Western Viking - 1938 July 15

              VOL XXXVII—NO. 37 WESTERN WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, July 15, 1938
BIG NOISE
One of the loudest reverberations
heard around these parts in many
a month occurred in the kitchen at
Edens hall when Don Zylstra, ex
student-body president, dropped a
stack of dishes.. The noise was
even worse than that made by the
Kitchen crew's sport phaeton, Os-gert.
That loud laugh that you heard
from the direction of the fair city of
Tacoma was the result of an an­nouncement
that a Chicago Woman
is going to lecture there on "Civic
Virtue".
"COMING 'ROUND THE MOUNT"
Our guess is that there will be a
sudden increase in the number of
sore pedal extremities in this school
after the 'victims' of the Mount
Baker hike have returned. Next
week, if you should hear someone
exclaim, "Oh, my foot!", you will
know that it wasn't a figure of
speech.
/ / placed end to end, the hairs
grown by the average man in one
year would equal 4704 feet, we
learn. The trick, of course, is to
get them to grow end to end.
"MAH FRIENDS!"
With campaign time rolling
around again on the political hor­izon
we should pause for a moment
to pity the. poor candidates. Be­fore
them lies the task of stumping
a country that is already almost
completely stumped. One of the
things that will be a major issue
will be the building up of our mer­chant
marine. With an adequate
merchant marine Puget Sound
could stage bigger and better long­shoremen's
strikes.
LOW PRICED LIZZIES
If the prefixes on the automo­bile
license plates parked adjacent
to the school are any indication,
thirty-four of the thirty-nine coun­ties
in this state are represented
here this summer. In case anyone
doubts the statement that school
teachers never get rich, he need but
look over the automobiles belong­ing
to them. Of those parked
around here, over ninety percent
are of the "Look At All Three"
Fisher Present
AtUW
Conference
In Chicago a youth stayed awake
seventy-two hours-^—seemingly na-going
type for sitting through those
tore's effort to evolve ia movie-double
feature shoWs..
MUZZLE WANTED /
Henry Ford has announced that in
the near future he will put out a
low priced automobile with the motor
in the rear. This may prove to be
the last straw for some WWC stu
dents who are married men. They
already have the driver in the rear.
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"Function of Classroom Teachers
and Adminstrator in the Curriculum
Improvement Program," was the
topic of a discussion in which Presi­dent
C. H. Fisher took part at the
Conference of Curriculum Improve­ment
at the University of Washing­ton
all this week. It was an open
discussion, in which many questions
were brought forward, and President
Fisher branded it as "lively".
President Fisher, Miss Wilma
Trent, Mr. Paul R. Grim, Mr. Victor
H. Hoppe, and Dr. C. C. Upshall,
represented WWC. Mr. C. Paine
Shangle, city superintendent, also
was present.
Shangle Speaks
Monday morning a general session
was held iriJ which the curriculum
improvement program was discussed
by various speakers from Washing­ton,
Idaho, and Oregon, and one
speaker from Texas who gave re­ports.
Mr. Shangle, chairman of
the Washington Curriculum Com­mission,
talked about "Curriculum
Improvement in the State of Wash­ington."
Mr. Grim, of the Campus Elemen­tary
school, led the group discussion
Tuesday afternoon. The subject was
"Improving the Social Studies Pro­gram
through a Current Events
Reading Program". Wednesday aft­ernoon
Mr. Grim was chairman of
the group discussing "Improving the
Social Studies Program Through Uti­lization
of Community Resources."
Upshall Participates
Dr. Upshall of the Research de­partment
took part in a panel dis­cussion
on the same day entitled,
"The Place of Pupil Interest and
Subject Matter in the Development
of the Core Curriculum."
Miss Trent, instructor of teaching
techniques, is chairman of the dis­cussion
group,on the subject, "Eval­uation
of the Core of Curriculum
Program". Mr. Hoppe of the
Speech department is a member of
the committee for the conference
on "Curriculum Improvement in
Drama."
