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PUBLISHED BY WEST LIBERTY STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Entered as second-class matter September 16, 1940, at the post office at West Liberty, West Virginia, under the Act of August 24, 1912.
Vol. XXIV
Second Semester Registration Opens Monday, Jan. 27,
West Liberty, West Virginia, January, 1941
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Three new courses will be offered by the college the second semester which will begin with registration fft i.-i Monday, January 27. Classes will meet the following day. The last day for enrollment with full credit will be Monday, February 3, while the last day for enrollment with reduced credit will be Monday, February 24. Registration for Wheeling Center classes will be Monday, February 3, in Wheeling High School Auditorium at 7:30. Registration here will begin at eight o’clock in the Library with Mr. F. M. Tuttle in charge. . kt ^ ii’ The three new courses are Textiles, a two hour course taught by Mrs. Rosemary Gillette Schade; Methods of a8hJ[7~T8~V-"_l;| Teaching Shorthand and Typing, two hours, taught by Miss Marian Lamb; and Money, Credit, and Banking, three hours, taught by Mr. John T. Walter. ARCHITECT S DRAWING OF THE PROPOSED CENTER UNIT Other courses being offered next West Liberty will get $200,000 in the next two years for buildings and semester that have not been offered improvements, provided the Legislature approves and the necessary cash for several years are Tumbling and flows in the state coffers. This sum is part of a ten million dollar contingent Calisthenics, one hour. Boxing, one to the biennial operating budget for construction at a dozen or more state hour, and Track and Field, one hour, Miss Areta Hicks, associate profes institutions and for building highways. Mr. J. A. Bartell; Principles of Ele sor of education, has been granted President Paul N. Elbin hopes to secure this appropriation for the mentary Teaching, two hours, Mrs. a leave of absence to study textiles construction of the main unit connecting Curtis Hall and McColloch Library. Freda Y. Conaway; Horace, three and clothing at Although $400;,000 would be necessary to complete the unit as designed by hours. Miss Ellen Mattson; Clog Cornell university Frederic Paris seme ten years ago, this appropriation might possibly complete and Tap Dancing, one hour, Miss Mel the second semes the building on a smaller scale, President Elbin explains. issa Murphy; Economic Zoology and ter. Her courses in The new center unit will be of red Botany, three hours, and Economic education will be brick, three stories high, and its Entomology, three hours, Mr. J. Earle taught by Mrs. colonial columned portico will face Drummond; and Medieval History, Freda Y. Conaway north towards the main entrance to three hours. Dr. C. C. Regier. and Dr. Clarence The annual Y. M. C. A. stunt night the campus. The unit will probably R. Hamrick, of the is to be presented in Academy Hall, contain an auditorium, a little theatre, Oral Hygiene Students education depart and classrooms for various depart Wednesday, Feb. 26, at eight o’clock. ment, while Mrs. ments. Hear Wheeling Concert Orville Nice, senior, president, and The students of the oral hygiene Rosemary Gillette Schade, substitute LaRue White, junior, are in charge of department and their instructor. Miss for Mrs. Helen K. Mohler, dietician, arranging the program. Dr. Elbin Will Address Roxie Stitzer, were presented season the first semester, will teach the All campus sororities, fraternities, tickets for the Wheeling symphony home economics classes. and organizations having faculty ad Book Club February 12 Miss Hicks will leave Feb. 5 and concerts by Mrs. Sarah Whitaker visers, are eligible to present skits, Dr. Paul N. Elbin will speak to the Glass. The group attended the latest will return for the summer session. dances, comedy, or musical numbers. members of the Book Club when She did her undergraduate study at concert performance Wednesday, The group presenting the best act, in West Virginia university and her January 8. the opinion of judges chosen from the they meet for their next dinner meet They were Miss Roxie Stitzer, graduate work at Columbia and Chi faculty, will be awarded a cup, which ing, February 12, in the Colonial instructor; Catherine Lowe, Frances cago. becomes the permanent possession of dining room. Jean Bowditch is Boger, Dorothy Blake, Betty Casey, the organization winning three suc general chairman in charge of ar Josephine Dowler, Rebecca Greene, cessive contests. Last year’s winner rangements of the dinner. Members Hannah Hill, Dolores Knapp, Helen was Chi Delta Phi sorority, now hold of her committee include Jane Potts, Andrew Mesaros, Zita Mueller, Ei Turner, Marguerite Berger, Val Jean ing the cup. The monthly meeting of the Fu leen Cozart, Grace Kragstadt, An Bartell, Betsy Barlett, Jean Schafer, ture Teachers of America was held gela Karageorge, and Leta Jane Alma Donham, and Mary Marie