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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1938)
Colonel Lyon, New Military Department Head, Arrives Here Honolulu Man Not Due Till Next Year But Came Early to Act as Assistant To Murphy; Will Take Over August 1 Arriving on the campus late Thursday night from Honolulu, Colonel Robert M. Lyon, who will succeed ColonelE. V. D. Murphy as head of the Oregon ROTC training, reported for active duty yesterday. Colonel Lyon has been active in army service since 1903, having served in the Philippines, Cuba, France, and Hawaii. He graduated from the military academy in the famous class of 1903. He also served June 15 Set As Last Day For Awards State Board Offers Undergraduates 23 Scholarships With 22 returns on scholarship application blanks listed so far in the registrar’s office, announce ment was made yesterday that all students wishing to turn in blanks for state board scholarships must \ do so by June 15. Undergraduates will be awarded 23 scholarships for the next year, and graduate students 4. Last year over a hundred entries were made by the deadline. The state board of higher edu cation is authorized to offer these scholarships not to exceed in num ber two per cent of the eprollment in the respective institutions of higher learning. Students who rank high in scholarship and who need finan cial assistance are eligible to ap ply, but at least half of the schol arships offered must go to appli cants who have not previously at tended college. University students need a grade point of 2.75 or better, and must meet other requirements of the high school contacts committee in order to qualify for scholarships. The scholarships will carry a value of $64.50, applying toward annual charges totaling $96.00 at Oregon State and the University, and $24, applying toward like charges totaling $51 at the normal schools. Soph Leaves For Europe Loraine Gjording, sophomore in arts and letters, left for her home in Glens Ferry, Idaho, yesterday where she will leave for New York with her parents to sail to Sweden and numerous European countries on June 3. Miss Gjording won the Phi Beta Kappa award for the the sopho more with the highest scholastic1 standing, which was $25 worth of books from the University Co-op. Her accumulative grade point for the two years was 3.86. Miss Gjording and her family plan to spend the entire summer visiting in Sweden and all of the Scandinavian countries as well as several countries on the continent. She will retnrn to the University next fall to resume her studies. in the 3t0h division of the infantry in the Somme valley, France. The coloned has had 14 years of teach ing experience in the West Point army school. Colonel Lyon is 59 years old and has four years to serve in the army before retiring. These four years he plans to complete here, He was not due to arrive here until somtime next year, but he chose to come early and serve as an assistant to Colonel Murphy, thereby learning more about the duties he will take over on Aug ust 1. Mr. Lyon was accompanied on his trip to Oregon by his wife. He has one son, teaching in a high school in Muskegon, Michigan. (Additional details page 2.) Mortar Board Dance Tonight Highlighted by the pledging dur ing intermission of 19 freshmen women to Kwama, sophomore wo men’s honorary, the annual Mor tar Board ball will get under way tonight in McArthur court at 9 o’clock. Johnny Callahan’s Port land orchestra is furnishing the music. % The Igloo will be decorated in keeping with the girl-date theme, Gayle Buchanan announced. The AWS is sponsoring a gar denia sale in all living organiza tions since flowers are in order for the men. Regular weekend hours of 12:15 for underclassmen and 1 o’clock for seniors will be observed. Geology Series By Dr. Smith To Be Printed Three articles dealing with va rious geological features of Ore gon, written by Warren D. Smith, head of the geology department, will appear in the near future. One of these is a discussion of the Willamette valley project which will be in the next issue of the Oregon Commonwealth Re view. The state department of geology is publishing, as the first of a series of county bulletins, Dr. Smith’s article on the geology of Lane county. Also to be issued by the state department is a description of the geology of the Oregon coast, all the way from the California line to the Columbia river, which will appear some time next summer. Aiding Dr. Smith in the prepara tion of this article were Lloyd Ruff, instructor in geography at the University, and the theses of former graduating students. Emerald Staff To Hold Banquet Th ursday Nigh t The annual Emerald staff banquet will be held Wednesday, , May 25, at the Del Rey cafe at 6:30 p.m., according to John Biggs, general chairman of the banquet. The banquet will be attended by Emerald workers for the past year including the news, adver tising, and night staffs. LeRoy Mattingly will officiate as mas ter of ceremonies. The principal \ speaker of the evening has not yet been decided upon. The highlight of the evening will be the awarding of the Turnbull-Hall plaque to the out . standing senior journalist and the Sigma Delta Chi awards. Awards of merit and Emerald O’s will be presented to out standing Emerald workers dur ing the banquet. Constitution Postponed Organization of the student body of the business administra tion school is being postponed un til next fall, according to Harry Hodes, chairman of the organiza tion committee. Slowness of