Commonwealth Meeting Held Here Today
Dr. J. C. Bennett
To Talk Tonight
During Banquet
Panel Speeches
Will Be Delivered
Throughout Day
Dr. John C. Bennett, professor
of practical theology, Pacific
School of Religion, Berkeley,
California will be the main speak
er at the Commonwealth confer
ence banquet to be held at the
Anchorage tonight at 6.
The banquet will wind up the
1940 edition of the annual con
ference sponsored each year by
the department of sociology.
Panel Talks Slated
Earlier in the day the delegates
will listen to panel talks on prob
lems of community interest in
the faculty room of Friendly hall.
The morning talks will begin at
10 a.m. following registration in
Friendly hall at 9 a.m. Those who
will speak are John Casteel, di
rector of the speech division;
Thomas Fisher, recreation direc
tor for Eugene; Theodore Kratt,
dean of the school of music; Mrs.
Ottilie Seybolt, chairman of the
drama division; Miss Aline Pow
ell, state superintendent of the
WPA community service project,
and Ray Edwards, state superin
tendent of the WPA recreational
project.
The afternoon speakers will be
O. D. Adams, state director of
vocational education; Edith Bax
ter, secretary, Eugene Youth
council; Dorothy Doering, direc
tor of the Eugene Girl Scouts;
Ray Edwards; Thomas Fisher,
recreational director for Eugene;
R. C. Kuehner, 4-H club leader
for Lane county; Aline Powell;
H. B. Sallee, Scoutmaster, Eu
gene Boy Scouts, and a represen
tative of the state director of
NYA.
Parsons Chairman
Chairman of the discussions
will be Philip A. Parsons.
The religious education groups
will meet in room 14 of Friendly
hall at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. They
will be headed by J. R. Branton.
head of the department of relig
ion.
At 12:15 the delegates will
convene at Westminster house for
luncheon.
At 4 p.m. the two sections will
combine in the faculty room of
Friendly hall where a summary
of the discussions will be held.
Anyone interested may attend
the meetings.
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It Won't Be Long Now
. Junior Weekend is little more than two weeks away. Queen Betty Buchanan and her court are pic
tured here. Left to right: Janet Foster, Suzanne Cunningham, Queen Betty, Laura Jean Maurice, and
Eleanor Collier.
Top Law Students
Won 'tHang Shingles
By DON BUTZIN
While law school pranksters
are busy this week electing male
"queens” for their lawyers’ Jun
ior Weekend, two forgotten coed
contestants are managing to walk
off with most of the scholastic
honors of the school.
Referring, of course, to Betty
Brown and Mary-Jane Wormser,
who top their classes at the law
school in scholastic rating. With
only five girls in the school, and
three different classes, this leaves
only three girls below top rating
and one class with a boy leading
them in grades.
The two girls claim their
achievement is a case of interest,
not capital invested, paying divid
ends. It seems that both have
thought only of being law stu
dents ever since their grammar
school days. The reason they give
for getting such high grades is a
"natural,” that their interest
holds them to their studies.
It’s ‘Just Luck’
“Just luck,” says Mary-Jane,
and passes off the record just
like that. She can’t figure out any
other way she beat “all those
boys.” She made her first better
than-a-three-point average in the
law school, which isn’t exactly a
cinch.
As for Betty, getting high
scholastic grades isn’t new to
her. She’s been doing it all these
six years now—she’s in her third
and final year at the law school.
Her record shows, however,
that it isn’t all studies for the
versatile Miss Brown. While in
her pre-law stage at the Univer
sity she worked on the Emerald
staff one year without her profes
sor discovering she wasn’t a jour
nalism major; she was a member
of the Mortar Board her senior
year; she managed the debate
team one year and was a member
of it for two years. She was also
treasurer of the coed co-op asso
ciation when it first organized
and presided in the chair the fol
lowing two years. During all this
time she kept on the NYA rolls
every term.
‘Bike 50 Brothers’
Her advent into the law school
two years ago practically isolated
her from other girls.
“It was just like having 50 bro
thers,” she said, smiling.
As to Miss Brown’s future—if
she lives up to her past, she’s
bound to go places. She hopes to
earn her J.D. by graduation time
this spring and then plans to at
tend Columbia university on the
$1200 fellowship presented her
J.his year by the American Asso
ciation of University Women.
