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Oregon VOLUME XLVIII Number 65 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1947 Historian Back From France Forgets Class Bells In Describing Trip After a stormy passage on the U. S. S. America, Dr. Gordon Wright, assistant professor of his tory, returned to the campus Sun day from his diplomatic post in France and resumed his teaching duties. “My class in European his tory is just about the same size it was when I left,” he smiled, when looking over his class cards Sunday night. During the war Dr. Wright worked for the U. S. state depart ment on French affairs with close contact with the French desk. His division surveyed policy covering every region of the world. Early in 1945 he transferred to the foreign service and went to France. His trip to Paris while the war was still on was made via a round-about route through Lisbon and Spain, leading a caravan of au tomobiles carrying foreign service personnel. In Paris he worked in the embas sy on the diplomatic side of the foreign service, called professional ly “political reporting.” A trip to Belgium and a trip to Switzerland broke his Paris stay, p Immediately after his return to Eugene, a Eugene that seemed the opposite of Paris, Dr. Wright re sumed his popular lectures in Euro pean history, forgetting about bells signifying the end of the period, While his class listened intently. Music Fraternity To Hold Banquet Pi chapter of Phi Beeta, women’s national fraternity of music and drama, will hold a banquet Tuesday evening, honoring the patrons of the University of Oregon music school and department of speech and dramatic art. The banquet is to be held at the Eugene hotel. Patricia Metcalf Chase, president of the chapter, is in charge of ar rangements for the banquet. She will be assisted by other officers and alumnae advisers, Mrs. Earl Pallett and Mrs. James Rodman, Jr. DK. GORDON WRIGHT . . . Committee Forms To Aid Fund Drive Plans for the World Student Ser vice Fund drive on the University of Oregon campus are getting un der way now, Chairman Tom Haz zard announced Monday. A campus committee will soon be formed to aid in the international effort, he said. The drive on the campus will reach its height February 3 to Feb ruary 8 when a speaker from over seas will come to Oregon as a part of a U. S. tour. Hazzard was named chairman of the Oregon drive by the University Religious Council. Members of his committee will be announced this week. The World Student Service fund was created in 1937 after the spon taneous response of U. S. students to the struggles and privations of their fellow students in China. Throughout the war, material aid and friendly services have gone to students in devastated areas, relief centers, prison camps, and tempo rary universities whenever possi ble. During the last UCLA-USC game Jack Benny, famed comedian, said in the course of his speech on behalf of student relief: “The World Stu dent Service fund must raise a mil lion dollars this year, That isn't much considering that American students spent $38,700,000 for foot ball alone last year.” Grades Pay Off in Good Jobs, Student Placement Head Avers Charm, Character Of Prime Interest By HANS WOLD Good grades pay off in terms of good jobs for graduating students, Dean Karl W. Onthank, head of the University student placement ser vice, said Friday concerning job placement of graduates. “Personality and character qual ities are of prime interest to most prospective employers,” the dean said, “and the quality of work done by the job applicant in school is of ten of more importance than the particular courses taken.” Ability Declared Asset Ability to handle responsibility is a great asset to any graduate in ap plying for a job, he said. “Employers particularly like a man who has held a position suc cessfully in the past,” Onthank de clared, “even though his experience may not bear directly on the posi tion he is to hold. References Aid Job-Seekers Recommendations, both from previous civilian employers and former commanding officers in the armed forces, are often the means of obtaining excellent positions with business concerns that are looking for men and women to shoulder re sponsibility, the dean pointed out. •“Graduating students should have established connections with sev eral concerns by June, giving them selves. and their prospective em ployers time to size one another up,” Onthank said. Immediate Employment Advised Failure to arrange for immediate employment after graduation may result in the student losing his chance to negotiate for a suitable ! position through an agency which has the contacts with business con cerns afforded by the University placement service, he pointed out. The first stop in establishing such contacts, Onthank said, is for the student to make himself available (Please turn to page seven) Affairs Group Elects Leader New Club to Stimulate International Thought Walt Crosby, pre-law sophomore, was recently elected president of the International Relations club, new campus organization formed to stimulate student thought on world affairs. Although the club is sponsored by the political science department, membership is open to all students regardless of their majors. Meetings are held once a month at one of the campus living organizations, and refreshments are served. At the last meeting Even Davies, law junior, spone on the Dardanelles question and a discussion followed. The next meeting will be held the first week in February, exact date to be named later