Community Service Committee Sponsors Culteral Activities
Rv GERRI FARLEY and KATHY MICKS
Traditionally, a college should provide cultural activities which would not ordinarily be found in a community. A college, in a sense, adds culture to a community Most colleges DO provide for such activities, and Peninsula College does so through a volunteer organization called the
Community Service Committee. This committee was set up in the fall of 1962, and since then has been sponsoring a series of events in the Port Angeles Senior High school Auditorium. It is this committee that brings to you the “World Around Us” series of travehlecture films, the foreign films, the lectures, the political forums, and yes, even the Hootenanny and all its guitarstrumming folk-singers.
Three members of the faculty and one student representative have made all this possible. They are Mr.Merle Mecham, chairman; Mr. Werner Quast, Miss Margaret
Holm, and Pamela Clerico, a freshman at Peninsula College. The very first event sponsored by the Community Service Committee was a lecture in the fall quarter of 1962 by Dr. Brock Chisholm, former’
head of the World Health Organization. On October 2, 1962, Dr. Chisholm, whom some viewed as
a controversial figure, spoke on the struggle for man’s survival. He compared the human life of
today to prehistoric life, which suddenly disappeared due to drastic changes in environment. He questioned rearmament as a remedy to prevent our extinction
from the earth.
Although Dr. Chisholm lectured so outspokenly on a controversial issue, this is intentional, for it is not an aim of the community services to avoid controversy. Its aim here is to bring such issues out in the open and to let the public decide for itself. Dr. Peter Rohn, who spoke on the European Common Market, and Mr. Lee Boardman. an F.B.L man from Sequim. Washington.
were two more important figures sponsored in the lecture series. A second important function of the Community Service Committee is to arrange for the “World i Around Us” film series to be shown to the public and narrated by the photographers. The narrator not only speaks to the audience while showing his color motion picture, but responds to any question that the audience might want to propose to him. The first of these was “Russia and Its People” a color motion picture narrated in person by Mr. Raphael Green, and presented to the Port Angeles community on March 27. 1963. Mr. Green, who traveled extensively in Russia. was one of the few American cameramen allowed free range behind the Iron Curtain On April 24, Mr. Dwighl Nichols brought here a motion picture of life along the Spanish Main entitled, “Caribbean Ports of Call.” One month later, on May 22. James Metcalf’s account
of “Guatemala” depicted an ancient Guatemalan civilization contrasted with the world of today
and tomorrow.
The first film in the 1963-64 “World Around Us” series was “Inside East Germany,” a vivid and dramatic picture of life on 1he other side of the Wall. Robert Cohen, a distinguished American news correspondent and documentary film producer, was a firsthand observer of the part of Germany under Communist control, and lectured on his film. Margaret Baker noted lecturer and authority on the Orient, spoke about the story of Free China at the showing of her film, “Taiwan Today,” on March 10, 1964. Taiwan, or Formosa, as it is now called, although constantly endangered by Communist Red China, has undergone a transformation which has brought its standard of living up to the highest level in Asia. Remember when all the talk was going around about Australia, the land of the koala bear and the Aborigine, the Utopia you planned to reach by freighter rather than by passenger boat because it was so much cheaper? Now is your chance to visit this rapidly developing continent
down under, in the next film entitled “Australia,” to be presented on May 12 by an experienced
speaker, Charles Forbes Taylor. Here, in the entire “World Around Us” series, is an opportunity for the public to become acquainted with different areas of the world, in an entertaining as well as informative way. The cost of attending the series is nominal; admission prices are set just high enough to cover the cost of bringing the film and lecturer to the community. Season tickets will save even more. COLLEGE COMMITTEE POLITICAL FORUM The Community Service Committee’s “Political Forum” has
already featured Mr. Dan Evans, Republican aspirant for governor, February 24, as well as a panel discussion on March 9 with the local candidates for city council.
