Weekly Messenger - 1919 August 21

              The Weekly Messenger
Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL. XVIII. BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1919 No. 44
POPULAR PLAY WELL
READ BY MR. HOPPE
Victor H. Hoppe most admirably
entertained the students at the Nor­mal
Thursday evening when he read
"The Man From Home" by Booth Tar-kington
and Harry L. Wilson.
The scene of the story, laid at Sor­rento,
Italy, written before the great
war, constitutes a play of four acts.
The characters of special interest
were Dan Pike, American lawyer from
Indiana, Horace and Ethel Simpson,
also formerly residents of that Hoosier
state, but living in Europe at that
time; an English lord, his wife and
son who contemplates marriage with
Eiss Ethel Simpson. A Russion count
in disguise as a German, and last a
Russian fugitive.
Dan Pike proves invaluable to the
Russian count who is having consider­able
trouble with his automobile when
traveling to Sorrento, Italy. They
reach their destination at the hotel
much to the disgust of the English
party who rather feel intruded upon
by these crude people.
The Russian fugitive while fleeing
from his captors accosts Dan Pike as
he is working upon the car. Pike hides
him under the car and succeeds in
appeasing the curiosity of the soldiers
in pursuit, when they question him,
and the fugitive is safe for the present.
Further disclosures show that he is a
man of education, a translator, but had
been under employ of the Russian gov-
. ernment, and while in that position
was accused and convicted of taking
money from the government. An Eng­lishman
in Russia at that time had
brought the conviction upon him and
at the same time robbed him of his
wife; His. aim after escaping from
Siberia was to search for these two
and gain revenge.
In the meantime the English lord
tries to arrange the marriage for his
son, and secure a dowry of $750,000
from Miss Simpson, over which Dan
Pike has control, as he was the ap­pointed
guardian of the Simpson child­ren.
Dan, upon seeing the probable
future son-in-law, refuses to give his
consent.
Miss Ethel, as well as her fiance's
family, are up in arms over the situa­tion
and by strategy expect to force
Pike to comply with their wishes, since
the English lord knows Dan Pike as
well as the Russian Count are harbor­ing
the fugitive, which is a crime
itself.
Pike, however, in an artless way
learns that the English lord was no
other than the man who ruined the
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•}•-..—•,
Twentieth Annual Commencement
SUMMER SESSION
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
Bellingham, Wash.'
Friday, August 22, 1919, at 9:30 A. M.
PROGRAM
March ~ Selected
Miss Martha Ford
Invocation _
Reverend W. F. Reagor
Piano Solo—"Romance" '.— La Farge
Miss Lucy Myers
Vocal Solo (a) "The Swan" Salter
(b) "The First Primrose" .-. * Grieg
Miss Lillie Darby
Class Address
President N. D. Showalter, Cheney Normal ,
Violin Solo—"Nocturne—E Flat" -- , Chopin
Miss Nora Kelley
Presentation of Diplomas „
Professor James Bever
Benediction
' .Reverend W. F. Reagor
Special Diplomas
Martha King Baldwin, Fannie Evelyn Belden, Clarissa A. Miller,
J. Edward Petite, Maria E. A. Richard, R. J. Schusman, Gladys Chap­man
Stephen, Gwendolyn Elizabeth^Thomas.
Diplomas
Vyolet Ahlberg, Millie May Alexander, Leonora A. Anderson, Mar­guerite
Elizabeth Arnold, James E. Barnett, Adelle May Barrett, A. N.
Baxter, Golda Hazel Beach, Mabel Louise Bean, Nona A. Bearss, May
A. G. Bennick, Vivian E. Bettanini, Mabel Mae Bigelow, Lillian Emily
Billington, Mary Bishop, Earl J. Bixby, Mrs! Mary Boggan, Frances
Bradford, Mrs. Carrie Lee Bradlee, Leo Breuer, Vernon Edgar Broad-bent,
Erma Alice Brown, Karmen Alexandria Bugge, Vera J. Cade,
Viretta Denny Calhoun, Eula O. Campbell, Ruth Carlyle, Bertha Carna-han,
C. D. Carroll, Bertha Evelyn Cary, Lee O. Cordz, Annis V. Cotter,
Neva Cowden, Rose McVay Davis, Domeneca Elizabeth Del Duca, Flor­ence
Elizabeth Dinkel, Helen J. Donough, Rozella B. Douglass, L.
Agnes Dunn, Hilda Charlotte Ekholm, Raymond W. Elder, L. Dora
Elliott, Mollie Anne Eisner, E. Pauline Ernes, Freda C. Erickson, Ruth
Ferguson, Edith E. Fouts, Aberta Fraser, Edith Froom, Alma Henrietta
Frost, Vera J. Funnell, Dorothy E. Goodchild, Myrtle M. Goodrich,.
