~' Iii Arpbricht, and RonlBtth~ , cl;dm·him·:for.:a .native,,son, · ': . terred. · for he was born there; .but his father, Joseph.C,. Downontinued) Meanwhile; bE!!i8Jl.Se of the entpusiasrn; the eding moved'his family to Idationsl work liad ·be~un. l-1r. J. M. McKeni!ifo was elected bcipal and Mrs. c. B-. McKenme preceptress, and the 'first, aho·, and ·Dr. Downing was r.n beoan late .in Augu:st, 1866~ '.l'le records give the aver- ETadnat.ed from Filer Idaho High School in 1932, While attendance"as about thirty. in high school, Ur. liowning ' .A )l0ard of education was appointed 'oy the state to:take. participated in various arge of affairs, and much credit is r;iven by all who write sports., but :he lettered in . Peru history to its 'ooard of education. In early years track • Sports , however, e personnel of the board was almost entirely local, and weren't his .only extra cur.· .this article were intended .as a tribute, lllllch could be ric11lar activities, Ile was ,id of the labors of .s•1ch people as D. c. Cole. very active in dra.'!latics.He ~en the school .be?,an, . there only two. on the teachplayed the leads.in all liis . g staff. When it openedi the sebool-'s curricullllll was. class plays and several.all essarily tery limite.d and estl'a*CurriC'1lar. activities r.e not yet general. The .subj~ts studied were constrabec school productions.

In 1935, .he entered the what was he'ld in that day to be "substantial" material.

Teach~rs College in· Albion e deVelopment of the 'j)resent curcicul1ll11 has come a1out Id'aho;for two years• ,While ltili~l.y but 'l\radually; and would occupy considerable there :.he again lettered in ace. in aey detailed history of the school:. track and took part in dra· Muck, ml.ght be said of. tlie records which have been left matics • · Dra!llatics was. his. .·:early student life. Wealth wa8 never in evidence, and favorite. extra curricular. , IHt stµdents, .were naturally earnest in their desire for activity,and he admits that · duoatidn, The ·democratic spirit .which is the precious· heritage .of the Ca!l!PUS today was brought into,_ __ he. woultLhave liked .to.· have continued in·that.field, He being. ReF;lllations were extremely strict , was' .also tlie Students.. Body·. &iJ ~efitted the times and .occasion, but who President in his second can say that the life of t~e stuQents was year there. dull?

Th!! firs\ ~dua-tion exercises o. f ~h. e Jew sc ho oi.wer.e ·1eld in th . · 0 fJB. two student~, Georv,e •El'i·~Vlf . 70, i.Men , l . . owar ' bter

,were

Darryl Rosenquist

A well known. student about the.Peru Campus is Darryl Rosenquist, who w:i.11 be presented as the sacond student ;feature; Darr.yl is admired for his outstanding position on the Bobcat football tean as guard. ln addition to this , activity, he is 'vice. . president of the student cou~cil and Blue Devils, !le is also a member of Epsilon Pi ·Tau, and the Indust;rial Arts Club He was borli in 1932, in Clar:l:nda, Iowa and was graduated from the Essex High School.

As Darryl is an Industrial . Ar.ts major, his main hobby is. woodworking in which he is achisving great sucess. He is also working towar.d a Physical'Education.major.. . Eiten though Darryl is o,nlY a junior, he has' his future,prettywell planned.

He gave as his first plan: "I plan to teach, n when the reporter inquired.

(continued) Dr. 'loward, and }liss Annie More• head, later ;rrs< Annie Morehead Joy, 'ompleted the normal·course. The exer.cises were held in the open, in r,rove of S'llall oak trees. 'l'he site· of these exercises. is .now 'll:JI'ked on the campus h:r the 11 Philo 11 rock; These first ".I'ad11ates proved the worth, of the school. 'l'tle ~rowth of the schonl has not been a steady and uninterri1nted one. 'l'here 'iave been periods of "hard times" for the school .as well as for society in general, but each period of hards'-ir has been succeeded by a spurt upward--beyond any previous achievement of . the .·school. The periods of hardship may easily be discerned in any survey of the schools puhlicatioifa, just as -the history of a tree may be read :in its annual .rinrrs. · 'lol'le imnortant matters. in the growth of the school 's scepe of activities anrl status in the educational world sliould be observed. As early as 1873 the surroner school sessions were her,un--to accO!lll11odate those who could not atten<i the rer:t1lar term. There has been considerable shiftin~ in the len~ths of the school's terms at t!lrnes, however. In 1915 the school was admitted to membership_ in the North Central ~.ssociation of Colle~es a:id Setonnary Schools, wi. th tho status of a teacher training and later a rer,';llar colle~e. In 1922, it eecame Peru Teachers College and was ab]e to issue the A.B. der,ree in education.

Traditions, mir,hty as the hills amoun~ which they wer.e ilded, are the heri ta rye of all who "0 out from Peru. To upholri these is their priviler,e. .To instill in your ,mindp a solemn rnvorence for them is .the purpose o this hackr,round of our colle~e of today,

Pitts Helps:: Peru's Season Tr1e uobc;it

linemen ha'lE:

a new master thl.s season, and they will a 1;,ree unani!l-

ously that the job ia" ir very cauable hands.

Ervin fl, Pitts,the newest addition to i:>eru State's outstanding coachin;i staff', is a r.ative of Coffeyville, Kansas. He attended high school and college there, a standout le.ttcrman in basketball ,football ,?.nil ttack. f\n All-State Tackle at Coffeyville Jr. College, Pit ts was converted to a <.JUartP.rhack when he transferre.d .to the~Univers:lty of !.'.issouri and 'nroved ·::t brilliant field leader~ ·He led the Tigers throue;h two successful seasons, climaxed by a trip to the Suga~ Bowl in 1942 wtiei;i l1issouri was was defeated by Fbrd .ham; 2 to o.

Ur. Pihs coachini.; career includes very · success- . ful years at Vfest Plains and Carutherville ,~ssouri, and at Aberdeen,~ashington, directi1,1g high s'c11ool football, basketball, and track.

Through 194}.46,he served in the Navy, a.'i.d iras recalled to active duty again in l951. In 1951, Pitts coached the· San'Diego Naval B~e basketball team and the folloWing year.the base tea.m at Bremerton Washin ton. The Bremert~n te .gtr. t am, .a. ~ar • was theUorthWest Pacific Armed Forces champJ.on.

After receiving his !!;A, deg:ee from !.l:iss9uri University this summer, he ac.. cepeed a position at Peru as athletic directc:-. Be side.s his appointnient ae football line coach his du• ies will include that ofhe~ ad track coach, director of intramural, anq assistant basketball coach. "'Coach Erv Pitts likes to play chess, attention all chess. players, and another fayorite hpbby is tossing for Cokes With Bill Johnson Hll is married, and has two • futnre athletes, Terry 8j and Tommy 4,

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Dr. Castle Brown Hospitalized

feEt, 1

Dr. •. Castle 11. Drown, head division of history at Peru State, entered. St. Mary's Hospital at Nebraska City, Thursday mornfag November 12,for. major surgeey.

He is expected to be there for. about a month, In. tile. meant:i.Jne, arrangements have be.en made for instruction of his classes.

At the last report llr.

Brown was improving rapi;dJ.1 and should soon begin to feel like his old self again,

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953. ~cond ~

Bcbcv he NC( e As2

ie Ii.usli

was a earn to n. The

Epsilon Pi Tau Meeting

Colleg best qi spirite

Mr. and '"re. A. Y. Laraon entertained the 111.embers ot the Epsilon Pi Tau, the industrial art• tratex:nitJt Mondq evening, NOYtlllbll' 16, at their home. Arter a short business 111.eeting the group enjo;yed a so.cial h®r• Mrs. Larson. aerftd ice . creaa. cake, coffee, and 111nt1.

tsman, nt1ema1 ;ble

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Peru'

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rayne's !ori Ma

!turns t>ran re ,gistrar !sday, I

Tri Seta Has Steak Fry

ince of

Mike

On Tueadq ·tTening llO'floo .. ember 10, Tri Beta, . the , ·

Perl

biolou tratemiey at state had. a sttalt frJ at the Laura Heal. hrk, .with 19 .... bers and gueeta-.. preeent.Prot•' John C, Chri¢ ie.cthe -1ponor ot the traterllitt•

r Miss I Vl:rs ... Do

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n for : l~Ia. the -9-a1 ~furuu'g?.

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egistratf, ~.bii:M'i

Earl Hon lf you about "th Peru, sto take a loo school pa you to fir lished ma as far .ba different will give changes i: school pu: to the pn The firl "Normal paper pu stressed ' contained children's and stor: The pagei en inches in appear the camt used, but ments. A their (eac included.

Nebraska, to ,submi subjects c tional we ·The fc taken fro 1894.

Mi S'ome the youn feeling tl f-Or physi1 ized the l The Cor. ;arms for ;State fur: In 188S organized a few y1 distinct cadets, b1 band! an. dated ur son, who ond Lieu Improven been the the conso A Batt panies Ai giving a work.

Last a-head of the indic will see the Batti The pt . being an Two ho1 quired. ~ p,m. to Saturday.

A lari have bee will noi than at

International Dinner Given by Home Ee Club M111 Edna Weare, Hoa• EoonOlli~

Clllb tponor and

nae diehea were idellti• tied bi aigna telling the name or the diahea and the collnt1:1 where it originated.

The gue11t11 chose th• food the)' wished and foUD,d tha all appetising and novel-

Hau

Alpha Mu Omega Initiates Eight

HM'ed

btr.10.· · Aboi:t forty peop:J.e were: present. The ~er waa of the aorgaaboard t,-pe with a iariet7 of foreip diah11 &rrqtd on the table.

Couatri.. . represented were Greece, France, India, Bolivia, Indonesia, Mexico, Caecboal.oY&ld& , Pol.and, Canada, Spain, Brasil, and the Un:l.ted st.atei.

NOV~'NllE!l. 26-2'/--Thank!}gi:vin~

1co'n0aic• Club an Intel'm\tion&l. Din"he f.lphn l.~u. Ometjn mathener in the home econoaicli m:iUc5 i'rater:1i.ty nlf't at. the roaa 1Ueada7 evening No.,.... ~·'usic Eall on Monday: e¥entllb the

,NOVJ!;i,1e1m 211~- Colletle Opcr-

ettn0:-"The Chl.cohte Soldiei:

Oc~ober 12,r.:;d ei,;ht pledges were initiat.1~d. 'hey were Phylisn Gess, Oene Larsen, !l<rrel Christensen, Rosi· Brown , llick Ca:mon, Ste~ f!owery , Lawrence ::itierR. and Dan Jones. The honor pin i'or t.h" best mathematics record of last Y''!lr 1s frpql]man was oinned ori Phyliss GesB !Jy Mrs, IJook , the sponcir,

:iecess

NUVEl.HlE!l (7-?8--Tri- State Jlasj(etl!all Tonrncy at. 1'eru NOVE!f.BER '!l~-JlSEA Drivc-fo Confercm:e ·

Musical Group Gives Program ~t Convocation; from Opera to Boogie CavalierJ..~eyers-Holmes

Ensembles

YM- YMCA In 'Merger

Ne,w Bridge less~ns Begin

CALENDAR

A rnost i11terestine pro- · Our Campus YWCA Ject is being carried out YMCA have become a j for the first time at l'E'ru orr,anizat'ion. It is State Tpactier•s CollegP, lt known as the "Y" orga is a series of bridtie sess- izotiOn. The enrollJll .ions. has increased to near I.Ir. Hobert Moore is twice as many: as USt,l«, acting as th~ tea~her and The member ship is o is beine ass~sted by anyone to a1iY one who ·wish with experience. belong.

Each week on Thursday Each week there i evening, a meeting will be special program. .In held in the recreat1on room dition to the regula of Eliza l'urgan lialJ, promeetings and progra111 vided there are :.10 co:ulicts ·the organization wil Thie is open to those who otfer parties! and s ~ish to learn to play bridge other activit es ot as weU as the ones who are special interest, eXPerienced. It is not JimWhile all Of the ited to students who ttre res- Vltl.es or tne YW·YMC idents of the dorm but it is are motivated by its . welcoming faculty mP.mbers as Chr'!stian Purpose,. well 88 men studeats and there .are als.o speci town people. . programs f.or the aoh ment of a deeper una standing aiid express ion of Christian Fai These inclutle a program of Bible l!tudy 1 informal worship, a A large crowd turned out discu!l1!'lon on time! 'lbursd~y evenin• October 22 to see the three-act melo- major questions.

Sponori·ng the gr drama, "Edwina lilack," presented at the collep,e audi- are: Miss Clark•. M toriu.'11 by the Peru Dramatic Mcclatchey, Mr. Levi and Mr, Grayson.

Club.

"Edwina Black" A Success

New Electric Organ Dedicated Mr. ~enford opened the reci tai with 11 Sonta:-Symohony" by Uuilmant and followed by Boellmann's 11 Snite Marylee M!l''ers Gothque. 11 Other nurr.bers Lyric Coloratura 8oprano on the procram included "Romanze" ''Y l'ervis, "Rustic.

Dance" from Demorest's by !!ollins and the well known "Lor.donderry Air, 11 Besides being the ni~.no and organ instructor at ·Peru State Colleee,Mr. Benford is also Choir director ,,: .. · ... . and organist at Peru's n.rst Uethodist Church. He has also been very bu$:( One of the. largest groups giying other rcci tals thr~­ ~n.the Peru Campus has organized and H getting ue;bout this area, 1\r, r.en- . ford holds an Artist Uiool-· started on its yea.r.1s• work.

Underthe guidance and sponma. from l!ichigan State Teaorshi p of Dean Hlllllgen , the ch~rs College <>t Ypsilanti and a !.~aster of ifosic dewomen of the college met at re~ _from the University of Eliz~ Morgan Hall and elecAlfredo Ca.oalieri ted the following officers.

J.!icj'li;_;an at Ann Arbor. He for positionB on the Dormihas served <o.s ort;a:1ist and Violinist Virtuoso tory Couilcn: cho'ir director at the Yloodward Aver.ue !lapist Church Charlotte Meritt, President; in Detroit and the First Phyliss Heinke, Vice President;. Mary Moore, Secretary~ . Presbyterian Churr.h in Pueblo, Colorado. and Letarae Stucker, Treasure.

Jean Birdsley, Joan Rei~ctober 22, at 7 p.m.in the mers and Regina Stander of Recreation Room of Eliza the senior class; Eula And~ derson , Laura Lee Bosworth, Morgan Hall, A panel dis-, cussion on good taste in Virginia Ferguson , Beverly conduct was . held. Marilyn Harrison,Marilyn llawxby and StQehr acted as chairman of Norma Heywood of the junior the panel with Virginia F'er class; Ruth Bell, !Jary Lee guson, Regina Stander and Campbell,Janet Christensen, Jean Birdsley making up the Joyce Funke, Vickie LeCure, rest of the panel, Jean Malek,Marlene Hartzell ~arilyn Stoehr, and Mary Vanderholm of the sophomore Norma Holmes· class; Pliyliss Constant 1 Gerlioncert Pianist aldine Corn , Donna Duey, Shirlee George,Edith Haxton Betty Hogue, Wilma Klein, Barbara Lockwood , Bonnie Mori-ls, Gloria O'R!irra,,Kay Phelps, Sally Poage, Sharyl Miss Carey, the librarian Terry, Anita Vanderforc!'and and Miss Kelly, the assisJoan Ward of the freshman tant librarian and the staff class make up the rest .,f of nine members, Jean Birdthe council from the girls sley, Lanra Lee Bosworth living iii the donr'tory, 11 11 Phyliss Davenport,MargaA new play, Undertow, .John Christ, Jr. Darrell ret Christy, and Gwendolyn is now in rehearsal. It is Christensen, Be:rerly Harran oae-act ;iloy with an all Hays represents. the rest ison, Phyllis Heinke, Gene r,irl cast with nine.· char- Leber, Dale Moore, of the w9men of the college and acters. not livine in the dormMary Sherrod make up the itory.

Thfs play will be taken staff this !ear", on tours to hir.h schools in The ·councH will plan aric various towns in tliis ar0a, rr any assienments are The council will plan and includin~ Kansas and Iowa, to be completed in the libcarry out all of the organrary, book reports to be The cast includes Joan 1zed activities that will Reimers 1 Gwen qays , Joan made .or any other library be spo!lllored in ElizaUorgan Hall, Bri~1:s, Norma lloyer, l:.lsie subject, the library staff Johns 1 Wilma Ylein ,'1 A r~aret is well·trained to give you The women of the college Litz, Charlotte Meritt and all of the necessary informet for its first general Jenn Birdsley:. ination. mee.ting Thursday evening, The new consonata electric . organ here at Peru State College was dedicated Tuesday evenillb,October 27 with a recital .~iven by • Robert T. Beiirord of the college music nta:ff.

The organ was installed recently in the campus aud1torium, and is in part a gift from the Peru ~lumni association.

.

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Delzell Residents Open Their House Delzell Hall, tbe home for 118 of. the men student~. attending Peru State, was scrutinized and inspected by more than 350 visifors Monday night at its second annual open .house. Greeting the visitors at the door, were Dorm Council officers BP.n Duerfeldt, Ron Wagner and Bill AlleJt. ' Besides doing an exceptional job ef house cleaning before the party, the boys acted as guides, ananged for, helped prepare and served the refreshments, and then washed the dishes afterward. Consumed during the evening were 500 pi:eces of c&ke ~nd 16 gallrns of coffee.

No door was closed to the visiting parents, fa~ulty members, and ether friends (girl and otherwise) of the boys. Chief interest was in the 63 rooms in which th2 bc.ys live although every feature of the building was on exhibition.

Each room was decorated and arranged to the occupants' own taste. Besides touring the building, many enjoyed watching the J. D. Levitt movies of the PeruDoane game shown several times during the evening and the new 27-inch television in the lounge.

1nteresting visitor at the Pointer Monday afternon was Barton Cle1·enger of Auburn. Mr. Barton, a Peru graduate, now writes a column on Nemaha County history for the Auburn Tribune.

The comment most frequently registered in the guest book was "What good housekeeping!" .and all seemed to agree that the boys were splendid hosts. The~e open houses were inaugurated last year by Mr. and Mrs. Darren Wininger. Mr. Wininger is ('ounselor of Delzell Hall.

Mrs. Tyler ~ntertains Kappa Delta Pi Kappa Delta Pi, educafamal organization of the campus, was entertained with a· Chri,tmas party at the home of Mrs. J. W. Tyler Monday evening, December 7. A dessert of Christmas pudding, hot English punch and home made c:mdies was served from a candle lighted table with a madonna and herald angels surrounded by mistletoe, sacred · to th<: Druids of the middle ages.

Miss A1ma Ashley poured.

For the program Dr. Leo Eastman, .sponsor, and Jerome Stemper, chairman, made remarks about scholarship organizations, and passed a b'Dvk on the early history of Kappa Delta Pi which is available to members at the library.

The hostess whose husband, the late J. W. Tyler, crganized Beta 'l\'.Iu chapter in 1929 told something of the events leading up to securing a charter and installing the local unit. She exhibited the Peruvians, college annual, showing pictures of the members during the first seven years of its existence and enumerated many names of those ea.rly members who have won distinction in the educational world. Miss Phyllis Davenport was much amused to find the picture of her great grandfather, Wilson E. Majcirs, in the 1934 Beruvian, featUTed as president of the forerunner of all organizatkms at :PSTC, Phi1omathean LiteraTY Society established in !1867.

Mrs. Bessie Graham and Mrs. Myrl Niccoli came from NebraSka · City to attend the meeting. Beta · ·Mu o1ficer.s are President Phy1l'is Heinke, Secretary Jean Bir<IBley, ' ~nd Trea5urer Ben Duerfeldt.

,f>r; Brown Recuperating Dr. Castle ·Brown returned to ~ home sun<lay afternoon, Nov~mber 29, from St Mary Hospital at Nebraska City. He had been : ,there more than two weeks. Dr. ..Brown resumed cbsses WE-dnes,day, December 9.

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An annual Christmas Tea presented by the Eliza Morgan girls Handel's "Messiah" was prein honor of the faculty' will be sented Su:nday afterno\Jn, Decbeld Thursday, December 18, in ember 13, by 'the Col1ege Choir~ the lounge of the hall.

'R. T. Benford was the· organ acEach girl escorts a member of companist and the entire produc~ the faculty and his or her wife tion was under the direction of or husband to the tea. The D. T. :Manring. afternoon will consist c.f chs tting The soloists were: Mrs Darand the entertainment with spe- ren Wininger, soprano; Mrs. Neal cial numbers presented by some S. Gomon, soprano; Marvin Wusof the girls. ter, bass, and Cecil Andersen, , tenor. Anderson substituted for · for. Ben Duerfeldt, who . had 'a severe sore throat.

Students taking part were: " Sopranos, .Marilyn Byrne, Mar- : garet Chrisity, Geraldine Com, Shirlee George, Marlene Happel, .

On ·Thursday, December 10, at Marlene Hartzell, Vicki .LeClir~, .

8 p.m., the Peru State band pre- Gwendolyn Hays, M:ary • Moot_e, 1 sented a concert under the direc, Bonnie .Sue Morgan/, EJbert{l . tion of Robert V. Grindle. · IµiqteDj, q1oriei'611iil:ra, . ])drls ., 1 The program consisted of the she,are:r, Delore_s :S~th, MatiIY,:~ "Knights Bridge Marc6" by Eric Stoehr ar.d Dorothy ' T~~ket: · · ' . , Ooa,tes, "Fantasy''· American Basses, Ed Allen, Frejl Allen,. · Sailing .Songs" by bar~ Giiinn- r.<iren ,A~l;)<!bd~t,' ;R~/i · Browp,. man, "The Thr~e •· Trump~'tets" Rkhard Ca:hn~"'jl.i~~ar~ ·. Fal)k~.

by Agnostini-Bainum' Lee Hopp, haiiMr,1 Lee H6i>; .Rbb'ert Jone~ Darrell Christensen' and :David cu~tin Linp~l~ J)a:ViC! 1 M:nter, .

Miller, with R T. Benford as a<:- Howard Ulin, Mer!Yii 'Vice, 7 Ma'r... companist, "Iirl.sh' . Tune from !viii Wuster\ Ri~Mr'~' 1\'Wi~~i1et; ' County Derry" by Walters, th'e ,Altos, Barbara Boraas, deor,g- .

"Clarinet Concerto" · by' Mozart ia }3auer, .Ruth BeK Joan B6ggs, (R. V. Grindle, .soloist, and R. '1'. Luanne J?lessie, _:Rose· c~ok, ':No~., Benford, accompAr#s't), "Ampar- ma Heywood, PhYllis ):fa':enport,· ~ ito Roca" by Texidor, ''Time Out Marilyn Hawxby, Eeefty 'Hogtie,- · for a Jam Session" by Handlon, Ardyce Hov.:ell, Wltriia · Ki~ii\~ and " 'Twas the' Night Before Barbara Lockwood,' Sally p·oag'e, .

Christmas" by Newell Long (R. Evelyn Reiman, Letarae Stucker, ; , D. Moore, narrator).

Anita Vanderfol'.d, Jean White, Students taking part in the and .Lila Mae Windle'; Tenors, Cecil Anderson, ;Ronconcert weree: clarinetS>-Bev~rly Harrison, Mary Moore, Stanl~y ald Bath, Ben Duerfel::t, Bueford · iLo.ngfellow, Kay Phelps, Phyllis Rickman and Bir! Hervey.

Heinke, Joan Briggs, Patricia Lincoln and Mar;Jin WU.Stet; f,lu.tes--1Letarae .Stucker, Margaret Christy, Carol D'uerfeldt and Ben .Duerfeldt; oboe-Geraldirl.e Corn; French horns.'..:..Joan Wa~d, Jean Birdsley, Marilyn Hawxby a:nd Richard FaiJKhauser; aleo Bob Lade of peru State is honssxophone<::-Jim Cotton, Shirlee George and Richard Steiner; ten- ored on the Little All-American · Football Team of 1953. or saxophones-Willadean Spier, And it is the second straight Bill Hervey and Haymond HandQey; cornets-Lee Hopp, Darrell year that the great Bcbcat lineChristensen, A C. Lindhal, Jean man, scourge of the NCC, has Stander,· Donna Duey and Dar- been named in the Associated lene Hahn; bari:tones-Dsvid Mil- Press selections. The husky senler and David Glasgow; Trom- ior from 'Tecumseh was a standbones-Cecil Anderson, Howard out in helping his team to anothAnderson, Richard Moore, Dale er undefeated season. The coachMoore, Ronnie Noltenmyer; Tu- es of the Nebraska College Conba<-Freman Green and Ronald ference, who are best quali:fieil Knaup; Snare DrumS>-Bob Jones to know, call Bob a spirited comDon Beason and John ·. Christ; petitor, a fine sportsman, and· abass drum-Dorothy Tucker; and bove all, a true gent1eman: Rece1ving honorable 'n1ention tympani-Bob Jones. from this area were Peru's Darr:el Rosenquist, Wayne's Roget Higgins, and Gordon Mart's, ·or' Nebraska Wesleyan. ·

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350 Singers Attend Peru .Choral Clinic .More than 350 students from 12 schools in three states attended the second annual Choral Clinic and Festival here at Peru State Teachers College on Friday, December 4.

At the end of an all-day sesssion the group of high s:hool vocalists appeared in a concert at the campus auditorium on Friday night for a massed concert. Robert M. McCowen, assistant professor of music at Iowa State College, Ames, Ia., was the guest ccnductor.

High schools represen!ted and their directors were: Ceresco, PaU:l Parker; Dawson, Mrs. Alice Emery; Fans City, Elizabeth Kinkead; Hamburg, Ia., Clinton Weber; Nebraska City, Amelia Peterson; Plattsmouth, M. D. McKenney; Peru, Robert T. Benford; Salem, Garth Emigh; Stella and iShubert, Kenneth Stroupe; Tarkio, Lee Schneic;~r Tecumseh, Anita Spradley, andi Tarkio, Mo., Lee Schneider.

Darrell T. Manring director of vocal music at Peru State had charge of the preparation of the clinic. He was assisted by Mr. Benford, V. H. Jindra, Robert V. Grindle and Norma Diddel.

Dramatic Club Initiates Ten New Members The Peru Dramatic Club held its Annual Initiative Banquet on Friday evening, December 11, at the Hotel Weaver in Falls City.

