The Exponent, 1931-06-18

              BIOLOGY STATION OPENS
JULY 20, 1931
BIOLOGY STATION OPENS
JULY 20, 1931 
The Exponent
Northern State Teachers College

W. M. Oates, financial secretary, anti
Leroy Crawford, registrar, went to
Huron last week where they attended
the district meeting of the Lions Club.
They were accompanied by Mrs. Oates
and Mrs. Crawford and by Dick and
James, younger sons of Mr. and Mrs.
Oates.
Mr. Crawford attended the conven-tion
in his official capacity as district
secretary. Mr. Oates is past-governor
of the district and is chairman of the
committee preparing the necrology ser-vice
for which an impressive ceremony
was planned. Over 500 men were ex
pected to attend the Huron meeting.
The district includes North and South
Dakota, Minnesota, and the two pro-•
vinces of Canada, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Biology Station Opens July 20th.

VOL. XXIX. ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, JUNE 18, 1931
No. 34
SUMMER SESSION HAS LARGE INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR
THE COLLEGE PLAYERS
PRESENT "THE MOLLUSC"
DIRECTED BY PROF. RAMAY
Packed House Greets First Number
of Summer Lecture
Course
An interesting play, "The Mollusc,"
developing a peculiar psychological
situation, was presented in the college
auditorium, last Thursday evening, by
the College Players, Prof. Elwood
Ramay directing.
In three acts the comedy told the
story of a woman who through self-sympathy
was spoiling not only her
own life but the lives of those with
whom she came in contact. Helen
Burns-Leighton splendidly carried the
character part of Mrs. Baxter. Prof.
Ramay, as Tom, the brother of the
"invalid" sought to cure the sister's
malady. Interesting and clever bits of
comedy arose from situations between
these two characters. Especial credit
goes to Prof. Ramay, not only for his
excellent character portrayal, but also
for the manner in which he directed
the play.
Harvey Swenson, a frequent actor
in college productions, was well cast
as the eccentric English gentleman.
He carried the role ably, as did Miss
Louise Hansen, who played the part
of Miss Roberts, governess in the
Baxter household.
All three acts of the play were laid
in the sitting room. of the Baxter
household, some twenty or thirty miles
from London. Unique settings were
provided for the event. Set in the
1900 period, both properties and costumes
were appropriate in detail.
Heirloons of earlier periods, one
chair, made in 1820, was loaned to the
college group by H. L. Sliter, of Aberdeen.
Two small hand carved chairs,
125 years old, and a small table, 150
years old, were loaned by Fred Davis,
of the Davis Hotel.
Miss Helen Smith, of Barnard, reader,
entertained between acts, presenting
three numbers, "Drama in three
acts in three minutes," "The Genius,"
and "Pink Petty from Peter." One
encore number, "I Like to Do Things
for You" was also given. Miss Helen
Dobbins accompanied at the piano for
the third number. For the others Miss
Smith played her own accompaniment.

Local Grad Receives
Degree From Columbia
Miss Margaret Seymour, daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Seymour, recently
received an M. A. degree from
Columbia University. A total of 4,-
936 students were graduated at the
177th commencement, June 2, Dr. Seymour
stated.
After graduating from the Northern
State Teachers College in 1925, Miss
Seymour accepted a poistion as a kindergarten-
primary teacher in the city
schools of Aberdeen. Later she went
to Great Neck, New York, where she
has taught for the past three years.
One summer term and special classes
were attended by Miss Seymour to
earn the higher degree. She will come
to Aberdeen within a few weeks to
spend her vacation. Next fall she will
return to her position at Great Neck.

FACULTY-SENIOR BANQUET
Commencement Social Event Is Sponsored
by College For
Graduates
An outstanding function of the commencement
week festivities was the
faculty-senior banquet given by the
college, Wednesday, June 3, at the
Alonzo Ward Hotel. This event is an
innovation, but was so successful and
so thoroughly appreciated by everyone
that the hope was expressed by
everyone that it might become a tradition.
Place cards, flowers, and special
programs decorated the tables. After
the banquet the following program
was presented with Dr. Anderson as
toastmaster:
Piano solo, "On Moonlit Waters__
Pfitzner
Viola Boekelheide
Reading, "The Ham Actor"
Elwood Ramay
Vocal solo, "Kashmiri Love Song"__
Woodfore-Finden
"The Tinker Song"____ ____.__ Slater
E. Kenneth Baillie
Edna Olson, accompanist
"The Seniors" Rose Ramthun
Piano Solos, Waltz in G flat major
Chopin
Pell Street (Chinatown) Whithorne
Edna Olson
"What If" _ Dr. A. H. Seymour
"Alma Mater" The Assembly
A concert by the Northwestern R.
R. band played on the campus Wednesday
afernoon at 3:30. The visiting
musicians were in Aberdeen in connection
with the Golden Jubilee celebration.

