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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1945)
VOLUME XLVI * NUMBER 129 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1945 Ed Allen Heads ASUO University Congress Pledged By Greeks UNIVERSITY OF OREGON ASUO OFFICERS ED ALLEN, President JACK CRAIG, Vice President JANET DOUGLAS, Second Vice President PHYLLIS EVANS, Secretary Mystery: Black List? Red List? 100 Students Listed---Are You? your name on the following list? All persons listed below are requested to appear in Guild hall of Johnson hall tonight at 8:30. The nature of the meeting cannot now be revealed, but the attendance of each student asked is essential and urgently solicited by those in charge. The guest list includes: Signe Eklund, Mary Corrigan, Bjorg Hansen, Martha Thorsland, Beverly Carroll, Pat Jordan, Mar jory Skordahl, Marge Cowlin, Rose ann Leckie, Betty Ingebritson, Martha Berg, Pat Berg, Virginia Georgeson, Louise Goodwin, Pat Webber, Nancy Kirkpatrick, Bob Prowell, Naedene Foss, Dedo Mis ley, Kay Leslie, Annamae Winship, Georgia Johnston, Dwight Zulauf. Marjorie Gulick, Gerald Kabler, Judy Graham, Jim Kenney, Bar bara Borrevik, Betty Cramer, Bea trice Westendorf. Beverly Main, Shirlee Dillard, Bonnie Butler, Betty Dundas, Phyllis Richardson, Gloria Smith, Rollin Wood, Lois Croner, Sue Fernimen, Marjorie Allingham, Jocelyn Fancher, Pat Amande, Frances McCready, Betty Lou Vogelpohl, Virginia Sharp, Ruth Blatchford, Nadyne Neet, Edna Belle Hadley, Jean Carkin, Milo Woodward, Jane Ellsworth, LoDell Lamson, Ray Beeson, Leslie Wright, Hope Baney, Evelyn Woodworth, Pat Silver, Jessie Bar tels, Ann Scripter, Rosemary Lo der,, Jean Glaves, Geneva Davis, Barbara Fossen, Ninon King, Rose mary Wiebe. Mnne Villair, Jean Clough, Eve lyn Ollila, Norma Figone, Beverly (Please turn to page jour) Movie Schedule Films on transportation will be shown tonight in 207 Chap man hall and will last from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. There will be two continuous showings. Sponsored by the educational activities board, the weekly movie pro gram will feature “Night Mail,” an English documentary film on railroad mail service and “Sing ing Wheels,” on the trucking in dus£or, a film on shipping, and a March of Time edition on the French campaign. Pi Delta Phi To Initiate Twelve New Members Members of Pi Delta Phi, French language honorary,'will hold their initiation tonight at 7:30 in Ger linger hall. The new members to be initiated are Gloria Cartozian, Betty Sailor, Jean Moe, Shirley Rubenstein, Ruth Crynes, Leola Deffenbacher, Irene Jolivette, Jean Lawrence, Mary Lavin, Marie Rogndahl, Carol Wicke, and Ruth Tomlin. M. L. Lopez, instructor in Romance lan guages,, will be initiated as an hon orary member. The society will have dessert after the meeting. Mexican Slides on Slate Colored slides of Mexican scenes donated by Miss Mabel Wood of the home economics department, will be shown in 103 Deady Wed nesday at 7:30 p.m. Sigma Delta Pi, Spanish honorary, is sponsor ing the program especially for stu dents in Spanish classes. Anyone interested is invited to attend. WAA Group Plans Last Meet of Term Plans are being made by WAA sports enthusiasts for the last all member meeting of the terrrrto be held Thursday, May 24, at 8 p.m. in Alumni hall of Gerlinger. At this meeting activities sched uled for next term will be revealed to the WAA members assembled. Junior and senior awards will be presented. The junior award is a guard to the WAA pin presented after a total of 10 checks have been accumulated; the senior award is an emblem given when 15 checks have been obtained. Participation certificates will be presented to the houses winning the softball and tennis tournaments. A short entertainment is being planned by Beverly Bennet, and refreshments will be provided. House managers will be expected to respond to roll call taken of those present. General chairman of the meet ing, Virginia Scholl, is assisted by Wanda Lu Payne, and Della Jones, refreshments; and Barbara Wells, arrangements. Preceding the all-member meet ing at 8 p.m., an initiation of all those who' have earned WAA checks, making them eligible for membership, is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the AWS room. A one dol lar membership fee will be charged) new members at this time. A K D Banquet For Sociologists The spring banquet of Alpha Kappa Delta, sociology honorary, will be held Friday evening, May 25, at Wills’ Cafe for the first time since 1942. On an inactive basis for the past two years, Oregon’s Alpha chapter has recently been reorgan ized to create interest in the vari ous fields of sociology. Through the combined efforts of President Au drey Mathews, members of the sociology faculty, and Hope Boyle, graduate assistant in sociology, a group of 16 newly-elected mem bers has been