Religions Notes
Compiled by Mitzi Asa!
Emortld Rcligioui Nowi Editor
Wesley Foundation
Ruth Smith, travelling for the
personnel department of the Meth
odist Board of Missions, will visit
the Oregon campus Tuesday. She
Will speak at th Wesley foundation
potluck dinner at 5:30 p.m. Miss
Smith is one of the guest speakers
for the spring conference of the
Oregon Methodist Student Move
ment to be held at Camp Magruder
April 17 to 19, and is a native of
North Carolina.
She has taught for three years
at Vashti school, Thomaaville, Ga.,
one of the many schools main
tained by the women's division of
Christian Service. A graduate of
MISS RUTH SMITH
Peabody College for Teachers, she
also attended Scarritt college and
Garrett Biblical Institute. She was
commissioned a deaconess of the
Methodist church in 1948.
Wcsleyltes will have an infor
mal party at the house tonight,
and Saturday fifteen Wesleyans
will leave at noon for Medford,
to present a dramatic worship
service, “I Believe in God," that
evening for the southern district
Methodist Youth Fellowship con
ference. Sunday evening, they will
lead the evening worship service,
"Seeking God in Church."
Sunday morning at 9:45 the
Koinonia Kiass will meet in the
First Methodist church parlor.
Plans will be made for the spring
quarter discussion topics. An in
formal Sunday evening fireside
will take place at 5:30.
A chapel service will take place
12:30 p.m. Thursday, to be fol
lowed by Wesley choir practice at
1 p.m.
April 17 to 20 the Oregon Meth
odist Student movement spring re
treat will be held at Camp Mag
Delegates Chosen
By YWCA Cabinet
• Patty Teale and Mary Wilson
were chosen by the YWCA Cab
inet as regional delegates to Pa
cific Northwest YMCA-YWCA
Regional Council for the coming
year.
Regional council includes rep
resentatives from Washington,
Idaho, Montana and Oregon
YMCA-YWCA-SCA organizations
who meet twice a year to plan a
program for the region and in
terpret policy matters.
Other YWCA members on Re
gional Council are Nan Mimnaugh,
Seabec.k co-chairman; Jackie
Wilkes, ex-officio member of Coun
cil; and Mary Elizabeth McDow
ell, executive director, who serves
as non-student representative from
Oregon YWCA.
A stalactite is a pendent deposit
in a cave, like an icicle, the par
tial evaporation of water contain
ing a mineral solution.
| ruder. Mina Smith is the main
] speaker. Cars will leave Wesley
house April 17. The total cost to
attend is $6.00.
Gamma Delta
Gamma Deltans will attend the
Bible class discussions of Revela
tions to be led by E. S. W<:ngert
10 a.m. Sunday at Grace Lutheran
church, 11th and Ferry sts. At the
5:30 meeting installation of new
officers will be held. Norman
Ruecker is incoming president,
Betty Lou Meyer, secretary, and
LeRoy Erdmann, treasurer. Dis
cussion of the regional convention,
plans for the remainder of the
term and light snacks will com
plete the evening’s activities. The
meeting will be held at the home
of Rev. W. B. Maier, 1343 Mill St.
Newman Club
Newman club will meet in Sa
cred Heart hospital chapel for
Benedictino Sunday at 7 p.m. Fol
lowing this, there will be a short
business meeting and social hour
in the recreation room. Election of
new officers will take place. There
will be a 7 a.m. Mass daily in the
chapel as usual.
Canterbury Club
Canterbury club will not meet
this Sunday because of the Dio
cesan convention in Portland. Cel
ebration of Holy Communion win
take place as usual each Wednes
day at 7 p.m. in Gerlinger hall.
Christian House
Christian house delegates to the
annual regional Disciples Student
Fellowship conference at Menuch
will leave Christian house today
at 3 p.m. and return Sunday after
noon. The Eugene group is in
charge of the conference. Officers
■ for the region are A1 Busby, presi
dent; Mary Peterson, vice-presi
; dent, and Winona Fishback, secre
! tary. Bob Shelton is arranging
transportation for Eugene dele
gates.
Regular Sunday services will be
1 held at the house beginning at 9:15
a.m. with the Doughnut Hour. Vic
tor P. Morris* Bird Study class
j will follow.
Sunday evening at 5:30 a stu
dent panel will discuss “Whom
Shall I Date?" This is the first in
; a series of discussions on “Love,
Courtship and Marriage.”
The new meeting time for the
, executive council will be Wednes
1 day at 6:30 p.m., according to Bob
Randall, president.
