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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1945)
VOLUME XLVI NUMBER 92 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1945 JANET SMITH Death of Janet Smith Mourned by University By WINIFRED ROMTVF.DT and JEAN SIMMONDS Janet Smith, -U. of O. employ ment secretary and adviser to the women’s cooperative houses, died Saturday morning at a Eugene hospital. The victim of a prolonged illness, she had been able to spend little time at her office for the past several month. Funeral ser vices for Miss Smith were held at the Veatch-Hollingsworth mortu ary Monday afternoon. Miss Smith came to the Univer sity as employment secretary in 1933, and helped many students to remain in school despite the de pression. She found jobs for them and gave them encouragement. In strumental in organizing the first women’s cooperative house in 1936, she was also helpful to the men’s j coops. Janet Smith was born at Sten tenville, Ohio, October 13, 1891. She attended the Moody Bible in stitute, Chicago, and the Univer sity of Chicago, from 1908 to 1910. Receiving her BA degree from Beaver college, Jenkintown, Pa., in 1912, she then attended the na tional training school of the YWCA in New York. She attended Colum bia university from 1915 to 1917, receiving her master’s degree in 1917. From 1912-15 Miss Smith was an instructor of history and pipe organ at Abbemarle institute, a girl's school at Charlotte, N.C. Was YW Secretary For three years she was general secretary for the YWCA at Bell ingham, Wash.; then for seven years she worked for the national board of the YWCA as a travel ing secretary. Under the employ for seven years of an embroidery firms, with a factory in Manila and its whole sale house m New York, she was able to travel extensively. She went around the world five times and visited the Orient numerous times, crossing the Pacific 20 times in her travels. Miss Smith is survived by her mother, Mrs. J. M. Smith, Eugene, and by two sisters, Mrs. Blanche Beckett, Eugene, and Mrs. E. J. Keller, Hammond, Ind. As employment secretary she has secured odd jobs, work on the campus, part-time positions down town, summertime employment, and jobs upon graduation for stu dents. Before leaving the Univer sity, each senior leaves references and a complete record with the employment bureau for prospective employers. After much difficulty Miss Smith (Please turn to page four) Ten Students 114 Make Win! Grades of 3.5 or better put 1 honor roll. Ten of that number A’s, according to a list releasee On the “four point” list are arts; Vivian Anderson, senior, jorie Beckett, freshman, libera liberal arts; Mary Jane Copeland, junior, business administration; Helen Deedon, junior, education; Leola Deffenbacher, sophomore, liberal arts; Janet E. Fleischauer, senior, liberal arts; Regina J. Gar mendia, senior, business adminis tration; Sarah Jeffcott, sophomore, liberal arts; Ninon King, sopho more, liberal arts; Martha Trask, sophomore, architecture and allied arts. (Please lum to page four) Students May Buy Ballet Tickets Now Tickets for the San • Francisco ballet April 10 are going rapidly and students who wish to attend should buy their tickets as soon as possible, Horace W. Robinson, edu cational activities director, said Monday. A limited amount is now on sale at the educational activ ities office in McArthur court. Presentation of spring term stu dent body cards entitles students to a special admission price of 60 cents. Three ballets, “Swan Lake” and “Nutcracker Suite,” both by Tchai kowsky, and “In Old Vienna,” by Johann Strauss will be given. No seats will be sold on the main floor, to give ali members of the audience a good view of the danc ing. University students will oc cupy the bleachers, and the gen eral public will be accommodated in the west balcony. ^Clark Gable Film Featured In Wednesday Free Show “Combat, America,” the film made by Clark Gable in his bomb ing missions over Europe will headline the free movie scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Chapman hall. Th'is picture is in technicolor. “Texas,” a March of Time edi tion, and “Citrus in Nutrition,” showing the proper use of citrus fruits to maintain a balanced diet, will also be shown. There will be two continuous ^bowings. This is the first of the spring term series of movies spon sored by the educational activities committee. Hit 4. GPA; :er Honor Roll L4 students on the winter term made a GPA of 4., or straight [ by the registrar’s office. : George Alder, senior, liberal business administration; Mar 1 arts; William Buell, senior, KKG Rates High In War Work Kappa Kappa Gamma led all living organizations with 32 y2 hours spent at the ration board. University women who worked for the Lane county ration board winter term have been commended by the ration board and the Uni versity war board, according to Bernice Granquist, chairman of the ration board committee. Such work as typing, filing, addressing let ters and other general office work was done by University volunteers. Hours contributed by other living organizations were: Alpha Chi Omega, 1-1; Alpha Delta Pi, 9; Alpha Gamma Delta, IOV2; Alpha hall, 6; Alpha Omicron Pi, 15; Chi Omega, 6; Delta Delta Delta, 2; Delta Gamma, 19; Hendricks hall, 1; Pi Beta Phi, 12; Rebec house, 10; Mary Spiller, 2; Sigma Kappa, 15; Susan Campbell, 7; University house, 4. This makes a total of 150 hours for the term. Dorothy Rasmussen is credited with nine hours, the highest indi vidual number, while Barbara Dor ris is second with seven hours. Miss Granquist and Margaret Murphy, assistant