1941-08-06; Central Michigan Life

              VOLUME 28
NUMBER 33
Michigan
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1941
Schedule Now Set
For Sports Clinic
Coaching School
Plans Completed
Registration to Be August 18;
Session to Last lor Six Days.
The final schedule for Central
Michigan's coaching school, to be
held beginning August 18 and continuing for six days is now available
as- planned by Athletic Director
Ronald W. Finch, who will be in
charge of. the school.
The faculty of the school will be
the best available and the most complete. There is no accurate information on enrollment but many inquiries have been received.
Three styles ,of football play will
be covered, with classroom work and
demonstration classes on the football
field. Techniques of basketball, giving the different types of offense
and defense and how to meet them
will also be taught.
Registration will take place Monday, August 18. Jimmie- Barkley,
basketball coach at Flint Northern,
basketball, Monday and Tuesday;
Okie Johnson, coach at Muskegon
Heights, line play, Tuesday; Guy
Houston, football coach at Flint
Northern, Notre Dame system, Wednesday; Danny Rose, Central Michigan basketball coach, basketball,
Wednesday; Kip Taylor, football
coach at Ann Arbor, coaching drills
for high schools, Thursday; Ronald
Finch, football coach at Central
Michigan, line play, Friday; Lawrence Sweeney, line coach at Central
Michigan, line play, Friday; and
Potsy Clark, new football coach and
athletic director at Grand Rapids
university, single wing and spread
formation, Friday.
Ronald W Finch, who is finishing
his third summer at Teachers College, Columbia, where he is working
on his master's degree writes that he
has a great many new ideas regarding his work here, said Dr. Louis E.
Hutto, head of the physical education department; he is very eager to
put them into operation.
A great deal of his work this summer at Columbia has been on administration and social,relations.
Choral Group Will Give
Program This Afternoon
The members oi Dr. Wilbur E.
Moore's interpretative reading class
have planned a choral reading program for this afternoon at 1 p. m. to
be held in room W355. The program
is especially planned for the speech
and English classes and the children's literature class, but all who are
interested in this type of program
are invited to attend.
Campus Education Grout*
KISS ^Bm
Accepts New Members;
Dr. David Trout Honored
Kappa Delta PI
Holds Initiation
Grade Students
Enjoy Park Picnic
All grades of the elementary
school with their supervisors, student teachers and Miss Helen
Achenbach, instructor in the physical department of Central, spent last
Thursday morning at Island park. A
well planned program consisting of
swimming, group games, stories, and
a tug-of-war kept the children active and interested throughout the
forenoon. The grades from the
fourth up, had demonstrations of
various swimming techniques" such
as different kinds of strokes and
diving. Fruit juice was served to all
at 10 o'clock. They decided to make
the affair annual.
Office Announces
Six Placements
Six new placements w.ere
announced by the appointment
office during the past week. Ella
Stahlman, of Shepherd, will teach
music and English at Grayling;
Mabel Stickney, of Bad Axe, will go
to Frederic; Gordon LeCronier, to
Northport to coach and teach social
science; Alvar Eilola, music and
social science at Coleman; Vivian
Spear in Midland elementary
school; and Theresa Florian will
teach in the elementary school at
Biology Classes See
Ornithology Movies
Parks Allen, Ithaca sophomore,
who has made ornithology a hobby,
showed colored pictures to the biology classes taught by Miss Faith
Johnson, assistant professor of biology, and Rodney Rogers, visiting instructor from Menominee high
school, Wednesday afternoon, July!
30.
Mr. Allen has banded approximately 15,000 birds for the biological
survey and is an active member of
the Michigan Audubon society. He
banded the first sandhill crane that
was banded in Michigan. He also
collects data for the University of
Michigan.
Mr. Allen's hobby began when he
Was a child. He frightened a bird
from its nest while picking berries
and became interested in finding
out all he could about that bird.
Mri Allen operates a farm near
Ithaca and is not in school this summer.
