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THE GEORGE MULVANEY COMPANY COMES NOV. 5 CALLED "SONG REVUE OF 1930" Program Will Include. Opera Sketches. Song Hits, Dances and Costume Dramatization "The Song Revue of 1930," presented by George Mulvaney and Company, at the college, November 5, will be the second number on the lyceum course this year. They will present an unusually versatile program of musical comedy and light opera, and popular song hits of today, arranged in quartets, trios, duets, and solos. The Music Box Revue consists of five artists: three women and two men -soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, pianist, tenor and baritone. The presentations include costume dramatization, dance-steps, wonderful singing, and special scenery. The program will be made up of selections from "Robin Hood," "Naughty Marietta," "Blossom Time," "Mikado," "Prince of Pilsen," besides many others including numbers of the old-time favorite songs, and also the standard popular song hits of today with many theme songs from the latest talking pictures. This program is so varied that everyone would enjoy it. The Mulvaney Concert Company is recognized as one of the most entertaining and artistic musical companies of the day. PFITZNER DELIGHTS ASSEMBLY Four piano selections by Professor Walther Pfitzner, three on the regular program and one encore, provided the main features of the regular assembly, last Thursday morning. The numbers presented were Cracovienne Fantastique, Paderewski; Rainy Night, Niemann; Sequidilla, Albeniz, Valse in G flat (encore), Chopin. The program was thoroughly enjoyed by all as Professor Pfitzner is always a prime favorite with a college audience. School Has Fine Orchestra Prof. Goodsell, Director, Reports Organization of Forty Members Although orchestra work at North-ern has been delayed in the rush and whirl of the Gypsy Day homecoming, nevertheless progress has been made, according to Prof. H. E. Goodsell, director. About forty reported for the first rehearsal and regular meetings have been scheduled for Tuesday evenings. Final selections of the orchestra have not been made, but those who reported include: Violins-Maurice Dobbins, Aberdeen; Leon Everson, Aberdeen; Ray Gusseck, Aberdeen; Roy Schoppe, Aberdeen; Maurine Martin, Aberdeen; Alvin Skibsrud, Aberdeen; Miriam Hoke, Platte; Morris Hagenston, Aberdeen; Irene Hersrud, Hettinger, North Dakota; Grace Clarkson, Buffalo; Winifred Cody, Groton; Carol Van Walker, Aberdeen; Ethel Olide, Aberdeen; Ingevelde Pfitzner, Aberdeen; Elizabeth Switts, Aberdeen; Suzanne Pattno, Aberdeen. Cellos-Dale Ward, Hettinger, North Dakota; Maynard Buck, Aberdeen. Saxophones-Marian Fuller, Aberdeen; John Pagones, Aberdeen; Esther Sueltz, Groton; Dorothy Stone, Andover. Basso-Sidney Freyberg, Aberdeen; Roderick Ross, Aberdeen. Flute-Dorothy Lilly, Aberdeen. Clarinets-Ralph Bisbee, Aberdeen; Catherine Van Walker, Aberdeen; Lee Buck, Aberdeen; LaRue Schmidt, Tripp. Cornets-John Elsing, Aberdeen; Erwin Hamilton, Aberdeen; Ralph Carlson, Aberdeen. Horns-Mrs. R. Ross, Aberdeen; Arthur Metcalf, Aberdeen. Trombone-Herbert Black, Big Stone; Harold Jahuel, Aberdeen; Sylvan Moe, Aberdeen. Piano-Patricia Fitzpatrick, Aberdeen; Marjorie McDonald, Aberdeen. Drum-Robert Hill, Aberdeen. MISS BROWN'S "PARADISE" WILL BE GYPSY DAY PLAY CAST IS HARD AT WORK Miss Bagstad, Director, Says Drama Is Full of Amusing and Emotional Situations "Gypsy Paradise," was dramatised by Auralia Rouvenol from Alice Brown's novel "Paradise." Miss Brown is a woman of well-established literary reputation, the author, among other plays, of "Joint Owners in Spain." The play has continuous interest and vivid characterization. Through it runs the superstitious fear of witches which still clings among the less educated classes from Maine to Massachusetts. A pretty French- Viennese Gypsy fortune teller in the tent show becomes terrified at the too ardent love-making of the mesmerizer, Ben Ali. She runs away and seeks refuge in the home of Malory Dwight a young villager. The girl is utterly untaught in the ways of civilized life, and the older people cannot quite overcome their superstitious fear of this girl who has never before lived in a house. Malory Dwight, however, descendant of the blue-blooded Dwights of Massachusetts has no such fear; to the consternation of all he takes the girl into the house as nurse to his invalid sister, Clary. The neighbors begin to talk and amusing situations follow. SOPHS CHOOSE OFFICERS The election of officers in the Sophomore Class resulted as follows: President, Edward Dresselhuys; Vice-President, Virgil Hanlon; Secretary-Treasurer, Elizabeth Holtz; Student Council Representatives, Clinton Williams and Lorraine Aldrich; Social Commit-tee Member, Beecher Callaghan. "Father" Of Gypsy Day Writes Charles Fleischman Carries Bumper Sign Over 5000 Miles John Schaal, Gypsy Day chairman, recently received a letter from Charles Fleischman, graduate of the college and now an instructor in the Central High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mr. Fleischman has been generally credited as one of the originators of Gypsy Day and was very active in the years of 1916 and 1919 inclusive, while a student. In his letter to the Gypsy Day committee he sends greetings and words of cheer, hoping that the celebration planned for October 18 will be bigger and better than any of its