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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1946)
Blue Skies Top Off 'State Fair’ Festival THE QUEEN FLOAT Built by Druids, junior men’s hon orary, carried “State Fjair” Queen Pat Met calf, and her four princesses, June Johnson, Mary Dixon, Marilyn Rakow, and Dor is Spearow, to the scene of the coro nation on the old campus. Below: Gamma Phi Beta and Sherry Ross hall built the horse drawn “Strawber ry blondes” float. —Courtesy Reg ister-Guard. •—Courtesy Eugene Register-Guard Student-Business Meet To Discuss Job Training The fifth annual student-business conference, the first to be held since before the war, will hold its first meeting today at 2 p.m. in Room 105 Commerce. According to Victor P. Morris, dean of the school of business administration, the various speakers will discuss such questions as, “Where are the best opportunities in business?” “What personal qualifications are need ed?” and, “What college training is most important?” Fifteen businessmen from Port land, Salem, and Eugene, repre senting a wide range of commercial fields, will lead discussion groups in their particular fields. The program for today will in clude : 2:00-3:15 Governmental Account ing. Percy Brown, Eugene ac countant, speaker. 105 Com merce. Industrial Accounting. Thomas Winn, Eugene accountant, speaker. 105 Commerce. Exporting, Importing and Shipping. K. C. Conyers, of Pope ► & Talbot, Portland, speaker. 107 Commerce. Real Estate. Wilbur J. Falloon, Portland, speaker. 106 Com merce. 3:15-3:30 Coffee will be served in the YMCA Lounge by Phi Chi Theta, business administration fraternity for women. * 3:30-4:15 Airlines. C. A. Eberhardt, United Air Lines, Eugene, speaker. YMCA recreation room. 3:30-4:45 Advertising. Arthur House of House and Leland, Portland, speaker. YMCA lounge. The schedule of tomorrow’s con ference will be in Wednesday’s Emerald. Ex-GI’s to Answer Another Query In a few days a vitally impor tant questionaire will be sent to all veterans under Public Law 16 or Public Law 346 in attendance at the University. It should be completed, signed, and returned to the veterans’ administration guid ance center, Room 114, P.E. build ing. This questionaire contains im portant statements regarding changes of address which must have prior approval of the veter ans’ administration. Any veteran who dees not re ceive or complete the questionaire by May 25 is requested to report in person to the guidance center, Room 114, P.E. building. WASHINGTON, May 13.— (UP)—The senate and house completed action on President Truman’s emergency housing bill and sent it to the white house for signature. Fete Satisfaction Expressed By Co-Chairmen Sage, Kay Blue skies shone over the Oregon campus in response to Buck Buckwach year’s old editorial imploring Jupe Pluvius to hold off for the Junior Weekend festivities. Co-chairmen Mari lyn Sage and Tom Kay expressed themselves as “pleased” with the results of the annual event. Beginning with the outdoor tempo of Ted Hallock’s straw hatted combo on the library terrace Friday afternoon, the “State Fair” celebration rolled into high Friday night with the presentation of the all-campus sing at McArthur court. Winners of the sing were Chi Ome ga and Omega hall, who were awarded cups for their choral work by Dave Fortmiller, chairman of the affair. Simultaneously with the “State Fair” the annual Mother’s Day was celebrated on the campus. Jean Watson was chairman of the Mom’s day events. ‘O’ Painting Led off by painting of the “O" atop Skinner's Butte and cleaning of the Oregon seal in front of Vil lard hall, traditions continued into the tug-of-war Saturday between the freshmen and sophomore class. Prior to the Weekend, an all campus clean-up was carried out with University and Sherry Ross hall winning the prizes in records for doing the best job. Float Parade Trailing down Willamette street, the float parade opened the second day of the fete. The prize-winning float, a huge pig, was built by Al pha Xi Delta and Sigma Phi Epsi lon. Dick Savinar, float committee chairman, awarded trophies to the winning organization at the out door dinner. Ruling over the entire Weekend was Queen Pat Metcalf and her court of four princesses. The