= ------~~------~~.-~ S" c= ~- -i This Issue WASHINGTON STATE COMMENCEMENT takes the stage front and center this month as plans for WSC's 59th annual graduation POWWOW exercises roll in high gear. PO W WOW reports on Commencement and the annual visit of the Golden Grads to Volume May 1955 Number 9 campus next month in a feature story xxxv on page 3. We have a little fun, too, with Commencement Chairman Allen RICHARD B. FRY, EDITOR Miller who has scheduled the exercises indoors this year. FIFTY YEARS AGO a fellow with FEATURES the improbable name of Colonel Speed Sapp was quite a personality on the old WAC campus. Next month, Commencement Events 00 00. 3 Colonel Sapp, now eighty years of age Colonel Sapp Coming Back __ 00 _ _ • ______4 and living in Seattle, will return to the campus to get the degree he missed Spring Sports __ .______5 by only a few hours back in 1906. Dad's Day __.___ _ 6 The stOry is on page 4. Mothers' Week-End ______8 SPRING SPORTS are histOry now, but POWWOW rounds them up for fans on page 5.
DAD'S DAY promises to be some DEPARTMENTS thing special next fall. The committee, chairmanned by Mike HoctOr, Golden In Memoriam 10 dale, has a big event planned and ___ 12 ready-at this early date yet. Read Cutting Up The Classes about it on page 6. Along Hello Walk ______15 MOTHERS' WEEK-END is always a festive occasion at WSC, and this year certainly was no exception. Al John W. Parkhill, '29, Dist. IV though the weather around Pullman Alumni Officers 1954-55 22 South Garfield has been anything but springy so far, \ Venatchee, Washington Marshall Neill, '36, Presi The WASHINGTON STATE POWWOW, published monthly except July and August by the State College of Washington, Pullman, Wash ington, is a digest of news about the College and its alumni. Established 1910. Subscription $4.00 a year. Entered as second class matter June 19, 1919, at the Post Office, Pullman, Washington, under act of Congress, March 3, 1879. PAGE 2 WSC POWWOW Definitely Indoors 59th Annual Commencement Set for June 5 at State College WSC Commencement Chairman Al in the words of wisdom usually tossed the annual Senior-Alumni Banquet in len Miller has come as close to ad off by Commencement speakers re the CUB Ballroom, and Sunday will mitting defeat as he ever will. Miller sented the arbitrary decision to seek find them attending Baccalaureate and has just announced that graduation shelter at such an early date. The Commencement as guests of the Col exercises for the Class of 1955 will be homespun photographers, equipped lege. held indoors, in J. Fred Bohler Gym only with old reliable box cameras Plans and tickets for the Annual nasium, June 5, at 2: 30 P.M. but determined to get pictures of Senior-Alumni Banquet Saturday even A veteran of more than twenty-five Junior shaking hands with President ing, June 4, at 6 o'clock in Wilson years in educational broadcasting-a C. Clement French and receiving a Compton Union, are moving rapidly. somewhat hazardous business itself"" sheepskin, moaned about the lighting Alumni Director Patterson and the Miller has seldom found himself in a in the gymnasium. members of his banquet committee more precarious position than in the But it's set and that's the way it's report that nearly 200 tickets already three years he has served as chairman going to remain. The Class of '55 will have been sold. This is far ahead of and chief weather forecaster of WSC's march down the aisles of Bohler Gym last year's advance sale although the Commencement committee. nasium on the afternoon of June 5, banquet drew 486 persons in 1954. As a freshman chairman in 1953, and after a few preliminaries awarding The program for the banquet will Miller called for outdoor exercises in of degrees will get underway. feature musical entertainment by the Rogers Field and then with several Commencement Chairman Miller WSC Choir, sketches of the Classes thousand other brave souls sat huddled will have made a number of friends of '05 and '55, and awards to Out in the stands while a sudden storm by his decision. Among these will be standing members of this year's grad blew in and scattered academic dig the Golden Grads, members of the uating class. nity and the Commencement speaker's Class of 1905, who are returning on For the complete schedule of Com script all over the lot. It didn't help this the 50th anniversary of their mencement week-end events at WSC, any that day to have cold, windblown graduation from WSC to be honored please turn to the back cover of this deans and department chairmen pause by the College and the Alumni Asso issue of powwow. on their way out of the stadium and ciation. The Golden Grads are guests ask: "By the way, where are you of the President each year at Com "" One of his student newscasters working next year?" Some of them mencement time and usually join the on radio station KWSC, reporting on adding: "Drop by the office and say President's party at graduation exer the forthcoming marriage (a few hello before you leave town." cises. They undoubtedly will find it years ago) of Vice President Alben Still shaken, but unbowed, Miller much more comfortable in the con Barkley, said, "The wedding will take set out to make sure the situation fines of Bohler Gymnasium than on place in New York but the bride's would not be repeated in 1954. He Rogers Field where the elements can torso is being prepared in Hollywood." personally checked a variety of long be wicked at this time of year. range forecasts, called for hourly Six members of the Class of '05 weather reports fro,m his lieutenants are planning to gather for the Golden on Commencement morning, and at 10 Grad Weekend this year. As pow Sayles Named to Head o'clock made his decision: "Indoors." wow goes to Press, Mrs. Frank T. Pullman Business Group Turned out to be a beautiful day. Barnard and Elmo R. Howell, both of When the announcement was made Pullman; Dr. Arthur J. Damman, El Ivan R. Sayles, '39, owner of Sayles recently that Commencement would lensburg; Oscar 0. Coffman, Spokane; Insurance, Pullman, has been selected be indoors this year it brought a vari Philip C. Schools, Durango, Colorado, to head the Pullman chapter of the ety of cheers and jeers. The cheers and William 1. Walls, Clarkston, have National Federation of Independent came from Buildings and Grounds nOtified the Alumni office that they Business. employees who have been making will be in attendance. Director of In his new job, Sayles will handle duplicate set-ups each year in the Alumni Relations Pat Patterson is the ballots which are distributed gymnasium and outdoors as insurance hopeful that five other members of among the various members in con against sudden weather changes. The the class wil find it possible to make neCtion with important legislation. early decision to hold graduation in the trip for this once-in-a-lifetime From these reports from the various side just about eliminates half the event. chairmen all over the nation, a na work of the carpenter crew. Golden Grads will be honored at a tional tabulation is made of the votes Jeers came mainly from fresh-air coffee hour Friday evening, June 3, and is reported to the members in fiends . and amateur photographers. in Wilson Compton Union, to start Congress. Those who like to breathe deep and off their weekend on campus. Satur