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VOL; XXIX—NO, 15 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, Oct: 18,;W&8<M
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Normalite
FOOTBALL
SNIPE
CIVILIZATION
& YE DIARY
—Roy Sundstrom
Somehow we can't feel so badly
about last Saturday's game with
West Seattle; even though we (get
that WE) did lose. To our inexpert
eyes the Vikings looked pretty good
out there. So don't expect us to
he astonished if they come through
with a Tri-Normal championship—
for a change.
St. Martin's tomorrow.
All the Musicians Comprising the
String Quartet Are Artists in
Their Particular Instrument
Sophs Will Consider
" November 9 as Their
Possible Party Date
SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY
-W. S. N. S.-
This younger generation is dis­gustingly
sophisticated. And their
sporting instincts are blunted, too.
Why, in the old days when a snipe
hunt was suggested, everyone was,
all a twitter before you could say
"Jack Robinson". (Though, why
anyone should want to say "Jack
Robinson) — Yes, things have
changed. We tried to promote a
snipe drive the other night arid we
know.
I t was a beautiful night for a
hunt—the mating grounds out Sun­set
Trail must have been literally
teeming with the shy little birds
when the group of sportsmen con­gregated
at the Barbecue decided to
take advantage of the salubrious
conditions. The lantern and the
bag were procured—arrangements
for the barbecuing of the game were
made with the proprietress and the
party was about to set out when it
was discovered that one more mem­ber
was necessary to make up the
party. A visit to Baughman's proved
fruitless as did a tour of several of
the houses. Nowhere could the ad­ditional
hunter, so necessary to the
success of the expedition, be found.
-W. S. N. S.-
Critics Abroad as Well as Here,
Declare Them of the Finest of
Musicians of Classic Music.
Don Herold, writing about In­diana
IT., in College Humor, says
< Among other things) :
"Co-education? And how! As it
exists in Indiana, I think it is a fine
thing for the boys and hell on the
girls. Tough, however, as co-educa­tion
is on the girls, it is undoubtedly
civilizing on the boys. It teaches
them to wash behind their ears and
inculcates other important niceties
and graces. At Purdue, many a stu­dent
wears the same shirt without
changing for four years; at Indiana,
nobody wears one shirt over a year,
and this comes off for a clean one
for the dances".
Considering the 3 to 1 ratio here,
we should be getting a triple dose of
civilization.
At C. P. S., courses in Matricula­tion
and Curriculum are offered to
entering freshmen during the first
few days of the term. No—it's not
a joke. Orientation courses to ac­quaint
the new students with the
possibilities of the curriculum are
given; to aid them in getting off to
a good start in the right direction.
Not a bad idea, is it?
W. S. N. S.
An unusual musical program will
be offered Normal students in the
regular assembly next Friday morn­ing,
October 25, when the Portland
String Quartet will be offered in
recital. The quartet is comprised of
Susie Pennel Pipes', first violin, who
spent three years of study in Berlin
as a pupil of Joachim, and has also
studied with Theodore Spiering, and
Lawrence Skipton, second violin;
Alexander Vdovin. viola, and Ferdi­nand
Konrad, violincello.
Lawrence Skipton is an Oregon-ian,
and helped himself through
Oregon State College by conducting
the college orchestra for his tuition.
He has studied with John Spargur
in Seattle and with Lichtenberg in
New York.
. Alexander Vdovin was born in Sa­mara,
on the Volga, Russia. He be­gan
the study of the violin at nine
years of age, and when ten joined
a branch of the Imperial Conser­vatory
and studied with Dober, the
first graduate pupil of Leopold Auer.
Two years later he became a stu­dent
under Matias, who prepared
him for the Petrograd conservatory.
Entrance examinations to this Con­servatory
were very severe, but he
received the highest marks from the
seven judges, including Professor
Auer. His stay in the, conservatory
brought him in contact with Gla-zounow,
Cherepnin, and especially
Rezivetzoff, who developed his in­terest
at the viola. He has played
in string ensembles and symphony
orchestras in many cities of the
world, notably Petrograd, Samara,
Shanghai, Seattle, Los Angeles, and
is now with the Portland Symphony
Orchestra.
Ferdinand Konrad was born in
Munich, Bavaria, where he received
his musical education. After com­ing
to America he traveled as a so-
In a meeting, called last Wednes­day
noon by Arthur Gravrock, gen­eral
chairman, a possible date, No­vember
9 was set for the Sophomore
party. Another meeting will be held
today to settle further details.
