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VOL. XXIX-TNO. 13 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday,,. Octi 4; I 9 2 9 j l g t i l
A 'COMEBACK'
REMARKS
A GOOD WORD
& YE DIARY
By GORDON LEEN
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Greetings Nine Hundred!
We're back again. And the column
what IS a column is being intro­duced
again as "Nonnalite." ..Yep,
for four lucious quarters have Nor-malites
read, reread, swallowed, fear­ed,
and believed the precious jour­nalistic
dribble which is now before
your eyes, and which, incidentally,
flows so fluently from the pen of
the writer. i
You ask what happened at the
INormal - by-the-Mountains-and-the-
Sea during the summer session?
Lots. First—nearly a thousand reg­istered,
then came a mixer, infor-onals,
and the general recreation
program. Secondly— the Vikings
went down to the U. of W. and
walked away with all athletic hon­ors.
Better still, when the big IT.
came up here they did it again.
These inter-school meets took in
baseball .track, tennis, handball, and
basketball. Next came all-school
trips up Mt. Baker, and to Lake
Samish. Wow! What good times
we had. Topping off the summer
5 came the all-Normal field meet in
which everybody from janitors to
faculty participated and finally the
Drama club production "K. U. R."
(Rossum's' Universal Babots) won
the praise and applause from the
Viking audience.
—W. S. N. S.—
I n contrast with' the summer ses­sion
the librarians will tell you how
Jew use the library in t he fall quaur-ter.
Believe it or not the reserve
room during the summer was so
overcrowded that the children's lib­rary
- had to be used. Hundreds
could be counted studying in the
main reading room.
—W. S. N. S.—
Upper division students notice a
great change, or rather a mixup, in
offices of administration.
W. S. N. S.—
And to those new here it should
be known that the sum of seventy
dollars is to be set aside by t he
Board of Control for t he best school
song. A contest manager will be
appointed sometime soon, and t he
affair isv slated to close sometime
during " t he early winter. Printed
bulletins covering the details of t he
all-school contest will be given all
students soon. Contributions should
combine the dignity and beauty of
""The White and Blue" and t he pep
and rythm of "Alma Mater." Many
contributions are already in, as
this contest was inaugurated nearly
a year ago. Several eminent people
of the Bellingham musical world
a r e contest judges.
—W. S. N. S.—
And now introducing Roy Sund-strom
the successor to the present
author of "Normalite" and t he sum­mer
"Normalette." Mr. Sundstrom
is an old time journalist, with new
ideas; brilliant too, he is at times
possessing the rare quality of subtly.
With such a send-off the new col­umnist
ought to come through with
some pretty fine stuff—wait 'til you
read that story of his. He's been
saving it for a week.
—W. S. N. S —
For minds of intellect is "Ye
Diary", which is so constructed as to
challenge the wit of the majority.
I t is far above the heads of the min­ority.
—W. S. N. S.—
Ye Prof's Diary
Jacque thu ladee
killer hoo wrytz
Hooz Hoo inn thee
, " kolumz shood gett
an wuxtra nickel
ttfur thu inflaytud
'jublisitee thiz wek.
Butt thu resipiant
lookz oudt pritee
tvel fur 'imselph.
Juss lyk Oscar IV
'iv Denmark wen
nee wunse sayd:
"Thu wirld's aye
staydge & iff yew
wood look yew
must paye. & nee
ment itt.
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SIX STUDENTS
ENTER W I D E
Incoming Freshmen
Are Entertained by
Music and Readings
Ten Conservatory Scholarships and
25,000 • Dollars Are the Prizes for
Winners in National Radio Contest.
LARGE AWARDS OFFERED
Foundation's Aim Is to Discover
Best Non-professional Voices in
Entire United States.
Six Normal students have en­tered
the Atwater-Kent Radio
Audition contest. Those entered
are: Barbara Bourne, Frances
Young, Waverly Carrell, Dorothy
Walker, Kermit Smith and Opal
Bobb.
