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HELLO, FRESHMEN The Exponent HELLO, FRESHMEN! Northern State Teachers College VOL. XXVII . ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, SEPTEMBER 25, 1928 No. 1 HELLO, FRESHMEN! WE'RE GLAD TO SEE YOU HERE! HELLO! NINE NEW INSTRUCTORS JOIN NORTHERN FACULTY LUKKEN IN CHARGE OF MUSIC Commerce And Physical Education Departments Have New Heads The Northern State Teachers College begins the new year with nine new instructors. - Their degrees and experience in teaching are listed here-with. Mr. H. E. Alsup, B.S., State Teachers College, Springfield, Mo., and M.A., University of Chicago. Mr. Alsup will be the head of the commercial department. For the past several years he has been school accountant and has taught bookkeeping in the Central High School, Sioux City, Ia. Miss Ruth Fickes becomes the head of the department of physical education for women. Miss Fickes is a graduate of the Lincoln high school and holds her B.A. degree from the University of Nebraska. Since her graduation she has had charge of the gymnasium work at the Lincoln Y.W.C.A. and has done high school teaching in Mendota, Ill., and East Lansing, Mich. For the past two years she has been in charge of similar work in the Michigan State College, Lansing. Miss Grace McArthur, director of public school music, is a graduate of the Lincoln high school and of the Lincoln Musical College and holds the degree of B.F.A. from the University of Nebraska. Since receiving her degree she has studied for several summers at the University of Nebraska and at Northwestern University. She has had several years of experience as a teacher of piano and as supervisor of music in Nebraska schools. Miss Anne Raugust holds her B.S. in Education degree from the Northern State Teachers College, graduating last .June. While a student, Miss Raugust was interested in many cam-pus activities, especially in woman's athletics. She will have charge of the fourth and fifth grades of the campus school. Mr. Lloyd H. Spencer, B.A., Coe College, and M.A., Iowa State University. Mr. Spencer will take the place vacated by E. M. Paulu, as professor of education. Since receiving his M.A. degree he has had several summer Continued On Page Two) ALUMNA IS HONORED Marjorie Wilson Goes to State University As Instructor In Music Miss Marjorie Wilson of Aberdeen has been elected as instructor of piano in the College of Music at the University of South Dakota for the coming year. Miss Wilson has been a student at the Northern State Teachers College during the years 1923-1926. She has also been a piano and harmony student of Prof. Walther Pfitzner, head of the Department of Piano at the College, during the years 1923- 1928. During her several years as a student, Miss Wilson has received many honors. From 1924-28 she has been president of the Beethoven Club, honorary Music Fraternity, Brahms Chapter, Aberdeen. During the same interim she was pianist in the Aberdeen Little Symphony Orchestra. Her greatest musical triumphant was achieved last spring when she was soloist with the Little Symphony Orchestra, playing the entire Grieg A Minor Concerto with the orchestra under the direction of Prof. Pfitzner. She has also given many successful piano recitals. She received her diploma in piano in 1928 and was awarded the president's prize in piano for this past year. FACULTY HAS MEETING President Anderson called the faculty together for its first meeting of the year on Monday, September 17. In a very impressive address he outlined a clear-cut program for the year and asked for the full and hearty support of every faculty member in carrying out his various measures. There was a definite note of service and a desire to do those things which are for the best interest of the student body and higher education, throughout his speech. MISS MARJORIE MOODY Soprano Soloist GYPSY DAY IS OCTOBER 20, 1928 NEW GATEWAY ERECTED STUDENTS Five Classes of N. S. T. C. Join In Erecting Beautiful Memorial Entrance The new memorial gateway to the Northern State Teachers College campus at Kline and Twelfth is now completed. Like the Washington Street gateway this is a gift from several classes. Because the class of 1928 was the last class to contribute to the fund, Rosa Lambert headed the special committee composed of Jane Bell, Oscar Olson and Robert Campbell to plan the gateway. The plans for the gateway, drawn by Floyd Cocking, well-known as a commercial artist and a graduate of the class of 1928 from the Industrial Arts Department, are an exact duplicate of the plans for the Washington Street gateway which was erected by the class of 1921. Both are of reddish brick with gray stone trimmings. On the tallest column is a bronze plate bearing the inscription: "Presented by the class of 1924, '25, '26, '27, '28." REGISTRATION LARGE Definite figures are not yet available for the fall registration, but the Registrar's Office announces that before the close of the first week over seven hundred students have been enrolled. This is over five per cent in advance of the enrollment for last year, covering the same period. SPAFFORD HALL DEDICATED Dr. Charles Mayo of Rochester Delivers Notable Address on Health Education One of the special events of the summer quarter was the dedication of Spafford Hall on July 10. The exercises were accompanied by much dignity and a most appropriate program. Several members of the present Board and former Boards of Regents were in attendance as well as many guests of honor. Among the latter may be mentioned particularly Mrs. Spafford and her daughter. At the close of