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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1945)
IHEGDN Emerald VOLUME XLVI NUMBER 102 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1945 EIGHT FINALISTS . . for the Junior Weekend court are: front row, Louise Goodwin, Lois McConkey, Anita Young, Mar faret Murphy; back row, Janet Roberts, Signe Eklund, Mary Margaret Ellsworth and Joann Holstad. CAMPUS TO ELECT QUEEN MONDAY Student body votes Monday will elect a queen and her court of four to reign over the Junior Weekend festivities. The eight finalists chosen by the judges and announced by Beverly Ayer, chairman of the queen selection committee, are: Janet Roberts, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Signe Eklund, Delta Delta Delta; Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Delta Gamma; Joann Holstad, Kappa Alpha Theta; Louise Goodwin, Gamma Phi Beta; Lois Mc Conkey, Alpha Chi Omega; Anita Young, Pi Beta Phi; and Margaret Murphy, Alpha Delta Pi. The election will be held Monday in the Co-op from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pictures of the finalists will be posted at the polls. Students must show their spring term registration cards to be eligible for voting. The [ballots will contain five spaces and opposite these the voter is to write the names of his choices for the court. The girl receiving the high est number of votes will rule as queen and the next four highest will serve as princesses. Preliminary judging was held in Alumni hall in Gerlinger Thursday afternoon. The candidates were identified by numbers only. Judges were: Mrs. Golda Wickham, dean of women; Virgil D. Earl, dean of men; Carl Webb, assistant pro fessor of journalism; Bob Hamil ton, junior in physical education; and Ted Kent, junior in business administration. I Mattii Gras Parade A Mardi Gras float parade, in place of the traditional canoe fete, (Please turn to page four) Attention Students All students are asked to meet in the women’s quad rangle between Susan Camp bell and Hendricks at 1 p.m. today to observe a short pro gram in commemoration of the passing of the President. The meeting has been called by A^UO President Audrey Holliday and will coincide with the President’s funeral. Spring Vespers Feature Organ Music by Allton In the first vesper service of spring term, Sunday at 5 p.m. in the music school auditorium, Don ald W. Allton, assistant professor of music, will play the organ. His numbers for the program will be “Chorale” by Bingham, “Rhapsody on a Breton Theme” by Ropartz, and “Toccata” by Sowerby. Students participating in the service \yill be Lois Clause, senior in EngT h, .• . TT ' ■ i 'Has, senior in m cn rector; and mcmh. s of Phi Beta, ushers. (Please turn to page lour) ASUO JOB MADE PAYING POSITION What the executive council did Thursday: 1. Voted a $360 salary for the student body president. 2. Appointed Lois Evans editor of the Ore-nter. 3. Awarded the freshman scholarships. 4. Approved the educational activities board editorial ap pointments. Winship, Leckie To Manage UO Publications The educational activities board Friday re-appointed Annamac Winship, Emerald business man ager, to that position for next year. At the same meeting, Roseann Leckie, fall term Emerald business manager, was selected 1945-46 Oregana business manager. No other applications were made for the two positions. Miss Win ship, a junior in journalism, was advertising manager of the Ore gana fall term and worked on the advertising staff of the Emerald her sophomore year. Miss Leckie was advertising manager of the Emerald spring term last year when she was a freshman and stepped up to busi ness manager this year. She was replaced by Miss Winship winter term because of scholastic ineli gibility. Miss Leckie will take over (Please turn to page four) JEAN LAWRENCE, sopliomore in journalism, will edit the 1945-46 Oregana. LOUISE MONTAG, jounior in journalism, will edit the 1945-4fi Emerald. Circus Tent Staging Gives 'Liliom’ European Touch By JEAN LAWRENCE Utilizing a modified unit set in which, certain stage elements re main stationary throughout, “Lil iom,” University theater drama t :1* he a highly colorful prod; ’ ion in I:::ping with its riotous carnival spirit, accord ing to Director Horace W. Robin son. Carrying out this style, which is typical of European staging, a new front curtain giving the appear ance of a circus tent will open and close on all scenes. As the play is based on and around a public park in Budapest in 1908, the trees, foliage, and street lamps are to remain on stage even during the (Please turn to page four) *7he QatttfUiA aud the Nation Roosevelt Regime Invaluable to UO By MARGUERITE WITTWER As the flag over the administra tion building flies at half mast, faculty members and students pause to remember v hat Franklin D. Roosevelt has race t to the Uni versity of Oregon du • g his twelve years as president o: the United States. Without the -.id of several projects sponsored 1 . the Roose velt administration 11 . University would be minus hum' -d . of alum ni and much of the b -anty of the campus grounds and buildings. The national youth administra tion, founded during the depres sion when thousands of young Am ericans were wandering jobless around the streets, was “a life saver,” according to Karl W. On thank, dean of personnel admin istration, chairman of the com mittee which administered educa tional aid under the NYA program, and former state director of NYA. “The NYA kept hundreds of stu dents in college,” Onthank con tinued, “and scores of those boys, who would have been unable to ob tain educations without NYA help, are now the men who are leading the armies of this nation.” During the early years of NYA Onthank conferred in Washington, D.C., with other state directors and was privileged to discuss the edu cational aid program with Mr. Roosevelt. “Both the president and (Please turn to page three) On the recommendation of Au drey Holliday, ASUO student body; president, the ASUO executive council Thursday voted at $360 per-year salary for the student body president. Going into effect fall term of next year, the salary was set to equal those paid the Oregana and Emerald editors and business man agers. The president will be paid a monthly salary from ASUQ funds during residence at school. Ore-nter Editor Picked This year’s associate editor of the Oregana, Lois Evans, was se lected editor of the Ore-nter, stu dent handbook. Hiss Evans is a junior in journalism. It was rec ommended by the council that Dorothy Habel be used as an assistant to Miss Evans. Floyd Frederickson, liberal arts, won the men’s $75 scholarship with a 3.80 GPA and Martha Smith, liberal arts, will receive the $75 women’s scholarship with a 3.91. The awards will be presented April 19 at the assembly. On the recommendation of the educational activities board, Jean Lawrence was appointed Oregana editor and Louise Montag, Emerald editor. Nominating Assembly Set It was announced that the ASUO nominating assembly will be held May 17 and installation of officers May 24. Phyllis Horstman, first vice president of the ASUO, is in charge of elections. Petitions for Oregon Federation director will be considered April 18. Doris Hack, acting alumni sec retary, will attend the meeting to help choose the director. The job involves contact work with high school graduates, much of which is done out of Miss Hack’s office. (Please turn to page four) Odeon Plays Due Todayf Not April21 Original contributions of short stories, essays, and poetry for Odeon are due Monday and should be handed in to Peggy Overland at the Emerald or Claudine Biggs at Westminster house. One-act plays are due to day, and not April 6l as pre viously stated. Art exhibits should be turned in to Gordon Bennett at the art school, and musical contributions to Betty Bennett at the music building. All students are urged to con tribute their work, and if they wish to present it themselves they should mention the fact on the manuscript. Today’s World FUNERAL. SERVICES for President Roosevelt will be held in the East room of the White House at 1 p.m. (PWT) today. * * * THE NEW' PRESIDENT, Har ry S. Truman, met with mili tary leaders and Secretary of State Stettinlus Friday to dis cuss military and international affairs. * * * U. S. 9th ARMY TROOPS are within 90 miles of a linkup with the Red army and within 45 miles of Berlin. » * « MARSHAL STALIN has an nounced the fall of Vienna, his toric gateway for invasion of Bavaria, after eight days of bloody street fighting.
