The Buccaneer January 20, 1966.

Off-Campus Dorm meets Opposition

Will Peninsula College have a student housing or a dorm?
That is the question that will probably be answered in the affirmative at today’s session
of the City Council. Crescent Builders, Inc., has
made a study and found that there is a definite need for more student housing in Port Angeles.
They have made plans for a twenty-four unit apartment type structure that would have two
wings, one for men and the other for women students. These two wings would be separated
by the manager’s apartment. Each unit would have two bedrooms, a kitchenette and a study area. There would also be a large recreation area.
During the summer months these units would be made available to vacationers and
summer workers in the area. Later as the need arose they would be rented to summer
school students at the college. The site of the apartment will be located due west of the college across the street from the Bonneville sub-station. According to E. John Maier, president of the college, the building of the student housing is definitely important to the college but would have no effect on the plans to become a four year college in the future.
He said that there is a definite need to house students. This year 49.2 percent of the total enrollment is from out of town and need to be housed. Mr. Maier also pointed out that the “dorms” have to be built by
individuals and not by the college. Mr. Maier remarked that many people in the local area are for having dorms, but not up here on the hill. Maier said, “The dorm will have to be built close to the college because the college intends to serve meals after the new student center has been completed.”
Although Crescent Shores will be the owners of the “dorm” the college will have the final
say in choosing and screening the applicants for manager and
setting up tire rules by which
the students will live. The manager will be qualified in experience and in education. He
will enforce the rules and regulations set forth by the college. Students deviating from these policies will face immediate eviction.

Photography, Geology Courses Offered in Evenings

Among the courses offered by the Peninsula College Adult Evening School, is a course in geology and one in photography. Under the direction of Mrs. Ruth Kirk, the course in photography meets each Monday night through this month and next. Although there are no laboratory facilities, studentsare expected to show their own work for class analysis.
Mr. Louis Kirk is instructing the course in geology. The class is meeting once a week for one
quarter—a total of eight class meetings in all. The first session was held January 10, and the last session will be February 28. Movies and slides are used to illustrate the course. Geologic features from the Olympic Peninsula are to be discussed thoroughly before the quarter is over. Among these
are: glaciers, lakes, and thenseashore. This class is ideal in helping one to understand
the formation of the landscape.

Student center now in Final phases

Within a period of two months, the new P.C. student center and little theatre should
be completed and ready for use Included with the student center will be the A.S.B. office, publication facilities, book store and various other offices. In the student center, snack meals
will be served, dances and other college functions will be held.
With the completion of the new building, considerable changes will take place. For
instance, there will be rule changes for those attending any
functions in the center. Admittance to the center for special activities will be allowed upon presentation of an A.S.B. activities card, and students will not be allowed to come and go as
they wish. Once admitted, they must stay until they decide to
leave for good. This should save much unnecessary confusion at the activities.
According to Mr. Feiro, director of student activities, a builtin public address system should be eventually installed in the building.
At present, workers are installing a heating system and windows in the building. This stage of the construction was temporarily held up because of the lack of a transformer needed in the heating system. With the installation of the transformer early last week, several sub-contract jobs can begin,
such as laying floor and ceiling tile.
Mr. Freeman’s office will be located in the student center. Regular choir rehearsal
will be held on stage in the theatre. All other music classes
will meet in the auditorium. With a seating capacity of 278, the theatre will provide
room for many events. There is a possibility that a foreign film
series will be presented in the theatre. It is hoped that eventually a record listening area
with records on tape, earphones and stereo outlets will be available in the area. Records will
be checked out from the college library and the rest of the
equipment will be located in the new building.
Students and faculty alike are looking forward to the completion of the new building this
spring quarter.

