Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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President Irwin A. Davis Treasurer Clarence L. Hix Director Harold C. Myers Alumni Association Under the capable supervision of Alumni Director Harold Myers, the alumni association has made a strong attempt re¬ cently to develop a better organization. To a great degree this has been successful. There are now nineteen clubs for WSC alums to get together with their cougar friends. Six of these clubs are outside the state of Washington and one is in Hawaii. Plans for enlarging alumni activity all over the state are aiming for a membership mark of 8,000 by the end of 1951. Another policy will be to grant alumni memberships to persons who aren’t alums, but who are interested in further WSC develop¬ ment. These persons will be called “adopted alumni.” Some of the events which they will be able to participate in are the football “booster” dances held every year. The alumni association is unique in its connection with the college. It is dependent upon the college in that it is housed on campus and its magazine, the Powow, is published by the college. It is independent from the standpoint that it pays for its own director and is a completely self-supporting group. In changing to a self-supporting basis, association dues were raised to four dollars per year with three of the four dollars going to the alumni office and the fourth going to the local club. One of the objectives this year was holding a series of alum meetings throughout the Northwest, with special programs featuring athletic coaches and other personalities of the col¬ lege. These programs were to aid groups in setting up their plans for the year. Row 1: Harold C. Myers, director, Spokane; Clarence Hix, treasurer, Pullman; Lyle Maskell, second vice-president, Yakima; Irwin A. Davis, president, Seattle; Mrs. Marjorie Locke, Los Angeles, California; and Claude K. Irwin, 6rst vice-president, Pullman. Row 2: Fred Talley, Spokane; AI Ayars, Sunnyside; Earl Gibb, Bellingham; Stanley B. Norman, Seattle; Charles R. Devine, Spokane; Marshall A. Neill, Pullman; Morris Swan, Vancouver; E. J. DeVoe, Portland; and Larry Broom, Waitsburg.

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WSC Services Hospital Finch Memorial hospital staff is composed of four well-qualified physicians and a good working staff of nurses. These are the people who try to keep the students healthy by having regular clinic hours for their con¬ venience. The student health service is growing both with physical facilities and in scope of patients. A more ef¬ ficient unit is the aim. Dr. Barbara Moulton, Dr. James Closson, Dr. Jonathan Thatcher, Dr. William Holcomb Placement Bureau Walter M. Bristol is the head of this efficient function of the State College of Wash¬ ington. The Placement bu¬ reau is concerned primarily with gathering information about graduates and pros¬ pective graduates of the col¬ lege. This information is made available to employers to aid in satisfactory employ¬ ment of students and grads. Myrtle Bishop, Pat Reister, Frances Kissler, Jeanette Reid, Arden Buel, Gordon Rutherford, Walter Bristol, Gerry Adams Counselling Center The Counselling center, headed by Dr. Harold Pepin- sky, has grooved itself a per¬ manent place at WSC. The friendly atmosphere that prevails at the center plus the superior counselling has given many students their impetus to “learn to learn.” The center is well integrated with the other campus offices and ranks in quality with any such center in the country. 25 Robin Clyde, Charles Roberts, Norman Harris, Jane Couch, Marguerite Wilmer Seated: Edith Neihl, Harold Pepinsky

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01 EDITOR ALAN DODD Powwow Editor Alan Dodd, a Connecticut Yankee, has adopted the West, particularly WSC. His former experience was doing public relations work for WSC. Powwow The WSC Powwow is a magazine which both current students and alums of the school may well be proud. These publications usually average just under 30 pages per issue and have readers all over the world. Editor Alan Dodd and Director of Alumni Affairs Harold C. Myers work in close cooperation throughout all operations and have established a workable organization to keep all alums well notified of campus events through the year. Campus activ¬ ities are covered in each issue by considering all aspects of the activities which take place at spaced intervals, for example, Homecoming, Dad’s Day and Mother’s Week¬ end. Other extremely important features are activities that are common at WSC. Two examples of those covered in issues of this year are the foreign student program and the feature on KWSC, Pullman. Certain other articles appear in the Powwow every month; one such article is “Cutting up the Classes.” This consists of stories sub¬ mitted to the Powwow by alumni, and it is divided up into groups according to the year they graduated. An “alum of the month” is featured with each issue. The “Student Outlook” is a new phase written by a student to give WSC reactions to local and world news. Office Scenes Gretta Bendixen, student assistant Mrs. Carolyn Marks, secretary to director The staff of any publication is of course the core of a successful enterprise. This staff is well-equipped both as a group and individ¬ uals. The work of the members entail widespread activities. They must gather the material to be used from their alumni readers plus current campus activities. Leslie Gabe, foreman of print shop Ralph Devlin, head of print shop The presses roll for the Powwow ten times during the year, from September through June. Circulation passes the 3500 mark each month and copies are sent to alums and various groups all over the world. The red outlined cover is the trade-mark of the Washington State college Powwow alumni magazine.