Weekly Messenger - 1923 December 21

              A MERRY
CHRISTMAS
W'tiZ?lffi0$<0B;
A.HAPPY
NEW YEAR
1 Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal Schoo.1
VOL. XXTTT—NO. 11 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLLNGHAM, WASH. Friday, December 21, 1922
NORMAL DRAMA CLUB TO PRESENT PLAY
FATHER OF NORMAL STUDENT KILLED
S. B. WE1SER
BY AUTOMOBILE
GARRET BOSSENBROGE,
NORMAL, DRIVER
OF
Death Declared Accidental
. While crossing the street, -within a
few yards of his home, 805 Garden
street, Monday evening, Dec. 17, S. B.
Weiser was fatally injured by an auto­mobile
driven by Garret Bossenbrock,
of Ferndale, a student of the Normal
school. The accident occurred at 5:30,
and the injured man died shortly after
midnight at a local hospital.
Bossenbrock, who was grief-stricken,
reported that he was blinded by an arc
light and did not see the pedestrian un­til
the car was almost upon him. Mr.
Weiser was walking with his head down
in the. face of a strong wind, and did
not see the car. He was dragged about
thirty feet by the machine, it is said.
Stopping his car after the accident,
Bossenbrock examined Mr. Weiser, and
then rushed to a house nearby, where he
secured help. The ambulance was sum­moned
and Mr. Weiser was sent to the
hospital where X-rays were taken.
At an inquest held Tuesday after-noon,
the accident was held to be en­tirely
accidental. Bossenbrock gave a
straight-forward report of the occur­rence.
Mr. Weiser leaves his wife and two
sons, one of whom, John Weiser, is a
prominent Normal student.
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(Mettnar A REVIEW OF THE CtUARTElR
JANUARY 4.
Drama Club will present plays in the
Auditorium.
JANUARY 16.
Paul Althouse, Tenor, will present a
musical program.
FEBRUARY 7. . (
Dr. A. B. Hart, lecturer.
FEBRUARY 27.
Max Rosen, violinist, will present a
musical program.
MARCH 10.
Dr. Mukerji will lecture to the stu­dents.
MARCH 28.
Charles Rann Kennedy and company
in "The Chastening/
BOARD ARRANGES FOR
NEXT QUARTERLY
ABOLISH THE ALL-STUDENT
DANCE
Constitution Under Revision
MANY VIEW
EXHIBIT OF
ART DEPT.
SUGGESTIONS OF CHRISTMAS
GIFTS MADE
. An exhibit was held in the Art de­partment
Monday, Tuesday and Wed­nesday
of this week. The center of in­terest
in each room was a tree. The
decorations for these trees, although
made by students, lacked none of the
charm of purchased ones.
The exhibit was arranged as follows:
Primary tree and art work, Miss
Johnston's room. A Christmas sand
table and dolls of all descriptions in
this room were greatly admired by all
visitors.
Intermediate and upper grade tree and
display, Mrs. Stewart's room. Desk
sets, writing portfolios, memorandum
pads, oilcloth covers for the telephone
directory, were objects of isterests here.
Rural work, basketry and handwork,
in Miss Druse's room. The display of
basketry, trays, fruit baskets, work
Daskets, flower baskets and such things
held the crowds in this room.
The remaining room held the display
of handwork: Handwork, embroid­ered
and. with colored borders, embroid­ered
runners. Three clever French dolls
drew admiring exclamation.
A great many visitors, both students
and outsiders enjoyed the display.
Training school children as well as the
art students of the Bellingham high
schools, who were escorted by their re:
spective instructors, were also visitors
during the exhibit.
The Board of Control held a regular
meeting Monday afternoon, at which
time plans were completed for the
Christmas party to be given December
20. Tt was decided to ask the-nlubs as
well as a number of individuals to assist
in the program to be given at that time.
The Board also decided in order to se­cure
a greater interest in the party, to
award prizes for several competitive
events.
The Board also discussed the new con­stitution.
Mi'. Bond and Mr. O'Rourke
were appointed to confer with President
Fisher regarding contemplated changes
in the instrument.
A school mixer for next quarter was
also arranged for at this meeting. This
mixer will take place January 25. On
account of the crowded condition of the
institution it was decided not to give
an all student dance at this time, nor
in the future.
RURAL LIFE
CLUB HOLDS
XMAS PARTY
CLUB TO GIVE
ENTERTAINMENT
. 4
THREE ONE-ACT PLAYS ARE
ON PROGRAM
Mr. Hoppe Director
VIKINGS WIN
FIRST GAME
OF SEASON
DEFEAT THE FAIRHAVEN BY
42 TO 8 SCORE
DECEMBER GRADUATES
RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
MEMBERS ENTERTAINED BY
DR. AND MRS. MILLER
Season's Schedule Is Announced
Tulip Issues Questionnaire
The Crimson Tulip, of Whatcom high
/ school, has recently had a questionnaire
similar to that put out hy the Normal
Messenger. The front page, sport page,
and "minute movies," had the highest
number of votes. Favorite columns were
Minute Movies and School Items; with
Society second.
