Northwest Viking - 1934 December 21

              VOL. XXXIII—NO. 12
Convention Will
Be Held Before
Yearly Election
No Statements Made By Local
Politicians As To Possible
Election Outcome
WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON
Friday, December 21, 1934
Richardson Has Hopes
Ward Bosses Bemoan Loss
Well Organized Machine
of
By Nelson Anlt
Political aspirants can soon be get­ting
out their stumps and start pol­ishing
up their platforms, if any,
for the coming election of student
body officers. Offices will be open
for president, vice-president, and
board of control members. The nom­inating
convention will meet the
first of the year and nominate can­didates
for these posts.
This convention shall consist of
two members of eacn club recognized
by the inter-club council, and two
members chosen at large from each
of the four student classes. The
convention members are chosen by a
popular vote of the various organi­zations
inolved.
Local ward bosses, including Gor­don
Richardson, Clyde Kendall, and
Huey Long Shaffer, have not given
out any reports as to what candi­dates
they will back if nominated,
but it is rumored that Richardson
has strong presidential leanings
himself.
The present president, Orvin Mes-segee,
is an astute politician but at
present has picked no one to sup­port
as his successor. Since
Vernon Leath left school the polit­ical
machine of the school has
needed considerable oiling, and big
election upsets are in all probabil­ity
forthcoming. Elections are no
longer cut and dried and there is
always the chance that a dark horse
candidate may come to the front at
the last moment. The last dark
horse to upset the political dope was
the election of John Christy as stu­dent
body president in 1932.
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Seven Normalites
Win In Elections
Of the 30 county school superin­tendents
elected in the State of
Washington, 25 are new to their po­sitions.
Though a complete sum­mary
is not yet available, it is inter­esting
to note some alumni of the
Normal school.
Gerald Van Horn, present dep­uty
under Superintendent L. Pearle
Hibarger, was elected county sup­erintendent
of Yakima. Mr. Van
Horn was at one time president of
student body at the Normal. He
was graduated in 1917.
The newly-elected superintendent
of Snohomish county, Clifford W.
Carpenter, is a graduate of the
class of 1915.
Mrs. Mary V. Leahy, Chelan coun­ty's
new superintendent, was grad­uated
from the Normal in 1929.
Whatcom county also elected a sup­erintendent
from this class, Henry
W. Turner, who was a baseball pitch­er
at Normal.
Chauncy D. Davis was graduated
from the Normal in 1922. He wll
be the next superintendent of Pa­cific
county.
Frank M. Brock, president of the
Alumni association, was re-elected to
his position in Skagit county by a
large majority.
Work Arranged
FERA Students May Work
During Vacation
FERA workers may work dur­ing
Christmas vacation, an­nounces
Sam Buchanan who is
in charge of this work. Stu­dents
are to see their depart­ment
heads and make arrange­ments
for their working hours
with them, as no time put in by
the student will be counted if
it is not arranged for by a de­partment
head. All responsi­bility
for making appointments
will rest with the students.
The usual janitor work
around school will be done and
a crew will work out at Nor-malstad.
Football Award
Lists Are Issued
Coaches* Office Announces List of
Men Who Are Eligible for
Letter Award
(Continued on Page Four)
A tentative list of men who are
eligible for sweater awards for foot­ball
has been given by the coach's
office. These awards will be given
the first student assembly in the
winter quarter, which will be Jan­uary
19.
To earn a sweater a student must
play at least 10 minutes in each of
five halves in collegiate football
games. Also, he must have com­pleted
at least ten hours of sat­isfactory
work in the quarter in
which he has earned his sweater.
Men whose names appear on the
list are Art Bagley, Morris Tarte,
John Odell, Leo Alpaugh, Rolland
Coffield, Mike Tomco, Chefc Ullin,
Clyde Wheeler, Bill Ames, Gene
Waara, Fay Franklin, Cal Davidson,
Bill Frender, Jim Miller, Hurley
Boggess, Tony Zambas, Dan Hol­der,
Fred Guglomo, and Max Mac-
Kenzie.
Art Bagley, who has been voted
the Northwest Viking award, will be
presented with it at that time. Pin
award for two quarter's work with
credit and two quarter's work with­out
credit on the Northwest Viking
will be presented to June Larson.
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Sale of Seals Is
Urged by League
"Reports of the sale of tuberculos­is
seals for the first 12 days indi­cates
an increase over the same
period last year," says Bethesda
Buchanan, executive secretary of the
Washington Tuberculosis associa­tion.
An extensive campaign to sell seals
in order to help needy tubercular
patients is being carried out dur­ing
the weeks before Christmas.
