The Exponent, 1935-02-21

              COMING EVENTS
Mines, B. B., here Feb. 21
Penny Carnival Feb. 22
Madison, B. B., here Feb. 25
College Hour, 3:15, KABR
Feb. 27
Masuers' Annual Play__Feb. 28
Phys. Ed. Demonstration_Mar. 1
Lent begins Mar. 6
Rural Community Program
Mar. 15
All-school dance Mar. 16
Spring Opera Mar. 22-23
JJ
OM. Educational Conference
Here In Two-Day Session
LARGE ATTENDANCE
Current Problems Discus-sed
; Visitors Are Guests
at Dinners and Basketball
Games
The mid-winter educational confer-ence
for school executives was held
on the college campus last week, Feb-ruary
15-16, with Prof. Bersagel in
charge of local arrangements. Ap-proximately
60 school executives were
present for the various sessions.
At the first meeting Friday after-noon,
Superintendent Marvin Kemp
of Faulkton, presided. The subject,
"Elimination of Students Before and
After Matriculation in Teacher Train-ing
Institutions," was discussed by 0.
K. Thollehaug, Sisseton; R. W. Kraus-haar,
Pierre; and E. A. Bixler, North-ern.
Superintendent W. C. Rabe of Mil-bank
was in charge of the second ses-sion
in which "High School Dormi-tory
Problems" were discussed by R.
W. Gibson, Redfield; Steven Williams,
Ipswich; Edith Dowdell, Pierre.
Saturday morning's program was
in charge of Hugh Sweet, Britton.
"Problems of National Federation of
High School Athletics Associations"
was discussed by Howard Wood of
Sioux Falls. A special feature of this
meeting was the motion pictures of
the Minnesota-Pittsburgh game pre-sented
by Edwin L. Haislet, assistant
coach at the University of Minnesota.
The first session for Saturday after-noon
was in charge of L. T. Michel-son
of Wakpala. "Permanent School
Funds" was discussed by J. W. Head-ley,
Colman; and A. L. Hagen, Leola.
B. J. Brophy, Flandreau, discussed
"Indian Education". The second ses-sion
was in charge of C. J. Dalthorp,
Aberdeen. Elmer Rustad, Aberdeen,
presented "Needed Readjustments in
High School Curriculum."
Aside from the regular sessions the
visiting teachers were guests at sev-eral
functions. Friday evening they
were dinner guests of Northern after
which they were guests of the Aber-deen
High School at the Sioux Falls-
Aberdeen basketball game. Saturday
noon they were entertained at dinner
by the Hub City School Supply Com-pany
and Saturday evening they were
guests of the college at the Northern-
Spearfish basketball game.
Northern Is Third
In Oratory Contest
With a total of 31 1/2 points, North-ern
ranked third in the annual inter-collegiate
speech tournament, held at
Springfield, last week.
George Hart, Northern orator, won
thin d place in the "old line" oratorical
contest; Phyllis Roberts placed second
in the women's division; Wilfred Wag-ner,
fourth in the men's peace; Eliza-beth
Douglas, third in the women's
extemp. contest; Roy Rietz, fourth in
the men's extemp. division. —
Augustana College of Sioux Falls
captured the sweepstakes cup with a
grand total of 45 points; Yankton
College placed second with 35 points;
Eastern Normal took fourth place
honors with 29 points to their credit.
Regent Wells, Chairman
In the rearrangement of committees
due to the appointment of Regent
Prchal, it became necessary for Re-gent
Dolan to take the chairmanship
of the School of Mines for a time.
Therefore, Regent Will A. Wells of
Webster has been named chairman
of the committee for our school dur-ing
the balance of the present fiscal
year. Regent Dolan, president of the
Board, has served as chairman for
Northern previous to the new ar-rangement
as indicated above.