The conference began Monday
morning of this week and is con­tinuing
through today.
Iddins Swings
Hour of Play
Weythman's, McGee's Classes
Supervise; Grades Four to Nine
Participate; Choose Own Game
An hour of play for all,Campus
Elementary school children, organ­ized
by Maxine Iddins, student
teacher, was held Wednesday morn­ing
from 10:40 to 11:40 on Waldo
field. Pupils from the fourth to
the ninth grades participated, while
Miss Ruth Weythman's PE 51 and
52 classes and Mr. L. A. McGee's PE
64 class supervised the activities.
Pupils were divided into seven
different play teams, with individ­uals
from each grade playing with
members from other grades. The
children chose their own games.
During the first half hour they
played games of low organization,
such as dodge ball, flying Dutch­man,
three deep, Mother Goose and
goslings; and relays.
During the last half hour each
grade was divided into two sections
and played with one division of the
next grade in some team game of
high organization, which demanded
co-operation.
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Bureau Places Nine
WWC Graduates
Nine additional WWC graduates
have recently secured teaching ap­pointments
for the coming year,
according to the report from Miss
Elizabeth Hopper of the Appoint­ment
Bureau. The position of mu­sic
supervisor for grades one to
four in Chehalis has been allotted
to Clara VanderGriend.
Placements in rural schools have
been obtained by the following: Al­berta
Stewart, Brookfield; Margaret
Bertrand, Crocker; Mary Luccolini,
Leahy; and Marion Stroebel, near
Colville.
Other applicants who have pen­ned
their names to contracts for
next fall are: Marjorie Tenoll, sec­ond
grade, Longview; Esther Nord-quist,
primary grades and either
art or music in Bremerton; Margit
Olson, fourth and fifth grades in
Clearbrook; and Thelma Finley,
fourth grade at Anacortes.
Mount Baker Hikers Trek To
Timber Line Today;
Climb Mountain Tomorrow
Nash Invited; Violin
Artist Presented
Equipped for high mountain climbing and anticipating the much dis­cussed
view from the 10,750 foot summit of Mount Baker, a party of
forty-nine students, faculty members, and outsiders left the campus at
7:30 this morning for the annual excursion. A bus trip to Glacier begins
the trip. From there the hikers, under the leadership of "Happy" Fisher,
local mountaineer, "Dutch" Wilder, and L. A. McGee trek eight miles to
Kulshan cabin at the timber line
where they will make camp.
Members of the party will spend
tonight at Kulshan cabin, jointly
owned by the Associated Students
and the Mt. Baker club. Everyone
retires early in order to rise at
5:00 o'clock tomorrow morning to
begin the actual climb of the moun­tain.
Hiking is done at a slow pace,
using the pass-and-rest method
until the top is reached at approx­imately
1:00 p. m. The vista from
the summit includes the San Juan
Island group, the Sound, and neigh­boring,
mountain ranges in Canada
and on the penninsula. Descent is
made at a speedy rate via sliding
and other hasty means, the party
reaching Kulshan cabin at about
5 p. m.
Hikers spend tomorrow night at
the cabin, and return to Belling-ham
on Sunday.
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New Faculty Members To Be Introduced;
Garvin Tells of Trip Abroad
HERALD INSPECTION
Periodic inspection of the
Herald plant will be held at
2:00 p. in. tomorrow. Mem­bers
of the staff and others of
the student body interested are
invited. Those going are to
meet in front of the Herald
building at 1:45 p. m.
By Dale Courtney
Because the majority of summer school students have little chance to
become acquainted with the members of the faculty who joined the staff
last fall, the Viking will present a series of interviews with these new in­structors.
This week we introduce Miss Ruthlen Garvin, school nurse,
who has recently returned from a two-mounths tour of Europe.
