Grad Given
Fellowship
To Mexico
Stanley L. Robe, Eugene, for
mer University of Oiegon stu
dent, has recently been appointed
■B Roosevelt Fellow by the Insti
tute of International Education
for study at the National Univer
sity in Mexico City, it was an
nounced Tuesday by Dr. Leavitt
O. Wright, professor of romance
^languages at the university.
Robe is one of a small number
of advanced students of Spanish
chosen by the institute for the
development of cultural relations
between the Latin American
countries and the United States.
His fellowship will run from Feb
ruary 15 to December 15 of this
year.
Much Travel
A research project on linguistic
geography will occupy most of
Robe s time while in Mexico and
will require a great deal of travel
throughout the country. It will
serve as background material on
Mexican coloquial Spanish for the
'“'development of a dictionary of
the Spanish of the Americas con
templated by the Committee on
Latin American Study of the Am
erican Council of Learned So
cieties.
Robe has just completed a
term’s work at the University of
Chicago where he worked with
Professor Amado Alonzo, head of
the Institute of Philology at
Buenos Aires, Argentina, under a
scholarship of the American
Council of Learned Societies.
Student Panel
He has also been appointed on
a panel of five students by the
^gtate department, two of whom
will be chosen for study in Latin
America under the terms of the
Convention of Buenos Aires for
the development of cultural rela
tions between the countries.
Employment Office Has
Phone Service Again
Telephone service at the em
ployin'^ t office has been dead
for i .veek, but one line will be
operating tomorrow, Miss Janet
Smith secretary, said Monday.
Students who have been wait
ing for jobs from the office are
asked to drop in instead of wait
ing for a telephone call.
Pickett Joins USN
Jim Pickett, ’41, is now in the
navy, stationed on the destroyer,
U.S.S. Wright, according to word
received by the Emerald. Pickett,
a law graduate, was junior class
president and a member of Skull
and Dagger. He was affiliated
with Alpha Tau Omega.
i • ■»
Edward G. Robinson,
Marlene Dietrich in
'Manpower'
— also —
THE THRILLER
'Charlie Chan
in Rio'
A BEST SELLER
'How Green Was
My Valley'
with Walter Pidgeon
and Maureen O’Hara
— also —
Zasu Pitts and
Slim Summerville in
'Misr Polly'
r
Oregon ^Emerald
Monday Desk Staff:
Fritz Timmen, city editor
Bette Reames
Marge Robinson
Betsy Wooten
Night Staff:
Ruth Jordan, night editor
Jean Schneider
Marty Kortge
Maureen Conklin
Club Sponsors
Poetry Prize
Sponsored by the American
was appointed to fill Frost’s po
ganization established in Ameri
can colleges to encourage literary
effort ana criticism, the Ted Ol
sen poetry prize of $25 is to be
awarded for the best original
poem or group of poems submit
ted by an undergraduate in any
American college or University.
The contest, named to honor
Ted Olsen, author of “A Stran
ger and Afraid,” and "Hawk’s
Way,” will be closed by March
13, 1942. The prize-winning poem
will be published in the Parch
ment, the Quill magazine.
Manuscripts will be judged by
poets or critics of national repute.
If a group of poems is submitted
it must possess some organic
unity.
Girls Allowed
II p.m. Leave
Girls will be given 11 o’clock
permission to attend a benefit
dance for the Red Cross Wednes
day, January 14, Mrs. Hazel P.
Schwering, dean of women, af
firmed Monday.
The dance, one of two to be
sponsored by the Eugene and
Springfield Youth League, will
be in the Wintergarden. Two
bands secured are Art Holman’s
and Vern Winkler’s.
All proceeds from the admis
sion price of 40 cents will be
given to the Red Cross. For this
reason Mrs. Eddie Scroggins,
chairman for the affair, asks that
all who are able support the ef
fort by attending.
Eagle Scouts Asked
To Aid in Defense
All Eagle Scouts on the cam
pus are requested to report to
Jim Thayer, phone 318, where
they will be registered for ac
tive or reserve defense duties
in connection with the campus.
Thayer emphasized it was par
ticularly important for stu
dents living outside organiza
tions to get in touch with him
aince they were especially hard
to contact.
Calendar Closes
Wednesday Noon
The deadline for reservations
on the winter term social calen
dar will be Wednesday noon, as
announced by Mrs. Alice Macduff,
assistant dean of women.
Mrs. Macduff said that all
houses and organizations plan
ning social affairs should enter
the dates on the social calendar
in her office before that time in
order to be certain of dates.
EDGAR BERGEN and
CHARLIE McCarthy in
Took Who's
Laughing'
and
FIBBER McGEE and
MOLLY
Press Heads
Pick Woman
As President
Ninety editors and publishers
returned to their homes Saturday
afternoon as the twenty-fourth
Oregon press conference came to
a close.
During the no host luncheon, in
John Straub Memorial hall, Mrs.
Mary E. Brown, editor of the
Redmond Spokesman, was elected
president and George Turnbull,
professor bf journalism, secre
tary.
Oregon Grad
Mrs. Brown was graduated
from the University of Oregon in
1926, and was a member of Phi
Beta Kappa.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown had served
as CQ-editors of the paper until
Mr. Brown entered defense work
at which time Mrs. Brown took
over the editorship. She will be
the first woman president'of the
press conference.
TumbOll Reelected
George S. Turnbull, professor
of journalism, was elected secre
tary for the twenty-second con
secutive time. But two men have
served in the capacity of secre
tary since the conference was
first held in 1919.
A unique feature of the lunch
eon was the presentation of
awards to publishers and editors
in whose papers the ten outstand
ing stories of the year appeared.
