WWCollegian - 1940 May 24

              Wl*.^9J7-^;wereD*mb<mled into war by some o f the most
jngeniQus ^ theimmdof man. Our
:."" :V^:"'ydilA^jp^r^^ttipm^At',"- tfiia'/'our :^m6n.ey-:-:-yfere_ sought after and
praised and used effectively to turn the tide. .Yet—after we
hod done our job and done it^well—were we allowed to exert
: ^ ^ e most definitely were not! We were jeered at, brushed
off;jproperly double-crossed. Lloyd;George, in his own book,
tells how Clemenceau stood behind President Wilson and made
mocking faces while our other Allies tried to keep from laugh­ing-
This whimsical exhibition took place while President Wil­son
was trying to have written into the peace treaty some of
theideals for which Americans had fought and died.
Today we are in grave danger of being lured into another
European war—a war that will feed another generation of
youth to the cannon; a war that will end in another oppressing
peace ; . . no matter which side wins.
We should stay out and we can stay out. How? By keeping
a wary eye open to propaganda. By keeping our mouths shut
no matter how keenly we want one side or the other to win. By
not allowing ourselves to get so involved commercially with one
side or the other that we have to collect the money due us
with guns. By a grim and immovable determination to stay
neutral—and the realization that therein lies our hope of hold­ing
to our American democracy, liberty and civilization—
World Peaceways, New York City.
/The Fifth And Last Column
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It was a beautiful moonlight night. Eight or ten voluminous
voices all singing in chorus were heard last Monday night about
II o'clock under the pro­tective
branches of the- trees
and shrubs surrounding fid-ens
Hall. All this means
that the female residents of
the dorm were being seren­aded.
After the first song
had been massacred, a
slight ripple (oh, so slight)
of applause Was heard, and
so the boys echoed forth
with an encore. Just as
they were swinging out with
"Shine On, Harvest Moon"
the fire alarm sounded and
the girls, clad in clothes and stuff like that started to come out in*
the usual fashion. At the front door, however, stood the dean of
women, who gently but firmly prevented the gals from going out.
A few scurried out the back way, and the dean, thinking that the
whole affair had been planned in order for the girls to keep a
nightly rendezvous, checked roll after the girls had filed back in!
V V
A PROPHECY . . .
/ / any of you have been reading the best newspapers latelyi
(aside from the Collegian) you probably have noticed that there
seems, to be a little trouble in Europe. Both of us at this time may
.be.stacking MW-Mecksj)ut, but we want tomake a prophecy^ We-think
that if things keep on as-they are over in Europe that there
may be a war! Now that statement may startle some of you, but
we have been spending hours upon hours of time studying .this
situation and we feel that we know what We are talking about.
So again we say, there may be war!!
V V
PRATTLE . . .
It isn't only the men of the campus who are glad the beard-growing
contest is over. . . . More darn-fun trying to avoid those
cheap showers issuing from the campus sprinklers! . . . I've heard
a lot of people kicking about not being able to obtain a vacant
tennis court. Personally, I can't see what they are beefing about.
Why, last night about 9:30 ! drove by the tennis courts and
there wasn't a soul there!
Collegian Staff Consumes
Annual Corn at Leopold
Amidst the corny atmosphere of a pseudo-radio program tabbed
"Information Breeze," that boasted the famed board of experts
Richard Cox, Dr. Merle S. Kuder, Dr. W. W. Haggard, and Paul
Mueller, WWCollegianaires and their type-lice, banqueted eighty-five
strong last evening in the Crystal Ballroom of the Leopold
hotel.
Luteffsk Odor Apparent
Questions fired from all angles giving the dining hall the ordor
of spoiled Lutefisk were answered faithfully by the experts and in
. turn they recited bits of rare poetry. The questions and poetry
were concocted by retiring editor Bill Ridder and incoming stooge
Al Biggs.
Outstanding Reporters Honored
Plaques for merit as the most dependable cub reporters together
with the honor of having their names engraved on the Soukup
trophy were awarded the following outstanding reporters: Wayne
Miner, fall quarter; Eric Phillips winter quarter; and Jim-Gilroy,
spring quarter.
Dr. Haggard Judged Most Cooperative
In appreciation of Dr. Haggard's one hundred per cent support
of the WWCollegian and his willingness to assist at any time
with any task, the annual award to the most co-operative faculty
member was awarded the president of Western Washington col­lege.
Ruth A. Burnet, adviser of the WWCollegian, spoke briefly in
recounting the history of the paper during the twenty-five years
of its existence as a weekly.
