Weekly Messenger - 1923 May 25

              Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL. XXII BELL-INGHAM, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1923 NO. 33
Are we proud of our Miss Long, and
our Miss Frank and our Physical Train­ing
department? Ask anybody. We
smiled when we saw our Tulip parade,
and our cup, and our-flag, but we fairly
shouted when we saw our students
trouping out from under the trees in one
of the most thoroughly organized and
beautifully costumed pageants in the
history of the Normal.
Episode I was the Spirit of Indian
Days. When one knew that around Bel-lingham
many scenes of Indian history
were enacted one could not help but feel
a thrill of pity as this episode was pre­sented.
The Spirit of Indian Days dressed in
robea of white, emerged slowly from the
woods. As she came forward she prayed
to the Great Spirit for protection for her
people. As she neared the campfire,
troops of Indians gathered, lit the fire
and gave thanks. After the dance an­other
tribe arrived. They smoke the
pipe of peace after which they passed on.
One wonders what might have been had
all been fair.
• Episode n beggars description. The
daisies in yellow and white, roses with
their garlands, butterflies in brown
tights and gorgeous spotted wings, grass
hoppers in green with their little jerky
movements and nodding heads, the blue
birds, tree nymphs, mist maidens and the
spirits all beautifully costumed followed
each other in their dance and then inter­mingled
in a blaze of color.
Again a touch of sadness as the Pioneer
group enter and you see the forest fall
before them. The drill by the "trees"
was worthy of note.
Episode EH brought the spirit of
Christianity, Education, Community, Art,
Drama, Child Welfare, Forest Preserva­tion,
Y. W. C A., Y. M. C A., Red Cross,
Music, Play and Playfulness to the feet
of the Spirit of Patriotism. The dance
of Play and Playfulness was well
greeted.
The Flag Drill in which the spirit of
yesterday (G. A. R. men) met the Spirit
of Today ' (Boy Scouts, Troop 8)
brought handkerchiefs into use. Again
we saw "Let war cease."
France, Russia, England, Sweden, Hol­land,
Scotland and Ireland vied with
each other in costume and dance, and it
is hard to say which was best. The
windmills were a feature, but so were
the Russian snowballs, the Scotch kilts,
the English Maypole and the Irish jigs.
All the "folk" pledge allegience to the
American flag, after which the Orchestra
played the Star Spangled Banner and the
Pageant has passed.
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Great credit is due May E. Long, and
Regina Frank, directors; John B. Will­iams,
director of Orchestra, The "W"
club ushers, and Frank Lock, stage man­ager;
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IE CLASS DAY
EXERCISES MONDAY
The Sophomore Class Day exercises
will be held Monday, May 28. The fol­lowing
program will be given:
Class Prophecy.
Musical number by Carroll Haeske,
Arthur Thai, Miss Ulissner.
Class History Nellie Brown
Reading Miss Jones
Solo .". :.... Katherine Myers
Reading Sloane Squire
Flute Solo Carroll Haeske
Class Will
Solo Mrs. Griffin
Dedication .« Mr. Mercer
Poem „.. Floris Clark
Song Winifred Lee
Miss Roberts, of our faculty, was
hostess Monday evening at • a dinner
party at the Leopold Hotel
—B. S. N. S.
"FAREWELL 10
it
A specially pleasing feature of the
Monday musical assembly was the beau­tifully
sympathetic interpretation by
Arthur Thai of a violin solo composed
with piano accompaniment by Mrs.
Emma H. Whipple, in the advanced har­mony
class. This composition is a fare­well
to the Normal. The minor strain of
sadness on leaving her Alma Mater turns
to a strong major telling the inspiration
she received from school.
That two talented people prepared and
presenter1 this farewell to Alma Mater
was evident from the response of the
listeners. Both are students in the
Normal, Mrs. Whipple has been acting
as assistant to Miss Belton, and will
continue through the summer quarter,
going in the fall to Mont Vernon, where
she will teach music in the grades. Miss
Belton's worwk as instructor of the
advanced classes is very much appre­ciated
by Mrs. Whipple. .
"I consider Arthur Ttal's interpreta­tion
the making of thta composition,"
said Mrs. Whipple, in her ultra-modest
way, apparently overlooking her own
part in the work which amounts to a
real achievement in composition.
— B. S. N. S.—
NOTICE!
The baccalaureate sermon will be giv­en
by Rev. Harrison at the Garden
Street Methodist Church, Sunday, May
27, at 11 o'clock. The graduating class
will gather at the church and march in.