predecessors. Mr. Fleischman also stated that he has carried one of the bumper signs on his auto for several thousand miles, through seven states. His mileage record is just a little over the 5,000 mark. The continued interest of Mr. Fleischman in the Gypsy Day celebration is most gratifying to the local committee. Miss Milligan Wins Former Student is Successful in Atwater- Kent Radio Contest Louise Milligan, a student at Northern for the last three years, and this year a teacher in the Barnard Consolidated School, was the winner of first place in the district Atwater- Kent Radio Audition Contest which was broadcast over the Huron station on the evening of Friday, October 10. Miss Milligan, who is a lyric soprano soloist, competed with nine other vocal soloists from this section of the state. Miss Bernice Remde was her piano accompanist. The contest held Friday evening at Huron is one of a series of elimination contest which are held in all parts of the country in order to select outstanding soloists from each state. The contestants to represent South Dakota in the national contest will be selected at Yankton, on October 24. We wish for Louise further successes. Come To Pep Fest One of the biggest pep fests ever staged at Northern is being planned for tomorrow evening at 7:30, on Johnson Field. According to announcement it will be in charge of the Y. M. C. A. "Cy" Houge and Herb Black will be in charge of the bonfire and are asking the assistance of any boys who are willing to help in gathering the material. Harold Fowler also promises a fine display of fire works. Among other events will be a snake dance and a parade through the downtown district. Dr. Anderson, Coach Campbell, Captain Lewis and others will speak. Everybody should be out. THANKS I want to thank you all for your cooperation and help. I appreciate the honor you have given me and I will try to live up to it by helping to make this the gayest and happiest of our Gypsy Days. -Jeanne Champlin FORMER FACULTY MAN IS HIGHLY HONORED MR. SIPPLE CALLED TO INDIA Wichita Dean Was Dean and Head of Rural Department At Northern A letter to Dean Moulton from Mrs. Sipple, post-mistress at Northern for many years, tells of an outstanding honor which has come to Mr. Sipple, formerly Dean of the Senior College and head of the Department of Rural Education here at Northern. They are now located at Wichita, Kansas. We congratulate the Sipples on this honor. We are proud to number Mr. Sipple among our faculty for ten years and we are sure that his years of service here had something do do with his advancement and present opportunities. "Last Saturday, Mr. Sipple had a wire from the Institute of Social and Religious Research of New York City asking him if he would be available for the covering of Rural Education in India on a staff of eight specialists to work this college year. "After consulting Dr. Foght who advised him to go Mr. Sipple wired for details which came special delivery a few minutes ago. In brief, he has accepted the offer subject to favorable action by the Board of Regents on leave of absence. With Dr. Foght's recommendation, we anticipate no difficulty. "Educational work in India and Burma is to be covered by E. L. Hendricks, President of Warrensburg, Missouri, State Teachers College, he covering the secondary and teacher-training, and Mr. Sipple the rural schools. I'm sure you know him. C. Luther Fry is director, and a man by the name of Hypes, a rural sociologist, is one of the party. "They will probably sail from New York November 20, because on that steamer will be the American members of the Educational Commission that goes to study mission colleges in India-also Dr. Diffendorfer, fraternal consultant of the staff." RURAL SCHOOL NOTES Prof. Culp lectured at the community club meeting held at the Trail School, Friday night. Miss Anna Dorothea Cordts, author of one of the newer reading primers, visited demonstration schools, Monday. Children in the rural demonstration schools are given library privileges. Miss Mary Schram, secretary for the Rural Department, checks cases of books out to each school once a month. Children are encouraged to read every book sent them, checking books from the teacher's desk the same as if it were the college library. When one case of books is read, another case is exchanged. Improvements Are Made Considerable work on the lighting fixtures on Johnson field was done this week, according to LeRoss Morris. The poles have been painted and a patented, removal step was installed. The removal step is calculated to keep boys from climbing the poles. Work has also been done on the back campus, grading and prepairing the ground for seeding next spring about the open air theatre. INDUSTRIAL ARTS NOTES Officers of the Industrial Arts Club were selected recently with Paul Finnegan of Aberdeen as president for the year. Other officers include Seymour Houge, of Aberdeen, vice-president, and Leonard Sloan, of Aberdeen, secretary-treasurer. Definite organization plans for the year were made by the club at its first meeting. As in former years a float will be entered in the Gypsy Day homecoming parade. Verne Tyrrell, of Bancroft, will have direction of this project, assisted by Paul Finnegan. Verne Tyrrell was last year's assistant school carpenter to Robert Sloan, who is this year teaching at Flandreau. Verne now has full charge of this department. Spear Spearfish