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on graduation requirements and
procedure, see story on page 2.
VOLUME L
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1949
Vl’YIDIPD 100
Grades, Personality Essential for Job-Hunter
By Anita Holmes
You want a job?
Check your personality. Raise
your grades. Keep letters of rec
ommendation from summer em
ployers. Learn technical skills of
your field.
This is the advice of Karl W.
Onthank, director of graduate
placement who has been doing
personnel work with the Univer
sity for 17 years. The Annual
spring ‘‘you want a job?” rush
has been swamping his Emerald
hall office for the past several
months.
Looking at job-hunters from the
employer angle, Director Onthank
has found many of the clues lead
ing to a good post-graduate job.
"Character and personality in
terest many prospective employ
ers more than technical skills,” the
iirector believes. "Some don't
even mention the technical side.”
Will he cooperate and work well
with subordinates? Do you like
to have him around? Does he
pay his bills ... is he honest?
Has he any objectionable quali
ties? Will he take responsibil
ity?
These are some of the first
questions employers ask Onthank
about applicants from the Uni
versity.
“Company men are sought,” he
aas discovered. “They look at a
iob from the management point of
view . . . don’t just work eight
hours, go home, and forget the
company."
Technical Skills Important
Although personality traits are
important, technical skill can't be
overlooked, especially in such lines
as chemistry, accounting and den
tistry. However, “surprisingly
small" technical requirements are
needed in many jobs.
Grades in your major field are
the yardstick of this technical
skill, Director Onthank points out.
Employers DO look at grades, he
emphasizes.
“The better your grades, the
better your chances of getting the
job,” according to the rapid-talk,
ing personnel man. Executives rea
lize that all won’t make top
grades, “but a coaster in school
will probably be a coaster on the
job.”
Campus activities are also meas
ured. What students accomplish
in activities—not simply what of
fices they hold—is important.
“Successful experience in sum
mer jobs is one of the best recom
mentations a student can have,”
Onthank stresses. Employee-seek
ing me* are impressed with com
plimentary letters from previous
bosses.”
“You want to hold your job?
Don’t think you have to be
vice-president of the firm week
after next. Do a little extra
work. Ask questions about du
ties of the man above you.
This advice has come back to
Director Onthank's office through
men who hired University gradu
ates.
Their main criticism was aimed
at students unwilling to "start at
the bottom and work up." They
forget that necessary knowledge
plus an opening leads to advance
ment.
Director Onthank has been
“pleased with the number of stu
dents willing to work in small com
munities this year.” His office is
linked with all of Oregon, parts of
California, and mainly, other
northwestern states.
“Opening the door to a job" is
Onthank’s business. He helps fu
ture graduates organize their re
sources to find work. Actually win
ning the position and holding it are
out of his department.
Carpenter's
Band Hired
&
For Dance
iKe carpenter s youtnrui orcnes
tra, which has won plaudits from
Variety, Billboard, Radio Daily,
and Time magazine, and was
tagged “the new band sensation
of the year’’ by the 1948 Disc
Jockey poll, has been engaged for
the Mortar Board ball June 4, it
was revealed yesterday.
Recently featured as musical di
rector for Frankie Laine, the slow
talking, 24-year-old Southerner
will bring his piano, orchestra, and
entertainers, including the red
haired Dumont twins, for his first
appearance on the Oregon campus.
In its brief year of existence,
the Carpenter orchestra has brok
en records right and left. Hired to
fill an engagement at Tommy Dor
sey's Casino Gardens for a week
end, they were held over for six
repeat engagements. On their
opening night at Horace Heidt’s
Trianon ballroom they broke a
three years’ attendance record.
During Easter week at Balboa
Beach the group played before
4500 dancers to the tune of 21,500
paid admissions in six days, “the
best business since Stan Kenton.”
In the Pacific Northwest the
band has played at Jantzen Beach
and on a theater tour with the
Hoosier Hot Shots.
Johnny April, named by Look
magazine “the best teen-aged vo
calist in the United States,” will
appear with Carpenter here.
No Diploma Causes
Big Inheritance Loss
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—(AP) —
Lack of a college diploma cost
George Harvey Clark $25,000 to
day.
In 1923, his grandfather died
leaving him $25,000 on condition
he earn his college degree by the
time he rached the age of 25. Other
wise, the money would go to the
Sacramento city schools.
Clark hasn’t been graduated
from college as the will stipulated,
but sought the money anyhow. The
third district court of appeals up
held a lower court today. He can’t
have it.
Band Leader
.....
IKE CARPENTER
. . . Piano stylist
Millrace Cries;
Echo Scatters
The millrace’s plaintive cry of
“Water! ’ will be heard all over
the world beginning this week.
A letter asking for contributions
is being sent to more than 20,000
alumni in the United States and
13 foreign countries by Les An
derson, alumni secretary.
