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VOL. XXVII—NO. 10 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, December 9, 1927
WILL APPEAR HERE
Turn
Colored Jubilee Singers to Give
Program of Negro Folk Songs
and Classical Selections.
CONCERT A T 8:15 P. M.
Songsters Have' Travelled Through
America and Europe. Group
Spent Year of Study Abroad.
With a varied program made up of
songs from the opera to the negro
boat and cabin songs, the Williams'
Colored Singers •. will appear in the
Normal School auditorium on next
Tuesday evening, December 13.
This octette of jubilee singers has
spent years of constant devotion of
their lives to singing in the United
States and Canada. They have added
a year of travel and study in Eng­land,
Scotland, Wales, Holland, Bel­gium!,
Germany and France. The
Colored Singers spent eighteen weeks
in London where they gave 130 per­formances,
singing in many of its
best-known theatres, among which
was the world famous Coliseum..
While, in London the entire com­pany
was under the instruction of
one of the world's greatest vocal
teachers—Miss Ira Aldridge—who is
a scholar of the London Eoyal Con­servatory
of Music, and whose early
teacher was the famous Jennie Lind.
This experience added to natural
talent and former years of faithful
application, enhances the ability of
each individual singer and has pro­duced
in their case a remarkable
Trmsical combination. The company,
now stronger and better, are again
touring America, their native land.
Plantation songs and "darky" melo­dies
will be rendered at the enter­tainment
to which student activity
tickets will admit.
"Some splendid singing is to be
heard at the Renfield Street Music
Hall this week. An octette of colored
ladies and gentlemen, known as the
Williams Jubilee' Singers, delighted
last night's large audience with their
harmonizing. Especially pleasing
was the songs sung by the four gen­tlemen,
all the numbers being exe­cuted
with a softness and taste de%
lightfully pleasing to hear."—Glas­gow
News, Glasgow, Scotland.
Noted Young Pianist
Presents a Recital
In Today's Assembly
George Hopkins, pianist and com­poser,
of the University of Oregon
music department, entertained dur­ing
assembly today with a piano re­cital.
Three of the numbers which he
played were of his own composition.
His compositions as well as his con­cert
engagements have brought him
renown on the West Coast and have
carried him into the musical lime­light.
Mr. Hopkins' musical career began
when he was eight years of age and
was under the supervision of Alfred
Butler, a prominent instructor, of Los
Angeles. His first professional en­gagement
occurred when he was
thirteen. Godowsky, the great pian­ist,
emphatically advised him to con­tinue
his musical career.
Won Scholarship
In Baltimore, Md., Mr. Hopkins
won the Peabody Conservatory schol­arship
which enabled him to" study
under Garold Randolph, director of
the conservatory, and under Gustav
Strube, ' director of the Baltimore
Symphany Orchestra. During the
season of 1923-24 and 1924-25 he won
in competitive examinations, fellow­ships
in piano, and composition at
the Tuilliard Foundation in New
York City.
The program presented this morn­ing
is as follows:
Organ Foecata and Figure in D
minor Baeh-Fansig
Nocture in E Major Chopin
Perpetual Motion Weber
His own compositions were "Valse-
Burlesque," "Romance Pathetiquc,"
"The Melting Pot."
Yalse Chentastique Edna Woods
Hush Hour in Hong Kong
Alvan Chasies
Moiodie Rachmaninoff
Gavotte Gluck-Brakins
Staccato Etude Rubenstein
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ENGLISH PROFS. SPEAK
BEFORE LOCAL GROUPS
OF CONTROL
MEMBERS ELECTED
BY STUDENT BODY
Two Student Representative Posts
ecome Vacant, Due to Expiration
of Term and Resignation.
TUCKER, SHERWOOD OUT
Robert Wagner, Barney Chichester
Re-elected Managers of Weekly
Messenger. Arnett Retains Job.
Associated Student Body elections
will take place next Friday to. fill
two Board of Control positions. A
student representative will be elect­ed
for four quarters to fill the post
of the expiring term of Carrie
Tucker. Miss Tucker has served for
one quarter, filling out the term of
Don Patterson, who resigned in
August. A second student repre­sentative
will be elected to fill the
unexpired term of Asa Sherwood,
who recently resigned. There are
two more quarters to be served out
on his term of office.
