WWCollegian - 1945 April 13

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VOL XL 111—No. 26 Western Washington College,, Bellingham, Washington Friday, April 13, 1945
Roosevelt Dead;
World Shocked
Coming as a stunning shock to
the entire world was the word that
President Franklin D. Roosevelt died
yesterday of a cerebral hemorrhage
at Warm Springs, Georgia.
The President had been at Warm
Springs for the past ten days. News
of the tragedy was released by
White House Secretary, Stephen
Early.
Vice-President Harry Truman was
notified to go to the White House.
He was notified by Sirs. Roosevelt*.
All three of the President's sons,
serving with the armed forces, were
also notified.
A special meeting of the cabinet
was called. Funeral services will be
held Saturday afternoon. Interment
at Hyde Park.
Teagarden Dance
Plans Complete
Plans are nearing completion for
the Whidby Island NAS dance, April
19. Buses will leave Edens Hall at
seven o'clock, to take approximately
sixty girls to Ault Field, where Jack
Teagarden and band will make a
special appearance.
Teagarden is known as the "great­est
exponent of the blues, both with
his voice and his trombone", accord-
' ing to Prop Wash, Whidby Island
NAS publication. His ability as a
trombonist is shown by the fact that
Esquire magazine named him as
trombonist in its selected "All-
American Jazz Band" picked by six­teen
judges named by Esquire to act
as Board of Experts.
Instructors, who remember the
slack attendance at classes after the
last dance, warn the girls who go
" to Whidby that there will be abso­lutely
no skipping classes Friday.
. Results of skipping will not only
hinder grades, but the opportunities
to go may be removed.
The Teagarden Band is to appear
Friday night, April 20, at the Bell-ingham
Armory. The dance is open
to the public.
Bulletins Publicize
Summer School
During the past week three pam­phlets
publicizing WWC have been
completed. The summer quarter
catalogue, finished in brown tones,
has been issued and is being sent to
summer school candidates. Also
completed are the summer quarter
bulletin and the summer calendar.
All of these works have been mod-ernistically
and attractively design­ed,
and present a collegiate picture
of WWC, its activities, educational
work, and students.
Clothes Collected
In cooperation with the Old
Clothes Drive, Blue Triangle is
sponsoring a collection here at
WWC during the month of April.
This drive is sponsored by Henry
Kaiser and all clothes from WWC
will be sent to Europe.
"The box is in the bond booth in
the main hall, and all donations will
be g r e a t l y appreciated," stated
Charlotte Samples, vice-president.
Campus Day Plans Ybarra Speaks
Going Full Speed; i i nr J
r -LL M J Here I uesday
CPolamns mfori tCteamepuss DNaya amre endow '
going full speed ahead, under the
co-chairmanship of Beverly McNal-ly
and Lloyd Jones. Committees
have been named, and many are al­ready
holding meetings and making
their plans for the event.
May 9 is the day, and Whatcom
Falls Park is the place. All of the
fun and hilarity of previous Campus
Days will be included in this year's
festival, according to the co-chair­men.
Rumors also are abroad as to
the mode of attire to be adopted on
the day preceding Campus Day.
It has been a tradition for all
students of WWC to don some spec­ial
garb on that day. Last year the
costume included gingham dresses
and pigtails for the girls, and cords,
T-shirts, and hair parted down the
middle for the men. Definite in­formation
as to the new Campus
Day styles has not yet been revealed
Committees working on the pvent
are as follows: Publicity, Virginia
Sorgenfrei, chairman, Jack Graham
and Charlotte Samples; food, Nell
Kosola, chairman, Margaret Rut-ledge
and Beverly Morgan; trans­portation,
Bob DePastel and Allan
Thon; assembly, Alfred Clement and
Pat Gardiner, co-chairmen, Roger
"Nelson and Ann Easterbrooks;
tickets, Mary Louise Burke and
•Janet Brunswig; park activities,
Gene Sivertson and Barbara Cald­well,
co-chairmen, Alice Marie An­dersen
and Bob Pavlicek; dance,
Herb Witt, chairman, Elaine Dahl-gren,
George Jurgens and Virginia
Pendleton; clean-up, Eleanor An­derson,
chairman, Dale Burklund,
Ruby Stroebel and Henry Otterlei.
