Western Washington Collegian - 1949 January 7

              Committee Rejects T. Beneke
COLLEGIAN
jVol. XLVII—No. 13 Western Washington College, Bellingham, Washington Friday, Jan. 7, 1949
NAME BAND IS REFUSED
FOR ANNIVERSARY PROM
In an emergency meeting Thursday afternoon, the Student-Affairs
committee voted to reject a plan whereby Tex Beneke's orchestra would
play for the 1949 Publications Prom on Wednesday, February 9.
.j. The committee's decision
bard Underwrites Ski Team
And Prom in Busy Session;
^legates Invited To Festival
By GEORGE HESS
Several important issues were laid before the Board of Control at the
regular scheduled meeting Wednesday afternoon, January 5. Several
iV—yisitors were present to bring questions before the Board for discussion.
^1^- 'Mr. Kermit Bengtson, new faculty member and ski coach, presented
• plan to increase the interest in skiing at Western. He recommended
that the college apply for affiliation with the Pacific Northwest Ski As-socaition.
He also requested that a*
d be set up to pay racing entry
fees for the ski team members so
X that they may acquire racing experi-
V- ence before the meet with CPS. The
board, taking a favorable view of
the plan, granted an initial appro­priation
of $35 to put it into prac-ce.
r Board president Gus Pagels then
read a letter fromWashington State
¥ College inviting WWC to send dele­gates
to an International Relations
P Festival, February 4-6. The ensuing
T -ha
scussion brought forth the. fact
•hat WWC is already sending dele-
™ gates to two similar conferences. It
.-swas then decided by popular vote
that no more funds can be made
available for this purpose.
"~ - Mr. Earle, manager of the stu- »ent co-op and coffee bar, was pre-ent
to discuss the price of coffee
^ i t h e lounge. He brought out that
•i* if the board would assume the ex-
^ penses of all special openings of
Wthc lounge after 5 p.m., the price
^%f coffee could be held to five cents.
The board discussed this idea at
some length and finally approved it.
"' The board members then gave a
unanimous vote of thanks to Mr.
•le for his willing cooperation and
or his competent management of
the lounge and co-op.
The question/of the board's un­iting
expenses incurred in pro-g
a "name" band for the an-
Publications Prom was next on
the agenda. After all the various
-n points of view on this issue were
.. presented, the group decided to give
its support . . . providing the prom
gommtttee can get official college
Jjipnction.
The final business of the evening
>was the granting of a budget of $108
b ,to Coach Lappenbusch for main-
• taining the college competitive swim­ming
program for the. balance of the
I
Editors Appointed
George Dowd, editor, and Bruce
Hannaford, news editor, were noti­fied
late this morning of their ap­pointment
to the staff of the Library
of Congress in Washington, D. C.
The appointments were made by
Representative Henry M. Jackson,
and will enable the two boys to
attend George Washington univer­sity,
majoring in political science.
They will leave Bellingham within
two weeks in order to enter the
second semester of the university.
Board of Trustees
Gives Contract to
Tucker Company
G. E. Tucker and Co., of Seattle,
was awarded the contract for con­struction
of the first unit of the
Auditorium-Music building by the
Board of Trustees after their meet­ing
on December J21...Their bid, the
lowest, was for $306,936.
The second lowest biddeifrwas John
H. Sellen Co., of/Seattle, with a bid
of $309,360. There were seven\other
bidders, two of whom were from
Bellingham, namely, Chisholm and
Eifford, and Gaasland Co., Inc.
Ground was broken on January 3,
by the construction workers and
work is well underway. The work­ing
period is to be 180 calendar days,
or six months.
In an interview, Dr. Haggard re­ported
that after April 1, when the
new budge't money has been appro­priated,
the Board of Trustees wiil
call for bids on completion of the
Auditorium-Music building.
The basement of the Arts building
has been completed and the workers
are now pouring cement for the
first floor. The basement includes
a large room for storage facilities.
This room is 109 feet long, 60 feet
wide, and 7 feet high.
S. S. Mullen of Seattle, is the
contractor fort he Arts building.
Ruth Krieger, Noted
Cellist, Presented in
Assembly Tuesday
Ruth Krieger, talented Seattle
cello soloist, appeared Tuesday in
the first Artist-Lecture program of
the winter quarter.
Elliott Aandahl
Called to Duty
By State Dept.
A graduate of the Julliard School
of Music, Miss Krieger has made
concert tours on the east coast and
in her native northwest, and is this
season playing as soloist with the
Seattle Symphony Orchestra.
Lockrem Johnson, of the Univer­sity
of Washington Music depart­ment,
himself an excellent musician,
accompanied Miss Krieger at the
piano in a program which includ­ed
Sonata Opus 5, No. 1 by Beet­hoven,
six short _ pieces,. Western
Hymn, Sad Melody, Marching Song
Reverie, The Bugle and Cannon by
Mr. Johnson, and the Concerto in
A Minor by Saint Saens.