Petitions will be posted on the
bulletin board today. Due to the
fact that there is a Frosh assembly
Tuesday, nominations will be made
from the floor in today's assembly
or else the ballots will include only
candidates nominated by petition.
At the Board o fControl meeting
last evening Robert Wagner was
again elected editor of the Weekly
Messenger for the winter quarter.
Barney Chichester was re-elected
business manager of the paper and
Roy Arnett again selected as secre­tary
to the Board of Control.
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Tuesday evening, December G, Miss
Olive Edens spoke to the combined
three chapters of the P. E. 0. at the
home of Mrs. Percy Livesey. She
talked on "Some Memories of Sicily"
where she visited about twelve years
ago.
Mr. Herbert Fowler also talked
Tuesday evening to the Fairhaven P.
T. A. on the subject, "The Reading
Habit—a Vice or a Virtue."
Both are members of the English
department.
Student Organisation Council Drops
Twelve Clubs; Considers New Plans
. Twelve schools clubs, now disor­ganized,
were dropped from the ros­ter
of Students' Organization Coun­cil
at a meeting held last Monday
night. Of these clubs, at least two
are expected to resume activity,
while it i s possible that some others
will also, either this quarter or next.
The clubs dropped were the Camera,
Ephata, College, Norcentra, Ohiyesa,
Oregon, Sagebrush, Sourdough, Chor­al
Union, Mens' Club, Scholarship,
and Girl Scouts.
The council also discussed plans
for reorganization, this being neces­sary
because of the added duties
which have been acquired since the
organization of the council ' several
years ago. The plans which were
sxiggested were presented by Miss
Rosene, chairman of the faculty com­mittee
on student organizations. The
systems for reorganization were as
follows:
; First Plan: That a general as­sembly
of all club members be held
once a month to discuss the problems
of the school organizations. From
this group an executive committee
of five would be elected to take
charge of all sttident organization ac­tivities.
This committee would be
responsible only to the faculty.
Second Plan: That the club ac­tivities
be added to the responsibil­ities
of the Board of Contral of the
Students' Association. The board,
together with the faculty committee,
would then select fro mthe school at
large, irrespective of club member­ship,
a committee of five to take
charge of the details connected with
the administration of organizations,
and would be directly responsible to
the clubs. ~ -
Third Plan: That the Students'
Organization Council be retained, but
with several modifications, first be­ing
a requirement that the dele­gates
from the clubs be either office
holders or members of the club ex­ecutive
council. From this represen­tative
group, a committee of five
would then select from the school at
all the details of club activities. The
club representatives would be elected
for a term of three quarters, irre­spective
of their term of office in the
club, and would retain a place on the
club's executive committee for the
duration of their representation at
the council, even after ceasing to
hold a club office. This is to keep
the membership of the organization
council intact for three quarters, so
that the same group will be able to
carry out constructive work through­out
the entire school year.
Miich discussion followed the sug­gestions,
the consensus of opinion in
the council favoring the adoption of
the third plan, but with further mod­ifications.
Robert Fisher, President
of the Students' Association, was
present as the representative of the
Board of Control, and voiced an ap­proval
of the second plan, which
would give the responsibility to the
Board of Control. That a conclusion
might be arrived at, President Ray­mond
Bright and Miss Rosene ap­pointed
a committee, to give a re­port
on the plans. Students are in­vited
to offer suggestions to this
committee.
Said President Bright, "The Stu­dents'
Organization Council is work^.
ing on a new constitution. Several
students have appeared with defi­nite
ideas and we will appreciate
more of them. Our aim is a more
efficient organization." Prior to the
discussion of the plans, routine bus­iness
was taken care of and reports
from each club were heard.
DISCUSSED TUESDAY
Miss Orpha M^eP'nerson talked to
the Frosh Tuesday in their special
assembly on the Rural Curriculum.
There will be one more meeting at
which students will be asked to
choose a definite curriculum to study
during the next two years.
Different types of rural schools and
a contrast of the number of one-room
schools in this state with those
in other states was shown by Presi­dent
Fisher in a short resume of the
rural field. He pointed out that the
one-room school is rapidly--disappear­ing.
He also stressed the value of
choosing a curriculum and sticking
with it to insure having the right
kind of credits for graduation in six
quarters. \
Miss McPherson told of the rural
school problem and the need of the
rural children for a good education.
