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WAA President Plans Busy
Year to End College Daze
By CONNIE JACKSON
Red headed Betty Jean "Bep” Mc
Courrv, president of the Women’s
Athletic Association, has a busy year
ahead of her
Psychology major, “Bep” says
she had no idea that the most study
ing came the senior year. Mortar
Board activities, as well as WAA and
house activities, keep her on the run
most of the time. She is activity
chairman for the Delta Gamma
house.
"Bep” got started in the WAA her
freshman year, by going out for the
house volleyball team, and then par
ticipating in other intra-mural
sports. Her first cabinet position
was golf chairman and from there
she worked right On up.
Sl<e was special assignment re
porter for the Emerald during her
sophomore year and she also worked
on the night staff.
Her interests are not confined to
WAA alone for she has worked on
committees by the dozen. Just to
name a jew, International Affairs
Committee, Oregon Federation
speaker, WSSF speaker coronation
committee for Junior Weekend, co
chairman of the luncheon during
AWS weekend, and co-chairman of
the WAA carnival. She is a member
of the Cosmopc litan Club, and a past
Phi Theta.
Keeping scrapbooks is one of her
Senior Honorary
Schedules Tentative
Lono-Ranoe Flans
This year’s 12 members of Mor
tar Board, senior women’s service
honorary, are already engaged in
making both long range and im
mediate plans to serve the Univer
sity and students, according to
Nancy Peterson, president.
The big social event this year,
as usual, will be the Mortar Board
Ball, which is held at Mac court
spring term.. Mortar Board also
gives a “Smarty Party” winter
term for freshmen women who
make exceptionally high grades
during fall term.
There are only 12 members in
Mortar Board this year, although
there may be from five to twenty
members according to the constitu
tion. Qualifications for elegibility
in Mortar Board are leadership,
service, and high scholastic stand
ing
Girls are chosen from lists of
outstanding junior women, submit
ted by professors, advisers of vari
ous clubs and service groups, house
presidents, deans of the schools,
student leaders, and the members
of Mortar Board.
One large year-long project is
sponsored by Mortar Board. The
project for this year is still in the
discussion stages and Miss Peter
son declined to disclose yet what
it will be.
A proposed get-together with
Oregon State Mortar Boarders is
under discussion also, said Miss
Peterson. This meeting will prob
ably take place after one of this
winter’s basketball games with
OSC.
First assignment of the Navy’s
$600,000 “mechanical brain” will
be to Annapolis, where it will be
taught not to speak unless spoken
to by a superior officer.
main hobbies. She says she has just
stacks of them. Also ranking as big
interests are piano playing and
sports.
One of '.he biggest events in her
life came this summer, when she
traveled to New York, and stopped
off in New Orleans and Canada. It
was a wonderful experience, she says
and lots of fun.
McMinnville is her home town,
and in high school she wqn the cup
for the most outstanding girl. She
was one of 10 finalists in the state
for the Aaron Frank scholarship.
Future plans for “Bep” include
graduation, post graduate work if
necessary, and a job in some branch
of welfare work.
Full Program
Set for WAA
Opportunity galore in the WAA
is offered interested coeds this
year. A full program of sports and
activities has been planned by the
cabinet, according to “Bep” Mc
Courry, president.
Women’s intramural sports are
always available, with volleyball
and badminton offered fall term,
basketball and swimming winter
term, and tennis, softball and golf
in the spring.
Biggest social event on the cal
endar is the WAA carnival, an an
nual event slated this year for Feb
ruary 18. A play day for WAA
members from Oregon, OSC, and
Reed college is planned for spring
term.
No petitioning is necessary to
become a member of WAA. The
requirements are participation in
at least one sport, turning out for
at least three practices, and al]
the games.
Four groups offer opportunity
for girls interested in specia:
fields: Amphibians, swimming
honorary; Hockey Club; Outing
club; and Orchesis, women’s dance
honorary.
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Miss Betty Jean McCourry, this
year’s WAA president.
Coed Reveals
Inside Story
by CAMELIA POTT
A mop of fuzz, a skeleton of
bones, and a foot of painted toe
nails, that’s a woman! Most ar
ticles tell how active women arc
on the campus, how charming they
can be, and worst of all, how many
of ’em there are.
I know women, I live under the
same leaky room with them, and
I’m going to tell an inside story,
drip by drip.
Let’s start by revealing the early
morning sleep a walking scene. A
head, apparently held together by
short pieces of metal, pushes out
from under the rumpled covers,
and' falls down from the top bunk.
(A body is attached.) This is a
coed—she wanders to her room,
throws on a towel and heads for
the steam bath.
