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Social Calendar Gets
Gong As Orchestra
Presents Last Assembly
Only Five More Study
Days; Flank Early
And Avoid the Bosh
VOL. XXXVII—NO. 21 WESTERN WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, March I I , 1938
Hicks Appears
In Concert
With Orchestra
Program Will Be Presented in
Tuesday's Assembly; Hicks
To Play Piano in Concerto
Bushell to Lead Group
Appearing with the WWC orches­tra
in next Tuesday's assembly, Dr.
Arthur C. Hicks will be featured in
one of the numbers presented by
the orchestra. Don C. Bushell will
direct the group.
The main at
traction of the
program will be
the C o n c e r to
Number .1 in E
flat, for piano
a n d orchestra,
by L i s z t , in
which Dr. Hicks
will p l a y the
piano. The "Ip-higenia
in Aulis
Overture" will be the opening num­ber,
followed by one of Schubert's
compositions, "Symphony in B
Minor" (unfinished). The third
number on the program is the
"Entr'acte" from "Les Erinnyes",
by Massenet. "Nocturne", by the
Norwegian composer, Greig, will
follow. The Concerto number to
be presented by the orchestra and
Dr. Hicks is in four movements as
follows: first, allegro maestoso;
second, Quasi adagio; third, Alle­gretto
vivace; and fourth, Allegro
marziale animate The Concerto
will be the concluding number on
the program.
Pianist Acclaimed
Last year in an assembly, the or­chestra
and Dr. Hicks presented
Edward MacDowell's Concerto,
Number 2 in D Minor as the main
feature of its winter quarter' con­cert:
According to all accounts,
the performance was received in a
hearty manner by the student body.
Dr. Hicks received his piano
training at the University of Ore
gon under George P. Hopkins, who
was a pupil of Moritz Moszkowski,
He also studied under Ernst
Hutcheson, who Dr. Hicks considers
as probably one of the best pianists
in the world. At the Peabody con­servatory
in Baltimore, Dr. Hicks
worked with a Russian pianist, Al­exander
Sklarevski.
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Bellingham Stores
>nsor Contest
For County Women
In Guild Play IRA Nominates
Delegates
To Conference
New Candidates for Admission
Welcomed; Convention Meets
At Reed College in March
Europe Discussed
Lewis H. Frazee plays the lead­ing
role in "The Old Soak" now
playing at the Civic Guild. The
production will run through tonight
and tomorrow.
W A A Hold Annual
Winter Banquet
Awards Were Presented at
Banquet Last Night
In Edens Hall
Spoi
Sponsored by Bellingham's five
leading women's stores, Wahl's, Vic­tor's,
Newton's, Martinson's, and
Hilton's, a new contest for What­com
county women is now open and
win continue until March 23, when
the winner, the best dressed wom­an,
will be given a complete new
spring outfit.
Either a thirty-five dollar or a
sixty-five dollar outfit may be
chosen by either town women or
WWC coeds and a list made of the
outfit. After this list is completed
it may be left at any of the stores
and will be submitted to the judges
at the end of the month during
which the contest is run. The
judges pass on the lists and select
the list which most closely coincides
with that .of the "best dressed
woman," a mythical figure prede­termined
by the stores sponsoring
the contest.
The woman who has submitted
the most perfect list will receive,
free, the list which she compiled.
According to the sponsors of the
' contest, this is probably the first
contest of this kind in Bellingham,
and the sponsors are especially
eager for WWC coeds to enter.
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Tennis Courts Ready
For Summer
The new tennis courts located be­hind
the PE building will not be
ready for use until summer quarter.
The grass on the new athletic
field is up and is growing rapidly,
but the field will not be ready un­til
faH quarter. The field is seed­ed
with a special mixture of grasses
which is especially adapted to with?
standing the rough usage which it
will get •
With travel as its theme, the win
ter quarter banquet was presented
by the WAA last night in the Edens
hall dining room, with Alice Sie-mons
as mistress of ceremonies.
The decorations, menu, and pro­gram
carried out the travel idea
very successfully.
The program, consisting mostly
of songs by the group, was designed
to take them on a trip around the
world. Piano music played by Clara
Vander Griend took the girls to Se­attle,
where they boarded an im­aginary
ship for Hawaii. - The songs
carried them to many different
countries and finally landed them
in New York. There Betty Swisher,
as a soap box orator, presented the
awards for basketball, badminton,
and hiking. The group singing of
"Far Above the Bay's Blue Wa­ter"
closed the program
Musical Specialties
Special musical numbers were:
"Blue Hawaii" sung by a trio, Mar­ian
Jones, Mary Stevens, and
Phyllis Thomas; and solos by Echo
Oxford, and Virginia Weston.
