Western Washington Collegian - 1949 October 14

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Vol. XLVIII—No. 4 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Friday, Oct. 14, 1949
Adolpbe Menjou is Bringing
Mis Famous Wardrobe and
Ready Wit to WWG Thursday
Adolphe Menjou, whose familiar face and debonair manner are
known to even the most casual movie-goers, will appear in person
at WWG Thursday evening, October 20, at 8:00 o'clock, as the
second offering of the fall quarter Artists and Lecture series.
Menjou, offspring of a French restauranteur and an Irish colleen,
I j . was born in Pittsburgh, a fact surprising to many of his followers
9 'who assume from his suave and*1"
^cultivated air that he was born
• abroad.
After a brief sojourn at Cornell
university and a fling at the restaur-
„• ant business, young Menjou went to
,- New York to seek fame and for-
Ktune in the theater. Pickings were
lean there, so with his moustache
and a rented top hat, he ventured
into his first role in the infant mode
Preview Slated
For Club Skits
U'
ADOLPHE MENJOU
of entertainment—the movies-^as a
whip - wielding moustache - twirling
circus ringmaster.
LONG AGO
That was thirty-five years and
150 films ago. Today he is still a
leading film personality, which is in­deed
rare in an industry in which
-stars are made overnight and fall
into oblivion about as rapidly. Dur­ing
this unprecedented length of as­sociation
with the great and near-great
of Hollywood, Menjou has
.gathered an endless array of anec­dotes
of the film favorites, which
he tells in'his lecture appearances.
- In his lectures he tells the story
of the phenomenon of Hollywood,
and with great humor and gusto he
goes behind scenes and tells the
I story of moviemaking with toler-
|Miee for the foibles of the weak
[and appreciation for the. woaidearai
[that the camera.has brought to;the
rworid. : S^Si
Famous for his wardrobe which
consistently places jii^ft-dn the ten
best-dressed list, ^ ^ the author
of an autobiography titled "It Took
Nine Tailors." Recent movie appear-;
ganees include "The Hucksters,"
^j3tate of the Union," and "My
Dream is Yours."
All houses and organizations
participating in the Homecoming
skit assembly Friday night, Oc­tober
21, are asked to appear
Monday night in the auditorium
for a pre-view. Beginning at 7
p. m., groups participating are
asked to come in the following
order: Valkyries, Camera club,
Daniels hall, Edens hall, MRH,
Kluane, Hilltop house, Hospice
inn, Huntoon and Barr Ginn,
Off Campus women, Harborview,
We Six house, Drama club, Hen­derson
house, and Senior hall.
Assembly co-chairmen Ralph
Brown and Gail Dillon request that
all scripts with curtain cues or call­ing
for special light effects be turn­ed
in by Monday afternoon. They
may be submitted to Brown or Dil­lon
or to committee members Carl
Lindell and Dale Pierson.
Annual Luncheon
Is Highlight of
'49 Homecoming
Always a favorite item on the
homecoming agenda is the home­coming
luncheon, being held this
year in the Edens hall dining
room at 11:00 a. m., Saturday,
October 22.
ASB president William Jones will
preside at the luncheon. Dr. W. W.
Haggard, president of the college,
Ray Hyatt, representing the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, and Trygve
Blix, principal of Washington school
in Tacoma, will make the welcome
and response.
Roy Thordarson, superintendent
of Overtake schools in Bellevue will
give the address. A short musical
program will be presented by the
music department.
WILL COST
Cost of the luncheon to faculty
and alumni is 90 cents with stu­dents
being^dmitted for the reduced
fee of SO /ycmfc Tickets go on sale
Tuesday in^the^main hall and may
also be purchased just before the
luncheon at Edens hall.
Students handling arrangements
for-the luncheon include L o rn a
Smith, Virginia Lange, George Kern,
and Grover Ledbetter. "
Kingsbury, Eldridge
Named by Governor
As College Trustees
Burton A. Kingsbury, Bellingham
attorney, and Donald D. Eldridge,
Mount Vernon, have been named
to the board of trustees for West­ern
Washington College of Educa­tion
by Governor Arthur B. Lang-lie,
s
Kingsbury suceeds Verne Brani-gin,
Bellingham attorney, who died
in July after serving 16 years as a
trustee of the college. Kingsbury's
term will expire June 12, 1955.
Eldridge, whose term will end
June 12, 1953, succeeds Joseph Pem-berton.
Red FeatherJDrive
At Western Nears
Quota, Says Hicks
Setting $1,700.00 as their Commun­ity
Ghest goal, WWC faculty and
administration have already reached
the 85 percent mark. Dr. Arthur
Hicks, chairman of the drive here,
said he expected to have the full
amount by next week. He empha­sized
that the college group was al­ways
among those organizations
which contributed the entire quota.
Student collections are being taken
in boxes in the dean's office, the
president's office, the library, the
campus school office, and the reg­istrar's
office.
Homecoming Events
Hilltop Campus in Festive Mood
As Homecoming Week-end Nears
"Voyagers Homecoming" of 1949 got off to an early start with
the kickoff assembly held Tuesday morning. Introduced by Presi­dent
W. W. Haggard, Homecoming co-chairmen Barbara Hodges
and John Hill emceed the affair, which served to get the student:
body into the spirit of Homecoming and to brief them on the events
of the celebration.
First of the Homecoming committees to appear was the queen affairs
committee. Co-chairman Jess Winders explained the procedure for
- : •nomination and election of Queen
Sigrid x n and her attendants, which
Dateline .
