Northwest Viking - 1934 November 28

              VOL. XXXIII—NO. 9
WASHTNCTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM7 WASHINGTON
Wednesday, Nov. 28, 1934
Opinions Vary;
Students'Views
Show Division
Popular Leaders Give Ideas On
Controversial Question;
School Divided
Men Feel Slighted
Women Undecided About Political
Advantages Given Them
Varied opinions have been offered
concerning article XI, section 1,
paragraph B of the new constitu­tion,
which specifically places women
up for election for one of the two
Board of Control offices upen each
quarter.
A petition signed by one hundred
students was presented to the school
at last Friday's assembly, which was
called for the purpose of bringing
the matter before them.
Men's Prexy Opposed
Bill Prender, president of the
Men's club, was approached con-concerning
the question and .re­plied,
"Women are given a decided
advantage by the clause under con­sideration.
With the enrollment of
men becoming larger each year I
believe something snWd be sub­stituted,
making it impossible for
the board to be made up entirely of
women representatives".
Marion Lea, president of Edens
hall, was of the opinion that school
politics closely parallels national
politics in that men have the pre­cedence
as office holders. She
feels that women need the clause
to assure them a representation on
the board.
Women Should Decide
Gordon Millikan, vice-president
of the Interclub council, believes the
matter should be decided entirely
by the women. He also believes that
if the women haven't enough pow­er
to place their own sex in office,
the men should be allowed a chance
for all board offices.
Joe Hager, board member, wants
a half and half representation of
men and women, while Bob Linds-ley,
former Viking sports editor,
wants the clause eliminated entire­ly.
Helen Scott and Lorene Smith,
members of the Womens league com­mittee,
both believe that the clause
is suitable as it is written.
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McKenzie To Speak
In Spring Quarter
Vernon McKenzie, dean of the
school of journalism at the Univer­sity
of Washington, has accepted an
invitation to speak in assembly
sometime spring quarter. Dean Mc­Kenzie
has spoken to the students
annually for several years.
The newswriting classes will hear
him before his address in the audi­torium.
After his lecture, a lunch­eon
will be held where he will give
a short informal talk to those at­tending.
Dean McKenzie is a contributor to
the Saturday Evening Post and the
New York Tribune magazine, as well
as several other periodicals. He is
considered one of the United Staces'
foremost authorities in the field of
journalism. Norman Reilly Raine,
author of "Tugboat Annie," calls him
the outstanding authority on short
stories in the United States.
In assembly last spring Dean Mc­Kenzie
spoke on, "Do You Really
Want to Write?" and the year be­fore
on "Hitler".
Vacations Vary
Many Faculty Members Will
Travel to Seattle
The vacations of the faculty
will vary this year, with sev­eral
spending the holidays, in
town and others traveling to
various parts of the state.
Those going to Seattle are
Miss Ruth Piatt, who will have
dinner with her family and do
some of her Christmas shop­ping;
Mrs. Mildred Crockett,
who will have Thanksgiving
dinner with her mother and
son; Miss Anna Ullin, who will
visit her brother, and Donald
Bushell, who will visit his fam­ily.
Others going out of
town are Miss Georgia Gragg,
Miss May Mead, and Edward
Arntzen.
Those who will stay in town
are: L. A. Kibbe, Dr. Irving E.
Miller, Miss Nell Bryant, Dr.
•E..A. Bond, and Miss Mildred
Tremain.
Normalstad Project is Nearing
Completion With FERA Aid
Gardener Dack Enthusiastic About Play Ground;
Says Work Is Progressing Rapidly Toward Perfec­tion
Visualized by President Fisher.
Great progress of the development of Normalstad has been going on
totally unknown to most of the Normal student body. In fact, very few
students know where the place is^located, or that such a piece of property
is in the possession of the school.