BOC Reports progress

B.O.C. met last Thursday with President Bob Bernard calling the meeting to order.
Sandy Fullerton gave the treasurer’s report as follows:
Athletics — $4025.56
General — $1230.79
Publications — $1735.13
Social fund — $1714.65
Promotion —’$79.41
Annual — $912.24
A.W.S’ — $35.94
Circle K — $120.79
Athletic promotion — $189.35
Phi Theta Kappa — $58.80
Parking fund — $618.01
Library — $298.65
Donna Sienko, A.W.S. vicepresident, then reported on the final outcome of the Christmas
Formal. The cost in full was $688.96 which B.O.C. will pay. Under new business, the Board of Control transferred $100.00 from the general fund to the drama fund. This was
done in order that drama might have a permanent position on
the B.O.C. budget. Mr. Feiro informed B.O.C. of the coming production planned by Mr.
Kearns. Possible dates for the production are February 24, 25,
and 26. The parking situation was then brought up by George Braly. Mr. Feiro informed B.O.C.
that parking restrictions would be posted the following Monday and thenceforth be rigidly
enforced.
Pep promoter Steve Ormand asked that B.O.C. allot $80.00 from the social fund for renting a pep bus to Centralia. The motion was unanimously passed.
The meeting was then adjourned by President Bob Bernard.

Organized Drama Club in making

An organizational meeting will be held January 19 for a proposed drama club this quarter. Mr. Kearns, head of the drama department here at Peninsula, urges anyone interested in participating in such an organization to attend the meeting.
So far, no drama club has been formed at Peninsula. However, under the direction of Mr. Kearns, Oscar Wilde’s play, “The Importance of Being Earnest”, was presented by several students here earlier this year.
Students participating in the group showed an abundance of talent and there is hope that an organized club can be formed in the near future. The purpose
of the club will be to provide a solid group of students to work on each play and to take care of ticket sales, publicity, and all other work that goes along
with the productions.

Father Mendez Speaks About His Native Cuba

Cuban born Father Oscar Mendez, Jesuit Priest from Manresa Hall in Port Townsend,
spoke to an audience of 100 about his native country Wednesday night, January 12. Sponsored by the AWS, Mendez’s speech was open to the public.
Father Mendez began his speech by giving a basic biography of his life. He was born
in 1932, and grew up in Cuba. After several years of study there, he went to Spain where
he received his master’s degree in philosophy. He had already received his master’s degree in
agriculture in his native country.
In 1959 Father Mendez returned to Cuba to teach at the University of Havana.
In 1961, he was sent to Canada to continue his education. In Toronto, he received his master’s degree in theology. Father Mendez explained to his audience that Cuba’s becoming a communist nation did not come about rapidly. It took place over a period of time. “At Christmas time, 1959, everything was beautiful. Christmas carols were played on local radio stations, beautiful nativity scenes and decorations
brightened the atmosphere.
However, at the same time, all Cuban radio and television stations were taken over by the
Cuban government,’ he said. In 1960, all foreign possessions on the island were taken
over without pay, and in the spring of the same year, newspapers and all other forms of
communication media were taken over by the government,”
he said.
Father said that nearly everybody backed Castro. Considered the “Messiah of the People”, Castro wanted to have his country governed on a democratic basis. He wanted reform. At that time, that was
what the country needed most.
In 1960, Mendez’s parents were put in jail, where his mother died two years later.
They were imprisoned because Father Mendez’s brother had disappeared after undergoing
brainwashing. His parents were sentenced to 15 years in jail.
His father is still there. Father Mendez pointed out that the governing rule at the
universities in Cuba is quite influential. The universities are ruled by themselves. They have
a government established by both the faculties and the students of the schools. Mendez
served as representative for the governing policies of the university he attended. The students were allow to speak out and protest policies if they so desired. The students normally spoke of what their parents taught them, not publicly, but privately- Therefore, the voice of the , university students was actually the voice of the people” he said. Concluding his speech with a brief picture of the economy in Cuba today, Father Mendez welcomed questions from his audience. After the speech, the AWS served refreshments to those who attended the meeting.

