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;VOL. XXXI—NO. 24 ^ASHINGTQNSTATE NORMAL 5CHCDQL, BELLINQHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, April ly t$32;
iPiiisis Contest Gives
Spiiig First Honors
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tf ormalite
THE C^MOPBELL HAS GONE
': .CONyENTION. SYSTEM
TOO MANY LIGHTS
EPIDEMIC HITS HEBE
BABY A. W. O. L.
By Jimmie Stoddard
Just as surely as the moon rises
over Sehome, just as surely as
alarm clocks clang at six in the
morning, and just as surely as
Monday follows Sunday, so do Nor-malite
writers take their-places on
said column and are later succeeded
by new writers.-
Yap, you've got a new pen-pusher
for Normalite this quarter. Our
worthy predecessor, Virginia Carver,
without a doubt put this column on
"a new level of writing, and it will
be our job and duty, under sworn
oath, to do our best in maintaining
this level
•'••;:'-——W.S.N.S.
And so with that introduction
we'll try to get down to some serious
work. You know what we mean—
the good old horse sense type.
W.S.N.S.
Remember that old tune—The
Campbells Are Coming? Well, our
quota of the Campbell clan has
come and gone and we're going to
miss him. We feel that dear old
Bellingham Stale has profited by
his .presence during his past._ Jour
quarters tas student' prexy. An ef­ficient,
trustworthy and dependable
sort of'felloW, Colie will be hard to
replace in the coming elections.
;T- W.S.N.S.
And that brings us around to an­other
big question of the day. Is
the present system of election, re­cently-
inaugurated by the Associ­ated
Students, going to run smooth-,
ly or clank along like an old Ford
with" a broken piston? Our opinion
is that it should go through its bap-tismal
this'quarter with little diffi­culty.
It seems to have already ac­complished
one of its points: that
of stimulating club life within the
Normal School.
W.S.N.S.
What a tough break you roman­tic,
loving type of humans are get­ting
when you travel to the library
every eye to gaze fondly into the
orbs of your beloved. Why we re­member
way back when that is.
somebody; told us who remembers
way back when the library was sit­uated
on the second floor of the
main building on the bay side of the
building and extended from Pro­fessor
Arntzen's sociology room to
the auditorium. The book shelves
were so close together that there
was barely room for a stude to wrig­gle
between the stacks of books.
W.S.N.S. :—
The lights Were low—corners
were plentiful and students were
Jew. Aw JVerts, what chance does
Twelve Hundred Schools
in the United States
Take Part
FOUR ARE FIRST
CLUBS LAUNCH
"CRADLE SONG" PICKED
AS DRAMA CLUB PLAY
FOR PRESENT QUARTER
Tryouts Heidi From 3 to 5 Next
Wed., Thurs. and Friday
Roger Chapman, Editor, and Bob
Walters, Ad Manager,
Deserve Credit
the loving young swain of the pres­ent
have with powerful electric
lights glaring down on a straight-
Walled, cornerless room with a
thousand and one google-eyed Nor-malites
staring at him and his "one
and only" when they attempt to
hold hands. „
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s.? perhaps you've heard the young
man whQ, sings during the after­noon^.•
jBmdt evening over station
jfcVOS,, ;|[e; makes an attempt at be-ing
a second—or third, or fourth—
£tag,jCrnsjby. Except fOr the fact
that hisr voice quavers and shakes,
and Jexpept for not sounding at all
Jlke the great Bing, he would be just
;.$pe...; tSoj?eb<xiy was right when
ijaky said crooning was a form of
insanity;
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And this is the time of the year
when tlie uraalballyhoo about sum­mer
sesdbns in nniversities and cd-
' legM throng hoot ^
:;|Mie^?^ttie^ lociabulibfo board.
(OmiiwmU <m Ti> Tw)
First place among the undergrad­uate
papers in the Teachers' Col­lege
division again goes to the
Northwest Viking, according to an
announcement received Monday
from the Columbia Scholastic Press
Association.
