Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

Text from Pages 1 - 186 of the 1942 volume:

i In the Army.. In the Navy.. In the Marine Corps.. In the Coast Guard ACTUAL SALES RECORDS IN POST EXCHANGES, SALES COMMISSARIES, SHIP ' S SERVICE STORES, SHIP ' S STORES, AND CANTEENS SHOW... Camels are the favorite! The smoke of slower-burning Camels contains 28% Less Nicotine than the average of the 4 other largest-selling cigarettes tested — less than any of them — according to independent scientific tests of the smoke itself! The smoke ' s the thing! Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard ...yes, it ' s Camels with the men in the service. And with the millions of others who stand behind them, too. For Camel is America ' s favorite. Join up with that ever-growing army of Camel fans now. Enjoy the cool, flavorful taste of Camel ' s costlier tobac- cos. Enjoy smoking pleasure at its best — extra mildness with less nicotine in the smoke {see left). SEND HIM A CARTON OF CAMELS TODAY. For that chap in O. D. or blue who ' s waiting to hear from you, why not send him a carton or two of Camels today? He ' ll appreciate your picking the brand that the men in the service prefer. ..Camels. Remember— send him a carton of Camels today. By BURNING 25% SLOWER than the average of the 4 other largest-selling brands tested — slower than any of them — Camels also ive you a smoking plus equal, on the average, to 5 EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK! R. J. Rey noIJi Tobacco Company. Winston-Salem, North Carolina EDITORIAL COMMENTS By David Huntsberger REGARDING BETHANIAN During the past school year and during tlie Summer months now drawing to a close it has bsen brought to my attention that the students of Bethany College are not in accord in their reception of our magazine, Bethanian . Most of the students, I am happy to say, have found it a worth-while endeavor and favor it ' s continuance, but there are those who are not satisfied and advocate a return to the year book type of publication. Bethanian , in its present form, was and still is a new departure in student journalism. Three years ago a group of far sighted students, with the approval of the student body, ventured from the beaten path into entirely unex- plored land when they threw aside the conventional year book type of publication for the present form of the Bethanian , a combination magazine-yearbook. The efforts of this group were not unrewarded. As far as can be ascertained Bethany was the first college in the United States to publish such a monthly magazine portraying a panorama of campus life and the originators had the sat- isfaction of seeing at least two other colleges follow the trail they blazed. This year we will continue the experi- ment and attempt to aid in the evolution of this form of college publication. In our opinion the Bethanian has a twofold purpose. First, it should present a true and accurate story of all phases of compus life; academic, endeavor and achieve- ment, extra-curricular activities, outstanding events, groups and organizations, campus leaders and personali- ties, and a lasting record of the student body. In this fashion it will serve the purpose of the yearbook. The second purpose, if successfully accomplished, will afford the student something the year book cannot pos- sibly offer. That is a medium for self expression. In our opinion the Bethanian should not be a result of the efforts of a small group which comprise the staff, but should be a mirror of the thought, opinion, and talents of the student body. It ' s pages should be open to each and every student as a place where he can express an idea or opinion he considers important or interesting to his fellow students. It should have between it ' s covers the result of the student ' s creative ability; whether it be pictures, illus- trations, short stories, poetry, or feature articles. We of the staff are going to make a concerted effort to make this magazine all that it should be. We will do everything in our power to adhere to and accomplish the two purposes we have here set forth but we can not be successful if we alone publish the magazine. The student body must be behind us and assist us in our efforts. They must feel free to contribute anything they consider to be of interest and must do so if it is to be truly a student publication. The staff can, without too much difficulty, fulfill the first purpose without the assistance of the students, but if this be the case we can only offer a yearbook on the installment plan and will have failed our objective, the furtherance of a new and truly worthwhile type of student journalism. So, fellow students, we of the Bethanian make a sincere appeal to you to help us make this all that YOU can desire of YOUR magazine. We ask you to aid us by giving us your suggestions, your criticisms; we ask you to let us have your opinions of all things pertaining to your college experience; we ask that you let us see your liter- ary efforts, your poetry, your drawings, and your photo- graphs. In this way you can help immensely to make the Bethanian a volume that we can all be proud of. BETHANIAN Volume 33 — Number 1 October, 1941 CONTENTS Page EDITORIAL Regarding Bethanian 3 FEATURES Chemistry Department 4 Bethany Summers 12 For the Freshmen 14 Freshmen on the Faculty 15 Fire 16 Bethany House 17 PARTICLES Bits from Here and There 10 PHOTOGRAPHIC STORY Freshman Week 6 THIS MONTH ' S PICTURES Cover D. Huntsberger Pages 4, top 5 Courtesy C. C. Barlow Pages 6, 7, 8, 9, . .Speed Koval, D. Huntsberger Pages 10, 11, 12, 13 D. Huntsberger Page 15 Courtesy C. C. Barlow Page 16 D. Huntsberger Page 17 Courtesy C. C. Barlow Pages 18, 19 Speed Koval, D. Huntsberger Page 20 D. Huntsberger ORGANIZATION EDITOR David Huntsberger EDITORIAL STAFF To be organized very shortly BUSINESS MANAGER George Sitock BUSINESS STAFF Jack Baumgartner Mariah Smith Mary Lou Smith Nellie Mcllvain Grace Benedict PHOTOGRAPHIC DIRECTOR Speed Koval Bethanian, a magazine of features and photographs, published each month from October through May by the Student Board of Publications of Bethany College. Entered as second class matter on January 14, 1920, at the Post Office at Bethany, W. Va., under the Act of March 1, 1879. Subscription price: Four dollars the year. Volume XXXIII, Number 1. PAGE THREE CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT The chemistry department at Bethany is one of the most im- portant and most progressive. Nearly all of the students at Bethany sooner or later have at least one chemistry course. They may take a general course to satisfy gradu- ation requirements, they may take all the chemistry courses for a major. Students majoring in biology, pre-medical or other scientific endeavors find a good background in chemistry necessary for the fullest understanding of some of the phenomena they study. PAGE FOUR ? ' i ' ' ! i -A wm Hi T ' .:M The chemistry program at Bethany College aims to provide a superior chemical training for teachers of high school science, for entrance to medical schools, and for buttressing allied fields. Preparation is given for routine work in industrial or government chemical laboratories, and for minor research in certain areas where graduate training is not absolutely essential. Bethany students are given a thorough work- ing basis for entry into graduate schools where they will continue their training for industrial research for some closely related vocation. It is the very definite purpose of the department so to correlate the student ' s endeavor that he may achieve an absolutely workable technical training in chemistry at the undergraduate level without sacrificing a balanced social or religious life. Laboratories and Eqnipiucuf The department is supplied with a general laboratory equipped for 156 students, an analy- tical laboratory with provision for 64 students and a well equipped laboratory for organic and (Continued on Page 20) ABOVE — The physical chemistry laboratory on the third floDr of Oglebay Hall is the scene of nearly all the labor- atory work assigned in upper division courses in chemistry. Students working here work almost entirely without sup- ervision, many of them on problems they themselves have chosen. A problem must result in something entirely new. It need not be a new product. Just a new develop- ment in technique is sufficient. Also on the third floor is the advanced organic lab and a machine shop for the manufacture of special apparatus required for experi- mental purposes. HEAD OF DEPARTMENT— DR. H. D. DAWSON -m FRESHMAN WEEK Since it can be stated that beyond any reasonable doubt the most important scries of events in the first few weeks of school are those of Freshman Week, Bethanian presents a lasting picture story of these events. In order to make a connected story it was decided that a Typical Freshman Girl should be chosen and Bethanian will follow her through all the activities of Freshman Week. The girl chosen was Patricia. Cederquist of Ashtubula, Ohio. Her picture appears on the cover of this issue of the magazine and on this and following pages the camera records the most important of her activities in her first week of college beginning with her arrival on the campus and terminating with Sodbusters Ball. Pat was chosen as the Ty pical Freshman Girl because of her pertness, her vivacity, her general appearance, and her camera face. Upper left, Pat is welcomed to Phillips Fiall by Crix Fiess upon her arrival on Sunday afternoon. Sunday evening at the first informal gathering of the freshmen she was amused by the antics of Tony (Brooklyn) Cusmano who was the life of the party, upper right. Monday evening, informal reception at the Heights, low- er left Pat meets Dr. and Mrs. Cramblet. Lower right she chats with others at reception. PAGE SIX The third evening was a freshman party in the gym featuring Stunt Nite and games to further get- ting acquainted. Upper left, Pat turns to shake hands with Jim Day. Among the stunts Pat thought the fun- niest was Tom Thumb (Melvin Sweeney, arms by Speed Koval) attempting to co-ordinate hand and mouth in eating a banana. Upper right, and Brooklyn ' s con- sternation when Carl Geenen as a side show salesman left him well smeared with shaving cream, lower left. Wednesday nite the church gave it ' s annual party for thj incoming freshmen. There were games, group singing, and refreshments. In the lower right Pat assumes the role of Spectator with mixed emotions while others sing. Later it became her turn to participate while others watched with equally doubtful expressions. P. GE SEVEN • On the opposite page: upper left Pat tries to get seconds on ice cream when served at the church party. Thursday was the day of the Freshman hike and picnic. Fat was unable to make the trip because of the appear- ance of one of the boys from back home. The picnic, served on the lawn at Point Breeze Inn, consisted of the usual beans, potato salad, hot dogs and ice cream sticks. Two pictures, opposite page upper right and this page upper left show George Northrup feeding a dog to Yvonne Balster while Boetcher minds his own eating and Virginia Forry and Helen Colton receiving the;r share as they pass down the line of waiters. One of the most import, but least attractive fea- tures of Freshman week is the battery of tests to which the unsuspecting Freshman is submitted. These tests oc- cupy a fair percentage of each day and before the week is over those subjected to them wish they might never see another. Opposite page lower left Pat chews the eraser as she attempts to solve a particularly difficult problem. Each Freshman is required to have a physical ex- amination to supply a record for the dispensary that is kept, changed, and added to for the time the student is in Bethany College. While waiting their turn the girls weigh one another to see if there is any truth in the saying that all Bethany girls put on weight. Martha Umble weighs Pat, lower right opposite page. After the picnic the Freshmen attended parties held by their counselors for the purpose of acquainting counselor and counselees. Pat was assigned to Miss Mahaffey with several other students. At Miss Mahaffey ' s house she met and chatted with fellow counselees and with Miss Mahaffey, see picture upper right above. Later they all drank a toast to happy days to come in Bethany. (Soft drinks were used.) The meeting with counselors was the last event of Freshman week with the exception of registration on Thursday and Sodbusters on Saturday nite. Friday nite was free so most Freshman became first-niters and went to the year ' s first movie in the chapel. Classes started Friday so Friday afternoon found Pat in the bookstore buying books and books and books plus notebooks, paper and the many other items required for classes and study, see lower left above. Saturday nite and Sodbusters and the school turned out in mass for the official meeting of the Freshmen and the upper classes. The girls were lovely, the men were smooth, the music was good and a good time was had by all. The dances were tag dances and after the first little bit of backwardness everyone fell into the spirit of the thing and taggd right and left. Lower right above shows Jack Warmington, a friend of Pat ' s from Morgantown tagging back of Tony Cusmano who just shortly before cut in. The week was now over and Pat tired but happy looks forward to rush week. PAGF NINE F. H. KIRKPATRICK • Among the distinguished visitors at sodbusters ball was Dr. Forest H. Kirkpatrick, Dean of Per- sonnel who has a years leave of ab- sence to work with R.C.A. in In- dianapolis on Defense work. At intermission the Dean made a short speech in the course of which the said quote: Bethany is primarily an ed- ucational institution. vmquote. • A lot of last years upperclass- men are not with us this year. They have been asked by their uncle to help run one of his big camps, Uncle Sam. We cannot trace all of them but the air corps seems to have gotten its share. Tom Grimm, George Brady, Charles Hart, Tiny Morill, and pos- sibly others are with the army air corps. Dick Glass and Butch Esty, graduate fliers from Bethany ' s CAA course are now with the Navy Air corps. May all their landings be happy ones. • Bethanian points with pride to its new photographer Speed Koval and his pictures. As a test we turned the camera over to him and asked him to get a few pictures for Freshman week. He came back with a few dozen and all of them good pictures that tell a story. Bethanian will make good use of Speed if he doesn ' t go on strike like he did for Sodbust- ers. Look , he said, I ' ve taken pic- tures all week and I don ' t know the freshmen or the upperclassmen. To- night you take the pictures while I scout around and get acquainted. That is what he did and if the pic- ture to the right be true, he did all right. • That hectic period known as rush week is now over and everyone, freshmen and upperclassmen alike can relax and get some sleep and, incidentally, catch up on study. The results of rushing are not available at the present time but will be pub- lished in the next issue of the Beth- anian. To the new pledges let us of- fer our congratulations. No matter which Fraternity or Sorority you pledged, you have affiliated your- self with a fine group of young people. • Bethespian Club, the all col- lege dramatic organization, announc- es through its President James Hunts- berger that it will present its annual homecoming play as usual this Fall Homecoming. The play is not yet, at this writing, definitely chosen but, as far as advance information can be trusted it looks like a toss up be- tween Lady Windemere ' s Fan and Night Must Fall. Both are excellent plays and Bethespian promises to have it ' s best season this year. The old dramatic standbys are still with us and these persons augmented by scores of talented freshmen give promise of productions throughout the year that all Bethanians who like the drama should not miss. Put the homecoming play on your must list! • Once more Bethany prepares to put some of it ' s young men into the air. Bethany College in conjunc- tion with the Civil Aeronautics Authority has already graduated 13 private pilots and even now the first group to be enrolled for this school year is attending ground school con- ducted by Lloyd C. Bagby of Wheel- ing. In these ground classes they learn the principles of aerodynamics, navigation, meteorology, and the civil air regulations which govern flight rules and traffic. Before long these new fledglings will start their air training which is under the direction of the Higgins Flying Service of Glendale. By the end of the first semester they will be ready to take their flight test, which, if they pass, is the last test before they receive their wings and private licenses. This is probably the most romantic course in the school and designed primarily to establish a reserve of pilots who, in wartime can be quickly turned into military pilots, and who in peacetime will be the ' basis for a rapid advance in pri- vate flying and thus in the geared up aircraft industry. Unfortunately, women are no longer permitted to enroll. Nellie Mcllvain who took the course last year will therefore be the only girl pilot turned out by Bethany College. To those enrolled this year we say happy landings. • Speaking of Bethany ' s flyers we might mention that the good townspeople are a bit wroth about the lowflying antics of some of the boys on a Saturday and Sunday of not so lon g ago. On Saturday Wib Cramblet and Bill Neumann circled the town at a low altitude disrupting the peace for a short period. The next day Dave Huntsberger with his lady ' by his side repeated the per- formance but unhappily chose an inappropriate time. He glided into town and then gave full throttle right over the church in which church services were in progress. • In regard to the Bethanian staff. There will be a notice on the bulletin board shortly after this first issue appears. Any and all persons who wish to join the staff or to write are cordially invited to attend. There is room and work for every- body so don ' t let numbers frighten you. SPEED KOVAL PICTURE OF THE MONTH This picture was snapped one night during the summer when the waiters should have been work- ing but instead had taken some time off to attend to some other matters. What those matters may have been the picture helps make clear. The location — the back steps of Phillips hall. The boy and girl? We are not allowed to divulge that information and will do so tinder no circum- stances so do not ask us. PAGE TEN I I % LEFT, the three most popular waiters with the conference girls pause in eating to hit a solid note of har- mony. RIGHT, John White, freshman this year, swings a wicked brush (hairy paddle in the vernacular) between pipes at the Phi Kappa Tau house which Strasser ' s crew painted this past summer. CENTER, Bob Bullard helped the photographer get a picture of a baby skunk. WOW! BETHANY SUMMER Few of Bethany ' s students realize that there are tivo distinct and separate phases to life in Bethany; one of nine mouths duration, the school term; the other of three months, the summer season. Bethanian has alivays endeav- ored to present in it ' s page a true and compre- hensive study of the activities and events of the school term but never has it made any attempt to acquaint the readers with the Bethany they do not knoiv. Bethany in the summer. At last the veil is torn aivay, tee present a short picture story of Bethany Summers. — Editor ' s note. The forgotten man is the man who spends his summer in Bethany. When school is officially over the majority of the student body is dispersed and scattered over many states. A few remain behind. During the past summer there were eight or ten who stayed the entire three months. Their activities were many and varied. No sooner had the students left when the campus was invaded by a host of young people attending church conferences. The conferences were of a weeks duration and when one group left another took its place. Altogether the con- ferences lasted from early June until the tenth of August. During that time six of the remain- ing students worked at Phillips Hall as waiters. Their duties were simple but many. They in- cluded serving meals, washing dishes, scrubbing pots and pans, setting tables, and cleaning up the hall and kitchen. These duties took from 10 to 14 hours a day depending upon the num- ber of persons in the conference. Spare time was necessarily scarce but since 75 % of the conferees were girls from 16 to 24 years of age what time there was was used to good advant- age. When the last conference had left, each of the waiters went his way on a well earned vacation; Martha ' s Vinyard, Long Island, Cleveland, Washington, Baltimore, Everywhere, but after a week or two weeks at the most, all were back in Bethany ready to go to work on Strasser ' s gang. Some became painters at fifty cents an hour, some carpenters, some laborers, and gen- eral flunkies at forty cents an hour. No matter what the job, there was plenty of work and plenty of hours and nearly all had a nice little nest egg with which to meet the reopening of school in the fall. Until the last two weeks before the return of {Continued on Page 19) PAGE TWELVE AT THE TOP Conference girls were anxious that the waiters get through work in time to keep their dates so they came into the kitchen and helped the boys work their way through 1000 dishes plus silverware. AT THE BOTTOM Jim Huntsberger had his mind on a coming vacation in New York. When he dried dishes he built a replica of Manhattan. Here he jx ints out the position of Times Square with reference to the Em- pire State building. PAGE THIRTEEN FOR THE FRESHMEN In persuing back issues of the Bethanian we ran across a page titled Freshman Bible and discovered it to be a list of do ' s and don ' ts coupled with a few words of advice designed to assist the new students in becoming aclimated to campus life. It seemed to us to be really worthwhile and though it seemed a trifle facetious in spots wc deemed it very worthwhile and therefore, with apologies to a former editor, we reprint it here in the sincere belief that if you freshmen ivill note and take heed it will be of some little value in helping you navigate the first few weeks of your college life. — Editor ' s Note. DEUTERONOMY Thou shalt not smoke on the campus. It ' s an old Bethany tradition, and besides, the adminis- tration frowns on it. Thou shalt not play tennis, nor cards, nor dance on Sunday. Thou shalt not annoy the cows in the college — nor the graves in the cemetery. Thou shalt not save up all thy clothes for one laundry case — nudity is frowned upon here. Thou shalt not cut chapel more than five times — save that walk until afternoon. Thou shalt not demonstrate class spirit by in- scribing 194r ' all over the campus. Thou shalt not linger more than 3 hours over a 5 cent coke. A soda rates 6 hours, a sundae is good for the day. Thou shalt not talk on the telephone for more than 3 hours at a time. Thou shalt not bull after 12 o ' clock mid- night. :;• =!• :;- Thou shalt get enough sleep at night. The desks are so hard around here that insomnia of- ten occurs in the daytime. Thou shalt stay clear of Breezy Heights Beer Garden. Thou shalt remember — the view from reser- voir hill is much more effective in the daytime. Thou shalt beware of the cross-country team. They are always running around. Strangely enough, in the country. Thou shalt show proper respect for the up- perclassmen. (Adv ' t.) Thou shalt go to the Beta walk (in case you didn ' t know) by walking down Pendleton road, past Miss Mahaf fey ' s and Prof. Robert ' s houses, climb a fence, go around a pig pen, and, there you are. Thou shalt try writing home sometime when you don ' t need money. Thou shalt always remember Bethany is primarily an educational institution , especial- ly after dark. Thou shalt (ye gentlemen) try calling up for dates three days in advance at least (It ' s the legal limit). Thou shalt always be a good little freshman, duly admiring of the upperclassmen and duly obedient. REVELATIONS This Bible is written in a sincere effort to help freshmen lead a happier life in Bethany, and to help you avoid some of the inevitable mistakes. But, if, with all the worldly wisdom of your seventeen or eighteen years, you look at the thing as so much upperclass froth, it will be your own loss. Since dating is probably the uppermost thing in your mind, let us consider that first. One of the frequent mistakes made is starting immedi- ately to go steady with one person. Playing the field will get you further in the long run, little Fannie Frosh, even though you do feel flattered that Sammy Sophomore is fascinated enough by your charms to limit himself to your company exclusively. Don ' t feel too bad if you don ' t have a date for the big dance. Just take an excursion through the corridors of Phillips Fiall, and you ' ll see that at least 40 per cent of the girls are dateless, and many of them from their own choosing. If you have a date, exercise some discretion about romantic proclivities, particularly in the drawing room, or you will find yourself furn- ishing an amusing show for the others present. Don ' t make your affection the object of every- one else ' s derision. Now for the question of study. After all, you did come here for an education, so don ' t siabor- dinate your studying to having a good time. Plan your day, and prepare each class during the time you have scheduled for that purpose. Your grades will show exactly how much work you do. When you study turn off the radio and turn out your friends. If they get angry, they don ' t have the stuff in them that real friends are made of anyway. There is also a sort of Bethany etiquette to observe, so remember such things as speaking to everyone and being quiet during serenades. Concerning extra-curricular activities, don ' t get membership in so many that you ' re of real value to none. Get acquainted with everything, the faculty, the library, the buildings, the traditions of the school, the village, the country-side and above all — the students. Let us conclude with an admonition not to let college go to your head. PAGE FOURTEEN BETTY BELLINGER A s sis tant L 7? ra r ' ui n ALYNE KEY La n gnashes FRESHMEN ON THE FACULTY JOHN F. HARRISON ■;; . n . . E. HUGH BEHYMER L-hrariau ANNA E. PALMER Dictiaau — Bclhauy House ZETTA E. BANKERT Sociology  •■ ■ -♦ . BETTY CLARK Physical Etiucation INEZ CUNNINGHAM LYLE Secretarial Arts PAGE FIFTEEN FIRE Sunday, Sept. 14 was indeed a day of excitement, for, not only was it the day the freshmen arrived, but it was also the day of the big fire at Forney ' s. At approximately 5:30 P. M. the siren at the heating plant com- menced it ' s banshee wail to proclaim to the Bethany Volunteer Fire De- partment that their services were re- quired. These worthies lost no time in responding to the call. But a few minutes later the chemical wagon, drawn by the firemen, was racing down Main Street, closely followed by the ladder department, also drawn by firemen. By the time these museum pieces had arrived at the scene of the fire, other firefighters had entered the lower floors of the house and found the fire to be enclosed in the south wall, from first floor to third. They knocked small sections of the wall out and brought into play buckets, and hose. Some removed furniture and other valuables to a place of safety and in but a few minutes the fire was out and everything under control. At this propitious moment, after the fire was out, the Wellsburg fire department, complete with truck, came into Bethany. It is said that this was the first appearance of the Wellsburg company since the night many years ago when the Old Beth- any house burned to the ground. Tha t is a tale worth telling. It seems that the students had long been ashamed of the appearance of this old hostelry and when the college bought the ground it occu- pied, and incidentally the hotel, they saw an opportunity to be rid of this eyesore by the simple expedient of setting it on fire. At the height of the conflagration the Wellsburg fire department made it ' s appearance and went into action. The students, fearing the firemen might succeed in extinguishing the blaze hindered their progress by cut- ting their hose with axes. To pro- tect the equipment the firefighters turned their hose on the students but by the time the small riot was quelled it was too late to do anything about the fire except to let it burn. Every- one had a grand time. There was a community sing and parade in the light of the end of the Old Bethany House. The pictures to the right show the Wellsburg truck, the Bethany ladder wagon and chemical cart, and in the lower right a demonstration of two methods of entering a third floor room. BETHANY HOUSE, NEW EATING PLACE FOR MEN, AND SODA GRILL BETHANY HOUSE Newest addition to the buildings of Bethany is the new eating place for freshman men, and any others interested. Construction was started at the end of the school term last year and dur- ing the summer the present edifice quickly took shape. It was finished shortly before the present semester started. Opening night was the 6th of September. Dinner was served to the Live Wire Club of Wheeling. The dinner was free to those attending, a gift from Bethany College. The most attractive feature of the Bethany House is the soda bar and sandwich grill which occupies the front end of the building. It has facilities for loafing, bridge, and jitterbugging. The big question in the minds of many is what effect this will have on that old haunt, the College Inn. With the upperclassmen the Inn is almost a tradition and if Cocoanut Grove or The Troca- dero were moved into town they would still patronize the Inn for they have been at home there for years and feel comfortable nowhere else. However the Freshmen comprise the bulk of the student body and they are prone to patronize Bethany House. Just what will be the effect on the Inn and the Grey Bonnet cannot be predicted with any accuracy. Management of Bethany House is in the hands of Anna E. Palmer, for picture see page 15, who comes from California to Bethany. She is a graduate of Penn State and has spent two years as a dietician. She has also been the author of a dietetics column and a household hints column in western newspapers. Prices at Bethany House are consistent with other eating places in town. The board rate is $6.00 per week, the same as at Phillips Hall. Notable items on the bill of fare are: Banana split 2 5c, Chocolate frost 2 5c, Cheeseburger 15c, Cokes (of course) 5c. PAGE SEVENTEEN LOUISE WEAVER Top left, Roxy Silvers the chief cook at Bethany House examines baked potatoes to make sure they are not half baked. Center left, Mrs. Neff, pastry cook and assistant to Mrs. Silvers works out on a mess of chickens, must be Sunday. Bottom left, the soda bar. Bill Young behind the bar, in front of the bar Jack Baumgartner, Bill Humber, and an unidentified freshman. Directly above Louise Weaver the short order cook and sandwich specialist. Like good movies? SUPPORT YOUR OWN THEATRE Every Friday Nite at 8:00 Always the best! TICKETS and PROGRAMS FOR COLLEGE DANCES and ACTIVITIES Carnegie Union Printing Co. 243 E. Main Street, Carnegie, Pa. Phone 83 PAGE EIGHTEEN The steps at Bethany House offer a good resting place and gathering place. On the left Jim Huntsberger, Wally Mayor, Jack Simeral, and Ed Harris roll out the barrel (in song). On the right the eternal triangle is represented by Bill Dowler, Nellie Mcllvain, and Fred Albrecht. Bethany Summer {Continued from Page 12) the student body work consumed just 45 hours a week. The last week however brought twelve hours a day, seven days a week. Free time was spent playing Black Jack and a new card game called Just for the Hell of It , bowling at Strassers, visiting Hep and Lil at Poke ' s or Jack Morgan at der deutshe Garten . Rides out of town were scarce but about once a week the boys were able to get into Wheeling or Steubenville to take in a show. The summer Bethanians were called upon to do many things out- side their line of duty. They helped to quell a miniature riot. They pro- vided entertainment through the medium of song. One, while in swim- ming with some conferees saved a girl who had been knocked out in a rough house and had slipped unno- ticed to the bottom. One Sunday one of the waiters was asked to deliver a sermon in one of the neighboring churches. The offer was declined as the particular student thought he was not in the least qualified. No other offered to pinch hit. Don ' t Miss NIGHT MUST FALL October 25 Cheers for Campus Clothes in STIFEL ' S Young Set Fashion Shop WHEELING, W. VA. GEO. R. TAYLOR CO. WHEELING, W. VA. Fashions for Juniors Misses and Women Typewriter broke? Get it fixed by calling BORDEN ' S OFFICE EQUIPMENT CO. STEUBENVILLE. OHIO MADER SLEEP SHOP Home of the Best Mattresses Mader Built Innerspring OLMSTEAD BROS. CO. PAPER 1413-15 Main Street WHEELING, W. VA. CLARK PAPER CO. WHEELING, W. VA. ' A paper for every purpose ' PAGE NINETEEN FRATERNITY and SORORITY FASHION CENTER (!: S wmKmmm Sb — — — WHtaiite WW ■ — irf THE OWL PRINT SHOP The best is none too good for you. Stationery Dance Programs MARKET ST. WHEELING IGNS and ABLtTS RUBBER STAMPS. SEALS STENCILS BADGES TIME STAMPS WHEELING STAMP k STENCIL CO. 37-nTHST. WHEELING, W.VA. The Student ' s Store L. S. GOOD CO. WHEELING, W. VA. Chemistry Department (Cuiitiiiticil from Page 5) physic.ll chemistry. There are also two minor research laboratories, a spectroscopic laboratory, a larg; cncmical storeroom, a machine shop, a seminar room for departmental periodicals, and a balance room with 16 balances available for analytical work. General apparatus is adequate for all courses offered. The department provides excellent periodical literature at the under- graduate level and this is in the pro- cess of still greater development. Some 20 of the most important do- mestic and foreign journals and ab- stracts are regularly received, both general journals and those which ap- ply specifically to each of the divis- ions of chemistry. Individualized Training It is not customary for two stu- dents to follow identical educational patterns. An effort is made in each case to set up a program which ap- pears most likely to be of the great- est benefit to the student. The plan is quite highly individualized, partic- ularly when auxiliary courses outside the department have been taken into account. Chemical Engineering Since chemical engineering is es- sentially applied chemistry, the Bethany program enables the student to secure the most important fact- ors. What competent advisers feel is a nearly ideal program may be at- tained by taking intensive work in chemistry such as is offered at Beth- any, following this period with an West Virginia ' s Finest Fort Henry Meats Provided by WEIMER ' S PACKING COMPANY WHEELING, W. VA. Headquarters for SMARTER COLLEGE WARDROBES West Virginia ' s Largest Department Store. MAIN STREET WHEELING, W. VA. DR. JOHN REYNARD Assistant Professor • additional year in a strictly engin- eering school. Curriculum It is the policy of the college to advance exceptionally well prepared freshmen to analytical or organic chemistry. If by the sopohomore year a student has decided to enter some phase of chemistry as a voca- tion, a more intensive program is be- gun. This includes first year physical chemistry, and either first year or- ganic chemistry may be elected on three yearly levels and analytical on two or three. Physical chemistry is taught on two levels. Upper division students, normally those in the Jun- ior or senior years, may choose from other catalogue offerings, and super- ior students often do minor research in some chosen field, in which event they write a student thesis. Student Placement Exceptionally high correlation exists between the college course of the chemistry student and his post college activity. A summary which covers the past six years shows that Bethany grad- uated forty-two chemistry majors of whom thirty-eight per cent immedi- ately entered into graduate study in the chemistry departments of twelve high ranking universities. Fourteen per cent entered medical colleges. Two students during the depression period took non-technical jobs; nine- teen per cent were placed as teachers of science in secondary schools; the remaining twenty-five per cent en- tered industry directly, placing in eleven different organizations. At the present time, twenty-four per cent of these graduates are still pur- suing graduate study; ten per cent are in medical colleges; twenty-two per cent are teaching; forty-one per cent are working in technical posi- tions for sixteen different chemical industries. PAGE TWENTY « « «M Mff M M« « ff M M«S M K0 MW««M «««M«««««««W«0«M««««««««««««««««««0«««« e I Zamsky s Studios u 1941-42 SPECIAL 4 PORTRAIT SETTINGS plus 8x10 inch Composite Picture of Your Fraternal Group All for $L25 Watch Bulletin Board in front of Activities Room announcements of the coi of Zamsky ' s photographer for announcements of the coming | i I PAGE TWENTY-ONE ANGELA CUMMINS Chesterfield ' s Girl of the Month BeHisn r MILDNESS, for BETTER TASTE and COOLER SMOKING, Chesterfield is the winning cigarette . . . they ' re quick to satisfy with their right combination of the vorld ' s best cigarette tobaccos. All around you, pack after pack, you ' ll see Chesterfields giving smokers a lot more pleasure. Join in, light ' em up, and youve got a cigarette to cheer about. Everyv here you go . . . it ' s have a Chesterfield d Copyright 1941. Liggett Myers Tobacco Co. i •a ■ VOL. 33 NO. 2 NOV. ' 41 Reverse Weekend XSB2C ' 1 —It ' s the Navy ' s new dive-bombing sensation— Test Pilot Bill Ward at the stick HOW DOES IT FEEL to dive straight down from sevural miles up? Bill Ward knows. He ' s the test pilot who put this amazing new Curtiss dive bomber through her paces for the Navy. That ' s Bill {lejt, above) smoking his {and the Navy man ' s) favorite cigarette. He ' ll tell you— •YOUR EARS CRACKLE and pop. You think, says Bill, the whole world ' s trying to squeeze the daylights out of you. You think maybe they have, if things go a little foggy or dark when you ' re pulling out of your dive. After a ride like that, a Camel tastes mighty welcome. BYPAfZ.- The smoke of slower-burning Camels contains 28% LESS NICOTINE than the average of the 4 other largest-selling brands tested — less than any of them — accordin scientific tests oj th BY BURNING 25% SLOWER than the aver- age of the 4 other largest- selling brands tested — slower than any of them — Camels also give you a smoking plus equal, on the a ' erage, to 5 EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK 11. J. Reynolds Tobarro Company Winslun-Salem.NorlUranjHiia CAMEL THE CIGARETTE OF COSTLIER TOBACCOS %Cf ' ? Tesi Pilot Bill Ward shares the Navy man ' s preference for the cigarette of costlier tobaccos. , . Camel SPEAKING of tests, Bill Ward adds: Those recent laboratory tests showing less nicotine in the smoke of Camels only go to prove what I ' ve always found in my smoking — Camels are milder in lots of trays. That ' s what counts with me. Light up a Camel yourself. You ' ll know in the first few flavorful puffs why, with men in the service . . . with the millions behind them . . . it ' s Camels. ( Based on actual sales records in the Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard.) EDITORIAL COMMENTS It becomes increasingly apparent that there is some- thing definitely wrong somewhere on our campus but that elusive little something is as hard to set our hands on as a greased pig, principally because we have no idea what it is. The symtoms of the ailment are painfully present; we are all aware of them; apathy, lethargy, and a general lack of spirit, enthusiasm, interest, and good clean fun. Or, briefly and to the point, Bethany has lost it ' s tradi- tional spizz, vim, vigor and vitality. Never in the history of Bethany has dating fallen to such a low ebb that it became necessary to let the ladies do the dating. True, everyone had a good time, everyone entered into the spirit of the thing, and it was quite suc- cessful but, and here ' s the rub, why did the social com- mittee feel that such an affair was in demand? Because it was novel, we say. Alright, it was novel but, we know there was more to it than that. We all know that so few fellows were dating that the girls were becoming a trifle discontent and something had to be done. The very proof of this statement is the success we have noted for leap week. The girls entered into the thing seriously because they wanted dates. The men entered into it because it was the most satisfying thing for the male ego that has ever taken place in Bethany. Results: (temporary) the girls are broke. The male egos are sated. Results (per- manent) none. Dating has resumed its former negligible status. What we are interested in is the WHY of the issue. It was often said that four girls out of five were pretty and the other one came to Bethany, but no fair and unbiased observer can look over this year ' s crop of pulchcritude and make that statement. Most of the men agree that th re are more beautiful women in Bethany this 5 ' ear than there have been in the last several years. From this we may conclude it is not a lack of local talent but a lack of in- terest in the talent on the part of the men. H owever this does not only apply to dating but to every other phase of college life as well; to classes, to clubs, and worst of all, to our football team. It is only fair to add that, with the possible exception of dating, this applies to the girls as well as to the men. We are bored, we find everything dull, and we lay the blame on the school, the administration, the faculty, the weather, the international situation, in fact upon every- thing but the right thing — ourselves. The school, facul- ty, and administration are the same as they have always been. They are in no way curtailing our activities. If our activities are fewer and not so enjoyable as in former years we have only ourselves and our lack of spirit to blame! Let ' s all get back into the swing of things and help the Moo Moo Moo, the 20 Club and above all our- selves make 41-42 a banner year at Bethany! BETHANIAN Vciumne 33 — Number 2 November, 1941 CONTENTS Page EDITORIAL 3 FEATURES Biology Department 4 Who ' s Who in Bethany 14 PICTURE STORY Reverse Week-End 8 Bison Hit the Road 18 BEAUTY 7 ONE NIGHT IN PHILLIPS HALL 12 SPORTS Sport Review 13 Football Team 21 PARTICLES 15 Freshman Test 15 FRATERNITY Phi Kappa Tau 16 THIS MONTH ' S PICTURES Pages 8, 9, 10, 11, 18, 19, 21 Speed Koval Pages 4, 5, 6 top, 16, 17, cover, Dave Huntsbergar Pages 6 bottom, 14 News Bureau ORGANIZATION EDITOR-IN-CHIEF David Huntsberger ASSOCIATE EDITOR George Northrup LITERARY EDITOR Betsy Ann Plank FEATURE EDITOR Francis Dvorak SPORTS EDITOR IVIartin Reiter PHOTOGRAPHIC DIRECTOR Speed Koval BUSINESS MANAGER George S itock ASS ' T MANAGERS Alonzo Freebarin Nellie Mcilvain Jack Baumgartner Everett Stewart CIRCULATION MANAGER Mariah Smith CIRCULATION STAFF Marilyn Waugh Evelyn Baxter Grace Benedict Bctbauian, a magazine of features and photographs, published each month from October through May by the Student Board of Publications of Bethany College. Entered as second class matter on January 14, 1920, at the Post Office at Bethany, W. Va., under the Act of March 1, 1879. Subscription price: Four dollars the year. Volume XXXIII, Number 2 PAGE THREE 1 BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT The picture above is of the preparation of specimens for the Compara tive Anatomy course offered to upper division students of Biology and Pre-Medica courses.These cats may be purchased from biological supply houses but to keep then fijr the course which is offered in the second semester they must be injected with preservative, and left in formaldehyde until ready for use. The students will dissect an( study these cats and thereby gain an insight into the human anatomy as well as tha of the cat, as the cat and the human are similar. PAGE FOUR FRESHMAN LAB. BACTERIOLOGY BETHANIAN VIEWS THE BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT By George Northnip Biology at Bethany College has a unique history of its own. This particular history dates back to the year 1921 when a new professor faced a freshman class of Biology in w ' hich sat a young man who was to become a professor of Biology at this same college. It was Dr. B. R. Weimer as the professor, and W. J. Sumpstine as the freshman student. Since 1921 these two men have associated togeth- er as teacher and student, and finally as associate profes- sors. Now, in 1941, the Biology department consists of two professors, and five assistants, Betty Murphy, Martin Reiter, Dorothy Reynolds, Esther Mackey, and Raymond Rappaport are the assistants who act as helpers during laboratory periods, and who see that materials and equip- ment are always on hand. These assistants perform valu- able services as they are available during work periods in the various laboratories. The purposes or aims of the department professors arc to acquaint the student with the living world around him, and the fundamental dynamic life processes, to demon- strate scientific methods of approach to problem solution; to provide a training ground for the pre-medical student, and other professional fields. There are many professors of Biology in large universities to whom this department can point with pride as a product of Bethany; in fact the fields of medicine, research, laboratory technicians, and public health service have all drawn from Bethany ' s Bio- logy department. There are at present four rooms in use; one as a confer- ence room, one for an office and research room, and two laboratory rooms. There is a full line of equipment in each room; complete projection machines for lantern slides, and for sound or silent movies, microscopes for each individual to use; and all the supplementary equip- ment and materials for a scientific study of a range of subjects, from General Biology to Theoretical and Ad- vanced Morphological Biology. Almost one half of the present enrollment is taking some course in Biology this year. Of the 200 students taking Biology, the greater percent are freshmen, enrolled in General Biology. There is a special freshman laboratory where microscopic studies are carried on several hours each week. For the advanced students there is a special bacteriological laboratory which is well equipped for the directed studies. Future plans in- clude the addition of a small greenhouse where much more material will be available for use as specimens. As a special point of interest the discovery and excava- tion of a mastodon by the Biology department last year was of enough importance to merit a write-up in the Science magazine. This prehistoric animal was first dis- covered in the form of part of a skull bone by a steam shovel operator, who brought the queer specimen to the Biology professors for identification. After recognizing the bone as a part of some monstrous animal, the profes- sors with an excavating party of students went out and finally located most of the missing parts of the skeleton. The hills of Bethany were apparently part of the range of this particular mastodon. The fine natural environment of all the hills and woods around the college provides the various classes with opportunities for field trips, and makes available all sorts of animal and vegetable life which can be gathered or ob- served by the students themselves. There are regular field PAGE FIVE trips planned when the weather is pcrmissable, and these expeditions are complete with lectures by either Dr. Weimcr or Professor Sumptine. Dr. B. R. Wcimer obtained his degree of Dr. of Philo- sophy from the University of Chicago in 192 8, seven years after he became a professor at Bethany Col- lege. In addition to his duties as head of the de- partment. Dr. Weimer is the Dean of the Faculty ' , and serves on the County School Board. The text- book for General Biology now in use at Bethany, was written by Dr. Weimer in collaboration with P. D. Strausbough, Professor of Botany at Morgantown, Professor W. J. Sump- stine holds a Masters de- gree which was given him in 1930, and since then he has completed most of his work on the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Pitts- burgh under Dr. Jennings. Professor Sumpstine is also kept busy as Mayor of Bethany and as an amateur radio en- thusiast. In the past four years there have been thirty-five stu- dents graduated with majors in Biology. Among the most notable of these is William Montagna who provided most of the drawings in the textbook now used for Gen- eral Biology. Dorothy Reynolds used the micrograph, an instrument for taking pictures of microscopic biological specimens, to take a picture of an amphioxus. The amphioxus is the lowest form of cordate and, if Darwin be correct, may be considered the ancestor of the fish and as such would be the ancestor of birds, reptiles, animals of all types, and, of course, the genus homo. DR. B. R. WEIMER— Head of Department PAGE SIX Drink IN BOTTLES For Collegiate Clothing Come to WEISBERGER ' S Tubes Tested FREE Bethany Radio Service Phone 2862 THE OWL PRINT SHOP The best is none too good for you. Stationery Dance Programs MARKET ST. WHEELING Try it — BLAKE ' S ICE CREAM Unexcelled 96 Sixteenth Street Phone 1746 WHEELING, W. VA. Cheers for Campus Clothes in STIFEL ' S Young Set Fashion Shop WHEELING, W. VA. Composite of Bethany ' s Beauty sketch by Frank Zecca And perhaps this, rri) ' boys, is why you haven ' t been dating, for this is Bethany ' s most beautiful girl — compositelv speaking. Frank Zecca, our annual class photographer, is the artist, and his sketch was not a determined at- tempt to catalogue collegiate beauty, but merely the result of an idle, sub- conscious file of Bethany ' s beautiful features — Being interviewed during his latest visit to the campus, Zecca stated definitely and without reser- vation that our co-eds are, generally speaking, the most beautiful of any he has seen. I ' m only sorry I can ' t be as complimentary to the boys. But this beauty, — it ' s deeper than that — it ' s a sociability, a genuine character about the girls — that I appreciate. Bryn Mawr, Cornell, Cedarcrest, Elmira, — I photograph them all, and they can ' t compare. (And perhaps you didn ' t believe the remark in this month ' s editorial.) And the boys? They ' re nice too, but can ' t you girls make them shareV (Ah! Out of the mouth of an Out- sider, male at that!) Zecca thought it wiser to with- hold the possessor of the individual features, and besides, guessing won ' t be that hard — or unpleasant. The hair, he admitted, is a little unusual, it is rather idealized or styled in the manner proper for Interfratcrnity. And make-up? The great majority of the girls use the correct amount. Our beauty? It merely needed the words of an expert to verify our opinion and is worthy, editorially speaking, of a weekly shaved male. FRATERNITY and SORORITY FASHION CENTER T- WHtElM Wft J Lighting Fixtures — Appliances Lamps — Radios SANDS ELECTRIC CO. 52 Eighteenth Street Phone 146 WHEELING, W. VA. Fine Printing — Our Specialty No order too small to Receive Our Careful Attention THE VALLEY PRESS Eighth Street Wellsburg ' err Mr t SIGNS and (tV TABL ETS RUBBER STAMPS. SEALS STENCILS BADGES TIME STAMPS WHEELING STAMP STENCIL CO. 37-nTHST. WHEELING, W.VA, Headquarters for SMARTER COLLEGE WARDROBES West Virginia ' s Largest Department Store. MAIN STREET WHEELING, W. VA. PAGE SEVEN ' f - it r. This noon at lunch Hutch announced an Open Season on All Eligible Males for the week-end of the twenty- fourth. Oh, joy! Now I can grab me a real live male. But whom shall I grab? I think I ' ll be particular and ask only one man. This afternoon I seized my opportunity and asked the man of my choice for a date. Of course I was very subtle. His arm will never be the same where I grabbed him. Play hard to get is my motto. (Just think— A REAL LIVE MAN WITH MUSCLES!) When I came in tonight, I tried to get upstairs past the phone booth. The first time I tried, I couldn ' t get past the first step. Well, thought I, I ' ll wait a few minutes and then try again. Soon there was no person in sight. Seizing my chance I sneaked quietly around the corner and start- ed up the stairs. Brrrr-ing! went the phone. I lay quietly on the stairs as the thundering herd pounded over me. Then I weakly dragged my mangled body up to the third floor, and decid- ed to join the throng. But who were the lucky men to be? Ah! Inspiration! That handsome Ray Rappaport, the Biology Lab. assistant whom everyone was simply gaga about. I called the Beta House and was told by the gentleman (?) who answered the phone, that if all the ladies, who were calling Rap, would form a line his secretary would take care of them. Finally I located this popular young man and got a date with him. Then I con- templated on other fortunate males. Oh, happy thought! The one and only Monty Stratton. You know, the fel- low who comes over to the swimming pool and sits around in his trunks and dis- plays his magnificent physi- PAGE EIGHT que? Anyway, I called and got a date with him. Not bad, eh? Well, I decided to stick around and watch the girls nonchalantly come to the phone. The phone rang again, and the girls slowly strolled to the booths with a slowness of pace that would put a torna- do to shame. And so I crawled on my mangled hands and knees to my boudoir. Ah! Sweet dreams and slumber! Here I am waiting patient- ly and calmly for the coming week-end. Nothing ever dis- turbs me. My doctor says that I will have to have both arms amputated. You see, I have a slight case of blood poisoning just because I chewed my fin- gernails a bit. Gee! My first date was with an Alpha Kappa Pi. Isn ' t that wonderful! In fact, it is very unusual. Meeting in front of the Main Building, we went to the Bethany House for a coke. As I had another date at three with one Kappa Alpha, I deposited Man No. 1 on the doorstep of his destination and left in search of my three o ' clock date. At first it was hard to recognize him as he was camoflaged by the books he carried. Nobly relieving him of his burden, we stagger- ed down the hill to the College Inn, and sluffed cokes. That evening I took my time in walking down to the Beta House. Well, maybe I did pass one or two airplanes, but, they were flying awfully low. When I arrived at the House, a huge sign met my eyes. It read, Welcome Home! Well, after reading this sign, I gracefully crawled under it and asked Happy, the house-father, to call Rap for me. While waiting I filled out the sign-out slips sig- nifying that we were going to indulge in God Knows What for Miscellaneous purposes. Suddenly one youth came rushing out with lather on his face and razor in hand and shout- to his date, I ' ll be a little late. Honey. The PAGE NINE The dance: Prof. Harri- son centers for the kickoff of faculty dignity . . . Then I weakly dragged my man- gled body to the third floor and decided to join the throng surrounding the phone booth. power is off. Then he wheeled about and dash- ed back in. I was fast becoming impatient when Rap came out — reeking in Shanghai cologne. To my horror he handed me his razor, shaving soap, after-shave lotion and a few old bones and asked me to put them in my pocket. And so, taking his arm, we marched off to the movie. Af- ter enjoying Seventh Inning Stretches in the cinema, I suc- ceeded in getting him home on time. Thought I to myself, Shall I? No, I ' d better not. It might not be nice. So I bade him goodnight and left. Saturday afternoon I order- ed a lovely corsage to be sent to my date for the ball which took place that evening. Then I waited for the evening to come. Tick — tock — drag — swish — . Evening had arrived. Virginia Ott looked super in his gorgeous plaid skirt and con- trasting plaid jacket. There were many arrest- ing costumes among which Porky Davis and Timmie Simpson had the most unique. As we plowed through the sparsely populated dance floor, he suddenly reached down and plucked an onion from his corsage and ate it. For the remainder of the evening I bargained him off to unsuspecting female stags. After the dance was over, I escorted him back to his dorm. As he coyly started off, a sudden impulse gripped me. So I grabbed him and planted a tender kiss upon his lips. Then I fled into the night leaving him just where he had fallen. What a day! Woo! Woo! Sunday morning I called for Monty Straton at the Guess Where (that ' s right, the Beta House), and took him to church. That afternoon Angie and I had a date to go for a hike. He borrowed a por- table radio, and so we started off — my Sigma Nu and I — down the Guess Again Walk. At the end of it we gaily leap- ed a barbed wire fence and M waded through a cosy little J kH stream. Then we found a small ' -- T hill to climb. It couldn ' t have been more than ten or twelve miles high. As he eagerly scam- pered up the face of the cliff, he turned around and said, You should help me climb this hill. (By the way, I was climbing the hill on all fours, going The Dance: There were many arresting costumes, among which Pork) ' Davis and Timmie Simpson had the most unique . . . Friday night movie: Bob Wright smugly watches Ruth bar- gain her date allowance. PAGE TEN forward two feet and back four.) We reached the top, leaped two or three lovely fences, and sat down to listen to the radio. After I had just started to