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VOL. XXXVIII—NO. 12 WESTERN WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, December 16, 1938
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By Charles Kiiboorne
JINGLE B E L L E S J^
Christmas comes -but once a
year . . . and so on. Anyhow, it's
pracically upon us now. It's high
time to start saving that allowance
t o b u y' g i f t s.
Speaking of gifts,
a recent survey
shows that while
m e n o n l y want
one thing for
Christmas, such
as a shirt or an
overcoat, women
want an average
of eleven articles!
Wow! Now is
a good time to
have a fight with
the gal friend. It
was thought for a while that it
would be necessary to hire some as­sistant
Santas to take care of the
Edens hall rush, but the idea was
later abandoned (due to the ex­cessive
overtime necessary on the
part of Sfc Nick), in favor of send­ing
the little ladies home.
WHY NOT?
Coach Lappenbusch belatedly
informs us that San Jose State col-
.lege in California is not going to
have a postseason game after all.
This, deah friends, is the school
that turned good old WWC down
in the hopes of getting a more fa­mous
team. Eventually a few lo­cal
teams around those parts re­sponded,
but they too got the cold
shoulder.: In the interim, San Jose
went to Honolulu and managed to
get very, neatly skunkejtiby^the isl­anders.
When they got back to
the sunny shores of California, the
only thing waiting for them Was an
offer from a team of midgets to play
in the finger bowl. There the mat­ter
stands.
CUSTOMS
The activities of the customs in­spectors
are always of interest to
us, probably due to our proximity
to the Canadian border. It is re­ported
that nearly $21,000 in con­traband
goods have been confis­cated
at the Blaine office in the
last few seasons. Just this week,
on the opposite edge of the country,
in New York, Comedian George
Burns confessed to purchasing smug­gled
good. It was not learned
whether there was any truth in the
rumor that the goods in question
consisted of a case of tomato soup.
To get back to the Blaine branch
again. . . . The officials say that a
new ruse used by women smugglers
nearly has them baffled. It seems
the ladies wear contraband articles
on their head, and the officers, un­able
to tell whether or nay it is a
new hat, let them by.
MISSING LINK?
Singing Christmas carols at 5
o'clock on a cold winter morning
may sound romantic when you're
sitting in front of a nice, warm fire
the night before, but not when you
actually go to do it. So say the
dorm girls. It was so cold that in
between calls, the carolers resorted
to a little swing music (sotto voce)
to warm them up. And speaking
of swing music reminds us of our
latest discovery in the field of sci­ence.
Darwin's theory lacked only
one thing, the transitionary period
between man and monkey, in the
reverse order. We were just think­ing
that, although he lacks the nec­essary
tail to swing from trees, per-hape
the jitterbug might be fitted
into the picture. ^
RANDOM THOUGHTS
The Dean of Men's office says
that no list of remembrances for the
growing boy would be complete
without an electric train suitable for
a man of 40. . . Moreover, ac­cording
to Miss Florence Johnson,
even the best of women relish a
little nonsense now and then, even
if it is millinery. . . . The supreme
court holds that dieting is not
grounds for divorce in this state.
This is taken to mean that the man
of honor in Washington must stay
by his wife through thick and fash
Artist McCoole
Displeases
Thundering Herd
A CapeHa Choir TQ Sing At Music Conference
Customary Exodus Takes
Place in First Intermission;
Pianist Partly to Blame .
By Arthur C. Hicks
Paul McCoole, an interesting pian­ist
of our own Northwest, appeared
in recital before last Friday's as­sembly.
He played with clean-cut
technique and scrupulous artistry
and was well received by that por­tion
of his audience which remain­ed
after the customary exodus dur­ing
the first intermission.
For this.exodus Mr. McCoole was
in part responsible. Like most con­cert
artists, he built his program
without regard for the most elemen­tary
principles of audience attention
and interest. Chronology was his
sole principle of arrangement; there­fore
the program opened with a pre­lude,
"Sarabande," and "Bourree"
of Bach. He performed these skill­fully
in accordance with the more
strict tradition of Bach interpre­tation.
