~- ~o 1he Vol. XXIX June Number VI Wa~hin9ton ~tate 1940

QlumKi POWWOW

CONTENTS , Association Affairs 3 Mee t the new office rs. , Picture Play of 1940 Alumni Day 4 PO\\"\V O\\' photogra pher snaps hig hlig hts. • Fatted Calves for Prodigal Sons' Return 5 Alull1ni of many classes ,· et '.! rn ', 0 camplI s. • Room Service - 6 College does a job for hotels ; vice-versa. • Time to Relax at Moore Inn - 8 Goin g vacationing this SlImJll er. H ere', .1 t: p. • Ten Years in the Far East 9 The interesting experience o f N ata li e T Clll s. '.22. • Sports Roundup of 1939-40 9 • In This Alumni World 10 A cross-sectio n of A lumni life. CCkb and CCkat . .. THE WASHINGTON STATE • MAGAZINES thrive on circulation a network of enthusiasts scattered ALUMNI POWWOW and advertising. With this in mind thither and yon to make this program Established 1910 the alumni association board of di­ click. There is no remunerative re­ A monthly digest of news devoted to the State College of Washington and its Alum­ rectors at their annual spring meet­ turn for this work; only personal sat­ ni. ing approved of a plan whereby stu­ isfaction and sometimes not that be­ Editor...... Joe F . Caraher, '35 dents will blanket the state this sum­ cause some experiences along this Business Manager...... Ray Adams, '40 National Advertising Representati ve: The Gradu· mer on a campaign designed to bring line often are discouraging. ate Group, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New Y ork City, all of our 6,000 graduates, living in ~{ e mb e r American Alumni Council. Published monthly except July and August by the Washington particularly, closer to the • THE ALUMNI Secretary late this Alumni Association of the State College of \Vash. month will attend a convention of the ington, PulIman, W ashington. Subscription price institution wherein they spent a num­ $1.50 a year. Entered as second class matter June American Alumni Council at French 19, 1919, at the postoffice at Pullman, Washing. ber of happy years. An increased cir­ ton, under act of Congress of March 3, 1879. culation will make it a profitable or­ Lick, Indiana. Important discussions Editorial and business office located at 211 Ad· ministration Building, State College of Washing. gan for advertisers. I f the advertis­ relative to all phases of the work will ton, Pullman, W a shington. ing increases so will the size of the be held and undoubtedly matters magazine. Will you join us? which have proved puzzling in the • past may radiate a little light. In an W.S.C. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 1940-41 Officers effort to insure close attention to • NEW OFFICERS were elected re­ Presid ent...... Fred Schroeder, '21 , business the directors have encourag­ cently, the announcement coming P ortland, Ore. ed the secretary to leave his golf clubs 1st V. P ...... Thad Byrne, '25, Spokane during the course of the Alumni-Sen­ home in the closet. Advice heeded. 2nd V. P ...... Ruby Hazlett T odd, '32, ior picnic, and the reaction of the pub­ P ortland, Ore . lic indicates your selections were be­ • WE'VE MENTIONED on several Treasurer...... C. L. H ix, '09, P ullman yond reproach. Those candidates who occasions that alumni around Kansas E xecutive Secretary .. . J oe F. Caraher. '35, failed to poll enough votes for office City planned forming a live-wire or­ P ullman DT R E CT O R S·AT·I.A R GE were, in every case, nosed out only ganization. This they have done re­ "\"alt In'in c, ~2 4, Sca tt.l e: Reuhen '-'oung-quist, '28, ~ r o unt Vernon: A lbert H lint , '30, T acoma ; C, by a small margin . Anyone of them cently through stimulation by Mar­ Crover \Vilson, '31, S pokane, and Les :Mcl llto sh , would have filled the position with garet I{ay Stewart, '29, the hustling '23 , Centralia. ease- that's why the nominations secretary of the Excelsior Springs, ATHLETIC COUNCIL Asa V. Clark. ' 16. Pullman; H arry Goldswo rthy. committee placed their names on the Mo ., chamber of commerce, and Le­ '08, Rosalia; E arl V. Foster. '23. Pullman. roster. We hope these individuals ona Saunders, '38, Camp Fire execu­ EXECUTIVE CO~BlITTEE Alumni m cmher :-; - F red Schroeder, '21 , Portla nd ; will continue to show an active inter­ tive in K. C. A picnic is on tap for the H. ~! r. ('hamhers. ' 13, Pullman: ?o.'liss A my L ewel · kll, ' l i, J'Ull1l1:tll ; Facult y i ll l!11Ihc r - E , n. Parker, est in the association because it takes near future. 'l ~ . Pullman.

