Western Washington Collegian - 1952 October 17

              Collyer Appointed Secretary
At Board Meeting; Profile
Progress Reported by Editor
William Collyer, California trans­fer,
was appointed secretary to the
Board of Control«at the meeting
last Wednesday night. Collyer will
take over h i s duties Wednesday,
October 22, at the n e x t regular
eeting.
Clint Doherty, Profile editor, re­ported
on the progress of the pub­lication.
He stated that all copy
should be into the printers by Mon­day
of next week, that because of a
higher number of registrants there
would be additional pages, and that
the additional pages would there­fore
entail additional costs. Doherty
stated that the Profile would be
ready for sale about October 27 or
28.
Louis Earle, lounge and bookstore
manager, asked the Board for an
okay to join the National Associa­tion
of College Stores. Benefits
would enable Mr. Earle to put sur­plus
textbooks on a national list
for sale so that another college
might buy them and pay what
otherwise would be a loss to the
bookstore; would enable him to pick
up extra texts which Western is us­ing
at the present time; and would
give him a biennial list of new
books to sell in the Co-op.
Joyce Downing, representative of
the Colheconomists, was granted
money for three delegates to attend
the home economics workshop at
WSC, Pullman.
Mark Hardie, ASB president, and
Paul Dodsworth, vice president,
were authorized to purchase office
furniture for the ASB offices.
The Beard passed a motion to
the effect that Laurence Brewster,
play director, not be allowed to ac­cept
outside sponsorship for Col­lege
plays. The responsibility for a
full house, instead, will lie with the
college students.
Mrs. Ruth Burne$ publications
adviser, suggested that the Home­coming
queen be chosen earlier than
customary to permit the releasing
of stories to other papers to give
the event more publicity. The Board
asked Mrs. Burnet to write out the
Essence of Foil Ploy
Is Perfect Crime
Committing a perfect crime is the
essence of the drama called "Uncle
Harry" being produced on Novem­ber
13, 14 and 15. Lawrence- W.
Brewster, director of the play, said
that rehearsals are progressing
speedily.
The cast which is largely fresh­men
students, practices daily from
3 to 5 p. m. Mark W. Flanders, of
the speech department, has design­ed
and is building three different
sets for the six scenes in the play.
Students have volunteered to help
with staging the play.
Norsemen's Dance
Features Ford
Norseman's annual semi-formal
dance will be held October 18 in
the Bellingham hotel. The first big
dance of the year will feature
Gordie Ford and his band. Dancing
will be from 9 p. m. to midnight.
Chairman Dick McGlothern has
announced that refreshments will
be served during intermission.
Tickets are now on sale in the main
hall. They are $1.25 per couple.
.proposition and present it to the
present Homecoming committee
chairman for use in the following
years.
Cars Washed!
One dollar for a million dol­lar
job! Do you have dust and
grime on your car? No time to
keep her clean? Let the Rheba
D.'s do it for you Friday, Octo­ber
24, starting at noon, and all
day Saturday" the 25th.
Homecoming Activity
Has Nine Events
"Gather 'round, all you Vikings,
for a real Western 'Pow Wow', one
of the best Homecomings Western
ever had!" stated Bob Porter, co-
COLLEGIAN
Vol. XLVII - No. 3 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Oct. 17, 1952
Last Saturday morning saw 80
students and faculty members
boarding the college busses for the
Mt. Baker hike. The busses took
the party to the end of the road at
Austin pass, where the group, un­der
the leadership of Dr. Louise
Roloff and Miss Patricia Hieber,
women's physical education depart­ment,
took to the trail for the hike
to Chain lakes.
Clear and sunny weather per­mitted
the hikers a good view of
both Mt. Shuksan and Mt. Baker.
Chain lakes was reached after an
hour's hike and time out was taken
for lunch and a rest. After lunch
the hikers resumed their journey, but
before long a patch of blue berries
was sighted along the trail. A halt
was called while members of the
group indulged.
Two hours later the group drag­ged
up the last hill to the busses
for the ride back to Western.
The next hike, according to Dr.
Roloff, is set for October 25 and
is tentatively slated to go to Kul-shan
cabin.
Seniors Plan
Class Party
Plans for the Senior class party
are underway, according to Senior
class president Ray Ondracek. The
tentative party date is Wednesday,
November 5. Seniors and their
guests are invited. Dancing, cards,
refreshments and entertainment
are on the agenda for that evening.
