WWCollegian - 1940 July 3

              Ullin, Hopper
Lead Mount
Baker Journey
Hikers Leave Tomorrow
From PE Building
For July 4 Week-end
.Up the mountain to Kulshan cab­in
they will go, approximately 40
people, led by Chet Ullin and Miss
Elizabeth Hopper, leaving Thursday
morning, July 4, from the PE build­ing
at 7:30 a. m. They will take
their own lunches and cups, and
will be met at the trail by the pack­er,
who will take in their personal
equipment.
Leaving- Wednesday noon, the
packer, the cook, Miss Ruth Weyth-man,
and the work crew, plus the
food, will hike in to set up camp
and get the cobin in order. Fleda
Whitten will be the cook, ably fill­ing
the one requirement of the job
—that she be a good one. There
will be a few K. P. duties for indi­viduals,
but only a few.
Dinner will be waiting for the
party at Kulshan cabin when they
reach there Thursday evening. The
first of three big campfire programs
will be held that night, with sing­ing,
games, and tall-tale-telling pre­dominating.
The itinerary of the
trip includes a hike up to the back
of Black Buttes on Friday, the
Mount Baker summit climb on Sat­urday,
with meadow and glacier
trips for those who remain at the
cabin, and the trip out Sunday.v
The party will be made up of both
seasoned hikers and inexperienced
people. Don Coss, a member of the
Mount Baker hiking club, will ac­company
the party, and C. A. Fish­er,
assisted by Chet Ullin, will lead
the summit climb
A short meeting was held Monday
afternoon to instruct hikers con­cerning
clothes and other dunnage,
and to examine their shoes. Sun­day,
after a huge breakfast, the
party will return, with four days of
sunshine, gorgeous scenery, outdoor
life and companionship, good food,
and a whole .mountain, tucked away
in their memories—all for $5.
Baker Memorial
Selected
By Irene Fyhn
Consisting of alpine plants and
basaltic rock from the Mount Baker
region a landscape group has been
chosen as the memorial for the six
students who died in the Mount
Baker tragedy last summer. It is
felt by the committee who have
chosen this form of memorial, that
bringing the alpine beauty from the
Mount Baker region will be a fit­ting
memorial for these students,
Beulah Lindberg, Alice James, Hope
Weitman, Julius Dornblut, Vene
Fisher, and Maynard Howatt, all
of whom died on Mount Baker.
Nobel Hoggson, Seattle landscape
architect, has '>. prepared complete
drawings of the ^proposed memorial.
It is to be located near the path go­ing
up Sehome hill between the
Science wing of the main building
and Edens hall.
Garden Setting
Columns of basaltic rock will form
the central motif around whichNwill
be grouped alpine plants in their
natural rock garden setting. Around
the memorial itself will be a basalt
rock seat, giving an amphitheater
effect. On the basaltic columns
will be placed bronze name-plates
with the names of the students for
whom the memorial is erected.
The committee, which consists of
both students and faculty members,
reports that the U. S. forestry serv­ice
has consented to the removal of
the basaltic rock from the Mount
Baker region, and the CCC has of­fered
to bring the rock to the camp­us.
Funds necessary for the building
of this memorial have been subscrib­ed
by friends of the deceased, and
between 1300 and $400 are available.
The committee states, however, that
it may become -necessary to solicit
additional funds from the students
attending WWC, but the commit­tee
hopes that this will not be nec­essary.
It is the plan now to get
the work well under way by the
end of summer.
VOL. XXXIX—NO. 3? Western Washington College of Education^Bellingham, Washington Wednesday, July 3, 1940
Headquarters For Mount Baker Climb
Hayes Teaches Flute Lessons
To Daughter As Hobby
By Lela Kaufman
"My hobby right now is trying to teach my daughter to play the flute,''
said Mr. Creighton E. Hayes, social science teacher of West Seattle high
school, who is pihch-rHttihgfor Dr. GrimTfor thesummer session of the
training school. He spends the week-end with his family at his summer
home on the Stillaguamish river where his wife and daughter, Beatrice
Jean, stay when they are not taking care of the lawn at their Seattle home.