Sayles received his B.A. in Business commune with nature while drinking day, they are to be honored guests at Administration from WSc. MAY 1955 PAGE 3 After 50 Years Committees Set Colonel Sapp Coming Back For '40 Reunion Mrs. Benton "BeeJay" Collins, Jr., program chairman for the 15th an To Receive WSC Degree niversary reunion of the graduates of A man who became a tradition at explained that it would have to be a the class of '40 to be held in Pullman WSC 50 years ago will return to the Bachelor of ArtS in General Studies on November 11-12, has named the scenes of his youth June 5 to receive since the Economics Science and His following WSC alumni to assist with a degree from the College. tOry Curriculum Mr. Sapp was enrolled the planning: Mr. and Mrs. Remo Colonel Speed Sapp, of Seattle, will in 50 years ago is no longer being of Fausti, Beryl Roberts, Eleanor StOck, become a graduate and near Golden fered. all of Pullman, and Bob Gebert and Graduate when he receives his sheep Frank T. Barnard, who served as Loyd Salt, both of Spokane. skin next month from State College Registrar at WSC from 1908 until his "It's going to a bigger celebration President Dr. C. Clement French at retirement in 1945 and was a member than we ever dreamed of," said BeeJay. the institution's Fifty-Ninth Annual of the Class of '04, remembers Colonel "Since our notice appeared in the Commencement exercises in Bohler Sapp very well. Mr. Barnard is still POWWOW, 'pre-war' grads from all Gymnasium. living in Pullman, and he is anxiously over have indicated they plan to be Colonel Sapp (Colonel is his given awaiting the arrival of Mr. Sapp to with us for the San Jose State-WSC name) attended WSC from 1902 to go over some of the good old days football game so they can get in on 1905, back in the days when the school at WSc. the fun." was known as WashingtOn Agricul When Colonel Speed Sapp returns Tentative plans shape up like this: tural College and School of Science. to the campus next month he will On Friday night we go to the Pullman He left school in his senior year, just find some other old friends, tOo. Com Country Club for a smorgasbord din 21 credits short of graduation, and ing back this year as Golden Gradu ner and dance. Tours of the campus joined the Army as lieutenant in the ates of the State College are six mem (things shooorrrre have changed!) Infantry. In later years he served as bers of the Class of 1905, and all are will be arranged for Saturday morn Captain Colonel Speed Sapp and Ma looking forward to a great reunion ing. Loyd Salt and Bob Gebert will jor Colonel Speed Sapp, Coast Ar with one they knew so well. whomp up the big luncheon in the tillery Corps and the Ordnance De Union building at noon, complete with partment, U.S. Army. speeches (short) and entertainment While at WSC in the early days, Tri-City WSC Alums (good) . After the game the gang Mr. Sapp was one of the campus per will get tOgether for a real old-time sonalities. He played tackle on the Honor Dr. French bull session over a bowl of clam football team and kept a pet bear on Tri-City WSC Alumni turned out chowder and a plate of fried oysters. campus that served as a mascot for in force April 28 at the Desert Inn Down San Francisco way, co-chair WSC athletic teams long before the in Richland to hear Dr. C. Clement man Phil Lighty will arrange ride Cougar tradition was started. Later, he French, President of the State College. sharing buses, special trains or any worked as the campus mail carrier to Dr. and Mrs. French, Alumni Di thing else it might take to transport help finance his stay at College. rector and Mrs. Pat Patterson, and the bumper crop of WSC boosters Early this spring, Mr. Sapp's daugh Athletic DirectOr and Mrs. Stan Bates from the Bay Region to Pullman. 194'0 ter, Mrs. Laurence Swanson, of Seattle, made the trip to Richland for the student body prexy Dr. Ken Devine, wrote to the College and asked wheth Alumni gathering. The Frenches were San Jose veterinarian, says the WSC er he had the required credits for honored preceding the banquet at a alums around San Jose will outnum graduation "as he speaks fondly of reception at the home of Mr. and ber the entire San Jose student body his school days and seems desirous of Mrs. O. W. (Bill) Rathbun, co-hosted representation at the game. getting his sheepskin." by the Rathbuns and Mr. and Mrs. Alumni secreta~y Pat Patterson has The staff of the Registrar's office Carl Zangar. Bill is an Alumni Di already reserved special rooms at the went to work and found that Mr. Sapp rectOr from the Tri-City area and Carl CUB for use during the reunion. In did not have quite enough hours of is president of the Tri-City WSC vitations to class of '40 grads will be credit to graduate. But if he had had Alumni organization. mailed in June and additional room some military service, now that would Members of the Tri-City alumni reservations will be made after ad be a different story. Mrs. Swanson was executive board and local faculty mem vance registrations start rolling in. quick to reply that her father had bers were invited to meet Dr. and General co-chairman Bill Rathbun, served long and well in the Army and Mrs. French at the reception. Guests Richland, emphasized that, "although this is a reunion for the class of '40, "would love to walk down the aisle, included Mr. and Mrs. R. Kenley as he has often said, and get his di Maurer, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Barkoff, you can still bring your wife along, ploma." Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Boulange, Mr. and even if she went to Vassar in '06 or WSC Registrar Claude Simpson Mrs. Henry ThurstOn, Mr. and Mrs. '55. Everybody's welcome." took up the case, added in the hours Arthur Haworth, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce of credit for military service, and Benedickson, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Kathryn Kanouse, WSC freshman came Out with the decision that Wash Rish, Mr. and Mrs. 1. A. McIntosh, from Olympia, won the milking con ington State College would be de Miss Mary Lee Hill, and Paul StOd test at WSCs 43rd Little International lighted to have Mr. Sapp join in Com dard, all of Richland, and Mr. and and was named Queen of the ' annual mencement exercises June 5 and re Mrs. Herman Jaeger and Mr. and stOck show sponsored by the College ceive his diploma. But Mr. Simpson Mrs. Dwight Pool, of Pasco. of Agriculture. PAGE 4 WSC POWWOW Spring Sports Home may be where the heart is, but WSC Baseball Coach Buck Bailey will tell you there aren't any base hits there, Bailey came to this sad conclusion shortly after watching his Cougar base bailers drop twO games to Oregon and tWO games to Oregon State all on his beloved Bailey Field, Those were the only games WSC dropped this season, but they were enough to give Oregon the pennant and put Oregon State in second place, If the Cougars had done as well at home as they did on the road this year they would have won the Di MOMS ARE FANS-Mom turned out to be quite a baseball fan when she came to vision, Bailey's crew was undefeated the campus May 7 for the annual Mothers' Week-End activities at WSC. A special away from home, winning twO at Se section was reserved for the Moms out at Bailey Field, and a goodly number turned atde against