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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1950)
Doors to Prom Open at 9 Chi 6' Minium Win Sing China Garden ThemePlanned; Barnet to Play Junior Weekend activities for Saturday will be capped ill Mc Arthur Court at 9 p.m. when doors open for the Junior Prom. Amid an Oriental setting, Charlie Barnet and his 14-piece orchestra will perform for an expected crowd of 2500—students, faculty members, and mothers down for the weekend. Elaborate decorations will pro vide an appropriate setting- for-the «- theme, “In a Chinese Garden.” The orchestra will play beneath a large pagoda on one side of the floor. • A smaller pagoda, a Chinese bridge, and a garden wall decorated in hues of black, red, and yellow will CHARLIE BARNET add' to the color of the setting. The queen’s throne will set in one cor ner. Station KTJGN will broadcast 30 minutes of Barnet’s music starting at 9:30. Intermission Slate Intermission activities will begin at 10:30 with the Junior Weekend Queen Nancy Chamberlain’s pro cession and presentation, Barry Mountain, junior class president, k will introduce the weekend ruler to the audience. Druid’s, junior men’s honorary, will tap at 10:40. This will be fol lowed by float parade awards, an nounced by Will Urban, float co chairman. A presentation of four cups for outstanding scholarship and service to the University will be made at 10:50. The Burt Brown Barker cups will be given to the men’s and wo men’s living organizations stand ing highest scholastically during the past year. Award Due The Maurice Harold Hunter lead ership award will be awarded to the junior man in liberal arts who has, through his achievements, con tributed most to the leadership of his fellow students. To the “best all-around” junior man and woman, the Gerlinger and Koyl cups will be presented. Mothers down for the weekend will be provided with a place in the west balcony. Refreshments will be served to them and their escorts in the mezzanine. Tickets at Door » Ticket Chairman Jerry Meyers has reported an exceptoinally good advance sale of Prom ducats. The remaining tickets will be on sale at the door of Mac Court. Dress for the dance is formal with tuxes, dark suits, or dinner jackets in order for the men. Flow ers are optional. i Weekend Schedule SATURDAY, MAY 13 9:00 10:00 11:45 1:30 2:00 4:30 4:10 6:00 9:00 a.m. Annual breakfast business meeting of the Oregon Mothers. Dining Room Carson Hall. Breakfast $1.00. a.m.—5:00 p.m. Student Union open. Guided tours from 11 to 12. a.m. All-Campus Luncheon and program on old campus, and tap ping for Friars, Mortar Board, Asklepiads, and Scabbard and Blade (45 cents.) p.m. Baseball—Oregon vs. Oregon State, at Howe Field, to p.m. Tea for Oregon Mothers sponsored by the Associated Women Students, Young Women’s Christian Association and the Eugene Mothers Club. Alumni Hall, Gerlinger. p.m. Float Parade starts downtown at Southern Pacific depot, 4th and Willamette, p.m. Dinner with sons and daughters. p.m. Junior Prom, McArthur Court ($2.40). Balcony lounge re served for mothers, with admission free. SUNDAY, MAY 14 9:00 a.m. Meeting of Oregon Mothers, State Board of Directors, in cluding old and new members, at no-host breakfast. The Anchorage. 11:00 a.m. Mothers’ Day at Church. 1:00 p.m. Dinner with sons and daughters. 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Sunlight Serenade, Music School Open Air Auditorium. Colorful Float Parade To Portray 23 Songs; Event to Begin at 4:70 Twenty-three song titles^tran formed into floats by flowers, crepe paper, and hours of hammering will arrive on the campus about 4:30 p.m. today as the Junior Weekend Float Parade passes up 13th St. The annual parade will begin at the Southern Pacific Depot, 4th and Willamette, at 4:10 p.m. Floats will travel up Willamette to 13th, up 13th to University, and con clude at McArthur Court. All house entries must be at the starting point by 3:30 p.m., Parade Co-Chairman Jim Hershner stated Friday. Parade order will be as signed on a “first come, first served” basis. List Required Before a float can be placed in the line of march this afternoon, house chairmen must submit an itemized list of expenditures to Hershner or Co-Chairman Will Urban. Maximum expense this year is $50. Jessie M. Smith, professor of business administration, will re place ASUO First Vice-President Ed Anderson in the judges’ stand, in order to remove any possibility of a charge of partiality. Complaints had been made that a student judge might find it dif ficult to be impartial when his liv ing organization is represented in the competition, Hershner ex plained. Other judges are Sidney W. Little, dean of the School of Archi tecture and Allied Arts; Mrs. George H. Swift, Salem, president of Oregon Mothers; and Eugene Mayor Edwin V. Johnson. 