VOLUME XLV NUMBER 105
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, AFRIL 20, 1944
Northwest Leaders
To Hold Meet Here
Student leaders from Northwest colleges will meet on the
.^Oregon campus sometime in May for the annual Pacific Coast
student leaders’ conference. Student body presidents and mem
bers of the executive councils of the various schools will meet
to discuss student leader problems. Last year the conference
was held in Reno. This year it is split into two sections because
me one section was too unwieldy
a group.
Announcement of the conference
was made at the executive council
meeting Wednesday afternoon.
In order to make the council
completely independent of the edu
cational activities board, it was
decided to charge students a §1
fee for a student operating fund.
The fee will be entirely voluntary
and will be collected at registra
^tion.
This method will eliminate the
necessity of using educational ac
tivities funds to finance the execu
tive council. Previously, the board
allotted about $250 to the council.
The amount collected will go to
ward traveling funds, supplies,
telegrams, telephone, awards, war
board activities, student union
work, and other council activities.
Acting President Orlando J. Hol
lis approved the idea before it was
brought before the council. This
method of acquiring money to fi
nance the council is approved by
the constitution. The money will be
kept in the University business af
'■jiice.
Members of the council discussed
a letter from UCLA inviting them
to a recreation convention and de
cided that they would be unable
to attend.
Open House Tonight
Open house will be held to
night from 9:30 to 10:15 in the
following houses: Lombardy
lodge, Pi Beta Phi, Kebec, Sigma
Kappa, and University house.
Training Offered
By Red Cross for
Staff Assistants
Training for Red Cross staff
assistants will be given in a course
to be offered in the Red Cross
chapter office down town at 7:30
every Wednesday night. Anyone
interested in this training, which
qualifies women for Red Cross
secretarial and office work, should
call Carol Wicke, 1309, by Monday.
Miss Wicke also announced that
a senior life saver who has signed
up for the Red Cross water safety
course to begin on the campus
April 24, should call 1: if she
wishes to be chairman of the Red
Cross committee in conjunction
with this course.
She also reminded coeds that
committee chairman positions still
open are nurses’ aide, scrap book,
nutrition, home nursing, and surg
ical dressings.
Thursday’s bandage rolling
schedule is Casablance lodge and
Alpha Chi Omega. Delta Gamma
and Delta Delta Delta are sched
uled for Saturday. This term band
age rolling is open Tuesday and
Thursday from 3 to 5 and Satur
day from 9 to 12. Those who do not
already have cotton dresses and
bandanas at the Red Cross room
are reminded that they should take
them when they go.
Prominent Psychologist
To Teach Summer Class
Dr. Maria Rickers-Ovsiankima, the celebrated Russian psy
chologist who will become a member of the University faculty
during the 1944 summer session, has an exceptional record of
education, experience, and research in psychology behind her.
She was born in Russia and received her doctor’s degree in
1928 frofn Geissen university in Germany. She was a student
of Dr. Lewin, who has inspired
many of the great developments
in Gestalt psychology, which ad
vocates the importance of one’s
personality as a whole, rather than
scoring on tests and other highly
analytic methods. Dr. Lewin was
"^pe of three great European psy
chologists driven to the United
States by nazi policies.
Dr. Ovsiankima is an expert on
Rorschach, the ink blot method of
analyzing personality which is
known as a "projective method."
This method was originated by the
Swiss psychologist. She translated
his book on this method, and her
self initiated a manner of scoring.
She has done considerable re
search at the state hospital for the
insane at Wooster, Massachusetts,
and for a number of years has been
teaching a course in abnormal psy
’Vchology at Wheaton college for
girls in Norton, Massachusetts. At
Oregon she will teach an introduc
tory psychology class, a persona 1
(Please turn to fage four)
Singer Wins
UO Praise
By NORRIS YATES
The simple charm ancl technical
virtuosity of Bidu Sayao, Metro
politan opera soprano, captivated
a large audience last night in the
last of the concerts in McArthur
court sponsored by the Greater
Artists series.
While Miss Sayao proved her
self capable of fully portraying a
wide variety of moods, she seemed
at her best in her expression of
the naive, the simple, and the
sparkling qualities found in most
of the songs and arias of a well
chosen program.