students to sign the constitution of the BA school was the cause of the failure to organ ize this year, Hodes said. All BA majors are asked to read the constitution, which is placed on the bulletin board in the Commerce building, and sign it if they approve. Only 100 of the 200 necessary for ratification had signed last night. A meeting will be called the first part of next year, and offi cers will be elected and plans for action of the group will be out lined. i The committee for next year's organization of the BA school will consist of Harold Faunt and Rob ert H. Shaw. Marion Fuller Wins Honor Medal for Work in French The silver medal of honor pre sented annually by the French gov ernment to the student making the greatest progress in the study of French was awarded to Marion Fuller, senior, at* the jnitiatory banquet of Pi Delta Phi, French honorary, Wednesday evening. Chosen as the outstanding senior in French was Margaret Earl, who received the Pi Delta Phi book prize. Initiation for honorary member ship was bestowed upon Elizabeth Costello and Mrs. Clara L. Fitch. Peg&y Lee Reavis and Maxine Winniford were initiated as regu lar members. New officers elected for the coming year are: president, Helen Rands; vice-president, Laurie Saw yer; secretary - treasurer, Monroe Richardson. JEAN PALMER CHOSEN Jean Palmer, president of Phi Chi Theta, will journey to Pitts burgh for the national convention of the business women’s honorary as soon as school is out, as repre sentative of the local chapter, it was learned recently. Commencement Activity Plans Are Completed Erbs to Be Honored at Reception in Gerlinger Saturday; Stanford Man Will Speak for Baccalaureate By WALDEMAR UPDIKE Impressive ceremonies, last-minute handclasps, promises to| write soon—these will be features of the sixty-first commence-* ment week at the University of Oregon, May 27 through May 3D* First feature of the annual event will be a benefit tea foxf the Pauline Potter Homer collection of beautiful books to bo offered free of charge in the browsing room of the new libra.tr Senior Planner Dr. James H. Gilbert . . . an nouneed commencement plans yesterday. Band Concert Next Sunday . The Sunken Gardens in back of ,the music building; will be the iscene of the final concert of the University concert band for this year. The concert is being given Sunday, May 29, at 3 p.ra. as part of the commencement week pro gram. The program includes the intro duction to Act III and Bridal Cho rus from Wagner’s “Lohengrin;” “Blue Danube,” Strauss; selec tions from “Babes in Toy land” by Victor Herbert; and the finale to the “New World” symphony by Dvorak. “Mood Mauve” by How land will feature a vocal obligato sung by Lorraine Hixson. Char lotte Plummer will be the soloist in Weber’s “Concertino” for clari net. Also on the program will be a trumpet trio played by Earl Scott, Tom Lahdles and Robert Douglass. Choir to Sing At Services Two numbers from the St. Paul oratorio by Mendelssohn will be sung by the Polyphonic choir at baccalaureate services May 29. The numbers are: “Lord, Thou Alone Art God” and “See What Love Hath the Father.” Bill McKinney will accompany on the Hammond electric organ. After a week’s vacation from re hearsals following the annual con cert the choir will return to workj next Tuesday. < Friday, May 27 from 3 to 5 pxa4 Contest Friday Six seniors will compete Fridayj night at 8 in the music auditoriucai for prizes of $150 and $100 in the* annual Failing and Beekman ora-« tion contests. Opening Saturday’s events at! \8:30 at the Osburn hotel, the* breakfast meeting of the State A sociation of University of Oregon Women will be held. All senior: women and alumnae are invited* Alumni Meet At 10:30 Saturday morning, th0 semi-annual meeting of the Uni versity Alumni association will be held in Johnson hall’s Guild thea ter, with President • Edward Ft, Bailey, class of ’13, presiding. At noon reunion luncheons will be held in John Straub memorial hall. Classes having lunches at this time are '83, ’88, ’98, ’08, ’J34 v’18, ’28, and the class of ’38. Reception for Erbs An almost forgotten custom will be revived Saturday afternoon at. ,3:30 with an alumni reception heM for President and Mrs. Donald Me kErb, in alumni hall, Gerlinger. L At 7:30 the impressive Flower ,and Fern procession will revolve k around the Pioneer Mother statue,; , followed by a twilight concert by; .the Women’s choral group of Elm gene in Gerlinger hall. Service Sunday ; Sunday evening at 8 baccalaur-* eate services will be held in tbo Igloo. Edward' Maslin Hulme, pro-* fessor of history at Stanford uni-** versity, will address the class on “The Message of the Master.’’ That evening at 8, commence-* ment exercises will be held in tbo capacious Igloo. Degrees will bo presented nearly 600 seniors. Tho class will be addressed by Dr. Eri> on “The Companionship of Lear.a-* ing and Life.” Library Workers Will Be Honored At Dinner Tonight i Senior library assistants will bef I guests of honor at a dinner given : at the Anchorage tonight by t bo library staff. About twenty-fi y« | staff members of both the regulfu* library and the art school library; i-staffs are expected to attend, Mvs, Gladys Patterson, library secret tary, said yesterday. Senior students who will be tb$ 1 honor guests will be Ethel Bruce* Frank Bennett, Jean Sutherland, Bill Sutherland, John Medcalf* Robert Kobin, seniors, and Bever-* ley Caverhill, graduate. After dinner, entertainment hay ieen planned for the staff room >f the University library.
