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Tarte Awarded
Inspirational
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NEW YEAR'S
VOL. XXXVI—NO. 10 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. BELLINGHAM. WASHINGTON Friday, December 4, 1936
We
The People
By Skinner and Gooding
High Street Scene: Normal stu­dent
jauntily whistling down the
hill, tangling with high C's and E
flats (Flat is right) indiscriminate­ly,
tagged by half-a-dozen dogs of
all makes picked up along his route.
A would-be dog-catcher with a
Pied Piper complex.
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Fifty years ago in an unheralded
feat, an obscure Philadelphia doctor
revolutionized medical theory and
practice when he used an anes­thesia
while performing an opera­tion.
Since this, surgical science
has: progressed much further along
anesthetical lines, introducing many
various opiates and their deriva­tives
and non-nauseating ethers
which facilitate John and Jane
Doe's almost enjoying an operation.
Now if science could only keep us
awake in the ever-present 8:00
oclock's—.
Another problem confronted slot-machine
opponents last week when
a Denver imbiber was caught lean­ing
precariously against one of the
new "drop-a-nickel-park-an-hour"
parkomelers with a few paltry nick­els
left in his hand. The gentleman
was loudly proclaiming to sympa­thetic
onlookers that the machine
was wronging him; that he had put
in $5.75 and hadn't realized a
ntckle in-return.
Tacoma residents roared with
laughter at the announcement that
a prominent hamburger manufac­turer
was suing the city for dam­age
incurred when local electricians
erred while wiring his shop for city
electricity. Previous to the an­nouncement,
the 200-pound butcher
had turned the switch to his new
hamburger machine and awaited re­sults.
Before he could act hambur­ger
adorned walls, windows, and 200
pounds, of butcher. The infernal
machine now runs in reverse, turn­ing
out hamburgers backwards—
quite a novelty.
Strike pickets have finally de­veloped
a sure-fire method for 'pick­eting
non-conforming business con­cerns.
When the time for arbitra­tion
has passed, unionists will lie
supinely on the space around the
building, or buildings, close togeth­er.
Thus any attempt to enter Would
be frustrated, on the theory that ordi­nary
people are too squeamish to
tramp upon human bodies, for fear
of resultant bodily violence. Count­less
flaws may be detected in this
development --of forces however,
since numerous colds, backaches,
and other aches will probably
dampen enthusiasm greddy. And
then loo, what will they do when
cold winter comes and they're all
out of crumbs? They'll be eating,
but no one could ever catch them
tweet-tweet-tweeiin.
Teutonic tatooers are in the midst
of a business boom due to Der
Fuhrer's iron-clad political preju­dices.
Optimistic cohorts of pre-
Hitler factions enthusiastically had
had various party emblems super­imposed
upon their chests, arms, et
cetera, much to their later dismay
when the present dynasty was pro­mulgated
contrary to expectations.
The removal operation, consisting
of the application of a chemical to
the skin, allowing it to harden, and
then ripping the design off, epider­mis
and all, has liberated hundreds
permitting them to once more visit
> the beaches without fear of censor­ship.
One sample symbol was the
Russian insignia of the "Hand; Flail,
and Scythe" which adorned some
invert's torso in a too conspicu­ous
spot.
New Certificates
Important Issue
Life Diplomas May Be Abolished;
Board" Takes Final Action
Next Week
Of interest to students are the is­sues
that will, come before the State
Board of Education when it meets
at Olympia next Monday and Tues­day,
December 7 and 8. The chief
of these matters is the new plan for
certification of teachers of elemen­tary
schools. Under this new plan,
three things have been accomplish­ed.
First, it simplifies the number of
certificates for the teachers; sec­ondly,
it makes necessary four years
of preparation for all elementary
and junior high school teachers
within a reasonable period of time.
A certificate will be granted for
three years of preparation and after
two years of successful teaching, an
additional year of preparation ne­cessary
whereupon a standard cer­tificate
will be issued. About six
years are allowed in which to get
this fourth year of Normal school
work.
Thirdly the plan abolishes the life
diploma. It offers in its place a
renewable certificate which must be
renewed every six "years. The State
Board will determine when this plan
will become effective. However,
this part regarding the life diplo­mas
is not retroactive and applies
only to new teachers.
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Edens Hall Dance
Plans Under Way
Edens hall informal plans
are settled and work has be­gun
on the decorations and .
programs.
