WWCollegian - 1948 April 30

              Graduation Plans Announced By Commencement Committees
By TOM BUSH
"Commencement activities for 1948 will begin with
the alumni banquet, Saturday, June 5, 6:30 p. m., at
Edens hall," announced Georgia P. Gragg, in charge of
the affair.
Baccalaureate services this year will be held in the
auditorium on Sunday, June 6, at 4 p. m., and the Presi­dent's
tea for the faculty will be held at Dr. W. W.
Haggard's home following baccalaureate.
Class day exercises, in charge of Dr. Arthur C. Hicks
and James O'Brien, will be held in the auditorium, at 2
p. m., Tuesday, June 8. Dr. M. F. Cederstrom is class
adviser. Dr. Haggard's home will again be the scene of a
tea, this time for graduates, following class day exercises.
Miss Mildred Herrick is, in charge of the faculty
reception, to be held in the Blue room at Edens hall,
Thursday, June 10, 8:30 p. m. The reception is for grad­uates
and their families.
Graduating seniors will bid their final goodbyes to
WWC on Friday, June 11, at 10 a. m., when commence­ment
exercises will be held in the auditorium.
Miss Miriam L. Peck is chairman of the decorations
committee for the affair. Working with her will be Edna
Channer, Donald P. Irish, Miss Eileen McMillan, Dr.
Keith A. Murray, and Glenn D. Warrick.
Miss Ruth Weythman is chairman of the committee
on the processional and seating. Working with Miss
Weythman on the committee are Miss Marjorie Kingsley,
who will handle the graduate list; Miss Pearl Merriman,
faculty line; and Miss Marjorie Muffly.
Other members of the general committee on the
activities are Miss Ruth Piatt, general chairman; Dr.
W. W. Haggard, program; Miss Lorraine Powers, faculty
and student costumes; Dr. Frank D'Andrea, in charge
of music; Bernard Regier, music; and Don C. Walter,
music.
Mrs. Ruth Burnet is in charge of publicity for Com­mencement
week, and Mrs. Alvestra Ward is in charge of
the activities taking place at Edens hall.
Oar bouquet of s p r i ng
tulips to Jan. Cherniavsky
who has postponed his
Tuesday engagement with
the Artists series until May
11. This switch in assem­bly
programs was arranged
at the request of ASB elec­tion
officials. Cherniavsky
has demonstrated his will­ingness
to cooperate in a
matter of democratic im­portance
to WWC students.
Students can demonstrate
their faith by attending
Tuesday's election assem­bly
and backing their can­didates.
Just to prove to you that
the moniker your f o l ks
hang on your birth certi­ficate
may not be a matter
of discretion we offer you
the name of Hoover Taft.
He is an official in an
eastern city's Young Dem­ocrats
organization.
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Young men and women
handy with hammers and
saws, or possessing mech­anical
know-how of float
construction will find their
services gratefully accepted
tomorrow morning at 10,
behind the gym. Refresh­ments
will be served. No
union cards necessary to
enter the fun. LET'S
B U I L D TOGETHER A
FLOAT THAT WILL COP
FIRST PRIZE IN THE
BELLINGHAM BLOSSOM
PARADE.
In the Italian election it
is estimated that 90 percent
of the eligible citizens ex­ercised
their voting fran­chise.
How many do we -
estimate will do the same
at WWC's ASB elections
Wednesday?
FOR G I R L S ONLY.
Merely a suggestion: En­courage
your boy friends
to participate in the annual
WWC beard growing con­test.
As one girl so aptly
put it last week, "After all
it gives you something to
hang onto." This could be
an important factor when
marriage bureaus count up
the score at the end of this
leaping year. How will you
stack up? At least a tuft of
beard from, the 'one that
got away' will be something
to brag to someone else's
grandchildren a b o u t in
your old age.
Sites For New
Buildings Are
Waiting Action
Can the new Industrial Arts
building, the auditorium, and Music
building be completed a year from
this September? Dr. W. W. Hag­gard,
expressing extreme hopeful­ness,
responded to this query by
stating: "The sites for the buildings
have been established and construc­tion
should begin after necessary
legal negotiations relating to their
purchase have court approval. I am
very anxious that the buildings be
ready for use by September, 1949."
L a c k of mechanical engineers
caused a slight delay in achieving
the dateline for submitting the plans
and specifications to the Board of
Trustees, but the drawings are now
.nearing completion, and bids will
open soon. WWC has an appropria­tion
of approximately $1,100,000 for
these buildings, and the trustees will
instruct the contractor to first erect
a unit of each building to insure
over-expenditure.