In a number of pieces, such as
the aria, “Batti Batti, bel Mas
etto,” from Mozart's “Don Giovan
ni,” she displayed the ability to
vary her style of phrasing with the
nature and mood of the melody.
In the Mozart number, as well as
in others, she showed great under
standing in the use of rubato, per
haps even overemphasizing this
tricky aid to expression.
Miss Sayao’s command of each
and every type of mood was well
portrayed in the group of five
short songs which she sang di
rectly after the intermission. These
numbers ealled for expression
ranging from solemnity and pathos
to an almost abandoned gaiety.
Miss Sayao’s interpretation of all
these pieces left nothing to be de
sired.
In place of the two arias from
Donizetti's “Daughter of the Regi
ment,” which were scheduled on
the program, Miss Sayao rendered
the famous “Un Voce Poco Fa,”
from Rossini’s “Barber of Seville,”
and the “Gavotte” from "Manon”
by Giacomo Puccini. In both of
these difficult numbers, as well as
in the rest of the program, Miss
Sayao’s -winning personality wdiilc
on the stage added to the effective
ness of her presentations.
Mr. Milne Charnley, her accom
panist, displayed a smooth and
velvety style of phrasing and a
quiet finish of technique that drew
forth considerable favorable com
ment from the audience.
In performing the last section of
her concert, consisting of a group
of songs in English, Miss Sayao
combined brilliant light-hearted
ness with restrained gaiety.
The crowd showed its apprecia
tion of Miss Sayao’s singing by
calling her back at intermission
and at the close of the concert for
a total of three encores.
Judge Hay to Talk
AtASUOInstallation
A native of Scotland and educated in the public schools
of Edinburgh, Judge Arthur D. Hay, Oregon supreme ecu; t
member to address the ASUO installation of new officers
assembly this morning at 11 in McArthur court, is reported Nx
have a “delightful mixture of Scotch wit and wisdom ’’
Judge Hay is a 1911 graduate of the University-of Oregon
Smoker Plans
Forge Ahead
Plans for the all-men's smoker
to be held Friday night at 8:30 in
McArthur court were rounding into
shape last night with the an
nouncement that Paul McBride,
sophomore in liberal arts, will
demonstrate his agility on the
parallel bars and that Irving
“Babe” Puziss, sophomore in lib
eral arts, and William E. Van Vac
tor, graduate assistant in English,
will stage a weight-lifting contest.
Mr. Van Vactor claims that he
will lift at least 10 pounds, five in
each hand.
Faculty representation in the
German band so far consists of
Hoyt Franehere, instructor in
English, baritone sax, and Charles
Bubb, instructor in mathematics,
trumpet. John Stehn, University
band director, reports that he ex
pects to have little trouble in se
curing a full complement of faculty
“sidemen” by Friday night.
Concerning other faculty contri
butions to the program, negotia
tions are under way for Dean
Theodore Kratt, of the school of
music, to prove to the doubting
masses that he can play three har
monicas at the) same time. Also,
W. F. G. Thaeher may be asked to
don his mandarin robes and con
tribute his celebrated rendition of
the Chinese dialect to the program.
Cigars and cigarettes will be
sold at the smoker by Skull and
Dagger, sophomore men's service
honorary.
Girl Scout Leaders
To Interview Coeds
Miss Gwendolyn Elesmore and
Miss Marie Dixon of the Portland
Girl Scout office will be oil the
campus Friday, April 21, to inter
view young women interested in
camp counseling. Assistants are
needed for such positions as craft
supervisor and assistants, water
front assistants, and canoeing di
rector. The interviews will be held
from 9:30 to 12 and from 1:30 to o
in the dean of women's office.
The women will be here Friday
instead of Thursday as previously
stated.
Student, Co-op Displays at Library
Build Up Interest in Book Collections
Interest in student collection of
hooks is being- built up through the
undergraduate student library con
test beginning May 6, and through
variously priced collections on dis
play in the library. Already two en
tries have been made in the con
test, and among over 30 prospects,
at least 10 students have promised
to enter the annual contest spon
sored by the Association of Pat
rons and Friends of the University
of Oregon library, and the Co-op
store.
