WWCollegian - 1941 May 23

              Our congratulations this week go to Bill Hatch, Bill O'Neill,
Elizabeth Douglas, and Mick Smith/newly elected studentbody
officers. You're a very efficient crevr and we are sure that
your administration next year will be a successful one.
Bill Hatch, next year's president/has piled up an enviable
scholastic record while in attendance at WWC which is edi-denced
by his grade point qi^h, He also was elected presi­dent
of the Junior class for next year to say nothing of holding
the office of four quarter representative to the Board of Con­trol
this year.
to Elizabeth Douglas befalls the task of four quarter'rep­resentative
to the Board this year. Elizabeth is a member of
Valkyrie, a reporter for the Collegian, and a an active member
of the Dance club. ,
Bill O'Neil, newly chos­en
vice-president, start­ed
his career at WWC
by being elected Fresh­man
class prexy. He also
is a member of the band.
Mickey Smith, Hospice
Inn's contribution to the
officers, has been chosen
four quarter man or wom­an
representative to the
Board also. Mickey is
one of those fellows who
is an all around good
sport and who enters in­to
many of the inter-mural
activities.
It sems as though the
streets are either getting
pretty narrow or the
latest cars (not men­tioning
Chevrolets) are
getting too wide. That
curve around by the Inn
is one sweet little place
to play "Bump-to-Daisy"
with black Chevrolets.
Mrs. Burnet, journalism
instructor, will relate it
to you on request, entit­led
"Where on earth is
reverse gear, in these
new-fangled gear-shifts."
•
* Sam Carver has a small -
crop of strawberries,
about 150 or so plants.
This is not too startling a
fact as according to the
Grange News, there are
quite a few people in
Western Washington who
have 150 stra wber ry
plants.
However, joint claim is
laid to the Carver plants
by a small but vociferous
flock of birds who seem
to resent highly the pres­ence
of the track coach
in the same patch with
them.
"The other day when.
I was looking at the red
spots on the berries one
of the birds lit on the
fence and gave me a
thorough overhauling with
a victrolic tongue. I real­ly
don't mind the birds
taking possession of the
patch but I'd like to have
them do the weeding if
they're going to eat the
berries," is the mild-man­nered
Carver's comment
on the appalling state of
affairs.
Dateli me
Friday, May 23
Rec hour, training school
gym, 8:30 p. m.
Saturday, May 24
Board of Control picnic,
Gooseberry point, dinner
at 5:30 p. m.
ACE installation and
Visual Aids display,
first grade room. 7:30
p. m.
Tuesday, May 27
Assembly, A Cappella
choir, 11 a. m.
Girls' and Housemothers'
picnic, Whatcom Falls
park, 1 p. m.
Concerto recital, audi­torium,
8 p. m.
Wednesday, May 28
Edens hall dinner for
Men's houses, 6:15 p.
m.
"Thursday, May 29
. Ihterclub council meet­ing,
4 p. m.
Friday, May 30
: Memorial day holiday.
Ruckmick Epic-tures
College Life
Camera—lights—action!
•Motion pictures depicting life at
Western Washington college have
been taken and are to be released
soon. First showing will be at the
Alumni banquet June 1
Perhaps you noticed the airplane
circling above the college Tuesday.
Well, the opening scene of the film
is to be an aerial view of the beau­tiful
green campus. In order to get
such a shot, Herbert Ruckmick, of­ficial
photographer for the produc­tion,
chartered a plane and he and
his camera made the necessary
flight.
The dozen or more other inter­esting
sequences that make up the
story are views of all the phases of
school life. Science classes gather­ing
specimens at the seashore, room
service at Edens hall, work in the
Training school, rehearsal of a dra­matic
production, and shots of the
school a cappeila choir are all fea­tured
in this movie. Collegian ac­tivities
were shot Wednesday.
Approximately 1,200 feet of 16-
millimeter film are being used to
record the story in color.
Final CAA Exams
Given Today
With the final examination in
ground school scheduled for this
morning at 10 o'clock, the third CAA
civil pilot training program nears
an end.
The course which was started in
February gives 90 hours of ground
—school work which covers naviga-?
' tioh, civil air regulations, meteorol­ogy,
and 35 hours of flight with
nearly 16 hours of dual instruction.
Although some of the student pil­ots
have taken their flight examin­ations,
the others may have to go to
Seattle for thesr examination.
Students taking the course were:
Francis Hills, Walter Gillard, Ar­thur
Sonneland, John Schuberg,
and Cliff Webster. Those who took
ground school only were: Pete Gud-yka,
Hal Booth, John M. Gallagher,
and Frances Spees.