Guarenteed Jobs for Abroad Students

At the end of last term, six hundred intrepid students and teachers (ranging in age from 18 to 40) hopped from classrooms to Europe in practically one leap. None of them was particularly wealthy and none was on a special grant or scholarship. Yet each was able to afford a fabulous, meaningful, cultural summer abroad. The six hundred peripatetics were participants in the Jobs Abroad program originated by the International Student Information Service (ISIS), a non-profit organization headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. ISIS and its American affiliate, the International Student Travel Center (ISTC), are organizations devoted to providing jobs abroad to students and teachers who are sincerely interested in expanding their horizons by living and working
abroad. The ISIS-ISTC Jobs Abroad program was established in 1961. Many students who participated that first year have repeated their educational experience in the ensuing years.
Most of the jobs are for unskilled workers in construction, on farms, in factories, hospitals, hotels and restaurants, as mother’s helpers and camp counsellors. Salaries range from
$50 a month (including room and board) to $200 a month.
Average pay is $100 a month and although low by American wage standards, it is usually more than enough to pay living expenses while in Europe. The salaries are the same as those paid to local employees doing the same job.
Working in Europe gives a participant all the cultural benefits available to a tourist. But the participant acquires knowledge while he is earning . . . not spending. The student worker has the unique- advantage of getting a sharp, clear picture of a country and its culture for he sees it through the eyes of its people. The tourist generally gets a hazy and somewhat distorted picture, for he sees it through the glass of a bus window.
Although participants are required to pay their own transportation cost when they join the Jobs Abroad program, it is possible for an ambitious, resourceful student to earn his round-trip transatlantic fare by being an active Campus Representative for ISCT-ISIS. These two organizations are the only ones of their kind which absolutely guarantee a job abroad to anyone who is accepted as a participant. Members are also entitled to many extra free services.
A copy of the new 32-page Jobs Abroad magazine is on hand at your Placement Office, or your language department, or your school library. For further details on the Jobs Abroad program, write to ISIS, 133 Rue Hotel Des Monnaies, Bruxelles 6, Belgium.

Editorial

The crush Io get into college has swamped “name” institutions for years. It has spread into most stale universities, and from there it will go to smaller institutions, junior colleges included.
Is this problem getting out of hand? It is a fact that the students have not yet outrun the enrollment capacity of the colleges, but some of them are getting dangerously close to it. Each year the situation gets more and more tense.
Officials of top colleges are pointing out that students can get a good education al small colleges and junior colleges. In most cases, students achieving acceptable grades can transfer to larger institutions. This is true in the case of Peninsula, which was accredited earlier this year.
In many states, colleges are being established dedicated to the idea that there must be a place of education beyond high school for every graduate who would like more training.
The reason for this enrollment crisis? In many cases, students are realizing the value of more education and want to go on for college type training. As long as the young people keep coming out of high school in greater numbers, it seems that colleges will continue to receive greater numbers of applications, until it will almost seem impossible for the colleges to meet these demands.
The growth of human knowledge is adding to the problems for colleges. Things are changing so rapidly that students must absorb all the knowledge they possibly can before they go into their particular fields of interest. It would be far better for someone to be in college than to be out in the community with nothing to do.
I think it is up to all of us, who comprise this great society, to work to provide adequate educational opportunities for those who desire it. After all, in dealing with the problem facing the
colleges, we are dealing with the future of our own society. — P.J.

A burnt out Case

Students enrolled in English 102 classes this quarter will have read Graham Greene’s story, “The Basement Room? Taken from his Nineteen Stories. it has all the whorls of the stories.
Greene thumb, a typical plumbing of the dark corners of the human heart. Two of his novels, The Power and the Glory end A Burnt-Out Case, deaf with Greene’s “lifelong argument with God. The Power and the Glory, published in 1940, is the story of a manhunt set in the jungle and mountains of tropical Mexico. The hunted is the last priest in a state where religion is outlawed—a bad priest to be sure, the slave of alcohol and his lusts, but still a humble man,one who loves God. The novel thus becomes the story of the conflict between a man and his conscience. About it the Atlantic Monthly said: “Superbly told . . . a splendid achievement, brilliant, tense and something else besides.
In 1961 A Burnt-Out Case appeared. It included a quotation
from Dante in the frontispiece:
“I did not die, yet nothing of life remained.” Greene’s hero is Querry, a famous architect, celebrated as a major Roman Catholic artist. He is rich, successful, greatly loved, but inside himself he is dead. He has
“had it.” The act of love and the creation of beautiful buildings have become empty of
meaning.
Querry, whose name suggests both a question and a prey, has gone in pursuit of his dead self to the ends of the earth. As an uninvited and anonymous guest, he comes to a leper hospital on a tributary
of the Congo. But there is no escape from the fate of being
Querry. A leading leper has been assigned to him as a “boy”, whose name is Deo Gratias. Toeless and fingerless, he gets about; he is a “burnt-out” or arrested case of leprosy, like Querry himself, but his mutilation has left him unfit to live in the world, and so he re-enacts the Biblical horror that obliged
the leper to carry a warning bell cry of himself, “Unclean.”
Querry is beyond love and beyond all sacrament, his only surviving faith a certain “regard for the truth.” And so he is doomed, by corruption, in the person of a visiting popular journalist, and by innocence,
personified in the child wife of a local factory operator. “God protect us from all innocence,
remarks one character. “At least the guilty know what they are about.”