Whatcom county tuberculosis
league affiliated with the national
and state associations, are mailing
letters to urge the buying of the
seals and to explain in some part
the fight that is being carried out
against the disease.
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Falling in line with the recently
concocted fad,of christening dances
with fancy monikers, co-eds of Iowa
State Teachers' college held a "San­ta's
Skip".
Heather Meadows Assumes a New Role
For the Movies in the Coming Year
Heather meattows arrayed in snow and ice assumes the role of the
Klondike of the far North. The beauty of its landscape will lend en­chantment
to the thrilling and romantic "The Call of the Wild," by
Jack London.
Thousands of dollars will be expended to create a proper locale and
a small village resembling those in the Klondike region.
Dog teams will be transported
from Canada to help "King," a
young Saint Bernard dog, who plays
the lead animal role in this sensa­tional
story. '"Prince," a Great
Dane, will also share in the lead
role. "King," "Capy," and "Fritz,"
well-known dogs in movie stardom,
will play doubles for the lead dogs.
Mount Baker lodge, which has
been closed since the day after La­bor
day, will be re-opened; and ar­rangements
will be made to ac­commodate
the film company. There
will be 60 or 70 extras besides the
stars, Lorreta Young, Clark Gable,
and Jack Oakie.
When the production company de­cided
to produce "The Call of the
Wild," they had difficulty in chosing
between Mount Baker and Jackson
Hole, Wyo., for filming the picture.
When William Wellman, director
of Twentieth Century Pictures, and
Orville Stewart, location manager,
came by airplane to the Mount
Baker region, they were so impressed
by its scenic beauty and topoghaphy
that they chose it for the filming.
Winter Quarter
Recreation Plan
Will Be Varied
All-inclusive Program for Both
Sexes Will Be Formed By
Selected Group
Members Are Chosen
Student-Faculty Committee Named
To Work Out Program
An all-inclusive program of re­creation
for both sexes is planned for
next quarter by Orvin Messegee,
student prexy, and President C. H.
Fisher. A committee which includes
Christine Albers, Don Richardson,
and Randy Oberlatz from the stu­dent
body, and Dr. A. C. Hicks, Dr.
C. C. Upshall, and Miss Ruth Piatt
from the faculty will work out this
program.
This student-faculty committee
is to plan a program which will pro­vide
many types of recreation to in­terest
all students. It has been felt
that in the past there has been a
large group which has not been in­terested
in the recreational program.
To remedy this, both sports and
social activities are to be included
for the winter quarter schedule.
Christine Albers has been ap­pointed
temporary chairman to call
the first meeting of the committee.
As soon as a regular meeting is
held, a permanent chairman will be
elected and plans will be made for
planning the recreational activities.
"We plan to incorporate into the
student activities an, all-inclusive
program of recreation for both sex­es,"
said Messegee. Some of the
activities that are planned include
swimming, rec hours, thought to be
held in the evenings, badminton,
volley ball, hiking, pinochle, check­ers,
chess and billiards. Definite
plans will be made as soon as the
committee meets.
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Research Workers
Labor Over Finals
Voices hurriedly reiterating 24-49-
64-137, which is some student's final
score in a course, to the accompani­ment
of the rustling of papers, the
rythm of an adding machine, a type­writer,
and sometimes a calculator,
describes the busiest place during
the last week of school, the Bureau
of Research.
While others are joyfully on their
homeward journeys, with the deluge
of final tests left behind, a few Nor­mal
students, under the direction of
Mrs. Charlotte Hood, are laboring
far into the night.
The final tests are corrected by
competent workers with the aid of
keys made by the instructors, the
scores of each paper totalled, the
totalling checked, the scores record­ed,
the scores of all the tests for
the quarter totalled and checked,
and a chart made showing the dis­tribution
of scores.
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Editors of College News
To Interview Roosevelt
Editors of college daily newspapers
will hold a convention in Washing­ton,
D C, December 28 and 29, ac­cording
to the University of Wash­ington
Daily. William Randolph
Hearst, newspaper man, will pay the
expenses of those who wish vto at­tend.
Editors from all parts of the
United States are expected.
An interview with P r e s i d e nt
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and an open
forum for the discussing of mutual
problems will be the highlights of
the meeting. Joe Connor, editor of
the Daily, will represent the uni
versity at the convention.
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Vanadis Bragi Elects
Convention Delegates
Lorene Smith and Harry Winsor
were elected representatives to the
ASB nominating convention at the
Vanadis Bragi meeting last Monday
in the Edens Hall Club room.