Irvin. Tuesday, January 7. The meeting, in Daniel Poling To Speak Sayre. charge of Mary Burns, president, con To Faculty Club Tonight West Liberty Graduate sisted of the transaction of old and The Reverend Daniel Poling, pastor ‘Radio’ Features Program Gains Wide Recognition new business. Harold Slocum explain of the First Presbyterian Church, J. Blaine Board, graduate of West ed the new method of projects. Of Science Fraternity Liberty, in August 1937, has gained Mrs. Freda Y. Conaway explained Wheeling, will be the guest speaker Bill McGlumphy, operator at the state-wide recognition in elementary the use of the new book list and asked at the Faculty club dinner to be held education with his article, “A Fourth for suggestions for programs. Stella in the Colonial dining room tonight. WWVA broadcasting tower, discus Grade Free Reading Program” which Zak was elected secretary to take the Mr. Poling will show movies and sed “Radio” at the meeting last Mon was published in the January issue of place of Maxine Parsons, present sec slides of interesting places he has day of Chi Beta Phi, science frater nity. LaRue White, corresponding The West Virginia School Journal. retary, who will not be here next visited in his trip around the world. Dr. C. R. Hamrick, president of the secretary, had charge of the program, Mr. Board is the fourth-grade teacher semester. After the distribution of in the Liberty Elementary School in Personal Growth leaflets and Jour club, is chairman for the dinner and and Robert Cannon presided at the business meeting. Weirton. nals, the group adjourned. will conduct the business session.
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THE TRUMPET Published once monthly during October, November, December, January, Feb ruary, March, April, May, and July, at West Liberty, West Virginia, by West Liberty State Teachers College.
Reporters: Helen McConnell, Ruth Lee Miller, Leta Jane Sayre, Anna Virginia Locke, Francis Foose, Thomas Strganac. ^itorWalter Willson Sports Editor______________________ Dexter Arnett Faculty Adviser_____________ ______________________Raymond G. Hughes
ASCAP Versus BMI The word “ASCAP” is derived from the initials of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, and is an organiaztion formed in 1914 by Victor Herbert and his contemporaries to protect the copyrighted works of its members. It has control of the outstanding composers, authors, and publishers of this country and many foreign countries. ASCAP has been called a copyright “pool.” Broadcasting stations are being asked what is behind the present feud (between ASCAP and BMI) that ASCAP has barred from the air most of the popular and more modern classical music. ASCAP is demanding a substantial percentage of all radio station in come whether or not that income is from musical programs, news broad casts, or programs that use no music. The sum demanded is $9,000,000. More than 400 stations have refused to pay what they consider an exorbi tant fee and have organized the BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) to compete with ASCAP. Although BMI has few copyrighted works, it has those that are in “public domain”—music on which the copyright has expired. Previously such disputes have been settled before the old contracts expired, but this year ASCAP demands more. West Liberty college has been affected, for the majority of the music selections used on the slumber hour program are ASCAP and can not be used. Practically all classical and popular music in the college music library is owned by ASCAP. The only music broadcast by the college is the "new” theme for the Bible Question Bee which is being played from a BMI publi cation. Let us hope that the dispute will be settled and that we may once more hear the traditional Campus Reverie as well as other college musical programs. --------------------------John Mechling
Study The Catalogue Graduation! Will it be a day of gladness or a day of sorrow? Students, have you checked your credits and required courses so that at the last minute you will not discover that you cannot be graduated? Will graduation be im possible because you lack two or three credits or have not taken a certain required course? Now is the time to check. Make the catalogue your guidebook. Consult it frequently. Look over the requirements for the fields in which you are majoring, and for certifica tion. Check with the Dean or with your counselor so that you know where you stand and what you need. Do not rely on the hit-or-miss method of making out your schedule. Do not put off until next semester that required course which you can take this semester. Procrastination will force you to juggle the schedule in an attempt to cram everything in at the last minute. You will find it can’t be done and that you will be forced to take classes during the summer or during another semester. Then the storm! The class is graduating and you are not. You rant and rage at the professors and the administration. You weep on your best