Standard Oil Man
Assembly Speaker
The president and director of the
Standard Oil Company of Califor
nia, T. S. Petersen, will speak on
■‘Bin Business Meets the Chal
lenge of Change," at 1 p. m. Tues
day in the Student Union ballroom
In the third University assembly
of winter term.
An informal discussion period
Will be held for Petersen at 4 p. m.
Tuesday in the SU Dad's lounge
under the sponsorship of the SU
coffee hour forum committee,
i Petersen, who is appearing on
campus under the auspices of the
University assembly and lecture
committee, first joined Standard
Oil in 1922 as a service station
salesman in Portland. Born in Lo
En, Utah, in 1896, Petersen moved
Portland in 1912 and gradua
I from Washington high school
1916.
r Since joining the firm, Petersen
lias held a variety of positions
Within the Standard Oil organiza
tion in seven western states. He
was elected president of the com
pany In January, 1948.
ar positions now held by
* <fsen include: Director of the
Independents Plan
basement Bounce'
PW i t h the theme ‘‘Basement
%unce" United Independent Stu
dents will take over the basement
Of Carson hall Friday night for
K combined dance and party.
Dancing will begin at 9 p. m.
With entertainment and refresh
ments also planned, UIS Presi
dent Hollis Ransom has announ
ced. The party is especially for
Independent students, but everyone
U invited, Ransom said.
Admission to the “strictly stag"
[ffair is 35 cents.
Each independent living organi
ation is in charge of one commit
tee for the dance.
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American Petroleum Institute and
the Western Oil and Gas associa
tion; trustee of the California
Academy of Sciences; consulting
professor of marketing at the
Stanford university graduate
school of business; and member of
the San Francisco Bay Area Coun
cil and the Business Advisory
Council for the U. S. Department
of Commerce.
He is a resident of Hillsborough.
Calif., on the San Francisco pen
insula.
Rally Selection Set
For Tuesday Night
Interviews for the rally board
will be held beginning at 7:15
Tuesday evening in the Student
Union, Rally Board chairman
Sally Stadelman has announced.
Miss Stadelman suggested that
petitioners bring studying or a
book to read as there will be a
wait for some of those to be in
terviewed. The interviews will be
short, she said, but there are
about 35 applicants for the five
vacant board positions.
Members of the interviewing
committee will be Paul Lasker and
Don Crawford, ASUO senate ral
ly committee members; Tom
Gaines, yell king, and Miss Sta
delman.
Scholarship Applicants'
Deadline March 1st
Deadline date on scholarship ap
plications for next year is March
1, according to Karl Onthank,
chairman of financial aid at the
University. This includes appli
cants both on and off the campus.
Students wishing to have their
scholarships renewed for next year
must re-apply with the same dead
line. Blanks ai'te available at On
thank's office in Emerald hall.
'Sea and Life Within If
Topic of Condon Talk
“Interpreting the results of
significant research to the non
specialist” will be the task of
Ralph Buchsbaum who will de
liver the annual Condon lec
tures at 8 p. m. Tuesday and
Thursday iji the Student Union
ballroom.
'I he Mon-technical lectures
will be free and are open to the
public. Buchsbaum, professor of
zoology at the University of Pitts
burgh, is appearing under the
auspices of the Oregon State Sys
tem of Higher Education.
Topic of the illustrated lectures
will be "The Sea and the Life
Within It.” The lectures will be
issued later in published form.
Techniques Explained
In his Tuesday lecture, "Man
Fears and Explores the Sea,"
Buchsbaum will tell of the early
ideas and myths about the sea
and will relate the beginnings of
exploration and the growth of
knowledge about the sea.
Thursday, he will continue the
story of the development of ocean
ography, the branch of physical
r0' Dynamiters
Fined $50 Each
Two University of Oregon stu
dents were given suspended 30-day
jail sentences Friday for the dy
namiting of the "O” on Skinner's
Butte in June, 1952. They were
fined $50 each.
The two — John D. Daily, senior
in mathematics, and Richard A.
Bray, graduate in geography and
geology — pleaded guilty earli
er in the week to cnarges of dis
orderly conduct in connection with
the blasting. They also admitted
setting off the siren in the Eu
gene Water and Electric Board
steam plant shortly after the
blast.
Daily, in a second case, is free
on bail awaiting the next session
of the grand jury. He is charged
with attempting to extort money
from a Eugene housewife in re
turn for allegedly obscene pic
tures of her.
Vienna Symphony Appears
Tonight in McArthur Court
| 1 he Vie n n a String sym
phony appearing tonight at 8
in McArthur court under the
direction of Kurt Kapf, is cur
rently on its first tour in this
pountry since its organization
in 1945.
Admission to the concert is
free to all University students
with student body cards.
Music presented by the 'group
in Austria and other European
countries has varied widely, in
cluding compositions ranging from
the Baroque era of Bach and Han
del to contemporary works.
The group stresses music of the
Viennese tradition, for the city of
Johann Strauss was also the home
of such famous musicians as Mo
zart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert,
Brahms, Mahler, Hugo Wolf and
Alben Berg.
Kapf, founder and conductor of
the ensemble, is a graduate of the
Vienna State Academy of Music
and has conducted the Vienna
Symphony orchestra and the Or
chestra of Radio Vienna in addi
tion to his own orchestra. He is
also a noted pianist and harpsi
chordist.
Appearing as soloists with the
symphony will be Rosl Schwaiger,
coloiatura soprano of the Munich
VIENNA STRING SYMPHONY
In Mac Court, a Strauss waltz
State opera and the Vienna State
opera, and Elfrieda Bachner, vio
linist.