Yellowjackets Oct. 18 GAYEST GYPSY GATHERING MEET US AT THE Northern State Teachers College ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA * PROGRAM OF THE DAY 9:00 Coronation of Gypsy Queen 11:30 Colorful Gypsy Parade down town 1:15 Band Concert and Gypsy Lawn Dancers-Campus 2:30 Championship Football Classic (Northern Wolves vs. Spearfish Yellowjackets) 5:00 All School Gypsy Supper 6:45 Awarding of prizes for costumes, floats, etc. 7:30 "Gypsy Paradise" three act Gypsy Play 9:30 Gypsy Costume Ball, music by Gypsy Merry-makers Dance Band SPECIAL FEATURES Governor Bulow, members of the State Board of Regents, United States Senators Peter Norbeck and Wm. McMaster, and United States Representatives Royal C. Johnson and C. A. Christopherson, as well as other notables, have assured the committee that they will attend the big celebration. The two-mile parade will include hundreds of Gypsies in colorful costumes and scores of beautiful floats. Music by four bands. The championship Drum and Bugle Corps of the Aberdeen American Legion will give an exhibition between halves at the football game. BIG FOOTBALL CLASSIC The Northern Wolves have decisively won their first two games. We have the best team in years. The Gypsy Day game against Spearfish, Conference champions for the last two years, will be a battle long to be remembered. * * * * JOIN THE CROWD AND ENJOY OUR 15th ANNUAL HOMECOMING SPEAR SPEARFISH (Yellowjackets)-OCTOBER 18 Northern State Teachers College VOL. XXIX. ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, OCTOBER 16, 1930 No. 4 NOTHING MORE GAY THAN GYPSY DAY OCTOBER 18 The Exponent SPEAR SPEARFISH (Yellowjackets)-OCTOBER 18 FIRST GYPSY DAY HELD OCTOBER 18, '16 FOUND IMMEDIATE POPULARITY Fleischman, Kieser and Creed Are Among Those Credited As Originators With the fifteenth annual Gypsy Day at the Northern State Teachers college set for October 18, thoughts turn to the first homecoming of the institution in 1916. Gypsy Day, it would seem, was the outgrowth of a constant urge of the general student body. Several figures stand out as influential in the first day, including Charles Fleischman, now a teacher in the Central High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Paul W. Kieser, located at present in Springfield, Massachusetts, and C. H. Creed, Jr., a farmer near Columbia. The direct origin of the Gypsy Day idea is buried under a maze of conflicting opinions and memories. In the Exponent of November 15, 1915, a letter to the editor signed Livewire proposes the following: "As this is more of a girls' school I would suggest "Gypsy Day" as a suitable celebration. Floats could be easily pre-pared and the parade could meet the trains, then all could retreat to an ideal Gypsy camp near the school for dinner, after which a football game would be played, and if the weather were suitable an evening camp could be held. Come on, students, alumni and faculty, with opinions and suggestions." It was not until the year following, however, that Gypsy Day became a reality. Whatever the origin, the success cannot be denied. The Aberdeen American-News has described it in an approving write-up: "So great a success in point of beauty and spirit was the first Gypsy Day that the Normal students celebrated yesterday, that it should become a well established custom from this time on." The Exponent write-up of the day, says: "Early Saturday morning gay colored figures swarmed upon the campus. With dark braids done up in unique headdress, with bright skirts and gay sashes, the fair N. N. I. S. Gypsiettes gathered for the carnival of the Romanies. Their dark fiercer-looking partners of the stern sex mingled with them, making dark patches in the gay throng." LECTURE COURSE OPENED BY MR. FREDERICK WARDE NOTED SHAKESPEAREAN ACTOR Address Is Full of Personal Incidents and Excellent Advice Frederick L. Warde, famous Shakespearean orator and lecturer, opened the lecture course with an address, Wednesday evening, in the auditorium. The lecture, which contained much humor and many interesting side lights on the life of Shakespearean actors of his career, was very well received by a large audience which was often moved to bursts of hearty laughter. Mr. Warde was introduced by Doctor Anderson who said in introducing him: "No name in literature is more universally known and under-stood than that of Shakespeare. Few actors are more familiar with the great dramatist of the footlights than Mr. Warde, Shakespearean scholar and interpreter." Mr. Warde spoke of acting as the profession of the stage. Some people call the stage a mimic stage, or a world of make-believe. He called it a world of work, involving a study of personalities, and, above all, sincerity to one's fellows-a world illuminated by fancy and glorified by truth. a world nourished by manhood. In the early days of his career the stage was a standard of pronunciation of the English language with Johnson's dictionary on the table, just as we have Webster's now. Mr. Warde distinguished between the English and American language because of the additions we have made to the version we speak. He said that we do not open our mouths enough when we talk, and he quoted the line from the Bible, "The Saviour opened his mouth and spake." Referring to our flag he said: "We would not see the Stars and Stripes mutilated in any form, why not honor our language as much as we would the flag?" He begged the