Weekly Messenger - 1920 December 10

              essenger
VOL. XX
Devoted to the Interests of the Student Body, Washington State Normal School
BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1920 NO. 10
TAKES SCHOOL
OF
MISS ALICE MARKHAM LED
FROM PLATFORM
TO ALTAR
Will Reside at Forks
Following commencement Friday, De­cember
3, one of our Normal graduates
contracted for a school of one in do­mestic
happiness. Miss Alice Mark-ham,
of Seattle, was united in marriage
with Mr. Arthur M. Isett, of Oak Har­bor.
The ceremony took place at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Met,. Miller,
2300 Utter Street, friends of the bride.
After a solo, " I Love, and the World
Is Mine," rendered by Miss Edith Mil­ler,
the bridal party took their places
under the wedding bell.
Miss Helen Markham, sister of the
bride, was maid of honor. Mr. Merwin
Miller attended the groom. The im­pressive
ring ceremony was read by Rev.
J. C. Harrison of the Garden Street
Methodist Church.
In the dining room, artistically decor­ated
in pink and white, a delightful
luncheon was served. Mr. and Mrs.
Isett departed that afternoon for Oak
Harbor. They will make their future
home at Forks, where Mrs. Isett has
been engaged to teach in the schools.
The best wishes of the Normal faculty
and students and hosts of friends go
with them for their success and happi­ness.
NORMAL IS PROVEN
A VALUAB
STUDENTS SHOW WORTH OF
THIS SCHOOL TO THE
COMMUNITY
That the State Normal School is a
valuable asset to the City of Bellingham
was shown at a meeting of the Business
Girls on Wednesday, December 1st. The
club is sponsored by Miss Exean Wood-ard,
dean of women. At this meeting
the business was conducted as an open
forum and two topics were under dis­cussion;
the advanced credit .that a
Normal student . receives at the univer­sity
and "the actual money value of .the
Normal to the community.
$60,677.13.SPENT IN ONE YEAR
It was shown that, the total .amount
spent for the year ending October. 31,
1920, was $60,677.13, and it was divided
up. as follows": . Fuel companies, $10,-
(Continued on page 3.)
E BALE LECTURES
Tonight Judge Fred C. Bale appears
as a number of our lecture course. His
lecture will make you think about the
nation's greatest asset — the youth of
the twentieth century. Judge Bale's in­spiring
lecture is gathered from his ex­periences
as public prosecutor in the
juvenile court at Columbus, Ohio. This
wonderful experience brought him face
to face with criminals in the making and
gave him an insight into the real char­acter
of the so-called delinquent child.
Some of his experiences are humorous,
others pathetic, but all extremely inter­esting.
Judge Bale is an orator of un­usual
ability and one whom we should
all hear without fail, tonight.
SINGS IN ASSEM
At the assembly on Wednesday, the
Normal students, faculty and part of
the training school were highly enter­tained,
when Mrs. Gilfillan ,rendered a
beautiful musical program for us. Mrs.
Gilfillan was formerly the secretary of
the training school here (at school).
For the past few years she has been
studying in Chicago and, after her visit
here is over, will, return there to con-nue
the work.
We are very glad to have Mrs. Gil­fillan
here to entertain us, and wish for
her great success in her work. The
program follows:
Monte Princeo..-. Grieg
The- Boat ....Grieg
By the Waters of Minnetonka..L£ewra7ice
Out Where the West Begins Philled
Haunt of the'"Witches..-.;...';...:-::.:.":-:-..-.-..'......:'..:
THIRTY STUDENTS
FIRST QUARTER COMMENCE­MENT
IS HELD FRIDAY,
DECEMRER 3
Thirty students received diplomas at
assembly Friday, December 3, when the
first quarter commencement exercises
were held. The commencement address
was delivered by Ralph W. Swetman,
president of the Washington Educational
Association. The program follows:
Faust March
Miss Thompson
Invocation Rev. J. C. Harrison
Stormy Night Somervell
Choral Club
Address
Professor Ralph W. Swetman, Presi­dent
Washington Educational
Association
Yalse Improintu Ruff
Miss Bogdanoff
Presentation of Class
President G. W. Nash
Presentation of Diplomas
Dr. W. D. Kirkpatrick
Four Leaf Clover Coombs
Normal Quartet
Benediction
Rev. J. C. Harrison
a
HISTORICAL DRAMA IS FIRST
OF SERIES OF REELS
TO BE SHOWN
The first of the season's series of
motion pictures, " My Own United
States," which was presented Tuesday,
was enjoyed by all. The picture, found­ed
on Edward Everett Hale's " The
Man Without a Country," took the audi­ence
back to the time of Alexander
Hamilton and Aaron Burr, and then
through the history of the United States
to the Civil War. The closing reel por­trayed
the modern young man leaving to
serve his country on the fields of Eu­rope
and to uphold the ideals for which
his country stands.
The next of the series of reels will
give to us the life of Abraham Lincoln.
These reels are both interesting and ed­ucational.
Miss Druse, who is back from her va­cation
with new /.est for work, claims
excuse for any breaches of custom she
may have committed on the grounds that
she left her blue book at home. At
that rate the entire student body would
be forever free from blame.
IASKETBALL H M
E
EIGHTEEN ARE PRACTICING
DAILY UNDER GUIDANCE
OF COACH CARVER
•Mr. Weir will speak at Maple Falls
Saturday at the opening of the new com­munity
hall.
Former Plaj^ers Back
Eighteen young huskies have answered
the'call of Coach Carver and are turn­ing
out daily in the hope of making the
basketball team. Among these are sev­eral
who have distinguished themselves
as basketball players, both at Normal
and during their high school careers.
Max Jenkins, one of last year's crack
forwards on the Normal team, is back in
uniform, working hard to get into his
old form.
" Dick'' Inge and " Blan" Burpee
have come over from Fairhaven to try
their hand at Normal basketball. Both
of these have seen service before .under
Carver when he coached the Fairhaven
team two years ago.
Bowsher and Elder, of last year's
second team, are out, as is Rueben Aim,
who was on the second team a few
years ago.
Out of town men who are showing up
well include Miller, of Sedro-Woolley;
Wright, from Suinas, and Hannah, from
Friday Harbor.
The first game of the season is with
the Ex-Normal team from Vancouver,
one week from tomorrow.
DIST ACTOR
MING TUESDAY
The students of the Normal School
will have an opportunity next Tuesday
evening to hear one of America's fore­most
actors, when Fredrick Warde ap­pears
as the fourth number on the school
lecture course program.
Fredrick Warde has been called " the
grand old man of the footlights." For
more than half a century he has been a
leading actor. His lecture " Fifty Years
of Make Believe," is a fascinating story
of stage life. It is a revelation of the
real American stage of the past fifty
years told by one who was in the midst
of the best of it — a gentleman splen­didly
equipped in every way to tell this
most fascinating story.
During the past winter Mr. Warde
played the leading role in the famous
Los Angeles Mission Play at San Gab­riel
— the A merican Oberammergau —
where his masterly interpretation cre­ated
comment throughout the entire
West.