THIS YEAR ITS 'HEART ATTACK'
•History of Post Two Senior Bolls Reviewed
senior Classes seem to think of
imaginative themes for tiicir an
nual balls in 1951 it was "Cotton
Ball," in 1952 "Island Interlude,”
and this year it’s "Heart Attack.”
In 1951, King Perry’s orchestra,
fresh from a week at the New Or
leans Mardl Gras, provided jazzy
music for students and their dates
dressed In cotton dresses ami levis.
The Perry group was secured after
lour fruitless months of looking for
a “name" outfit. Chairman Steve
Church said of the plan for an in
formal Senior Ball:
"We felt our obligation to the
students to present the best pos
sible dance with the best available
orchestra was stronger than the
desire to follow tradition of a for
mal dance.”
Storm of Protest
A st^rm of student protest was
aroused by the plan for the “in
formal” dance, and attendance was
not good, even at the bargain price
of $1.75.
The Perry orchestra presented
top arrangements of current songs,
end special arrangements of such
numbers us "The Thing.” Such
numbers as "12th Street Rag” and
“Dark Eyes” also were in the Per
ry repertoire for the "cotton-pick
grish” crowd.
Intermission entertainment fea
tured several comedy skits and a
boogie combo of Steve Church on
piano and Bob Whecless on bass.
Bob Chambers and gravel-throated
Marcia Knosher presented a com
edy routine, a group of Carson
girls gave a ’'.'lightly Americanized
hula, ' and Jack Faust and Cy
Newman exchanged bright repar
tee.
Committee chairmen for the
event included Joe french, chaper
ones; Hog Nutkl, promotion; Geor
gie Oberteuffer, programs; Vir
ginia Kellogg, tickets; Bonnie
BdkemLer, decorations; Stan Turn
bull. publicity; Donna Many Bren
nan, Leslie Tooze and Emily West,
entertainment. Other senior offi
cers working on the dance beside
Church were Vio*-prc.sident Bob
Pierce, Secretary Leslie Tooze, and
Treasurer Florence Hansen.
Jurgens In 1952
For 1952, the seniors did ge t a
“name" band, Dick Jurgens,’ and
th y Inst money on it about $-150.
Figures showed about 400 tickets
sold at S2.60 each, or a total of
between $1100 and $1200, Dance
costs were estimated at over $1500.
F burners for 1952 saw the dance
Island Interlude" as a “test
case" for future “name bands,”
pointing out that a dance which
turned out in the black might have
some influence in enabling other
groups to be permitted to take the
financial risk involved in engaging
Phi Beta Announces
New Co-ed Pledges
Phi Beta, women’s national
honorary for speech, music and
drama, announced new pledges re
cently. These tapped for member
ship were Allison LeRoux, fresh
man in journalism; Leta Fair
banks, freshman in English; Aud
rey Mistretta, sophomore in mu
sic, and Floy-Louise Von Groen
wald, sophomore in speech.
Other*n>!edged were liberal art's
freshmen Joella Wood, Marilyn
Lundell, June Fulco and Maryls
Nelson; liberal arts sophomores
Mary Wilson, Kathleen Harris and
Donna Schafer, and music majors,
Pat Lauer and Mary Sweeney,
freshmen, and Jean Long, junior.
Nancy Morse, senior in physical
edueatibn, and Elaine Chambers,
senior in speech, were the other
new members.
Emerald Classified ads bring re
sults.
KING PERRY
“Cotton Ball” in 1951
an expensive orchestra.
Tl’.e poor financial results appar
ently tended' to discourage future
dance committees with optimistic
ideas on ‘'name" dance bands.
Really a “Name Ba>'.”
Jurgens was, however, an artis
tic success with his danceable mu
ric heard for the second time on
lii.. Oregon campus he played in
1!MH for the Senior Ball. His or
chestra featured Ray McIntosh,
vocalist-trumpeter, and A1 Galan
te, vocalist-violinist. The group had
broadcast over all coast-to-coast
radio networks and had appealed
at such ballrooms as the Palomar,
the Aragon- and Trianon in'Chi
cago, the Claremont hotel, Berke
ley; and the Statier hotel and As
tor Hoof in New York City.
Jurgens supervised all musical
arrangements personally, for his
band. He had written such tunes
as "One Dozen Hoses,” "Careless"
and J'Elmer's Tune"—the latter
written in collaboration with an
embalmer, Elmer Albrecht.
Mog-Mog “Interlude”
An Emerald article by Associate
Editor Bill Clothier reminisced
about Jurgens’ wartime activities
in the Marine Corps, Clothier and
Jurgens were both in the South
Pacific that inspired James Miche
ner to write his "Tales of the South
Pacific" and a popular Broadway
musical starring Ezio Pinza.
Clothier recalled that Jurgens
had played for another “Island In
terlude”—-on the island of Mog
Mog, Ulithi Atoll, Caroline group.
Mog-Mog was “a lovely piece of
real estate about the size of Hay
ward field. It Was the Navy's rec
reation area (i.e. beer bust island')
for the Western Pacific.
“Physical characteristics includ
ed a few battered palm trees, a
thatched hut. gooney birds, wind,
sand and stars. The only women in
a thousand miles were confined on
a.neighboring island frequented by
staff officers only. Or maybe it
was flag officers only.”
Marine Leaps Off Palm
Anyway, Jurgens played, and the
sorrowful sweetness of his music
was almost fatal to an inebriated <
Marine who landed in a mud pud
dle after an attempted flight home
out of a near-by palm tree.
But, Clothier added, Jurgens'
played the Marine’s Hymn to re- j
vive the pathetic character.
Creating island atmosphere for
Jurgens were bright cotton sarongs
and crepe-paper leis, under the di
rection of decorations chairman
Carol Lee Tate.
Other committee chairmen for
the ball were Dave Rodway, class ,
president and General Chairman; j
Kay Moore, tickets; John Gram, >
promotion; JoAnne Hewitt and Lil- !
lian Schott, programs; Barbara ;
Keelen, chapeiones; and Gretchen
Grondahl, publicity.
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“Island Interlude in 1952’’
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