'BLOCK AND TACKLE'
Club to Help Stutterers
Started by Speech Prof
By Melon Jones
Emerald Aitocijto Editor
F.vnyonc stutters once in ;i
fhilc, and nobody notices it.
J^ut lor thrt-e unfortunate
Jicople who stutter often
r sough so that it is noticeable,
therapy is needed. School niay be
torture for the stuttering1 young
ster. An adult career may be hurt
^ecati' <• of stuttering.
D)-. Kenneth Wood, of the Uni
versity of Oregon speech depart
mcht, has found a new way to help
Hugei • stutterers, and a way that
gets around the clinical situation
of syllable tests and exercises.
It's called Block and Tackle, and
li’s a sort of "stutterers’ club.”
(iruup Meets at 8U
.Every Monday evening about ZD
* .utterers, mostly adult towns
people, gather in the Student
Union building on campus to fight
their special speech problem.
Bldtk and Tackle is authorized by
♦he school’s speech department,
hit Is Dr. Wood’s special interest.
'rtu- big step in getting over
Er.utteiing Is to be able to talk
Bbout it, according to Dr. Wood.
Block and Tackle members re
|*te embarrassing experiences of
*k"Jr own—experiences that were
embarrassing to them because
hey stuttered. They share their
^♦dblems over a cup of coffee.
Psychodramas Used
^Members also take part in psy
ciodramas—play situations In
>diich they must argue a point or
Hffend themselves. These situa
tfoffs are designed so that anxiety
\»W1 be caused in the actor, for
anxiety is the big reason for stu
t«ring.
• “Suppose,” suggests a student
speech clinician, "that Mr. Jones
i5 your boss. He asks you to bring
1dm a certain paper. You have
filed the paper wrong and can’t
find it. Mr. Jones is mad. Now
Winter Term
Grants Released
Twenty-three new scholarships
have been awarded for winter
term, according to a list released
l.y 'the office of student affairs.
The awards fall into three cate
goric -■ : state fee, Oregon mothers’
supplementary, and miscellaneous,
affuhs. The awards fall into three
categories: state fee, Oregon
itiothc i s’ supplementary, and mis
cellaneous.
Recipients of grants are state
ffce, partial tuition: Warren Dav
idson, Margaret Dobson, Yvonne
H°lm, Marlene Lewis, Shirley Ann
JfeCoy, Carolee Stamper and Rose
Warner.
Oregon mothers: Carol R. Kld
jidge, Jill Hutchings, Sarah Jane
Jleeley, Loris Larson, Carol Saltus,
Fren Kudriaveev and Alfred Wade
iiaton.
Miscellaneous: James Briggs,
FriTdence Ducich, Alfred Wade
jetton, Lois Jean Frolen, Theodore
poh, William Albeit Hall, Patricia
ye Johnson, Mary Eloise Peter
11 and Emslcv Rogers.
frowsfng Room
. (Continued from faejc one)
xy. The building originated' the
Saloon frame construction,’’ one
the most fundamental elements
American architecture.
Lmong other buildings from
>fch basic American forms have
(lived, he pointed out the funda
ltal features of the original
^scraper frame whicli w s in
kted in the 1880’s in th. 7hi
■o area.
what do you say to racli other?"
Then the scene is acted. Telephone
conversations are also frequently
used.
Student speech therapists attend
each Block and Tackle session.
They participate in the discussions
as if they, too, were stutterers.
The experience is helpful, said
Elaine Chambers, senior in speccli
correction at the university.
Wrong Attitude
People quickly develop the
wrong attitude toward stutterers,
Miss Chambers explained. They
are either too impatient or too
sympathetic. By contact with
Block and Tackle members, stu
dent clinicians get used to stut
tering.
Stuttering has been defined as
an "anticipatory, apprehensive,
hypertonic, avoidance reaction.”
This means simply that a person
who stutters is afraid he might
do so, freezes up, and then stut
ters anyway because he is tense.
The original habit stems from
Job Opportunities
Hughe* Research and Development Labra
lories of Culver City, Calif., are offering a
Cooperative Plan for Master of Science Vi
KTcts. Those eligible for application arc June.
’53, college graduates and members of the
arme4 services l>eing honorably discharged,
prior to September, ’S3, and holding degrees
in eiectrical engineering, physics or mcchan
ural engineering. Tlie pian offers opportunity j
| fur outstanding individuals to obtain M.S. dc- '
gnee* while employed in industry and making
significant contributions to important mili |
tary work.
Those interested should write immediately
for application forms to Committee for
<Graduate Study, Hughe* Research and De
velopment Laboratories. Culver City, Lo
Angeles County, California. The final date
for requesting application form is February
15, and the final date for submitting com
pleted application is Feb. JH.
