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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1933)
-_ Lawmakers to Study Needs Of Education Special Committee Named To Investigate Regular Session Convenes; Ready To Give Schools’ Problems Thoughtful Action To friends of higher education in Oregon who have seen drastic reductions in all departments and activities during the last biennium and the production of a budget for 1933-34 which makes a 31 per cent curtailment in all expenditures, the frantic and hectic week of the special session of the state legis lature which adjourned January 7, gave some misgivings as to the spirit in which the sacrifices and recognition of economic stress in the state by the state board of higher education had been re ceived by the state lawmaking body. About the legislative lobby were mumblings and rumblings of threats directed at the two mill levy for higher education. A di rect slash of the $308,000 continu ing appropriation for agricultural extension work was proposed leav ing the burden of carrying this ac tivity to the educational institu tions at the expense of other func tions. All in all, the atmosphere about the marble lobby, the house, and the senate chamber were fore boding of little good for higher education. Regular Session Heartens But with the opening of the reg ular session January 9, with the sacrifice of faculty members in accepting a 30 per cent cut in sal aries fresh in their minds, legisla tors were ready to give more stud ied recognition to the needs of higher education. The special ses sion, although accomplishing no actual business, had served to in itiate the large number of new members in both branches of the legislature to the routine and pro cedure of the state body, and members became impressed not so much with the need for immediate and unconsidered action as with producing a careful and well-con sidered course leading the state out of its financial morass. It was with this feeling that the ways and means committee ap pointed a sub-committee to study the problems of higher education and arranged for a public hearing, at which friends of the University and college and the other institu tions might state their case. Mr. E. C. Sammons, chairman of the finance committee of the board of higher education has been desig nated to present the case for high er education. Study Planned Thus higher education came through the special session un scathed, and is now ready to pre sent its case to a group more ready to give studied deliberation to its problems. The state board of higher education, in announc ing its most recent retrenchments, asks the pointed question: What other department of the state gov ernment has made similar reduc tions, and what other group of state employees has taken salary and operating expense cuts with a better spirit of cooperation and recognition for retrenchment? The feeling prevails that institutions should not be penalized because they have taken their cuts in ad vance. It has been stated by adminis trative heads of the state system that further reductions will mean elimination of departments or pos sible closing of institutions. Edi torial opinion throughout the state finds it impossible to believe the people of Oregon desire such an alternative. Linn Forrest Displays Sketches in Portland — The European sketches of Linn A. Forrest, ex-’27, were on exhibi tion in Portland during December, and attracted much attention and comment from critics in the Ore gon metropolis. Mr. Forrest is the 1 first student to receive the Ion ^ Lewis Travelling Fellowship from the University School of Architec- | ture, and has recently returned from a year in Europe. The collection included sketches : in pen. pencil, lithography and wa ter color. H. Abbott Lawrence, M. F. A. '29, is enjoying the ad vantages of the fellowship this year. • ' * v J. DeYVitt Davis, Ph.D. '32, has been appointed dean of the school of education of the Texas College of Arts and Industries at Kings ville. Dean Davis received his B A. degree in 1913 and his M.S. degree in 1929 from the University of Idaho and was for three years an assistant in the school of educa tion at the University of Oregon and an instructor in the Universitv summer sessions for two yeara. Ex-Student Gets Critics’ Praise For Tap Dancing • Ed Cheney, ex-’30, who is now a featured tap dancer in Ed Wynn’s "Laugh Parade,” has been attract ing favorable attention from crit ics in Chicago, where