What Readers Look For

A recent survey of Peninsula College students indicated that
most students like to read about themselves before any other
subject. Next in line of importance come sport articles and editorials, and considerable emphasis was put on student opinion articles.
Students were asked what topic they would like to read in the student newspaper, and about three-fourths of them expressed a desire to see greater coverage of all student activities and projects, and of all subjects directly involving the college. Stories about teachers with interesting backgrounds, about the functions of various new campus buildings, and about upcoming events were suggested.
The gentlemen who were asked for their opinions were almost unanimous in mentioning sports — not just varsity and intramural sports at Peninsula, but coverage of teams all over the state.
Others were interested in printed student opinion. Under this heading was advocated editorials and students impressions of college life.
There were many other ideas voiced, some given a great deal of attention by many students. Most stressed of these were: discussions of political issues, including those of national and
interntaional interest; news of Port Angeles and surrounding areas; and a good joke section.
These are suggestions which, as Frank Oney put in his own inimitable way, “will make our student newspaper a great paper instead of just a good one.”

Peace In Their Time

In 1963 a book was published entitled ‘Peace in Their Time.’ collection of line and word descriptions of twentieth century figures, famous and infamous, alive and dead. It was drawn and
written by Emery Kelen. Below are some of his intensely accurate observations:
Adenaurer: “a lemon on a flagpole.” Ghandi: “a pyramid of homespun cloth topped with a dried
prune.” Shaw: “the devil’s Santa Claus.” John D. Rockefeller: “the mummy of Rameses II.”
F.D.R.: “a fox grafted onto a lion” who “used his jaw as men Churchill: his face “put together like early rose potatoes.” use hands and elephants use trunks.” Dulles: “His eyes blinked intermittently like an electric bulb loose in its socket, and he made sucking motions with his mouth as if chewing thumbtacks.”
Gromyko: “Bulbous nose, dolorous eyes, tight lips …. like a Punchinello whose feelings have been wounded.”
Stevenson: “The round head of a plump, warmhearted, paternal grandpa … a man who laughs easily while his eyes remain staring like a couple of Andromeda nebulae.”
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.: “The president of the Hasty Pudding Club.”
Hitler: “Incongruities ran up and down the man. Hitler’s massive brow ridge was strikingly out of proportion to the sunken upper jaw which the little mustache was inadequate to coax out. His nose was crudely hacked out, unfinished, a vulgar proboscis.”

Mountaineering

Among the P.E. classes offered at Peninsula last quarter, one of the least known and most fascinating was Mr. Crawford’s Mountaineering 160. Nine students earned two credits a piece by intrepidly clambering up and down various mountains.
The first trip of the year was October 10, up the rock face of Mt. Angeles. After a trip up Mt. Rainier’s Paradise Glacier, they successfully completed an assault on Mt. St. Helens, near Longview.
When asked about the possibility of forming a mountaineering club, Mr. Crawford replied, “There is a good chance or a club in the future. The class will not be offered again until Spring quarter, but by then I hope to have more equipment and perhaps an assistant instructor.”

The Shortage in Education

In 1900 the Western civilization was powerful, decisive, and
expanding in world leadership.
But since the world wars, during the half of the 20th century, the power and prestige of the Western democracies have declined, to the point where we now fight for our very existence. This decline was not caused by political opposition from without but by the failing of the democratic peoples from within.
We have had an increase in our world responsibilities in the last fifty years; in the vital field
of education there have been also increases: in the amount of
opportunity. However, the increase in our educational effort has not kept up with the increase in our world responsibilities; the educational effort of the Western democracies is not
adequate preparation for modern world leadership.
This revised effort must be more thorough, it must stress more our position of world leadership, must be better staffed and financed, and must reach each and every person at his own level. We have the ability
and facilities to remedy this problem; now we must realize
the pressing importance of the crises, and determine that we will do something about it. Or
pretty soon it may be too late.

