AWS, YWCA to Install New Officers Today
Seven Blackbirds on a Fence
Pledges of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, as
they appeared on the campus yesterday publicizing the organization’s
“Harlem Hop” dance, to be given in the Igloo Saturday night. Gene
Coy’s darktown swingsters are scheduled to play. The pledges, from
left to right, are: Bob Flavelle, Ken Christianson, Paul McCarty, Wil
bur Bishop, John Cavanagh, Ridgley Cummings, and Bill Moxley. Kent
Stitzer, eighth pledge, is not in the picture. Photo by Ted Kenyon
Harlem Theme
Dominates Hop
Saturday Night
Weekend Queen,
Court Will Make
First Appearance
McArthur court will become a
miniature Harlem Saturday eve
ning when Sigma Delta Chi pre
sents Gene Coy’s danceable mu
sic and a double feature inter
mission program, featuring Queen
Betty and her court, and a 13
minute movie.
Coy’s Aces will play from an
elevated stage, with a huge black
spade as a background. Four
murals, 20 by 24 feet, will dec
orate the corners of the dance
floor. A row of black faces, sim
ilar to those on the programs,
will completely encircle the walls,
said boy Swan and Dale Malli
coat, who will handle the dec
orations.
Special guests for the dance
will be Karl W. Onthank, dean of
personnel, and Carlton Spencer,
professor of law, who were char
ter members of the local SDX
chapter, founded in 1913.
Queen Betty and her court
will also be guests of the chap
ter, and will be presented as a
royal group for the first time.
The movie, a colored production
featuring shots of Oregon per
sonalities and events, will be fur
nished by the Oregpn federa
tion.
Dr. S. H. Jameson
To Speak in Bend
Dr. S. H. Jameson, professor of
sociology, will speak in Bend to
night at a banquet meeting of
the Bend group of the League of
Women Voters.
Professor Jameson’s speech is
entitled "Care and Treatment of
Juvenile Delinquents.’’
Seniors!
All seniors desiring to order
caps and gowns for graduation
must do so by April 20. Orders
should be placed at the Co-op, ac
cording to Class President Pail
Lowry.
Board to Hear
Fee Question
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Athletic Problems
To Be Discussed
At Meeting Tonight
Faced with, a new wrinkle, that
of coming to some conclusion
about athletic fee revenue for
next year before the ASUO ex
ecutive committee meets Friday,
the athletic board will hold its
first meeting of the term tonight.
The board will try to determine
whether it can get along without
the support which it has had in
the past on the ASUO card, pos
sibly working out some sort of
season ticket for different sea
sonal sports.
The docket for the meeting also
includes J. O. Lindstrom’s finan
cial report, with budget for 1940
41 to be adopted. Howard Hobson
will report on eastern trips, past
and future, and Orlando J. Hollis,
University of Oregon faculty rep
resentative in the Pacific Coast
conference, will report on his
southern trip.
The meeting is set for 7:30 at
the physical education building,
the usual place and time.
Pi Lambda Theta
To Hear Speaker
On Leisure Time
Miss Elizabeth Bannon of Aus
tralia will speak at the Pi Lamb
da Theta meeting this evening
continuing the topic of leisure
time and travel. The women’s
educational honorary will meet
at the home of Miriam Yoder,
1243 High street, at 7:30.
The nominating committee will
report, and new members will be
elected.
Blocs Loom as
Frosh Ballot
For Nominees
Yearling Class
Will Go to Polls
At 7:30 Tonight
Oregon's freshmen will get
their first real taste of bloc-or
ganized politics tonight at 7:30
when they nominate new officers
for next year in Villard hall.
While one group of frosh poli
ticians last night revealed that
they were ready to go with a full
slate of nominees for the posts
of president, vice-president, sec
retary, and treasurer, the opposing
bloc leaders were understood to
still be undecided about one can
didate.
Les Anderson, freshman class
prexy, will be in charge of the
meeting. He announced last night
that class cards will be an attend
ance requisite.
Elections will be held next
Thursday in the "Y” hut, Ander
son said. Sophomore Class Presi
dent Bob Calkins will choose next
Thursday evening for sophomore
nominations for next year also,
he announced last night.
Town Hall Group
To Meet Tonight
At Westminster
The Town Hall discussion
group, sponsored by the YMCA
and Westminster house, will meet
tonight at 6:30 at Westminster
house.
