Western Washington Collegian - 1953 March 13

              Aandahl, Fagerson, McDonald
rCop Cups at Toifrnament
By JIM SIMON
Experience paid off at the Tournament of Champions at Linfield
•* College, McMinnville, Oregon, last weekend when three WWC students
v won five first places complete with gold loving cups.
Elliot Aandahl copped top honors in impromptu speaking and inter­view.
Barbara McDonald received first place recognition in congressional
debate and interview. Mary Lou Fagerson took the first place cup...fow
oral interpretation of literature and*
a second place in after dinner speak-
"ing. They -were competing against
approximately 450 entrants from 29
colleges and universities of the west
in one of the biggest intercollegiate
forensic tournaments held in the
United States. .
In the senior division, which, is
made ap of students in their third
or fourth year of college and with
previous experience, the Western
squad tied for third place honors
with Linfield in the sweepstakes.
For Mary Lou Fagerson, this was
^the culmination of four years of
work during which she repeatedly
finished in the finals of either in­terpretation
or acting, but narrow­ly
missed the top spot.
For Barbara McDonald these were
,cups number two and three this
year, the first having been won in
discussion at Seattle Pacific. It was
the second year of forensics for the
speech correction major.
Elliot Aandahl capitalized on his
* experience in the foreign service to
obtain top honors in the two events
for which he received the cups.
Other members of the debate
squad who made the trip to Lin­field
but were not so fortunate were:
Jill Bowsher, Lyla Mclvor, Charles
Dennis Dave Northrup, Wil Knut-sen,
Jim Simon, and Floyd Jackson
Debate coach Paul Herbold of
the speech department, said that
this was the greatest showing West­ern
has ever made. "The ten stu­dents
who represented Western at
Linfield worked hard. The cup win­ners
were good and they were lucky,"
he commented. "This showing,
moreover, is a tribute to the vision
and confidence of Dr. Sene R. Car-lile,
chairman of the speech depart­ment,
who founded the forensic pro­gram
four years ago and is current­ly
adviser to the local chapter of Pi
Kappa Delta, national honor for­ensic
society," Herbold concluded^
Books to be in
All books in general circulation
are due at 9:30 p. m. Tuesday,
March 17. Books charged for the
quarter are due at 9:30 p. m., Wed­nesday,
March 18. A $1.00 clearance
fee will be charged for all books not
returned by 5 p. m., Thursday,
March IS, and grades will be with­held
until all books are returned
and all fines paid. Special permis­sion
may be obtained for the use of
books during the examination per­iod.
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Vol. XIVII — No. 22 Western Washington Coljegian, Bellingham, Washington M*r?h13,W52
Leading Roel s
For 'Martha
Announced
Leading roles have been filled for
••-he full-scale opera, "Martha," to
be presented May 15 and 16 in the
auditorium, according to Laurence
Brewster, of the speech department.
They are as follows: Bonnie bale
as Martha; Jean Rogers as Nancy;
John Sundquist as Sir Tristan; Gor­don
Forbes as Lionel; Bob Young
as Plunkett; and Clare Campbell
as a sheriff.
Max Goodmanson will act as first
farmer; Byron Winter as second
farmer; Judy Crook as first maid
servant; Marline Sundberg as sec­ond
maid servant; and Nancy Mc-
Ginnis as the third maid servant.
.411 have been active in the choir
and music organizations.
"This is to be the biggest music
project we have endeavored to han­dle
to date," said Brewster. "We
will make the 50 to 60 costumes our­selves.
We have purchased 400 yards
of material, which will be none too
much for the venture."
The opera leads were selected by
a committee from the music and
speech department.
After receiving various honors at the Tournament of Champions in McMinnville, Oregon, these Western-ites
returned with an armload of gold loving cups. From left to right they are: Barbara McDonald, Paul-Her­bold,
faculty adviser; Elliot Aandahl; Sene Carlile, speech department chairman, and Mary Lou Fagerson^
Economists Here
Meeting on the campus Saturday
will be the Northwest District
Home Economics association. The
group includes home economists and
home economics graduates from Is­land,
San Juan, Skagit and What­com
counties.
H. E. Wichers, extension rural ar­chitecture
specialist, will be guest
speaker.
EX-EDITOR IN POLITICS
Plans Are Made
Plans are under way for the Sum­mer
Recreation committee, accord­ing
to C. W, McDonald, dean of
men. The faculty and student com­mittee
will set up the program,
which outlines the activities for
summer months.
