Western Washington Collegian - 1953 January 23

              COLLEGIAN
Vol. XLVII - No. 15 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Jan. 23, 1953
Winter Drama
Stage Setting
In Construction
Some detail work has started en
the shell of the setting for the win­ter
quarter play, "Two Blind Mice,"
reports Mark Flanders, technical
director.
The settings were drawn daring
the Chrismas vacation, and work
started on them the first day of the
quarter.
Mr., Flanders said that more de­tails
would be installed into the
scenery due to the fact that only
one set will be needed for the play.
If there is enough time, Mr. Fland­ers
hopes to put ahlnteresting paint
job on the set.
Because there is no class for con­struction
of stage settings as there
was last quarter, all the work has
been voluntary. Persons interested
in taking one specific job and work­ing
on it until it is finished are
urged -to contact Mr. Flanders.
Those having worked on the set­tings
so far are: Ralph Squillace,
Dick Dye, Bob Solberg, Georgine
Hayward and Bonnie Hudson.
Lighting effects should be super­ior
in this production. The lighting
control board was incorrectly wired
last quarter but has been fixed and
is expected to produce" better re­sults
than it did for "Uncle Harry."
Aid Polio Fund
And Donate!
All but two counties in the state
of Washington had a case rate of
55 cases of polio per 100,000 popula­tion
in 1952, reports R. C. Torrence,
1953 state March of Dimes chair­man.
Twenty cases per 100,000 popula­tion
is considered an epidemic rate!
The state received $142,600 during
1952 from the National Foundation's
epidemic aid fund, enabling the
local chapters to take care of the
1,132 persons stricken during the
year, a 300 per cent increase over
the preceding year!
The record breaking year is in
the past now, but the need for con­tributions
to combat the deadly
crippler is not over. The year of
1953 could even be worse, and all
are urged to give to help a broken
life. Containers may be found in
the Registrar's office, or student
center.
Datelimi e
January 23 — AWS-Norseman as­sembly,
10 a. m. Basketball game
with St. Martin's here. Mixer
sponsored by Valkyrie club.
January 24—Basketball game with
CWC here. Colheconomists Inter­national
luncheon. USCF square
dance at YWCA.
January 27—Artist and Lecturers
series, Margaret Bourke-White,
"Behind the Lenses," 10 a. m.
January 30—Basketball game with
CWC at Ellensburg. Edens hall
house tolo dance.
Special Board Meeting
For Student Opinions
Authentic Board of Control meeting will be held next Friday in the
auditorium during assembly"time to get student opinion on the subject
of awards standards for sports. Student ideas are needed to help deter­mine
whether grade point averages or subject load requirements should
be set up for the awarding of letters to Western athletes,
conference ruling for*-
Pictured above are Mr. Brewster and eight of the cast. They are, left
to right: bottom row, Donna Wray, Alice Jean Davis; second row, Henry
Howe, Floyd Jackson, Mr. Brewster; third row, Jack Rose, Gordon
Pfister, and Clancy Drake.
Rehearsals of the winter quarter division of drama play. "Two Blind
Mice," progressed into the second act early this week, according to
Laurence Brewster, director.
Jim Simon has been chosen to play Senator Kruger. The cast is
now looking for a large picture of Theodore Roosevelt. Donation for the
duration of the production by anyone possessing said item would be
greatly appreciated by the organization.
Evergreen
eligibility is a 1.75 collective grade
point average and 12 hours of. sub­jects
passed in the quarter, preced­ing
play. Some students feel this
rule should be set up as require­ments
for the awarding of letters
making the grade average and load
standards needed during the quart­er
actually played.
All members of the Board will
appear on the stage, and conduct
the meeting as if it were being held
in the Student Center on Wednes­day
night. Any legislation passed
during the meeting will actually^ be
put into effect. After the discussion
of the awards problem, other sub­jects
may be brought up by the
members of the audience. Students
will have a voice not only in pre-
Dean Announces
Job Placements
C. W. McDonald, dean of men,
announced that his office has placed
141 students in off-campus work
since the beginning of the school
year. Although employment has
entered a seasonal lull, he expects
job opportunities to* rise during
spring quarter.
This quarter, the office of the
dean of men has received an aver­age
of three or four calls a week.
Most of these are for men to do
yard work or to work nights in the
pulp mill.
Applications for off-campus work
should be placed with Mrs. Ethelyn
Sisk, secretary to the dean of men.
Vets' Checks
To Be Late
Korean vets note the following
telegram received from the regional
office in Seattle of the Chief Voca­tional
Rehabilitation and Education
Division of the Veteran's Admin­istration:
December education and training
allowances for veterans pursuing
courses under public law 550 (Ko­rean
GI Bill) at Western will be
delayed several days beyond'the ex­pected
January 20, 1953 date..
