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.