President-elect
Arrives at UO
It was family day at the Hugene Municipal airport Thursday
morning with the arrival of President elect O. Meredith Wil
son, his wife and six children.
Margaret, three years old and the youngest of the Wilson
children, was the first to come off the plane, clutching a stuff
ed yellow duck. 1 he duck had been given to her during the
plane s half hour stopover in Portland earlier in the morning.
flight behind Margaret were Meredith (Introduced as Met) M,
Connie, 12; Mary Ann, 11; John, 6; David. 4 and their smiling parents.
Mower* Presented
Victor P. Morris, acting president of the University since Harry K
Now bum's resignation in September, and Mrs. Morris were there
to greet the family. Sally Stadelman, rally board chairman, presented
Mrs. Wilson with a huge bouquet of red and white carnations on
behalf of the ASUO.
Wilson was wearing rubbers when he stepped off the plane. "I put
them on in New York. I thought I might need them in Oregon,” lie
said, smiling ruefully. The weather at the airport was bright and
sunshiny, if a little crisp.
Family Escorted
Gathering up their six children, the flowers and several -beanbags'.
the Wilsons were escorted to their new home at 2335 McMorran St.
Three children went with each parent in separate cars, followed by five
cars of students and administration members. A police motorcycle
escort brought the caravan into Eugene and across town to then
new residence.
Up since 3 a. m. Thursday morning, the family looked tired. David
slept on the way In from the airport. The Wilsons left Salt Lake city
at 6:15 a in. and arrived in Eugene at 10:30 a. in. on a United Air
lines flight from Portland.
It « good to be here." Mrs. Wilson commented as she caught her
breath after arrival at the house. "Everything has just been post
poned until we arrived in Oregon.”
Children Explore
The children were off upstairs to explore their new home. They ran
through the upstairs, exploring, opening and closing doors and de
manding to know w'hose room was whose.
The official student welcoming group included Tom Wrightson,
ASUO president: Andy Berwick, Student Union board chairman; Elsie
Schiller, Emerald editor; Janet Wick, newly installed AWS president;
Bob Summers, ASUO senator; Jim Light, junior class president, and
Miss Stadelman.
A group of Campbell club men also were at the airport to welcome
the new president.
Over 200 Meet Wilson
University students got their first chance to meet new University
- President O. Meredith Wilson at an informal reception in the Dad’s
lounge of the Student Union Thursday between 4 and 5 p. m.
An intermittent stream of approximately 200 students wandered in
and out of the room, shook hands with Wilson and sipped coffee
served by the SU hospitality girls. The reception was sponsored by the
SU board and the ASUO.
Flanked by ASUO President Tom Wrightson and SU Board Chair
man Andy Berwick, Wilson talked to students individually as they
introduced themselves. He seemed interested in each person, sometimes
* inclining his head to catch a name.
Wilson wore a brown suit with a conservative bow tie.
The new president appeared interested in campus activities, asking
several questions about events planned for the campus and discussing
subjects ofdnterest to individual students.
. Only'a few figures from the administration appeared at the rccep
. and no faculty members attended the function planned primarily
■ to give students a chance to get acquainted with Wilson. A faculty
'v luncheon is planned for March 13.
Last Mixer to Be Climax
; Of Red Cross Fund Drive
Last fishbowl mixer of the term,
sponsored jointly by the Student
Union dance committee and the
' Red Cross board, will be held to
night from 9 to 12 as the climax of
. the campus Red Cross fund drive.
' Entertainment will be furnished
by Barbara Williams, singer, the
Phi Kappa Psi trio and Stan
" Smith, master of ceremonies. A
- six-piece campus band, “The
f. Counts,” will provide music for
' the no-date affair.
An award will be made at the
‘ mixer to the house collecting the
j" most money during the week's
i~ drive. The prize wiH be based on
the quota of 25 cents per each liv
ing organization member.
