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VOL. XXIX—NO. 55 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM. WASHINGTON Friday, August 15y 1930
Allegory plus
Moral
—By Catherine Morse
ALLEGORY
Once upon a time, there was a
Certain Parly who attended a Per­fectly
Normal School for a Cer­tain
Period of Time. Being of
Moderate Intelligence, , he proved
to be pretty Well-liked by his
Teachers and Friends during his
stay at this Perfectly Normal
School. Now like many of the more
enterprising of his Friends and
other Inmates of this Perfectly Nor­mal
School, this Certain Party, our
Hero, held down a Responsible Po­sition
on the School Publication
from which Heights, so-called, he
frequently, although with question­able
taste, would make Debunking
Remarks upon the Established Cus­toms
and Institutions of the Per­fectly
Normal School... Now no
one took particular exception to
these Debunking Remarks because
they all knew our Hero quite well,
and while they made suggestions
and sometimes even intimated that
the Certain Party was stepping a
bit too far for any Perfectly Nor­mal
School, they grinned to them­selves
and thought that his vagaries
were Pretty Cute... Well, when the
certain Period of Time was up, the
Certain Party decided to go to a
Well-Known Institution in order to
Complete and Further Augment his
Education. Our Hero enjoyed his
Education there,-and even added
much to his store of learning — a
truly strange occurrence, knowing
that Certain Party—and decided to
spend his Vacation back at the old
Perfectly Normal School. His
Friends and the other Inmates told
bur Hero that they Were glad to
see him—all of which was pleas­ing—
nay, ever flattering to the
Certain Party. He Was offered a
Responsible Position again on the
School Publication which he need­ed
no coaxing to accept because it
Afforded him the Opportunity for
Which he had been hoping. Now,
he could pick up where he left—so
he wrote as he had been used to
before he went away to a Well-
Known Institution. Well, after the
first issue of the School Publication,
people reacted as they had of yore,
but after the Second Issue, they
thought, "That Certain Party has
been to a Well-Known Institution
now and has no use any more for a
Perfectly Normal School". Others
thought, "He's high-hat now; we
are not good enough for him". Oth­ers
not being deep enough to pierce
the real purpose of that Certain
Party said, "The School Publi­cation
travels all over and just
think what an impression it is going
to give Outsiders!" • (-never thinking
thft Outsiders Would never believe
itij•;orily'good was said of the In­stitution,
anyway) and Still Others
said that that Certain Party was
Disappointed in Love. But that
Certain Parly managed to survive
and the School Publication sus­tained
a Wee Bit More of Reader
Interest because of it. But that
Was not the End, no, indeld. That
Certain Party continued, to worry
about it and Wonder why he should
be demedor at least criticised so
severely on making use of Freedom
of the Press just because he had
been attending a Well-Known In­stitution
whereas before his Migra­tion,
his Debunking Remarks were
only regarded as amusing. However,
the Entire Workings of the Mind of
that Certain Parly cannot be traced,
but the end'^was reached without
any .Conclusion, so that Certain
Party wended his) Weary Way
• hack to the' Well-Known Institution
and Wondered.^}^ ^•'.'] h
Fisher Declares
1033 Enrolled
Summer Session
President Fisher Tabulates Fig­ures
on Summer Enrollment;
Whatcom County Sends Largest
Number in Slate.
Declaring that the summer en­rollment
reached a total of more
than 1000, President C. H. Fisher
made the following statement re­garding
the summer session this
week: ^
During the first half of the quar­ter
there were 1033 students enrolled
an of'this number 203 withdrew at
the end of the first term. There
were 47 new students enrolled for
the second term.. The total enroll­ment
for the second term is 877 and
the total enrollment for the summer
quarter is 1080. Of this number 293
students, or 27%, are lower divis­ion
students and 787, or 73%, are
upper division students.
The following is the enrollment by
counties in the State of Washing­ton.
Thirty-six of the thirty-nine
counties of the State are repre­sented
in the enrollment:
Adams, 1; Benton, 6; Chelan, 11;
Clallam, 16; Clarke, 35; Columbia,
2; Cowlitz,-18; Douglas, 3;' Perry, 2;
Franklin, 4; Grant, 1; Grays Har­bor,
34; Island, 16; Jefferson, 3;
King, 156; Kitsap, 20; Kittitas, 5;
Klickitat, 6; Lewis, 52; Lincoln, 2;
Mason, 12; Okanogan, 16; Pacific,
12; Pierce, 82; San Juan, 6; Skagit,
60; Skamania, 1; Snohomish, 63;
Spokane, 13; Stevens, 3; Thurston,
17; Wahkiakum, 3; Walla Walla, 10;
Whatcom, 284; Whitman, 2; Yaki­ma,
1; Total, 967.