John Graham Is
New PNC Delegate
To UBC Conference
John Graham, WWC student, will
accompany Dick Saunders to the
Pacific Northwest College congress
being Held on, „ the University of
British ; Columbia v campus Friday
and Saturday, January -7 and 8.
Because Elliot A. Aandahl, former
WWC student. delegate to the
PNCC, was called to Washington,
>l>. C. by the State Department, the
PNCC committee had to consider
another applicant's petition.
The PNCC delegates will report
to the student body shortly after
their return. Topics to be discuss­ed
by the group include "The Pales­tine
Problem" (John Graham) and
Atomic Energy" (Dick Saunders).
The Congress will ratify certain
provisions which will be presented
by a student delegation to the
United Nations.
) -
Eliott A. Aandahl has received an
appointment as Assistant Public Af­fairs
Officer with the United States
Embassy in Nanking, China, it was
announced this week. Mr. Aandahl
left on January 2 for Washington,
D. C. for a period of temporary duty
with the State Department, upon
completion of which he will pro­ceed
to his post in Nanking, or
wherever the embassy is.
A veteran of 25 years in the
Orient, Mr. Aandahl has been a
students at WWC the past quarter
and was a popular member of IRC
to which he contributed a great
deal of first hand information about
the Far East. Married and the fath­er
of three' daughters, he resides at
809 14th street in Bellingham.
Taken to China as a small boy by
his missionary parents, Aandahl re­mained
there until he was sixteen.
Then after nine years residence in
the U. S., during which he attended
a seminary in the Middle West, he
returned in 1933 to his mission sta­tion
in a remote section of central
China. In 1944 the pressure of Jap­anese
invasion forces compelled him
to leave and he returned to the U. S.
via Burma, Java, Borneo and Aus­tralia.
Upon arrival in the States,
Aandahl was commissioned a cap­tain
in the Marine Corps Reserve
for duty as a Chinese language of­ficer.
Landing with the Marines in
North China in 1945, he served as a
liaison officer between the Ameri­can
forces and t h e Nationalist
troops of Chiang Kai-Shek and
participated in the Marshall truce
team missions in 1946.
A very fluent speaker, of the Man­darin
dialect, which is the main
dialect of China, and with an inti­mate
knowledge of the Chinese peo­ple,
gained from his many years of
missionary work, Mr. Aandahl is
well qualified for his new post with
the Foreign Service.
Mr. Aandahl will be sorely missed
by his classmates and particularly
by his fellow club members in IRC
to whom he contributed much on-the-
spot observations of conditions
in the Far East, said Gordon Sans-stead,
IRC president.
was
based on the following.reasons:
1. Mid-week is not the time to
sponsor major social events.
2. The high school students who
are normally invited would not be
invited because of the mid-week
date which would interfere with
their school the next morning.
3. If a name band were con­tracted
for this year's prom, the
students would demand one every
year.
4. The University of Washington
Touring theater, "The Rivals" ap­pears
that same night on the cam­pus.
*
The student Prom committee made
the following statements in defense
of the Beneke engagement.
1. Tex Beneke is a nation-wide
orchestra which would act as a
drawing-card for favorable publicity.
2. It is an unusual opportunity to
engage the Beneke group because
they will be enroute between Van­couver,
B. C, and Pullman, and
could stop over at Bellingham.
3. The regular price for engaging
the orchestra is over $3,000 for a
week-end date and the amount for
this four and a half hour show
would be possibly as low as $1,500.
4. High school students need not
be invited if it would necessitate
unfavorable parental criticism.
Harry W. Flannery *
To Address Public
Forum January 12
Harry W. Flannery, internation­ally-
known lecturer and radio news
analyst, will be heard on Wednes­day,
January 12, at 8 in the Belling-
HARRY W. FLANNERY
Klipsun Staff Heads
For Final Deadlines
Work on the 1949 Klipsun, annual
yearbook, has been stepped up be­cause
of the deadlines which must
be met this quarter, according to
Pearl Hofman, editor of the book.
Mounting of pictures is occupying
the staff's time at present and the
picture taking schedule will be step­ped
up to meet the deadlines with
the engravers. The 1949 book will
carry out the 50th anniversary
theme of the college.
ham high school auditorium, under
the auspices of the Bellingham Pub­lic
Forum. His topic, "The World
Up to Now," has the background
of thirty years of travel and news
gathering and analysis in all the
important capitals of the world, as
well as interviews with the leading
men and women here and abroad.
A . Pennsylvanian by birth, Mr.
Flannery attended grade school in
Greensburg, Pa., but went to high
school and began his newspaper
career in Hagerstown, Md. He con­tinued
this career while in college,
and took post-graduate work in
journalism at Notre Dame.