The result might have been
.•foreseen: the musically educated
^gave sincere applause but the thun­dering
herd got under way as soon
as the artist disappeared.
Still following conventional pat­tern
of concert programs Mr. Mc­Coole
sampled the Romantic period
in his second group. His playing of
three familiar preludes and a short
lyric "Etude" of Chopin was refined
and effective and demonstrated his
mastery of the musical miniature.
The great Chopin "Fantasy in F
Minor" was a little disappointing,
especially in the impassioned, sonor­ous
climaxes, which were lacking in
abandon and power.
Mr. McCoole's final group—mod­ern,
of course—included two bits of
impressionism, that is, the^ Ameri­can
Griff es' "Fountain of the Acqua
Paola" and Mompou's "Cloister."
He played the Debussy "Minstrels"
and the "Albeniz Seguidilla" with
satisfactory rhythmic effect, even
though certain passages showed un­due
restraint. For a final encore he
performed an odd piece of musical
modernism called "Perpetual Mo­tion,"
by Poulenc, I believe . . .
which appropriately ended with a
tantalizing discord.
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VFW Musical Program
Given by Students
Pi-
Invited to sing at the Northwest Music Educat­ors
conference in Tacoma, 'April 1, the WWC a ca-pella
choir accepted its first out-of-town engage­ment.
This is the first outside singing for the
group which was organized' last year.
The choir will appear in concert with many
other college and high school choirs and orches­tras
including the University of Washington
chorus. Each choir will sing a group of songs.
The conference consists of teachers of school
music in schools and colleges in Oregon, Idaho,
Montana, Washington, British Columbia, and
Alaska. The conference is held semi-annually.
The a capella choir sang last Sunday afternoon in
the school library. There was a much larger au­dience
than last year. The sound, produced in the
upper- hall was cathedrallike in effect.
The members of the choir are: Katherine Bol-man,
Helen Bodin, Winnie Rumsey, Dorothy Lem­ons,
Jean Crawford, Cecelia Schwald, Marie Lar­son,
Mary E. Jackson, Beatrice Bernhoft,, Ann
Johnson, Margaret Rabb, Lucille Thun, Arlene
Foster, Marjorie Dunning, Margaret Barrow, Joan
Porter, Theresa Gookins, Marcia Kimble, Marian
Jones, Echo Oxford and Jean Weber.
Kenneth Harvey, Lloyd Rasstad, Ernest Feath-erkile,
Ralph DeBruler, Eugene Olmstead, Coston
Crouse, Floyd Barkquist, Arthur Wilkinson, Doug­las
Lince, Albert Bowman, and Alvin Carr.
Christmas Spirit Prevails In Elementary School
Holiday Tea Held
By Dorm Girls;
Seasonal Theme1
Presentation of a program of
dancing by WWC students at the
meeting of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars in the Tulip hall, Thursday,
December 8, announced Entertain­ment
Chairman Walter Fay, "was
the best performance that has been
presented before the VFW in many
years."
Judge W. P. Brown, master of
ceremonies, did much towards en­livening
the program.
Commented Fay, "The German
band composed of Clayton Knittel,
Richard Lindstrom, Chuck Fisher,
Bill Wolfe and Earl Eckert practic­ally
stole the show with their Ger­man
music. The girls' quartet as
well as the three girls, Betsy Ken­nedy,
Frances Bigelow, and Eleanor
Hall who did dance steps, was also
very well received."
Floyd Barquist lent color to the
program with the presentation of
two accordion solos. Kenneth Hus-floen
presented two piano solos.
"Although the piano was xerymuch
in need of tuning Husfloen gave
a wonderful exhibition of music,"
said Mr. Fay.
Holding their annual traditional
Christmas tea last Sunday, Decem­ber
11, the Edens hall girls enter­tained
their; -friends^ parents, and
members of the faculty and their
families. A Christmas carol pro­gram
was carried out with Marion
Chappell as general chairman of the
tea.
