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Title: Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10
Date: 1936-07-10
Description: Volume number incorrectly printed as XXXIV
Digital Collection: Western Front Historical Collection
Type of resource: text
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Text preview (might not show all results): 1936_0710 ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 1 ---------- VOL. XXXIV—NO. 37 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, July 10, 1936 Normalite By A. B. Hic
Show more1936_0710 ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 1 ---------- VOL. XXXIV—NO. 37 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, July 10, 1936 Normalite By A. B. Hicks On my summer tour of books and recreation I pause at Victoria, the old English city of North America. Princess Louise stands there beckoning with her many flags to help complete the beautiful boat-flecked harbor of Victoria. Reaching down to the wharf the grandeur of Victoria greets you. The gang-plank carries one into full view of the harbor stadium. (Wouldn't I like to be there on evenings when the chorus and bands meet for their concerts over the water!!!) To the right are the parliament buildings •with their, flower-lined lawns, statutes arid fountain: The murals of Captain Cook and other early pioneers decorate the walls of the large corridor. It was after 11:00, so to get to"the senate room before noon meant that I must,go at once. On reaching the senate room which was completely carpeted with huge blue plush rugs, we, host of Arntzen followers, were reminded of the familiar phrase, "left and right wingers'. And did -you have a chance to see the relics of the good ship "Beaver", one of the first on the Pacific coast, and the many other things of interest in the archives of the parliament building? • * » c * I, too, would like a couple of days to see the museum' exhibits. First time I can catch a ferry I shall head directly for those Butchart gardens. "Heavenly" is the way most people have described them for me. Well, my partner and I covered miles in that last hour and then waved farewell with only half our plans realized. Thanks to the recreational committee and to our reliable weather prophet, we had a jolly fine time. • * • * * Two-hundred-eighty-three people of the U. S., motorists, gathered for "The Great Round-up of the Skies" last July Fourth. Do you realize that is an average of six people per state? Washington won a notable record in this regard as we motored safely through the day without a fatality. * » » » « One World War veteran should be given a big hand for the precedent established. I understand that he sent his bonus to the commission for International Peace. It is a proven fact that advertising pays. No doubt the peace commission can use'the price of a great number of bonuses to picture the values of world peace, and if this man's few dollars is.the instrument that will prevent an early break in family ties, I'm sure that he will feel well repaid. * • • * * * I would tell you how to do those tricks of magic of the recent assembly but you have those already figured out? Five dollars to the man who can tell where those eggs and the rabbit went. "What My American Citizenship Means to Me" was the title of the declamation with which Miss Sylvia Karjalainen of Aberdeen, Wash., won the Elks* oratorical contest last week, in a straightforward way she. told of the experiences of herself and her family in Soviet Russia, and /urged others to cling to American freedom. The Aberdeen World., went on to say that Miss Karjalainen was winning something of fame for herself. Her speech was published ifc newspapers throughout the northwest and many people had sent her lettelfc of congratulation, among them Governor Clarence D. Martin. Normal Alpine Enthusiasts To Visit Mountains Hikers' Destinations Lake Ann and Chain Lakes; Austin Pass Headquarters Normal hike enthusiasts will leave the knoll at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning bound for an outing at Heather meadows, Mount Baker. Some will drive up in private cars while others will ride in a bus chartered for the occasion. Those going are asked to bring lunch and a cup. Low heel shoes and ordinary hiking clothes will serve for the trip. High top boots with calks or corks will not be necessary. The trip will cost $1.50. Hikers will make their headquarters "for the day at Austin pass. Prom there, those interested will hike to Chain lakes and to Lake Ann. Miss Elizabeth Hopper, of the Normal appointment bureau, will lead the hike to Chain lakes. The hike to Chain lakes is about 6 miles long and the trail goes around Mount Herman. Lake Ann is located on an arm of Mount Shuksan and the territory around it is said to offer good opportunity for those who desire to take pictures. Lake Ann is the usual starting point for hikes up Mount Shuksan. -6 Freshmen Girls Given Hints In Self Starter Bond Reviews Recent Oregon NEA Meeting Considers Panel Discussion Education, Democracy Most Noteworthy on T oday's Youth Upheld Convention, as Whole, Opposed to "Set Mold" Methods Relations Glub Opens Meeting With Greetings Ten Day Conference Is Attended By Seven Representatives From Normal What to wear and when to wear it are two of the many questions answered for freshman girls in the new Self Starter. Giving the low-down on school life, the book is designed to help entering women adapt themselves quickly to the college program, Katheryn Hatch and Beverly Holiday have edited the 1935-36 edition. Several linoleum cuts were contributed by Jean Hatch, while Bob White, Lucille Lee, Helen Hos-tetter, Helen Boothe. and Carol Hughes assisted with the writing. It was printed by R. D. Wilson, school printer. Greetings from Dean Florence E. Johnson, and Mary Jane Moergeli, president of the Women's League, open the book. Besides explaining school and house rules; a section is devoted to the problem of finances. Traditional social functions such as mixers and informais are also ex plained. — o Pratt Institute Students Presented Puppet Show "The Witches' Enchantment", a puppet show, was given Wednesday afternoon and evening at the Guild Playhouse, by Midgie Eaton and her"brother, Johnnie, graduates of the Pratt Institute of New York city. The play was written and the stage settings and costumes were designed by Miss Eaton. Nine puppets were used. She impersonated five voices and her brother, six. A glimpse into the strange fairyland of FoOzeleum, with the "Ali-gator Bird", really an enchanted Duchess, was the theme of the show. . In reviewing the past NEA convention, Dr. E, A. Bond, Belling-ham Normal's official delegate, considered the panel discussion on education and democracy the most noteworthy. This meeting was opened by Commissioner of Education Dr. Studebaker. Speaking on the necessity for academic freedom Dr. Studebaker stated: "Schools should be free to study any system of government and its working. To withhold facts is not education." Youth Unchanged On attitudes of students, President Bruce Baxter of Willamette university gave an address, mentioning in particular the desirable qualities in young people. With this in mind Mr. Baxter read a passage from an NEA report Of 1904 lamenting the lack of desirable traits of young people in that day. Smilingly, President Baxter said: "Prom this group you came and left tb.e impression that the youth were not superior to those of today." Perfection Bather Than Expansion Stressing the fact that American education is entering a phase of perfecting itself rather than of spending its energies Upon expansion, the convention drew comment from the . Portland Oregonian. "This conservative paper", Dr. Bond says, "disbelieves in the value of the loyalty oaths now on the statute books of 19 states, as they are an example of what legislation might do to the educational system". The main thought brought from the Portland meeting was departure from the present day movement toward gagging teachers and casting pupils into set molds. ^o— One Act Play Will Be Given By Dramatists 'The Valiant* to Be Presented By Former Outstanding . Actors "•'•1 Several of the girls of Beverly hall spent the week-end at their homes, among whom were: Dorothy Harwell, Monroe; Helen Gaddis, Sedro-Woolley; Miriam Sisson, Mount Vernon; Grace Emmans, and Helen Neely, Everett; Helen Ferry, man, Mount Vernon; and Gyneth White, Shelton. Speeches Are Given By Normal Teachers •-.At NEA Conference Faculty delegates to the NEA 'convention held in Portland, Ore., last week were: Florence Johnson, dean of women; Leona Sundquist and Ruth Piatt of the Science department; Dr. E. A. Bond of the Mathematics department; Irene Elliott, and Elsie Wendling of the Training school; Lucy Kangley of the English department; Hazel Plympton, of the Art department; Ruth Weythman of the Physical Education department; Nora Cummins of the Social Science depart^ ment; and Herbert C. Ruckmick of the Industrial Arts department. Among the addresses given was one by Miss Kangley who spoke on June 29 in the First Christian church at the National Council of Teachers of English. She chose as her subject, "An Approach to Poetry Appreciation." Dr. Bond represented the Normal at the convention and spoke on the subject of "Present Trends in the Teaching of Arithemetic." "Arithmetic is a coherent, unified science rather than a multiplicity of details. The thread of unity that runs through the whole science should' be recognised at every- step. This is best done by relating facts to experiences," stated Dr. Bond. By Elmer Lindquist With greetings by many dignitaries, the Pacific Northwest Institute of International Relations opened their Id-day conference Monday morning at Reed college, Portland, Oregon. The greetings were rendered by Mr. Estes Snedecor, chairman of 'the institute; Pres. Decter Keeger of Reed College; Mr. Lester Thomas, representative of the mayor of Portland; Anfred Powers, Dean of University of Oregon; and Dr. Lawer-ence. Wilson, representative of the Congregational Council for Social Action. Anderson Gives keynote Speech In the keynote address of the Institute, Dr. Elam J. Anderson of and methods of the Institute. Linfield college, explained the aims Round table discision group groups were organized in the afternoon. The subjects to be discussed are: American security and world organization, problems of Latin America, the collective system and the enforcement of peace, the far East relations, the problems of population, raw materials and markets, national politics and international relations, peace from a spiritual point of view. A Bellingham Normal student is represented in each of the discussion groups. One round table is to be held at a different time from the others because it is felt that it is of a special significance to everyone. It is the discussion of Methods in Popular Education and Peace Action. . o •* , Music Club Sponsors Home Coming Recital Young Bellingham musicians home for vacation after teaching and studying in New York, Chicago, and Seattle for a year, will give a joint recital Tuesday, July 14, at the Garden Street Methodist church. The talented musicians appearing on the program are: Suzanne Cissna, Jean Phillips, pianists; Hortense Yule, soprano; Herman Ivarson, baritone; and Chaun-cey Griffith, organist. The Scholarship Ways and Means committee of the Bellingham Woman's Music club are sponsoring the musical event. '; A silver offering which will be taken during the intermission will be used - for the [scholarship which is ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 2 ---------- WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM. WASHINGTON Established 1899 «^^ Published every Friday except during the month of September by the Associated Students, Washington State Normal School, Bellingham. Entered in the Postoffice at Bellingham, Washington, as second class matter by virtue of the act of March 3, 1879. • , •• Printed by the Miller Sutherlen Printing Company, Bellingham National Bank Building, Bellingham. Subscription rate by mail, $3.00 per year, in advance. Advertising rates on application. Address all communications, other than news items, to the Business Manager of the Northwest Viking, Bellingham, Wash. Telephone 3180. Editor HARRY KLUGE Managing Editor .MARY JOHNSTON Business Manager : .WARREN TOMS News Editor Phyllis Robinson Feature Editor ~ -Bob White Society Editor .._ —Prances Pelegren Sport Editors —.Ralph Dever, Elmer Lindquist Copy editor ~ - -Beverly Holiday Special Writers: Pat Wade, Joan Hoppe, Glen Gres-eth, Helen Shipley, Margaret Thon, Oscar Svarlien, Dorothy Williams, Rose Cassidy, Nancy Smith, . Helen Booth, Louise McBurney, Beverly Holiday, Marion Peterson. Military Training or Not Probably the most significant occurence in today's news was an article issued by the American Institute of Public Opinion concerning the Civilian conservation Corps. This bureau conducted a nation-wide poll with the purpose of discerning the public's attitude toward the CCC, Franklin D. Roosevelt's pet New Deal project. The startling* factor in the compilation, directed by Dr. George Gallup of New York City, was not the fact that a majority of voters wished to continue the CCC but rather that an overwhelming part of the voters favored the addition of military training to the men's duties. The actual figures are shown below: Yes No Women -74% 26% Farmers 77 23 Reliefers 78 22 Young People 68 32 College Students 59 41 These results are a revelation to many people who have imagined that the pacifists were firmly entrenched in. our American governmentt It might be well for whose who favor military training in the CCC camps to think further than the • fact that 250,000 men would be added to the standing army. If such an addition of military instruction is carried out, no longer will we be able to scoff at Hitler's militaristic policy or look askance at Mussolini's antagonistic course. It would destroy any benefit derived from the consultations with diplomatic heads of other nations concerning disarmament plans. It would signify our intention of keeping pace with . Germany and Italy and setting the pace for Great Britain, France, and Japan. And most important, it would lower the whole standard upon which our democratic government is based. Can this be the opinion of the people at large? o OUR SOCIAL STUDY GROUP SOMETHING NEW? And friends were glad to call around You greeted with a smile, And friends were glad to call around To stay with me awhile. But lately life has taken on An aspect queer and strange And everybody wonders what Has brought about the change For, I mumble and I mutter As I stroll upon the street And erstwhile friends pass quickly by If we by chance should meet. My eyes are dull and vacant and My mind is in a fog. My voice resembles very much The croaking of a frog. I know you all are wondering Just how this came about, I'll tell you all the secret, But please don't let it out. For really I'm as happy As a baby with the croup, For I'm getting educated in Our Social Study Group. Track, football, and baseball teams have driven their respective ways to either glorious victory or inglorious defeat, many times depending