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Normal Faculty Will Have Four­teen
New Members; Forty-four
Returning.
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NEW OFFICES AEE CREATED
Forty-four re-appointments, fourteen
n^w appointments, two leaves of ab­sence,
two fesignsttions, and the cre-y\
ation of two new offices are the out­standing
features of the final complete
organization of the faculty of the Nbr-i
mal School for the coming year.
The new members .are: Edward J.
\ ' Arntzen, Stella M.: Fowler, Alma 6.
y Madden, Myrtle Funkhauser, Mary E.
Rich, Maude Kavanagh', Nancy Milligan,
Pfiscilla Kinsman, M. Esther Caseley,
Theresa C. Gunther, Hilda F. Rosene,
Maude M. Slawsori; Clifford 0. JSewdall
and Pelagius Williams.
Miss Nora B. Cummins, and Miss Lin­da
Countryman have been granted a
- v leave of absence for one year to at­tend
Columbia University. Mrs. Hedges
Has resigned from her position in the
Music Department, her resignation to
take effect at the close of the sum­mer
session.. Mr. Horace Rahskopf has
resigned to accept a position as head of
the Speech Department at Willamette
University.
New Offices Created.
Mr. Bever is to fill the new office of
Dean of the Normal School. This means
that he will give most of his time to
schedules, checking the scholarship of
students and advising students regard­ing
their work. His former position as
,-''. head of the Department of History will
be filled by Mr. Williams.
Mr. Marquis has been appointed to
the office of Dean of Men. He will
* continue to be a member of the Depart­ment
of Education. As Dean of Men,
he will act as advisor to the men of the
school in all matters that pertain to
their welfare.
Following is the complete faculty
corps for 1924-25.
Dean of the Normal School, James
"Bever.
Dean of Women, Adele M. Jones.
Dean of Men, W. J. Marquis.
Fine Arts: Marie Carey Druse, Mar-gurite.
Landis Stuart, Marjorie Johnson,
Hazel Breakey.
Education: I. E. Miller, W. J. Marquis,
' 'Frank Salisbury, L. A. Kibbe, Delia
flteeler. Arthur Kolstad.
English: H. E. Fowler, M. Belle Sper-
V ry, Olive Edens, Ruth A. Hussey, An-
Tiette Vaughan.
Foreign Languages: Helen Beardsley,
J who is returning after a two-year leave
of absence.
' History and Social Science: Pelagius
/Williams, James Bever, N. P. Lawson,
FRIDAY—August 15.
Campus Capers.
TUESDAY—August 19.
Edith Nordstrom, of Seattle, formerly
of Bellingham, will give a piano re­cital
in assembly.
FRIDAY—August 22.
The Spargur String Quartet will give
a recital in assembly.
THURSDAY—August 28,
Commencement.
MOUNT BAKER
BY MORE THAN SIXTY
a )!
BY SUMMER CHORUS
Solo Numbers Carried by Faculty
aiid Students.
Grease Paint at Snowline Causes
Singular Appearances.
Sixty-two. people, under the leader­ship
of Mr. Hazard, of Seattle, and Mr,
Kolstad, reached the top of Mt. Baker,
Saturday, August 8. The ascent was
very successful in that all excepting one,
who attempted the climb, reached the
summit.
The party camped at Heliotrope Ridge
Friday night. Everyone was roused at
four o'clock, Saturday morning, and
breakfast was served at five. At half
past five the climbers hit the trail, the
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IMPORTANT MEETING
IS HELDBY BOARD
Messenger Offices Now Open for
-"^^-•^^"•'Applicaiab'ns.-'^ -•-.-
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Four important features were dis­cussed
at the Board of Control meeting
held Tuesday, August 12l The follow­ing
is a list of the disussions.
An oval shaped sticker four inches to
four and one-half inches in diameter
will replace last year's pennant for
trunks and baggage. The stickers will
have a Viking Ship upon a blue and
white background, and the name of the
Normal will be printed around the bor­der.
