Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, November 10, 1953, Image 1

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    ; Homecoming Sign
Rules Announced
"Bigger and better signs will
be stressed for this year's Home
coming sign contest," Raid Ann
Cerlinger and Ann Bankhead, co
chairmen of the contest. The co
chairmen also stated that the liv
ing organizations should be able
to put more effort into their signs
since there will be no decorations
for the noise parade.
Signs will be judged on adher
ence to the central theme, effort,
impressiveness and originality.
Lights, moving parts and music
will alao be considered by the
judging committee of townspeople
and faculty members.
Awards for the contest will be
given during intermission at the
Homecoming dance. Men's and
women's living organizations will
be judged in separate classes.
First place winners in each class
will receive rotating trophies. The
second and third prizes will be
donator) by downtown merchants.
Delta Tau Delta and Delta Delta
Delta won the first place trophies
last year.
Rules and limitations for the
contest are as follows:
1. A price limit of $35 is to be
spent on the sign of each organi
zation. This amount is not to be
exceeded.
2. The signs must be construct
ed and finisher? by 5 p.m. Friday
Nov. 20.
3. Judging will take place be
tween 7 and 8:30 p.m. Nov. 20.
4. A financial statement must
be turned into one of the sign
contest co-chairmen by 5 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 18.
5. A plan of the sign must be
turned • in by 5 p.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 18, to one of the contest co
chairmen at Kappa Alpha Theta.
Members of the contest commit
tee will meet Thursday at 4 p.m.
in the Student Union.
i D. Maulding, Sanders
Have Juno' Leads
. Donna Maulding, junior in
speech, and Phil Sanders, senior
in speech, have been cast as Juno
and Captain Boyle in the Univer
sity theater's forthcoming produc
tion of "Juno and the Paycock,"
according to Frederick J. Hunter,
, instructor in speech, who will di
rect the Irish drama.
This sample of Sean O'Casey's
work will open on campus Dec. 4
and play Dec. 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10.
Other members of the cast in
clude Scott Lehner, sophomore in
speech, as Joxer Daly, a buddy of
Boyle's: Phyllis Johnson, fresh
IR Club Meeting
Features Dull
The International Relations club
, will hold its first meeting of the
year tonight at 8 in the Student
Union.
Co-sponsored this month by IRC
and Pi Sigma Alpha, political sci
ence honorary, the meeting will
feature a panel discussion by Paul
S. Dull, associate professor of po
litical science and history, and
Ivan G. Nagy, assistant professor
of political science.
They will speak on “America—
as Europe and Asia Sees Us";
afterwards the discussion will be
open to questions and comments
from the audience.
Bob Maffin, IRC president, has
urged all interested persons to at
tend. The meetings are open to
any student or Eugene resident,
Maffin stressed. Monthly meet
ings are planned featuring panels,
debates, and speakers on world
affairs.
Soph Honors Test
r Schedule Told
> A schedule for students who are
planning to take the fall term
comprehensive examinations for
sophomore honors has been an
nounced by Hoyt Trowbridge, pro
fessor of English.
The tests, to be given in Sci
ence 104, are scheduled as follows:
Nov. 16, 3-5 p.m. biological sci
ence; Nov. 17, 3-5 p.m., history;
Nov. 19, 3-5 p.m., physical science
and Nov. 20, 3-5 p.m., literature.
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man in liberal arts and Ken Olsen,:
graduate in education, who will
portray Mary and Johnny, chil
dren of Juno and Boyle.
Jerry Devine and Charles Ben
tham, suitors of Mary, will be
played by John Jensen, junior in
speech, and Don Van Boskirk, sen-'
ior in speech. Floy Louise von j
Groenewald, junior in speech, will
portray Mrs. Maddigan, a neigh
bor.
Needle Nugent, a tailor, will be
played by John Buchanan, fresh
man in liberal arts; Mrs. Tancred
by Barbara Nyberg, freshman in
liberal arts; two mobilizers by Bill
Hazen, freshman in liberal arts
and Samuel Frear, junior in liber
al arts.
Two furniture movers will be
portrayed by Don Finlay, fresh
man in liberal arts and Russell
Cowell, sophomore in speech. Two
neighbors will be played by Janie
Moore, junior in speech, and Ula
Mae Hostetler, freshman in liberal
arts.
TKE's, Not Fijis,
Robbed of $120
Sunday Morning
Tau Kappa Epsilon was burglar
ized early Sunday, not Phi Gamma
Delta as the police reported Sun
day. The Teke’s are residing in the
old Fiji house which gave rise to
the error. Teke president, Forrest
Easton, said $120 in currency was
taken from his house between 3
and 4 a.m.
