The Exponent, 1942-05-13

              Bette Daschle rehearses her lines as Lois Clocksin fixes Bette's
costume for the all-school play.
"Where the Heart Is," All School
Play, Will Be Presented Monday
Musical Duo Will Play Here Tomorrow
K. Scheurer H. Williams
DON'T MISS THE The Exponent
ALL SCHOOL PLAY
MONDAY
BUY WAR SAVINGS
BONDS and STAMPS
Vol. XL, No. 28 Northern State Teachers College, Aberdeen, South Dakota May 13, 1942
Pasque Assembly, Dance Scheduled Friday
The eager curiosities of Northern students will finally be satisfied
Friday when at a\ special assembly at 10 o'clock in the auditorium, the
1942 college year book, Pasque, will be introduced to the students.
Exhibits of the art department
of the college were on display dur-ing
the week of the spring music
festival. Work done by students
in classes under the direction of
both E. K. Baillie and Miss Dessa
Jane Bush were on display. In-cluded
in the exhibit were ex-amples
of commercial art, elemen-tary
art for grade teachers, pri-mary
art, interior decoration and
lettering.
MEWALDT ATTENDS WAR
EMERGENCY CONVENTION
N. H. Mewallt, associate pro-fessor
of mathematics, in com-pany
with R. R. Deimer, principal
of Central high school, flew to
Huron recently to attend a meet-ing
called by the State Depart-ment
to consider ways and means
of preparing teachers to meet the
war emergencies so far as the
public schools are concerned.
Pi Omega Pi met last Wednes-day
noon in C-108 to elect officers
for the following year. The new
,officers are: president, Dolores
Mack, Mobridge; vice-president,
Jane Adams, Groton; secretary,
Marlys Raynes, Andover; treasur-er,
Florence Kahnke; and histor-ian,
Lorraine Shepersky, Aberdeen.
The annual formal banquet will
be held tonight at 6:00 p. m. in
the Coffee Shop. Initiation will
be held at this time for the four
new members, Dolores Mack, Flo-rence
Kahnke, Esther Evans, and
Jane Adams.
Perry Stresses
Education In War
The importance of the American
school in the present world crisis
was stressed by Judge Van Buren
Perry when he spoke at the Rural
Light banquet last Wednesday
evening. He also said that our
schools will play an important role
in determining the kind of dem-ocracy
we will have after the war
is ended. It is the responsibility
of the teachers to practice the
ideals of democracy in the school
room.
Special tribute was paid to the
late M. M. Guhin by carrying out
the policy which he initiated, that
of bringing to the banquet one
delegate of the Y.C.L. from each
room of the demonstration schools.
The program included a reading
by Audra Long, a vocal solo by
Florence Snell and numbers by the
Leadership girls' chorus. The pro-gram
ended with a vocal duet,
Remember Pearl Harbor.
Karl Scheurer joined the Bos-ton
Symphony in 1907 as first vio-lin
and solo viola player. In 1909
he was engaged by Mr. Oberhoffer
as second concert master for the
Minneapolis Symphony orchestra,
which position he filled with dis-tinction
for ten years.
Mr. Scheurer's long association
with the Minneapolis Symphony
orchestra and later as solo player
has made him popular with thou-sands
of people. He was at one
time conductor of a philharmonic
club that traveled widely through-out
the Northwest under his lead-ership.
He is also head of the
violin department of the Univer-
Many Activities
Will Bring School
Year To Close
A complete calendar of events
connected with the commencement
exercises of Northern State Tea-chers
college was released recently.
The commencement activities
will begin with the commencement
play under the supervision of Karl
Snyder, instructor in dramatic art,
on Monday and Tuesday, May 18
and 19, in the college auditorium.
The senior-faculty banquet at
which the senior class members
are the guests of the faculty, will
be served at 6:00 p. m. Saturday,
May 23, in the college cafeteria,
and the alumni breakfast will be
in the cafeteria at 8:30 a. m. on
Sunday, May 24.
Due to the war emergency the
Baccalaureate and commencement
exercises are combined in a single
exercise at 2 o'clock Sunday after-noon,
May 24. The Rev. A. Elmer
Moe, pastor of the Bethlehem Lu-theran
church of Aberdeen, at the
invitation of the senior class, will
deliver a short Baccalaureate ad-dress,
and Dr. N. E. Steele, presi-dent
of N. S. T. C., also at the
request of the graduating class,
will deliver a short commencement
address. Diplomas and certificates
will be awarded by the Honorable
Frank Cundill, president of the
Board of Regents and chairman of
the committee for Northern.
At that time will be disclosed
the dedication of the year book.
The Pasque board will also be in-troduced.
Following the assembly,
classes will be dismissed for the
remainder of the day.
Something new in the way of
dance rhythms has been added to
the Pasque dance program for Fri-day
night at nine o'clock in the
Spafford Hall gymnasium. Louie
Lang, featuring his electric Ham-mond
organ, will swing out on
faNiorite dance tunes.
Louie Lang's orchestra has play-ed
some popular engagements in
and around Aberdeen, but he is a
newcomer on the college campus.
Although his orchestra is at-traction
enough for a successful
dance, dancers will have an oppor-tunity
to win some just-before-school-
is-out pictures as extra
memoirs of the year. Students
will register their names at the
door as they enter. Dtiring the
dance at regular intervals the
lucky names will be drawn and pic-tures
will be taken on the dance
floor. The winners must be pre-
NOTICE!