The course will be repeated next
quarter.
Faculty for Summer
Announced
Summer faculty changes at the
Western Washington college were ,
announced Thursday by President
William Haggard.
They included several additions
and replacements authoriztd Wed­nesday
afternoon by the college
board of trustees.
Superintendent of Longview
Schools E. J. McNamara and Dr.
Charles Vaughn, of the University
of Arizona, will teach in the de­partment
if education, Dr. Vaughn
replacing Dr. C. C. Upshall, who
has been assigned to summer duty
at the University of Washington.
Wilma Trent Knaack, former fac­ulty
member, will assist in the cam­pus
elementary school in place of
Elsie Wendling and Marjorie Bur-rll,
of Springfield, Illin., will serve
as elementary supervisor in place
of Katherine Casanova.
Other Replacements
Rachel Peters, of Merion, Pa-will
teach in the elementary school
for Ruth Van Pelt, who has been
shifted to the college junior high
school workship.
Ella Malmbefg,. New Briton,
Conn., Teachers' college, art in­structor,
and C. M. Rice, North
junior high, Everett, industrial arts
instructor, are other additions.
On leave this summer, in addi­tion
to Miss Wendling Miss Casa-
•riova and Upshall, will be Dr. Lucy
Kangley and M. F. Cederstrom,
English department; Sam Carver,
physical education; Donald Bushell,
music; Florence Johnson, - dean of
women; Victor Hoppe, drama; Ruth
Piatt, science; Mrs. Ruth A. Bur­net,
journalism; Lillian George and
Henry Coleman, library.
The summer quarter, divided in­to
terms of five and four weeks,
will open June 23 and end August
22.
The junior high workshop is a
new feature of the summer cur­riculum.
It will offer practical in­struction
to junior high school
teachers.
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VOL. XL—NO. 31 Western Washington^ College of Education, Bellingham/ Washington' Friday, May:23, 19^1;
Hatch
ill O'Nei
Applications Taken
For NYA Jobs
Meed and Scholarship Decide
Eligibility of Workers
Applications for NYA work on the
campus for next year are being re­ceived
according to Miss Nora Cum­mins,
chairman of the NYA faculty
committee. There are two qualifi­cations
for eligibility, need and
scholarship. Applicants must prove
that their need warrants this fed­eral
aid; to meet the scholarship
requirement students should have a
total grade point average of 2.5.
Those students who are eligible for
this assistance and are interested in
being considered are asked to call
at the president's office for appli­cation
forms as soon as possible.
Students who meet the require­ments
and are selected for the posi­tions
available are paid at the rate
of 40 cents an hour. There are 37%
working hours in the month and
each student on the NYA payroll at
WWC may earn $15 per month.
RETIRING
Frank Shiers, retiring ASB prexy,
vacates his post to another of the
Scholarship Society when Bill
Hatch takes over.
Victoria Still Goal
Of Scientists
Victoria, B. C. is still the goal of
those students who are interested
in astronomy. The annual science
trip to the observatory seems to be
in the hands of the weather man.
Most of the would-be astronomers
have their tooth-brushes packed
and their birth, certificates in hand,
transportation has been provided,
and Pop has sent the necessary
coinage.
All that is lacking for the jaunt
across the border is weather fit for
the stars. If you want the star gaz­ers
to get a chance to view the
heavens through Victoria's 73-inch
telescope, help them pray for good
weather.
Campus School
Publishes
Fine Yearbook
"Echoes of 31T41" Chosen
As Title of Ninth Grade
Production; Melendy Advises
"Echoes of 31-41," the Campus
school ninth grade yearbook, is
nearly complete, according to Miss
Ruth Melendy, Campus school in­structor,
who has been adviser for
the publication.
The yearbook, an innovation this
year, was begun early in the year
when it was discovered that many
of the present ninth graders had
attended the Campus school from
kindergarten through the ninth
grade. The book is an attempt to
capture, through writing and photo­graphs,
some of the memories of
these nine years together.
Book in Three Sections
Three sections will comprise the
book. The first section will be de­voted
to a history of the class.
Many of the experiences they have
had through the grades will make
up this section. The second part
will include individual pictures and
personality sketches of all the
teachers they have had and mem­bers
of the class. The third division
will concern the class as it is at
present, including experiences they
have shared this year.
The first two sections are com­plete,
with \ the third now being or­ganized.
The yearbook is being mimeo­graphed
and is illustrated with 70-
odd pictures taken by the students
themselves, under the direction of
H. C. Ruckmick, industrial arts in­structor.
Most of the photographs
are informal shots of students and
teachers at work and play.
