Nation Observes
YWCA Week
“The YWCA—your window to
the world” is the theme of Nation
al YWCA week, April 24 to 30
this year. Observing the event, the
University YWCA is “stressing
the significance of the Y to col
lege students,” President Billijean
Riethmiller said.
Beginning with a small group of
women in New York City a cen
tury ago, the YWCA has grown
to the largest women’s organiza
tion in the world. The widely scat
tered groups cover communities,
cities, and number over 600 on col
lege and university campuses.
“Illustrating the meaning of fel
lowship and service,” the president
stated, “programs as the clothing
drive and the planning of summer
projects have been scheduled this
week.”
The last event of the week will
be the social hour for foreign stu
dents at the YWCA at 4 Friday.
Velma Snellstrom, junior in pub
lic school music, attended the con
vention in San Francisco when
plans for the national observance
were made. In discussing coming
plans for the University YWCA,
Velma told about Dr. T. Z. Koo,
secretary of the World Student
Christian Federation, who will
speak at the YW'CA May 12.
Y cabinet members have planned
these activities for the week to
show that national observance is
evident through Oregon Univer
sity’s local YWCA.
New Locality Set
For YW Offices
According to present plans,
campus YWCA headquarters will
move to Gerlinger hall from its
present home in the Kincaid street
.bungalow this summer and will be
■ ready for student use in the new
location next fall.
YWCA activities have been
housed in the present building for
the last 35 years, the money for
this building having been donated
by members and friends-of the as
sociation. The property on w'hich
the bungalow is located was given
to the University by the YWCA
■ several years ago during the de
pression.
“We are looking forward to our
move and hope that people will
find their way to the YWCA in its
new headquarters as they have to
. the bungalow,’’ said Lois Green
wood, YWCA executive director.
r Headquarters will be set up in the
south first floor wing of Gerlinger
hall and will include two offices,
' a lounge, and kitchen.
Change Made
In Erb Union
Erection of the Student Union
has made only two changes in the
“ original specifications necessary,
neither of major importance.
During the digging of the foun
dations of the building, a fault in
- the rock foundation was discov
- ered, which made it necessary for
the edifice to be raised some 20
inches. However, the fault is not
expected to cause any further trou
ble, not being of the earthquake
nature.
In the recreation area, a relay
lighting control panel is being lo
cated behind the attendant’s desk
rather than spreading the switches
„ over a larger territory, thus mak
ing it much easier to close up the
room.
Clothes Needed Badly
me tollowing letter m French was received recently at the Univcr
sity YWCA in answer to a package of clothing sent by the sophomore
commission. The directress of the school of improvement at Metz which
received the bundle writes:
Dear Friends:
We have received the package which you in your kindness have
sent to our school and you are thanked muchly.
Perhaps you would be interested to know to what need it answers.
The school which I direct has six classes of 20 pupils, boys and girls,
slightly deficient mentally. For nearly all it is the misery which is the
cause of their backwardness, their parents being rag-gatherers, street
sweepers, mechanics, etc. We try to take these children from their
misery and to prepare them to become good workmen. We teach the
girls to direct a house, to prepare simple, well-made meals, and to do
the work which they will have to execute when they leave school.
Our boys learn boat making, simple carpentry, gardening, and the
labor of working masons; all, the girls as well as the boys, have in
struction in arithmetic and French.
But the primary problem is that of their actual subsistence. Many
of us arrive without having had breakfast. Thanks to the American
packages we have been able each d^ to give them a cup of milk. The
i other food products which you have sent furnish the kitchen cabinet
and are consumed at the school.
I permit myself to add that many are clothed in rags and that some
parcels of clothes, even a little used, would bring us much joy and
render so much service as the nourishment.
I do not know if yours is a girls’ school or boys’. These are the girls
who have written you. If you wish to correspond with the boys they
will write with pleasure.
Believe our grateful thanks and receive our good wishes.
L. Richaud
Nursery School
Is YWCA Service
A nursery school for the two to
four-year old members of the Ore
gon family is one of the many un
heralded sei’vices carried on by
the campus YWCA. A project of
the service committee, under the
chairmanship of Jeain Armstrong,
the nursery is limited to 30 chil
dren from faculty or student fam
ilies. Mrs. John McCloskey, wife
of the associate professor of Eng
lish, is director.
Bearing the official title of the
University YWCA Cooperative
Nursery, the group has been meet
ing at the Fairmount Presbyte
rian church every weekday morn
ing from'9 to 12 a.m. for a year
and a half. Mothers pay a small fee
and many donate their time to the
work. Members of the YWCA com
mittee have held two wbrk parties
this year to clean the rooms and
paint equipment.
All of the children have at least
one parent learning or teaching at
the University and a number of
them have both parents attending
classes. Like the University, the
nursery school will continue
through exam week and reopen in
the fall, perhaps in a different lo
cation.
Mortar Board
Ball Chairman
Announced
Beth Basler, senior in education,
will chairman the Mortar Board
Ball this year. Other members of
the senior women’s honorary will
head the subcommittees, instead of
acting as advisers as past groups
have done.
