A MESSAGE FROM YOUR PRESIDENT ll Is a pleasure to welcome to lhe campus the la.rge~L numbn o! student$ Who have ever 8ttende(1
NIJC at o ne time. The admlnistrs· t(on and faculty are honored th.at ,.,,. muny or you have placed upon us the serious responsibility or directing your efforts toward a college education. It is my hope
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that. au rour hundt"ed of you and
Band and Chorus ltap11y one. · Both Want More Members Soon schedules wm have to be made the members of the f8"ulty may be
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Student ·P ,exy
one big family, ancl ma v l add. a
You have learned by now Lhal we a r e a bit crowded; adjU$tn:lcnts In
at times to accommodaLe \la.rious
We hope to be able to make these adju..stments with as little Interruption a,, poss!ble. We solicit your eooperntton. Those of y'ou who a.re pla.n11ing lo transfer lo the 1Jnlverslt, or l<taho or other higher institutions or learning are reminded that an average grade or C Is rcqulrei or all transfer students Ln whatever college they may do their fresh• man or sophomore work. This past week two University of Idaho officials have asked me to remind you ot lhls requirement. You are further reminded that success 1n collcgo frequenUy depe.nda upon uninterrupted class at;.. tendance and not getting bchlnd tn your work. When one considers that the average college grad·,ate earns ap)lroximatoly $100,000 in a lifetime over the average lJigh school graduate, that makes each day in college worth nearly $UO.OO to you. That is an Investment you can well afford to protect. From time to Um~. ln this paper and at assemblies, you will be given jn(ormation which sb?uld help you ln your work. The wise student wllt not miss any opport unity to :.dd lo hig or her fund of knowledge. This ts a highly compolitive world anp I sincerly hope that rul NlJC studenls will be alert in order to prepare ttemsel\les to meet t.hat competition. G. 0. Kildow. President, NIJC Classes.
the beauUful sounds emanating from 1.he stage durlng noon hours. The!IC sounds are bt1ing produced by the l'ecenlly organized !o!IJC band unde.r the dircctton o! Mr.
Gilbert Burns. There have e.lso been 0U1er sounds from the music l'OOm. We round that these come from t.he now growing chorus. l-b-s. 'ae.lcn Pinch is the new chorus director
this year. She has prompted the cho1,,s l<' 01·ganlze. and the office,·• eleeted are: president, Fial Hendrick; vice-president, tficlt Rew, and secretary. Gayle Person Besides organizing. the chorus Ms begun sight-reading Christmas music. both popula.r and sacred. tor a Christmas program. 1.' be process
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the pro1,'l·am has jusl begun. A bOys· quartet. and possibly a girls' sextet will be organized $oOn. Although the chorus is progressing we.ll, there should be more members. Al p,·es.ent. lhcre are 30 members, and ll is hoped that there will be 60. TltiS. then is a plen for lhose -..vho have been tn chorus In high school or college and any others who are lnterested
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Como an<l jl)ln the chorus: nu out• ~Ide. work involved.. There is also room in the band ror I.hose students who play- band Instruments. The Ume tor lhesc music classes are: Band; Tuesday and Thursday al 12:25 p. m.: Chorus: -ai'ond&y. Wednesday, and 1-.,.rlday al 12 :25 p. m.
Students Hear Orientation Lectures On School Rules and Various Study Fields
At the t;econd assembly, Dean Christianson gave a brief resume of Lhe rules and regulation.< or NT.JC. and told bow It Is organiz· ed, $UppOrted and operated. Mr. Christianson also spoke or the college's accredltallon. He told how colleges are accredited and also gave Lhe , number or c1cdlt hours which a student. m.ust carry In order to get a degree in ,,:,me fields,
Evo.ns on t.b0 humanities. the social sciences and the aclenccs, re• specllvely. Mr. Priddy defined ltumanltles In a number of ways. He sbow~ how the term is used diilerenl:1y in different schOOlR. Humanttlcs ts compo1Sed oC art, mus1c, language&. speech, drama. religion, and philosophy. Mr. Priddy sli·essed tbat sLudent.s 6houtd take bumanilies no matter what their major. Bumanltie.s might be thought of as s liberal arts course with stress on thooe fields just mentioned. '!,,fr. Stone, who covc.-00 the soc· Jal science field, spoke or the social sciences as lmportant tor broadening one's view. Social science is a.. study of human beings and their relaUons. 111 our school, poUtlcal sctcncc., history. ec,momics, sociology, and psycholog-y are offered. Mr. Evans spoke of the general classitic..'1Uon of natural science, which is subdivided Into physical and life science. pure science which
Olck BicUer wclcomea ~11 new
la math. and applied sclencc 1 which
students on behalf of u,c sophomores. Dick slressod the import• ance of school splr[t and urged all Creshmen to wear beanies. Dick rlton told a little about and Introduced a member of each collci;c organi.zallon and ,q,oke of tlte organizatlon•s importance in col• lege life. T he third and final as.,embly took plaee Frid83' during a.ctMly ~riod. A symposium on the academ.lc divisions was represented by P rofessors Priddy, Stone and
Is engineering. The Intent o( the orientation rommitlee is to prt?#ent intonnn.t1on and counsel which would really be helpful. JI.tr. Dreaney also said lhnt he would welcome any sugge.slion.s ror futu.ro progra.ms And that possibly some thought should be given to b.olcllng euch meetings more orten titan once a year. He added thllt maybe ll might be a good Idea to institute a guest lecture program, which ls t\ usual procedure In larger colleges.