the special exercises in Spafford Hall Auditorium-Gymnasium, about forty guests attended a banquet at the Lincoln Hall dining room, in charge of Mrs. Helen M. Gamble. Among the distinguished guests of the day was Dr. Charles Mayo of Rochester fame who was a personal friend of Dr. Spafford and who delivered a notable address on the theme of "Health Education." The entire program is given below, Dr. Seymour presiding. Marche et Cortege, Gounod…College Orchestra (Prof. H. E. Goodsell, Directing) Invocation… Rev. J. E. Booth Presentation of Building to Board of Regents… D. F. Radsliff, Assistant State Engineer Acceptance… Regent Robert Bailey Dr. Frederick A. Spafford… Regent Alvin Waggoner Letter from Former-President H. W. Foght… Dr. Seymour Vocal Solo, "The Recessional"… Prof. Samuel C. Ham (Miss Dorothy Hooper at the Piano) Aberdeen and N.S.T.C….. J. E. Gorder, President, Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce Introduction of Dr. David Allen Anderson… Dr. Seymour Address Dr. Chas. Mayo… Marche Slave, Tschaikowskey and Pozieres, Lithgow… College Orchestra SEYMOUR BROTHERS PROMOTED During the summer further advancements have come to Gideon and Forrest Seymour, both of them former students at N.S.T.C. and sons of Vice- President Seymour. After many years of newspaper work with one advancement after another in the Associated Press Service, Gideon has reached the high pinacle coveted by every newspaper man, that of a free lance columnist. He is now New York columnist and dramatic editor of the Associated Press. His first efforts in this line appeared Monday, August 13. Several of his articles have appeared in the Aberdeen American-News. He writes: "I have now only to roam about New York and write four hundred words a day about the things I see. But as a matter of fact it is much more difficult than that, for to write something interesting, and new, picked out of nowhere, day in and day out about phases of New York life, is going to be an exacting task. Writing a daily New York column for the AP is the more difficult because of the high standards it must adhere to." Forrest Seymour has been a member of the Des Moines Register staff for the last five years and is now promoted to the state editorship of the Register and Tribune-Capital. He has worked up from copy-reader, assistant city editor, art editor and telegraph editor. His wealth of experience makes him well qualified for his new position. The Exponent and N.S.T.C. congratulate the Seymour brothers on these well deserved recognitions. Harriet Seymour, and her sister, Margaret, teach at Great Neck, New York. Margaret is doing primary work while Harriet teaches in the high school. This school is supervised by Mr. 0. S. Wood, formerly Superintendent of Schools in Aberdeen. As President of Northern State Teachers College, I take this means of extending to faculty and students both personal and institutional greetings. You are welcomed to membership in this great academic family. The provisions of this school are such as to challenge the best metal in us. Cooperating we can meet the test. Let us unite in unqualified loyalty and devotion to the interests of the institution, its traditions and its ideals. Sincerely, DAVID ALLEN ANDERSON, President. DAVID ALLEN ANDERSON IS NORTHERN HEAD HAS HAD WIDE EXPERIENCE New President Is Pleased With Institution And Plans For Wider Usefulness It is an outstanding event for any institution when a new president begins a new regime. Usually one epoch closes and a new epoch opens. Such is the case for the Northern State Teachers College in the departure of Dr. H. W. Foght for the Wichita, Kansas, Municipal University, and the coming of Dr. David Allen Anderson from the Kent, Ohio, Teachers College. Dr. Anderson has been on the campus since July 1 and has, therefore, had a splendid opportunity to get acquainted with his new surroundings before the opening of the fall quarter. He has impressed all of us-the school, the city and the state-as one admirably fitted for the important work as the president of this institution. On the other hand Dr. Anderson seems equally pleased with his new field of activity. The stage seems fully set for a new era which will not only carry on the fine traditions already established by N.S.T.C. but will greatly enlarge its field of service. Dr. David Allen Anderson was born in 1874. He attended the rural and village schools and the state University of Iowa, graduating from the later institution with the B. A. in 1908, M.A. in 1910 and Ph.D in 1912. For 1910-11 he was abroad on a traveling fellowship. During that time he made an intensive as well as extensive study of the school system of Norway and also studied for brief periods of time in the Universities of Oslo, Norway; Copenhagen, Denmark; Upsala, Sweden; Berlin and Leipsig, in Germany; the Sorbonne, France, and the Universities of London and Oxford in England. His experience in teaching includes rural, elementary and high school work in Iowa, Illinois and normal school work in LaCross, Wisconsin. He was for four years Professor of Education in the University of Washington and for nine years Head of the Department of Education and Psychology in Pennsylvania State College and since September, 1926, was president of the Kent, Ohio, State Normal School. He has done special teaching in summer sessions at Moorhead, Minnesota; LaCross, Wisconsin; Pennsylvania State College and in the State Universities of Washington, Maine, Colorado and Illinois. Dr. Anderson belongs to Phi Delta Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi, honorary education fraternities. He