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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1943)
VOLUME XLIV NUMBER 122 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1943 Money, Corsage Worries Hit Friday Dance Dating Coeds; Art Holman Plays for Ball Campus coeds are twirling that date-getting line, balancing the check-book with a judicious eye, and studying up on the latest in vegetable corsages in preparation for the climaxing all-campus dance of the year — the traditional Mortar Board ball. Formerly scheduled for Saturday night, the dance has been shifted to Frida}', according to General Chairman Nancy Summer Term "So Rush Studies Two consecutive summer ses sions at the University of Ore gon will enable students, wheth er freshman, graduate, or under graduate, to complete essential training as quickly as possible. Summer courses in all the state's institutions of higher education have been planned to fit into the war effort. ' The summer session at Oregon will begin June 12 and continue ’until August 27. It will be the equivalent of a full term of col lege work. Wartime emphasis will be placed upon beginning pre-medical and pre-nursing studies. Teachers working for ad vanced degrees and those prepar ing to teach in high schools will hjKe opportunity to take desired c^n’ses. The summer’s work will be di vided into two sessions, the first ending July 20. Oregon State col lege will follow the same sched ule. The colleges of education at Monmouth, Ashland, and La Grande will continue in their teacher training programs, be ginning June 7. The Portland extension center will commence -June 14 with a six-week course in weaving in conjunction with the art museum. Courses in teaching handicapped children, and teaching- in war nursery schools will also be of fered. The third annual North west Audio-Visual education con ference will be held there June 17 18. Play From Bible Given in French “Esther,” a three-act French tragedy by Jean Racine, will be presented Thursday, at 8 p.m. in Guild hall. The production, pre sented by the French department, will be directed by C. L. Johnson, professor of Romance languages. Taken from the Bible, the play tells of Esther delivering the Jews from the political snares of the time. It will be presented in ^ench with the synopsis of each 40 read in English. The chorus, styled after the regular Greek choruses, was trained by Miss Maude Garnett. Special music has been composed by Arnold Elston, music profes (Please turn to page eight) Riesch, due to difficulties in se curing a suitable Saturday band. Art Holman will play for the ball. Miss Riesch pointed out that the Mortar Board dance, sponsored by members of the women’s senior service honorary in honor of their new pledges, will be the only girl date-boy affair of the year—and the ideal time to pay the year's accumulation of date obligations. Traditions Live In line with the tradition of past years—coeds will arrange trans portation, flowers, buy tickets, open doors for the men, check their wraps, and deliver them safely home. Collaborating with Chairman Riesch is Mortar Board President Mary Louise Vincent, and other announced committee members include: programs, Abbie Jane White; tickets, Marge Dibble; patrons, Betty Biggs Schrick; decorations, Adele Canada and Elly Engdahl; finances, Mary Ellen Smith; and publicity, Mil dred Wilson. $1.25 Admission Ticket Chairman Marge Dibble reports that tickets are now in the hands of house representa tives and may be secured from them any time before Friday noon. Ball admission price is $1.25. In charge of ticket sales are: Betty Ann Keup, Pi Beta Phi: Sally Twohy. Kappa Kappa Gam ma; Mickey McCandless, Alpha Chi Omega; Phyllis Horstman, Delta Gamma; Beverly Padgham, (Please turn to page eight) Hop Features Circus Theme Step right up, ladies and gen tlemen, for the circus is coming to town! "Circus Swing,” WAA tennis court hop, will be held at the Uni versity courts Saturday after noon, May 8, from 4 to 6. Freaks, amusement, and plen ty of surprises, are promised by Florence Hamilton, chairman. Featured attraction will be a side show, to be held in true “Bip Top" fashion. Admission will be 25c per cou ple, and tickets will go on sale in men's living organizations this evening. Committee members for the event are: Barbara McClung, Pat ty Van Hoosear, decorations; Sally Spies, Joan Dolph, prog'rams; Gerd Hansen, tickets; Betty Chat burn, music; Yvonne Umphlette, patrons; and Phyllis Evans, Doro thy Rogers, publicity. KIRBY PAGE . . . . . . author and lecturer who will speak at the Interfaith banquet Thursday evening". Page to Speak At Dinner Here Kirby Page, world traveler, author, lecturer, and student of social and religious questions will be on the campus this week and Thursday night will be the guest speaker at a student interfaith dinner at Westminster house. The dinner will start at 5:30, but reservations should be made by Wednesday noon by calling 2466. The price will be 50 cents per person. The topic of Mr. Page's talk at the dinner will be “How to Re lease the Power of God.” All stu dents are invited. Thursday afternoon Mr. Page will speak at the Northwest Christian college at 3 o’clock, and that night he will speak on “Creating a Heritage for Our Great-Grandchildren.” His topic at the Christian college will be “Living with Hope and Joy.” Mr. Page is best known on the campus for his book, “Living Prayerfully.” His works have been translated into French, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Ger man, Greek, Bulgarian, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese. He