WWCollegian - 1945 April 20

              Edens Girls Honor Mothers
This Week-End On Campus WWl
Vol. XLIII—No. 27 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Friday, April 20, 1945
Nearly a hundred guests are ex­pected
to be on hand Saturday when
Edens Hall girls' mothers are the
guests of their daughters for the
week-end.
Plans for a special tea and dinner
have been completed, according to
Betty Dodge and Barbara teHen-nepe,
chairmen of the two commit­tees.
Beverly McNally, general chair­man,
announces that the decora­tions
will follow the nursery rhyme
theme.
The program is as follows:
Beatrice Burquist will play two
piano solos, Carol Swanson will give
the reading "At the Movies", and
Marj Thompson will sing vocal se­lections,
accompanied by Audreye
Miller ,who will also play for group
singing.
Pouring at the tea will be Mrs. M.
T. Anderson, Mrs. B. Harmon, Mrs.
Edna Easterbrooks, and Mrs. S.
Royse. Girls and their guests will
be Marilyn Anderson, Mrs. M. T.
Anderson; Rebecca Terry, Mrs. M.
E. Terry; Beatrice Burquist, Mrs.
Burquist; Jean Goehrs, Mrs. W. R.
Goehrs; Ann Easterbrooks, Mrs.
Edna Easterbrooks; Marjory Jones,
Mrs.Harlin Jones and Mrs. Grace
Pontius; Donna Harmon, Mrs. R.
Harmon; Gerry Woodward, Mrs. M.
Woodward.
Others are Virginia Sorgenfrei,
Food Highlights
Campus Day
An assembly will be held at nine
a. m. on Campus Day, before all
students and instructors head for
Whatcom Palls Park. Each organ­ized
club, house and class will pre­sent
a skit in this assembly, and a
prize will be given to the one judged
best.
Wednesday, May 9, is the date
set for the big event, and transpor­tation
will be by special busses, ex­cept
for those preferring their own
cars or foot travel.
Baseball will be one of the fea­tures
of the day, and many other
favorite games and activities will
be enjoyed.
Wonderful, delicious, and plente­ous
food is promised by the mem­bers
of that committee. And ac­cording
to co-chairman Beverly Mc­Nally,
Campus Day planners are
also hoping for lots of bright sun­shine.
Special costumes are always worn
on the day before Campus Day, but
news of what this year's special
garb will be cannot yet be" revealed.
Announcement will be made later.
Another traditional feature of the
festival is the evening entertain­ment,
either a dance in the Student
Lounge, or mixed rec at the gym­nasium.
Pinal decision on this has
not yet been made, but some type
of evening activity will be included •
on the day's roster.
Daclc Buys Land
The Lakewood property that be­longs
to the college and is held in
trust by Dr. E. A. Bond was sold
in part to George Dack, WWC head
gardener. The property originally
consisted of 90 acres. The property
which has been sold is the part
above the road which has never
been used for any recreational ac­tivities.
Mrs. L. Aller; Beftye Busha, Mrs..
Joy Busha; Alice Hunt, Mrs. Wil­liam
Hunt; Cynthia Sytsma, Mrs.
Sytsma; Marilyn Shelton, Mrs. C. B.
Shelton; Pauline. Brae, Mrs. A. C.
Brue; Vivian Cvetich, Mrs. DuBois;
Catherine Anderson, Mrs. K. B. An­derson;
Aileen Grebsted, Mrs. A.
Aursness; Pat Royse, Mrs. S. Royse;
Harriett Clow, Mrs. E. C. Clow;
Alice Marie Andersen, Mrs. Tony
Andersen, and Carol Swanson, Mrs.
J. E. Swanson.
Sixty Co-eds Hear
Jack Teagarden
Sixty-five college girls boarded
busses at Edens Thursday, bound
for Whidby Island where they
danced with Navy sailors to the
music of Jack Teagarden's trom­bone
and band.
Highlight of the evening was the
intermission entertainment which
starred especially talented members
of the band. Refreshments were
served at that time.
Teagarden's band will make a
special appearance at the Belling­ham
Armory tonight.
Enrollment: Totals
Of the 230 students enrolled in
WWC, 200 are women and 30 are
men. The percentages according to
clasification are: freshmen 44.78,
sophomores 17.39, juniors 15.21, sen­iors
11.30, graduates 00.45, specials
10;87.
