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College Anchor Official Publication of the Students of Hope Colleg> <rt Holland, M'^-higm

W.A.L. Solves Date Problem

At Party Friday Night The civilian manpower shortage on campus will be handled

this Friday evening by the Frosh and Soph girls. Dressed

as befits true gentlemen, they will escort the ladies of their

choice, including faculty women, to a W.A.L. party to be

given in the downstairs room of the Women's Literary Club.

According to Party Chairman Libby Romaine, couples should

be on hand for a gala evening of fun beginning at eight o'clock and costing only a dime.

One of the highlights of the evening will be a program un-der the chairmanship of Elsie Parsons. This will include some unexpected local talent, topped with a number to be presented by our f a c u l t y women. Everyone will have an op-portunity to participate in the fun as group games of all kinds will be in full swing directed by Bunny Goff. Nat Bosman will be in charge of games for twosomes or double dates.

Prize for Best Dressed Couple

Couples will dress sharply in their smoothest clothes as the cli-max of the evening is the presenta-tion of a prize for the best dressed pair.

Underclassmen still w i t h o u t dates for this festive event which has been widely publicized by Spike Sawitsky, may see senior Norm Lemmer. Norm is the official cam-pus date bureau and can find a girl to meet any specifications.

Dixon Will Direct Refreshments

The evening will be completed by refreshments served under the direction of Dorothea Dixon.

Pinx Mulder is in charge of tick-

Thirteen Hopeites Earn Top Honors

Orchids to this year's intelli-gentsia of Hope which numbers thirteen students, five of whom are seniors. Leading the parade of A's in that class are Gradus Shoemak-er with six and lone Strick and Vivian Tardiff with five each. Two A's and one B are claimed by Fritzi Jonkman, while Len Sibley earned five A's and two B's. The juniors are headed strongly by Milly Schol-ten, who has six A's followed by Marjory Curtis with five. Elaine Scholten's earnings include five A's and two B's. The sophomores claim Dorothea Dixon with five A's and one B and Milly Lankheet with three A's and one B as the bright spots in their class. Joanne Decker and Luella Pyle share top honors in the freshman class as each has five A's. Owen Koeppe rates next with four A's and one B.

ets for the party, and they can also be obtained at any time from Dorothea Dixon or Libby Romaine. A provision will be made a t the W.A.L. stamp booth in Van Raalte today, tomorrow and Friday for the sale of tickets.

In . . . . Digestion By Edna May Richards

Despite past hints from high sources, there's no present evi-dence that a German collapse will come before a successful Allied invasion from the West. Military men, who have never let the possibility enter into their planning, say the best reports they get show German morale holding firm. On the whole, the German people are standing up under intensive bombing much the way the British did in 1940. Army morale is still excellent—the occa-sional defeatist-minded prisoner is the exception. It 's felt that the Allied armies will have to drive into the Reich itself before the Germans will accept defeat as inevitable. And that time may not come until winter of this year.

The Nazis are having some trouble with the growing shortage of vital metals in Germany. As proof, they are planning to try to get molybdenum from mines in the French Vosges Mountains which were last worked for copper 300 years ago and have been regarded as uneconomical since.

Have you been buying your war stamps during the Fourth War Loan Drive? It is now expected that this drive will bring in at least $16,000,000,000. This is $2,000,000,000 more than the goal but is short of the Third L^)an total by the same amount.

In the attack on the Marshall Islands last week there were three top commanders who were largely responsible for its suc-cess. Vice Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance was the over-all commander of the invasion forces. Rear Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher commanded the carrier task forces. The amphibious task forces were under the command of Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner.

General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery told his troops who wanted to know when and how the war would end, "I want you men to know that I never put an army into battle until I am quite certain it is going to be a good show . . . This war began a long time ago. I am getting fed up with the thing. I think it is nearly time we finished it . . . We can do so and we will. You and I will see this thing through together."

Len Sibley Have you noticed the new addi-

tion to the choir? He's our most

esteemed 4 ,senior-since-last-week"

Sibley. Mrs. Snow put in a sink

or sing call for a good soprano

and up pops Leonard.

He is one of the New Jersey-

lights now claimed by Jersey City

where, he says. Mayor Hague runs

by his house (in Plainfield the ele-

vated ran by his house), Secaucus

being in the vicinity it might be

said the Secaucus breezes also find

their way past Jersey City. Len j

has been buzzing out to Holland I

for the past three years via four-

wheeled vehicles when the O.P.A. j

permitted and at other times on

one of those comfortable ( ? )

streamliners, which may be the

background that explains his wan-

derlust to go anywhere a car can

go.

Len will edit the 1944 Milestone

and is also chief photographer. The

explosion of a flashbulb means just

one thing these days — Sibley is

a "shot" away with his fiendish

watch-the-birdie grin. He goes in

for lights of all kinds, stage light-

ing is one of his delights also. A

scholar and a student, he reads all

kinds of literature (I 'm not proud)

that, too, being a form of illumina-

tion. (We all know the real light

of his life is a girl named Jose-

phine).

Just to keep it all in the family,

one of his younger sisters will be

a Hope "dormite" next fall.

For two years Len has been a member of Student Council, P. & M., treasurer and vice-president of Y, a debater and chaplain, treas-urer of Emersonion.

Service Flag Flies Over Girls' Dorms

For the first time in the history

of Hope College, the service flag i t

flying in one of the girl 's dorms

for two co-eds who have heeded the

call to the colors. "Scottie and

Hop," namely Audrey Scott and

Helen Van Alst, both juniors, re-

cently left school for what they

hope will be "real active" service.

"Scottie" came to Hope from

Sand Lake, Mich., and pursued a

pre-med course before her depart-

ure. In her two years at Hope,

Scottie was exceptionally active.

She was a member of Thesaurian

society, t reasurer of Student Coun-

cil, secretary of Scalpel club, sec-

retary-treasurer of Palette and

Masque, a member of W.A.A., and

also German club.