Tennis Courts Expand
TJennis courts will be installed on
Huntoon drive and will consist of
four cqurts instead of the present
three.
Service Fund Drive
Opens as Clubs
Announce Activities
A campaign for funds to aid stu­dents
and personnel of war devas­tated
countries will be launched in
WWC for the next two weeks under /
the auspices of the World Student
i Service fund. There is no specific
amount a student must donate and
all contributions large or small will
be welcomed. The Board of Control
has voted to donate $50 to the fund.
A number of social activities to
inspire donations have been pro­gramed
for next week under the
sponsorship of various groups. The
following is the list of activities
scheduled: Tuesday, May 4, waffle
supprr, sponsored by Home Econom­ics
club; an afternoon tea given on
Thursday, May 6, by the Blue Tri­angle;
a mixed recreational hour
will follow on Thursday evening;
and climaxing the activities, a dance
will be held on Saturday night, spon­sored
by International Relations
club.
There will be a small admission
charged for the functions with the
exception of the tea. Everyone is
invited to attend.
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Vol. XLVI — No. 27 Western Washington College of. Education, Bellingham, Washington Friday, April.30, .1948
ASB Offices At Stake Wednesday
MRU Extends
Welcome to
General Public
Doors of the Men's Residence hall
will swing open Sunday to "Open
House" visitors for the first time
since the completion of the 76 man
dormitory. Visiting hours have been
set from 4 p. m. to 7 p. m.
Approximately 300 i n v i t a t i o n s
have been mailed to members of
Whatcom county legislators, presi­dents
and secretaries of local cham-b
e r of commerce organizations,
WWC trustees, faculty members, and
other persons. The public is invited
to attend.
A special reception committee has
been formed and is headed by Dr.
and Mrs. W. W. Haggard, Mr. and
Mrs. Bill McDonald, Nell Lewis Mc-gregor,
and Roger Hubbard, presi­dent
of the hall. Refreshments will
be served in the dining hall to those
attending.
The massive structure which was
started in 1946 opened its doors to
the first contingent of students last
fall quarter. The open house date
has been held off until last minute
finishing touches and installation
of late arriving furniture could be
completed. Gardeners finished the
transplanting of flowers and shrub­bery
last week.
ART, BIRD ENTHUSIASTS
EXHIBITION BY SAWYER
OPENS IN ART STUDIO
Art lovers and students interested
in bird life will be especially at­tracted
to the studio gallery of West­ern
Washington college from May 2
through May 14. During these days,
at specified hours, an exhibition of
drawings and paintings by local
ornithologist Edmund Sawyer will
be on display.
Datelii me . . .
Friday, April 30: J u n i or
class rec hour, junior
high gsTnnasium.
Saturday, May 1: B e a rd
growing campaign for
Campus day gets under
way. Viks vs. PLC at
Downer field, 1:30 p. m.
Sunday, May Z: Edens hall
spring breakfast. Attend
the c h u r c h of your
choice.
Tuesday, May 4: Cherniav­sky,
renowned p i a n i s t ,
: who was to appear in
Artists series has post­poned
engagement until
May 11 to accommodate
Student election candi­dates
assembly.
Wednesday, May 5: Gen­eral
ASB elections. Vote
. . Vote . . Vote. Baseball,
Viks tackle CPS at Ta-coma.
Game time, 5:30
pjn.
Friday, May 7: Sophomore
picnic, Calmor cove. 275
junior class high school
students v i s i t campus.
They will be teachers be­fore
they get away.
Sporting Events Dominate Campus Day;
Beards Begin Sprouting Tomorrow
Games of sports and competitive events will dominate the afternoon
schedule of Campus Day, according to Jerry Karnofski and Lenny Ward-man,
chairmen of the sports division. Campus Day, a day of all fun and
no classes, will be held at Whatcom Falls park, May 19.
Among the contests scheduled are, a baby bottle contest for men only;
beard contest, presumably for men only; slipper kick, girls only; tug-of-war
between faculty and students; baseball games; pie eating contests, male
and female; girls guzzling contest;
faculty gunny sack race; mixed
wheelbarrow race; and volley ball
games.
At the 1947 skip-day the faculty
pulled the students all oyer the tug-of-
war arena before the scholars
defaulted by accepting outside as­sistance.
Phyllis Armstrong copped
the slipper kick contest, Bob and
Peggy Nunamaker pulled into first
place in the wheelbarrow race, and
Dr. W. W. Haggard retained his
avowed "horse shoe champion" rat­ing.
