The Normal Star (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 33, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 17, 1922 Page: 1 of 4
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The Normal Star
Published Weekly During the School Year by the Students of the Southwest Texas State Normal College
VOLUME X.
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1922
NUMBER 33
NINETEENTH ANNUAL|summer attendance big| NORMAL BAND NOW jcommunity W’K progr’M COMMENCEMENT SER-
COMMENCEMENT
HELD JUNE S
SUPT. COUSINS DELIVERS AD-
DRESS TO GRADUATING CLASS
ON “THE SECRET SOURCES OF
STRENGH IN THE TEACHER”
The nineteenth annual commence-
ment exercises of our College were
held Monday morning, June 5th in the
Main Auditorium. Superintendent R.
B. Cousins of the Houston Public
Schols delivered the address to the
graduates.
The full ^program was as follows:
Processional -----+----------------------
Normal School and College Faculties
Normal School Seniors
College Freshmen
College Sophomores
College Seniors
Alma Mater_________------Jeffry
Invocation__________Rev. J. M. Perry
Tremelo __________________ Gottschalk
Esta Mae Bond
Address___________Supt. R. B. Cousins
Houston Public School
Presidents Address
Presentation of Normal Diplomas
Presentation of Undergraduate Diplo-
mas and Certificates
In the Deeps of the Daisies_C. Hawley
Etta Hons Fleming
Presentation of Degrees
America
Benediction__________ Rev. D. A. Leak
The secret sources of which Supt.
Cousins spoke, he said, were condi-
tioned largely by the attitude of the
teacher to his profession. A teacher
who is ashamed of his profession should
lose no time getting out of it into
something else. It is the function of
the teacher to be a pioneer against ig-
norance, to liberate the human heart,
and to train the human intelligence.
Specifically it is the teacher’s duty and
privilege to interpret our civilization
to our young people. In doing this he
must love his work; he must be able
to ascertain the truth; to give to it
the proper coloring, and to give it to
the public. Teachers are both build-
ers and architects of the minds and
characters of the oncoming generations,
an occupation of dignity, importance
and responsibility, requiring men . and
women of character and responsibility,
believers in God and the immortality
of the human soul, believers in them-
selves and in American institutions.
After Superintendent Cousins’ ad-
dress, President Evans talked earnestly
to the graduates on “Bigness”. The gist
of his 'talk was that, as they were go-
ing out into the life of the biggest state
in the nation, known the world over
for contemplation of things in big
terms, big efforts, big performances,
they must remember the idea of “big-
ness” and be true to it.
Following this, degrees, diplomas
and certificates were awarded. The fol-
lowing received B. A. Degrees : Abbie
Cecil Behrns, Poison Montana; Bern-)
ice Evans, San Marcos; Janie Hopson,
San Marcos; Elizabeth Flake, San
Marcos; Sue Taylor, San Marcos;
Anna Woodson, San Marcos. Those
receiving B. S. Degrees were: Ed. M.
Day, San Marcos; M. L. Deviney, San
Marcos; John H. Dobbins, San Mar-
cos; Ruby Henderson, San Marcos;
Lenora Walters, San Marcos; Haskel
S. Young, San Marcos.
ATTENDANCE RECORDS IN COL-
LEGE ARE SMASHED AS 20th
SUMMER SESSION OPENS
The twentieth summer session of the
Southwest Texas Normal College op-
ened with a phenominal increase in the
number of college students. By Friday
at noon 1514 students had registered
in the three departments of college,
sub-college and summer normal. The
larger percent of these students are
taking regular college work. Statistics
show that there were 796 students en-
rolled in the college last summer,
whereas now there are 859. On the
other hand, there is a marked decrease
in the numbers of sub-college and
summer-normal students. Last summer
there were 300 in the sub-college
where now there are 195; in the sum-
mer normal there were 694 students
last year whereas now there are 460.
The slump in enrollment in these two
departments is probably due to the new
certificate law.