COMING EVENTS
P. T. A. Work ____ June 22-26
Band Concert June 24
Dr. Clyde Fisher, lect. . June 25
Laurence Harp Quintet June 29
Russian Cossack Chorus July 6
Community Band Concert July 9
English Institute July 13-16
Miss Hendricks . July 13-14
Graduation Exercises __ July 17

GRAD. PUBLISHES BOOK
It is always an event when anyone
connected with an institution gets out
a book; this time it is Harriet Seymour-
Popowski, a graduate of Northern
State Teachers College in 1928.
Her booklet is entitled "Allegiance"
and is dedicated to her mother, Mrs.
A. H. Seymour. The 43 poems included
in the book are the cullings of several
years of work, starting while she
was yet a student on the local campus
and culminating in a year's work at
New York University.
Mrs. Popowski has for many year
been a student in the class of creative
writing conducted by Prof. J. C. Lindberg
and she has also had one year of
work with Gordon Lawrence, noted
New York writer. Most of the poems
have been published in Pasque Petals,
and one, "Death", was honored by being
reprinted in the Braithwaite anthology
for 1929. Though Mrs. Popowski
is still a young woman, experience
and imagination lend vitality and
charm to everything she writes. Every
poem is enriched by a distinctive
lyric note so that every one is readable.
The poems are classified under three
main headings: "Meanings," "Love
Songs," and "The Solace of Beauty."
Mrs. Popowski is the second N. S.
T. C. student to honor her Alma Mater
with a volume of verse, the first being
R. G. Ruste of the class of 1924.
"Allegiance" sells for fifty cents.
Anyone wishing a copy may send directly
to the author, Harriet Seymour-
Popowski, Aberdeen, South Dakota.

INCREASED ENROLLMENT
DESPITE DEPRESSION
An increase of 16 percent over last
year's enrollment was reported by
Dr. Anderson on the morning of the
fourth day of the summer session. He
also reported a gain of 100 students
over the figures for the fourth day's
registration of last year.
In analyzing the present business
depression Dr. Anderson expressed an
optimistic view of the situation as regards
South Dakota at least. He also
spoke encouragingly of the large number
of upperclasSmen who are working
to complete the four-year course.

ARTISTS GIVE RECITAL
Marian Kalayjian, Pianist, and Kurtis
Brownell, Tenor, Give Second
Number of Lecture Course
Marian Kalayjian, Yankton pianist,
appeared, June 16, as the second number
on the college entertainment
course for the summer term. Miss
Kalayjian has enjoyed a career of
rapid advancement in the piano art.
After graduating from the Yankton
College conservatory, she studied
abroad as winner of the Juilliard
Foundation Scholarship. Last June
she won the distinction of a complimentary
debut in Paris. After re-turning
to America in September she
appeared in a series of recitals at
Yankton. Of her first recital the
"Yanktonias" said: "Her concert was
a brilliant performance and made an
extraordinary impression on her
hearers."
Kurtis Brownell began his vocal
career in Chicago, as a student of Her-man
DeVries. Winning the Juilliard
Fellowship, in 1926, he went to New
York where he has had the unique
honor of having been awarded five
consecutive fellowships at the Juilliard
Foundation. His work during
that time has been under the vocal
guidance of Mr. Francis Rogers. During
the winter of 1929-30, he was engaged
as an exclusive artist for the
Columbia broadcasting system. The
past summer he studied in Paris and
Fontainebleau as a scholarship pupil
of the great artist-teacher, Salignac.
During the past winter, Mr. Brownell
sang the leading tenor role in the
opera "Don Pasquale" with the Little
Theatre Opera Company, of New
York and Brooklyn. He also sang the
lead, opposite Mable Garrison, in the
American premiere of a Handel opera,
"Rhodelinda," given under the direction
of Werner Josten. In March and
April he toured the east and middle
west, as a member of the American
vocal quartette, sponsored by the National
Music League. He has just
been awarded the Walter Naumburg,
New York debut prize, and will make
his official debut in Town Hall, January
26, this coming winter. Before
leaving New York this spring, Mr.
Brownell signed a contract with the
opera "Comique" to do leading roles
for the coming season in New York.
Professor Lee Byrne has been
granted a leave of absence from September
to June of next year in order
to act as Visiting Professor of Secondary
Education at New York University.
He will resume his duties
at Northern with the opening of next
year's summer session. Mrs. Byrne
left Aberdeen on Friday for Austin,
Texas, where her mother has been ill
for some time. She and Mr. Byrne
will go to New York about the end
of August.