Two additional houses were bur
glarized early Sunday morning ac
cording to reports received by the
Emerald Monday evening. The
Eugene police reported Sunday
that Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa
Psi, Sigma Chi and Delta Zeta
were entered over the weekend.
Newest on the list are Phi Delta
Theta and Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Norman Cobb, Phi Dclt house
manager, reported that $65 in cur
rency was removed from the house
sometime between 4:30 and 8 a.m.
Sunday. The report was not filed
with the police until Sunday even
ing.
Also missing at Phi Delt were
some tools which were believed to
have been left in a car. Cobb said
that all doors in the house were
unlocked and that the money tak
en was left in the rooms. The
rooms in which men were sleeping
were not bothered.
The entrance at Sigma Alpha
Epsilon was not reported to the
police, Bob Brittain, president, re
lated Monday. The house was en
tered sometime early Sunday
morning and approximately $25
was stolen.
Eugene police are still investi
gating the burglaries, but no new
developments have been reported
on the cases, according to Ted
Brown, Eugene police chief.
Events Urged
All campus living organiza
tions have been urged to spon
sor an open house following the
Homecoming game with Oregon
State college Saturday afternon,
Nov. 15.
Judges Name
Six Finalists
Six finalists for Homecoming
queen were selected last night by
a committee of judges composed
of students, faculty members and
Eugene citizens. The queen will be
selected from the six finalists in
an all-campus election.
Finalists for the title, listed
with their sponsoring organiza
tions, are:
Ann Gerlingcr, Kappa Alpha
Theta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sig
ma Nu, Susan Campbell hail and
Kappa Sigma; Mary Cosart, Kap
pa Kappa Gamma and Sigma Phi
Epsilon; Sylvia Wingard, Lambda
Chi Alpha; Janet Miller, Alpha
Tau Omega; Nancy Randolph, Chi
Psi and Florence Wright, Beta
Theta Pi.
Semi-finalists for titles also in
cluded Mary Jo Carlson, Beverly
Kreick, Helen Gershanoff, Jean
Paulus, Patty Weitzman and Anne
Steiner.
Two panels of judges selected
HC Dance Attire
Is Short Silks, Suits
Attire for the Homecoming
dance, Nov. 21, will be short
silks for women and suits for
men, states Boh McCracken,
dance committee chairman.
Flowers will be optional.
The dance is scheduled for
the Student Union ballroom and
will feature Dick Schwary and
his band.
Speech Squad
Meets Tonight
The University speech squad
! will divide into two groups—sym
I posium and debate, for its regular
meeting tonight at 7:30 in Villard
205, according to Herman Cohen,
instructor in speech and faculty
coach for the squad.
The debate squad is currently
preparing for its first competitive
tournaments of the year. Two or
three University d e b a t e teams
will travel to Pullman, Wash., for
the Northwest Regional Tourna
ment Nov. 20 and 21. Another
section of the team will be in
Fresno, Calif., Nov. 23, 24, 25 and
26 for the annual Western Speech
association tournament.
Symposium speakers, who tour
the state speaking before frater
nal, civic and educational groups
during winter and spring term,
will start work tonight on two
discussion topics—improvement of
Congressional investigations and
the role of a university in a demo
cratic society.
PLANTS, PLANTS■■ .
Herbarium Has 100,000 Species
by Gordon Rice
Emerald Assistant News Editor
| The largest collection of plant
specimens in Oregon is within 150
; yards of the Student Union, and
. only a handful of people know
i that it exists.
■ The University of Oregon her
barium contains some 100,000
| mounted and unmounted plant
specimens in its cabinets. Al
though not as large as the herb
aria at Stanford, the University
of California, or the University of
Washington, it contains several
thousand more specimens than
those at either Oregon State col
. lege or Willamette university,
i Five double rows of cabinets
• containing mounted specimens
■ nearly fill the southern end of the
‘ architecture annex, where the
herbarium is located. Another
’ cabinet of uncounted specimens
’ is placed along one wall.
The plant specimens, all dried
. and mounted in looseleaf fashion
. in large folders, are placed inside
the cabinets. Each looseleaf sheet
contains a plate with the name of
the specimen, where it was found
and by whom, and the date of col
lection.
Most of the specimens for the
collection are received through
exchanges with other herbaria
throughout the country. When the
curator of one of the herbaria
goes out on a collecting trip, he
gathers more samples than his in
stitution can use, and exchanges
them. Others have been added on
bequests from private collections.
