MERALD
VOLUME XLV . NUMBER 91
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1944
TUG-OF-WAR . . .
. . . decides who will escort Bob (Joe College) Smith to Mortar Board. Shirley Huntington and Beverlj
Goetz engage in the violent dispute.
Dr. Rebec
In Hospital
Enroute from Tucson, Arizona.,
to Portland for an operation due
to a returned attack of phlebitis,
Dr. George Rebec, professor emeri
tus of philosophy, is at the White
Memorial hospital in Los Angeles.
Friends in Portland and Eugene
received telegrams Tuesday saying
that his trip had been interrupted
by the necessity for an immediate
^aeration.
Since no further word has been
received from him, friends here
assume that his condition is favor
able.
The former head of the depart
ment of philosophy and dean of
the graduate division of the state
system of higher education has
been spending his winters in Ari
zona since he retired several years
ago. While at a hospital in Tucson
he was attacked with phlebitis.
Rather than have an operation,
there, he insisted on going to his
physicians in Portland. He started
for Portland, where arrangements
had been made for him to be taken
-^irectly to the hospital.
First Spring Scrap
Drive Set for Friday
“Get hep to the fact that the
first spring term scrap drive is
this Friday,” said Florence Hint
zen, chairman. “Flatten out those
tin cans and get the waste fat
from your house kitchen.” The
scrap truck will stop at each
house on the campus Friday after
noon at 3 o’clock to collect tin cans
and fats.
^ Several weeks have elapsed since
the last drive and all houses have
had an opportunity to accumulate
scrap and, according to the chair
man, it is expected that they will
be able to contribute more than
their usual amounts.
FRANK KRASNOWSKV . . .
. . . will play the part of William
Brown in the University (heater’s
spring' term show “The Great God
Brown,” opening tonight on the
Guild hall stage.
Jewelry Dinners
Order of the Day
Houses will “Go Native” Wed
nesday night, April 5, with South
Sea dinners designed to collect
costume jewelry to be used by
servicemen in their trading with
natives in the South Seas.
Sponsored by the campus war
board, each houes is being request
ed to use the tropical theme dur
ing Wednesday night, especially in
the clothes worn to dinner, and
with a special emphasis on cos
tume jewelry.
After dinner the “hat” will be
passed and the girls may donate
some or all of the jewelry they
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Even Bridge Listed
For WAA Fun Night
Sports for everyone, including
bridge, lias been promised for to
night's WAA fun night to l>e held
in the Gerlinger gym from 7:30 to
9:30. All roods are invited to eome
and play any or all of the various
sports offered.
In the main gym will be two
courts of volleyball under the di
rection of Jackie Bogan and one
court of badminton, directed by
Elsie Ball. If there is a need for
more badminton courts, the outer
gym will be. opened.
Marianne Blenkinsop will handle
the shuffleboard and Pat Howe the
table tennis, both on the sun
porch. Tumbling apparatus will be
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Kappas Tops in Drive
For Red Cross Funds
Kappa Kappa Gamma, contribut
ing $10!) to the campus grand total
of $945 in the 1944 Keel Cross
membership drive, is the winner of
the eup to be presented to them
at the Mortar Board ball Saturday
night by the war board. Alpha
Delta Pi, 857.(it), came in second
place, and Alpha Chi Omega re
ceives honorable mention with $51.
Dorothy Rasmussen and Mary K.
Minor, chairmen of the drive, re
ported that the contest was deter
mined on the percentage basis as
was previously announced and
Kappa Kappa Gamma won with
their average contribution of 82.79
per member. The ADPi’s gave an
average of SI.40 per person, and
Alpha Chi Omega was close with
‘ SI.23 per member.
Although their support was not
added to the campus total of $943,
the soldiers contributed generously
to the Red Cross, according- f«»
their officers. The air corps gave*
between J?150 and $200, and the*
AST’s (including those which have*
left the campus recently) addejf
$392.61 to the total of $567.61 from
the army.
Orides were the only non-living'
01 ganization which contributed to
the drive- $9.62. From boxes in.
the Co-op and the Side $3.57 were
collected. The thirteen houses who
went 100 per cent are: Kappa
Kappa Gamma, $109; Alpha Delta
Pi, $57.69: Alpha Chi Omega. $54,
Delta Delta Delta, $52.50: Alpha
Gamma Delta, $44; Pi Beta Phi,
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Hall May Be Swamped
With Mortar Board Bids
Maybe this will start a landslide, but reliable reports have it.
; that about 100 air corps fellows are moping around Hendrick's
i hall waiting for their heart’s desires, any of a number of Oregon
| coeds, to call them up with invitations to the Mortar Board
ball Saturday night.
i In case the coeds don’t know a likely date, they may call
Vespers To Feature
Early Church Music
Early church music will provide
the atmosphere for the Univer
sity’s Palm Sunday vesper service
at the music auditorium, 5 p.m.,
April 2. Dr. Samuel Haig Jameson,
professor of sociology, will relate
resurrection legends of different
countries as the meditation. He
I will conclude with the Christian
Easter story.