Twelve hundred hi school and ed­ucational
institution papers from all
parts of the United States were en­tered
in the contest which was held
on March 10, 11, and 12, at Colum­bia
University. In the Teachers' Col­lege
division four papers besides
the Northwest-Viking to receive the
distinction of a first place award
are: State Signal, Trenton State
Teachers' College, Trenton, N. J.;
Maverick, University Prep. School,
Tonkawa, Okla.; Campus Reflector,
Shippensburg State Teachers' Col­lege,
Shippensburg, Pa.
Chapman, Editor
Roger Chapman, the present edi­tor
of the Viking, to whom much of
the honor is due, entered his po­sition
last Fall quarter and it was
during this initial quarter that the
winning issues of the paper were
printed. He succeeded Bob Walters
in his position, Walters having also
brought journalistic honors to the
school when the Viking won first
place, in the 1931 contest at Colum­bia.
Large Staff
Members of the staff during the
last Fall quarter who aided great­ly
in the writing of the winning
paper are:
Evelyn Altman, Jimmie Stoddard,
Mary Lucille Jordan, Gerda Jensen,
Jean Murray, Dolly Anderson,
Virginia Carver, Irene Schagel,
Terry Cook, Nadine Mattson, June
Welch, Archie Fox, Einar Larson,
Bill Sells, Janet McArthur, Debby
Altose, Colin Campbell, Sumner
Ward, Robert Schier, Virginia
George, Marjorie Hall, Helen North-en,
and Bob Walters, business man­ager.
Mrs. Ruth Burnet, instructor
in news writing, is the faculty ad­visor.
"Cradle Song", by Martinez Sier­ra
has been selected as the Drama
club play for the Spring quarter.
"This particular play was chosen to
give the women of the school a
chance, as there are eleven women
in the cast and only two men," said
Mr. V. H. Hoppe, dramatic instruc­tor.
It is a different type from any­thing
that has been presented be­fore,
being a translation from the
Spanish theater dealing with a
romantic story of Spanish convent
life, in which the characters are
Dominican nuns.
Date Set
The evenings of May 26 and 27
have been picked for the presenta­tion
of the "Cradle Song". > Tryouts
for the cast will be held Wednes­day,
Thursday and Friday of next
week from three to five.
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FISHER OUTLINES
VIEWS TO CLUBS
WALTERS'ORCHESTRA
TO PLAY FOR CIRCUS
AT TONIGHT'S MIXER
James Butler, Barker, Will
Tickets to Students at
Door of Big Gym
HOWELL IS CHAIRMAN
Original Thinking
Students'
Important
Work
Merry-go-rounds, barkers, clowns,
a zoo, and everything that goes to
make up a circus will be at the
mixer tonight. This sport dance,
which is an all-school affair is in
charge of Vaughn Howell and will
start at 8:30. in the big gymnasium.
James Butler, a barker, will give
tickets to all those presenting their
student activity tickets to him at
the door.
New Orchestra
Bob Walters' newly organized or­chestra
will play for the dance. This
is the first appearance of this or­chestra
at a Normal affair.
Two numbers have been arranged
for the entertainment of the "cir­cus-
goers". A trio consisting of
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In a talk before the Kiwanis
club Tuesday, March 29th, President
Fisher outlined his views upon a
subject important to students of the
school. Mr. Fisher stated that, in
his opinion, original thinking was
of greater importance to the stu­dents
than the completion of long
assignments to be done outside of
class. He intends to present to the
faculty of the Normal school a plan
whereby the students will be given
greater opportunity for the expres­sion
of their own thoughts and
opinions.
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AWARD POSITIONS
Three Students Are Placed
Appointment Bureau
by
STAFF IS LARGEST
IN VIKING HISTORY
Among students who have recent­ly
received teaching positions are:
Thelma Parlett, first four grades at
Allen; Donna Gill, junior high school
English at Sumner; Ellen Lurid-quist
will finish the year's work in
the intermediate grades at Pe Ell.
L-O-^—-——
PLAN BIG PICNIC
Stafr Pleases Editor Chapman;
Success Is Predicted
"I think we have a very-compe­tent
staff and I am looking forward
i to a successful quarter," says Roger
Chapman, editor of the Northwest
Viking.
