WWCollegian - 1947 February 14

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Vol. XLV. — No. 18 Western Washington College of Education, Bellingham, Washington Friday, February 14, 1947
Proceed Carefully,
Wary Balloteers;
It's Your Cervica
Four-Quarter Man or Woman
Margaret LuLro, President of Blue
Triangle, hails from Mount Vernon,
and is a sophomore diploma student.
She state?. "If elected to office on
Board of Control, I will do my best
to see that student opinions are thor­oughly
investigated and considered be­fore
I vote on a*ny issue dealing with
student of fairs."
"If elected, I will always be willing
to bring any questions or points up
before the Board for action. I will
work for more direct student partici­pation
in the school government," re­plied
Laverne Brockmier in an exclu­sive
WWCollegian interview today.
Brockmier is at present filling out the
unexpired term of Mickey 5mith. A
sophomore student, Laverne is a gradu­ate
of the Bainbridge high school.
Four-Quarter Womenr ^Candidates
Blond, vivacious, Shirley Lindstrom
made it known immediately, "If elected
I will work my hardest to represent all
student views and interests in the Stu­dent
Board of Control." A frosh stu­dent,
calling Richmond Beach her
home, Shirley smilingly assured re­porters
the 'campaign promises are sac­red',
and no deviation from the above
platform would be forthcoming.
"I have been following the editorials
in the WWCollegian and other pub­licity
given to the Board of Control
elections. I am interested in school
affairs and would do my- best to carry
the opinions of the students to the
meetings," replied smiling Gloria Carey
when questioned on planks of her plat­form
in the forthcoming election. Sec­retary
of the sophomore class, and co-chairman
of Homecoming, Gloria has
participated actively in many student
activities.
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One-Quarter Man or Woman
It's a long way from battling in the
tail spot of a B-l-7 to participating in
a campaign battle says Ted Gary,
Hoquiam student, when queried today
concerning his campaign platform for
a position on the Board of Control.
"I will attempt to carry out the quali­fications
to the best of my ability, and
will do my utmost to further any re­forms
or ideas that will be for the good
of the students."
Beauty combined with intelligence
and convictions dominate the person­ality
of lovely Margaret Johnston, one
of Bellingham's candidates for the
Board of Control in the coming election.
States Margaret, "I am very much
i n t e r e s t e d in the betterment of the
school and its activities. I will coop­erate
to the best of my ability to further
this accomplishment;"
—Photos by Wayne Craig
Speech Class
To Present
College News
Miss Alma Madden, head of the
radio .speech class announced that
the radio speech students have been
broadcasting the "College # News in
Review" program since the begin­ning
of the fall quarter. The pro­gram
is designed to stimulate pub­lic
interest in Western Washington
College and can be heard each
Thursday at 5 p. m. on station
KVOS.
Heading the list of "news" pro­ducers
are veteran students of last
quarter, Carl Lindell, Hoot Vetter,
and Jeannine Guy. Joining up for
second quarter activities were Carl
Johnson, Edith and Doreen Danger-field,
Nancy Manning, Dick Wright,
Russ Skidmore, and Jim Hayes, Gil
Kugel, John Peterson a n d Mrs.
Vivian Franklin. Howard Larson
acts as technician on the weekly
broadcast from the speech room on
the top floor of the Administration.
Building.
Klipsun Announces
New Publication
Sometime this quarter, date yet
unknown, the Klipsun staff will put
out a new magazine entitled "Pro­file".
The new sheet will consist
\pf articles and jokes by the faculty
and the students of the college. The
magazine will also carry the names,
addresses and phone numbers of all
the faculty and students here at
WWC. Coming assemblies will be
announced in the new publication.
Some of the writers have already
been selected for the magazine. They
are: Dr. Raymond Hawke, Don
Brown. Monty Jones, Warren Bee-croft,
and Vern Matthews. Clark
Brown and Betty McLeod are the
editors and Mary Ellen Burgess is
the business manager.
Gettin' a Degree?