The stickers will be ready for dis­tribution
several days before the sum­mer
quarter ends.
• Bids for printing of the Blue Book
will be received until Saturday, when
the Board will decide which company
shall have the .contract. The books will
be ready by the first "of the Fall Quar­ter.
Application for editorship and man­agership
for the Weekly Messenger will
be open until 4 o'clock this afternoon.
A communication from the advanced
students at Cheney Normal was re­ceived
arid discussed. The third and
fourth year students at Cheney are cir­culating
a petition requesting the State
Legislature to grant them degrees. The
petition may be circulated at Belling­ham
Normal.
After weeks of preparation t i e sum­mer
school chorus, under the leadership
of Mrs. Hedges presented Mendelssohn's
oratorio, the "Elijah," last nighi in the
auditorium.
The oratorio is taken from the Book
of Kings, and is the story of the prophet
Elijah and his efforts to" save Israel
from destruction.
AH solo parts were carried by faculty
members and students, with the excep­tion
of the role of Elijah, which was
portrayed by Dr. Wickens, a local phy­sician,
who kindly donated his services.
Other soloists were Mr. Harrison Rav-morid,
Miss Adele Jones, Miss Grace
Headrick, faculty member, and* Mrs.
Edna Griffin, Anne McGivern, Ruth
McCullough, Thora Linrud, Marguerite
Sadler, and Sheldon Bajema, students.
Gladys Goss and Carl Johnson wf-re
accompanists, combining two pianos on
accompaniments to the chorus, and al­ternating
in solo accompaniments.
There were seventy-five me others" in
the chorus.
Vigor and splendid harmony marked
the choruses, while sincerity and charm
characterized the solos. The best known
chorus was "He watches over Israel."
Solos deserving especial praise were "It
is enough," by Dr. Wickins; "If with
your hearts," by Mr. Raymond; "0 rest
in the Lord," by Miss Headrick, and
"Hear ye Israel," by Mrs. Griffin.
Miss Jones and Miss McGivern sang
with well blended voices the duet "Zion
spreadeth her hands."
Mrs. Hedges deserves commendation
for her inspiring leadership and compe­tent
supervision-of the-production. -—•
JAMES BEVER
Who Has Been Appointed to the
New Office of Dean of the Norma).
TWO DROWN IN LAKE
AS CANOE OVERTURNS
Tragedy Occurs Sunday When
Squall Comes Up.
People Apparently Insane
Are Only Nature Students
Blanche Kramer
ft-;©;
Most any bright day if one would
take the trouble to look he would see
the Campus and Sehoriie dotted Avith
strange acting individuals. Some of
these people stand and gaze upward into
•'•-.' the clear skies and then all of a sud­den
dart forward madly waving a white
cup shaped thing attached to a long
stick. Finally, w'ith3 one sweep the
fish net affair is flying earthward and
'•':& cry of: "I have it now! It's a beauty
too!" is heard from the queer acting
person. ;
^^•.'••'.'.'.•/.Fairther down the campus a young
gentleman is . seen kneeling on his
prayer bones in full view of everyone.
He scans the mehisnism of the; lawn
;^ intently. There is no need to become
':;;•':/;>v:*iaraied'.;at.•such maneuvers on the part
";V !;of ^our fellow students; they are mere-
•'^:!!'i:--V-)\^l^/::^^:«i,i*ill$r- :-'.f*>r-' r**-^6. specimens for ria-
^,:^:^ure';-;studyf classes.: . ^ ;.
$£&%;Upin the wilds::of Sehome on? may
|||;;§:run^.acrb^s'- some;' student : of Nature
^llt^tidy^ ;'•• Dut n0
l';;/*|Sl^mi:>he i'i&;: searchmg;: ^for^^pleurbccbci,.
!;i||l:pftiti^raej ;j • earwigs v :or' ; piiiiiately •• >c°m-
Lake Whatcom claimed two victims
Sunday evening, August 11, when a
canoe containing Eursula Attwood and
Myron Little, both of Bellingham, cap­sized.
