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WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOUBELL1NGHAM, WASHINGTON Fridayi November 24, 1933
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Vera Speaking a Decided Change
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'VOICES GROUPED FOR EFFECTS
First Ghoa- Organized in 1931
Gaining in Popularity
Is
The College Verse Speaking choir
from the San Jose Teachers .college
will appear before an assembly Mon­day,
Nov. 27, at 11 =00 »• m-
The verse speaking choir is a de­velopment
of a rather recent move­ment
toward training young people
in the enjoyment and skillful use of
the spoken voice as an -organ of
self-expression. The voices, low,
medium, and high in pitch are suit­ably
grouped and in the rendering
of apiece of literature they play in
and out with each other or "fall into
a choral harmony much as in the
rendering of music. The importance
of pitch, cadence, enunciation and
rhythm are all deftly calculated in
producing effects achieved by the
choir. Other methods used to
heighten effects are gestures and
lighting effects.
v First Group Organized
.;. This choir under the direction of
Elizabeth M. Jenks, is the first
group of its kind to be organized in
the West. The group first started
making, public appearances in 1931,
and has been steadily gaining popu­larity.
•'•••; The verse speaking choir is now
offered as a regular course in the
Speech department of the San Jose
Teachers college. It is organized
like a glee club so that students may
begin.in a junior chorus and if then-work
is outstanding, they may work
into the senior choir.
Miss Jenks and her chorus will ar­rive
in Bellingham on Sunday, .No­vember
26. Miss Longley is making
preparations to entertain the group
in Edens Hall while they are in
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Tenth Homecoming
Annual Celebration
,From the pep rally Friday night
to the Homecoming dance Saturday
night, the tenth annual Homecom­ing
celebration of the Bellingham
Normal school, held November 17-20,
can be said to have been a huge
success.
Activities began Friday evening at
7 o'clock when Bill Allan led an all-school
serpentine from Edens hall
down through Holly street and back
to/jthe new athletic field for the big
bonfire celebration. The day's pro-
, gram ended with an evening Rec
hour. At noon Saturday a luncheon
was held in the Edens hall dining
room, which was pronounced a de­cided
success under the direction of
Chairman Tim Lowe! V ^
Next was the main feature of
of Contribution
Red Cross Campaign Will
Conducted Separately
This Year .
Be
Because the Red Cross is having
its own campaign for funds this
year, separate from the Community
Fund, Mrs. • Gragg and Dr. Bond
have been appointed by President
Fisher to take charge of the faculty
contributions for that organization.
The Red Cross is following its na­tional
policy by withdrawing from
the community chest movements
and conducting a campaign of its
own. In.this campaign anyone is
invited to contribute. The minimum
contribution for a membership in
the organization is $1.
The Red Cross completed in the
past year the greatest relief task in
its fifty-two years of existence. Sup­plied
with government cotton and
wheat, it distributed 10,500,000 barT
rels of flour to nearly 6,000,000 fam­ilies,
and 104,000,000 .garments; to
more than 5,000,000. families. Flour
was provided in every state and ail
but six counties. More than 25,000,-
000 people were aided in relief work.
The Red Cross aided in unemploy­ment
relief in over 2,500 communi­ties
in this' country. Ninety-two dis­asters
in the United States and its
insular possessions. called for Red
Cross relief, four disasters occurring
abroad.
Moffatt Speaks
On Club History
At AlkisiahMeet
Alkisiah Club Was Organized
' First Tear that the
Normal Opened
the
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"The History of the Alkisiah club",
was the topic of a talk given by Miss
Moffatt at the last meeting of the
Alkisiah club.
The Alkisiah club was first or­ganized
under the name of the Al-cott
society, in 1898, the same year
that the Normal school was opened.
The club was a part of the regular
school work, its aims being; prac­tice
in public speaking, current
events and service. Miss Ida Agnes
Baker was the sponsor and critic.
The name of, the society was
changed to the present name of Al­kisiah,
taken from the Indian words,
Alki, meaning near, and Siah, mean­ing
far. Together this word means,
the reaching of objectives in the
near future.
The literary interests seemed to
broaden with the new name, and
the club studied, debate, authors,
the short story, plays and artists.
The club^erected the bird bath be­side
Edens hall. Some of the other
activities they participated:in were:
the sale of seals at Christmas and
the laying of a corner stone.. They
also brought a picture exhibit of
original painting of Washington ar­tists
to the school on two different
years.