"Hoppie," from the town of New

Paltz, New York, was also a pre-

med student. Her major interests

lay in the fields of sports, particu-

larly basketball and music. "Hop"

was a member of Thesaurian soci-

ety, Scalpel club and German club.

Both juniors have enlisted in the

same branch of service. They enter

the army officially as W.A.C.s, and

a f te r a six-weeks training period,

they hope to go to medical school,

where they will take a six-month course in physio-therapy. After a period of three months as internes they will be qualified as second lieutenants in the Army Medical Corps.

February 23, 1944

Symphony of Hearts Premiered at the Dorian Winter Formal at Warm Friend

//%#// Y" News This week, Y. W., in charge of

the sophomores, was planned by

Betty Fuller, who used as a theme MFor Where Your Treasure Is."

Devotions were led by Ruth Jol-

dersma, and music was in charge

of Dorothea Dixon. Special music

was a cello solo by Pat Haskins.

At a recent cabinet meeting

Betty Christie was elected to re-

place Jane Waldbillig as Y. W. rep-

resentative to Women's League Board.

Y.M.

The seniors in Y.M. had Tues-day's meeting. Del Vander Haar arranged the program in which Science and Religion were discussed respectively by Murray Snow and Arthur Johnson. Special music was in the form of a vocal solo sung by John Lucius.

Plana which were under way for a "Y" sponsored skating party have had to be cancelled due to the

impossibility of obtaining a skat-

ing rink for Friday or Saturday

evening.

Stamp and Bond Sales Total $203.22 in Week

Last week brought a boom in Bond and Stamp sales. The total

! number of Bonds and Stamps sold during the week amounted to $203.55, bringing our year's sales to $1,300.00 — just $700.00 short of the $2,000.00 quota set for June. Credit for the Fourth War Loan Drive will still be given until Sat-urday, February 26, therefore, W.A.L. is urging all pledgers and non-pledgers to boost the sales

i even more to help bring up the ' deficit in Ottawa County.

Saturday evening, February 12, Kappa Beta Phi held its annual Winter Formal in the Tulip Room of the Warm Friend Tavern. The rhaperones for the evening were Professor and Mrs. Garrett Vander Borgh and Professor and Mrs. Wil-liam Schrier of the faculty. T h e tables were decorated with candles in red heart-shaped holders sur-rounded by white lace, and smaller place cards in the same motif. Red lace-edged hearts also decorated the walls. Red and white stream-ers formed a false ceiling, and a crystal ball twirled in the center.

Following the dinner, the pro-gram was opened by Marian Kor-teling who explained the program's theme of the Symphony of Hearts. The first part of the "allegro move-ment" was "Sweethearts" from Romberg's "Maytime," sung by Frieda Grote and accompanied by Marian Vande Bunte. The variation of this movement proved to be a quartet composed of Thelma Oonk, soloist; Ruth De Boer, Gertrude Maasen, and Louise Ter Beek, who sang "It 's Love, Love, Love." In the "adagio movement," Marian Kor-teling read the poem, "Nocturne of Remembered Spring" by Conrad Aiken. The variation of this theme was an original, humorous musical sketch by Ruth Probst, called "Spring Is Sprung." The third movement, the scherzo, was a str ing trio composed of Mitzi Bode, Frieda Grote, and Jeffery Wier-sum, who played Rose's "Holiday for Strings." Marian Smallegan's "Cupid's Capers" provided the va-riation of this theme. The final movement, the p r e s t o , was the singing of "All the Things You Are" by the entire cast. This was

Staver Chosen To Edit Next MILESTONE New York Sophomore is Successful Over Three Other Candidates Selected By Class Nominating Committee

At a recent election of the Sophomore class Alan Staver, pre-sem student from Niskayuna, N. Y., was chosen Mile-stone editor for 1944-45. Staver was one of four candidates selected by a nominating committee, consisting of Spike Sawitsky, chairman; Ronnie Finlay, Jay Van Zoeren ,Libby Romaine, and Bill Brandli. The other candidates were Mary

" Lou Hemmes, Elsie Parsons,

Year Book Chief and Bil1 Brandli' MILESTONE represents School

Year

The editor-elect feels that The Milestone is representa-

tive of the school year so he

intends to distribute the vari-

ous jobs among as many class

members as possible. He says

that he has had little experi-ence with publications and he would

like to enlist the ability and co-

operation of all the sophomores.

Staver's main purpose will be to

make the Milestone worthy of the

repuUtion that H o p e has. One

method he will use to achieve this

will be to include as many pictures

as the W.P.B. will allow.

New Editor Active in Other Fields

Staver is from a "hick but good"

town in New York State. He par-

ticipated in many clubs in high

school and was a member of the

Executive Committee. Since his

residence a t Hope, Mr. Staver has

been active in Alpha Chi, the Y-

Cabinet, Men's Union and is vice-

president of the Sophomore class.

Staver has long tfeen a "shutter-

addict" which is one of his qualifi-

cations for this new position.

Mr. Staver has made no appoint-

ments fo r his staff as yet because

he wants to take time and investi-gate all the possibilities so he may make the best choices.

Alan Staver

followed by the Dorian song, sung by all the Dorians and their guests.

Assisting General Chairman Eve-lyn Shiffner were Ruth Probst, pro-gram; Ruth Ellison, decorations; Agnes Finlaw, food; and Marie Jen-kins, invitations.