This area of the Community Service Committee’s program is designed to bring to the public’s attention the important issues in the upcoming elections. Another feature of the program is the “Foreign Film” series which is independent of the “World Around Us” films. The spring offering in this series includes the March 6th showing of the Russian film of the Bolshoi
Ballet presenting “Romeo and Juliet.” It is in color and has an
English commentary. On April 14th, the Italian film “The Bicycle Thief” will be shown. The highlight of the “season” will be the personal appearance of the “First Chamber Dance Quartet” of New York. They will appear Saturday, April 11, at 8 p.m. The quartet’s dancing, while
based on classical ballet, also employs “free style” movement arrived at by each choreographer.
Each of the artists has appeared as an ensemble member
and soloist with large ballet companies, in opera ballet and on television. Admission for this concert will be $1.50 for adults and 75 cents for students. Don’t miss this one! “The purpose of the Community Service Committee,” said Mr. Meacham, chairman, “is not to make money but to enrich the lives of the community members as well as the students of Peninsula College. In bringing a variety of events, we would hope to appeal to a different group each time. We can’t expect to appeal to the entire public every time.” Student atendance at these events has not been as good as had been hoped. This is regret table because these events are both enlightening and interesting. Students, why not attend a few of these events? We leave you with the thought that you might enjoy it, even if it is good for you!
PS Spells Opportunity for ‘Older Students’
By PAT HAGGERTY
A significant part of the student body of Peninsula consists of older students returning to school after being out of school several years, some twenty or more. Some of these students’ aspirations and circumstances are certainly of interest. Ella Mae Gluth—Mrs. Gluth comes originally from Michigan from a family of thirteen children but has lived in Port Angeles for many years. She has always wanted an education and now that most of her children are grown, she has the opportunity to achieve this goal. She plans on majoring in occupational therapy so that she can work with handicapped children. Mrs. Gluth has one fourteen year old daughter at home. Van Fergerson — A .recently tapped member of Phi Theta Kappa, Van Fergerson comes to us from California. He used to play pinao for a dance band and has decided to come back to school so that he can be a real musician. His other interest is psychology. Dawn Hurlong—Mrs. Hurlong has long wanted to be a high school home economics teacher. Peninsula College has provided her first opportunity to get that long wanted education. Mrs. Hurlong is the mother of three children, ages ten, five and three.
Dorofhy Spracklin — Mrs. Spracklin declared that she has always been dumb and wants to get smart so that she can fill up that echo upstairs. She is working for a degree in the social sciences so that she can be a social worker. Dorothy said she will have to make a living some day and is now raising her market value. She has five children, ages seventeen to five, so she is indeed a busy lady Roberta Rachor—Mrs. Rachop has two children, ages seven and six. She loves sqhool in general and has not decided on any particular major as yet. When asked why she came back to school, Roberta said, “When all else fails, try your brain, I guess.” Since she got 3.6 last quarter, she appears to be doing quite well with her new philospphy. Donna Geier—Receiving state aid for education, Mrs. Geier is coming back to school for secretarial courses. About the school, she said, “It’s much different than I expected. With me forty and fat, I thought I would be out of place, but I find that the students accept me and my feeble wit wonderfully. I enjoy the teachers because of the personal contact.” Peggy Cook — “I found that people my age really could contribute something of merit,” said Peggy when asked about school. Her son told her not to sit home she was being interviewed for the paper, she said, “The paper, EEK! “
The only reason I drive safely is because if I get a ticket, my age will be in the paper. Oh, I couldn’t.” When Mrs. Phifer was assured that her age would not I appear, she consented. She has
three daughters, all with families of their own.
Alylda Haggerty- Mrs. Haggerty hails from the Dakota plains but she has been in Washington for many years. She plans to major in elementary education. She has always enjoyed teaching and also wants to be with her children during summer vacation. Mrs. Haggerty has two major accomplishment: 3.0 average and eleven children. The youngest is six.
Beatlemania- Will it last?