CON GEBBIE
NORTHERN
PHILIP MARTINDALE
GIVES FINE LECTURE
TOPIC—WILD ANIMALS
U. S. Forest Ranger Pre-sents
Vivid Story of Per-sonal
Experiences In Yel-lowstone
Park
Another lecture course number was
presented to the students and the gen-eral
public, Wednesday night, Febru-ary
13, in the Auditorium. Major
Philip Martindale, who has been a
United States Forest Ranger and
Ranger Naturalist for seven years,
was the entertainer. For a time Mr.
Martindale was in charge of the Yel-lowstone
National Park, the largest
geyser district in the world. In the
last few years he has been lecturing
on his experiences, especially before
college groups, this being his six-hundredth
lecture.
Mr. Martindale spoke on the "The
Intimate Habits of Wild Animals".
However, during his talk he discussed
the geysers and hot springs of the
Yellowstone Park, giving many inter-esting
accounts of tourists. He also
gave an interesting description of the
life of the rangers in the park area.
The rangers live about seventy miles
apart and two men live in one of the
cabins for six months of the winter
without any change of society. They
get non supplies during that time, ex-cept
that they skii a long distance
once a month to get their mail.
Mr. Martindale said that there are
about 360 types of animals and 170
types of birds in the Yellowstone
Park. He described the bears quite
fully, both the black and the grizzly.
He gave many details about their de-velopment
and their education. He
spent some time on the elks, coyotes,
beaver, and the osprey. Naturalists
through their study, have found a
large amount of intelligence and rea-soning
on the part of most animals.
Mr. Martindale's lecture was inter-esting;
it was humorous; it was edu-cational.
The audience as a whole
seemed to enjoy every minute of the
two hours and would gladly have stay-ed
longer. Aberdeen Boy Scouts
were special guests.
College Radio News
There has been a permanent All-
College program set for Sunday at 12
noon over KABR. This Sunday's pro-gram,
opened by the Speech Depart-ment,
will present Phyllis Roberts in
her oration, "One and Inseparable"
and George Hart in his oration
"Strangers."
Next Wednesday, at the regular
college hour, 3:15. the all-College play-ers
present the "School for Scandal";
the following Wednesday, March 6,
the college will give a mountaineer
play with Ed. Juell, Franklin Kohl,
and Eileen Gutz reading the parts.
Last Wednesday's program was by
Jane Feeley and Lyle Weishaar in
"Memory Lane".
Sunday, February 9, the weekly S.
D. E. A. program over KABR was
sponsored by R. R. Deimer of the
local high school and E. K. Baillie,
who sang several solos.
GEORGE HART
NORTHERN
SPEARFISH BOWS
TO NSTC WOLVES
SCORE IS 40 TO 38
Spearfish Team Had Three
Aberdeen Men ; Local
Team Had Two Spearfish
Men ; Stahl and Babcock
Star for Locals
The Northern Wolves won their
first home game of the season and the
second game of the conference when
they stayed off the rally of the Spear-fish
Yellowjackets to win 40 to 38.
Early in the last quarter the Yellow-jackets
spurted to swamp the Wolves
but their quest was in vain. While
the Wolves had a large lead in the
first of the game they squeezed
through with a two-point margin.
The game was slow in the begin-ning,
but as usual the end was of the
fashion that has been witnessed at
Spafford in the preceding games. The
Wolves took a big lead, 22 to 13, at
the end of the initial period. In the
second half Northern kept on piling
up a big lead of 33 to 18 when Spear-fish
thought that it was enough and
started their rally and kept whittling
at the lead until the last few minutes
of play when they were within six
points of the Wolves' lead. At the
end of the game the Yellowjackets
were bombarding at their basket, but
none of the attempts were successful.
It was the fifth set-back of the week
')f their "Suicide Trip".
The game had many local interests
as two of the players came from
Spearfish, John Scheidt and Ralph
Keene. Also three Aberdeen boys
were on the Spearfish team, Art Len-hart,
a last years Frosh star; Joe
Biegler and Bert Dent, both team-mates
of Lenhart's in High School.
