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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1944)
fylalbel By MARTHA THORSLAND With spring weather in install ments it’s difficult to know just What to put on for an eight o’ clock dash. To really pep up your wardrobe and help make the change from winter togs, do yourself a favor and get a crisp, new shirred or ruffled blouse. Worn with tailored, Wool skirts, or chintz dirndles you have the fresh look. New blouses are being shown in rayon crepe, wale pique, and rayon jersey, with practical colors being snow-white, shocking pink, powder blue, cham ois yellow, lime, lilac, turquoise, and many colored print combina tions. For a time-saver buy a new fril ly dickey that will change any out fit or perhaps starched white pique. A practical addition to your spring and summer wardrobe is the new sunback dress which will give you the benefit of lots of sun shine in the mornings, and be comes a comfortable sport dress in the afternoons and evenings, com bined with your new' blouse. These will be found in cotton chambres •*and gabardines, and the brighter the color the better. For campus Wear in early spring, you could wear a washable, basque shirt in matching colors. Worry of the W'eek seems to be *‘just what will I wear on Easter?” This year with the emphasis on practical clothes that will last more than just one season, try to plan your outfit so it can be worn through summer with additional changes for the warmer weather. The traditional three-piece suit is again good this Easter. Both ex tremes are found in -suit jackets this season. You will be well pressed in either a long man tailored jacket or one of the new Short length nipped-in bolero styles. Gabardines, men’s wear worsted, tw'eed, twill, or soft crepes are just the thing in suits. Choose your ac cessories so they will be gay, but matching. If you prefer a date dress and Styled for Spring Here's a bit of "luxury” that's endorsed for war ned ted costumes . . . that idds the right touch to your spring wardrobe! 3ur furs are of a long ,rearing quality, destined :o serve for many seasons co come. MATTHEW'S FUR SHOP 111 W. 7th Coed of the 'Week AwaAetf cMollidcuf,, Pn&x.u oJjPlu ^Iteta, <1elUfUieiu4, j By MARGUERITE WITTWER Audrey Holliday, junior in psychology, vice-president of i Kwama, 1942-43, and now president of Phi Theta, stated, “I be i lieve that good always wins out in the end, but I’m learning that the best way to play dirty pool is to play dirty pool better.” In the three years that she has been in the University Miss Holliday has covered a lot of territory with her interest in stu dent atiairs. Audrey s curly brown head has bent over council tables ever since she started out as ser geant-at-arms of the WAA as a freshman, and from then on: mem ber of AWS council, YWCA coun cil, house activities chairman, sophomore representative, and then junior representative to the ASUO executive committee, mem ber of the Educational Activities board, and the University budg'et committee. Reporter As a reporter on. the Emerald in her freshman year Audrey be came thoroughly acquainted with campus personalities and faculty members. As a columnist later, she interpreted her views of the University. Recently Miss Holliday commented, “The student attitude is wrong in many cases. The most important thing here is the Univer sity in the broad sense of the word, and too many people make the mistake of emphasizing only one aspect of it. “I am very much in favor of the Student Union,” she added, “It will be a decided asset in so far as co ordinating University group life. This should be kept a live issue, the committee must be alive, and the machinery should be set up so that the minute the war is over the Union building can go up.” the perennial Chesterfield you will also be a picture on Easter morn. Some ideas for your colorful dress are: scooped, square, or high necks; cap, slightly puffed, or slim shirt buttoned sleeves; peplums and shirred-line hips; modified di rndles, unpressed pleats or soft draping in your skirts. Short length coats of the pea-jacket va riety are very good for spring. Boxy toppers in checks, stripes, or plaids can also be worn with dresses. WEDNESDAY ONLY Sherlock Holmes "Rookies in Burma" "Spider Women" Miss Holliday is acquainted with j the problems associated with the ! Student Union since she was a member of the original investigat ing committee out of which the present committee was appointed. As a member of the committee for the investigation of student af fairs, the constitution committee, and appointed by Dr. E. M. Pallett to serve on the committee for the investigation