Western Washington Collegian - 1952 August 22

              Wedetot WaikUufen
COLLEGIAN
Vol. XLVI - No. 44 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Aug. 22, 1952
SOIL STUDY—These members of the-Pacific North­west
summer field course in science examine growth of
vegetable and grain plants in various soils picked up
in their many trips to various parts of the state. Girls
—Cut Courtesy Bellingham Herald
kneeling are Betty Foss, Lillian Landahl, and Elaine
Daverin. Seated are. William Hale,. instructor Marie
Pabst, Vern Renius, Instructor Bernice Dorren, and
Royal Penewell.
College Awards 266
Decrees in Summer
Graduating seniors receiving degrees and certificates at the end
of summer quarter number 266. Of these, 99 will receive the
Bachelor of Arts in education and a provisional general certificate.
The complete list is as follows • ; •
Aberdeen—John El w i n Eklund.
Anacortes—Delbert Llewellyn Barge-well,
Phyllis Luvera. Arlington—Ken­neth
Virgil Crow. Auburn—Rolf S
Dragseth.
Bellingham—Richard M. Abrams,
Paul Marenus Bajema, Mary James
Baylor, James Leonard Bemis, Robert
Gustave Boko, Arnold E. Bowsher,
Fredericka D. Cameron, Milton Ar­nold
Clothier, Jr., James H. Dennis,
Charles H. Gesdahl, Donald L.
Hawk, Richard L. Hawk, Clyde Ezra
Howard, Robert Lawrence Jerstedt,
Vera Mae Jones, John T. Jurich,
Samuel P. Kelly, George Paul Kuljis,
Ian Calvert Lavender, James R. Mc-
Callum, Edwin A. Mapes, Mary L.
Clark Mills, Esther Lundstrom Nor-din,
Marianne Oakes, Vera Harris
Olson, Walbert S. Peterson, Jr.,
Robert Roy Richardson, John Iver
Scheide, Joan Louise Sharninghouse,
David Ellsworth Simonson, Donald
Joseph Sires, Trula French Smith,
Ralph E. Sparman, Donna Burna-dette
Steepson, Thomas T. Taylor,
Francis Joseph Ward, Dale Thomas
Wilson.
Blaine — Kathleen Drake Holzer.
Bow—Helen Jeanne Thomas. Brem­erton—
John Nelson Ganson, Jr.,
Phyllis Jean Mason. Casas—Mildred
Rozina Blake. Carnation—Maurice
Walter Bright. Cle Elum—John Jef­frey
Franklin. Custer—Fredrick Ed­ward
Erickson, Maynard J. McCul-lough.
East Stanwood—Richard Stanley
Pedersen. Edmonds—Joanne Patricia
Nielsen. Everett—Moriroe McQueen
Mason. Ferndale—Bennett Adolph
Asplund, Glenn McGuire. Glenwood
—Earl J. Perry. Granite Falls—
Brian Hiram Bond. Hoquiam—Ray
General Education
Book Published
The college has recently mailed
1400 copies of a book entitled "Pro­ceedings
of the Northwest Confer­ence
on General Education" to col­leges
and public libraries through­out
the country.
This book, one of the few refer­ences
available on general education,
has over a hundred pages, and was
printed by Cox Brothers, Inc., in
Bellingham. Three chapters were
written by Dr. Paul DresseL na­tional
director of a research project
in which Western has been partici­pating
for three years.
The book also contains chapters
and articles written by educators
from .the University of Oregon, Uni­versity
of British Columbia, Wash­ington
State College, Montana State
College, Eastern Washington Col­lege
of Education, Lewis and Clark
College, Seattle University, Reed
College, and Western.,
The foreword was written - by
President W. W. Haggard, introduc­tions
by Dr. Maurice Freehill and
Dr. Lucy Kangley, and three sum­maries
by Harvey Gelder, Declan
Barron, and Halldor Karason. Other
articles were also written by Dr.
Freehill and Ralph Thompson.
The conference, which is the topic
of the book, took place here Febru­ary
29 and March 1. There have
already been a number of requests
for more copies of the edition. It
is expected to be much used, as there
are at present very few books in the
field of general education.
Teachers Hew Line in Russian
Schools; Thinking Discouraged
From kindergarten to college, ideological, indoctrination dom­inates
both the content and purpose of Soviet education, according
to a report by Ernest S. Pisko, staff writer of the Christian Science
Monitor. In one of a series of articles based upon first-hand
observations at the other side of the iron curtain, Pisko notes that
"under the Bolshevik regime education has been used to prevent
people from independent think
mg.
There has been an impressive in­crease
in literacy under the Soviets,
the reporter acknowledges, "but this
achievement loses much of its luster"
when the aims of Soviet education
are considered. Fifty years ago, only
24 out of every 100 persons living in
Russia could read and write. Today
about 90 out of every 100 Soviet citi­zens
are literate.
Official Soviet publications outlin­ing
what schools and teachers are
supposed to do direct them to ignore
facts which contradict the party line.
RIGID DISCIPLINE
Any tendencies to individualism
are suppressed in the kindergarten.
"Today, Soviet schools are models of
the most rigid discipline rigidly en­forced,"
says the author. No student
"would dare question the teacher's'
authority."
