WWC Collegian - 1939 February 17

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By CHARLES KILBOURNE
LOST
Last fall, the government issued some new nickels.
These were named in honor of.one of our great presidents,
Thomas Jefferson. However, nobody has
seen them since. The treasury officials
claim to know nothing of their where­abouts.
Bankers seldom see one. It
looks as though someone has at last com­mitted
the perfect crime. This is really
a shame, because they were such pretty
nickels. They had such a pretty roseate
hue, that wasn't due to the sun setting
on them, either. In fact, they had so
much copper in them that the government
"would be overjoyed to have to make an­other
batch. They should holler; it only
costs about three cents to mint the new
corns. Maybe they were all gathered up in that New York
subway "deal" last fall.
COLDS
The nurse's office at this school reports that by far the
largest number of absences from school due to sickness are
caused by the common cold. This is true all over the
country. So far there seems to be no way of preventing
colds except by building up resistance. However, for
many people this is hard to do. It has been estimated that
the annual loss due to colds amounts to nearly a billion and
a half dollars. Scientists everywhere are doing their best
to find out what is the exact cause of this malady. Some
believe that it is due to a germ, others to body conditions,
but none have been able to devise a specific. An eastern
health board put the cost of an average head cold at around
$15—-or slightly less if one doctors with the cheaper
blends.
RANDOM THOUGHTS
Already the baseball workouts on the east coast have
started. The big leagues are tossing the ball on the sunny
strands of Florida. Back in New Xork» Dewey traps
Manton off first while Hines. waits nervously at the plate.
. . . Hitler's little speech to the German peoples makes his
stand quite clear. He is planning on running the late
Huey Long's share-the-wealth shakedown from an interna­tional
basis. . . . The Anacortes town council plans action
on the numerous protests they have received that the, collar
on the local beer is too high. No halfway measures, we
hope Firemen were overcome as cabbage smoldered
in the western warehouse blaze. Still the hunt goes on for
a good 5-cent cigar. . . . Something different on the politi­cal
scene is Vice President John Garner, who gives us the
old Coolidge silence with a Texas accent. ..... . Let's see—
have we defied the Nazis; have we told the Japanese where
to get off; have we had our daily iron?
"Foul Deeds Arise"
Swa nson Cwrii<e s
"Foul deeds will rise . . .," declared Boyd Swanson
today. "Man delights me not; no, nor woman either. The
play's the thing."
Murder, confiscation, revenge and a duel to the death:
action, action, action, fill the stage and eddy backstage as
the cast for Hamlet rehearses final scenes this afternoon.
Swanson, who plays the lead role, Hamlet, has played
character parts since grade school days, has played every­thing
from a singing cowboy, to Marc Antony in "Julius
Caesar/' To him acting is a hobby; he prefers to direct
chorus singers.
Carmen Ek, actress, playwright and writer, who plays
Hamlet's mother, the queen, plans to write for the radio
field.
The above scene is from the cast in rehearsal.
Gala Affair Promised
At WAA Carnival
Booths abound and barkers sound at the WAA Carnival
starting tonight at 8:30 in the training school gym. One-twentieth
of a dollar buys admission and all the dancing
time allows, besides a chance on a valuable door prize.
Since there will be many games of skill Co-Chairman
Natalie Smith advises everyone to start throwing things
to get in practice for tonight.
"The door prize is something tremendous," declared Bea
Armstrong with fervor during an exclusive interview with
the committee chairmen. "Don't forget the fortune-teller,"
chimed in Miss Smith, "but she doesn't want it known
who she is." "Tell them about being able to telegraph any­one
in the hall," added1 Edith Meenk.
Clothing is no object although persons owning peasant
hankies and such may wear them. Otherwise, informality
is the keynote. The varied attractions have been designed
to appeal to every student in school. Instead of sending
corsages, the fellows may buy a chance at some game of
skill and win the girl friend a trophy, providing she does
not beat him. As for refreshments, the usual carnival
method of dispensing them will be in order.
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VOL. XXXVIII—NO. 19 WESTERN WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, February 17. 1^39
Activities
Studied
Book Store Committee Designed
To Study Co-op Activities
Formed by Board of Control
As the result of a long book
store study made by the Board of
Control, the board in last Wednes­day's
meeting in the Associated
Students office, went a step fur­ther
by forming a book store com­mittee.
The book store committee, design­ed
to carry on future study of
WWC's Co-op. activities, is com­prised
of three board members, two
of them being students and the
other a faculty member appointed
by the board president. Miss Char­lotte
Richardson of the industrial
arts department is the faculty mem­ber
while Alice Siemons and Wayne
Weber were the students chosen by
the board. The students appointed
by the board are to be permanent
members of the book store commit­tee
as long as they remain on the
board.
