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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1947)
Oregon W Emerald VOLUME XLVIII Number 108 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUQENE, SATURDAY, APRIL 12. 1947 (Emerald photo by Don Jones) CONTESTANTS FOR A CROWN Eight finalists in the competition for Junior Weekend queen and princesses line up to give the University of Oregon a glimpse of potential royalty as they await Wednes day’s voting at the Co-Op. From right to left, the queenly candidates include: Joanne Utz, Nina Sue Fernimen, Norma Figone, Pat Davis, Jean Barringer, Sallie Tinunens, Janis Peterson, and Bobbie Fullmer. The finalists will be presented officially tonigh t at the Foul Ball, all-campus dance celebrating the opening of the baseball season. Ball to Feature Skits, Royalty Mascots, Finalists To Launch Season The operting of the 1947 baseball season will be celebrated tonight with the first annual Foul Ball, to be held from 9 to 12 in Gerlinger. Price of admission has been set at 60 cents per couple and 50 cents for stags. The Herb Widmer combo, consist ing of Norm Domreis, piano; Cliff Mallicoat, bass; Bob Allen, drums; and Widmer, tenor and alto sax, will play. Dick Savinar is to introduce the finalists for the Junior Weekend queen and court, chosen by living organizations. Finalists are Jean Fernemen, Norma Figone, Bobbie Barringer, Pat Davis, Nina Sue Fullmer, Janis Peterson, Sallie Tim mens, and Joanne Utz. The traditional rendition of "Ca sey at the Bat,” a baseball skit, baseball music, and -gay nineties musicians in connection with Junior Weekend is to be included in the en tertainment, planned by Sam Gil lette and the Webfooters. Marty Pond is head of the caricatures of the baseball team and Coach Hob son, which will highlight the decor ations. According to Tom Hazzard, yell king, Dugon and Puddles, Oregon mascots are to be present. Red hots and pop will be available as long as they last. Dress for the event is optional, and wearing o.f baseball caps is encouraged. However, no cleats will be allowed on the floor. Oregana Block Saved For Spring Registrants A block of Oreganas has been saved for spring term registrants, the educational activities office in McArthur court, announced Friday. Spring term registrants desiring Oreganas are requested to apply at the educational activities office. The cost of the annual will be $6. All other students who have not yet ordered an Oregana may apply at the activities office and their name will be placed on awaiting list. Oregon's Misty Weather Exists With Jupe Pluvius Jupiter Pluvius, graduate stu dent in meteorology and Ore gon’s unofficial god rain trans ferred from the University Thursday, it was disclosed yes terday by reliable sources in Johnson hall. It is rumored that public opinion prompted his withdraw al from the University, follow ing two weeks of subversive and unorthodox spring term activity. The dean of men had no com ment yesterday concerning his conduct. His destination was not im mediately known. The weather man, Jupe’s close business as sociate, predicted that he will return for further graduate work late next fall term. 9 'Voices' Seeks Youthful Poets Announcement of a national poetry contest, sponsored by “Voic es,” a journal of poetry, has been received by the English departmerft, according to Mrs. Alice Ernst, as sociate professor of English. The quarterly, published in New York, is holding the contest to find the best poems submitted by an American-born poet under 35 years of age. First prize of the contest will be $50 and second prize will consist of $25. Announcement of the winners is to be made in October, in the 194? fall issue. No restrictions as to the length, form or subject of the poem have been set. No poem submitted will be returned. Material should be submitted in triplicate before July 1, 1947 to Mrs. Winthrop Palmer, 24 West 55th St., New York City, 19, New York. Judges for the contest are Pro fessor George Marion O’Donnell, Harvard; Winthrop Palmer, asso ciate editor of "Voices”; and Mrs. Leonora Speizer, Pulitzer prize winner, professor of poetry at Co lumbia university, and vice-presi dent of the poetry society of Amer ica. Dance Concert Set for Monday Comio-Serious Program Shows Artists Skilled Marian Van Tuyl and Eleanor Lauer, outstanding on the west coast in the field of concert dance, will bring their troupe to Gerlinger hall Monday at 8 p.m. The dance concert, sponsored by Orchesis, University modern dance honorary, will be open