As yet the flute teaching has been indifferently successful, and Beatrice
Jean is still just an excellent piano player for a 12-year-old.
Interested in the history of Asia
and Central America, Mr. Hayes of­fers
an elective course entitled His­tory
of the Pacific Rim to seniors at
West Seattle high school. For one
semester they orient themselves
to a study of Russia, Japan, China,
and the Pacific islands; for the next
they study the history of Mexico,
Central America, and Canada. He
finds that most of the people he
meets are quite ignortant regarding
the history of these nations which
he thinks will become increasingly
important to Americans, especially
dwellers of the Pacific coast.
One of his ambitions is to visit
United States' neighbors about
which he reads and thinks so much.
Asked about his other interests, the
young - looking, gray - haired in­structor
smiled and said, "That's
about all. Occasionally I play a
very mediocre game of golf and once
in a while I crawl up with fear and
trembling on a horse."
Having received his undergraduate
education at Washington state col­lege
at Pullman, Mr. Hayes, has,
ACE Plans Lunch
At Edens Hall
WWC's Association for Childhood
Education has planned a luncheon
to be held next Wednesday, July 10,
at 12:00 noon in the Edens hall club-room
off the main dining hall.
Informal talks will be given by
students from various ACE groups
both in and outside the state. ACE
members and .anyone interested in
primary education, are invited to
attend. Tickets may still be obtain­ed
for 35 cents at noon today in the
main hall, and. also next Monday at
noon and from 2:00 to 4:30 p. m.
July 8, 9, and 10, there will be a
display in the main hall of ACE
publications including the "Child­hood
Education" mag«*me and
various pamphlets. Anyone wishing
to purchase any cad of these publir
cations iWf do so at this time.
as he expressed it, "Kind of smat-tered
my education over the Pacific
coast." He has studied at Stanford,
University of Oregon, and the Uni­versity
of Washington. A typical
Washingtonian, and proud of it, he
was born in Olympia. All of his
teaching has been in Washington,
much of it at Lincoln high school in
Seattle.
Somewhat overwhelmed by an in­terview
to which there was no word
limit, he kept declaring that there
was nothing about him to make
good reading, that this was the first
time anyone had cared about the
life of a simple school teacher. He
volunteered . that one of his most
vivid impressions of Bellingham has
been the way everyone has gone out
of his way to make it easy for a
newcomer. Mr. Hayes visited Dr.
Grim this spring to learn what the
program was to be. Then Dr. Grim
spent the first week of summer
school doing all he could to make
his work easier. "Of course it isn't
necessary for everyone to be so kind,
but i appreciate it," Mr. Hayes said.
Twelve More Get
Positions
Twelve more students have been
assigned positions through the ap­pointment
bureau as reported by
Miss Hopper. They are the follow­ing:
Ralph DeBruler, Ocean City,
fifth to the eighth; Helen Griffith,
Lake Burien, music; Leonard Rod-land,
Bay Center, seventh and
eighth; Alice Molenkamp, Sedro-
Woolley, seventh and eighth; Ken­neth
Bernet, Sultan, seventh and
music; Blanche Campau^ Sultan,
fifth; Eleanor Wfflison, Oak Har­bor,
third;,Jean•Cowie, Marysvffle-
Shoultes school, first to third; Marie
Beebe, Port Gamble, primary; Doris
Woodcock, Sequim, sixth and sev-enth;
Frank Anderson, Maple Val­ley,
fifth and sixth; Lois Reid, Maple
Valley, second and third, and music.
Eighty-six Students
Take Mantoux
Tests on Monday
Mantoux tests were given, to 86
summer students Monday morning
between 10 o'clock and 12. They
were administered in the college
health department by Dr. Earle
Gibb of the Gibb clinical laboratory
and assisted by. Miss Dorothy Run-die,
nurse.
Miss May Meade- had general
charge of the procedure, with Miss
Helen Hostetter and Miss Nadine
Toler secretaries.
The college bears all costs of the
tuberculosis indicating tests. Many
took advantage of this opportunity
because a state law requires that
each teacher have a Mantoux test.
