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VOLUME XLIV
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1943
Girls' Dorm Houses
Meteorology Force
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NUMBER 127
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Final Call forTobacco Money
Sounds; Forces Overseas
lo get American Cigarettes
By MARGARET McGEE
Collection of money to send packs of American cigarettes
to service men overseas will be climaxed today in campus liv
ing organizations with a final call for donations, Barbara
Younger, co-chairman for the drive, declared Tuesday evening.
Contributions are requested from all members of living
organizations plus Orides and the Yeomen, with the dead
line ior collections set tor this
afternoon.
Students managing the drive
wished to make it clear that dona
tions are to be made in money
and not in cigarettes.
Ad Honorary
Gamma Alpha Chi, women’s
advertising honorary, is in charge
of the campaign that is being car
ried on in connection with the all
campus War Board. Co-chairmen
for the drive are Miss Younger,
* Charline Felly, sophomore in
ral arts.
After collection, funds will be
sent to the Raleigh tobacco com
pany, Miss Younger explained,
where for every 4% cents donat
ed, the company will send one
pack of cigarettes to men over
seas. With each carton of 200
packs will be sent a card, bearing
the name, “University of Oregon.”
Scarcity
The scarcity of good American
cigarettes overseas was express
ed recently in a cable from the
commanding officer in Australia,
who declared, “This command ap
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Oregana Heads
flamed at Banquet
Major editorial staff positions
for next year’s Oregana were an
nounced Tuesday night by Helen
Johnson, new editor of the year
book, at the traditional staff
banquet held at the Osburn hotel
Tuesday.
They include the following:
Joan Dolph and Adele Riggs, co
associate editors; Nancy Brown
ell, managing editor; Donna Wil
liams, executive secretary; Betty
Ann Keup, promotion manager;
Flora Kibler and June Hitchcock,
assistant managing editors; Jen
elyn Gaston, art editor; Fred
Treadgold, sports editor; Bar
bara Lamb and Ruth Van
Buskirk, co-living organization
editors; Charline Pelly, activities
$j^tor: and Betty Lu Siegman,
schools editor.
Achievement
Jeff Kitchen, retiring business
manager, presented certificates
of achievement to members of
the business staff, while Roy
Paul Nelson, retiring managing
editor, presented them to mem
bers of the editorial staff.
Entertainment was provided
by Flora Kibler who sang, “In
the Usual Way,” and by the
house cf characters members Roy
Nelson, Jack Billings, and “Scot
ty” Mindolovich, assisted by
Charles Politz and Adele Riggs;
singing, "There’s a Star Span
(|^d Banner Waving Somewhere
in F Sharp.”
Special guests invited to the
affair were: J. Warren Teter,
Betty Biggs Schrick, Elsie Brown
ell S' ”'.van, Jack Billings, Helen
Angell, Les Anderson, and Dick
Williams.
Miss Torgler
'Aid For Vets’
Group Head
Yvonne Torgler, junior in ar
chitecture and allied arts, will
lead the campus committee on
scholarships for returning serv
ice men and women next year,
replacing Oge Young, chairman
of the committee during the year.
Work on the fund' has been
continued through this term with
living organizations contributing
bonds and Co-op receipts, and the
Oregon Dad's committee doing
special work to add to the fund.
Reports of the committee com
posed of Alva Granquist, Leslie
Brockelbank, Gerd Hansen, and
Edith Newton reveal that living
organizations are generously giv
ing bonds this term to the fund.
Each group listed below is giv
ing $18.75 to the fund to be in
vested in a war bond. Deadline
for turning in the money for
these bonds, which is to be
turned in at the educational ac
tivities office is May 15.
Each of the following organi
zations have pledged to give
$18.75 for a bond this term: Sher
ry Ross ha’’ Susan Campbell
hall, Orides, the three women’s
co-ops together, Alpha Tau Ome
ga, Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Al
pha Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Mu.
Sigma Phi Epsilon, Theta Chi,
Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta
Pi, Alpha Gamma Delta” Alpha
Omicron Pi, Alpha Xi Delta, Del
ta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta,
Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kap
pa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, and Sig
ma Kappa.
Hendricks hall has pledged to
give a bond every month and the
Alpha Phis plan to give one full
scholarship which is $120. Delta
Delta Delta has decided to give
to the fund', but the exact amount
has not been decided.
Co-op receipts were turned in
at the Co-op store or in the in
dividual living organizations, and
the refunds was placed in the
scholarship fund.
Oreganas Unloaded At
Co-op 8 A.M. Saturday
Oreganas will be distribut
ed from the Co-op store start
ing May 21 at 8 a.m. The book
will also be given out Satur
day at the Co-op until noon
when the store closes.
The 1943 edition of the Ore
gana was previewed by the
staff last night at their annual
banquet, but the book will not
be generally distributed until
May 21.
AirForcesLand inDorm
LEX BARDE . . .
. . . leaves his post on the cam
pus war board to some successor
who will be appointed at a meet
ing of the executive council
Thursday afternoon. Applicants
will be interviewed in person at
the meeting.
War Board Petitions
Petitions for chairmanship
of the campus war board must
be submitted to Jean Page at
Susan Campbell hall, before 4
this afternoon. Xo petitions
will be accepted after that time.
Twin Exercises
Set for Seniors
The 66th annual commence
ment at the University will be
held Sunday, May 30, according
to an announcement from Dr.
Donald M. Erb, president of the
University. Both baccalaureate
services and commencement ex
ercises have been scheduled for
the same day, according to the
custom of recent years.
The twin exercises will be held
in McArthur court on May 30,
Dr. James H. Gilbert, dean of the
college of liberal arts, and chair
man of the commencement pro
gram announced.
