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VOLUME XXXVII -- UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1936 NUMBER 124, CANOE FETE TONIGHT CLIMAXES WEEKEND Award Cups Given At Junior Prom Martha McCall, Del Bjork Win Koyl, Gerlinger Nfw AWS Head, Football Captain Oulsta n ding Man and Woman GPA CUPS GIVEN Queen ami Princesses Lead Grand March at Junior Dance Martha McCall and Del Bjork Avoro called from the hundreds of dancing students at the Junior Prom last night and presented the Gerlinger and Koyl cups, respectively, for being judged the most out standing junior woman and man. Miss McCall has been elected president of the associated women students for next year and Bjork will serve as captain of next year’s football warriors. Miss McCall is a member of Pi Beta Phi and Bjork is a Sigma Phi Epsilon. The Gerlinger award committee is composed of Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, chairman; Mrs. F. L. Chambers, Mrs. W. F. Jewett, Mary Perkins, Margaret Ann Smith, and Virginia Younie. Selection of the Koyl cup winner was made by the following com mittee: V. D. Earl, chairman; J. H. Bond, C. Crumbaker, C. L. Kelly, H. E. Rosson, Hazel P. Schwering, and H. B. Yocom. I, ast Year's Winners Last year’s winners of the Ger iinger and Koyl awards were Ann Reed Burns and William Hall. Aipna. llcLII cLIlU Aipilcl A.1 J-'cua were awarded the Burt Brown Barker cups for having the highest grade point averages during the past year, also during intermission. Queen Peggy Carper and her royal princesses, Grace Peck, Lucille McBride, Irene Schaupp, and Jayne Bowerpaan, led the grand march, and were followed by many of the students. Mothers, here for the weekend in record numbers, occupied seats of honor in the balcony. A portion of the canopy was raised to enable them to view a genuine collegiate dance. Morris Heads Committee Dave Morris was general chair man of the semi-formal affair. As sisting him on the dance commit tee w ere Mildred Blackburne, Frances Watzek, Patricia Neal, Marge Smith, Dave Hamley, Don Brooke, Fred Hammond, Fred Smith, Dick Currin, Vernon Bueg ler, and Frank Howland. Gamma Alpha Chi Names New Proxy Helen Bartrum, junior in the school of journalism, was elected president of Gamma Alpha Chi at a meeting of the national women’s advertising honorary Thursday. Other officers chosen were Kath leen Duffy, vice-president; Mar jorie Kissling, secretary-treasurer; and Toni Lucas, editor. The new officers will undertake immediately the final formation of plans for the national convention of Gamma Alpha Chi to be held in Eugene October 2-4, 1936. Log Rollers and Swimmers Meet at Anchorage at 10:00 All prospective entrants in the log rolling and swimming con tests at the carnival today are requested to be in front of the Anchorage at 10:00 a. m. There will be no entrance re quirement except that members of the swimming teams will be ineligible. All races are to be for 75 yards. Silver loving cups are to be awarded to men and women winners of the events. Outstanding Pictured above are Martha Mc Call, top, and Del Bjork, bottom, who were awarded the Gerlinger and Koyl cups, respectively, at the Junior Prom last night. These awards are made each year to the most outstanding junior man and woman. Phi Beles Will Honor Officer With Dinner Oregon Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honorary, will be host to Dr. Wil liam A. Shimer, secretary of unit ed chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, at a dinner to be given Monday eve ning at the Anchorage. Dr. Shimer is making a nation wide tour, visiting chapters and members of the honorary. He will be in Eugene Monday afternoon and evening, leaving for Sacra mento, California, shortly after midnight. At the dinner Dr. Shimer will speak on the “Philosophy of Cul ture.” and will also explain some of the aims and projects of the , honorary. Mrs. R. T. Miller, who