Eastern State

              EASTERN STATE
EASTERN MONTANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
Vol. I BILLINGS, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1946 No. 6
Fourteen to be
Graduated with
Selke as Speaker
Dr. George A. Selke, new chan-cellor
of the University of Mon-tana,
will be the guest speaker at
commencement exercises Thurs-day
at 10 a.m., according to an
announcement by Pres. A. G. Pe-terson,
who will preside over the
exercises. Dr. Selke is also scehd-uled
to make the ocmmencement
address at the State University
Monday, June 10.
Fourteen students are up for
graduation, all from the division
of teacher training. They are:
Janet Elaine Benson of Melstone,
Frances Beslanowitch of Laurel,
Gladys Carpenter of Gallatin
Gateway, Carl Grill of Joliet,
Mary Hochmuth of Roundup, Fay
Jimmerson of Suffolk, Peggy Mc-
Culloch of Billings, Herman Mees
of Rosebud, Mary Nelson, Edna
Mae Schuyler and Lewis Schuy-ler,
all of Billings; Roy Swan of
Bridger, and Larry Woods of Sid-ney.
June McDonald Wessel, who
completed her work in the au-tumn
quarter of 1945, will also be
graduated, as will Ellie Stock-burger,
in absentia.
The program for commence-ment,
besides Dr. Selke's address,
will include an invocation by Lin-coln
J. Aikins, the presentation of
the candidates for graduation by
John A. Morton, the announce-ment
of honors and awards by
Mr. Aikins, the processional and
recessional by a string orchestra,
and the reception of the graduates
into the alumni association.
Last General Assembly
Given to Hour of Music
An hour of music made up the
program at the last weekly as-sembly
of the spring quarter
Thursday morning, May 23. The
program was arranged by Miss
Ruth Nourse and the master of
ceremonies was Mary French,
first-year student member of the
assembly committee.
Among the numbers presented
were piano trios by Judy Queen,
Louise Rhoads and Anne Iser-man,
piano duos by Miss Nourse
and Miss Arvilla Terrell, the lat-ter
one of our graduates now
teaching in a Virginia conserva-tory,
choral numbers by the girls'
chorus and girls' sextet, together
with a double duet by members
of the chorus, selections by a
men's quartet, and three numbers
by the seventh grade glee club of
the Billings Junior High School,
directed by Miss Eva Lyksett, ac-companied
by Paterson Jones,
seventh grader, and introduced by
Sallie Carol Hines.
Richard S. Mitchell, who comes
to Eastern State in September
from New York to head up the
work in audio-visual education.
Mitchell to Join
Faculty In Autumn
Richard S. Mitchell, of New
York City, will join the faculty of
Eastern State in September to
head up the work in visual edu-cation,
according to an announce-ment
by Pres. A. G. Peterson.
Other fields in which he is pre-pared
to work are English, sci-ence,
dramatics, and arts and
crafts.
Mitchell is a graduate of De-
Witt Clinton High School in the
Bronx, holds the Bachelor of Sci-ence
degree from the College of
the City of New York and the
Master of Arts degree from Co-lumbia
University. He has taught
in the Evander Childs High
School, Gunhill Road, New York,
the Bernarr MacFadden School at
Scarborough, the Rome (N. Y.)
Junior High School, and, since
1943, in the Horace Mann-Lincoln
High School at Columbia, teach-ing
English, general science and
mathematics.
Mitchell is 6 feet tall, is 28 years
of age, and is single—simple facts
in themselves, but pretty sure to
guarantee a full house every itme
he meets a class.
PLAY DAY AT UNIVERSITY
Ten women students from East-ern
State spent the week end of
May 10-11 in Missoula in attend-ance
upon the Quadrangle Play
Day. They were: Dorothy Althoff,
Elaine Benson, Frances Beslano-witch,
Gladys Carpenter, Mary
Covarrubias, Anne Earley, La-
Verne Finkbeiner, Mary French,
Fay Jimmerson and Evelyn Lar-son.