WashingtOn and taking out to watch the Cougars play the Oregon Ducks. a pair at Moscow from Idaho, They were rained out of their road trip gmes at both Corvallis and Eugene, competition and in the Northern Di ber of firsts in the pole vault, and The Cougars wound up the year vision meet at Seattle. shows promise of becoming a fine with a 5-3 win over Idaho to give the Coach Jack Mooberry's club defeat vaulter in the two years of compe locals a six and four won and lost ed Oregon State and Idaho in dual tition he has left. record for the season, WSC swept all meets and lost to Oregon and Wash Gary and Grinols stand the best four games from the Vandals, ington. The Cougars finished behind chance of doing something in the Pa Bailey's ball club confused a lot of Oregon and WashingtOn in the Di cific Coast meet. Beyond that, the folks this year including POWWOW. vision meet. Cougars don't figure to score much Rated a tOp defensive club, with good With a few breaks-other than the at the PCC event. pitching, the Cougars proceeded to bad ones he gOt all season long kick away four games to Oregon and Mooberry might have pulled one of Oregon State on sloppy fielding, med the biggest upsets in recent years in iocre to poor pitching and virtually the Division meet. The week before Former Botany Prof no hitting, Bur it was the fielding the meet, ace half-miler Bill Link Named Dean at Cal that broke their backs, Oregon picked and quarter-miler Bill Langdon pulled up four runs off lefthander Ron Webb up lame. With these two competing, Dr. Lincoln Constance, former as in the first inning of the opener on a WSC stood an excellent chance to cop sistant professor of Botany at WSC, walk, twO errors, and a couple of the big meet, although they were heavy has been named Dean of the College scratch hits, and that set the script underdogs. Link was figured for at of Letters and Science, Berkeley cam for both the Oregon and Oregon State least a second in the 880, and with pus of the University of California. series, Link and Langdon in good shape the Dr. Constance was on the Botany It's a little early to be looking for Cougars very well could have taken faculty at WSC from 1934 to 1937 ward to next season, bur Bailev will the relay. As it was, neither competed and then joined the staff of the Uni be in pretty fair shape for ;56 if at Seattle. versity of California as an assistant everything gGes right, He loses only Bob Gary again proved the scourge professor of Botany. He became asso Terry Campbell, Earl McIntosh, Ter of the Division in the sprints, copping ciate professor in 1943, professor in ry Sparks, and Red Golden, and he twO firsts in every meet he entered. 1947, and has been Chairman of the has his entire pirching staff back for Burl Grinols won the shot in every Department of Botany more than a another go. meet and placed well in the discus, year. Cougar track fortunes proved a litde and Al Torgerson had perhaps his In his new position, Dr. Constance more predictable this season, WSC best season in both the high and low succeeds Dean Alva R. Davis, pro finished third both in the dual meet hurdles. Jerry Kenaston scored a num- fessor of Plant Physiology, Emeritus. MAY 1955 PAGE 5 Dad's Day Lining Up As Big Fall Event Dad's Day 1955 is lining up as the biggest event of its kind in recent years, according to Mike Hoctor, Gold endale, chairman of next fall's pro gram. The day for dads, which really is an entire weekend packed with activ ities, comes October 1, and features the WSC-UCLA football game on Rogers Field. But that's only part of it, Hoctor says. The Dad's Day com mittee has been working all spring in conjunction with Dads' Association President Clare Dobler, Everett, in outlining events for next fall. Here's the weekend schedule for the dads as it lines up at present: Friday, September 30: Registration in living groups all day. 6: 30 P.M. Serpentine and campus rally. 8: 30 p.M.-Lecture-Artist convocation. 9: 00 P.M.-Dance at Wilson Compton Union. Saturday, October 1: Registration continues. 9:00 A.M.-Judging of Dad's Day decorations at living groups. 10:00 A.M.-Annual meeting of Dads' Association at Wilson Compton Union. 2:00 p.M.-Football game, DRAWING PLANS FOR DADS-Mike Hoctor, left, student chairman of next fall's WSC-UCLA, Rogers Field. 4: 30 P.M. Dad's Day program, gets together with Clare Dobler, '24, of Everett, president of the -Coffee hour in living groups fol WSC Dads' Association, to go over plans for the event next October 1. lowing game. 7:30 p.M.-Variety show in Bryan Hall auditorium. 9:00 P.M.-Dance at Wilson Compton Union. "HACK" APPLEQUIST, '16, HONORED Sunday, October 2: 11 : 00 A.M. Church services in Pulman churches. BY SACRAMENTO JAYCEES 2: 30 to 7: 00 p.M.-Smorgasbord at Wilson Compton Union. 4:00 P.M. Harry A. (Hack) Applequist, '16, Applequist has developed a physical Faculty Vespers program at Bryan supervisor of physical education for education curriculum for boys and Hall. Sacramento (Calif.) schools for four girls which has become a model in A complete program of game-time teen years, has been presented with the state. activities also is being planned by the the Sacramento Junior Chamber of "In his capacity as a leader of Dad's committee, Hoctor said. He Commerce "Local Good Government youth, he has instilled in them a spirit noted that several members of the Award." of good sportsmanship and won many committee will be returning early next Applequist, a member of WSC's friends ," the chairman added. fall to complete work on this phase 1916 Rose Bowl team, received the Applequist also was cited for his of the weekend schedule. Tentatively, award at . an "Appreciation Night" work as a Sunday School teacher, Boy the committee plans to have the WSC membership meeting recently in Sac SCOut leader, sponsor of athletic clubs Choir and Band perform in a special ramento. and baseball teams, supporter of Dad's Day salute at the game. The former Cougar went to Sacra YMCA summer camp activities, chair The September POWWOW, first mento from Washington twenty-nine manship annually of "Children's Day" of next fall's issues, will carry a Dad's at Pacific Coast League season opening Day feature and all the latest informa years ago. He served as a physical education instructor and coach at Sac games, and assisting Sacramento Junior tion on the completed program. College students over financial humps. WSC Lecture-Artist series. ramento High School fifteen years, teaching approximately 1,000 youths a year. Arthur R. Tacobs is now associated Forrest Niccum, Jr., '54, is now "It is significant to note," said with E. B. Crittenden & Associates, stationed at Fort Maison, France, sixty Edward Hollinghead, chairman of the Box 358. Anchorage, Alaska. Jacobs miles from Paris, and is serving with Jaycee Local Good Government com received his B.S. in Civil Engineering the Army. mittee, "that in the last fourteen years from WSC in 1950. PAGE 6 WSC POWWOW Hoobler Goes with USDA As Farm Price Specialist s. Q. (Spud) Hoobler, WSC's ex tension farm price specialist, has re signed from the State College staff to accept a similar position with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Wash ington, D.C. Hoobler has been extension farm price specialist at WSC since January 1, 1953. He will continue working in the price