Amusing impromptu talks were
given by Miss Ruth Weythman,
Miss Evelyn Rupert, Elsie Kalenius,
Ruth Martinson, and Shirley Rog­ers.
Joyce Forbes, general chairman of
the banquet, was assisted by the
following committee chairmen: Lil­lian
Anderson, menu; Mary Steph­ens,
decorations; Eleanor Elliott,
program; Elaine Johnson, publicity;
and Terry Gookins, tickets.
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Noted Duchin Band
Coming Here
At a special meeting of the Inter­national
Relations club Wednesday,
five delegates were selected to ac­company
Miss Nora,Cummins, fac­ulty
adviser, to the Northwest In­ternational
Relations club confer­ence
at Reed College in Portland,
March 25 and 26. The delegates are:
Merritt Frizzell, Nina Mae Pickett,
Gustav Markgraf, Una Clibon, and
Bud Neil.
The club took occasion to wel­come
Steig Osman, John Solomon,
Frank Hohlbrook, Adrian Alberg,
Douglas Lince, and Bill Strickfad-den,
candidates for membership.
A committee was appointed to re­vise
the constitution to bring it up
to date, as it was decided that it
was out of date and cumbersome.
The procedure or the Noon Dis­cussion
group meeting on the first
Monday following each regular club
meeting was approved. These
meetings will continue as long as
the need for them is felt by the
club.
An active membership committee
for the next quarter was planned
after a recommendation of David |
Osterberg. A motion was made to
drop from the roster all members
who do not keep up their attend­ance
according to the constitution.
The topic for discussion at Wed­nesday's
meeting was "Europe, Key
to the Present World Crisis," pre­sented
by Merritt Frizzell. A lively
discussion followed.
Thirteen Lettermen
Win Sweaters
Soukup/Hill
Reappointed
Courtney Gets Job as Doorman;
Report ort* Expenditures for
Rec Hours Submitted
Vikings Make Big
Splash Tonight
By Board Correspondent v
Application for the position of
business manager and editor of the
Western Viking, and for the posi­tion
of doorman at. rec hours and
other social functions were consid­ered
at this week's meeting of the
Board of Control.
Clarence Soukup, who is the pres­ent
editor, was reappointed to
serve in the same capacity for next
quarter, and Evan Hill was also
reappointed as~ business manager.
Both Soukup and Hill were ap­pointed
with the approval of Mrs.
Ruth A. Burnet, journalism instruc-.
tor of the Western Viking., No / PubUshed because it is going to be
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. Says B. Fowler, author, composer
and master of ceremonies of all
super and main attractions at the
Viking staff swimming party in the
pool tonight, "everybodies gotta do
something, but they don't know
what, now i got a uncle in iowa
who always wanted to do some­thing
but he never could because he
married some one. and this wife
wouldn't let him do anything, so
this made him sore and one day he
DID do something . . . and that's
the same way with this swimming
party.
"this uncle of mine got sore and
he wasnt a boxer, but this isnt say­ing
much about the swimming party
and we are going to have refresh­ments
later and i dont want it
Eddie Duchin brings his famous
orchestra to Bellingham April 6
for a dance at the Armory. The
affair is the second of a series of
big dance attractions this year un­der
the auspices of Jay Curtis and
George Portiss.
The handsome maestro has one
of the country's top notch bands,
and his well known piano immed­iately
identifies his orchestra to lis­teners.
His music has always been
popular in Bellingham and a ca­pacity
crowd is anticipated in his
first appearance here.
Duchin and his organization are
now playing over KVOS via Mutual
Broadcasting System Tuesday eve
nings from the Hotel Ambassador
in Los Angeles. The dark haired
pianist's band is the mainstay of
the "Elizabeth Arden Hour of
Charm" program.
The dance will be held the first
Wednesday in April.
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Pottery Class Labors
Two weeks ago when the curtain,
accompanied by the boom, fell with
a decided thud on the Vikings 1937-
1938 basketball season—the curtain
on the season,—with the boom on
the Ellensburg Wildcats—an un­derrated
Viking machine function­ing
smoothly gave much copy to
the critics, by capturing their first
conference victory of the current
race and the second in five years,
over the highly acclaimed Ellens­burg
five, the CWC thirteen names
were added to the history of Bell­ingham
College's annals.
