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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1947)
Oregon 'Dames’ Schedule Business Meets, Parties By SHIRLEY MACK ‘'Campus marriages make members. So goes the membership motto of the University of Oregon J James, an organization of l niversity students wives. \\ ith such a simple qualification for membership into this chapter ■of the national organization, the chances for increasing its size •are very favorable. The current number of wives attending the semi-monthl v meetings totals around forty, w ith the peak attendance at sixty. Sharing similar housing diffi culties and humorous accounts of -domestic perplexities, the young wives have many common inter ests. The alternate business meet 'ings and social gatherings afford them ample opportunity to meet and make new acquaintances or compare observations on food •prices, linen shortages, etc-. Hus bands are often included in the •social meetings, such as the box social scheduled for April 4. The club regularly meets the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 08 p. m. in the YMCA building on the campus. One of their pet plans for the future is to locate a new room for use as a permanent meeting place. Haugen Heads List Heading the list of officers for the coming six-month term is Betty Haugen, who was elected as president in a recent election. The other officers are Betty Jane Hatheway, vice president; Mar jorie McClintic, secretary; and Billie Pederson, treasurer. Sponsors of the club are Mrs. H. K. Newburn, Mrs. V. D. Earl, Mrs. R. V. Mills, Mrs. O. J. Hollis and Mrs. Alice B. Macduff. The club has taken part in a variety of activities since they or ganized in the spring of 1945, in cluding pot luck dinners, picnics, dances, holiday festivities and skating and swimming parties. During their membership drives they have held teas at Gerlinger or in a sponsor's home. Community Work Many of their undertakings have been beneficial to the com munity, such as helping to install a sewing room at the campus YMCA and a nursery at the Cen tral Presbyterian church. The lat ter is a cooperative day service for the children of veterans at tending the University. A number of the “Dames” have volunteered for Girl Scout work. In line with the club’s enter tainment program falls the ne cessity of keeping the treasury well-supplied. This is done by va Positions Open At Crater Lake o' u ' % \V. Fyock, presnlojtit of. the C nter Lake national pa rkjbmpnny, w It be at the student employment, office in the YMQA building April 1 ! from 1 t(i 5 p.m. to interview ap p icants foi summer employment. Mrs. Lucille Parsons, manager o the campus USES, urges that students interested in this or other s: miner employment complete t: eir registration as soon as possi ble so that congestion and confusion n i.v be avoided when employers are in' erviewing applicants. Information recently received by the student employment office in dicates that Yosemite park and C irry company jobs will be avail able only to students living in those ; a leas. Only students who are residents <••; California will be considered for p. sitions with the Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. Oregon Caves resort also has a. few positions such as store mana ger. head housekeeper, and program director available for adults. rious means, such as sponsoring skating parties and rummage sales or serving at luncheons. Their future plans include spon soring a junior weekend float; giving a membership tea; locating a permanent home; and carrying out various money-raising activi ties. This spring’s social calendar includes four business meetings, a box social, and parties on Easter i (April 8), and May Day (May 13). F-lvigion Concert Scheduled April 8 Thad Elvigion, young Eugene pianist, a veteran of World War II, will be presented in recital at the University school of music auditorium Tuesday, April 8, in a varied program, including an original composition composed by him in 1946, “Suite for Two Pi anos.” He will be assisted by Aurora Potter Underwood, associate pro fessor of piano. Freshman in Music Elvigion, a freshman in music, will also present a group of mod ern contemporary music which is being presented for the first time in Eugene. Included in his program will be Rameau’s “Musette en Rondeau,” Scarlatti’s “sonata in A Major,” Beethoven’s “Sonata, Opus 78, and three compositions by Brahms, “Ballade, Opus 116, No. 3,” “Inter mezzo, Opus 117, No. 2,” and “Capriccio, Opus 76, No. 8.” Plays Modern Groups In his modern group, he will play “Occupation,” from “Piano Suite,” by Harris; Bernstein’s “In Memoriam: Nathalie Koussevits ky,” and “For Serge Koosevitsky,” from "Seven Anniversaries for Piano," J e Ijoib i n s k y’s “Etude (Valse),’’ and Khachaturian’s ‘Toc cata." Also on his program will be Chopin’s “Concerto, No. 2, in F Minor, Opus 21.” Elvigion will complete his pro gram with