r1~Id r1"ai'Z~ /lteunld @J ()"iee;~~ Much of the strength and usefulness of our organization is dependent on the activity and organization of local'" Spokane Whatcom County • alumni groups These Cougar organizations really put the.. Harry R:aymond, Pres. Earl W. Gibb. Pres. ' . Mrs. FelIce Pasley, Sec. 523 Herald Bldg. pep mto our ASSOCIatIOn. Spokane County Welfare Bellingham, Wash. During the past summer and thIS early fall several Realty Bldg. groups have really put on a show for their members. Lewiston-Clarkston Tacoma W. E. Kramer, Pres. Among these were the combination picnic and golf tour­ Mrs. James Scofield, Sec. n~ment under the direction of chairman Felix McLarney George C. Starlund, Pres. Department of Licenses 1129 l1~h Ave. and prexy Hunt McPhee in Seattle. Also, Bino Lindley's Olympia Portland club and Don Stewart's Vancouver, Washington, San Francisco club had an inter-city picnic that topped anything done Mount Vernon C. A. Stromsness, Pres. Jess Giles, Sec. before in that area. Ralph Kennedy of Webster Grove:::, Jim Osborne, Pres. 634 Powell st., Apt. 37 Missouri, worked hard getting the Missouri Cougars to­ Lucille Avelson, Sec. gether. We were told that their meeting was a tremendous Rt. 3, Box 76 Oakland success. Bob WcWherter, Ken Mitchell and Marge Locke Pete Kramer, Pres. E-,erett Henry Tweed, Sec. organized a meeting in Los Angeles, September 26th, Roy Betts, Chairman 1449 Alice that was carried ou~ in true W.S.C. style. President "Zip" Louise Dobler, Sec. Stromsness and chairman John Wills of San Francisco, 3523 Federal Los Angeles Dr. R. J. McWherter, • together with more helpers than can be named, put on I II I Pres. one of the most enthusiastic pre-game meetings that I '" a a Wa la Lawrence Jacky, Pres. Mrs. J. E. Locke, Sec. have ever attended. Jean Thornton, Sec. 2414 Glenoaks Another coming affair that is guaranteed to rock the Walla Walla High School Glendale 6, Calif. whole west coast of Washnigton on November 21st is the Yakima rortland Seattle Cougar Club tete-de-tete at the Casa Italiana, E. S. Lindley, Pres. 1520 Seventeenth, in Seattle. Every true Cougar will be John Noel, Pres. Maybelle Hollingberry, Bruce Doherty, Vice-Pres. there. Sec. 3817 S.E. Woodward St. This is what we like to see. It puts the punch in the 2107 Summitview Chicago Alumni Association that keeps the enthusiasm and J. H. Varvra, Pres. interest of its members high. Wenatchee Mrs. Henry T. Hayduk, Carl Kruegel, Pres. Sec. Mrs. Harley Bryant, Sec. 4338 N. Kostner Ave. Route 4 Wisconsin Vancouver Dwight Forsyth, Pres. Donald J. Stewart, Pres. Mrs. Dwight Forsyth, Sec. It Dorothy Lois Smith, Sec. 1113 Waban Hill U~I 906 W. 21st St. Madison 5, Wisconsin 1te~~ oI tk ~ , , , SEATTLE All alumni planning to attend the Cougar-Husky clash The biggest single Seattle Cougar Club event ever in Seattle November 22 are urged to arrange their sched­ staged since the organization was formed more than two ules so they will be able to spend a full evening at the year" ago, will take place November 21, the night pre­ Casa Italiana. ceeding the W.S.C.-University of Washington football MISSOURI game in Seattle . The event will consist of a mammouth W.S.C. alumni living in Missouri held a picnic supper rally and a dance at the Casa Italiana. All three floors of at Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri, Saturday, September the establishment will be alive with activities designed 13. Sixteen alumni and former students attended bringing for alumni of all tastes and all ages. their families with them, making a total of thirty-one. Spotlight special of the evening will be the awarding of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Woods who drove 135 miles from more than $2,000 in prizes, including a new Ford sedan. Salem, Missouri, took the prize for having come the Jackie Sounder's band will play and a capaCity crowd is longest distance. The spotlight was held by two months expected for the turnout. old Ricky, son of Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Baken. Heading the committee which has been working since Alumni and former students at the picnic were: E. W. the middle of August is Joe 'Blum, Executive Director of Wagner, Ralph W. Kennedy; Wallace S. Campbell; the Washington Cancer Society. Other members of the Clarence R. Studer; Charles C. Bateman; Lacey A. Wag­ committee include: Tickets, Chuck Stone, Hunt McPhee, ner; Edward W. Woods ; and Vera (King) Woods; Eldred and Walt Wyrick; Prizes, Dick Smith and Oscar "Stub" B. Murer; Marian (Davis) Bateman; William C. Weaver; Jones; Publicity, WaIt Irvine and Joe Caraher; Enter­ Robert P. Gibb; Rutl: (Carncross) Gibb; Carol (Bardin) tainment, Mark Mason and Pete Fox; Legal, Paul Coie ; Baken; Palmer M. Baken; and Barbara (Bachmann) Arrangements, Guy Di Julio. Weaver. -RALPH W. KENNEDY Plans call for the distribution of tickets for the affair throughout the Northwest and the pasteboard committee LOS ANGELES already has taken steps to get ducats in the hands of The Los Angeles Chapter of W.S.C. alumni enjoyed a alumni in every nook and cranny in Washington and parts picnic at Griffith Park Playground Sunday, June 29. of Oregon. (Continued on Page 14) Page Two POWWOW, November, 1947 1fIad~ State ?