upon the number of the much-needed supporters present in the time-worn stands pictured here— Only too often has that number been not numerous enough to mention. But not only for athletic events has this structure been made use of— Tis said that several times a certain Eveready about school has been focused upon those who chose its idyllic haunts in preference to Sehome or Sunset Heights. Those to his own choosing, so what? Point of View By Harlan Jones In which we attempt to coerce the perogatives of Dante's Inferno as brick-bats to thrust down the craw of the public mind to help masticate some of the illy digested figments of Utopia and Messiahs which ever return to haunt the folk that have too little sand in their Intellectual gizzards. You tell 'em. Being on the spot as you remember, this column is muttering in its heard trying desperately at the last moment to coin a slogan that will save the world for democracy. However, since "Point of View" is much too immersed in water much too deep to have time to aspire for political office this fall, we shall try to be terse. Having dwelt on the third dimen~- sion of human nature, the political idealism of the Football-cast and the PWA scrubs, and this man Ka-gawa, we should like to take a slant at Co-operation. The Bellingham Egg Co-op just makes it tough for the widow with the hen house on the shores of Lake Carnegie. Her Rhode Island Reds hardly have room to cluck on the open market. Good in Bellingham? Yes. Partly a good thing. In Denmark the country villages can paint their roof-trees with the money their producers' co-ops have paid them. Japan, with the help of Kakawa's hundred popular books on co-operatives, which attach themselves to the public mind much as did Tolstoy's, whom he studied. Such as "Grains of Wheat". They have consumer stores. Each member buying his food, or his $1.85 work suit having one vote. Not so in an American corporation for here, where the controlling money lies, so does the vote. Each member there, has a speaking part, but getting back at the end of the month a proportion of what amount he buys. Do you recognize the Grange gas and oil setup? of American democracy. Why not fill the gap of bankruptcy and lack of purchasing power with co-operative stores, and so give the "Civil Liberties League" a break politically? There are very strange bedfellows in this election. —Selected Musing You have probably heard about the consumer of tooth paste who thought the manufacturers put too much moisture in dentifrices. To prove his idea he went into manufacturing and really did produce a tooth paste without any excess moisture in it. But a pair of plyers was needed to get the paste out. We don't know if he is, as yet, convinced that manufacturers of dentifrices make tooth paste moist for a better reason than deception. But we of the teaching profession believe that we had better instill a little more humor into our intellectual students so that future generations can make use of them without getting a sledge hammer to uncover the prodigy's mind. Book Shelf POETRY OF TODAY, by Rosa M. R. Mikels and Grace Shoup; Charles Scribner's Sons. Reviewed by Glen O. Greseth. This is the ariswer to the desire of thousands of poetry lovers to have a pocket-sized anthology of contemporary verse. The selections in "Poetry of Today" are admirably chosen to bring out the adventuring spirit of modern poetry. There are poems'about "excavations, cabbages, tea, skyscrapers, automobiles, and Saturday-night crowds in large cities, blossoms; rivers, sunsets, mountains, and sea-themes that have always appealed to poets; and the age-old problem of love and life." There are poems for all the moods of a sentimentalist on a fishing trip. If he sits buried in retrospection, he will find expression in "Birches" by Robert Frost or the light-hearted reminiscences expressed in "Little Boy Blue" by Eugene Field. If he seeks expression for the beauty of nature let him read "May is Building her House" by Richard Le Gal-lienne or ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 3 ---------- WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM. WASHINGTON Racqueteers To Play Off Games Bodminton and Archery Players Support Favorite Sports Enthusiastically "The tennis tournament schedule has been posted, stated to Miss Luell Weed of the Women's Physical Education department. "The second round matches to be played Monday are between Dohalda Grant and Inez Sjognen; Mary Morrow and May Dillon. One first round match has yet to be played off to determine the other players in the second round". Looking It Over Those eight lanky University of Washington oarsmen and their skipper, Bob Moch, deserve all the credit and publicity they are receiving. It is perhaps the finest crew Washington has ever produced; certainly their cox appears to be the best little admiral. And that's saying a lot, for Washington's crews are known wherever college oars sweep the water. We'll be wishing them all the breaks, and we'll be keeping our fingers crossed for them while they are in Berlin. Archery Popular The enthusiasm expressed by the large number signing up for Archery, Thursday, at 4:00 o'cock has pleased Miss Ruth Weythman of the Physical Education department. Badminton Added Of the Wednesday afternoon sports at 4:00, Miss Weed related, *There was a small but enthusiastic group out for volley ball. No one turned out for baseball. However", Miss Weed continued, "another sport, badminton, was played upon the demand of a group." All bad-} minton enthusiasts are welcome it they furnisft their own birds. They can be bought at the Co-op". According to Miss Weythman of the same department badminton as a sport has increased in popularity at a tremendous rate in the last eight years. Eight years ago there were no teams, at the Normal but now there is a class devoted to teaching the rules and techniques of the game. One of those voices that you heard over CBS last Sunday afternoon had more than a passing interest in the outcome of the crew race. It was none other than Royal Brougham, sports editor for the Seattle PI, making a national name for himself as a radio announcer for the Columbia system. After all, (what is more fitting than that a | sports writer from our own state should announce the victory of a Washington crew? They say that when Washington began to put on the power they gained the space of a man with each stroke of the oars. Your sports editor does not want anyone to fail in his studies, yet he cannot help noting an observed human phenomenon. The day is Wednesday, the time 4:30 in the afternoon, the sky is clear, the weather is not too hot. A much used room in the library is filled to overflowing with Normal school students reading books and taking down notes. Yet near that library are playing fields where softball, volleyball, tennis, and numerous other sports could be enjoyed by those people who are so studiously trying to remember what someone else has written. With such a fine recreational program why study so hard? Of course, everyone knows by now who won the Wimbledon in tennis. But.it is not too late to give Helen Jacobs another big hand for winning that championship. It's a tough, hard grind, all the way to the top. Lappenbusch Plans Invasion Of University Basketball Gym; Return Bout on Local Floor With the WAA Of her badminton class Miss Weed told, "Some fast playing may be seen any morning at 9:00 o'clock in the gym. The class is in the midst of an interesting round robin tournament". Badminton was introduced from India to England around 1873, thence to Canada and the United States. Howdy, WAAers—Art you still WAAing? Do you get your cold shower every morning? Do you Walk five miles every day? (Musi keep that figure down.) Do you eat fresh fruit or vegetables and drink milk each meal? Do you avoid candy between meals? Do you get some other exercise besides Walking? TRY Our Combination BREAKFAST 30c LUNCH 30c-35c Special Steak Dinner 50c MODEL CAFE We Never Close 1324 Commercial Why do I ask all these questions? Well, after all, it isnt every month that a great orchestra leader and composer like I sham Jones graces Bellingham with his presence. Isnt that a good reason to-look and feel right ? What.' You re not going? You say you cant go on all these hikes and trips and expect to have money or for your boy friends to have enough ('scuse me, 1 thought WAAers didn't have boy friends) for a dance as expensive as that. I dont blame you too much, as these hikes and trips are keeping me badly bent, too. But isnt a dance exercise? Well, fight it out for yourself. If you ever run out of anything to do, all you athletes, let me tell you of a sport that will fascinate you. Once you get yourself involved you won't be able to give up until 'you absolutely have to announce yourself as licked, and one of Ted Shane's cockeyed crossword puzzles in Liberty surely can do it. Or are you one of those master minds no puzzle can lick? Anyway who cares? When a person has to talk about crossword puzzles on a sport page he had better quit, so I am. School Golf Team Accepts Challenge It will be a first come first place, in the tryouts for the golf team to play the University of Washington team, according to a statement from Coach Chuck Lappenbusch this week. The team will consist of six men. All golfers are urged to report to the coach as soon as possible so that the tryouts can take place right away. The ladder system will be used to pick the six best men to represent the school. "The first man to report will have his name placed at the top of the ladder" said Coach Lappenbusch. "A man can challenge either of the two men directly above him". o Jon High Defeats Carnival Mat-Men Hammett's Hams, Tomco's Tomcats Lead Intramural Basketball First Series Keppler Leads Scoring All Members Kitten Team Score; Second Series Started Jon High, 190-pound junior of WSNS, matched his grappling skill with the carnival mat-men Wednesday night to win two and break even on the third of three consecutive matches. After answering the usual challenge and agreeing to pay his own doctor bill, High entered the *ing for seven minutes of catch as catch can with polished Billy Newman This match resulted in a draw. The two men drew another crowd and did it over again. High won this one with a series of body slams. Then he was pitted against George Kelly, a 200-pounder, but downed Kelley too in less than six ininutes of the scheduled eight minute handicap. o — Outstanding basketball players chosen from the four intramural teams will invade Husky territory, Tuesday, July 14, to play the University of Washington varsity team, according to an announce* ment by Coach Lappenbusch. A squad of 6 to 11 men will make the trip. The U of W team will play a return game here in the little gym* Tuesday, July 21, at 4 p. m. Standing of Teams • W L Pet. Hammett's Hams 2 1 .667 Tomco's Tomcats ...:..2 1 .667 Keppler's Kittens 1 2 .333 StutzSs Bearcats 1 2 .333 Stutz's Bearcats 1 2 .333 Bearcats Win Stut's Bearcats upset the applecart Monday afternoon when, from the cellar position in the league, they defeated the formerly unbeaten Hammett's Hams by a score of 24 to 30. Stutz' own 12 point score helped materially to put his team ahead of Hammett's in the tally. Prender for the Hams with his 8 points was chief threat against the Bearcats. Summary Bearcats—24 Hams—20 Let Us Do Your Work We Call and Deliver C A S C A D E Laundry and Cleaners 205 Prospect Phones 66, 120 When It's Your Move Let's Make it "Our Move" M0DEL3SS PHONE 70 Puppetry Play Slated For Training School |S. K. Scheldrup, D. C. Palmer Graduate CHIROPRACTOR I Phone 878 210 Kulshan Bldg. X-RAY "The Magicians and the Dragon," a puppet show, will be presented in the training school assembly next Friday by members of the puppetry class. The assembly will be at 9:00. Mr. Robert Kindschy will direct the play and also take the leading part. Members of the class will assist in the presentation. WELL, THAT'S OVER! About the greatest danger we encountered this Fourth was the danger of catching pneumonia. Perhaps it's just as well to remember during summer, as well as winter, that DARIGOLD PASTEURIZED MILK fortifies you against cold and disease! Whatcom County Dairymen's Assn. PHONE 314 SANDISON "Photos That Please" Official Klipsun PHOTOGRAPHER STAGES ••***•» Seattle, Everett, Mount Vernon— 7:30, 8:30,10:30 a. m., 12:30, 1;30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30. 5:30 (6;30 Sundays and Holidays), 7:30 and 9:30 p. m. North Coast Lines Depot—Magnolia and State Phone 5004 Bullard .P. Digerness 2 iTulin 10 P. .......Prender 8 Alpaugh 2 C... ...McDonald 2 Stutz 12 _..G „....:........Hall 2 Osibov .....G .Wilder 2 Sub .Lovos Sub. Hammett 4 Referee—George. Tomcats vs. Kittens Tomco's team of wild Tomcats roamed from third place in the league to second by silencing Keppler's Kittens in the second game on Monday afternoon. The score was 22 to 18. Hager, on the Tomcat team, and Keppler, on the Kitten team, tied for high point man in the game with scores of 9 each. Every man on the Kitten team made at least one basket, either from the field or from the foul line. Summary Tomcats—22 Kittens—18 Compliments of CYR BROTHERS DAIRY PRODUCTS CO. Established 1889 Pacific Laundry Phones 126 and 127 Dwelley 6 ...~.F. Tulin 2 Reeves 3 -F-— .Witherow 1 Hager 9. C .Keppler 9 Belcher G „..Zylstra 2 Tomco 4. G. George 2 Sub.... .Osibov 2 Individual Standings In the total individual scores for the first series of league games | Keppler leads the field with 24 points, only one point ahead of Frender with his 23. Stutz is parked in third place with a 20. The top scorers are: Keppler 24 Frender .23 Stutz 20 Hager .. .