Candle lighted tables and win­dows
and a large decorated Christ­mas
tree adorned the Edens hall
Blue room where the girls and their
guests gathered for tea and the
special program consisting of solos, a
reading, string ensemble, and the
singing of Christmas carols, first
by the Edens hall choir and then by
the entire group. Over three hun­dred
relatives, friends, faculty mem­bers,
and students attended the
Christmas tea.
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Candles, Holly Decorate
Registar's Office
Day to Be Devoted to
Caroling, Dramatizing of
Christmas Stories
In spite of the rush of pre-regis-tration,
the office force found time
to decorate the registrar's office last
week-end. Cedar boughs and large
bright red candles on the counter, a
vase of holly on the table and an­other
on a small table in Dr. Ku-der's
private office all help to give
the office a cheerful holiday at­mosphere.
The new files for cata­logues
from other colleges, which
have recently been completed by Mr.
Dindal, the school carpenter, add to
the attractiveness of the office.
Although it is expected that stu­dents
now in residence will make an
effort to attend to all business in
the registrar's office by the end of
the quarter, the office will be open
during the Christmas vacation. Dr:
Kuder will be there part of the time
but not every day as he expects to:
spend the vacation sleeping and
taking care of the baby.
In order that the Yuletide spirit
may be observed before the children
leave for the Christmas holidays,
the entire campus school will devote
part of today to wrapping gifts, car­oling,
and dramatizing stories and
plays. Except for the caroling, each
grade will remain in their respective
classrooms to present their pro­grams.
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This morning each grade in the
campus school Caroled to one other
grade and members of the office
staff.
Time in the first, second, and third
grades will be given over to wrap­ping
gifts, singing and listening to
Christmas stories. The second grade
will eat their lunch by candlelight
and also dramatize an original
Christmas play.
Stories Interpreted
In the fourth grade favorite
stories and poems will be read to the
class by members of the grade, while
in the fifth, three Christmas stories
will be dramatized in the children's
own interpretation. "Paddy's Christ­mas,"
"Wreaths," and "A Christ­mas
in Holland" are the three
stories that will be presented.
The Cratchits' dinner scene from
Dicken's "Christmas Carol" and a
scene from "Little Women" will be
interpreted and dramatized by the
sixth grade. "Where Love Is, There
Chiukanut Shell
Scene of Annual
All-College Dance
Theater Guild Plans
Next Production
'R. U. R.,' Novel Drama by
Czech Playwright, to Be
Presented in February
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Campus School Presents
Assembly of Carols
"To give the college students of
Beliingham and vicinity a chance
for a-good get-together,- is' the pur­pose
of our annual All-College
dance, which is to be held on De­cember
26, at the Chuckanut Shell,"
said Doug Hansen, co-chairman of
the annual affair. Hansen also
stressed the point that this is to be
a strictly informal affair and the
men are asked not to wear tuxedos.
This dance is sponsored by the
University of Washington, and the
profits are to be used as an aid to
the needy college students of this
state. Many students from other
colleges other, than WWC are an­ticipated.
This will give the stu­dents
a chance to learn different
styles of dancing and to pick up'
some of the latest inter-collegiate
steps. The admission is to be $1.10
per couple.
The imaginative play "RUR,"
by Karel Capek is the next produc­tion
to be presented by the Theatre
Guild. The play will be given early
in February.
As is suggested by the title, "R. U.
R.," or "Rossum's Universal Ro­bots,"
is a story of mechanical men.
It is a melodramatic social satire of
the problems of the machine and
their effect on human nature.
Eventually the number of me­chanical
men exceed the number of
human beings. They become dis­contented
and finally revolt against
man. After almost annihilating the
human race the robots become in­volved
in a struggle among them­selves
and so end the revolution.
The play will be directed by Glen-more
Jones who constructed the sets
for the recent production, "Rip Van
Winkle."