Committee heads, as announced
by Mortar Board President Nancy
Peterson, are: Laura Olson and
Anne Woodworth, decorations: Bep
McCourry, patrons and patroness
es; Olga Yevtich, tickets; Jordis
Benke, Bobolee Brophy, and June
Goetze, publicity and promotion;
Nancy Peterson, cleanup; Janet
Beigal, intermission entertainment;
Bev Pitman, programs; and Trudi
Chernis, plasterboard.
Petitions may be submitted to
Beth Basler at Delta Delta Delta,
' qr to Trudi Chernis at Hendricks
| hall by Friday noon.
Foreign Students
Will Be Helped
By Clothes Drive
Clothes and money for students
in foreign countries will be col
lected by campus YWCA and
YMCA organizations in a drive be
ginning today and continuing
through Saturday noon.
“Any kind of used or new cloth
ing will be acceptable,” according
to Co-chairmen Delores Jeppesen
and Pat Williams. Committee
chairmen include Joan Skordahl,
promotion; Georgianne Oberteuf
fer, mailing; Margaret Edwards,
women's collection; and Ed
Ehelebe, men’s collection.
Collection boxes will be placed
in every campus living organiza
tion as well as in the YMCA,
YWCA, and the downtown YM-YW
community building. Drive head
quarters is located at the campus
YMCA.
Students attending one college
in each of three foreign countries,
Germany, France, and Japan, will
receive clothes and money donated
by University students.
R?>ss to Lecture
M. D. Ross, assistant professor
of architecture, will deliver to
night’s browsing room lecture on
"Mechanization Takes Command"
by Gideon. The lecture will be from
7:30 to 9:30 at the University li
brary.
Women’s Page
YW Service Organization!
Renowned for Coordination
Coordination among its multiplicity of officers through cab
inet meetings and conferences is one of the outstanding' features
of the University \ \\ C A, known as one of the most active groups
on any campus.
Over forty officers and committee chairmen cooperate to make
the Y a leading force in many fields of activity. Greek and inde
pendent women, leaders and workers, unite with a common pur
pose and headquarters in the lit
tle bungalow on Kincaid street.
New p r e s i d e n t Billijeati
Riethmiller works in close con
nection with her cabinet, con
sisting of four elected officers,
h f t e e n committee chairmen,
and the presidents of the sopho
more and upperclass commissions.
Elected to cabinet positions at
the women's elections last term
were Velma Snellstrom, first vice
president; Marguerite Johns, sec
ond vice president; Joan O'Neill
Foulon, secretary, and Marjorie
Peterson, treasurer.
Committee chairmen are Mary
Stadelman, ^rembership; Leona
Kohler, luncheon club; Dolores Jep
peson and Pat Williams, interna
tional affairs: Barbara Ness, public
affairs: Lou Weston, religion and
worship; Lilan Schott, house; Shir
ley Potter, social; Shirley Hillard,
conference’; Jean Armstrong and
Beverly Buckley, service; Jackie
Barbee, public relations; June Fitz-;
gibbons, publicity; Marilyn Thomp
son, flying speech; Jean Burgess,
posters.
Helen Caldwell is chairman of the
upperclass commission, consisting
of junior and senior women; and
Barbara Metcalf of the sophomore
commission. The latter commis
sion have their own committee
chairmen, and carries on a variety
of affairs. Sophomore plans for the
future include the duckling counse
lor program and a picnic for all
sophomore women Y members,
slated for May 18.
Eighteen women chosen from
the faculty and townspeople act as
an advisory board for the Univer
sity Y. This group is self-perpetuat
ing and elects its own successors
for a term of three years.
The advisory board is in charge
of relations between the campus
group and the community as' a
whole. They arrange for the con
nection between the Community
Chest and the Y which supplied a
large proportion of the organiza- \
tion’s operating expenses.
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Future Y workers are recruited
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which meet during fall and winter
terms. Fourteen junior women act
as junior advisers for these groups.
Next year's junior advisers will
be Jackie Barbee. Margaret Ed
wards, Jo Anne Gilmore, Florence
Hansen. Janice Hughes, Glenna
Hurst, Ellie Johns, Nancy Kulin
hausen, Ruth Landry, Mary Lou
Sorenson, Barbara Stevenson, Sally
Terril, Leslie Tooze, and Emily
West.
Federalist Head
Due in Eugene
Cord Meyer, national president of
the United World Federalists and
former Marine Corps captain, will
speak in Eugene on May 11 under
the sponsorship of the Eugene and
University student chapters of the
Federalist organization.
The 28 year old world federalist
served as veteran assistant to Har
old Stassen at the signing of the
United Nations charter in San
Francisco in 1945. A number of his
articles on world federalism have
been published in the Atlantic Mon
thly and other publications.
Elected president shortly after
four government movements join
ed forces under the name of United
World Federalists, Meyer has serv
ed in that capacity for over one
and one-half years.
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