Voting Date,Nears; ?lti4a '· eotte . ' ~ : ' I . ' ' .. 96· · ~ . ' Vol. XXIX Grand Junction, Colorado, Fnday, April 13, 1962 Number 13 Early Interest Lags Spring Quarter Interest in student. government ·political offices, but CRITERION has· reached an all-time low, .Jf deadiines do not permit current the number of early candjdates coverage of Wednesday events.) Ta lent · Show for next year's SBA offices can Freshman cl~ss president Alan be used as a measuring device. Workma1n appeared to haye a . When this story was written good chartce of. duplicating Hank Staged Tuesday · 'late Tuesday afternoon, with only Hinton's: achievement of moving 24 hours to go until the deadline from frosh president to student The big spring quarter All­ for submitting petitions, only six .body pr1esident. With 24 hours to College Talent Review was staged candidates had officially entered go, Workman was the only candi­ Tuesday night before a good turn­ date for the office. the race for the four top SBA out of students. offices. Two candidates were up for vice-president, as of late Tuesday. Among the acts were: Stepper­ (Traditionally, a few last-min­ Bob Jonick of Grand Junction ettes doing· the Can-Can; Donna ute petitions are filed for campus will opp,ose Ron Keller of Aurora Blumer, Pat Bielak, and Kathleen in the race to succeed Tedd Mccurdy, female vocalists; Mari­ Brumbaugh. anne deBeque playing the vibes; Chamber Concert Only one candidate had come Gene VanAlstyne doing a comedy forth for the treasurer's position: skit· "Foremost" a male quartet· Will · Feature Pam Rhoads of Grand Junction. David Idol on the saxophone; th~ There were two candidates for Modern Choir; Maggie Muya Student Soloists secretary of Student Congress­ singing native folk songs from Cheryl Arant and Pat Bielak, East Africa; the College Stage Two outstanding student music­ both of Grand Junction. Band; and a Top-Hatters' dance ians--one from Mesa College and The primary election, which is by Mary Boorom and Bonnie one from Grand Junction High designed to reduce the number of Ratkovich. School- will be featured soloists candidates to a minimum of two The talent show was under the during the Mesa College music for each office, will be held next direction of Mr. Darrell Black­ department's s pr i n g quarter Friday, April 20. burn, Mesa music instructor. chamber orchestra concert Mon­ The final election of the 1962- A student judging committee day evening. 1963 officers will be conducted will announce names of the top They are David Idol, saxophon­ May 4. performers at a later date. ist, and Linda Heiny, violinist. Idol is a Mesa College freshman and Miss Heiny is a Grand Junc­ tion High School senior. · Dr. Harry Hammer of the col­ Cast Is Selected lege music department and Mar­ ion Jacobs ef District 51 music faculty will be conductors. Idol's principal solo part will For Musical Spoof be during the orchestra's per­ formance of Glazounov's "Saxo­ phone Concerto in E-Flat." Mr. William Robinson and Mr. messenger when he meets Polly. Miss Heiny will be featured in Darrell Blackburn, co-directors, Secondary leads are played by Mendelssohn's "Violin Concerto have n~vealed the cast assign­ David Baldridge and Bonnie Ratkovich. in E minor," final moyement. ments for the music and drama Other cast members, in alpha­ Other concert numbers by the departments' presentation of orchestra will include "Impresa­ betical order, are: rio Overture" by Mozart, "Ada­ "The Boy Friend." Judy Anderl, Beverly Brandt, gio for Strings" by Barber, The musical satire spoofs the Neale Catt, Jerry Clugston, Ann "Pizzicato Polka" by Strauss, and jazz age: of the 1920's. Hargis, Willard Heddles, Barbara Highlights from "Carousel" by Major leads will be played by Hildreth, K e i t h Lindersmith, Rodgers-Bourdon. · Hazel Passer and Herb Blake. Shirley Lorimor, Dolores Lubers, A number of the members of Miss Passer will portray Polly Dolores Manulikow, James Oberg, the spring quarter symphonette Brown, a young rich girl attend­ Zeke Ortega, N arzy Page, Rex are also members of the Mesa ing an exclusive girls' school in Schmid, Myrna Lea Shaw, George College Civic Symphony orches­ Paris. Blake is cast as a rich Tracy, and John Wagner. tra, which performed during fall youth who has run away from The play will be presented May and winter quarters. school and is masquerading as a 3 and 4 in the college auditorium. GOLD DIGGERS' KING-John Wagner, sophomore from Boulder, will reign over Gold Diggers Ball in the College Center May 10. The ball will be the climaxing event in Mesa College's dedication festivities for the new campus buildings. (Staff photo by Rich Beck) 16-Piece