Binding to Begin Soon
It is expected that section- dum­mies
will be completed and books
will be bound by week after next.
After this, Franklin Shaver, college ^
printer will prepare the covers, of
ripple material, in the traditional
school colors of blue and white.
They will be decorated with a lin­oleum
block print designed by one
of the ninth grade pupils. The books
will be completed and distributed
the last week of school.
"All members of the class have
worked hard on their yearbook"
Miss Melendy said. "Each individ­ual
has had opportunities for a va­riety
of experiences, including writ­ing,
taking and mounting pictures,
correcting copy, planning dummies,
and binding,^ besides all the back­ground
work^of gathering materials,
prices, and so .on. All of it has been
volunteer work but everyone has
co-operated. ^Because of this the
yearbook is of great value to the
ninth grade now, as well as later."
A Cappella Choir to' Presenjfc Program
At Next Tuesdays Regular Assembly
WWC's a cappella choir, under
the direction of Nils Boson, will
sing in the regular assembly next
Tuesday, May 27.
The program for the assembly in­cludes:
"Alleluia, We Sing With
Joy" (Jacob Handl); "When Jesus
Was a Little Child" (Tschaikow-sky);
"Glory to God" (Perolest);
"Phillis" (German folk song arr.
by Brahms); "My Lovely Celia"
(George Monro); "So Well ITQiow"
(Vecchi); "There Is a Lady" (Thi-man);
"Hence Away, Begone"
(Charles Wood); "The Pipes of Gor­don's
Men" (Hammond); "The
Star" (Rogers); "As Torrents in
Summer'? (Edward Elgar); "Annie
Laurie" (arr. by Granville Bantock);
"The Wreck of the 'Julie Plante'"
(O'Hara).
The 27 members of the choir are:
Kathryri Alvord, Eloise Axelson,
Ruth Culbertson, Leland Dow, Dick
Dombroski, Lois Evans, Wells Par-well,
Ernest Featherkile, Lois
Gaines, Dick Goodman, Mabel
Haug, Hjartar Hjartarson, Veuton-ne
Hurd, Helen Jorgensen, Harry
Kalsbeck, > Jeanne Kruzer, Elmer
Lindquist, Anne Meade, Catherine
Meyer, June Mohrmann, Beatrice-
Nilsen, June Nordqui^t, Shirley Rog­ers,
Louise Rdscovius, Lloyd Ros-tad,
Ellen Rundquist, and Jim
Snitzler.
The choir has given numerous
concerts during the past school
year. In December they gave a
concert in the college library; in
January they sang at the State
School Trustees convention; *and
the St. James Presbyterian church
was the scene of a concert in April.
May 3 the choir sang hi a, com­petitive
music festival in Vancouver,
B. C, at which time they won first
place in the intermediate group and
received the James M. Morgan'
shield which they will hold for one
year. The choir also sang at the
Rotary club Monday, May 19, and
gave a concert at Blaine city Kail
recently.
The choir will sing at the Alumni
banquet and at the Baccalaureate
service. They will alsopresent* a
concert at Acme the first week in
June. v; \^:'•'"'', .'•'.'
Colorful Olden Days
Return to Life
In Spring Carnival
Floats, Parades, Pageants,
Band Concerts, Coronation
Feature Gala Celebration
Colorful olden days of Tulip Fes­tival
pomp and pageantry are back
in Bellingham' for three days,
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday,
under the title of "Carnival of
Spring."
There will be parades featuring
floats; a pageant at Battersby field
with massed bands and drill, ma­neuvers,
and the coronation of the
queen who will rule over the spring
festival; various contests and band
music.
Baby contests, band concerts and
junior drill teams were on tap in
yesterday's program. For today and
tomorrow, William N. Knapton,
Carnival of Spring- chairman, an­nounced
the following schedule:
Friday: Grand parade at 3 p. m.
featuring more than 30 floats, 20 or
more decorated cars, 10 drill teams,
10 bands, flags of all nations, and
" other units.
Pageant at Battersby field at 8
p. m. featuring the queen's corona­tion,
massed drill teams in exhibi­tion,
10 bands in massed concert un­der
the direction of Clifford Leedy,
bicycle drill with the bikes carrying
Continued on Page Three.
Vallcs Bounce Again
Under Big Top
Three Ring Circus Promised
On "Ride of the Valkyries"
"BIG TOP HOP," the Valkyrie
spring sports dance, will be held
tomorrow night, May 24, at the
Country club. Marie Tegenfeldt,
general chairman, announced that
Chuck Sudduth's seven-piece or­chestra
will provide music. Dancing
at the Valkyrie "circus" will be from
9 to 12.
