The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-09-11
Largest Class of
Girls Ever Registered
Said Dean Plummer


real presence that for the first
time in the history of the school
gave girl students the balance of
power, the Sauk Centre Junior Ex-
tension College opened to % stu
dents and it's third year Monday
with good share of the brood Of
1910 grads" from the institution
hitting for other schools. The
school is an affiliate with the Uni
versity Of Minnesota.
Announcing the enrolment Mon
day, acting dean Ira L. Plummer
pointed Interestingly to the regis
tration of IA girls in the % stu
dents. 'It's the largest class of
girls we've had" he said and point
ed out that boys usually outnum-
bered the girls two to one.
OF the 20 enrolled Mr.. Plum
mer pointed to an out-of-town
student registration of IL rep
resenting communities of Clar-
issa, Grey Eagle, Belgrade,
Willard and for the first time,
Alexandria, Paynesville and
GlenwO0d. Both defense indus
try and conscription were
named as competing influences
in the prospective enrolment.
"Ten or fifteen who had indi-
Gated their interest left for de-
fense industry jobs" he said.
After registration at nine o'clock
and a brief convocation, students
set to work at once, were carrying
stacks Of books, assignment sheets,
were settled in classes an hour
later.
Far from deploring a drop in
enrollment-the school opened with
81 a year ago-Mr. Plummer point
ed out that under conditions it was
very good School authorities had
set the quota this year, in view
of. national defense casualties to
higher education, at only 25 stu
dents. Only one year of courses
are offered this year.
Mr.. Plummer pointed interesting
ly to the plans of eighteen of the
students who completed the work
last year.
Out of this group, 10 will con-
tinue education it was learned. Six
Of them, Donald Deziel, George
Conkey, Joe Jackson, George
Kraemer. Bob Schoenberg and Hell
en- Truog expect to enter the Uni
versity of Minnesota. Orie Hos
mer will enter a theological school
and William Merkle will matricu-
late into upper Iowa University.
Two, Mary Jane Stelzig, at st.
Cloud, and Helen Tronsrue, at
Mankato, will take teachers train
ing.
Three have gone into nurses
training with Dorothy Hansen and
Vera Jackson entered for training
at Northwestern hospital, Mime
apolis, and Caroline Pflipsen, at st.
Cloud hospital.
Two are interested in actual de-
fense or allied industries. Stan
Nelson left for the west to enter
defense industry and Curtiss Buck
is taking radio training at the
NYA school in Glenwood. Only one
Of the group, John Butler, was
drafted. Rita Egan has moved
west to California. Rosemary
Morse Is still in the city and con-
tinuing her musical training.
Enrolment this year includes:
Marcella Judes, Marian Cowlthorp,
DeLoris Polipnick, Beverly Paske,
Frances Gettys, Marian Butler,
Margaret Ceynar, Jim Arneson,
John Whitson, David Vandesteeg,
Jim Cooper, Sauk Centre; Mary
Schuster, Alexandria; Barantha
Logan, Glenwood; Zelda Rundgren,
Mona Murphy, Clarissa; Helen Ber-
scheit, Helen Knaak, David Ehr-
lichmann, Grey Eagle; Esther
Dahlberg, Stanley Stenerson, Bel
grade; Richard Sorenson, Willard;
Warren Schmitt and Alton Ded-
rick, Paynesville
Courses offered this year include
Economies 1, Sociology 1, English
composition 4, 5 and 6, higher al
zebra, plane trigonometry, politi-
cal science 1, 2 and 8, history of
civilization 1 and 2, dynamic and
structural geology. Teaching stan
Is Ira p. Plummer and A. e. Mel
son.