"The consolidated schools have help­ed
but not solved the problem," she
stated. "Education must recognize
the difference between rural and
urban life."
This school provides, it was point­ed
out, large opportunities for work
in the rural curriculum, through co­operation
with the numerous rural
schools just adjacent to Bellingham.
There is an adequate opportunity
for student teachers to get in their
work in this field.
Mr. Bruce Gray to
Talk With Students
Mr. Bruce G. Gray, of New York,
who is the traveling secretary of the
Student Volunteer Work of America,
is visiting the Normal today, Friday,
Dec. 9. Mr. Gray is a graduate of
the University of Toronto, and has
had two years work in Knox College.
At the present time he is making a
tour of the Pacific Coast colleges
and comes here from Vancouver, B. C.
Between 1 and 4 o'clock Mr. Gray
will be in room 206 for personal con­ferences.
If you have any point you
wish to talk over with him, or if you
wish to meet and talk to him, be
sure to get an appointment. A notice
will be posted on the Y. W. C. A.
bulletin board for signatures.
Mr. Gray, will speak in room 206
at 4 o'clock. The meetings are spon­sored
by the Y. W. C. A. but all
men and women, studentg and facul­ty,
are welcome.
World Politics
Club Win Draws
Debate Interest
Fighting for places on the Normal
debate team, the participants in the
intra-mural contests met their first
opposition last Wednesday night,
when the World Politics clashed with
the Gavel and Pulpit team. The
winners of this contest meet the
winners of a debate between an in­dependent
team and the Philo club,
which will be held this coming Mon­day.
The winners of these two debates
will meet to decide the intra-mural
championship in assembly. The speak­ers
for a three-man team will be al­lowed
four minutes for main speeches
and three minutes for rebuttal.
Debate Question
The question is, "Resolved: That
the United States Should Grant Com­plete
Autonomy to the Philippines."
The World Politics team, composed
of Harry Winsor, Viola Poyhonen and
Glen Fairbanks, took the negative
side of the question, while the Gavel
and Pulpit team, composed of Ed
Benedict, Vernon Vine and Audrey
Gwinnett, bore the burden of positive
proof.
The Philo team, composed of Neal
Miller, Fay Schermerhorn and Freida
Massey, will debate an independent
team next Monday, with the win­ners
of these two teams clashing for
the championship. The school team
will be picked from all those turning
out regardless of the standing of
the team on which they debated.
Challenges Received
The Normal school has received
several challenges , from o u t s i de
schools wishing debates. A challenge
from Willamette University has been
received, offering to debate a wo­man's
team from this school on the
question: "Resolved That the United
States should use armed force to
protect American capital in Central
America."
Women's League Holds
Committee Assembly;
Club Advisor Speaks
In the Women's League assembly
held Friday, December 2, the differ­ent
league committees illustrated by
skits and pantomime their respective
duties. Miss Rosene, advisor, spoke
on what the club has accomplished
and what it- hopes to do.
A motion was passed to the effect
that the secretary, Edna Wise, be
authorized to write a letter to Presi­dent
Fisher asking for a room to be
given the league for an office. Here
any committees could meet, and
small social gatherings' could be held
there.
Another motion was made
deciding that in the spring quarter
the Eden's Hall' and "outside" girls
will combine their informals. This
is to create a closer spirit between
the two. Tlie Eden's Hall girls were
given a chance to talk it over.
Helen Monroe, a former student
of B. S. N. S., is a guest of Katiier-ine
Laurence and Alice White. She
will attend school here next quarter.
Jenny and Margaret Anderson
from California were guests of Bon­nie
Olson Saturday.
LARGE GLASS WILL
BE GRADUATED F
Sixty-six People Will Finish Two
Year Course when School Clos­es
on Next Friday Afternoon.
NO FORMAL EXERCISES
Miss Laura E. Runyan is the Only
Third Year Graduate to Fnish
Work at End of This Quarter.
Comparing favorably with other
fall graduating classes a group of 67
students will leave this school as
graduates when the quarter ends,,
December 16. Of these, 66 are fin­ishing
the two year course, while
one is completing three years' study.
No formal commencement program is
to be held, this taking place at the
end of the spring and summer quar­ters,
in which • graduates of the fall
and winter quarter classes are invit­ed
to participate. However, special
recognition will be made in assemb-
The names of the graduates fol­low:
Three-year course: Laura E.