All students eligible for a de­gree,
or war emergency certifi­cate,
in June, August, or Decem­ber,
1947, are asked to meet in
the Campus school auditorium on
Tuesday morning, February 18, at
eight o'clock. They will be ex­cused
from other classes at this
time.
Daniels Meets
Quota First
Daniels hall is the first organized
house to reach its quota, of one dol­lar
per person, for the World Stu­dent
Service Fund drive, which
began Monday. February 10. The
motto of the W.S.S.F. is "The Fu­ture
of Man Rests in the Minds of
the Students of the World."
The Blue Triangle is sponsoring
the drive with the purpose of col­lecting
funds for the aid of students
in other countries. The Blue
Triangle hopes to fill its quota com­pletely
and with the aid of two rep­resentatives
chosen from each house
the drive should be greatly inten­sified
next week. •
TAT Dateline
Friday, February 14 — Swimming
meet sponsored by "W" club; bas­ketball
game at Cheney; Sopho­more
party.
Saturday, February 15 — Basketball
game with Whitworth at Spokane;
Ski trip.
Tuesday, February 18—Women's rec
hour, 4:00 p. m.
Wednesday, February 19 — Student
elections; basketball game with
Seattle College at Seattle; Men's
rec hour.
Thursday, February 20—Mixed rec
hour, 4:00 p. m.
Friday, February 21—AAU basket­ball
tournament, gym; Basketball
game with Victoria Dominos at
Victoria; Edens hall dance.
Saturday, February 22—AAU tour­nament
in our gym v
Weil-Known Writer
And Lecturer
Presents Assembly
William A. Lydgate. editor of the
Gallup Poll and right hand man to
Dr. Gallup will come to WWC Fri­day,
February 21, to speak of the
common man on the street. Mr.
Election Looms Matthews Takes Over
Next Week; n ^, . , .
Six Nominated r rom Chairmanship
Lydgate has been putting questions
of this nature to the general public
for over a decade.
Mr. Lydgate graduated from Yale
in 1931. He attended the University
of Hawaii before enrolling at Yale.
Before joining the Gallup Poll, Lyd­gate
was a writer for Time and"
Fortune and has written many
feature articles for other leading
magazines.
Students for the Board of Control
election February 19, were nominat­ed
Tuesday in the Interclub Coun­cil
meeting. Twenty-four students
were there as delegates from their
various clubs, to nominate the per­son
who they thought should run
for positons on the Board of Control.
, The students nominated to serve
four quarters on the Board were
La Verne Brockmier, Margaret Lu-tro,
Art Runestrand, Roy Nelson,
Jim Beasley, Leonora Thomas, Wal-ly
Wilson, and Bill Wilder.
Margaret Lutro and La Verne
Brockmier were nominated to run in
the final election which will be held
on February 19.
Candidates for the four-quarter
woman were Leonora Thomas, Ar-lene
Swanson, Beverly Cameron,
Shirley Lindstrom, Gloria Carey.
Clarena Fenton, Helen Kelso, Mary
Ann Teichroew, Meredith Hess,
Margaret Stratz, and Ivaloe Still-man.
Shirley Lindstrom and Arlene
Swanson tied with three votes for
first place. Shirley was finally nom­inated
during the fourth balloting,
and Gloria Carey was elected as the
second candidate.
Runing for one quarter service
were Mary Ann Golly, Kenneth
Johnston. Jack Bratton, John Tom-
(Continued on Page Four)
Thirty-Five Northwest Colleges
Will Send PNCC Delegates
Arnold Lahti and Jim Sanford will represent WWC at the second
Pacific Northwest College Congress when representatives from thirty-five
colleges and universities of the Pacific Northwest convene at Reed College,
Portland, Oregon, March 6, 7, and 8. 1947.
In April of last year, the students of thirty-one colleges and uni­versities
joined in the organization of the first PNCC on world affairs.
