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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1940)
Seniors to Hear Address by Erb At Graduation Dr. Branton to Give UO Baccalaureate Sermon on June 9 Graduating seniors will hear Donald M. Erb, president of the University, the last time during their college career when he de livers the Commencement address the evening of June 9. His ad dress will be entitled “The Price of Freedom.” Dr. James R. Branton, profes sor of religion, has been chosen to deliver the baccalaureate ad dress the morning of June 9. He will speak on “Education and So cial Responsibilities.” Dr. Branton has been on this campus for a year. Before com ing here, he was an instructor on the Linfield faculty. He graduat ed from Mississippi college and the South West Baptist seminary at Fort Worth, Texas. He holds a Ph. D. degree from the Univer sity of Chicago, and has travelled and studied extensively abroad. Graduates of the medical school here will not take degrees at the University this year, but will hold a separate Commence ment in Portland. The exercises will be held in the new auditorium of the medi cal school there Friday, June 7. President Erb will be present and will confer the degrees on the medical school graduates. Six to Be Initiated By Delta Sigma Rho Six new members will be the guests of honor tonight when Delta Sigma Rho, national foren sic honorary, holds »ts initiation. Ken Erickson, Jack Blanken ship, George Luoma, Carol Bird, Darlene Warren, and Leonard Clark are the six initiates. A picnic will be given at Ben ton-Lane park all day Thursday by the honorary. All members of Delta Sigma Rho and those who have participated or who intend to participate in any forensic ac tivities such as debate are invited. Announcer's Plays Will Be Published James M. Morris, announcer on radio station KOAC, received no tice recently that the H. W. Wil son company of New York City has accepted for publication his Radio Guild Plays, according to word received by the general ex tension division today. Mr. Mor ris has prepared and directed many plays given over the state owned station. He is a brother of Dr. Victor P. Morris, dean of the University school of business ad ministration, and of Miss True Morris of the University library staff. Libe Gets Book A copy of “Private Enterprise and Democracy,” by Charles E. Carpenter, has been received by the University library. Calvert's Triple (Continued from page five) came to bat with one man out and rapped a single into right. That set the stage for Calvert's game-winning triple into right and center field. Calvert had an other single besides his extra baser in five trips to the plate to lead the Oregon hitting. Three Washington batters had at least two hits, Dobson collected three for four, and Dobson and Millroy collected doubles. i i » i . * 4 * i t Campus Calendar Si grim Delta Chi will meet at 3 o’clock today. Next year’s offi cers will be elected. There will be a regular meeting of the Co-op board today at 12, noon, at the College Side. All new and old Phi Thetas are to serve at the Mothers’ day tea at Gerlinger Friday afternoon at 3:15. Tail Delta Chi will hold a very important meeting this afternoon at 4 p.m. in 101 Commerce build ing. Youth hostelers will meet to night at 7:30 in the YMCA Hut. Two movies will be shown by Margaret Bunham. Local hostel committee members will be pres ent, and all that are interested are urged to attend the meeting. Weekend Queen's Picture Illustrates Display in Library “Photo—The Queen” in white block letters and a large colored photograph of Betty Buchanan, Junior Weekend queen, are used to illustrate a photographic dis play on a bulletin board in the circulation lobby of the Univer sity library. Book covers used in the dis play are “Handbook of Photogra phy,” a complete photographic encyclopedia in one volume pre pared by 23 specialists, and “Col or Photography for the Amateur” by Keith Henry. The bulletin board was arranged by David John, Charles Nelson, and Orin Wechsler of the book selection and evaluation class. The display, “Springtime in Vi enna,” by Hugh Hoffman, Seth Smith, and Robert Foster of the same class stresses the Junior Weekend theme