Western Washington Collegian - 1953 November 13

              COLLEGIAN
Vol. XLVII - No. 8 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Nov. 13, 1953
Fourteen in Todays Primary
Vote for Four
Before 4
Voting for fo'urteen candidates
continues today in a late seventh
week primary election.
Yesterday, 9 a. to:., polls opened,
the elections days being moved back
because of the Armistice day holi­day.
Voting will continue until 4 p. m.
today.
The fourteen persons still on the
ballot are as follows: Bob White,
Rey Sundal, Jim Simon, Nancy Silli-man,
Alvin Sherman, John Ricketts,
Mike O'Sammon, Dick Oril, George
Oelrich, Duane Montgomery, Doug­las
Kazen, David Gay, Gary Doug­las,
and Lorrene Bergmann. A num­ber
of candidates dropped out short­ly
before the campaign assembly a
week. age.
TWELVE INTO FINALE
Students will vote for four of the
candidates. The twelve candidates
receiving the highest number of
votes will go into the general elec­tions
to be held November 23 and
24. Of the twelve, four will be cho­sen
in the general election to serve
from Winter quarter 1954 to Win­ter
quarter 1955.
Ballots may be picked up in the
main hall at the main entrance.
Student body cards need not be
presented.
SKETCHES REQUESTED
The twelve candidates who go
into the general elections are re­minded
to turn their personal
sketches for publication in to the
Collegian by noon next Wednesday,
November 18.
Vocollegians
To Perform
The Vocollegians, vocal ensemble
of fifteen voices from Western
Washington College of Education,
will sing for the Aftermath club
banquet on Monday, November i6.
Glenn Bergh, graduate assistant
in music, is director of this group.
John Sundquist, bass soloist, will
contribute two solos to the program
atf the Aftermath club house. He
will be accompanied by Al Zabel.
Datelmii e...
Friday, November 13—Student pri­mary
election, 9 a. m. to 4 p. m.
Girls field hockey conference,
Seattle. College play, "High Tor,"
evening.
Saturday, November 14—Girls field
hockey conference, continued.
College play, "High Tor," evening.
Sunday, November 15—Girls field
hockey conference, concluded.
Tuesday, November 17—Community
chorus-symphonic band concert,
evening.
Friday, November 20—ASB rec hour,
sponsored by MRH.
Dormitories Make
Dining Hall Rules
- New rules established at the
domitory policies meetings Novem­ber
4, 4 p. m., are as follows:
1. Dining room seating:
a. The present seating chart will
be in effect for the remainder
of fall quarter:
2. Procedure During Grace:
a. Maintain reverent attitude dur­ing
singing of grace.
b. Latecomers do not attempt to
find places while grace is be­ing
sung.
3. Dining Room:
a. The possibility of improving -
the appearance of the dining
room is to be investigated.
4. Wednesday Evening Dinner:
a. Edens, MRH, Mathes, and
Hospice may invite a reason­able
number of guests during
the year—faculty, housemoth­ers,
etc.
b. Resident and off-c a m p u s
boarders are reminded to dress
up for Wednesday and Sunday
dinners.
Fiedler Makes Hit
Arthur Fiedler, conducting the
Seattle Symphony, played to a full
house at the Bellingham high school
auditorium, Monday evening.
Fiedler conducted the orchestra
in "The Star Spangled Banner" in
introduction. The program included
Entrance of the Guests into Wart-burg
from "Tannhauser" by Wag­ner;
First movement, Symphony
No. 1 in C Major, Opus 21, by Beet­hoven;
Cappricio Italien by Tschai-kowsky;
Suite from "Carmen" by
Bizet, and Overture from "Oberon"
by Von Weber.
The symphony was presented with
the assistance of Puget Sound Pulp
and Timber company and Belling­ham
Chain and Forge.
c. Dinner music for Wednesday
dinners is to be sought.
Policies Committee Members:
a. A list of members will be post­ed
in all houses.
b. Consult respective members
with your suggestions for bet­tering
dining room service.
'High Tor* on Stage
Tonight, Tomorrow
Education Week
Stresses Needs
Of Our Schools
Every year a time is set aside for
American Education week, this year
being held November 8-14. During
this week educators all over the
country work together to promote
better education for the children of
America. The theme for this year's
program is "Good Schools Are Your
Responsibility."
Tuesday, November 10, Dr. W. W.
Haggard talked over KVOS to all
students from the sixth to the
twelfth grades, in Bellingham and
Whatcom county. As the theme for
his speech Dr. Haggard took Amer­ican
ideals. During his talk he
stressed the points "our standard
of living is the highest in the
world," and "our democratic way
of life." He also emphasized loyalty
to our country in deeds and words
on the part of everyone because of
the great opportunities offered us.
His talk was under the auspices of
the Committee on Americanism of
the American Legion.
Friday, L. W. Brewster, speech,
chairman of American Education
week at Western, is leading a panel
of faculty members in a discussion
which will be heard over KVOS
and KPUG.
Bagarotti, Stines Form Week's Ac>L Program
What is Soviet Russia really like
today? This question, which is-up­permost
in the minds of countless
thoughtful Americans, will be ans­wered
Tuesday at 10 a. nr. by Nor­man
C. Stines, Jr.
Mr. Stines presents a lecture illu­strated
with more than 150 Koda-chrome
slides taken inside the bor­ders
of the Soviet Union during the
two years (1950-1952) that he served
in the American Embassy at Moscow
as first secretary and deputy chief
of the Internal Affairs section.
