Harkins Replaced
Elden Kamla, head coach at St.
John's Junior College in Winfield,
Kansas, has been selected as head
basketball coach for the Eastern
Montana College Yellowjackets, EMC
Athletic Director Frank Spechalske
announced today.
Kamla, 29, has been head basketball
coach and assistant professor of physical
education at St. John's for the last six
years. His teams took the Prairie Junior
College Conference four times, earned a
berth in state competition four times,
and won numerous tournaments. He
was named conference coach of the year
in 1972 and 1973.
He will begin coaching duties at
Eastern "as soon as possible," said
Spechalske. "Kamla has many recruiting contacts in Montana and other
states, and will begin building next
year's team immediately. Kamla will replace Mike Harkins,
who retired from coaching after 16
years with the Yellowjackets. Harkins
will remain at Eastern as an associate
professor of physical education.
Before coaching at St. John's, Kamla
was head basketball coach for one year
each at St. Paul's (junior) College in
Concordia, Missouri and at St. John's
Academy in Winfield. His seven-year
junior college record is 120-78. His high
school coaching record is 15-4.
St. John's win-loss record during the
five years before Kamla became head
coach was 40-82. After a disasterous
5-20 first year, Kamla established an
athletic scholarship program and began
recruiting. In the next five years, his
teams compiled a 104-47 record.
EMC President Stanley J. Heywood
said that Eastern "chose the best
qualified person in every respect from a
field of exceptionally well-qualified
candidates. I wish Elden Kamla good
years at Eastern and predict that he will
continue Mike Harkins' winning tradition
Kamla is a 1964 graduate of
Concordia High in Seward, Nebraska.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in
1968 from Concordia Teachers College
in Seward and a Master of Education
Golf Tourney
The Eastern Montana College Golf
Team will be out seeking more victories
after a 2nd place finish last week in the
Big Eastern Montana College Invitational.
Eastern heads for Butte, Montana,
Wednesday, to play in the Frontier
Conference Golf Championships Thursday and Friday at the Butte Country
Club. Eastern will be competing against
almost all schools in the Frontier
Conference; and Eastern should rule the
favorite in that most of the Frontier
Conference teams competed last week in
the Eastern Montana College Invitational. Eastern did finish first among the
Frontier Conference teams.
Eastern has won the Frontier
Conference Championship eight Tut of
the last ten years under Coach Russ
Clark.
Tom Osborne and Steve Studer
should be vying for Medalist honors in
the Frontier Conference; and Eastern
should place several players on the All
Conference Team.
Other players representing Eastern
besides Studer and Osborne are: Dean
Erickson, Tom Audet, Kory Frost, and
Russ Lodge.
Individual medalist honors will be up
for grabs with fine players like Steve
Studer and Tom Osborne, Eastern
Montana College; Dale Westermark,
Rocky Mountain College; Mark Lux,
South Dakota Tech; and Tom
Hendricks of Black Hills State College
all vying for the coveted Medalist
trophy.
Coach Russ Clark states the District
Tournament will be held two days-Thursday and Friday with 36 holes of
competition.
Others traveling with the Eastern
team are Dean Erickson, Russ Lodge,
Kory Frost and Tom Audet.
degree in 1970 from the University of
Nebraska in Lincoln.
In high school, Kamla played four
years of basketball and football, earning
all-conference honors twice in basketball and once in football. He played
three years of college basketball, four of
football, and three of tennis.
In addition to basketball, Kamla has
had coaching experience in baseball,
cross country, track, and tennis. He
served as instructor for several summer
basketball camps and was director of
the Winfield basketball clinic for three
summers.
Kamla and his wife, Deborah, are
parents of a three-year-old daughter.
Running
Women
Only four members of Eastern
Montana College's women's track team
will compete in the NCWSA Region #9
championship meet scheduled at Boise
State, Idaho the weekend of May 6-8,
announced Coach Linda Ponikvar.
Heading for Boise will be Sue Briney, a
Butte sophomore; Laura Sundhiem, a
Fairview freshman; Chris Schultis, a
Billings senior; and Shelly Nixon, a
Billings freshman.
"Briney is the only EMC track star to
technically qualify for the NCWSA
Regionals, and she will compete in the
javelin event," said Ponikvar. "Schultis
will run the three mile, a new event
where qualification was not required.