Entries in the contest must be
made at the circulation desk in
the library by May 4, and winning
libraries will be displayed at the
Co-op for a few days following the
contest.
The personal library of Edith
Onthank, third prize winner of last j
year, is now being exhibited in the '
circulation room. Her collection
has been built up oyer many years,;
and she is closely acquainted with
each book. Predominating are sci
ence and art, particularly sculp
ture and painting, books, as Miss
Onthank is an art major.
Since she is also interested in
nature, she is proud of her copy of
“Leonardo's Notebook” since it lies
between art and nature. She has
a few children's book, too, poetry,
biography, essays, and novels. Cen
tering around the Bible, she has
several books on Christianity.
Books from the Co-op store have
been grouped by interest in library
< ascs, but not necessarily in ar
rangements that will please every
one. For instance, for $5 the fol
lowing books are obtainable: “The
Iliad of Homer,” “The Odyssey oi
Homer,” “The Works of Plato,”
“Four Famous Greek Plays,” and
“Aristotle’s Politics.”
A collection, which sells for §10
includes seven historical, political,
and scientific books, such as Gib
bon’s "The Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire” in two volumes.
The $15 selection consists of eight
volumes, including "Rubens Paint
ings and Drawings.”
Eleven books, featuring English
literature and "The Complete Etch
ings of Goya” make up the group
which sells for $25.
i
Law school and has been an acts'. t»
member of the Oregon Dad's asso
ciation for several years. His tv, •>
sons, John, '39, and Douglas. e>
,’42, and daughter, Margaret, 37,
also attended the University.
He will be introduced by Or
lando J. Hollis, acting president • V
the University, and will speak, on
the topic “The Undergraduate Stu
dent and the World at War.”
* Marie Rogndahl, winner of si e
western regional division of its*
Hour of Charm contest for the
“Undiscovered Voice of America”
will entertain the assembly by;
singing “Voices of Spring” 'iy\
Strauss. Accompanying Miss Rogn
dahl is Ruth Baker, a graduate
student. The same platform ; mV
setup will be used as was us> d
last, night for Bidu Sayao, the Bra
zilian operatic star.
Tapping of new members of lt iii
Theta Upsilon, junior women’s
honorary, is to be a featured part
of the program. Classes for It a.nv
will he dismissed.
Gene Vandeneynde, president of
the Oregon Dad’s association' wifi
accompany Judge Hay up from
Salem and will be a guest on the
platform during the installation of
the new ASUO officers.
Newly-elected ASUO and c1
officers will be installed at the
assembly and out-going- officer^
will leave student administration.
Religious Confab
Set for Weekend
The annual spring conference of
the intervarsity Christian fellow
ship will be held on the cajnpan
Saturday, April 22 and 23. Speak
ing on his experiences in Yunna
province at the time of Ja par-wo
bombing and occupation of that
territory will be E. A. Crapuch
ettes, a missionary who has recent
ly returned from China Inis.) d
Mission.
Registration will be held Satur
day afternoon at 1 in Gerling* e
hall. A buffet dinner and progi ■ r
will be held at 5:00 followed b/t
Mi-. Crapuchettes’ talk. Early
morning communion service will
held Sunday morning and Mr. Cra
puchettes will again address tb<*
group Sunday afternoon at 2.
. Discussion groups, firesides, fueV
sings are all planned for the inter
varsity meeting.
Dean E. F. Lawrence of the
school of architecture ancf all;,. $
arts, will present a bust of Levi T.
Pennington, president emeritus ol’
Pacific college to that college ■
April 28.
The bust, designed by the ? tr*
Oliver Laurence Barrett, assoc. a'!->
professor of sculpture at the Uni
versity, will be presented on fho
behalf of friends and associates of
Mr. Barrett who have made it
possible to have the unfinish*
bust cast in plaster. Miss Jean
Sutherlin, instructor in sculpt. <*
at the University, made the t. .*•
and Fred Collins made the casting.
Mr. Barrett started the piece of
sculpture a year before his dealt*
late last summer and the last stndjjj
was done just a week before
died. 1
Pacific
Pennington