Foreign Study
In Switzerland
Offered Juniors
Two semesters of study at Swiss
Universities in Basel and Zurich
during the 1950-51 school year will
he open to American college jun
iors under the auspices of the
American Council on College Study
in Switzerland.
Requirements for participation
in this study program include
completion of the sophomore year,
two years of college German, and
recommendations by the student’s
language and major professors
and by the dean or president of the
student’s school.
Basel and Zurich offer courses
in German grammar and composi
tion, language and literature, his
tory, art, and advanced courses in
several modern languages. The
University of Basel also offers
science facilities to American und
ergraduates.
Complete details may be obtain
ed by writing to the American
Council of College Study in Switze
land, 1123 North Eutaw St., Balti
more 1, Md.
Applications should be mailed to
the above address as soon as pos
sible in order to be considered.
Lynn to Speak
On Goodrich
Job Program
The retail selling and store man
agement training program of the
B. F. Goodrich Tire and Rubber
Company will be explained to Uni
versity student Thursday by O.
K. Lynn, the company's northwest
manager.
Lynn will conduct personal in
terviews and a general meeting at
8:30 a. m. in 216 Emerald. Inter
ested students may arrange for
interview appointments by con
tacting Graduate Placement Di
rector Karl Onthank immediately.
Training includes a period of ap
prenticeship in one of the com
pany’s district offices, a similar
period in a retail store, and a three
week study program at the Good
rich home office in Akron, Ohio.
5 Awards Available
To Grad Students
Three cash awards are in the
offing for winners in the Failing
Beekman Senior Oratorical contest
which will be held at 8 p. m. June
9 in the University Theater.
Any graduating senior, regard
less of major, is eligible to partici
pate. The orations are not to ex
ceed 15 minutes in length and may
be on any topic that the participant
selects.
Seniors planning to enter the
contest should report to W. A.
Dahlberg, speech professor, 210
Villard within the next two weeks.
Manuscripts must be submitted by
the middle of May.
Help in preparation of the ora
tion may be proeurred from mem
bers of the speech department. If
more than six seniors participate,
there will be eliminations previous
to the final contest.
First prize will be $150; second,
$100; and third, $50.
AGS Reps Meet at 4
Representatives of the Associ
ated Greek Students will meet to
day at 4 p. m. in the Gamma Phi
Beta house.
Topics of discussion. President
Hob Deuel said, will be the new
ASUO constitution and a possible
spring social event, sponsored by
AGS.
Karl W. Onthank
To Speak atReed
On April 14th
Karl W. Onthank, graduate
placement director, will speak at
the annual program of the Inter
national Association of Public Em
ployment Officers at Reed College,
Portland, Apr. 14.
“Employment Attitudes and
Problems of Students,” will be dis
cussed by Onthank.
While in Portland he will also
contact employers concerning job
placement for June graduates.
B. F. Goodrich Interview
Representatives of the B. F.
Goodrich Company will be on camp
us all day Thursday, Apr. 13.
Students interested in inter
views must pick up application
blanks on Apr. 12, at the Graduate
Placement Office.
Help Needed for
'Martha' Crews
Adept figures are the only tal
ents required to volunteer for the
costume crew and makeup crew
of the University Theater, now
filling out the crews for “Martha.”
Students are needed to help make
costumes for the von Flowtow
opera, opening Apr. 21. Also need
ed are people to work on the
makeup crew for the production.
Anyone interested may contact
Mrs. LeJeune Griffith in the Theat
er boxoffice, or Joan Landman at
Carson Hall, for the costume crew.
Mrs. Ottalie T. Seybolt, second
floor of Villard, or Mrs. Griffith
will take names for the makeup
crew.
Foreign Trade Clinic
Scheduled Thursday
A foreign trade clinic will be
held at the University at 2 p. m.
Thursday, in 8, Commerce. Men
active in foreign trade will discuss
various aspects of the field with
students.
The foreign Trade Clinic is spon
sored by the University of Oregon
Foreign Trade Advisory Board,
which consists of 24 members who
advise professors on foreign trade,
and are a source of contacts for
students seeking jobs in foreign
trade after graduation.
Spring Registration
Must be Completed
Students who have not yet paid
their spring term fees and have
not filed proper cards with the Of
fice of Student Affairs will have
their registration cancelled if they
do not report to the registrar's of
fice by tomorrow.
