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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
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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.
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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.
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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. ,