Wednesday, 48 hours later, a fol­low-
up reading was given by Miss
Meade and Miss Rundle. Question­able
cases were referred to the Gibb
laboratory and all persons showing
a positive reaction are required to
have an X-ray follow-up. The cost
of the X-rays must be taken care
of by the student.
Health Exams
Completed
Health examinations were given
to approximately 400 new students.
The entire first week and Monday
and Wednesday of the following
week were devoted to the routine
inspection. Supervised by Miss
May Meade, the examining was
done in the PE building. .
Physicians who were employed by
the college health department were
Drs. William C. Keyes, Donald C.
Keyes, Howard C. Keyes, C. L. Long-streth,
F. C. Rykken, and A. M. Son-neland.
Only two students were eliminat­ed
from enrollment because of ill
•health. "The students as a whole
are in pretty good physical shape,"
stated Miss Meade; ''although they
need more rest." '
There are to be no general check­ups
of the summer health examin­ations,
although where such cases
showing a need for it, will be fol-lowed-
up..
Regional Meet
Draws Near
Final Climax
Kefauver, Ogburn Speeches
Summarized;
Sessions End Today
By Victor Dickinson
"Democracy is on trial. The
threat to democracy is not all in
Europe but lies chiefly in the
United States and our ability to
meet the challenge to make democ­racy
work," was the key statement
made by Dean Grayson N. Kefau­ver
of Stanford University in his
address before the regular assembly
Tuesday morning. Dean Kefauver's
speech was a part of the three-day
meeting of the Educational Confer^
ence of Pacific Northwest Affairs
which concluded this morning.
Tells Experiences
Dean Kefauver recounted his ex­periences
in the European capitals
of Paris; Berlin, Moscow, Stockholm
and London, and his conferences
with leading educators of these
cities.
Maintaining that education can­not
be understood unless it is seen
as a part of the social and cultural
patternofc a country. Dean Kefau­ver
searched for the social aims be­hind
the educational system of each
country he visited. He pointed out
the striking contrast in the think­ing
of the. educational leaders of
Berlin and Moscow as compared
with Paris.iand London^
The importance of democracy in
education was1 outlined by Dr. Ke­fauver
who placed emphasis on the
concept of democracy within a staff
of teachers' democracy in student
life and control of the school;j-Jde^- •-.
mbcracy in the classroom andftd£^:
mocracy as it affects the commun­ity.
Dr. Kefauver's address ended in
a note of optimism but he stated,
"We haven't fully arrived in Amer­ica.
We need to have faith. We
must capture the imagination of
youth. We cannot present pessi­mistic
faces and teach democracy.
We must have trust for we cannot
afford to fail.
Ogburn Speaks
Predicting that the United States
in the next 30 years will witness as
startling a technological advances
as has been experienced in the past
30 years, William F. Ogburn, Uni­versity
of Chicago sociologist, con­cluded
the three day program of
the conference on Northwest affairs
being held at the college.
Among the promising inventions
listed by Dr. Ogburn were: televis­ion,
manufacture of artificial cli­mate,
the small diesel engine, me­chanization
of agriculture, use of
alloys, use of the electron tube or
electric eye, talking books or records
to run from one to two hours, and
facsimile transmission of news­paper,
already inaugurated in 1939
by the St. Louis Dispatch.
Summary of the conference dis^-
cussion was given this morning by
Kenneth O. Warner, director of the
Northwest Regional Council with
Dr. Irving E. Miller, presiding.
Coming Events . ..
July 4, 5, 6, 7 ,
7:30 a. m.—Kulshan cabin and Mt.
Baker trip.
Tuesday, July 9
11:00 a. m.—(Fritz Neuman, violin­ist,
assembly.
6:30 p. m.—Salmon bake at the
ROCkS. "' ' ,'.'•'•:'•' \ •
Wednesday, July 10
12:00 noon—ACE luncheon, Edens
hall. ;
Friday, July 12
3:30 p. nv-U.,pf W. vs. Vikings,
softball, here.