Despite the fact that the at-
tendance records are not quite as
large as they were last summer, there
is a good jolly crowd on the hill, and
the future looks mighty bright to us.
—--o-
ORGANIZED FOR
THE SUMMER
DIRECTOR BARROW REPORTS
THAT THE PROSPECTS FOR A
GOOD BAND ARE UNUSUALLY
BRIGHT; PRACTICE STARTED
[AUSPICES OIF THE Y. W. C. A.
ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH-
WEST TEXAS NORMAL
ALUMNI METING AND BANQUET
Alumni Holds Annual Meeting Satur-
day. June Third; At Night Associa-
tion Gathers For Feast at Cafeteria.
SPRING TERM HONOR ROLL
I.oma Grunewald and Mrs. Wilber Ry-
lander Leading With Averages of
Twenty Three Points Each.
NOTICE TO STUDENTS
The averages of the spring term
grades have just been issued from
Dean Birdwell’s office. As a result,
there are fifteen boys in the college and
seventy six girls out of a possible five
hundred' and twenty-two college stu- A . . , , ,
dents, with a percentage of ten per- Students this paper is a student pub-
cent for the boys and twenty percent bcation; ^ 1S ours> YOURS. We are
for the girls. In the sub-college out of
During -the last week of the last
term familiar faces began to appear
upon the hill. Many of these faces
we knew and many of them, wei did not
know, because they had been students
of this college before our time. What
were they all doing back home? Easy
—they did what every other ex-student
of Normal wants to do when he gets
the opportunity—they were “coming
home” to their Alma Mater The Alum-
ni held their annual meeting Saturday
afternoon, June the third. Aside from
electing the present graduating class
to membership, along with other ex-
students_ and holders of diplomas, the
association took a forward step and
appointed L. C. McDonald, Novella
Goodman and H. A. Nelson, chairman
of the Home-Coming Committee, whose
duties it will be to secure a large at-
tendance at the annual alumni meeting
next year, and especially, at the forth-
coming meeting of the state teachers
association at Houston next fall. The.
plan proposed is to have a large meet-
ing of ex-students at an alumni meet-
ing to be held in connection with the
state teachers association. As Houston
is near to the territory and readily
accessible to the part of the state in
which a great part of Ex-Normalites
are teaching, the plan contemplates
bringing a big bunch of them together
for the purpose of renewing old ac-
quaintances and looking after the best
interests of the institution generally.
Officers for the next year were also
elected. They are as follows: Presi-
dent, L. C. McDonald; vice-president,
Bernice Evans; treasurer, H. H. Hutto;
secretary, Ruby Henderson.
That night the alumni gathered at
the Cafeteria for the annual banquet.
In addition to the alumni, most of the
faculty were present. The following
toasts were given, with R. H. Shelton
as toastmaster:
The Student’s Opportunity____________
--------------------— Dean Birdwell
To Seniors, Past and Future _____
------«,_____________Bernice Evans
To the Normal Flapper.R. H. Saunders
Athletics, Past .. Achievements and Fu-
ture Prospects-----Wylie Summers
Putting Theory Into Practice ________
------------------- Mamie Brown
The Teacher and the Law__L. D. Hill
The Mellowing Teacher__Bill. Blocker
Retrospective and Prospective ______
------------------president Evans
the possible two hundred and sixteen,
nine boys and twenty-nine girls are
on the list. The percent of boys is
fourteen, and that of the girls is twenty.
The list of Honor Students with the
post office address of each follows:
College Students.
Loma Grunewald, San Antonio; Mrs.
Wilbur Rylander, San Marcos; Foster
Hope, San Marcos; Bessie Barnes, San
Marcos; Henry Pochman, Round Top;
Lorena Simank, Brenham; Mary An-
derson, Bloomington; Jeffie Lee Curry,
Miles; Fay Harris, Hamlin; Elva Mc-
David, Overton; David McNaughton,
San Marcos; Paul Milam, San Marcos;
Mrs. Phoebe Storms, San Antonio;
Sophrona Brown, Kempner; E. M.
