Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, February 19, 1954, Image 1

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'Wonderland' Ball
Set for Saturday
',Mn'* « r sNowruura lor the Senior ball are Dick Briggs
ami .lane Fllppo, decorations co-chairmen, and Nancy Heine, chair
man of chaperones and programs for lhe dame.
, "Winter Wonderland," the first
‘ formal dance of the school year,
^ will begin at 9 p. m. Saturday
night and last until 12:30 a. m. It
18 sponsored by the senior rlass,
under the general chairmanship of
Paul Lasker, class president.
Tickets may be purchased at the
l Student Union main desk today
until 5 p. m. for $2 each. They
may also be obtained at the dance,
according to Jack McClenahan and
Hob Herry, ticket co-chairmen.
Music will be furnished by Hill
Becker, whose orchestra is one of
Portland's largest organized units
with twelve pieces and a female
vocalist.
The group has been house band
at Jantzen beach ballroom, the
Palais Royale and McElroy’s in
Portland and has played at many
college campuses.
Players Featured
Featured players with Becker's
band include Max Evans on the
alto sax and clarinet and Hal
•Iwafford on the trombone. Swaf
v;rd was with Alvino Ftey for sev
eral years.
The trumpet player, Larry Mor
rel, was featured on a national
television show. Playing the tenor
sax is Jack Woodward. Ralph
Wood plays sax and is male vo
calist. with Pauline Pauls the fea
tured female vocalist.
Color scheme for the decorations
is blue and white, and the ball
room will be decorated with twen
ty large cotton snowballs sus
pended from the ceiling.
The decoration committee, under
the direction of co-chairmen Dick
Briggs and Jane Flippo. will be
working on decorations today
from 3 p. m. to 1 a. m. and Sat
urday from 8 a m. to 6 p. m. They
have asked anyone interested to
assist them.
C haperones Named
Official chaperones for the eve- j
ning will be Howard L. Ramey, i
instructor in speech, and Mrs.
Ramey. Other chaperones will be •
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Morris, Mr.
and Mrs. Eldon Johnson, Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon Sabine, Mr. and Mrs.
A. A. Esslinger, Mr and Mrs. S.
W Little, Mr. and Mrs. O J. Hoi
!is, Mr and Mrs. Paul Jacobson
and Mr. A. B. Stillman.
Other chaperones Include Mr.
and Mrs. E. W. E. Baird, Mr. and i
Mrs. H. J. Noyes, Mr. and Mrs.
j Donald DuShane, Mr. and Mrs.
Alan J. Wickham and Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Hawk.
Flowers for the dance are op
tional, according to Lasker. For
I mals are in order for women, with
dark suits or tuxes for men. He j
' emphasized again that the dance i
! is open to everyone on campus.
Students Will Observe
,World Day of Prayer
Oregon students will join stu
dents in 56 nations in observing
a Universal Student Day of Pray
er Sunday.
All students and faculty mem
bers are invited to participate in
the inter-denominational service
in Gerlinger hall. The service will
begin at 9:45 p. m. and will end in
time for church services.
Lost Your Keys?
Do you have all your car keys?
^Better take a quick check, be
cause at this moment there are
15 ignition keys at the police sta
tion, all belonging to campus cars.
The police department has asked
students with missing keys to in
spect the keys they have on hand,
police Sergeant Nelson has an
nounced.
The Wesley House choir will,
provide music and both interna- i
tional and American students will i
participate in the service. Bill Wal- i
ker, senior in philosophy, has ar- j
ranged special music and Joan
Hutchon, Danforth fellow, ar-!
ranged the service.
This is the first time that an j
inter-faith service has been held j
on campus except for special re- j
ligious celebrations such as Eas
ter and Thanksgiving. The event
is being sponsored by the Univer
sity Religious Council.
The Day of Prayer is also being
sponsored by the World Student
Christian Federation, which en
compasses most of the Christian
movements in the world. Sunday is
also the first day of World Broth
erhood Week.
Moroccan Writer
Speaks Tonight
A man who once visited King
Ibn Saud and King Abdullah of
Jordan and published a book about
theae two monarchs will lecture
in the Dad's Lounge of the Stu
dent Union at 8 this evening.
Speaking on Morocco. Rom Lan
dau has been internationally ac
knowledged as the leading author
ity on that country. He is also
the author of a biography on Mo
hammed V, the present Sultan of
Morocco.
. His survey of Morocco was pub- •
lished by the Carnegie B:ndowmcnt!
of International Peace in 1952. He j
is also the author of numerous i
articles on the area which have \
appeared in London and American 1
newspapers and magazines. Lan
dau's books have been translated'
into French, Dutch, Danish, Ger
man and Polish. *
During the second world war
Landau volunteered for the Royal
Air B'orce and became an air-gun
ner in bombers. He was • later
made a member of the Arab Com- j
mittee of the Intelligence Depart
ment in the Foreign Office in Lon
don.
For the last five years Landau i
has concentrated exclusively on
Morocco and Moroccan affairs and
has written five books about that
country. Last year he taught,
courses in Moroccan history and
civilization and Islamic mysticism
at the American Academy of Asi
an Studies.
Amphibians' Show
Plays Second Night
"Under the Big Top”, water
pageant written and produced by !
Amphibians, women's swimming
honorary will be presented to
night at 8 p. m. at the men's pool.
Tickets cost 80 cents and may be
purchased at the booth outside the
pool before the performance. The
show opened Thursday night.
Decorations, costumes and acts
will be coordinated to the central
circus theme. Ten main acts, in
termission entertainment, and a1
grand finale will be included in
the production, which is to be a
water version of a real circus.
Scott Lehncr, sophomore in
speech, will be master of ceremon
ies. He will play a sideshow bark
er and ‘‘call” the audience to each |
act. Featured at the intermission j
tf’ill be clowns who will also do1
exhibition diving.