his own “Suite for Two Pianos," playing the March, Noc turne, Dance, and' Fugue move ments with Mrs. Underwood at the second piano. Campus Clothes To- “° 0 • *° ‘ • Vogueafor;Mixer c A mixer dance. featuring,, the mu sic of Ted Hallock and his orchesy* tra, will he held Saturday from 9 to 12 p.m. in the Gerlingpr gymna sium. Sponsored by the members of Kwama, sophomore women’s ser vice honorary, the dance win be open to either couples or stags. Campus clothes are in order. Admission price for either indi viduals or couples is 60 cents. The dance is the first of a series to be held this term in the gym and spon sored by the various honoraries on the campus. One of the prime pur poses of the dance is to provide en tertainment for students living off campus. Chaperones for the dance are Dr. and Mrs. Eldon Johnson and Pro fessor and Mrs. E. G. Kbbighausen. General chairman for the affair is Joan Williams. Kwama president. DIMITRI Mitropoulos, famed conductor of the Minneapolis symphony orchestra, who will bring that organization to the campus for a special concert April 9. Mitropoulos, conductor since 1937, is a native of Athens, Greece, and has conducted many famous symphony orchestras both In the United States and Europe. * Campus ROTC Office Receives Army Commissions Information By JUNE McCONNEEL Staff Writer, The Emerald - The latest information concerning applications for former army officers now attending colleges and universities and who are interested in commissions in the regular army, contain the following qualifications, as received yesterday in the campus ROTC office. 1. Veterans who were formerly commissioner officers, applying for appointment in the air corps, judge advocate general's department, medical corps, dental corps, veterinary corps, and chaplain corps who will receive a college degree or complete graduate work before July 15, 1947, and are otherwise qualified under the provisions of WD Circular 289, 1946, as amend ed by section II, WD Circular 37, 1947. 2. Veterans who were formerly commissioned officers and are ap plying for regulary army appoint ment in the following branches of the promotion list: coast artillery, corps, cavalry, field artillery, in fantry, corps of engineers, finance department, ordinance department, tion corps, signal corps, and corps of military police. Those men who will receive a col lege degree before July 15, 1947, will be less than 28 years of age on July 15, 1947, were commissioned in the US or any of its components subsequent to July 15, 1944, and are otherwise qualified under the provisions of WD Circular 289, 1946, as amended will be eligible. The eligible candidates may re quest applications form§ from the Adjutant General,' Attention: AGSP-R, Wijshingtono25, IX C. Let ters ’ requesting0applications must ° O contain the following^information: O a0 College or university of en rollment b. Scheduled date of graduation c. Degree to be conferred d. Date of birth e. Date entered on active com missioned service f. Choice of arm or service g. Names of all previous imme diate commanding or supervisory officers h. Address at which applicant can be reached during the 45 days following graduation. All letters of application must be received by the War Department by April 15, 1‘X17, and will be accepted from male citizens of the United States who served on active duty as commissioned officers in the arm vonly. Further information may be had by contacting the ROTC department. Reserve Quota Lags in Eugene Eugene is behind in its quota for the naval reserve, according to Vic tor C. Hayes, who is recruiting men in the physical education building until the end of this week. The original national quota is one mil lion men, of which 600,000 had been signed up till April 1. Any- men without previous ser vice, between the ages of 17 and 40, who can pass the physical examina tion, are eligible. Men from any ! branch of the service can enlist in ! the pay grade in which they were ; when discharged. Included in the advantages are | the training courses available for self - improvement, advancement while on active duty and naval cruises offered in the summer. Members'ornay be discharged at “any time they desire. The only ob ligation in that members send no tice of change of address to the i commanding officer of the 13th na val district in Seattle. If the men take part in any of i the training, payment from $2.50 to $10 a night, according to rank, is j offered. I Tulane, Oregon to Trade A summer school exchange of professors will bring Dr. Harold Lee from Tulane university, New ! Orleans, La., to the University of Oregon and take Dr. Bertram Jes sup, assistant professor of Eng lish and aesthetics in this Univer sity, to the Tulane campus. Dr. Lee s summer classes will include introduction to philosophy, contemporary philosophy, and a session of reading and conference work. 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