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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1944)
UO Now Boasts Singing Cover Girl —See page 1 Oregon Read About Your Soldier Friends —See page 2 VOLUME XLVI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, NOV. 4, 1944 NUMBER WSSF Chairman Appoints Aids For Drive Banquet Pat McFadden and Marilyn Stratton were named co-chair men in charge of arranging the dinner for solicitors of the World Student Service fund drive, announced Marguerite Witt wer, general chairman, yesterday after a meeting of committee &eads. • Miss McFadden is a senior in business administration and iviarnyn aeration is a iresnman majoring in art. The dinner will be held Monday, November 6, in West minster house at 5:30. All solicitors for campus organizations and chairmen of all committees work ing on the WSSF drive which be gins next week, are asked to at ’tend. The solicitors who attended the meeting Friday received enve lopes containing explanatory litera ture about WSSF and all students wishing precise information on the subject should contact their house l^-presentatives which were pub lished in Friday’s Emerald. Fran ces Mettier, sophomore in liberal arts, is equipment chairman of the drive. Jean Hailing, Pat Keck, Marilyn Stratton, Mary Lee Booth, and Jean Long are the committee which is soliciting the cooperation of faculty members in promoting the WSSF assembly November 9. All houses making posters to publicize the WSSF drive should get their materials from JoAnne Whitson or Rene Hodson, poster (jhairmen, at the Sigma Kappa house today. Completed posters must be returned to the Sigma Kappa house before Sunday night or early Monday morning, accord ing to the chairmen. All students wishing to work on WSSF and not already assigned to a specific com mittee should contact the poster chairmen and volunteer to post the cards around the campus before November 6. Soliciting in the houses will be gin Monday, November 6, and con (Please turn to page jour) Concert Group Slates Schmitz E. Robert Schmitz, Victor re cording pianist and concert artist in the United States, Canada, Eu rope, and the Orient, is scheduled to appear in McArthur court, No vember 14, in the place of Leonard Pennario, now overseas with the army air corps, Mr. G. E. Gaylord, chairman of the Eugene civic con cert group, announced Thursday. Schmitz, who lias played more than 1000 successful concerts, plays semi-classical as well as classical numbers and “may well exceed die expectations of the artist originally signed,” Mr. Gaylord said. Tuesday Last Chance Tor Qrcgana Pictures Final dates for Oregana pic tures for the organization sec tions will be today, Monday and Tuesday, it was announced Fri day. Yeomen, or any men plan ning to join the group, will have their pictures taken today and anyone registered in school this term who wants his picture in the book must have it taken be fore 5:30 next Tuesday. No appointments are necessary for pictures on these three days, but no pictures will be taken after this time. ^All proofs should be returned to the Kennell-Ellis studio as soon as possible, before Christ mas vacation at the latest. Students Get Phone Guide/ Date Roster Oregon’s traditional handbook of names and numbers, the Pig ger’s Guide, was released yester day to members of the student body, and the remaining copies, purchased at registration, will be distributed today from 9 a.m. to noon at the Co-op. This book, which was edited by Jean Lawrence with Berta Reische assisting, and with Annamae Win ship as business manager, was passed out to students by members of Phi Theta Upsilon, junior wom en’s honorary. The publication is a complete compilation of University offices, faculty, employees, and students, as well as the remaining ASTP men on the campus. In addition to the names, home addresses, courses, University addresses, and phone numbers contained in these directories, a section in the back gives full data concerning UO pub lications, student committees, boards, clubs, and various student body activities. Also found in this year's Pigger's Guide are the names of the presi dents and social chairmen of all living organizations connected with the University. Freshman Talent to be Displayed at Meeting The Freshman Activities associ ation will have a free-for-all fresh man amateur program at their next meeting at 4 p.m. Tuesday, November 7, at Westminster house. With talent discovered at this meeting, a variety skit will be ar ranged for presentation at a Thurs day assembly later this term. The meeting this Tuesday in cluded refreshments and a boogie woogie solo on the piano by Fran ces Olsson. The following commit tee chairmen were appointed: pub licity, Lorna Kingwell; refresh ments, Phyllis Falk; and enter tainment, Frances Olsson. All freshmen with talent, from the har monica to bass fiddle, from jitter bugs to heavy drama are urged to attend with their specialty. Razors Gather Dust fl ‘Beard Ball’ Impends Gene Conklin, third-year law student, chairman of the ASUO committee on student union, will be interviewed over KOAC at 8:15 Tuesday evening on the status of that project. The interview, one of the week ly University Journal series, will be conducted by Jean Taylor and Barbara Younger, members of the senior class in editing in the school of journalism. The program will be handled by Dr. Kenneth S. Wood, in charge of radio instruction on the campus. British Numbers Highlight Concert Two pieces by British composers, one by Haydn, and two from Brahms, will make up Sunday’s : 3 corded music concert at 4 p.m. in the library. Miss Ella Carrick, cata log- assistant at the library, will play the pieces from her collection. Sponsors of the program are Mrs. E. F. Bartlam, Mu Phi Ep silon patronesses, Mary Kay Wil liams, Mu Phi active, Miss Adeline Adams, circulation assistant at the library, and Phyllis Donovan, house librarians. The