*,' *■ \ _; \ OLUMt XL\ Ilf Number 141 UNIVERSITY OE OREGON. El'GENE. THURSDAY. MAY 29. 1947 Committee Completes Janfzen Picnic Schemes Federation to Moil Bids, Emerald 'Extra'; Event to Feature Charlie Barnett's Music Arrangements were completed Wednesday for the forthcoming Jantzen Beach picnic, sponsored by the Oregon Federation when Co chairmen Jordis Benke and Bob Chaney announced that August 14 has been selected as the date of the annual gathering. Featured attraction will be Char lie Barnett and his orchestra. A streamlined program is being ar ranged for prospective Webfoots and students. Plans are being de veloped rapidly for Oregon’s first bathing beauty contest. Complete details for this attraction will be announced in the special “Jantzen Beach’’ edition of the Emerald to be mailed prior to the picnic date. Surprise Contest Slated Surprise contests, games, and a short entertainment program are being arranged by respective com mittee chairmen. Harry Glickman, talented pipe artist, will act as mas ter of ceremonies. fetan wunamson, Harry K. New burli, Hobby Hobson, and Jim Ai ken will each present three minutes of short sketches about coming ac clivities and sports programs for the campus next fall. Invitations to be mailed the first week in August will enable picnic guests cut-rate admission charges for the picnic and dance. Assisting the campus committee will be the Oregon Mothers and Dads clubs on the serving end of the food line beginning at 6 p.m. Com mittee chairmen are: Beth Basler and Dorothy Wightman, decora tions; Bob Chapman, publicity; Hal Schick, picnic arrangements; Wayne Roecker, phones; Marilyn Turner and Joan Mimnaugh, ticket distribution; Don Dole, reception; Pat King, speakers; Sue Mercer and A1 Pie'tschman, games; Don Londer, entertainment. Two Nominated For ISA Head Don McNeil, sophomore in jour nalism, and Dale Harlan, junior in ^liberal arts, were nominated for ^Independent Students association president by the ISA senate Tues day. McNeil, recently tapped for Druids, is also a Sigma Delta Chi member. Harlan is current ISA vice president, was cochairman of the President’s Birthday ball, and served on the track team. Nominated for vice-president were Tom Burbee and George Hass lett. John Benneth is the only nominee for senior representative for the men. Women vying for the similar position, are Sue Fernimen, La Verne Gunderson, and Joyce Nie dermeyer. For men's junior representative, Joe Conroy was nominated. Junior women nominated were Patricia Porter and Charlene Thurston. Bill Brown, Dave Cromwell, and Don Tykeson are nominees for the sophomore men’s position as are Triva Rice, Helen Sherman, Helen Hoopland. and Pat Lane for sopho more women’s representative. The ISA elections are scheduled for Tuesday, June 3, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Co-op. New'T Official Picked for I/O Announcement of the appoint ment of Jack Mei’ner as executive secretary of the University of Ore gon YMCA was made Monday by Karl W. Onthank, .retiring chair man of the University YMCA ad visory board and dean of personnel administration. Merner comes to the University from Seattle, Washington, and will assume his position of executive secretary beginning September 1. He was student president of the University Washington YMCA, as sistant general secretary during 1945-46, and during the present year is acting general secretary at the University of Washington. Yale Graduate Merner is also a graduate of Yale Divinity school. He has at various times served in boys’ camps as counselor and program director and waterfront director and while at tending the Yale Divinity school was employed part time in a settle ment house. The executive secretaryship of the University YMCA has been va cant since before the war. The re sponsibility in recent years has been carried in time by A. F. Ho mer, executive secretary of the Eu gene YMCA, and during the past year by Mrs. R. U. Moore, who has been building secretary in charge of YMCA services on the campus. Dean Little to Speak At Multnomah Hotel Dean S. W. Little of the school of architecture and allied arts will ad dress the Portland Apprenticeship council for on-the-job training for GXs on June 4 at the Multnomah hotel in Portland. The title of his address is “The Apprentice and His Community.” GENEVA DAVIS Cleveland Meet ! Calls Delegate Representing cue university of Oregon at the national Red Cross ! conference in Cleveland, Ohio, will be Geneva Davis, campus Red Cross chairman. Dates set for the meeting are June 9-12. Miss Davis will leave Eugene on | June 5 W'ith Mrs. Cora Pirtle and : Mrs. Ruby Frazier, Lane county delr | egates. Problems pertaining to college ' units and their administration and ! related activities on the campus and j in the community will be studied. New and future programs will be ‘ considered in which services of these units might be rendered to the campus. Miss Davis has been a leader in the campus Red Cross holding such positions as vice-chairman, 'chair man of the 1946 drive, and chair man of the northern section Pacific area Red Cross college unit work shop. Miss Dora Scott was the first full-time librarian of the Univer I sity. Seniors Prepare For Busy Finale 900 June Grads, Degree Candidates to Gather For Exercises in McArthur Court on June 15 By AL ENGLISH The class of '47 will make its fare well bow to the campus in a week end of events which climaxes spring term finals and an entire year of j studies and activities. The com- j mencement weekend, June 13-15, will also be the occasion for reun ions of the classes of 1887, 