Northwest Viking - 1932 June 17

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GREETINX
PERSONIFIED
NEWS CRAZY
A BIG HELP
—By Sammy Carver. I
Orchestra for Rec
Hour to Be Chosen
At Tryout Tonight
Hello fellow sufferers! How does
the steam pressure weather affect
you? They tell us it's been 85 and
87. above! Just what it's above,
however, we can't exactly decide-maybe
i f S the boiling point!
' W.S.N.S.
t-^.- We read about a fellow who hiked
. tdown a mountain on his hands just
.because somebody bet him he
/couldn't. Not long ago we hiked
•,•/.' down Church mountain on our feet
and were swollen, blistered, burned
and in a questionable temper for a
week following. Never mind, Ethel-bert,
let the nice man walk on his
hands; we'll wait for a street car—
believe it or not!
^K—W.S.N.S.-—
Speaking of ironical things in this
big W&rld- of irony! The people
who go on a picnic and. battle with
a voell organized army of insects
with one hand while they eat wilted
pickles and half-cooked weiners
with the'other take the proverbial
cake. And then upon returning
with^Miery.red backs and shoul­ders
idmch [beat as rhythmic and
painful a tattoo into their weak­ened
constitutions as a South Afri­can
tom-tom; they whisper weaklyi
"WiKdd"ci lovely time!" Then
they have the nerve to expect little
Johnny to believe that they are the
very hearts and souls of truthful­ness!
Ah, me!
—W.S.N.S.
We hear that Schwarzkopf is a
star: *«ethm« or other in the be^
hUed Lindbergh case. If a name
Bke; that came up before as we'd
dftBtfa*' ft without questioning!
—W.S.N.S.—
We had. a rather painful demon­stration
last Saturday while regis­tering,
of what the Democratic con­vention
will be like next week.
(Either that or another Chinese-
Japanese war). The big gym was
a seething i d l i n g mass of fighting
blondes and brunettes with a couple
of weak males strewn hither and
yon to complete the picture. There
they were,.as big as life and twice
as ^ MturaiT fighting over chairs,
pens and supervisors. Instead of
ha\iiig a bunch of hew buildings
nex£year, ieVs spend the money to
hire 8to)>uiahces to drag away the
deadf and wounded! It's a great
stniggie^-this education!
-^-W.SJJ.S.——
Aufi- please, Mr. Ford — ya
wouldn't stand around and. see a
fella starve to death, wouldja?
Just let me charge a coupla bars
and a bag of peanuts!
—W.S.N.S.-—
Doesnt it sort of make you laugh
the way the public gets all wrought
up over anything that comes up; be
it a murder, a kidnaping or another
flight over the ocean? Lindy flew
across tlie Atlantic. The papers
screamed it for weeks, months,
years; in fact, as the most daring
feat: ever tried. Granted—it was.
Thus several-different.men cross the
«»me^p^i^and are headlined for a
wejk^gr; w$rth of issues. Then a
wpmjp^c^osses the. Atlantic and
ag^;-|he^world goes wild; not be­cause
she crosses the Atlantic, as far
^ ^.cto'( !figure out, but simply
because sn^s' a woman! And now
Tryouts for rec hour will be held
tonight in the big gym with two
orchestras competing for the chance
of playing at the weekly dances
throughout the entire summer. The
orchestras trying out tonight will be
Lyle Campbell's orchestra and Bob
Walters' orchestra, which played for
rec hours during the spring quarter.
The orchestra will consist of five
pieces, as the Board of Control set
the wages at $2 per person and lim­its
the total price to $10. The or­chestra
will be selected by a commit­tee
'from the board.
EXHIBIT OF PAPERS
FROM ELEMENTARY
SCHOOLS POSTED
Junior Viking Outstanding Among
Publications Collected
by Staff
CAST CHOSEN FOR
"ALISON'S HOUSE".
NEXT PRODUCTION
Historical Drama by Susan Glaspell
to Be Given July
27 and 28
INSPECTION INVITED
Rec hours this summer will be
held every Friday evening from 8 to
10 p. m. in the big gym. Guest
tickets are obtainable from Miss
Adele Jones, dean of women.
Registration Lower
Than Was Expected
Approximately 800 students have
enrolled in school this quarter, ac­cording
to unofficial checks of the
enrollment.
This is somewhat smaller than
was planned for but it is expected
that the registration will be some­what
greater next week when teach­ers
arrive whose schools do not close
until today.
Official registration figures will
not be ready until next week, but
from all indications the enrollment
will not be unusually large.