Runyon. Two-year course: Gladys
E. Anderson, Dale H. Annis, Hazel
E. Armentrout, Mrs. Mildred Batch-elder,
Florence Bean, Evelyn K.
Bergh, Dora Bindon, Ruby M. Bur-dett,
Ebba A. Carlson, Marjorie I.
Cays, Jessie Church, Olive G. Cuni-ming,
Esther V. Dale, Esther B. Da­vis,
Rella F. Ebcling, Doris S. Flynn,
Ann L. Fosjack.
Trula 'French, Ella Fuller, Alice
K. Gregor, Mrs. Ragnhild Grote, Lil­lian
Haeske, Uldine L. Hagerman,
Luella Hansen, Olive Hardan, Pearl
E. Harman, Leona Hinklcy, Mamie
B. Howell, Lorna R. Hurley, Mary
E. Iverson, Ruth E. Johnson, Har­riett
Jondall, Elizabeth M. Jones,
Frances M. 'Kelfner, Sumner Kcllam,
Ethel Leadbettcr, Beatrice Lehky.
Esther Lincoln, Marriet McDonald,
Madge McKellar, Mrs. Martha Man-kins,
Blanche Meek, Tlielma C. Mie-sen,
Marguerite Mitchell, Margaret
Moore, Asta M. Morris, Hazel B.
Mossing, Ellen S. Nelson, Mrs. Jes­sie
Nestle, Chiyoke Nimori, Rica Oh-lin,
Aili M. Osterlund, Mrs. Josephine
Porter, Mrs. Jean Purdy.
Hazel E. Reeve, Dorothy L. Ross,
Ruth L. Schultz, George W. Sher­man,
Lillas E. Skidmore, Lois Star-buck,
Frances L. Taft, William Van
Over, Dell M. Wade, Frances Wade,
Mrs. Helen White, Jean Woll.
Needs for a Mens
Club! Disaissed in
Meeting Last Week
DON MARQUIS HONORED
Word has been received here
through his parents that Don Mar­quis
has recently been elected to Phi
Beta Kappa, the national scholastic
fraternity. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. J. Marquis. Mr. Mar­quis
is the dean of men here. Don
attended here for one year and has
since been at Stanford University.
This is his senior year there.
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Beth Caghlan spent an enjoyable
week-end in Everett with her folks.
Williams' Jubilee Singers
Calendar of Events
FRIDAY, December 9.—Recreation Hour, Big Gym, 4 to 5 p. m.
TUESDAY, December 13.—Frosh Assembly at 11 a. m. Williams
Jubilee Singers, Auditorium, 8:15 p. m.
FRIDAY, December 16—School closes for Christmas vacation at 4 p. m.
The questions of whether there are
needs for a men's club in this school,
and if so, the best way to meet them,
are waiting to be solved by the men
of the school, who in their first meet­ing
debated the question pro and
con, and elected a committee to pre­sent,
at the next meeting, the find­ings
°f investigations on the matter.
This committee is composed of Joel
Gundmundson, chairman; Raymond
Bright, Robert Fisher, Bryan Buchan­an
and Roy Arnett.
In previous years the club has led
a spasmodic existence, rising to
heights at times, while on other oc­casions
being in a state of disor:
ganization. The present status of
the club is, in a measure, due to the
fact that all former officers have
left the school, and that Gunnar
Berg, former advisor, is no longer
here.
When reorganization was discuss­ed,
W. J. Marquis, dean of men,
stated, "I think the men have started
on the right procedure, if there are
any real needs to be met. I do not
believe in keeping an organization
merely for the sake of the organi­zation."
Joel Gudmundson, chairman of the
committee, said, "We are making a
study of the situation here to see
what work a men's organization
could do to add something to the
two years we are here. We hope "to
present a definite report as to aims
and purposes."
The meeting, Gudmundson report­ed,
will be held Monday afternoon at
four o'clock.
THREE-AGT DRAMA
GIVEN BY PLAYERS
OF THE RED ARROW
TO
First Issue of School Literary
Magazine for Year to be Larger,
and More Attractive Appearing.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Publication to Contain Many Short
Stories, Special Articles . and
Poems as Well as Art Futures
The Play Was Given Previously
in London Just After World
War; Tonight at Whatcom Hi.