is the Director of the Public Education and Child Labor Association of Pennsylvania, a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and honorary member of the American Association of University Professors, the National Education Association, College Teachers of Education and the National Association for the Study of Education. He is also genuinely interested in church and community activities. We are glad to have Dr. Anderson with us and we hope that he will bring much honor both to himself and to the school through the important position he has just accepted. We are sorry to say that Mrs. Anderson has not yet come to make her home in Aberdeen. Because of a serious illness as a result of the flu she is still with her mother in Des Moines, Iowa. We trust that she will soon recover and join Dr. Anderson in establishing the new home in our midst. SOUSA'S GOLDEN JUBILEE TOUR INCLUDES NORTHERN WILL APPEAR OCTOBER 2 Famous Band Numbers 100 Musicians And Several Noted Soloists Lieutenant Commander John Philip Sousa, who, this year, is observing his golden jubilee as composer and conductor by taking his band upon its twentieth transcontinental tour, will be here with his organization at Spafford Hall, October 2. For 36 years he has taken his bandmen on tour and always with tremendous artistic and financial success. Everywhere he has been a close observer, and as a result of his observations he makes the prediction that within fifteen years America will lead the world in every branch of music. "It is bound to come," he said the other day in an interview. "We have a cosmopolitan population, and just as surely as we have made phenomenal strides in commerce, so we will in music. The country is ready with its commercial superiority to turn to the arts and to help music in every possible way. It wasn't so long ago that the American was non-existent as a musical factor. Twenty-five years ago it would be a rarity to see the name of an American on any Metropolitan Opera program. Today you find such names as Tibbets, Wakefield, Page, Talley, Halliday, Marshall, Hackett and many others. No longer does the public demand foreign names for musicians. People realize that talent is not confined to any one nationality. The public is more interested in the work that the man or the women can do than in the name. If you are a genius or if you have great talent, you can be Smith, Brown, Patterson or Jones--the public will accept you if you have the goods. The Sousa organization for the Golden Jubilee Tour is composed of 100 musicians. Aside from the regular Band numbers, among which Sousa will play several of his own compositions, Mr. John Dolan, cornetist, Miss Marjorie Moody, lyric soprano and Mr. Howard Goulden, xylophone soloist (Continued On Page Two) MAMMOTH RECEPTION PLANNED Faculty, Students, Aberdeen Citizens And Others Will Join in Welcoming Dr. Anderson What will undoubtedly prove to be one of the most attractive social events of the whole school year is being planned by a special committee appointed by Vice President Seymour. This event is a general reception for President Anderson and will be held in the Spafford Hall auditorium-gymnasium, Thursday, October 4. While the reception is for the general public, special invitations will be sent out to various groups such as the faculty and student body, the Regents of Education, all the Aberdeen Service Clubs, all the Aberdeen Women's Clubs, the public school teachers, and to all the ministers and their congregations. The hours will be from eight to eleven P. M. Further announcements will be made in next week's Exponent. The Committee in charge is Dean Moulton, chairman; Prof. Mewaldt, Mrs. Barnes, Miss Hayes and Prof. Pfitzner. COMING EVENTS Sept. 29-W.S.G.A. Kid Party. Oct. 2.-Sousa and His Band. Oct. 4-Reception to Dr. Anderson. Oct. 6-Sioux Falls vs. Wolves. Oct. 20-Gypsy Day. Nov. 1-Lecture Course. SPECIAL ASSEMBLIES Dean Moulton Talks to Women and Dean Thomas and Other Faculty Members to Men Thursday, September 20, a special girls' assembly was held in the auditorium under the direction of Dean Moulton who welcomed old students and gave a hearty greeting to all new students. She outlined for the girls some of the things they should observe in their college life that would help them to become the women they would like to be. These included: proper preparation of lessons each day; activities in extra-curricular work; -pzoper „f alt l. habit:, including recreation; affiliation with a church; and the keeping of home ties. She also emphasized the social regulations of the school and regulations for girls rooming outside the dormitories. She closed by urging the girls to feel at liberty to consult her about difficulties and stated that by their cooperation this should be made the happiest and most profitable year on the campus. The men's meeting was held in the balcony of the new gymnasium. J. W. Thomas, Dean of Men, presided. He spoke of his work among the men students in personal assistance, securing employment, etc., and urged that students observe the traditions of the school. Francis Clark who is president of the Y. M. C. A. gave an interesting address explaining the aims of the "Y" and urged all men to be present at the regular Thursday evening meetings. Mr. Mead spoke of football possibilities and requested that all the boys try out for football assuming them that great benefit might be theirs even if they do not make the first team. Mr. Spencer in a short speech backed up Mr. Mead's remarks regarding the advantage of football training. Several faculty members made announcements