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Page Two THE RIMROCK ECHO Friday, January 28, 1938 Our Friend, W. M. Johnston In the passing of the honorable W. M. Johnston last week, our school lost one of its most faithful and helpful friends. During the years when the location of a normal school in the eastern part of the state was under consider- ation by the legislature Mr. Johnston drew every bill con- sidered and was more instrumental than any other person in securing the passage of the bill for the creating of the school and its subsequent location in Billings. In the early days of the school his advice and legal services were in- valuable. When a federal loan and grant for our building was proposed he cared for all the legal arrangements which made the request successful. This legal service he gave gladly, refusing any remuneration for the long hours of labor in our behalf. Nor did his service to higher educa- tion in Montana confine itself to our school. As a member of the state board of education during twenty years he has had much to do with making Montana's six units a credit to the state and to higher education in the nation. We shall miss the presence of this quiet, unassuming gentleman on our platform at commencement time and at all functions of importance in the school's activity. We join with his many friends throughout the state in paying tribute to his memory and we express to his family our deepest sympathy in their great loss. How Safe Is Flying? How safe is travel by air? The answer, according to a recent article in the magazine \Today is that an individ- ual can expect to fly 1,000 miles a day for sixty years before it would be his turn, statistically, for a fatal aerial accident. In other words, scheduled air-lines last year flew 20,000,000 passenger miles per passenger fatality. In 1926 they were only making 4,300,000 miles per fatality. This shows that safety has increased quite a bit in the last few years. Let's Have System There ought to be a system! We're all agreed that - there ought to be, but we can't decide what system should be used. Some park their cars diagonally, some just slide in beside the curb, and others nose the radiator into right angle formation with the curb. Then if an observer glances out at the students' parking area he imagines he's looking at a modern copy of grandmother's crazy quilt. If he's much given to thought he wonders how we survive the stress of getting onto the road again. Indeed, some of us are beginning to wonder why our hair doesn't turn gray. So, to prevent premature grayness and to add to the dig- nity of our school, let's make and follow a definite rule for parking. One for all and all for one ! Simple, isn't it? Application Letters How many of the prospective teachers who will be graduated from this school in the near future know how to write an application letter? How should we begin ? What do we include? What form of letter should we use Should it be written in longhand or typed ? No doubt some of us will be fortunate enough to secure positions through personal application ; we hope so. We may be in a better position to decide upon our method of application later. We do know for sure that the school executives do not often come around to hand out these much desired jobs directly to us; and an applicant is judged by his application letter as well as by references. Frequently candidates have been turned down because of a carelessly written letter. The proper form for application letters is a matter which is important enough to demand some serious con- sideration. Several reference books on \Business English\ may be found in the library. If these do not set you right you will find that your English teachers will be able to give you good advice. Who Said Winter? The weather, which everyone knows is the most dis- cussed subject in the world, is giving everyone in Montana something to talk about. The winter up to the present time has been an agreeable continuation of the fall, except for several minor touches of winter around Christmas time. And now all of the appearances of spring are here; the grass has taken on a healthy green color, and some of the trees are about to sprout. January in Montana is usually as cold as the arctic regions, but Montanans, Inc. will have a chance to advertise the state as a rival to California if this weather continues. We should boast while we can— winter may come tomorrow. Business Men Play Badminton, Volleyball Besides his regular classes in phys- ical education, Mr. Bjorgum has two extension classes composed of Bil- lings business men. The volley ball class meets on Tuesday and Friday evenings from 5 to 7 p. m. The other, a class in badminton, meets on Wednesday evening from 5 to 7 p. m. There are 17 men enrolled in these classes. These will continue for a second twelve week period, beginning the first of February. Mr. Bjorgum also has regular classes in fencing, in which there are 12 men and women enrolled, and tumbling for girls, with 12 girls reg- istered and tumbling for men with eight enrolled. Mr. Bjorgum says that he intends using the people in the tumbling classes for furnishing entertainment during the intermission between halves at some future basketball games. RESOLVED BY ALL STUDENTS: 1. To put all unusable paper in the wastebasket and not under the chairs. 