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EIGHT FROM OREGON TRAIN FOR OFFICERS Ordnance Men from University Make Good Showing at Camp Meade in Class of 135. Sergeant Tengwald, of First Class, Writes Onthank; Others in Line. “Old Oregon has again ‘made gnad.’ Recently two can aviates from each , camp in the country were ordered se lected to attend the Ordnance Officers Training Gamp to be held here," -writes J C. Y. Tengwuld, a member of the first j ordnance clasn now at Gamp Meade, i “As you know, the boys from the Ord nance classes are scattered all over the , country now, and some perhaps on their ; way to France, if not already over < there. i 'The following Oregon men were sue- i cessful in being selected to attend the i camp here out of 135 men selected: Sergeant Ghas. O. Ghatterton, Ser geant William (’. Christensen, Sergeant Garnet L. Green, Sergeant Ellis it. Hawkins, Sergeant Joe Denn, Sergeant Ridgeway, Sergeant Carl Y. Tengwuld, and Sergeant Wild, former assistant to Jeremiah. “Ohriwtenecn and I had been sta tioned at Gamp I lodge, Iowa until sent here. The boys there are all expecting overseas service soon. All wore well when I left, except Zumwalt, who was in the Ra.ie Hospital with mtunpn, but he is probably out by this time. Of the boys sent there only three besides ns have left tbijre. Sergeant Knickerbocker, now in Ordnance Department, Washing ton, I). G; Sergeant ('. W. Salisbury, Ordnance Department, Mosler Dock Co., Dayton, Ohio; Sergeant Joe ('. Hedges, with First Rattalion, A. O. It. D. F., on route “somewhere.” “Our training course here commences next Monday, and will cover a period of six weeks. It is a very intensive course and every hour of the day will be taken up. and even two hours every evening. “This is a very beautiful camp, lo cated midway between Washington, I). G., and I tuition-ore, about twenty miles to cither city. The camp is surrounded by pine trees, the first we have “en cotmterod" since leaving Oregon, so we feel rather 'homelike’ ngtuin.” It is a requirement that men must be in ordnance work three months before being admitted to the Officers Training Camp at Gamp Meade. Several mum bora of the later classes have already been recommended when they become eligible. (Continued from page one) aplwndidly, according to those in charge. Seniors have Subscribed. ‘If y«u nre « junior support your clans. If you nre an underclass man. think of the days when you will need 'support and buy your Oregana now. If you are a senior hut all seniors have eulisoribed already for they are old enough and wise enough to know the benefits derived from tan Oregana. No matter who you are you will want a copy of the t>ook of the hour when tC comes fresh from the press Junior W “ck-end. ‘Don’t one of the disappointed people who have the idea that they can fc-et a book at the last minute. They »tc going to get the surprise of their IDes,” said the manager, “for there will be only #is many hooks prin ted ns there are subscriptions.” Y. W. SECRETARY “GOES ACROSS.” Winifred A. Tunell Loaves for Franco to Do Hospital Work. Miss Winifred A. Tunell, former pot. e\al secretary of the Y. \Y. C. A. at tli University of Oregon.sailed March .“0 on the Roobambeau for France where Mu will do hospitid work for the V. M. t\ A .ays the Ohio State lantern. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦<> ♦ The following books are wanted ♦ at the Co-Op Store at once: ♦ Hough A Sedgwick. Human ♦ Mechanism. ♦ Adams and Sumner. I.abot Prob ♦ 1cm. ♦ Wilaon A Tracy, Analyte (leom ♦ etry. ♦ Palmer A Leigh, trigonometry ♦ Kingley’s, Yeast ♦ Kish Development of American ♦ Nationality. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ [RE NU GIRLS TO INITIATE TWELVE FRIDAY EVENING leremonics to Be Held at Bungalow Will Be Followed by Banquet and Dance. Initiation of twelve Tre Xu pledges vill be held next Friday evening at 1:30 at the Bungalow, according to a lecision reached Sunday afternoon .t the regular monthly wetting of the society. Initiation will be followed by banquet at the Bungalow and a dance t the home of Mable Weller, a club nember who live*; in Fairrnount. New pledges elected at the meeting resturday are Jennie Maguire, Essie daguire, Alice. Thurston, and Dorothy tobertson. Other girls to be initiated >n Friday are Kilec® Tompkins, Waiva lean, Erma Huff, Elizabeth Ginsey, riorida Hill and Ruth Danford. Beat ice Thurston’s name is also given in he list, but she will not be initiated, leenuse she is holding a position this erm on the Klamath Falls Herald. A shorthand class for the members ►f Tre Nil to he held under the di •eetion of Erma Huff, a member of the dub, on Moi day and Friday at 5 (’clock was decided upon at the meet ng yesturday. The class will start iext Friday. A committee from the club has writ er) to different commercial dubs anil large business firms of the sl»te, uh!