Members of the society present with their guests were Carol Bos, Pfc. Justin Aalpoel, Melba Dings, Roger Koeppe, Marian Sandee, Leonard Sibley, Marian Vande Bunte, Pvt. Norman Eck, Frieda Grote, Jay Van Zoeren, Marie Jen-kins, Jeffery Wiersum, Pauline Naas, James MacKechnie, Margery Prince, Richard Hine, Elaine Schol-ten, William Miller, Evelyn Shiff-ner, Pvt. Darwin Adams, Marian Smallegan, Pvt. Jerry Weiss, Lor-raine Ver Meulen, Pvt. Walter Gus-tafson, Mitzi Bode, Gradus Shoe-maker, Helen Goff, Pvt. Jack Sin-clair, Ruth Ellison, Pvt. Donald McDowell, Agnes Finlaw, Pvt. Robert Cooper, Fiances Koeman, Henry Neitring, Jr . , Ruth Probst, Kenneth Gunter, Miriam Siebert, Pvt. Marshall Welbourne, Betty Van Tatenhoeve, Pvt. Gorden Dur-enberger, Edith Wolbrink, Alan Staver, Ruth De Boer, John West-hof, Adriana Douma, Pvt. James Gindler, Betty Kingsfield, Eugene Van Tamelen, Marian Korteling, Pvt. Frank Robinson, Anne Krueg-er, Pvt. George Elkington, Gertrude Maasan, Delbert Vander Haar, Eleanor Miskotten, Gregg Keizer, Thelma Oonk, Pvt. James Naftel , Leona Overbeek, Wilbur Brandli, Louise Ter Beek, Ned Olthoff, Ruth Vande Bunte, Pvt. Cornelius Vande Woude, Helen Van Dyke, Pvt. James Hatch, Frances Van Leeu-wen, Pvt. Bernard Weaver, Myrtle Padgett , Pvt. Wade Hamby.

He Has Gobs Of Love And A Ten Date Leave Life hasn't been a 11 asparkle

these days. In fact, you've out-Whistlered Whistler when it comes t̂o playing the rocking chair role. You sometimes feel like a drab specimen that ought to be stuffed and sent to the Smithsonian. But in spite of the lack-of social whirl, there's plenty of occasion for your heart to do triple time, because you have a priority on the most important item in Uncle Sam's Navy. A gob whose letters arrive with subscription-like faithfulness. Letters that shiver your spine and give you a golden feeling. And you write to him, too. Not just an occasional bit of wordage, either. You unmuzzle y o u r trusty pen and load it with shining phrases every day — the kind that make

his blood pressure hurry. And you live behind an apron while prac-ticing chemistry in the kitchen, and send him tasty munchables. He gives hearty thanks for these evi-dences of your culinary genius, and sometimes adds a chew-by-chew de-scription by way of appreciation.

Then one bright day comes a tel-egram. It's just an unexciting scrap of paper, but it takes a sudden dive to the bottom of your heart and stirs up waves of happiness. He's coming home! The Admiral can only spare him for a brief 10 days, but your spirits flutter like a snow-flake nevertheless.

Finally, you're waiting at the station. The train comes wheezing in with maddening slowness. At last it poos to a stop. You catch

the first glimpse of him — breath-taking in his blues. Your heart jeeps around like mad. His alti-

Itude puts you in a twitter. You'd • almost forgotten that he was so definitely the towering type, and you breathe a prayer of thanks. Now people won't stare at you with that why-doesn't-the-govem-ment - put - a - ceiling - on - women look in their eye.

Life is like the rainbow's end. It's a 10 date leave and you discov-er that there never was a better duet Mother Nature obliges with a moon all yellow and round like a lemon-flavored lollipop. There's so much to do while the together-ness lasts. You find a cozy little grill with atmosphere heavy enough to lean on, and yon make circles

on the table with the bottoms of glasses. You don't mind at all that he sometimes uses your toes for a gangplank because you know it's just the look in your eye that grem-lined his footwork.

But mostly you go places where people aren't. Long walks and eve-nings at home. You have a lot of words and a lot of laughs, and then suddenly, it happens.

Maybe you have a fuzzy time sense. Seems as though 10 days couldn't have slipped by already! But suddenly, there you are — say-ing good-bye. You want to tuck him in your pocket and never let him go, but the Admiral might ob-ject. You wonder if all those tears lurking behind your swoopy eye-1 ashes will spiU over before the

Rccital To Be Given

By Anna Ruth Poppen On Sunday, February 27, at 4:00 P. M., the Music Department will present Anna Ruth Poppen in a Junior Organ Recital. The program will take place in Hope Memorial Chapel.

I. We All Believe in One God ...Bach I Call Upon Thee, My Lord....Bach

II. Fourth Symphony

Taccata Fugue Andante Cantabile Scherzo Finale ..Widor

HI. Berceuse Vierne Divertissement Vierne

IV. Ave Maria Areadelt Praeludium J a m f e l d t In Summer Stebbins

V. Pastel Karg-Elert

Anna Ruth, a Holland junior, is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Poppen, Reformed Church mission-aries to China. She is a member of Delta Phi sorority and active in college and community music cir-cles.

train hustles off. You chase away the weepy feeling by remembering that those irrigation projects are fatal to your so-called glamour.

But there's still that Feeling. If only you could take a pill or some-thing to dissolve that lump in your throat. The train moans a bit. You look at the Mr. whose Mrs. youH be, and you want to shout — "Hey, world! — Lookit. Looldt us! Such a lovely twosome. Such —H But then he's gone.

You stare dazedly until only a trailing wisp of smoke is left in the distance. Tear drops are bailing out now, and you have a smother-ing feeling of incompleteness.

But you made some beautiful m e m o n e s . . . .

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What Price Revenge? In a recent article, a California wri ter attempted to class-

ify the Japanese people. He said that they certainly couldn't

be called humans and that he didn't want to insult any ani-

mals by classifying them in the animal world. He went on

to say that no matter how hard one might t ry to change

him, a cobra was always a cobra. Thus, in a long and utterly

exasperat ing article, the author did his best to preach a

racial hatred which will destroy the very things for which

America is fighting.

Yes, a cobra is always a cobra, and a fool is a fool, whether

he be American or Jap. The outbrust by this Californian is

one of the sore spots of a terrible disease which is at tacking

the minds and hearts of the American public. If it is not

checked soon by some vigorous counter-attack it will change,

for the worse, the destiny that is America's.

When we entered this war we did so with the idea that

we had a clean-up job to do, and we were going to do it as

quickly as possible. We were mad. Oh yes. We were going

to mete out justice to a few of the ringleaders and then

settle down to the business of t ry ing to organize a cooperative

world. We didn't stop playing Wagner and Beethoven be-

cause they were German composers, nor did we chop down

all the Japanese cherry trees in Washington. We were right-

eously angry but we didn't go wildly insane with an unjust i-

fied hate.