-.17 Tulto ... :.16 Hammett 14 Digerness 9 Reeves 9 Tomco .7 Dwelley .6 Hall ..j* Bo chn.ak' * 110 EAST HOLLLY Summer Clearance Sale Fancy Men's Clothes at Bargain Prices ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 4 ---------- WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. BELLINCHAM. WASHINGTON Introducing-- MARIE de GALLIER, master manager . . . former Board member . . . popular, efficient WAA prexy . . . named one of 'big ten' in 1935 Klipsun . . . has spent the ast year teaching in the lower grade at Shelton . . . looking forward to a promising opportunity as cadet instructor in the Seattle teaching system . . . forsook the Dorm this quarter to batch with Aggie Martin in their cabin in the cottonwood. • • • * BARNEY CHICHESTER, former NWV editor as well as business manager . . . dramatically prominent during previous attendance at Normal . . . played in "The Poor Nut," "Craig's Wife," "Sun Up" and others : . . taught in Seattle last year . . . if fond papa to a strapping six-month (or) so old son . .. recently sold a play . . . is called by NWV printer "a darn fine fellow." * * • • EDITH McLACHLAN—ex-teacher of rural student.teacher at the Victor school for seven years—a rural-ite herself for the last three years, teaching in the Westsound school on Orcas island—living on the home farm with her husband and small son—son now in the fifth grade of the Normal Training school—enjoys the rural life—nevertheless still has eyes for new worlds to conquer. New Catalog Is Distributed Fisher Points Out New Features Of Interest in Pamphlet for 1936-37 Grade Children Reveal Interest Bushell Trio Offers Musical Selections A musical program featuring the Bushell trio was given in assembly this morning. The trio consists of Arthur Thai, well-known local violinist, and Edith R. Strange and Donald Bushell, members of the Normal school music faculty, who gave an arrangement of selections chosen for their pleasing melodies. Among the outstanding numbers were the last three movements of the Arensky melody, and sentimental sketches by Mason. Daniel Gregory Mason, according to Mr. Bushell, is famous for his writings on music as well as for his compositions. Barbara Kennedy of Beverly Hall has accepted a position as camp councillor for the Girl Scout Camp at Lost Lake, Elma. She left- Thursday to take up her new duties which will last throughout the summer camping season. Announcing the arrival of the new catalogue which has just come from the printers, President C. H. Fisher described some of the new features which will add to the interest and information of the book. Under the head of general education there is a paragraph on courses for nurses. "Beginning with the au-for nurses. "Beginning with the au-pursue a course in nursing will be required by the State Department of licenses to have one year of college work before they will be allowed in an accredited school for nurses. Courses in anatomy, physiology, bacteriology, hygiene, and nursing education totaling 23 quarter hour credits will be required. The State Normal school at Bell-ingham has been authorized to offer this work and will enroll students beginning in the autumn of 1936, according to the catalogue. "There is also a revision of courses for teacher librarians that brings these courses up to date, according to the standard set by the American Library association", Fisher commented. o Isham Jones to Play Under Curtis Auspices At State Armory Today Isham Jones and his orchestra, famous on the screen and known to all radio listeners, will be at the State Armory tonight. This appearance is sponsored by Jay Curtis, local orchestra leader, who has brought many famous dance bands to Bellingham the past few years. Jones and his boys have played in such leading hotels as the Ambassador in Atlantic City and the Ritz- Carlton in the famous New- Jersey shore resort. "I'll See You in My Dreams", "It Had to Be You", "Spain", "Indiana Moon", "If You Were Only Mine", "I Can't Believe It's True", and "Let's Try Again" are some of the popular tunes Isham Jones has composed. In addition, the recordings of this orchestra are extremely popular. InM agic Lore Audience Mystified by Oranges, Bunnies Drawn, Apparently, From the Air Older Students Skeptical Second Grader Believes Jones Member of Troupe "Are those oranges real?" "Was that a magic bunny?" were some of the questions of the primary training school children after they visited the Friday morning assembly at which Paul Fleming entertained with magic. The first grade child who received an orange from Mr. Fleming felt it, turned it over, and Wouldn't believe it was real until it was opened and the real juice came out. The children in the kindergarten were proud of their representative who was an assistant to Mr. Fleming, but they couldn't imagine how the rabbit was concealed in the little boy's sweater. After a discussion of magic in the second grade, the children put the following statement in their newspaper, "The magician's hands moved so much faster than we could see, so it seemed it was magic really". Another second grade child asked if Harlan Jones were one of the magician's troupe. Third, fourth, and fifth graders expressed curiosity about the magic, but one fifth grade girl said, "I don't believe a bit of it. It really isn't magic". The upper grades took balcony seats from which they could see much of the wiring and use of properties. o Local Normal Student Northwest Indian Queen Librarian Gets Testing Bulletin New Publication Aids Students; Plans for Examinations Are Given "Standard Testing and Remedial Work", a new bulletin compiled by Miss Jeannette Donaldson, supervisor, upper grades and junior high school of the State Department of Instruction, has been received by "Miss Mabel Zoe Wilson, librarian. It is Miss Wilson's opinion that this bulletin offers much worthwhile material for the teacher, and that Miss Donaldson should be praised for her organization. A standard testing plan, a remedial program, and information on the new plan for state examinations in the elementary schools are all considered in this bulletin. Some of the more specific items included are: "The General Principles and Points of View"; "The Necessity of Pupil Guidance"; '"The Favorable Outcomes of the Standard Testing Plan'; "Acceleration and Retardation"; "The Elementary Library and the Remedial Program"; and "Pro cedures Helpful in Reducing Pupil Failures". Miss Donaldson also gives reading references and aids for professional use. Copies of this bulletin can be obtained from the State Department of Instruction, Olympia, Wash. ectidiis At Downs Stop-Look-Listen A FOUNTAIN PEN THAT WE WILL FILL WITH WATER No Mixing of Ink No Carrying of Ink Bottles No Running Out of Ink in a Tight Place Just Fill With Water See Them At the Mary Iyall, a former student of the Bellingham State Normal school, won the "tribal crown" in Seattle Sunday. She was chosen "queen" "over the young Indians of the Pacific Northwest by the North-westerns. Miss Iyall will reign as their "queen" until the salmon run begins in 1937. Miss Iyall is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Iyall, who reside on the Yakima reservation at Top-penish. She is a graduate of the Salem high school, Oregon. This fall Miss Iyall plans to re-enter the Normal school. Mrs. Carl Rich and Miss LaVeta Smart drove to Seattle for the holidays. Mrs. Rich is an assistant to Mrs. Lovegren. Margaret Green attended the Sedro-Woolley rodeo over the Fourth of July. * # *t * * Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Moser (Violet Waech) spent this.week in Bellingham and visited members of the faculty and friends. Both Mr. and Mrs. Waech - are former Normal students. * * * * * John Kerr, a former Normal student, was a guest of Chauncey Griffith, also an alumnus of the Normal. NU-WAY Shoe Rebulders Howard Holstine Across from Postoffice 107 W. Magnolia Try the HERALD Beauty Shop For an A P P O I N T M E N T CALL 146 308 Herald Bldg. The Finest SUNDAE in Town Frozen Fudge 15c Try Smalley's Soda Fountain for a Real Treat The Smalley Drug Co. Prescription Druggists Commercial and Magnolia Dorothy Wellman St. James Weds At First Christian Church / On Sunday Weddings, week-ends, election of officers, and conventions characterized this week's activities. * * « * • Within the First Christian church on Sunday evening was the marriage of Dorothy E. Wellman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Wellman, and Mr. George St. James, of this city. In the presence of a few friends, Rev. Earl Hanson Fife, the pastor, read the service. . The attendants were Elaine Oltman and Ralph Henderson. Both Mr. and Mrs. St. James are .graduates of Whatcom high school and they have attended the Normal. Mr. St. James has also been a student at Washington State college. * --* -* * gt;* Another wedding took place within the home of the bride's parents at Wiser Lake on Saturday evening. Miss Ebba Erickson and Mr. George Wetzel were married by Rev. A. D. Johnson, of Ferndale. Mrs. Wetzel is a graduate of the Normal. * « * * * Officers of Downs hall for the summer quarter are: Winifred Claypoole, president; Rosetha Newman, social secretary; and Millie Gerdis, reporter. » » * » * Clarys Allison, Elsie Johnson, and Dorothy Christensen of Downs hall attended the NEA convention in Portland, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Bertha Herold spent the week-end visiting in Auburn. » * * * * Mrs. Grace Krous, formerly of the Music department of this school, visited in Bellingham on" Monday and Tuesday. * * * * * Miss Bessie Williams was the week-end guest of her parents at their home in Renton. 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Transcript text preview (might not show all results): 1936_0710 ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 1 ---------- VOL. XXXIV—NO. 37 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, July 10, 1936 Normalite By A. B. Hic
Show more1936_0710 ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 1 ---------- VOL. XXXIV—NO. 37 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON Friday, July 10, 1936 Normalite By A. B. Hicks On my summer tour of books and recreation I pause at Victoria, the old English city of North America. Princess Louise stands there beckoning with her many flags to help complete the beautiful boat-flecked harbor of Victoria. Reaching down to the wharf the grandeur of Victoria greets you. The gang-plank carries one into full view of the harbor stadium. (Wouldn't I like to be there on evenings when the chorus and bands meet for their concerts over the water!!!) To the right are the parliament buildings •with their, flower-lined lawns, statutes arid fountain: The murals of Captain Cook and other early pioneers decorate the walls of the large corridor. It was after 11:00, so to get to"the senate room before noon meant that I must,go at once. On reaching the senate room which was completely carpeted with huge blue plush rugs, we, host of Arntzen followers, were reminded of the familiar phrase, "left and right wingers'. And did -you have a chance to see the relics of the good ship "Beaver", one of the first on the Pacific coast, and the many other things of interest in the archives of the parliament building? • * » c * I, too, would like a couple of days to see the museum' exhibits. First time I can catch a ferry I shall head directly for those Butchart gardens. "Heavenly" is the way most people have described them for me. Well, my partner and I covered miles in that last hour and then waved farewell with only half our plans realized. Thanks to the recreational committee and to our reliable weather prophet, we had a jolly fine time. • * • * * Two-hundred-eighty-three people of the U. S., motorists, gathered for "The Great Round-up of the Skies" last July Fourth. Do you realize that is an average of six people per state? Washington won a notable record in this regard as we motored safely through the day without a fatality. * » » » « One World War veteran should be given a big hand for the precedent established. I understand that he sent his bonus to the commission for International Peace. It is a proven fact that advertising pays. No doubt the peace commission can use'the price of a great number of bonuses to picture the values of world peace, and if this man's few dollars is.the instrument that will prevent an early break in family ties, I'm sure that he will feel well repaid. * • • * * * I would tell you how to do those tricks of magic of the recent assembly but you have those already figured out? Five dollars to the man who can tell where those eggs and the rabbit went. "What My American Citizenship Means to Me" was the title of the declamation with which Miss Sylvia Karjalainen of Aberdeen, Wash., won the Elks* oratorical contest last week, in a straightforward way she. told of the experiences of herself and her family in Soviet Russia, and /urged others to cling to American freedom. The Aberdeen World., went on to say that Miss Karjalainen was winning something of fame for herself. Her speech was published ifc newspapers throughout the northwest and many people had sent her lettelfc of congratulation, among them Governor Clarence D. Martin. Normal Alpine Enthusiasts To Visit Mountains Hikers' Destinations Lake Ann and Chain Lakes; Austin Pass Headquarters Normal hike enthusiasts will leave the knoll at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning bound for an outing at Heather meadows, Mount Baker. Some will drive up in private cars while others will ride in a bus chartered for the occasion. Those going are asked to bring lunch and a cup. Low heel shoes and ordinary hiking clothes will serve for the trip. High top boots with calks or corks will not be necessary. The trip will cost $1.50. Hikers will make their headquarters "for the day at Austin pass. Prom there, those interested will hike to Chain lakes and to Lake Ann. Miss Elizabeth Hopper, of the Normal appointment bureau, will lead the hike to Chain lakes. The hike to Chain lakes is about 6 miles long and the trail goes around Mount Herman. Lake Ann is located on an arm of Mount Shuksan and the territory around it is said to offer good opportunity for those who desire to take pictures. Lake Ann is the usual starting point for hikes up Mount Shuksan. -6 Freshmen Girls Given Hints In Self Starter Bond Reviews Recent Oregon NEA Meeting Considers Panel Discussion Education, Democracy Most Noteworthy on T oday's Youth Upheld Convention, as Whole, Opposed to "Set Mold" Methods Relations Glub Opens Meeting With Greetings Ten Day Conference Is Attended By Seven Representatives From Normal What to wear and when to wear it are two of the many questions answered for freshman girls in the new Self Starter. Giving the low-down on school life, the book is designed to help entering women adapt themselves quickly to the college program, Katheryn Hatch and Beverly Holiday have edited the 1935-36 edition. Several linoleum cuts were contributed by Jean Hatch, while Bob White, Lucille Lee, Helen Hos-tetter, Helen Boothe. and Carol Hughes assisted with the writing. It was printed by R. D. Wilson, school printer. Greetings from Dean Florence E. Johnson, and Mary Jane Moergeli, president of the Women's League, open the book. Besides explaining school and house rules; a section is devoted to the problem of finances. Traditional social functions such as mixers and informais are also ex plained. — o Pratt Institute Students Presented Puppet Show "The Witches' Enchantment", a puppet show, was given Wednesday afternoon and evening at the Guild Playhouse, by Midgie Eaton and her"brother, Johnnie, graduates of the Pratt Institute of New York city. The play was written and the stage settings and costumes were designed by Miss Eaton. Nine puppets were used. She impersonated five voices and her brother, six. A glimpse into the strange fairyland of FoOzeleum, with the "Ali-gator Bird", really an enchanted Duchess, was the theme of the show. . In reviewing the past NEA convention, Dr. E, A. Bond, Belling-ham Normal's official delegate, considered the panel discussion on education and democracy the most noteworthy. This meeting was opened by Commissioner of Education Dr. Studebaker. Speaking on the necessity for academic freedom Dr. Studebaker stated: "Schools should be free to study any system of government and its working. To withhold facts is not education." Youth Unchanged On attitudes of students, President Bruce Baxter of Willamette university gave an address, mentioning in particular the desirable qualities in young people. With this in mind Mr. Baxter read a passage from an NEA report Of 1904 lamenting the lack of desirable traits of young people in that day. Smilingly, President Baxter said: "Prom this group you