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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1949)
VOLUME L UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1949 NUMBER 13® Serenade To Finish Weekend Men, Women Winners Of All-Campus Sing To Serenade Queen A “serenade by sunlight" will officially close Junior Weekend from 3 to 5 p. in. Sunday. Xo ad mission will be charged for the musical program that is open to the public in the open-air audi torium behind the music build ing. Phil Green, program chairman and master of ceremonies, said the serenade is planned to honor vis iting mothers. But he emphasized that it is open to everyone. A program of ten parts will be given, Green said. Presentation of the Junior week end queen and her court will opeij, the Sunlight serenade. She will give a speech to close the two-day holiday. Violin Duet A violin duet by Ann Kafoury and Ellen Liebe will be next. They will play the Haydn duet in D ma jor, the allegro movement. Miss Kafoury and Miss Liebe are con cert mistress and assistant con cert mistress, respectively, of the University symphony orchestra. James McMullen, lyric baritone who recently sang with the Port land symphony orchestra, will sing “The Song Is You.” Winner of the all-campus sing in the women’s division will give the next number. Theta Chi Quartet Several selections by the Theta Chi quartet will follow the house group. Georgine Shanklin will play a piano solo. Claire Lewis, soprano, and James McMullen will sing “Who Are We to Say.’’ Winner of the all-campus sing in the men’s division is next on the program. It will be followed by the Delta Gamma trio, composed of Shirley Gilbert, Gay Williams, and Carol Eagleson. Virgina Walker, soprano, will sing the tenth and last number on the program. Her selections are “Without a Song” and “Songs My Mother Taught Me.” Miss Walker was one of the soloists in the win ter term performance of “The Mes siah.” Junior Weekend Tickets on Sale Tickets for all Junior week end activities, May 6-8, will be on sale at the Co-op and at the Educational Activities office this week. Price to the all-campus sing is 80 cents; all-campus lunch eon 45 cents; and to the Junior prom $2. Kline Named UO Foreign Student Head J. D. Kline, assistant registrar, was recommended this week by the committee on international af fairs and scholarships to be Uni versity foreign student adviser. Kline’s appointment is subject to the approval of President H. K. Newburn. “This is the first time that we have had such an official, Clifford L. Constance, registrar, stated yesterday. Interested faculty mem bers and officials have aided for eign students, but they have had no centralized office from which to obtain information. Kline’s new duties will consist of making available to foreign stu dents attending the University in formation on immigration, visas, working, reports to be filed, and admission and academic require ments. He will also inform Oregon stu dents about requirements for com pleting studies abroad. “An adviser of this type has been needed very badly for a number of years,” Donald M. DuShane, direc tor of student affairs, commented. “We will now have one place where information pn requirements and regulations will be available for all students. “In former years, information has been scattered about all over the campus in the hands of profes sors, deans, the graduate place ment and student affairs offices.” Kline will continue in his post as assistant registrar. Good Weather Now Probable Prospects for a bright and sun ny Junior weekend picked up yes terday. The Eugene weather bureau said that there is a slight possibility of widely scattered showers. State Department Intern Jobs Open to Outstanding Students Outstanding students who will complete their undergraduate or graduate courses in June are eligible to apply for internships in the U. S. department of state, according to Dr. Charles Schleicher. Students with at least two years’ university work, or who have completed their undergraduate or postgraduate studies within the cur rent year are eligible to apply for internships in the annual Summer • Student Intern Program of the United Nations Secretariat, in session from July 11 to September 2, 1949. Application forms for either program are available in 109 Oregon • hall from Dr. Schleicher. The applications must.be submitted by May 10. Interns in the department of state program will be appointed at a salary rate of $2520 per annum. Successful candidates will be promoted (Flense turn to page two) Queen Candidate m -m m •' v w wmmmmsmm * m w BLONDE PRINCESS HARRIET VANATTA, whose home is in Hawaii, came to Oregon (luring the war when women and children were asked to leave the