Oregon W Emerald
' VOLUME XLVIII Number 109
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, APRIL IS, 1947
SU Drive Kicks Off April 24
STUDENT UNION COMMITTEE . . .
Wally Johnson, chairman, and his committee, left to right: Jim Luckey, Vernon Flake, Johnson, Nancy
Peterson, Nancy Bedingfield, and Gloria Grenfell, are pictured as they map plans for the campus drive. A
quota of $5,000 has been set as the campus goal.
Weekend Affair
Heads Named
U. of 0. Moms Urged
To Attend Shindig
Committee heads for Mothers
Weekend were announced Monday
afternoon by Beverly Carroll, chair
man. The three-day event will be
held in conjunction with Junior
Weekend on May 9, 10 and 11.
Students chosen to head the vari
ous committees are: Dave Dimm,
promotion; Nancy Peterson, regis
tration; Ann Burgess, -Hospitality;
Nila Desinger, housing; Don Dole,
decorations and campus prepara
tion; Laura Olson, publicity.
“We wish to emphasize the fact
that this weekend wlil be a grand
time for every student to invite his
or her mother to come to Oregon,”
Miss Carroll stated, “because not
only may they take part in the vari
ous functions we will plan for them,
but they may also see the events
scheduled for Junior Weekend.
"Oratorical Contest
Open for Seniors
If you’re a senior and could use
5150, $100 or maybe even $50, pro
fessor W. A. Dahlberg in Friendly
hall is the man to see.
He is urging that all seniors who
are interested to participated in the
Failing Beekman oratorical con
test which is held on the campus
during Commencement weekend.
Students who wish to participate
are asked to prepare a 15-minu'te
oration on any subject of their own
choice.
“Since only a few seniors ever
enter this contest, the chances of
earning a sizeable award are great,”
remarked Mr. Dahlberg.
All seniors interested in an at
tempt to increase their bankroll
rtnay see Mr. Dahlberg, who is the
acting head of the speech drama
department in room 107A, Friendly
hall.
The entry deadline is May 1.
Snake Problem Needs
Solving Before Friday
Crew members are struggling
over the problem of making the
rod of Moses in “The Green Pas
tures” turn into a snake, or a
•reasonable facsimile thereof.
The stage production used a
rubber snake, and the movies
used a live snake, which was
frozen in a straight position. At
the proper moment two power
ful lights were turned on the
snake, which thawed out in time
to wiggle on cue.
The latter method has been dis
carded as unrealistic by Bill
Countryman, who is in charge of
solving the problem.
Recital to Present
Duo, Trio Works
A varied program presenting
both faculty and student artists per
forming together in clarinet and pi
ano numbers will be presented at
the music school auditorium tonight
Francis Bittner, associate pro
fessor of piano and Mrs. Maude
Stehn will be featured pianists and
John H. Stehn, associate professor
of music, and Margaret Holm,
sophomore student, will perform on
the clarinet. The program includes
duet and trio numbers and a series
of pieces arranged for left hand
alone by Bittner.
The program is as follows: “Trio
in E flat, ” Mozart, Mr. Stehn, Miss
Holm, Mrs. Stehn; “Rondo in G Ma
jor,” Op. 51, No. 1, Beethoven; Cho
rale-Prelude “Fervent Is My Long
ing,” Bach; and "Chromatic Fan
tasy,” Bach, Mr. Bittner, (left
hand alone, arranged by Mr. Bitt
ner) ; “Duo,’ ’Op. 48, Weber, Mr.
and Mrs. Stehn; “Chaconne,” Bach
(arranged for left hand alone by
Brahms).
Emerald Bids Due
Petitions for the editorship of
the 1947-48 Emerald and the po
sition of business manager must
be submitted to the educational
activities office in McArthur
court before noon, April 19.
Co-op Meeting
Planned Today
Business tolnclude
Board Nominations
The annual meeting of the Co-op
association, of which all students
are members, is scheduled for 4 p.m.
today. It will be held in 205 Chap
man so that all those who are inter
ested may attend.
Nominations for positions on the
Co-op board will be made from the
floor. Freshmen may be nominated
for the one sophomore position,, and
sophomores for the two junior po
sitions. Those nominated today will
be voted on at the general ASUO
elections this spring.
Marilyn Sage, president of the
Co-op board, will preside over the
meeting. Manager M. F. McClain
will give the annual financial re
port.
Business Students
To Convene Today
The sixth annual student business
conference begins on the campus
today and will continue through
Thursday, Dr. Victor P .Morris,
dean of the business administration
school, announced.
