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V COLLEGE OF THE PACIFIC, STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA, FEBRUARY, 1931 No. 3 Alumni Clubs Are Organized In Sixth Summer Session Will Open San Francisco, Los Angeles, Fresno June 22, Announces Dean Werner Pacific Alumni Clubs have been organized in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Pacific's sixth annual Summer Session will begin June 22 for a period of and Fresno, and officers were elected at meetings held in December during six weeks, according to Dr. G. A. Werner, Dean of the session. Courses will the California Teachers' Institutes. Alumni of the Monterey Bay Region, be offered in the departments of art, biologic sciences, chemistry, economics, where a group was organized last year, met in Santa Cruz. Meetings of these education, English, geology, history and political science, ancient and modern groups will be held periodically to enable alumni to renew old acquaintances, languages', music, religious education, speech, mathematics, engineering, law, meet other former Pacific students who are residing in their communities, and and physical education. encourage all alumni to support Pacific. The School of Education is equipped to train candidates for Junior High and Paul Easterbrook '27 was re-elected president of the Monterey Bay Region General High School credentials, and gives courses in the fundamental group group at its meeting at Palomar Hotel in Santa Cruz December IS. Gordon of educational requirements for administrator and supervisor credentials. It is also prepared to give training to those Knoles '29 was elected secretary. ' desiring special credentials to teach Speeches were made by the president, San Joaquin Alumni music, drawing and art, oral and dra J. H. Kendall '89, Emma Stuart Cole WHO'S NEW matic expression, and physical educa man '79, and J. E. Russell '97. Pacific On the Faculty Since '24 Hold Institute Reunion tion and physical activities of both the songs were led by Gordon Knoles. The elementary and high school grade. 1931 meeting during Teachers' Insti The Spanish School will be held for tute for this group will be held at San Dr. Gertrude The first Pacific alumni reunion the third consecutive summer in re Luis Obispo. Marian Sibley during a Teachers' Institute in San sponse to requests from students and holds the dis Joaquin County was a dinner meeting San Francisco teachers who desire to study where tinction of be on November 25 in the College Dining Approximately fifty alumni and guests they may become familiar with Span attended the reunion dinner held on ing the only hall. woman on the ish life and customs and use the lan the evening of December 16 at the James Corson '27, toastmaster, pre guage in daily life. Spanish music, College of the William Taylor Hotel in San Francis sided over the following program: magazines, and newspapers, will be Pacific faculty co. Everett Stark '29 was elected presi Welcome by President Tully C. provided in a house where the students with a Ph. D. dent of the San Francisco unit and will live, study, play and converse in degree. She Knoles. Merlin Ware Porter '26 is the secre an atmosphere that is truly character came to Pacif Pacific's 1930-31 basketball season by tary. Coach "Swede" Righter. istic of the Spanish-speaking countries. President Tully C. Knoles told about ic in 1928 to the progress of Pacific since it located teach in the "An Analysis of the Forecast" by Demonstration School in Stockton and outlined various Department of Ovid H. Ritter, Controller. A modern Demonstration School, a phases of its activity. Impromptu talks English, and Vocal solos by Fay French, accom new and successful feature of last were made by Dr. John L. Burcham, has made an panied by Helen Johnson. summer's session, will be repeated this Judge John E. Richards, Judge Charles enviable num A reading by Evelyn Medcalf ac year. The registration for this school Shurtleff, C. N. Kirkbride, and Mr. ber of devoted companied by Janis Van Theil. was so large that students had to be friends among turned away even after the accommo Porter. Dr. Sibley Pacific Hail. A reading by Harold Androus, a faculty and dations had been extended. Marion O. students. Mrs. Emma Kerr Hurd x'71 of Lodi Pease, supervisor of elementary cadet junior student, and vocal solos by was present at the dinner and stated Dr. Sibley received her A. B. degree teachers, will direct the School which Flossita Badger '18, were other num that it was the first Pacific Alumni re bers on the program. Marshal