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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1932)
Alumni Office Now Moved to New Location Alumni of the University who \ return to the campus this year will find the alumni offices situated in new quarters in the southeast cor ner of friendly hall, rather than in the small building- where the of fices were formerly located behind the Administration building. The history department now occupies the former alumni headquarters, and the building is now known as "History house.” The alumni offices are combined in the same rooms with the newly organized Informational service, under the direction of George God frey, who was formerly director of the bureau of public relations. En trance to these offices and the al- j umni secretary's face Thirteenth street. Some graduates will recog nize the offices as the addition to j the Friendly hall dining room. Oregon Yeomen Plan First Meeting Monday The first meeting of the Oregon Yeomen, independent men's organ ization on the campus, has been called for Monday evening at 7:30, on the third floor of Gerlinger hall. Plans for the year’s activity, which tentatively include a dance, a fall term smoker, and entrance into intramural athletics, will be discussed, according to George Bennett, who is in charge. The appointment of a number of com mittees will be considered. As far as the battle of learning goes, we were pacifists—conscien tious objectors.—Christopher Mor ley. Vol. XV No. 1 OLD OREGON Alexander G. Brown, Secretary Doan John Straub 1853—1932 \ mi ill | MmWMi n i Editor’s Note — The following appro bation of Dean Straub was delivered by Dean James H. Gilbert at the funeral ser vices for Dean Straub. Dean Gilbert ipoke, as the text will indicate, as an ilumnus of the University and as a mem )cr of its faculty. Dean Straub died at lis home in Eugene on September 18, 193-, m the eve of welcoming another of the ‘biggest and best” freshman classes in he history of the University. He was born in Philadelphia, Pa.. April 6, 1853, and received his B.A. degree from Mer cersburg college in 1876, his M.A. in 1879, and his Lit.D. from Franklin and Marshall in 1913. He was a member of the Uni versity faculty for 54 years. He is sur vived by his widow, Mrs. Cornelia Miller Straub, to whom he was married in Philadelphia in 1878, and a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Straub Stafford (Mrs. Orin F. Stafford). FLORENZ ZIEGFELD said ...r'I consider Ruth Kiting the greatest singer of songs that 1 have managed in my forty years in the theater ON WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS... Music in the air . . . bewitching music. "Blues” or ballads . . . sad songs, glad songs ... old favorites or latest hits . . . Chesterfield’s Girl of Song siugs them all. Hear RUTH ETTING in Chesterfield’s Radio Program, "Music that Satisfies,” every Wednes day, 7 p.m., every Saturday, 6 p.m. P. T.— Columbia System. * * * AUo: The Boswell Sisters, Mondays, 7 p. in., Thursdays, 6 p.m.; Arthur Tracy ("The Street Singer”), Tuesdays, 6 p. in., Fridays, 7 p. m. Every night (except Sunday), Nat Shilkret’a Orchestra and Norman Brokenahire. It is fitting on an occasion like this that a word of appreciation ■ should come from the faculty with ' whom Dean Straub was so long associated in friendly and vital re j lationship. This task I approach | with a feeling of humility. We i were bound to each other for more j than thirty years in close and un ■ failing friendship, first, as a stu | dent of his, later, as member of j the faculty succeeding to the posi tion he once held as dean of the liberal arts college. When the alumni in 1928. in recognition of his services, made him a life mem ber of the organization he was at the same time made a member of my class. I feel that he was un usually close to me and yet the highest tribute to his personality, his sympathy and his usefulness lies in the fact that hundreds of faculty men and thousands of stu dents feel that same sense of in timate fellowship. His friends were numbered by the thousands and each had the same compelling sense of .a high place in his affec tions. Close as I was to Dean Straub, I feel at once how inadequate my words in attempting to paint the sunlit picture of his days or match sufficient eulogy to the unconquer able richness of his life. There were, to my mind, three outstand ing factors in the greatness of the man we mourn today. There was in the first place, strength of char acter combined with a radiant per sonality. That strength was bred of pioneer days in higher educa tion in Oregon when sacrifices and will power and vision alone made it possible to carry on. In this man there was strength but no bitter hess. Above the sacrifices, the bereavement, the disappointment rose that genial sense of humor which brightened his days even to the last trying illness that took him away. It was this genial humor, this warmth of sympathy, this optimism and inspiration that made him a personality we de lighted to meet and with whom we loved to linger even in days that were crowded with multiplied re sponsibilities. It is sufficient jus tification of higher education and a testimony to the soundness of our democratic ideals