The Exponent, 1945-06-22

              e Exponent
Vol. 43, No. 17
Northern State Teachers College, Aberdeen, South Dakota
June 22, 1945
N TC Registration Over 600
Helena Morsztyn Concert
Pleases Enthusiastic Audience
Summer Enrollment
At War-Time Peak
Students of NSTC and residents
of Aberdeen had an uncommon
privilege Monday evening, June 18,
in hearing Helena Morsztyn, world-famous
piano virtuoso, present a
concert in the NSTC auditorium.
The NSTC faculty were hosts at
a reception in Spafford Hall im-mediately
following the perform-ance,
to which those especially
interested in meeting the countess
were invited. This is the second
summer that Countess Morsztyn
has been on the NSTC campus.
Countess Helena Morsztyn ar-rived
in Aberdeen June 14. She
is giving private lessons and mas-ter
class lessons, and will be here
until June 27.
Countess Morsztyn is interna-tionally
recognized as an authority
on all the problems of piano. She
was born in Warsaw, Poland, and
was educated at Vienna conserva-tory.
Among her piano instruc-tors
are included Emil Sauer, who
was a personal friend of Johannes
Brahms, Leschetizky, and her
grandmother, who studied with
Chopin. Many of the interpreta-tions
were gained directly from
Chopin himself. She was a per-sonal
friend of the late Ignace
Paderewski, noted Polish pianist,
composer, and statesman.
Miss Morsztyn has appeared suc-cessfully
in concert at all large
musical centers, having toured
Europe, India, Egypt, and the
United States. She has served as
a popular soloist with the Minnea-polis
Symphony orchestra.
The New York Times of Feb-ruary
14, 1944, states, "Miss Mor-sztyn
is a pianist of great tradi-tion,
and her interpretations are
sound and surely grounded in that
tradition. Tone is her best asset;
it has perfection in its resiliency,
and is remarkable for its singing
quality and for its color. She can
Dr. G. 0. Kelley, chairman of
the division of language and lit-erature
at NSTC has arranged a
speech correction clinic under the
direction of Miss Ida Whitten who
is engaged in speech correction
work in Racine, Wis. public schools.
This clinic will be held on North-ern's
campus June 25-29 and is
-open to the public without charge.
Miss Whitten is a graduate of
the University of Nebraska and the
University of Iowa. She has done
speech correction work with Dr.
Smiley Blanton of New York City
and is a former teacher of English
at Northern.
Purpose of the clinic is to diag-nose
speech defects among chil-dren
of the state and offer sugges-tion
for treatment. The clinic
deals with such defects as stam-mering,
stuttering, lisping, organ-ic
difficulties, including harelip,
do fnie things with tints and shad-ings.
All these qualities produced
a gem of beauty."
According to Miss Grace Mc-
Arthur, chairman of the entertain-ment
committee at NSTC, Madame
Morsztyn has a great faculty for
bringing out the best in each stu-dent,
of making everyone feel at
ease in her classes, and of utilizing
each minute of the lesson time.
Her ability to analyze individual
need and to give constructive help
is a remarkable quality.
Countess Morsztyn gave master
class lessons in New York in
March and April, has appeared in
concerts throughout the country,
and will be in Minneapolis in July
and August.
30 In Summer
Workshop Courses
Under the direction of Dr. M.
E. Nugent, thirty students are
taking practice teaching this sum-mer.
Classes for the first six
grades are held in the Garfield,
school. Miss Edna Durland, Ele-mentary
City Supervisor and Miss
Phyllis McCarthy, city teacher, are
the supervisors. Upper grade and
high school classes are held in the
Washington School under the sup-ervision
of Mr. L. F. Rathman,
principal at Monroe School. Buses
are used to transport the 200 pupils
enrolled.
In addition to the regular class-work
many of the pupils are taking
advantage of the swimming facil-ities
offered by the college pool.
Lifeguards are Norman Colestock
and Donald Gerriets for the boys
and Doris Raap and Gladys Short
for the girls.
EVENING OF MUSIC
TO FEATURE THEDE,
MERRITT JOHNSONS
Northern State Teachers College
Will present Mr. Frederick Thede.
assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Merritt
Johnson, in concert, Tuesday even-ing,
June 26, at 8:15 p.m.
Mr. Thede and his violin will
be heard in an excerpt from Mo-zart's
Concerto No. 5 in A Major,
La Folia by Cavelli, arranged by
Kreisler, Manuel de Falla's Dance
Espagnole, Kreisler's Schon Ros-marin,
and the Introduction and
Rondo from the Saint Saens con-certo.
The Merritt Johnsons will offer
Mr. Johnson's own composition,
Paen, and Saint Saens' The Swan.
cleft palate, mouth deformities and
dialect.
