Western Washington Collegian - 1951 June 1

              Full Week Planned
For 1951 Graduates
By JOYCE HUTCHISON
From now until commencement exercises on Friday, June 8, the
52nd graduating class of Western Washington college has a busy
schedule planned. Tomorrow afternoon at 4, the graduates are in­vited
to attend the organ recital by'Maria Kjaer of the University
Presbyterian church of Seattle, the first program in the Auditorium-
Music building. The recital is the beginning of Alumni day and will
be followed by a tour of inspec-*
tion through the new building
The alumni banquet will com
mence at 5:30 in Edens hall with
McQueen; hymn, "Faith of Our
- Fathers."
The main address .by Thomas Mc-
Senator Virgil R. Lee of Chehalis Queen will be followed by the an-giving
the evening address. This them "Holy Radiant Light" by the
choir, benediction by the Reverend
Taylor and the "Four-Fold Amen"
will be followed at 8 p. m. by an in­formal
social hour in Edens hall
dining room.
Speaking on the topic "The West
and its Destiny," the Reverend
Thomas Craig McQueen, minister of
t h e ..Westminster ..Congregational
church of Spokane, will deliver the
address for baccaulaureate service
on Sunday afternoon, June 3 at 4
p. m.
Mr! McQueen is a high school
graduate of Pembina high school,
Pembina, North Dakota, and a grad-
GOV. ARTHUR B. LANGLIE
Commencement Speaker
uate of the University of Manitoba
and Manitoba college, a theological
seminary at Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada. He has been at Spokane for
the past five years.
Program for t h e baccaulaureate
services is as follows: prelude by
Bach on the organ; processional
hymn, "God of Our Fathers"; in­vocation
by the Reverend Daniel E.
Taylor of the Garden Street Meth­odist
church; anthem, Tenebrae
Factae Sunt by the choir; scripture
reading, President W. W. Haggard;,
prayer, Reverend Thomas C r a ig
Class of 1950 Gives
Bulletin Board
For New Building
Presented to the college by the
graduating class of 1950, a new glass-enclosed
bulletin board has been
placed on the lawn adjacent to the
library, across the street from the
Auditorium-Music building.
The board will serve the new
building, listing coming events in the
new auditorium. The present loca­tion
is a temporary one, with a final
site to be chosen later which will be
a place where it can best serve the
students and the public.
Graduating seniors of 1951 are
purchasing, as their gift to the col­lege,
a specially-constructed speak­er's
desk for the auditorium. It will
be made of oak to match the in­terior
of the building.
by the choir. The recessional hymn
is "O God, Beneath Thy Guiding
Hand" by choir and audience. Ted
Wahlstrom will be at the organ.
Caps and gowns will be worn by
the 1951 graduating class.
Following bacalaureate service the
president's tea*for the faculty will
be held in the Blue room of Edens
hall.
Tuesday, June 5, is Class day. All
students are urged | o attend this as
it will be their only chance to see
the 1951 graduating class and the
only graduation function in t he
Audditorium-Music ..building . . t h at
they may attend. I t will be the first
time the faculty has attended Class
day in a body and they will enter the
auditorium in academic procession
wearing full regalia.
Awards for the year will be given
out, Dr. W. W. Haggard will deliver
a short address and Paul Herbold
will render "An Old Man's Thought
of School." Following the program
the audience and class will s i ng
"Auld Lang Syne."
The seniors will wear their caps
and gowns down senior walk as they
place their name cards under the
1951 plaque.
Following the Class day program
the graduates will attend the tra­ditional
president's tea in their
honor held in the Blue room of
Edens hall from 3:30 to 5:00.
Also at Edens hall on Thursday,
June 7, the faculty will hold the an­nual
reception for graduates. Their
families and friends are invited, at
8:30 p. m. in the Blue room.
Commencement exercises for the
1951 class of 305 members are June
8, at 10 a. m. in the Auditorium-
Music building. The main address
will be delivered by the Honorable
Arthur B. Langlie, governor of the
State of Washington.
During all exercises nurseries will
be provided for small children and
are expected to be used.
Reading Matter
Due Tuesday
All library books are due Tues­day,
June 5, with the exception
of books checked out for the
quarter, which will be due June
6. If students need books for an
extended period they may make
arrangements with Miss Enid
Karsten before time at the cir­culation
desk.
Fines must be paid before the
end of the quarter or grades will
be withheld. The price of the
book wiU^eharged for books
n o t retiKn^ by Wednesday,
JunVi:'"•;;;,".'.':' .... -.-. • -
All campus school l i b r a ry
books are duo June 4.
COLLEGIAN
Vol. XLVI — No. 34 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington June 1, 1951
Prexies 'Attend Salt
Lake Convention
Representing WWC at the Pacific
States Presidents Association meet­ing
in Salt Lake City on May 23-25
were Eddie Hickenbottomand Dick
Pedersen, retiring and incoming ASB
presidents.
Pedersen and Hickenbottom were
flown to the Utah captital by United
Air Lines for the convention which
had as a theme "The Campus and
the Present Emergency." Fifty-four
schools from 11 western states and
Hawaii were represented at the con­ference
by 117 delegates. The pur­pose
of the meeting was to discuss
mutual campus problems.
Host for the association meeting
next year will be the University of
Washington.
Nora Cummins
To Retire
At Year's End
By WAYNE SMITH
Plans to retire at the end of this,
year were announced this week by
Miss Nora B. Cummins, long time
member of the faculty.