recover, I found myself being led along the path to Dear Olde Phillips. That very evening Cherub Glass- man and I decided to do something new and different. We took a walk. And while we were walking an idea struck me. Hitting it back, I said, I know what let ' s do. Let ' s you get some roots for me for Biology. He looked overjoyed at this. Never- theless, he decided that there was no other way out of his dilemma, so Trimble Lutz Supply Co. Janitor Su Office pplies and S for Home, chool. Wheeling-, W V. Whg. 5060 BETHANY BARBER SHOP Dry Cleaning and Pressing Agent Quick Lunches and Ziegenfelder ' s Ice Cream COLLEGE INN MADER SLEEP SHOP Home of the Best Mattresses Mader Built Innerspring The Student ' s Store L. S. GOOD CO. WHEELING, W. VA. off we went to gather roots. We sneaked in a corn field and set to work pulling up corn roots. After pulling row upon row from the sod, we thought maybe that was enough. But what really provided the enter- tainment of the evening was the hunting of the dandelion. With our two bare hands we dug around the delicate flower, and then ever so gently grabbed the roots and with a bulge of biceps pulled it up. Then, with our prizes, we dragged ourselves to the dorm. And what did Reverse Week-End do for me? Well, in the first place it thoroughly diverted my attention from the minor thmgs of life — study, for instance. Next, it put me a little behind in my allowance. (That is, you needn ' t expect a Xmas present from me this year.) It got me dates with the frat men. (Aren ' t I like the all-around girl though?) And just picture my surprise today when the nurse said that I could get out of the infirmary in a few weeks! (I for- got to tell you I had a slight nervous and physical collapse.) I made a great profit in black marks, too. Don ' t forget — NIGHT MUST FALL November 15 West Virginia ' s Finest Fort Henry Meats Provided by WEIMER ' S PACKING COMPANY WHEELING, W. VA. TREASURE TROVE Florence Nicholas A handkerchief of lace; A silhouette or two of some demure young face; A tiny, silken shoe; Letters tied with ribbon; A crushed and faded rose, A tintype marked From John ; A half a dozen bows; A book of autogra phs; An album old and torn. Containing photographs Forgotten and forlorn; These things I found one day. PAGE ELEVEN One Night in Phillips Hall By Ruth Long Dinner is over. You have the best intentions in the world as you walk up the stairs in Phil- lips Hall. If you begin at six-thirty you really ought to have your work done by bedtime. As a matter of fact, by noisy hour you ought to be able to come out and join in the general ex- citement. However, it is called to your attention that there is a meeting, a short one, of course, and you just have to attend it. Well, if it just takes halt an hour, it won ' t be so bad, and you can stay up half an hour later. It won ' t hurt you any. Sneaking out of the meeting at seven-thirty, you dash to your room and after a short dis- cussion with your roommate you both come to the agreement that the first one to say a word will automatically be excluded from the room for the rest of the evening. Silence reigns for perhaps three quarters of an hour, during which some real work is accom- plished. You sneak a look at the clock and then go back to your work, wondering how you got that far without being interrupted. Two more minutes pass, which you spend getting your at- tention refocused upon the subject at hand, when the door gently opens — gently, because it is quiet hour — and the girl from down the hall walks in to borrow a book , she says, and calmly sits down on the bed with an I ' m hun- gry. This statement was made to get results and since you can ' t possibly study while she ' s in the room, the only thing to do is feed her. (Your roommate, after six weeks of this, has found out that her work can ' t continue either so she joins in.) She was feeling a little hungry any- way. Words begin to fly back and forth and a few choice bits of information are exchanged. You know what I mean. Who will be the first freshman girl to take a pin? and, Did you hear the crack Dick came up with in Bible? Suddenly a gentle knock is heard. Someone comes up out of the conversation long enough to mform the knocker that it is safe to come in. The door opens, the proctor sticks her head in and you are told that it is quiet hour. People are studying. (Oh, yeah?) She no sooner returns to her post when an idea is thrown into the cen- ter of your little party which means lots more work for this unfortunate proctor. Someone (not your roommate, who still has Latin to do) suggests that you should have a feed. Of course the instigator of this plan never has any food herself; that is the main reason for her suggest- ing it to you. Your room is known all over the dorm by this time because you are never with- out food. Even the mice are aware of it. Not having quite enough food (larders can only stand so much and then they are empty) you decide that since the girls across the hall are good friends of yours — and just got a box from home, incidentally — you ought to ask them to the feed. After spreading a towel on the desk (table- cloth, you know) and gathering the food from various parts of the building, you, with about six other people, dive in. Literally. Proctor enters at this point. First warning, says she as she quietly, ever so quietly, opens and closes the door. Someone politely says thank you and the feed goes mer- rily on. At this point a veritable bedlam breaks loose. Even over the noise in your own room you can hear it, and you know, from experience, that it is now nine-thirty and noisy hour is for the next half hour. (Noisy hours are never more than half an hour long). And the feed con- tinues. More people wander in, then wander out, having devoured all the food a human being can possibly hold without bursting. By this time you have given up all hope of doing any study- ing until the rest of the dorm is in bed. You ' invite the proctor in and stuff her full of food. (This thing is beginning to look like an all night session and you can ' t accumulate all your black marks in one night, you hope.) Someone comes in and borrows your skirt, while someone else decides that since your suit just fits her she would like to wear it tomorrow night. So your clothes disappear, and, with luck, you have something to wear the next day. About eleven-thirty you begin to remember the test scheduled for the next day and your roommate, by this time, has settled in a corner and is counting her fingers and toes in Roman numerals. You give her the high sign, and both of you calmly amble out with your books under your arms and go into the first empty room you come to, knowing full well that the original occupants are in your room. At about two o ' clock you return to your room and shoo the last two out. The food is gone and the crumbs are all over. Your room is a mess and your work is only begun. There is only one solution. You simply turn out the light and go to bed, praying that tomorrow will be different. (It never is.) PAGE TWELVE SPORTS REVIEW By Martin Keiter As the curtain went up on the Bethany sports scene the general demeanor of both audience and participants bespoke their fear of dire cir- cumstances. The ranks of the Big Green had been decimated by graduation, the draft, and unpredictable quirks of fate. As grid mentors Knight and Stump surveyed the scene they re- cognized few old faces. Stan Stitt, Archie Conn, and Ed Harris were there in the back- field. Dode Myers, Bill Dowler, Frank Donics, and Pete Pletz were all that remained of the line. Still in the ranks of the faithful were Hal Siegelbaum, Bob Connell, Fred Albrecht, Bar- ney Henderson and Martin Reiter. Back from a period of extended illness was Jack Simeral and returning from his pursuit of filthy lucre was Roger Waterman. Brightening somewhat the portentious outlook were Buck Dunn, son of Bethany ' s All-American Buck Dunn of the early 20 ' s, Ralph Tate, John Jones, Bob Sutton, Carl Geenan, Bill Keith, Bill Carlisle, Everett Stewart, Brooklyn Cusmano, Lonny Freebairn, Bill Fowler, Jim Weirich, Jim Willi- ams, James Trench, Bob Hudson, and Zeppo Young. Another lift to the team was given when Jim Duff decided to reattend Bethany and Preacher Bob Smudski was coaxed away from his many activities. But Fate had not fin- ished its mischievous rampage: Stan Stitt, be- lieving that flying held greater promise for him, left to attend a flying school. Lacking confidence, it was a shaky team that took the field against Glenville. It was this lack plus the drive of an inspired Glenville team that decided the score in Glenville ' s favor, 13-0. This game showed Jim Duff in a new light, for the Bethany brain trust played this versatile gentleman at end, a position he upheld with honor. The fray, however, took its toll. Ralph Tate is still bothered somewhat with a trick knee. The second game, almost a repetition of the first. A fighting Salem team fought the Bisons away from their goal again and again. The con- test ended 0-0 and once more it was that elusive something that was in control. Bethany students of 1940 will never forget the West Virginia Wesleyn game. It was the seventh game of our season and the recently unheralded Bison had truly regained its horns for they were undefeated. They were a fighting mechanism and yet a team of fighting individ- uals. Every position was two deep and even the lowly scrubs were threatening to join the ranks. Bud Kuhns, Chet Gordon, Shady Brady, Jack Cicco, Dode Myers, Tiny Morrill, Pinky Roberts, Pete Pletz, the Dowler brothers. Bill Wells, Frank Donics, Jim Duff, Jack Hesser, Archie Conn, Dick Jackson, Stan Stitt, Ed Harris, Tommy Cullison and Chuck Hart. What memories these names recall! Joyous Hei- delburg, proud of a perfect record as Ohio ' s only undefeated team, was felled in the midst of its glory. Powerful Geneva and Westminster ranked favorites, fell before their onslaught. Mighty Wash-Jeff who had withheld the Bisons for thirty long years, finally succumbed to su- perior ability. It was in a fortified frame of mind that the Big Green took the field against W. Va. Wes- leyan. It was a disheartened and crippled team that heard the final whistle and realized their defeat. The thought in all minds was we ' ll get ' em next year. You who know the score realize that this wasn ' t Bethany ' s year for revenge for the Bison were trampled 47-0. As this issue of the Bethanian goes to press, it is a few days before the W J game, a game time-honored in rivalry. Strange to say, after three defeats, and although their points column is still virgin in its whiteness, it is a different Green and White team that veritably champs at the bit. From whence has come this new- found spirit? Your guess is as good as anyone ' s, for even the players themselves don ' t know. An important contributing factor may be the dras- tic shakeup in the lineup. Buck Dunn who wasn ' t legally eligible until this game is sharing the pivot position with Frank Donics. Archie Conn who earned his letter at quarterback is now a tackle and from all indications he likes it. Jim Duff is further amazing football fans with his versatility at his third position this year — that of halfback. Bob Connell is now a quarterback and shows definite promise for that position. All in all it will be a different team that trots onto the field at Washington. PAGE THIRTEEN Who ' s Who in Bethany College Gordon Seidel Bethany seniors will remember a series of five minute lectures on misogyny delivered from the bench in front of Phillips Hall, some three years ago. The deliverer, Gordon Seidel, was then a freshman and an Alpha Kappa Pi pledge. He came to Bethany from Baltimore (which by the way, he thinks is the center of the universe), and having slept through the intervening three years quite successfully, is now a senior, with his fingers in so many campus pies that he is referred to as the Pink F.D.R. Pappa, as he is so affectionately known to an inestim- able number of young and errant underclassmen, leads the basso profundo section of the Bethany choir in his less strenuous moments. At other times the weight of his Personality is felt as he exercises supreme authority as president of the International Relations Club, and Grand Exalted Bull of the Moo Moo Moo. His brother Alpha Kappa Pis, recognizing his leadership ability, elected him president of their fraternity and now enjoy his paternal confidence to its fullest extent. However vaguely appar- ent to the less observant, his work as president of the Interfraternity Council is of no small import, and to complete the activity pie, he is constantly eager and ready to act as Senior manager and chauffeur to the cross coun- try team. Seriously, however, behind the mask of pompous and austere dignity, Gordon has made a remarkable record as assistant in the history department. Perhaps his political theory is a little obscure, but his opinions are respected, perused, and confused by his listening audiences. His initiative and influence will undoubtedly continue to be felt in the future. Betty Murphy I ' m tired of being an Old Dowd, I want to be a G.G.! Betty Murphy ' s usually honest grc} ' eyes were wistful. Biology! The Dean ' s List! B.W.O.C! In other words, Murf bewails her lot as senior fellow in Biology, freshman counsellor, President of Zeta Tau Alpha, Vice President of the A.W.S. Board, scout leader to our local tenderfeet, bearer of the name inscribed on the plaque, Outstanding Junior Girl — 1941 . Murf — beloved of children and faculty and students and dogs, intimate benefactor of the platyhelminthes (Biology Pro- ject No. 1 ) , who eagerly strides the campus in her wide loping gait, — and she courts Glamor! Her sister Zetas smile tolerantly when Murf ' s Troop No. II pour candles in the House basement, or begin practicing the latest tricks she learned as Summer Camp counsellor. Even in those moments one doesn ' t forget that in the beginning she hailed from Pittsburgh, began her steady rise in campus life, scholarship and sorority as a Freshman, fatally slipped to a one tainted C on her Sophomore report card, supported the tenor choir section until this year, and is slowly wasting away trying to determine which Biological field is most interesting. In anjr case, she looks capable and quietly assured and depend- able and even glamorous in her lab smock .... She promises much — and Dean Weimer can ' t be wrong. PAGE FOURTEEN Particles- From the Dormitories The newest feud is that between Yvonne Balster, and her roommate, Helen Colton. Helen had bought some goldfish for their room, and left it up to Yvonne to clean and feed them. Yvonne revolted, and said that she would get a pet of her own to clean and feed. Now, there lodges on Helen ' s and Yvonne ' s desks a bowl of gold fish and a jar with two baby snakes! • During a recent class in Sociology, a group of girls were giving their panel reports about a trip made to the jail at Wheeling. Ann Eliza- beth Keyser remarked that there was one room in the jail, in which the prisoners had to be in at night. A Freshman nearby remarked, That ' s not in Wheeling, that ' s right here in Bethany! • Reverse week-end is something for us girls to write home about, one girl remarked to an- other. It certainly is! , an enthusiastic sup- porter of Reverse Week remarked, I ' m broke! • The literature passed out to incoming Fresh- men mentions the fact that pets are not allowed in the girls ' dorms. What freshmen read into this statement the connotation that pets would be furnished? Obviously none; for the girls were as surprised as the faculty to find one little lost dog dashing around the corridors of Phillips Hall one evening about midnight. Al- though it wasn ' t Saturday night two Girl Scout- minded freshmen decided to give their new friend his biannual bath. When the pool of water on their floor and the collapse of the water-girl finally persuaded the budding Girl Scouts that the waste basket wasn ' t a large enough tub, they carried the squirming and dripping figure into the bathroom to a real tub. Doubtless no other dog in Bethany has ever re- ceived a bath with perfumed shampoo or been dried with a hair drier. Yet the little canine seemed to enjoy it, for he spread the word among his friends. Since then three other dogs have entered the sanctum of Phillips hall but failed to warrant the much longed for shampoo. Freshman Test By Giiincy Fory Jeannie Freshman can ' t understand why she makes such poor grades on her tests. She has set the alarm clock for 6:00, since she decided to go to bed without studying for the test after the feed of the night before. The alarm rings at 6:00 the next morning, and Jeannie drowsily reaches over, turns it off, and goes on sleeping. At 7:00, she is awakened by her roommate, who contin- ues to scold, till Jeannie gets up. Struggling out of bed, she is pushed into a cold shower by her roommate, and then, feeling a bit hungry, Jeannie decides to go to break- fast. After breakfast, she meets Joe College, and they go for a walk, which ends in a coke, and a dance at the College Inn, or Bethany House. Hurrying back to the Dorm, Jeannie remembers that she has until after lunch to study for that test, and it is now 9:30! Sitting at her desk, she glances at the letter from her best girlfriend, or boyfriend, from home. I really ought to answer that letter! she remarks, and, settling down, she answers two letters while she is about it. When the letters are finished she decides to take them down to the post office, and get them off as soon as p ossible. It is now 10:30! Ready to settle down and study now, Jeannie looks for her book, but she just remembers it is in Judy ' s room. Traipsing down the hall, she finds that Judy is studying for the test, and the two begin to talk. First they discuss the test, but their conversation concludes with Judy compli- menting Jeannie on how nice her hair looks that way, and Jeannie telling Judy just how she fixed it. At 11:00, Jeannie trudges reluctantly back to her room, and begins to pour over the book. Fifteen minutes she spends leafing idly through the part of the book which the test covers. Half an hour is gone by now, and she has started to study in earnest. Two pages have been thoroughly digested, while Jeannie continues shifting her positions in half a dozen different ways. Another fifteen minutes have pass- ed, and Jeannie is beginning to understand something about the subject. At 11:45, her roommate returns early from a class, and the two discuss what they have accom- plished in the morning. They go off to lunch, and Jeannie takes her book along with her. After eating, she starts to leave immediately to study, but she remembers she prom- ised to meet Joe who is waiting outside. The two argue and talk until Jeannie finds she has just three minutes till class begins. Opening the book, she frantically reads aloud some sentences, while rushing to her class. Arriving just in time, she sinks into a chair, and asks last-minute questions about the book from those around her. Then, as the teacher begins to pass out the examination, Jeannie remarks to the girl next to her, I spent all morning studying for this test, and I don ' t remember a thing! PAGE FIFTEEN THE ACTIVES THE OFFICERS PHI KAPPA TAU y ' ' ' ' ' Phi Chapter of Phi Kappa Tau was founded in the year 1923. Up to that time there had been a group on Bethany ' s campus known as the Rechabite Club, a local society, made up of ministers. This society had been functioning for quite a few years and had become a rather powerful organization on the campus. At the beginning of the year 1923, the Na- tional Fraternity, Phi Kappa Tau, asked the college ' s sanction of installing a chapter here. Meeting with the agreement of the college, the fraternity began looking about for a suitable group to use as the charter members. The members of the Rechabite Club were chosen as this group, and Phi Chapter was installed. Since that time Phi has had her ups and downs. But always, whether on the up swing, or on the down grade, the star of Phi Kappa Tau has been shining brightly, to guide us along the way. For the past three years Phi has certainly been on the up swing. At the beginning of the year 1939, she numbered exactly two actives. But that year witnessed a complete re-organization, and things began to happen. From then on the PAGE SIXTEEN THE PLEDGES fraternity started to show definite signs of growing, until she now numbers thirty affiliat- ed men. At the beginning of the current year a new house was purchased and furnished. Changes are still being made, and definite steps are being taken to maintain that perfect harm- ony so necessary to a successful fraternal life. We of Phi Chapter will owe much to Phi Kappa Tau. By our oath we swore to shoulder an obligation which will remain with us throughout our life. We will owe the practical ideals of an honorable career; we will owe fra- ternal assistance to our brothers; we will owe to all men the example of tolerance and broad- minded culture, for we owe to ourselves the cultivation of an appreciation of just what things in life are worth our effort. Again, we will owe to ourselves the realization that col- lege means more than learning to dress like our brothers, and talk like them. And, if we have any hope of rising out of the level of mediocri- ty, we must learn to stand on our own legs and think for ourselves. — Officers — Eugene Keckley President Glenn B. Ritchey Vice President William Bannen Secretary Robert Husband Treasurer • SENIORS (our one hope) — Albert Cerveris. JUNIORS— Eugene Keckley, Glenn B. Ritch- ey, Robert Connell, William Bannan. SOPHOMORES— George B a r t r a m, Jack Wright,, Charles Ford, Donald Kramer, Robert Husband, Richard Hockensmith, Frank Donics, Samuel A. McCutcheon, Richard Colan. PLEDGES— Foster Burton, William Carlisle, Merle Cunningham, Victor Cardenas, William Dumbaugh, Hewitt Dunn, Carl Geenan, Carlos Jaramillo, George Jara- miUo, William Keith, Richard Miller, An- thony Puglisi, Earl Shank, Melvyn Swee- ney, Ralph Tate, William Young. PAGE SEVENTEEN Bethany Bison i Hit the Road By Speed Koial During the course of the football season, the gridiron gladiators representing Bethany Col- lege leave home on several overnight trips to play away games, and we felt that a picture series and story typical of a trip would be ap- propriate and of interest to the entire student body. The pictures in this story were taken on both the Glenville and West Virginia Wesleyan trips, and are fairly representative of all trips. We have room for only a few pictures . . space shortage required omission of many others just as interesting. Games are usually scheduled so that the team does not travel further than 175 miles, with an overnight stop made three-quarters of the way. Clarksburg, West Virginia, was the stopping point on both trips. Here, at the Waldo Hotel the team bunked down for a good night ' s rest before the next day ' s tilt. Leaving Bethany by chartered bus, the team embarked at one o ' clock Friday afternoon, with a mob of students and cheerleaders present to wish them success. The first sixty minutes of traveling brought forth much merriment, sing- ing, discussion of defensive and offensive plays, and kibitzing in general. The steady whirr of the wheels and country landscapes flashing past are conducive to sleep, however, and we found some few falling asleep as time progress- ed. Others whiled away the miles discussing studies (really!) or tried reading text books till the motion of the bus tired the eyes. In Waynesburg, the bus stopped long enough for the fellows to stretch their legs and buy some magazines and newspapers. To their sor- row, a few discovered that Coach Knight was very particular about eating candy, with a re- sultant pile of sweets tossed outside the bus door. The scenery beyond Morgantown became more and more scenic, and after a couple hours of steady traveling, the Bison were glad to get out, stretch again, and view some of the natural wonders of the state of West Virginia. Next stop — Clarksburg, just about dinner time. Aft- er checking into the Waldo Hotel and deposit- ing luggage, the squad descended, en masse, on Anderson ' s Restaurant, where a steak dinner had been ordered in advance. It was amazing to watch food disappear, with thirty hungry men putting away the balanced and wholesome dinner. Feeling greatly refreshed, the squad assem- bled once again in a hotel room, for a skull session. The remainder of the evening was I free until ten o ' clock. The slot machines in the lobby painlessly extracted nickels from those with money to spare, while some fellows re- membered those they had left behind, and wrote postcards — humorous and otherwise. On the Wesleyan trip, a special treat for the en- tire squad was provided in the form of a local movie. Besides a double feature, comics, and coming attractions, Ten-O-Win brought a few extra bucks into Brooklyn ' s pocket. Af- ter the movie, the team prepared for slumber, and by ten-thirty Morpheus had claimed his victims. (Ed. Note — Or had he??) Saturday morning on both jaunts dawned dark and dismally, and a late breakfast gave everyone a chance to dodge the raindrops and walk around the town. Before noon, we were again on our way, with one quick stop to lim- ber up before arriving at the opponents ' dress- ing rooms. Each fellow ' s equipment, packed in a separate bag, was unloaded from the bus, and the hour before game time was spent in getting dressed and padded. Coaches Knight and Eddie Stump had their hands full, taping ankles, legs, ribs, and the million and one sore spots that might be aggravated again. Let us pass quickly and quietly over the act- ual plajang of the games, as it was fundament- ally the same as our home exhibitions. The only thing lacking was the support of the student cheering section, but the substitute bench made a noble attempt to duplicate it. Immediately following the games the cleansing showers, bruises were doctored up, the wet and heavy uniforms gathered and loaded, and we headed home. Clarksburg was reached about seven- thirty or eight o ' clock, and again a steak din- ner was waiting for the near-famished players and subs. The 12-inch steak and trimmin ' s re- stored a great deal of the liveliness of the bunch, and for a while after leaving Clarksburg the sides of the bus bulged with songs and patter. Buck Dunn will probably be long remembered for his hour-long rendition of Ninety-nine Bottles Hanging on the Wall. The strain of the long bus ride the previous day, plus the ex- citement of the game graduallly crept up on everyone, however, and the tired warriors curl- ed up on the seats and dozed off. Most did not wake up until Waugh ' s apple barn was passed, and the bus rolled to a stop in front of Bethany House. The squad piled out here, to wend their weary ways to the frat houses and the dorm, while the bus pulled up to the gym and the managers unloaded the uniforms and equip- ment. Thoroughly fatigued in mind and body, we then managed to stagger down the hill and tumble into what felt like the most comfort- able beds ever built. 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C. ll w , V . , Al; ' whi- ,a, j _ v _,A fHAT AR;i SlIRi TO PLEASi III SiAU TIFPi CNlliSTiliAS WIM KS W T S f ' - ' EDITORIAL COMMENTS At this time of the year everyone is usually filled with thoughts of the Christmas Holidays to come. In keeping with tradition and standard magazine {X)licv wc deemed it advisable to have something with a Christmas motif on our cover. After much thought and due deliber- ation we decided to forego any attempt to make a model set up or to use the prosaic Christmas tree angle. We decided instead upon the reproduction of one of the old masters that now graces our front page. This is a section from the painting by Sir Anthony van Dyck, 1599-1641, entitled, The Young Child with Mary His Mother. The Flemish master ' s painting of the Madonna and Child here reproduced is in the Corsini Palace, Rome. By the manger in the cave a donkey is tethered — representing the one that brought Mary to Bethlehem and later carried her and the infant Jesus into the land of Egypt. -¥ ' At twelve-thirty P.M. today, December 8, 1941, President Roosevelt asked a joint session of Congress to make a formal declaration to the effect that there existed between the United States of America and the Japanese Empire a state of war. It appears that, at last, the whole world is aflame and that World War II is fully deserving of that name. Here in Bethany, as everywhere else, rumor is ram- pant, nerves are tense, and classes were, for a while, in danger of disruption. Now, however, that the first shock of surprise has passed everyone is settling back to await developments. Many are uneasy, but all are calm. All are apparently determined to do everything they can to aid in this crisis and to do it willingly and cheerfully. There is much talk of enlistment but so far no one has, to our knowledge, taken the initiative that is bound to moti- vate a fair percentage of our male student body. Things may well be different by the time this magazine comes off the presses. To those w ho leave we can say only Good Luck , and Give ' em Hell with both barrels! Those of us who remain behind must vow to do everything in our power to aid in the final, successful termination of this era of madness brought on by the Mad Dog policy of the agressor nations. It may mean answering the call when it comes our turn to join the armed forces. It may mean only sacrifices of certain luxuries that will of necessity be curtailed when wartime production demands every possible man hour for the man- ufacture of defense products, but whatever ovu: duty, whatever way we can help, let us do it cheerfully in the manner of other Americans, past and present, who made our country what it is today. The greatest Power on Earth. BETHANIAN Volume 33 — Number 3 December, 1941 CONTENTS Page EDITORIAL COMMENTS 3 FEATURES Department of Physics 4 Who ' s Who 14 Editors Letters 19 ARTICLES Local Color 7 Little Fraternity Pin 8 Fall Homecoming 9 Re: Dating 16 Letters to Santa Claus 17 Radio Club Hamboree 18 Musical Comedy 18 REPRINT Bethany Frats Exposed 8 DRAMATICS Night Must Fall 10 SPORTS REVIEW 11 SHORT STORY The Man From St. Louis 12 POETRY Qualitative Analysis 13 Failure 16 FRATERNITY Sigma Nu 20 STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS 23 ORGANIZATION EDITOR-IN-CHIEF David Huntsberger ASSOCIATE EDITOR George Northrup LITERARY EDITOR Betsy Ann Plank FEATURE EDITOR Francis Dvorak SPORTS EDITOR Martin Reiter PHOTOGRAPHIC DIRECTOR Speed Koval BUSINESS MANAGER George Sitock ASS ' T MANAGERS Alonzo Freebarin Nellie Mcllvain Jack Baumgartner Everett Stewart CIRCULATION MANAGER Mariah Smith CIRCULATION STAFF Marilyn Waugh Evelyn Baxter Grace Benedict Bcthaniav, a magazine of features and photographs, published each month from October through May by the Student Board of Publications of Bethany College. Entered as second class matter on January 14, 1920, at the Post Of ce at Bethany, W. Va., under the Act of March 1, 1879. Subscription price; Four dollars the year. Volume XXXIII, Number 3. PAGE THREE mm - K SiSJ . ■ 1 DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS The picture ab ove is of the X-Ray apparatus in the Physics Department. This machine is used by stu- dents to study lines of electro-magnetic attraction but has proved itself to be of much more value in the examination of students who suffer injuries while on the campus. It has shown more than one turned ankle to be a fracture and, conversely, several suspected fractures to be sprains or strains. PAGE FOUR ' •i iM ' M SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS ELEMENTARY LAB. II DOWN IN FRESHMAN ALLEY That is where one will find the department of Physics and Mathematics; the office, the class- rooms, and the laboratories. Despite this unpre- tentious location the department is one of the most interesting in Bethany for the subjects it includes have much to do with the daily lives of all of us. The aims of this department are clearly and concisely stated in the college catalogue. The courses in mathematics are designed to give the prospective teacher a thorough under- standing and a wide appreciation of the funda- mental ideas of elementary mathematics; to contribute to the student majoring in science certain techniques and powers in the applica- tion of mathematics; to provide the general stu- dent with a, knowledge of the mathematical foundations of our civilization; to give the prospective graduate student a firm foundation for later study and research. The courses in physics are planned to present a survey of the field of physics to the general students; to teach the fundamentals of the science of physics to students who are training themselves for such professions as medicine, op- tometry, engineering, and the teaching of phy- sics; and to familiarize students expecting to enter graduate school with some of the more advanced material in physics. The scientific method is stressed both in its past applications in solving important problems in physics and for its future use by the student in solving new problems. The work in physics might be divided into three categories; the courses, the research pro- gram, and the extra-curricular activities. The courses are intermixed with the labora- tories, one being dependent upon the other and each of equal importance. Laboratory work is designed to teach the principles of physics by doing. Through extra-curricular activities, the phy- sics department has tried to serve a larger group of students than those enrolled in the courses. Through astronomy a large part of the student body has been reached each year and given a larger view and a deeper conception of our uni- verse. Interest in astronomy has been increased through the use of the fine four inch refracting telescope loaned by the Addy family. The beau- PAGE FIVE Dr. Allen uses the Physics Department ' s newest piece of equipment, a sensitive electroscope, to study the radiations of radio active elements. At the right — some of the models used in the math department. DR. W. H. CRAMBLET Head of Dep ' t tend classes in radio theory, design, and op- eration taught by Dr. Allen for the sole purpose of furthering this fasci n a t i n g hobby. The research program allows the student, the advanced student, to be- ties of a nebula, Jupi- ter ' s moons, a double star, and Saturn ' s ring, as seen through this telescope, have been en- joyed by many stu- dents. The amateur radio station WSPME is jointly operated by the Radio Club and the physics department. The members of the Radio Club, many of them not enrolled in a phy- sics or math course, at- MR. SPRAGENS, Instructor gin an investigation of some field of particular interest to himself with the assistance and ad- vice of an instructor. Student interest in mathematics may ex- tend in two principle directions — into pure or into applied mathe- matics. Applied mathe- matics is used to refer to the application of mathematics to physi- cal phenomena. In more recent years chemistry, biology, economics, and psychology have each in turn found applica- tion for more and more mathematics as their methods have swung slow- ly from qualitative to quantitative, as they have emerged from a descriptive to an exact science. During the last hundred years, research in the foundations of mathematics has led to the crea- tion of mathematics without regard to its appli- cability. This mathematics is called pure mathe- matics. The fact that a great many of these creations have been taken as a whole and used by (Continued on Page 23) DR. J. S. V. ALLEN Assistant Professor PAGE SIX For Collegiate Clothing Come to WEISBERGER ' S LOCAL COLOR Fine Printing — Our Specialty No order too small to Receive Our Careful Attention THE VALLEY PRESS Eighth Street Wellsburg Try it— BLAKE ' S ICE CREAM Unexcell ed 96 Sixteenth Street Phone 1 46 WHEELING, W. VA. For an 3iipal CChriatmaa (Sift come to Saiultttgs ®;itiriaiia. 3nr. Wheeling 62 12th Street FRATERNITY and SORORITY FASHION CENTER There is no personality on or around the campus as unknown, un- recognized, and even unappreciated as Stanley Hildreth. I guess the only nickname I ever had was Stan drawls this West Virginia born and bred gentleman who paces corridors and walks with the ghost of the Bison through the wee and growing hours of the morning. He ' s only been on his present job of keeping tab of nocturnal activities or inactivities around Bethany for ten months, but the sights he ' s seen and overlooked would go far toward filling out the assignment a normal person would have throughout a life- time. As you might suppose, most of the sights have to do with the after- dark spirit and cooperation which has almost become a tradition with Bethanians old and new. As far as staying up nights, Stan says it doesn ' t bother him at all. It doesn ' t make any difference to me when I work. I still average seven hours sleep a day. He covers all the buildings on the campus and all the dorms below. He has never found a fire in his hourly stops at the dorms or in his six or seven stops per night at the other buildings. No radio helps break his monotony either, Doggone it. He hasn ' t run into too much trou- ble lately. Not many boys have tried to break into Phillips lately, nobody has tried to plant jokes for the next day ' s Chapel exercises, and people aren ' t half as mean as they were be- fore, but I wish they ' d be more care- ful of their conduct cause someone ' s got their eyes on them and I wish they ' d keep out from under those floodlights if they insist on pitching woo. So saying, Stanley Hildreth polite- ly started on his rounds. Trimble Lutz Supply Co. .Janitor Supplies Office and for Home, School. Wheeling, W. Va. Whg. 5060 Lighting Fixtures — Appliances Lamps — Radios SANDS ELECTRIC CO. 52 Eighteenth Street Phone 146 WHEELING, W. VA. MADER SLEEP SHOP Home of the Best Mattresses Mader Built Innerspring After-Hour Snacks COLLEGE INN Telephone 2442 ■ Hr THE OWL PRINT SHOP The best is none too good for you. Stationery Dance Programs MARKET ST. WHEELING You ' re Sure of Satisfaction at Wheelings Largest Men ' s Store • BERNHARDT 1225 Market Street PAGE SEVEN Little Fraternity Pin Anonymous I shall never forget him , js he came into the room that night. His eyes had a sort of glassy stare, and he didn ' t seem to quite understand any- thing that I said. I could have asked a thousand questions because they were fairly bumping over each other to be asked first, but instead I con- tinued my studying, and pretended not to see him or what he was doing. Instead of the usual undressing, pj ' s, and the dressing gown, pipe, and book, he undressed, put on his pj ' s, and with a half mumbled Good night , turned out his studjdamp and climbed into bed. I had intended to study late that night, but finding myself unable to keep my mind on my work, I, too, turned out my light. I heard the news after chapel the next day. He had received as a gift his pin back. I could hardly believe my ears, even with all the strange actions, and two or three people ask- ing me if it were true. But sure enough when I passed her on the main walk, coming down from a one o ' clock, the pin wasn ' t there. A big incident , you might say, to him, but it ' s just another affair in every student life, and what does that have to do with solving the world ' s problems an) ' way? That is just the trouble. There are too many just such affairs in our student life. They have become too common. I don ' t believe there is a student at Bethany, who, on the night of his initiation, does not feel that the pin he receives is the most sacred thing in the world, and he vows he will cherish it above everything else. Then later on he believes he has met the only one. And he gives her that sacred pin and they talk of the fu- ture. But either she or he tires of the other, or decides, it ' s not near as much fun to have your pin out, when everybody else is free to date the new freshmen. Perhaps they find that the other has several little faults which aren ' t exactly pleasing. Funny, how they never noticed them before, isn ' t it? I honestly believe a fellow doesn ' t appreciate his pin until he has given it out, only to have it return later in the year. Have I had experience? Well, now that is getting too person- al, but I will tell you this; I have kept careful check on every pin which has been given out in Bethany in the past couple of years, and also how many of them have been return- ed. The results are really surprising. It ' s not any great crime I ' ll admit, but don ' t you think it sort of cheap- ens that small piece of jewelry which does mean so much to us? Now as I read over this attempt at saying nothing about something it looks as if I ' m pinning the blame on the co-eds. No! Not at all! I happen- ed to know of several pins given out in this school becavise the sweethearts of these men just couldn ' t refuse. Why, you ask, couldn ' t they re- fuse? Because they knew that if they did refuse, it would hurt his feelings, and also make conditions worse than if they accepted, hoping that, after several weeks, they would realize the true light in which their pins were received. Both are at fault. One for insist- ing that she take his pin, because she is the only girl he ever loved, and ever could love; the other for not having the nerve to sit down and have a real heart-to-heart talk with him, and if she really doesn ' t feel like she could wear his pin for what it should stand for, tell him so. Or, if she really cares for him in the light of a future hus- band, ask him to judge her from the angle of a future wife, and then if he still thinks she is the only one, she will accept his pin. I ' m not saying all pins given out are not given out for what they real- ly represent, but I do say there are countless pins given out which never should be given out until after both persons are more certain of each other. To me, the giving of a fraternity pin means the same as a diainond ring. You might then say that many a diamond is given back. True enough but don ' t you consider your ability to decide whether a certain person is the one you would want to make your future wife or husband a little better than that of a mill hand or clerk, who is probably working for a small salary with little education? Yet comparing percentages in giving pins in college and the giving of rings by young people who are not in college, we can ' t boast. Perhaps I have handled a delicate subject in a crude way. My only hope is that I have started more thought on this subject. To me, a pin is the most sacred of all gifts. It should be given with a certain thought in mind and received the same way. And I am positive that no one can criticize me when I saj ' there are too many pins given out without this thought in mind. BETHANY FRATS EXPOSED Glancing through the ancient tomes we ran across this interesting title in the Buffalo ' s Tale for April 1930. It represetits the campus opinion of each of the Fraternities at that time. We reprint it here for your edification and amazement. This fragment from the dim, musty, al- most forgotten past allows us to com- pare modern thought with the ivis- dom of that famous Era sometimes referred to as the Period of Flam- ing Youth . — Editor ' s Note. Beta Theta Pi — The best frat on the campus if you like curls and — oh that line! It is founded, we have been told, around the memory of a dog, which accounts for their howl- ing quartet. To be a good Beta you must: 1. Like yourself better than others like you. 2. Wear 3 ' ou sox until they will stick on the wall when tested. SIGMA NU — They are many and have you seen their new house? This frat is built around the five arm star. They often demonstrate the four arms under the stars. Perhaps the fifth arm is upholding the chapter name. To be a good Sig you must: 1. Know several good jokes — girls and otherwise. 2. Have an I.Q. of at least 70. KAPPA ALPHA— Well, girls, here are your men, but try and get them, for they have girls at home — Wheel- ing and elsewhere. We understand this frat is of Southern origin, which accounts for their hot air, heat, etc. To be a good K.A. you must: 1. Pretend you are tough even if you aren ' t. 2. Be able to climb trees and hunt tombstones. PHI KAPPA TAU— Well, you surely have heard of them — I mean heard them. These boys, excuse me, men, know their atheletes and like ' em. Their specialty is dream girls and they have a dream girl in almost every town. To be a Phi Tau you must: 1. Be wild rough and romantic. 2. Know at least two of the latest holds, athletically and sororityly speaking. ALPHA KAPPA PI— New on our campus, but newness adds guilt — I mean gilt — and glitter. Many of these men are preachers, but the rest counteract this; thus a good balance. To be an Alpha Pi you must: 1. Be nonchalant.. 2. Swear only when sjxiken to. PAGE EIGHT FALL HOMECOMING The Moo Moo Moo ' s Welcome Alummoo at the Main Gate was the initial greeting for Bethany ' s One Hundredth Homecoming. A few familiar faces from the class of ' 41 appeared in early morning classes, and most were glad to escape from the Prof ' s embarrass- ing oral quizes to the Chapel exercises. Patti Sumpstine, in blue dress, high heels, sedate hair- do, and carrying yellow crysanthimums, led Weezie Sesler, Irene Hutchison and Cherrie Armour to the Homecoming Queen ' s throne. Most of the corona- tion ceremonies were directed by Bud Deer, and throughout the day, Weezie and her attendants continued to reign over all activ- ities. Following this the band, reinforced by Sumpie and Don Ros- ensteele, led the stu- dent body in a Corri- ex- a long Victory-like Parade to Bethany House. After Stratton had duly beaten his drum in local ears, and Mary Jean Weir had eagerly grabbed her twenty- five dollar name-win- ning prize the new Beth Ann formally christened the Beth- any House the Bee- hive . Most of the Alums visited frat houses or spots of scenic memo- ry until the two o ' clock game with Westminster. Rine Field looked somewhat plutocratic with cars around the sidelines. Most people enjoyed watching the grandstand more than the game, and Sandy Steinman always an- nounced any break in the usual monotonous play. Anyway, Irv Roche and Paul Bowers chewed cigars impressively: Butch Estey, Stan Stit, Bill Wells, Tiney Morrel, Spike Edmunds, Libby Lewis, NorrisWhitlock, and Helen Arens- berg, Polly Gilbert, Betty Shadel, (last names in- cluded for freshmen only), Dode Winfield, Gige dor Sing, which tended into Wood, B. J. Jollife, Corinne Cashman, Peg Schulenberg and Mim Reno were a few of last year ' s regulars who played sideline football. Some freshman cynic wisely carried a portable radio to listen to the Notre Dame-Northwest- ern game; Mary Jean was happily bouncing the stands in her Bison enthusiasm, Humbert was straddling two bleachers in an effort to amuse onlookers; many were admiring a male ' s green velour hat; the 20 Club ' s hot dog venture was suffering financial reverses; someone eroner- ously yelled, Hey look! It ' s our ball! During the half the Royal Party provided proper decoration for Bill Stophel ' s convertible, then the Queen began the informal initiation of the Moo Moo Moo pledges. Art Beard, Bud Deer, Al Cerveris, Harry Lammert, Tommy Boyd,, John Medick, Bill Loper, John McCord, were among those who ran the paddle row, and, as if they needed con- firmation. Norm Fair was the Chief Weild- er of the Boards. Having duly won another pigskin moral victory, everyone re- turned for the Time Capsule Ceremony. These proceedings were the most im.pres- sive of the entire day, and everyone felt the solemnity of the mo- ment when the Cap- sule was seen for the last time until another century. At eight o ' clock scheduled activities resumed and the Beth- esian Club ' s Night Must Fall was pre- sented. The queen ' s party enjoyed itself from reserved seats; the front row Betas of Marsh Annex were busy claiming Heckel ' s props as their own; Jan Pur- dam ' s wheelchair provided unexpected humor when it rocked the scenery. Phillips Hall Lounge was crowded at the late informal dance, but everyone managed to shift one foot and renew some old acquaintances. About eleven-thirty most of the alumni — hav- ing known no other home — packed into the College Inn for late bracers, left, promising to return next spring. PAGE NINE Night Must Fall By Betsy Ann Plank Night Must Fall was illustrative of two things concerning Bethany dramatics. The first, that there is remarkable ability in this year ' s freshman class, and second, that under competent direction, Bethespian ' s plays may be enjoyed for their entertainment value, not merely as vehicles in which to observe one ' s friends. This play by Emylyn Williams has been pro- duced on the stage numerous times and made into a popular movie, thus most of the audience was able to make comparative and just criticism. And yet, the reaction was very favorable. The first thing mentioned was particularly obvious in the secondary roles. Jeanne Sherving- ton was excellent as the awkward, reticent English house-girl. Her voice and manner were perhaps the most fitted to the part than any other actress. Dorothy Greene ' s Mrs. Terrence was full of the bluster and realism necessary for such a character. Both girls carried their parts much further than the script designated. Melvin Sweeny could have been much more confident of his lines, however, he too provided much of the comic relief. As the genuine Eng- lish country nurse, Magdaline Eggiman execut- ed her small part very well. Roy Heckel, however slow with the hand- cuffs, played a very convincing role. His part of Inspector Belsize was particularly well-fitted for him. Concerning the primary characters one can- not be so altogether complimentary. Janice Pur- dam has played roles of elderly women before. and she seems to improve with each effort. Cer- tainly her portrayal of the selfish, childish Mrs. Bramson was realistic yet, at some times, overdone. For the most part she held interest even during the difficult pantomime of Act III. Betty Ann Reske was somewhat nervous dur- ing the performance, one always felt that she was building toward a magnificent climax through her restrained acting, and yet never seemed to reach the peak of her performance. However, she was entirely satisfactory as Olivia Grayne, but the role was difficult, too mature for her to handle. Undoubtedly there is no one in Bethany who looked the part of Danny more than Dave Huntsberger. His manner and looks seemed to fit the vari-charactered mentally derainged English boy. However, he too seemed to be grop- ing for the proper character theme; to be play- ing down the part, without being entirely sym- pathetic with Danny ' s mind. The audience felt, I think, that Danny was more to be analyzed psychologically than considered as a complete scheming criminal. The play itself is very popular with most au- diences, successfully combining older melo- drama and newer psychological development. Almost every principal character was a psyco- pathic case, roles which are very difficult to ex- ecute successfully, yet Mr. Huntsberger, Misses Purdam and Reske did remarkably well in such a short period. In some cases this review has been too critical, and yet I feel that this play was such a step in the direction of real theatrical entertainment that all Bethanians can attend future produc- tions without pre-allowance for college thea- tre . This new attitude is mostly due to the cap- able direction of Mrs. Adiline Huntsberger. Mrs. Huntsberger has had practical theatre experi- ence to provide the play with professional finesse. Certainly the actors cooperated fully with her throughout rehearsals and each of them hopes she may be able to continue the work. It is very probable that the future Bethespian will be active in school activities. Certainly dramatic competition will be much keener with such ambitious and talented freshmen to pro- vide incentive for lethargic upperclassmen. No doubt Mr. Huntsberger ' s or Miss Purdam ' s per- formance would hardly have been as good with- out Misses Reske, Green and Shervington ' s con- stant opposition. Indeed, the work of the entire cast, together with the committees, was evident in this year ' s first dramatic production . . . PAGE TEN SPORTS REVIEW By Martin Reifer Well, Bethany cleats have trod the gridiron for the last time this season and per usual the Hot Stove League will play and replay each game until next fall. Our last report was just before the W J game, so let ' s pick it up there. As we predicted, it was a different team that faced the Presidents. The Bisons, tho ' underdogs, each proved himself worthy of the uniform he wore. A glorious game was lost in Little Wash- ington. An indication of the aroused fury of the Big Green were the seven fumbles that hard- hitting Bethany players smashed from the hands of their ancient rivals in the first period. For a while it was the Washingtonians who were ill at ease, but as the game wore on and Bethany dis- closed their lack of a scoring punch, the Blue team gained confidence to take the battle, 7-0. This score, however, detracts nothing from the glory of a fighting team that went down to de- feat in honor. When the Bethany team returned from the Denison game their favorite topic of con- versation was the beautiful campus of the Ohio college. We are not prepared to criticize this at- titude for we also would like to forget the 32-0 defeat at the hands of the Denison team. The following week Bethany played West- minster College, like W J an ancient rival and a team that the Bisons have been defeating in recent years with enviable regularity. The New Wilmington team came down with the reputation of having the toughest team in years. Popular opinion also had it that this was a team that the home team could beat and for a time it looked like a good thing. Altho ' the Knight men put up one of the best battles of the year, they still pay off on winners and it was the visi- tors who carried home the honors 7-0. To the last game those in the know had been looking with some degree of apprehension, for it was an open secret that Geneva mentors had been layi ng out for players some of that vege- table product that has the color of lettuce but a slightly different economic value. When a situ- ation like this exists and such a team is pitted against a Simon Pure team the outcome is not uncertain. Paid players have the astonishing faculty of ignoring the classical precedents of the Frank Merriwell literature and they take unholy glee in vieing with each other to see who can be classified as the Undertaker ' s Friend. The outcome of the game was not surprising. The mc)ne ' men conquered the White Hopes; score 21-0. So ends another Pigskin Parade on the Buf- falo ' s Banks, and it seems not inopportune that we indulge in a bit of restrospection. Lookmg at the year ' s scores the column which is usually titled Bethany Scores looks astonishingly white. Your editor will not take it upon himself to judge the men who wear the Green and White. He looks instead to the undeniable fact that football is played primarily with bodies and skills, not with hearts. At the risk of having his words quoted as platitudes he wishes to go on record of advocating, if Bethany ' s leaders wish the students to be proud of the school ' s athletic prowess, some change in the present sport ' s principles of our college. The Bethany Cross-Country team, altho their task seems to be thankless judging from the student ' s attitude, has just finished a moder- ately successful season. Coach Boethcher ' s har- riers ran seven meets this autumn; five of these meets were dual meets and the other contests involved more than two teams. The team won three of the five dual meets, dropping two to superior Case and Ohio Uni- versity teams. In the Tri-state meet they placed third and in a quadrangular meet they again placed third. The letter-men this year will probably be Cramblet, McCord, Finley, Murphy, Sawyer, and Committee. Senior Manager Gordon Seidel will also be awarded a letter. This picture shows Bethany ' s closest approach to a touchdown. You will notice the ball resting on about the two foot line in the Geneva game. PAGE ELEVEN The Man From St. Louis A SHORT STORY By Gearold Pergiisuii The Emperor Waltz rang with it ' s magic through the studio and Vera danced. Ronde de jambe, kick, pirouette. Again Vera, a httle more spirit this time. You aren ' t concentrating as usual today. Vera knew that she wasn ' t; she hadn ' t been concentrating for weeks. The joyous music didn ' t have the power to get inside her. She was full to overflowing already. Vera was in love. Vera Gerwig premure danseuse, the azure fairy, the angel of the terpsichore, in love. He was young and straight and looked ele- gant in evening clothes. Vera had only seen him once. That was from the wings in the concert hall at St. Louis. He had sent garden- ias that evening — she wasn ' t at all impressed. Every stage door Johnny sends gardenias and both they and their blooms are alike, white and colorless. She refused his invitation to dinner as she had the others — it was against Vera ' s tenets to be seen in society anyway. She had even gained a reputation for aloofness. Vera forgot him, that is until Chicago. That night she returned to the dressing room and an- other box of Gardenias. This time there was a note with the single word, Please and signed That man from St. Louis. She was piqued enough to answer the cryptic message. Her re- ply, which