came and left tb.e impression that the youth were not superior to those of today." Perfection Bather Than Expansion Stressing the fact that American education is entering a phase of perfecting itself rather than of spending its energies Upon expansion, the convention drew comment from the . Portland Oregonian. "This conservative paper", Dr. Bond says, "disbelieves in the value of the loyalty oaths now on the statute books of 19 states, as they are an example of what legislation might do to the educational system". The main thought brought from the Portland meeting was departure from the present day movement toward gagging teachers and casting pupils into set molds. ^o— One Act Play Will Be Given By Dramatists 'The Valiant* to Be Presented By Former Outstanding . Actors "•'•1 Several of the girls of Beverly hall spent the week-end at their homes, among whom were: Dorothy Harwell, Monroe; Helen Gaddis, Sedro-Woolley; Miriam Sisson, Mount Vernon; Grace Emmans, and Helen Neely, Everett; Helen Ferry, man, Mount Vernon; and Gyneth White, Shelton. Speeches Are Given By Normal Teachers •-.At NEA Conference Faculty delegates to the NEA 'convention held in Portland, Ore., last week were: Florence Johnson, dean of women; Leona Sundquist and Ruth Piatt of the Science department; Dr. E. A. Bond of the Mathematics department; Irene Elliott, and Elsie Wendling of the Training school; Lucy Kangley of the English department; Hazel Plympton, of the Art department; Ruth Weythman of the Physical Education department; Nora Cummins of the Social Science depart^ ment; and Herbert C. Ruckmick of the Industrial Arts department. Among the addresses given was one by Miss Kangley who spoke on June 29 in the First Christian church at the National Council of Teachers of English. She chose as her subject, "An Approach to Poetry Appreciation." Dr. Bond represented the Normal at the convention and spoke on the subject of "Present Trends in the Teaching of Arithemetic." "Arithmetic is a coherent, unified science rather than a multiplicity of details. The thread of unity that runs through the whole science should' be recognised at every- step. This is best done by relating facts to experiences," stated Dr. Bond. By Elmer Lindquist With greetings by many dignitaries, the Pacific Northwest Institute of International Relations opened their Id-day conference Monday morning at Reed college, Portland, Oregon. The greetings were rendered by Mr. Estes Snedecor, chairman of 'the institute; Pres. Decter Keeger of Reed College; Mr. Lester Thomas, representative of the mayor of Portland; Anfred Powers, Dean of University of Oregon; and Dr. Lawer-ence. Wilson, representative of the Congregational Council for Social Action. Anderson Gives keynote Speech In the keynote address of the Institute, Dr. Elam J. Anderson of and methods of the Institute. Linfield college, explained the aims Round table discision group groups were organized in the afternoon. The subjects to be discussed are: American security and world organization, problems of Latin America, the collective system and the enforcement of peace, the far East relations, the problems of population, raw materials and markets, national politics and international relations, peace from a spiritual point of view. A Bellingham Normal student is represented in each of the discussion groups. One round table is to be held at a different time from the others because it is felt that it is of a special significance to everyone. It is the discussion of Methods in Popular Education and Peace Action. . o •* , Music Club Sponsors Home Coming Recital Young Bellingham musicians home for vacation after teaching and studying in New York, Chicago, and Seattle for a year, will give a joint recital Tuesday, July 14, at the Garden Street Methodist church. The talented musicians appearing on the program are: Suzanne Cissna, Jean Phillips, pianists; Hortense Yule, soprano; Herman Ivarson, baritone; and Chaun-cey Griffith, organist. The Scholarship Ways and Means committee of the Bellingham Woman's Music club are sponsoring the musical event. '; A silver offering which will be taken during the intermission will be used - for the [scholarship which is ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 2 ---------- WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM. WASHINGTON Established 1899 «^^ Published every Friday except during the month of September by the Associated Students, Washington State Normal School, Bellingham. Entered in the Postoffice at Bellingham, Washington, as second class matter by virtue of the act of March 3, 1879. • , •• Printed by the Miller Sutherlen Printing Company, Bellingham National Bank Building, Bellingham. Subscription rate by mail, $3.00 per year, in advance. Advertising rates on application. Address all communications, other than news items, to the Business Manager of the Northwest Viking, Bellingham, Wash. Telephone 3180. Editor HARRY KLUGE Managing Editor .MARY JOHNSTON Business Manager : .WARREN TOMS News Editor Phyllis Robinson Feature Editor ~ -Bob White Society Editor .._ —Prances Pelegren Sport Editors —.Ralph Dever, Elmer Lindquist Copy editor ~ - -Beverly Holiday Special Writers: Pat Wade, Joan Hoppe, Glen Gres-eth, Helen Shipley, Margaret Thon, Oscar Svarlien, Dorothy Williams, Rose Cassidy, Nancy Smith, . Helen Booth, Louise McBurney, Beverly Holiday, Marion Peterson. Military Training or Not Probably the most significant occurence in today's news was an article issued by the American Institute of Public Opinion concerning the Civilian conservation Corps. This bureau conducted a nation-wide poll with the purpose of discerning the public's attitude toward the CCC, Franklin D. Roosevelt's pet New Deal project. The startling* factor in the compilation, directed by Dr. George Gallup of New York City, was not the fact that a majority of voters wished to continue the CCC but rather that an overwhelming part of the voters favored the addition of military training to the men's duties. The actual figures are shown below: Yes No Women -74% 26% Farmers 77 23 Reliefers 78 22 Young People 68 32 College Students 59 41 These results are a revelation to many people who have imagined that the pacifists were firmly entrenched in. our American governmentt It might be well for whose who favor military training in the CCC camps to think further than the • fact that 250,000 men would be added to the standing army. If such an addition of military instruction is carried out, no longer will we be able to scoff at Hitler's militaristic policy or look askance at Mussolini's antagonistic course. It would destroy any benefit derived from the consultations with diplomatic heads of other nations concerning disarmament plans. It would signify our intention of keeping pace with . Germany and Italy and setting the pace for Great Britain, France, and Japan. And most important, it would lower the whole standard upon which our democratic government is based. Can this be the opinion of the people at large? o OUR SOCIAL STUDY GROUP SOMETHING NEW? And friends were glad to call around You greeted with a smile, And friends were glad to call around To stay with me awhile. But lately life has taken on An aspect queer and strange And everybody wonders what Has brought about the change For, I mumble and I mutter As I stroll upon the street And erstwhile friends pass quickly by If we by chance should meet. My eyes are dull and vacant and My mind is in a fog. My voice resembles very much The croaking of a frog. I know you all are wondering Just how this came about, I'll tell you all the secret, But please don't let it out. For really I'm as happy As a baby with the croup, For I'm getting educated in Our Social Study Group. Track, football, and baseball teams have driven their respective ways to either glorious victory or inglorious defeat, many times depending upon the number of the much-needed supporters present in the time-worn stands pictured here— Only too often has that number been not numerous enough to mention. But not only for athletic events has this structure been made use of— Tis said that several times a certain Eveready about school has been focused upon those who chose its idyllic haunts in preference to Sehome or Sunset Heights. Those to his own choosing, so what? Point of View By Harlan Jones In which we attempt to coerce the perogatives of Dante's Inferno as brick-bats to thrust down the craw of the public mind to help masticate some of the illy digested figments of Utopia and Messiahs which ever return to haunt the folk that have too little sand in their Intellectual gizzards. You tell 'em. Being on the spot as you remember, this column is muttering in its heard trying desperately at the last moment to coin a slogan that will save the world for democracy. However, since "Point of View" is much too immersed in water much too deep to have time to aspire for political office this fall, we shall try to be terse. Having dwelt on the third dimen~- sion of human nature, the political idealism of the Football-cast and the PWA scrubs, and this man Ka-gawa, we should like to take a slant at Co-operation. The Bellingham Egg Co-op just makes it tough for the widow with the hen house on the shores of Lake Carnegie. Her Rhode Island Reds hardly have room to cluck on the open market. Good in Bellingham? Yes. Partly a good thing. In Denmark the country villages can paint their roof-trees with the money their producers' co-ops have paid them. Japan, with the help of Kakawa's hundred popular books on co-operatives, which attach themselves to the public mind much as did Tolstoy's, whom he studied. Such as "Grains of Wheat". They have consumer stores. Each member buying his food, or his $1.85 work suit having one vote. Not so in an American corporation for here, where the controlling money lies, so does the vote. Each member there, has a speaking part, but getting back at the end of the month a proportion of what amount he buys. Do you recognize the Grange gas and oil setup? of American democracy. Why not fill the gap of bankruptcy and lack of purchasing power with co-operative stores, and so give the "Civil Liberties League" a break politically? There are very strange bedfellows in this election. —Selected Musing You have probably heard about the consumer of tooth paste who thought the manufacturers put too much moisture in dentifrices. To prove his idea he went into manufacturing and really did produce a tooth paste without any excess moisture in it. But a pair of plyers was needed to get the paste out. We don't know if he is, as yet, convinced that manufacturers of dentifrices make tooth paste moist for a better reason than deception. But we of the teaching profession believe that we had better instill a little more humor into our intellectual students so that future generations can make use of them without getting a sledge hammer to uncover the prodigy's mind. Book Shelf POETRY OF TODAY, by Rosa M. R. Mikels and Grace Shoup; Charles Scribner's Sons. Reviewed by Glen O. Greseth. This is the ariswer to the desire of thousands of poetry lovers to have a pocket-sized anthology of contemporary verse. The selections in "Poetry of Today" are admirably chosen to bring out the adventuring spirit of modern poetry. There are poems'about "excavations, cabbages, tea, skyscrapers, automobiles, and Saturday-night crowds in large cities, blossoms; rivers, sunsets, mountains, and sea-themes that have always appealed to poets; and the age-old problem of love and life." There are poems for all the moods of a sentimentalist on a fishing trip. If he sits buried in retrospection, he will find expression in "Birches" by Robert Frost or the light-hearted reminiscences expressed in "Little Boy Blue" by Eugene Field. If he seeks expression for the beauty of nature let him read "May is Building her House" by Richard Le Gal-lienne or ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 3 ---------- WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM. WASHINGTON Racqueteers To Play Off Games Bodminton and Archery Players Support Favorite Sports Enthusiastically "The tennis tournament schedule has been posted, stated to Miss Luell Weed of the Women's Physical Education department. "The second round matches to be played Monday are between Dohalda Grant and Inez Sjognen; Mary Morrow and May Dillon. One first round match has yet to be played off to determine the other players in the second round". Looking It Over Those eight lanky University of Washington oarsmen and their skipper, Bob Moch, deserve all the credit and publicity they are receiving. It is perhaps the finest crew Washington has ever produced; certainly their cox appears to be the best little admiral. And that's saying a lot, for Washington's crews are known wherever college oars sweep the water. We'll be wishing them all the breaks, and we'll be keeping our fingers crossed for them while they are in Berlin. Archery Popular The enthusiasm expressed by the large number signing up for Archery, Thursday, at 4:00 o'cock has pleased Miss Ruth Weythman of the Physical Education department. Badminton Added Of the Wednesday afternoon sports at 4:00, Miss Weed related, *There was a small but enthusiastic group out for volley ball. No one turned out for baseball. However", Miss Weed continued, "another sport, badminton, was played upon the demand of a group." All bad-} minton enthusiasts are welcome it they furnisft their own birds. They can be bought at the Co-op". According to Miss Weythman of the same department badminton as a sport has increased in popularity at a tremendous rate in the last eight years. Eight years ago there were no teams, at the Normal but now there is a class devoted to teaching the rules and techniques of the game. One of those voices that you heard over CBS last Sunday afternoon had more than a passing interest in the outcome of the crew race. It was none other than Royal Brougham, sports editor for the Seattle PI, making a national name for himself as a radio announcer for the Columbia system. After all, (what is more fitting than that a | sports writer from our own state should announce the victory of a Washington crew? They say that when Washington began to put on the power they gained the space of a man with each stroke of the oars. Your sports editor does not want anyone to fail in his studies, yet he cannot help noting an observed human phenomenon. The day is Wednesday, the time 4:30 in the afternoon, the sky is clear, the weather is not too hot. A much used room in the library is filled to overflowing with Normal school students reading books and taking down notes. Yet near that library are playing fields where softball, volleyball, tennis, and numerous other sports could be enjoyed by those people who are so studiously trying to remember what someone else has written. With such a fine recreational program why study so hard? Of course, everyone knows by now who won the Wimbledon in tennis. But.it is not too late to give Helen Jacobs another big hand for winning that championship. It's a tough, hard grind, all the way to the top. Lappenbusch Plans Invasion Of University Basketball Gym; Return Bout on Local Floor With the WAA Of her badminton class Miss Weed told, "Some fast playing