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J16ITAT
EMERALD
VOLUME LI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1950
NUMBER 57
Co-Chairmen Named
For 'Dimes' Campaign
Betty Jean Wright, junior in architecture and allied arts, and
Kay Kuckenberg, sophomore in liberal arts, have been appointed
co-chairmen of the campus March of Dimes drive by a Eugene
Junior Chamber of Commerce drive committee.
The nation-wide dime campaign will begin on Jan. 14 and end
Jan. 31.
Present campaign plans include a dance at Willamette Park
following the Washington-Oregor
basketball game the night of Jan
27, Evan Davies, Eugene drive
publicity director, stated Wednes
day.
Receptacles in the form of small
iron lungs will be placed in the
Co-op, restaurants, stores, and
other business concerns on the
University campus and throughout
the entire city.
Further plans will be formulated
and committee members selected
immediately for the campus cam
paign, Miss Wright reported Wed
nesday night.
The co-chairmen were selected
from petitions submitted to the
Eugene committee by interested
University students. Committee
members will be picked from the
remaining petitions]
SU Board Picks
Kuzmanick,
Jones as.Heads
Lester Jones, junior in physical
education, was elected chairman
of the University Student Union
Board at a regular meeting Wed
nesday. Antionette Kuzmanich,
senior in education, was named
secretary by the unanimous vote
of the board.
Jones has served as temporary
chairman of the board since the
beginning of fall term when the
board was organized.
The beard approved the “peti
tion and interview’’ method of sel
ecting standing committees of the
new Student Union. Petitions for
committee chairmanships will be
examined by the board, and chosen
after personal interviews with
each applicant.
COMMITTEES NAMED
Standing committee members
will be chosen by the committee
chairmen after examination of the
petitions by the board.
Standing committees selected to
function upon completion of the
new Union were games, music,
movies, book and browsing room,
art gallery, special attractions,
dance, publicity, workshop, house,
“trouble-shooter,” and personnel.
WILLIAMS OPTIMISTIC
Chances for the opening of the
new building before Junior Week
end, May 12, are excellent, Dick
Williams, Student Union director,
said at the meeting.
Mrs. Wesley C. Ballaine, wife of
Dr. Ballaine, professor of business
administration, was named direc
tor of the inter-collegiate bridge
tournament on the campus, begin
ning Feb. 23.
An average grade-point of 3.476
for the 14 members of the board
was announced by Jones. Lowest
grade point on the board was 2.5,
with two members receiving a 4.0.
Change Set
For June 11
Ceremony
Baccalaureate and commence
ment sei'vices for the University
will be combined this year, Presi
dent Harry K. Newburn announced
Wednesday. The combined cere
mony will be held at 2 p.m. Sun
day, June 11.
The purpose of the change, which
has been approved by the Board
of Deans, is to encourage larger
attendance both of students and
parents, and of alumni and friends
of the University.
The move will make it possible
for students, parents, and others
to get home the same day, where
as with an evening commencement
it was necessary for most of them
to stay over.
Principal speech of the combined
program will be the baccalaureate
address. An outstanding national
religious leader will be obtained to
make this address. The President’s
charge to the graduating class will
be eliminated to keep the cere
mony to approximately the same
time as the former commencement
exercise.
The move has been discussed
with campus and local church
leaders.
Wars to Go On
As Snow Bullets
Fly Over U.O.
By Ken Metzler
SOMEWHERE ON SORORITY
ROW, Jan. 11 (Special)—Armies
all along this several-block front
Wednesday night rallied their
forces in preparation for expected
snowfights as the weatherman
forecasted more snow for this
area.
Battle-weary coeds expected new
onsloughts Thursday and were
preparing to dig in to defend their
respective fortresses.
The. Weather Bureau predicted
cloudiness with occasional snow
flurries Thursday with a low tem
perature of 28 in the morning and
35 later in the day.
NO CASUALTIES
Fighting broke out on many sec
tors during the day Wednesday
but official communiques from all
armies reported no casualties.
Lt. Commandant June Fitzgib
bons of the 1461st Chi Omega Div
ision said no purple hearts were
given out to her fighters—only
blue hands. An official statement
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Huntingdon Prof
ReplacesMeans
During Absence
Dr. N. P. Jacobson, professor of
philosophy at Huntington College
in Montgomery, Ala., has been ap
pointed as acting head of the Uni
versity religion department, tem
porarily replacing Dr. Paul B.
Means.
Dr. Means will return from
Singapore for the 1951-52 school
year. He is now studying political
influences on religion in Singapore
and surrounding areas.
After two years of pre-medical
work at the University of Wiscon
sin in 1930-32, Dr. Jacobson start
ed school at Emory University in
Georgia. He received his bachelor
of divinity degree there, earning
his doctor of philosophy degree
from the University of Chicago.
Dr. Jacobson joined the Navy as
a chaplain in 1943. He served 21
months, mostly in the South Paci
fic.
He has written articles which
have been published by the Har
vard Theological Review and the
Journal of Religion.