Sprouts on the otherwise unblem­ished
faces of beard contestants will
commence to bear fruit tomorrow,
May 1, and continue to propagate
until May 19, reports Bob Sarvis
and Les Smith, whisker entrepren­eurs.
Smith stresses the importance
of wholehearted student response in
this adorning contest. At least two
square inches must be in evidence
if the possessor is to be eligible for
one of the five major prizes. Types
of beards to be cultivated will, be
announced next week.
To intensify student interest in
the coming day, publicity chairmen
Phyllis Armstrong and Art Rune-strand
have placed a pictorial his­tory
of the 1947 events on the bulle­tin
board of the main landing.
Sophs Hark to
Calmor Call
Plans for the sophomore class pic­nic,
Friday, May 7, at 4 p. m., place
the event at Calmor grove on Lake
Samish. Co-chairmen of the affair
are Lois Rowe and Beverlee Burnaby.
"Tickets are 50 cents," announced
Sophia Shaeffert, Ticket sales man­ager,
"and are on sale now. Only
sophomores and their guests will be
admitted," she added.
According to t h e entertainment
committee, a water show at 5 p. m.
by the Calmor Water Sports club
will be the highlight of the evening's
activities. The agenda also includes
fishing, baseball, horseshoe games,
dancing and boating. After the sup­per,
row boats will be tied together
and pulled around the lake by motor
boat.
Various committees i n c l u d e:
transportation, S h i r l e y Harrison,
Jean Seelye, Cliff McCullum and
Clarence Ness; food and clean-up,
Jean Paton, Alton Magnuson, Esther
Mjoen and Ruth Soderstrom; en­tertainment,
Pat Wright, Alice Rob-bins,
John Griffith and Lee Van de
Wetering.
Getting a Kick Out of C-Day
Another treat in store for Campus Day fiends is the annual kickoff
assembly that heralds the opening of that fun filled day. Students
pictured in the above photo watched Senior hall pack off first place
honors, Daniels hall cop second spot, and Edens hall finish third in the
1947 competitive skit presentations. Roma Still and Jay Lapp, assembly
co-chairmen, promise that the 1948 version will surpass that of other
years.
PNCC Representatives Report
On March 3, 1948, student delegates from 37 colleges and universities
in the Pacific northwest, Canada, and Alaska, assembled at Whitman
college, Walla Walla, Wash., for the opening of the Third annual Pacific
Northwest College congress. Representing WWC at this session were
Robert Ingersoll and Gordon Sanstad.
Conceived in early 1946 by a member of the Portland League of
Women Voters, this PNCC acts as a collegiate Senate on world affairs.
It presents to the students of the institutions represented an opportunity
to voice their opinions about international problems by the use of the
ballot. It proposes to give youth a voice in world peace organization by
perfecting the Congress as a dynamic means of giving young voters a
chance to deal directly with United Nations'officials from year to year.
It aims to encourage student interest in world affairs to the end that
a fuller acceptance of the responsibility of citizens for good government
may be achieved.
The student delegates attending the Congress are assigned in ad­vance
to sections dealing with particular aspects of international affairs
and are supplied with some of the basic literature pertaining to their
subjects. The conclusions reached in these sections during the confer­ence
period are submitted to the entire Congress for ratification. After
ratification these resolutions are then drawn up into the form of a
ballot which will be submitted to the students in each of the colleges
represented.
Five discussion sections were arranged for the 1948 sessions. The topics
for these sections were (1) The Little Assembly; (2) Enforcement of
United Nations Decisions; (3) The Marshall Plan; (4) UNESCO; (5) Re­sponsibility
in Public Information. Of the local representatives, Sanstad
was assigned to the Little Assembly and Ingersoll to UNESCO.
The other sections of the Congress passed several resolutions, all
of which will be presented in ballot form to the student body at an
early date. Section 4, (UNESCO) of which Ingersoll was a member,
passed resolutions calling for an equalization of the scholastic require­ments
of the educational systems of the world to facilitate a free transfer
of students on the international level and that UNESCO provide a more
active program of publicity directed at the individual through the me­diums
of motion pictures, radio and press to stimulate interest in UNESCO
philosophy, function and structure.
Following the adoption of the 12 resolutions, the" Congress elected
a new executive committee for the coming year and also called upon
delegations present to extend bids for the 1949 session of the Congress.
The final selection of the 1949 location will be determined by the ex­ecutive
committee after consulting the several bids submitted.