Like this play most of Capek's
writings are imaginative. Some of
his better known plays and stories
are, "Macroupolous Secret," which is
the tale of a lady who discovered
the secret of eternal youth and the
novel, "War with Noose." Capek is
a Czech playwright.
According to Dr. Hicks the play
should be of particular interest to
college students.
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Ski Season Starts;
Lodge at Baker
Opens This Week
Budget To Be
Discussed
After Dinner
Kirkpatrick To Preside At
Board of Trustees Meeting Next
Wednesday ;•• Legislators Invited
Officiating at the regular monthly
meeting of the board of trustees will
be Dr.' W. D. Kirkpatrick, chairman-
Verne Branigin, secretary, and
SteVe Saunders. The meeting is to
be held on Wednesday, December
21, at 4 oclock. There is a consid­erable
amount of business to be At­tended
to and President C. H. Fish­er
feels that the meeting will be
very profitable.
At 6 o'clock there will be a din­ner
and meeting with the local leg­islators
in order to explain to them
WWC needs and budget requests.
The dinner is to be held in the club
room of Edens hall.
The legislators who were Invited
to the dinner and following discus--
sion are: Senators A. E. Edwards,
and Thomas Voyce, and Represen­tatives
J. D. MacDonald, B. Frank
Reno, Jr., Ralph A. Van Dyke, and
Frank L. Hatley.
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Date Changed For
Snapshot Contest
Editor Frances Daley Expresses
Satisfaction at Klypsun Progress;
Many Pages Now Completed
The coming week-end marks the
official opening of the Mount Bak­er
Lodge. A bigger and better sea­son
is expected this year with many
new improvements made for the
benefit of the skiers. Otto Lang is
to have ski classes at Mount Baker.
: Among the improvements the ski­ers
will see this year are new cab­ins
and a new ski jump. The ski
jump has been recently finished
and will be ready for use as soon as
more snow falls. As for sleeping
accomodations, there are nice rooms
and a few cabins, that are leased for
the season at the lodge and 18
cabins at Shuksan. Otto Lang is to
divide his time among Mount Bak­er,
Mount Rainier, and Mount Hood.
The roads this week-end are in
good condition but chains are need­ed.
The snow is poor now but if six
or more inches fall before Saturday,
the conditions will be ideal.
With this quarter's work on the
Klipsun coming to a close, Editor
Frances Daley has expressed satis­faction
over the progress on the an7
riual. A good many pages are corn-: i
pleted and in the hands of the
'prihterrat'thef pfes^"timeT"^^C
During the second -week 'of+uexfi!-
quarter, club pictures will be taken;
and it is urged that.all club mem­bers
appear at the designated time
for their picture, so that each club
will be represented. Adrian Alberg
is the staff member in charge of
this section, of the book.
According to Stewart McLeod, all
juniors and seniors who were not
in school fall quarter, or didn't have
their pictures taken for the annual
during fall quarter, may do so be­tween
the dates of January 3 and
10, and their pictures will be in­cluded
in the graduation section.
The date for the closing of the
Snapshot contest has been changed
to January 18, and everyone inter­ested
in trying for a prize will have
time to arm himself with film
and "shoot" his friends during va­cation.
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Winter Quarter Activities Planned By News Staff
Duel Exhibition
Sponsored
By Newshounds
ionably thin: . . , Generally die man
who smokes the most carries die
least number of matches, . : .
Quarter Ends At Four Today
See This Page.
Winter Quarter Starts Jan. 3
See This Page.
Viking Plans Streamlined Sheet
See This Page.
A Cappella Choir Achieving Note
See This Page.
Campus' Popular Man Chosen
See Page 3
Choryat Elected Inspirational Man
See Page 4.
Ideas i ^
•' See Page 2.
With active part taken by all the
grades of the Campus school, a carol
assembly, was presented last Wed­nesday
in the college auditorium.
The entire campus school joined
together in singing two numbers,
"Silent Night" and "Adeste Fideles."
