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Page Four THE RIMROCK ECHO WILCOX WILL SPEAK MAY 6 ON PARIS Mr. W. R. B. Willcox, head of the Department of Art and Architecture, University of Oregon, will visit the E. M. S. N. S. on Thursday, May 6, and at this time he will give a lecture on Paris. Mr. Willcox has spent much time in Paris, and he will illustrate his lecture with lan- tern slides. Mr. Willcox is visiting schools whose teachers have been at some time members of the Carnegie Art Center at the University of Oregon. Mr. Manion was a Carnegie fellow- ship student in the summer of 1929, and Miss Roberts was there on a fellowship in the summers of 1930 and 1931. Miss Roberts assures us that we shall like Dr. Willcox very much, as he is deeply interested in young people. Gas Company To Install Foot Bridge The smell of escaping gas in the east end of the basement was no- ticed by students and others, and when the gas company employes were called they discovered a leak in the pipe under the east steps which allowed the gas to seep from there into the basement. The pipe was relaid so that it now enters the building near the back door on the north side. The new installation is supposed to be absolutely leak proof. The Billings Gas Co. promised an- other improvement which will con- sist of a foot bridge made of pipe that will cross the irrigation ditch where the main gas line crosses it now, about 200 feet east of our big bridge. This foot bridge will strength- en and support the gas line and at the same time give us a handy means of crossing to the baseball field that is laid out below the ditch. Work on the foot bridge will start soon. \MANEUVERS OF JANE\ CHOSEN SPRING PLAY A four act comedy, \The Maneu- vers of Jane,\ by Sir Henry Arthur Jones will be the spring play to be presented as a feature of Com- mencement Week. The cast has been picked by a different method than has been used before. Tryouts were held at the end of the winter quarter, and the people who were selected for the cast were registered in the Dramatic Art Class. They have a regular time for their class meeting the same as other classes. All the members of the Dramatic Art Class are not in the play. Some are doing stage crew work; others are making scenery. Students who have a part in the play are Ralph Loomis, Helen Hughes, Alta Mae Johnston, Burton Caruso, Homer Loucks, Shirley Lee, Helen Swan, Charles Holmes, Elda Nue- man, Margaret Vanek, Rosalie Blev- ens, Clara Schaubel, Delbert Sirrine, Irene Hand, John Schirmer, Bill Be- quette, Agnes Helgeland. Ralph Loomis and Bus Elliot have changed of late. Ralph seems no longer Hope-less and Bus is not the Ruth-less man he once was. STUDENTS BUILD MODEL CITY A model city is the new venture in cardboard and paper construc- tion in the Public School Handicraft classes supervised by Miss Roberts and Mr. Manion. Never having done this kind of work before, the students were be- wildered by the extensiveness of the project, which centers about topics studied in the grades. The work is being done cooperatively by the A, B and C groups. At the head of each group is a chairman and these six people form a committee which directs the undertaking. A model city business center will be constructed by the C's, including buildings, streets, sidewalks and ev- erything which makes up a street. The residence section will be cre- ated by the B's. The A group will construct the model rural section which consists of a complete farm. The main responsibility falls upon the C groups because they began the work and gave the foundation for the whole city. The project has created a great deal of interest and from the ap- pearances of some of the model houses, will be a big success. The city will be completed in time to be on display at the Art Exhibit on May 6 .. . We hope! Campus To Be Landscaped A W. P. A. project covering the complete landscaping of the E. M. S. N. S. campus has been submitted to the authorities at Helena. This proj- ect will include the making of ce- ment walks and oiled roads, and also the planting of trees and grass. The present athletic field project is temporarily at a standstill but will be resumed later. In the meantime it is planned to put in some walks and do the necessary planting, using N. Y. A. workers to do the work. It will be a month or six weeks be- fore work can be started on the new landscaping project, provided, of course, the project is granted. Beebe Gives Fine Talk Champing Beebe, noted African explorer and lecturer, gave a very interesting lecture on his adventures in Portugese South Africa on Friday morning, April 23, before an assem- bly of students in the Normal School auditorium. The high point of his talk was his vivid description of killing a huge bull elephant, which in its dying frenzy slung him high in the air with its madly swinging trunk. Flashing a life-size picture on the screen made his experience seem very real. Also his tale of an encounter with army ants was most interesting. Using a number of pictures and objects of interest, supplemented by stories, highly colored by his viva- cious personality, he held his audi- ence completely spellbound. He not only used interesting stories but also equally interesting information about the peculiarities and habits of Afri- can animals and savages. Dr. McMullen introduced Mr. Beebe, who in turn introduced Mrs. Beebe who accompanied him on his trips of exploration. Mr. Beebe is a cousin of William