friend’s shoulder. You absolve yourself of all blame. You are the innocent student inveigled into the snare of the money-grasping college. The college is un fair. The officials have lured you here with wonderful promises and now they won’t let you be graduated because of one scanty credit. It’s not your fault. How were you to know that you didn’t have enough credits? Yes, all these are arguments, but that is all they are. It is your business to know where you stand. The fault is not with the professors and officials; it’s with you. You are responsible for the position you are in at the end of four years. Every year at least one student fails to graduate because of procrastination. Will you be that one? You have only yourself to check on; the college has 500. --------------------------Dorothy Danford
Resolutions That horrible butterfly—squirming in the pit of your stomach! That lost sensation! A semester ending and so much work to be done! At the time of the assignment, you outlined the hours you would spend on it; you planned it easily. Then came the football game, this or that club meeting, the week end at so-and-so’s home, the dance; one activity followed another, each time the assignment remained an assignment. Christmas was here. After vacation exams would come. So home you went loaded with books; you could “catch-up” during vacation. But some thing happened to the time! Vacation was over before you had begun. That first week back! Wasn’t it a sleepy one? A few of us, fortunately, had a few cuts to spare. Last Friday came the light; examination week was almost here. This brought you to life; you began to work industrious ly—three months too late. After sleepless nights and sleepy days of frantic working on back assign ments, you will be confronted by exam week. Then the cramming, the worry, the fear! After a hectic week with more sleep lost, you will heave a sigh and resolve never to allow a repitition of this. New Years is the time for resolutions. Let’s make a resolution to do our work on time. It’s too late for this semester, but we’re starting a new one before the month is out. We’ve been taught the start determines the end. Let’s make this a regular big “bang.” Won’t we surprise our profs? : —Sarah Jane Almond
IN SHORT Helen Schambra was electel pres ident of Chi Delta Phi sorority at a special meeting January 13. Helen will succeed Maxine Parsons who will not return to the campus next semes ter. Winifred Moore was chosen vice president to replace Margery Thomas who is leaving at the end of this semester. Helen McConnell was chos en treasurer. A display of Arthur Rackham il lustrations of rural England, animal studies, and landscapes were shown during the past week in the corridor of the home economics department. Many of the books, the property of Miss Nell Krise, are autographed copies. Mr. C. C. Kiplinger, professor of chemistry, has been confined to his home because of flu since Thursday, January 9. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh Dentzer of Washington, Pa. are the parents of a son, David Wesley. Mrs. Dentzer was the former Mable Coffield, a member of West Liberty’s 1935 graduating class. The newly organized S. W. G. oral hygiene club has received pins with the club’s symbols. The pins were purchased from the salesmanship class. Lindell Chew, member of last year’s graduating class, left for Cali fornia last Tuesday. He has had con siderable trouble with his throat and expects the change in climate to im prove this condition. If he can get employment there he will remain in definitely. Otherwise he will return in three months.
Dr. Robert Reed To Talk On Appendicitis February 3 Dr. Robert Reed, Jr., will lecture on appendicitis Monday evening, Feb. 3, at eight o’clock, in the oral hygiene classroom. His talk will be the sixth in a series of health programs pre sented each month by the oral hygiene department. “Hygiene of Your Feet” was the topic of Dr. Robert Maury, Wheeling chiropodist, on the Jan. 6 program.
Surprise West Liberty Students Write Orchestrate and Produce Musical Comedy While The New York TImee is car rying stories about Victor Herbert,' the greatest composer to write music al comedies, it is fitting that The Trumpet should run a story on Leo Lusk, West Liberty’s composer. Leo has written the plot to a musical comedy called “Stars Over The Cam pus.” Ted Lingo has been assigned to write the dialogue while Leo and Magdalene Eggiman compose and orchestrate the musical score. Leo’s plan is to make this an an-. nual production, written, composed, directed, and produced entirely by students. The plot concerns a campus triangle of two girls and a football star. The star is failing in astronomy and No. 2 woman is procured to coach him so he can play the most important game of the season. This involves a lot of night work which makes No. 1 woman, his steady girl, plenty sore. Everything comes to a successful close when the football star gets injured in the game and No. 1 woman discovers he prefers her.