New Heads Introduced in Farewell *
. Stewart McLeod, retiring business manager, spoke brief ly in in­troducing
Felix Montes, his sucessor. Toastmaster Ridder, who
finished: blowing with this edition, finally closed his trap after
introducing Al Biggs, who assumes the reins for the final issue.
Honored. Guests Present
Collegian advertisers present at thefestivities were K B . Peas-ley,
from Northwest Hardware; George Graham^ of the Star
Drug; Mary Hibrier, representing B^B. Furniture; .and Paul Muel­ler^
from Paul MueUer, Jeweler, Inc^
T h J e ^ p ^ i e ^ ^ likewise injhbnor positions for
the evening mcluded Cameron LeRpy, Frank Lacey, Lillian Sweet,
Arthur Miller, Dick Cox, and Walter Sutherlen.
Front SMersjM^ -\.:- :]-
A8B prexy-elect Frank Shiers was an honor guest at the an­nual
bw^^ S.
Kuder, Albert V ^ and Ruth
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VOL. XXXIX—NO. 33 Western Washington College of Education, Bellingham; Washington Friday/May 24<194C|
Cello Soloist
BushellVCello Solo Featured
In Strangers Annual Recital
Tenth Annual Concerto Recital
Features Local Pianists
Blakeslee, Strange, Christopher
By Bill Ridder
Featuring Donald Bushell,; coir
lege band and orchestra conductor,
as guest cello soloist, Edith R.
Strange will present college pian­ists
Thera Strang, Berton Blakes­lee,
and Jean Christopher, accom­panied
by the WWC orchestra in
her annual concerto recital Tuesday
evening, May 28, at 8:15." This
will be Miss Strange's tenth annual
presentation.
Mozart Concerto in A major
The entire Mozart Concerto in A
major will open the program with
Mr. Blakeslee at the piano. The
three movements of what is consid­ered
by experts to be one of the
best piano compositions ever writ­ten
offer desired contrast. The
smooth fluid allegro is followed by
the romantic melodic adagio with
the brilliant allegra assai concluding
the opus.
Mendelssohn Concerto in G minor
The first movement of Mendel­ssohn's
romantic Concerto in G
Minor will be interpreted by Miss
Christopher. The rapid strains with
their vivid snap offer beautiful con­trast
to the polished, restrained Mo­zart
number.
Lalo Concerto in D major
Lending his mastery of the cello
to the work of the contemporary
genius, Edouard Lalo, Mr. Bushell
will offer the entire ..cello Concerto
in D Major by the French compos­er.
Miss Strange will accompany
on the piano.
Grieg Concerto in A minor
A recent co-winner in the local
Women's Music club scholarship
contest, Miss Thera Strang will
conclude the recital with the sec­ond
and third movements of the
Concerto in A Minor by Edvard
Grieg. The modern composition
presents the brilliantly syncopated
arid melodic writing of the famous
German composer. The slow melo-dicadagio
is followed by the force­ful
allegro marcato-quasi presto-andante
maestoso.
The WWC orchestra will assist
the three pianists with melodic or­chestral
accompaniment.
Publications Board
Renamed; Klipsun
Dictators Selected
DONALD BUSHELL
Ward Memorial
Day Speaker
Rev. Isaac Ward, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, will ad­dress
the students of Western col­lege
at the annual Memorial day as­sembly,
Tuesday, May 28, 1940. ^ The
WWC band, under the baton of
Don Bushell, will furnish the music
for this occasion.
Rev. Ward, whose father was an
active participant in the Civil war,
will relate some of the experiences
his father had in that conflict. The
band will play, as their part of the
program: "March of Youth" (Oliver
Doti), "The Glory of America"
(Harris), and "God Bless America."
President W. W. Haggard desires
the students to sing this last piece
with the band.
Miss Charlotte B. Richardson,
c o m m e n c e m e n t chairman, an­nounces
that practice for baccalaur­eate
will be held in the auditorium
during the assembly hour on Tues­day,
May 31; practice for commence
ment is scheduled for Monday, June
3, at 4 o'clock in the college audi­torium.
All graduates are required
to be present at these practices.
By Frances Daley
Board Correspondent
Consideration of the power of
the Publications Board in regard
to selection of editors and managers
for publications was a major item
on the Board of Control docket last
Wednesday. It was decided that
the Publications Board, hereafter
: known .as Publications Council,
would make nominations for heads
of publications but the Board of
Control" will make the final selec­tion.
Biggs Chosen
Al Biggs was a p p o i n t e d
WWCollegian editor for fall quar­ter,
1940, while Felix Montes will
take over the position of business
manager at that time. Biggs was
the only eligible applicant for edi­tor;
Montes was selected from
among three applicants.
Mayhew Selected
The appointment of Shirlee
Cratsenberg to the position of 1941
Klipsun editor was made arid Melba
Mayhew will be the business man­ager.
