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VOLUME XUX UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, Tl-1 URSIWY. NOVEMBER 6. 1947 7 NLLMEKRVW
Preppers
To Publish
Emerald
Journalists Invited
For Press Meeting
In Early December
University students will be read
ing a high school publication on
Saturday, December 6, when jour
nalists representing the top seven
high school papers of the state
handle the executive positions of
that day’s Emerald.
The issue will be known as the
Oregon High School Press associa
tion edition. Jack Billings, graduate
assistant in the school of journal
ism and a member of the program
committee, said Wednesday that
the publication may become an an
nual activity during the press con
ference.
Invite Seven Schools
Invitations have been sent to the
Franklin High Post, Portland;
EHS News, Eugene; Salem Clarion;
Pendleton Lantern; Forest Grove
Viking Log; Corvallis High-O
Scope, and Beaverton Hummer
asking each pa.per to send one rep
resentative to handle one of the
following positions: Editor, Clarion,
associate editor, EHS News; man
aging editor Viking Log, news edi
tor, Lantern, sports editor, High
O-Scope, copy editor, copy reader,
head writing and rewriter Post and
Hummer.
High ratings by the National
Scholastic Press association or by
OHSPA determined the choice of
papers. Five of the eight received
All-American awards, highest hon
or rating of NSPA. Lots were
drawn to select executive positions.
Arrive Thursday
Delegates sent to edit the
OHSPA edition of the Emerald
should arrive on the campus by
noon Thursday, according to Bill
ings. This is one day prior to the
opening of the conference and will
give the student journalists a
chance to see how the regular Em
erald staff operates.
Only executive positions will be
filled by the prep students. Adver
tising, reporting, night staff, and
copy desk will remain the duties of
regular Emerald workers.
WAA to Present
FridayFunNight
The first WAA co-ed fun night
of the year will be held /this Fri
day from 8 to 11 p.m. in Gerlin
ger hall.
Square dancing,volleyball, swim
ming, badminton, ping-pong and
shuffleboard will be available.
A caller will be on hand for the
square dancers. Thelma Chaney is
chairman of the event. The wo
men's pool will be open to both
men and women. Only 50 men
will be allowed admission. Only
regulation pool suits and trunks
may be worn. Women must wear
caps. Men intending to swim will
enter the middle door, others enter
the west door.
Heading committees are: Beth
Basler, posters; Jan and Jean
Neeley, volleyball and badminton;
Mary Stadelman, clean-up; Bir
della Ball, swimming-; and Gene
vieve Siskey, ping-pong and shuffle
board.
D. D. Rossell to Present Concert
Tonight in Music Auditorium
Featured in tonight’s concert at
the music school auditorium will be 1
tenor Denton D. Rossell, assistant
professor of voice.
Rossell, whose performance is
scheduled to begin at 8:15 p.m.,
came to the Oregon campus this
year from the staff of Fisk univer
sity in Tennessee. He has concert
ized and done radio singing as well
as operatic singing in “Opera In
time.”
Student Accompanies
Accompanied by Sylvia Killman,
senior in music, the voice teacher
will begin his program with four
numbers by Handel—“Silent Wor
ship,” “Coihe and Trip It,” “Gentle
Airs, Melodious Strains” and “Let
Me Wander not Unseen.”
Schumann’s “Dichterliebe” will
follow. This composition is a song
cycle containing 16 songs set to
poems by Henrich Heine. Although
the audience will probably be fam
iliar with many of the melodies, the
piece is seldom heard in its entirety,
said Rossell.
Second Cycle
Another cycle, “Songs of the
Nursery” by Moussorgsky, consists
of seven songs centered about
events in the life of a child. The
seven titles are “Tell Me a Story,”
“In the Corner,” “The Beetle,”
DENTON ii. ROSSELL
“Dolly’s Lullaby," “No, Puss,”
“Child’s Prayer at Bedtime’ and
“The Hobby-horseman.’