Ten new pledges .and · ten old members ehj.oyecl · a ' delicious. fried chi.cken ,q'.inner with all the trimmings. · After the. dinner the new members were initiated:· into 'the· oldest dramatic .organization west of the Mississippi Wit~ a ,simple, impressive· c:~emo,ny. The new members were, Dre Ben· Co1lins, Mr. James Levitt, .Joan Reim,ers, Margaret !Litz,. Gwen Hays, Ila Alden, Phyllis Const;mt; Howa:rd Ulin, Wilma Klein, and Elsie J.ohns.

Experts Give Beauty Tips At: All-Womens Meet Gdest speakers at the Peru State College All-Women Meeting, Monday, November 30, were Mr. Ralph Holloway and Mrs. Maxine Nichols of Lincoln.

Mr. Holloway, owner and operator of Ralph'.s Beauty Salon, 1209 Main Street, ,Lincoln, spoke on 'Beauty and Care of the Hair,' 'md Mrs. Nichols, his assistant, gave he1pful suggestions on the 'Care of the Skin.'

After the main part of the session, Mr. Holloway and Mrs. Nichols talked with the girls in-· dividually and discussed their personal beauty problems The girls 2nd Miss Haugen feel that they made a valuable contribution to the dormitory program tor the year.

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Peru P edagogian

Charlotte Meritt

Published durint the school year by the .Journalism CLass of Peru State Teachers College Entered at the Post Offic at Peru, Nebraska, as . ~ond Class Matter. -$1.00 per year. pno~uced

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Many ·Schools Take Active Part· in March of Dimes Students in the nation's 1,800 donned kilts and gave a concert. colleges and universities who 'The proceeds went to polio join the 1954 March of Dimes tlµs January will be part of the At Loyola in Chicago, enthuslllrgest polio fund raising drive iasts gathered at a huge party to in history. raise March of Dimes funds. The According to Basil O'Connor, benefit was arranged as a tribute president of the National Foun- to Patrick O'Mara, a popular jund~tion fOr Infantile Paralysis, an ior class president who had conestimated 3,000,000. volunteers in tracted polio. all parts of the country will seek * * • $75,0QO,OOO · in voluntary contriHighlight of the Queens Col~tioris needed . to finance the lege March of Dimes was a var~ganization's ·new program of iety show·. Different acts comwlio prevention and to support peted for trophies while raising roasting ' programs research doilars to fight polio. patient aid and professional ed'* • t. ufation 'in 1954. · Coieds at SY'facuse Univer$ty 'B,y . anGc.ating $26,500,000 to ra11ied to · the March of Dimes pdlfo . prev.entim;i, the National by assisting the city in the Foundation moves from defense Nfothers' March on Polio. ui attack for the first time since *' * " w~s: rqunqed ..16 years ago Of Clas;;room collections, a stud. the ~otal, Mr. O'Conner said, ent dance. and cdlections at five . $7;500,000 will pay for mass qasketball games at Seton Hall testing of trial poli<J vaccine University more than doubled the a~d: $19,000,000 will prcvide more amount raised by all Essex Countlian ". 2,0~0,000 inDculations of ty, N.Y. co11eges for the previous garm;na glabulin. polio drive. ·'Meanwhile, he continued, there * * • i will be nQ' "'let:-down in March of A March of Dimes at Indiana Dimes-supported research. Con- Centra.1 College was organfaed tributions :from January 2 fo 31 by Etta Preston, editor of the also will sponsor professional campus newspaper. An ex-polio training of physicians, nurses, patient, she tacked up posters and physical therapists in the and 'distributed literature and latest treatments for polio.

March of Dimes cards to score a In 1954, the National Founda- successful drive. tion's patient aid program, which * * * sinr.e 1938 has assured the best A b~sketball farce to raise available medical care to polio fund,s for polio was staga 'ty the victims, will continue to care for "Quacks" and ·"Shysters" of the more than 66,000 csrry - over University ·of Mississippi's Medcases in addition to assisting new ical and Law schools. patients.

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Commenting on the 1954 gamma globulin and trial vaccine programs, Mr. O'Conner said: . "It must be remc;nbered that polio prevention is R beginning program-not a finished cne. Although our hopes are high, we cannot count en fewer cases of infantile paralysis in the 1954 lJnd must be prepared, ::lS ever, to help all tho.se who need assistance.

"Even if the vaccine tests are iruccessful,'' he continued, "this cannot be known until after the next 'Polio season' so there wil1 be no proven vaccine svailable in 1954: Gamma globulin, our only weapon at present, is a stopgap meJsure, cffering only temporary protecticn. Therefore, although. we are grateful there ~s s6mething that can be used ii.ow to minimize of eliminate polio crippling, we kriow our job is far from finished. Long-term protection ·can be ·won only if the American peop1e Dppreciate th.e crucial nature of the period just ahead and provide the funds during the 1March of Dimes· in J°anuai:v f6J'' the next; an<J, . we hope, · final steps to vid0ry~"

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Self-appointed "Santas" from East Los Ange1es Junior College carried Christmas cheer to young polio patients in iron lungs at Rancho Los Amigo.s, a Ma:rch of Dimes supported respirctory center. As a pre-campaign event the boys took story books an:l fancy dolls to the patients. The students represented four camDUS organizations which led the March of Dimes in the College. \They hoped: that woul.d arouse interest in polio to pnt their drive over the top.

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To give the students of Peru insight into the philosDphy behind the courses they are tJking, the "Peru Pedagogian" has asked various members of the faculty to conlribute articles on their own specialties.

These articles, which will attemot a raison d'etre for the diver~ subjects, will be designed to probe the fields of.the writers, to the end· that the basic. concepts of those fields will become concrete.

Each faculty 'member will be askecl to eJ1:p1ain why, he feels that his particular subject is worthy of the student's consideration-either for .. practica1, · philDsonhical, or aestheti~ i;>urpo~es.

This endeavor ·may open new fields to the students, and offer glimpses into course work which they may hitherto have · thollght uninteresting.

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Charlotte · Meritt, , on;e of the most active and! well-known seniors at Peru ·State will ·be our next student feature. · ..

She was··born here in Peru and attended most of her grade and high school here and finished in Wyoming and Montana. However her present home is in Council Bluffs,

Dr. Boraas, Dean of Students, Has Varied ~ducational Past torate w,ork and there met Mr! Boraas, the former Miss Borg :hild Leraan, of Superior, Wis on a tennis court. She is a grad uate of Superior Teachers Gol lege and at the time of their firs meeting was the secretary to th pre:ident of St. Olaf College. Dz and Mrs. Boraas have two chil dren, Janet, now working 1l Northfield, and Barbara, a fresh man at Pero State.

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Charlotte. is a major in Art and Elementary -Education with an minor in English. Her princfPal hobby is art, particularly drawing and painting. Bowling is the c1-0se running second hobby. Her favorite food seems to be pizza Also on her list of "likes" is dancing. \ Miss Meritt has had two years of teaching experience and plans to go back to more teaching, upon completion of school. She will either teach 4th or 5th grade or be an art instructor.

Last year she was president of the Peru State Art Club and at present heads the women's dormitory council. She has appeared also in campus musical productions and is a member of White Angels, Kappa Delta Pi and Sigma Tau Delta. One of the most outstanding honors this year was being chosen as a member of the Who's WhcY Among Students in American Colleges and Universities from the Peru campus.

College A.A.U.W. Holds Christmas Party

Dr. Boraas Dr. Harold 0. Boraas is the ado\fficial with whom Peru State students have the most contact since he is the Dean of Stud en is and as 'uch is usually in touch with most of the students at one time or another.

Dr. Boraas wcs born in Red Wrng, Minn . h:t his family moved to Northfkid, Minn., when he wa" still very young. As a ~<c3i.:U 112 graduated fn,m the NcrthfiPld H;gl': Sch):il While in Chat 1'.i~h 6chool he participated in the athletic activitfos anilable at the time and to ·k pat in dra natic presentations as well After graduating from the high school he immediately enrolled at St. Olaf College, located at Northfield, and received his B.S. degree there four years later, having majored in economics and mathematics. Whi1e attending St. Olaf he played the cello in the orchestra and band, taking numerDus trips. He al>o took part in sports and dramatics and debating 8.nd belonged to the Dramatic Club, the A.B.X. Literary Club and the Debate C1ub. m.ini~trative

Artciles Publishe>l Dr. Boraas has conducted sev tral experimental researches am bas written educational article :vhich have been published ii leading .educatiooal papers anc magazines.

'While he was an instructor a Alfred University he conductec "An Experimental 1Study of tht Relative Merits of Certain Writ· ten Letters with Respect to Legi. bility, with Speed and Stabilin as Related Factors." He used a~ his subjects, students from AJ.. fred University, the Alfred Higl School arid Hornell High School This research, with the results was published: in the Septembe1 1936 jS§Ue of .the Journal of EX· perimenta{ Edudation. He fol· Iowed this"' experiment up witl another research entitled "Pho· tagraphia Analysis of Certair Letter Forms with respect tc Spe hanges and Stability,' e was teaching in North.

There he used the member1 of a graduate class at the University of Chicago as his subjects This was also publisned in thi Journal of Experimental Education for September, 1951.

While still at Alfred Univer· sity, Dr. Boraas also conductec "A Comparative Study of the Brief, the Precis and the Essa) with respect t-0 Speed of Readin~ and Ea.se of Learning.'' This study was published in the Marci: 1938 icsue of the Journal of Ed· ucational Psychology.

Another article written whil< he was teaching at Alfred is "Thi Function of I)ntegratio:n" whicl: was published in the New York State Journal of Education ir i.\pril, 1937.

Because of his many associac tions, activities and educationa: work Dr. Boraas belongs to ;: score of national. state and loca: eduhatonal and psyc:~o-1'.Tica; fraternities, societies and organL izations. His bobbies are :,ports, e'~)ecially football and ba3ketba11, music, CTOssword puzzles c·n:J w<ilking,

The regular meeting of the A.A.U.W. for December 8 at the home of Mrs. W. 0. Johnson was a Christmas party with only one item of business and th·e reading of the state president's greeting preceding a happy sodal affair.

A group of children guests gave a costumed tap dance-and Christmas playlet. A college youth enacted a comic pantomime with :; recording accompaniment. Group singing of Christmas carols was led by Mrs. Darrell Wininger afSt. Olaf, Columbia, Cornell ter which the hostess and committee, consisting of Mrs. WininUpon receiving his B.S. degree ger, Mrs. Robert Grindle, Miss from St. Olaf, Dr. Boraas went Blanche Gard and Miss Frieda to work for a bank in MinneapRowoldt served gay holid2y re- olis, Minn. The following sumfreshments on crystal trays. mE'T he took courses ~t the UniSsnta CJ.aus then arrived in full versity of Minnernta to prepare costume with a pack on his back to tec:ch and th2t school year and a strangBly feminine voice taught mathematics in the high with a hflavy German accent. He s.cho~l at Wells. Minn. While gs.ve out parcels with witty com- th2:·2 he cr;:;anizccl ;.:nd co<ichec! ments on the special virtues of a debate team whid1 achieved a the recipients. The varied pack- Singular succe.:s fer so small a ages were then opened in succes- schoo'. wiih its first debating sion and a vote of high praise team.

After his year G·f teaching exwas accc:rc.ed to peopl'e who could find such clever gifts at a cost of p3rience Dr. Boraas attended 25 cents per' it.em, as had beer, Colu111bia "Gniver-.:it,y Teacl1er3 stipufated. A silver offering for a College in New York and receiCare pack2ge was a "peci3l pro- ved his M.A. degree. ·while there ject. A tc-ur of the Johnson home he took courses under such famw i t h its bright decorations, ous and leading educators as EdTwenty-three Peru Prep stusparkling tree and soft candle- ward Thorndike, Jc·hn Dewey dents were in Auburn Dn Th,1rslight, was a parting acipreci8tive and William Heard Kilpatrick. gesture by the guests at the close Then, Dr. Boraas taught edu- do.Y, December 3, for County Df a delightful evening. cational CO'Urses for two years at Government Day, together witl: Rochester University, Rochester, their sponsor, Richard Van Pelt N.Y., and the next summer took They spent the day in the variom summer work at the University offices at the court house and a1 of Chicago. There he studied un- noon the American Legion AUX· iliary served lunch for them a1 The annual Tri-Bc1.J Christ- der Charles Hubbnd Judd, Wilthe Presbyterian Church. The mas patty was held Tuesday eve- liam Scott Gray and ·Frank Freelvnclleon <peal·er was Dr. Archel ning, December 8, 3t the John man, all men who have had a Burnham, ol Lincoln, who talkee Christ home. Members and their tremendous influence on present on "Citizenship.'' guests were served refreshments day educational phi1osophy and The naDPs cf the students anc m five Christmas decorated ta- curri culu:ffi. their assigned offices were: Followi.ng that svmmer session bles After a short business meetCounty Clerk, Sliirley Jay ir:g various game~ were enjoyed 1Dr. Boraas accepted a teaching -Cr.unty E::1endon A '.!ent, Eddi~ position at Alfred, University, at C11~r: ihe evening closed with a Alfred, N. Y., where he taught Allgood, Jackie Pebley; Count) distribution of grab bag gifts. psychology arid educ?tion cour- Vetenns Service Officer, Micke3 ses for a number of years. Dur.- Dcur:l::is. Les B1'a~kenship: Couil· ing this period he received his ty !Sheriff. R.ich Graves, Riel Ph.D. degree from Cornell Uni- Douglas; Count.y .Judge, Donn< i\IJ11or,r1, Luri!Je Adams: Count) versity at Ithaca, JN', Y. A special Christmas project SupertPndent of Schools, J oy.c( At Pren. Since l!J51 was carried out by' the girls, of Ruyle, Bud Kieler; County Trea· Eliza Morgan Hall this year.

He· then .<'returned to St. Olaf surer, Mury ApplegRte, Barbar: They held a Christmas party on as ·a psychology instructor and Adams; County Surveyor, Jorger Monday to exchange gifts. These taught there for six ye1rs before Lansgaard, Eldon ·AJJ.good; Coull'· gifts were. quite unusual too, as leaving· to come to Peru in the ty Attorney, Gerry Daffer, Wall} they consiSted of toys. However, fall of 1951. He became the Dean West; Clerk of Diotrict Counrt it ended up fine a~ the toys were of Students here at Peru State Charlotte Clausen, Duane Lewis exchanged and then rewrapped in 1952.

Commissioners; Dbroithy Morris and boxed up to be sent out to Dr. Boraas had returned: to Nadine Knople, Beverly Tripp orphanages.

Northfield after starting his doc- County Assessor, Bob Baker.

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by Bob Pepcat ; Peru fans, the team, and the · caches were unquestionably disppointed when the bid to play · · thee Cigar Bowl at Tampa, on ew Year's day, failed, and thus '[osed the book on the otherwise •; 'ccessfu1 season. Perhaps the owl committee considered the 'nfortunate ca:ricellation of the earney-Peru game as a blemish . a perfect record. Anyway, they · icked lLa Crose, Wis., and Mis. ouri Valley of the show-me state. t will be the third time that l'ilis()uri Valley has played in the tbgie ti'lt.

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Tarkio used a second- half Coach Bill Johnson's basket. · 'comeback and a late ; switch of ball squad is returning to thr defense to down the Peru five, campus today from a five-day 57 to 47. It was the first defeat road trip into Illinois, Kentucky bf the s:eason for the local hoopand Tennessee to make prepara~ters, and came at the ·Jiands. or tions to wind up pre-holdiey play the Miss9'urians who had finin a home stand· against Tarkio, , .is:hed third in the recent T"riill/le., College on T·hursday night.

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The Bobcats will be out to p'!'ove , that they were having an off day The Ba.bcatters hopped to an on December 3, when tliey drop. eai:ly lead, which was trimmed ped a ten-point deeision to the down by halftime; but a 20~point Missourians in a game played at blast by the Owls in the third Tarkio. , · · stanza put them well out in By wil:lning Thursday night th6 front to stay.

Bobcats ·Can even the score in tful Peru lacked much of the finNevertheless, the Bobcats are Johnson-Kyle coaching rlvalry, esse and accuracy they displayed' ateful for all the effort put begun a year ago . when Newt 'in previ-0us games, and booted orth by Coach Wheeler and the Kyle left Peru to return to ms the ball on numerous unfortun· any others, iricluding Governor 1The '53-'54 basketball squad. Front row, left to dght: Ned EckAlma Mater and Johnson came ate occasions. Ron Vrba, hand. osby, in promoting a Peru bid man, 'Ron Wagner, Ron Vrba, Re~ Holmes, Butk Lewis, !Alvin Lowe, ihere from Clihtob; M'O. The two ling center center chores for the ..'n the post season bowl game. teams split in their ;f;wo meetings Harry Meeker. Second row: Coll,ch Bill Johnson, Don Thomas, Del hospitalized Red Holmes, aided: One corisolation for the Peru last year and tbe Owls won the Stoltenberg, Bob Nctrton, wwell Samuelson, Ramie Graves, Don the Cat cause with 16 poin'ts. i<lsters was Bob Lade's repeat first engagemnnt of.<.the current Clark, Wayne Bergmeyer. Back row: Garold Goings, Wayne MinTarkio (57) n the Little All-American. Peru season. gftftp chow, Rayburn Benton, Charles KrUmme, R~x Hill, Jake Titteringivals the past three years have Davis . . . . . . . . .

3 . 9 4 18 ton, and John .B.urns. t exactly enjoyed Bob's presAlexander . . . . . 2 3 2 7 e in the lineup, und~stand­ Bacon ......... 3 3 2 9 ~Y, but all have developed a [Fox .......... '. 3 2 4 8 eep respect for the ability of ;Bair " .. .. .. .. . 1 0 1 2 is hard working athlete.

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Natiuna11y, all eyes are turned , oor turned up at, _little 6-9 phomore Bevo Francis and Rip rande College who are currentY proving oats against the more raminent foes they are playing is Eeason. Some doubt if Bevo 'll again maintain a 50 plus erage.

Higher scoring is becoming er dominant in the hoop spart, ough it is doubtful if the two. scoreboard wi11 ever have be replaced,. what with prq ams hitting the century mark irly regularly. . The c<>lleges are well into the ct also.

Nebraska Wesleyan oubled Yo.rk, 119 to 52, and anher NCC member, Wayne, cmnted 104 points while holding eir foe to a mere 98. And don't ink that high schools are being ft out: Nehawka 104 to Union 6, and note Iowa De2f 118 to St. ancis 66. The individual scors ar·e up in propo.rtion, even ith team work the important ctor on a winning club, rangy enters and shot artists can find · e· to cany twenty-five po,int erages. You can shine the spot t on the high school gals, · me of whom frequent1y hit om 30 to 65 a contest. ( 6 ft 4 orma Schoulte scored 111 in a ingle game, 1952).

Basketball ls certainly a preci·on art 'compared to the days en Naismith first nailed up his ch baskets on the wall~ The 'se in quality of the game, the creased effectiveness in · the aching of sportmanship in athetics can be attributed much to 'he better gym'nasiums, smarteT ~caching, and better athletic e. uipment to work . with.

Bobcats lead ·NCC In Championships

The Peru State 1953 football Cll1impionship has elevated the college into the number 1 position in the tabu1atioii of sports championships of .the NCC. The basis for this tabulation, which includes the iinishes in football, basketbal1 and track conference races, is the counting of one point for a title; two for second place, etc. Going into the current basketball season, Peru leads with 85. points, followed. by Kearney with 86. Coming next in order come Hastings, Doane, Wayne, Chadron, Wesleyan and Midland.

1 Kearney h,ad been the pacesetter most of fue years, going back to 1946 when the NOC .was first organized, and. this marks the first time the Bobcats have been on top since they won the first conference tracK meet in tbe spring of 1946.

Meet the Team Peru State's baSketball fortunes this season are placed largely upon the shoulders of six returning letter winners. Coach Bil1 Johnson's sextet of lettermen 1average 6 foot, 1 ,inch, and is composed of three juniou::s and three seniors. .Junior DON· THOMAS from Glenwo()d, Ia , is the i:mallest of the regulars, weighing 155, and 5 foot, 9 inches in height, but he has rots of speed and drive to make up for his size. A Peru letterman in three sports, he is a cool performer and an excellent floo.r man.

<RON WAGNER, of LincolD;, is a strong campetitoor and a fine

searer under the' hoop. The 6-3, 170 pound senior is the squad's number one rebounder.

A .great asset, especiaHy in the h<:! fght department, is' KEN ,uxHOAG, whose outstanding points 1 at . are his fine defensive w0irk The around the boards and· his jump chet shot. 'F-he 6-4 senio.r hails from 1ked Blue Island, 111. · A main sltay on the· team is and 6-footer AL lioWE, from Emerson, Ia. Cork proved his worth Jay; last seascn, should be even better. ~ddie this year. He's dead on set shots, mnty ::,ood rebounder, and tough on deickey fense. ;ouri~ Rich 'TEJD ECK.D.Jf.•.AN, junior from )onna , Pawnee City, sparks th<" Bo.beat ounty team and could be called their I Joyce "quarterback guard." The 5-11 BASKETBALL SCHEDULE Treaarkio .. , .... Thursday, Iiec. 17 star letterman is a crack shot, irbara maha U. . . . . . . Friday, Jan. 8 fine rebounder, could be one of rorgen •hadron . . . . . . . Frid8y, Jan. 15 the NCC's leading scorers. , Cmm'1 hadron A .gocd defensive man to have ...... Saturday, Jan. 16 Wal!y · esleyan ... '.".. Friday, Jan. 12· in the center spot is "Big Red," '.ounrt, ' ay'ne '. ...... Saturday, Jan 23 . W:ENDELL HOLMES of FuilerLew1s; astings .... Saturday, Jan. 30 lton. The 220-pound, t>~4 senior l'forris, idland . '. . . . Tuesday, F'eb. 2 will control a lOlt 'Of rebounds Tripp; ne . . . . . . Saturday, Feb. 13 this season, and contribute · his r. . . . . Saturday, Feb. 27 share to the Bobcat scoring.

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Peru 'Il.eachers ilnlJ.tiated ~heir Sunpson (57) Kiefel: . : . . . . . . . 0 0 0 0 19!'13-54 basketball season · by g. ~ f tp ::&irhary '. . . . . . . O 1 1 1 iwi!nniri.g the Tri-State To'u:rney Pace . . . . . . . . . . 6 2 g. 14 TOTALS .. . :. . 17 23 17 57 held here in Peru on November Greger . . . . . . . . 1 0 2 2 27 'and 28. The accuracy and fast .Johnson ....... 2 3 2 7 Peru (47) moving play of the hustlirig Bt>bBryant . . . . . . . . 0 2 1 2 g ft f tp cat squad surpassed Co2ch John019den . . . . . . . . . 4 5 ,'4 13· Eckman 3 0 4 9 , 'son's expectations of the early Woodca:ck ..... O O O O Thomas 0 0 1 0 season preview.

Stewart . . . . . . . 0 0 1 O Lowe ········· 1 2 2 4 Stoltenberg .... 0 1 4 1 In the ·opening contest, SimpHuston . . . . . . . . 2 4 2 8 son College, of Indiano1a, I.a., Peterson . . . . . . 3 O 1 6 Meeker ······· 1 3 5 5 ;wagner ······· 4 6 3 14 came from behind in the closing Easton . . . . . . . . 1 1 O 3 Vrba ·········· 7 2 4 16 minutes to nip Tarkio, Mo., 51 Patson 1 O 1 2 TOll'ALS ..... 16 15 26 47 to 50. The Missourians had held TOTALs . . . . . 20 17 19 5'i' quarter margins of 16-f}, 28-19 Peru (70) Scoreboard: and 37-24. Pace led with twentyg ft , f tp OWLS .. . .. .. .. 12 24 44 57 one points for the winners. ;Lowe 5 2 2 12 BOBCAIT'S . . . . . 16 25 36 41 Peru led Doane in the nightSto1!enl;erg . . . . 1 3 2 5 cap, and after grabbing a 23-15 Hoag . . . . . . . . . . 4 3 0 11 first quarter margin they led' all Wagner . . . . . . . . 2 O 3 4 the way, on th~ deode~e · sMoiiii.g Samuelson . . . . O O O O of Ron Wagner, Ned Eckman, Holmes . . . . . . . . 2 0 3 4 a.nd Cork Lowe. Doane never Vrba . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 4 7 threatened seriously, though AbThcm2s . . . . . . . O O O O bott sparked their chances with Meeker . . . . . . . . 4 0 0 8 27 counters.

Eckrnan . . . . . . . 5 ,S 1 19 The Preu Prep Bobkittens, still In the Saturday night final~ it Lewis (} O 1 O· looking for their first win cf the current basketball season, failed was Tcrkio all .the way in the Norton . . . . . . . . 0 0 1 ta in their attempt to upset the Auconsolation ;game, 63-42. The TOT~..S .. · .. , 25 20 17 70 burn High Bulldogs '.Friday night, Doane crew, who: had given Peru Scoreboard: 57. going down by a 49-45 count '" stiff te t the night before, didSIMPSON 20 29 70 after leading a large share of the n't hP-ve the .otufl' to .stsy with the BOBCATS ..... 12 31 time in a see-saw game at the hustling Owls. Pete Eddy hit 11 ccUege gym. points for the losers. Captain ~-·Carl Davi~ scored 14 points for Tarkio.

Louisville 47 - Pre}) 3~= iFlashy Ned Eckman, 3 year l1ouisvllle High spoi.led Peru A group of former Pen1. Stat.:· varsity performer, led the Bob- stars returned to tte site of their Prep's .ba.s<ketbal opener Thurscats against' Simpson with 19 collegate exploits and were greet· day night, thumping the Kittens points. He ha r1 a lo't of help from e_d by the Bobcats of 1953 who 47-33 in a game played in the his teammates, seven of 'whom sent them dc·wn to defeat, 66-56. Peru State gymnasium. ·The visiscored for the Peru victory, 70- Ned Eckman led tr.-:: varsity bar- tor.s were never in trouble, as 57. The Tc.wans held 2 su"-stantial rage with lG points, as his team they jumped to an 8-4 first quarfirst au2rter margin, +ill tbe Bob- led a.11 the way. ter lead and stayed out in front cats bounced back wi+h HJ noints all the way. Halftime score was The formidable Alumni SC\uad in the second period to le~d at 22-14 and: the visitors led 35-21 was cr.mpose<l of many former half time. In the ceconri half• the at the end of the third.