George Dack, head gardener, has been in charge of the work on the
project since 1931. Mr. Dack says, "I saw he possibilities of Normal­stad
as a recreational center for the - ~ ~
students. There is swimming, boat-
Violoncellist and
Soprano Appear
Cornelia Appy, Elizabeth Fournier
• Present Instrumental and
Voice Recital
ing, fishing, hiking, and crew work
to be had there. Normalstad has a
quarter of a mile of lake front that
is protected from storm and is safe
at all times. All school functions
should be held there." -
In the fall of 1931 with the help
of one man, Dack started clearing
the land. President C. H. Fisher or­dered
a cabin to be built. This cabin
is 24 feet long and 18 feet wide. The
interior has a beautiful fireplace,
tables, and benches, with a seating
Winther Discusses
Dramas of O'Neil
Plays Show Insanity of Giving Up
Life to False Ideals
'Cello and vocal selections will be
given by Misses Cornelia Appy, vio­loncellist,
and Elizabeth Fournier,
lyric soprano.
Under the famous Greutzmacher,
Miss Appy studied for several years.
She has been called one of the great­est
women 'cellists in the United
States, and is highly praised by
eastern critics. One of the world's
most famous bandmasters, 'Sousa,
pronounced her a great virtuoso. It
is said that she masters the most
difficult and intricate passages with
little or no effort.
Miss Fournier has appeared at the
Normal in the past, as well as be­fore
the Bellingham Women's Mu­sic
club. She has received much
praise for her natural and unassum­ing
air, and the unusual quality of
her voide. The wide range of her
voice is as remarkable as her per­sonality.
She has studied under
various leading voice teachers of
America.
Both artists have received very
favorable comment from critics and
the press in the various cities where
they have appeared.
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Hopper Gives List
Of Alumni Visited
Since returning from eastern
Washington, Miss Elizabeth Hopper
of the Appointment bureau has
released a list of the graduates of
Normal whom she and Miss Mary
E. Rich, director of the Training
school, visited on their trip to the
schools in the far part of the state.
Following are the names of those
graduate students who were visited:
Wenatchee, Mrs; Myrtle Hayden '15,
Mrs. Florence Field '30, Miss Mar­garet
Murphy '22, Miss Erma Har­rison
'25, Mrs. Ruth Parker (Susie
Andrus) '05, H. B. Ellison, B.A. '33,
Miss Hjordis Smith, Mrs. Mildred
Carver McDonald, Miss Alia Ross,
BA. '34, Cecil Dunham '27, and Miss
Nina Pelton.
That rebellion against romantic
imagination has been the driving
power behind the drama of Eugene
O'Neill was the keynote of an ad­dress
by Dr. Sophus K. Winther of
the University of Washington Eng­lish
department last Thursday in
the dining room of Edens hall.
Dr. Winther began his discussion
with a review of "Shoreacres," by
James A. Heme as an example of an
earlier type of American realism.
O'Neill, he said, rebelled against
this kind of realism as well as
against romanticism. He succeeded
in bringing to the American stage
a new technique consisting of com­plicated
sets and realistic subject
matter and founded in a realistic
philosophy of life.
Dr. Winther considers "Mourning
Becomes Electra" the best example
of O'Neill's dramatic ability. In it,
his technique is perfect and harmon
ious. The speaker has written a
critical work upon O'Neill which has
received the dramatist's endorse­ment.
The address was sponosored
by the recently graduated group of
the American Association of Uni­versity
Women. Betty Watts was
chairman of the program.
Comedy Part in Play 'The Admirable
Crichton/ Characterized by Lawrence
Part of the comedy of the play "The Admirable Crichton" will be sup­plied
by Louise Lawrence who characterizes Tweeney, the shy and wistful
kitchen maid who continually prays for an island where it is natural to
be vulgar. Tweeney's only claim to fame is the fact that Crichton admires
her. It is a Cinderella part; but Tweeney never has a party or a prince.
