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VOL X X I X — N O . 33 W A S H I N G T O N S T A T E N O R M A L SCHOOL, B E L L I N G H A M , W A S H I N G T ON Friday, March 7, 1930 Hs'i
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' M A S Q U E R A D E
T E N N I S C O U R TS
R E D A R R OW
AND Y E D A I RY
• —Ray Craft
The Frosh Limehouse Ball and t he
Sophomore Colonial Party brought
out enthusiastic crowds, and were
thoroughly enjoyed. The costume
idea struck home, and everybody
•was happy.
I t has been suggested that since
the costume idea is such a successful
one, that the Spring dance, which
crowns the Campus Day festivities,
take the form of an all-school-all-alumni
masquerade.
Masquerades, if they are properly
planned, can be made very fantastic
affairs. There is always much of
color and of gaiety, what with a
crepe-paper Romeo dancing with a
cheese-cloth Pierette, while a syn­thetic
Pierrot sulks under a tinfoil
moon or jealously amuses a cre­tonne
Juliet.
There are always clowns and pi­rates,
yokels and city-slickers, and
Wild Men from Borneo. And if it
is a well-regulated masquerade, Jo-
Jo* may be there.
But whosoever attends, costume
affairs are always long anticipated
and long-remembered, and the pres­ent
writer, your humble servant,
adds his name to the list of those
who would like to see an all school
masquerade dance presented.
(*Jo-Jo is t he dog-faced boy who
broke into white lights by running
around the world-three times and
then jumping sixty feet into a glass
of buttermilk.—Editor.)
W.S.N.S.
Rumor has it that, in order to
compensate for t h e Rec. hour, which
never came a week ago, that a
double Rec. hour will be held some
week-end. The "double Rec hour"
will be held in the evening. These
affairs have been held before, and
with great success.
—W.S.N.S.—
Last year, Normal built three new
tennis courts. I t already had three
tennis courts, which made six alto­gether,
if we are to believe reliable
authority. Then, in order to make
ready for play on the three new
tennis courts, the nets were removed
from the three old tennis courts,
which left us just where we were
when we started. What certain indi­viduals
are trying to figure out is,
now that we are where we are,
where are we?
—W.S.N.S.—
The Scribes' Club got under way
last week, and bids fair to bring
forth again, "bigger and better than
ever before," the Red Arrow.
The Red Arrow, in the past, has
been a compliment to the institu­tion,
and has furnished the various
individuals who contributed,, with
a medium for the expression of
beauty and comedy as they see it.
The Red Arrow should be encour­aged,
and should represent the fin-
; est of the creative artistry of the
school.
One of the strongest criticisms
that can be directed against a school
with a too-heavy emphasis on the
objective methods of instruction, is
that it gives the student some un­derstanding
of the beauty which
other artists have created, without
developing in him whatever latent
powers of interpretation he may pos­sess.
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COMMIT! AS LATE
CONTEST IS CLi
Manuscripts Have Not Yet Been
Judged; Awards Will Depend On
Quality and Suitability of Work.
18 COMPLETE SONGS IN
Contest Conducted In Hopes That
Song Might Be Found to Typify
Spirit of Bellingham Normal.
The song contest came to a close
last week when a veritable down­pour
of original songs came tumb­ling
in a t t he last moment upon the
committee in charge. Eighteen com­plete
manuscripts have been re­ceived.
Judging has not yet taken
place as a short time must be set
aside to allow' those manuscripts
which might be in transit to arrive
before the actual judging com­mences.
The judges, who are Harold B.
Smith, Music department; H. E.
Fowler, English department; Albert
Booman, president Alumni Associa­tion;
Mrs. C. X. Larrabee, Belling-ham
Women's Music Club; President
C. H. Fisher; one member of the
B. S. N. S. student body; and one
member of the Board of Control,
will plan in detail, specific criteria
for judging, and thet exact manner
in which they will go about it.
Slips will be pasted over the names
of music composers and word writ­ers,
and each song will be given a
number, so that judgment will de­pend
entirely upon the quality and
suitableness of the songs submit­ted.
