Western Washington Collegian - 1957 April 19

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Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Vol. XIX, No. 14 - April 19, 1957
Spring Sports Informal Turns
Time Back to 'Gay Nineties'
Time will be rolled back half a
century May 3, as the Spring Sports
Informal adopts a theme of the Gay
Nineties . . . but the music for the
dance promises to be strictly up to
date.
Negotiations are being com­pleted
by Amelia Belotti, gen­eral
chairman of the Helmsmen-sponsored
dance, to obtain a
p o p u l a r band to travel to
the Holliday Ballroom, which is
the setting for the May affair.
The ensemble will play for danc­ing
between 9 p.m. and 12:30
a-m.
High point of the dance will be
presentation of the Sam Carver
athletic trophy and plaque to West­ern's
1957 Athlete of the Year.
Emerging as the four candidates
for this honor after a recent ses­sion
of W Club were Bruce Randall,
Rod Schott, Gary Radliff and Bill
Karwacki. The entire student body
will have an opportunity to select
the individual to receive this year's
high athletic honor.
Working with Miss Bellotti on
arrangement for the occasion are:
Bobbie Bender and Mari Lou Mounc-er,
decorations; Carolyn Kyle, pro­grams;
Marion Kemp and Fred
Boede, publicity; Sally Cays, chap­eron
es; Kirby Cleveland, ticket sales,
and Elmira Rockey, photographs.
PROGRAMS COSTING $150 A
COUPLE will go on sale the week
preceding the dance, and dress will
be semi-formal with corsages being
optional.
GOOD OLD DAYS-Sporting a high starched collar and a jaunty derby, "Cornelius" Cleveland at­tempts
to remain very nonchalant while being surrounded by three admirers who desire a date
to the 1957 Spring Sports Informal which has adopted an "old fashioned" theme this year. Cute
"Gay Nineties" co-eds include "Carrie" Cays (to Cleveland's left), "Maude" Mouncer and "Birdie"
Bender. The S.S.I, has been set for May 3 in the Holiday Ballroom. (Photo by Chuck Stutz)
Guests of honor at the fourth
annual Spring Sports Informal
will be Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Hag­gard
and Ted Whan, 1956 Ath­lete
of the Year. bly which is scheduled for April 30
In conjunction with the Spring (10 a.m.) under the chairmanship
Sports Informal, Helmsmen also are of Dick Kure, president of the or-sponsoring
a Spring Sports Assem- ganization.
'Gaslights' Cast Picked
"IF ONE IS LOOKING FOR A
TYPICAL 19th century melodrama,
'Under The Gaslights' is it," de­clared
Dr. Laurence Brewster, di­rector
of the spring quarter play to
be produced May 17th and 18th.
The cast, which was chosen
last week, includes the poor, bat
honest, heroine, to be played by
Sharon Andreasen; the hero
who fails to see the light until
the end of the play, to be por­trayed
by Bill El wood; the
comics who foil the villain, to
Easter Sunrise Service Set
THE FOURTH ANNUAL EASTER
SUNRISE SERVICE sponsored by
the United Student Christian Foun­dation
in co-operation with the
College Choir will begin in the Col­lege
Auditorium, Sunday, at 6:30
a.m.
The Choir will sing "A Sacrum
Convivium" by Palestrina and
"Cherubim Song" by Muzicheski as
a part of the service arranged by
the student committee under the
leadership of John Okerlund and
John Schermerhorn. The Reverend
Alfred S. Dale had been invited to
preach, and several students will be
participating in the service.
be played by John Schermer­horn
and Ida Rae Bellinger;
and, the villains who tie people
to the railroad tracks, to be
played by Don Stribling and
Pamela Hollmann.
"GASLIGHTS," ONE OF THE
P I O N E E R S of truly American
Drama, attempted to deal with real
life in New York City," Brewster
stated. "Although we would not
consider the plot to deal particular­ly
with 'real life,' the setting does.
We expect to do this show in typi­cal
19th century style. No attempt
will be made to 'ham' it."
Others in the cast include Dave
Pehling, Jim Hamilton, Gerald Koll,
Lee Van Zanten, Jule Crabtree,
Kenneth Haag, Dave Van Bronk-horst,
Mari Lou Mouncer, Ardith
Lein, Cathy Davis, and Molly Tor-ticil.
Several parts haven't been
cast yet.
Fee Raise
Plan Goei
To Board
By JOHN BETROZOFF
A proposal to bring football
games onto the Western campus
will go before the Board of Con­trol
next Wednesday when the
Athletic Committee asks Board
approval on exploring the pos­sibility
of developing the prac­tice
field behind the PE build­ing.
The proposal will affect every
Western student in that one of
the Committee's ideas involves
increasing student fees to pay
for the improvements. Presi­dent
Haggard approved the ex­ploration,
pointing out that the
College has set aside this site for
ahtletics.
The matter is only in preliminary
stages as the Committee felt that
student approval would be necessary
before investigations into the matter
be taken. Chairman Bruce Randall
stated that approximately $17,000
would be needed to get the field
operating. This would include tiling,
crowning the field, turfing, and tak­ing
out the old water system and in­stalling
a sprinkler system.
"We have a natural bowl to
work with," said Randall, "and
the site provides excellent park­ing
facilities plus three outlets
for traffic. The Twenty-first
street, Garden street, and the
new High-Indian streets ap­proaches
will relieve traffic."
The initial idea was to prepare
the field, use the present bleachers,
and set up portable bleachers for the
games. Eventually permanent cov­ered
stands would be installed.
Athletic D i r e c t o r Charles
Lappenbusch stated that "the
potential of this site is the best
in all Whatcom county. The nat­ural
bowl will give the best
value for the least amount of
money. I have long been for the
development of this field."
Recommendations considered at a
committee meeting included raising
student fees one dollar or fifty cents
to cover the costs of developing the
field. This way the increase would
be spread over a number of years,
involving many students, present
and future, in this development.
HEAD FOOTBALL COACH John
Kulbitski summed it up this way:
"The immediate need for a field and
additional PE facilities is there.
Presently part of this field is sub­merged
during late fall rains and
cannot be used. This limits space
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'Crusaders' Sat. Movie
KING RICHARD AND THE
CRUSADERS is the ASB Moive to be
shown in the auditorium tomorrow
evening. The box office will be open
at 7:30; the show begins at 8.
This sweeping spectacle of the
Crusades is woven around a plot
to assassinate King Richard the
Lionhearted. Rex Harrison stars
as Saladin—the dashing, pic­turesque
Saracen leader—who
gallantly calls a truce long
enough to join forces with a
chivalrous English knight to
save King Richard from his own
betrayers. Virginia Mayo, George
Saunders and Laurence Harvey
are also included" in the cas,t.
DESERT SONG, to be shown
April27 and IT HAPPENS EVERY
SPRING, scheduled for May 4, are
the final films of this quarter,