Two years and several hideous atrocities have changed us.

Now we have to hate, to be patriotic. No longer do we care

about ALL the nations of the world, but only about America

and her REVENGE. Of course, we forget our crimes against

the Indians, the ingenious ways in which the Pilgrim fa thers

could tor ture a supposed witch and the trail of blood which

many of our ancestors left behind them in Europe. We forget

that it is only because of Christ ian heritage and influence

that our men fight as honorably as they do. We refuse to

remember that on the sands of Italy, Japanese blood is being

spilt. For what? For an America which will fulfil its des-

tiny by being a generous and helpful leader of ALL the

nations of the world and not for an America which, like a

tyrant , seeks a devastating R E V E N G E and, like a tyrant ,

will reap the f ru i t s of that R E V E N G E .

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Valentine's Day is just about as

good as Chris tmas around this

place.

. For example: Pinx got gardenias

and candy from Private?* Sammy

who has been escorting her around

the campus in an off-the-record

fashion for some time now , , .

Shiffy got red roses from Jim

to help while away her campus;

Joan Droppers got roses , . . Jackie

Granert got roses . . . Freddie got

roses , , . sounds like a broken record doesn't i t? That could keep up all night . , , Voorhees and Van Vleck did a thriving business along that line . . . just about enough to open up a florist shop of our' own.

But honestly now, wouldn't you think Anne Vander Jajjt would know that Herk's candy would melt if left indefinitely on a radiator go-ing full blast . . . and still they in-sist that G. R. isn't a production center for morons . . .

Pat De Boer now has her third finger, left hand, well decorated as of the Dorian party courtesy of John Westhof . . .

Gals weren't the only ones on the receiving end of the line . . .

Johnny Rypstra got a nice visit (very nice so I hear) from Dona .Mulder last week-end at Denison.

Chris (still can't remember his last name) at Anne Arbor gave .Marion Reus what was at last re-

ports a "simply wonderful week-end . . .

Elsie Parsons got a nico Valen-tine in the form of the information that Krunch is going to be at Mt. Pleasant for a while now in case you've been wondering why she's been going around in a daze lately.

Speaking of presents again, Phyl Barenjie is having a blissful t ime since Jack came home last week . . . Huh, Phyl?

Milly Schuppert 's illness has been the cause of the recent havoc in the office when Mary Lou took over . . . She really made out pre t ty well except t h a t taking dictation in long-hand can get m o r e than slightly complicated, e s p e c i a l l y when you abbreviate every other word and then forget what your abb. stands for . . .

Mil Vander Linden and Bobbie Roozuh-received a not-at-all wel-come^extension of their respective campuses f o r talking to certain portions of the male population. I All of which seems a hard way to i learn that Silence is Golden • • -i You'd think that would Ret into my i head, too, a f t e r a while wouldn't | you . . . Maybe if I'd shut up f o r ' a while I wouldn't have to walk ' around in such a frigid atmosphere for a week a f t e r the Anchor comes out . . . 1 can't understand why people should object to having their names mentioned in such an ex-cloosive colyum like this.

WOMEN'S SPORTS

b y mi l l i e

THE EVER-HOPEFUL CO-ED TO T H E SOLDIER

You looked at me and smiled. And my hear t stirred soft ly.

Eagerly I whispered, "Is he the one, my h e a r t ? "

My heart said, "He could be," And I turned to you delighted.

You were watching someone else.

1 said, "Too bad, heart ."

fa

De Voogd

From Maxwell Field. Alabama,

comes word that Albert DeVoogd

is now enrolled as an aviation cadet

in the pre-ni^ht school there,

where the cadets are receiving nine

weeks of intensive military, physi-

cal and academic training.

Humel

Albert Hamel, A S, says of the

Anchor: " I t ' s Rood to read the good

old names of profs., students, and

buildings. Until you are in the

service, you simply cannot imagine

how good a feeling it is to hear

of mat ter loved by absence, and a longing to go back. Do thank JetT Wiersum and the many others who took the trouble of writ ing letters to this lonesome banana from the Dutch East Indies. Oh, well! California still manages to send heat through this daily foggy rain." He is stationed at the Uni-versity of California at Los An-geles.

Koranda

A/C Hud Koranda moved to Mt. Pleasant Central Mich. College, where he is anxiously await ing to fly. Dances there are compulsory for all Navy men, and if they haven't dates, they are supplied with blind dates.

Wight Pfc. Fred Wight in England was

granted a 48-hour pass, and went with a Corporal friend to an Eng-lish-'summer resort. "It certainly was a temporary paradise . . . Have you ever been to Atlantic City or Asbury Park? Well, the city we went to is comparable to those — in peace time . . . It is the most modern city I have been to here. Our first step was to get a room for the nisht . which we did easily. The hotel we stayed in over-looked the sea. What a time I A bed with sheets, mat tresses, and pillows, and no harsh whistle to awaken me in the morning. During the day we looked for souvenirs, it's hopeless . . . we rode about twelve miles up the coast to a t ram

. . . At night we went to see "Cin-derella." a pantomime. The Eng-lish go in for pantomimes in a big way. It was a very good produc-tion. but I'll take a musical comedy any day I "

Koop and Nyboer

Corp. Howie Koop in the Ground Crew of the Army Air Corps at Will Rogers Field, and Bob Ny-boer in the Navy Air Corps, are stationed about 25 miles apar t , and enjoy good times together at Okla-homa City,

Dame Pvt. Paul Dame has been t rans-ferred from school to camp. Just when basketball had started nicely (and Paul was a regular), and the food started to improve, the A. S. T. P. Engineering unit at South Dakota School of Mines was dis-solved except for a few hundred students. Two weeks ago Paul vis-ited home for a few days en route to Camp Lee, Virginia, While he was home in Kalamazoo he visited the Hope boys at Western and talked over old times.

