Bethany College - Bethanian Yearbook (Bethany, WV)

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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

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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