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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1944)
Saga Qf: Mary and Violin Mary Figgle, Oregon’s most outstanding woman, (she al ways stands outside to see the air corps march by) is by popular acclaim the coed of the week. We found Mary, with her ever-present violin, sitting on the radiator in her closet—she always sits there ’cause it gives her tVip warm ulnw that i<i nart of her nersonalitv. Marv has learned to love the campus, she informed your reporter. Of course, at first she had a hard time getting ad justed. Rush week was what nearly drove her wild. She is naturally a music-loving creature (always the violini and so she started looking for a musical house during rush week. It finally came down to an awful choice between the Thetas and the D. Gees on account of their doorbell—each one gives forth with nothing less than eight bells with one push. But the houses all de cided against her—they didn’t have the real appreciation of music that would be necessary to appreciate Mary. Men didn’t seem to appreciate Mary so the girls suggested that Figgle learn to wiggle. She tried, but her heart wasn’t in it. How could Figgle wiggle with a violin under her chin? And "I just can’t be separated from my violin,” she said as she broke into the melody of Home Sweet Home while being interviewed. Mary admits that her violin does limit her activities ’cause there are a lot of places you just can’t go with a violin, but the instrument (and all three strings) are very dear to her heart. “I play indian style,” she ex plained. Mary is from Klamath Falls, and she learned to play from an indian chief who had received a violin from a white man who bar tered with him when the west was very young. So was the indian chief, at the time. At this point in our interview we will start to capitalize Indian. Mary asked us to do this because Indians, like Violins, are very dear to her heart. As to her future ambitions, Mary hopes to go on the stage playing her Violin. If she can perfect her BICYCLES FOB KENT X A 1/lTH’iIVV 1 13 ASSOCIATED STATION Phone 2968 11th and Hilyard wiggle, Figgle will wiggle and play the Violin at the same time. Per haps we can see her at one of the more popular showplaces next summer. ■ By Edith Newton Oregon Daily Emerald Wednesday Ad Saff: Annamae Winship, day manager Betty Sailor Infirmary Interned for varying lengths in the green-walled rooms at the in firmary are five University stu dents. Oldest patient (in terms of length of stay) is Gay nor Thomp son, now in her second week at the sugar-coated bastille. Yvonne Copeland, Yvonne Smith, Ruth Harmon, and BMOC Harry Skerry make up the list. Dr, Herring (Continued from page 1) Set as the first of the institute series, a luncheon meeting will be held at 12:15 in the Eugene hotel, sponsored by the Eugene Lions club, the discussion panel to include Professor A. L. Lomax, school of business administration; Dr. Ani bal Vargas-Baron, romance lan guage department ;and Dr. Waldo Schumacher, professor of political science. Conference discussions will begin for the Oregon campus at 2 this afternoon in 207 Chapman hall, with a panel group of five con sultants leading the two-hour ses sion, slated to center on the topic “Understanding Inter - American Affairs.” Chairman for the meet ing will be Dr. Waldo Schumacher, with discussion leaders announced as Dr. Herring, Professor Lomax, Dr. Vargas-Baron, Dr. Warren D. Smith, head of the geology and geography departments; and Dr. Victor P. Morris, dean of the school of business administration. An evening lecture at 7:30 in 207 Chapman will feature confer ence leader Dr. Herring, who will address University listeners on “Hemisphere Ties,” final topic for Ihe Eugene institute series. Campus Victory League enthus iasts Tuesday night applauded con ference plans as announced, pledg ing full backing to this and similar future set-ups. 7 A folt-covercd clip that poises posies at your temples! $2.98 Miller's Millinery Dept. 2nd FLOOR Ad Contest Doubling their prizes for the an nual advertising campaign contest, Botsford, Constantine, and Gard ner are now offering $40 first $25 second prize, and $10 third prize. According to a letter received by Professor of Advertising W. F. G. Thacher from Merle Manly, vice president of the company, the con test this year will consist of mak ing a complete advertising pro gram to sell Jan Outdoor lotion and sun tan ointment. This is the 25th year of the contest open only to members of the Advertising Problems class. The deadline will be May 19 and announcement of winners will follow the decision made by Botsford, Constantine, and Gardner. Girls Join Marine Corps Two former University of Ore gon students, Roberta K. Dick and Frances M. Downing who were here in 1942 have joined the ranks of the lady leathernecks. Both girls enlisted in