The majority of students were in fav­or
of enlarging the paper and with ten
exceptions the students stated that
others besides themselves read their I expected to attend
papers, and 840 said they considered the The patrons and
Dr. and Mrs. Miller very pleasantly
entertained the Rural Life club at their
home on 16th street on Wednesday
evening, December 19, 1923.
The spirit of Christmas seemed to
prevail in every little corner, as well as
in the words and thoughts of the guests.
The house was beautifully decorated
with Christmas colors and trimmings.
The large Christmas tree and the fire­place
attracted and deserved much
praise.
The first part of the evening was
taken u p by the program, which con­sisted
of music by Mrs. Fisher and
Mrs. Miller, and club songs and Christ­mas
carols.
Games and refreshments followed.
Toward the latter part of the evening
Santa Claus presented a Christmas gift
to each of the members that was pres­ent.
0. OF W. ALUMNI
DANCE
Plans have been completed for the
dance to be given at Danceland on
Thursday evening, December 27, by the
Whatcom County Alumni association of
the State University. Tickets will be
on sale next week, according to George
McCush, chairman of the committee. At
the two local high schools, where the
seniors have been especially invited, the
presidents of the senior classes will
have charge of the ticket.sale. "All col­lege
graduates and present students are
advertisers when they shopped.
They are ; considering changing [the
name of their paper to one which con­tains
the word Whatcom.
patronesses are:
Judge and Mrs. John A. Kellogg, Pres­ident
and Mrs. C. H. Fisher of the Nor­mal
school, and Mayor and Mrs. E. T.
Mathes.
V
The Vikings defeated the fast Fair-haven
quintet on their own floor last
Tuesday to a tune of 42 to 8. The Nor­mal
squad out-classed and out-played
the less experienced high school squad
in every department of the game. Coach
Carver is very well pleased with the
showing that his team made this early
in the season. He expects to turn out
one of the best teams in all the basket­ball
history of the college.
Vanderford and Thomas did the stel­lar
work for the Teachers, but better
things are expected of them as the
season progresses. Thus far Coach
Carver has been able to submit the fol­lowing
schedule:
January 18, College of, Puget Sound,
at Tacoma.
January 19, St. Martin's College, at
Lacey. .
February 2, Cheney Normal, at Bel­lingham.
February 9, Ellensburg, at Bellingham.
February 21, Cheney, at Cheney.
February 23, WJhitworth, at Spokane.
March 1, College of Puget Sound, at
Bellingham.
The Vikings will also have a practice
game with the Anacortes Elks, Decem­ber
29, at Bellingham.
Fifty-eight graduates of the State
Normal School at Bellingham will re­ceive
their diplomas in the regular as­sembly
hour on Friday, December 21.
Fifty-five of this number are com­pleting
the two-year course, two are
graduating from; the three-year course
and one is to receive a diploma for the
four year's work.
Formal exercises will be dispensed
with this year, as the majority of the
class voted against so much formality.
Pres. Fisher will make a brief address,
after which the diplomas will be pre­sented
to the class.
STATE BOARD
OF CURRICULA
VISIT NORMAL
The Drama Club will present three
one-act plays on the evening of January
4, in the auditorium.
Mr. Hoppe is enthusiastic about the
way the rehearsals are going, and
promises fine productions.
Three Pills in a Bottle, is a fantastic
comedy based on a crippled boy's
strange fancies and his mother's disap­proval
of them.
The Cast.
Tony Sims Dorothy Brown
The Widow Sims Helen Parsons
Middle Aged Gentleman Ed Berloski
His Soul Margaret Newlove
A Scissors Grinder Maudie Withers
His Soul Clara le Soine
A Scrub Woman Gretchen Wiede
Her Soul Miriam Sherman
The second play, "Dust of the Road,"
is a modern mystery play laid in the
Mid-west and the characters are typi­cal
of the hard, grasping type x6f men
called a "skinflint," who have no out­look
upon life except a selfish one. A
tramp is introduced into their midst and
teaches them the charity and kindness
to others that is symbolic of the Christ­mas
spirit. -
Cast
Peter Steele '. John O'Rourke
Prudence Steele.. ;... Mrs. Sam Carver
An Old Man Franklin Lock
A Tramp Harold MacTaggart
MISS DAWSON
TO BE BURIED
ON SATURDAY
ACCOMPANIED PRESIDENT
AND TRUSTEES
Dean Waller Greets Students
FORMER ART INSTRUCTOR AT
NORMAL DIES
Interment At 2:00 P. M.
FRESHMAN MIXER
The third of the series of • mixers
given by the JFreshman class, D^c. 14,
was the most successful of the season.