Dr. Wirt
Dr. Williston D. Wirt, minister
of the First Congregational
church, now an army chaplain at
Mather field, Sacramento, Cali
fornia, will return to Eugene to
give the baccalaureate sermon
Sunday morning. In the evening
Dr. Erb will speak on "War Also
Teaches,” as his subject for the
commencement address.
Dr. Gilbert indicated that close
to 650 students have made ap
plication for graduation. After
term examinations about 600 are
expected, to have the necessary
qualifications. A war-time twist
has added to this year's com
mencement with many graduat
ing seniors receiving degrees who
are now in the armed forces and
war work. Their awards will be
made in absentia.
ADPi Tops Houses
Working harder at the campus
Red Cross this week than any
other organization, Alpha Delta
Pi folded 49 hours worth of band
ages. Gamma Phi Beta placed
second, with 35U hours, and Al
pha Chi Omega came in third,
with 17 U hours.
Men Find Dorm Atmosphere
Contrast to Utah Dry Dust
By JACK L. BILLINGS
Early Tuesday afternoon about 30 pre-meteorology students
arrived at the University, unloaded their barracks bags, End
lined up for their new commanding officer, Lieut. Charles D.
Cable, who returned Tuesday morning from California, where
he was conferring with army air corps officials about tbcv
contract with the University,
ISA Elections
Set for Friday
Top independent leaders for
next year will be determined Fri
day, following the opening of an
nual independent student elec
tions in the men’s lounge, Ger
linger hall. Polls will be open
from 9 a.m. to 5 Friday evening,
with all independent students eli
gible 'to' vote in the election.
Nominations, made Tuesday at
a meeting in 207 Chapman hall,
include: representative at large.
Chuck Politz, Jane Webster, Do
ris Jones, and Marie Nichols.
Students are asked to vote for
two candidates for t.'his position,
as the ISA presidency will go to
the highest nominee, and vice
presidency going to the runner
up.
Senior
Candidates for senior represen
tative, nominated Tuesday, are
Marianne Blenkinsop and Mar
garet Sehon. Nominated for jun
ior representative were Betty
McRadden, Jean Mellies and
■Adele Riggs. Three freshman
women students chosen to run
for a position as sophomore rep
resentative are Doris Horton,
■Betty Lawrence, and Inez Pot
win.
Any independent student wish
ing" to run for an office and not
having been nominated, may
submit a slip of eligibility for the
desired office to either Leighton
Platt, Campbell club; or to A1
Larsen at Westminster house,
any time before 12 this evening.
After the roll call the students
were assigned to their rooms in
the girls’ dormitory which the
training detachment had previ
ously taken over. Bug-eyed with
amazement, they looked over their
roomy quarters, their wide beds,
the carpets. They walked ckvvn
into their "day-room,” formerly
the girls’ living toom.
Said one boy (like the others
at least a high school graduates
with a "B” average), "This is a
heaven on earth.” They had judt
left Kern Field, Utah, where dwft
and heat take the place of Ore
gon's grass and cool breezes.
Veteran.
The first student to arrive ws»
a veteran by this time. He p
into Eugene last Friday night at
the height of Mortar Board. Hit*
name is Private Paul Madiger of
Indianapolis, Indiana, by way of
Fort George Wright, Washing
ton (near Spokane).
The consensus seemed to bo
that Oregon and the University
of Oregon were "plenty O.K.” The
boys came from all sections of tho
country—one from Buffalo, ono
from NYU in New York City, ono
a Sigma Nu from Minnesota, oth
ers from Tennessee, Oklahoma,
Arkansas, Syracuse, and Hobo
ken. One was already to go • t - n
had a physics book under his ana
when he climbed down from “ o
truck that brought the boys ip
from the station.
Come'n Get It
Later on some of them remem
bered that they hadn’t had their
lunch yet and began to ask how
long it was before dinner or
"chow” or "mess,” depending on
their degree of army saturation.
But first of all they plied the ;<r
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Sally Spiess Red Cross Prexy
As Gavel Changes Hands
By C AROL C OOK
Succeeding' Carolyn Holmes as
campus Red Cross chairman, Sal
ly Spie.ss, sophomore in liberal
arts, will assume the generalship
of the campus projects, and au
tomatically step into a voting po
sition on the campus war board.
In the past year Miss Holmes
as instigator and organizer of
the campus Red Cross projects,
saw the completion of 25,000 sur
gical dressings. Under her lead
ership, the surgical dressing unit
was expanded, and moved from
Chapman hall into the empty
store next door to the College
Side.
Winter term the monthly quo
ta for bandages was raised by
Miss Holmes from 2,000 to 8,000.
Since then 10,000 additional band
ages have been folded.
With the expansion of the sur
gieal dressing unit, the sev, njr
unit, under the direction of Fti itf*.
Van Euskirk, still in Chapman
hall, continued its sewing o
jects.
Helping Miss Holmes through
out the year were Mary MoCanrf
less, executive secretary, ; ;ul
'Carol Wicke, Patricia Lynch,
Virginia Locke, Pat Warren, E:< t
sy Wooton, Mrs. Spiess, Kathy,
Dunn, Marty Wood. Jeanno
Smith. Emily Tyree, June Grantz.
Marian Schaefer, Eetty Ann
Keup, Gerd Hansen, Leslie Brocte
elbank, Marian Clark, Juno
Johnson, Carol Wicke, Charknp
Pelley, Doris Hoiland, and Fh r
ence Cooley.
Mrs. Spiess, who has super
vised the house schedules, ,/aa
appointed to her position by tho
campus war board on the rec
ommendation of Miss Holmes, i