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XLX volt WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE, PULLMAN FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1944 No. 51 King-Queen Candidates Vie For Title 'JIMMY LUNCEFORD'S ORCHESTRA SCHEDULED FOR DANCE MAY 13

Well Known Negro Band to Appear At Men's Gym- Imporlant Notice nosium: Vincent Lopez Also In Prospect To Appear; Sen iors to Revise Prom Plans A list. is nested in the Ever- green office and has been given The highlight date of the campus for the future is Saturday, May to the college hill bus as to who l3-the date that Jimmy Lunceford and his great Negro band are on the staff is privileged to ride scheduled to appear on the campus to play for a dance in the men's on the bus through the Ever------, gymnasium, announced Dean Otis green contract. Those whose C, McCreery and Graduate Man- names are not there may re- ager Earl V. Foster. ceive special permission slips Jimmy Lunceford and his band from the editor if necessary, TODD DUNCAN originated down Harlem way in , but only 'for Evergreen business. New York. At present they are on Students with no connection on a northwest tour but previous to the staff whatsoever should not that they were playing at the violate the Evergreen privilege. TO PERFORM Savoy ballroom and Paramount • theatre in New York city. J. L. Air Corps Brings Negro was the featured jive king in the Hollywood movie rendition of Sta r of Gersh- "Blues in the Night," his most SKYLINERS win's '' • popular recording. The band also played California engagements at In his third triumphal season the Casamanana and the Aragon. as Porgy in Gershwin's Negro The famed Lunceford saxophone folk . Todd Duncan, great TO PlAY AT will be the principal attraction negro baritone, will sing in E. A. Bryan hall at 8 n. m. Friday night, at the dance along with the ar- March 31. This concert is a part rangements of the well-known of the Air Corps entertainment brass section. JUNIOR PROM series and is also open to thestu- This dance is being sponsored dents and members of the Pull- by the Air Corps and ASSCW un- Tickets on Sale Tomorrow. man Community Concert Associa- der the direction of Dean Mc- tion. Ballot Box, King and Creery and Mr. Foster. Dean Mc- Duncan skyrocketed to fame Creery also stated that Vincent Queen Pictures To with his interpretation of Porgy in Be in Bookstore the original production of "Porgy Lopez and his orchestra are in and Bess" in 1935. Before that prospect to appear on the campus. time he had made concert ap- However the plans are very ten- The Sky Liners from Walla tative but a request has been sent Walla will furnish the dance music pearances, and one excursion into at the Junior Prom April 15 an- the opera "Cavaleria Rusticana." to him as to his open dates said nounced Jeanette Enright, chair- After the original "Porgy"-a Dean McCreery. man. The ten piece band, led by great artistic but not commercial Jimmy Lunceford's appearance Howard Philips has been featured success, Duncan retu~ned to his has been scheduled the same eve- at the Whitman college dances. (Continued on Page 3) Pictured above are the soldier-civilian candidates who are com- Delta Delta Delta; Alberta Dunagan, Sigma Kappa. Stahding, ning as the Senior Prom. A spe- peting for title of King and Queen of the Junior Prom. The win-- left to right, Shirley Folsom, Kappa Alpha Theta; Donnell Drake, Tickets for the Junior Prom cial meeting will be held today will go on sale tomorrow and will ners will be crowned at the annual Junior Prom April 15. The with the coordinators office and Air Corps, Squadron 1; Bina Guenther, Alpha Chi Omega; Carl be sold in the orderly rooms in I candidates from left to right, seated are: Geneva Conniff, Pi Beta Bergquist, Vets; Margaret Schleef, Kappa Kappa. Gamma; Mort (.