Western Viking - 1937 May 28

              VOL. XXXVI—NO. 31
WESTERN WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, May 28, 1937
$h Live #'
And
^ Learn
By Henry Francis
What with birds and bees flick­ering
and flitting around .in the
balmy old sunshine couldni help
but notice the little rascals were
chasing around in pairs. Even they
arent immune to that universally
known mental disease that ravages
the countryside in the spring. The
first symptoms of this are day
dreams with a peculiar heart reac­tion
followed by strong hallucina­tions
thai two can live as cheaply as
one. A very subtle affliction that
fools even the wise old owls.
GOLDILOCKS UP TO DATE
Goldilocks of the Three Bears
fame saved herself many a head­ache
by living way ^back in Once
Upon a Time instead of the twen­tieth
century. The social security
board was found in its filing system
36 varieties of the name Bear to
substitute for Goldy's original three.
The golden-haired lassie would have
to be in a WPA frame of mind to
enjoy the comforts of their combined
chairs would afford.
BIF STEW A LA PARISENNE
The bourgeoise of Hollywood with
their usual proletariat refinement
have started an Eat in English move­ment.
Complaining f,f F r e n ch
names used for American foods in
restaurants one prominent actor
said he was horrified beyond words
when, after laboriously ordering le
beoaf en daube at a cafe party he
was served with good old beef stew.
The fact that he was probably raised
on it made the fact none the less
horrifying. _
Still another Wat just, OH! too,
too embarrassed when with a know­ing
air of the man about town he
called for les pieds de cochon vinai­grette.
The waitress skipped mer­rily
up to his table with a platter of
pickled pigs' feet and now he too is
a fervent supporter of the movement.
All of which goes to show that one
really should be acquainted, with the
dog before trying to put it on.
FIREMAN SAVE MY STEAK
There seems to be no end to the
helpful little things these firemen
can do. A woiwui back in New York
called them recently io remove her
pan of steaks from the stove before
they burned. . Having inadvertably
locked herself out of her apartment
with hubby's meat on the fire she
called the fire laddies to rescue it,
which they readily did with prompt­ness
and dispatch.
We're wondering now about a spe­cial
detail to build the fire in the
furnace on frosty mornings.
W.P.A. SCORES AGAIN
Not wanting to be outdone by the
rest of the strike conscious world,
the Odessa, Wash., WPA had to put
in their little bit. Not being able to
find a good reason they had to be
content with just any old-excuse.
Here is the reason as they see it.
The WPA of Odessa
Are out on a strike, yessuh;
They are pretty sore
Cause the mules get paid more
While they get lessa and lessa.
REVERIE
Sitting with a pencil in one hand
and my face in the other, reflecting
en the folly of trying to think when
there is nothing to think about or no
reason for thinking it, I decided that
realy one needs some recreation
and remembering the old adage, "all
work and no play makes Jack a dull
bey," went to worrying about Ran
Wilde who does nothing but play all
the time. Thence laid down the
pencil to search for Ban's type of
recreation to satisfy old man rhythm
till June 7.
Goodbye kids.
Seabeck Delegates
Elected
By Blue Triangle
Several Well-Known People
Will Speak at Conference
Six Blue Triangle students were
elected at the regular meeting Tues­day
evening to attend the YWCA-YMCA
student conference at Sea-beck,
on Hoods Canal, June 12-20.
Those attending are: Helen Carlyle,
Eunice Buck, Alice Siemons, Lillian
Martin, Helen Munson, and Nellie
Holstead.
"Learn to Live" will be thf,theme
of the conference. The daily pro­gram
will consist of discussions, re­ligious
talks, healthful recreation,
music, poetry writing, group singing,
and beach parties. Ten days will be
spent in this manner—making new
acquaintances and renewing old.
Leaders at the Conference
Nationally known youth leaders
have been selected to work with the
students. Dr. T. Z. Koo, one time
National Executive Student secretary
In China, now secretary of the
World Student Federation, will be a
speaker. "No man in China or Am­erica
is more worth hearing and
knowing than Dr. Koo," a newspa­per
said of his work.
Mrs. Robert Dunne, advisor to the
regional division of the YWCA na­tional
student council, will be on the
faculty. By education and exper­ience
she has become an expert on
personal and home relations.
Mendenhall to Talk
Dr. W. O. Mendenhall, president
of Whittier college and one of Am­erica's
greatest speakers, teachers,
and religious and educational lead­ers,
will be present. Miss Genevieve
Turnipseed and Dr. Raymon Brooks
have long been friends of students
and the student movements. They
will also be prominent leaders of the
conference.