formed, and will be initiated in ceremonies following a turkey dinner. Honored guest and speaker for the even will be Miss Elnora Thom son, recognized authority in the field of nursing and herself a mem ber of Alpha Kappa Delta. For the past 25 years, Miss Thomson has been director of nursing education at the University of Oregon Med ical school and an instructor in that institution. She was also di rector of public health nursing at the Portland School of Social Work for a number of years. Since her retirement in 1944, Miss Thomson has been president of the American Nurse association, the Boys’ and Girls’ Aid society, and is state recruiting officer for the U. S. nurse cadet corps. She has also held other outstanding ap (Please turn to page tour) P&UumzA. Qoo&uunent i*t Q&unatuf, . . . Army Colonel To Tell ETO Experiences By BETTY ROBERTSON “If you can keep your sense of humor overseas, you’re all right,” says tall, gray-haired Lt. Col. James Conville who will speak at the ASUO assembly Thursday in McArthur court on postwar gov ernment in Germany. “There was once in St. Lo when I was dashing to a ditch for pro tection against point-blank artil lery fire that I stumbled into a mass of telephone wires on the ground, became completely caught in them and couldn’t get out to save my life. Then a couple of Jerry planes came over strafing, and I swear the only reason they didn’t shoot at me was because they thought I was dead. The other fellows yelled that I’d see it through and not to worry. Yes, a sense of humor is a great thing.” Four Stars He wears four oampaign stars on his ETO ribbon and took part with the first army in the campaigns in England, Normandy, Belgium, Lux embourg, Holland, and Germany. “I didn’t stay in any one place very long,” he said. “We set up A.M.G. (American Military Gov ernment) organizations in the towns and left someone else to do the job.” After serving in the European theater of operations for more than two and a half years, Col. Con ville returned to the United States two months ago, and is expecting a discharge soon. He will then re turn to his home in Astoria, where he was formerly city manager. Col. Conville took part in World War I and retained his reserve commission until September 14, 1940, when he was again called into (Please turn to page four) Greeks were jubilant today with the announcement that Ed Allen had won the ASUO presidency by the slim margin of 15 votes. Allen tallied 639 votes, and Jack Craig, Indepen dent candidate, tallied 624 votes, to become vice president of ASUO. The Independent candidate, Janet Douglas, also took the second vice presidency with 656 votes. Phyllis Evans, with 604 votes, will be secre tary. Allen, at an acceptance speech on the steps of Johnson hall, after the news came out, pledged to do his best to institute the University congress plan as set forth in his platform. The only Independent victory oc curred in the freshman class, where Ed Marshall tallied 294 votes against Barbara Hawley's 231. Jeanne Simmonds with 240 votes, will be secretary; and Marilyn Stratton with 229 votes, will be treasurer. Representatives All ASUO class representatives were elected as follows: Anita Young and Dorothy Godknecht, senior; Bob Davis and Gil Roberts, junior; Sue Schoenfeldt and Dick Wilkins, sophomore. Other class officers elected were: senior—Louise Goodwin, president, 47; D. Lu Simonsen, vice president, 28; Helen Holden, secretary, 42; Charlotte Calder, treasurer, 26;] and junior—Marge Cowlin, presi dent, 218; Doug Moore, vice presi dent, 147; Marguerite Wittwer, secretary, 206; and Harriett Farr, treasurer, 118. (JO Coeds Do Volunteer Work on Ration Board Through the war board several University women have done volun teer work at the Eugene ration board. Among the workers are: Lois Croner, Martha Cool, Sally Bernhard, Barbara Goodrum, Har riet Farr, Betsy West, Waunalee Sweet, Barbara Weisz, Geneva Da vis, Laurel Shanafelt, Nancy Knight, Virginia Hammond, Peggy Finnell, Janet Hicks, Suzanne Sim mons, Nancy Carlisle, Nila Desing er, and Mary Lou Welsh. Dr. Collins to Speak at Seminar 4 p.m. Thursday Dr. E. Hobart Collins, assistant professor of physics, will speak on “Industrial Research in Physics,” at the physics seminar Thursday at 4 p.m. in 105 Deady. At the meeting of the chemistry seminar Tuesday Dr. W. J. Kroll, metallurgist at the Northwest Electro-development laboratory of the Bureau of Mines at Albany, dis cussed “The Metallurgy of Some Rare Metals.” This was the last meeting of the present term. Red Cross Petitions Due Seven positions are now open on the Red Cross board, an nounces Mary Landry, campus Red Cross chairman. Petitions for chairmen of the finance, water safety, accident preven tion, publicity, phone, scrapbook, and blood donors committees will be. turned in to her at the Alpha Phi house by noon Tues day, May 29.