Bobcat ~hrs, including Little AllPeruvians' second wind enabled Peru's Jim Boatman a.nd ShelAmerkar. Orner Meeker, '52 AH thf'm to win going aw"y. Coach NCC center Bob Davis, and by Winningham matched points Bill .T ohnson c0mrnentPd favorfrrmer champi<>mhip te8m. mem- with nine apiece to pace the Kit ably on sho"wings of regulars Ron scoring. Louisville's Nessen was b'!rs Jack anrl Tom Halstrom.

Wa1m~r, C(\rk:v Lowe. J\Te~ F.ckthe game's high pointer with 16.

Varsity (66) m0n, Hed Ho1mes and Kt>n Hoag, The Louisvrne re~erves ran gft!tp antl a1so was nlPased with the away with the curtain raiser, Eckman . . . . . . . 6 4 2 16 nerform.0 nces of 'h;ro newcomers stopping the Peru seconds 31-11.

Thomas . . . . . . . 3 O 1 9 +·o the .varsil-y, frrsh Del StoltenLowe ......... 3 2 4 S 1.ier~ O·t Nebrad~a f'"itv and sonhHamburg 43 - Prep 22 Stoltenberg . . . . 2 O 2 4 omnre Rnn Vrba of C:lenwood.

Peru Prep lost its second bas~ Meeker . . . . . . . 2 2 1 6 ketball game of the <eason when ·Doane (61) Hoag .......... 3 1 3 1 a fine team from Hamburg, Ia., g\ ft 1 tp Vrba .......... 2 2 5 6 gave it a. 43-22 beating at the Chanek ......... 1 '0 'l 2 Samuelson . . . .

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Ferich . . . . . . . . 3 3 2 112 Wagner . . . . . . . 4 5 1 . 13 Coach Jerome Stemner, in disAbbott .. .. .. . 10 7 3 27 Norton .. .. .. .. 0 0 O O cussing the game, said the BobLa'vica . . . . . . . . 1 1 J 3 TOTALS . . . . .

25 16 19 66 kittens .did a poor job of passing Dev ........... O 1 1 1 Alumni (56) and ban handling; their reboundShulz ......... 2 1 3 5 g ft. f tp ing left much to be desired and E~dv .......... 2 1 3 5 lMeeker 3 5 3 ll they fa eked scoring pu rch. PreH~nny ........ 4 1 o 9 Schraeder . . . . . 1 O 1 2 sumably the re.st of their play TOTALS . . . . . ??, 15 16 . 61 J. Halstrom ... 7 .4 1 rn was :o,atisfactory. Alto1'ether the Peru (73) Mosley ........ 0 P 0 0 Bobkittens 1mve the b~ll to Ham. g fit f tp Davis . .. .. . . . . 3 4 1 10 burn: a total ·Of 25 times. How. Stoltenberg . , . . o· 0 2 0 Meyer :" : . .. . .. O 0 3 0 ever, most fans. considered .that Nortc-n .. .. .. .. 1 ' (} O 2.

Yocum ........ 1 O 1 2 there is -nothing wr0n~ with the IJ.oa,g ......... .

1 4 8 'Gerdes .. . .. .. . 1 0 3 2 Peru· team that a little. experience f.ckm~n ..... .. 7 ~ 2 17 C. Smith .. .. .. 2 0 1 4 can't cure. The Prepsters certain~ Waltner ...... . 1 5 3 .rn T. Ha'lstrom 0· 1 0 1 ly · sho:weo .plenty .of spirit.

Holmes ....... . 2 0 2 4 0. D. Smith .. . 1 0 1 2 The :Arep seconds managed to !Lowe ....... , . 6 4 3 16 Scoreboard:· salvage a little glory from the Thomas ...... . 0 1 1 1 BOBCATS .. .. .. . .. . .. .. .. .. 66 evenings games by c!owning the Me<>ker ...... .. 4-3211 EXCATS .......... : .. .. . .. . 56 Hamburg seconds 21-ii.

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Floating Drive-In For Fishermen

'Education Is· Foundation for Democracy1 ,Addressing . the· first . IndustryCollege Conference at White Sulphur Springs, .w,. Va., Mrs. Millicent· C. Mcintosh, P!:esident of New York's Barnard College spoke on Education~Foundation for Democracy: "My subect this evening con~ tains three 'fighting words'; educatiOll., foundation, democracy, All that is basic in our lives today con be encompassed in these words. MuCh that this conterence is trying to accomplish can ·be defeined in the terms of my title.

Hungry fishermen on Puget Sound find this floating diner m_ost convenient for coffee and snacks. During the popular salmon derbies, thousands of anglers patronize this handy lunch counter.

Due to the increased interest in outboard cruising, many fishermen now are able to spend entire week-ends on the Sound liv.ing aboard their cruisers at a minimum of expense. The sleek crms~r shown in the photo has sleeping accommodations for two and 1s powered by two economical Mercur;t Mark 20 ou'.boards .

With fighting salmon on every side. and a luncn counter ngbt on the f1o;hing grounds what could be more enjoyable?

British Universities Make Bid For U. ·S. Summer Students British Universities will again offer summer courses at four centers in 1954, according to D. J. Wenden, representative of the Summer Schools, who receently lll'I'ived in the United States on a visit to American colleges. iMr. Wenden, Dean o! the Oxford. University Summer· School, speaks for all four British Universities offering courses next summer. These ·wil1 be given at Edinburgh, London, Oxford and ,Stratford (University . of Birmingham), each presenting paFtkularly appropriate to its loccation and tradition.

The courses are open to college juniors and seniors, post graduate students and teachers. Many Americans are expected to attend.

Since the beginning o.f. the summer schools program in 1947, Mr. Wenden reports that 120 grad,uates of Columbia have enrolled in the -courses, as well as 44 from the University of Michigan, 82 :from Yale, 48 from Smith, 47 from Vassar, 30 each from Bryn Mawr and Werlesley, plus fewer :numbers from any other U.S. colleges and universities.

Stratford !Memorial Theatre.

The University of Edinburgh offers a survey "Development of Modern Western Civilizatio·n," f.ltressing history, literature and politica1 ideas. A special attraction at Edinburgh is the International Festival of Music and !Drama, starting on August 22, 1954.

Oxford's theme is "Politics and Literature in the 20th Century,'' and lectures are scheduled to be given by Lord David Cecil, Sir 'Harold Nicolson, Joyce Cary, and other authorities.

Shopper's Special

Six Week Semester The schools will last six weeks, and are recognized for credit at AmeFican universities, and for grants under the G. I. , Bil!L of Rights. •The cost is an average of $200 for boaTd and tuition, and a few scholarships are awarded.

Students accepted for enrollment will have ship passage reserved for .them if they· wish.

Subjects Indigeno'llS

Strength in Education "What can higher education do to strengthen the foundation of democracy and why has industry so great a stake in its being a success? Admiral Moreen has pointed out with eloquence that our country needs men and women of understanding and vision, even more than it needs technical experts. He has put his finger on the reason why industry cannot survive in a democracy without liberal arts education. The more perfect our technique; the more highly trained our ·specialists, the more we need men and women and character and understanding to inhabit the complex world we are creating.

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International Atm(}sphere He points out that one ~f the most valuable parts of the summer program is meeting ,students from Britain and the 25 other countries from which representatives go to attend the summer schools. "Questions of common international interest are 'debated informally, friendships are made, and a unique insight into British university achievement is gained," Mr. Wenden adds.

Democracy Defined "Let us think for a few minutes of what we mean by 'democracy.' We perhaps define it as a free society, in which e·ach individual has an opportunity to <ievelcp his C·wn powers; in which the activities of the groups are organized to achieve this end.

"This kind of society has been a ·dream since the patriarch Abro:hc:m first v:ent cut into an unknown country-by faith- to fc.:.md a city of which the srchitect and builder was Goj, It was a dream to Pericles to. set himself to establish a true democracy in Athens. St. Augustine in his 'City of God,' Sir Thomas More in his 'Utopia,' and Themas Jeffersan striving to create a 'more perfect union'-a.Jl these prophets and statesmen have held vision of this k.ip.d of society-a vision to which we in this room are dedicated.

Again, we're in the midst of the season of good cheer, tight time schedules and topsy-turvy budgets. It's all wonderfully hectic, the planning, shopping, gift-wrnp· ping, note writing, etc., etc.,-but isn't it a pity these pre-holiday days don't stretch to thirty hours or so? Alas, they do not, so every hour of the standard twenty-four needs to <lo double duty.

Mealtime continues to recur three times a day without fail, and must be met with menus that are substantial, quick to fix, and kind to the pocketbook. Here's help.

"Quick Salmon Savory" with buttered Rice Krispies is perfect for a shopping day supper.

Quick oSalmon Savory 1 I ·pound can red salmon 1/4 cup finely cut celery l / 4 cup chopped green pepper 2 tablespoons grated onions 3 tablespoons butter or mar· garine 3 tablespoons flour ,1/2 teaspoon salt l·l/2 cups milk .

3 cups Rice Krispies , 3 tablespoons melted butter or margarine · Remove· bones and skin from salmon; separate pieces. Cook celery, green pepper and onions in heated butter until soft. Stir in flour ahd salt. Add milk gradually, stirring 1eons-tantly; cook .. until thlckened, stirring occuionally.

Fold in salmon; heat thoroughly.

M.ix Rjce· Kr.ispies · with melted butter. Serve,;salmon. mixture :on h~ted platter and, surround• with buttered Rice· Kr)spiea.

'Yield: 6 sef\r}ngs.

Mr. Weliden stresses the advantages of visiting places of. interest connected ·with each cour~e.

For example, the theme of· the course at the University of London 'will be "Art, Literature and Music in England in the 17th and: 18th Centuries."· To illustrate the arehite!lture and culture 'of the l)eriod, students wm visit the· BO'USes .·.of . 'Parliament, Covent Glirden ;{)paa ~House, Eton and illby ;o~et\places: of impQJ.'tance tt;tthe;.iperio\i:'UJlderc :study. ·. 'l''lfuei'>l!JniveiWy:.; ot "!BilJ.!mingham h~tds·:;fts·.:coursec !at •Stratford,.onAvon, · 'where.I: ttrere :. :are -exceptional oppt>rtuhities for studying "It living conditions don't stop '$liza:bethan ··Drama." .Among these iS the chance to see all 9£ improving in this country, we're the five Shakespeare plays per- going to run out of htimble beform¢ during the summer at the :gip.nings for our great men;''

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it never would have occurred to me that I was not a part of the stream of events which would take the world upward and onward to better things. It would be hard to find a young person today who believes the world is getting bettei. So, I oome back to my thesis; the right 'kind of education is the truest foundation for democracy, and is necessary for the survival of free enterprise.

And I' would like for just a minute to speak of what seems to me the right kind of education.

Proportion and History "First, it must provide a sense c.f proporUon and of history. A young man who has only technical knowledge. will have no un<lerstanding of the benefits of democracy or of his place in the great stream of events since the origin of civilization. He will adopt the political philosophy or will vote for the man who promises him the most, with no understanding cf why this kind C·f philosophy .simply will not work. He will have no interest in defending his country, because he will have no idea of its uniqumess or its place in history.

"Second, education mu:t give opportunities for creative development and for enrkhment of personality. Unless a boy or girl is exposed to the great cultural treasures of our wes·tern inheri..: tance, the man or woman will be poor indeed. We wonder why people use only television, radio movies or autombiles ,Jn their spare time. We wonder why they clutter up parks and beauty spots with litter. We are disturbed because our sons and daughters always have to be entertained, usually at considerab1e expense. Is not the answer .that they have been given much information but little real knowledge? Here may I say a .special word for the lib-

eral arts college for W()men. tastes and interests of young ple are largely in the hands} the mother of the family. If · want to develop homes in w reading, artistic enjoyment creative activities are natural?' the young, we must give to .' young women the fullest oppJ' tunity to develop these inter.~· themselves.

"Fina1Hy, our edUJCiation m give a sound sense of. moral spiritual values. It must supi} the church and the home in p viding our young people w,: sound objectives for their <( lives and with a discriminati which will enable them to · right from wrong. I kno:w o tM well that these va1ues co basically from home, but I know th2t the home needs all help it can get from the sch and the college and the chur Phisos.ophy and histcry~ lite ture and Janguages, soda1 sci ces, art and music-these all be added to training in s ence and mathematics. Th must be fostered if we are have ·gu'dance in making the k cf world that is worth prese ing.

"What does it profit a man he gain the whole world and 1 es his own life? Education .give training for living a g life, and so is the truest foun tion for democracy."

Office Force Party The col1ege office force had Christm2,s supper party at home of Mrs. Kenneth Heyw Tuesday evening December The supper was: cooperative there was an exchange of Chr' mas gifts. The highlight of evening was the presence of Ii Mike Doran, young son of college registrar.

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''America is in grave peril today, not only from outsiders but from within. It has been frequently said that we have learned to conouer these secrets of nature and to ·harness these forces to the service of mankind. We have made available the resources of the universe for the use of the common man. The Standard of living in the United States is higher now than it has been anywhere at any time.

"Our workers own more cars, more homes and mo'l'e television sets than once one would have thought possible. _The battle with poverty and disease has been well fought and is on the way to be~ng won. Our public housing_ . projects and medical centers rise to the sky and each day brings the news of the discovery of a remarkable drug, or of the advance and the conquest of disease. Our land is dotted with wonderfu1 new schooi buildings, constructed according to the latest educaUonal theories, equipped with every new .g;ioget knnwfi; to man. communist Threat "With all these ·great material advances we are growing poorer and poorer as a nation. We are consumed with fear of the 'Soviet Union, and ·instead of rising up in ·our might to prove tt> '.the world that democracy W(:)rks and that it can foster human 'happiness and goodnesspwe spend our time looJtWg;in corners for bogeymen who1 might ha.ve',J belonged tot the:' commun,ist party. · t/With all. oilr great tecluikal as!'ets1we· aTe reStles5, and.9fien unhappy. 'We have no idea .'Nhat to' do 'with the leisure for. which the modern ·wor'k-week provides.

We have dost our faith in .. moral values ·and in the validity . of ,human progress; When i was .young,

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NEBRASKA CITY OOCA,-'OOLA: ·BOTT°LING C @ 1?53, THE COCA.COLA COM~AHY

Ruth Russell.

Heads Polio Drive The annual March of Dimes, solicitation of funds for combat· ing infantile paralysis actually got under way in the Peru com~ munity the first of this week.

Officially the drive was sch'eduled to start January 1, but supplies were sl-0w in reaching the Nemaha County headquarters and it was late last week before Judge Walter H. Rose, county drive director, was able to bring them to Peru.

Drive leader for the Peru community is Mrs. 1Ruth Russell and to date she has had the assistance only of city marshal Arthur Hays who distributed the familiar coin boxes to 1all Peru business places on Monday. Now however, more help will be forthcoming. At its meeting Tuesday evening the Campus School PTA determined that its set-up would not admit of officially sponsoring the March of Dimes, but its members are willing to aid Mrs. Russell in every way possible to make the campaign a success.

Wednesday morning Mrs. Mary Anna Gnade, P.T.A. President, announced that a number of women of the group will again put on a porch-Jigh t collection for the polio fund on Thursday evening, January 27, between 6:30 .and 7:30. Householders willing to contribute are requested to have their porch lights going that evening. With that aid and the exeperienced cooperation of Judge Rose, Mrs. Russell should have no difficulty in getting satisfactory results for the March of Dimes in Peru before the drive ends on February 1.

Peru P .dagogian VOLUME XLIX

PERU, NEBRASKA, JANUARY 19, 1954

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Peru Splits With Chadron

Nine to Graduate The students named below were approved by the Policies Committee on December 8, 1953, as candidates for the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Education, the Bachelor of Science Degree in Education, and the Two-Year Diploma, to be issued January 22, 1954. Later the :Daculty passed approval.

'I· Those who will receive their 1 degrees are: Bachelor of Arts in Education, Regina Anne Stander; Bachelor of :Science in Education, Alice M. Bernard, Nellie Jean Birdsley, Mary Ann 'S~jdir,, Dale K Whited, Jr., and Ronald Eugene W1agner; Two-Year Diploma, Darlene June Boeck, Wanda Mary Conklin and Estlene June Slater.

Gavel and Rostrum Tries To Determine \'What's \Vrong with Peru's Campus LifeT'

Ned Eckman's nifty work at the free throw lane and a clever stall Friday night enabled Peru State to check Chadron 67-66.

50 per cent of the college enrollBy Mervil Miller It was the Nebraska College ment. :Regardless of what activThe Gavel and Rostrum's panel Conference opener for both. ity, there is more than normal. forum, held January 7, was termNeither could boast a lead of criticism. The recreation facilities ed successful by those attending more than two points the final are not being used to capacity. the discussion. A representation period and Eckman stepped to the 'There is a definite motif of deof 11 faculty members and 21 ·free-throw line with Peru lagging linquency present that seems to students discussed openly what 65-66, and 1:10 remaining. result from inadequate uses of they felt were problems re1ated The .Pawnee ,._:ity junior, who energy. This is evidenced in both to the campus of Peru. had cashed four straight charity the men's and Women's dormThe discussion was opened by to5ses, calmly poured in both itories. the chairman of the panel, Phylheaves for the final points.

Most of the above conditions lis Constant, who introduced the Peru then intercepted a Chadcan be improvtd by a more commembers of the panel; Dean ron pass and stalled the final 60 Downing, Dean of Co11ege and petent comm~nicah9n system fo seconds. representative ,of the College Ad- Jet the students know everythirig Eckman, AI Lowe and Ron ministration; Howard U1in, Man- that is going on; it would elimWagner accounted for 40 of aging Editor of the College Year inate the feeling of being left out; Peru's total. Quentin Hughes, Book and representative of the would make them more a.cutely Joe Lytle and Bob Armstrong Men's Dorm; Lee Norris, Presi- aware of ~responsibility. to were Chadron's leaders. both the ,sc~l and themselves, dent of the Blue Devils and reChadron Teachers !Saturday Peru State College will have a presentative of the Student Coun- give them •a feeling of belor:.ging night overcame early deficits of number of large groups as camand knowing the school is inter.2-11 and 5-13 to defeat Peru 57 pus visitors within the next few cil· Charlotte Merrit, President .ested in them, and it would of' the Women'\ Dorm Coundl to 55, and divide the first NCC weeks, Kenneth M. Heywood anand representative of the Wo- create a feeling of mutual under-. series for. both dubs. .standing between student, fac-ulty,,, nounces. men's Dorm.

The host Boboats came to life About four hundred high school In discussing foe question, and administration. in the final period after being seniors are expected to be Peru "What Happened to Peru's CamFrom this reasonably cloEe anvastly outplayed in the middle State visitors on Saturday, Jan- pus Life?" the panel felt· that alysis of student activity there .is stanzas and threatened to send ·uary ~O when the college holds lack of organized soci?l activity a noticeable lack of proper trainthe game into overtime. the first of its 1954 .Senior Days. and lack af student initiiative was ing and evaluation. Perhaps a A bucket by Har.ry Meeker They will see a college variety possibly the main problem. better word would be affinity. with 28 seconds wias the final sho'*1, tour the campus, swim· in The Nuse& !lllcterlying. this This would seem to be a fauit tally and Peru got the ball wi.th the cOilege pool and be enterpr~ble~, .the panedelt, was lax- of the faculty and administration. second left only to lose control. tained in the Student Union in ity of responsibility (they didn't There seems to be an "l" motif In'1 addition, Peru muffed four the afternoon. After dinner in present. among the members :say 00i whose part), lack of inOne hundred eighty school men free throw chances in the final the college oafe they will also see terest in onganizations due to the faculty and administration from this ,a:rea were guests of minute and a half. a basketball game as the Bobcats limited powers, conflicts .of ac- that impresses upon the students Peru 1State Teachers College on Chadron's superiority at the square off against Hastings Coltivities, poor relationships be- an improper balance between coSaturday, January 16. Invited gift lane proved the differ.ence. lege. Another group of similar

by President Gomon as a "get Larry Turner led the Eagles with size has been invited in for a re- tween or.ganbations, lack of com- operation and assistance.. Thi:s munications between students and motif brings about misunderacquainted" .gesture, and renew- 16, the same sumber Ned Eckman peat performance February 13, students, faculty and' students, standing and .general mistrust, ing an annual custom, the school- contributed to Peru's total. when Peru plays Doane College and i:nsuf:ficient financial means along with a lack of confidence men were taken on tours of the Box scorees 1appear on page 3. in basketball. between student and faculty and of the organization.

Peru campus and entertained at Additional hundreds of youngThe panel end~d its formal administration. <!inner in the college cafeteria. , sters will visit the Peru campus diseussion by stating that the best There is no doubt in the mlnd After dinner, ].:>resident Gomon, on February 9, 10 and 11 when possible solution would be to of this writer that everyone con·the only speak:er, urged the visiEvan Samples, one-time Prep the women's physical education keep Perr's .campus on campus nected with P.S.T.C. has . tlie tors to interest their students in department holds its annual High attending the college in the area athlete and since then an Navy School Girl's Volley Ball Tourn- instead of letting it ·go home on school's interest at heart; but weekends: airman in the Korean War has the school seems secondary to they were normally to sa-Te, ament. 48 schools have been inThe panel chairman then op- many other things.

Peru State, and outlined our returned to Peru with his wife vited. ' ened the discussion for audience teacher training program. He al- from Oalifornia. with intent to A possible solution to this enroll at Peru State.

They have Another "mass" activity of ian- participation. From this discus- problem is a mutual understandso cited the new tuition scholarships offered to promising stud- taken living quarters in vetviIIe. 10ther sort will occur on March sion one could formulate a vague ing between'' student, faculty and ents. The group then adjourned: Evan's parents, now of Grand 20 when the college stages the pattern o.f the disorder and un- iaclministration derived: by a disto watch the Peru-Chadron bas- Island, are well known here as 11th annual Peru State Band cooperative campus life we have cussion of representatives emL. M. Samples was superinten- Clinic, under the direction of at Peru. ketball game. powered by the administration to lt is 1almost impossible to pin- formulate policy in terms of dent of building sand grounds at Robert V. Grindle. Fine Arts the college in the administ:rotion Department head, Victor Jindra, point the unrest of the Peru campus activity. of the late President William has stated that about 25 schools campus because of the numerous This article is based upon the Nicholas. factors responsible for its cause. will participate in the event. casual observations of this writer The Tecumseh community hon:But at the same time it is possible and ·on arguments pre.sented in ored one of its favorite sons at 'to distinguish. .several major the discussion presented by the a special banquet sponsored by problems that :Wm lead one to Gavel and ·Rostrum. It is intended the Chamber of Commeree in the the improyement of campus l'ife. to be constructive criticism and Community Building, January 13.

Let mei point out the inad- not aimed as an attack on any The guest of honor was B.,h equate formal communicative person or persons. [.ade, outstanding Peru State THURSDAY 'WEDNESDAY FRIDAY system employed on this campus.

Athlete and a graduate of TecumJanuary 21 JantW"Y 20 January 22 We have weekly convooation anseh High School. nouncements which have become.

One of the finest· athletes ever 7:50 - 9:40 7:50 - 9:40 7:50 - 9:40 nil, campus bulletin board with 'to perform for the Bobcats, Lade last month's activities posted, Peru's A. D. 'Dorsey' l\11ajors, fa a three t1me selection as AllAll 7:50 Monday, All 8:50 Monday, campus activity calendar that is at Omaha, was elected President All 9:50 Monday, N-ebraska College Conference taWednesday, and Fri- .Wedm.esday, and Fri-· Wednesday, Thurshung in an office and its purpose of the ·State Board of Education .ckle, this year repeated as the day classes. day classes. never enforeed, school policy of Normal Schools at its Monday <lay classes. only Nebraska col1ege football committee''> report that a student meeting in Lincoln. The Normal player ever to be named to the never sees, school paper that Board also elected J. Hyde Sweet 9:50 - 11:40 9:50 - 11:40 9:50 - 11:40 Assoctated Press Little All Am----------seldom reaches the presses. This of Nebraska City as vic'e presi~rican team, and has twice won means of communication and its dent and reelected E. Albin LarAll 3:00 Tuesday, All 1:00 Monday, All 2:0-0 Monday, the Carriker Award, given anuse has not been satisfactory. son as secretary.

Thursday and Friday Wednesday classes. nually to thee most outsa:nding Wednesday classes.

Quite possibly it is the fault of classes. , Neal S. Gomon, Presideat of nneman in the Nebraska College the students, especially that of the State Teachers College at -----------··--Conference. the officers of organizations, or Peru attended the session as did 1:00 - 2:50 1:00 - 2:50 1:00 - 2:50 .. A. senior, Bob saw the Feru ------··----· perhap.s it's the fault o~ the fac- the presidents of the other three ktaters iose only fo.ur games durulty and administration. How- state teachers colleges to report.

All 1:00 Tuesday, All 10:50 Monday, All 2:00 Tuesday, ing his entire college career. He ever, on close :analysis it's pos- on activities and plans for the Thursday, and FriWednesday and FriThursday, and Fri~opes to start a career iri proible that we will find both at balance of the school year. day classes. day classes. day dasses. ~ssional football following his fault.

No action was taken by tbe -----·----·-~aduation next June.

The students are victil-:1s of board on a new president for 3:00 4:50 3:00 - 4:50 3:00 - 4:50 ~ Principal speaker at the banlow :morale as evidenced by the Chadron State Teachers College --·------·--------- -·-------~et was a forme~ Tecumseh reslack of enthusaism .sh own at foot- to replace alumnus Wiley G. All 7:50 Tuesday, ~ent, F. W. Shaw, captain of the All 8:50 Tuesday, Child Lit 103 and ball and basketball games. The Brooks, wh0 h2.s submitted his !.l17 University .of Nebraska footThursday classes · Thun:day classes.

Biue Print Reading. campus social activities such as resivnation as preoident, effective hll team. dances and plays attract less than at the close of the spring term.

Senior Day, Girls' P.E., Band Clinic on Tap

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A loyal Pernvian s Lettl:r to Home

Phyllis Hefoke

Dear Pa, The other night I had occasion to see the weirdest goin's on I've seen since I came up here to this b'ig city of Pe-ru.

Well sir, I went into this big milk bam affair that folks around here think so much of. I thing it belongs to some feller name of Jim Nasum.

Anyways there was a heap of hpopin an hollerin at this here place an all on account .of these .long legged varmints that was · out there in the middle of th-? ffoor a!).d a'prancin around in t~eir bright colored underwear, ood: just carryin on somethin fierce, now I tell you.

Then as if there wiasn't suitable commotion these here sort of clown gerutlernen come out in zebra skins, and pa, I saw they was a'totin a brown watermelon. Now ~ave you ever seen the like!

