WWCollegian - 1948 July 2

              COMING EVENTS
Misner Conference . . . July 12-13.
Principal's Institute . . . July
12-16.
Supervisors' Institute . . . July
12-16.
Parent-Teachers' Institute . . .
July 12-16.
Music Workshop . . . June 21-
July 21.
Art Workshop . . . August 9-20.
New Coffee Bar
Due to Open
Within Two Weeks
"I don't see any reason why the
new coffee bar shouldn't be ready
for business within a week," declar­ed
faculties chairman, Gus Pagels.
Pagels stated that everything seem­ed
to be ready to. go.
The counters are ready to be in­stalled
and the candy counters are
already in place. Two hundred mugs
(the kind used by the GI's minus
any handles) have been ordered for
service in the lounge. Eleven dozen
spoons will be ready for use also.
TABLE BELAYED
The committee had originally
hoped to purchase ten tables of the
type now in use in the lounge but
the costs were prohibitive. Efforts
to locate other tables will be con­tinued
and the new tables may be
ready for use by fall quarter.
Lewis Earle of the Co-op has
hired a full-time waitress who
will be on hand during the day.
Tentative hours for the coffee bar
will be 8:00 a. m. to 4:00 p. m.
At next week's Board of Control
meeting, the Board will settle any
questions as to over-lapping of re­sponsibility
of the lounge managers
and the Co-op.
Haggard Represents
WWC at Conference
President W. W, Haggard will at­tend
the fourth meeting of the
School for Executives of the Ameri­can
Association for Colleges of
Teacher Education, August 16-23,
at Estes Park near Denver, Colo­rado.
Approximately 400 presidents of
colleges of education, deans of col­leges
and schools of education and
universities, and other executives of
teachers' colleges will participate in
the conference. The purpose of the
meeting is the consideration of cur­rent
problems of teacher education.
The school is divided into groups
for discussion of the different prob­lems.
Dr. Haggard will participate
in "Curriculum and Related Prob­lems."
The school is held every 'two years.
The first was held in 1942 at Clear-lake,
Michigan; the second in 1944
at Clarksburg, West Virginia; and
the third at Chautauqua, New York,
in 1946.
Trustees Appointed
Two new members were appoint­ed
to the Board of Overseers of
Whitman college Tuesday, June 29,
by President Winslow S. Anderson.
The new members are Henry J.
Copeland, veteran senator from
Walla Walla county, and Omar C.
Spencer, Portland attorney.
VOL. XLVI—No. 33
THE WWCOLLEGIAN
Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Friday, July 2, 1948
Datelmi e
Saturday, July 3 to Monday, July
5: Three days on the San Juan
Islands. 8:30 a. m., Quackenbush
dock.
Sunday, July 4: Ski competition,
Mt. Baker.
Tuesday, July 6: A l e x a n d er
Schneider, violinist, and Berthe
Poncy Jacobson, pianist, college
auditorium, 8 p. m.
Wednesday, July 7: Industrial trip,
Bellingham Herald, 3 p. m.
Wednesday, July 7: Social Science
Study and Action Club, discussing
Academic Freedom, 7:30 p. m. Room
30.
Friday, July 9: CCF picnic, 4:30.
B. C. Trip
Planned
For July 12
Two additional milestones in the
summer recreational program are
rapidly approaching, namely the
Vancouver bus trip of Saturday,
July 12, and the overnight trip to
Heather Meadows, Saturday and
Sunday, July 12 and 13. Reserva­tions
should be made early for both
trips, since a limited number can be
accommodated.
The bus for Vancouver will leave
at 8 a. m. from High street in front
of Edens hall. It is planned to stay
for "Girl Crazy," which will be
showing at the "Theatre Under the
Stars," if enough so desire. Other­wise
the bus will return in the late
afternoon. In either case ample time
will be allowed for shopping and
sightseeing. Miss Ruth Weythman,
summer recreation chairman, stated
that suggestions will be given as to
where to shop and eat.
Those going on the overnight out­ing
to Heather Meadows will have
opportunity to climb Table moun­tain,
Austin Pass and to see Chain
lakes. This trip will be through
country described as a photograph­er's
paradise.
50th Anniversary
To be Celebrated
Next 3 Quarters
Western Washington College of
Education will be the scene, during
the next three quarters, of many
celebrations marking the 50th anni­versary
of the school.
Most of these festivities will take
place in the spring quarter and will
be climaxed on May 20 and 21, 1949.
A movie of school lire is being made
for the anniversary and will be
shown several times during the year.
Homecoming will also be the time of
many added attractions celebrating
the 50 year mark.
Miss Nora Cummins is general
chairman for the activities and she
will be assisted by the following
faculty chairmen: Dr. Arthur Hicks,
history of the school; Charles M.
Rice, movie; Victor Hoppe, pageant;
Dean Lorraine Powers, social; Miss
Hazel Plympton, exhibit; and Mrs.
Ruth Burnet, publicity. These com­mittees
will be assisted by student
groups and alumni.
Groups Make Soil Survey
—Photos by Bernie Lepeska.
Pictured above are two graphic examples of the state of affairs as
they exist at Lakewood, the college property on Lake Whatcom. For the
complete story of the conditions and the action to be taken by the Board
of Control, see this issue. Top: The rotting wharf and the boat-house;
below: The somewhat dilipidated condition of the bathhouse porch.
Speeders on High Street
Warned by Traffic Squad
By JOHN SIGURDSON
Asserting that any driver exceeding a 25 mile per hour speed limit
on High Street would be tagged by his officers, Lieutenant Morse, head
of the police traffic squad, last week responded to complaints filed
against the excess speeding along the narrow street leading to the college.
