WWCollegian - 1939 May 19

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Photos through courtesy of Kenneth Smith and Nancy Randell, Campus school students.
Campus Day Gone, But Not Forgotten;
Congratulations Given Chairmen
By Wayne Weber
Gone into the past as have similar campus
3ays, slips our Tuesday's holiday, but not with­out
recollections of the enjoyment which comes
from such an event. Though hampered a little
by weather which could have been more prom­ising,
spirits which planned a day of entertain­ment
went ahead in spite of obstacles and made
this day one of the most cherished of the many
which fill our social calendar.
I t was a grand campus day. The chairman,
Mike Baker, deserves more than the usual
thanks for his efforts and for the time and
work which necessarily come with such an un­dertaking.
So, also, do his sub-committee chair­men,
for the fine attendance at the lake insured
by a good ticket sale, for an enjoyable evening
of entertainment and dancing; and his trans­portation
committee and the publicity men for
carrying out their work with efficiency.
Little happenings which will make the day
long remembered—President Fisher and the an­nual
weather report—the mad rush to the cars
—the long line and the long wait for lunch—
the Campus Day Blast—Joe Moses and his "sox
appeal," and his consequent ducking—the bath­ing
beauties—the usual ones who make action
by falling into the lake—the boat races—cox­swain
Weber—the orchestra braving the ele­ments,
playing until their fingers became so cold
that they were forced to quit—all of the general
atmosphere of a holiday. These all make and
made our campus day. Long may it be re­membered.
Week
By
Week
By
Doug
Lince
"Hitler's Aim . . .
is a United Europe with economic self-suffic­iency
adequately insured," said a recent assem­bly
bombast. That is a good old American
aim, with one minor exception. We pay our
own insurance premiums. Hitler squints along
a double-barrel and makes the neighbors pay.
V V
"The Altitude . . .
of the American people . . . will they refuse to
enter another world war?" asked the same
verbalist.
Yes sir, mister! Not only refuse, but we
will paddle right across the briny pond and
knock the tar out of any bunch of yahoos that
suggest we fight.
V V
Campus Day Snoopshots . ..
Dr. Bond, veteran W W C instructor, swing­ing
a double-bitted axe like a 22-year-old and
as though he had done it before.
Don Bell executing a perfect back flip from
the top of the diving tower��and still dressed in
a suit that comes wth two pairs of pants. Try
getting in a tipsy canoe from the other side,
Don.
Gene Voorhees heaving a wicked looking
home-made bowie knife at a slim tree trunk and
making it stick every time. Preparing to face
a school board next year, no doubt.
Donald Bushell, maestro, pitching for the
faculty and backing up a play at third base
quicker than his man at short-stop.
Prexy chasing a ball and does he really go
that way because he has eggs in his shoes?
Mike Baker, Carrpus day chairman, at the
tennis court hop sitting out one dance, alone,
looking tired but very, very happy.
Daley, Kaufman, and
McLeod Victors
In the run-off election held Wednesday of
this week Prances Daley defeated Joe Moses for
the position of vice president; Stewart McLeod
defeated Eileen Johnson for the position of
men's or women's representative; and Lela Kauf­man
defeated Shirley Shannon for the position
of women's representative.
Wayne Weber who is the present vice presi­dent
and in charge of student body elections
stated that it was the closest election held this
year. As only 342 students went to the polls to
make use of their voting pivilege less than one-half
of the student body, was represented.
Larger Klipsun To Feature
Anniversary Theme
Staff members who have served three suc­cessive
quarters, fourteen in all, will be awarded
pins, it was decided at a Klipsun board meeting
held Wednesday, May 10. Bob White, who was
appointed to the staff spring quarter, is the
only member who has not worked all year.
