Number 123
Majestic Crazylegs /...
Tons of Gracious Charm
QUEEN CRAZYLEGS I
to be crowned queen of the law school weekend on the steps of Fenton
hall today.
By BOB WHITELY
Any similarity between this story and the princess
stories appearing in the Oregonian is . . . unusual, ed note.
All hail her rotund highness, "Queen Crazylegs” the first.
Clad in a devasting 1928 blue serge suit with a bi-swing
back. Queen Crazylegs Carmichael held her first press con
ference in the lower stacks. Students have waited breathlessly
for a description of her highness . . . such haunting beautv . . .
beetle brows ana rosebud lips are
beyond compare.
It's Distributed
Queen Crazylegs weighs a robust
243 pounds, unfortunately erron
eously distributed about her frame.
Her long, slightly tilting eyes ap
pear crossed when she gets excited,
and she wears her haven black hair
in a casual, shoulder length gismo
that law school seniors effect. (Her
majesty was trying to hit one of the
court for a price of a hair cut).
Active in school dramatics, Queen
Crazylegs played a small part as
the drink cadger in “With Beer and
Trembling” in 1933. As a queen of
the law school must, she received
better than lousy grades and is
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Oregana Chiefs
To Liven Feed
Oregana executives will enliven
the annual banquet to be held in
"the Persian room of the Eugene
hotel at 6:30 p.m. Monday.
Charles Gleason, Oregana pub
licity director, noted as an imper
sonator, will serve as emcee. Roy
Paul Nelson, editor, will present
hillbilly music a la Nelson playing
his guitar, and Dan Mindolovich,
art editor, will give a chalk talk.
An added attraction will be a piano
solo by the new editor, Ross Yates.
Sixty invited guests will attend
the banquet given mainly to re
ward the efforts of those who have
conrtibuted exceptionally fine ser
vice during the year;
Speeches will be limited to brief
introductions of Roy Paul Nelson.
Robbieburr Courtney, Ross Yates,
and Olga Yevtich, the old and new
yearbook editors and business
managers, respectively. Dick Wil
liams, educational activities mana
ger, will greet the assemblage.
“Judging from the emphasis on
entertainment in planning this
event, the banquet will set a prec
edent." commented Trudi Chernis,
banquet chairman.
Shackrats Set
'N Rarin To Go
By AN OLD-TIMER
Wild Bill Stratton, iced-tea edi
tor for the 29th annual Emerald
picnic, is puzzled. He wants to
know how to float pitchers of iced
tea in the river to keep 'em cool.
Jeanne Simmonds, food editor, is
still looking for a kitchen big
enough to accommodate her crew
as they prepare 15 pounds of po
tatoes for salad, seven gallons of
pickles, 50 pounds of steak, and
several dozen maple bars.
Not Puzzled?
Bob Frazier, chaperon, isn’t puz
zled.
June Goetze and Bobolee Brophy,
the Emerald’s famed “Gold-dust
twins,” are co-editors in charge of
entertainment. Pitching horse
shoes will be the featured enter
tainment, with an ad side—news
side softball game to wind up the
day. There is a rumor around the
shack that the sports staff may
desert to the ad side, but nobody
knows anything about it.
Transportation Provided
Bernie Hammerbeck, editor in
chief for the big orgy, assures
transportation for all comers, but
warns them to sign the rosters in
the Emerald news room or in the
hall of the journalism building be
fore 5 o’clock Saturday. Dates
are optional. All Emerald work
ers are invited to attend.
The Shackrats will meet at the
Shack at 10 a.m. Sunday and
will go to the picnic spot in a cara
van. Exact location of the picnic
will be determined by the lead car.
Beaver Wright, spot editor, says
she knows a lot of good places,
for picnics.
Fenton's Busting Out—
Or, Watch Those Torts
The old campus may need repairing
When Fenton is knocked ajar,
For the legal lads are preparing
To cross the commonplace bar.
—D.F.S.
Fraternity Presents $1000
To Aid Student Union Fund
Cottons Frolic
Tonight at Hotel
Kore to Broadcast
Intermission Show
The “Cotton Frolic" presented
by the Junior Chamber of Com
merce to raise funds for student
PNCC delegates, will begin to
night at 9 p.m. at the Eugene
hotel. Intermission entertainment
featuring a style show by the Jun
ior Weekend court will be broad
cast from 10 to 10:30 over KORE,
Ray Foster, chairman of the event,
announced yesterday.
Three showings by weekend
queen Nina Sue Fernimen and her
court, of the latest summer fash
ions have been set for the pro
gram. The first showing fashions
summer sportswear, sun suits and
play suits. The second features
sports dresses and the third will
present cotton formals.
Mrs. Tallman of Morse’s, newly
opened store for women’s apparel,
is directing the show. The broad
cast will be handled by Don Mot
ter of KORE and Bob Moran, jun
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Pastels to Brighten
Queen’s Ceremony
The festive gaiety of the Bustling
Nineties will be revived May 9 when
Queen Sue Fernimen and her court
are ushered to their thrones attired
in pastel eyelet cottons, with a Gay
Nineties bustle, full skirt, beruf
fled round neck, and tight bodice.