Seventeen states outside of the
State of Washington are represent-ed.
in.the~enroUmen^a»-foUowsr-
Alaska, 7; British Columbia, 4;
California, 1;; Colorado, 2; Idaho,
5; Illinois, 2; Iowa, 3; Minnesota, 4;
Montana, 20; Nebraska, 2; New
Mexico, 1; North Dakota, 5; Okla­homa,
1; Oregon, 48; South Dakota,
1; Wisconsin, 5; Wyoming, 1; To­tal,
113.
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To Show Slides
of Great Paintings
Anna Ullin Visits
In Several Spanish
Cities During July
Miss Anna Ullin, teacher of Eng­lish,
French, and German, in the
Normal school, spent last month in
Spain, visiting Madrid, Granada,
Toledo and Seville. She writes:
"I saw a pelota game last night
(night is literal, as it lasted from
10:30 p. m. until 1:00 a. m.) The
game is fast and interesting"
Miss Ullin visited a cabaret where
she saw an old Spanish dance which
proved to be most delightful. She
found the Alhambra "as lovely as
expected".
After.a visit in France for study
she will return to her work at the
Normal, in October.
JackJBlack^of
"You Cant Win"
To Speak Tuesday
Goats Disturb
Pass Hikers
'x*The best trip of the year". "The
most beautiful the pass has been in
recent years''. With the above state­ments
and many more like them,
forty hikers from this school came
out of Hannegan.Pass last Sunday,
evening, having spent the week-end
rambling about the hillsides and
meadows in the lap of the pass.
Noted Authority on Criminology
to Address Student Body in
^Tuesday Assembly. An Unusual
Character.
Students in Art Appreciation to
Exhibit Lantern Slides in Audi­torium
Monday. Pictures Well
Reproduced
Monday morning at 10 oclock the
class in Art Appreciation, under the
direction of Miss Marie C. Druse,
will present a program of lantern
slide reproductions of famous world
paintings. The showing will be made
in the auditorium. The collection
includes the works of most of the
famous foreign and American paint­ers,
and augmenting the showing
of the slides will be a short discus­sion
of the picture by members of
the class.
"The slides are excellent repro­ductions",
Miss Druse declared, "and
the class members have been work­ing
hard to work out good interpre­tation^'
of them. All of the students
are invited to attend the showing,
and we think tliat they will welcome
an oppotunity to see these good
paintings and to hear them dis­cussed"
FORMER NORMALITE
VISITS FROM MOSCOW
Lorin Barker, former Normal stu­dent
and prominent member of the
i>rama Club, visited school last
week. Mr. Barker will be superin­tendent
of schools of Marysville this
coming quarter. He comes to thjs
coast from Moscow, Idaho, where
he was superintendent of schools.
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RESERVE LIBRARIAN TO VISIT
IN CHICAGO. WILL GO BY BOAT
Miss Pearl Reese, reserve room
librariatn, will make :I trip to ChiV
cago during the summer vacation.
She expects to take part of the trip
by boat, stopping at Prince Rupert
and spending a few days at Jasper
Park. Miss Reese intends to visit her
pwents wha live hi Chicago and to
According to the mountaineers,
wild goats were very tame in the
pass this summer, coming right into
camp and disturbing the regular
routine on several occasions. These
timid animals are usually hard to
approach, but because of the re
striction on shooting them
have become less afraid.
Jack Black, famous author of 'You
Can't Win",' and lecturer on crim­inal
and sociological problems, will
speak in assembly Tuesday, August
15.,'., ': "
Mr. Black promises to bea most
interesting speaker on the subject
in which he is most informed, hav­ing
been at one time on the 'inside'
of the criminal world. Unfortunate
accidents of environment, misdi­rected
imagination and an intense
love for adventure, led him into
professional crime, into various pris­ons,
into every sort of harrowing
and illuminating experience. Final­ly,
through books, right' thinking,
the aid of Fremont Older, and Judge
Frank H. Dunn, of San Francisco,
Jack Black was somehow saved to
tell the upper world about the un­der
world.
"Truly a man of fine character
and marked mental abilities, Mr.
Black has a dry humor, a certain
subtle magnetism and_much flinty
underworld philosophy which make
him a new kind of speaker for the
lecture platform".
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Normal Students Find
Fossils on Sucia
On Recent Excursion
Choral Club Will
Present Cantata
Friday Morning
Students who visited Sucia Is­land
recently report that slides have
uncovered fossilized fish and shrimp.
