The Exponent, 1943-12-09

              The Exponent
Vol. 42, No. 57 Northern State Teachers College, Aberdeen, South Dakota December 9, 1943
To Direct Activities For School Year To Promote School
Spirit Is Aim Of
- Student Council
1942-43 Class Officers
Elected By Student Body
Pre-Cadet Nurses
To Train On
Northern's Campus
NSTC will assist in the instruc-tion
of 100 pre-cadet nurses who
as members of the U. S. Cadet
Nurse corps, are beginning train-ing
this week at the Presentation
School of Nursing at St. Luke's
hospital in Aberdeen.
Sponsored by the U. S. Public
Health service, the Cadet Nurse
corps has been established to fill
the demand for nurses which auto-matically
arises during war-time.
For the first three months of the
nine-month pre-cadet period, stu-dents
take pre-clinical studies, in-cluding
chemistry, microbiology,
anatomy and physiology. Students
at the Presentation school will be
given these courses at Northern
under the supervision of J. H. Jen-sen,
chairman of the division of
Science and Mathematics and the
following will act as instructors:
Miss Clara Roberts, Faulkton, who
has an MA from Columbia uni-versity;
Miss Irene Penney, St.
Louis, who has a BA from the
University of St. Louis; and Sister
Jane Frances, a graduate of St.
Benedict's college, St. Joseph,
Minn.
New laboratory equipment has
been purchased by the college, in-cluding
five new microscopes, and
an additional laboratory has been
set up for courses in micro-biology
and chemistry.
Following their pre-clinical train-ing,
students take clinical training
at one of four hospitals, St. Luke's
McKennan hospital, Sioux Falls, St.
Joseph's hospital, Mitchell, or Holy
Rosary hospital, Miles City, Mon-tana.
Upon completion of 36
months of training, the senior ca-det
nurse is eligible to fill nursing
positions in the army, or navy, in
civilian hospitals, in public health,
in private duty, in occupational
therapy, as a visiting nurse or as
an airline stewardess.
While attending nursing school,
the cadet nurse receives, in addi-tion
to her training, complete pay-ment
of tuition and fees, official
cadet uniforms for optional out-door
wear, school uniforms, room
and board and a monthly allow-ance.
In this fourth group of nurses
who have taken classes on North-ern's
campus, eleven are register-ed
from Montana, one from New
York, six from North Dakota, one
from Wisconsin, two from Minne-sota,
two from Iowa and two from
Idaho. The other girls making up
the quota of 100 are from South
Dakota.
Indian Exhibit At
Graham Hall
College girls living in Graham
hall are sponsoring an exhibit of
Indian crafts and handiwork, in
the hall of the administration
building, each afternoon beginning
December2 and continuing toDec-ember
11.
The exhibit is composed of ob-jects
made by different tribes of
Indians and includes an Indian
drum, scarfs, belts, pottery, woolen
baby blankets, beaded lapel pins,
bracelets, buttons and rings. Silver
articles from the New Mexican
pueblos as well as the Zia pottery
buttons are on display. Some of
the things on display have been
sent by Indians on the South Dak-ota
Pine Ridge reservation.
The faculty and students of
Northern wish to express (heir
sincerest sympathy to Prof.
E. K. Baillie in his recent be-reavement.
Northern Enjoys
Arrau Concert
By Grace McArthur
NSTC students enjoyed a rare
treat in the concert given by
Claudio Arrau, world famous pian-ist,
Thursday evening in the Civic
theater. Mr. Arrau has been com-pared
with Paderewski in the sheer
beauty of tone and the perfect
command he has over every re-source
of the piano. While as-tounding
his audience with the
command of technical resources
it was the poetic quality in his
playing which will remain in the
hearers memories.
Opening with the "Andante con
Variazioni" by Haydn, meticulously
performed, Mr. Arrau then played
the powerful and masterful twenty-five
Variations and Fugue on a
Theme of Handel by Brahms.
These variations are seldom play-ed
except by first magnitude art-ists
because they are so taxing
both in their artistic profundity
and the sheer technical problems
they present. While they are
"above" the average audience
member, they are a great delight
to the pianists among his listen-ers.