graduated from the University in 1932, is an assistant secretary to Mr. Shimer. — Westminster House To Honor Mothers Westminster students will honor mothers at the morning service at 9:45 Sunday. In addition to the discussion and worship, there will be special music and readings. All students are invited to attend with their mothers. Oren Freerksen will lead a dis cussion of current problems at the forum at 6:30 Sunday evening. Beverley Caverhill will have charge of the worship service. Mikesh, Not Michek Married Last Week In order to clear up misunder standing concerning untrue ru mors of his marriage, Frank Mi chek announced last night that he definitely was still a single man and had no marital intentions. The incorrect stories had spread fol lowing publication in Portland pa pers of his marriage, when in ac tuality it was the marriage of Frank Mikesh, who lives in Scap poose, the same town as the Ore gon athlete. Traditional Luncheon Opens Weekend With Coronation, Choice of Junior Leaders Inaugurated by the crowning of Queen Peggy Carper, Ore iron's gray Junior Weekend got under way yesterday noon at the traditional eampus luneheon. with its accompanying im pressive ceremony of pledging of Mortar Hoard and Friars members. With hundreds of students and mothers crowding around the luneheon tables, the University band played the royal march as Junior Class President Jack McGirr and Scabbard and Blade members escorted Queen Peggy and her princesses to the throne. A few minutes later President McGirr pronounced the coronation words. Leaders Are Chosen Immediately following this the black-robed Mortar Board and Friars members started to wend their way through the crowds to pick the outstanding junior women and men. Those chosen, in order of selection, were: FRIARS MORTAR BOARD 1. Frank Nash 2. Don Thomas 3. Clair Johnson 4. Fred Hammond 5. Jim Hurd G. Fred Colvig 1. Mrs. C. Valentine Boyer 2. Helen Bartrum 3. Margilee Morse 4. Virginia Endieott 5. Martha McCall 6. Mildred Blaekburne 7. Elaine Cornish Selections are based on scholarship, leadership, activities, and service. Also during the ceremonies, members of Skull and Dagger dis tributed free copies of “Scruples,” new campus humor magazine, to students and guests. Men Are Dunked Intermingled with these other activities, Order of the "O'” men had their day as they dunked campus leaders, white-shoe and neck tie wearers, men talking to women, and even women in the nearby water fountain. Following the luncheon all adjourned to the faculty tennis courts to listen to the music of Kenny Allen's orchestra and watch and participate in the dancing. The prize dance this year was won by whirling Ruth Orrick and partner, Phoebus Klonoff. Second were Dorothy Jane Lind and Hale Thompson; third, Phyllis Gardner and Brock Miller. The committee in charge of the luncheon was headed by Margilee Morse and conmosed of Ralf Finseth, assistant chairman; Lillian Warn, serving; Ken Phillips, grounds; Avery Combs, finance; Bob Olbeksen, service and clean up; Marie Rasmussen, secretary. Members Listed --— Members of Mortar board chosen last year were: Peggy Chessman, Ebba Wicks, Virginia Younie. Dorothy Bergstrom, Ann-Reed Burns, Mary McCracken, Margaret Ann Smith, Henriette Horak, and Elaine Sorensen. Friars members chosen last spring were: Robert Lucas, Cosgrove LaBarre. William Schloth. James Blais, Budd Jones, and Edmund Labbe. Chosen last fall were: Willard Jones, Bob Thomas, Robert Allen, Thomas McCall, William Hall, and Roland Rourke. Slugsy Gunn Evens Score With Canoe Feters “I got a problem. I may even add. I got sum problem.” Slugsv Gunn, the luscious lass defeated recently in the lass roundup for queen of Junior Weekend, sadly chewed her cud as she sat on the reporter’s knee and leaned her head against his back. “What’s up?” asked the report er, scenting news. "American Canned, Standard Oil, and General Electric," mum bled Slugsy