Peninsula to Help Sponsor Concert

The Port Angeles Association for Retarded Children in Cooperation with Peninsula College, will present a piano concert by Theodore Ullman, Febuary 3, at Port Angeles High School. The proceeds of the concert will be used to continue the pre-school classes for retarded children in Port Angeles.

Dr. Drank J. Skerbeck, president of the local association, said, “We started the pre-school program for retarded children last fall in Port Angeles. We feel it has been a success. Retarded children need something like this before they enter the regular school program. With Professionally supervised training, many of these children will go through the regular school program. Some of them can be trained for useful occupations. All of them benefit immeasurably from this extra care”
The Pre-school classes for retarded children are held at the Port Angeles Baptist Church daily. The classes are supervised by Mrs. Tom Osborne aided by volunteers.
Dr.Skerbeck said, ” We were able to start this program with funds from the local Association for retarded Children. This money has now been spent.
The continuation of this program now depends ont he number of tickets we sell for the piano concert, Febuary 3. We are hoping for a large turnout”

Sport Scope
By Butch Ludke

Basketball . . . .

The Port Angeles High School Roughriders face their sternest test in quest of their third straight Olympic League flag when
they travel to East Bremerton to face the Knights Friday night.
The Roughriders, number two ranked AA school in the state, will
have their hands full with the Knights, especially since the game
is in Bremerton. If you’ve ever been to an East home game you’ll
know exactly what I mean. Anything, and everything, goes.
Standford’s Indians proved convincingly that UCLA just
doesn’t have the personnel to take its third straight NCAA championship when they trounced the Bruins on coast television Saturday. It was the defending two-lime champs third loss of the
young season.
Speaking of the NCAA play-offs, this college show-down
will have a worthy representative from the south this year,
no matter who finally represents this section of the country in the
four-team tourney. The first three-rated colleges in the nation—
Duke, Kentucky, and Vanderbilt—will all contend for the honor.
I thing Brigham Young University of Provo, Utah, will be the surprise team of the year before it’s all over.

Football . . . .

One thing you can always count on in the bowl games
on New Years Day — you can count on them never coming out
the way everybody is counting on them coming out. For example, Michigan State was supposed to be a shoo-in over UCLA,
Arkansas was supposed to make it 23 straight against Louisiana
State, and Nebraska should have dumped Albama’s Crimson
Tide. Instead, UCLA knocks off the number-one ranked Spartans, Arkansas’ winning streak is halted abruptly, and Alabama
walks off with the national championship after beating the Cornhuskers. The only way I can figure it is don’t try to figure it.
QUIZ
(1) Who was the only fighter to ever win the heavyweight
title on a foul?
(2) Who was the youngest baseball player to ever play in

the Major Leagues?
(3) Who were the Detroit Piston’s two all-star selections this
year?
(4) Who was the last horse to win the Triple Crown?
(5) Vanderbilt’s nickname for basketball team and top scorer
this year?
(1) Max Schmeling won on foul against Jack Sharkey.
(2) Joe Nuxhall is still pitching for the Cincinnati Reds. He
started when he was 15.
(3) Dave DeBuschere (player-coach) and Eddie Miles of Seattle U.
(4) Citation did it in 1947.
(5) “Commodores” — 6 foot 9 All-American Clyde Lee

Pirate Season Starts

Cars, Vice Presidents, Pirates, ect.