Ten scholarships and 25,000 dol­lars
are to be awarded the winners
of the contest. The first award is
five thousand dollars in cash, a
gold decoration, and two years con­servatory
tuition. Second award is
three thousand dollars cash and one
year's tuition. Third award is two
thousand dollars in cash and one
year's tuition. Fourth award is one
thousand five hundred dollars in
cash and one year's tuition. Fifth
award is one thousand dollars cash
and one year's tuition. These
awards will be given in duplicate,
one each for every girl winner and
for every boy winner.
Plan and Purpose
This is the Third Annual Radio
Audition for the development and
reward of young singers throughout
the nation. . . ^
Originated as an altruistic ex­periment
in 1927, continued in 1928
because of popular demand, the
wisdom of the Foundation's aim to
discover the best young non-profes­sional
voices in the United States'
and give to the singers an oppor­tunity
for further training, recogni­tion,
and reward has more than
justified itself, and the Audition
has become a national institution..
Dates for Contest
Periods allotted for the competi­tions
through which America's
amateur singers can rise to the
final awards totaling 25,000 dollars
in cash, besides conservatory schol­arships
are: Local contests, on or
before September 15; State finals,
October 1-15; District finals, No­vember
1-30; National finals, in De­cember.
Qualifications
The qualifications for those who
would enter the Audition are: En­trants
must be between the ages of
An entertainment for the incom­ing'
Freshmen was held in the audi­torium
.Monday evening, with a
program of musical and monologue
numbers offered by the Wilustra
trio, Chauncey Griffith, and Victor
Hoppe.
The Wilustra trio, declared to be
one of the finest ? of its kind in t he
Northwest, consists of Muriel Myre,
pianist; Ethel Boynton, violinist;
and Pauline Larkin, flutist. The
trio opened and closed the evening's
entertainment with a group of num­bers.
All of the girls are Normal
students. -
Hoppe Entertains ,
Victor H. Hoppe, dramatic in­structor
of the school, read two
pieces, although he is now enjoying
a quarter's vacation from his teach­ing
work.
Chauncey Griffith, former Nor­mal
student, how instructing piano
in the studio of Edith Strange, in
the Fine Arts building, gave several
piano selections.
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GREAT NORWEGIAN
FILM SUCCESS WILL
E SHOWN TUESDAY
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ANNUAL KID PARTY
BIG GYM, SATURDAY
Party Is Sponsored by Women's
League for Entertainment of All
the Entering Freshmen.
SATURDAY, 8 P. M.
The annual Kid party, given by
the Women's League the first of
every year will be held tomorrow
night in the "Big Gym". ,
This party is given for the enter­tainment
of the "entering Freshmen
and a program will be given and
refreshments served.
Waters,. Chairman
Suzanne Waters was appointed
general chairman of the dance by
Dorothy Sasse, social chairman of
the Women's League. The other
committees are as follows:
Program: Muriel Myre, chairman;
Mary McDonald, Jennie Berg."
Decoration: Alice Jean Donoway,
chairman; Allene Armstrong, Mar­ion
German, Viola Winterburn, Nar-ian
Shepherd.
Refreshment. Pearl Auril, chair­man;
Margaret ..Williams, Lila Mer-ritt,
Katherine Mae Laube.
Music: Janet Dodson,-chairman;
Pauline Larkin; Ella Elstoh. '•;
The Film Will Be Presented by
Saebjorn Buttedahl Appearing in
Person With Entertainment.
CAST IS EXCELLENT
"A Mountain Romance", Norway's
greatest feature film success, played
by a cast of the best film actors of
Norway, Sweden and Denmark, will
be presented by Saebjorn Buttedahl
in the Normal Auditorium next
Tuesday evening, October 8, at 8
o'clock, under the auspices of the
Scandinavian Fraternity. The film
is an eight-reel picture adapted
from Norway's oldest and most pop­ular
Comic Opera. Accompanying
the cinema, Saebjorn Butterdahl
will appear in person in a number
of folk songs and readings in Eng­lish,
Norwegian and Swedish.
