The Western Mistic, February 23, 1940
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Minnesota State University Moorhead RED: a Repository of Digital Collections The Western Mistic Student Newspapers 2-23-1940 The Western Mistic, February 23, 1940 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, February 23, 1940" (1940). The Western Mistic. 281. https://red.mnstate.edu/western-mistic/281 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]. By 7he Way -- By Mina Peoples Digging around in the news editor's basket, we dug up a few major points The Western MiSTiC of the week's happenings. WESTERN MINNESOTA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, The Amphion received telegrams j VOLUME XLV MOORHEAD, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23, 1940 NUMBER NINE from former chorus members in Olympia. Washington and Cumber- j land Bay, New Brunswick, 4.000 miles apart, complimenting them on their j Hasskamp Suceeds Smith In singing during the Jack Frost Carnival i broadcast last Friday. The chorus1 sang "Nottingham Hunt'' by Bullara. j and "The Sleigh" by Kountz-Baldwin. Student Commission Election From her vacation in California, Betty Cherry sends about a dozen bonafide Mexican Jumping beans and a hermetically sealed can of Debaters New Members California Sunshine which, by the way, is being saved for a rainy Take Office day. Will Go To The Woodalls entertained some of On Wednesday the faculty at a Washington's Birth St. Thomas With 505 ballots cast Wednesday, day party last night which will prob the largest number "in the history of ably account for snoozing of profes- In preparation for the impending the Student Commission, MSTC stud- sors added to the snoring of students, gk Thomas tournament to be held in nts elected Harry Hasskamp. Ulen, That guy running around with a g paul March 4 & g MSTC ds_ to head the MSTC student govern fiendish gleam in his eye—a deter- baters wil, begin lheir trip early to ing board succeeding Edison Smith. mined jaw and a camera in his han bold debates with schools enroute. The new commission, to be installed is not a Hollywood talent scorn but At three o'clock on Friday, March at chapel exercises February 28, will just plain Tony doing a unle pictuie ^ gt cloud will meet MS represen- take over its duties in March hold snatching for his precious Diagon. tative; At four-thirty the debaters ing its first meeting jointly with the With the book well under way, don t encounter St. John's team and outgoing board. be surprised if you catch him snap- _hat game evenjng n;g teams will In regard to the quality of the ping you in any way. shape or man- ju defaa e the gt cloud partici_ Commish candidates. Bolmeier, newly- pants. ' elected faculty representative on the Mr. Lill.vwhite has announced Arriving in the twin cities on Sat activity fee committee said, "I'm glad that he will conduct a course in urday, at least six debates will be that I wasn't the student who had college speech fundamentals to held with the representative of the Edison Smith Harry Hasskamp to pick from those who were intro help take care of the plethora of Farm Campus school. duced in chapel Wednesday. I would students now enrolled in the MSTC will send one women's and i have had a hard time." speech clinic class. The class will I three men's teams to the St. Thomas Robert Koshnlck. Frazee, succeeds be open to all students regardless Phy. Ed. Demonstration j tourney. Those included are Hazel * Les Heidelberger as educational com of experience in speech work. So : Bright. Aitkin; Elaine Mee. Fargo; missioner. Diminutive Ruth Downey, here's your chance. Now is the elected to regulate MSTC social acti ( Don Scudder, Tower City, N. D.; Bill time to perfect that line. j Jordan, Luverne, N. D.; Vernon We- Scheduled Next Thursday vities, believes in "bigger and just The operetta—no, it hasn't been dul. Thief River Falls; Adolph Berge, as good parties—because Miriam's forgotten-Mr. Preston has been hold- oorhead. Ha](ry Hasskamp men There will be no Olympic games this Not only will the show be impressive were plenty good ones." ing second tryouts this week-giving. ^ Mm.phy peIton year, but the Physical education class- from the number of performers there A1 Gronner. guard and captain of hopefuls a chance to read from the [ es of the MSTC will present their in, but also because of the artistic next year's football team j>teps^ into score of "The Red Mill.".. Meanwhile t version of the great international beauty of some of the numbers pre Jack Weling's shoes while Don Scud the choir is practicing on—horrors! : sports