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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1944)
Mary Riley i Heads AWS i PteAentitUf Go-ue^i QVu NoJuna ^bao-idd&M... . By BETTY ANN STEVENS Dark, photogenic, red hair bent over mechanical drawing in the art school was our first impression or Norma Davidson, a last year’s Portland Rose Festival princess, now turned Emerald cover girl. The small Alpha Chi freshman focussed a pair of intent brown eyes in our direction and smiled seriously, "Yes, I spend most of my time over here. Maybe it's be cause we're all so crazy about it." Starting on her seventh consecu tive hour of work at the art school that day, she stated she prefers architecture above all else. Sur-prise! Her smiling reaction when she; heard the news about being a final ist .. . “I was so surprised I could n’t move! I’m getting more than my share of thrills.” Titian-tressed Norma likes liv ing in Eugene “a lot . . . lots better than Portland. Portland's so crowd ed now.” She was born at Omaha, Nebraska, then moved to Cascade Locks, Washington, then Portland and Jefferson high school, finally Eugene, and has a marine sister stationed at San Diego, also a 13 year-old brother. Likes include: collecting pennies (and achieved a patriotic total of 1,875), skiing “on Timberline, def initely,” modern dance, and “peo ple who are fun.” Fred Keller’s Musicians Booked For "Spring Fever" Whiskerino With Freddie Keller and his orchestra coming down from Jantzen Beach park in Portland, “Spring Fever” as the theme, and featuring the election of a Betty Coed, G. I. Joe, and Jpe College, the annual sophomore Whiskerino dance will be held March 18 in McArthur court. The chin foliage contest will be held as usual this year, ac cording to Marilyn rioiuen, cnair man. The dance will be informal. Kach girls' living organization will sponsor one sophomore candi date; four finalists will be picked from this group and the winner of the “Betty Coed’’ title is to be elected at the dance. Soldiers in each of their units will elect their candidates and of these two final ists will be voted on. “G. I. Joe," the winner, will be presented at the dance. All civilian men on the cam pus are eligible to enter the Joe College competition. Individual houses will be contacted for fur ther details. Tickets may be obtained from the social chairmen at each of the men’s living organizations next week for $1.10. Short Story Deadline Extended to March 20 Because of the last minute rush during final week, tl<e deadline for the Marshall - Case - Haycox short story contest has been moved up from March 1, which is the first day of final exams, to March 20. This extension, according to W. F. G. Thacher, professor of English and advertising, will allow prospective contestants time to add the finishing touches without interfering with their scholastic schedule. 'Victory' Slated Monday ‘Desert Victory,” the filmed story of the allies’ drive across North Africa to Tunisia, will be shown at the music building Mon day, February 21, from S to 9 p.m. for students. Sponsored by the ed ucational activities board, the mov ie is free, but registration cards mist be shown for admittance. It Aill be presented to the GI stu dents in connection with the army orientation course from 6:30 to 7:30. Initiation Scheduled Sigma Delta Pi, national Span ish honorary, will initiate new members Sunday, February 20 at 4 p.m. in the alumni hall of Ger linger. Rallying Students To Gather in Igloo Rallying students will meet to night before the game with Oregon State and snowball to McArthur court. Cheer leader, Keith Murphy and Ralph Rafjcn and the members of the rally squad, will divide up into two groups to rouse all the girls out of their respective living or ganizations. One group will start at University house while the oth er will start at the Gamma Phi house. The rally will start about 6:30. Those who are not familiar with the yells are asked to bring the mimeographed yell sheets which have been distributed at previous games. Lyn Mockbee, secretary of the Oregon State rally squad has for mally invited the cheer leader and rally squad and all the students possible to attend the game on their own home grounds Saturday night. All University students are also invited to attend the tradi tional Orange-Lemon Squeeze at the Memorial Union ballroom im mediately after the game. Ode to a Coyer Gal We've