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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1945)
Review of '44-'45 Events (Continued from page twenty) light as co-chairman with Bob Moran of the 6th war loan drive. November—In the Swing Coeds-of-the-week: Barbara ^entiey, Miss Lane County; Carol sslbulsky, Old Oregon editor; Mari lyn Holden, junior class vice presi dent. Life magazine discovered that Oregon had beautiful women and printed a half page-fui of them surrounding Governor Bricker. The picture of Marilyn Sage, glamor ous blonde, inspired an anonymous citizen of Washington, D.C., to write a letter to the dean of women. Paper drives, scrap drives, the bond drive, the WSSF drive made news. . . . The Piggers Guide rolled off the presses. . . . Yeomen were ^organized under Ted Kent and Jack Craig. . . . OSC withdrew from the intercollegiate bond drive contest, reaping many Bronx cheers from the Ducks. . . . Norris Yates wrote leftist articles in the Emerald about Mexican peons. . . . Sinnott and Buell feuded with glee. . . . Sophomores coaxed chin foli age for the annual Whiskerino. I f • • • the student union committee | plodded along, making plans. Miss Holliday wrote an irate let j ter to the editor about intellectual snobs following a controversial edi torial by Peggy Overland which accused students of supplying profs with cigarets and likker, causing much discussion pro and con. The University received a cer tificate for meritorious service in training meteorology students for the air corps. Former dean of the law school, Yt ayne Morse, loaded his horse in a trailer and headed for Capitol Hili to take over his new job as US senator. Robert Schmitz, famous pianist, appeared in concert in the Igloo. . . . the ISA held a Turkey Strut dance. . . . The exec council strong ly advised a change in the Univer sity advisory system. . . . Vesper choir programs were given. .. .“The Corn Is Green’’ was produced by the Guild theater thespians. . . . Dean of Women Schwering died, causing the postponement of sev eral house dances. The Oregon basketball team showed promise in pre-season tilts, winning the first five games. ASTP students left the campus in a driz zling downpour. Attention Reserve rooms for your Commencement Guests NOW * EXCELLENT SERVICE * MODERN DINING ROOM * HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE Osborne Hotel 8th and Pearl Phone 891 WINTER TERM January and Basketball . . . Emerald sports editor predicted that John Warren had a quintet of champs, and the Ducks continued their wins wit ha close 42-40 tri umph over tiie Idaho Vandals. The fall term grade point aver age for the entire student body was a poor 2.-124, but 106 students made the honor roll, indicating that al! men are not born equal and most men don't work hard enough. Twenty U. of O. students were listed in the collegiate edition of W iio’s Who. Newcomers on tne campus in cluded Mrs. Golda Wickham, new dean of women, many returning veterans, and the first .Nisei to come back to Oregon. The ratio of men on the campus increased to two to seven, com pafed with fall term’s one man to five women. . . . The seniors prommed at their Club ’45 formal . . . The University band enlisted the aid of part-time musicians to play at basketball games. . . . “Heaven Can Waif’ was produced by the Guild theater. Coeds-of-the-Week in January: Christine Lamoreaux, Bonds Away Girl; Dorothy Conrad, Oregon Dream Girl; Signe Eklund, Phi Theta Upsilon president. ASUO President Holliday intro duced her plan to eliminate bloc pressure in the freshman elections; the plan was accepted by the Greeks and Independents. Jack Craig was chosen to head the Dads Day committee; elaborate plans were made and no-transpor tation orders from Washington bureaucrats proved to be no re specters of tradition by Causing the cancellation of this time-hon ored one. However, a new tradition may have been born out of the chaos: a group of men, the Secret Six, tapped ten of Oregon’s out standing coeds and ironically chose Mary Margaret Ellsworth to ruie as Hospitality Girl to greet the dads who never came. Coed Capers was enthusiastically attended by Oregon women ant several unwanted Oregon men who were unceremoniously thrown out of Gerlinger by strong-armed Miss Holliday and a squad of coed-cops. Dorothy Conrad was chosen Ore gon Dream Girl at the affair. Joseph Szigeti, renowned violin Wishing the -students a good vacation, etc. We hope we will be well enough supplied with meat to better fill your needs next year. Packing Co. 675 Willamette / Phone 38 and 39 ist, scraped to admiring culture acquirers in McArthur court. . . . Ducks walloped Beavers, 51-44. . . . Law school barristers neglected their codes to enjoy a brief fling at the Eugene hotel ballroom and bar. . . . Madame Alfred Jonniaux, cos mopolite, talked international rela tions at an assembly. Or. Harry Newbarn of the State University of Iowa was named new president of the University. . . . * i-—-— Eager coeds daubed bright yellow traffic paint over the sacriligious coat of orange applied to the “O” on Skinners Butte by visiting van dals from OSC. Floyd Fredrickson, creek candi date, was elected president of the freshman class. ... A bevy of Rus sion cossacks danced and sang to a capacity audience in the Igloo. . . . Mortar Boards encouraged frosli (Please turn to page twenty-three) Food for Thought IN FINALS * SALADS * CRACKERS * FRUITS * PASTRIES * CANDY * ICE CREAM Try ELLIOTT’S GROCERY 13th and Patterson Phone 95 CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU SENIORS OF 1945 .. . ! For your last final week at the University supply yourself now with food for those midnight supper snacks. Food suggestions from our delicatessen department and pas tries from our bakery make any snack a delicious one. 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