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SO. 61
IMiriam Mol in
i Recital Tonight
Miriam Molin, pianist, will be
- presented in recital tonight at 8:15
. by the school of music in the music
school auditorium.
Miss Mol‘n has been heard in or
chestral appearances and as a re
I citalist in major European and
American cities within the last
| three years.
, She was selected to perform the
v Faculty Art Work
' Shown in Gallery
Currently on display in the en
. trance to the school of architec
- ture a,'t gallery is an exhibit of
t work by members of the school’s
faculty. The display will remain
__ until Feb. 4.
The display includes ceramics,
- paintings, sculpture, weaving and
t jewelry.
world premiere of Ernst Krenek's
"Fourth Piano Concerto’’ by the
composer as an orchestral soloist
in 1951.
Her program here will include
another Krenek work, the “George
Washington Variations” for piano
solo. Both works are dedicated to
Miss Molin.
Also included in the program
will be "Passacaglia” by the mod
ern composer, Aaron Copland; "An
ern composer, Aaron Copland;
"Andante and Variations in F Min
or" by Haydn; Two Capriccios,
"Op 76’ 'and “Rhapsody in G min-j
or" by Brahms, and "Sonata No. 3,'
Op. 46” by Kabalevsky.
The recital will also feature
Chopin's "Nocturne in E, Op. 62;” !
"Polonaise in F Sharp minor, Op.
44” and seven preludes.
Admission is free, and the reci
tal is open to the public.
Student Employment Bureau
' Aids Students in Finding Jobs
me university of Oregon stu
t ,!ent employment bureau has more j
- students than jobs available, ac
• cording to Miss Shirley Sylvester,
'* manager of the bureau.
■1- happens every year at this
1 lime," Miss Sylvester said. More
students need work at the beginn-;
) ing of winter term than at any
, other time of the year, she said, j
i Dad's luncheon
i Speaker Will Be
, Gov. Patterson
Gov. Paul Patterson will be the
t main speaker at the Dad's Day
luncheon Jan. 23 in the Student
- Union ballroom.
Tickets for the luncheon will go
■ on sale at the SU main desk Wed
nesday at $1.25 apiece.
Dads will be greeted on their
arrival on campus by signs dis
- playing poems composed by cam
pus living organizations. The signs
• will follow the weekend’s theme
• of “King for a Day.”
Nominations for hostess of
Dad’s Day are due Tuesday, ac
cording to Kay Partch, hostess
selection chairman. Each living or
’ ganization may nominate one mar
1 l ied woman. The candidate may be
1 a student or former student of the
I University, Miss Partch said. If
jShe is not now a student, her hus
band must be attending the Uni
versity.
Other activities scheduled for
the visiting fathers include a bar
| bershop quartet contest. This is a
r new feature this year and eight
► quartets will compete for top hon
I ors. Finals will be held after the
j Oregon-Washington bas k e t b a 11
game Jan. 22.
Honorary Hosting
Publication Editor
Editor of the Pi Lambda Theta
Inational publication, Gladys Cor
ryell from UCLA, will be in Eugene
f through Tuesday and will meet
with the University chapter and
I the Eugene alumna group of the
^ education honorary for women.
Dorothy Anderson, president of
, the University chapter said Sun
day that the Editor will meet with
ithe two chapters Tuesday at 7:30
: p. m.
adding that many of them need
jobs in older to stay in school.
Employers now have wider
lange of student help to choose
from than at any other time of the .
year, Miss Sylvester pointed out.;
Prospective employers hiring stu
dents now can probably depend on
the student to work for about six
months.
Most of the students who have
applied for jobs are unskilled, but
there are some skilled laborers,
among them. There is a large
number of married students j
among the unemployed. The ma
jority of the students asking for
work are men.
At the present time, the bureau
is able to fill requests for such
employees as accountants, carpen
ters, service station attendants,
janitors, grocery store and ware
house workers and many other
jobs.
Persons wishing part time stu
dent help can contact Miss Slyves
ter’s office by calling Ext. 258. or
by calling at her office at 1260
Emerald st.
Senior Dance
Petitions Due
Petitions are being called for
chairmanships of the Senior Ball
committees, Paul Lasker, senior
class president, said today.
The Ball is scheduled for Feb.
20, and Lasker has urged seniors
especially to petition for commit
tee posts. However, he pointed out,
any student is eligible.
