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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1945)
Coed of Week Blue-eyed Sally Spiess Chairmans Red Cross By NANCY HOERLEIN The University of Oregon chapter of the American Red Cross, which will start its 1945 campus Red Cross drive cam paign rolling February 27, is headed by tilt-nosed, blue-eyed Sally Spiess, 5-foot 2 supercharger of UO activities and Coed of the Week. Crop-haired Sally, petite Gamma Phi, comes from Oakland. California. A senior in sociology, she is carrying 18 hours, but stifi tinds time to take care ot all the duties required of the chairman of the UO branch of the Lane county Red Cross unit. ~l j LitULTH "Night Club Girl" — and — ! "Falcon in j Hollywood" She and her committee chair men have charge of Red Cross production work, i.e., bandage roll ing; sewing and mending clothes for refugees; knitting afghan squares; organizing classes in first aid, home nursing and nurses’ aid work, and supplying blood donors twice each month when the mobile blood unit visits Eugene. The tele phone at Gamma Phi rings con stantly for Sally and as she puts it, “It is usually another blood donor offering another corpuscle.” A new idea Sally originated on the campus this year is that of a “point” system by which the house and the girl earning the most Slim, trim, and attractive ... That's the way every Oregon Coed wants to look... and can! In an individually fit Gossard Girdle you can't go wrong. Eugene Gossard Shop 110 E. Broadway Phone 1710 ^ ATTENTION COEDS . . . . Now you may buy HARRIS SPORT JACKETS Made of wonder ful waterproof lusterized twill. Two distinct styles . . . BOTTLE JACKET Short belted model, lined, ideal for sports wear. JACKET of same material, longer length, belted at waist line. Both of them very smart indeed. Each $10.95 New Shipment CARDIGAN SWEATERS — Intriguing spring shades. Each $6.S5 PEDAL PUSHERS — All wool flannels, beige and gray, for service and warmth. “Life" magazine recently featured these popular sportswear trousers. Priced $7.95 *BROADWA\> 20 - 30 E. Broadway points in Red Cross is awarded a cup. These points, she explained, j are awarded on the basis of the ! amount of work done. Four points j are given for donating blood, two | for knitting, and one for an hour ; of rolling bandages. Biggest event in Sally's life was her marriage in July, 1942, to Lt. Noel Spiess, submarine officer, now "somewhere in the Pacific." Sally’s only comment was "He's a wonderful man,” but friends sav she has a haunted look when pag ing the mailbox each day, and keeps constant company with his picture on her desk. Sally took two terms off last year to be with her husband in New London. Connecticut, and Key West, Florida, so she will not com plete her graduation requirements until this summer. After that she plans to enter some phase of social welfare work. "However,” she add ed, “This depends to some extent on the navy.” At the present time no surgical dressing work is being done be cause the necessary supplies are exhausted. Sally hopes this work will begin again soon because most coeds find more time to roll band ages than to perform other Red Cross duties. According to Sally, a nurses aid course may be offered again this spring but plans are still indefinite. “Incidentally,” she hinted, “girls who have taken the course and pledged 150 hours of work should finish up their hours.” Sally seldom has any spare time. When she is not studying or busy with Red Cross work she is writing letters or taking care of the hordes who gather daily in her room. Members of her house say that she always carries armloads of books around, especially to and from the library. Sally, a mainstay at the Gamma Phi house, has always been active in campus activities. She was a member of Phi Theta Upsilon, jun ior women’s honorary, served on the YWCA cabinet as a sophomore and has worked on numerous cam pus committees which include Dad’s day registration. Junior Weekend picnic and traditions commmittee, and a surgical dress ing instructorship. She was re appointed to the post of UO Red Cross chairman after her return to school last spring. The annual Red Cross drive will j be held on the campus February I 27 to March 3. Sally comments ■ that this date is earlier than that of the nationwide drive, coming; during final week at the Univer- ! sity. She hopes to top the $1200 ^ quota set for the campus and has 1 appointed Phyllis Donovan to head the drive. They all laughed when they saw ] me in slacks—when I sat down I ( thought they’d split. P.£. ^eacbe/i fytiudlif, ^lelU flaAie tf-actl Bv DOROTHEA E. MOORE "Through These Portals Pass the Stiffest Girls in the World," (with apologies to Earl Carroll). Drop by Gerlinger to observe i basic physical education class in' action and you'll recognize the ap propriateness of the preceding title. No coed having passed the physical education requirement of the U. of O. in recent years has escaped the clutches of the.fiend ish, muscle-stretching, slave-driv ing instructors who have formed an uplift society, pledging their lives in endeavoring to change fe male sad sacks into exponents of the "body beautiful.” You have heard the beefing, moaning, and bewailing their fate, from the lumpiest and most mus cle-bound of fair coeds, but have you ever looked at the picture from the instructor’s view* ? Believe me, it’s a drama of comedy and pathos. Forty girls running six laps around the gym gives the sound effect of herds of horses thundering over the western plains tor one coed with a pair of wooden shoes on a board path). The weight pounded into the floor seems enough to flatten arches beyond repair. Imagine! Some of the nymphs weigh no more than 100 pounds. Where do they get all that, pressure to put behind the land ing of one foot? After the running is completed, the class collapses in 40 individual heaps, preparing to go through a series of exercises (or to present a reasonable semblance of the same). Gravel Gertie in the fourth row drops a mop of hair over the floor giving valuable assistance to the Large Selection of the Best in Sea Food Order Thursday to insure Friday delivery! NEWMAN'S FISH MARKET Phone 2309 39 E. Broadway Softer, Whiter Hands in Half the Time OR YOUR MONEY BACK! balm barr for the hands Faster- Working Richer in Lanolin 601 Plus lUrYUM rLUUlv MI! I FR janitor. uemna nor sits Moonbeam McSwine, beautiful in appearance from a distance but who, it is doubtful, has ever taken a shower in her life. Could that be her slip under her gym shorts? It will never stay tucked up. All together now. “Up, down, up. down;” flexibility is the word but it's somehow lacking. One good round of a rhumba will sprain m’ lady’s hip joints if the dance floor leaves her as stiff as the gym floor. A surprising number of student - have learned and practiced the old adage “Never let your right hand know what your left hand is do ing." They apply it to all parts of the body, and the results are in teresting. Someday one may lose control altogether and find her two feet walking off in opposite direc tions. Are you wondering why any per son in their right mind would choose to follow such a profes sion and tackle such a hopeless job? Well, the task really isn't all so futile. The sad sacks are actually in the minority and evidence shown that an increasing number of giri* are genuinely interested in improv ing their physical fitness and gen eral body wellbeing. Some move beautifully and are a joy to watch. 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