Sokplsky Terms Progressive School
• ^ 5 "BehwiorisUc;" Prefers Quaker
By Calista Simonds and Mary-Jane Holden
Previous toour conversation with Mr. George Sokolsky, last Friday's
speaker, we had bolstered our faltering courage and scanty knowledge
by hasty perusal of two articles written by our victim: "My Mixed
Marriage", August Atlantic Monthly, and "Political Movement in Chi­na,"
from the "Annals of American Political and Sociological Econ­omy",
July. .•.'••:::.:C'- ••v-.. ••••:.
Mr. Sokolsky is a Polish Jew, mar-ried.
to a Chinese woman of the
Hakka province. The product of
this marriage—-Chinese, Christian,
British to Polish, Jewish, Jewish
American, is a sori seven years
^ | ; being educated .a#aAQuaker
schobLin New York. This choice of
schools led to our first question:
\ti-$$bp;:aip you sending your son to
a CXuaker school, when, there" are so
many other schools, undenomina­tional,
of i&od^repute?^
^1 went into the matter thorough-ly,
iliii hkve decided that the Quak­er
schooli struck the middle course."
5'^JW^iftt-it your; objection'J.to.:the
progreeslve-schooVsuch as we have
^mULt 1X^ ubb&l )» in«cecor-ihtak
is shirking its .duty, the church or
the home?"
"Re-its
"The .home," he snapped
ligion is superfluous."
"How is the home shirking
duty?"
"Home training should center
about the mother.. In too many
cases the child is 'disposed of' at
school while his father works and
his mother' pursues her strange so­cial
existence."
We had been thinking about his
statement that rpligidn is ah evil,
and questioned him further: 'Should­n't
there be some religious training
—sothat when*childis old enough
to) ichocw ^'denomination, he will
do so
%e mtervfewers were somewhat
stunned by tm» icc«c«Iasm-4rreck-ii&
our Ih^nuous! i d e a s *
sfcitutw - education -toe untutored
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c^ybiu* business?'1
ROBERT ZOET CATHERINE JANE OLESON
<<BlackFIamingo,,
To Be Presented
fry Theatre Guild
Several Present and Fast Normal
Students Will Appear
. in Production
By Frank Pratt
What' a thrill it would be to find
yourself, back during the reign of
Marie Antionette, in a wayside inn
where pirates and plunderers held
travelers for high ransom or killed
them in cold blood and then stole
their valuables and expensive be­longings.
You have your chance.
Listen!
The Bellingham Theatre Guild is
presenting for four days beginning
next Tuesday the 27th, Sam Jan-ney's
mystery thriller "The Black
Flamingo," a story that takes place
one night in a wayside tavern
around the year 1798. Besides being
outstanding, it boasts several of
Normal's past actors and actresses.
Eilene Morrison who plays Laura
Cram in the school's first quarter
production, "Holiday" portrays the
part of the loud mouthed wife of the
inkeeper. Other persons who have
at one time gone to Normal, appear­ing
in the production are: Quentin
Rochefort, the priest; John James,
De Lussac; and Mary Ruth Bailey,
Diane.
Reservation should be made as
soon as possible at Stark Piano Co.,
as the tickets are going fast. The ad­mission
is forty cents.
Social Science Club
Sets Meeting Date
Due to the fact that the Social
Science club meeting dates of second
and fourth Mondays of every month
conflicted with the Alkisiah club
dates, the meetings will be held the
second and fourth Tuesdays of ev­ery
month.
At the meeting held Monday
night, November 20, in the Edens
hall club room, Frank Brown re­ported
that a Social Science club
party was planned for some time
shortly following Thanksgiving with
a dinner, dancing, and card playing
as the entertainment features.
Ralph Hofman was the speaker
scheduled for the meeting, but as
he was called for play practice his
talk on the Jewish question was
postponed till. the next meeting.
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Bureau Announces
ions Secured
Miss Elizabeth Hopper of the Ap­pointment
bureau has received word
of the appointment of fifteen more
students who have completed their
teaching course here. Names of new­ly
appointed1 teachers have been pre­viously
published and a more com-,
pleted list will be published at a
future date. >;..<••
Howard Wilder has been se­lected
as the Assistant Director of
Education at the State reformatory
at Monroe. Other students who
have secured positions recently are:
T. M. Tucker, grades 4-6, at Gold-bar;
Ruth Frost, grades 3-4, at Cus­ter;
Ruth Pearl Anderson, grades 1-
3i and music, at Satsop.