She took first in this event in the State
meet, and could do quite well in the
regionals. Sundheim and Nixon will
enter the pentatholon on May 6,
another area where qualification 'was
not necessary. Women entering the
pentathalon are required to compete in
five events: 100 meter hurdles, shot put,
high jump, long jump and the 220 yard
dash, explained Eastern's Coach.
Ponikvar believes that Sundheim
would have qualified for both the 100
yard and 220 yard dash had Eastern had
just one or two more track meets. "She
vas just getting her speed up when the
season ended. I look forward to her
qualifying next year as she is certainly
regional material, - said Ponikvar.
Eastern's four will be competing against
about 40 other schools from Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and
Alaska. According to EMC's coach it
will be a hard contest as the NCWSA
does not distinguish between small and
large colleges, and the competition
could be extremely high.
On Campus
Jock ,Results
In Women's Intramural Softball, the
I.O.'s have run up a 5-0 record. If they
can get by the 2nd place Mitless
Wonders (4-1) in their last game, they
can make it an undefeated season. But
that does not mean the Women's
Championship. At the end of the season
a tournament will be held to determine
the Championship. However, if the
I.O.'s win their last game, they will be
seeded first in that tournament. Tied for
second with the Mitless Wonders are the
Diamond Cutters at (4-1).
Last week the only undefeated team
in the Men's Intramural Softball, Drew
Crew fell 14-10 to the Gummies. This
threw Brew Crew into a three way tie
for first in the league with Death Wish
and the Gummies, all with 5-1 records.
VOLLEYBALL
All four teams in Women's Volleyball
are tied for first with 1-1 records. Coed
Volleyball is led by Buffalo Bob's and
Fly by Nites with perfect 2-0 records.
Buffalow Bob's Men's team lead's Men's
Volleyball with a 2-0 record.
3 ON 3 BASKETBALL
Redbone remained undefeated in
3-on-3 basketball this weekend with a
3-0. record. In 2nd place there is a tie
between A.A.B.T. and Pinheads with
3-1 records.
BOWLING
In the topsy turvy EMC Bowling
league the Pinheads climbed to first this
week. Last week's leaders the Lonely
Hearts, dropped to fourth. The Birds
who were champions two weeks ago
moved from fourth to third and the only
consistent team of the lot, the Wolves,
stayed in second where they've been all
quarter. High game and series for the
men went to Sid Bitney with 181 and
495. High game and series for the
women went to Laurie Jensen with 172
and 434.
SWIM MEET
The Intramural Swim Meet was held
last weekend and a big 3 people showed
up to compete. Thus in the future,
students of EMC, no swim meets,
thanks to your lack of enthusiasm.
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Guten Tag—Nola
and Bonjour
The week continued with Mexican
The week started with our meeting
day on Tuesday, including a very
the two most lovable brats of German
popular Mexican cooking demonstrachildren's literature, Max and Moritz,
tion. The highlight of the day was Jose
and culminates on Saturday with an
Franco, a classical guitarist, with "The
international banquet "fit for a king."
Concert of the Discovery - .
Monday was German day, and in the
On Wednesday; Mrs. Greta Vaerno,
first presentation of the morning Charlie
Press
Attache of the Embassy of Norway
Brown met his Uncle Max and Moritz.
spoke on "Our Common Cause: The
Dr. Heidinger, Head of the Department
Feminist Battle in Norway." (see related
of Languages, told of the history of
story, this issue). Her talk was followed
comic strips, with much comment on
by the Scandinavian Folk Dancers of
their influence in German culture. In
Red Lodge, and the film Remember, a
full color, we saw the two Buben
study of the ethnic heritage of Montana,
(German for brats) terrorize the local
produced at Montana State University.
townsfolk with pranks that led finally to
Thursday brought us all the Gaelic
the two boys' inevitable they-got-theirsglory of the Rimrock Scottish Pipe Band,
in-the-end: Max and Moritz were
the provinciality of Greek-Yugoslavian
ground into grain and eaten by the
Folk Dances, and the concentrated
ducks.
effort of The Prophet. Two excellent
With that final ending in our minds,
foreign films, Pagnol's Letters From My
we next were treated to films of German
Windmill and Dali's Un Chien Andalou
artists at work. The films delivered what
ended the evening.
Heidinger had promised: something our
Friday featured films on African Art,
eyes had never seen before. We saw
the discovery of a royal cache in Egypt,
Heinz Mack creating what might be
and life of an Amazonian Indian.
termed living sculpture, with the artist
The banquet Saturday promises a
becoming part of the landscape, and
beginning of flower drum salad, and
creating images of *majesty in such
gets more exotic from there. A lovely
places as the Sahara Desert.
way to end a week of cultural
Other artists we "met" on film were
appreciation and if one used one's
Willi Baumeister and Max Ernst,
imagination enough, a quick tour
neither of whom could be termed traditaround the world.
ional artists in any way.