I’rider this plan, successful candidate* will
spend half their time in advanced study to
complete their master’s degree at the t’ni
versity of California at l^*s Angeles or the
U niversity of Southern California. During
the sch<*ol year the individual's remaining half
time will be spent working in the Hughes
I Research and Development Laboratories in
Southern California.
During the simmers of ’53 and ’54 bene
ficiaries of the cooperative plan will be em
ployed full time in the laboratories with ad
vanccment on the same basis as for full
time engineering staff members, and eligible*
for regular employee benefits, according to
details of the Hughes plan.
Approximately 100 cooperative awards
will be given if sufficient candidates present
themselves.
Representatives of the Congregational
Hoard of foreign Missions will be on the
l niversity campus Feb. 17 to interview stu
dents interested in the missionary-teaching
field. Interviewing prospective candidates’1
TuiV C a tCacher reccnt,>* burned from
The teaching is primarily at the elementary
I nm! 1!!K,« school levels with teaching-admin
istration also a possibility. Positions mav lead
to assignment all over the world for three
years or longer on a career basis.
for additional information and appoint
ments for intervews, contact the graduate
placement office in Kmcrald hall.
S. L. Scott, personnel director of Du Pont,
will be on campus Feb. lb to interview stu
dents holding a I’ll. 1). in chemistry and any
other interested parties for postions with
the firm.
Additional information and appointments
may be obtained at the graduate placement
office in Kmerald hall.
childhood, shyness, or some psy
chological reaction.
People stutter r/iost when
they’re talking over their heads,
to disinterested listeners, in r.om
petition with others, in situations
involving conflict, or other distrac
ting or disturbing circumstance.'!.
Stutterers Are Intelligent
Tile stutterer is as intelligent
as other people, and may have ,a
very high I.Q. It has been said of
extremely intelligent stutterers
that their minds go so fast, their
tongues can't keep up.
Stuttering is not hereditary. It
runs in families, but only in the
same way Catholicism can be said
to run in families.
Aristotle thought stuttering was
due to a defective tongue, but
stuttering is never physical, as far
as modern science can tell. Yet
as little as 100 years ago, doctors
were following Aristotle's theory
and cutting off part of the tongue
as treatment.
If they had looked closely at the
tongue, they would have known
it was normal. Practically all stu
terers can sing, a mouth maneuver
that requires much fancier action
than ordinary speech.
Four Boys to One Girl
At school age, more boys than
girls stutter. The ratio is about
four to one. This is because girls
learn to speak, read, and write
faster than boys.
Left-handed children who are
forced to use their right hands
may develop stuttering. About one
in every 100 children stutters for
some reason.
In children stuttering may be
traced to an unhappy home life,
or to some definite cause of
anxiety.
In adults the cause may not be
found so easily, as it usually goes
back to childhood. An almost sure
cure, however, is to persuade the
stutterer to talk as much as pos
sible, and especially to talk about
his problem.
Block and Tackle does just that.
'Krispie Mystie'
On Sale Feb. 19
“Have a Golden Krispie Mys
tic"—so goes the slogan of the
annual Phi Theta Upsilon Mystie
sale.
“Are you wondering what a
'Golden Krispie Mystie’ is? Then
you'll have to keep on wondering
until Feb. 19 and 20 when the
‘Mysties’ are slated to be sold,”
said Marilyn Parrish and Doreen
Gienger, general chairmen of the
sale.
The Feb. 20 sale will be held
in conjunction with Women’s day
on the campus.
'THE HEALING PRAYER OF
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE'
is the title of
A FREE LECTURE
By Lela May Aultman, C.S., of Denver, Colorado
Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church,
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
Tonight at 8 p.m.
in the
Church Auditorium, 1390 Pearl Street
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Eugene, Oregon
CORDIALLY INVITES YOU
: Nursery facilities provided
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Oregon To Enter Bridge Tournament
In conjunction with the Nation
al Intercollegiate Bridge tourna
ment, the Oregon hi idge tourna
ment will be held Feb. 19. Men and
women compete on an equal basis.
Oregon is one of the 110 colleges
in 37 states represented in the
tournament. Three thousand men
and women under-graduates ar^
expected to enter the nationwide
contest.
Winners will be awarded cups
which Will be in the:r possession
for one ye hr. Winners defending
the national title from ia.st year
are Rice Institute, Houston, Texas,
and Middlebury college, Middle
bury, Ver., runner-up.
Students interested in participat
ing should contact Judge Elderkin,
junior in political science at the
Theta Chi house by next Tuesday.
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