Two music groups will take part.
The all-girl vesper choir, under the
direction of Helen Luvaas, will
sing "Laetamini in Domino,”
“Crucifixus,” and "Benedictus.”
The songs will be in Latin and will
be translated by Rollin Calkin. The
choir will sing from the balcony.
A string quartet, composed of
Marion Saltness, Elizabeth Woh
ler, Joyce Whittle, and Ruth Bak
er, will play ‘'Sonata de Canera”
of Corelli.
The student religious council
sponsors the services, which are
presented on the first Sunday of
each month.
Ushers will be the officers of the
' council.
Speech League Registration,
Assembly, To Open Tournament
Registration for all sections of
the Oregon High School Speech
league tournament is from 8 a.m.
to 9 a.m. this morning in Friendly
hail followed by a general assem
bly in the faculty room of Friend
ly. Preliminary rounds of all the
divisions will be held today from
9:30 a.m. until 3:15 p.m. and the
finals tomorrow from 9 a.m. to
8:30 p.m.
Each part of the tournament is
divided into sections with each sec
tion meeting at the same time in
different rooms. Panel discussion
starts at 9:30 and section I is in
107 Friendly with Winthrop Ware,
chairman, and P. X. Knoll and
K. S. Wood, judges; section II in
108 Friendly with W. A. Dahlberg,
chairman, and Dahlberg and Mrs.
Kathryn Barrett, judges; oratory
starts at 10:30: section I in 107
Friendly with Alice Harter, chair
man, and Mrs. Barrett and E. W.
Wells, judges; section II in 114
Friendly with Esther Quier, chair
man, and Knoll and R. D. Clark,
judges: humorous reading section
I is in 3 07 Friendly with Ervin
Webb, chairman, and R. D. Horn
and Dahlberg, judges; section II
in 114 Friendly with Bette Hays,
chairman, and Wood and Wells,
judges.
Friday afternoon competition I
begins at 1 with the after-dinner j
speaking preliminaries at the An- j
ehorage cafe. This is limited to
contestants in section I, their in
structors, the toastmaster, Boh I
Stiles, and the judge, Dahlberg. I
The three sections of radio speak- j
ing will follow each other from 2 j
until 4 p.m. in the KOAC studio
in the extension building. Florence
Hintzen, winner of last year's con
test, will be the announcer. Sec
tion 1 begins at 2 p.m., section II
at 2:45 and section III at 8:30.
Judges are Horn, Wells, Wood, and
Mrs. L. K. Shumaker.
Drawing for the extempore
speaking subjects arc scheduled for
today in the faculty room of
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Cy Bernstein, social chairman for
the air corps detachment. How
long this supply of dates will last
is anyone's guess.
Mortar Board ball is the annual
girl-date-boy dance, and leap year
makes it. particularly timely. Girl-’,
buy tickets, which are 60 cents a.
couple, from Phi Thetas or Kvva
mas in their houses, or when they
enter McArthur court Saturday
night.
Feminine escorts won't swir}
their escorts, or he swirled, around
the floor in formats to the musio
of a swing band. War conditions
mean that it will he a short siHt
affair and that music will be “elec
trically transcribed.”
A man who has never been on a
Mortar Board ball date has missed
something-. With everything in the
reverse, girls take the fellows to
dinner, help them with their coatd,
open doors, check coats, give bou
tonnieres if they wish, and extern}
every other courtesy they can con
ceive.
The usual custom of tapping
Kwama and Mortar Board mem
bers during the dance intermission
will not be carried out, as it is too
early in the year. The ball wan
usually the last dance of spring
term.
Marilyn Campbell is chairman cf
the affair.
War Correspondent
To Speak Thursday
Speaking; before an all eampu-v
assembly Thursday, April (>, Mr-'.
Lise Lindbaek, former war em>
respondent, will discuss her experi
ences in Europe’s war theaters!.
The assembly will be held in Roori^
205 Chapman.
Particular emphasis in the talks
will be given to Norway, Mrs.
Lindbaek's native country. Mrs.
Lindbaek came to the campus to
teach Norwegian to foreign area,
and language students shortly be
fore the ASTP was dissolved.
Attention, Men!
BMOCs to Meet Today
The following men are askn)
to meet in the Side today, at
4:30: vice-president, of ASUO,
associate editor, Emerald; presi
dent, Order of the “O”; presi
dent, Skull and Dagger; junior
representative, ASUO; presi
dent, Steiwcr hall; president,
Campbell co-op; a representative
from each male independent liv
ing group.