The two selected were the
only eligible candidates applying for
the jobs.
Consideration of the budgeting of
Associated Student funds"'for the
year 1940-41 was made. Since esti­mated
expenses for men's athletics,
the music department and the
WWCollegian were considerably
higher than the amounts asked for
last year, it was decided that they
should be requested to reduce then-budgets
accordingly. This was nec­essary
because the enrollment of
the college is not apt to be increased
over-the current year.- ------
Betty Jean Bayley, chairman of
the board's picnic scheduled for.
Memorial day, announced that it
would be. held at Larrabee state
park. All students who have been
members of the board at any time
during the past year will be invited.
This week's rec hour will be held
on Friday night in the training
school gym from 8:30-11:30 with
Brook Temple's orchestra playing.
by gol ly !
'Winco Words', or Throck­morton's
Track Tome, a
track, golf, and tennis pro­gram
and booklet, will be
distributed free at arenas Of
action in this week-end's
athletic carnival.
Weber in Stride
Biggs 1940 Collegian Editor
WPA Approval
Received
Official word has been received
by WWC authorities that the WPA
allotment for leveling the hill be­tween
the library and the PE build­ing,
destroying the grandstand on
Waldo field, and building a new
track on the new field, has been ap­proved
in Washington, D. C. Rep­resentative
Mon C .Wailgren and
Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach no­tified
Dr. Haggard of this fact by
separate telegrams received last
Saturday.
Saturday, Governor Clarence D.
Martin visited the WWC campus
and with Dr. W. D. Kirkpatrick,
chairman of the board of trustees,
and President Haggard, inspected
the recent and expected improve­ments
to the campus. He expressed
a favorable reaction to the pro­gress
which has been made in the
program of improvements
Group Visits UBC
Advanced speech students visited
Dr. W. J. Lea, orthodontist, in Van­couver,
B. C, Friday, May 17. Mem­bers
of the group were Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Newquist, Jeanne Richards,
Mrs. Anna Magallon, Ross Tibbies,
Reda Eaton, and Dr. Cotton.
Dr. Lea pointed out the important
part the lower grade teacher can
play in observing and correcting the
many more or less inconspicuous
habits that lead to nialfoi^tioite^
He described the yaripi^;inalfor^
tions and their causes.
After the interview, the group ^
visited points of interest in the city. 1
Ninth-Graders Hold
Play Day At WWC
Swimming, racing, and treasure
hunting figured in a day of general
recreation for 500 ninth graders,
Wednesday, when Whatcom and
Fairhaven joined with the ninth
grade of the campus school for a
play day at the college.
Supervising the meet for the girls
was Miss Virginia Hawke of the PE
department. With a pirate /theme,
the girls' program included baseball,
volleyball, swimming, relays, and
games. An additional feature of the
day was a campus tour.
The boys played speedball and
softball and held a track meet and
treasure hunt under the direction
of Dean Loye McGee and Student
Teacher Howard Jones.
Because of the popularity of the
college swimming pool the "ninth
grades will continue to have their
play days on the college campus.
Assisting Miss Hawke and Mr^
McGee were several college stu4
dents. .v
Forum Tall<s Jobs i
Dr. Merle S. Kuder, registrar at ;
WWC, participated W e d n e s d ay
night, May 22, in a radio broad- -
cast, which was one of a regularly
scheduled forum sponsored by the
Bellingham Real Estate board.
The broadcast was in ifte form, of.
a panel discussion on the subject of
"College Education or a J0b?? Jltor-/
titefpants in the discussion besides r
Dr^K^der were M U ^ C^han, sec­retary
of the local YMCA, and sey^ -i..
•^eral-tt^acl)^
Tool Takes Over
Lacey, piensburg, Cheney, Pt|£
Were If or; I ntercollegiafce Mee§|
At long last, the much looked-for second annual Western IritercoUegiate
track, golf, and tennis meet has broken the crest of the horizon and become
an actuality.
_; -- . .• .__ Population Up 100
The influx of athletes from Ta-coma,
from Lacey, from Ellensburg,
and from far-off Cheney has swell­ed
the population, of Bellingham by
nearly 100 count, and today and to­morrow
bring the greatest college
sports carnival ever to showin Bel­lingham.
Golf This P. M.
This afternoon on the green slopes
of Lakeway golf course, the Viking
golfers play host to the divot-dig­gers
from Ellensburg, Cheney and
Pacific Lutheran. St. Martins was
unable to field a team this year.
Tennis, Too
Also this afternoon, the assembled
racquet swingers of the five schools
begin their gala, two-day elimina­tion
contest with many brilliant
matches in the offing.