Petitions may be obtained on
the third floor of the Student
Union and should be turned in to
SU 304 by 5 p. m. Jan. 19.
Chairmen are needed for decor
ations, publicity and promotion,
chaperones, tickets and programs.
Humorist Set
For UO Talk
“"•““‘u armour, numorist and
writer of light verse, will open the
winter term assembly schedule
with a talk entitled "More Light
Than Heat” Tuesday at 1 p. m.
in the Student Union ballroom.
The SU coffee hour forum com
| mittee has also planned an infor
mal discussion with the speaker
at 4 p. m. in the Dad's lounge.
Armour, who holds a Ph.D de
gree from Harvard university, has
contributed more than 100 humor
ous and satirical poems and arti
Willis to Open
Perry Conference
The Perry Centennial Confer
ence on Far Eastern Studies will
.open on campus Tuesday with a
: talk by Donald S. Willis, assistant
professor of Oriental languages,
on "Perry and the Changing Mind
!of Japan."
Scheduled for 7:30 p. m. in Com
monwealth 138, the talk will inau
gurate a program of speakers, lec
turers and special exhibits and
tours in the Art Museum. The con
ference is being held to commem- i
"orate the centennial of the voyage
of Commodore Matthew C. Perry
! to Japan in 1853.
Baldinger Speaks
Wallace S. Baldinger, associate
professor of art, will be the second
speaker for the conference. He j
| will appear as a browsing room
lecturer Wednesday evening at
| 7:30 in the Student Union, and will
j speak on "Art and the Common
Man in Japan.”
Two Appointed
To Oregano Staff
Oregana editor Bob Ford has
announced the appointment of two
staff members for this year's pub
lication.
The two are Jay Fournier, sen
ior in political science, sports edi
tor, and Dorothy Schick, senior in
art, art editor.
| Discussion leader for the brows
ing room lecture will be Paul S.
Dull, associate professor of history
and political science. The talk will
be illustrated with colored slides
taken by Baldinger. Both men
spent last year in Japan teaching
and doing research work.
Nabutaka Ike, librarian for Far
East publications at the Hoover
Memorial library at Stanford uni
versity, will speak on “Japan: One
Hundred Years after Perry” at
7:30 p. m. Thursday in Common
wealth 138.
Ha rad a Concludes Forum
The final lecturer for the con
ference will be Jiro Harada, now a
staff member of the Tokyo Na
tional museum. He will speak at a
coffee hour lecture Friday at 7:30
in the SU browsing room on “The
Art of the Priest and of the Gen
i tleman hi Japan.”
Harada spoke on Japanese art
i and culture here before World War
II, and received an honorary doc
tor of literature degree from the
University of Oregon in 1936.
The conference will also fea
ture a special exhibit of Japanese
color prints designed to show the
state of mind in Japan before and
after the Perry expedition. A spe
cial guided tour of the Art Mus
eum will be conducted by Balding
er Thursday.
Music Conference Opens Friday
I he fourth annual Conference
on Music Education, sponsored by
the University school of music,
will be held on campus Friday and
Saturday.
A series of three special con
certs, all open to the public, will
be held as a part of the program.
The Los Angeles Woodwinds,
under the direction of Ingolf Dahl,
will present two concerts and the
University symphony orchestra,
University singers and University
concert band will give a combined
concert.
Concert Friday
The University groups will pre
sent their concert Friday in the
Student Union ballroom.
The Los Angeles Woodwinds
will be presented in concert Sat
urday in the ballroom with the sec
ond concert slated for Sunday in
the school of music auditorium.
Both appearances of this group
are under the sponsorship of the
Failing Distinguished Lecture
committee.
No admission charge will be
made for any of the concerts.
Also sponsored in conjunction
with the conference under the
Failing series is a lecture by Dahl
on "Contemporary Music in Eur
ope.”
Dahl, who is also director of the
symphony orchestra at the Uni
versity of Southern California, will
speak Jan. 18 in the music school
auditorium. He was born in Ger
many and spent his early profess
ional life at the Memorial Opera
House in Zurich, Switzerland, as
a coach and conductor.
Faculty Named
The visiting faculty for the con
ference will include J. Russell
Bodley, professor of music theory
at College of the Pacific, and Mrs.
Alice Snyder, assistant professor
of music education at San Francis
co State college.
