Oregon
Emerald
Fiftieth Year of Publication and Service to the University
VOLUME L
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 194!)
NUMBER 76
Leono Anderson Gets Nod
For PhiJSig^'Moonlight Girl'
Leona Anderson, Alpha Delta
Pi, sophomore, was named 1949
Moonlight Girl at the annual Phi
Sigma Kappa “Moonlight Rendez
vous” dance Saturday night in
Gerliriger annex.
Miss Anderson was given a cup
engraved with her name, the date,
and the honor awarded her. This
cup will be one of her permanent
possessions. Her living organiza
tion will receive the large trophy
which has been on display in the
Co-op, to keep until the next con
test, in 1950.
The six finalists, Mary Hande
lin, Alpha Phi; Molly Muntzel,
Kappa Alpha Theta; Martha
Cleveland, Gamma Phi Beta;
Jeanette Houf, Alpha Chi Ome
ga; Jean Merrion, Gamma hall, and
Miss Anderson were honored at
the dance, which was decorated
as a nightclub, featuring the mu
sic of Johnny Lusk’s orchestra.
LEONA ANDERSON
Placement Head Back;
Comments on Outlook
i came back with the impression that there are still many
opportunities for the more outstanding graduates,” director
Karl W. Onthank of the graduate placement service said yes
terday, upon returning from a 26-day trip to New York, Wash
ington, and Chicago.
However, employing agencies are becoming increasingly
selective as the number of college and university graduates in
creases, and the great number
of positions which developed
during the war have since be
come filled.”
Onthank's trip had a twofold
purpose: he attended the annu
al meeting of the National Ad
visory Board for YMCA student
work, of which he is a member, and
he made or renewed contacts with
alumni and with national offices of
major business concerns in the in
terest of helping Oregon graduates
to find suitable positions upon leav
ing the campus.
“The University of Oregon is for
tunate in having many well-placed
and cooperative alumni who are
willing and able to help current
graduates with information and
counsel,” Onthank commented.
“At New York, John MacGregor
and Owen Calloway of the class of
’23 arranged a dinner of alumni to
give me an opportunity to meet the
group and arrange for a committee
of alumni placement advisers in
New York, similar to those already
operating in San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
Minnesota Co-eds
Ignore Sororities
More vacancies in sororities
than co-eds interested in pledg
ing- is the situation found at the
) University of Minnesota these
days.
In 1945, say the records, 992
girls signed up for rushing and
302 pledged. This year, only 383
have even signed up.
No one seems to know why in
coming girl students who want
to join the organization have
been decreasing in number.
Junior Weekend
Petitions Accepted
Petitions for committee chair
men and members for Junior
Weekend must be turned in to the
ASUO office by Thursday at 4.
Chairmanships open are for the
all-campus sing, luncheon, tradi
tions, float parade, junior prom,
promotion, publicity, sunlight sere
nade and the queen’s contest and
coronation.
Foreign Postmarks Adorn
Extension Students' Work
There are a good many students
studying under the Oregon state |
system of higher education who
won’t be found in the Pigger’s
Guide, or its equivalent in other
schools.
Miss Mozelle Hair, head of cor
respondence study for the general
extension service, reveals that
there are students who send their
lessons from such distant spots
as Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippines
and Japan.
Typical of the work that gen
eral extension is doing is the case
of Mary Ellen Kennedy, a student
of English and world history. Al
though she is a Portland girl, her
present address is in care of the
Arabian-American Oil company,
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The chief
problem of the department in
this case is getting lessons back
and forth with any degree of ra
pidity.
King of Hearts Candidates
Selected by Living Groups
Frosh Girls
Feted for
Scholarship
Plaque Awarded; Ideal
Husband Gives Speech
Anita Holmes, Ruth Landry, and
Barbara Stevenson last night were
awarded the Mortar Board fresh
man scholarship plaque at the sen
ior honorary’s annual Smarty Par
ty, given in honor of all freshman
girls making a 3.00 GPA or above
for their first term.
The three winners, now sopho
mores, were awarded the plaque for
having the highest cumulative
grade point averages for their three
terms as freshmen.
Ralph Johnson, senior in law cho
sen by Mortar Board as the “Ideal
Husband” in a competition spon
sored by Mademoiselle magazine,
was interviewed by Laura Olson
and Janet Beigal.
“My Ideal Wife,” Johnson said
when the question ofjw^preference
in a helpmate was sprung on him,
“would be mature and responsible.
She would not necessarily be beau
tiful, but she must be neat and at
tractive.”
Trudi Chernis, Oregana editor,
announced that Johnson will receive
a full-page spread in the Kings and
Queens section of the 1949 year
book.
“Be a smart, not a smarty smar
ty,” Donald M. DuShane, director
of student affairs, advised the
freshmen. He emphasized that one
must also be moral, mature, and
responsible.
“If you are smart without prin
ciples, you are machiavellian; if
you are smart without responsibil
ity, you are a nihilist; but if you
have all three attributes, you are
the finest product of western civi
lization, Christianity, and demo
cratic education.