Cast Excellent
vThe cast of "A Mountain Ro­mance"
contains remarkable Scan­dinavian
players. Especial mention
might be made of the work of Hen­ry
Geermann .known as Denmark's
"Mary Pickford"; Anna Brita Ryd-ing,
who ranks high in Sweden; El­len
Buttedahl Sinding ,the foremost
dancer in Norway, who takes the
part of the shepherdess, and David
Knutsen, Ulf Selmer,, Josef Sjor-gren,
and Seebjorn Buttedahl, who
are among the leaders in Norway.
Pictorially Fine
The picture version of "A Moun­tain
Romance" is delightful, a splen­did
example of Norwegian acting
and direction at their best. Pictorr
ially the photoplay is magnificent,
made in the famous mountains of
Romadalen and Gudbransdalen. The
acting is finished and representative
of the Norwegian people at their
best.
Daughter Stars
This interesting picture stars But-terdahl's
own daughter, Ellen Benel-li
Butterdahl (Ellen Sinding) one of
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I EVERYBODY, ATTENTION! ]
I Vikings ' a l l , which include |
| faculty, frosh, students, and j
| alumni, are invited by the f
I Student's Association of Bel- i
| lingham Normal to attend |
s "Rec Hour" (recreation hour) i
I in the Big Gym every Friday {
| afternoon in $he school's big- j
I gest gym from 4 to 5 p. m. j
| This afternoon Jay Curtis f
I and his band will blow the f
j notes of the quarter's first '
| Rec^Hour. \ I
i The big important thing for I
j ye Frosh to remember is: Be {
j There With Bells On! The j
I upper-division students don't j
j need this urge—they'll be there f
j and with bells! s
• GREETINGS
/ am glad to extend hearty greetings to every student who will
share our school life during this year. As a - community of
students and teachers it is only as we share life together that we
shall stimulate each other to personal and professional growth.
We should all be concerned with creating and maintaining a
school environment that will naturally and necessarily result in
study, learning, recreation, education and training.
Any student who finds here new and loyal friends, broader
intellectual interests, a more tolerant attitude toward others,
enrichment of life, professional understanding and technique, has
taken advantage of what the school has to offer.
Sincerely yours,
C.H.FISHER,
President.
NORMAL Y.W. C. A.
RECEPTION TONIGHT
Faculty and Normal Students Are
Invited to an Entertainment in
Edens Hall Drawing Room.
NEW REGISTRATION
SYSTEM SUCCESS
Fall Registration Is Completed
Today by Most Efficient Plan
Ever Employed by Normal.
This evening at 8 o'clock in the
Eden's Hall Drawing room, the Nor­mal
Young Women's Christian As­sociation
will give a reception for
all Normal.students and faculty.
The motif for the reception will
be carried out in autumn colors. It
promises to be a gala affair con­ducted
for the purpose of acquain­ting
students with their classmates
and instructors.
The Normal Y. W. C. A. has a l ­ways
opened the school year with
a reception ever since the Normal
itself first opened its doors.
Fine Program
President C. H. Fisher and Dean
of Women Adele M. Jones with the
Y. W. C. A. cabinet members and
advisors will make up the receiving
line. An excellent program of mu­sic
and readings have been arranged
by Ethel Boynton, the social chair­man,
and punch and wafers will be
served.
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the leading dancers and motion pic­ture
actors of the north Europe. She
married Sinding, a -nephew of t he
composer, but continued her career
as prima ballerina of the kingdom.
MISS PLATT TRAVELS
Miss Ruth E. Piatt, during her
summer vacation, took a" 'nine-week's
tour of the East. She went
by the way of Yellowstone Park,
and spent some time there before
continuing on through the Middle
States. She went through Wash­ington"
,New York, Boston, and en­joyed
a boating . trip through ttie
Islands" of the St.
On her way she
visited several of the larger schools
and universities.