Well now, they up and killed the ·whole dern evenin tryin to '1-an.g that thar watermelon, up 1soin"s all of us whose watchin the proceedings could get a good gander at it. But it twern't doin em one particle of good, now, cause them fish net thing-s they had a'hangin. up for sacks had: a ieak in the bottoms, and ever time they would go and put the melon in it would n.aturly fall ,right back ont.

I could not opine how they was to feed ever one there with one puny melon, but they went and forgot to, just as well though, pa.

The way they was a'pummelin it around it couldn't a been too pure.

Well now pa, I just figured I would s~ribble you a:ri.d tell you I won't be trippin home to help you build .hog-fencin this week end, on account I heard tell that some more varmints is coining up Frfd.ay night a1nd they is gonna try and hold another watermelon feed.

Your lovin stepson, Abner Zeckers

Discover Your Date iBait Habits It's natural, it's nice, but it's hard on the nerves-wondering what traits put you in demand as a date. 'To clinch the matter, Pageant Magazine presents the results of some carefu 11y documented polls, taken' in recent months at several colleges and universities. Results are tabulated as fdllows: 1. What Girls Want in a Boy 2. What Boys Want in a. Girl Tn both rnses, · top da.te-traits are: 1. Be smooth in manners, appearance 2. K11ovv how to rlance well Willi1wriess to neck and "go all the wav'" r.re hr down on the list, but f,srt112st Cicwn, conclur!es the survey i0 p;,:1<;0r.1". is "<;oming fron1 e1.1.:;.

-~::1.rnily,'' and. "bejn,~ pro1nj1_11:~nJ

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On the sick list this week among faculty folks are Mrs. R. T. Benford with bursitis in her shoulder, Mrs. A. V. Larson with sinns trouble, and Mrs. W. O. Johnson with flu.

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Phyllis Heinke, a well-known .and busy senior, was born near Dunbar, Nebr:, and lat-er moved tq Nebraska City where she 1attenCled grade school at Sixth Street School, and Nebraska City Junior and Senior High. In high school honors, she was elected as represntative 7-o Girls Sto1.e a;:J .selected on the National Honor Society.

She has two majors in college; Biology and Physical Education, and two minors, English and Spanish.

At Peru Phyllis has taken part in YWCA, - Archery Club, Sigma Tau Delta, Kappa Delta Pi, Tri Beta, and Square Dance Club. In these organizations she has held the following offices: secretary in Sigma Tau Delta, president of Kappa Delta Pi and Tri Beta, .and vice president of Dor:mifory Council.

An outstanding honor this year for Phyllis was her s.eiection to the Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities.

She has two interestinf( hobbies: sports and sewing. Her fav-, orite song is "Sentimental JourL ney," and her favorite food is» chicken.

Phyllis has had experience as a Nurses Aide in Methodist Hospital in Omaha. Also, she has worked in the Otoe Food Products Co. At present, she is, employed in the library an,d is a Biology laboratory assistant.

Her plan is to teach upon graduation from Peru State Teachers Collyge.

Ancient Art of Parody Revived in Colleges Top magazines who take themselves seriously-and which ones don't?- may have to look to their laurels. For, according to an articlP in Pageant Magazine, college parodies on Time, Life, the New Yorker, Pageant, etc.,, may become far more intriguing than the mags themselves. ' From Superman 'to Life, no ma.gazine is safe. The col1ege editor. calmly takes the professional ma~azine's sty1e, lay-out· and special techniques and proceed:s to· misuse them. with diabolical accuracy, to crucify the staff, the printer, thE' advertiser and the general reRding p1.iblic for buying the m2ga7ine in the first place.

How do collegE' J'l'.)agazi11.es get away with it? There are three answers to this auestion, says Pwent, all of which noint the way to bigger ancl better parodies in the future. ' l. College students tread a thin lii:e between shaky solvency and fin2ncial impoverishment. Threat of a libel . suit frii;htens them abo111: 8s much as a foreclosure rm th0ir rlormitory rooms. ?. Thev wou1r1 nrob~bly nut out rn~r'a7.ine

1v·d·00i0s ;rnyv~ray.

8. Thr;ir vic1ims kV(' it. The T,2Cii"s Hom~ Jrvrnol furnished exnensive enf'raving pl:ates for the creation of Col11mbio's "Ladd'iPs Home . Journal." Othei: maga?ines with '(rPater or lesser r:irru1a1.ions ha,,o cheerfully follow0d suit. /lend despite the barbs insults and scorn, a narody pretty wen ·establishes an important noint no ma!"azine editor ever ti.r0s of he1rin.2': ~cmeone is reading his magazine.

Dr. Csst'.e M. Brown, or "Happy" Brov:n, as r.e is affectionately called by th2 PSTC s:udents among themselves, is one cf the best liked professors en the Peru State Campus. His always present smile and sincere and courteous interest in the s!:udent'; problems have endear2::1 him to o.11 the ctudents.

Peru to Begin March of Dimes Brive to ~nd ,Polio

If you could assist in preventing polio from attacking just one child, I'm sure you would do it.

You can.

During the {'.Oming year . - the Natio12al Foundation for Infantile Paralysis must continue to J":.st four out of every five polio patients and must keep up its nrog11am of professional educatinn ancl ~cientific res~arch.

But in addition, the National Foundation must nrovide the Arneriran r>eol)le with all available ,1!811).ma dobulin. the blood fraction which has been proved to be !\ temporary control over paralytic polio, and must make 1a validity trst of a vaccine which we hoDe will be the beginning of the erid for.,.this criopling disease.

Tn 16 .short years, MARCH OF DIMES research h a s broken through tremendou~ barriers that once stood between man and the conquest of nolio. Sten by step, scientists have adv,oinced from thE> denths of the lmknown to the threshold of victory.

Dr. Castle M. Brown 'Today, plans are being made Dr. Brown was born in Chifor what may be the final assault ca.go, Ill., and spent his youth -the practica.l use of laboratory and early manhood in northern knowledge to meet the ,needs of Ill'inois, being graduated from a human beings. A break-through high school in. one qf the suburbs has ·been made. The effectiveness of .To1iet, Ill. of gamma globulin in giving After high school graduation, a temoorary proteection against he enrolled in Denison University Polio has been demonstrated. at Granville, Ohio, and received 'Three tynes of polio virus have his Ph.B. degree, majoring in been identified as causes of parGerman ,and Politcal Science. alysis. Science has learned to ·Following his graduation from e:row these viruses ranid:ly in test Denison University, Dr. iBrown tubes for further research. They matriculated in Columbia Uni~re beinir used now to produce a versity, where he received his tr.i al vaccine.

M.A. degree. Then he went to Your investment of $20 million University of Chicago where he in March of Dimes research has obtained his J;D. or Doctor of created these new ana potent Jurisprudence degree. He later weapons for the attack against did graduate work at the Uni- Polio ·on the Fourth Front, P'Jlio versity of Minnesota.

Prevention. Thus Polio Research Dr. Brown's first teaching posis. the .First Front against Polio. ition . was at Morehead State The Second Front is Polio Pa'Teachers College at Morehead, tient Aid. For polio'' victims, a Minn., where he was the head of nreventitive is alreadv too late. the Social Science department Thieir battle is on a tragic front for two years. where survival, freedom from For the next three years, he dfaabilties, and self sufficiency taught at James 'Millikin College, arP major objectiv~s. at Decatur, Ill., 1and then spent The bulk of IM'arch of Dimes one year at the Univ,ersity of f!incls--almost 70 cents of every Minnesota, where he was lecturer r1o1Jor-is used to help the strick'On International Law. en. Direct 'financial aid' bas been In 1929 Dr. Brown came to g-iven to 270.000 pa,tients at a cost Peru State. For the first two of $174 million. years here, he acted 1as Registrar, Thie heavy exnense of hospitaluntangling a mix-up in the reization, treatment, nursing care, cords in that office, andt also physical therapy, iron lun!gs, serving as associate professor of braces and other indispensables Social Science. Since that time no long-er bars recovery. The Na'he has devoted his time exclus·- tional Foundation's 3,100 chapters ively to teaching. help the patient meet every need.

Dr. Brown met Mrs. Brown, t'olstering the defenses of comthe former Miss Ruth Symes, at munities besieged by polio eniMorehead where she was a critic demics, the National Foundation teacher. She has been , a critic ~n recent years has rushed into teacher in three different colleges, action 6,100 iron lungs, 2,050 hot River Falls, Wis., Morehead, nack machines and 700 rocking Minn., .and here 'at Peru State. bed:s, and has paid for the erneriFor sevenaI years she bas been l!ency recruitment of 12,300 a supervisor in the Peru State nurses. 800 physical therapists Training School. anrl 160 resident physiciam1.

Dr. Brown has always been inUntil the polio attack can be tenselv interested in music and checked, Preparedness must be since high school days has played the watchword on this costly the violin, being an 'accomplished front. artist. Be played in the orchestras 'The Tli.il'd Front, Prol'essional and strin~· quartets all through Bducation also requires money. his schooling a n.d .still consents Manpower is an essential element occasionally to play publicly. of tlie fiffht against n9lio on every Besides carrying a full sche- . front. To exploit fully the exdule of instruction, Dr. Bro\wn plosive weapons of science and has served his community as , medicine, the Natioml Found.awell. Be acted as municipal judge tiori hdps train a potert striking force of skilled professional of Peru for a number of years before ill health forced him to v.·orkers.

It indt1i;cs c::nctb1r.;· ~1v':i an . .1. rcsiv;n.

H0 amazed every one with his women to enter crifaallv underswift recovery from a serious manned heal\h field~ by offering scholarships and fol1owships. It oprration this fall. While he still should have been recuperating, ~ives financial assistance to prohe resumed his classes because fessional schools anct professional he couldn't get a suitable suboro·8nizations. stitute and felt that he owed it Through grants totaling $16,to his students so they could 200,00, the education pro~r8m has earn their credits. But, that is vastly increased. knowledge of just one of his many character- polio throughout the sciences and istics that has made him so well professions, stimulated interest in polio and its treatment, raised liked.

professional standiarcls and mod bilized an army of trained work~ ers who gives strength to tbe en~ tire field of health.

Today's dramatic advance into polio prevention - the massive teoting of a vacdne-is led by a scientist who .studied under a T'.farch of Dimes Professional Ed1.;catirmal fellowship.

And now the Fourth Front, Polio Preverction, is strikin'"' din.ct!y at. the heart of the: Folio problem. Its objective is to extend protection against paralytic dUease to tl::e greatest n•imbcr of people-eventually to all rec,ple.

A Polio Prevention Pr0gram is poscible today because, through M!?rcb of Dimes research, science for the first time has in its h2nds both a limited, temporary preventive agent an'.l 2 trial vscrine which may provide the final .answer to i11fantile paralysis: This new and costly operation marks an historic turning point in the fight against polio. Polio Preventive has passed all tests in the laj:>911atory. Sdentistt feel that thefnow,.can move safely to the human bcl'dy. If their new weapons can blunt the destructive force of the virus on the final proving ground, polio will be conquer~~···

The ''{ack has been ]jaU:nched in two directions. First, tests of a trial vaccine will be conducted on a massive scale, with the oarticipation of hundreds of thous~ ands of school children. Sec:ond!ly, because the results of the vaccine trials cannot be evaluated before :another polio season has passed, every possible use will be made of the blood fraction .gamma globulin to halt the spread of epidremics.

The cost of Polio Prevention in 1954 is $25,500,000 in March of Dimes funds. It will add 50 per cent to the over-all cost of oper- . ation of the National Foundation. during the coming year. But by 1 launching this offensive, expensive as it may be, the National Foundation points toward ending for all times the annual tragic toll of human lives with its inevitable burden of after eare and rehabilitation that already bias cost $174,000,000.

The Polio Prevention is under way. Huge quantities of all three types of polio virus are being grown in tissue cultures, then "killed" with formaldehyde to produce a vaccine. The resulting product must meet exhaustive safety tests before it is ready for use. !So prepared, the virus is potential to paralyze. Yet, when injected into the body, this nowharmless virus sets off an "alarm,,,. warning the body to defend itself against the invasion.

Responding to this warning, the body quickly produces "antibodies," chemical substances acting against the virus.

To continue the fight amainst polio on four vital fronts, the National Foundation depends heavily upon YOUR contribution to the 1954 March of Dimes. The year opens with chapters assisting the greatest polio case load on record-66,000 patients who need help now. To help these people, to help those stricken in 1954, to continue polio research and education 1and'-in additionto give America's children the benefits of a new $26,500,000 Polio Prevention Program. we ask vou to Give More in '54 to the Ma:-ch of Dimes.

The new secretary in the office 0f Dr. Leo Eastman at the Camnus School is ~.lfrs. Muriel Parsons, who assumed her 2.bout the first of the year. and her husband came from Omaha and are living in VetvilJe. Mr. Parsons will enroll at PSTC : next semester.

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~Tarkio Tourney ~~:

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Peru State basketball team, ~h has been playing alteray hot and cold thus far this pn, displayed the .latter char!tisfa in the first round of ;·Tarkio tournament on New h night and as a conse- · pee were thumped by the fiam Jewell quintet, 65-46.

• Bobcats warmed up to their k the following evening and !ted to an easy 71-5 0 win r :Simps•on College to take d place in the invitational '· The Jewell crew defeate6 li:io, first round conqueror of 1pson, for first place. spite of the decisive margin defeat, the Bobcats were in thick of things in the opening le UJ)til the fourth quarter, m they scored a mere five nts. They held a 15-13 first ilfter edge and trailed 33-36 halftime. ·;Ron Wagner, ·With points and Ned Eckman with paced the Peru attack. lckman's 17 points paced the )cats in the Simp9on game, an y contest in which the Peruns at one time were sitting on lO point lead. Halftime score

s 39-17. ~orward

Al Lowe dumped in points for the Bobcats and trd Harry Meeker. a midget n1er, contributed 12. )n Monday the Bobcats settled ;vn to a week of hard work, h no mid-w~ek contest scheled, as they began preparans to meet the Omaha U. club a Friday night contest fcheled to be played in the Peru mnasium. The two teams split their meetings last year, each nning its home contest.

Peru (71) llckman ....... 8 Lowe ......... 3 Meeker ........ 4 Wagner ....... 4 Graves ........ O Thomas ....... 1 fiolmes ........ O Stoltenberg . . . . O Majors ........ 1 Vrba .......... 3 Norton ........ O TOTALS ..... 24

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Simpson (56) Pace .......... 3 0-0 Creger . .. . . .. . 1 0-2 JohnSiOn ....... 3 5-5 Ogden . . . . . . . . . 3 0-2 Stewart ....... ,0 0-0 Huston .. . . . . . . 2 2-4 Peterson . . . . . . 2 0-2 Easton . . . . . . .. 1 0-2 patterson . . . . . . 3 0-0 Oanton . . .. . . . . 0 3-3 ;Downing . . . .. . 2 4-7 TQTALS . . . . . 18 14-27

5 1 3 5 1 1 3 3 1 1 1 25

Scoreboard: BOBCATS .. 21 39 56 71 REDMEN ... 8 17 36 50 Wm. Jewell (65) !Bobbitt ........ 7 7-8 Carson . . . . . . . . 5 3-4 Chambers . . . . . O 1-3 Cox ........... 3 3-4 Evritt ......... 0. 1-1 Habeck ........ 1 0-4 Kunce ......... 2 1-2 .Palter . . . . . . .. . 5 3-4 Root .......... O 0-0 TOTALS . . . . . 23 19-30

3 1 3 3 3 3' 1 4 1 22

Peru (46) Eckman ....... 5 3-4 Lowe ········· 2 2-6 Meeker . . . . . . . . 2 1-1 Wagner ....... 4 6-8 Hoag ......... 0 4-7 Thomas . . . . . . . 0 0-0 Holmes ....... 0 1-2 .1Stoltenberg .... 0 0-2 Majors ........ 1 0-0 Samuelson . .... 0 1-2 . TOTALS ····· 14 18-32 !Scoreboard: 1JEWELLS!

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>To many the 1eaps of impulse j:e considerably greater than the ~unds

of reason.

Bobcats Edge Omaha 77-75

May 4: Doane Relays at Crete.

T·c>fay 6: Omaha U. at Omaha Mav· 18: Hastings, Doane, Peru at . Crete. · ?1Iay 21-22: NCC meet at Lincoln.

Only in the ea.rly moments of the game did the invaders from the north enjoy a favorable advantage in the scoring margin as they jumped to a 20-11 lead midway throui;h the 0Denh1f!: psriod.

Peru's Al Lowe began the transformation at this point with five qui.ck points after which a bacrage of lengthy net '.wishers by Lowe, Wae;ner. Eckma•n and Meeker pulled the Cats up to .an even 22-22 all count at the end of the first period.

The nip and tuck second quarter saw .the lead change hands three times before Eckman's field goal put the Bobcats int0 a 33-32 lead which. they never relinquished. Halftime score stood at 45~38 and the Peruvians pulled 1'.way by as much as ten noints at times in the third, .although an Omaha flurry brought the score up to 59-56 going into the final stanza.

With four minutes remaininPthe Bobcats were still hanging onto the three points, at 68-65 but buckets by Lewis 1'.nd Wagner staved off a desperate Indian bid as the clock ticked off the closing moments.

Hobaats Lowe, Hoag, Vrba and Majors were whistled to the sidelines on personals in th'" fourth quarter.

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Egan was born in 1918 at the end of the first World War, has played for everyone in the hockey books, including the New York Americans, New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, and the Boston Bruins. He had always been a defense man, confining his duties to dishing out savage checks and bLasting hard shots from the right point. From defenseman to forward was an emergency measure. There were centers to spare on the Rhode Island Red Squad, as coach the tough problem was Egans. His solution astonished both ·fans and hockey press.

Egan made his entry :a:s a forward. plunk in the middle' of a five game losing · streak, But when the scores were in on the Syracuse .game on November 1st, Pat Egan had ended the losing streak with a 3-2 triumph.

Omaha hockey fans will .have their chance to see Egan in action on January 27 and 28 at Ak-SarBen in ·the Centennial hockey matches. Ticket sale has been opened to the general public.

Tickets are on sale at Russell . Sporting Goods for $5, $4, $3.50 and $2.50. '

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In a close and exciting ball game, Coach Bill Johnson's Bobcats won from the best team they have beRten this year when they defeated Omaha U 77-75 Friclav night at the l'o!lege .?;)'ni. Th~ win was accomplished by an arroused defensive performance coupled with some unoannv Ion.er shots. · "'.

Former Peru Teachers star Omer Meeker, now playing Santa Maria of National Industrial Basketball League, is second in the loop scoriTug with a 15.3 average in six giames. The Santa Maria club leads the lea.gu,e in the win column.

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The prolonged victory drouth for Coach Jerry Stemper's Peru Prep Eobkittens came to an end Friday night as the Peru cagers outscor_ed Table R.ock, 35--30 in a battle of the lowlies. Neither team liad-won a game going into the contest.

The Peruvians led all 1.he way in the low-scoring affair. ix1ced

by Shelby Winningham who dnmped in 15 points. Cavault, with 7, led the Tab!~ Rock attack.

Halftime score stood at 16-12.

The Kitten reserves and the firl's volley ball team, not to be outdone, each won its first vict,ory of the season in meliminarv contests. The seconds doubled th~ store on the hosts, taking c; 32 to 16 win \7hile the lassies were victorious by 31-25.

Prep 41 - Sidney, Ia. 21 Coach Jerome Stemper's Prep Bobkittens won their second basketball game in a row when they defeated Sidney, Ia., 41-21 at the college gym here Tuesdav evening. Sid Brown had hi~self a night, scoring 25 points, 12 o:f which aame in the second quarter.

Sidney managed to hold B'tick Winningham to seven points.

D ' • ' reps passmg and ,t:Ooor work seemed to be imprdved 100 per cent since the beginning ~of the season although its scoring punch is still principally limited to two I men.

Pren's second tea ~ached by Bob Lade smothe the Sidney seconds 26-4. Sidney never managed a field goal, getting a free ~hot in each of the four quiarters.

Sherman scored 12 points for Peru.

Prep's standing in the Tri-State league is now one victory and one loss, while the seconds have two wins .

The World Herald named Ned Eckman last week as Nebraska college star of the week for his assistance in the toppling of 0mahJa U. The cool working guard netted 24 points to pace Peru to its top showing this se~son.

NEXT HOME GAME

Peru vs. Wesleyan FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22 8:00 p·.m.

Boost the Bobcats!

Campus capers call for CDke

Peru Prep Loses To. Dawson· High Coach Jeroine Stemper to•)k his undermanned Prep basketball squads to Dawson Tuesday night to drop a couple of tilts to the Dawson High School first and reserve teams.

They lost the var1sty game 41 to 57. Sid Brown was high point man for Peru with 17, followed

by Winningham with 16. Rist with 22 was high for Dawson .

His team led all the way, the half time count being 17-16.

In the reserve game Pren lost 20-24. Straw was high ma-n for Prep wlth 8, while Fisher with 9 led for Dawson .

To add a touch of class to the ,affair Harold Johnson took a c;roup of Campus School girls to Dawson to count 21 tallies in a volleyba:ll game while the Dawson lassies tallied 32.

The Bobkittens will take on Sidney, Ia., in a Tri-State game here next Tuesday evening.

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'TRACK SCHEDULE The Peru State .Bobcats will. make a total of eight cinder a-£~ pearances this spring, according to the 1954 track schedule r.eleased Monday bv head track coach Erv Pitts. The Peruvi:ans placed fourth in the NCC in 1953.

The Complete schedule: :March 27: NCC Indoor Meet, Lincoln.

April 15: Maryville and Tarkio at Peru.

April 23: Washburn U at Pr;ru.

April 30: Doane and Weslevan at Peru.

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Lade-Ferguson Union Announced

Ex-Peruvian Sets Speed Record

Gomon To Discuss School Contracts

Just What the Doctor Ordered

Once again the Peru P.T.A. The Peru State Colleg,e campus program has been revised to was buzzing with "I knew him meet important business at hiand. when" talk Monday as college The contracts between the State ·staff members delightedly re- Normal Board and the school districts for sending children to the called the .collegiate days of Col. Willard W. Millikan who Satur- Campus School come up for reday set a new trans-continental newal soon. President Neal S. speed flght record of four hours Gomon will explain the terms of the contract and the meeting will 24. and eight minutes.

Miss F\erguson.• is a junior at Milikan was a student at Peru be open --Jar general discussion.

Peru State. She is active in Cam- State during the 1939-40 and Attendance at this meeting will pus affairs, has appeared in 40-41 school years. Like many avoid future misunderstanding.

Dnamatic Club and Peruvian other young men of his time, he 8 p.m. Tuesday, January 19, at Singers productions and was the left college to serve his country the Campus School Auditorium.

Added feature: some of Vicki W53 Homecoming Queen. in World War II. LeClure'.s pupils in ta.p dancing.

As might be expected, faculty recollections ·of Millikan traits All interested are invited. .and incidents are varied, but one F'or the first meeting of 1954, fact stand.s out. It is that "Chub" Under arrangement by J. Hyde 17 members of the Peru Branch Millikan was a "good kid,'' a Sweet, Peru State music faculty "likeable guy" and "a very pop-Of A.A.U.W. went to the home of members, vocalist Darryl ManMrs. Robert Grindle Tuesday ular campus figure." ring, pianist Robert T. Benford, A classmate, Joe Littrell, now ' evening, J1anuary 12. President Robert Grindle with' his clarinet a member of the Peru State facAlma Ashley read the state presand V. H. Jindra and his violin, ident's letter, and treasurer Phyl- ulty, characterizes him as an together with contralto Mrs. Neal ambitious and serious minded inlis Davidson reported that the Gomon, fUrnished the program Chrsitmas offering of the group dividual who rigidly maintained for the Nebraska City Rotary a clock-like <laily schedule.

Litpaid ·transportation for 11 parcels Club at its Wednesday noon dinof surplus foods sent by CARE to trell's most vivid recollection of ner session.

"Chub" is the fact that he kept Germany. Mrs. Al Wheeler passed bottles of. hand lotion, a com- a set of bar bells· and other explimentary gift of the Hill Drug ercising apparatus im his room V. H. Jindra and Bob Jones and every night took a strenuous store. workout, followed with a hot were in Omaha Monday and Miss Edna Weare, program shower and popped into bed Tuesday nights to play in two • chainnan, presented :Miss Frieda exactly on schedule. He had him- concerts by the Omaha SymRowoldt, substitute for Mrs. W.O. self so well regulated that he phony. Feature .guest was pianist Johnson, flu victim, and Miss slept exactly five hours each Eugene List. Clarence Jones atHazel Weare, who discussed Wonight, rising early each morning tended the Tuesdiay concert and. men and their Money, a problem t.o perf.orm his part-time job of brought son Bob and Mr. Jindra confronting millions of working cleaning the dormitory halls long back to Peru. women who are h~ds of families, before other men students were the retired and the widowed. stirring.

They talked on home ownership, Coach Al Wheeler, who inbudgeting, investments, insurance and its various phases, and duced Millikan to ~ttend Peru answered many questions from State, recalls that the air ace was the floor.' It was an interesting a perfect physical specimen but and informative program. The as an athlete was handicapped discussion continued during the by a tendency to "tense upY in coffee hour that the hostess had competition. However he wa~ a member of the Bobcat basketball prepared. squad at the time when the PeruArlene Francis, twiri sister of vians were one of the classiest Mrs. Quinn Lotspeich of Scl)ttssmall co.llege basketball teams in bluff, was a guest and brought the nation. · greetings from her' sister and Pleasant recollections also come family. ' q from Mrs. Ruth Russell, who was house mother at Delzell when Millikan stayed there, and from Mrs. Gerge Brown who reports that young MiUiklan dug their basement to help finance his schooling" 'Those facui~ty members who had Millikan in their classes are all agreed that he was a fine student. A check of his records in the office of the Registrar shows that his grades were all "A" and "B." It was while a student at Peru that Millikan first became interested in flying, finding time to cram flight 1essons into his busy .schedule. When he left school he volunteered for duty wtth the Air Force. That branch of the service probably won't like to be reminded of it but he was "washed out" as not being pilot material. Following this setback he visited the Peru State campus, telling his former teachers he Ja~\l$ .F. Green, prominent was going to Canada to try again.

Oniaha attorney and nationally· Knowing Millikan, they were not known American Legion leader too surprised to hear, months James E. Green, Omaha attor- later, that the persevering kid ney who won national recogni- was now an "ace."