Anna, the maid, delivered was, Thank you, not tonight. Vera forgot again, that is until Detroit. It was too much to expect that he would be in the audience again. He was. As Vera glided through the dying measures of Tschaikowsky, a single white bloom floated to the stage. Vera didn ' t see it drop but the audience had. She stooped and picked it up after the applause died away. That night there was no note. That night Vera ' s heart began to beat in waltz time. The Detroit Times carried the story of Vera Gerwig and the white blossom the next morn- ing. It practically ruined her breakfast. The orange juice got spilled, the toast got burned, the poached eggs were too hard, and it all hap- pened in three quarter time. Now it was New York. Vera was dancing that evening at Carnegie Hall. He would be there again. This time she was certain. The World asked the question, Will there be an- other white gardenia for Vera tonight? The reporters were outside now. She wouldn ' t see them; she never did; Anna would talk to them. Anna did all her talking. One, two, three, I won ' t love. I won ' t love. I won ' t love. She knew she could never marry. It wasn ' t her career that said it, it wasn ' t her pubhc, it was just herself that rebelled. Vera Gerwig in love. Vera Gerwig Marries, Vera Gerwig a mother, ridiculous. One, two, three, one, two, three; rehearsal was over. Vera walked silently from the studio. That afternoon she determined she would go away. She would elude this man from St. Louis. Anna could get the tickets and they could be two hundred miles away in two hours. She would communicate her wishes to Anna. The bell rang and Anna came in with a message: My Dear Miss Gerwig; I am sorry for the pub- licity I am causing. I realize the discomfort you must feel. I hope that you will let me see you this evening after the performance; I would like to talk with you for just a little while. It wasn ' t signed, it didn ' t have to be. Vera ' s head lowered slightly. So he wanted to talk with her. That was ironic, ironic indeed. A man from St. Louis wanted to talk With Vera Gerwig. He didn ' t know what he was asking. That evening when the orchestra struck up the overture, Vera and Anna were winging over Buffalo headed away from the man from St. Louis. The faint whine of the engines was the only sound in their compartment, as Anna was reading and Vera was staring blankly out of the window at the metropolis below. What would the papers say now? Vera Gerwig runs from love. The angel of the terpsichore is afraid of gardenias. When loves comes the azure fairy flies out the window. She could see the head- lines now, smirking at her over her orange juice. She cried herself to sleep. She wanted to see him again. She wanted to talk with him. (Oh, how she wanted to talk with him.) Why did he have to come along and skip over the wall into her heart? Her wall, her aloofness, how she had labored to make it impregnable, and now it lay in a heap at her feet all because of a man from St. Louis. If she could only tell somebody, but she couldn ' t. No one had ever known what she really thought; she had grown up in a world of her own. It had helped her to achieve fame. The public loved an enigma. Vera wakened with a start. It was morning and Denver. She was right about the papers; Anna met her with them. They revealed one thing to her, however, that she hadn ' t expected — he was following her. She became frantic with the thought of it. He mustn ' t catch her. She PAGE TWELVE would take a train, a boat, anything to escape. The day that followed was a furious one. Poor Anna was a wreck; getting in and out at stations and consulting timetables was too much for her. Vera, on the other hand, never seemed to tire. No sooner did they arrive at one place than they were off for another; the hour didn ' t make any difference. Night found them across the border in British Columbia. It was only then that Vera was content to stop. The next morning they took a guide and went up into the hills. Vera was safe at last. She wouldn ' t see anything or anyone; she wouldn ' t have to suffer the newspapers and their chatter about the man from St. Louis. The Columbian hills were beautiful this time of year. The autumn had made sure of that. Vera loved their quietness at first, then grew to hate it; for in it she could hear, once again, the one-two-three beat of her heart. She could see the straight young man in evening clothes, the love had always wanted and could never have. Well, it was over; she had done a good job of eluding him. In the deepness of her thought she failed to notice the two men coming up the road to the cottage. She would have run had she seen them for one was a straight young man. She turned transfixed; she couldn ' t move. He was going to know the secret of her refusal to see him and she was powerless to stop it. He came eagerly toward her, and then stopped a few paces from her rigid form. He made a few gestures with his hands to his companion, and the other, nod- ding, walked away. When Vera saw the gestures she came gladly to his outstretched arms. She was going to have love after all. He was a mute, too. QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS By a Chrmis ' s Wife My husband ' s a chemist, .ilack and alas. He ' s getting great jowls from blowing up glass. He goes to the lab in a studious trance, And comes home at midnight, with holes in his pants. The first loving darns of my marriage alliance, We tenderly called my stitches for science. But as years have gone on, and the holes grow in size, My respect for the atom has had its demise. But a chemist ' s wife ' s woes are not all quite so placid As darning the holes made by splashes of acid. For how can I bake up fine cakes of molasses While husband experiments with poisonous gases? A cook, to be good, must be calm and serene, And not have her loved one inhaling phosgene! But though I grow haggard, I must not besmirch His consuming absorption in smelly research. The hardest adjustment I ' ve found myself making, Is using my logic in sewing and baking. I cooked with my instinct before I was wed And blamed it on Fate when I turned out sour bread. But my husband insists that for all things there ' s cause, And to make a French seam, I must know all Boyle ' s laws. Oh, the scientific approach seemed gruesome and awful When he brought home a stop watch to bake our first waffle. I must not abandon a treatise like this Without making note if our conjugal bliss. Though my method of thinking he tries to reform. And scares me to death with his dread chloroform. Though he blows off our roof with remarkable rockets — He certainly knows how to fix double sockets. — Exchange ' S ECSTASY Never was there singing, Never such a ringing. In human heart before; Never bliss, Such as this, Was felt in days of yore. Never was there a lover Maiden ' s lips could cover With kisses like to thine; Never Joy, Sans ailoy, Could equal this of mine. By Florence Nicholas PAGE THIRTEEN WHO ' S WHO IN BETHANY COLLEGE GEORGE DAVIS It is amazing the alacrity and energy with which Porky bustles about his various duties on the hill and off. Although he has taken much ribbing concerning his physique he has taken it nobly and in the process has gained for himself the friendship of both the student body and the faculty. He is chairman of the social committee. In the past this has been one of the most thankless jobs on the campus but the innovations and variety of this year ' s social schedule would seem to indicate that George has really made something of the job. Life has its serious side also. To show that life for him isn ' t just one mad social whirl you have only to drop in on him and find him surrounded by papers of Freshmen history students which he must wade through in his capacity of assistant in the histor} department. Porky has been active in numerous organizations, among them Sigma Nu Fraternity of which he was recorder, Edu- cation Club, Vice-President of Student Board of Governors. There will be a lot of disap- pointed prophets around if he fails to toss his hat into the mayoralty race of Sharon, Pa., in the not too distant future. — E.E. HILDA X. SARVER why does Hilda Sarver, Senior Fellow in the chemistry department, all A student. Presi- dent of Sigma Xi of Kappa Delta, sign her cor- respondence Hilda X. Sarver? For what horrible appelation does this mysterious X stand? Is it Xamantha? Is it Xantippe? Or is it the un- known quantity ? We firmly believe in the latter explanation. To see her deep in atoms and valences one would never imagine her to be the same blithe spirit who toots the baritone horn so engagingly in the college band. We don ' t find anything about what a bridge fiend she is under her name in Who ' s Who in Ameri- can Colleges and Universities . No, this dull tome mentions only such things as her three years ' secretaryship of the W.A.A., three years ' membership in the Student Guides, two years ' membership in the Student Board of Governors, and her being an assistant in the chemistry de- partment for the three years previous to her fellowship award. But what about such quaint character traits as not wanting to sing on sere- nades just because she ' s a monotone? And what about that delightful grin and the way she can almost wiggle her hers when she tries real hard, and the way she takes baths with her shoes on? It is such things as these which have en- deared her to our hearts. — B.R. PAGE FOURTEEN LEWIS DEER MILDRED ERSKINE L. H. D. has as many sides as an unlimited polygon, as many facets as a maharajah ' s dia- mond. Consider if you will Deer, the minister to mankind ' s woes. From the modest pulpit of the West Liberty Christian Church he heels hu- manity ' s hurts with a sort of soothing salve, placing straying feet again upon that straight and narrow path. Then there is Deer the exe- cutive. With uncanny insight, with keen per- ception, with unfailing direction of purpose he controls the destinies of Bethany ' s Student Board of Governoi-s. Equally resolute, equally efficient, he administers the office of vice-presi- dent of AKII. There is Deer the artist, the tempermental, the tender. His oboe contribu- tions to the assortment of noises which identifies the Bethany College Band must not be overlook- ed or unheard. By his wail shall ye know him. And at long last, consider Deer the man. Only gullible fools will ever use personality sketches as standards of value, as representing with fidel- ity the imprint of an individual upon his en- vironment and society. To understand the in- dividual one must know the individual. From one who knows to the majority who do not, Bud Deer is a grand person to know. Try it! — G.S. Ask Midge to start the song! Ask Midge, she ' ll tell ) ' ou what to do. That ' s what ' s always heard at the Alpha Xi Delta House and in many places on campvis. Mildred Erskine, better known as Midge or Midget, is on enough com- mittees and executive boards and what not to keep her running to meetings all the time. First of all Midget is president of the Alpha Xi Delta Sorority — a big job for a little girl. Then as a Student Guide she helps tell the Freshmen that, quote Bethany is primarily an educational in- stitution. Unquote. And that, quote The Inn and Bethany House are dens of iniquity and should be avoided. Unquote. Then she serves on the executive board of the A.W.S., is Vice Pres- ident of Panhellenic Council, is on the Student Counsel Committee of the Church, sings in the Choir and is active in Y.W.C.A. This five foot two, eyes of blue Senior is a major in music and for four years has been pounding out lovely music from the pianos and organ — to say nothing of her singing. For a year now she has been leading the Alpha Xi ' s on their serenades and some of the upperclassmen will remember when she made up one third of a trio with Spike and Gretchen . A little bit of a girl but she has made a big place for herself on Beth- any ' s campus since she came here from Uhrichsville, four years ago. — J.W. PAGE FIFTEEN Re:-Dating By Martha Dardarian GEEEEEE! Aren ' t Bethany men wond- erful? They ' re smooth dancers, snappy dressers, good lookers, they all have bright lines and neat senses of humor (or rumor, as the case may be), but they DON ' T DATE. Bill Bethany goes to the movie with his roommate, to the Inn with his fraternity brothers, and spares but a quick glace at the pretty girls on the Corridor between classes. Since activities on campus don ' t stagger the average college man ' s budget, why the determi- nation to maintain bachelor standards? From my vantage point as chief heart-patcher-upper of W. Va. (that stands for Wolf Valley in case you ' re interested), I view the situation as follows: — Bethany ' s small and could and should be the ideal place for four hundred people to have a wonderful time and secure a social as well as an intellectual education. Be honest now — is sit- ting at home weekends or traipsing to all col- lege affairs unescorted, securing a well- rounded or even a slightly cock-eyed social edu- cation? The ohs and ahs and general hubbub in a dormitory over a casual date, just isn ' t right and wouldn ' t occur if the darned things hap- pened more frequently. Back in the Dark Ages, when I went to high school, people dated just for fun ( would you believe it!) and, (this will kill you!) there were several people who dated without going steady. I know you won ' t be able to understand it, but in the good old days fellows and girls went out and had fun without even thought in the minds of naive observers that they were potential steadies and never even a consideration of pins. But not so in Bethany! Here, where every- body says hello and just drips friendliness in icicles, you don ' t date unless you go steady and if you have three consecutive dates with the same person (surprise!) you ' re going steady. I ' m for the ideal Bethany where everybody would date (goodness knows there ' s not much else to do) and date lots of different people. Some people would go steady because they have led up to it — not from force of habit or just because everybody else does. When a fraternity man expressed mild appreciation of a certain girl ' s dancing, looks, or intelligence, the whole fraternity wouldn ' t avoid dates with her as if she were private property. In my ideal Bethany there ' d be no specula- tion about steadies who have broken up. Both parties would date other people and the fact would be accepted without eyebrows being raised. After all, it ' s better that they admit they ' re unsuited than keep a pin or campus rep- utation that no longer means anything. Disregarding the boys and girls who are con- tinually rushed, there are many other more in- teresting people around, not only to date, but just talk to and be with. Your following of the most recent popular boy or girl merely shows your lack of initiative and I ' ll bet you don ' t give two cents for someone you didn ' t discover yourself. Another thing, you can date without injuring the relationship with the One at home. It ' s just possible that your high school estimate of him or her was a little immature, but even if it wasn ' t, you ' re really losing a lot in the way of social opportunities, and the One shouldn ' t be so selfish. I ' m not a disappointed freshman or an upper- class cynic and I have no grudges to air, but sometimes this social caste system seems unfair: we ' re still very young to become involved with only one person, and if you ' d date more often and more variously, you ' d be much happier. Don ' t be so smug or conceited to think that the girl will accuse you of leading her on after one date. You must be terribly dull if only one per- son can stand to be with you — you have untold depths my young classmates . . . And boys, you ' ll be needing letters and socks from home — you ' ll never get them when the girls are saying, Phooey to the guy who sings sweetheart songs under my window at serenades, then fails to call me up Saturday night! FAILURE Reaching up, Straining every muscle, Eager, stretching, wishing, reaching. Yet unable to attain. Wondering, daunted, doubting. Slipping just a little Sinking doun and backivards. Into quiescence. PAGE SIXTEEN Dear Santa, Well, here I am again chum, hoping for the best. Don ' t like to kick or anything like that but you sure put the skids to me last year. For two months after Christmas I was still looking for Hedy Lamarr to turn up in my socks. I though maybe that number was so much in de- mand it was back ordered. But here it is almost Christ- mas again and still no Hedy so I guess it ' s no go. Well, anyway, I ' ve changed my mind. If you still have that back order, tear it up. You can send me Madeline Carroll! I was going to ask for a soldier uniform with lots of brass buttons to help me get along with the girls but you needn ' t bother about that, I am pretty sure my great uncle is going to pro- vide me with several. Look, pal, is it okay if I ask for some things for other people? I don ' t need so much myself. I ' m happy, but there are some people I know that need a few small items so you can give these things to them and charge it to my account. First of all, poor Prof. Green seems to have a Cold. I think you ought to give him a bottle of Four Roses cough medicine. Then, there ' s Leo Schlickerman. Why don ' t you see if you can fix him up with a love life. He sure wants it bad enough. Don ' t worry about Doc Re3 nard. He can always Gettys own. You would make everybody in Bethany hap- py if you would provide the Beta ' s and the Sigma Nu ' s with tanks, seige guns, and rifles so they can fight like men and quit this scratching at each other in the middle of the night. In that event, the AKII ' s would need bomb shelters since they live between the two. Well, keed, that seems to be about all. I ' m letting you off easy this year, oh yes, one more thing. See if you can ' t fix the Japanese up with several ton of T.N.T. with my compliments. Joe Dope. Letters To Santa Claus Dear Santa, Christmas is just around the corner so I thought I ' d better give you my order now. The first item is — one tall, dark, intelligent Sigma Nu. Can you guess who I mean? No, I won ' t tell. This next item is not directly for me but it would make me extremely happy. Please sent the Beth- any boys four-bits for a haircut. This is very impor- tant! If you can ' t afford this, perhaps you could bring some ribbons for the boys to tie up their growing locks. And could you provide a new order for this school? I would appreciate it very much if you could arrange for me a one hour a week work schedule. Thus the other one hundred and sixty hours, I could, spend in sleeping, eating and other pleasures. And when I mention eat- ing, I think of the dining hall, and when I think of the dining hall I think of Tony de Fede. Santa, I would like you to send some more wait- ers like him. We really would appreciate it. An- other gift, one that might please everyone, is a muzzle for a certain person commonly called Herman. In the way of entertainment, I would be in- terested in more movies like Whistling in the Dark. Oh yes, the most important. It ' s really the easiest of all my requests, too. I ' m sure it won ' t be any trouble at all for you to bring me a flock of A ' s for my semester grades, and also, a place on the top of the Dean ' s list. With my brains and your cooperation, Santa, Old Boy, it ought to be a cinch. Now, Santa, that is a complete list of the Christmas orders for me this year. Please do not let me be disappointed. There isn ' t one im- possible or unreasonable request here, is there? Thanking you again I am. Expectantly yours, Ima Sille. P.S.: I forgot again. I would like a real live tiger for a lapel gadget on my new fur coat. By the way, I hope you don ' t mind my asking for the fur coat or did I? Anyway I would like one. Make it Chinchilla, please. Ima Sille. PAGE SEVENTEEN Radio Club Hamboree Saturday, November 22, was Hamboree Day on the compus as Bethany ' s Radio Club entertained amateur short wave operators from all over the Ohio Valley. Approximately 60 Hams arrived from various parts of Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Professor Cassius W. Gould opened this program with an or- gan number which was followed by a song and dance by Patty Sumpstine, accompanied by Prof. McKenzie at the piano. Prof. McKenzie also obliged with a hot rendition of St. Louis Blues. There ' s more to that man than German! Then, to an accompaniment of hisses and cheers, that famous mellerdrama, She Couldn ' t Pay the Rent was enacted by Lee Buckholtz, Dottie Bright, and Betty Anne Reske, as villain, hero, and heroine respectively. The stirring scene was presented in the trite manner, then in pantomine, then in slow motion, and finally in swing time. Stuart Moore ' s father was called upon for speech and showed himself to be quite an expert in the impromptu line. He was fol- lowed by a ' ham ' from East Liverpool, Dick Ludzynski, WWRW whose harmonica solo, Stardust , and pretty blue eyes were greatly enjoyed by members of the local group. The highlight of the program, however, was a tango by Car- los Jaramillo and Francis Dvorak. That couple, we predict, will go far in exhibition dancing. To say the least, Francis swings a mean hip! Then, to quote Prof. Sumpstine, One of the sweetest things around Bethany , the girls ' trio of Phillis Balch, Ethel Hanes and Lenore Neil, did a smooth job on Elmer ' s Tune and I Hate My- self . The trio was followed by Mendelsohn ' s Scherzo in B minor played by Jeanne Shervington. The program was brought to a close by a quiz period led by Professor Sumpy Quiz, himself. Several ' hams ' displayed their intelligence or lack thereof in technical radio matters and bore off prizes of various natures. Refreshments, cider and cookies, were served in the shack of W8PME, room 49 to you. During this social period the ' hams ' enjoyed meeting face to face the voices which they knew from air contact. June Crawford, club president, was in charge of the affair, and was assisted by Doc Allen and Professor Sumpstine, faculty sponsors of the Bethany Radio Club. Spring to Bring Musical Comedy The Satyrs, a new student organi- zation on our campus, promise to pre- sent Bethany with a new form of en- tertainment, that is, new to Bethany. College. Gerald Ferguson, the man behind this movement states, Other colleges have their musical comedy groups and their annual production. Why shouldn ' t Bethany? We all are fam- iliar with ' The Triangle Show ' , ' Top- per and Tails ' , ' Hasty Pudding ' , and various other such productions and the Satyrs feel it is high time that we should have something similar to en- tertain our students and their friends. The faculty sponsor of the group will be Professor Roberts. The show itself, however will be entirely in the hands of the students. It will be written, directed, managed, and pro- duced by them. The music, lyrics, dance routines, staging, and all allied matters will be handled by students. As any fool kin plainly see, an undertaking of this magnitude will require the expenditure of a certain amount of hard cash, but what is more important to the group at pres- ent, it will require much time from many persons to make it a complete success. We wish to ask all those persons who have any special talent that might be useful, whether it be writing, dancing, or even plain scen- ery shifting to get in touch with Jerry and let him know what they can do and that they are ready, will- ing and able to! assist in every way possible to make this venture one of the most successful ever undertaken by the Student Body. We can assure you that those per- sons responsible for the production will do everything in their power to provide you with two hours of enter- tainment fit for a king. Scintilating, toe-tickling tunes; hilarious comedy, a beautifiJ bevy of college cuties dancing divinely with machinelike precision; and romance that will be as poignant, as haunting as your most cherished love dreams. So, once again, let us urge you all to assist in any way you can to make Bethany ' s attempt, your attempt, to have an active successful musical comedy organization result in a glow- ing achievement. If nature never meant you to act, sing, write or dance she did, at least, give you the happy faculty to laugh and to take delight in good music and good en- tertainment so we urge you to take advantage of this opportunity to put these faculties to work. PAGE EIGHTEEN Editor ' s Letters is our iiiti iitioii iLnil from Innc to linn- uc s nill print sonic of the more interesting letters received by lis in our capacity as staff members. The one we print here was received from Dr. Jacobs who was attendant physician at Bethany College until his recall to the army last year. Due to extraordinary length of this letter we are not able to fnint but the one this month. Dear Editor: You will probably be surprised to receive a letter from Panama but agreeably so I hope when you find it contains a request to enter my name on your subscription list for the Bethan- ian. Although separated from Bethany by many miles I find myself thinking about it time and time again, wondering what the Freshman Class is like, how many of the upperclassmen failed to return for one reason or another, who got married, what ones have been especially sick or badly injured, how you all like the new Bethany House and many more similar question marks. It recently occurred to me that the Bethanian would go a long way towards answermg these questions hence the enclosed check. I look for- ward to the arrival of the first issue eagerly. It there have already been some issues published I would appreciate it if you would send them as well as the latest one as old news is better than no news at all. Much has happened since my rather hasty de- parture from Bethany last April twentieth. I first went to Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio, for my physical examination. They pronounced me physically fit for active service and sent me to Fort McClellan, Alabama. While at Fort McClellan I was first kept busy examining the selectees for evidence of any dis- eases or abnormalities of the heart and lungs and later assigned to conduction the neuropsychia- tric examination as my duty as a member of the induction Board. I also held Sick Call , the military equivalent of your own College Dis- pensary, from eleven to twelve-thirty daily. Then in addition to the above I was the attend- ing surgeon for one of the wards in the thous- and bed cantonment hospital located at the fort. As a consequence I got to treat many interesting medical cases and helped with the operations of the ones needing surgery. Needless to say I hated to give that up to come to Panama as I could scarcely hope to get such an ideal combi- nation again. We had a very attractive Officer ' s Club where dances were held twice weekly and very good food was available. There were bowling alleys at the Fort and a golf course very con- veniently located in nearby Anniston, so I was not at a loss as to how to spend my spare time. I did not stay at the Fort but lived in the home of a dentist in an attractive residential section of Anniston which was very nice and made me feel a little more independent than I otherwise would. I left Fort McClellan the latter part of Aug- ust and drove to West Virginia via the Great Smokey Mountains where I took time out to climb to the top of the Chimney Rocks some four thousand feet above see level. This climb turned out to be much more strenuous than I had anticipated but was worth it as it enabled me to get some splendid pictures of those per- fectly gorgeous mountains. After only a few days home I started to drive to New Orleans, my port of debarkation. I spent less than 48 hours in New Orleans and then set sail for Panama on a very neat, small luxuary liner which had been requisitioned by the United States Government for use as an Army transport only a short time before. Being my first ocean trip, the novelty of the whole thing made the voyage most interesting. I was amazed at the deep blue of the sea. I had al- ways supposed that the pictures on the penny postcards exaggerated the blueness of the water but I was mistaken. The water really does look blue! Excitement was unexpectedly added to our trip when one of the civilians aboard ship, finding himself out of spirited beverages said he would get some more so he put on a life belt and jumped overboard. Fortunately someone saw him do it and inimediately notified the Captain. The ship was stopped, turned around and a life- boat put out to pick the man up. We arrived in Christobal on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus on September 4th and spent nearly a day looking around the famous ship- ping sections of Christobal and Colon. There are many well stocked Chinese, Hindu, and Japanese shops located there but contrary to popular opinion the prices are not low. We then passed through the Panama Canal which indeed is a wonderful tribute to man ' s ability to triumph over nature and create both a useful and a beautifully scenic waterway. We disembarked at Balboa and were immedi- ately taken to Corozal where I am located at present. I live in one of the original buildings built by the French when they were attempting to build the Panama Canal. The Post of Corozal is relatively small and the hospital is small but we have a large Sick Call which I must supervise in addition to my other duties as acting surgeon, (Continued on Page 22) PAGE NINETEEN Sigma Nu By Edivard Elsasser Congratulations, ' 45, and here ' s wishing you the most in your four years as a student of Bethany and a member of Epsilon of Sigma Nu. This, and similar phrases, was heard around the Sig house at the end of the busiest week a freshman experiences, quaintly known as Rush Week. Were there ever more apt words? There was a sincerity to this greeting that con- tinues to manifest itself throughout the fresh- man ' s pledgeship and with the attainment of brotherhood becomes a living creed. Evidence of this sincerity is manifest at Homecoming time with the return of familiar faces and the ease with which brothers, strangers once, part with a mutual pledge of fraternal fidelity. Let ' s, for a inoment, see just what Epsilon ' 45 has let himself in for. First and foremost there is the enrichment of a college career which is to be derived only from fraternal association. Especially is this true here at Bethany where the greater part of the activity outside the classroom is centered in the Greek orders. The true test of the fraternity is this ability to meet this situa- tion without over-emphasizing its phase to the harm of the scholastic side which is necessarily the more important. We believe we meet this, the acid test. Secondly, socially, the Sigs have a finger and often a whole hand in just about every pie that ' s cooking around this quiet little town. Social relations with the ladies are main- tained by dances, formal and informal, open houses and the various media of social prefer- ment. Relations with school life are main- tained by active participation in organizations, serious and senseless, which go to make up the broadening influence necessary to derive the fullest from college life. For more than half a century Sigma Nu has been represented on Bethany ' s campus in the course of which time some of the most illustri- ous of her graduates have on their vests the five arm star and those who at present are in the po- sition to maintain the place which those before attained realize the obligation existing to them, to their school and to themselves. Seniors looking back over four years and freshmen looking forward to four years are not separated by a gulf that might at first seem evi- dent. The former can impart the fruits of their experience to the benefit of the latter and are ever willing to do so while a freshness of out- look is obtained in the other direction. The fraternity house provides the meeting ground for these and the groups between and results in ROBB HFNRY JACK PRYOR WALLY MAYOR DON WOLF the mutual advantage of all concerned. To believe in the Life of Love, to walk in the Way of Honor and to serve in the Light of Truth is the creed and standard of Sigma Nu. — Officers — Robb D. Henry Commander Ralph E. Pryor Lieutenant Commander Don E. Wolf .- Treasurer Wallace Mayor Recorder Wilbur Cramblet, Jr. — Seniors — George Davis Edward Elsasser Robb Henry Wallace Mayor William Stophel Ralph Pryor Robert Fritz — Juniors — James Hawkins Harry Lammert William Loper Walter Myers Don Wolf Richard Umbel Robert Alexander . — Sophomores — Robert Bullard Charles Foy Robert Golbcy Raymond LeStrange Creighton Murphy Harry Murphy James Sembower Steve Nunn Jesse Barton Freshmen Lee Cameron James Day Francis Fisher Effin Graham Richard Hirsch Robert Kaiser Thomas Keenan Jack McDougall Thomas Middleton Wade Mooney Emmett Moyer Reuben Ott George Pohle James Ridenour David Savage James Trench Jack Watson James Weirich Lew Wells PAGE TWENTY Editor ' s Letters (Continued from Page 19) serving on Line of Duty Boards and taking my turn at Officer of the Day. We are just three miles from Pan- ama City so at first we went there every chance we had to sec the sights and shop around in the various curio shops that line the main street, Cen- tral Avenue. Along the waterfront of Panama Bay many small sailboats of rather ancient vintage can be seen from which men are busily engaged The Student ' s Store L. S. GOOD CO. WHEELING, W. VA. GEO. R. TAYLOR CO. WHEELING, W. VA. Fashions for Juniors Misses and Women West Virginia ' s Finest Fort Henry Meats Provided by WEIMER PACKING COMPANY WHEELING, W. VA. RED STAR WAY LINES Lowest f M, REGULAR SCHEDULED BUS SERVICE WHEELING STEUBENVILLE WEIRTON PITTSBURGH ST. CLAIRSVILLE BARNSVILLE WOODSFIELD CAMBRIDGE ZANESVILLE COLUMBUS CONNECTIONS EVERYWHERE Charter a bus for business or pleasure. We say, Go Red Star Way. Information call: Wheeling, 623-624 MAIN OFFICE: ST. CLAIRSVILLE, 113 discharging their cargo of bananas that seem considerably larger than the ones J was used to seeing in the States. On a clear day when the sky is deep blue except where large banks of snow white clouds overhang the brilliant red roofs of the equally brilliant fout varigated colored build- ings, Panama City presents quite a picturesque scene not to be duplicat- ed anywhere that I know of in the United States. All the buildings in Panama City have red roofs. The story is that the former president of Panama obtained a corner on the red paint market and then issued an edict to the effect that every roof must be painted red, thus placing quite a tidy sum in his own pockets. Among the soldiers the light colored Panamanians are spoken of as single dips , the next darker shade double dips , etc. They say that af- ter you are down here six months they all get to look whiter and whit- er until even the double dips instead of being a shade of brown are simply a darker shade of white. I don ' t know. I haven ' t been her six months yet! Last week I fulfilled one of my ambitions when I attended an honest to goodness bull fight. It was held as part of the celebration of Panama ' s Independence Day and was attended by an estimated crowd of twenty- five thousand persons. As a whole it was somewhat of a disappointment but it had its exciting moments. The bull caught off guard one of the excited spectators who had jumped into the ring and was trying to emulate the matador. He made the fatal mistake of turning his back on the bull whereupon the bull gave him a rush, smacking him squarely in the back and tossing him fully fif- teen feet into the air! Then some American with no better sense jump- ed into the ring, tore off his shirt and waved it in front of the bull parrying several thrusts but eventually being knocked down. As- sistants succeeded in dragging him to safety. He was then escorted from the scene by the police. I didn ' t expect to ramble on like this when I started this letter but for once words came rather easily and I couldn ' t seem to find a suitable stopping point until now. I close now wishing you and the rest of the students a very profitable and happy school year. Sincerely yours, Samuel S. Jacob, Captain Medical Corps, Station Hospital, Corozal, Panama Canal Zone. PAGE TWENTY-TWO Physics Department (Continued from Page 6) physicists, psychologists and econo- mists is not needed to justify the existance of pure mathematics. Students planning to teach math- ematics take, in addition to calculus, courses especially planned for the prospective teacher. Besides studying higher algebra and geometry in these courses, they learn of the possibility and direction of research in these sub- jects. For a semester they study topics leading to a more appreciative in- sight into each of the subjects which they plan to teach. In keeping with the usual training in science the course continues to be one in mathematics rather than one about mathematics . Besides introducing the vocabulary and foundations for further work in science, it presents a view of some of the mathematical methods which have become so fundamental for the growth of modern civilization. NEWS NOTES Have you heard about the Cam- pused Kid? Being campused two weekends already for forgetting to sign out, she hit upon a very unique idea to prevent a third campus. She got about twenty-five sign-out slips, filled them out for every day up to the end of 1941, and attached them according to dates on her door. Now, when she leaves her room, she picks the next sign-out slip from the door, and leaves it in the box. For further information of the aforesaid, see Helenmae Weinik. Fire, originating in the basement of the eight-room frame residence of Professor and Mrs. Frank R. Gay of Cramblet Ave., Wednesday, Novem- ber 26, rendered the building a total loss except for the new section in the rear of the house. Bethany volunteers, which includ- ed for the most part Bethany College students, were the first to answer the call. They were later aided by the Wellsburg Volunteer Fire Depart- ment, who made the five mile trip from Wellsburg to Bethany in eleven minutes. The fire was discovered shortly before 11:00 A.M., when a slight breeze caused it to spread from the basement and continue for almost an hour. In the early stages of the fire it threatened Mayor Sumpstine ' s house and also the uncompleted framework of Professor Gay ' s new home, but Bethany volunteers prevented this. Most of the household furniture and possessions were lost, including those of six college boys living there STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS . . . this being a column of al- most anything printable and personal that happens in Bethany . . At the moment it ' s four in the morning and radios are blaring war news from every dorm room. Am I being selfish or isolationist or blind — but I feel that our small life in Bethany is very important: the Inn, the Nature Trail, the frats, profs and studies and Old Mam, can ' t wc keep on living for fu- ture memories? . . even the Bcta-Sig feud will be fun remembering. And by the way, if you want to hear the real feuding, walk into the Beehive around mealtime and listen to fresh- men song fests . . Fred Albrecht walked in from another of his sylvan jam sessions with a portable vie this afternoon . . Why isn ' t there more student representation in campus or- ganizations? Is it a lack of publicity about club work, or do they need membership drives or what? After all they ' re more than a means to a sorority or fraternity pledge merit. . . Attendance at International Re- lations Club ' s Open Forums ought to increase after we read some news- papers during Xmas vacation. And what about some of you history ma- jors jx sting news bulletins? . . Mr. Bohymer has been beaming paternally over his new card cases for two weeks now . . Speaking of our cut from the Buffalo ' s Tale (ouch!) isn ' t it surprising how estimates of fraternities are generally the same aft- er ten years? . . Wonder how many times Mary or Alma have been ap- proached by coeds, furtively shoving them a nicklc and rasping, Sigma Nu sign! — or a Phi Tau or Beta, AKPi or KA. Gee! you ' d think it mattered if you wrote your Greek letters all over the blackboard . . Hey, why doesn ' t someone utilize the blackboards for legitimate publicity sometime — the 20 Club or Dramatics or open meetings . . Just for official byline records, the Reverse Week- End article in the Stephen Leacock manner was Carol Alliger ' s . . Why doesn ' t someone fix the Tower Clock? four-way Bethany time was such a tradition . . Speaking of traditions too, much has been written about the unpleasant campus atmosphere this year, blaming it on the freshmen . . Any of you upperclassmen ever thought that perhaps the size of the ' 45 class awed you so much that you turned to studies and old friends and forgot to say hello ? After all, tra- ditions must be well-observed before they ' re followed . . Did anybody at the time. Those six include: Ar- mand Zeigler, Gerald Ferguson, Joe Hunger, Charles Huhn, James Drum and Leon Schliff, notice Ike Burbage ' s bevy of sisters hanging on the walls of Beta room No. 2? It took a Chapter vote to raid the new Esquire for Founder ' s Day Tea . . Maybe next time the Bethan- ian will run a well-deserved article on the 20 Club . . Not very many people know its real purpose. It ' s the first concentrated attempt toward better school spirit . . We ' re sug- gesting a similar movement among uppcrclass girls, unless they feel they might be quietly dispersed . . Not that I ' m complaining, but it always seemed rather inconsistent to me that such strict attention is paid to sign- out slips and smoking off-campus in public rooms, and yet the girls ' dorms are open during the evening of open house . . Matters for general perusal: ever guess how many ' last dates ' there were at the Zeta Winter Carnival? Wonder if Monty Stratton or Bob Husband ever demonstrated the tradition of Ogelbay Gates? . . Perhaps I ' m starting undue agitation, but I heard two very intelligent freshmen discuss the pros and cons of Sunday night dating yesterday — No dancing, no cards, no nothing — just disapating in the Inn, or else — After all, vespers are over early! . . Con- gratulations on the AKPi serenade . . We liked Jcrrv Ferguson singing with them too. Once again MOLLOY- MADE quality of work- manship scores as the 1942 BETHANIAN is cased in a MOLLOY- MADE cover from THE DAVID J. MOLLOY PLANT 2857 North Western Avenue Chicago, Illinois Cheers for Campus Clothes in STIFEL ' S Young Set Fashion Shop WHEELING, W. VA. PAGE TWENTY-THREE With MAUREEN O ' HARA it ' s Chesterfield for Christmas She is appearing in the 20th Century-Fox Production HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY Here are your Milder Better -Tasting Chesterfields again ... in the most attractive, up-to-the- minute Christmas gift package of the year. Buy them for the folks at home . . . send them to your friends and don ' t forget to mail them to the boys in the Service. YOU CAN ' T BUY A BETTER CIGARETTE Gipyright 1941. LrGGEir Myers Tobacco Co. I Doubles in Danger ! STUNT ACE MALCOLM POPE, WHO DOUBLES FOR THE STARS, CRASHED THE MOVIES AT 60 MILES AN HOUR The smoke of slower-burning Camels contains than the average of the 4 other larg- est-selling brands tested— less than any of them— according to indepen- dent scientific tests of the smoke it- self ' . The smoke ' s the thing! CAMEL THE ZlGARUll OF COSTLIER TOBACCOS CIGARETTF BY BURNING 25% SLOWER than the aver- age of the 4 other largest-selling brands tested — slower than any of them — Camels also give you a smoking plus equal, on the average, to H. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston- Salem. North Carolina 5 EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK! BETHANIAN Volume 33 — Number 4 January, 1942 Published b)- the STUDENT BOARD OF PUBLICATIONS of BETHANY COLLEGE ]f it is printable, you ' ll find it here! ORGANIZATION STUDENT BOARD OF PUBLICATIONS Jane Williamson, Chairman Anna Laurie Burke Gordon Seidel David Huntsberger George Sitock EDITOR-IN-CHIEF David Huntsberger ASSOCIATE EDITORS Betsy Ann lank George Northrup EDITORIAL STAFF Martin Reiter Speed Koval Carrol Alliger Martha Dardarian Yvonne Balster ■ Betty Anne Reske Melvin Sweeney Dorothy Rensch BUSINESS MANAGER George Sitock BUSINF3S ASSISTANTS Alonzo Freebarin Nellie Mcllvain Tom Committee CIRCULATION STAFF Mariah Smith, Manager Marilyn Waugh Evelyn Baxter Grace Benedict Jack Baumgartner Everett Stewart Myron Grieper CONTENTS REVIEWS OF THE CLASSICS Hamlet ARTICLES Winter Sports 6 DEPARTMENTS Economics 8 Psychology and Philosophy 16 FEATURES Who ' s Who 10 PARTICLES .12 DRAMATICS Faculty Goes Wild .13 SPORTS REVIEW 13 FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES Alpha Xi Delta 14 Kappa Alpha Order 18 Bcthanian, a magazine of, features and photographs, published each month from October through May by the Student Board of Publications of Bethany College. Entered as second class matter on January 14, 1920, at the Post Office at Bethany, W. Va., under the Act of March 1, 1879. Subscription price; Four dollars the year. X ' olume XXXIII, Number 4. PAGE THREE INTRODUCING HAMLET By Melviii Sweeney Adolf Hitler may be a snake in the grass, but when it comes to being really low down Billy Shakespeare ' s King Claudius takes the cake. As the play opens we find Hamlet sitting alone in the royal castle with the same expres- sion on his face that you would have if you were to loose your favorite female and flunk your final exams on the same day. Then to top it all off he is wearing a black suit with shoes, socks, shirt, and tie to match. Though he does have reasons to be down in the dumps. Not only is he in love, but his old man had kicked the bucket two weeks before and he didn ' t get to be king. On top of all that, his mother married his Uncle Claude and he didn ' t know whether his Uncle Claude is his father, or his mother was his Aunt Gertrude. Just when he is feeling his lowest in come three Marines who tell him that his dad wants to see him out on the back porch. After smell- ing their breath and finding them all sober as judges, he goes out through the kitchen to the porch to see his pop, who has been dead for two weeks. Sure enough there ' s Pappy, fit as a fiddle and radio-active as a Titanium isotope. The interview leaves Hamlet with the idea that Uncle Claude has sHpped his pappy a Mickey. He decides to make sure and act accordingly. He now acts even more dejected. His moth- er thinks he is in love, and Ophilia, his favorite girl, doesn ' t know what to think. Before the old king faded Hamlet used to call her up every day, invite her to the royal coke bar for a soda, and date her every nite. Now Hamlet doesn ' t send her pretty flowers, but she decides to go on carrying the torch for him anyway. One night a few weeks later he gets his chance. The famdy invites a bunch of actors in for lunch and when some one suggests that they help with the entertainment, Hamlet gives them a 17th Century copy of Arsenic and Old PAGE FOUR BETHANIAN REVIEWS OF THE CLASSICS Lace which has quite a few poisan murders. Uncle Claude is scared silly and decides that Hamlet knows too much. His mother is gen- erally upset, so she takes an aspirin and goes to tell Hamlet that he is being ver) ' mean to his Uncle Claude. He is about to tell his mother point blank that Uncle Claude is a skunk, when he hears something behind the curtain. He de- cides to stab first and ask questions later. He soon regrets it for instead of it being Uncle Claude it is his future father-in-law, Polonius. At this point Uncle Claude is scared stiff and he decides to send Hamlet to England with a letter of introduction to the local executioner. Hamlet leaves, but about halfway to England he smells a rat and changes the name in the let- ter to those of his two traveling companions, who he believes to be members of the Danish Gestapo. He catches the next boat to Den- mark to have a showdown. When he gets back he finds that Ophilia has had a nervous breakdown due to Hamlet ' s rub- bing out her pappy, and his future brother-in- law and best pal, Horatio, is now mad at him. Uncle Claude is surprissd to see him but not pleasantly. When Unky finds out how mad Horatio is he decides that Horation and Hamlet should fight a duel. He is going to make sure that he gets his man this time. First he poisons Horatio ' s sword; second he gives Horatio a longer sword; and third he provides arsenic cocktails for Hamlet to drink between rounds. The fight is started and is a slashing rip snorter from the beginning. Horatio is wounded and Hamlet is sliced by the poisoned sword. To complicate matters Queen Gertrude inhales one of the poison Pepsi ' s and kicks off. Then the light dawns. Horatio confesses that his sword is poisoned. Hamlet stabs Uncle Claude. Then Hamlet tells Horatio that all is forgiven and that he wants him to be king. Then Ham- let goes west and the show is over. PAGE FIVE Winter Sports in Bethany Just Before Rout by- Early Spring By Martha Dardarian Winter came to Bethany with a vengeance! We returned from Christmas vacation to find the campus buried in snow and icicles, the sur- rounding hills breathtaking in their beauty. The sub-zero weather convinced the Old Buf- falo that winter had really come, and it oblig- ingly froze over. This sent the student body immediately diving into the bottoms of their drawers — literally speaking, of course — to dig up their ice skates and skiis, and one little fresh- man had even brought his sled along. Who am I to be different? I thought, and proceeded to don my woolen underwear. (Be- sides, it was a swell chance to show off the new snow-suit that I had gotten for Christmas.) Bundled to the teeth in warm clothes, I looked like a page out of Vogue — well, at least the bar- gain section. I started off down the hill with a bunch of kids from the dorm, in anticipation of really getting some fast and fancy skating done. We found the creek crowded with other sports-minded students who had also put their health first and Chapel second. As I ventured out onto the ice after putting my skates on, and incidentally freezing my fingers in the process, I felt a premonition of danger. Maybe I should have gone to Chapel . . . don ' t be silly, this ' U do me good (?) Gathering my shaky courage, I started with graceless strokes. One. .two. .three, .gosh, it was fun. I glided around for a while, trying to dodge the other skaters, when ... .boom! Overconfidence had curbed my abihty. Oh well, I muttered, Anyone can skate on their feet. But my dignity had been deeply hurt, just the same. Trying to stand up from a sitting position on the ice, isn ' t the easiest thing to do, and I am no expert at it, although I ought to be, by this time. After several futil attempts, I was final- ly rescued by that gorgeous male who sits next to me in French class. I grimily realized that ice-skating had at least one pleasant ad- vantage. Then some one suggested playing Crack the Whip . In my younger days, I used to be quite an expert at the game. I soon found though, that those days had gone forever. I definitely did not look very artistic at the end of the line with my feet flying through the air. PAGE SIX I can ' t express how thankful I was, when it was finally time for lunch!! For three days, I dogmatically held out against any further urg- ing to go skating. Then on the fourth, I broke down and tried once more. But we don ' t talk about that . . . another painful experience. Not to change the subject (of course not) my next association with winter sports, took place on the hill by Prexy ' s home. I had stopped for a while between classes to watch the kids ski down the snow-covered slope. I ad- mired their forms and figures, so much that I wondered if perhaps I couldn ' t do better at ski- ing than I had at skating. No, I ' d better not. One form of punishment is enough. I ' ve learned my lesson. (Or so I thought). They sounded so convincing when they insisted that skiing was really very easy — once you got start- ed — that I borrowed my roommate ' s skiis, and the next step found me at the top of the hill, shivering and scared. Holy cats! I gasped, What do I do now? Give yourself a shove and try to keep your feet parallel. Bend your knees a little. Hang onto your poles. But their well-meaning in- structions came too late! Someone had given me a push, and I began to zigzag down the hill in all my amateur glory . Jumbled, furious, and regretful thoughts raced through my mind. Then suddenly, as if out of nowhere, a tree ap- peared before me. My awkward attempts to avoid it sent me sprawling, and I landed in a mangled heap in a deep pile of snow, the poles wrapped around my neck, and my feet straight up in the air. I will never know how I man- aged to drag my shattered body up to my room. For days I lay exhausted in bed. I resolved that my next undertaking in win- ter sports would be less strenuous, and I decid- ed to resort to merely playing with snowballs. I confidently joined in one of the fights that was holding sway near the dormitory, thinking that this was going to be easy. But the other team pelted us with disgusting accuracy. Somehow we managed to hold our own, and contrived to charge their stronghold of snowy bushes. That was our big mistake. At close range the enemy snowballs were bruising and cold. They chapped my face and slid down my neck and snowboots. Admitting defeat, I retreated with chattering teeth and frozen bones. Once, long ago, someone told me that I was the athletic-outdoor type, but as I look back on my discouragingly sad experiences, I wonder what made me so gullible. For it was that en- couragement that has brought about my pres- ent misfortune. I am composing this in bed; the typewriter balanced dangerously on my bruised knees. Every few seconds I sneeze, my nose sniffles, my throat hurts, and my ego feels pathetically depleted. The weather is somewhat warmer this week. As I look out of the window, I note with malici- ous glee that the snow is slowly melting and the ice on the creek is no more. I am fervently praying that it will remain in that condition. I have resolved that my future winter activities shall be confined to the sheltering walls of the dorm. A s for sports being healthful — what good is an injured body, a bad case of influenza, and a wounded, embittered soul, doing for the benefit of my health?!?! If, between now and the first day of Spring, it should happen to snow again (God forbid) and, if anyone dares mention outdoors sports to me, I will not guarantee my actions, and will probably mutter violent and unprintable things PAGE SEVEN Department of Economics By Yvonne Balsfei Dr. Clyde Crobaugh Head of Economics Dcpt. The Economic Department has become one of the critical courses of this college because of the national crisis. Our country is now faced with the problem of an excess of economic and secretarial positions and a lack of well trained men and women to handle these posi- tions. The college is now expanding the offer- ings of the Economics and Sec- retarial Science departments for the coming year. The Economics department, as a department, was started in 193 5 with Mr. Clark as its head. Previous to that time only scattered courses in this field were offered. Mr. Evans our bursar, presented courses in accounting to the students desiring this type of training. At the present time, the Eco- nomics department consists of two professors, Dr. Clyde J. Crobaugh, and Professor E. R. Bowden. Miss Elizabeth White, a senior at Bethany, is the assistant of the de- partment. The purposes of the Economics department are to give the student an understanding of the principles involved in economics behavior, of the relationships and processes of the modern economics system, and of the ralationships be- tween this system and government; to develop ability in the analysis of aconomic problems; to furnish a basis for intelligent citizenship in dealing with the complex economic problems; to equip the student with fundamental and some technical preparation for business; and to provide preparation for teaching economics and post-garduate or professional study. In the past three years there have been 26 Mr. Bowden Insfntcfor Students graduated with majors in Economics and Business Administration. The total enroll- ment of this department is 217, which is over half the student body of Bethany College. The courses offered definitely aid the student in understanding and participating in the work of the average life after college. Dr. Crobaugh received his degree of Doctor of Philoso- phy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1940. In 1939 he became a professor at Bethany College. Dr. Crobaugh ob- tained his A.B. and A.M. de- grees from Stanford Univer- sity. Professor E. R. Bowden holds a Masters degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In accordance with the de- fense need several new Eco- nomic defense courses have been added to the curriculum. With these courses in accounting, statistics, and in- dustrial management, and in cooperation with the accelerated program it will be possible to graduate more and better trained students who will qualify for the many positions which are awaiting them. The Secretarial department, under Mrs. Inez C. Lyle, is closely allied to the Economics de- partment. It, too, has been greatly influenced by the crisis. Four new courses in typing and shorthand have been added and should prove of value in the national emergency. Also it will be