Miss Garvin, whose home is in
Tacoma, was graduated from Uni- Stratford on Avon and the huge
versity of Washington with a bach- sold plush English beds which were
, „ ' . .. , _, used by the whole family
elor of science degree and obtained
her registered nurse's certificate
from Harborview hospital in Seat
tie-
Regarding her trip across the At
lantic on the Normandie, Miss Gar­vin
states, "I became quite adept at
playing ping pong with the boat a
right angles in a rough sea."
The locking of hotel doors at
midnight, and the difficulty of ob­taining
a drink of water in France,
prohibition of dancing, inability to
buy chewing gum, and the excep­tional
courtesy of the people in
Germany impressed Miss Garvin.
Other sights of interest to her
were the Shakespearean Festival at
Dr. George W. Nash, president of
Yankton college, South . Dakota,
and former president of WWC, has
been invited to speak in assembly
July 19. Dr. Nash, who was presi­dent
here from 1914 to 1922, has also
been asked to speak at the faculty
meeting Tuesday at 4:00 p. m., im­mediately
following the faculty tea,
which is being planned in his honor.
In Friday's assembly, July 22,
Francis Armstrong, violinist who
plays with the Seattle Symphony
orchestra will be presented. Mr.
Armstrong is described as being a
brililant musician with fluent exe­cution,
sound technique, and ap­pealing
tone.
^'S-Te received his early musical
training in Canada, preliminary to
long courses of study in Europe
under leading masters.
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Coaches Give Ideas
On Football
Initiating a policy to be followed
for the remainder of the quarter,
the Viking will present student
opinion on various topics of inter­est
to physical education instruc
tors.
This week we feature the topic
of touch football and its value to
junior high school students. Re
garding the value of this sport to
children of upper grade school lev­el,
Coach L. A. McGee remarked,
"A complete supervised program of
touch football will satisfy the crav­ing
of the pupils for tackle football
without the danger which accom­panies
it."
Sheldon Moe—Snohomish County.
"Tackle football is not possible
in the junior high school, because
many parents object, and because
the expense of equipment is too
great. The equipment should be
bought by the school to insure its
IRC Members Discuss
Current Events
New Scholars Suffer
At Initiation Picnic
New members of the Scholarship
society were initiated in a rapid
fire question drill at their picnic
held at Lakewood Wednesday night.
Those whose scholastic records were
found to be high enough are: Max­ine
Ebert, Anna Peterson, Agnes
Montague, Minnie Bossenbrook,
Rose Works and Katherine Wollen.
Work in State Reported
At ACE Luncheon
Reports from various branch or­ganizations
over the state were giv­en
at the ACE luncheon in Edens
Hall club room Thursday noon.
Miss Mary E. Rich acted as chair­man
at this first summer quarter
meeting.' • -
The Association of Childhood Ed­ucation
is a strong organization" in
the state. Representatives from
Bainbridge, Bellingham, Bremerton,
Longview, Olympia, Portland, Spo­kane,
Tacoma, Wenatchee,; and
Klickitat,'Skagit, Snohomish and
Whatcom counties gave reports on
what their local groups have been
doing during the past year. Pub­lications
which have been put out
by the club were discussed. Miss
Pearl: Merriman, of this institution,
is represented by the article, "Read­ing,
a Tool for Learning." }
"The Life and Death of a Spanish
Town," was the story presented by
Bob McConnell, acting chairman,
at the International Relations club
meeting, held Wednesday evening
in the Edens Hall club room.
During the summer months the
meetings of the IRC are informal.
The members meet every two weeks
to exchange ideas and to discuss
news of the day.
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being standard and adequate. Touch
football teaches all of the neces­sary
fundamentals of the college
game except tackling."
Arne Johnsen—Kitsap County
"In our touch football league we
allow no football equipment on the
field, and the coaches of the league
change the rules as they see fit. A
division of players by weight at 105
pounds, as we have in track, would
do away with much uneven compe­tition."
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from campus.
Saturday, July 16
Mount Baker trip.
Sunday, July 17.
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