Lucky Graduates of ~
Bellingham Normal
Placed in Positions
Five graduates of the Normal
School have been placed in teaching
positions either directly or indirectly
1 by the Employment Bureau during
the past few days.
Walter Gerry is to be principal
and is to teach grades 5 to 8 at
Breidablik. Dorothy Price has the
first four grades at Marblemount.
The principalship of the Boulevard
Park school, which is near Seattle,
goes to Floyd Henrickson. Gertrude
Hancamp is to teach the grades 5
to 8 at Paradise school of this coun­ty,
and Evelyn Brooks has the
grades 2 to 4 in the same school.
All former teachers and those ex­pecting
to teach will be interested
in an exhibit of grade and junior
high school papers which is posted
on the bulletin board of the North­west
Viking office.
Work done on these papers is en­tirely
by the pupils, excluding the
printing of those papers finished in
this way. Many are mimeographed
in a very capable manner by those
on their staff. These mimeographed
papers have illustrations on the
covers drawn by various art students
and are also illustrated throughout
the issues. The folders of two, | h e
Junior Viking, of the Bellingham
Normal training school, and the
Mason Intermediate, of Tacoma, are
colored in blue and gray. ,
Size and Topics
The papers vary in size from four
to more than thirty pages. Of the
larger papers the majority are
either monthly or in some cases
yearly. The junior high papers con­fine
themselves mainly to news with
a few cuts. Poems and compositions
plus news topics and jokes are the
varied contents of the schools
having intermediate and primary
grades.
The Herald, of Elbonita in the
Bellingham district, is of special
note among those on exhibit. This
issue is put out as a souvenir of the
school work for one year. It is more
in the form of an annual, giving the
class enrollments, administration of­ficers
and teachers and the school
program.
This paper is divided into two
parts, the first part devoted to the
primary section and the second to
the Intermediate. Art work and
compositions signed by the pupils
with their respective ages are part
of the.contents of this issue.
Questionnaire Sent
In connection with this exhibit
the Northwest Viking sent out ques­tionnaires
to training schools over
the country. Many interesting an­swers
were received and much in­formation
gathered as to the meth­ods
used by these types of schools.
In answer to the question as to
DIRECTOR TAKES PART
(Continued on Page Two)
Margaret Gray, New Faculty Member,
Dotty Rees Has Registration Troubles
Is From Bellingham Normal School
After choosing a cast of eleven in
competitive tryouts Tuesday and
Wednesday, June 14 and 15, Mr.
V. H. Hoppe, of the speech depart­ment,
announced the Drama Club
play, "Alison's House," by Susan
Glaspell, will be presented on July
27 and 28.
Besides directing the play Mr.
Hoppe will play the part of Father
Stanhope with a supporting cast of
Christine Albers as Ann Leslie, Mrs.
Owen as Jennie, Roger Chapman as
Richard Knowles, Vernon Leatha as
Ted Stanhope, Ethel Page as Louise,
Dorothy Fiala as Elsa, Gertrude
Hancamp as Aunt Agatha, James
Butler, as Mr, Hodges and Evelyn
Swalling as Mrs. Hodges. The part
of Eben Stanhope has not been as­signed
to anyone at this time.
Historical Setting
The drama, "Alison's. House," is
based on the life of Emily Dickin­son.
It concerns a poet, eighteen
years after her death, and the ques­tion
as to whether her unpublished
poems should be revealed to the
world.
The action of the drama takes
place in 1899. The theme centers
around the family of Alison Stan­hope,
a notable American poet who
had died eighteen years before and
whose home is about to be sold. The
family gathers to divide the precious
belongings which have been pre­served
by an older sister, Agatha.
As. tlKLoidcentury is about to pass
on, Agatha, whom the author sym­bolizes
as the old life, passes on with
it, leaving a secret which she has
guarded carefully all the years since
Alison's death. It throws a" new
light on the life of the poet and
reveals her as a truly great souL
Prize Play
The play "Alison's House," re­cently
produced by the Civic Rep­ertory
Theatre as a distinguished
work, received the 1931 Pulitzer
prize as the best play of the year.
As well as being Susan Glaspell's
latest writing it is listed by critics
as the best of her dramatic works
and is said to vividly portray the.
modern trend in the drama.
'Hawaiian Trails" to
Be Theme of Lecture
In Assembly Tuesday
Vaughan MacCaughey, well known
author and lecturer, will deliver an
illustrated lecture on Hawaiian trails
and mountains in next Tuesday's
assembly.
