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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1948)
Oregon VOLUME XLIX NUMBER i ii UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1948 Campus Police Head John Kalkhoven Dies Believed to be the last picture taken of John Kalkhoven, captain of the campus police, who died suddenly yesterday morning. This shot was taken last week in his tiny workshop where he pursued his hobby of diamond-cutting. (Photo by Kirk Braun.) ••j "Campus Cop" Founded Mineral Association; &eath Comes as Profound Shock to Campus By KIRK BRAUN The unexpected death, early Monday morning, of John P. Kalkhoven, 52, affectionately known to Oregon students and townspeople as the “campus cop,” came as a profound shock to all who knew him. Holland-born Kalkhoven came to Oregon in 1937 and after looking over the Willamette valley, he decided (as he often told friends) “that Eugene was the best little town in the valley.” Kalkhoven was perhaps more widely known, not because of his duties as head of the six-man cam pus police force, but more for his activities in promoting interest in his hobby of mineralogy. Since he came to the campus two years ago from the Eugene police force, he was instrumental in the founding of the Eugjene Mineral association and school children throughout the area will remember him for his colorful lec tures on diamond-cutting and mineral identification. Kalkhoven was proud of his dia mond-cutting hobby, a skill which he learned from his father in his native city of Amsterdam. His col lection of stones was valued at $3,000. He spent many hours in his tiny backyard workshop at 2792 Riverview ave., making jewel ry or cutting stones for friends. During the war, when he served as an officer on the Eugene police force, he spent much of his spare time making much-needed dia mond tools for the government. He served in the famous “Rainbow” division during the first World War. Kalkhoven was born in Amster dam, Holland in 1895 and came to Canada with his family in 1912. He later moved to Minneapolis and after the first World War studied forestry at the University of Mon tana. He spent almost 15 years with the U. S. Forest service be fore coming to Oregon. He is survived by his wife, Mary E., three sons, Allen, 21, Bruce, 19, Roger, 15, his father, Leonard of Vancouver B. C. three sisters and one brother. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2:30 at Simon Chapel. Interment will be at Resthaven. Schedule For Job Hopefuls Released The following schedule of com panies who will send represen tatives to the campus to inter view job applicants has been announced by Karl W. Onthank, dean of personnel adminstra tion. Arrangements for inter views and information may be obtained in room 6, Friendly hall. May 12—Sears, Roebuck & Co. General retail training. General meeting at 9 a.m. Personal inter views in appointment. May 14—H y s t e r company, Portland. Men interested in Hy ster. Personal interview on ap pointment. May 14—Girl Scouts of Amer ica. Professional Scout workers. Personal interview on appoint ment. May 15—Oregon State Civil Service tests to be given on campus for personnel represen tatives and social welfare posi- f tions. See Mr. Parsons, Sociol ogy Oregana's Here!! Get 'Em Thursday The 1948 Oreganas are here! They will be available in McArthur court Thursday from 9 a.m. to 12 m. and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., according to Olga Yevtich, business manager. Members of Kwama and Phi The ta Upsilon will helep with distribu tion. Voting Set For School Next Week UO to Cast Ballots On PNCC Resolutions In Special Election Resolutions formulated by Pa cific Northwest College congress will be voted on by Oregon stu dents on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. The elec tions will be conducted by the new University Council in political Af fairs. PNCC, an annual assembly of Northwest students selected from their respective colleges and uni versities because of their interest and knowledge of international af fairs, met this year from March 3 to 6 at Whitman college in Walla Walla, Wash. Bob Allen and War ren Miller were thee University of Oregon representatives. The assem bly’s resolutions, adopted after several days of debate and study, will be submitted to the vote of students of 37 colleges in the Pa cific Northwest, Canada and Alas ka. Passed resolutions will be car ried this summer to the United Na tions assembly in Lake Success, N. Y., by two delegates chosen from the congress. In all, 90,000 ballots have been readied to distribute among the students of the northwestern cor ner of the continent. University of Oregon has received 7000. The council for political affairs through men and women’s service organizations will distribute the ballots at the house meetings next Monday, and at the Co-op the YW and YMCA and probably in classes Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. The proposed resolutions are printed in this issue. Other arti cles giving pros and cons of the PNCC proposals will be published throughout the week. Cahill to Return Here Dr. Fred V. Cahill Jr., assistant professor of political science at Yale and a member of the political science department here last year, will return to the campus for the second summer session. Wednesday Film Involves Spies “The Thirty-Nine Steps,” a murder mystery classic about a young man who becomes involved in an international spy-ring when a girl is found murdered in his apartment, is the feature picture for Wednesday night's audio vis ual movie. Sponsored by the edu cational activities board, the