Oral Hygienists Write Chafter Constitution The oral hygiene classes have written a constitution and made ap plication to become members of the American Dental Hygienists’ Associa tion. Should their application be ac cepted by the national office of the association in Washington, D. C., West Liberty will have a chapter early next January. The students and faculty extend their sympathy to Miss Melissa Murphy on the death of her father, Mr. Patrick James Murphy, Pitts burgh, Pennsylvania; Wilda Par sons .on the death of her grand father, Mr. Theodore Parsons, Bebe, West Virginia; Virginia Pattison on the death of her grand mother, Mrs. 8. G. Pattison, In dianapolis, Indiana; and Victor Basil on the death of his grand mother, Mrs. Rose Basil, Follans* bee. West Virginia.
SCHEDULE FOR EXAMINATIONS JANUARY 21-25, 1941 TUESDAY
8:00—10:00 10:00—12:00 1:00— 3:00 3:00— 5:00
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Freshman English 101a classes 1:00 M. W. F. classes 8:00 M. W. F. classes 8:00 T. Th. classes 9:00 M. W. F. classes WEDNESDAY
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All Freshman U. S. History 101 classes All Art 101 classes; All 9:00 T. Th. classes except French 201 All 10:00 M. W. F. classes All 10:00 T. Th. classes THURSDAY
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Music 101 classes 11:00 classes 1:00 T. Th. classes 2:00 M. W. F. classes FRIDAY
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All Educational Psychology 102 classes All 2:00 T. Th. classes French 201; Dictation & Transcription I; All classes not provided for above.
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Cagers Open Season Homer Shadle Finishe: With Win, Two Losses College Court Career
Salem Quint Wins . Fast Qame, 60-52
West Liberty’s court combination scored one win and suffered two losses in contest preceding the Christmas vacation. The Steubenville All-stars, an in dependent club, fell 45-35 in a tuneup game Thursday, Dec. 12. West Virginia university’s Mountaineers scored a 61-48 victory over the Hilltoppers at the Ohio Valley Basket ball Officials’ clinic exhibition Dec. 16. In the first game of the reg ular schedule, Dec. 18, West Liberty lost to Waynesburg college, 36-29, in the second contest of a triple bill at the Duquesne gardens, Pittsburgh, be fore a crowd of 6,500 persons. The night’s card also included a Duquesne university-Oregon match and a high school preliminary.
Salem college outpointed West Liberty’s court quintet, 60-52, in a fast-scoring contest, Tuesday even ing, Jan. 7, in the first home game of the Hilltoppers. An eight-point spurt the final minutes of play, after the score had been tied, 52-52, was de cisive for the visitors. Paced by Abramavic, tallying 22 points, Salem led 25-18 at the half, but West Liberty pulled even, 45-45, with four minutes remaining, and shot ahead, 50-45, before the winners could regain their stride. Homer Shadle led the Hilltop scor ing with eight goals and four fouls.
Jim Vitsas, guard of the hilltop Pllne, has been placed on the second P team of the Greek All-American. The jlielection comes out of New York rCity. Last year Jim was given honor^ able mention. West Liberty led Salem by five ^points with only five minutes and 50 l^ icconds to play. A sudden rally by p the Tigers accounted for 15 points l^while West Liberty was garnering ? two, thus accounting for the eight point margin of defeat. However, ^the boys did themselves proud and p everybody did well in keeping the fast ! pace set by both sides. Defense for ; both teams was rather lax. Ken Griffith, Alderson-Broaddus [ high scoring star, must have been embarrassed when Davis - Elkins held ^ him to four points. By so doing D-E ' beat Alderson-Broaddus for the lat ter’s first defeat of the season. The next game, however, Griffith bounced • back and an .exed 28 points. A-B | :will be noticeably weakened when r Peleaz drops from school at the end i ' of the present semester. Peleaz is a • r good passer as well as a good shot and j has been indirectly responsible for [. many of Griffith’s points.
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II however, against he turned in 15 points Salem for the when evening’s performance and against Glenville by i grabbing top honors with 19 points. t
Coach Bartell has made a revision I to his 1941 football schedule. Fairmont was originally the opening foe t but the shift was made to WaynesI burg. The game will be played in E Waynesburg, September 20. The [• homecoming game is with Glenville I and is a month earlier than was the I one just past, the date being October 11. Nine games deck the schedule, in; eluding six conference battles.