Houses who made quotas during
the week were Pi Beta Phi. Kappa
Kappa Gamma, Sigma Kappa, Chi
Omega, Alpha Xi Delta, Pi Kappa
Alpha, Sigma Chi, Pi Kappa Phi,
Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Delta
Pi.
Beta Theta Pi, Chi Psi, Alpha
Phi, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Sigma
Kappa, Gamma Phi Beta, Sigma
Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Theta Chi,
Delta Tau Delta, Delta Zeta, Al
pha Tau Omega, Sigma Alpha Mu
and Phi Kappa S igm a,
.'Richard IT
Begins Run
By Dave Sherman
Emerald Reporter
Curtain time tonight at the Uni
versity theater will reveal to first
nighters the product of a term'H
work by Howard L. Ramey, in
structor in speech, and tofr stu
dents who constructed the settings
for •Richard II," the Shakes
pearean history opening at 8 to
night.
The setting and lighting were
designed and executed under the
supervision of Ramey, technical
director of the theater. The open
ing scene uses a row of arches
across the back of the stage and
other seen we use another row of
arches closer to the audience.
John Jensen, junior in speech,
did the painting on all the scenery.
Flint Castle, which looms on the
right side of the stage for the first
scene in the second half of the
play, was one of the most difficult
pieces of scenery to put together.
The many different pieces of
scenery and their detailed pers
pective painting make this the
most difficult job of staging for
< I'lcosc turn In page eight)
Last Issue Today
Today’s issue of the Emerald
Is the last regular publication
of winter term. A special edi
tion will lie published next
Thursday.
Changes in Elections
Passed by Senate
hr ASK) senate I hursday night passed a proposed consti
tutional amendment for freshman .lections, held a graduate
student amendment up for the opinion of the constitutional
< omimtlee and adopted a hy-lavv governing the balloting meth
ods for the spring term primary election.
i hr freshman elections amendment will he placed on the bal
;; or the Bencral Mudem body election, May 5, The amend
meut would divide the freshman ballot into two sections one
for president and vice-president and the other for two renre
Lecturer Traces
Mayan Evolution
A night and an insight into the
development of Mayan culture was j
given Thursday evening by Alberto !
Ruz. a member of the staff of the
National Institute of Anthropolo-1
gy and History at the National;
Museum in Mexico City, in a lec- j
ture given before a small audience }
in the Student Union ballroom.
Ruz traced the development of
the Mayas through its four peri- j
ods of history, ending with the
peak of decadence reached at the
time of the arrival of the Span
iards. His lecture was illustrated
with colored slides.
In the early period the sedentary
life of the Mayans led to the de
velopment of ceramics and scul
pture, with the emphasis on sim
plicity and vigor. The Mayans
were not a wholly peaceful nation.
Ruz mentioned, for they were re
quired to fight their enemies in
self-defense.
"The Mayans created a brilliant
(ivilization lasting more than 1000
years, yet that history has been
almost totally lost," Ruz reported.
Vestiges of the past still remain,
however.
•sentatives.
The senate originally passed tho
graduate student amendment, but
after further consideration de
feated it pending an opinion of tbo
constitutional committee. The pro
posed amendment would have tho
graduate member of the senate
selected by the senate in Octobe r
rather than elected in the spring
term election.
The constitutional committee
will be asked for an opinion cr*
when the election, if any, ahoukl
be held.
The by-law governing the pri
mary election contains the follow
ing six provisions: Each political
party w'ill have a separate ballet
for president, senators-at-largOj
and class officers; the ballot will
be divided into four parts, on<s
part for each class participating;
the poll attendant will mark th*
ballot according to the voter*
class, and the voter will use no
other division except in the ASUO
election; the voter will be give a
ballots for all political parties; al
ter voting, the voter will hand the
attendant both the marked ballot J
and unmarked ballots, which will
be placed in separate boxes, an I
only the ballots in the “marked ■*
box will be counted.
Selection of Mother's Day chair
man was postponed until the next
senate meeting. Apr il 1.
. UO President and Family
UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT W10LJ5ON, MRS. WII^ON AND CHILDREN