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By MARGUERITE WITTWER
Drop in some clear sunny day at the Rancho San Jose y
S'..: Chiquito near Carmel, California; hitch yourself up on
the high corral fence and wait for “Mick” Riley to ride in tall
an lean in a pair of old blue jeans, slant-heeled cowboy boots,
her fair hair wind-blown and her hazel eyes sparkling. She’ll
drop from the saddle of one of the horses she herself has broken
and. eive vou that °ny smile which suits a Kappa Alpha Theta
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o!d Spanish land grant, stretch
over 3000 acres of California
I from tire sandy shore of the
■ ific into the foothills of the
attains. Born in 1924 at Berke
Calif.. Mick has lived hare all
life and it is the kind of life
c easterners write books about
westerners dream about. An
■llent horsewoman, the tall
•ta lias helped her family raise
4c horses, ridden them in shows,
a; participated in rodeos. Last ^
Sir,inter she stayed home and |
worked literally helping bale hay
a riding after cattle.
Monterey
la Monterey high school, Mick j
w v- active in club work, school so
cial and political affairs.
‘ 7ive of the kids in school
talked me into coming up here to |
school with them. I'm the only one ■
left now.” she grinned. But Mick’s !
three years at Oregon have been
fuli of activity. A junior majoring
in sociology, site has been a mem
h i of Kvvanta, Phi Theta Upsilon.
worked for the YWCA, assembly
committee, and the student hand- j
book committee. Always interest
ed in sports, she has swum with
tii - Amphibians, played on the all
stir basketball team, and enjoyed
many games of tennis and golf on
tii-1' side.
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“Ask any of the kids at the
liouse what my hobby is and they’ll !
tell you photography,” said Mick, ;
sitting on a bench in the library
after being interrupted for the in
terview. ‘‘I just love it, and I've
taken pictures of all the events I’ve
been able to get to with my cam
era. lily scrap books have been
thumbed through by everyone
there!”
, Jne of the best all-around coeds
Oregon has to represent the wom
an enrollment, Mick is planning to
enter personnel work when she
graduates.
“I almost joined the WAVES a
little while ago but finally I tie- |
Cided to graduate. Afterwards I
may slid join and go into person
nel work in the service. It really
nil depends on how the war turns
out by that time.”
Asked whether the personnel ,
work might not interfere with her:
interest in ranching, Mick admit
ted that she did not know but that
she “likes to work with people,
anyway."
YOuR MOMMY
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THAT WAR SHE
WAS A WAVE
HOORAY
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You, too. if you are eligible,
would be proud to tell your
children in later years, "I was
1 WAVE"
Two summers ago Mick went to
Annapolis for June Week and
spent some time in Washington,
D, C,, and other points east.
“Oh yes, it was fun and it was
exciting,” she said, “but I like the
West and I’d rather live down in
Carmel on the ranch than any
where else.”
Next-Year
Next year when Mick returns to
the campus to take on the new re
sponsibilities of president of the
Associated Woman Students she
will stall the work with plans al- j
' ready mapped out in advance. The j
I blueprints are ready:
"We are planning to begin a
; Frosh Council program this sum
mer which we hope will help orien
( late freshman girls arriving on the
campus in September. There has j
| been some criticism of the present j
system and many suggestions have j
been made for improvement. With
the fine council I have to work with
: I feel confident that next year will I
I be another successful one in the j
I history of AWS.
I "The girls will he given an op-1
1 portunity for closer personal con- J
tact with their adviser’s, and we J
are planning to select ten girls '
from each living organization who
will he counsellors to the newcom
; ers." And it looks like hard-work
ing, courteous, friendly Mick Riley J
will see her hopes come true next
year. J
Surprise the folks at home with
a chic half-hat from
On Willamette
What Do You
Ask of the Future?
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