The second half of the program
consisted in two groups of numbers
of a lighter nature. The Chopin
"Ballade in A flat" is often played,
but never as Mr. Arrau played it.
The two Liszt numbers "Fountain
of the Villa d' Este" and the
"Etude in F minor" were such
brilliant show pieces that few
pianists attempt them, yet they
were beautifully poetic works if
the listeners could give attention
to the poetry and not be too as-tounded
at the task of the per-formance.
The Granados "Lover and the
Nightingale", Ravel's, "Fountain"
and the Debussy "Fireworks" clos-ed
an exciting program.
STUDENTS APPEAR IN
RECITAL DECEMBER 8
A recital of students from the
classes of Gottfried Sjoland, Mr.
and Mrs. Merritt Johnson and Miss
Grace McArthur was held in the
Music studios of Spafford hall
Wednesday evening at 8:15 p. m.
The following students appeared
on the program: Eileen Loe, Helen
Jones, Cecelia Johansen, Cynthia
Burke, Annette Hagen, Leonard
Palmquist, Muriel Strike, Arlys
Krueger and Carol Magnus.
Miss McArthur directed the Wo-men's
vocal ensemble in several
numbers.
Air-Wac Recruiters
Speak To Coeds
Air-WAC recruiters from the
Aberdeen recruiting office spoke to
Northern coeds during regular as-sembly
period December 2 in the
Graham Hall lounge.
Captain Frank R. Greene of
Buckley Field, Colorado, who is in
charge of the Air-Wac drive here,
stated the requirements girls must
meet before they are sworn into
the Women's Army. He stressed
the importance of women entering
the service so that men may go
into actual combat. According to
Capt. Greene, the WACs have re-ceived
the highest of praise from
all sources, including President
Roosevelt and General George
Marshall, Chief-of-Staff. "As this
is the first time women have been
allowed to, join forces with the men
during war, every girl who is able
should do not only her bit, but her
best, by joining the women's
forces," Capt. Greene concluded.
T/Sgt. Mary L. Schomer from
Omaha headquarters told the girls
of her basic training at Des
Moines, Iowa, explaining that, at
present, there are also training
centers at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.,
and Daytona Beach, Fla. After
five weeks girls may apply for Of-ficer's
Candidate school, and, if
they meet requirements, take ad-ditional
training. Wacs may ap-ply
for overseas duty if they wish,
but this is not compulsory.
Sgt. John Carter of Mitchell
Field, New York, who has served
overseas, spoke of the need for as-sistance
by our service men on for-eign
duty.
PIE SOCIAL SATURDAY
Right out of your grand-mother's
day comes the idea for
Saturday night's entertainment
—a pie social. Dancing is to
start at 8:00 o'clock in Spafford
gymnasium, ping-pong serving
as an alternative to dancing.
At 10:00 o'clock the pies, which
each girl must bring to be ad-mitted
to the dance, are to be
auctioned off, the boy eating
with the girl whose pie he buys.
Coffee is also to be served.
Officers elected for the various
classes this year include the fol-lowing
people:
Seniors:
President: Jeanne Gunderson
Vice President: Phyllis Culp
Sec. Treas.: Carol Anderson
Juniors:
President: Carol Magnus
Vice President: Eleanor Lamb
Sec. Treas.: Jean Kaufman
Sophomores:
President: Lorraine Walker
Vice President: Blanche Lucas
Sec. Treas.: Ruth Knudson
Freshman:
President: George Leighton
Vice President: Kathleen Warner
Sec. Treas.: Beverly Eakins
Christmas Program
To Be Given Dec. 21
Portrayal of the Christmas story
through living pictures is the
theme of this year's Christmas
program to be given December 21
at 6:45 p. m. Appropriate scrip-tural
readings will tell the story of
each setting. Christmas carols
sung by the A Cappella Choir, com-posed
of Northern's students and
AST cadets under the direction of
Harvey Moen, and the two women's
chorus' directed by Miss McArthur
and Harvey Moen, will complete
the Yuletide atmosphere. The dra-matic
production class, working
with E. Kenneth Baillie, has
charge of the arrangements and
settings for the living picture.
