Western Washington Collegian - 1948 August 7

              WESTERN WASHINGTON COLLEGIAN
VOL 2LVI—No; 38 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Friday, August 7, 1948
Alastair Bennett and Bob Anderson are pictured here buying coffee from Bea Wyatte at the popular
new coffee bar which was recently installed in the student lounge.—Cut by Bernie Lepeska.
Walter Calls WWC
Band Back Early
Don C. Walter, WWC band­master,
anounced that the band
wduld be assembled September
20 in order to be in shape to play
for the International Peace Arch
celebration, September 23, and
for the first football game Sep­tember
25.
Mr. Walter added that 75 new
raincoats for the band members
have been obtained.
Young Citizens Hold
Public Picnic Today
Everyone is cordially invited to
come out to a Washington Young
Citizens' association picnic tonight
at Lakewood.
Fifty cents (50c) covers every­thing,
including transportation and
a picnic lunch of hot dogs, potato
salad, pickles and pop.
People desiring to go should sign
up in WWCollegian office or with a
WYCA member. Picnic starts at 6:30.
Two WWC Summer Students
Meet After Thirty Years
Schoolmates in 1917 and schoolmates in 1948.
That's the way it has turned out for Mrs. Mabel Linke and Mrs.
Vera Anderson, now attending Western Washington. College of Educa­tion.
Separated from her grade school friend back in Plain View, Neb.,
Mrs. Linke has meanwhile reared a family of three in the West and
turned to teaching. Mrs. Anderson, a widow without children of her own,
has_dey.oted.her. life^to. the .profession., Both, are. now. completing qualify
cations for permanent positions in*
the Washington schools.
Mrs. Linke and Mrs. Anderson, rue­fully
paraphrasing the popular song,
admit "there have been some
changes made" and blame Father
Time for their inability to identify
each other unassisted.
"My brother wrote me from Ne­braska
to watch for Mable at
WWC," Mrs. Anderson confessed,
"but even so I couldn't pick her
out." An appeal to the Dean of
Women finally reunited the friends
after their separation of 31 years.
Mrs. Linke, whose teaching posi­tion
is at White Salmon, lost her
only son in the battle of Okinawa.
She has twin daughters and three
grandchildren. The unmarried
daughter is a singer in New York.
Mrs. Anderson, a teacher at Sedro-
Woolley, came to the Northwest two
year ago for a brief visit and has
been ehere ever since.
"I like everything about the
Northwest," she declared, "from the
people right down to the rain. But
goirig: back to school with Mable
tops the list."
Datelimi e . . .
Saturday, August 7: All day bus
trip to Mount Baker and picnic
in Heather Meadows. Bus leaves
the PE building at 8 a. m.
Saturday, August 7-Sunday, August
8: Overnight trip to Sucia Island
via Hale's Pass and the San Juan
islands. The Flying Clipper leaves
Citizen's Dock at 9 a. m.,
Tuesday, August 10: Frank Munk
speaking on "Can Europe. Be
Saved?" College Auditorium, 10:15
a. m.
Wednesday, August 11: Industrial
trip to Paget Sound Pulp and
Timber Co., 2:10 p. m.
Thursday, August 12: Bus trip to
Vancouver, B. C for shopping and
"The Great Walts" at the Theater
Under the Stars.'
Saturday, August 14: All day barbe­cue
at Lakewood.
Summer Enrollment
Total Reaches 973
Summer enrollment figures have
been released by the registrar's of­fice.
The total enrollment for the
summer is 973. This includes first
and second term students and spe­cial
students. Of these 973 students
664 are women and 309 are men.
At the end of first term 280 stu­dents
dropped and 53 entered for
second term, leaving the total of
693 students for the second term.
Teacher education being promi­nent,
there is a total of 862 students
entered in it in addition to 85 in
Liberal Arts and 26 in the Junior
College curriculum.
Cut Courtesy Bellingham Herald
Vera Anderson and Mable Linke are talking over old times after a
separation of thirty years. They met for the first time at Yt, WC, although
they have been living in the state for a year. After Mrs. Linke was mar­ried
they went to live in different Mid-Western states losing track of
each other.
