The Exponent, 1945-11-09

              The Exponent
Vol. 44, No. 4
Northern State Teachers College, Aberdeen, South Dakota November 9, 1945
VICTORY OND SHOW NOVEMBER 13
Baillie To MC Show And Bond Sale
Under Slogan : "Finish the Job!"
Chinese Writer
To Sneak Here
Hubert Liang
A keen observer, writer and lec-turer,
Hubert Liang comes straight
from Chungking with a wealth of
information on military, political
and economic developments. Edu-cated
in this country, he wrote for
American newspapers here, and
since the outbreak of the war his
N.A.N.A. dispatches from China,
which appear in the principle
American newspapers, have been
among the most important analy-ses
of Chinese affairs.
Mr. Liang went through the worst
of the fighting and witnessed some
of the major engagements on land
and in the air. He lived through
repeated bombings of Chungking
and watched the Chinese hold off
the Japanese hordes, although
practically without materials and
without adequate food; he saw the
heroic defense of China in the air
by a handful of American and
Chinese pilots, headed by General
Chennault; and the opening of the
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Extra! Nylons For
Bond Show Prize!
Shhhhhhhh - don't look now but
two lucky women in this territory
will be wearing sheer, lovely ny-lons
after November 13.
It all started with Nancy Ro-zendal's
column, "Over the Tea-cups,"
which appears in the Aber-deen
American-News every Sun-day.
And such is the power of
the press in general and of colum-nists
in particular and of "Over
the Teacups, to be very specific,
that presto! just like that, two
lucky bond buyers will not only
have bonds and a pleased con-science,
but also a pair of what
women all over the country are
begging and fighting for.
According to Ann Gubo, assis-tant
director of publicity, the first
pair was donated by Miss Ovitz,
manager of the Marie 0. Simmons
Shop. The second pair is a gift
from Mrs. M. Johansen of Cincin-nati,
Ohio, who is Mrs. Gubo's sis-ter-
in-law.
The moral of this story is obvi-ous:
If you want nylons, or if your
wife wants nylons, be at North-ern's
Victory Bond Show, Novem-ber
13, where the two pair will
be offered as prizes to bond buyers.
NOTICE
Miss Welsh reports there is
to be a roller skating party for
the entire school this evening
at the rink. It will cost only
fifty cents to ride out there,
skate, and ride back. A free
lunch will be served in Douglas
lounge afterward. The bus
leaves at 12th and Jay Street
at 8:00 o'clock.
McAnelly Attends
Registrar's Meet
J. R. McAnelly, N.S.T.C. regis-trar,
attended a meeting of the
registrars of the North Central
Association of Teachers Colleges
at St. Olaf's College, Northfield,
Minnesota, October 30.
The principle topic of discussion
was the evaluation of credits
earned by servicemen in war train-ing.
The registrars explored means
to give returned veterans every
possible advantage so that they
might finish their curriculum as
rapidly as possible. The high level
of interest in the problem, Mr.
McAnelly stated, was expressed by
the attendance at the meeting
which drew the largest attendence
of registrars on record.
College and university registrars
from North Dakota, Iowa, Minne-sota
and South Dakota were pres-ent.
The State of Wisconsin was
invited to become a member.
Katherine Johnson
On Concert Tour
Mrs. Katherine Johnson, concert
pianist of the N.S.T.C. faculty, has
been engaged to appear at state
teachers colleges in several eastern
cities. Her itinerary includes: No-vember
6, Trenton, N. J.; Novem-ber
7, Kingston, R. I.; November
8, Providence, R. I.; November 13,
Jersey City, N. J.; and November
14, New Britain, Conn. Mrs. John-son
plans to spend the interval
between concerts in New York
City.
IMPORTANT NOTICE!!
In order to avoid conflicts, all
student social events should be put
on the college calendar. See Miss
Robertson in A-213.
—Emeline Welsh
Ann Gubo
Secretary to the president of
Northern State Teachers College
since 1940, Ann Gubo is also sec-retary
to the N.S.T.C. faculty, as-sistant
director of publicity, facul-ty
council secretary and Y.W.C.A.
advisor.