event next Thursday night, sented. Especially so will be the living der leaves his forensic post to that a sixteen part arrangement of "The Faculty Talk February 29. in the Big Gymnasium statues, the torch-lighting ceremony, Connecticut Yankee, and co-producer Crusifixus" by Caldara and a Noble at 8 p. m. With hundreds of the col- and the parade of nations. Coun of the Collegiate Revue. Paul Hagen. Cain arrangement of the "Moonlight j lege students participating, the 1940 tries represented in the latter include Bill Jordan. Luverne, is in charge Sonata" by Beethoven. To Groups physical education demonstration will Greece, Turkey. Chile, England. Hun of publicity succeeding Vince Murphy. At last we have a positive sign be one gary, Norway, United States, Ger- New properties commissioner, Norman of spring. The umbrella man is Mr. Lillywhite, head of speech de- history. many, Canada, U. S. S. R.. and Fin- Schafer, that man you always see again making his visits to the i partment, addressed the Business taking pictures, relieves Bob Dur- land. campus. Along with potato salad • Women's club of Moorhead last Wed- Opening the evening's program will j tenberger of his duties at the dorm, he makes his appear j nesday night at the college. The be a tap-dance number "On Parade," Conn Bjerke, another Ulen product, ance just preceding the robins to topic of his address was a General Little did followed in order by the parade of represents the musical interests on pedal his umbrellas, raincoats, and Survey of speech. He pointed out our ancestors nations, living statues, freshman gym the campus taking the place of De- what-have-you to the men of the common errors in English mechanics ever imagine nastics, badminton, volleyball, women's lores Frye, Fargo. campus. and discussed how personalities were | basketball, boxing and wrestling, Elected to edit the '40-'41 Dragon is Mr. Murray is going in for society developed through speech. that the father Wilbert Johnson, Aitkin. Students i freshmen rhythms, sophomore activi- in a big way. Thursday, February Each of the women had her speech cf our country—George chose Genevieve Ramsey. Wolverton. as mg on archery, and finally, tumbling. 22, he served a departmental tea in analyzed by Mr. Lillywhite after which of course—could have any direct ef- Each portion of the program is limit to be religion commissioner. his office with tea and coffee, nuts he gave them pointers on how to feet on the goings on of the Minne- Gwen Easter, Humboldt, will be ed to ten minutes, making the whole and cakes. Maybe he's practicing up correct their speech difficulties. Sota Teachers College located in Moor- gin work on the commission books show approximately an hour and a for rushing. Dr. Joseph Kise, instructor in poli- head. That proved to be exactly the i f""" , putting her signature after that of JT-, , nali long, By the by, have you seen the ticalical science, addressed Boy and GirlGir rase nevertheless. Just because our! ,. , ... HeadingTT the committees of physi- Muriel Dahl. new postage stamps honoring Am Scouts and the PTA at Twin Valley famous "pa" had the foresight to be Elaine Foss plans to feed her bro- cal education students from the skills erican authors? Emerson, Irving, last Friday. On Monday he spoke to born 208 years ago, nine o'clock yes- and playground management classes j ther plenty of that celtaln brand of Cooper, Alcott and Clemens, are the PTA in Thief River Falls on. terday found 818 empty mailboxes are Don Anderson. Battle Lake; Lor- breakfast bood. so MSTC students represented in the group. It seems "Foundations of American Democra- absolutely and completely empty. But raine Pederson. Oakes, N. D.; 'Jack can look forward t0 a lot of vitality the post office department wants cy." Today he will speak at Bagley these empty mailboxes did have at Weling, Breckenridge. programs; Dor- from the new pep commissioner, Mai- its stamps to be literally gripping. at a meeting of the County Council least one good result: because there othy Jones, Moorhead, and John Her- j 'owe FoKS' This is where I came in! of the American Legion. wasn't any mail, the students woke up mes, Breckenridge, audience and • | to the fact that it was our first presi tickets; Henry Stevenson. Moorhead. \lpGarritV I 'll \ Oil! 11 dent's birthday, which fact the most publicity; Ruth Downey, Norcross and t XV * V of them had otherwise forgotten. Bjornson Speaks At Sigma Tau Edison Smith, Wadena, staging. Teach Band Pupils After all, it is hard to remember what Eight men and eight girls will pre- ; I happened two centuries ago.