in the Emerald. Other club officers are Pat Dar by, secretary-treasurer, and Jerry Moore, program director. Dr. Paul Dull, assistant professor of politi cal science, is adviser for the group. Collie Collared By Whooping Bug Warning to campus canines! There is an epidemic of dog whoop ing cough in Eugene. For proof we offer the case of Laddie, the collie. An habitue of the journalism building where his owner, Miss Ailene McNett is a sec retary, Laddie recently contacted the bug and has been whooping ever since. To add insult to injury, Laddie’s doctor ordered him to remain at home until the cough subsides. Lad die, who has not missed a day of school in the past five years, is wor rying about his attendance record. Egypt-us It seems we have an honored guest. A day late? Well, he did his best. Say, what's Egyptian for “good day?’ —Well, ‘hierogryphics,’ anyway. —G.M.C. Weather Grounds Lecturer's Plane Noted Scholar to Lecture Today On Egyptian Religion, Art, Culture I lie plane which was to bring Dr. Henri Frankfort to the campus Monday for a series of lectures on Kgyptian religion and culture was grounded in Chicago because of inclement weather. Dr. Frankfort will arrive today according to Dr. Paul Means, head of the religions department, which is sponsoring the lec tures in collaboration with the Universitv lectures committee. Parrish Comments On European Tour Phil Parrish, editor of the Oregon ian editorial page, was one of a group of representative American editors who was invited by the sec retary of war to tour Europe last October. Parrish will comment on his observations in a lecture sched uled for 8 this evening, in room 207, Chapman hall. The European tour made by Par rish and 11 other editors was sched uled by the war department to en able newspapermen to study and observe the operation of military government in Germany, Austria, and Italy. Traveling by military air plane, the group left Washington, D. C., on October 1, 1946. Stops were made in Berlin, Vienna, Rome, and Paris. Parrish has been a member of the staff of the Oregonian since 1928 and has been editor of the editorial page since 1939. Besides his jour nalistic writing, he has written sev eral historical accounts of Oregon, including the two books, “Before the Covered Wagon" and "Historic Oregon. The lecture was arranged by Sig mad Delta Chi, journalism honor ary. The honorary will have a din ner in honor of Parrish at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday at the College Side. The public is invited to attend the speech. Living Groups Get Tickets For Ball Tickets for the Senior ball to be held January 25 in McArthur court will go on sale this week through representative in each men's liv ing organization. Representatives named are: Ralph Eastman, Phi Kappa Psi; (Please turn to page seven) irtiH on iwr •* p.m. Dr. Frankfort’s first lectin ef "Egyptian Gods: A Problem in Po lytheism," will be delivered at 4 p.m. today in 101 physical education, f according to Dr. R. H. Ernst, head of the University lectures commit tee. A scholar in the field of archeol ogy and an authority on religion and culture of ancient Egypt, Dr, Frankfort has been director of ex cavations for the Egypt Exploration society, field director of the Orien tal institute, Iran, expeditions, and professor of history and archaeol ogy of the ancient Near East at the University of Amsterdam. Program Revised A revised list of Dr. Frankfort’s lectures at the University includes "The Egyptian State, an Element in the Created Order,” "The Egyp tian Way of Life: Truth as the Law (Flense turn to page six) WAA Carnival Set For Women’s Gym The outside women’s gym will ac commodate 23 separate concessions for the WAA carnival which is to be held from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. on Jan uary 31, according to the co-gen eral chairmen, Barbara Borrevilc and Bobbie Fulmer. At a heads of houses meeting yes terday Genevieve Siskey, chairman of booth arrangements, explained the manner of procuring space and made suggestions for the conces sions. It will be necessary for houses to combine in order that all can participate in the event, she said. There is a $2.00 charge for renting each space. 10 Cents Admission WAA is handling' the food conces sion. General admission will be 10 cents. Scrip will be available for the various concessions and for dancing on the sun porch. (Please turn to page six) Peripatetic Woodenheads Heralded A -ill imviui i ii v v< i > >j Handled Efficiently LeJEUNE GRIFFITH One scene of the Stevens Marion ette theater’s production of “Joan of Arc” was presented at the Uni versity theater Monday afternoon by Martin and Olga Stevens. The scene was given as part of a demon stration on the art of puppetry. The only complaint of the audi ence was that there was not enough of the actual performance. The mar ionettes, which are constructed to one-tenth of human size of plastic wood with bodies of carved Califor nia sugar pine, looked so real and were handled so efficiently that it was easy for the audience to accept the illusion of their reality. The only thing that broke this illusion was the movement of Joan, which would not have been noticeable had she been clothed in a floor-length cos time. The performance was sponsored by the advisory board of the Uni versity theater and financed by tjie educational activities board. PROUD PUPPETEERS . . . I Olga and Martin Stevens are pictured with marionettes which portrayed i “Joan of Arc” in production demonstration given Monday at University j theat^1.