Sessions open Friday at S:30 a.
m. with registration in the SU
followed by an open house at the
Costume Party
Set for Friday
Titles of movies and plays will
furnish ideas for costumes at the
National Collegiate Players’ cos
tume party Friday at S p. m.
Scheduled for the University
theater stage, the party may be
come an annual affair, according
to Clarence Suiter, general chair
man.
The public is invited to attend.
Suiter said. Entertainment will be
presented by NCP members and a
door prize awarded Refreshments
will be served. The party is a no
date affair.
music school and clinics by the
Woodwinds.
At 1:15 the Junction City high
school band .under the direction of
Robert Vagner, will be featured in
a session on rehearsal techniques
for high school bands.
Sessions on junior high school
music, string rehearsal techniques
and a clinic by the Woodwinds are
planned for the afternoon. Also on
the program is a voice seminar
and an open forum conducted by
Bodley.
Saturday Sessions
Saturday morning sessions will
include those on “Directors’ Or
chestra Reading Session: High
School and Junior High School
Music" and "Creating Melodics in
the Elementary Grades."
Mrs. Snyder will conduct a ses
sion on music resources for prim
ary grades, and the University
Singers will be featured in a chor
us reading session. Also in the
morning the Woodwinds will con
duct clinics on woodwind, strings
and French horn.
In the afternoon Mrs. Synder
will speak on “Enriching the Mu
sic Program in Grades 4 through
8." Sessions on contest-festival
and new music reading for high
school and junior high school
bands and rehearsal and conduct
(Please turn to pane jour)
cles to some 70 magazines in this
country and England.
Works Appear
His works have been published'
in The New Yorker, The Saturday
Evening Post, Collier’s, Liberty,
Judge, Country Gentleman, Ladies
Home Journal, The Saturday Re
view of Literature, and The Na
tion.
He is also a member of the edi
torial board of The Writer, a mem
ber of the advisory board of Tho
Pacific Spectator and a regular
book reviewer for the Los Angel
es Daily News.
Columbus To Truman
Now a professor of English at
Scripps college, Claremont, Calif
he has written 12 books of bio
graphy, literary criticism and
verse. His latest book is “It AH
Started With Columbus,” a satiri
cal history of the United States,
from Columbus to Truman.
During Hitler’s first year irv
power in Germany, he was Ameri
can lecturer at the University cf
Freiburg. He has also taught at
the University of Texas, North
western university and Wells col
lege.
Armour server] four years in the
Army during World War II, and
was awarded the Legion of Merit
twice for outstanding services. Ho
spent the last two years as a mem
ber of the War Department Gen
eral Staff, first under General
Marshall, and then under General
Eisenhower.
YWCA Continues
Membership Drive
YWCA house representative;*
are currently continuing the Y
membership drive with speeches in
the living organizations.
Y memberships may be obtained
for $1 by contacting one of tho
representatives or Eileen Lindblad
at the Y office in Gerlinger hall
House representatives are Mary
Ivie, Alpha Omicron Pi; Jean San
dine, Alpha Delta Pi; Maxine Lin
dros, Alpha Gamma Delta; Phyl
lis Pearson, Alpha Chi Omega;
Dolores Tye, Alpha Phi; Elizabeth
Mcllveen, Alpha Xi Delta; Pat
Peterson, Ann Judson.
Nancy Hooper, Chi Omega;
Charmayne Charley, Delta Delta
Delta; Sue Smyth, Delta Gamma;*
Nancy Gilbert, Delta Zeta; Sally
Cummins,Gamma Phi Beta; Vivi
enne Brown, Kappa Alpha Theta;
Jill Hutchings, Kappa Kappa
Gamma.
Gwen Endicott. Orides; Shirley
Soble, Phi Sigma Sigma; Pat
Case, Pi |3eta Phi; Cathy Morri
son, Rebec House; Jan Williams,
Sigma Kappa; Namiko Ikeda, Uni
versity House; Ellen Wheeler! Zeta
Tau Alpha.
Heart Hop
Petitions Due
Additional petitions for chair
men of the YWCA-sponsored
Heart Hop are still being accepted
according to Joyce Noeth, geneial
co-chairman.
The Heart Hop, which will b»
held Feb. 13, will include the
crowning of the “King of Hearts,”
by the YWCA president, followed
by dancing at five different soror
ity houses.
Positions open are general co
chairman, and chairmen for dec
orations, tickets, refreshments,
voting, publicity, promotion and
coronation.
ASUO petitions should be used,