movie will be shown in room 207 Chapman hall. First showing at 7 p.m. Also playing Wednesday night will be a short feature, “White Flood,” which presents a study Of glacier formation methods. Women to Have 'Ladies Night'at Campus Dance Male popularity will be on trial in the coming two weeks as the women students prepare for the only all-campus girl-ask-boy dance, Mortar Board ball. “Ladies Night” will be held at McArthur court on Friday night, May 21, with Freddie Yawn and his dance band providing the music. The dean of women has granted late permission until 1 p.m. Tickets will be on sale in the Co-op next week at $1.50 per couple. Billijean Ricthmiller, Kwama president, advises freshman women to attend the dance for the Kwa mas will tap 30 girls in intermis sion. The names of the freshmen to receive this honor will not be re vealed until that night. Gretchen Fraser, Olympic ski champion, will be presented in in termission through the courtesy of the Eugene Obsidians. Members of Mortar Board will di rectly advise the various commit teees. Helen Hicks, Mortar Board president, will work with dance chairman Kay Sneider. Joan O’Neil and Rene Cowell, decorations and programs co-chair man, are under Ann Burgess. Tick et chairman Sally Mueller will be aided by Nila Desinger. Mortar Board member Dedo Misley is ad vising Sally Waller, intermission program chairman. 'Old'Opera Begins Run Tomorrow Production to Have 12-piece Orchestra; Tickets Here Now “Beggar’s Opera,” starring an all-student cast, will open a three night run at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the music school auditorium. Directed by Herman Gelliausen, the production will be accompanied by a 12-piece faculty-student or chestra. A limited number of Tickets will be sold today and tomorrow in the Co-op from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. by members of Phi Beta, music and drama honorary. They are 60 cents. Denton Rossell, assistant profes sor of voice, designed and painted all sets for the opera, in coopera tion with the drama department. He is also in charge of lighting. Characters Listed Heading the cast are Mary Mar garet Dundore as Polly and Wayne Sherwood as MacHeath. Others in the lead are Claire Lewis as Mrs. Peachum, Virginia Walker as Lucy, James Kays as Filch, James Mc Mullen as Peachum, and William Putnam as the beggar. Jean Lichty will play Mrs. Diana Trapes and Treva Rice will be cast as Jenny Diver. Ladies of the Town are Eleanor Culver, Jean Lichty, Marjorie Graham, Gloria Chellis, Joyce Davis, Barbara Detrich, and Janet Nielsen. MacHeath’s gang consists of Lowell Chase, Clell Conrad, Loren Bush, Elden Pentilla, William O'Leary, Earl Anderson, Jens Jen sen, and Donald Pester. Written by John Gay in 17288, the story of the opera concerns the activities of “dishonorable by hu man” people of the time. It was a break from the more formal opera of the day. In the orchestra are faculty members Dr. Edmund Cykler, George Boughton, and Milton Die terich. Students participating are Janet Shafer, Ann Kafoury, Ellen Liebe, Dorothea Schair, Margaret Perkins, Albert Marshall, Jeanette Grant, Shirley Williams, Jean Hud speth, and Sylvia Killman. Gunns Graduate, 'Family Style' See Picture, Page 6 Between eating with their eyes “glued on books and papers,” and tossing the baby back and forth between classes “basketball syle,” Mr. and Mrs. Rex Gunn have found time to write a 4000-word story for the Saturday Evening Post. “Graduation: Family Style” is bylined Barbara Gunn and appears with four illustrations in the May 16 Post. Mrs. Gunn, a small, blonde education major, has promised to autograph copies of the magazine from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the Co-op. She and Rex with their one-year old Bren live at 2295% Friendly st., “a modest one-bedroom home two miles from the campus.” There they have “a baby crib squeezed into one corner, diapers drying over the furnace, and grocery bills instead of prom tickets.” Sketches of their hectic life at home, on the campus, and inbe tween color the Gunns' feature on education mixed with marriage and a son. They were married two years ago June 13, which will be their anniversary and graduation day combined this year. Hex is a senior in English and a veteran of four years with the army air force in the Pacific. In their story, the Gunns de scribe college as “anything but a shelter from real life ... its been an investment." “Now it’s almost over, we’re locking back on cam pus scenes without a trace of nos talgia.” They discuss the married veter ans as a group definitely in a hurry and critical of classes where they are being entertained or merely bored, r ather than instructed. “Here at Oregon, despite the en rollment boom, such classes are marked in the files by large sheaves of withdrawal slips,” the article says. “The baby has been the only member of the family who seemed to suffer no strain at all.” Mrs. Gunn observes. ‘‘Although he has n't been raised according to the standards of all the best books, at one year he exceeds their specifi cations.” Along with other incidents of their University life, the young couple tells of financial, final week, and Pre-Bren troubles. As the in troduction in the Saturday Even ing-Post says, “No students ever had it so hectic.” Both Mr. and Mrs. Gunn started their college lives as journalism majors. He is a member of Sigma Delta Chi, men's professional jour nalism fraternity, and she is a member of Theta Sigma Phi, wo men’s professional journalism fra ternity. During her junior year. Mrs. Gunn was a member of Phi Theta Upsilon and a WAA officer.