333 Graduate At 29th Commencement 
46 RECEIVE B. S. DEGREES 
"The Art of Life" was Subject of Reverend
J. R. Perkins, of Iowa

HUGE MUSIC FESTIVAL
PLANNED FOR JULY 9
PROF. GOODSELL IN CHARGE
Music Students From More Than a
Dozen Communities Will
Participate
Plans for a huge orchestra and band
project for July 9 are announced by
Prof. H. E. Goodsell, professor of wind
instruments. Special music students
from the northern section of South
Dakota will come to the campus to
take part in the event. A concert
on the campus in the early evening,
about 7:00 o'clock, will be given by
the band. Later in the evening an orchestra
concert will be given in the
Spafford hall gymnasium. Over 100
students will take part in the orchestra
concert and between 75 and 85
students will appear in the band.
Special solos will be given during
the orchestra program, including a
number by Maurice Dobbins, winner
of the state high school violin solo
division this year. Other special numbers
will be announced later. All
students who will take part in the
music projects are pupils, individually
or in groups, of Prof. Goodsell. The
Ellendale college orchestra, under the
direction of Prof. Goodsell, will come
to Aberdeen in a group to participate.
Other schools and towns represented
include Barnard, Groton, Westport,
Ipswich, Andover, Bowdle, Mellette,
Northville, Stratford, Frederick and
Leola, Brentford.

LLOYD JOHNSON
New Y. M. C. A. President

Stressing the necessity of man "to
live happily, to live intelligently, to
live beautifully and to live justly,"
Rev. J. R. Perkins, minister of the
First Congregational Church, Council
Bluffs, Iowa, addressed a class of 333
graduates of the Northern State
Teachers College, June 4, in one of the
most scholarly addresses delivered on
the local campus. "The Art of Life"
was the subject announced by the
speaker.
Students graduated included those
who had earned the four-year diploma
with the degree bachelor of science
in education; those who had completed
the work for the two-year certificate
and the one-year certificate students.
Forty-six students completed the four-year
curricula. Seventy-nine were
graduated from the two-year course
and 208 received the one-year diploma
for completion of the one-year curriculum.
Diplomas were awarded by Regent
W. S. Dolan, chairman of the standing
committee for Northern, following
a presentation of the classes by Vice-
President A. H. Seymour and recommendation
by President David Allen
Anderson. An announcement of
awards and prizes and a short address
to the classes was also made by
Dr. Anderson.
"Self expression balanced by self
restraint makes an artist," declared
Rev. Mr. Perkins. "The ages only
claim men and women who learn how
to wait," he also stated, emphasing
the need of youth to wait until self-expression
was mature before trusting
himself to the public. "The finest
of the fine arts is the ability to get
along with other people," the speaker
stated in closing.
Rev. Frank Mitchell, of the First
Presbyterian Church, Aberdeen, gave
the invocation and Rev. Pierce O.
Bunt pronounced the benediction.
Music was provided by the college
symphony orchestra, playing both the
processional and the recessional and
the "Pedre Overture," by Massenet.
Louise Milligan sang "The Spirit
Flower" by Campbell-Tipton, accompanied
by Viola Boekelheide, and
Maurice Dobbins, violinist, played
"Concerto, Op. 64" by Mendelssohn,
accompanied by Helen Dobbins.

LIBRARIANS ENTERTAINED
Following the commencement exercises
Thursday morning, Margaret
Brown entertained a group of friends
at a one o'clock luncheon in the Tumble
Inn. The guests were seated at
tables attractively decorated with
roses. Those who found places were
Mrs. Barnes, Miss Beulah Williams,
Miss Bessie Readey, Miss Mercedes
Ahern, Miss Marian Karrigan, Miss
Josephine Brainard, Miss Elvera Kundert,
Miss Alice Lortscher, Miss Selma
Meyer, Miss Margaret Brown and Mrs.
Brown.