to the pub lic. There will be no admission charge. At the present time both Miss Van Tuyl and Miss Lauer are as sociated with Mills college. Miss Lauer is chairman of the depart ment of dance, and Miss Van Tuyl is special lecturer and adviser to advanced students in dance. Their group is now touring through the Pacific Northwest en route to present a program at a na tional physical education conven tion April 21. See Picture, Page 7 Float Parade to Travel Campus Roads May 10 Living Organizations Grouped as Plans Proceed for Annual Weekend Feature Characters, occurrences, scenes, songs, and activities of the Gay Nineties era will find their ways out of their historical settings and onto Thirteenth avenue May 10 when the Junior Weekend float pa rade travels campus roads. Plans for the annual affair are progressing nicely, Warren Smith, float parade chairman, has an nounced, and the pairings of the houses to work together are listed as follows: Alpha Chi Omega, Sig ma Phi Epsilon; Alpha Delta Pi, Beta Theta Pi; Alpha Gamma Del ta, Lambda Chi Alpha; Alpha hall, Phi Delta Theta; Alpha Omicron Pi, Hunter hall, and Alpha Phi, Minturn hall. Names Continued Alpha Xi Delta, Nestor hall; Chi Omega, Phi Kappa Psi; Delta Delta Delta, Phi Gamma Delta; Delta Gamma, Sigma Nu; and Delta Zeta, Kappa Sigma. Gamma hall, Phi Sigma Kappa; Gamma Phi Beta, Delta Tau Delta; Hendricks hall, Alpha Tau Omega; Highland house, Sherry Ross hall; Judson house, Sigma Alpha Mu; Kappa Alpha Theta, Campbell club; Kappa Kappa Gamma, Sigma Chi; Orides, Stan Ray hall; Pi Beta Phi, Delta Upsilon; Rebec house and Se derstrom hall. To Work Together Sigma Kappa, Phi Kappa Sigma; Susan Campbell hall, Sigma hall; University house, Stitzer hall; Zeta hall, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Zeta Tau Alpha, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The following stipulations for the float parade, have been effected: Each float shall be sponsored by one men’s and one women's living organization. Each organization will be limited to $20 for expenditures, establishing a total of $40 for each float. The judging, which is to be done at the assembly point before the pa rade gets under way, will consid er originality of design, amount of applied effort, and relation to the theme before awarding the trophy cup to the winning organization. The themes must be turned in to the educational activities office by April 25, Smith declared, and if any house fails to comply, the organiza tion will be disqualified from the parade, he stressed. A tentative route for the parade has been set, pending approval of city authorities. This schedule pro poses the parade originate at the Southern Pacific depot, proceed up Willamette street to Thirteenth avenue, and continue out Thirteenth to the University, where it will dis band. Judges for the parade, which will start at 4 p.m., have not been an nounced as yet. Dr. Dwayne Orton, Nationally Known Educator To Speak in Business School Classes Monday Dr. Dwayne Orton, director of ed ucation of the International Busi ness Machines corporation, will speak on general topics Monday to the 11 a.m. credit management class and 2 p.m. retail merchandising class, both in 105 Commerce. Dr. Orton comes directly from the In land Empire Education association meeting at Spokane, where he was one of the principal speakers. He also spoke at the Northwest Re gional Guidance association. Dr. Orton was formerly president of Stockton college, Stockton, Cali fornia, from 1935 to 1942. Prior to becoming president of Stockton, he was dean of the general college, College of the Pacific, oldest insti tution of higher education in Cali fornia. Dr. Orton had experience in nechanical engineering before teaching in college. Dr. Orton has had extensive ex DK. DWAl'NE ORTON perience in public platform work before civic, professional, business, and educational organizations such as Rotary International district conferences, Pacific Coast Electri cal association and others in all sec tions of the United States. He has lectured at many universities and colleges. Formerly educational consultant, civil aeronautics administration, department of commerce, Dr. Orton has given much time to problems of aviation development. During 1942, he traveled over 80,000 miles hold ing conferences and making ad dresses for promotion of aeronau tics. His address, “Fighting and. Living in the Air Age” was enter ed in the Congressional Record for Oc tober 1, 1942. Dr. Orton will speak to the Ki wanis club Monday noon.