It is also recalled that "Chub," tion for his fight againist Communism through the American accompanied by his British born Legion and All-American Con- wife, returned to the campus ference to Combat Communism, aft0r the war and delighted the has been appointed the Nebraska student body by showing films state chairman of the Crusade 0f his combat "kills" at an allfor Freedom, Henry Ford II, Na- student convocation.

The new celebrity is also well tional Crusade chairman, has anknown in downtown Peru where nounced.

As Nebraska state chairman, he was employed in the ChateMr. Green will coordinate and lain Jewelry Store. Banker Carunify the efforts of state, county, roll Lewis said Monday that he 1and city volunteers as part of a was a regular in attending sernation wide program in. support vices at the Baptist Church where of Radio Free Europe. Along the members still remember him with other state chairmen, many fondly as a "fine, friendly, highof them national Legion leaders, dass boy.''

Mr. Green will seek to enroll thousands of Nebraskans among Mrs. Murvin Milrer has been the 25,000,000 private American citizens behind the RFE truth- ill the past week and unable to casts to communist-emlaved peo- make her usual <1aily 110 mile ple in the s.1tellite nations behin::l roun:l trip drive to Otoe County the Iron Curtain. to teach her school.

Campus friends of the couple have received invitations to the wedding of Peru State's AllAmerican Bob Lade to Miss Virginia Ferguson, daughter of Mr. .and Mrs. W. R. Ferguson of Falls Oity, Nebr. The wedding will take place at the First Christian Church in Falls City on January

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RACINE, WISCONSINShoveling snow is rugged; so much so, in fact, that doctors caution folks to take it easy, particularly if they're not used to heavy work. So American productive genius comes through to help people do a tough job quickly and with a minimum of effort and strain.

That's why more and more people are using power snow plows to do the job. One of the most successful types is the rotary snow plow. Rotating blades bite in and whirl the snow out to the side. A local manufac·

turer of power mowers offers such a low-cost rotary plow that has proved very successful.

The Jacobsen Rotary Snow Plow clears walks and driveways in a J',raction of the time and effor( nee~d with the old hand, shovel. Snow is spread from 10 to 20 feet to the side, leaving no snow banks to encourage deeper drifting. In av era ?"e fresh snow, 4 to l ·. ches dee, , 1 '1is unit will cl. · lit 85 s·.: "'"·e feet per m1 Plow width is 16 inches.

An adjustable hood regulates distance snow is :thrown.

Registration Time For Second Semester

Fighter of Reds fieads State Freedom Crusade

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Dreams of a colle.ge education [,came closer to rea'liiy for high i•school graduates in southeast Ne;;braska recently, when Peru State !&president Neal S. G·omon advised Wall school administrators in the !: arfea of the liberalized provisions of teacher college scholarships i' awarded 1anrrually by the State \,Normal Board. The new provis~· ions were adopted by the board i to bring the annual granf within ' the reach of more of the deserving high school ,graduates of the state.

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One provision of the former •grant limited it to a ·student in the upper ten per cent of his class.

In the case of many small high schools this eliminated people of definite college calibre, because ten per cent of the class might be only one or two who did not Wish to g.o to college. The new regulation makes a scholarship available to any student in the Upper 25 per cent Of the class, who will use it.

An increase in scholarship value. is another new feature. It has been upped to $240.00. A student may use it at the rate of $30.00 a semester for a full four year pro1gram. Inasmuch as total char.ges for tuitkn, fees, books and activity at Peru is only $60.00 a semester, th,is means that the holder of a scholarship has half his actual college expenses, exclusive 1of board and room, provided for throughout his colleye caretr.

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Big Cake Served at Tea A "great cake" which contains, among other things, 40 eggs and four pounds of butter will be cut and served Thursday afternoon when Home Economics students at Peru State hold their annual Martha Washington Silver Tea. The cake is made from a favorite recipe of the first President's wife. The recipa was copied from a museum display case in Washington, D.C. in 1940 by a group of vacationing Peru Home Ee students who baked the cake , for the first time in February of 1941 and invited others to share it with them i::', the Silver Tea. The Silver Tea wilJ be held at the Home Ecnomics rooms ih the Campus School from three until five and the ;:mblk is il\vited to attend. Miss Edna Weare, faculty cponsor, said 'Monday that the ·girls will continue the practice established in previous years of $elling 'maller cakes, made from· the giant recipe, for those who wish.to take some home.

President Gomon Returns from Convention

President Neal S. Gomon left Wednesday, l!'ebruary 10, for Chi/ cago, where the American Associahon of Colleges for Teacher Education meeting was held. This The District II Music Contest national association sets requirewill be held at Peru on April 9 ments _ for all teacher training .and 10. The event has previously instituti-0ns; Mr.· Gomon was in been held in Auburn but is beiug Chicago on Thursday, Friday and moved to the Peru State campus Saturday. From this meeting of because more adequate facilities about five hundred deans and are available. presidents of colleges, he left SatThe general managing commit- urday evening for Atlantic City, tee for the two day affair met N.J. Tuesday night to schedule events Here he attended, along with and make arrangements for the 40 other Nebr,aska administrafors, many details conn~cted with such the meeting of the American Asa!'l undertaking. General chair- sociation 1of School Administraman Victor H. Jindra announced tion. This meeting of 17,000 adthat the services of the following ministrative representatives is an judges had been secured: organization for improvement of For vocal entries: Paul McCol- administration practices. He left lin, Morningside College, Sioux Atlantic City Thursday and went to New York City to attend meetCity, Ia. For Instrumental: Leo Kucinski and Frand Vander Mat- ings 1of the Association on Higher en, both from Sioux City, Ia. For Education. This meeting was a piano and vocal: Mrs. !}eorge committee of about 50 college representatives who are concerned May, Omaha. with business management of o.olAttending the Peru meeting leges. Mr. Gomon was in New were Supt. Don Craig, Syracuse; York Friday and Saturday and Supt. Charles Cox, Brock; Prin. returned to Peru Sunday, FebWm. Floyd, Plattsmouth; Mrs. ruary 21.

IRiobert Moore, representing Au.President Gomon left the camburn High; President Neal S. Gomon and. faculty members Victor pus again Wednesday, March 3, to attend the Nat1onal Conference H. Jindra, Norma Diddel, R. T. on Higher Education in Chicago.

Benford, Darryl Manring and He was a speaker on the program lRobert Grindle.

Thursday 1afternoon. The meeting lasted thnough Friday, and Mr. Gomon returned home on Saturday.

Gavel & Rostrum Gives Program at Auburn

Gavel and Rostrum members :;recently presented a demonstration debate for the Speech and English c1asses of Auburn High School. Ila Alden acted as chairman .of the program. Bob Barge ,and ·Luanne Blessie upheld the 'affirmative sid~ of the question "'Resolved tljat inter scholastic ,:athletics should be de-emphasized," while Bob Adams and ;Phyllis Constant presented the ;negative arguments. After the debate, Mervil Miller lecd an in:J'ormal di~mssion of debate mechanics.

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Vance Wilki·nson Gets Chem. Award

Vance Wilkinson .w1as recently awarded a Chemistry Handbook for the top achievement in freshman chemistry. Wilkinson was selected by a committee consisting of. Mr. Mathews, Mr. Christ and Mr. Miller. The committee considered attendance, gr a de s from assignments and quizzes, lab work, and a final semester tes~ in making their selection.

The handbook which was a. Since the first presentation of warded is one familiar to all as~his program, Gavel and Rostrum sociated with chemistry and phy,has received an invitation to re- sics. The gold inscription on the ;peat it for the Tecumseh High cover rea·ds: Achievement Award School assembly. The tentative . First Semester Freshman Chem¥late set for the Tecumseh pro- ' istry· 53-54, Nebraska St at e ~ram is March 19.

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PERU, NEBRASKA, MARCH 9, 1954

High School Bands Due for Music Clinic Twenty-eight high schools will participate in the annual Band Clinic held here on March 20.

George Wilson, dir~ctor of bands at the University ·of Missouri, will be the guest col).ductor.

Official Ring Adopted

NUMBER SIX

32 New Students Now on Campus

An official ring has b-)El\ adopted for the Peru State. Anyone may purchase one. T'.ie i:ng may be had ;'.l either :;o .d er silver With a total of 32 new students with a bbe stone. Ti1e choice of enrolled this semester, we have cutting of the stone will be left quite an impressive number of up to the individual. The boys' · new faces around the campus. gold ring is priced at $21; girls' Thirteen of these are fprmer $17.50. The silver ring for boys students at Peru, twelve are is $13; for girls $12. Pins, nefktransfers fr.om other schools, and laces, etc. ar.e also available at ,seven are new fresrmen. a reasonable pr\ce.

They are: First •orders were taken in the Post Graduate: Mrs. Dor:a Jan-' administration building Wednesetos day, March 2.

Seniors: Chester Berger, Isabel Mortell, Curtis Risk Juniors: LaVerene Livengood, John Moran, John Steward, Reg·gie !Speak Sophomores: Loren Clark, Eldon, Carmine, John Everett, Ronald · Fletcher, Richard Heywood, The freshmen class has intro- Kermit McCue, Kermit Overgaard,. duced something new in the way Nels Ovel'.ga;ard.1;-0rlando Rodriof contests with their presenta- ques, Marjorie Holm~ tion of "Notes at Night," a Freshmen: Marianne Applegate, program consisting - of competiBob Domingo, Lawrence Eickoff, tive campus singing. This event · Phil Fahrlarder, Marcy Fahrwas held Tuesday, March 2, in lander, :Ffoyd .Gr ssehme, Robert the college auditorium. Groups Kramer; Marv· · nson, Norma participating were: the Blue DeMoore, !Robe· arsons, Helen vils, White Angels, YM - YWCA, Pyle, Beverly Rist, Evan Samples, Delzell Hall, and Eliza Morgan.

Mary Straw. i' Mrs. Darrell Wininger, Mrs. CurThese new-comers are aireadyitis !Lindell, Miss Hazel Weare, making' themselves fe1t as a '.velW. E. Morrissy and J. D. Levitt come addition to the student body, acted as judges. and the rest of us would like to The White Angels were awardj1oin in wishing them success in ed the first place trophy for their their "pursuit of knowledge" at rendition of "Will You Remember?" and "Blue Moon." The sec- Peru.

Freshmen PreseAt 'Notes at Night'

Director George ,Wilson The program will consist of various numbers by the selected band, and also solos and ensembles, a new feature this year.

High schools participating include: Alexandria, Auburn, Beatrice; Bellevue, Burchard, Brock, Byro.ti, Cqllege. View, Dunbar, Fairbury, Falls City, Friend, Hebr.on, Humboldt, Johnson, Nebraska City, Odell, Pawnee City, Peru, Plattsmouth, Salem, Sidney, Ia., Syracuse, Stella, Talmage, Tecumseh and Weeping Water.

Square Dancing

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ond place trophy went to the group from Delzell Hall, which sang "Vive la Oompagnie" and "There Is a Tavern in the Town."

Presentation of the trophies was made by Ronald Van Lanningham, president of the freshman class, who announced that the winners' names would be en,graved on a placque which is to be hung in the student union.

In ·Charge of the organization ,and presentation of the contest were Barbara LoC'kwood, general chairman, and Tom Moen, acting as master of ceremonies for the evening.

It was decided that "Notes at Night" will be an annual affair, under the sponsorship of the freshman class. Every year the names of the winners will be addecl to the plaque.

After a break of a few weeks, because of •other activities; Miss Davidson has again revived a campus activity :for .the students' benefit. This refers, of course, to the Wednesday evenin:;, square dancing classes. These classes are held in the gym, and iane iand all 1are welcome. The next class is scheduled for Wednesday, Mal'ch 10, at 8:00 p.m. Whether you can square dance ana enjoy, or can't square dance and would like to

by Rich Steiner learn how, just don those jeans, A scientist, a preacher, an orcome on over, and j1oin the fun.

Along this same line, how about afor, and an athlete; yes, this is a daite for March 24? The Faculty ·a tale of all four with a dash of "Joe College" thrown in.

Woman's Club has set that date· These characters, better known for the Annual Faculty Student Square Dance. Ernie c·ross of as the "Roommates," all live toBurr has been contacted to do the ; ,gether in a large stone house calling for the event. Beside this, known ias a ,dormitory; of course door prizes will be given; and it they don't live in it all, just two shou1d all add up to a really small rooms. The most lived in room vs perhaps where most of "gala" affair the story takes place. The room Come on, students! Let'; ali make plans now to attend. Don't itself is not too different from any other college dormitory room forget the date, Ma11ch 24. except that there are no beds in this one, just desks, one over.stuffed chair, two wastebaskets, a book case, a football helmet, 'Miss Hazel Weare of the Peru a record player, a dirty sink, a State faculty was in Omaha last mirror, numerous pin-up picthirty-seven empty beer Friday with 26 members of her tures, bottles (two ful' ones), old test college class in business education. They observed methods at papern by the score, pens, type" the Cudahy Backing Oompany, writers, razors, sp.ort coats, and Mutual Benefit Life Insurance about one half inch of d1;1st spread · , Company and the Fairmont Ice over all.

Cream Company offices and in Enter the hero, Mr. B. He the evening attended the Hockey g1ide8 .smoothly to the mirror, game between Detroit and Chi- blows the dust from a small porcago. They had to battle snow t~on and 1ooks in "Ah, Mr. B," around Omaha in the morning, whispers Mr. B. "You are even but at the end of the day wound prettier today; how is it Mr. B up v.;ith a good time. tbiat the women can restrain

Al Wheeler Attends Kansas City Meetin'g Al Wheeler, who is president of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, left Wednesday for KJansas City where he expects to be busy with Association duties until after March 15.

While the principal activity will be supervision of the National A.I.A. basketball tournament, abo scheduled are a number of business meetings and the N.,A.I.A. TiPoff banquet Sunday night. A highlight of the gathering, which brings college coaches from all over the· nation togetb.er, will be a football coaching clinic to be held Friday and Saturday.

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B, but just such a ritual is perfiormed each time he has an opportunity to view his likeness in all its glory. Actually Mr. B does-· n't believe he is the most won-· derful specimen JOf mankind in existence, but he tries hard not to let the populace find that out Mr. B is also a classical baritone· of great ;ability and talent; this, too he hides very well by sinofo<>" const.antly at the top ~f his Iu~gs~. off key. His secret is safe. I must say here that Mr. B is the orator of the group, but this is just "' front for his many other achievements, which we may discover' later.

Next let us sneak a small peek at the scientist in the family. He is the "bitter end," to coin a 'phraise. The doctor, as he is known, is not really a doctor, ir: fact he's not really a human bei:ng, but, since he lives on medications, injections, pills and straight bourbon, the name is &. little like him. Doc is a little taller than the rest of the roommat~. six foot five to be e:ll!act, weigh(Continued on Page 3)

Peru P edagogian Publishtd semi-monthly during the school year by Nebraska State Teachers College at· Peru

Staff Robert Barge Editor Assoeiate Bditoirs .... Clirford Stokes, Delores Smith Feature Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marcy Fahrlander

Peekin' Back

Jindra Is Man To Look-Up-To Victor H. Jindra is not looked up to by members of the Peru campus merely because of his height, but :Dor concern in both the students and their activiies.

Mr. Jindra possesses a manner of continuous enjoyment of life and always has a" broad smile for all.

'Two bills, one for the new lib11a.ry 11111d one for the auditorium, went through the legislature. The bill for the library was lost, but appropriations were obtained for the new chapel- the pres~nt gymnasium and swimming pool -in 1903.

(Peru Ped. May 2, 1933)

News Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Phyllis Constant Sports Editor .................. Nels Overgaard, Jr. Make-up Editor .................. Mary Ann Fuerst Asst. Ivlake-~p Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Luanne Blessie Organization Editor .............. Junior Weichel Business Manager ......... : . . . . . . . . Reggie Speak

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News and Feature Writers: Bob Adams, John Ahrens, Merritt Dodson, Phil Fahrlander, Mervil Mill~r, Ervin Parmenter, Howard Ulin

Industrial Arts Club The Industrial Arts Club will hold its next meeting March 2, 1954. Pre-Engineering students will be especially interested. because Mr. Stevenson, Nemaha county engineer, is going to be · the guest speaker.

The Industrial Arts Club, with a membership of twenty-five this year, is also planning a fieia trip to Kansas City, Mo., sometime this spring.

New Staff Publishes Ped Th.is is the new Peru Pedagagion. By referring to this semester's Ped as tae "new1' Peru Pedagogian, we·mean not :qnly that it will come out on a regular schedule, once every two weeks, but that this is now a student paper, put out by tt student staff for the general and particular .interest ,of the Peru student body.

Our i~sues will contain features on student, faculty and a~hletic activities. and they will also include editorials on campus problems.

We feel that it is not necessary to remind you, as students, that this .is your paper, and tnat we will welcome suggestions and contributions from you. It is our purpose to cover all .campus activities, and it would help us very much if all students WiQUld contact us when they have information of general interest. We shall welcome any art wurk that may be submitted, providing it is done in black ink or paint.

Any applications for ,a poisition on the staff will be consicliered.

Remember, by serving the Ped, you're in on everything~/

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The Library is so crowded at times that chairs are brought in, in 1order that all may find a place to study. Is th ere any better ar1gument for a new building?

(Peru Ped, Feb. 28, 1933)

Victor H. Jindra

The subject of this feature is a young fellow who is very popular around the campus. His name is Loren Argabright, better known 1as HArgy" er ''Argo'' to bjs friends around the campus.

Loren, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Argabright, graduated from Nemaha High School in 1950. He iac'e.s military service after ~pring gradua¥er:, but plans to rollow this vvith '\raduate work ,and eventually go into the teaching profession.

His two primary extracurricular interests have been football and music. He has been ~s.tanding halfback for the ~cats. and a four year member of the college choir, with prominent parts in operetta productions all four years.

This year he was one of six Peru State students chosen as the i'953-54 selections for membership in Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges He is a mrmber of Alpha Mn Omega (to11orary mathematics fratemity) and a former tre<>surer of Bill\: Devils, the men: pep organiz~t:on. He has been dected to mf :nbership in the stncrnt counCJJ, ·and this year is its treasurer. Also included, c:;mcng his aciiviLes are Kappa Delhi Pi 'J·1e national educational fraternit;i), 2nd the "P" Club.

Mr. Jindra was graduated from I the University 1of Nebraska with a Phi Beta Kappa Honor Key. His majors were in mathematics· and music. He later attended summer Epsilon Pi Tau has set their .sessions at the Chica;go :Music Colinitiation and banquet or March lege where he specialized in study 12, 1954. The club has .only uine of the violin. members at the present, but A rural school position was the should swell after the initiation. first start of Mr. Jind,ra's teaching career. He later served as principal at Bru!lo and Linwood and was Superintendent of Schools at Brain~.rd and Firth. ·-In Gavel and Rostrum and The 1923 he c.ame to Peru as instructor D!lamatic Club have joined forces of mathematics and music. Howin sponsoring a Water carnival ever, music gradually consumed to be held in the college swimhis time. His schedule now inming pool Friday, March 5, at 91 cludes orchestra, stringed instru7:30 p. m. ments and classes in music apEntertainment such as a bathing preciation and history.

It has been rumored that ''Cowsuit contest, ra.ces and a clown Cate hes all the college dirt. poke" Wiechel has been busy It is interesting to no\e these diver will be piart of the eveThis is a ne;·; column edited keeping his spurs shiny this sec- 1other facts, also. Mr. Jinclra was ning's program. by an unknown who hopes to ond semester. Reason: A certain , born at Wilbur. He w:as president Gavel 1and R:ostrum is . sponstay that way. There might be a "Palimino Filly'' has wandered of the Peru Kiwanis Club in 1944. sored by J. D. Levitt. few scratchings of interest to you. down from Nebraska City.

His love for the violin is exThere's a hay day in store for The observer has seen another pressed through his playir.g with the girls, and maybe the boys. certain oouple enjoying Sunday the Omaha Symphony at the presLooking ahead a few weeks we evening rides in a not too old ·ent, and his performances at consee Oo-Ed week coming up. I've Chev. vocations. seen a few girls plotting already.

We are wondering how Pat Tt was an old fashioned convoAlso coming up is Open House 'Lincoln aoquired her new nickcation last week. The student ;at Eliza Morgan. You fellovis will name of "Red." Couldn't be beleader of devotionals asked us to get a birdseye view of how wecause of the company she keeps, sing that majestic hymn, Faith uns live. ·It will be a put up job ;or could it? of Our Fathers, then after the though, there will be a lot -0f 'The girls on second floor have scripture reading, to join in prayshining up before you get inside. been having beverage parties, so ing The Lord's Prayer together. it is rumored. How ab0ut an inSome of the bubble bath queens It was an interval of quiet and around here have been having vite girls? reverence which c1rrie'.1 us back The Pedagogian has made tentheir pictures taken. T'oo ba·d a Men, if that girl of yours sits tative plam to run an article in to the days of "chapel" in which few of .these aren't in circulation. staring into :Y'our· eyes. she is unwe were c::;.1led together to reeach isuue, discussing the varBoys, y1ou can check Marilyn doubtedly looking for rainbows. memb2r our Creator in the days ious courses offered at Perµ State. :off your list. The Army moved Understand Miss Ashley's class The first ai;t.icle will be about of our youth. A student debate in again. She is now sporting a found. in an old text, that rainwas next in order when four stuhistory. new diamond. Congl'atulations, bows in the eyes is a sign of love When asked what importanc2 dents from the Gavel and Rosin the h rart. All right, move Marilyn. trum Club presented opposing he thinks history holds in the Colover. I ,-;ant to look in that The White Angels will be seen i::~eas on the siatement that "Inlege Curriculum, Dr. Gordon Kenin a convo· soon. They am prE'- mirror too. ter;:cholastic Athletics Should Be yon of the history department, reThe Army was in town last senting a silent 3-D movie. plied, "In my opinhm, · history Deemnhisized." It \\'as a good What's this we hear about our week and seemed to be taking exercise for the young people, ranks second only to Fnglish in all ,of one co-eds spare time. house mother about to become in giving the student a basic re- and we ·wonder why debate has engaged? Anyone know anything Kinda hard to keep up with lost its popularity. quirement of education." Dr. Kenclasses isn't it, M.H? about this? yon further elaborated, "History Perhaps a r~cent poll on the What goes on on those trips to Notioced Curt pilintfr,g the is important in resnect that it question "Who Make' Up Your Omaha boys? :E;veryone's talking' benches around the campus and Mind" answers the query. n gi-;~'s tho studen'., 211 ide::i of who are wondering if that's foi: his or John Christ has b'Oen heard to we are, what Wf'> are, ar>.d how seems "Some persons resist efour benefit. JWust be for ours, as ·sav that the observatory is the forts to inform them; most of m we got here." b;st place for observing, stars.

Curt has a car. read what w~ 2re alrncdy familJohn D. Hicks, the· farrv~d h:sYou like it up there, huh Betty?

Pays, if a girl tells y>0u she iar with: we tend to read what What we v·ant to know is-is c2n't go because she hasn't a torian, h;is this to say about lrn;we agree with: we tend to interthing to wear," it's probably the tory. "History is so alive and Twinkle Toe's romance still ;;rowisg 1hat it is hard to srce ~.ow met information and argument truth. Their washing machine is twinkling? in wavs that bolsh:r on:nions al:anyone can think of it i:ls t ing Phyllis Heinke is now c,arrying broken. rea.r,y heH: it mi'.'ht simply haddead and dry It is a study nI 1;ie Girls, have you noticed that on a secret correspondence. What present, explained in terms of the •2.D existine: atitudes with out new, fresh look all o' the Delzell is this Phyllis? past. History 100ks forward, not d1i8Dging them." Not very flatQuite a Romeo on campus. Two men have had lately? Credit goes tering to our mental acuity? to the new shower system that back\vard; it is dynamic not .girls in one night. Ernie!. static."

It may be ;:;aid that history And the big cake comes up aThere is now a sqmrrel on \Vas in effect last Wednesday as is in reality an inverted pyramid gain. The girls get a great thrill third. Kay Phelps is using a pop you left the dorm. of events of the p·ast upon which in concocting <'it, the campus -By Diggins bottle for a water oun. present civilization is based. school people enjoy its spicy aroNewcomers to Peru are BeverA great deal of modern man's ma on baldng day, and the rest ly Rist from Humboldt, and Marin with Laura Lee Bosworth. knowledge has been sustained of us find it pleasant to dress up cella Fahrlander from Nebraska She's lm:t a roommate on that ac- through the years and. undoubt- and drink a cup of tea together City. Looks like they're both count every year. edly the civilizations of the fuwhile nibbling a bit of the hisbooked up.

Boys, we're short on lingerie. ture will benefit greatly from the toric cake. Perhaps some of us I want to leave all the girls intellectual and scientific contri- visualize colonial days when the with this little tip. If you are Bye now.

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Nor w2s ;it a "late kJve" in the Eliza Morgan interpretdion, either The W'.!sleyan College visitors came to the campus on Friday for their annual exchange convo.

They were good looking youths and pretty sweater girls who presented a gay hour of entertainment. Their Emcee was a Dennis the Menace grown up to college size who introduced himself with a flourish <:nd fairly overwhelmed us '.vith his versatility. He played the organ and the piano, he sang, he mimicked, whooped, told funny stories, waltzed with the mike, he laughed and he cried. In short he w.as the type who should event1'ally become a <:harnber of commerce promoter in Texas. He introduce'.) the other ta lent consisting of a small band ensemble, mntomime re.1din,e: and sing·ing, all very acceptably done.

His. stories. some in the category of the aged and retired, had new slants. Even the one about the cross-eved teach er (with malice aforethiought ·it would be a teacher in Peru) who sher1 her tears down her back had the conclusion that she required treatment for bacteriolcgy.

It was a good show and we had the feeling the youngsters were having a hilarious time showing ,off before ia new audience, and we hope Peruvians will be as happily accepted when they go to Wesleyan.

-By Mrs. J. W. Tyler

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ats Lose Two Close Ones o, Wesleyan and Kearney Fouls were costly .Fri:day night, ,ebruary 26, as Wesleyan topped .,eru 71-60 in Taylor gymnasium t Linooln. Not until the final zzer were the Plainsmen sure a victory. Hoag and Vrba kept ru in the game in the last half ting &6 and 57 per cent respecely.

Peru's full court press in the st half definitely threw Wesyan off balance as they threw e ball away numerous times. though the Plainsmen were eric with their ball handling, eru was worse with a 19-11 dlsdvantage in t'.:2.t respect.