Beatlemania is sweeping the U.S.A. The Beatles, four
long-haired recording youths from Liverpool, England, are
really not much different from most rock ’n roll groups today. What, then, makes them so sensational? Is it the long locks that fall so casually to their eyebrows, and the innocent, boyish faces below? Is it their voices, or their friendly personalities?
Perhaps a combination of these makes the Beatles so well liked, to put it mildly. They are not only liked, but loved, adored, and idolized. Not since Elvis Presley have girls all over the nation shrieked so ecstatically over three measures of “I’ll always love you, yay, yay,” and not until
the Beatles or Elvis Presley of tomorrow will they scream so wildly over anyone else.
However, according to Dr. David Riesman, Harvard
professor and well-known sociologist, the current Beatle
craze is not the same kind as the Presley craze of a few
years back. “Presley created a definitely ‘antiparent’ outlook,” says Dr. Riesman in a recent issue of the U.S. News and World Report. Not so with the Beatles. Their long haircuts are part of English eccentricity, not a sign of an unkempt American hoodlum. The Beatle craze is similar to the Presley craze in that “it’s a form of protest against the adult world.”
“These youngsters are hoping to believe in something or respond to something new that they have found for themselves,” says Dr. Riesman.
Actress Hayley Mill thinks the Beatles are “simply marvelous.” The only thing that buqs her about them are the shrieking females they attract. To her, they have that common touch, a characteristic which could hardly be ascribed to Elvis Presley. According to the London Daily Mirror, Oueen Elizabeth “thoroughly enjoyed” the Beatles and their act. Well. now the Beatles are back in England, but their imprint is
still here, perhaps an even deeper imprint than they made on their own country. Their opinion of the U.S.A, was: “Fabulous!” If our opinion of them is the same, they’ve got
it made! Maybe this craze will last longer than you think! But if their future depends upon their haircuts, let’s hope there aren’t any Delilahs around.
Award-initiation Banquet Held
The AWS, in conjunction with Phi Theta Kappa of Peninsula College, sponsored a Basketball Award Banquet and Phi Theta Kappa initiation service on Friday evening, March 6, at 6:30. The dinner, buffet style, was held in honor of the basketball players and the initiates of Phi Theta Kappa, a national junior college honorary scholastic society. Parents of the team members and initiates, as well as other guests, and the faculty and student body as a whole, were invited. About 75 people attended. Gerri Farley, co-chairman of the dinner with Eva Halko, introduced Mr. Bill Quenette, coach, who presented the letter awards to the players. They were also to receive jackets, but the jackets had not arrived. The letters were letters of congratulations, which commended the team on their fine performance this year. Team members receiving awards were Marv Branch, Roy Fullerton, Dave Edwards, Rich Brooling, Bob Sheedy, Jim Pfaff, Ralph Nite, Mert Corey, Clark Danielson and Bryan Metcalf, manager. Dick Sooy, who was not able to attend the banquet, also received an award. Mr. Quenette had a little to say about each player as he presented the awards. The Phi Theta Kappa initiation service was performed by the three remaining -officers in the organization—Gerri Farley, Secretary; Eva Halko, Representative, and Pat Haggerty, Treasurer. Six students took the pledge and signed the oath as Phi Theta Kappans in the Mu Phi Chapter. They were: Gloria Ludke, Don Anderson, Bill Lefler, Brandy Sundt, Walt Jensen, and Jim Randklev. These six met the qualifications of membership, which
are, not only to be of good moral character but to be in the upper 10 per cent of the student body scholastically and to maintain a 3.0 grade average. Three others also met these qualifications but chose not to join. The banquet lasted approximately an hour and a quarter. ending right after the initiation service. Although kept brief, due to the showing of “Romeo and Juliet” in the auditorium at 8 p.m., the banquet was well attended. Co-chairmen Gerri Farley and Eva Halko felt that it was a successfully planned AWS activity. and wish to thank those girls who helped them, particularly Virginia Johnson, Phyllis Zelenka. Cheryl Smith, and Sandy Fletcher.
