WWCollegian - 1945 August 3

              Education . . .
. . . Digest
The question of the value of a
college education is an ever-present
one. The young high school gradu­ate
must decide whether it is to his
advantage to continue his educa­tion,
or to take a job. Now more
than ever the value of a college de­gree
is questioned when the demand
for workers and the high wage scale
offer many attractive opportunities
to the high school graduate.
In the JOURNAL OF «EDUCA-TIONAL
RESEARCH, Martha V.
Burton attempts to measure the
"broadening effect" college gives.
Through her research on personality
changes, she found the group test­ed,
as a whole and individually, be­came
more emotionally stable, more
self-sufficient, more extrovertive.
more dominant, more self-confident
than they were when they first ent­ered
college. These are all qualities
that are necessary for leadership.
The inventor of the pay-as-you-go-
income tax plan, Mr. Beardsley
Ruml, has" produced , another big
idea, a learn-as-you-go plan. In this
plan he proposes that every Ameri­can
of high school age be provided
with a hundred days of conducted
travel in the United States as an
educational experiment. The value
of such travel has been proved in
the years before travel was a war
casualty when hundreds of classes
benefited by the trips to the na­tion's
capitol.
"It is our ideals that give value
to life; they put into our experi­ences
those qualities we deem most
valuable. They are compass and
star by which we steer our course
in safety and peace. Values come
into human experience through the
ability of ideals tenaciously held to
regulate experience. Choices made
in accordance with ideals introduce
the "worthier elements into human
life, eschewing the less v/orthy.
Ideals also motivate life; that is
they give motion and power. By
giving us something worthy to live
for and to live by, they call out the
latent powers of our being. So
ideals are valuable because (1) they
introduce values into life; (2) they
regulate life; and (3) they motivate
life. In fact, without ideals man
lives out an animal rather than
human existance."—Herman Har-rell
Home.
The new campus school building
seems to be fulfilling its many plan­ned
functions not only for our state,
but for the schools of "British Co­lumbia
as well.
In a recent issue of the Washing­ton
Educational Journal Dr. Grim
states that, "An ever increasing
number of Canadians have been
visiting the Campus Elementary
school building. Since the opening
of our new school, considerably over
one hundred teachers, administra­tors,
board members, college in­structors,
architects, engineers and
graduate students from all over
British Columbia have been our
guests as they have studied - this
modern school plant and observed
our children at work and our teach­ers
in the training." Detailed plans
of the building have been taken
across the border which are being
studied in order that its features
might be incorporated into many
new .buildings which are soon to be
built in British Columbia.
The exchange of ideas and ex­periences
with the teachers and ad­ministrators
of Canada have been
mutually advantageous, and will aid
in the development of joint inter­ests
and understandings. The vjg-itors
have been, very enthusiastic in
their comments oh the program of
the Campus school and upon the
efficiency of the building itself. In
the future, further visiting back
and forth will be of help in postwar
school planning and building, and
consideration of common education
problems will be highly valuable.
Vol. XLIII—No. 41 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Friday, August 3, 1945
Bovee, Ludens,
Earling Enlist
Two former editors of WWC, Miss
Lucille Bovee, of Cashmere, and
Miss Geraldine Ludens, of Belling­ham,
who were editors of the Col­legian
and Klipsun, respectively, last
year, together with Miss Daisy A.
Earling, of Zenith, also a student
of WWC were sworn into the
WAVES in a ceremony at Victory
Square in Seattle, last Monday.
The ceremony marked the third
anniversary of the WAVES. All
three girls will leave August 5 to
begin their training at Hunter Col­lege
in New York.
Lucille Bovee and Gerry Ludens
were co-chairmen of the Publica­tions
Prom at the college this year.
Daisy Ann Earling was a prominent
member of the Collegian staff and
received the award for the most de­pendable
cub of spring quarter at
the annual Publications banquet
this year.
All three of the girls have com­pleted
their second year of college.
Rev. Hegge Iverson
Addresses CCF
Rev. Hegge M. Iverson of Marys-ville
was the speaker at che regular
Wednesday luncheon of the College
Christian Pllowship, August 1. A
special luncheon was held Thurs­day,
August 2, at which Mr. and
Mrs. Warren B. Ranney, directors
of child evangelism of Southern
California, gave an illustrated talk.