This concert is third in the series
put on by the school of music and
is open to the public.
Obsidians to Present Ski Movie
At Wilson Junior Hiah Toniaht
Famous ski areas of this coun
try, outstanding skiers of several
nationalities, and close-up pictures
of the U. S. Olympic Ski team in
action will be featured in the new
John Jay movie, “Singing Skis,”
Consul to Attend
French Conference
M. Raoul Bertrand, French con
sul general to San Francisco, will
attend the November 21-22 confer
ence of the American Association
of Teachers of French, David
Dougherty, head of the language,
announced yesterday.
M. Bertrand is the highest rank
ing representative of France west
of Washington, Dougherty said. He
will address the meeting Friday,
and Saturday will attend the Ore
gon State game as a guest of the
University.
which will be shown at Woodrow
Wilson junior high school at 7:30
tonight.
Sponsored by the Obsidians, lo
cal outdoor club, proceeds from the
single showing will be used to send
the U. S. Olympic team to Switzer
land this winter. Gene Gillis, for
mer University of Oregon student,
is a member of the team.
John Jay, internationally fam
ous both as a skier and producer of
fine movies on skiing, will do com
mentary for the sound and color
movie
Since Jay will leave soon for
Switzerland to film the Olympics,
this will be his last movie to be
shown in Eugene this season.
Admission will be 60 cents, in
cluding tax. All members of the
University of Oregon Ski club and
ski team, as well as other interest
ed students, have been invited by
the Obsidian Ski committee to at
tend.
Theta Sigma Phi Tea
To Name Miss Vogue
During Fashion Show
“Miss Vogue of 1948" will be named November 13 at the
second annual silver tea and fashion show sponsored by Theta
chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, women's national professional
journalism fraternity, according to Maryann Thielen, president
of the chapter and chairman of the tea. The function will be
held from 4 to 5:45 p.m. in alumni hall and is open to faculty
and veterans’ wives, campus women, and high school seniors.
The fashion show will feature clothes for all phases of
Democrat Cites
Food to Europe
As Peace Need
Americans should think of help
ing feed Europe as a method of
self-preservation, stressed Mrs.
Chase Going Woodhouse, former
congresswoman and at present
women’s director of the Democrat
ic national committee, in an in
formal address Wednesday after
noon at Alumnae hall, Gerlinger.
Discussing the topic, “Food or
Famine,’’ Mrs. Woodhouse said,
“The war has taught us that it is
one world in which we live, and it
will either be one world or none.”
No Food, No Work
She explained that without food,
Europe will not be able to mine
coal, increase production, and
make money with which to buy
food. “Hungry and cold people are
not logical people,” she said. “Hun
ger breeds unrest, the basic ele
ment of war,” she stated.
Mrs. Woodhouse believes that
aid to Europe is closely intertwined
with high prices. “If we don't check
high prices, the purchasing power
will decrease, and a surplus will
pile up,” she illustrated. “The
eventual outcome will be a depres
sion, and we will not be economi
cally able to aid Europe,” she said.
The speaker denied that prices
are high because we are sending
food abroad. She referred to our
war-time lend-lease program when
50 per cent of this country’s pro
duction was devoted to war uses.
"A good system of price control
kept prices down then,” Mrs.’
Woodhouse stated.
Mrs. Woodhouse was sponsored
by the public affairs committee of
the YWCA.
Lovers Lament; 'O Where Can It Be?'
Now you see it, now you don’t!
Possibly the most unused piece
of furniture around the quad is the
“loving bench,” theoretically owned
by Alpha Chi Omega sorority. The
three-piece concrete bench stands
19 inches high, is 5 feet long, and
IV2 feet wide. It weighs approxi
mately 300 pounds.
Recently it wandered from home,
led astray by members of a local
fraternity whose actions were in
accordance with a tradition that
has been attached to the bench
since it was willed to the house by
an ever-loving senior class, some
time prior to 1932.