The conference, which will serve
as a “guidance clinic” for students
in business, will cover the fields of
insurance, retailing, wholesaling,
office management, personnel man
agement, real estate, public ac
counting, foreign trade and ship
ping, traffic and transportation, ad
vertising, private accounting, sales
management, and banking.
Finalists' Pictures Due
The eight finalists for Junior
Weekend queen and court are
asked to submit pictures of
themselves to Barbara Johns,
head of elections, by noon to
day. The photographs are to
be displayed in the Co-op to
morrow when the voting will
take place.
Assembly, Radio Show
To Launch $5,000 Race
A campus assembly and a nationw ide radio program w ill
officially launch the $5XXX) Student Union drive on the campus
April 24, said \\ ally Johnson, head of the SU committee,
Monday.
The assembly will consist of talks by several Student Union
leaders in the country, the principal speaker being Ernest Hay
cox, president of the Oregon Alumni association and a principal
promoter of the nationwide SU campaign.
During the assembly, the names of one woman's house and
one man's house will be drawn from two bowls on the stage.
These two organizations will be
asked to sing before the audience
without previous notice, the men
singing "Oregon” and the women
singing “As I Sit And Dream.”
Each living organization will need
to have full attendance at the as
sembly for this reason.
Big Prizes Offered
The«drive will be conducted on
a contest basis, each living organi
zation competing against all
others. On May 10, during a Jun
ior Weekend activity, prizes will
be presented to the respective
man’s and woman’s house turning
in the largest amount of funds per
capita. A radio-phonograph com
bination is the prize for the wo
man’s house and a fully equipped
card table is on schedule for a
man’s house.
"It is our job to make the noise
to show the .enthusiasm of the stu
dents. If we give to our cause,
though the amount may be small,
it will help. People naturally are
looking to the University for in
terest,” said Wally Johnson.
Alums Reminded
The radio program to be pre
sented from the campus station
April 24r will be mainly a reminisc
ing for the alums and reminding
them again of the campaign. It
will consist of speakers and local
talent to be announced later.
All remaining funds for the
building, totaling $600,000, are
planned to be raised and the cor
nerstone of the long awaited-Stu
dent Union will be laid during
Homecoming next fall.
Bill Russell, chairman of the
Eugene and Lane county drive,
has headquarters in the lobby of
the Eugene hotel, the quota for
the county being one-third of the
total amount. Similar groups have
been set up in each county in the
state and individual professions
have been organized to operate
more effectively.
Alumni groups in Los Angeles,
San Francisco, New York, Wash
ington D. C., Hawaii, and any sec
tion where Oregon alums are
active has set up headquarters,
constituting a nationwide cam
paign centered on the Student
Union.
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Marriage Lectures
Continue Tonight
Deane Seeger, Eugene city man
ager, and Dr. Victor P .Morris, dean
of the school of business adminis
tration, will be the featured speak
ers this evening at 7:15 p.m. in room
3 Fenton hall in the third of the cur
rent “Youth and Marriage” lec
tures.
Seeger will speak on “The Con
tributions and interests of the Com
munity Regarding the Successful
Marriage.” Dr. Morris’ topic will be
"The Economic Considerations of
Marriage.”
Seeger and Morris were original
ly scheduled to speak last week but
a switch in the program brought
Dr. J. V. Berreman, associate pro
fessor fo sociology, to the speaker’s
platform last Tuesday.
The series, co-sponsored by the
general extension division and the
E. C. Brown trust, will be held each.
Tuesday evening until June 3.
Robert Over to Portray Noah
In 'Green Pastures' April 19
By JANICE KENT
Robert D. Over will portray Noah
in the Negro interpretation of the
Old Testament, “Green Pastures,”
to be staged at McArthur court on
April 19.
The actor’s last major role was
that of the 15-year-old Nels in “I
Remember Mama.” In “The Green
Pastures” he assumes the age of
60 to play Noah.
Over feels that Noah is a particu
larly human character, very sus
ceptible to the vices of his time.
Nevertheless, God calls upon Noah
to assist Him in beginning the hu
man race anew, instructing Noah
to build an ark that will withstand
the floods and keep his family safe.
Noah’s sinning, gambling neigh
j bors ridicule the crude ark until the
rains come and they are not able to
find shelter from the floods,
throughout their 40-day and night
confinement to the ark, only Noah
retains faith in God and his mission.
When the waters subside, Noah
sees his reward—for his kin, alone,
inhabit the earth.
Over, who is a sophomore in dra
ma, said that he will spend the
summer months as a director for
"Oregon Trail," the Lane County
centennial celebration.
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