2. To leave Hawkes' cherished clippings on the bulletin board. 3. To be quiet in the halls. 4. To leave all showers turned off. 5. To turn off lights when they are not needed. It all happened when we found ourselves too busy to make New Year's resolutions for ourselves. An unselected, approved committee met in the social science laboratory, each member bearing a philosophical air. We thought, and we thought and we thought. Bill put his head in the door, exhibiting hairs which he claimed were losing color because of worry over paper on the floor. Res- olution No. 1 was written into the Better Normal School platform. Someone strolled past Hawkes' room. A moment later he dashed into the laboratory, bringing the news that Hawkes was looking sav- age over a torn clipping. We seized our pencils and resolution No. 2 took form. While we were serenely waiting for our next inspiration the noise in the corridor rendered our conversation impossible. Quiet, please! We wrote our third reso- lution. Stillness pervaded the locker room; all the students were gone. But Miss Stevenson could still hear the constant drip of water. She dashed into the shower room and emerged, looking rather damp. One of the committee happened to see ner and so the fourth resolution came into being. Through the open door we saw Mr. Abbott come into his empty classroom and snap off the lights. Hurriedly we wrote the fifth reso- lution. Having made five resolutions the unselected, unapproved committee adjourned with high hopes that these resolutions may be endorsed and followed by the student body. Miss Rich has two beautiful oil paintings which were made for her by Mrs. Hawkes. One of the scenes is the Cooke City highway. The second painting portrays the Still- water river with an imposing rim- rock in the distant sideline. 1 A recent purchase of 87 new books has been added to the library. These books cover nearly all of the major fields of study. They have just been catalogued and are at the disposal of students. CLASS STUDIES MICROBES One of the most interesting classes of this quarter for second year stu- dents is the class in bacteriology. It is different from most classes in that it consists chiefly of laboratory work. The class has taken over what was formerly the work room of the sci- ence department and it is now filled wtih an array of test tubes, beakers and glassware of every description to facilitate the study of microbes. The class is usually divided into two groups, one using the microscopes while the other half of the class prepares cultures, media, etc. for the purpose of microscopic study. There are 18 students enrolled, and every session each student has has own task to carry out. Usually each assignment is very important and unless each person performs his task with the utmost efficiency there will be a failure and the whole class will be thrown into chaos. The main theme of the course is cleanliness, not only in the care of laboratory equipment but in the use and examination of culture or living micro-organisms. The aim of the class is to find and identify 30 or 40 different living minute plants or an- imals. These minute bacteria will vary in natures. Some will be in- jurious bacteria and others will be harmless yeast plants. It is there- fore very necessary that complete and absolute cleanliness be iob- served. MISS ROBERTS SHOWS VIEWS Miss Roberts' extension class in art appreciation met for the last time on Thursday evening, January 13. Mr. Stuber projected the motion pictures taken by Miss Roberts while in Europe last summer, most of the 400 feet of film being in color. Mr. Stuber asserts that for sheer beauty he has never seen the equal of these pictures. Miss Roberts was chiefly interested in taking scenes in which the composition was artistic and the results are most satisfying. She will exhibit the pictures at an assembly at a later date. N. Y. A. HELPS 47 STUDENTS Of those working on N. Y. A. in the fall quarter, 35 remained in school and were eligible to continue work this quarter. Twelve more students were added, making a total of 47. Since so many are working under N. Y. A. the closest kind of cooper- ation is requested. This is almost twice the number that the amount allotted to the school was intended to help; therefore, close figuring is necessary on all sides. Students who find themselves unable to work out the time allotted to them can help by reporting the fact to Mr. Stuber as early in the month as possible. CHORAL READING PROGRESSES The interpretation class has been discussing choral reading. The class has several poems they have read in practicing this new type of work. Choral reading is fast becoming a very popular art. Similar to singing in two part music, choral reading is reading poetry in two parts, light and dark voices. A line or two is read by the entire group; then the light voices continue for several more lines. The dark voices then read their part, with the whole group