For Northern, the players to get
in the lime light were Johnny Stahl
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Northern State Teachers College
VOLUME XXXIII ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, FEBRUARY 21, 1935 NUMBER 18
GEBBIE AND HART
DEBATE VIKINGS
AT STATE CAPITOL
Two Northern debaters, Con Gebbie
and George Hart, both of Pierre, are
leaving this afternoon for the S. D.
capital where they will join a picked
debate squad from Augustana for an
exhibition debate before a joint ses-sion
of both houses of the legislature
in the Senate Chamber, Friday even-ing.
In addition to the novelty of the de-bate
in the Senate Chamber before the
law-makers of the state, the meeting
with Augustana will bring together
three Pierre high school graduates
who debated together at Eastern
State Teachers College the past two
years, Johnston Jeffries of Augustana,
Hart and Gebbie of Northern.
The crack squad which Prof. Carl-son
of the Sioux Falls College has
chosen to uphold the negative at
Pierre is one of the strongest devel-oped
at Augustana in recent years.
Francis Smith, a junior, was on the
team which last year was runner-up
in the national contests at Lexington,
Ky. Johnston Jeffries, senior, in ad-dition
to previous state honors, re-cently
won the state extemporaneous
contest at Springfield.
Northern's representatives, who will
argue the affirmative side of the ques-tion
at Pierre, have won a large per-centage
of their debates in contests
held at Mitchell and at Moorhead,
Minn., this year. The two men will
return to the Northern campus for a
day's rest after the Senate exhibition
in preparation for the trip to St. Paul
where over a hundred schools are en-tered
in the largest Pi Kappa Delta
debate tournament in the Northwest.
Penny Carnival
Held Friday Night
Friday night, February 2'2, is the
date for the big Penny Carnival in
Spafford Gym. The committees in
charge are anticipating a large crowd
and plans are being made accordingly.
The entire gym will be filled with
booths of every sort; a great variety
of entertainment will be presented.
Marie Bruening is in charge of all
the committees. Edythe Holden is in
charge of the game of darts and bas-ketball;
the "odditorium" and refresh-ments
are being planned by Helen
Branson, bingo, a popular game, will
be presented by Virginia Reese; Alice
Clute has charge of the dance and
the game of horseshoe; fishpond, Julia
McGovern; "lovely blow" and the ar-cade,
Beatrice Moyer; guessing game
and fortune telling, Lola Triggs; Ruth
Jentz, floor show. Everything will be
priced at one cent. The dance will be
in the form of a bowery and a penny
will be charged for each dance.
The floor show will consist of the
"Suicide Squad". Unique perform-ances
will be given by - the members.
Militaristic marching in its most mod-ern
style and ultra-modern costumes
are to set the pace for the evening
dance. Danish gymnastics and clog-ging
will also be included in the pro-gram.
The public is cordially invited to
attend. A special invitation is extend-ed
by the W. A. A. to the high school
students. Grade students will also
find many things of interest. Bring
your friends and your pennies!
Dr. Lee Byrne Goes
To Oklahoma City U.
Dr. Lee Byrne, former head of the
Northern State Teachers College edu-cation
department, has recently re-ceived
an appointment as head of the
department of education at the Okla-homa
City University at Oklahoma
City.
Mrs. Byrne, who has been at her
home in Austin, Texas, since before
Christmas, joined her husband at Ok-lahoma
City. Dr. Byrne since leav-ing
here has been engaged in study
and research at the University of
Chicago.
Music Pupil Honored
Maurice Dobbins, formerly of Aber-deen
and member of the College Sym-phony
Orchestra, has achieved many
honors with the Wheaton College
Men's Glee Club at Wheaton, Illinois.
He has been appointed violin soloist
with the glee club. He also plays in
the Wheaton College Symphony Or-chestra
and the Civic Symphony Or-chestra
of Chicago. During the sum-mer
he will travel with the Wheaton
College Quintet and will be featured
as violin soloist. While in Aberdeen,
he was a pupil of Prof. H. E. Goodsell.
Rudolph Kraushaar, state educa-tion
director, was a visit-or at North-ern
on Saturday.
