Minnesota State University Moorhead RED: a Repository of Digital Collections The Western Mistic Student Newspapers 5-16-1941 The Western Mistic, May 16, 1941 Moorhead State Teachers College Follow this and additional works at: https://red.mnstate.edu/western-mistic Recommended Citation Moorhead State Teachers College, "The Western Mistic, May 16, 1941" (1941). The Western Mistic. 313. https://red.mnstate.edu/western-mistic/313 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at RED: a Repository of Digital Collections. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Western Mistic by an authorized administrator of RED: a Repository of Digital Collections. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE WESTERNThisI ills issueISSUt; is dedicatedUCURatcu toV.U President R.^v. B.— MacLean MISTIC- _ •]••• UjlLMJ W'l I WESTERN MINNESOTA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE NUMBER NINE VOLUME XLIX MOORHEAD, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1941 Dr. MacLean Retires As MSTC President Faculty, Parents, Resignation Effective July 1 Old Settlers Invade Upperclassmen To Dine June 1 After Service ol Eighteen \ ears Campus On Monday One of the main commencement After serving as administrator of Moorhead State Teachers college sincn activities which has now become a President R. B. MacLean has announced his resignation to be effective Juiy' i, • izations who survived the after­ tradition on the campus is the Squatters' rights have been 1C granted by the officials of the Old noon performance, will again enter­ "Family Dinner" held always at Dr. MacLean, having celebrated his sixty-eighth birthday Febiuaiy lo, Rates ° ® Settlers' Picnic, sponsored by the tain. The band will give an out­ noon on Baccalaureate Sunday. At in accordance with the state age retirement law. He and Mrs. MacLean intend to sp-n physical education department, on door concert sometime between 6 this time, it has been customary part of next year traveling each square foot of dandelions , 'id 9 p. m. Pranksters are w-arned for sophomores, juniors, and sen­ surrounding the softball diamond, not to throw peanut shells into iors and their commencement Retiring President and visiting in California. for . o "early settlers" who wish the tuba. guests to meet with the faculty Either at the special meet- to settle there early in the after­ A pavement dance will wind up and alumni in Comstock and ing of the teachers college the day's activities, so that the noon—3 o'clock to be exact—and Wheeler hall parlors for an infor­ board in St. Paul today or at watch the sizzling softball game next morning old settlers will be mal social gathering before the between the Tired Faculty Men's practically extinct in this vicinity. dinner in Comstock dining hall. the regular meeting in June, Team and the All Star Intra- The officials will award prizes This is a time to meet old friends some action in regard •::: D; murals. There will be no charge for the following: best snapshot ard to make new ones. After the MacLean's successor is ex­ for grass consumed. ed man, best dressed woman. At- '.inner there is a short program. After the debris of this battle is endance prizes will also be given, * pected to be taken. The lo­ cleared away, the non-social organ­ costume, largest family, best dress- cal representative on the taken at the picnic, oldest couple, All dormitory people get your izations on campus will present an tickets for the Family Dinner board is Dr. G. L. Gosslee, open air program, to preclude the resident director. possibility of having to hand out from Beatrice Lewis in the reg­ smelling salts. Horseshoe games for Faculty Selects istrar's office, and make your Born February 18, 1873, at the strenuously inclined will be reservation with her. The price P r e s c ot t, Wisconsin, Ray organized. Butts MacLean did under­ At 5:30 the inhaled aroma of is §.25. meat loaf, escalloped potatoes, sal­ Nineteen Juniors All others—students, alumni, graduate study at Hamline ad, and pie ala mode can 1 for those Grey Gowns Usher and faculty—make your reser­ University from which he who have bought their tickets by- vations with Dr. A. M. Chris- was graduated in lb96 with Saturday noon, 20c a person, 6 for At Senior Exercises tensen. The price—§.60. Please the bachelor of philosophy a dollar) be traced to its source Nineteen members of the junior degree. He earned his MA just west of the tennis courts, class have been chosen by a fac­ send in the reservation blank where the picnic supper will be ulty committee as Grey Gown ush­ on page 4 as soon as possible. at the University of Minne­ served. During the meal, those ers during commencement week. sota in 1923. Hamline made members of the non-social organ- Students are selected because