and offered assistance to the students. PROF. JENSEN IS BUSY Prof. Jensen, Head of the Science Department, spent a very busy summer both on and off the campus. July 3 and 4 he attended the annual N.E.A. session in Minneapolis where he was one of six people to speak before the science division. His theme was "Combined Laboratory and Classroom for the Small High School." During the first part of September he spent several days visiting with his people in Buffalo, N. Y. Later he spent some time in conference with Otis W. Caldwell, Director of the Lincoln Institute of School Experimentation of Teachers College, New York City. He also had conferences with Clarence Baer, State High School Director in Albany, New York, and with E. R. Glenn, who is joint author with Prof. Jensen on the suggested "Combined Laboratory and Classroom." Prof. Jensen also attended the seventy- sixth annual session of the American Chemical Society at Swampscott, Mass., where he spoke at three different sessions, once on the "Combined Classroom and Laboratory," once on the National Prize Chemistry Essay Contest and once on the "Minimum Equipment for High School Chemistry." In connection with the annual Chemistry Prize Essay Contest of the American Chemical Society, Mr. Jensen has been appointed chairman for the northwest for teachers colleges and normal schools. Prof. Jensen has also responded to many calls to assist in choosing the proper science equipment for high schools. Among these are Mobridge, Bath, Alepena, Big Stone City, Glenham and Mellette. Nora Staael is another Aberdeen city teacher, doing work in the Physical Education Department of the Central High School. N.S.T.C.'S HOMECOMING AWAITS ITS "Happiest Day" in School History Beckons Friends and Alumni Back Home Saturday, October 20, is Gypsy Day -the "Biggest Day," the "Best Day," and the "Happiest Day" of the school year. It brings the old students back to their school; it introduces the new students to our Annual Joy Day; and it makes us all more enthusiastic and better able to carry on a program which will make for the biggest and best N.S.T.C. in 1928. The members of the Gypsy Day committee have been working during the summer, and they will be very busy between now and October 20, but the committee cannot do the work alone. They need the cooperation of every student on the campus. The students can assist in two ways: first, by advertising; let the folks at home and friends in the various parts of the state know that Northern's Homecoming is an important event, and that they will benefit by being on the campus. second, by being present themselves. Before Gypsy Day a Queen and Marshal will be elected by the school body. Fitting coronation exercises will be held at 9:00 o'clock on Gypsy Day morning. Immediately following the coronation a parade will be formed and will go down main street to the Milwaukee Depot and return. This parade will give the down-town people a chance to enjoy a part of our "Home Coming." The afternoon entertainment will consist of a band concert at 1:30 and a big football game at 2:30 with the Spearfish Yellow Jackets-a strong team that will put up an interesting battle. Supper will be served in the cafeteria. At 7:30 a play will be presented in the auditorium after which a dance and a party will be enjoyed the rest of the evening. It has become tradition that Gypsy Day is the biggest all-school event of the year. It is up to all of us to make the 1928 Gypsy Day the most successful and Happiest Homecoming in the history of the school. HARKNESS ASKS QUESTION "Will You Help Bring The Cup Home For the Third Successive Time? In the trophy case of Spafford Hall is a large silver cup. For two years this trophy has been in the possession of the Northern State Teachers College. Miss Evelyn Mara was the first Northern winner and Miss Mildred Anderson won the state oratorical contest last year. Some representative of Northern has the responsibility of bringing the cup to 'Aberdeen and giving it a permanent home in our trophy case. It means that every person interested in oratory must do something to aid. The first call for orators comes from the speech department at this time. The home contest will be held early in December this year. Every person who can write an oration should be in that tryout. The greater the number of orators, the more opportunity will be given to choose the best. All orators are asked to call at Mr. Harkness' office, S-202, and discuss the matter of subject this week. Come out for oratory and be one of twenty possible candidates. STUDENT ASSISTANTS Among the instructors for this year will be three student assistants who are especially well qualified in their education and experience to conduct work in their special lines. Helen M. Davies will assist in the Fine Arts Department. She is a graduate of the Sioux City, Iowa, high school and has had three years of work at N.S.T.C., holding the same position last year. Russell E. Jonas will act as student assistant in the Department of Biology. He has attended the Spearfish Normal and has had several years of work at N.S.T.C. Incidentally we may add that Mr. Jonas is candidate for County Superintendent of Mead County and reports are that he is all but elected. Mary Alice Baker will be student assistant in the Physical Education Department for Women. She is a graduate of the Chariton, Iowa, high school and has had two years of work in the N.S.T.C. JOHN PHILIP SOUSA Band Director
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Title | The Exponent, 1928-09-25 |
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Publisher | Northern State University |