The··Bohcats controlled the ball ost of t11e time and outscored ch Pehrson's boys from the· d 46-40 with a 46 per cent verage while W'esleyan could nly manage 35 per cent.

Lewis poured in 13 points for eru while Eckman and Vrba lliowed "rith 12. Fredstrom was igh for the winners with 21.

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It was the third ' quarter, a emesis all season, that put the uitch on the Bobcats again. ey had led 14-12 at the end of e first playing neri·od and 31at halftime, but gave the ball ay repeatedly in the third to able the visiting Antelopes to ke a 49-44 third quarter lead.

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Harry Meeker Harry Meeker, the: shorty from Mitchell, rounded un the sea.son Saturday night for ·arother year of varsity competition. His hustle en the hardwoods kept most of .the opponents on their toes as he «:·nsistently broke away for baskets.

Harry'·s two favorite shots are a long, two handed set .and a quick, lay-up. He makes up for his lack of height by his g.ood ba11-ha.ndling and quick thinl):ing.

He has shaa:ed the role of captain part of the year.

His scoring average is points; which puts him in upper bracket in the scoring umn. He hit 51 point9 friom chiarity line for a 63 per average.

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(Continued from Page 1) ing a bit over 98 pounds. D-Oc is the wearer of horn-rimmed spectacles; these make him 1ook a lot like a skinny owl witnout wings.

Doc likes people, but people dcn't seem to care for him too much. He has marks on his body where children throw stones at him and dtogs bite him. These occmances do not disturb the •doctor 'since he fancies himself a normal 20-year old red-blooded' American boy. This would be true if :all red-blooded American boys 1of twenty spent the first 19 years of their lives in dark musty fruit cellars, as he did.

No .cme ever takes the doctor e::iriously; if you can't laugh iwith him, you can always laugh at · him. Girls love the doctor; hes just the kind of fellow they ]Jaye to 'have at parties, so long as he ctoesn't come or leave with anyone. The doctor would like to :flnd a girl of his very 1own, one he c5uldr perhaps marry; but then he just isn"t the type; so every night he waltzes for hours with his paper calender girl. By the way, the picture .is a little tear stained, but then no one ever takes the Doc seriously.

The preacher is going to be married in the spring, but he doesn't care. I think he actuaily .Likes the diame. Preach reads a lot when he isn't, with his girl; this is to take his mind 10ff other women. · , Preach is also a great organizer, like the time last fall wb,en he single-handedly promoted the fund for a monument to the college president's pet mouse, Percy, after Percy suddenly disappeared.

The preacher is really going to be a preacher, you know, probably the only roommate that will succeed when college days are over.

Preach can't sing a· note, but somehow he ,manages to get the tenor leads in all the school operettas, choral programs, •and people keep asking l:rim to perform at wedding-s, churcti. services and parties. Oh \Well maybe folks, just like to suffer.

As far as ]ookirxg like a rxreacher, well Preach just doesn't look the part. In fact when he dons his gray trench coat you'd swear (pardon me, Preach) that he was a G-man or something.

The rast roommate is, of course, the athlete. He goes by trie name of Skid-Row. The other roommates call him Skid for short.

Skid is not a football hero type, but he is majoring in physicial education in college. The major that Skid is getting will allow

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hlm to coach all sorts ·of -sports in high school; and right along with this is Skid's favorite dream, teaching a course in girls locker room methods. I haven't ever heard of such 1a, subj.ect, but Skid says he',s 0 taFting one -as soon as he can.

By 1now I'll bet you're wondering why Skid-Row is called Skid !Row. It's· simple, He loves strawberry soda pop and is constantly ·drinking it, hence the name Skid.

I can't for the life of me understand how Skid looks so terrible the morning after he goes on one of his strawberry socl:a pop parties. I'll have to ask the doctor, he'11 know.

Skid is really a joker. Last winter little Skid set fue to the Dean'.~ home; isn't that a scream, hmmmm?

Eesi:des strawberry pop, Skid likes girls best of all, especralJy l\1r. E's girls. This is quite an interesting situation, but they are the best of friend's, nevertheless.

Now our cast of characters (and I do mean characters) is c.8mplete, ·Mr. B, Doc, Skid and Preach, these are the roommates 1of wide fame. Just because you haven't heard of them mea.ns nothing except that . you don't live on the first floor of the men's dormitory.

Early last winter, when the leaves had been burned for the last time, and every.one was .looking forward to ·the snow, study w1as the first thought of the men in the dormitory. It was late at m,ight when the first strains of a vaguely familar operatic theme began blossoming from the roommates' haunt. Vlas the doctor in pain agiain? W<is Skid too full 9f strawberry soda pop? Was \he preacher practicing or was Mr. B disguising his tal€llt a;gain? 1f we could h<>ve opened the door to the sleeping quarters of the roommates, w.e could have seen Skid standin::; atop the dresser singing b Mr. B lying on the floor in what looked like the poor man's Romeo and Jul1et. In the corner •Doc and Preach dueled with brooms until Macbeth was confused. Skid was wrapped in a b1ahket and a dus•t mop adorned his head. In 1a shrill voice he pleaded with Romeo (Mr. B) to sc.ale the dresser, all in melody of course. Mr. B, having undoubtedly found some of Skid's soda pop, couldn't even scale the floor upon which he was so pre.cadously p2rched. It w.asn't long before Macbeth had run the "sands of time" out on himself and Preach slew him; into bed, that i:s.

The next morning Mr. B bound.ed out of bed, fell f1at on his face, and ·craw.Led to the nearest mirror. "Ah Mr. B, yrou look ravishing this morning."

The preacher wasn't pre.sent.

He rises every morning at four just to stand guard while his bride-to-be sleeps. Quite practical I'd say, you never know when this country might be invaded.

Doc was busy trying to find his mouth with his tooth brush· he'd for.g_otten where it w&s evid,ently, because he brushed his ear twice.

Skid-Row as usual was rolled into a little ball •8f blankets sheets, pillows ai;d Skid. Ski::i doesn't snore; he just .groans.

This morning >Vas not unlil,:e any other morning with the Norn mates, but it was the start of a day of feasting. That night was to be the big formal dance. All the roomafos were going with all the trimmings, except the doctor, of course. He wasn't the type.

Besides, no {)ne would g.o with him. '.Che day passed quickly by and soon we find the room mates preparing themselves for a gay time. Skid, who had a blind date, was hitting the strawberry soda pop early tonight, for nerve, I guess. Mr. H was telling Mr. B thait he .should get a bit ugly tonight so the re.st of the fel1ows wouldn't have such a hard time holding their girls. The preacher hummed to himself as he fixed his tie, thinking about meeting his woman-he hadn't seen her in twenty miriute,s---and wondering if the committee he had or-

giainized to be in charge of clean~ ing the punch bowl was doing its duty.

Alas, poor Doc sat on ·the edge -of his chair engrossed in a very sdentific book, or I should say magazine, entitled, "Whalt You Should Know About Sex.'" Evidently he thought he had something to 1earn since the rest of the r.oomomates were going to the party <JJnd he wasn't.

Skid came in swinging a bottle over his head and declaring that this was the best ttrawberry soda pop he had ever tasted.

The preacher looked at him and .said: "Well, Skid, I'm glad .. you have finished your ppp. Now yiou won't get thrown out of the dance for drinking on the floor like · last year." "Oh, I don't know," laughed Skid, "I have :a. spare."

And he jerked the lai~gest bottle of soda P•OP- out of his jacket you ever saw. I asked Skid one day where he got all his money to buy •Soda pop with, and he said "I don't eat." Well, ask a dlly question ......

It's 'hard to say what happened at the dance, but after it was over the roommates stole silently back to their home. Mr. B op- ; ened the door to the darkened room and stepped in. A groan was hear-d and Mr. B stepped out again. Once mare he proceeded inward, only to be met with the .s:3me groan. He snapped on the Hght and there ion the floor was Skid; too much soda pop. Mr. B ha.d been stepping on his head hence. the groan. Needless to say'. all. this awoke Skid who informed Mr. ,B they were to have overnight guests. At that moment the door opened again and in walked two perfect stmngers.

They picked up Skid · threw him in bed, took off their' clothes and got in bed with him. This ,upset l\fr. B somewha,t since thev were all three in •one bed, but as he thought visions of cork smiews were da.ricing in their heads he passed it •off as just another of Skids little idiosyncracies.

As Mr. B was preparing for bed Preach came home, staring 2t the ceiling. As .always, he fell into bed muttering someth!ng about getting married. As always, fell. 2.>'~ep with his clothes on. .Just a.s Mr. B was about to turn off the light the doctor ·entered. He had a book on osmosis ar:l a t2st tub2 in one hand and ,a bottle of beer in the other. Doc, tock, test tube and beer crawld under the bed sn:l we!1t to s!eep. Doc always said it was "afer under 1Jhe bed in case of ~n air raid.

At last Mr. B ·extinguished the Llght .and settled back for a good: night's sleep and whistled a few measures of "Carmen" before he off,

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LUANG, PRABANG, LAOS-Curious natives of Luang Prabang, capital of Laos, gather to watch a French column that is resting at the side of a river. Advance columns of the Communistled Viet Minh rebels were hammering at the outlying defenses of Luang Prabang.

CLEVELAND, OHIO-Public enemies Beware! A new gun. toting U.S. Deputy Marshal was sworn in here. Miss Mary Jane Gale, 28-year-old beauty who recently tried and failed to become an FBI agent, is shown being finger printed by a federal employe.

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Every day ls cleaning day for the avt:nige h0us.,1r1fe and anythmg that will "lighten the load" An 18 year old high school senior, Beverly Jones of Ogden, Utah i:; welcomed with open arms ...• displays her prize winning pie. Beverly entered and won the 22nd For instance, attic windows, baseAnnual Cherry Pie Baking Contest held in Chicago over other cham. mei1t \\·rndows and garage winpion cherry pie bakers representing every state in the Union. dows are usually difficult to reach Beverly, who is an accomplished cook, used the following recipes l -yet always seem to be in need ,in her outstanding cherry pie: · of deaning This problem is now Filling For Two Pies 1 . easJly solved with a practical and i !Ai eup sugar 2 tablespoons lemon juice product obtainable '' ' mexf>~n:S1ve from your dime store. teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons butter . 1 cup cherry juice '.\ii teaspoon nutmeg Y1trophane, a plastic coated ~ cup cornstarch 4'13 cups red sour cherries w111dow covering which is applied ¥.i cup cherry juice Red coloring if needed d1re~tly to lhe glass, lends a frost.

NI effe<t or coloriul d.,sign to those Heat in a saucepan the sugar, salt, and one cup juice. Mix tot''out·Of·th<"-wa.y'' wmdows. The . gether cornstarch and remaining juice and stir into the fi.rst .n:ix'w1rido\\·s not only stay cleaner ture. Cook 5 minutes. Remove from heat and add lemon JUiee, · ,mlit•h longer pei'iods of time-but butter, nutmeg and coloring, if needed. Carefully mix in the wellWht>n they do get dusty, Vitradrained cherries. Pour into two pastry-line pie pans (recipe below). phane makes it possible for you to Moisten the pastry around the edge with water before placing the '. easily cl.-an them in only a few top pastry on pies. Trim off any surplus pastry and crimp. Bake · SE'<"0111fa by sm1ply 11·1p111g with a at 425°F for 30 minutes. damp cloth, . · • Crust For Two Pies A11other wav' to cut down on 3 cups sifted flour 1 cup Swift's Silverleaf Lard daily household cltanmg chores is l 1h teaspoon salt 1 egg to cover glass doors of utility 2 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons lemon juice cabinets and bookcases ll'Jth Vitro. % teaspoon soda 4 tablespoons water (about) phane. Not only 11·111 less frequent and easier cleaning be gained, but Sift into mixing bowl, flour, salt, sugar, and soda. Add lard and · the smart designs \I'll! help brightcut with a pastry blender until the mixture is in even bits no larger ~n arid bt:a ut1fy your home. than peas. Beat together in a bowl, egg, lemon juice, and water V1troµh11ne is translucent and and add a small amount at a time, to the flour mixture. Toss lightly · although it effectively blocks the with a fork after each .addition of liquid. Continue the procedure ' Vit"w from the outside (as most of until the pastry mixture is moist enough to form a ball when patted : us prefor to have for attic, pantry together. Divide the dough into 4 parts. Roll each part on a floured ' aud garngt- windows I it does not canvas to 'Is inch thickness. Line two pie pans with two of the ' pr<-v<?nt daylight from. coming circles. Cut remaining circles in 1h" strips for lattice-top. , through Ask the clerk at your local houst"wares counter for Vitropha11e to put an end to your "outof ·the-way" window wornes. ,

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Silver Medal Winner

FALUN, SWEDEN-Veikko Hakulinen, of Finland, is shown a~ he won the silver medal in the 30-Kilometer event of the World Ski Championships here. He then won the main ev.ent, the l~-Ki.lometer ! (9.3 miles) cross-country. However the combmed Nordic title was won by Norway's Sverre Stenersen, who was th,ird in t~e cros~­ country. Hakulinen led a field of 119 of the worlds top skiers. His time was 55 minutes, 26 seconds. Robert Pidacks,, of Ru~ford, Me., one of four Americans in the race, was 102nd "\Ith a time of one hour, 7 minutes and 21 seconds.

1.Juring the week of February 14, when the cars streak along famed Daytona Beach speed course to open this year's stock car racing season, there will f)e two winners-the first car across the finish line and your family automobile. ·

CHICAGO, ILL-Lee Holden Parker, 20, charged with the 'murder of 16-year-old Corrine Bai.dwin, appear·ed in Felony Court.

State's Attorney John Gutknecht asked the court to approve the murder charg(• against him and requeste(J a behaviour eJ.inic exam. ination. Judge O'Connell ordered the psychiatric examination and continued the case. Photo shows Pa"rker as he collapsed g·uing from the court room back to jail With him is D<·puty Bailiff Otto Marshall.

Wesleyan Convo aSuccess Each year the members of the Nebraska College Conference present convocations at the various schools of the conference. A group from Nebraska Wesleyan presented a delightful variety progl'am here in Peru Friday, March 5.

Master of ceremonies, Carl Hoon, performed well as a com >edian, musician, and imitator. Pie, on the organ, and Ruth Nelson playing the piano, comqine>,d to start the program by p[<iying a duet, the "Jamacain Rh.umba."

Next on the program was Erny Shipper, who sang "I Love a Lassie" and "One Alone." He was accompanied by an ensemble composed of Jarve Wright, Chuck Bagby, Bob Dapper, Larry Abken, Marian McClelland, <and Carl Hoon. The ensemble then played a modern .arrangement of "Shortnin' Bread."

Caroline Rudel and Thelma Brekke presented a pantomime named "Horatb" which was the story of a family e8ting dog tli.at burped.

The show then reverted once more to a musical level. A "trio of four" consisting of Darlene Allen, Judy Frandsen, Norma Rath, and Rita Lehr sang "Heart of My Heart" and "Heart and Soul."

Following the "trio," Caroline Rudd and Lon Hunter gave in pantorhime their impression of a young man <'alling ion a young Jady with a misrhievious dog as the third party. This number was appropriately named "The Boy, the Girl, and the· Dog." Joy Newberry then sang "All the Things You Are" 1and "Th1:; Old Black Magic" Carl Hoon gave a pantomime interpretation :of Mario Lanza singing "Be My Love," and also· one of Johnny Ray singing "Cry."·

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Peru Pedago 1an VOLUME XLIX

PERU, NEBRASKA, MARCH 29, 1954

NUMBER SEVEN

Come One! Come All! Be at Carnival!

·The Light of the Campus \

It's popcorn, peanuts •and cracker jacks, cause the carnival is movin' in. (So I've heard) From what I gather, the freshmen and sophomores have been pretty busy making preparations for the big day. So far, though, I guess matters are still in the form of committee meetins' strugglin' for new ideas and the like. ' I'm get.tin' kinda anxious to find out just what will be in the show. You know how it is .about this time :of the year-you get to hankerin' for new things to do Peru's representatives at the .and see. Well, I guess m.aybe th.is track meets are working out and will sorta help break the monotlook to be of the material that a ony. track coach could mold into a Word has gotten to me that sevchampionship team. The boys eral of the clubs here on the are ready to do their best at the campus .are gettin' all excited: indoor meet in Lincoln on March about their booths. All try to out26, even though they don't rate do the others, as I get it. Well a coach. Pitts, unfortunately for now, there's just nothin' like comtrack, is the football line coach petition to make each one do its .and as spring practice is here he best. Oh, say, 1 heard somethin' just isn't able to make it out for about a marriage booth, too. I both track and football practices. guess that ~ans that some of ~ince football is, for reasons, the these girls spor\in' diamonds most important, the boys :on the won't have to watt as long as track team will have to conceda they thought they would. to football for now. Maybe by the Some fella by the name of John ::J.ext meet Pitts will be able to be McMu1lin is in charge of the track coach and build Peru, a whole shin~"'ffs near as I can championship track team TOO. figure. Beinf"1s he's president :Flor now though, "Track is out." the sophomore class, that sort of: throws the load on his shoulders.

With a lot of help from the various committees I suppose he'll: get along just fine, though. It: sure takes a lot of cooperation to put somethin' as big as this over.

Last February 26 the White You chairmen have quite a reAngels put on their annual proHis great interest in music has Dr. Brown has taught classes gram in convo and literally "lad sponsibility too. bE'en concentrated in the study a·f Peru since 1929.

I'm sure lookin' fonvard to a them in the aisles." This year +he of the violin. Here he is shown He can handle a fly rod ably, big time on the 30th day of nature of the program was strictentertaining the students at a in 'additi:cn to being an instrucly that· of ui.tertaining. To be spe · March. (I heard that's the big tor. ' convocation. day.) I think I'll just run home , cific they presented a 3-D silent Peru State students, Mr. and movie in which Phyllis Constant now, <and get my best bib and Mrs. John Alden, Phyllis Davenhccker out of winter storage. I'll appeared as the heroine, Mike port, Phyllis Heinke and John Jet you know how it came out Hartzer! as the h~ro, Gerri Coen Christ, Jr., attended the national convention of Kappa Delta · Pi, · as the mothe: a:1d Donna De~0in in the next issue of this here as the vi'.i.;i:L The remaindar of paper. education fraternity, at Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., last the members of the organizaiion week. The Aldens took the Peru made up Lie c'.'iaracters in 1he. party in their car, leaving here recond ·s-.:cnc. 'l°l:ich took p1_ac2 m Wednesday morning and returnthe "recc•;<· t;ri«1l parlor." ing Sunday night.

The plot w&s typical of the ~i­ Early on the morning of March lent mo•1 :e 2ia. The villain dt'10 we, the undersigned, left Peru manded Ji:: relit money from the to attend the 19th Biennial Conpoor, stac\'in,o: n,_0ther and .1er0vocation :of 'Kappa Delta Pi at irre, who w tun, implored ihe Purdue University, West Lafayaid of t:i<.: .gri1h.tn~ hero who \vrs ette, Ind. As· we drove south toto be foJ1:·i h the local poo1 .ha':.

Loren Argabright, Peru State ward St. Joe, four of us com'The crisis came when hero and senior from Nemaha, has been plained continuously of near villain met-thus producing one presented a grnduate assistantstarvation-the fifth person, P.H., of the most teriffic scenes ever "Happy" was also a prominent member of this talemeu :;.0up; ship in mathematics at Kansas aggravated the others by remindto reach the screen, or stage, as one of his many extra-curricular activities.

University, according to Mrs. ing them every two minutes that in this case.

Myrtle Cook of the Peru matheThrougnout the "movie" the she had had a steak for breakfast. matics faculty. He will begin his After breakfasting at St. Joe, audience was forced to suffer induties next fall and will do part we drove through the state of ter\'als of waiting for "reel chantime teaching while working for Missouri ·on highway 36. We ges." Other high lights included an advanced degree. stopped at Hannibal, Mo., for a duet by Gwen Hays and Joan A 1950 graduate of the Nemalunch. It was after lunch that Briggs, a hillbilly presentation of ha High School, Argabright has John and John came to the con"You Are My Sunshine" by the been an outstanding campus citiclusion that the mule population entire organization and a Canzen at Peru State. An honor stuof Missouri had decreased. Ask can dance by the pool hall bel1es. dent, he also starred in the backthem why some time. field with the twice unbeaten While in Hannibal we aH enPeru Bobcats, has been a member joyed looking at the monument of the college chorus, held num~ of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn erous class and organization ofand viewing the site of the jail fices and this year was mmed to Solists, Instrumental groups, in which Muff Potter was imWho's Who 2.mong .Students in and a select band were featured prisoned.

American Colleges and Universiat the Eand Clinic on March 20.

We crossed the Mississippi and ties, the blue book of students.

Special groups included a flute sn0rt the afternoon driving across trio from Johnson and woodwind Illinois. We passed through quintette from Bellevue. Other Springfield, then Derator and finspecialties were a. flute and ally Chrisman, near the IllinoisD•. ,_;rnwn org;rnized the International .Relations Ln"" and French horn duet from Pawnee Tndiana border. We ate supper at. headed it for many years. He loved to provide the refreshmentsCity, and a trombone so'lo by "Swing Your Partner,'' "PromChrisman. cider and doughnuts from Nebraska· City.

Ronnie Noltenmier of Auburn. ena;de All,'' "Alamand Left," were We arrived at the Purdue camThe select band presented a After a serious operation last fall, Dr. Brown has finally consome of the phrases you heard pus at about 10 p.m. We went imconcert in the evening. The guest 1sented to take a vacation to recuperate. He intends to return to the Ernie Gross calling if you atmediately to the Purdue Memorial conductor was George Wilson of tended the Faculty Women's Club campus next summer. We, the students of Peru, sure miss the light Union where the meetings were the University of Missouri All School Square Dance. on to be held and where we had that has been missing since he went on vacation. Hurry back!

Th program presen}ed by the Wednesday, evening, March 24. room reservations for sleepingband consisted of tl;i.e fo Jlowing The Facu1ty Women's ciub whatever that is. numbers: invited all students and faculty If we could have. done nothing PRESENT 'HOLY CLTY' TO WASHINGTON Burst of Trumpets ..... Walters members to attend. Door prizes on the campus but explore this The P2ruvian SLgers, under 1\-fos Marguerit2 Haurr~n, Dean C0me, Sweet Death ....... Bach were given . and refre::hments the direction of Darryl Manring, building, the trip would have '·· Wom2n at Peru S!·t will be Appalacian Suite l . . . . Kingon were served.

7 been well worth while. It was i< sang "Tl,e Holy City" at the 'n. Y'. ashington, "'"' .~ ., i' 2 to Woodland Sketches .. MacDowell Mr. Grnss helped and g.ave in Presbyterian ch:; ch in Auburn tremend•ous building. One wing 1 ~- 1vhere she will c t meet- Hollywood Serenade . . . . . Davis structions on how to c' ance the last S;,nc?v 0 't 0 rnoon. R T. Benwas a guest hotel having 126 -,,. r-f: the J\'at;0,·al .A ,. cblion of Ballet Parisienne . . . Offen bacil various steps and squares. guest rooms. There were two adfor:1 was organist. ·ans rf Women.

Brasses to the Fore . . . . Walters (Continued on Page 3) Dr. Castle Brown, or "Happy,'' as he is affectionately called by the PJS.T.C. students, has endeared himself to them by his everpresent smile., and his sincere in~rest in their problems.

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Attend Convention·

l<appa Delta Pi

Argabright Wins Graduate Assistantship

Band Clinic

Square Dance

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Peru P edagogiah Published Semi-monthly During the School Year by Nebraska State Teachers College at Peru

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Student Feature

Dust Pan

This week we are introducing Joan Reimers, a blue-eyed blonde from Julian. Joan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Reimers, as a graduate of Auburn High Sch0"L

The White Angel Banquet was 0Uite a success. If you didn't notice, Dorothy Tucker made all The victims or, honored those teriffic place cards. The members featured in this issue gals in the kitchen and the peothe Peru Pedago;:;ian are of ple who took care of the tickets allel positions. They are our and programs deserve a h8nd too. birds of the dorms. (Enter So far I haven't heard of "Ugly pets.) fi1ay ·Ne recognize Man" Vice taking advantage of Marguerite Haugen and Mr. any of his privileges. rell Wbineer!

Once upon a time there was aJ .e:irl and a boy who went on a hay ride. No hay, no hayrack, no horses. What is this, Edie and Ron? Ned Eckman has been busv this nast week. He's bee'1 in th~ cafeteria every day with Barb.

Burket Lewis has been having a pretty gay time! too.

The girls on second flnor have deaned 1rn. Tt's now known as Sanitary Second.

Gerri Corn has a new gleam in her eyes lately. Du came back.

You'll probably be seeing Mr. Peacock around for a few weeks.

There must be .a big attraction in Lincoln this weekend. Five girls are hot-f<Joting it up there.

Be careful, John.

Miss Haugen' Ring, ring-no, that isn't the Miss Haugen hails from Montelephone. Same story un here tana. She hold'.l a B.A. deegree at the dorm. Barb Davis and from th~ ..Uni~ersity ~of l\l[ontana Mary Lee Campbell are both m arts ~nd .s\ence . .:ohe obtained sporting new diamonds. Congrather masters degree from the Unulations, girls. iversity of Nebraska in Education Falls City was booming last and Psychology. week. A little party, I hear tell. .Some of her background exThere'!". news about another high schcol teachnarty at the girls' dorm. How er, ch · rvice employee, three does that sound for a little fun? years spent in South America There'11 be a big. time at the with a coal mining com:)any, 40 Carnival again this year. There months as a wartime officer in will be a kissing booth md a the Women's Coast Guard Remarriage brioth-bv popufar deserves. :md three vears in Okimanrl. Rodger Majors will have nawa and Japan. Surely she can relate many an interes1.in,~ tale a nice time, no doubt. It's down on record that he was at the ki s- eoncerning any one of these. in?; booth more than anyone else.

Dean Hmcgen came to Fern in Have you he8r·d of the butcher July, 1953. She has ruite a task of being housemother. to so many who backed into the meat ::rrinclgirls. But she h<;s accomplished er 2nd got a little behjnd in his much in the time she has been work?

Bve now with us, rnd is s,lill putting forth Sweeper her r.fforts for 1 betb· P.S.T.C.