Names of all contributors, as well
as the prize winners, will be pub­lished
later after the final decisions
have been made. In the event that
a suitable song is not submitted the
Committee of Judges reserve the
right to postpone the awarding of
prizes and advise continuation of
the contest. However, with as many
contributions as have ben turned in,
it is hardly likely that this privi­lege
will be exercised.
The first prize for t he best words
and music will be forty dollars,
for the second best, twenty dollars,
and ten dollars for the third best.
This song contest has been con­ducted
for the past year in the
hopes that a song might be com-
THIRTY GIRLS SIGNED... .
UP TO GO TO SINCLAIR
ISLAND ON SATURDAY
Thirty girls will leave tomorrow
morning at 7 o'clock, on the mail
boat, from the Quackenbush dock,
for Viqueen lodge, on Sinclair island,
where they will participate in a
work-day to put t he lodge in order
for the coming season. All faculty
members and women students are
eligible to go, but only the first thirty
signed up can be taken.
Over at the lodge the girls plan
to do big things under the leader­ship
of Mr. George Dach, head gar­dener.
There will be a general cleaning
up of the grounds and the cabin,
and possibly some work on building
a fireplace and a fence around the
property.
Working will be predominant, but
fun and food will have their places
and the trip looks like one of t he
best of t he Saturday affairs, accord­ing
to Marjorie Coventon, general
chairman of the lodge committee.
OREGON NORMAL TO
DEBATE TEAM HERE
Ray Craft and Lyle Summers to
Battle for Affirmative, While
Mr. Strothers Is Critic Judge.
MAUD SCHEERER
Drama Recitalist .
SCHEERER TO BE IN
TWO ASSEMBLIES
GIVEN NEXT WEEK
Miss Maud Scheerer To Present
Group of. "Dramatic Recreations"
In a Special Assembly Monday.
/ The last two weeks nave been very
busy and rather discouraging ones
for the debate teams. Here are some
recent debate decisions and facts.
February 25, Helen Fitzwater and
Lois Thomson defeated the College
of Puget Sound negative team.
February 26, Alice Burke and
Louise Lilienthal, negative team,
lost a decision to the College of
Puget Sound, at Tacoma.
February 27, the Women's affirm­ative
team lost to the Pacific Luth­eran
College, at Tacoma.
February 28, the Women's nega­tive
team and the Men's affirmative
team went to Seattle and debated
the Seattle Pacific College. In the
former case the Normal team lost,
but the men won to even things
up. Carl Windesheim, coach of the
negative teams at the University
of Washington, was the critic judge
at, the men's debate.
March 3, the Women's negative
posed which would typify the truev team won over the Pacific Lutheran
spirit of the Normal By the Sea.
Last year Gay Springsteel was ap­pointed
by t he Board of Control as
chairman of the song contest com­mittee.
His duties were taken over
this year by Edith Dyer, with Jean
Philippi, Frances Young, and Ethel
Boynton, as assistants. Mr. Ruck-mick
is faculty adviser.
BAND TO FEATURE
FRIDAY'S ASSEMBLY
The Normal Pep Band, under the
leadership of Clarence Thue, will
present another of its well-liked as­sembly
programs on next Friday,
March 14. The Pep Band has never
failed, since its first organization,
to present an attractive and effec­tive
recital before the student body,
upon any occasion on which it ap­peared,
and i t is certain that next
Friday's presentation will not be an
exception.
Definite plans for the program
have not been fully formulated, but
Clarence Thue has completed the
arrangement of several new selec­tions
for the band, and a number
of special acts, to be presented be­tween
band selections, are being re­hearsed.
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FISHER TO RETURN
President C. H. Fisher, of the Nor­mal
School, is expected to return
Sunday from the East, where he
went a few weeks ago to attend edu-=
cational meetings in Atlantic, City
and conferences of President Hoov­er's
child health commission, in
Washington, D. C. He also' planned
to go to New York City. \
College, here. The judges were Miss
Madge Ware, principal of the Wash­ington
school; Miss Mary Muir, in­structor
of English at Washington
High school, and Mrs. Sue Boynton.
March 4, the Men's team of t he
Normal and the Pacific Lutheran
College debated a dual debate, the
school's affirmative teams traveling.