the show is playing, repeating the popular re ception of the show during its long New York engagement. Carol Frink writes of Cheney in the Chicago Herald and Examiner: “A youth named Eddie Cheney maneuvers the steel clickers on his shoes as a Spanish dancer uses her castinets.” Gail Borden in the course of a review in the Daily Times re marked: “Eddie Cheney heads the ballet bill with some stepping as j neat as you could wish, both as to j grace and novelty.” Cheney was married to Miss Lib-1 by Drlscol, a Chicago designer, on 1 December 27, according to word received here recently. Far East Lures Edison Marshall — Edison Marshall, ex-'17, writer, ! novelist, traveller, spent a few days in Oregon before sailing for Laos, one of the little known sec- , tions of Asia. “I’m going to get all the local color I can in the far east, for my ■; first oriental story, ‘The Light of the Jungle,’ is going over fine,” he says. He will visit Manchuria, Ja pan and Hongkong before setting out for the little-known region of j Laos. Mr. Marshall will be gone about four months before proceeding to j France where he will meet Mrs. I Marshall before returning to his home in Augpista, Georgia. On and About The Campus Concerts Scheduled—A series of 12 concerts will be sponsored dur ing the winter and spring terms by the associated students, it has been announced by Hugh Rosson, graduate manager. The series will be free to the public and will fea ture the University orchestra, polyphonic choir, University band, and several faculty members of the school of music. * * * Boyer Honored—C. V. Boyer, dean and director of the college of arts and letters, has been named first vice-president of the Philolog ical Association of the Pacific coast, one of the oldest education al organizations in the west, ac cording to word recently received. # * * Japan Invites Dr. Moore—A dis tinctive honor has come to Dr. A. R. Moore, professor of physiology and head of the department of an imal biology at the University, in an offer by the Rockefeller founda tion for medical research of a vis iting professorship at the Tohaku Imperial university at Sendai, Ja pan. Mrs. Moore will accompany Mr. Moore and make some special studies of her own in similar fields. Law Text Revised — Professor Charles G. Howard of the Oregon law school has completed work on the second edition of a book, "Prin ciples of Business Law,” of which he and E. R. Dillavou of the Uni versity of Illinois are co-authors. The book has sold 56,000 copies since it was first published in 1928 and is now a standard text in more than 250 educational institutions. * * « Faculty Ban Lifted—An old reg ulation, passed in 1883 by the board of regents, which barred j faculty members from holding pub lic office was repealed by the state j board of higher education recent ly. The action will permit Orlando Hollis, professor of law, to hold of fice as a member of the Eugene i water board, a position he was elected to at the November elec tion. — Sehramm Service Long R. A. Schramm, LL.B. T6, cele brated his 30th year of continuous ! service with the Equitable Loan and Savings association of Port land on December 28, 1932. He is senior in service of all employees of such organizations in Oregon The major part -of this time Mr. Schramm has served as secretary of the Equitable company. He is . an ex-president of the Oregon League of Savings, Building and Loan. Frank Jue Sings Frank Jue, ’24, known to his au diences as Frank Jue Fong, gave a Christmas recital in Portland during the holidays. He was ac companied by Reuben Charlyle, Goffreiere. ’22. Jue is one of Fan chon and Marco’s tenor stars. His last play, "Cherry Blossoms,’’ has just finished its tour of the United States and Canada. Mrs. John Lawrence Woodworth (Katherine H. Wilson, ’22) and her three children, Anne, who is 5 years old; Margery, 2; and Roderick, 7. Mr. Woodworth has recently been transferred from Astoria to Eugene, where he is in charge of a branch office of Blake-Moffit and Towne paper company. Their address is 2287 Olive street, Eugene. News of the Classes _______ 1900 Josqph F. Wood, M.D. '00, of Portland, has been appointed a member of the state board of med ical examiners. 1912 Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Dever eaux are spending the winter in Grand Junction, Colorado, with Mrs. Devereaux’s relatives. 