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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1949)
VOLUME I, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1049 NUMBER l©« Awards for Libraries Announced Books Given for Best Personal Collections In Three Categories Owners of personal libraries will have their annual opportunity to put their books on display the an nual Library Day Prize contest, May 7. The contest is sponsored by the Co-op store and the Association of Patrons and Friends of the Library. This year prizes of $25, $15 and $10 in books will be offered for the best collections in each of the divi sions — student’s specialized li brary; student’s general library and graduate student’s library. Entry blanks can be obtained at the circulation desk. “University of Oregon ranks first in the nation in the quality and number of libraries submitted for this contest,” said Miss Bernice Rise, head of the circulation depart ment. “We encourage all students to enter,” she said. "Although up to 50 volumes can be submitted, the student need not have more than 25. The books are judged not so much on quantity as quality the broad interests they display, their literary worth, and the value they have to the student.” In the general library category come collections of a broad na ture that display the variety of their owners taste. The graduate student’s collection is similar, ex cept that it should show more em phasis on the owner’s field of special study. The specialized collections may embrace books displays on any subject of special interest to the student from birdlove to mathe matics. Textbooks may be includ ed in all the categories. A slip bearing the list of titles and stating the general nature of the collection must be submitted to the circulation desk of the li brary by May 5. Books must be arranged for display by May 7. Queens to-be Will Meet at 4 Junior weekend queen candi dates, selected by each women's living organization, will attend a meeting today at 4 p. m. in the Al pha Xi Delta house, announced Dor othy Orr, co-chairman of the queen selection and coronation. Candi dates are: Dorothy Wonderly, Alpha Chi Omega; Marge Harrison, Alpha Delta Pi; Mildred Lambert, Alpha Gamma Delta; Shirley Tonseth, Al pha hall; Barbara Cassidy, Alpha Omicron Pi; Joanne Frydenlund, Alpha Phi. Mary Dewees, Alpha Xi Delta; Janet Morrison, Chi Omega; Donna Masterson, Delta Delta Delta; Phyllis Morgan, Delta Gamma; Pat Hansen, Delta Zeta; Nancy Gault, Gamma hall; Janet Paulsen, Gam ma Phi Beta; Betty Horand, Hend ricks hall; Eva Taronen, Highland house; Gloria Aquer, Kappa Alpha Theta; Harriet Vannatta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Mary Margaret Jones, Pi Beta Phi; Henrietta Rich ter, Rebec house. Shirley Smouse, Sigma Kappa; Helen Caldwell, Susan Campbell hall; Virginia Thompson, Univer sity house; and Greta Stunz, Zeta Tau Alpha. Today’s meeting of the candi dates will serve to explain points they will be judged on and clothing selection, said Suzie Michel, Eliminations will be held April 14. Patients Perish in Hospital Blaze THE REAR VIEW of St. Anthony’s hospital in Effingham, 111., at the height of the fire. At least 72 persons were listed yesterday as dead or missing in Tuesday’s disastrous fire which speedily consumed the building. (AP Wirephoto) Mayor Lee to Speak at Breakfast * * * i Zeta Tau Alpha Jumps Back Into Greek Bloc Zeta Tau Alpha sorority was unanimously reinstated into the Associated Greek Students yester day at a meeting of Greek bloc representatives. Petitioning for reinstatement, the sorority submitted the follow ing statement to the bloc meeting: “The members of Zeta Tau Al pha last night voted to become af filiated with the Associated Greek Students. We believe this action to be in the best interests of our fra ternity, and hereby declare that we will support the Associated Greek Students.” The statement was of ficially submitted by Beta Pi chap ter of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. Immediate Vote Permissible Commenting on the Zetas’ ac tion, AGS President Elwin Hale said, “I am very pleased to wel come the Zetas back into the AGS party.” He noted that a section of the AGS constitution depriving re turning Greek houses of their vote for one year has been amended, al lowing immediate vote. Zeta Tau Alpha bolted the Greek bloc on May 22 of last year, at which time six other houses took the same action. On the following day another sorority, Alpha Xi Delta, left the bloc. Of the original eight houses, six