The circus theme will be carried
out in the programs and decora­tions.
Giraffes, elephants lions,
and tigers as well as balloons will
line the walls. Brightly-hued min­iature
circus tents are the programs.
Invitations have been mailed to
all the old Valkyrie girls and each
member now in school is allowed
to invite one guest as well as her
own escort.
Patrons and patronesses for the
dance are Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Hag­gard,
Miss Virginia Hawke, Miss
Dorothy Rundle, Dr. and Mrs. Jack
Cotton, and Mr. and Mrs. Ramon
T. George. •
Committees working under Marie
Tegenfeldt are: programs, Hazel
Anderson, chairman, Eileen Forhan,
Evelyn Peterson, Jo Daniels, and
Shirley Heaton; refreshments, Ber-niee
Monson, chairman, Lauretta
Scheldt, Nancy Pat Cooper, June
Cory, and Betty Jean Bayley; dec­orations,
Rosemary Bolster, chair­man,
Frances McCaddon, Margaret
Hilton, Margaret Haggard, and
Ruth Krause.
Final Plans For
Graduates
Now Camplete
Alumni.Banquet To Open
Festivities; Redlands Prof,
for Comencement Address
Final plans for five June com­mencement
events have been com-
" pleted by WWC's student-faculty
committees under the direction of
Miss Charlotte Richardson, indus­trial
arts instructor.
The annual alumni banquet, Sat­urday
June 7, will open commence­ment
activities, with Miss Georgie
Gragg, handwriting instructor, in
charge. The following day grad­uates
will hold baccalaureate serv­ices
with the Rev. Cyrus E. Albert-son
of Tacoma delivering -the main
address.
Tuesday morning, June .10, the
class day program will be conducted
in assembly and on the campus. Hal
Booth, junior class president, is.
committee chairman with Dr. Ar- .
thur C. Hicks and Loye A. McGee
as. faculty advisers.
A reception for the graduates and
their parents will he held by the
faculty Thursday evening, June 12,
in the Edens Hall Blue room.
Dr.. Elam Anderson of the Uni-s
yersity of Redlands will present the
commencement address Friday
morning, June 13.
Faculty committees foi* gradua­tion
are:
General, Miss Richardson, chair­man,
Dr. William Haggard, Dr. M.
S. Kuder, Dr. Arthur Hicks, Dean
Loye McGee, Miss Florence John­son,
Miss Virginia Hawke, Nils Bos­on,
Donald Bushell, Miss Hazel
Plympton, Miss Priscilla Kinsman,.
Miss Gertrude Longley, and Mrs.
Ruth Burnet.
Decorations, Miss Plympton,
chairman, Miss Mira Booth, Miss
Edna Channer, Miss Pearl Merri-man,
Mrs. Mary Ossinger, Lyle
Brewer.
Faculty reception, Miss Ruth Mel-en&
y, chairman, Katherine Casa­nova,
Miss Vivian Johnson, Miss
Kinsman, Dr. Paul Grim, Dr. Paul .
Woodring.
Processional and seating, Miss
Hawke, chairman, Miss Bessie
Beckwell, and Sam Carver.
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
PRESENTED BY HOPPE
With a near all-college cast the
Bellingham Theatre Guild last week
presented Henrik Ibsen's "An En­emy
of the People" to one of its
largest audiences.
Under the direction of Victor .
Hoppe the cast included the fol­lowing
college faculty members and
students: Dr. Jack Cotton, Victor
Hoppe, Margaret Dwelle, Justin
Simonson, Jack Thompson, and
Victor Hughes Jr. from the Campus
school.
Elizabeth Douglas
Wins Board Post
Voting Increases Over That
Of Last Primary Election
. Bili Hatch, sophomore from Seat--'
tie, is" the newly-elected president,
of the Associated Student Body of
WWC .as the result of Wednesday's
run-off election. He barely nosed,
out his opponent, Jim Goodrich of
Manchester, in the election struggle;
Hatch is now serving on the Board-of
Control and is the newly-elected
president of the 1941-42 junior class.
Acquiring the position of vice-
. president of the student body is
Bill O'Neil of Lyndeh. O'Neil, who
defeated Marie Easley of Newport,
•Ore., in the finals, was president of
his freshman class and is a member
of the band.
Elizabeth Douglas^fte^hman from'
Pe Ellr won ; the position' of four
quarter woman; representative '; to
the Board of Control, - ninning.
against Evelyn Peterson.of Bremer­ton.
Elizabeth is ,the inewly-elected
secretary of thev AW£5, -is a mem­ber
of the Collegian staff, and a
member of Valkyrie. . .