The Lutheran College won both de­cisions.
Judges for the debate here
on the above date, were W. M. Shep-hard,
of Whatcom High school; Olaf
Strowme, of Fairhaven High school,
and Judge Olsen.
Monday, March 10, Ray Craft
and Lyle Summers, affirmative
team, will meet the Oregon State
Normal here at 7:30. The critic
judge at this time will probably be
Charles Strothers, who is a coach
and instructor at the University of
Washington, and was for three years
a member of the Varsity team. After
the debate, Mr. Strothers will ex­plain
the decision.
March 12 is the date of another
dual debate, this time with the Col­lege
of Puget Sound, the negative
teams of schools traveling. There­fore,
Quentin Quick and John
Thorpe will debate in Tacoma, while
Roger Reid and Lyle Summers will
debate here.
MISS SPERRY GIVES BOOK
REVIEW AT CLUB MEETING
Presenting groups of "dramatic r e ­creations,"
the term she applies to
her clever method of interpreting
short plays as she reads them, Maud
Scheerer will entertain.in a special
assembly,at 11 o'clock next Monday
morning, as well as in the regular
assembly on Tuesday. She will also
give a talk before the Faculty Fo­rum
on the subject, "Drama as a
World Force," using the play,
"Journey's End" as an illustration,
and it is expected that she will visit
some of the Normal's speech classes
during the time in which ,she will
be here.
Balanced Programs
In Monday morning's program, it
is expected that she will read "High
Lights of the Season," part of t he
"Street Scene" and the "Criminal
Code." Since these plays are all of
a more or less serious motif, she
may insert some short numbers of
a lighter nature between them by
way of attaining a program of bet­ter
balance. She has expressed her
desire to present "The Skin Game"
in Tuesday's assembly, since its re-;
cent introduction in London met
with most marvellous success, and
her personal opinion of its merits is
extremely high.
Creates Reality
Maud Scheerer, in her dramitc re­citals,
is said to create the vitality
absorbing reality of the actual stage.
By her adroit description, the audi­ence
is made to visualize the scene,
and is introduced to the characters.
Quickly the curtain is up, the stage
set, and she draws her listeners into
the plot and aption with a sweeping
tempo, as clear as it is brilliant.
THE WINTER QUARTER
EXTEMPORE CONTEST
IS TO BE HELD SOON
The preliminaries contest for the
Extempore Contest, when six con­testants
for the Winter quarter fin­als
will be picked, will be held in
Room 308 a t 4 o'clock, March 13.
At 9 o'clock of that morning in
Room 310 t he specific topics will be
given out, thus giving the contest­ants
all day to prepare. Those who
cannot appear at this time should
send someone to get their topic.
Entrants should leave their names
and chosen topics at the speech
office before 4 o'clock Wednesday,
March 12.
The following Tuesday, March 18,
the winners will compete before t he
assembly for a chance to speak in
the Spring finals.
Last quarter's winners w e re
Quentin Quick and Eleanor Lang-worthy,
who placed first and sec­ond,
respectively.
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BOARD OF CONTROL
HOLDS DISCUSSION
Song Contest, Drama Money, and
Viking Editorship Have Place In
Business Brought Up At Meeting.
Miss M. Belle Sperry gave a book
review at a meeting of the After­math
Club, at their clubhouse, Mon­day
afternoon, on "Raj, Brigand
Chief," which is a picture of. life
in India Monday:; evening; she re­peated
the review for the Delphian;
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PEP CLUB PERFORMS
FOR LEGION MEETING
With Jack Musser acting as mas­ter
of ceremonies and Clarence Thue
as leader, the Normal Pep Club, on
last Monday evening, presented the
most successful of any of the pro­grams
it has given outside of the
school. The performers appeared be­fore
the American Legion, in the
new Legion hall, and every act. was
received with great delight by t he
audience.
The band numbers were played
perfectly, and were greatly appre­ciated,
and t he specialty acts were
even more liked. The vocal trio, con­sisting
of Wayne Piem, Barbara
Bourne, and Dorothy Knuppenberg,
and the tap dance presented by
Ann Swanson, Florence Goodman,
and Marion Bodiker, were probably
the two most successful of the pre­sentations.