FACULTY MEMBERS RETURN
Two of four faculty members
who have been on leave will be
back with us for the summer
term. Miss Hermine Roberts, in-structor
in art, who has been
touring Mexico, has returned to
Billings and will resume her du-ties
June 10, and Oscar M. Bjor-gum,
instructor in physical edu-cation,
who was on detached
service with the Billings Public
Schools during the past year, will
also be front and center.
George H. Gloege, who begins
his work as a member of the
Eastern State staff with the sum-mer
session, teaching the physical
sciences.
Gioege to Join
Faculty in Summer
George H. Gloege, principal of
the Custer County High School
and Junior College at Miles City
since 1942, has resigned that po-sition
to join the permanent staff
at Eastern State beginning with
the summer quarter of 1946. He
will teach the physical sciences
and mathematics.
Gloege is a graduate of the Hel-ena
High School and Intermoun-tain
Union College and has done
graduate work at Columbia Uni-versity
and the Universities of
Colorado and Wisconsin, holding
the Master of Science degree from
both Columbia and Wisconsin. He
is well along on his work for the
doctorate.
Before going to Custer County
Junior College as dean, Gloege
had taught in Stanford High
School, Intermountain Union Col-lege
and Billings Polytechnic In-stitute.
He is 6 feet tall, weighs
214 pounds, is married, has four
children, plays golf, fishes, hikes,
and belongs to Rotary Interna-tional,
the American Association
of University Professors, t h
MEA, the NEA, School Principals
Association, Masons, Elks, and
DeMolay Legion of Honor.
Among former students who
have visited Eastern State re-cently
was Price Rigby. Price re-cently
returned from service in
India and is planning to attend a
school of interior design, either in
Denver or New York.
New Science Building for Eastern State
Approved by Postwar Planning Commission
"The action of the Postwar Planning and Construction Commis-sion
in approving a science building for Eastern State will not only
fill a longfelt need but definitely shows that the commission has in
mind the welfare of the young people of college age in the eastern
part of the state," said Dr. A. G. Peterson, president of Eastern, when
notified on May 9 of the commission's action.
The commission at its closing session May 8 approved the alloca-tion
of $175,000 to the local unit of the university for the erection of
a science building, a structure more needed now than ever with a
rapidly growing student enrollment in the basic curriculum courses.
The recommendations of the commission will be submitted to the
state legislature in January and the legislature, in turn, must ap-propriate
the funds from a reserve built up during the war years.
Tentative Plans Drawn
Tentative plans for the science building call for a structure of
three floors and a full basement ,the basement to be given over to
manual training shops, a paint room, and wood and metal workshops
for janitors. The first floor will be devoted to general classrooms
and the arts and crafts department, the second floor to botany,
zoology, biology and geology, and the third floor to chemistry, physics
and meteorology.
Whether a science building of such proportions can be built
for the money approved is conjecture at this time, Dr. Peterson said,
much depending on the cost of materials at the time construction is
planned.
The unofficial report of the commission's action included the
allocation of $23,300 for repairs at Eastern State, but the official
report did not include this item.
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Larry Woods
Robert Dell, Carl Mackey
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EDITORIALS
NO PARALLEL HERE
In a recent study of enrolment cards at Eastern
Washington College of Education (Cheney), the fol-lowing
statistics regarding student support were gath-ered
: • —
100 % self supporting: 54 c/o•
75% "
50% " 6%
25% 13 %
0 % 18 %
Both men and women students at Cheney hold a
wide variety of jobs, ranging from baby-sitting to
service station work. The college provides employ-ment
in clerical work in administrative offices and
library. Students wait table and -wash dishes in the
dining halls...One of the most prominent girls on the
campus is continuing the janitor work she undertook
as a. war service. Many of the commuters hold full
time' jobs in Spokane: - A high proportion of honor
students are self supporting.—ACP.
How is it here? A careful study has not been
made, but we may hazard a guess that we have no
students who are 100% self supporting. Certain we
are that we have no men students in that category,
although some work part time in downtown Billings.