are at present not members of AGS. Phi Kappa Psi fraternity returned to the bloc earlier this year. Acting Zeta President Beth Mitchell declined comment on her house’s action, other than reitera (Please turn to page tzvo) MAYOR LEE Hawgood Talk Set for Tonight “Problems of Postwar Germany” will be the topic of a University lecture series talk by Dr. John Hawgood, professor of modern his tory and gmWnment at the Uni versity of Birmingham, tonight at 8:30 p.m. in room 207, Chapman hall. Hawgood was a member of a British university group appointed to interview German displaced scholars last year. In 1947 he served on a delegation of profes sors invited to inspect and report on German universities. Weather . . . Fair today, with considerable high cloudiness Friday. Women's World Will Be Subject Of Annual Affair Portland’s woman mayor, Doro thy McCullough Lee, will speak on "A Women’s World” at the an nual YWCA sponsored junior senior breakfast to be held Sunday morning at 9:15 in the Veterans Memorial building. Joan O’Neill Foulon, breakfast chairman, stressed the fact that all junior and senior women on the campus are welcome to attend the meeting, regardless of wheth er or not.the juniors accompany the seniors. Tickets for the breakfast, at 95 cents each, may be purchased at the Co-op or the YWCA bungalow. Mrs. Lee, a family woman with two adopted children, has served on the Portland city council since August, 1943. She held the office of commissioner of public utilities from 1943 until her election to the mayorship in December, 1948. Politics entered Mrs. Lee’s life in 1929 when she took her seat in the Oregon state house of repre sentatives as a representative of Multnomah county. During the en suing years she served as chair man of the Oregon Crime commis sion, a member of the Portland Traffic Safety commission ,and as a Portland municipal judge. A graduate of the University of California law school at Berkeley, Mrs. Lee received her Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in 1923, From the latter date until 1943 she was actively engaged in the practice of law. Conductor Mitropoulis Rated Tops Minneapolis Group Will Appear in Mac Court Tomorrow Conducting without baton or score, Dimitri Mitropoulis will lead the Minneapolis Symph ony orchestra tomorrow night at 8:15 in McArthur court. Open to all students who show their registration cards at: the door, the concert will be the second in two years given by the famous orchestra in Eugene. Mitropoulis, bom in Athens, Greece, assumed the leadership of the Minneapolis group after his debut with the Boston Symphony in 1936. He first entered the United States in 1929 to direct concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic. Directed Various Groups Becoming a musician was a dif ficult task in his youth, because his parents were staunch members of the Greek Orthodox church which had little place in its rites for in strumental music. Overcoming parental objections, he has since conducted many fa mous symphony orchestras in both the United States and Europe. Does Not Use A Score The orchestra leader, who feels that “you can't keep your eye on music on a desk, turn pages con stantly, and still command an easy, flowing performance from the or chestra," doesn’t even use a score at rehearsal—an unusual practice among conductors. Typical of music critics' praise of him is the comment of Cyrus Durgin of the Boston Globe, who said, after a guest appearance of Mitropoulis with the Boston Sym phony in 1944, “Everything was precise and eloquent, dominated by the emotional nature of the Greek artist, and brought into being by a command of music and of orchestra which is true genius.” He first started conducting without a score early in his career. Omitting a ba ton came later and introduced a new technique to the. profession of orchestral conducting, he said. Theme Deadline Set for Vodvil “If house representatives for the All-Campus Vaudeville were un able to get their postcards in tbo mail yesterday,” Velma Sneil , strom, program chairman, stated; j "They may phone me tdoay at j 1309. I “This is the absolute deadline for j themes and the number of partici pants which each house wishes to use in the show. Instead of being run in thiee ■ shifts as stated in a previous Em erald story, eliminations Monday and Tuesday nights will be run in several consecutive shifts starting from 6:30 to 9:30. House representatives were giv en their quotas of tickets to sell last night, according to campus sales chairman Ed Peterson.