Former UO Coed Leads Woman Marine Band Arriving by plane after ten months of directing “the second best band in the United States,” Sergeant-Major Charlotte Plummer, of the Women’s Marine reserve corps, returned to see her friends on the University of Oregon campus Friday. A former Mu Phi Epsilon music honorary member and Phi Theta at the University, Miss Plummer is organizer and Like Room Open More Beginning Monday, the library browsing room will be open to students five evenings a week. The new hours will be: 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 7 to 10 Monday through Thursday: and Sundays from 2 to 5:30 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Assisting the circulation staff members in maintaining these hours are the Phi Theta Upsilon, Kwamas, Mortar Board, and house librarians. This activity is part of their service program to the Uni versity. A recreational reading shelf of American historical fiction to 1830 is now in the browsing room espe cially for the use of Dr. Dan )3. Clark’s students. Improvements in House Shown Guests of Rebec; Housemother Honored Friends both on and off the cam pus were invited last night to in spect Rebec house, women’s co-op opened last fall. Improvements on the kitchen were made this sum mer to enable the girls to have meals in their house, rather than go to Hilyard house. Many of the individual rooms have been re decorated. Twenty girls make up tlie membership. The occasion was combined wit!} a house-warming and reception for their new housemother, Mrs. Ottiiie Seybolt, drama instructor. A musical program was present ed by Audrey Byres, pianist,, Thel ma Wick, and Winona Stauble, vo cal soloists, all of Rebec house. Winifred Casterline, Rebec proxy, and Angela Coates, social chair man, were in charge of the affair. Dean Still in Hospital Mrs. Hazel P. Schwering, dean of women, is reported to be slowly improving at the Sacred Heart hospital. She has been seriously ill and confined there for nearly a month. director ot me ■lo-memoer wom en’s Reserve corps band, pro claimed by the three-starred Gen eral Alexander A. Vandergrift to be second only to the president’s marine band. Joining the Women’s Reserve in November of last year, Charlotte finished her boot camp training at Camp Le Jeune, North Carolina, as a private first class, and took over the direction of the band a week before Christmas. Since then she has directed it over a nation-wide radio hook-up and three times a week for the 30,000 men and 15,000 women at the Le Jeune camp and hospital. The “Marine’s Hymn” is always the first request of wounded men, she added. In February, while in Washing ton on business, Sergeant Plummer became the first woman to direct the Marine Band, headed by Cap tain William F. Santlemann. Later, in New York, she met Ar turo Rodzinski, and Fred Waring, and had her picture taken with Louis Armstrong. Accompanying Miss Plummer was Miss Shirley Baldwin of Eu gene, first chair and solo clarinet ist and also a former University of Oregon student. They are the only two Oregon members in the band. Landings 'Cut, Dried' (Continued from page one) the German high command could be accepted pretty well at face value until the Germans started losing. No Soldier Vote Most of the men are content to let the home folks worry about the election and the post-war world, he said. “They just want to come home and take their shoes off.” He didn't think many of the soldiers would vote. Asked to describe the opinions of the soldiers concerning General Douglas MacArthur, Caswell said that he did not know how the rumors that labeled MacArthur as “Back-track Mac” and “Dugout Doug” and called his airplane a “foxhole in the sky” had started. “He’s the bravest man I've ever seen,” the correspondent stated, Now Open — Our New Recapping and Tire Repair Shop Tirc$tone Corner of Pearl and 11th Faculty Reception Attracts Visitors Campus social events brought several visitors from Portland this week. Dr. and Mrs. Burt Brown Barker were here to attend the faculty reception Thursday night, and Dr. Barker, vice-president of the University, attended to busi ness here. Mrs. Pierre Dolph, president of the Oregon Mothers’ club, was here for the mothers’ tea Wednesday afternoon, and remained for the faculty reception. She also attend ed to business in regard to scholar ships. After staying with her daughter, Joan, at the Chi Omega house, Mrs. Dolph returned to Portland Friday. Swim Honorary Pledges Nine Nine gii'ls have been selected for Amphibians, - women’s swimming