Student representatives discussed the problems of strengthening world or­ganization
for the preservation of
College Production
Much In Demand
The play "The Corn Is Green" is
now in production. Directed by
Victor H. Hoppe, it will be given on
March 4. 5, 6, and 7.« Tuesday and
Friday it will be given at the Cam­pus
school auditorium for the col­lege
students. Wednesday it will be
presented at the Kiwanis club, and
Thursday at the Soroptimist club.
The play has a Welsh setting, and
is the story of a school mistress
played by Suda Owens. Living in
Wales she takes an interest, in the
mines, and defiides to educate the
children of these miners. The story
is based on her sacrifices and hard­ships
in getting an education for
Morgan Evans, played by John
Shellebarger.
BOARD COMMITTEE CHECKS
LIBRARY LIGHTING PROGRESS
In a Board of Control meeting last
Wednesday night, members voted a
committee of three to consult with
Dr. W. W. Haggard concerning bet­terment
of lighting facilities in the
library. The committee included Don
Brown, Pat Van Zandt, and Pedie
Johnston. An up-to-date report on
developments concerning lighting
improvements will be presented to
the Board by this committee next
week.
HOPPE HEADS
SOUTH MONDAY
Chosen as one of five state judges
in the State High School Oratorical
Contest, Victor H. Hoppe, of the
Speech Department, will go to
Olympia, Monday .February 17. The
contest, sponsored by the State De­partment
of Conservation and De­velopment,
is to be held in the House
before the legislative body. The
general topic and theme of the con­test
is "State Resources". First
prize is an $1,800 automobile.
peace and formulated proposals and
resolutions embodying their think­ing.
Two of the representatives at
the Congress were selected to pre­sent
the resolutions to the American
delegation to United Nations, and
on their trip to New York last Octo­ber
found that there was great
interest and enthusiasm concerning
the work of the Congress. It is the
ONLY student organization which
has been officially received at Unit­ed
Nations.
Eleanor to Speak
Discussion will center around a
survey of the United Nations and its
agencies. Student representatives
will hear addresses by guest speak­ers
who are authorities on the prob­lems
to be considered. Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt has accepted an invitation
to be one of the principal speakers.
Delegates Divisions
The Congress will be divided into
six main discussion sections. Ac­cording
to a statement from Reed
College Tuesday, Arnold Lahti has
been assigned to the section con­cerning
"International Political and
Legal Problems." Jim Sanford was
placed on the "Social Problems and
Human Rights" section. The four
remaining sections include: Disarm­ament
and Atomic Energy, World
Economic Problems, Dependent Peo­ple
(Mandates), Student Aims and
Future College Congress.
DR. AND MRS. D'ANREA
IN MUSICAL PROGRAM
Dr. Frank D'Andrea, head of.
WWC's music department, and Mrs.
D'Andrea, pianist, will present a
group of violin and piano selections
for the Northwest Division 4-H clubs
meeting, to be held in Mount Ver­non,
Saturday..
, JDuring the half hour program
Dr. and Mrs. D'Andrea will both be
heard as soloists, playing many
American favorites. ~-
Ten Most Photogenic Candidates Will
Be Chosen By Judges Tuesday
Combined publications staffs announced Tuesday, February 11. the
appointment of Vern Matthews as coordinator of the Publications Prom,
which is to be held March 8 in the gymnasium. As coordinator, Matthews
will head all committees, and will be largely responsible for the success
of the Prom. Formerly, the publications editors were in charge of the
dance, but because of student teaching by all editors this quarter, the
change was made to reduce the
amount of work involved.
Matthews announced this week
that a program will be held at 10:00
a. m. Tuesday, February 18, in the
auditorium. In this program . the
twenty-one candidates for Publica­tions
Prom Princess will be present­ed
to the judges, the faculty, and
the student body.
Two Judges Named
Mrs. Ed Lane Brinson. Mr. Jack
Carver, and one other person yet to
be named, all from Bellingham, are
to act as judges for the Princess
committee. In Tuesday's program
these judges will select the ten most
photogenic candidates. At a. later
date one of these ten will be elected
official Prom Princess for 1947 by an
out-of-town judge who has not as
yet been announced. The ether nine
girls will act as attendants in the
royal court of the Princess. The
program will also include novelty
acts produced by members of the
publications staff. Barbara Cozza
is chairman of the Princess commit­tee
and heads the assembly Tuesday.