forecasting field for the USDA's federal extension service. In the federal office he will serve as na tional leader in the development of more comprehensive farm price fore casting in the U.S. His tirIe will be economist in outlook and economic in formation. The former WSC staffer holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Oregon State College and was a Marine Corps pilot during World War II. PASSING THE BUCK-W. A. (Bill) Bugge, left, chairman of the Olympia WSC Alumni group's Scholarship committee, accepts checks for the fund from Walt Olsen, center, and Floyd (Red) Segle as the campaign to aid WSC's grant-in-aid program gets underway. Both Mr. Bugge and Mr. Segle have children at WSC. Miss Marilyn Segle is head majorette of the WSC marching band and Bill Bugge Inclustrial Arts Group is a Varsity football candidate this year. Other mem.bers of the Olympia Athletic Scholarship committee include Herb Higgins, Joe Gould, George Andrews, and Don Honors Gorclon Klemgarcl Brown. The Thurston County Alumnae Chapter recently decided to set up a scholar ship to WSC for an outstanding graduating senior from Olympia High School. The Gordon Klemgard, '31, Pullman, scholarship will pay one semester's tuition at the State College. businessman, recently was presented a national award by Epsilon Pi Tau, In dustrial Arts honorary. '98 Gracls Will Return Sigma Kappa Starts The award, the laureate citation, is For Commencement Week given to members of the honorary who $50,000 Builcling Project have distinguished themselves nation Two members of the Class of 1898 Construction has started on a ally in the field. will return to WSC along with Golj:len $50,000 enlargement project at the Dr. William Bakamis, assistant pro Grads next month to participate in Sigma Kappa sorority house at WSc. Commencement activities on June 5. fessor of Industrial Arts at WSC, pre Mrs. Frank F. Nalder, chairman of sented the award to Mr. Klemgard. Harold J. Doolittle, Spokane, and the Sigma Kappa alumnae building Dr. Bakamis cited Klemgard as an Frank A Boozer, North Hollywood, committee, said the addition would be outstanding businessman and citizen California, of the Class of '98, have of frame construction and would of the Northwest. The Pullman man notified POWWOW that they expect match the present house. There will be finances a $100 scholarship each year to make the trip to Pullman. Mr. two wings, with the southwest wing to the outstanding senior student at Doolittle received his B.S. in Civil having three levels. The top floor will WSC majoring in Industrial ArtS Engineering from WSC and Mr. include a lounging library, with the Education. Boozer is a graduate in Mechanical first floor providing for an enlarged Engineering. He and his wife are dining room and the basement level making the trip north with Mr. and offering modern quarters for a house Mrs. H. E. Roberts, of Van Nuys, who mother's apartment. are coming back for the Golden Grad The northeast wing will have two Six hundred graduating seniors from uate Week-End. levels. The upper one adding a dor Washington high schools were on mitory for fourteen girls. The main campus recently for the annual High floor work will provide study rooms. School Visitation Day. President C. Clement French has Mrs. Nalder said the enlargement been chosen as the lay delegate . from will enable the sorority to increase its the Episcopal Missionary District of housing capacity and will alleviate Spokane to represent the area at the crowding. Capacity of the house, with church's general convention in Hon the addition, will be forty-five girls. Alpha Gamma Delta sorority has olulu in September. purchased property on B street in WSC was host to the Washington Pullman, adjoining the present sorority WSC's annual Horse Show was State Interscholastic track meet May house. The group plans eventually to held at Hilltop Stables May 27-29. 27-28. enlarge its house. MAY 1955 PAGE 7 • Mom IS Queen For a Day at WSC IN THE GARDEN-It was a perfect day for a garden party when Mom visited the campus this month, and that's just what the schedule called for. Here are two scenes of the teo in the garden at the President's home on campus. At the top is a sweeping view of mothers and daughters enjoying the sunshine and a spot of tea. In the lower picture, Presi dent and Mrs. French and Dean of Stu dents and Mrs. J. C. Clevenger greet vis iting parents in a reception line at the garden party. Other special events for Mom during the week-end included the Spurs' songfest and the swim show staged by Fish Fans. And Dad didn't come along just for the ride. There was a spring football scrimmage in the morn ing and a baseball game with Oregon in the afternon for his entertainment. PAGE 8 WSC POWWOW WEEK-END ROYALTY - May Queens were the order of the day at WSC's traditional Mathers' Week: End May 6-7. In the upper picture, Mrs. C. Clement French, wife af the State College Presi dent, congratulates Lola Story Finch, May Queen, following her coronation at ceremonies in Bohler Gymnasium. At tendants in the background are Sybil Sumrow and Ann Morey, princesses, and Bert Underwood, escort. In the lower picture, Vance Warren, 1955 Hand some Harry contest winner, crowns Mrs. N. K. Nansen, of Almira, Queen Moth er of this year's Mothers' Week-End fes tivities. Mrs. Nansen is the mother of Betty Nansen, WSC freshman. MAY 1955 PAGE 9 r ------...... , Cougar Baseball Ace Signs with Baltimore Terry Sparks, regular center fielder bats left. He has been one of the ~ in iltmoriam for Buck Bailey's Cougar nine for the leading hitters on the WSC club the past three seasons, has been signed to past three years and was named to the LEON K. MARTINI, 59, former a professional baseball contract by the all-conference teams in 1953 and 1954. WSC student and long-time Pullman Baltimore Orioles of the American An outstanding student scholasti businessman, passed away May 2 in a League. cally, Sparks was a member of the Portland, Oregon, hospital Sparks was signed by the Orioles "Big Ten" of this year's graduating Mr. Martini attended WSC from shortly after completing his final sea class. He is majoring in Business 1915 to 1917 and operated the Pull son for the Cougars this month. He Administration and is a member of man Tire and Service Station, corner reportedly will be assigned to the Sigma Nu fraternity. of Main and Grand, for a number of Orioles' Class B farm club at York, Sparks told' POWWOW that he years. He was a former president of Pennsylvania. would report to the York team as the Pullman Chamber of Commerce, The Cougar ace throws right and soon as school is out. He said he had and after selling his business interests worked Out his schedule so that he can here moved to Longview, Washington, both play ball and attend Harvard where he served as secretary of the While at WSC, Mrs. Heald was a University School of Business next Longview Chamber of Commerce. member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. year. Sparks recently received a Don Mr. Martini was a loyal and faith Surviving are her husband, Merrill ald Kirk David Fellowship for gradu ful supporter of the State College and Heald, Seattle; one son, Charles H. ate study at Harvard. He said the was instrumental in sending many Heald, Seattle; twO daughters, Mrs. Orioles have