Signed “The Millrace,” the let
ter says in part:
“My story may change. The fam
iliar willows that still droop to
ward my banks may not be doomed
to wave over a dry bed. Canoes
may once again glide over my soft
rippled surface.
“Yes, there’s hope for me . . .
if you’ll do something to help right
now.”
Women Journalists Honor
Outstanding Underclassmen
Carp Catchers
Star in College
Big Celebration
PORTLAND, May 18—(API —
Vanport college will celebrate its
third anniversary tomorrow—and
it may be something of a water
carnival.
The campus that was put out of
business temporarily by last year's
Memorial day destruction of Van
port is again overlooking rising
flood waters.
Students will be building dikes,
digging holes for sump pumps and
filling sandbags. Stunts such as
sack races planned for tomorrow's
celebration are being switched to
bare-handed carp catching con
tests. There also will be log rolling
and rowing contests.
The vast parking area behind
the former Oregon Shipyard Ad
ministration building, where class
es are now' held, is under water
from the Willamette backwash.
Classes will go on, however, un
less the water rises to 25 feet—7
ifeet above flood level. It is due to
I hit 23y2 sometime Saturday.
Former AP Fashion Editor
To Give Matrix Table Address
Lorna Larson artel Grctchcn Grondahl will bo honored this
evening at Theta Sigma Phi’s Matrix Table as the outstanding
treshman women in pre-journalism at the University. Anita
Holmes will share honors as the outstanding woman in the soph
'more class. 1
J lie annual formal banquet, honoring women outstanding
journalism, literature, and the
arts, will be held at 6 p. m. at
the Eugene hotel.
Miss 1 lohues was named out
standing freshman woman in
journalism last year. This year
she has served as associate editor
of Old Oregon. The freshmen wo
men have worked on the Emerald
Old Oregon and the Oregana this
year.
Miss Dorothy Carew, a journalist
experienced in many fields writ
ing both at home and abroad, will
be featured speaker. Miss Carew
was the Associated Press fashion
editor in Paris before the war and
for the past several years has been
woman’s financial writer for the
AP in New York.
She has the distinction of being
one of the corps of reporters which
followed the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor on their honeymoon across
the continent. Her journalistic ex
perience also includes also includes
covering the disastrous Hartford,
Conn., circus fire several years ago.
Miss Carcw is a member of Theta
Sigma Phi and attended journalism
schools at the University of Wis
consin and Ohio State before be
ginning her journalism career.
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Slavic Triangle
Featured Today
For Radio Cast
The old husband, wife, lover, tri
angle will receive a Slavic setting
on today's University Hour show
over KOAC at 4:30.
Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina,”
a novel concerning such a trio will
be the subject of a half hour adap
tation by the radio workshop dra
(ma section. The story revolves
about the infidelity of the wife oi
a high tsarist official.
Mary Ellen McKay will produce
the play, which will include Jay,
Ryerse, Louise Clouston, Bob
Hinz, Paul Wexler, and Norm
Lamb. Chuck Hucka will overseer
the music, and Bob Hinz will an
nounce.
University Hour will open at 4
with a popular music show pro
duced by Warren Dobbin. Featured
I will be the Harmoneers, a girls’
trio composed of Vivian Brooks,
Anita Loe, and Evelyn Loe. Norma
Lamoreaux will accompany them,
via the piano.
The campus interview, sched
uled for 4:15 will be presented by
Gene Deutschmann. At the time
of this writing, he was reported
trying to secure the services of a.
recent arrival from Trinidad.
Journalist Palmer Hoyt In Eugene
By Bob Funk
Palmer “Ep” Hoyt, former pub
lisher of the Portland Oregonian,
now of the Denver Post, arrived
yesterday in Eugene to visit his
son, Dick, junior in journalism.
Hoyt, who graduated from Ore
gon in 1923, was with the Oregon
ian for 20 years—1926 to 1946. He
transferred to the Post in the win
ter of 1946. At that time, the Post
was something of a journalistic
oddity.
Hoyt made changes. “We1 pre
served the general western atmos
phere of the paper,” he explained,
“but modernized it considerably.
We’re printing a lot more news
than formerly, and readership has
increased.”
In addition, Hoyt introduced an
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PALMER HOYT
. . . visits campus
editorial page into the Post, which
had been overlooked by the Post’s
previos editor—possibly as being
un-western.
“The first qualification of a
good newspaper,” Hoyt decided,
“is to print the news. It's simple.”
Editor Hoyt visited members of
the journalism faculty during his
brief stay in Eugene. Interviewed
in Dean Weigle's office, he exam
ined group pictures from his col
lege days.
“Can’t even recognize myself,”
was his only comment after exam
ing one picture on the wall of the
dean’s office.
Hoyt has been visiting relatives
on the coast during his trip. He
came to Eugene from San Francis^
co, and went on to Portland yes
terday afternoon.