A noticeable increase in the num­ber
of voters was discerned in
.this week's election. Of the entire
student body, 403 members cast'
their ballots, 60 per cent ;bf those
enrolled:. •••
Merritts Orchestra
Swings Tonight
Collegian Application Accepted
For Editor, Business Manager
Johnny Merritt and his orchestra-will
furnish the music for: tonight's
Rec hour, it was announced at the
weekly" Board of Control meeting
Wednesday afternoon. The board
is sponsoring this Rec hour which
will be held in the Training school
gym with dancing from 8:30 till
11:30.
Guest tickets are available for
tonight's rec hour this afternoon
, from 2 until 4, in the ASB office
AH those planning to take outrof-school
guests must obtain /.their-ticket
this afternoon, as no tickets
can be sold at-the door. The price
is 30 cents.
Applications for the position of
editor and business manager for the
1941-42 Collegian are still being.acrr
cepted by the board. These appli­cations
with the required recom­mendations.
imust be in the ASB.
mail box in the Switchboard office
by 4 p. m. next Wednesday.
Monday afternoon, all present, ~
past, arid future board members
now at WWC will journey to Goose­berry
point for their annual fish-bake.
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WWC Orchestra To Appear Tuesday;
Concertos Will be Program Feature
Grad Togs Decreed
By Richardson
Commencement clothes for three-year
women graduates will be of
pastel shade and of a type suitable
for street wear according to Miss
Charlotte Richardson, commence­ment
chairman. Shoes are to be "all
white or combinations of white arid
another color, with heels of mod­erate
height. No corsages, gloves,
bags, or hats are in order at either
baccalaureate or commencement
exercises.
Dresses should be of a length to
cover the knees well since the ele­vation
of the stage makes them ap­pear
shorter than they are. Men
three-year graduates will wear dark
suits, dark ties, and white shirts.
For degree graduates, caps and
gowns are to be worn by both men
and women at baccalaureate and
commencement services, vv <
Women will wear white skirts and
men dark suits with the gowns of
both men and women 13 inches from
the floor.
Climaxing weeks of preparation,
the WWC Symphony orchestra will
present their eleventh annual con­certo
recital Tuesday evening, May
27, in tiie auditorium of the college
at 8:15. Featured on the program
will be Thera Strang, Jean Christo­pher,
and Sheldon Wilkins, pianists;
and Milton Steinhardt, violinist.
Steinhardt, orchestra director of
Central Washington college, is the
only one of the four who is a
stranger to WWC audiences, the
first three having appeared as
guests in previous concerto recitals.
Hailing from Coffeyville, Kan.,
Steinhardt has studied extensively
in both, the United States and
Europe. After two years of study at
the University of Kansas, he at­tended
the Bavarian state conser­vatory
in Munich, Germany, and
later attended the Eastman Conser­vatory
of Music in Rochester, N: Y.
where he received his BM and his .
MM in musicology.
In 1937 he held an assistancy at
Cornell and also worked on his Ph.
D. He has studied viqlirf under
Maurice Hewitt in Paris, and Max
Rastal in Berlin. His first teacher
was Hugo Kortschak of NeWj York.;;
Steinhardt will play the. "Concerto
for Violin in A Major" (Mozart) in
the recital Tuesday evening.
The program will include: "Con-;
certo in C Major, Op. 15" (Bee­thoven),
Miss Strang; "Concerto
in G Minor, Op. 25" (Mendelssohn),
Miss Christopher; "Concerto Ifat
Violin in A Major" (Moarth Steins
hardt; and "Concerto in G Minor;
Op. 22" (Saint-Saens), Wilkins.
Members of the orchestra include:
violins, Evelyn Berg, Robert Chis-holm,
Louis Dubonsky, Eva Heine-mann,
Betty Hendershott, Katheryn
Lich, Myrtle Melland, Shirley Mor­rison,
Pauline Niles, Virginia Peters,
Edmund Rawlinson, Betty Anne
Sease, Joanna Ullstrom, .Rosemary
Watts, and Pauline York.
Cello, Jack Arvidson, Olivia Bush­ell,
Vivian McGrath, and Una Pal-
»me; flute; Rodney Bert, Mary Jean
Moore, arid William Sorenson; oboe,
Nonie Orris, and Jeanette Wood-ring;
clarinet, Erling Hanson and
Clayton Knittel; bossoon, Edward
Prince; horns, Melvin Duncan, Gen­evieve
Elliott, Norman Funk, and
'Robert Huot; trumpets, Kennedy
Cox and Robert Moblo; arid tym­pany,
Hariy Pond; string basses,
Frances Spees, and Clarence Chase:
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