PULLMAN, WASH. Dern Herbert Kimbrough St Rte College of Washington L Ullman , Wa Shington Octoblzlt, '9I1 REPORT from the CAMPUS
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Dr. and Mrs. Wilson M. Compton Dr. Compton will become President of the State College of Washington January I, 1945. :~a. LiIJ/:lt,. ... GLUWl)tC POWWOlA> R~TURN POSTAG~ GUARA NTE ED PULLMAN, WASH. DeRn Herbert Kimbrough St Rte College of Washington l ullman , Wa shington OctOblZlt, '9i1 REPORT FROM THE CAMPUS State CDllege Df Washington Pullman, Washington , State October 17, 1944 DEAR COUGAR: /I~'1'~ • Today the campus met its new president at a special convocation. TDday is an epochal day in the 54 year span of W.S.C. history. FDr details see page 3. Vol. XXXIV Numbers 1(, 2 Never ' in recent decades has there been such a perfect fall in the Sepl:ember-Ocl:ober, 1944 Palouse, say the old guard of the campus who should know. Along all the tree-lined, curving streets of College hill, slow-coming frosts 50c. JDe F. Caraher '35 Secretary gently paint the leaves. The campus is at its most colorful. In the L1) Amy LeweUen '17 Acting Secretary late afternDDns a haze, half-smoke, half-heat, softly pillow~ the g CD 5BI w3 Harf.r - Cham~rs'N - Chairman of the Board graphical sweep of the breath-taking hills. Pip MaynlU"d aic~s Editor Up paved campus streets sDldiers still tramp in unison to classes. v.3~ Virginia Hester '46 Assistant Editor They are younger now and' fewer than a year ago when nearly two thDusand Army and Army Air Force men were barracked here. NDW CONTENTS they are Reservists of the Army Specialized Training Program (mostly Report from the Campus .............................................................. 2, ... just crDwding to the age of 18) and the unit Df 250 is quartered in Ferry hall. Lt. CDI. William L . Morrison, Army commandant, has just P!esideIlt Ele~t ................................................................................. 3... 4 annDunced that W.S.C. is to. get another such unit after the first Df Campus New~ ::-.................................................................................. 4 the year running six months into 1945. Professor Frank Candee is the new civilian cODrdinator. So. reveille and retreat still sound acrDSS the Voice of the WSC Alumni ............................................................ 6-14 echoing hills. This year the Armory USO is clDsed, but the smaller Weddings, Engagements ................................ _................................. 15 grDUp of sDldiers is swept up into. the general stream Df college life Two to Leave ...................................................................................... 15 Dn thDse rare hours when they are free. All the college dDrms are filled this year. Quite irreverently to old Obituaries ...................................................................................... 16-18 campus traditiDns, Waller and StimsDn bDth hDld girls fDr the first Cougar Sports Trail ............................... _......................................... 18 time in their previously cDmpletely masculine history. ThDse pervasive Cougar World of Sports .................................................................... 19 co-ed:; this year have Community, Duncan Dunn and McCroskey back frDm the Army and they are still keeping all the halls they ever had INDIVIDUAL ALUMNI PICTURE INDEX befDre. They need them. tDD, fDr the halls are all full, with an all-time John Almen ........................ _... 6 Lt. Col. Stanley Nevin ............6 record enrDllment here of 1348 civilian girls. T he sororities are all packed, too. A record number of 305 girls came for rush week, but Vincent Hiden ........................ 8 Captain Earl Hunt ................ ,., only 189 of them could be tagged as pledges, for that was all the room Pilot Nancy C. Upper ............13 Col. Henry Merchant ............14 there was in the hDuses. SPECIAL NOTICE . Healthily for the college but surprisingly with the war still on To. rush to you at the earliest possible moment news of the official there are 352 civilian males here-more than a hundred more than a selection of a president elect, publication date of the first fall Powwow year ago. Altogether civilian registration is up 15 %. Pine Manor is was delayed until the present time. This year there will be no purely filled with men ; the first time in two years the masculine 'civvies' have September issue. had a college residence hall. In addition six fraternities are running; two. mDre than the preceding year. Some two score ex-veterans are here studying with government backing. OFFICERS 1944-45 St. Luke's hDspital of Spokane has a group of 43 cadet Army J. Paul Coie '30, Seattle Mary German '34, PDrtland nurses down for special study somewhat like last year's arrangement President F irst Vice President with Deaconess, only with a larger group this year. A second group Art Ganson, '29, Pullman C. L. Hix '09, Pullman from St. Luke's is assured, so. that cadet nurses