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COVER: June-the windup month to a year filled with scholastic enter­ prise and exciting experiences-brings out some of the best and worst in col­ legiate male singing. This picture shows a fraternity group, gathered below a sorority vera~da, giving their "best" en a noctural choral circuit of the cam­ pus. There is something, however, which makes a serenade good at two in the morning. Slumbering neigh­ bors along Greek Row, however, may have a different opinion .

• PORTLAND alumni will join hands with the Vancouver, Washingtonians, on June 29th and together will stage what is anticipated to be a big Cougar picnic at Jantzen Beach. Cards are being sent to alumni in the area and a healthy response is expected. Re­ member the day-June 29th - and THAD BYRNE, '25, first vice pres­ plan to be on hand. Bring a friend, FRED SCHROEDER, '21, new ident of the association following the president of the WSC Alumni Associa­ annual election, has been secretary of family or fiance. They will be assured tion, is a successful insurance man in the Spokane County Alumni Club and of a good time. For further informa­ Portland. He is a hustler in every sense an indefatigable worker for any pro­ tion call Ruby Todd in Portland. of the word and has a headful of logical ject that smacks of "college on the ideas that easily may be incorporated hill." Byrne teaches school at John ~ into the alumni program. Schroeder Rogers; organizes tours for summer • PIERCE COUNTY W.S.C. Alumni has arrived at the top of the alumni vacationists. list by sheer interest and work. club members danced atop the Win­ • CHICAGOANS and alumni from throp Hotel on Saturday, June 8, throwing the ticket receipts into a • ALUMNI COMPRISING the North­ nearby suburbs were entertained scholarship fund the organization has ern California club moved into Marsh Saturday, June 15, when Graduate Creek Springs two weeks ago for Manager Earl Foster, '23, showed the instituted to aid some needy future W.S.c. enrollee. The affair came just their Fifth Annual picnic. All reports color motion pictures of the campus as undergraduates from the Tacoma which have filtered through, uncen­ to the club meeting at the Hotel sector arrived home for the summer sored, to the alumni office indicate Sherman in the heart of the Windy vacation. All were invited to join the everyone had an exceptional time and City. Arrangements were made by the party and a surprisingly large num­ all are · looking forward to the next alumni secretary through contacts ber turned out. This sport dance event on the alumni program which with F. V. Applequist, '28, resident was the first of many meetings and will come due in the fall. of Elmwood Park. The films are the entertainments which the Tacomans ones which have been ~hown during ~ have arranged to provide a full alum­ the past year to over 80 high schools • DURING the past several weeks ni program in that area for the com­ in the state of Washington and which members of the Cougar club, alumni are said to be the finest promotional ing year. CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 bit for the college ever developed. A number of the alumni clubs have viewed this technicolor masterpiece and have gone on record one hundred These alumni enjoyed a short time ago a picnic at per cent in expressing enthusiasm for beautiful New Remada in South Mountain Park, sev­ the hour and a half show. en miles outside Phoenix. headquarters city of Ari­ Foster stopped over in Chicago zona Washington Staters. while on a circuit of the middle west Included in the picture are M r. and Mrs. Bernard with Stanley Smith, department of ar­ Van Voorhis, Superior; Mr. and Mrs. Vernon chitecture head. They are visiting Dow. Ray; Mr. and Mrs. F. E . Ostrand,r. and many of the leading student union those two future Cougar­ cttes with pigtails. Tempe; buildings in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana Mr. and Mrs. Clyde My­ and Iowa, in hopes that some ideas dis­ ers, Phoenix, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Love and played in these units will facilitate a daughter. Phoenix: John Hafenbrack. Phoenix, and plan for erecting a similar edifice on Judge R. L. McCroskey. the Washington State campus. Colfax, Wash.