Other speakers for the summer
luncheons have been, Miss Nina
Bemmell, WWC graduate of 1917,
Rev. Montgomery, pastor of .the
Christian Missionary A l l i a n ce
church, Miss Catherine Alexander,
a WWC graduate who recently left
for Iran as a missionary, and Betty
Mayrand, a student.
The CCF is under the direction
of Mary Skillman for the summer
session. Other officers are, Mrs.
Esther Quigley, Betty Mayrand, and
Borghild Privold.
Well\Known Soprano
In Concert Tuesday
NAN DYBDAHL WIIK
Appearing in a recital for the
assembly on August 7, will be Mrs.
Nan Dybdahl Wiik. Mrs. Wiik is
very well known to the students
and the townspeople of Bellingham.
She has appeared at several pre­vious
times in similar programs and
the college is anticipating a de­lightful
presentation. Mrs. Wiik
teaches voice in the city and is a
member of the college faculty as
voice instructor.
Mrs. Wiik will present the follow­ing
program of soprano music and
will be accompanied at the piano by
Edith Strange:
I
O Mistress Mine Roger Quilter
Weep You No More Roger Quilter
June Roger Quilter
The Fuchsia Tree ....Roger Quilter
Love's Philosophy Roger Quilter
II
Sidste reis (The Last Voyage)
Eyvind* Alnaes
Gyngevise (Crade Song)
Eyvind Alnaes
Februarmorgen ved Golfen (Feb­ruary
Morning at the Gulf)
Eyvind Alnaes
Kjolen (The Dress) Eyvind Alnaes
i n
Music I Heard With You
Richard Hageman
Song of the Wind David W. Guion
The Robin's Song Howard White
Midsummer.., Amy Worth
Mary^Barrows
Added to Staff
A new addition to the college staff
is Mrs. Mary Barrows, who is taking
the place of Mrs. Catherine Holmes
in the Registrar's office. Mrs. Bar­rows
graduated from- W e s t e rn
Washington College in 1941. She
has taught for two years, and was
assistant registrar at Whitman Col­lege
in Walla Walla. This past year
she was school secretary of the Lake
Chelan public schools.
Mrs. Barrows has purchased a
home on Marine Drive where she is
residing with her youngest daughter,
Mary Jo, who will enter the campus
school this fall. Her son, Frank,
who graduated from Fairhaven
Junior high and was a graduate of
Walla Walla high school in June,
has been accepted for Officer's Can­didate
School under the U. S-. Mer­chant
Marine training program. He
placed in the first 100 in competi­tive
examinations which were given
to over 1500 candidates from all over
the United States. Mrs. Barrows'
daughter, Margaret, who atended
WWCE in the summer school of
1943 and was a student at Whitman
college before her marriage last
winter, is with her husband at a
Naval Training Center at Carlisle,
Pa.
Mrs. Barrows has been doing some
juvenile writing recently. She is
having a series of children's Alaskan
stories published, and is also the
author of an aviation article in the
current Flying Age magazine. She
has been active in the Bellingham
and Walla Wall Writer's Club and
is an honorary member of the Cali­fornia
State Writer's Club. Mrs.
Barrows is also interested in avia­tion
and was the first woman in
Alaska to obtain a flying license.
ODUM RETURNS
Miss Evelyn Odum, seventh grade
teacher in the campus school, will
return this week where she has been
attending the workshop for Port­land
teachers under the auspices of
the State System of Higher Educa­tion.
Miss Virginia Sale, Famed Radio And Stage
Star Comments On Excellent Food At Edens
Quick changes ' of costume, are
made as rapidly by Miss Virginia
Sale off stage as well as during a
performance. After last Tuesday's
assembly, between autographs Miss
Sale promised your reporter an in­terview,
with the provision that it
be given in line at Eden's hall be­cause,
"They told me we could get
food at the cafeteria if we were
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there while they were still serving.
You have no idea how good this
sounds—when ' you eat out all the
time you learn to recognize good
food.''
After a quick introduction to her
husband, Sam Wren, Hollywood
producer and director, Miss Sale
ducked btckstage to change .from
her costume. Mr. Wren commented
on his wife's performance, and the
personal enjoyment he received from
watching the audience's, reactions to
the sketches. "It's such clean whole­some
entertainment, with no one
being hurt. Everyone, from the
youngest to the oldest laughed
equally hard. They like the way
she brings the audience into the
sketches and makes each of her
characters so real. It's amazing, the
way a pair of glasses and a cape
' can make a young woman in an
evening dress change to an old un­wanted
woman.