audience to preserve the integrity of the American language and to hand it down to posterity unsmothered. Mr. Warde denies that there is a hidden meaning in Shakespeare. He advised to put the simplest possible meaning into the plays of the great dramatist. His remarks on personal incidents and his comments on the famous personalities he has met made his lecture one long to be remember-ed. Mr. Warde gave good advice when he said that every address should have a moral, and his was taken from his own experiences: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Don't give up; don't be disheartened. Try again, and again, and again." As a conclusion to his speech he left with his audience his best wishes for "365 days of health, love and work." and a memory of an actor of intense emotional and dramatic ability. Note Change of Time To meet the requests of many girls the time for the Y. W. C. A. meetings has temporarily been changed from Sunday afternoon to Monday evening, seven to seven-forty-five o'clock. If the experiment proves successful this hour will be made permanent. On account of Gypsy Day activities there will be no meeting October 20, but the first regular Monday evening meeting will be held October 27 in the Lincoln Hall sunparlor. Congressman Johnson Speaks Speaker Tells Students That Working One's Way Through College Is Best Preparation for Life In his address before the student body, Tuesday morning, October 14, Royal C. Johnson, United States congressman from this district, reviewed his past visits to Northern and his trials in working his way through college. He stressed the idea that out of the struggles through which young people go in their way through school comes the qualities which make the best in citizenship and leadership, and it is these young people who often become the outstanding personages of their state and nation. He advised young people to study politics, for every activity in the United States is involved in politics. Study politics from the economic point of view because many of the depressions of the past and at the present have come about because of economic laws. Dieting in the United States has lowered the demand for wheat to the amount of 120,000,- 000 bushels the last decade. There are 7,000,000 fewer horses used since the coming of the automobile. The study of economic conditions is valuable not only for mind training alone but for the purpose of solving future problems. The young people of the present will be the executives of the future, and it will be their task to work out these problems for coming generations. Congressman Johnson also called our attention to the fact that three of the largest corporations in Chicago are run by former South Dakota boys who at one time held unimportant positions in our state. Such executives have come from boys who had to struggle in their youth. Dr. Anderson In Minneapolis Dr. Anderson left for Minneapolis last Thursday to attend the football game Saturday between the Leland Stanford University and the University of Minnesota. He was accompanied by Mrs. Anderson, Marie Louise Gaylord and Miss Louise Hansen. The party returned to Aberdeen Sunday. CHOOSE HANSEN PRESIDENT The Juniors elected their class officers Wednesday morning, as follows: President, Karl Hanson; Vice-President, Albert Mattice; Secretary-Treasurer, Marjorie Eyestone; Social Committee representative, James Sipes; Student Coucil representatives, Jeanne Champlin and Percy Washabaugh; Class Adviser, Professor Mewaldt. Seniors Elect Officers DRAFTING CLASSES ARE LARGE More college students are registered in the drafting classes than ever before, according to Prof. H. P. Gerber. There are over twenty freshmen in the class and the increased enrollment has required the installment of new equipment. Included in the courses are cabinet making, carpentry, wood turning, mechanical drawing, architectural drawing, concrete construction, methods of teaching industrial arts, organization of industrial arts, elementary sheet metal, general metal, general industrial mechanics, industrial arts for rural schools, observation and practice, vocational education and guidance, sheet metal work, pattern making, furniture design and construction, graphic presentation and thesis work, THANKS Lewis Is "N" Club President Wilson Lewis, captain of the Northern football team, is also president of the "N" Club for 1930-31, succeeding Albert Mattice as head of the athletic letter-men of the college. Paul Finnegan was elected vice-president of the group and Karl Hansen secretary-treasurer. Plans for "N" Club representation in the parade will be under the direction of Perry Doney. The program for the year will include the sponsorship of one of the all-school dances. I wish to take this opportunity to thank my friends for their support in the recent campaign, and the student body for the honor they have conferred upon me -Percy Washabaugh For the past several days the different classes have had their meetings for the election of officers. Tuesday noon of last week the Seniors held their election and the results are as follows: President, Viola Oyhus; Vice-President, Alfred Bieber; Secretary, Irma Maschke; Treasurer, Leroy Zell; Student Council representatives, Harold Marquis and Lois Buchele; Social chairman, Virgil Bell; Faculty Adviser, Mr. Lipscomb.
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Date of creation | 1930-10-16 |