10-Second Stop Floats will make a 10-second pause before the judges’ stand at the City Hall, 11th and Willamette. The parade will be led by the University of Oregon Band and by a special float for Queen Nancy and her court. The court float, a novelty this year, was built on a jeep body un der the direction of Jim Snell, designer of the prize-winning parade floats for the past two years. Musical symbols and scrolls will decorate the royal vehicle. Tickets to Picnic Available 10 to 1 On Old Campus Students who have not yet pur chased tickets for today’s All Campus Picnic will be able to buy them near the old campus picnic site from 10 till 1, Picnic Co Chairman Eve Overback and Joe Labadie have announced. Tickets are priced at 45 cents, for students, mothers, fathers and other parents, and hungry towns people alike. “Plenty of food for everybody” has been promised. The ticket booth will be somewhere near the Pioneer Father. Twelve food lines will open at 11:45 and remain open as long as necessary to take care of picnic kers. The program, guided by master of ceremonies Gay Baldwin, will begin at about 12:30 with the Queen’s processional. When the Queen and her court are seated on the stage in the center of the old campus tappings for four campus honoraries — Asklepiads, Friar’s, Scabbard and Blade, and Mortar Board, in that order—will begin. Music will be provided by the combo of Johnny Lusk. ASUO Constitution Up for Ratification The proposed new ASUO con stitution, adopted illegally Apr. 26-28, will be again put before the students for ratification be ginning May 22, with regular spring elections. Voting on the Constitution will continue three days. The constitution appears in the Emerald today, and will run again Monday in conformity with the requirement that am endments to the present consti tution must be published on two consecutive days a week before voting. Queen Nancyll Begins Reign Over Weekend Ouecn- Nancy' Chamberlain and two houses, Chi Omega and Minturn Hall, shared honors at the All-Campus Sing Friday night. The reign of Queen Nancy over the 60th Junior Weekend began with her crowning by Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, adjutant general, State of Oregon. Capturing first-place in the Sing for the women’s groups was Chi Omega singing “He’s Gone Away,” directed by Sally Terril. Minturn Hall was judged first on "Stormy Weather,” led by David Zandt. Miss Terril and Zandt were presented individual trophies for winning song leaders. Delta. Gamma, under the direc tion of Shirley Gaye Williams, took second place wi th “Coming Through the Rye.” Third spot went to Alpha Phi, led by Ann Kafoury in “Ma laguena.” Sigma Nu Number Two For the men, second-place tro phy was awarded Sigma Nu, sing ing “Fierce Was the Wild Billow,’'' under the direction of Steve Stone. Third-place honors were taken by Phi Gamma Delta, with “You’ll’ Never Walk Alone,” led by Jim Tallman. Delta Delta Delta scholarships for $250 were given to Phyllis Rich, Rebec House and Ann Thompson, University House. Win ning the Josephine Evans Har pham Cup was Alpha Chi Omega, with University House in second place. Schwering Scholarship Receiving the Hazel P. Schwer ing scholarship for $300 were Mari lyn Beckham, and for $100, Joyce Wilson. The William Frager Skull and Dagger Memorial Scholarship was presented to sophomore Don ald Ford. Alpha Gamma Delta and Phi Kappa Sigma were presented All Campus clean-up trophies of gar bage cans. Winners of the Magic Melody contest, Curtis Cutsforth for the lyrics, and Forest Durland for the music, were awarded a white dinner jacket, by Baxter and Henning’s, and a $25 gift certifi cate from Laraway’s Jewelry, re spectively. The “Magic Melody” was sung by Joy Grimstad, accompanied by Durland. Registration 9 to 4:30 Opens Mom's Weekend; Prize Slated for Group With Best Percentage Visiting mothers face a full sch edule today with the annual break fast business meeting of Oregon Mothers and afternoon tea, besides regular festivities of Junior Week end. Registration will continue today from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Johnson Hall and from 2 to 4:30 p.m. in Gerlinger. Houses with the great est percentage of mothers regis tering will be awarded record al bums at the prom tonight by Mothers’ Weekend Chairman Don na Buse. The Mothers breakfast will be held in Carson Hall dining room at 9 a.m. today. The new state presi dent will be announced at the breakfast. Mrs. George H. Swift is retiring president of the state or ganization. Following the All-Campus lun cheon at noon, mothers will ad journ to Alumni Hall in Gerlinger from 2 to 4:30 for the tea spon sored by the Eugene Mothers Club, Associated Women Students, and the YWCA. At 4:30 the float parade will ar rive on the campus. Following din ner with their sons and daughters, mothers may attend the Junior Prom in McArthur Court, where a special balcony lounge will be re served for them. Refreshments will be served by the Eugene Mothers Club. Sunday at 9 a.m., the State Board of Directors of Oregon Mothers has scheduled a no-host breakfast at the Anchorage. After Mothers’ Day in Eugene churches, and dinner, the Sunlight Serenade in the Music School Open Air Aud itorium from 3 to 4:30 p.m. will conclude the weekend. Open house will be held Satur day morning in the University Theater, Carson Hall, music school, infirmary, and YWCA, throughout the day in the Student Union, Li brary, Museum of Natural History, School of Architecture and Allied Arts; and in the afternoon from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Oriental Art Mu seum.