Committee Busy
Final decision of the decoration
committee regarding the theme will
be announced next week. From other
committees on the Prom program,
development of each phase of the
dance has been swift. The publicity
group will soon be ready to release
their barrage of posters and signs.
Completion of the intermission pro­gram
will soon be a reality.
From the musrc committee, chair­man
Gene Curtis reports that Gordy
Downs and his seven piece orchestra
will provide the music for the even­ing.
June White, of the invitation
committee, announced that cards of
invitation are being sent to the
guests who reside. in communities
which are outside of Bellingham.
Cabaret Offers
Moblo Music
An evening of dancing to the mu­sic
of Bob Moblo's pep band, an at­tractive
cabaret atmosphere, for­tune
tellers, and intermission enter­tainment
are only a few of the fea­tures
planned for Edens Hall's win­ter
quarter dance. Friday, .Febru­ary
21, is a day to look forward to,
and if the "Campus Cabaret" goes
off as planned it will also be a night
to remember.
The affair is to be an all-school
tolo and tickets are now on sale at
one dollar per couple. The plans for
• the dance, as announced by the var­ious
committees, add up to one of
the high spots of the winter quar­ter.
Students are advised to buy
tickets early to avoid the rush.
High School Group
Holds Conference
Forty high schools in the vicinity
of Bellingham have been invited to
send a delegate, the president of
their Girl's club, and an advisor to
WWCE for a high school leaders
conference, Friday, February 28.
Discussion groups are to be led by
WWCE coeds in order to acquaint
high school girls with college life,
and also to discuss with them vari­ous
general ideas which will be of
value for them to take back to their
respective Girls' clubs.
Responsible for the conference is
the AWS, with Gerry Woodward as
conference chairman.
Gampus (ycheol Copy...
with bob dickson
"It is well to remember what is so frequently forgotten: That the teacher
is the central figure in the educational process; that the great teacher is
probably the most influential single factor in social progress."
—O. C. Carmichael.
TEACHER . . . During the past year, and especially the last six months,
there has been an ever increasing amount of publicity dealing with the
crisis in education. Newspapers, periodicals and radio programs have
emphasized the plight of the teacher and the need of immediate action.
Few, however, are as concise and illuminating as Dr. O. C. CarmichaePs.
Crisis in Education, which appeared in The New York Times Magazine,
January 26, 1947.
Built on a foundation of accurate facts and thorough knowledge, Dr.
Carmichael, head of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching, and former chancellor of Vanderbilt University, presents the
problems in an informative and highly readable form. Crisis in Educa­tion
should be read by everyone interested in the educational enigma.
THUMBNAIL BIOGRAPHY . . . I am sorry to say that there is no cut
available of Miss Priscilla Kinsman? However, this lighthearted and energetic
teacher of the third grade is so well known by the majority of WWC's
students that the picture will not be missed.
Miss Kinsman, a native of Iowa, received the B. A. from the University
of Chicago and the M. A. from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Prior to her appointment at WWC, she taught two years at the University
of Chicago, (an honorary appointment awarded- for scholastic ability).
Her hobbies are gardening and flower arrangement, with this years
project headed by an experiment with crysanthemums.
RESUME . . . All junior high schools in Whatcom and Skagit counties
were represented at the conference held here last week to discuss the or­ganization
of the junior high school curricula. Gordon Rutherford, state
department J. H. S. supervisor, lead the afternoon discussion which
centered around the current trend towards home room organization. At
present more than 50 per cent of the junior'high schools are oh a highly
departmentalized basis, with five or six different teachers each specialized
in a certain field. It is believed by many that this type of situation does
not meet the needs of the children, and that one possible solution is the
home room organization. Under this plan one teacher would be with
the children at least one-half a day and thus become better acquainted
with their individual needs.