The Exponent, 1936-10-15

              Northern Wolves Defeat Memorial Assembly
Sioux Falls Braves 19 - 0 Held For Dr. Seymour
A Dr. A. H. Seymour Memorial as-sembly
was held last Tuesday morn-ing
during the regular assembly per-iod
participated in by both faculty
and the students. President Lawrence
in his eulogy to Dr. Seymour said:
"His was a noble life. Nothing that I
can say will add to it." The Presi-dent
further said Dr. Seymour was a
modest, humble man who always took
he back seat, never forwarded his
opinions, nor was given to show. His
democratic spirit showed in his sim-pleness
of life and that he exemplified
the Rotarian motto, "Service above
Self."
A male octet composed of five fac-ulty
men and three students sang the
song, "Tell Me the Old Old Story."
Phyllis Roberts in a speech on Mr.
Seymour from the student's viewpoint
in classes said; "Seymour was more
than a mechanical device that impart-ed
knowledge. He humanized his-tory."
She quoted Dr. Seymour as
having said; "History is as easy as
eating pie when you're hungry." And
3,000 students that have known Dr.
Seymour have declared him a master
teacher.
Several poems which included
"Blindness" and "Satisfaction" writ-ten
by Dr. Seymour were read by Ed-na
Jensen. Professor Murphy ex-plained
the nature and the purpose of
the Doctor Seymour Memorial in
which all persons and organizations
interested may participate. Because
the close friends and associates of Dr.
Seymour feel that he would want it
so the memorial is to be a student loan
fund enabling students to continue
their college work and to permit oth-ers
to go to college.
The male octet concluded the as-sembly
with the selection "Sundown."
MEMORIAL FUND FOR
SEYMOUR IS PLANNED
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE
Money Will Be Used To Assist Wor-thy
Students Get An Education.
In order to perpetuate the memory
of Doctor A. H. Seymomur, who for
twenty-three years was a member of
the Northern faculty, steps are being
taken to raise money for what will be
called the Seymour Memorial Fund.
The purpose of this fund will be to
assist worthy students in getting an
education. Sums will be loaned to
such students at a small per cent of
interest, the sum to be returned to the
fund as soon as the student secures a
permanent job.
To handle this fund President Law-rence
recently appointed a faculty
committee with Professor J. L. Mur-phy,
chairman, and Roderick Ross,
treasurer.
Many individuals and organizations
have expressed the wish to contribute
to such a fund. It is the desire of the
committee that a large number of peo-ple,
students, alumni, and friends
should contribute to this Memorial
Fund; hence any contribution, large
or small, will be acceptable. Such
contributions may be sent directly to
the chairman or the treasurer. Other
members of the committee are Mr.
Gerber, Mr. Bersagel, Mrs. Garvin,
and Miss Welsh.
MEMBERS FOR PASQUE
BOARD ARE CHOSEN
Members of the Pasque Bard were
chosen at elections last week. Those
from the Junior class are Owen Camp.
bell, Ernie Walz, Patricia Clinton,
William Ochs, Marie Chamberlain.
From the Senior class are Vera Hav-en,
Phyllis Avery, William Elliott, Os-car
Goering, and Leland Lay.
Every year the slogan of the Pasque
Board is a "Bigger and Better An-nual."
Last year the yearbook con-tained
192 pages. This year, attempt
will be made to make it 200 pages or
more.
The making of the Pasque is a
whole year's job, with a great respon-sibility
placed on each member of the
board. They will need the coopera-tion
of both students and faculty. It is
expected that the art editor will be
chosen outside the regular board. Oth-er
students will be called upon to as-sist
also. The group will organize
and start work this week.
H. 0. Ashton
FACULTY CHANCES
MADE BY REGENTS
MEN'S DORM APPROVED
Prof. Murphy Made Head of Social
Science Department; Prof. Ashton
Shifted; Further Announcements
Promised
Announcement has been made by
Dr. C. G. Lawrence that confirmation
had been gained from the Board of
Regents of the appointment of Prof.
John L. Murphy as head of the Social
Science Department to replace Dr. A.
H. Seymour, and of the transfer of
Prof. Howard 0. Ashton from the Eng-lish
to the Social Science Department.
Mr. Murphy will continue in his cap-acity
as Professor of History. Mr.
Ashton will become Associate Profes-sor
of Political Science. Both have
their Bachelor and Master of Arts de-grees.
