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Four-Pointer Sous Bullet Fascinating By PHYLLIS FOSTER Although Jane Dachtelberg, senior honor student and president of Pot and Quill, would like to have a Ph D. added to her name, she admits that she dislikes scholarly topics, which she describes as often being too trivial and detailed. Broad fields interest this senior girl who received a four point winter term. She plans to graduate this spring term with a B.A. degree. (Incidentally Jane has a GPA of approximately 3.5). As well as receiving high grades in college Jane attained a high av erage throughout high school, which aided her in winning a schol ship awarded by the State Board of Higher Education to attend the University. During her junior year at Commerce high in Portland, Jane was editor of their weekly newspaper. "I’ll never forget the speech I gave at the press conference here at the University on the first aft ernoon of the conference,” related the ex-editor. It seems as if Jane’s speech was scheduled for two o’clock, and she didn’t register un til after noon. "Mr. Turnbull remarked that he was rather worried about my com ing.” Her senior year in high school she was again given the title Of editor—only this time it was the ed itorship of the year book. Miss Dachtclbcrg’s major at the University is English. As an avo cation she plans short story and SENIORS Caps, Gowns, and Com mencement Announce ments should be ordered at the Co-op at once. All orders must be in by April 25 to insure delivery for Commencement. The ‘CO-OP’ play writing with interest in the critical field. “I haven’t enough talent in cre ative writing,” commented the mod est dark haired senior, who in her sophomore year won the second prize of $25 in a writing contest sponsored by Edison Marshall. She is now president of Pot and Quill, a literary club on the cam pus. On entering the club she sub mitted htimorpus essays. Satire is her favorite form of prose, and she remarked that she is often called an “anti-sentimentalist” be cause of her dislike for emotional trends in writing. Industrial personnel work inter ests Jane as her life's vocation. She is now working in Dean Karl W. Onthank’s office, which she considers valuable training in this line of work. Among her most in spirational experiences she names her opportunity in watching Miss Janet Smith, employment secre tary, while employed in her office and her work in a factory office. “Employers tend to be influenced too much by appearance while they should be guided by the in terest and actual ability of the in dividual to be hired,” she added. When asked if she had had any secret ambitions, Jane admitted that she had wanted to be a ballet dancer because of gracefulness which attracted her. Now she has learned to enjoy the modern dance as well, and she often listens to operatic music. "x We Feature MOTO-SWAY lubrication Drop in aud see us today. BILL DYER BILL WYGANT f \ HAL OMAN IJornekoxi’s § ASSOCIATED \ SERVICE 11lli and llilyard Streets Oregon Wiudsliield Stiekers Really Mattering SPRING SWING We can give you the new up-Front, down hack style with cither a machine or machiuelcss permanent wave. RADERS BEAUTY SALON Eugene Hotel HUIg. We are marching On With Oregon this Good Luck Oregon! Wo Joel that Oregon's success is our success just ns Eugene's success would be our suc cess. You cannot serve a people or a com munity without being a part oi‘ them. We have to adapt ourselves to the wants and needs id’ the people. This we attempt to do and is the only measure id' our success and is your coul'idcncc iu us. Northwest Cities Gas Company 931 Oak Phone 26 By BUCK BUCHWACII The gals of the campus are na turally much interested in this Kay Kyser deal Friday night, because it’ll probably be the biggest mus ical shindig they’ll see through their four or five or six years of undergraduate work. An informal tete-a-tete with any number of the beauteous dames that abound on this campus fwhat spring can do for one;— shows that females are always one of three things: 1. Hungry 2. Thirsty 3. Both Which has nothing whatever to do with Kay Kyser and his college of musical knowledge but the truth anyway. Anyway the poll also reveals this: the gals hereabouts are in terested in handsome Harry Eab bitt, v/ho is just twice as hand some as his pictures and an all round good Joe; they go for the antics of dead-pan Ish Kabibble, the guy who is trying to keep the bang hairdo on the beauty market; they get a terrific boot out of Sully Mason’s crooning—but what they really want to know is the lowdown on Ginny Simms, the lone female among Kay Kyser's organ ization. Is she beautiful? Listen my short-skirted schemers, that gal is one of the most . . . one of the gorgeous of gorgeous . . . one of .. . ■he’s terrific. Beautiful shape, ryes which burn as bright as a fresh man’s torch for some campus beau ty (thanks Mr. Fendall), lips which is Tangee ads come to life . . . Clothes? She takes half of