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"VOLUME XLIX UNIVERSITY ~OF OREGON, EUGENE.FRIDAY, MAY 7. 1948 NUMBER 129
Sing Features Queen's Coronation
Phi Betes
Receive
Members
Scholastic Group Gets
Twenty-One Seniors
To Wear Coveted Key
Twenty-one University seniors
were pledged yesterday to Phi Beta
Kappa, honorary fraternity of lib
eral arts and sciences, according to
Miss Mary Findly, secretary of the
organization.
Included in the twenty were
Martha Smithe, medical school;
Frederick Howatt, mathematics;
Ralph Isenase, history; Sylvia Kil
lam, music; Bjorg Hansen, foreign
language; Edith Mays, foreign lan
guage; Frederick Weber, business;
Donald O’Connell, psychology;
Ross Yates, journalism; Eugene
Zumwalt, English.
Jane Ellsworth, journalism; John
Yeager, business; Margaret Holm,
English; Beverly Howard, music;
Carl Pride, mathematics; Barbara
Wyckoff, mathematics; Harriet
Heimburger, physics; Phyllis Falk,
liberal arts; Robert Frazier, jour
nalism; Robert Pittinger, medical
school, and Robert Mass, medical
school.
Nan P. Humphrey, sophomore in
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Campus Lunch
Tickets on Sale
Tickets for the all-campus lunch
eon, to be Saturday noon on the old
campus, will be sold to guests and
non-living organization students at
a booth to be set up at the picnic
site at 9 a.m. Saturday morning.
The admission is 45 cents.
Tickets for the all-campus sing
and the Junior Prom will be sold
today in the Co-op. They are 70
cents and $2.60 respectively.
Prom tickets are also being sold
in men’s living organizations.
The Sunlight Serenade, sched
uled for Sunday afternoon, is open
to everyone free of charge. Punch
and cookies will be served at the
event, to be in the orchard behind
the music school.
Burglar Enters
Phi Gam House
Another campus robbery oc
curred early Thursday morning at
the Phi Gamma Delta house, re
sulting in a loss of about $125.
According to reports the house
was entered sometime between 3
a.m. and 5 a.m. by either the fire
escape or the front door.
Police Chief Jones said that be
cause of the lack of evidence in
such cases they were extremely
hard to work on. He said that in
studying the previous cases it has
been found that they usually oc
cur between the first and seventh
n. of each month and between the
hours of 1:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m.
One Will Be Crowned Tonight
Governor John Hall will crown tone of the above coeds “queen of Storybook Wonderland” Junior Week
end tonight at the All-Campus Sing at 8 p.m. She will rule over all the events of the Weekend. From
left to right are: Donna Stageberg, Mary Handelin, Mary Ltou Hill, Nancy Swem, and Mary Joy Hamm.
Sigma Pi Sigma, Physics Honorary
To Install Chapter Monday Night
Installation of the local chapter
of Sigma Pi Sigma, national phy
sics honorary, will take place Mon
day. Dr. Marsh White, professor of
physics at Pennsylvania State col
lege and president of the national
organization, will officiate at the
ceremony.
Following the installation Dr.
White will give the address of the
evening entitled “Physicists in War
and Peace.” He will speak begin
ning at 8 p.m. in room 207 Chap
man hall.
Members of the physics depart
ment will hold an open house from
9 to 11 p.m. in Deady hall. Various
physical phenomena, including the
methods for detection of cosmic
rays and radio activity, a high vol
tage Tesla coil, fluorescence of min
erals, a radio frequency oscillator,
and an oscillograph will be demon
strated. The public is invited to at
i tend this open house.
I Charter members of Sigma Pi
Sigma, to be initiated Monday are
Dr. A. E. Caswell, head of the phy
sics department; Dr. W. V. Norris,
professor of physics; Dr. E. P. Coo
per, associate professor of physics;
No Rain Saturday;
Thank You, Jupe!