Vets administration regulation
12051 (C) requires that where the
interval between"- terms exceeds 15
days, as is the case at Western, the
education and training allowance is
to be terminated at the close of the
fall term and will be resumed at the
beginning of the succeeding term,
and no payment is to be made for
any part'thereof since such period
is greater than 15 days.
In view of the foregoing, it is
necessary to recompute all educa­tional
allowance checks for the
month of December. Every effort
is being made to expedite proce­dures
so that corrected- checks will
be in the mail for delivery before
the end of this week and no later
than the beginning of next week.
Explanatory copies of award actions
are being mailed veterans this
week."
Life Photographer-AuthorHere
Having recently returned from documenting contemporary history
in Korea, Margaret Bourke-White, staff photographer-correspondent
for Life magazine, will speak Tuesday, January 27, in the A-M building,
in the third in the artists and lecturers series this quarter.
Miss Bourke-White attended Columbia University and the University
of Michigan before attending Cor-* —
nell University. While studying at
the latter school,, she5 augmented
her finances by.taking pictures of
campus scenes and buildings.
This experience proved to be the
incentive which took her next to
photographing the American indus­trial
scene, and finally to composing
poignant scenes of" World War II
and its tragic aftermath.
Taking her cameras all over the
world, Miss Bourke-White is the
first woman ever to have flown in
a jet-powered B-47, and one of two
civilians to have traveled to a sec­ret
advanced base of the air force.
She has filmed the gold deposits
and the fabulous diamond fields
of South Africa, was the only non-
Russian photographer to cover the
first six months of the Russo-Ger-man
war, and was the first woman
photographer to be credited to the
U. S. Army Air Forces during the
war. She went through a torpedo­ing
during the North African cam­paign,
and covered the Fifth Army
in the Italian campaign.
Miss Bourke-White covered India
extensively, interviewing Mahatma
Gandhi a few hours before he was
assassinated. She has incorporated
her photographs of India in a book
about that country, "Halfway to
Freedom."
She has written other books, also,
"Dear Fatherland, Rest Quietly,"
about immediate post-war Ger­many,
"Shooting the Russian War,"
and "Purple Heart Valley" about
the Fifth Army in Italy.
In 1948 she was awarded, togeth­er
with President Dwight D. Eisen­hower,
an honorary degree of Doc­tor
of Letters from Rutgers Uni­versity.
The citation was for con­tributing
"greatly to a better un­demanding
of contemporary events
. . . through writings . . . and
photography, and to the cause of
international understand."
senting other topics of discussion,
but also in the actual discussion of
the awards standards.
In the double session meeting
Wednesday* the Board voted t o
charge one dollar for all persons
except those holding ASB tickets
and retired faculty members, for
the Virgil Fox organ concert Spring
quarter. All money taken in at the
concert will go back into Artists
and Lecturers fund to help pro­vide
for better entertainment. Mr.
Fox, organist for a Presbyterian
church in New York and called the
finest organist alive today, appear­ed
last year at the dedication cere­monies
of the A-M building, and
played to a turn-away crowd.
Lewis and Clark of Oregon will
be contracted to play a football
?ame with Western October 17 next
fall. Coach Charles Lappenbusch
will sign the pact to guarantee
$850 to the Oregon team to help fill
the home schedule for the Viks.
Complaints of student - faculty
conduct at Artist and Lecture series
assemblies were cast into the "do
something about" heap. It was sug­gested
that ushers hold late comers
in the lobby until a break in the
performance to alleviate disturb­ances
during numbers. Students are
requested to sit toward the front
so that late persons can find a seat
in the back. Student courtesy to
chaperones at dances as well as
other matters of etiquette were cov­ered,
with further action to be
taken.
Gloria Gaupp was granted $17
for the yell and song leaders to
use for expenses to the PLC-West­ern
basketball game next week in
Tacoma.
Ken Tinkham requested use of
the lounge in the afternoon a week
from Sunday to stage a band con­cert
free of charge. The concert
would include novelties and over­tures
to movies. No dance music will
be played. The matter was turned
over to Dick Stewart and the Stu­dent
Facilities committee.
Betty Grocott, speaking for the
Valkyrie, was granted up to $85
for live music at the mixer spon­sored
by the club.
Card playing in the lounge was
prohibited for a few weeks due
to misuse by some students of the
privilege.
Work Display to be
In Industrial Arts
Second in a series of industrial
arts displays is an exhibit of work
by Hector Lagasse. It shows plastics
and art metal craft!
The Legasse display includes a
shadow lamp of plastic, and a pen
holder, vases, picture base, and var­ious
plastic articles. His art metal
works are candle holders of silver,
aluminum works, and copper dishes
and tooling. Jewelry of metals and
plastics are among the objects he
displays.
The showcase exhibits are under
the direction of Dr. Alan Pawelek,
industrial arts chairman. They may
be seen in the IA building inside the
main doors