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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1944)
Coed off the w-eeJz Organist Helen Luvaas ' Spends Happy Year in Bed By MARGUERITE WITTWER Slanted streamers of sunshine sift through the high colored windows of the church. The congregation is a silent sea, wait ing. Helen Luvaas, her hair a golden halo around her head, sits before the organ. Suddenly the church is filled with sound and harmony and motion—the notes of a thousand alleluias; zne music mat sings oi oeauty. Once too much practicing in coid churches sent Miss Luvaas to bed for a year with a serious case of pleurisy. “It was a very enjoy able year, really,” Helen remarked, “because I had lots of time to read and had so many visitors. It was the first time I realized how many friends I had.” President of music honorary Mu Phi Epsilon and director of the University Girls’ Vesper choir, tiny blonde Helen Luvaas is not inter ested in music alone. She enjoys very much reading biographies of personalities currently featured in news headlines and is a close fol lower of present world affairs. “As a whole I’m rather disap pointed in our campus and in other university students who are not doing as much as they could in ^ many fields, especially that of par ticipating in national interests,” she said, adding that, “in South and Central America, for instance, university students are looked up to as leaders of the people. Changes towards more modern, progressive outlook in those countries are initi ated by students—while here we rather expect labor unions and politicians to alter any present conditions, if necessary.” Salvador Revolution Miss Luvaas cited the example of the citizens of San Salvador who last spring overthrew their •- dictator Martinez through the in stigation cf the students who pro moted the general strike and brought an almost bloodless revo lution to a successful climax. Couer d’Alene, Idaho, is Helen's home town but the family moved to Eugene when she was six—her father having been pastor of the DANCING EVERY SAT. NIGHT with Art Holman and his Orchestra EUGENE HOTEL IT Central Lutheran church here. In Eugene high school Miss Luvaas was a member of the na tional honor society and partici pated in many activities, hue her predominating interest began to assert itself. Music became the most important feature of her life and she remembers that it was necessary for her mother to per suade her to stop practicing piano . . . when usually other parents would be bribing their offspring to go up and down the scales. Glenn Griffith, director of the Eugene A Capella choir, stimulated Helen’s interest by permitting her to lead the choir in her senior year, and helping her in the study of the organ. Miss Luvaas has, however, been church organist since she was twelve years old. Organ Work Playing church organs has been a significant part in her musical training. "In fact,” she smiled, "it seems I’ve changed my religion as often as I’ve changed churches. So far, I’ve been organist for the Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, and occasionally for the Christian Sci ence, churches. This year I’m play ing for the Congregational church and directing the choir there.” At the University the petite blonde planned at first to major in piano but her last two years have been centered on the organ and choral work. “I like this kind of work better because I'd rather work with per sonalities than merely with an in strument. It seems more unselfish. Then, too, a choir is a more co operative enterprise; there is more thrill in knowing that other people are enjoying it, too,” Helen Luvaas believes. While Miss Luvaas was direct ing the girls’ chorus at the Meth odist church in 1943, Eleanor Scott, a member of the choir and then president of the Student Religious council, asked Helen to organize and direct the Girls’ Vesper choir. Started last fall and with a grati --*= —' =« Make His’ Christmas Happy c * Mail his watch, ring, or identification bracelet by October 15. You'll find an exciting collec f tion at Your Campus — Jewelers. STOP, 6 | EUGENE 922 Willamette Phone 411 • OREGON Sfoat&fic fyaiitiatii. By PH VI- PERKINS Flash! The fashion world is shifting. Not to New York, not. to Peking, not even to the Eager Beaver campus, but to our own! It all began when tire Germans marched into Paris and burned Fierre’s manikins. Poor Pierre searched and searched for beautiful girls to model his dresses but he saw only French girls. So he came to America. And when he readied America and asked where he might find the most beautiful girls, why of course, they sent him to the U. of O. Now I don’t know just how Chi O Pat Smith struck up an acquaintance with Pierre, hut I’m sure that lush black crepe she's wearing is one of his numbers. But haven’t you seen it?