with several col ored pictures of Vienese scenes and appropriate book titles in cluding “Johann Strauss—Father and Son,” by H. E. Jacobs. Gabble Gobble Git Gabble Gobble Git, Wednesday afternoon open house conducted at Wesley house, will be held from 3 to 5 o’clock this afternoon. Anyone is welcome to drop in for some tea and games. Duck Tracks (Continued from page four) Milroy, Second Baseman Cy Ste phens, and Shortstop Hal Thomp son — are sophomores and very capable ball players ... so Tubby Graves should have some good ball clubs at Washington during the next two years. Two other regulars — Catcher Emmet Wat son and Outfielder Walt Peltola—• are also first-year men. Two-to-One Odds Suggestion to Coach Hobby Hobson: There’s been so much speculation about the comparative speed of Oregon’s aces such as Bill Carney, Dick Whitman, and Buck Berry among Oregon fans that a new “field day” special events might be quite an attrac tion. Base-running, fungo-hitting, etc. • You can’t beat a good man even if you team up against him—this evidently is the moral to Golfer Doc Near’s doubles win over a crack pair of Washington Staters last weekend. Near and Dick Werschkul form the No. 1 doubles team for Oregon, but Werschkul became ill and was forced to re main in the Washington State in firmary the day of the Cougar match. Undismayed. Near played the Washington State duo all by i * ♦ * I Snapping Snapshots No Snap, Says Teter By SALLY MITCHELL “My faces are my fortune,” smiled jovial Warren Teter, Uni versity photographer, as he thumbed through a stack of pic tures of campus personalities. Teter, who operates the Uni versity’s self-supporting photo graphic bureau, took approxi mately 85 per cent of the pictures appearing in Oregon's 1940 year book, the Oregana, which will be distributed today. “This business of snapping pic tures is no snap,” Teter observed, “for in Oregon the natural light ing is .poor during a great part of the year. Then, too,” he added, “the beautiful trees and shrub bery on the campus very often prevent the sunlight from com ing through when we need it.” Teter finds Oregon students, for the most part, good photo graphic material. “But.” he pointed out, “some of them, even the boys, get as jittery as a June bride when they come before the camera.” Exhibitionists are a camerr* man’s biggest worry, Teter find |. “It’s pretty hard to take informal pictures at campus affairs when a few couples insist on posing before the camera.” lie said. Like most photographers, Te ter takes delight in producing trick pictures and in making un usual shots. “Most of the campus scenes have been photographed many times before,” he said, "and it is interesting to try new an gles,” Occasionally Teter must wait for hours while a certain cloud drops to the position de sired or for shadows to fall cor rectly for a silhouette. Photographer Teter has been on the Oregon campus for two years, working for all depart ments of the University. He came originally from Des Moines. Iowa, where he was a newsreel cameraman. His first .work at Oregon was in taking action pic tures of football players for the Athletic News bureau. Since that time he has been hired for Oregon work, to make photostatic copies of transcripts, take registration pictures, and make geology slides. “It gets mighty tiresome— this business of taking pictures,” he said, "but even on my day off when I go fishing, I never fail to tuck my camera in with my eequi’pment. Stocking Talk; Women Shoot; Job Hunting By PAT ERICKSON Said the toe to the sock Let me through, let me through. Said the sock to the toe I’ll be darned if I do. *—The Bumble Bee. :Jc :Je The weaker sex is no slouch with the rifle at Northwestern, either. Closing the women’s rifle season there recent ly the WAA nosed out the ROTC team by four points in their an nual match. * * * At Texas the school has arranged a new means of making job hunting easier for graduates. “Personnel Sheets” are supplied as part of the placement service. The sheets are ready-made appli cation blanks printed on glossy paper with such information as major, family history, business experience, job preferred, previous education, and activities. In the upper right hand corner is a