Western Washington Collegian - 1953 December 4

              onglas, O'Sammon, Sundal, Kazen Elected
[all Quarter
linals Begin
lext Thursday
It has been announced by Donald
fris, Registrar, that the fall quar-final
examination schedule will
las follows:
1. 10 o'clock classes and all
|lasses meeting once or twice
/eekly, will hold examinations
the last scheduled class
sriod.
2. Thursday, December 17:
9:00 o'clock classes at 8 a. m.,
11 o'clock classes at 10 a. m. "
1 o'clock classes at 1 p. m.
All Library 101 sections at 3
). m.
3. Friday, December 18:
8 o'clock classes at 1 p. m.
2 o'clock classes at 1 p. m.
3 o'clock classes a tlO a. m.
HI students are asked to study
lis schedule carefully and to be
fompt at the schedule examination
Weri&m Waildncfen
COLLEGIAN
Vol. XLVII - No. 10 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington DEC. 4, 1953
BOC Chooses
Crook, Kazen
To ECS Meet
Carolyn Crook, vice president of
ASB, and Doug Kazen, BOC mem­ber,
have been chosen by the Board
of Control to attend a special meet­ing
of the Evergreen Conference
Student association at Ellensburg,
Saturday, December 5.
The meeting, which will be held
at CWC, was called to ratify a new
association charter which will fur­nish
a student association for the
combined schools of the Northwest.
tional.
.ittle Operas to be Presented
!y Opera Theatre Monday
"Adoration of the Magi," a painting by Hieronymus Bosch, inspired
|e first of two productions to be presented at Western November 7. Un­ix
the direction of Stanley Chappel the Opera Theatre will give "Amahl
|id the Night Visitors," by Gian-Carlo Menotti, and "Sunday Excursion,"
Alex Wilder next Monday evening at 8:15 in the college auditorium.
|usical accompaniments for both operas will be provided by Dr. Chappel
the piano, plus a string quartet*-
id woodwind players.
)NSIDERED GREAT
Considered a masterpiece of com-sition,
the famous little opera by
enotti written for the National
oadcasting company's TV Christ-
LUS program in 1951 will be pre-knted
throughout the United
[tates by opera companies during
e Yuletide season this year.
When commissioned by NBC-TV
write a Christmas opera, Men-ti's
attempts to compose music
jir a yet indefinite theme were at
rst inadequate and uninspired,
he final success of his composi-on
was to hinge on the inspira-ion
of a painting and memories of
dream.
The painting was "Adoration of
he Magi" which he just chanced
o see at the Metropolitan Museum
f Art. This reminded him of a
ream he had in his childhood home
Italy in which the Magi visited
im. With the vivid recollection of
he characters and the appearance
f the visitors, he at once set to
wrk.
Resulting was an opera deeply
xpressive of human feelings and
entiments, an opera which glows
vith understanding of poverty, evil,
wealth, and then the release from
ear and the innate divinity of the
ndividual.
Amahl and the Night Visitors"
s the story of the Three Kings on
/heir way to Bethlehem with their
fifts, who are night visitors at the
lowly home of Amahl, a crippled
shepherd boy. The melodic music
s strangely adapted to the wonder­ful
tale and the miracle of the dis­carded
crutch of Amahl when he
offers to give it for the Christ child.
(Continued on page 8)
CARE Drive Soon
In action Thursday night the
Inter-Club Council decided to
back a "CARE packages for Ko­rean
children" drive next week.
A suggested amount to be do­nated
would be half the amount
a student spends for Christmas
cards.
Kappa Delta Pi
Starts Drive,
Kappa Delta Pi, honorary society
in education, is commencing a drive
for new members this month. Qual­ifications
for membership are listed
on the bulletin board adjacent to
the registrar's office.
Those qualifying should apply by
signing. the list posted beside the
enumeration of qualifications.. After
the qualifications have been check­ed,
invitations will be mailed to
Dr. Paul Woodring, phychology,
author of the book, "Let's Talk
Sense About Our Schools," will-speak
December 7 at 8 o'clock p. m.
in the Edens hall club room to Kap­pa
Delta Pi members and guests.
An invitation is extended by Bet­ty
Foss, president of Kappa Delta
Pi, to all members of the FTA and
any interested party who may con­template
joining the Kappa Delta
Pi society.