The gowns, being made by a local
dressmaker, are to be in keeping
with the 1890 theme, Joyce Nieder
meyer, coronation chairman re
vealed.
The queen, who will wear white,
will be flanked by her princesses,
with Pat Davis in yellow, Jean Bar
ringer in aqua, Sallie Timmens in
Pink, and Janis Petersen in blue.
They will be escorted to their
royal platform on the old campus
under crossed swords of members of
Scabbard and Blade, military hon
orary.
Offering Contributed by Sig Eps in Memory
Of Six Chapter Members Killed During War
BILL BARNUM
President of Sigma Phi Epsilon
Advisors Due
For *47 Frosh
Duckling fledglings of 1947 will
take their first dip into campus life
under the supervision of big-sisters
when YWCA program of freshman
counselorship is inaugurated next
fall.
The position of counselor will be
open to girls of the sophomore, jun
ior, and senior classes, and will en
tail advising the entering freshman
girls about all phases of campus ac
tivies and studies.
Counselors will be chosen from
those petitioning at the dean's of
fice and- they will be instructed in
a series of meetings for that pur
pose.
Each counselor will probably
have four freshman girls under her
care. It will be her job to establish
a friendly, helpful relationship be
tween herself and the Ducklings.
She will usher them through Fresh
man W'eek, take them to “Y” fire
sides, and give advice whenever it
is needed.
Petitions for counselors should be
turned in by Wednesday, May 6.
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity
Friday voted to pledge $1000 to the
Erb Memorial student union in
memory of the six members of the
local chapter who died in World
War IX.
Bill Barnum, house president, ex
plained the donation, “Oregon Beta
of Sigma Phi Epsilon believes this
contribution to the student union
drive is a fitting memorial to our
brothers who were killed in action.
The six Sig Eps we honor with this
tribute were all men who would have
wanted to see the Erb Memorial
Union built. They knew President
Erb. They knew the need for a stu
dent union on this campus. We hope
that other fraternities will see fit
to memorialize their war dead by
helping to build Oregon.”
The six men the fraternity is hon
oring include:
Norman Nysteen, ’42, Bend,
killed in action, Alaska, June, ’42,
1st Lt„ A.A.C.
Ehle Reber, graduated ’41, Malin,
killed in action, Europe, January,
’45, capt., A.A.C.
Hugh Hoffman, ’41, Portland,
killed in plane crash.
Burton Osborn, ’43, Long Beach.
John Lindley, '33, Portland.
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AGD President
Disdains Scabs
Mrs. D. R. Steninger, national
president of Alpha Gamma Delta
sorority, said Friday she had rec
ommended sorority members be ad
vised to refrain from switchboard
work, according to an Associated
Press story from Davenport, Iowa.
“We don't approve ‘strike break
ing methods’,” Mrs. Steninger said
in reply to a protest from Eugene
telephone strike directors Thursday
against LTniversity students man
ning switchboards.
The AP story reported that Mor
ton Turnbull, union strike chair
man, said he had leafned members
of the sorority on the campus were
scabbing. Harold Plumb, cochair
man, told the Emerald Friday, “If
the Alpha Gamma Delta house has
been singled out unjustly, we are
sorry and humbly apologize.”
From 1890\ Junior Weekend Wends its Way
By DIANA DYE and
BARBARA GILBERT
(This is the last in a series of
three articles about traditions
which will be enforced by members
of the Order of the O during Junior
Weekend.)
Junior Weekend itseelf is proba
bly the greatest and oldest of all
the Weekend traditions, having
been established in 1890. The first
junior event was the presentation
of orations in the assembly hall of
Villard. Later, the junior class flag
flew on Junior Day and strenuous
struggles between the sophomores
and juniors took place at Deady hall
or Skinner’s Butte. It was from
these struggles that the customary
freshman-sophomore tug of- war
has grown.
| In 1906 action was taken to ob
serve Junior Day more becomingly
and its name was changed to “Cam
pus Day.” The entire student body
turned out on Campus Day for gen
eral clean up and improvement in
the grounds.
While the men worked on the gen
eral appearance of the campus, the
women, as compensation for the
work, served lunch on 'the campus
to the workers. From this clean up,
two Junior Weekend activities have
sprung—the general campus clean
up and the all-campus luncheon.
In connection with the all-cam
pus luncheon there are several tra
ditions. No white of any sort is to
be worn to the luncheon this May 9,
the traditions committee has stated.
Violators who are caught wearing
ties or white shoes, will be punished
by the tradition-conscious Order of
, the O.
Until the coronation of the queen,
i women are not to speak to men.
Skinner’s
As one of its first projects for
, general campus improvement, the
j junior class built the first “O” on
the side of Skinner’s Butte. In the
| years to follow, the juniors pressed
the freshmen to put a new coat of
paint on this project each year, thus
j starting another custom.
Junior Weekend was given its
| present name in 1908 when an ex
tra day was added to Campus Day
for athletic events ending with a
: prom. Since that time, preparations
; for the Weekend have been made
on a larger and grander scale,
-JW J