The man in cnarge of this col
lection is LeRoy Detling, curator
of the herbarium, who has been
at Oregon since 1936. He did his
undergraduate work here, receiv
ing his bachelor’s degree in lan
guages in 1921. He then shifted
his interest to botany and did his
undergraduate and graduate work
at Stanford, receiving his doctor
ate there in 1936.
Detling goes on at least one col
lecting trip every summer. He
spent part of last summed in the
Olympic Mountains of Washing
ton. «
In previous years he has visited
the Siskiyou mountains, the Col
iimbia Gorge area, and several
ureas in eastern Oregon. Several
i'ears ago he made an extensive
field trip into the Rocky moun
tains.
The University herbarium got
ts start early in the 1910's when
the private collection of Thomas
Howell, an amateur Portland bot
anist, was bequeathed to the Uni
versity. The collection was housed
first in Deady hall, and then mov
?d to Friendly hall in 1928. About
1932 it was moved again, this time
:o Condon hall, where it remained
intil 1952 when it was shifted to
ts present location in the archi
tecture annex.
Much of the Howell collection,
■vhich is still available at the herb
xrium, was original material
vhich had never been discovered
)r classified before.
the finalists on a basis of appear
interest and enthusiasm. Serving
on the first panel were Tom
Wrightson, ASUO president; Miss
Virginia Kempston, counselor for
women; J. Spencer Carlson, direc
tor of admissions; Mrs. Clyde
Blackwell, vice president of Ore
gon Mothers and Edwin Harman,
mayor of Eugene.
On the second panel were Bill
Carey, a past ASUO president;
Jim Duncan, sophomore class pres
ident; Ray Hawk, associate direc
tor of student affairs; Victor P.
Morris, acting president of the
University, Mrs. Bill Russell and
Mrs. William Gamble of Eugene.
Both boards of judges served last
night.
While photographs were being
taken of the six women, Emerald
Reporter Liz Kubin obtained the
following interviews:
MARY COSART
Mary Cosart, Kappa Kappa
Gamma, also of Oswego, Ore., is
the third Lincoln high graduate
on the Homecoming court. Miss
Cosart, a junior in business, is
originally from Detroit, Mich.
She was a life guard at the
Lake Oswego country club for two
summers. Besides swimming, she
enjoys roller skating and collects
records.
Miss Cosart is working as a
model in the art school and as
sists her stenography professor in
grading papers.
ANN GERLINGER
Blonde Ann Gerlinger, Kappa
Alpha Theta, appeared in an ail
black velvet dress for the final in
terviews. She stated that she felt
it a great honor to be selected for
the Homecoming court.
Miss Gerlinger is currently serv
ing as co-chairman of the Home
coming sign contest and is schol
arship chairman of her sorority.
Her home is in Dallas, Ore. She
graduated from Dallas high school.
Miss Gerlinger, a junior in busi
ness, is engaged to Ron Lyman,
Alpha Tau Omega.
JANET MILLER
Janet Miller, charming brunette
Kappa Kappa Gamma, is a junior
in elementary education. She
hopes to teach the third, fourth
or fifth grade someday.
Miss Miller enjoys swimming
and horseback riding and also
draws and plays the piano. She is
treasurer of her sorority, and has
had experience with children as a
counselor at Camp Namanu near
Portland.
NANCY RANDOLPH
Tall, stately, red-haired Nancy
Randolph, Kappa Kappa Gamma,
is a graduate of Lincoln high
school in Portland. She was a
Rose Festival princess in 1951.
Miss Randolph is a junior in
radio, and plans to do work in
program co-ordination after grad
uation. She sings on her own ra
dio show for KWAX, “The Nancy
Randolph Show,” and has sung in
several exchange assemblies.
Her home is in Oswego, Ore.,
where she has ample opportunity
to participate in her favorite
sports—swimming and horseback
riding.
SYLVIA WINGARD
Pert Sylvia Wingard, Alpha Phi,
lives in Eugene. Miss Wingaid,
junior in business administration,
is a graduate of Lakeview high
school in Lakeview, Ore., and she
wants to go abroad.
Miss Wingard is a member of
the Student court, associate edi
tor of the Oregana, public affairs
chairman of the YWCA, past pres
ident of Alpha Lambda Delta,
freshmen women’s scholastic hon
orary.
FLORENCE WRIGHT
Petite, dark haired Florence
Wright Kappa Alpha Theta,
dressed in dark red velveteen, ap
peared very excited during her in
terview.
Miss Wright is also a graduate
of Lincoln high school in Portland.
A junior in primary education,
Miss Wright has worked on tbo
Kiddy Carnival, sponsored by the
Associated Women Students. She
would like to teach the third or
the fourth grade after graduation.