may be seen any morning at 9:00 o'clock in the gym. The class is in the midst of an interesting round robin tournament". Badminton was introduced from India to England around 1873, thence to Canada and the United States. Howdy, WAAers—Art you still WAAing? Do you get your cold shower every morning? Do you Walk five miles every day? (Musi keep that figure down.) Do you eat fresh fruit or vegetables and drink milk each meal? Do you avoid candy between meals? Do you get some other exercise besides Walking? TRY Our Combination BREAKFAST 30c LUNCH 30c-35c Special Steak Dinner 50c MODEL CAFE We Never Close 1324 Commercial Why do I ask all these questions? Well, after all, it isnt every month that a great orchestra leader and composer like I sham Jones graces Bellingham with his presence. Isnt that a good reason to-look and feel right ? What.' You re not going? You say you cant go on all these hikes and trips and expect to have money or for your boy friends to have enough ('scuse me, 1 thought WAAers didn't have boy friends) for a dance as expensive as that. I dont blame you too much, as these hikes and trips are keeping me badly bent, too. But isnt a dance exercise? Well, fight it out for yourself. If you ever run out of anything to do, all you athletes, let me tell you of a sport that will fascinate you. Once you get yourself involved you won't be able to give up until 'you absolutely have to announce yourself as licked, and one of Ted Shane's cockeyed crossword puzzles in Liberty surely can do it. Or are you one of those master minds no puzzle can lick? Anyway who cares? When a person has to talk about crossword puzzles on a sport page he had better quit, so I am. School Golf Team Accepts Challenge It will be a first come first place, in the tryouts for the golf team to play the University of Washington team, according to a statement from Coach Chuck Lappenbusch this week. The team will consist of six men. All golfers are urged to report to the coach as soon as possible so that the tryouts can take place right away. The ladder system will be used to pick the six best men to represent the school. "The first man to report will have his name placed at the top of the ladder" said Coach Lappenbusch. "A man can challenge either of the two men directly above him". o Jon High Defeats Carnival Mat-Men Hammett's Hams, Tomco's Tomcats Lead Intramural Basketball First Series Keppler Leads Scoring All Members Kitten Team Score; Second Series Started Jon High, 190-pound junior of WSNS, matched his grappling skill with the carnival mat-men Wednesday night to win two and break even on the third of three consecutive matches. After answering the usual challenge and agreeing to pay his own doctor bill, High entered the *ing for seven minutes of catch as catch can with polished Billy Newman This match resulted in a draw. The two men drew another crowd and did it over again. High won this one with a series of body slams. Then he was pitted against George Kelly, a 200-pounder, but downed Kelley too in less than six ininutes of the scheduled eight minute handicap. o — Outstanding basketball players chosen from the four intramural teams will invade Husky territory, Tuesday, July 14, to play the University of Washington varsity team, according to an announce* ment by Coach Lappenbusch. A squad of 6 to 11 men will make the trip. The U of W team will play a return game here in the little gym* Tuesday, July 21, at 4 p. m. Standing of Teams • W L Pet. Hammett's Hams 2 1 .667 Tomco's Tomcats ...:..2 1 .667 Keppler's Kittens 1 2 .333 StutzSs Bearcats 1 2 .333 Stutz's Bearcats 1 2 .333 Bearcats Win Stut's Bearcats upset the applecart Monday afternoon when, from the cellar position in the league, they defeated the formerly unbeaten Hammett's Hams by a score of 24 to 30. Stutz' own 12 point score helped materially to put his team ahead of Hammett's in the tally. Prender for the Hams with his 8 points was chief threat against the Bearcats. Summary Bearcats—24 Hams—20 Let Us Do Your Work We Call and Deliver C A S C A D E Laundry and Cleaners 205 Prospect Phones 66, 120 When It's Your Move Let's Make it "Our Move" M0DEL3SS PHONE 70 Puppetry Play Slated For Training School |S. K. Scheldrup, D. C. Palmer Graduate CHIROPRACTOR I Phone 878 210 Kulshan Bldg. X-RAY "The Magicians and the Dragon," a puppet show, will be presented in the training school assembly next Friday by members of the puppetry class. The assembly will be at 9:00. Mr. Robert Kindschy will direct the play and also take the leading part. Members of the class will assist in the presentation. WELL, THAT'S OVER! About the greatest danger we encountered this Fourth was the danger of catching pneumonia. Perhaps it's just as well to remember during summer, as well as winter, that DARIGOLD PASTEURIZED MILK fortifies you against cold and disease! Whatcom County Dairymen's Assn. PHONE 314 SANDISON "Photos That Please" Official Klipsun PHOTOGRAPHER STAGES ••***•» Seattle, Everett, Mount Vernon— 7:30, 8:30,10:30 a. m., 12:30, 1;30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30. 5:30 (6;30 Sundays and Holidays), 7:30 and 9:30 p. m. North Coast Lines Depot—Magnolia and State Phone 5004 Bullard .P. Digerness 2 iTulin 10 P. .......Prender 8 Alpaugh 2 C... ...McDonald 2 Stutz 12 _..G „....:........Hall 2 Osibov .....G .Wilder 2 Sub .Lovos Sub. Hammett 4 Referee—George. Tomcats vs. Kittens Tomco's team of wild Tomcats roamed from third place in the league to second by silencing Keppler's Kittens in the second game on Monday afternoon. The score was 22 to 18. Hager, on the Tomcat team, and Keppler, on the Kitten team, tied for high point man in the game with scores of 9 each. Every man on the Kitten team made at least one basket, either from the field or from the foul line. Summary Tomcats—22 Kittens—18 Compliments of CYR BROTHERS DAIRY PRODUCTS CO. Established 1889 Pacific Laundry Phones 126 and 127 Dwelley 6 ...~.F. Tulin 2 Reeves 3 -F-— .Witherow 1 Hager 9. C .Keppler 9 Belcher G „..Zylstra 2 Tomco 4. G. George 2 Sub.... .Osibov 2 Individual Standings In the total individual scores for the first series of league games | Keppler leads the field with 24 points, only one point ahead of Frender with his 23. Stutz is parked in third place with a 20. The top scorers are: Keppler 24 Frender .23 Stutz 20 Hager .. .-.17 Tulto ... :.16 Hammett 14 Digerness 9 Reeves 9 Tomco .7 Dwelley .6 Hall ..j* Bo chn.ak' * 110 EAST HOLLLY Summer Clearance Sale Fancy Men's Clothes at Bargain Prices ---------- Northwest Viking - 1936 July 10 - Page 4 ---------- WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. BELLINCHAM. WASHINGTON Introducing-- MARIE de GALLIER, master manager . . . former Board member . . . popular, efficient WAA prexy . . . named one of 'big ten' in 1935 Klipsun . . . has spent the ast year teaching in the lower grade at Shelton . . . looking forward to a promising opportunity as cadet instructor in the Seattle teaching system . . . forsook the Dorm this quarter to batch with Aggie Martin in their cabin in the cottonwood. • • • * BARNEY CHICHESTER, former NWV editor as well as business manager . . . dramatically prominent during previous attendance at Normal . . . played in "The Poor Nut," "Craig's Wife," "Sun Up" and others : . . taught in Seattle last year . . . if fond papa to a strapping six-month (or) so old son . .. recently sold a play . . . is called by NWV printer "a darn fine fellow." * * • • EDITH McLACHLAN—ex-teacher of rural student.teacher at the Victor school for seven years—a rural-ite herself for the last three years, teaching in the Westsound school on Orcas island—living on the home farm with her husband and small son—son now in the fifth grade of the Normal Training school—enjoys the rural life—nevertheless still has eyes for new worlds to conquer. New Catalog Is Distributed Fisher Points Out New Features Of Interest in Pamphlet for 1936-37 Grade Children Reveal Interest Bushell Trio Offers Musical Selections A musical program featuring the Bushell trio was given in assembly this morning. The trio consists of Arthur Thai, well-known local violinist, and Edith R. Strange and Donald Bushell, members of the Normal school music faculty, who gave an arrangement of selections chosen for their pleasing melodies. Among the outstanding numbers were the last three movements of the Arensky melody, and sentimental sketches by Mason. Daniel Gregory Mason, according to Mr. Bushell, is famous for his writings on music as well as for his compositions. Barbara Kennedy of Beverly Hall has accepted a position as camp councillor for the Girl Scout Camp at Lost Lake, Elma. She left- Thursday to take up her new duties which will last throughout the summer camping season. Announcing the arrival of the new catalogue which has just come from the printers, President C. H. Fisher described some of the new features which will add to the interest and information of the book. Under the head of general education there is a paragraph on courses for nurses. "Beginning with the au-for nurses. "Beginning with the au-pursue a course in nursing will be required by the State Department of licenses to have one year of college work before they will be allowed in an accredited school for nurses. Courses in anatomy, physiology, bacteriology, hygiene, and nursing education totaling 23 quarter hour credits will be required. The State Normal school at Bell-ingham has been authorized to offer this work and will enroll students beginning in the autumn of 1936, according to the catalogue. "There is also a revision of courses for teacher librarians that brings these courses up to date, according to the standard set by the American Library association", Fisher commented. o Isham Jones to Play Under Curtis Auspices At State Armory Today Isham Jones and his orchestra, famous on the screen and known to all radio listeners, will be at the State Armory tonight. This appearance is sponsored by Jay Curtis, local orchestra leader, who has brought many famous dance bands to Bellingham the past few years. Jones and his boys have played in such leading hotels as the Ambassador in Atlantic City and the Ritz- Carlton in the famous New- Jersey shore resort. "I'll See You in My Dreams", "It Had to Be You", "Spain", "Indiana Moon", "If You Were Only Mine", "I Can't Believe It's True", and "Let's Try Again" are some of the popular tunes Isham Jones has composed. In addition, the recordings of this orchestra are extremely popular. InM agic Lore Audience Mystified by Oranges, Bunnies Drawn, Apparently, From the Air Older Students Skeptical Second Grader Believes Jones Member of Troupe "Are those oranges real?" "Was that a magic bunny?" were some of the questions of the primary training school children after they visited the Friday morning assembly at which Paul Fleming entertained with magic. The first grade child who received an orange from Mr. Fleming felt it, turned it over, and Wouldn't believe it was real until it was opened and the real juice came out. The children in the kindergarten were proud of their representative who was an assistant to Mr. Fleming, but they couldn't imagine how the rabbit was concealed in the little boy's sweater. After a discussion of magic in the second grade, the children put the following statement in their newspaper, "The magician's hands moved so much faster than we could see, so it seemed it was magic really". Another second grade child asked if Harlan Jones were one of the magician's troupe. Third, fourth, and fifth graders expressed curiosity about the magic, but one fifth grade girl said, "I don't believe a bit of it. It really isn't magic". The upper grades took balcony seats from which they could see much of the wiring and use of properties. o Local Normal Student Northwest Indian Queen Librarian Gets Testing Bulletin New Publication Aids Students; Plans for Examinations Are Given "Standard Testing and Remedial Work", a new bulletin compiled by Miss Jeannette Donaldson, supervisor, upper grades and junior high school of the State Department of Instruction, has been received by "Miss Mabel Zoe Wilson, librarian. It is Miss Wilson's opinion that this bulletin offers much worthwhile material for the teacher, and that Miss Donaldson should be praised for her organization. A standard testing plan, a remedial program, and information on the new plan for state examinations in the elementary schools are all considered in this bulletin. Some of the more specific items included are: "The General Principles and Points of View"; "The Necessity of Pupil Guidance"; '"The Favorable Outcomes of the Standard Testing Plan'; "Acceleration and Retardation"; "The Elementary Library and the Remedial Program"; and "Pro cedures Helpful in Reducing Pupil Failures". Miss Donaldson also gives reading references and aids for professional use. Copies of this bulletin can be obtained from the State Department of Instruction, Olympia, Wash. ectidiis At Downs Stop-Look-Listen A FOUNTAIN PEN THAT WE WILL FILL WITH WATER No Mixing of Ink No Carrying of Ink Bottles No Running Out of Ink in a Tight Place Just Fill With Water See Them At the Mary Iyall, a former student of the Bellingham State Normal school, won the "tribal crown" in Seattle Sunday. She was chosen "queen" "over the young Indians of the Pacific Northwest by the North-westerns. Miss Iyall will reign as their "queen" until the salmon run begins in 1937. Miss Iyall is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Iyall, who reside on the Yakima reservation at Top-penish. She is a graduate of the Salem high school, Oregon. This fall Miss Iyall plans to re-enter the Normal school. Mrs. Carl Rich and Miss LaVeta Smart drove to Seattle for the holidays. Mrs. Rich is an assistant to Mrs. Lovegren. Margaret Green attended the Sedro-Woolley rodeo over the Fourth of July. * # *t * * Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Moser (Violet Waech) spent this.week in Bellingham and visited members of the faculty and friends. Both Mr. and Mrs. Waech - are former Normal students. * * * * * John Kerr, a former Normal student, was a guest of Chauncey Griffith, also an alumnus of the Normal. NU-WAY Shoe Rebulders Howard Holstine Across from Postoffice 107 W. Magnolia Try the HERALD Beauty Shop For an A P P O I N T M E N T CALL 146 308 Herald Bldg. The Finest SUNDAE in Town Frozen Fudge 15c Try Smalley's Soda Fountain for a Real Treat The Smalley Drug Co. Prescription Druggists Commercial and Magnolia Dorothy Wellman St. James Weds At First Christian Church / On Sunday Weddings, week-ends, election of officers, and conventions characterized this week's activities. * * « * • Within the First Christian church on Sunday evening was the marriage of Dorothy E. Wellman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Wellman, and Mr. George St. James, of this city. In the presence of a few friends, Rev. Earl Hanson Fife, the pastor, read the service. . The attendants were Elaine Oltman and Ralph Henderson. Both Mr. and Mrs. St. James are .graduates of Whatcom high school and they have attended the Normal. Mr. St. James has also been a student at Washington State college. * --* -* * gt;* Another wedding took place within the home of the bride's parents at Wiser Lake on Saturday evening. Miss Ebba Erickson and Mr. George Wetzel were married by Rev. A. D. Johnson, of Ferndale. Mrs. Wetzel is a graduate of the Normal. * « * * * Officers of Downs hall for the summer quarter are: Winifred Claypoole, president; Rosetha Newman, social secretary; and Millie Gerdis, reporter. » » * » * Clarys Allison, Elsie Johnson, and Dorothy Christensen of Downs hall attended the NEA convention in Portland, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Bertha Herold spent the week-end visiting in Auburn. » * * * * Mrs. Grace Krous, formerly of the Music department of this school, visited in Bellingham on" Monday and Tuesday. * * * * * Miss Bessie Williams was the week-end guest of her parents at their home in Renton. 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Title: Peter Elich interview--April 11, 2003
