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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1950)
;{& m Foo, Daily EMERALD VOLUME LI UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7,1950 NUMBER Denning, Wilkes Take Election University, City to Unite In Religious Service University students and Eugene townspeople will unite in a union service opening Religious Evaluation Week Sunday. Theme for the week this year is “First-Hand Religion.“ Dr. Charles W. Gilke}-, featured speaker for the week, will deliver the main address at the opening meeting, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the Music Auditorium. How Long Will Cut Flowers ^JLast?” is the subject of the na tionwide lecturer’s first talk on the campus. Eugene High School’s a capella choir will furnish special music under the direction of Russell Har rison. The congregation will join in the s'inging of two hymns. Nicholson to Speak Dr. Wesley Goodson Nicholson, pastor of the Eugene Congrega tional Church, will introduce the speaker and give the benediction. The Rev. Mr. Thom Hunter, director of Westminster House, will give the call to worship and prayer. Dr. Beryl Ferris, minister of Eugene’s First Methodist Church, will read the Scriptures. Frank Cothrell is chairman for the event, assisted by Mary Coch-1 rane and Natalie Beckett. The meeting will follow a Fel lowship Dinner at 5:30 p.m. in John Straub Hall. Daily Talks Planned Included in the week’s schedule are daily addresses by Dr. Gilkey, emphasizing the necessity of first hand religion in everyday life. These speeches will be delivered before student audiences every af ternoon at 4 p.m. Personal interviews with stu dents each morning and luncheons Monday through Thursday noon are being arranged. Campus living organizations will hold firesides Tuesday at 5:30 and -10:30 p.m. Thirty-one speakers will discuss religious problems and questions in which interest has been indicated through a campus poll. NW Dramatists To Open Confab; 500 to Attend Nearly 500 delegates are expec ted to attend the third annual Northwest Drama Conference which begins Thursday, according to Horace W. Robinson, director of the University Theater. More than 50 delegates have registered. Due to warmer weather more registrants are expected from the University and Eugene. JjJtudent registration fees are .,$1, non-students, $2. Registration permits attendance at all sessions of the three-day conference and will include tickets to two productions of the Univer sity Theater—“Thunder Rock,” Thursday and Friday, and “Win terset” Saturday night. The Port land Civic Theater presentation of “Yes, My Darling Daughter,” is also included in the registration fee. The National Collegiate Players, who will handle registration, would like additional personnel to assist them. Those interested may sign up on the bulletin board on the second floor of Villard. Weather . . Mostly cloudy with scattered showers Tuesday and Wednesday; little change in temperature. High today 45; low near 35. AGS Candidates Win in Light Vote A(.S candidates Don Denning and Jackie Wilkes were elected president and secretary of the freshman class in a light vote Monday. Ot the 1,192 freshmen on the campus, 529 cast votes in the. election. Fifty of the votes cast were invalid, Ed Anderson, DON DENNING JACKIE WILKES DON PAILLETTE HELEN JACKSON AAA Head to Open Portland Art Exhibit D6an Sidney W. Little, of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, will give the opening lecture at the exhibit of San Francisco Domestic Architecture in the Port Highest-Paid Vocalist; June Christy, To Appear With Kenton Monday Blonde, vivacious, and the high-! est paid band vocalist in the na tion! That’s June Christy, the singing star who is coming to McArthur Court Monday Feb. 13 with the Stan Kenton orchestra. Miss Christy is back with the Kenton group after having worked a year on her own, during which time she performed in the leading clubs and theaters throughout the country. She left Kenton a year ago when he went into temporary retirement. Success Story The singing star has rapidly climbed to success since she first joined Kenton in 1945. At the time he was seeking a replacement for Anita O'Day. He hired a young singer named Shirley Luster. The name was changed to June Christy. In her first week with the group Miss Christy made a recording of “Tampico” which quickly projected her into the national spotlight when it hit the million sales mark. Now she has her own separate contract with Capitol records and a number of sides already have been released. $1,000 Weekly Along with success came her standing as