The shift in the local faculty came
with the death of Dr. Seymour, who
had served as vice-president of the
college, Head of the Social Science
Department, and Professor of History
and Social Science. It is expected that
announcement of the new vice-presi-dent,
and an additional instructor to
fill Mr. Ashton's place in the English
Department, will be made shortly.
The Regents met at Northern dur-ing
the Gypsy Day celebration. All
members were present, including Pre-sident
John E. Peart, Flandreau; Ed-ward
Prchal, Burke; H. N. Nissen, of
Yankton; W. S. Dolan, Milbank, and
Will A. Wells, Webster. The Regents
expressed their pleasure at the organ-ization
of the N. S. T. C. Development
Association, and approved the tenta-tive
program of that body toward the
furtherance of the erection of a men's
dormitory as a P. W. A. project.
They likewise expressed their ap-proval
of the application for W. P. A.
funds with which to hard-surface the
campus driveways.
Wives, of all members of the Board
of Regents were present for the Gyp-sy
Day festivities with the exception
of Mrs. W. S. Dolan.
Y.W.C.A. WORKER
VISITS NORTHERN
Miss Belle Ingles, from the Service
Division of the Y. W. C. A National
Board, has been in Aberdeen visiting
the local organizations, from October
10 to 14. During that time she visit-ed
the Aberdeen organization mainly,
but spent one afternoon with the cam-pus
Y.W.C.A. Her purpose in coming
here has been mainly that of helping
with membership drives, explaining
the interests of the Y. W. C. A. as they
are expressed throughout the country,
and emphasising the present trends in
that type of work.
BAILLIE INVITED
TO DISPLAY SCENE
Professor Baillie has been invited
by the Studio Guild of New York City
to send in one of his paintings which
will be used in some display window
along Fifth Avenue to help make at-tractive
the merchandise displayed.
For the theme and the title of his pic-ture,
Mr. Baillie has chosen "Desert
Scene." The theme was inspired by
some of the country through which
Mr. Baillie passed on his trip to the
West Coast last summer. It will
probably be used to decorate a window
displaying garments suitable for trav-el.
SECOND CONFERENCE
VICTORY
Pierce Is Local Star; Entire Team
Gives Promise of Conference Hon-ors
isplaying spirit, drive, and offen-sive
punch, a hard-charging, dauntless
pack of Wolvos went to work on the
Sioux Falls college Braves in Gypsy
Day's feature attraction at Johnson
Field, Saturday, with the result • that
Northern's gridiron juggernaut rolled
up its fourth straight triumph in the
current campaign. C,-
After ending out two successive vic-tories
over Wayne Normal and the
School of Mines by dint of exceptional
defensive play, the Wolves were dubb-ed
as a fine defensive club almost com-pletely
lacking in offensive ability.
But Pierce and the gang changed that
idea with a vengeance as they pound-ed
out over 350 yards from scrimmage,
and close to another 100 from passing
in,the festive tilt.
e brilliant display put on by
Pierce, sensational junior halfback
from Ipswich, was easily the highlight
of the day's play. Pierce roamed the
field like a vagabond Gypsy who knew
no camping place, but had to be ever
on the move toward enemy territory.
Time and again he ripped through the
Braves' staunch line for long gains
that thrilled the large crowd. To top
off his day's play, Pierce made two
sparkling touchdown jaunts of 25 and
47 yards, and passed to Connie Kelle-her
to set the stage for a scoring
plunge by Vince Adelman. It was far
and away the finest individual permor-mance
seen en Johnson Field this
year, and in many another year.
Pierce was at his best, playing the
finest game of his career. He stamp-ed
himself as one of South Dak ta's
tstanding ball luggers of 193
And Pierce was not the only Wolf
w o was out there playing football for
all he was worth. he was aided by
invaluable blocking on several occa-sions,
and when he was not in there
to take charge of, the ball toting him-self,
Boots Kemnitz was around to
raise havoc with the Sioux Falls de-fense.
Kemnitz proved himself to be
shifty, ,tiive, and a fine open field
runner.-
Wilford Pape, performing the block-ing
duties from a right-halfback poSi-tion,
had two or three would-be Brave
tacklers draped over his shoulders and
back on every play, as he paved the
way for several long jaunts. Adel-man
at fullback demonstrated that he
is a ball-carries of the first water in
his new backfield role.
