Teaching
Field Full
In State
1 By FRANCES GILLMORE
“The field of secondary educa
tion is not a bright one for job
Possibilities,” Dr. George W. Ebey,
assistant superintendent of Port
land public schools and director of
personnel in Portland, told the Fu
ture Teachers of Oregon in his in
formal lecture Thursday evening.
| He continued, “Of the 277 posi
tions filled in Portland last year,
pome 200 were assigned elemen
iary vacancies, leaving a small
Spiinority for the secondary slots
HI. . this year will see a repetition
of what happened last year so far
as positions are concerned.”
> Ebey emphasized the fact that
Approximately 19 secondary edu
cators will be required whereas the
meed for elementary teachers will
Be probably over the 200 mark.
At present the University of
^"Oregon is “processing” some 200
Secondary educators, Oregon State
About 250. The state of Oregon
yill require approximately 200.”
;i In the secondary vacancies are
numbered home economics, girls’
physical education, math, and sci
ence instructors, whereas the lan
guage fields are definitely crowd
Ebey defined the Portland and
Oregon Transition Program as
follows:
Required is 17 quarter hours in
undergraduate education plus a
B.A. degree plus 12 additional
hours undergraduate education to
obtain a temporary elementary
t etcher’s certificate.
With one year teaching experi
ence plus a second 12 hours in un
dergraduate work, a regular state
elementary certificate will be is
sued. “Applicants under Portland
jurisdiction may attend a four
week program wherein they re
ceive 12 hours of supervised teach
ing, workshop, child development,
and teaching or reading,” stated
Dr. Ebey.
“Opportunity for advancement
is good for outstanding qualifica
tions in the 66 elementary Port
land schools; less, however, in the
9 Portland high schools.”'
In response to the question from
one member of the audience, “Are
there possibilities for secondary
teachers from elementary certifi
cate holders?” Dr. Ebey answered
a decided “Yes. They have a real
impact on' secondary school sy
stems.
Replying to queries about living
conditions in Portland, Ebey em
phasized the fact that low, moder
ately priced homes are hard to
find, but “We do have a housing
bureau to help locate people. One
can find a price range from $35
up.”
Uppermost in the minds of many
future teachers of Oregon is the
salary schedule.
According to Dr. Ebey, Portland
has one of the best salary scales
in the nation. Personnel are paid
on a 12-month basis, with active
military service counted toward
teaching experience.
A beginning teacher with no
degree will receive a base pay of
$2500, with a possible goal of $3000
in 7 or more years.
Starting with a bachelor’s deg
ree, his salary is $2600 with a pos
sible $3100 peak.
A master’s degree entitles the
beginner 'to $2800 annually. Within
7 years the figure may be in
creased to $3300.
With some of the kids we’ve
seen, every day is a fresh begining.
The weather deserves a lot of
Credit for its nerve to disagree
with some women.
.
Walden String Quartet
Initiation Held
By Pi Delta Phi,
French Group
Pi Delta Phi, French honorary
organization, initiated 31 new ac
tive and honorary members Thurs
day in the Alumni Hall of Ger
linger.
The initiation ceremony was fol
lowed by a dinner at the Anchor
age, after which Mark R. Sponen
burgh, assistant professor of art,
showed colored slides he took last
summer in Paris. Mrs. Sponen
burgh explained about each picture.
The initiation of the new mem
bers was conducted by Elizabeth
Kratt, president of Pi Delta Phi,
with the assistance of Catherine
Black, secretary-treasurer. D. M.
Dougherty, head of the foreign lan
guage department, gave a brief
talk.
New active members are:
Mrs. Nan Humphrey Adams,
Mrs. Clarajane Browning, Joan De
Lap, Lorita Ewing, Mary E. Hall,
Lois McClaflin, Glenn Morgan,
Coralie Nelson, Beverly Ostrum,
John Palmer, John Palmquist, Eliz
abeth Perry, Lucretia Prentiss, Ro
wena Renaud, Henrietta Richter,
Harry Sorenson, Bill Wallace, and
Charity Williams.
New honorary members are:
Frank G. Black, associate profes
sor of English, and Mrs. Black;
William Buckley; Miss Marilyn
Carpenter, graduate assistant in
romance languages; Arnold Els
ton, associate professor of music,
and Mrs. Alston; Mrs. Delia Gico
vate; Dennis G. Hannan, teaching
reuow in romance languages; Miss
Madeline Michel, student from Par
is, William M. Myer, instructor in
romance languages; Miss Ray
monde Richard, instructor in ro
mance languages; John G. Snow,
graduate assistant in romance lan
guages; and Mark R. Sponenburgh,
assistant professor of art.
Active members are university
students or persons who, during
their university career, have dis
tinguished themselves in the study
of the French languages and other
pertaining subjects. Plonorary
members are professors of French
or other persons who have attained
distinction in the propagation of
French culture in the United States.