honorary, as the result of tryouts held in Gerlinger pool, October 10 and 17. The pledges are: Mary Anne Hansen, Nancy Hecker, Sylvia Sachter, Marilyn May, Dorothy Currier, Beverly Bennett, Ruth Shipler, Peggy Zeigler, and Peggy Finnell. The 41 girls who tried out were tested on form in all strokes— crawl, side, breast, and back, on diving, speed, treading water, and floating. At a meeting at 8 p.m. next Monday, October 23, pledges will be officially accepted. Old members are requested to be at the pool promptly at 7:45. Milo Woodward is president of the club this year. Relocation Camp To Be Discussed Monday Betty Adkins, who spent seven weeks in a Japanese relocation cen ter in Idaho, will relate her; exper i ences there in a talk at Westmin ster house Monday at 7:45. Miss Adkins, resident of Cottage Grove and student at Willamette univer sity, visited the camp this summer as a member of the Methodist caravan. She will tell of future hope for the Japanese as well as present conditions in these camps. All students are invited. adding that the general stood up under fire, went with the men in landing operations, and wore sun tans while other GI's were camou flaged in jungle greens. Caswell graduated from the Uni versity in 1934 and was president of Sigma Delta Chi, national men’s journalism honorary, while on the campus. He worked on the Em erald all four years of his college career and served as news editor and associate editor. He also was chairman of Junior Weekend in 1933. He plans to return to combat reporting early in November and was very disappointed at being left out of the first stages of the Philippine invasion. Wilder's Play Opens (Continued from page one) vention of the alphabet add to the general haze. Wilder ignores limits of time and space, combines philosophy and vaudeville, and introduces an epi demic of ptomaine poisoning in the last act, to give the stage crew a | chance to understudy. Recently added to the cast are: Betty Lee Barnes, the dinosaur; Farrell Rust .Moses; Betty House holder, Miss T. Muse; Nes Ankeny, the dual role of announcer and Mr. Tremayne; and Jack Hessell and Lyman Barrett, politicians. Nancy Grant, sophomore in speech, assists Horace Robinson on direction. Miss Grant is from Palo Alto, where she worked with the community players. The box office in Johnson hall will open at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Octo ber 24. Play-goers may phone ex tension 216 for reservations. Reporter Snoops in 'Rat-Nest' By ARNOLD PORTER Accompanied by a billowing white smock, from which protrud ed a pair of ROTC clad legs, and at the other end a straw-colored head of hair, I made the rounds of Dr. Huestis’ mouse house. New quarters were being pre pared for the next generation of mice. The procedure was, on the whole, rather simple. The cages, consisting of a bedroom and a com bination living room-dining room, were made of wood, and had re movable lids. The mice, if they so desired, had access to both par titions through a small gnawed passageway. The bedroom fixtures consisted of a carpet of peat moss, a bed of cotton wool and a cover of hay. While the living room was less elaborate and had only the car pet of peat moss, this was aug mented by a large bay window, where, Dr. Huestis informed us, "They look out at the other mice, and just love them, you know.” Next came feeding time, which is a semi-skilled job in itself. Dr. Huestis told us, “Most people just open the lid, the mouse runs up and leers over the lid. Bang! They slam the lid shut. It kills them. Kills them every time. Now, when they run up and look at you, don’t slam the lid. Shove the mouse back he’ll get down.” They were very convincing instructions. In fact, I was fully convinced, besides, there was no other way to account for the dark stains at the top of many of the boxes. Mice, it appears, are not at all like their so-called human proto types. This is a title that should never have come into use. Better they should be called frisky or devils, or just plain nocturnal, in fact anything but mousy. It simply doesn’t fit. Dorm Starts Ball Rolling With First Open House Alpha, Zeta, and Gamma halls started the ball rolling last night with the first dorm open house of the year. Dancing from 7:30 p.m. to 12 in the dining room of John Straub hall attracted UO men. Gold-flecked autumn leaves and streamers of gold and orange crepe paper, flanking a large sign of "Welcome,” greeted the guests. Refreshments were served. 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