POWWOW. June. 1940 3 1940 GfLumni :J)alj Upper left-A section of the alumni throng attending the annual picnic, forced indoors because of inclement weather. Close to 200 graduates, seniors, former students and members of the faculty enjoyed an excellent program. During the luncheon members of classes reuniting gathered together for friendly chit-chats, enlarging considerably on campus experiences. Upper right-Three members of the '00 class had a gay time on Alumni Day. Shown here is Adele Allen Oliver, Hoquiam; tWill Duncan, Olympia, and Anna Hubbard Grimes, Moore. They comprise, along with Nellie Cooper McCroskey, Colfax, forty per cent of the class still living. Left-Alumni Day chairman, Ralph McBride, '30, presents to Reuben C. Youngquist, '28, retiring president of the association a key emblematic of service to the organization. The presentation was made during the picnic program. Lower left-Scene from the Alumni-Senior golf tourney played on the Associ­ ated Students' course. Bob Emerson, '34, the new champion, and Dr. Jimmie Gilleland, '29, look on while George Blakkolb, '34, prepares to sink (or miss) a four-footer. Lower right-Alumnus coming the greatest distance to attend Alumni Day festivities and the twenty-fifth reunion of his class was Joe Sample, '15, Holliday's Cove, West Virginia. He and Mrs. Sample and two children came to Pullman specifically for Commencement week-end ; had a marvelous time by 'their own admission. Irene Droz, a Spur, pins a class ribbon on the coat lapel of Mr. Sample. 1(oom • The correct technique for the "hotel greeter" is demonstrated in this pic­ ture which shows two graduates of the hotel management course, now em­ ployed at the Roosevelt in Seattle, ex­ tending a warm hand to a half dozen t:ndergraduates who participated in a recent field trip through leading hotels of the state. Left to right are John O'Rear, '38, Victor Beck, '38, Harold Jacobsen, Bob Guitteau, Terry Walk­ er, Lloyd Picha, Vern Jaquish and Ray Adams

• IF IT isn't one thing in the hotel they may capitalize following Com­ business, it's another! A room is mencement. As undergraduates they either too warm or too drafty; the bed are absorbed into coffee shops, dorms, • is too hard or too soft; the meals are and dining halls on the campus where men and women. They are cooperat­ too small or too expensive and the they may procure genuine experience ing to the limit in making field trips clerks are too gushy or too unhos­ to aid their preparation in becoming possible and have been going out of pitable. There is always something a valuable asset to any commercial their collective ways to display every for the customer to complain about organization when they are ready to "angle" of the hotel industry when and they say the customer always is step into any phase of hotel operation students are in their presence. It is right. a manager may deem fitting for their good business fOi them too. When a broad qualifications. A new course, however, was design­ student of hotel management has ed at the State Colleg a few years ago spent four years in learning the busi­ to eliminate as many of those com­ • THE RESULTS of this highly tech­ ness, he or she may be readily as­ plaints as possible. This is hotel man­ nical training is shown in the fact similated into an organization which, agement, open to both men and wom­ employers in the field are pealing under ordinary circumstances, would en students interested particularly in weather eyes for those bright young invest considerable in rotating an em- a field which has both changed and enlarged tremendously in the past two decades. Florence Harrison, for­ mer dean of the home economics col­ lege, and N. J. Aiken, placement bur­ eau head, saw possibilities in develop­ ing a program of this type; set out in 1931 to do the job. Outstanding features of the course is the selection and variety of tech­ nical studies pertaining to hotels from bell hop to manager and from chambermaid to chef. No stone is left untouched in preparing enrollees to take their places in an industry crammed with interesting situations day in and day out; where split sec­ ond decisions may turn profit to loss or vice-versa. In the course of train­ ing to become an important cog in the operation of any hotel, students are given practical problems directly in line with experiences they will face in the future. Vacation field trips In the course of their trammg students of hotel management must familiarize have been added to the program giv­ themselves with accounting, economic and business institutions, food costs reports, ing the students an opportunity of sales and cost analysis, and bookkeeping. Practical experience is gained through lab­ oratory work on the campus. Shown here is Loren Logsdon, John O'Rear and Ray making valuable contacts upon which Adams.