Colleges from Washington, Ore­gon,
and Idaho all send delegates to
this youth conference in July.
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Comprehensive Tests
Given To
Six-Quarter Students
Comprehensive tests in many fields
were taken by all six-quarter stu­dents
and other students who so de­sired
last Tuesday and Wednesday.
The purpose of these tests is to
give the students a chance to ex­press
their general knowledge in the
tests taken. Two other purposes of
these tests are to stimulate, in both
teachers and students, a desire for
further study, ana to indicate how
much material of a course is carried-over
in the minds of the students.
The idea of the tests is no novelty
as this plan is practiced in many of
the larger institutions such as Co­lumbia,
Harvard, and Chicago.
The maker of the tests, the facul­ty,
also benefit it was explained to
the student body in assembly. When
a group of teachers join together to
make a test, in explaining their ideas
and plans they are sure to arrive at
a closer understanding of what
should and should not be taught
and what they should do to rectify
the mistakes of the past.
The whole program is considered
one more step towards better teach­ing,
better interpretation of which
materials to include in the courses,
and better understanding between
teacher and student.
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Student Attends
Fraternity Dance
Joyce Forbes, of Palahi, attended
the initiation banquet and dance
given by the Pi Mu Chi, U. of W.
pre-medical honorary fraternity at
the Hungerford hotel in Seattle,
Friday evening.
Gold Pins Awarded
To Viking Writers
Co«tig UP
Monday, May 31
Vacation. »
Tuesday, June 1
11:00 a. m.—Junior-Senior
singing rehearsal.
Wednesday, Jane 2
6:00 p\ m.—WAA salmon bake
at the Rocks.
Friday, June 4
11:00 a. m.—Junior-Senior
singing rehearsal.
Climaxing a period of four
quarters service on the Viking
staff, Osier, Toms, Evich, Pele-gren
were awarded today the
gold pins given as recognition
for this service.
Warren Toms, business man­ager
last summer, has com­pleted
the two newswriting
courses and has been an active
member of the staff for five
quarters.
Margaret Osier, although
mainly a feature writer, has
been a versatile and reliable
staff member for four quarters.
Mitchell Evich, sports scribe,
has written the column "Did
Ya Know" for the past year,
and has completed four quar­ters
of work on the staff.
Frances Pelegren also earned
her pin.
These students have not only
written for the paper to quali­fy
for these pins, they have
studied the foremost newspa­pers
of the country in order to
learn the best styles of news-writing.
Summer Quarter
Officials
Put In Bids
Decisions Due Next Week
Editorship, Business Managership
Put on Block; Summer
Journal Is Smaller
Annual Published
By Campus School
ArtDepartmentOpen
For Exhibit;
Crafts To Be Sh own
Exhibitions in art will be open to
the students and the general public
from June 1 through the first week
in the summer quarter in rooms 303,
305, and in the hall of the .Art de-
S
partment.
This exhibit is to show what is
being done by the many art classes.
Illustrations in free hand water
colors, wall hangings in crayola, and
block prints will be exhibited. Flow­er,
waterfront, restaurant and house
top compositions, and water color
paintings will be shown, made by
the composition class. "In the
latter the first touch is final. There
is nothing done over for this is a free
expression in water color," states
Miss Mcllvain, of the Art depart­ment.
All this work will be exhibited in
room 305, as will flower arrangement
by the classes in orientation in art.
Work done by the Art 50 classes
during the first two quarters of de­sign
in color consists of ar­rangements
of strokes, lines, darks
and lights. This is the interpreta­tion
of still life such as kitchen
utensils and vegetables and also ani­mals,
birds, and a few modern rug
designs.
In the hall is a stage curtain made
•by the eighth grade boys of the
Training school and in the show­cases
are block prints and water col­or
paintings.
By Don Gooding
Once more the time for the Board
of Control to appoint the guiders of
destinies for that great" college pub­lication,
the Wesern Viking, has
rolled around. For the summer
quarter, the only paid officials on
the abbreviated journal will be the
editor and: business manager, both
subject to the rules of the Board of
Control.
Would-be editors or managers can
express their desires to hold either
of the two salaried positions by sub­mitting
a signed statement reveal­ing
such to the Board of Control be­fore
noon, Wednesday next, May 31.
Legislation will then be put moving
and grinding to thresh out the ne­cessary
decisions the same day.