The !irst orientation assembly· wrus held September 22 for lhe benefit of all students and taculty. Mr. Dreaney, chairman of tho orientation commtttee, introduced Dr. G. O. Kildow, who we.Jcomcd Lhe students and introduced the
members of the NIJ C staff and lhe student body president. Dick Bie~'r.
Dr. Kildow then spOke of good 8nd bad study habits, ot the im· portante of good morals. and of tlto impOrtance of joining one of the many chur<;hes in Cotur 4• .. Alene.
ShO\\ n f\-bove ii; you r studen t bocly J)re:i.ldcnt. OlCI( 6ichcr. He WlL-... elected Jn.,t spring ro head student
ot selecting the songs and planning
tn music and 01· an extra cre<Ut.
Registration Hits 397 At Deadline; Record Figure Exceeds 1957 By 14 % Although the deadline for regi$Lratlon i:-i sl..ill a. week a.way. a new record has been l'eac.hed at l\~JC tor fall registrallon. As of Sept. 22. Registrar Nishio saia tbe tol.aJ enrollment n:,aehed S89. This rep.. rcsehls an increase ot a.bout 10.84* ewer- 1957 fall cnrollmcnL The Increase in 6tudenl enroll• ment Is approximately the s.'l.me as last year at. thio date. Finni tabulations last fall s.bowed 342
Perbap$ many ot you have heard
NIJC Will Host Phi Theta Kappa Nat' I. Convention NIJC will be host to tile national convention of PhJ Theta Kappa, a junior c:olJege honorary society. on ,e..µrU 22, 23, and. 24-, 1909. Honor students nom 1111 parts of tile United States will convene on the NIJC can,pus nt this time. This wm be the first national convention evet· held ln Coeur d'Alene. Delta Kappa chapter of Pili Theta Kappa wa.~ organized al North Idaho Junior College, ,\ pril 7, 194L Mn. Mercy J. Gridley has been ita sponsor from t.hat.. Umc until June. 1958. Ourlng this lime 231 NIJC students ha.vo become members of lh1s honorary soeloty. Charter members of 'OeH.a J{a.pp.a. chapter are: Arthur R. Treman. David Andenion, Louis Christen, Betty Booher, and Eugene Schmidt. A !o"· o! the local alumni in Coeur- d'Alene and viclnlty a re : lU:Juko Nishio. NIJC registi·ar: Dallrus Ator. C.H. S. superintend· ent; Dr Richard Fullwiler, a loeal dentist; Ray Cox, a local attorney; Rlchard &. Bell, -Post Falls school principal; Norma Lee Brugger A tor; Maxine Neltleton Schierman, Irene G1-een; Janet Moser Radford: J anice Christianson Crrunp. Margar,et Olson Meckel; local teachers. -Patricia Pool, Ethel Pilkington, Eleanor Alnes, Oonna Smith, Isabelle Rogneby, and Belly Malmstad; and Floyd Young. phyRics nnd ma.thematics instruct.(,.- a.t NTJC. ~Irs. Gridley. first sponsor of Delta Kappa chapter, was the inspi.rn.tion for the organization of I.his chapter and its sponsor tor 18 yenrs. M,..,. Gridley attended Lwo national conventions. Roberta Riebe1· accumva.11iect her ln l 9 l8-. Honorary members are Dr. G. 0. Kildow. p_ A. Christia11son. JeS!:le P. Bogue, and LorcUu Dunnigan. Ml~s Dunnigan is now sponsor, succeeding M~. Grl<IJey Collowlng her retirement last spring. GUIDANOE TFlSTS Ot]lo:
All full-time studenU! wlto have not yet taken their guidance lests aro aAked to do at onto. They .should Me l\{r. Bcsoln in tho rcgls• trar'8 office for appointments to lake the tests,
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Summer Brings Improvements To College Buildings Vru"lous -parts of college 1,uilding,; u.re wearing new coats of paint lhls fall after the usual sum.mer
1:cfurbishtng. Joe Driessen. in charge or ma.int.anence, painted the &helves, cupboards, walls and ceiling of the Student Union kitcl1en a brilliant white. Tlte steps In tlte $. U. were also repainted, as wtlre the halls and JStainvays of the main classroom bu.Uding. Mlsc(!)la ncous repairs were rnnde to doors and ,~1ndows. and a.II locks In the building were changed. Mr. DrtestJe.n also overhauled and cleaned the bOUer and heating syst.em prior to their tnspoeuon. !v!aln building custodians. Mr. und :Mrs. Hughes, were also busy over t.be summer. They wa.shed all the buUdlng walls and ceiling'5 preparatory to painting, cleaned all the Windows. and refinished au tlte floors. Gym cw,todlan, Wall Mithoug, malntained the lawns and fertilized them during the summer. fl• also helped curb the fire hazard in the area behind tlte buildings and around the storage blllldings oasl ot the cheml$try building by keeping that area. cut down. With the help of l\lr. liughes, Walt also re· finished lite gym !loor. Walt also fs experimenting with ways to 1-epau- the c,·umbling sidewalk!i nl I.he gym entrance. rt Is hoped by school oftlcials that students recognize the effort pul In by the custodians and make an e.ttort to preserve t.he improvements made.
