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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1946)
VOLUME XLVIII UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, Number 51 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1946 Eyler Brown Improving AAA Professor Stricken Sunday Eyler Brown, associate pro fessor of architecture, eyas taken to the Sacred Heart hos pital Sunday after suffering’ a cerebral hemorrhage. His con dition Tuesday afternoon was announced as"c o n s i d erably improved.” Brown’s physician, Dr. L. A. White, Eugene, said that ‘‘the out look for his recovery is relatively EYLER BROWN . . . %ood, although it will be some time before he will be able to re turn to duty.” Dr. White stated that Brown would be hospitalized for about another week. Last spring term Brown served as acting dean of the school of architecture and allied arts. He has been at the University since a 922. Christmas Seal V Drive Starts Today Teams of living organizations which will work together for the annual Christmas seal drive were announced Tuesday by Joanne Fry denlund, chairman of the drive. A goal of 20 cents ffom every student has been set by the committee head ed by Miss Frydenlund and if the i goal is reached it will bring in over $1,000. First results of the contest be ' tween living organizations will be ^posted today in the Co-op. A booth will be installed in the Co-op for students living outside of campus living organizations. Money’Goes to National Money collected during the sale, which ends Wednesday, December 11, will be turned over to the nation al seal drive to be used in the coun try’s fight against tuberculosis. Committee chairmen working with Miss Frydenlund are: Billie Jean Riethmiller, Co-op sales; Sal ly Mueller, interhouse contest; Bar bara Vowels, posters; Sally Moore, phoning; and Phyllis Hixson, booth (decorations. Houses Listed House teams will be: Alpha Chi Omega-Phi Gamma Delta; Alpha Delta Pi-Sigma Nu; Alpha Gamma Delta-Delta Upsilon; Alpha hall Sherry Ross hall; Alpha Omicron Pi-Pi Kappa Alpha; Alpha Phi-Beta Theta Pi; Alpha Xi Delta-Campbell club; Chi Omega-Sigma Alpha Ep silon; Delta Delta Delta-Alpha Tau Omega; Delta Gamma-Phi Kappa Psi; Delta Zeta-Theta Chi. Gamma hall-Omega hall; Gamma (Please turn to page eight) ''Dark of Moon1 Opens Tonight ALEXANDER KIPNIS . . . Alexander Kipnis, Met Star Scheduled to Sing Thursday Ezio Pinza and Kipnis Roles Often Compared By LAURA OLSON The name—Alexander Kipnis; the place — McArthur court; the Music association; those eligible to attend the concert — ASUO and ECMA members. Kipnis is billed as the leading bass-baritone of the Metropolitan Opera company, and is known in ternationally for his Met roles. His most famous is Czar Boris in “Bo ris Godounoff.” In 1940 Kipnis made his initial ap pearance at the Metropolitan when he sang the role of Gurnemanz in “Parsifal.” Today he is compared with Ezio Pinza who is the Met’s most fam ous basso singer. Kipnis sings the German and Russian bass-baritone roles, while Pinza takes over if the roles are in French or Italiaan. While interned in a German pris on camp during World War I, Kip nis sang for his fellow prisoners. On one of these occasions he was heard by a German colonel. The colonel summoned an operatic im pressario to discover if Kipnis’ voice was as good as the colonel 2000-4000 Card Group To Register Dec. 4-5 Following is a schedule of ad vance registration for today and Thursday. Students whose ASUO card serial numbers come in these categories should report to Johnson hall to pick up registra tion material at, or after, the time listed. 2000-2499 inclusive, Wednesday morning at 7:30. 2500-2999 inclusive, Wednesday afternoon at 12:30. 3000-3499 inclusive, Thursday morning at 7:30. 3500-3999 inclusive, Thursday af ternoon at 12:30. thought. It was, and Kipnis was subsequently released. The bass-baritone’s more famil iar roles have included King Marke in “Tristan,” Mephistopheles in (Please turn to page eight) Student Union Cards Signed Voluntary signing of cards turn-” ing the remaining balance of each student's general deposit over to the student union fund' may be done upon the completion of win ter term registration. No direct funds or pledges will be secured from the students for the student union budding, but the breakage fees, which are auto matically paid each term, may be contributed by the individual stu dent. All Webfoots are urged to help in hitting the $10,000 goal set for the campaign as no direct amounts are being requested of the students. The cards, which are available at the cashier's window in John son hall, read. ‘'To University of Oregon cashier: I hereby assign to the University of Oregon stu dent union building fund as a gift, any balance remaining in my stu dent general deposit after all other charges assessed to me have been satisfied.” One of the purposes of the cam paign is to impress the alumni, besides keeping the project before the students. At the present, all alumni are being asked to pledge funds for the building and the campus drive is hoped will satis fy the alums that the students are also eager for a student union building. Headed by Wally Johnson, the student union committee consists of Jim Luekey, Nancy Bedingfield, Gloria Grenfell, Vern Flake, Nancy i Peterson, and Bob Aiken. First Conference Delegates Arrive for Three-day Session President Newburn Greets Members (See also story page 7) Delegates to the convention of the Northwest Association of Second ary and Higher Schools will be wel comed by Dr. Harry K. Newburn, president of the University of Ore gon, at the first meeting of the con ference to be held this morning at the Mayflower theater. Representatives of the 80 univer UK. HAKKV K. NEWBURN si ties and colleges and the 550 high schools included in the membership of the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools will be on hand to discuss problems of school standards, certification regu lations for teachers, technological training, college administration, and others. This is the first general associa tion meeting to be held in Oregon, and the first conference since the war. J.C.’s Meet Also Closely associated with this con vention will be the meeting of the Northwest Association of Junior Colleges to be held at the Eugene hotel Thursday and Friday. Repre sentatives from Washington, Ore gon, Montana, Idaho, and Utah will meet to discuss corresponding prob lems as they pertain to junior col leges. The conference agenda for Wed nesday includes talks by Dr. Worth McClure, executive secretary of the American Association of School Ad ministrators; Dr. Paul E. Elicker, executive secretary of the National Association of Secondary School principals; Dr. Raymond B. Allen, president of the University of Washington; and a second address, “Problems in College Administra tion,’’ by Dr. Newburn. Members of the University staff and other interested persons have been invited to atteend the meet ings. Actors Get Dual Leads Robinson Directs New Production By JOAN LOCHEAD 1 onight will he the opening' performance on the University campus of "Dark of the Moon,” B i r n e y - Richardson Smoky mountain drama. In the drama shack back of Johnson hall which houses the University theater amid the ramble of practice and the going1 over scripts could be found Don Shirley and Alan Foster, who will play the dual leads of John the witch boy in the play. Shirley Sells Bonds Don Shirley is a senior in art and comes from Portland. When DON SHIRLEY . . . ALAN FOSTER . . . asked of his previous experiences in the acting field, he spoke of his time spent in the air force and the comedy and War Bond shows he haa played touring North Caro lina and southern states. Last sum mer several weeks were spent in working with Horace W. Robinson in Klamath Falls on the pageant. Shirley is married to a former University of Oregon graduate, Marjorie Quigley, who was also active in drama. Producing a brilliant smile, he mentioned the outstanding member of the Shirley household, his 7y2 month old son. Looks to Yale Shirley plans on graduating; from Oregon and hopes to do graduate work at Yale University. Alan Foster, well known to drama fans of the University cam pus, is also a senior and is ma (Plcdse turn to page eight)