From that time on, it has spent
more time in fraternity house base
ments than holding Alpha Chis and
their ardent beaus. At least twice
a year, the bench has been stolen
and initialed by some fraternity.
Halloween of ’39 the SAEs car
ried it off. Two or three days later
the Alpha Chi upperclassmen sent
their pledges to retrieve same. Af
ter a successful burglary of the
SAE house, the dauntless pledges
were returning triumphantly, when
a minor catastrophe occurred. A
tired volunteer dropped her edge of
the cement slab, which shattered
the toe of Lavene McCollum, now
Mrs. Fred Konschot of Springfield,
Oregon. The bench, however, re
mained unscathed.
Six years ago the men of Phi
Kappa Psi purloined the seat and
autographed it. Before another fra
ternity could change this situation,
the war intervened. Throughout
the war years the bench remained
in the Alpha Chi back yard, but due
to the man shortage saw little or
no “pigging.”
Quickly Renewed
The tradition was quickly re
newed after the war by the Betas,
who removed the Phi Psi insignia
and replaced it with their own. At
this point the Kappa Sigs proved
that they too had a paint brush.
The summer of '46 the wandering
bench found its way to the front
lawn of the Alpha Chi O house
where it spent the summer, not by
choice but because none of the
alums were strong enough to carry
it to the back yard.
Disappeared Again
The SAEs once more turned their
art loose on the toe-crusher, and
again the Kappa Sigs retaliated.
Three weeks ago it turned up on
the Sigma Chi front porch. They
were removing all traces of former
possessors when Monday night it
disappeared. Rumor has it that it
is now stowed in a brown and white
house near 11th and Alder.
university nre modeled Dy sm
dents from each women’s living
organization. The models will be
Miss Vogue candidates from each
house and will be judged early next
week.
Full Oregana Page
The winner’s name will be an
nounced sometime during the tea.
She will receive a full page picture
in the Oregana. Each house is
asked to select its candidate and
turn in her name by noon Saturday
to either Nancy Peterson at the
Alpha Phi house or Trudi Cher
nis at Hendricks hall.
Requirements for Miss Vogue
are based on general appearance,
poise, grooming, good taste and
attractiveness rather than on
beauty or costliness of clothes, ac
cording to Miss Peterson and Miss
Chernis, contest chairmen.
Other committee heads, announ
ced by Miss Thielen arc: program,
Jane Ellsworth, Betty Bushman,
and Jeanne Simmonds; tea, Kay
Richardson, LeJeune Griffith; pub
licity, June G o c t z e, Bobolee
Erophy; invitations, Shirley Mack,
Joan Hickey; finance, Barbara
Johns.
Kappa Won
Winner of the 1947 Miss Vogue
contest was Harriet Vanatta of
Kappa Kappa Gamma. Judges of
this year’s contest and time of
judging will be announced later
in the Emerald.
Proceeds from the silver tea will
be used to promote closer rela
tions between University women in
journalism and the professional
field of women journalists. Campus
clothes will be in order for guests.
Donations Low
As Drive Opens
The WSSF drive gained momen
tum yesterday with the receipts of
$179.73, bringing the total to
$287.24. Receipts are far below last
year’s total which surpassed $2000.
With the goal set at $1 per stu
dent and only three days left in
the drive, a proverbial “shot in the
arm” is needed, according to Chair
man Mart Pond.
Returns Not Complete
He partially attributed the small
total to the fact that not all house
representatives have submitted
funds to Drive Treasurers Mar
guerite Johns and Oliver Larson.
Collections are received daily at
4 p.m. at the campus YWCA.
Kwama-sponsored booths at the
Rush Inn, Lemon O, College Side,
Taylor’s, Del’s Inn, Rennell’s, and
The Falcon, as well as the booths
at the Co-op and library, will fa
cilitate contributions today, Pond
predicted.
The need and purpose of WSSF
funds are emphasized in a Co-op
window display prepared by Bill
Munroe, promotion director. The
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