1913 Abe B. Blackman, C.E. '13, lives in San Francisco at 49 Fourth street. Mr. Blackman, who is a; wholesale millinery manufacturer, is married and has one daughter, Rose, 5 years old. 1920 Grace Knopp has returned to Stanford university, where she is working for her master’s degree,! after a visit in Eugene. Marion E. Bowen is Deschutes' county social worker, with head quarters at Bend. 1922 Lillian Brock Allen, ex-'22 (Mrs. John W. Allen), lives in Olympia, Washington. 1923 Mr. and Mrs. Paul O. Harding (Felicia Perkins) are living at 1644 Taylor street, San Francisco.: 1925 Eva Randall Taylor (Mrs. Charles Taylor) is living in Fair banks, Alaska. Her husband is practicing law there. Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Fraser (Marjorie McElvaney, ex-’27) are living at 110 Corona street, Beth lehem, Pennsylvania. Mr. Fraser, who is an instructor in geology at Lehigh university, received his B.A. degree in 1925 and his M.A. in 1926 from Oregon. He later was granted a Ph.D. degree from Columbia university. 1928 Mrs. Helen Mumaw Hilton is liv ing on a farm near Weld, Maine. She was married last April to Seaverns W. Hilton of New York City. He is an artist, engaged in commercial advertising, and is a graduate of Brown university. Guinevere A. Lamson is with the University library at Moscow, Ida ho. ‘ 1929 Ensign Sinclair B. Wright, ex ’29, of the U. S. S. Detroit in San Diego, spent the holidays in Port land with his mother, Mrs. Sher man E. Wright and his brother, Richard B. Wright, ex-’27, and wife. Among those who returned to Portland for the holidays were Dorothy M. Lensch, '29, faculty member of Rockford college, Rock ford, Illinois, and Dorothy V. Vil liger, ’30, social service worker from New York City. Max Naimark, M.D. '29, is sta tioned at Fort Lewis, Washington 1931 Marion Ryan Keep, who teaches at Siletz, was a recent visitor here at the home of her sister, Mrs. Eleanor Keep Manerud, ex-’25. Juanita Hannah, ’31, is teaching English and history in the Geneva county high school, Hartford, Ala bama. Last summer she worked for her M.A. degree at the Uni versity of Alabama. She spent the Christmas holidays with her par ents at Lakeland, Florida. 1932 Louis S. Goodman, M.D. '32, is house officer at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore. His brother, Morton J. Goodman. M.D. ’29, is now chief resident physician in the same institution. _Marriages 1921 Eve Margaret Hutchison to James H. McCool, in Portland, ori December 27, 1932. Mrs. McCool received her B.A. degree in 1921 from the University and was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta here. Mr. McCool is on the edi torial staff of the Portland Ore gonian. 1926 Bessie Mildred Davie, ex- 30, to -1 Clarence Paul Smith, ex-'26, in? Portland, on December 15, 1932. ; 1929 Christine Anna Holt to Alfred W. Parsons, in Portland, on De cember 24, 1932. Address: Med-1 ford. Miss Evelyn Hart to Sigvald Shavian, Jr., ex-’29, in Eugene, on! December 25, 1932. Address: La Grande. Lynda Verneita Elliott to Philip Clair Manning, in Ontario, on De cember 20, 1932. Both are teach ing in the high school at Council, Idaho. 1930 Miss Wanda Tuggle to Jack W. Dowsett, in Portland, on Decem ber 23, 1932. Address: Portland. Elizabeth Margaret Graham, ex ’33, to William Scott Milligan, in (Continued on Page Pour) —- ■" %m' ' Robnett Resigns Post; Will Study ForPh.D. In East Ronald H. '‘Doc” Robnett, '28, for the past four and a half years assistant graduate manager of the associated students, resigned his position at the end of the year and left early in January for Harvard university with his wife, Roberta Wilcox Robnett, '29, to work for a masters degree in business ad ministration. Robnett had originally planned to leave next fall and start his course at Harvard in September, 1933, but by leaving early this month he was enabled to enter the special session and complete work for his degree in June, 1934. No one has been appointed to take Robnett's place in the A. S. U. O. offices, his duties being tak-1 en over by Tom Stoddard, '30, who j has likewise been an assistant in Graduate Manager Rosson’s office, j Men Lead Women j In Grade Ratings Grade ratings for the fall term were recently released by the Reg istrar's office, showing the unusual situation of four out of the leading five living groups to be men’s or ganizations. The ratings follow: Phi Mu, Kappa Delta, Alpha Chi Omega, Sherry Ross hall, Alpha Omicron Pi, Hendricks hall, Delta Gamma, Alpha Delta Pi, Gamma Phi Beta, Pi Beta