As editor of the Buccaneer, I am urging all potential writers to sign up for journalism next quarter. I accepted the job as editor this quarter not realizing what difficulty I would have in organizing an alert, competent staff. Our present system of compiling the news has not been altogether successful, as we have not been able to have regular meetings where journalistic instruction is given, although journalism is listed on the class schedule for Tuesday and Thursday at 1:45 p.m. Some of the students who signed up for journalism this quarter had another class scheduled at this same time, and therefore were not able to meet for their less important class.
Others lost interest, claiming that writing for the newspaper took up too much of their time, so they dropped the class without even giving it a try. They complained that the credit recieved from journalism was not transferrable anyway, so why take the class? Consequently the staff was reduced to a mere eithe members, only five of whom are reporters.
This lack of interest caused me to wonder, but not with much surprise, if the students really care about not only what is published int he paper, but whether we have one or not! Contrary to what most of you probably think, writing for a college newspaper is not difficult, particularly when only two papers are published each quarter. Our finacial situation and the size of our stadd limits us to this number.
All it takes is a little bit of interest and a few hours of precious time, which cant seem to precious if wasted consistently over bull sessions in the student center. The burden on one person would not be so great if the staff were large enough so that each member could cover a fair percentage of assignments.
The way it stands, the largest burden falls on the few students who are willing to contribute a great deal more of their time and energy simply because they want a newspaper. It does not seem unusual that these few students are also the ones who have their noses in just about all the other pies around here. In other words, they are busy! It is encouraging to see a few hard workers, but we definitely need more!
So if you have any writing ability at all, or even a sense of humor, we need you. If you are free at 1:45 on Tuesday and Thursdays spring quarter, this would be beneficial, but it would not be necessary to attend the journalism staff meetings if you have a sincere desire to write and are able to meet deadlines, which are always given at least three weeks ahead of time.
It is probable that the staff will not meet on both days, but on only one of these days a week, depending upon which day is most convenient for the staff members. Perhaps a few added members will help us to produce a more colorful newspaper and will represent the interest of the entire student body rather than just a portion of it.
Gerri Farley
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor:
I refer to the article in
February 7, 1964, issue of
Buccaneer in which plans to
velop the Seven Lakes Basin in
the Olympic National Park as a
year ’round recreation area were
reviewed.
In brief review, the development of the basin was first considered in the late ’40s, when it
was generally agreed that access
to the park high country was
non-existent. Under pressure
brought to bear by the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce and
our congressmen, a Park Service
investigation was made. Although
the superior recreation potential
of the Basin was recognized, Hurricane Ridge got the nod because
of its proximity to Port Angeles.
Development of the Seven
Lakes Basin was not seriously
pushed until 1959 when a group
of local businessmen with approval of the Port Angeles Chamber
of Commerce sought to improve
access to the park uplands and to
stimulate the basic tourist industry for the peninsula as a whole.
They sought permission to develop the Basin with private funds
after the Park Service stated that
public funds were not available
for the project. An aerial conveyance was planned for the last two miles of access to the High Divide to prevent destruction of the alpine meadows that road construction would cause to eliminate costly snow removal problems to eliminate and to provide the most unobtrusive means of access so as to offer the least conflict with the wilderness concept.
The group pushing this program expects no pecuniary gain from operation of the tramway which the park Service would manage on a concession basis. They hope only to stimulate a status quo economy by providing access to a national resource now enjoyed by only a few.
Under present condition access to the High Divide during the winter months is a challenge to the best and heartiest skier. Those who have made the trip would recommend it to only the most experienced. Under ideal conditions, the trip takes eight to ten hours one way with over night pack. The task is most rewarding because skiing can be found at its best being comparable to most areass in the Northwest.
During the summer a
strong hiker could probably make
the round trip in ten or twelve
hours without stopping. The
grade is not steep but is a long
seventeen miles by trail.
The popularity of the trail is
best illustrated by 1962 Park records which show about 1.060 total hikers to the High Divide;
that is, 1 in every 2,000 Park visitors saw the Basin during that year.
