Weekly Messenger - 1921 April 8

              The Weekly Messenger
Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
VOL. XX BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1921 NO. 24
BIRD SANCTUARY
TO
BE
STUDENTS TO ESTABLISH A
MEMORIAL FOR
MISS BAKER
A most beautiful and symbolical cere­mony
is being planned for the dedica­tion
of a bird sanctuary as a part of
the commencement program. Every or­ganization
in the school including the
Junior and Senior Classes and the Train­ing
School are asked to participate. The
ceremony is to be short and symbolical
of spring, birds and nature. It is to
take on the form of a song pageant
with the Alkisiahs opening and closing
the program.
The exercises are to be held about a
corner-stone. The organization will form
in back of the dormitory and will march,
led by the Alkisiahs, before the audience
and each club in turn will do its part,
no club taking longer than four min­utes.
Each club is asked to decide this week
as to what it will do; songs or poems
about nature are most desirable. Re­ports
as to what will be done by each
organization must be handed to Eunice
Montague as soon as possible.
While this will be the dedication of
the sanctuary and undoubtedly the most
beautiful affair given on the campus for
years, yet the Alkisiahs hope to have
this ceremony given each year.
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By MAY MEAD
A Florence Nightingale Centenary
Foundation has been created in memory
of the great founder and mother-chief
of modern nursing.
The money for this has been raised
by the graduate, registered nurses in
their organizations, among the lay peo­ple
in their districts, and interested phy­sicians.
This money is to be divided in
three equal parts and distributed be­tween
the American Nurse Association,
the League of Nursing Education and
the National Organization for Public
Health Nursing.
There is nothing which can contribute
more to the health and well-being of a
state than an intelligent opinion con­cerning
sickness and health, and the
standards of those entrusted with the
nursing and care of the people. Nurs­ing
standards are higher than they have
ever been. This is one of the results of
the war. Rank for nurses has been ac­complished,
nursing is a real profession.
In the training schools for nurses the
nurse applicant must be a high school
graduate. The eight-hour day is an-
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.OF
NORMAL SPEAKS
One of the best talks of the year was
given at last Friday's assembly by Dr.
Cotton, president of the Normal School
of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Dr. Cotton
emphasized the fact that only by put­ting
well prepared teachers into the
rural schools could the decline of rural
school education be checked. He de­scribed
the six types of teachers found
in the schoolrooms today as the profuse,
gushing teacher who doesn't know the
difference between a nursery and the
school room; the snappy, suspicious
teacher; the nervous, energetic, worried
one; the self-satisfied, deliberate, lazy
teacher; the disciplinarian who rules by
the rod and strong right arm, and last
of all the gentle, womanly woman who,
despite theories to the contrary, makes
the school room a bright, sunny place
which children love. He showed clealy
that the teacher makes the school what
it is of joy or sorrow to the child and
to secure well trained teachers they
must be paid a thrift, not a living wage.
" The teachers of this country can con­trol
teachers' salaries if they put the
right-spirit into their work," Dr. Cotton
said. . •
LECTURE SPEAKER
E
On the night of March 31st, Mr.
Beilharz, the last lecture speaker of
the season, gave a faithful and colorful
reproduction of the " Hoosier School­master."
Mr. Beilharz has been giving
this same lecture for three years, and
knows his subject thoroughly. The stu­dents
applauded him continually and
were grateful for the treat. It would
indeed be a pleasure to have Mr. Beil­harz
back again.
B. S. N. S.
L
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At 8 o'clock tonight in the gymnasium
of Whatcom High School, there will be
the greatest exhibition of physical
strength and skill that has ever been
witnessed in Bellingham. Two of the
largest high schools in New York City
gave an entertainment of this kind and
found it to be a wonderful success.
Normal and Whatcom High have always
been rivals in such athletic contests as
baseball, basketball and track. Tonight
the meet for the first time in an event
which is of an entirely different nature.
The Normal will match its champions
against those of Whatcom in wrestling,
boxing and other contests of this type,
such as juggling, balancing and weight
lifting.
The evening's program is as follows:
Boxing — Daley, Y. M. C. A. vs. Al
Biddle (professional).
Boxing—Powell, Normal, vs. Pear­son,
High School.
Boxing — Groot, Normal, vs. Quack-enbush,
High School.
A girls' boxing match.
Wrestling demonstration by Reed of
the local Y. M. C. A.
Wrestling—Shaffer, Normal vs. Pan-net,
High. School.
Wrestling — Squires, Normal, vs. ex­pert
professional.
Besides the contests mentioned are
some circus stunts worth seeing. Pro­fessional
judges have been secured to
referee the games.
Come out and show your school spirit.
Tickets are on sale at the book store,
25c and 35c. Ice cream will be sold at
the gym. Remember it begins promptly
at 8 o'clock.
B. S. N. S.
Go to the smoker at AVhatcom Satur­day
night. Encourage your boys.
E. FRANCES ALDA
APRIL 13
NOTED CONCERT SINGER TO
APPEAR AT AMERICAN
THEATER
Mine. Frances Alda, one of the
world's most brilliant and popular so­pranos,
who has appeared in the great­est
opera houses and concert halls of
Europe and America, is to sing at the
American Theater Wednesday, April 13,
at 8:15, under the auspices of the Bell­ingham
Woman's Music Club. Again
this season Miss Erin Ballard, pupil of
Frank La Forge, will be Mme. Alda's
accompanist. She is a talented young
American artist, and will give several
solos. Miss Ballard has won hearty com­mendation
from critics of the press.
" Success cannot be attained with­out
work, and my creed has been work,
work, and more work," is a message
Mme. Alda has given. Work to her
means preparedness, and it was this
which enabled her to appear in sixty
different concerts and a score of opera
performances during the past season.
Besides appearing in concerts and opera
performances, Mme. Alda has sung for
the Victor Company, and her records
are in many homes. " This young beauty
has a voice of exquisite quality, fresh
with the beauty and fullness of youth,
and alluring in its color, clear as crys­tal
in the high tones, mellow, warm and
appealing," is the tribute paid to her
by the Portland Evening Express.
STUDENT ¥0DY ELECT
OFFICERS FOR YEAR
At last Friday's assembly the Student
Body elected the board of control for
next year. The following members were
chosen: Elsie Minor, president; Carol
Haeske, vice president; Marion Collier,
Mrs. Edna Anstett, Esther Cook, stu­dent
representatives; Mr. Bond, faculty
representative. Mr. Heckmann was re­appointed
by the faculty as the other
faculty representative.
Elsie Minor is a Thespian, was on the
debate team and was the star player on
the basketball team. Carol Haeske be­longs
to the Philos and was a brilliant
debater in high school. Marion Collier
is a Philo and a physical education
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