She said,that her vacation, plan­ned
purely for pleasure, was com­pletely
successful from that stand­point.
"Thousand
Lawrence River.
Viking Horde Ready To Battle
Coast Guard Football Eleven
In Season's Opening Game|
Waldo Field Will Be Scene of the Northwest's First
Football "Fracas of the College Variety Saturday
At 2:30 Is the Time Set for the Big Clash.
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Appointment Bureau
Makes Placements
Miss Rich has just received an­nouncement
of the placement of
former graduates.
Intermediate
Those placed during September
were: Clare Wise, seventh grade,
Custer; Hazel Collins, sixth grade,
Port Tpwnsend.
Primary
Primary placements were: Lea
Taft, Mukilteo; Florence McNeil,
Lindsay; Helen Hellands, Lakewood;
John Russell .Shelton; Roy Swen-sen,
Redmond.
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LARGE PERCENTAGE
OF FACULTY IS NEW
IN TEACHING STAFF
President Chooses Sixteen Eminent
Educators to Continue Educational
Work in the State Institution
SEVERAL ON TRIPS
Employing what is probably the
most efficient system of registration
ever used in this, institution Dean
James A. Bever and his staff expect
to complete all fall quarter regis­tration
today.
Starting last Monday at 8 a. m.,
first quarter Freshmen were en­rolled
at a ^station on the second
floor by Mr. Harold B. Smith, chair­man
of the Music department, and
several assistants, while in the big
gymnasium, Mr. E. A. Bond, of t he
Mathematics department, with a
corp of helpers, dispatched the task
of registering other students.
More Efficient
The work of registration was
greatly expedited by the new plan
of locating all the stations as close-together
as possible so as to do
away with all unnecessary confus­ion
and disorder. The plan was
originally Mr. Bever's and was car­ried
out under the direction of Mr.
Bond and Mr. Smith. By locating
the registration stations in the big
gymnasium the • executive offices
were kept free from the crowd of
students and the training school
was as little disturbed as possible.
When interviewed, Dean Bever
said that his plan had worked out
very successfully and that he was
pleased to have the registration
finished up in such a satisfactory
RUCKMICK SEES SOUTH
Mr. Herbert Ruckmick, chairman
of the Industrial Arts Department,
accompanied by Mrs. Ruckmick,
took his vacation in the' South
centering on Los Angeles, Califor­nia.
He visited many of the State
Teacher's Colleges in California and
was greatly impressed with the fa­cilities
for Industrial Arts teaching
at San Jose. .
Santa Barbara,, with its Mission
type buildings was t he most beau-iful
city they visited, said Mr. Ruck­mick.-
'• •'• --V-Sixteen
new instructors have been
engaged for t h e fall quarter, all of
whom have several degrees or have
had special training in t h e partic­ular
subject in which they v are
specializing
The following are the new instruc­tors
engaged: Dr. C. C. Upshall,
Research and Education, A. B., Un­iversity
of British Columbia; Ph.D.,
Teacher's College, Columbia Univer­sity;
Dr. Harry V. Masters, Re­search
and Education, A. B., West­ern
Union College, Iowa; Ph.D.,
University of Iowa; James A. Car­rell,
Speech, A. B., Nebraska Wes-leyan;
A. M., Northwestern Univer­sity;
Ruth Shumway, Science, B.
S., University of Washington; A. M.,
Teachers College, Columbia Univer­sity.
Ruth Weythman, Physical Edu­cation,
B. S., University of Wash­ington;
A. M., Teacher's College, Co­lumbia
University; Mildred Jewell,
Physical Education, B. S., Universi­ty
of Washington; Margery Horton,
Physical Education, B. S. N. S.,
University of Oregon; Alice S. Hous­ton,
Home Economics, B. S., Ohio
State University; M. S., University
of Washington.