: Eelecia Szambelan; .grades 1-8
Logan Hill; Quinten Smith,-grades
7-5, Keypbrt; Sara Iiomsdale, grade
6, a| Thomas, school; Kathleen^ Cron-m,
grade fc, at Thc>mas Schopl^.Lai-la
Rue, intermediate, atOrUla; j&eh-ne&
McDonald, grade 6, at Willapa
r > ^ ^ulli rurat at W a t e ^^
Florence Carnobb*,] grade* 1*4. at
Clipper;Greta Priced/grades11-4, at
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Institutions of
Higher Learning
Are Challenged
President Franklin Roosevelt Talks
to Women's Conference of
Current Problems •
By Calista Simonds
Two definite statements were
made by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt in his address to the third
annual Women's Conference of
Current Problems, at its meeting in
New York City on October 13;
One was to the effect that despite
present adverse conditions too many
teachers are being "turned out"
each year. The other, "The quality
of our teaching in almost every state
can be definitely and distinctly
raised," is a direct challenge to the
institutions of education.
When questioned as to her view­points
on this situation, which the
President has brought before us,
Miss Mary E. Rich, director of the
training school, broadly granted the
President's estimates to be justifia­ble,
but took exception to his further
remark, "Over-production of teach­ers
is just as much an economic
waste as building steel rail plants
far beyond the ability of railroads
to use steel rails." This, she con­sidered
a rather far-fetched com­parison.
It is the theory of Miss
Rich that more preparation for
teaching would take care of this
condition, with greater benefit to
both teacher and pupil.
Mr. James Bever, dean of the
school, agrees that the quality of
teaching should be raised. He sug-
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Arthur Pillsbury To
Lecture Oh Science
December 4 is the date scheduled
for the first associated student body
assembly to be held after Thanks­giving
vacation. Students of the
Science department will be particu­larly
interested to note that this
assembly will feature Arthur Pills-bury,
a noted scientist who will lec­ture
on subjects concerning his ex­periences
as well as show motion
pictures. The assembly will be held
on Monday instead of the regular
Tuesday assembly in order to give
the students the advantage of hear­ing
and seeing this speaker.
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Gampus School Has
Library Open House
Interest of the Campus school
children for old and hew books lias
been stimulated by the annual book
week, so that a marked difference
has been shown in their selection of
reading material.
In connection with this National
Book Week, the third annual open
house was held by the Children's
Library, for the children of the
Campus school and their parents,
last Thursday evehihgl About sixty
people responded to the invitation
and. were, entertained at the library
by Miss Bertha Crawford's seventh
and eighth grade English classes,
who demonstrated the: variety of
ways m--wJ6ic^;a\.bwfe;^pm..6r. re->
vW.nu^i;''be'pi^nied.;:.'.
Miss Anson, who fa teaching in
Ferhdale, brought fiye^qfh^er; pupils
into Bellingham so that they might
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through and i n ^ * •' modern.
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.^appreciation for the ' interest
shown was[mjm^i-mi^^m-trios:
i j ^ : ^ s a i d ; ^ ^ ; % a | :
thif arinual open h c ^ . faeld by th«
ubrary, is becoming s^J6cimtlo|i^r
the Campus schooL ^h®>v{£'&:.
Drama Club Productioii,
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First Given Last
President Fisher
Tells of School's
Need of Support
Financial Plight Is Explained
, Kiwanis Club at Tuesday
Luncheon
to
Addressing the .Kiwanis club of
Bellingham at a luncheon Tuesday
noon, President C. H. Fisher told of
the financial plight of the Normal
school. He pictured the school as
haying its back to1 the wall, finan­cially:
it might be necessary to cur­tail
its activities until much heeded
support from the state is forthcom­ing,
he said, as the school is receiv­ing
about one-third of its custom­ary
financial aid.
The importance of the Normal
school to the city was stressed, and
history of the school was recounted.
President Fisher told of the higher
standards of education established
within the last few years. He also
spoke of the proposal to change, the
name of the Normal to the Western
Washington College of Education.
Students Notified
To Plan Programs
For Next Quarter
Not Necessary to Pay Fees
December 4 to 8,
Says Bever
Till
Winter registration is now well
under way, according to Dean
James Bever. Students have been
responding well.. During the past
week non-diploma students and
third year students have been mak­ing
out their programs. Dean Bever
urges all students to get their
courses filled out now as the classes
are fast filling up. Any student who
has not registered by today will be
given another opportunity November
27, 28, arid 29. If, by December 3,
a local student has not registered,
he will be charged a fee of one dol­lar.
It is not necessary to pay fees
when registering. Payment of" fees
will take place December 4 to De­cember
8. For those who find it
impossible to pay them another
opportunity will be given them Jan­uary
2. As far as the business office
is able to determine, the fees for
the winter quarter will be about the
same as the fall quarter.
Famous Books Sent
Local Relations Culb
A group of six educational books
has been received by the Inter­national
Relations club this last
week, sent from the Carnegie Foun­dation
of New York City. The fol­lowing
books, which will be studied
by the club, constitute the fall in­stallment:
"The . Great illusion—
1933" (Arigell), "Historical Evolution
of Hispanic America" (Rippy),
"World Prosperity" (McClure), "Will
They Pay?" (Richardson), "Inter­national.