The motif for tht dance is
a winter wonderland and the
Blue room will be decorted in
a winter scene with a large
snowball in the center of the
room. The refreshments will
be served in a log cabin which
will be covered with snow and
icicles. Stars of many sizes
will be suspended from the
ceiling, forming the starlit
night with a large moon in the
winter atmosphere.
The programs will be made of
white velvet in the shape of a
snowball, lined . with silver
paper.
The faculty guests for the
dance will be Miss Florence
Johnson, Dean of Women Miss
Nell Bryant, Miss Gertrude
Longley, and Miss Marion Lea.
ICC Proposes
Exchanging of
Club Speakers
Plan to Acquaint Clubs with One
Another Awaits Approval
Of Members
Discussionists Join ICC
Men Granted Extension of Time
For Reorganization
A new resolution was made at
the Inter-Club council meeting
Wednesday afternoon and another
was brought up for approval.
The council, headed by Mildred
Fackler, resolved to recognize the
Discussion club as an organized
club. Also they granted the Men's
club commission an extension of
time to organize their fellowmen
The names of next quarter's as­sembly
speakers were read, giving
the clubs interested in the different
topics a chance to invite them to
lunch for further discussion.
A move was made to arrange for
exchanging speakers from the var­ious
clubs. This -would mean that
a club having an open date on its
calendar might have a member of
some other club speak on what their
club stands for, its views and pur­pose.
In short, it would be a means of
acquainting the varied interests in
the school with each other. This
move will be voted on in each of
the clubs. A committee appointed
to look after this is as follows:
Georgia Harris, Mildred Bean, Mar­ion
Haydon, Ralph Friedman, and
Ed Tomco.
Football Team
Selects Tarte
As Inspiration
Inspirational Award Given Star
Viking Fullback For Second
Consecutive Year
Cup To Be Inscribed Soon
Members of Squad Vote Upon
Outstanding Teammate
To fullback Morris Tarte goes
the distinctive honor of having his
name engraved for the second time
on the inspirational cup as this
year's most outstanding player in re­gard
to both sportsmanship and
playing ability. The choosing of
Tarte was accompanied through
the voting of every man on the
squad as he turned in his equip­ment
at the end of the season.
Playing football as a star back-field
man in Custer high school,
plus a semester's work at Washing­ton
State college, and three years
of first string Normal varsity gave
the Viking fullback the experience
necessary to place him among the
most outstanding ground-gainers in
the Northwest. Tarte played in ev­ery
game this year and was absent
only from the first half lineup of
the St. Martins' game. Coach
Lappenbusch in praise of Tarte says,
"The Vikings would have won that
game if Morris had played the first
half."
The inspirational award, now in
its third year, is given a player on
the basis of his attitude, personal­ity,
good sportsmanship, and genial­ity
toward his teammates.
State Theatre New Movement
Valkyries Sponsor
Luncheon for Flade
Holding a short business meeting
the Valkyrie club met last Tuesday
evening at 4:00 o'clock. Marion
Hayden, president, announced that
the organization was to sponsor the
Women's League tea, Thursday aft­ernoon.
The members were assigned
definite duties by the social chair­man,
Lou Pulver.
The Valkyries are also planning
to sponsor a luncheon for Tina
Flade, the dancer who is appearing
in assembly on Tuesday. It will be
given in Edens Hall clubroom and
the tickets will be 25 cents. Girls
living in Edens hall may obtain
them for five cents.
Blue Triangle Group
Wrap Christmas Gifts;
Toys to be Distributed
As part of their Christmas proj­ect,
members of the Blue' Triangle
club wrapped Christmas gifts at the
regular meeting held last Tuesday
evening in the club house. The gifts
are to be distributed among needy^
children in Bellingham. Members
of the social service committee do­nated
Christmas cards to be used
with the presents.
On December 13, the girls will
sing Christmas carols at one of the
local hospitals and will also pre­sent
bulbs of different plants to the
patients. _ '/•'..
Burton James, Director of Washington Project, Emphasizes That It Is
Entirely Separate from W P A Plan
By Sybil Hinchliffe
"Washington State Theatre has nothing whatever to do with the nat­ional
WPA theatre movement," emphasized Burton W. James, during an
interview Monday evening immediately following the presentation of "The
Comedy of Errors" at Lynden. Mr. James, who has been in the theatre
business for over twenty-five years, is the director of the project, and
manager of the Repertory Playhouse, civic theatre of Seattle.
