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Accompanied by Coach Harkness as chaperone, the two debate squads
pictured above will represent Northern's delegation to the bi-ennial Pi
Kappa Delta tournament, held this year at Lexington, Kentucky, April
1 to 6.
Kappa Delta Pi Has
Initiation Banquet
SIX INITIATES ADMITTED
Miss Williams Is Hostess To Group; Misses Durland and
Schmidt Give Reports
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON, D. C.
BY JOE MARSHALL
The people of Massachusetts will be happy again, because the bill passed
congress to bring Old Ironsides back to her home in Charlestown, Massa-chusetts,
after her trip to the Pacific.
Rep. Kleberg of Texas has a 30-mile driveway to his home. He owns a
county which has but one road and that leads to his home.
The fishing licenses in Maryland are $15.00 so that sport is now out of
reach of most people.
The C. W. A. here is a criteria that better times are returning to the
east, as private industry is using most of the relief workers now.
The Senate and Administration are beginning to lock horns on a number
of issues lately.
According to Emily Post the proper way to address an envelope to Presi-dent
Roosevelt is:
To The President
The White House
The President's grandson, "Bussie" Dahl, has a case of measles, which
are now an epidemic here.
Checking over the comparative ages of representatives and senators one
finds the average is higher for representatives.
As the object of Lindberg's Spirit of St. Louis is the first thing that
draws your attention in the Smithonian Institute, so the word TOLERANCE
hits you between the eyes on entering the Congressional Library. It is in
large gold block letters.
The reading of Schopenhauer's "Studies In Pessimism" gives one a new
slant on this abstract word.
The Exponent
Northern State Teachers College
VOLUME XXXII
ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, MARCH 29, 1931
NUMBER 23
COMMUNITY PROGRAM Style Show Is Great Attraction
DRAWS FULL HOUSE
TOSTLEBE IN CHARGE
Eight Demonstration Units
Participate ; Pres. Law-rence
Gives Address of
Welcome
A fine Demonstration School Com-munity
Program, sponsored by the
Rural Department, was held in the
College Auditorium last Thursday
night at eight o'clock. This well-ar-ranged
and interesting program was
immensely enjoyed by a capacity
house, with Prof. Tostlebe in general
charge.
The program opened with an es-pecially
appropriate address of wel-come
by President Lawrence, after
which a group of varied musical num-bers
were well presented by the Riv-erside
orchestra, directed by Leroy
Samelson and accompanied by Mr. C.
Shorley.
A reading, "Mrs. Casey at the
Bridge Party", was given by Mrs. Phil
Seaman amid a series of chuckling
and not infrequent outbursts of laugh-ter
from the audience. Westport was
represented by an instrumental trio,
composed of Cecilia Schubert, Lue
Schubert and Eleanor Hanson.
A one-act play, "A Bargin is a Bar-gin",
under the direction of Sadie Ne-ville
Berg was Sunnyside's contribu-tion
to the program. The cast was as
follows: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hanson,
Mrs. Lester Chandler, Mrs. A. C. Yo-der,
Mr. Anthony Blaudem, and Balser
Shoemaker.
A male quartet from Parkway, un-der
the leadership of Irwin Palmer,
who also acted as accompanist, gave
a number of snappy selections. The
personnel of the quartet included Her-man
Hines, Lloyd Nutt, Emery Mur-ray,
and George Evans.
The Plainview Community was re-presented
by Mr. Ortley, who gave an
enlightening talk on the "Planned Ag-riculture."
The chorus from 1VIercier Township,
under the direction of Mrs. Pat Feeley
gave four types of negro composi-tions—
the folk song, the spiritual, lul-laby,
and jazz.
The last number on the program
was a fine group of orchestral num-bers
under the direction of Dr. Van
Walker and accompanied by Ethel
Eastman. "The Glow Worm", which
was rendered by the orchestra and ac-companied
by the Wright Chorus, was
featured by six little girls, who took
the roles of glow worms.
