ERIC W. ALLEN HALL
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New J-Buildina to be Named For Late Dean
By Jackie Wardell
fcmorald News Editor
Krie W. Allen Hull will be the
name of the proposed new journal
ism building the State Board ol !
Higher Kdlication has decided.
The bcurd adopted the recom
mendation of Chancellor Charles
Byrne and University President
Harry K. Newborn that the build
ing, Hi d on the board’s priority
list for new structures, be named 1
after the first journalism dean.
Brought to the University from
the staff of the Seattle Post In
telligencer by President Prince L.
Campbell, Allen established in 1912
one of the first departments of
journalism in the country. The
Pulitzer school of journalism op
ened at Columbia university in
New York the September Allen
came to Oregon.
Basement
The first journalism class met
in the Allen's office in the north
ERIC YV. ALLEN
Well remendered
west corner of the McClure fyrll
basement and included among its
^ members Karl Onthank, director
of graduate placement. A story is
told by early students that the
1 dean’s office often became so
• crowded it was necessary to enter
and leave via the window.
There was no University Press
when Allen arrived. The nucleus
l for the present press was donated
to the University by Harrison Kin
caid, old-time publisher of the
Klregon State Journal in Eugene,
and Allen, with the assistance of
Robert C. Hall (added to the jour
nalism faculty in 1917), built the
- Press into one "of the best
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Architect Meet
Slated jTuesday
The architecture and allied arts
school will host a joint meeting
Tuesday- of the UO architecture
' s’tudents and the Oregon and
"Southwestern Oregon professional
. I ohapters of the American Institute
lof Architects, according to S. W.
'Little dean of the school.
rl The architects will visit the
4 school and talk to students and
I faculty members, Little said. Dele
I gates to the meeting will also at
tend a dinner meeting at which
- Buhcminster Fuller, inventor of
Ihe Dymaxion house, will speak.
Graduate Student
Sells'Feature Article
Kenneth Holmes, graduate stu
dent in journalism, has sold a story
' (to This YVeek magazine, a Sunday
[supplement of the Oregon Journal.
The story, which Holmes sold for
- $-150, was for a regular feature of
This Week, “The Words We Live
- By." '
equipped small publishing plants
and mechanical laboratories in the
West," according to a 1944 Regis
ter-Guard story.
Short last
Allen recognized the value to
journalism students of having
"something to write about” as well
as a technical knowledge of jour
nalism techniques. He began the
policy of a short list of required
journalism and a long list of rec
ommended electives in liberal arts
courses he restricted a student’s
journalism credits to approximate
ly 25 per cent of his full academic
load.
The dean’s pet courses wan a
senior class in investigative meth
ods in editing which he built up
into a traditionally difficult
course, a reputation It still holds.
According to a Register-Guard
article published when Allen died
in 1944, new seniors feared the
class for the dean set a high stan
dard for himself and the students.
He displayed constantly an “insat
iable curiosity about the world we
live in and this was what he trans
mitted to his neophytes in jour
nalism,” said a Guard editorial at
this time.
Allen's work was not confined
to the journalism school. He and
his wife Sally, a short story writ
er and playwright, were active in
the Oregon Newspaper Publish
er’s association. The Register
Guard said it was "Eric and Sally
who brought together the editors
and publishers of the big daily
newspapers of the state and those
who built the weeklies in the little
towns.”
Practical Philosopher
The publishers association is the
present sponsor of what they term
as a "living tribute” to the man
Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Den
ver Post and former editor of the
Portland Oregonian, called a prac
tical philosopher. The tribute is
the Eric W. Allen Memorial Fund.
The idea behind the fund, ac
cording to the association, is “to
build together for tomorrow, in
honor of a newspaperman who
Civil Air Positions
Open to Applicants
Civil service examinations for
appointments to the positions of
electronic technician (radio) and
electronic maintenance techni
cian in the civil aeronautics ad
ministration and other federal
agencies have been announced by
the commission.
The electronic technician and
maintenance technician posts offer
an annual salary of $3795. The
agency posts can be obtained in
Oregon, Idaho, Montana and
Washington.
Further information and appli
cation forms may be obtained from
the secretary, board of U. S. civil
service examiners, from the di
rector, eleventh U. S., civil serv
ice region, 302 Federal office
building, Seattle 4, Wash., or from
any first- or second-class post
office.
Applications should be filed im
mediately with the board of U.
S. civil service examiners, civil
aeronautics administration, P. O.
box 3224, Seattle 14, Wash.
New SU Dietician
Named by Barnhart
Mrs. Betty Wikle has been terii
porarily appointed dietician for
the Student Union, H. P. Barn
hait, director of dormitories and
foods, has announced
The former SU foods director,
Mrs. Ruth Kline, resigned effec
tive April 1. Mrs. Wikle’s ap
pointment will be in effect until
next fall when a permanent dieti
cian will be appointed.
NKW J-SCIIOOL—Here is the way an artist drew the proposed new Journalism school for the Univer
sity of Oregon. The school will be named for late Dean Eric W. Allen.
j also was a great teacher of news
papermen.”
The fund brings to campus at
the time of the Oregon Press con
| ference the Eric Allen Memorial
j lecturer—this year Henry R. Luce,
editor-publisher of Time Inc., sup
, ports the Allen memorial fellow
ships for outstanding journalism
students, finances research pro
jects, supports professional lectur
ers and seminars for newsmen
which bring reporters and editors
back to campus for brief “school”
sessions, and purchases books for
the journalism library.
But, say the men who knew him
and studied under him, Eric Allen
will be longest remembered by
"his boys and girls who used to
sit in front of the Allen fireplace
and talk about the world and who
later achieved high honors on ev
ery newspaper front.”
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