Miss Attwood and Mr. Little were re­turning
the canoe to Silver Beach boat
landing after a picnic with Mr. and Mrs.
Perry Esterbrooks, at Agate Bay, when
a squall came up. It is believed that
this caused the canoe to overturn.
The Esterbrooks motored to Silver
Beach, expecting to meet the yoimg
people there but as night drew on and
the canoists did not appear, the Ester­brooks
became worried. Mr. Ester­brooks
tried searching for the young
people in a rowboat. The plan was soon
abandoned as the lake was too rough for
safety, so Mr. and Mrs. Esterbrooks
motored home alone to notify, the po­lice.
• The canoe, two hats, and two coats
were found floating near Agate Bay.
The bodies have not been recovered.
NEW FACULTY GOMES
FROMM^SfAfES
Fifteen New Members on Faculty
for Next Year.
W..J. MARQUIS,
New Dean of Men.
WASHINGTON STATE
ALUMNI HOLD PICNIC
The State College Alumni Association
of Whatcom County held its annual pic­nic
at State Park, Thursday evening.
All graduates and former students of
the State College of Washington were
invited to the Salmon bake. About
thirty alumni of Skagit County, and as
many from Whatcom were present.
Those from Whatcom County included
those now registered' at the Normal.
Harry Chambers, secretary of the Asso­ciation
was a guest.
The evening was spent in playing
games, giving stunts, swimming, eating
and giving the old yells and songs from
W. S. C.
PIANO RECITAL GIVEN
Artist From' Cornish School Gives
Excellent Program. -
Many a student has had a rather
hard jolt when his or her chum rushed
into his or her room and exclaimed,
"Say, I'm looking for bugs." Now, no
one likes to have others come into his
room looking for bugs!
There is: a time in the events of every­day
life when demand exceeds supply,
and so it is now with the Nature Study* M r . E u g e n e Field Musser, who is eon-classes.
They have gathered all t h e ' n e c t e d w i t h t h e C o r n i s h S e h o o l o f M u s i C)
bugs and have given all the trees, weeds, g a v e a p i a m ) r e c i t a , b e f o r e tKe as&m b.
ferns, shrubs and mosses in the vicinity l y , a g t T u e s d a y . T h e audience was de-of
the Normal the once over. It is now ] i g h t e d b y h i g e x p r e s s i v e rendition of
necessary for them to take long-hikes]composition by Brahms and Chopin, as
to other localities tand continue their • w e U a g s o n M of the m o d e r n c o m p o 8 e r s>
searching there. The classes have taken •M r . M l I S 8 e r , t o l d 8 o m ething abuot the com
several hikes and trips to various places ; p o s e r 8 , Uy^ a n d Ve ^ backgrounds
and among others visited State Park:|f o r 8 0 m e of t h e c 6 m p o 9 i t i ons he. played;
State Park; furnished a great variety of t } m 9 aiding the-audience to interpret
TWO STUDENTS GOME
FROM IOWA Iff FORD
The fourteen new faculty members
of the Normal School for the coming
year have been drawn from various im­portant
positions in many schools and
states. Among the instructors, chosen
are two new heads of departments:
Mary E. Rich, director of the Training
School, and Pelagius Williams, head of
the Department of History and Social
Science.
Two New Heads Experienced.
Miss Mary E. Rich has been appoint­ed
Director of the Training School. She
has her B. S. and A. M. degrees from
Teachers' College, Columbia University;
She was a supervisor in the State Nor­mal
School,' Winona,- Minnesota, and
supervisor in the State Normal School,
Oshkdsh, Wisconsin. She supervised for
some time in the Training School at the
University of Chicago, and has had
charge of student teaching in the
Women's College of the University of
Delaware. Recently she had charge of
stu/lent teaching at tne Worth Carolina
College for Women.
New Head for History Department.