Rowena Shifflett
N. S. T. C. Instructor
A former student and graduate of
the N. S. T. C. is seen around the
campus this quarter, only now she is
a teacher. We refer to Miss Rowena
Shifflett who is teaching three classes
in English and likes it. She likes both
the students and the atmosphere.
She obtained her B. S. degree here
in 1931, majoring in English. As a
student she was president of the Sig-ma
Tau Delta, member of the English
Club and of Kappa Delta Pi. She was
joint winner of the Lightner prize giv-en
for use of good English in 1931.
She has been teaching English the
past two years in the Bristol High
School and has had four years of
teaching experience.
530 Students Enrolled
Five hundred and thirty students
are enrolled this quarter, according
to a report obtained from Miss Mabel
Espelien, Registrar. Among these
are twenty-nine new students. The
enrollment of the freshman class is
276; sophomore class, 132; junor class,
54; senior class, 58; and special stud-ents,
10. There are 187 boys and 343
girls as the enrollment now stands.
COMING EVENTS
March 30 Good Friday, holiday
Apr. 1 Easter Sunday
Apr. 5-6 Music Contest
Apr. 7 Ind. Arts dance
Apr. 13 Bgnd Concert
Apr. 14 Music Program
Apr. 16 Rhode Opera Co.
Apr. 19 Rutter violin recital
Apr. 20-21 One-Act Play tourney
Apr. 26. K. VanWalker recital
May 5 Fairyland
May 19 Junior-Senior Prom
The Omicron Chapter of Kappa Del-ta
Pi held its initiation banquet at
the home of Miss Anna Holum, 817
South Kline Street, on Tuesday even-ing,
March 20, with Miss Lida Wil-liams,
Chapter Counselor, as hostess.
A delicious two-course dinner was
served to the thirty-three members
present.
The program of the evening was of
unusual interest. The guest speaker,
Miss Edna Durland, gave her impres-sions
of the Cleveland meeting of the
Department of Superintendents, A. C.
E., and Progressive Education ses-sions
which she attended last month.
The delegate from the Omicron Chap-ter,
Miss Bernardyne Schmidt, report-ed
on the National Kappa Delta Pi
Convention which took place in Cleve-land
at the same time.
A business meeting followed the
program. It was unanimously decid-ed
by the alumni members to create
a fund which will enable the chapter
to resume its practice of selecting an-
One-Act Opera
Given This Spring
Plans are under way for the pre-sentation
of "Cavalleria Rusticana"
(Rustic Chivalry) on May 25. The
performance will be directed by Prof.
John Lukken and will include three
soloists from the Twin City Opera
Company besides the N. S. T. C. chor-us
and orchestra, comprising a cast
of 150 persons. This one-act opera
was written by the Italian composer
Mascagni and first performed in May
1890. Because of its colorful music
it is one of the most popular music
dramas performed.
Student Council Meets
The Student Council met Friday
morning, March 23, during assembly
period to discuss the reapportionment
of honor points given for offices held
in classes, clubs, and honorary frater-nities
on the campus. A motion was
also carried to include the offices of
Princess Pat and Prince Mike among
the honorary offices such as that of
Gypsy Queen and Gypsy Marshal. An-other
meeting is to be held on March
31, at assembly period in the Student
Council Room.
nually the outstanding sophomore for
honorary membership into the chap-ter.
This fund may also be drawn
upon to prevent the loss of worthy
prospective members who are finan-cially
unable to pay the required fee
at the time of initiation.
The initiates attending the banquet
were Dr. E. A. Bixler, Dr. M. E. Nug-ent,
Hazel Duryee, Rose Frothinger,
Susie Gross, and Katherine Van Walk-er.
Miss Durland was a guest of the
evening.