Hinchliffe, Eckert Bid
So far Sybil Hinchliffe and Earl
Eckert have both placed their best
hats in the ring for editor and man­ager
respectively. The summer edi­tions
will run for only six weeks
and are scheduled to be much small­er
than the ordinary ones.
The regulations controlling the
nominations of editors and manag­ers
are many and involved, and look
something like this: pre-requisites
of editor are six-quarters attendance
(two in journalism classes), member­ship
on editorial council, and a
written recommendation of the fac­ulty
adviser (Mrs. Burnet); business
manager is the same as editor, ex­cept
for editorial council member­ship.
Further and more detailed
information may be gained by con­sulting
Florence Lund's revised Blue
Book, a marvelous collection of
data.
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Class Day Assembly
Presented by
Graduating Seniors
The Junior Viking, published by
the Campus Elementary school, was
distributed during t h e Training
school assembly last Friday. The
annual includes stories written by
children of all the grades with re­porters'
observations preceding each
section. Interesting book reviews
were written by children of the up­per
classes.
The staff of the Junior Viking,
working under the advisorship of
Miss Bertha Crawford, included:
Bob Van de Wetering, editor; David
Dennis, business manager; Pat Ells-perman
and Keith Abbot, art edit­ors.
The reporters were: Sheila
Moore, Mary Main, Cheryl Smith,
Gordon Boney, Isabelle Griswolde,
Betty Brunswig, Fred Weirauch,
Imogene Winslow, and Keith Ander­son.
f ,,
Several members of the faculty
aided in the publishing of the annu­al.
Miss Hazel Breakey supplied the
art suggestions, Mrs. Mae Lovegren
did the mimeographing, and R. D.
Wilson the printing and binding.
With the addition of the ninth
grade, the sixth grade will probably
publish the Junior Viking next year,
with the Junior High School pub­lishing
an annual of their own.
WWC Graduates
Get Diplomas
Thursday, June 10
Dr. Coleman of Reed College
Gives Commencement Speech
Scintillating Wild*
Due Here
For June Dance
Scintillating syncopation emanat­ing
from the well known orchestra
of Ran Wilde who is appearing at
the Bellingham Armory on Monday,
June 7, gives music lovers another
opportunity to dance to the orches­trations
of a national favorite.
Wilde's musical career began at
the age of 9 and at 16 he was con­ducting
his own band. Forsaking
his musical environment temporar-
The annual Class day assembly
and Pageant was given today by the
1937 graduating class.
The assembly included an address
by President C. H. Fisher and pre­sentation
of the flag by the Ameri­can
Legion. The class was then
ushered to the walk, where Ruth
Carroll, president of the senior class,
presented the Class book and key to
Frank Chorvat, vice-president of the
sophomore class.
The Pageant was given on the
knoll, Maynard Ponco acting as the
announcer, Tom Bloom and Jack
Rausch, trumpeters. The Pageant
was presented as a review of past
school activities from the Campus
day of 1935 to and including, stu­dent
teaching. An added attraction
was the Blue Triangle Ta-Ra-Ra-
Boom-de-ay chorus.
Freddie Steele, Boxing Champ, Likes His
Steaks; Results Shown In
Rapid Rise To Fame; Here Years Ago
Thursday, June 10, the mem­bers
of the graduation class of '37
will walk across the stage of the
WWC auditorium and receive their
teaching certificates.
Dr. Norman Coleman, professor
of English at Reed College, Oregon,
will deliver the commencement ad­dress.
He is an extensive traveler
in both Europe and the Orient. He
also led the Portland Public Forum
on International Relations for eight
months. The Reverend Dwight C.
Smith will give the invocation.
Trustee Presents Diplomas
After the class has been presented
by President C. H. Fisher they .will
receive their diplomas from Dr.
W. D. Kirkpatrick, member of the
board of trustees.
At the Baccalaureate service Rev­erend
Edward A. Wolfe will give
the invocation with the Reverend
James Brett Kenne delivering the
main address. Nan Dybdahl Wiik,
of Bellingham, will sing "Holy, Holy,
Lord God Almighty", by Handel, as
a soprano solo. She will be accom­panied
by Mr. Boson, of the music
department. The services will be
held Sunday, June 6, at 4:00 p. m. in
the auditorium.
Faculty Are Hosts
A faculty reception will be held
June 9, in the Edens hall club room
at 7:30 p. m. All the faculty are
requested to be present and beJhosts
to members of the graduation class.
After Sept. 1, 1937, three year cer­tificate
will be issued on the comple­tion
of a three' year course. This
will take the place of the present
five year teaching diploma. After
Sept., 1938, no life diplomas will be
issued.
