Past Queens Like Navy,
Marriaae Files Reveal
By PAT KING
Whatever happens to the Junior
Weekend queens?
That same thought inspired a lit
tle snooping around and the dis
covery that a great many exciting
things happen to them.
Sneezing through stacks of dusty
Timerald files that dated back to the
early 1900's, I found that Ruth Gib
sun, the first queen elected in 1911,
'.never reigned because of rain! An
unscheduled downpour broke into
the festivities and the coronation
ceremonies were postponed and
'inover resumed. At the last contact
‘with her, she was Mrs. Floyd Lewis,
'living in Oakland, California.
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'. Maybe that unfortunate rain
jc loud dampened enthusiasm for
queens because the next record of a
Junior Weekend queen appears in
•1935 when the crown graced blonde,
blue-eyed Mary Morse. Mary writes
that she now finds her social life
'“consists mostly of ball games and
coach get-togethers” because her
'husband, John Lewis, is basketball
and baseball coach at Grant high
•school in Portland. Proud mother of
t vo boys and a girl, she commented,
“Maybe I’ll have one or two more
for I think big families are fun.”
Although the past rulers eventu
ally settle down into blissful matri
mony, they usually take a fling at
a career. Two of them capitalized
on their beauty and entered the
modeling field. Betty Pownell, who
r eigned in 1937, did modeling at Lip
man and Wolfe and modeling and
fashion coordinating at Charles F.
Berg, both department stores in
Portland. She then became a com
mercial photographer’s model and
appeared in “Mademoiselle,” “Sat
tu’dfty Evening Post,” and the
‘‘American Home" magazines.
Becomes Model
A wartime queen in 1943 Mary
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Bently also went on to be a photog
rapher’s model and her pictures ap
peared in “Vogue” and “Mademoi
selle.”
Following the strong preference
that past queen’s show for ex
changing "I do’s” with navy men,
Betty married a naval officer. The
Jack Finkbeiner family is now liv
ing in Portland with one-year-old
Anne who Betty says will be her
“future.”
1938 ruler, Virginia Regan, went
to Washington, D. C., after gradu
ation and edited a handbook on
Technical Societies of the United
States and Canada, and went on to
work work in the office of a Con
necticut congressman. The navy
chalked up another victory when
Virginia married Ensign Joel D.
Thomison Jr. who is now employed
by the war department as wage
administrator.
“We are contemplating purchas
ing a small weekly newpsaper when
where the atmosphere is somewhat
more relaxed and real," she wrote.
Four of the past queens are now
we find a location 'that appeals to
us,” offered Virginia. In the mean
time she finds her career centering
around her son and daughter.
Another queen who neaciea ioi
the capital was brunette Maxine
Glad. In 1939 she turned in the win
ning theme for the weekend, “Alice
in Wonderland,” and then was cho
sen by the student body to be “Al
lice.” In Washington, D. C., she
worked on the National War Labor
board and then married into the
navy to become Mrs. Rodney Stew
art. While her husband works on
the newly created Atomic Energy
commission, she has a position with
the Wage Coordination board for
the war department.
"We do occasionally wish, how
ever, that our children might enjoy
the experience of growing up in
Oregon- or at least in the West
on the campus. Previously men
tioned Mary Bently is now living in
a trailer with her husband Norman
Wiener and one-year-old daughter.
Norman will graduate from the law
school this June.
1944 Queen Anita Fernandez is
back at school to graduate from the
art school this June.
After serving as a stewardeess
for the United Airlines on the west
coast, Joan Holstad, the last war
time queen in 1945, returned to the
campus this year to get her B.S.
degree in general social science.
Last year’s Queen Patricia Met
calf, who has added Chase to her last
name, will graduate from the music
school this June.
If 1947’s Sue Fernimen follows
the precedent set her by past Junior
Weekend queens, she may look for
ward to an interesting and happy
future.
Wyoming has fewer ranches and
farms today than it had ten years
ago.
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Scouts Choose
Representatives
Miss Betty (Penny) Welch has
been chosen as a Girl Scout nation
al representative on the Youth
Commission of the United Nations
National Social Welfare assembly.
As a member of the commission,
she will be a representative of all
young people who are interested in
matters concerning the welfare of
the youth of the world.
Miss Welch is a member of Sig
ma Kappa sorority and Kwama,
sophomore service honorary for
women. She has been a member of
the Girl Scout organization for
eight years.
Miss Welch is also a member of
Amphibians, swimming honorary.
Upon completion of her college
work, she plans to go into profes
sional Girl Scout work.
Agenda for Today
(Continued from page three)
winners of the Sing, chosen last
night. The Serenade is scheduled
for 3 o’clock in the outdoor auditor
ium of the music school. Bill Bishop,
sophomore in journalism, will be
master of ceremonies, and the pro
gram will consist of June Johnson,
soprano, and Wayne Sherwood,
baritone. Other featured numbers
will include the Alpha Phi trio,
composed of Miriam Shellenberger,
Phyllis Potter, and Barbara Ka
foury, and the Theta Chi quartet,
composed of Lowell Chase, Gene
Hebrard, Bill Pengra, and Glen
Snyder.
Reverend Stephenson
(Continued from page three)
p.m., in the lounge of the campus
YMCA.
Mr. Stevenson spent several
years on the mission field in Bra
zil, before ill health forced him to
return to the U.S. He is now Pa
cific Coast representative for the
mission he served on the foreign
field.
MODEL HOMES
George Jette, instructor in landscape aVchiteeture, and Wallace S. Hay
den, associate professor of architecture, look over the models being on
display now at the art museum.
Model Layouts of Modern Homes
Featured in Art Gallery Exhibit
Comprehensive model layouts of eight modern homes, from plans
to completion, are on exhibit this week at the kittle Art Gallery. The
eight California architects whose work is being displayed are aech pre
senting an original project, conceived and carried out in the San
Francisco bay area for an actual client.
A statement of the problem in each case leads to preliminary
sketches, photographs, blueprints, more sketches, and the final plan,
including in most displays an in
tricate model of the house and
grounds.
Glass Use Popular
Class seems to have become a
popular building material in sunny
California, predominant in several
of the models. Glass walls, glass
roofs, and glass doors are making
the old-fashioned glass window a
iittle unnecessary.
One Kill-top modcC named a
“Stop-gap” house, is built almost
entirely of glass, constructed to
admit further additions as other
building materials become more
plentiful and less expensive.
Locations Vary
Locations for the homes vary
from urban surroundings to miles
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away-from-it-all sites. Styles differ
with the differing tastes of school
teachers, photographers, profes
sional men, and architects’ wives.
Two considerations shared by all
the plans are the extent of the
view and the client’s budget.
The original showing of this ex
hibit opened at the Gump galleries
in San Francisco last year. En-^
titled “Meet the Architect” it was
featured in the November 1946 is
sue of “Arts and Architecture,”
moving later to the Los Angeles
county museum and the art mu
seums at La Jolla and San Diego.
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