printed her picture Now this we'll confide: Her phone number's not In-the Pigger's Guide. Joan Dolph Leads YW, WAA Picks M. Lawson “Non-political” elections Thursday afternoon resulted in the se lection of Mary Riley, Mary Alice Lawson, and Joan Dolph to direct respectively, the AYVS, WAA, and YWCA activities for the coming year. The presidents were nominated by the nominating committees for the organizations. Audrey Holliday, whose name was placed on the ballot by the AWS committee as a presidential candidate, declined, saying, "Al though I am honored by the nomination, I should like to decline ir favor of the other candidates.” Other AWS officers are Ardis Jensen, vice-president; Signe Ek lunel, secretary; Mary McCanelless, treasurer; Roseann Leckie, reporter; Beatrice King, sergeant-at-arms. WAA officers are: Mary Elizabeth Davis, vice-president; Janet Thompson, secretary; Conny Walters, treasurer; Janice Thompson, cus todian; and Wanda Lou Payne, sergeant-at-arms. YWCA officers are Lois Clause, vice-president; Flora Kibler, sec retary; and Martha Thorsland, treasurer. AWS President Riley won the election with 235 votes, as com pared to 199 for Martha Beard, who was nominated from the floor. Other nominees were Gerd Hansen, 104 votes and Jean Taylor, 68. Mary Alice Lawson drew 77 votes for WAA presidency. The other nominee, Elizabeth Davis, took the vice-presidency with 49 votes. In the YWCA election Joan Dolph topped Lois Clause with a 190-59 vote count. (Please turn to page eight) University Theater To Present Puzzler “The Great God Brown,” judged j by critics to be the most puzzling of all the plays of America's great dramatist, Eugene O'Neill, will be produced at the University the latter part of March' by the Uni versity Theater guild, under the direction of Horace W. Robinson, acting head of University drama. This difficult play of the psy chology of the soul, shown out wardly through the mechanical de vice of masks, was chosen by the advisory board of the guild as their third performance, an experi mental drama. It w'as announced at the winter term meeting of the guild and accepted by the group at that time. Frank H. Krasnowsky, of “Dark Victory” fame, has been cast as the Great God Brown. Louis Vog ler will portray O'Neill’s tragic hero, Dion Anthony. New to Guild hall stage are the two feminine leads, Mary Ellen Foland, in the part of Margaret; and Jeanne Briggs as Cyble. Assistant director is Jean Lawrence, freshman in journalism, also from the “Dark Victory” cast. Further casting will be an nounced Monday on the bulletin board of the drama studio. Marjorie Scobert To Present Concert The following program will be presented by Marjorie Scobert Wil son (Mrs. Robert Wilson), for the weekly recorded concert, which will be held Sunday, February 20, in the browsing room at 4 p.m. Symphony in D minor.Franck Die Fledermaus .Strauss Piano Concerto in A minor..Grieg Victory Plan Gets General Approval There is a general campus ap proval of the Total Victory league, according to Peggy Magill, chair man, who estimates that at least 75 per cent of the students con tacted through their living organ izations signed Justice Owen D. Roberts’ (U. S. supreme court) Pledge for Peace. Next term the ASUO forums, di rected by Nancy Ames, ASUO president, will be dedicated to the discussion of postwar problems and international relations. Miss Magill announced that the executive committee of the league hopes to be able to send a delegate from the campus to the Interna tional Relations club convention to be held in Spokane during spring term. The Total Victory league also plans to hold a local conven tion in Eugene for all those inter ested in postwar planning. Or. Debye Will Appear At Last Lecture of Term Speaker at the final lecture of the University winter term lecture series, Friday evening, February 25, will be Dr. Peter Debye, re nowned scientist and lecturer, win ner in 1936 of the Nobel prize in chemistry. As announced Thursday by members of Sigma Xi, national science honorary, and the Univer sity lecture committee, joint spon sors of the talk Dr. Debye will dis cuss “The Magnetic Approach tc the Absolute Zero of Tempera ture.” The lecture will begin at 8:1E p.m. in Chapman hall on the cam pus. Both discussion and slide pic tures will be understandable tc the public at large. Newsmen To Assemble On Campus Today For 26th Annual Oregon Press Conference Oregon newspapermen will as semble on the University campus today and tomorrow for the 26th annual Oregon Press conference. Wartime newspaper problems cou pled with suggestions for the fu ture will be the chief topic of dis cussion. Ray Cronin, former Associated Press bureau chief at Manila will tell the assembled newsmen of treatment received while interned for two years by the Japanese. Mr. Cronin returned to the United States in December on the ex change ship Gripsholm. “Wartime Writing and Report j mg" will be the subject of a talk : by John W. Dunlap, Pacific North j west news manager for United Press at Portland. Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Oregonian and president of ONPA, will discuss "Washington in War time,” and Malcolm Epley, of the Klamath Falls Herald and News will speak on "Prying the Lid off Tule Lake." Mr. Epley was instru mental in breaking the story about the trouble there. » Advertising will be represented Iby two talks, "What's Ahead in Advertising" by Vernon Churchil of the Oregon Journal, and "Grouj Selling of Advertising for Week lies,” by Tom Purcell of the Gresh am Outlook. Registration will be at 9:15 a.m Friday morning, followed by th< gerieral session, appointment oi committees, and speeches. Severa talks will also be given Saturday morning. Speaker at the luncheor at the Eugene hotel will be Mr Cronin. A few newspapermen had al ready arrived Thursday night. (Please turn to page si.v) Gloria Malloy Wins Position Gloria Malloy, sophomore in lib eral arts, Portland, will head the Mother’s Day committee for Jun ior Weekend, the ASUO executive council decided at their meeting! Thursday. Her job will be thaTof coordinating activities planned by the Mother’s club, and welcoming mothers who come for the week end and for their annual meeting and election. Those who submitted petitions were recommended as members of the committee, but the final selection will be left to Miss Malloy. After a nominating assembly on April 13, ASUO elections will be held April 18, and new officers will be installed April 20, the coun cil approved. Another event put on the calendar is a "Welcome” assembly tentatively planned for March 17, the first Friday in spring term. Sponsored by \he ASUO council, it would welcome the new pre-medical and engineer ing students who will be on the campus by that time. Mary Jane Switzer was appointed temporary chairman for this assembly. If a request of the council is granted, next year’s academic schedule will be arranged so that the 11 o’clock period on Thursday will be left open for ASUO assem blies, as has been done in past years. The question of Co-op receipt boxes was turned over to Virginia Wright, sophomore representative, for action at the next meeting. Possibilities for a regular Uni versity radio program over station KORE are to be investigated by Ann Leo, senior representative. Bond Pledges Due For Servicemen Yvonne Torgler, chairman of the servicemen’s scholarship commit tee, asks that all houses turn in their war bonds for the service men's scholarship fund which they pledged the first of the year. Many houses have pledged one bogd~a term and as yet few have been turned in. If they are not turned in each term the present term pledge will be added to the follow ing term. Boxes have been placed in all military organizations as contain ers for Co-op receipts which will also be turned oyer to the fund. Soldiers are ^sked to drop their re ceipts in the boxes for it is possi ble that many of them will not be here when Co-op receipts are cashed in at the end of the school year. A box is placed in the Co-op where anyone may drop their re-t ceipts. Miss Torgler reported tha^all donations to the servicemen's scholarship fund will continue de spite the pending measure by con gress to provide allowances for ser vicemen’s education after the war. Dean Karl W. Onthank feels that these scholarships may not be able to be fully covered by the govern ment, but that all state higher edu cational institutions might be asked to make allowances toward them. The dean supported this state ment by the fact that many boys in the foreign service of other countries will not be eligible under the government legislation tor ; scholarships. He also stated that : the length of time and number of these scholarships would be limited and that they may need the assist ance of the institutions themselves.