The senior planning board meets
again Tuesday, October 21, when
more definite arrangements will be
made.
Calendar of Events
October 17—USCF fireside.
October 18—Norsemen semi-formal
dance.
October 19—Senior hall open house.
October 20—Blue Triangle initiation
tea.
October 21—Blair Bolles, "Washing­ton
Views the World," Artist and
Lecture series.
October 24—Class meetings.
'Washington Views the World/ Topic
Of Bolles, Political Analyst
Blair .Bolles, noted political an­alyst,
will appear on the Artist and
Lecture .series next Tuesday, Oc-
BLAIR BOLLES
tober 21, at 10 a. m., in the college
auditorium. The topic of his speech
will be "Washington Views t he
World."
Bolles was the director of the
Washington Bureau of the Foreign
Policy association for many years,
where his principal job was to an­alyze
the effects of the U. S. do­mestic
political affairs on the exe­cution
of our foreign policy.
Mr. Bolles has traveled widely in
Europe and America, and has writ­ten
numerous articles for such mag­azines
as Reader's Digest, Harper's,
and Fortune.
UN Assembly
Features Bond
A United Nations Day program
will be presented in the Western
Washington College auditorium
Thursday, October 23, at 8 p. m.
Participating in the program will
be the WWC band which, accord­ing
to Don Walter, band director,
will play a variety of marches and
patriotic music from the various
countries of the UN. Also taking
part in the celebration will be the
Boy Scouts, Choral club of Belling­ham
high school, Campfire girls,
and folk dancers honoring the coun­tries
of the UN. The dancing will
be provided by the Folk Dancing
club at WWC.
chairman of the 1952 Homecoming
committee.
Comprised of nine main events
to be presented October 31 and No­vember
1, Homecoming actually got
under way today with the kick-off
assembly at 10 a. m. Nomination
of candidates for Homecoming
queen will be made Friday, October
24, and the balloting will take place
Tuesday, October 28.
Following is a schedule of the
two-day week-end program: Friday,
October 31: 10 a. m., queen's coro­nation;
7:00 p. m., pep rally in front
of the A-M building, followed by a
parade to Holly and Cornwall for
a second pep rally. The parade will
then disperse, and return to the
campus for the freshman bonfire.
Following the bonfire, the Home­coming
skits will be presented in
the A-M building. This year the
skits are to be based on comic strip
characters. Neill Mullen, chairman
of the Homecoming skits, reports
that the rules and regulations for
the skits have been distributed to
all houses, but if additional copies
are needed, or any organization has
not received its copy, they may be
obtained from Mullen. Outlines of,
the skit should be given to Mullen
by 4:00 p. m. today. He also asks
that anyone interested in providing
entertainment between t h e skits
please contact him.
Winding up the Hallowe'en eve
festivities will be a mixer beginning
at 10:15 p. m. in the Rec hall. Music
will be furnished by Al Mendenhall
and his band.
Saturday's festivities will begin
with a coffee hour in the fountain
room from 10:30 a. m. to 12:00 noon.
Homecoming displays in downtown
business places will be judged Sat­urday
morning. Saturday afternoon,
2:00 p. m., the Vikings will meet
the Eastern Washington Savages at
Battersby field.
The Queen's Homecoming ball,
the final event of the two-day pro­gram,
will start at 9:00 p. m. at the
Bellingham Armory. Music will be
furnished by Roy Stark's band.
"The decorations for the Queen's
ball will be entirely new and dif­ferent,"
reports Porter. "Come to
the ball and find out HOW dif­ferent!"
?
Lund Receives PTA
$50 Scholarship
Corinne Lund, Western senior,
was awarded a scholarship by the
Olympia high school PTA. She re­ceived
$50 to apply toward her edu­cation.
To be eligible for the honor the
applicant had to be a high school
graduate and must have completed
one year of study in one of the
three Washington state teacher-training
colleges. Final judging was
based on high scholastic standing,
evidence of leadership and good
recommendations.
Miss Lund was secretary of the
Ski club for two years, Ski club
president and ACE treasurer last
year and is a member of the Inter­national
Relations club.
"I was thrilled and very grate­ful,"
said Miss Lund, a 1948 Olym­pia
high school graduate. "I think
it is encouraging that they should
have such an interest in promot­ing
students in education."