Mr. and Mrs. Burton James have both been directing work at the Re­pertory
Playhouse for the last nine years. Previous to that time Mr. and
Mrs. James taught at Cornish
school and at the University of
Washington. However, at the pres­ent
time they are in no way affil­iated
with either school.
Made Possible Through
Rockefeller Grant
"Washington State Theatre, first
of its kind in. America, is a touring
company founded by the State De­partment
of Public Instruction. It
has been made possible through a
grant donated by tne Rockefeller
Foundation of New York. It is
under the supervision of the Re­pertory
Playhouse of Seattle.
"Our purpose is to present drama
of the highest calibre to young peo­ple,
especially high school students,
to condition them to the best in dra-
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Faculty Chat Put Off
Until Next Wednesday;
Attendance Is Urged
X
The first faculty chat having
failed in its purpose, was postponed
until next quarter., The purpose of
these informal chats being to es­tablish
out-of-class relations be­tween
faculty and students, those
interested were disappointed with
the meagre turnout. The faculty
feels that the only way these dis­cussions
can be successful is in at­tracting
a fair number of students
and not just faculty members.
The discussion leader does not
hope to attract students from his
classes but thinks .that students
should come and get acquainted
with the teachers they do not have.
Mr. V. H. Hoppe, to head the first
discussion next quarter, said, "Out of
a student body of 700 there must be
25 who would really enjoy such
discussions. Twenty-five would be
an ideal number."
Youth Movement Is
Topic of Discussion
Although the youth movement
was the subject of the Wednesday
Evening Discussion club meeting
and was talked about from all an­gles
the discussion, led by Ed Tom­co
and Marian Peterson with Ralph
Friedman as chairman, soon
branches out into an argument
about Pacifism and armaments with
an article by Colonel Hagood as the
basis of contention.
Fascism will be the subject of the
next meeting and although there
will be three leaders, Margaret Per­kins,
Don Seelye, and Glen Willi-son,
free reign will be given to any­one
who wishes to express an opin­ion
after one person has given his
material. If the time will not per­mit
each person to give this pre­pared
report the subject will be car­ried
over until the next meeting.
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Newspaper Display To
Be Shown in Office
Starting Next Monday
Outstanding newspapers and jour­nals
will be exhibited Monday at the
yearly newspaper display sponsored
by the Viking staff. Featured pa­pers
include New Zealand, Yugo­slavia,
German and Swedish publi­cations,
and an 1865 New York Her­ald-
Tribune, ' printed during the
fever-pitch of the Civil war. Most
of the leading cities of this country
are represented, showing a remark­able
versatility and variety in the
world of journalism. All entries
are being segregated into categories
according to the period, country and
place, arid size. Any week-end con­tributions
will be welcomed by
Mitchell Evich.
Talented Dancer
To Give Recital
Tina Flade Will Appear Tuesday
To Display Modern Dance
In Assembly
Tina Flade, dancer and teacher
of modern dance, will be presented
in the regular assembly Tuesday
morning, December 8.
Miss Flade has had an unusual
life. After seven months' study with
Mary Wigman, Tina Flade was
made a member of the group, in­cluding
such illustrious dancers as
Hanya Holm, Palucca and Yvonne
Georgi.
As a solo dancer at the Stadt
theatre at Essen and Duisberg, she
rapidly achieved renown and was
offered a teaching position at the
Wigman school in Dresden. Miss
Flade spent two years creating dan­ces,
and then began a tour of
Europe and the United States. To­day,
the first steps taken toward
American citizenship, she is head
of the dance department at Mills
college, Oakland, California
Miss Flade creates original dance
patterns to interpret the saraban-des
of Corelli, the fire music of
Cowell and the huntress dance by
Rudyhar. Ruth Hunt will be Miss
Flade's accompanist.
Guild to Present
Galsworthy Play
Continuous performances of
"The Pigeon" will be given by
the Bellingham Theater Guild
beginning December 9 to 12, at
the playhouse on Prospect
'street, two blocks from the
city hall.
Student tickets for the Wed­nesday
arid Thursday perform­ances
can be obtained at the
Co-op bookstore for 25c, plus
tax. Regular admissions of
45c, plus tax, will be charged
on Friday and Saturday nights.
Written by John Galsworthy,
"The Pigeon" is a story of the
social outcasts and misfits of
our day and how he would pro­vide
for them.
It is being directed by Mil­ton
Clarke, assisted by Kath-eryn
Whitcomb.
IRC Initiation Held
At Regular Meeting
The International Relations club
held its regular meeting last Wed­nesday
night, December 2, at 7:30
p. m. in the Edens Hall club room.
