Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, May 12, 1954, Image 1

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    JUNIOR WEEKEND QUEEN
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Voting Booths Open
At SU, Co-op Todav
Voting for Junior Weekend
queen is being held today from
® ,fl 5 p. in, at booths located in
the Student Union and Co-op. Offl
ria! announcement of the queen
will tie made at the Junior Prom
Friday night, when ahe in crown
ed by University President O.
Meredith Wilson.
The finalists, who will be mem
bers of the court, are the follow
ing.
Dorothy Kopp
A brown-haired member of Kap
pa Alpha Theta Is Dorothy Kopp,
the candidate of Carson 3 in the
queen contest. Dorothy is 5 feet
7 inches tall, and counts reading
and playing bridge among her fa
vorite pastimes.
Active In almost every phase of
student activities, Dorothy has
been Associated Greek Students'
secretary and a member of Phi
Theta Upsilon this year.
She will serve as senior class
representative next year, and 1-.
' urrently president of her house
The things she likes best about
the University are "the people,1
and the academic opportunities."
A business major, Dorothy'
plans to use her business training
in personnel work or counselling.
Janet Miller
Janet Miller, a member of Kap
pa Kappa Gamma, is sponsored by
Campbell club in the contest. She'
is also 5 feet 7 inches tall, and
has almost - black hair and brown,
eyes.
She attended Grant high school I
in Portland, and now lives In Ore- i
gon City. Favorite hobbies include!
swimming, horseback riding, play
ing the piano, drawing and sketch
ing.
A member of the Homecoming i
♦ «
MHBPPT rfl';
court last year, Janet attended !
Portland State college winter
term. She waa in Kwama during
her sophomore year.
Janet plana to teach in Kurope
after ahe graduates, and prefers
teaching displaced children in
France or Germany. Concerning
the campus, ahe thinks the trees
and other physical features are
•'impressive,” and adda that the
new Student Union building is
"quite an asset."
Nancy Murrow
Spokane, Washington, is the
home-town of Nancy Murrow,
brown-haired candidate of Gamma
1 hi Beta. A political science ma
jor, ahe had planned to work for
the state department until she be
came engaged. "Now Pro planning
to be a housewife," ahe said.
Nancy transferred here from
the University of Washington win
ter term, and said that Oregon is
"more friendly than Washington i
■ • • you get to know more people."
School spirit is also better h.-rc,
she said, because the University
is smaller than Washington.
The 5-foot, 4-inch Gamma Phi is
sor.g leader for her house, as she
was at Washington. She was also
in the sophomore honorary there.
Alma Owen
Blonde Alma Owen, an Alpha
Chi Omega, is the candidate of
Alpha Chi Omega, Sigma Nu and
Sigma Phi Epsilon. She is from
Poitland. where rhe attended!
Washington high school.
Now president of her house,
Alma is secretary of Heads of
Houses. She is a major in speech
correction, and as part of her work
in the department' is conducting!
f-linical correction practice with
(Please tur» to fa/jc four >
Phi Beta Kappa
Elects Eighteen
Eighteen seniors were elected to ■
membership in Phi Beta Kappa,
national scholastic honorary, Tues
day night. They will be initiated in
ceremonies at Cerlinger hall Tues
day at 5:30.
New Phi Betas are Mitzi Asai, ;
English; Janet Bell, English; Jack
Goebel, mathematics; Karl Harsh
barger, speech; Phyllis Helmcrs.
music; Dagmara Hill, foreign lan
guages; Jtobert Johns, foreign lan- j
guages; A1 Karr, journalism, and
Arnold Levin, liberal arts.
Gordon MacPherson, history;
Lawrence Maves, music; Robert
Moursund, general science; Joan
Nelson, history; Mark Patterson, I
history; Vanda Randall, English;
Hollis Ransom,- political science; j
Catherine T. Seigmund, business >
administration, and Harold Watts, j
economics.
Following the initiation cere
monies, Phi Beta members will
join with members of Sigma Xi
national science honorary, for a
joint banquet. Speaker at the ban- i
quet will be Wendell Stanley, di- !
rector of the virus laboratory at
the University of California and
Nobel prize winner for chemistry:
in 1946.
George Wilkins, sophomore in
physics, was awarded the Phi Beta
Kappa book award for the sopho
more student with the highest;
grades.
Earlier this year, the honorary
announced its annual selection of
the "Senior Six.” the top six sen-!
iors scholastically. They were Wil
liam Hall, Warren Bachelis, Ron
ald Lowell, Shirley Shupe, Harold
Toliver and William Walker.
