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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1944)
Up From UO By Peggy Overland The University has more than a passing interest in the air corps program now in session on the campus. It was the immediate re sult of an emergency, Prominent among the creators was Litutenant Colonel Theodore R. Gillenwaters, who was a student at the univer sity from 1921 to 1927, and who is at present, chief of the materiel division of the AAF weather wing which maintains world-wide head quarters in Asheville. Recently awarded an honorary degree of doctor of laws by Ken yon college, February 12, in recog nition of his part in the develop ment and administration of the army air forces’ college and uni versity training program, Gillen vvaters is still the object of amaze ment in Washington. The story of the accomplishment for which he was awarded the honorary degree is one of the most startling ad ministrative feats of the war, and although the program has been abolished, Gillenw ater’s part in it lias not been forgotten. In October, 1942, the air forces Oregon® Emerald MARJORIE M. GOODWIN EDITOR ELIZABETH EDMUNDS BUSINESS MANAGER MARJORIE YOUNG Managing Editor GLOKIA MAliiiU i Advertising Manager ANNE CRAVEN News Editor Norris Yates, Joanne Nichols Associate Editors Betty Ann Stevens editorial board Edith Newton Mary Jo Geiser Shirley Stearns, Executive Secretary Warren Miller, Army Editor Bob Stiles. Sports Editor Mary Jo Geiser, Staff Photographer Carol Greening, Betty Ann otevens Co-Women’s Editors . Betty French Robertson, Chief Night Editor Elizabeth Haugen, Assistant Managing Editor -ojf a 'IfiadUtUm . . • Today is the last day entries may be submitted for Odeon. Poetry and plays should be turned in to Mrs. A. 11. Ernst; short stories, to W. F. G. Thacher; essays, to Dr. Robert F. Horn, art, to Kdith Untluink, and music, to George Hopkins. Students and soldiers stationed on the campus may entei material. Odeon is the University of Oregon's annual creative talent show, where art in all its phases is displayed and performed. The word “annual'’ in reference to Odeon is hopeful rather than accurate, a goal toward which to reach rather than an exact description. For Odeon was first held on this campus only last year. Rut those who remember it must be convinced that it will become an annual Oregon tradition. ’The program started, remember, in the music school audi torium, the home of frosh assemblies and choral union. Aftei introductory and welcome speeches, three violin compositions by Rarbara Crisp and Elizabeth W alker were played. Elizabeth is now in Roston on a scholarship at the New England Con servatory of Music, and Rarbara is in Portland teaching at the Roy Wilkinson studios. The performance of that first group of violin selections was the first magic moment in a whole evening of magic moments. Remember Duncan Wimprcss short story, 1 he Journey ? Remember the sensitive, delicate beauty of the poems by 1 egg) Overland, Claudinc Riggs, Mildred Wilson, and others? Re member the brief, haunting songs by Eugene Bennett, as sung by Marie Rogndahl? Remember Marjorie Major's distinguished essay, “So Sorry, Dr. Kuo?” An when intermission broke the spell, the audience, dazed and overwhelmed by the array of talent, moved over to Ger linger for an hour and-a-quarter more of entertainment and exhibits. Highlights of the second half of the evening were Barbara llampson’s short story, “I've Never Stopped Looking” and her poem, ”1 Hvided River” ; Virginia Lippman's play “Fam ily Potraits,” with student cast and crew; the modern dances; Sue St. Pierre's and Ray Dickson’s essays, more musical com positions, and the unforgettable fashion show (remember the pajama parade?) After that, the audience had refreshments on the Gerlinger sunporch while viewing the sculpture, paintings, ceramics, and additional literature and journalism displays. The audience finallv drifted away about midnight, after hear ing and seeing four hours of student creative art work. Thus teas a unique tradition born. Now a year has passed, and the "unforgettable” events have been—no, not forgotten, but ob scured by more immediate occurrences. This year’s Odeon will be the test of whether this newly-created tradition will live. 'J'he answer to that test will depend on the kind and quality of Student contributions.—J.N. had only 450 weather officers, and the emergency at that time de manded an immediate supply by February 1944, of some 5,000 such officers, with an approximate addi tion of 5,000 during 1944 and 1945. That was when Col. Gillenwaters, then chief of the personnel division of the old weather directorate in Washington, took over. The situa tion he found seemed unable to cope with the demands—the entire meteorological training program being conducted at only five uni versities and open only to men with a minimum of three years of college and a strong background of mathematics and physics. Added to this a shortage wa$ already showing in the supply of such highly-trained men. What Gillenwaters did has al ready made history. He was faced with the bovious necessity of ac cepting men with less impressive scientific backgrounds and train ing if the 10,000 officer quota was to be realized, but at the same time, providing them with a train ing that would be just as thorough as ever. The solution was finally realized after numerous painstak ing conferences. Three different programs were established. The first -in advanced meteorology was for men with two years of college, including math and physics. Graduates of this course would be ready for imme diate commissions as weather offi cers. The other groups were de signed to feed a steady stream of men into the advanced group. The results of these programs were just as startling as those which Gillenwaters used to cause on the campus as president of his senior class, but this time they were far more lasting. With his programs he created a revolution ary method of college training, for men in the two preparatory groups received, in six and 12 months, re spectively, training in mathematics and physics equal to a four-year college major in those subjects. The army program has been abolished but the results which it left will outlast the war and will probably provide a substantial basis for post-war college educa tion. Whatever the results, Gillen waters, member of the varsity basketball team in ’23-’24; presi dent of the senior class; worthy master of the Oregon Gamma Phi chapter of Alpha Tau Omega; member of Friars; and member of the Order of the “O,” will be re membered as one who did his job well when action was most needed and who never hesitated to over throw both tradition and custom to accomplish his aims. A “triangle" was solved when Joseph Licata, five, decided to give his dog, Butch, to air cadets at the University of Buffalo. Butch became infatuated with the cadets months ago and has been dogging their footsteps. Now Butch is theirs. The late Governor Luren D. Dickinson of Michigan left be quests of 52,000 to Bob Jones col lege, Cleveland, Tenn., and Hunt ington (Ind.) college. Taylor uni versity, Upland, Ind., and Wheaton (111.) college received 5500 each. 1 T'i "Disputed Passage" with Dorothy Lamour and John Howard "Topper Returns" with Joan Blondell and Roland Young The Cutting Room \ - - By BILL BUELL Hollywood's $20,000,000.00 version of “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” in spite of its garrulous lack of unity of coherence, • and 168-minute length, is far superior to the average movie. But compared with Ernest Heminway’s novel of the same name, it is as shallow, insignificant, and insipid as an eighth grader’s third-prize essay on why we should be kind to our parents and not say naughty words. Heminway’s novel is a very pro found document expressing a col lectivistic social philosophy. It says that all mankind is essentially one, that the good of society as a whole is worth more than the life of any single individual. It is a vigorous condemnation of Fascism in all its aspects, an affirmation of that po litical philosophy which has as its ideal the welfare of 'the common man. It lays itself wide open for persecution by the Dies Committee by assuming a friendly attitude toward Communism. But Hollywood is afraid of ideas. “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is com pletely stripped of all its political and social implications. The pic ture has been carefully edited so as to contain nothing to offend Francisco Franco, the State De partment, the Catholic Church, the Hays office, the National Asso ciation of Manufacturers, or the PTA. We even doubt if it would offend Hitler very much. It is never made very clear just JdeUe/iA ta the &ditan, To the Editor: We appeal to all students who are of voting age to register for the aproaching primary election. The privilege of voting in a free election is one of the primary tenets of the democratic way of life that we are fighting for. We civilians should exercise our franchise. The men of the armed forces have countless difficulties to overcome in order to vote. We urge all students to register and apply for absentee ballots in ample time before the May 19 pri mary election. We all may differ on men and policies, but we all agree that we would rather die than have “ja” elections in America. Vote! Whether Prohibitionist, Socialist, Republican, Democrat, Jeffersonian Democrat, Commun ist, Trotskyite, or Townsendite! PEGGY MAGILL, B. YOUNGER B. SINNOTT what Robert Jordan and the others on the side of the Spanish Repub lic are fighting for. Jordan (Gary Cooper) does say that he is fight ing' to save the democracies. But he never talks about what democ racy really means. The words “Fascist,” “Nazi,” and “ComrnuTfr ist” are each mentioned but once in the picture. In the book Jordan is working directly under the Rus sian communists, but the cinema version never mentions any such connection. The result is simply a romantic tale of love and adventure, with the love completely unhibited. Jor dan’s passion for Maria (Ingrid Bergman) is sort of an idealistic affection floating around in the air like a lost dandelion seed. The fam ous sleeping bag is shown in any number of scenes but the part it plays is never very explicit. Katina Paxinou, the Greek ac tress who never played in a movif before, puts the show under her heavy brown arm and walks away with it. Her portrayal of Pilar, the ugly gipsy who is “much woman” and a determined fighter for the Republic, fully deserves the “Os car” which it won. Miss Bergman’s sincere and ef fective acting runs Miss Paxinou’s a close second. Akim Tamiroff as Pablo, the guerrilla chieftain, turns in a fine characterization. But Gary Cooper, when placed beside Paxinou and Bergman, is as in articulate, and unresponsive as the pioneer father. READER ADS . Ten words minimum accepted. First insertion 2c per word. 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