first selection will be Hay dn’s symphony No. 102, sometimes known as the “London” symphony No. 0. Two songs for alto, viola, and piano from Brahms will fol low. The British pieces are “Eng lish Folk Song Suite” by Vaughn Williams, and “Passing By,” by Purcell. Old Oregon features Marie’s Own Story Marie Rogndahl is now a cover girl. Her picture graces the cover of the October issue of Old Oregon, the University alumni magazine, and within its pages is a story written by Josephine Moore of the University News bureau, telling of Marie's rise to fame in the musical world and of her return to the campus this year. Another feature in the maga zine, which came out October 30, was the alumni family interview with Connie and Ed Averill of Portland, written by Winifred Romtvedt. Mr. Averill has been either president, secretary, or a member of the executive commit tee of the Oregon Dads' associa tion since 193G. and his daughter, Connie, who graduated from the University in 1943, is now a re porter on The Oregonian. (Please turn to fage ]our) The fabled “Whiskerino” returns to Oregon—with razors, but no holds, barred for the next seven days. Renewing tradi tions, Webfeet will again "trip the light fantastic”—men in jeans, plaid shirts, and varying degrees of beardedness. Scheduled as "the” sophomore dance of the year, the Whis kerino will be held in Gerlinger hall from 9 to 12, November 11. Blood Donors Meet Monday More University students are needed as blood donors at the Red Cross center in Corvallis Monday, November 6. Transportation will be provided for students wishing to participate. The group will leave Lane county Red Cross center at 13 West Eighth, and plans to return by noon. Anyone desiring to give a dona tion should notify Sally Spiess, phone 772, of his intention imme diately. Blood donors must be in good health, and between the ages of 21 and 60. Students over IS may give their blood if they have ob tained written permission from their parents. The permission card may be obtained from Mrs. Spiess at the Gamma Phi Beta house, 1021 Hilyard street, and should be returned to her not later than 8 a.m. Monday morning. A mobile unit will be sent from Portland to Eugene early in De cember. Although the Lane county chapter of the Red Cross is re sponsible for obtaining the donors, they have asked for assistance from groups on the campus to help them reach and go over their quota. Former Emerald Worker Drops In Captain Jack Bryant, Oregon Daily Emerald gossip columnist in 1940 and journalism major, de clared by Bud Jermaine, journalism graduate assistant, to have “more stooges than anyone I’ve ever seen'' for newsgathering purposes, re turned to visit old friends in the Shack, Friday, on a four-day leave. A front-page cut in the January 1940 Emerald shows Bryant wear ing a wig to cover a newly-sliaved head after his column, “Behind the Eight Ball,” backfired from the di rection of the Kappa Sigma house. Bryant also got mill-raced that day. After graduating from Kelly field as a second lieutenant, Jack joined a fighter group and Decem ber 12, 1941, went to Hawaii to fly fighters. Later he was transferred to the combat transport command and has been flying in combat areas for two and a half years, transporting “troops, bombs, cab bages, nurses, evacuees, nurses and nurses” in unarmed planes. Now attached with the air trans port command, with a home base at Hamilton field, he will fly evacuees, mostly wounded men, out of the Central Pacific theater. After the war' Jack pians to go into commercial flying. toopnomores, under the direction of Barbara Pearson, class president, will spare no expense, energy, i r imagination in presenting this ail campus affair, the theme of whit !i will be revealed at a later date. Dateless men are urged to remedy their state as soon as possible, and are reminded to cultivate the tra ditional “baby beavers.” A prize will bo awarded the most remark able beard. Music will be provided by George Carey’s orchestra and fot i.l and drink will be sold by Kwama. Tickets will be available after Mon day noon at the Co-op, College Side, and other places on the cart pus. Committees for the Whiskeriro have been appointed as follows: publicity, Marilyn Sage; patrons and patronesses, Elizabeth Gil more; decorations, Roseann Lecklc and Jean Watson, co-chairmen, Terry Carroll, Bob Moran, and Chuck Politz, adviser; music, Jeon Lawrence; posters, etc., Nick Wed dle; lighting, Milton Sparks; and tickets, friorence Hintzen, chair man, Patricia Percival, and Jan ette Williams. Committee members are request ed to attend the general meeting at the Kappa house Monday at l p.m. W. H. Genne Is YM Speaker The 100th anniversary of the Young Men’s Christian association, led to a dicussion of the progress of the “Y” through the years Wed nesday night, when William H. Genne, regional secretary, met with the YMCA cabinet. Mr. Genne gave several suggestions as to the posi tion the YMCA should have on t university campus. In discussing the basis for tiro “Y” organization, the group em phasized that the YMCA is now a democratic, non-sectarian, student organization for the betterment ,f the student and the furthering cf religious ideas. It is a worldwide fellowship which aids students in broadening their minds and attain ing harmonious relationships with. ! others. i I i Group to Discuss Racial A ttiiudes Inaugurating a new series of evening meetings, the College Fire side of the Congregational church will discuss “What Should We Do With the Japancse-Americans?” Sunday from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Mr. Wesley Nicholson, pastor of the church, will lead the discussion u the Wheeler room. The general topic for these meet ings is “The Christian Attitude Toward the Race Question.” The public is cordially invited to these discussions and it is expectc 1 that they will develop a great dea l of interest on the part of those present. ,