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Transcription | THE GEORGE MULVANEY COMPANY COMES NOV. 5 CALLED "SONG REVUE OF 1930" Program Will Include. Opera Sketches. Song Hits, Dances and Costume Dramatization "The Song Revue of 1930," presented by George Mulvaney and Company, at the college, November 5, will be the second number on the lyceum course this year. They will present an unusually versatile program of musical comedy and light opera, and popular song hits of today, arranged in quartets, trios, duets, and solos. The Music Box Revue consists of five artists: three women and two men -soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, pianist, tenor and baritone. The presentations include costume dramatization, dance-steps, wonderful singing, and special scenery. The program will be made up of selections from "Robin Hood," "Naughty Marietta," "Blossom Time," "Mikado," "Prince of Pilsen," besides many others including numbers of the old-time favorite songs, and also the standard popular song hits of today with many theme songs from the latest talking pictures. This program is so varied that everyone would enjoy it. The Mulvaney Concert Company is recognized as one of the most entertaining and artistic musical companies of the day. PFITZNER DELIGHTS ASSEMBLY Four piano selections by Professor Walther Pfitzner, three on the regular program and one encore, provided the main features of the regular assembly, last Thursday morning. The numbers presented were Cracovienne Fantastique, Paderewski; Rainy Night, Niemann; Sequidilla, Albeniz, Valse in G flat (encore), Chopin. The program was thoroughly enjoyed by all as Professor Pfitzner is always a prime favorite with a college audience. School Has Fine Orchestra Prof. Goodsell, Director, Reports Organization of Forty Members Although orchestra work at North-ern has been delayed in the rush and whirl of the Gypsy Day homecoming, nevertheless progress has been made, according to Prof. H. E. Goodsell, director. About forty reported for the first rehearsal and regular meetings have been scheduled for Tuesday evenings. Final selections of the orchestra have not been made, but those who reported include: Violins-Maurice Dobbins, Aberdeen; Leon Everson, Aberdeen; Ray Gusseck, Aberdeen; Roy Schoppe, Aberdeen; Maurine Martin, Aberdeen; Alvin Skibsrud, Aberdeen; Miriam Hoke, Platte; Morris Hagenston, Aberdeen; Irene Hersrud, Hettinger, North Dakota; Grace Clarkson, Buffalo; Winifred Cody, Groton; Carol Van Walker, Aberdeen; Ethel Olide, Aberdeen; Ingevelde Pfitzner, Aberdeen; Elizabeth Switts, Aberdeen; Suzanne Pattno, Aberdeen. Cellos-Dale Ward, Hettinger, North Dakota; Maynard Buck, Aberdeen. Saxophones-Marian Fuller, Aberdeen; John Pagones, Aberdeen; Esther Sueltz, Groton; Dorothy Stone, Andover. Basso-Sidney Freyberg, Aberdeen; Roderick Ross, Aberdeen. Flute-Dorothy Lilly, Aberdeen. Clarinets-Ralph Bisbee, Aberdeen; Catherine Van Walker, Aberdeen; Lee Buck, Aberdeen; LaRue Schmidt, Tripp. Cornets-John Elsing, Aberdeen; Erwin Hamilton, Aberdeen; Ralph Carlson, Aberdeen. Horns-Mrs. R. Ross, Aberdeen; Arthur Metcalf, Aberdeen. Trombone-Herbert Black, Big Stone; Harold Jahuel, Aberdeen; Sylvan Moe, Aberdeen. Piano-Patricia Fitzpatrick, Aberdeen; Marjorie McDonald, Aberdeen. Drum-Robert Hill, Aberdeen. MISS BROWN'S "PARADISE" WILL BE GYPSY DAY PLAY CAST IS HARD AT WORK Miss Bagstad, Director, Says Drama Is Full of Amusing and Emotional Situations "Gypsy Paradise," was dramatised by Auralia Rouvenol from Alice Brown's novel "Paradise." Miss Brown is a woman of well-established literary reputation, the author, among other plays, of "Joint Owners in Spain." The play has continuous interest and vivid characterization. Through it runs the superstitious fear of witches which still clings among the less educated classes from Maine to Massachusetts. A pretty French- Viennese Gypsy fortune teller in the tent show becomes terrified at the too ardent love-making of the mesmerizer, Ben Ali. She runs away and seeks refuge in the home of Malory Dwight a young villager. The girl is utterly untaught in the ways of civilized life, and the older people cannot quite overcome their superstitious fear of this girl who has never before lived in a house. Malory Dwight, however, descendant of the blue-blooded Dwights of Massachusetts has no such fear; to the consternation of all he takes the girl into the house as nurse to his invalid sister, Clary. The neighbors begin to talk and amusing situations follow. SOPHS CHOOSE OFFICERS The election of officers in the Sophomore Class resulted as follows: President, Edward Dresselhuys; Vice-President, Virgil Hanlon; Secretary-Treasurer, Elizabeth Holtz; Student Council Representatives, Clinton Williams and Lorraine Aldrich; Social Commit-tee Member, Beecher Callaghan. "Father" Of Gypsy Day Writes Charles Fleischman Carries Bumper Sign Over 5000 Miles John Schaal, Gypsy Day chairman, recently received a letter from Charles Fleischman, graduate of the college and now an instructor in the Central High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mr. Fleischman has been generally credited as one of the originators of Gypsy Day and was very active in the years of 1916 and 1919 inclusive, while a student. In his letter to the Gypsy Day committee he sends greetings and words of cheer, hoping that the celebration planned for October 18 will be bigger and better