During the last few Peninsula outings, it has become increasingly apparent that there is a
definite relationship between Avis-Rent-A-Car, Hubert Humphrey, and the Pirate reserves — they
have to try harder because they’re only number two.
The scrubs, or “scramblers” as they prefer to call themselves, have not won any games for PC as they have dropped five consecutive decisions, but they have made several of them interesting.
The second-stringers, who consist of Norm Carson, Pat Digby, Bill Roberson, Art Bell, and
Danny Green, first came into their own in the Grays Harbor series. Trailing 35-20 al the start of the second half, Coach Bill Quenette inserted the “scramblers” who promptly cut the deficit to three with a pressing, pressure defense and a lot of enthusiasm and aggressiveness on the boards. The Chokers pulled away to win the league contest, but it showed that the reserves had come to play.
Two days later in Tacoma, the Peninsula starters had fallen behind the University of Puget Sound freshmen by 10 when
the scramblers came on towards the end of the first half to tie it at 36. Danny Green’s long set shot just beat the buzzer making it a stand-off at the intermission. UPS finally overpowered the Pirates in the second half to win by nine.
Peninsula fell to a 1-4 mark in league action by dropping a onesided verdict to Centralia’s Trailblazers last Saturday. The
scramblers did their share, however, netting 27 of the 64 Peninsula total in their limited playing time.
The Pirates over-all record
stands at 4-6, having now dropped five straight games — one to Skagit Valley in the finals of the Peninsula Holiday Tournament, a two-game series down
in Grays Harbor to the Chokers, and singletons to UPS and Centralia. The 1-4 mark in league play gives Peninsula the undesired advantage of having only one way to go, as they sit in the cellar of the Western Division of the Junior College circuit. The Pirate pitfalls have been the basic fundamentals of the game—shooting and rebounding. The accuracy from the field has been good at times, but it has not been consistent enough to win with regularity.
Peninsula gives away a lol of heigth on the boards, true, but they have also been guilty of not getting good position. Quenelle has also been faced with the problem of replacing starting forward Bruce Shamp, who is on vacation.
Sophomore Bill Moulton and freshman Tommy Lyons continue to pace Peninsula’s attack. Moulton has 192 points in 11 games for an average of 17.5 while Lyons is hitting 14.3 per game on the basis of 157 points in 11 games. Others hitting in double-figures are Shamp (13.9) and Dave Denny (10.5). The Pirates are out-scoring’the opposition from the charity line (142-140) but are far behind in field goals (364-329).
Peninsula ventures to Victoria for a game on January 22 and they should pick up their fifth win of the season over a team that just took up the sport a few years ago. On the 28-29 its down south to battle Clarks powerful Penguins in a pair of league games. ’The next home action for Peninsula finds them matched with the UPS freshmen on February 1.

Basketball Devastators Pick up where they left off

The intramural team “The Devastators” have taken up in basketball just where they left
off in football, currently being tied with the Crushers for the top spot in the Peninsula Intramural Basketball program.
The Devastators, intramural flag football champions with a perfect 7-0 season, have walked
off with their first two encounters in the round-ball game to
stretch their unbeaten string of The unbeaten, untied squad rolled over the Mels last week,
58-45, behind the 20 and 13 point efforts of Butch Ludke and
Mike Barnes, respectively. Barry Truman hit 13 for the losers,
but couldn’t get additional help.

” A writer has no greater
pleasure than to reach people;
nobody dislikes isolation more
than an artist, a difficult artist
most of all—but he must reach
them by fair means—if he flatters them or plays confidence
tricks on them, he will appeal
only to the worthless elements,
and it is they who will throw
him over.”
—Cyril Connolly

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Music . . . to be, or not to be . . . .

A recent student opinion poll was taken as to whether or not we should have music in the student center. Most students seemed to favor having the music. Here are some of the opinions expressed:
Cecelia Rice: “Yes I think it improves the atmosphere—that is, if the music isn’t too loud. As far as it bothering the students who are studying, the library is the appropriate place to study.”
Karen Woodruff: “I think we should have music in the student center. However, it’s best to have it only on special occasions. That way it serves as a great publicity promotion.”
Gloria Carter: “I try not to think of it, but I’m cornered into saying yes.” Sharon Van Winkle: “I like the music, but I prefer instrumentals and I like it best if it’s not too loud. How about maybe
playing music only two days a week or so?”
B. Reinhard Truman: “H – – -yes!”
Karen Dugdale: “I think we should have music in the student center because it gives the
student center a college atmosphere and an air of distinction.”
Jay Gould: “It’s certainly better than listening to a lot of people jabbering.”
Vem Privitt: “The music’s fine as long as it doesn’t interfere with the class next door.” Art Nordwick: “It’s fine for high school.”