This committee is to meet monthly
with the book store manager and
ex-officio President Fisher for the
purpose of advising the book store
on different policies, and financial
matters which ultimately arise. The
committee is then to report to the
board on matters discussed and
passed upon in these meetings.
Another matter receiving discus­sion
by the board was the report on
Wednesday's election by the election
committee composed of Wayne Web­er,
Dr. Paul Grim, and Pauline
Barnes. Because none of the can­didates
received a majority, a run­off
will be held later.-
Mexican Fiesta
Dance Theme
Limited Number of Tickets to
Be Issued for Winter Prom;
Burlap Programs Are Featured
Have you senoritas decided on
whom you are taking to the Asso­ciated
Women Student's "Mexican
Fiesta" dance at the Leopold hotel,
Saturday night, February 25?
Because there is a limited number
of programs, the women are advised
to sign the permanent list today.
Borrowing the colorfulness and
the uniqueness of our Latin neigh­bors,
Helen Trickey and her commit­tee
have already begun working on
decorations. Using bright reds and
yellows, cacti, sombreros, and ser-apes,
the outer lobby of the ballroom
will be transformed into a typical
scene of old Mexico. Even the bur­lap
programs will add to the gayety
with their cactus stamped covers.
"Because the Associated Women
Students dances are so popular, we
are forced to limit the number of
programs in order that the Crystal
ballroom will not be overcrowded.
This is a case of the early bird get­ting.
the worm, and I hope the girls
will sign early," said Helen Cory,
chairman.
Pep Band Travels
To Ellensburg
Next Thursday, February 23,
Donald Bushell, director, takes
twenty-six members of WWC's
school band to Ellensburg with the
basketball team.
He expects to give the team great
moral support and at the same time
entertain the fans. The members
going are: Clarinets, Charles Fisher,
Clayton Knittel, Alvin Carr, Mar-jorie
Schroeder, Kenneth Husfloen,
Arian Anderson, and Robert Rum-sey;
saxaphones, Leroy Holcomb
and Jane Mac Williams; piccolo,
Martha Wheeler; drums, Lauda
Utiacz and Marcia Kimball; trum­pets,
Richard Lindstrom, Glenn Lund,
Robert Fritz, Josephine Allen, Frank
Edwards; horns, Barbara Bowdish,
Eugene Olmsted, and Lloyd Ros-tad;
baritone, Vivian McGrath;
trombones, William Wolfe, Taylor
Snow, and William Goninan; basses,
Earl Eckert and Norman Funk.
"If anyone kicks about economy,"
says Mr. Bushell, "I want it known
that the band members are buying
their own lunches in Ellensburg,
and are also pressing their own
uniforms."
Ejection Finals
To Run Off
Next Tuesday
No Majority Vote Cast; McGee
And Rupert Finalists in Election
Race; Students Cast 440 Votes
Chosen from four candidates of
the election last Wednesday, Helen
Cory and Jean Morgan won the
candidacy for the fourth quarter
woman representative to be voted
upon in the final election Tuesday,
February 21. The run-off election
is to be held next Tuesday instead
of Wednesday because Wednesday
is a holiday.
John Ellis and Mike Baker were
judged finalists for the fourth quar­ter
man or woman representative,
while L. A. McGee and Evelyn A.
Rupert were chosen for the faculty
representative to the Board of Con­trol.
Katherine Newell and Mar­garet
Peasley were selected for
four quarter woman representa­tive
to fill the vacancy left by Betty
Shay, who is not attending WWC.
The winners of the run-off election
to be held next week begin their
term the beginning of the spring
quarter.
An especially close vote was cast
Wednesday^ There were only 440
votes in all. Statistics show that
about 50 per cent of the student
body voted. A larger percentage of
men than women voted. '
WWC Student
Clue Found
A skeleton -found near Everett is
being checked by the state patrol to
determine if it is that of Robert
Barnhart, a former honor student
of this college.
Barnhart, a teacher in the Bryant
school at Seattle, left that city on
January 8, 1938, with the declared
intention of going to Everett to see
a dying friend, Florence Lund, 1937
student body president of WWC. He
was seen in Chehalis after appar­ently
changing his mind, and it was
concluded that he had gone to Cali-fonia.
Miss Lund died soon after and
nothing has been heard of Barnhart
since.
The skeleton is evidently one of a
suicide, but articles found near the
body do not compare with any pos­sessions
of Barnhart.