Antl_ -science offers proof positive that there are no
baby-sitters among them, unless a few cases of cam-pus
smooching may be called baby-sitting.
As for waiting table and washing dishes, our
women students are like the suitcase six—they can't
wait, they gotta go; and, we are given to believe, you
couldn't get one of them to even model as a dish-washer.
Are our students more prosperous than those
in Washington or are they satisfied with less? And
do they expect to escape dishwashing when they
marry? Never mind the answers. We think we al-ready
have -them. -
RIDE 'EM, COWBOY!
Although not so designed, the summer quarter
at Eastern State begins the same week as the Go-
Western celebration, which promises to have national
significance, and ends the same week as the Midland
Empire Fair, which is one of the country's greatest
salmagundis. Somewhere in between, a lot of study-ing
is going to be done, but just who's going to do it
we can't be sure. With registration at the pageant
and final exams at the fairgrounds, it looks as if the
'only way one could pass a course would be to ride a
pony, and we mean a western pinto.
Five June graduates, all of them sweet, are missing from this
picture, but you are sure to be interested in the names of those
present. First row, left to right: Elaine Benson of Melstone
'
Fay
Jimmerson of Suffolk, Mary Hochmuth of Roundup, and Edna
Mae Schuyler of Billings. Second row: Gladys Carpenter of Gal-latin
Gateway, Frances Beslanowitch of Laurel, Lewis Schuyler
of Billings, Peggy Jane McCulloch of Billings, and Mary Nelson of
Billings. Third row, with the mustache, Roy Swan of Bridger. Not
present for this informal gathering were: Carl E. Grill of Joliet
and Herman Mees of Rosebud, both of the June class; Larry Woods
of Sidney, of the winter quarter class; June McDonald Wessel of
Missoula, of the fall - quarter class; and Ellie Roseberry Stockburger
of Belgrade, who finished by correspondence.
Resigns Position
At Eastern State
The resignation of Miss Esther
Anson effective July 1 was an-nounced
by Pres. A. G. Peterson
May 29. Miss Anson, instructor
in elementary education at East-ern
State since last September,
has accepted a position with
Michigan State College at East
Lansing.
Before coming to Eastern Miss
Anson had been a counselor for
graduate students at Columbia
University and earlier had been
a counselor for girls at Saddle
River, New Jersey, and a teacher
at Ferndale, Bellingham and Mt.
Vernon, Washington. She holds
the bachelor's degree from the
Western Washington State Col-lege
of Education and the master's
degree from Columbia University.
At the latter institution she has
almost completed her work for
the doctorate. At Eastern State
she has served as counselor for
returned servicemen a n d has
taught courses in elementary ed-ucation
and mathematics.
At Michigan State College Miss
Anson will hold the rank of asso-ciate
professor in the college of
education, with the major portion
of her work in adult education.
She will organize and supervise
the adult education in towns and
cities near Lansing and part of
her job will be the supervision of
in-service rural school teachers
on the college campus.
Before reporting at East Lan-sing
on July 1 Miss Anson will
spend a week with Billings
friends at a mountain cabin and
will also visit with relatives in
California and Washington.
No successor had been chosen
at the time of the announcement.
Esther Anson, who has resigned
her position at Eastern State to
become a member of the faculty
at Michigan State July 1.
4-Day Holiday Results
From Council Vote
The student council, some mem-bers
of which are good fishermen,
met with Pres. A. G. Peterson on
May 22 and declared a four-day
holiday beginning with Memorial
Day. It was the general feeling
that, with finals coming up the
following week, a surcease from
class meetings would not meet
with disfavor, but the real reason
for the extra off day was the va-cation
in the Billings Public
Schools where so many of the
Eastern State students are doing
student teaching.
Many to Remain
For Summer Term
Thirty-eight per cent, at least.
of the students enrolled during
the spring quarter will remain foi
the summer quarter, according to
the inquiry being carried on by
this paper to ascertain the perma-nent
addresses of those students
who do not expect to remain.
This percentage may be increased
by some of the late signers but, in
any event, it is news to the regis-trar's
office which, in previous
years, has not expected a con-tinuance
of more than ten to fif-teen
per cent.