Next Two Years
Budget Set Now
Official notice of appropriation
figures for the next two years was
received last week in the president's
office. These funds were appro­priated
during the last session of
the Legislature in Olympia. The
figures cover the period from April
1, 1945 until March 31, 1947.
The appropriations are as follows:
Salary and wages, $460,813.18; salary
and wages for those teachers who
have been in the service and return
to their teaching posts, $47,740; op­erations,
$85,455; capital outlays,
including minor capital outlays,
lands, post-war buildings and reap-propriation
for the heating plant,
$700,873.07. These figures total $1,-
294,881.25.
High School Seniors
Will Hear Faculty
Three faculty members will be vis­iting
high schools next week* as rep­resentatives
of the College. They
will speak to high school seniors
about WWC and its advantages.
Miss Lorraine Powers will be in
Seattle and outlying districts next
week, and Dr. Lucy Kangley will be
at Highline, Kent, Sumner, and
Puyallup on Monday and Tuesday
of next week. Edward Arntzen will
speak in Monroe, Sultan, Carnation-
Tolt, Issaquah, Bothell and Kirk-land
during the same two days.
Later in the quarter more schools
will be visited, and Victor Hoppe
and Mrs. Waneta Catey will make
trips.
T. R. YBARRA
T. R. Ybarra, distinguished inter­national
journalist, will speak in
assembly Tuesday, April 17. His
topic will be "Panama, Link Between
Two Continents". Mr. Ybarra, who
is widely known through his best-selling
autobiography, "Young Man
of Caracas", contends that this
country should use every concilia­tory
means at its command to main­tain
its influence south of the Rio
Grande, in order to defeat totali­tarian
influence and provide Latin
Americans -with, necessary markets.
Mr. Ybarra is exceptionally equip­ped
to discuss Pan-American af­fairs
as he has been traveling cor­respondent
in Latin America for the
New York Times, European Editor
of Collier's, Roving European Cor­respondent
for the New York Times,
head of the London Bureau of the
New York Times and Commentator
for National Broadcasting Co. on
international affairs.
Besides "Young Man of Caracas"
he has written, "America Faces
South", "Bolivar, The Passionate
Warrior", "Cervantes", and "Hin-denburg,
The Man With Three
Lives."
Many questions which will arise
out of this war will be discussed by
Ybarra in his lecture to the stu­dents
and faculty next Tuesday.
Enrollment Figures
Show Increase
Enrollees at WWC number 230 this
quarter, an increase of 16 per.cent
over the spring quarter of last year.
A comparison with the 1944 statis­tics
indicates that there was an
increase this year of 29 per cent last
quarter and an increase of 28 per
cent fall quarter. Those figures
were released by President Haggard
in an interview this week. To quote
him, "The trend is upward".
One reason for the favorable
change in enrollment at WWC may
be indicated in a remark by Jack
Graham, who hails from Vancouver.
He said, "I prefer the United States
and WWC". r
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Girls Give Recital
A piano recital was given by Doris
Tedford and Jean Orphan in the
assembly, Tuesday, April 10. The
program varied with solos and duets.
There was also variety in the selec­tion
of music with familiar themes
of Chopin, Brahms, Bach, Weber,
and Raval.
Committee Draws Tentative
Student Assembly Standards
Forum Will Be Held Next Friday to Discuss Pros and
Cons; Action Will Be Taken to Enforce Final
Decisions As Decided Upon By Entire Student Body
Next Friday, April 20, a student forum will be held in the auditorium at t
the regular assembly hour. The purpose of this meeting will be to discuss
attendance at assemblies and the problems connected with this subject.
A resolution which has been drawn up by a committee of faculty and
students will be considered, and a copy of it is printed below. Please read
it carefully and think the matter over. Then decide what yon think of
the plan, and prepare to voice your opinions, both pro and con.
The committee wishes to have a discussion that will settle the problem
and make it possible to make a decision satisfactory to alL
In an effort to establish complete understanding and develop an assembly
plan of maximum interest and value, a group of students and faculty have
deliberated at great length, going into all phases and questions. They
believe that every possible angle and alternative has been weighed carefully.
The following points constitute the recommendations adopted by this
body. All students are urged to read them carefully and come to the
assembly Friday, April 20, prepared to discuss them. Pull understanding
on the part of all students is the goal.