Presentation was made by a
broadcasting crew from Dean Al
len’s senior class in editing, Mary
Lois Dana, Mimi O’Donnell,
Charles Boice, and Ted Harmon.
Prizes were com cob pipes.
Students to Outline
YW Term Activities
Members of the YWCA public
ity club and all other University
students are invited to attend a
meeting for the purpose of out
lining winter term activities this
afternoon at 4 o’clock in the
“YW” bungalow.
The date of an evening pro
gram will be arranged and plans
will be made for publicizing a
Thursday lecture to be sponsored
jointly by the YWCA and YMCA.
Seven Pledged
The dean of men’s office an
nounced Friday that seven more
men students had been pledged
by campus fraternities.
They were: James Popp, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Warren Stone,
Delta Upsilon; James Mutz, Sig
ma Phi Epsilon; Henry Mears
Jr., Chi Psi; Ray Blatchley, Sig
ma Chi; Ray Peterson, Alpha
Tau Omega; and Don Bridenstine,
Phi Delta Theta.
Believe It or Not
DON'T GUESS
CALL JESS
GODLOVE
The
Plumber
31 East 7th Ph. 547
DON’T MISS!
'YOU BELONG
TO ME*
with
BARBARA STANWYCK
and HENRY FONDA
Student Delegate to
Report on Trip East
Genevieve Working, UO dele
gate to the National Student
assembly in Ohio, will give a re
port of her trip and the Decem
ber convention at the YWCA
cabinet meeting in the "YW”
bungalow this afternoon at 4:30.
Reports from student commit
tees on the student war fund, the
Heart Hop, and regular commit
tee business are also on the calen
dar, according to the president,
Lois Nordling.
Oregana Gets
Hand Lettering
Hand lettered heads for the
title pages of the 1942 Oregana
are being made this week by
Whitson Cox, architectural major.
The heads are being made on
white cardboard and will be pho
tographed to proper size to fit
Oregana pages.
Heads being made are the fol
lowing: administration, architec
ture and allied arts, business ad
ministration, education, journal
ism, law, medical school, music,
physical education, social science,
arts and letters, lower division,
military science, ASUO, Oregana,
Emerald, speech and radio, music,
drama, concerts, Dad’s day, per
sonalities, candid year, AWS,
WAA, living groups, honoraries,
intramurals, football, basketball,
minor sports, frosh sports, and
swimming.
Graduate Honored by
Civil Engineers Group
Chester C. Fisher, ’03, Salem,
received a certificate of life
membership in the American So
ciety of Civil Engineers Friday
in Portland after 30 years as a
corporate member.
An employe of the U. S. bu
reau of reclamation for 30 of the
38 years since his graduation
from Oregon, he has since added
to his bachelor’s degree in the sci
ence of civil engineering the de
gree of civil engineer from Ore
gon with the presentation of a
professional thesis in 1912.
Mr. Fisher is the father of Ed
na B. Fisher, freshman in music.
Send Me
A Delivery Man
Smart Coed! She
wants her laun
dry done quickly
and efficiently.
She wants her
clothes to come
back fresh and
clean. She calls
for the NEW SER
VICE delivery
man.
Phone 825
New Service
Laundry
839 High St.
Sophomore student union com
mittee meets at 4 p.m. today in
the College Side.
Order of the “O” will meet
Wednesday noon at the Phi Delta
Theta house. Wear sweaters for
Oregana pictures. Initiations will
also be held.
The Fellowship of Reconcilia
tion will meet at Wesley house
tonight at 8 to “study the stands
which Harry Emerson Fosdick,
Oswald Garrison Villard, E. Stan
ley Jones, Norman Thomas, Al
bert Edward Day, and the Chris
tian Century have taken with re
spect to the war.
Colored movies of cargo load
ing will be shown at 7:30 Wed
nesday night in 202 Chapman by
the Propeller club. Anyone inter
ested in foreign shipping may
come.
YWCA cabinet meets this af
ternoon at 4:30 in the “YW” bun
galow.
YWCA publicity club will meet
this afternoon in the "YW" bun
galow to organize plans for the
winter term. All University stu
dents are welcome.
An Episcopal communion serv
ice will be held in the men’s
lounge of Gerlinger hail at 7
o’clock Wednesday morning.
Breakfast is to follow immediate
ly and will be over by 8 o’clock.
This is a fellowship to which all
Episcopal students are invited.
Twenty-six states are repre
sented in Bennington college’s
freshman class.
SIDE PATTER
Pat Taylor
Well, it looks as though
there’s been considerable dam
age done to the trees around
here . . . especially the trees
Fir & Three . . .
There’s a rumor that charm
in’ Charlie Eaton, Sigma Chi’s
problem chile back in the
boom years, is. now ■ a prisoner
of war at Wake island; even
if it isn’t true, it’s too good
not to print. . . . We’ll bet if
it is so, he’s giving the Japs
ho end of trouble. . . . Theta’s
Shirley Oillett,,is the spittin’
image of a Jon Whitcomb il
lustration. . . . With all the red
coats the gels is wearin’, looks
like they was visiting fire
men. ... Jean Frink, Alpha
Phi alum, leaves Wednesday
for S. F. where she will mar
ry Bill Feasley, Phi Delt, who’s
in the marines. ... A beootious
Buick is Jimmy Driscoll’s car.
. . . Jack (the) Ripper, D.U., is
a’most licked before he starts
with a name like that. . . .
Next time you catch a case
of chillblains, come Collich
Side, catch cup chilibeans, jol
ly chili, old beans.
See you ... on the late shift,
nacherly.