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Coca-Cola stands for the pause that refreshes,—his become the

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A-tten — tion — right dress" —

count off by I 's! Yep, you guessed

it — tha t ' s basketball with " J a c k "

giving the commands! Twenty-six

eager and husky gals came out last

Wednesday night for a breath-

snatching game. Sympathy is ex-

tended to the running centers who really got poohed to a f razzle . Roses to Norma Lemmer — she nearly "killed" herself going full speed ahead a f t e r the ball and bang — the ball appeared! Dam-ages included a sore and stiff shoul-der, scraped leg (it 's black and blue and yellow, too), and a broken fingernail. So, you see, it was a bang-up game in more than one way, and the gym practically fell apar t when the ball stuck in the basket and everyone really strained their lungs and throats . Some "un-conditioned" femmes complained of stiffness. No news is good news — but this is — another basketball game tonight! Let 's all be there at

7 o'clock, " A t last my lore has come a long"

— no the ping-pong tournament ! Please sign your name on one of the posters. The games will be played in the Commons room, so keep your eyes open for the sched-ule.

Since the weather has been ter-ribly unpredictable, W.A,L. and W,A,A. have given up hopes fo r a snow par ty . But here's a new plan — a hayride some cool spr ing eve-ning! How does tha t sound?

The five highest kegglers last week were "Jack" Schouten, 148; Mary Blair, 137; R o s i e Atkins, 136; Elaine Meeusen, 134; Fran Van Leeuwen, 132; Joanne Decker, 132. Remember tha t Fr iday a f t e r -noon is bowling time. No excuses permissable!

O.K., some of you lax f reshmen had better turn over a new leaf and come regularly to gym class. You'll be sorry if you don't show up! A word to the wise is suffi-cient!

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DORIAN

Dorian pledges ha^e passed an-other milestone on the long, ob-stacled road to becoming members of Kappa Beta Phi. Before yielding to the anger-compelling antics of the i r predecessors, the pledges a t -tempted to appease their superiors with a potluck supper, a t the home of Betty Van Tatenhove. In fo rma initiation under the direction of Ruth Ellison, found each prospec-tive member as a Cover Girl f o r a magazine, the character of which, satir ized one of her idiosyncrasies. A f t e r receiving merciless t r ea tmen t a t the hands of the ravenous sophs, Dorian pledges appeared before the society in the i r various garbs, with papers intended to defend them-selves. To the amusement of all. Pledges Thelma Oonk, Pa t De Boer, Ann Krueger , Betty Kings-field, Louise Ter Beek, Ruth Vande Bunte, Marian Korteling, Ger t rude Maasen, and Bunny Goff were hu-miliated, ridiculed, and penalized.

T H E S A U R I A N

On the night of February 18, te r ror reigned high among the The-saur ian pledges. What was going to happen to each one? The pledges, who were dressed as Mother Goose characters , were made to read poems describing themselves. In-cluded in t h i s 'we re : Helen Bleeker as Jack the Beanstalk; Sarah Jack as Black Sambo; Verlalyne Saun-ders as Boy Blue; and Lucille Ten-inga as Jack Be Nimble. Marian Mastenbrook characterized Mother Goose, while Anne Fikse was Cin-derella, Marian Dame the Ginger-bread Boy and Mary Young, Hump-ty Dumpty. Others were: Nellie Ri tsema as Jack Sprat and Lois Meulendyke as Jack himself, Jean Meulendyke as the Littlest Bear, Mickey Felton as Wee Willie Win-kie, Angelyn Turl ing as Contrary Mary, Peggy Christ iana as Old Mother Hubbard, and Barb Dalcher a s the "Old Woman who lived in a Shoe."

The pledges provided the mem-bers with a varied program. Anne Fikse serenaded Mary Young, Lu-cille Tenninga drilled Marian Dame and Barbara Dalcher, Jackie Jack made a purchaser for her "wife ," ami Neliie Ritsema and Lois Meu-lendyke argued over the reason why Jack Spra t came in at 3 A. M. ra the r on the "pi tkled" side. As a punishment for all, the pledges went through the paddling machine. A f t e r this ref reshments were served by the freshmen.

o DELPHI

February 18 spelled doom for Delphi pledges who underwent the agonies of their informal initiation to the grea t enter ta inment of the Delphi sisters courtesy of the Del-phian sophomores. The informal in-vitation was in the hands of Pinks Mulder, Joyce Van Oss and Elaine Prins, and a f t e r a grea t deal of harrassed squirming the f reshmen "worms" were auctioned off to the upper-class m e m b e r s as slaves. The girls who were initiated are Bet ty Van Lente, Myra Brouwer, Elaine Meussen, Joan Droppers, J e r r y Uppleger, Jean Caan, Dona Mulder, Gail Koop.

SIBYLLINE

One of the most entertaining meetings of the year opened fo r Sibylline a t 7:30 Fr iday evening, February 18. The business meeting was presided over by Mary Blair. The sophomores then took over, aided by the pledges. At this time, the climax of a day 's "Sir-ing," sa-luting, sailor 's outf i ts and "hup-two"-ing, was reached by said pledges. In outfits i l lustrative of the nautical t e rms they were to represent they appeared in the fol-lowing order : Edna May Van Tat-enhove as an Anchor; Carol Kile as Davy Jones ' Locker; Anne Van Derveer as a p o r t h o l e ; Vivian Dykema represent ing a submarine; Phyllis Haskin wear ing the ship's bells; Harr iet Haines in a sail; Vera Pennings in the disguise of a "Crow's Nes t" ; Marian Reus as a P. T. Boat; and finally Vada Mae Efird as a controlled mine. Each pledge, a f t e r having more or less read a t reat ise on their subject, made a noble a t t empt at the tradi-tional Sailor's "hornpipe."

When all were duly initiated in-formally, the pledges joined Sibyl-line members in the Sib songs. Get-t ing in practice for Slave Week, they then distr ibuted the refresh-ments for the social part of the evening.

SOROSIS

Sorosites gathered in the home of Elaine Bielefeld, 199 West 16th St., Fr iday night for the annual informal initiation ordeal when frosh pledges were put through their paces for the delight of up-perclassmen.