(.F. Songlesl several members of the senior the barracks, at the Bookstore, class. Dean McCreery said, "I Phi; Barbara Pearson, Alpha Gamma Delta; Wanda Piper, Joslin, Associated Men Students; Evelyn Lund, Duncan Dunn; and by representatives at Chi Nu wouldn't say it is impossible to R. E. Smith, Air Corps, Squadron 3; Connie HofCl'.cCommunity Chi, Collegiate Manor, Campus Delta Zeta; ;rohn Russell, Air Corps, Squadron 5; Lorra.ine Aldous. Planned lor Sat. get together and we will canvass Hall; William Moffitt, Air Corps, Squadron 2; and Kay Allison, Lodge and Community hall. Each South Hall; Pannalee BrouiUard, Chi Omega; Millie Price, Ste- all possibilities to help-the senior Kappa Delta. Absent from the picture were Jean Noteboom, ticket will entitle the purchaser to A songfest in the Golf Club vens Hall; Marvel .Jean Shirley, Alpha Delta Pi; Helen Friemuth, cast a vote for one King and class." Jim Hattrick, senior class North Hall, and Marjorie McReynolds, Linden Cottage. house Saturday morning at 9: 30 Queen candidate. The ballot box president, expressed the hope that a. m. will open the annual College will be placed in the Bookstore the Senior Prom can go on as where pictures of the candidates Christian Fellowship Inland Em- YWCA Sophomore will also be on display. pire convention, at which time scheduled with the planned decor- Rennick, Hast:ings· Nominai:ed The theme of the semi-formal Mr. Nathan Walton, returned ations and the use of Jimmy is the "World of Tomorrow" and missionary from China, will speak Lunceford's orchestra. (ouncil Members the dance programs and decora- and later lead an informal discus- tions will fit in with the theme. sion. ,Named Wednes. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert T. Norris, Miss Alice Reid, Intervarsity For Si:udeni: Body Presiden~ Col. and Mrs. W. L. Morrison and Fellowship staff member, will be Sprin.g Vacation Dean and Mrs. C. C. Todd, will be guest speaker at a Bible study Recognition Service Held the patrons and patronesses. Spe- in the Y. M. rooms at 1:30 n. m. ! At student body elections, April cial guests include: President E. Plans Announced • During Dinner Hour At a tea in South Hall Satur- Paper (ampaign 11 either BOB RENNICK or O. Holland, Miss Lulu Holmes and CHARLES (MYRT) HASTINGS Fusser's Corrected At Dorms and Jim Hattrick, president of the day afternoon from 3 to 5 Mr. By Board Today will be elected to serve as presi- If there are any changes in Houses senior class. ' Walton will discuss his experience dent of ASSCW for 1944-45. Bob student addresses since the The climax of the dance, which in China. He has spent fourteen To Be Tomorrow Shhhh .. " don't tell a soul, is on the Board of Control, a second semester it is request- concludes Junior week, will be the years there, the last one in a Jap- Members of the YWCA Sopho- but there's going to be a SPRING member of the basketball team, ed that .the changes be made crowning of the King and Queen anese concentration camp in oc- City, College. to Cooperate more Council held a recognition VACATION beginning next Wed- and also a member of Beta Theta at the YMCA rooms, 4521, as at intermission. Al Raney, presi- cupied China. His wife and three service in each house and hall nesday and ending on Monday! It In One-Day Paper Pi fraternity. He was also on the the Fusser's Guide is to be dent of the Junior class, will be children, the youngest of which Wednesday night during the din- the master-of-ceremonies at the was born in the concentration will not only apply to civilians on Salvage Drive executive committee of the sopho- revised and corrections run next week in the Evergreen. ner hour for the newly appointed crowning, following which, the camp, were with him, the campus, but for every G.1., more class. Myrt was past. presi- gi,rl selected by the individual Tomorrow, April 1, the college King and Queen will lead the Mr. Walton will also speak at from Vet to Air Cadet. dent of A.M.S, and a member of • groups. The purpose of the can- Grand March. and city will cooperate in a rna- 7 :30 in the Golf Club house and A special meeting was held last the Bookstore board. He lived at dlelight service was that the can- '01' one-day paper salvage drive in hold a worship service Sunday night by the Board of Regents Pine Manor for his first two years dle is the Y.W. symbol of carry- ~n attempt to help relieve the Mary J. ('arroll morning from 9:30 to 10:30 in the to pass the bill on the vacation, and was a member of the Inter- ing on the light of Christian life, critical paper shortage. Because Collegiate Knights. Board Approves Y. M. rooms. The Board of Regents agreed that The council members were paper is so vital to the war ef- Vying for the office of vice Named A,sPrexy All students who are interested the tedious work imposed on pro- chosen for their interest in Y.W. fort, the present shortage is a president is IRMA PIOVESAN are welcomed by C. C. F. members fessors and