Description: Peter J. Elich, WWU faculty member, 1961-1999; Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the University. In addition to department chair he was a long time Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Show moreWestern Washington University Libraries Special Collections Oral History Program Peter Elich ATTENTION: © Copyright Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. "Fair use" criteria of Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 must be followed. The following materials can be used for educational and other noncommercial purposes without the written permission of Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. These materials are not to be used for resale or commercial purposes without written authorization from Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. All materials cited must be attributed to Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections. This interview was conducted with Dr. Peter Elich, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at his office in Miller Hall on April 11, 2003. The interviewer is Steve Inge. SI: Today is April 11, 2003. We‟re talking with Dr. Peter Elich, Professor Emeritus…not quite. PE: Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus. SI: Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, congratulations! And former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Western. The interviewer is Steve Inge. For the record, this is a second effort at this interview, first having been fouled up by operator error. So Pete, thank you for your patience. Could you tell us how it is that you came to be at Western? PE: I completed my undergraduate work at the University of Washington. I came to Bellingham and began teaching in the public schools, first at Whatcom Junior High School, which is now Whatcom Middle School. I taught a variety of courses. I had no room of my own. I walked around carrying history maps one time and materials for the science lab the next time. I spent two years at Whatcom, then went on to Bellingham High School, where I taught and coached football for a couple of years. During that time I was going to school at Western, working on a masters degree in school psychology and working graveyard shift at the paper mill. I had three kids at that time and a $3,600 a year teaching salary, so a little extra income was much appreciated! About the time I completed my master‟s degree, I was also not doing well as a football coach. Maurice Freehill, who was a professor of mine here at Western at that time, asked me one day if I would be interested in going on to graduate school. I hadn‟t thought about going on to get a PhD. He suggested I go down and talk to some people he knew at the University of Oregon. He thought they had a good program in the area of educational psychology where you could do most of your work in the department of psychology, since I already had a lot background in education. So my wife and I went down, spent a couple of days, and by the end of that time we were enrolled. That next fall we went down and spent two and a half years at the University of Oregon finishing a PhD. By the time I got out in ‟61, there were a lot of jobs available. I‟d done some research at Oregon, but was primarily interested in going to a school that emphasized undergraduate education and teaching. A position was available at Western. I made a phone call to Chuck Harwood, who was the chair of the department of psychology, and sent him a letter. I got a call back from him indicating I was hired. I didn‟t need to come for an interview because people knew me pretty well, since I‟d been doing work in the department. I had a lot of family in the area, so I came back to Western, for a starting salary of $6,000 -- a significant improvement. I taught a variety of courses, almost everything in the department except animal behavior. I was pleased with the opportunity to come to Western (then Western Washington College of Education), because of its strong reputation as a quality undergraduate school. We had a small lab with four rats, and that was about it, in Old Main. A few years later we added some armadillos. Carol Diers was interested in studying armadillos because they have identical offspring so you can tease out the effect of environment upon learning. She almost burned down the building I recall one time, when she had a heat lamp above the baby armadillos and it caught the straw on fire in the middle of the night! 1 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED SI: In Old Main? PE: Yes, fourth floor of Old Main. Jim Jarrett had just become president the year before I came. He came from the University of Chicago, Great Books tradition, and started a shift almost immediately from exclusive teacher training emphasis, to a broader, multidisciplinary, departmentalized approach. There was a lot of difference of opinion on the faculty about this change. There were two groups, one that was going along with Jarrett to emphasize more the liberal arts and sciences focus. Prominent among those were Herb Taylor, Henry Adams, Don Blood. And then there was a group that was trying to hang on to the exclusive teacher training focus because we had a very strong reputation as a teacher training institution, particularly at the elementary level, but also to some extent at the secondary level. We had a national reputation of being one of the better teacher training institutions in the country, and people didn‟t want to lose that by moving in another direction. I taught at Western in the department of psychology until about 1971. I worked with Tom Billings in setting up one of the first Upward Bound programs in the country. Billings went on to become the national director of the Upward Bound Program. During the latter years of the „60s, I spent a lot of time traveling around the country – literally, the Pacific Islands, Alaska, and Pacific Northwest, helping set up Upward Bound programs and doing evaluations of those programs. In about ‟68, ‟69, I was involved in trying to set up a programmed learning workshop during the summer. That was a hot new thing at the time based on the theories of B. F. Skinner. We looked around the country to find where the activity was going on. Xerox was big in program instruction at that time, and they had a person who I wanted to bring but he couldn‟t come, so they suggested another fellow, Bill Laidlaw. Bill came out and spent that summer and liked it so well here that he took a leave and stayed an entire year. Then he went back to New York and got involved in the New York State Higher Education System. He was hired by the City University of New York to be the dean of developing Hostos Community College, which was in the South Bronx. Because I‟d had some involvement in working with American Indian kids, and Hispanic educational issues, he called me and asked me if I was interested in coming back. I went back and spent two and a half years in New York helping to get that program going. I headed up the social and behavioral science area, selecting faculty and developing curriculum. It was a very, very interesting experience. Bill later came back and became the President of Whatcom Community College, and unfortunately was stricken by cancer a few years into his tenure there. He was a very close friend of mine, and a very great loss, not only to his friends and family, but to the community and to the community college. Soon after I came back, Meryl Meyer, who was the chairman of the psychology department, took a position at University of Florida, and I was selected as the chair of the department. I served as chair of the department for fifteen years. We had as many as thirty two faculty at one time, principally because we had a very heavy proportion of the teacher education program. We taught measurement, learning and child and adolescent development for all students planning to become teachers. Then in about ‟83, the dean‟s position became open in Arts and Sciences. Jim Davis stepped down, and I was appointed interim dean. I was the successful candidate and became dean of the College, where I served until my retirement at the end of fall quarter, 1999. One particularly noteworthy experience during the time that I was department chair, Bill McDonald suffered a mild heart attack. He was the dean of men at that time, and I was asked if I would stand in for him until he recovered, which would be a couple of months. So I spent half a day over here chairing the department, and half a day over there at the dean of men‟s office. It was during the time there was the Vietnam issue, and things got pretty hot around here. There was a mass demonstration one day on Red Square with the Weathermen here with big dogs and side arms, and it had the potential for getting pretty nasty. Jerry Flora was president at that time. Flora and his inner circle of 2 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED people, sometimes they called them “the six pack.” I don‟t remember all six, but it was at least Alan Ross and Herb Taylor and I think Jim Hitchman, who was the dean of students at that time. Sam was probably there; Sam Kelly was always part of that group, and whoever else might have been there at that time. The president of the Faculty Senate perhaps, whoever that was. They were up in Flora‟s office, and I was sort of the runner between, communicating messages between them and the students. I would go out and hear what the students had to say, and then I‟d run upstairs and tell them what the students had to say, and then they‟d tell me what I was supposed to tell the students and I would run back down and tell the students. Then I‟d hear more from the students, and I‟d run back up and tell them. I must have made that trip six or eight times during that day. During one of these times, I was standing on the edge of the pond there, and the students were getting understandably a little frustrated with not having direct access to the President, but to somebody they didn‟t even recognize as having any authority at all, which was true! And somebody hollered out, “Throw the fucker in the pond!” They started moving toward me. Fortunately for me, there was a circle of football players, I later learned, who warded them off and ushered me to a safe entry back up the stairs and told me that I when I came back down they would take care of me. This potentially violent situation was calmed by a group of faculty, organized and led by Professor Mike Mischaikow from the economics department who broke the students into small groups, where faculty would listen to what they had to say and reassure them that they would bring their concerns to the attention of university officials. Let‟s see, what else…Well I think that the transition of the presidents I‟ve had the opportunity to work with maybe warrants a comment. I mentioned Jarrett to begin with. I got to know Jarrett reasonable well because I was in the psychology department where some of his closer advisors were, people like Don Blood, Henry Adams and Carol Diers. I socialized somewhat with Jarrett and that group, so I got to know him reasonable well. I had a high regard for his intellectual capability and his direction. I think that period of time probably represents one of the most significant periods in the history of the University, that shift from exclusively teacher education to Western Washington State College and then eventually to Western Washington University. And then following Jarrett I think we have Harvey Bunke, who didn‟t stay long, but I thought Bunke was a very good president. He actually encouraged me to look into academic administration. He called me over one day and asked me if I was interested in going to an administrative workshop at the University of Minnesota. So I went to that for three or four days and learned about how you shuffle paper and that kind stuff. But he was encouraging. And then I think we had Flora following that, yes. And Jerry was a very popular president at the beginning of his tenure because he was a very well-known faculty member, an outstanding faculty member, an excellent teacher and campus leader and well-liked by people. I had the opportunity to work closely with Jerry Flora as well. It was during that time (1969) we had enabling legislation from the legislature to grant a PhD. They didn‟t give us any money, but they gave us the enabling legislation. I wrote a proposal for a PhD program in school psychology with some people in education and we had the appropriate visitations from people who could evaluate the program and so on and it came out pretty well. So Flora and Alan Ross, who was dean of the graduate school at that time, and I traveled around to visit each of the members of the council, I think it was the Council of Post-Secondary Education, the group that was essentially responsible for making recommendations to the legislature and to the governor regarding higher education issues. And we visited each of them in their own communities, took the person to dinner, and lobbied them on behalf of our proposal. Flora meanwhile had been lobbying the presidents of the other four year institutions. When we went to the meeting where the vote was to be taken, it appeared as though we had a narrow majority voting in favor of us. Just after the debate and just before the vote, the President of the University of Washington, called for a brief recess, and called the presidents of Central and Eastern over and when the vote came, the presidents of Central and Eastern voted against us. And Flora was quite sure that they would vote in favor. As I recall, they said that they were informed by the President of the University of Washington that their chances of ever being named a university would be markedly reduced if they supported our effort to have a PhD program. They were, as we, interested in becoming a university at that time. That was another issue before us. So we lost the opportunity. We could have gone ahead with the program, but we lost the opportunity for any funding. In retrospect, I think it is a good thing that we did not pursue a doctorate program because of our undergraduate program. We are principally an undergraduate institution, that‟s our main strength. When you have a doctorate program, you tend to put a lot of your main resources, your strongest resources, into that program. 