Scholarship Clarification
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Class Officers Head Junior Weekend;
Chairmanship Petitions Due Monday
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Paul Robeson
Explains Why
He Left Stage
Negro Singer Hopes
To Advance Liberalism
By MARGUERITE WRIGHT
Paul Robeson, word-famous
American Negro singer, actor,
and athlete, yesterday told a
group of Hendricks hall
women why he had chosen to
abandon his career on the con
cert stage to devote his time
to the cause of liberalism and
democracy.
Robeson stopped briefly on the
campus to visit a young friend,
Trudy Chernis, sophomore in jour
nalism, and found himself sur
rounded by students as he chatted
in the Hendricks livingroom. He
wks persuaded to sing several
Negro spirituals, including “Old
Man River,” and a Russian folk
song, to a rapt audience of coeds
and housemothers. The only pay
ment he exacted was their atten
tion to a short talk.
"This is a good illustration of
what I shall be doing when I’ve
finished my concert tour,” he ex
plained. The tall massive Negro
said he was working with the
National Negro congress and the
Progressive Citizens of America,
of which Henry Wallace is a
member.
America’s Responsibility
“I am doing this because I feel
that America faces a very im
portant time in its history,” he
said, “I feel that we have the ca
pacity to shape the world; in one
direction we can go backward (to
a world half slave, half free) or
we can help the forces which will
free the world.”
America has the ability and
background to create a true de
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Quota Club Offers
Tuition Scholarship
Quota club international will
award a tuition scholarship of
$37.50 to a sophomore student for
spring term on the basis of schol
arship, personality, and need. Ap
plication blanks may be obtained
at the dean of women’s office and
must be turned in by March 7, the
deadline set by Dr. Marion Hayes,
chairman of the Quota Club com
mittee.
The winner will be selected on
the basis of the written applica
tion, personal interviews, and
counsel of the dean of women.
Students who rank high in schol
arship, who are in need of fi
nancial assistance, and who show
professional promise are eligible
to apply, according to informa
"♦fon on the application blank.
Winners of this sophomore
spring term scholarship in 1945
were Shirley Louise Multhauf, Ni
non Odile King, Barbara Radmore,
and Lois Roeder.
Beavers to Present Assembly
To Usher in Final Oregon Game
Oregon State will present their traditional exchange as
sembly at 7 :b0 tonight in McArthur court. Planning the pro
gram are Tom Moyer, OSC student body president, and Chuck
Dunham, OSC rally chairman. ASUO President Tom Kay
will preside.
Yell King Tom Hazzard emphasized that the assembly is
to be strictly entertainment. University of Oregon basketball
Half-Grassed Campus
Grows Up—No Mowers
Oregon students will soon be
holding their picnics right on the
campus, if the height of the grass
is any indication of a picnic area.
The campus lawn mowers were
burned beyond repair in the ware
house fire two weeks ago, and the
physical plant has been unable to
secure any to cut the flourishing
grass these spring-like days.
According to C. K. Weidner,
superintendent of the physical
plant, two power driven triples—
the largest the University owns
—and one small power mower, as
well as two hand mowers, Were
destroyed. They will be replaced
as soon as possible, but in the
meanwhile, the grass is becoming
knee deep, and it is rumored that
the sheepherders of eastern Ore
gon have been scouting the cam
pus for potential pasture.
lettermen seniors playing their
last game Saturday night, includ
ing George Bray, Ken Hays, Roy
Seeborg, and Bob Wren, will be
honored. Coach Hobby Hobson is
to speak and present the basket
ball team, which will play OSC
Saturday night.
Master of ceremonies for the
assembly is Kurt Cutsforth. Both
the OSC and Oregon rally squad
are to appear.
The assembly is a follow-up on
the Oregon assembly at OSC yes
terday. Master of ceremonies at
the txchange at OSC was Bob
Moran. A quartet, consisting of
the exchange at OSC was Bob
wards, and Norm Henwood, sang
“For Sentimental Reason s,’’
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,”
and "Sweet Sue.” They also gave
their interpretation of what a
radio program should be, bringing
in Walter Winchell and the man
on the street. June Johnson sang
two classical songs.
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Robert Daggett, Barbara Fullmer
To Organize Spring Term Function
Following the precedent set by the sophomore class in the
handling- of its own class functions, the junior class officers
yesterday announced that they would take over the reigns
of their own Junior W eekend.
Mob Daggett, president of the junior class, announced that
he and Harbara Fullmer, -secretary of the class, would work
together as co-chairmen of the event, scheduled May 9, 10. and
Musicians to Give
Woodwind Recital
A music school recital composed
of woodwind solo numbers will be
given tonight at 8 p.m. in the music
school auditorium. Clarinet and bas
soon numbers will form the major
part of the program.
The recital is free to the public,
and is under the direction of John
Stehn, associate professor of music.
Program
Musette and Scherzo (Leclair) :
Margaret Holm, clarinet; Wilma!
Jeanne Wilson, piano.
First Movement, Sonata (Hinde-j
mith) Jean Hudspeth, bassoon; Ai
lene Wendt, piano.
Staccato March (Maganini) John
Stehn, clarinet; Jean Hudspeth,
bassoon.