Play Attracts
Large Audience
Kaufman-Hart Comedy Presented Two Nights by Speech
Department
As the curtain went down on "The
Man Who Came to Dinner" last
Monday and Tuesday evenings,
Sheridan Whiteside, played by Fremont Varnum, had brought his" unwelcome visit to an end and peace
reigned in the Stanley home once
again.
Mr. Whiteside, who portrays the
life of Alexander Woolcott, was invited into the Stanley home for dinner and remained, incapacitated,
after he had fallen on the Stanley
doorstep. Mr. Whiteside was enjoying his visit very much while the
Stanleys were greatly annoyed at
being refused the use of the telephone and the downstairs^ rooms by
Mr. Whiteside, whose actions reminded one of a spoiled brat. In
spite of this fact, his humanity
cropped out towards the end of the
play. I
With Miss Preen, Whiteside's
nurse, leaving him to work in a
munitions factory, June Stanley;
running away with Sandy, a union
organizer, and Lorraine Sheldon
trying to take Bert Jefferson, a reporter;, away from Maggie Cutler,
Whiteside's secretary, the audience
was kept in an uproar throughout
the play. Professor Metz, played by
George Grambau, and his 10,000
cockroaches added much entertainment.
Before the play came to a close,
Lorraine Sheldon (Dorothy Kelly)
the actress had been lured into a
mummy case by Whiteside, locked in
by Banjo, played by Earl Rambo,
and shipped off to far away lands.
"The Man Who Came to Dinner",
a Kaufman-Hart comedy was presented by the speech department
under the direction of Fred R. Bush,
director of dramatics, to an appreciative crowd both nights. Permission to present the play was obtained toy Mr. Bush from the publisher, Samuel French. The auditorium was nearly filled both nights by
students, faculty members, and
townspeople-
Tuscola Teachers Enjoy
Dinner and Social Hour
The teachers from Tuscola county
who are attending Central "Michigan college had dinner and a "social 1
get-to-gether Wednesday evening,
July 30, in the private dining room
in Keeler Union.
Group singing was led by Mary
Bell Young, Reese sophomore and a
teacher in Tuscola county. Other
entertainment was furnished from
members of the group.
Carl Safford, Vassar senior and
Miss Young were in charge of the
dinner.
Art Class Holds
First Dress Clinic
Group Emphasizes Studying
Personality and Preparing
Wardrobe.
The dress clinic Tuesday evening,
July 29, on the campus lawn -was
well attended. Miss Mildred Fair-
child, art supervisor in the college
elementary school, opened the meeting by explaining two extreme-types
known as yang (the tall, dark, vivacious person) and yin (the little
blonde, delicate person) stating that
,all other types are placed somewhere
within these two extremes. It was an
open meeting and students discussed
their particular problems in dress.
• The group agreed that more time
should be spent in studying the personality and preparing the wardrobe
accordingly in order to have the
right type of dress for the right occasion.
It was stressed that sport clothes,
such as slacks and shorts have their
place, but should not be worn with
incorrect accessories at incorrect
times.
Various types of jewelry were
shown and their use explained.
17 Admitted to Membership
Tuesday Evening Preceding
Dinner at Union,
The summer initiation of the
Epsilon Eta chapter, of the Kappa
Delta Pi was to take place last night
in the Keeler Union. Installation
and initiation ceremonies were to
precede the six o'clock dinner, Dr.
David M, Trout, head of the psychology department of Central
Michigan college, received an honorary membership.
The dinner program was brief consisting of a talk by the president of
the chapter, Ivan Steiner, -a -taJk4>y~-
Dr. C. L. Anspach, president of the
college. Edith Nelson, student,
played a piano number, "Rhapsody
in Blue". Two brief talks were given
by Dr. Trout and W: P. Madison,
one of the new members of the
society.
The Kappa Delta Pi is a national
honorary society in Education. The
purpose is to encourage highly intellectual and scholastic standards
and to recognize outstanding contributions to education. It was organized in 1909 and to date there are
140 chapters.