A.W.S. Reports

A general meeting was held Wednesday, January 12, at 7 p.m. in the library. Four of the
officers, Cecilia Rice, Donna Sienko, Barb Majeski, and Cladette Reandeau, told their experience and impressions of the AWS convention they attended in Walla Walla November 19-21. The main discussions were on the problems of todays women. Many girls at the convention wore uniforms which made our girls suggest that Peninsula College s AWS officers should also have uniforms in the school
colors, gold and black.
After the meeting Father Mendez spoke about Cuba. He is Cuban, but had to leave his
country in order to save his life when Castro turned communist. He went to Africa,
Spain, and Canada, and when he has completed his spiritual training as a priest here, he will
go to Santo Domingo as a counselor for college students. He
related in a few words the Cuban history from its independence in 1868 to the time Castro came. It was terrible to hear how Castro turned his back and became communist, how all private properties were confiscated and rights toward the people no longer were respected. Incredible injustices occurred!
Children were trained at school to inform on their parents so that they might be imprisoned. The
child was celebrated as the hero of the day.
After the talk, coffee was served and people asked the Father many questions for two
more hours. The questions were not only about Cuba, but about politics in general, education,
South American problems, and others, on which he had very
interesting comments to make.

From the Crow’s nest – By Phyllis Johnson

Monday afternoon greeted many terrified bowling students at Laurel Lanes last week. The class period proved entertaining for on-looking expert bowlers.
Sophomore Dotti Morgan solved the problem of conquering the muddy path from the science building to the student 1 center. She now hitches rides jon the back of construction , trucks used on campus. Good ‘ going, Dotti.
Only 304 shopping days left ’til Christmas.
Was that skepticism in Mr. Lucas’ voice when he mentioned the completion of the new student center?
Phillip, come on—keep your little car out of the mud. Okay? Very sisterly yours, Phyllis. Say Mr. Evans, did you ever figure out how many rats a cat can eat in one hour?
The AWS officers look snappy in their chic new gold and black suits. The outfits will be worn to all functions sponsored by that organization.
It was good to see such a large and responsive audience turn out for Father Mendez’s speech last Wednesday night.
Following his speech, the listeners kept the Father busy answering questions about his
home land, Cuba.
What? Me worry??? I read “The Buccaneer!” For those of you who may wonder what the future may bring, just remember . . .”The greatest oak was once nothing more than a little nut.”

“Novels, even when they are
about wicked people, can solace us. They suggest a more
comprehensible and thus a
more manageable human race,
and give us the illusion of perspicacity and of power.”
—E. M. Forster

Miss Carlson Newcomer to Peninsula College Faculty

An enthusiastic newcomer to the northwest is Mayme Carlson of the Peninsula College staff. Miss Carlson is an instructor in secretarial training.
She expressed her pleasure in the mild Port Angeles in a recent interview. “It’s so different from my home town of Twin Harbors, Minnesota,’ she stated. “There we had only two warm months during the year.”
Teaching at the college level is a new departure for Miss Carlson who formerly taught in high schools in Detroit, Michigan, and Bemidji, Minnesota. During that period she acted as counselor, as well as business and secretarial training. She also taught all adult business classes in Bemidji for nine years.Miss Carlson is fond of outdoor life, and especially likes hiking and picnics. She is eager to try her luck at salmon fishing next spring. Until then, her hobbies of reading, knitting, and singing with the local
church choir will occupy much of her spare time.
Miss Carlson has travelled extensively, and has made two trips to Europe. She spent a most enjoyable time visiting relatives in Stockholm, and considers it one of the world’s most beautiful andl interesting cities. Communication was a simple matter as she speaks the Swedish language fluently. Vacation trips to Alaska and Hawaii have also been enjoyed by Miss’Carlson. Several years ago she visited Havana in pre-Castro days. This was a highlight of a Caribbean cruise.
Miss Carlson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Dakota, as well as additional graduate work at Bemidji State College, Bemidji, Minnesota. She has an M.A. from North Dakota University.

Gonzaga personnel to visit here

The admissions personnel from Gonzaga University will visit Peninsula College Friday, January 21. Any student interested in attending Gonzaga is urged to take advantage of the opportunity to discuss relevant material. They will begin consultation at 9:00. An appointment list is available in the office for your use.
NOTE: Central Washington State College admissions officers will be visiting the campus January 31. For more information contact Mr. Young.