agreed to have him re students, including athletes, to WSC. Robert Ripley, Kirkland, and Mrs. port next year again after school is He was born March 25 , 1896, in Robert Rokarszyk, Vancouver, Wash.; out. Sanborn, Iowa, and came to Pullman three sisters, Mrs. Monte Howard, in 1910. Surviving are his wife in Spokane; Mrs. Edith Farrington, Palo Portland and one son, Robert G. Mar Alto, California, and Mrs. R. G. Walk Foreign Trade Institute tini, Zillah; three grandchildren in er, Boise, Idaho; twO brothers, Law Graduating Ex-WSC' ers Zillah; one sister, Miss Wanda Mar rence and Charles Kesler, both of San Three former WSC students were tini, Pullman, and a brother, M. B. Francisco, and three grandchildren. scheduled to be graduated May 27 Martini, Spokane. from the American Institute of For Graveside services were held in Pull MRS. CHARLES A. LORANG, the eign Trade at Thunderbird Field, man and burial was in the City Ceme former Leone Leslie, passed away Phoenix, Arizona. tery here. March 25 at her home in Seattle. Edward Fecko, '54, Mary Jean Mrs. Lorang was a native of Spo J. Wasson, ex -' 51 , and Donald A. N el kane and attended WSC in 1926. She ARTHUR J. TURNER, a 1903 · son, '54, have been taking course had lived in Seattle since 1943 and graduate of WSC, passed away this work at the Institute and are to gradu was a member of the Mothers' Club of month in Spokane. ate this month. Seattle Preparatory School. Mr. Turner received a B.S. in Min Another former Cougar, Mrs. Rich Surviving are her husband, Charles ing Engineering from WSC in 1903 ard W . Woolley, the former Bonnie and a B.S. in Civil Engineering here A. Lorang; twO sons, Leslie C. and Dale J. Lorang, and two daughters, Jean Moncrieff, ex-'51, also is at the in 1905. He was an Honorary mem Institute. Her husband is receiving his ber of the Spokane Rotary club and Mary Ann Lorang and Mrs. Charles A. Roddewig, all of Seattle; a brother, degree there this year. Mrs. Woolley was a retired chief engineer for the was a member of Delta Delta Delta Washington Water Power Company. Capt. Maxwell F. Leslie, in the Navy sorority at WSc. The former Washington Stater had in Hawaii, and two sisters, Mrs. Jess lived in Spokane forty years. W. Taylor, Sequim, and Mrs. Fred O. Surviving are his wife, Alma M. Lee, Fortuna, California. Valley Back. on Campus Turner, at home; one son, Clare Turn Visiting Old Acquaintances er, Spokane, and twO grandchildren. JOHN M. CALVERT, senior in Business Administration at WSC, was Jack Valley, '54, visited on campus SANDRA 1. STEWART, WSC found dead May 15 in Lake Coeur this month from Maxwell Air Force student from Elko, Nevada, was killed d' Alene, Idaho. Death of the State Base, Montgomery, Alabama, where April 22 in an automobile accident College student was listed as suicide he has been stationed. near Plummer, Idaho. by Sheriff H. H. Haner of Coeur Valley still is on crutches from a Miss Stewart, a freshman at WSC, d'Alene. leg injury suffered at Maxwell last was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mr. Calvert was the son of Mr. and summer. He received a compound Ralph Stewart, of Elko. She was nine Mrs. George C. Calvert, Great Falls, fracture of the left leg and the break teen years of age. Montana. He disappeared from cam has been a long time healing. pus April 15 and his car later was A real SPOrtS enthusiast, Jack ar MRS. MERRILL HEALD, the for found abandoned on the shore of the rived on campus in time for the mer Genevieve E. Kesler, passed away lake. annual spring football scrimmage. He April 15 in Seattle following a long In addition to his parents, the de also had a good chance to renew for illness. ceased is survived by a sister, Mrs. mer acquaintances at WSc. Mrs. Heald attended WSC in 1920. John J. Burke, Jr., of Helena, Mon Valley was in Air Cadet training at She was born and reared in Spokane. tana. Maxwell when he was injured. PAGE 10 WSC POWWOW ROTC ON PARADE-Reserve Officer Training Corps units ot WSC stood for their annual Federal inspection this month on Rogers Field. Pictured above is the Army ROTC unit in formation. This picture was taken looking west. Wilson Compton Dean Annie M. Fertig Union is at the top left and Holland Librory Building is ot top center. Both are recent additions to the campus. Passes A way in South Mrs. Annie M. Fertig, former dean of women at WSC, passed away May Cougars Take to Split T System 24 in Pasadena, California, after a long illness. In Impressive Spring Drills Mrs. Fertig came to WSC in 1924 Cougar footballers wound up their Wing, and has necessitated a number as Dean of Women from the Middle twenty days of spring drills May 21 of position switches among personnel. with a three hour scrimmage on Tom Gunnari,one of the Coast's best Tennessee State Normal School and Rogers Field before a good crowd of tackles last year, has been moved to a served in that post through 1936. She students, alumni, and other WSC grid guard SpOt; Bob Miller, promising 'held degrees from the University of fans. Junior back, has been shifted from Chicago and from Columbia Univer There is enthusiasm bordering on left half to fullback; Everett Gust, a sity. optimism in the Cougar camp this quarterback in the Single Wing, is year. Coach Al Kircher says this year's now a right half; Jim Welsh, moved The former dean of women had crop of seniors showed more hustle from guard to tackle; John Clark, a lived in California since leaving WSc. and desire in spring practice than any former end, and Doug Leifeste, a Survivors include a daughter and a veteran group he's seen since coming guard last year, both have been con grandson, both of Altadena, California. to WSc. The reason is quite obvious, verted to centers; and Dennis Rath, a even to the casual observer-the Cou The daughter, Mrs. Ruth Wilhelm, is right half in '54 is a fullback. But gars have changed to the Split T every man appears to be adjusting to a WSC graduate. offense. his new spot and playing it with The change in system has meant vigor. going to a balanced line from the un balanced front line used in the Single (C ontintted on page 14) MAY 1955 PAGE II California. ~Irs. Curry is the former Ruth Huebner. 1930 Val Kirk renews his Alumni mem CUTTING UP bership from Seahurst, vVashington. 1931 Albert L. Johnson renews hi s Alum CLASSES ni membership from 2970 Ladera THE Road, San Bernardino, California. John Stobie renews his Alumni membership from 1424 E. 14th Av 1921 eml e, Spokane. 