A blond with blue eyes, Ann was
born near Copenhagen in Den-mark,
and became a naturalized
citizen of these United States. She
is the daughter of Mrs. Laura Jo-hansen
of Aberdeen and is married
to Francis Gubo, a discharged
army veteran who at one time at-tended
Northern.
S.V.M. Brings
Vikner To Campus
Under the sponsorship of the
college Y.W.C.A., the Rev. David
L. Vikner, travelling secretary of
the Student Volunteer Movement,
an organization designed to recruit
Christian workers, spent Monday
and Tuesday on the campus of
Northern State Teachers College.
Monday noon Rev. Vikner spoke
at a luncheon in Lincoln Dining
Hall to which N.S.T.C. students
and faculty members were invited.
Arrangements for this affair were
in charge of Miss Vera Lighthall
and Pearl Bezner.
A discussion meeting was held
Monday evening in Lincoln Hall
sunparlor at which time high
school students were special
guests.
Rev. Vikner spoke on "China To-morrow"
at a special assembly
Tuesday morning. He showed the
audience how modern education
was changing the old, degenerate
China into a new form which holds
greater promise for the future. He
believes that Christianity is the
vital factor in the building of a
new democratic and modern China.
Beverly Eakins, president of the
college Y.W.C.A., and Miss Eme-line
Welsh, dean of women, were in
general charge of the meetings.
The hospitality committee was
composed of Dr. and Mrs. N. E.
Steele, Dean Chas. E. Booth, Dean
E. A. Bixler, Keith Hanning and
Leonard Palmquist.
Born of missionary parents in
China, Mr. Vikner was educated in
the United States. He received
his A. B. degree from Augustana
College, Rock Island, Illinois, and
in 1944 was awarded the Bachelor
of Divinity degree at Augustana
Theological Seminary. For the
past year Mr. Vikner has studied
Chinese at Berkeley, California,
and presently is awaiting passage
To the list of official school of-fices
which she holds, can be added
outside chores such as doing pub-licity
for the Community Chest
drive, keeping house and sewing.
Sewing is one of her special loves,
and Ann makes some of her own
clothes and dresses dolls for
Christmas gifts. She likes tailored
clothes and claims that she prac-tically
lives in suits. The day we
talked to her she was in a grey
flannel suit trimmed with peasant
embroidery, set off by a gold cov-ered-
wagon pin and earings. Her
housekeeping is a by-word, even
at the college, and she is noted
among the custodian staff for the
closet in her office which contains
a dust mop, broom, carpet sweeper,
and almost a complete stock of
janitorial supplies which she puts
to industrious use. The severely
modern desk, behind which she
operates, is bare and clean each
night when she goes home.
Ann was once enrolled at Nor-thern,
but dropped school to work
in the business office and was ap-pointed
assistant business man-ager
in 1928, a post she held until
her appointment as secretary to
Dr. Steele. In those days she was
always being mistaken for student
help. As a matter of fact, at one
St. Pat dance Ann was mistaken
for a student and awarded the
prize for dancing, a green and
white floral vase which today
stands in one of the office book-cases.
Ann explained the decep-tion
but the judges insisted on her
keeping the award.
For years she entered an indi-
E. Kenneth Baillie
Murphy Addresses
Women's Club
Prof. John L. Murphy, head of
the division of social science at
Northern, spoke on China follow-ing
a luncheon for members of the
lAromen's club Friday, November
9, at 1:15 p. m. at the Bethlehem
Lutheran church.
This was the first of a series
of talks to be given by Prof. Mur-phy
for the club on countries de-termining
the future of the world
in its crisis. Members of Sojourn-ers
and American Association of
Universty women's clubs were ex-tended
a special invitation to at-tend
and hear Prof. Murphy's talk.
to the Orient.
Mr. Vikner has traveled through
much of China, the Malay Penin-sula,
the Philippines, Ceylon,
Egypt, Palestine, and European
countries. He has a broad under-standing
of the world-wide Chris-tian
community, is an effective
speaker, and experienced person-nel
worker with a keen knowledge
of the student point of view.
vidual float in the Gypsy Day pa-rade,
and almost as regularly ran
off with first prize. The float was
always based on a hayrack drawn
by the now deceased N.S.T.C. team
and was driven by Pete Schlick
who is still around to remember
it.