Conversationally as friendly, as
her characterizations are true to
life, Miss Sale and her husband
went to the end of that endless line
in Eden's hall. Including all fellow-seekers
after food in the conversa­tion,
Miss Sale told of the many per­formances
she had given to men in
army hospitals. She said the fav­orite
character of the men in these
camps, was "The School Ma'am".
"At one performance I gave in a
ward, one of the men who had been
off in a part of the room out of
sight was rolled in just after I had
begun.to act. The moment he laid
eyes upon me he let out a loud
burst of laughter. I gave him a
long stare, told him he was late and
asked him if he had brought a note
from his mother. They like that.
You should hear them howl when
I asked them what their mother
would say if I were to send them
home." y
Someone in the long que asked if
Miss Sale wrote all her own ma­terial,
and, with a twinkle in his
eye, Mr. Wren said she not only
wrote each of the acts, but she
based them on some person she has
known. Many of them are persons
who have lived in the-town where
Miss Sale grew up. He continued
by saying that the club sketch was
interesting because so often people
recognize an acquaintance in the
act, but forget to realize they them­selves
may fit.
Mr., and Mrs. Wren arrived in
Bellingham Friday night and spent
Saturday and Sunday at the Wil­lows
on Lummi Island. "It was
beautiful but we got so tired of
doing nothing," said Mr. Wren.
Punctuating the conversation ev­ery
few minutes with remarks about
the food, the couple soon impressed
me with the fact that they, were
genuinely interested in the food, or
shall we say, in food. While eating
lunch Miss Sale became slightly
apologetic and turned, saying, "I
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Gretchen Kneif
Schenk Speaks
Next Friday
Western Washington College is
very fortunate in having Mrs. Gret­chen.
Knief Schenk, state librarian,
as assembly speaker on Friday, Aug­ust
10.
There have recently been several
big movements in the library work
in Washington which will be of
benefit to the teachers in the state.
Much of this development has been
due to the passing of a permissive
state law which allowed counties to'
tax themselves for county libraries..
Another important movement at
this time was the appointment of a
State Library Commission which
took- library development out of
politics and therefore the commis­sion
was able to select a highly
trained person for the position of
state librarian. It is this capacity
that Mrs. Schenk is now serving.
The speaker has made an exten­sive
personal survey of every library
in the state and will be able to pre­sent
a very graphic picture of facili­ties
available to teachers. She has
also recently commenced a survey
of school library conditions. She
has revived the State Library Plan­ning
Board and is now' beginning a
campaign for the equalization of
library facilities all over the state.
This work will be of extreme inter­est
and importance to teachers, since
it is essential that teachers be in­formed
as to all sources of books
for their schools.
Mrs. Schenk will also discuss the
Bibliographic Center which is now
located at the University of Wash­ington
and financed by the Car­negie
Corporation of New York. One
item of the Bibliographic Center
is the centralized catalog of re­sources
of various libraries in the
northwest.
Mrs. Schenk is a delightful speak­er
and gifted with a winning per­sonality.
She will give enthusiastic
aid to anyone desiring help with
library problems.
Sinclair Island
Trip Tomorrow
An all-day excursion to Viqueen
lodge on Sinclair Island has been
planned for Saturday, August 4.
The Osage will leave Citizens dock
at 7 a. m. and will return about
5:30 p. m.
The cabin will.be open for the
use of picnickers. Everyone is re­quired
to bring his own lunch. Food
may be brought to be cooked over
beach fires.
The island and lodge offer every
facility for a good time. Bring swim
suits for swimming, books to read
or study, or good shoes for hiking.
A chance to sleep is offered for all
those interested.
Miss Muffley is in charge of the
cruise.
POLIO CLOSES POOL
The swimming pool. in the PE
building of WWC has been closed
indefinitely by Dr. C. L. Longstreth,
city health officer, because of polio.
The pool- will remain closed as long
as there is danger of the disease.
CALENDAR
Saturday, August 4—All day .cruise
to Viqueen lodge, Sinclair Island.
Osage leaves Citizen's dock at
7 a. m.
Tuesday, August 7—Assembly, Mrs.
Nan Dybdahl Wiik, soprano.
Wednesday. August 8—CCF lun­cheon
in Edens hall cafeteria.
Thursday, August 9—Softball and
basketball, 4:30 to 5:30 p. m.
Thursday, August 9—Recreation in
gym, 7:30 to 9:30 p. m.
Friday, August 10—Assembly, Mrs)
Schenk, state librarian, speaker.