Today and tomorrow are the
last days to pay the balance
due on the PASQUE. Arrange-ments
are being made to dis-tribute
the PASQUES at top
speed this year. Don't delay
receiving yours by neglecting
to finish your payment before
Friday.
sent at the time of the drawing in
order to have their pictcres taken.
If the person is not present, an-other
name will be drawn.
At twelve o'clock the big day
will officially end.
Pasque Distribution Centers
In order to hasten the distribu-tion
of the Pasques on Friday af-ternoon,
there will be six differ-ent
distribution centers. Names
from Ato D go to A-213, E to H
go to A-106, I to 0 go to S-105,
P to Z go to S-205. Faculty mem-bers
will go to the Women's Facul-ty
room, S-215. Those who have
not paid the entire amount will
go to A-107 to pay the dollar and
a half. A receipt is not needed
to get the Pasque but students
must have their activity tickets.
Fairyland Termed
Big Success
Over five hundred persons pres-ent
at the 19th annual Fairyland
made it the most successful one
that has been presented.
Crowning of the queen, Meva
Mueller of Oakes, North Dakota,
was the main event of the day.
A beautiful outdoor scene was the
setting for the coronation.
Proceedes from Fairyland will
be used to buy a defense bond.
Many former members of A.C.E.,
the organization sponsoring Fairy-land,
attended. They were: Helen
Hendrickson, who was a former
president, and is now teaching at
Simmons school; Eva Mae Dueshle,
teaching at Faith; Gretchen De
Lay and Isabella Geppert, both
teaching at Westport; Neomi
Keagng, teacher at Warner.
Ethel Bacon brought her students
from Frederick, and Sally Hofer
brought her pupils from Columbia.
Pi Omega Pi Frat
Elects Officers
Louie Lang's Orchestra Will Play
For Swing Fest In Spafford Gym
CLOCKSIN AND WOLF HEAD CAST
OF MANY EXPERIENCED ACTORS
Final rehearsals are in full swing this week for the all-school spring
play, "Where the Heart Is," which will be presented Monday, May 18,
at 8:15 in the college auditorium. This modern drama by Aurania
Rouverol promises to be tops in
entertainment for theatre fans of
the campus and Aberdeen. Karl
Snyder, of the English and speech
department, is directing the play.
The cast includes eleven stu-dents
headed by Lois Clocksin and
Reuben Wolf in important roles
as Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Marshall.
Miss Clocksin, Aberdeen sopho-more,
has appeared before in Nor-thern
productions, giving a laud-able
performance in the Masquers'
winter play, The Cat and the Can-ary.
Reuben Wolf, sophomore, has
been cast in two Little Theatre
plays this year, Night Must Fall
and George Washington Slept
Here. While in high school he was
selected best actor in the state
one-act play contest.
Janet Mantel, freshman from
Aberdeen, is cast as Frances Mar-shall
Reagan. This is Miss Man-tel's
first appearance on Nor-thern's
stage. Last year she had
a part in Central high school's
production of Stage Door. Con-nie
Marshall and Bob Marshall are
played by Bette Aldrich and Clar-ence
McGirr respectively, who are
also making their first appear-ances.
Miss Aldrich, Vermillion
freshman, has worked before un-der
Miss Jean DeHaven, sister of
Beryl DeHaven of Aberdeen. She
also had an important part in the
Christmas pageant, Why Chimes
Ring. Mr. McGirr has been in
high school plays and in the Lead-ership
club play. Ruth Blethen,
Aberdeen sophomore, is cast as
Carolyn Curtis Marshall. Miss
Blethen is making her first ap-pearance
on Northern's stage. In
high school she appeared in many
of the one-act plays.
Mary Neville, freshman from
Ashton, will play Mrs. David Cur-tis
with Nick DeBilzan, junior
from Andover, as Mr. Curtis. Mr.
DeBilzan is a member of Mas-quers
and has appeared in Labur-nam
Grove and The Cat and the
Canary this year.
Larry Brown and Eleanor Rosen,
well known to Northern's stage
patrons, will be seen as Bill Post
and Mrs. Ida Post. Mr. Brown,
Cresbard junior, has played in
Cradle Song, Our Town, and The
Cat and the Canary. Eleanor Ro-sen's
previous roles were in Little
Theatre plays, Night Must Fall,
The Milky Way, and Charlie's
Aunt, the Central high school pro-duction
of Stage Door, and Nor-thern's
fall play, Laburnam Grove.
Willis Sackreiter, junior from Mil-bank,
will play Dr. Bascomb. He
has appeared before in Our Town.
Ticket sales have already been
started. Student tickets are 25c
including tax, and adult tickets
are 35c including tax. All college
students will be admitted free with
their activity tickets.
Art Department
Exhibits Work The Scheurer-Williams duo will present
to be held Thursday evening, May 14, at eight
auditorium.
The duo consists of a combination of violin and harp which makes
possible the performance of some of the most beautiful works in all
musical literature. Seldom does one have an opportunity to hear these
two instruments in the hands of
such splendid artists as Karl Sch-eurer
and Henry Williams.
sity of Minnesota. Mr. Scheurer
possesses all the temperament and
technique of a true musician.
Henry Williams was born in
Abergravenny, South Wales, which
is renowned for its production of
great harpists, the harp being the
national instrument. Mr. Williams
began his early studies with John
Thomas, the harpest for 'Queen
Victoria and King Elward. Later
he studied with Richard Barker,
one of the greatest harp teachers
of all times.
Mr. Williams has won nine first
prizes for his remarkable playing,
including gold and silver medals.
He has been solo harpist for the
Minneapolis Symphony orchestra
for many years.
a program at an assembly
o'clock in the college