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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1948)
VOLUME XLIX NUMBER 125 _UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1948 She May Be the One . . . M/ss Mary Lou Hill BRAUN RtijM > Welsh-born Mary Lou Hill is the fifth member of the Junior Weekend / court. The name Of the girl who will rule over the weekend of fes ' tivities will be announced at the All-Campus Sing. Former Homecoming Queen Likes to Cook; Looks Forward to "Biggest" Weekend By ANITA HOLMES Mary Lou Hill, Kappa Kappa Gamma from California, will don her royal gown next Friday night in hopes that she will be the one to rule “Story Book Wonderland.” Like Princess Mary Joy Hamm, Miss Hill was born abroad. Her parents met in a little town in Wales and it was in that country that Mary Lou was born. Maybe this Welsh ancestry has something to do with her unusual weather taste. She says, “fog is one of the things I like about California” and “we’ve al ways liked fog and rain.” Looking Forward Birthplace, Aberystwyth; home. San Jose; and here in Eugene Miss Hill is looking forward to next Friday when Oregon’s biggest weekend' begins. Anyway, she thinks it’s the “biggest thing of the year—except for football sea son.” In '45, she was football’s ruler as Homecoming Queen. The game is her favorite because “it seems to have more brainwork and is so exciting to watch.” And She Cooks Cooking and tapestry weaving also interest her. The five foot, nine inch junior especially likes to make Welsh dishes, “learned from my mother.” Although she’s an education ma jor, Miss Hill comments, “I doubt if I will ever teach.” Explanation of this could be the Phi Gamma Delta Pin she wears. The “kind of green-eyed” prin cess claims the “only interesting parts of my life have been with my family.” Her father was a com mercial artist but enrolled in USC to study optometry. Because he (Please turn to page eight) Ducats Monday For Weekend Tickets for the major events of Junior Weekend will go on sale in the Co-op Monday and will contin ue to be sold there until Friday. Junior Prom tickets will sell for $2.60. The prom will be held in Mac court on the evening of May 8, with Will Osborne and his band furnishing the music. Prom tickets are also being sold in all men's liv ing organizations until next Friday noon. Tickets for the All-Campus Sing, scheduled for 8 p.m. May 7, will cost 70 cents. All students will be required to buy them for admit tance. Picnic tickets will sell for 45 cents apiece. The picnic will be held on the old campus beginning at 12:15 p.m. May 8. Living organiza tions have purchased tickets for this event in blocs, so students should only buy tickets for their Weekend guests. Orides Invited to Tea Members of Orides are invited to attend the alumni tea Monday at 7 p.m. in alumni hall, Gerlinger. Campus clothes are in order. Whoops— Violators Beware! By LOU WESTON With the official opening of Jun ior Weekend traditions week next Monday, Order of the O men, led by their new president, Roger Wi ley, will be scouring the campus in search of tradition violators whom they will honor with membership in their “Hacked and Dunked club.’’ The law school pond will be cleaned and filled with clear, cool water for the benefit of those hap py coeds who violate the Weekend's time-honored traditions. Entertain ment is also promised for weary law students when the steps of their Fenton hangout are utilized for the initiation of male violators. Requirements Initiation requirements include smoking on the old campus, walk ing on the Oregon seal or campus lawns, sitting on the senior bench —unless you’re a senior, and neg lecting to greet each fellow stu dent when strolling down “Hello walk” between Fenton and Villard halls. Membership is not coveted, however, by loyal, tradition-con scious Webfoots. Local merchants are expecting a rush on green ribbon and Oregon lids this weekend as the freshmen prepare their recognition badges (Please turn to page three) Third Party Candidate To Include University ' In Campaign Itinerary HENRY WALLACE Odeon Student Creative Art Show Originality is the theme of Odeon, annual student creative show. Art works will he displayed in the little art gallery Sunday afternoon and Monday night. A radio program and a program of music, dancing and poetry arc planned for Monday night. See Page 3 Henry Wallace, controversial third party candidate for president, will speak on the Oregon campus May 25, Warren C. Price, Univer sity assembly series chairman, said yesterday. Wallace will spend two days in Oregon on his far west speaking tour. His Eugene speech will be in McArthur court at 3 p.m. Classes will continue as usual. Wallace has been in public ser vice since 1933 when he was ap pointed secretary of agriculture in President Roosevelt's cabinet. The native Iowan had edited farm pe riodicals previously. In 1940 Wallace was elected vice president on the Democratic ticket with Roosevelt. He was appointed secretary of commerce on March 2, 1945, after bitter opposition in the senate. He later resigned this po sition to become editor of The New Republic. Speeches are planned for Wallace in Coos Bay, Corvallis, and Port land. After his Portland lecture he will travel to Idaho, then to south western states. Legal Fraternity Chooses Magister Chase Inn of Phi Delta Phi, legal fraternity, elected officers recently. They are: magister, Ro bert MacDonald: exchequer, Avery Combs; clerk, George Brustad; ■historian, Henry Hess. Outgoing officers were: magia ter, William Moshofsky; excheq uer, Donald Coulter; clerk, Doug las Hay; and historian, Jack Cra mer. He IS the One . . . Queen Dudley Walton QUEEN DUDLEY WALTON I By JIM W ALLACE No knitter of argyles, he, Dudley Walton, to be crowned Queen Dud 1 of the Law School Weekend today on the steps of Fenton hall, lays no claim whatsoever to domestic capa bilities. With true royal dignity he declared that he was wearing out his only pair of argyles, but he didn't know if anyone was knitting him another pair. “Being a member or royalty is a completely new experience for me,” lisped Dud breathleessly, but his thick-lashed brown eyes were lim pid with anticipation about assum ing his regal position. Heinous Blow The mustached senior in law, th© choice of his school for highest rec ognition, revealed that he was cho sen by a heinous stab in the back—• secret ballot. Dud said that when his family received the news of his selection, they writhed in abject horror. However, he continued, they have now regained most sem blances of sanity and are resigned to accepting the whim of chanc© that darkened their home. After graduation Dudley, a pe tite brownette with staring eyes, asserted that he doesn’t want to do "a single exciting thing. Th© quieter, the better.” As for travel, the lovely queen expressed a desir© to “run barefooted through his own backyard.” No Entertainer The queen was dressed in a love ly lace curtain and punctuated his answers with “highly fundamenta ceous” and “saengerfest.” Dud has never entertained his school frienda (Please turn to paye eiyht) ,