Walter Willson, halfback of West Liberty’s 1940 conference champion football team, was the only Hilltopper placed on Pat Beacom’s thirteenth annual all-conference eleven. Woodrow Warner, guard, and Wilbur Scott, back, took second squad berths, while Arlie Keith, tackle, had a third team position. The roll of honor included Dick McLachlan, Mike Kurka, Milan Lettrich, Homer Stine, and Joe Pielech. Beacom, past president of the West Virginia Football Official’s association, makes his selections with the cooperation of the Collegiate Ad visory board. The teams picked by coaches of conference squads included Warner, first eleven, and Willson and Scott, second. United Press sports writers, coaches, and officials of West Virginia placed Scott as first team quarter back. James Vitsas was named sec ond team guard on the 1940 AllGreek squad.
West Liberty Loses To Glenville, 47-44 West Liberty will lose one of its most colorful court figures after the Fairmont game, when Homer Shadle (‘War-horse’ to his opponents) re tires after four years of cage play. Coming to the hilltop in January, 1937, Homer finishes his college athletic career this semester. Sparking the court combination to the runner-up position in the 1939 conference tournament, Shadle was placed on the all-tourney team. 1940 saw him receive honorable mention, the Hilltoppers being eliminated in their first game. His closing oppo nents are West Virginia Wesleyan, to be met tonight, and Fairmont, tomor row. An all-around athlete, Shadle also played varsity football and baseball.
Something is definitely lacking in West Liberty’s court team. But just what it is, is hard to say. In the last four games W-L has held its own, Skit Is Presented AtY.W.C.A. and has even held a small lead in the The Y .W. C. A. held its regular waning minutes of three of these fames, but in each case has been meeting Jan. 6. The program con nosed out by ouly a very few points sisted of a devotional service, led by to the last minutes of play. Such was Martha Jane Walton, a skit showing the case against Salem when the how to apply for a job, and a talk on Tigers were scoring 15 points and friendship by Anna Virginia Locke. holding W-L to two in less than five minutes. Likewise against Glenville and Waynesburg the boys held a 'alight lead but the coming of the last few minutes of play again proved January 22—Blondie Has Servant Trouble fatal. It isn’t that the other teams out-plays our boys because the battle January 29—Rangers Of Fortune ii always nip-and-tuck up until the j February 5—Moon Over Burma very last. We hope that very soon j February 12- -He Stayed For Breakthis jinx will be broken. ^ last
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Waynesburg Quint Hands Hilltoppers Second Loss The losing streak of West Liberty’s courtmen continued as Waynesburg college downed the Hilltoppers, 58Saturday, Jan. 11, in the second meeting of the teams this season. The Jackets had taken a 36-29 decision at the Duquesne gardens, Pittsburgh, last month. In a contest in which the lead changed hands several times, West Liberty went into the final period ahead, 46-42, but there slumped, and the Pennsylvanians ran up a tenpoint margin. Leading the Jackets’ attack were Brady, guard, with 11 goals, and Melochi, forward, with 15 points. Ralph Lentz, forward, paced the Hilltoppers, tallying 14 points.
Remaining Basketball Schedule February 1—^Morris Harvey, away 6—Ohio Chiropody, home 7—Alderson-Broaddus, home 8—Potomac State, home 14—Davis-Elkins, home 15—California Teachers, home 19—Shepherd State, away 20—Potomac State, away 21—Alderson-Broaddus, away 22—California Teachers, away 27— Fairmont, home March 8—Open, home 10-12—Conference tourney 28—Shepherd State, home
. West Liberty suffered its third straight court setback at the hands of Glenville, 47-44, last Friday on the home floor. Trailing throughout three periods, the Hilltoppers spurted ahead 43-42, with but two minutes of play remaining, when Armstrong, Pioneer center, sank two fouls and a goal to give Glenville the edge. Leading West Liberty’s attack was Ralph Lentz, sophomore forward, who tallied 19 points while Arm strong marking up 12, paced the win ners.
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE The Hilltoppers’ football sched ule for 1941 has been completed except for one game. The schedule is: Sept. 20—Waynesburg, away Sept. 26—Fairmont, away Oct. 4—Defiance, home Oct. 11—Glenville, home Oct. 18—Kent State, away Oct. 25—Concord, away Oct. 30—Salem, home Nov. 7—^Davis and Elkins, away Nov. 15—Potomac State, away
Basketball Squad Plays In Buckhannon Tonight West Liberty’s quint continues its road contests at Buckhannon tonight, when the Hilltoppers engage the West Virginia Wesleyan “Bobcats.” The Bartellmen move on to Fairmont State tomorrow evening. The Wheeling Y. M. C. A. will be the next opponent on the home card, next Friday.