Garbed in the costumes of a sol-dier, turtle, skunk, Johnny Walker, the old gray mare, the devil, Mickey Mouse ,and the "Sad Sack," the pledges were submitted to se-vere cross examination by Chair-man Nat Bosman and the sneering remarks of upperclass members. Brought one by one from the dark Bielefeld dungeon where they had been tied and imprisoned, they faced white l ights as each one was put "on the carpe t . "

H o l l y Holleman as the "Sad Sack" amazed her sorority sisters by counting glibly in Chinese while the brazenness of other pledges just simply amazed! Following a thorough humbling process during which tummies growled protest-ingly, frosh spread with the food and enmity was forgotten.

Pledges will serve as slaves for upperclass members until formal initiation, two weeks hence. The meeting adjourned with the singing of the Sorosis songs and the frosh on " K P " duty.

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Roger Koeppe opened the meeting with a welcome, and Richard Hine followed with devotions and pray-er. Murray Snow and John Mooi were asked to lead singing. Mooi walked up in a dress, high heels, and blonde hair — all of which turned out to be Frieda Grote. Do-rian President Marian Sandee ex-tended greet ings f rom Dorian and announced the numbers on the pro-g ram.

F i r s t was a skit, "The Lamp Went Out ," which was the story of George Washington's courtship of Martha (nee Clapsaddle). B o b Danhof played George Washington, and George's rival, Willie Lump-Lump, was portrayed by Carl Kon-ing. Anne Kruger played Martha, and Jeanel la DeKleine, Mrs. Clap-saddle. Harold Vande Bunte, who "ran the moon" from behind the piano, got so excited over his work that he kicked over two pails of paint.

"Believe It or Not ' s" about George Washington were present-ed by Pauline Naas ; the high point was the story of George and his "s tore teeth." "George's Slaves," six talented Dorians, rounded out the musical side of the program with the rendition of "Old Black Joe ." The feminine "s laves" were Gertrude Maasen, Ruth Probst, Ruth Ellison, Mitzi Bode, Frieda Grote, and Louise Ter Beek. The evening's serious paper was in charge of Wesley Dykst ra ; his sub-ject was the "Spiri t of George." Harland Steele presented the im-promptu serious paper of the meet-ing in the fonn of his master critic's report . The meeting ended on a high note with the singing of the Dorian song and the Hope song.

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Speaking of food — tha t sure was a swell Valentines' potluck we had a t Mrs. Snow's. Besides sing-ing, we sure love to ea t !

The Musical Ar t s Club meeting held a week ago proved very suc-cessful. Af te r the business meet-ing was adjourned, Peggy Cross, chairman of the program, presided for the rest of the meeting. The program consisted of records and ref reshments . We also made final plans fo r our March 12 Vesper Service.

Well, seems tha t ' s about all — meanwhile don't fo rge t A n n a Ruth's recital next Sunday. Her program sounds "super ."

Frosh Soundly Trounce All Opposition

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Tri-Alpha g o t i ts basketball league off to a flying s t a r t last Fr iday night. Four enthusiastic teams turned up a t Holland High gym to bat t le it out.

In the first round the Pre-Sems drew the Senior-chems. They play-ed a hard- fought low-scoring game. Going into the final qua r t e r it was still 10-all, but the Sems had it when it counted and won 16-10. Kraay and Hine were high-point with 6 each. The other first-round game saw the Frosh swamp the Sophs 38-12. The Frosh had a de-cided edge in speed and height. They m a d e about 50% of their shots. Owen Koeppe t o o k the scoring honors with 16 points.

The last two games were losers vs. losers and winners vs. winners. The Sophs bounced back f rom de-fea t and took the Senior-Chems 14.8. Here again the Chems went into the final quar te r with the score tied but failed to come through with the winning points. Keizer played a fine game fo r the Sophs and was high with 8 points. The Pre-Sems battled the Frosh in the championship game of the evening. It was a good game all the way. Hine was a constant th rea t for the Sems; but the Frosh had what it takes and they rolled to a 26.9 vic-tory. Vande Bunte s ta r red for the Frosh with 10 points.

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Editorial Seymour Gottlieb James Madigan

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Our Inaugural It 's not quite in style to inaugurate a new page of a college paper

with apologies, yet we feel they are in order. The AST Unit has been at Hope College since October last, yet, except for a few, short articles, nothing has come out of our unit journalistically. This is our fault , for the college and ANCHOR staff tried to s tar t us going months ago—

we apologize.

Only now have we come to realize how important it is for our unit to become a part of the college and what we've heard called "the Spirit of Hope." This opportunity to participate more fully in student activ-

ities is grateful ly accepted.

Any group of students large in proportion to the total number of s tudents enrolled should have an organ of expression. We shall, there-fore, use this page primarily to report the goings on of the AST Unit, but we don't mean to make it "Restr icted" for Army use only. We hope that the civilian students of Hope will find not only items of inter-est and humor, but an insight to the feelings and thoughts of their

khaki-clad, fellow-students.

Hospitality, It's Appreciated . . . Nobody has said it yet, but it certainly should be said.

From all of us in A.S.T.P., "Thanks, Holland," You really didn' t have to put out the welcome mat fo r us, but you did and we're thankful .

You've done a great deal to show your hospitality. There were big things like the U.S.O. dances at the Warm Friend Tavern, and I've yet to meet a soldier who has anything but

praise for those cordial and friendly evenings. Things like the U.S.O. Club furnished by your American Legion, open whenever the hours s ta r t dragging. "Mrs. Van" always there to do her part in keeping things moving. Yes, a lot of big things but even more little things. The way the barber in-quires a f t e r you, the way this or that citizen stops us on the street to ask, to converse, to take personal interest — that ' s it — personal interest. Even if we dress alike, look al ikj , act alike, we are not alike. Each one of us is an individual with different background and personality. Like everyone else, we crave individual attention. Your citizens do not have to hear us rave on about our home town, but you know that ' s what we like to do, so you listen.