6 POWWOW, June, 1940 SeJlvice • The real success of a hotel rests with the kitchen, say critics.· That's why a good hotel man knows his plant from cellar to garret. To achieve this ex­ perience students take a turn in the Commons kitchen on the campus where they have an opportunity of observing every ph3se of culinary artistry. In this picture Loren Logsdon, left, and ) Dean Cooper demonstrate ability as bakers. Textiles, advertising, and busi­ ness courses also are necessary. Only three schools in the nation of­ The Hotel Greeters' club of Spo­ fer hotel management, Cornell and kane has shown its interest in the Michigan State, east of the Mississip­ program by offering annually a $100 pi, and Washington State, west. The scholarship to the junior whose work • rating of the State College in this up until that time has been most out­ trio is excellent. standing. During a field trip this ployee to present a vivid picture of Tom A. Gildersleeve, popular young spring undergraduates had an op­ the entire hotel plant. After complet­ manager of the Roosevelt, Seattle, portunity of visiting some of Seat­ ing the course the student is acquaint­ boosts the course in this way: tle's leading hotels and wholesale sup­ ply houses. They took a tour of the ed with the problems involving the "It has been our pleasure since the city via Grayline being introduced to kitchen, the front office, the dining inception of the hotel management the hand-in-glove policy which is in room, personnel, accounting and course at the State College to co­ operation between the tour desk and maintenance. They know the differ­ operate extensively to help aid its the sight-seeing company. ence between the operation of a tea success. We sincerely believe that room and a cafeteria; a coffee shop the college should be complimented Graduates, too, have done well. and dining room. In four years they highly for the important work it is Ward Walker, '34, is manager of the are familiar wi th both the practical doing in educating and training young Washington hotel in Pullman, one of and theoretical side of hotel manage­ men and women for the hotel indus­ the state's most profitable and ment. try." smooth-operating hostelries. Mel Hinman, '38, is assistant manager of the Ben Franklin in Seattle. Earl Redlin, '36, is an assistant manager at the New Washington, Seattle. Victor Beck, '38, and John O'Rear, '39, are co-assistant managers of the Roose­ velt. Harry Lane, '38, is on the front cffice staff at the Hotel Utah in Salt Lake City. These are only a few of many who successfully have been graduated in a course designed par­ ticularly for a specific industry. ~ • PROBLEMS growing out of the Ed­ win Atherton Report (See April Pow­ wow) were being ironed out at a mid­ June meeti ng 0 f the con ference fac­ ] ulty committee and a coaches' and Fraduate managers' huddle at Sun Valley. According to authoritative sources the action taken by the fac­ ulty representatives of the West's fastest football circuit following adop­ The proper procedure for registering a guest is demonstrated by Loren Logsdon. tion of the "Report," contained flaws. During college the student receives practical experience behind the hotel desk. These, however, were anticipated and This picture was made in the Washington hotel at Pullman where the first graduate of the hotel management course, Ward Walker, '34. is in charge. a good many changes will be made.

POWWOW, June, 1940 7 !ftJs CCime to 1?eLax at -A1oore !fnn • Mother Hubbard's Cupboard Is Never Bare

of the West" is a camera-hunter's paradise and a fisherman's delight. Near Moore Point the Steelheads, Dolly Vardens, Cutthroats and Cusks nervously await the angler's bait and when these sporty creatures discover that lure they respond with a vigor farm home where we offer hospitality which is unbelieveable. to our friends who seek peace and • Beautiful Lake Chelan showing quiet away from their labors and To reach Alumna Hubbard's place, Moore Point busy life in the city." Green vegeta­ and where, incidentally, the cupboard bles are raised on the small farm ad­ is never bare, you take highway or jacent to the resort hotel. So are rail from Wenatchee to Chelan, a dis­ fruits and walnuts. Jersey cows pro­ tance of forty miles. The steamer • NESTLED deep in the Cascades vide rich milk and cream for the din­ leaves Chelan landing daily- June far up in the romantic wilderness of ing room table and you can guess 15th to September 30th- at 8 a. m., North Central Washington is an un­ that those milk-fed chickens clucking returns at 5 :50 p. m. The Hubbard's usual spot providing a lure to sum­ out yonder become a tasty bit for