The Alaska daily empire., 1913-12-15
NORTHERN STUDENTS
 ORGANIZE AT U. OF w.
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By EMIL F. HURJA

President of SOurdOugh Club of the
 University of Washington
 SEATTLE, Wash, Dec. 10 - Fully forty names have been placed on the rolls of the Sourdough club of the Uni versity of Washington, which was or ganized Monday evening. All are stu dents at the university who have full filled the residence requirements of a sourdough. The purpose of the club is three-fOld, according to the consti- tuition and bylaws which were adopt ed. as follows: To unite the students from Alaska and the Yukon with the iden' bonds that hold together all resiC of the NOrthland, to pro- mot closer acquaintanceship be- tive he University of Washington and spective students in the North, an6 further the best interests of AlasAa and the Yukon.
 The requirements for membership are that a student must have lived in interior Alaska or the Yukon from the time of the freeZeup to the time of the breakup. or have lived in that part of the coast region of Alaska or British Columbia lying north of 54 de- grees, 20 minutes for period of F consecutive months. Faculty mem bers as we'll as persons who have dis tinguished themselves in service for Alaska and the Yukon are eligible for honorary membership.
 The organization of the club took place following a banquet given in the upper hall of the Arctic Brotherhood building on the university campus. The banquet" in reality was a sour dough feed, from beans and sourdough bread to canned milk. Light during the feast was obtained from a dozen candles stuck in empty bottles. Officers were chosen as follows: SOurdough Chief - Emil E. Hurja, Fairbanks; Sourdough Vice-Chief -I Calvin c. Hazelet, Cordova; Sourdough Totem Carver (secretary)-M Nina Sowerby, Juneau; Sourdough Keeper of the Cache (treasurer)-Clyde B. Rose, Fairbanks; Sourdough Musher Corresponding secretary-Miss Juan ita Anderson, Juneau. The constitution of the club provides that meetings shall be held once a month in the Arctic Brotherhood build ing, which was built at the time of the AMP exposition and later presented to the university.
 At the session a wire of congratula- tiOn from Gov J. F. A. Strong was read, as we'll as letters from Delegate James Wickersham, Scott c. Bone, editor of the POstIntelligencer, Col. w. T. Perkins, chairman of the Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, E. L. Webster. president of the Arctic Club, and others. Gov. Strong's cablegram was as fol- lows:
 
 Congratulations upon organization of Sourdough club by Alaska students of University who are upholding cause of Alaska in a manner befitting their name and antecedents. The people of Alaska view with pride the loyalty of it's sons and daughters, who, knowing the country and it's conditions, may do much towards advancing it's progress educationally and materially.
 STRONG, Governor"
 Interest in the club on the campus is keen. The plan of the club is to en- list the aid of prominent Alaskans as speakers to aid in enlightening the student body of the university Gs to conditions in Alaska.
 The membership rolls at present in- clude the following names of students who are now living, or at one time did live, in Alaska or the Yukon: Fred l.. Pedersen, Ralph M. Pedersen, Seward; Dorothy de la Pole, Bertha Wickman, J. P. O'Neill, F. E. Allen, Dawson; May Ottesen, Nina Sowerby, Ethel La-ViO- lette, Juanita Anderson, Guy Johnson, Odean Hallum, Helene Moore, Juneau; Harold COgswell, Bertha Bracket, J. M. Royal, Skagway; Lillian L. Simson, Hilda Johnson, Stanley R. Wilson, Nome; Walter Williams, Lawrence Williams, Calvin c. Hazelet, Craig Hazelet, Cordova; E. J. Hielscher, Orville Fairburn, Claude Walker, Gud- run Anderson, Clarence Anderson, Clyde B. Rose, Margaret Jackson, Emil E. Hurja, Fairbanks; I. A. Aalto, Douglas; F. E. Landsburg, Treadwell; |; H. w. Schmitz, Chichigoff Island; {; Lena H. White, WhitehOrse.