Junior Weekend Special Edition— Twelve Pages VOLUME XL UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1939 NUMBER 122 UO CAMPUS BECOMES ‘WONDERLAND’ TODAY Regal Ruler of Wonderland I Queen Maxine I (Maxine Glad) . . . will begin her three day reign today at 12:30 when the royal crown is placed on her head. The charming queen, in addition to presiding over the cereftionies today, will rule at the Junior prom tonight and the Canoe Fete Saturday. 5= First Day Sees 1604 Oreganas Delivered Sixteen hundred and four cop ies of the 1939 "most beautiful" Oregana were carried away yes terday by proud and happy own ers. And there are still 428 which must be claimed by noon today, according to DickAVilliams, Ore gana business manager. Oregana distribution will be gin at 8 o’clock today and con (Please turn to page 10) 'Y' Bungalow to Be Headquarters for Independent Moms Students not a f f i 1 i a. t e d with houses, dorms, or co-ops have been invited to use the YWCA bungalow as headquarters for their mothers during the weekend, Mrs. John Stark Evans, executive secretary, announced yesterday. Both men and women students, Orides and Yeomen, and other stu dents living at home or off the campus should feel free to use the bungalow as a place to entertain their mothers or to rest at any time, she said. Freshmen to Apply New Coat Of Paint to O' Guided by dawn's early light, the frosh will assemble much used paints and brushes and wearily give the Skinner’s butte “O” another coat of paint. Am bitious frosh painters are to meet at the “O” at 8:30, Ted Swartz, chairman, said last night. The “O” was painted about a (Please turn to page 10> Coronation of Queen Will Officially Open 3-Day Celebration Maxine I to Reign Over'Greatest Of All Weekends’; 11 o’Clock Classes Are Excused BULLETIN Action by the student affairs committee late yesterday secured at release of all 11 o’clock classes this morning as a special Junior Week end feature, Dean of Personnel Karl W. Onthank announced last night. By ELIZABETH ANN JONES “ 'The time has come,’ the walrus said and he was right . . 4 it has come! Today at high noon the entire student body of the University of Oregon will see charming Maxine Glad crowned as Queen Alice of Oregon's Junior Weekend ‘'Wonderland’’ to start the gay three-day; festival at the traditional campus luncheon. Alice and her court will rule tonight at the Junior prom at Mc Arthur court, amid a wonderland I —---• of flowers, formals, soft lights arul Art Holman's mysic. At 10:30 the queen will enter the ball room and graciously acknowledge her danc ing subjects. Highlight of the even ing will be the awarding of the Koyle and Gerlinger cups to the outstanding junior man and wo man. All “Wonderland” will outdo it self to entertain Alice and her four looking-glass princesses, Helen Gillam, Patsy Taylor, Alyce Rog Students wishing to attend the campus luncheon this noon must buy tickets cither from living organization chairmen or at the ticket booth between Commerce and Oregon anytime between 8 o’clock and noon, it was an ; nounced last night. No students | will be admitted without tickets, j Tickets are priced at 25 cents ; for students. Mothers who regis ! ter at Johnson hall between 8 and 13 o'clock will be admitted free. ' ers, and Margaret Williams. | Oregon students will combine | Mother's day with the spring term ' carnival season and will honor their mothers throughout the en the weekend at banquets, teas, and, of course, the canoe fete. Banquet tables, set up between Fenton hall and Friendly, will groan with tasty picnic foods, to be distributed to the long lines of hungry merrymakers by members of Kwama, Phi Theta Upsilon, and Skull and Dagger. Patsy Taylor is chairman in charge of the lunch eon. Today's festivities will climax the University careers of men who t Please turn to page 10) Sigma Chis, ATOs, SAEs Gain Finals Song Contest Set for 3 Today in Music Building Final contestants in the inter-* fraternity singing contest spon sored by Phi Mu Alpha, men’s mu sic honorary, will vie this after noon for the honor of the belt singing organization on the cam pus. The Sigma Chi, Alpha Tau Ome ga, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra ternities were selected by the judges to enter the final contest this afternoon in the Music build* ■ ing at 4 o’clock. Each organization will sing three songs. The required number is the Oregon pledge song with the sec ( ond number a fraternity song of their own choice, The third num ber is a choice between ’’Drink t® Me Only With Thine Eyes,” “Dedi cation,” "Sylvia,” and “Carry Mo Back to Old Virginny.” The judges will be Louis Artful* professor of music, Munroe Rich ardson, graduate assistant in vocul music, and Glenn Griffith, director of the Eugene Junior Gleemen. Authoress Ida M. Tarbell is con ducting a special course on biogia phy writing at Allegheny college.