Polish D. P. Exposes Conditions in U. S, Zone
This is the story of a young man who has known no boyhood. We Americans cannot realize the conditions
.that exist for the so-called Displaced Persons, the underground workers and the soldiers who have refused to
return to their homeland and Russian rule. This letter is from a young medical student, a Polish under­ground
worker now living in the American zone of Germany. — -
Heidelberg, May 30
I have received your letter of February and I thank you for it very much. My long silence no doubt is
difficult for you to understand. Actually it is my fault, only partly so. Your letter reached nearly two months
late because I was practicing in a hospital outside of Heidelberg. After my return I wished to answer you at
once but in English. Alas, my knowledge of English is so slim that it is impossible for me to write in English
without the aid of a third person.
At that time I received a package from you also, for which I am extremely grateful. I had then prac­tically
decided to write to you in Polish, especially since you had agreed to it in your letter. At that time,
however, Fate put me in bed for several weeks with inflammation of the joints. I needn't add that such an
enforced vacation, especially during a semester, is not the most pleasant occurence. Now, fortunately, all that
is passed, and what is most important, it has left no scars. '
But enough of such matters, already I have written of them at too great a length, but I did not wish
you to take my silence for lack of good-will on my part. Quite the contrary, I am delighted to exchange ideas
with a young person who is actively Interested in the fate of so-called "DP.'s" and I gather from your letter
that, you have a blood relationship with my country.
I gather from your letter that you would like to have a somewhat detailed picture of our life, and condi­tions
existing here. I don't know that I can adequately present these problems so that you, a person born
and raised in the United States—a country which shows respect for free thought and the rights of individ­uals,
can understand from my few words, this atmosphere in which we breathe. I quite understand that
when two people look at the same thing, each will notice something different, hence, despite you have some
knowledge of me from my classmate, I shall tell you briefly of my life, so you can more easily understand my
pychology. My fate was not and is not something unusual but was the same as that of thousands of other of
my countrymen whose homes were broken by the war and who were then thrust into strange lands. ,
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Workshop
Aug. 9-20
Felix Payant, a nationally known
and widely experienced teacher will
be a visiting instructor here for the
two week art-work shop which is
being held from August 9 to Au­gust
20.
Students studying art at the pres­ent
time will continue their work
in the mornings while students
coming exclusively for the work­shop
will study all day for the two
week period. The work-shop is a
three credit course.
Mornings will be devoted to ex­periments
with different types of
materials and working out prob­lems
in art that arise in school sit­uations.
Afternoons will be devoted
to field trips and sketching and a
study of the communities resources
in art.
The work-shop classes will be un­der
Felix Payant, editor of Design
Magazine. Payant, formerly a mem­ber
of the faculty at Ohio State
University, began his teaching ca­reer
in a rural school. In recent
years, he has traveled exten­sively
in an effort to meet teachers
and aid them with their art prob­lems.
In addition to teaching, Pay­ant
has written a number" of books
on art including, "Our Changing
Art Education" and "Create Some­thing."
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Collegiates Travel
To y9njCOiiyejvJt,.C„
Due to the popularity of the bus
trip to Vancouver July 10, another
trip to Vancouver will be taken
Thursday, August 12. The bus will
leave at noon, or 4 p. m. and will
remain for '/The Great Waltz" at
the "Theater Under the Stars."
ThOse. who wish to go on the
trip may sign up for either noon or
4 p. m. and the most popular time
will be decided upon. However, if
enough sign up for both times two
buses will he taken.
Munk to Survey
Foreign Affairs
DR. FRANK MUNK
Dr. Frank Munk, considered by
many to be one, of the most able
authorities on International rela­tions
In the northwest, Will appear
in the summer artist and lecture
series program of August 10. This
program will be held at 10:00 a. m.
in the. college auditorium.
Dr. Munk is a native of Czecho­slovakia.
He was a warm personal
friend' of Eduard Benes and the
Masaryk family.