All should be prompt.
L
. The climax to the round- of revelry,
being indulged in by the Senior College,
was reached when they banqueted in the
tulip room of the Hotel Leopold, Friday,
May 18. The class regretted the absence
of two of their faculty advisors, Miss
Earhart and Miss Druse, but the remain­ing
two, Mr. Bever and Dr. Miller, were
on duty, and proved royal companions.
Tulip room and Leopold tell of the
menu. Dainty place cards bearing the
class colors were the work of the Misses
Hackett, Pfaff and Phinney.
The class motto A. C. T., with its pass
word Act, formed the basis for the
toasts. Miss Marjory Downes surprised
the group by her knowledge of their se­cret
ambition. She had cleverly woven
each into conversation and had woven
the information into a very entertaining
toast to ambition.
Dr. Miller's ambition was to write a
book. Hope was-expressed that no one
would discover Mr. Bever's ambition as
he could not be spared from the Normal
even for the year required to write.
Here's a surprise.- Friends of a cer­tain
Faculty member are urging him to
write a book of Indian History. Here's
hoping Mr. Henderson wants to be a
college professor of psychology. Bertha
Hasket wants to teach in Seattle and
own a Ford runabout. Rose Davis
wants to get out of debt as class treas­urer
while Carrol Haeske wants to be a
A. B.; A. M., Ph. D., at umpteen thous­and
per.
Courage was the toast given by Mrs.
Brozengton while Truth fell" to Mr. Bever.
He spoke not only from the standpoint
of truth in connection with knowledge
but from the standpoint of expression in
daily life. Fair play and loyalty were
his ideals, even if those who stood for
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STUDENTS ENJOY THEIR
All students who are going to Victoria
May 26, to share in the May Festival
celebration may secure their tickets at
the Normal, the Chamber of Commerce,
the Herald office, or the Leopold Hotel.
The price for the round trip is very
reasonable, being $2.00.
The boat will leave the Municipal dock
at 8 a. m. and return about 9 p. m.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad com­pany
is providing the boat which will
make the trop thro the beautiful islands
of Puget Sound.
No one can afford to. miss this trip,
which is the most beautiful water excur­sion
in the entire Northwest.
Music is being provided for the pleas­ure
of the excursionists.
"Miss Lulu Bett," the production to be
given by the Normal Dramatic Club,
May 28, was awai-ded the Pulitzer Prize
by Columbia University. In this modern
drama Zona Gale, the author, has suc­cessfully
depicted life as it really is and,
yet made the play intensely interesting.
What Sinclair Lewis, in "Main
Street," did for American small towns,
Zona Gale has done in this play for the
humdrum American family. The mer­ciless
camera paints for us the subur­ban
home as we see it every day.
Dwight Herbert Deacon, a very egotis­tical
man, rules or tries to rule his
family as an absolute monarch, and his
shrinking wife, Ina, helps him by her
openly adoring submission to his
every whim.
- Monona Deacon, the naughty child,
will make you laugh. She is not an
"Angel child" but a regular mischevious,
inquisitive American youngster. We
gasp, despise, then love her.
Grandma Bett proves herself an able
combatant of Dwight. Her keen wit
and clever tongue bring laughter.
In the midst of this, Miss Lulu Bett
slaves, awakes, and moves on.
The play is styled a comedy of man­ners.
You laugh and you nearly cry
as the unique realism of life is tinged
for you by tenderness and sympathy.
Every member of the cast has dra­matic
power, and has coupled with this
genius, hours of work under the help­ful
supervision of Mr. Hoppe.
The cast is as follows:
Mirian Sherman Monona
Dewey Bowman Dwight Herbert
Dewey Bowman..Dwight Herbert Deacon
Adda Wilson ._ Ina Deacon
Katherine Schupp Lulu Bett
Oliver Nelson Bobbie Larkin
Sloane Squire ....; Mrs. Bett
Jessie Beryle Wilson..... Diana Deacon
Horace Walker ;... Neil Cornish
Angus Bowmer Ninian Deacon
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COMINCEMENTWILLBE
HELD TUESDAY
The plans for the commencement pro­gram
are still incomplete. The following
numbers will be nichided, however:
Address, Dean Edward Sisson of Reed
College, Portland.
Spring Song, Mendelsohn, Male Quartet.
"In the Land of Sky Blue Waters," and
"White Dawn Is Stealing," Gadman,
by the Ladies' Quartet.
Solo, Katherine Myers, accompanied by
piano, flute arid violin.