An hour later her head, devoid
of spit curls and metal attach
ments, drags on a cigarette and
shuffles off to Monument Models
class. Upon reaching class, she is
too coy to drop her handkerchief
to attract attentioh, so she uses
the new system. She rolls a knit
ting ball down the aisle and around
the toe of a desired acquaintance.
Result—argyle socks and a Fri
day night date.
Coed Sports Gain Spotlight
As Mural Practices Begin
Women’s volleyball practices are
now underway in preparation for
the tournament which will begin
when all competing teams have had
at least three practices.
Other women’s sports which
have started are badminton, an in
dividual activity which requires a
player to hit a feather from one
side of a net to the other, and, field
hockey, a group sport which asks
only that participants be able to
fallop from one end of the field
to the other and in the process try
to hit an object (supposedly inani
mate) into a net. One casualty has
already occurred in this gentle
game when a player mistakenly
hit another player instead of the
inanimate object. Result, one brok
en thumb.
Watching these sports complete
ly disillusions those who still be
lieve that women are of the gentle
1 sex. In volleyball, for instance, that
petite little blonde across the way
turns out to be a modern Amazon
when she volleys the ball. She nev
er sets the ball up, as suggested by
the instructors; she doubles up her
tiny fist and smashes the ball
squarely on the back of a player in
the front row.
In addition to the minor bruises
incurred during the game, one can
always count on a broken finger
nail or two and a joint shoved out
of place by the force of the ball.
To avoid the minor injuries in
curred, the best advice to those in
terested is to play bridge at the
Side instead. However, if play you
must, then borrow some football
pads and helmets to protect the
head and any other exposed anat
omy. This particularly would be
good practice for the Pi Phi and
Kappa pledges who should be go
ing into training soon for their an
nual football game.
Gossip Sheet Prepares Grad
For Sunset Magazine Work
by ESTELLE NORDGREN
Raney Bedingfield, 1948 grad, lias been selected from
numerous west coast careerists lor a job on Sunset magazine.
She is learning the processes ot the various departments and
her general orientation includes assembling and re-writing
articles on subjects ranging from gardening and antiques to
travel promotion.
Her brother Jim, a second year law student here, claims
dll ui-gciJi cvpovjul LC1 i ycitrs itgU, 1
when Nancy and a friend pub-1
lished Talk of the Town, mini-j
eographed daily “gossip sheet” to
sell to Coos Bay families. Their
first scoop was the official an
nouncement of a neighbor girl s
engagement.
A journalism major, Nancy be
Jongs to Theta Sigma Phi, wo
men’s professional journalism hon
orary, and was one of the students
selected for Who's Who in U. S.
Colleges and Universities. She
was chairman of Heads of Houses
and served on AWS executive
council and Student Affairs com
mittee. She also wrote for the
Oregonian, the Oregon Journal,
and various magazines. ,
Popular with Alpha Chi Omega
sisters, Nancy was elected presi
dent and also represented the
sorority at the national conven
tion in Montreal, Quebec, in June,
1947. Oh this trip, she visited east
coast cities and found metropolitan
life exciting and impressive.
Nancy’s most stimulating course
Uas Dr. Beck’s abnormal psy
chology class. Last summer she
counseled Campfire Girls at Camp
Namanu and substituted for the
Coos Bay Times society editor.
In a letter to Beverly Hcyfron,
Nancy said, ‘ The work is «so In
teresting that I could never get
tired of it! The people are so very
nice—a big, happy family of
ninety, all in one building.”
She misses campus life, par-1
2B New Pledges
Become Orides
Oregon off-campus independent
coeds pledged 26 girls in a formal
ceremony held this week at Gerlin
ger hall.
Pledges from Eugene are Shirley
Baker, Louise Campbell, Geraldecn
Childers, Virginia Drake, Elaine
Gillelt, Joyce Good. Lois Hibbert,
Colleen Lee, Lonavene Marshall,
Mary Beth McCallum, Elsie
Rhodes, Dora Smith, Edwina
Shockley, Norma Trikett, Marjorie
Truchon and Alene Ziolkowski.
Orides from Springfield consists
of Audrey Blomquist, Dorla John
son, Norma Klos'ter, Leona Kohler,
Lois Maier, Beverly Ncwsted, Nina
Robinson and Erlene Sader. Nancy
Brockway and Pat Oldham aio
pledges from Coburg.
Orides, considered as a living or
ganization, plans to have a full
program this year in both social
and service activities, according to
Irene Clemens, president. Monday
night, to start off fall term and ia
order to acquaint the pledges,
there will be a potluck dinner held
at 7 p.m. in Gerlinger hall. Orides
adviser and house mother is Miss
Fanny McCamant.
ticularly football games, and will
be in the bleachers Homecoming
weekend.
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