will be Dn campus Second Vice President Treasurer at least through the 1945 summer session. Capt. Joe Cllraher '35, Seattle Federal and state labDratories here are throbbing to -more research Executive Secretary than ever before in history. Some, like the sprouting new ·light metals (In Army Dn Leave) • research, are turned tDward peacetime prosperity. Most Df the research is still turned toward winning the war. Two new highly secret war DirectDrs-at-Large research projects have just been added, one in September, the other Nels Higgins '25, Pullman Fred Talley '17, Spokane in October. Their stories, are like that of a number of others here fDr security's sake they cannot be written until Tokio fli es the white F red Schroeder '29, Portland Virginia Shaw '23, Pullman flag. Ed Erickson '40, SDuth Tacoma Extension work is likewise booming. KWSC has more male an (In the U . S. Army) nouncers than s'ince '42. Visual teaching is in a real boom. Ag extension Athletic -CDuncil has doubled its number of employees and taken on more than double its norm~l i(!ad, with addition of farm labor recruitment and other Asa V. Clark '16, Pullman Milton Martin '26, Clarkston new jobs. Earl V. Foster '23, Pullman Faculty and staff comings and goings remain in the same high gear that they have been throughDut the war. Early fall saw the Navy Executive Committee claim its hundredth officer from the ranks of the staff alone (exclusive J. Paul Coie, '30, Seattle Eri B. Parker '18, Pullman of all alumni and student contributions). Some two hundred other Amy Lewellen '17, pullman H. M. Chambers .'13, Pullman staff people have been lost to other branches of the armed services John Gillis '44, Washtucna (Continued on Page 5) The Washington Slate Alumni Powwow, puhllslled monthly except In Jnly and August. Established In 1910, the magazine Is & digest 0/ news deToted to the State College 01 Washington and lis alumnL The magazine Is published by the Alumni AssoclaUon 01 the Stale College 0/ Washington, Pullman, Washington. Subscrlpllon price Is Sl.oO per year. Entered as second class mailer June 19, 1919, at the POsllnlce, Pullman, Washington, 1Inder act 0/ CODgress, March, S, 1819. Page Two. POWWOW, September-OctDber, 1944 •••• •••• Report From The Campu~ •••• •••• (Concluded from Page 2) with saving the cranberry industry in the Northwest. DEAN E. C. 1 to war work in other phases. With nearly every Pullman house JOHNSON got a traveling exhibit of British farming in war for the dId most apartments now full local folks began to talk about the campus Oct. 12-26. LT. COL. WILLIAM L. MORRISON reports 120 critical housing shortage certain to develop here when the hegira back civilian males in ROTC this semester. Believe-it-if-you will, a dean to the hill top gets in full swing. Just about everybody will have to heads the freshman class-he is DEAN GEHRETT of Walla Walla. 'ome back to handle the six ·thousand enrollment optimists expect for GORDON BENDER, Graduate club president, announces the opening e college in post-war years. of the Theta Chi house as a social center for graduates and faculty. : Transportation is a changed art in Pullman, with only a few of the ANITA WAADNE, alumna of '41 was back on the campus in lutocratic C holders still driving to the campus frequently. Deans mix early October with a new mobile unit of the state department of public 'ith starry-eyed frosh co-eds and young.-old soldiers in mobbing the health, helping X-ray every student. TINO COSTA, French painter, \oaning, shimmying College hill bus which now runs every evening has just given the college a bust of Lincoln. Costa's heroic sized \d Sundays and even has a co-ed as one of its relief drivers. A new portrait of Lincoln hangs in the W.S.C. library. HERMAN DEUTSCH dified bus for the local line is on definite order. heads the local committee on arrangements for the organizational n\ Entertainment is on the' whole quite extensive, with a community meeting at W .S.C. Nov. 17-19 of the Northwest Conference of Colleges ~'~ert series and other special evening attractions sweetening as big' and Universities on the Teaching of Arts and Sciences. M. E. ENSMINGER proudly saw attendance tripled this year at . ~ ting of day-time cons as ever. Of course there are those war t\(' . Feeders' day Oct. 6. RAUL VARELA MARTINEZ. B. S. '25, made ~ sed mishaps. Take the case of Tito Guizar and his troupe of 15 his first trip back to his old campus last month. Now he heads the ~ ' xicans who came up from Guadalajara to please three thousand .!~msfolks· and collegians in the men's gym Oct. 9. A nasty American largest experiment station in his native Colombia. He recently named s~road mislaid the Guizar costume trunk somewhere between L. A. a new grapefruit after Vice-President Henry Wallace who visited his station. LEONARD YOUNG tabulates the W.S.C. professorial volun t I Seattle, hence some of the supporting cast never did get on-stage, . ye'e some principals danced in street clothes. tary bond purchases as 12.7% of the entire payroll.