Hale, from Mount Holyoke College, and her enables grammar school pupils to gain M. A. and Ph. D. from Cornell Uni union she had attended on the Stock- as much as a whole semester's work president of the alumni association, ton campus. Other alumni and guests (»= mucn presided. versity. During the summer of 1928, at the dinner were: Maureen Moore uurmgiring theuie session. Los Angeles she was a graduate student at the ses The dormitories and the dining hall sion for American University Women '28, Caroline Leland '29, Thelma West Dr. Owen Cochran Coy '07 was Garben '27, Margaret Sweet '28, Jean will be open to accommodate summer elected president of the Los Angeles at Oxford University, England. session students this year. Reasonable Important positions which she has Humphreys '27, Hazel Kelley McCuen club at a breakfast meeting on De '28, Arthur T. Smith '30, Ralph M. rates for board and room are being cember 17. Other officers elected are: held since 1919 include Instructor in offered. English, Montana State College; Head Brittsan '27, Hoyle Carpenter '30, Lor Dr. Rockwell D. Hunt '90, vice-presi Dr. Werner is completing arrange of the Department of English, Sterling raine Knoles '21, George H. Knoles '28, dent, and Blanche Haugner Thompson ments to have some of the foremost College, Kansas; and Assistant Dean Agnes Clark Burchfiel '26, Beryl E. '25, secretary. Dr. Bruce R. Baxter educators as visiting professors on the of Women and Assistant Professor of Burchfiel '26, Teruji Endow '31, Edith Hon. '26 presided over the meeting. faculty, and is engaging several out English, Ohio Wesleyan University. M. Crittenden '95, Berniece Fiola '28, Dr. Hunt told the group about the standing speakers for a series of lec Her present rank is Associate Profes Margaret Willms Righter '28, Louis early history of the college and the tures. Pacific Little Theatre produc sor of English. She offers popular Kroeck '95, Dr. and Mrs. Tully C. Napa Collegiate Institute, and gave a tions, luncheons, recitals, receptions, courses in Modern British Poetry, De Knoles, Dr. and Mrs. John L. Burcham, few delightful character sketches of and excursions will be on the social velopment of the Drama, Eighteenth Mr. and Mrs. Ovid H. Ritter, Nella several of the men who founded the calendar for the summer students. Century Prose, Nineteenth Century Rogers '28, Etta E. Booth '25, C. _E. college. Among these he mentioned Tennis courts and a lake for boating Novel, Shakespeare, and Trends and Righter, Charles Gagnon '29, Bernice Rev. Isaac Owen, Rev. A. S. Gibbons, and swimming offer other opportuni Backgrounds in English Literature. McArdle '27, Anne Osborn '27, and Rev. M. C. Briggs, and Rev. Edward Keenly interested in students and Birdie Mitchell '27. ties for recreation. Bannister. He presented the secretary always approachable, Professor Sibley with a copy of the Overland Monthly, gives lavishly of herself. She is a sym Second Fine Arts Matinee May, 1901, which contains an article pathetic and inspiring teacher who Seventeen Students Earn about the Golden Jubilee of the Uni To Be Presented February 28 blends the highest type of scholarship A. B. Degree Since June versity of Pacific. with deep human understanding. She The second Fine Arts Matinee, com Alice McComas Gray '97 gave two has ably shown her interest and talent posed of creative dances, drama, and excellent piano "numbers, and vocal in dramatics by participation in the Seventeen students have completed musical numbers, will be presented by numbers 'were furnished by Frances high type of productions of the Pa their work for the Bachelor of Arts Haynes- '19. The meeting adjourned Pacific students under the direction of cific stage. degree since June, 1930. They will re Willian Hinsdale, head of the Speech with the singing of Pacific Hail. Her scholarly attainments are evi ceive their certificates of graduation Fresno denced by membership in Phi Beta with members of the 1931 _class on Department, on the afternoon of Feb Ovid H. Ritter, Controller of Pa Kappa, national honorary scholastic Commencement Day, June 15. ruary 28 in the College auditorium. cific, spoke on "The Future of Pacific" fraternity: Pi Lambda Theta, honorary The seven who completed their work Two one-act plays will be presented. at the Fresno Alumni luncheon on educational society; and the Western at the end of the 1930 summer session The first is "Devil's Game," a prize- December 18. Herbert Ferguson '29 Branch of the Modern Language Asso include Sue Drouin, Lois Farrar, winning drama of collegiate life by presided.