Each received a most
generous round of applause. At the
end of the program the audience de­manded
and received several en­cores,
and when all was/finally con­cluded
the listeners arose in a^ body
;to"'ap^^ud:'.ifie.'performei^) left the
Things are rather quiet around
the Board of Control at present,
with little business to be brought up.
They held a meeting last Monday,
but will, in all probability, postpone
the coming one. However, things will
soon pick up as applications for vari­ous
offices come in and the work of
closing up this quarter's business will
take place. - . . . . • ' • -
At the last meeting, seventy-five
dollars was voted to aid Mr. Victor
Hoppe in carrying on the drama
work.
A discussion of the song contest
ensued. The contest is now closed
and a group of judges and commit­teemen
are attempting to pick out
the prize refrain.
During the final week of the quar­ter,
applications will be received at
the office of the Board of Control
for Editor of the Northwest Viking,
Business Manager of same, and Sec­retary
of the Board of Control. As
yet, none have actually signified
their intentions of applying for these
positions, but rumors have it that
for the two paper jobs, Ray Craft
and Gordon Leen will place their
names on the candidate list, the for­mer
trying for the Editor job.
In last week's issue, The Viking
stated that officers of the Board of
Control must be two-year residents
of Bellingham. This is slightly erro­neous,
in that any member must
have had two-quarters of residence
work here at Normal.
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SCHOLARSHIP SOCIETY
MEETS AT PHILIPPI HOME
"WHITEHEADED BOY" TO BE PRESENTED BY I
L DRAMA CLUB IN AUDITORIUM I t
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY OF NEXT W l
Don Stickney Carries Lead in Part of Prodigal Son,!
Who Furnishes Family Trouble Enough to Make;
This Play a Rollicking Gomedy of Irish Home-Life;
Student Activities Tickets Admit:
to Unreserved Section —, General
Admission Will Be Fifty Cents.
STUDENTS COMPETE IN
NATION-WIDE CONTEST
Eleven Normal students have en­tered
the second national League of
Nations' essay contest. Each entrant
must submit a.thesis on one of eight
topics not later than March 31.
A trip to Europe is t h e first prize
with several cash prizes for other
winners. The students entered in
the contest are: Verna Bond, Edith
Dyer, Mrs. Natalie Dawson, Mrs.
Edna B. Finley, Katherine Graham,
Inez Kreshler, Betty Mortland,
Daisy Mooney, Eleanor Park, Chas.
Rich, Edna C. Wardleigh.
STUDENTS ENTERTAIN
LOCAL KIWANIS CLUB
The Scholarship Society met at
the home of Jean Philippi, one of
its members, last Tuesday evening.
After a short business meeting, dur­ing
which Curtis Bell was appointed
editor of the annual News Letter,
there followed an evening of very
interesting discussion, led by Miss
Elizabeth M. Hopper. Later refresh­ments
were served.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Philippi were
guests of the society, in accordance
with the custom of inviting some
faculty member to each meeting.
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DR. ROBERT H. GLOVER
SPEAKS ON MISSIONS FIELD
Dr. Robert H. Glover, of Phila­delphia,
spoke before the Normal
Y. W. C. A. last Tuesday afternoon,
on "What Constitutes a Call to the
Mission Field?" In his speech he
said that the missionary call was
based upon heavenly or spiritual
vision and the vision of the field.
He was well received by a large audi­ence.
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STUDENTS EXPRESS SYMPATHY
The Student body wishes to.ex­press
its sympathy to Hildur Ander­son,
whose mother died in Kcdiak,
Alaska^ recently. ;
Several Normal students contrib­uted
to the musical program given
at the Kiwanis Club luncheon in
the Bellingham.Hotel last Tuesday
noon. Frances Young, soprano, ac­companied
by Margaret Morrison,
sang "Pleurez-Mes, Yeau," by Mas-sanet;
"Sonata Op 45", by Grieg,
and closing the program a group of
violin selections were given by
Charles Bensen, accompanied by
Sue McMillin.
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APPOINTMENT BUREAU
Miss Elizabeth Hopper, of t he Ap­pointment
bureau announces that
Alza Reff has recently accepted a
position as teacher of the primary
grades in Greenacres, Washington.