Westminster Foundation
A cotton and cord Sock Hop will
be featured tonight beginning at
7:30 to usher in spring term at
W’estminster foundation.
The 9:30 a.m. Sunday Bible study
of the Gospel of John will be led
by Rev. Thom Hunter. That eve
ning at 6:15 a vesper service will
be led by Donna Lou White and
Lawrence Richardson. The forum
speaker will be Wayne Stauffer,
j a marriage counselor in Eugene,
on the topic, "Should I Be Married
While in College?” A coffee hour
will follow.
Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. a
chapel service will be held'. At 5:30
p.m. the University symposium
team will present a program on a
question related to the problems of
Communism.
Channing Club
Channing club, Eugene Uni
tarian church’s organization for
University students, meets every
Friday r.t 8 p.m. in the church’s
social room. The Unitarian church
is located on the corner of 11th
and Ferry Sts.
This Friday’s program will in
clude a discussion of folk music
and a period of listening to select
ed recordings, followed by social
dancing and refreshments. Gale
Broyles is resident of the grou.
Fuller Directs Installation
Of Dymaxion-Type Dome
Dymaxion, a philosophy that
aims at far-reaching technological
progress, is being demonstrated
on a miniature scale in Oregon's
school of. architecture and allied
arts.
R. Buckminster Fuller, inven
tor of Dymaxion housing, is di
recting the installation of a geo
desic dome on campus near the
architecture school. The dome em
bodies one aspect of the Dymaxion
principle—that of efficiency—“get
ting the most for the least.”
The dome's engineering is be
ing carried out by architecture stu
dents under Fuller's supervision.
Each student group will do part
of the job, and their efforts will
be combined in the finished dome.
A feature of the dome, which
will be 18 feet high and 36 feet
in diameter, will be the use, for
the first time, of a new plastic
recently created by the Du Pont
company. Called mylar, the mate
rial will be used for illuminating
sections of the sphere. Not yet on
the commercial market, mylar is
very thin and clear, dimensionally
stable, tough and has a high tem
perature range, according to
Fuller.
Construction of the sphere,
which will enclose 1,000 square
i feet of floor space, will begin this
| weekend.
! The dome will be covered with
"mylar” skin, which will be glued
to plywood latticework. The glue,
j called Epon, can be used for joining
; metals, makes stronger joints than
j welding.
This is the first such dome that
. Fuller has constructed out of wood,
i His previous experience with this
kind of structure has been in alum
[ inum and plastics. His most re
| cent project was the construction
| of a 90-foot dome for the rotunda
of the Ford Motor company in De
I troit. This dome weighs one pound
[five ounces per square foot and will
j support a snow load of 250,000
i pounds.
j The sphere which Fuller is con
structing will be built in sections
■ so that it can be easily moved
| from place to place.
In this construction, Fuller is
trying to bridge the gap between
modem mass production technol
| ogy and single unit building con
i »truction.
The architect has built several
of these spheres at eastern uni
i versities and each one has been
; put to a functional use.
The one jjeing built here will
become the property of the Uni
versity and already several uses
have been proposed for the struc
ture.
One of the suggestions to use
the sphere for Emerald "Shack"
while the new journalism school
is being built. According to Little,
in order to use the dome as a
building, it is necessary to pour
a four-inch concrete base and in
stall radiant heating pipes. The
sphere will be lighted by a ring
of fluorescent lights.
Other uses proposed are to use
it as a storage area, as a place
where heat study experiments can
be continued and as a sculpture or
art studio when the architecture
school’s new building is beirg
built. But. Little added, it can al
ways be torn down and stored for
future use.
The students who are assisting
Fuller will gain first hand expe
rience in the use of plastics and
also in making the elements for
the dome. Peter Van Dijk, fifth,
year architecture student, is chai r
man of the student group.
Alfred T. Mahan was a naval
authority in the late 19th century
who advocated the use of battle
ships.
Why the last thing in the world you could
call me is a snob—I despise snobs!
That’s just the trouble, Mister, a lot of
people are snobs and don’t know it!
Not me —I'm a good American. Why, my
people . ..
See what I mean—never mind your people.
It's you we're talking about.
I don't get it I
Okay, what kind of day did you have?
Bawl old any waiters? Give any dirty
looks? And when you got on to politics at
lunch did you start picking any race apart
— make a few cracks about someone's re
ligion? You see, that's where the trouble
starts.
Well, I-1 oh ...
Look, Mister, nobody is saying that you
mean to be intolerant—but every time
you make a crack like that you are hurt
ing your country's unity.
I never thought of that. Say —who are you
anyway?
Your conscience.
Accept or reject people
on their individual worth