of an ASUO booklet similar to OSC’s and to that pub lished by Stanford, Audrey has a background reaching into nearly every sphere of interest. Fisher Woman Trim, slender, 5 feet 5'i inches tall, Miss Holliday is an expert fisherman — especially when it comes to mountain trout, steel head, or salmon. She shot her first deer when shfC was nine years old while living with her father, who was then a forest ranger on the coast. “I used to go arrowhea.d hunting up in the Horseheaven country in Washington," she add ed, with a sign of her sense of humor coming to the surface in her hazel eyes. Audrey is well known in athletic circles on the campus; in 1943 she was tempor ary representative to the athletic board; has been a member of the University hockey team, and played volleyball, basketball, and softball in the intramural tour-1 neys. December ~ Born in Portland, December 7, 1923, Audrey started in Gresham high school when she was thirteen years old and worked her way through as fountain girl, telephone operator, and various other jobs while taking an active interest in student activities. She was girls’ league president there, vice-editor of the annual, and a member of the student council and the girl reserves. Entering the University of Oregon on an Oregon Mothers’ scholarship, Miss Holliday has worked her way through school. Upon graduating Audrey, who was a member of the debate symposium in 1941-42, is planning to enter law school and from there find a career in government service. University of Texas home eco nomics students in training as teachers are getting special war time work in re-styling clothes and ' refinishing furniture at home. Phgllis Horstman STANDS FOR . . . ® A realization of Student Union • Wider Student Representation on all boards • Campus-wide support of War Board and total war effort. —Paid Advertisement I . jbuO- . . . 015bie “There are methods . . . then there is madness . . . in writing and receiving letters," our friend Prunella proclaimed from Urn depths of a box. Prunella was sort ing various bundles of the tied with-blue-ribbon variety. “You know the fellow with the blue letterman’s sweater who meanders up Alder street every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday? He's the one who causes most of the trouble,” she complained bit terly, a large tear falling brightly and plinking on the sharpshooter’s medal pinned under her left arm. Prunella went on to explain, “He never arrives until two minutes until nine, and Dr. E. C. A. Mus tardseed hates to see me arrive at 9:12 a.m. every Monday and Wed nesday,” She doesn’t have a nine o'clock on Friday, and morning classes are non-existent on alter nate days for her. Amazing girl. Amazing schedule. Suspense She finds it a fine art of sus pense in meeting the postman. The question . . . whether to find out immeditely whether a man forgot to write again, or go through ev eryone else’s mail, and see who’s getting bills for what. Tuesdays and Thursdays Prun ella devotes to methods and tech niques of writing letters. She spe cializes in brown ink, air mail sta tionery, round circles over the “i’s” and backhand, because a back slanting handwriting indicates fine perception and reserve, according to a column in a newspaper Prun ella read two years ago. She reads the New Yorker first for a clever inspiration, spins a platter, “You Made Me Love You,” (to convince herself) and sprays a fine dash of Charles of the Blitz's “Passionate Mood,” completing the scene. Her other letter is written in the last row third from the left of Shakespeare, according to Prunie. It is reserved for “Dear Mother, Have you sent the money for my new monogrammed Spauldings yet?” Whoops, there’s that blue letter man’s sweater . . . By B.A.S. and C.G. . Staff: Carol Greening Betty Ann Stevens Co-Women's Editors Marguerite Withver Martha Thorsland WE CAN FIX IT.., Your radio . . . infinitely precious as a source of or- > tertainment and informa- ' tion . . . and even more precious since the war has brought restrictions or: manufacture of radios and i parts for civilian use! Wo can help you keep you- \ radio in proper repair at ' all times, fou longer last- 1 ing enjoyment! “Pick Up and Deliver” | EUGENE RADIO SHOP 12S E. 11th Ave. Phone 4954-J & M Dance Programs for Spring, Tra la! Order your programs with spring in mind—• and have the gayest dance you've ever en joyed. "Some new Spring Sta tionary just arrived” Valley Printing & Stationery Co. 76 W. Broadway ONE AND ONLY COAT It's three button, boxy, \v i t li f 1 a p patch pockets, high notched lapels—and roomy enough to wear over a suit. Lovely spring colors in all sizes. KAILE’S 1044 Willamette