possible, beginning in the fall of 1942, for a stu- dent to major in the field of Secretarial Science, with special programs designed for teachers, buyers, and secretaries. PAGE EIGHT AIN ' T YOU HEARD A Short Story I thought I told you about it once before, Nate. I know you remember Big Boy Johnson ' cause you was the gink who showed him to me. I guess you never heard though why the So and So quit the ring. Well it was like this. It was about seven years back, I guess, when we was in Maxie ' s gym looking over them pugs practice. Yea, I remember now. You wanted me to see that colored boy workout. Well, remember that guy that came in and sat down on the bench near the door. Yea, the one wearing those rags who you and Mike laughed at when he tried to cover the patch on his pants. Well, that was Big Boy Johnson, the same guy who you and those lousy reporters called Blockhead Johnson after he lost the title. Well, I never told you till now, but that ' s who it was. After these pugs quit working out, you guys all pulled out. I had some talk to take care of with Maxie and when I came out from his office, this guy was standing in front of the bag sort of playing with it like you try to do with those drinks at the hangout. So I walks over to him and asks him does he want something. He didn ' t see me at first and was pretty much surprised. Yea , he says Are you Josey Blake that fight teacher? Well, I ain ' t never been called that before but I says yes, can I do him something. Yea, he says I want to fight. I give him the once over and neither of us says a word for a few minutes. He was big but with them clothes he had on, not even you could tell if he was built for it. So I asked him did he have any training or practise and he says no, just in some amateur bouts for some charity back home. So I asks him where was his home and what made him think he could box and what about the bouts he had, did he win them. So he tells me he won them all but that they was just from guys who anybody could beat and didn ' t mean nothing. His home was out some- where in Indiana I think and he says he had to leave so I asked him why cause I didn ' t want no criminals on my hands or nothing like that. So he tells me that he was fresh from his old man ' s farm and there wasn ' t enough money in it and his old man told him if he didn ' t like it to get to hell right off the pla ce and- see if he could do any better. Well, the gink took up his suit and extra clean shirt and hit the thumb. When he got in town he asks some cop about a gym right away and that ' s the way he was when we seen him there the first time. Well, I didn ' t have nothing to do right then so I told one of the boys to lend him a pair of trunks and so I could see what he looked like without no masquerade on. I know I don ' t have to tell you how he looked in trunks cause you seen him after he got start- ed. He was big and solid. Remember those shoulders of his and I guess you remember them arms too. How ' d you like to have another fighter with legs like that and that speed too? So I let him hit the big bag awhile to see his punch and he looked clumsy as hell. It was get- ting late and I told him I ' d see him tomorrow. I asked him where he was staying and he said he didn ' t know so I says do you have an) ' money and he says yes so I says how much and he says sixty cents. I told him how does he expect to sleep and eat on sixty cents and he says he don ' t know so I gave him a couple of buckets and told him I ' ll see him tomorrow in the gym. I got down early and figured I ' d have to wait for him but he was already in some trunks and old shoes he must have picked up from what the boys throwed away. Then I told him a few things and asked him to get in the ring with Sparky. Sparky was almost finishing training for the Burnett fight and I wanted to see if the kid could take it. Well, Sparky throwed every- thing but the ring posts at him and the kid didn ' t fall once. Just came back in and got bounced right back. Sparky was having a hell of a good time with him. Once he had him going, he quit worrying and every couple minutes his manager would yell at him to watch his guard and keep it up. Sparky was doing it for a while but in the next minute he dropped it, this dumb mutt wades in, takes one on the snoot and keeps going in and tosses a hell of a hook that he start- ed way back in his own corner. If Sparky wasn ' t off guard from his last punch at him and if this kid wasn ' t so tough. Sparky would have killed him I think. But anyhow, it took us a couple minutes to bring Sparky to and we had one time to keep it out of the papers. It wasn ' t Burnett that beat him three nights later, it was Johnson ' s punch. Well, right then I knew the kid had his possi- bilities so I went into a huddle with him. I told him everything I knew but nothing would stay in that head of his. God, he was dumb, I bet (Continuel on Page 20) PAGF NINE Who ' s Who in Bethany College Mary Lulu Smith Mary Lulu Smith, versatile leader in cam- pus and community activities, is the daughter of former Bethanians who are now missionaries in Congo Beige, Africa. She has crossed the ocean five times en route to England and Africa where she lived fourteen years. Under the supervision of her parents and other missionaries, Lu was given elementary training. Coming to the U. S. she attended high school in Bethany and in Lexington, Ken- tucky. She has made many friends everywhere with her delightful humor and interesting ac- counts of her experiences in Africa. She is active on the governing Board for the Association of Women Students, a member of the Y.W.C.A. Cabinet, and a student guide. Her academic interest is centered in Sociology. Lu teaches Sunday School at the Bethany Memorial Church and for two years has been secretary to the committee on X orld Work. In her spare time , she knits for the Red Cross. She is an ardent sports enthusiast and last year was voted the most photogenic girl of the soph- omore class. Mariah Smith Born at Lotumbe, a village of Congo Beige, Mariah Okwegi Smith, the second daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Smith, has spent twelve years in Africa. She has crossed the Atlantic four times, receiving elementary education from her parents and secondary training at Bethany and at Lexington, Kentucky. Now a junior at Bethany College, she is maj- oring in Bibical Literature. She is secretary- treasurer of the Ministerial Association and in anticipation of a career as a Christian mis- sionary, she teaches Sunday School at the Beth- any Memorial Church. Besides being on the circulation staff of the Bethanian for two years, Mariah has been a member of the band for three years. She is ac- tive in women ' s sports tournaments and was re- cognized in the Bethanian last year for her un- usual necklace of ivory elephants carved by the natives of Africa. Mariah and Mary Lu are often requested by church organizations to lecture on the customs of Africa and its people. They have brought many souvenirs to this country which they ex- hibit during their explanations of the natives ' clothing, carvings, and tools. PAGE TEN Boh Smudski A three year student, president of the Ministerial Association, and easily the outstand- ing student in the department of Biblical Litera- ture, Bob has made quite a record for himself. Recognition of the abilities he has is evidenced by his position as proctor at Cochran Hall and holder of the senior fellowship in the Bible De- partment. Smce his first year he has been the mainstay, head-man, and big gun of the organization of Independent Men. In sports Bob has tried his hand at both var- sity football and basketball. No star in either, he played because, someone has to give the first team a w orkout. Scholarship is where Bob really shines. He came to Bethany on a Regional Scholarship won through competition, and has maintained his scholarship throughout. His fellowship this year was awarded on the basis of his scholarship standing. He plans to attend Chicago Uni- versity next year. For two years Bob has been the minister of the Pughtown, W. Va., church. Traveling the 80 mile round trip each Sunday to deliver his sermon and visit with the people has given Bob many valuable lessons in the practical side of his vocation. At the moment preaching and teaching are both very attractive for his full time commit- ment, but he will decide which it is to be in the next year or two. Harry Wilson Harry Wilson, newly elected President of the Student Board of Governors, has at one time been known as power dive Wilson. This refers to the most exacting experience he has had in his career as an aviator to date. Harry earned his private pilots wings under the CPTP program given in Bethany last year. Harry is the President of our chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order and represents this group on the Interfraternity Council. Apparently a major in chemistry doesn ' t keep him busy enough so he spends his spare time during the football season as the student manager of the squad. All of us have seen him dashing out onto the field in the thick of the fray with his inevitable bucket in one hand a towel in the other. In case you are still wondering about Power Dive the story is this. Harry was up late one evening solo practicing some maneuvers when it started to rain. He stayed up. It rained hard- er and strong updrafts appeared. He got caught in one and it took him up like a balloon, which made him nervous so he shot the gas to it and pointed the nose down. He reached a speed well over the safety factor of the plane, dove into a valley near the airport, grazed the ground, skipped over trees and telephone wires and set her on the field downwind. By full pressure on the brakes he was able to get her stopped by the hanger. For more data ask Harry. PAGE ELEVEN PARTICLES NEWS BITS FROM HERE AND THERE Lovely Jennie Umble, sophomore drum majorette at Bethany College, was selected as one of the top ten drum majorettes in the United States in a national contest conducted by Sports Columnist Mike Bird of the Seattle Star. The Connellsville, Pa., baton twirler was chosen from a group of 310 contestants, who were judged on full-length action pictures. Betty Lou Basye, of Fresno, Califor- nia, received the title of All-Amer- ican Drum Majorette. Jennie has served as an inspiration- al force to the Bethany College band for the past two years, and, as a re- sult, the college boasts the best band in the one hundred and one year history of the college. • Just before the Christmas holidays the Quantitative Chemistry class held its annual Christmas tea. The affair was inaugurated by Dr. Rey- nard last year and has proven so pop- ular because of its unique features that it promises to become a tradi- tion of the departiT.ent. The outstanding features of the tea are the methods and materials used. Water is boiled over bunsen burners in flasks. Tea cups are re- placed by beakers and the plates are porous ones used for the drying of crystaline products. The holiday spirit was in evidence in the Christmas tree constructed of ringstand, clamps, and decorated with rubber tubing. The party was open to the college and the many that attended had an enjoyable time. • January tenth the strains of sweet music led the formally attired cou- ples attending the Frosh-Soph Hop onto the floor after they had run the gamut of the receiving line. The dance was to all appearances a success despite the relatively small atten- dance. The extra floor space was entirely welcome. • Intremural basketball is in full swing. Almost every evening and Saturday afternoon games are played or slugged out between the rival fraternities and the non-fraternity group. Some groups even have A and B teams. Those who were fortunate enough to see the game between the Beta B and Sig B teams saw a real game. Two referees were worn to mere shadows untangling masses of bodies, alloting foul shots, overlook- ing most minor offenses, and keeping track of a steady stream of substi- tutes. If anyone wants real action just drop in on one of these games. • Just before exams and the start of the new semester President Cramblet played host to the Junior Class one evening after a basketball game. His purpose was to place before them an explanation of the accelerated pro- gram, including tenative schedules, upon which the college is about to embark He spoke to the Juniors rather than the whole student body for, as he said, they are the class most affected by a change in program at the present time He suggested that each take stock of his credits up to date, credits required, and ability to handle an accelerated program. He pointed out that if the individual did not care for this accelerated program he could continue with a normal program and graduate when he nor- mally would. It seems that early graduation is an incentive to some but the lack of vacat ions does not appeal so strongly. After the short meeting Mrs. Cramblet served re- freshments. The cider was espec- ially in demand. It was suspected it may have been from the last barrel out at Waugh ' s. The BOOK REVIEW SECTION SUMMER CATALOGUE: SEARS, ROEBUCK CO. The American scene, portrayed in all its varied elements. Strong sex interest throughout, and a breath of the great outdoors in the spring sec- tion. The style warm and colorful with a persistently romantic strain Reminiscent of Zane Grev at his best BETHANY COLLEGE CATALOG A book of pure local color. Excel- lent reading matter for the younger set. Not to be taken too seriously. The plot is far from being original. The author is a true genius. CALENDAR FOR 1942 A study of the future, based on sound science. The inclusion of several eclipses and the phases of the moon give it a truly cosmic scale. We anticipate that this will be the most quoted book of the year. THE WHEELING REGISTER An astounding compilation of the events of the world. Full of p erson- alities, anecdotes, and impossible sit- uations. Is sure to create a sensation if read from cover to cover but most readers are content with the illustrat- ed fiction page. BELL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY A monumental book of research, a veritable dictionary of biography. The style strongly suggests Wally Mayor under the influence of H. G. Wells and a bad attack of stuttering. Invaluable for propping up the broken leg of a davenport. BOOTH ' S PUNISHMENT A collection of thousand word es- says of rather limited scope, being limited to subjects of the Old Testa- ment period, but in all a thorough, comprehensive study of these afore- mentioned times. The style varies with time and the individual, but they have in common a certain ear- nestness resultiing from the fact they were written under pressure. With the arrival of the millenium and the perfect, non-cutting student the source of these papers will have been eliminated. PAGE TWELVE Faculty Goes Wild Every year at the all-college Christmas dinner party it is the custom of the faculty to let down their hair. The excuse for this booting about of the pedagogic dignity is the annual Christ- mas play; chosen by, directed by, acted by, produced and present- ed by the faculty. The play this year was The Birds Christmas Party which tells the story of a party given by the wealthy Mrs. Bird for her crippled daughter to which, at her daughter ' s request she has in- vited all the children of an almost impoverished family who live near by. The play presented by the faculty was what we might call a first act or prelude to that part mentioned above in that it dealt with the preparing of the army of young ones of the poor family for the party and closed with them at last on their way. The play, though not as hilarious as some in the past, was well done and well received. Mrs. Lyle played the harrased moth- er and Col. Lindberg, with the addition of moustache, beard and sailor hat, served admirably as the deceased father. The children from the eldest to youngest were; Betty Clark, Molly MacKenzie, Betty Bellinger on the feminine side and Spragens, Beheimer, Har- rison, and Elliason as the boys. Top honors undoubtedly go to Mr. Elliason for his inter- pretation of baby Leroy; clothes, hairfree head, vacous stare, in- fantile rompings, everything was nicely done. Mrs. Bird was capably handled by Miss Beheimer. All the actors and actresses made it quite an enjoyable affair. We rhight at this time also give citations for screwiness to Hugh Beheimer and Harrison whose antics throughout were con- sistently on the other side of the fence from genius. Perhaps the greatest value of this annual bit of froth is not in its ability to make the students laugh but that it lets each and every student get a better insight to the true character of the fac- ulty members. After seeing them week after week behind a desk and that wall of reserve that must of necessity exist between stu- dent and prof, it helps a lot to see that they are just people like us. SPORTS REVIEW By Martin Kcilcr The basketball season is now in full swing and without hiding the issue we are safe, I believe, in viewing the sports scene with some degree of apprehension. The situation was al- most identical with the outlook at the beginning of the football season, for those fellows whom we missed so much this autumn were the same fel- lows that dominated the hoop circuit each winter. Taking stock at the last game the familiar faces were Jack Pryor, one of the trickiest ball handlers in the league. Bob Alexander, whose play- ing last year in the Garden in Pitts- burgh gained him quite a following, Stretch Wolf, the skyscraper kid, whose chief assets when he first hit Bethany ' s court were a long body and longer legs and whose main drawback was those same legs. George Callend- ine, who though not a first string player last year, was even then one of the best men on the squad, Seaty Huhn, a consistent player, and Bill White, who is still in there pitching. As regards new recruits the outlook was really shining. Two of the fresh- men of whom we heard glad tidings and who proved all that the pre-sea- fon reports rumored were Bill Dum- baugh and Dick Miller. From the opcnmg game these boys showed great promise. Dumbaugh who shoots equally well with either hand and Miller with his educated overhead shots were a definite asset to the team. Baldy Sole demonstrated that he was miniature in everything ex- cept ability on the court. The ' dark horse of the team has proven to be Everett Stewart, who has become a basketball as well as a football asset. How are we doing? That ' s a touchy subject on Bethany ' s campus. To date we have lost to Fairmont, Capitol U., the outstanding West- minster team, Marshall, W. J., W. Va. Wesleyan, and Geneva. The Wesleyan game was the only heart- breaker of the lot, though the score didn ' t show it. It was anybody ' s game up to the last quarter. Of the other games — let their memories re- main memories. PAGE THIRTEEN Mildred Erskine Eleanor Waterhouse Flora Jane Smith Jane Williamson Alpha Xi Delta By Janice Cooper The enrollment this year of Delta Chapter, Alpha Xi Delta, is 36 members including actives and pledges. Various offices are given to ac- tives upon being initiated, and different camp- us activities are shared by all. The chapter is losing six seniors this May. Prexy Midge Erskine, majoring in music, leaves the chair, song leadership, vice-presidency of Pan-Hell Council, and Who ' s Who. Midge jaunted to Colorado last summer to attend the National Convention. It was a never-to-be-for- gotten experience. Eleanor Acterman takes her pshchology with her and leaves to others; Presidency of Association of Women Students, Chairman of Sorority Scholarship, Business Manager of Alpha Psi Omega, and Who ' s Who. Jane Campbell, Bethany ' s first Socilogy major gives her Sorority house-management position to the house. Then there is a place not to be filled for some time — Barbare Schutt, assistant nurse, and chaplain. But it is the odds and ends that Barbara has done in her sorority life that will linger. Flora Jane Smith, another psycho- logy major, is the secretary of the Alpha Xi ' s. Eleanor Waterhouse, the Economics major, is vice-president of Delta Chapter and the pledge captain. She also leaves a vacancy in Pan-Hell Council. The Junior Class must work hard to fill the vacancy left by the Seniors. Susan Carnahan, Sororit} ' librarian is busy with historic affairs. Janice Cooper, rushing chairman and Pan-Hell representative, is majoring in journalism. Joan Cramblet, an Economics major, is interested in music and is corresponding secretary for Delta Chapter. Janice Purdum, besides late studying, takes care of activities. Jane Williamson, major- ing in Journalism, hands out bills every month and keeps the Alpha Xi treasury well balanced. The Sophomore group enters into all activities and sports. Ellajane Bishop is to be commended for the Black and White Formal. Betty Elder, Jean Goe, Mary Jane Heifer, Marge Hunter, Dotty Ralston, Nancy Sebring, Betty Shaffer, Shirley Tidwell, and Timmy Van Streen can be found working for a sorority tea or open house; attending college functions, or jitterbugging in the Bee Hive. The pledges are either studying in Phillips Hall or steadying on the campus. Throughout the year, the Alpha Xi ' s give their annual Black and White formal, the pledge dance, and the Rose Formal. Teas and sere- nades are held during different months. There will be a big surprise for the entire college given on Februar} ' fourteenth, something new and different for Alpha Xi Delta. — Officers — President Mildred Erskine Vice-President Eleanor Waterhouse Secretary Flora Jane Smith Treasurer Jane Williamson Mildred Erskine Barbara Schutt Eleanor Waterhouse Joan Cramblet Janice Purdum Marjorie Hunter Betty Elder Shirley Tidwell Jean Goe Evelyn Van Strien Janet Flint Carlotte Gay Elaine Landgrebe Janet Humphrey Jane Sturman Betty Jones Charlotte Henderson — Seniors — — Juniors — Susan Carnahan • — Sophojuorcs — Eleanor Achterman Flora Jane Smith Jane Campbell Janice Cooper Jane Williamson Ellajane Bishop Dorothy Ralston Betty Shaffer Nancy Sebring Mary Jane Heifer — Frcsumc?!- Catherine Cavanaugh Esther McCandless Patricia Cedarquist Wilma Henne Nancy Rowe La Reva Lancaster Nancy Calahan Ann Seligman PAGE FOURTEEN TESTING COLOR AREAS OF THE EYE When Professor Andrew Leitch came to Bethany in 1920, he replaced a phrenologist, then head of the psychology department. Since that time the department has taken great strides in progressive development. It has one of the best equipped laboratories for a college its size in the state and offers a wide variety of courses tending to prepare the student for graduate work in this field or for positions relating to indi- vidual or group behavior. Professor Leitch received his A. B. and A.M. degrees at Butler Col- lege, his B.D. and Ph.D. at Yale University and has studied at Co- lumbia University, the University the University of Pennsylvania, University. He is the field of higher education in the state, at present serving as vice president of the West Virginia Academy of Science. During his sabbatical leave for the second semester of this year. Professor Leitch will devote his time to special studies in clinical psycho- logy at Columbia University and the University of Chicago. He may also take the opportunity Dr. Stevenson to broaden his knowledge of ab- hutmctor Dr. Leitcli Depf. Head of Chicago, and Harvard prominent m Departments of Psychology and Philosophy normal psychology by spending some time in residence at an institution for the feble-minded. The psychological laboratory was established in 192 5 and has grown in equipment and usage since then. At present a course in Experiment- al Psychology is offered in which the student carries on various experiments in sensory, motor, and higher mental processes. Such pieces of SITOCK TESTS HIS WIND PAGE SIXTEEN TESTING REACTION TIME equipment as the Spirometer, which measures the capacity of the lungs, and the Dynamometer, the strength of grip, are used in the laboratory to test the student ' s physical powers. A tapping board, which measures conscious con- tinual action, a nine-hole board for measurement of muscle steadiness, and an apparatus for measuring reaction time are other instruments of experimentation. These experiments may often indicate vocational .ipti- tude. A surgeon-to-be, taking a steadiness test, may deter- mine just how dependent upon his fingers he may h:. Determination of reaction time is useful to motorists, and all who are engaged in occupations requirmg high coor- dination. A new instrument for the measurement of perception of distance is expected to arrive in the laboratory in the very near future. Tridimensional vision (perception of distance) is essential especially to aviators. The psychology department is also offering one course which will undoubtedly prove most useful to those chosen for selective service. In the army, the soldiers are given many tests in order to determine in which branch of work they can be the most useful. The army needs men to administer these tests. Psychology 62, the Mental Mea- surements course, and Psychology 64, Mental Testing and Diagnosis, train students in the techniques of administer- ing tests, grading them, and evaluating group tests. Men are needed in the army at present for this purpose, and persons drafted who have this ability have every likelihood of being placed in this division of specialized work, and, of course, receiving higher remuneration. Our Library has a splendid library of such tests. How to Win Friends and Influence People might well be the title of the Psy chology of Personality course. This treats with the basic nature of personality, with especial attention to the development of a wholesome per- sonality. Those who take this course, starting from the ground up as they do, should really be shining examples to the rest of us. Field trips involving the study of actual children are a feature of the Child Psychology course. A series of tests are made to determine the brightness of children of vari- ous ages, and their emotional, social, physical, and aesthetic development in infancy and childhood is also studied. This course would be a fine prerequisite for parenthood. Abnormal psychology, a study of mental deficiency, the neuroses, insanity, and abnormal traits in everyday life, is a fascinating course for comparison ' s sake. The curriculum of this department is large and offers a variety of most interesting studies. As psychology is a comparatively new science, research constantly adds new facts to be studied and necessitates changes in study plans. Opportunities in the field of psychology are numerous. Beside p sy choanalysis, which is solving many of the world ' s personality problems today, there are many other fields in which a knowledge of psychology is beneficial. Personnel work, clinical psychology, psychology in teaching, legal psychology are just a few of the many branches of work in this field. In the absence of Professor Leitch during the second (Continued on Page 21) PAGE SEVENTEEN Kappa Alpha Order BETA BETA CHAPTER Founded — Washington and Lee — 1865 Colors — Crimson and Gold Flowers — Magnolia and Crimson Rose Publication — Kappa Alpha Journal —CHAPTER OFFICERS— President Harry Wilson Vice-President John Medick Recording Secretary Morrison Ratcliffe Corresponding Secretary Lavelie Key lor Treasurer William Griffith —SENIORS— Harold Blank Ted Golden William Griffith Bertram Major Morrison Ratcliffe Jack Simeral —FRESHMEN— Charles Rodefer David Thomas Ray Harris —JUNIORS— Harry Wilson John Medick —SOPHOMORES— Lavellc Keylor William Dowler James Duff Charles Trefes Donald Young By Lavelie Keylor In this age of tumult and uncertainty, men seek desperately to find an ideal upon which to pattern their lives. Current writers and think- ers advance the opinion that young men need mspirations of a higher calibre to help them ad- just themselves to modern living. Since our founding at Washington and Lee in 1865, Kap- pa Alpha has held one mortal ' s life aloft as an example of courage, patriotism, gentleness and purity. That man is Robert E. Lee. Where m our little sphere of life could a more perfect ideal be found? The Kappa Alpha Order exists to further ob- jects which all thoughtful persons concede to be of serious import and permanent value. It aims to influence the lives of its members. Through the principles inculcated in its customs and enforced in the associations of chapter life, it seeks to make its initiates better men, to stim- ulate intellect, to improve morals, to refine manner, to widen sympathies and to touch the heart. Kappa Alpha, being an order of Knights, is pledged to chivalrous ideals and is military in organization. The history of Kappa Alpha at Bethany is a comparatively short one, this chapter having Harry Wilson John Medick Morrison Ratcliffe Bill Griffith been chartered in 1903. Short years, but event- ful ones. It has had its good years, and its poorer years; yet its men are ever striving, seek- ing to absorb and pass on the true K.A. spirit. Beta Beta Chapter, even in time of crises, has never failed to show itself a leader in campus affairs. At this writing, Harry Wilson, our No. 1, was justly honored with the presidency of the student board; the Crimson Five, cap- tained by Jack Simeral, are affording stiff com- petition in the current inter-fraternity basket- ball contest. Captain Jack, who graduates this year, was also the only K.A. senior on this year ' s Bison football team. He was ably aided by pledges Dowler, Duff, and Young. And, lest we fcrget, water-boy de luxe Wilson. As we strive for aptness in sports, so, do we strive for excellence in scholarship. The strug- gle this year must be great if we are to retain the cherished Scholarship Cup won last year by virtue of an outstanding point average of which we are justly proud. We at Beta Beta are anxiously looking for- ward to our Founder ' s Day banquet on Febru- ary 19 which is to be attended by outstanding alumni including Dr. W. S. Daddy Hamilton, National Archivist and William S. Wilkin, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Bethany College. (Continued on Page 22) PAGE EIGHTEEN Ain ' t You Heard (Continued from Page 9) the dumbest boxer that ever came out of Maxies, and that ' s something. He was in pretty good shape in about a month. Hell, he was in shape better than any guy I ever saw. Those f.irm hicks can develop faster than anybody. The only thing I could teach him was something of a guard but feints, protecting his gut, or not wading in like he did was too much for him. I wrote it down for him and showed him pictures and talked to him for days and davs without stopping but he said yci, I know and then did what the hell he wanted to. Well, Joe Tinker was the champ then and he was training up at the lakes for a bout with Barnctt the next month. One day his manager comes into Maxies and says he wants some sparring partners for the camp so I start talking to h:m and tell him I have a dumb cluck who don ' t know the art of boxing fighters from box- ing oranges and he ain ' t never had no pro fights. He never give me a chance to tell him I never seen a guy with a punch like his but just tells me he ' ll give me a hundred bucks if the kid will spar with him two or three days. So me and the kid went up to the lake and went into the camp. One of the assistants tells me where to go and we was handled just like cows ot something the way they pushed us around. Tuesday was the day for the reporters to come up and look over the champ so on Monday they use new partners and en Tuesday, they used the guys that wasn ' t no possibil- ity of doing no damage. So Monday they puts Big Boy in the ring and tells him to try to break through the champ ' s guard. Tliey sure picked the right kid for that. For three rounds he couldn ' t land a blow and the champ was hitting him something fierce. The whole camp was laugh- ing at me and the kid too and I don ' t care about me but I didn ' t like to think of the kid. That night he was pretty busted up about the beating and he got pretty talky cause there wasn ' t much more we could do. That ' s when he told me something about his Jajie whoever she was and about how his folks was kicked out of their house a few years back because they couldn ' t keep up with the rent or something. Anyhow, he says how some guy he never liked anyhow had kidded the hell out of him about going to the P ' oorhouse and all that stuff. The kid might have been dumb but I guess even him has feelings and things. He hated this other guy something fierce and his eyes just got red when he started to tell about him. I didn ' t know much about the gal and he didn ' t mention her too much neither so I didn ' t mention it ' cause it ain ' t good when a fighter has too much on his mind. So the next day he ' s going through with his regular training when one of the camp managers asks me if I ' d let the kid go a few rovmds with Tinker cause one of the other guys got cold feet. I hated to let the kid take another beating then but I fig- ures the experience will do him som; good and besides I wanted to see if maybe I couldn ' t cure him in practice. Well, the first round or so the champ starts through with the same old thing like yesterday and I can hear the reporters asking how one guy can take so much punching. I tried not to let him hear it when I wiped him off after the round but he heard and looked at the writers pret- ty angry like. Almost the same as when he was talking to me last night. The next round he goes out and the same thing all over. Only this time instead of getting hit back and wading in again, he braces himself and doesn ' t go back when he ' s hit. Where he got that idea I don ' t know. Well, Tinker comes in hard again and I see Big Boy pulling his right back like I seen him cock it once befar;. Tinker hit him with a left jab and right then, before the blow landed. Big Boy takes off with this hook again and it landed right on the bot- tom of Tinker ' s jaw. Well, Tinker flew right out of the ring and landed almost in the laps of them reporters. The only thing that saved him was his face guard but even then, they had to cancel the fight. Naturally, they kept it out of the papers but I knew the report- ers had seen it so right away I went down and tried to get a bout with Burnett to take Tinker ' s place, no title or nothing at stake. The pro- moter thought I was nuts trying to sign a guy who ain ' t never fought pro before to take the champs place. So I told him to call some of the re- porters cause they seen the kid fight and ask them if he was worth the try and I ' d stop back. Then I went down to see all the writers and passed out a few cigars and told them the setup about Big Boy. Most of them was willing to give it a boost so when I offered to fight Big Boy for only three thousand bucks, they grabbed the shot. The papers gave it a swell build up cause they sort of expected what was coming. The crowd was almost as big as for the real fight and I felt pretty good but was nervous like hell. We only had two weeks to get the kid in shape for the fight and then we was trying to fight the number one challenger. Burnett swore he ' d quit the ring if he didn ' t knock out the ; kid in the first round. Then the story about Big Boy and Tinker got out somehow and Burnett shut up like a clam. They fought that one at the gard- ens and Burnett insisted on a rematch in Chicago because he didn ' t believe that some unknown hick had belted him right out of the ring with a right hook in the third round. Well, the rematch was a sellout and we sort of named our own terms on that one so we made up the loss of the first fight. This time Burnett had to quit the ring ' cause nobody could get his jaw in shape again after the way the kid ripped it apart when he hit him from one corner of the ring almost across to the other side. Then after this hght, I noticed the kid was starting to get some letters almost every week. I never read them but I did see one laying around and it was a girl ' s writing and had some town in Indiana on it. The kid was still coming along and I never noticed anything detracting him so I didn ' t say nothing. He still was a dumb cluck and took all kinds of hell just to get a chance to land that one punch. You remem- ber how they used to call it the punch with the speed of a rabbit and the kick of a mule. Well it was the truth cause that kid ruined more punching bags than anybody I ever heard of. Well, after we won a few more fights they had to match Tinker with the kid. He was still champ but he was scared. He had felt the punch and didn ' t want to get in the way of it again. We was ready for the fight any time cause the kid was al- ways in shape so when Tinker tried to pull one over on us and sign for the fight in two weeks cause he was in shape, we didn ' t care. That one was for the title and the kid didn ' t care any more about it than he did for a punching bag. He didn ' t even want no sparring part- ners; its a good thing cause I could- n ' t get him none anyhow. The match was in Pittsburgh cause it was Tinkers ' home town and it drew about fifty-thousand people. The champ was a good boxer, maybe one of the best cause he got back the title after the kid quit anyhow. Tinker wouldn ' t mix it up this time. He ' d go in and the kid wouldn ' t move. He just planted his feet and waited for the champ to start some- thing. Tinker wasn ' t that dumb and he just boxed smart. He carried the fight for seven rounds and probaby got all of them from the refs. I was getting worried and the end of the round I told the kid that he ' d never (Continued on Page 21) PAGE TWENTY Ain ' t You Heard (Continued from Page 20) win unless hs went after the bait. The crowd was booing him something awful and I felt like the last peanut in a bowl of them. Well, the next round the kid mov- ed a little but not much. He got the round and the next one too and they sort of split up the rest. Going into the fifteenth, I told the kid that un- less he connected, we lost the fight. Well, he goes out and they shake for the last round and Tinker knows what the score is so he just takes it easy and stays away from him. I don ' t know what made me do it but I yelled Come on you hick, we ' re going to the poorhouse if you don ' t do something. He looked at me with the lousiest look I ever saw; his jaw was low enough to plough up potatoes. While he was looking, Tinker caught him with the toughest punch he ever threw. The kid went down and the crowd went wild. I don ' t know what happened to me but everything went b ' ack. I know the kid got up at two, shook his head a few times and waded into Tinker like a madman. Tinker threw a left, the kid threw the first real left he ever tossed, and then cocked his right. Tinker tried to backaway from it but was too close to the ropes. The shot landed and that ended the whole fight. Well, we was champions. But it wasn ' t the same. I told the kid I was sorry for what I said and I didn ' t mean it but it wasn ' t no use. He didn ' t care no more. He beat Tinker again in a return match and there wasn ' t no question how good he was if he wanted to be. Just like a heavy tank, he could take anything. All he needed was the chance to break through and then — hold your hat — cause nobody could take that punch. We beat a couple of punks and one day. Big Boy walks in the gym and tells me, I ' m quitting. I didn ' t know what to say right then but finally I got him to stay for a while. He says OK only from now on, he gets to pick his oppon- ents. Well, other champs have done it so I says OK and he tells me to get him a challenger. That wasn ' t tough and Tinker says he ' s willing for one more chance at him. Thats the fight they quit caUing him Big Boy and started calling him Block Head. He had more opportunities to throw his punch than I ever seen one fighter get be- fore. But he never threw it once. Of course. Tinker outpointed him. I asked him should I get a rematch and he says no. So I told him Whr.t the hell, if you don ' t want to fight say so and you can try to get your own mana- ger. OK he says, and walks out. Well, we squared off and he takes his stuff and leaves. I was going through the apart- ment one day and I came across some of those letters of his. He left a diary too so I figured they wasn ' t no use to him and read them. Well, this gal he wrote to seemed to like him pretty much, especially in them letters that came after he beat Tinker. They was the usual stuff and I didn ' t give them a hoot. Then I opened the diary and hell, what some guys won ' t write, especially them which is so big and tough and you don ' t expect nothing like that from them. There was some clippings about some guy named Knockout Rush out of some Indiana paper which I seen him buy once or twice. They was about this guy who was doing pretty good in the bush rings and every writeup had a line about, I know I ' m good enough to be champ. Who wants on the bandwagon? Then there was one or two pictures of him at a night club with a girl and her name was the same as the one on the letters the kid left. Well, I was still interested in the kid, and I followed him in the papers. He was always losing too. The clip- pings was from Philly, York, Pitts- burgh, Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, all the way west to Indiana. Then they stopped for a while. One day, I get a telegram from the kid which say he ' s in his last big fight tonight and to look for the re- ports of it in the papers. The next day, the papers carried a story about how some big guy knocked out the champ of Indiana in the first eleven seconds of the first round which was just about the re- cord, I think. The guy was still in the hospital unconscious and his |aw was broken something fierce. I sort of thought the kid would start climbing but that was the last I heard from him for a couple years. The other night, I was down at Maxies when who walks in but the kid. He stood over near the door and nobody else saw him ' cause they was watching Tinker polishing off some cluck. He was near the big bag and I said hello to him. Thats when he told me the rest of the story. I asked him if he wanted back in the game, I could sign him up with Tinker in a month or so. No, he said, I ' m finished. Hows the guy you fought in In- dianapolis? I asked him. I don ' t know. I left after the fight, he told me. How ' s the girl, I said. She married that guv I ' ight after 1 lost the title. Look kid, whv you quitting the ring because of them. What ' s the percentage? Just about 100. Look, the only reason I ever got in this game was for two things. One was because I hated some lousy mutt who kidded me about my family. I knew he was a boxer and I knew he was pretty good and I wanted to stop him but first I wanted to go higher then he ' d ever get. The other reason was be- cause I had some ideas about some girl who I thought was OK, I found out about her in time. She was after the title not me anyhow. So she mar- ried the guy, I took care of him, and we ' re all OK. So I said, Well If that ' s how you want it, its OK by me. Can I do something for you? No, just burn my stuff I left. That ' s about all, he said. So he said so long and left and I ain ' t seen him since. That ' s why they called Big Boy Blockhead though, but I think they was wrong. And did I ever tell you about — Psychology Dept. (Continued from Page 17) semester. Dr. Kenneth L. Bean, form- erly of Marshall College, will be in charge of the psychology department. Dr. Bean is a graduate of Louisiana State University where he also re- ceived his Master ' s degree. He re- ceived his degree of Doctor of Philo- sophy and Psychology from the Uni- versity of Michigan. Dr. Bean is an accomplished violinist and his book. Practical Psycholui y for the Musician has recently been accepted for publi- cation by one of the country ' s lead- ing presses. He has also had publish- ed several articles on this subject. In addition. Dr. Bean has had a large amount of experience in clinical psy- chology. 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Seventy-one Chapters of us, stretch- ing from the fields of Alabama to the Golden Gate, and penetrating as far north as Bethany, make up the Kappa Alpha Order, which has its national offices at Louisville, Ken- tucky. We at Beta Beta are known as the Rebel Chapter, us Yankees. Psychology Dept. (Continued from Page 21) The aims of the Philosophy depart- ment, as stated in the catalogue, arc to provide the student with a careful study of the problems of life, espec- ially the more persistant problems of reality, knowledge, morality, religion and social life, that the student may develope habits of thinking clearly and thinking complete thoughts which integrate his knowledge from different fields into a unified whole, thus affording him vision In the light of the whole. BETHANY BARBER SHOP Dry Cleaning and Pressing Agent The Student ' s Store L. S. GOOD CO. WHEELING, W. VA. FOR THE COMPLEXION Dou you want a clear radiant complexion — A smooth, velvety skin? 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More smokers prefer Camels . . . smokers like Lowell Jackson to whom mildness is so important... smokers who want a flavor that doesn ' t tire the taste... smok- ers who vant more out of a cigarette than something to carry in hand or pocket. You ' ll never know what you ' ve been missing until you smoke Camels. Camels contains 285 LESS NICOTINE than the average of the 4 other largest-selling brands tested — less than any of them — according to independent scientific tests of the smoke itself! f • ty burntng 3S% •low r than tfi« av r- ag« of Ih 4 elh«r lorgMt-Mlling brond t «t d — tlowar tkon any of tfi m — Cam l« al«o gtv9 you o tmol ing pfui •qual, on Ihi avvrago, lo 5 EXTRA SMOKES .PER pack! TWENTY TIMES Low Jackson (above) has rolled the perfect score (300). Every time he lights up a Camel he smokes with the assurance of mod- ern laboratory science that in the smoke of milder, slower-burning Camels there is less nicotine {see below, left). Get a package of slower- burning Camels to- day, and smoke out the facts for yourself. Camel the Cigarette of Costlier Tobaccos K. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. . Wlnston-Salem, N. C why I resigned from the Student Board of Governors The one basic reason for my resignation was my inability to reconcile my convictions against war and the military system with my convictions that the officer of a democratic organization is obligated to carry out the will of the majority of that organization. Since the latter half of that statement will meet with more general agree- ment than the first, I ' ll dispose of it first. As all stu- dents who have given the student government proposition more than a cursory glance will readily admit, we have here at Bethany all the machinery for actual student par- ticipation in government. In reality, we, as a governing body, are ineffective because we are not willing to accept the responsibilities that would go with increased authority. The Board is set up as a democratic body to govern student activities; the ofl cers are elected by the Board members to represent and carry out the decisions of the student body. That the presiding officer is a leader among such a body is one of the concepts of a democracy. But that he is also morally obligated to carry out the wishes of the group over which he presides is also a basic demo- cratic tenet. Realizing that an all-out war program will require student participation and cooperation with the military system, I found myself in a position where I was likely to become morally obligated to carry out tasks which I could not conscientiously do. I am a conscientious objector to the military system and its way of dealing with conflict. I cannot give my support, even tacitly, to any part of a system which I be- lieve to be the enemy of my country and mankind. It is my feeling that not the Nazis nor the Japanese, but the military system, no matter under what guise or flag we find it, is the chief threat to the democratic way of life. My conception of Christianity cannot be reconciled with this method of dealing with the problem at hand, al- though I realize that is not the majority opinion. I be- lieve in a fundamental moral force which is greater than any physical force; physical force subdues for a part of a generation; moral force changes people for all time. So far, man in his growth has not been able to see that tliis moral force is the weapon to use in bringing justice, be- cause it is easier to go to war as he has done before than it is to work out another way. I am firmly convinced that for his own salvation man must use this other way, and I cannot add to his problem by supporting the very thing that is destroying him. Man will come to find another way of settling his problems only when enough of us will refuse to fight the issue with force. That is my stand, which, I realize, is open to the attack, It won ' t work! It hasn ' t been tried! War doesn ' t work either, but we go on having it. I have yet to read or talk with an intelli- gent person who wants war, who can see that it accom- plishes anything at all. So why, with all the evidence against it, do we go on having war? The program the college is now entering upon is not one that violated the principles that I hold. But as a student I am not morally bound to engage in any fu- ture activity which might require violation of those prin- ciples. As president, I would be bound to adhere to the wishes of the student body, which, I realize, does not hold to the same beliefs that I do. By resigning now I am making way for some other person who is more in sympathy with the program as it must be. Bud Deer. BETHANIAN Volume 33 — Number 5 February, 1942 [ CONTENTS Page EDITORIAL . . 3 STUDENT FEATURE OF THE MONTH A Criticism 4 Campus Survey 5 From the Faculty 7 Activities on the Campus 7 FEATURES Modern Languages . 