Last evening the players present­ed
"A Bill of Divorcement," a drama
in three acts by Glemence Dane, to a
large audience in the school auditbri-um-,
and tonight they appear at "the.
Whatcom High school auditorium,
presenting the same play.
The author of this drama, Clemence
Dane, is an English actress, and her
play was a feature of the 1920-21
season in London. After having been
discharged from the hospital where
he had been literally made over by
war surgeons, Alan Pollock, an Eng-lis
hactor, attended the London per­formance.
He had, at this time,
given up the stage but the character
of Hilary Fairfield fascinated him.
He, too, had been a victim of the
war; he, too, had spent weary months
in the care of doctors. Although
there was never any doubt as to his
mental condition, which is the basis
of the Fairfield tragedy, he felt that
he would be able to act out Miss:
Dane's leading character better than
The third issue of the Red Arrow,
bigger and containing more poems?
stories and essays than either of the
two previous'issues, will be on sale
Monday. The members of the
Scribes Club hope the new features
will appeal to the student body.
The Red Arrow is a literary maga­zine,
published quarterly. Its pur­pose
is given as being a medium of
expression for those who have litera­ry
talent and aspirations. To pro­duce
a publication as nearly as pos­sible
a representative one of the
literary talent of the school has been
the aim of the publishers. According
to the editor a great deal of material
was submitted, thus allowing critical
selection of worthy pieces of work.
These literary works are not only
from members of the Scribes' Club
but from the whole school. "We feel
that this indicates an interest in the
magazine on the part of the whole
student body," states the editor,
Edna Wise, who is quite hopeful for
the success of the first issue of this
school year. Her message to the
student body is, "We hope you will
like the Red Arrow and that you will
support it now and in the future."
Besides work contributed by the
students, this issue boasts of two
features furnished by outside persons.
Miss Ella Higginson, well known
writer of Bellingham, has an article
written to young writers. The other-feature
is a portrait study drawing
by Arthur Jukes. It is called "A
Portrait of a Chinaman."
The magazine has been well sup­ported
by Bellingham firms through
advertising, which has been solicited
under the direction of George Sher­man,
business manager of the num­ber.
The sale price of each copy
is twenty cents.
most other actors.
Mr. Pollo'ck's proposition, which he
made to some Americans, was accept­ed
and "A Bill of Divorcement" was
presented, with Mr. Pollock as lead­ing
actor, in New York on October
10, 1921. The play was an outstand­ing
success in New York, having
stayed on Broadway all winter.
Because of its apparent Broadway
success, the Amateur Little Theater
Co. of Bellingham accepted it and
are acting it out this week.
Initial Drama Club Play of Year
s ...
Shows Clever Acting and Staging
A small, yet average sized house,
witnessed the Drama Club produc­tion
of "The Children of the Moon''
last Friday evening, December 2.
This audience watched what was
probably the most difficult piece of
play acting attempted by any group
of this school.
"Children of the Moon" is an in­tensely
dramatic play. The action is
vivid and quite objective. Yet it
requires a degree of interpretation
hard to find in an amateur group.
The work of the Drama Club play­ers
was highly commendable. Any
of their noticeable shortcomings may
be laid at the feet of experience.
Had a cast of their ability put on a
play of higher theme it would have
scored a tremendous hit. Only one
blunder marred what otherwise would
have been an extremely well done
amateur production, and that can be
attributed to the stage managers'
neglect. In the closing scene the
whirr of the aeroplane's motor is
supposed to be heard, thus denoting
that the two lovers have started for
the moon with bat a drop of petrol.
The engine was forgotten and as a
result part of the audience was left
in doubt as to what exactly did
happen to them.
Aside from the above criticism the
stage managing, lighting and setting
was far superior to.any used in the
past few years. It is pleasing to
know that so crude a stage as the
auditorium possesses can be used as
effectively.
The acting of the play itself
showed much intensive and well di­rected
training.. The cast could have
worked to better advantage had it
not been their' first opportunity to
play, before an audience. It is diffi­cult
to gauge the reception of an
audience before the play has been
produced for them.
One of the most enjoyable parts of
the play was done by Fred Maxwell
Lagger in his interpretation of
Thomas, the old salt. His-work was
a very clever bit of acting.-. r»The cast
as a wholev was well balanced and
presented a play of a higher calibre
than the usual drama club produc­tion.
We' hope that more of the
same will be forthcoming.