PRESIDENT ANDERSON
ADDRESSES ASSEMBLY

LAWRENCE HARP QUINTETTE
The Lawrence Harp Qunitette which
will make its appearance on the campus
on June 29 as the fourth number
of the summer lecture course will undoubtedly
prove to be an especially
delightful number. The personnel of
the quintette includes Lucile Lawrence,
Marietta Bitter, Thurema Sokol,
Grace Weymer and Eleanor Shaffner.
They are under the concert
management of Harry and Arthur
Culbertson.
Press reports state that they have
been enthusiastically received in their
many appearances, having given
twenty-four concerts during their first
touring season.

About seven hundred students assembled,
Thursday morning, for the
first assembly period of the summer
session. As the first feature of the
program President Anderson introduced
Miss Chloris Wyckoff, a former student
at Northern, who entertained the
group with two delightful vocal numbers,
"The Cradle Song," by McFaryen
and "The 'Venetian Cardinal," by
Bronti.
After extending a cordial welcome
to the students enrolled for the summer
session, Dr. Anderson spoke on
the importance of continued professional
growth to meet the steadily increasing
requirements. He said in
part that it was particularly encouraging
to note that in the face of the
present economic depression and reduced
salaries, more teachers had enrolled
than at any previous session in
recent years and he commended them
for their earnest endeavor to further
prepare themselves for efficiency. He
paid a high tribute to the young people,
who are forging ahead despite
many handicaps, by saying that there
is just as ardent search for education
by the young people of today as by
the Lincolns and Alice Freeman Palmers
of the past. He urged the students
to strive for a well-defined goal,
pointing out that their investments in
self will determine, to a large extent,
what they will be tomorrow. He deplored
the common attitude toward
the white-collar job as such, saying
that the individual who is looking for
large returns on a minimum of service
deserve but little. He concluded
by urging the students to get the most
out of the summer session and to go
back to their communities inspired
with a desire to render a worthwhile
service.
The spirited singing of Alma Mater
brought the first regular assembly
period to a successful close.

Oates and Crawford
Attend Lions Meet

1931 Prizes and Awards 
President's Scholarship Award
Irma Maschke, Aberdeen
Pfitzner Scholarship in Piano
Harriet Hall, Aberdeen, and Frances Smith, Hecla
Lukken Scholarship in Voice
Marjorie Black, Big Stone City, and Frances Greene, Aberdeen
Baillie Painting for Outstanding Service in Art Department and 
Beaux Arts Club P.
First-Helen Powell, Mt. Vernon 
Second-Dorothy Johnson, Aberdeen
Sauer Citizenship Award
Irma Maschke, Aberdeen
Gallett Short Story Medals
Gold-Valva Weisman, McLaughlin
Silver-Virginia Rowlee, Aberdeen
Tiffany Poetry Prize 
First-Mrs. Eva K. Anglesburg, Thompson, N. D. 
Second-Esther Russell, Summit 
Third-Roberta Robertson, Lead 
Lightner Prize in Good English
Mrs. Helen Burton, Aberdeen, and Rowena Shifflett, Aberdeen
Lions' Club Prize in Scholarship and Athletics 
Ed Dresselhuys, Aberdeen 
W. A. A. Sportsmanship Key
Edna Bruns, Barnard Pc
Sigma Delta Epsilon Prize Essay Contest
First-Elinor Kraushaar, Aberdeen 
Second-Amy Wilhelm, Faulkton
Sigma Delta Epsilon Award
Elizabeth Holtz, Aberdeen
Isaac Lincoln Medals in Oratory
Gold-Louis Anderson, Lowry 
Silver-Helen Kelly, Aberdeen is
Pi Kappa Delta Provincial Forensic Tournament
First Place, Women's Debate-Rose Ramthun, Aberdeen 
Barbara Anderson, Aberdeen, and Marian Karrigan, Aberdeen 
State Peace Oratorical Contest
First Prize-Clive Acker, Jr., Aberdeen
Kappa Delta Pi Medal
Marian Karrigan, Aberdeen
National Chemistry Prizes
$500.00-Margaret Brown, Aberdeen
$500.00-Elinor Kraushaar, Aberdeen