the inn is forty-six miles up the picture­ mer tourists from coast-to-coast. This Sunday repast. esque lake from Chelan. is not " the house by the side of the In the main lodge are fourteen Something to look forward to with road" nor a humming hotel on the guest rooms. Eight of these have enthusiasm- a trip with the family main line. Moore Inn, resting on a connecting bath. The rooms are heat­ up to Moore Inn, away from the point which juts into the blue-green ed by electricity and are lighted dur­ rumble of street cars and typewriter waters of beautiful Lake Chelan, is ing the day by the warm sun which keys. If you DO make the trip the accessible by boat only. The little streams across the lake illuminating Hubbards, Anna and Frank, will be steamer chugs into the dock once a every nook and corner of the en­ looking for you, greet you and make day carrying a cargo of happy vaca­ chanting little inn. There are eight you feel at home. In fact they use tionists ; leaves on the same schedule. comfortable two-room cabins with this quotation: Moore Inn is operated by a State bath and electricity. "Before our lodge we wait to bid College graduate of the 1900 class. Boats are provided for guests de­ you hail; She is Anna Grimes Hubbard who slflng to make trips either up or Let not the long grass grow on maintains that combining all the mod­ down the lake. Truthfully this "spa Friendship's trail." ern facilities of an uptown hotel with space, isolation, good fellowship, good health and good cheer will com­ bine to make any person's vacation a smashing success. The resort has been designed for all types of clien­ tel-those interested in the rest cure; those desiring recreation at its best. Tucked away in the heart of virgin timber where precipitous mountains form a backdrop, where wild game abounds in the deep forest and trout slither gracefully through the cool waters of the majestic lake- ah, what a spot for the man with a reel, and Moore Inn, operat­ ed by Anna Grimes telescopic rod of bamboo wood- that's Hubbard, '00, is lo­ cated picturesquely on Moore. the shores of Lake Although operated on a commer­ Chelan, largest fresh water body in the Ev­ cial basis most of the year, Mrs. Hub­ ergreen state. If youOre thinking of a vcation bard, a most gracious and charming this summer, here's a spot to consider seri­ person, calls Moore Inn "just a small ously. 8 POWWOW, June, 1940 Ten Years in the Far ~ast • • • notes from alumna's scrapbook • HORACE GREELEY once put a edit a monthly magazine and direct education in general is promoted to bug in the ear of American boyhood the distribution of literature to the a high degree? Who is capable of do­ advising "Go West young man," but 18,000 children attending the mission ing a better job? to the female of the species he offer­ schools under their jurisdiction. Natalie Toms, '22forl, an instruc­ ed no particular solace or encourage­ tor at Washington State following • THE FAMILY? Well it consists of ment. I f success in any line was to be graduation, wife of Paul Means, mis­ four children. Gordon, twelve, was hers, she would have to discover the sionary, mother of four children, a born in Spokane. Mariel, eleven, was recipe unaided. girl who has seen the world through delivered in Sumatra ; Virginia, seven, rose-colored glasses, at times, and Paying no attention to Greeley's in New York; and Charlotte, two-and­ through ominous, black clouds on words- since they had no application a-half, in Singapore. Gordon attended other occasions, is back in the States to her- Natalie Toms, '22forl, went school in North India. His parents, again. Her home is Tacoma now. East- to the Far East, as a matter of seeing the need for an English edu­ Husband Paul is assistant to Presi­ fact, and wound up as a missionary cation, enrolled him at Woodstock, dent at the College of Puget Sound; for a ten-year period. 3,000 miles by water from Sumatra, holds degrees from Yale, Oxford and Natalie Toms Means came back to where sixty per cent of the students Columbia. the campus this month and told an and faculty are Americans. Not many exciting story about the field o'far, young boys have experienced leaving ~ where tigers roam the jungle and home so early to seek an education poisonous snakes lurk in the tangled and undoubtedly it was a sad day for mesh awaiting the unarmed or un­ his folks when he boarded the vessel Cougar Sports forewarned. She told of her experi­ bound for India. ences with the natives of the Malay We learned something of Singa­ • LOOKING back over the year 1939­ Peninsula, where she and her hus­ pore, the government, and the atti­ 40 from the athletic standpoint gives