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Show Catherine Crichton addresses Niki by Candace Ewing Niki Club at Cedar High had as its guest speaker Catherine Crichton. The Niki Club is for Junior and Senior High School girls and is sponsored by the Cedar City Business and Professional Womens Club. Niki Club meets once a month and is managed by the girls. This month's hostesses are Alyce Chidester and Kathy Day. Mrs. Pensis is the faculty advisor. Mrs. Crichton is a member of the Cedar City Business & Professional Womens' Club. She spoke to them about her trip to China. At the time she was a member of the Girl Reserves and about the age they are now. She was also president of the China Club. On the way to China, they stopped at Guam to deliver the mail and then to Manilla, Phillipines. She remembered remem-bered the colorful dresses with butterfly seeves that the women wore. They visited the University of Manila. Traveling to China, the Chinese men and women dressed in black. On the train, well-to-do men and women dressed in black, with small caps, long robes, and carried fans. She visited the Great Wall of China of which we have all heard. The landscape was dotted with large heaps of soil which she learned were burial mounds. There were hundreds of beggars-professional beggars-professional beggars who had been trained for that occupation and people felt compelled to give to them. Mrs. Crichton displayed some artifacts which she had brought from China. She is preparing an exhibit of Chinese art to be placed at SUSC in a cabinet in the library. |