that the University should have moulded in its midst a personality like that of Dean Straub. A second element in his makeup was that universal sympathy and helpfulness which extended to fac ulty and students alike in his years of long association with both. He could be stern on occasion. Many a faculty man has heard him flame with righteous indignation at some injustice done or some base ness of motive unbecoming a gen tleman. Many a student has ob tained help from the loan fund only under stern condition that he change the course of his life and leave off wasteful and destructive habits. He was in the early days of his teaching a stern disciplin arian enforcing industry, punctual ity and dignified conduct in the class room. But tempering all this and in later years over shadowing it all was a kindly sym pathetic and helpful attitude that lifted many a despondent soul from his discouragement and gave him renewed confidence in man kind and in the future. The mem ory of these multiplied ministra tions is recorded in the hearts and minds of thousands who have known his beneficence and in deep reverence we leave these memories undisturbed. But the outstanding mark of his greatness was his high ideal of duty and his devotion to ser vice. It has been well said that he symbolizes the ideals of the University and epitomizes its his tory. He was for more than fifty years in active service as teacher, administrator and personnel offi cer. His long period of ten ure overlaps six administrations. Later, when his duties as teacher were somewhat relaxed, he ex tended his outside contacts to all parts of the state and f ir beyond its boundary lines. He gave as many as a score of C< mmence ment addresses in one chort sea son. These were sei arated by miles of arduous trav i and some times by sleepless nights between. By these sacrifices he carried the University ideal and inspiration to better things to thousands of young people throughout the state. Even his last days were full of thoughts of service to the Univer sity. He had seen the institution grow from a faculty of three and a hundred or so students to an in stitution of high rank in this west ern country, to which he came as a pioneer. As the shadows began to gather he saw the inception of a movement that threatened the very existence of the institution he loved. In his last days he had planned to send an appeal to thousands of alumni to grasp the torch from his falling hands to carry on and to conserve what he and the pioneers had builded with almost unbelievable sacrifice. The friends of the University knew that thousands would leap to his call in all parts of the common wealth but could not ask of Dean Straub the sacrifice which it would involve. If it be true that to be the greatest among one’s fellowmen one must be the ser vant of the other, then we must count John Straub among the truly great. It was his sense of humor, his kindly generous attitude of ser vice that kept Dean Straub so full of youthful enthusiasm. We were never able to think of him as old. Not long ago he appeared at the University luncheon and spoke to his boys and girls. There was the same clear resonant voice, the same choice diction, the same clearness of thought we had known in the class room some thirty years ago. News of the Classes 1887 Died: Mrs. Idaho Campbell, ex '87, at her home in Eugene, on August 12, following a brief ill ness. She is survived by her two daughters, Dr. Eva Frazer John son, ’12, Celeste Campbell, ’26, and son, Cogswell Campbell, ex-’22. 1895 Died: Mrs. Jennie Eakin Hanna, at the Pacific Christian hospital, in Eugene, on August 25. She is survived by her daughters, Mrs. Willa Hanna Beattie, ’95, and Mrs. Katherine Hanna Bester, ’96, and by her sons, Herbert R. Han na, ’96, and Stuart B. Hanna, ’97. 1899 Maude I. Kerns attended this summer’s session at the Univer sity of California, doing advanced work there. Miss Kerns is assis tant professor of normal art at the University of Oregon. 1900 Died: Frederic R. Hedges, M.D. 00, at his home in Everett, Wash ington, on August 9. Dr. Hedges had been a physician at Everett for many years. 1906 Died: Carl A. McClain died sud denly at his home in Eugene on August 5. Mr. McClain had been superintendent of the Eugene Water board since 1918 and had been prominent in civic affairs. He received his B.S. degree in 1906 and C.E. degree in 1912 from the Uni versity of Oregon and his M.C.E. degree from Cornell in 1916. After his £"-qd>'!\*.ion he taught in the University until 1914. He is sur vived by his widow, Mrs. Anna McClain, and daughter, Dora C. McClain, ex-’31. 1908 Joseph W. McArthur has been appointed acting superintendent and secretary of the Eugene Water board to succeed Carl A. McClain, ’06, who died in August. Mr. McArthur, who has been 1 supervising engineer of the water I board for the past 10 years, re ceived his B.S. degree in 1908 and : his C.E. degree in 1912 from the j University of Oregon. In 1916 he } received the M.C.E. degree from i Cornell university. 1912 Married Mias Chailotle Lee Lo George W. Schantin, in Portland, | on September 6. Address: Port land. Moved: Major and Mrs. John T. Murray (Grace Magladry, ex-'12i from Vancouver barracks, Van couver, Washington, to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. 