Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

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NEWS COPY cont ' d booth in which they were playing bridg.e The ex-Bethanians, Charles Hurford. Cloud Rutter, and Charles Williamson, not to be daunted by the new regulations, improvised a card table out of lutrtratre and continued their 00 O Came in front of the Inn. • Students who berate Dean Bernal R. Weimer ' s wit will be silenced when they learn that the Studebaker Motor Corn- pan)- has purchased a Weimer cartoon for advertising purposes. The cartoon is a picture of a centipede talking to a salesman in a Studebaker garage. The cap- tion underneath reads: I dropped in to look at the new Studebaker; I ' ve heard so much about the extra leg room in them. Dean Weimer has previously sold humorous poems to Col- lege Life , College Humor , and the Farmer ' s Wife maga- zines. • Dr. William H. Erskine, former assistant professor of mathematics, is now on the staff of Wright Junior College, Chi- cago, Illinois. Artist and pro- moter of the arts for the past few years on the Bethany campus. Dr. Erskine maintains a co-oper- ative studio in Chicago with sev- eral other artists. Having stud- ied for the past few summers at the Chicago Art Institute and the University of Chicago, Dr. Erskine has decided to spend more time at his favorite hobby, sculpturing. He has completed work on a sculptured bust of William S. Hamilton, w h brought Kappa Alpha fraternity to the Bethany campus; and also finished a plaque portraying Bethany education. • Nonplussed w hen student bowlers complained that the holes in his bowline balls were uncomfortable, Leroy Strasser, proprietor of the new Bethany Bowling alleys, solved the prob- lem by having the balls re- d rilled. Strasser boxed the wooden spheres and sent them back to the Pittsburgh house from which he bought them. Several days later the bowline balls came back, drilled so that the most fickle bowler could grasp them with ease. • Dr. R. H. Eliassen, head of the education department, has accepted the editorship of the yearbook number of the Open Book, publication of Kappa Phi Kappa, national professional education fraternity. When the editorial committee of the magazine invited Dr. Eliassen to edit their yearbook, they said they were seeking someone who is not wholly satisfied with the present condi- tion and who can see some fron- tiers in education. Already busy drafting plans for the yearbook. Dr. Eliassen said the theme will be New Frontiers in Education. Sched- uled for release sometime in the spring of 1940, the book will be packed with reviews of develop- ments and plans in progressive education. • Forty-four bulging sacks of mail, the largest shipment to Bethany since 1903, flooded the local postoffice on October 3, scrambling delivery schedules on the hill and hustling Postmaster S. C. Underwood and Assistant Verna Martin. The record mail weighed more than 1000 pounds. There were 500 pieces of first class mail, 300 pieces of third class ad- vertising matter, 100 daily news- papers, 21 insured packages, six Dr. Ersklne ' s plaque portraying Bethany Education. The figure on left renr-sents dln ? ?, r Knowledge from the Past :- picture on the right Th°kkng or Know!- ' pfe ' en? t N e ote Ut B , e r t e hany d , , o h w e e 1 PiCtUre ' Actln . °r Knowledge ofThe PAGE FOURTEEN