Arrow-heads are found in places
showing that the island was once
inhabited by Indians. The land
sank beneath the surface where
solid rock formed over these objects.
The land was raised after a period
of time. The freezing and thawing
has caused the slides which reveal
the fossils.
A large tooth an inch square and
three inches long was recently
found. " • >
Victoria Trip
Great Success
Mr. Zoet, clas of *28, visited school
last Friday. Mr. Zoet has just fin­ished
at the University of Washing­ton,
receiving his master's degree in
science. Next fall, Mr. Zoet will at-they
tend Stanford University where he
] has a fellowship.
Victor IfcppeStat^
Dramatic Entertainment In Letter
Editor, The Viking,
Washington State Normal School,
Bellingham, Washington.
August 11, 1930
My dear Editor:
Please accept my thanks for the fine publicity given us hi our produc­tion
of "The Pigeon" and for your generous words about our performance.
This splendid co-operation of our school press is very heartening.
May I, my dear editor, make some comment on our Drama Club plays
and our student audiences. As director, it has not been my wish to be
unduly "high-brow" in the dramatic fare dffered our audiences. Our
plays are not picked because they are difficult or bizarre. They are se­lected
on the basis of an attempt to help interpret this complex business
of living. This interpretation may be comic or serious, hilarious or sad—
for life has such elements. Then, too, we want to do something a little
different in entertainment from the commercial brand always available
on Main Street. Our audience being young and full of the joy of life, we
cannot conceive it as our obligation to merely while away the passing
moment. Surely with jazz, the talkie, the "rec" hour and all the extra­curricular
"whoopee" that our students make for themselves so nicely,
we should be freed from the obligation just to amuse.
I may be wrong, dear editor, but it seems to me that one of the impor­tant
functions of school is the making of memories. Everything we do
should have more richness, more significance, yes, even more charm and
thrill than the doings of the outside world. Possibly the sober-sided years
are ahead of many of us; certainly life easily tends to routine. But
school years should give us such rich experience, such deep and lasting
memories, that it matters not what else we may lose—these endure to
cheer our solitude. We want our audiences, our actors and our scene
workers to carry such memories away: memories of a fine piece of work,
something worthy created by ourselves with loving thought and patience,
ill the making of which some meaning of social import will remain. This
is the new, thinking point-of-view of modern1 drama as part of a creative
leisure.
Some of our audience did riot like "The Pigeon". They found it too
deep, or too subtle, or too serious, or too perplexing. They were kind
enough to say they liked our acting and our stage setting even though
they were not moved by Mr'. Galsworthy's drama. May I point out that the
habit of being absolutely certain of just,what one likes, at such a tender
age as our average audience age, should be seriously examined: should
we not always question the validity and finality of our Jikes and dis­likes?
True, the average^ audience likes to be doped, to forget itself and
its troubles for the space of several hQurs—it resents being made to think,
to question. The better attitude which I hope our audiences at Normal
will attain is to come into our theatre not to be put to sleep mentally,
but to" be waked up a bit. Look at each piay as a new experience; value
it is it flashes some meaning; treasure it as it creates! a feeling where
hitherto one was spiritually numb, v , v ?
Surely a young audience—-(riot an audience of pudgy, bald-headed
brokers or blase society matrons) should/welcome a new experience. We
need growth in what is capable of entertaining us just as much as we
need growth in: sign^icant^owledge and-skilL Let.us, my; dear editor;
not stay content witii tiiebau^
delighted only in wjiat is gaily decorated, very bright and pretty; or very
funny in ^ Mack Bennett sense wh^ comes
from hurling of custard pies. In the words of Farrand the ingratiating
vagabond of " T^
might demand of >li our eriterteinment in this school, 'T must ftad with
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"A most successful trip," com­mented
President C. H. Fisher, re-garding
the Victoria excursion which
was held Wedensday, arid Pres­ident
Fisher's statement was sub­stantiated
by the opinion of four
hundred and sixty seven Normal
people who made the trip. The holi­day
program was sponsored by the
Board of Control, and included the
trip by water to Victoria, and a
day's program of swimming, shop­ping,
motor bus excursions to var­ious
points of interest adjacent to
the city, and the return at night.
During the evening a supper was
served on board the boat, which was
followed by a couple of hours of
dancing to the music of the Rec
Hour band.
Agreat-many- features-:becttpied
the time of the excursionists. While
on board the S. & Indianapolis,
chartered from Seattle for the trip,
two issues of the Northwest Vi­king's
"irndianapolisttTger" were pub­lished,
and many games of bridge
were^ played. The Rec Hour band
was strengthened by two additional
pieces, and although no dance floor
was procurable, the deck of the boat
was smoothed over by the use of a
well known breakfast cereal.
