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Celebration Underway
Years Activities Discussed
In Annual Exec Meeting
Mothers’ Weekend activities started yesterday with the meet
ing of the Mothers’ executive board, with Mrs. H. A. Busterud
and Dean Karl W. Onthank presiding. The board discussed
the results of the activities of the past year and various mem
bers made their reports. According to Dean Onthank, the re
port from the financial chairman was especially gratifying.
Thetas Win Cup
For Top Singing
Kappa Alpha Theta, singing
“Madame Jeanette,” took top hon
ors in the All-Campus Sin); last
night in Me Arthur court. Arli.ss
Boone, chairman of the Sing, pre
sented the sup to the winner’s lead
er, Nancy Kirkpatrick. The Thetas
then sang their house song, “Theta
Lips.”
Runners-up in the contest were
the Alpha Omicron Pis, singing
"Angels of Mercy,” the official
Song of the Red Cross nurse corps.
A solo was presented by their song
leader, June-Marie Wilson.
Honorable mention went to
Highland house, which sang the
"Wedding of Jack and Jill.”
Judges in the contest were Mr.
Glen Griffith, director of music at
Eugene high school, and of the
Eugene Women's Choral group;
Madame McGrew, professor of
voice, and Mrs. Maude Garnett,
driector of music at the University
high school.
Marie Rogndalil, Oregon's re
gional winner in the Hour of
Charm contest, thrilled her audi
ence again with the aria which she
sang on the radio, the bell song
from "Lakine.” Her encore was
"Voices of Spring.”
A surprise came when it was
found that Oregon, too, has a
t runk Sinatra. The audience re
ceived Milton Surface’s two num
bers in true Sinatra style.
Other entertainment was a hula
dance done by Charlotte Wicke
and Doris Trask.
Ervin Webb was master of cere
monies for the event, and he and
Lewis Vogler presented a Dr. I. Q.
contest, quizzing members of the
audience.
Honorary Initiates
To Attend Movie
Following their initiation into
Pi Della Phi, French honorary, new
members of that society will be
guests at a French movie, “Heart
of Paris,” at 207 Chapman hall at
S:15, Wednesday night, May 10.
The film, originally released in
France as “Gribouille,” is free to
the faculty and French students
and their friends.
The movie has been described as
“a fine, sensitive portrayal of a
Parisian family in everyday life.”
The French comedian Raima stars
as a juror who acquits Michele
Morgan, and then gives her a job
in his bicycle shop, where “com
plications develop." The showing
is sponsored by Pi Delta Phi and
the Romance language department.
Ruth Eekhardt, senior in liberal
arts and secretary-treasurer of the
society, is in charge of of the ini
tiation banquet to be held at 5:15
in Gei linger hall.
Students who have been invited
to join are: Louis Clause, Janet
Flieschbauer, Champlin Garrison,
Carol Greening, Barbara Hawkins,
Shirley Drusiila, Dorothy Routt,
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the Oregon Mothers association
have contributed nearly $2500 to
the funds. Portland, $661, Marsh
field, $251, and Eugene, $250, made
the most significant additions.
Today’s events especially sched
uled for the visiting mothers will
lead off with the annual open busi
ness meeting in Guild theater,
.Johnson hall. All mothers are
urged to attend this affair because
election of officers will be held,
reports from the committees will
be made public, appropriations for
scholarships will be made, and this
spring’s Oregon Mothers’ scholar
ship winners will be announced.
Luncheon for all visitors will be.
served at the student living organ
izations at noon.
Sponsored by the associated
women students, Young Women’s
Christian association, and the Eu
gene Mothers club, tea will be
served for all mothers this after
noon from 3 to 5 in alumni hall, up
stairs in Gerlinger. Besides Dean
Hazel P. Schwering and Assistant
Dean Alice B. Macduff, faculty
women, officers of the Mothers
association, and presidents of the
sponsoring associations will be in
the receiving line.
Past officers of the association
will pour and white-sweatered
members of Kvvama, sophomore
women’s honorary, and yellovv
sweatered members of Phi Theta
Upsilon, junior women’s honorary,
will serve.
