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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1940)
Black-Faced SDX Pledges Sell Tickets to Dance At Living Organizations Junior Weekend Queen, Court to Make Official Appearance at 'Harlem Hop'; Movies of Oregon Campus to Be Shown Black-faced Sigma Delta Chi pledges will appear at all campus living organizations this noon to personalize the ticket sale for the Harlem Hop Saturday night. Tickets are priced at one dollar and can be obtained from house salesmen. SDX members, and pledges. The intermission program of the Harlem Hop will feature the first official appearance of Junior Weekend Queen Betty Buchanan and her court and a 13-minute showing of Kodachrome motion pictures taken on the Oregon campus, Dance Chairman Jimmie Leonard said. The motion pictures donated by the Oregon federation show a complete scene of Oregon campus life in color, Hoy Vernstrom, Old Oregon editor said. The movies were taken last spring and this fall and include snaps of the re turn of Oregon’s national basket ball champions, the 1939 Junior Weekend, Oregon’s "Flying Fif ty,” and general campus shots. Vernstrom will act as commen tator. Programs and tickets for the dance have been combined into one, and will consist of a negro's head cut out of a piece of ply wood. On the back the program will be pasted. Castcmin Elected Head of Honorary Donald Castanin was elected president of the University chap ter of Sigma Delta Pi, national Spanish honorary, and Suzanne Cunningham was elected secre tary-treasurer at a meeting of the honorary on the Corvallis campus Friday. bers, five5 from OregonETAO Initiation of 15 new members, 5 from Oregon and 10 from Ore gon State, was held at 5 o'clock. Afterwards members attended a banquet in the student union building. Leopoldo Seguel, ex change student from Chile, gave a speech, and Castanin acted as toastmaster. Abbot Receives Alumni Plaque Leith Abbot, Southern Pacific public relations official and toast master at the Alpha Delta Sigma convention, was awarded the al umni plaque for being the Alpha Delta Sigma alumnus most help ful to the chapter in Portland Saturday. The advertising alone could not sell a product, but the latter had to be reliable, was emphasized by Ray Andrews, vice-president of Botsford, Constantine, and Gard ner Advertising agency, principal speaker at the banquet, held in the Marine room of Portland's Multnomah hotel, who spoke on some phases of the Jantzen ac count. Four associate members were initiated into the chapter, their names, Frank S. McKeown of the Businessmen’s Advertising Fed eration of Portland; Max Frye, business manager of the Oregon ian; C. A. Larrain, publicity di rector of Meyer and Frank; and Ray Andrews. Fred Brenne, sec retary of the Eugene chamber of commerce, absent because of illness, was to be initiated later. More than 100 businessmen from all over the state attended. Beall New Adviser Dr. C. B Beall, professor of Romance languages, has been elected a counsellor of the Am erican Association of Teachers of Italian at a recent meeting of the organization in the East. The association is a division of the Modern Language association. Column Rules Go as Emerald Advances Style Removal of column rules from all future Emeralds is the step taken this week in the daily’s “modernization" movement. The plan to eliminate rules be tween Emerald columns is part of a beautification program for the new five-column tabloid size page. The style just adopted is not common in the newspaper field, though it appears to be becoming more popular. The Minnesota Daily, one of the six Pacemaker or top-ranking papers in the na tion, now uses the minus-column rule idea. The New York Post is a metro politan daily following the mod ern trend idea adopted by the Emerald. Luoma Appoints Spring Assistants Final Emerald business staff appointments made by Manager George Luoma last week named Bob Rogers assistant business manager for the first half of spring term, to be succeeded by Majeanne Glover during the sec ond half. Luoma said that the new posi tion was created to allow student participation in the Emerald bus iness department as a whole, and to give workers a better under standing of all business activities of the paper. 'Y' Frosh to Meet The freshman discussion group of the YMCA will meet in the lounge of the “Y” tonight at 8 o’clock. The topic of the evening will be “Progressive Education on Trial.” This is a continuation of last week’s meeting on the grading system. Class Postponed The commission of economic and social problems will not meet today at 4 o’clock as planned. But it will meet next Wednesday with Dean Victor P. Morris who will speak on “Mediating Labor and Employer Disputes.” White Coats Gabardine — Double Breasted — Plain Back — Just the Coat for Spring F ormals — Sizes 34 to 44. $3-95 THE MAN’S SHOP By rom & Kneeland 32 E. 10th St. Anphibians Plan Water Carnival The eternal triangle will take the spotlight when Amphibians give their water carnival and ex hibition of formation swimming April 15, 16, and 17. The eternal triangle number is composed of triads of swimmers —two boys and a girl, and vice versa, and is to be one of the most effective parts of the show, ac cording to advance information from Adele Canada, in charge of publicity. Another number, “The Waltz Crawl,’’ is modelled after Billy Hose’s aquacade. Martha McClung, director of the show, will do exhibition div ing. Diving, racing, and life sav ing will be featured in the theme which is a “Pleasure Island" story. Participators are holding prac tices every night, Miss Canada says, and will give a preview show at the men’s pool for the AWS convention next week. 'Y' Student Cabinet To Meet Tonight The Student Executive cabinet of the YMCA will meet tonight at the “Y” at 9 o'clock. The new officers for the coming year will be installed. The group will concern itself with the coming of John Bennett to the campus April 20-23 and National Peace day which will be observed on most of the campus es of the nation Friday, April 19. Quinn to Replace Major Morris in ROTC Department Major Lawrence A. Quinn, in fantry, will replace Major A. L, Morris as assistant professor of military science at the close of the school year, according to an announcement released yesterday by the Oregon ROTC depart ment. Major Morris after a four year term at the University is being transferred to another post. As yet his new station has not been announced. Major Quinn comes to the de partment from Fort Jay, New York. 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