< ng about prospects for positions for University girls for the summer. The lesire of the club girls is to get posi tions in units, each group of girls being leeompanied by a chaperon. This dan has been successfully tried by girls n Canada. RUSSIAN MUSIC AT RECITAL Members of Mu Phi Epsilon Give Pro gram in School of Music. A program of Russian compositions was presented at a meeting of Mu l’hi Epsilon in the chapter room at the school of music Saturday afternoon. Ola Ire (!uz! ey directed the affair and the carefully prepared program af forded delight to the hearers. The program was ns follows: Russian Music .....Claire Gazley ’The Song of the Shepherd. .Kate Chatburu NicoUis Kimskykovsukow Kemenuoi-Ostrow .Aurora Potter A. llubenstein A. IMssonance .Helen Watts A. 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Tiie new symbal is a white flag, the center of which contains la red heart bearing a blue star. This symbol is certain to be popular with Michigan women. More than 100 girls have ex pressed their favor of the plan and there may be keen competition be tween the sororities on the campus for stars. The official word also advised that “no two girls will be (allowed to wear a sweetheart’s service flag for the same soldier.” As is the custom in other service flags, the star will he changed to gold if the boy meets death.—University of Michigan Daily. ,:0UR MONTANA MEN ARE CHOSEN Grdnanco Department Gives Appoint ments to Next Course. Appointments to the Eugene ordnance school at Eugene, Or., have been receiv ed by Ilcnry Lamb ’JO, .J. B. Anders >n ’21, Hugh Kent ’Ifi, and Maurice Diet rich ’IK. I*hil Daniels 'US, and Robert (ii-etencourt T9, have sent for applica tions but ns yet hstve not heard from [hem. Motnana Kain 1 in. Harry Xorquist and Clarence Potter, Iboth of the Ordnance Corps, were .Sun day dinner guests of f’hi Omega. Mrs. N. K. Clark and Bess Clark were Sunday dinner guests of Kappa Kappa Gamma. PICTURES OF WAR WORK OFFERED HIGH SCHOOLS Various Army Activities Shown in Set of Slides Prepared by Exten sion Division. The bureau of visual instruction of tbe Extension Division is now offering the high schools of the state a large .number of slides which deal with the war. The bureau has received a set from Underwood and Underwood, New York i photographers, which show the various steps in the transition of army uniforms from the Revolution to the present time. Another purchase of 300 slides was made from the committee on pub lic information at Washington, D. C. These slides deal with camouflage, the activities and requirements of the train ing camps throughout the countiy, the various schools of aviation, the prep- I aration for and the combating of gas attacks and the several other phases of army preparation which are being carried on. The most interesting of all, according to Alfred Powers, assistant director of the extension division, is a collec tion of 50 Bairuisfeathers cartoons selected by Colonel John Leader. Col onel Leader also selected 25 pictures for slides on the Battle of the Somme. HEDGES ARRIVES IN FRANCE Former U. Student and Graduate of Ordnance is Now Sergeant. Joe Hedges, ex-TS who enrolled in the first ordnance course, is now in ■ France as a sergeant La that branch of the service. A curd was received last week by one of his friends with the words “have arrived safely” written on one side, denoting that he has crossed the waters. Get Your Oregana Now! NELSON, BIGBEE BUILD SHIPS Former Students in Seattle Work on Week Days and Play Ball Sunday. “Dick’’ Nelson, ’17, is now working in Seattle and playing baseball. His week days are spent in building ships and his Sundays in cavorting around first base. Lyle Bigbee ex-’16 is also spending his time in Seattle with a shipbuilding organization. He is play ing baseball on Sunday -with the same team with Nelson. Marie Gates. ex-’20 is acting as sec retary of the Red Cross chapter at Med ford. Edna Howd, ex-’20, spent the week end at the Kappa Gamma house. Miss Howd is employed in the state fire mar shal’s office in Salem. AUGUSTUS PITOU Presents MAY ROBSON — in — A LITTLE BIT OLD FASHIONED A MELODRAMATIC FARCE. By Anna Nichols. EUGENE THEATRE. Hofei Osburn Favorite Resort of Students. Dinner Dances, Teas and Banquets a Specialty. 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