methodically. “Well, it didn’t smell exactly like news anyhow,” said the inter viewer, acknowledging his error. “How would you like to die?” spoke Slugsy out of nowhere. The reporter shied violently, dis turbing four other couples on the bench. “Of old age,” he replied, with trepidation. Slugsy came back from nowhere, and sneered prettily. “I’m gonna commit me a suicide," she boasted, taking out her teeth and showing them to the reporter. “But I need your help.” “Glad to,” assented Strongheart, pulling a pocket knife from his pocket. “Where shall I begin?" Slugsy ignored him. “Suicide’s such a puzzle,” she meditated. “How would you suggest I do it?” "Hanging?” ventured the re porter. “Naw, that leaves things all up in the air. But it reminds me. Would you please throw that cigar away?” “Gas ?” “At 19 cents a gallon ? Don’t be ridic.” “Glass?” “Just an old cut-up, ain’t youse?” “Drowning?” “Why pick a time like this to start drinking water?” "Arsenic ?” "Would Nick know any more about it than you?” “Well, how would you like to iump in front of a bullet?” said the reporter in exasperation. “Now. there’s an idea!” cried Slugsy, her eves lighting up. “Five candle power,” estimated the reporter. “Mmmm. Not bad. I once knew a dame with ten.” “Of course. I can shoot myself. People would be saying it was all a pun, and I will not have any puns haunting me.’* So Slugsy and her assistant meandered down to the railway tracks across from the Anchorage, and the reporter adjusted Slugsy nicely across the rails. “This'll make a swell story, kid,” comforted the pressman. “Slugsy’s Suicide in Three Parts." They’ll probably elect vou post humous queen and play 'Hearts and Flowers’ during the Canoe Fete.” Pretty soon they heard a train booming along, whistling “Mighty Oregon" in honor of Junior Week end. It kept acomin’ on and on, and kept a gettin’ closer and clos er, and the reporter sat back smok ing his pipe and watching Slugsy philosophically. But just as the train was a few feet away, Slugsy jumped up. “Lookee here,” protested the re porter. ‘‘That ain’t fair.” Slugsy sniffed disdainfully. ‘‘Didja see it, hah?” “Yes, but ...” "Freight train, wasn’t it? I ain't gonna be run over by no measly freight. I'm going to wait for a Pullman.” But Slugsy didn’t. A minute lat er, three venerable mountaineers, with gaily-colored flowing beards, walked up the tracks. The leader came up and said: (Please turn to page two) Directors of Junior Weekend Events In charge of Junior Weekend festivities are the following: From left to right, Betty Coon, Ed Morrow, LaNelle Mathews, Walter Eschebeck, Margilee Morse, Fred Hammond, Dan Clark, Harry Campbell, Victor Rosenfeld, Jack MoGirr, Dave Morris, Henry Minger, Dave Lowry. Variety For Moms Mothers Feast In Men’s Dorm Tonight at 5:30 Banquet to Seat Nearly 500 Moms, Sons, and Daughters Mothers of University students will be feted during the next two days with festive Junior Weekend activities starting at 8:30 a. m. today. Opening a long series of events especially for the entertainment of visiting mothers, the executive committee breakfast for all moth ers will be held at John Straub Memorial hall at 8:30 a. m. Second event for mothers only is the mass meeting in the Guild theatre of Johnson hall at 1:30 p. m. Officers for the coming year wall be elected. Noted Author Speaker Climaxing the event-filled sched ule will be the Mother’s day ban quet in John Straub Memorial hall beginning at 5:30 p. m. Mabel Holmes Parsons, noted Oregon author, will be the principal speak er for the evening. Five hundred places will be set for mothers and their sons and daughters. All day Sunday the entire cam pus will pay tribute to mothers. Special services have been ar ranged in all Fugene churches. Services will be followed by special Mother’s day dinners in all men’s and women’s living organizations. Breakfast Sunday Morning The Oregon Mother’s executive committee