Miss Reff attended school here some
time ago.
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RESULTS OF TEST
GIVEN BY BUREAU
Several weeks ago the%. students
enrolled in the Englisji classes in
the three Normal schools of the
State, were asked by the Research
Bureau to spell a list of sixteen
words. The main purpose of collect­ing
the attempted spellings of these
sixteen words is for some research
work which is being done in t he field
of phonetics by the Bureau of Re­search
and Department of' Speech.
The students who participated in
the study'have expressed an inter­est
in learning the results in terms
of the number of words missed
and the difficulty of the different
words. I n the tables which follow,
Bellingham is indicated by t he let­ter
"A," and t he other two Normal
schools by the letters "B" and "C."
"• • ' - Table I
Difficulty of the Sixteen Words
Expressed in Per Cent of Students
Mispelling Each Word.
After a month of intense work;;
and patient practice the Drama clubs
finally enters into the nome stretch^
and will have a play in its complete
form ready for public presentation
next Thursday and Friday nights.
The drama will be given in the Nor-';
mal auditorium and general admis­sion
will be fifty, cents. Normal ac­tivity
tickets admit to unreserved
section, but 25c will be charged for
the reserved section.
"The Whiteheaded Boy," with its>
own unique action, rich humor, arid •
genuine everyday people is enough.'
in itself to appeal to t he audience;
but under the fine direction of Mr;
Hoppe, who has worked out every
situation so that it goes over and
is made clear, the play should be
a huge success.
Stickney Has Lead
Don Stickney carries the l e a d en
the character of Denis Geohegari,
the whiteheaded boy, the prodigal
son, and in t he opinion of his broth-;
ers and sisters, everything that
stands for a lazy, shiftless, spend-*
thrift. Denis just hasn't had^.a;
chance, but as t h e action advances
he develops into quite an exceptional
young man. The play has no direct
feminine lead, but Mary McDonald,
in the character role of the very
positive Aunt Ellen, and Chloris
Fisher, as the mother who thinks
her Denis is no less than "an angel .
from hiven," have outstanding parts.
The rehearsals have furnished
much'pleasure for both cast and
director. A great source of amuse-;
ment came from the earrifest efforts
to produce and retain an Irish ;
brogue. After a character's firria deT
cision to say "owld" he would give
a few lines then in the interest of
acting, lapse back to the English;'
speech. A clever piece of comedy
is shown when one of the Geohegan
boys sits on the top steps of the i
(Continued on Page Six)
• A B C Total
Minimum .:. 13.0 14.4 13.5 13.6
Annum ........ ... 13.0" 13.2 21.2 15.9
Psychology .. ...26.1 7.4 11.0 16.1
Technical .... ...20.0 12.5 14.5 16.1
Pneumonia .. - 161 16.0 18.0 16,5
(Continued on Page Two)
CALENDAR
TODAY—
4 p. m., Rec. hour.
TOMORROW—
W. A. A. t r ip to Sinclair Isl­and.
Intermediate party.
SUNDAY—Mar. 9.
7 p. in., Student Forum, Y. W.
' C. A.
MONDAY—Mar. 10.
11 a. m., Special assembly,
Maude Scheerer, dramatic
reader.
7:30 p. m., Debate, Men's team ;
meets Oregon Normal, here.
Social Science Club meeting,
Edens Hall Club room.
TUESDAY—Mar. 11.
11 a. m., Regular assembly, T
Maude Scheerer again.
7:30 p. m., Scholarship Societjr
meeting, Edens Hall Club
room.
WEDNESDAY—Mar. 12.
7 p. m., Y. W. Bible ClassJ
meets at Miss Sperry's homef
7:30 p. m., Debate, Men's team>j
meets C. P. S., here.
THURSDAY—Mar. 13. • .yJC;
8:15 p. m , Normal Drama Clubj
presents "The Whiteheaded^
Boy," Normal auditoriumv,};,r
; FRIDAY—-Mar, 14. • ,; -;MM
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8:15 p . m . , Second perfoflmpi
ance of "The Whitehe^jedj;
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