REGISTRATION PLANS MADE
FOR WINTER QUARTER
Regular classes for the winter
term will begin Saturday morning,
December 18 and close for the
Christmas vacation on December 23
to re-convene on Jan. 10.
All students now on the campus
and new students will register for
the second quarter from December
13 through December 17. Enroll-ments
must be completed before
5 p. m., December 17, or a late reg-istration
fee will be charged. Fees
may be paid without penalty
through December 21.
The class program to be follow-ed
Saturday, December 18, will be
a Friday program plus such four-hour
classes as are not ordinarily
scheduled for Friday.
Promoting interest in school ac-tivities
was used as a theme for
the general student assembly giv-en
by the student council this
morning in the auditorium. To
carry out this theme a skit was
given portraying life at Northern
as it is today in comparison with
that of twenty years ago and
twenty years in the future. The
fact that school spirit during war
time is often almost completely
extinguished on many college cam-puses
was emphasized and sugges-tions
for solutions to this problem
were brought forth in the course
of the skit.
Music and dancing were also
features of the assembly.
Those taking part were Evelyn
Amsden, Kay Kaercher, Carol An-derson,
Geraldine Goodsell, Eve-lyn
Reisenweber, Chloe Beebe, Jean
Gray, Barbara Baldridge, Joy.
Dehnert, Alice Silvers, Ruth Knud-son,
and Doris Behnke.
The student council, governing
body on the campus, has elected
the following officers for 1943-44:
President, Isabelle Shannon; Vice-president,
Jane Adams; and sec-retary-
treasurer, May Rock. Miss
Shannon is the first girl to be pres-ident
of this organization at North-ern.
Working with the officers is
a representative from each of the
classes. Representing the senior
class is Marjorie Stapf, the junior
class, Shirley Mae Barnes, the
sophomore class, Doris Behnke, and
the freshman class, Kay Van Dover.
W. S. G. A. representatives on the
student council are Ruth Jensen
and June Throckmorton. Dean C.
E. Booth is faculty adviser of this
organization.
At a recent meeting of represen-tatives
and officers, objectives
were set up for the year's program.
These include: to stimulate school
spirit, to publish an annual and to
create enthusiasm through student
assemblies to be held every two
weeks. A publicity committee
composed of Helen Blando, Jean
Lowe, and Phil Gerber was organ-ized.
Phyllis Culp was appointed
chairman for the World Student
Service Fund drive which will be
held in February.
Music Groups Give
Second Concert
By Grace McArthur
An excellent concert was given
by the a capella choir, string quar-tet,
and college orchestra Sunday
evening in the college auditorium.
Under the direction of Harvey S.
Moen, these organizations were
augmented by AST cadets and by
several Aberdeen musicians. The
outstanding number given by the
a cappella choir was the "Adora-mus
te" by Palestrina. Geraldine
Goodsell was the soprano soloist
in the Christiansen number, "Aut-urn's
Art". The final selection of
the choir was accompanied by Mr.
and Mrs. Merritt Johnson.
The string quartet consisting of
Cadet Davenport, Cadet Cohen, Joy
Dehnert and Beverly Eakins gave
a beautiful performance of the
"Emperor Variations" by Haydn
and a clever transcription of the
"Arkansas Traveler."
Hayden's "Surprise Symphony"
by the college orchestra, opened the
second half of the prograin and
was given a careful and adequate
performance, creditable to any col-lege
group. Novel and beautiful
yas the Ole Bull, "Shepherd Girl's
Sunday". The "Raymond Over-ture"
by Thomas was the outstand-ing
number. Throughout the pro-gram
the audience was enthusias-tic
in applause.
Pictured above are student council and class Jeanne Gunderson, Isabelle Shannon, Carol Magnus,
officers for 1942-43 —Standing, left to right, are: and Eleanor Lamb.
Ruth Knudsen, Blanche Lucas, Carol Anderson, Jane
Adams, Phyllis Culp, Mae Rock, Kathleen Warner, Not pictured are Lorraine Walker and Jean
and Beverly Eakins. Seated: George Leighton, Kaufman.