VOLUME XLII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1940
NUMBER 1
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Oliver Signs New 3- Year Contract— Page 10
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Promenade of Progress
Oregon’s administration building, Johnson Hall, (top) is perhaps the first building new students
enter. Center, is the committee in charge of the Jantzcn Beach picnic. From left to right, Elmer Fan
sett Ed Hoyt, Joseph Kiesch, Majeanne Glover, Jack McClinient, Mrs. C. H. McGill, George Mac kin, Don
McCormick, Mrs. Herbert M. Clark, Lloyd Sullivan, Mary McCracken, and Herbert Barber. Below is
a glimpse of registration at the University, always an exciting time for freshmen. (Photos by Warren
Teeter and Bill Pease.)
All-University Picnic
Set for August 20
At Jantzen Beach
Eighth Annual Fall Get-Together Open to
Students, Prospects, Parents, Friends
Of UO; Many Expected to Attend
Oregon's eighth annual pre-school rally will hit the high notes out
side the golden canopied ballroom of Jantzen Beach park by 6:00
o’clock Tuesday afternoon, August 20. Sponsored by the Oregon
Mothers, Dads, Alumni Association, ASUO, and the Oregon Federa
tion, the food-fest and frolic promises to pick a peak in attendance
records.
Serenaded by a “Met’’ operatic star, fanfared by a popular Pacific
Coast band, and ied by benevo
lent oldsters, the undergrads,
prosppective students and alum
ni who attend will have had an
evening when the clockeyed hands
point heavenward. Generalissimo
of last Junior Weekend, Lloyd
Sullivan, is boss of the picnic
with a month of tedious planning
already accomplisht 1.
His aides include Mrs. C. S.
McGill, president of Portland
Mothers; Mrs. Herbert M. Clark,
president of State Mothers; Jo
seph Riesch, president of State
Dads; Dr. G. M. Hoffman of the
Portland Dads; Don McCormick,
president of the Portland Alumni
Association. Two other alumni
aiding are Mary McCracken and
Don Kennedy.
Jack McCliment, Majeanne
Glover, Herb Barbur, Jim David
son, Elva Jane South, and Ed
Hoyt are student members of the
committee. Alumni Secretary El
mer Fansett and Federation Di
rector Roy Vernstrom are part of
the work troop.
Famed for friendly feelings,
Oregon’s alumni and students
will give prospective freshmen a
preview of campus life in gay at
tire. With 17,000 invitations is
sued to interested Mothers, Dads,
alumni, unddrgrads and high
school diploma packers, nothing
but a final examination can keep
Oregonized people away from
Portland and particularly Jant
zen Beach August 20.
The 8 p.m. entertainment will
introduce Sigurd Nilsson, Metro
politan opera star, to the audi
ence as the latest addition in the
school of music faculty. With au
dience appeal aplenty, Vice-Presi
dent Burt Brown Barker, Foot
ball and Basketball Coaches
"Tex” Oliver and "Hobby” Hob
son will greet the ralliers.
(Please turn to page six)
Officials Predict*
Enrollment Gain
Application Trend
Indicates Probable
4000 Registration
The upward trend in enrollment
at the University of Oregon from
all indications will continue next
year with estimates of the in
crease ranging all the way from
five to 15 per cent over last year’s
total, it was learned this week.
Actual applications for enroll
ment early this week were still
showing a 14 per cent increase
over the same time last year,
leading some to use that basis for
predictions. Should this continue
and the number of old students
returning remain the same, the
total number enrolled in the Uni
versity will be close to 4000—the
highest in the history of the in
stitution. »
Registration officials, however,
were inclined to regard the ap
plications figure as “unusual”
and predicted around an 8 per
cent increase. They based their
estimate upon the trend of past
years at the University.
Evidence of an upward surge
were also noticeable in the em
ployment office, where Miss Janet
Smith, employment secretary, re
ported that an unusual number of
students have written concerning
jobs for the school year.
These requests are being filled,
she said, by an expansion of the
employment and the cooperation
of business men and townspeople
of Eugene.