Prof. P. J. Harkness is in charge
of Miss Whitten's schedule. She
will lecture to Mr. Harkness's
class, Speech Defects and Correc-tions,
which meets in S-204 during
the second hour. Permission is
given to anyone who wishes to
audit this class.
Parents interested and others
may contact Mr. Harkness for an
appointment. To date there are
about forty applications.
On June 25 Miss Whitten will
address the summer school assem-bly
of students and faculty mem-bers.
The public is cordially in-vited
to attend this lecture, ad-mission-
free. Miss Whitten will
also address a community conven-tion
arranged by ACE, to be held
in Lincoln Hall sunparlor, Wed-nesday,
June 27.
New Instructors
On Summer Staff
Four new instructors have been
added to the faculty of Northern
State Teachers College, it was an-nounced
'by President N. E. Steele.
Dr. Rose Smith and Mrs. Mable
Lowsma have been appointed to
serve on Northern's cadet nurse
training program, while Lloyd
Johnson and E. R. Williamson have
joined the departments of educa-tion
and industrial arts.
Dr. Rose Smith of St. Teresa
College, Winona, Minnesota is at
Northern for her third summer ses-sion.
She is teaching the Micro-biology
course to the nurse cadets.
Dr. Smith received her B. A.
and M. A. degrees from the Uni-versity
of Illinois and her Ph. D.
from the University of Wisconsin.
She is in charge of the Biology
Department at St. Teresa College.
Mrs. Mable Lowsma of Batavia,
Illinois is the laboratory instruc-tor
in Anatomy for the cadet nur-ses.
She has her M. A. degree in
Biology from the University of
Wisconsin.
Lloyd F. Johnson is an instruc-tor
in the biology and the the ed-ucation
departments at Northern.
He came here from Cornell College,
Mt. Vernon, Iowa where he taught
navigation in the Navy Flight Pre-paratory
Program. His first posi-tion
at Northern was in the Mathe-matics
Department under the
ASTP. Last year he was given a
leave of absence to teach in the
Aberdeen city schools.
Mr. Johnson has taught at White
River and Stratford and was Sup-erintendent
of Schools at Warner
for eight years.
He received his B. S. degree in
science from N.S.T.C. and his M.S.
degree from the University of
South Dakota and has taken ad-vanced
work at the University of
Washington at Seattle. In addi-tion,
Mr. Johnson is spending some
time in the field of aviation and
has ground instructor ratings in
subjects required for private pilot
license, with flight rating.
Mr. E. R. Williamson is conduct-ing
classes this summer in shop
work during Mr. Gerber's absence.
He came to Northern in November
1943 under the AST. program.
Formerly, Mr. Williamson was
an instructor at the Navy V-5 pro-gram
at Cornell College, Mount
Vernon, Iowa. Previous to this
he served as instructor and super-intendent
of schools in several
South Dakota towns.
Mr. Williamson was on leave of
absence from Northern during the
winter months of the past year and
has been teaching in the Aberdeen
High School.
Friday, June 22-8:00 p.m. All
school dance—activity tickets ad-mit.
Monday, June 25-8:50 a.m. As-sembly,
lecture by Ida Whitten,
speech correction specialist.
Tuesday, June 26-8:15 p.m. Con-cert
by Helene Morsztyn, world
famous pianist. -
Monday, July 2-8:15 p.m. Il-lustrated
lecture on Alaska by Ed-gar
Raines.
Thursday, July 5-8:15 p.m. lec-ture
on subject to be announced
by Gehrhart Segar.
Friday, July 6-8:15 p.m. Con-cert
by Women's Chorus.
Monday, July 9-8:15 p.m. Con-cert
by Muriel McCrea.
Wednesday, July 11-8:15 p.m.
Band concert on campus by col-lege
band.
Saturday, July 14-10:00 a.m.
Summer Commencement Exercises.
A.C.E. To Hold
Community Meet
"Working together to serve chil-dren"
will be the theme of the an-nual
A.C.E. Community Conven-tion
to be held in Lincoln Hall sun-parlor
on June 27, it was announ-ced
by the college branch of the
Association for Childhood Educa-tion.
Ida Whitten, out-of-state
specialist in children's speech pro-blems,
will be a featured speaker
on the day's program. Brief re-ports
from representatives of var-ious
branches of A.C.E. in the
state will be heard, along with
messages from community workers
in the field of child welfare. It
is expected that the state presi-dent,
Marcella Smith of Sioux
Falls, will be present, and a spec-ial
invitation is extended to all
primary teachers in the Aberdeen
district, as well as to those kinder-garten
and primary teachers who
are attending the summer session
at Northern. Others interested in
work with children are also in-vited
to come.