The complaints were filed by irate citizens who reside along High Street,
and by the parents of Campua school children.
Shortly before last quarter ended, a Campus school boy was struck
by a speeding motorist as he step­ped
from between two parked cars
in front of the Highland creamery
Further down, on the corner of Ivy
and High streets, a dog was recently
killed, by another speedster. Realiz­ing
the danger that such conditions
inflict upon everyone, the angry
citizens stormed the city hall de­manding
action. As a result, the
police department stated that as
much attention as is possible will
be devoted to combating this danger.
WWC Students Warned
The students of WWC are' urged
to pay strict accord to all traffic
regulations by "Dr. Haggard, who
stresses, in particular, the import­ance
of complying with those regu­lations
governing driving- on the
campus. The speed limit for all
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Schneider, Jacobson
To Appear in
Violin-Piano Concert
Alexander Schneider, violinist, and
Madame Bertha Poncy Jacobson,
pianist, will present a violin-piano
sonata concert July 6 at 8 p. m., in
the college auditorium.
Schneider is a world famed violin­ist,
and a Columbia recording artist.
Mme. Jacobson is a member of the
faculty at the University of Wash­ington
-school of music.
By MONTY JONES
Members of three study groups at
Westetrn Washington college left
the campus Wednesday, 8:15 a. m.
to make a general survey of soil
conservation in Skagit county! The
students were from three separate
post-graduate classes: School ad­ministration,
Visual Aids, and Com­munity
Resources. The group was
accompanied by Dr. Irwin A. Ham­mer,
Dr. Alan Ross, and Dave
Rushong, WWC faculty members.
The caravan of ten automobiles
was met near Blanchard on t he
Chuckanut highway by two work
unit representatives of the United
States Conservation service, A. F.
Harms and C. F. Stubble. The
morning was spent in observ­ing
methods used in soil drainage,
fertilization, irrigation, selection of
crops. The group visited the Pier-son
grass dehydrating plant at Al­len
and the Kenneth Kaaland farm
near Sedro-Woolley. They then
traveled to a bend in the Skagit
river where they observed the ef­fects
of the high water since last
December which wore the banks
away as far back as fifty feet.
Lunch was eaten in the dining
room of the Gateway hotel in Sedro-
Woolley. Harms then showed slides
revealing the great need for soil
conservation in Washington state
and some of what they had already
done in the way of fertilization,
flood control, selective logging, and
erosion control. Harms then intro­duced
Paul Dickey, the north­west
director of the United States
Soil Conservation srevice.
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Collegiates to Hear
Varied Programs
For the purpose of providing ad­ditional
cultural enjoyment for the
students of the college there is pre­sented
each quarter an Artist and
Lecture Series which i s held in the
college auditorium. For the summer
quarter the programs will be held in
the auditorium at 8 p. m. The art­ists
and lecturers are chosen by a
student-faculty committee.
Making up the committee are
faculty members, Miss Ethel Church,
Victor Hoppe, Frank D'Andrea, and
Bernard Regier; students, Halldor
Karason, Bill Hunt, Margery Traul-sen,
and Gus Pagels.
Lakewood
In Need
Of Repairs
Former students may h a ve
fond memories of Lakewood
which was then called "Normal-stad"
but they would be in for
, a shock if they were to see it
now.
Members of the Properties com­mittee
and the Board-of Control
made a survey of the college pro­perty
on Lakg_Whatc.om last .Thurs­day,
June 24, and found the pro­perty
in a run-down condition.
The boathouse which houses
the student-body's three boats,
the Viqueen, the Viking, and the
Sehome, is awash and water
sloshes over the floor on the
inside of the building. The wary
person who would take a boat
ride must first figure out how
to get out to the boathouse
without falling in the water.
FLOAT ROTTING AWAY
The float, which once was a mag­nificent
dock, is now in a rotted
condition and here again, the lake
is slowly claiming it. The weeds and
over-growth have spread over the
grounds.
The bathhouses are in need of
repair, their doors having been
forced open. The porch of the bath-h6use
has rotted away entirely. A
jungle of weeds makes it practical­ly
impossible to reach the far en­trance..
of. the. bathhouse. —
The cabin is. in need of two win­dow
panes which were not fortun­ate
enough to survive the winter.
New steps should be built to replace
the rotted ones that how stand on
the property.
Warren Tiffany, chairman of
the Properties committee, de­clared
that something would be
done.
(Continued on Page Four)
Faculty Completes
Two Years Support
Of French Orphan
Faculty members have completed
support of Jacques Boudeville, a
French war orphan, for two years
and have voted to accept again the
responsibility for another year.
Jacques has written several let­ters
to Miss Evelyn. Odom, chair­man,
thanking her for the many
packages he has received. Jacques
states, that he is being "spoiled" by
his foster parents, as is his brother
who also has foster parents in the
United States.
His packages contain practical
articles such as clothing, as well as
gifts primarily for his enjoyment
such as candy and games. He has
also received money, 805 francs, or
about $150. The faculty collects $180
a year toward his support.
Registrar Ferris
States Enrollment
This summer's registration has
increased, over last year's total of
845, to 917, and is expected to reach
the 1,000 mark during the second
term of the quarter, according to
Registrar Donald Ferris.
The present enrollment is made
up -of about one-third regular stu­dents,
but the great majority are
teachers taking refresher courses.
Special students, who are taking not
more than six hours, and new stu­dents,
are in the minority.