Weekly Messenger - 1924 April 25 Supplement

              WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASH. Friday, April 25, 1924
WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL COMMEMORATES FOUNDING
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SCHOOL EMPLOYS A NURSE
FOR BENEFIT OF
STUDENTS.
The health of the students receives
primary consideration at the Bellingham
Normal. The school has for many years
employed a school nurse and school doc­tor.
A physical examination is given all
students by the physician and if any
special treatment as of ears, eyes, etc.,
is required, the best physician for the
case in question is consulted.
A Detention Hospital, situated on
the campus, for the housing of conta­gious
and infectious cases found among
young women students is maintained by
the school and managed by a very com­petent
woman. The students sent there
are charged for care and meals.
Next fall, the Infirmary at Edens Hall
will be open for all young women stu­dents
who become ill. This will be for
cases not contagious or infectious, and
will also be in charge of a capable per­son.
W. A. A. Promotes Health.
The W. A. A., organized to foster ath­letics
among the girls, does a great deal
to promote their general health. Not all
can make an athletic team but in the
W. A. A. everyone has a chance for
achievement. A health program is made
and honors are given at various stages.
The Training school carries on the
Modern Health Crusade, record being
kept of each child's weight and height,
gain or loss in weight, etc. Milk is
served, and a healthful home diet and
order of living is urged for all the
children. Under weight children are
given special lunches in the Home Eco­nomics
department.
Situated as it is in one of the most
healthful sections of Puget Sound, and
located on beautiful Sehome Hill with
every possible aid given the students,
one can readily see that the Bellingham
Normal fulfills the aim of education—
a three-fold development of mental,
moral, and physical well being.
STUDENTS LIVE
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Location and Surroundings
Valuable Asset to Normal
EDENS HALL, APARTMENTS, NATURAL BEAUTIES TO BE POUND IN THE NORTHWEST
AND PRIVATE HOMES
ARE USED.
Living conditions for students of the
Normal at Bellingham are considered
especially good.
For the girls there is Edens Hall, the
spacious dormitory containing comfor­table
and artistic accommodations for
116 girls. Private homes close to the
campus provide housing for many stu­dents,
while small apartments prove pop­ular
to a great number who desire to
"batch." At the present time about
fifty students have private rooms where
they do their own cooking. Approxi­mately
the same number live in pri­vate
halls and take their meals at
Edens Hall or lunch houses.
Many girls find in the private homes
of Bellingham means to assist in ex­penses.
Room and board are obtained
by doing general housework and taking
care of children. Such arrangements are
made tnrough the office of the Dean of
Women.
Al] halls and homes are inspected by
the Dean of Women who at the begin­ning
of each year makes a trip through
all homes and meets all house mothers.
ATTRACT STUDENTS FROM MANY
STATES OF UNION
'"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." | Mountains, lakes, the sea, islands, all
SCHOOL LACKS MEANS;
COMMUNITY SUFFERS
The Normal at Bellingham is being
seriously handicapped, however, in the
service it can render to the community
by a lack of a few facilities. With a
gymnasium that is entirely too small
for athletic contests, with an auditorium
that must carry out the S. R. 0. sign
every time there is an assembly, with a
library that contains all the material
that could possibly be desired but no
place to study it, with over-crowded
class rooms, and other evils that result
from lack of room, the school is facing
its future fully determined that its
needs must be supplied.
Recollections of days spent in the Bel­lingham
State Normal School can bring
with them only undulterated joy, for
in its location the school is magnificent­ly
blessed by the beauties that Mother
Nature has lavishly bestowed upon it.
When one speaks of scenic beauty there
are only a few trite and timewom
phrases that are acceptable. Beauty is
beyond the power of the pen to describe,
but if one could collect all these phrases
and phrase them together in a descrip­tion
one would have a beginning of what
might be said concerning the beauty
that abounds in this region.
The location of the Normal itself is
one that inspires in the hearts and
minds of those who attend loftier
ideals, and a keener appreciation of the
joys of Nature. Situated on the side of
Sehome hill, the Normal overlooks the
dazzling blue waters of Bellingham Bay.
It is this distinctive position that has
earned for it the title "The Normal by
the Sea." From the front steps one can
look across the bay and view in the
distance the snow-capped Fraser River
Mountains of British Columbia.
Environs Delightful.
The region around the school affords
to the lover of nature many opportuni­ties
to enjoy himself to the uttermost.
contribute their share in providing
scenic and historic points of interest.
