Oregon W Emerald
MARJORIE M. GOODWIN
EDITOR
ELIZABETH EDMUNDS
BUSINESS MANAGER
MARJORIE YOUNG
Managing Editor
ROSEANN LECKIE
Advertising Manager
ANNE CRAVEN
N ews Editor
Norris Yates, Joanne Nichols
Associate Editors
Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and
tr,al examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon._
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'^J&ke+i' eMomecomuUf,
Homecoming 1944 style will be Homecoming in the war
time style as a tribute to every alum who is doing his part
in the war effort. What else could be more appropriate in these
times? Homecoming is essentially a celebration to honor the
alums of this school. This year it is naturally impossible that
everv alum who would like to could attend the celebiation.
So this new Homecoming, this Token Homecoming, will
honor them where ever they are—on the battlefield, in the
aircraft plant, at the training school, or in the shipyards. And
greatest honor will be paid to those who have done the most
possible, those who have lost their lives in the work they were
doing for their country.
This will be a program looking forward to a greater cele
bration, one that will sec every alum back at his alma mater
in a world at peace made possible by the efforts of those same
people we will honor at Homecoming 1944 style.
Homecoming is a tradition almost as old as the University
itself, and to have abolished it this year would have been a mis
take. But to have asked the alums to return in a number strong
enough to make this a real Homecoming would also have been
a mistake as well as an impossibility in these times. And so
this is definitely a Token Homecoming which more than any
thing else will look forward to that day when the old familiar
faces can return. This Token Homecoming will keep alive
every bit of the old spirit which has always made Oregon a
school that every alum holds dear to his heart and wants to
return to for a real Homecoming, the kind that will come
;\vith Victory.
it was wise judgment on the part of the executive council
that led them to see the advisability of having this token
Homecoming to keep in the minds of all students and alums
the basic idea of Homecoming, the idea of bringing everyone
back to the school they love and respect. But this year Home
coming, with its theme of honor to alums not here, is e\en
more important than the visual showing of honor to the school
by the returning of alums for Homecoming.
The annual competition between Oregon and Oregon State
will be carried out, and the usual meeting of some alums will
take place, but the loud, long celebration will be replaced by
a more important thing, a salute to every Oregon alum who
cannot be here. B. A. N.
fyetnuutte tytiolfc. . r
livery year when the time for Coed Capers draws near,
stories such as this begin to appear in the Fmerald:
“University coeds will frolic at Coed Capers, annual all
women celebration . . . ”
And frolic they do, with, the spirit of fellowship and fun
reigning supreme, and an undercurrent of serious purpose giv
ng the affair real meaning.
But Coed Capers is no longer the only occasion when
University coeds can frolic in fellowship and fun with an
i derlying seriousness. Tonight the \\ omen s Athletic associa
'.n sponsors the second Fun Night for University women.
The feminine funsters will choose from a wide array of
n ts. Sports available for onlookers and participants include
; sketball, tumbling, gymnastics, swimming, card games,
lingo, darts, checkers, table tennis, shuffleboard, square danc
’ r, badminton, volleyball, and deck tennis.
And when they're worn out from a fast, hard game of
sketball, the exhausted coeds can find refreshments and new
;wr in the hamburgers and cokes to be sold by WAA mem
'crs.
If some coeds are so fatigued merely by the strenuous,
; nowing routine of daily lift- that even the WAA hamburgers
i d cokes won’t provide sufficient energy for them to par
ipate in a tough game of checkers or bingo, they can surely
mmon strength enough to watch while others play. We un
ntand that chairs will he furnished for sedentary spectators.
The “serious purpose" behind the Fun Night is to make
• iversity women more healthy and better fit to do the thousand
d one tasks demanded by their scholastic, recreational, social,
-,’.d war activities. WAAV Fun Night, a combination of worth
while purpose and good entertainment, should give pleasure
.. : profit to all coeds.
By GLORIA MALLOY
Yesterday marked the great day of graduation back at
Fort Benning. The remaining officer candidates of yesterday
are lieutenants today, proudly wearing a gold bar on each
shoulder.
from there was from ATO Dick
Ralston to steady-starry-ey. 1
Maryanne Lynch saying that 'i
would report to Camp Wolfe".'.
Texas, January 16—but before
that he would spend a few days’
leave in Portland. What a look of
anticipation that girl is wearing
these days!
Fee Gee Chuck Scofield is in his
final pilot trainig p ri»; '
bad, New Mexico, which he
is “the home of the caves”. Chu
hopes to receive his wings in ; ,
proximately three weeks.
Staff Sergeant Fritz Timme.n
onetime Emerald associate f • A
and Ruth Jordon Timmen, :
Emerald’s biggest “shack
mance, have recently am ■ . .• !
the birth of a son, Ri( key.
geant Timmen is stationed
Camp Beal, Marysville, Cairn... -
ia.
Alpha Phi’s “Aunt La” is i ■
ceiving correspondence i':\ u
friend John Schafers, seaman > •
class of the navy. John has been
stationed in Honolulu for several
months.
Our ex-football st.'.r, it:
Wren, who is now a
tending the U niversity of Wash
ington, played a full live minutes
in the Rose Iiowl game between
Washington and Southern Cali
fornia.
Phi Delt “Dutch” Simmons was
called into the army December
29th. He’s now up in Fort Lewis
awaiting classification.
A Christmas card was received
n (he campus from Fee Gee Kelly
Snow of the ASTP. His saluta
tions for the now year were as fol
, “May the millrace turn to
beer in ’44.”
Sigma Nu Jim Carney, now a
i i the army, left the
wo weeks before
p i-tmas and is
Dorothy Lenha
Ensign i^
ha: ' . ntly
i ,
•ow in England.
