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Page Two WESCOLITE Wednesday, July 19, 1950 Vol. XXVIII. WESCOLITE Number 16 Published by the JOURNALISM CLUB WESTERN MONTANA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Dillon, Montana Wednesday, July 19, 1950 Subscription Rates — $1.00 a Year STAFF I ....... - ..... HENRY ELWOOD JANE GAUSTAD Co-editors GISELA GRÄMLING JACK3IE GRAVES Reporters: Shirley Chaffin Sophie Martin Jennie Schofield Rose Badovinatz .Assistant Editors TEACHING IS A PROFESSION ERE in Montana, as in every other state, the opening day of school each year is a time of soul-stirring satisfaction. It makes no difference whether these boys and girls are trooping off to a one-room rural school or to a large city system, their parents feel that regardless of all else this day must always come. The start of a school year signifies something fine and good. There isn’t a teacher worth her salt who doesn’t feel a deep sense of humility and comradeship as she watches these young people file past her. She knows and believes that no matter what their names, their clothes, who their mothers and fathers are, or whether their hands are washed or not—she knows these are her people, everyone of them God’s children, with great potentialities to do good. If this teacher has a real and lasting interest and faith in children and a healthy respect for the personality of each child, then there is no question but what teaching is a profession of the noblest proportions. Too much confusion has been stirred up over the matters of respect for a teacher and liking the teacher. All that is really important is to try to create the kind of classroom where children will want to come, where tenseness is gone, where children love to be with their teacher, to talk with her, to work with her. Chil dren want to be listened to. They have problems that deserve a hearing. This teacher is relaxed and informal—so are the boys and girls. That does not mean that anyone needs to be frivolous or lax in classroom management. Every teacher knows there have to be clear-cut rules, administered justly—rules that upon occasion can be set aside when it would be unfair to enforce them. It is within our power to make teaching a mighty profession. Combining all the finest elements in our training, our professional organizations, our leisure time activities, and our Christian beliefs; we go ahead, bending every effort toward the child who was sent to us. It remains for us to provide the way for every American boy and girl to have a wholesome opinion of himself with ample opportunities for feelings of success and personal worthiness, adequate development of his assets, and the encouragement to feel and to express a justifiable pride in his capabilities and accomplishments. Variety of Art Work Displayed An exhibit, sponsored jointly by the W.M.C.E. fine arts and industrial arts departments, is being planned for the first week in August. The following regular summer session classes will furnish projects: Arts-crafts, freehand drawing, art fundamentals, figure drawing, per spective drawing, woodturning, art methods, toy construction, art his tory, oil painting, and elementary woodworking. Mrs. Mary B. Emerick and Mrs. Stella G. Bierrum are in charge of fine arts, and William Bierrum su pervises summer session woodwork ing classes. Definite times that the exhibit may be inspected will be announced later, according to Mrs. Emerick. She invites all summer students and others interested to see the wide va riety of work that will be on dis play in the art rooms as well as in the second floor hallway. Mrs. Mary Louise Graves was a campus visitor Tuesday, June 20. Mrs. Graves has been teaching in a native school at Juneau, Alaska. She is a graduate of Western, as are her two daughters, Jacqueline, who is attending summer school, and Mrs. Joe Rife who lives at Troy. Gargoyles Present One-Act Comedies A program of one-act comedies, “The Burglar Who Failed” and “Some Women Were Talking,” was presented by the Gargoyles Tues day evening, July 11, at Western. Taking part in “The Burglar Who Failed” were Sam Sol'berg, Jacque line Haines, and Jane Gaustad. Sam made a fine burglar—who didn’t like his profession. Jane and Jac queline were very natural as a dot ing mother and her adolescent daughter. In “Some Women Were Talking” Jean Axe, Lorna Jo Thomas, and Shirley Chaffin were very convinc ing story-telling summer guests, as was Ruth Faller, the proprietress, who exaggerated as much as her guests. Marian Hanson* the timid boarder, and Keith Hamilton, her husband, added even greater hilar ity to this laugh-provoking comedy by out-doing all the others with their stories. The production staff included Miss Savidge, director; Burton Johnson, stage hand; Beverly Grant, promp ter. STUDENT FROM AFAR Many interesting people are to be found on the campus of W.M.C.E. during this summer session. One of these is Miss Helen Lenart of Central City, Pennsylvania, and more recently from Martandum, Province of Travencoire, South In dia, where in 1936, she went as a missionary for the Assembly of God Church. Her return to America, in 1942, was by way of the Cape of Good Hope aboard a bomb-damaged troopship carrying 900 repatriates. ABOUT THE ART CLUB The Art club, organized in 1933 under the sponsorship of Mrs. Em erick and Miss Ragon, is fulfilling its purpose, fostering interest in arts. Each year since 1948 the club has given a scholarship to some deserv ing student. It is the only scholar ship given by a student organization at Western. Among the numerous projects of the club are leathercraft, block printing, textile stenciling, and m ak ing articles for the gift shop. During the past year Lindy Estes designed stationery bearing the initials of the college’s new name. THE 1950 GO The 1950 Go, the best ever— Yes, that is what everyone of those wearing the telltale tan are saying. A fourth-grade teacher now at tending the college had been dis cussing current events with her class. On reading a letter written by one of her pupils during the period following, she was amused to find this sentence: “We have been talking about curly vence.” Four hundred eighty-one volumes have been added recently to the li brary. Although cataloguing is still in process, all books are classified ami available for student use. Li brary of Congress descriptive cards which are being used for these books will be used for all subsequent or ders. Alumnus Writes Western Novel “Montana, Here I Be,” a novel which went on sale July 18, has as its author a degree graduate of Western Montana College of Educa tion, Dan Cushman. Although this is Cushman’s first novel, he is not unknown among w riter’s circles for he has had several stories published in magazines. He is now a free lance w riter who makes his home in Great Falls at 2000 First Avenue north. The Great Falls Tribune, June 18, had this to say: “His first novel will please devotees of the western story and should have additional in terest for Montana readers because of its local settings. The yarn is spun for entertainment, and should not be taken seriously as history, especially by sons and daughters of Montana pioneers.” ALL JOIN HANDS ! ! Eight o’clock Monday nights is the time reserved for square danc ing in the college gymnasium. In struction under Mrs. Greenfield plus a little practice will enable anyone to do-si-do and allamande left in the popular manner and have untold fun with the Texas Star and countless other old-time dances, which after a period of dormancy have again come into the limelight. Assisting as callers and teachers are Oella Conk- ling, Whitehall, and Henry Elwood, Kalispell. So grab your partner and prome nade to the gym on Monday eve nings. There’s fun in store for ev eryone ! ! President Rush Jordan was in Billings Monday and Tuesday, July 10 and 11, attending a meeting of the State Board of Education. CHINOOK PICTURE NOTICE All August graduates wishing to have your picture in the 1951 Chi nook should do as follows: 1. Get a picture taken at a Dillon studio. 2. Have a glossy print made for the Chinook. On the back of the glossy print in pencil lightly write your name and Aug., 1951. 3. Give the glossy print to Miss Albertson. 4. By paying the Chinook fee of $5.00, paid by all students during the regular year, you may receive a ■book when it is published next June. Clarence Brammer and Elva Fer- retti have been accepted by the Vir ginia City Players as two of the ten students to participate in their dra matics work this summer, all the other actors being professional. Brammer received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Elementary Edu cation from Western Montana Col lege of Education, Dillon, June 2. Miss Ferretti received her diploma in June, 1949, and taught at Belgrade the past year. Albert Comer, 1937 degree gradu ate, has been elected superintendent of the Twin Bridges public school.