We come f rom all sorts of places. It would be pretty hard for you to name a s tate that isn't represented. Some of us live pret ty f a r f rom Holland, and, were it not for your hospi-tality, we might feel very "foreign."

It doesn't sound like much in print , but we surely .felt good hearing that some folks wanted us out to Christmas dinner. It was like hearing Mom r ing the dinner bell — it was home.

I don' t know of any way we can repay you. But if we can, we will. One of the sincerest compliments I can give you, Holland, is tha t many of our fellows have said that they'd jus t as soon live in Holland as in their own home town. You were up against stiff competition, but you've proven yourself.

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Many people have heard of the flying t igers, but we have Dudley's Flying Wolves. They haven't gotten off the ground, but they've done plenty of night flying. By the way, there seems to be only one girl who . can subdue Squadron Leader Dud-ley — Hi Pinks,

Percy Car ter doesn't seem to have too much luck exploring his physics on the basis of the birds and bees.

Chubby Gindler's at tent ion seems to be divided between the chow line and a certain blonde dish in Voor-hees Hall. Well, every man to his just desserts.

We humbly beseech the " twins" as to suggestions for the next ca-det battalion commander.

Problem child Cheek evidently can work up a thirs t a t any time. Evidence Thursday when he got his hand stuck in the coke machine and required the services of Cap-tain Morgan and the visit ing Major to get it out,

THINGS THAT CONTINUE TO AMAZE ME —

1) Where does Professor De Graff get all the statistics,

2) Women, 3) How Professor Winters stands

at those rakish angles while lecturing without fall ing flat on his nose.

4) Women, Dr. Raymond's endless source of good stories. Women, How Voorhees Hall gets along with only two telephones . we can't. Women .

!)) The ability of a soldier to have such big week-ends on such a small salarv.

The Firing Line, or

Revealed Opinions

Because we wondered what was going on behind those pretty eyes that gaze at us, and also because the writer likes to talk to pretty girls (he's normal) , we have asked some of the college girls to reveal their opinions of us. Are your ears ringing, soldier?

Barb Dalcher — "They crowd up the halls—there are a few wolves, but they are all right if we ignore them—they take over the library like commandos — but, they're o. k."

Ruth Bartholomew — "Things I don't l ike?—being jostled off the sidewalks into the snow—they don't whistle at me enough — I like to throw snowballs, and they won't have snowball fights—some of the fellows are too fas t , although I can think of one who is o, k,—I don't get enough telephone calls; they never call."

Shirley Lemmen — "We never know if they are engaged or even married—they t ry to outdo each other — they exchange notes on their dates in the barracks—uncen-sored — they are sometimes very impolite—and they all have lines."

Vivian Tardiff—"I never concen-t ra te on them enough to know the bad points — we have about five wolves that haunt us at the can-teen counter, and they are the fel-lows who just want five nickles for a quarter , or change for a dollar— they push us off the sidewalks into big snowdrif ts — I think they're cute, it's a shame I'm not inter-ested,"

Persia Parker — *i prefer the northern and western lines to the lines of New Yorkers and southern boys—the fellows are very polite— but we have a few wolves at the canteen counter."

Adriana Douma—"They are im-polite—they don't call up enough— if I jus t talk to o n e , a c r o w d gathers — some of them are too slow—the color of thei r raincoats is ugly, it doesn't go with my things."

Milly Vander Linden—"I don't like the study hours — they don't have parties often enough—I can't understand some of the accents— they are too fas t—ei ther the clothes don't fit the men, or the men don't fit the clothes."

"Bilkert Pair" — " W e think the soldiers are wonderful (sigh!) — battalion commanders are off the beam. Virginia seems to be an awfully good state. Colonels are wonderful, lieutenants are wonder-ful and privates are pretty good."

Ruth Van Bronkhorst—"Sections shove me off the sidewalk, then the cadet officers trample on me. Pre-fer navy blue to O.D."

Marian Reus — "I don't mind attention but roving eyes in the library annoy roe."

Millie Lankheet — (An old folk

1 0 ) ?

A few f e m i n i n e eyes were shocked when they read the south-e m boy's version of General Grant 's nickname on Dr. Raymond's U. S. History test.

We don't mind going to ex-tremes, butr what was t ha t girl doing with that lariat in f ron t of Voorhees Hall last Tuesday

Fred, a Chicago Yankee, is plan-ning on going home several week-ends in a row. Maybe Phyll can explain.

What has Grand Rapids got that Holland doesn' t? The first man that mentions The Bomber Bar ge ts gigged.

Fairy tale of the week—1st Sgt. Parrish checked on the. Air Corps detail and found Leonard Schwartz working. Carter Cole has lost his sole. And doesn't know where to find it. Leave him alone and he'll come

home Dragging his heels behind him.

(This will be understood only by the people who nailed his shoes to the floor the other morning.)

If the notorious three: P a u l Beich, Richard Vaisey and George Rhodes, would have lingered a little longer in the Mess Hall last night, they would have been first for breakfast this morning.

Jim (I think I will go to bed and catch up on my Calculus) Mad-igan was seen racing for mail call contrary to all established prece-dent. Could it be June in Febru-ary ? ,

Compulsory study hours are not too much of a burden now that the atmosphere has been brightened by the presence of certain more glam-orous a t t ract ions of Hope.

Room 26, Zwemer Hall, Hope College, February 18, 1944,

Dear Mom:

Becuz I discovered five (5) min utes that 1 had nothing (0) to do with I decided to rite two yu, I rilly like it Hear at Hope Collitch alot. You always sed I naturally took to book larning. The Captin sez if I keep up like I am now I am bound to go places. And then he sez wher I am bound to go.

The g i r l s (gawsh) are awful purty. Mom, but their kinda shy. Gee, when I asked one of em to cum

up to the barrack 's last nite she looked at me reel funny. Of course I went over too Vorhees Hall and pushed all the buttons but the only person 1 met was the housemother. She sed I was pestiferous and rite away I sez flattery will get you no-where. I tried reel hard to create a gud impression with the gals (gawsh) but I don't think 1 did the rite thing when 1 brot my par-cheesi bored along with me.

