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VOLUME XLVUI Number 17 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1946 __ _ —EMERALD photo by Don Jones. NOT A BRICK OCT OF PLACE ... Five newly-elected Homecoming Hostesses pose on the brick wall in the women’s quadrangle. From left to right they are: Mary Joy Ham, Chi Omega; Martha Thorsland, Pi Beta Phi; Nancy Gloor, Alpha Phi; Joan Williams, Delta Gamma; and Dawn Carson, Delta Delta Delta. • • *74e JtcuieM. . WUo? Finalists Say Hello Names of the five beautiful finalists who were selected by judges from 23 candidates in the Homecoming Hostess contest were announced Friday by Sue Schoenfeldt, chairman of the con test committee. The girls are Martha Thorsland, Pi Beta Phi; Joan Williams, Delta Gamma; Nancy Gloor, Alpha Phi; Dawn Carson, Delta Delta Delta; and Mary Joy Ham, Chi Omega. The winning girl, who will be selected by popular vote, will be the official “welcome girl” during Homecoming weekend and will act as hostess for many of the social events such as the rally dance on Saturday, October 19. Polling will take place all day Monday in the Co-op to choose the “Homecoming Hostess of 1946.” Students must present their educational activities cards in or^er to vote. The final selection of Homecoming Hostess will be an nounced at the rally October 18. Miss Thorsland, an English major, is from Eugene. Political science is the major for Miss Williams who comes from Portland. Miss Gloor, a social science major is from Berkeley, California, and Miss Carson is majoring ifi business administration. Her home is in San Francisco. Miss Ham is majoring in business administration at the University while deciding whether to make the United States or British Columbia her home. She will have a choice of citizenship when she becomes 21. The girls were notified of their selection Wednesday night when Sue Schoenfeldt called each girl to arrange for their group picture. They were asked to keep their identity secret until offi cial announcment was made. Campus Cuties Given Opportunity To Strut Stuff At Homecoming By JUNE GOETZE Choice of five of the most beautiful girls on campus will be given University students Monday when the five finalists for Homecoming hostess are voted upon at the co-op. Announce ment of the winner of the contest will not be made until the offi cial Homecoming hostess is introduced at the rally following the noise parade and the frosh bonfire Oct. 18. Joan Williams of the Delta Gamma house is a native of Eugene having lived here all her life except during her senior year in high school When she attended Washington high in Portland. At the end of that year She was named queen of the Port land Rose Festival. Majoring in political science, Joan is president of Kwama, sopho more women's honorary. Brown haired and brown-eyed Joan is 19 years old and five feet seven inches tall. Last year she was treasurer of her class. Mary Joy Ham, sophomore in business administration, has made her home in British Columbia. Given her choice of citizenship in the United States or Canada when she is 21 years old, she decided to attend the University of Oregon to help her make her decision. Skiing and swimming are among the hobbies of the petite blue-eyed blonde, a member of the Chi Omega house. Dawn Carson of the Tri-Delta house is a graduate of Lowell high school in San FYancisco. Five feet seven and one-half inches tall, she has brown hair and eyes. Dawn is now in her third year attending the University and is majoring in liberal arts. Nancy Gloor, senior in social science, is five feet five inches tall with blonde hair and green eyes. Just last Tuesday she celebrated her 21st birthday. A member of the Alpha Phi house, Nancy is a native ^Berkeley, California. Martha Thorsland, senior in Eng lish, is the choice of the Pi Beta Phi house. Tapped last Junior Weekend (Please turn to page eight) UO President Slated to Speak in Capital City President Harry IC. Newburn will speak before a luncheon meeting of the Salem Business and Profession al Women in Salem Monday. Theme of the meeting is “Let’s work to gether for a better community.” Dr. Newburn will use this subject as a topic for his talk. The school administrators’ annual conference will also be attended by Dr. Newburn while in Salem. Piggers Guide To Show Nov.l Definite announcement that the 1946-47 “Piggers Guide” will be available on November 1 was given by Editor Olga Yevtich, Friday. Although the student directory will