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= ---------------~~----------~~.-~ 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<ient Mothers' Week-End turned Out to be 414 Dexter Street O. W . Rathbun, '40, Dist. V Pullman, Washington 1022 Cedar one of the few perfect three-day Richland, Washington Ed Heinemann, '39, 1st Vice President stretches we've had. The pictures are Route 7, Box 276 Al Duris, '41, Dist. VI on pages 8 and 9. Olympia, Washington Route 4, Box 189 Puyallup, Washington Ed Erickson, 2nd Vice President OUR REPORTERS have been more 710 E. Tacoma Harold F . Olsen, '42, Dist. VII Ellensburg, Washington 5116 48th Avenue N.E. than faithful this month, so POW Seattle, Washington WOW has a number of good short Eugene ilPat" Patterson, '41 Executive Director Huntly Gordon, '33, Dist. VIII stOries on former Cougars who are Alumni Office, Washington State College 309 Pine doing things newsworthy in various Pullman, \Vashington Mt. Vernon, Washington C. L. Hix, Treasurer John Soderberg, ex·'32, Dist. IX parts of the nation. Among our con \VSC Comptroller's Office Sodr's Hardware tributOrs this month have been O. Pullman, Washington SeqUIm, Washington A. Rosecrans, Sacramento, California; Raymond Sundquist, '43, Dist. X EX OFFICIO P.O. Box 604 Marshall and Nancy Paris, Bothell; Hoquiam, Washington Laurence Broom, '39, Past President Dick and Nan Ford, ArlingtOn, Vir Blue Mountain Agency Peter J. BoydJ .'41, Dist. XI (I<Iaho) ginia; Ed Berenson, Berkeley, Cali Waitsburg, Washington M. H. ~iDg Building fornia, and Don Brown, Olympia. Caldwell, Idaho DIRECTORS Leonard Gehrke, '27, Dist. XII (Oregon ) OUR COVER features May Queen Lawrence "Tick" Klock, '36, Dist. 2923 N.E. 65th Klock Drug Portland 13, Oregon Lola Story Finch and her escort, Dale Colfax, Washington Dale Schlager, '44, Dist. XIII (California) Boose, president of the ASSCW. Lola, Jack Colwell, '39, Dist. II 548 Mills Tower who has served as president of AWS, 2811 S. Scott San Francisco, Calif. Spokane, Washington made a beautiful and gracious queen Harrie Bohlke, '26, Dist. XIV (Member-at-Iarge) for Mothers' Week-End. Orno t2~olli::re:ie;3BI~~~t. III 3849 44th Avenue N .E. Clarkston, Washington Seattle 5, Washington 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 .