The Jaysee Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1949 Page: 2 of 4
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October 27, 1949
THE JAYSEE RANGER
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Should SAC's Annual Cover
Two-Thirds or Full Year?
Business Manager
Assistants ..............
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The Jay see RANGER
Published bi-weekly by the students of
SAN ANTONIO JUNIOR COLLEGE
San Antonio, Texas
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This Collegiate World
American Association of University Professors
Bulletin —(ACP)— Professor Harold Larrabee
writes for college professors:
their heads.
At present, opinion seems to
be about egually divided on the
question.
Since you who are students here
both semesters, registered for
three or more courses in each ses-
sion, automatically receive your
annual at no extra cose, be sure to
attend your club meetings Friday
vote on the date you wish your an-
nual to be delivered.
.............................. George Jackson
.................................... Hubert Mills
............................... Annette Smith,
Jimmie Jo White, Ciccy Bender
....... Betty Whall, Peggy Hoofard
................................ Mike F. Olive,
Lester Jackson, Gil Colesworthy
...................................... Al Archer,
Frank Valdez, Lewis Higbie
............................... Lewis Higbie
......... Cissy Bender, Eugene Blue,
Earl Heath, Betty Scarborough
.......................... Adah Louise Staph
A hobby will become a carrer for Shirley Water-
man when she has completed schooling, for then she
plans to do commercial art work.
The blonde haired, blue eyed, vivacious co-ed, was
graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in
ton Literary Club, mascot of the Senate, and Stu-
1948, where she was president of the Martha Skel-
lent Council secretary.
A few of hei‘ honors here at S. A. C. are presi-
dent of the Jayseegates, a member of the Student
MO, and a member of the Phi Theta Kappa.
Council, a membei’ of the art staff on the EL ALA-
Shirley is majoring in business administration,
and after she finishes S. A. C. she hopes to go to
the University of Texas.
Where favorites are concerned chicken and wa-
termelon are the food; football the sport; “Always”
the song, and her idea of a good time is to go to a
good movie and ride the merry-go-round at Play-
land Park. Of course her ideal boy is Charlie Whip-
ple, an ex-S. A. C. student.
If you don’t happen to know her, just look for
the always smiling and friendliest girl on the S.A.C.
campus, and that’s Shirley Waterman.
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Students who are members of the San An-
tonio College social clubs will have an op-
portunity to vote Friday on the question of
whether the College annual, EL ALAMO,
should cover the full academic year from
September to May or whether it should con-
tinue to cover only the months of September
to mid-March as has been the case in past
years.
In order to get a maximum vote without
duplication, it was decided that a vote of
the social clubs would give an adequate cross
section opinion of the student body.
On the two sides of the question are (1)
completeness of coverage, and (2) signing
annuals.
Because the annual must go to press by
March 27 if it is to be delivered by the end
of May, many activities occurring during
the spring semester are necessarily omitted.
For instance, there was nothing in the 1949
EL ALAMO about the conference victories
of SAC’s track team of last year; completely
ignored, because they took place after the
deadline, were fiesta week activities, mas-
querade ball, numerous picnics and parties,
and — most important to the graduates —
the round of events which characterize com-
mencement.
If the annual could cover all these events,
thereby making the EL ALAMO a record of
the full 1949-50 academic year, it would be
ready for delivery about September 1. Since
SAC’s students, with only a few exceptions,
make their homes in San Antonio, such a
delivery date should cause no inconvenience.
The annual would be delivered, also, before
students would be leaving for other colleges.
A local high school and several colleges
which have adopted the idea have been well
satisfied with the plan, feeling that the com-
pleteness it affords is especially welcome in
later years.
On the other side of the argument are
those who maintain that they must have an
opportunity to sign the annuals. This is pro-
vided for, also, in the full year plan. It has
been met two ways in schools which have
tried the September delivery. One way is to
have students autograph an eight-page sec-
tion which is reproduced and inserted at the
end of the annual. The second way is for
groups — the annual staff, itself, perhaps,
to give annual-signing parties at which stu-
dents can devote two or three hours to auto-
graphing the books without the threat of an
impending final examination hanging over
Hallowe’en (All Hallow’s Eve)
gets its name from being the eve
of All Hallows or All Saints’ Day,
November 1, which was of Roman
Catholic origin, but was retained
by the church of England calendar
after the Reformation. But the
festive spirit of October 31 came
along the folkways from the North
Country of Europe into the Brit-
ish Isles with the Celts, Angles,
Saxons, etc., and survived the
Druidic periods; for a long time
bonfires drove away evil spirits
as people feasted, as Britons ce-
lebrated Hallowe’en.
Perhaps future generations un-
der some such system as a Uni-
ted Nations World will recapture
the excitement and purposeful-
ness of nations at war by cele-
brations which are free from the
tragedy connected with war.
Hallowe’en is an example of the
holiday which enables us to exper-
ience vicariously the feelings of
primitive ancestors in the aegis of
harsh heathen gods they them-
selves created to rationalize things
they could not understand. Men
came to understand natural forces
and gained freedom from super-
stition; when they understand
themselves they may be able to
control the forces that make for
war, viewing then the excesses of
the present age in the same half-
humorous way we regard the gro-
ping, fearful minds of our ancest-
ors.
Americans, of course, have got-
ten most of their Hallowe’en cus-
toms from various interpretations
of racial forbears. The jack-o-lan-
tern, according to Germans, de-
rives from the souls of murderers,
hovering about the places of their
crimes in the Teutonic forests
where will-o-the-wisps lured un-
suspecting travellers beyond the
mists and where witches have rid-
den since the times of Odin and
Freya.
