WWCollegian - 1943 October 15

              Board Appoints Bright, Baker,
Home Front Week Chairmen
Doris Tedford, Betty Fisher, Ruth Kosche, Shirley Olson
Appointed Heads of Various War Activities
• Jeanette Bright and Walter Baker were this week appointed by the
Board of Control to fill the co-chairmen's responsibilities for WWC Home
Frtfnt week-end to be celebrated November 18, 19, and 20.,
The Board of Control meeting at which these and various other appoint­ments
were decided was called Wednesday afternoon. Declan Barron, ASB
prexy, announced the following students to head war committees:
Doris Tedford, war activities "
chairman; Betty Fisher, chairman
of hospitality toward servicemen;
Ruth Kosche, Red Cross; and Shir­ley
Olson, bandages.
Cale Campbell was appointed or­ganizer
of the Friday night rec
hours.
To determine the policies and
hours of the students' Co-op, Ruthe
Olds was appointed chairman of
the Co-op board and will be helped
by' the following committee mem­bers:
Dale Burklund, Ruth Kosche,
Betty Fisher, and Virginia Sorgen-ftei
Also announced by Barron, al­though
not appointed by the Board
of Control, was the new Student
Standards committee. This commit­tee
was appointed by Dr. W. W.
Haggard and prexy Barron and serves
as a "censor" 'group to pass the
fitness of school activities. Head­ed
by Dean of Women, Lorraine
Powers and Fred Knapman of the
Science department for faculty ad­visers,
it is composed of Jim Gilday,
Ruby Stroebels, and June Benja­min.
Details of the Home Front week­end
are as yet very indefinite, ac­cording
to Barron, but the. activ­ities
during that week-end will un­doubtedly
be cut considerably due
to war conditions. "However," said
Dec with a grin, "we are at least
sure of the all-girl play, "Brief
Music" being on the program."
College Who's Who
Nominees Chosen
• Representatives of WWC have
been chosen for Who's Who among
students in American universities
and colleges, by Lorraine Powers,
dean of women, and Dr. Arthur C.
Hicks, registrar, after consultation
with student leaders.
Declan Barron, student body pres­ident
was nominated for the second
year. Other nominees are: Aileen
Gardiner, AWS president; Jeannette
Bright, Interclub council president;
Marie Eines, Bernice Elenbaas, Ruth
Kosche. Margaret Richards, Cheryl
Smith, and Ruby Stroebels.
Students receiving this honor
were chosen for character, scholar­ship,
leadership in extra-curricular
activity, and the possibilities of their
usefulness to the country after grad­uation
from college.
This record, published annually
by the University of Alabama, is
used by business firms for place­ment
purposes.
Last Terminal
Exam Today
• Fall terminal examinations are
being held Thursday and Friday of
this week according to Dr. Arthur C.
Hicks, registrar. These examina­tions
are required of all diploma
students having sixty-five or more
in permits to go apple picking, so /credits but who have not as yet
been admitted into student teach-
Apple Picking Trip
Improbable Now
• Sixty-two student have turned
far. President W. W. Haggard
stated that it is evident that we will
not go this week-end and, although
it seems improbable that we will be
called on, we may receive word next
week.
In case of an unforseen emergen­cy
in the harvesting of the apple
crop, all permits should be in so
that there will be no unnecesary
delay.
ing. The examinations this fall are
given partly for new transfer stu­dents
and to former students who
were not here for examinations last
spring.
Students taking the examinations
are being excused from their classes
during these tests. However, tests
have been so arranged that students
have found it possible to attend
some of their classes.
Kunz To Explain Indian Affairs
• Fritz Kunz, outstanding Ameri­can
authority on India and the
Southwestern Pacific, will appear in
the regular student assembly next
Tuesday. He will discuss India's
problems in the present crisis and
what may be expected from this
enigmatic land, when the hour of
her freedom is at hand.
"In his abiity to hold an audi­ence's
attention and to make an
hour seem like fifteen minutes, Mr.
Kunz has, to my knowledge, no su­perior
among American lecturers. He
is constantly entertaining, vividly
clear, and intellectually stimulat­ing.
More than this, he is inspir­ing,
opening to the minds of his.
listeners new pathways of hope and
idealism," is the enthusiastic report
of Professor Arleigh B. Williamson,
chairman of the department of pub­lic
speaking at New York Univer­sity.
Mr. Kunz knows India and her
problems as do few Americans be­cause
of his long residence among
her people and his close knowledge
of the Nationalist leaders who are
now at the helm in her affairs. In
his lecture, he will tell of the
struggles, the idealism and he re­alistic
consideration which must
guide the leaders of India.
Mr. Kunz now makes his home
FRITZ KUNZ
at Fort Chester, N. Y., where he
is working on a new book on In­dian
philosophy and edits the
monthly magazine, Main Currents
in Modern Thought.
Vol. XLIII—NO. 4 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Friday, October 15, 1943'
Minstrel Given O.K.
Elman First Civic Music Guest
" VIOLINIST MISCHA ELMAN
• Thirty-five years have elapsed
since Mischa Elman faced his first
American audience in the old Man­hattan
Opera House and lifted his
violin to his chin as the Boston-
Symphony orchestra struck the op­ening
chords of the Tchaikowsky
concerto. A few months later, De­cember
10, 1908, to be exact, the
same lad made his Carnegie hall
debut and proceeded to become one,,
of the timeless talents of this cen­tury.