DEGREE CLASS OF 1931
Bachelor of Science in Education
General Curriculum
Mercedes Ahern
Virgil Albert Bell
Elsie Berndt
Alfred Bieber
Viola Boekelheide
Lois M. Buchele
Frances Elizabeth Buel
Marcus A. Bunsness
Helen Bruce Burton
Doris E. Cofell
Mabel F. Eggers
Ann Cecilia Heck
Ira M. Hess
Margaret Hibbard
Carolyne Herman Hill
William K. Holland
Nellie Agnes Huber
Myrtle B. Hundstad
Otto Hundstad
Mary Welch Hyatt
Lillian H. Kuechler
Elvera K. Kundert
Virginia Lauermann
Wilson M. Lewin
Beatrice Lyman Lindberg
Elmer Loken
Wilford H. D. Longwood
Irma A. Maschke
Myrtle T. Meyer
Thelma Louise Milnor
Bernice O'Grady
Emil H. Olen
Edna M. Olson
Viola D. Oyhus
Zenie M. Price
Rose Ramthun
Esther Helen Robertson
Esther A. Russell
John Emil Schaal
Cecil J. Tobin
LaVaun Vahldieck
LaVern Vahldieck
La Roy W. Zell
Industrial Arts
Paul Finnegan
Theodore Rozendal
G. Verne Tyrrell

FACULTY MEMBERS STUDY

JOAN OF ARC
Prof. John Lukken directed the student
glee clubs, chorus and college
orchestra in the presentation of "Joan
of Arc," a historical cantata by A. R.
Gaul, in the college auditorium Tuesday
evening, June 2. The program was
the annual spring musical project of
the music department. A brief synopsis
of the cantata follows:
Joan, a French Patriot, saw visions
and believed that Divine Voices called
her to a mission. France desired a
new national freedom. Joan sensed
this new national consciousness and is
inspired in her activities by "The
Voices", Robert, Phillip and Jean.
Joan, dressed in a man's armour, carried
a white banner at the fore-front
of many battles against the invaders.
Later this peasant girl was captured,
tried as a sorceress and burned at the
stake. Twenty-five years later it was
discovered that a mistake had been
made and Joan of Arc was canonized
as a patriotic saint of France.
The soloists were as follows: Joan,
Louise Milligan, soprano; The Voices,
Carolyne Hill, contralto; The Maid,
Marjorie MacDonald, soprano; Robbert,
Fred Krug, baritone; Phillip
Arthur Carrier, tenor; Jean, Prof. J. C.
Lindberg, baritone; Accompanists,
Viola Boekelheide and Patricia Fitzpatrick.
The production was a fitting close
for the year's work and some very
outstanding work was done by both
soloists and chorus.

KRAFT HEADS ALUMNI

Miss Grace McArthur has left for
Northwestern University, at Evanston,
Illinois, where she will take advanced
work in music education for
a period of eight weeks. At the close
of the summer term there, she will go
to Cleveland, Ohio. to visit relatives.
Another school, Minnesota University,
claims Prof. I. D. Weeks for the
summer term, where he will be identified
with the College of Education.
This is the second year that he has
been called to the Minnesota campus
as a teacher. He will have a class in
the teaching of reading and in the
technique of elementary instruction.
He will also serve as an adviser to
students who are majoring in elementary
education.
Five others of the Northern instructors
for the regular year are availing
themselves of the opportunity to study
this summer. Misses Edith Aldrich
and Gladys Scott are attending Iowa
University; Miss Ruth Fickes is attending
Columbia University and Mr.
L. A. Tohill has already taken up his
new post at the Kent, Ohio, Teachers
College where he will be located during
the next regular school year. Mr.
Marc Cleworth is still attending Chicago
University, where he has been
since the winter quarter.

The annual alumni luncheon was
held Thursday at one o'clock in the
cafeteria. Mrs. Leroy Crawford presided
and about seventy-three members
were present. Marie Madsen
gave the speech of welcome to the new
members and Viola Oyhus, president
of this year's senior class, gave the
response. Representatives of all the
graduating classes were called upon
to speak. The earlist representation
was of the class of 1904 of which Mrs.
Francis Jamison of Aberdeen is a
member. In her day the college graduated
students from only two-year
courses. The program consisted of a
piano duet by LaVaun Vahldieck and
an address by Dr. A. H. Seymour on
"Loyalty". Dr. Seymour presented
four phrases of loyalty-to home, to
school, to town and to state.
The business meeting consisted of
the election of officers for 1931-32.
Frank Kraft of Hosmer was elected
president, Louis Anderson of Watertown,
vice president; and Harold Fowler
of Aberdeen, secretary-treasurer.

Supt. Russell E. Jonas, county superintendent
of Meade County, has
been granted leave of absence in order
that he may complete his work
at Northern.