Date of creation | 1928-09-25 |
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Transcription | HELLO, FRESHMEN The Exponent HELLO, FRESHMEN! Northern State Teachers College VOL. XXVII . ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, SEPTEMBER 25, 1928 No. 1 HELLO, FRESHMEN! WE'RE GLAD TO SEE YOU HERE! HELLO! NINE NEW INSTRUCTORS JOIN NORTHERN FACULTY LUKKEN IN CHARGE OF MUSIC Commerce And Physical Education Departments Have New Heads The Northern State Teachers College begins the new year with nine new instructors. - Their degrees and experience in teaching are listed here-with. Mr. H. E. Alsup, B.S., State Teachers College, Springfield, Mo., and M.A., University of Chicago. Mr. Alsup will be the head of the commercial department. For the past several years he has been school accountant and has taught bookkeeping in the Central High School, Sioux City, Ia. Miss Ruth Fickes becomes the head of the department of physical education for women. Miss Fickes is a graduate of the Lincoln high school and holds her B.A. degree from the University of Nebraska. Since her graduation she has had charge of the gymnasium work at the Lincoln Y.W.C.A. and has done high school teaching in Mendota, Ill., and East Lansing, Mich. For the past two years she has been in charge of similar work in the Michigan State College, Lansing. Miss Grace McArthur, director of public school music, is a graduate of the Lincoln high school and of the Lincoln Musical College and holds the degree of B.F.A. from the University of Nebraska. Since receiving her degree she has studied for several summers at the University of Nebraska and at Northwestern University. She has had several years of experience as a teacher of piano and as supervisor of music in Nebraska schools. Miss Anne Raugust holds her B.S. in Education degree from the Northern State Teachers College, graduating last .June. While a student, Miss Raugust was interested in many cam-pus activities, especially in woman's athletics. She will have charge of the fourth and fifth grades of the campus school. Mr. Lloyd H. Spencer, B.A., Coe College, and M.A., Iowa State University. Mr. Spencer will take the place vacated by E. M. Paulu, as professor of education. Since receiving his M.A. degree he has had several summer Continued On Page Two) ALUMNA IS HONORED Marjorie Wilson Goes to State University As Instructor In Music Miss Marjorie Wilson of Aberdeen has been elected as instructor of piano in the College of Music at the University of South Dakota for the coming year. Miss Wilson has been a student at the Northern State Teachers College during the years 1923-1926. She has also been a piano and harmony student of Prof. Walther Pfitzner, head of the Department of Piano at the College, during the years 1923- 1928. During her several years as a student, Miss Wilson has received many honors. From 1924-28 she has been president of the Beethoven Club, honorary Music Fraternity, Brahms Chapter, Aberdeen. During the same interim she was pianist in the Aberdeen Little Symphony Orchestra. Her greatest musical triumphant was achieved last spring when she was soloist with the Little Symphony Orchestra, playing the entire Grieg A Minor Concerto with the orchestra under the direction of Prof. Pfitzner. She has also given many successful piano recitals. She received her diploma in piano in 1928 and was awarded the president's prize in piano for this past year. FACULTY HAS MEETING President Anderson called the faculty together for its first meeting of the year on Monday, September 17. In a very impressive address he outlined a clear-cut program for the year and asked for the full and hearty support of every faculty member in carrying out his various measures. There was a definite note of service and a desire to do those things which are for the best interest of the student body and higher education, throughout his speech. MISS MARJORIE MOODY Soprano Soloist GYPSY DAY IS OCTOBER 20, 1928 NEW GATEWAY ERECTED STUDENTS Five Classes of N. S. T. C. Join In Erecting Beautiful Memorial Entrance The new memorial gateway to the Northern State Teachers College campus at Kline and Twelfth is now completed. Like the Washington Street gateway this is a gift from several classes. Because the class of 1928 was the last class to contribute to the fund, Rosa Lambert headed the special committee composed of Jane Bell, Oscar Olson and Robert Campbell to plan the gateway. The plans for the gateway, drawn by Floyd Cocking, well-known as a commercial artist and a graduate of the class of 1928 from the Industrial Arts Department, are an exact duplicate of the plans for the Washington Street gateway which was erected by the class of 1921. Both are of reddish brick with gray stone trimmings. On the tallest column is a bronze plate bearing the inscription: "Presented by the class of 1924, '25, '26, '27, '28." REGISTRATION LARGE Definite figures are not yet available for the fall registration, but the Registrar's Office announces that before the close of the first week over seven hundred students have been enrolled. This is over five per cent in advance of the enrollment for last year, covering the same period. SPAFFORD HALL DEDICATED Dr. Charles Mayo of Rochester Delivers Notable Address on Health Education One of the special events of the summer quarter was the dedication of Spafford Hall on July 10. The exercises were accompanied by much dignity and a most appropriate program. Several members of the present Board and former Boards of Regents were in attendance as well as many guests of honor. Among the