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  • Sty? fltoflmrip* f 0M A Neighborly Call From The Hills To Kindred Spirits Everywhere CULLOWHEE, NORTH CAROLINA, JANUARY 15th, 1931 Students Make Plea For Alma Nater Students of Western Carolina Teachers College wrote letters to legislators making a plea for more and better equipment for the college. These letters were written December 18, 1930 and quite a few favorable answers have been received. The following are extracts from the letters written: "Western Carolina Teachers College is more than forty years old, and has done a wonderful work for Western North Carolina, in fact for the whole state for students attend from practically the entire state. We believe it is doing as fine a work in the training of teachers as any institution in the state especially in view of its limitations as to plant and as to funds. "Here are some of the most urgent needs as we see them:: "More Courses. "More classrooms and better epuip- ment. "A Physical Education Building. The old so-called gymnasium we now have is on the second floor of an old wooden building. Hundreds of people gather in this room for games. It cannot accomodate them. We have no swimming pool, almost no gymnasium equipment. Our teachers insist that physical education should be the cen- (Continued on page 3) Wilma McCracken Wilma McCracken, a graduate of Western Carolina Teachers College, died at her home in Clyde, December 28. Pneumonia is said to have been the cause of her death. Miss McCracken was twenty one years of age and was well known and highly respected by a number of the students who are in school here at present. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. McCracken of Clyde and was a teacher in the North Canton Graded School. The deceased is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. McCracken; two brothers, and two sisters. The funeral services were conducted from the Methodist church at Lake Junaluska, after which the remains were taken to Fine's Creek Baptist Church and laid to rest. The members of the Erosophian Literary Society sent a message of sympathy and regrets to the family of the deceased. Graduate Successful in Archaeological Research Lyndon Hargraves Makes Important Discoveries Western Carolina Teachers College is watching with interest and pride the scientific work of Lyndon H. Har- grave of the class of 1917. A few years after Mr. Hargrave left Cullowhee he graduated from the University of Arizona at Tucson. He has been continuously engaged in archaeological work in Arizona since his graduation. Readers of The National Geographic Magazine are familiar with Mr. Hargrave's part in the research work along the line of tree ring dating. But it will not be amiss to give a more intimate glimpse into this work: In the spring of 1928, Dr. A. E. Douglass, of the Steward Observatory of the University of Arizona, selected Mr. Hargrave to conduct the first National Geographic Beam Expedition. For several months he lived with the Hopi Indians—in fact was adopted by them, learned their language, took up their mode of life, and was given a Hopi name. This close and cordial relationship between the young white man and the Indians made it possible for him to gain access to all the rooms in the villages and there he eagerly examined and collected sections of beams of great antiquity. Beside hard work and isolation from his kind, this experience had its humorous moments. One old Hopi for some mysterious reason would not allow a specimen to be taken from a certain beam. Finally, after much persuasion, he gave as his reason the fear that in reading the age of the beam Mr. Hargrave would also read its history and what the Hopi did to the Spaniards when the Hopi destruction of the Shungopovi Mission took place in 1680—this has been called the first American Revolution—and perhaps Mr. Hargrave was a Spaniard who would reap vengeance upon the Hopi! Then in the summer of 1929, Dr. Douglass sent Mr. Hargrave and E. W. Haury to conduct the second National Geographic Beam Expedition. The results of these expeditions were: (1) Many of the pueblos of the southwest were assigned to absolute dates in our own calendar and to a continuous absolute chronology back to 700 A. D.; (2) sequences of culture-traits of the pre-Spanish pueblo Indians were ascertained; (3) sunspot activities were traced into prehistoric time and their periodical occurances were established more firmly. In February, 1929, Mr. Hargrave became Assistant Director of the Museum of Northern Arizona at Flagstaff. This Museum is maintained by the Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art. Much of the material now on exhibit has been excavated, classified