students called for a and their ability to carry out the Siudents Named nationwide problem. and MARGARET SCHLEEF. Irma to attend any of these various break, Also the spreading of the Of Panhellenic work next year. The council has meetings. (Continued on Page 3) The college YMCA service com- is a member of Sigma Kappa Phi charge of the sewing basket, help- For WS( Awards mittee is heading the drive on the foreign language honorary, and New president of senior Pan- ing at the USO and various other campus, cooperating with the president of Newman Club. She hellenic is' Mary Jane Carroll, services. They are in charge of Ten boys who are to receive bas- pullman City Salvage committee was chosen as one of the out- Delta Delta Delta; Delta Zelta's, the Y.W. membership and bring ketball awards and three girls who and the Civilian Defense council. standing junior women on the Evelyn Whitner will fill the office the Y.W. news to the individual are to receive the Crimson W All members of the YMCA organ- Chinook list. Margaret Schleef of secretary-treasurer. group houses once a week, sweater were approved by the was president of the junior class, ization are working on the pro- New members in Panhellenic Board of Controls at a recent NEWS SLANTS ject under the chairmanship of member of Gamma Beta, wom- New Council members include: include the presiden~ and rush Sally Staffelbach, Alpha Chi meeting, announced Jennie Mae Tom Kitayama, head of the ser- en's business' administation hon- chairman from each sorority, Thomas, president. By B'ILL CHAPLIN vice committee. Help in sorting orary; and is a member of Kappa Omega; Shirley Lamp, Alpha They are: Alpha Chi Omega, Nor- . Names which were submitted and bundling may be had by Kappa Gamma. She has also Delta Pi; Reba Armstrong, Alpha ene Wallace, Mickey Hale; Alpha by the athletic council, now com- phoning Tom at 3054. been an orientation leader and Gamma Delta; Hazel Cox, Chi * *be the*next great city to fall to Gamma Delta, Eleanor Todd, member of Spurs. Omega; Betty Griffith, Delta posed of faculty members, to re- the victorious army. Truck and salvage workers will ceive the award are: Vernon Car- The Russian Front Edith Bennett; Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Delta; Elaine Piper, Delta Fighting on the Eastern Front Now that the German armies collect paper wherever it is left on CATHERINE McKENZIE and stens, Vincent Gregg, Morten Jos- Betty Pott, Diana Eckersley; Chi Zeta; Peggy Leach, Kappa Alpha has now crossed over the Prut Riv- have been cut in two we may ex- curbs throughout the city and on JEANETTE ENRIGHT will com- lin, Warren Lagers, Robert Ren- (Continued on page 3) er into Rumania proper where pect new developments on the the campus. The help of every- pete for secretary. Catherine is a Omega, Buryl Stewart, Jean Nel- nick, Frederick Brayton, Bruce Russian troops are still advanc- Eastern front. It is believed that one is needed in sorting, bundling, member of Tri Delt and is presi- son; Delta Delta Delta, Margaret Dickinson, Richard Morgan, Louis ing. The Russian troops have en- the action in the South will be and tying the papers. dent of Fish Fans. She belongs Jolly, Mary Boone; Delta ZeIt a, Orsini, and Darrol Waller. tered the vital center of Cer- mostly mopping up operations and Newspapers must be folded to to Queen's Guard and was active Mary Foss, Mildred Neustel; Sig- Evergreen Receive's Crimson W recommendations of nauti which is the .provincial there will be an expected shift in balf-page size, and a stout cord in Spurs, as well as being an ori- ma Kappa, Betty Bulmer, Billie Miss Helen G. Smith of the P. E. capital of Bucovina. The Lwow- action to the north. This will placed around the bundle in both entation leader. Jeanette is presi- Leffers from Grads department which were approved Bucharest railway has also been be in old Poland so the Russians directions and tied with a non- dent of the Sigma Nu coed resi- Ferguson; Kappa Alpha Theta, include: Alberta Dunagan, Helen cut in the crossing of the Prut will oe in a good position when our sliP knot. Any kind of scrap pa- dence and chairman of the Jun- Shirley Folsom, Jean Thornton; Lt. Earl Cochran, member of F. Stowell, and Marjorie L. Thorn- River. This means that the Ger- invasion strikes in the West. The per should not be included with ior Prom. She was awarded the Kappa Kappa Gamma, Lois