than any of its predecessors. Mr. Fleischman also stated that he has carried one of the bumper signs on his auto for several thousand miles, through seven states. His mileage record is just a little over the 5,000 mark. The continued interest of Mr. Fleischman in the Gypsy Day celebration is most gratifying to the local committee. Miss Milligan Wins Former Student is Successful in Atwater- Kent Radio Contest Louise Milligan, a student at Northern for the last three years, and this year a teacher in the Barnard Consolidated School, was the winner of first place in the district Atwater- Kent Radio Audition Contest which was broadcast over the Huron station on the evening of Friday, October 10. Miss Milligan, who is a lyric soprano soloist, competed with nine other vocal soloists from this section of the state. Miss Bernice Remde was her piano accompanist. The contest held Friday evening at Huron is one of a series of elimination contest which are held in all parts of the country in order to select outstanding soloists from each state. The contestants to represent South Dakota in the national contest will be selected at Yankton, on October 24. We wish for Louise further successes. Come To Pep Fest One of the biggest pep fests ever staged at Northern is being planned for tomorrow evening at 7:30, on Johnson Field. According to announcement it will be in charge of the Y. M. C. A. "Cy" Houge and Herb Black will be in charge of the bonfire and are asking the assistance of any boys who are willing to help in gathering the material. Harold Fowler also promises a fine display of fire works. Among other events will be a snake dance and a parade through the downtown district. Dr. Anderson, Coach Campbell, Captain Lewis and others will speak. Everybody should be out. THANKS I want to thank you all for your cooperation and help. I appreciate the honor you have given me and I will try to live up to it by helping to make this the gayest and happiest of our Gypsy Days. -Jeanne Champlin FORMER FACULTY MAN IS HIGHLY HONORED MR. SIPPLE CALLED TO INDIA Wichita Dean Was Dean and Head of Rural Department At Northern A letter to Dean Moulton from Mrs. Sipple, post-mistress at Northern for many years, tells of an outstanding honor which has come to Mr. Sipple, formerly Dean of the Senior College and head of the Department of Rural Education here at Northern. They are now located at Wichita, Kansas. We congratulate the Sipples on this honor. We are proud to number Mr. Sipple among our faculty for ten years and we are sure that his years of service here had something do do with his advancement and present opportunities. "Last Saturday, Mr. Sipple had a wire from the Institute of Social and Religious Research of New York City asking him if he would be available for the covering of Rural Education in India on a staff of eight specialists to work this college year. "After consulting Dr. Foght who advised him to go Mr. Sipple wired for details which came special delivery a few minutes ago. In brief, he has accepted the offer subject to favorable action by the Board of Regents on leave of absence. With Dr. Foght's recommendation, we anticipate no difficulty. "Educational work in India and Burma is to be covered by E. L. Hendricks, President of Warrensburg, Missouri, State Teachers College, he covering the secondary and teacher-training, and Mr. Sipple the rural schools. I'm sure you know him. C. Luther Fry is director, and a man by the name of Hypes, a rural sociologist, is one of the party. "They will probably sail from New York November 20, because on that steamer will be the American members of the Educational Commission that goes to study mission colleges in India-also Dr. Diffendorfer, fraternal consultant of the staff." RURAL SCHOOL NOTES Prof. Culp lectured at the community club meeting held at the Trail School, Friday night. Miss Anna Dorothea Cordts, author of one of the newer reading primers, visited demonstration schools, Monday. Children in the rural demonstration schools are given library privileges. Miss Mary Schram, secretary for the Rural Department, checks cases of books out to each school once a month. Children are encouraged to read every book sent them, checking books from the teacher's desk the same as if it were the college library. When one case of books is read, another case is exchanged. Improvements Are Made Considerable work on the lighting fixtures on Johnson field was done this week, according to LeRoss Morris. The poles have been painted and a patented, removal step was installed. The removal step is calculated to keep boys from climbing the poles. Work has also been done on the back campus, grading and prepairing the ground for seeding next spring about the open air theatre. INDUSTRIAL ARTS NOTES Officers of the Industrial Arts Club were selected recently with Paul Finnegan of Aberdeen as president for the year. Other officers include Seymour Houge, of Aberdeen, vice-president, and Leonard Sloan, of Aberdeen, secretary-treasurer. Definite organization plans for the year were made by the club at its first meeting. As in former years a float will be entered in the Gypsy Day homecoming parade. Verne Tyrrell, of Bancroft, will have direction of this project, assisted by Paul Finnegan. Verne Tyrrell was last year's assistant school carpenter to Robert Sloan, who is this year teaching at Flandreau. Verne now has full charge of this