chairmari, are planning a more extensive pro gram for this term. All women in terested in working are urged to contact Mary Day at it-. . Kappa house. Today's World BRITISH AND CANADIAN troops have captured the city of Enschede, occupied Rheine, and are racing- northward 25 to 40 miles from the Zuider Zee to close a giant trap on a German army group in western Holland. * * * PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT accepted the resignation of James F. Byrnes, director of war mobilization, and picked Fred M. Vinson to succeed him. AMERICAN 10th ARMY forces hacked out gains on Okin awa and drove to the east coast to split the 70-mile long island in two, while the first U. S. planes began operating from two cap tured airfields. THE RED ARMY raptured the Hungarian transport hub of Nagykaniza, and flanked Vienna in a lightning thrust to Seminer ing, 42 miles southwest of the Austrian capital. * * * GE1V. DOUGLAS MacAR THUR announced that American troops killed or captured 308, 180 Japanese in seizing control of 32 islands in the Philippines during the last six months. Thespians Wanted A few small parts in Guild theater’s coming production of “Lilliom” are still available for men. Students interested should see Horace Robinson in the dra ma studio. DUCKS PLACE THIRD IN CHAMPIONSHIP TILTS By JACK CRAIG While University of Oregon students ground away at their exams, their casaba team rolled toward Kansas City to win NCAA third place and to chalk up a record of performance that st imulated the interest of sports fans all over the country. Not only did the Duck quintet succeed in establishing an all time scoring records that made basketball history for NCAA play offs but they came through with a victory over the Utah Indians, holders of last year’s national bas ketball crown. Sports writers and commentators all over the country said it was the Oregon Ducks who put on the best performance of all the teams represented at the Kan sas City NCAA playoffs. Seemingly outclassed in the opening minutes of their first game with the Razorbacks of the Uni versity of Arkansas, John War ren’s 1945 far-western mythical champs rallied and fought back, and finally whittled clown the enormous Arkansas lead to a tie until the last three minutes of the game. Although it was disappoint ing to lose the championship con test, the disappointment of Ore gon was offset by what was heard over the radio from far away Kan sas City, and the acclamation from the 7000 spectators indicated that Oregon was the most popular team ever to show at the municipal stadium in Kansas City. Razors Slash Ducks Although Oregon had the best free throw record, the Razorbacks President Lists No Immediate Changes By ANNAMAE WINSHIP “Tell the students I am very fav orably impressed with the Univer sity; I like the beautiful campus and the friendly people. I have met,” said Dr. Harry K. Newburn, president-elect of the University of Oregon, in an interview March 20, while he was on a 10-1 .. visit to the campus. He also ' 1 the University owes a great cl ’ ' the many fine things acconr ' by the late President Don ;' ; b and to the commendable in which Acting President Orlando J. Hollis has led the University since Dr. Erb’s death. Dr. Newburn is friendly, and it is easy to talk with him. An inter view is more like an informal visit than a newspaper assignment. He gives one the impression of being interested in everyone down to the new.est freshman. He appears to be a man who will handle the re sponsibility of a university of this size without too much worry. Initiated Changes As dean of the college of liberal arts at the State University of Iowa, Dr. Newburn initiated the new curriculum change put into effect in the liberal arts college last fall. The program, which brought forth much comment from college educators, was designed to give each student an organized schedule of study throughout his college training, the course to be planned around the particular sub ject the student is interested in. This goal is accomplished through the interest of individual advisers, with the assistance of a (Please turn to page four) won the game on the gift line. Oregon outscored the southwestern conference team for the field, 32 to 30. Besides being off their usual form, the Ducks were further handicapped when Jim Bartelt suf fered an ankle injury during the pregame warmup. The feat of tying the score in the last few minutes of the second half of the game, after Arkansas had boomed into a 16-point lead in the first half, will always win the acclaim of hoop critics throughout the countr y. Hec Edmundson, Washington coach and director of the playoffs, praised Oregon’s second half rebound and said the Webfoots were very definitely a credit to the Northern division and (Continued from page three) Phi Beta Installation Set for Thursday Newly-elected officers of Phi Beta, music honorary, installed last term, began their duties Mon day and set aside Thursday night for the installation of other offi cers. Helen Wohler, newly-elected Phi Beta president for 1945, replaces Barbara Bentley. Other officers in stalled last term were Emily Rhodes, first vice-president and. Nancy Kirkpatrick, second vice president. The following officers will be installed Thursday: Patricia' Metcalf, secrtary; Barbara Ward, treasurer; Mary Lu Welch, assist ant treasurer; Nancy Carlisle, his torian; Marilyn Olsen, national publicity chairman; Joy Howard, reporter; Shirley Stearns, song’ leader; Janette Williams and Pat Jordan, program chairmen; Rob erta Quigley, refreshment chair man; Florence Hintzen, scrap book chairman.