be twice as long as the issue of last year, it will be essentially the same. Work on the publication will be facilitated by uie use of an IBM machine from the registrars office. The cover designed by ‘Scotty” Min dolovich is now in the process of being printed. Laura Olson will edit the feature section. Jean Johnson, associate editor, stressed that good typists are needed to aid the staff. Those inter ested may call the University news bureau, extension 252, any evening after 7 p.m. The University “Pigger’s Guide” office has recently been moved from the ASUO office in McArthur court. Sceptic Hour Slated For Religious Week 13 Noteworthy Speakers to Conduct * Forums With Open Discussion Periods ^ "A Sceptic’s Hour” has been added to the program of Reli gious Emphasis week, to be held on the campus October 27 to November 1, it was announced by Martha Thorsland, student chairman of the event, Friday. For each of the school days during the week there will be one of the guest speakers present to conduct a question and answer Snapshot Pages Set Two pages have definitely been alloted in the 1947 Oregana for in formal snapshots, Hoy Paul Nelson, editor, said yesterday. He added that additional space might be used if student response to the current photo contest is sufficiently large. Cash prizes of $10, $7, and $5 will be awarded the Three winning en trants. A number of honorable men tion winners will also have their work reproduced in the Oregana. Acknowledgements will be made for all material used. Snapshots taken last spring term will be acceptable, and all entries, must be in the Ore gana offices by November 15, Nel: son said. Oregon Law Review Editors Named Bernard,Granquist, Wiener, Norville Selected to Head Technical Quarterly Editors of the Oregon Law Review were announced by Professor Charles G. Howard editor in chief this Aveek. Ap pointed were: William F. Bernard, student editor; Alva A. Granquist, note and comment editor; Norman J. Wiener, re cent cast note editor; and Gerald Norville, book review and statute editor. The review is a technical legal journal and the efficient publication of the Oregon Bar association. The appointments are made as a reward for high legal scho larship with a view to encouraging independent critical study and writing. Both Miss Granquist and Bernard were members of the larv review staff last year. All of the members of the edi torial board are third year law students, and candidates for the J.D. degree. Released last year from the Merchant Marine, Bernard is the president of Phi Delta Phi, legal honorary. The author of two recent cast notes published in the Review, his law school record as well as his Law Review Avork has been outstanding. Miss Granquist is the author of a note and comment feature (Please turn to page eight) ALVA GRANQUIST . . . Newly-named note and comment ed itor of the Oregon Law Review. period and a discussion of religious subjects, emphasizing the title of the hour. As the first observance since 1938, when such prominent speak ers as T. Z. Koo, Chinese leader, and E. Stanley Jones, internationally recognized Christian statesman, appeared, this year’s Religious Emphasis week features a galaxy of well-known religious leaders. Latest addition to the role of famous speakers scheduled to ap pear is George Nahas, Paris, travel ing in the United States under the auspices of the World Student Ser vice fund. Nahas has been decorated six times by four of the allied na tions and published a clandestine paper in France during the German occupation. He was arrested sev eral times by the Gestapo' and by the Vichy police, but escaped to carry on his underground activi ties. Religious Emphasis week is a University of Oregon affair, and has the support of the University Christian mission, with headquar ters in New York, who helps univer sities and-campuses throughout the country to hold the event. With a cast of 13 this year’s team has such prominent speakers as the bishop of California for the Episco (Plcdsc turn to page eight) Ticket Representatives To Pick Up Allotments Homecoming - dance ticket representatives who were an nounced yesterday in the Emer ald should pick up their ticket allotment today between 9 and 11 a.m. from Bob Dagget at the Sig ma Chi house or from Barbara Patterson at Kappa Alpha Theta. General admission price is $2.40 per couple and students who can not contact ticket representatives may obtain tickets at the educa tional acivities office in McArthur court. v