Prayers for no rain Junior
Weekend have evidently been
answered! According to word re
ceived from the weather bureau
last night, the forecast for today
and tomorrow is partly cloudy.
Showers ? “In the mountains,
says the weatherman, but we’ll
hope that they stay away from
Eugene.’’
Sunshine ? “Of course, there’ll
be sunshine even if it is cloudy,’’
he said.
Outdoor lovers and Trudi Cher
nis may rest easily. The picnic
and float parade of “Story Book
Wonderland” will not be rained
out.
Dr. E. G. Ebbighausen, associate
professor of physics.
Dr. F. W. Paul, associate profes
sor of physics; L. A. Webb, instruc
tor in physics; P. A. Goldberg, in
structor in physics; E. L. Johnson,
graduate assistant in physics; D. J.
Donahue, graduate assistant in
physics; E. B. Neher, graduate as
sistant in physics; W. E. Lotz Jr.,
graduate assistant in physics; C. E.
Sanford, graduate assistant in phy
sics; E. D. Clayton, graduate as
sistant in physics.
R. S. Paul, research assistant in
physics; R. S. Wright, sophomore
in liberal arts; R. D. Brown, junior
in geography and geology; H. E.
Heimberger, senior in physics; T.
P. Ashford, graduate student in
physics.
Thelma Chaney, senior in mathe
matics; D. W. Berreman, sopho
more in liberal arts; Carl Pride,
graduate assistant in mathemat
ics; G. S. Dixon; F. W. Ward; R.
.D. Williams, research fellow in
chemistry.
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Song Fest
Has Varied
Program
Governor John Hall
To Place Crown
On Weekend Queen*
After her coronation by Gover
nor John H. Hall, the Junior Week
end queen and her court will wit
ness the all-campus sing from a
special box to be set up in McAr
thur court.
Twenty men and women’s houses
will compete in the sing. Master of
ceremonies will be Stan William
son, ASUO president.
During the evening 27 seniors
will receive diplomas for having
their names in "Who’s Who Among
Students in American Universities
and Colleges” for 1947-48.
Balcony Level
Besides the queen’s box, which
will be balcony level and reached
by golden stairs, decorations will
include a book on the stage with
each page having the name of the
number to be sung. Williamson will
turn the pages.
A symphonic group will perform
half way through the program.
When results are tabulated, the
two winning houses will sing again.
Groups will be judged 20 per cent
each on tonal quality, (including
harmony and intonation) interpre
tation, and diction, and 10 per cent
each on musical arrangement, ap
pearance, and the ability to follow'
the leader.
Judges Listed
Judges will be H. Johann Eseh
bach, Melvin Geist, and Tom
O’Brien.
All participants should be at Mc
Arthur court at 7:30 tonight, Jordis
Benke, co-chairman of the sing,
said.
The first half hour of the pro
gram will be broadcast.
Others working on the sing are
Ann Gillenwaters and Barbara Ste
venson, decorations; Alex Murphy,
general assistant; Anne Wood
worth, programs; and Barry Moun
tain and Frank Rauch, publicity.
Concert Slated
For Monday
Earl Robinson, American com
poser, will present a program of
musical selections for the Eugeno
public Monday evening. Robinson,
who was scheduled to appear last
month, is being sponsored by tho
Evans Carlson chapter of the Pro
gressive Citizens of America..
Robinson is the composer of
"Ballad for Americans,” "The
Lonesome Train,” and “The House
I Live In.” He has also composed
the scores for movies.
Admission to the “Ballad for
Americans” party will be 75 cents
plus tax and it will be held at the
Hampton building, second floor
hall A, 610 Willamette street. It
will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Eugene Attorney
To Speak Sunday
John Luvaas, Eugene attorney,
will speak on “In Our Community”
at the Lutheran Student associa
tion Sunday evening supper meet
ing in the YWCA this week.
Ed Heidc, newly elected president
of the group, will lead the devotions
and Dale Peterson will give a vocal
solo.