1914 Eorn: A son, Navarre, on July 5, to Barbara Booth Davis (Mrs. Frederick Kerr Davis) of 1193 Pearl street, Eugene. Delbert C. Stanard, M.D. ’21, has been elected chief of staff of the Pacific Christian hospital, Eu gene. 1915 Born: A son, George E., on July 27, to Helen Werlein Whitaker (Mrs. Loring J. Whitaker) of Rex, Oregon. Born: A son, Charles F. Jr., on June 25, to Dr. and Mrs. Charles F. Bloom, of 1785 Division street, Portland. 1916 Married: Miss Jessie M. Tait to Leonard M. Buoy, in Portland, on September 3. Born: A son, Stephen, on Au gust 4, to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard B. Jordan (Grace Edgington) at Wallowa. Mrs. Jordan was form erly alumni secretary and editor of Old Oregon. 1918 Married: Miss Mamie Cunning to Lucien P. Arant, ex-’18, in Portland, on June 19. Mr. Arant is co-publisher of the Daily Demo crat-Herald at Baker, where they will make their home. 1919 Married: Melba I. Williams to Wallace Hannah, in Eugene, on August 6. Address: Bremerton, Washington. Moved: William W. Patterson from 508 N street, Sanger, Cali fornia, to 434 Roosevelt avenue, Redwood City, California. 1920 Rev. and Mrs. Thomas D. Ewing (Marion Lucile Andrews) have moved from Port Arthur, Texas, to Cleveland, Ohio, where Rev. Ewing is pastor of the Windemere Presbyterian church. Born: A daughter, Sara J., on June 22. to Dr. and Mrs. Morris L. Bridgcman of 674 East Thirty seventh street north, Portland. Mrs. Susan Campbell 1857—1932 Editor’s Note—Susan Campbell, for IT years wife of Prince L. Campbell, former president of the University of Oregon, died at her home in Eugene on September 6, and her funeral was held in Alumni hall in the Gerlinger building: at the University. Mrs. Campbell was born at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1857. Her great-uncle, Alexander Campbell, was the founder of the Christian (Campbellite) church. In 1876 she married Walter L. Church, a mining engineer, and thereafter lived in many parts of the country, in cluding Colorado, Massachusetts, Ohio. Alaska and California. In 1905 she came to the University of Oregon as director of the men’s dormitory, and in 1908 Hhe was married to President Campbell. After his death in 1925, she continued to live in Eugene near her son, Campbell Church. Ileside this son, she is survived by another eon, Walter E. Church, an architect of Portland; a daughter, Mrs. Edward Hns sam of Berkeley, California, eight grand children and two great-grandchildren, a step-daughter. Mrs. Lucia Campbell Hen derson of Farmington. Missouri, and an adopted (laughter, Jane Campbell (Mrs. Alfred) Krohn of Portland. Several years ago, her many friends memorialized her connection with the University by placing her portrait by Sydney Bell in the women’s hall of residence that bears her name, and a bas-relief by Harry Camden in the small University art gallery. The following ap preciation of Mrs. Campbell was specially prepared for the Alumni Emerald. No adequate history of the Uni versity of Oregon can ever be written without inclusion of the influence of that gentlewoman, Susan Campbell, whose portrait hangs in Susan Campbell hall, for from the time she came to Eugene, 27 years ago, until her death in September of this year, her modest and gracious personality made it self felt at the University, whether as director of the men’s dormi tory; as wife of the president, whom she married in 1908; or simply as resident of the city. Every good cause found a friend in her—the work for the crippled children, the Red Cross, the Mur ray Warner Museum of Oriental Art, the Lane County Health as sociation, the Y. W. C. A., the stu dent loan work, internationalism, social hygiene, the Old Age Relief fund, and many more; but, through all these years, the Uni versity of Oregon was, next to her own family, her most vital con cern, and to its welfare she gave her time and strength with a warm, unstinted energy that never flagged. The University was always to her more than an institution. She was interested in every building, in every campus beauty, in the attainments of its faculty and its students, in its reputation at home or abroad; but, beyond all that, her personal, active interest went out to each individual connected with it. They all had a claim upon her and she rejoiced or sorrowed in the varying fortunes of every one. She would talk of the dor mitory boys of old, of members of the faculty long since gone to other fields, of the students who had entered other universities, even of faculty children who scarcely knew her and the boys and girls who were part of the University after her own active connection with it had been sev ered, as she might of members of her own family. It was this sin cerely personal sympathy that, combined with the charm oft tier lovely person with its gentle dig nity and breeding, and her wise, humorous knowledge of people, j that drew so many to her, that j have made her so real and con-; tinuing an influence in the lives: she touched. Her union with President Camp bell was one not alone of mutual devotion, but of every intent and i activity—“yoked in all exercise ; of noble end.” Memory of then friends will always link them be- j cause of this, and because both! demonstrated what so needs de-1 monstration — that human beings are capable of endless tolerance and kindness, without any pose; of humor that has nc malice; of steadfastness in character and purpose, with no hardness and no self-seeking. 