There is the annual hike to Mount
Baker, and the proposed bus trip to
Vancouver for shopping and tour-
Vern Matthews, 1947 WWCollegian-ing. While there, students will see
editor, was elected this week to the
city council in Ephrata. He and his
wife, the former Barbara Brazeale,
own and operate a weekly newspap­er,
the Quincy Post-Register,
NMEC Convention Coming Here Next Week
Largest convention ever held lo­cally
will be on campus at Western
Washington College March 18-21.
More than 2000 delegates and stu­dent
musicians affiliated with the
Northwest Music Educators' con­ference
will participate in the four-day
schedule of meetings and pro­grams.
Hosts for the NMEC, a division of
the Music Educators' National Con­ference,
will be the Bellingham pub­lic
schools, assisted by the College.
Participants will come from five
states of the division: Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyo­ming.
In addition to daytime business
meetings and programs, four ma­jor
productions are scheduled for
the evenings: Bellingham Civic
orchestra with Samuel Sorin, pian­ist
and Dr. Frank D'Andrea, con­ductor,
and the WWC 100-voice
choir conducted by Bernard Regier,
March 18, WWC a u d i t o r i u m;
"Brigadoon," operetta presented by
Bellingham high school, with Mar­garet
Gray and John Monroe di­rectors,
March 19, Bellingham high
Datelimi e
7:3>
Wil-
March 13—Closed week-end.
March 14—"W" club Smoker,
p. m.
March 15—Organ concert by
bur Sheridan, 4 p. m.
March 17—Samuel Sorin, pianist,
Artists and Lecturers series, 10
a. m.
March 18—Samuel Sorin with the
Bellingham symphony orchestra,
8:15 p. m. 13th Bfennal Conven­tion
of Northwest Music Educators
conference. Quarter finals.
March 19—Northwest E d u c a t o rs
Conference, continued. F i n a ls
concluded. Quarter ends.
auditorium; Northwest Washing­ton
Cenennial pageant, written and
directed by Victor H. Hoppe, retired
WWC faculty member, March 20,
auditorium, and the concert by the
all-conference band, orchestra, and
choir, March 20, Bellingham high
auditorium.
Directors for the all-conference
performance are Raymond Dvorak,
University of Wisconsin Music de­partment;
Fred Ohlendorf, director
of music, Long Beach, Calif., or­chestra;
Prof. Archie Jones, Texas
University department of music,
choir.
Leslie Armstrong, director of mu­sic
at Olympia high school, is presi­dent
of the Northwest Music Edu­cators
conference. C. Paine Shangle,
Bellingham superintendent o f
schools, is general chairman for
the convention, with Randy Ober-latz,
assistant superintendent, as
directing chairman.
a play in the "Theatre Under the
Stars."
A three day boat trip through the
San Juan Islands is on the agenda,
as well as several short hikes.
Right now several steamship com­panies
are being contacted in the
Tiopes of planning a trip to Victoria,
B. C.
McDonald said, "These outings are
open to the student body, and costs
are kept as low as possible." He
hopes to have the list of faculty and
students on the Summer Recrea­tion
committee prepared by the be­ginning
of next quarter.
WWCBlood M e
Was Discouraging
Western has done it agaiiil^Less
than ten percent of the students
donated blood at the YMCA Tues­day.
'. ••-•"'/' ''-""'•'
During Tuesday, set aside as-"Col­lege
Day" for donating, only 95
gifts from Western were brought
out.
Thus another low has been met
by Western's students. The time
honored complaints of "I've got a
cold" or "But I've got so much
studying to do!" reigned supreme as
they did last September and Decem­ber
when the Red Cross was around.
It seems rather sad that a group
of over 1,100 persons, representing
one of the most virile, healthy
groups of American society, can't,
muster up even ten percent of; its.
group to help save American lives
which are in danger, protecting the-
American way of life.
General Split in Last Election
Results of last week's general elec­tion
showed a decided split of
student thinking on the two pro­posed
amendments. P r o p o s i t i on
number one, provided for an amend­ment
to the constitution lowering
the number of quarters in residence
at Western from six to five, needed
before a person could apply for
election as ASB president or vice
president passed 394' for and 150
against; a good, clear cut majority
of over two-thirds.
The second proposition, calling,
for an amendment lowering the
number of quarters in residence
needed before being eligible to apply
for the board of control from two:
to one did not fare so well. The
propostion got only 286 votes for,
and 279 against. This is only a bare
majority for the proposition, far
from the two-thirds majority it:
needed. '*"'•''
Proposition No. 1 will go into ef­fect
immediately.