Pins are to be awarded to the following-
Prances Daley, Clarence Soukup, Stewart Mc­Leod,
Frank Nims, Helen Trickey, Charlene
Patmore, Wanda Barci, Barbara Bowdish, Sybil
Hinchliffe, Adrian Alberg, Charlotte Pacey, Har-ley
Stephens, Alice Molenkamp, and Arlene
Dickinson.
This year's publication of the Klipsun has a
theme appropriately honoring the fortieth an­niversary
of the college. Old time students and
present day students attired in old fashioned
clothing will be found on its pages as well as
early day views of the campus.
Year Book to Be Larger
Because of an increased number of students
this year, more money has been available for
the year book, allowing additional pages. Ac­cording
to Prances Daley, editor, the 1939 Klip­sun
has definitely reached a new college level.
WESTERN WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, Friday, May 19, 1939
College Found
Outstanding
College Has Received Recognition
Among Teacher Colleges on Several
Counts During Recent Years.
During the past two years, W W C has re­ceived
specal recognition from various educa­tional
organizations who were making surveys
of teachers' training schools. In each of the
surveys it has been elected as outstanding in'
some respect.
Studies of the curricula of teachers colleges,
were conducted by the United States Office: of
Education and were directed at twenty-nine
teachers colleges and nomal schools selected for
this purpose. Western Washington college was
the only one selected for this study in the
Northwest region of the country.
In October, 1937, WWC was visited by repre­sentatives
of the American Association of Uni­versity
Women. The purpose of the visit was
to study representative teachers' colleges to de­termine
whether graduates of these colleges
would be allowed membership in the American
Association of University Women. The Belling-ham
college was one of the four visited by the
association's representatives in 1937, and was
the only one selected in the Northwest.
I n December, 1938, the Carnegie corporation
made grants to twenty-nine teachers' colleges
in the United States for the development of their
libraries. WWC received one of the largest
grants, and was the only teachers college in the
Northwest and Pacific coast states to receive a
grant.
At present, the American Council on Educa­tion,
Washington, D. C, is engaged in a study in
the improvement of teacher education in the
United States. On May 2, WWC was visited by
Dr. W. E. Armstrong of the American Council
on Education to see if it would qualify as one
of the fifteen institutions to be selected to join
in the study. The final selection will be made
in Washington, D. C, on June 1 and 2 of this
year.
Special Edition Published
By Collegian
This, a special issue of the Collegian, will have
a circulation of more than 3,000, over three times
the number of an ordinary edition. Printed on
smooth paper, the Collegian this week has six
pages, is devoted mainly to stories which will
explain and advertise WWC to its readers,
many of whom will be graduating high school
seniors. In keeping with the statewide 50th
anniversary celebrations this summer, the Col­legian
has attempted to show in its few pages,
in spite of its limitations, the progress that has
taken place since the beginning of the school,
and since President C. H. Fisher has been ad­ministrative
head at WWC.
Dance Ticket Sale
Progressing
According to latest reports, the ticket sale for
the W club sports dance tomorrow is progressing
satisfactorily and a large crowd is expected.
Tickets may still be obtained from all W club
members. John Ellis and his committee are
willing to obtain dates for any men who so de­sire.
Refreshments will be served at intermission.
Caps and Gowns
Question
Still Undecided
Seniors To Know Final Vote
After Special Faculty Meet
This Afternoon At 4:00
Decision of the faculty on the question
as to whether or not W W C instructors will
wear caps and gowns for this year's commence­ment
exercises will be made in a special meeting
today at 4 : 0 0 in room 209. The ballot taken
yesterday showed 58 votes out of a possible
59.
In the judgment of the tellers, Miss Ruth
Piatt, H. C. Philippi, and Dr- A. C. Hicks
the vote to be parliamentary must be ratified by
the assembled faculty.
Concerto Recital Features
Students and Faculty
Students and faculty of WWC will appear
Friday, May 26, at 8:15 in the annual concerto
recital presented by Miss Edith Strange, and
the WWC orchestra under the direction of
Donald Bushell, at the Garden Street Methodist
church. The public is invited.