She doesn’t want to be a lawyer
because “too many of them are
starving,” so plans to work for
the government if she can. She
thinks there’s a field open in in
vestigation of taxation, for ex
ample.
“They’re always setting up new
taxes, and people are finding
ways to get around paying them.
Then they have to make some
more new ones,” she explained.
"So you see there’s quite a field
there.”
Watches Brother Boyd
Having little “active” interest
in sports, her main concern here
lies in the success of her brother,
Boyd Brown, star University jave
lin performer. She hopes he’ll be
able to travel to Buenos Aires
this summer to compete in the
proposed American Olympics.
He’s an AAA student, and she
wants him to be able to see art
collections in the southern conti
nent.
Mary Jane, who has a lot to
learn yet, as far as law school
experience goes, is a mere first
year “lawyer,” but has definite
plans for the future as far as
she’s concerned. She’s going to
be an attorney’s secretary, if she
has her way, because she just
can’t see herself as a lawyer. Her
one problem or worry, so far,
in the law school, is the contem
plation of how she’s going to get
through her “moot” trial, which
comes during her last year at law
school.
She hasn’t been dormant in oth
er activities besides studying
here, either. For three years, she
led her Pi Beta Phi sorority sis
ters in the campus song contests.
Her training has evidently proved
valuable to the group, for al
though she had to drop out this
year, the Pi Phis won the campus
trophy in the girls’ division.
New York university has just
received a gift of 275 old clocks.
Capital university has an an
nual Liquidation day on which
all students are expected to set
tle their indebtedness and pay
their bills.
BA Sophomore
Wins Insurance
Contest Prize
William J. Wheeler, sophomore
in the school of business admin
istration, won first prize of $12
in the life insurance sales con
test held in Portland last week.
The contest is sponsored by the
Life Managers’ association of
Oregon. In addition to the cash
prize Wheeler will have his name
engraved on the “Award of Ex
cellence” plaque which hangs in
Commerce hall.
Robert Gordon Rue, senior, and
Robert S. Helm, sophomore, re
ceived second and third prize of
$10 and $8 respectively.
Two Outstanding
Books in Library
“Other Gods,” an American
legend by Pearl S. Buck relating
to the story of American char
acters in China, Tibet, and the
United States, is now available at
the rental shelf in the circulation
lobby of the University library.
In this book the famous novelist
presents “the problem of a sensi
tive woman married to a public
idol, knowing he is not worthy of
the adulation he receives.”
Another fascinating book on
Full Program
For Emerald's
Musical Told
Sixth Symphony
To Usher in Show
Featuring Classics
In keeping with the Emerald s
editorial policy of keeping fea -
tures in the paper keyed to tha
public taste, the free program
which the University symphony
orchestra will play at 8 o’clock to
night in the music auditorium has
been selected so that it will ap -
peal to a large number of stu
dents.
Performance of the orchestra,
tonight, which was arranged by
the Emerald staff to promote stu
dent interest in good classical
music, has been in preparation for
more than two months. Numbers
are those which received the
greatest audience applause in the
January and February concerts
of the Eugene Symphony associa
tion series.
Full Program Listed
The complete program follows:
1. Scherzo from Symphony No.
6 in B Minor by Tschaikowsky.
2. Ballet music from "The Cid"
by Massenet. The selections—An
dalouse, Aragonaise, Aubade, and
Navarraise—are four of the sev
en dance pieces from the opera.
3. Three short novelty num
bers: Waltz from Tschaikowky’s
"String Serenade"; "Dance of the
Sugar-Plum Fairy" from "Nut
cracker Suite” by Tchaikowsky,
(celeste soloist, Emile Chan), and
"Maid With the Flaxen Hair" by
Debussy, (violin soloist, Jane
Young, concert master).
4. Overture - Fantasia, "Romeo
and Juliet.” This powerful dra
matic tone poem is considered
one of the most popular numbers
from the pen of Tschaikowsky.
the rental shelf, according to Miss
Bernice Rise, circulation libra
rian, is “The Morning is Near Us"
by Susan Glaspell. The author is
a noted dramatist, novelist, and
writer of the Pulitzer prize play,
“Alison’s House.”
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