is now working on a new book to be en titled, “Living Abundantly: De votional Readings Interpreting the Significance of Creative Mi nority Groups.” The author has spoken in hun dreds of churches throughout the United States and he has held pastorates in Iowa, Illinois, and New York City. He is a gradu (Please turn to paqc eight) Questions Answered To clarify the situation with respect to their call to active duty in July, Dr. Car'. Kossack, armed service representative, will meet all men in the navy reserves at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Chapman hall. Lieutenant J. M. Cowan and Lieut. G. S. Griffith of the L'. S. naval reserves will he pres ent to answer any questions about conditions at the eend of this term. The meeting is par ticularly important to all senior men in V-7. The meeting will he over by 9. Coeds to Live in John Straub; Activating Group Arrives; Students Due Next Week > culminating months of planning and preparation by the University administration coeds from one of the girls’ dormi tories will be moved today to the unoccupied sections of thr men s dormitory—formerly Alpha hall and Gamma hall. The unoccupied girls' hall will be taken over during the next two weeks by a training detachment from the army air forces tech nical training command. Miss Ames, Moshofsky Get Cups The Gerlinger cup, awarded yearly to the outstanding junior woman, was presented to Nancy Ames, newly elected student body president, Saturday night amid the Latin American setting of the Junior Prom. Also at the cere mony, which was held in McAr thur court, was the awarding of the Koyl cup to Bill Moshofsky, highest junior ranking- man on the campus. Queen Mary Bentley presided over the occasion, which was for mal with white coats being seen among the more conventional tuxes. Assisting- the queen in her junior weekend activities were Princesses Frances Johnston, Kathryn Jenkins, Mary Wright, and Sue Sawyer. During the evening Friars, senior men’s honorary, made its annual selection, tapping nine prominent juniors and a faculty member. Those chosen were Leu Barde, James Bennison, Bill Lil ly, John Robinson, Oge Young, Clarence Horton, Bill Moshofsky, Richard Burns, and Robert Far row. Dr. Gordon Wright, assistant professor of history, was made the year's honorary member. Seeing their sons and daugh ters at a large scale social func tion for perhaps the last time “for the duration,’’ several hun dred mothers and fathers who ers’ weekend were special guests had come to Oregon for the Moth at the occasion. Though the prom was formal, no corsages were worn, as they were officially banned. Lt. Charles D. Cable and two enlisted men from the Seattle headquarters of the AAFTTC ar rived on the campus Monday aft ernoon and will set up campus headquarters today in an annex to the former girls’ dormitory. Lt. Cable will be in charge of "activating" the University cairtr pus preparatory to the arrival of at least 200 pre-meteorology stud ents and their officers between May 7 and May 17. The army men will be housed in the vacated dormitory and will "mess" in the dining hall of that building. Officers are to be housed in the annex. Some changes will be made in the. building in order to house the army students since there are about twice as many expected than the normal capacity of the hall. Showers will replace ba.tlv tubs, beds and bedding will be increased, and kitchen facilities will be improved. Recreation rooms, with ping pong tables and games will be established on the lower floors. Women will be moved from the hall in University trucks which, will pick up their belongings. Pledges will move directly into their sorority houses, if there is room for them. Mrs. Elsie Miller and Mrs. Mabel Potts will act as housemothers in Alpha and Gam ma halls. ^ Lt. Cable arrived at 2 p.m. Mon day by car from Seattle by w/r»y of Portland. The enlisted nu n came at 10 a.m. by truck. Lt. Cable and Dr. W. V. Norris, act ing head of the physics depart ment, will leave for California to day to confer with headquarters officers on drawing up the con tract with the University. Sergeant Page will be in charge here while Lt. Cable is in Cali fornia. Private Henley will as sist Page in the preparation for the arrival of the army students. Mothers Elect New Officers; Give Prenursing Loan Fund Oregon s 16th annual Mothers’ Weekend attracted more than 150 Oregon Mothers from all over the state to the Uni versity of Oregon campus Saturday. The outgoing president, Mrs. Emmett Rathbun, Oswego, presided at the business meet ing Saturday afternoon in Johnson hall, and urged that mothers combine forces with Oregon dads to promote the war time education of their children. Mrs. Roy Bishop, Portland, on behalf of the Gamma Phi Beta Mothers’ club, presented Hazel P. Scliwering, dean of women, with $125 to be used by worthy and needy girls as a memorial to Gertrude Watson Holman. This fund has been given for five years and more than 19 girls have been aided, Dean Schwering said. Doan Fund A resolution was passed to give SGOO to the student loan fund for prenursing students at the Uni versity. Nurses at the medical school already have available such funds, it was pointed cut, but that such a scholarship would be of considerable aid to entering1 freshmen in prenursing. Included in other business transacted by the Oregon Moth ers was the establishment of a Greenwood memorial fund. It was explained that when some one passes away, instead of sending flowers if the friend would sti d , Please turn to page eight)