Postcards will be sent to the
negligent students.
High Schoolers Win
Journalism Awards
Approximately 185 certificates
have been sent to high school sen
iors in Oregon for out-standing
service to the school and commun
ity as members of high school
newspapers and yearbooks.' They
were sent by the University School
of Journalism.
The Oregon Scholastic Press,
which is sponsored by the Journal
ism school, presented “George
Turnbull Certificates of Yearbook
Service" to 90 deserving seniors.
"Eric W. Allen Certificates of
Newspaper Service’’ were award
ed to 95 outstanding seniors on
high school newspapers.
'Atomic Energy'
Talks to Start
U.O. Town Hall
The University Town Hall public
forum series, sponsored by the
YMCA, the YWCA, and the Inter
national Relations Club, starts at
7:30 p. m. Wednesday at the YM
CA Building at 1245 Kincaid.
The first meeting will feature
talks on “Atomic Energy in the
Modern World,” by Alburey Casitell,
head of the Philosophy Depart
ment; E. S. Ebbighausen, profes
sor of physics; and R. A. Liftman,
professor of psychology. E. K.
Montgomery is moderator for the
evening.
Dr. Castell will speak on the
philosophical and political views
of the bomb; Dr. Ebbighousen will
describe its practical and material
istic scientific angles; and Dr. Litt
man will give some of its psycho
logical effects on society.
Plan Question Period
After 15-minute speeches, the
professors will open a question
period by querying each other on
different aspects. Everyone is in
vited to hear the discussion.
The Town Hall, started this
term, plans to have meetings every
two weeks at 7:30 Wednesdays, to
discuss international, national, and
local questions. Students’ sugges
tions are welcome to the commit
tee, consisting of Claire Cordier
(IRC), Toby McCarrol (YMCA),
and Frances Gilmore (YWCA).
The next meeting is tentatively
scheduled Apr. 26. Subject will be
educational problems in the Uni
versity of Oregon.
Anderson Gets Position
Les Anderson, alumni director,
was elected chairman of District
Eight of the American Alumni
Council at a meeting Apr. 6 and
7 in Spokane.
He will hold office for two years.
Anderson was the only University
representative at the meeting.
Traveling Opera
Company to Play
At Mac Court
“Opera-a-la-carte” will be pre
sented at 8:30 p. m. Saturday in
McArthur court.
So termed by Time magazine,
Charles L. Wagner’s traveling
opera company will produce an
operatic double-bill—“Cavalleria
Rusticana” and “I Pagliacci.”
Last autumn this same produc
tion played to seventy-six audi
ences throughout the East, South,
and mid-West.
The Wagner company received
its nickname when Time magazine
noticed that it travels in two air
conditioned, streamlined motor
coaches—“just like a mobile delic
atessen.’’ Scenery is carried in a
ten-ton trailer truck.
More than 70 persons compose
the company. Paul Breisach is mu
sical director. Stage director is
Desire Defrere.
The production is sponsored by
the Civic Music Association and is
open to members and University
students.
Phi Delta Phi Elects
Ted Goodwin, third-year law
student, was elected magister of
Phi Delta Phi, law fraternity, in a
business meeting Monday.
Other officers elected were War
ren DeLaVergne, exchequer; John
Sabin, clerk, and Robert Hill, his
torian.
Dance Troupe
Slated Monday
Modern dance compositions,
ranging from the humorous to the
deeply serious, will be viewed by
students- next Monday night when
Jean Erdman, choreographer and
dancer, brings her group to Ger
linger Hall.
Miss Erdman, assisted by Eliza
beth Sheridon and Lillian Chas
noff, will perform nine dances. In
cluded in the program will be num
bers such as “Daughter of the
Lonesome Isle,” “People and
Ghosts,” and “Ophelia.”
The School of Health and Physi
cal Education is sponsoring the
dance concert.
“The Perilous Chapel,” one of
Miss Erdman’s more recent works,
was cited as one of the three best
new works to appear on the New
York stage during the 1948-49
season by Dance magazine.
Tickets for the performance, at
$1 each, may be obtained from
members of junior and senior Or
chesis, modern dance group, the
women’s hockey club, Phi Beta.v
patronesses, and through the wo
men’s physical education office in
Gerlinger Hall.
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