and arranged by Mr. Hargrave. The Princeton University International Summer School of Geology and Natural Resources which visited the Museum in July, 1930, enthusiastically praised the Museum's work "in awakening interest in, and appreciation of, Hopi craftsmanship." Mr. Hargrave has made an intensive study of Hopi pottery, Hopi kivas (underground ceremonial rooms), Hopi earth lodges and pit- houses. He writes in the Museum Notes for November, 1930: "Ethnologists have long been studying houses-with-pits and earth lodges in general in an effort to trace the migrations of the American Indian from Asia where similar house types are found today." Concerning "The Development and Distribution of Prehistoric Hopi Pottery" Mr. Hargrave read a paper at the Southwestern Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Alburquerque in April, 1929, and he read a paper on "The Development of the Hopi Kiva" at the meeting of the same Association at Tucson, in April, 1930. Mr. Hargrave is head of the Arch- aelogy Department of the Arizona State Teachers College at Flagstaff. Officers Elected For Proposed Annual On Monday January 5th the student body of Western Carolina Teachers College elected Mrs. Rowe Henry, to the position of editor-in-chief of the annual. Mr. Andy Bryson, was made business manager. These officers were asked to make nominations for their helpers, to be elected by the student body. This is the first year Western Carolina Teacher's College has ever had an annual. The work of the staff will be great, since they will have so many problems that will not arise after the annual is once started. At present the officers do not know exactly what they can do, but they expect to have the usual pictures of clubs and societies. Captains of athletic teams will be permitted to choose the sponsor for that team. There will be the usual pictures of the members of the classes. Four year graduates will have two pictures to a page, second year graduates four pictures to a page, and third year students and freshmen will have from eight to sixteen pictures on a page. All illustrations are to be work done by the art department. As yet nothing has been done about the selection of a name and a dedication for the annual. Quarterly Bulletin Now Being Issued The Western Carolina Teachers College bulletin of "The Western North Carolina Live-at- Home Conference" has just come off the press. The bulletin issued by the Publications Committee, of which Prof. C. H. Allen is chairman, gives a complete program of the conference which was held at the college on October 13 and 14, 1930. Not only is the program given, but there is a summary of all the addresses delivered, and mention is made of all who added to the conference. A list of those who were guests of the college at that time is given. Mrs. Thomas Weaver Sprinkle, a member of the state board of public welfare, spoke to the student body and faculty of Western Carolina Teachers College on Monday afternoon, January 5. Her talk was centered around the state plans for public welfare in the rural sections. Honor Roll Eighteen and two-tenths percent of the students of Western Carolina Teachers' College made the honor roll for the fall quarter. The honor roll is divided into two classes; Alpha and Beta. The requirements of the Alpha honor roll are that 50 per cent of the courses taken shall be graded A's or 50 per cent of total hours carried of a grade A merit. The requirements for the Beta roll are that no grades shall be less than D and not less than two-thirds of the grades shall be B or better. (Continued on page 3) Miss Veile Welcomed To Cullowhee Faculty We are pleased to take this means of welcoming Miss Ada Veile as a new member of our faculty, who came to us at the beginning of the winter quarter. Miss Veile was elected to succeed Miss Annie Ray as supervisor and instructor in Primary Education. Before coming to Cullowhee, Miss Veile was director of the Training School of the State Teachers College, East Radford, Virginia. She has also served as principal of the city elementary schools at Fayetteville (Continued on page 3) The quarterly election of the Student government was held on Dec. 15. The following officers were elected: Lillian Dillard, Pres.; Elizabeth Duckworth, Sec. and Treas.; Marietta Welch, House Pres.; Hazel Settlmyre, Council member; Sudie Hunter, Council member; Opal Ferguson, Council member; Louise Medford, Council member; Lucy Yelton, Council member; Daisy Battle, Council member; Ruth Creasman, Proctor; Harriet Pearce, Proctor; Elise Hunter, Proctor; Mattie Lee Grimes, Proctor; Cleo Caldwell, Proctor; Misses Benton and Maddux, Faculty Advisors.
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