Auburn Adventist Academy - Rainier Vista Yearbook (Auburn, WA)

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WESTERN WASHINGTON ACADEMY 1929 [25]

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1929 THE MAGNET A Line a SEPTEMBER Day FEBRUARY 19— Arrived safely. Everything new. Reg¬ istration. 22— Reception. New people. How my arm aches! 29— Tag march. Thirty seven partners. Wish some would stay longer. OCTOBER 20— End of good etiquette week. Program and shadow pictures. 23— Harvest Ingathering. Donation: fruit, chicken, pumpkins and cash. 27—Horrors! Ye olde tyme program— Study Period! 30— Chapel. Dot White’s first MAGNET campaign. Speeches. Leaders. Wilford Ogden and Lulu Julin. NOVEMBER 3—Mock election. A1 Smith and H20-ver. Elephants and donkeys. Supreme court judges. Mustaches. 14— Institute. Church school teachers ev¬ erywhere. 15— Chapel, Professor Gordon Smith of Michigan talked. Peppy! 24— Everything looked “reel” . . . espec¬ ially Pilgrims and Indians. 27— Girls entertain Casa Loma boys in Regina Hall. 28— Vacation . . . Barely caught the stage. Thanksgiving dinner with Mother and Dad. DECEMBER 3— Miss Clement, Editor of “Instructor” gave excellent talk in chapel. 8—Week of Prayer. Elder Shrewsbury home from India took charge. 14—W. W. A. gave program in Seattle at M. V. meeting. Talks, readings, dia¬ logues. 19— Presents for everybody. “Bird’s Xmas Carol” . . . the Ruggleses. 20— Christmas Vacation. Magic words! Home, all the folks. N’ everything. JANUARY 4— Campaign closed. Golds Won! 12—“Reel”—Fords shown in chapel. 19—Universities of California, Oregon and Washington had big track meet. Cali¬ fornia wins. Heaps o’ fun. 26— ’Nother tag march. 27— 14 inches snow. Coasting. Everybody’s face is clean. 9—Music and Expression Classes give program. 12— President W. I. Smith talks in chapel and meets Seniors. 16—Casa Loma boys gave Lincoln Pro¬ gram. “The Deestrick Skule”—a riot. 23—Washington Pageant by 7th and 8th grades. Costumes. 26— Fire Drill. Professor Losey’s birth¬ day. MARCH 2—Girls Glee Club sing with glee and we learned how Reubenstein played. 9—Seniors have party at Violet Irons home. 23—Close of Spring Week of Prayer. Mer¬ lin Neff and Elder Walker inspired us to do and live better. 30—Community sing. Prof. Cubley lead¬ ing. APRIL 1—Some think it’s Hallowe en. Fire siren 12:30; Rising Bell 5:00, and so on and on. 4— Big Week. Gust Gray turned in the most cash. 6—Baptism in Seattle. 15 of our members consecrated to the Lord. 8—W. W. C. Men’s Glee Club entertain, preceded by banquet given for “Golds” 13— Taffy pull in the village. 14— “Enoch Arden given by Mrs. Gilbert, assisted by Mrs. Cubley. 21—Mrs. Ethel Threlkeld-Edgerton gave program of vocal selections. 21-22—Missionary Volunteer Convention. 225 visitors registered. 27— “Study period.’’ 28— Movies on Hawaiian Islands and Aus¬ tralia. 29— May 3—“Good English Week”—Tag please! MAY 5— College Band gave a splendid pro¬ gram. Welcome again. Professor Thorpe! 6— Junior-Senior picnic. Puget Sound, launch, big waves, Bainbridge Island Camp. Lots of fun, games and eats. 11—Music and Expression program. 13—School Picnic! Boating and sunburn. 26—Baccalaureate Sabbath. 25— Music and Expression Nature Pro¬ gram. 26— Class Night. 27— Commencement! 28— Good-bye!! [241

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1929 THE MAGNET The New Boys’ Dormitory T HE PEOPLE of the Western Washington Conference are all interested in the Western Washington Academy and they have reason to be interested in it, for thousands and thousands of dollars have left their pockets to help bring the school to its present state. We feel proud of our administration building, and our girls’ dormitory, and our woodwork shop but—we do not say much about our boys’ dormitory. For lo! these many years the boys have done their best to be cheerful and happy while watching the girls go back and forth from their cheery dormitory. Each year the boys have lived in anticipation and have hoped that next year would see the build¬ ing of a new home for them, one that they could take pride in. Now the hopes are about realized, for the Academy Board has voted to build a new dormitory. Plans come first, then comes the working out of the plans. Money is needed to purchase material and pay carp enters, masons, plumbers and electricians. The school does not have the money and so we have to plan a campaign to raise the money in the field. The student body is going to be responsible for $2,000.00. Every boy and girl is to raise $15.00 or more. The school has been divided into two groups under the leader¬ ship of May Libby and Vernon Van Buskirk. We know that the students will reach their goal because they always have accomplished whatever they have set out to do. A group of conference workers will take the burden of raising the major portion of the $10,000 which will be needed. According to the ideals set forth in the fundamentals of Christian education we plan on using our teachers and students in the work of erecting the building. We ex¬ pect to have competent foremen to see that everything is done in a workmanlike man¬ ner. This plan will not only assist the boys in earning money to pay their expenses for the next school year but it will have an educational value also. Our woodwork shop will do all of the millwork, making doors and windows, cup¬ boards, and so forth. This also will give more boys an opportunity to learn a trade and earn money for their schooling. When teachers and students can work together at manual labor there is a closer contact made between them and a great appreciation of their mutual problems. The building will be two stories high, and of the same design as the Administra¬ tion building and girls’ dormitory. It will have commodious rooms for the preceptor, and will comfortably care for about seventy boys. We plan on making everything as strictly modern and up-to-date as our means will permit. When boys are housed in a neat, clean, h ealthy, commodious home with cheer¬ ful conditions, and are helped to keep their belongings in the proper way, they learn valuable lessons that will build stronger characters and useful habits that will make them more useful as workers in the future. We plan on making the dormitory easy to supervise, with sanitary arrangements so that the boys’ health will have the proper attention, plenty of light in all of the rooms and a closet in each which will hold all necessary apparel. When a boy can look from his window to the north and see in the valley below, a beautiful winding river with mighty fir trees covering the surrounding hills, and look to the southeast and see majestic Mt. Rainier towering thousands of feet in the air, he cannot help but feel that God’s hand is controlling all nature and that his soul will be better for the sights his eyes have beheld. To the boys of the Northwest who have not yet been to our school, we issue an invitation: COME and work with us and enjoy the fruits of your labors by living in the new dormitory. [26]