In the line Connie Kelleher and Art
Lenhart at the end posts were both
outstanding. Lenhart displayed splen-did
all-around ability, with Kelleher
showing wizardry particularly on of-fense,
where his pass receiving and
ball handling was phenomenal. The
rest of the line also performed yeo-man
service, turning back the Sioux
Falls forwards constantly.
Sioux Falls threatened after the o-pening
kickoff, but from that point
the tide of battle was always in favor
of the Wolves. They racked up their
first tally in the opening half, to lead
7-0 at the intermission. A touchdown
was added in each of the final two
stanza's. Numerous other scoring
chances were missed, when Sioux Falls
would brace in the shadow of her own
goal, after a sustained N. S. T. C.
march.
The victory for the Wolves served
notice to the rest of the South Dakota
Conference that the local pack aren't
mere figurheads in this year's cham-pionship
chase. It marked the second
conference win for Northern, and
gave promise of things to come. The
Wolves must now be considered a dis-tinct
threat in anybody's figuring.
PEP FEST HELD
The eve of Gypsy Day was still and
cold; stars shone brightly overhead, a
perfect setting for the impressive
ceremony of burning the giant "N",
which traditionally precedes homecom-ing.
Les Hodson, Maurice Mathieu,
and Thurlo Tollefson creditably in-spired
the assembled students to a
high degree of excitement before be-ginning
the snake dance which car-ried
the cheering throng down Main
street and through the business dis-trict
before assembly at the postoffice
steps for a few final cheers. This an-nual
pep-fest was held after the Kryl
concert.
October 23—Yankton College f. b.,
night
October 30—Y.M.-Y.W. Hallowe'en
party
November 2—Wm. Bale, 1. c.,
4:00 P. M.
November 6—W. S. G. A. Kid
Party, 8:15
The Exponent
Northern State Teachers College
VOLUME XXXV
ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, OCTOBER 15, 1936
NUMBER 4
1936 Gypsy Day Is Northern's Greatest Homecoming
Gypsies Swarm Campus
J. L. Murphy
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
GIVES GREAT CONCERT
AUDIENCE IS THRILLED
Demand For Numerous Encores Left
No Doubt As To The Popularity Of
Bohumir Kryl, Noted Director
One of the finest and most artistic
musical programs recently offered in
Aberdeen was given at the Spafford
Hall Gymnasium last Friday evening,
by the world-famous, Kryl Symphony
Orchestra. Not only did Bohumir Kryl
display his famous conducting in an
outstanding manner, he also awed ev-eryone
present with his prestige as a
cornetist. His cornet solo, Fantasia,
"Carnical de Venice," called for an en-core.
Featured with the Orchestra
was Miss Margery Maxwell, nationally
famous soprano soloist who sang "De-puis
le Jour" from "Louisa." She al-so
responded with an encore. Cornelia
Bona, harpist, favored the audience
with "Introduction et Allegro" which
was very artistically rendered and fol-lowed
by an encore.
The program opened with an over-ture,
"The Bartered Bride" by Bed-rich-
Smetana. The symphonic suite,
"Scheherazade," by Rimsky-Korsakoff
followed and filled the audience with
awe and delight. A concert waltz,
"Tales from Vienna Woods," by Jo-hann
Strauss, and symphony, op. 5,
"From the New World" by Anton
Dvorak followed after an intermission.
The program came to a close with
"Natchez on the Hill." The orchestra
very kindly responded with several
encore numbers.
COLLEGE BAND
The College Band is composed of
the following: piccalo—Doris Hoff-man;
first clarinets—Willard Bartlett,
Harold Stokes, Mary Gene Joberson;
second clarinets—William McClintock,
Ilene Miller; third clarinets—Sylvia
Betz, Vernon Ewald, Cleland Miller;
soprano saxophone—Lucille Wentz-loff
; tenor saxophone—Gertrude Paut-sch;
coronets—James White, Irwin
Hamilton, Ralph Carlson, Margaret
Marz, Maynard Debnert, Kenneth
Sauck, Lucille Gross, Jack Kusleman,
Don Cote, Lawrence Price; altos—
Donald Johnson, Mrs. Roderick Ross,
Owen Fisher, Iola Johnson, Gwen-dolyn
Johnson, Hazel Wikholm; bari-tones—
Milton Nugent, Harold Grote-beck;
trombones, Eileen Enteness, Vir-ginia
Kelton, Wendell Wikholm; bass
Horns—Melvin Jensen, Roderick Ross;
snare drums—Corlis Jones, Philip
Banks; bass drums—Jolin Rodine and
Edith Butterfield.