Committees Appointed
The following committees were
appointed: Music, John Dixon; in­vitations,
Helen Fitzwater; cleanup,
Elwin Zylstra; decorations, Verna
Kay; entertainment, Florence Good­man;
refreshments, Mary Beth
Parkhurst, Bernice Gnagey, and
Gladys Smith, and posters, Ruth
Shepherd.
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"TWELVE THOUSAND''
ENACTED BY OLSEN
TROUPE SCHEDULED
First Circuit Repertory Company of
Moroni Olsen Players Will Open
Season with Frank's Drama.
COMING NEXT THURSDAY
Moroni Olsen Shares Lead Honors
with Janet Young. Have Roles
of Two German Conspirators.
ON NOVEMBER 1
Joe Hermsen Has Planned Bonfire,
Downtown Serpentine, Pep Rally,
Banquet, Dance for All at End.
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AUDITION FINALS IN
STATE CLOSES SOON
Dorothy Walker, Normal Student
Among Those Chosen to Sing
in Finals Saturday Evening.
YE PROF'S DIARY
I hear that they're making pro­gress
in Education at Mich. U. Each
instructor is provided with photos
of the students enrolled in his course
and in calling the roll, checks the
photo against the face of the stu­dent
who answers to each name.
Finger prints would be much better,
it seems to me. "Every prof, a fin­ger
print expert."
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Between the hours of 10 and mid­night
tomorrow night, the finals for
the state Atwater Kent radio vocal
audition will be put on the air, over
a special radio station hookup in
which station KVOS Bellingham,
will be included with stations KOMO
in Seattle, KMO, Tacoma; and KHQ
in Spokane.
Of the two singers who will rep­resent
Bellingham in the contest,
Dorothy Walker, soprano, is a stu­dent
of this institution, who won in
Normal's preliminarry audition, and
Harry Bajema, tenor, of Lynden will
also be a representative of this city.
24 Singers Contest.
The final auditions, according to
announcement by Mrs. Helen Snel-ling,
state chairman for the contest,
will see a contest among twenty-four
singers, both sexes representing
Tacoma, Chehalis, Mount Vernon,
Vancouver, Wash., Wenatchee, Ev­erett,
Seattle, Aberdeen, Ellensburg,
Spokane, Walla Walla, Pullman,
Yakima and Bellingham.
Judging will be done in the finals
by both a selected list of judges and
the listening radio audiences. After
the contests have been concluded,
Mrs. Snelling will be host to a studio
reception Saturday night to the con­testing
singers, the accompanists
and the district contest chairman
who attend.
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Miss Valda Holland of Fort
Worth, Texas, is the new secretary
to Miss Mary E. Rich, director of
the training school. Miss Holland
attended the Texas State Woman's
College before coming to - j Belling­ham:
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The sixth annual -Home Coming
celebration, in charge of Joe Herm­sen,
is to be held November 16. Pre­parations
are well underway and it
promises to be the biggest Home
Coming in the history of the school.
So far, all arrangements have
not been seetled but one sure big
feature of the day will be the foot­ball
game with Ellensburg Normal,
our traditional rivals, on Waldo field
the afternoon of the sixteenth.
Pep Rally Planned
The usual big bonfire will be held
the previous evening. No doubt
there will be a serpentine party
down town before the pep rally,
after which students will return to
the bonfire to meet old friends and
join in the yells, songs and stunts
around the fire.
House decorations, with prizes for
the winners, will be carried out as
in other years.
Dance and Banquet
A banquet for Normal grads will
doubtless be held " in Edens hall
sometime during the course of the
day.
And, last but hot least, a big
dance, for all students, faculty and
alumni will be held at the armory
the evening of the sixteenth to cli­max
a perfect day, bidding fare­well
to the alumni until the next
Home Coming.
PRES. FISHERTEAVES
He Will Attend Annual Meeting of
Y. M. C. A. Council. Experts to be
in Middle West for Two Weeks.
The First Circuit Repertory com­pany
of the Moroni Olsen Players
will open their season, October 24,
at the Normal Auditorium, under
the sponsorship of the Bellingham
State Normal, with Bruno Frank's
play, "Twelve Thousand".
Theme of Play
For his theme of "Twelve Thous­and"
Bruno Frank goes into the
past, to the time of the American
Revolution, and deals with the bar­gaining
and selling , in the petty
German principalities, under which
thousands of German peasants were
turned over to be sent to carry on
the war against the revolting col­onies.