Cun- Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity and mb. • mans now have no rail communi- next large feature of this attack the newspapers. stout cords must Pi Lambda Theta educational ningham, Mary Jane Warn; Kap- graduate of WSC, recently wrote Replacements on the Board of cations east of the Carpathian will be the battle of Kovel on the be tied securely around the paper. award for outstanding work. pa Delta, Catherine Allison, Bet- to the Evergreen telling of his Controls for the remaining semes- mountains and that the southern road to Warsaw. It is believed string for this purpose may be Election day for the ASSCW whereabouts. He stated he has ter are John Johnson, senior in- armies have been cut off from that the Russians by driving in secured at the college YMCA of- elections will be Tuesday, April ty Lisle; and Pi Beta Phi, Geneva been overseas nearly a year, land- dependent man and Vernon Car- those in the Jlorth. Russian troops from the East will create a diver- fice above the college post office, 11, in the YMCA rooms above the pa Delta, Vatherine Allison, Bet- ing in Africa last spring and go- stens, senior fraternity man. Doris have also driven on Iasi in Ru- ionary action drawing Nazi 801- or if more convenient, at the Ci- post office. Election hours will be "Rush plans will be made at ing to Italy during the beginning Hope is a new member on the mania which lies seven miles from diEOrsfrom the west. vilian Defense office downtown. from 9 to 12 a.m. and from 1 to the next meeting, also plans for a of the campaign. He stated in his Board as the president elect of the river. To the northwest of 5 p.m. Students must have their Faculty members or others con- Panhellenic Day," stated Eleanor letter, "I know you 'read more of AWS. As there will be no evening Cernauti, German" troops were tributing old test papers and such student body cards with them dance on May Day, ASSCW is The Italian Front English, outgoing president. this country than I could tell again facing annihilation in a The Third battle for Cassino small items in the paper line when they come to vote. sponsoring a street dance to be you. It is beautiful when the sun pocket which all means of escape has ended with our troops still in held. Arrangements will be an- are asked to bundle them separ- Other candidates for offices in- shines but when it rains it is had been severed. The Red Army possession of Castle Hill and the ately from the newspapers. clude: nounced later, stated Jennie Mae. worse than California." His ad- is now within 28 miles of the rail station but the Germans are other directions may be found Senior Fraternity Man Repre- REY;ISION,MA,DE dress is: Lt. S. E. Cochran 386th ~ northern Rumanian frontier. The still within the town itself. Ad- in the previous edition of the Ev- sentative: CLARENCE LOCKE. Engr. Bn. PBS, APO 782, care of defence line of the Germans was vanced detachments of Indian ergreen. Full instructions for the Senior Independent Man Repre- OF JOHNSON BOOK Postmaster, New York. N. Y. based on the severed rail line. The troops which held Hangmans Hill scrap paper collection on Satur- Evergreen Meeting sentative: JESS NEWLUN, BOB Lt. Sheldon Olney of the Navy fighting in old Poland has taken near the top of Mt. Cassino in day have been printed and dist- STAUFFER. Just off the presses is the third Air Corps, writes that they were There will be an Evergreen the Russians to the foothills of spite of heavy enemy fire have ributed to each house and dorm. Senior Sorority Woman Repre- revision of the widely used "Gov- recently entertained in the south meeting Saturday morning at the Carpathian Mountains and in been withdrawn from these posi- sentative: MERIEL STATES, ernment in the " Pacific by a native choir that had 10:30. Everyone is to be present the extreme South the port of tions. The Germans were able to The average American farmer BETTY .LISLE. wh~se author is Dr. Claudius O. been converted and educated by or send an excuse if they wish to Nicolaev which was the Black reinforce their troops in Cassino. Sea port of the Russian fleet has produces enough to feed four non- Senior Independent Woman Johnson ,head of the department Methodist miSSionaries. The re- remain on the staff. So the attack came to a halt with fallen to the Red Army. Oddessa farming persons. 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