Mr. Pelagius Williams becomes the
head of the department of History and
Social Science. For some time he has
been head of the department of History
and Government at the State Teachers'
College, Emporia, Kansas. He has his
A. M. degree from the University of
Chicago, has completed all residence re­quirements
for the Ph. D. degree there
and is working on his thesis which he
hopes to have completed soon. He
spent one year in study at Columbia
University. ...,,V. .;,
Miss Madden Returns.
Miss Alma G. Madden, who was con­nected
with the Normal School a year
ago, has been appointed to fill the po­sition
left vacant by Mr. Rahskopf. She
has her A. B. degree from Earlham Col­lege,
and has studied at the University
of Chicago, and University of Iowa.
She has .had experience teaching high
schools, Penn College, Iowa, and in the
University of Iowa. '
Mr. Edward J. Arhtzen is to take the
place of Miss ^Nora B. Cummins while
she is on leave of absence. He has his
A. B. degree, and is about to receive
his Masters Degree at the University of
Washington. He has been principal of
the high school at Wapato, Wash.
Miss Stella M. Fowler will take the
place of Miss Linda Countryman, who
is.also on a leave of absence. Miss Fow­ler
has a B. S. degree from the Univer-
T IS DATE
Campus Will be Brilliant When
Two Hundred Electric
Lights Are Lit.
FORTUNES UNFOLDED FREE
The committee for Campus Capers"
promises an interesting and lively pro­gram
this evening. The campus is to be
lighted with two hundred lights, half of
which are, to be artistically arranged
Japanese lanterns. There, will be re­freshment
booths; also fortune telling
booths for those who wish to know
whether or not fate decrees that they
should always be school teachers.
A number of clever stunts wtiicn* have'
been prepared by the students will begin
the fun of the evening. After tie
stunts, interesting and lively games will:
be played. The latter part of the eve­ning
will be given over to dancing on the.
campus.
A special feature of the dancing will
be some old fashioned quadrilles intro­duced
by some of the faculty who have
carefully prepared for the gala occasion.
MR. IRWIN ADDRESSES
LOCAL KIWANIS CLUB
Junior High School Work lit
Subject of Speech.
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Mr. Irwin, of the mathematics depart*
ment, spoke on the Junior High School
at a meeting of the Kiwanis Club held
at the Hotel Leopold last Tuesday after­noon.
In his talk Mr. Irwin. explained the
necessity of having a special institution
for children between the ages of eleveVi
nd one half to fifteen and one half year8
and described the functions of the junior
high .school in the high school work. The
junor high school, Mr. Irwin saidj
should give the children an introductidn-to
science, art, social usage, and practi­cal
citizenship.
That the members of the club were
impressed with the talk, Mr. Ralph'.
Loo'mis, president of the club proved
when he. characterized it as the most
practical and illuminating talk the jun­ior
high school he had ever heard.
Mr.-Kinneman of the social science
department will speak to the club in
the near future.
News Dealers Throw Light
On What The Public Reads
Madge Boyer
Top Is Blown Off Car by Strong
Kansas Wind.
specimens including sand fleas, crabs,
mosquitoes, - wild onions> squirrels, etc.
After all these things are dragged
home, each student hqjds "onto, his
valuable property with a jealous air of
watchfulness. 'The bugs are encased ™jCapricclo--Opus 116
little boxes filled with cotton and cov:j: -, T h r g e pr e l udes
ered with glass lids. The leaves and
flowers are .mounted upon .; card.bbard
and :held;^?for>the teacher?s!0. K<. -: ; (Cbhtinued; on ;Page T^b)
them.
It was • necessary to change the pro­gram
slightly on account of the limited
time.,:/. ";'' . '•;: ' '•''\ •
The program was as follows: :
...........Brahms
..;...........::..J.;^. Chojjin
Scherzo, B Minor ..:.......„..;.>„.i.:. Chopin
W. H. Dickes and Ray Swank, with
two other men, came from Fort Wayne,
Indiana, to' Bellingham, Washington, in
a Ford. The trip started last May 1,
when the desire to travel captured them.