For those with the means, pack trains are available and opponents of the Seven Lakes development take no exception to this J means of transportation regardless of how much tramping and 1 messing is done. I Opponents of the Basin development appear to have secret 1 data on snow conditions in the area not available to those who have skied them. The Park Service said there was too much snow for skiing. Now others say the area doesn’t have enough clear weather and dry snow. The enthusiasm of thousands of skiers has not been dampened by similar conditions in the Cascades. Regardless of skiing conditions, those in favor of the development want the area opened if principally for summer visitors because only from the High Divide does one have the opportunity to enjoy the full grandeur of Mount Olympus, the heart of the Olym-j pic National Park. Opponents of the Basin project want these areas of outstanding beauty kept away from the genera] public because they contend the land is being desecrated. A casual examination of the Park forests will show the sensible man that Mother Nature destroys more Park timber each year by wind, insects, fungus, and fire than man would consume in twenty years of providing adequate access to these remote areas. It is the painful thought of losing the nearly exclusive use of the Basin that aggravates the organized outing club members. Once opened up to the public, to whom it rightfully belongs, the beauty of the Seven Lakes Basin will not.cease to exist but rather will become a source of enjoyment for young and old, for present and future generations. There i is no violation of democratic principles here. When this natural resource is developed for public use, and it will come, those first in line to i use the aerial tram will be the devout opponents of the project. In writing this letter I used information obtained from such people as Mr. Bob Millpointer. ‘ professional forester and ski instructor who hiked up to the Basin area two winters ago; Mr. Dick Owens, professional engineer and skier; Mr. Ernie Nailor, past president of the Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce and a local backer of the developtment and Mr. Syd Tozier, Committee head to push the Basin development for the Chamber of Commerce.
Respectifully,
Marvin J. Branch
Crows Nest chatter
By Glen Merriwether
Many happenings at Peninsula these past few weeks. . . Jim Floyd seen examining the charred remains of his back seat. . . . Your reporter ( Me) fending off a frenzied mob of girls who wanted a date for the hoedown tolo. . . Mr.Quast having an embarressing few minutes over the correct pronunciation of a certain Greek Philosophers name. . . Mr. Galles paying for rain to bring up the steelhead rivers. . . Students of Mr.Fisch’s history class staggering around in a daze after a “test” that was a test. . . A certain gentleman hiding behind the Coke machine until interested in the finer things in life trying to gain admitance to the library. . . combined looks of joy and amazement by those who recieved no mid-quarter grades. . . the Port Townsend Texaco Chiefs . . . Everyone glad the weekend is here . . . More Next time . . . Yo Ho Ho . . . Me Hearties?
Pirates Finish Season with Win
The Peninsula Pirate basketeers closed out their season on March 3 with a convincing 90 to 77 win over in Port Townsend Texaco Chiefs, one of the better amateur teams in the area. The Pirates came up with their best shooting performance of the year, hitting the basket at a 51 percent clip for production of the season, having run up 111 points earlier against St. Martian’s.
The win gave the team a final season record of 9 wins and 14 losses. Most of the Pirate’s success came at the expense of several teams as they twice defeated the Chiefs, Big Bend college of Moses Lake, and Lower Columbia College of Longview. The Pirates played 14 games against teams from the state junior college league and came out with a respectable 6 and 8 record. Two of the most gratifying wins came when the Pirates defeated Olympic College and Grays Harbor early in the season. These two teams have been currently standing 1 and 2 in the Sourthern Division of Junior college league. Next year the Pirates will be playing in this Southern Division and must face the other junior college fives a total of 19 times in conference play.
Although this year’s season record is not better than the 7-10 record of last years Pirate edition. There seemed to be much improvement in the brand of basketball displayed. With the much improved schedule played by the Pirates this year, it appears as though peninsula Basketball fortunes are on the upgrade. With a still tougher schedule to be played next year, it would seem imperative that the brand of ballplayers to be recruited also be on the upgrade. If the pirate five of next year can show the same type of improvement, they might be expected to give a satisfactory showing in the JC conference.