The Butcher’s Boy Johnny was the butcher’s boy, Tall and blonde and thin, He used to stand behind the counter When the butcher wasn’t in. Johnny was in love with me But I thought him just a fool, Because he was the butcher’s boy And didn’t go to school. Johnny said he’d show me He knew more than beef and pork, So he left the butcher shop And went to old New York. Then Johnny’s Short and dark And he leaned And teased me
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Now Johnny is a banker And as rich as he can be, But his brother is a butcher— Bringing bacon home to me! —Margaret Bethune
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To Sprout Naval Wings “It’s awful being a borderline case. If I lose a pound, I’m out; if I don’t keep my one-fourth extra height, I’m out,’’ said Don Danford, West Liberty graduate, as he left for the Anacosta Naval Reserve Air Base at Washington, D. C., January 12, to take one month of preliminary train ing preparatory to enrolling for a four-year course at Pensacola Florida. During this month he will receive practical flight instruction, parachute training, and instruction in mechanics. “I’ve stuffed on meat, potatoes, and bread, and drunk a pint of cream for days to keep my weight up. I’ve stretched, and stretched until I can’t stretch any more. In fact, I’ve wor ried so much over stretching that I’ve lost weight, and now I have to eat more to keep my weight up. What a life!’’ Why did he join the Navy rather than the Army? “The navy fliers,” he said, “are the world’s best. Further more, one gets an education along with flight training so that when a man is finished, he is qualified to be a navigator, pilot, draftsman, meteor ologist, or mechanic.” For two hours during his examina tion, Don was poked, punched, pound ed, weighed, and stretched. His eyes were tested for color-blindness, near sightedness, far-sightedness, and depth perception. His sense of balance was checked, as well as his hearing. If he passes this preliminary train ing successfully, he will be sent to Pensacola, Florida, when the first opening occurs. There he will ad vance through different squadrons, learning to handle all types of planes. The entire course covers approxima tely four years. As an aviation cadet the pay is $105 per month, as an ensign, $245, as a lieutenant, junior grade, $335. Upon graduation the student is commissioned in the Naval Reserve and becomes a Reserve Of ficer. “So,” Don grinned as we said “Good-bye,” “I’m off to sprout wings like a gull over the briny deep. Wish me luck!”
Postlethwaite Is “Daddy”
Have you heard any of the boys calling Bill Postlethwaite “Daddy” lately? He’s answering to that name now. He and his wife, Jane Bolan Postlethwaite, are the par ents of a baby girl, Bonita Sue, born December 27.
Has Sense of Humor Despite Her Illness
Ethel Salisbury Hanley and Company The Salisbury Players, a wellknown dramatic company, will be featured in chapel Friday, January 31, at 10:00. They will present “Modern Daughters,” a comedy of the girl of today—headstrong, willful, yet rather adorable. The Salisbury Players are managed and directed by Ethel Salisbury Han ley. Mrs. Hanley is known as “The Lady O’ Smiles” in Lyceum and Chautauqua circles, and has for many years been prominent as an actress and entertainer. Among the stage successes Mrs. Hanley has produced are such favor ites as “The Family Upstairs,” “Once in a Lifetime,” “Hay Fever,” and “The Mollusc.”
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I’m betting Flossie won’t be going to Wheeling alone any more. She needs someone to help her up and down the hills. While on a shopping tour over the holidays she assumed Hoping to get his army training be a horizontal position twice inside of fore starting to work, Arlie Keith is ten feet on Twelfth street. the first West Liberty student to volunteer. He expects to leave the last of February or the first of March Whoever gave McLachlan the girdle as he will have completed his work for Christmas certainly gives ap here by the end of the semester. If propriate gifts. At first he thought given his choice he will work in the it was a hat but couldn’t see how mechanized infantry department. those four things hanging down couldWalter Milligan is subject to call be used for earmuffs. for training in the Army Air Corp at Patterson Field in Dayton, Ohio. Harold Jefferson, a member of the It may be a good thing Ted Lingo 1940 graduating class is in training didn’t give his speech in chapel last at Patterson Field now. week. Did you hear his opening sen tence? Oh Cleol
Arlie Kieth Volunteers; Milligan Subject To Call
Mrs. Minnie McCoy
Mr. Hughes’ Composition Class Has Real Setting For Speeches The members of the Advanced Composition class wete the guests of Mr. Raymond G. Hughes at a formal banquet in the Colonial dining room of Shaw Hall, January 16. Each mem ber of the class presented an afterdinner speech centering about the theme, “Aftermath of Christmas.” Walter Willson served as toastmaster, introducing each speaker. The decorations and favors were in keeping with the theme.
