WWCollegian - 1943 February 19

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Valentine Greetings Welcome
Annual Prom Guests
Gaily Decorated Gym Scene of Dance; Sheila Moore Crowned
Princess During Broadcast Over Local Station; Neal Is M. C.
By PAT SCOTT
• About 175 college couples and
their guests danced amid valentines
and streamers at the rourth annual
Publications' From, last Friday
night in the Physical Education
building. The walls were gaily
decked with paper hearts on which
were written valentine greetings and
the names of couples attending the
dance. From the center of the
ceiling to the corners, red and white
streamers, and rows of gayly painted
newspapers were strung.
During intermission, the eleven
princess candidates were introduced
by Don Neal, master of ceremonies,
who gave a brief resume of their
college life. The Prom went on the
air at 10:45 to be broadcast over
the local station. Neal and Hazel
Anderson heightened the excite­ment
of the evening by a skit to
detain the announcement of the
winning princess candidate. They
pretended to have lost the envel-
Uncle Sam's Gain
Is College Loss
• Although busily engaged in
his work, Herbert C. Ruckmlck
paused to answer the inquiring re­porter's
questions. "Yes, I'm going
into the Naval Reserves. I'll be in
a branch of Naval aviation as a
specialist in photography." He add­ed
that of eight different types of
work he may be teaching aviation
photography, or doing camouflage
work.
Mr. Ruckmlck will leave February
25, for Columbus, Ohio, where he
will spend four to six weeks in
training.T He "will have a senior
grade lieutenant rating. As Dr.
Paul Woodring is also in Columbus
as a first lieutenant in the army,
Mr. Ruckmick is looking forward
to seeing him.
Quoting Mr. Ruckmick, "I feel as
if I am going on in education as
this is of an educational nature.
Being a type of visual aid work,
/it offers a challenge. I'd like to
see how the Navy does it."
State Governor
Guest Speaker
• Governor Arthur B. Langlie has
accepted the invitation to attend
the dedication ceremony for the
new Campus Elementary school
building. Scheduled for the week­end
of May 7 and 8, the services
will begin Friday evening and con­tinue
Saturday morning.
John P. Jones, architect of the
building, appeared before the board
of trustees at their last meeting. He
discussed, with the board, the steam
line and. other aspects of the new
building.
Another invitation has been ac­cepted
by President Ernest O. Mel-by
of the University of Montana.
rHe has consented to be the chief
speaker at the summer conference
to be held July 8 and 9. President
Melby is the former dean of the
school of education at Northwest­ern
university, Illinois. The subject
of this annual conference will be,
"Schools After the" War."
Pub Prom Princess
Pictured in P-l
• Saturday morning's Seattle
Post-Intelligencer carried the pic­ture
of The Publications' Prom prin­cess,
and a write-up about the
prom. Pat Scott and Jean Mul-vaney
who were on the publicity
committee, sent the story to the
Seattle paper.
ope in which the local coast guard
committee, who served as judges,
had placed the name of the* 1943
Publications' Prom Princess.
When it was finally found, Ser­geant
Felix Montes, former WWCol-legian
business manager, was intro­duced
to end the suspense with the
announcement that Miss Sheila
Moore, dark-haired sophomore,
would reign over the prom.
\ Princess Sheila walked through
two lines of coastguardsmen, who
stood at attention, to the stand
where the crown of honor was
placed on her head by Sergeant
Montes. Paper boys entered shout­ing
'extra" and distributed the prom
edition of the WWCollegian.
Miss Moore and her escort, ASB
president Art Clark, then led the
line to a container where defense
stamp boutonnieres, which had been
purchased by the women .were de­posited
for the benefit of the Stu­dent
Lounge fund.
Music for the affair was furnish­ed
by George Hankins' orchestra.
Miss Hazel Anderson, Klipsun edi­tor,
and Miss Bernice Shellhamer,
WWCollegian editor, under the ad-visership
of Mrs. Frank Burnet,
headed all prom plans.
Budapest Quartet
Wins Praise
By JEAN ELAINE MULVANEY
• A music loving audience is al­ways
fascinating. Especially the one
that sat awaiting the Budapest
String Quartet last Saturday night.