With the larger schedule played this winter, practically every individual and team record compiled after last year’s season was broken with Marv Branch getting a good share of them. Branch’s 560 points for the year and his 24.3 point per game average will likely stand for some time. Roy Fullerton, who is expected to return for his sophomore year. Also set several rebound records. Following is a summary of the scoring and rebound statistics for the Pirate season:
Intramural League goes into Final week all tied up
Ray kawamoto’s team No. 2 and Ron Anderson’s Team No. 3 advanced into the final week of intramural basketball play with identical league records of 7 wins and 2 losses. Team No.1 led by Ed Hall, lost their early season winning form and have since dropped into a tie for third place with Bryan Metcalf’s Team No.4. There will not ,however, be any ties in the final league standings as these four teams square off against each other in the final night of league play which will determine a definite league winner as well as definitely determining the order of finish for all teams.
Beginning with spring quarter intramural activities will include a softball league to be played in the afternoon once or twice a week. a track meet, and possibly a golf tournament.
Basketball league standings and the leading scores are listed below:
Poop Poop Razor Blades, please!
The other evening as I sat watching a television commercial, fool that I am, I began to marvel
at the skill and creativity of our men from madison Avenue. These gloriously overworked public servants accept paltry millions a year to bring to you and me the vital honest truths so necessary
to our day by day existence. Not only that, but they go beyond themselves to give refreshing
glory to the common simple tools of our daily existence, enhancing
them to the levels of complexity and superiority.
Noblemen, indeed!
These dedicated men, unwilling to prostitute themselves by engaging in favoritism and not choosing to wield the power which they must surely possess, let us know that everything is uncategorically the best. They don’t tell us that a product does the job it was made for, thereby leaving too many uncertainties for us to choose effectively, but that it does more than we could ever have expected and in a manner much superior to anything else any propaganda monger may try to foist on us.
The intense pains they go to to preserve the integrity of their work are unbelieveable. These men have been known to contact the undisputed superior in certain fields, commonly called “a
leading authority” (such modesty). at great expense to find out the truth; they canvass the advice
of every reputable doctor in the country to ensure the legitimacy of their favorable reports on the relative worth of their product. They even allow these authorities to appear before us and toll why such products are superior! Such devotion staggers the imagination! Keeping in tune with our advanced civilization they bring us the great scientific inventions ingredients and methods which make-up the vital essence of each
product. One must marvel at the advances which enable manufacturers to increase flavor by filling the can fuller, or by giving one man hands which grow the very best coffee, or miracle of all miracles, to develop a cleanser which cures the adverse effects of water on skin besides automatically cleaning the very dirtiest of dishes.
Without the results of these
labors of love, life would certainly be a hum-drum existence.
Sitting in front of a television
set, who could help becoming engrossed and enthralled by the
beautiful fairyland of the eyeball,
intestinal tract, sinus cavity,
cough center, and hairy arm pit,
in your choice of marble, metal,
glass, or raw flesh? It drives one
to sheer ecstacy to see a fellow
man being flushed out and perked
up by miracles that promise everything from the runs to complete metamorphasis. And adventure!
Such things as no ordinary man has ever imagined! What can be more daring than to travel to the very center of a pimple? Alluring women wearing their best $50 manner and using their best bedroom voice bring us the supreme of all thrills—SEX! Right before our eyes they bathe,
stroke their legs ,and pet various
Vic Tanney rejects.
People of the world arise!
Throw down those goatblathers
and nannynibbiers who would
blaspheme against the TV commercial. Destroy those pompous
revolutionists who would seek to
bring quiet honesty into advertising. Violence! Violence!
Aws Officers Attend Convention at University of Puget sound
By GERRI FARLEY
Four AWS officers and the AWS adviser, Mrs. Janice Cramp. attended the State Convention at
University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, February 22. The four officers were Janet Estes, President;
Suzie Winters, Vice-President; Toni McReynolds, SecretaryTreasurer, and Gerri Farley, Representative.