This staff is the largest in the
history of the Viking. It consists of
thirty-six students, the majority of
whom have had previous experience
on the Viking and other publica­tions.
They are: Jimmie Stoddard, as­sociate
editor;' Virginia Carver, as­sistant
editor; Bob Waters, business
manager; William Fisher and David
Morse, assistant business managers.
The«department editors are: June
Welch, copy editor; Evelyn Altman,
desk editor; Dorothy Fiala, society
editor; Helen Northen, women's
sports editor, and Janet McArthur,
literary editor.
Irene Schagel, Debby Altose, Vir­ginia
George, Bob Walters, Gordon
Leen, Einar Larson, Marydel, Con­rad,
Naomi; Watson, Arvid Griff en
and Jean Murray make up the spe­cial
staff writers. The following are
the regular reporters: Iver Moe,
Terry Cook, Bruce Springford, Bill
Sells, Harriet Rickerson, Kathryn
Berkeley, Alice Wampler, Huston
DqiWi;:'Jjiwic K^uppenberg, Lorraine
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Kopperdahl, Julius Dornblut, Ervin
Ijeat^ and Elaine Sutherlea
All School Affair on Friday
1 3th at Lake Samish
the
With Bob Walters as general
chairman, the all-school picnic will
be held in May on Friday the 13th
at Lake Samish.
Plans are now being made but
there have been no committees ap­pointed
as yet. Last year the picnic
was at Lake Samish and Bob Wal­ters
also acted as chairman.
ORCHESTRA TRYOUTS
ARE NEXT FRIDAY
Co-Op Manager to Go to Conven­tion;
Normalstad Discussed
Discussion concerning rec hour
orchestra tryouts; guest tickets to
the Spring mixer, election of fac­ulty
advisor to the Board, chairman
of Campus Day, and election of
Board member to nominating con­vention
constituted the main busi­ness
of the regular Board of Control
meeting, March 29, called to order
by Vice President Nellie Cox.
Rec Hour Tryouts
Orchestra tryouts for rec hour
will be held at the regular rec hour
period" April 8, at 4:00 o'clock. It
was also moved and seconded that
the chairman appoint a committee
to take care of the details of elec­tion
at the tryout. Notices will be
posted on the main bulletin board.
It was suggested that a commit­tee
be appointed to confer with
President Fisher concerning a ren­ovating,
and remodeling of the scene
loft for the Drama club. This mat­ter
was brought up by Mr. Hoppe at
a past meeting and will be given
immediate action.
Mr. Ford to Convention
Mr. Ford, Normal Co-op manager,
was granted permission to attend
the Co-op convention to be held in
Seattle. Mr. Ford has obtained val­uable
information at former, con­ventions
and it was felt that the
trip would be very profitable.
It was also suggested that, in ac­cordance
with the change in the
name of the student body to the
Associated Students, all letterheads,
envelopes and requisitions be
changed to correspond to this
changed in name. The name of
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Poetry Is Passion With Vaughn
Howell, Head of Spring Mixer
By Naomi Watson
Mixteerrss come and go while their cchaiirrman struggle and succeed.
Chairman are people and remind us of things. The Spring Mixer
chairman, Vaughn Howell, reminds us of that phrase, "Be glad^ and
your friends are many."
Vaughn Howell, the girl with
those brown eyes you don't forget,
hails from Snohomish, Wash., and
is a graduate of Snohomish high.
There she was a member of the
honorary society, Drama club, stu­dent
council and was. editor of the
school par^., '*^^.~ ,.•
When a s ^ d w n a i t ^ e o f opposite
sex she prefeiTCd Vaughn answers,
"No preferencei^jusir sdf • personality
is not l8*fldng^ Profit
b y a & t | d ^
B£ro^rinter^s^J are many and
speaking of recreation Yaughn says,
"I would say 1 like dancing the very
best but everyone would laugh be­cause
I'm a horrible dancer." Mod­esty,
or is it?
Poetry is a passion with her. "I
do love poetry and adore to write
parts of poems, in note books and
text books." Cute hobby, eh?
