WWCollegian - 1943 February 5

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Famous Budapest Quartet
Offers Concert Saturday
By JEAN ELAINE MXtLVANEY
• Next Friday the world-famous
Budapest String quartet will arrive
here atr the college to perform and
The Budapest String quartet is
comprised of Josef Roismann, first
violin; Alexander Schneider, second
violin; Boris Kroyt, viola; and Mis-cha
Schneider, violoncello. The
name of the organization is old and
eminent, for it goes back many
years in the annals of European
musical life. The present personnel,
in expanding the physical radius of
their activity, have maintained the
tradition of preeminence attaching
to their name, but at the same
time they have brought their actual
performance to a degree of excel­lence
hitherto unprecedented. Be­fore
joining the quartet, each of
these brilliant artists had acquired
a musical background the variety
and richness of which could only
result from greatly varied experi­ence.
All the world over, the Budapest
String quartet is hailed as the su­perlative
interpreter of chamber
music. In the United States alone
(where, by the way, the artists are
now permanently settled) the
growth of their popularity is as­tonishing.
Their American debut
occurred at Cornell University,
Ithaca, N. Y., in December, 1930. A
few days later they completely cap­tured
the public and critics of New
York City.
With no elaborate program of
publicity, with only the commenda­tion
of their European successes,
they came to the shores of a coun­try
already familiar with eminent
chamber music organizations. That
first season here the Budapest
String quartet played some twenty
concerts. Last season, just eleven
years later, America heard them no
less than eighty-four times! Furth­er
comment is unnecessary. It is
well to state here, however, that
the members of the Budapest String
quartet, are as delighted with the
United States as the American pub-
IRC To Discuss
China Next
• China is the next topic up for
discussion by the International Re­lations
club members. Every one
has been reading in preparation
for their next meeting. Lois Enos
is adding to the round table debate
by giving special information about
the Chinese guest of a few weeks
ago, Kung Pu Sheng. Miss Pu
Sheng is a student from China who
is touring the campi of the United
States through the auspices of the
World Student's Service fund. (
For convenience, Mildred Jean
Pratt, president, has changed the
club meeting to the first and third
Thursdays of every month. (Club
members, please note.)
lie is with them.
Upon their arrival here in Bel-lingham
on Friday,, the quartet will
teach several master classes at the
college.
Their only concert will be given
Saturday evening in the college
auditorium. Students will be ad­mitted
upon presentation of their
student body cards, but outsiders
will be charged admission. v
VOL. XLI I—NO. 16 Western Washington College, Bellinghanry Washington Friday, February 5/1943
Pub Prom Date Nears
Candidates For Princess Crown Chosen By Committee
—Courtesy Bellingham Herald
Out of a group of twenty girls selected by the basketball team, the above eleven co-eds were chosen as
Publications' Prom princesses candidates by Mrs. L. A. Nygard, Ben Seffit, arid Keith Davis in last. Friday's
assembly. These girls are: Helen Cody, Pat Scott, Mary Cody, Margaret Mueller, Dawn Griffith, Pat Gil­bert,
Marolyn Turner, Gloria Campbell, Sheila Moore, Norma Stangle, and Mabel'Odegaard.
j{ Dateline
Friday, February 5—
Norsemen's informal, Edens hall
dining-room. ,
Monday, February 8—
Civic Music concert at Bellingham
High School auditorium.
Friday, February 12— *
.1 Annual Publications' Phom in PE
building.
^Saturday, February 13—
Budapest String quartet, College
auditorium; evening.
Educators Meet;
Discuss War
Problem Measures
• Attended by a large number of
the campus school faculty was the
meeting last Tuesday of the cam­pus
school dining hall. Reports
were heard from members of the
staff who had visited some of the
beginning teachers during the fall
quarter. Schools visited were in
Seattle, Shelton, Hoquiam, Aber­deen,
Vancouver, and rural Grays
Harbor.
The faculty also discussed prob­lems
the girls were facing and their
relationship to the program in this
school. Special emphasis was made
of the fact that these,, beginners
were facing this year, unusual prob­lems
as a result of the war and the
crowded conditions in war indus­trial
centers.
College Goes On
Air Again
• From the remote control sta­tion
at WWP, the radio class, under
the supervision of Ramon T. George,
presented a 15-minute broadcast
over KVOS .last Tuesday at 5:15 p.
m.