Training Teachers
Ilah Hull, Training Teacher,
Third grade; B. S., University of
Iowa; Grace S. Nugent, Training
Teacher, Sixth grade, B. S., Uni­versity
of Iowa; Audrey L. Pack-ham,
Training Teacher, Eighth
grade, B. S., Florida State College
for Women, A. M. .Teachers College,
Columbia University.
Librarians Appointed
Beatrice Doty, Children's Librar-
Untried Varsity Squad. Invites an
Inspection of Hundreds of. It's
Normalites; S. B. Tickets Admit.
The referee's whistle will open t he
football season for the Blue and^
White tomorrow at 2:15 o'clock
when Coach Sam Carver and As­sistant
Coach Royal Gunn send
their charges in the pigskin sport
against the team of t h e U. S. Coast
Guard from Port Townsend for t he
first practice game of the season.
Coaches Optimisitc
Coaches Carver and Gunn are-fairly
optimistic. Over forty can­didates
are turning out regularly
and 'more are expected to enroll
later. While only three are regulars'
of last year's squad nearly the en­tire
group are well grounded in foot­ball
fundamentals and several have
had college football experience.
Line Weighty ;.;
Coach Carver's •• weight chart
shows that the seven men working
regularly in the forward wall av­erage
over 180 pounds apiece so fans
should see a heavy blue and white
line in action this year. Candidates
for back field positions are numer­ous
and all look good . Since ^here
is a shortage of end material a few
of. the. Tangier .backs may bevcmv-i
verted into wing men as t h e season
advances.
Veterans Back
Last year's regulars who will form
the hub of this year's squad are:
Ivor Moe, giant tackle; Don Stick-ney,
who has had three years at
center position, and Chuck Erickson,
last year's ground-gaining fullback.
Men who did not break in regular­ly
last year, but who have had val­uable
experience are: Mollan, at
end; Graverock, guard, and Trygg:-
ve, guard. Miller, from the 1922
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FIRST OF N O R M A L !
PROGRAMS TUESDAY
(Continued on Page Four)
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J POSITION OPEN I
| Application for the position j
| of business manager of this |
| year's Klipsun may now be f
f made to, the Board of Control, f
f Applicants need not neces- =
i sarily have had. previous ex- =
I perience in. this line of work I
I although such experience would j
I be of advantage. The work |
| done by the business manager j
f is rewarded by a school pin j
f given by the student body. The |
| time limit within which appli- s
i cations may be made will be #I
i announced by the Board- of j
I Control. after ; their meeting j
| Monday nightr October .6
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Tuesday's Assembly Will Feature
Kathryne Kantner, Violinist; Oth­er
Artists Will Follow Later. v
NORMAL IS SPONSER
The first artist to entertain Nor­mal
students in the regular sched­ule
of talented musicians and lee--;
turers who are brought here ton
present programs in t he main audi­torium,
will be'Kathryne Kantner,
violinist, accompanied by Ruth;
Wohlgamuth, pianist and accom­panist.
The concert is scheduled
for next Tuesday morning, October
8, at the 11 o'clock assembly. "
Miss Kantner comes from Seattle^
where she is recognized as a virtuor,
so of exceptional ability. She willj-present
a program of mixed rium-r
bers selected from the works of t he
finest composers, and Miss Wohl-:
gamuth will assist in the program-with
some delightful selections on:
the piano. . •-.'•.<• A - ' :
Normal Unique ;\?v
The Bellingham Normal is uniquey
among educational institutions ^in^
the program of entertainers offeredj
the student body. The system,':as|:
instituted by President C. H. Fisher|:
a few years ago, brings to tne-stiif%
dents in the regular Tuesday aiui§
Friday assemblies, somerol the ; . o u^
standing talent in the various..ftae^
arts, i Lecturers and concert artjstsil^^f
comprising some of the most skilleS€#»l§!£*
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artists of the United States, arejipre-vfSgtesK
sented at the assemblies, ^ c o m b t o u s g ^ ^ l ; ^
a wealth of cultural advaritages^M^I#^SSsl
cording to 'President::Fisher,:;''5iritliǤ.^^^
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