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Page2 THE TIMBER CRUISER Official Newspaper of the Journalism Class of Alpena Community College Published Monthly - September through June at 666 Johnson Street, Alpena, Michigan Editor ---·---- __________ Michelene Spens Associate Editor _________________________ Ernest Roy Business Manager __________________ Kim Swanton Club News Editor ____________ _ _____________________________ Mary Pat Dumsch Feature News Reporters _____________________ Charles Preston, Joey Johnston Doug Heath, George Chrzan Special Features _____________________________ Lynda Lesko Publicity Manager _________________________ Gene Dooley Sports Editor ___ Dave Jorgensen Sports Reporters Tim Delongchamp, Ron Brinkmon Carl Tadajewski, John C. Vogelheim Advertising Manager _______________ Terry Harbson Assistant Advertising Manager ----------~Ronald leeseberg Photographers Phil Genschaw, John Kell Faculty Moderator _______ M, D. Orr Yuletide Reflection THE TIMBER-CRfilSER A.C.C. Student Government Wins Prize In the midst of numerous gaily-decorated floats, Al- pena Community College managed to place a healthy third place in the annual Santa Claus parade. This parade is sponsored by the Alpena Chamber of Com- merce and it took place on Friday, November 27. The prize for the entry, cap- turing third place, was a check for fifteen dollars. Alpena Community Col- lege s float originated in its own Student Government organization. All of the Al- pena area schools and clubs were invited to participate. It was decided that our float Cartoonists in the past several Christmas seasons have caricatured would depict Santa Claus and punned the commercialization of Christmas. Comedians are con- climbing out of A.C.C.'s tinually referring to the commercial attitude of Christmas in America chimney. The float was con- today. Satirists all point up the same thing in much the same manner. structed in this fashion, Religious publications all tell of the shameful presentation of Christ- and it evidently demonstra- mas and its meaning in America today. Popular satirist-comedian ted a goodly amount of time- Tom Lehrer has punned commerc:ialization of Christmas in revised liness and originality, as Christmas Carol titles such as: "Hark the Harold Tribune Sings - proved by the third place advertising wondrous things." "God Rest Ye Merry Merchants - prize. may you make the yuletide pay," ~nd "Angels We Have Heard On Don't think that our float High - tell us to go out and buy. came to be without any Well the question comes to mind. Where does the fault lie - if work. Working without indeed the problem really exists at all? complaint and as eager as It is not out of keeping to give gifts at Christmas if we realize Santa's elves, were some that the gifts are given and received in a spirit of love and joy with ambitious members of our ane another. Legend has it that the practice stems from a token re- own Student Government. At membrance of the gift from God of Christ to the world. With our first it was hoped that other wealth and material blessings in this nation it is only natural that clubs here at A. C. C. might the gifts will be many and the value of them high. Further, merch- pick up the cue and join in ants would be insane and wasteful not to bid for their full portion with their floats, but as it of the receipts from this practice. happened, only the Student No one seems to bemoan the groaning tables laden with goodies ~~v_er'.1ment had t~e. proper that we all consurpe at Thanksgiving when we ostensively are thank- m1_t1at1ve and amb1t10n. ~or ing God for material ble.ssings_ and freeaoms. W hy., then, is ther.e,;i. c-b<:_mlr the only orgamzat_1on anything wrong with serving the best that we have to guests, rela- to represent A. C.C., they rives and friends in our homes during the Christmas season? deserve a great hand. Also, a mid-winter holiday would be conceived by a people for Wor~ on the float · wa~ the purpose of some relaxation, entertainment and enjoyment away do~e . m . the ~erchants from the hum-drum winter time activities whether it be Christmas Bmldmg m the fair grounds. or not. In fact this has been done down through the centuries by all For_ nearly a week pre- people regardless of their religious credo. cedmg the parade, o_ur stu- So, it is our contention that as long as you, and we, and all others dents were workmg as take time to reflect on the reasons behind gift giving holiday en- · eage_r as beavers. Even tertainment, and the enjoyment of a break-away fr~m everyday withm th~ Student Govern- . 1 d · f f · d f · d ment, which should be the existence coup e with the enjoyment o am1ly an nen s, there h ld f • •t • t • I · 11 b h. h f 1 b • strong o o 1m ia 1ve, cannot og1Ca y e anyt mg wrong or s ame u a out 1t. there proved to be apathy. -Charles Preston Not as many workers turned _-:,-:,:,:,:,:,:,:,:,:,:,-:,-:,-:,-:,:::::::._- .