1921 Dr. Elmer Pendell is a member of the faculty of the Oregon Nor mal school at Monmouth this year, where he is teaching social science. Last year he was a mem ber of the University of Oregon faculty. Dr. Pendell received his B.S. degree from Oregon in 1921; his M.A. degree from the Univer sity of Chicago in 1923, and his Ph.D. degree from Cornell in 1929. He also has an LL.B. from George Washington university. 192(5 Howard A. Hobson, formerly basketball and baseball coach at the Benson Polytechnic school, Portland, has resigned to accept the position of director of physical education and head athletic coach at the Southern Oregon Normal school at Ashland. Died: Carl Ben Riesland, ex-’26, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 3. Mr. Riesland's home was at Vancouver, Washington, where he had lived since 1928. He is sur vived by his widow, Mrs. Eleanor Kinney Riesland. Ronald H. Beattie has been ap pointed an assistant in the bureau of public administration of the University of California at Ber keley. Mr. Beattie received his B.A. degree from the University in 1926, his J.D. in 1928 and M.A. in 1931. For some time, Mr. Beattie was a research worker on the Oregon survey of social prob lems, headed by Dr. P. A. Parsons and on the crime survey, directed by Dean Wayne Morse of the law school. During the past year, he has been research assistant to President Arnold Bennett Hall. 1928 Died: John W. Bean, ex-’28, at the Pacific Christian hospital, in Eugene, on August 19, following a brief illness. Mr. Bean, who was an engineer, had been employed by the Portland Electric Power company for the past four years. 1 He was the son of the iatc Louis E. Bean, ’84, and Mrs. Katherine i Patterson Bean, ’97. Married: Marian Lowry to Rob ert it. Fischer Jr., ex-’30, in Che halisr Washington, on September 14. Address: Eugene. Mrs. Fischer has been society editor and re porter for the Eugene Register Guard for some time and Mr. Fischer, who is prominent in labor circles, is also an employe of the Register-Guard. 1930 Married: Mary Borah Luedde mann, ex-'34, to Taylor Eccles, ex '30, in Portland, on September 15. Address: Portland. Married: Janet Ethel Perry, ex ’33, to Anthony Herbert Metzelaar, in Portland, on September 2. Married: Augusta Louise Ger linger to John Wesley Kitzmiller, ex-’32, in Dallas, on July 16. Ad dress: Eugene. 1931 Married: Jessie M. Winchell, ex ’31, to Franklin C. Forsythe, in Eugene, on June 28. Address: Ann Arbor, Michigan. Married: Grace M. Gardner to C. Laird McKenna, Jr., in Portland, on August 22. Address: 819 Mont gomery drive, Portland. Mrs. Mc Kenna was formerly society editor ; of the Oregonian. Married: Doris Helen Patterson to Winsor W. Calkins, LL.B. '32. in Eugene, on July 18. Address: 606 Nineteenth avenue east, Eu gene. It is with regret that we record the death of Edward Loomis, one month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Thorstenberg, on May 30. 1932 Married: Barbara Barker to Al fred J. Herman, in Port'and, on July 15. Mrs. Herman is the daughter of Vice-president and Mrs. Burt Brown Barker, of the University of Oregon, and received her B.A. degree from the Univer sity in June. The young couple will reside in Portland. tfWCA To Start Drive for Funds Monday Morning Finance and Membership Drive To Be Conducted Together This Fall Renewed interest and increase in ictivities have demanded a large scale, combination finance and nembership drive by the campus f. \V. C. A. this fall. Monday be ? i n s the three-day campaign imong all women's organizations. With the aim “every girl a mem ber and every house 100 per cent,’’ ;he program incorporating mem bership and finance will be intro iuced to campus women Monday light during house meetings. Un ler the direction of Lucille Kraus ind Virginia Hartje, twelve mem bers and officials of the Y. W. vill lay plans of the campaign be ’orc the 21 women's living organi sations, suggesting, since a recent •uling of the state board of high :r education makes it impossible ;o include pledges in fees, that nembers subscribe $1.00 with the nembership card. Tuesday all Eugene students vill be reached by Lois Green vood, head of the town drive. The •ntire prog—’ i; sponsored by a troup of prominent Eugene wo nen comprising the advisory board WATCH THIS] JNTM/O. ■HOW IM HEC-t- POE$ 5HE stand ME? I EAT ->HREPDEpta= WHEAT! ^ EVERYTHING'S under control when you eat Nature’s own energy food, 100% whole wheat (Shredded Wheat for short!) Launch two big biscuits into a bowl of milk or cream and hop to it. And get this! ALL the energy-building elements that Nature put into wheat are right here in these golden-brown biscuits. So call the waiter! Tell him you’ve decided to double up on energy! Tell him you want to put spring in your step and fire in your eye. Tell him you want Shredded Wheat! When yon »ee Niagara Falla on the package, you KNOW you have Shredded Wheat. SHREDDED WHEAT NATIONAL BISCUIT COHHSNW Uneeda Baker*