will breakfast at 8:30 Sunday morning to make plans for 1937 activities. A tea and special reception for mothers who arrived early wa? held yesterday in Gerlinger hall. Don Anderson On All-Star Team The name of Don Anderson. Al pha Tau Omega pitcher, was omit ted from the Emerald all-star in tramural softball team yesterday. Anderson, who pitched the ATOs into second place for the season, shares all-star hurling honors with Bill Jones, Delta Upsilon. Soars, Roebuck Representative to Be At YMCA Hut Today C. B. Caldwell, representative for Sears, Roebuck company, will lie in the employment office in the V hut this morning to in terview seniors interested in merchandising. He is one of several men who will be herp for interviews be fore the end of school. Program SATURDAY, MAY 9 8:30 a. m.—Executive commit tee breakfast for mothers, Straub hall. 9:30 a. m.—Frosh-soph tug of war. 10:30-12:00 — Water carnival, milirace. 1:80 p. m. — Mother’s mass meeting, Guild theatre. 2:00 p. m.—Track meet, Hay ward field. 3:00-3:00 p. m.—Special exhibit at Oriental Art Museum. 3:30 p. m.—Baseball game, U of O vs. U of VV. 3:30 p. m.—Mother’s day ban quet, John Straub hall. 8:15 p. m.—Canoe Fete, mill race. SUNDAY, MAY 10 8:30 a. m.—Mothers executive committee breakfast, Straub hall. 11:00 a. m.—Special services in al! Eugene churches. 1:00 p. m. — Special Mother’s day dinner in ull living organ izations. Roduner Vocal Recital to Be At 8 Monday Kenneth Roduner, tenor, is to be presented in concert by the school of music Monday evening in the music auditorium at 8 o’clock. Ro duner, a graduate assistant at the music school, was active in local music circles during his undergrad uate days, but has not given a campus recital for three years. While in New York he was solo ist for. St. Mary, The Virgin, Epic copal church, and had the privi lege of singing with the Schola Cantorum, who do all choral work for the New York Philharmonic orchestra under the leadership of Toscanini. Water Stunts Start at 9:30 This Morning Frosh-Sopli Tug-of-War Opens Aqua Carnival On Millrace Students will cavort on the old nillrace when freshmen and soph omores open the annual Junior Weekend water carnival with a fiery tug-of-war today. Every type of water athletics will Ije pre sented by University students. Ereshmen will line the north side of the millrace with sophs tak ing their stand on the opposite side. The battle-royal of the year will take place on the same historic snot below the Anchorage where first and second-year students for iecades past have stood to uphold their honor. Limit Abandoned The 50-man limit, arbitrarily ar ranged by frosh and soph leaders, was dropped yesterday and all eli gible men will be allowed to enter. High spot of the water carnival will be the log-rolling contest be tween Mary McCracken and Jean Stevenson, ace coed swimmers, and Bill Reese and Bruce McIntosh. Misses McCracken and Stevenson originally were to put on the exhi bition alone: but a challenge to Oregon males brought a ready ac ceptance from the two defenders. To Show Diving Form Bert Myers, Northwest diving champion, and Bob Chilton, stellar running-mate, will put on a group of specialty dives from the high board at the Anchorage. Members of Oregon's coast championship swimming team will compete in a series of races. Coed swimmers will also exhibit their speed strokes in special women’s events. Cummings, Terry Place Wager on Race ‘Wav' Husky Leland Terry of Theta Chi, soph chairman of the tug-of war, and Freshman Flash Bill Cummings, Phi Delt’s yearling chairman, in the heat of class ri valry yesterday made a wager on the outcome of the battle Saturday morning. ‘‘The frosh’ll not have a prayer,” screamed Terry. "By gosh, if the sophs pull us into the water, I’ll pack you on my back clear up the hill to the Theta Chi house," Cummings offered. “You’re on,” agreed Terry. “And if the frosh win I'll pack you on m(y