Friendly's 'W/cfory'
Beloved by Students
Editor’s note: This is the sec
ond in a series of articles com
memorating the men and wom
en whose names grace the Uni
*■ versity buildings.
By ROBERTA TUSSING
Sampson H. Friendly, for whom
Fr iendly hall was named, has been
termed a typical philanthropist
, with the customary twinkling eyes,
long beard, bald head, and benevo
lent expression.
* “Friendly is the students’ friend,”
was his motto. And old Sam Friend
ly lived up to it. No one ever knew
exactly how much money he gave
to students or how many he helped
- out of tight spots. He never told.
Beloved by Campus
Friendly was thrifty, p'rogres
* sive, clever, a staunch Republican
—and eccentric. His eccentricities
made him a character beloved by
the whole campus.
In 1894 the story went- around
► that the Honorable S. H. Friendly,
standing with his chest thrown out,
Fraternities List
More Initiates
■ The remaining list of names of
students initiated into University
fraternities during formal ceremon
ies last weekend was released yes
terday at the office of the dean of
- men.
On the list were Fred Horn,
Charles Stolte, George Scraggil,
Harold Poort, Dick Neely, Paul
Huntsinger, and Clark Austin,
- Delta Upsilon; Warren Richey,
Scott Adams, Robert S'teeves,
Donald Sharpe, Thomas Day,
• James Hershner, William Walker,
Sidney Mills, Rodney Dickinson,
Herbert Ray, John Kadderly, Don
ald Kessler, John Richmond,
Charles Poindexter, and Darwin
Johnson .Jr., Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Douglas Coghill, George Castil
- lo, Kerb Nill, Warner Gregg, Don
ald Ruth, Richard Kingsbury,
James Lekman, Stephen Church,
" and James Harber, Theta Chi; Ar
nett Johnson, Robert Neuman,
Richard Bryon, Richard Chris
tianson, Samuel Galloway, James
Eakin, Joseph Caufield, Frank J.
.. Connell, Edward M. Anderson, and
Donald Clause, Tau Kappa Epsi
lon.
‘ Hugh Flynn, Richard Marwall,
Charles Strader, and Chester Low
ry, Chi Psi.
CoHegsefe Meet
(Continued from page one)
. Representatives from colleges
and universities of the Pacific
* Northwest and western Canada are
- expected to attend this third an
nual meeting.
Delegates Will discuss specific
problems bearing on the s'trength
- ening of world organization, and
the means for implementing both
existing facilities and new propos
als for the maintenance of peace
' and order among the nations.
Delegates will formulate their
. ideas and convictions by writing
and adopting resolutions embod:/
ing their decisions. These decisions
will be submitted, after adjourn
ment of the congress, to students
■ of all the colleges participating.
. Representatives of the PNCC
will present the approved resolu
•- tions to appropriate persons at the
sessions of the United Nations.
University representatives at the
PNCC held last year at Reed col
' lege, Portland, were Ted Hallock
• and Catherine Crombie.
Antarctica was discovered 127
years ago but no woman has yet
set foot on this continent which;
.^constitutes nine per cent of the S
world's land area.
thumbs hooked proudly behind his
suspenders, commented on the po
litical situation of the day, “Veil,
the Republics haf made gate grains
in municipal elections.”
Pioneer Merchant
Sam Friendly was a pioneer mer
chant. He was one of the men who
made his living by his personal
popularity, his frank open manner,
and his willingness to please. So
many people came to his dry goods
store that he was forced to enlarge
it several times.
He was so well liked and re
spected in Eugene that he was both
alderman and mayor of the city.
He was appointed a regent of the
University, and here his life’s work
really began.
Loved University
The University needed him; the
University needed many things, not
the least of which was money. Sam
Friendly worked for the University
and loved it as an institution. His
work and interest were repaid by
the students.
He was on the sidelines of every
football game, always on the rally
programs with Bill Hayward and
other coaches of the time. His
words were always the signal for
uproarious applause from the “stu
dents of the ooniversity.” When
Sam stood and said Oregon could
be sure of “wictory,” 'they yelled
for Sam just as much as they
yelled for victory.
Born in New York
Sam Friendly’s life followed the
usual pattern. He was born in New
York City in 1840; he married a
girl named Matilda Adler; and he
died in 1915.
Nov/ impose upon these dry
facts of" youth, middle-age, and
death, the picture of a man about
whom a friend could say, “I really
believe he would have gladly given
up his life during the past few
years, had it been necessary for the
University.”
Hard Times for School
There were many hard times for
the school in the early days. Sam
Friendly helped Oregon to over
come them.