Arts and Open-House
Program Has Big Crowd
EXHIBITS "BEST EVER"
Symphonia Music Club Spon-sors
Dance, Cards and Re-freshments
; Gymnasium
Crowded
The program of the Arts and Open-
House was probably the most success-ful
of these annual entertainments.
This delightful program was spon-sored
by the Music Department, Fine
Arts, Industrial Arts, Speech and
English.
The opening session was held in the
auditorium. The following numbers
were presented: violin solos by Leo-pold
Rutter, Merritt Johnson, accom-panist;
piano solos, Merritt Johnson;
vocal solos, John Lukken, Grace Mc-
Arthur, accompanist; string quartette,
Leopold Rutter, Carol Van Walker,
Franklin Mitchell, Maynard Buck;
two-piano number, Grace McArthur
and Edna Mae Olson; original poems,
J. C. Lindberg; reading, Earl R.
James. For the last number a special
stage setting was used devised by
Nels Johns-on.
The exhibits by the various depart-ments
were everything that had been
promised. Unquestionably the exhib-its
by the Fine nArts and Industrial
Arts departments were the finest that
have ever been shown. The rooms
were crowded with visitors during
most of the evening.
The third part -of the program was
the Valentine dance, cards and re-freshments
sponsored by the Sym-phonia
Music Club. Music was fur-nished
by "The Northerners" and re-freshments
were served during the
evening. The Rutters, Lindbergs,
Baillies, Merritt and Nels Johnsons,
and Mr. Lukken were chaperons for
the affair. To Prof. John Lukken,
who was in general charge of the
evening, many thanks are due for a
delightful evening of entertainment.
Lawrence Goes East
President Lawrence left last Tues-day
for Atlantic City where he will
attend the mid-winter meeting of the
N. E. A. He expects to be gone ten
days or two weeks. While in the East
he will visit in Washington and see
Congress in action and he also ex-pects
to visit his son, John, at New
Haven, Conn.
The Pasque Board
Reports Progress
Excitement is running high in the
Publicity Office. With the first sec-tion
of 32 pages now in the hands of
the printer and the second section set
up and ready to go to press, the
Pasque Board feels that its work is
nearing completion. Harold Ihde, ed-itor-
in-chief of this year's book, Bur-ton
Tiffany in charge of popularity,
Margarette Leap who has nearly com-pleted
her section, organizations, as
well as all the members of the Pasque
Board have been working diligently
the past few months. Amy McPhee
has handed in her section on classes,
.one of the most important parts of
the Pasque, and the two athletic divis-ions,
under the direction of Harold
Tiemens and Alice Clute, are fast be-ing
completed. The whole school
awaits the issuance of the Pasque in
May.
OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT SAYS
BY JOE MARSHALL
An Interview With L. Evan Knudsen, Formerly of Canton, S. D.
Things I never knew till now—(with apologies to Winchel).
The biggest question many congressional figures decide is how they'll
have their eggs (perhaps not unlike legislation) scrambled.
We have as yet no edifice in the Capitol Statuary Hall symbolic of S. D.
I wonder if statemen are trying to decide between Deadwood Dick and Verne
Sankey.
That there are 1200 taxi cabs and 600 street cars in the district. (Inci-dentally,
on rainy days they're as hard to find as they are in Ducksberry).
It isn't difficult to get a congressman to speak at a dinner here; remem-ber
how we used to advertise their coming to our banquets and invariably
they'd never make their appearance.
The New House Office Building stands on the site of Thomas Jefferson's
Home.
That certain S. D. publications have rumored the Hon. Fred Hildebrandt's
probable candidacy for the senate.
"There's many a good tune in an old violin"—Bulow's speech on the
World Court is still being hummed.
The younger a congressman is the more dignified you're sure to find
him (give us more of them in the 50's).
We won't expect much from the House this week (Feb. 10-16) as they're
adjourning over from Monday to Friday.
Editor's Note: Mr. Knudsen is Assistant Secretary to the Majority Whip
in the Capitol. Another Favorite son making good.