One of the reasons for the in-crease
is obviously the decision of
many of the veterans to carry on
despite heat and long climbs. At
the time of writing, veterans now
enrolled are about equally divid-ed
among those who will stay
and those who will go, with a bal-ance
further maintained by the
graduation of four veterans wit4
the June class. Carl Gril, Her-man
Mees, Lewis Schuyler and
( Roy Swan are all listed for diplo-mas,
all having been students
here before World War II.
On the other hand, many of the
veterans who will drop out for
the summer season will be back
with us in the fall. And, back to
the first hand, the girls dropping
out for the summer, just about
equal those staying on, if it is
taken into account that eight girls
are being graduated.
To all- those who are away for
the summer, as well as all those
who remain, regular- 'issues of
Eastern State will be sent
Faculty Men Talk
Pres. A. G. Peterson has been
in great demand during the late
spring as a commencement speak-er
in high schools of eastern Mon-tana
and Wyoming. Among the
dates he was able to accept were:
Wibaux, May 10; Grass Range,
May 22; Joliet, May 23; and Klein,
May 24. In Wyoming, he spoke
at Greybull May 24. He reports
much interest in Eastern State
among the high school students
before whom he spoke.
Among other faculty members
who have been making com-mencement
talks were John A.
Morton who spoke at Winnett
May 24; and Lincoln J. Aikins
who spoke at Circle on the same
date.
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Wednesday, June 5, 1946 EASTERN STATE Page Three
Niece of Miss Rich Is
Elected Phi Beta Kappa
Miss Betty Rich, who will be
remembered by many of our stu-dents
as the master of ceremonies
when four girl students from the
University of Colorado presented
a program of songs and piano
numbers at one of our assemblies;
has been elected to Phi Beta Kap-pa,
honorary scholarship society,
at the Colorado institution. In or-der
to be chosen for Phi Beta
Kappa, a student must maintain
an average of 90 or better for the
entire college course. Miss Rich
is a niece of Miss Pauline Rich,
librarian at Eastern State.
Layout Man and Head
Compositor Please Note
That there are "books in run-ning
brooks, sermons in stones,
and good in everything" was
borne out recently in the news-paper
scorebook report of the
Associated Collegiate Press in
which this paper, Eastern State,
was rated as first class, or excel-lent.
Points considered were news
values and sources, news writing
and editing, headlines, typogra-phy
and makeup, and department
pages and special features. We
were no lower than "good" in ev-erything,
which should inspire the
staff to make the paper even bet-ter.
The above are gentlemen of science considering matter as com-posed
of atoms and their relations and affinities. From left to right
they are: Elton Ahlgren, William F. Hoheisel, instructor in science,
Lonney White, Gerald Lundby and Richard Kober, all of Billings
and all returned servicemen.—(Gazette photo.)
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM
Processional String Ensemble
Invocation Lincoln J. Aikins
Double Trio—"The Green Cathedral" Carl Hahn
Lois Marquardt Mary Hochmuth
Doris Mattson Mary Covarrubias
Mary French Gyda Pederson
Introduction of Guest Speaker President A. G. Peterson
Address Chancellor George A. Selke
University of Montana
Double Duet—"Indian Dawn" Zamecnik
Lois Marquardt Doris Mattson
Mary Hochmuth Mary French
Presentation of the Class. John A. Morton
Conferring of Diplomas Grover C. Cisel and George E. Snell
Local Executive Board
Announcements of Honors and Awards. Lincoln J. Aikins
Reception of Graduates Into Alumni Association____Maxine Ruppel
Class of 1940
Benediction. Lincoln J. Aikins
Recessional String Ensemble
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DRUG STORES
Anne and Ray Iserman, wife and husband, are meticulously at
work at Eastern State after long hitches in the United States Army.
Ray says he is just posing in the above picture, since his wife is
the real student of the family, but reports from the art department
do not bear Ray out entirely in this statement.—(Gazette photo.)