8 English 9 Universidad Nacional — 10 To My Valentine 11 Zeta Tau Alpha 12 Beta Theta Pi 14 Who ' s Who in Bethany 16 Revised Bridge Rules for Bethany 20 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 18 AROUND THE CAMPUS 11 ORGANIZATION EDITOR IN CHIEF Betsy Ann Plank ASSOCIATE EDITOR George Northrup BUSINESS MANAGER George Sitock ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER ..Tom Committee PHOTOGRAPHER Speed Koval CONTRIBUTORS Stan Brown Martha Dardarian Bud Deer Jane Walls Gordon Seidel Nancy Sebring Fred Swearingin , Betty Ann Reske Ralph Burbridge Florence Nicholas Frank Donics Betty Murphy Jack Simeral Jane Williamson John Costanza Jerry Ferguson John Hudak Ray Rappaport CIRCULATION STAFF Mariah Smith, Manager Evelyn Baxter Myron Greiper Grace Benedict Jack Baumgartner Everett Stewart Marilyn Waugh Nellie Mcllvain Bctbanian, a magazine of features and photographs, published each month from October through May by the Student Board of Pubhcations of Bethany College. Entered as second class matter on January 14, 1920, at the Post Office at Bethany, W. Va., under the Act of March 1, 1879. Subscription price: Four dollars the year. Volume XXXIII, Number 5 PAGE THREE Student Feature- A CRITICISM Following this page is a student survey on the general campus attitude and conditions. No doubt each of you has heard these criticisms voiced every day, and yet, not one of our bull sessions has attempted to summarize the points or take any sort of action. The student argu- ment is that any group or person taking action is threatened with pressure along these usual lines: 1. Eat at the Bethany House; 2. Remem- ber your scholarship; 3. Remember your job; 4. Remember your transfer credits. Therefore, when any objectionable action arises, students talk about it among themselves, build up rum- or, but refuse to take action. Their answers are; 1. We can ' t do anything, and anyway, what good is it? 2. Why should I stick my neck out? Let ' s consider the first answer: We can ' t do anything. This college could not exist without students. Certainly a reasonable example of college life cannot be maintained unless the students assume their proper position as stu- dents and self-governors. Of course, we need the standards of the college and a wise adminis- tration to guide us. But supposedly, we have been given student government. The Student Board of Governors that you ridicule is your own creation. No one has rendered it impo- tent but the students, for the source of its pow- er lies in the student body. Have you ever read the SBOG Constitution? Since this is our charter of rights, wouldn ' t it be possible to ex- amine every college action from a purely tech- nical standpoint, taking the Constitution as a legal basis? Suppose actions are taken arbitrarily. Is it right that we let ourselves or a few of us be the objects of unjust treatment? Let us suppose that a valid reason is behind these actions. Is it fair to subject the adminis- tration to gossip and common rumors? It is good to destroy faith in your own college? If there are merely occasional mistakes made, certainly alert, critical student opinions would be welcome. Why should the adminis- tration bother to explain its actions to us now? We are disinterested in our own government. We never demand explanations. Our accusa- tions toward college affairs are not valid until we have proved them. Then the last part of the first answer: What good would it do? Perhaps you feel that a clearer campus attitude and spirit would not be worth an effort. Perhaps you don ' t feel that fairer methods would be more satisfactory. Perhaps you don ' t have faith in a modified form of democracy — even intelligent democracy. Let ' s look at ideals from a practical standpoint for a moment. The four hundred of us are above average intelli- gence; we are training this intelligence along constructive line s; this training is important enough to continue even in wartime; quite truthfully we may say that the United States, our parents, our teachers, everyone but us rea- lize that tomorrow ' s leadership of world society lies on the campuses of educational institutions. Certainly a Bethanian attitude translated into country or world terms would mean destruc- tion to intelligent progress. Our representa- tion from Bethany should not and does not have to be of such caliber. Propaganda, for the most part, revolts every thinking student, but illogi- cal isolation of our own life, responsibilities, and trials on this campus is stupid. Now for our cases argument: Why should I stick my neck out? If you are taking a negative attitude, then of course you must consider that all boarding-, living-, and purse- strings are held by the school. But, if you tried to act in a body, or through your representa- tives, there would be no individual finger- pointing or punishment. Suppose one person does take action while the rest of us keep silent. He is obviously called a trouble-maker, and while we sympathize, we refuse to admit our sympathies. We are primarily a group of intellectual co- wards. We must study certainly, but that is not the only requisite of training for life. This lethargy we personify is the most disgusting, loathsome attitude possible for students. I am not advocating radical, anarchial methods. I believe that there have been many unfair, high- handed actions of the administration, — but we have absolutely no right to voice dissention un- til we are rational and courageous enough to act. Bethany is what we — you — make it, and the incidence for any fault that exists in the management of our affairs lies with us until we have made an effort to correct it. First of all, find out about the SBOG, the good and bad members; replace them intelli- gently; read the constitution; find out the limits of student power; attend their open meetings twice a month; instruct your repre- sentative to take definite, concerted action on certain matters; above all, discuss constructive criticisms and openings for improvement. The fault still lies with ourselves. We haven ' t tried, but we can. Let us disagree with Kirk to this extent: the affairs of our lives and how we handle them are very important; Bethany is an educational institution insofar as the students realize their respec tive positions in the college, exercise their authority and participation. PAGE FOUR An All Campus Survey B Shin Broil I! Stan Broun intcrircws Marguerite Bciijamin at the Bethany House The Social Situation If gents could read What coeds thought, There ' d be more dating Than there ought. While not meaning to insist anything, the foregoing quote from a large college humor magazine may be the answer, or at least one of the solutions, to the admittedly despondent social conditions at the home of the Bison. In attempting to find the explanation, the Bethanian began a series of informal interviews with the object of obtaining constructive criti- cism and a survey of student attitude. Slightly more than ten percent of the student body was asked the following questions: What is the matter with the social situation in Beth- any? How can relations with the Student Board of Governors, the administration and students be improved? Destructive comments were disregarded as much as possible. In spite of the latter statement, there were many people who started their answers with a simple, It stinks. Too many interviewees gave this answer, so it cannot be considered any individual ' s comment. The consensus narrowed down to only a few factors. The first is that not enough people date, and the second is that there is not enough to do when you do date. There was some incongruity in the opinions of those who dated steadily, wore, or had given out pins, and those who just dated now and then. Very few of the pin group complained of the situation. They (Continued on Next Page) Our reporter questions Barney Henderson about Student Government Bethany ' s Student Government The survey tried to correlate opinions about the Student Board of Governors with the general opinions of the social situation. This was done in the belief that the social situation included more than dancing and dating. Evi- dences of this were the requests of some of the student body for increased athletic programs, especially of the intercollegiate nature. The Student Board, furthermore, is the backbone of student opinion, and as such is intended to carry out the wishes of the student body. There was a surprising lack of acquaintance of the students with the Board, and those who had some idea of the Board and its members re- flected a shocking dissatisfaction with the man- ner in which the Board has functioned to date. Often mentioned was the fact that the Student Board has never taken advantage of all the power it could wield. Many people mentioned that the organization was a tool in various hands, and that real student desires could never be realized through action by the Board be- cause it could never realize its potential power. Many students revealed that they had never heard much about the Board, even from their social representatives to that body. They asked that the meetings be announced in Chapel as well as on the bulletin board, and that the min- utes, (or a general outline of business proced- ure), should be posted after each meeting. Ac- cording to the constitution of the Board, all meetings are open to whoever wants to attend, (Continued on Next Page) PAGE FIVE Ed Sweeney and John Hndak express their rieu ' s hi the Inn Social Survey, Cont. seemed very satisfied with the status quo, although many of them made excellent recommendations. By far, the most frequent requests were for Sunday dancing and inexpensive bus service to the civilized world. Then there were repeated requests for card playing on Sunday, informals every Friday or Saturday night, reopening Point Breeze, open houses at fratern- ity houses, and more Reverse Week- ends. There were also some scattered suggestions in reference to mixed dinners and such generalities as an improved social program. The general opinion was surpris- ingly simple. There seemed to be a genuine and complete agreement that the social conditions at Bethany are not what they might be; most people have the idea that many forms of social activity are prohibit- ed because of financial reasons. There were however, a desire and opinion that something can be done to improve that which we have. Some of the interviews are printed below: Bill Young: If the defense pro- gram necessitates Saturday afternoon classes, the Blue Laws affecting Sunday should be relaxed completely. Dancing and card-playing should be decided by student referendum. If the students vote for cards and dancing, the activities should be en- couraged in resident centers instead of public places where such activities may be criticized by outsiders. Jane Campbell: The Reverse Week-End broke down reserve in a fine way. The girls were too afraid of the fellows before. They were stilted. (Ed. note: refer to opening quatrain) . Joe Hunger: There are few Sun- day dates because there is so little to do. Judy Umbel: Frosh should be al- lowed permission till 9:3 the second semester. John Weimer: Reopen Point Breeze although it is impractical. (Ed. note: the administration has been known to sponsor other, more impractical projects). There should be a more (Continued on Page 20) S.B.O.G. Survey, Cont. but this fact is known by very few students. There have been other clauses in the constitution which have been found, revealing that the Board is not functioning correctly in several cases. Some of the opinions received are listed below: Dode Myers: I don ' t know what goes on with the SBOG. It doesn ' t do much, but they might be doing a good job for all I know. Ed Harris: The SBOG should ex- ercise more of its power. Gene Keckley: It ' s a good school. Jim Drum: The Student Board doesn ' t get enough publicity; even members aren ' t very interested in it. Don Kramer: It isn ' t the Board itself, — it just might be the lack of student cooperation. George Davis (social chairman of the SBOG) : There will be a revised social program by the Student Board in accordance with the new condi- tions. Barney Henderson: The SBOG withdraws itself from student activ- ities too much. For instance, when the Board took it upon itself to abolish class elections and student election of the Homecoming Queen. Betsy Ann Plank: The Board could change a lot of things around here, but not without publicity and active student support. Bill Young: The Student Board? I don ' t know enough about it to say anything. (Editor ' s Note: Bill has often attended meetings of the Board) . (Continued on Page 21) Sfan interviews Willie and Buck on the Social Situation PAGE SIX FROM THE FACULTY- Feeling that the survey should include some word and opinion from the administration, a Bethanian reporter interviewed two faculty members vitally interested in student government, attitude, and actions. Dr. Woolery, who, as Provost, is more directly con- cerned with administrative affairs, expressed the wish that the students get more enthusiasm, and actively participate in campus and world affairs. On the question of the potentialities of student government, he said, The students could wield quite a bit of power if they took an interest in college government. It would have to be a gradual assumption of this pyower however. Per- haps the best method of attaining it would be performing several jobs well. Since President Goodnight, the general administrative policy has been to withhold such authority for fear the students would abuse it. I have been consistently disappointed in the Bethanian this year. It should be an organ of student opinion through which the students may reach the Student Board of Governors. As it is, the magazine is a combination of good pictures and poor literary effort. Certainly the students should not only express their dissatisfaction but do something in concrete action. The attitude of students toward the present crisis seems apathetic. An organized reacton or program from the S.B.O.G. on the campus effects of the war would be interesting and worthwhile. Above all, we should inte- grate the activities on this campus with world affairs, particularly in preparation for the future. The second member of the faculty to be interviewed was Prof. McKenzie, head of the German department. Delaying him in the Corridor, the reporter questioned him on the possibilities of student government and student- administration cooperation. ' Well, of course if the students don ' t take an active interest in student government someone with authority must take action. Now instead of complaining about these actions, the students should attempt to find out their un- derlying reasons, and this could best be accomplished through the S.B.O.G. For instance, the student should try to see the underlying reasons and purpose for the steps that the college is rushing through under the guise of defense. The upperclassmen have such a what ' s the use atti- tude, and I hated to see this interested, live-wire freshman class come under their influence. You should try to elimi- nate this negative attitude by realizing your proper posi- tion in the college administration set-up. Student govern- ment could reach the place where it would be consulted on all college matters, or at least the administration would bother to explain its actions in a satisfying way. Ce tainly the students should not feel that all decisions are being handed down to them, and I am sure the administration would cooperate fully in destroying that impression. ACTIVITIES ON THE CAMPUS- There are manv organizations on the campus in which students may participate. Although a few of these re- quire certain qualifications, the majority have open mem- bership. Despite this fact, many of the clubs are badly organized and poorly attended. This is not altogether due to lack of student interest, for it is plentiful. It is the opportunity and stimulus for enthusiasm that is miss- ing. The students who do strive to make the clubs more in- teresting are faced by age-old cutom and traditions, thus the clubs do not supply the needs of the students. Too, the students take the attitude of letting the other fellow shoulder the burden of club organization, then proceed to offer criticisms that are rarely constructive. We have attempted here to describe briefly the various campus activities, their aims and their rating, according to general concensus. The first, and most important, is the Student Board of Governors, composed of two elected members from each social group on the campus. The Board gives attention to student publications, athletics, and social affairs. — Lacks student support; a willing, capable, potentially powerful body. The Association of Women Students is a self-governing organization of all college women and regulates their con- duct. — An efficient, autocratic government. The Young Women ' s Christian Association member- ship is open to all women students. It conducts regular worship services and social settlement work in McKinley- ville, and entertains guest speakers. — Lacks initiative; its actual aims are nari ow. The Women ' s Athletic Association sponsors a regular sports program run on a point system by which a girl may earn awards. — Student participation excellent; lead- ership poor. The Bethanian is the only student publication, with the staff open to all who are interested. — Highly ineflScient, unorganized; lacks student cooperation. Dramatics on the campus are fostered by the Bethes- pian Club with open membership, and a chapter of the national dramatic fraternity. Alpha Psi Omega. — Inac- tive and inefficient. The International Relations Club is concerned with Current Affairs and is open to all students. — Definitely on the upgrade, but should have greater student turnout because of its potentialities. Musical organizations include the Choir, Band, and Or- chestra. They are composed of students with musical ability. — Choir excellent; Band and Orchestra poor. German, French and Spanish clubs are open to students in these respective fields. — All good. The Ministerial Association is concerned with the church and religious life of the community. Students majoring in Biblical Literature are members, but anyone who plans to work with people in respect to their religious life may join. — Lack of interest due to members them- selves, not to a lack of definite program or aims. The Writers ' Club is open to all who are interested in Creative Writing. Original compositions are written, pre- sented, criticized, and discussed. — Lacks variety of subject matter. The Rifle Club has open membership. — Little activity. The Outing Club is open to all students for hikes, pic- nics, etc. — Little cooperation among the officers. The Cheerleading team is organized on the basis of try- outs in September, and is chosen by the head cheerleader. — Lacks vim and vigor and student enthusiasm. PAGE SEVEN COLLEGE DEPARTMENTS A great responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the teachers of modern languages. It is their duty not only to teach the rudiments of expression of a foreign language, but also to instill in their students a knowledge and respect for the life of that country. This double duty, well executed, will help eventually to bring world peace. Bethany ' s modern language department teaches the language, literature, and culture of France, Germany, and Spain. Other ob- jects of the department are to provide training in reading for students who may require the language as a toll in scientific or historical study, and in expression to stu- dents who are pre- paring to be teach- ers, translators, or representatives in the foreign service. Miss Pearl Mahaf- fey is the head of the department and also teaches French. She came to Bethany in 1908, having receiv- ed her A.B. degree at Miami University, and having studied at the University of California, the Uni- versity of Grenoble, McGill University, the University of Paris, and Harvard University. She has traveled extensively, coming into close contact with the language she teaches. Mr. Earl D. McKenzie came to Bethany in 1937 with his A.B. degree from Brown Univer- sity, and an A.M. from Columbia University. He has also studied at the University of Frank- furt am Main, Yale University, and the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh. Mr. McKenzie teaches Ger- man and French. Miss Alyne Key, who teaches French and Spanish, came to Bethany in 1941. First year beginning courses and intermediate courses are offered by the department in French, German and Spanish. Majors and min- ors in various languages may be obtained by taking higher courses in the language and liter- ature of these countries. In French, a conversation course which cov- ers prose composition, syntax, and phonetics, with dictation and conversation, is offered. modern languages By Betty Ann Reske Miss Mahaffcy, head of the Language Department with her students Courses in French drama covering the seven- teenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries are conducted in French. A course on the French novel is also offered. Other courses are Con- temporary Literature, a course in the history of French literature, nineteenth century poetry, including the Romantic, Parnassian, and Sym- bolistic schools. Seminar and special problems courses are also offered for majors in French. In the German department, in addition to elementary and inter- mediate courses, work is offered in the eighteenth and nineteenth century literature of Germany covering the works of Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Heb- bel, and Keller. In nineteenth century German, special em- phasis in study is placed upon the dra- ma and the Roman- tic school. Scientific German is a one hour course which gives the student readings in his own scientific field. A course in conversation and composition is also offered. In the Spanish de- partment, besides the elementary and in- termediate training courses, a survey course in Spanish literature is also taught. In this course, literary masterpieces by representative authors of the classical period, the nineteenth century, and contemporary lit- erature are studied, through lectures, and the reading of representative works and reports. The foreign exchange scholarships are often made possible for students who have a good knowledge of the language of one of the Europ- ean countries or South America. A junior year abroad during peace time is also possible for students who have mastered a foreign lan- guage. PAGE EIGHT In 1897, when C. D. Anderson was ap- pointed Professor of English, the EngHsh de- part became for the first time a separate depart- ment. Before this, the study of Enghsh, or as much of it as was offered, was cared for by various departments. (In 1882, James Lane Allen was appointed to the faculty with the title Professor of Latin Language and Litera- ture and Higher English ), or simply included in the term, Belles Lettres , as it was during the presidency of W. K. Pendleton. Mrs. Anna Ruth Bourne, who was appointed Professor of Eng- lish in 1903, was chiefly respon- sible for the development of the department. She introduced the study of Old and Middle English in the sophomore] year, and instructed _ _ for the first time a distinct course in American Literature. She developed the dramatics division of the department to its highest peak, mak- ing her open-air per- formances of Shake- speare one of the chief attractions of Comme n c e m e n t time. After Mrs. Bourne ' s partial re- tirement, she was as- sisted by various oth- er faculty members, including Dr. Gay, who served as chair- man of the department from 193 3 to 1936, when he became head of the Classics Depart- ment. Dr. Gay, who received his A.B. and A. M. from Drake University, and an A.M. and Ph. D. from the University of Chicago, and was appointed to the faculty in 1910, still assists in the English Department to some extent, teach- ing the American Literature and Classic myth- ology courses. Dr. Florence M. Hoagland, who is, among other things, the present head of the depart- ment, was appointed to the faculty in 1936. She has her B.A. from Cornell, her M.A. from Ohio State University, and her Ph.D. and M. A. from Cornell, and, in addition, has studied for a time at Cambridge University. Professor E. E. Roberts, whose official title is Professor of English, was first appointed to the faculty in 1928, and has both his B.A. and M.A. from Ohio State University. Professor Roberts has charge of the Journalism division tig(is By Florence Nicholas of the department, and also teaches two sec- tions of freshman English. Miss Margaret Carrigan was appointed to the faculty in 1939 as Head of Residence for Wom- en and Instructor in English. She received her A.B. from Columbia and her M.A. from Syra- cuse, and is at the present working on her doc- torate. Mr. Harrison, who was appointed this year to replace Dr. Alexander, has both his A.B. and M.A. from Columbia. Mr. Harrison is the mainstay of the freshman Eng- lish, teaching three sections of them and conducting the labor- atory course as well as being the guiding light for the Writers ' Club. Miss Hoagland, English Department head, entertains her Seminar group in her apartment The third division of the English De- partment, Speech and Dramatics, is under the care this year of Professor Booth, who is offic- ially the Professor of Old Testament. The aims of the English Department are quite broad, be- ing, to quote the cat- alogue, to prepare all students for a more intelligent and appreciative reading of the materials in all b r a nc h e s of knowledge; to fur- nish the students with a comprehen- sive knowledge of the English language and literature in preparation for creative writing, graduate study, or as cultural discipline; to pro- vide background and some technical training for students preparing for professional writing or Journalism; and to train students to speak effectively in public. There are six majors in the English Depart- ment this year: Margaret Stein, Sue Beth Arch- er, Ruth Swartz, Ruth Moser, Florence Nicho- las, and Phyllis Skilton. Four of these are student assistants: Margaret Stein, Ruth Swartz, Florence Nicholas, and Phyllis Skilton. In spite of the small number of majors, the English Department is one of the largest in the school, in point of personnel and the number of courses offered. This is made possible by the wide participation in the English department program by non-majors, who feel that the courses offered are well worth their while, as, indeed, the department tries to make them. PAGF NINE UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL By John Of the eight words in the dignified and de- scriptive letterhead, U iiiversidad Nacioiml Mayor dc San Marcos dc Lima, it is the second that tells most of the tale. For Friar Tomas San Martin ' s old university is really national. Its forty- five thousand students attending the sev- en branches scattered throughout the City of Kings are men and women from all the little geographic, racial, and social Perus that make up Peru, the nation. Four of the Colleges, or Faculties, as they are called in Peru, are housed in a two-story build- ing that covers nearly one large city block in Lima. Seen from across the Parqiic Uiiiversi- tario, its squat greyness is like a thousand other Spanish buildings, huge first story windows heavy with horizontal iron grills. But stepping inside and down from the street, one enters a square patio or inner courtyard with a round fountain in the center. If we stand beside one of the fountains for a minute and glance around, we note that the second story projects inward toward us, the overhang supported on pillars and arches. Under the colonade thus formed, the students of San Marcos walk and talk, gesticulating to explain a political theory, mathematical theorum, or even the shape of a passing flower. Because San Marcos is the most important university in Peru, students go there from all parts of the country. They come from Tru- jillo in the north, traveling over the new black- top Carretera Panamericana to the capitol. They come from the sun-drenched white city of Ar- equipa in the south, from Incaic red-roofed Cuzco in the southern interior. From these cities they have come, forsaking their own little universities for the TJ niverhdad Mayor — Great- er Universit) ' — of San Marcos. The students meet in the patios — there are four of them in the main university center — ■ behind the grey walls that cut off the sound of Lima ' s fieixe auto traffic but can ' t keep out the piercing air of the interprovincial business. There is the sporty, sophisticated Liiiieuo, who thinks Lima is Peru. Fie is kin to the New Yorker who thinks New York is the Unit- ed States. He has seen the latest Ann Sheridan movie in one of Lima ' s beautiful theatres, and he saw the last Spanish torero fight in Lima ' s huge Plaza de Acho. Quickest to adopt foreign styles, he now smokes Lucky Strikes, wears rough tweed jackets and crepe-soled shoes — and goes hatless. No Nazi influence there. There is the brown serrano who has come to Lima from one of the Sierra provinces that are crumpled among the three gigantic north-south Costauza ranges of the Andes. Accustomed to the hot sun and cold clear nights of the ten thousand feet mesas, he hurries along the corridors, shrinking into his thick blue overcoat to escape the penetrating dampness of Lima ' s coastal winter. There is the student from beyond the white crests of the Andes, from the lush, green, mon- tana region which slopes eastward to the wet jungl es of Brazil. If we know him we know much about one of the Perus. Most probably he has come from the notheastern province of Loreta, flying to Lima in six or eight hours to save weeks of travel by river launch, horseback, and auto. Living in the vast greenness of the Amazon Rivers, partially isolated from the rest of his country, he has developed and independ- ence of spirit that distinguishes people of re- gions where nature has been a lavish giver. Like most of the Peruvians who live outside of Lima, the Lorentauo thinks of his province as the geographic center of his life — his tierra. FFe is a decentralist, often railing against the concentration of Peruvian wealth and official- dom on the coast, far from his vivid inland. He and the others of the moiitaiia, who make up one-twentieth of all Peruvians, but have one- fifth of the country to live in, continue to live in the great Peruvian dream of developing the inoiifaiia into a rich, surging area populated by millions. He would like to turn his jungle em- pire into reality. San Marcos is a remarkably democratic insti- tution in a country that has spent nearly three hundred of its four hundred years as a mere colonial appendage of Spain. In its cloisters is the young aristocrat whose great-great-grand- father was an aide to the last Spanish viceroy. He wants to go to Law School, in spite of the perennial rumor that the Law School will be closed because there are too many lawyers in Peru now. There in the library is the mestiza student whose great-great-grandfather may also have been an aide to the last viceroy, — but his great- great-grandmother was an Indian. Few negros or Asiatics reach the University, as they form probably less than two percent of the population. San Marcos students, like those on Bethany, cut classes; more constantly, they gripe at the professors and the administration; less openly, they think they could run the country better than the government; and they become enam- oured of the coeds, — less frequently, perhaps only because there are only a few hundred girls in the university. PAGE TEN b My Valentine Although we are a little late (as usual), these are the sentiments ex- pressed by certain representatives of campus social groups on February 14. The job of getting our boys to admit their poetic poweress was extremely difficult (especially the Sigma Nus), so judge leniently the following: FROM THE PHI TAUS Her hair resembles a mop retired from action, And her eyes are both askew. But she ' ll always be my main at- traction, Although she doesn ' t appeal to you. She may not be a raving beauty. And she might remind one of old Yahoodie, Her face could stop the March of Time, But I love her cause she is my Valentine. FROM THE KA ' S Oh lady fair, with peroxide hair, I love you most of all. In summer time and winter time, In spring time and in fall. You may not have the best in looks, And about your figure I couldn ' t write books, But when we ' re alone and the lights are low And I ' ve nothing else to do, There ' s nothing like sitting alone in the dark And pitching a little woo. So when that day of hearts rolls around, And the sun begins to shine. Just uncross your eyes, and un- knock your knees. And be my Valentine. FROM THE INDEPENDENTS Dirge of a Draftee To Be Our day is here today, A day to be merry, a day to be ga-y. But R day comes on the morrow, A day of pain-perhaps of sorrow. To you dear heart These words I impart: Remember dear, whose heart this am. For in two days I ' ll be Uncle Sam ' s — • — FROM THE BETAS I ' m not so very swell. Which I ' m sure you won ' t deny, But your beauty doesn ' t strike one In the twinkling of an eye. I know you think you ' re pretty good And like to gather praises, But I never saw your passing by Reap more than curious gazes. But though I know that I ' m not much When it comes to books and such. Would you be so kind As to be my Valentine? L ' ENVOI Roses are red, Violets are blue, Glass is smooth, But not you. FROM THE SIGMA NUS A Valentine ' s Greeting We are the loyal Sigma Nus, Subject to chronic midnight blues. Nobody loves us, we ' re all forlorn, Maybe our talk is full of corn. Our feet ain ' t washed, our hands ain ' t clean, Gee we wish we was on the beam. Our grades are low, they cut no ice, Our profs all played with loaded dice. Our teams are lousey, we lose all games, Our players are drunk or chasing dames. Our house is falling on our heads. But not one of us will leave our beds. Our sad bunch of pledges will bring no fame, (We won them all on a punch board game). We have horrible things to keep under cover. And one of them is a Japanese brother. We ain ' t quite as dumb as is the fable. Because we all want one night with Betty Grable. The only good thing that we can say, Is that we all live in the U.S.A. (Propaganda! that is true. But in times like these it ' s the thing to do). Now you ' ve heard our sad sad story. In our hands please place a morning glory. But if onlv a sweetheart we could find, Things would pick up, chop chop double time. So please, please be our Valentine, signed rejected and dejected Sigma Nu (I.Q.70) — • — FROM THE AKII Why all the fuss and bother, now? Why all the preparations? Why all the letters, telegrams, ■These floral presentations? Why all these lacey, paper things. These sentimental gushings, These trite irrationalities. These too self-conscious blushings? These skipping hearts, these moon- calf eyes, These other-world expressions. These secret, dulcet, slushey notes, These feminine digressions? Why is it, that on February fourteenth, These foolish things we covet? The answer is a simple one, We ' re suckers — and we love it. Around the Campus I ' m trjing hard to forget that grades came out this month. Most of us weren ' t too pleased, — but peo- ple like Chubby Cluss, John Jones, Kay Sheline, and Rog Waterman prove that all is not in vain with the younger generation. With their get- ting three point averages, there ' s still hope. ' Course there was Hilda Sarver, — so happy when I pulled my A minus up to an A. It sure is good to see a few of the old faces again: Bill Halley, Jim Barnes, and Jane Land, — -looking prettier every time we see her. Al- ready we miss those who left us at semesters, but that ' s how things go. Jeanne Jordan from Mt. Lebanon, Pa., and Mary Buccieri from Brook- line, Pa., have already made them- selves at home. The pin situation at the moment is more confoosin ' than amoosin ' , I ' d say. Why don ' t people make up their minds? Now you see them, now you don ' t. First the3r ' re togeth- er — then blotto!! Can ' t you kids think first before you pull any of these surprises? Wow! Things sure ain ' t like they were last year. There was none of this can ' t make up my mind or don ' t know what I want business. If soine of this love jive doesn ' t soon get hep and find out the right score, I know a lot of peo- ple who ' ll be ready for strait-jackets — me among ' em. Maybe I should refer them to our December pin ar- ticle (and she didn ' t write it, Dode) . This Dunn-Williamson combina- tion still looks stable, doesn ' t it? The latest, I suppose, is Flint and almost any other eligible male — Alka-Seltzer still sticking to blondes — T. P. Herrick making the rounds — Betty Shaffer still not able to make up her mind — Cherry one of the most popular girls on the campus — Porky forever pompous and bustlin ' around like a chicken with his head cut off — Bette Fizer in loves and playin ' I Got It Bad and That Ain ' t Good — Tidwell and Loper tryin ' it all over again — or maybe the situations have changed by now. Sideline Scenes: Gloria Bass sport- ing a Beta pin and bangs — Lee Fiess and Fred Sweanngin hand-in-hand — Robb and Neuman back at intervals — the newest tradition of throwing the pin girl in the Buffalo — Educa- tion Weeks progressing along on hands and knees and high heels (and did Weirick ever collect those 1024 cigarette buts?) — all the waiters in the dining room sporting crew hair- cuts — Betty Elder and Don Hill- strom studying Accounting (?) — going to eight o ' clocks by moonlight. PAGE ELEVEN FRATERNITY ROW Hey, kids, quit making so much commo- tion and come over here. You ' ve gotta help me out. Jane and Pete, quit being ' foreign spies ' and calm down for a change. What are you trying to do anyhow? Hi, Gracie! Oh, I ' m answering the phone, listening to the uproar, and in between times, attempting to tell all Bethanians that Zeta Tau Alpha first came to Bethany ' s campus in 1905, and the fraternity became a member of National Panhellenic Congress in 1909. But, as far as the last goes, I ' m not getting very far. Yea, and did you tell them a Sigma Nu helped to found it? Shut up, Har- vey! That came from Halter, I bet. Lemme at her — This isn ' t doing me any good. I have to finish this. Let ' s get busy. Soupie says t o don ' t forget that Weezie was Home- coming Queen this year, and Hutch and Cherry were her at- tendants. eta riau By Jane Walls Rcia Xing ' Don ' t worry! I ' m not liable to for- get that. And, incidently, I hope people rea- lize that these aren ' t Greek letter names some of us seem to have gotten attached to around here. — -That was the week-end Mary Jean named the Bee-Hive, too. Boy, remember the feed we got out of that!!!! You might mention that if we don ' t have mumps we have a fire in the — Throw her out somebody, will ya? (Honestly, sometimes I get regusted.) Schotty ' s the president of the Y.W.C.A. and she ' s on the social committee, too. So ' s Betty Mclntyre on the social commit- tee, and Murf, Kate Anna, and Faith are on the executive board of the Women ' s Association. Mclntyre, Murf, Schotty, Pudsi Stein, Gracie Henkel, and Judy Wakefield are student guides. Murf and I are Girl Scout leaders, too. Be sure and have that in! Jane Linn, no doubt. Happy day, things are coming thick and fast now — -keep it up. You might say we had plenty of excitement and people to sing to right after Christmas va- cation — Pete, I though I ' d gotten rid of you. Some more sensible things girls. Let me see— in the choir are Jane Douglas, Betty Mclntyre, Jean Goodwin, Marge Campbell, Kate Anna Drake, Pat Patterson, Grace Benedict, Irene Hutchinson — gee, whiz! Hutch leads our serenades, too. And Judy Umble remains Bethany ' s first and only drum-major- ette. Tell ' em about our swellegant pledge class! Do you want her to fill a book? No, but I do want to put that Ann Douglas is pres- ident of a fine class of twenty-t h r e e pledges. And speaking of presidents, Dutch Styer is president of Gateway Hall, and Pudsi Stein takes like honors at Phillips Hall. A n d then, of course, there ' s our own Prexi, Betty Murphy. I ' m leaving the officers till last ' cause I might write a volume on them alone. Our glamour- puss, sweet and lovable Murf, who made Who ' s Who in American Colleges this year; our Vice- President, Pat Harvey, who spends all her time with the pledges — (u-huh); Secretary, Betty Mclntyre; and, golly, my own big sister, Esther Mackey is treasurer. In fact, I think you kids had just better all clear out and let me finish this. I ' ve got enough material now to keep me going. Good- ness, I have to hurry! The dead-line is twelve o ' clock and I don ' t have this written up in sane and sensible order yet. It ' s a shame I never got it done, isn ' t it? betit- ' een duties arc officers Betty Murphy, Harvey, Betty Mclntyre, Esther Mackey Pat PAGE TWELVE —Officers— President .. Betty Murphy Vice President Pat Harvey Secretary Betty Mclntyrc Treasurer Esther Mackey -Seniors — Sue Beth Archer Gwendolyn Borden Grace Henkel Joanne Schott Judy Wakefield Gladys Armor Ruth Halter Betty Murphy Margaret Stein Mary Jean Weir — Juniors — Grace Benedict Kate Anna Drake Jane Douglass Faith Eidemiller Irene Hutchison Lois Linn Esther Mackey Marion McHarg Nellie Mcllvain Betty Mclntyre Mary Louise Sesler -Sophomorcs- Gay Addelman Marjorie Campbell Pat Harvey Jane Linn Rosemary Stewart Eleanor Throckmorton Jane Walls Jean Belknap Jeanne Goodwin Jane Land Betsy Ann Plank Jean Styer Judy Umbel Peggy Wallace Shirley Weatherwax — Freshmen- Lee Addelman Marguerite Banjamin Jean Cameron Ann Douglass Gladys Gillespie Nancy Harrington Thelma Long Betty Von Nyswaner Gladys Rinderman Martha Umbel Carol Alliger Gladys Brooks Helen Col ton Eleanor Fletcher Marilyn Gillespie Doris Hood Jean Matheny Pat Patterson Jean Rylander Mary Wilkin PAGE THIRTEEN FRATERNITY ROW Continued Ask any Beta pledge to give you a brief resume of the national fraternity and Psi Chap- ter. You ' ll probably get your answer in the form of some strange talk about Pater Knox, the elms of old Miami, and 1839. To one not familiar with the lore of Beta Theta Pi, such phrases will seem like a few memorized historic- al facts. To the affiliates of Psi chapter however, such informa- tion is an essential part of the chapter ' s function. As a pioneering fraternity, and the earliest and first such national organization founded west of the Alleghenies, Betas today are guided by this early inspiration which serves today for fur- ther pioneering in the still-growing and essential American system of the jolly college greeks. Even the local lore of the chapter re- minds us of the im- portance of the fra- ternty, with the col- lege, working to build democratic men and ideals in a world gasping for such tenets. In De- cember, 1860, led by founder Pope from Kentucky, six eager students rode horse- back to Washington and Jefferson to be initi- ated by the present Gamma chapter of the fra- ternity located there. The fraternity prosper- ed for a few short years until it was severed by the Civil War. Following the war the chapter reprospered in the customary secretive manner of the time. It now includes five hundred and forty seven on its roll. Today, the members of the chapters are striv- ing to maintain the traditions of the chapter, and at the same time realize the present benefits its members must receive from the organiza- tion. Th Beta songs, social events, and interests have long been an essential part of Bethany College. Along this line Psi chapter recently re- ceived the distinctive honor of having its own Psi Song , written by Gerald Ferguson, ' 43, selected as one of the three original chapter songs to be published in the new edition of the fraternity ' s song book. Beta cJftcta Pi By Ralph Burbridge But the songs and customs aren ' t the only parts of a fraternity. Scholastically the Betas have tried to cooperate fully with the faculty, and our academic record of the last three years have been highly indicative of the college spirit. Athletically the chapter plans a program of participation for each member that promotes individual interest and activity. That the program is successful is witnessed by the active interest taken by the chapter in the In- ter-Fraternity sponsored pro- Officers Cluss, Burbridge, Roche, and Sivcaringin on the Beta Mantle The social aspects of the fra- ternity cannot be over-looked even though Beth- any is primarily an educational institu- tion. Cooperation with the college pro- gram is stressed. To supplement this, so- cial functions with- in the fraternity help to round out our college experi- ence and draw us closer in the bonds of fellowship. Fre- quently on a Friday night you may see a snake dance in the front yard, and hear us singing Wooglin had a bob-tailed dog! Queer? per- haps, but it means that actives and pledges have gathered to strengthen friendship ' s tie with a good, old- fashioned feed. On the campus the chapter attempts to sup- port a well-rounded program of activities de- signed to knit the student body together. The Beta teas, dances, and open houses rank with similar events of the year that so diversify the college experience. And so we look forward to a promising year, full of new experiences and different problems. With this hope for the future, we think that Psi chapter will live on Bethany ' s campus and play an active part in its program just as long as the College on the Hill exists. Old Psi will still try to preserve a few ideals and traditions even in a world where ideals no longer have a meaning. relax PAGE FOURTEEN — officers — President Irvan Roche Vice President Alfred Swearingin Secretary Ralph Burbridge Treasurer Charles Cluss — Soiiors — Paul Bowers Joseph Hunger Irvan Roche -Jiwiors- George Albee George Callendine Archie Conn Donald Hillstrom Stewart Moore Alfred Swearingin Jack Baumgartner Donald Boyd Roy Heckel Theodore Herrick Joseph LaBarre Wilmont Stratton Ralph Burbridge Charles Cluss Gerald Ferguson Charles Huhn Richard Roberts Donald Wells -Sopho7norcs — Arthur Beard Donald Brinkworth Byron Henderson William Hottel Ray Rappaport John Weimer William Young — Freshmen — John Coble Tom Hart Robert Hudson John Jones John Sole Thomas Watts John White John Epler George Hoak William Humbert James MacPherson Everett Stewart James Williams Jack Wright Robert Wright PAGE FIFTEEN WHO ' S WHO IN BETHANY Joanne Schott Good morning comes Schotty ' s bright greeting, morning, noon and night — any time at all. Marbles in her attic you say, but then you can ' t know the facts. She isn ' t in Who ' s Who in American Colleges and Universities just because of her office in the Screwball Club, and she doesn ' t use a gavel for cracking nuts. This year she pounds it in Y.W.C.A. meetings, last year in chapter meetings at the Zeta Tau Alpha house, and three years ago as president of her pledge class. At night she starts out of a sound sleep to worry about duties and meetings, just as you would if you were in Alpha Psi Omega, Student Guides, Bethespian Club, Outing Club, Socio- logy Club, and served on the SBOG and the Social Committee. The combination of vivid brunette beauty, neat grooming, and popularity won for her the crown of Homecoming Queen in her junior year. Famed for her policy of keeping the campus wolves at arm ' s length, she can tell of the day it required a whole pack of Sigma Nu pledges to steal a kiss. She sings sweetly off-key, plays but one piece on the piano, washes her hair every other night, patriotically does her part to keep our army happy, and through it all chat- ters irrelevantly. Screw- loose? You judge. Good morning. Irvan Roche To write an appreciation of a fellow, one mentions first those achievements by which all can judge. To keep the record straight, I ' ll do that here. Irvan Roche has been: Vice Presi- dent of his freshman class. Assistant in Person- nel, top honor student his freshman and sopho- more years. Vice President of SBOG, Assistant in Chemistry, listed in Who ' s Who in American Colleges, Senior Fellow in Chemistry, Vice Pres- ident of the Interfraternity Council, and Vice President and President of Beta Theta Pi. Now forget all that, pull up a chair and meet Irv . He came to Bethany in ' 38 and has been busy ever since in his own efficient way. That ' s his greatest quality, efficiency. He can do a job more thoroughly than you can ever imagine. He can laugh too. Every once in a while he lets that friendly smile of his get away. The nice thing about these two qualities is that he can run them together so well and still get the work done. Perhaps the most significent thing one can say about Irv is that he is the first to tell you if you have done a good job. He seems to get a bigger kick out of it than if he had done it himself. Bethany will miss him next year. He ' s one of the most adaptable persons we know . . . serious, humorous, friendly, studious, social ... he fits them all. PAGE SIXTEEN Eleanor Achterman Edward Elsasser Three black marks make a campus so I ' m afraid that you will have to stick close to home this week-end. This is what Eleanor Achterman, a senior from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, has to tell the girls of the campus in fulfilling the office of President of A.W.S. Eleanor has been helping to set the rules for the girls and helping to see that they are enforced ever since she was elected President last year. Besides doing this, she has been helping to guide the freshmen for two years in her own efficient way as a Student Guide. The McKinleyville project was also worked into her busy schedule along with the Y.W.C.A. cabinet where she served as Vice- president and Treasurer. To show that she had talent along other lines than executive work, she has belonged to the Bethespian Club and Alpha Psi Omega. A lot of students will remember her as the Princess in the Alpha Psi Omega production of Death Takes a Holiday, which chilled the blood of the students a few years ago. With all this to her credit, besides having a good scholastic record, is it any wonder that Eleanor Achterman, who is also a member of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority, has been selected to appear in this year ' s edition of Who ' s Who in American Colleges and Universities? Edward Elsasser is what you can call quiet, but you don ' t have to. Somewhere among his hyper six feet is a subtle b.umor which is really good. If you ' re the kind who likes facts, take these down in your record book: the dark haired senior with the dignified air has been manag- mg editor of the Bethanian; Commander, Lieu- tenant-Commander, Reporter, and Song Lead- er of Sigma Nu; President of the Intcrfratern- ity Council; an assistant and Senior Fellow in the History Department (his major is history, his minor, economics); he holds a membership in Pi Gamma Mu, national honorary social science fraternity; Vice-president of the Inter- national Relations Club; a first honor student for two years and a second honor awardee for one year; a devotee of the Moo Moo Moo; a Student Deacon. Before the outbreak of hostilities, his goal was a position with the State Department in the Foreign Service, specifically in Latin America. Since December 7, 1941, he believes that his im- mediate habitation after graduation will be the United States Army until he can bring the war to a successful termination. All in all, Ed is one of our most amiable, per- sistent, and studious seniors, and even though he seems quiet, it ' s worth it to try to know him. W PAGE SEVENTEEN Letters to the Editor— WHY SUSPENSION? Just in case some of my fellow Bethanians haven ' t observed there ' s been one less face on the campus since February 12: Monty Stratton. Monty has a token of his last fond remembrance of Bethany: a little note from Prexy reading, You are hereby notified of your suspension from school for breaking college rules. The facts are these: at the close of the semester Monty was no longer classified as a freshman, but a sopho- more; as a freshman he was com- pelled to live in Cochran Hall, but finding it too noisey for real study he decided to exchange rooms with Barney Henderson, who lived at Prof. Roberts ' ; Dr. Cramblet for- bade it; Monty replied that he was no longer a freshman under the liv- ing regulations of the college, and besides, the college was not losing anything by the action; the boys went ahead with their plans; Monty received his pink slip February 11. This suspension will be on his life record for college entrance and em- ployment applications. That is war- rant enough for a suit of defamation of character. Why was it done? What right did Prexy have to do this, except on his perogative as Almighty President of Bethany? Let us suppose for a mom- ent that the administration had a legitimate excuse. We students do not know it; nothing has been ex- plained to us, (as it should be, since we are our brother ' s keeper on this campus) , thus the ill-feeling, con- tempt, and dissatisfaction bred by this action is running over the entire college. This is the type of willful exercise of authority that has alienated the students and the administration. The administration can, of course, con- tinue to keep silent, but we are de- manding an explanation, and, as a necessary majority of the college, we deserve one in every case concerning one of us. A Bethanian. CONCERNING BETHANY STUDENTS Dear Editor: Someone has asked why Bethany students are not awarded a greater voice in student government. He charges that the student body should have a more definite say in matters pertaining to all phases of student government, and claims that this same body has, by virtue of its char- acter, is capable of assuming more responsibility in self-government. The question is well-put, although not necessarily new. Others have asked the same. Some have acted. But still, student government lolls along in its usual and well-worn rut. I should like to present at least one man ' s opinion of why. Student government, in the great- er amount, is thought possible be- cause of the capability of the stu- dents, individually and collectively. I charge that the student body is not ready for self-government, that it is incapable of decision and irresponsi- ble for actions. Students here arc either too senile or too infantile for government. To make decisions and desired actions require vigor, in- itiative, industry, cooperation and wisdom, only a few of the virtues needed. If the student body, in the majority or minority, possess any of these requisites, then I have been and am, sadly mistaken. Whenever gov- ernment has been awarded, the stu- dents have demonstrated their inabil- ity to accept it. They ' re too lazy to work with it after receiving it. Laziness is a characteristic of both senility and infancy; however, seni- lity supposedly denotes some wisdom garnered over a long life. In the past, the student body has shown no evidence of wisdom or even of plain common sense. So, it could be in- ferred then that students are too in- fantile for self-government, a state- ment which is more obvious as time progresses. We ' re all pretty much in a lethargy and we care little about awakening. We ' re too blind to ex- traneous events and trends. We hang on to tradition and snobbishness and refuse to let any other thought enter our head. We are, mentally, spirit- ually, mundanely, immature. We ' re provincial and backward. And yet, we delude ourselves into believing we ' re sophicticated, intelUgent, cap- able, and responsible. We exist in our own tight circle, and pay no heed to events outside. Even the exigencies of national defense and the demands of total war have failed to snap us out of the nebulous macrocosm in which we dwell. That we ' re lacking in awareness can be shown by our lack of vital interest in extra-curricular activities as well as by the over- whelming number of these activities. Too many such activities are indica- tive of an infantile mind. Witness a child ' s conglomeration of toys. We ' re too content to allow some- one else to do our work and accept our responsibilities. Dear Editor: A few short months ago, an edi- torial appeared in the Bethanian which stated that Bethany has lost its traditional spizz, vim, vigor and vitality. The theme of the editorial seemed to be based upon an appeal to the men of Bethany to grab them- selves a date and do something. Yes, do something — but what? That is a sixty-five dollar question. Let us consider the prospects of what a young man can do in the way of en- tertainment for a prospective date. On Friday nights we have a show to attend; that is, you can go to the show if you haven ' t seen it three times before. Until a few weeks ago, we had Point Breeze at our disposal — today it is closed. On Saturday nights there may be an occasional dance or a thrilling evening of tid- delywinks to look forward to, — un- less your date has been campused by the A.W.S. Fifth Column. Of course the nature trails are always open, easily accessible at night by an intricate system of floodlights. Now, however, we have the Bethany House where we can fill ourselves with sugar-swill throughout the en- tire evening. If things come to the worst you can always entertain your date on a walk, — if you don ' t freeze to death. It isn ' t safe to make any statement because you never can be alone and the odds are two to one that you will be overheard. It runs in my mind that it ' s about time the students woke up. The ad- ministration is willing to do what the students want if they get the necessary backing. The trouble wich this student body is that they are al- ways looking for someone to agitate about a few things but when someone 1 akes the initiative they are perfect- ly willing to let him take the conse- quences. Why can ' t we have open fraternity houses every Saturday night if properly chaperoned? Why is it necessary when we have so few all-college dances to terminate our festivities at midnight? Why are people so afraid to break a few tradi- tions such as changing dances from Saturday night to Friday night? It ' s no wonder the fellows don ' t date. Fellows who have come from large cities or towns never had the prob- lem of what to do under Bethanian circumstances . . here they are afraid to date for fear of boring the girl to death for the lack of some- thing to do. Wake up, fellow Bethanians. You ' ve asked for this information to be printed for years now is your chance to do something about it. 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PAGE NINETEEN Social Survey (Continued from Page 6) appealing atmosphere in the bowhng alleys and pool rooms. Dode Myers: At least one big band at a semi-formal. Such an allowance should be included in the social bud- get. Also more good free movies in- stead of the lecture course which the students don ' t attend anyway. Ed. Harris: There isn ' t enough novelty in the social program. It ' s too trite, too confining. There should be more to do. Bill Dowler: There should be more dances, and activities during the week. Gene Keckley: It ' s a good school. Don Kramer: The fraternities ' social obligations are going to be cut drastically because of the boys ' leaving school. Bob Alexander: Open house at the fraternities on Sunday night. Later permission for the girls. The shows are over at ten twenty and the girls have to be in at ten thirty. I ' m a ' gin it. There should be more benches around the campus too. Betty Jones: More intercollegiate sports and interesting lectures, more activity groups sponsoring social affairs. Let ' s don ' t have teas! Rose Mary Fauldes: More outdoor parties and better movies would be an improvement. Eleanor Hikel: There seems to be the same group at all fimctions. Let ' s have more novelty dances like Flirtation Walks and Square dances. Unquote : Some proctors would sell their mothers up the river for twenty five cents an hour. Marilyn Gillespie: An hour later sign-out — especially for the big dances. The girls always stay up afterwards anyhow. Unquote : Not so much frater- nity feuding would help things out. The fellows are too fussy, too. All of them want queens, but some of them should take a look in the mir- ror sometimes themselves. A professor whom we forgot to ask permission to quote: There should be more of a recreational, rather than social program. Also, we should have more all-college and less individually sponsored affairs. Jeanne Goodwin: People are too narrow-minded. Everybody knows everyone else ' s business. Barney Henderson: There isn ' t enough of the rah rah spirit. Stu- dents should take more interest in activities. You can ' t put your finger on it, but there is a lack of spirit and not enough personal relationship. Fred Swearingin: The students must get used to the Bethany House until a new program can be devis- ed .. I would pay ten dollars more a semester for a better social pro- gram. There is a fifth column in the dorm which campuses the girls. If a girl can ' t handle herself by the time she gets in college, she has no business being here. Just what would happen if a group of girls refused a campus. ' There are too many misconstrued ideas about certain people in the dorms and in certain groups; too much of the girl and boy back home hangover. It doesn ' t work . . In an accelerated program, why jam your head to get it jammed off? Why not enjoy fellowship now? A summation of the ideas would be this: there are not enough college affairs; there should ' be a regular, in- expensive way of commuting be- tween here and Wellsburg; later sign- out hours would help; an increased study program will demand an in- creased recreational and social pro- gram; less wasted money on incon- sequential lecture courses and in- creased expenditures on things of student interest would be desirable; the student body should be allowed to have more voice in the decisions of the S.B.O.G. ' s Social Committee. Revised Bridge Rules for Bethany 1. Pick up your cards as dealt. You will be ready to bid before the rest. 2. If your hand is rotten, mention it. It will guide your partner. 3. If your partner bids first, don ' t hesitate to raise. He has to play it. 4. Never hurry. Try several cards on a trick until you are sure w ' hich one you prefer. 5. Occasionally ask what is Trump . It will show you are in- terested in the game. 6. When you are dummy help your partner vidth suggestions. 7. Talk about other subjects dur- ing the game. It makes for good fel- lo ' WS ' hip. 8. Feel free to criticize your part- ner, he will play better as a result. 9. Always trump your partner ' s trick, never take a chance. 10. Don ' t try to remember rtiles, they are too confusing. H. Always explain your plays, it shows your card knowledge 12. Disagree with established rules and conventions. People will know you are a person of independent mind. 13. Eat marshmallows or other adhesive candies, while playing, as it keeps the cards from skidding. FRATERNITY and SORORITY FASHION CENTER Cheers for Campus Clothes in STIFEL ' S Young Set Fashion Shop WHEELING, W. VA. Lighting Fixtures — Appliances Lamps — • Radios SANDS ELECTRIC CO. 52 Eighteenth Street Phone 146 WHEELING, W. VA. Headquarters for SMARTER COLLEGE WARDROBES West Virginia ' s Largest Department Store. MAIN STREET WHEELING, W. VA. PAGE TWENTY TICKETS and PROGRAMS FOR COLLEGE DANCES and ACTIVITIES Carnegie Union Printing Co. 243 E. Main Street- Carnegie, Pa. Phone 83 GEO. R. TAYLOR CO. WHEELING, W. VA. Fashions for Juniors Misses and Women Fine Printing — Our Specialty No order too small to Receive Our Careful Attention THE VALLEY PRESS Eighth Street Wellsburg Mrs. Gibson ' s COLLEGE INN Where the Students Go Lunches and Confections Phone 2442 Bethany, W. Va. S.B.O.G. Survey (Continued from Page 6) Jane Campbell: The Student Board isn ' t representative of the students because they don ' t use their heads in petitioning the faculty to get the most cooperation. June Crawford (member of the Board) : The student body doesn ' t express its requests to the Board. We know some of the students problems, but we can ' t be expected to know them all. Joe Hunger: The SBOG is too controlled. Judy Umbel: It ' s the biggest farce ever to hit Bethany. The open meet- ing clause and the rest of the rules should be publicized. John Weimer: The Student Board has lots of ideas and no action. Jane Williamson (member of the Board) : The SBOG doesn ' t do as much as it should. It could do more as a group to control activities in concern with the college. Buck Dunn: All I know is that there is one, and Suzy here has to go to the d meetings. Dick Colan: The Student Board is a bunch of stooges. Eleanor Waterhouse: Too much force seems to be held over the Board. Wally Mayor: The Board hasn ' t filled the need of the students. Eleanor Hinkle: The kids don ' t have enough to say in it. There are two distinct opinions of the Board question. The students hold that the Board is not operating in a manner that satisfies the great- The Student ' s Store L. S. GOOD CO. WHEELING, W. VA. est number of students. Many say it is of no value at ail, except as a source of another decoration, the pin which the Board presents to its senior members. The Board on the other hand lays most of the blame with the student body and accuses it of being a lazy, non-expressive, idealistic bunch who jumps at the slightest opportunity to tear apart whatever the Board has done. The truth is probably this: the Board seems to regard itself as a separate organization, apart from the students. To increase the effective- ness of the Board, it will be necessary to have more cooperation and coor- dination between the two groups. The student body should be informed by their social group members what the Board has done, should and can do. Its members are repre- sentative of the student body and therefore it does not function unless the students tell them what they want. The fraternities, sororities, and independent groups that have representatives on the Board must be the first to awaken to the fact that they must do more than clamor for action. They must initiate it. Then the Board should exercise whatever powers it can to bring about the realization of the desires of the majority of students. The first step is immediate cooperation and interest. If it is backed whole- heartedly, the Board will cease being called a tool and become the main- stay of Bethany ' s Student Govern- ment. This is an organ of Student Expression. LETTERS TO EDITOR DESIRED MADER SLEEP SHOP Home of the Best Mattresses Mader Built Innerspring THE OWL PRINT SHOP The best is none too good for you. Stationery Dance Programs MARKET ST. WHEELING West Virginia ' s Finest Fort Henry Meats Provided by WEIMER PACKING COMPANY WHEELING, W. VA. PAGE TWENTY-ONE always Milder and Better-Tasting always Cooler- Smoking... xh t what makes chesterfield the steady smoke of more smokers every day. You can count on Chesterfields to give you, day in and day out, more smoking pleasure than you ever had before ... 