/tetnud '7'~etHJf,(,l nl~~_ ... VOLUME * XVIII ,.QClQ&fR 1947 NUMBER 2~ MARY GOETZ '46 Editor BOBBEE JUDD EDDY '48 News Editor JACKE PATE BEARD '48 Managing Editor HAL AKINS '49 Sports Editor ED ITORIAL STAFF Bev Lange '49; Paul Carter '49; Helen Bendi xen '49; Janet Brunswig '48; Lewis C>iddisan '48; Ken Maurer '49; Bob Berry '50; Bill Chaplin '44; Toni Rausch '50; Bob Laeffelbein '48. CONTENTS SPECIAL FEATURES DEPARTMENTS Homecoming 4 Alumni Affairs ____ __ __________ _______ _____ _______ __________ ________ _ 2 V. A. l eonard Alumni Club Officers __ _____ ____________________ ____ _____________ 2 Poli ce Science Specialist 6 News of Clubs __________ ___ ____ _______ ______________ _______ _____ ___ _ 2 Under Construction Ten-Year-Plan 8 About the Campus __ ______ ____ ____ .__ __________________________ _ 7 Dad's Da y Names in Headlines ---- -- ----------- ------ ____ ___ ________________ 10 Evolution of Freshman Smith Cougar Sports in Re vi ew ---- __ ___._________ _____________ _____ .12 (Conclusion) 13 Voice of W .S.c. Alumni -- -- --- --- ___ ___ ___ ______ __ ______ __ ___ 15 ADVERTISING DIRECTORY Dodson's -- --- ---------- --- ---- --- --------. __ __ _____ _____ ____ __ __ _____ __ __ ___ 16 " Hat" Freeman City Ramp Garage ----- ---- --- -- --- ------.-- ------------- __ __ __ ____ __18 Vic Close' __ ____ ___ ____ ___ ___ __ ___ __ ____ __ _._.__ _____ ___ __ lubin's 19 OFFICERS 1947-48 DIRECTORS Joe Caraher, '35, Seattle Harald Myers, '26, Spokane Claude Irwin, '39, Colfax President Seca'nd Vice-President District I Ge orge Nethe rcutt, '37, Spokane Eve rett Jensen, '30, Tacoma C. L. Hi x, ' 09, Pullman District II First Vice-President Treasurer Larry Broom, '39, Waitsburg Richard L. Down ing, Executive Director District III Albert Ayars, '42, Omak District IV Dorothy Lo is Smith, '34, Vancouver .. District V ATHLETIC COUNCIL Helen Peterson Jones, '39, Tacoma District VI Bill Ru sch, ' 15, Spokane Huntley McPhee, '34, Seattle Irwin Davis, '34, Seattle Asa V. Clark, ' 16, Pullman District VII E. Park McClean, '28, Ever,ett District VII I Dave Tray, '27, Lewiston, Idaho District IX EXECUTI VE COMMITTEE Bruce Doherty, '39, Portland District X C. L. Hix, '09 Joe Caraher, '35 Fred Weber, '38, Los Angeles Ev. Jensen, '30 Harold Myers, '26 District XI Richard O. Dunning, '29, Spokane Bill Ru sch, ' 15 Fred Talley, '16 District XII T he \\Tashing tnn Sta te: Alumni Powwo w, publi shed m onthly except in J uly and August Established 1910, the magazine is a digest of news devoted to The State Coll ege o f \Vashingtol1 and its alumni. T he magazine is published by the A lumni Association of T he S tate College of ' Vashington, Pull man, \Vashi ngton. Subscrip tion is 2.00 pcr year. Entered as second class matter J une 19, 1919, at t he Post Offi<;;c, P ullman, \\Tashington, u nder , act of Congress, :March 3, 1879. POWWOW, November, 1947 P~e Three 7101neeo~. , , \V.S.C.-The Cold Facts nero After three wins a unit may Name .. Washington State College keep it. It will be presented at the Location . Pullman, Washington half-time ceremonies by the Alumni Founded . March 28, 1890 Association President Joe Caraher, Enrollment ... 7000 (Approximate) class of '35. Nickname . Cougars Other officers expecting to make Colors . Crimson and Grey the celebration are First Vice-Presi­ Conference ... Pacific Coast dent Everett Jensen, '30; Second First football game ... 1894, with a Vice-President Harold Myers, '26; win over Idaho, 10-0. and Treasurer C. L. Hix, '09, as well But all this doesn't take into con­ as Past President Fred Talley, '16. sideration the warm hearts and mem­ "Parade of Ages" will be the theme ories of Cougar alumni that makes carried out at the half-time show tHem lasting, if cold, facts. And and at the decorations for the eve­ Homecoming is one of the perennial ning dance. Coffee hour open house facts that get a warming up annu ~ will be held at all houses and dorms ally. on campus after the game for re­ Affairs of state unions' and "welcome homes". And that is why 13000 circulars The Best Years of Memory have been sent all over the United Jewel Russell, Chi 0 and Morris Vitale, Kappa When old grads get together! That's Sig representatives with the trophy awarded States and even as far as the Philip­ for the best Homecoming display.