At the assembly called to honor
him a few days after his death, a
resolution was made to name the
men’s dormitory Friendly hall. The
tributes given him were full of high
sounding words and noble phrases.
“His life was like the spire of a
"reat cathedral, beautiful at close
"lew but its true breadth and height
onnot be comprehended,” said one
t- ~aker. “Some men live on a
mountain 'top with a breadth of
vis'->n where nothing is impossible,”
said another.
B: f most people were remember
ing the kindly, bearded man on the
rally • latform, saying in his own
peculiar way, “Wictory is ours.”
'To Thee, Kay Kyser, All Hail'
Kay Kyser is one bandleader who is in
line for a big harvest of lovely green bills
this year. And since Mr. P. clamped the lid on
new waxings, Kyser has scored a clear and
continued scoop over his rival stickmen. All
because an RCA \ ictor manager named Russ
Case had a hunch that the football-following
public liked its alma mates' songs well en
ough to buy records of them for fifth-quarter
reminiscing.
College songs hold a sentimental place in
the American musical scene that the “June
moon-croou” stuff could never approach. But
the history of their recordings is a case of
golden opportunity knocking three times and
always winding up flat on its face out in
the street.
Rudy Vallee was one of the first of the
big names to enter the field and his rousing
“Maine Stein Song" is still a stag-night
classic. But even though his later discs (“On
Wisconsin," "Rambling Wreck from Georgia
Tech”) were favorites of the day, Vallee quit
to try mixing crooning with Hollywood. The
hangover on that nearly finished his career.
The late Glenn Miller had barely become
established as king of the prom-date circuit
with personal appearance dates and a platter
or two (“Notre Dame Victory March" and
“Rambling Wreck") before the war cut short
his life. Tex Beneke, former first sax and
star vocalist with Miller reorganized the or
chestra and tried to follow the same trail. His
first step flubbed his biggest chance, how
ever, when his “Prom Date" album swung
every alma mater from Texas to Cornell.
Now Kay Kyser has stepped in with “Cam
pus Favorites," a four-star opening to Vic
tor’s series of college song albums. In sign
ing Kyser to do the waxings, Victor picked
By MICHAEL CALLAHAN
the most popular campus dance orchestra in
the business. Kyser has led his group over the
whole circuit, from Maine to California (and
Oregon in the fall of 1941) and he knows how
to dish up the right arrangements to his
student public.
In “Campus Favorites” Kyser struck a re
markable balance between gridiron fight
songs, marched with the accent on brass, and
the alma mater hymns, with their reverent
string passages. There is no trace of the
“dance tempo" that torpedoed Beneke’s al
bum. The list of colleges whose favorites are
included is nationwide, which should sky
rocket sales.
USC was the first Coast college to appear
in the Victor series; from the Trojanland
Kyser picked "Fight On" and “All Hail".
Wisconsin and Notre Dame took the Mid
west spotlight with “On Wisconsin" and “Al
ma Mater." and the Irish “Notre Dame Vic
tory March", and "Notre Dame Our Mother”.
And on the Fast Coast the Kyser orchestra
selected Washington and Fee's "Swing,” and
College Friendship," Navy's - “Anchors A
weigh," and Navy Blue and Gold," and West
Point’s "On Brave Old Army Team” and
“Army Blue." Yale was the Ivy League’s can
didate for this first album with "Boola Boola”
and “Bright College Years."
Almost in itself worth the price of the al
bum is “Amici," the famous Alma Mater
hymn of Cornell. To this traditional Kyser
set a tone poem that is a tribute to the greater
theme of the album : a salute to the American
college.
Scheduled for later release in this series
are the “Campus Favorites” from Washing
ton, Michigan, Stanford, and—who knows,
maybe one day from Oregon !
Smarty Party
(Continued from page one)
Mildred Joan Kiplinger, Iris Ethel
Knapp, Marilyn Imogene Madden,
Kloh-Ann Mayer, Marvis Jean
Moltzen.
And Also
Arlett.e R. Morrison, Ann Ruth
Morton, Tomiko Sato, Margaret
Scandlind, Janice Schneider, Bar
bara Schultz, Juanita Smith, Mary
Lou Sorenson, Virginia Sparks,
Jean Steiner, Barbara Stevenson,
Sara Stroope, Elizabeth Sutton.
Leslie Tooze, Roberta Tussing,
Marian Vaeretti, Louise Weber,
Emily West, Ellyn Wils'ter, and
Elizabeth Jane Wright.
Members of Kwama and Phi
Theta Upsilon will serve at the
party.
Three billion dollars was spent
for advertising of all kinds in the
United States last year.
; —1-'j
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