The whole play takes place in the
Summer pavillion of the palace of a
German princeling with whose min­ister,
an English envoy, is bargain­ing
for 12,000 peasants "on the hoof"
to be uniformed and shipped to
America to fight the war the Eng­lish
themselves found unpopular.
But from this point in which the
action is carried on, one can glimpse
in the background the gathering,
colossal figures that are to brood
over the destinies of the next two-hundred
years. "One is given to feel
the restless stirring of English free­dom
under the arrogant hand of
the Georges: one hears the tragic
voice of the peasant chattels of the
German princes 'shouting in the
fields' at night: one hears the men­acing
clank of the already weighty
saber of Prussia, which would pre­serve
the man power to be poured
into a mould of Prussia's making:
and one sees the falling of the seed
that had already sprung .up in
Editors Declare the
Student Directories
Ready Next Monday
Work is being rushed on the new
Student Directory to have it pub­lished
and ready for distribution by
Monday, according to Milton O'Dell
and Oren Tarbox, the managers.
Finished in light blue with dark
blue printing, the new directory
promises to be one of the best look­ing
and most complete the Normal
has ever put out.
The Directory is a complete list
of all the Normal students and fac­ulty
in the school and their ad­dresses
and phone numbers.
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HEAVY RANGERS FROM ST. MARTIN'S
GOLLEGE TO PLAY BLUE AND WHITE
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Visitors Have a Strong Thrust Offensive; Starring
Tenoski, Heavy Fullback, and a Good Spread Pass
That Should Make a Fast Spectacular Game.
Pep Band Organized;
Thue /^ds as Leader
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Thorpe New Manager;
Yell Kings Ghosen
TO LECTURE HERE
'Around the World on One Leg"
Titie of Ellery Walter's Talk
in Next Tuesday's Assembly.
President C. H. Fisher left Wed­nesday
afternoon to attend the an­nual
meeting of the National
Council of the Y.. M. C. A. ,to be
held next week in Chicago, Illinois.
President Fisher will represent this
district, including all of Washing-
Iton and Northern Idaho.,
President Fisher has, for the past
few years, been president of the
board of directors of the Bellingham
Y. M. C. A., and in that time the
Bellingham association has attract­ed
considerable attention through­out
the Northwest for the manner
in which reorganization has been
effected, and for the results that
have been achieved.
Legislative Purpose
The council meeting is legislative
in purpose, and will make plans for
the work of the Y. M. C. A. for the
next few years.
President Fisher expects to be
able to visit various institutions of
learning during his two weeks visit
in the Middle West.
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BOND, RUCK-MICK HOSTS
AT TEA FOR STUDENT3
The Board of Control in a meting
held last Monday filled several im­portant
school, vacancies.
John Thorpe, sophomore, was
chosen to fill the position' of busi­ness
manager of the Klipsun. Two
new yell kings were chosen. They
are Jack Musser and Lyle Markhart.
We can look forward to a success­ful
yelling season under their lead­ership.
Curtis Wins Again
Jay Curtis' orchestra was selected
by the student committee appointed
by the Board, to serve for the re­mainder
of the quarter. This or­chestra
has always been popular
with Normal students and is sure to
prove popular again.
"The World on One Leg" will be
the subject of, the lecture to be
given in the assembly next Tuesday,
October,22, by Ellery Walter, auth­or
of the book, "Around the World
on One Leg", which, during the first
five months since it was published
last September by: G. P. Putnam's
has gone into six editions.
Loses Leg at U. of W.
Although he lost a leg several
years ago when his foot became in­fected
during 'crew practice at the
University of Washington, Mr.
Walter did not lose faith in the joy
of life, and since that time has had
many thrilling and inspiring ad­ventures.
Working his way around
the world "on one leg without funds,
Mr. Walter came into personal con­tact
with world leaders—Mussolini,
the Pope, Von Hindenberg, and
Lloyd George, and achieved the
"Supreme Adventure".
According to one critic, who de­clared
that "with another foot he
would have gone to Mars". His first
season on the lecture platform has
occasioned a volley of requests for
return and new engagements. His
achievement is truly an epic of
young American manhood".
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Bob Walters Elected
Oregon Club Leader
A meeting for the purpose of elect­ing
officers of the Oregon club this
quarter was held Monday noon, Oc­tober
14, with Ruth Sammons pre­siding.