EmploymentMeeting
Planned
World Famous Ballet Troupe
To Present Concert Here
Former Student
Wins Acclaim
Critics Praise Singer's Debut
At Town Hall Late in January;
Plan World's Fair Engagement
All those interested in part time
employment are to be in room 108,
Monday at 4 oclock. Acting dean
of Men Loye A. McGee has request­ed
that all those who come to the
meeting, come with ideas as to the
kind of part time employment in
which they would be interested. Mr.
McGee feels that there would have
been "twenty or thirty more men
going,to school this quarter if there
had been a way for them to earn
sufficient money.
By Bob Chamberlain
"It looks so easy!" That is the exclamation one hears in almost every
audence of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, which will be seen here Febru­ary
22, under the auspices of the Civic Music association.
No greater compliment could be paid these world-famous, glamorous in­heritors
of a great tradition. For when it looks so very, very easy and still
excites you by its fluid beauty, you may be certain you are witnessing cham­pionship
dancing.
Only the rigors of years of mas­terly
training, of hours and hours of
daily perspiring, of study and prac­tice
can achieve such surehess, such
lightness, such effortless grace. And
when each point of technique flows
into the other, making a pattern of
continuous movement in the same
way drops make up a stream of wat­er,
that is the balletic art at its best.
Mia Slavenska who has the lead
in "Gaite Parisienne," the ballet to
be presented next Wednesday even­ing
in the Bellingham high school
. auditorium, is not only famous on
..two .continents as a great classic
dancer,, but as an accomplished
mime and dramatic actress ranging
the whole gamut of human emo­tions,
as well. Every part she acts
and dances, she makes unforgettably
her own.
Aside from the electric appeal the
costumes and scenery have for the
eye, the action and atmosphere con­spire
to take the spectator into dif­ferent
worlds. In a single night the
spectator is carried away along a
whole gamut of fairy tales, romance
and illusory worlds.
Ex-Students Among
Queen Candidates
Carol Hughes and Kathryn Mc-
Mahon, former WWC students, have
been nominated as candidates for
Queen of the Eagles,' Spring Festi­val,
to be held in May.
Seven young Bellingham women
have been entered in the contest.
Each has chosen a manager who will
handle her campaign. The girl who
wins the queen contest will repre­sent
Bellingham and the state of
Washington at the San Francisco
fair this summer, with the free air­plane
trip and all honor and enter­tainment.
. • Miss Hughes, who is an employe of
the J. B. Wahl company, is well
known for her work with the Thea­tre
Guild. She is a sister of Evelyn
Hughes, assistant in the business of­fice.
y
Miss McMahon is employed by the
telephone company.
RUR Continues Tonight
At Local Theatre Guild
Miss Ellen Repp, soprano and
former WWC student, recently
won wide acclaim when she made
her debut at Town Hall, New
York, late in January.
A former Everett girl, Miss Repp
was a student of the University of
Washington and taught school in
Seattle before going east. Students
who attended WWC summer quar­ter
last year will remember her con­cert
here at the college.
Miss Repp's plans for the future
include a return concert at Town
Hall and engagements during the
World's fair which opens this year
in New York.
Critics have acclaimed Miss Repp's
Town Hall performance as an out­standing
success. The following
are comments from well known
newspapers: the New York Times,
"Miss Repp made known a voice in­herently
voluminous and rich"; the
New York Sun, "Miss Repp exhibit­ed
a voice of excellent natural qual­ity
and color," and the New York
Herald-Tribune, "Miss Repp's voice
is naturally one of good texture and
voluminous."
Miss Repp was known here as El­len
Reep.
Kuder Takes Census
Of Workers
By Sybil Hinchliffe
Extremely effective and well
staged, best characterize "R. U.
R." -— "Rossom's Universal Ro­bots"—
current Theatre Guild pro­duction,
which opened Wednesday
night at the Civic Playhouse.
Stage settings and costumes add
much to the presentation. The play
is strongly cast. The tempo, al­though
a little slow at the begin­nings
of the first and third acts, is
very good. The play appears the
last times tonight and tomorrow
night at 8:15 p. m.
Bacon, WWC Student, Good
Marshall Bacon, WWC student,
who plays the role of Dr. Gall, head
of the experimental department, is
good; Melvin Erickson as Consul
Busman, business manager, and Nor­man
R. Burchette as Mr. Alquist,
architect, bring their two characters
to life. Erickson adds humor to the.
situation while Burchette portrays
pathos and drama in excellent fash­ion.
Ronald Lund as Harry Domen,
general manager, and leading man,
steadily improves as the play pro­gresses.