latter may be mentioned particularly Mrs. Spafford and her daughter. At the close of the special exercises in Spafford Hall Auditorium-Gymnasium, about forty guests attended a banquet at the Lincoln Hall dining room, in charge of Mrs. Helen M. Gamble. Among the distinguished guests of the day was Dr. Charles Mayo of Rochester fame who was a personal friend of Dr. Spafford and who delivered a notable address on the theme of "Health Education." The entire program is given below, Dr. Seymour presiding. Marche et Cortege, Gounod…College Orchestra (Prof. H. E. Goodsell, Directing) Invocation… Rev. J. E. Booth Presentation of Building to Board of Regents… D. F. Radsliff, Assistant State Engineer Acceptance… Regent Robert Bailey Dr. Frederick A. Spafford… Regent Alvin Waggoner Letter from Former-President H. W. Foght… Dr. Seymour Vocal Solo, "The Recessional"… Prof. Samuel C. Ham (Miss Dorothy Hooper at the Piano) Aberdeen and N.S.T.C….. J. E. Gorder, President, Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce Introduction of Dr. David Allen Anderson… Dr. Seymour Address Dr. Chas. Mayo… Marche Slave, Tschaikowskey and Pozieres, Lithgow… College Orchestra SEYMOUR BROTHERS PROMOTED During the summer further advancements have come to Gideon and Forrest Seymour, both of them former students at N.S.T.C. and sons of Vice- President Seymour. After many years of newspaper work with one advancement after another in the Associated Press Service, Gideon has reached the high pinacle coveted by every newspaper man, that of a free lance columnist. He is now New York columnist and dramatic editor of the Associated Press. His first efforts in this line appeared Monday, August 13. Several of his articles have appeared in the Aberdeen American-News. He writes: "I have now only to roam about New York and write four hundred words a day about the things I see. But as a matter of fact it is much more difficult than that, for to write something interesting, and new, picked out of nowhere, day in and day out about phases of New York life, is going to be an exacting task. Writing a daily New York column for the AP is the more difficult because of the high standards it must adhere to." Forrest Seymour has been a member of the Des Moines Register staff for the last five years and is now promoted to the state editorship of the Register and Tribune-Capital. He has worked up from copy-reader, assistant city editor, art editor and telegraph editor. His wealth of experience makes him well qualified for his new position. The Exponent and N.S.T.C. congratulate the Seymour brothers on these well deserved recognitions. Harriet Seymour, and her sister, Margaret, teach at Great Neck, New York. Margaret is doing primary work while Harriet teaches in the high school. This school is supervised by Mr. 0. S. Wood, formerly Superintendent of Schools in Aberdeen. As President of Northern State Teachers College, I take this means of extending to faculty and students both personal and institutional greetings. You are welcomed to membership in this great academic family. The provisions of this school are such as to challenge the best metal in us. Cooperating we can meet the test. Let us unite in unqualified loyalty and devotion to the interests of the institution, its traditions and its ideals. Sincerely, DAVID ALLEN ANDERSON, President. DAVID ALLEN ANDERSON IS NORTHERN HEAD HAS HAD WIDE EXPERIENCE New President Is Pleased With Institution And Plans For Wider Usefulness It is an outstanding event for any institution when a new president begins a new regime. Usually one epoch closes and a new epoch opens. Such is the case for the Northern State Teachers College in the departure of Dr. H. W. Foght for the Wichita, Kansas, Municipal University, and the coming of Dr. David Allen Anderson from the Kent, Ohio, Teachers College. Dr. Anderson has been on the campus since July 1 and has, therefore, had a splendid opportunity to get acquainted with his new surroundings before the opening of the fall quarter. He has impressed all of us-the school, the city and the state-as one admirably fitted for the important work as the president of this institution. On the other hand Dr. Anderson seems equally pleased with his new field of activity. The stage seems fully set for a new era which will not only carry on the fine traditions already established by N.S.T.C. but will greatly enlarge its field of service. Dr. David Allen Anderson was born in 1874. He attended the rural and village schools and the state University of Iowa, graduating from the later institution with the B. A. in 1908, M.A. in 1910 and Ph.D in 1912. For 1910-11 he was abroad on a traveling fellowship. During that time he made an intensive as well as extensive study of the school system of Norway and also studied for brief periods of time in the Universities of Oslo, Norway; Copenhagen, Denmark; Upsala, Sweden; Berlin and Leipsig, in Germany; the Sorbonne, France, and the Universities of London and Oxford in England. His experience in teaching includes rural, elementary and high school work in Iowa, Illinois and normal school work in LaCross, Wisconsin. He was for four years Professor of Education in the University of Washington and for nine years Head of the Department of Education and Psychology in Pennsylvania State College and since September, 1926, was president of the Kent, Ohio, State Normal School. He has done special teaching in summer sessions at Moorhead, Minnesota; LaCross, Wisconsin; Pennsylvania State College and in the State Universities of Washington, Maine, Colorado and Illinois. Dr. Anderson belongs to Phi