Miss Schwaiger started her
singing career wnen she was seven
at the local church where her fa
ther was the organist. She studied
violin, organ and piano at the
Mozarteum Academy of Music in
Salzburg, Austria, after her ad
mittance there at the age of 14.
She began her, vocal training
two years later and passed her
examination in both piano and
voice "cum laude’’ in 1940. Miss
Schwaiger, currently on her first
visit to this country, sang with the
Salzburg Opera for two seasons
following her graduation. She has
since appeared with the Vienna
State opera and the Munich State
opera.
RALPH BUCHSBAUM
Sea and Its Life
geography dealing with the ocean,
and will explain newer techniques
and approaches to this science.
Topic of the second lecture is
“Man Studies and Understands the
Sea.”
The Condon lectureship was es
tablished in 1944 by the State
Board of Higher Education. Each
year a series of two lectures is
presented three times in the state,
at the University of Oregon, Ore
gon State college and in Portland.
Topics Extended
Buchsbaum's appearance here
this week will be the first in the
series. He will deliver the same
lectures Feb. 16 and 18 at OSC and
Feb. 23 and 24 at Portland State
college.
Named in honor of the Univer
sity’s first professor of geology
Thomas Condon, the lectureship
was founded through the promo
tion of the late John C. Merrian, a
"consultant and lecturer of the
human values in science and na
ture ’ at the University.
Although originally intended to
deal with geology and relate*!
subjects, the topic of the lectures
has been extended in include sub—
jects with the adjustment to na
ture made by people along the Pa
cific rim, which includes all the
land bordering the Pacific ocearv
Buchsbaum is the author c*
"Animals Without Backbone,” a
non-technical book about the in
vertebrate on land and in the sea.
He received the Chicago prize fo«
excellence in teaching in 1940.
Shearing Tickets
Still on Sale in SU
Tickets are still on sale at tho
Student Union main desk for th®
George Shearing concert Wednes
day evening from 7:30 to 10 pm,
in McArthur court.
Admission price is 85 cents fo*
the two and a half hour conce, t.
The quintet’s appearance on th®
campus is sponsored by the £TJ
board.
George Shearings tremendous—
handicap of being born blind diiha
not hinder his climb to the topi
For seven years in succession ho
won the British Melody Maker’s—
popularity poll, and American jazz ■
fans have received him since bis
first appearance in 1947 as cno
lof their favorites.
Nearly $25,000 Given
UO in Gifts and Grants
A $15,000 grant from the Na
tional Science foundation for sup
port of a summer conference in
collegiate mathematics, under the
direction of Ivan Niven, professor
of mathematics, headed the gifts
and grants accepted on behalf of
the University by the state board
of higher education recently. To
tal value of the gifts and grants
was $24,814.50.
Other grants accepted include
$2500 from the Weyerhauser Tim
ber co. for a survey on community
opinion on large industrial firms
in the Springfield-Eugene area,
with research to be done under the
direction of Wesley C. Ballaine,
profes^br of business administra
tion, and $1500 from the National
Park Service for continuation of
research at The Dalles dam site,
under the direction of L. S. Cress-,
man, head of the anthropology de
partment.
The Bonneville Power adminis
tration granted $4000 for continu
ation of research on programs to
promote executive effectiveness
through training, under the direc
tion of E. 13. Wengert. head of the
political science department.
Largest of the gifts was $700
from the Mote-Bartels Foundation,
Inc., to provide a scholarship to
be known as the Republic Carload
Where is Susan C.
Queries Golda P.
A package for a Susan C. Hill,
who is not registered at the Uni
versity, has been delivered to the
office of Mrs. Golda P. Wickham,
associate director of student af
fairs.
Mrs. Wickham believes that the
addressee may be the wife of a
University student and has asked
that the Emerald help find her.
Anyone knowing of her where
abouts should notify Mrs. Wick
ham at her office in Emerald
hall.
ing and Distributing traffic man
agement and transportation
award;
Various donors gave $664.50 for
the journalism gift fund to pur
chase unusual furnishings for tho
Allen seminar room in the new
journalism school.
The Mutual Loan Co. of Pcit
land donated $300 for the Alumni
scholarship fund. T. Neil Tayloi
gift of $150 was accepted for tho
T. Neil Taylor fund for research
in journalism.
Funeral Service
Planned Tuesday
Funeral services will be held at
10:30 a. m. Tuesday in the Spring
field Methodist church for Judy
Ellefson, junior in speech, who
died Friday afternoon. Miss EP>
Iefson was admitted to the Sacred
Heart hospital last Monday.
Dr. F. N. Miller, director of the'
student health service, was in
formed that the suspected diagno
sis of her death was polio. Addi
tional microscopic tests, requiring
three or four days, will have to I'd
made before a definite statement
as to cause of death can be made,,
he said Sunday evening.
Saturday, members of Miss Et*
lefson’s sorority, Alpha Gamma
Delta, were given shots of gamma
globulin, advised for those who
have had intimate contact with a,
polio victim. The gamma globuhiV,
administered at the infirrrtary,
was provided by the Lane County.
Health department.
The daughter of Mr. and Mr a.
Floyd Ellefson of Springfield, Mi- e
Ellefson was a member of Alpha
Gamma Delta. She was active ia
the University Theater and Phi.
Beta, honorary for music and.*
speech. Her sophomore year she
was a member of Kwama, sopho
more women's service honoiary..