Zelda Becker as Helena
Glory, is stiff and unconvincing. At
times, though, she does shake off
self-consciousness and then she acts
naturally. Don Robertson as Mr.
Fabry, general engineer, and Cecil
Bacon as Dr. Hallemeier, both turn
out fine characterizations.
"R. tf./it," Unique
"R. U. R.," written by the late
Karel Capek, Czech writer of note,
is a unique and fantastic melo­drama.
The play, so it seems to this
writer, is a subtle crack, aimed di­rectly
at realism and atheism.and
indirectly at certain European dic­tators
who are so brazen as to as­sume
that they know more than
God—that they are The Rulers.
Interesting figures divulged by
Dr. Kuder's employment census for
WWC show that 44 per cent of
the student body is working part-time
at 57 different varieties of
jobs to aid them in gaining an edu­cation.
The NYA employs 64
men and women for an average of
37}4 hours per month at $15. Six­ty-
six work for room and board
and 107 students are on the state
and college payroll.
Work varies from musicians to
housemothers, companions, candy
makers, office workers, and mother's
helpers. The YMCA, the Golf and
Country club and departments of
the college offer openings.
The 44 per cent ratio is about the
' sametas the University of Washing­ton,
but the U does not distinguish
between students earning their
money while out of school and those
working and attending school simul­taneously.
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Vacation Wednesday
Library Closed
In recognition of George Wash­ington's
birthday, there will be no
school Wednesday, February 22. The
business houses, banks, city schools,
and WC library will also be closed.
This will be the last vacation until
the finals.
urriculum
u
1938 Graduates and Faculty
Discuss Solutions to Problems
Confronting Beginning Teachers
Meeting with the faculty curric­ulum
committee last Saturday, elev­en
graduates of the class of 1938
discussed the problems confronting
beginning teachers, and possible
curriculum changes that would en­able
them to solve these problems
more successfully.
Dr. Miller, chairman of the cur­riculum
committee, commented on
the freedom of expression of those
who attended the conference.
Some of the problems revealed by
the teachers were: Teaching subjects
for which they had no previous
preparation; contrasts between the
students whom they are teaching
and the ones they taught during
practice teaching; hot knowing how
to use text books; and not being
able to make out a program of work.
Several suggestions for improve­ment
in curriculum were made. The
teachers thought there should be
more discussion before and after ob­servation
lessons. A desire for more
varied practice teaching was ex­pressed.
They also approved of a
system of apprentice teaching to be
incorporated in the fourth year of
the curriculum.
After teaching for five months
the graduates realized the import­ance
of the general education given ,
in the first three years of the
teachers course. In addition a ques­tion
was raised as to the grading of
practice teaching. There was ex­pressed
a need for a required read­ing
course for all grades v from the
primary to the junior high school
f:1.
On Peace
Lieutenant Commander Bryant
from the League of Nations asso­ciation
will lecture on some phase
of World Peace or Collective Secur­ities
in assembly Tuesday, February
21. Mr. Bryant visited the campus
a few years ago. He is a real
student of current affairs arid be­ing
a retired naval commander, has
travelled around the wcrld a great
deal.
Lecturing under the auspices of
The Institute of International Edu­cation,
Mr. Harrison Brown, lectur­er
and writer, will entertain WWC
students in assembly Friday, Feb­ruary
24.
Since the World war he has lived
chiefly on the continent of Europe.
He contributes regularly to leading
journals and has been the European
representative of American Com­mittee
for Outlawry of War. He
has had exceptional opportunities
for studying European situation
through constant travel and through
personal acquaintances with many
of leading statesmen.
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The
Horizon
Friday, February 17
8:30 p. m —WAA Carnival, train­ing
school gym.
8:15 p. m.—"R. u. R.," Theatre
Guild, 120 Prospect street.
, Saturday, February 18
8 p. m.—Basketball, All-Stars vs.
WWC, new gym.
8:15 p. m.—"R. TJ. R.," Theatre
Guild.
Sunday, February 19
7 a. m.—Schusskens ski trip, front
^Viking Lunch.
Monday, February 20
10:30 a. m.—Harry Kluge, former
editor, speaks in Collegian off tee.
- y 7:30 p. m.—Vanadis Bragi, Edens
hall club room. v
Tuesday, February 21
11 a. m.—Assembly, "Lieutenant
Commander Bryant from the
League of Nations association,
: • lecture.
Wednesday, February 22 •.';
HOLIDAY, Washington's birthday.
8 p. m.—Ballet Russe, Bellingham
high school auditbriuin.vv; ;:
Thursdayr Febnuuy 23 ^' '/':.;,':^ •-
8:15 p. m.—"Hamlet," auditorium.
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