Everyone had that look of long-awaited
anticipation, complete with
great expectations for such a rare
treat.
The program presented was truly
a music lover's delight. The pro­gram
was as follows:
L Quartet In D Major, Opus 76,
No. 5, Haydn; Allegretto, Largo,
Menuetto, Presto.
n. Quartet in B Flat Major, Opus
130, Beethoven: Adagio, ma non
troppo—Allegro—adagio Presto—L'-
istesso tempo; Andante con moto,
ma non troppo; Alia danza tedesca;
Cavatiha (Adagio molto expressivo);
Allegro.
III. Quartet in E minor, "From
My Life," Smetena: Allegro vivo ap­passionato;
Allegro moderate a la
Polka; Largo Sostenuto; Allegro Vi­vace.
A continuous and pleased ap­plause
showed the appreciation of
the audience. Many favorable com­ments
were heard as the audience
left the auditorium.
Publications Move
Headquarters Soon
• Work is now underway on the
new Publication offices which are
to be located in room 208. This will
be the headquarters for all student
publications such as the WWCol­legian,
Klipsun, and the Navigator.
The room is to, contain, two smaller
offices and a general room for re­porters.
Klipsun and Navigator work will
be carried jpn in one of the smaller
offices, while the other will be for
Mrs. Ruth Burnet, publications ad­viser.
Mrs. Burnet has this to say about
the new offices. "We are happy to
have the publication off ices moved
near the ASB and AWS offices as
the three together will create a stu­dent
activity center for the school.
VOL. XLII—NO: 18 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Friday, February 19, 1943
For Top Position
jers Here For Crucial Series;
Norsemen Have Big Chance
Lappy's Hoopsters Out to Avenge Double Header with
Coach Ennis's Basketball Quintet
Student Election Fills
Board Posts,
Elect Manager
•Aileen Gardiner, Declan Barron,
and Bill Hatch are winners of the
election held Wednesday, February
17, in the Dean of men's office.
The two new members of the
Board of Control, Miss Gardiner and
Mr. Barron won the posts of four-quarter
woman and four-quarter
man or woman respectively. Mr.
Hatch is the new Student Lounge
manager.
Other students running for of­fice
of four-quarter man or woman
were Marie Eines and Julia Klann.
Zosia Nowagroskia was the other
candidate for four-quarter woman.
Chris Diede and Mike Smith were
also running for Student Lounge
manager.
The question concerning the rais­ing
of student fees one dollar was
omitted from this election but might
possibly be on a future ballot:
Speaker Uses
Current Titles
•William Starr Myers, an author­ity
on national and mterhafional
affairs will be a speaker in as­sembly
Friday, February 19.
Dr. Myers occupies the Chair of
Political Science at Princeton uni­versity,
and has been instructor of
history and politics at John
Hopkins university. He also was in­structor
of history at the University
of Tennessee.
Because of the timely nature of
Dr. Myers talks, his titles change
constantly as current developments
change. He also will answer ques­tions
after his lecture.
* * * *
A Christian adventurer, Charles
A. Wells, will appear in assembly
Tuesday, February 23, and speak
on Christ and world need.
He has been employed by news­papers
and religious periodicals as
cartoonist, journalist, feature writer,
and artist. As a Christian adven­turer,
he has traveled most of the
world, and has seen much excite­ment
in China, Russia, and Ger­many.
His cartoons and editorial com­ment
appear regularly in the Meth­odist
Advocate, Baptist Missions,
and many other leading religious
periodicals.
Victory Book Drive
Aided By Library
• Red, white and blue V's cover
the book container in the library.,
The Victory book drive is being
carried on throughout the city, with
the help of all town libraries. The
box is filling up, but only certain
types of books are wanted. Students
are asked to read the bulletin for
the preferred list, as there has been
a misunderstanding.. Remember,,
soldiers are tired of reading about
"Patty's Trip to Fairyland" or just
any old book. Get up in that book
shelf and really pick a "winner."
After splitting, a two game ser­ies
early this week with the St.
Martins Rangers the Vikings
will entertain them tonight and to­morrow
night in a two game series
on the Viking's home floor deter­mined
to make a clean sweep of
both games.