The following letter winners
made up the crew that brought the
Western College of Education into
port with a successful season: Nel­son,
Harvie, Fox, Joe and Ed
Moses, Tisdale, Eyer, Bell, Targus,
Dombroski, Gagnon, Odell, and
Smith.
other applications were submitted
to the board.
Dale Courtney was named to hold
the post of doorman for rec hours.
He will replace David Osterberg,
who has served in this capacity dur­ing
the current quarter.
A report on the expenditures for
rec hours and social functions for
the current quarter was submitted
by Joe Thomas, secretary to the
Board of Control. The report,
which was in the form of an item­ized
record of expenditures for or­chestras,
decorations and other ex­penses
was checked and approved.
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'Sun-dog' Theme For
Rainbow Gals
Annual Carnival
No More Rec Hours
Until Next Quarter
As everyone is studying for finals
and it is officially closed week-end,
there will not be a rec hour this
afternoon.
The winter quarter rec hours were
most enjoyable because of their ori­ginality.
The next rec hour will be
held the first week of spring quar­ter.
Using the Sun-dog as the theme,
Bellingham Rainbow girls' annual
carnival will be held Saturday eve­ning,
March 12, at the Masonic tem­ple,
corner of State and Maple
streets. There will be a "main
show" starting at 8:00 o'clock, with
the carnival starting at 9:00.
As the feature of the main show,
Bettie Bode, Bellingham high school
senior, will be crowned queen, of the
carnival with her four princesses,
who are, Betty Key, Lois Hilby, Al-vira
Welton, and Lee Barlow.
To carry out the Sun-dog theme,
the seven Rainbow colors will be
used in the decoration of the
booths; the red booth will be a Jit­ney
dance booth, carrying out a Big
Apple theme. At the other six rain­bow
booths such old favorites as
Housey-housey, Nigger-throw, and
Fish-pond will be in play, along
with the usual ice-cream, hot-dog
and candy concessions. |
The Sun-dog, which is being used
as the theme, is a type of small
rainbow, which appears under cer
tain weather conditions.
Virginia Anderson, WWC student,
is Worthy Advisor of the Belling­ham
assembly, No. 17.
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Band Plans Trip
in a public place and this is an ex
elusive party, it all starts at 7:30
and the people who don't come
won't be able to go swimming with
us so they better come and bring
their guests because everything will
be over by 9:30 because we got spe­cial
permission from the dean of
women because it's a closed week­end."
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Kuder Is Villain
In Guild 'Old Soak'
Bond Returns
ToWCC
After Trip East
Two Text Books Publshed;
Reynolds, Shuster, West
Collaborate With Bond
Accompanied by Fisher
After acting on a committee with
eleven other educators from var­ious
colleges and universities, Dr.
E. A. Bond has returned to WWC.
The committe made a report on
the basic views and unanswered
Pemberton and Hale
In Latest Production
Closing Tomorrow Night
After the successful trip of the
WWC band to Ellensburg, Don C.
Bushell and Coach Chuck Lappen-busch
are discussing the possibility
of the band accompanying the foot­ball
team here in the fall. They also
hope to have ' Eliensburg's band
play here for a game.
Students Express Opinions Pro And Con
In Regard To Probable Book Rule
Vases, placques, book-ends, fig­urines,
and several wheel-pieces
were among the pottery items fired
last week for the industrial arts
classes. Changed from gray to gold­en
tan by the firing they now await
glazing.
During a recent questioning in
regard to the new book rule which
is now under consideration, students
commented both favorably and un­favorably.
However, the majority
of them seem to be against the idea
of renting books from the Co-op.
"The price of rental will be an
added expense to those who have to
count their pennies," stated one
student. Others are afraid that
there will not be enough books to
accommodate everyone. There are
those students who believe that the
book rule under consideration will
not solve the problem of congestion
in the library, for students will al­ways
have books they want to check
out at 4:00 o'clock for home use.
Favorable Comments
Those who commented favorably
believe that the students would be
at a distinct advantage if the new
book rule is accepted. The student
book. He would, not.have to worry
whether his particular book was in
the library or not and he would al­ways
have orie^with him in class to
which he could refer.
"The new book rule, if it goes
through, will give a person more of
a chance to get books," claimed one
of the students questioned. He
would rather rent a book at the Co­op
than run over to the library
fter one, and take a chance on its
being there.