Character parts are preferred by Miss Lawrence and she has had much
experience in both comedy and serr
ious parts. Her experience started
when she was a freshman at the
Robert E. Long high school in Long-view,
Wash. She was in several high
school plays during her four years
there, and has been in five plays at
. Normal. The . first one was "AUir
son's House," produced the first fall
quarter;she was a,student at Nor­mal
school. In this play she. char­acterized
Aunt 'Agatha^ :\r . ..."
^ pther ^plays in. which, ]^s%: Law­rence
has acted are: "Dust of the
Road," "Devil and the Cheese," a
comedy, "Feast of Holy Innocence,"
and a radio version of "Merchant
of Venice," which was broadcast over
KVOS.
Play production has. always been
Miss Lawrence's favorite, hobby, and
her ambition is to teach dramatics
in a, junior high school. She is a
member of' the Bellingham Theater
guild. She'was';unable to try.out
for plays last year because of ad­ditional
work' other than school
studies; and this, year she is. working
in th£-office of,Resident C. H. Fish­er.
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Architectural Work
Shown in Display
Showing the architectural work of
the cathedrals in the old world, Miss
Mabel Zoe Wilson, head librarian at
Normal, has prepared a new display
in the lower hall of the library.
Several colored plates are to be seen
in the display.
In the drawing of the Vatican in
Rome, the arched windows are to be
noticed. The dome of St. Peter's
cathedral was designed by Michael
Angelo several centuries ago. The
Rheims cathedral in France shows
the influence of the Gothic art in
that country.
Other buildings displayed are Win­chester
cathedral in England, the
cathedral at Milan, Italy, York ca­thedral,
Chartres cathedral in
France, and the Cathedral of Sen-lis.
Outing Date Is Changed
To Accommodate Club
capacity of forty. Two volley ball
courts and one quoit tennis court
have been built.
During the fall of 1932, two bath
houses and an outdoor oven were
constructed. In 1933, with the aid
of the WERA boys, a general clean­up
was started, from the lake front
to the highway, and parking space
for forty cars was made.
This fall a new T-shaped floating
dock has been built, a diving board
has been completed, and work on a
diving tower is under way. Five hun­dred
feet of lake front have been
dragged and cleaned of all debris,
to make the beach safe for swim­ming.
Normalstad is just seven miles
from the main entrance of the
school and three and one-half miles
from the street car. According to
Mr. Dack; the WERA help is to be
commended upon for its coopera­tion
and good work at Normalstad.
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Department Heads
Observe Systems
Week's Easetrn Washington Trip
Taken by Rich and Hopper
Miss Elizabeth Hopper of the
Appointment bureau and Miss Mary
E. Rich, director of the Training
school, returned last Saturday from
a week's trip into eastern Washing­ton
where they visited Normal
graduates in their teaching positions.
They left Bellingham on Monday,
November 19, driving in Miss Rich's
car, and returned the following Sat­urday.
Two days were spent visiting the
schools in Wenatchee, where eleven
graduates are employed. Miss Hop­per
considers the junior high school
of that city one of the finest in the
state. Mr. H. B. Ellison, who re­ceived
his bachelor of arts from
Normal last spring, is the principal
of the junior high school. Miss
Hopper and Miss Rich attended a
Kiwanis luncheon while in Wenat­chee.
The last school visited was the
Longfellow school in Pasco, Frank­lin
county. Miss Clara Stroud, who
was formerly rural supervisor at
WSNS, is the principal of the school.
"We were made very welcome by
all our graduates, and the super­intendents
were especially kind in
co-operating with us," said Miss*
Hopper, when she returned.
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Theatre Guild Gives
Play During Recess
Tickets for the Bellingham Thea­tre
guild play, "Riddle Me This," can
be obtained at the Stark Piano
company for 40 cents each.
The detective-thriller by Daniel N.
Rubin, will be presented November
28, 29, and 30 at the Theater guild
playhouse.
Marshall Bacon, former Normal
student, takes the part of the
treacherous Dr. Tindall in the play.
Bacon has played roles in several
Normal school productions.