BYU Band Selected for Dance Student Congress Wednesday, school for approximately $700. April 4, made its final choice of The congress made ~ts choice on band for the Golddiggers-Dedi­ the basis that the larger band cation dance, May 10. would add to the "bigness" of the After a pair of "sure-fire" se­ joint spring formal and dedica­ lections fell through, Congress tion dance. settled on a 16-piece ensemble from Brigham Young University. The band is made up entirely Graduation Candidates of students but, according to Should File Petitions social chairman Dan Bedell, has an extremely wide range and has The registrar's office has post­ played before many major func­ ed a revised graduation list on tions in the Provo area. Includ­ the main campus bulletin boards. ed among their engagements was Students who expect to receive a dance for the National Collegi­ diplomas of any type at the June ate Athletic Association. 6 commencement are advised to check the list. Congress chose the BYU band All prospective gra<luates must over Mel Hall's six-piece group file graduation petitions, accom­ from Denver. They were the panied by a $3 fee, by April 20. final two bands on a list that in­ Late petitions will be accepted, cluded Ralph Marterie and Eddy but the fee will be $4 after the Howard orchestras. regular deadline. Marterie's group was signed early in the year for the spring dance but the Music Corporation Mr. Showalter Attends of America, which handles all "big-band" engagements, reneged Conference in Chicago and withdrew his name. Mr. Dan M. Showalter, Mesa FRESHMAN ROYALTY-Shirley Strnad, left, will reign as queen of the second annual Howard was then signed but College English instructor, was the same thing happened and the in Chicago April 5-7 to attend ball sponsored by the freshman class in honor of western Colorado high school seniors. college was again looking. the national conference on Col­ Kathy McCurdy, center, and Shirley Lorimor, ~ight, will serve as attendants. The dance is The BYU band and the Hall lege Composition and Communf­ scheduled April 28 in the College 'Centier. · · (Staff photo by Rich Beck) group each were available to the cations. Good Reading at the library One Man's Opinion By CAROLYN L. KERNS away and were married without and love and his ability, Abraham 87 BOY DAY Books are an intriguing release her consent. They faced many Lincoln became a great leader to another life and another world problems and difficulties to- .among men. Our college as a who.le is really At the present time only about beyond my own individual sphere. gether. ' Abraham Lincoln strove dili­ a concerned group. We are really 25 percent of the people in the gently to serve his country well. Fiction is a form of this release. At this time the treatment of interested in the future of our United States are informed en­ I have recently completed the He left the White House social country. We are really desirous ough in current affairs to know the Indians by the United States life· to be carried on by his wife. reading of Ramona by Helen was very harsh. The establish­ of being well informed about our what is going on. The other 75 Hunt Jackson. This is a story that There was a great deal of cruel nation's policies and goals so that. percent are ignorant of these ment of American law in Cali­ treatment given Mary by her deals with the psychological prob­ fornia led to readjustment of the we can see how we will best fit affairs. This is dangerous to the lems of a young girl and with associates because she was ·of the into the pattern which is set up. affairs of the United States be­ ancient land claims. These ad­ South and living in the North. px:oblems which continue to justments resulted in th'e killing I guess I cannot complain too cause people can use these 75 plague her throughout her entire She was brave and presented a much. The representation of the percent of the "agnostics" to of the Indians, the only way good stand on the home front. life, white men could force them to student body as compared to the their advantage and "throw · a The death of Abraham Lincoln repr~sentation of the townspeople monkey-wrench into the cogs." <Ramona's mother was an Indian leave their land for the Ameri- was a severe shock to all the and her father a Spaniard. Ra­ who were present at the Goals If the number of informed people cans to possess. This book tells world. Grief was in the country's for Americans Seminar was by mona had been given to her sis­ of the hardships the Indians had could be raised to 35 percent, or hearts. Mary Lincoln felt the far better. There were more stu­ an increase of 10 percent, the ter, Senora .