Page Four EASTERN STATE Wednesday, June 5, 1946
K. Robertson to
Leave Eastern
Kathleen Robertson ,instructor
in English and dramatic arts at
Eastern State since last Septem-ber,
has resigned that position ef-fective
July 1, according to an
announcement from the college
offices. Miss Robertson's plans
for the coming year are not defi-nitely
formulated but she will
probably join the staff of one of
the well-known Southern col-leges.
Miss Robertson came to Eastern
State from Glenville, West Vir-ginia,
where she was an instructor
in speech and English, and she
also had served as a teacher of
the same subjects in the Clen-denin
and South Charleston high
schools in that state. She holds a
bachelor's degree from the Uni-versity
of West Virginia and a
master's degree from Northwest-ern
University.
Her major field of interest is
dramatics and play production
and during her year here she di-rected
and staged three one-act
plays which were well received
and a Broadway comedy, "Per-sonal
Appearance," which was
said to be the best such perform-ance
ever done by Eastern State
students.
No successor had been chosen
at the time of the announcement.
Three One - Act Plays
Ring the Old Bell
The three one-act plays pre-sented
by the Katoya Players
Tuesday night, May 14, were en-thusiastically
received by a rep-resentative
audience. The plays
were "Ladies Alone" by Ryderson
and Clements, and "The Queens
of France" and "The Happy Jour-ney"
by Thornton Wilder. "The
Happy Journey," which won the
local good conduct ribbon, was
staged sans properties and cos-tumes,
i.e., in ordinary street
clothes and by the use of a chair
or two, as Wilder originally in-tended.
A student orchestra, com-posed
of Fay Jimmerson, Larry
Woods and Ray Iserman provided
the overture and intermission
music.
The casts of the three plays
were: Ladies Alone — Dolores
Rieker, Anne Earley and Cath-erine
McConnachie; Queens of
France—Larry Woods, Peggy Mc-
Culloch, Norma Jane Shackelford,
Mary Margaret Ross, Kathryn
Davidson and Wilma Benes; and
Happy Journey — Dahlia Bengt-son,
Gerald Lundby, Robert Dell,
Lois Marquardt, Doris Mattson
and Ralph Lackman.
The production staff was com-prised
of Alvina Merideth, Lor-raine
Weedman, Craig Derry.
Carl Mackey, Milo Grue, Golda
Talent and Judy Queen. The
business staff was made up of
RoseEllen Lechner and Richard
Whittington. And the house was
handled by Anne Iserman, Doro-thy
Hudgins and Jean Walker.
COMMUNITY COOPERATION
DINNER IS A SUCCESS
The ninth annual Community
Cooperation dinner, given by the
Billings Commercial Club in the
gymnasium of Eastern State on
May 16, was a great success, ac-cording
to reports which have
come trickling in from over the
Empire.
Approximately 700 people sal•
down to dinner and were servec'
by 100 more. Everybody seemed
to get enough to eat without de-lay
and the speech of the evening,
made by Tom Collins of Kansas
City, Mo., was short and humor-ous.
Two hours of dancing fol-lowing
the dinner program was
indulged in by everybody young
enough to lift a foot.
EITHER THAT OR DDT
Girls who are in a hurry to
spread on sun-tan are now ablcf
to forego shaving by rubbing on
some powdered pumice (cellular
volcanic lava to you). It is rec-ommended
also for the removal of
some of the juvenile beards one
sees in the wide-open spaces
hereabouts, come June 16.
♦
Housing Problem
Must Have Solution
The housing problem is really
something in any man's town, but
here in Billings, a city which is
destined to triple its population
of twenty years ago within the
next four years, there is hardly
room to pitch a tent. For that
reason, folks already established
are asked by Pres. A. G. Peterson
to share, if not alike, at least part
way, so that all the students who
wish to attend Eastern State this
summer may have the oppor-tunity.