1904 Mrs. E. S. Ray, the former Eppa Mr. and Mrs. Frank T. Barnard re Mr. and Mrs. William B. Laney Stanley, renews her Alumni member new their Alumni membership from renew their Alumni membership from ship from 114 N. Madison, Walla 1906 :Monroe, Pullman. ;"'frs. Barnard 2511 Nob Hill Place, Seattle. "'Valla, Washington. is the former ,Blanche Baum, '05. George W. King renews his Alumni m embership from c/o San Juan Fish 1932 1908 company, Box 3086, Seattle 14. Col. John W. Murray is serving as w. J. McLean renews his Alumni director of port operations at the membership from 1055 Boyer Avenue, 1923 Bremerhaven Port of Embarkation in Walla Walla. Earl V. Foster renews hi s Alumni --- Germany. A 1932 membership from 7636 Pepita \Vay, g raduate of WSC 1910 La' Jolla, California. with a B.S. in l\hs. Bertha Vestal, the former Mr. and Mrs. Jack Friel renew their Physical E d u c a Bertha Kimmel, renews her Alumni Alumni membership from 1725 C ti on, Col. Murray membership from 554 East Howard, Street, Pullman. Mrs. Friel is the entered the Army Pasadena 6, California. former Catherine Mathews, '23. in 1941. He arriv 1911 1924 ed in Europe on hi s Mr. and Mrs. Daryl E. (Bob) White Robert R. Carey renews his Alumni current assignment report from 2807 34th South, Seattle, membership from 1506 Cedar, La last S e pte m b e r. W h i I e at WSC, that they just recently returned to Grande, Oregon. their home after hospitalization for Col. Murray was a m ember of Phi injuries suffered in an automobile ac 1925 Delta Theta fraternity. Before going cident March 8. Mr. \Vhite writes R. W. Bucklin renews his Alumni to Germany he was serving as pro that both still are confined to wheel membership from 314 West 34th, Van fessor of Military Science and Tatics chairs but are "getting along fine." couver, VlTashington. at Texas Christian University. Elsa Bundy, the former Elsa Doern 1933 1914 er, has been serving as chairman of Walter F. Miles renews his Alumni J. E. Love renews his Alumni mem the Status of Women committee for membership from Box 30, Auburn, bership from Box 293, Garfield, \Vash the Pullman AAUW for the past year. \Vashing ton. ington. This committee made arrangements 1916 for a series of six forums on finance 1934 problems which the AAUW sponsor Al Shambra, a detective on the L.A. H. Percival Hansen is with the Police force, renews his Alumni mem Engineering department of the State ed in Pullman. Mrs. Bundy renews her Alumni membership from 621 bership from 5479 Norwich Avenue, Highway Department, Olympia. His Los Angeles 32. home address is Route 7, Box 27, Arbor Street, Pullman. Olympia. 1935 1926 A. W. Parsons renews his Alumni Burdett Prince notes a change of 1918 membership from 2943 Hawthorne address to 1338 3rd, Clarkston, Wash Mrs. 'William J. Banks, the former Place, O lympia, Washington. Mr. Clair Hathaway, renews her Alumni ington. Parsons is with the Washington State membership from Box 484, Oswego, 1927 Highway Department. Oregon, and adds a nice news note: Leta E. Brock renews her Alumni "I have spread myself a little too thin 1936 membership from the Elmhurst Apart Robert S. Neilson renews hi s Alum in Red Cross this past year to have ments, Pullman. Miss Brock is ac much news of anything else. Our ni membership from 310 Derby, Pull counting supervisor in the Accounting man. claughter, Janet, has just completed office at \VSC. her first year of teaching in a Whit 1937 tier, California, high school. My hus 1928 Elizabeth Camp renews her Alumni band and I spend our spare time fish c. K. Glaze renews his Alumni mem membership from 1315 Walnut, Berk ing in the Willamette river in front bership from Route 3, Box 71, Olym eley 9, California. of our house here in Oswego. Occa pia. Mr. Glaze is serving as a civil 1938 sionally see Mrs. Fred Schroeder, engineer with the Washington State Mrs. Harry B. Allen, the former Ruth Doane, at Portland Branch Highway department. He was a field Barbara ,Bloom, renews her Alumni AAU\V, also keep in touch with Grace engineer with the Department of Pub membership from 700 Butterfield Englesen and Mrs. Charles Kemmerer, lic Lands for six years and served in Road, Sleepy Hollow, San Anselmo, Mary Schook." the City Engineer's office in Tacoma California. 1920 seven years. He now is principal Ted Stahlborn renews his Alumni planning engineer for the Highway membership from the Owl Pharmacy, H. P. Singleton renews his Alumni department. membership from 1052 Spokane, Pros Cheney, VlTashington. ser, Washington. 1929 Mrs. Robert C. Lindner, the former Dr. and Mrs. Joe Knott renew their Mr. and Mrs. Forrest J. Curry re Mildred E. Anderson, notes a change Alumni membership from 1818 Dun new their Alumni membership from of address to 1009 Vassar, Wenatchee, can Lane, Pullman. 580 EI Cerrito Avenue, San Mateo, Washington. PAGE 12 WSC POWWOW 1939 1942 Irving Carlson renews his Alumni Albert L. Hooper renews hi s A lum membership from 1 2 1 2 Chandlet' Jack K. McPherson renews hi s Street, Madison, \tVi sconsin. Alumni m em bership from W ilbur, ni membership from 6645 N .E. 24th, Washing ton. Portland, Oregon. 1951 Dr. Paul S. Silva reports that he is 1947 Richard L. Zellmer renews hi s still engaged in private practi ce in the Richard P. Neils renews hi s Alumni Alumni membership from Box 50S, Reno, N eva da, area. His address is me,mbet'ship from 1005 N evada, L ib by, D ave nport, \Vash i ng ton. 1170 Airport Road. Montana. Juanita Stearns renews her Alumni Harold D. Ponte renews hi s Alum membership from Chinook, Montana. ni m embership from Box 627, Klam 1948 J. R. Davis has been promoted from at h, California. Elvin G. Ericson renews hi s Alumni cost cl erk to financial analyst in Fred T . Saylor renews hi s Alumni membership from 703 Jackson, Pull E ngineering Cost membership from C hoteau, Montana. man. M r. E ricson is assistant profes at th e H anford sor of Civil E ngineering at \VSC. Atomic P roducts 1940 Shirley Van Valkenburg was sched Operation of the Arden W. Dow recently was pro ul ed to leave May 4 for Japan, where Ge n era I E lectric moted to the rank of Colonel at Fort s he will become a recreation super company. D a v i s Benning , Georgia, where he is ex viso r with A rmy Special Services. went to work for ecutive offic et' of Mi ss Van Valkenburg's assig nment is G. E . at H aNford the Com bat T rain for a peri od of two years. She re aft e r graduating in g Command. Col. ceived a B.A. in H ome E conomics from WSC with a from \VSC. Dow receive d his B.A. in Business B. A. in Business Philip H. Sorensen, assistant dean Administration. A dm i n i s t rati on of students at Kansa s State College from W SC a n d the past three years, will em'oll in the 1952 entered the Army Stanford U niversity g raduate school June 21 to complete work toward a Annual no te from Dick and Nan in 1941. H e is the Ford som ehow became lost in the doctora te in educatio nal psychology. holder of the Le deadline shuffle last month so it s a gion of IVIerit. IvI rs. Sorensen is the holder of an Abraham R osenberg fe ll owship, a g ra duate fel little out-dated, but we always enj oy Dow and the couple's two children the Fords' letters and we think you li ve in Columbus, Georg ia. lowship offet'ed by Stanford. H e hopes to com plete work toward the will. "Nan and I are looking for Grant A. Hooper is teaching at wat'd to two marriages in our famili es Cont ra Costa Junior Coll ege, Rich advanced degree by the summer of 1956. Sorensen received hi s B.A. and t hi s spring. N ancy's sister, Diane mon d, Ca lifornia. H e has been at Panchot, '52, and Roy Edfast, '52, will Contra Costa fi ve years, with t wo M.A. degrees from WSC in 1948 and 1950, b e married in Seattle on April 30. My years out for active duty during the brother, Bud (Charles E.), WSC, '49, Korean war. His address is 3267 1949 will be married in Cleveland, Ohio, on Meadowbrook D ri ve, Concord, Cali Mr. and Mrs. J. Norris Pearson 'M ay 14. T he two of us have had a fornia. have returned from Alaska and now busy year. However, we have not Dr. A. J. Boero renews hi s Alumni are li vin g at 6211 South Bell , T acoma seen as many \'VSC alums as in som e membershi p from 144 