Western Washington Collegian - 1950 February 3

              Junior Class
Sponsors First Prom
March 4 Date For New Affair :
Auditioning of bands for the Junior prom is underway. The
selection of one out of several good possibilities will be made^soon
by a committee of juniors set up for that purpose. A big-name band
cannot be engaged w i t h o u t c h a r g i n g a prohibitive 'price,
for admission, the committee decided. The juniors assure"; all
that a good orchestra and intermission entertainment will be had,
*and the tickets will sell for ap­proximately
$1.75. This is slight-
—Photo by Bernie Lepeska
Pictured above are the Junior prom committee heads. Front row, reading left to right: Ruby Johnson,
Helen Piatt, Bonnie West, Marian James, and Mary Lou Borchardt. Second row: Pat Graves, Rowena New­man,
Marilyn Morrison, and Lois Kilander. Third row: Cecil Thomas, Pat Peterson, -Wes Petterson, Sue
Sbnpson^and Jack De Mardes.
COLLEGIAN
Vol.XLVI — No. 18 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Wash. Friday, February 3, 1950
Registrar Reminds
Prospective Grads
The Registrar's office reminds
students who expect to receive
a degree or teaching certificate
at the close of winter / g a r t e r ,
that applications must be|tnade
immediately. ^ ?•
February 6 is the final date for
the acceptance of graduation, appli­cations.
Those who apply after that
dite will have to wait for spring
quarter graduation.
Students who are to graduate in
June are urged to confer with the
registrar at their earliest conven
ience unless they have made a re­cent
to graduation requirements.
Dateline . . .
Saturday, February 4 — Basketball
game, St. Martin's, here; MRH
open house.
Sunday, February 5—Sunday movie,
"Hunchback of Notre Dame," 7
p. m.
Monday, Februaryv 6—Chess club,
room 220, j.^:30 p. m.; Klipsun,
4 p. m.
Wednesday, February 8—Social Sci­ence
club, 7:30 p. m .
Friday, February 10—USCC Forum
Fireside; Basketball game, Eastern,
here; Thespian club all college
mixer after game.
Talented Students
Revealed in
Stage Show Capers
A student talent show featuring
the new college*Pep band, Bobby
Brown, Norma Barr, Hoot Vetters,
and others in musical selections,
passed in campus review at this
morning's assembly. '*"•'''•
News from the President's office
has revealed that no assembly is
scheduled, as yet, for next Tuesday.
Because of.cancellations, WWC will
have no Artist-Lecture series until
February 14. Junior prom commit
< in charge" of the February
lu assembly
1950 Senior Class
To Celebrate at
Informal Banquet
February 21 has been set as the
date of the senior banquet. The'
Crystal ballroom of the Leopold hotel'
will be the scene of the event. Dr.'
Raymond Hawk will be the speaker
of the evening. A dance will follow
the dinner. Attire is to be informal
All seniors are cordially invited to
attend and enjoy an evening with
their classmates, co-chairmen June
McKinney and Jerry Karnof ski said.
ly less, than last year's Publica­tions
Prom tickets.
Decorations will carry out thi
Oriental theme and will be some­thing
unusual as prom decorations
go. The committee has decided
that there will be no queen or other
contest in connection wjyth the
Junior prom. They emphasized the
fact that the prom is a new enter­prise
for thevjuniors and a new
prom tradition will begin with this
year's affair. The prom date has
been set for March 4.
hunchback of Notre
Dame' Here Sunday
"Hunchback of Notre Dame" will be shown in the college audi­torium,
Sunday, February 5. This will be the first of the regular
Sunday movies,which are to be presented throughout the remainder
of the year. The show starts, at 7^p. m. Admission is 25 cents for;
holders of student body tickets or their wives. Faculty members,
and their wives and husbands will also be admitted for 25 cents.
A questionnaire about the procedure to be followed and the
movies to be presented in future will be distributed at the show. It
may be possible to have a double feature, sometime in the future,
according to Bob Sarvis who heads a student body committee in
charge of the movies. .-...'
WiW axe urged to cower wwn tne F r i d a y , February 10-USCC Forum have no Artist-Lecture s<
^ S ^ ^ ^ f S ^ a ^ ««*•«= B ^ ^ U ^ E ^ n . P e , , ™ ^ X, Jttn.or pro*
*nt check on their standing relative
h e r e ; Thespian club all college tee is in charge" of the
©graduation mixer after game, J ia assembly.