Delta Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi, honorary education fraternities. He is the Director of the Public Education and Child Labor Association of Pennsylvania, a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and honorary member of the American Association of University Professors, the National Education Association, College Teachers of Education and the National Association for the Study of Education. He is also genuinely interested in church and community activities. We are glad to have Dr. Anderson with us and we hope that he will bring much honor both to himself and to the school through the important position he has just accepted. We are sorry to say that Mrs. Anderson has not yet come to make her home in Aberdeen. Because of a serious illness as a result of the flu she is still with her mother in Des Moines, Iowa. We trust that she will soon recover and join Dr. Anderson in establishing the new home in our midst. SOUSA'S GOLDEN JUBILEE TOUR INCLUDES NORTHERN WILL APPEAR OCTOBER 2 Famous Band Numbers 100 Musicians And Several Noted Soloists Lieutenant Commander John Philip Sousa, who, this year, is observing his golden jubilee as composer and conductor by taking his band upon its twentieth transcontinental tour, will be here with his organization at Spafford Hall, October 2. For 36 years he has taken his bandmen on tour and always with tremendous artistic and financial success. Everywhere he has been a close observer, and as a result of his observations he makes the prediction that within fifteen years America will lead the world in every branch of music. "It is bound to come," he said the other day in an interview. "We have a cosmopolitan population, and just as surely as we have made phenomenal strides in commerce, so we will in music. The country is ready with its commercial superiority to turn to the arts and to help music in every possible way. It wasn't so long ago that the American was non-existent as a musical factor. Twenty-five years ago it would be a rarity to see the name of an American on any Metropolitan Opera program. Today you find such names as Tibbets, Wakefield, Page, Talley, Halliday, Marshall, Hackett and many others. No longer does the public demand foreign names for musicians. People realize that talent is not confined to any one nationality. The public is more interested in the work that the man or the women can do than in the name. If you are a genius or if you have great talent, you can be Smith, Brown, Patterson or Jones--the public will accept you if you have the goods. The Sousa organization for the Golden Jubilee Tour is composed of 100 musicians. Aside from the regular Band numbers, among which Sousa will play several of his own compositions, Mr. John Dolan, cornetist, Miss Marjorie Moody, lyric soprano and Mr. Howard Goulden, xylophone soloist (Continued On Page Two) MAMMOTH RECEPTION PLANNED Faculty, Students, Aberdeen Citizens And Others Will Join in Welcoming Dr. Anderson What will undoubtedly prove to be one of the most attractive social events of the whole school year is being planned by a special committee appointed by Vice President Seymour. This event is a general reception for President Anderson and will be held in the Spafford Hall auditorium-gymnasium, Thursday, October 4. While the reception is for the general public, special invitations will be sent out to various groups such as the faculty and student body, the Regents of Education, all the Aberdeen Service Clubs, all the Aberdeen Women's Clubs, the public school teachers, and to all the ministers and their congregations. The hours will be from eight to eleven P. M. Further announcements will be made in next week's Exponent. The Committee in charge is Dean Moulton, chairman; Prof. Mewaldt, Mrs. Barnes, Miss Hayes and Prof. Pfitzner. COMING EVENTS Sept. 29-W.S.G.A. Kid Party. Oct. 2.-Sousa and His Band. Oct. 4-Reception to Dr. Anderson. Oct. 6-Sioux Falls vs. Wolves. Oct. 20-Gypsy Day. Nov. 1-Lecture Course. SPECIAL ASSEMBLIES Dean Moulton Talks to Women and Dean Thomas and Other Faculty Members to Men Thursday, September 20, a special girls' assembly was held in the auditorium under the direction of Dean Moulton who welcomed old students and gave a hearty greeting to all new students. She outlined for the girls some of the things they should observe in their college life that would help them to become the women they would like to be. These included: proper preparation of lessons each day; activities in extra-curricular work; -pzoper „f alt l. habit:, including recreation; affiliation with a church; and the keeping of home ties. She also emphasized the social regulations of the school and regulations for girls rooming outside the dormitories. She closed by urging the girls to feel at liberty to consult her about difficulties and stated that by their cooperation this should be made the happiest and most profitable year on the campus. The men's meeting was held in the balcony of the new gymnasium. J. W. Thomas, Dean of Men, presided. He spoke of his work among the men students in personal assistance, securing employment, etc., and urged that students observe the traditions of the school. Francis Clark who is president of the Y. M. C. A. gave an interesting address explaining the aims of the "Y" and urged all men to be present at the regular Thursday evening meetings. Mr. Mead spoke of football possibilities and requested that all the boys try out for football assuming them that great benefit might be theirs even if they do not make the first team. Mr. Spencer in a short speech backed up Mr. Mead's remarks