... Wf)t... ilontana Alumnus Published by the ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Missoula Montana VOL. 4 APRIL, 1926 NO. 4 . tECfje. jflontana Alumnus! VOL. 4 NO. 4 Entered as second-class matter November 1, 1922, at the postoffice at Missoula, Montana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. HELEN NEWMAN ........ ------- ------- Editor GERTRUDE BUCKHOUS ....Associate Editor WINIFRED FEIGHNER ....Associate Editor J. B. SPEER..................... Business Manager The Montana Alumnus is published in October, December, March and June by the Alumni Association of the State University of Montana. Subscription: 75c a year; subscription and annual dues of Alumni Association combined, $1.50 a year. Table of Contents, April, 1926 Page Alumni News ........................................................................................... 3 Athletics.................................................................................................. 1 1 Campus Activities .................................................................................. 16 Summer School Story .......... 21 Class News ................................... 23 THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION of the STATE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA Executive Committee, 1925-26 WILLIAM J. JAMESON, ’19............................................... ................... President GRACE BARNETT, '21.............................. ........................ ...... .....Vice-President HELEN NEWMAN, ’24............................... ......................... ... Secretary-Treasurer MORRIS McCOLLUM, ’23......... ....................... .................. .Three-Year Delegate THOMAS C. BUSHA, ’17..................................................... .Three-Year Delegate GEORGE A. SHEPARD, ’21............................................... .Three-Year Delegate HARRY DAHLBERG, ’21.................................................... ....One-Year Delegate GILBERT PORTER, ’23______ .'.____ ....One-Year Delegate FRED WHISLER, ’15.......................................... .............. ....One-Year Delegate ALOMM]! MEW! | FORMER CLASS SECRETARY experiences seem to point to wreck WRITES OF TRIP TO CHILE and death. Next morning we started through W . J . T a it, ’10. the Canal, looking up the hill, through I am in the employ of the Chile Ex­ Catun Lake and Gaillard Cut, and ploration Company at the plant in down the hill on the Pacific side, stop­ Chuquicamata, Chile. I came with a ping at Balboa just after lunch. number of others, in connection with Everything works so smoothly that a big construction program, remodel­ the Canal passage does not seem so ling the plant here to bring it up to much of a feat till one studies the mat­ date, and to a large production of ter a little and then all the beauty copper. of the system and organization reveals We sailed from New York March itself. [ 16, on the Santa Luisa. While in The administration of the Canal and f New York I had a delightful visit Canal Zone centers in Balboa, and a with Dutch Winninghoff, Mrs. Dutch, beautiful town has been laid out to and little Jack, who was doing finely. house the various activities, with The navy * ‘Blimp,’* Los Angeles, saw palm lined drives, flowering hedges, us off past “ Rum Row,” which was and everywhere immaculate cleanli­ nearly deserted. She was very beau­ ness. We drove through Panama City, tiful, sailing along in the sunshine of saw the church with the golden altar, a lovely spring day. the government buildings, and a trop­ We headed due south and our next ical shower, solid sheets of rain sluic­ sight of land was Watling Island, or ing down the streets. All the children San Salvador, where Columbus first in town turned out for a bath, splash­ landed. We had been out of sight of ing in the gutters and running land for only three days, yet we felt a through the rain, some with suits and thrill when we first made it out on the others without. horizon. Then on through the famous Late in the afternoon we sailed for Windward Passage between Cuba and our first stop below Panama, Talara, Haiti, and across the Caribbean Sea in Peru. Talara is the port for the ex­ to Colon and Panama. These were de­ port of oil from the Peruvian fields. lightful days of the best weather im­ We stayed only an hour or so in Ta­ aginable but when we reached Cristo­ lara and sailed on for Salaverry. bal there was a rush for the land. There are very few harbors on the Cristobal is the U. S. Canal Zone city west coast of South America and pas­ and Colon belongs to the Republic of sengers and freight for these ports are Panama. They are separated by the handled by launches and lighters. width of a street, and traffic comes With a swell on the ocean landings and goes as it will. We spent the and embarcations become very in­ afternoon visiting the shops and rid­ teresting proceedings. From the losses ing through the city and the countrv sustained the risk must be less than it near it. To cover more territory we appears but, of course, one might as had a car outside of town, but in town well be killed as scared to death. Be­ we did as the Romans, and patronized low Talara the coast outside of the ir­ the old hacks driven by more or less rigated valleys is barren and Sala­ dilapidated drivers and pulled by a verry is a dirty little town set in the couple of flea-bitten ponies. Traffic shelter of a turn of the hills. We here keeps to the left instead of the left two passengers there, a bride and right, which may be all very well groom. It was the bride’s first ex­ when you are used to it but your first perience in South America, and Sala- 4 THE MONTANA ALUMNUS verry is an awful start. Fortunately and his family live there on the job. their home is to be up the river from One stall had a complete stock of old Trujillo, where there are some big nails, screws, keys without locks, and sugar plantations and some mining locks without keys. The only place enterprises. The Salaverry water sup­ you could find such another collection ply is a well in one end of town from would be in a small boy’s pocket. In which the water is distributed by the meat market the various cuts of burros, carrying a keg on each side meat are hung up on strings so that and a rider on top. From appearances they can be readily examined. I the per capita consumption is small. looked some of them over, but they We were followed about by a crowd did not seem to be cut by any scheme of children who scrambled for coins, of dissection that I could fathom. posed for pictures, and helped us There are many very fine shops and chase the sand spiders on the beach. residences, too, for Lima is a wealthy We left the bride wee ping in the cus­ city. Practically all the shops are toms, guarding their belongings, while open to the street and at night, and at the groom hunted up the officials. noon, from 12 to 2, are closed up by We spent two days at Callao and great wooden shutters, held in nlace Lima the capital of Peru, which is a by iron straps and huge padlocks. few miles up from Callao. The two In the valley about Lima are fields cities are joined by an American built of corn, cotton, and cane, separated concrete road over which operates a by adobe walls in various stages of line of American busses. In fact, Cal­ disrepair. On some of these walls one lao and Lima are full of familiar sees advertisements for tractors and signs, Willard batteries, Ford, Buick, automobiles, while inside a yoke of Singer Sewing Machines, General Elec­ oxen is plowing with a home-made tric, Westinghouse, Etc. It looked plow. All of South America is the much like a page from the Satevepost. place where extremes meet. At the cathedral in Lima we saw the Below Callao the coastal mountains bones of Pizarro carefully preserved in are more rugged and come down to a glass coffin, and proudly exhibited. the sea, with occasional valleys mak­ A new shrine is under construction ing oases in a rockbound barren which will exhibit him to better ad­ coast. All the headlands and islands vantage. Part of the cathedral dates are inhabited by the guano birds that back to the Spanish conquest and ad­ fly along in seemingly endless lines. ditions have been made from time to They dive into the water and go down time. There are copies of famous under with very little disturbance of paintings brought fr^m Snain and a the surface; coming up with a fish wealth of wood carving about the al­ and riding along on the surface while tar. We sat in the seat of one of the gulping it down. early bishops to bring us luck on our We called at Pisco, Mollendo, Arica, voyage. Iquique, and Tocopilla before reaching The government buildings adjoin out destination, Antofagasta; but our the plaza in front of the cathedral and stops were short so that we saw little are verv ornate snecimens of architec­ except at Tocopilla, where we stopped ture. All the buildings are stucco and about 12 hours. some of it is worked with great skill. Tocopilla is the port of the Anglo- There are many little squares through­ Chilean Nitrate Company, an Amer­ out the city, each adorned with a ican and English firm, and is the site statue of a Peruvian general. Some of the power house for.our plant here of them are splendid pieces of sculp­ in Chuqui. It is a little town built on ture. the beach under a range of towering We visited a public market where mountains that rise from the water’s you could buy anything you might edge. It consists mostly of ware­ want; that is, if you still wanted it houses and oil tanks. The water for after seeing the market. Most of the city is condensed from sea water the stalls are small and the proprietor in the power house.