The purpose of the meeting was the
initiation of eight new members,
who were: Nina* Mae Pickett, May-nard
Hewette, Dorothy Hartle,
Ralph Neil, Ralph Friedman, Mar­garet
Kane, Frances Daly, and Mary
Farrand.
As part of the initiation, the new
members were asked questions about
current affairs. The topics dis­cussed
were the conference in South
America and the latest happenings
in Spain.
The possibility of giving a tea
for Calvin Nichols, in order that
he may speak to the members, was
discussed. Mr. Nickolls was former­ly
a student here, and has recently
received his master's degree at Har­vard.
He has worked with Senator
Nye on the armaments investigation.
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Winter Quarter Plans
Discussed at Meeftig
Of Sigma Tau Alpha
Members of Sigma Tau Alpha
held "their regular meeting last
Monday, December 1, at Collett
court. As this was the last meeting,
of the fall period, plans were dis­cussed
for next quarter's work.
A group of girls has been chosen
to put on the initiatory degree at
Bellingham Assembly, Order of
Rainbow for Girls, some thrie dur­ing
the earlier part of next quarter.
The girls have been invited to
Bellingham Assembly's birthday
party. On December 11 there is to
be a Winter Wonderland sport
dance, to which the members have
also been invited.
Farce Lauded
State Theatre Production Wellr
Received at Lynden
By Arthur C. Hicks
The Washington State Theater's
production of the Shakespeare
farce, "The Comedy of Errors," at
the Lynden high school auditorium
Monday evening was received with
warm enthusiasm by an audience
drawn from both Lynden and Bell­ingham,
including a generous
sprinkling of Normal school stu­dents
and faculty.
The performance, went off with
the professional ease and sparkle
that might be expected from the
array of professional and semi-pro­fessional
talent mustered by Mr.
and Mrs. Burton W. James for the
play. Evidently neither directors
nor actors regard it as a museum
piece to be handled in a mood of
sacred awe and reverence, but they
made it for us what it no doubt was
for Shakespeare and his audience—
a hilarious farce, abounding in
amusing situations and comic busi­ness.
There was plenty of the horse
play, word play, and slapstick, as
keenly relished by a modern audi­ence
as by the groundlings of the
Globe, and there was also now and
then a touch of the subtle charac­terization
that Shakespeare - knew
how to infuse even into a broad
comedy of situation.
Among the actors, special men­tion
should go to Frederick Patter­son,
who played with ease and re­serve
the role of Antipholus of Sy­racuse;
Frederick Banker, who was
as funny as Joe E. Brown In the
part of Dromio of Syracuse; and
Monty Margetts, who did ample jus­tice
to Shakespeare's conception of
the jealous wife, Adriana. The cast
was well balanced and displayed the
finest of dramatic teamwork. The
two pairs of twins, although similar
in appearance, developed interest-
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Manager Completes
Plans for Yearbook
"On the whole everything is prog­ressing
very favorably," said Mar­garet
Thon, editor of the Klipsun,
after returning from a week-end In
Seattle, where final plans were
made with the printers for makeup
of the yearbook.
To encourage student contribu­tions
for the snap-shot section of
the book, a box has been placed in v
the main hall for students to put
pictures pertaining to school life
which have been taken this fall.
The box will be available for use
one week, ending Friday, December
11. -'•••'
Junior-senior class panels for the
annual were completed this week
under supervision of Jeanne Borg-stedt,
class editor. Pictures of the
football team and members of the
faculty have been taken under the
direction of Clarence Soukup, sports
editor, and Margaret. Bruff, admin­istration
editor, respectively.
"The students are really cooperat­ing
this year," stated the editor.
CURRENT
ALENDAR
of Happenings
Monday, December 7
7:30 p. m—Vanadis Bragi,
Edens Hall Club room.
Tuesday, December 8
11:00 a. m.—Assembly, Tina
Flade, dancer.
Wednesday, December 9
7:30 p. m.—Faculty Chat,
Edens Hall Blue room, "v,"-.
7:30 p. m.—Wednesday Eve­ning
Discussion club,
Edens Hall Club room.
Thursday, December 10
2:30-3:30 p. m. — Women's
League Tea, Woirieh's
League room.
4:00 p. m.—YWGA meeting,
room 208.
7:30 p. m.—Mixed Splash
Hour, swimming pool.
Friday, December 11
11:00 p. m.—Assembly. v :
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