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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1948)
The Weather Letter from Abroad MORE RAIN Eugene and vicinity: Mostly Ex-Emcraldite Herb Penny cloudy with Occasional' showers. uritcs frHm France- See stw,T page 2. Volume xlix university of Oregon, eugene Thursday, areil 15. 194s — number in Memorial Concert Scheduled Presentation Tonight To Honor Former Librarian and Wife An instrumental ensemble, the University singers, and soloists will honor Mr. and Mrs. Matthew H. Douglass in a memorial concert tonight at 8:15 in the music school auditorium. Douglass, former University li brarian, left $10,000 in his will for the purchase of scores, records and books on music. He left his own music collection to the lib rary, also. Instructors and students of the school of music will pay tribute to the benefactor with music by Bach, Haydn, Mozart and Walter Piston. Faculty is Nucleus Forming the nucleus of the in strumental ensemble will be the faculty string quartet composed of Mary Kapp Allton, George Bough ton, Edmund Cykler and Milton Dieterich. Besides the University Singers, directed by Donald W. Allton, 14 students and 8 faculty members will participate. The music collection of Doug lass is housed in the library’s Douglass room, used for instruc tional and recreational purposes. It contains tables for individual hearing of records. One of the latest additions to the collection is a set of Bach’s complete works now being pub lished. Student instrumentalist in the concert are Janet Shafer and El len Liebe, violins; Eric Cooper and Margaret Perkins, violas; Jeanne Carlson and Loren Bush, oboes; John C. Wellborn and Bar bara Wick, horns; Jeannette Grant, oboe and English horn; Keith Cockburn, cello; Dorothea Schaer, double-bass; Albert Mar shall, flute; Jean Hudspeth, bas soon; and Virgene Roffe, organ. Other faculty performers are Ar nold Elston, Hermann Gelhausen and John Stehn. Scratches Due In Queen Race Junior Weekend queen finalists will be chosen tonight at 7 p.m. in Alumni hall of Gerlinger, accord ing to Beth Basler, queen selection chairman. Judges will be Sue Fernimen, last year’s queen, Hank Kinsell, general chairman of the Weekend, Bill Russell, Eugene businessman and University alumnus, Lyle Nel son, University director of infor mation, and Mrs. Harry K. New burn. Students will vote April 21 to choose the queen and her court from the finalists selected tonight. Ballots on the final voting will be counted by a group of Eugene busi nessmen. They will not reveal the name of the winning candidate un til May 7, when she will be crowned just before the All-Cam pus Sing. Candidates are asked to wear spring dresses and heels tonight at the judging. Theta Sig Sends Invitations Maryann Thielen, left, president of Theta Sigma Phi, extends Matrix Table invitation to June Goetze. Bids will be mailed to outstanding alumnae, Eugene clubwomen, and journalism upperclasswomen. Jeanne Simmonds, vice-president, sits ready to lick stamps. Outstanding Women to Receive Laurels at Matrix Table Banquet Claire Lewis, junior in music, and Wayne Sherwood, senior in music, and music, will provide mu sical entertainment for Theta Sig ma Phi’s Matric Table Friday eve ning. Their program will be com posed of semi-classical songs. Sher wood will play the piano accom paniment. Maryann Thielen, president of Theta chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, urged yesterday that all junior and senior women in journalism who wish to attend the formal banquet sign up at journalism school office immediately. All other invitations which were Students Suffer Bruises, Shock Richard H. Lawson, graduate as sistant in the German department, and Eldene Balcom, senior in Ro mance languages, were in Sacred Heart hospital after being struck by an automobile last night in front of the College Side Inn. Lawson suffered bruises, shock, and lacerations about the head, and Miss Balcom was treated for bruis es and shock. Police reported that the operator of the car, Neado W. Poole, Van couver, Washington, was driving west in Thirteenth street, when his car struck the couple. The driver was cited for failure to yield right of way. sent out may be answered by phone or mail to the journalism school. Price of the dinner is $3 per plate. Matrix Table will begin at 6 p.m. in the Persian room and east dining room of the Eugene hotel. This year’s banquet will celebrate Mat rix Milestones, the 39th anniver sary of the founding of Theta Sig ma Phi at the University of Wash ington. Matrix Table is an annual event at each of the Theta Sigma Phi chapters throughout the United States. The Table honors outstand ing women students and profes sional workers in journalism. The outstanding freshman and sophomore women in journalism will be announced in tomorrow’s Emerald and will be introduced at the banquet. The outstanding sen ior women from Eugene and Uni versity high schools will also be in troduced. Sophomore, junior, and senior women who have been outstanding in journalistic scholarship and ser vice at the University will be tapped for membership in Theta Sigma Phi. Women in journalism throughout Oregon annually meet in Eugene for the annual banquet. This year they will hear the noted mystery story writer, Helen Ross, give the main address. Mrs. Ross, who will arrive from Seattle Friday, has not yet announced the subject of her speech. Dr. Faust Will Speak On General Education Ex-Chicago University Dean Emphasizes Diversified Education as a College Must Dr. Clarence H. Faust, director of the University libraries, Stanford University, will speak tonight at 8 p. m. in room 207 Chapman Hall