Mr. MacCaughey was formerly
superintendent of public instruction
for the Hawaiian islands and pro­fessor
of botany at the College of
Hawaii. He has written much ma­terial
on Hawaii among which is a
" S u r v e y of Hawaiian Secondary
Schools," "Survey of the Hawaiian
Land-Flora," "Extension Work of
College of Hawaii," "Physique of the
Ancient Hawaiian," "Hawaiian Coral
Reefs," "Racial Elements in Hawaii's
Schools" and other papers. He is,
at present, editor of the Sierra Edu­cational
News, which is the official
journal of the California Teachers
Association and State Council of
Education.
Another speaker will be heard in
assembly, Friday, June 24, Dr. Ned
H. Dearborn, professor of education
and director of the Institute of Ed­ucation
at the New York University.
The subject of Dr. Dearborn's lec­ture
is not yet known. He is making
a hurried trip west and is filling
engagements on. his way out.
Board Makes Plans for Nomina­tions,
and Election of Board
Member
REC HOUR DISCUSSED
Training School
Program June 7
Features Grads
NORM ALITES ENJOY
BIG SUMMER PARTY
Change seems to be the order of
the day. No longer will student
teachers instruct in the "training
school." The name is now campus
elementary school.
Graduation Assembly
Don Quixote, Jean Val jean and
Lady White and Lady Yellow passed
by on the magic carpet in the grad­uation
assembly of the campus ele­mentary
school Tuesday, June 7.
Plans for the presentation were
made in the Drama Club, Literary
Club and the English classes of the
elementary school. Each member
of the graduating class took an ac­tive
part in the program.
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we!^^ever£;magazine we read—is
ravmjg^about;,the woman wonder.
We^M^be^mzy, but we'd just as
soong^ro^a-i^st; and read about
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items ;'and'Wair"street figures for
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•k'yfr^&Fe perfected a treatment
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As I glimpsed her from afar, I
thought she must be one of the
summer students—in the training
school. However, as I drew near,
her air of authority and importance
convinced me that she must be one
of the new summer instructors.
Maneuvering skillfully through the
halls I met her face to face—and
beheld Dotty Rees!
"What are you doing here?" I
exclaimed in an original manner.
"Giving the old school a break.
You know—the depression," she ex­plained.
Dotty has been imparting knowl­edge
to the younger generation at
Stevenson, Wash., during the past
year. Although she is such a big
girl, she only graduated from this
institution in '32, but they wouldn't
let her out of West Seattle high
any sooner. .
Upon being asked about her im­pressions
on returning to the scenes
of her past misdemeanors, Dotty
gurgled:
"Oh, I think it's; just too wonder­ful,
except, of course, I didn't get
the courses I wanted. My dear, it
was just awful. My head ached
until I could hardly think while I
was registering. Even Mr. Kibbe
and Mr. Bond couldn't help. I can't
think what was the matter. And I
Just love my work. You know I ha4
the''1nite?ti':' little ."• boy^tc^etc^-'^
So much enthusiasm makes us
think that Stevenson must be a very
attractive place. Retreating down
the hall I mused:
"Ain't love grand!"
A true Bellingham product is Miss
Margaret Gray, of the art depart­ment,
a new addition to the faculty,
for she was graduated from B. S. N.
S. and since she has completed her
college work at the University of
Washington she has taught at Fair-haven
high school and at six sum­mer
sessions of the Normal School.
Miss Gray says, "I am glad that
I had an opportunity to start my
college work at B. S. N. S. The
standards here are very high and,
as a consequence, I put forth every
effort in my Normal work. The per-,
sonal contacts, possible only in a
school of this size, were most help­ful
to me as an entering freshman.
Also, the extra curricular activities
which were offered were designed to
reach every student. I have watched
many of our high school people de­velop
into real leaders in B. S. N. S.
while those who go to larger schools
are lost in the crowd."
Miss Gray is a firm believer in
the, extra curricular activities for
both high schools and institutions of
higher learnhig. ';T^y develop per­sonalities
that do hot appear at their
best in the classroom," she says.
Armory Is
With
Scene of
Pre-Fourth
Merriment
Idea
The summer quarter entertain­ment
program officially opened with
a bang last night at a mixer that
was voted from beginning to end,
a glorious success, thanks to Doro­thy
Fiala and her helpers.
The Armory, the scene of the
crime, was appropriately decorated
in a bicentennial and pre-Fourth of
July idea. Donna Aisted and her
helpers took charge of that item.