Miss Cummins, political science
professor and adviser of the- Inter­national
Relations club, first came
to Western in 1915 and has watched
the school grow to its present size.
She states that.when she first came
here there were just two buildings,
the Main building and the old In­dustrial
Arts building. The present
infirmary was a private home and
located on the site of Edens hall.
Private homes also occupied t he
sites Of the PE building and the
Library.
Miss Cummins' chief interest is in
international relations and she has
followed that by devoting much of
her time to the supervision of the
International Relations club since
it was organized on the campus in
1926. Miss Cummins has also served
on virtually every faculty commit­tee
in her long career and had the
honor of being chairman of t he
fiftieth anniversary celebration dur­ing
the entire year of 1949.
In addition to her campus activi­ties,
Miss Cummins has found time
to play an active part in commun­ity
affairs. During the second world
war she was a member of the may­or's
civil defense committee. S he
was second president of the Busi­ness
and Professional Women's club
and served as a member of the board
of directors of the League of Women
Voters.
When Miss Cummins first came
to Western, she was supervisor of
student teaching and it was largely
through her efforts that student
teachers were allowed to receive
training in the Bellingham public
(schools. She then did graduate work
at Columbia University and received
her masters degree. On her return
to Western she taught in the social
science department.
As yet Miss Cummins has made
no future plans as to what she will
do after her retirement.
New Teachers Urged
To Use Mobile X-Ray
Graduates who will begin teaching
in the fall and students whofwill do
student teaching in the fall quarter
are urged by Mi&s Mira Boothby,
college nurse, to take advantage of
the portable 'X-ray unit which is in
Bellingham this month.
Miss Boothby said that those wish­ing
certification should call at the
nurse's office for identification cards
before going to the unit.
All students are invited to have
an X-ray, she said, but those who
will need certification in order to
accept a teaching position or do
student teaching in the fall are
especially urged to do so at the
present time.
The unit will be in operation daily
except Sunday and Monday, with
the hours to be from 1 p. m. to 8
p. m. when located at all places ex­cept
downtown when it will operate
from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m.
The schedule for the unit is as
follows:
June 1, Whatcom junior high
school; June 2, J. C.|Penney store;
June 5, Fairhaven junior high school;
June 6, Twelfth street and Harris
avenue; June 7, Larrabee school;
June 8, Lowell school; June 9, J. C.
New Lounge
Will Open
On June 18
With a few final touches yet to
be added, the new student lounge
and snack bar in the Auditorium-
Music building will be open for
business on June 18, the first day
of summer quarter.
Painting of. the two rooms has
been completed _ and work is being
done now on the drapes and the
furniture. The snack bar in the
fountain room is still unfinished.
Looking forward to the day when
the new lounge will open, Freddie
Haight, chairman of the student fa­cilities
committee, expresses the hope
that students will keep it in good
condition.
"We hope that when you see the
rooms you will realize how fortunate
we are to have such wonderful fa­cilities—
and that it is our responsi­bility
to see that it is kept in good
shape. It's up to every individual to
see that he does his share in keeping
our rooms in good conditiion."
None of the entries submitted in
the recent name-the-lounge contest
were suitable, in the judgment of the
facilities committee, which reserved
the right to accept any or none of
the suggestions. /
"Vik's Grotto is the name being
used temporarily," Miss Haight said.
"If you can think of another name,
put your comments and suggestions
in the box located in the co-op."
Penney store; June 12, Birchwood
school; June 13, Birchwood school;
June 14, Columbia school; June 15,
Roeder school; June 16, J. C. Penney
store.
June 19, Geneva school; June 20,
Silver Beach school; June 21, Roose­velt
school; June 22, Sunnyland
school; June 23, J. C. Penney store;
June .26, Washington school; June
27, Franklin school; June 28, Bell­ingham
Industries; June 29, Belling­ham
industries; June 30, J. C. Pen­ney
store.
BOARD OF CONTROL
Short Budgets
Get Final
Nod at Meeting
With department chairmen sub­mitting
trimmed budget requests,
Board of Control members were able
to come to an early deciison on the
amounts to be appropriated to stu­dent
activities for the 1951-52 year.
The following amounts were ap­proved
in a Tuesday afternoon ses­sion:
Men's Athletics, $20,720; Collegian,
$6,100; Music, $2,170; Administration,
$2,126; Social, $2,100; F o r e n s i c s,
$1,448.95; Women's Athletics, $927.65;
and Drama, $475.
All budgets were approved as sub­mitted,
with the exception of men's
athletics, the largest of the appro­priations.
Board members agreed on
Furniture Goes to
Highest Bidder
Going to the highest bidder will
be chairs and tables of the pres­ent
student lounge in an auction
sale, Wednesday evening, June 6,
in the lounge. The sale will begin
at 7:00 p. m.
The student facilities commit­tee
is conducting the auction.
Minimum prices ill be established
for each item with the final sale
price to be set by the bidders.
Students and faculty members
are invited to attend.
the amount but decided to consult
with athletic director Charles Lap-penbusch
on some details of the ex­penditures.
EARLE INCREASE DELAYED
Action on a salary increase for
co-op manager Louis Earle was post­poned
until January 1, 1952. A spe­cial
committee reported that this
arrangement was agreeable to Earle.
The board voted to authorize the
student facilities committee and the
lounge maanger to dispose of furni­ture
of the present student lounge
which will not be transferred to the
new snack bar.