Robert Barge

AssKJciate Editors .... Clifford Stoke's, Delores Smith Feature Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marcy Fahrlander News Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Phyllis Constant Sports Editor .................. Nels Overgaard, Jr. Make-up Editor .................. Mary Ann Fuerst A:sst. Make-up Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Luanne 'Blessie Organization Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Junior Weichel Business Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reggie Speak News and Feature Writers: Bob Adams, John Ahrens, Merritt Dodson, Phil Fahrla~der, Mervil Miller, Ervin Parmenter, Howard Ulin

Editorial

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The women coaches of :i.11 the i 'State co11egP~ have risen in defia! •ce of an article recently publtshecl in the Omaha WorldHnald, which favored' women's t·c.sketball on an interscholastic bJsis. After meeting at Lincoln to discuss the problem, they voted against it unanimously.

The following :fiacts were gathered together as a re.suit of this meeting· 1. Girls are now given opportunity· to participate in a wide variety of &oorts, individual and team, which are base l on the r:ted:s and interests of the participants.

2. The sports prognnr gives .the oppor'-unity to develop interest and •ability in activi.ties which are recreational and hav'e carryover value.

3. Sports instruction 8rid participation should be m1de available to the unski1Ied player as :wcli as to the skilled.

4. Adequate .safeguards are 'furnished to protect the health .•and ·welfare of the players.

5. The leadership provided maintains standards conducive io social and suiritual growth as well as physical safety and wellbeing.

As brought ·out in the platform of the NSGWS, the authority for approva1 of physicl education activities involving women students shall rest with the departments of physical educaf.ion for women. This includes

Joan Reimers intramural and extramural activities, such ;as play days, demon.stration games, telegraphic meets, dance symposia, and performances and demonstrati~ns by special groups. The NSGWS also states that competition on an informal basis should not be confused with varsity-type competition, •and further adds that college women should not participate as: (a) Members ·Of men's athletic teams; (b) In touch football exhibition games, or activities of a similar nature ( c) Either with or against men in activities such as basketball, touch football, speedball, soccer, hockey or lacrnsse; ( d) In tourn2ments and meets organized · primarily for competition and the determination of championships at success.,/ ive'\y high levels. · ' The women felt that introducing girls' basketball on an interscholastic basis would have many bad results. Among them would be: over-emphasis on winning, umportsmanlike conduct, too many games being scheduled and contests played in bad weather or between unequal opponents, If the above reasons stand, then why are they i.e:nored when it comes to boys' <:1thletics? Is it because there is no concern for their welfare. or the fact that the public remands their exhibitions?

It may be that the women coaches came to their decision because· they did not want the samP thin:; to happen in womens' athletics.

Letter to the Editor . . • Dear Editor: As I was sitting in the auditorium the other night watching play practice, I coulrln't help noticing the ~ad looking stage curtains and cyrlorama. The back drons are water-stained, the blue curtain is faded and full of holes, and the dark m8roon -0ne is dusty, faded and very worn.

Is there any money available, ·or •a funrl prnvided to take care ()f this situ ati on?

Phvllis Constant Student

Dear Phyllis: After interviewing the Presl~dent of the Co11eP'\'. I must rFmort that there is no fund available to oope with the situRtion. President Gomon staterl tho.t thi~ tyne of problem his developed out of the lax attrnclance at plavs and other activities. Hr b<>lievPs th8t it will be two or thrre yP2rs bf'fore this problem can be taken carr of bv the overall co11rP-e bnr1e:et. He said that it must be realizerl th 0 t the burle:Pt won't cover everv+hini:;, ano hrouP'ht. rl11t the fad thot the trainimr ><'hool is faced with the same problem.

A po~sib1e solution which he '' snP'f""<ted was th~t of a studentorganizoo eampaign for raising

funds. The present public address system was acquired in this way, and it might also be a means of securing new curtains for the auditorium. Some of the campus organizations might at least think about it. Otherwise, we will just have to wait until the budget can take care of the matter.

Editor

Scholarship Change Peru State College students who are holders of scho1arships granted by the Board of Education for State Normal Schools received a windfa11 last Saturday when the Board, meeting in Lincoln, voted to make the recently liberalized benefits retroactive and extend them to present holders now in college.

This will mean that the present scholarships will be worth $60 per year, or an amount sufficient to pay one-half the cost of a11 tuition, fees and books for a student at Peru.

iFather: Don't you think our son gets his intelligence from me?"

Mother: "He must, I still have mine."

As a freshman Joan chose history as her major, with English .and social studies as minors. She also became a member of the White Angels, and joined the Home Economics Club and the Y.W.C.A. .

Debating consumed much of her time when she became .a sophomore. With n'o high sc]Jol experience she became a member of Peru's debate team, which she t1bund interesting and challenging. But the highlight of Joanie's sophomore year was being elected Homecoming Queen, during one of Peru's most spectacular football se<.·sons.

During her junior year she became nresident of the Gavel 1and !Rostrum. Ch:b, and ·served as hlfiness manage:- on the PeruvianStaff.

Although Joan has attended. ?eru three years, she is now a oenior, because of her enrollment in two summer sessions. Besides continuing her membership in White Angels, she has also been an active member of the Drametics Club. Foreign Lan~ruage Club, 1nternati.onal Relations Club, aiid Sigma Tau Delt,a. .Joan likes to p1ay bridge and read, and also enjoys eating pizza and playing the piano.

Her pet peeve is girls in general. · After graduation she intends to teach for a few years, then return· to school for a master's degree.

Some time within the next ten years Joanie hopes to get married.

It's That Time Spring is just around the corner. Ah, yes! Spring is the time -of ye8r when all the girls blossom forth and a11 the boys turn green. To put it another way; Spring is the season .wMn Mother gives you trees and flowers after P'iving you the bird all winter.

Cynics will teil you that Spring is no different from any other season. It's sort ·of like Marjlyn Monroe. It has the same elements as the others but the arran<:>:ement is more pleasing. Be that as it may, most cats go real crazy over Springtime.

Spring seems to affect everyone, even the instructors. They don't give easier assignments, but they yawn while they give them.

The students at PSTC all have spring fever. Just the other day a student W8S sleening in class and a fly lit on his nose. The student was so lazy that instead of .swatting the flv he just wiggled his nose uniil the fly got dizzy and fell off. It is also not uncommon to see ~tudents do7!ng on the camnus. This is all riP-ht, excent for the fl0ck of buzzards they have attracted. One has

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Dirt Sprinr< has done it again. Y0s, I've seen a new diamond flashing around the r. 0 mnus. C0ngratu1ations to yon Curt 2nc'I JI.fay.

Have you heard anythinr: about the Kappa Delta Pi convention that some 'Of our stuc1ents attended? Understand Jots of things hapnened. An Angel from west of here even flew to Peru to entertain a crrt 0 i'1 party. How about that, Phyllis?

This Column nominates the Dean of Women as "the hardest nerson on the campus to find."

Now j.ust what keeps her so busy?

We to are wondering.

All unattached residents of Eliza Morgan Jiear this. There is a cerbin eliP'ible man, on third Df Delzell, who is looking for comnanionship. Interested? With Co-Ed week coming soon, this mie:ht be your chance.

Via grape vine I have been informed that the two o'clock Government class has a new look. But men; yoB. can't all sit on the fr.ont row.

Understand Co-eds have been divided into two species; those who shut their eyes when kissing, and those who look to see if you do. Which divisi1on are you in girls?

With all the dirt we had on !March 12th to supplement this, will sign off for now.

-Diggins

been following .me for a week.

Seriously, Spring is a beautiful season. The flowers bloom :in all their splendor, the s-0ft breezes geatly caress the trees, the world is bathed in sunshine and color, the-Oh, horsefeathers!

Spring fever has got me. It'3 time for my nap.

Mr. Wininger Darrell Wininger is the keeper of the boys dorm, but somehow finds time to teach classes too.

As if that isn't enough, he is working on his third masters degree.

Mr. Wininger was born in Independence, Kans., September 19, 1920. He graduated from the Independeoce Junior College. Other colleges he has attended are Kansas State and Colorado State.

Before coming to Peru Mr. Wininger had held postions at Baker University, Kansas State Teachers College and as superintendent of schools at Lovewell, Kans. Mr. and Mrs. Wininger live at the Boys' dorm. Their Jittle son "Ditto," about 16 months old, is frequently seen running gaily about with the family pet, a black cocker spaniel, tagging him. Wonder if Ditto has half a chance of being spoiled with so many students around him?

'Tis far better to have loved a short guy than never to have loved a tall.

igh School orts Banquet Held rThe high school's annual All orts Banquet was held Thurs'. y, March 11 in the high school · ch room. This banquet is held · honor of all the high school 'hletes, and includes football, . sketball, track and volleyball. iBefore the banquet it is cusmary to choose a king, queen, rince and princess to rule over e festivities. This vear the king · d queen were Glen Heywood hd .Jean Ruyle, while Shelby · inningham and Nancy Taggart •ere chosen .as prince .and prin; ss. The coronation cermony was 'resided over by Dick Corwine ' d featurE';,d number.s by Duane cKnight and the high school .. rls' trio. ; The banquet hall was decorated • purple and gold, and the royal · enu comisted of a steak dinner ith all the trimmings. Highghts of the program were Jhe 'resentation of athletic awards, d a speech by Dr . .Janetos.

The banquet was climaxed by dance in the high school aud.orium.

;eru Will Hear 'alph Nielson ocncert of song with the lchestral touch is announced for hursday, April 1, when Peru tate College presents the brill. nt mid-western tenor, Ralph ielson. The Marlinn String Trio, .piano, violin, cello), assisting ar'sts, will supply the instrumental ackground.

Basketball Review

(Continued 1rorn Page 1) joining ball rooms where our meetings were held. All of the Purdue Alumni offices were housed here. AU of the extracurricular activities. had their headquarters in · this building.

These included the railroad club, glider club, photography club, to mention only a few such organizations. All of the campus publications originate in the P.M.U. The pool room and the 15 bowling al1eys are popular with the students. Of course, there were places in the building to eattwo cafeterias, .a coffe shop, the sweet shop, and the Chestnut Room. In the Tower Room the students have a Penthouse nite I coke) club. All of this, arid more make up :this extremely interestlng building.

The meetings started Thursday morning with registration and ct r:;ras.on. general session. The meetings Peru looked good in the next were presided over by Dr. Kath!'\ame while beating Omaha U. erine Vickery. Alabama College, Fans started looking forward to a Montexa.llo, Ala. i:tood seasnn as the Bobcats were At noon, all of us Peruvians locking. better, anrl bad their :ittended a luncheon iµ the rnorth h0nes further elevated when the ballroom. Jri the afternoon we at'irst g•ame with Charlron was won tended committee sessions, and a in a tight contest. Chadron wcin general session, which in turn th" ~rconrl nie-ht which rrave Peru was followed by a tea given to a 1-1 conferen~e .recorr1. A fatal the visitors by the Purdue chapoJump ruined the team's hones as ter of Kanna Delta Pi. Thursday they lost the next sevim in a row, evening we attended the square wo~ <One ai:rainst Doane, <1nd Inst dance given for all Kadelphians. the last five for .a {'rmference Friday was another day of comrecord of 2-14 which left them mittee meetings and general sesdreo in the NOC cellar. sion~. However, interest and tenThe overall record for the seasion was· bui1ding up as student son wasn't as bail 1lS the conferopinion was expressed in opposience record indicatPs, with the tion to that of the executive Bobcats winning 8 for 26 for a oouncil, and a small rollege dele31 ner cent averarre. gate exnressed his idea in ,oppo1\op scorers for the season were sition to the idea exnressed by Eckman with 281, Meeker 149, the universitv delegate. In no i:,owe 145. and T"ewis with 120. time at all the delegates found Vrba m2de JRfi and Wacrner 191. themselves thorou2"hly confused With the loss of ·onlv two sen·because they werP fared with the iors the Bobcats ~h011ld be back problem of amending the emendi.n the thick nf the title fight ment ito the amendment to the n<"xt year. Although Hoag anrl substitute amennent to the aHolmes will hf> missPd i!reatly, mendm~nt. Can you follow this? their snots should be filled bv this Friday afternoon the host chapvear's unrler!!rads. Cnach .Johnson ters provided an interesting tour is h~ving snrinff or~r+ice for nonof the campus. The Music Ball football r>lavrrs, which shouH' biulding proved to be the most '·nnrovp the s'"uad measureably interesting bull ding ·on this tour. before next fallFriday evening the Convocation Com netition will be keen on banquet was held, and it provided next yr>ar's team. which should the highlight of thP entire convomakP for a winning srarnn and cation. The program was opened nossibly an NCC championship. bv the Purdue University Men's Glee Club. This group of 58 voices was exceptionBl. We enjoyed immensely the numbers that were going to be recorded with Dinah Shore, and the sel!'ctions they were to sing the next President Neal S. Gomon told week for President Eisenhower. members of the PPru sta+e ColThe annual lecture was given lege policies committee Tuesday

by Dr. V.T. Thayer, visiting nromornine- that the artion of the fessor, University uf Virginia, city council Monrlav nir!ht in who spoke on "Public Education :authorizinrr the preoara+ion of and Its Critics." netitions and thus nlacing the isAfter the banquet, we all atsue of harrl-.surf Peed streets tended a dance given by the Wescquarely Up 10 the citizens of the ley Foundation of Purdue. community is a forwari! looking Saturday morning, the impor~tep desired by the college adtant business of the Convocation ministration and board for sevwas enacted. The group voted to era1 :rears. raise the grade-point require"Twenty-five or thirty blocks ments for membership. They also of surfacing at this time shoulr:i voted to place a student on the completely revise the whole tone executive counci1 with full memof the community," PrPsident Gobership privileges. They allotted mon said. "The people of the $75 ,000 for the purchase ·of a state ha,Je invested more than permanent home for the organia h11lf million dolhrs in the last zatron. It was also agreed to few years to bring the campus '1lJ match $2,500 given by a member to par. The citi7ens of the com- of Kappa Delta Pi who wished to munity whose largest ·enterprise remain anonymom toward a felis the college now have en oplowship fund for an American pc;-tunity to keep faith with, the Kadelpian to study in some other NPrmal Board and other citizens country. of the state."

The final luncheon was held "The college has a financhl Saturday noon. At the lumheon stake in this project, too, ina.swe students from Peru had the much as the proposed paving dlsplasure of meeting Dr. T. C. Mctrict abutts SP.\'~ral l:b·ks o-t> c0lCracken who had installed our lege property. A :thvegh some chapter of Kappa Delta Pi in members of the council and oth1929. ers attending the meeting exWe arrived home early Sunday pressed doubts about the willir.gevening. We all c<1me home with ness of some citizens to go along a greatl'r app~edation of our orwith the project, the decision of ,ganiz1tion tha'l we had realized the council to authorize petiti<ms possibk We realized not only the will give a real opportunity !or vast sc0pe of our organization as people 'to ' stand up and be ·a corporation. counted.' After this petition has Signed: Phy'llis Davenport been circulated we should have a Phy11is Heinke pretty good idea of those willing Ila Alden fo support Peru as a town with John Alden a future as well as a past."

John Christ, Jr.

'The Bobcats won their first two games and with them the Tri-State Tournament. They beat Tarkio the first game and came back to beat Simpson for the championship.

The next encounter \\"as at Quincy, Ill., where they met \vith their first loss. Three more defeats were administered at Carb8ndale (Southern II lino is), Franl,fort (Kentucky State), and Nashville, Tenn., (Fisk). This ended a disasterous road trip for the Bobcats. They bounced back the next game with a win over the Alumni. Defeat was again encountered in the first round nf the Christmas tournament at Tsrki0. Coach .Johnson's team came back the second night 8nd trounced .Simoson for consolation honors in what probably was to ly; 1he best pTayed game ,of th~

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Ralph Nielson trio will p'lay music by ·orak, Debus'Sy and others, and . r.angements of familiar folk . ngs. They will accompany alph Nielson in selections by ande1, Strauss, Grieg and Cres'n. Of special interest will be '.e first performance in this area · the song cycle "Everything and . ything," a group of nine childn's poems by Dorothy Aldis, set music bv the American com'ser, EI1a;ose Halloran.

IThe concert is scheduled for 0 p.m. at the college auditor-

ard Limits his' Athletics .The question of the status of · petitive gir Is; basketball i:l State Colleges was cleared up turday when members of the 'te Normal Board, meeting in coln, approved the unanimous · ommendaitons of the college sidents conoerned not to field '·men's intercollegiate teams in sport. e decision was based on re. mendations of the several '. ional and state organizations f:directors of women's physical : cation, Peru State President ·· 1 S. Gomon said Monday. ,, r. Gomon stressed the fact ''t the ru1ing applies to inter'.egiate competition only and ., hasized that at Peru the proof intraschool sports for will be continued and prob,. will be strengthened.

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r..""""' noyer presenting "Nails" Vice with "Ugly Man" award :at the Basketball Banquet.

There are kings and there are kings, but none can compare to the most recent one on Peru's campus. The one I speak of is Merle (Nails) Vice and he has one of the most unusual distinctions ever given to one person. He has recently been voted the "Ugliest" man .on the campus.

On Friday, March 12, fina.1 cam-

paigns were held and the ballots were cast. It nas a tough decision but "Dirty Merls" won out. He was awarded his title at the basketball banquet Monday, March 15.

Few people have ever received an honor with Slj,Ch pride! Yes it certainly was a red letter day in the eyes of one-"Ugly Man."

H.S. Jun;ors Pres~nt 'Thellnn~r Willy'

The High School junior class was to have presented "The Inner Willy" March 25, in the college audit'.'rivm, but because of the sudden illness of Nancy Taggart it w.8s postpcned. Jt will be presented in the near future.

This is a cDmedy in three acts, the plot centering around Willy, a shy 16 ye~r old boy, and Inner Willy, his inner self. Willy has lived his entire life under tlw sheltering, loving care of his three ·old maid 8Unts. Through courage afforded him by his inner self

Willy blooms into an average sixteen year old, a.nd takes the girl of bis dreams to a school dance.

Characters .of the p'1ay are: Willoughby Adams, David Longfellow; Inner Willy, R.ex Filmer; Aunt Hester, CR.rol M jors; Aunt Olga, Ethel Nincehelsn; Aunt Tcouise, Janet Coltrin: Mike, Jim .Tones: Stanley Clark, Sid Brown; i\T8rybel1e Turner. B0tty Reeves; Tru::ly Marshall, Helen Walker; .fan~t Marshall, Marv Lou Mor.c.·an: c;.n,rol Martin, Nancy Tag0

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The $OCOnd of a series of articles dealing with the courses taught iat Peru will discuss the at the Cornhuskers Girls' State English Department of Peru State.

The English Department at in Lincoln June 6-12. She will be· sponsored ·by the Paul Phelps Peru is headed by Robert D. Unit of the American Legion Au~ Moore, who received his A.B. at East Central' State Teachers Col~ xiliary.

To qualify :Dor Girl's' State, the lege, located at Ada, Okla., and girl must be a junior in , high he received his M. Ph., at the school, be in good health, of good University of Wisconsfo. Mr. character, in the upper half of Moore ~.as continued in the Engher class scholastically, have lish field with graduate study at qualities of leadership, and be the University of Iowa and the able to take back to her commun- ·- c'dlorado State College of Eduity the sense of responsibility ,in cation at Greeley, Colo.

Also in the English Departgovernment which it is expected ment is James D. Levitt, who reshe will gatn, Girl's State was J:naugurated ceived . his A.B., from Eastern Verdon's One-Act Play in Nebraska in 1939 and is an ef- State Qollege at Charleston, Ill. fort on the part of the Legion He received his M.A., from the Approximately 150 high school Original Orotory Auxiliary to bring to the girls of University of Denver. students from southeast NebrasClass A the state a knowledge of the Another member of the departka spent a busy day on the Peru Patricra Brow:n, ;f'latts'.mouth9 fundamental principles of Amerment is Dr. Ben Collins, who reState campus on Tuesday of fast Superior, ican government, through actual cently came to Peru. He has disweek as they participated in varClass B practice and control of the state closed worthy skill ·in his classious events staged in connection Harold Christy, Brock, Superior. offices during Girls' State week. room _work and in extra-curricuwith. the District 2 declamatory Radio Newscasting lar activities. Dr. Collins is the contest sponsored by the NebClass A · faculty sponsor of the Pedago~ xaska School Activities AssociaWalter Lange, Nebraska City, gian, the campus paper. · tion. Robert D. Moore, Peru State Superior, Clarence Wilkinson rounds out faculty member in charge of the Class B Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grindle the English Department. Mr. Wilevent, said that the number takGerald Terhune, Humboldt, Exentertained informally last Sat- kinson received his A.B., from ing part was greater than in rece!.lent. urday evening after the Peru Nebraska :State Teachers College cent years and that,. in his opinOne Act Plays State Band cli:nic and Festival at at Chadron, a11d his M.A., from ion, the quality of the events was Class A the college auditorium. Guests the University of Denver. markedly improved.

Nebraska City and Tecumseh; were the conductor, George C. Participating schools were di- Superior, 'Do get the opinion of one of 1 Wfison of Missouri University, vided into two classes, A and B, Falls City and Plattsmouth, ExV. H. Jindra, Mr. and Mrs. Darryl the members Qf, the English Deas determined by the size of the cellent.

Manring and their guests, Mr. and partment as to how great a part ,schools. Judging the events were Class B Mrs. Arthur Scheppe! of Pawnee English plays in the life of a perMr. Moore, Dr. Ben Collins and Brock Oakland and Verdon, City, Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Benford son and how it helps him, the James Levitt, all members of the Superior, and Patricia, Miss Norma Diddel, Pedagogian interviewed 'Mr. WilPeru State Division of Language Humboldt, Salem and Honey kinson, who when asked~~ what · Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Chatelain, Arts. " Creek, Excellent, and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Complete results of the contest Shubert, Good.

Stroupe. Besides the opportunity fo11ow. Quality of entries was for visiting the1 enjoyed hearing judged superior, excellent, good the recording which Mr. Manring or fair in that order. · had made of the band concert Humerous Readini:they had heard an hour prevThe !oral branch of A.A.U.W. Class A iously. honored senior women of college Jane vvherry, Te..:;:unseh, Superior and high school with their anPatricia McGuire, Falls City, and Betty Jo Park~r. Nebraska City, nual party on Thursday evening, March 18, in the Home Economics Good. room. Mrs. Darryl Manring, Mrs. Class B Tom Majors, Misses Edna Weare Gerald Terhune, Humboldt, Suand Cleo Kelly had transformed perior, The appointment of Mrs. Peter '' the room into a Epringtime scene .Harold Barnhart, Brock, and with qu'artette tables spre.ad with Janetos as temporary instructor Ralph Grey, Honey Creek, Expastel linens and centered with ·in Social Sciences at ·Pleru State cellent, was announced Monday by Prestall white tapers with base decorRaymond Lape, Salem, and Erident Neal .S. Gomon. She will ations or rainbow tinted sweet ma Fisher, Shubert, Good. peas which turned out to be take over classes formerly taught Dramatic: Readings colonial nosegay corsages. Flower' by Dr. Castle Brown, head of the Class_ A .11 decorated place cards, 'doubling Social Sciences Division, who has Harnett leer, Tecumseh, Superas score cards, marked places for been granted sick leave until THERE ARE OVER. 490, 000, 000 U.S. ;ior, members and guests. The hostessSILVER DOLLARS IN ClilCUl.AilON TODAY! the first of June.

Susan Mitchell, FaUs City, Joyce 'THERE WAS A TIME WHEN A MAN SAVED es served a· desse.rt in pastel colMrs. Janefos holds A.B., and Carlisle, Nebraska Clty, ExcelHIS SILVER DOLLARS 1'5 HIS SOLE SODRCE ors and coffee in orchid flowered OF INSURANCE FOR iHE FUiL!RE. M.A. degrees from the Univer-, lent, cups.

TODAY, WE KNOW THAT PURCHASING sity of Nebraska and has held Ella Mary Nielsen, Plattsmouth, V.S. SAVINGS BONDS IS THE President Alma Ashley welteaching positions at the Omaha Good.

6EST /NSl/RANCE FOR THE FUTURE! comed the guests and called atNorth High School and at the Class B University 1of Nebraska. She is Ruth Brown, Oakland, Superior, tention to. the booklets they had been presented which contained the wife of Dr. Peter J@etos of Kay Quante, brock, Jim Frey, the Peru State Education faculty.

Roney Creek, Martha Irwin, Sa-. a brief history of the national organization and its present oblem, Joanne Vice, Shubert, Exectives.

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For entertainment there were Poetry Reading bridge <ind canasta games. In the Class A Cecelia Witty, Nebraska City, former Mrs. Harold Boraas won high score and Mrs. Ross Adams E.xcellent, low, while in car.asta Mrs. BeA banquet honoring newly inJoAnn Schietel, Falls ,City and atrice Ahern was high and Mrs. itiated members of Epsilon Pi Marvidene Shown, Plattsmouth, Geraldine Straw low. Miss Norma Tau, honorary Industrial Arts Good. · Diddel drew the door prize. fr:aternity, was held Friday eveClass B Since January graduates were ning in the Campus School cafeGlenda Klein, Humboldt and included in the guest list three teria.

Robert Moore, Peru, 'superior, YoLmg w-6men drove some disBueford Rickman, president of Kay Wittwer, Salem, Go.od. tance in the face of grim weather the Peru chapter, acted as master Discussion warnings to attend the function of ceremonies. Guest speaker was Class A -one coming from Crete. SpeciaL Paul E. Seidel, Deputy State SupJ<anet Kalasek, Plattsmouth, Suinvited guests were Mrs. Neal erintendent ·Of Public Instruction perior, 1 .!\ Gomon, Mrs. Harold Boraas and who spoke on the subject of "Ed~ Judy Cole, Nebraska City, and Mrs. Lester Downing. ucation in Industrial Arts."

Patricia Brown, Plattsmouth, Miss Betty Hogue furnished Excellent. , ii entertfiinment in the form of sevClass B '> eral vocaX selections. She was acWilliam Brown, Salem, Superio;. companied by Miss Bever1y Rist Extemporaneous Speaking Ila Alden, Bob Barge and J .D. of Humboldt. · Class A Levitt recently represented Gavel Larry Steadman, Falls City, Suand Rostrum at a Uni.versity o! perior, 1 Nebraska Debate Tournament.

Class B i They observed debates by teams from Midland and the University Robert Moore, Peru, Superi~r.