Acting in cooperation with the
Office of Defense Transportation
in the war effort, the national
A.C.E. meeting has been cancelled,
and it has been urged that com-munity
conventions be held in cit-ies,
counties, or educational insti-tutions
where there is an A.C.E.
branch. It is hoped that the Aber-deen
convention, through its activ-ities
on the "home front" may
make significant contributions to
the education and welfare of child-ren.
Grace Nelson, Vermillion, will
serve as general chairman for the
convention; Mrs. Lorene Rose will
be in charge of exhibits; Lucille
Jensen, Aberdeen, is publicity
-head; Erna Froemming will be
song director; Lucille Close, Aber-deen,
is refreshment committee
chairman; and Margaret Van
Walker will be registrar.
The program for the day fol-lows:
9:30 to 10:00, registration
and exhibits; 10:00, a series of
five-minute talks on "Wider Goals"
the new educational objectives, by
Lucille Jensen, Vera Wagner, Agar,
Mrs. Margaret Johnson, Britton,
and Mrs. Georgia Hendrickson,
Gann Valley; 10:30, "Working
with Other Groups," brief reports
from community agencies cooper-ating
with A.C.E. with Mrs. E.F.
Jorgenson, P.T.A. Council repre-sentative,
Marion Anderson, State
Director of Child Welfare, and Mrs.
N. E. Steele, A.A.U.W. represent-ative.
Ida Whitten's address on
Chldren's Speech Problems will be
given at 11:00. The sunparlor will
reopen at 1:20 for late registrants
and those who want to examine the
educational exhibits. The afternoon
session of the convention will open
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Juke Box
Dance Tonight
Spafford gymnasium will be the
scene this evening of the all school
dance, one of the social events of
the first summer session. Music
will be provided by a nickelodeon
and dancing will start at nine
o'clock.
Outside guests will be admitted,
if accompanied by a student, upon
the purchase of a thirty-cent tic-ket
at the door. Students are re-minded
to bring their activity tic-kets.
In view of the shortage of
men, all girls are urged to attend
and to dance with each other.
Five hundred fifteen regularly
enrolled students and between
eighty and ninety cadet nurses are
attending Northern's first summer
sesion. With enrollments contin-uing
• at the close of the first week,
the total is expected to exceed the
600 mark.
The majority of the enrollees are
former students of Northern who
are completing a chosen curricu-lum.
A few people, who already
have degrees, are attending school
for refresher courses. About 180
of the students will write the ex-amination
for a Second Grade Cer-tificate
at the close of the first
session. One new veteran of World
War II is taking college work un-der
the GI Bill of Rights.
During the summer quarter, the
cadet nurses, in cooperation with
the Presentation Sisters of St.
Luke's Hospital, will complete
their basic science courses at
Northern.
Steele Addresses
First Assembly
Approximately 500 regularly en-rolled
students of the first summer
session at NSTC were present for
the initial assembly in the college
auditorium Friday morning, June
8. In cooperation with the Presen-tation
Sisters of St. Luke's Hos-pi
cal about 100 cadet nurses are
taking their basic sciencee courses
at Northern during the summer
quarter, in addition to the regular
college students.
Prof. Harvey Moen led commun-ity
singing after which Leonard
Palmquist played a piano solo, the
first movement from Grieg's Son-ata
in E Minor. Calvin Kushman,
baritone, sang the popular num-ber
Falling in Love wth Love, the
piano accompaniment for which
was furnished by Beatrice Lind-berg.
Dr. N. E. Steele, president, wel-comed
the students in behalf of the
college faculty and employees. He
told of the accreditment of North-ern,
and of the enviable record
which the institution established in
connection with war training pro-grams.
Announcements were made by
Dean E A. Bixler, Miss Grace Mc-
Arthur, and Mr. Harvey Moen. The
assembly was under the direction
of Miss McArthur who announced
each number.
Official Notice!
REGISTRATION FOR
SECOND TERM
Students in residence the first
term who expect to remain for the
second summer term may register
in the Dean's office beginning Mon-day,
July 2. Students with special
problems should register early.
Class work for the second term be-gins
Monday, July 16.
Regular registration will be Sat-urday,
July 14, from 2:00 to 5:00
p.m. A late registration fee will
be charged to all on-campus stu-dents
who do not register before
Monday, July 16.
Tuition and other fees may be
paid Monday, Tuesday and Wed-nesday
of the first week of the
term. If you are in doubt about
attending make a conditional re-gistration
so you may attend your
first classes and avoid late regis-tration
fees.
E. A. Bixler
Dean of College
Speech Clinic June 25-29