Collegian - 1964 July 31

              TilE WESTERN WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE
Collegian
Staff Quits
Advisor
Rejoices
Vol. LVI, No. 33 Bellingham, Washington Friday, July 31, 1964
Jarrett
Dr. J a m e s L. J a r r e t t will close t h e door to t h e Presi­d
e n t ' s Office in Old Main today for t h e last time. After
serving as P r e s i d e n t of W e s t e r n for t h e p a s t five years,
J a r r e t t will leave Bellingham tomorrow for his n ew
position as Associate Dean of t h e School of Education
at t h e U n i v e r s i t y of California at" Berkley.
Dr. Paul Woodring,- a distin­guished
service professor at West­ern
and editor of the Saturday
Review Education Supplement,
will take over the presidential
duties until a new president can
be found.
When Jarrett first came to
Western in 1959, construction was
still underway on the Viking
Union and Haggard Hall of
Science.
WESTERN has undergone _<a
lot of changes since Jarrett ar­rived.
Since then, the buildings on
campus have been joined by Car­ver
Gymnasium;' the student
bookstore; the Viking Commons
addition to the student lounge;
Higginson Hall; two wings added
to the library; Humanities Build­ing;
Lecture Halls 2, 3 and 4;
and the Ridgeway Dormitory,
Commons and Lounge Complex.
The enrollment has climbed
from 2,500 to almost 4,000 students
during, his administration.
When looking back over his
five years as president, Jarrett
said he felt his major contribu­tion
and his major concentration
was in the building of a strong
faculty.
"We have gone to great lengths
tc identify areas in departments
where the faculty is deficient
and fill them in with scholars
who are specialists in that area,"
Jarrett said.
He said the Political Science
and Philosophy Departments were
particularly in need of more facul­ty
when he first came here.
"Through our emphasis on
building a sound faculty," Jar­rett
said, "next year's 260 faculty
members can provide a really
sound major in all of our depart­ments
at the undergraduate
level."
Jarrett said he felt several
things are helping to influence
better qualified educators to
Western now. Some of these fact­ors
included the increased size
of the library, the new modern
private offices available for pro­fessors
in the Humanities Build­ing
and the1 vast sums of money
that the federal and state govern­ments
are granting Western for
research.
"Our faculty research program
dwarfs the program of six years
ago," he said. "Western is
fast • becoming a center for the
discovery and dissemination of
new knowledge.
"It is becoming increasingly
important for an institution to not
stop at merely filling the role
of an educator, but to also act
as' a creative force," he added.
Another area of emphasis of
Jarrett's that was.more or less
a result of his stress on superior
faculty, was increasing the qual­ity
of Western's student body.
LAST YEAR the entrance re­quirement
for incoming fresh­men
was raised from a 2.0 to 2.5
high school grade point average.
"Our student body is becoming
more intellectual, more vocal,
more critical and more politically
conscious," he said. "All of those
symptoms are evidences of a
growing maturity in the college
v/ithout the slightest de-emphasis
on teacher education."
Jarrett, who was president of
the Great Books Foundation be­fore
coming to Western, arrived!
on campus with a firm conviction
of the worth of reading the works
of-great men. It was soon after
his arrival that he and the Gen­eral
Education Committee had
worked out the Humanities Pro­gram.
"I am. concerned with the future
A FOND FAREWELL—Dr. James L. Jarrett gives out with one
of his characteristic smiles as he prepares to leave Western for
another position in California. Dr. Jarrett was president of the
College for five years.
of this program at Western,"
Jarrett said, "because ambitious
programs such as this are always
in danger of collapsing."
Looking into Western's future,
Jarrett outlined some of the prob­lems
the new president will have
to solve when he comes to West­ern.
"His primary job will be to
try to define Western's optimum
size and the role it will play
with the rapidly expanding junior
college system," he said.
Jarrett predicted that no one
would be able to stop Western's
expansion before its enrollment
surpasses six or seven thousand
students.
{Threepenny'Is A Bargain
W%&.
Opera Runs Tonight
And Tomorrow
"IF YOU WERE IMMORAL enough to get married—did you have to marry a horse thief?" This
is only one of the many unusual approaches to life portrayed in "Threepenny Opera." Pictured
from left are Faye Solberg, David Webb and Virginia Oliver.
A Review by Larry D. Harnden
The steam from Bellingham's pulp mill swiHs
delicately around Western's Auditorium Building as
the production of "The Threepenny Opera" by Bertold
Brecht and Kurt Weill moves into high gear.
The combination Music-Drama Department presen­tation
is slated to shock, excite and preach the saga
. .of Mack-the-knife at 8:30 p. m. tonight and tomorrow.
Dr. Paul Wadleigh has directed a show that is de­lightfully
raunchy. This bargain-basement spectacle pro­duced
by Western's Hugh Heffner is packed with many-.
dimensioned harlots.
Mother, these are full-blooded girls—girls that you
wouldn't like your son to meet.
Two of the more provocative playmates were played
by Mrs. Chris Walker and Cassandra Lawyer. Jenny
(played by Mrs. Walker), was a hard-swinging, two-fisted
realist that shot the show into orbit during her
solo number.
Cassandra exhibited a different type of feline fem­ininity
in her part. She proved that, "there was still
a dance in the old girl yet."
Contrasted to this bevy of flaming women is an
image-pure, slightly artificial-flavored, Polly Peachum
played by Fay Solberg.
J im Hamilton swings the show into motion with
his characterization of Mack-the-knife...-His control
rhythm and flair add just the right effect to aristo­cratic
fastidiousness to his part.
Mr. Peachum. played by David Webb, adds a very
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