1897, \ 1907, 1912, 1917, 1922, and 1927. The culmination of University I life will come Sunday, June 15, at 8 p.m., for approximately 900 sen iors and other candidates for de grees. This will be the largest group ever to assemble in McArthur court for commencement exercises. I Among the graduating seniors will be many service veterans whose J customary four years in college has 1 been stretched out for an additional number of years. Short, Simple To accommodate the extra-large group of candidates, the formalities I of degree-awarding will be cut to a minimum. President Harry K. Newburn will deliver a ‘‘Charge to the Graduating Class.” but no for j mal address is planned. Speaker at the Sunday morning, baccalaureate services will be the ! Rev. Dr. Ralph C. Walker of the I First Baptist church, Portland, Oregon. His address is titled ‘‘Only [ Then Shall We Find Courage.” j A special University band organ ized under Dean Theodore Kratt and John Stehn, of the school of music, will play for the two occa sions. Benefit Tea | A benefit tea from 3 to 5 p.m. ; in the browsing room of the library I is the only special event slated for Friday, June 13. The following day will see the , University luncheon at noon in John ! Straub hall. This luncheon will be the first weekend event celebrating | the 60-year, 50-year, 40-year, 35 year, 30-year, 25-year, and 20-year j class reunions. Th'e luncheon will be preceded by an 8:30 breakfast meeting of the State Association of University of Oregon Women. All senior women ; and alumnae are invited and may ; phone 891 for reservations. ; Dr. Newburn, president of the University, will play host to the seven alumni groups and to this year’s graduates at a 4 p.m. re I (Please turn to f’aije seven) UO to Host 200 Alums More than 200 alumni of the Uni versity of Oregon representing the classes of ’87. ’97, '07, ’12, ’17, ’22, and ’27 will be returning to the cam pus on June 14 and 15 for the sev entieth annual Alumni Reunion Weekend. Replies to recent ques tionnaires show that the attend ance this year will be equal to or greater than of any such event held in pre-war years. The program will begin with reg istration in Johnson hall on Satur day morning, to be followed by the semi-annual meeting of the Oregon Alumni association in Johnson hall at 11 a.m. At the all-University luncheon at noon in John Straub hall, the gradu ates will be officially welcomed back to the campus by Dr. Harry K. Newburn, president of the Uni versity, Mrs. E. B. MacNaughton of the state board of higher educa tion, and Ernest Haycox, president of the Oregon Alumni association. Each class will be represented by a speaker to relate a few experiences of his undergraduate dayss. President’s Reception At 4 p.m. Dr. and Mrs. Newburn will hold a reception in Gerlinger hall, and in the evening the alumni go down to the local hotels for their individual class meetings and ban quets. A new bulletin this year will be the “class letter” which will be pub lished each year by classes holding their reunions, the letter will con tain information about the class members and about the reunion held on the campus. UO Staff $1500 Short Of Student Union Goal The faculty drive for Studient Union funds now totals $3500 of the $5000 goal, Karl Onthank, dean of personnel administration an nounced yesterday. The drive will officially end June 3. “The donations are coming in slower than anticipated,” Onthank said, “but I’m confident we’ll reach the goal.” --—-—____h__ Little Art Show to Have Contemporay Trends By VIRGINIA THOMPSON , Contemporary trends in the field of art "are shown in the current Lit tle Art Gallery exhibit, a selection of paintings by Miss Maude I. Kerns, associate professor of art education who is retiring at the end of this school year. This display is the last scheduled for the term and will remain up until June 13. Her first one-man show at the University, Miss Kern’s exhibition includes watercolors, temperas on paper, wooden composition, temperas on silk and oils on canvas. Her treat ment of the subject matter is varied, ranging from realism through ab stract and non-objective formSj ji Series Non-Objective Composition No. 25 of the collec tion, representing one of the best in her series of more recent non-ob jective paintings, has been pur chased by the school of architecture for its present collection from the Widmer fund, which is established for that purpose. In defining non-objectivity in an interview Monday, Miss Kerns called it a reflection of an age in its 1 highest expression. Declaring that the evolution of art cannot be di- i vorced from other aspects of human development, she expressed her con viction that the course of contem MISS MALUt 1. porary art parallels the advance of modern science. In freeing itself from the confines of a realistic subject, non-objective painting becomes its own subject, needing no other commentator than the heart of the observer, Miss Kerns pointed out. If the mass of people do not understand this mod ern form, she feels it is because the artist generally is ahead of the mass mind in sensitivity to change and spiritual evolution. Sunday Preview At a Sunday afternoon preview showing of her paintings, Miss Kerns was honored by a reception and tea, at which she was presented with a corsage of orchids and a handbag as a gift from the art school staff members. Flowers were arranged by Miss Brownell Fra zier. •-——-— Piggers' Editor Named Howard Ramey and John W. Lar ner have been named editor and business manager, respectively, of the 1947-48 Piggers’ Guide, it was announced yesterday.