department. Spear Spearfish Yellowjackets Oct. 18 GAYEST GYPSY GATHERING MEET US AT THE Northern State Teachers College ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA * PROGRAM OF THE DAY 9:00 Coronation of Gypsy Queen 11:30 Colorful Gypsy Parade down town 1:15 Band Concert and Gypsy Lawn Dancers-Campus 2:30 Championship Football Classic (Northern Wolves vs. Spearfish Yellowjackets) 5:00 All School Gypsy Supper 6:45 Awarding of prizes for costumes, floats, etc. 7:30 "Gypsy Paradise" three act Gypsy Play 9:30 Gypsy Costume Ball, music by Gypsy Merry-makers Dance Band SPECIAL FEATURES Governor Bulow, members of the State Board of Regents, United States Senators Peter Norbeck and Wm. McMaster, and United States Representatives Royal C. Johnson and C. A. Christopherson, as well as other notables, have assured the committee that they will attend the big celebration. The two-mile parade will include hundreds of Gypsies in colorful costumes and scores of beautiful floats. Music by four bands. The championship Drum and Bugle Corps of the Aberdeen American Legion will give an exhibition between halves at the football game. BIG FOOTBALL CLASSIC The Northern Wolves have decisively won their first two games. We have the best team in years. The Gypsy Day game against Spearfish, Conference champions for the last two years, will be a battle long to be remembered. * * * * JOIN THE CROWD AND ENJOY OUR 15th ANNUAL HOMECOMING SPEAR SPEARFISH (Yellowjackets)-OCTOBER 18 Northern State Teachers College VOL. XXIX. ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, OCTOBER 16, 1930 No. 4 NOTHING MORE GAY THAN GYPSY DAY OCTOBER 18 The Exponent SPEAR SPEARFISH (Yellowjackets)-OCTOBER 18 FIRST GYPSY DAY HELD OCTOBER 18, '16 FOUND IMMEDIATE POPULARITY Fleischman, Kieser and Creed Are Among Those Credited As Originators With the fifteenth annual Gypsy Day at the Northern State Teachers college set for October 18, thoughts turn to the first homecoming of the institution in 1916. Gypsy Day, it would seem, was the outgrowth of a constant urge of the general student body. Several figures stand out as influential in the first day, including Charles Fleischman, now a teacher in the Central High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Paul W. Kieser, located at present in Springfield, Massachusetts, and C. H. Creed, Jr., a farmer near Columbia. The direct origin of the Gypsy Day idea is buried under a maze of conflicting opinions and memories. In the Exponent of November 15, 1915, a letter to the editor signed Livewire proposes the following: "As this is more of a girls' school I would suggest "Gypsy Day" as a suitable celebration. Floats could be easily pre-pared and the parade could meet the trains, then all could retreat to an ideal Gypsy camp near the school for dinner, after which a football game would be played, and if the weather were suitable an evening camp could be held. Come on, students, alumni and faculty, with opinions and suggestions." It was not until the year following, however, that Gypsy Day became a reality. Whatever the origin, the success cannot be denied. The Aberdeen American-News has described it in an approving write-up: "So great a success in point of beauty and spirit was the first Gypsy Day that the Normal students celebrated yesterday, that it should become a well established custom from this time on." The Exponent write-up of the day, says: "Early Saturday morning gay colored figures swarmed upon the campus. With dark braids done up in unique headdress, with bright skirts and gay sashes, the fair N. N. I. S. Gypsiettes gathered for the carnival of the Romanies. Their dark fiercer-looking partners of the stern sex mingled with them, making dark patches in the gay throng." LECTURE COURSE OPENED BY MR. FREDERICK WARDE NOTED SHAKESPEAREAN ACTOR Address Is Full of Personal Incidents and Excellent Advice Frederick L. Warde, famous Shakespearean orator and lecturer, opened the lecture course with an address, Wednesday evening, in the auditorium. The lecture, which contained much humor and many interesting side lights on the life of Shakespearean actors of his career, was very well received by a large audience which was often moved to bursts of hearty laughter. Mr. Warde was introduced by Doctor Anderson who said in introducing him: "No name in literature is more universally known and under-stood than that of Shakespeare. Few actors are more familiar with the great dramatist of the footlights than Mr. Warde, Shakespearean scholar and interpreter." Mr. Warde spoke of acting as the profession of the stage. Some people call the stage a mimic stage, or a world of make-believe. He called it a world of work, involving a study of personalities, and, above all, sincerity to one's fellows-a world illuminated by fancy and glorified by truth. a world nourished by manhood. In the early days of his career the stage was a standard of pronunciation of the English language with Johnson's dictionary on the table, just as we have Webster's now. Mr. Warde distinguished between the English and American language because of the additions we have made to the version we speak. He said that we do not open our mouths enough when we talk, and he quoted the line from the Bible, "The Saviour opened his mouth and spake." Referring to our flag he said: "We would not see the Stars and Stripes mutilated in any form, why not honor our language as much as we would the