regarding the advantage of football training. Several faculty members made announcements and offered assistance to the students. PROF. JENSEN IS BUSY Prof. Jensen, Head of the Science Department, spent a very busy summer both on and off the campus. July 3 and 4 he attended the annual N.E.A. session in Minneapolis where he was one of six people to speak before the science division. His theme was "Combined Laboratory and Classroom for the Small High School." During the first part of September he spent several days visiting with his people in Buffalo, N. Y. Later he spent some time in conference with Otis W. Caldwell, Director of the Lincoln Institute of School Experimentation of Teachers College, New York City. He also had conferences with Clarence Baer, State High School Director in Albany, New York, and with E. R. Glenn, who is joint author with Prof. Jensen on the suggested "Combined Laboratory and Classroom." Prof. Jensen also attended the seventy- sixth annual session of the American Chemical Society at Swampscott, Mass., where he spoke at three different sessions, once on the "Combined Classroom and Laboratory," once on the National Prize Chemistry Essay Contest and once on the "Minimum Equipment for High School Chemistry." In connection with the annual Chemistry Prize Essay Contest of the American Chemical Society, Mr. Jensen has been appointed chairman for the northwest for teachers colleges and normal schools. Prof. Jensen has also responded to many calls to assist in choosing the proper science equipment for high schools. Among these are Mobridge, Bath, Alepena, Big Stone City, Glenham and Mellette. Nora Staael is another Aberdeen city teacher, doing work in the Physical Education Department of the Central High School. N.S.T.C.'S HOMECOMING AWAITS ITS "Happiest Day" in School History Beckons Friends and Alumni Back Home Saturday, October 20, is Gypsy Day -the "Biggest Day," the "Best Day," and the "Happiest Day" of the school year. It brings the old students back to their school; it introduces the new students to our Annual Joy Day; and it makes us all more enthusiastic and better able to carry on a program which will make for the biggest and best N.S.T.C. in 1928. The members of the Gypsy Day committee have been working during the summer, and they will be very busy between now and October 20, but the committee cannot do the work alone. They need the cooperation of every student on the campus. The students can assist in two ways: first, by advertising; let the folks at home and friends in the various parts of the state know that Northern's Homecoming is an important event, and that they will benefit by being on the campus. second, by being present themselves. Before Gypsy Day a Queen and Marshal will be elected by the school body. Fitting coronation exercises will be held at 9:00 o'clock on Gypsy Day morning. Immediately following the coronation a parade will be formed and will go down main street to the Milwaukee Depot and return. This parade will give the down-town people a chance to enjoy a part of our "Home Coming." The afternoon entertainment will consist of a band concert at 1:30 and a big football game at 2:30 with the Spearfish Yellow Jackets-a strong team that will put up an interesting battle. Supper will be served in the cafeteria. At 7:30 a play will be presented in the auditorium after which a dance and a party will be enjoyed the rest of the evening. It has become tradition that Gypsy Day is the biggest all-school event of the year. It is up to all of us to make the 1928 Gypsy Day the most successful and Happiest Homecoming in the history of the school. HARKNESS ASKS QUESTION "Will You Help Bring The Cup Home For the Third Successive Time? In the trophy case of Spafford Hall is a large silver cup. For two years this trophy has been in the possession of the Northern State Teachers College. Miss Evelyn Mara was the first Northern winner and Miss Mildred Anderson won the state oratorical contest last year. Some representative of Northern has the responsibility of bringing the cup to 'Aberdeen and giving it a permanent home in our trophy case. It means that every person interested in oratory must do something to aid. The first call for orators comes from the speech department at this time. The home contest will be held early in December this year. Every person who can write an oration should be in that tryout. The greater the number of orators, the more opportunity will be given to choose the best. All orators are asked to call at Mr. Harkness' office, S-202, and discuss the matter of subject this week. Come out for oratory and be one of twenty possible candidates. STUDENT ASSISTANTS Among the instructors for this year will be three student assistants who are especially well qualified in their education and experience to conduct work in their special lines. Helen M. Davies will assist in the Fine Arts Department. She is a graduate of the Sioux City, Iowa, high school and has had three years of work at N.S.T.C., holding the same position last year. Russell E. Jonas will act as student assistant in the Department of Biology. He has attended the Spearfish Normal and has had several years of work at N.S.T.C. Incidentally we may add that Mr. Jonas is candidate for County Superintendent of Mead County and reports are that he is all but elected. Mary Alice Baker will be student assistant in the Physical Education Department for Women. She is a graduate of the Chariton, Iowa, high school and has had two years of work in the N.S.T.C. JOHN PHILIP SOUSA Band Director |
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