The greatest number of students
enrolled at WWC come from What­com
county, with 120. Skagit coun­ty
is next, with 14 enrollees. Then
follows King county numbering 11;
Snohomish with 10; Kitsap county,
8; Clallam and Clark counties, each
6; Pierce county, 5; Chelan, Lewis.
San Juan, each 4; Cowlitz and Pa­cific,
each 3; Grays Harbor and
Thurston counties, each 2; Jeffer­son,
Kittitas, Mason and Stevens
counties, each 1.
Out of state students include.
Alaska, 4; California, 3; Canada, 2;
Idaho, 3; Iowa, 2; Kansas, 1; Mas­sachusetts,
1; Michigan, 2; Missouri,
1; Nebraska, 1; Oregon, 3; and Tex­as,
1.
Board to Choose
Journalism Head
Applications for the positions of
editor of the WWCollegian, business
manager of the Collegian, and editor
of the Navigator have been called
for by the Board of Control. Work
on the Navigator will be done this
quarter, but Collegian positions are
for the school year 1945-46.
Applications for these positions
should be made to the Board of
Control, and anyone interested
should see Mrs. Ruth A. Burnet,
publications adviser, about letters
of recommendation to the board.
Appointments are being made early,
so that the new officers may have
the benefit of the experience of the
present staff. members, many of
whom will not be here next year.
The Navigator will be the same
size as previous ^ears, and will be
printed for both 1945 and 1946 at
the same time. Printing of the
Navigator, a handbook for new stu­dents,
was started in 1940, with
Charles Kilbourne, now a navy lieu­tenant,
as editor.
ACE Convention
Attended By
WWCE Delegates
State executive board of the ACE
held a meeting at the YWCA in
Seattle, April 14. Miss Synva Ni-col,
kindergarten teacher from
WWCE, presided over the meeting.
Other representatives from this col­lege
were Miss Katherine Casanova
and Elaine Dahigren.
Miss Reynolds, a representative
of the National Advisory Commit­tee
of ACE and Miss Elizabeth Net-erer,
a recent guest of WWC, botird
members and representatives of vari­ous
schools throughout the state
participated in the discussion. The
most important matter discussed
was the new ACE Constitution. It
\vas adopted by the group later in
the meeting. Another important
item of business was where funds
could be obtained with which to
send Miss Nicol to Washington,
D. C, to the National ACE Conven­tion
sometime in May. It was fin­ally
agreed to ask branch groups tc
contribute to the cause. Election of
next year's officers was another fea­ture
of the convention.
Dr. Kuder Visits
Schools In State
Dr. Merle Kuder will represent
WWC in the Southwestern Wash­ington
Caravan which will visit high
school seniors during the week of
April 23-27. This caravan consists
of one representative from each col­lege
in the state. The group will
begin their speaking tour in Van­couver
and cover schools between
there and Olympia.
Dr. Paul Grim will also visit high
school seniors in Skagit county in
the near future.
Coach Charles Lappenbusch is to
visit high school seniors in South­west
Washington, covering high
schools that will not be visited by
the caravan. He will leave April 26.
American Relations
Discussed Here
T. R. Ybarra, international jour-,
nalist, spoke to the students and
faculty Tuesday at the regular as­sembly
hour. His subject was,
"What Next In Latin America?"
Mr. Ybarra has recently traveled
through the South American and
Pan American countries, discovering
their problems especially in relation
to the United States. He cautioned-that
the U. S. should make sure that
our southern allies in .war will re­main
our friends in peace. He told
briefly the main points' of interest
concerning the 20 republics, their
characteristics and their views of
the United States. He gave special
emphasis to the three leading coun­tries,
Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
Special Editions
Under Way
Special spring activities of the
WWCollegian are beginning this
week with the advent of the news­letter
and special high school edi­tion
of the Collegian.
The newsletter is a publication
sent to all the former WWC stu­dents
now in the service. It con­tains
stories of campus life of the
year 1944-45 and of the changes
around school that would interest
its readers. This year the newslet­ter
is under, the chairmanship of
Charlotte Samples, June White, and
Daisie Ann Earling.