pic ture, printed, of the student. Employers have complimented school officials on this device. * * * A college man is like a kero sine lamp—not very bright, smokes a lot, is usually lit up at night and is often turned down. •—Fordham Ram. * * * Coed cheerleaders of Santa Barbara Student college was presented a mammoth hamburg er measuring 52 inches in diame ter. It consisted of 65 pounds of ground steak, 13 pounds of cheese, one-half gallon of mayon naise, three quarts of sauce, two pounds of salt, one-fourth pound of pepper and eight heads of let tuce—what, no onions? —Indiana Daily Student. himself and won all three points. Tubby Graves saved two of his ace pitchers for the Oregon State games today and tomorrow, so you can bet those Huskies will be tough. One of the two mounds men is Dick Izzard, ace of the staff and a basketball regular. The other is Laurie French, jun ior who hails from Seattle's Gar field high school. Izzard is from Broadway high and 'is a college Senior. i i ( i i < . i . ■ 'W to Dish Out Cafeteria Lunch Two-Bit' Platters To Greet Patrons At 'Hut' This Noon Strawberry shortcake — the kind that Mother used to make— will be featured at the cafeteria luncheon to be held at the YWCA bungalow from 11:45 to 1:15 to day, Mrs. E. E. DeCou, YW ex ecutive secretary, announced last night. Hot dishes with all the trim mings will be served at 5 cents a dish or 25 cents for the plate lunch. All students, both men and women, are invited to attend, she said. Sponsored by the YWCA advis ory board, the luncheon is being co-chairmaned by Mrs. Percy Brown and Miss Fanny McCam ant. Marie Weatherly is in charge of the student committee that will assist in serving. Chairs will be arranged in booth form in the Y bungalow and on the lawn. Profits gained from the enter prise will be turned over to the Y by the advisory board to balance the budget for the year. Beta Athletes (Continued from page four) Javelin—Nelson, Beta, 162 feet. Rope climb—Warner, Sig Ep, :05.6. High jump—Adams, Phi Delt, 6 feet. Baseball throw—Bubalo, Sigma Nu, 333 feet. Mile run—Hillar, DU, 5:15. Homer Tops Field Tops among the individual scorers was Sherry Ross's Don Horner with 67 points. Merle Hanscom, Theta Chi, and Jim Marnie, SAE, tied for second with 61 counters apiece. Following are those scoring 40 or more points: Horner, Sherry Ross, 67: Han scom, Theta Chi, 61; Marnie, SAE, 61; Williams, Yeomen, 60; Collier, Phi Psi, 55; Selleck, Gam ma hall, 49; Stanton, Zeta hall, 47; Carlson, Phi Psi, 45; L. Wil son, Gamma hall, 44; R. Wilson, Gamma hall, 43; Lonergan, Phi Delt, 43; Reginato, Sig Ep, 41; Brown, ATO, 40; Stevens, Phi Sullivan Editor Of Frosh Edition Rookies Promise Unusual Features In Emerald May 118 Red-haired Wes Sullivan, Em erald reporter, was named editor of the special frosh coition of tho paper slated for May 18, last mght by Editor Bud Jermain. A startling- new makeup, w.itli a front page aimed at relating the value of editorials, news, and pictures, was already in the be ginning stages last night as Sul livan and his rooky staff whipped together unusual ideas to put new life into the Emerald's first page. Ray Schrick will be managing’ editor of the frosh publication, Sullivan announced, and Betty; Jane Biggs will be news editor. Lee Flatberg will act as chief night editor: and Johnny Kalmn anui, Tom Wright, Mary Ann Campbell, and Elsie Brownell will be copy editors. Editor of the sports page for* tho day will be Bemie Engel. Jean Dunn, Jim Banks, Lois Hul ser, Ruth Hartley, and Ellie F.ng dahl will be night editors. Summer Session To Aid Teachers In an attempt to improve ele mentary and secondary educa tional programs, many Oregon school teachers will attend tho University’s school of education 19-10 summer school beginning June 17. Special sections of the* curriculum laboratory course will provide teaching groups to plan their curriculum reorganizations. The curriculum project will sup ply better teaching materials in social studies, languages, pit, music, drama, physical education, and mathematics. Fifteen selected teachers and supervisors are invited to work out better courses of study duul source materials. 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