band, Paul Means of Oberlin, spent tude of the subjects living in the Ma­ evidence to the fact the Cougars per­ two and a half years converting na­ lays under the Dutch regime. For formed in high caliber fashion in all tives to Christianity. Here in the one thing Singapore, with a " melting major, and some minor sports. Dutch East Indies, one of frustrated pot" population, is a beautiful, clean Holland's prize possessions, Means metropolis. Socialized medicine is Take football for example. Victories was in charge of a Methodist school practiced wi th excellent doctors pro­ were scored over State's most bitter at Medan, Sumatra. vided. Infectuous diseases are prac­ rivals, Washington, Idaho and Gon­ In this sort of surroundings Mis­ tically nil and no little wonder. zaga. To this add a stirring win over sionary Means and his wife struggled Babies must be vaccinated for small­ the Stanford eleven. Close games with the Malayan pygmies, a reman­ pox before they are six months old. were dropped to O.S.C. and California. ent race of the early Asians. These A heavy fine is extracted from par­ All of this indicates football here is people were visited from time to time ents who fail to comply. As a result on the upgrade and there are those via Johnson motor-powered boats of this- and because the population who predict the Cougars will be which were steered up murky water­ has become conscious of what the mighty tough during the coming fall ways into the jungle. In fact this was government does for them in a medi­ campaign. the only means of safe transportation, cal way- the health record is excellent Washington State did not lose a Mrs. Means explained. Traveling by and the mortality rate very low. Chol­ series in basketball or baseball, split­ land is virtually an impossibility. But era, a black menace in tropical coun­ ting in four games in each sport with despite the fact the jungle of Malay tries- virtually is unheard of. This the champion Oregon Staters. The is known to contain the wildest ani­ is true, too, of other ghastly plagues hoopers finished third and the diam­ mals and most venomous reptiles, the such as are vested frequently upon ond crew second. Meanses always went unarmed. How­ countries located in the same lati­ The track team had another great ever, they never traveled after dark tude. year under the direction of Karl Schlademan. The Cougars won their but made camp with tribes along the And to them the "Dutch company is eighth consecutive northern division rivers. These people in all cases were the best company" although the championship and trimmed Washing­ friendly and hospitable. "company" has been eliminated and ton, Oregon and Idaho in duel com­ The most part of a decade spent the "government" inserted instead. petition. The Cougars finished fifth in the Far East was devoted to pro­ The Dutch government has done in the Paci fic Coast con ference meet. viding and teaching Christian litera­ marvelous things for its Malayan sub­ Lost from the potent squad will be ture in the mission schools. After jects. It is a paternal sort of juris­ the circuit's greatest competitor Lee nearly three years in the Dutch East diction and there is no discontent­ Orr, Dixie Garner, two-mile champion Indies the Means family moved to ment in the Dutch colonies. How can of the Coast and George Rowswell, Singapore, thirty-six hours by steam­ there be when art and culture is en­ northern division shot put champion. er from Sumatra. Mrs. Means taught couraged, when craft schools have for five years, imparting knowledge in been established to revive native skill • COUGAR wrestlers tied with Wash­ both the Chinese and Malayan tongue. in talents which had begun to die, ington for Northern division honors. In addition she aided her husband when native music is preserved and CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

POWWOW, June, 1940 9 The Who, What, Where, When of In This Alumni World • Washington Staters .Everywhere Alumnites 1921 STE BBINS, Louise Elsie-To Mr. and William B. Laney, '21, who recently be­ Mrs. V ern O. Stebbins, '35, at Spokane came a life m ember in the \N.S.C. Alum­ on May 4. Little Elsie boun ced the scales ni Association is with the State Mutual for six pounds according to announcement Life Assurance Company of vVorcester, direct from the hospital. Father is with the Massachusetts. He is the general agent soil erosion service. in Seattle. Location : 1411 F ourth Avenue BRITTENHAM, Jane-To Mr. and Building. Mrs. H oward Brittenham, '32, (E velyn Schultz ) in P ortland in March. Baby has 1924 been complaining the P O\N vVOW society F eatured recently by the Portland Sym­ department is rather slow in making these phonic Orches tra was P iano Soloist Lil­ announcements. lian Pettibone, '24, who accordin g to ear­ CARAHER, Joan Elizabeth-To Mr. witnesses gave a wonderful performa nce. and Mrs. Joe Caraher, '35, at Colfax on She was the attraction along with N eri May 20th. Dad is alumni secretary and Thebeau, tenor, in a program whi ch pack­ who couldn't get an announcement in these ed the Portland public auditorium. M iss columns, says little Miss J oan, if her Pettibone is in line for congratulati ons for pa was editor of the magazin e. her great work. Close observers will tell H U FF, Robert Lee-To Mr. and Mrs. you "it takes something" to be a featured Russell Huff, '37, at Coulee Dam. The performer \\'ith an organization of this stork made the call just a short time back. type. Like Coul ee Dam, young Robert likely will become another " wonder of the world." Little DAVEY BROOM, '60pe, and H OPEWELL, Michael H enry-T o Mr. HENRY McLEOD, '31, talk things 1930 If and Mrs. H enry H opewell, '35 , at Coulee over with Tucky the mascot. Henry, you save magazines scan the Febru­ ary issue of Better H omes & Gardens. In Dam in March. In an announcement the recuperating from a serious illness, will H opewells di splayed a blueprint showing return to work for the Seattle Times. this particular iss ue the res id ence of Mr. and ~1r s . Elmer Henry, '30, (Marybell e va ri ous vi ews of the newcomer. (He is an Prior to a recent furlough he was sports vVea therford) was give n a splendid write­ engineer, thus the idea ver y cleverly done). editor. He and Davey's dad, RON, are up. They reside in Portland. GILMORE, Marilyn Grace-To Mr. and inseparable pals, a Damon-Pythias Mrs. Arthur Gilmore, ex-'37 ( Grace W ell er, combine. Both have done well in the '37) in H ollywood, May 4th according to journalistic field, particularly sports 1931 an announcement which contained a strip writing. Lou Hull, '3Ipe, wh o played football and of color film showing mother, father look­ haseball for the Crimson and Gray, is now ing at off spring with great admiration. coaching future prospects at Roo.evelt T he announcement had a theatrical touch High in Seattle. which presented Mi ss Gilmore as "The Engaged Scream Sensation of 1940." Gilmore is a Weldon B. "Hoot" Gibson, '38, and 1935 star radio announcer and is heard weekly Helen Mears, Stanford U niversity grad, Art Me,Larney, '32pe, who was All -Am­ over CB S on the "Dr. Christi an" show. announced recently their intention of be­ eri can shortstop and great basketball pl ay­ ~ comin g husband and wife. The betroth­ er for W .S.c., is now tutoring sports mind­ a l was announ ced at a garden party at the ed youths at Cleveland hi gh school in Se­ Married home of the bride-to-he's parents, Dr. and attle. Stella Genevieve Fraser, '31 , to L eonard Mrs. Eliot G. Mears si tuated on the Stan­ O. Livernash at Olympia in March ac­ ford campus. Gib son, an outstanding stu­ 1934 cording to word received here recently. dent here, is completing hi s work in the Carl Brewster, '34, plays supporting roles The bride is well known in music circles Stanford graduate school. He was a Cou­ in the "Dr. Christian" shows broadcast having received a master's degree at Chi­ gar football er and is a nephew of Arthur weekl y over CBS. T he same program is cago music college. Later she was head "Buck" Bailey, baseball coach. announ ced by Art Gilmore, ex-'37. Brew­ of the music department at Albany Col­ ster was presid ent of the student body hi s lege, Oregon. The groom is a Southern senior year: was a radio announ cer in sev­ California graduate; teaches science at th e eral \ \lashington stations before stepping Abraham L incoln hi gh school in L os An­ out into fr ee lance work in H ollywood. geles. George X. Smith, '34. is special agent Bernadine Turner, '39, walked the ce nter fo r the Aetna Casualty & Surety Company aisle of the Church of Truth in Spokane on in Des Moin es, Iowa. A leader on the A pril 27th, met at the altar Robert Carey, campus George has bee n successful in his '38, where they were joined in matrimony. chosen fi eld the insurance busin ess as his Mrs. Carey was active in student activities title \\·ill indicate. bein g presid ent of the A.W.S., May quee n, Mearns Gates, '34, state president of the Mortar Board and a sponsor. :Mr. Carey junior chamber of commerce , leaves P om­ was a member of Scabbard and Blade, Sig­ eroy late this month for a nati onal con­ ma Tau and Crimson Circle. The couple vention the organization is holding in will live in Peoria, Ill. \'Vas hington, D. C. Gates, head of the com­ Louise Chase and Cornell Knapp, '38, in mercial department and track coach at P uyallup recently according to a dispatch Pcmeroy hi g h school, was el ec ted to his received by the PO\V\