Certificates Issued for Work,
This three-year certificate is giv­en
after graduation from a three-year
curriculum. It is renewable once
on the completion of fifteen quarter
hours of credit beyond the three-year
curriculum.
A certificate good for six years and
renewable indefinitely^ upon meet­ing
of renewal requirements is is­sued
to students upon graduation
from a four-year curriculum, posses­sion
of three-year elementary cer­tificate,
and at least two years suc­cessful
teaching.
ily, Wilde entered college for a busi­ness
course, but his old love soon
lured him back into the fold, and
soon "music styled by Wilde" be­came
a familiar phrase on the coast.
California has been the scene of
the maestro's major triumphs. He
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Limits Issued for Last
Library Accounts
According to Librarian
By Mitchell Evich
Tacoma's pride, Freddie Steele, middleweight boxing champion of the
world, likes to consume his daily calories in the form of indefinitely
thick and unduly juicy steaks, snowed under by a bushel or so of mush­rooms.
The former 'Bellingham boy, who in the past few years has waded
through all ring opponents to reach
the top rung in the fistic ladder, re
vealed this fact a week ago last
Thursday evening (Bank Night) to
a dyed-in-the-wool Steele fan who
glanced once, then spun his head
around and looked into a pair of
blue eyes that has monopolized the
boxing sections of the sports world
for the past five years.
Freddie's rise to fisticuff fame, as
sensational as it has been, reminds
him of the time when, but a frail 13-
year-old kid, he attempted to per­form
at the Liberty hall, local fight
auditorium, but was told to go home
and grow some flesh on his skeletal
outline. Not only has he done just
that, but he has also cultivated some
high explosives in his two mitts.
Champ Golfs
When training regulations permit,
he plays golf and curses with other
boys when he gets caught in the
rough. Modestly he apologizes, "I'm
only a fair player, but I certainly
enjoy the game," then he added,
"Frankie Repoz, ya know Frankie
gave me my start in boxing, well,
he's giving me a few pointers in the
sport that Bobby Jones made fa­mous."
The champ is also a rabid
horseback rider. He does a lot of
bronco busting when time, place,
and opportunity present themselves.
Becomes Irked .
A splendid youth, polite, highly
ambitious,-iron-nerved, Freddie can
also become irked and forget the
formalities, as was illustrated be­fore
the recent Steele-Battaglia
fight for the middleweight crown.
I t seems a group of eastern report-,
ers, possibly a trifle jealous or en-
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Valkries Return From
Trip a Little Red-Faced
Approximately 50 Valkyrie mem­bers
and guests enjoyed their annual
spring outing to Sinclair island last
Sunday. The trip to and from the
island was made in Dr. Erb's beau­tiful
yacht, the Thetis.
Starting from the PAF dock at
1:00 p. m. Sunday, the girls enjoyed
wonderful weather on the trip to the
island. The weather man, in answer
to the prayers of the members of the
fair sex, sent the sun beaming over
the waters for one of the most beau­tiful
days if the year.
Landing at the dock on Sinclair
island, the girls hiked to Viqueen
lodge where, hungry^ from the long
water trip and the hike to the cabin,
they appeased their appetites with a
pot-luck lunch. v
Sticking close to the schedule,
made out by the two brain trusts in
charge, Norma jane Gorsline and
Echo Oxford, the travelers arrived
back at their place of embarking at
10.00 p. m.
A fee of one dollar is charged
all library accounts not clear
on the dates issued by the depart­ments
of the library.
General circulation (2-week)
books and children's books are due
5 p. m., Friday, June 4, unless spe­cial
arrangements are made with
Miss Lea.
Reserve books are due 9 a. m.
Tuesday, June 8. Thie library will
be open to students until the quar­ter
closes Wednesday, June 9.
For further information read the
notice on the bulletin board.
Miss Wilson wishes to inform the
students that about 100 of the new
books are now available in the li­brary.
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Enrollment of Summer
Quarter Large
Summer quarters at WWC have
the largest attendance of the entire
four quarters, and this year, is no
exception. As a matter of fact, it
is just the opposite, for in all prob­ability
the enrollment will exceed
that of last summer's, which was
approximately 800.
The usual enrollment is around
700, the present quarter included.
Increased attendance of students
during summer quarters is due to
all the teachers throughout the
state, including many outsiders, who
desire or are forced to return to
school in order that they may renew
their certificates and be able to go
on teaching when the fall quarter
rolls around again. In addition to
these returning students are the
continuing students who go right
oh with the summer quarter.:
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