the marine corps wom en’s reserve April 29, and have been placed on inactive duty await ing orders to report for “boot” training at Camp Lejeune, N. C. Private Dick, of Portland, was a business administration major. Private Downing, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Downing of Beaverton, was also a business ad ministration major. Former U. O. Man With Air Wing Marine Captain Davis J. Dorrah, Jr., 23, former Oregon student, re cently reported for duty with a marine air wing at Camp Pendle ton in southern California. Captain Dorrah is a naval avi ator, attached to the marine corps. He attended the University of Ore gon for two years, and was a sales man for Standard Oil company in California before entering the ma rine corps on July 9, 1941. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Dorrah, of Hood River, Ore gon. Dr. Merriam Explores Just before the turn of the cen tury, a young man from Hopkin ton, Iowa, took a trip into the John! Day country, in eastern Oregon. He and his associate grew beards, took chisels and pickaxes, and pro ceeded over the rough country till they came to the place where the John Day river, through centuries of erosion, had cut a deep valley through lava beds exposing 10,000 feet of strata, and eight periods in history. The young man and his friends i were searching—and finally they found something. While scaling a steep cliff, they found a single, dingy, front tooth on the surface. Carefully and diligently they chis elled, and finally produced their prize, the largest and first example I of the skull of an Elothere — a huge, prehistoric, hog-like creatiuro —approximately 10 feet long and 6 or 7 feet high. YOUNG MAN INFLAMED This discovery so inflamed the young man that he thought that everybody should know about this "big pig,” about the sabre-toothed “cat” that once roamed Oregon, the camels, tapirs—about the al most complete elephant skeleton that was found—about the snail and clam shells and the myriads of marine creatures that once inhabit ed Oregon. So he wrote an article about the fossils, timidly submitted it to the August Harper’s Monthly maga zine. To his amazement it was printed, and he got $150 for it. That was back in 1901, but Dr. John Campbell Merriam never for got about that first step. “I nearly fainted,” he chuckled. COUNTRY HASN’T CHANGED "But that is just about as accu rate a statement of the situation now as it was then. The country hasn’t changed and my point of i view hasn’t changed either.” Though the keen-eyed, kindly 75-year-old paleontologist says this seriously, he has come a long way since those early days of 1901. 1 Since then he has served from 1921 to 1938 as president of the Car negie Institution of Washington, D. C., has seived on the staffs of such universities as Yale, Prince- i ton, Harvard, George Washington, and as acting president of the Uni 5= legacy......... the most beautiful legs in the world, are the heritage of American women! If you don’t expect to fall heir to a dozen pairs of nylons, make up for your hosiery 1 shortage with Jacqueline Cochran Leg Make-up. Applied in a jiffy, it is spot-proof, cool and flattering. 25 “pairs" to the 6 oz. "bottle 1,00 10 oz. 2,00 pinstcx •» TOILETRIES OX MAIN FLOOR versity of California; he has been regent of the revered Smithsonian Institution, member of 21. academic societies, including the Sociedad Geographia y Historia* de Guate mala and La Asociacion Conserva doro de los Monumentos Aruelogi cos de Yucatan. He has published about 40 books and papers, includ ing such works as “The Living Past,” “Are the Days of Creation Ended?” and others. MUSES OVER SPEECH Now, he is consultant on values of science at the University. At the Library Day banquet Saturday evening, May 6, at the Osburn ho tel, he will speak on “Science and Revelation.” Right now, he is mus ing over that speech. When he thinks about that trip in 1901, when he remembers his excava tions, he waxes a bit indignant about the unconsciousness of peo ple. “The Columbia is one of the greatest lava flows in North Am erica. There are over 200,000 square miles of it. It's one of the great things of the world, and nobody pays any attention to it.” Again he scans his 1901 article. “ ‘To one who reads this record as it stands, an undisputed work of the Creator, there is made a reve lation no less magnificent in its ex pression of historic fact than the ^ story of creation in the book of Moses.' ” “Moses!” he sniffs. “Much more important than Moses!” —By Carol Greening • Wanted WOMEN STUDENTS for lunch and dinner hour help at the An chorage. r**"' ~ . .» MDOSABJft "PASSAGE TO MARSEILLES" HUMPHREY BOGART MICHELE MORGAN "THE IMPOSTER JEAN GABIN ALLEN JOSLYN "NONE SHALL ESCAPE" MARSHA HUNT ALEXANDER KNOX 'Forever and a Day' ■Robert Cummings, Merle Oberon and AU-Star Cast SIDES AG&IN”. j e onstance-B^miett Bruce'.Cabot • A & •