The Mount Baker district, which is now
coming to be recognized as a natural
playground and one of the most beau­tiful
regions in America, is only a few
hours' journey from the school, and of­fers
many opportunities for week-end
hikes and camping trips. Mount Consti­tution,
Chuckanut Drive, Friday Harbor
Biological Station, are also available for
trip. To the north, Victoria and
Vancouver wait to greet one and extend
to the visitors the feeling of comradship
that exists between the United States
and Canada, and which had been sym­bolized
in the construction of the Peace
Arch on the boundary at Blaine, only
twenty-five miles from Bellingham.
Another distinction that the school
holds is that of being situated in the
largest city in the state that can boast
of a Normal school. Bellingham' is a city
of 30,000 inhabitants with splendid
churches and theaters. This fact affords
many opportunities for the students to
do things that in smaller locations they
could not do. In these many ways,
nature and civilization have combined to
make the setting of Bellingham Normal
ideal.
AVERAGE ENROLLMENT
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STUDENTS FROM SIXTEEN
STATES ENROLLED
THIS YEAR.
Wonderful Scenic Beauty
Found Near Bellingham
During the fall quarter of 1923,
there were 1,049 students enrolled in the
Bellingham Normal School; at the be­ginning
of the winter quarter there were
1,069 enrolled; and now, during the
spring quarter, there are 1,040 students.
Registration in the winter quarter in
the Normal' was representative of six­teen
states, besides Alaska, several
places in Canada and the Philippine
Islands.
The states represented are: Washing­ton,
Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming,
California, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Minnesota, Kansas, Iowa, Pennsylvania,
New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
and Massachusetts.
From this state, students were en­rolled
from every county last quarter,
while over one hundred and forty dif­ferent
high schools were represented.
Bulletins and other information have
been sent out to the high schools of the
state, and a large enrollment is expected
for the summer quarter. Such informa­tion
is always available to anyone who
requests it.
FUTURE BRIGHT FOR
BELLINGHAM NORMAL
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FROM INSIGNIFICANT NOR­MAL
TO SIXTH LARGEST
IN U. S.
INSPIRATION POINT ABOVE CHUCKANUT BAY.
BELLINGHAM
WASHINGTON
INTERNATIONAL TOURIST CENTER
Bellingham, Washington, located on Puget Sound, on the Great Northern
and Northern Pacific Railways, and Pacific Highway; population, 30,000; prin­cipal
industries in vicinity, fishing, lumbering, coal mining, dairying and poultry
raising, many places of scenic interest nearby, including Mt. Baker, Mt. Shuksan,
Lake Whatcom, Chuckanut Drive, Friday Harbor, Orcas Island, and many other
islands in Puget Sound, reached by boat arid ferry.
After twenty-five years of service,
the Normal today is enjoying prospects
for future work that a few years ago
would have been classed as wild dreams.
By holding an educational conference in
commemoration of the twenty-fifth an­niversary
of the founding of the Normal
a new type of service to the community
is being rendered by the school. More
and more is the Bellingham State Nor­mal
school coming to be recognized as
a leader in educational affairs.
Jr. co-operation with the schools of
Bellingham and Whatcom county the
Normal school is steadily working for
the improvement of the quality of in­struction
offered in the elementary
grades of the vicinity.
A little more than twenty-five years
ago a state commission instructed to
select a site for an institution of higher
learning, chose a sixty-eight acre tract
on the slope of Sehome Hill. In 1895
a beneficient legislature appropriated
$40,000; and the erection of the original
building of the Bellingham State Nor­mal
was started. The third appropria­tion,
however, was vetoed, and the new­ly
constructed building remained unoc­cupied
for two years. The legislature of
1899 then came to the rescue, appropria­ting
$33,000 for the equipment and
maintenance of the school.
Dr. Mathes First President.
With Dr. Edward T. Mathes as presi­dent,
and with a corps of six faculty
members the school opened its doors on
September 6, 1899, with an enrollment
of 160 students. In the following June
six young ladies received diplomas at
the first graduation exercises; and the
first Board of Trustees, which was com­posed
of Major Eli Wilkins, Hon. R. O.
Higginson and Hon. J. J. Edens smiled
on the year's accomplishment. ,
History Is Story of Transition.
The twenty-five years of its develop­ment
is an interesting story of transi­tion
from an institution of one building
with scanty and inadequate equipment
to an institution of nine buildings with
better equipment and with one of the
finest athletic fields on the Pacific
coast, from a library of one thousand
volumes to one of thirty thousand vol­umes,
from' a faculty of a president and
six members to a faculty of a president
and sixty members, and from an annual
graduating class of six to an annual .
graduating class of four hundred.
Development Phenomenal.
The Bellingham State Normal school's
development has been exceedingly phe­nomenal
considering the fact that it is a
young institution, being only in its
twenty-fifth year, and that the State of
Washington is one of the youngest
states of the Union.
MT. BAKER, AS SEEN FROM CHAIN LAKES.