Other members present included
Misses Amanda Clausen, Constance
Conner, Dorothy Hooper, Keo King,
Edna May Olson, Bernice Remde, Es-ther
Robertson, Bertha Ronne, Clara
Rynder, Bernardyne Schmidt, Olga
Seultz, Elsie Thiel, Lida Williams,
and Margaret Seymour; Mesdames
Harriet Popowski, Lulu Potter, Merle
Trickey, Bernice Webb, and Lorna
Smith; and Messrs. A. H. Seymour,
L. H. Spencer, Carroll P. Stinson, V.
H. Culp, Sam Harding, Ivan Smith,
and Norval Strachan,
President Lawrence
Is DeMolay Speaker
President Lawrence was the main
speaker at the DeMolay Mother-Son
banquet, held last week. About sixty
people attended the event.
Burton Tffiany, Master Counselor,
acted as toastmaster and announced
the following program: C. W. Hager,
Dad of the chapter, in a short talk to
the mothers of the DeMolays; Rhea
Robertson in several tap dancing
acts; and Elmer Reese in a short talk
on the lodge emblem; Dr. Lawrence,
address.
Dr. Wilhite Speaks
Dr. F. W. Wilhite, superintendent
of the Feeble Minded School at Red-field,
gave a very interesting talk at
assembly, Thursday, about the un-fortunates
in the Redfield institution.
His talk centered around three main
points, "What is feeble-mindedness ?"
"What does the care of these malad-justed
people cost the government ?"
and "What are the difficulties that we,
as teachers, will encounter in the
Public Schools ?"
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DEBATE TEAMS LEAVE
FOR NATIONAL MEET
Rose Frothinger, Elizabeth Douglas,
Virgil Parker and Steven Keane, ac-companied
by Mr. P. J. Harkness the
debate instructor, will leave Thursday
morning for Lexington, Kentucky,
where they will compete with some
two hundred other colleges and uni-versities
for national forensic honors.
The tourney will open officially
April 2 and close on the evening of
April 6. It includes not only debate,
but oratory, extemporaneous and af-ter-
dinner speaking as well. Mr. Keane
will represent Northern in men's ora_
tory and Miss Frothinger in women's
oratory. Mr. Parker and Miss Doug-las
will compete in the men's and wo-men's
division respectively of the ex-tempore
contest. With the men team-ing
together and the women as part-ners,
these two teams will enter the
debate tournament in addition to the
above mentioned activities.
The local contestants will return on
April 10. Good luck, ye warriors of
the rostrum"!
WEATHER CHART MADE
FOR QUARTER CENTURY
GALLETT GIVES FACTS
Prof. and Mrs. Hutter Ana-lyze
Weather Observations
for Aberdeen and Vicinity
Prof. and Mrs. Hutter, after getting
considerable data from D. G. Gallett,
local weather man, have worked out a
climatic chart which shows the distri-bution
of rain and snow and the dif-ferent
temperature readings through-out
a period of years, extending from
1911 to 1933. In their charts, Prof.
and Mrs. Hutter have registered the
rainfall and snow fall and the average
temperature of each month for each
of tthhee years during that period of
According to Prof. Hutter, most of
the rain comes in April, May and
June, and its source is from the Gulf
of Mexico. Most of our rainfall comes
in the form of the thunder shower
type when the vapor in the air con-denses
and falls, reviving "good old
mother earth".
In the last 22 years the most rain
that we received in any one month
came in June, 1925, when the clouds
opened and sent 11 inches of rainfall
on these Dakota plains. That was
over 1-3 of the moisture recevied that
year. The rainiest year for Aberdeen
was 1915 when 38.1 inches fell. In
1933 the prairies suffered severely
when we received only 12.6 inches of
rain. The average rainfall from 1911
through 1933 is 23.54 inches.
During the winter of 1916-17 there
were 71 1/2 inches of snow while in
1920-21 there were only 17% inches.