Thera Strang and Vivian McGrath will play
the first movement of Morzart's E Plat Major
Concerto for two pianos. The entire Concerto
in P Minor (Arensky) for piano and orchestra
will be played by Pauline Ebeling. The cello
Concerto in P Minor (Saint-Saens) will be
played by Donald Bushell with Nils Boson con­ducting
the orchestra accompaniment. Sheldon
Wilkins will play Concertstuck (Weber). Vera
Ginneete Mollan will play the first movement
of Beethoven's First Concerto in C Major.
Whitney Tustin who played with the orches­tra
of WWC in an assembly program, will ap­pear
for his second engagement of this year
here.
Mr. Tustin is first oboe player with the Se­attle
Symphony orchestra.
Many Students Promised
Teaching Positions
Several three and four-year stuents of WWC
have recently been placed in teaching positions
for the coming year, according to Miss Eliza­beth
Hopper, of the appointment bureau. The
following is a partial list of appointments that
have been made since the first of January: Cor-ina
McHugh, grade 1, Enumclaw; Alice James,
grades 3-4, East Stanwood; Lovia Trevethan,
rural, Ethel; Margaret Schold, grades 4-6, Chico
school; Eleanor Tomlinson, grades 4-6, Moclips;
Hazel J. Pierce, grades 1-3, Mary M. Knight
school; Maybelle Jeffcott, grade 3, Lynden;
Mary Knibbs, grades 4-6, Marietta; Margaret
Gerard, grades 1-3, Marietta; Bernice Von Pres-sentin,
grade 5, Lynden; Marie Larsen, primary
grades, Sequim; Erman Holtzheimer, grade 7,
Custer.
Campus School Teacher
Fills Board Position
Miss Ruth Van Pelt, campus school, was elect­ed
January, 1939, for a three-year term on the
board of directors of the Bellingham Teacher's
Credit union.
Noted John Taylor Arms Etchings Here;
High Arts Society Honors Artist
By Hazel Plympion, Art Department Instructor.
The hammering which has disturbed the quiet
atmosphere of our building the last few days has
been a welcome sound to the art department. It
has meant a new and proper wall for the dis­play
of pictures and prints. Great care has
been taken that not only the wall but the light­ing
as well shall be of the latest and most ap­proved
type of museum finish.
It is especially gratifying that we have as
our first exhibitor John Taylor Arms, America's
most distinguished etcher. Mr. Arms is the presi­dent
of the Society of American Etchers, a mem­ber
of the Council of the National Academy of
Design, Associate of the Royal Engravers of
England, and Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
of France. Besides his professional interests,
Mr. Arms has given unstintingly of his time,
ability, and devotion to bring greater apprecia­tion
and honor to art among laymen. This ex­hibit
is a concrete example of this fact. It is
through Mr. Arms' generosity that we are per­mitted
to display such a carefully selected and
distinguished group of prints as has come to our
school.
Graduate of MIT Architectural School
Mr. Arms was born in Washington, D. C, in
1887. After graduating with a master's degree
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
1912, he spent the next few years as a practic­ing
architect in New York city. His first orig­inal
etching, which is included in this exhibit,
was made during these years.
The war interrupted his work both as an ar­chitect
and as an etcher. But upon his return
from service in the navy he gave his time com­pletely
to etching. Since then he has produced
422 plates . . . a monument of unbelievable size
and beauty to the most exacting of the Arts.
Three Series of Pictures Exhibited
Fifty selected prints appear in this exhibit,
many of them internationally known and sever­al
so sought after that they are considered rare.
"Venetian Mirror' and "Lace in Stone," are two
such prints. The etchings fall naturally into
three series, one including "French Churches,"
another called "Italian Scenes," and a third,
"Spanish Churches." Among the etchings in
this last series is the original etching by John
Taylor Arms which is a part of the school's
collection. It is "Santa Maria Major, Ronda."