Dr. Peterson has prepared a
bulletin to be distributed to home
makers within a radius of ten
blocks of the state college, asking
that a single room ,a double room,
an apartment, a room with board,
or a room for which one may
work be provided. Veterans and
teachers are coming in by the
MOE SPEAKS BEFORE
FACULTY AND STUDENTS
M. P. Moe, executive secretary
of the Montana Education Asso-ciation
with headquarters in Hel-ena,
spoke before the faculty of
Eastern State on Tuesday after-noon,
May 14, discussing plans for
the advancement of the Montane
Education Association and the
National Education Association .
Later in the week, as one of the
many talks scheduled in Billings,
Moe spoke before a small group
of students on the work of the
MEA.
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Residence Hall for
Women Still in Cards
The proposed residence hall for
women, approved by the State
Board of Education at its meeting
in Missoula, is still receiving the
attention of the president and
members of the local executive
board. Plans are being revised by
a Billings architect and, when
building materials are available.
bonds will be sold to investment
companies. The building will be
paid for from earnings over a pe-iod
of years.
JOLIET SENIORS VISIT HERE
Seven seniors from Joliet High
School were Eastern State visitors
May 24. All expect to attend col-lege
next fall. Two are interested
in teaching, and one each in jour-nalism,
mechanical drawing, com-mercial
subjects, art, and busi-ness.
They were shown over the
plant by Dahlia Bengtson and
Louise Nelson. Louise makes her
permanent home in Joliet.
TO PUBLISH DURING
SUMMER
Under present plans, "Eastern
State" will be published during
the summer. If your copy does
not arrive, please notify us and
one will be sent pronto.
score, maybe by the hundreds.
One plan proposed a canvass of
the town by a corps of students.
Maybe this will have been done
by the time this issue comes from
the printer's. But something had
to be done, and we couldn't wait
for government housing.
Graduate Dinner
At Hilands Club
The annual graduate dinner, at-tended
by the graduating class,
faculty members, and special
guests, will this year be held at
the Hilands Country Club Wed-nesday,
June 5, at 6:30 p.m. The
dinner, a formal affair, will be
sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Har-lan
C. Hines, members of the
club.
A committee, composed of Wil-liam
F. Hoheisel, Miss Esther An-son,
and John A. Morton of the
faculty, and Fay Jimmerson, Lar-ry
Woods and Roy Swan of the
graduates, is arranging the pro-gram
but would not divulge it all.
It was learned that Lewis Schuy-ler
will preside, Miss Anson will
introduce the graduates, Dr. Pe-terson
will speak for the faculty
and guests, and Larry Woods will
respond for the graduates. Of
course, there will be instrumental
and vocal music as well as chin,
but the remainder of the program
is a "pocketful of surprises," the
committee said.
COLLEGE TO HAVE CATALOG
This college is soon again to
have a catalog, the job of prepar-ing
which is in the hands of Di-rector
of Elementary Education
John A. Morton and Director of
the Basic Curriculum Lincoln J.
Aikins. Just when, we can't say,
but probably in mid-summer.
The job has been one, of the
toughest assignments around the
institution.
FACULTY MEMBERS ARE
GUESTS AT DINNER
Nearly every member of East-ern
State's faculty was present at
the annual dinner of the Billings
public school teachers at the Bil-lings
Commercial Club Tuesday
evening, May 14, to which mem-bers
of the boards of education
and the local representatives to
the state legislature and their
wives were also invited. Martin
P. Moe of Helena was the speaker
and the program was presided
over by Mrs. Valborg Ryan, presi-dent
of the organization and a
teacher of primary work in the
normal school unit of the public
schools.
Hard Life at Miami
Girls at Miami University (Ox-ford,
Ohio) are protesting that
the culinary department is ham-pering
their chances for dates on
week ends. Now that men are
back for good, they want the
onions omitted from potato salad
on Saturday and Sunday nights
—ACP.
Still Harder at Holyoke
Tuesdays and Fridays will be
wheatless days on the Mount Hol-yoke
campus as students tigthen
their belts to help in the current
food shortage. The wheatless days
will be thoroughly wheatless, with
breakfast cereals being substitut-ed
for toast at breakfast, and pic-nic
bread allowances will be lim-ited
to two sandwiches per girl.-
ACP.