of him doctor of pedagogy in outstanding scholastic achievements. Representatives of the sophomore Those chosen to act in this ca­ and senior classes, the alumni as­ 1934. Dr. and Mrs. Mac- Major Nemzek sociation, and the faculty bring pacity Eire: Gwen Easter, Hum­ Lean (Winona M. Lewis) boldt: Catherine Rue, Lakefield; greetings. There is always special Visits Moorhead music and community singing. were married August 10, Kenneth Jensen, Dilworth; Pris- 1899 and have one daugh­ cilla Fox, Fargo; Marjorie Hall- This year the time of the din­ ner is set for Sunday, June 1, at ter, Frances, now Mrs. iiob- On Short Leave berg, Spooner; Neoma Nelson, 1:30 o'clock. An especially large Moorhead: Jule Crume, Glyndon; ert Featherstone of Fergut: While visiting in Moorhead on Grayce Hafdahl, Thief River Falls; representation from the sophomore a short leave, Major Alex J. Nem­ and senior graduating classes is Falls. Luella Lewis, Hawley; Olive Bauer, c zek states that Battery F won't Moorhead; Clara Knutson, War­ anticipated. Let us make this a Beginning in l 90. Dr. remain at Camp Haan. Calif., long­ ren; Leona Lewis, Hawley; Luverne real "MSTC Family Dinner." MacLean began his half cen­ er than fifteen months. Naegeli, Fergus Falls; Jean Walk­ tury of work in education. Major Nemzek, commanding of­ er, Detroit Lakes; May Opgrand, After two years of teach.ny ficer of headquarters second batal- Halstad; Florence Peterson, Moor­ Miss Hawkinson ion of the 217th coast artillery, head; Dorothy Teigen, Louisburg; in Pierce county, Wisconsin, anti-aircraft regiment, arrived here Blair Archer, St. Paul, and Niles he served as superin\... ntU n. Tuesday to visit his parents. On Jefferson, Moorhead. Monday he will leave for Fort Gets Doctorate ofschooTs IrrTTTS^foTIoXv lilg Monroe. Va„ to attend a ten- cities: Appleton, 1896-98; week officers' course. His family Degree Conference Prescott, Wisconsin, 1889- has remained in Riverside, Calif., Dragon Business June 14 At U. of M. 1900; Dodge Center, 1900- where the children are attending Miss Ella Hawkinson, principal 05; Wheaton, 1905-07 and school. of the Campus School, was grant­ Major Nemzek states that all Heads Named ed a doctor's degree on Tuesday by Fergus Falls, 1907-13. Rec­ present indications point to only Duane Moen, Gary, and George a faculty committee at the Uni­ Dr. R. B MacLean ognition of his outstanding 15 months of training for the na­ Metcalf. Barnesville, will head the versity of Minnesota. Her degree work came when in 1913 he tional guard units and it is prob­ will be conferred on June 14 at able that they will convoy back to business staff of the 1941-42 Drag­ commencement exercises. Expressions of appreciation and congratulations on his many years was named state director of Minnesota next summer with their on, announces the MSTC publica­ Miss Hawkinson's thesis was titled of service have come to President MacLean through telegrams from elementary schools to serv, trucks and motorized equipment. tions board. Moen will act as busi­ "The Difficulties of Social Studies friends and alumni. Here are a few: He recently visited Battery F at until his nomination to the ness manager and Metcalf, adver­ Teachers in Secondary Schools." Many years of faithful service be rewarded by satisfaction of work presidency of MSTC in 1923. Barstam, 130 miles from Camp From a survey of select social sci­ H»an, where the men are con­ tising manager. Marjorie Hallberg, well done. • Mr. MacLean, as listed in structing. a firing Nrange for the Spooner, and Daniel Murphy, Fel- ence teachers from thirty-eight Ruth c. Hole "Who's Who in America," summer's maneuvers. He found ton, were recently named editor states and the District of Columbia, Fosston, Minn. „pmhpv nf N E A and the men to be in excellent spirits she has compiled her research pa­ I shall miss President MacLean at the campus for he is so defi- ls a IU® ' ' ' . and associate editor, respectively. nitelv a part of what the Moorhead State Teachers college means to was Of Si. Li. A. m and healthy physical condition. The per which deals with the actual president many reports about sickness in the The -1940 yearbook will arrive at me 1925. He holds membership camp were quite exaggerated, but MSTC Tuesday, according to a dis­ problems encountered while teach­ Hilda Berg in Phi Delta Kappa and hospital facilities are the finest patch from the Greene Engraving ing. The study was undertaken to State Teachers College obtainable for any illnesses which Mankato, Minn. Kappa Delta Pi, national company, St. Paul, which is com­ determine the material to be em­ (Continued to page 4) might occur. phasized in methods courses. Sorry to hear of Pres. MacLean's retirement. May the sunset of The guardsmen, he states, have pleting the work.