On his current tour, Mr. Elman
will appear in about fifty American
cities, a fact that attests his un­diminished
popularity.
An outstanding factor is Mr. El-man's
unabated self-vigilance. "I
practice a great deal; in order to
play well you must. Those who
say they don't—and who play well
—really do practice a great deal."
Elman's artistry, which has con­tinued
unflaggingly for a genera­tion,
was first heard in this coun­try
when Oscar Hammerstein
brought him from triumphs in Eu­rope
to astound New York audiences
that time at the old Manhattan
Opera House in 1908.
Since that day, the "Elman tone"
has been' heard on every continent
in the world, South America being
the last to come under his violin-istic
sway. During a five months
tour, from June to October, 1939,
he played more than fifty concerts
College Instructors
Take Vacation
. • Missing from the fall quarter
faculty staff of WWC this quarter
are two instructors, Miss Charlotte
Richardson, industrial arts instruc­tor,
and Miss Nora Cummins, social
science instructor. Both faculty
members are on their usual annual
leave from- school, and plan to re­turn
for next quarter's work.
FLASH!
Every student of WWC is
eligible to attend the fall semi-formal
that will be' sponsored
by the Norsemen on October
29. For further particulars see
the sports page.
in Brazil, Argentine, Uruguay, Chile
and Peru.
His new horizons are musical as
well as geographic. This year he
commisioned Buhuslav Marinu to
compose a new concerto which will
receive its world premiere this fall
when the violinist appears with the
Boston Symphony under the baton
of Serge Kousevitzky.
Elman's appearance in the city
next Tuesday, is under the auspices
of the Bellingham Civic Music as­sociation.
The local association has
just had a very successful member­ship
week. Because of the large
number of people joining and the
fact that there are no longer any
seats available, there is a waiting
list at the present time.
The five concerts that have been
arranged for the musical year are
as follows: October 19, Mischa El­man,
violinist; November 19, Dos-olina
Gianini, soprano; January 11,
E. Robert Schmitz, French pianist;
March 2, Douglas Beattie, bass bar­itone;
March 10, Ballet Theatre.
Etudents were urged to make their
reservations this week with Nils
Bosson of the Music department, in
room 210 if they planned to attend
teh concert Tuesday, October 19,
which is to take place in the Bel­lingham
high school auditorium at
8 p. m.
Staff Holds Annual
Theme Secret
• Klipsun staff members took a
big forward step when they selected
their theme this week.
To carry out this most modern
theme will entail a great deal of
experimental work. The secret
theme is now being woven into the
dummy forms.
Freshmen and sophomore class
pictures have been taken and ef­forts
are being made to find a pho­tographer
to take a number of
candid shots. ,
The size of the'book will be
jsmaller than last year due to a
reduction in the supply of materials
and a cut in the allowance granted
to the book.
Colored Man Talent
Tryout Tuesday
• The blackface boys and gals are
swinging down to WWC, November
12, with a program-of Blues, Boogie
and Barrelhouse, in hopes of ac­cumulating
some Do-Re-Me; to re­plenish
the depleted Student lounge
fund.
Along with the jive will be some
of the good old minstrel songs find
jokes. And that's notv all. There;
also will be many humorous skits,
dances and parodies.
The show will be presented under
the direction of the freshmen, who
want to help the upperclassmen who
have worked so. hard to make the
student lounge a success. Although
the frosh are directing the show,
any student in the school may try
for the parts, states the committee
in charge.
Tryouts will be held in the audi­torium
next Tuesday afternoon at
4 o'clock "We hope to see a large
number of the students at the try-out,
so we can make this venture
a financial success," was the state­ment
released by the freshman com­mittee
in charge.
Victor H. Hoppe, drama instruc­tor,
and Nils Boson of the music
department, will assist the fresh­men
in the presentation of the
show.
This Minstrel show will contain
a rather unusual feature, in that
girls will be used as well as boys.
This was not the common custom
in the original minstrel but there
were, however, some famous women
minstrels.
WEA Dinner
Ends Meet
. • Climaxing the- annual meeting
of the Washington Education Asso­ciation's
institute, a dinner is be­ing
held this evening in the Bel­lingham
hotel sponsored by. the
Bellingham administration unit of
the WEA.
Randy Oberlatz, head of the
local group, will preside at the din­ner
meeting, introducing Frank
Davison who will be the speaker of
the evening. Mr. Davison's subject
is entitled "Fun From Poetry, Be­lieve
It Or Not."
The assembled group, of public
school teachers attend the institute
purely on a voluntary basis this
year, and are representing teaching
groups from San Juan, Skagit, and
Whatcom counties. In former years
the institute usually had two or
three days for meetings, but due to
present conditions, the institute has
now been condensed to an after­noon
and evening.
it Dateline
Tuesday, October 19—
First Civic. Music Association con­cert.
Mischa Elman, violinist, in /•
the Bellingham high school audi­torium,
8:15 p. m.
Thursday, October 21—
CCF meeting in room 108, 12:30?
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Interclub Council meeting in room;
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