(See Sample Ballot on Page 2)
Karnofski, Pagels, Runestrand
In Final Battle For Coveted
Student Body President Title
By STAN REYNOLDS
Gus Pagels, Jerry Karnofski, and Art Runnestrand have been desig­nated
as candidates whose names will appear on Wednesday's general
election ballots for the position of president of Associated Students during
the 1948-49 college year. Fred DeBrnler, Roger Hubbard, and Gordon
Sanstad will be competing for t h e position of vice-president.
Other names to appear on the "general election ballot include Bill Mor­ton,
George Dowd, and Shirley Harrison, for four quarter man or woman
representative to the Board of Con- ———— ———
t r o 1; Phyllis Armstrong, Pauline
Roser, and Lola Samuelson, for the
four quarter woman position on the
Board of Control.
Election officials report a very
light turnout in last Wednesday's
primary voting. Only 361 votes were
cast—which represents 37 per cent
of WWC's student body.
Lack of campaigning and the mov­ing
up of elections to allow the ASB
president and president-elect to
meet in Arizona later in May, was
believed to be the main cause of the
absence of students at the polls. In
Wednesday's general election, the
polls will be open from 9 till 4 p. m.,
and the students are urged to turn
out and vote for the candidates they
think should hold the various offices
of the college.
The candidates surviving the pri­mary
and who will make then- bid
for offices in the general election
are listed below, showing the num­ber
of votes each one received.
PRESIDENT: Gus Pagels, 127;
Jerry Karnofski, 54; Art R u n e -
strand, 77.
VICE-PRESIDENT: F r e d De-
Bruler, 139; Roger Hubbard, 108;
Gordon Sanstad, 44.
4-QUARTER MAN OR WOMAN:
Bill Morton, 78; George Dowd, 59;
Shirley Harrison, 53.
,4-QUARTER WOMAN: P h y l l i s
• Armstrong, 150; Pauline' Roser, 45;
liola Sainuelson, 39.
Sticker candidates may be placed
on the general ballot by turning in
a petition signed by 10 percent of
the student body to election officials
3 days before the general, election.
WWC to Present
Musical Program
In co-operation with a presiden­tial
proclamation announcing the
week of May 2-9 as National Music
week, the WWC Music department
will present a half hour broadcast
over station KVOS at 7:30 p. m.,
Wednesday, May 5.
Featured on the program will be
the 60 voice a cappella choir, the
men's quartet, and Norma J e an
Swan, violinist. Members of t he
quartet are Duane Lewis, Lynn At-wood,
Fred DeBruler, and Don Fink.
Carl Cary will be their accompan­ist.
The program will be under the
direction of Bernard Regier.
Regier will also assist in National
Music week activities by appearing
as bass soloist in the presentation,
of Mendelssohn's "Elijah" by the
Garden Street Methodist church,
May 9 at 8 p. m.
WSSF Recipient
275 Juniors Will Invade Area
For Education Orientation
"Career Day," forthcoming May 7, will be an event to welcome 275
juniors from 17 high schools in Whatcom, Skagit, and Snohomish coun­ties.
The students, to be grouped into sections of 20, will be escorted
throughout the college and campus by guides selected from ACE and
Valkyries.
Dr. M. F. Kuder, chairman for the occasion, has planned a wide va­riety
of activities which include informal talks by Drs. R. F. Hawk, J. A.
Ross, and M. J. Renshaw. Groups
will first be shown through the cam­pus
school, under the supervision of
Dr. Hawk, and visit many class­rooms.
Dr. Ross will then present
a brief talk on the opportunities in
the field of education.
Noon festivities, M. C.'d by Dr.
Renshaw, will include a welcome by
Bob Dickson, vice-president of the
student body, and a songfest under
the direction of Bernard Regier.
Library activities planned will be
headed by Miss Mildred Herrick and
will consist mainly of outlining Li­brary
use and procedure.
Between 9 and 10 a. rn., Beverly
Cameron, house president of Edens
hall, assisted by Mrs. Lela Haynes.
housemother, will receive the girls
and later aid Miss Evelyn Odom and
Miss Vivian Johnson in their regis­tration.
The boys will be welcomed
by Roger Hubbard, president of
MRH, who will assist Dr. Ross in
their registration.
The highlight of the day will oc­cur
in the campus school when Dr.
W. W. Haggard e x t e n d s official
greetings to the students. After an
open forum, in which the students
may present any questions or prob­lems,
Dr. Hawk will close the day's
program.
Looking like a candidate for
WWC's Campus day beard growing
prizes is this student under treat­ment
at a student sanitarium in
Switzerland. The tubercular student
is one of many that receive treat­ment
from funds provided by U. S.
students through the World Student
Service fund drive which opens Mon­day
at Western Washington college.