Others in the cast are J. E. Fran­cisco,
Trevelyn Jones, Louis Jones,
Frank Block, Doris Brighouse, Will
iam Woodward, Zelda Becker, Jay
Tiffany, Rosa Stewart, Mildred
Schwarze. and Eggert Ludwigson
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Stars Hold Own
Viking Ahtletes Do Their
Stuff Elsewhere
Rounding up the dope on sev­eral
ex-Bellingham stars, we
find Brinkman, Viking gridster,
attending Whitman and doing
some fine work on the gridiron.
Gable, holder of the tri-Nor-mal
broad jump record, is at­tending
the University of Wash­ington.
Down in sunny Cali­fornia,
we find Flowers, present
holder of the tri-Normal pole
vault record.
In the last Olympic tryouts,
Erickson, ex-Viking track star,
heaved the javelin 207 feet. He
is now teaching school at Ar­lington.
Dick Hanley, star grid­ster
of several years ago, is
teaching pig-skin tactics at
Northwestern. Ray Odell, a
three sport man for the Vi­kings,
is coaching at Raymond
high school and doing pretty
well for himself.
Thrifty Genius
Of Canny Scot
Shows in Play
Glimpses Caught of Sir Jamie's
Own Whimsical Peter Pan
Imagination
Comedy Delightful Romp
Tradition-Crusted Nobility Lives
A la Robinson Crusoe
Klipsun Mentor
Is Enthusiastic
Cover Motif of Annual Has Blue
Ground With Gold Design;
Pictures Made
Pat Allan, editor of the 1934-35
Klipsun, reports that work is pro-
'gressing quite satisfactorily on this
year's annual and hopes that the
finished work will be even more
successful than that of past years.
This year's cover material will de­part
from the usual texture of year­book
covers in that it is to be of
washable cloth. It will be blue in
color, with gold designs.
Campus Elementary school news
will be omitted from this issue be­cause
of lack of funds. The book
will contain even more cuts than
usual, and the staff, having finished
with football cuts, are now working
on arrangements of faculty pictures
which will be completed by Decem­ber
15. Following this, class pic­tures
will be taken.
Allan requests that all senior class
pictures be taken immediately. This
will be necessary if the student de­sires
his name to appear with his
class. No student's name will be
published if his picture has not been
taken.
December 3 is the new date set for
the meeting of the Vanadis Bragi
club which was postponed because
of the achievement retests.
An interesting program has been
arranged at which the works of
various authors who are noted for
their mystery stories are to be disr
cussed. Works of .Mary Roberts
Rinehart will be reviewed by Beth
Hankins; S. S. Van Dine, Don Nor-ris;
Edgar Wallace, Helen McKen­zie;
E. Philips Oppenheim, Mary
Stearns; Sir Coiian Doyle, Donalda
Grant. There- will- also be; a reading
of Poe's "The Raven'?.;^by. •Boyd,
Swansdn.
Switchboard Removed
To President's Office
Changing the telephone switch
board to . its original place in. the.
Presidents' office will remove a
handicap from the work in. the
Registrar's of f ice. . It had been
removed from the President's office
in ' order to economize on the
school's expenses, 'but- there will now
be no additional cost'in operating* it
in.the- old position. • :•• -•'••.'•: ••:'•"
-FERA girls are to be .employed, on
the switchboard.
Students Consider
Paragraph Change
Reconsideration of article XI, par­agraph
2, of the constitution was
brought up in last Friday's assemb­ly.
This article reads as follows:
"Two student representatives, one of
whom shall be a woman, shall be
elected at each of the three elec­tions
held respectively in the third
week of the winter, spring, and fall
quarters. Such representatives shall
serve for a term of one year, or until
their successors are duly elected and
qualified."
The clause stating "one of whom
shall be a woman" was the point
which caused the petition to be
drawn up. The topic was discussed
from the floor but neither side pre­sented
formal arguments. Louise
Schulz, Emil Starlund, and Clyde
Kendall talked in favor of an
amendment. Lorene Smith, Chris­tine
Albers, and E. J. Arntzen were
in favor of retaining the clause.
