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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
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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.”
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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.
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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.