Cain, San Marcos; Grace Cavness,
(Continued on page Four)
expecting a lot of "help from you this
summer in order to make the Star a
paper worthy of our Alma Mater. You
can help us do so by giving to the
editor such bits of information as you
get a hold of, which we do not get;
or better still, write such information
and give it to us to publish. We
would be glad to list every student in
the Normal that is willing to write for
the Star. Whether you have ever done
this kind of work or not, if you are
willing, come to the office and tell us
what kind of news you would like to
write. Perhaps you will have one as-
signment a week; perhaps more, if you
want more..
So if you are willing to help im-
prove your school publication, call at
the new Star Office in the Main Build-
ing, and give us your name. We shall
consider it a compliment.
With practically all of his last sea-
son men back in the harness, director
Barrow states that the prospects are
bright for a “shore nuff band” on the
Hill this summer.
Mr. Barrow took charge of the band
last September and during the past
nine months has organized one of the
peppiest and most efficient bands that
has ever played on Evans Field. Dir-
ector Barrow deserves no small amount
of praise for his work in building up a
good band for Normal during thg past
year. When he was appointed to take
charge last September he had only
three men including himself who had
previously played in the S. W. T. N. C.
band. Then there were only fifteen
instruments when Mr. Barrow was ap-
pointed director. Within a short time
he had a well organized band with 20
instruments, and every one who heard
that band play at the football game
knows what it meant to those gridiron
warriors to hear “Bobcats Will Shine
Tonight.”
Of all the Normal organizations or
activities, none perhaps, are more com-
mendable or more appreciated than the
Normal band. Indeed, its popularity is
not entirely confined to the college,
but stands in popular favor with the
townspeople to whom it has been of
service in many community activities.
But to old S. W. T. N. C. and her stu-
dents, the band has proven its worth
time and again, whether putting the
snap and crack into a college pep rally,
or functioning at some of the more
formal “State occasions”. In more
than one instance has its martial
strains wafted the Bobcats on to vic-
tory and brought every Normalite to
his feet like a wild yelling savage.
It is rumored that the summer band
is to be the best in the history of the
Normal, and Mr. Barrow states that
many members of former days are to
participate in the making of melodious
strains during the summer. For in,
stance, the bravest “old Roman” of
them all is D. D. Snow. Mr. Snow
was band director here in T9, ’20 and
’21. He has proven himself an effi-
cient and capable band leader, and will
be of great service in the cornet sec-
tion this summer.
Two other men who are skilled in
music are Ethel Herrington and Char-
lie Homola. Mr. Herrington re-enter-
ed school last term and since that time
has abljj filled 'his old place at the
trombone. Mr. Homola will be of great
service to the band by holding down
a place in the cornet section.
The band is always open to new
members. Old stude, if you are musi
cally inclined with an instrument come
out and join the Normal band and do
your bit toward making our band the
best in .the State.
As has been previously stated we
have a good band. We can boast of
a twenty-piece band which is more
than many other schools our size can
boast of, however, there is one essential
still lacking about our band and that
is uniforms. What about twenty uni-
forms for the coming season? Wouldn’t
it be a great sensation to see the band
appear in uniform? Talk it up students.
-o-
The students of S. W. T. N. are in-
deed fortunate to have had the privil-
ege of attending the program which
was arranged for them by the Y. W. C.
A of the Normal. Formerly, we
thought that each individual was able
to live his life without any responsi-
bility to other individuals or society
in general. The Y. W. and Y. M. have
realized that this is not the case, and
have attempted to show the Normal
students by planning this program how
each one will be able to help his home
or the community in which he is to
teach to obtain better and more help-
ful social relations.
Each day of the week has empha-
sized the importance of some certain
form of recreation or of school life.
The meeting opened Tuesday and dur-
ing the day club-work was stressed.
Miss Ross gave a very interesting and
instructive lecture on clubs, the' kinds
Which would be most effective in cer-
tain types of communities, and their
effect upon the people of the commu-
nity. She also gave advice as to which
sort of club to. organize in particular
communities. In this connection Miss
Ross gave information as to where
materials on these subjects could be
secured.