Floyd St. Clair directed the gath­ering
and writing of material for
the program, and those participat­ing
in the actual broadcast were:
Sirs. W. B. Hopple, Archie Anderson,
Georgina Voris, and Floyd; St. Clair.
Norsemen's Annual Informal
Weekend Highlight
• Patrons and patronesses for the
big annual Norsemen dance to be
held tonight in Edens hall dining
room will be: Dr. and Mrs. Haggard,
Dr. and Mrs. Johnston, Mr. and
Mrs. Hearsey, Miss Lorraine Pow­ers,
Mr. and Mrs. Knapman, and
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Ross.
Laurels for the success of this
dance will go to the committee com­posed
of Don Brown, Don Packard,
Art Reilly, Edgar Johnston, and
Warren MacPherson, who worked
with Mr. Knapman, adviser of the
club.
Decorations for the dance will be
styled in a Norsemen manner, and
dancing will begin at 9 p. m.
Girls' Conference
Cancelled;
Transportation Bad
•Joy Hatt, general chairman, has
announced that the High School
Girls' club conference has had to be
cancelled. School authorities decid­ed
that because so much school was
missed during the -snow and cold
weather that students could not af­ford
to miss any inore.
Another difficulty arose in trans­portation
facilities to and from the
conference. ..-
Duo-Pianists Civic
Music Feature
•Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Ne-menoff,
duo-T>ianists who will be
heard here on Monday, February 8,
under the auspices of the Civic Mu­sic
association, are always delighted
ix> grant" interviews, especially when
on tour. They are charming and
gracious and seldom taken aback,
however surprising the various
questions, may be. They admit
though, that a recent incident in
a small college town, was rather
overwhelming even for them.
They arrived in the town quite
late in the evening, for a concert
the following day. Just as Miss
Nemenoff (she is Mrs. Pierre Lu-
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Professional Course
Offered in Summer
• That professional two week
courses will be offered this summer
was learned from Dr. Arthur C.
Hicks, registrar. These will con­sist
mostly of refresher classes for
teachers according to the advance
plans. .
Dr. Hicks explained that this idea
was adopted in order to serve both
those who have limited, and those
who have unlimited time.
Coast Guards
Pick Princess
From Pictures
• Now in the hands of a commit­tee
of local Coast Guardsmen are
the pictures of eleven co-eds, one of
whom will be chosen to reign over
annual WWCollegian-Klipsun dance
Friday, February 12, as the fourth
Publications' Prom princess. A val­entine
theme will be used, with
dancing in the physical education
building to the music of George
Hankins and his orchestra.
The introduction of the princess
nominees, a novel announcement
of the. winning candidate's name,
and the actual coronation will all
be part of a broadcast over the lo­cal
station.
Sergeant Felix Montes, former
WWCollegian business manager,
now at the recruiting office, has
been asked to crown the 1943 Prom
Princess. , - .
Dancing will" be from 9 to 12, but
all guests, who will come in hte
West entrance, will be received from
8:30-9:00. Students are requested to
use the East door. Next week's
WWCollegian will be distributed at
the dance.
Tickets, at a dollar a couple, are
on sale in the main hall during the
noon hour. Joy Hatt and Alice
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Committee Travels
Selling Tickets
• Two cars carrying representa­tives
of the Publications' Prom
committee visited the county high
schools today, for the purpose of
selling Prom tickets to the members
of the publications staffs who
wanted them. Because these high
school students are invited guests,
their admission will be only fifty
cents.
The schools which were visited
are: Sumas-Nooksack, Mount Baker,
Custer, Ferndale, Blaine, and Lyn-den.
Members of the committee
who went on the trip were: Gloria
Campbell, Mike Smith, Hazel And­erson,
Bill Hatcty, Joy Hatt, Geor­gina
Voris, and John Dorcy.
Enrollment Figures
Show Gain;
Classes at Night v
• Enrollment figures for the win­ter
quarter have been released by
President W. W. Haggard who an­nounces
424 as the total, 351 being
the daytime figure and 73 the pres­ent
figure, for late afternoon, and
evening classes.
This number does not include,".
points out Dr. Haggard, "the night
classes in men's physical^education
and those for the Coast Guard aux­iliary,
which are given to.students
without credit."-
Approximately 35 men are attend­ing
the evening gym .classes, and
around 60 member of the Coast;
Guard auxiUary are enrolled in
night classes.
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