Crete Gray, E. Stanley Gregory, Clara McCaskill Hallberg, Catherine
Halpin, Bernice M. Hamilton H. A. Harlow, Edith Harris, Alice Ernes­tine
Haserick, Ethel May Hayslip, GeTtrude Blanche Hedgees, Dora S.
Herren, Evelyn Howell, Luella Mildred Kurd, Ruby C. Jackson, Edith C.
Jess, A. Lois Johns, Grace Willson Johns, Alice Hannah Johnson, Lil­lian
May Johnson, Vernie Johnson, Edith E. Jones, Verda A. Jones,
Tena Jorgenson, Elsa Laura Kilian, Elizabeth L. Knapp, Ruth Marie
LaBrash, Lester H. Landaal, Agnes Valborg Lane, V. C. Lee, Anna
Marie Lindstedt, Clara Bell Locke, J. Guy Lowman, Hugh J. Macdonald,
Kathryn McLaughlin, Louise McMurry, Katherine T. Martin, Rosie
Martin, Corrella Wheeler Merritt, Evea Fleenor Mowry, Ruth Mullin,
Jane Frances Murray, Ida M. Needham, Valentine Newell, William
Burt Nobles, Bernice Ober, Lena Oberkotter, Martha Oberkotter, Mar­garet
Helen O'Brien, Fredolph Siguard Olson, Winnifred Osten, Helen
Mordorette Painton, Agnes F. Parker, Coral B. Paxson, Olive Pearson,
Clara S. Peterson, Hazel Marie Philbrick, Cora Joe Philips, Francis
Edward Presnell, Ellen G. Quinn, Viola S. Radley, Rose Rainero, Flor­ence
O. Redford, Mary K. Reeves, Amelia A. Rible, Julia M. Reible,
Anabel Rice, Florence Rice, Nona Blanche Richardson, Beryl Ring,
Antoinette Rita Rochefort, Yvette M. Rochefort, Clara Frances Root,
Minnie Kathleen Roseborough, J. B. Russell, Eva B. Santee, Mrs. Faye
Cresap Scofield, Bessie Barker Scott, Helen Dorothy Sells, Mary A.
Sharp, Jennie Shepherd, Florence Sigrist, Jessie L. Sims, A. R. Smith,
Luella Elouise Smith, Margaret F. Smith, Theodora Squires, Susan
Elizabeth Steele, Leona Hartley Stern, Marie Strickland, C. U. Tee
Garden, Mollie Harrison Thatcher, Kate Thompson, Maude Thompson,
Rowena Timerman, Anabelle Grace Tompkins, F. A. Turnbull, Clara
Turner, Grace Lightfoot Vermeulen, Emma Olive Viste, Barbara Wafer,
Phoebe Waite, John Ernest Whittaker, Bodil Wiel, Mabel Dargan Will,
Cora M. Wilson, Rose M-. Wilson, Julia Wright, Helen Effie Zimmerman.
MISS LILLIAN GRUE
READS CLEVER PLAY
Miss Lillian Grue, a former student
of the B. S. N. S., read the one act
play, "The Maker of Dreams" in As­sembly
Wednesday. '
The play was an interesting one.
Pierrot, manager of a company of
strolling singers, has an ideal woman
for whom he is ever looking. Pierette,
a companion, is in love with her man­ager,
but the latter is always too busy
searching far away for his Ideal to
realize that his comrade possesses all
of .the necessary qualities. At last
the "Maker of Dreams" aids him in
discovering his love for Pierrette. It
was a charming play and well inter­preted.
Miss Grue was a graduate of the
"class of '13%." She attended the
Cumnock School of Expression in
California.
That she had not forgotten the days
when she was a student here, was
proved by her remark, "I also used to
want assembly to run into the next
hour."
STUDENTS PlAY AT
EXPENSE OF FACULTY
Last Friday in assembly the faculty
members were given a rare treat.
Never again will they be able to cry
"O wad some power the giftie gie us,
to see oursel's as ithers see u s ! "
Under the inspired direction of Mr.
Lowman, alias Dr. Nash, various stu­dents
occupied the faculty seats on
the platform, and impersonated the
dignitaries as best they could.
We had no difficulty at all in recog­nizing
Dean Woodard, Mr. Bever, Mr.
Bond, Miss Baker, Ds. Herre, Mr.
Coughlin, or Dr. Nash. Others were
slightly questionable as to identity.
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FALL TERM NOTICE •
The fall session of the Nor- •
mal school begins September •
8th. Committees will be ready 4»
to register students September •
8th. An unusually large attend- •
ance is anticipated. . •
The training school will open «8»
September 2nd. The work will *
be handled by the supervisors •
until the student teachers have •
been regularly enrolled. •