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Noted Metropolitan Star
Appearing in Vancouver
Richard Crooks, leading tenor of
the Metropolitan Opera company of
New York, will be presented in con­cert
at Vancouver, B. C, December
8. Tickets for the performance
range from one dollar up. Mail or­ders
may be, sent to Lile J. Lave­rock
in care of J. W. Kelly Piano
company, Vancouver, B.C.
Mr. Crooks has been a featured
artist on the Firestone hour from
WEAF'in New York and has been
voted the most popular tenor oh the
air.'-•'"'•' ••*••••,:•••'••
1 Mr. Crooks' first appearance with
the : Metropolitan . Opera-company
was..in-vl.9333> in Massenet's "Man
on".
There are three points of great
interest connected with the coming
production of "The Admirable Crich­ton",
n a m e l y:
first, the thrift of
the Scot in nisi
show and his jokefi
on the English­man;
second, the|
theories expound-|
ed on equality;|
and third, t h e|
reasons why the|
Division of Dra­ma
selected this!
J. M. Barrie com­edy.
Hoppe
Barrie, the canny Scotsman, ex­hibits
in Crichton the Scotch thrift-iness
of his race. Crichton is more
than merely brilliant social satire?-
herein is the thriftiness and fru­gality
of the Scotsman displayed.
He combines in one play' dramatic
material enough for several days.
Crichton is a modern Alice in Won­derland,
a topsy-turvey social world
seen through the delightful looking
glass of Barrie's own Peter Pan-nish
imagination. The idea of a
hide-bound, tradition-crusted, insu­lar
and insulated English nobility
suddenly cast away Robinson Crusoe
fashion on a South Sea island and
forced to fend for themselves for a
space of several years is worked out
in capital way in this show.
The play, for all its whimsicality
and its amusing situations, is dra­matic
contribution to the current
talk of equality. If there is any
theme in this delightful and gentle
satire, it is that people in any state
of society are bound to be unequal;
the play stresses the fact all
through that nature will in itself
cause that inequality for nature will
force the survival of the fittest*
the rule of the most resourceful. •
The Division of Drama has tried
to keep this show as nearly as pos­sible
in the spirit of Peter Pan with
the feeling that we need to get better
acquainted with Barrie. The play
is beset with many production prob­lems
for the amateur. It is not an
easy play to enact. In this day of
uncertainty and of uneasiness, full
of readjustment, recrimination, and
solemn panacea, we need the gentle
and whimsical Barrie. He asks us
to chuckle at the funny pretenses of
folks, to remember not to be too sajl
and too strenuous. The direction
and acting of "The Admirable Crich-ton'
on the Normal stage will present
the show as a delightful romp and
a rollicking good time in the thea­tre.
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Broadcasts Presented
By Intercoilege Council
Radio broadcasts under the aus­pices
of the intercollegiate council
in cooperation with the National
Advisory council on radio In edu­cation,
are being presented each Fri­day
evening from 10:30 to 10:45 p.
m., Eastern standard time.
There are three lectures in No­vember
and four in December. "It
has been arranger so that the West
will get to hear these broadcasts,"
says Miss Nora B. Cummins. '
C]ampus
alendar
Wednesday, Nov. 28—
12:00—Thanksgiving recess. ;,
Monday, Dec 3—
7:30—-Vanadis Bragi,. Edens
hall clubroom.
Tuesday, Dec. 4^—
11:00—Cornelia Appy, 'cellist,
Elizabeth 'Fournier,- sopra-';
no; assembly. ;
Wedensday, Dec. 5 . . <
4;00-r-Inter-club council;
7:30—Blue Triangle..-.••.<.,-., .••.•>•
.Thursday, De^fi^;,',;,, :....v,..-•
8:00^^The,.Adnj)rable Cr^h-r..
ton,", pram®'-.\-$V$ P&7? =
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