Ann gave this up during the war
years as she also gave up active
sports because, " . . . everytime
I used to play tennis I sprained
my little finger. When I had to
decide between tennis and my little
finger, I gave up sports!"
The high light of her work at
N.S.T.C. was, according to Ann,
the day she opened an envelope
and found in it a check for
$54,144.24, the government's share
of the cost of Seymour Hall. The
business office still recalls how
she went around showing it to
everyone with the admonition,
"Just look at it, don't touch it!"
Doing the publicity for the col-lege
for the local newspaper is
Ann's chief work in her job at as-sistant
publicity director. At
times, when the activity program
is in full swing, this can reach hec-tic
heights, resulting in a situation
as involved as that of a student
with a big date for Thursday night
and five finals on Friday, from
which she always manages to ex-tricate
herself with her usual
charm and efficiency. And this
is only sort of an avocation as the
major part of her efforts are ex-pended
in her duties as Dr. Steele's
secretary. "I manage to keep my-self
busy," Ann says, and we be-lieve
her.
Prof. E. Kenneth Baillie will
serve as master of ceremonies for
the victory loan bond show spon-sored
by N.S.T.C. which will be
held in the college auditorium De-cember
13 at 8 o'clock.
A varied and entertaining pro-gram
of college and local talent
has been arranged. The college
band, directed by Prof. Harvey
Moen, and featuring Eddie Olson,
tenor, will provide music. A fea-tured
attraction is the Elks chorus,
with Joe Thompson as director.
Marilyn Tostenrud, lyric soprano,
will sing, and the Jahnel sisters,
Audrey and Crystal, will play pi-ano
and organ swing music.
Dancing numbers have also been
programmed for the revue. Two
Spanish dances will be given by
June Throckmorton and Lincoln
Abraham, and Dorothy Beller and
Zona Schreiber, college students
of Dr. Frances Benge. Mrs. Irene
Gerhard will present her Scotch
and military kiddie dancers. Ruth
Knudson and Mary Jane Carpen-ter,
popular dancing team, will ap-pear
in an act entitled "Tip Tap
Toe."
Don Klinger, former college stu-dent
who needs no introduction,
will hold the audience spell-bound
by his mighty magic, as the con-cluding
act of the show.
The public is cordially invited to
attend the show and participate in
the purchase of victory bonds. At-tractive
prizes will be offered. The
entertainment is admisson-free.
Chairmen for the affair are
Profs. Baillie and Moen, assisted
by Profs. P. J. Harkness, N. H.
Mewaldt and W. R. Van Walker,
and Roderick Ross, Dorothy Bell-er
and Leonard Aaro.
NSTC To Have VA
Advisement Center
The veterans administration an-nounced
the establishment of 25
new advisement centers for veter-ans
planning to attend school.
Most of the new centers will be
at colleges and universities. They
are to be placed in operation with-in
the next few weeks. About 175
such centers include: Northern
State Teachers college, Aberdeen,
and South Dakota School of Mines
and Metallurgy, Rapid City.
November 9—Roller Skating Par-ty,
8:00 p. m.
November 13—Phonograph Listen-ing
Hour, 6:45 p. m.
November 13—Victory Loan Bond
Show, auditorium, 8:15 p. m.
November 15—Education Week as-sembly
in auditorium. Under
direction of Dean Bixler, and P.
J. Harkness.
November 16—All-school Thanks-giving
dance, Lincoln sunparlor,
9:00 p. m.
November 20—Hubert Liang on
"China, Today and Tomorrow,"
auditorium, 8:15 p. m.
November 22—Thanksgiving va-cation
begins.
November 26—Classes resumed.
November 27—Women's chorus
and Band Concert, auditorium,
8:15 p. m.
November 30—Fall quarter ends.
December 1—Registration for win-ter
quarter.
December 3—Classwork for win-ter
quarter begins.
HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH HARRIED .
Ann Gubo Handles Many
Duties With Efficiency And Charm