16 Girls And 15 Boys Employed by N.Y.A. Thirty-one West Liberty students are among the estimated 150,000 undergraduates enabled by the Na tional Youth Administration program to continue their studies in colleges and universities. The average monthly wage paid undergraduates is $13.46 while grad uate students are paid an average of $21.78. The N. Y. A. fixes a minimum of $10 a month and a maximum of $20 for undergraduates. Payments are made from the N.Y. A.’s $13,173, 225 fund for the 1940 academic year. West Virginia is allotted 1,038 stildents for the present school year; its monthly allotment is $15,570, and its yearly allotment is $140,130. West Liberty has a quota of 25 students $345 monthly; $3,105 yearly.
ASCAP—BMI Feud HampersCollegeBroadcast
Campus Reverie has been discon tinued indefinitely because of the ASCAP-BMI deadlock. It is impos sible to find enough appropriate music to use on the program. West Liberty Presents, handicapped by the feud, used a radio play, “A Visit to Shakes peare” last Friday instead of the piano selections planned by Aileen Fletcher. Tonight the oral hygiene Get Dorothy Danford to tell you department will present an Informa about the dirtiest piece of furniture tion Please program with Dr. Paul N. Elbin asking questions of the Oral in your home. Hygiene staff. Mr. Raymond G. Hughes will speak on poetry and read For sale cheap: one bracelet. See original poems written by his Ad vanced Composition class, January 24. Bud Slocum.
Being sick in bed doesn’t keep Mrs. Minnie McCoy from entertain ing many visitors. As a matter of fact she has more than ever. Mrs. McCoy, who will be eighty-seven next month, has been in bed since August. On several occasions since then she has been quite sure she would never tell another student about early West Liberty, but by sheer grit and deter mination she is still talking. When asked if students didn’t bother her, running in and out all day, she replied, “If they didn’t come I’d think some major catastrophe had oc curred. I sleep better if I know what’s going on. I never knew so many young people who wanted to go to see a sick old lady. Sometimes I am in pain, but I never let them know, because they have so many worries of their own, and if I burden ed them with mine, they wouldn’t come back.” Although she has no favorite visit ors, she gives Shadle first place in her heart right now. “I’ll miss Shadle so much when he goes. You know just before the holidays when I was so very sick, he stayed nights during one week to help Mrs. Maguire take care of me.” Mrs. Maguire is Mrs. McCoy’s practical nurse, and she declares she's been nursing old people for years, but she’s never had a more thoughtful patient. She tells the story of the night Mrs. McCoy woke her with a pain in her heel, and said, “I’m afraid I’m going to die just like Old Dan Tucker, with a toothache in my heel.” No wonder she’s a good patient. What a sense of humor!
Varsity Debaters Clash With Shepherd Tomorrow To take part in the debate contest at Shepherds State Teachers college tomorrow, Ted Lingo, Dan Irving, Howard Gist, Winchel Yates, and John T. Walter left this morning for Shepherdstown. The boys are mem bers of Mr. Walter’s debate class. The question is. Resolved: That the western hemisphere should form a permanent union. The teams have one affirmative and one negative in each of three fifty - four minute rounds. Ted and Howard cover the affirmative and Dan and Winchel, the negative. The unique specification for the debate is that no contestant is to have debated previous to this year. The first round will be at 11:00 Saturday morning, the second and third rounds at 1:30 and 3:00. After the first round, winners will be matched against winners, and losers against losers.
Marialice Brown To Wed Charles Barker, Feb. 8 Announcement has been made of the approaching marriage of Mari alice Brown, freshman, and Charles M. Barker. The wedding will occur February 8 at the Sutton home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Rader, uncle and aunt of the bride with whom she makes her home. Mr. Barker is employed at the Homer-Laughlin China Company in Chester.