entering on the last part. The members of the class in in- terpretation hope they can develop a poetry choir which will be able to do several numbers. Woodhouse Leads List Of 18 Honor Students Ruth Woodhouse of Wibaux led the 14 girls and four boys on the honor roll for the fall quarter, with an average of 2.81 grade points for each of her 16 credit hours. She made a total of 45 grade points. Thirty-three points are required to get on the honor roll. The next highest grades went to Marybeth Shreve of Hardin, who made 42 grade points on her 111111 hours for a 2.163 average; Sylvia Neiss of Lewistown, 36 grade points on 14 hours for a 2.57 average; Mrs. Cleo Weppler of Ryegate, 40 grade points on 16 hours for a 2.50 aver- age. Others on the list are Doris Barnes, Floyd Beeler, Vern Clark, Mildred Hunter, Mary Maxon, Vera Roesler, and Vern Wagner, all of Billings; Ruth Butler, Margaret Froiland, and Barbara Hess, all of Glendive; Jer- ome Matross of Fairview; Judith Perrine of Utica; and Elizabeth Ponke of Wibaux. Miss Stevenson Helps With New Health Course Miss Stevenson has just finished work on one division of a new course of study in health and physical ed- ucation for elementary schools. The phase of the work for which she made the plan is rhythmic activities, i. e. folk dances, singing games, tap dancing and ballroom dancing, with sample lesson sheets for the last two. For each grade Miss Stevenson supplied three folk dances or other rhythmic activities, with music and notes for each, together with an ex- tended bibliography on other such activities for each grade. For this material it was necessary to secure copyright permission from 12 pub- lishing firms or individuals. Other members of the committee have worked out similar outlines for posture, games and play days. Miss Marjorie Hamer of Dillon Normal college is chairman of the committee. This course of study will be of great value to our students whe they become teachers. Public School Is Topic Of Talks by Mr. Foote Mr. Foote has been much in de- mand as a speaker before clubs dur- ing January, taking as his subject, \The Public School—Now that we have a free public school what are we going to do about it?\ He pointed out that the American school is an evolution which has been shaped by environmental, so- cial and other influences. It has followed no pattern brought from Europe. To prove this assertion, Mr. Foote touched briefly on the main characteristics of the German, French, Russian and English schools, all of which are centralized and which follow a definite pattern. In answering the question in his sub-title—\What shall we do about it,\ he discussed several things which we must not do, chief among which are that we must not allow our schools to be controlled by vested interests; we must not allow them to be dictated to by patriotic or re- ligious societies; above all, we as teachers must not indoctrinate our students. On the other hand we have a grave responsibility to keep our schools democratic; we must teach the children to accept respon- sibility in order that as citizens they will maintain and guard liberty. We must teach the tool subjects thor- oughly so that the students may-be prepared to make their way in life. We must steer clear of the tempta- tion to indoctrinate the minds of the young people under our guidance. He gave the talk before the Busi- ness and Professional Women's club at their monthly dinner at the Com- mercial club on Monday, January 3; before the Rotary club at luncheon Monday noon, January 17; before the Current Events section of the Billings Woman's club at the home of Mrs. Ward Nye on Thursday, January 20. He was invited to re- peat the discussion at Big Timber before the teachers of Sweet Grass county on Saturday, January 22, but he declined. We should judge from the demand made for the speech, that Mr. Foote has made a convincing case for pro- gressive education. Win or Lose—We Are With You Much has been said in previous years about the lack of interest in athletic games by the student body. How- ever, since the basketball season began the attendance at games has been unusually good. It is not only the number of students who turn out for the games, but also their spirit and enthusiasm that is so pleasing. It should never be necessary to use coercive tactics to gain attendance at games. On the contrary, students should feel that the team is representative of everyone in the school. It appears that the students have realized this fact, for during this season they have been behind their team 100 percent. Win or lose—there is always that group of eager followers, hopeful of another display of cooperation and good teamwork. The student body is to be commended on their enthusiastic yelling and singing and the excellent performance of the recently organized pep band. THE RIMROCK ECHO Published by EASTERN MONTANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL at Billings, Montana Staff Members of Advanced Composition Class Delight Bruce, Betty Bullette, Bob Kehoe, Vernie Malvern, John Olson, Eleanor Prchal, Victor Thompson, Gladys Torgrimson. Faculty Adviser Mary J. Meek EDITORIALS