Tomorrow at 1; 45, when the long
line of pole-vaulters joust at .the
ten-foot mark, and the shot-putters
assemble to sheet at the charmed
40-foot circle, that grand spectacle,
the 1040 track and field meet,
swings into being. The mile run
starts at 2:15 and things hop from
then on.
Cheney Odds-On Favorite
Cheney's Red and White Savages
are the favorites to sweep the meet
as Coach Red Reese has virtually a
full team of veterans returning from
last year's squad. However, the El­lensburg
thinclads have a well bal­anced
outfit and may surprise with
a win on the strength of seconds
and thirds. The Vikings, Lutherans,
and Rangers seem destined to trail
in that order.
The meet will be scored on the
basis of 5 points for first place, 3
points for second, 2 points^for third.
and~l forffourth spot.
Trial meets will be held in the
100 and 220-yard dashes, high and
low hurdles at 3:00 this afternoon.
Dash Men in Heats
Dash men scrapping it out today
for the six lanes in Saturday's meet
include Carpine and Freeman of
Cheney, Jones and Bridges of El­lensburg,
Harshman and Williams
of PLC, Weber, Dahl, McAulay of
the Vikings, and Stack and Leigh of
St. Martins. ,
Hurdlers who will be trying to
eliminate each other are Pat Mar­tin,
Jones, and Love of Ellensburg;
Chlssus, and H. Taylor of the Sav­ages;
B. Taylor of PLC, Davis, Shel-ton,
and Wilkinson of the Norse,
and Ben Martin of the Rangers.
UNCLE WAYNE WEBER
AL BIGGS
Montes, Manager
Appointment of Al Biggs as
editor of the WWCollegian for
fall quarter and Felix Montes as
business manager, for the same
period was announced last night
at the annual Collegian banquet.
The announcement came after close
consideration by the Board of Pub-licatons
and appointment by the
Board of Control.
Montes, a local sophomore, has
served for three quarters as as­sistant
business manager under
Stewart McLeod and assumes his
new duties with a varied back­ground
of experience.
rvBiggS; a sophomore- from South
C^lby, Washington, has worked on
the Collegian forfive quarters and
during that time has served con-'
secutively as spoils editor, manag­ing
editor, and associate editor.;
po&^
322 B. A. Diplomas
To Be Presented
President William W. Haggard
announced this week that 322 B. A.
degrees and three-year certificates
will be presented at the forty-first
annual commencement, F r i d ay
morning, June 7 at 10 o'clock.
Of the total of 322, 115 will be
degrees of bachelor of- arts in ed­ucation
awarded for four years of
college work; 207 will be three-year
teaching certificates. The 1940
graduating class is 48 short of the
record 1939 class of 370.
Pre-commencemeht activities in­clude
the annual alumni banquet,
Saturday, June 1, at seven o'clock
at the Bellingham hotel. About 300
graduates, alumni, and faculty are
expected to be in attendance.
W. C. Tucker, superintendent of
schools at Enumclaw, 1917 gradu­ate,
Dr., W. D. KJrkpatrick, chair­man
of the WWP^|board of trus­tees,
and Dr. Haggard[will speak at
the affair. BoydfJSwanson, alum­nus,
and Miss Betty Bird, freshman
at WWC, will sing several numbers.
Miss Dessie Mae Dunagan, presi­dent
of the alumni association, will,
act as toastmistKJsaC
Grad Invites Graitfc
All" students who intend to
graduate in June may call at my
office >for invitations which they
may send to friends and parentsv
inviting them; ^ ^ ^ J F 6 p ^ . / f i h '^
ception, Thursday, June 6, 1940.
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tions; all the stttdents have to do
Program Complete
The graduation program for the
class of 1940 will be as follows:
Saturday June 1
6:30i p: m.—rAlumni banquet, to be
• at the Bellingham hotel. Grad­uates
are invited guests.
Sunday, June 2.
4:00 p. m.—Baccalaureate services
in -the auditorium.
Tuesday, June 4
11:00 a. m—Last assembly of >the
year, in charge of graduates.
Following this, the Campus cer­emony,
presenting the numer­als.
Thursday, June 6
8:30-10:30 p. m.—The Faculty are
hosts to all graduates, then*
families and friends, at a re­ception
in Edens hall.
Friday June 7
10:00 a. m.—Commencement in
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Friday, May 24
3:00 p. m.—WAA lodge trip to Sin­clair
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5-8:00 p. m.—Benefit convention
at Bellingham hotel, "Smorgaas-
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Monday, May 27
7:30 p. m.—General Alkisiah club
meeting, Edens hail crabrootn. ••'
Tuesday, May 28 * 0
11:00 a. m.—Memorial day assem­bly-
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