The first chapter of Pi Delta Phi
was founded in 1906 at the Univer
sity of California at Berkeley. The
Oregon chapter, Zeta, was founded
in 1928.
Libe to Present
Special Programs
Three special programs will be
presented in the Library Browsing
Room this week ii> connection with
the drama conference on the cam
pus.
Featured will be a reading from
“Death of a Salesman,” “An Hour
With Browning,” and a program of
chamber music.
Horace Robinson, associate pro
fessor of speech and director of the
University Theater, will read from
the Pulitzer prize winning play,
“Death of a Salesman” by Arthur
Miller on Tuesday.
“An Hour With Browning,”
Wednesday, will feature Kenneth
Neal, senior in speech, reading se
lections from Robert Browning.
Neal is a student of Dr. R. C. Mc
Call, head of the speech depart
ment, who is directing the pro
gram.
The University String Quartet
will play an hour of chamber mu
sic Thursday.
All programs are part of the
Ethel R. Sawyer Browsing Room
Hour series and will be held from
4 to 5 p.m.
Miss Bernice Rise of the Uni
versity Library announces that
Thursday there will be a display
honoring the late Ethel R. Saw
yer, who was the first browsing
room librarian and active in drama
work in Eugene and Portland.
Over 800 books, many in fields of
drama and poetry, will be on dis
play.
Placement Office
Lists Open Jobs
Insurance, salesman, and secre
terial jobs1 are among the many
now available to University stu
dents through the Graduate Place
ment Service, Karl W. Onthank,
director, reported Saturday.
Immediate placement, as well as
work following June graduation,
may be obtained through the serv
ice. Onthank urges seniors gradu
ating in 1950 to come in soon as
jobs will be increasingly harder to
find as summer nears.
The Graduate Placement Service
office is located in Room 216, Em
erald Hall.
An auto salesman is the only
one who can make a new car climb
a hill backwards in neutral.
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Out of Weeds
Amazon Project No Longer
Alternate Lake, Dust Bowl
By ROBERT SHORT
Things have changed out in Am
azon Flats.
Once a sea of mud in the winter
and a dust blown weed yard in the
summer, it. is now a neat little com
munity with paved' streets, new
lawns, and freshly painted apart
ments.
Officially known as the Univer
sity of Oregon's Amazon Housing
Project, it was designed to help
house the surge of married veteran
students returning to the univer
sity after the war.
Struggle Begins
The uphill struggle to transform
the undrained, unlandscaped plot of
land out at 22nd and Hilyard
Streets into a liveable low cost
housing project began during the
spring of 1945.
Material with which to construct
the 248 apartments was purchased
from the War Assets Administra
tion. Most of the material was orig
inally used in the shipyard housing
project at Vancouver’s McLaughlin
Heights.
Because local Housing was so
pitifully inadequate, and because
local landlords were happily charg
ing as high as $20 for a week “two
room, water furnished, you pay
your own light and heat” hovels,
university authorities decided to
put completion of living units ahead
of landscaping or drainage.
So to those students who were
the first to move into the project in
the fall of 1946, the Amazon was a
dreary, unlovely place.
The streets that bisected the.pro
1 ject were worse than pitted cow
trails that bisected the back areas
of Lane county. Mud and water
stood ankle deep around the front
parches of the apartments.
By the summer of 1947, 148
apartments had1 been completed
and some work on landscaping had
started. But things ground to a halt
shortly thereafter because of a lack
of money.
"We were stuck with 100 unfin
ished apartments, a puddle of mud,
and no money." said D. H. Williams,
director of university family hous
ing.
More money was accumulated
during; the rest of 1947 and con
struction was resumed in the win
ter of 1948. All the remaining' units
were finished before May of that
year.
“We were then able to direct all
our efforts toward improvement,’'
said Williams.
And’ improve uiey did. During
the summer of 1948 the streets
were graded and surfaced, an effec
tive drainage system was com
pleted, weeds were removed, lawns
were planted, and a laundry com
plete with automatic washers and
dryers was established.
Work could have stopped at that
point, but Williams and the Univer
sity’s assistant business manager,
E. W. Martin, had lived in the
Amazon during the mud and weed
days and they were determined to
make conditions as pleasant as
possible for future tenants.
Fences, vet
In accordance with that policy
extensive improvements were made
during the summer of 1949.
Neat, white picket fences were
erected around the apartments and
large play areas were enclosed. The
streets were resurfaced and all of
the units received a fresh coat of
paint.
The low rent, four room apart
ments have been transformed from
last choice, emergency housing to
comfortable, completely adequate
temporary homes for 700 people.
Yes indeed, things have changed!
since a wet January day two and
one-half years ago when this writer
carried his wife, children, and chat
tels through knee-deep water to a
drab little apartment out in Ama
zon Flats.
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