Central Michigan college chapter,
Epsilon Eta, was organized June 18,
1941. There were 32 charter members.
There were seventeen students
taken into the chapter as active
members; Irene Noey, H. L. Durfee,
W. P. Madison, Ivah Emery, Geor-
gianna Hayward, Elizabeth Lakes,
Agnes Campbell, Helen Sorenson,
Elsie A. Shull, Isa Selby, Alice Reed,
Edith Nelson, William McDaniel,
Rae Edward Johnston, Sadie Ann
Fox, Dana E. Cochran, Norvall
Charles Bovee.
Dr. Foust Enjoys
His Summer Work
Education Classes Visit
Rural Training Center
The combined education groups
and their instructor, Miss Louise
Willson, visiting faculty • member
from the University of Kentucky,
accompanied by Miss Rose Dill, of
the rural education department,
visited Hoag school, where Miss Dill
is supervisor during the year.
Many of the group, who made the
trip teach in one or two room
schools. They had many questions to
ask Miss Dill about program planning, and her language arts and
social studies program.
Faculty Member
Resigns Position
Mrs. Marian Troutman, for the
past four years instructor in the
music department of Central Michigan college, has resigned, effective
September 29. She will leave as soon
as the summer session is over for
Battle Creek where she will make
her home.
Mrs. Troutman came to Central in
1937 from Iowa-where she had been
teaching. She received her degree
from Drake-university and masters
degree from Chicago Musical college.
While there, she studied violin under
the supervision of Max Fischer and
composition with Louis Gruenberg,
an outstanding opera composer.
Commentary on professorial alertness. In 1937, Life adopted the
"down" style, in which lower case
letters are used in preference to
capitals, wherever a small letter will
do just as well. This week four
"profs" noticed it, sent one of their
number, hat in hand, to the Life
office to inquire "how come?"
Dr. Judson F. Foust, assistant professor of mathematics at Central, is
spending a very pleasant summer as
playground director in Lansing. His
work covers a period of ten weeks, of
four and one half days a week, from
9 a. m. until 8:30 p. m.
The school boards cooperate with
the city park and recreation committees in sponsoring 20 playgrounds
with two directors each. One full
time supervisor plans the summer's
activities. This year the theme is
"Latin American Friendship".
Such activities as hobbies, dramatics, exhibit of South American pro-
duets, airplane shows, track meets,
trips to the zoo, softball, golf, tennis,
arts and crafts are carried on. On
very hot days quieter games and
story-telling take the place of the
more active ones. Whatever is done
the Latin American theme is not
forgotten.
Next week a city-wide pageant organized on the basis of a tour
starting at New York and traveling
by way of Mexico through the Panama canal to South America will be
shown. The elaborate scenery and
costumes have been created by the
children. Much music and dancing
is in evidence. When the travelers
get back to New York everything
takes on a holiday air, which ends
with a huge display of fireworks.
The summer's activities will end
with a picnic at which time many
championships will be played off.
Home Ec Class
Hears Bateman
Kenneth A. Bateman, elementary'
teacher in-the Mt. Pleasant Public
schools, visited the home economics
class in "Child Care" Monday, July
28. He discussed methods of telling
stories to small children from the
ages of two upward. He told stories,
read poems, and recommended such
books as "Here and Now Story Book"
by Mitchell and "First Experience
with Literature" by Dalgliesh.
Tuesday afternoon the members of
the class exhibited the inexpensive
toys, which they had made for the
pre-school child. This was the outcome of a class discussion on toys
for the pre-school child. Some
of the toys made were nests
brightly painted tin cans, stuffed
toys, and wooden ones. These were
judged on the basis of whether thejr
were suitable for age, hygienic, and
durable.
NOTICE
Students who wish to have their
grades mailed to them are requested
to proceed as follows this week, beginning today.
On the counter in the General
Office there is a file tray labeled No.
5 cards. Remove your card and write
your name and address on the reverse side. Deposit the card with 8
cents for mailing in a tray on the
Grades will go forward fey August
116th.