Much credit should go to those who
After lunch on Monday, we
worked so diligently on the planning of
continued on our journey through the
the week's events. Chairman of the
culture of Germany with Nobel prize
Festival is Theodore Jensen, Instructor
winning author Heinrich Boell and his
of Spanish. Dr. Maurice Heidinger,
delightfully sardonic short story Dr.
Svein Oksenholt and William Plank, all
of the Department of Languages, put in
Murke's Collected Silences.
The rest of German day included Dr. many hours planning the week.
Heidinger's comments and several films Suzanne Mathews, English Departon Puppetry, German Folk Dancers ment; JoAnn Meide, Librarian; and
(who even got the audience to Penny Rehling served on the Festival
participate in some rousing German Committee. Program Director is Dr.
dances), a talk by‘the Consulate General Mumtaz A. Fargo. The Festival was
of the Federal Republic of Germany, made possible by a Venture Fund Grant
and finally, with the film M, the Peterfrom the office of Dr. Stanley J.
Heywood. President.
Lorre classic.
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Elections:
Twenty-two Eastern Montana College students were elected April 28 as
officials of the Associated Student
Government for the 1976-77 academic
year. The twelve elected as ASEMC
student senators are: Tom Page, Chris
Degele, Gary Prindle, and Debra
Larsen, all of Billings; Dan Dewolf,
Helena; Donna Meinhardt, Miles City;
Dan Moe, Denton; Frank McCarthy,
Butte; Margie McKoy, Malta; Peggy
Peterson; Glendive; Jan Rammer, Great
Falls; and Donna Bright, Powell,
Wyoming.
Elected to serve on the ASEMC Union
Activities Board are: Cindy Jones, and
Debra Wrigley, Billings; Robby Taylor,
Fairview; Linda Tufflie, Helena; Don
Richter, Hingham; Leanne Taylor,
Chinook; Stacy Todd, Great Falls; and
Judy Williams, Powell, Wyoming.
Debra Hileman of Whitefish and Jim
Knudtson of Billings were elected to
serve on the EMC Athletic committee.
Also named recently as editor of "The
Retort," the EMC student newspaper,
was Robbin Mulkey of Billings.
The student senators will serve next
year with ASEMC executive officers
who were elected in February: Kevin
Nelson of Huntley Project, president;
Pete Jivelekas of Worland, WyoMing,
executive legislative vice president;
Patty Siebrasse of Havre, financial vice
president; and Larry Beck of Havre,
activities vice president.
Jose Franco
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Norwegian
Speaks
On meeting a feminist
I had never met a feminist before,
though I have often been mistaken for
one. So meeting Greta Vaerno, Press
Attache of Norway from Washington,
D.C., held special interest.
While there is no definition of a
feminist, Mrs. Vaerno fit many of the
pre-conceived notions. Business-like and
to the point, she did not go in for small
talk. She answered questions both in my
interview and after her talk with a
sureness that indicates a confidence not
often encountered, either in men or
women.
When she wasn't answering one of my
questions during the interview, she was
asking one of her own. She asked about
student interest on our campus and
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about what student concerns were. She
was doubtful that one of the concerns
under such a clear blue sky could be
environment. She asked what sports
Montanans engaged in and what we do
in our spare time.
This keen interest was also evident in
Mrs. , Vaerno's talk on Wednesday
night. She spoke on "Our Common
Cause: The Feminist Battle in Norway. She admitted asking herself before the
talk, "Should I be aggressive, revolutionary, or just informative?"
Women all over the world share the
same problem, said Vaerno. and that is
the male adversary. The Feminist
debate sounds familiar in all countries,
even though women themselves differ.
In past years, said Vaerno, the women's
movement in the US inspired young
Scandinavian women, though there was
never real extremism in Norway. The
time was right, said Vaerno, for an
educated women's revolt, which led to a
new awareness. Vaerno sees this
awareness as the realization of the fact
that women have a say in how the
problems are to be solved.
Vaerno spoke of the trends of the
feminist movement in Norway today,
and said "whether in the long run this
(referring to laws being passed and
changes being made) leads to the
upgrading of women's values - I frankly
don't know.
BB
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