His wife, Dorothy Noyes Arms, has said of his
work, "His prints are not slavish imitations of
the actual physical aspects of existing structures.
Instead, they rightly may be called spiritual
reconstructions in which are embodied all the
faith, or aspirations, or thought, of a faraway
age."
The prints will be on exhibit from May 20 un­til
May 27, and the evenings of May 23, 24 and
25. Invitations have been issued to a preview
this evening.
Plans Progress
ForGrads
Sixty-Seven Students Will Receive
Their Four-Year Degrees;
Exercises Thursday, June 8
Dateli me
Friday, May 19
3:00—WAA lodge trip leaves for Sinclair
island.
4:15—Collegian broadcast, KVOS.
Saturday, May 20
9:00—"W" club informal, Crystal ballroom,
Hotel Leopold.
Exhibitions of Arms' etchings.
Sunday, May 21
8:30—May day breakfast for Edens hall
freshmen.
Exhibitions of Arms' etchings.
Monday, May 22
4:00—Valkyrie meeting, room 108.
7:30—Alkisiah meeting, Edens hall club room.
Exhibitions of Arms' etchings.
Tuesday, May 23
11:00—Assembly—a cappella choir.
4:00—Interclub council, room 108.
Exhibitions of Arms' etchings.
Wednesday, May 24
4:00—Board of Control, Associated Students'
office.
6:00—Collegian banquet, Rose room, Hotel
Leopold. .
Exhibitions of Arms' etchings.
Thusday, May 25
4:00—YWCA meeting, room 208.
6:15—Faculty Forum dinner, Edens hall din­ing
room.
Blue Barnacles swimming meet.
Friday, May 26 •••••--.
11:00—Assembly—band concert. ^
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Plans for the graduation exercises are being
put into shape by various committees under the
supervision of Miss Charlotte B. Richardson,
who is general chairman of the commencement
program. The unusual feature in this year's
graduating class is the exceptional number of
students who are receiving degrees.
Out of a total of 246 candidates for diplomas,
173 students will be given a three-year elemen­tary
certificate, 67 will receive their four-year
degree, and six candidates will be given graduate
certificates.
The speaker for baccalaureate is to be Dr.
Douglas Steere, professor of philosophy at Hav-erford
college, Penn. Dr. Steere is comink west
to attend a conference at Seabeck and will
therefore be available as a speaker for gradua­tion.
Dr. Howard B. Woolston, professor of
sociology at the University of Washington, will
address the graduating class at the commence­ment
exercises.
The schedule for the last week of school in­cludes
the alumni banquet on Saturday evening,
June 3; baccalaureate on Sunday, June 4, at 4
p. m.; reception for the graduates on Thursday
evening, June 8; and graduation on Friday, June
9, at 10 a. m. The final assembly on Tuesday,
June 6, will be given over to the graduates.
See commencement activities story.
Budget Investigated;
Funds Asked
After deliberating over the annual budget,
the board of control decided that there were
several questionable phases of the finances that
could bear looking into. Passing of the bill
was deferred until matters under consideration
were straightened .out. . _ :,..r...._,. - ,,_,i;_<„.r..
Board Picnic to Be Held
Next Tuesday evening was the date set aside
for the board members to make merry at a pic­nic,
the place of which has not yet been decided.
Helen Cory was appointed chairman of the
affair; Jean Carver was placed in charge of the
board of control pins to be awarded departing
members.
Appropriations Asked for Summer
Because the state appropriations were not
sufficient, L. A. McGee requested funds to meet
the expenses of summer quarter recreation and
Sam Carver made a similar demand for the in­tramural
sports.
Publication Applications Received
Applications for the positions of editor and
business manager for the WWCollegian for next
fall were received and discussed, but no definite
choice was made.
Rec Hour This Evening
This evening in the training school gym from
4 to 6 p. m. a rec hour will be held. The sound
system will play the music of several bands, and
activity cards will admit.
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