Friday, Oct. 14—USCC Fireside at
Don Irish's, 7:30 p. m. Thespian
club rec hour, evening.
Saturday, Oct. 15—Football game:
WWC vs. University of British Co­lumbia.
Sunday, Oct. 16—Camera club field
trip.
Monday, Oct. 17—WRA initiation,
4:00 p. m., Blue room. Klipsun
meeting, 4:00 p. m.
Tuesday, Oct 18—Valkyrie initiation,
4:00 p. m.
Friday, Oct. 21—Homecoming week­end,
bonfire, assembly, costume
mixer, big gym.
Saturday, Oct, 22 — Homecoming
luncheon, football game 2:00 p. m*
"W" club dance, evening, Armory.
Iowa Job-Finder in
Visit to Campus
Miss Frances Camp, state director
of educational placement in Iowa,
is visiting the college this week.
Miss Camp keeps up her associa­tion
with former students. She is
traveling all over the country seeing
the people she has placed in teach­ing
positions. Three of those people
teach here at Western. They are:
Miss Lorraine Powers, dean of
women; Miss Edna Channer, indus­trial
arts; and Laurence Brewster.
speech department. All three at­tended
Iowa State college for their
graduate work.
During her visit here Miss Camp
will be entertained by Miss Powers.
Girls Compete
For Royalty—
I949 Fashion
One lucky girl from the list
below will be Queen Sigrid XII,
Imperial Potentate of. the 1949
Homecoming festivities, and
four more of them wil| comprise
Her Highness' royal court.
Here they are, as nominated by
their respective classes Tuesday
morning:
SENIORS
Doreen Dangerfield
Meredith Runestrand
JUNIORS
Pat Bornstein
Pat Peterson
SOPHOMORES
Bonnie Lundgren
Mildred Peter
Joanne Sensenbrenner
FRESHMEN
Lillian Hansen
Joanne Leighton
Eleanor Lycan
Only those four girls nominated
by the junior and senior classes are
eligible for election as Homecoming
Queen. However, her court will be
composed of one girl from each of
the four classes.
Queen Sigrid and her court will
be chosen by members of the stu­dent
body in elections to be held
Tuesday from eleven to four and
Wednesday, until 1 o'clock.
Everyone has a chance to meet
these eight candidates on Tuesday
at 10 o'clock in the auditorium.
College Honors
John Dewey
I John Dewey, nationally famed
educator, philosopher, and psycholo­gist,
will be honored by WWC next
week as he celebrates his nintieth
birthday. He is professor emertus at
Teachers College, Columbia, Uni­versity.
An exhibit of books on Dewey will
be on display in the library start­ing
October 17. All those interested
in finding out about the man and
his work are invited to examine this
material.
Dr. Irving E. Miller, professor
emeritus at WWC and one of the
last students of Dewey at the Uni­versity
of Chicago, has written an
article on his former teacher, which
appears in the October issue of
WEA.
Faculty members on the commit­tee
in charge of promoting John
Dewey week at the college are Dr.
Lucy^Kangley, Laurence Brewster,
Dr. W. W. Haggard, Dr. Raymond
F. Hawk, Dr. Irwin A. Hammer, and
Miss Pearl Merriman, chairman.
is printed elsewhere in this edition.
Ralph Brown, who, along -with"
Gail Dillon, heads the planning for,>
next Friday night's skit assembly,
mentioned the cup which will be
awarded to the club or house putting
on the best skit, and stated that any
group winning this honor for three
years gains permanent possession
of the trophy.
Tickets ' for the Homecoming
luncheon next Saturday at 11:00
a. m. in the Edens hall dining room
were then discussed by George Kern
and Grover Ledbetter. They an­nounced
that tickets, costing 50 cento
to students and 90 cents to alumni,
will go on sale Tuesday in the main
hall. ,
Representing the Posters and Art
displays committee, Lloyd Cooper
was next to appear. Window dis­plays
are to be ready October 17,
and yard displays at noon on Thurs­day,
October 20. Since the displays.
will be judged on Saturday, October
22, they can be left up until the next
day. Window displays should be
removed Monday, October 24. Judg­ing
will take place at 4:30 p. m. Sat­urday,
October 22, with awards be­ing
made during intermission at the
Queen's ball that same night. Trophy
awards similar to those to be given
for these two contests were shown
by Bud Minihan.
COSTUMES IN ORDER
The costume mixer following next
Friday night's assembly was dis­cussed
briefly by Harold Kloes,-who
urged everyone to attend in costume.
Lois Kilander outlined the events
of Friday night which .are"'to pre­cede
the assembly. Forming at For­est
and Holly Streets, a paradevwlll
wind through downtown streets, then
halt for a pep rally at one of the
intersections. This assemblage yidll
then return to the hilltop campus
for the freshman bonfire..
Hope was expressed that this
year's bonfire will be of a tamer
nature than in the past, but mur­murs
from sophomores present
seemed to hint that tradition can­not
be so easily defied. .'-'•* '•
At the end of the kick-off assem­bly,
the student body separated into
class sections and nominated candi- ,
dates for the Homecoming queen/
and her court.
At intervals throughout the as^
sembly an unidentified pretender to
the throne of Queen Sigrid appeared
.on stage. "'• V-/-:sA*l
WA
W Club Elects[:m:
The W dub held their first meet­ing
of the fall quarter last Friday
evening. The following officera for;
the coming year were elected Noim
'Hash,' president; Slats SalsfiTer,
vice-president, and Stan Peterson,
secretary-treasurer. ' -'^i'^-it^i^^