Other features included in the I
main acts will be a Merry-Go-1
Round, the use of black light and !
"body lights” to create unusual
effects.
Johnston to Deliver
Memorial Address
The eighth annual Eric Allen
Memorial lecture will be given to- ■
day in the SU at 2 p. m. by Wil- '<
liam F. Johnston, managing edi- •
tor and editor of the editorial page
of the Lewiston, Idaho Morning
Tribune.
Johnston's lecture, "The Ingre
dient of Integrity," will be ad
dressed to all interested students
and to the Oregon Fress confer
ence, meeting for the 35th year
on the Oregon campus.
Women Elect
3 Presidents
Three juniors — Janet Wick.
Mary Wilson, and Nikki Trump —
won the top offices of three cam
pun women's organizations in the
annual winter term women's elec
tions held Thursday.
Miss Wick was elected president
of the Associated Women Stu
dents, defeating Rosemary Hamp
ton, who will become vice-presi
dent. Miss Trump is the new pres
ident of the Women's Recreation
association. Her opponent, Sally
JANET WICK
New AW'S President
Stadelman will serve as WRA
vice-president.
Elected to head the campus YW
CA, Miss Wilson defeated Camille
Wold, who will assume the duties
of first vice-president of the YW.
Carol Cross was elected YW sec
ond vice-presidency.
Cither Winners Named
Other winners in the AW'S elec
tions were: Secretary, Jane Berg
strom; treasurer, Edna Humiston; ■
sergeant-at-arms, Margaret Tyler,
and reporter, Marcia Mauney.
New W’RA officers, in addition
to Miss Trump and Miss Stadel-j
man, are: Secretary, Doris Lilje- j
berg; treasurer, Prudence Ducich; j
custodian, Darlene Hammer and
sergeant-at-arms, Carol Harrison.
The other victorious YW candi
dates are: Secretary, Hope Hoi- j
gerson; treasurer, Gail West; j
sophomore commission chairman.1
Nan Hagedorn, and sophomore
commission secretary, Annie Lau
rie Quackenbush. Betty Andersort,
who opposed Miss Hagedorn for
the sophomore commission chaiiv
manship, will serve as vice-chair-.
man of the commission.
Constitution Passed
The new WRA constitution was
passed with only two opposing
votes, Mary Jordan, present WRA.
president reported.
Installation of the new officer .<#■
for all three groups will take plato
at 6:30 p. m. Thursday in th<v
Student Union, according to Jean
Mauro, out-going AWS vice-prei
ident who supervised the election >.
Tuesday Assembly
Features Britisher
A native Britisher, Sir Ernest
Llewllyn Woodward, will address
a University assembly at 1 p. m.
Tuesday in the Student Union
Wallroom. Woodward will be intro
duced by W. H. Stephenson, pro
fessor of history.
Woodward is currently editing'
an official collection of document^
from the British foreign office ar
chives on British foreign poli<^r
from 1919 to 1939. He is also a.
professor at the Institute for Ad
vanced Study at Princeton, New
Jersey, and an honorary fellow of
Worcester college. Oxford.
A member of the American Phd
orophical Society and a former
Rhodes travelling fellow. Wood-;
ward is the author of “Christian
anity anc} Nationalism in the Later
Roman Empire,” Three Studied
in European Conversation,” “The
Twelve - Winded Sky,” "War aiu*
Peace in Europe," “French P.evo
lutions,” “Great Britian and tbo
German Navy,” “The Age of Re
form,” "Short Journey,” “Briti-h
Historians,” and "History of Eng
land.”
He has been awarded an honor
ary degree of doctor of literature
by Princeton. Woodward has serv
ed as lecturer and professor in
modern history and professor of
international relations at Oxfc <t
university.
Badeau Explains
Need for Interest
by Joe Gardner
Emerald News Editor
The United State must take an
interest in the Near East for the
area's own sake and not for the
sake only of gaining an ally
against Russia, John Badeau, pres
ident of the Near East founda
tion in New York told a crowd of
students, professors and towns
people Thursday afternoon in the
Student Union ballroom.
Appearing in the fourth Univer
sity assembly of winter term, Ba
deau spoke on the topic "What Is
at Stake in the Near East?" The
speaker returned from a trip
through Egypt, Iran, Syria, Leb
anon and Greece only last summer.
He has worked in the area for
more than 20 years.
The Near East is more than the
Suez Canal, more than the oil
fields of Arabia or the airfields in
a Middle-East defense pact — the
Near East is its people, Badeau
said, and it was from their point
of view that he approached his
topic.
l*h rases Used
Three phrases, which Badeau ex
pressed in Arabic words, sum up
the problems of the area in the
mind of the speaker. The phrases
are: 1) "To get together,” 2) "The
Rule of Things," and 3) “Food.”
The major part of his address wafu
devoted to an explanation ai*V
elaboration on these three point j.
The basic problem of East-We;t
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Spring Styles
Shown Today
Spring styles from Russell’*
will be shown at the style shew
sponsored by the Associated Wom
en Students at 2 this afternoon in
the Alumni Lounge of Gerlinger,
hall.
Coffee and cookies will bo
served to those attending tbe
event. No admission fee will be.
charged. General Chairman Paula,
Curry has announced.
Donna Lory, sophomore in
iness, will serve as narrator for tb©
show which is scheduled to last,
until 3:30 p.m. Everything fro’tv
play clothes to formals for spring*
will be shown. Miss Lory report x.
Modelling for the show will b©
Joyce Bearden, Jean Boyden.
Nancy Garrison, Helen Gershan
sff, Gail Harrison, Hope Holgei
son, Jackie Robertson, Mary Jane
Rudd and Sue Sears.