Dr. Paul Woodring has suggested
those attending to bring questions
and criticisms of his book to the
meeting where he will be pleased
to discuss them.
A business meeting of the Kappa
Delta Pi members at 7:30 will pre­cede
the talk by Dr. Woodring.
Four Chosen to BOC
Gary Douglas, 23, a junior from
Mukilteo, is majoring in sociology
in Teacher Ed.
Rey Sundahl, 21, is a junior from
Mount Vernon. Rey is in the teach­er
education curriculum.
Mike O'Sammon is a 24 year old
junior from Bremerton. Social stud­ies
is his major in Teacher Ed.
Mike is married and has a small son.
Doug Kazen, senior, lives in Ever-son.
He is majoring in biological
science.
Winter Jobs Short
Bad news f§r. all of those seeking
winter employment! An interview
with Dean McDonald reveals very
slim chances for immediate jobs. "If
this winter quarter runs -true1* to
form, the slump of business after
Christmas will bring winter em­ployment
to a low ebb," he said.
Dean McDonald also emphasized
that his office only makes contact
between the employer and the stu­dent.
After that, it is up to the em­ployer.
He advises any student who
has a job presently to hang on to it
if possible. This problem is made
worse by the 15 percent cut in stu­dent
employment on the campus.
The job future for spring quarter
is a little brighter. However, Mc­Donald
stated that some spring
quarters, his office has been unable
to fill all the requests for workers.
Seniors Offered
New'Soc Class
Dr. Manzer J. Griswold, social
studies instructor, announced Wed­nesday
that a new course in so­ciology
will oe offered this winter
quarter. It will be entitled, "Intro­duction
to Social Welfare"—Sociol­ogy
400.
The course will carry three credits
and enrollment will be limited to
five senior students. Enrollment
must be by consent of the instructor.
The class will meet by appointment.
Introduction to Social Welfare
will serve a two-fold purpose. First,
it will prepare these student en­rolled
for the "merit" examinations
of the Department of Social Wel­fare;
secondly,
Students Elect
Four Men to
BOC Positions
Four hundred- ninety-eight stu­dents,
or 37 percent, voted in the
Board of Control elections, which
placed Mike O'Sammon, Gary Doug­las,
Rey Sundal, and Doug Kazen
in the vacant offices. The elected
will take office during winter quar­ter
and serve the following four
quarters.
Filing for offices of student body
president, vice president, and two
BOC offices will take place the fifth
week of winter quarter. Elections
are during the seventh and ninth
weeks.
There are fifteen members of the
BOC including student and faculty
representatives, and the president
and vice president of the student
body.
'Writer' Staff
Airs Problems
The staff of Western's creative
writing magazine, "The Writer," met
at the home of adviser Annis J.
Hovde, English, the evening of Tues­day,
November 24.
Student attending the meeting
discussed the problems of the mag­azine
and signed up to work on one
of three committees, the poem, the
essay, and the short story. Students
on the committees will judge work
turned in by contributors for the
winter quarter edition of the mag­azine.
After the meeting, refresh­ments
were served by Mr. and Mrs.
Hovde, and entertainment provided.
Mike O'Sammon, editor, urges
any student who has done creative
writing to turn his works into one
of two places, rooms 126 or 38 in
the main building. The works turned
in will be discussed at informal
meetings which will be held in the
lounge at 4 p .m. every Monday.
Any WWC pupil may attend these
conferences.
Mr. Hovde and Harold G. Ogden,
English, will look over creative writ­ing
of the student any time.
Music, Tableaux at
Christmas Show
Christmas music and tableaux will
b^ presented by the music and
speech departments of Western on
December 11, at 8:15 p. in. There
will be no Christmas assembly this
year. This concert will be the only
Christmas observance for WWC.
The public is cordially invited.
Participating groups will include
the 85-voice college choir, the 45-
voice Charleers, the 15-voice Vocol-legians,
the string orchestra, the
college quartet, and the modern
dance group.
David Schaub, college organist,
will appear on the program as solo­ist,
and will accompany the choir in
one number.
Wives Plan Dinner
Student Wives of WWC will hold
a turkey dinner, Sunday, December
6, at 7 p. m. in Edens hall dining
room. "All married couples of WWC
are invited," announced Mrs. J. Gal-latly,
committee chairman.