Tea is being prepared for 300
guests and background music will
be furnished on the piano and
stringed instruments.
All mothers who are not plan
ning to stay at McArthur court
to watch the Junior Prom all
evening, or who have no other
plans for tonight, may attend the
special weekend features — three
scenes from famous plays being
arranged by Horace Robinson, act
ing head of the drama department,
suggested Mrs. Marvin T. War
lick, president of the Eugene Mo
thers club. No admission will be
charged. The show will last ap
proximately an hour and a half in
the Guild theater in Johnson hall
and the public is invited.
In accordance to old Oregon
traditions mothers will find space
reserved for them in the balcony of
the Igloo tonight. They may watch
the dancers from there and will be
served punch.
Tomorrow morning all Eugene
churches are having special Moth
ers’ day services.
The Oregon Mothers’ state board
of directors will hold their annual
weekend meeting at the Eugene
hotel. The occasion will be a no
host breakfast to be served tomor
row at S:30 a.m.
Following the church services,
Mother's day dinners will be served
at the living organizations and
the seventeenth annual Oregon
Mothers Weekend, 1944, will con
clude with the Sunlight Serenade
at the music school.
, George Schade, Wilberta Winni
j ford, and Bettie Hall.
Pledged as honorary members
are the following: Miss Augusta
Nelson, instructor in Romance lan
guages; Mrs. Ethel B. Nichols, in
structor in Romance languages;
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Van de Velde.
Friar Returns From
New Guinea Post
A member of Friars, senior
men’s honorary tapping new
pledges at the picnic today, who
is visiting the campus for the
weekend festivities is Lieuten
ant-Colonel Delbert C. Stanard.
Back on the campus after two
years in New Guinea serving as
surgeon-general of the 41st di
vision. Colonel Stanard was
graduated from the University
in 1914.
For many years he was a prac
ticing physician in Eugene. He
was called into the army in 1941.
While he was in school, Colo
nel Stanard was a member of
Kappa Sigma fraternity, and was
president of the junior class. He
was also a member of Friars,
senior men’s honorary.
His daughter Patricia, attend
ed the University from 1940 till
1943.
Stag Shag
On Terrace
Good music and lots of fun
awaits campus dancers this after
noon at the Terrace Dance, to be
held on the library terrace from 4
p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Dancers may go
right from the dance to the Cam
pus Picnic at 5:30 on the lower
campus.
As is traditional, the dance is
strictly stag, announced Marian
Schaefer, chairman. “No dates are
necessary, and army screening
tests w7ill be over just at 4, in plen
ty of time for the boys to get
there.’’ No admission will be
charged.
A nickleodeon has been supplied,
and the newest and best of dance
records, plus some of the better
“oldies,” are promised.
Last year, dancers were forced
to flee to Gerlinger gym because
of ill-timed rain. And though the
Junior Weekend committee has
held its breath for fear something
similar would happen this year, it
looks as if the sunshine will hold
for the weekend.
Campus Picnic
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Wilson, Dick Foss, William O'
Bierne, and Harlowe Bohn.
After the royal group has
assembled, the prime minister will
perform the coronation of 1944’s
Queen of Junior Weekend.
Activity-minded junior women
will wait with bated breath as the
long, black-robed line of Mortar
Boards, led by Sue Sawyer, weave
through the crowd, tapping its new
members with the presentation of
a red rose. An outstanding woman
member of the faculty will also be
chosen to Mortar Board at that
time.
Friar s, senior men s Honorary,
will also tap today. Though their
once-long line has diminished, the
honor of membership is no less
great.
Asklepiads, medical fraternity,
will choose its honored few today,
when the white-masked doctors-to
be trundle out their stretcher, long
a tradition of the honorary.
Sometime during the afternoon’s
entertainment, the famous Oregon
Canoe Fete will be presented.
Mystery surrounds the affair, but
the chairmen have promised that
there will be ten floats on the
i water.
Hard-working campus-cleaners
will be rewarded today when
Gloria Malloy and Bob Smith, co
chairmen of campus cleanup day,
will give a prize to the house which
did the best job of cleaning and
sweeping its assigned part of the
; i ampus.
