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The Anchor, Volume 57.09: January 31, 1945 Hope College Hope College Digital Commons The Anchor: 1945 The Anchor: 1940-1949 1-31-1945 The Anchor, Volume 57.09: January 31, 1945 Hope College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1945 Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Repository citation: Hope College, "The Anchor, Volume 57.09: January 31, 1945" (1945). The Anchor: 1945. Paper 19. https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/anchor_1945/19 Published in: The Anchor, Volume 57, Issue 9, January 31, 1945. Copyright © 1945 Hope College, Holland, Michigan. This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Anchor: 1940-1949 at Hope College Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Anchor: 1945 by an authorized administrator of Hope College Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Hope College Bnchor LVII-9 Official Publication of the Students of Hope College at Holland, Michigan January 31, 1945 Don Cossacks To Present YW^M to Furnish Crashes Take Lives W. A. L; Student Council Prayer Week Music Of Two Hope Pilots Program Tomorrow Evening Hope's annual prayer week will The holiday season brought trag- Plan Full Social Calendar be held next week. Dr. Frederick edy into the homes of two more In High School Auditorium Olert, the guest speaker, will ad- Hope men who lost their lives in Saturday Night Party Will Be Final Event dress the student body each morn- the service of their country, Lt. ing at eleven o'clock. Devotions William Faasen and Lt. Joseph KOSTRUKOFF TO DIRECT RUSSIAN CHORUS will be in charge of Y.W. and Ellison Acting As Chairman of D. T. Week Whitworth. • Thrilling songs and spectacular dancing! The Don Cos- Y.M. members. Special music will February 12 through 17 will find Hope co-eds busy hunting be presented each morning. Vocal Lt. "Bill" Faasen was killed in up dates for the activities of Dutch Treat Week. This social sacks in person! Tomorrow, Thursday, at 8:15 P. M. the solos will be sung by John Hains, a plane crash over Belgium on De- week is annually planned by Student Council, and this year famous Gen. Platoff Don Cossack Chorus will present a pro- Ruth Ann Poppen, and Dick Vries- cember 28. Bill was from Holland man on Monday, Wednesday, and especially the girls will have to make their dates early and gram in the Holland High school Auditorium. Under the and spent only one semester on Friday, respectively. The Glee Club make definite plans for their activities. direction of Nicholas Kostrukoff has been scheduled to sing two the campus in 1941 after which he W.A.L. is working with the Student Council in this all- this Russian male chorus makes saassm selections on Thursday morning. went to Montana to work. While important week on the Hope co-ed's calendar of social doings, A string quartet, under the direc- transcontinental tours strring on the campus he was a member and will organize a Coketail party tion of Pat Haskins, will furnish many with their Russian folk melo- of Emmersonian fraternity. Friday afternoon, February 16, the music on Tuesday. dies, regimental Cossack songs, which will be held in the gymna- Prayer meetings, led by faculty Lt. "Joe" Whitwcrth, a ferry We Interview Soviet songs, and famous dances. command pilot, was killed on sium. Student Council has planned members, will be held in the Y a big party for Saturday night, Both public and press laud this room from 5:00 until 5:30 P. M. Christmas Day in a plane crash over Indianapolis, Indiana, while February 17. This party will also tinually. on Monday through Thursday. Rev. en route to visit his wife in Ten- be held in the gymnasium — dress world famous organization con- Olert will direct a student forum will be very informal, skirts and which will be held Tuesday eve- nessee. His home was in Flushing, This concert is one in the Colum- New York, and he was also a mem- sweaters for the girls, slacks and ning at a joint Y.W. and Y.M. sport shirts for the "victims." Folk bia Concert Series regularly offered meeting. Any students who wish ber of Emersonian fraternity dur- to the Hope student body. Admis- ing his three years on the campus. games and refreshments will be the to hold conferences with Dr. Olert order of the night. Tickets will be sion will be free upon presentation should contact Edna Mae Richards of activities tickets. sold by Student Council members. or Paul Tanis. Student Council Social Chairman Keep Your Red Cress Ruth Ellison will be General Chair- man of D. T. Week — with Pat Hope Teams Debit* Absence of E. P. McLean