Weekly Messenger - 1918 November 23

              The Weekly Messenger
Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL. XVIII. BELLINGHAM, WASH., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, li'18 NO. 3-4-5-6-7-8
J Announcements I
At the first meeting of the senior
class, called by Mr. Bever on Wednes­day,
<the following temporary officers
were elected for this quarter: Helen
Schwartze, president; Florence Town-send,
vice-president; Leo Brener, sec­retary;
Tillie Gish, treasurer.
NOTICE
Those who signed up for Sisters'
League. There will be a meeting
next Monday night at 7 o'clock, in
the sewing room at the. Normal, to
organize and plan the work. Every­one
who signed up as interested,
please be present. (Signed) May
Mead.
NOTICE
In order to get the club reports and
house reports, it is requested that all
clubs and houses appoint reporters if
they have not done so already.
O l NASH CONCLUDES
WAR W M M P A I GN
In addition to his duties as head of
the Normal School and various local
and patriotic activities, our president
has served as the general director
for Whatcom County in the campaign
for funds for the United War Work­ers'
camipaign. The allotted quota
was passed by about $10,000, which
speaks for the success of Dr. Nash's
leadership. Bellingham subscribed
more than $46,000 and the country dis
tricts more than $21,000.
At the close of the drive Dr. Nash
expressed the following words of ap­preciation
to a local paper:
"The united war work campaign is
drawing to a successful close. In
spite of many obstacles which have
arisen, the drive has gone forward
without interruption. City and county
have gone 'over the top' by comfort­able
margins.
"I am deeply grateful to the city,
county and district managers, to all
members of the executive committee,
to the various publicity agencies and
the noble company of men and women
who have served on teams or as so­licitors
during the campaign. I wish
heartily to thank, all contributors,
from the representatives of big busi­ness
to the humblest workers, for
their support of the seven humanitari­an
organizations.
"May the accomplishments of the
drive result, as we expect, in return­ing
to us from the battlefield and mili­tary
camp the finest body of men the
world possesses."
NORMAL'S HONOR ROLL
IN THE GREAI WAR
Now that the war has ended we are
proud to know that the Bellingham
State Normal was so well represented
in the great world struggle for hu­manity.
In the following list, a num­ber
are oversees, while many have
been waiting in cantonments through­out
the United States for their call to
France. We can hope that before
many weeks some of the men making
up our Honor Roll rmay be with us
again. Following is the list repre­sented
on our service flag. Some few
whom we know are serving in France
are listed here:
Forrest Beck
Russell Boyd
Earl Bennett
Smith Carleton
Fred Gemmell
D. H. Johnston
Kenneth Lewis
Dr. Mathes
Walter Powell
Roy Powell
Ora Sitton
Paul Thompson
Ward Whitfield
Others completing this list who
were last heard of while in the United
States may now be serving in France:
Francis Astels
Clare Altman
Edward Altman
Wayne Altman
Victor Aitken
Leonard Anstett ,
Henry Ashman
Martin Baker
C. A. Bancroft
Kirk Baxter
John Bay
Forrest Breakey
Dale Breakey
Howard Buswell
Wilfre'd Benjamin
Lee Murray Brown
Fay Breneman
Will Beardsley
Floyd Beardsley
Gordon Barrett
Melburn Bealsford
Cecil Boyes
Vernon Bixby
Lynton Bozarth
Carlton Byron
Vincent Boucher
Clay Cork
Walter Charles
John Car rick
Clyde Campbell
James Cramer
Donald C. Cray
Carlyle Crum
Edward Come
George Connell
John Davenport
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NORMAL RAISES $2,097
IN WARFARE CAMPAIGN
Read the following figures and see
if they don't make you feel glad to be
a member of a student body that came
forward so splendidly, glad, too, that
you were one of those who gave up
that "something" that you wanted, in
order that you might sign a pledge!
$896.25 from 267 pledges signed by
students, $40.00 from the Y. W. C. A.,
$323.00 from the student association,
making a total of $1259.25 from the
pledges of the students. $800.00 came
from sixty members of the faculty
and employes of the school. Some of
our students subscribed elsewhere to
the amount of $38.50, making a grand
total of $2,097.75 to be credited to
Bellingham State Normal School.
Dr. Miller is very much gratified at
the way the pledges have been com­ing
in and says:'
"I would like to express my appre­ciation
to the students and faculty for
the generous response to the United
War Work Campaign. It has involved
comparatively little work for me.
Most of the contributions have come
iii response to letters and the plat­form
appeal. In view of the fact that
school has been disorganized by the
dismissal of the students for six
weeks, the size of the contributions
is surprisingly large. While we have
not raised the total amount asked for
by the student division, I feel that in
view of the decreased size of the fac­ulty
and the smaller school attend­ance
this year, our contribution
is at least fifty per cent relatively
greater than that of one year ago.
Many expressions of good will have
accompanied the pledges of students
and teachers. I wish that I might re­ply
to them all personally but I hope
that they will accept this expression
Gf appreciation through the columns
of the Messenger."
The allied war work camipaign
should hold a peculiar interest for
every college and university student,
for it is of men—and women—of stu­dent
age that our modern day heroes
are made.
There is no mystery connected with
the prominent part youth played in
this war of wars. It was a war of
sharp wits and quick action—the qual­ities
of youth—rather than of brawn
and brute strength.
Not a student but would have been
serving with those heroes and hero­ines
if they had only their own im­mediate
interests to consider. But it
is not elected that all shall serve at
the front. There is also a future day
for which to prepare.
But even those who remain behind
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Choral Club, every Tuesday at 1:00,
room 228.
Y. W. C. A., every Thursday at 2:00,
in Y. W. C. A. room.
Philos, business meetings every
other Friday at 3:00, room 102. So­cial
gatherings on Thursdays of al­ternate
weeks.
Ohiyesa, business meetings every
two weeks, after assemfbly. Social
meetings on alternate weeks.
Studio Art Club, meets once a
month.
Alkisiah Club, regular meeting
Thursdays in Y. W. C. A.
Thespians, meet Thursday evening,
8:00 o'clock, room 308.
Alethians, first and third Thurs­days.
Hyades, first and third Thursdays,
room 308.
STUDENTS MOURN LOSS
OF ANpARRISON
As school reopens this fall after
the epidemic of influenza, we miss
from our number one whom we were "
just, learning to know and to love,
Anne Harrison. The news that she
had succumbed to the influenza was a
painful surprise to her many friends
at Normal.
The funeral was held at East
Sound, Tuesday afternoon, October
15th. Rev. J. M. Canse officiated and
Dr. Nash spoke a few words of com­fort
and appreciation.
Anne Ruth Harrison was born No­vember
29, 1900, at Talgarth Farm,-
Spring Water, Washura County, Wis.,
and died October 13, 1918, at 610
Cedar street, Bellingham, Wash., the
older daughter of Benj. E. Harrison
and Mary E. Jones Harrison. Her
brother, Thomas S. Harrison, and
sister, Zoa, are still living.
Dolly, her baby name, the one used
by all who knew her before her school
days, still clung to her. She was an
industrious, capable, generous and
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