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When this young lady starts talk- ing airplanes— and what it takes to fly ' em— brother, you ' d listen, too . . . just like these students above. FLYING INSTRUCTOR peggy lennox says: ' ' this is the cigarette for me. EXTRAMILD. AHD there ' s something so cheering about camel ' s GRAND FLAVOR ' ' • Extra mild, says Peggy Lennox. Less nicotine in the smoke, adds the student, as they talk it over — over Camels in the pilot room above. Yes, there is less nicotine in the smoke of slower-burning Camels . . . extra mildness ... but that alone doesn ' t you why, with smokers in the service ... in private life, as well . . . Camels are preferred. No, there ' s something else. ..some- thing more. Call it flavor, call it plea- sure, call it what you will, you ' ll find it only in Camels. You ' ll like it! The smoke of slo ' er-burning Camels contains 28 LESS NICOTINE than the average of the 4 other largest-selling cigarettes tested— less than any of them— according to independent scientific tests oj the smoke itself I Yes, and with Instructor Peggj Lennox, it ' s strictly Camels, too. Mildness is a rule with nie, she explains. That means slo ' v ' er-burning Camels. There ' s less nicotine in the smoke. • BY BURNING 25 SLOWER than the average of the 4 other largest-selling brands tested — slower than any of them — Camels also give you a smoking plus equal, on the average, to EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK! R. .1. Reynolds Tobacco Company Winston- Salem. X. C. t BETHANIAN Volume 33 — Number 6 March, 1942 Published by the STUDENT BOARD OF PUBLICATIONS of BETHANY COLLEGE (S printable, you ' ll fitui it herd ORGANIZATION STUDENT BOARD OF PUBLICATIONS Jane Williamson, Chairman Anna Laurie Burke Gordon Seidel George Sitock EDITOR-IN-CHIEF George M. Northrup Betsy A. Plank Martin Reiter Ruth Schwartz Virginia Ferry ASSOCIATE EDITORS Florence Nichols EDITORIAL STAFF Yvonne Balster Speed Koval Martha Dardarian Betty Anne Reske CONTENTS Page FEATURES Ex Libris Who ' s Who in Bethany 6 Particles Ben Magdovitz BUSINESS MANAGER George Sitock BUSINESS ASSISTANTS James Barnes Tom Committee Nellie Mcllvain Marilyn Waugh Grace Benedict Everett Stewart CIRCULATION STAFF Mariah Smith, Manager Evelyn Baxter Jack Baumgartner Myron Grieper Kappa Delta 10 Newcomers to Faculty 12 A Horse-ing We Will Go 12 Forty Years Ago 13 Sports .15 Lambda of Alpha Kappa Pi 16 Remember Kukan 18 EDITORIAL 14 Bctfjatiian, a magazine of features and photographs, published each month from October through May by the Student Board of Publications of Bethany College. Entered as second class matter on January 14, 1920, at the Post Office at Bethany, W. Va., under the Act of March 1, 1879. Subscription price: Four dollars the year. Volume XXXIII, Number 6 PAGE THREE Mr. Hugh Behymer Head Librarian Thomas Carlyle once said, The true uni- versity is a collection of books, and to this the library organization of Bethany College re- sponds with a hearty Amen! According to E. Hugh Behymer, Librarian, the library should be the center of student life, and is not only a collection of books, but also a pledge of service. It is the job of the library organization to make college studies meaningful through the assist- ance of an efficient, well-trained staff, eager to help the student in as many ways as it can. This is the sort of a staff that has been built up at Bethany this year, and this is why student and faculty members have been able to use the library to greater advantage than ever before. At the head of the organization is Mr. Behymer, who is determined to make the library a dynamic part of the student life, and who is well equipped for the task. He has his A.B. degree in English from Indiana University, his A.B.L.S. from the University of Michigan, and his M.A. degree from the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago, where his work was largely in library administration. Before coming to Bethany he was Research Bibliographer and Business Manager of the Lib- rary of the University of Alabama. He came to Bethany in the fall of 1941, and with all the zeal of a reformer, went to work to make his exper- ience a real asset to the students of the college. Miss Betty L. Bellinger, who has her A.B. de- gree from the University of Akron, and her A.B.L.S. from Western Reserve, is the assistant librarian. She has come to Bethany after four years experience as the Assistant Librarian at Kent State. Miss Bellinger is in charge of cata- loging and classification. Her previous experi- ence in college library work and her under- EX LIBRIS The Old Order Changeth Yielding Place to New. By Ruth Schwartz standing of student problems have made her a welcome addition to the library staff. In addition to the two professional librarians, there are twenty-six students who work in the library. They are divided into several groups; some help administer the circulation depart- ment, others in the office, and others supervise the Periodical Room. Miss Mary Helen Reed, a sophomore honor student is special student assistant to Mr. Behymer. The Bethany College Library has a collection of approximately 3 5,000 books. It subscribes to 150 scholarly journals and six newspapers. With these materials, and with the amount of circulation, reference, and general activity which a college library constantly has, it is ob- vious that organization is the most important single factor in the administration of such an institution. During the last semester, a suc- cessful attempt has been made to consolidate the various materials into three sections, reference, circulation, and periodicals. The basement floor of the library contains the entire collection of standard references, a few stacks, a reading room, and the offices of Mr. Behymer and Miss Bellinger, which are lo- cated at either side of the lower entrance. Stu- dents coming in through this door are always sure of a smile or a nod from one of the two offices, which helps them realize that the lib- rary staff is eager to cooperate in making their study as easy and interesting as possible. Into these two offices, last semester, came approxi- mately one thousand new books to be cataloged, classified, and placed on the shelves for the use of the students. This is evidence of the active book-buying program upon which the library has entered in an attempt to modernize the col- PAGE FOUR lection. The emphasis this year is upon newly published books. On the second floor of the library is the cir- culation department, a composite organization consisting of stacks, reserve shelves, checking desk, and rental collection. The latter item is a recent innovation, established with the purpose of providing, for student leisure time reading, books that the library could not otherwise afford. Books for this shelf are prmiarily best sellers in fiction and non-fiction. A charge of ten cents for four days is made for their circu- lation. When a book has paid for itself, it is put on the regular free shelves, and a new volume is purchased for the rental library. Students have already shown a real interest in this new addition and it is likely that it will become one of the most successful minor enterprises that the library has undertaken. Through the hands of the regular circulation department of the library pass books on all subjects from 100 (Philosophy) to 900 (His- tory). During the first semester of this year, 13,3 86 books, or about thirty-three books per student were circulated. In the past, it has been the practice of Beth- any librarians to classify biography as a separate section, coming after the histories. This prac- tice has seemed smgularly pointless in view of the fact that much biography has little signifi- cance apart from the field with which it is con- nected. This is one reason why Mr. Behymer has proposed a re-cataloging and re-classifica- tion program which will serve to make the ord- er of the books in the stacks more logical and more comprehensive. Books on one subject will all be put together, along with books on kmdred subjects. Students looking for mater- ial in the stacks will be able to find all that there is on any one subject in one place. In cases where the library is not able to pro- vide all the books needed by any student a sys- tem of inter-library borrowing has been established. Students have discovered, to their joy, that they are no longer kept from writing on any particular topic because there is a dearth of books on the subject. The libraries of sev- eral large universities have now been opened to them. In the circulation department also another innovation is to be seen. Instead of sending postal cards several days afterward to those who have overdue books, as in the old system, a list of people who have books due on that par- ticular day is posted each morning on the col- lege bulletin boards. There are two advantages to this system. Students are notified on the day they are due that books must be returned, and thus avoid fines. In addition the library saves through not having to send out individual notices. Miss Betty L. Bellinger Assistant Librarian I - On the top floor of the lib- rary is the per- iodical room, where arc ar- ranged all the periodicals that have come into the library, both current and back issues. (Here also are placed the Reader ' s Guides t o Periodical Literature i n order that re- ferences may be found more quickly.) The more recent is- sues of the mag- azines are on shelves around the room, easily accessible to everyone. If, however, the stu- dent wishes to use magazines which are older than those on the open shelves, he must apply to the attenda nt at the desk, who will find what he wishes in the magazine stacks. This system is simplier and easier than the old way of individual groping, and, in addition, it is possi- ble to keep the stacks in order with less trouble. There are several organizations which are in- tegrally connected with the library. First, the newly organized Reader ' s Club is a library-fos- tered attempt to stimulate more reading- for- fun among the students. On the first and third Tuesday of each month students gather to discuss the books they have been reading. The club prefers that such reading have nothing to do directly with any course, although much of it will naturally help make background for a well rounded education. It has no formal organi- zation and in many ways resembles the coffee- house societies of the eighteenth century. It is expected that the new Rental Library will furnish a great deal of the subject matter of this group. A more formal activity centers around the library science studies. At present, there is only one course in this field offered by the college, a three hour, two semester course covering a study of reference work, classification, cataloging, book selection, and library economy. It is open only to freshmen, sophomores, and jun- iors since it is intended primarily as a prepara- tion for work in the college library. The lib- rary department has felt the need for training students who are interested in library work in a more comprehensive pre-library course. This course will cut across departmental lines, allow- ing students to take work in each department, (Continued on Page 20) PAGE FIVE WHO ' S WHO IN BETHANY COLLEGE Anna Olafsdottir Victor Cardenas Anna Olafsdottir, Bethany ' s exchange stu- dent from Reykjovik, Iceland, came to Ameri- ca, because the war prevented her going to Europe to stud} ' , as students in the past have done. The story she likes most to tell is about the time she went shopping by herself for the first time in America, and had one of the typical gum-chewing clerks who babbled on and on, and insisted that she would look perfectly won- derful in a certain dress, and then insisted that she buy it. All this was very confusing to Anna who had simply been used to going into a store and selecting a dress and, even then, not being urged by the clerk to buy it. The clerk at first mistook Anna for a German, since all accents nowadays are traced to that source. However, when she heard Anna was from Ice- land, the clerk was very sympathetic, and asked if her country had been torn up much by the war going on there. Her one aim is to try to inform those about her a little more about Ice- land and to help straighten out a few mistaken ideas about it. Anna plans to become a high school teacher. Late in the month of July, a boat from South America to North America pulled out of har- bor, leaving behind one passenger, who fortun- ately made a later one. Still missing boats, he is a student at Bethany College — Victor Cardenas. Victor is the fellow who has made famous the phrase, No Comprendo , and who has man- aged to make the entire campus very Spanish- conscious . Victor is very interested in aviation, and at one time he was a pilot in Las Palmas, which is near his home in Miraflores, Peru. For that reason he is taking a pre-engineering course at present, and later plans to go into aeronautical engineering. After studying several years in the United States, he plans to return to Peru. At first when I came here, I could not und- erstand the people of the United States, and their customs, but now I understand them, and I like their customs and ways of thinking, Victor remarked. He likes the frank manner in which friends of the United States exchange criticisms with each other and their promptness in keeping appointments. Bethany ' s friendliness especially impressed him. PAGE SIX FOREIGN STUDENTS Jorge Jaramillo Carlos Jaramillo With thumb stretched, hitch-hiking a ride, Jorge Jaramillo, or Coco , made a typi- cally North American entrance into Bethany. Coco is from Miraflores, Peru, where he first started studying to become an aeronautical engineer. He was in a naval school for two years, where he gained several medals for his outstanding participation in sports. He was also president of a sport club in that school, participating in soccer, swimming and tennis. Coco spent the summer of last year in Balti- more learning the language and customs of the norteamericanos. He likes jitterbugging, but still prefers the LaConga. He would like, some time, to make a Conga Chain at one of the dances, and really do it the South American Way. From the various descriptions that he heard and read in Peru, Coco had expected New York to be much greater than it was, but of Bethany he said, Carlos told me some things about Bethany. I thought of it then as I do now — an old school with very old traditions and cus- toms. Of North American schools in general, he said, The schools in North America are very good ones because they have very good methods of study. The only thing is that in South America we study more in fewer years. It is an amazing country , was Carlos Jara- millo ' s comment about the United States after spending over a year in this country. Carlos came to Bethany from Miraflores, Peru, a year ago to study medicine, and since that time, he has learned much about this country and changed many of his ideas. He found that the United States was not as materialistic as most people believed it to be. Carlos was rather surprised that we norteamericanos had on interest in South America at all, and that we realized it existed. Last summer he attended a summer convention in Delaware, where he had an opportunity to become more acquainted with the boys of America and the way they think. At this convention the main topic of discussion was America and the world After the War . I was amazed that the boys thought of it in such an altruistic way, Carlos remarked. On the subject of dancing, Carlos related that he was interested in learning to jitterbug, so that he can show it to his South American friends when he returns home. He said that people in South America like jitterbugging very much and try to imitate it as well as they can, but that it doesn ' t compare with the way it is done in the United States. Carlos, himself, is very adept at the Tango. PAGE SEVEN PARTICLES FROM SIDE GLANCES The Campus Orchestra Br — oo — f!! Boom!! Carl Geenan ' s gloved hands beat the strings of the bass fiddle and Jim McPherson gives a ie-w experimental taps on the drums as the latest local noisemaker the campus orchestra, warms up be- fore practice. It all began when Paul Lanham, gifted impressario on the slide trom- bone got together a few kindred spirits and organized them into an orchestra to play for fun and profit at local dances. At first they met nothing but difficulty, especially in the little matter of something to play. The music which the college Student Social Committee had prom- ised was not forthcoming, and the boys found themselves left with some good players, a few prospective en- gagements, and nothing to play. Prospects were about as bright as the bottom of a coal mine at midnight. Then it was that the Phi Mus came to the rescue with an offer of an engagement in one hand and a roll of music in the other. By buymg their music for them and engaging them to play for the Sweetheart Dance in February, the Phi Mu sorority gave the boys their first real push toward success. Since this first engagement, the boys have played for the Pan-Hellenic Tea Dance, and for the Alpha Xi pledge dance, winning many followers with their varied style and smooth ar- rangements. The boys hit their second real snag when Monty Stratton, star drummer of the group, left school just as they were all learning to play well together. Jim McPherson had to be shifted hurriedly from the post of vocalist to that of drummer, where he is now very ably filling Stratton ' s vacant place. The boys who now make up the orchestra are Francis Fisher, Bob Wright, and Harry Murphy, who comprise the sweet sax section, Joe LaBarre, who gives out with the hot licks on the trumpet, Paul Lanham, on the slide trombone, Carl Geenan and Jim McPherson, pounding the bass fiddle and drums respectively and James Sembower tickling the ivories (They play without a leader) . The boys report excellent pros- pects for the future, and add that any and all good trumpet players will be gratefully received. As Written by Carlos Due to the fact that Lima, my birth place, is the capital and princi- pal city of Peru, there exists there an excellent opportunity to know people from numerous places on the globe. Although Lima is only slight- ly larger than Pittsburgh, it is as cos- mopolitan as San Francisco, New York, or Washington. My home is in Miraflores, a suburb of Lima where a large number of French, English, Swiss, Germans, Chinese, and North Americans reside. These people are predominantly business men, engineers, doctors, and diplo- mats. As a student in San Marcos, I was acquainted with several North American students recently arrived in my country. All of them played bridge very enthusiastically. We often wondered how they could stand to play such a game for hours at a time, but we soon discovered that these good neighbors were as much perplexed by our custom of spending hours at a game of chess. We were even! The VII Conferencia Pan Ameri- cana gave the people of Lima an op- portunity to meet the special repre- sentatives of the Americas and to listen to their opinions about the fu- ture of the continent. During this conference! had a very interesting ex- perience which increased my sympa- thy toward the people of the United States. This happened two days after Christmas of 193 8. I was attending a meeting in honor of Mr. Cordell Hull, the North American represen- tative. The meeting was to begin at seven p. m. (It began on time!) The chairman of the reception commit- tee, elegantly dressed in a formal af- ternoon suit, announced Mr. Cordell Hull. The applause was deafening. Mr. Hull entered the reception room as a student would have entered a classroom. He was carrying his hat in his left hand. The chairman ap- proached him attentively and ex- tended his hand to receive Mr. Hull ' s hat, but Mr. Hull simply shook his hand and addressed him as if to say, Don ' t bother. Then he placed his hat under his chair and put his folded newspaper on it, and without further ceremony sat down. Such simplicity in one of such a per- sonality! The attitude of the U.S. delegates gave a far more favorable impression to the Peruvian observer than does that of the North American tourist, who is rather too informal. The spirit in Peru today is to limit the old-fashioned ceremonial form- ality. I thus expected formal dances to have no place in the United States but shortly after my arrival in Beth- any I found out that here, also, I would have the pleasure of many formal fiestas. Well, the opportunity came, and, once there in Phillips Hall, the girls being dressed in beau- tiful colors and the boys wearing tuxedos only seemed to add to the sparkle of the informal jitterbug- ging . Yes, sir, I said, now I am in the U.S.A. It amused me the way you can have a very inexpensive date at last in Bethany. That is to say, What kind of Coke do you like? Also, it is interesting that the North Amer- ican students in Lima are known to be very much in favor of whiskey and hard drinks, and it seemed more evident in the girls than in the boys. Here I learned that this is not true. However, what I like the best about North American people is that they are good sports Co-ed Dinner Co-ed dinner tonight? Oh darn, that means ' heels ' ! This was the general greeting to that announce- ment by most of the girls in the dorm. But on the evening of Febru- ary 18 we girls reluctantly discarded our flats for an hour and a half, and made lady-like appearances at Phillips Hall or the Bethany House, precisely on time for a change. Phillips hall glowed with the school spirit — in so far as the color scheme was concerned. Green and white predominated — even the par- sley and potatoes echoed Old Beth- any. The green and white candles reminded us of the Christmas party — and, again, we were crowded so closely together around the tables that it was hard to tell whether you were eating your own salad or the one belonging to the person two seats down. Despite this cozy arrangement, the atmosphere was rather quiet and strained — the merry babble of fe- male voices dispensing the latest dirt about how so and so had told such and such just what she thought of him, and what happened then, was conspicuously absent. Bill White, as master of ceremonies, tried in vain to inject a livelier note into the gathering, with numerous appeals for a little more enthusiasm. Frances Fisher and his saxaphone pepped things up a little, however, and by the time we got around to Old MacDonald Had a Farm , everyone seemed to be having a good time. Janice Cooper ' s tap perform- ance was downright smooth and Irv Classman ' s whistling of Stardust was a real treat, despite a little diffi- PAGE EIGHT OF BETHANY CAMPUS culty with the mike. Roy Heckle and Mrs. Rcwseveit and her dis- cussion on how to bake a cake dur- ing an air-raid were really the stars of the evening. With a little imagi- nation, one could almost believe that our First Lady was with us. Ethel Hanes, Phyllis Balch, and Le- nore Neil made a charming trio and their rendition of Ghost of a Chance should give the Andrews Sisters something to worr) ' about. An important announcement was made which should appeal to all you would-be song-writers. Bethany needs a pep song and it ' s up to you to give her one. It must be original — the tune, as well as the words, must be your own or your collaborator ' s. The person who composes the best, the most rousing song by the tenth of April will receive ten dollars. And there ' s five dollars for the run- ner-up. So, if all you Irving Beriins get your sharps and flats in work- ing order, Bethany should end the year with a badly-needed pep song. The winners will be announced at an all-college dance to be held on April 25. The Alma Mater ended an even- ing which had added a little variety to an otherwise routine week. Why don ' t we do it more often? Omicron Mil Phi Let Us, the Students, Speak! On Sunday evening, February 22, at 7 o ' clock, the first of a series of student discussion panels was held in the drawing room of Phillips Hall. In an effort to enliven Sun- day evenings and, at the same time, to provide a means for the expres- sion of campus opinion. Dr. Reynard and Robert Smudski headed a com- mittee which drew up plans for the panels. The first meeting was attended by about 100 students who carried on a lively discussion on the subject Why Bethany Boys Don ' t Date. A short devotion service preceded the panel; Coco, one of the students from Peru, led the group with a prayer in Spanish, and Jeanne Good- win contributed a song. Bob Smud- ski acted as chairman, and the fel- lows and girls kept him on his toes the whole hour and a half with a steady torrent of theories about the poor boys who don ' t find their waya to the doorsteps of the girls ' dormi- tories often enough.  Conspicuous by their absence were those who were the guilty parties. Apparently they were the ones con- cerned, but not enough concerned to show themselves. No doubt the problem is a serious one, for it con- cerns relief from a week of studying for those who study and for those who don ' t study it would provide a good excuse. It might be well to bring this problem into the limelight in order to awaken the sleeping knights to the charms of the num- erous princesses around about them. The problem having been brought into some focus or other, the rest is up to the people involved. This meeting produced something of an attempt to organize the stu- dents into groups other than just frats and non-frats in the selection by the students themselves of a committee to appear before the S.B. O.G. with various ideas for the im- provement of Bethany social life, with special reference to Sundays. Poets, Lunatics, or — 7 I ' ll swear I ' ve the only unburn- able log in captivity, groaned the dishevelled Mr. Hyde, from an in- verted position on the hearth, where he frantically fanned the faintly glowing log with which, for three consecutive weeks, he had been at- tempting to provide a homelike at- mosphere for the Writer ' s Club. It was all to no avail, however, the log, albeit grov ' ing a bit thin in the mid- dle, proved the better man, and all the combined efforts of the assem- bled throng couldn ' t make it burn. Finally, having worn out the latest issue of Time , Mr. Hyde gave up the ghost and permitted the fire to do the same. Putting a record on the phonograph to silence the rabble, he vanished into the inner sanctum. Friends, Romans, countrymen — shouted Dr. Jekyll a few minutes later, in a valiant attempt to call the meeting to order. But the populace paused in its discussion of the rela- tive merits of Shakespeare and Walt Disney only long enough to cast a unanimously condescending glance of disapproval at the worthy doctor. Never a particularly forward per- son, he retired in confusion to the corner until an almost noticeable lull in the conversation gave him another opportunity to make himsellf heard. This time he attempted subtlety. After all, he insinuated, this is a Writer ' s Club, and don ' t you think — ? They didn ' t of course, but, like most people, wouldn ' t admit it. So, more to convince one another that they did than anything else, they greeted the Doctor ' s unortho- do. proposal with huzzas of appro- bation. Has anyone written anything? he ventured, tentatively. For once not a creature was stirring, not even our Rudi. With becoming modesty each of the five assembled scribes popped finger into mouth and gazed shyly at the floor. Des- perately, the poor doctor moaned, Hasn ' t anybody — ? Then his eyes brightened and life seemed once more worth living, for hidden prom- inently in Harold ' s lap he spied a note book. Having looked, Dr. Jekyll was not the man to refuse to leap. By sheer force of superior will, he compelled the bashful author to read his poem to the waiting vul- tures. But what does it mean? one of the dimmer wits inquired, plaintive- ly. Immediately arose a hectic argu- ment. Should a writer know what he says, or say what he knows, or both, or neither? The battle raged for hours. When peace was declared, the treaty included the doctine that if he could, it would be nice. The peace celebration precluded any other activity for the time be- ing, and would probably have con- tinued indefinitely had one indefati- gable genius not been blessed with more perserverance and stronger lungs than the rest. It seems she wanted to read a poem. The hush that fell was chiefly distinguished by its absence. There would un- doubtedly have been more silence had everyone not been requesting it at the top of his lungs. Finally, however, our aspiring (and perspiring) young poet — Rudi in case you are interested — managed to interpolate among entirely irrele- vant gigles and groans the following ditty: DROWSY PROCTOR A long brown hum is all she hears As she nods upon her bench. A pencil dropping from her hand half-clenched Makes a small smash Echoing along corridors. She sleeps. From a clock-tower far away, Eleven golden beats descend; She stirs, awakens, murmurs low — Quiet hour — please! Criticism of such a masterpiece being patently impossible and vain, there fell the long looked for silence — maybe because, by this time, Dr. Jekyll, driven to desperate measures, was feeding the five thousand with tea and cake. Due to National De- fense it was necessary to (Continued on Page 19) PAGE NINE Hilda Server Picsidcnf Ardatli Willoscliat Vice I ' rcsiJciif June Craw-ford Treasurer Phyllis Skilton Secretary KAPPA DELTA To some Bethany people our sorority is what the K.D. bridge was named after. To the Bethanian staff we are two pages in the March issue. At the present time faculty members should be thinking of Kappa Delta ' s in terms of potential geniuses. Perhaps more important is what Kappa Delta means to the K.D ' s. It is more than just another secret fraternity; it is a way of life. To every loyal K.D., Kappa Delta is an ideal of truth, honor, and duty whose standards will not be lowered to suit the individual; the individual must raise her standards to fit the ideal. We sisters in Kappa Delta realize that we are given a privilege; the privilege of carrying out in our own lives the ideals of our sorority and of shar- ing the friendships of Kappa Delta here in Bethany and all over the nation. To the nation. Kappa Delta is an organiza- tion of young women who are pledged to the service of America and the democratic way of life. As a part of the American fraternity system, Kappa Delta strives to preserve the fundamental freedoms of our heritage. Found- ed upon the Christian ideal. Kappa Delta has dedicated herself to sacrifice and service. The members of Sigma Xi Chapter of Kappa Delta strive to attain the standards of excel- lence desired of all Bethany College students. At the present time we hold title to the Anna Ruth Bourne scholarship cup awarded to the sorority or Independent women ' s group with the highest scholastic average. The K. D. Korkers came to the fore as winners of the re- cent Intra-mural Volleyball Tournament and are showing promise in the present Basketball Tournament. Kappa Delta encourages its members to take part in extra-curricular activ- ities. At Bethany there are K.D. ' s active in Y. W.C.A. social work, musical organi zations, A. W.S., dramatics and the various other clubs and activities offered by the college. The social functions of Sigma Xi are carried on for the sole purpose of getting the utmost enjoyment out of college life. Kappa Delta is an organiza- tion of typical American college girls; loyal to their country, loyal to their college, and loyal to their sorority. — Members — — Seniors — Frances Dvorak Janice Evans Pauline Babicz Virginia Downes Marjorie Hanes Betty Luc Hood Irene Jassen Lee Fiess Dorothy Ellen Green Frances Johnson Jean Jordan Ruth Long Phyllis Skilton — Juniors — Ardath Willoschat — Sophomores — Ruth Moser Hilda Sarver June Crawford Evelyn Jones Ann Michael Gertrude Schmeichel Frances Thomas -Freshmen — Patricia Mohler Jean Morse Dorothy Rensch Betty Ann Reske Jeanne Shervington Nancy Tomasek PAGE TEN Miss Citliiirini: Binder MODERN LANGUAGES A newcomer to our faculty is Miss Catharine Binder, of the Modern Language department. Miss Binder is from the Quaker City, and comes to us from the National University of Mexico, where she has been studying Spanish. Ever since she received her B.A. degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1937, languages have been all-impor- tant to her. She earned her M.A. degree in French at Pennsylvania State College and indulged in further study in both French and Spanish at the Linguistic Institute of the University of Michigan. At present, Miss Binder, who is a member of the Phi Sigma Iota honor sorority, is working for her Ph.D. in both French and Spanish at the University of Pennsylvania. Next to her languages and her favorite sports, travel- ing appeals most to Miss Binder. Many of her vacations have been spent in French Canada, where she was able to study the true French language. In 1940 Miss Binder taught French at Girard College in Philadelphia. As a member of the staff of Les Chalets Francais, a French camp for girls on Deer Isle, Maine, she combined her work with pleasure. There she taught French, swimming, archery, and life-saving. Here at Bethany, Miss Binder, who is replacing Miss Key, is in charge of the Spanish Department and teaches lower division French. A Horse-ing We Will Go Comes spring, and the Bethanian ' s fancy light- ly turns to thoughts of the great outdoors and the sports thereof — among other things. Students pour out of every corner of Bethany, equipped with tennis racquets, rifles, bows and arrows, and sundry other deadly weapons. Some even go so far as to break through the ice in the Buffalo! But apart from this happy scene, anxiously waiting for the slightest sign of a boot or saddle, stand Bethany ' s noble steeds, wondering why nobody loves them. Though they ' re ready, willing, and quite able to canter over the newly made trails at the least provocation, no one gives them a chance. Shades of Gene Aut rey, . ' hat ' s the trouble? Can it be that the days of cowboys and Indians are over? Doesn ' t spring bring out the broncho-buster in you? I know, you ' re going to say that you ' d like to ride, really, but there ' s no place where the traffic isn ' t heavy, like Castleman ' s Run or the Nature Trail. WcW, it ain ' t so any more. Don ' t be alarmed, they aren ' t closing the Dr. Kenneth L. Bean PSYCHOLOGY This is the Bethanian ' s formal welcome to a new and interesting personality on our campus. Dr. Kenneth L. Bean, of the Psychology department. A native of the deep South, Dr. Bean has spent most of his life in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and it was at Louisiana State University that he received his Bachelor degree in music in June, 19.32, and his master degree in 1933. He spent one sum- mer at the Chicago Music School and three years at the University of Michigan. He then returned to Louisiana and received his doctor ' s degree in 193 8. Music and clinical psychology are Dr. B.an ' s chief interests. In fact, he had originally intended that music should be his life ' s work, radio performances appealing to hina particularly, but, finding this field rather narrow and unprofitable, he decided to follow his father ' s foot- steps and turned to psychology. He has not, however, given up his music entirely. He still plays the violin for his own enjoyment and occasionally appears at recitals. Music has also played an important part in his clini- cal work, his research having been concerned particularlj ' with the musical talents of the Southern negroes, into which he has delved deeply and discovered many things of great interest. He has also written numerous articles which have appeared in various psychology magazines and which have met with great success. He is the author of Practical Psychology for Musicians , a book written primarily for music teachers, and which, although not yet published, has great prospects. Bethany is the second college in which Dr. Bean has taught. Last year, he was professor of psychology at Marshall College in Huntington, West Virginia, and be- fore that worked as a clinical adviser in a guidance center in New Orleans. Nature Trail to pedestrains, something new has been add- ed, and within bounds, too. Last spring the school got out its little pick and shovel and made plenty of swell, new trails, for the mutual benefit of riders and track team. Result to date: no riders have disturbed the track team. Next comes excuse number two, I ' d like to ride, but those horses are absolutely no good! I grant that not all of our steeds are of blue ribbon caliber, but then neither are the riders. Before you blame the poor nag for bad behavior, consider, for a moment, the horse ' s point of view. He has been trained to respond in certain ways to particular signals, which it is well to know. (See Miss (Continued on Page 14) PAGE TWELVE Forty Years - Ago - By Mary C. M. Barclay Though all the people who knew the be- ginnings of Bethan} ' have now passed away, a new arrival forty years ago was just in time to absorb the atmosphere and hear the echoes from that past. Many in whose youth the College was started were still here. The buildings were little changed amid their old-time surround- ings. It was the first year of the reign of Presi- dent T. E. Cramblet, who began the work of modernization in many forms. In the spring of 1902 a walk up Logan ' s Hollow was a veritable visit to Fairy land. Virgin woods still covered the hill-sides. At the upper end grew a lofty veteran tulip-tree, three feet or more in diameter, the butt of many jests. Every kind of wild flower flour- ished and beds of five-fingered fern hid in the undergrowth. Then too, the Lone Grave was still a land- mark. Its legend varies somewhat. In the long- ago the hill-top South-East of Bethany was covered with woods. A young girl and her lover were in the habit of walking up there. After he went away the spot remained a favor- ite with her. She used to go there to read and reflect. Opinion is divided as to whether the fatal illness that laid her low was heartbreak or typhoid. When death became imminent she asked that she might be buried at that beloved spot. Her wish was fulfilled. A wide upright headstone with inscription marked her resting place. This became a goal for the walks of other couples, being a pleasant upland ramble with a fair wide view. As early as 1871 a young grand-daughter of Bishop Campbell from Point Breeze was asked to take for a walk a shy young man from Aus- tralia who had come to visit Bethany — already of world-wide fame. He was staying at the Mansion and they set forth for the Lone Grave. The path lay over a worn fence. This picture- sque but extravagant barrier, built of stacks of poles some twelve feet long, crossed as you would lace your fingers, zig-zagging over the landscape, was still a feature of these fields forty years ago. Not so hard to climb as a woven or barbed-wire fence, they still took some agility in that day of ample skirts — and escorts offered aid! Many years later the shy young man testified that on one side of the fence he was fancy-free, on the other he had lost his heart — caught by a pair of dancing hazel eyes, lovely curving lips and two thick braids of soft brown hair. He went back to his native land but failed to recover in five years, so returned to Bethany and actually persuaded the young lady to go with him across the world. In after years the hill-top was cleared and the Lone Grave Field cultivated. Later still a dwelling was built at the lower end — but the grave al- ways kept intact. So the spirit of modernity of that Fraternity which obliterated the Grave and made away with the headstone seems more mistaken than enlightened! Commencement Week deserved the name in 1902, for it lasted from the solemnity of Bac- calaureate Sunday in the Old Church, through many banquets, special meetings and socials (but no dances) to the grand finale of Com- mencement Day on Thursday, June 18th. Even the Trustees found tinie to spend several days in Bethany, attending their own important meeting, the Alumnae Banquet and the Com- mencement Exercises. Among the Trustees of that more simple, leisurely time the most pic- turesque memory is State Senator Oliver S. Marshall of New Cumberland, a genial soul with his leonine head, long snowy hair falling to his shoulders, white moustache and blue eyes. He is the only Trustee of that time, ex- cept President Cramblet, represented now in the second generation by his son John, who graduated in 1902. The young stranger from afar was invited to sit beside the oldest alumnus at the Alumnae Banquet. He was very vener- able but lively and entertaining with tales of his own student days when the college itself was very young. He spoke of the first President, Alexander Campbell, as wearing a tall hat and long tail coat for every day attire! The girls were quartered in a nucleus of the present Phillips Hall but, with no men ' s dorm- itory, students lodged all over town, boarding here and there. At Commencement the whole of Bethany took part in the celebration. Guests were everywhere. Commencement Day, 1902, was filled with golden sunshine. The ceremony was held in the full-height, stately Commencement Hall with its beautiful stained-glass windows. The sweet girl graduates wore filmy, frilly, lace- trimmed white frocks beneath their academic gowns and pompadours under their mortar- boards. The visiting orator of the day shared honours with the graduating students: the class Salutatorian, the class Historian, the class pro- phet, and, last, the Valedictorian — most distin- guished student of the year. This was practi- cal democracy! (Continued on Next Page) PAGE THIRTEEN Forty Years Ago The Heights, Point Breeze, Villa Flora, the old Bethany Mansion, each set a groaning board for dinner on Commencement Day. It was a charming, gracious social occasion with no sign of haste. During the afternoon the tide ebbed — everyone went away and Bethany lapsed into peaceful summer somnolence. That summer oil was struck in a well at the foot of Buchanan ' s Hill. Thus Progress ap- proached Bethany, though in the Fall visible change had not yet touched the College build- ings. The class-rooms were heated with frost- killer stoves, lighted by oil lamps. The walls were adorned with paper, one a bold lattice de- sign, another large posies in serried ranks — each in sober brown but compelling the eye. The janitor, Archie Mercer, rang the bell half an hour before the eight o ' clock chapel and at the end of each period. Chapel was compulsory, conducted by a different member of the Facul- ty each week. In the early Fall mornings, and at other spare times, wide lines of students would march singing along the corridor. Their fresh young voices carried far across the hills and sounded very sweet. This custom continued into the second decade of this century and its ceasing is lamented. The Opening Social of 1902 had an unusual feature — possibly an experiment. The students gathered in the College Chape l — the big hall under the tower, and were marshalled in pairs around the outer edge of the room. Then a parade was started, the couples with mutual in- troductions making conversation. After a few minutes the parade was halted and each man moved forward one place to a fresh part- ner. After oA er half an hour of this, each stu- dent had made the acquaintance of a number of people. A vignette of memory is finding my- self with a dark-eyed student named Gordon from India as partner and being haunted by the couplet They marched the animals two by two. The elephant and the kangaroo. An important feature of Bethany College in those days was the literary societies, the Neo- trophian and the American. One feels their discontinuance is a real loss. Men learned the rules of debate and parliamentary procedure. The meetings were really good entertainment. The discussions calle d forth quick thinking, wit and clarity of expression, while prepared orations sometimes developed real eloquence. It was good training for all who need to be able to speak on their feet. Bethany began in the old world, and is pass- ing into the new. Let us hope it will combine the best of the old with the best of the new, carrying both forward to a yet better future. A Horse-ing We Will Go (Continued from Page 12) Clark for further details.) A common species of rider, ignoring ail this, clambers up, using the horse ' s mane for support, pulls the reins violently, kicks with fiendish glee from all possible angles, while yelling Hi ho Silver for the benefit of someone in Phillips Hall. The horse is ex- pected to be sufficiently psychic to understand that all this is a signal to start, stop, or jump the nearest fence. What can the poor beast do? (And if he does it, you de- serve it!) Now, ) ' our ego and pet excuses having been shattered, your resistance, gentle reader, should be cracking. At i this point you should be pulling on your boots, while I visions of the Lone Ranger swim before your eyes to the . tune of the Light Cavalry Overture. So before the mood j leaves you, cross the Bursar ' s palm with the necessary silver, inform Miss Clark of your plans, and you ' re off 1 for the wide open spaces. Come on, Buck and Betty Bethan) ' , hit the trail! Lily Pendleton i EDITORIAL There has been quite a flood of campus opinions ' coming to the battlefront of late weeks which deserves i some comment other than nasty remarks. In the first ' place, the student panel discussions, which are a channel ' for expressing these opinions, were not organized as a I gripe or nasty remark session; but rather as a Sunday eve- | ning activity which would develop ideas, student discus- 1 sion, student cooperation and action, etc. The etcetera certainly did not include anything that would lead to a i virtual state of war between the administration and the ; student body. 1 Democratic discussions arc the life of democracy, which ■ most of us will agree is a fairly feasible means of govern- ' ment. Therefore, in the second place, the student panels . should be given a fair chance to express public or demo- ■ cratic campus opinion. Lastly, these meetings were de- ; signed for each and every person interested to attend. From the first meeting grew the sentiment which has i come to be something other than what it was intended to ' be by the intelligent leaders. It seems that people cannot ' discuss problems without becoming excited and tempera- ' mental. That may be the way to excite the masses to ' action elsewhere, but not in an educational institution. Since the presentation of this Sunday problem to the : S.B.O.G. a blight has existed over the student action as a . whole. That which had its origin nobly, was deviated in ' Its embryology and now exists as a collected attempt to ■ blame all sorts of naughty things on bodies and organiza- ; tions that should be attributed to their rightful ancestor, ; the human personality. By this human personality is ! meant your thoughts, words and actions after experience : and meditation. Your choice of a college, S.B.O.G. mem- bers, friends, actions during exams, and all the things you (or we) are now kicking about were brought by us not them. At times when listening in at some session dealing with , the terrible social and S.B.O.G. conditions, not to mention j other subjects, I am made to feel that I am in prison in- : stead of a liberal arts college. I know this isn ' t true for I (Continued on Page 20) ' • PAGE FOURTEEN TICKETS and PROGRAMS FOR COLLEGE DANCES and ACTIVITIES Carnegie Union Printing Co. 243 E. Main Street- Carnegie, Pa. Phone 83 GEO. R. TAYLOR CO. WHEELING, W. VA. Fashions for Juniors Misses and Women The Student ' s Store L. S. GOOD CO. WHEELING, W. VA. Mrs. Gibson ' s COLLEGE I N N Where the Students Go Lunches and Confections Phone 2442 Bethany, W. Va. THE OWL PRINT SHOP The best is none too good for you. Stationery Dance Programs MARKET ST. WHEELING SPORTS Well, kiddies, it ' s your old uncle, the Sports Editor, .igain, and it ' s my s.id duty to report that our heroes of the Hoop and Sphere still stand unsuccored in the NoWins forest. They have been defeated by those bad dragons, Alderson-Broaddus, Fairmont, Geneva, W. Va. Univer- sity, Salem, W. Va. Weslcyan and Glenville. Although these brave and pure Knightmen fought valiantly, even attacking the monsters in their own dens, it was of no avail. Uncle knows that you good children aren ' t gamblers, but if you were, your only chance of finishing in the money would be to bid Nello and let it go at that. The first half of the rough-and- tumble interfraternity basketball league is over and the Betas are in the top spot. You can take our word that the victory wreath was well earned. If you recall, the official first half was scheduled to end some time ago, but it was dragged out by three way tie. That memorable first half pay-off had to be played off twice. In the first game, the Sigs beat the Betas. The Non-frats then beat the Sigs, and the Betas complicated thmgs by outpointing the Indepen- dents. In the second play-off the Betas were unbeatable, and if they can contmue to produce the same brand of ball that won the first half tor them, the second half will be in their pocket Keep in mind that spring is in the offing and that means track to you sports fans. In this field things are looking up. Bethany, if figures do not lie, should prove quite an un- pleasant surprise to track coaches in this vicinity and to track fans in general at the famous Philadelphia races. Look for a Johnny-come- lately named Bob Sutton, this boy can really cover ground. There will be no premature predictions, but don ' t say we didn ' t warn you. Martin Reiter ATHLETICS— Feminine A sound mind in a sound body is a short hut full description of a hap- py state in this ivorld; he that has these two has little more to wish for; and he that wants cither of them, will he but little the better for any- thing else Locke. Fitness for Victory is the slog- an that has been adopted by the women of the United States Home Guard. In keeping with this slogan Bethany College women have en- thusiastically taken part in the in- creased 1941-42 sports activities. The women ' s physical education de- partment, under the supervision of Miss Betty Clark, extends these ac- tivities through regular service class- es, intra-mural competition, and the Women ' s Athletic Association. Some of the objectives of the intra-mural program are: 1. To provide opportunity for participation in wholesome, vigorous activities, both indoor and outdoor. 2. To place the school facilities for recreational activities at disposal of all, rather than a few. 3. To promote social contacts and group spirit. 