The short business meeting was
followed by a, discussion of the
works of H. G. Wells. Those partici­pating
were Doris Condogeorge,
Sterling McPhail, Genevieve Strain,
Clyde Kendall, Wilson Waylett and
Harry Winsor.
Few Changes Made in Viking
Shenenberger, Editor-Elect, Enjoys Photography and Printing;
Also Participates in Intramural Sports
That no radical changes will be made in the Northwest Viking was the
statement of Ralph Shenenberger, editor-elect, last week in an interview.
"A few changes will be made in the staff," he says. Shenenberger has been
co-sports editor with Bob Lindsley for two quarters. The duties of the
sports editor are to assign the sports articles and plan the make-up of the
sports page each week. This quarter, Shnenberger has been managing
editor on the staff. He has also
been assistant business manager of
the Viking for one quarter.
Previous to his experience on the
Viking Shenenberger was on the
sports desk of the Whatcom World.
He also worked on the advertising
staff of that paper.
When asked what books he liked
to read he replied, "anything but
detective and love stories". He is
Art Exhibits To
Be Shown Here
Breakey, Colborne Recommended
Art Displays To Be Here
Next Quarter
"The art exhibits planned for next
quarter promise to be among the
best we have had at the Normal in
the past," says Miss Hazel Plymp-ton,
art instructor.
Miss Elizabeth Colborne, a local
artist who has been in New York
recently is offering some exhibits of
tempera painting and block prints.
These two exhibits were shown in
the Art department last year, and
because of a great many requests
from art students as well as some of
the Bellingham people, the exhibits
are to be made again sometime next
quarter.
very interested in intramural sports
and says that a larger sports pro­gram
should be offered at Normal.
Incidentally, he is among the top-notchers
of the foul-shooting con­test.
After taking the course offered in
printing Shenenberger became much
interested in this type of work
which corresponds with the course
in newswriting. Photography is an­other
of his hobbies.
He is changing the general make­up
of the front page by using a
column at the left hand side. This
will contain notes from the news
from other colleges and personals.
No more changes will be made until
he gets really started in the work
and can see what might be improv­ed.
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Ballet Russe Will
Appear In Seattle
Ballet Will Bring Glamour to the
Northwest January 30
The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
will bring glamour at its peak to the
Northwest when it makes its initial
appearance on Wednesday evening,
January 30, at Meany hall on the
University of Washington campus.
The Ballet Russe has thrilled so
phisticated critics of today in Paris,
Another display that is expected London, and New York. Composed
next quarter is that of modern tex- ' ...
tiles. This exhibit has been recom­mended
by Miss Hazel Breakey, art
of 50 dancers, and bringing three
carloads of scenery, 6,000 costumes,
and thousands of pairs of satin bal­let
slippers, this unique company
promises a spectacle of rhythm,
beauty and color. They are accom-
The modern textile exhibit p a n l e d b y their own symphony or-has
been highly recommended by cnest ra.
instructor who, on her leave of ab­sence
in New York, has been study
ing modern art and modern art ex
hibits
other experienced art instructors
and is expected to prove valuable to
all Normal school art students study­ing
that type of work.
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Student Body Likes
Features of Viking
Campi Coast to Coast and the
student opinions are the most pop­ular
features in the Northwest Vi­king,
according to a questionnaire
recently sent out. Most of the re­plies
reported the general appear­ance
of the feature page as satis­factory.
They were also quite well
agreed that the page satisfactorily
reflects the spirit of the school. The
Keyhole has the largest circle of
readers. Linoleum cuts are the
second most popular.
In comparison of figures, the mag­azine
reviews stood out as not
widely read, as did also Northwest
History. Harlan Jones' features
have many occasional readers and
about 50 per cent of jfche students
read the book reviews. The radio
column holds average interest, as
also the editorials and theatre cal-umn.
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University of Washington
Proposes Noon Classes
Through the voice of the Oval
club, 39 campus fraternities on the
campus of the University of Wash­ington
have declared themselves
as opposed to noon-day classes
and have announced plans of cam­pus-
wide circulation of petitions
against the faculty plan. Confusion
of lunch hours was given as the
cause for the objection.
Dean Edward Lauer says that the
students "were unduly alarmed"
about the matter, and that probably
not one-tenth of the students will
be affected.
A study is being made at present
of the registration cards of all the
students to determine which classes
can most profitably be placed in the
afternoon. The object of the change
work.
The guiding geniuses of the Bal­let
Russe have been Leonide Mas-sins,
who as a boy of 16 had joined
the world-renowned Diaghiloff ballet
and had later become its ballet mas­ter;
George Ballanchine, a still later
member of the old company, and
also one of its ballet masters; and
Bori Kochni, who had been confi­dential
secretary to Diaghileff. ^ Suc­cessor
to the Ballet Russe, the Bal­let
Russe de Monte Carlo, carries on
its trations. Tamara, known in
Paris as a second Pavlowa, is a
famous member of the group. Her
beauty and dancing earned for her
international fame at 16.