“Remember the three ‘irrs’,” Du
Shane concluded. “Be irreproach
able, irrepressible, and irresisti
ble.”
SDX toMeet At
Side Thursday
All members and pledges of
Sigma Delta Chi, national profes
sional journalism fraternity, are
reminded of the noon meeting at
the Side Thursday.
According to chapter president
Larry Lau, tickets for the initia
tion banquet will be sold at this
time. Pledges should also be pre
pared to pay their national and
local dues at the Thursday meet
ing.
Final plans for the initiation
banquet, scheduled for February
10, will be discussed. Failure to
attend the Thursday meeting will
result in the customary fines, ac
cording to Warren Mack, chapter
treasurer.
Campus Queens to Judge Men
Thursday on Personality/ Looks
Heart Hoppers to Witness Coronation
Of Winner of Annual Contest February 11
Candidates for King of Hearts have been announced by the
men’s living organizations and the finalists will be chosen
Thusrday night at 7:15 in Gerlinger hall. The King will be
crowned at the Heart Hop, February 11.
All candidates are requested to attend the meeting and fin
alists will be selected on the basis of personality and “looks” by
a committee of seven co-eds and a faculty member.
Judges will be Jane Hull,
Homecoming Hostess; Joan
Nelson, Sweetheart of Sigma
Chi; Penny Singleton, Betty
Coed; Leslie Tooze and Elea
nor Johns, co-chairmen of the
Hop; Anne Case and Margaret
Edwards, co-chairmen of the selec
tion committee and an as yet un
announced faculty member.
Candidates for the King of
Hearts are Bob Chambers, Alpha
Tau Omega; Bob Amacher, Beta
Theta Pi; John Olson, Campbell
club; Charlie Ruffner, Chi Psi; Bob
Gitner, Delta Tau Delta; Bill Davis,
Delta Upsilon; Tom Schappell,
French hall; Jerry Sorenson, Hunt
er hall.
Russ Haehl, Kappa Sigma;
Vaughn Sterling, Lambda Chi Al
pha; Jim Harris, Merrick hall; Bill
Gorman, Min turn hall; Henry Cha
ney, Nestor hall; Max West, Omega
hall; Don Farnem, Phi Delta Theta;
Jerry Smith, Phi Gamma Delta;
Russ Ward, Phi'Kappa Psi; Martel
Schappell, Phi Kappa Sigma; Wal
ter Smith, Phi Sigma Kappa; Bob
Robinson, Scderstrom hall.
Jack McMuren, Sigma Alpha Ep
silon; Don Lippman, Sigma Alpha
Mu; Pat Wohlers, Sigma Chi; Doug
Yeater, Sigma hall; Herb Luck,
Sigma Nu; Mel Leighton, Sigma
Phi Epsilon; Paul Ostrom, Sherry
Ross hall; Lewis Riley, Stan Ray,
Jerry Conrad, Stitzer; Ray Freauff,
Tau Kappa Epsilon; Ken Seeborg,
Theta Chi; and John Eldridgc, Yeo
men.
Dorm Council
Slates Mixer
The Interdorm council will
sponsor a stag or drag dance in
Gerlinger annex Friday night af
ter the Washington game.
Festivities will be underway im
mediately after the game, and
will last until 11:30 p.m. Tariff
will be 10 cents, or 20 cents a cou
ple. Music will be from records.
Serving' on the dance commit
tee are Liz Sanford, Paula Nigg,
Suzie Michel, Walt Buchanan,
and Bill Hall.
Mrs. Genevieve Turnipseed and
Dr. and Mrs. Earl M. Pallett will
keep their eyes peeled for eccen
tric behavior on the part of the
participants.
Weather
Mostly cloudy with occasional light
rain and snow flurries. Slightly
cooler with a high of 37 degrees.
Trustees Select
Colorado Editor
ONPA Speaker
Houstoun Waring, editor of the
Littleton (Colorado) Independent,
has been chosen by the trustees
of the Eric W. Allen memorial
fund as the third annual fund lec
turer.
Waring will address the 30th
Annual Oregon Newspaper Pub
lishers association conference on
February 18, according to a ten
tative conference schedule. The
subject of his talk will be “An
Experiment to Improye Editor
ial Leadership.”
Editor of the Independent for
twenty-two years, Waring has
been constantly active in journal
HOUSTOUN WARING
istic circles. From 1933 to 1939
he served as part-time chairman
of the University of Denver jour
nalism department; in 1944-45 he
was selected as one of the Nei
man Fellows for study at Har
vard university.
Chosen as the outstanding al
umnus of the University of Colo
rado school of journalism, Editojg
Waring has copped award for
the greatest community service of
a Colorado weekly newspaper
eight out Of the last fourteen
years.
As third annual Eric W. Allen,
lecturer, he will take part in a
program established in the mem
ory of the founder of UO’s school
of journalism. ,