Weekly Messenger - 1917 April 21

              THE WEEKLY MESSENGER
Vol. XVI.
Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
BELLINGHAM, WASH., SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1917 No. 28
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POSITION IN SEATTLE SPEAK IN
TO ELEMENT
S E A M GHUCKANUT
Mr. W. S. Moodie, «f the biology
department of the Bellingham Normal,
went to Seattle Saturday. While there
he attended the meetings of the Mu­nicipal
League. It seems that Seattle
is going to fall in line with other cities
in the movement for conservation and
the increase of the food supply by
utilizing every bit of available land.
Mr. Moodie was asked to supervise
this work in Seattle. He will have his
headquarters at the Lincoln high
school but will supervise the work in
the other high schools as well. This
is an office that has just been created
to meet the war conditions. Mr.
Moodie telephoned up and asked to be
•released from his connection with the
Normal in order that he might accept
the position offered him. He took up
his new work on Tuesday.
Mr. Moodie has been connected with
the department of biology in the Bel­lingham
Normal for the past nine
years. He has been a very efficient
instructor in his line of work. His in­fluence
has also been felt in the other
activities of the school. During the
past year he has been chairman of the
lecture course committee. Mr. Moodie
was popular with the students and
faculty alike, and will be greatly
missed by all. "We wish him the best
of work and congratulate him on
of success in his new and larger field
being elected to so responsible a po­sition.
Dr. Herre will have charge of Mr.
Moodie's classes in botany, and Dr.
Kaylor will take the class in zoology.
Miss McCown and Miss Ormsby will
be in Seattle over the week-end, Fri-;
day they expect to attend open house
in the recently completed Home Eco­nomics
hall at the University of Wash­ington.
Work will be conducted in the
laboratories and exhibits will be dis­played.
' On Saturday the annual
"spring conference of the Washington
State Home Economics Association
will be held in the same building. Miss
Ormsby. is to be one of the.speakers.
Her subject will be: the "Eighth
Grade Course of Study" with refer­ence
to Home Economics work. Ar­rangements
have been made to enter­tain
out of town guests at the sorority
houses and in the homes of home
economics students at dinner and over
night on Friday.
Mrs. Colby heard the Damrosch or­chestra
in Seattle this last week-end
and reports that she enjoyed some
splendid numbers.
The training school, under the di­rection
of Mrs. Colby, is to put on an
operetta entitled "Jack antl the Bean
Stalk."
Mr. Bond attended a lecture at a
meeting of the Parent-Teacher's Asso­ciation
of Camano this week.
The State Board met last Thurs­day.
The different Normal school
presidents were asked to submit their
plans for a revised course of study
under the new law.
Cadet Lee Gray writes to Dr. Nash
from West Point under date of April
9th. Lee says the West Point school
is a busy place these days, and that
his time is fully occupied with work
and studies.
Tom Marshall ex '14. visited school
Wednesday.
Tom Scarseth was visiting old
friends at the Normal Wednesday. He
has taken his examination for entrance
at West Point, but has not received
his returns, so he decided to come
home while waiting to hear the out­come
of the examination.
ALKISIAHS TO GIVE
PLAY MAY 12
On Saturday night, May 12th, in the
Normal Auditorium, the Alkisiah club
will offer to the public and to the stu­dent
body one of the most delightful
plays of modern times. "Prunella" or
"Love in a Dutch Garden," was writ­ten
several years ago by two promi­nent
English poets and play-wrights,
Laurence Housman and Granville Bar­ker.
Both in London and later in New
York the play was wonderfully re­ceived,
and has been considered one of
the most exquisite additions to the
field of fanciful drama. Part of the
dialogue is in verse, fine, rollicking
verse, and part in pointed and cleverly
done prose. At no time does the action
drag. In fact, for the combination of
brilliancy and lyric beauty, this little
three-act comedy is hardly surpassed
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The Elementaries won the Chucka­nut
marathon race last Saturday by a
large margin. This evens up the hon­ors
between the three, classes. The
Juniors excell in athletics, for they
won the basketball championship and
the Kline cup. The Seniors showed
their intellectual acquirements by win­ning
the public speaking contest and
incidentally the fifty dollar prize. The
Elementaries proved that they excel
in endurance and grit for they won
the Marathon cup in the race to
Chuckanut last Saturday. So the
honors are even and everyone is
happy.
The Marathon race is one of the
big events of the year at the Belling­ham
Normal. The race is between
classes and not between individuals,
and that class wins which gets the
greatest percentage of its enrollment
to the top of Chuckanut mountain
during the day sometime between the
hours of ten in the morning and four
in the afternoon.
Last year this race did not come
off on account of rain, but this year
conditions were a little more favor­able.
Early Saturday morning it
looked as if it was going to rain, and
it did rain a little all day, but for all
that the flag on the knoll went up,
which was the signal that the race
would take place.
The basketball girls, who made up
the trail marking committee, were
the first to start. They started at
6:45 and reached the top of the moun­tain
at 9 o'clock. They marked both
trails with flags and with pieces of
red crepe paper scattered along the
path or hung on the bushes and trees
along the trail. This proved a great
help to those who came after.
Three hundred sixty-one Normalites
reached the top of the mountain dur­ing
the day. Sometimes they came in
large groups and sometimes in small
groups and each time their arrival
caused rejoicing or chagrin among
those who were already at the top; all
depending on whether the new arriv­als
were Juniors, Seniors or Elemen­taries.
Those who were to register
the new names at the top did their
duty cheerfully and with interest.
Those who came up last met many
coming down the trail, and heard
words of discouragement or encour­agement,
this depending also on what
class they belonged to. We did not
hear of any being discouraged to the
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Monday, April 23, 1917.
Assembly. Miss Druse and Miss
Bisaza will speak.
3:20. Boys' baseball practice, Se-home
field.
4:10. Boys' Glee club meets.
7:30. "Rose Maiden" practice.
Tuesday, April 24, 1917. ...•!:
9:30. Junior class meeting.
4:10. TJkelele club meets.
Wednesday, April 25, 1917.
Assembly. Home Economics De;
monstration by Miss Ormsby and
Miss McCown. ....;-.
4:10. Choral club meets. . ..; >
Thursday, April 26, 1917.
9:30. Dr. Williamson's Educational
Photos. Motion pictures of Yo-semite
and Grand Canyon of Col-.
orado.
4:10. Y. W. C. A.
7:30. Aletheia meeting.
H. L. S. meeting.
Philomathean meeting.
Ohiyesa society meeting.
Friday, April 27, 1917.
Assembly. Miss Cummins, Miss-
Gray and Miss Lee wil present a
joint program.
Saturday, April 28, 1917.
10:00 a. m. Studio club meets.
OBSERVE ARBOR DAY
Some little time ago the Ohyesa Lit­erary
Society extended an invitation
to the other organizations of the
school to join with them in observing
Arbor day in a fitting manner. The
other organizations took up the plan
and preparations were made for suit­able
exercises. Miss Baker, of the
Nature Study department, selected
the spots on the campus where things .
might be planted and made sugges-.
tions to the different clubs as to what
would be most suitable. The gard­ener
prepared the holes, and members
of the clubs carried up rich black soil
from the swamp to fill around the
plants.
The program in assembly Friday
was an Arbor Day program. Mrs.
King, president of the Ohyesa Society,
gave a short talk on the purpose of
the exercises. Mr. David Griffith, of
our local Bulb Farm, talked about
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