Their county superintendent suggested
a trip to the Pacific coast and at­tendance
at the Bellingham Normal
would be quite a change.
The boys left the first of May and
traveled through St. Louis, Indianapolis,
and. Kansas City. In Kansas the top was
torn off the Ford by,the wind and many
breakdowns and fixups followed. New
Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, and the
Grand Canyon proved very interesting.
The travelers drove through California
and Oregon. They underwent five hours
of fumigation at Portland on account of
the hoof and mouth disease in Califor­nia.
It cost them bne: dollar to cross
the Columbia river. After arriving in
Bellingham June 8, they decided it was
the best place they had visited so far,
except home. , ' ;: :
The other two', boys are how in Se-.
attlel Mr. Dickes intends tp stay-here
three more 'quarters; but!5 Mr] :Swank
will leave for home.<at' the! end of thfe
'summery quarter: ;';:V: •:.!.';';v;: ;.;!• v:'!
What are you reading these days?
A( downtown news dealer says that
it is surprising to note the number of
'•True Confessions,'' "Love Story" and
"True Story" magazines he sells; Women
buy women's magazines, such as the
"Woman's Home Companion," and "Mc-
Calls." Men buy sports magazines. The
best selling publications are the "Sat­urday
Evening Post," "McCalls," "Cos­mopolitan"
and "American."
An incomplete canvas of Normal stu­dents
reveals a slightly different scale,
of popularity. Most of the men ex­press
a preference for the American,
"Literary Digest,' and the ."Cosmopoli­tan,"
while the girls' choice ranges from
"Good Housekeeping," and the "Ladies'
Home Journal" to the "Century," also
"Scribner's" and the "Atlantic Monthly."
Incidentally, a "Whiz Bang" was in
evidence on a recent week-end hike, and
in.the same company travelled Tolstoys
"Resurrection." ..: ' /
This summer's class in the Library
Instruction gives a list of books which
have been most inspiring to them during
the last year^
Some of the ; books listed follow:
"The Perfect; Tribute/' Andrews:
"Les; Miserables," Hugo. ; (.'•'"'
"Education;0 for Needs "'.of : Life,*' Miller.
'fHand^ookrof}N^ture; Study;,'', Cdihstbck]
'••;; "Brass:C,Check^;; Siriciair.;,'•; .^ ";• •, ;.:;•.' *:•: '•.
"Bactjeria':-;;iri;':Daiiy:::^fe
:;;HM^:;; Fowler's^cla^
]^y!el::has Vfe
cient and modern this term. They have;
discussed books and authors until they
have almost reached the stage of: cal­ling
the great writers by their first
namesi
A list of fifteen greatest novels of V
all time, compiled by William Lyon
Phelps, a modern critic, was submitted
to the class. It follows:
Defoe, "Robinson Crusoe."
Swift, "Gulliver's Travels." /: ,\
Richardson, "Clarissa Marlowe."
Fielding, "Tom Jones." . •-
Balzac, "Eugenie Grandet."
Dumas, "The Three Musketeers."
Dickens, "David Copperfield."
Hawthorne, "Scarlet Letter."
, Thackery, "Henry Esmond."
Flaubert, "Madam Bovary."
Turgenev; "Father and Children."
, Hugo, "Les Miserables." ; v ;^:-.:
Tolstoy* "Anna Karenina."
Dostoevski] "The Brothers JCaramo^v
ZOV." ._'• ']-'•:"' .••'%
Mark Twain, ^'Huckleberry 'Finn."'•"•..•.;'';.$.>•
One Normal man calmly states^the-^
belief that Normal girls read nothing;;;'!;
but ^'True Story." Another likes;'.: to rieaii | j;
the "Old Ladies' .._?ome;'J6^^";;,:^:-.;;;.;;i||
A random- observatio^-niost pii'.usj^
read the "Messenger." '' ^V^i^e^'^pfeiii;;j\:|^;|^
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