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Sophomores organize first Spanish Class
“La Giralda,” a Spanish club, was recently organized by sophomore Spanish students of Corpus Christi Junior college. The charter members include the following students: Miss Laurine McVea, Miss LeMoyne Hodges, Miss Geraldine Renfro, Juan de Alcala, Fred Castillo, James Dinn, and Joseph Gude.
Officers of the club are Juan de Alcala, president; Miss Laurine McVea, vice-president; James Dinn, treasurer; and Joseph Gude, secretary. Mrs. Renee Kerr is the sponsor.
At the first official meeting of the club Dr. Fritz Hoffman, of the history department of the college, gave a most interesting lecture about the University of Mexico. The entire talk was in Spanish. Rafael Galvan Jr. played a violin solo.
On November 11 a “junta” was held at the Mexico City delicatessen, where a Mexican dinner was served.
The following students were initiated into the club: Mrs. Wm. Gerhardt, Miss Sarah Kaffie, Gregory Montoya and Henry Lozano.
The meetings are all conducted in Spanish, the aim of the club being to stimulate interest in the Spanish language.
Meetings are held on the first and third Tuesdays of every month.
Junior College organized with an enrollment of 131
Individual Instruction and Small Expense Featured
The Corpus Christi Junior college organized this year opened on September 11, 1935, with an enrollment of 131. The college, one of seventeen municipal colleges in Texas, is part of the Corpus Christi school system and offers the first two years of university instruction.
Corpus Christi Junior college offers students the opportunity of remaining at home two years longer. It has the advantages of small expense, small classes, individual instructors, and vocational guidance.
At present classes are held in senior high school building from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. Plans are being made to have a separate college building in the future.
Besides the regular college courses, adult education classes, which meet the needs of the citizens of Corpus Christi who can not avail themselves of the regular school and college curricula, are being held.
Non-credit classes have been organized in conversational Spanish, short story writing, public speaking, engineering and commercial education.
Freshmen organize at first meeting
For the purpose of organizing and discussing activities of interest to the members of the class, Freshmen met Monday night at the college.
Officers were selected as follows: Thomas Thorton, president; Olga Doan, vice president; Verna Lee Harris, secretary-treasurer.
The sponsors are Dr. Fritz Hoffman and Mrs. Marian Underwood.
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