Melodies to Sound Sunday
At Weekend Serenade
Melody present in the bowl at the rear of the music school,
will be offered to music lovers Sunday afternoon at 3 when the (
Sunlight Serenade, traditional part of Junior Weekend, will
be held. Connie Fullmer, liberal arts, is chairman of the affair.
Jim Bartell will be master of ceremonies ,and under his direc- !
tion the program will hold such highlight musical gifts as a '
Pvt. Lyle Larson
To Sing Monday
Private Lyle Larson, baritone
from tlie ranks of the air corps
students, will appear as guest solo
ist with the women’s choral club
spring concert Monday evening.
The concert will begin at 8 p.m. in
the music auditorium.
Pvt. Larson studied music at the
University of Minnesota and has
been studying singing since he was
a small child. He will sing several
solos Monday night and will do
“The Holy City’’ by Gaul with the
chorus.
In Minnesota, Pvt. Larson was a
member of- an opera company and
took the lead roles in “Vagabond
King,” “Naughty Marietta,” “Stu
dent Prince,” “New Moon,” “Des
ert Song,” and many others.
John Stark Evans, professor of
organ and theory of music, will
lead the group in several numbers.
Proceeds from this concert go to
establish the Maude Densmore
scholarship to he awarded a senior
girl from Eugene high school for
a year's study at the University.
soprano solo by June-Marie Wil
son, senior in music, singing “High
Flight,” and “Toujours, L'amour,
Toujours.” Lyle Larson, air corps,
will sing two old favorites,
“Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,” and the
“Desert Song.” *
The Theta quarter will present
the “Last Chord.”
Instrumental numbers on the
program are to be a string en
semble playing a selection from
Mendelssohn. Marilyn Olson, in a
volin solo, will play “Gypsy Airs.”
The Vesper choir, directed by
Helen Luvaas, will close the pro
gram with their presentation of
“Let All My Life Be Music” and
the traditional “Oregon Pledge
Song.”
As a special feature of the Sere
nade, the winning house in the All
Campus Sing will present the song
which won them the prize, an
nounced Nelles Miller, chairman of
the program committee.
During the sunlit performance,
refreshments will be served to the
audience by members of the com
mittee, according to Ruth Van
Buskirk, chairman of refresh
ments.
Advertising Fraternity
Pledges Three Members;
Will Parade at Picnic
Three men have been pledged to
membership in the W. F. G. Thack
er chapter of Alpha Delta Sigma,
national honorary intercollegiate
advertising fraternity. The pre
initiation ceremony for the new
pledges, Kenneth Morse, Raymond
Schott, and Herbert Hoffman, will
include the appearance of the can
didates with the traditional sand
wich boards during Junior Week
end.
At the initiation later Carl
Webb, professor of journalism and
executive secretary of the Oregon
Newspaper Publishers’ association,
will be received into the fraternity
as a professional member. Profes
sor W. F. G. Tliacher, adviser _£o
the local chapter of the fraternity,
is also its national president.
Games to End
Girls’ Season
The next week will bring to a close the girls intramurals in
both baseball and tennis. This week the semifinals between
leagues three and four were played off with the Dee Gees
coming out on top by beating University house 11 to 6. From
the second inning to the last, the Dee Gees led by a large score.
Helen Johns played her usual good game and was responsible
for many of the University play
ers' outs. In the second inning.
Marilyn Glenn came to bat for the
Dee Gees and brought two runners
in by a long hit to right field. Out
field errors on the part of the Uni
versity players was one of the
greatest causes for the high num
ber of runs made by the Dee Gees.
Marjorie Priest, for University,
played an excellent game for her
team in the position of shortstop.
Rebec-Hilyard and Orides of
leagues two and three were sup
posed to. play off their semifinals
Thursday night. In the third inn
ing, however, the catcher and
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'Dopey’ Bush
Steals Show
A six-act show, “Life of the
"Lifeguardess,” was presented by
the Amphibian club, women's
swimming honorary, Saturday af
ternoon before a full house of Ore
gon mothers and students. Alysone
Hales, as the lifeguard and nar
tor, reviewed the process of learn
ing to swim from beginning to p.d
vanced class. Betty Bush as Dopey
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