'HIGH SCHOOL WEEKEND
Duck Preview Plans Made;
VodvilShowOpens Events
By Joe Gardner
Emerald AtiiiUnt Newt Editor
Along with the traditional Jun
ior Weekend, one of the biggest
events planned for spring term oh
the Oregon campus is Duck Pre
view, which will be held this year
on April 24, 25 and 26.
The first Duck Preview was held
three years ago on April 14 to 16,
1900. Previous to that time an
AWS Weekend had been annually
sponsored to invite high school
senior girls to visit Oregon. In
3950, however ,it was decided to
expand the program to include
high school boys.
•Similar weekends are held each
year at Oregon State college and
four other Oregon schools to en
able prospective college students
to choose the school in which they
are most interested. The idea of
a "high school weekend" for Ore
gon colleges was originally pro
posed to consolidate "rushing” of
high school students by colleges
and give the visitors a better view
of college life.
This Year
Tentative plans for the 1953
Duck Preivcw have already been
announced by general co-i hairmen
Sunny Allen and Dob Summers.
Oregon students are being urged
by Miss Allen and Summers to in
vite high school friends down to
Oregon that weekend either by let
ter or phone calls spring vacation.
The annual All-Campus Vodvil
show, staged by campus living
organizations, will open the week
end’s events Friday night, April
24. Following the show, neighbor
hood parties will be held at the
living organizations.
Scheduled events for Saturday
include an orientation assembly at
3 0 a.m„ tours and exihibits on the
campus until noon and a baseball
game between Oregon and the
University of Washington. A spec
ial Duck Preview dance in thy
U.S. Draft Physicals
Cause Exam Shifts
Mm who have received orders to
report for their physical examina
tion for the draft March 17 and
18, should ask their instructors
lor permission to take final exams
scheduled for those days later in
the week, the office of student af
fairs announced.
If it is not possible for the stu
dent to shift his final schedule so
as to not conflict with his phys
ical, he should take an incomplete
in the course and take a make up
exam during the first two weeks
of spring term, the office said.
Professors are not allowed to give
final examinations early.
Student Union ballroom will fol
low exchange dinners at the living
organizations Saturday night.
First “Preview”
In 1950, Duck Preview drew 689
high school students to Oregon.
Events of that first “high school
weekend” set the pattern for suc
ceeding Duck Previews. The an
nual Vodvil Show was scheduled
to coincide with the weekend's
program.
Campus tours, a high school as
sembly, a baseball game and a
water show by the Amphibians,
women's swimming group, high
lighted the program Saturday
morning and afternoon. Johnny
Lusk and his orchestra played for
a Duck Preview dance Saturday
night in Gerlinger annex. (The
Student Union was then under
construction).
Pained Out
A p:cnic style luncheon planned
for outdoors between Hendricks
hall and Susan Campbell was forc
ed indoors by the weather. Ex
change dinners were held Sunday
afternoon instead of Saturday
night.
Attendance at the 1051 Duck
Preview fell to 500. The assembly
tnat year was held Saturday night
in the SU ballroom followed by a
“juke box mixer” in the Fishbowl.
Both the Vodvil show and the
Duck Preview dance were held
Saturday night. Dick Dorr played 1
for the dance which had as its
theme "Spring Fever."
Separate assemblies were held
AFROTC Students
Host Korean Vets
Veteran pilots from the Korean
area, 18 in number arc visiting the
University's Air Force Reserve
Officers Training corps detach
i ment today and Friday to help
stimulate interest in flying among
AFROTC graduates.
Visiting student groups at 200
detachments in the United States,
the group will talk informally
about their experiences in flight
training and- their present flying
duties. They will visit groups in
the United States, Hawaii and
Puerto Rico.
Only 12 per cent of the grad
uates of a flight base on Mont
gomery, Ala., had taken flight
training upon graduation, accord
ing to Brigadier General Meichel
mann, AFROTC commandant
there. He expressed the hope that
\ this number could be raised and
i that gr aduates would sign up for
flight training when they enter
active duty.
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for the high school students: girls
in the music school auditorium and
boys in McArthur court. Nearly
300 girls, almost the total number
of women visitors, attended the
assembly at the music school. Only
25 boys showed up at Mac court,
which explains why separate as
semblies have not been held since.
A total of 750 high school sen
iors registered in 1952, making it
by far the biggest weekend in the
short history of Duck Preview.
Ellickson Gets
Scientific Post
R. T. Ellickson, head of the
University’s department of phys
ics and associate dean of the grad
uate school, was one of ten top
scientists in the nation to be se
lected for the recommendations
panel of the National Research
council of the National Science
foundation.
The panel of physics and astron
omy, under the chairmanship of
J. W. Buchta, University of Minne
sota, is the one on which Ellick
son will serve. C. J. Lapp, director
of the NRA council office, made
the Oregon physicist's appoint
ment.
SU Board Posts
Open for 1953-54
Petitioning for membership on
the Student Union board for 1953
54 will be opened March 31.
Positions to be filled include:
two junior petitioners for one year
terms as members-at-large; one
sophomore for a two year term as
a member-at-large: sophomore pe
titioners for the liberal arts, music
art and architecture, health and
physical education schools, for
two years terms; a representative
from the law school to serve for
one year, and a representative
from the graduate school to fill
one more position on the board.
Emerald classified ads bring re
sults.
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| prizes by entering their collections,
I spring term, in the annual library
• flay prize contest, it has been an
I nounced.
Students are asked to bring their
'collections back after spring vaca
j tion in order to be eligible for com
| petition in May. Last year 80 en
tries were received, and the con
test, sponsored by the Co-op, Uni
versity library, and House Librar
■ ians, is one of the largest of its
type in the country.
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