islands. Princess Harriet was chosen Miss Vogue in 1947 and is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. (Photo by Kirk Braun) Sporting Hawaiian Tan Princess Harriet Likes Spear Fishing in Summer By Donna Kletzing “It’s all so secret,” was the ex clamation of Harriet Vanatta, tall, blonde and gracious Junior week end princess. “They won’t even give us a hint,” she said, "and every thing is done alphabetically.” Harriet, whose home town is Ko hala, Hawaii, has a very Hawaiian sun tan, and claimed one of her fa vorite summer pastimes as spear fishing. “That’s where you swim under water with a spear-bamboo weapon and spear the fish. I al Arabs, Jeep Bear '1001 Nights' News “Clear the streets.” That’s the word for between 10:50 and 11 today and Friday. Cuz four Arabians are going to be careening through the cam pus astride a jeep bearing tid ings about “A Thousand and One Nights.” Further word on Junior week end will be disseminated by the “five little professors” of Stan j for Chaparral fame who will ! carry messages on their little suitcases. “Other student antics” have been promised by Lance, who refused to give the identity of the professors, but named the Arabians as Frank Rauch, Gay Baldwin, Bert Campbell, and i Con Sheffer, anr Jerry Crary. ways do my hunting near shore, though,” she explained, "and I have a conch shell in my room that I caught one day while fish ing.” When asked why she came to the University, Harriet explained that during the war when all wom en and children were asked to leave Hawaii, her mother, who was originally from Grants Pass, her three brothers and herself came to Oregon. She attended the ninth and tenth grades in Eugene before returning to Hawaii where she was at Panahou high school in Hono lulu. “I was amazed at all the white people when I came to the United States," she exclaimed, "because all through grade school there were only two other' white children in my school. All of the others are Oriental or Hawaiian, and the ma jority of them are barefooted at that,” she added. Since Harriet who is a member Kappa Kappa Gamma has been at Oregon, she has been a mem ber of Hui-O-Kamaiina and is a member of the quartet that has been guest singers for different campus and civic organizations. When she was a freshman, she be came known as the 1947 Miss Vogue. Majoring in cultural anthropol ogy. Harriet has no plans as yet when the class of ’50 graduates, but explained that it’s as yet early. JW Prom Activity List Grows Sophomore Honorary Tappings Added to Intermission Program rapping for Skull & Dagger, sophomore men’s honorary, has been added to the intermis sion aetivities of the junior prom this Saturday evening in McArthur court. Jimmy Zito and his orchestra will play for the annual formal dance. Ticket sales, at $2 a ducat, have been proceeding favorably, accord ing to Paul Johnston, chairman of the dance. The Co-op and educat tional activities office will be hand ling tickets each day this week un til Saturday noon. They will also be sold at the door Saturday night. That Man Again Zito played last fall for the Soph omore Whiskerino, and has played at a number of colleges in Califor nia. The trumpet player first reach ed national fame with his solo pas sages on "High on a Windy Trum pet” with Lcs Brown's orchestra. Zito's recent record releases in clude "The Man with the Horn,” "Just Naive,” "Hold Me,” and “Key Largo.” KUGN To Broadcast KUGN will broadcast 30 minutes of Zito’s music at the prom Satur day from 11 to 11:30. The awarding of the Koyl and Gerlinger cups to the outstanding junior man and junior woman, Burt Brown Barker cups to the men’s and women's living organizations with the highest GPA, cups to the float parade winners, and tapping of Druids, junior men’s honorary, will also be included in the inter mission. Johnston announced that anyone wishing' to aid on his committee should call him at the Delt house. Senior ROTC Classes Open Applications for admittance 'into advanced ROTC or air ROTC courses for 1949-50 may be sub mitted now by students who have (completed or will complete the (basic second year course this* i term and by veterans of World War II under 27 years of age. Colonel Frank R. Maerdian and JLt. Col. John W. Watt Jr., of the ! military science department, ex plained in making this announce | ment that this year's early en rollment will enable the depart ment to obtain summer draft de ferments for those students se lected for advanced courses. Mayor Ed Johnson Will Crown Queen Eugene Mayor Edwin Johnson, will crown one of the five prin cesses as Junior weekend queen i this Friday night at 8 in McAr thur court. Little Michael Newburn will carry the sealed envelope with. I the queen’s name inside.