3 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED SI: At that time, the institution was some what of an even balance still between teacher education and arts and sciences, and many of the other colleges had yet to emerge, so it was a logical position at that time. PE: Right, right, yes, that‟s right. I think it was about in that time when the cluster college concept began? I think Paul Woodring was one of the people who was influential in that movement; the idea that we would develop a variety of small cluster colleges with different kinds of emphases. They would be relatively small, and some faculty would live in with students, so that you would have kind of the Oxford environment. By the time the first of those was developed, Fairhaven, the glamour of that approach sort of wore off and nobody wanted to live in! Students didn‟t even want to live there! But Fairhaven was developed and endures today. I think it offers an excellent educational opportunity for some students who need the more flexible environment that they have in Fairhaven. Huxley was also developed following that same concept and endures today as one of the relatively few remaining environmental studies programs. A lot of them were developed, and a lot of them fell by the wayside. Also the College of Ethnic Studies was developed. I think the recommendation by the dean of the College of Ethnic Studies, Jesse Hiroaka, to close the College of Ethnic Studies, was probably as unique among deans‟ actions in the history of higher education. But Jesse had the foresight to see that isolating minority students was not what you were trying to accomplish. What you wanted to do is to have broad cultural integration in the campus, rather than to isolate the minority students from the majority population, so Ethnic Studies was closed. PE: Paul Olscamp followed Flora. I was on the search committee for Olscamp as well. He provided strong academic leadership. I think that that combination of Olscamp and Talbot, in terms of the internal management of the university, was one of the strongest periods in our history. Talbot, in my judgement, was an excellent provost. He was strongly supported by Jim Albers, who was this person that you interacted with on financial matters. I remember going frequently to Albers‟ office, where you had to go for additional sections of this, that, and the other thing. It was like going to a loan shark without any collateral. But you usually got what you needed, but not always what you wanted. Olscamp pretty well let Talbot run the show inside. I‟m sure they conferred about directions and things of that sort. I took the proposal for the PhD program to Olscamp a few months after he was here and reviewed it for him briefly. What he already knew, I‟m sure, was that we had the enabling legislation. The Counsel on PostSecondary Education voted against our doing it, so we had no resources coming, but I asked him if he wanted to do anything further with it and he, decided that we should not pursue that at this time. PE: Following Olscamp we had Bob Ross. I was rather fond of Bob Ross, as a personal friend as well as a president. He was a marked contrast to Olscamp. Olscamp was much more of a strong academician in orientation. I think much more of – I don‟t want to call him “elitist” – but much more focused upon quality undergraduate education, focusing upon relatively few programs. Don‟t expand too far, but make sure you have very good study in-depth, and attract the very strongest students you possibly can to those programs. Ross was very much of a populist. His approach was that we should offer a wide variety of programs appropriate for a regional comprehensive university. If a student came to Western for a quarter that would probably enrich their lives, even if they didn‟t go on to school beyond that point. We went through the frequent drill of developing a strategic plan during that time. I remember we developed a variety of objectives. We‟d have list of a dozen or so and people said, “Well what about this?” and Ross said “We‟ll add that!” We added it, and we ended up with, I don‟t know, forty, fifty objectives, which gave him license to do anything he wanted to. He could make this decision, and say, “Well this fits items six, seven, eight, nine, ten…” whatever. Backing up, somewhere during that period of time, and I don‟t recall exactly the year, we went through a serious budget reduction. It was prior to Ross. It may have been during either Olscamp or maybe even Flora‟s tenure. We had a big Reduction in Force at the University. We had the Mischaikow Committee, and I was a member of the Mischaikow Committee. I think we met all summer long and we had to reduce by a hundred and twenty some positions in the University, which we were able to do largely by attrition. Some departments even took reduced salaries for a period of time to save some people. We came out of that. But that represents, I think, a very important period in the University‟s history. Comparing Central and Western which were very similar prior to that, more similar than they are now, Western took the position that we‟re going to retain essentially the structure that we have. Trying to maintain strong academic departments, and we‟ll take the cuts and not change the structure. Central took 4 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED the position that we‟re going to try to save everybody, and we‟re going to do this by farming out programs in the Seattle area, in the Yakima area, doing a lot of extended education, taking a lot of people offline, and let them work, on the money that can be generated from offline courses. So they sort of diluted their programs to some extent by spreading out and doing a lot of things at a lot of different places; adding a lot of programs. Western retained our basic structure. I think that was a very important decision on the part of Western, which enabled us to retain that strong academic focus and not try to be everything to everybody, but to focus upon the basic liberal arts and a few selected professional applied colleges and programs, that depended upon the philosophy and the content, and methodology of liberal arts and sciences as a basis. We had Education, and Business and Economics, and Huxley, and Fairhaven, and Fine and Performing Arts, which spun off from that but are all closely tied to the liberal arts and sciences, whereas Central became much more diffused. Going back to Ross now which is a later period, Ross‟ presidency was, I think, marked by, in addition to his approach to developing programs and the populist kind of approach; he was also a very strong representative of the University to the community and to the legislature. I‟ve been told by people from other institutions that he became one of the principal spokespersons for higher education before the legislature and legislative groups. He was very effective in representing higher education; very effective in representing the University to the community. He could talk to almost any kind of group, from the farmers out in the county, to fishermen on the docks, to the business people and education people as well, and I think provided in his own way, strong leadership, although many faculty did not like the more populist approach that he took. He unfortunately, as everybody knows, was killed along with Jeanene DeLille, Don Cole and the pilot of the plane in that tragic accident. I might have been on that plane, I had been with them on the same plane a couple of days earlier at another meeting, and I might have been on that plane as well except that Jeanene DeLille had found a fundraising training activity for deans in Washington D.C. All the deans were in Washington D.C. on the day the plane went down. We hustled back as soon as we learned they were missing. But we found out en route, as we could call each time we had to stop, that they had found the plane and there were no survivors. A great loss of three people who provided strong leadership to the university. Ken Mortimer was next. Mortimer had some clear ideas about what the university should be. He wanted to strengthen the basic liberal arts and sciences orientation, offer a very high quality education. I remember his saying on many occasions that he thought Western was already, and should be further recognized and further developed as, a quality liberal arts and science based institution as an alternative to the more expensive private institutions in the state; the Whitmans, and the PLUs and places of that sort. And he saw us in that light, and that was consistent, I think, with the faculty notion of what the University should be as well. And he supported increasing diversity of the student body. He also tried to strengthen the bonds with the community, and really got the Foundation moving, although the Foundation really began with Olscamp, and Ross moved it along a bit, it really took a significant step forward with Mortimer. I remember Mortimer calling the deans in one day and saying “We have to put a couple, three, four hundred thousand dollars into the Foundation if we want to make it go…if we really wanted to move. He outlined for us what he saw the advantages might be. But informing us that that was money that might otherwise go to us, we were in a reasonably good budget period at that time and after some discussion we unanimously supported putting that money into the Foundation, which enabled him to hire a new director and staff. The Foundation really moved from that point on. He put a lot of energy behind it, and the payoff in the long haul is going to be very strong as a result of that. Then of course the most recent president is Karen Morse, who has continued to work very hard to develop the Foundation, and had done an excellent job in continuing to raise resources for the University, from private, corporate and philanthropic donors as well as from the legislature. I think she has served the University well in her representation to the legislature and worked very hard in providing leadership to the University. I haven‟t agreed with some of her decisions, but that‟s to be expected, you‟re not going to agree with everything that other people do. I can‟t fault her for hard work and her sincere effort. She‟s an extremely nice person and I‟ve been fond of both her and her husband Joe, who unfortunately suffered a tragic stroke a few years ago. SI: I have a couple of people that I would like you to comment on, some of whom we have talked about… PE: Oh yes. 5 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED SI: Chuck Harwood, who hired you to come in here, and then Chuck goes on to be the first Dean of Fairhaven, and dies tragically later. Could you talk a little bit about Chuck? His notions about education and what he was doing in Fairhaven? Even in psychology? PE: Chuck, I think, provided very strong leadership for the department of psychology. It grew rather significantly during the time that he was here. Not only in numbers of students and faculty, but also in terms of the quality of the program, the kind of people he hired. We had some excellent faculty that came on at that time. He was an extremely nice person to work with. He was a very friendly guy, and an excellent scholar and excellent teacher in his own right. I had some classes with him while I was doing a master's program here. I was actually a bit surprised when he took the Fairhaven job, but I think he provided the kind of leadership they needed there as well. His ability to work with any variety of people, and Fairhaven certainly had its variety of folks. My wife and I and family became close friends -- they had children about the same age as ours. We were in New York at the time that he was overcome by carbon monoxide on his boat. His wife Vonda survived, but was ill. Anyway, I thought Chuck was a very important person in the history of the University, and certainly a valued colleague and valued friend of mine. Another person who fits into that category, who I actually knew for a much longer period of time, was Sam Kelly. Sam and I began teaching, let‟s see now, he was at Bellingham High when I came to Bellingham High in 1956, and we taught there and got to know each other quite well. We were working on master‟s degrees at the same time at Western. He went to the University of Chicago and got a degree in higher education. I went to the University of Oregon. Then we both returned to Western. Sam was in education for a while then went over to Old Main, I never could quite figure out what his job was, but he did a lot of things. He had a few titles; one was director of the Center for Higher Education. He was also then the graduate dean, and I think for a while he was also the dean of research as well. But I think most importantly, he was a very valued advisor to the senior administration. He was a wise man, a very quick wit, and a very intelligent person -- he provided very effective council to the presidents and provosts and to me. I didn‟t mention this before, but I think it was between Bob Ross and Karen Morse; we had Al Froderberg as interim president of the University for a while. He was serving as the interim provost at the time of the tragedy and so he was moved into the presidency. And then later Larry DeLorme served as the interim president following Mortimer and during the search that resulted in hiring President Morse. Talbot left the provost position in 1983[?], he didn‟t work too well with Ross; they were of different styles, put it that way. Ross, the “good old boy” from the south, and his style was the “good old boy” approach. And Talbot with the Australian background, and had been working with Olscamp, and had a little different style. So they parted company. But I had high regard for Talbot and I relied upon Talbot and on Sam Kelly for council throughout my tenure as dean. A word or two about Froderberg; Froderberg was an outstanding department chair in the department of mathematics. I worked closely with him in my early years as dean and valued his contribution greatly. Ross was trying to select somebody to represent the university at the legislature. He called Sam and me in one day and he had a person in mind. He said he was inclined to hire this faculty member and both of us said “Oh God, no!” This person would not be the person you‟d want to send. “Well all right, who in the hell are we gonna select?” So I suggested that he talk to Al, even though I was reluctant to have Al assume that position. But I thought Al and he would get along well. Their personal styles, kind of casual in their approach, if you will, a sort of down home kind of approach. I thought Al had a respect for the faculty and would represent the faculty position strongly. He‟d been the President of the Senate and so on. So they struck it off right away. He put Al in that position, and Al represented us in the legislature for a number of years. A great loss to the academic side of the house, but a great plus I think to the University in general in terms of his representation at the legislature. Another person I should mention is Larry DeLorme, who was chair of the department of history, with whom I worked closely. I think probably among all the chairs the two that stood out in those early years especially, were