her publicity pictures for her band shots and the other half in the lat est fashions to help sell clothes around Los Angeles. She can wear the tightest bathing suit in the world and still look like a regal queen, or can wear the thickest of fur coats and still get over the fact that her shape is nothing about which to make catty re marks in sororities. Sing . . . man-oh-the-lifeboats if she hasn't got the sweetest set of pipes you ever spent four-bids of your boy friend's or old man’s dough to hear. She carries a tune like a longshoreman packing a f>0 pound sack of spuds easy as ap ple pie and twice as juicy. Personality . . . five minutes with you and she’s got you look ing into her lovely blue (or are they hazel) eyes and wishing you were alone on a desert isle with nothing to do but pretend you aie an oculist. (Could those eyes be brown). Well,' any way, as 1 was suggesting, she’s really not a bad dish. I’m so convinced I'll take her home after the Sigma Delta Chi biggest-deal-on-carth is over to save the boys in the band the trouble. She's really a peach. I know. 1 seen her in pichers .... A set of 100 photographs and 24 photomurals of Brazilian architec ture has been presented to the Co lumbia university school of archi tecture. I Merely Ask By MARY ANN CAMPBELL Why doesn't SOMEBODY sort of organize this business or register ing? I mean, wouldn’t it be simpler if some of the people who are going to hand out little white cards and other necessary bits could get there BEFORE everybody else does ? It would make for more sweetness and light and general Christian spirit instead of the usual frayed and haggard nerves. Why does your adviser always register the same surprise no matter what GPA you lay before him ? If it’s good and you’re staying in school with no worries, he looks | surprised that YOU did THAT. If it’s terrible, he varies his surprise by having a pained air, sort of, “You really OUGHT to be more careful!’’ and if you do something superlative by landing on the hon or roll in full glory, he looks dumbly astounded and gives the general impression that your | grades must have been mixed up with someone's who has brain. Patience, My Dear! And why, oh why, when you glance towards a place where you plan to go in a minute it seems perfectly deserted, and by the time j you’re ready to get there, everyone else in the place decides to rush over just two minutes ahead of you, so you can wait and want and j wait in a nice long line ? 1 Couldn’t the PE department ar range things so there is something ebsides advanced swimming and field hockey after a quarter to nine ? Wouldn’t it be nice if something could be done about those public menaces of advisers who wangle you into taking history of philos ophy and third year French and other slavery courses, when you’ve decided to sign up for camp cook ery and pottery? In brief, wouldn’t it save time if they let you take what you want in the first place? You know that you won’t flunk! Why doesn’t some ingenious soul think of a firm way to silence com pletely and forever all the people who do everything in their power to wangle away your last thin dime for some class card or ath letic card (or is it a card to get you by the guards at all movie studios?) or something you don’t want, never did want, and couldn’t possibly ever use ? Grigs and Pucks We’re thinking of starting a campaign to eliminate those merry grigs and pucks who manage to pop library fines on you. Usually the obok is one you've forgotten entirely or it is a result of the time you were kind and lent your card to a woman who you had re garded as your sister. Perhaps, through, it's worth it when you can observe the petrified look of blank dismay on her face when you cold ly inform her she woes you $6.50 in libe fines and that she’d better give you the book RIGHT AVfAY, so you, personally, can return the thing! Why don't we all get together and tear, limb from limb, anyone who tells you briskly, and without a spark of sympathy, that a sec tion lias just been closed, when your program is all neatly made out and your adviser, that diffi cult man, has been persuaded to approve it ? Where lurks the cold-blooded fish who thinks of dropping per fectly good sections, which meet at reasonable hours, like 9 o'clock, and forcing several meek innocents u. O U HULK lUiH lUtl'lO iUUU* day, Wednesday, and Friday, and spring term, too? New York's Wellesley College club is celebrating its fiftieth anni versary. Coeds, we welcome your return! And feel sure you will welcome these New Sport Frocks That give you a head start on Spring Fun! 5.95 to 8.95 Plain shades in Beige - Blue - Aqua - Toast - Breen - Maize - White. Al so Prints - Pplka-dots - t'heeks - Stripes - Plaids. Sizes 1) to 37 - 10 to -0 ■t A is it. our sports shop j for new Slack Suits Sweaters - Jackets - Skirts - Blouses and " liat have you - - all rj at Budget 1‘rices too! B£A RD7 r Kr- »v.