Peruvian Coed Relates
American Impressions
By SALLY ROBERTS
“Those wooden shoes of Oregon fascinated me,” revealed
Tri-Delt Lila Nevin, formerly of Peru, when questioned about
differences between this country and Peru. Lila lived in Lima
for nine years, coming to the United every two or three years.
“We would come by boat and sail ut the coast of South
America, through the Panama
canal, and up into New York har
boi,” she explained. “I’ll never for
get the first time I saw New York
with its Statue of Liberty plainly
visible from the deck.”
Sensationalism
Lila described her interest in the
screaming headlines of the news
papers sold on each corner, com
ism with the Peruvian method of
paring this practice of sensational
placing all the advertisements on
the front page, with the following
page containing news. There are
few comic strips.
“As I traveled across the beau
tiful countryside of the riortherri
states, I was awed by the vast
rich lands of green vegetation and
woodlands,” she said. “Peru lacks
much of this natural beauty of
scenery, since its land must be
artificially irrigated continually.
However, that nation has a pic
turesque beauty all its own.
Conservatism
“Peruvian youth are quite con
servative in comparison to North
American youth. They keep much
to their dignity in public, because
of the still-present customs char
acteristic of the Latin people,” she
declared. "Many of the families
still provide chaperons on dates,
and all the schools are separated,
boys from girls.
“Young people there aren’t as
‘orchestra-crazy’ as North Amer
icans," said Lila, adding that she
herself would take any Glenn Mil
ler recording offered her. “Many
Peruvians jitterbug.”
Lila is a brunette with eyes of
blue, green, or gray, depending on
what she wears. Her major is lib
eral arts, but she’s been interested
in diplomatic affairs since working
in the embassy in Lima.
Fiesta Fun
Lila described the Carniavalles
occuring in February. “There are
three weeks of celebration. Nightly
parties remind an American of
New Year’s eve, because the peo
ple throw confetti and blow horns.
A tube, containing ether and per
fume, called a chisquette, is blown
into the air, making it heavy with
a sweet odor.”
In former years pranksters used
to get out on the Spanish bal
conies overlooking the street to
sprinkle actual buckets of flour
and water down amidst those few
who dared to come out on the
streets,” she recalled.
“Men are all alike.” “Yeah, men
are all I like too.”
Sailors Recognize Need
(Continued jrom patje one)
and learn to appreciate being able
to get an education. If we had had
the right kind of technical books
on navigation, trigonometry, as
tronomy and so on, we could have
advanced our ratings and been a.
bunch of much happier fellows.
“Even seamen who weren’t col
lege men wanted better books than
the stuff we had on board. We
could only turn our radios on at
certain prescribed times and after
we’d done the necessary things like
our washing the Only alternative
was reading. The right kind of
books can keep your mind on the
track; if you don’t have them you
can get awfully stable. Most of the
seamen were kids my age just try
ing to decide what we wanted to
do and we needed good material to
help us,” Davis said.
Sub Scare
After the lay-over in the Mar
shalls, the convoy plowed to Guam
where the cargo of military sup
plies was unloaded on invasion
barges and brought to the marines
on the island. The supplies were
landed six days after the marines
claimed Guam. “The place was all
shot up; Agana, the town where
we anchored, was blown to bits,”
Davis remembered. “Our convoy
had its first sub scare as we were
nearing the Marshalls but our de
stroyer escorts chased off the Jap
U-boats'.”
From Guam the white wake of
the Liberty led to Saipan, Tinian
island, back to Eniwetok and then
down to Kwajalein, loaded with
air corps equipment. With ten
planes bolted to the deck, Davis’
ship took a deep swing south to
avoid Jap infested waters, to
Guam, Pearl Harbor, and reached
San Franicsco on Thanksgiving
day, 1944.
“I might ship out again this sum
mer if shipping is good,” the tall,
blond, crop-headed seaman stated
speculatively. And if he does it
would be gratifying to find on the
ship he is assigned to, a complete
and adequate library of the much
needed books. Contributions from
University of Oregon students will
make this possible.
Colleges in the state of Wash
ington are participating in the
“unit” purchasing of B-29 Super
fortresses. A unit is figured at the
rate of $6,000, equivalent to 1 per
cent of the total cost.
SADDLES!
Come in early.
They won’t last
very long.
Oregon ^Emerald
Night Staff:
Betty Mack, night editor
Celeste Olsen
CAMPUS CALENDAR
All dormitory house presidents
must send two representatives to
the Interdorm Bulletin meeting at.
5 p.m. today at Susan Campbell
recreation room. Men’s houses are
especially urged to cooperate.
Pre-nursing student application
pictures will be taken at 10 a.m.
Thursday in room 2, Johnson hall
This is the only time set for these
pictures.
Hendricks hall will hold open
house tonight after the game.
Wesley house will be open for
dancing after the game tonight.
* * *
The art museum library will not
be open Saturday and Sunday af
ternoon this week since work is
being done on the floor.
He: If you keep looking at me
like that much longer, I’m going
to kiss you. She: Well hurry up—
I can’t hold this expression much
longer.
Onthank Urges
Help For Veterans
Karl W. Onthank, dean of per
sonnel, spoke on “Postwar Guid
ance” at the meeting of the North
west Guidance association in Port
land Wednesday, February 14, at
the Multnomah hotel.
He emphasized the guidance of
servicemen returning to high
school and college after the war
and referred to his experience with
veterans on the University campus.
Dean Onthank stated that they
have an excellent record and do
good work after becoming read
justed to civilian life.
Guidance officers from high
schools and colleges in Oregon,
California, Washington, and Mon
tana, were at the meeting.
Mrs. Wiltse to Leave
Mrs. Margaret Dee Wiltse, secre
tary of the department of psychol
ogy and anthropology, has re
signed to accept a position as
teacher in the Monroe (Oregon)
high school. Mrs. Wiltse who has
been the department secretary
since September, is a graduate of
the University and a member of
Phi Beta Kappa, national scholas
tic honorary.
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