The junior high school chorus and
choir sang the Latin words to the
first stanza of "Adeste Pideles" pre­vious
to the singing by the assem­bly.
Each grade caroled one song to
the rest of the group as follows:
First grade, "French Christmas
Carol'; second grade, "Hungarian
Christmas Carol"; third grade, "Al-lelulia";
fourth grade, "Coventry
Carol"; fifth grade, "Yoici La Noel";
Friday, December 16
7 p. m.—Basketball, Huskies
. vs. Vikings, new gym.
Monday, December 26 _
9 p , m.-—All College dance,
Chuckanut Shell.
Tuesday, January 3
:, 8 a. m.—Classes begin.
Plans to have a fencing exhibi­tion
next quarter with the Univer­sity
of Washington fencers are be­ing
formulated by members of the
Western Viking.
While fencing at WWC is still in
still in its infancy, already many ,of
the students have been taking ad­vantage
of the equipment furnished
for that purpose during recreational
hours. According to L. A. McGee,
fencing instructor, it is open to
women as well as men.
Coach McGee appeared enthusias­tic
over the prospects of such an ex
hibition. He said he felt certain
that the U would be very willing
to send fencers to WWC. Fencing
is one of the University's minor
sports.
It is hoped by McGee that funds
may be obtained from the Associat­ed
Students to pay for the transpor­tation
of a fencing squad from the
University.
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PTA Instuction School
Addressed by Grim
No Monopoly
On Vikings -
We thought it was unique.
At least we thought it was or­iginal.
But we might as well
have called it the Times. There
IS another Western Viking.
Published in Tacoma, the ri­val
paper is distributed among
the fishermen in Southern Al­aska.
If you can't understand our
Viking, don't change your sub­scription.
The- other one is
written in Norwegian.
Streamlined Paper
In Process;
Ready Next Quarter
Dr. Paul R. Grim of the Junior
high department, spoke on the
topic of "The Parent and Modern
-Education" at Anacortes, December
10. Dr. Grim was addressing the
Parent-Teachers' school of instruc­tion
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Various Types of Music
Composed by Fisher
Two compositions by Mrs. C. H.
Fisher, "Waltz" and "Adagio," were
featured at the faculty tea last
Sunday. They were played on the
cello by Donald Bushell.
Prominent in Beliingham musical
circles, Mrs. Fisher has composed
several songs. She set to music two
of Tennysons verses "The Flower in
the Crannied Wall" and "The
Brook." "Th Shepherd's Song" for
the organ and "The Banjo" are in­strumental
numbers written by Mrs.
Fisher.
"The music of Mrs. Fisher is writ­ten
with care,f and shows well defin­ed
principles of harmony and form.
She has a gift for melody. Her work
bears the mark of genuine and sin­cere
music personality," says Dr.
Arthur C. Hicks.
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Plans to make the Western Viking
a more modern and readable paper
have been in' the process of formu­lation
for the past three weeks. It
is hoped by the staff that these ten­tative
plans will be put into effect
within the first month of next quar­ter.
Some of the desired changes for,
the paper are: a different name; a
new name plate using a more mod­ern
style of type; wider columns and
greater indentation; making for bet­ter*
reading; more and larger human
interest pictures of people arid
things around school; and a larger
type to be used in the first part of
stories.
"The editorial staff and adviser>
must approve any plans for changes
in the paper," said Evan Hill, edi­tor
of the Western Viking. "How-ever,
with a surplus of $400 in the
treasury, it is not probable thafr
these plans will be stopped because
of lack of funds." '•'••'"-^lj\-
V The progressive policy of setting
style to make the paper more read-:;
able and interesting has long been
practiced by such papers as the LOs
Angeles Collegian, Christian Science
Monitor, and the Linotype News.
The student editors of collegiate
papers, are also becoming alert to-new
and original ideas from their
student contributors, rather than
following rigidly the example of for--
mer editors. ".:•: • :% j-j;vv;;y'l. ':M---M