\rsiOK-ss w «mwu kuua 'Jenny Makes Her Mind Up' On New Record In case you feel a tremendous urge to increase your record library, now that you might want to take the phonograph out on picnics and other assort ed springtime sporting events, here are a few suggestions that will blend well with the great out-of-doors, or drive your room mates wild, if you are the in doors type. Hildegarde has a new album of the music from the new Ger trude Lawrence show, “Lady in the Dark,” of which the bright and shining light is “Jenny,” all about a lady who made her mind up, and the terrible results. Oth ers in the same album are “This Is New,” "Girl of the Moment,” “My Ship,” and “One Life to Live.” “Jenny” and “My Ship” are available on a single record by Eddie Duchin. Ginny Simms has a new record of “Too Beautiful to Last,” in her usual competent style. An amusing album is “Hilo Hattie,” a group of Hawaiian songs by Clara Inter, who used to be a school teacher before she became embroiled with Tin Pan Alley. If the unusual appeals, try Eric Coates’ “Sleepy Lagoon.” Tropical in mood, it creates an exotic atmosphere. Carmen Cavallaro, educated in Italy to be a concert pianist, is featured in an album called “Get ting Sentimental Over You,” which includes such favorites as “Stormy Weather,” “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby,” and “Time on My Hands,” all presented by a masterly show man. “Meet the People” is respons ible for some of the gayest of the new records, especially “Let’s Steal a Tunc from Offenbach.” A double-barreled toxoid which creates immunity against both diphtheria and lockjaw is being used by the University of Cali fornia medical school. FRED’S CAMPUS SHOP Men's Haberdashery by ’Wilson Brothers Cleaning Ph. 3141 SPRING, AHOY! There’s something appealing about a swishy bright skirt topped with a white, white shirt. The stores seem to have plenty of gay cotton skirts on hand. The whole outfit is washable and as fresh as the new leaves you’ll see if you have your eyes open on the way to morning classes. Checking Account Control A checking account is an excellent means of keep ing a balanced budget. Eugene Branch of the United States National Bank of Portland Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Quality F ish is our customers’ satisfaction. Call Us Today for the Best. Phone 2309 Newman's Fish Market 39 East Broadway N ATIONAL MILLINERY WEEK MILLEEZ! $1.98 to $5.00 is waiting for you, hero — tailored or dressmaker types ■with up - or down - turned flanges! Lovely in Milan, Baku or Balli — with flirta tious bows and billows of sheer veil. Get yours now at MILLER'S Spring Parade This term's coed will be casual and free as a floating blossom (even if she has a fraternity pin.) Perhaps she’ll let down her lettuce head hair do and give the boys some glamor; she may throw a bright rope of Hawaiian beads around her neck, tie on a starched green wash skirt, or slip soft moc j casins on her feet. She may study ! on the roof and wear red slacks to breakfast; whatever she does, you can be sure that she'll not conform. The lamb will take a gambol— despite houseboy’s glances and the look on a roommate's face. Cool spots in the scenery. Beth Slewert’s powder blue princess coat; Elizabeth Steed’s fitted suit in the same shade; Mary Anne' Owen’s apple green dress; Carol j Hobart’s pink suit; Neva Haight’s pink sweater ana pirnt pnuu srjh, Peggy Kline’s blue and white wash, skirt; Winnie Green’s cream-beige fitted sports coat looks like San Francisco without the fog; Betty Jane Biggs is a spring Christmas tree in her pertinent wash dress with the old-fashioned bows; Bar bara Jean Vincent’s jerkin glances in her aquamarine plaid skirt with the beige jerkins whose pockets are trimmed in the skirt material; Ridgely Cummings petals along with a daisy in his lapel. —Adele Say Manhattan college is sponsoring a program of 14 lectures on prin cipals of municipal planning. Sarah Lawrence college has re ceived an unrestricted grant of $35,000 from the Carnegie corpora tion. WELCOME BACK!! It’s a new term and we are just as anxious, as ever to be helpful to the Oregon students. When you start mak ing you Junior Weekend plans, don’t forget to call on us for assistance. SNELLSTROM LUMBER CO. Sixth and Charnelton Special Until April 5 To attract new customers and to show our appreciation to our old customers wc are offering our regular $5.50 meal ticket at a special reduced price of $4.75 cash. ON THE MILLRACE I’lan to attend the “Bundles for Britain” concert April 7tli, in the University Music Auditorium THE SUIT HABIT. If you wonder why the models in our window arc displayed with a saddle it \s merely our way of bringing two things to your attention: The comin horseshow and the fact that rid in habit fabrics are doing themselves proud in spring suits. ILLUSTRATED: A well disciplined jack et with convertible shirt neck. Tiny leather but tons and patch pockets. With it a skirt that’s smartly pleated in front , . and back. .14.95 Other Fabrics 10.95 to 29.95 sc so