Sarabande and Allegro (Haen
del-Walnl George Warner, clarinet;
Thad Elvigion, piano.
Condertino (Guilhaud) Gladys
Stone, clarinet; Louise Robson, pi
ano.
Piece Lyrique (Mawet) Shirley
Gay Williams, clarinet; Lucretia
Prentiss, piano.
SDX Meeting Today
Sigma Delta Chi, journalism
fraternity, will hold a meeting in
room 104 of the journalism build
ing at 4 p.m. today for the nom
ination of officers.
Nominee Introduction Program Slated
For Women’s Pre-Election Meet Today
] he nomination slate of can
didates for offices in the As
sociated Women Students,
Young Women’s Christian as
sociation. and the Women’s
Athletic association will he
introduced in a pre-voting as
sembly from 12:30 to 1 p. m.
today in the Gerlinger gym.
Voting is scheduled from 1
to 5 p. m. in the hall outside
the dean of women’s office
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VIRGINIA SCHOLL . . .
Outgoing WAA president
with members of M o r t a r
i Board, Phi Theta Upsilon, and
ivvama assisting in the ballot
ing.
All University women are urged
tc remember to take their ASUO
cards, YWCA, and WAA member
ship cards with them when they
attend the A WS-YWCA-WAA
elections this afternoon. While all
women are members of AWS, their
ASUO cards must be punched be
fore they can. vote for their officers.
Only members of the YWCA and
WAA may vote for officers in those
organizations.
Candidates’ Names Withheld
Until the candidates are an
nounced and introduced at the as
sembly, only the nominating com
mittees of the three organizations
will know who the candidates are.
AWS officers to be elected will
succeed Bea King, president; Doro
thy Davis, vice-president; Barbara
Johns, secretary; ' Ann Burgess,
treasurer; Trudi Chernis, reporter;
and Prudy McCroskey, sergeant-at
arms.
IieJprganization Planned
New A’WS officers will put to
work the reorganization plans pro
vided by this 3'ear’s cabinet, with
the aid and advice of Mrs. Golda
Wickham, dean of women.
“There is a great need on this
campus for women’s activities, even
more so with men resuming their
old jobs. It is absolutely necessary
that all women get behind the AWS,
MARGE SKORDAHE
1946-47 YWCA president
which is head and coordinating
group,” Mrs. Wickham declared.
"I am expecting outstanding work
to be done next year to benefit all
women students and the Univer
sity.”
Cabinet Is Nucleus
The AWS cabinet is the nucleus
for the AWS council, which is com
posed of presidents of the YWCA,
WAA, Mortar Board, Phi Theta
Upsilon, Kwama, Panhellenic, and
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11, and that Jeanne Simmonds,
vice-president, and Joyce Neider
meyer, class treasurer, would
also take active parts in the Ju
nior weekend arrangements.
Sophomore First
This decisiort was announced
after officers of the class of ’49
chairmanned their Sophomore
Wliiskerino, and will precede the
freshman plan of the class offi
cers taking- charge of the Frosh
Glee.
Daggett, junior in business ad
ministration, and member of Dru
ids, and Miss Fullmer, junior in
psychology and Phi Theta Upsilon
president, are calling for petitions
for committee heads and workers,
it was announced yesterday.
Positions open include: pro
motion, prom, all-campus sing,
terrace dance, all-campus clean
up, luncheon, sunlight serenade,
finance, traditions, publicity,
and coronation.
Petitions Due
Students are encouraged to pe
tition for the chairmanships and
places on the committees, and al
though only junior class members
may serve as committee heads,
students from all classes may
work on the committees. All pe
titions must be submitted to Dag
gett, at the Sigma Chi house, or
Barbara Fullmer, at the Alprfc
Omicron Pi house by 6 p. m. Mon
day.
UO Miss Vogue
To Show Today
A silver tea and college fashion
show will be presented this after
noon for all University students,
students’ wives, high school seniors,
and faculty wives, by Theta chap
ter Theta Sigma Phi, women’s na
tional professoinal journalism fra
ternity. The show, which will lea*
ture the naming of Miss Vogue, >3
scheduled from 4 to 5:30 in alumni
hall, Gerlinger.
Fashion commentator will be
Jane Ellsworth, junior in journal
ism, who will introduce each model
and observe fashion points about
each outfit. The coeds, chosen toy
their houses to appear in the show,
picked their own costumes, and the
fashions will range from pedal
pushers to formals, Marilyn Sage,
president of the group and chair
man of the show, promised.
Miss Vogue, who will not be nt tt
fied of her honor until the show t: is
afternoon, was picked from 15 final
ists. She was chosen as a represen
tative of Oregon's well-dressed,
well-groomed, poised coed, and ' 1
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Special Tickets Needed
For Beaver-Oregon Tilt
Mrs. Dee Wren, ticket mana
ger, issued a reminder yesterday
that students planning to attend
tlie Oregon State game at McAr
thur court Saturday must get ex
change tickets from the educa
tional activities office.
The office will be open from 8
to 12 and from I to 5 today and
tomorrow, and from 8 to 12 Sat
urday.
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