S. Ga rfi eld, 4. M rs. Pearson is the fo rmer Carole o ther years. W e did have a chance to Manteca, California, and adds under Abernethy. have a ni ce visit with Ann Elsohllson news notes : "I whipped K en Devin e Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Paris give on two or three occasions whil e she in handball, 21-14." POWWOW an assist by sending in a was in the \ Vashington area. For Dr. and Mrs. James H. O'Banion couple of news no tes on former the most part our life has just been renew thei r Alumni m embership from Cougars tha t they clipped from Seattle the usual routine of activities. My 201 Central Building, Vancouver, papers. The couple li ves in Bothell , activities have been pretty w ell con \Vashing to n. where M r. P aris has the Marshall fined to the T reasury D epartment a nd P aris Insurance Agency. M rs. Paris Georgetown Law School. I'm on the 1941 is the former Nancy Mason. Both back-stretch of the law study this Lt. Colonel Carl E . Fulton renews are 1949 graduates of W SC. spring . I expect to take the bar in hi s Alumni membership f!"Om 12th V irg inia in June so busy days are M CR & R D , Room 701 , Building 3, 1950 ahead for a few months at least. N an 100 H arrison Street, San F rancisco 6. Steve W . Griffin renews hi s Alumni is planning to be in the \ tV est during Asa V. Clark, Jr., renews his A lum membership from Chelan, \'Vashingto n. much of April and May so she should ni membership from R oute 1, P ull Luther E. "Bud" Brede, metallur have an o pportunity to see many man. gist at Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical of her WSC fri ends. I should report Mr. and Mrs. George H. Andrews, Corpo ration's N ewark (Ohio) \tV orks, also that my brother Bud is now in she is the former Ruth Peterson, '42, ha s been trans New York City with NBC. H e was renew their Alumni m em bership from ferred to the com transferred from the company's Cleve 3323 Lorne, Olympia. M r. A ndrews pany's E rie, P enn land station to produce and direct the is a structural eng ineer with the sylvania, plant as m o rning musical prog ram on \VRCA Washingto n State D epa rtment of senior metallurgist. radi o." D ick received his B.A. in H ig hways and also is serving as vice Brede received his Political Science from \VSC and Nan, president of the Thurston County B. S. in P hysical the former N ancy Panchot, received a \VSC Alumni g roup and vice-presi Metallurgy fr o m B.A. in Home E conomics. T heir home dent of the Olympia Improvem ent WSC and joined address is 1657 P reston R oad, Alex Council. H e also is on the board of the Kaiser organi andria, Virg inia. directors of the American Soci ety of zation immediately Civil E ngineers, Tacoma section. after g raduation as a m etallurgical 1953 M rs. A ndrews, who receiv ed a B.A. in trainee at Trentwood, \Vashing ton. Charles W. Crunden changes hi s Economics from W SC, is president H e was transferred to Newark in mailing address to Smith, N evada. of the P resbyterian church circle in September, 1950. M r. and M rs. Brede Crunden received a B.S. in \ tV ildlife O lympia. have two daughters. Management from \,VSC. MAY 1955 PAGE 13 1953 worked for The Pullman Herald until last m onth, but now has returned Spring Football Emily V. Carpenter notes a change hom e. of address to 1621 N. 31st, Apt. 1, Lt. Robert Berney notes a change (Contimted from page 11 ) Boise, Idaho. M rs. Ca rpenter re of service a ddress to 82nd Abn. R econ. ceived a B. S. in P oli ce Science and company, F t. Bragg, North Carolina. In the final spring scrimmage, the Administra ti on from WSC. Reds, composed largely of players who Lt. j.g. Fanning T . Oakley renews 1955 rated first string berths on the basis of his Alumni membership and notes that Dave Thomas, a m id-year g raduate performances so far this year, de he has been in Sasebo, J apan, for the in E lectrical E nginee ring, wri tes from past fift een months as an officer in feated the Whites 39-19. The score F t. Wayne, Indiana, and catches means little except for the fact that the Civil E ngin eering Corps of the PO\ll,fW OW up on his present doings U .S. N aval Reserve. His hom e ad and adds a note for the fu ture : "At the teams showed more scoring punch dress is 90 Suffolk Avenue, Sierra present I'm workin g for Ge neral than any of recent years in the spring :Madre, California. E lectric com pany in F t. \ll,fayne, drill. The starting Red backfield in· Cpl. George G. Anderson recently Indiana. Also w orking for G.E. here cluded Bob Iverson at quarterback; was awa rded the expert infantryman in F t. Wayne are Tom Simons and Jim Hagerty at left half; Dewey Keith badge for satisfactory completion of Don Ernst, c/ o T he H ermitage, Lin field-proficiency tests in Korea. Cpl. at right half, and Bob Miller at full coln Highway \,yest, Ft. Wayne, and back. Up front were Russ Quacken A nderson, who attended WSC in 1953 Dave .Berglin and his wife, Bernie, a nd was a m ember of A lpha Tau 2234 Bowser Avenue. I am working bush and Arnie Pelluer at ends; Jim O mega fraternity, is a clerk with the in the Development T est Section of Welsh and Jack Inions at tackles; T ank Com pany of the 7th Infantry the plant w hich produces small inte Gunnari and Vaughan Hitchcock at D ivision's 17th regiment. H e now gral ho rsepower mo.tors (1-10 h.p.). guards, and Clark at Center. The is serving in K orea with the 7th D ivi I'm on the Enginee r Training P ro White team had Bob Newman at sion. gram which lasts one and one-half quarterback; Bruce Temby at left half; 1954 years. \,ye a re havin g a great time Eddie Stevens at right half, and Rath Lt. Robert W. Adams.. notes a perfo rming tests on new desig ns to at fullback. In the White line were change of address to 108 EOBC, Stu see what they w ill do. My G. E . dent O ffi cers' com pany, Fort Belvoir, caree r will be cut short in three weeks Lew Turner and Roger Glazebrook at V irginia. A dams received his B.S. in w hen I leave for the Air Force. I ends; Ron Jacobson and Ken Gardner Agriculture from WSC. have to be in San Antonio, Texas, by at tackles; Larry Weir and Gail Strait Angie Snook w rites that she is en June 3, fo r a month of pre-fli ght train at guards, and Kevin Scanlan at center. joyin g her work as a stewardess for in g. F rom there,? R egret not be TWA and is fl yin g out of Kansas ing able to come back for graduation, Shifting from the Single Wing to a City. H er address there is 4605 vv. Senio r-Alumni Banquet, Senior Con new formation appears to have been a 51st Street, K ansas City 3, K ansas. vocation, etc., but U ncle Sam and wise decision on the part of Kircher Says she regrets that her fli ghts don't about 2,500 m il es say no. P lease say and aides Mike Scarry, Dale Gentry, get any cl oser to hom e than San hell o to evervone for m e until I can and Dan Stavely. It seems to have F rancisco. Angie received her B.A. get back in the good old N .W . my self one o f these years. Also, pl ease given the ball club a better scoring in Hom e Economics from WSC. punch than it has had, and the players Lt. William B. Paul is now in basic continue sending my POWWO \,y to fli ght training in Mississippi, and wife Box 595, R edmond, Washin gton. " like it. The Split T still is a running J anell e sends their address as 1911 game, but it is more wide open than T