The convention started the preceding day, a Friday, but the representatives from our college did
not arrive until early Saturday morning. Upon their arrival they were served breakfast in the Student Union Building (SUB) and were taken on a tour of the campus. The University occupies fifteen brick-faced concrete structures spaced over a total of sixty acres. Women from colleges, universities, and community colleges all over the state were represented at the business meeting.
which followed the campus tour.
The women were then divided into six discussion groups which met in the beautifully decorated sorority rooms in the SUB. Following the morning discussions, Dr. Hester Turner. Dean of Students at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, addressed a
luncheon meeting, which dispersed for afternoon discussion
sections. The convention adjourned after a banquet in the
main dining room of the SUB.
Topics of discussion were:
Freshman orientation, or helping
the incoming freshman girls to
feel “at home” in the school; Inter-Collegiate AWS and its importanee to the local AWS: transfer student assimilation and thetown student problem (this is the problem in four-year colleges of getting transfer students and offcampus. or town students, to take an active part in AWS); communications and publicity: how AWS fits into student government; and how AWS’ can promote cultural experiences. , Not all of these problems applied to junior colleges, but all were of interest to those who will be entering four-year colleges.
By exchanging ideas with other schools, our AWS representatives came home with ideas for improving not only the AWS but the school as a whole. They
learned that Peninsula College is
not unique in its lack of interested students. Most small colleges where students commutehave this same problem: Little orno participation. The four – year colleges do not have as big aproblem with their women, since most of them live on campus and are part of a closely knit organization. In order to overcome this
problem it is necessary for a club to offer something more to its members than mere membership.
It was suggested, for example, that junior colleges, as well as four-year colleges, have some
kind of an orientation program sponsored by the AWS during the first week of school. In fact, most
colleges do have something like this, in the form of a dance or a tea, or just a casual meeting held
in a more comfortable place than a dull classroom.
Some junior colleges arrange for representatives from a state college or university to speak to
girls who plan to transfer. Most big colleges, when receiving transfers, have a big-little sister
programs, whereby each transferee is assigned to a senior woman who helps her get acquainted.
Other schools even give scholarships to their AWS presidents. The scholarship covers tuition
and fees and lhe money is raised by an AWS money-making project. At the University of Washington, the AWS is more of asendee organization than a club, as it is in most colleges, and since
the AWS has no vote in the Board of Control, it does not play an active part in student government. Women at the University are concerned about this, as they want their organization to be active in student government. Here at Peninsula the AWS representative always has a vote in the
BOC, unless she misses two meetings in a row or three meetings of the BOC during the quarter, a
provision which holds true for other board members as well.
One college reported that, to arouse interest, they had a panel of men who discussed women at
one of the AWS meetings. They talked about styles of dress, expected behavior, how to act on a
date, and morals among other things. It was said that almost every girl who was at all interested in men was interested in coming to this meeting! These were just a few of the
ideas that our girls brought back. What do the rest of you girls think of them? Your comments
or further suggestions would welcomed by the AWS.
Art Week at Wenatchee
Wenatchee Valley College has come up with something new and exciting. On March 1 to March 8,
the campus staged an art week. Each day of the week was devoted to a different form of art.
On Sunday, the college orchestra played selections from the “Marriage of Figaro” and “The King and I” among many other selections of artistic merit. Monday and Tuesday were days of drama, while on Wednesday original musical compositions submitted by students were played .
Some of Canada’s leading ballet artists graced the stages on
Thursday with reflections of French Canada and some contemporary pieces. Friday saw international films from Germany, England, Austria and others.
Showings included W. C. Fields starring in “The Pharmacist” and the notabloe British film. “The Stranger Left No Card.” The week ended on Saturday with the college chorus singing both classical and contemporary selections.
All through the week, examples of art were displayed. Works were by Picasso, Matisse and other leading artists of the day.
It is certainly encouraging to note that junior colleges can and do undertake projects of this scope. Perhaps Peninsula could do something on this order in the future.