—An evening dress oh so severely cut with a back V’d (the war you know) to the waist and long green tassels falling over the shoulders to form a tunic effect in back. Speaking of formals, there’s the one D.G. Rosemary Albers wore during open house. It's the dress Sammy Kaye must have dreamed about in his “purple flash.” Now that you’ve guessed the color, try to picture this “purple passion,” a dress in “but good” taste. As we allow our eyes to pass from the long to the short of things who could help catching a glimpse of Marilyn Sage, Pi Phi, down at the millrace sporting chartreuse shorts with a purple (what again!) bra top. The mill race was crowded that day. So was the Journalism building the night Edith Newton appeared in a red, red sport suit to enlist Ore gana workers. Ruthie Foreman was there too wearing her beauti ful white cable-knit (by hand if you please!) sweater and anklets. How about a lesson, Ruthie ? There are still loads of warm days (it says here in the Eugene chamber of commerce pamphlet) so take note, Freshmen, of a fel low classmate, Judy Grahm, Tri Belt pledge, who dons her white chintz dress splashed with pink rose buds and trips gaily off to class. Smart girl! Anita Fernan dez and Nancy Seals who have both been on the campus long enough to know Eugene weather defy any thought of rain and ap pear in extremely attractive cot ton prints. Then there are the days when the wind blows with more ven geance and blazer jackets of all hues dot the vicinity in and around the “Side.” Notice Alpha Chi O pledge, Patty Webber, and her terrific bright red blazer. Also keep an eye open for the eye opener grey wool, pin-striped jumper Roberta Bowman, Gamma Phi, is wearing. Then if you’d like something really heart warming, pick a scotch plaid like Mary K. Minor’s, Delta Delta Delta. She fying record behind it, the choir is still a young concern but Miss Luvaas expressed her conviction that this year it would be a larger and better organization. The first vesper service will be Sunday af - ternoon, October 14. If the sched ule continues according to plan there will be vespers the second Sunday of every month thereafter. When she graduates Helen fore casts that she will do what seems most logical at the time. It may be postgraduate work and perhaps later professional musical work with college or high school stu dents. In spite of its name, the Great Dane is not of Danish origin. It is of German origin. DANCING EVERY SAT. NIGHT with Art Holman and his Orchestra EUGENE HOTEL wears it held together by two large gold safety pins. Oh by the way, if you're planning to dash lip to Portland for one of those "once a term" weekends, why not do as Maudie Brannely does ? Wear a Strook three piece suit on the train- we guarantee results! Maudie’s suit is pink and brown tweed, topped by a pink shaggy box coat. Ve-ry nice! And—if you’d like to live a dou ble life, buy two cloth raincoats. Wear with one a huge melon ban dana and with the other a “huger" yellow one. That’s what the Hicks twins, Janet and Helen, Pi Phi pledges, are doing. Or if you’d ra ther just be yourself, pick a color to match your name as Carmen Green, ADPi, lias. Yes, her rain coat is green with those big, oh how we love ’em, pearl buttons. Then again if you don’t like be ing yourself try being practical as is our illustrious Prexy, Audrey Holliday, Sigma Kappa. She swirls her hair in a most becoming roll and sports a good looking green sweater-plaid skirt combination. And there’s frosh Mary Fletcher who knows what’s what in plaid skirts. Check her purple, grey, and white job. DANCING EVERY SAT. NIGHT with Art Holman and his Orchestra EUGENE HOTEL So you sec. Pierre has accomp lished quite a lot on the campus < long' as we consider coed clothes but please Pierre, Oh Great Pierre, can’t you do something aboi d. three quarter length cords? TAYLORS Welcome the new students... and also the old friends I who are returning' in '44. Drop in often while you i are here for refreshment j and relaxation. Taqlor's 13th and Kincaid ; Where the ‘elite’ upperclassmen meet the alums and frosh in their old hangout Make your college room more like Home— with these clever nick nacks The Gift Shop 963 Willamette St. SORT O' COLD ..:: sleeping on the porches these cool nights! Xo need to if you lay in a supply of those warm FLEECED VELOUR PAJAMAS or GOWNS down at The BROADWAY Attractive printed designs of plain pastel colors — You’ll like ’em. Pajamas.$2.25 to $2.95 Gowns.$1,95 to $3.49 and a WARM PURREY BLANKET Soft, luxurious, warm S8% rayon and 12% wool, with satin bound ends (size 72 x 84) would certainly help a lot. Price $5.95 ifc. m 20 - 30 E. Broadway i