In turn, the teacher dares not
question the authority of the party
hierarchy, which issues such educa­tional
directives as: "Objectivism
and impartial assembling of econom­ic
facts are inadmissible." Another
publication condemns
and academic neutrality" which, it
warned, result only in the "distortion
of historical truth."
Russian children enter kindergar­ten
at the age of 3% where collective
Freshmen Week to
Open With Mixer
Assembly and Tests
Freshman week will open Thurs­day,
September 25, with £ welcoming
assembly in the morning and mixed
recreation in the evening. A New­comers
Mixer and dance are on the
agenda for Friday night. Tests and
physical examinations will get under
way.
The first- Pep Rally will be held
Saturday morning in practice for the
Western-CPS game to be held that
night, at Battersby field.
Annual faculty-student socials will
take place Sunday, with freshmen
meeting their advisers in informal
gatherings. .
Most freshmen _ registration and
testing will be completed when
school opens officially Monday, Sep­tember
29, with upperclassman reg-impartiality
istration. Classes begin Tuesday.
traits are developed until the age of
seven when they enter a 10-year
secondary school. The first seven
grades of the secondary school are
compulsory and free.
CHECK ON STUDENTS
Tuition fees in the upper grades
and colleges restrict educational op­portunities
to offspring of the ruling
class—civil servants, party function-areis,
and professional people. Col­lege
tuition fees were abolished in
1917 but reintroduced in 1940.
In higher education the ideologi­cal
indoctrination which permeates
the entire school system, becomes
even more intense. Rigid adherence
to party doctrine is strictly enforced.
Pisko reports that every college has
a special office "where MVD (secret
police) trained students keep files
on the political views of their class­mates.'
A student showing a nega­tive
attitude toward the regime can­not
receive a degree.
In his report, Pisko describes the
primary function of Soviet educa­tion.
"Stalin's goal of wholesale in­doctrination
and perversion of
thinking would not have been realiz­able
with the insufficient school fa­cilities
available in czarist Russia. It
therefore was necessary to spread
literacy''In order 'to-^make people
read what is written on government
orders-—and that comprises' every­thing-
published in the Soviet -Unr-ion."
• ;.• .-, . •-..••• — h. •.:•/: . .'
Howard Hill.
Issaquah — Marian Mae Stefani.
LaConner—Lorraine Bretvick Van
Brocklin. Lake Stevens—Flora Kirby
Rice. Longview—Edwin Charles Lap-sley.
Lynden—William C. Hedricks,
Caroline Adelle LeCocq, Elizabeth
Ann Stouffer, Letha M. Springer
Sussex. McCleary—Billie Irene Mel-lis.
Mount Vernon—George Louis
Jones. Olympia—Donna Mae Fee,
Patricia Lee Layton. Puyallup—
Elmer Charles Smith.
Seattle—Duane Irving Anderson,
Robert E. Brown, Paul James Gillie,
Mary L. Hoffman, Carol-Ann Irwin,
Robert D. Lajala, Vincent Ben Mil­ler,
Jerry Thomas Moore, Charles
Howard Scott, Jr., Grant Gaylord
Stone, Laurence Edward Wilson.
Sedro-Woolley—Mary M. Pagels.
Spokane—Delores Rinehart. Stan-wood—
W i l l i a m Lloyd Garrison.
Steilacoom—Jo Anne Kraus. Sumas
—John J. Markarian. Tacoma—Rus-
(Continued on page 4)
Teaching Staff
Changes Told
Replacements of faculty and
staff members for fall quarter, an­nounced
by President W. W.
H a g g a r d , make the 1952-53
roster practically complete.
New members include: Miss Luva
Baldwin, working on her fifth year
at the University of Washington
this summer, who will take Miss
Elizabeth Daniel's place as director
of food service; Richard Chaffee,
graduate of the University of Ore­gon,
who will take Harry Larson's
place in the mathematics depart­ment.
Other new faculty members are:
Mark W. Flanders, University of
Iowa, and Paul Herbold, University
of Washington, who will replace
Prof. Victor Hoppe and the usual
two speech assistants; Manzer J.
Griswold, University of Washington,
will replace Donald Irish, who will.
work for his doctor's degree at the
University of Washington; James L.
Hildebrand, University of Washing­ton
graduate who has completed the
requirements for his doctorate, will
replace Dr. Stewart Johnson, of the
mathematics d e p a r t m e n t , now
teaching and doing research work at
the California College of Technolggy.
Still others are: Annis J. Hoyde,
working oh his doctorate at Stan­ford
university, who will be back in
the English department this fall;
Dr. Helen G. Price, University "of
Iowa, who will replace J. L. Lienian
in the psychology department, (Miss
Gloria Carey filled Mr. Lieman's
vacany last year); Willard S. Smith,
with the master's degree from Uni­versity
of Washington and consider­able
work on his doctorate, who will
replace Lawrence Wright of the eco­nomics
department. Dr. Howard
Critchfield and Dr. Duncan McPhail,
who recently received the Ph. D.
from the University of Michigan,
will be the geography department
members.
Stewart Van Wingerden will re­place
Mrs. Edith Baker as sixjth
grade teacher and supervisor of stu­dent
teachers at jthje Campus school.
Mr. Van Wingerden is a.graduate
of Colorado State College. Arthur
Thai will be; an affiliate violin,
.teacher. •••:.;.