on the subject “The Controversy Over General Education.” Dr. Faust is a leading authority on the subject of his lecture, general education. A former Dean of the College of the University of Chicago, a junior college including the last two years of high school and the first two years of college, Dr. Faust was dean from 1942 to 1945 during which time its curriculum was radically over hauled. I The College, which is devoted entirely to general education, now has one of the most important ex perimental programs now in op eration. This program has had a wide influence throughout the country. Dr. Faust has also par ticipated in many surveys and con ferences on general education, and has studied the curricula of many institutions in all parts of the country. He will confer with the committee on curricular revi sion in the College of Liberal Arts during his campus visit. Fast Record Revealed Dr. Faust completed his under graduate work at Drake Univer sity. and North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. He received! his B.D. from the Evangelical Theological Seminary and then went on to receive his M.A and Ph.D from the University of Chi cago. Before being elevated to the office of Dean of the College, and' Dean of the graduate library school at the University of Chica go, Dr. Faust was professor of English at the University of Ark ansas and the University of Chi cago. A co-author of the book, “Jona than Edwards”, Dr. Faust is a well known scholar in the field of American literature, particularly the history of ideas in the 18th and early 19th centuries. To night's lecture is open to all stu dents and faculty members. Intramural Tennis Postponed by Rain Girls’ tennis intramurals have been postponed until April 19, Miss Mary Bowman, instructor in phy sical education, announced Wed nesday. Practices have had to be postponed because of the rain. Entry blanks for tennis must be turned in to Miss Bowman at the women’s physical education office in Gerlinger hall today. Violinist Isaac Stern Lets 250-Year-old Fiddle Sing for Itself; Says He Just Stays Out of Way A 250-year-old Guarnerius violin. receives much of the credit for Isaac Stern’s success. He explains, “with this fiddle, it’s simple. I just keep out of the way of the music and let the instrument sing for it self.’’ The young musician and his vio lin will perform in McArthur court Sunday afternoon, sponsored by the Eugene Civic music association. With this violin, the Russian born artist is currently on his sixth national tour under direction of impresario S. Hurok. Stern’s Guarnerius was well pub licized after he acquired it last sea son. Following a recent concert on the west coast, Danny Kaye, film comedian, came backstage to con gratulate Stern. “And your violin!’’ Kaye ex claimed. “That tone melts an audi ence like a black lace garter on Gypsy Rose Lee’s leg!’’ Last year he set a record num ber of performances by a major artist in one year. Closing a tour in Australia and New Zealand, he played his 125 concerts in ten months. The Australian tour marked Stern’s first commercial venture outside the United States, having previously played three USO cir cuits in the Pacific. He made 35 appearances in a dozen cities and concluded his Aus tralian visit in Melbourne. There he played five concerts in seven days. In Sydney, Stern performed nine times in two weeks. With Stern in Australia was his accompanist, Alexander Zakin, who will appear with the violinist in Eugene Sunday afternoon. Marriage Major Series to Open At YW Tonight Dr. Donald Arthur Wells, as sistant professor of philosophy and religion at Oregon State col lege, will begin the “Majoring in Marriage” lecture series tonight • at 7 p.m. at the YWCA. The meet ing will end promptly at 8. The professor will speak on. “Anticipating Marriage.” He con ducts a large “marriage and the family” course on the Corvallis campus and has done a great deal of research in the field. Dr. Wells earned his bachelor or arts degree at Hamline in 1940; bachelor of sacred theology at the Boston university school of the ology in 1943; and was awarded his doctor’s degree at Boston uni versity in 1946. Since then, he has been at Oregon State college where he is an extremely popular speaker. The registration deadline for th© YW-YMCA sponsored four lecture series had been set for this after noon, but Co-chairman Joan O’Neil said that registration cards will be issued before the meeting to ac commodate students who could not register earlier. The lectures aro free. She emphasized that the meet ings are not being conducted spe cifically for married students or for those who are contemplating marriage in the near future, but rather for anyone who is interest ed in attending. The roster indi cates that a fairly representative group has registered. Dr. R. R. Huestis, professor of zoology, will discuss “Marriage and the Facts of Life” at the April 22 meeting. Rex and Barbara Gunn will speak on “Money Matters and Marriage,” at the third session. University students, the Gunn's) recently netted $750 by selling an article to the Saturday Evening Post on their personal experiences at the University. The culmination Of the series will be a panel discussion entitled “Marriage Isn’t What It Used To Be.” Participants will be Dr. Wes ley G. Nicholson, pastor of the First Congregational church; Dr. J. V. Berreman, associate profes- * sor; and Mrs. Ruth Nelson, in structor of home economics. LaVerne Huff, co-chairman, and Miss O'Neil are bceing assisted by; A1 Bartholomew, arrangements; Sally Moore, speakers; Wes Nich olson, registration; Martha Piper, posters; Carol Becker, flying speeches; and Helen Sherman, pub licity. . (