Ann Fellows, a Sophomore, Interpretive Oratory of Kansas and attended a demonwas elected president of the Nestration 1of parliamentary proceClass A braska Home Economics AssoJohn H. Shipman, Falls City, dure after a luncheon in the ciation of College Clubs at the Student Union. ;Superior, annual state convention in LinThe Gavel and Rostrum Club Class B coln, on March 13. has received an invitation to preJ·ohn Hanna, Honey Creek, Susent an assembly program at Teperior, Miss Fellows, who is a Home cumseh High School. This proHazel Lugenhil1, Humboldt, and Economics major, made the trio gram has been scheduled for Fri- to Lincoln with Miss Edna Weare Claudette Stumbo, Salem,··· Exday, March 19. · cellent.

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ways a course in college Engl' helps a student, said: English is a utilitarian su ject. It is not ornamental. It useful to everybody. English a tool subject because you it in learning, because ever thing you learn you learn words. English also helps you report what you know, either writen words •Or by speaking.

Mr. Wilkinson continued: No where ever you go people ju you by little things, such as way you dress, your manners your general appearance. Ho ·ever, one cf the chief metho by which.,a person is judged by his speech, by what he sa and how he says it. EngHsh a helps a person by facilitating hi in directing otli.ers. As a fin point Mr. Wilkinson said t many post-graduates often wi they had paid more attention.

English courses in under-gradu ate work.

English courses help the post graduate in obtaining jobs afte college.. Many graduates contin ue in the English field either i teaching or in journalism or else where in the English field.

In journalism there are man proof reading jobs and many jo writing for papers and magazin and otherwise in the literar fie1d a per,son can write and pub lish his own works.

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Ralph Nielsen and the Marlinn rio entertained the stuoents, aculty, and public at PSTC's uditorium April 1.

"The brilliant lyric tenor, R8inh 11.1#.~?<°mW>'ll'I'~~-~'~~-----------------------------~-------------ielsen, began the serious s~v:y NUMBER EIGHT PERU, NEBRASKA, APRIL 13, 1954 VOLUME XLIX f music in 1946 1a!:ter fotcr ith the Army Air Force::. started to sing profes:;i.c:::. :y ~aster lmost immediately-a ra"c' 1: · erience fo a field strewn The Y.Vf.-Y.M.C.A::is planning ore than the us1w l an East2r Service. Jt was brought bstacles. He enrolled at the A:nup at tl1e l:ast meeting and is rican Conservato;ry of 1:'1anr:ed for 6:30 on the morning published ,and beci9mes a best "Lady of Letters," a comedy in f which he is now a graciuate /tpril 15. This is the Thursseller. Frightened at the possible three acts by .. Turn2r Bullock, nd faculty member. before Easter Vacation. cr.nsequence, Adelaide resolves has been sellcted by Mr. Moore Equally at home on the conce;·t IL is hoped that the Peruvian to be the spring production sp~o·n- · to keep her secret and bluff it out.

10. tage, in radio, oratorio and She becomes the darling and Singers will assist in presenting sored by the dramatics dep~rt­ soloist with symphony orchchief object of interest . to the t11e program. It is planned to be ment. Tryouts for the play were stras, Ralph Nielsen has b:211 snobbish college circle .which had hc.ld in the upstairs room of the held ih the Little Theater March eard on more than eight hunMusic Hall. There was some de29 and 30. From the group that hitherto spurned her. Her lightest red radio broadcasts over all 0£ word is interpreted as an utterbate about having the meeting tried out the following cast has tc1J'-;~, b2:n he major networks and local ance of genius and her fame out of door but it wa:; thought been selected: Joan Reimers, n1iscellane0us nu1n:stations. He has starred many raises the obsure little school to tb:it it would be easier to have Bevecly Rist, Dolores Smith, ber of students entered was 1490, 'times on WGN, Mutual's popular national prominence, although the meeting inside. This was beSharyl Terry, Shirlee George, and .sponsors mar: bered 244. ·"Chicago Theatre of the Air," her own family continues to recause it was feare.d that it might Geraldine Corn, Phyllis Constant, Judging tr1e ccn~cst \:verc M:i.'S. ''and has sung ion numerous other main skeptical. The publishers' be rainy or be coid and r.2.use Mervil Miller, Howard Ulin, Bob May, Mr. Mccullen, Mr. Sloan, broadcasts: ABC's "Club Time," :representative exploits her for 00nfusion or discomfort.

Adams, Ron Bath and Dick Fankar:d Mr. Kucinski. :as well as other programs. Last his own purpose while Adelaicie hauser.

The 36 schools entered were: ft ;summer he was ,soloist (£or the 2ccepts fame, interviews, and.

The story of the play follows: Ch,ss A: Nebraska City :mi third season) at the famed Grant Class B: Auburn, Falls City, celebrations with childlike joy.

Adelaide, naive wife of Gilbert ;Park Concerts, singing the leadJust as the college has inventeci Willifer, professor in .a small oolPawnee City, Pla.ttsmouth and .s ing role in Verdi's "La Traviata.''

The carnival moved in March a new degree for her, "Lady of lege town of the south, feels herTecumseh.

In the specialized field of or31, and Peru's gym was fUll of Letters," the jittevitable exposure self neglected. and shut out from Cl2,ss C: Fifocy, Humboldt, Peru atorio, Nielson has sung more fun and gaiety. The annual affair, comes-from a je'li,J..ous woman college society and the learned Prep, Syracuse, and Weeping than 150 performances, including this year titled "Penny Auction," who had previously known the pursuits of her husband, her moWater. seven o~:chestra Hall appearances drew a large crowd. real autho · In the resulting conther and her step-daughter, all Class D: Barneston, Bratton Un'. acu,;npai:iecl by th1: Chkago fusion, the college authorities connected with the school.

The booths were colorfully decion, Brock, Co·ok, Dawson, Dun· symphony. Concerts this past seaturn against elaide; but her Acoordingly she buys the manuorated by campus organizations bar, Eagle, Elmwood, Hallam, . son have taken him to 20 states family, tone , her plight, script of a novel from an unsucand featured a variety of games Hickman, Holmesville, Honey and to Canada." rally to her s ort. Her very incessful outhor stranded by chance 1and activities. &ome 1of these Creek, Johnson, Lewiston, The Marlinn Trio consists of: on her doorstep, sends it to a pubnocence s2ves her. were· a make-up booth, kissing Nemaha, Otoe, Salem, Ne'Alfred Aulweurm, violinist; Roslisher under her own name, and booth, dart game, ring,toss, marThe real author generously rebraska School for the Blind, 'alie Ernest, cellist; and Jam es before she realizes it, the book is riage booth, throwing baseballs fuses to e:cpase her, and the col!Shubert, St. Bernard, Stella, Angell, pianist. at milk bottles, penny ante, fish lege authorities are forced to Table Rock, Talmage, Verdon, Mr. Aulweurm has played and pond, white elephant sale weight support th2 deceit in order to and Virginia. is still affiliated with the . Grand ,guessing,. variety show, and resave their ovrn faces. Adelaide Park and Indianapolis Symphonfreshments. For some reaoion, 'the promi~es buy no more books MEMORIAL VOLUME Kearney won all the events at es. He is a oonductor of the booth decorated in orange :and and is reconciled with her husThe college library has rethe Conference indoor meet at Southside Symphony of Chicago. bl,ack seemed to be doing the band, who realizes that much of ceived a copy of the book "Yours Lincoln but four, thus enablinc; best business.

Miss Ernest is formerly of the the trouble has been caus0d by with Love, Kate" by Miriam E. them to win the run-away by 27 Houston Symphony. She is servTo climax the event a King his lack of sympathy and attenMason from Miss Mary Hileman. points.

They amassed a total 0£ ing as· a faculty member of the and Queen of the Carnival are tion.

Conway, Ark., as a memorial to ii 67 points while their closest riAmerican Conservatory of Music. always chosen. This year's King This ·ounds like a &;ood ph1y,' her long time associate in the val, Hastings, could muster only and Queen were Howard Ulin Mr. Angell has studied music so keep WJtching the Ped. for Peru Campus School Miss Eliza40. Wayne teachers ran third more announcements and the at the Michigan State College beth Mccollum. The book is a' and Mary Lee Campbell, with with 30.

Jo:an Reimers and Curt Sederand since has concertized all date it r1iE be presented. biography of Kate Douglas WigThe Bobc:ats, who are just startburg as attendants. around the country. He intends to gin, ·One of the earlier kindering to round into shape, finished be married in the near future, After the carnival a penniod~on garten teachers and author of fourth with l 6% points .. Bob after whiCh he will continue his pr·ovided the music for a dance, several well known children's Barge came in third in the 60 career in music. to complete an evening of fun. books. yard dash. The winner, Bill Moss During the past few weeks, the 'The program that was preof Kearney, tied the Conference· nucleus of the '54 football squa:t ented was extremely charming. irecor.d. (06.4) The only win Peru has been hard at work in spring he dress was unusual for this could provide was in the 60 yard training. When spring arrives at odern day as the men wore ,highs when Eldon McCall raced the Campus of a Thousand Oaks uxedoes with "tails." The proover the hurdles in :08 3. Dick the boys get out their p1a~ing nam was presented as follows: Bramble finished third in the togs and work on the fundamentllegro, from Trio in D minor 880 and McCall held down fourth als, such as blocking, tackling, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mendelssohn Miss Elizabeth Mccollum, dibrave spirit 1of Peru's great friend in the 60 yard low burdles. and timl.ng. The object cf this rientale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Albeniz , rector of kindergarten education ·of little children had taken flight In the field events Bob Simpspring training is to give the boys anse Russe Trepak, from at the Peru State College .for 28 to worlds unknown. Those of us son threw the shut 43'-6" for a better chance to learn their "The Nutcracker Suite" years, died recently at a Peru who were privileged to know fourth place. Dick Aciams rounfundamentals. The training start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tschailrnwsky nursing home. She had been in Elizabeth l\1cCo!lurn during her ded out Peru scorir:g with a 21'ed the first week of the second Marlinn String Trio poor health since suffering a long period of creative and dedi1" broad jump for a tie for fourth ,s·emester and was ended on April reach Not Me Your Musty bnoken hip in a fall at the college cated years know she may well place.

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Rules (Air from "Camus") on December 1, 1952. be greeted with "Well done, thou Doane, Wesle;nn ancJ Mi·dland The ·attendan~e at practice was ....................... Arne She w:as born at Urchibald, Pa., good and faithful: servant." Then finished fifth, sixch and seventh ,good and the boys worked hc:rd. rink to Me Only with Thine and attended public schools and she will surely be assigned to with 9, 8~~ and 8 points respecThe kind of spirit which is needEyes . . . . . . . Old English Air the Stat& Teachers College at leadership of tots in a land where t:vely. Chadron did not compete ed to win ball games was very ecit. and Aria: Sound an Bloomsburg. :She was also a stu~ pain and sorrow enter not and in the meet. evident during the spring scrimAlarm, from "Judas Macdent at Valparaiso University and joy and .gaiety abound."

B.B.T. mages. There were three scrimcabaeus" . . . . . . . . . . . . Handel the University of Pennsylvania mages in the spring series. The ",We were among the many folks Mr. Nielson :and Tri10 before receiving her degree from football squad was divided into ar,ound Peru who were privileged (Intermission) the National Kindergarten Coltwo teams, the Blues and the to have two generations in th~ At 5:30 a.m., on Friday, Aprll lege at Chicago in 1924. In 1933 ·verything and Anything Whites. The Blues vron the first kindergarten of Miss JVIcCoUum. 2, nineteen s1eepy-eyed boys left .she received her Master of Edu. ....... . .... Hall::irg two scrimmages while the Whites for an all-day tour of industries cation degree from Colora·do State Ellis w.as taught by her and we Mr. Nielson won the final practice. have two daughters who started in Kansas City, .. Mo. They were College of Education at Greeley. iniatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bridge to school under her guidance and mem]?ers of the Industrial Arts The final scrimmage was higheep River .... Negro Spiritual Before coming to Peru, Miss would come home with stars in Club and they were going on their lighted by some nice running anci '>'W Guitars .......... iRussian McCol:lum served as a teacher in 1 their eyes telling about the things annual field trip. They went to blocking. The teams were · very Marlinn String Trio the public schools at Darby, Pa.; Miss "Collum" did for them.

At Kansas City and shared the gas closely matched. It was a very Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grieg Howe Okla.; Sea Isle 1and Demathe time I was taking my teachexpense. good game from beginning to o One Who Passed Whistling rest, N.J., and at the Brook Prier training under her, she once They toured the Ford Motor end. The final score was 20-13 in Through the Night . . . . Gibbs vate School in Chicago. Just prior told me that while ~he. oould Company plant from 1,0:00 until favor ,of the Whites. Rodger Maow Me Eyes . . . . . . . Malotte to beginning her work at Peru never know the joys of mother11:00 a.m., and after lunch they jors showed very. good running he Bird of the Wilderness she held a similar position with hood, she felt she had had a small toured the American Asphalt and playing abilities and was re. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creston Kansas Wesleyan University at part of hundreds of children's roofing plant from 1:00 to 2:30 -vv;arded with two of the TD's . Mr. Nielsen and Trio.

Salina, Kans. growing up.

Surely no marble p.m.

Then they went through the made by the .White squad. The The audience demanded two She was 1a member of Kappa Paxton Lumber Company from other .score was made by Buss cores before they finally let the Delta Pi, honorary education .statue could begin to mean to the world what the many men and 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Stewart, a transfer student from tain be drawn-bringing to an fraternity, and the Presbyterian women now living in all parts of The purpose of the trip was ·to Dra.ke University who shows the d a very good concert.

Church. ~ the country signify- folks a little show the boys modern industry ability to be another Peru State We would like to congratulate Besides her regular kindergarbetter for having known the little in operation and acq}iaint them football champion. Both of the iss Erne,t on the wonderful ten work Miss MoCollum taught woman sitting in her rocking with some modern methods of Blue squad's TD's were made by nes of her new cello from Chicollege classes in children's litchiair, her feet barely brushing the manufacturing.

Del Stoltenburg. Del made both l!go that had its debut on our erature and early elementary edfloor, her. dark eyes dancing and ge. scores on line bucks. Del is anucation. She also carried on conher face crinkling into laughter as A MORAL I .·The troupe left Peru and travother of the playeers who is out sidfrable extension work, even she unfolded v0onderful stories Pluck thine heart from thy breast .ed to Superior, Nebr., for a to help Peru State keep the NCC doing this after her accident. of fairies, princesses and, of And in handling, careful lest '. rformance on Monday. Next crown. All in all the Bobcats are course, the one about the small "As we were writing . . . . . a You disturb it at its best. · their schedule is a program in shaping up as a strong contender telephone message told us .the gray kitten."

Mrs. Ellis Adams H.O.D. icago. for another NCC title in 1954.

Many N\usidans Here for Contest

Sunrise Service

tlady of Letters~ to Be Spring Production of Dramatic Club

Penny Auction Popular

Tracksters Place Fourth

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Spring Training Ends

Miss McCollum, Long-time Director of Kindergarten Education, Is f~issed

Industrial Arts

Peru P edagogian Published Semi-monthly During the School Year by Nebraska State Teachers College at Peru

Staff Editor . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . • • • Robert Barge Ass®iate Editors .... Clifford Stokes, Delores Smith Feature Edifor ........... ~..... Marcy Fahrlander News Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . Phyllis Constant Spor(s Editor ..........••••.•.• Nels Overgaard, Jr. Make-up Editor ..........•••..... Mary Ann Fuerst A;sst. Make-up Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Luanne Blessi~ Organization Editor . .. . . .. . .. .. . . Junior Weichel Business Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reggie Speak News and Feature Writers: Bob Adams, John Ahrens, Merritt Dodson, PJ:ul Fahrlander, Mervil Miller, Ervin Parmenter, Howard Ulin

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Relief 'Tis that time of year when most of NSTC students are suffering from a bad case ,of spring , fever. But kids, there is relief in sight. SPRING VACATION is drawing. nigh. It is called Easter Recess on the school calendar but it is the same thing. The dates are from 5:30 April 15 to 7:50 on April 20. Better get those suit cases dusted and packed cause I'm ready to go.

P.S. Might be a good time to " .get those term paper1> finished~ well started anyway.

H.O.D.

Student Feature

Thoughts ;;P ••

Don't give anyone a piece of Ralph Nielsen, a nationally your mind; you need it •all yourfamous lyric tenor and the Mar, linn trio entertained a small self. igmup of students, faculty ,and If you itch for .success, keep public at the OoUege Auditoron scratching. ium on April 1st. As Mr. Nielson The less a man knows the made his second appearance on easier it is to convince him that the stage he apoligized to the he knows it all. :audience for the strong windi No one ever found the hour that was blowing which kept so that was lost. many people away :from the concert. It was very .obvious that It isn't what you have, but Mr. Nielsen was disappointed in what you are, that makes ~ife Merv Miller the size of the group that had. worth living.

"I am proud to be a Peruturned out to hear the program.

Everyone can do something to vian,'' was the first statement · Just why does Mr. Nielson or make the world better. He can made by Merv Miller wh~ I unany other entertainer have to 1at least impriove himself. , dertook the enigmatic task of inapologize to the C·Ollege because of the small attendance at budget A single-track mind is not so terviewing him.

Merv transferred to PSTC from events? These budget events are · bad if the track leads somewhere. the University of Nebraska where financed by the college at an The world owes you a living approximate expense of $350 for he was in attendance for three only when you have earned it. .semesters. He became a Loyal each events. These events are One of the best things to l).ave Peruvian on entrance to the Campresented for the entertainment, 'Up your sleeve is a funny !5one. pus ·Of a Thousand Oaks, taking ·enjoyment and cultural advantages that they afford the studpart in var1ous activities. DurWhen you get to the end:.. of ents. ; y;our rope, tie a knot and hang ing his residence here he has become associated with the Blue ls the quality of the average o~ I , Devils, (a pep organization) the Peru student so inferior that we Smile awhile, and give your Dramatics Club, Alpha Phi Omega fail to take the advantages that frowrr a rest. (honorary dramatic fraternity) are afforded us at events of this A temper is a valuable pos- . Sigma Tau Delta (honorary Engtype. Do we fail to realize that session, so don't lose it. hsh fraternity) and Gavel and when an opportunity confornts us we must take a little initiative Nobody knows the age of ,the Rostrum.

He has taken active part in and attend or participate to rehuman race, but all agree that ceive the advantages that could it is old enough to know better. four dramatic productions and has spent two years in debate. be ours?

During the '53 schol year he was Entertainment and enjoyment A THOUGHT ·editor of the "P'edagogian." can come from things other than As I feel th elove of God Merv was married on Decemfootball games, T. V., or jam ber 27, 1952. Hi'; brief comment !Sessions in the ~ounges. These And know His pre~ence hereabout l realize how we are, on his wife was "She's beautiful! all have their place, but so do Our faith in Him in doubt.

She's wonderful!" Just before he the programs that are presented politely swooned, he also menat budget events. Let us realize The import of His nurtured , tioned tbat with the help of l).is that there are new areas for words 1 many of us to appreciate and And living crests that we sh;uld lovely wife he hoped to have )4 little Mill~rs running about the enjoy. Music is as much a part act ;ij ~ homestead. of the American way of life as Descend upon us so they might He likes steaks, French fries, is baseball. Let's not restrict ourTo us become a fact. combination salad, French rolls serves to one area, but while we And at liie's jour;1ey's end are in college, explore new fields 1and lots of milk. His ambition is of entertainment. · Ho·,v nice it is to see to be a golfer. (After all that That we have genially done chow I shouldn't wonder that he At the next budget event, if would need the exercist;..)

What He hiad meant to be .. we have one, let's attend in full H.O.D. force. We might find we like it.

Merve is an English major with a minor in social science.

His greatest goal is to be a good teacher and he J'eeh that goal will be more easily reached by obtaining a Ph. D. in English. wa,s arnu~ed to warrant the conIt was only through constant struction of an athletic field here. pressure on the 1aculty by foe In the year 1901, seventeen THEY'RE OFF'student boay that we have had years after football was started A1~D THEtiE THEY GO! two scr:aignc unllefoated footbalJ. at Peru, the Bobcats dedicated Anita 'n Ronnie-neck and neck seasons. 111 tile nmcteenth centheir new field by beating the down the stretch. tury (1884) football was oul1awl•'alls City High School 30-0. Wilh Don 'n Kay-m~y win t::e handied on tue .Peru campus. A handthis win came a new era in the cap. ,. ful of f'el'uvrnns ae11.eu aurnrnis·sports program. The vigilantes Twmkle Toes-strained a mustrauon regulations a:1d retreaced of the back pasture became the c"e al the beginn.ing of the race, to a 10ca1 paswre anu played ille heroes of the campus.

Ferg 'n Bob-alreac.y crossed the game 111 tne 'Tough." There were The Bobcats have had only finish line. no such things as protective pads nine losing seasons (lost more Red 'n ?'d-old runners, but and helmets. lntercollegiate aththan they won) in the past fifty holding their own. letics were uni1eard of; conseyears. They have been coached Lila 'n Ron---lock gocd from the quently the boys divided themsidelines.

by Scherer, Burnett, Brumage, selves into the "Blacks" and the Thacker, Johnson, Spear, Gro• Joan 'n Vrba--familiar singles, '',Whites" and fought it out.

Gilkinson and last, but not least, now paired off. our present very successful menNot until nine years later dic1 Shirlee 'n Jack--~ !so ran, but the bobcats get tneir first taste tor, Coach Al Wheeler. lost the !act race.

Football started small but with of real competition when they (It's also rumored th2t a filly lots of hard work and hard playplayed the Y.M.C.A., from Omafrom tl1e Far N0rth Stables is ing it made its way to the top ha at the fair grounds in Nebrasto run with cne of our s·1rinters where it intends to stay with a ka City. Althougll Peru lost its on a Florida track this summer.) lot more of that same old drive. first game badly, enough interest

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.The foreign language department is one of the strongest on the Peru Campus. It supports a faculty membership of one, Mr. George Rath. , I ~ Mr. Rath instructs all the foreign languages offered to the students at Peru. He even stores some away since they are not demanded by the students. He teaches Elementary French, 101 and 102; German Reading and Composition, 202; and German Lyrics, 401. Spanish iReading and Composition, 202, has not been formed due to lack of interest.

Mr. Rath could seem to find no finish line when it came to offering classes so he started an eve. ning German Reading class, 101.

'He al .s o teaches Elementary French at the Training School.

He has not yet had to call out his reserves of Russian and Latin.

Do not think that the language department, since ljmited to one faculty member, does not call for a lot of study. Mr. Rath sees to it that no student is slighted. H~ even makes certain that you rlave plenty to occupy your spare time .so you cannot be bored. Never be surprised when you enter his class and he greets you in the language of the book that you are holding. If you have an opportunity to speak words of English while in his classes it is strictly in ;a whisper to the fellow next to you. i His study in theology has enabled him to secure his Bache1or of Divinity degree. He is a very pious person and known to draw large congregations at his church services.

Letters to the Lovelorn January 12, 1954 Dear Marsha: I have never ~witten to a column like this before, but I have a serious problem and desperately need your advice.

I. am in love with a wonderful girl, but I am not suree that she loves me. I went out with her once a few years ago and she gave me the irnpress}cn that she liked me very much. Since then I i1ave cal'led her many times but ~he always hangs up when she finds oul that it is me. I have also gone to see her and she slams the door il1 my iace every time. Do you think it is possible that she has Jest interest in me?

John Dear John: Your situation is indeed an unusual one. However, 1 do not feel that you ought to give up hope. It may be that she is still interested, but is too shy to let you know it..

1 suggest that you keep trying to see her. Peri1aps the next time you call on her you might stick your loot in tbe aoor be1ore she has a cnance to slam it. After you talk lo her she may discover that she has been missing someti1ing by avoiding you.

I tnink all yoll need is this one chance to let your charm work.

Mar cha January 25, 1954 ,Dear Marsha: ?

I recently wrote to your column for advice and I hate to bother you again, but the situation has 0ecome worse.

You may recall that I told you about my girl friend slamming her door in my face and you sug.gested that I stick rny foot in the etvor the next time. Well; I tried it and took off my shoe and beat me over the head with it. So, I still have my original problem, but now I a!h a:so missing one of my best shoes. What can I do?

John Dear John: I am very sorry to h2ar about your new difficulties. I feel that it

J. D. Levitt J. D. Levitt claims Charlesto Ill., as hio home town. There l received his Bachelors degree the Eastern State College. He w gradua:ted in 1941 .. Whi1e still er.Hege he spent four summers the north woods ~urveying f the government. This was bo interesting and -;d1,1cational.

Lensman Levitt Uncle Sam becl;:c,ncd Mr. Lev itt to become a member of h: amy/family in Sq:tember 194 Mr. Levit\ remaiDeci in servic five and a half :·ears. Personrn work was his chief duty but h served also as a C'J of three sma: PW "q.mps durin; this time. e returned to schoo e at the University o Denver where he received hi Master's degree. It was in 194 that he began his teaching caree at PSTC. In addition to his a:ca demic courses he sponsors Gave and Rostrum and teaches an off campus speech class.

Photography whiles mvay mucl of his spare time. In other time of leisure he is in the process o overhauling a Crosley. As a ma· gician he is making a convertibl1 out of a station wagon. The magi1 wand is losing its strength how· ever, as there is more work t< that than merely waving a stid in the air.

In closing-please take warn· ing. Now that spring has sprun1 look carefully 2,t ail cwssings. IJ you hear a put-put it mos! likejy be Mr. Le,-itt hitting it ui: on his li'i ole scooter.

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partly my fault and I am anxiom to help y·ou straighten things out.

Perhaps a personal consultation would help. If you have time you ;night drop into my oflice some afternoon and we'll talk over your problem.

Marsha February 6 195~ Dear Marsha: '.f'.1anks to you my problem has disappeared. It was only after tolking n o·ocl lha1 I realizel 1 wasn't really in love at all.

I was amazed lo discover how yoari.1 and beautiful YOLl are. I haci ijctur::,cl ;-:. n:.dth 0L12r \VO'.i'FLl. I 111 a.1.raici ?t 1:12-.,' r__,~~obJ.2:.;1 is :::E.vc1vp111g and I \vould like "v~ery n1uch ',,o sec you again.

John Dear John: ?

Your e not &o bad yourself. Feel free to drop in any time. l\!Iarsha April G, HJ54,.

Dear Marsha: Let me take ycu away from all this.

John l )e21 John: I was wondering if you woulCL ever 2.sk me.

Love, Marslu P.S. Did you ever get your shoe back?

(Ec\i'c·or's note: Miss McGilli·· 1 cuciciy's column will soon be discontinued due to circumstances beyond my control. Oh well, I was getting sick of it anyway.)