prin cesses were Mary Dixon, Marilyn Rakow, Doris Spearow, and June Johnson. At the outdoor dinner Queen Pat was crowned by Prime Minister “Little Ox” Wilson. Tapping of various honorari'es was carried through at the dinner and at other functions. Junior Prom To the music of Gus Arnheim and his orchestra, the Junior Prom was presented to a packed audi ence at McArthur court. During the intermission, the Gerlinger and Koyl cups were awarded to Mar jorie Skordahl and Gil Roberts. Dorothy Davis was chairman of the dance committee. Assisting Miss Davis in cleaning up the court was a committee headed by Toby West as chairman. On the committee was Betty Lou Dunday, Sally Eaves, Dona Mular key, Georgia Moscript, May Big nell, Marbeth Stranahan, Shirley Crump, Betty Simmons, Marty Jennings, Bev Slaney, Marge Weeks, Tommy Tompson, Pat Thomas. Fran Budo, Nancy Harlein, Bill Field, Cam Mallory, and Jack Ru ble. The committee did the “best job that's ever been done,’’ Miss Davis said'. “I wish to express my appreciation to all who helped in this job, including the administra tion and physical plant employ ees.” Delta Tau Delta Fetes Noted Alum at Luncheon Delta alumnus Ernest Haycox, Oregon author and 1923 University graduate, was guest of honor at a luncheon given by members of Del ta Tau Delta fraternity Thursday noon at the Westgate Inn. Haycox gave an informal talk to the members after the luncheon, which was presided over by Paul Eckleman, president of the frater nity. George Hall, acsistant dean of men, was also a guest. UO OPINION POLL (Continued from page one) plained, taking- the right number of students from each class and major. Check An interesting check on the scientific poll of the public opinion class is afforded by an informal survey by Dan E. Clark, director of the summer session, during win ter term. At that time Dr. Clark took a cross section of everyone attending the ten o’clock classes and about 20 per cent of those asked intended to return. This checks favorably with the 21 per cent figure obtained by the public opinion class. A definite preponderance of men during the summer session is pre dicted by Mr. Price on the basis of the student poll. Of the 110 men polled 27 said they would return and 71 said they would not. This is a percentage of 35.4 who intend to return during the summer. Coeds Low The coeds on the campus fall far below this figure. Of the 119 women polled 9 said they would return and 110 said they would not. This percentage is only 7.6 of the women polled. Last year's total enrollment was only 543 from all sources, Mr. Price stated, whereas the present estimate is based on those students on the campus now. Dr. Clark has informally stated that the summer enrollment figure may go to 1250 and that “he would not be sur prised” if it went much higher. All returns have not yet come in, Mr. Price asid. It is difficult to reach an accurate cross-section of the students as the total enroll ment is comparatively small. An error of 7.5 per cent may be ex pected from the student poll be cause of this fact while in a Gallup poll an error possibility of only 3 per cent is permitted. The summer session question is only one of a number of questions asked by the public opinion class. Tabulations from other questions will be reported in future editions of the Emerald. NELSON NAMED (Continued from page tivo) At Monday’s meeting, the board named Olga Yevitch, freshman in. liberal arts, as editor of the 1946 47 student directory, and decided that Gamma Alpha Chi, women’s advertising honorary, should be in charge of advertising in the direc tory. The board also awarded the con tract for portrait work on the Oregana to Kenneil-Ellis, appropri ated travel funds for Dick Wil liams, educational activities man ager, to attend a managers’ con ference in Victoria, B.C., and di rected Williams to investigate available speakers for next year’s all-campus lecture series. Graduating List Posted At Registrar's Office The list of seniors whose appli cations for bachelor’s degrees have been received is posted at window 8 of the registrar’s office on the second floor of Johnson hall. Clif ford L. Constance, assistant regis trar, asks that all seniors check; to see that their applications have been received.