A faculty receiving line started
off the entertainment, which was
planned by a committee headed by
Vernon-: Leatha. Mixing games, a
grand march led by President and
Mrs. Fisher and Dorothy Fiala and
Vernon Leatha, a Brownie dance
and an amusing tag game with a
lemon in some way determining the
prize winner were topped, off by
general dancing to Larry Hawkins*
Crystal Club orchestra until 11:30.
The orchestra also gave a few in­termission
numbers.
Punch Served
Punch and wafers were served by
Suzanne Waters and her committee
during the dance.
Much credit should also go to Bill
Fisher, head of the clean-up com­mittee,
-and Mary Louise Friese,
head of the invitations' committee,
and also to Mr. E. A. Bond and Mr.
H. C. Ruckmick, faculty advisers.
Program Has Six Parts
The complete program is as fol­lows:
Prologue, Crystal Reader,
Don Quixote: At a Spanish Inn;
Jean Val jean: At the Bishop's Home;
Troll Magic: In the Woods of Nor­way,
a play by Constance Darcy
Mackay; Where Love Is, There God
Is Also: a Russian Shoe Shop; Lady
White and Lady Yellow: In a Jap­anese
Garden, a play by Virginia,
Olcott.
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Students Assist
' Production was in charge of Janet
Thorne, Edith Farlow, James But­ler
and Miss Bertha Crawford. Cos­tuming
for the play was taken care
of by Jean Wellington, Gertrude
Hankamp, Norma Lasco and Miss
Hazel Plympton. Miss Mildred
Jewell had charge of the dancing.
Mrs. Grace Krous directed the
music.
Music Department
Replaces Roth for
. The Summer Session
The Board of Control had their
regular meeting last night at 4
o'clock in the Associated Students
office with President James Butler
presiding. "
The most important business of
the evening was the consideration
of the contract for photography
work for next year's Klipsun. Two
bids were submitted, one by Jukes,
Inc., and the other by Sandison's.
Both bids were much lower than the
figures for previous years. The con­tract
for next year will be made
with Sandison's.. For several.years
in the past Jukes have handled the
photography work.
Discussion was held concerning
the nomination and election of a
representative to the board for the
summer quarter. There is an am­biguous
clause in the new constitu­tion
adopted spring quarter. The
constitution calls for nominations by
petition and by a convention Of the
Inter-Club Council but this summer
nominations will also be in order
from the floor. The convention
system will not be used because of
the inactivity of the clubs.
Nominations on Ballot
The nominations which were held
in today's assembly will be placed
on the ballot along with those nom­inated
by petition'and voted on in
next Friday's assembly. There is
but one post open oh- the board
The post is made vacant because
James Stoddard completed his term
of three quarters at the end of the
spring quarter.
Guest tickets came up for then-usual
discussion as did the problem
of checking visitors at rec hours.
Student Association tickets will be
absolutely necessary to gain admit­tance
to the rec hours this summer,
which will be held each Friday
evening from 8 to 10 o'clock.
The contract with the rec hour
orchestra was read and additions
were made including the request,
that the members dress suitably and
in keeping with the evening affair.
President Butler win meet with
President Fisher to make plans con­cerning
the summer quarter budget
The budget cannot be decided upon
until the registration figures are
complete and the amount of money
collected is definite.
Viking to Be Reported
The next meeting of the board
will be Thursday afternoon, June 23,
at which time the financial report
of the Viking win be presented. A
definite agreement will be reached
at next Thursday's meeting concern­ing
a permanent and regular time
for holding board meetings. In the
past the board has met each Tues­day
afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Those present at the meeting yes­terday
were the president, James •
Butler, Mr. E. A. Bond, James Stod­dard,
Elsie O'Donnell and Theona
Flick.
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CALENDAR
Due to the illness of Miss Geral-dine
Roth, Mrs. Edna T. Barker will
take her place in the music depart­ment
during - the summer session.
Mrs. Barker is a private piano
teacher and also does substitute
music teaching in the public schools
of Seattle. During the absence of
Miss Slawson three years ago; Mrs.
Barker substituted in the music de­partment
here for the . complete
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Miss Roth, will resume her classes
m the fall, after a summer of com-plete:'
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FRIDAY, JUNE 17
8 p. m.—Rec hour in the big
sytu.
SATURDAY, JUNE 17
Church mountain hike. Start
at 8 a. m. in front of main
building.
TUESDAY, JUNE: Zl X
' An illustrated lecture by Pro­fessor
Vaughan MacCaugh­ey,
"Hawaiian /Trails and
, Mountains," In assembly.
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