---------•--- out as expected; and of ROYAL TYPEWRITERS Zimmerman's Food and Office Machines Manual TYPEWRITERS TO RENT $5.00 per month RE-CONDITIONED TYPEWRITERS FOR SALE ADDING MACHINES - - CALCULATORS 351 N. 2ND AVE. Phone 354-8797 PICKETT'S PHARMACY PRESCRIPTIONS Lloyd Pickett, B.S. Phone 356-1635 Alpena, Mi~hi.gan those who were present, not all did their share to help. As it turned out, less than a dozen persons ac- tuaU-y did any work of con- sequence. It was this small number which really rep- resented our college. Those persons who gave their time freely were: Sue Bar- rett, Nancy Olson, Jan Fro- berg, Dave Jorgenson, Dan Bushey and Brian Mitchell. There was also some minor assistance given by others. These persons Schultz Chevrolet Co. "Chevy Service Center of the North" US-23 North Monday, December 14, i964 DEAN'S COLUMN There is a song which has always amused and intrigu- ed me. You've no doubt heard it. The ram, they say, DEAN VAN LARE doesn't have a chance but he keeps on butting the dam. A phrase from this song is, "Oops ther.e goes a billion kilo- watt dam." This leads me to present for your consideration the notion that so- ciety needs more "can do" people. The tendency is too rife in our society for people to take the position that they can perform a task if this or that is pro- vided. These requests are, of course, often proper and sometimes absolutely necessary. At other times, however, I suspect they are really attempting to find a way out of a proper obligation. I am suggesting to you that you, as you develop your philosophy of life, become a "can do, will do" person. A second notion that occurred to me while listening to a radio broadcast by Joseph C. Harsh, Chief European should not go - unnoticed, they are the true repre- sentatives of Alpena Com- munity College and of our own Student Government. - George Chrzan Letter To Editor Where has all the school spirit gone? I have been in this col- lege for one year and a half of another semester now. I've tried to make all school activities I could and be- lieve I've made most of them. But at every student affair I've seen the same few people there time af- ter time. This is not just for a dance or an outing; games are also included. When a student body' puts on a dance and never makes money, with over 500 col- lege students to participate, there is something wrong. We are just getting enough students there to pay ex- penses and that is all. Take the Circle "K" dance as an example. If all the high school students hadn't come they would have gone into red. This is a very poor showing. I'll bet if the same band played at the Acres and you could get - in, you'd go! But for fifty cents you could dance all night or just listen to mus- ic and you won't go. Dances are not all of it. It's basketball season now and A.C.C. has games in the high school gym. There aren't enough colleg~ stu- dents there to fill up one set of bleachers. Parents · come there to see the game and look across and ask, "Where are all those col- lege students that everyone is talking about?" Well, I wonder the same thing. There isn't enough school spirit in this school to put into a hollow tooth. We've got a lot of grade- school children here, how- ever who hang up cat guts in the boy's smoke room, which is a good show of school spirit. This raises the morale! But would you see this so-called-col- legiate at a dance or game? No! Mama won't let him go out that late! If there is school spirit at A.C.C., I wouldn't give you two grains of salt for the whole damn works! Correspondent for NBC. This broadcast was about Mr. Harsh' s reaction to the recent change in govern- ment in England. The tories or conservatives are out and the socialists in. Mr. Harsh mentioned that he had watched a number of changes in government both in England and the United States and that he has had personal contact with peo- ple entering office. He finds that socialists are always amazed to learn that the tories, with whom they now are associated, are not all monsters after all. Repub- licans, when they replace democrats, find that the democrats were dedicated to good government and that the democrats, as a group, do not wish_ to .baye t~- moon on a silver platter. Democrats, in turn, when they replace republicans, find that republicans do · know that the world is made up of humans and that many republicans are not without humanistic tendencies. The point I would like to make from this is that in our thinking about organized society, whether it be rela- tively small groups or large, fully organized, groups, municipalities, states, or nations, we take the r,oint of view that the "ins ' are not necessarily all wrong and all monsters and that the "outs", if they become "ins", will not really make a radical change in the direction of the organization of which they become the leaders. In other words, I am suggest- Continued on page 3 Merry Christmas & Happy New Year OPEN TILL MIDNIGHT Ed's State Ave. Party Store 1010 STATE AVENUE