Urban, Deuel Get
AGS Endorsement
For Council Posts
Hoh Deuel and Will Urban will he endorsed hv the Associ
ated 11reek Students for appointment to the ASUO Executive
Council.
The decision was made at an AGS representatives’ meeting
W ednesday. Deuel will he recommended to the council for senior
representative and Urban tor junior representative.
Yesterday's action by the AGS followed an earlier decision
Smoldering Iron
Causes Damage
A smoldering iron caused slight
damage to stocks at the Westgate
Shoppe at 13th and Kincaid streets
last night.
Helen Naugle, manager of the
women’s store said an iron was
left on in the upstairs alteration
department.
A fire truck answered the call
about 7 p.m. yesterday.
Marriage, Family Speaker
Author of Sex Publications
By GRETCHEN GRONDAHL
Lr. Lester A. Kirkendall, lecturer for this \ ear\s Marriage
and the Family Series, which starts next Tuesday, is an author
of several sex education publications as well as an experienced
lecturer.
Dr. Kirkendall's publications include “What It Takes to be
Popular,” “Understanding Sex,” “Dating Days," and “Sex Ad
justments of Young Men.”
The speaker, now professor of
family life education at Oregon
State College, came to the OSC
campus from the University of Illi
nois. For three years he served as
Director of the Association for
Family Living in Chicago working
with marriage and family adjust
ment problems. He was a specialist
in marriage and family life at the
University of Illinois YMCA.
During the war years, Dr. Kirk
endall served as consultant for
school sex education programs, and
also taught a course in prepara
tion for marriage and family life
for American servicemen at the
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Ticket Sale Continues
For OSC-Oregon Game
A few tickets are still available
for the Oregon-Orcgon State bas
ketball game Friday in Corvallis,
Athletic Business Manager How
ard Lemons said Wednesday night.
Sales will continue today and
Friday at the Athletic Ticket Of
fice, McArthur Court, to both stu
dents and townspeople. Tickets are
$1.50 each.
Lemons advised students to be
in their seats by 7:30 to be as
sured of a place in the special
section reserved for Oregon root
ers.
to endorse only one candidate for
each of the Greek positions. Tho
final choice rests with the Execu
tive! Council, which will also piclc
a USA sophomore and junior rep
resentative Monday.
Candidates for AGS endorsement
were nominated at the meeting
from names recommended by the
party's steering committee and
others submitted from the floor.
Seeking endorsement were Bill
Carey, Herb Nil], Stan Turnbull,
and Urban for the junior position
and Curt Finch, Dick Neely, Marge
Petersen, Velma Snellstrom, and
Deuel for the senior delegate’s job.
Miss Snellstrom was nominated
from the floor while the others
had been recommended by the
steering committee from petitions
submitted to them by each house
Tuesday.
Turnbull, after a first elimina
tion vote, withdrew in favor of
Nill who then opposed Urban for
the endorsement.
All decisions were made by ma
jority vote in secret ballot.
Former AGS repre entatives to
the ASUO Council were Bill Lance
and Phil Patterson; former USA
Council members were Anita
Holmes and Ron Brown. All four
resigned at the end of fall term.
The United Students Associa
tion will make no formal recom
mendations for Executive Council
replacements, according to John
Day, USA president.
Oregana Debts Due
The payment deadline for Ore
ganas will be 5 p.m., Monday.
Payments can be made at a
booth in the Co-op today
through Saturday or at the Ore
gana office in McArthur Court
from 3-5 p.m.
Traveled Violinist Joseph Szigeti
Noted for Many Uniaue Concerts
By BOB FUNK
Violinist Joseph Szigeti, who will
appear at 3 p.m. Sunday at McAr
thur Court, has led a life of unusual
variety since his entrance into the
field of concert music.
Not only has he played in many
of the world’s orthodox concert
halls, but also at such places as an
esperanto concert in London, where
everything was sung in that ton
gue.
He has played to “horizontal”
audiences of bed-ridden patients at
a sanitarium in Switzerland, to a
gathering of Red Army soldiers,
and before an audience at the as
sembly hall of the Palestinian Agri
cultural College of En-Charod.
The violinist has introduced
many new works for violin - Prok
ofieff’s Violin Sonata in F minor,
Stravinsky's "Divertimento,” Bar
tok's “Portrait," and he recently re
introduced Alban Bergs’ long-neg
lected Concerto and Sonatas for
violin and piano.
Ernest Bloch has written a num
ber of works especially for Szigeti,
Bela Bartok wrote a rhapsody for
violin and orchestra, and “Con
trasts’’ for him.
Szigti enjoys food to the fullest
extent. “My culinary taste is so
catholic that I would hesitate to
give you any one favorite menu. It
would be sad indeed if a much trav
eled virtuoso could ‘boil down’ his
preferences to one of two menus!”
The ‘‘greenish, unctuous Toareah
soup of Australia" stands high on
his list of culinary preference, how
ever.
Among his acquaintances, Szi
geti counts George Bernard Shaw.
The two met on at Atlantic cros
sing, at which time they discussed
the ‘‘good old days" in music. Shaw
and Szigeti both found it regret
table that Albert Einstein is the
only living notable who really looks
like a violinist.