While in Victoria, trips to China
town and the various shopping cen­ters
were made. The Normal people
divided their time between swim­ming
in the crystal gardens and the
motor bus excursion to the But-chart
sunken garden and the astro-physical
observatory located several
miles outside the city limits. The
telescope, erected by the Dominion,
is the second largest refractor in­strument
in the~ world.
"Seven Last Words of Christ?
to be Presented in Regular As­sembly—
ioo Voices in Chorus.
COLORFUL CHILDREN'S BOOKS
BEING SHOWN IN LIBRARY
"An interesting display of books
with colorful illustrations' is being
shown in the children's department
of the library", says Miss Beatrice
Doty, children's librarian. Some of
these books are: "Little Women", by
Louisa M. Alcott; "A Tale of Two
Cities", by Charles Dickens; "Robin
Hood, His Book" by Eva March Tap-pan,
and "Robinson Crusoe", by
Daniel Defoe.
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Contralto Pleases in
Student Assembly
The Choral club will present the
Cantata, "Seven Last Words of
Christ" by Dubois, Tuesday, Aug­ust
19th, at the morning assembly.
The choral will be composed of 100
voices. Mrs! Margaret Hemion will
be the soloist/ Mr. Marshal Sohl, of
Seattle, .will carry the tenor. Mr.
Lewis Helder of Bellingham will
sing, baritone. The orchestra will
be composed of 30 pieces. Players
are from the symphony orchestra of
Bellingham, some former students
of the Normal school, and three
musicians from the Seattle Sym­phony
orchestra.
Francois Dubois, composer of the
cantata, in 1863, was appointed
"Maitre de Chapelle" at the church
of Ste. Clotilde in Paris. During; his
five years in Paris, he wrote Les
Sept Paroles du Christ, (Seven last
words of Christ, i The cantata is
well known in France, and has been
produced quite extensively in Amer­ica.-
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Several people who have attended
the rehearsals have declared that
the cantata is unusually beautiful,
and that "the choral society's pre­sentation
will prove to be the fin­est
musical event of the school
year".
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Photography
Picture Exhibit
Herbert Ruckmkk's Class in.
Photography Will Hold Display
in Men's Club Room, Beginning
Monday.
Sincerely,
V. H. HOPPE.
Miss 'Leah Pratt, contralto,. ac­companied
by John Sundsten, pian­ist,
contributed to the program for
the entertainment of the assembly
last Tuesday morning. Mr. Sund­sten
led off with two piano solos
followed, by three groups; of vocal
numbers by Miss Pratt ; V .
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WILL SPEND VACATION
ON OREGON COAST
^Mlss-. Lillian George, ^
brariari, will spend her summer\yp~:.
cation at her cottage in Yachats,
Oregon. Miss :Gerogev tospealdng
of Yachats, said:i^:;:te::;;'tj*.?;'jibit-i
gorgeous place on ^the coast-~tt ;is
right on the ocean and the surf is
wonderful".. vlfc ;;;:^;;|;MiB^Oeorge^;
plan to spend her entire vacation at
Yachats and entertain some of her
Oi^ioaifltoJ^;
The men's club room will be the
scene of the photograph exhibit
which is to be held next week by
members of Herbert C. Ruckmick's
photography class. Representative
types of photographs will be dis­played
including the work of all of
the members. Portraits/silhouettes,
marine and pastoral views, mechan­ical
and architectural studies, flow­ers
and still life, and a gerat many
other types of pictures taken by the
class members will be shown. The
complete process has been employed
by the students themselves, from
the mixing of chemicals for film
development to the mounting of
the completed enlargements.
"This exhibit is being worked out
under the direction of Mrs. Martha
Ford," Mr. Ruckmick said, "And the
students have done some excellent
work. They have taken hold: of the
work with interest and ingenuity,
and I believe that the exhibit will
be one of the best that we have ever
held.
Everyone will be welcomed to drop
into the room and look the pictures
over. Identification will be afford­ed
with each picture, including in­formation
regarding the types of
cameras used. Some of the best
pictures have been" made with or­dinary
box cameras.
CALENDAR
hour,
TODAY—August 15.
8 p. m., Double Rec
; i big gym.
10 a. m., slides on paintings,
; TUESDAY—Aug. 19; -
11 a. m., regular assembly,
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FRIDAY—August ^a. x :;;:>;•;
11 a. m., Regular assembly,
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