HULTGREN TO SING
WITH ORCHESTRA
At the opening concert of the Aber-deen
Symphony Orchestra, November
17, students and faculty members of
N. S. T. C. will have the pleasure of
hearing vocal selections with the or-chestra
by George G. Hultgren, teach-er
of voice in the McPhail School of
Music, Minneapolis, Minn.
Mr. Hultgren is reputed to be one
of the greatest music teachers. The
a capella choir directed by him won
first place in the national music con-test
held in Chicago last summer.
Those who heard Mr. Hultgren when
he sang here last year are eagerly a-waiting
the coming event and those
who have yet to hear him should not
miss the opportunity.
Thrilling Events; Colorful Coronation;
Mile-long Parade; Massed Band
Concert; Great Football Victory;
Hilarious Vaudeville; Record-breaking
Dance
/12‘ beautiful autumn day greeted al-umni
and students as they gathered
on the campus for the twenty-first
homecoming festivities of the North-ern
gypsy clan.
Beautiful Queen Marie reigned su-preme
over her gaily-decked clan, ably
assisted by Marshal Walt Gully. The
Queen's attendants were Mary Ellen
Bantz, Edna Jensen, John Sahl, Herb
B bcock, and Bill Elliott:
If any one thing could add impetus
to the festive revelry of Gypsy Day,
it was the Wolves' smashing 19-0 vic-tory
over the Sioux Falls Braves.
As a fitting climax to a glamorous
day of festivity, approximately 800
persons attended the dance, featuring
the nationally famous Allyn Cassel
dance band. With the last dying
strains of their swing rhythm, Gypsy
Day for 1936 passed into history as
Northern's greatest homecoming.
he first event of real significance
on Gypsy Day, coronation, followed
registration of alumni. Upon the
scene of a village green in rural Ire-land
appeared an Irish matron, Goody
O'Shaughnessy to retrieve her wash
before the Gypsies arrived. After
Goody's conversation with an old hag,
a beautiful girl dressed as a gypsy
responded to her calling of "Noreen."
Noreen and her foster mother left the
scene as the band of gypsies arrived,
but Noreen returned to witness the
festivities of choosing and crowning
of a queen. Tela, a Gypsy hag, in-structs
Noreen to look into the Pool
for the image of their queen-elect,
and she sees her own reflection. The
ceremony of crowning her queen and
preseAnting gifts from the clan follow-ed.
ft
'—'19-re–author of the impressive coron-ation
was Owen Campbell. The cast
included:
Goody O'Shaughnessy (Northern's
first Gypsy Queen) ____Bernice Remde
Noreen (Queen-elect) Marie Chamber-lain
Alina (Former Queen) Alice Clute
Tela (A Gypsy Hag) Edna Jensen
Lonzo (Gypsy Marshal__ Walter Gully
Irish Woman Augusta Gienapp
The gypsies taking part in the fes-tivities
preceeding the actual crown-ing
were Bettie Barker, Vaughn Lar-son,
Eileen Dempsey, Helen Harms,
Virginia Williams, Luella Young,
Gladys Thomas, Agnes Skibsrud, Will-ard
Bartlett, Carol Van Walker, Carol
Lane, Donald Johnson, and Maynard
Buck. The stage setting and direc-tion
of the pageantry for the corona-tion
of the queen was supervised by
Nels E. Johnson, E. Kenneth Baillie,
Malcolm Solberg and Lyle Weishaar.
GYPSY DAY PARADE
he traditional, colorful, Gypsy Day
Parade marched to the rhythm of sev-en
bands—N. S. T. C., Aberdeen high
school, Redfield, Northville, Britton,
Ipswich, and Mobridge—down through
the business section of the city. The
streets were crowded with spectators
from Aberdeen and out-of-town, Sat-urday
shoppers. Marshal Gully and
his cohorts, Babcock, Elliott, and
Stahl, on horse back, led the parade.
The Queen's float followed, after
which came group and individual
floats. Approximately twenty-five or-ganizations
were represented with
floats, including several demonstra-tion
schools. Interspersed throughout
the long line, were bands of gypsies
who added the Romany color and spir-et
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