Government" (Eagleton),
and "The Bank for International
Settlements at Work" (Dulles).
Twice a year the Carnegie Foun­dation
sends books of this type but
to all International Relations clubs
in,the United States. The purpose
of the foundation is to further the
cause of world cooperation.
Noted Lecturer Talks
On Conditions in Asia
"The Tinder Box of Asia", was the
subject on which George E. Sokol­sky
spoke, at a special assembly last
Friday afternoon.
Mr. Sokolsky reviewed the Ancient
and Medieval history, of China, and
the revolution of China, socially, in­dustrially
and mteBectually. .He re­viewed
the-industrial revolution of
Japan and ther situation, between
rtus$ia «vd Japan over Mahchurla.
^:;^;So|K^>;adviSed: :«&««pp£
taUon of capital to Japan) In order
to enable her to buy XL A good* and
thereby -help -xtijtbifc >I«*»SJ,*;«IDO*
Oleson, Zpet, and James Leads;
McKay Assists V. Hoppe '
' -i as Director
TECHNICAL CREW PLANS SET
Many Actors Develop Playwright's
:; '•• • Theory in Play
By Nancy Jane Smith
An appreciative audience ap­plauded
the first performance of
the three-act play, "Holiday,", by
Philip Barry last night..The play,
which is.to be presented again to­night
at 8:15, is the first one to be
given this fall by the Drama club.
Catherine Jane Oleson and Rob­ert
Zoet took the leading roles of
Linda and Johnny. Other members
of the cast are as follows: .Jacque­line
James, Julia; Robert Bovey,
Edward; Ralph Hofman, Seton;
Eilene Morrison, Laura; Orvin Mes-segee,
Nick; Lyle .Philips; Susan;
Boyd Swanson, Ned; Peggy McKay,
maid,; Donald Van Doreh, butler;
Varyih Allyh, \ Charles. Mr. VI H.
Hoppe is assisted by Peggy McKay
in directing the play.
Settings Well Done
As it is. the consistent policy of
the Drama club to create appropri­ate
settings for each play, a tech­nical
crew has been chosen. Under
the. direction, of Ervin Easton this
crew, consisting of Jacqueline Mc-
Cullough, Dick; Newlin and Grayce
Names, prepared the scenery for
"Holiday." .'..••
In the first and third acts the
flats for the scenes are painted
beige with darker molding. In the
second act, which takes place in a
nursery, the flats are light blue
with a darker border. On the lighter
part there are gayly colored toys
and. animals painted at .random.
Another flat, portraying neighboring
apartment houses, may be seen in
the window. -
Responding to the, spirit of "joie
de vivre" in the play the cast put
sparkle and gayety into their lines
which spelled, success. The actors
hemic
State*.
m the United
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Plans Underway for :
Relief Of Teacliers
Out of Employment
In order to put into action a plan
which will provide positions for
teachers by employing them to in­struct
classes tor adults, C. Paine
Shangle, superintendent 'of .^Belling­ham
schools, has applied to the state
department of education for the
establishment of-a Whatcom oounty
emergency education relief council.
If these adult classes' are organ­ized,
they will; be held in the city
schools both afternoons and even­ings,
and will make available such
courses as: citizenship training; in­struction
for hopaemakers; agricul­ture
and., gardening: /courses;: pre­school
; work, and rural elementary
teaching. Meanscof financing this
project will be secured,; from."the
emergency education funds, frotn
which salaries will be payed, and lo­cal
agencies, which will furnish sup­plies
and equipment. ..:::
,. iThis proposal has already attract­ed
•! the.. iterest..... of, approximately
twenty-five unemployed. Bellingham
teachers. Other jobless teachers
arid adults interested in these class­es
are requested to communicate
with either . Mr. Shangle or \pt&.
Beryl J. Bruff, county superintend­ent
of schools.."
Co'dfjetatimNeeded:
Discount Giyiin, if Pictures Are,
•;-:••'>• in< JBefore; Dec< 80 •;:•,
Co-operation from f the:, fac-,,',
ulty is urged by the Klipsun
staff in border to get all indi­vidual
pictures tiaken as soon
as. pjpss^le^Jvr^^ne^''^^
urgent ,relqile*t. *is;' ^^jik-'fdOTO:^
the cost of engraving ^s much
as possible, accordmg, to Gbrr,
don Richardson, editor, the
photography,, offers a; five per
cent disc^j^t; oh aU engraving
that reaches the studio before
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