The high school edition of the
WWCollegian is a seven-column
newspaper which is sent to about
6,000 high school students in the
state of Washington. Its purpose is
to give high school students a brief
idea of life at WWC. This special
edition will come out next week in­stead
of the regular Collegian. Cath­erine
Anderson will be associate
editor.
Peggy Custer is in charge of a war
ex.tra which will be run off the
press as soon as VE Day is declared,
whether it be day or night.
The Collegian and Klipsun staffs
are combining their annual ban­quets
this year because of a dupli­cation
of staff members on both
publication staffs. The banquet
will be held the latter part of May
at one of the Bellingham hotels.
Roosevelt Memorial
Assembly Held
Students gathered in the assem­bly
last Friday to pay tribute to our
late president, Franklin D. Roose­velt.
The memorial service began
with the playing of a record of Mr.
Roosevelt's speech on December 8,
1941, following the attack on Pearl
Harbor.
The Rev. Clarence Haugen, of Our
Saviour's Lutheran Church, deliver­ed
a memorial speech and led the
assembly in prayer. His speech re­viewed
Mr. Roosevelt's life and 12
years in office, and mourned his un­timely
death so shortly after the
start of his fourth term.
Doris Tedford, ASB president,
played the Star-Spangled Banner
and led the students in the flag sa­lute.
Oratorical Contest
Finished In State
The last of a series of Post-Intel­ligencer
James Monroe oratorical
contests has come to an end. A few
days ago, four contestants from the
state of Washington met in Seattle
to give their speeches in a contest
to see who would win the $300 in
War Bonds and the trip to Califor­nia,
to compete in the regional'con­test.
Participant from WWC was
Elaine Dahigren. Last year she
gained second place in the same
4ype of contest and again this year
Elaine made a good showing for
the alma mater. The winner of this
year's contest was the entrant from
Seattle College.
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By THE ED.
S i n c e freshmen are again this
year in the majority, there are,
therefore, many of you who know
very little about Campus Day.
Campus Day is one of our oldest
traditions here on the campus and
one of the most delightful. The com­mittee
has already selected What­com
Falls Park for the 4scene and
May 9 for the date. But back of that
are years of history that have
brought Campus Day into its pres­ent
traditional standing.
Until last year, when we^made our
trek to Whatcom Falls Park due to
rationing problems, the day was
celebrated at Lake Whatcom at the
college site there, Lakewood. This
all started back in 1923, May 11, to
be exact, when the students packed
up their lunches and traveled by
boat to Normal Eighty Acres to
clear the land. That year it was a
work day and it was the same the
following year.
The next few years the clean-up
work was done on campus, including
the athletic field and the section of
Sehome which is behind the college.
Not until ten years later did the
students travel to the lake and by
this time the Normal site had1 re­ceived
its present name of Lake-wood.
By this time it was custo­mary
for the fellows to have cleaned
up Lakewood the day before, so that
Campus Day was a hilarious picnic,
complete with food and transporta­tion.
Before these excursions began, a
general assembly was held to give
students instructions in behavior f or
the day. In those days they had a
water carnival, boxing bouts, - the
traditional baseball game, and an
evening assembly, followed by a
tennis court dance.' From there,
diving exhibitions stepped into the
limelight and the assemblies con­sisted
of contest skits between or­ganized
houses. Back in 1939, 12
men students put on a spectacular
beauty contest which was judged
by women students. In 1940 stu­dents
added the traditional beard
growing contest to the curriculum
and in 1941 the pie-eating contest
came into being. It was then con­sidered
a great disgrace for any
man to come around without a .
beard and there are pictures back
in the old Collegians which show
clean-shaven fellahs clamped tight­ly
in the stocks in front of the
school. In '42 the girls, not to be
outdone by the beards, showed up
with pigtails and no lipstick.
Last year as many of the tradi­tions
as were possible were carried
on. Girls made their debut in print
dresses, pigtails and no lipstick, and
a few of the men attempted a beard
although most of them backed out.
Last year Campus Day moved into
the unusual by having sunshine
throughout the entire day. Before
'that, rain had been a regular fea­ture
of the day. Brave swimmers in­vaded
the frigid waters, pie-eating
contestants showed their true worth,
the students beat the faculty in a
rousing baseball game, nearly ev­eryone
took a turn at the volley
ball, and we all ate more than
enough hot dogs, potato salad and
all the other accessories, and came
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