“The Essential Difference Be
tween the Democratic and Re
publican Parties” will be the topic
of the Town Hail Meeting of the
Air program. After the national
radio program, the group will
continue with a discussion of its
own.
Any persons interested in the
program are invited to partici
pate.
Cork Flies as
Pledges Plug
Chi's Coy
What price advertising . . . ask
eight pledges to Sigma Delta Chi,
men's professional journalism
fraternity, who ambled about the
campus yesterday looking like
fugitives from a coal bin. They
were promoting Sigma Delta
Chi's "Harlem Hop" coming off
Saturday night, rhythms by Gene
Coy's sepia smoothies.
Some of the neophytes, having
smeared their faces with cold
cream before dousing on the
burnt cork, found the black ef
fect drooling off under their chins
after a few hours under the
spring sun. Others looked like
surrealists’ nightmares, black
splotches sprinkled here and
there, giving a two-toned ebony
hue. Then there was the no-imag
ination-neeaed type — black all
over.
Merriam Probes
Liberal Arts
College in Talk
Faculty Member
Speaks Tonight
In Friendly Hall
Probing into the college of lib
eral arts, finding its aims, and
then trying to discover whether
instruction in literature is fulfill
ing those aims will be the theme
upon which Professor Harold G.
Merriam of the department of
English will speak this evening
at 7:30 in the faculty room of
Friendly hall.
This address is one of the series
of University lectures sponsored
by the University Lectures com
mittee of the faculty.
Saturday noon, Dr. Merriam
will address the local chapter of
the American Association of Uni
versity Women at luncheon on
the folk literature of America.
Two-Year Alum in Role
Alter two years as an alumnus,
Gerry Smith has returned to don
makeup and costume for his 14th
performance behind the Univer
sity theater footlights.
Smith will play the lead, the
role of the gum-chewing vaude
villian, in “Idiot's Delight” which
will open Friday night in the
campus theater.
Graduating in 1938, Smith has
since appeared in the Portland
civic theater, handling the lead
in “Tovarich” and appearing in
"Autumn Crocus.”
While attending the University,
Smith established his acting repu
tation in “Romeo and Juliet,”
"Dinner at Eight,” “Pygmalion,"
and “Hay Fever,” among others.
Coinciding with Smith’s record
is that of Adrian Martin, who was
also a member of the graduating
class of '38. His part of Pittaluga
in “Idiot’s Delight” also marks
his 14th performance under the
University theater banner.
Gerry Smith, 14-play veteran
of the University theater.
Joint Ritual
Will Be Held
At 4 o'Clock
Dinner for Heads
To Follow Rites
In Gerlinger
For some girls it will be tho
last big meeting, and for othera
it will be the first, when the As
sociated Women Students and tho
YWCA convenes for a joint in
stallation of new officers at a
mass meeting this afternoon at.
4 o'clock in the Alumni room of
Gerlinger hall.
The afternoon ceremonies will
be followed by a dinner for tho
new and old officers at Gamma
Phi Beta sorority at 5:30 tonight.
Anne Frederiksen’s year an
head of the AWS will end as she
relinquishes her position to Betty
Buchanan, elected recently to
preside over the organization’s
meetings next year.
Jean Crites, who was electee!
president of the University
YWCA at the end of winter term,
will take the. place of Bettylou
Swart, retiring dignitary. The
ceremony will be conducted by
Miss Swart, who also wrote tho
script for the ritual. Elizabeth
Steed will furnish piano accom
paniment throughout the pro
ceedings.
(Additional details an page 3)
Musical Talent
Being Sought
Junior Weekend
Programs Call for
Student Players
Another call was issued by
Jack Holcomb, in charge of ra
dio programs for Junior Week
end, yesterday, asking for any
and all kinds of talent for three
radio programs to be presented
during the first weekend in May.
The stations—KGW and KOIN
in Portland and KORE in Eu
gene—request that the numbers
to be presented be of a musical
ature, or any other type that
would be suitable for radio pre
sentation, Holcomb stated. Sev
eral students have already askcil
for auditions for the broadcasts,
but more are needed, he said.
Studio schedules require eai ly
preparations.
The promotion committee—•
(Please turn to page three)
Harlem Hop
Movies of the campus
Will be shown in Kodachroinc
To the terpsichorean couples
Who McArthur's floor do roam
0 p.m. Sat.
The Sigma Delta Chi boys
Have something there, no doubt,
But who will watch the pictures
When McArthur’s lights go out.'
11 p.m. Sat.
J. VV. 9.