AtHisSide; War Fund Haskin taking charge of publicity, Causes Course Transfer From all sectors of the front and Joyce Van Oss as Party Chairman, •t Western State Meet and Mary Liz Aldrich in charge of Having been given a leave of from every branch of the armed On Tuesday, January 23, the other activities to take place dur- absence. Prof. E. P. McLean's for- services come reports of unstinted debate teams of Hope College, jour- praise of the work of the American ing the entire week. There will be neyed to Western State College, in mer classes will be taught by others plenty of smaller group activities during the second semester. Psy- Red Cross. Blood plasma is one Kalamazoo, to participate in all- of the great life-savers of this war. during the week to furnish fun and day debates. The team which is chology will be taught by Prof. entertainment for all Hope girls Garrett Vanderborgh and advanced The Red Cross collects it. An al- coached by Mr. John Hains of the most endless number of bandages and their dates — bowling, skating, Western Seminary won four out of sociology by Prof. Paul E. Hin- coke dates, theater parties. So, to kamp. is needed. The Red Cross makes twelve debates. The theme for this Russian Entertainer them. Red Cross nurses care for all Hope femmes — plan your "line year is "Resolved the Federal Gov- Mrs. Mayo Hadden, Sr., the lo- of attack," get your dates for D. T. cal director of the Federal Aid the sick and the wounded. Red Mary Eliz. Aldrich ernment should enact legislatively Cross furnishes our men with food Week, and make ready for a week for the settlement of labor dis- Bureau, will teach sociology 403 of fun starting February 12. Wichers Wedding At on Tuesdays and Thursdays the and drink where and when they A gracious manner and buoyant putes by compulsory arbitration need it most. Red Cross food, med- personality have helped Mary Liz when voluntary means of settle- fifth period. This is a course of- Chapel Ceremony fered only to those students major- icine and comfort packages have Aldrich to become one of the lead- ment has failed." kept American prisoners-of-war ing Seniors on the Campus, Dr. N. V. Peale On Friday, January 6, at 4:30, ing in sociology. Prof. Clarence Hope's team for the negative was alive. Red Cross renders home serv- Dick Hine, Ruth Ellison, Luella Hope Chapel was the scene of a Kleis will be in charge of buying Her keen, alert mind has made Presen+s Religion food for the dormitory. ice for the seniceman's family. Pyle, and Joan Decker. Gretchen very beautiful wedding when Dor- her presence a boon to many a Bruins, Elaine Bielefeld, Jean Wat- othy Wichers became Mrs. George For all these purposes the ap- prof's class and has earned her As Medicine to son, and Alice Laughlin composed Claver. The chancel was banked peal comes again this year for membership on Alcor and in Who's War Torn World the affirmative team. with ferns, palms, calla lilies, and French Club Considers $200,000,000.00 for the work of the Who in College Life. Mary Liz is candlelabra. The bride was attired Red Cross. The quotas are the majoring in Latin and expects to Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, chapel in a gown of white satin, a finger France and Her Politics same as last year. Holland must teach it. (The classicist of Hope speaker Tuesday morning, present- tip veil and carried a bouquet of raise $15,000 for this cause. Hope College.) . ed a rather new and unusual phase "Y" News Ruth Joldersma was in charge of the Christian ministry. white roses. She was given away College students can help and we Her versatility of thought and of the meeting of the French Club When Dr. Peale accepted his by her father. Dr. Wynand Wich- hope they will. Some of our fel- open mind has helped her in plan- Seniors Prejent Views held January 18 in the Dorian present charge, the Marble Collegi- ers. The dresses of the attendants low-students have made the su- ning many of the social activities. Room. The club members opened ate Church in New York City, it With Marie Jenkins as chairman, carried out a white theme. Murray preme sacrifice, some are missing, the meeting by singing "La Mar- She is president of Women's Ac- was during the depression. Being the senior girls held torch in Snow acted as best man. Little some are prisoners, some are tivities League and has tried to seillaise," the French National the financial center of the nation. last week's YW meeting,ywith six Beth Wichers was the petite flower wounded, many are fighting and replace the lack of men with a so- Hymn.
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