June 1933 was the hottest month of
any year with an average of 79 de-grees,
while January, 1912, was the
coldest as the average was 51 degrees
below zero.
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W. S. G. A. IS SPONSOR
Many Students Model; City
Merchants Coo p e r a t e;
Miss Whitney In Charge
The W. S. G. A. annual Style Show
was presented last Monday evening
in the auditorium. The stage set sug-gested
a hotel lobby. Misses Virginia
Slater and Barbara Bixler served as
hellhops; Burton Tiffany as desk
clerk; Martin Swensen as taxi man;
and Eileen Gutz as elevator girl. Cos-tumes
for morning and sport, street
and afternoon, and dinner and even-ing
for both young men and women
were modeled by the students.
Miss Josephine Brainard, president
of the W. S. G. A., welcomed those in
attendance gnd expressed the appreci-ation
of the W. S. G. A. to the stud-ents
and merchants who participated.
Miss Faye Whitney, vice-president
of the W. S. G. A., was general chair-man;
Elizabeth Bantz, assistant chair-man;
Marjorie Thomas, chairman of
the properties committee assisted by
Gladys Dixon and Harold Wray; Ruth
Mavick, advertising. Nels Johnson
and Earl James had charge of the
stage with E. Kenneth Baillie direct-or.
The music throughout the show
was rendered by Helen Hochgraber
and the Women's Stringed Quartet.
Ushers for the evening included Vi-vian
Rasmussen, Beatrice McLaugh-lin,
Dorothy Dickie, Ruth Lackness,
Heloise Wilmsen, Gayle Gorder, Es-ther
Hanson and Marie Bruening.
This annual event was produced with
the cooperation of the following city
merchants: Sudow's, The Paris, Fein-stein's,
New York Store, J. C. Penney
Co., Sears Roebuck and Co., The Band
Box, Calmenson's, Olwin-Angell Co.,
The Hollywood Shop, Olander Cloth-ing
Co., and Miller's Clothing Com-pany.
The following were models in morn-ing
and sport: Ella Davies, Myrtle
Rasmussen, Emily Peters, Helen Fro-thinger,
Geraldine Cook, Helen Gli-derian,
Eleanor Mallay, Florence Sol-berg,
Mona Jensen, Merle McLaugh-lin,
Mary Ellen Lyons, Virginia Reese,
Mary Leone Smith, Alvina Harmel,
Donald Moe, Bill Miller, John Bar-stow,
Malcolm Solberg, Lee Liston,
Grant Hosterman, Harold Dufioth,
Alex Mock, Edward Schneider, Doro-thy
Mead, Elizabeth Douglas, Vera
Cole, Frances Birdseye.
Street and Afternoon: Margaret
Schultz, Katharine Henry, Dorothy
Reeves, Phyllis Hohler, Phyllis Avery,
Helen Bonde, Ruth Hendriksen, Aud-rey
Coulter, Mildred Olson, Bernadyne
Hanson, Kay Becker, Vesta Hanson,
Dick Walker, Bill Bruner, Cal Acker-man,
Griffith Buller, Bob Hill, Merle
Sloan, Don Walker, Burr Markham,
Dorothy Joy, Mary Ellen Bantz, Rose
Brussel, Alta Hyerdahl.
Dinner and Evening: Katharine
Smith, Mary Eloise Barstow, Wanda
Avery, Margaret Zech, Angela Haire,
Roberta Busse, Leone Blethen, Ruth
Van Slyke, Evelyn Gould, Elizabeth
Lyons, Alice Clute, Juliet Kaarbo,
Kenneth Karrigan, Lynn Zech, John
Stahl, Ted Martz, John Barstow, El-dor
Hafnor, James White, Leland
Gorder, Marjory McClure, Eileen
Stoner, Edith Holden.
Mr. Jordan spoke to the McPherson
Chapter of the D. A. R., Monday af-ternoon.
His subject was "The Presi-dent's
Recovery Program."
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