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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1943)
^Ensign Harper Relates WAVE Experiences By ANNE CRAVEN The reason I joined the WAVES was because I wanted to do something vitally connected with the war effort,” Ensign Mary Elizabeth Harper said Wednesday. Miss Harper will address an all-girl assembly in the Alumni room, Gerlinger hall, this morning. She and Yeoman Third Class Dorothy Duncan are in Eu gene to interview girls interested in joining the WAVES or CD* DC1 mi_....•n 1 fePAKfa. ihey will go to Corval lis Friday evening and from there to Portland where they are sta £oned. Miss Harper was personnel manager of a large department store in Portland until she enlist ed in the WAVES September 2. She was in the first group of of ficers who went to Northampton, Massachusetts, for officer train ing. "We were rushed through in three and a half weeks,’’ she said. "Procurement officers like myself, physical education teachers who could teach drill, and teachers for the new schools being set up were rushed through because they were needed so badly.’’ That training now takes from two to four months. "During the indoctrination per iod, we were taught naval admin istration, organization, customs and traditions, types of ships and jurcraft, and naval history,” Miss warper said. "We learned navy lingo and even called the floors of our dormitory decks and went to mess instead of dinner.’’ "On the go every minute,” was Miss Harper’s description of her life during the training period. A WAVES’ day begins at 6:30 in the morning and taps are sound ed at 10 p.m. • Miss Harper stressed the fact Now Thru Sunday! 'THE AMAZING MRS. HOLLIDAY' t Starring DEANNA DURBIN 'BLACK SWAN' TYRONE POWER MAUREEN O’HARA —also— “THE UNDYING MONSTER” John Howard Heather Angel starring JOHN GARFIELD GIG YOUNG •—plus— 'Taxi Mister' * William Bendix * Grace Bradley “I j, Tops for Excitement! 'Secrets of the Underground' * John Hubbard * Virginia Gray “PIRATES OF THE PRAIRIE” with Tim Holt, that she and Miss Duncan were not here to enlist girls, but to pro vide information on the WAVES and SPARS and making' girls realize the need for replacement of men for combat service. “The sooner girls enlist and release men for active duty, the sooner the war will be over. Girls will have to choose soon between working in war industries and joining the service,” she added. Miss Duncan was assistant sec retary to the president at Lipman Wolfe and Company before join ing the WAVES. She attended Duluth Junior college before com ing to Portland in June last year. She enlisted on October 2 and was sent to Oklahoma A. & M. college, Stillwater, Oklahoma, for her training. She is receptionist and secre tary in the office of naval officer procurement in Portland. Miss Duncan’s reason for join ing the WAVES was also patri otic. “University girls just don’t re alize there is a war going on,” she said. “But the time is not far off when they will be drafting women for war work.” A New Front (Continued jrom pac/u two) Nearly 150 colleges and uni versities have been approved to offer courses under the engineer ing, science and war training pro* gram. Short Course This course may be completed in ten weeks if the class meets 32 hours a week. The subjects in cluded in this course are: engin eering computations and prob lems, engineering drawing theory and practice, elementary me chanics of material, surveying, and shop process. College seniors or graduates interested in this course should apply to the approved institutions participating in the engineering science war training program. A list of them can be obtained from the director of the .ESMWT, United States office of education, Washington, D. C. Those Things I Left (Continued from page six) "and the government of the peo ple by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” We were walking through the park, and we stopped to feed the pigeons, Harry, Spike, Larry, and I. I'm sure Mr. Lincoln was laugh ing! "Hey, Spike, willva put the sling-shot ways ? My ear hurts already. “Yeah, you're just a bum sport, Larry.” "Yo, Harry, willya yell to Mort and tell him to throw me a pea nut. I wanta feed these birds on Loncoln’s lap.” "Mort, throw me a nut.” •—but they v>ore young, too young for war in America. March 1941—not too long ago. Yet laws are being passed, and the world keeps going on and on. keeps changing, and changing. Too young for war— But it will never be the same again. I'll never go back to those things I left. Now I’m grown and soon I’ll be in a way—Where are all those things for which I worked and dreamed ? Why has the world torn my ideals? Where are the people and friends I love ? Where are their laughter and tears of youth? Will we ever again look at the dove and see him drift into the clouds of hope?—chug-chug chug - chug - choo- the mourn ful eerie choooo - onward - on ward, onward—away, farther and farther away— No, it will never be the same again. I’ll never go back to those things I left. (Ed. Note. This story won hon orable mention in the recent Mar shall-Case-Haycox short story contest.) Group Campaigns (Continued from page one) ity or superfluity,” Robinson de clared. "In comparison to last year's program, activity in 1943 will be extremely limited.” Members of the committee who presented the substitute plan for an economized publicity cam paign included Nancy Ricsch, Jean Frideger, John Busterud, and Jack Robinson. The committee was advised by Davis Hach, last year's Federa tion secretary. CLASSIFIED ADS LOST: One gold cuff button, % inch diameter. On campus, March <51. Phone 1399W. Municipal Electric and Water Utilities ^J?RIL 14, 1943!! Our flags are unfurled proudly acknowledging the friendship between Ameri can States — and we salute the Southern Americas -—“Good Neighbors Across the Border.” DO YOU DIG IT? Submitted by David P. Billings, University of California fvV)C*" ...0O^ * \ ^ co«^H01 coU ( SEND US YOUR SLANG AND GET $10 IF WE USE IT Address: College Dept., Pepsi-Cola Co., Long Island City, N. Y, Pepsi-Cola Company, Long Island City, N.Y. Bottled locally by Franchised Bottlers ST. MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 13th and Pearl FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT Services—8 and 11 Church Opened Daily, 9 to 5 Wednesday—7 am., Communion, Gerlinger Hall Rev. K. S. Bart lam, Rector Phone 4006 or 4808 j Miss Caroline Hines, Student Advisor Ph. 4605-j or 4808 • For that house dance this weekend you will want somethin" especially nice. Let us suggest something different that will make her eyes sparkle. Clause Gardens 58 East Broadway Phone ^240