Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-01
BY ROBERTA FERGUSON
Press Staff Correspondent

Poetry seems to be the order of
the day in the junior college public
speaking class. Each student has
to memorize and recite lines of Sc
lections which may be interpreted
energetically. The students have
taken parts or the whole of The
Barred Organ" and THE High
wayman,' by Noyes; Song of Tri-
umph,' by Angela Moran, and
Kipling's Overland Mall
Not only is the j. G. class going
in for poetry, but the English III
students are memorizing 80 lines of
American poetry A few cleve"
students are even writing their
own to recite before the class.
A competent production staff has
been chosen for the junior play,
Square Crooks" which is to be
given April and 9. In charge of
the business end of the production
are Johnny O'Guinn and Carl
Sato. ChaFes Jenny and Munson
Dowd are supervising the adver-
tising. Bernice Smith is property
manager. John Sario and Ralph
Conner will be the electricians. In
charge of the issuing of programs
is Virginia HetZel Lee Zinn is
stage manager and Marjorie Spear
is head usher.
Tryouts for the county oratori-
cal constitutional contest were held
before assembly, Friday morning.
One representative will be chosen
to represent the school in the
county contest, held in Ell Centro
this year, on April Is. Speakers
were Carl Sato, who spoke on "The
Democratic IDEAL; Irene Powell
son, who took George Washing
ton and the Constitution; Bernice
Smith, with Roosevelt and the
Constitution; Ahleen Crandall,
who had The Personalities of the
Convention; Margaret Hill, with
Our Constitution: World Peace"
and Melvin Wilby, who talked on
The speeches were original. Judges
were Glenn Keiffer, Gretta Gould
and the Reverend ButterWorth.
Art appreciation students are do
ing some interesting work in their
study of the history of art Dolls
are being dressed according to the
styles of the different periods.
Some very elaborate and beautiful
models are being made.
Animals and birds are the big
worry of the second year art class
students, but they will start pen
and ink drawing next week. The
first year class is still doing per-
spective work. They have been
drawing pictures of the room from
various angles, chairs and the
staircase for practice. Other STU
dents are making scarfs, tapestries,
handkerchiefs, curtains, linen sets
and waste paper baskets with col.
orful stencilled designs.
To give the girls practice in
planning and serving "a we'll
balanced meal, and to give the
teachers of Central a chance to
eat some first-class cooking, the
cooking class gave luncheons to
the teachers the last two weeks.
The proceeds of the luncheons go
to pay for laboratory material for
use in the domestic science class.
Round robin tennis tournaments
are almost finished for the selec-
ton of a Jaycee boys champion. A
very large number of the boys in
the college are competing for the
place.
There are over three times as
many services offered at Central
today as there were 20 years ago.
In 1912, only 10 essential subjects
were given; now 80 services are
given to the public. These adj
Vantages include among the many
other things; free transportation,
night school, and all shop courses.
However, in spite of this increase
in the number of services, records