His purpose in showing these pic­tures
is to do something which he
believes cannot be duplicated by any
other American at the present time:
to give a matter-of-fact visual pic­ture
of what life is really like in
Russia today. With few exceptions,
his pictures were taken without per­mission
of Soviet authorities. Be­cause
he enjoyed diplomatic im­munity,
he was able to bring the
films out when he left the Soviet
Union.
Mr. Stines' "Inside Russia Today"
shows the average Russian going
about his daily tasks in Moscow.
Mr. Stines took pictures of Russian
security guards patrolling the Am­erican
Embassy. He has slides of
Moscow street scenes, of the de­terioration
in housing in some of
Moscow's back streets, of Moscow
traffic and the principal business
thoroughfares and of the famous
Moscow subway stations. His views
of the Kremlin are striking and he
managed to photograph the mili­tary
parade and mass demonstration
in Red Square on November 7, 1951.
Although travel in the Soviet
Union is difficult for foreigners,
Mr. Stines succeeded in visiting
GIOVANNIBAGAROTTI
several rural areas and taking pic­tures
of life on a collective farm
and in a provincial village. In ad­dition,
he also traveled to Lenin­grad,
Karkov and Odessa in the
Ukraine and on the Russian-Polish
frontier.
Giovanni Bagarotti, violinist of
international reputation, will visit
WWC on Thursday and Friday, No­vember
19 and 20. While on campus
Mr. Bagarotti will lecture, conduct
a master class for string students
and perform on the Friday morning
Artist and Lecture Series program
at 10 a. m.
SWISS BORN
Mr. Bagarotti was born in Swit­zerland
of Italian parents. From
boyhood he was trained as a musi­cian.
Under Joseph Szigeti he stu­died
at the Conservatory of Music
in Geneva and was graduated with
top honors. His musical education
was continued in Berlin with Carl
Flesch and Joseph Wolfstahl.
Beginning his public appearances
as a soloist in Berlin, where he was
also actively engaged in playing
chamber music, Mr. Bagarotti has
performed with such celebrities as
Igor Stravinsky, Edwin Fischer,
Gregor Piatigorsky and Emmanuel
Feuermann. In 1942 he was ap­pointed
professor of violin at the
Conservatoire de Lausanne.
Acclaimed as a Mozart specialist
as much for the lightness and deli­cacy
of his tone as for his finely
persuasive styles Giovanni Bara-rotti
was asked to play all the
Mozart concertos for violin .with
rorchestre Colonne in Paris^ later
playing the same works with orch­estras
in Spain, Portugal and Eng­land.
He and his American-born
wife, Marta Ran—can Bagarotti,
came to the United States in 1949
and have since then filled numerous
college engagements under the
sponsorship of the Association of
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By JIM SIMON
High Tor, a masterpiece of net­work
plots, was thought to be a lit­tle
on the sophisticated level for a
collegiate cast. The cast, as picked,
did show spots of polished acting.
Doug Vander Yacht in his por­trayal
of Van Van Dorn displayed
his ability to give a character, with
as many sides -as a diamond, all of
its facets. Vander Yacht moved
about the set with the accustomed
ease of a native to the region. He
was able to utter the lines of Max­well
Anderson as if he understood
what lay behind them, not as some
of the others in the cast who might
as well have been reading verse in
the Collegian.
JERI O'SAMMON CONVINCING
Jeri O'Sammon was a very solid,
and convincing ghost. She does not
move like a college girl in her first
big role but like a phantom of two
hundred years. Mrs. O'Sammon
makes one actually feel her despair
and uneasiness and perhaps a lit­tle
love. She made Lisa live, love
and die with unexpected depth not
ordinarily found in a collegiate cast.
Bill Elwood also makes a very
real and substantial ghost. His lines
in the hands of another would have
lost their humor. But Elwood
handles them with the gusto of one
who enjoys the role of a grounded
Flying Dutchman.
Dick Jensen was a bank robber
straight out of Hollywood "B's." He
fires the blanks in his revolver
with the coolness and efficiency of
a professional killer. His low hat
brim and whine definitely add to
the picture.
The load of the above players is
quite heavy. The preponderance of
inexperience is quite evident. It was
also evident that the remaining
players could not put themselves
into the mood of the play. Some
of the players have smoked their
lines a little too much. Even the
experienced actors lean in that di­rection.
However, in taking into ac­count
the inexperience, the lack of
understanding, and the last of re­straint
rampant in the cast, Lau­rence
Brewster has done a job of
directing unequaled by anything he
has yet done. The cast with which
he had to work would have driven
another man to despair and he at
times must have been on the verge
of it.
The setting and lighting of the
play is also a redeeming feature. It
is different, unique from anything
Western audiences have ever seen.
To appreciate it, one must see it.
Mark Flanders and his crew have
contributed much toward the suc­cess
of the show.
Pre-Registration Is
Now in Progress
Just a reminder to the student
body that pre-registration for Win­ter
quarter began on Thursday, No­vember
12.
Graduates and seniors are sched­uled
for November 12; juniors, No­vember
16; sophomores, November
18; and freshmen, November 20.
Pre-registration for all will continue
through Wednesday, November 25.
To avoid confusion, delay, and
closing classes, all students . are
urged by Donald Ferris, registrar,
to register at the appropriate time.