Phi, Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Gamma Delta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Sigma Kappa, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Chi Omega, Alpha Xi Delta, Zeta Tau Alpha, Pi Kap pa Alpha, Susan Campbell hall, Sigma Pi Tau, International house, Phi Delta Theta, Beta Phi Alpha, Chi Psi, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Gam ma Delta, Zeta hall, Phi Sigma Kappa, Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Alpha Phi, Theta Chi, Sig ma Chi, Sigma Alpha Mu, Gamma hall, Kappa Sigma, Alpha Upsilon, Sigma Nil, Alpha Tau Omega, Del ta Tau Delta, Sigma Alpha Epsi lon, La Casa Finipina. ROBINSON WRITES INTERESTING BOOK ON STRAW VOTES Former A. 8. U. O. I’rexy Gains Distinction for Work on New Publication A book of much recent interest is "Straw Votes A Study of Po litical Prediction," by Claude E. Robinson, '24, issued during the past year by the Columbia Univer sity Press. The books will be of much inter est to politicians, political scient ists, statisticians, sociologists and others to whom the ever-increas ing trend toward political predic tion by straw votes is of interest. It is a careful and authoritative study, the first of its kind, on the subject of sampling public opinion on political and social issues in the United States. It describes the various methods of executing straw votes, and demonstrates from act ual experience the accuracy of past predictions based on this form of research. The weak points and the strong points of each proced ure is carefully analyzed and criti cized. Robinson was president of the A. S. U. O. in 1924. The work is based on research work done dur ing the past two years at Colum bia. Family Mail “Am enclosing check to cover dues — and am wishing ‘Oregon’ the very best for 1933. “Enjoy ‘News of the Classes’— hope to read lots of class of 1922 news always glad to hear about or see anyone from Oregon. “Have been employed at the Dairy Cooperative association in Portland for the past year and a half."—Dessell M. Johnson, ex-’22, 2905 N. E. Jouett St., Portland. * * * “I am enclosing the blank filled and am very proud and glad to be enlisted among the alumni of the University of Oregon. It is so nice to receive now and then the direct news from the campus. It is through the Emerald only that I know that the Zorn-Mac pherson bill was not accepted from the voters, and it has been with a real relief I heard it be cause I had been holding my breath about the fate of our alma mater. "I have been very busy working at my thesis which, finally, I dis cussed the 5th of December, get ting the doctor of jurisprudence degree, which makes me feel rath er important. I should like you to say to the whole campus that I have spent in Eugene a wonderful year and that I am greatly thank ful to everyone who has been good to me.”—Nella Roster, ’32, Vial Pietro Tacca 2, Firenze 2R, Italy.| Miss Roster attended the Univer sity last year as a beneficiary of the A. W. S. foreign scholarship fund. * * * Mrs. Werdna Isbell Wyatt, '20, writes on a questionnaire sent her, “My husband is a mining man and my occupation is to go wherever he docs. It's fun!” She gives her address as Cottage Grove, Oregon. * * * “At the present time I am at tending my third year at the Uni versity of Oregon medical school in Portland. The work is very in teresting and I enjoy it very much. We are a rather distant part of the University and so we enjoy reading what is being done on the campus and by other alumni."— Melvin E. Johnson, ’32 Theta Kap pa Psi, Marquam hill, Portland. Arthur Rudd Visits Arthur Rudd, ’24, who travels over the entire country as a spe cial representative of the Publish ers’ Syndicate of Chicago was a visitor in the alumni office the past week. He displayed a keen interest in alumni and University affairs. To others who are con templating a visit to the Univer sity city, the office extends a cor dial invitation to drop in at the new offices of the association in the southeast corner of Friendly hall. Law Librarian Named Mrs. Jacquoise Kirtley Learned, '28, librarian of the University of Oregon law school, has been named a member of the library compilation committee of the American Association of Law Lib raries. This is the second year that Mrs. Learned has served in this capacity. Alumna Passes Bar One of two successful women candidates in the recent state bar examination was Ruth M. Mellin ger, '22. 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