"And chocolate pie is my weak­ness.
In fact if you want to know
my flavor you're always right if you
give me chocolate," says Vaughn.
A very valuable maiden is Vaughn,
for, wouM you beUeve that ishe^iab
cr--HBr-^ about seWh^
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Musical Treat
JOHN CHARLES THOMAS
Famed Baritone
Will Appear on
Artist Program
John Charles
Climax
Thomas Concert
Artist Series
to
What promises to be one of the
most enjoyable concerts of the sea­son,
according to music lovers, will
be heard next Thursday evening,
April 7, when John Charles Thomas,
noted baritone, appears at the Am­erican
theatre in recital.
The son of a methodist minister,
Mr. Thomas, gave up a medical
career in favor of music when he
unexpectedly won a scholarship to
the Peabody Conservatory in Bal­timore.
He began his studies at
that school under the guidance of
Adelin Fermin.
His first professional appearance
was made in light opera and he
continued in this line of singing for
some time. Later he progressed in
his art and made great advances
from opera comique, to grand opera,
finally becoming leading baritone at
the Royal Opera of Belgium.
Thomas now spends a major part
of his time in concert tour of Am­erica,
receiving ovations' at each
appearance. A criticism from the
New York Evening Post after a con­cert
in that city January 11, 1932
states: "Mr. Thomas has just about
everything that a singer needs to
have. The timbre of his voice is a
delight. His breathing is effortless,
his lungs are capacious. So power­ful
is his voice that Town Hall is
too small for it, because for propSr
interpretation he must let it out
at times. On the other hand, he is
capable of a real pianissimo, in which
voice production is as usual and yet
the volume is reduced and subdued.
Thus he achieves a fairly celestial
beauty."
This concert beginning at 8:15 p.
m. will end the list of very succes­sful
and well attended concerts in­cluded
in the Musical Artists' Series
presented by the Bellingham Wo­men's
Music Club and the State
Normal School for this season.
All tickets for the concert are on
reserve and holders of season tickets
and student activities tickets must'
present them at the theatre box of­fice
to receive their reserves. The
box office' will be open for this
purpose beginning Monday, April 4.
Notice!
Have you turned in your,
Klipsun Snapshot?
Snapshot Contest Ends Soon
Will you be the one to win
the prize?
First prize—Klipsun charge re­funded,
$3.00.
Second prize—$1.00.
Third prize—Box of chocolates.
WOMEN'S MUSIC CLUB
CHORUS WILL SING IN
TUESDAY'S ASSEMBLY
Gwendolyn Ruge Will Appear With
,Xarge Chorus
The Women's Music club chorus
of Bellingham will be presented in
concert on April 5, during the asr
sembly hour. The chorus is con­ducted
by Mr. Harrison Raymond,
whose studio is in the Fine Arts
building.
The chorus will be accompanied
by Gwendolyn Geary Ruge, soprano
soloist, formerly of Seattle, who is
now living at Sedro-Woolley. The
group of singers is made up of
thirty members of the Women's
Music club of this city. The varied
and well balanced program is as
follows:
"Lonely Pine" Rachmaninoff
"An Old Love"..,;Mexican Folk Song
"Come, Dance and Sing"
Freda Peycke
Chorus
A group of songs "
Gwendolyn Geary Ruge
"The Nightingale and the Rose"....
.....A Cantata
Chorus,
Gwendolyn Geary Ruge, soloist
NEW RULES MADE
FOR LIFE DIPLOMAS
Normal Graduates Teaching Out
of State Have Rating
From now on a graduate of Bel­lingham
Normal teaching outside
the State of Washington will have
the same status as one teaching in­side
the state as to the fulfillment
of the life diploma requirements.
* This is a ruling made by the "State
Board of Education on March 7 of
this year. Delia L. Keeler, of the
education department, is endeavor­ing
to inform all graduates affected
by this ruling of the change. Prior
to March 7 the applicant was re­quired
to teach at least sixteen
months within this state, to be in­cluded
in a total of twenty-four
months.