4. To provide opportunities for play and practice which will improve skill and knowledge of games which will carry over into leisure time pur- suits. The W.A.A. is an important or- ganization that furthers participa- tion in all sports. Through a special system, girls may earn the letter B and a sweater. At the annual ban- quet, trophies are awarded to the winners of the tennis, swimming, and archery meets. Early in the fall, classes were mainly concerned with soccer and hockey; which were played on the football practice field. The girls found the games required definite skills which were difficult to mast- er, but they took a progressive inter- est in them before the season came to a close. Archery was also offered, and the range was open in the after- noon to any one who wished to shoot and will be open again as soon as weather is suitable. With the coming of cold weather, classes moved indoors to concentrate on volleyball and swimming. The popularity of volleyball was proved by the enthusiasm of the girls ' resi- dence houses to organize teams for a Round Robin Tournament. Phillips Hall, because of its size, formed three individual aggregations. The elimination tourney resulted in four teams tying for first place, but at the final playoffs, the Kappa Deltas were champions with the Gateway Ghosts as runnners-ups. Following, is the outcome of the tournament in order of the team standings: GPGW Per. K. D. Korkers 7 5 .714 Gateway Ghosts 7 5 .714 Phillips (Dardarian) 7 5 .714 Phillips (Waugh) 7 5 .714 Phi Mu Fools 7 3 .428 Zeta Zippers 7 3 .428 Phillips (Wilken) 7 2 .285 Helwig Hags 7 .000 With volleyball finished, the girls ' interest moved to basketball. During class periods, they learned (Continued on Page 18) PAGE FIFTEEN LAMBDA OF ALPHA KAPPA PI That aggregation of human beings known as AKII ' s is headed, no one knows where, by F. Gordon Seidel (late of Phihidelphia, and even later for his second semester classes). Mr. Seidel is known in polite and democratic circles as the president. However we of AKII are much too used to hearing him connect the deity with und Seidel to be moved by such an in- nocuous title. Nevertheless, the organization draws its strength and substance from the mus- cle and brain of F.G.S., contracts its bruises directly from his well aimed heel, and gains its idiosyncracies from his over-fertile imagina- tion. Such a man, if you should wonder, was born and bred in the coastal garden spot of the world, Baltimore (his own words). As the chief executive of AKII he is co- operatively opposed by the non-supporting staff of L. H. Deer, vice-president, W. L. Sie- mon, treasurer, and R. M. Wallace, secretary. W. L. Siemon has developed an intense fear of formal reports — financial reports, for instance. Mr. R. Mathias Wallace is our theotician. Although the best in the world, his theories never could be applied to any real situation. Do not think, though, that Mr. Wallace inha- bits the realm of fantasy altogether, for, stored up somewhere in the back of his head, he has carefully filed away the name and preparation of most of the organic compounds. Which brings us, quite naturally to the pledges, worthy and eleven, Anthony Cusmano, Myron Greiper, and Joe Previte form a trio fresh from the Great Metropolis — jokes, songs, and accent all standardized and intact. Brooklyn, acting as spokesman for the group (or for any group) says, We can ' t understand American women. (Probably the true difficulty is that American women do understand them.) The desire to serve and the chic appearance of the white jackets, I am told, led Messers Northrup and McCracken to seek positions in the Bonnet and B-Hive, respectively. George Sitock and Harold Johnson form the ministerial lobby, with the paternal supervision of Mr. Deer. The duality in Mr. Sitock ' s personality may be seen when one considers that he is also business man- ager of the Bethanian. The above enumeration leaves only the small minority group of Bob Sutton, John Taylor, Kenneth Henry, and Edward Gudgel. For some deed of a transcendental nature Sutton was known as the super-pledge until recently, when he incurred the displeasure of the present administration, and is now referred to (when referred to at all) as Junior Birdman Sutton. Richard Wallace Secretary William Siemon Treasurer The mysterious Mr. Taylor plays the piano and disapproves of the world in general. Indigna- tion is his theme, and he develops it very well, indeed. Kenneth Henry has been too long as- sociated with the presymbolic noises of Wheel- 1 ing, to lend himself willingly to any other class- ! ification. Concerning Mr. Gudgel, let me bej brief and to the point: ask him to recite some ' poetry for you — Lewis Carrol, perhaps. Kind reader, I have tried to present the men of AKII. I only present them. You must draw ■ your own conclusions. However, when you have reached your conclusions, remember that most th ings of that nature are not contagious. The vice-president ' s office, as might be ex- pected, covers a multitude of sins — namely, the responsibility (or lack of it) for the social func- tions of the fraternity. In spite of the stories one might read in the Wheeling paper, much of the credit or debit for the social functions of A KII rests upon the shoulders of Mr. Deer, and only Mr. Deer knows the true weight of that burden. The light that I have shed upon the situation may seem to you total darkness. If so shake it around a bit. There is a bright side to it all. I believe that deep down in the hearts of these (Continued on Page 19) PAGE SIXTEEN Lighting Fixtures — Appliances Lamps — Radios SANDS ELECTRIC CO. 52 Eighteenth Street Phone 146 WHEELING, W. VA. Cheers for Campus Clothes in STIFEL ' S Young Set Fasliion Shop WHEELING, W. VA. FRATERNITY and SORORITY FASHION CENTER wmmsMm • k WHt£ui)C ' Am ' ' J ■ a MADER SLEEP SHOP Home of the Best Mattresses Mader Built Innerspring Remember Kiikan! One scene in the picture KUKAN showed the situation of ' the Chinese student. The scenes depicted did not show it but the commentator did mention that 80 % of the Uni- versities and Colleges of China have been bombed and destroyed. Stu- dents, the leaders of the reconstruc- tion that must come after the war is done have been left without build- ings, without equipment, without supplies, without books and without food. Some have felt the need and answered the called to the armed forces. But still others under the urgings and guidance of Chiang Kai- shek have felt it their duty to con- tinue at any price in their education- al training. They have gathered up what they -could use of damaged equipment, torn books, mangled desks and chairs and carrying these things they have moved their schools, on foot, 1000 to 15 00 miles inland — far from the invading forces. Settling in areas that were nothing but desolate traits they have set to work with a will and indomitable courage to build for themselves class rooms, lecture halls, recreational fac- lities. From clay they have moulded meeting halls, desks, chairs and other needed equipment. Books that have been salvaged are used by as many as 100 students to a book. There are today, in China 45,000 students who are thus continuing their education under the most try- ing and discouraging conditions. That is one student t o every 10,000 population. (The American figure is one College student to every 100 population). They are continuing it on funds provided from the new Chinese government and on funds provided by the World Student Ser- vice Fund. The governments interest in these students is obvious — what advantage is the war, even a victor- ious war if there is not trained lead- ership to guide the people when it is over! The interest of the people who contribute the money administered by the W.S.S.F. lies in several reasons. ( 1 ) A genuine interest in the peace West Virginia ' s Finest Fort Henry Meats Provided by WEIMER PACKING COMPANY WHEELING, W. VA. of the world in the future that can come only when there is intelligent, cooperative, sympathetic leadership in all countries. (2) A deep respect for the courage; ingenuity, and de- votion to learning displayed by the Chinese students. (3) A sympathe-] tic feeling for others in need. This fund is collected from stu- j dents and faculty and used to aid | students in all countries where stu- ' ' dent needs are accute, especially in | China. Money from this fund pro- 1 vides needy students with food — i (did you ever try to study after miss-; ing all your meals for a day? Think: what it would be to go every day; for months with a bowl of rice your! only daily nourishment) with books! — think of studying any course you 1 have when there was one text for; the whole class — with clothing — not an extra pair of stockings or a. new tux shirt but with a simple; burlap quality garment to keep out| part of the cold — with recreationar facilities — not a name band at the; Junior-Senior formal but a volleyl ball, a set of horse shoes, a checker; game shared by 5 00 men and wom-. en. I The W.S.S.F. is a Relief Fund— ' Plus. J A thletics Feminine (Continued from Page 15) ; the rudiments of the game, along i with the intricacies of passing, foot- ' work, guarding, and scoring. Bas- ; ketball intra-mural matches are still ' in full swing and the winners as yet| unknown. During the past month, ! each class has under gone fifteen ' minutes of preliminary exercises each class period in an effort to improve general posture and physical fitness. The exercises grew gradually morel intense, and resulted in many stiff i legs and sore muscles. The beginning of March contin- ued the fall swimming instruction. ' Aquatic meets, and a bowling tour- . noment will be next forms of intra- ; mural rivalry. Possibly tournaments j in archery, tennis and Softball will ] be held in the spring, and probably j badminton and table tennis. i Physical education at Bethany College is required of all under-class- ' men. Although the upperclassmen | are not obligated to enroll in this course, they are allowed to elect any | physical education activity course. ! Perhaps with the present defense . program physical education will I eventually be required of all stu- ; dents. Civilian defense leaders pro- j claim that this would not be neces- | sary if a certain part of every day ■■ was devoted to some form of active i recreation. I PAGE EIGHTEEN I I Lambda of Alpha Kappa Pi (Continued from Page 16) men there is an overwhelming bulk of little things that add up to the true and lasting meaning of frater- nalism, and that the world will have a better and wiser group of men be- cause their college experience threw them together under the same roof and compelled them to live while they learned. — Members. — Gordon Seidel L. H. Deer William L. Siemon Richard Wallace I Antony Cusmano Myron Greiper Joe Previte George M. Northrup Jene McCracken George Sitock Harold Johnson Bob Sutton John Taylor Kenneth Henry - Edward Gudgel • Poets, Lunatics, or — ? (Continued from Page 9) ration sugar. At Dr. Jekyll ' s ex- pectant request for all those who did not wish sugar to signify the same by raising the right hand and saying ay , only Rudi, with truly heroic patriotism, responded, amid vociferous applause from the fifth column. Dr. Jekyll carefully rationed the sugar, grain by grain, into the waiting cups, and as the last grain vanished, our heroine repented her rash act, and wailed her sugar- less state to the accompaniment of the gleeful gloatings of the masses. Betwixt cup and lip, some one suggested a chain poem. For the benefit of the uninitiated, a chain poem is a poem (for so we will call it, although there is a certain amount of question among the experts) whose first line is written by who- ever happens to have paper and pen- cil. The second line is contributed by the person sitting beside him. Any connection between the two lines is purely coincidental and entirely without malice aforethought. The production of chain poems is the true, serious purpose of the club, and its one office (purely unofficial) is that of Custodian of the Chain Poems , an hereditary title held at present by Rudi. After a great deal of invoking the production of the evening was com- pleted and read to its composers, who listened (for once) with rapt attention: Vesuvius, boiling over with frantic glee. Stood on his head and, laughing, looked at me And said with a hasty whistle harsh, Shall we now return to our favor- ite marsh? — An ideal place to drink one ' s tea. Or just erupt ecstatically. Mutual congratulations ensued, but were interrupted by a howl from Pee Wee, Heavens, its nine-thirty! Dr. Jekyll was the only casualty in the ensuing stampede. Are there any questions? he gasped as he collapsed quietly beneath the feet of the thundering herd. ' ' That there were only file is clue to the diabolical ninuinz with ivhirh ' ( ' Spanish club has managed iniar- iably to hold its meetings nfion the night sacred to Writer ' s Club and S.B.O.G. The total enrollment, were there anyon: so statistical as to in- vestigate, would be about twelve. Spanish Club Buenas noches, senorita. Como estas? This was the greeting I re- ceived the first time I attended Spanish Club. My eyes opened a few inches wider, I blinked, gulped, and said, Okay, err, buena, y Vd? Fortunately I had had that phrase the first day of Spanish class, or I would have made a complete fool of myself. People about me were speaking in a mixture of Spanish and English, which was meant to be ony Spanish. All the while I smiled, slightly con- fused, and finally lapsed into silence. Headquarters for SMARTER COLLEGE WARDROBES § tnn attfnmaa West Virginia ' s Largest Department Store. MAIN STREET WHEELING, W. VA. All sorts of Spanish phrases were swimming about in my head, yet the meaning of everyone of them was forgotten. As luck would have it, I was placed next to Victor, who could speak only in Spanish. He spoke a few rapid Spanish sentences to me. I pretended I had not heard him, and so he repeated himself. I had no idea what he had said, but, in order not to appear too unintelligent, I nodded my head, and mumbled In Spanish that well-known word, si. His face broke into a smile, and I couldn ' t imagine to what I had just agreed. It could not be important, I thought, but I will have to remem- ber this darn language and be able to use it a little more. While I was in the middle of such contemplation, the meeting was called to order. Under Miss Key ' s guidance, we started to organize the club — which, thank goodness, was all done in English That was the first meeting. Since then, the Spanish Club has become very well organized. An initiation ceremony was adopted, and each member has been initiated by it. The club is open to anyone who is now studymg Spanish, or who at one time has studied the language, and has a real interest In it. Spanish songs and games arc an ■ Important part of the meetings, and, later, refreshments are usually served. During this latter part of the pro- gram, only Spanish is to be spoken. The club, as a whole, has thereby increased its ability to speak Span- ish, and to understand it. Since Miss Kcv has left Bethany, the club will be under the general direction of Miss Catharine Binder. New officers for this semester in- clude: President, Carlos Jaramillo; vice president, Pat Cedarquist; Sec- retary, Anne Seligman, treasurer. Kit Rowe, and reporter, Ed Elsasser. W- •rTr. 1 vMMk % For Collegiate Clothing Come to WEISBERGER ' S Wellsburg-, W. Va. PAGE NINETEEN Ex Lihris (Continued from Page 5) thus insuring a broad educational background. Provision will be made for students to elect a major subject, but the number of hours of courses taken in this major will be kept at a minimum. This, it is hoped, will prevent students from taking a third or more of their work in one depart- ment and omitting courses in other departments which are necessary to their professional careers. The objectives of such a course would be to prepare students inter- ested in librarianship for library school, to give students who intend to go to library school a broader education, to offer a four-year course in pre-library school work which would appeal to those persons who intend to do administrative work in librarianship, and to give prospec- tive librarians a background in ad- ministrative procedures and business methods. In addition to the regular program of instruction, the students will be given a course entitled Introduction to Librar; Science which will in- clude historical material on the ori- gin of libraries, how library science is related to the other social sciences, an introduction to library literature, and a preview of library school. During the junior and senior years, these students would spend at least ten hours a week in the library be- coming familiar with the organiza- tion and administration of the lib- rary, with routine procedures, and in laboratory problems designed to You ' re Sure of Satisfaction BERNHART ' S WellsburK, W. Va. Wheeling ' s Largest Men Store 1225 Market St., Whelling, W.Va. coordinate their college program and library administration. As for the library building itself, Mr. Behymer has great plans for the future. He is looking forward to the day, perhaps not too far ahead, when the library can be remodelel or re- built so that it will be better able to serve the needs of the students. His ideas on the subject are an in- spiration to students who are trul)- interested in getting the most out of their college work. The library is a complicated, effi- cient, and smoothly-running mach- ine presented to the student for his use in the spirit of sincere scholar- ship. The library expects in return the same respect for it that it has for the students. Such an institu- tion is of necessity cooperative, and much can be done by the students to make its function a success. Con- cerning cooperation of the students, Mr. Behymer has said, It has been very stimulating to find a student body so interested in the library pro- gram as are the students at Bethany. I am very grateful for their interest and cooperation. Bethany may not be the biggest, but its the best school I ' ve ever seen. It ' s a swell place! EDITORIAL (Continued from Page 14) I came here of my own accord and am remaining because of my own free will. The whole muddy mess centers around the misguided attempts to start changing rules and regulations in order to take up the slack in hu- man personalities, which are just about all we have to work with in this world of ours. To change enough regulations so that those who wish may dance on Sunday will never alter the social problem one whit; neither will altering the method of choosing S.B.O.G. members. The present method was set up to provide a workable small group with fair representation and still keep politics at a minimum, and now because of some displeasure with the members, the cry is Change the Board around. Somehow I don ' t believe that a rose would bloom into its beauty and fragrance if no one ever noticed it, but merely acknowledged its existence and let it go at that. Every garden spot needs care, with- out care it never produces beyond a meagre output. So in a like manner, the S.B.O.G. performs its legal duties in apportioning the budget and all the necessary functions, but beyond this it must surely depend upon the S.B. (Student Body) for its cultiva- tion to an output that includes any changes or new ideas which are float- ing about the campus. It ' s just like an arm or leg; there to use if you take the care to use it, but just there otherwise. If we go on making excuses for our own drooping responsibilities, and especially making excuses for a majority of the student body who don ' t give a darn anyway, but who will gladly throw in a vote along the way, then to advocate changes is all well and good. However, since the i student body apparently doesn ' t feel the necessity of change, or perhaps | to put it better, doesn ' t feel the need I is great enough to get them into i some concerted action, who should ; minority of majority value? opinion carry the] When an issue is I brought to the surface it always ' takes on a much darker hue than iti ever deserves; this appears to be true of the present situation. Let ' s think; these things through in the light of; the past experiences and what we expect for the future. If all the energy expended on the! social and political situations on the! campus was directed in some otherl direction, wonderful would be the! results. We can talk a great deali about what is wrong and why it isi but so far there have not been very many fingers lifted around this cam-i pus to do something of a possible; world-significance. Attention is call-j ed to the article printed in this Beth-! anian concerning the World Student Service Fund. Now there is a; worthy cause into which to put some energy. We have only to place ai value upon our own education; then! imagine ourselves in the position of the thousands of disrupted students] in the world in order to realize the! true existence of a need. — • — LETTERS TO EDITOR DESIRED — • — 1 Eye Trouble? Let Us Solve Your Trouble — • — iEauiltnga (i]itirianB. Stir. 62 12th Street, Wheeling, W. Va. — • — PAGE TWENTY Iimmm0 i mm 0t0t0t0t0 You can do yOUT part- Write to the Fellows in the armed service of our country — Send them a box of Stationery ARMY AIR CORPS U. S. ARMY U. S. MARINES U. S. NAVY 50 SHEETS 50 ENVELOPES UNITED STATES ARMY Engraved in Gold with the Emblem of each Branch of the Service A LETTER OF CHEER WILL HELP BRING VICTORY— PERSONAL STATIONERY FOR YOUR OWN USE, IMPRINTED WITH YOUR NAME 50 Sheets and 50 Envelopes — $1.75 CARNEGIE UNION PRINTING COMPANY CARNEGIE, PENNSYLVANIA For sale by George Sitock, Campus Representative PAGE TWENTY-ONE chesterfield salutes with Millions of Fans THE GOLDEN JUBILEE of America ' s most popular sport BASKETBALL Over 90,000,000 is Basketball ' s yearly attendance ... lops for (in American sport... and this year marks the celebra- tion of its Golden Jubilee. The ame was founded by Dr. Jcnnes Naismith and had its modest start in 1891 in Springfield, Mass. Such popularity must be deserved hesterfield . . . for Milder Better Taste for Cooler Smoking Ihat ' s vllat millions of Chesterfield smokers get j every time tliey light up... and that ' s why these millions | are saying Chesterfield gives me more pleasure than any | other cigarette I ever smoked. j Make your next pack Chesterfield and you too Avdll ' , enjoy everything you want in a cigarette ... 7?iof e to ■ your taste with the Right Combination of the ivorld ' s i best cigarette tobaccos. Every time . . . h£4ft. Copyright 1942, Liggett Mvers Tobacco Co. K  VOL. 33 NO. 7 APRIL ' 42 sHMfo m ■«m im  -V . 3 n J 1 taBH Mi ' : Now for the first time the amazing siroooscopic camera analyzes the swingthat made baseball history DiMaggio sizes up the pitch . . He starts that devastating swing. Squarely . . . solidly . . . bat meets ball. With his eyes still focused on the batted ball . . . Joe follows through in a tremendous release of driving power. Right off the bat, Joe Di Maggio, shown here at home, will tell you: I find Camels easy on the throat — milder in every way. And they ' ve got the flavor that hits the spot every time. You bet I like Camels! B. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-SalL-m,N. C. A remarkable series of repetitive flashes show you the famous DiMaggio swing and follow-through all in this one picture above. Below, at the left, you see Joe en- joying a Camel. For with Joe DiMaggio, when the game is over, it ' s now for a Camel. Yes, Camel— the milder cigarette with less nicotine in the smoke. The smoke of slovrer-burning Camels contains 28% LESS NICOTINE than the average of the 4 other largest-selling cigarettes tested — less than any of them — according to independent scienJific tests of the smoke itself ! THE CIGARETTE OF COSTLIER TOBACCOS BETHANIAN Volume 33 — Number 7 April, 1942 Published by the STUDENT BOARD OF PUBLICATIONS of BETHANY COLLEGE If it is printable, you ' ll find it herd ORGANIZATION STUDENT BOARD OF PUBLICATIONS Jane Williamson, Chairman Anna Laurie Burke Gordon Seidel George Sitock EDITORS George M. Northrup Betsy A. Plank ASSOCIATE EDITORS Yvonne Balster Florence Nichols EDITORIAL STAFF Virginia Forry Jean Veith Yvonne Balster Martha Dardarian Bob BuUard Speed Koval BUSINESS MANAGER George Sitock BUSINESS ASSISTANTS James Barnes Tom Committee Nellie McIIvain CIRCULATION STAFF Mariah Smith, Manager Marilyn Waugh Evelyn Baxter Grace Benedict Jack Baumgartner Everett Stewart Myron Grieper CONTENTS Page FEATURES Three Falls or Bust An Interview Particles . . . Junior Class 10 Sophomore Class .11 Freshman Class 12, 13 Phi Mu 14 Too Late to Save a Saint .16 Candid Camera 18 Odds and Ends of News .22 EDITORIAL 19 Bct jajiian, a magazine of features and photographs, published each month from October through May by the Student Board of Publications of Bethany College. Entered as second class matter on January 14, 1920, at the Post Office at Bethany, W. Va., under the Act of March 1, 1879. Subscription price: Four dollars the year. Volume XXXIII, Number 7. PAGE THREE THREE OR Bob BuUard the When is the next one go- ing to be? When are we going to hike to Olgebay? The success of the first Out- ing Club picnic-hike is evident from the interest and enthusi- asm shown by the hardy indi- viduals who participated in this, the first of the spring activities of the club. We gathered at the flag pole and at a little after four o ' clock a gay little pro- cession started to thread its way along the Buf- falo and over the hills to Three Falls. Three Falls, the rendezvous of nature lovers; the talked of, but seldom visited, beauty spot of the scenic country surrounding Bethany. The famed seven lea- gue booted Mr. John Jones and Mr. Hoak re- mained behind for a time to obtain hot dogs, buns, marshmallows and all the trimmings, while we less swift hikers proceeded on our merry way. They soon over took us as we left Beta walk and took to the hills. Up and over (puff -puff) we went and there to our left were the remains of Billy Pil- chand ' s cabin. Many people have heard of it — they know it is on the brow of a hill over- looking the Buffalo far below. We, the Outing Club, will, in the not too distant future, have one of our own cabins on this same spot perhaps. Looking up, over the cabin, in the distance, is a striking view of Bethany, the campus, and town in the rays of the late afternoon sun. When the trees and ground are clothed in green it will indeed be a beautiful scene. Having reached the top of the hill, we went along the wooded ridge, skirting a field, a pas- ture was beyond us with a farm house in the distance. Horrors, a skeleton! Right in our FALLS BUST Speaks for Outing Club path, no cause for alarm how- ever; it was only a horse, or who knows, maybe a prehis- toric monster. Mr. Jones, put on your boots and run back and tell Ray Rappaport that we ' ve found a new pile of bones for h i s collection! somebody shouted. Now we descended the hill. For a time we followed an ancient grass covered road, and then, more sliding than walking, we reached the little stream at the bottom. It is a beautiful sight to look up the hill and see the sunlight filtering through the trees on the ridge, far above. Listening closely, as we started up the stream, we could distinguish the roar of the falls a little way ahead. Then we rounded one of the torturous bends in the little brook and there they were! Three Falls, the splendor that is i hidden so well by nature, West Virginia hills and streams, uniting to pro- duce scenic wonderlands. Our camp fire was al- ready laid and was soon Some minutes later, after we had properly explored the valley above and about the falls, the mess call was sounded and all trouped back to a welcome picnic supper. Roasted hot dogs always taste best when done over glowing wood coals, and so everybody roasted his own and ate till he wanted no more. Then our repast was topped by toasted marsh- mallows and crackers. By this time it was growing dark and so, after quenching the fire, we headed down stream, and home. It was indeed a pleasant afternoon and a novel activity. Will we see you on the next picnic-hike. You are welcome! -. V burning brightly. PAGE FOUR On March 14th the roaring twenties came to Bethany campus at the urging of the non-fra- ternity organization. At 9:30 the subterranean en- trance was opened to the pubhc, and hundreds of celebrities elbowed their way through the crowd of onlookers, trying to keep froin being observed as they entered a gamb- hng den. Following the blue lights along the basement of the establishment, one finally climbed a long winding, circular stairway which ended in the main floor of the gymnasium; oh I shouldn ' t have said that, I mean it ended in a haz} ' gambling den which was flanked by a dancing pavilion. Many devices crowded the floor to win away those last few bucks that we should have turned over to wifey, but which we were now squandering upon the turn of the wheel, flip of the dice, deal of the cards, or the luck of the evening in general. The attendants of the gambling tables were attired in tuxedos which further alleviated the suffering of those who left the den with empty pockets for it is always nice to lose to a well-dressed man, or am I mixing love with gambling? Well anyhow the The Roaring T ' wenties of That Night in Irvin Gym girls were also dressed fit- to-kill, and the general impression one received, as hundreds of dollars in folding money went across the table was one of happiness and prosper- ity. Dancing was to the strains of the best orches- tras money could hire, you get it don ' t you, P. A. system, but really music that put you hep to the jive. As an inter- val in the swirl of activity, Mr. Cai ' l Geenen brought a troupe of high class performers which entertained for a half hour with songs and music in the Bethany manner. Then on with the dance for the remainder of the evening. It would never do to leave this account without some mention of the lovely barmaids who hustled and bustled around with refreshing drinks for everyone. Witness these lovely ones as they serve two pineapples to Miss Palmer and Mr. Bowden; over there behind the bar, which is out of sight, presides barmaster Bill White, who mixes a mean Weimer Special. A mighty successful evening; the non-frats provided a great entertainment. At the Junior-Senior Prom Music is magic; it makes you climb into that old tux and evening dress. The name of Lang Thompson and all that it means in music aroused all the dancing public in Bethany. The date, March 21, and whoever you brought along, the time 8:30, attire, formal, the spirit, joyous. It was indeed — the highlight of social events thus far, and plainly showed this by the large crowd of dancers. Lang Thompson ' s or- chestra made a hit with the Bethany dancing public, and the singing of Peggy Nolan added to the atmosphere of lullaby lane, and that sort of smooth stuff. Those jittery ones were provided with a place in the downstairs of Phillips Hall for their very own, while the main dance floor was reserved for bumping into those who took their chances with the slower traf fic. OUTING CLUB The Outing Club inaugurated this year with somewhat staggering qualms, and gradu- ally sank into the mire of doubt, non-support, and poor management . . . but, comes the Spring, and a small group of nature lovers started pushing the Outing Club to the surface once more, brushing it off so that its real worth might come to the light. With the assistance of the students this club can be one of the most forceful organizations on the campus, and as a start, the Student Board of Governors is backing them financially with an appropriation of fifty dollars. Picnics, hikes, skating, and perhaps boating are among the to-be-supported activities of the club and the capable leaders ask the support of each and every student in their undertakings. The said leaders are Bob Bullard, President; Esther Mackey, Vice-President; Jane Walls, Secretary; and Ed Sweeney, Treasurer. Coach Boettcher, the original instigator of the group, left with the hope that his protege would be up and coming by the time he returns to Bethany, so let us all get to work and support it and those who are spending their time and energy in the interest of the club and its success. PAGE FIVE As I skipped up the front stairs of Miss Mahaffey ' s home, I wondered what this girl from France, Anne Weill, was like. I was awed at the thought of a refugee from war-scarred Europe actually here at Bethany, where every- one is still comparatively unaffected by the war. Even though I had not formed any defi- nite opinion of what to expect, the poised, friendly girl who answered my knock surprised me. I had feared ' • « • for m y poor knowledge o f French, but af- ter I had intro- duced myself, she immediately set me at ease, for she spoke English fluent- ly. She explain- ed that they spoke English at home, and that she had studied it at Cambridge University, and received a Cer- tificate of Pro- ficiency in Eng- lish. I asked her how she decided to come to Beth- any and learned that her sister had attended Bethany as an exchange student seven years ago. Since that time, Annette, as she is affectionate- ly called, has been corresponding with Miss Mahaffey, and after the Armistice of France in June, 1940, these letters helped her in securing a visa from Washington. The German authorities in Paris were unsym- pathetic and would not give her permission to leave, so Annette and her mother were forced to escape from Paris. They moved into the apartment of Annette ' s sister, and later, by means of an underground railroad, found peo- ple to help them. Everybody in occupied France, many times including the Germans, knows passwords and places that eventually lead to safety. But the danger of being discov- ered is great and the punishment is often death. In order to insure their not being traced when they left Paris, Annette and her mother headed in the opposite direction from Marseilles. They arrived at the first city where they hoped to get help, only to find that the Germans had discovered the work of the address the day be- fore. A group of school teachers they met in a park gave them their first real lead, directing them to go to a small village near by. At the village inn, they told the clerk that they would like to take a little rest. After a lengthy con- versation about trivial things, he casually men- PAGE SIX ■ffn SjntQi lew u itk -flnne WqIU tioned that he would introduce them to some people who were to be in town the next day for a funeral. All that night, Annette and her mother grew impatient and extremely nervous; but the clerk had been sincere, for after the funeral, one of the women took them to a large farm. The family, consisting of a mother, father and eight children, were eating their dinner, but greeted them unques- I nterview by Martha Dardarian and the resulting story of Anne Weill ' s escape from war torn France tioningly. An- nette and her mother joined the group at the table and ate in silence and un- certainty. They waited till after twi- light, about 8 o ' clock, and then prepared the carriage for their journey to the border. An- nette, her moth- er, and the woman from the farm, were dressed in peas- ant ' s clothes, and rode in the carriage. One of the boys drove the carriage, and the other two rode bicycles many yards behind so that escape would be easier in case they were stopped. It began to rain, and the night was very dark. Traveling in back country lanes, they arrived at another farm in an hour. Here they left the carriage and were told to cross a large cabbage field on foot. The field was very muddy as a result of the rain, and progress was slow. This was probably the most exciting part of their escape, because at the other end of the field was a road referred to as no man ' s land , and across the road — unoccupied France. They all realized that sentries were very near and none of them spoke a word. Half-way across the field, Annette ' s mother lost her shoe and let out a gasp. Immediately they all fell flat on the ground, deep in the mud and cabbages. The dogs at the farm began to bark, and then they heard other dogs bark; those of the Ger- man troop close by. Nothing else happened and after all was quiet again, they finally reached the other side. The woman told them that soon they would be in safety, and left. They paid her the small sum she asked for her services. The amount surprised the refugees, for many people were making large fortunes by their work in the underground. The party headed down the road and twice as a motorcycle passed them they hid by the i roadside. Farther on they met a soldier and learned that he was a free French soldier. They were very relieved and thankful, for they had been in constant danger and uncertainty; never knowing whe ther the leads they followed would result in greetings by the French or belligerent Germans. They then went to an inn which had meals prepared at all times for any one crossing the border. The man at the inn arranged for a car to take them to the next town to the railroad station. On the train at Marseilles, they met some English soldiers who had escaped from Belgium, and they were happ to meet some one who spoke English. Annette and her mother had to wait ten months in Marseilles for their visas and other credentials. Then in February, 1942, they se- cured passage on a small, overcrowded French ship to Casablanca, Morrocco. While passing through Gibralter, they witnessed a thrilling airplane drill of American-made planes. At Casablanca, they were interned for ten days in a concentration camp, where, Annette said she spent the worst days of her life. Conditions in the camp were unbelievably deplorable. From Morrocco, they boarded a Portugese boat which regularly accommodated 250 per- sons, but there were 8 50 on board. The win- dowless steerage was used as living and sleeping quarters with no comforts whatsoever. As the ship traveled southward, many people slept on deck and it usually rained at unexpected hours, even though the loveliest stars were shining in the sky. The sailors washed the deck at five o ' clock each morning leaving the passengers with no place to go and nothing to do. After a few weeks, the boat landed at Jamaica to let off some passengers. While docked there, the baggage in the entire ship was laid out on the pier and inspected. Annette noticed that every- thing was done efficiently and in a friendly spirit. Their first day on land, they were taken to another camp, but conditions here were much better, and the passengers were treated sympa- thetically. Jamaica scouts cheered and sang when they arrived. They were served good food, and most important of all, each person was giv- en a bar of soap. Annette said that there were times when she would rather have had soap than food. (She showed me some of her clothes that had been soiled and streaked by the soap in France, and I could readily understand how she felt.) The boat made a brief stop at Havana, Cuba, but no one was allowed on shore. Then it head- ed straight for New York harbor where it ar- rived after its five week journey from Morroc- co. As we talked, Annette smoked almost con- stantly. I remarked about it, and she said, ' Tt helps me more than you can realize. It is hard to talk about the past without doing some- thing. Bethany is exactly as she imagined it to be from here sister ' s letters and the pictures she had seen of it. Annette is very thankful to be in America. She loves the easy-goingness of it, and enjoys seeing people happy. She feels older than we because of her exeriences, but wants to try to learn to be young and carefree again. A present she is knitting for the Free French forces. She is considering taking more active part in their work, But she added, One has to be very hopeful to have the spirit to do such a thing. Annette has a charming personality and a vivacious smile, and several times I became so interested in what she was saying that I forgot to take down notes. As I thanked her and bade her good night, I felt a deep respect and admir- ation for this girl who had seen what war could do to civilian life. She has come through it unscratched, except perhaps she is a little older and more bitter — but also more wise and lovely. An AKII Engagement The Guests at the Dinner Party Joe Previde to Gloria Pelletier on March 2 8th, cele- brated by a dinner party at the fraternity house. Miss Pelletier visited in Bethany for the remaining days until Easter vacation. (Editor ' s Note — Wonder what Lois Linn is grinning about?) PAGE SEVEN THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM The Bethanian TELLS All The Memorial Chapel Altar I will give unto thee the keys of the king- dom of heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatso- ever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. — Matthew 16:19. When the church bell rang at 12:40 during the week of March 30 - April 2 students and all turned their steps toward the church. As they entered the dimly-lighted sanct- uary, the candle- lighted altar attract- ed and held their at- tention. Taking the above quoted scripture passage as the guide and the title of A. J. Cronin ' s book The Keys of the Kingdom as the theme, the leaders attempted to show the con- gregation the four keys of the kingdom. The first key to the kingdom is Love, the second is Faith, the third Hope, and the fourth Sacrifice. Each key was emphasized by the use of song, poem, prayer and reading from TIjc Keys of the Kingdom. A progr.im for the students by the students, these pre-Enster services were attended by an average of 120 per day. The following students participated during the four days: Daily Leaders j Monday — Eleanor Achterman, Leon Schliff Tuesday — Hilda Sarver, Edward Elsasser Wednesday — Dorothy Reynolds, Morrison Ra tcliffe Thursday — Joanne Schott, Irvan Roche Reader — Jack Esker Trumpeter — Edward Golden Musicians Monday — Organist: Joan Taylor Bethany Mixed Quartette Jeanne Goodwin Alfred Swearingen Jane Douglass Roy Meckel Tuesday — Organist: Eleanor Sprouse Freshman Girl ' s Quartette Beverly Barnes Dorothy Rensch Betty Anne Reske Ruth Strasser Wednesday — Organist: Lenore Neil Soloist: Wade Mooney Thursday — Organist: Mildred Erskinc Soloist: Alfred Swearingen The general plans were made by Professor Pearl Mahaffey and the Church Council on Student Work. Working to Meet the Five O ' clock Deadline A new phase in American journalism became apparent on March 16, 1942. That was the day that TELL, the spontaneous truth reporting newsheet first came off the press. Born of an inspiration of Dode Meyers, TELL caught on with the expected immediate enthusiasm of Professor Robert ' s ' History of Journalism ' class. To be more spec ific, it hap- pened this way: Prof was telling the class, — and so that ' s how newspapers get started. Walter, Jr. piped up, let ' s start one of our own. That ' s up to you. It ' s all right with me. Get going. The formal class broke up and for the rest of the hour, organization was be- gun. Nine students kicked in with anything from fifty cents to a dollar. The first issue came out the following Monday after a brief publicity buildup. Actual work started the Saturday following the Friday lecture. Work was intended to be well under way before Prof returned from his checkup in Cleveland. He had been the first to contribute before he walked out to leave the class to its own brainchild. According to the original set-up, class mem- bers alternate as daily editors. They include Janice Cooper, John Costanza, June Crawford, Nellie Mcllvain, Dode Myers, Sandy Steinman, and Jane Williamson. Bob Davis is the hard- working business manager. He has the ignomi- nious position of selling subscriptions, ads, checking publication, distribution, and catch- ing it from TELL. Marion McHarg deserves credit though not a member of the class for her typing and general help. Ruth Rutherford is another non-class member who has done a lot of work. Stan Brown has turned in more scoops than any other writer. He is at present trying to be admitted formally to the staff. TELL has met its publication days since the first issue every Monday, Wednesday and Fri- day that school has been in session. In addition there was a special extra. More about that later. PAGE EIGHT TELL is put out in about two and a half hours. The daily editor posts assignments for the day. Around 4 o ' clock, the stories begin coming in. They are typed, set up, and sten- ciled. In case of last minute news, something less important is ripped from the makeup sheet. Printing begins around 5:30 and by 6:00, the rag is usually on the newstands. TELL has twice scooped the wire services and the big newspaper chains. The first story was our own elopement story on Lois Linn and Bob Sutton. The other story was on the over- due admittal of the U. S. sub Perch with its ex-Bethanian Lt. Commander David Hurt. The former incited the controversial extra on Thursday, April 9, not a regular publication date. TELL has no formal editorial policy except to report the news truthfully. Miss Mahaffey said, Now that we have ' TELL ' I don ' t see how we can get along with- out it. TELL is planning to continue publica- tion after this semester so perhaps the TELL subscriber won ' t have to do without it. Pros- pects for this are not unlikely if student co- operation — (What, that again!) — is willing. SPRING GETS INTO STRIDE The advent of long awaited Spring finally has lured the trackmen out into the open. The cinder oval is being pounded every day, rain or shine, by H or more track and field men. The new coach for this season is Tom Hill, who comes every evening around 4:30 to help turn out what may be Bethany ' s last stand in the way of a winning team this year. The team has a schedule of meets arranged for the season and needs but the fellows to carry on. Also to be seen in the middle of the oval is the new baseball team which is being recreated in Bethany this year after an interval of non-ac- tive years. The first game is with West Vir- ginia University on April IL The team will play their home games at Rine Field. A new road, which will provide a short cut for the student body, is now being constructed, or dug, from the back of the gymnasium to Rine Field. The steam shovel is hard at work every day, so perhaps the road will be completed for the first home baseball game. All those fellows with tennis racquets slung over their shoulders are for the most part mem- bers of the inter-collegiate tennis team of Beth- any College. It is a certainty that there will be a team, the prospects of an ace team are very good. Every person who can wallop off a fair volley should get in the running, and help make it a love-ly team. MORALE Morale may be defined as a state of mind characterized by confidence and courage, a well-founded confidence in the values of one ' s ideals, a steel-cold courage which, over the long pull, makes victory for those ideals certain. Morale must not be confused with bland op- timism or with slack assurance that success will come without effort or pain. It is not a flare- up of hatred and anger or a sudden surge of the fighting instinct. It is not noise or tumult. It is not flag soaring or martial music. It must be more solid. Courage is not only for spectacular accom- plishments but for the long, hard pull and for simple accomplishments. The state of mind of an individual always has a powerful effect upon the way in which he acts. It is equally true that what he does influences the way he feels and thinks. However, the state of mind which we are calling morale may be accompanied by different types of behavior under varying situations. When the attention of men is concentrated largely upon the peaceful improvement of their society, morale is associated with such activities as formulating and criticizing social purposes, efforts to achieve the objectives of the society, and especially with a critical probing for points at which the society may be falling short of its adopted ideals. But when the society faces grave external dangers, the behavior which accords with mor- ale will be of a somewhat different nature. Under such circumstances, morale will be re- flected in taking steps to match the impendmg threats; in recognizing sacrifices that have been made previously and in making further sacri- fices so that the gains attained may be held or extended. In short, a nation with high morale will, in times of peace and order, focus atten- tion upon the distance it must travel before it fully attains its social goals. A time of danger or actual war, on the other hand, will be mark- ed by emphasis upon the value and preservation of accomplishments already made. PAGE NINE JUNIOR CLASS Tow row — George Albee, Grace Benedict, Angeline Bonessi, Gwendolyn Borden, Ralph Burbridge. Second row — George Callendine, Susan Carnahan, Archie Conn, Joan Cramblet, Lewis Deer. Third row — Kate Anna Drake, Donald Hillstrom, Nellie Mcllvain, Betty Mclntyre, Stewart Moore. Fourth row — Mary Louise Sesler, George Sitock, Alfred Swearingen, Donald Wells, Jane Williamson. PAGE TEN SOPHOMORE CLASS FIRST ROW Evelyn Baxter Jean Balknap Mary Lou Bower Donald Brinkworth Anna Laura Burke SECOND ROW Marjorie Campbell William Carlisle Robert Connell Virginia Dow nes James Duff THIRD ROW Magdaline Eggiman Elizabeth Elder Alonzo Freebairn Roy Heckel Mary Jane Heifer FOURTH ROW Phyllis Hendrickson Theodore Herrick Richard Hockensmith Betty Lue Hood John Hudak FIFTH ROW Marjorie Hunter Irene Hutchison Evelyn Jones Betty Grace Love Bernice Monczynski SIXTH ROW Freda Osserman Jessie Simpson Mary Elizabeth Smith SEVENTH ROW Ed. Sweeney Jane Walls William Young PAGE ELEVEN FRESHMAN FIRST ROW Patricia Anderson Lois Appleby Yvonne Balster Elizabeth Bannen Beverly Barnes Marguerite Benjamin SECOND ROW Gladys Brooks Leatrice Buchholtz Foster Burton Nancy Calahan Jean Cameron Catherine Cavanaugh THIRD ROW Barbara Chapman Helen Colton Marian Culley Anthony Cusmano Martha Dardarian Ann Douglass FOURTH ROW William Dumbaugh John Esker Rose Mary Faulds Betty Federman Mary Lou Fenati Lee Fiess FIFTH ROW Janet Flint Virginia Forry Isabelle Francis Rita Ganz Charlotte Gay Effin Graham SIXTH ROW Miriam Graybill Dorothy Green Florence Greggs Myron Greiper Edward Gudgel Thomas Hart SEVENTH ROW Marie Henderson Wilma Henne Kenneth Henry Elynor Hinkle George Hoak Doris Hood EIGHTH ROW Gleneva Houghton Frances Johnson Eunice Johnston Betty Jones John Jones Ruth Judy PAGE TWELVE CLASS FIRST ROW Doris Kaiser Thomas Keenan Lois Keiser Wilfred Keith Anna Keyser Erwin Koval SECOND ROW Elaine Landgrebe Eugene Laughner Ruth Long Thelma Long Jeanne Matheny Esther McCandless THIRD ROW Mary McCarnes Thomas Middleton Richard Miller Patricia Mohler Jean Morse Emmet Moyers FOURTH ROW Leona Olander Ruben Ott Mary Patterson Audrey Pudlin Dorothy Rensch Betty Ann Reske FIFTH ROW Gladys Rinderman Charles Rodefer Jean Rylander Evelyn Sabol Ann Seligman Gladys Sesler SIXTH ROW Earl Shank Jeanne Shervington Shirley Skilton Ruth Strasser Melvin Sweeney John Taylor SEVENTH ROW Ruth Thielke, Nancy Tomasek Martha Umbel Jean Veith Thomas Watts Marilyn Waugh EIGHTH ROW Sydne Weill Mary Wilkin James Williams William Young Elaine Za-worski V i PAGE THIRTEEN Glor Bass Pink-and-white and all that goes with History that we ' re proud of, Interesting activities, Members numbering 24, Unity, love, ambition, — It, PHI MU — that ' s what Beta Nu of Phi Mu is made of, besides lots of other good things like our recently redecorated house, the Phi Mu Castle, and a wonderful house mother, Mrs. Worthen. You can ' t miss the pink and white, — especially when the girls dress up in their pink sweaters and white skirts, oh yes, and their little white dinks with pink let- ters on them. Phi Mu Fraternity is en- joying a lively old age, with- out a single gray hair or wrinkle. We celebrated our ninetieth birthday this year on March 4. Figure it out, — it dates back to 18 52, when Phi Mu was founded in Macon, Georgia, — the second oldest national sorority. Our family of chapters numbers Phyllis Hendrickson Jean McLeod sixty- three, and Beta Nu is one of the youngest Our chapter was started in Bethany in 1939 when Alpha Delta Theta merged nationally with Phi Mu. Phi Mu ' s social activities calendar this year has been well high-lighted. The pledges, after much very secretive prep- aration, drafted the actives at a mili- tary conscription dance; and the ac- tives retaliated with a surprise Valentine dance. This latter ac- tivity gave the new col lege band its first hearing on the campus. April holds a Chinese Cabaret in store for members. A Cocktail Party open house in November gave the campus a view of house improve- ments and beautifications. An- other event that brightened the calendar was the surprise party, with lots of fun and food in- volved, that was given by Mrs. Worthen, our house mother. Carrying on a newly established tradition, the chapter held its second annual Silver Tea Dance in January for the benefit of the Red Cross. The girls have kept themselves busy outside the chapter too by occu- Martha Stuart pying large shares of membership in many of the clubs on the campus. French club has ' em (Phi Mu ' s); Spanish club has ' em; so does YWCA and WAA; outing club, in- ternational relations club, education club, radio club, likewise; also choir and band. We ' re athletic minded too, — basketball and volley ball playing, swimming, bike-riding, bowling, snowball fight- ing, and all the other varieties. Some of the girls have been very active in social service work, and we are represented on the college social committee as well as on AWS and SBOG. (We keep our word too. Most fraternities and sororities fell their pledges that they will have to ride the goat, but we actually furnish the goat.) We have only two seniors leav- ing us this year, but we will miss both of them greatly. Dottie Reynolds is our energetic biologist who has served us faithfully as secretary for the past year. Eleanor Sprouse is num- ber one musician of the crowd and has done a good job of keeping our chapter library in order. The past several weeks have seen a (Continued on Page 20) PAGE FOURTEEN PAGE FIFTEEN TOO LATE TO SAVE A SAINT A Short Short Story by Nellie Mcllvaiii. Joe slammed on the brakes of his gradua- tion present and pulled the long, low sports model over to the side of the highway. So now he was being arrested. A fine way to leave college and start out into the world! Thought we couldn ' t catch up with you, smart guy? the cop demanded. What Joe wanted to say to this joy-killer wouldn ' t have been appropriate from a minister- ial student so he answered politely No, Sir. Guess you never heard that crime doesn ' t pay, either, someone behind the copper began. The next second a plain clothes man was routing through his luggage. Crime? What do you mean? I was only doing fifty, and — Don ' t act innocent, beautiful, and maybe the judge will kinda take it easy on you since you look so young. The cop actually looked sorry for Joe. What are you hunting? he demanded of the plain clothes man as his socks and jerseys be- gan to fall out onto the dusty highway. As if in answer to his suspicious question, the ransacker drew a blood stained knife from among Joe ' s clothing. The trial was over in a few days, sending Joe to prison for life. Nothing his parents nor the lawyer could do was enough to disprove the circumstancial evidence that convicted him of robbing and killing a pedestrian. For twenty-six years Joe lived in the prison where he learned to make shoes and with the returns from his trade, he bought The Lives of the Saints which he read when there was light enough in the prison. All his mirth was gone by this time but he still liked to sing and his voice was good, so he sang in the choir. He read the lessons in the prison church and prayed often. He began to walk slowly, even stooped. His hair grew white and his beard turned grey and was quite long. Poor old Joe, whom everybody called Grandfather and The Saint never laughed, and seldom talked. The officials liked him, while everyone respected him. Whenever any- one wanted consolation or needed someone to settle a dispute he came to Joe. One day a new lot of prisoners came to the secluded jail. As they filed into the long, bleak corridor, lined with cells, Joe watched them, little interest being revealed in his expressionless face. Suddenly he sat a little more erect, trying to depict a particular character closely. This one had a closely cropped beard and was telling the prisoners why he was arrested. He rather looked like the plain clothes man of many years ago. I only shot a burglar who was trying to get away with half my house. he objected. Sever- al years ago, I should have been sent here for much more than that. Joe could not help joining the crowd of men who were listening to the other ' s stories. He remained silent when the stranger turned to him and said, How did you get here. Pop? Then someone spoke up revealing his identity as The Saint and explained how someone had killed a man and put the knife among Joe ' s clothing and he was convicted unjustly. The stranger looked surprised, delighted, and frightened all at the same time. When Joe saw the look of mixed emotions on the man ' s face, he rose and went back to his cell. He felt that this was the plain clothes man who found the knife among his clothes so many years ago. Joe wanted vengeance more than anything that it was possible for him to want within the prison. He kept repeating prayers all night, but could get no peace. During the day he did not go near the character whom he suspected of causing so much heartache. At night, Joe could not sleep. One night he decided to walk over to the prison church where he might pray and receive some consolation. Suddenly, as he passed the long shelves which had been given to the new prisoners for sleeping quarters, he noticed some dirt which fell from in under the boards. He leaned closer and saw the very man who had been the cause of his restless nights. As the other felt a quick consciousness of someone ' s presence, he came to the surface. Drawing the old fellow to him by a sharp grasp of his wrist, he explained his chance to escape: If you tell the authorities, I will kill you, but if you keep your mouth shut, I will let you escape with me. Joe did not answer. When freed of this man ' s strong grip, he made his way on to the church where he prayed all night. The next day, one of the guards noticed that one of the men emptied some dirt from his shoes, but he was unable to distinguish which one it was. Everyone refused to tell who was digging the hole. The authorities, feeling that they could rely on the Saint to tell who was digging, asked him what he knew about it. For a minute he remained silent. This was to be expected, so everyone waited until he had PAGE SIXTEEN time to formulate a rely. In another second he answered, I can ' t tell you, and bending his head, walked away. That night when he was lying awake in his cell and saying his prayers, he heard someone stealing quietly along the corridor. As the man stopped before his door, Joe recognized the figure of the man who had been planning the escape. In a few seconds the newcomer was pouring out the story of how he had killed a man and purposely planted the knife among Joe ' s lug- gage several years ago. He pleaded for forgive- ness and expressed his sorrow for Joe. It ' s easy for you to talk, but I have suffered all these years. I ' ve grown old and weak, re- plied Joe. I ' ll confess at once so that you will be free, the blubbering man was offering. That will do me no good now, replied Joe with a little more sympathy. Maybe God will forgive you. With that his heart grew lighter and he thought for the first time in many days that he might like to sleep. In spite of what Joe had said, the other man confessed his guilt. But when the order for his release came, Joe was already dead. THE CAMPUS ORCHESTRA CHARLEY ' S AUNT The Home Town Boys Swinging Out The Bethanian camera found its way to an informal tea dance and snapped the swing and sway boys in action. The band is made of nine musicians with vocals done by Jim McPherson, the drummer. On April 14th they played for the whole college in chapel, and the attendance was almost 100 percent. The orchestra, which has come to the front since the second semester, has been engaged for several dances already, and from the sound of things in chapel it will have more response from local patronage. Cast of Charley ' s Aunt After The Performance Big time theatrical productions put in their appearance at Bethany on April 8th with the performance of Charley ' s Aunt by the Bethe- spian Club. The play was directed by Mrs. Huntsberger and Miss Hoagland in what ap- pears to be a record time of four weeks. The star of the show is Donna Lucia d ' Alvadorez (alias Carl Geenen alias Lord Fancourt Babber- ly) or Charley ' s aunt. Two suitors for the hand of Charley ' s aunt are Stephen Spettigue (Gene McCracken) and Sir Francis Chesney (Roy Heckel), but due to the timely arrival of Charley ' s real aunt, Geenen is saved from a ter- rible fate. The two conspirators who put Fancourt on the spot are Charley Wykeham (Merle Cunningham) and Jack Chesney (Lew Wells). The time honored butler Brasset (Speed Koval) adds his bit to the male element along with Farmer (Jack Esker). The pulchritude of the play is provided by Kitty Verdun ( Yvonne Balster), Amy Spettigue (Jeanne Jordan), Donna d ' Alvadorez (Janet Flint), Ella Delany (Lee Fiess), and Maude (Betty Ann Reske). The show was a great success, Benny has nothing on Geenen. The picture of some of the cast is shown here, and the cover shows Char- ley ' s aunt having a confidential chat with some other girls. DROWSY PROCTOR A long brown hum is all she hears As she nods upon her bench. A pencil dropping from her hand half-clenched Makes a small smash Echoing along corridors. She sleeps. From a clock-tower far away. Eleven golden beats descend. She stirs, awakens, murmurs low — Oiiief hour— please! Ruth Schwartz PAGE SEVENTEEN HERE ' S WHAT THE CANDID CAMERA PICKED UP AROUND Yjs f . THE CAMPUS I — Jane Douglas and Pete Pletz are mak- ' ing their special request to be played by | Lang Thompson ' s orchestra and vocalized by his pretty singer. 