Mr. Burkholder arranged a commu-
nity sing at the south side of the Nor-
mal on Tuesday evening. In spite of
the comparative novelty of the sing, it
wias well attended, and those who did
HON IS DELIVERED
SUNDAY JUNE 4
REV. ASHER HARLAN BRAND OF
THE MADISON SQUARE PRES-
BYTERIAN CHURCH OF SAN
ANTONIO DELIVERS SERMON
The nineteenth annual commencement
sermon was delivered by Rev. Asher
Harlan Brand, Madison Square Pres-
byterian Church, San Antonio. Rever-
end Brand chose for his text, Matthew
6:10, “Thy Kingdom Come and Thy
Will Be Done on Earth as It Is in
Heaven”. He devoted his words large-
ly to an interpretation of an appeal for
Christian Internationalism, which he
said was today the boardest and deep-
est interest in the world, and which is
to be promoted only by peace and by
the widening influence of the gospel of
Christ. This gospel is well suited and
much needed by the world in its state
of broken nations and shifting of hu-
man societies, due to the World War
and the conditions of reconstruction.
The way for the spread of it is prepar-
ed by the great central truths of the
Christian faith, based as they are, on
the concepts of the fatherhood of God,
the brotherhod of man, the unity of
the whole human family, the democratiz
ing of the human society, and the demo-
cratizing of the religion hf Christ itself
. t by insistance on the working out of
attend had an enjoyable time. During the idea that the strong and the wise
LIBERTY CHORUS
The Liberty Chorus met Tuesday
night at 7:30 for the purpose of or-
ganization. After a brief discussion of
possible plans, Miss Butler dismissed
the students who had come, on account
of the conflicting engagement with the
program of the Community Service
week. The next meeting of the Chorus
will be on Tuesday, and it is hoped
that there will be a large attendance.
The Liberty Chorus is a splendid or-
ganization, and_ the work is pleasant,
and it is essential that a large number
of students enroll for the term’s work.
Be one!
All Balled Up. r
Miriam: Bella told me that you told
her that secret that I told you not to
tell her.
Marion: Cat! I told her not to tell
you._
Miriam: Well, I told her I wouldn’t
tell you if she told me, so don’t tell
her I did.
Kris: Josephine may be buxom, but
she certainly has poise.
Kringle: Yes, you bet she has—
avoirdupois.
the program, Miss Jessie Dickens sang.
Wednesday the importance of educa-
tion was stressed. At 9:30 Wednes-
day morning, in the main auditorium,
Mr. W. E. James of the State Depart-
ment of Education spoke on “Rural
Education”. After his lecture, each
student was able to realize clearly the
importance of good teachers for the
rural schools, and he also realized the
value of Mr. James’ slogan, “Be One”
as a sure way of obtaining good teach-
ers for the r)Ural schools.
As a pleasant surprise, Mr. S. M. N.
Marrs, candidate for the State Super-
intendent of Education, gave a brief
and interesting talk.
At 7:00 in the evening of Wednes-
day, Miss Christianson told stories.
She gave a brief introductory talk on
how story telling originated, and the
principles governing the telling of good
and interesting stories. Those which
she selected for the evening were “A
Long Leather Bag”, and “Five Chinese
Boys.” Miss Jessie Dickens gave a
solo, “The Three Bears”, and Mr. Wal-
ter Coers gave two numbers about the
“Three Pigs”. Each of these num-
bers was a song-story of the type that
would appeal to small children. Miss
Christianson also gave some appro-
priate gestures to accompany the say-
ing of nursery rimes with which every
child is familiar. Judging from the
enjoyment which the Normal students
showed at the program, small children
would be doubly delighted with a simi-
lar program.
