Western Front - 1967 October 24

              AS president of 1912 to
act as parade marshal
Dr. Harrison F. Heath, student body president
of Bellingham Normal School in 1911-12, will act
as parade marshal next week during Homecoming.
He is being flown from San Jose, Calif., where
he is a test officer and professor of psychology
at San Jose State College, by the Associated
Students.
A member of boys' debating club, glee club,
boys' quarter, Weekly Messenger (now Western
Front) staff and the basketball team at Bellingham
Normal, Dr. Heath was graduated from the Uni­versity
of Washington in 1916, where he was a
member of Phi Delta Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa
honoraries and Lambda Chi Alpha social fraternity.
He has degrees in mathematics and education.
After serving in the Navy during World War I,
Dr. Heath taught in Lewis County, held high school
principalships in Renton and SedroWoolley and
was school superintendent in Burlington.
In 1920, he married Dorothy Kizer. His sons
are a professor of biology at California State in
Hayward and a civil engineer in San Jose.
Dr. Heath has been on the faculty at San Jose
State for 42 years.
He will arrive in Bellingham Nov. 3. On Nov. 4
he will attend a breakfast and formal meeting of
Graduate Associate Student Presidents, and will
represent Western Washington State College
alumni in the parade.
Dr. Heath will return to California on Nov. 5.
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Vol. LX, No. 6 Western Washington State College, Bellingham, Wash. 98225 Tuesday, October 24, 1967
Individual Copy 10c
This issue of The Western Front is the first student newspaper from Western to be
sent to every known alumnus.
Sent all over the world, it will hopefully arrive in time to inform all alumni on Home­coming
activities, refresh their memories of Western and persuade them to come to
Homecoming on Nov. 4.
A special section is included, starting on page 1 1 , which revives old stories from
old school newspapers and annuals.
Other stories in the newspaper are:
Alumni homecoming activities P. 13
History of Western P.I 2
Peace demonstrations P. 3
Editorials, letters P. 4, 5
Psychology independent study .P. 2
House that Klein built P.23
Alumni Board P.22
First a queen, then a trustee P. 14
Strand poetry reading serious
By NANCY SANFORD
FRONT Staff
Mark Strand's poetry reading
last Friday evening sometimes
was humorous and often serious.
"I never plan what I'm going
to read," Strand remarked, "and
the reason that I don't talk
about my poetry is because it's
very difficult to talk about."
He did, however, relate some
of the background for various
poems. His poem 'The Acci­dent"
started as a writing as­signment
for his students at the
University of Iowa. He gave
them the line "a train runs
over me" and told them to use
it as the first line of a poem.
His students decided it was too
final to be a first line, and no
one completed the assignment.
This poem was Strand's answer.
The poet explained that he
often incorporated his immedi­ate
environment into his poetry.
"What to Think About," which
he wrote while in Brazil, in­cludes
beautiful imagery as he
describes the lush jungle.
Another poem, "The Last
Bus" describes his feelings
about bus rides in Rio de Jan­eiro.
According to him, "It was
about a week before I realized
that the buses race downtown.
Every bus ride I thought the
bus would turn over. It was
scary!"
Bela Detrekoy sets concert
Bela Detrekoy, new Western fac­ulty
member and a Hungarian con­cert
violinist from Copenhagen, Den­mark,
will make his American con­cert
debut tomorrow evening in a
special faculty concert at 8:15 in the
Auditorium.
Detrekoy will be assisted by Michi
North, pianist. The program will fea­ture
Vivaldi's Sonata for violin and
piano in A Major, Bach's "Unaccom­panied
Violin Suite" in E Major, the
famous Brahms A Major Sonata for
Violin and Piano Op. 100 and Bela
Bartok's Rhapsody No. 1.
The pieces will be played on his
200-year-old violin, a valuable Italian
Gagliano.
Detrekoy is an associate professor
here and heads the string program in
the Department of Music. His wife,
Tova, is also a violinist and they both
are members of the newly-formed Col­lege
String Quartet. Later this year,
the Detrekoys will be featured soloists
with the College-Civic Symphony Or­chestra
in a performance of the Bach
Double Violin Concerto.
A graduate of the Franz Liszt
Academy of Music in Budapest, Hung­ary,
Detrekoy later received the
coveted diploma from the International
Competition at Geneva, Switzerland.
He is a former member of the Royal
Copenhagen Orchestra and has pre­sented
concertos throughout Europe.
In 1961 he was soloist at the open­ing
concert of the Royal Danish Bal­let
and Music Festival, playing the
violin concerto of Bela Bartok. Dur­ing
1964 he took part in the "Ac-cademia
Internazionale" and Cham­ber
Music Festival in Sermoneta,
Italy. He served there at the invi­tation
of YehudiMenuhinasfirst violin­ist
and soloist in the various cham­ber
music ensembles under such
famous names as Sziget, Cassado,
Magaloff and Menuhin.
Prior to coming to the United
States this fall, Detrokoy presented
concerts in Geneva and Budapest. Last
year he was selected by the Danish
Ministry of Culture to serve as di­rector
of a special music project
in the Faroe Islands. There he headed
the music school in Torshaven and
conducted the chamber orchestra.
Some 1,300 students turned out Thursday to vote on the
pass-fail question and several uncontested seats in class and
Associated Student government. Some write-ins were posted.
(Photo by Finley)
Cooper wins seat;
amendment passes
Steve Cooper won the fresh­man
legislator race and a last
minute constitutional amend­ment
was approved in Thurs­day's
Associated Students elec­tions.
Other winners were the four
legislator - at -largecandidates,
Dean Van Donge, Mike Botkin,
Dennis Hindman and John Mit­chell.
All ran unopposed.
A constitutional ammendment
enabling the AS President to ap­point
extra members to the ex­ecutive
cabinet won student ap­proval
by 43 votes.
The change was brought up
during the Oct. 16 session of
Legislature. A unanimous ap­proval
in that meeting would
have approved the measure au­tomatically,
but Al Donaldson
and Dennis Hindman voted a-gainst
it.
"I didn't feel the amendment
was an emergency measure that
needed immediate approval,"
Donaldson said. "I thought it
should go before the students."
According to Legislator Bob
Partiow, "An amendment that
needs approval must go on the
next regularly
election ballot/'
scheduled AS
The cabinet functions as part
of the executive branch of AS
government. The major part of
its operations deal with advising
the President on all matters of
student government.
A large write-in campaign
highlighted the battles for fresh­man
class offices. John CrulL
Ron Peterson and Dennis Marsn
won the offices of president,
vice - president and treasurer
respectively. Barbara Mallett,
a write-in candidate, is the new
freshman class secretary.
A student poll on pass - fail
grades received more than 1,200
responses. 573 of those polled
wished to see all classes ex­cept
those in one's major and
minor changed to a pass-fail
system. 389 wanted general ed­ucation
courses on a pass-fail
basis and 321 were satisfied with
the system as it stands.
The poll will be used to indi­cate
student feelings on pass-fail
grades.
Bela Detrekoy, European concert violinist who joined the
music department this year, will present a concert at 8:15
p.m. Wednesday in the auditorium. (FRONT photo)