Those who did not comment gave
some suggestions of how the con­gestion
in the library could be avoid­ed;
Sighing for books in the reserve
book room and taking them up­stairs
to read and making students
pay a penalty for late books, are a
few of the'suggestions.
"If students wouldn't wait until
the last minute for books, they could
always get them," observed one stu-
With Dr. M. S. Kuder being foiled
in the role of Webster Parsons, a
crooked banker, "The Old Soak"
enjoyed a successful opening Wed­nesday
night at the Civic Playhouse.
Don Marquis' character comedy
closes its nightly run tomorrow
evening.
Besides Dr. Kuder, the cast in­cludes
two neophytes. Frances
Pemberton and Howard Hale, who
are making their stage debut.
Lewis Frazee, a veteran of many
guild performances, has the title
role, that of the "Old Soak," Clem
Hawley. Kendrick Frazee plays
the part of his long suffering wife,
Matilda.
The cast:
Lewis Frazee
Clem Hawley, the Old Soak
Kendrick Frazee.... Matilda, his wife
M. S. Kuder
Webster Parsons, banker
Cecil Bacon Clem Hawley, Jr
Carol Hughes ...Ina Heath, dancer
Frances Pemberton
Lucy, the Old Soak's daughter
Howard Hale
.Tom Ogden, her fiance
Beulah Padavon ....'......-.
_ Nellie, the hired girl
Fred Saxauer. Al, the bartender
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Girls Complete Plaque
:.:.v- Dr. E. A. Bond
questions in teaching .elementary
arithmetic, which will be published
in a year book. The members of
the committee were appointed joint­ly
by the National Education asso­ciation
and the National Teachers
Association of Mathematics. The
meeting was held in Atlantic City.
While Dr. Bond was in New York,
two of the text books he helped
write were published. The title of
the books is "Real Life Arithmetic".
They were written for the third and
fourth grades. Soon similar books
for the fifth, sixth, seventh, and
eighth grades will be published. Two
books also have been written for
teachers of the first and second
grades.
The men writing in collaboration
with Dr. Bond are: Rollo G. Rey­nolds,
principal of Horace Mann
school, Teachers college, Columbia
university; Carl N. Shuster, head of
department of Mathematics, New
Jersey State Teachers college; Ros-coe
L. West, president of New Jer­sey
State Teachers college.
President C. H. Fisher accompan­ied
Dr. Bond as far as Minneapo­lis.
Here Dr. Bond stopped over a
day and visited his son who is a
professor of education in the Un­iversity
of Minnesota.^
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Closed Week Slows
Up Student
Social Activities
"What! Closed week-end again?
Why it can't be—I'm only on the
third week's work for this quarter,
and now you tell me next week are
Miss Breakey's sixth grade girls finals!" So it goes—and sure
art classes have just completed some enough this is closed week-end.
unusual copper plaques. Made by The last week-end of each quar-rubbing
an original design on a ter is closed week-end; the one
thin sheet of copper, giving a rais- week-end during which students are
ed effect, the plaques are mounted ] supposed to stay at home and cram,
on wood backgrounds, and shel-1 No student activities will be held
lacked. and no special permissions will be
The ingenuity of the pupils was granted to women students,
tried, in obtaining tools for the
work, as there are none specifically
for their purpose; therefore, such
tools as wooden knitting needles
and orangewood sticks were used.
In finding material for filling the
designs, several problems arose.
After trying clay and plastic wood
and meeting with no success, the
girls finally used a wax back on a
shellacked surface.
would always be certain of having a; dent.
0* ft* Hofiz°n
Monday, March 14.
7:30 p. m. — Alkisiah club
meeting, Edens Hall Club
room.
Thursday March 17.
Final examinations. .
Friday March 18.
Final examinations.
4:00 p. m.—Winter quarter
ends.
This idea originated several years
ago, as the students felt they could
not do justice to their final exams
due to too many activities that
week-end. The plan met with the
approval of the faculty as they be­lieved
it would not only boost
grades, but also save on the burn­ing
of midnight oil.
So, all you Phi Betas and others,
plan for a nice, quiet week-end at
home studying—we hope.
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Koudal Initiated Into
Scholarship Society
Initiating Margaret Koudal into
the Scholarship society was the pur­pose
of the luncheon held in the
Edens hall club room Tuesday,
March 8. She was selected as the
one new member for winter quarter.
The table was attractively deco­rated
with a centerpiece of daffo­dils
and yellow candles. The place
cards were dunce caps of different
colors.
The initiate was called upon to
give a brief sketch of her life. She
was then presented with a pin and
a polished apple.