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.
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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.