Thursday was the day on which the
importance of the health program was
emphasized, and health problems were
considered. Dr. A. P. Harrison of the
State Department of Health spoke on
“Health Problems in the Rural Com-
munity”. He discussed diseases under
the heads of preventative, communic-
able, and contagious, and showed that
preventative diseases have been pre-
vented by the well-known erample of
the Panama Canal Zone. He also
showed, by specific examples,■ the in-
adequacy of the present health admin-
istration on account of the poor salar-
ies which the officials are paid. He
also gave the importance of interesting
the communities in which the teacher
works in the health problems, and gave
practical ways of arousing interest.
At 4:00 in the afternoon of Thurs-
day, Miss Bush, the Hays County Red
Cross Nurse spoke. Her subject was
“Health Program in a Rural School.”
Miss Bush is fully capable of discus-
sing this subject in a comprehensive
way, as her talk proved.
As a third feature of the health pro-
gram, Miss Hines gave a demonstra-
tion of the playing of indoor, outdoor,
silent, and other types of games which
might be useful to the teacher and to
the community in which she works.
Miss Hines is the director of games
and girls’ athletics in the Normal, and
everyone enjoyed the evening "of games
with her.
Friday afternoon at 4:00 Miss Sayers
spoke on “Afternoon Programs for the
Rural School.” This was a splendid
talk and will doubtless be very help-
ful to those teaching in the' rufral
schools. At the same time, Miss John-
son also spoke on, interior decoration.
Since Miss Johnson is interested in
(Continued on page Four)
should make better through service the
lot of the weak.
The following is t the program as it
was rendered Sunday morning:
Processional
Moment Musicale _________ Schubert
Mamie Sue Holbrook
Gloria Patri ________________ Barnby
Liberty Chorus
Doxology ____________________________
Invocation ________Rev. C. E. Welch
Meditation --------±_________ Massenet
Emma Beth Kennard
Scripture Reading____Rev. H. P. Bates
I Heard the Voice of Jesus__Rathbun
Martha Woodson, Jessie Dickens
Sermon, ------------Rev. A. H. Brand
Benediction_________Rev. A. H. Brand
SENIOR-FACULTY NINE
TROUNCES FRESHMEN
The Senior Faculty club of the Inter-
class League took the first game of the
series from the Freshies Wednesday
afternoon by a score of 6-3. The League
consists of a club from each of the
college classes, one from the sub-col-
lege group, and one from the summer
normal. Each of these climbs are to
play one game a week, with one of the
other clubs, the one winning the greater
percent of the games winning the
school championship and a diamond
studded crow-bar trophy.
Robert Shelton, of the Senior-Facul-
ty crew, created quite a sensation on
the mound. The Freshmen were entire-
ly overwhelmed with “hooks”, steam-
ers, ' side-arm deliveries and fade-
aways. This must go to explain that
Eobj>y Lyons, the Freshmen hope, only
got one circuit clout—but maybe it
was bis off-day.
The Old Heads seem to have a good
shot at that championship. We’ll see
if education helps on the diamond. We
do know that support from the grand-
stand helps. There is no reason why
the grandstand and bleachers should'
not be full at every one of the games.
Come out and support your class team.
Your blanket-tax receipt is good—
won’t cost you a cent, and you’ll
enjoy it.
DEAN WOODSON BACK AT POST
That famous smile that all who know
Mr. Woodson are familiar with, is
again greeting the many followers of
the maroon and gold through the day.
Dean Woodson could not stay in the
hills of Tennessee and after doing
Graduate work during the Spring term
at the George Peabody College for
Teachers, he has returned to his friends
here and has taken up his old job of
seeing to it that the young men of the
school do not over step their prehis-
toric tendencies. Dean Woodson is
loved by all .that know him. He has
never been known to take advantage of
student, or refuse to give a square
deal. Somehow the halls look brighter
and the campus seems lighter with his
whole-hearted laugh that he .is noted
for. The Star, speaking for the student
body as a whofe, finds it hard to express
its welcome strong enough.
Captain: Ahoy there, let go the
anchor.
Sailor (near the anchor): I ain’t
touched it yet.
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