The Irish tell of a Celt named
Jack who was barred from hea-
ven because of inhospitality. He
did not last long in Hades either
because the devil soon ousted him
for playing practical jokes on his
Satanic majesty; that hapless man
is condemned to stalk through
the night carrying a lantern un-
till the sounding of Gabriel’s
trumpet — he is Jack O’Lantern.
In parts of Ireland, Hallowe’en
is still known as the “Vigil of Sa-
man,” in reference to Saman, the
lord of death, who called certain
powers of evil together on that
day to work mischief on the peo-
ple. The Irish race remembers,
too, when in the days of an evil
ruler, evil beings came out of the
Cave of Cruachan in Connaught,
in the guise of spirits and copper-
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Hallowe’en Has Church Origin
Still Full of Odd Superstitions
colored birds which went about
the country killing stock at Hal-
lowe’en, a time also when brides
and babies were stolen.
There are many ways to under-
stand the spirits and utilize their
powers at Hallowe’en. A girl can
steal a cabbage and, most likely,
meet her future husband on the
way home. If not, she can place
the cabbage over the door and the
man the cabbage falls on will sure-
ly be her husband. A girl with
more than one suitor can make
decisions by putting the suitors’
initials on hazel-nuts and putting
the nuts on the fire. The suitor
whose symbolic nut burns with a
steady glow is naturally prefer-
able to the one represented by a
nut which leaps and crackles in
the flame betraying his fickle
ways.
Watch the cat on Hallowe’en.
If he looks at you and yawns, you
have a secret which will out with-
in seven days. But when a cat star-
tles you and then darts away —
you must be careful not to let
opportunities slip away from you
in the future.
Something terrible may happen
to anyone who finds a button in-
side a hot potato. That’s an idea
anyway.
If he’s brand new at teaching, he lacks experi-
ence.
If he’s been teaching all of his life, he’s in a rut.
If he dresses decently, he’s trying to be a fashion
plate.
If he thinks about something besides clothes, he’s
a bum.
If he seldom admits a mistake, he’s arrogant.
If he ever admits a mistake he ought to go back
to bricklaying.
If he plants an occasional joke in his lectures,
he’s a comedian.
If he never condescends to an academic nifty,
he’s duty dull.
If he goes to chapel with regularity, he’s a hy-
pocrite.
If he shies at sermons he’s a heathen.
If he writes books, he’s neglecting his teaching.
If he never publishes, he never had a thought
worth printing.
If he hands out plenty of high grades, he has
standards.
If he hands out plenty of low grades, he’s a
butcher.
If he uses notes, he’s unoriginal.
If he gets along without notes, he’s an ad-
libber.
If he sticks to his specialty, he’s got
track mind.
If he tours the encyclopedia, he’s a show-off.
If he can’t identify Fritzie Zivic and Jack Kramer,
he isn’t human.
If he listens to sports broadcasts, he’s illiterate.
If he gets paid for outside work he’s greedy.
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Representative
Of Symphony
Here Thursday
Students and faculty of San
Antonio College may make their
reservations for season tickets for
the 1949-50 San Antonio Sympho-
ny concert series on the campus
Thursday, October 27, from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m., when a representative of
the Symphony Society will set up
a ticket booth here.
Student tickets for the full, 15-
concert series sell for $4.50, in-
cluding federal tax. These are tick-
ets which would cost $18 if pur-
chased individually on a single-
concert basis.
Faculty tickets range from $7 to
$30 for the complete Symphony
series.
San Antonio College is one of
several institutions being visited
by the Symphony ticket clerk for
the convenience of those who find
it difficult to get to the regular
Municipal Auditorium box office
from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., the hours
of operation.
Almost a score of outstanding
soloists will appear with the or-
chestra and Conductor Max Reiter
during the season, which opens
November 12.
These include Artur Rubin-
stein, Robert Casadesus, Mena-
hem Pressler and Vronsky and
Babin, pianists; Sir Thomas Bee-
cham and Dimitri Mitropoulos,
guest conductors; Zino Frances-
catti and Joseph Szigeti, violin-
ists; Margaret Harshaw, mezzo-
soprano, and Elena Nikolaidi, con-
tralto, and Ezio Pinza, basso; A-
dolphe Menjou, narrator in “Peter
and the Wolf”; Artie Shaw, clar-
inet, and the 200-voice San An-
tonio chorus, to be featured in' a
special Christmas concert.
Phi Theta Kappas Both,
Shirley, Claude Popular, Too
Just name practically any organization on the
campus and Claude Whitis is a member of it. He’s
the president of the Senate, assistant sports editor
of EL ALAMO, sergeant-at-arms of the “R” As-
sociation, and a member of the JAYSEE RANGER,
Phi Theta Kappa and Student Council. Claude, a
handsome, brown eyed sophomore, is a graduate of
the Copperas Cove High School in Copperas Cove,
Texas.
School spirit is definitely on the list of qualifi-
cations Claude thinks every student should have.
He loves to dance, and is seen at every Jaysee dance.
Anything concerning sports, especially softball and
tennis, draws Claude’s attention. He contributes to
all activities with his engaging personality and
helpful ideas.
As his Phi Theta Kappa membership indicates,
it isn’t all good times for Claude. He is a good stu-
dent in the classroom, just as he is on the campus.
After he completes his studies here, he will enter
the University of Texas to major in mathematics.
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