Now the b o a r d acknowledges
twenty-f o u r months' satisfactory
teaching in any state and territory
of the United States as eligible for
the life diploma.
HENRY LOWE IN
PRESIDENT RAGE
Howell, McElmon and
McArthur Are V. P.
Nominees
MACHINE WORKS
Club Selection of Candidates Re-pj
»«es Old System of
Petition
By BOB WALTERS.
The lid was pulled of f last Mon­day,
folks, and out jumped reju­venated
Old Man Election from
his dormant abode in the old ash can
where he had been dumped after
last fall's balloting. Within an hour
after students gathered in myste­rious
groups and talked politics in
excited whispers, the Old Boy, him­self,
appeared and campaign guff,
was shouted and echoed all the way
from Prexy's office into the middle
of next week.
The high spot in the week's ac­tivity
came last night when the new
election machinery gathered full
speed at the much touted conven­tion
and produced (folio for this
paragraph will be in Thursday even­ing,
dear printer.)
Yesterday afternoon's. nominating
convention made the choices of
James Butler and Henry "Tim"
Lowe for the primary presidential
election.
Howell Up
They followed this by nominating
Vaughn Howell, Doris McElmon
and Janet McArthur. For the four
quarter representative post Gordon
"Penny" Carter and Vernon Leatha
were the two nominees. »"••
There were likewise two put up
for faculty representative to the
board. Mr. Edward Arntzen and Dr.
E. A. Bond being the two.
Discussions Heated
The hottest part of the convenr
tion was not the actual choosing of
the candidates—nor. was it the long­est.
The delegates had too well set-
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Prexy Travels Eight Thousand
Miles and Never Misses a Train
And None of His Trains Were Late
By Virginia George
"I traveled eight thousand miles,
was gone five weeks, never missed
a train and none of my trains were
late!" remarked President C. H.
Fisher during a special interview
for this paper. Normal's president
returned from his tour of the East
March 21.
Visits to friends and relatives in
Ohio and Pennsylvania constituted
the only stops in. the president's
trip enroute to Washington, D. C,
where he arrived February 19 to
attend the National Education As­sociation
convention. At the na­tion's
capital he was engaged in a
two-day session of the American
Association of Teachers' Colleges
and Normal Schools, where he took
part in many profitable discussions.
s Hears Fine Talks
The next week he spent in meet­ings
of the National Department of
Superintendence and other educa­tional
meetings.
, "The best talks I . heard during
the convention I think, were those
of Dr. Charles H. Judd, dean of the
school of education at the Univer­sity
of Chicago, who spoke on the
theme of the convention, which was
'Education: our guide, our safe­guard,
and one of the chief sources
of bur spiritual life, our cultural
growth and our material power*;
Doctor Henry Suzzallo, former pres­ident
of the University of Washing­ton
and now head of the Carnegie
Foundation /for the Advancement of
Teaching, who had as • his topic,
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a Bate;; w ^
State University and who talked on
'Education Through Freedom in
Learning," and Dr. George S.
Counts, of Columbia University, who
had as his subject, 'Education
T h r o u g h Indoctrination,'" the f
president said. ,
Goes to Mount Vernon
In observance of Washington's
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CALENDAR
FRIDAY—April 1.
8:30 p. m., Mixer in Big
Gym.
SATURDAY—April 2.
1:00 p. m., W. A. A. Hike,
Meet in Front of Building.
12:30 p. m., Viking Week-end
Party, Meet at Baugh-man's.
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9:00 p. m. Collegiate Hop} at
Chuckanut Shell,; Free;
Transportation •'Lje' a v-je s
Baughman's at 8:45 p. m.
TUESDAY—April .5..A/.
11:00 am—Women's Music
Club Chorus in ' Rejgu&r
Assembly. '::-$-il:
WEDNESDAY—April 6. "; ;
7:30 p. m., Alkisiah CSub meet:
tag in Edens Hall Club
'Room. ; ^.[.\-'iky-$k
THURSDAY—April 7. .;.;>£
4:00 p. m.—Nonnai Yv W ^ G |
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11:00 p. m., PrimAry Election.
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