2 — Simply a stamp by library assistant,! Dorothy Ralston, and the books are ready for the concentrated study of Joan Cramb- 1 let and Budd Deer. i 3 — Of all things ! Marty Umbel turned! window washer on February 14 and made. the College Inn windows sparkle. Life w as! hard that day for the ZTA pledges. 4 — On Bethany ' s corridor these twi among the first to loiter in the wan shine. Yes, it ' s Brooklyn (Tony Cus and Mariah Smith. 5 — And they ' re off to the races! It Golbey, Bill Loper and Chuck Brown they ' re starting out for the sailboat Prof. Boeltcher sends them off wi best wishes. 6 — Tw o men on a horse! Bill Sawy Roger Waterman show that it can be Of course Carl Geenon (Au ntie) is substituting. 7 — A second story man, and at Gateway, ' too. No, Bethany policeman wasn ' t called, | for Pug was only trying to retrieve a Mooi Moo Moo bathrobe. 8 — It was really a hot time at th house and Bethany students certainly things fly. Practically everything house w as thrown out of the windoTrt 9 — Jonesy! Of all things! Standins in front of Gateway w ith Ed in your What will Miss Bankert say? It ' s on of those Moo Moo Moo effigies, bu so . . . I 10 — What does go on in front of the Beth-] any House? One warm afternoon Jane; Sturman, Larry Lancaster, and Kit Rowej were in a marvelous mood, and this is thcj result. I II — A typical sight on Bethany ' s campus is! this of Miss Carrigan and Miss Hoagland. j They, too, seem to be camera fie nds, but; who wouldn ' t be on these warm Bethany: days? 12 Here ' s a scenic shot for your coll It ' s the walk to Gateway, if you 1 already guessed it. 13 — Nice horsey. Mary Wilken find; very nice and gentle creatures. Il every coll, though, that gets his noj essed by such a pretty girl. 14 — The KD open house had a very attraction on its front porch. Of i they are only four effigies of the Mc Moos but they do look realistic. , 1 5 Well,, you boys have often vondered about bull sessions, and here is one of the typical gatherings that assemble nightly in Phillips Hall. 16 — Helen Colton and Bill Dowler have approved of the punch for they back for seconds (or was it thirds?) combination ZTA-KA semi-formal da 17 — Maybe you don ' t recognize her but she is a Bethany girl. Of course, she is seldon seen in this pose, as Bethany is primarily I an educational institution. If you really. w ant her name turn to page 23 of this issue. ' PAGE EIGHTEEN EDITORIAL ON THREE QUESTIONS Have We Learned Our Lesson Yet? Hoiv Does If Taste To-day? What Will We Do About It? For some few days of late, this editor has been wondering what subject would be appro- priate for an editorial, or whether there was even a call for one. This question seemed to be an- swered when on Saturday, April 18, 1942, the headlines in red ran thusly: Tokio Bombed. Then there came many thoughts to mind about the effect such news would have upon the home rooters in this land of ours, and the realization also that upon each and every person there rests a responsibility which consists of being level- headed and utilitarian about the whole war with special emphasis upon its aftermath. Wherever there is an opportunity to throw some thoughts, which are at least intended to be intelligent, in- to the carnage, there exists a responsibility to do so. Therefore, the Bethanian allowing space for some such thoughts presents these words, which, though they are dogmatic to the point where they express the ideas and possibly the theories of one person, are meant to be flexible accord- ing to the personalities which read them. The writer does not claim intelligence enough to cope with such weighty topics, he merely aspires to it; read on then. The significant grouping of Arabic letters to form the word Utilitarian provide a mask for a striving philosophy. Underneath the mask should be written these words, The greatest good for the greatest number of people. This then is the meaning of the Utilitarian philoso- phy. The application of this meaning is in real- ity the subject of this editorial. If we search for the place of Utilitarianism in our country today, we will probably discover that its application is a hard and cruel one, but one that appears necessary, nevertheless. We in the U.S.A. have chosen to regard the highest good for the most to be the defense of Christian democracy as we know it with all its failings and evils, yet the best the world has brought forth. Whether we realize it or not this is tvJoat we are doing. The constituency of our nation is almost 100 ' anti-war in normal times. There may have been times when we stepped out of bounds, but those issues were de- cided by their own people; now we have our own issues about which to be concerned. So (Continued on Page 23) THE MANLY MAN The world has room for the manly man, with the spirit of manly cheer; The world delights in the man who smiles when his eyes keep back the tear; It loves the man who, when things go wrong, can take his place and stand With his face to the fight and his eyes to the light, and toil with a willing hand; The manly man is the country ' s need, the moments need, forsooth. With a heart that beats to the pulsing troop of the lilied leagues of truth; The world is his and it waits for him, and it leaps to hear the ring Of the blow he strikes and the wheels he turns and hammers he dares to swing; It likes the forward look on his face, the poise of his noble head. And the onward lunge of his tireless will and the sweep of his dauntless tread! Hurrah for the manly man who comes with sunlight on his face. And the strength to do and the will to dare and the courage to find his place! The world delights in the manly man, and the weak and evil flee When the manly man goes forth to hold his own on land or sea! Anon. PAGE NINETEEN The Greatest Story Ever Told Can Be Captured In a Picture LIBERTY PHOTO SERVICE Pittsburgh, Pa. It pays to Look Well BETHANY BARBER SHOP ' ff-::-L TO ORDER _= . Always a larger as- sortment of lovely blooms. Unusual ar- rangements of the flowers of your choice, from $1.50. FUNK ' S FLOWERS FRATERNITY and SORORITY FASHION CENTER Mrs. Gibson ' s COLLEGE INN Where the Students Go Lunches and Confections Phone 2442 Bethany, W. Va. Drink . . cm, IN BOTTLES PHI Ml] (Continued from Page 14) grand scramble in the chapter of passing record books and duties back and forth, — elections, you know. Anna Laura Burke, who has been our president, and prexy of Pan-Hell as well, passed her gavel on to Gloria Bass. Jean MacLeod is starting a new season of vice-presidency, but has acquired an assistant or second vice- president in the process, — Marty Dardarian. Dottie Reynolds toted all the secretary ' s equipment over to Phyllis Hendrickson ' s room, while Phyllis was busy passing information to Martha Stuart on how to run the treasury. Timmie Simpson has in- herited the office of social chairman from Mary Elizabeth Smith. How- ever, Timmie will continue to lead us at song practice. Among the pledges, Skipp Web- ster does a dandy job as president of the class with Lois Keiser as vice- president and Eunice Johnston, sec- retary, to assist her. The group is now busy writing new songs for the chapter. When it comes down to the last item on the above analysis, unity, love, ambition, and all the other things that make sorority life real and worthwhile, just ask any of us, — we ' ve got them all. — Officers — President — Gloria Bass Vice-President — Jean MacLeod Sec. Vice-Pres. — Martha Dardarian Secretary — Phyllis Hendrickson Treasurer — Martha Stuart — Seniors — Dorothy Reynolds Eleanor Sprouse — Juniors — Anna Laura Burke Angle Bonessi — Sophom ores — Margaret Abel Gloria Bass Bettie Blanck Phyllis Hendrickson Jean MacLeod Timmie Simpson Mary Elizabeth Smith Martha Stuart (Continued on Page 22) Lighting Fixtures — Appliances Lamps — Radios SANDS ELECTRIC CO. .52 Eighteenth Street Phone 146 WHEELING, W. VA. Fine Printing — Our Specialty No order too small to Receive Our Careful Attention THE VALLEY PRESS Eighth Street Wellsburg The student ' s Store L. S. GOOD CO. WHEELING, W. VA. J THE OWL PRINT SHOP The best is none too good for you. Stationery Dance Programs MARKET ST. WHEELING TICKETS and PROGRAMS FOR COLLEGE DANCES and ACTIVITIES Carnegie Union Printing Co. 243 E. Main Street. Carnegie, Pa. Phone 83 PAGE TWENTY Al youneetf ftf eanr ffo % Vi ' You know the story of Axis dictatorship — the lesson is there for all to read : Schools and colleges closed — or turned into breeding grounds for lies and hate. Freedom to ' . . . All you Freedom of speech — verbolen! choose your friends — verboten! need to learn is to obey! Now they would attempt to put the yoke on us — on you. It must not happen here! Whatever the cost, the Axis must be smashed. Your part, as a college student, is clear. You may not be behind a gun today, but you can help today to give our soldiers, sailors, and marines the weapons they need for Victory. Put your dimes and dollars into fighting uniform now by buying United States Savings Bonds and Stamps. You ' ll help not only your country, but yourself — because you are not asked to give your money, but to lend it. You can start buying Bonds by buying Savings Stamps for as little as 10 cents. Start buying today — and keep it up! Save . . . and Save America A with U. S. Savings BONDS STAMPS This space is a contribution to America ' s ALL-OUT WAR EFFORT by the BETHANIAN PAGE TWENTY-ONE 1 Eye Trouble? Let Us Solve Your Trouble Sauilings (©;jttriana. 3«r. 62 12th Street, Wheeling, W. Va. For Collegiate Clothing Come to WEISBERGER ' S Wellsburg, W. Va. LETTERS TO EDITOR DESIRED — • — FOJ ICTORY BUY UNITED STATES DEFENSE SONDS AND STAMPS ODDS AND ENDS OF NEWS Bethany baseball team lost its first game to Marietta 7-4 on Friday, April 17th. Batteries: Bob Alexander arid Pete Pletz. This was the first baseball team to take the field since 1926. • The other day someone brought to the attention of the staff that somewhere they had seen a challenge to a Softball game. After looking in- to their reserves, it was discovered that the Bethanian had some of the greatest ball players this side of the Rockys, and the challenge is hereby gladly accepted. The game will be announced later so that everyone will have an opportunity to see the action. The teams will consist of mixed players. • The annual spring concert of the music department was held on Satur- day evening, April 18th. Lasting for two hours, the program was opened by the choir which was dressed for- mally. Scenes from Faust, Rigoletto, and Cavelleria Rusticana were por- trayed in costume, and these scenes were sung in English. The program was well worth the time it took for preparation, and everyone who was in it or helped prepare it is to be complimented. Special mention goes to those who sang solos and took part in the scenes from the operas. This brief taste of opera awak- ened in most of the audience an in- terest in this branch of culture. PHI MU (Continued from Page 20) — Freshmen — Lois Appleby Betty Bannen Martha Dardarian Mary Lou Fenati Isabelle Francis Eunice Johnston Ruth Judy Lois Keiser Jean Rhodes Mildred Shotton Ruth Taylor Ruth Webster Open Motto — Lcs Soeurs Videles Colors — Kose and ivhite Flou er — Enchantress Carnation Publication — Aglaia Bethany Freshman Now in Service First Bethany man to be called from reserve to active service, was Lt. Raymond M. Harris, Class of ' 45. Now stationed in Alabama, Ray is busy training new troops and en- joying himself tremendously. His present address is Co. B., 1st. Bn., 1st. Reg., B.LRT.C, Fort McClellan, Alabama, in case any of his former buddies would like to drop him a line. The Winning Snow Contest Picture Here is the prize example of the campus photographers. The winner is Phyllis Hendrickson who took this shot of the gates near Cochran Hall during the big snow. She was pre- sented with a prize of one dollar, and the picture in Bethanian. The editors are always glad to receive any good pictures you may have, to use them in the magazine. PAGE TWENTY-TWO EDITORIAL FANTASY (Continued from Page 19) we have concluded one waj or another that the best course to take is one of action, beHeving and hoping, as most Americans do, that this time the lessons from the follies of history will overcome the prejudices and greeds of today. Follies of history; these are the mistakes which, we must remember, we meet in our own immediate positions. When this war has been brought to an end, the end will be chaos for mil- lions of people in Europe and in the East. At that momentous period we must act. We have burned our fingers once in Versailles; we can thumb through the burning pages of history and read of duplication upon duplication of what we experienced in Versailles. Ever since the world ' s first army and on up through the ages we read of the beginnings and conclusions of multitudinous wars. Have we learned our lesson yet? What is the lesson history teaches? It is the same lesson we should be taught by the Golden Rule of life, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The victor has been too much engrossed in his victories and triumphs to remember the conquered as he would choose to be remembered were the conditions but re- versed. This is the greatest evil of the after- math of war, the evil of negligence. Perhaps the second is a lingering spirit of hatred and re- venge. When we look back upon Versailles and study the workings of the peace conference, we find that the negligence of the American people left the American delegation without any con- tinuous support. Perhaps even the League of Nations was voted out by our people because of neglecting to fully consider its meaning for the future. In other words we were so glad to have done with the war, that all else could go to pot while we welcomed the boys home and lis- tened to the bands playing. We have heard much of the sin of omission; this is the same as the sin of negligence. Today we are paying for Versailles and for our negligence, hatred, and revenge double over. Revenge was sweet to some twenty-three years ago; how does it taste today? How does it taste today? It tastes of blood. How will it taste in the future after this war is ended? If we young Americans are on our toes when the tape is broken at the end, we will de- cide. No more negligence, we must continue the struggle for Utilitarianism for the whole world, not just our little sphere. We have been shown that internationalism bridges briefly all expanses of distance, it is ours to decide wheth- er the bridge will be one of fire and sword, or Once a little shadow came And played about my door. And I asked her, Little shadow. Are you tapping there before? Are you searching for the sunlight. Or your playmate, deeper shade, Are you looking for the essence Out of which the world is made? But she laughed and shook her hair out Into shining pools of black. And she said, I ' m hiding here from Sunlight peeping through the crack. In a second I ' ll go join him, And he ' ll shine me out of sight Till my face is lost forever In amazing whirls of light. I could stay to talk no longer. As the door I held swung wide. Sunlight cried, There, now I ' ve found you, And she vanished at his side. Yet she ' ll hide from him tomorrow On the self-same portal ' s edge. And the shut-out sun will clamor From a frosty window-ledge. Till the door I hold swings open, And she runs to join his play. And he shines her out of being. For like most men, that ' s his way. The name of the mystery girl (product of Bethany make-up artists in PhilHps Hall) is Ruth Judy. friendship. We cannot expect our army to come back to be put away on a shelf; the men in the army will have known war, and they shall want a promising constructive peace that will guarantee their descendants life, liberty and happiness. And so even before this war is closed, we must begin and continue the preparation of our minds and wills to call out to our govern- ment with an unmistakable meaning and tone that we want, not revenge, but justice to all. Therefore, the last question, and the most im- portant, is What will we do about it. PAGE TWENTY-THREE His Cigarette ana Aline Yours too for a full share of Mildness Better Taste and Cooler Smoking .. .that s what you and all other cigarette smokers are looking for... and you get it in Chesterfield ' s Right Combination of the world ' s hest cigarette tobaccos. Make your next pack Chesterfields . . . regardless of price there is no better cigarette made today. EVERYWHERE YOU CO h Copyright 1942, Liggett Mvers ToiXcco Co. j - -X-H- ' ■ W YOU WANT STEADY NERVES when you ' re flying Uncle Sam ' s bombers across the ocean GERMANS OR JAPS, storms or ice . . . you ' ve got , to be ready for anything when you ' re flying the big i bombers across the ocean to the battle-front. You ' , bet you want steady nerves. These two veterans ! above are Camel smokers. (Names censored by Bomber Ferry Command.) The captain (nearest cainera), a Tennessean, says: I smoke a lot in this ] job. I stick to Camels. There ' s less nicotine in the smoke. And Camels taste great! , STEADY SMOKERS STICK TO ' ■ CAMELS There ' s LESS NICOTINE ! in the smoke The smoke of slower-burning Camels contains 28% less nicotine than the average of the 4 other largest- selling brands tested— less than any of them— accord- ing to independent scientific tests o the smoke itself! Our Thank-you Notes Since this will be our last opportunity to express our thanks and appreciation publicly, the Bethanian staff doesn ' t want to forget: Speed Koval — the fair-haired photographer without whom your Bethanian would often have been later than it was. His time and coop eration were all given without scholarship aid, and sometimes we even forgot to thank him, but it will be a long time before any future Chief Photographer can match his patience, skill, and dependa- bility. George Sitock — Business Manager of this publication, most thankless job on the campus. It ' s lucky he ' s had a quick temper and a sharp tongue to turn away all the wrath incurred with late issues, three editors, no staff, and irate advertisers. Maybe we haven ' t always appreciated his work or lectures properly, but at least we realize that Business Manager-Editor is a tiresome, thankless, slave- driving position. Our Contributors — who weren ' t always as prompt as they might have been, but were ready and willing to ac- cept assignments, even during test week. The Student Body — who was a contant reminder of late issues, a good critic of features and subject matter, but who, nevertheless, bore with us through a difficult editorial year and often consented to conscription into an ill-organized staff. Geenan and His Sousaphone And as a representative campus group, we ' d like to nominate Carl Geenan, 41-42 freshman and friend, as the student who contributed most to the fun, spirit, and en- joyment of this year ' s Bethany. Certainly Carl was an able and willing life of every college party and activity. He has received an appointment to Annapolis in January, but in his brief time at college, he has become a part of the Bethany Spirit he promoted; he should be one of our well-remembered, most welcome Alumni. .BETHANIAN Senior Issue Volume 33 — Number 8 May, 1942 If it is printable, you ' ll find it hrr! CONTENTS Page Our Thank-you Notes 3 Commencement Prbgram 4 And So They Graduated 5 Senior Pictures 6-12 Seniors Without Pictures Outstanding Seniors Personalities Coronation of Interfraternity Queen Senior Couples A Bethanian Looks at the World and the Future Blue-Law Appeasement Letters to the Editor and Students 13 14 15 16 17 18 ORGANIZATION EDITORIAL STAFF George Northrup B. A. Plank Yvonne Balster Martha Dardarian Florence Nicholas Stan Brown Virginia Forrey John Costanza Speed Koval Photographer George Sitock Business Manager Jim Barnes Assistant Business Manager CIRCULATION STAFF Mariah Smith Evelyn Baxter Myron Greiper Grace Benedict Jack Baumgartner Everett Stewart Marilyn Waugh Nellie Mcllvain Bctlmniaii, a magazine of features and photographs, published each month from October through May by the Student Board of Publications of Bethany College. Entered as second class matter on January 14, 1920, at the Post Office at Bethany, W. Va., under the Act of March 1, 1879. Subscription price: Four dollars the year. Volume XXXIII, Number 8. PAGE THREE Bethany College One Hundred and First Annual COMMENCEMENT Academic Procession from Pendleton Heights to Commencement Hall The President of the College, presiding Processional — Pomp and Circumstance, in D Elgar The National Anthem The Audience Singing Invocation Professor E. Lee Perrj ' Presentation of the Class of 1942 for Baccalaureate Degrees Dean of the Faculty Emitte Spiritu Tuum Schuetky Bethany College Choir Presentations for Honorary Degrees Dr. Sao-ke Alfred Sze for the degree of Doctor of Laws Major General Richard K. Sutherland for the degree of Doctor of Laws Rev. J. Frank Green for the degree of Doctor of Divinity Hon. J. Weldon Jones for the degree of Doctor of Laws Commencement Address Hon. J. Weldon Jones Posing the Right Question Moment of Appreciation for Bethany Sons in the Armed Services Moment of Appreciation for Professor Anna Ruth Bourne Announcements The Alma Mater Benediction Rev. J. Frank Green Recessional — Triumphal March, from Fifth Symphony Beethoven ACADEMIC HONORS IN THE GRADUATING CLASS Summa Cum Laude Cum Laude Hilda Sarver, Mercer, Pa. Harold Theodore Blank, Youngstown, O. Edward Orr Elsasser, Washington, D. C. James Robert Huntsberger, Reading, Pa. Ralph Edward Pryor, Wheeling, W. Va. Magna Cum Laude Barbara Gordon Schutt, Germantown, Pa. Elizabeth Jean Murphy, Pittsburgh, Pa. John Robert Smudski, Greensburg, Pa. Rosemary Ann Roberts, Washington, D.C. Eleanor June Sprouse, Newell, W. Va. j Irvan Druid Roche, Mt. Lebanon, Pa. EHzabet ' h D. White, Bethany, W. Va. i COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATIONS PASSED WITH DISTINCTIONS James Robert Huntsberger Chemistry Elizabeth Jean Murphy Biology Lily B. Pendleton Psychology Ralph Edward Pryor Economics Rosemary Ann Roberts French Hilda Sarver Chemistry Barbara Gordon Schutt Psychology John Robert Smudski Biblical Literature Elizabeth D. White Economics PAGE FOUR Reading the above pictures like you read print, you ' ll see: 1. Sidney C. Porter, retiring president of the Alumni Association, Mr. Hettler, and Miss Alice Drake, new Alumni president, as Miss Drake unveils the Beth- any War Roll. 2. Seniors summing up their knowledge in the Tuesday morning. May 12, comprehensive. 3. In approximate alnhabetic order, the seniors march to Commencement Hall. 4. Baccalaureate procession. 5. Listening to the quartet at the faculty reception for seniors. 6. Alumni Banquet. 7. Pendleton Heights perch during faculty reception. 8. Dean Kirkpatrick cites Dr. Sao-ke Alfred Sze to President Cramblet. 9. Even diploma-giving was accelerated in 1942 ' s rush. And So They Graduated It started Thursday evening. May 14, the big week- end for the class of 1942. It started slowly, with the formal but friendly faculty reception for Seniors, at the Heights. The quartet was in fine voice. The refresh- ments were refreshing, though the green lime ice was frozen a little too hard. Rev. Stevenson chipped some of it onto the carpet. But as Miss Mahaffey said later, It was the friendliest reception we ' ve had in years. Next day, Friday, was a long wait for the Interfra- ternity Ball. Midway through the evening Barney Rapp ' s crchestra halted while IF President Don Kramer wreathed Queen Bettv Murphy with a circle of red and white car- nations. That night was the year ' s only 1:00 a. m. per- mission. And it rained. Saturday people slept in till noon, got up for lunch, slept till the Alumni Banquet at 6 o ' clock or more. At the banquet the quartet ran through their repertoire again. Miss Alice Drake was elected president of the Alumni Association, and Bill Siemon and Forence Nicho- las left early. They had to go to a wedding. Nothing happened Saturday night — officially. But next day, Sunday, May 17, was full. The Baccalaureate procession, after a long wait, filed down the hill to the church, to hear Dr. Cramblet speak of times that try men ' s souls, and to tell graduates that now is your time to win the war and the peace. By the time Baccalaureate was over, Bethany was thick with visitors. Graduates-to-be, with their moth- ers, fathers, sisters, brothers, uncles, aunts, and friends, dined in Phillips Hall, Bethany House, the Gray Bonnet, and the Inn. Commencement in the afternoon was an accelerated program. But it was also a broadcast one, the first Beth- any commencement to be radioed. Receiving an honorary degree. Dr. Soa-ke Alfred S e, first Chinese ambassador to the U. S., told of continuing educational zeal in his shat- tered country. Assistant director of the budget J. Wel- don Jones, addressing the graduates, claimed that The issue is not the old order versus the ' new order ' . The question is what will be the new order? The weekend flurry ended with the President ' s re- ception in the late afternoon. Come Monday. The ex-seniors had begun to dwindle away, leaving Bethany with only three classes. Those graduates who hung on, freed from study worries, gibed underclassmen just beginning to plunge into the academic testing-grounds. PAGE FIVE Seniors ELEANOR ACHTERMAN . . . Stroudsburg, Pa.... Psychology. . . Y.W.C.A. 1, Vice President 2, Treasurer and Librarian 3; Alpha Psi Omega 3, 4; Student Guide 3, 4; S.B.O.G. Secretary 3, Executive Board of A.W.S. 3, President 4; Alpha Xi Delta, Historian 4; Pi Gamma Mu 4; Who ' s Who in American Colleges and Universities 4. GLADYS ARMOR . . Tarentum, Pa. . . Psychology . . . Zcta Tau Alpha, Social Chairman 3; French Club 2; Outing Club Treasurer 3; Y.W.C.A. 1, 2, 3, 4; Class Secretary 3, 4; Cheerleader 3, 4; Secretarial Science Club 3. WILBUR CRAMBLET . . . Bethany, W. Va. . . . Eco- nomics . . .Cross Country , 3, 4; Track 1, 2, 3; Bethespian Club 3; Sigma Nu, Recorder 4; Mathematics Assistant 4; Church Deacon 3, 4. GEORGE HARDING DAVIS . . . Sharon, Pa. . . . History. . .Bethanian 1, 2; Bethespian Club 1, 2, 3; In- ternational Relations Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Education Club 2; Treasurer 3, President 4; S.B.O.G. 2, Vice-President 3, Social Chairman 4; Sigma Nu, Secretary 3, Rushing Chairman 3, 4; History Assistant 4; Who ' s Who in American Colleges and Universities. PAGE SIX i i Seniors EDWARD ORR ELSASSER . . . Washington, D. C. . . .History. . . Bethanian 1, Managing Editor 2; Inter- fraternity Council 1, 2, President 3; Sigma Nu, Lt. Ccmmander 2, Commander 3; Moo Moo Moo 2, 3, 4; In- ternational Relations Club 2, 4, Vice-President 3; Church Deacon 4; Track 1, 2; Cross Country 1, 2; Pi Gamma Mu; History Assistant and Senior Fellow. JANICE F. EVANS. . .Carnegie, Pa.. . .Physical Ed- ucation. . .Outing Club 3; Pan-Hellenic Council 4; Ath- letic Board of Control, Secretary 3, 4; Treble Clef 1; Kappa Delta, Ass ' t Treasurer 2, Historian 3, 4, Rush Chairman 4; Y.W.C.A. 1, 2; W.A.A. 2, President 3, 4; German Club 1,2; Education Club 4; Bethespian Club 2, 3; Phy. Ed. Assistant 3, 4; Phillips Hall Social Chairm.in 4. WILLIAM EARLE GRIFFITHS ... Wellsville, Ohio . . .Biblical Literature. . .Ministerial Association 1, 2, Vice-President 3, 4; Kappa Alpha, Treasurer 4; S.B.O.G. 3, 4; Student Pastor 3, 4; Football Manager . ' ' ™ WALLACE A. MAYOR . . . Wheeling, W. Va. . . . Journalism ... Bethanian 1; Cross Country 1, 2; Track 1; Baseball 4; Sigma Nu, Secretary 4, Song Leader 3, 4; Twenty Club 4; Glee Club 1; Chief of News Bureau 4. PAGE SEVEN Seniors JOHN C. McCORD, JR.. . .Wellsburg, W. Va. . . . Chemistry. . .Cross Country 1, 2, 3, 4; Track 1, 2, 3; ] Radio Club 1, 2, 3. 1 i RUTH BEVERLY MOSER . . . Smithfield, Pa. . . . English. . .French Club 1; Y.W.C.A. 1, 2, 3, 4; Educa- tion Club 2, 3, 4; Kappa Delta; W.A.A. 2, 3; Student Guide 4. LILY PENDLETON . . . West Springfield, Mas s. . . . Psychology. . .French Club 2, 3, 4; German Club 4; Writer ' s Club 4; Riding Club 3. RALPH PRYOR. . .Warwood, W. Va. . . .Economics . . .Sigma Nu, Treasurer 2, Lt. Commander 3, Comman- der 4; Basketball 2, 3, 4; Interfraternity Council, Secrc- trry-Treasurer 3; Tennis 3; Pi Gamma Mu. PAGE EIGHT Seniors MARTIN DAVID REITER . . . Tarentum, Pa. . . . Biology. . .Beacon 1; Football 1, 2, 3; Biology Assistant 3, 4; Bethanian 4; Vice-President Independent Men 4; S.B.O.G. 2. DOROTHY REYNOLDS . . . Moundsville, W. Va. . . . Biology. . .Y.W.C.A.; Bethespian 1; W.A.A. 1; Phi Mu, Secretary 4; Band 4; S.B.O.G. 2; Biology Assistant 2, 3, 4; German Club 1, President 2, Secretary 3. ROSEMARY ROBERTS .. .Washington, D. C. . . . French. . -French Club 1, 2, 3, Vice-president 4; Y.W C.A. 1, 2, 4, President 3; President Independent Women 3. IRVAN D. ROCHE . . . Mt. Lebanon, Pa. . . . Chem- istry . . . Beta Theta Pi, Rush Chairman, Vice-president 3, President 4; Interfraternity Council, Vice-president 4; Class Vice-president 1; S.B.O.G. Vice-president 3: Glee Club 2; Gamma Sigma Kappa 4; Who ' s Who in American Colleges and Universities 4; Senior Fellow in Chemistry. PAGE NINE Seniors HILDA SARVER . . . Mercer, Pa. . . . Chemistry . . . W.A.A. 1, 2, 3, 4; Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Kappa Delta, President 3, 4; S.B.O.G. 3, 4; Student Guide 2, 3, 4; Gamma Kappa 4. LEON SCHLIFF . . Watcrbury, Conn. . . . Biology . Biology Assistant. JOANNE P. SCHOTT . . . Clarksburg, W. Va. . . . Psychology. . . Zeta Tau Alpha, President 3; Student Guide 3, 4; W.A.A. 1, 2; Bethespian Club 3, 4; Y.W.C.A. President 4; Alpha Psi Omega 3, 4; Social Committee 3, 4; Sociology Club 4; Outing Club, Secretary 4; S.B.O.G. 3, 4; Who ' s Who in American Colleges and Universities. FREDERICK GORDON SEIDEL . . . Baltimore, Md. . . .History. . .Bethespian 1, 2; Bethanian 1, 2, 4, Man- aging Editor 3 ; Athletic Board of Control 1 ; Glee Club 1, 2; International Relations Club 2, Vice-president 3, President 4; S.B.O.G. 3, 4; Cross Country Manager 3; Alpha Kappa Pi, President 4; Moo Moo Moo 2, 3, 4; Choir 3, 4; Pi Gamma Mu 3, 4; Interfraternity Council 3, Pres- ident 4; History Assistant. PAGE TEN Seniors JOHN EDWARD SIMERAL . . . Coraopolis, Pa. . . . Chemistry. . .Kappa Alpha; Chemistry Assistant 2, 3; Football 1, 2, 3, 4; Baseball 4; 20 Club 4; Interfratern- ity Council 4; Athletic Board of Control 4. PHYLIS SKILTON . . . Winstcd, Conn. . . . English . . Kappa Delta. FLORA JANE SMITH ... Wellsburg, W. Va. . . . Psychology. . .Alpha Xi Delta, House Manager 3, Secre- tary 4; Y.W.C.A. 1, 3, 4. ELEANOR SPROUSE . . . Newell, W. Va. . . . Music . . .Y.W.C.A. 1, 2, 3, 4; Treble Clef 1, 2; Choir 3, 4; W.A.A. 2, 3; Secretarial Training Club 3; Phi Mu. PAGE ELEVEN Seniors JUDY WAKEFIELD . . . Harrisburg, Pa. . . . Econom- ics . . .Student Guide 3, Secretary 4; Executive Board of A.W.S. 1; Zeta Tau Alpha; Rifle Club, Secretary 3, 4; Bet ' hanian 1. ELEANOR WATERHOUSE. .Whcclins, W. Va. . . . Economics. . .Alpha Xi Delta, Historian 3, Vicc-presdent 4; Alpha Psi Omega 3, 4; Pan-Hellenic Association 2, 3, 4; Bethespian Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Y.W.C.A. 1, 2, 3, 4; Alpha Psi Omega 3, 4. MARY JEAN WEIR. . .McDonald, Pa.. . .Psychology j . . .Rifle Club 1; Beacon 1; Y.W.C.A. 1, 2, 3, 4; Zeta i Tau Alpha, Librarian 4. ELIZABETH WHITE . . . Bethany, W. Va. . . . Eco- nomics . . .Economics Assistant 3, 4; Pi Gamma Mu 4; Bethespian 1, 2; W.A.A. 2; Y.W.C.A. 3. PAGE TWELVE Seniors without Pict ures PHYLLIS JANE BALCH . . . Follansbee, W. Va., . . . Music. . .Band 1, 2, 3, 4; Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4; Choir 3, 4; French Club 3, 4; Treble Clef 1; S.B.O.G. 3, 4. HAROLD THEODORE BLANK . . . Youngstown, Ohio. . .Economics. . .Track 1, 2, 3; Boxing 1, 2, 3; Football Manager 2; International Relations Club 3, 4; Ministerial Association 4; Kappa Alpha; Church Deacon 4; Radio Club 3; Glee Club 1, 2; Divisional Church Board 4. GWENDOLYN BORDEN . . . Mount Vernon, Ohio .. .Education. . .Y.W.C.A. 1, 2; Outing Club 3, 4; Class Treasurer 3, 4; Zeta Tau Alpha, Social Chairman 4, Librarian 2. PAUL BOWERS. . .Wcllsburg, W. Va. . . .Economics . . .Glee Club 2; Choir 3, 4; Beta Thcta Pi. JANE CAMPBELL . . . Toronto, Ohio . . . Sociology . . . P.C.W. 1, 2; Alpha Xi Delta, House Manager 4; Bethes- pian 3; Y.W.C.A. 3. JOHN V. COSTANZA ... Oil City, Pa. . . . Journal- ism . . .Beacon Editor 1; Bcthanian 2, Editor 3; News Bureau 1, 2, 3; Exchange Student to Peru 3, 4; Spanish Cub 3, 4; Alpha Psi Omega 3, 4. FRANCES DVORAK... Oak Park, 111. ... Biology . . .Kappa Delta, Vice-President 3, Editor 4, Social Chair- man 3, 4; Y.W.C.A. 1, 2, 3, 4; French Club 1, 2, 3; Band 1, 2; Choir 4; Spanish Club 4; S.B.O.G. 3; Pan-Hellenic Council 3; W.A.A. 1, 2, 3, 4. MILDRED ERSKINE. . .Washington, D. C. . . .Music Choir 3, 4; Treble Clef 1, 2; Y.W.C.A. 1, 4, Cabinet 2, 3; Executive Board of A.W.S. 1, 2, 3, 4; Alphi Xi Delta, Treasurer 3, President 4; Student 3, 4; Pan-Hellanic Council 4. EDWARD GOLDEN . . . Wheeling, W. Va. . . . Bio- logy . . .Kappa Alpha, Secretary 2, President 3; Band 1, 2; Orchestra 1, 2. RUTH ANN HALTER . . . Wheeling, W. Va. . . . Psychology. . .Zeta Tau Alpha; W.A.A. 1, 2; Outing Club 3, 4; Y.W.C.A. 1, 2, 3. GRACE HENKEL . . . Pittsburgh, Pa. . . . Psychology . . .Student Guide 4; Zeta Tau Alpha, Vice-President 3; Y.W.C.A. 1, 2,3; Psychology Assistant 4. JIM HUNTSBERGER . . . Bethany, W. Va. . . . Chem- istry . . .German Club 1, 2; Bethespian Club 1, 2, Presi- dent 3, 4; Chemistry Assistant 3, 4; Alpha Psi Omega President 4. BERTRAM MAJOR . . . Wheeling, W. Va. . . . Eco- nomics . . .Kappa Alpha, Vice President 2; Baseball 4. BETTY MURPHY . . . Pittsburgh, Pa. . . . Biology . . . Zeta Tau Alpha, Treasurer 3, President 4; Executive Board of A.W.S. 3, Vice-President 4; Pan-Hellenic Coun- cil 2, Secretary 4; Biology Assistant 2, 3, Senior Fellow 4; Student Guide 3, 4; Outstanding Junior Girl; Y.W.C.A. Board 2; Choir 2; W.A.A. 1, 2; German Club 1, 2, 3; S.B.O.G. 3 ; Who ' s Who in American Colleges and Uni- versities. FLORENCE NICHOLAS . . . Washington, Pa. . . . English. . .Writer ' s Club 2, 3, 4; Bethanian 4; English Assistant 4. MORRISON RATCLIFFE . . . Beech Bottom, W. Va. . . .Economics. . .Glee Club 2; Choir 3, 4; Kappa Alpha, Social Chairman 3, Secretary 4; French Club 2, 3; Phy. Ed. Assistant 4; Assistant Secretarial Science 4; Bethes- pian Club 1, 2, 3. CHARLES SCHULENBERG . . . Bridgeport, Ohio . . . Chemistry . . . Tau Kappa Epsilon. BARBARA GORDON SCHUTT, R.N. . . . Ithaca, N. Y. . . .Psychology. . .Student Nurse; Alpha Xi Delta, Scholarship Chairman 3, Chaplain 4; Helwig Hall Social Chairman 2; Phillips Hall President 3; Student Guide 3, Chairman 4; Executive Board of A.W.S., Corresponding Secretary 3; Assasems 4; Orchestra 2, 3; McKlnleyville Child Clinic 2. WILLIAM L. SEIMON. . .Pittsburgh, Pa. . . . Matha- matics . . .Alpha Kappa Pi, Treasurer 3, 4; Track 3; Moo Moo Moo 3, 4. J. ROBERT SMUDSKI . . . Greensburg, Pa. . . . Biblical Literature. . .Football 1, 3; Basketball 1, 2; Track 1; Baseball 3; Band 1, 2, 3; S.B.O.G. 2; Ministerial Associa- tion 1, 2, President 3; Student Pastor 1, 2, 3; President Independent Men 2; Senior Fellow; Who ' s Who in Amer- ican Colleges and Universities. MARGARET ELIZABETH STEIN ... Elm Grove, W. Va. . . .English. . .Student Guide 4; Pan-Hellenic Coun- cil 4; Zeta Tau Alpha, Secretary 3; Phillips Hall President 4; Helwig Hall President 3; Secretarial Club, Vice-Presi- dent 3; Assasems; Orientation Assistant 3. WILLIAM HAMILTON STOPHEL . . . McKeesport Pa.. . .Psychology. . .Sigma Nu; Class Vice-President 3, President 4; 20 Club 4. RUTH SWARTZ. . .Pittsburgh, Pa. ... English .. . Writer ' s Club 1, 2, 3, 4; English Assistant 4. HELENMAE WEINIK . . . New York City . . . Psych- ology . . .German Club 1, 2; Writer ' s Club 3, 4; Psych- ology Assistant 4. PAGE THIRTEEN Bethanian Poll of Outstanding Senior Personalities Remember b.ic ' .v in one of those last chapel periods when we took this Senior poll? Well, you ' ll find the re- FUTURE HALL OF VKME NOMINEE 75 Eleanor Achterman 122 Hilda Sarver 4S George Davis 83 John Costanza 60 Bob Smudski SAGE AND STUDENT 51 Barbara Schutt 128 Betty Murphy 14 Florence Nicholas 111 Gordon Seidel 22 Edward Elsasser BEST BEllER HALF 64 Judy Wakefield 28 Margaret Stein 34 Phyllis Skilton 29 Flora Jane Smith 10 Sue Beth Archer 10 Florence Nicholas 25 Janice Evans 9 Jane Campbell BETTER WORST HALF 24 Wilbur Cramblet 51 Irvan Roche 16 Bill Griffiths 38 Bill Stophel 19 Gordon Seidel 26 Jim Huntsberger 25 Jack Simeral BEAUTY ( women) 150 Ruth Halter 54 Judy Wakefield (men) 98 Bill Stophel 96 Irvan Roche TALENT 46 Florence Nicholas 143 Midge Erskine PAGE FOURTEEN suits below and, contrary to absurd rumor, TELL did «o have the results at any time. . .. 107 Jim Huntsberger 98 Ted Golden PRIDE OF THE FACULTY (and you know what we mean) 48 Sue Beth Archer 133 Margaret Stein George Davis — Unanimous POSSESSOR OF THE MOST PECULIAR HAT 127 Wally Mayor 84 Charles Schulenberg SENIOR ATHLETES (or should we avoid the subject?) Janice Evans — Unanimous 99 Jack Simeral 101 Jack Pryor IDEAL SENIOR COUPLE 137 Costanza-Schutt 3 8 Nicholas-Siemon 80 Bordon-Bowers MOST POPULAR CAMPUS DATE (entanglements don ' t count) 105 Joanne Schott 102 Gladys Armor Bill Stophel — Unanimous WIT (caustic) 106 Jane Campbell 93 Sue Beth Archer WIT (men) 139 Gordon Seidel 3 3 Bob Davis 37 Paul Bowers GROOMING 77 Eleanor Waterhouse 147 Joanne Schott 41 George Davis 154 Bill Stophel f i i CORONATION of the Inter fraternity Queen Betty Mur-hy is crowned Interfraternity Queen at the Court of the Pan-Helle- nic and Interfraternity Councils. Her attendants are Joanne Schott and Eleanor Waterhouse. SENIOR COUPLES (Left) Most Ideal Sen- ior Couple, Barbara Schutt and John Costan- za, pose in Cap and Gown. (Right) Florence Nicho- las and Bill Siemon, who were married in Bethany Memor ' al Church, May 16. PAGE FIFTEEN A Bethanian Looks at The World and the Future- And here we are at another last issue, another school year gone by, another page torn from the calendar. Lo- cally we are wondering about next year ' s Bethanian, whether or not it will replace the New York Times, the army, the draft, how we ' re going to get through another year of school without being bothered by the draft board or a marriage proposal. All of which is not to be dealt with lightly. But what about the future, post war, not only in relation to ourselves, but to the nation, even the world? A prediction at best is only a stab in the dark with the blade sheathed. Even when backed up with reams of facts and figures, it is still only a thrust into blackness, only in this case we may allow that the blade is un- sheathed. The remainder of facts and figures recalls the shot about figures don ' t lie but how liars can figure. This will be figuring, so be wary. It would be fanatical to expect any such article to be universally accepted even if written by someone who knew what they were talking about. So take this for what it is worth. Why be asinine? We ' ll never see the same conditions in this country that we saw before; nor will they be what we hope for. But they can ' t be as bad as subjegation. Although I ' m sure that this won ' t be in agreement with the opinion of conscientious objectors, I ' d rather we be forced to inflict our way of life on others than have an Axian way of life forced on us. If this be oppression call it that and call me a S mon Legree or what have you. As far as I can see it — and this whole article is just a series of personal impressions — American dominance even where it should not have happened, has turned out well. Our un- justifiable seizure of Puerto Rico and the Philllpines in our own days of expansion have been partially allayed by the improvements we have made in those places. There- fore, if it becomes necessary to inflict an uncompromising peace and one side must prove the master of the other, let it at least be world subjegation to the United States in- stead of the bayonet-point allegiance to Benny of Italy, Hiro of Tokyo, and Shikelgruber of Berlin. And now, after that patriotic outburst, everybody take time out to buy a defense stamp and we ' ll go on under the assumption that the United States will win the war. Why did I say the United States instead of the Allies? Because I don ' t think the U. S. was a direct cause of the war and because I don ' t think England would have won even with her dominions and Indian slaves. And don ' t forget that England and the Soviet are very strange bed- fellows; England was more afraid she would have to fight Russia than Germany for many years, and from what I can gather they are still not the type who would share their last piece of Yorkshire pudding and bottle of Vodka to- gether. The Russians are still a threat to us. I shall prefer to beware of such propaganda that the Treasury Depart- ment put out on the May second This Is War program, in which an American soldier said that the United States has misunderstood the Communists and that the young people are more than ever in favor of Russia. Remember that Russia is fighting a war of preservation too, and if she can get help from us in the form of equipment and technical aid, she will surely not refuse it. After the war, why shouldn ' t Stalin insist that his way of life has tri- umphed, and demand mastery of the peace board? Per- haps we shall see this danger too late, if it is a danger. This might be the time to bring in Dr. Crobaugh ' s ana- logy about the camel pushing his head into the Arab ' s tent, and the Arab ' s moving out a little. Then the camel moves in a little more, and the Arab retreats. Finally, the Arab wonders how he got pushed out of his tent alto- gether until he lifts the flap to see the camel sleeping too peacefully to be disturbed. So, we assumed that the United States won the war and that world peace conditions have been all set to take care of themselves and all we have to do is to take care of ourselves. Now what? Well, we ' ll probably have a war debt of almost $210,000,000,000. How to pay it off? Brother, you figure that out and your fortune is made. But yet again, another assumption (that ' s the easiest way to get through this thing, maybe the debt will be cancelled or in some way taken care of). Maybe the Student Board gives the gov- ernment an appropriation, but anyway, the debt is out of the way. That leaves something else. Let ' s stop for a minute to take stock of something. We say we have a republican type of democracy. What- ever your conception of democracy, it probably includes factors in reference to the rule of the majority, opportun- ity for self-advancement, the freedom of religion and ex- pression and guarantees against want, fear and oppression. Well, with the sudden unemployment of the millions working on previous defense jobs, with the return of an estimated five million service men, there will be a lot of people wanting work. Add to that the danger of post- war inflation, which will lessen the value of the people ' s dollar, and you have a problem. High costs won ' t help much either. Add it all together plus indices of pre-war and I ' ll think you ' ll find that there are a lot of people who aren ' t living in a democracy. But if the majority has a chance, they ' ll want the things they were told they were fighting for. You know how they ' ll get it. But don ' t be afraid. Socialism doesn ' t have to be that bad. We ' ve been told about the evils of that system for so long we never stop to realize how much socialism (Continued on Page 19) PAGE SIXTEEN Blue-Law Appeasement A report from the Student- Administration Committee Concerning Sunday Social Activities Perhaps some of you remember the student-adminis- tration feud that was precipitated by the Sunday night Forum and the February issue of the Bethanian. But no doubt the majority were too submerged by tests and army questionnaires to realize what action, if any, resulted from the fracas. To review the course of events: in late February a new Sunday night Forum group was organized to discuss stu- dent problems. The first meeting was well attended, and enthusiastic criticism of our social program (aimed at Sunday evenings), led to the appointment of a committee to bring the problem to the Student Board of Governors. The following week the Bethanian presented the same question. Answering student demand, Harvey Wilson, at a somewhat tragic meeting of the S.B.O.G. attended by faculty and students, appointed a committee to survey the situation and make recommendations for improve- ments. After three lengthy meetings the special committee niaJc the following report: As the result of considerable feeling by the students thit there is a lack of opportunity for social and recrea- tional expression in the college, the Student Board of Governors several weeks ago appointed a student-faculty committee to review the situation and aim at relieving it. ' The committee encountered what happened to be the bottleneck in the social situation — the problem of restricted activity on Sundays, and the existence of only one social outlet, the motion pictures, on Friday evenings. The committee is fully aware that the social-recre- ational life of the college student is much wider in scope than the two points mentioned, and does not represent a particularistic viewpoint because it deals only with these two points. It must be noted that the committee was not set up to study all the complexity of a college social program and its relation to other educational alms, but merely a small part of it. But the committee believes that the questions presented are important in any balanced view of the program. After analyzing the opportunities for recreational outlet on Sunday, and carefully comparing the arguments in favor of extending the program with the arguments against it, the committee concludes that individual sports should be permitted on the campus on Sundays. Specifi- cally, these are swimming, tennis, horseback riding, fenc- ing, archery, badminton and handball. The main gymna- sium floor as well as the the swimming pool should be opened. The maintenance and supervision necessary could be provided by the regular student assistants in the Phy- sical Education department. The committee also believes that card-playing should be permitted on Sunday in the social rooms of the dormitories and sorority houses.. It is evident that the students who do not attend the motion picture Friday evening have little else to choose from in the way of entertainment. The commit- tee asks that the motion picture begin earlier, probably at 7:30 p.m. This would leave sufficient time after the pictures to make it possible to schedule Open Houses for Friday. This change should be announced with at least a week ' s anticipation and should be kept on trial for at least several weeks. To meet the frequently arising problems that con- cern the college and the students, the committee recom- mends the establishment of a permanent Student-Faculty Committee with a rotating membership, to aid the Stu- dent Board of Governors by offering unbiased analyses and solutions to such problems as they arise. The committee asks that this report be considered at the earliest possible time so that some concrete results can be given to the students who so earnestly asked for them. By the Committee, John Costanza, chairman; Miss Mahaffey, Betsy Ann Plank, Bob Smudski, Jeanne Styre, Dr. Woolery. Harvey, realizing the inability of the S.B.O.G. to take any direct action, asked that the recommendations be presented by committee members to the Council on Guidance and Personnel, composed of Dean Weimer, Miss Hoagland, Miss Carrigan, Rev. Stevenson, and Mr. Hettler. At the second of these joint committee meetings it was decided that swimming, badminton, tennis, and other individual games would be allowed on Sunday, Proper tennis costume and court regulation would have to be supervised by students, and student life-guards must also contribute their services at the pool. No team games would be allowed because of excessive noise and activity, and horseback riding was vetoed because of little student participation. The hours of permission granted all these sports were to be limited according to Church services and meal times. The faculty, particularly Dean Weimer and Dr. Woolery, who took active interest in the students ' de- mands, were very cooperative and anxious that a joint faculty-student group would continue to discuss campus problems, thereby improving the administration and stu- dent relationship. Although the response to this action was small, per- haps the students will realize now that it is possible to discuss their demands with the administration, and by go- ing through proper channels, gain compromise action. No doubt this fall, arguments over whether all college men should eat at the Bethany House and problems incurred by acceleration will dominate campus discussion. This one example of intelligent cooperation and action should prove that these problems may be considered and present- ed thoughtfully and forcefully enough to make student opinion a power to be reckoned with in Bethany. PAGE SEVENTEEN Letters to Editor And Students From the alumni, from the administration, and from the students came the cry, Where are all the pictures of the classes? Why haven ' t more students had their pic- tures taken? From the time of the Roman civilization the star that guided most people was the amount of money they possessed.This is true today as it was then. The students of the school could not or would not have their pictures taken, therefore, according to contract, their pictures are not in the Bethanian. No one realizes this more than I, but there is very little that can be done about it at this late date. What can be done? This is a very logical question. There are several things that can be done in the future to avoid such a catastrophe. The first suggestion would be to assess every student in the school one dollar to pay the sitting fee of the professional photographer. This could only be done through a great deal of red tape, but, if nec- essary, it could be done. The second suggestion would be to make a contract with a professional photographer to take the pictures of all freshmen and seniors at the expense of the Student Board of Publications. The sophomore and junior class would be shown using the pictures taken in the freshman year, unless the student paid his own sitting fee for a new picture. The third suggestion would be to have informal pictures taken by a Bethanian photo- grapher of a the classes except the Seniors What will be done about it will depend on you, the students and representatives of the Student Board of Governors. Wake up Bethanians. This is your maga zine. Ex- press your opinion for a better magazine-year book for 1942-43. George Sitock, Business Manager. P-S. — Thank you for your cooperation of the past year. dissatisfaction at student demands for self-government and social activity : .... It is doubtful, however, as to whether I would have spoken with any different intent or purpose even if I had been better informed about your grievances because of some of the things I mentioned represent fundamentals in my philosophy of education. Here is about the way my thinking lines up: 1. The college is an experience in both living and learning, which means that it is an experience in learning how to prefer the best because of having lived and known the things that are preferable. 2. The direction and planning of college affairs is a co-operative enterprise between students and faculty with each group carrying important, but differentiated, respon- sibilities. 3. Student government — in any form — does not come by proclamation or official delegation of privileges. It comes as students are able and ready to carry the serious obligations of government. 4. The privilege of self-government must be earned by evidence of dependability, responsibility, industry, ethical and moral values, social-mindedness, and many ether character qualities. 5. There should be no suppression of free speech — written or oral — so long as it represents truth, good taste, and sound ethics. Certainly this has never been an issue at Bethany. 6. In these times, students and faculty members should be giving time and attention to significant issues — and not to small matters. Dancing on Sunday is hardly a big issue and it has never warranted the time and attention given to it. 7. We Americans can not escape moral responsibility to have some constructive part in the serious demands that are upon us because of war. We can not escape by stop- ping our ears or by believing that we are still too young or too far removed from reality for serious and important thoughts. 8. The college is not simply an institution, an organi- zation, or a program. To look upon it in such a light is to underestimate the fullness of the life it nourishes. A college experience must contribute to the moral wisdom and leadership of society, teaching student how to live to- gether with mutual respect and with a sense of high and significant purpose. It is partly the responsibility of the faculty to disturb the complacency and uproot the nar- rowness of student thinking (or lack of thinking) and part of my remarks at the Sunday evening discussion were with that aim in mind. In a positive way the college should elevate student purposes, make clear their vision, and lead an intellectual clarity to life ' s major problems. Sincerely, FORREST H. KIRKPATRICK Dean of Students. AN OPEN LETTER TO THE EDITOR FROM THE DEAN OF STUDENTS The following letter was received after Dean Kirk- patrick had made a visit to the campus and expressed his Dear Editor: A good definition of Spring for the next Bethanian: Spring — that time of year when a young man ' s fancy idley turns to thoughts of next year ' s freshman class. Anon. PAGE EIGHTEEN i A Bethanian Looks at The IVorld and the Future--- (Continued from Page 16) we have. American history will prove that both major political parties have slowly adopted the program set up by the socialist party in former years The liberals had the idea long ago. They were young ideas and it took us a long time to become accustomed to them. If you wish, you can tie it up with Tennyson ' s Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. . . (Eng. 32, MWF 11 or 3). Well, we can push the camel out as soon as he sticks his head in the tent, but they say that camels are tough customers when aroused. Or, we can let the camel in the tent, wait until he falls asleep, and move the whole tent away from him. Or maybe we can let the camel have half the tent and keep the rest for ourselves. In other words, we can reject socialism and take our chances with the result of unobstructed capitalism. I don ' t know if that would be good or bad, but private capital would have to be able to satisfy the greatest num- ber of people. Or we can admit total state socialism, and quietly replace capitalism when the time is proper. The other alternative is to try to coordinate a system of capi- talism and socialism. Finally, we can let the camel have the tent and decide it ' s too nice a night to sleep inside anvhow and take our blanket and sleep under the stars. Total socialism .... Well, an analogy is a weak type of argument in any case, so take this for what it is worth. But about ourselves. We can hope for a kind of peace that will hold at least until we are behind the wheel and hope that our own generation can live more cooperatively than the one we see now. Maybe we can show England something about India and a few more mandates she has mishandled. Too, maybe the Latin Americans can tell John Bull that she doesn ' t like the way some of the English- South American investments are managed. We ' re prob- ably in for some criticism along the same line. Also, France might be convinced that Syria is more than an in- ternational gasoline station for her. Internationalism should be in a better position than ever before if the jjeace is handled right. And that peace need not be a personal, temporary treaty like Lord George and Clemanceau wrote in 1918. Internationalism, is that what we want? It ' s theoretical, it ' s idealistic, it ' s a step toward utopianism, and what ' s more, it ' s possible. What will the situation be: victory or defeat, cap- italism or complete socialism, a new world system by the eight points or a new order? Will it be the old set-up with a new coat of paint, world cooperation or medieval mer- cantilism? This article was started some 1500 words and ninety minutes back on an assumption. Therefore, it has no real basis . . . But please remember to feed the camel when you put the cat out and turn off the lights. The Bethanian Staff wishes to express its thanks to Charles Sprankle of Hawthorne ' s Engraving Co. James Stewart of Carnegie Union Printing Co. Frank Zecca of Zamsky Studios for their cooperation ' I ' m only being patriotic. If we don ' t go to prom — , I can spend my money in Saving Stamps. PAGE NINETEEN RITA HAYWORTH Columhia Pictures Star with Iter own Chesterfield vanity-cigarette case In mine too say millions of satisfied smokers . . . for a Milder and decidedly Better-Tasting cigarette, one that ' s Cooler-Smoking, you just naturally pick Chesterfield. And of course the big thing; in Chesterfield that is giving everybody so much more smoking pleasure is its Right Combination of the world ' s best cigarette tobaccos . . . for regardless of price there is no better cigarette made today. MAKE YOUR NEXT PACK CHESTERFIELDS. . . and enjoy ' em ft£ Copyrighf 1912, Liccnr Myers Tobacco Co. m. mn m h i 4- i mm m .j -VUM- ' St? jil f«il| . ij!. ' sm ill iris-: i kIi JIO ' tsTEsam fei St