This series is especially importa-ant
to the Viks as they still have
an outside chance of earning a first
place tie by sweping their remain­ing
games. One loss and they are
definitely out.
The Rangers have been using
their three big men, Gaston, Lozeau,
and EUensworth, under the back­board
for rebound shots and it has
proved very; effective. Fuchs and
Erickson are the two short men that
Coach Jimmy Ennis has been using
because of their speed and accurate
eye in bucketing shots.
McPhee is another tall man who
spells off EUensworth at center.
Gaston, who has a deceptive and
Two»Weelc Courses
This Summer
Short courses of two weeks each
will be offered this summer. These
are refresher courses which may be
taken by anyone, but which are es­pecially
helpful for returning teach­ers
who have limited time. This
plan is being adopted by the two
universities and four colleges in the
state.
Seventeen credits will constitute
a standard load. These courses will
be given: observation in the train­ing
school (kindergarten- to the
sixth grade), beginning reading,
remedial reading (grades above the
second), curriculum, teaching of
science and teaching of arithme­tic.
Instructors Attend
Elma Conference
• Leaving Wednesday for Elma,
Grays Harbor, to attend a meeting
sponsored by the Elma schools and
county superintendent's office were
Dr. Aubrey E. Haan, Miss Ruth Me-lendy,
and Miss Evelyn Odom, of
the college staff.
The purpose of this conference is
to plan to use more effectively the
material gathered by the state"
planning council three years ago
in the noted Elma Survey. Par­ticipating
in the conference besides
the teachers of Elma and surround­ing
schools, are representatives of
the University of Washington and
the State Department of Education.
School Monday
• Classes will be held as usual on
February 22, which is George Wash­ington's
birthday, to make up some
of the.time missed when school was
Closed.' V '•••' L . ':r:(:-
This will not effect Spring va­cation
however, which will be as
scheduled.
excellent left hard shot, tallied most
of his tries in the two games ear­lier
this week.
"The games at the first of this
week" have been the only confer­ence
this season in which both
teams used a semi-zone defense,
Coach Lappenbusch asserted.
Lappy is' brushing up the foul
shooting which was very poor
against the Rangers and is drilling
the boys against the zone; defense
which proved very effective against
the Viks this week. "*®P"
The boys will have to watch their
eating before and after both games
if they want to naye: the physical
stamina to keep up a: steady pace
both nights. ^:\?:^:^'p^
Friday night the preliminary
games will be: the Supervarsity
meets the highly touted Coast
Guard Sea Bees from the City
league and on Saturday night the
all star college picked from the five
intramural squads will endeavor to
down their fellow classmates on the
Supervarsity.
Lappy will start Gregg,; Wittren,
Ludwick, Lowery, and Strankman,
the same five that started both the
Ranger games.
New Money Maker
For Lounge Fund
• Through the efforts of various
members of the "W?' club, a new
type of money maker for the stu­dent
lounge has been initiated in
school during the last' week. It is
nothing more than the old form of
score guessing except that you dont
guess, you just pay ten cents and
hope that your number will be the
one that wins the pot of five dol­lars
for yourself, and five dollars
for the lounge.
Each entrant pays his money into
the main fund, and after each bas­ketball
game that the Vikings play,
the one whose name is in the cor­rect
square, wins.
So far there have been three
lucky people. Bobby Ludwick. won
the one for the Fort Casey game,
Larry Munizza the Monday game
with St. Martins, and Chris Diede
the Tuesday game pot. So far the
idea has been more than successful
and there have been people waiting
to sign and unable to because of
the limited amount of space. Also,
thanks to the "W" club, the student
lounge fund is fifteen dollars rich­er
today than it was one week ago.
J{ Dateline
Saturday, February 20—
Basketball game with St. Martins,
her,e.
Monday, February 22—
ACE meeting in room 208, at 4
p. m. • •
Thursday, February 25~
IRC meeting in men's Club room
; at 7:30 p. m.: ;..>;;'>*.••. •"• :x"../
Friday, February fefr^r :•;'-;
Discussion, groups, meet in AWS
room, men's club room, and
faculty room.
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