One of the civilian stewdentz here asked me to cut my afternoon classes and go to see the moovie with him but I sez no I can't—I knead the sleep.

Oh, I forgot to tell you we got a T. L. on our room yesterday. The 1st Sarg sed tha t he has never seen a room quite like ours in all his life. I thought it was just as well not to mention the coke bottles we had been storing up in the closet for the last three months but the Sargent is very wise andvhe seems to know our secrets, So^I got my name in print but I think 10 de-mirits is a bit unfair , I seem to be cornering t h e market on those items. I enjoy a brisk walk but there is such a thing as carrying it too fa r — several miles with a full pack, I mean.

Well, I have to rite some cor-respondense to my milyuns of fee-mail admyrurs now, so I will cloze.

Your lovable sun, Umbriago.

special)—"Yesterday I got a let ter from him. I guess the soldiers a re o. k. if you can stand them. The soldiers take away the *old hope tradition.' I do like to see men around even if they are wolves— builds up a gal 's morale."

Don't think for one moment tha t this is the end of polled opinions. For the next issue of the Anchor we will interview the boys in olive drab (very drab) and pr int thei r impressions of the Hope coeds. In case this column precipitates a verbal battle of the sexes, we want it known that it is absolutely not coincidence a n d is wri t ten with malice aforethought .

Riley Squares the Blackest Market

This is a swell Jife we're leading here a t Hope. This is really the life of Riley. But what is a man by the name of Riley doing here? Anyway, this is all we do dur ing a 24-hour period.

We lie around in bed until 6:45 every morning. V/e get up and have nothing to do until reveille but as the tempera ture in the room is below freezing point of alcohol (no comments expected) we keep warm by dressing, brushing our teeth, washing, shaving, shining shoes, making beds, rolling com-forters , dust ing tables, chairs, win-dow sills, shelves, bureaus, radia-tors, and light fixtures. This takes five minutes and at 6:50 we fall out for reveille. I honestly haven't been able to figure out why they have us stand at at tention in weather so cold tha t the water on my Knee turns to ice just so some *!-•• / -!* can tell us we're all pres-ent. Next, chow. K. P. here would really be a pleasure. Gosh, they're cute. Af ter chow we wash the windows, blow the dust f rom our volumes and go to class. Classes are from 8:10 until 5:00 with time out for lunch, time out is hardly the word. I'm a slow eater and for two weeks I've had to carry my dessert to fifth hour class and eat it. But it's worth it. The results are worth the effort, I mean. Take today, for example. Af te r classes for the day ended I had learned that the ratio of the number of yaks in Tibet is directly propor-tional to the differentiation of the hypotenuse of the acute angle dur-ing Grant 's administration because when rays of inf ra red light a re bent to form a spectrum they pass through hard rubber, and that ' s the economic problem involved in ra-tioning rubber boots, hut by squar-ing both sides you can get them from a black market , but would you square both sides of a black market? One student of Chemistry appears to be cracking because all he says when called on in class is "Shoe-string potatoes aren ' t made from shoe str ings. Shoe s t r ing po-tatoes aren ' t made from shoe strings." McTavish, keeper of the Boudini, says to watch this pro-duction the Army is putting on — it's good!

In closing I'd like to mention the title of a song dedicated to A.S.T.P. last Thursday morning — "You'd Better Give Me Lots of Loving, Honey, Soon I May Be Leaving Town."

WEATHER REPORT C O L D THURSDAY P R O B -

ABLY FOLLOWED BY FRIDAY.

SIGNAL CORPS SEXTET

Order of the other day: A great shock to the unit came as the orders informed us of the loss of six of our buddies. Due to their previous training in the Signal Corps, Uncle Sam sought, struck, and t ransfer red them to heaven knows where. I'm quite sure the barracks will not mourn to too great an extent — we're worried about four c e r t a i n co-eds.

Basketball If

Chief Sport When a group of some 250 boys

of college age are gathered in one place, you can be sure t ha t there is enough athletic talent to go around, and some to spare. I t is to this ta lent tha t this column will be devoted in the fu ture . At present there is one major sport in prog-ress, basketball , but the coming of Spr ing promises numerous addi-tions such as baseball, and possibly t rack. (There seem to be several good baseball prospects on hand, judging f rom the way the snow-balls are flying these days!) We will endeavor to keep you posted in this space, on what the Hope A S T P boys are doing along these lines.

To begin with, there is enough basketball talent in the unit to form a team which would be a fa i r ly formidable one agains t other ASTP units or even college compe-tition. Coach Bud Hinga has put his team against Holland High in several practice scrimmages, with uniformly good results, playing several boys with previous college experience, as well as other bright prospects. Frank Gillespie, Bill Russell, Chris Dubia, Doug Pritch-ard, Bill Fanney, John Cheek, Ba-ker Gamble, and Walt Hansen have been among the regulars while J im Gindler, Bob Case, and Dorman Morsman have also shown up quite well. At present there is some con-troversy as to which term, B-2 or B-.'i, has the better team, with s t rong arguments put up by both sides, but we'll keep to the middle of the road and give them both credit for some bang-up basketball.

The possibility of a track squad for the army boys, though, seems ra the r slim for the present as the t rack is buried under half a dozen inches of snow; but if, come April, anything should be done about it, there a re several boys who have already expressed their interest .

Among these is Lawrence War-ner, who ran the half-mile for the University of Alabama only last season, and Doug Pri tchard, 100 and 220-yard sprint man f rom VMI.

As for other athletics, there is only volleyball in the gym, and the boys have been going at it hot and heavy. Boys who never played volleyball before are rapidly catch-ing on, and the competition is keen dur ing the one gym period per week designated for the net game, but basketball is still number one, and will remain so, I suppose, as long as the boys play in the gym.

Tha t ' s all for now except that we hope that you will enjoy our column. All your suggestions will be appreciated. So until next time, i t ' s "so-long" and let us hear f rom you.

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