flag?" He begged the audience to preserve the integrity of the American language and to hand it down to posterity unsmothered. Mr. Warde denies that there is a hidden meaning in Shakespeare. He advised to put the simplest possible meaning into the plays of the great dramatist. His remarks on personal incidents and his comments on the famous personalities he has met made his lecture one long to be remember-ed. Mr. Warde gave good advice when he said that every address should have a moral, and his was taken from his own experiences: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Don't give up; don't be disheartened. Try again, and again, and again." As a conclusion to his speech he left with his audience his best wishes for "365 days of health, love and work." and a memory of an actor of intense emotional and dramatic ability. Note Change of Time To meet the requests of many girls the time for the Y. W. C. A. meetings has temporarily been changed from Sunday afternoon to Monday evening, seven to seven-forty-five o'clock. If the experiment proves successful this hour will be made permanent. On account of Gypsy Day activities there will be no meeting October 20, but the first regular Monday evening meeting will be held October 27 in the Lincoln Hall sunparlor. Congressman Johnson Speaks Speaker Tells Students That Working One's Way Through College Is Best Preparation for Life In his address before the student body, Tuesday morning, October 14, Royal C. Johnson, United States congressman from this district, reviewed his past visits to Northern and his trials in working his way through college. He stressed the idea that out of the struggles through which young people go in their way through school comes the qualities which make the best in citizenship and leadership, and it is these young people who often become the outstanding personages of their state and nation. He advised young people to study politics, for every activity in the United States is involved in politics. Study politics from the economic point of view because many of the depressions of the past and at the present have come about because of economic laws. Dieting in the United States has lowered the demand for wheat to the amount of 120,000,- 000 bushels the last decade. There are 7,000,000 fewer horses used since the coming of the automobile. The study of economic conditions is valuable not only for mind training alone but for the purpose of solving future problems. The young people of the present will be the executives of the future, and it will be their task to work out these problems for coming generations. Congressman Johnson also called our attention to the fact that three of the largest corporations in Chicago are run by former South Dakota boys who at one time held unimportant positions in our state. Such executives have come from boys who had to struggle in their youth. Dr. Anderson In Minneapolis Dr. Anderson left for Minneapolis last Thursday to attend the football game Saturday between the Leland Stanford University and the University of Minnesota. He was accompanied by Mrs. Anderson, Marie Louise Gaylord and Miss Louise Hansen. The party returned to Aberdeen Sunday. CHOOSE HANSEN PRESIDENT The Juniors elected their class officers Wednesday morning, as follows: President, Karl Hanson; Vice-President, Albert Mattice; Secretary-Treasurer, Marjorie Eyestone; Social Committee representative, James Sipes; Student Coucil representatives, Jeanne Champlin and Percy Washabaugh; Class Adviser, Professor Mewaldt. Seniors Elect Officers DRAFTING CLASSES ARE LARGE More college students are registered in the drafting classes than ever before, according to Prof. H. P. Gerber. There are over twenty freshmen in the class and the increased enrollment has required the installment of new equipment. Included in the courses are cabinet making, carpentry, wood turning, mechanical drawing, architectural drawing, concrete construction, methods of teaching industrial arts, organization of industrial arts, elementary sheet metal, general metal, general industrial mechanics, industrial arts for rural schools, observation and practice, vocational education and guidance, sheet metal work, pattern making, furniture design and construction, graphic presentation and thesis work, THANKS Lewis Is "N" Club President Wilson Lewis, captain of the Northern football team, is also president of the "N" Club for 1930-31, succeeding Albert Mattice as head of the athletic letter-men of the college. Paul Finnegan was elected vice-president of the group and Karl Hansen secretary-treasurer. Plans for "N" Club representation in the parade will be under the direction of Perry Doney. The program for the year will include the sponsorship of one of the all-school dances. I wish to take this opportunity to thank my friends for their support in the recent campaign, and the student body for the honor they have conferred upon me -Percy Washabaugh For the past several days the different classes have had their meetings for the election of officers. Tuesday noon of last week the Seniors held their election and the results are as follows: President, Viola Oyhus; Vice-President, Alfred Bieber; Secretary, Irma Maschke; Treasurer, Leroy Zell; Student Council representatives, Harold Marquis and Lois Buchele; Social chairman, Virgil Bell; Faculty Adviser, Mr. Lipscomb. |
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