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NEWS COPY edited by JOHN COSTANZA atively mild birth this year. Coach Walter E. Boettcher, con- ducting an initial meeting with typical informality on the steps of the Main building, found only three fraternities represented. While touch-footballers of Al- pha Kappa Pi, Kappa Alpha, and non-fraternity readily ayed his suggestions. Coach Boettcher formulated plans for the league season. Maximum size of any team is nine men. Quarters are 10 minutes in length. Players must wear shoes with heelless rubber soles, to protect the turf on the new Rine field. In the case of a tie game, Coach Boettcher and his pro- teges decided, a new game shall immediately be started, and the first team to score shall be de- clared the winner of the contest. • Subject of much legend and of an article in last year ' s Betb- antan, Milton Carlin, famed signer of bulletin board an- nouncements, dispelled some of the mystery surrounding himself when he visited Bethany several weeks ago. Carlin, who graduated in ' 37, is known to most Bethanians only as a signature scrawled on official notices. Actually he is a member of the United Press staff, in Buffalo. During his visit to his Alma Mater, Carlin stayed with Bill Marsh, of Marsh Manor. • Acting vigorously under the new Sunday ruling, Mrs. Gibson, proprietor of the College Inn, In spite of the rain, Bethany ' s Band helped open Rine Field, and cheered the Bison on Student rendezvous. Ousted three to victory over Westminster. Its new leader. Dr. Weimer. is not in the former rnll rrp ct-nrlpntc frnm i picture because he is in his usual position of pun formation. iuiiiici luiicl,c siuucihs iiuui a. • Miss Annamarie Dettinger, German exchange student at Bethany last year, recently wrote to Dr. W. H. Cramblet from her home in Biberach, Germany, say- ing in part: It was a very interesting and valuable experience to me to stay over here in such a lovely place, and to learn to know and to like the people, the country, and such a fine American Col- lege. I was especially fortunate to be at Bethany, which has shown me all the time the spirit of cheerful friendliness and the will of understanding. Another German student, Karl Heyers, who studied at Bethany during 1936 and 1937, has writ- ten to Alumni Secretary George C. Hettler, saying he would like to visit Bethany during the cen- tennial year, but must needs complete his studies at the Uni- versity of Bonn. Since Mr. Hey- er ' s message was written before the outbreak of the European war, it is not known whether he is taking part in the fighting. • Students join hands with pro- fessors in a new Bethany club created to expedite the inter- change of ideas between students and faculty in friendly, informal conversations. Named the Gargoyles , the new organization plans to meet twice monthly at luncheon or dinner engagements. Students in the Gargoyle club are Caro- line Butchko, Lester Raub, Don- ald Regier, Virginia Richard- son, William Rutter, Jean Short, and Mary Jane South. Faculty members are Dr. Flor- ence M. Hoagland, E. E. Rob- erts, Rev. Dwigh t Stevenson, Dr. H. O. Werner, and Dr. F. K. Woolery. • Interfraternity football, now rabidly partisan, had a compar- PAGE THIRTEEN

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News Copy cont ' d special delivery letters, and four registered letters. Ninety per cent of Bethany ' s mail comes in the morning de- livery, ' ' explained the weary postmaster. • Biggest scientific news in Bethany ' s one hundred years flashed out over press association wires October 18, after Paleon- tologist Le Roy Kay, of the Car- negie Musuem of Pittsburgh, identified bones unearthed one mile west of the college as re- mains of a 20,000-year-old mas- todon. A steam shovel engaged in strip mining operations less than a half-mile off route 67, gouged out the first fragments late on the night of October 16. Next morning, one of the workers brought a rounded end of a bone to Professor W. J. Sumpstine. Aroused by the six-inch diam- eter of the piece, Sumpstine called on Dr. Weimer. Hastily the two professors planned an expedition to investigate the find. In the afternoon Sump- stine, with students Delivan Barnhart, John Constanza, and Marvin Siegel, drove to the ex- cavation. Already on the scene was newspaperman George Larri- more, Wellsburg. Larrimore snapped pictures as the diggers went to work. Throughout the afternoon Sumpstine ' s party, re- inforced several times by other curious collegians, uncovered fragments and packed them in baskets and paper sacks. With approximately one- eighth of the skeleton transport- ed to the college and cached in the small biology laboratory, Dr. Weimer called R. L. Fricke, preparator at the Pittsburgh museum. Fricke and Dr. Kay hurried to Bethany, examined the fist-sized tooth, the toe bone large as a grapefruit, and an- nounced that West Virginia ' s first mastodon had been found. • It is probable that a limit will be set on the number of extra- curricular activities a Bethany college student ca n engage in, following discussion by the Stu- dent Board of Governors of a point system designed to prevent any one person from holding too many offices. Backed by Dr. Florence M. Hoagland, academic adviser to women, a student committee in- vestigating such a plan recom- mended its adoption. Essentially, the rating system would evalu- ate the worth of each extra-cur- ricular activity in points, and a maximum allowable of such points would be set. During the years of 1927 and 1928, the Student Board of Gov- ernors, imposed a similar ruling on students. It is believed, how- ever, that the 1927 ruling es- tablished an allowable too high to be effective. Bethany Drugs are bought at CARSON and SCOTT Rexall Store in Wellsburg BORDEN OFFICE EQUIPMENT Royal Portables STEUBENVILLE. OHIO WELLSBURG NATIONAL BANK The keyword — It ' s the Service MRS. GIBSON S COLLEGE INN where students go Phone 2442 White Wet Wash Laundry J. L. HALTER. Prop. Gifts Landscapes FUNKS FLOWERS for all occasions Her favorite, my specialty Dial 2601 Smart college students go to NAY ' S for smart College Shoes PAGE FIFTEEN