Orides and
sic, has just
I and leaves
Suing school,
mis, Chi Psi,
gone overseas
. member of a
on Hutchins,
'.L.A., has just
an Alpha Chi
o is unknown
'raitor!
By MAKV r
'IrJLIilLzJLiliLrJLxl'L-JlzJL'l* •; ..
It is a grim thought that t>. s.i
petition for jobs after the war
will be nothing less than “fierce".
But, competition will be, never
theless, a reality most of >■
face when peace terms are pm -
ned and a normal ( ? 1 econ • .
restored.
This competition will stria* -1
women more keenly than at men.
Today, there are educational ai ;
occupational opportunities gr.«!<v;
popping up before American
women.
Coeds may assume a blase m -
il-may-eare attitude toward t:
outstretched hand of educe t. ;
employer, but whether Ihe.i . • •
it or not, many realize that tie
acceptance or rejection of tod:.., 's
opportunities will be the yardstick
by which their future suo-e-s :
measured. Future success of i ‘
primarily, who want to he “can -:
women. (And the word “carer:"
is used advisedly.')
Other than career women, 1-■ •
arc Oregon coeds who must post
pone marriage and domestic piar
until after the war, when the m - a
are back on the jobs where they
belong, and marriage-minded
women are in the homes where
they belong. Until that happy
time, the war emergency der.'.nr.
the services of intelligent, willir.r.
healthy college women who are
unafraid of a little rospons; v y.
to seek honest preparation f .r : ho
tasks expected of them frUowhpr
graduation ... or until that arm
istice is signed!
In England there is uni ■ 1
conscription by the government
of women able to work, 'err-'
the land of freedom- freed —
choices—still offers rather
demands suitable training
war work replaermer::. V. hi!r
choice is still available, Ore.
coeds might be wise to o’
carefully the fields i t - p.> -
ty here on the campus.
the fine1;*: pr.
and is at ;
the r.obl<: t .
1111' '■■■1 t * ■ ■
t ni - jr in
nie, is one of
in the world
■ i tainly one of
it is created
men.
nursing is not
ng a bedside
ght suppose,
semi-medical
. l atifyingfeel
by training
type nursing
oo and j p for more pro
f< ■ •• )nal position . such as hospit
administrator.’, supervisors,
■ - . health nurses.
■ those we- -e brave, this is
sc Uie ojiiy a - ipational field
ii< a worn a have opportunity
i • ■ overseas service.
Here, at the University of Ore
■u is the chance for you sweet
'•{rts and sisters to offer con
■ ''do help to that relative or
friend in Uncle Sam's war ma
chine, by choosing nursing as your
Ob in the war.
j arses is quite
tmns supply, :
adequate to i
emergencies to
Psyshiatric •
peal to one t
while physioth
another's fane;,
ing may be .
.i Im nis :
home ma
The fields r
time belong? !
and the epp;
in school. If v
without direct
: ir cade ntajr
i* y ? cons: i'
Hazel P. f
"•emen, will b<
. the it a
Oregon’s quota of
short, but the na
a whole, is in
life-and-death
tur daily.
■ ig might ap
rsity woman,
might take
i. d Cross nurs
. d’s specialty,
■■ of a children’s
1 1 a fourth,
nlimited, the
egon’s coeds;
a provided
■I re vague and
planning your
the Univers
all means,
ring, dean of
1 to advise you
.■led fields of
nthank, dean
stration. Te
rn, as intelli
to be of help
Clips and
Comments
By MARGUERITE WITTW Eli
Three Louisiana State U. coeds
were hurrying from class to their
dorm for lunch one day. Long' low
whistles sounded. The girls look
ed around casually. No men in
sight. Again the familiar wolf
calls sounded, this time accom
panied by gay greetings. The
girls looked up—ah, yes, the solu
tion. This time the wolves were
riding the skies; Navy men were
yelling merrily from a low flying
Navy blimp circling the cam
pus.
After the war when planes are
as plentiful as cars, girls may au
tomatically look up for the source
of a whistle. Who knows! . . . Oh,
honestly.
At the University of California
sailors on the campus have taken
the initiative and renamed the
houses in which they are stationed
in honor of Navy heroes ... I see
where Susan Campbell Hall could
become Eisenhower House—or
something of the sort.
The Daily Northwestern of
Northwestern Univesrity reports
the most amazing things turned
in at their lost and found depart
ment. For instance, one day tftky
got a charm bracelet with several
fraternity pins and other such in
signia attached . . . Quite a gal,
quite a gal.
....—And from the same paper we
found an interesting article stat
ing the fact that ice hockey isn’t
frozen ..now—in ..spite ..of ..tough
times . . . Really ?
The other day we heard a G.I.
stationed here on the campus tell
another member of the ASTs the
noteworthy item that every other
year or so one of the frat houses
on the University of Maine cam
pus burns down without explana
tion. Insurance men would aT^>
be mystified by the sight of frat
brothers carrying the furniture
back into the blazing building as
soon as the firemen throw it out
. . . Heh, Heh.
in an emergency and should make
such a contribution now and later,
by self-betterment and study.” -
This, friend, sounds like a gentle
conscription! Let’s hope our own
government will not need to make
more severe demands of us . . ,
America's women!
Remember that your regular
five year course on the campus
and at the medical school is Ac
celerated by working through va
cation, and requirements for cer
tificates may be completed in
much less time. This is an ad
ditional factor to consider.
Rollins college recently cele
brated its fifty-eighth annivers
ary. s
CHUB
Thrilling Double Bill!
CHARLES STARRETT
"COWBOYS IN I
THE CLOUDS" ^
Plus
KENNY BAKER
"DOUGHBG a S D
IRELAND"
TFfnI i •
& R
r j ■■ : \ ■
Entertainment Galore
Olivia de Havilland
in
"GOVEW.,
GIRL"
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