Beebe, famous deep sea diver and writer. ORIGINALITY SHOWN IN MUSIC COURSE More originality has been shown in appreciation and correlation in Miss Nourse's public school music class this quarter than has been shown formerly. Many presentations were excep- tionally good. A few of the out- standing ones are as follows: Elda Neuman gave a correlation between drawing and music by illustrating the song she sang with colored drawings. Bob Moorman sang \Short'nin' Bread,\ in correlation with the study of the darkies in the south and their way of living and enjoying life. Esther Streets brought her violin to school and gave a violin solo of a Danish folk dance, giving a correla- tion with country folk dances. The main idea in appreciation classes is to stress the correlation of music with other subjects, and this class is doing it very well. 3/ Psych Testers Work In Billings Schools The class in psychological testing this quarter consists of 31 examiners —10 men and 21 women. These are so distributed that four examiners work in each elementary school, with two on special duty: Viola Ad- ams is testing in the Rimrock School (rural), and Luis Gonzales is as- signed the testing of Spanish-speak- ing children in any and all schools. By the end of the quarter all chil- dren in primary grades in Billings will have been tested, following out a plan put into effect three years ago. By the end of the six-year period Dr. Hines hopes to have a record of the I. Q. of every child in the six elementary grades in the Billings schools. This quarter's examiners are using the old form of the Stanford-Binet Scale, but the first-year students, studying the textbook courses, have taken up the new textbook by Ter- man and Merrill, in anticipation of the use of the revised forms next autumn. Impromptu Dance Is Great Success Lovers of the terpsichorean art were delighted when an informal dance was announced for Friday evening, April 16. The dance was not sponsored by any group but grew out of an idea of Luis Gon- zales, who thought that since we had been unable to have a dance the Friday before we should have one. He made all the arrangements and posted a notice Thursday. Considering the fact that the ar- rangements were so impromptu the dance was well attended by at least 50 couples. Vern Clark's orchestra, t h e Ambassadors, furnished the music, and though no committees had been named, all the necessary tasks of the dance were done by willing workers and all enjoyed themselves immensely. While \last minute\ stuff is usually not so good, this \last minute\ dance was a more outstanding success than many of the carefully planned dances spon- sored by our various organizations. MRS. HAWKES TURNS ARTIST The attractiveness of Mr. Hawkes' class room has recently been greatly enhanced by four interesting pic- tures done in oil. To an Echo reporter in search of news Mr. Hawkes proudly explained that these pictures were painted by Mrs. Hawkes. The largest one, di- rectly in the back of the room, is an almost photographic picture of Pike's Peak. This she painted while sitting on a rock watching the sun set. An- other is a painting of our school as she saw it from the road below the bridge. Another is a view of the Normal School camp in the Bear- tooth Mountains, and the fourth represents an alley near her home. Mrs. Hawkes has been doing land- scape painting for about two years. She started her work with pastels but has been working with oil paints since Christmas time. Miss Roberts has been her only instructor in this work. She has also made a number of articles in metals and tooled leather under the direction of Mr. Manion. Although Mrs. Hawkes is very reticent about her artistic accomplishments, the pictures are a source of much pleas- ure both to Mr. Hawkes and to the students who frequent his class- room. Dr. Bolton Visits Dr. Hines A recent visitor to E. M. S. N. S. was Professor Frederick E. Bolton, of the College of Education of the University of Washington. Dr. Bol- ton, formerly a Dean, was on an inspection trip for the North Central Association of Colleges and Second- ary Schools. While in the city he had a visit with Dr. Hines, a former member of Dean Bolton's faculty at the University of Washington. FOOTE SAYS TEACHING DEMAND IS GOOD According to Mr. Foote, teaching positions will be as numerous this year as in previous years. He re- marks that the numerous marriages of which he has rather definite in- formation will leave several vacan- cies in the schools. The calls this year for teachers are specific. The superintendents are wanting teachers with extra-curric- ular qualifications. One superin- tendent wants a teacher for primary grades who can play in and direct the reed section of an orchestra or direct the high school Glee Club. Another asked for two teachers, one of whom would teach the lower grades and music and the other the middle grades and physical educa- tion. There was also a call for a teacher in a village where the pupils are practically starving for good music training. The reports which have been coming show a decided increase in salary for both new teachers and re-elected ones. Many increases are as much as 10 per cent over last year. Some school boards are adopt- ing the twelve-month payment plan. Mr. Foote says that the married men teachers would appreciate their salary in 12 payments instead of nine. In this way they would have fewer lean months when bills ac- cumulate and reserves dwindle.