Walter Preparing Viking Band for Concert
Tour of Western Washington This Month
, Ppn PpjQ Walter, of WWCs Music ddeeppaarrttmmeenntt,, Lex Milton, Bellingham; Eugene Robbim
wijl take a <55*piece concert band on tour some­time
in February. Fourteen concerts are plan-.
| ;neJ.for 10 cities in the state, according to Presi-
Ijdent W. W. Haggard.
| ^ [ Featured soloists on tfie programs are: .pawn
| 0 Weber, harp, Arlington; Bob Brown, cornet, and
gtNprma.Jean Swan, violin, Bellingham; and Mar-
/,/V-''Twp4u?rtets'^ndoaT^xtet will also have top
f i l l i n g . Tjl^se m th£ saxophone quartet are:"
^^rerairtdn^|iyje Bws^ Port Orchard; and Sharon
Anderson, Stanwdod. "~s ?-~J:::^;''X::ir-:^
Robbins, Blaine;
Martin Smith, Bremerton; and Don Alexander,
Ferndale. Playing in the brass sextet are: Bob
Brown, Donald Carries, and Richard" Horn, Bell­ingham;
Raymond Moffit, Blaine; and Martin
Smith, Bremerton.
The communities to be included in the tour
are: Aberdeen, Bremerton,'Clover Park, College
of Puget Sound, Hpquiani, Mpntesano, Olym-pia,
Snohomish, Stanwood, and Tacoma. Three
concerts will be given in Tacpma and two in
Bremerton. •.',.;''. ,". •' .^"."\., •:.-'-..• :;^;:';
Chartered buses will be used to transport the
65 band members, 18.'.of whom are: women. r
WWC Debaters
Take Pa|ft
In First A|pet
Members of S e in e Carlile's
Speech 250 class spent part of
Wednesday afternoon (Febru­ary
1) in Mount Vernon. They
were taking part in a- debate
with a team from Skagit Valley
junior college. The debate sub­ject
being discussed was "Shall
We Nationalize Basic Industries
in the United States?" This
topic is being debated on a national
scale by the various scholastic de­bating
societies.
Believeing that the chin is stron­ger
than the pen, these ardent ad­vocates
of enlightened argument
have launched their, Initial offen­sive.
They have several; intercdl-
Jegiate engagements ahead of them.
Debating teams are something new
in Western's recent history. It is
hoped that their endeavors will add
a new flavor to WWCs fame as an
inter-collegiate contender. -
Western students taking part in
this debate were: James Bemis,
Park Dyer, Bill Morton, Art Rune-strand,
PhU Hansen, Earnest Ben-ner,
Laurence Fosmo; Dick Grimes,
Les Johnw^; ^Itoy^SCargo^
George ^u^art. ; v? v:.':tT''W-
:m
City Charters And
Go$ts Discussed
By Citizens Group
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Dryi^nesri H. Campbell; as­sistant
^ r e c t o r of the Bureai
of Governmental Research an<
Services, at the University o|
Washington, spoke to a groui
of interested citizens in" Belling-]
Jharri, Tuesday evening, Jaliiiar
31. The subject, city government
and city charters was discusset
at length by, Dr. Campbell.-f
Bellingham's Citizen's committee!
of which Dr. Arthur C. HieltB;
chairman, invited the 44 candidat
for freeholders' positions to att
the meeting. These freeholders!
when elected, will have the Job of
recommending changes in the cltji
charter. ^ • •;
Dr. Hicks, in commenting on th<^
meeting, said that he was gratifii
that so many , people;,;wer^|pi@||
tendance.; Practically ^aJ^Sp/f^^i
freeholders candidates were :.t^re|
he said. -: ; .':•': -: '.XX'-^:X\??^t
Dr. CampbeU 1ms recentiy rna^die
study of the Bdlingham city cl
er: He declared t ^ ' ^ was?
longest:first: class^; c h a i ^ i to^
state: He also ;ppinted^
points on wWch the charter
be imprbyed.lv.ii^:v^|
statements In:.:^'dc|(^j^t^^€^ttn|
at variance with s t ^ l a ^ ^ t f f tj
places the charter is ^ t r a r y i^
state constitution. '.• :;?'& %k?^p&®g