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students. rep,·esenling a 11% In· crease over 1956. whkh showed 30S enrolled. Going back a tew years further shows even more dramatic~ ally the growth or NIJC enrollment. In 195ii. 266 registered at t11e couege: in 1954, 2.00; ln 19.53, .17'l: In 1952, 175; In 1951, 142. Rising enrollment figu res promp· ted Dr. Kildow to make a survey of sehool popula lion ot tlte junior college diatriel for the college boa.rd sc-vcrat years ago. It 1s In· t.eresting to note that !tis survey o! the district Indicated enrollment this fall would be about tOO, with 500 expected In 1960. Final tallies v.>-tll a.bow him extremely close tc actual figures. Of the 389 registered, 17 Ust out· of-state home addresses : 51 come l'rom the Coeur d'Alene ,mlnjng area~ compared with 29 from that district last Call: approxi.mately 100 reside outside the junior col· Jege district. At t h e oUic!al deadline f or regh,te rt ng ,Sep t. 29 ) . Regi8tru r Nishio tn.lllcd 397 <;nr0Uoos. A preliminary breakdown of registration shows 206 1resltman, compared with 196 a year ago; 124 sophomores compared with 94 la.st ran: 34. vocational gtudo.nts, an ln· crease of 7 over ta.st fall ; and 25 $pet:ta.ta-. the same. m,mber as lasl
Call.
Tlte figures also show that women students can still choo:;e their datM carefully. with 116 able to choose from 273 men. A year ago there were 99 women and 243 men enrolled. The next issue ot The Review will gSve iii, more complete e...xa.mJna• lion of registration statistics, s1nce the deadUne for registering \\11! have passed. Following is a. tabulation of clUcs and tho number ot students rrom each who have come to NIJC.
Coeur d'Alene ··-· ···- -·····-··-···226 Hayden .Lake ··-······-··-··············· 29 I<•llogg .......................................... 16 Post Falls ...................................... 16 Smelterville .................................. 10 Wallace .......................................... 8 Sandp0int ...................................... 8 SL Maries ........... ......................... 6 Rathdrum ·-····-··--······-··--······ 6 Spokane, Wash. ... .................... 6 Spirit Lake •.. .. ··········-··-···- :; Bonners F.erry ·····-·······---······ 5
Pinehurst
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5
Cataldo ·-·········-···················-······ 5 Osburn...... 4 Fourteen education graduotes Klngston •..... ··········-········-·········· 3 from NI.TC last June are now Hattrison ·····-·-·····················-········ 2 teaching In the elementary schools Plummer .....................................~········ 2 of the atea, at-cording lo Or. Eva Prlest R iver .............·-···-··---· 2 Ogg. head of the education depai-t- Clarkia ........ ··················-······---· 2 me.nt. Thc6e NTJC graduates com• At.ho! ····-·························-············ 2 pleted a two-yenr course in educa- Grnngeville ·········---··-·····---· 2 tion and quallficd for a provisional Mountain Homo········--······· 1 certificate issued by tlte State Outh;e ·····-··--···········-·-········--··· 1 Board or Education. These c-,.rtlfi· Worley ---···--··-·····-"··············• l cates are valid tor three years and Kootenai ·-·····---····--··-··········· . l may be renewed if certrun qualifi· Saglo ·······-······-··-········-··············· 1 ca Lluns are rnt:l.. MUilan _ ---····-·····-··-·····-··· l Listed bclow are the new lea.cit. Riggins ···-······-··-······--··········- ··· 1 ers and their schooJs: .Mrs. Isabelle Twin Falls ··-················--············ 1 Rogneby and Mn,. Betty Malm&tad, Buffalo, N. Y. .............................. l Junior l'tlgh; Jl.tr,i. Eleanor Ames, Roseburg, Ore. ·-··········-··--····- l Central: Mrs. Collette Hutchison, Wilbur, Wash. ················-··-······· l Borah: 1'frs. Lyle Laine. Hayden · Kennewick, Wash......................-. 1 Lake: Nonna Stortro~n and 1',fn;. Wollplnlt, Wash. -··-··················- 1 Nellfe Epperly, Post Falls; Bonnie ChehaJiS. Wash. ....... .................... 1 Newcomb and Sharon Russell. Chicago, lU. - ··········-······--··- ····- 1 Plneliurst; Charles Jacquot, Spirit Candg,i Park, Calif. ········--······· 1 Lllkt1: Wa.t'd Lamb. Newport: Mrs. India ··-··-··-·····-··-··-·-··········- 1 Luella Schilling, Sandpoint: Mar- Japan ·············-···-··-· 2 garet Schelino, Wallace; and Roy Warner. Kellogg. 889