10 POWWOW, June, 1940 The bo xing team lost their Coast NO TIME TO RETIRE title at Sacramento while retaining It's been a busy life for Byron Hunt­ er, '99, since he graduated from W.S.C., their supremacy of the Northwest. Al­ one of the first graduates of the Col­ so I ke Deeter's team lost a close one lege of Agriculture. In 1906 he return­ to the national champions, Wisconsin. ed to the college for his master's de­ Cougar swimmers were third in the gree. The years 1914 and 15 found him northern division standings and the vice-director and state leader of the bureau of farm development at the State golfers placed fourth. Tennis and College of Washington. From here he fencing had rather poor seasons and went to the Bureau of Agricultural will stan.d bolstering for future en­ Economics in the United States Depart­ gagements. ment of Agriculture. After years of ser­ vice, he was retired on November 1, • WASHINGTON STATE'S great 1939 . But here's an interesting late develop­ cinder-burners, Lee Orr, Dixie Gar­ ment. Not satisfied with the inactivity, ner and Bill Dale will appear in the Alumnus Hunter went to New Mexico National Collegiate Athletic Associa­ after his retirement. There he is work­ ing on the Pecos River Watershed tion track and field meet in Minne­ Flood Control Survey being conducted apolis June 21-22. Midwesterners well in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture. The work probably will WALT IRVINE, '24, Seattle, may travel many miles to see this trio last until January 1, 1941. How's that who has served the association for love of work? well for a number of years will be in action. They have everything. They a member of the board of directors competed in the Princeton invitational during 1940-41. He was named to affair on June 8; the Pacific Coast Ethel Klein, '38mu, who has been teach­ the capacity by popular acclaim of conference Big Ten twilight meet in ing in Sprague for the p ast two years now has a positi on of instructor of music in the ballot casters in the recent elec­ Evanston on June 17. tion. Irvine is affiliated with the Wenatchee g rade school s. Seattle Printing & Publishing Co.

w ll1n er of th e state in terscholastic event ASK YOUR MOBllGAS DEALER here late last month. F itzs immons will compete in a national A.A.U . meet in -~rhu S tockton next 111 0nth. O nly once has he been over 4 :31 whcih is fl yin g any way you look at it. ~ MORE ASSOCIATION NEWS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 organization in the main , developed for the purpose of aiding the Cougar athletic program, gathered in Spo­ kane, Colfax and Pullman for kickoff meetings as preludes to the 1940 drive. Exceptional interest was shown in several quarters and alumni able to COMPlE·TE lUBRICATION JOB support a program of this type are encouraged to jump on the band wag­ these Important Summer-proof Services on. This is a worthy enterprise with­ ~ out question and though you may 1. BATTERY: Test with hydrometer. Inspect 9. LIGHTS: Check for burned out lamps. Cables. Clean terminals. Add distilled 10. TRANSMISSION and DIFFERENTIAL: In­ shoot the idea full of holes there still water if necessary. isn't enough reason for not putting spect level and condition of lubricant. 2 . COOLING SYSTEM : Inspect for scale and 11. CHASSIS and SPRINGS: Inspect for need a shoulder to the wheel. leaks. Inspect hose and clomps. of lubrication. ~ 3. FAN BELTS : Inspect for wear and defects. 12. TIRES and VALVES: Inspect and remove 4. CRANKCASE OIL: Inspect level and con­ all foreign material. COUGAR SPORTS dition of oil. 13. FRONT WHEEL BEARINGS: Inspect con­ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 5. OIL FILTER: Inspect for need of replace­ d ition of lubricant. Also the pachyderms defeated Wash­ ment. 14. Vacuum and clean interior of car-empty ash trays. ington, Oregon State and Idaho in 6. AIR CLEANER : Inspect for need of service. 15. Clean all glass. duel meets. 7. SPARK PLUGS: Inspect. Clean, test and respace electrodes. 16. Polish all chromium trim-clean dash. The fast-improving Cougar ski S. WINDSHIELD WIPER UNIT: Inspect wiper 17. Solvent clean steering wheel. team placed second in the Pacific blade and arm. 18. Dust car body with clean dust cloth. Coast conference meet at Paradise Valley, Mt. Rainier and the Northwest Ski Union championships at Mount Hood. Elton Blazier, Cougar kanonen, was third in the four-way competition at the national meet in Sun Valley.

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