The result of the election was as
follows: President, Bob Walters
vice president, Helen Hurulin; sec­retary-
treasurer, Orleane Fitcha,
and reporter, Earl Hutchins.
The membership of this club is
limited to students who at some
time have been residents of Oregon.
As there are a goodly number of
students from Oregon here this
quarter, an active and successful
career is predicted for the club. Mr.
E. A. Bond will again act as ad­visor.
Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock
Clarence Thue met with those mus­icians
of the school who were in­terested
in forming a Viking Pep
Band, and plans were laid for its
organization and appea r a n e e
throughout the year.
. This school has in its midst a good
many able musicians, and the qual­ity
of the band was insured before­hand.
Steady practice should make
it a "pienty hot" organization by
the beginning of the winter quarter,
during which it plans to be most
active.
The Normal will surely find many
uses for the new Pep Band, such as
in appearance at pep assemblies,
basketball games, and the like. It
will probably be introduced to the
student body on Home-coming day.
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Miss Wilson Returns;
Resumes Library Work
Viking Coaches Concentrate on
Secondary Defense This Week,
So as to Stop Passing Attack. : •;
With the return of Miss Mabel
Wilson on Monday from the east,
the faculty is again complete and
classes all in order. On Tuesday her
duties were fully resumed and on
Wednesday the Instruction classes
met.
Miss Wilson was deeply, impressed
by the new class whom she thinks
has done remarkably-well-with-the
assignments she has had posted on
the bulletin board. The two weeks
work has been covered very satis­factorily
and »he wishes the stu­dents
to know she appreciates their
independence.
George Gets Credit
A lot of credit goes to the cata­loguer,
Miss Lillian George, who or­ganized
the work and to the entire
staff of which there are so many
new members.
The Library Instruction classes
are scheduled to meet every Wed­nesday
and Friday.
GR/alETsraanoN
Leo W. Breuer, Normal Graduate,
Is Appointed the Commissioner
of Education in Alaska.
Tomorrow, Waldo Field will be the
scene of a mighty good game, u n - o;
less all signs fail. A strong heavy • |
team is coming from St. Martin's
college, all set to wipe out the 7 to ;:
0 defeat they suffered at the hands ';';£
of the Vikings last year. ;;.. v ."
The Rangers are known to have";;
a heavy line, and also a big star in ?
Tenoski, heavy fullback. As would;':
be expected with a heavy team, they '\-:
rely a good deal on a thrust offense/!::;
but they also have a spread pass .''
that should liven up the game. :'
New Plays Tried '
Coaches Sam Carver and Royal ^
E. Gunn have introduced some new
plays this week and held stiff ;
scrimmages Wednesday and Thurs- -}>:
day to get them working smoothly! .
and to improve the secondary de- >
fense. The West Seattle A. C. game: -
last week showed that the backfield ,::;
was weak on breaking up passes, J
and that the players were uncertain : ;
in tackling shifty runners. ••-/>;".-..;;
Fair in Passing
In the last two games the Vikings ;'
have shown a good running and a ' •
fair passing attack. The backfield >;
is fast, while the line is heavy and '
strong. Moe and Stickney have ,
stood out'on the line, while the >
backfield composed of Erickson;; ;
Flowers, Ellis, and Shelton,;has v; '•'
been working smoothly. Ericksorr. is ;;-
a triple threat .man, punting ^^tnd
passing well, and. showing class sis •}
a* line plunger and an open field ^
runner. Cardwell, Iversori, and Bu- "
rich have also been good as reserve ;;
backs. Y .'^::' p
Probable Line-up
The lineup probably will be about :
the same as last week's with; the ;:
possible exception of one tackle:
Preim, Parker, and Voris seem to be c•/..
running almost a neck and neck
race for the position of right tackle. ?;
Moe and Mollan will be at- the; end;
Lyman D. Bissell, Retired Instructor,
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CELEBRATES EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY IN MINNESOTA
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Drives 2450 Miles in Twelve Days
An informal tea was held in the
Student Council room Monday ev­ening
with Mr. E. A. Bond of the
Mathematics department and Mr.
H. C. Ruckmick of the Industrial
Arts department as hosts. The tea-was"
given in honor of the new
members of the Board of Control,
the Home Coming committee, and
the Social committee of the school.
Last July, Mr. Lyman D. Bissell
resigned as school printer of the In­dustrial
Arts department, to retire.
For twelve years
he had been here,
serving u n d e r
three presiden t s
and esteemed by
all who came in
contact with him.
