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
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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'
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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,
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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
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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.
Oregon It Emerald
Saturday Advertising Staff:
Pat Maloney, day manager
Betty Hoxie ^
Katharine Snyder
Pat Johnson
Gloria Grenfell
Layout Staff:
Jo-Ann Luke
Virginia Foster
Office Staff:
Anne Stevensen
Patsy Moffat
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Alpha Chi Omega house if found.
21-JEWEL Bulova watch, gold
with gold watch chain, out of
pocket in Art school. Please mail
to Alpha Chi house or take to
campus lost and found. No ques
tions asked. Reward offered. Lo
cation at your terms.
A HANDMADE Australian coin
bracelet between McArthur court
and train depot. Valued as a
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