shoulders and not stop until you're deposited on the doorstep of Phi Delta Theta!” Either way. somebody's going for a ride! The site of the tug-of-war has been moved back to its position of last year, below the Anchorage. Plans originally made to hold it further up the race have been dropped. Quick to hasten organization of all underclassmen for the tug-of war, the chairmen named house representatives yesterday. The committee follows, the sophs being named first: Theta Chi Herb Clark, Fritz Watkins; Alpha Tau Omega -F.d Shuey, Jack Wagstaff; Delta Tau Delta Neil Butler, Warren Meu ser; Beta Theta Pi Vernon Moore, Bill Sayles; Chi Psi Bob Wilhelm, Jim Wells; Delta Upsilon—Bill Jones, Zane Kemler; Kappa Sigma —Leif Jacobsen, Dick Olcott; Phi Gamma Delta Larry Crane, Clar ence Francis; Phi Delta Theta— Bud Goodin, Bob Bechtell; Phi Kappa Psi- Avery Fisher, Gene (Please turn to page four) Royal Barge of Queen Peggy I To Lead Floats Crowd of 3500 Students, Guests Expected to Line Millrace Banks STARTS AT 8:15 Entries Represent Songs; ‘Stardust’ Idea Will Be Used Throughout ruder a galaxy of stars in a clear sky, tlie score of floats in the 1986 “Stardust" Canoe Fete will slip down flic mill stream before an expected crowd of :?,r»00 students and tlieir guests tonight. The royal barge bearing Queen Peggy I and her four attractive princesses, which will pass under the arch and into the view of the audience promptly at 8:15 o'clock, will lead the float parade. Betty Shoemaker wrote the en tire continuity of the Canoe Fete, which will be announced over loud speakers by Stanley Bromberg. Helen Jones, who suggested the "Stardust” theme, will be intro duced to the audience. Dave Lowry, Medford, is general student chair man of the Canoe Fete. Paulson Designer Kermit Paulson designed and supervised the construction of the entire setting for the fete. "To Paulson and the fellows who have aided him,” Chairman Lowry said last night, "I wish to extend most sincere thanks in behalf of the junior class for the marvelous cooperation in making the setting. It is the most beautiful I have ever seen for a fete.” Students who have assisted Lowry and Paulson as committee heads are: Jay Bailey, assistant chairman: Ben Bowie, Don Chap man, Howard Bennett, Jane Green wood, Carmen Curry, and John Allen. Floats Listed The floats, in the order in which they will come down the millrace, are: “Believe Me, If All Those En dearing Young Charms”—Delta Tan Delta-Delta Delta Delta. ‘Minuet in G“—Sigma Alpha Mu-Sigma Kappa. “Kathleen Mauvoreen”—Phi Sig ma Kappa-Alpha Chi Omega. “Song of Love" -Omega hall Alpha Xi Delta. "Oh, Suzanna!”—Hendricks hall-; Sigma hall. “Genevieve, Sweet Genevieve"—• Pi Kappa Alpha-Delta Gamma. “On a Bicycle Built for Two”— Beta Theta Pi-Alpha Gamma Delta. “In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree” Theta Chi-Alpha Delta Pi, “Whispering”—Phi Delta Theta Kappa Alpha Theta. "Lovely Lady” Phi Kappa Psi Kappa Kappa Gamma. Amphibian Show To Mimic Classes “A Floating University” will he the idea represented in the Am phibian water pageant to be given in Gerlinger swimming pool next Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 8 and 8:30 o'clock. Jean Steven son, president of the club, an nounced today. Features of the evening will be the geometry, history, and military classes in which examinations will be expressed as swimming races. There will be a promenade of the swimmers as at a ball. Admission is 25 cents. Tickets may be purchased from any Am phibian or from any member of the varsity swimming club. All Frosh Meet at 7:45 This Morning At Corner by Side All freshmen, numeral men as well as others, are to be at the corner by the College Side this morning at 7:45, it was an nounced last night by Bill Cum mings, chairman of the frosh. The men will go out to paint the "O” on .Skinner’s Butte under the supervision of Skull and Dagger and Order of the “O.”