Upon resigning,
Mr. Bissell began
his retirement in
this manner. With
his wife, he drove back' to his old
home in Minnesota. The northern
route was taken and, the twelfth
day after leaving Bellingham, 2450
miles had been covered, and he was
at the home of his daughter in St.
Paul. The twelve days included a
visit with friends in Hubert, Minne­sota.
Reporters Plentiful
An hour and a half after his ar­rival
there, niterviewers.from sevr
eral papers he. was fpnrierly con­nected
with began arriving and the
visit of the Bissells was widely
written up.
While there Mr. Bissell celebrated
his eightieth birthday anniversary
and the following day he started
home. Coming back, he chose the
central route to avoid bad roads in
Montana. In Nebraska, Mrs. Bis­sell
was taken suddenly quite ill
and a doctor was summoned. The
next day the trip was continued but
upon reaching Baker City, Oregon,
she found it necessary to go to the
hospital.
Mrs. Bissell 111
After five days they continued
home, arriving just six weeks after
their departure from here. Mrs.
Bissell is still very sick. Their
daughter, Mrs. B. C Held, Jr., has
come from St. Paul with her daugh­ter,
to care for her mother.
Mr. Bissell drove the entire dis­tance,
and except for Mrs. BisseU's
unfortunate illness, says the retiring
game is very'enjoyable. '
Leo W. Breuer, a graduate of Bel­lingham
Normal and the University
of Washington, has been appointed
as the new commissioner of edu­cation
of Alaska by the Territorial
Board of Education.
Mr. Breuer is well known in
Whatcom county, having received
the major part of his education and
teaching experience here. After his
graduation with a life diploma from
Bellingham Normal in 1919, he
taught eight grades in a one-room
school and became superintendent
of the Mt. Baker consolidated dis­trict.
Goes to Alaska
He sailed for Alaska in 1926 to be­come
superintendent of schools at
Nome. In 1929 he accepted the po­sition
of superintendent of schools
at Cordova, which he held until his
recent appointment as the new com­missioner
of education.
Mr. Breuer's success as an edu­cator
in Washington prior to his
going to Alaska, and during his
terms as superintendent of schools
at Nome and Cordoya is assurance
that the educational business of
Alaska will be carried forward in a
successful manner.
Roaney in Alaska
Word has also been received that
Mr. M. B. "Roaney, another graduate
of Bellingham Normal, as well as
the University of Washington,; has
received the superintendency of Se­ward,
Alaska. : He was formerly a
high school instructor at Ketchikan
and previously to that was principal
at Cehtraliai Washington. •
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SILHOUTTE IDEA
INFORMAL SETTING
Laurence Stark and His Orchestra.
Will Play in Edens Hall Dining
Room Informal on November 2. ...
Silhouette idea, of black and sil-;
ver, suggesting the modernistic v
trend, will be the setting for tlte
Women's . League Informal, in the J
Edens hall dining room, November •
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Laurence Stark and his orchestra •
has been hired to play for t h e - a f -r
fair. . , '••>4,;-0.
Dorothy Sasse, social chairman of
the dance, announce that any : g i r l ;
who has signed to go, and;is,now
unable to attend, should notify one
of the committee, in order that an-v
other girl may be accommodated.' ^
••' Sasse'Secretive •: ;:irjr:;''?:
According to Miss Sasse; s o i ^ x i ^ ^
velopments of the committee's plans
have not yet been divulged. ;-:v^^
Mariette Bergeron, Mary Elizary
beth Fowler, Margaret Mxmisaa^
Lois Slater, Ruth Shepherd;%ahd
Katherine Friese, are the stuentis|-:
working under 'Miss Sasse. :;^;J;;I;
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KIBBE ON VACATION"; S|;1;
TRIP TO CALIFORNIA®
Mr. L. A. Kibbe, of the: Educational
department left Sunday, Octoberjl^^ltil
for a few weeks' vacation^ih^Cali^:^l-|
fornia. He will travel by stage ^ % § s § i |
train. '.. '--. •/ ...-.•' .r. :'-;'$^fy$M^
While in California 'he-^Was^^ji^n^^
visit some of the teacher's c(blleges;|!^|||
junior.colleges, and to some ; e x t e ^ f ; | | |f
the public schools.* ; -V-;'.:j!;^£J'^^i$^
;•• '-Mr. : Kibbe plans; t o ; ; r e t u m ^ e a r | ^ l | | ||
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