Froderberg and DeLorme; very strong, and helped to shape some of the policies for the college which then really influenced some of the policies for the University as well. Then Larry went on to become the Provost, and I worked closely with him obviously in my role as dean. Then, unfortunately, he had a long period of illness and strong 6 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED medication, and his overall performance declined, not as a function of any lack of ability or intent on his part, but I think just as a function of the illness and the medication that he was taking during that time. I think he had all the potential to continue to be a very strong academic leader for the University. Unfortunately he was not able to carry out his career as I‟m sure he was capable of doing. SI: During your time as dean was Joe Hashisaki still chair in mathematics, or had he passed away? PE: No, I think Hashisaki had left the chair before that. SI: Well Joe later dies. PE: Yes, Joe did. But I think first Al was chair at the time I became dean, I‟m quite sure. SI: Because Hashisaki had been hired by Jarrett to initially build that math department. PE: And he did a fine job. That was a very strong department. He did an excellent job, just as Don Easterbrook did a fine job in building an extremely strong department of geology. I think that approach that Jarrett used of going out and trying to bring in some of the top people he could possibly bring in as chairs, then give them some leeway to make decisions in hiring faculty and things of that sort. It was a very good approach. I had the opportunity to be involved in hiring some of the excellent chairs from outside; Rick Emerson for one, Ken Hoover, Jay Teachman. They‟re people who provide very strong leadership for their departments, and I‟m sure there are others who I am overlooking at this point that are equally strong. SI: One program that emerged in that time and sort of got lost was the nursing program. PE: Yes. SI: Did that begin during your time and then subsequently end during your time as well? PE: It was in the initial stages when I became dean. It was a program that was designed for people who already had RNs to get the baccalaureate degree part of their program if they had their RNs from the community colleges. For a variety of reasons it just didn‟t work very well. We could not maintain the enrollment in the program. I think it may be partly leadership, partly because the program was maybe a bit too rigorous or not flexible enough for people who were working as nurses. At any rate, it was a program that I was later instrumental in phasing out. Similarly the apparel design/fashion marketing program, that was a Seattle-based program, we developed that when Rosalie King came to head up the department. She was hired by Jim Davis just before I became dean. She headed the home economics program and she was instrumental in adding the apparel design/fashion marketing program in Seattle. Actually not doing too badly for its purpose, but not a good program for Western; not to have a program stuck out there like that. The students really didn‟t have any attachment to the University. SI: Is this a bit of an expression of the Bob Ross populist approach? PE: I think it is. I think that‟s a good illustration. And I think some of the students who had AA degrees from community colleges came there and took their upper division program in Seattle and many of them never set foot on Western‟s campus. There is actually another person who I didn‟t mention, Les Karlovitz, who was the provost for a brief time. Les was ill when he came here and didn‟t last very long. He died of cancer. I thought he had the potential to be a very strong provost. Sharp mind, brilliant guy, but he was agonized from the time he came. He‟d have those Saturday meetings with the deans, and God, he‟d come up, and he couldn‟t even wear regular clothes, he‟d come up in a sweat suit. He‟d walk around in pain from conducting a meeting, tenure promotion cases and things of that sort. I felt so sorry for him. SI: But not opposed to working you on Saturday! 7 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PE: But not opposed to working Saturday, yes. He was a hard driver, yes. He was a hard driver. I‟m not sure if I would have lasted as dean if he‟d stayed on as provost. His staying on and my leaving as dean might have been good for the University, I don‟t know! I probably stayed on two or three years longer than I should have. Well anyway, what I‟m doing now is, I had a post-retirement agreement when I left, essentially the same agreement that I had negotiated with forty or fifty faculty when I was dean, for people who had been here for a long time. Teach one quarter a year, you give up your tenure of course, and you don‟t have any benefits, but you teach one quarter a year for three years. And I had that arrangement. Then I had the opportunity to teach a fourth year at a markedly reduced salary, which I did this last year. Just got my teaching evaluations back and they‟re quite good, I‟m very proud of them. A little better than they were last year. I‟ve told the chair that if he needs somebody next winter, I‟d be available again, but don‟t take that as a request to teach, merely an indication of my availability. And if you‟ve got other people who want to teach and need to teach more than I do, hire them first. SI: One other person, Herb Taylor. PE: Herb Taylor, yes. Herb Taylor‟s a real legend at the University as one of the original “wiz kids,” you know, high IQ, Mensa, charismatic personality, dynamic lecturer. I used to occasionally sit in on his lectures just for the entertainment quality. Also I think he was extremely well-read and well-informed and knew a lot about his subject of anthropology. And was a strong leader in the University. As I mentioned earlier, he was one of the people who quickly supported Jarrett‟s efforts to change the nature of the University. He went on to become the dean for research, and did a lot to develop the research activity. Under Taylor‟s direction, that‟s probably when the emphasis upon research at the University really began to blossom. Not to make us a research institution, but to encourage faculty research. And I worked with him and had one of the first grants, actually the largest grant the university had ever gotten for research - $45, 000 - back in the „60s. Taylor was inclined also to call you at odd hours. I remember he called me Thanksgiving morning and said, “I‟m in my office, I‟ve been going your proposal for the grant,” or something, “and there are some significant changes that need to made. I want you up here right now.” And I said, “I‟m preparing dinner for my family!” “Well get up here, it won‟t take too long.” It was Thanksgiving morning. He wanted to talk really, mainly, and chatted a bit. He said, “I think you should maybe change this paragraph a little bit, put this part first and that part second.” A few things of that sort, nothing of any significance, you know. I think he wanted to let you know he was on top of things. I think if anybody had classes from him, they remember Herb Taylor. As well as people like Keith Murray. We have had many great teachers at Western. SI: Maybe if you would editorialize just slightly, but in the Ross period and then his death, and the death of Don Cole, and Jeanene DeLille, was in certain respects a watershed just because of the loss…I don‟t know if you could comment upon what that may have done, if anything, to the institution, but it might be an interesting insight? PE: Don Cole, whose loss I think, to the University, was much greater than most people realized. Cole worked very quietly in his role as vice president for business affairs; but did an extremely effective job in managing the financial resources of the University, with principle focus upon supporting the academic programs. It seemed as though Don could always find at the end of the biennium, a few dollars for the president to have to support this, that, and the other academic program. I think he probably represents one of the stronger people in that position in the University‟s experience. I came to value him very greatly. I think one of the things that happened following the tragic accident was that…we had a period of time, we‟ve talked about the Kelly/Froderberg/DeLorme people involved in … sort of the, I wouldn‟t call it confusion, but there wasn‟t much happening at that time -- people were sort of holding the fort until we got more permanent administration in place. I don‟t see that that had any really strongly negative effect upon the University in the long run because we had strong leadership following that when Mortimer came. But it was a period of time when we were just sort of treading water, I think. Not to in any way discredit the people who were in those positions, they did a good job of doing what they were doing, but they weren‟t there to provide leadership at that time. They were there to keep things running smoothly until we could get new leadership on board of a more permanent nature. 8 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED SI: At that time, at least I have heard, I have no idea if it‟s true; Ross had, for example, a notion of a College of Engineering Technology, which did not fully develop because he was gone. But that was kind of a Bob Ross project that he kind of liked to move along in its own subtle ways. PE: That‟s right. That was certainly something which I think he was pushing forward. I recall one particular incident. I didn‟t mention Paul Ford, who was a Provost for a while under Ross, as well. We had a lot of provosts, and some of those I‟ve even forgot. I recall one day the Deans were in a meeting in Paul Ford‟s office. Paul announced that Bob Ross was advertising, (we had a position open for the chair of that department) for a director of the Division of Engineering Technology. And I said, “We don‟t have a Division of Engineering Technology, we have a department, and we don‟t need a director, we need a chair. And if you‟re going to create a division like that, that‟s normally something which would go through at least the faculty, Academic Coordinating Commission, Planning Council, things of that sort.” “Well,” he said, “here, take this,” he again showed me the announcement. “He‟s down in his office.” Well I got up, took this down to his [President Ross‟s] office, and asked if I could see him, and went in and shut the door. Ross was a guy you could argue with in private, but you never took it outside the room. You could cuss at him, and he‟d cuss at you, and sometimes you gained a point and sometimes you lost. So anyway, I said “God dammit, you can‟t do this.” [Ross], “What do you mean I can‟t do this?” [Elich], “You can‟t just go creating divisions and hiring directors. This is a department in the college I‟m administering.” “Well, what do you want me to do?” he said. [Elich], “What I want you to do is change that to what it‟s supposed to be, to a chair of a department.” [Ross] “Give me that piece of paper!” And he reached out and got a pencil and wetted it his tongue. And he crossed out “director”, and he wrote in “chair,” and he crossed out “division” and wrote in “department.” He says, “There, does that make you happy?” I said, “You‟re not going to change anything, are you?” “No, I‟m not.” He was encouraging us, during a period when the budget was reasonably good, for the Deans to squirrel away some money for a rainy day. So we were in a pretty good budget situation at that time. That was another function of Sam Kelly. Sam Kelly somehow, could take end of biennium money and hide it somewhere for two or three days then give it back to you. I think he usually took ten percent off the top or something too. So we had $250,000-$300,000 that we were saving as a reserve, that‟s what we called it. One day we got a notice that all these reserves were being recaptured centrally. I went over to see Ross and I said, “What are you doing? You told us to reserve this money, and now you just take it away!” And he said, “Well I need it.” I said, “Well we need it too! That‟s my money!” He says, “Listen, it‟s all my money!” That‟s his style. SI: He didn‟t hide it! Now he‟s being the good guy, bringing it back! PE: That was just his approach. “Hey, listen now, it‟s all my money.” 9 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED I was very happy to have stayed at Western during nearly all of my career. I thoroughly enjoyed teaching and had the great pleasure and honor of being selected as Western‟s, “Outstanding Teacher Award” for „65-‟66, by the Associated Students of Western Washington State College. I treasure that, as well as the recognition from the Faculty Senate upon my retiring as dean, and being named Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus. But I thoroughly enjoyed teaching and I thoroughly enjoyed my contact with my colleagues, thoroughly enjoyed the position as dean, particularly the opportunity to work with department chairs and individual faculty to help them build stronger departments and hire stronger faculty. I think I was greatly influenced by an early workshop I went to for the National Council of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, a dean‟s workshop; Bernard Kelly was retiring as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Dakota, where he‟d been the dean for twenty years or so, and he announced that he could really sum this up very easily. He said, “You want to select the very best department chairman you possibly can. And then provide them all the support that you possibly can in hiring and developing the strongest faculty that you can. And your job is to facilitate the chair‟s job in building a strong department, in hiring strong faculty and supporting those faculty. Providing them the things they need in order to exercise their capabilities and talents.” And I always remembered that, and that‟s the way I tried to manage my affairs as dean, as a facilitator rather than a director. When big issues came up, I would call the department chairs together to get their collective wisdom because it was certainly stronger and much more effective than my individual position. I think that my greatest satisfaction came in working with the department chairs and faculty to help them develop as teacher-scholars, and help develop strong departments. I gained a lot of satisfaction in seeing departments develop and faculty and staff develop. I couldn‟t always do everything they wanted, but I always kept the role of the faculty central. The relationship between the faculty and the student is the principle area of focus for the university. END OF TAPE 10 Peter Elich Edited Oral History Transcript – April 11, 2003 Campus History Collection © Western Washington University Libraries Special Collections ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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Title: Kwame Alexander interview
Date: 2015-10-21
Description: Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, New York Times bestselling author of 21 books, and recipient of the 2015 Newbery Medal for his novel, The Crossover.
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