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School Nurse Warns
Students About Colds
Miss May Mead, school nurse, re­ports
that there has been a great
deal more colds distributed throug-out
the student body in the last few
weeks of school. Miss Mead advises
all students to be on the lookout for
cold symptoms and to take measures
to prevent colds as they often lead
to more serious ailments.
Three girls residing at Edens hall
have been excused to go home a
week before Christmas because of
illness. Katherine Hays has also
been absent the last few days be­cause
of a cold.
Miss Mead reports that Miss Ethel
Church is out of the hospital and is
convalescing.
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Masterpieces of German
Literature Correlated
English translation of German lit­erary
masterpieces will give the
English reader a panorama of the
whole of German literature from
Goethe to the present day. They
will also find for the first time the
most representative writers of each
period brought together and ex­hibited
by their most representative
works in a set of German classics
recently purchased by the library.
This 20-volume set of German
classics containing the literature of
the nineteenth and twentieth cen­turies;
is illustrated with lovely
etchings
i t is edited by Kuno Prancke,.
is to make room for more students Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D. Dr. Prancke
and to make it possible for the stu- is professor emeritus of the history
dents to have consecutive classes, of German culture and Honorary
thus leaving the rest of the day to Curator of the German museum,
Harvard university.
Last Meeting
Control Board
Is Postponed
Few Small Items of Business
Transferred To Opening
Week of Quarter
Students Earn Pins
Five Board Members To Retire
From Office
Postponement of the Board at
Control until the first week in the
winter quarter was announced by
President Orvin Messegee last Wed­nesday.
The board was scheduled
to meet Wednesday afternoon to
settle any last minute business that
required their action. A few items
of relatively minor importance wiB
be passed upon at die first meeting
of the new quarter.
Two students have completed the
required work to be awarded school
pins. Marie deGallier is eligible far
a Board of Control pin, having com­pleted
two quarters of service on the
board. June Larson has been recom­mended
by the editor of the North­west
Viking to receive the official
pin of the publication.
Served Summer Quarter
Miss deGallier was elected to serve
the summer quarter term, and was
re-elected to a four quarter position
at the fall quarter election. Miss
Larson has worked on the Viking
staff for two quarters since complet­ing
the two newswriting courses of­fered
for credit.
The budget for the winter quar­ter
will be one of the important
items in new business which . the
board must pass upon. The quar­terly
enrollment win form an im­portant
item in the decision of how
much each activity will be alloted.
Budget To Be Checked
It is highly probable that the per­son
in charge of each activity will
be called upon to appear at the
Board of Control meeting to explain
fully his budgeted need for the
quarter.
Five members have completed
their terms of office at the end of
this quarter, but will serve next
quarter until their successors have
been elected. Those whose terms
expire are Orvin Messegee, Christine
Albers, Dr. E. A. Bond, Annabel
Keller, and Ralph Shenenberger.
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Many New Courses
Offered Students
New courses offered winter quar^-
ter are Education 153, Psychology
of the Exceptional Child, taught by
Dr. C. C. Upshall; Industrial Arts
115, Pottery Making, taught by Miss
Charlotte Richardson; and English
100, advanced English Composition,
taught by Dr. Arthur Hicks.
Other courses offered which have
not been given for several quarters
are Education 122, Character Educa­tion,
taught by Mr. L. A. Kibbe;
English 74, Technical English taught
by Miss Lucy Kangtey; English 110A
and English HOB, a study of Shelley
and Byron, taught by Dr. Hicks;
History 102, Development of Nat­ionality,
taught by Mr. E. J. Arnt-zen;
and Personal and Family Fi­nance,
taught by Miss Linda CounT
tryman. Social science 4, Anthro­pology,
to be taught by Dean James
Bever, has not been given for sev­eral
years.
Students who have had two years
of German may enroll for German
102, taught by Miss Anna Uffin.
Those who have had a course in
either botany or zoology in high
school may take the botany course,
Science 82. "Although science 81 is
desirable it is not a prerequisite,']
says Dean Bever.
Clampus
alendar
Friday, December 21—
4:00—Christmas recess begins.
Monday, January 7, 1935—
8:00—Registration, quarter
begins.
Tuesday, January 8—
11:00—Assembly, President C.
H. Fisher.
Wednesday, January 9—
4:00—Inter-Club Council.
Friday, January 11—
11:00—Assembly, Legion quar­tet.
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