Games and old dances, such as the Vir­ginia
Reel, and Portland Fancy, furnish­ed
entertainment until about nine-thir­ty,
when dancing began. Sherman's or­chestra
furnished the music.
Thes,funeral for Miss Lulu B. Dawson,
a former member of the faculty of this
school, will be held at 2 o'clock on Sat­urday
afternoon at the O. R. Hollings-worth
Funeral Home./
Miss Dawson served as instructor in
the Art department from 1914 to 1917.
She was taken very ill before leaving
the Normal and suffered an extended
illness of 18 months.
For the last two years she taught in
a settlement house in Dayton, Ohio.
The art work that was done there under
Miss Dawson's, instruction was consid­ered
extraordinarily good.
Mrs. Frederick Abbott, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., sister of Miss Dawson, brought
the body here for burial.
Members of the faculty and former
students who were acquainted with Miss
Dawson are much "grieved at the ^news
of her ideath. Her friends remember, her
for her. sunny, cheerful disposition and
for the indomiriable courage she dis­played
in spite of .her suffering.
The State Board of Higher Curricula
visited the Normal Tuesday. The mem­bers
were present at the morning as­sembly
and later they inspected the
school with President Fisher and W. B.
Whiteomb and Dr. W. D. Kirkpatrick,
of the board of trustees.
Dean Waller of the State College, as
representative of the board, greeted the
students.
The board members present were: E.
B. Stevens, executive secretary of the
Washington State university, who rep­resented
Henry Suzallo; Dean Waller,
who represented Dr. 0.--;.E.' Holland,
president of the state college, now in
Europe; L. D. McArdle, head of the
state department of efficiency and
chairman of the board of higher cur­ricula;
Judge Dudley G. Wooten, of
Seattle; Fred K. Jones, of Spokane;
and the secretary of the board, Mr.
Watson, who is deputy to Mr. McArdle.
W. H. Abel, of Montesano, and Dr. N.
D. Showalter, president of the Cheney
Normal. The other members were unable
to attend.
0-
"Spreading the News," Irish farce, by
Lady Gregory is typical" of her writings.
It is an excellent portrayal of the com­mon
people of Ireland, their supersti­tions
and neighborhood gossip. Such
stories as these have made Lady Gre­gory
an author- of merit and given her
world-wide fame. '
Cast.
Bartley Fallon Horace Walker
Mrs. Fallon Mary Reep
Jack Smith Francis Clausen
Shawn Early Oliver Nelson
Tim Casey .1 Don Tunstall
James Rian Sheldon Bajema
Mrs. Tarpey Ida Price
Mrs. Tully Corrine Beaudry
A.Policeman ; Gordon Broadbent
A Magistrate Franklin Lock
THE SPIRIT
OF CHRISTMAS
HAS ARRIVED
QUARTERLY TESTS ARE OVER
Everyone May Rest
HOME ECONOMICS DEPT.
HOLDS EXHrBIT
' The Home Economics department of
the Normal School held an exhibit of
work done in the classes in sewing on
Wednesday and Thursday, December
1!) and 20, in the sewing room. „
The work, which ranged f rom, tea
towels to elaborate afternoon dresses,
was done by girls in the beginning
sewing class and advanced dressmaking
class, and by training: school girls of the
fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades.
A great many students and faculty
members took advantage of this oppor­tunity
to • view the work of the Home
EconomicSi department. :
Faculty.\'.members were • especially in­vited^
to/attend between , 4 ^ and 5 on
Thursday and have a cup of chocolate.
Who was the bird that said: "God
rest you, merry gentlemen, let nothing
you dismay . . ?" We know several
merry gentlemen who are wishing just
now that they had rested, themselves a
little less during the past quarter, and
who are decidely lacking in the merry •
and festive spirit commonly, ascribed
to the good old Yule-tide season. Of
course there are the wise, foresighted
holders-down of front seats in classes,
whose calm assurance is the least bit
tiresome just now—at least to the rest
of us. No, taken as a general thing,
"God rest you, merry gentlemen, let
nothing you dismay" is an inappropriate
motto for the Normal during this last
week. Very few of us could have carried
it out with much sincerity.
But now that all the tests are fin­ished
and everyone breathes normally •
again, Christmas is certainly the most
wonderful season of the year. Things
are never as bad as they seem, and hair-raising
grades aren't half as prevalent
as one might be led to suppose by well-meaning
professors and upper classmen.
. The Chirstmas holidays are here, and
with them, the spirit of Christmas as
it has been from the beginning. Wie
cannot but be caught in its tide and
swept on through the ten days before
school begins on the second. May you
all be as light-hearted as you were when
you believed in Santa Claus; may you
fbid exactly- what you wanted most in
^your. capacious stocking; may you .stay
upflate and get home late every anight,:
and never get up till noon. i