the highest paid band vocalist extant. On the present tour she will receive a total of $1,000 weekly plus traveling ex penses. When she was singing as a single, she often made as high as $1,250 per week. Both figures are far in excess of her former $300 weekly salary with Kenton. He felt her tremen dous reputation and following was well worth the increase. Miss Christy plans to continue as an independent after com pletion of the present nationwide tour. With her many successes it would seem natural that she con sider the many motion picture of fers that have come her way. Nixes Movies But she has nixed them. "Movies don't interest me,” she said. "All I want to do is sing, and I get plenty of opportunities right where I am. Besides, I made three movies with Stan, and they were enough to cure any childhood dreams I may have had.” Student tickets for the concert, featuring Miss Christy, are now on sale at McArthur Court and the Co-op. They cost 80 cents, includ ing tax, while reserve seats cost $1.80 and general admission $1.20. See picture on page seven. Theme Revealed For Heart Hop Theme of Friday night’s Heart Hop will be “With a Song in My Heart." Students may buy tickets at the Co-op for the annual girl ask-boy progressive dance, to be held in five women’s houses after the Oregon-Oregon State basket ball game. Five subsidiary themes at each house are "Hearts and Flowers," Kappa Alpha Theta; "My Heart Is a Hobo,” Sigma Kappa; “All of a Sudden My Heart Sings," Alpha Chi Omega; "Game of Broken Hearts," Zeta Tau Alpha; and “Haunted Heart,” Orides at Ger linger Hall. Refreshments will be served at each house at 10:30, Carol Udy, chairman of the refreshment com mittee, said. Sex Talk Tonight “Understanding the Other Sex” is the topic to be presented by Dr. Lester A. Kirkendall, professor of family life education at Oregon State College, in his fourth and last lecture on Marriage and the Family tonight at 7 p.m. in 3 Fen ton Hall. The lecture will be open to tic ket holders only. Aauo vice president, announced last night. “A smaller percentage of fresh men cast votes in yesterday’s elec tion than in any election since World War II,” Art Johnson. ASUO president, said. Denning polled 269 votes, to win the number one post of the fresh man class, over Don Paillette, USA candidate, who received 195 votes. Paillette automatically becomes vice president of the class. Miss Wilkes, polling 173 votes, topped Helen Jackson, USA, by 60 votes. Miss Jackson receives the of fice of treasurer. Ballot tabulation was under the direction of Anderson and Don?Id M. DuShane, director of student af fairs. Three representatives from each political party were present at the counting. Phi Sigma Kappa last night voted to petition the AGS Council for entrance into the Greek bloc. The Phi Sigs justified their ac tion on the basis of their feeling* that the Greek students should bo unified in one party, Representatives emphasized that this vote was taken before the re sults of the freshman elections were known. A formal statement from the house will he issued later. Denning, Beta Theta Pi, was president of Bend IPfch School last year, and representMive to the na tional student conn™ in Washing ton, D. C. “Our objective will be more class activities through the cooperation of the class officers and the fresh man class,” Denning commented. “All appointative offices will be made without partiality on the ba sis of merit and interest.” Miss Wilkes, Sigma Kappa, came to Oregon from Washington High School in Portland, where she was editor of the “Washingtonian,” school paper. On the campus, she is president of a YWCA freshman commission. “In years past, the freshman class has been known for inactivity, but this year we shall begin to put the outstanding ideas of both po litical platforms into action as soon as possible,” she stated. Campus Activities Invade Carson Hall Carson Hall is now in the offi cial swing: of campus activities. Last night the girls in the new dorm received their first flying speech in their brand-new dining room. Some 320 residents, in cluding members of Delta Zeta sorority, eating at Carson, wit nessed the debut. Tin' occasion was the current rash of King of Hearts cam paigning. Mike Lady and Leo Rogers, hilled as “exotic dancers from the Fiji Islands,” per formed as a boost to the candi dacy of their Phi Gamma Delta fraternity brother, Finalist Davo Palmer. Sian Hargraves, Armand Smith, and Boh \\ heeless ac companied the act with ukelcle, guitar, and hull fiddle strains. Indications are that it won’t he long now till Carson is re ceiving its full quota of near nightly entertainment.