Principles on which recommendations are based:
A student assemory ana entertainment program is an essential part of
the college schedule because:
a. A small college can have a united and democratic student body only *
if there is provision for meeting together;
b. A "college education" is meagre if it fails to help the student GROW
in understanding and appreciation of the arts, good music, world affairs,
and other areas sometimes called "cultural." GOOD assembly programs
are the only means of insuring at least a minimum of this sort of thing to
all students.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. The number of assemblies per quarter should be governed by funds
available to insure well-selected programs of high calibre. Under present
circumstances, the committee recommends ten assembly programs per
quarter, scheduled regularly for 11 o'clock each Tuesday.
a. This schedule should be maintained without interruption;
b. Irregularity in hour or day should occur only in rare instances when
a program of extraordinary merit cannot otherwise be procured.
2. Students should participate in the selection of programs, (e. g—two
students duly elected or appointed by the Board of Control should serve
with the faculty committee on lectures and recitals.)
3. Because they accept the foregoing principles as sound and the assem­bly
programs as their own, students are expected to WANT to attend out
of loyalty to the student body as well as for their own edification. However,
to insure that no one neglects his opportunities and to provide a satisfactory
audience situation, attendance must necessarily be required. Two unex-cused
absences may occur before any penalty is incurred. The necessary
steps will be taken to insure of the operation of this plan.
4. The eleven o'clock hour on Friday should be kept open for organiza­tion
and committee meetings and for special student body assemblies
Compulsory attendance will not apply to these meetings.
Dahlgren Takes
Seattle Trip
Elaine Dahlgren, sophomore, rep­resented
WWC, as four champion
orators of Washington State college
entered the Thursday night finals,
a stepping stone to the national
oratorical crown with the prize of a
$1,000 War Bond to the winner, and
a free trip to Mexico City as a
guest of Hearst newspapers. The
four are Elaine Dahlgren of WWC,
Ralph Breshears Jr. of Whitman
College, Faye Anderson of the Col­lege
of Puget Sound, and Beverly
McLucas of Seattle College.
This is the last big public event
locally in the James Monroe Orator­ical
Contest sponsored in Washing­ton
State by the Post-Intelligencer.
The winner will receive $300 in War
Bonds and a free trip to San Fran­cisco
to compete in the Pacific
Coast oratorical finals on April 18.
The winner at San Francisco will
proceed to New York with all ex­penses
paid to compete for the na­tional
championship in the college
division.
Spokane Painters
Display Works
Several Spokane painters have
honored WWC by sending a gor-
. geous set of new works of art, which
will be on display in the art depart­ment
during the coming week. Dor­othy
Mcllvain, a former art teacher
of WWC and now art supervisor in
Spokane schools, is the artist of one
gouches painting called "Autumn."
Other mediums used are water color
and oil. Numerous styles of Wt can
be found among them, some of
which are: design, decorative still
life, landscape and portrait.
Eight Coeds Join
Ranks of Valks
Marilyn Booras, freshman; Bev­erly
McNally, sophomore; Elaine
Dahlgren, sophomore; Joan Hag­gard,
freshman; Jean Orphan, jun­ior;
Virginia Pendleton, sophomore;
June Shomshak, junior, and Zelma
Blekkink, freshman, were elected to
Valkyrie in the election held last
Tuesday.
Valkyrie is the only elective club
on the campus and members are
chosen by definite standards set up
by the club.
Initiation of the eight new mem­bers
will be held next Tuesday aft­ernoon
with last quarter's initiates
in charge.
During the intermission of the
plays presented by the Royal Theat­er
Players on Tuesday, the Val­kyrie
girls collected $20 which will
be used in the printing of a Ser­vicemen's
News Letter.
^C Dateline . . .
Monday, April 6, 1945—
Alkisiah meeting at Miss Snow's,
at 7:30 p. m.
Tuesday, April 17—
T. R. Ybarra, journalist. "Panama
Link Between Two Countries
Assembly Hall, 11:00 a. m.
Wednesday, April 1&—
Faculty recreation, WWC gym,
4 p. m.
Thursday, April 19—
Whidby Island Dance. Jack Tea-garden's
orchestra.
Thursday, April 19—
Mixed recreation, WWC gym,
7:30 p. m.
Friday, April 20—
Edens Hall Mothers' Week-end.
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