ucker, Greenvill e, Mississippi. the Single Wing. It features the Lt. Joseph J. Matelich notes a Grosso Working for quarterback, who must be a clever change of address to 204 George Grant County Journal ball-handler, as in the straight T for Street, Lubbock, Texas. mation, and also a good runner to R . W. Van Pelt, Jr., notes a change Jerry Grosso, '54, is working for the handle the important option plays of address to 10815 V almay, Seattle 77. Grant County Journal, Ephrata, Wash., which will make or break the wide Mrs. June Gallaher M c K ell a r in a combination advertising-editorial cha nges her POVVWO\II,f mailing ad stuff. It has the quick openers of the capacity. T and requires good speed in the dress to 1003 S. E . Byers, Pendl eton, The former W ashington Stater backfield. Fans who have seen the O regon. notes to POWWOW that he plans to Naval Aviation Cadet Edgar C. Oklahoma Sooners in operation know be married June 25 to Nancy Woof Newall, Jr., has qualifi ed as a carrie r what the Split T can do. pil ot after six la ndings aboard the ter, '54, who is now working in New li ght a ircraft car· York. Coach Kircher will call his squad rier USS Monterey Grosso reportS seeing Dave Click, back into practice sessions September in the Gulf o f Mex president of the Class of '54, in Ephra 1 in preoaration for the opening of ico. Newall last at ta recently and adds that Click is with the Pacific Coast Conference season tended WSC in the Air Force. Jerry says he attended 1954 and was a Seotember 17 in Los Angeles against member of Alpha the Wenatchee Apple Blossom Festi USc. T au O m ega while val with Bill Gilbaugh, '54, and saw on cam pus. T h e Keith Jackson and wife. Says Keith former C 0 u ga r was broadcasting the Apple Festival now will get addi parade for KaMa-TV at the time. ti onal fli g ht training at Corry F ield, David Ackerman, '51 , is now living Pensacola, F lorida, as the next step Mr. and Mrs. A Boettcher, both toward winning hi s Navy wings. at 3233 Chadbourne Road, Shaker 1928 graduates of WSC, now are lo Kay Leber drops a note from South Heights 20, Ohio. Ackerman received cated at 1509 10th Street West, Bill Bend, Washing ton, to tell us tha t a B.A in Hotel Administration from her address is still Box 474 Southl ings, Montana. Mrs. Boettcher is the Bend but it soon w ill be O hi o. Kay former Katherine Hansen. WSc. PAGE 14 WSC POWWOW Along Hello Walk Reynolds, Barry J. McMahon, Eldon McClure, Lois Freese, Robert 1. Mor Hello Walk came into its annual Thomas G. Gray, Wenatchee, has gan, Joseph F. Wheeler, Mary Martin, own this month as students officially been named the first recipiem of the Sybil Joan Jacobson, George Prater, observed "Hello Day" on campus. $500 Asphalt Paving Association Jr., William C. Mickelberry, Nora Mae Junior Panhellenic sponsored the event Scholarship in Civil Engineering at Butterfield, Dorna Ingwalson, Bertil and Sharon Specht, Poulsbo, served as WSc. The award has been established T. Ekstrom, Joyce E. Brim, Kae Bu chairman. by the Asphalt Paving Association of chanan, Carole Cooke, S. Charles Sny Washington, Inc. Gray is a senior in der, Dorothy Ann Haight, Nancy Lee 2~-,> Civil Engineering. Davis, Sharleen DeVine, Jeanne La Lone, Warren E. Pettit, Robert Lee John W. Sherban, Pullman senior in ~ Lowry, Edward G. Aliverti, David W. Dairy Science, has been awarded a Second Annual Cardiac Nursing Thomas, David Bertram Underwood, Fulbright scholarship to ~tudy next Work conference was held at WSC John Romish, Patricia A. Galligan, year in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Marjorie A. Graham, Vivian Morgan. award came from the U. S. State De May 23-25. The conference was planned especially for staffs of small partment. It will enable Sherbon to ~ spend a year at the Royal College of hospitals and taught the use of hospi Agriculture and Veterinary Science in tal equipment, as well as the adminis Ronald Ray Baker, senior from Copenhagen. tration of new drugs and use of oxy lone, Oregon, was named "Aggie of gen therapy. the Year" at the annual College of Ag ~ riculture convocation at WSc. Baker ~ is a senior in Animal Husbandry. He Dr. Melvin R. Gibson, associate pro The WSC Opera Workshop, direCt also was named to the "Big Ten" fessor of Pharmacology in rhe School ed by Margaret Davis, assistant pro among graduating seniors. of Pharmacy at WSC, has been chosen fessor of Music, presented two operas editor of the American Journal of in Bryan Hall this month. The group ~ Pharmaceutical Education. The journal produced 'The Old Maid and the "Prelude to Spring," the annual is the official publication of the Amer Thief" and "Dido and Aeneas." spring flower show given by students ican Association of Colleges of Pharm in Dr. Elwood Kalin's flower arrang acy. The magazine will be published ~ ing class, was held this month in Wil at WSc. "From the Sublime to the Ridicu son Compton Union. lous," was the theme of the annual ~ Senior Ball this year in Bohler Gym ~ nasium. The Ball drew a near capacity Washington State College Library Lewis Burden, junior in Pharmacy crowd and was a good success finan has been designated an official collec from Camas, has been elected presi cially. tion point for all manuscript materials dent of Beta Pi chapter of Kappa Psi relating to forest history. The designa· ~ pharmaceutical fraternity at WSc. tion was made by the Arr;eiican For est History Foundation. "Big Ten" among members of the Senior Class of '55 includes Mary ~ Kathryn Ruddell, Dale A. Boose, Sybil Don Neuberger, sophomore In ~ Ann Sumrow, Ronald Ray Baker, Lola Pharmacy from Renton, is the new Regents Hill Hall and Vet Medi Story Finch, Terry Sparks, Patricia D. president of Pi Kappa Alpha fra cine singing groups won top honors Taylor, Hadley Dale Hall, Marilyn J. ternity. in the annual Spurs Songfest held dur Manerud, and Barry Kennard Jones. Joan Gustafson, Vancouver, Wash., ing Mothers' Weekend at WSc. Re These Seniors, and others, were hon is the new president of Orchesis, na gents Hill won the women'~ division ored this month at the traditional tional modern dance honorary at Wsc. and the Vet group topped the men's Senior Can. Named outstanding sen Joan is a member of Alpha Gamma section. iors were Anne Morey, Beverly Ann Delta sorority. MAY 1955 PAGE 15 Commencement Week-E'nd Events SATURDAY, JUNE 4 4:00 P.M. INDOOR CONCERT to by the State College Band 5:00 P.M. Bryan Hall Auditorium 6:00 P.M. ANNUAL SENIOR-ALUMNI BANQUET The banquet is open to Seniors, their parents, Alumni and friends of the College Ballroom, Wilson Compton Union SUNDAY, JUNE 5 8:00 A.M. AIR FORCE ROTC COMMISSIONING Orton Room, Holland Library 8:30 A.M. ARMY ROTC COMMISSIONING Orton Room, Holland Library 10:00 A.M. BACCALAUREATE SERVICES Sermon, "The Lengthened Shadow" Dr. o. Meredith Wilson, President, University of Oregon J. Fred Bohler Gymnasium 2:30 P.M. FIFTY-NINTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES "Some Final Words" Dr. C. Clement French, President, State College of Washington J. Fred Bohler Gymnasium Visiting parents, Alumni, and friends of WSC are cordially invited to attend the Commencement Week-End Events. For the convenience of visitors, the CUB Smorgasbord will be served from II :45 A.M. until 7:00 P.M. in the Ballroom of the Wilson Compton Union on Sunday, June 5.