All the students picked for
membership in the honorary had \
a GPA of more than 3.25.
One of these five women will ses will reign over all events in of the court are (from left to
become Junior weekend queen the Junior weekend celebration, right) Dorothy Kopp Janet Miller
when the balloting ends tonight at and will be crowned at the Jun- Nancy Murrow, Janet Wick and
5. Tile queen and her four princes- ior Prom Friday night. Members Alma' Owen.
Bunche to Speak
At UO Assembly
r>.i.. x- . . M
Ralph Bundle
United Nation
VobcI Peace !)r>ze winner and director of th*
coffc
trusteeship division, will speak at a University
i ue.seay at 1 p. m. in the Student Union ballroom X
hour forum for the speaker will be held at 4 p m th<,
sanie day in the Dad’s lounge of the SU,
The appearance on campus by the distinguished educator and
state department expert is being sponsored by the University’*
a, mg Distinguished Lecturers committee. The SU coffee hour
♦ a a. .forum committee is snnnanr
RALPH Bl'NCHE
N'olx-I Winner to Speak
MomstoMeet
At Breakfast
The deadline for the purchase of I
Mother's breakfast tickets has
been set at noon Thursday to al
low the committee to plan for a
definite number of guests.
Barbara Kamm, ticket chair
man, has announced that there are
only a limited number of the tic
kets left. She has warned the stu
dents that they should buy tickets
immediately to insure a place for
their motheis at the breakfast.
The breakfast will start at 8:30
a. m., not at 9 a. m. as was pre
viously stated in the Emerald and
on the posters which have been
put up on campus.
This event will be a “mothers
only" affair, with a talk by Uni
versity President O. Meredith Wil
son and a business meeting high- ■
lighting the program. Also at this i
time. Mrs. C. Elmer Carlson, Port
land. president of the Oregon
Mothers ,club, will present Pres
Wilson with a check for the;
amount of the Mothers club schol
arships for the coming year.
Tickets are on sale at the Stu- i
dent Union and the Co-op for $1.25 ;
each.
Yeli King Tryouts
To be Held Tonight
Yell king tryouts are scheduled I
for tonight at 7 in the Student!
Union. All petitions«must be in by j
5 p. m.
All candidates will tryout before i
a screening committee composed
of Olivia Tharaldson, Janet Gus
tafson, Maeua-Louise Hair, Sam
Vahey, Tom Gaines, Sally Sta- i
delman, and interested senate i
members.
The yell king will be selected I
from among two or three finalists j
at the first meeting of the new
senate.
afternoon event.
Currently a professor of govern
mcnt at Harvard university,
Bunche was awarded the Nobel
peace prize for his work in tho
Arab-IsraeJi armistice in 1949. He
was acting UN mediator on Pale
stine in 1948-49.
Bom in Detroit in 1904, Bunche
received his A.B. at the Univer
sity of California in 1927. He re
ceived his M A. in 1928 and hi*
Ph D. in 1934, both at Harvard.
Studied Abroad
Bunche did post-doctoral work
in anthropology and colonial poli
cy at Northwestern university, the
London School of Economics and
the University of Capetown, South
Africa in 1936-37. He was an Ozia*
Goodwm fellow at Harvard in
1929 an held the Rosenwald fellow
ship in Europe, England and North,
and West Africa in 1931-32.
He also held the Social Science
Research council post-doctoral
fellowship in Europe, South .and
East Africa, Malaya and the Neth
erlands Indies from 1936 to 1939
Bunche was a staff member of tho
Carnegie Corp. Survey of the Np
gro in America, working in tho
southern states in 1939.
Worked with OSS
An educator at the University
of California and Howard univer
l93n «dUr^g „the late 1920 8 and
1930 s, Bunche worked with the
Strategic Service during
World War II. He has been a ter
ritorial specialist for the U 9
State department and was a mem
ber of the U. S. delegation to the
Dumbarton Oaks conference in
Formerly a member of the U 9
delegation to the U. N„ Bunche be
came chief of the U. N. Trustee
ship department in 194S. He was
awarded the Spingam medal by
the National Association for tho
Advancement of Colored Peoplo
in 1949.
Bunche is married and has three,
children. He lives with his family
in Jamaica, New York.
Senior Ride
Brings Fines
Four University seniors were ar
rested and fined at Vancouver
Wash., Friday for walking ille
gally on a highway after they ha l
been taken rn a “senior ride,” ac
cording to a report carried by
Tuesday’s Oregon Journal.
The four men are Llovd Hutch
inson. Richard Kesson, Leo Naapi
and Gordon Badgley. They were
lined $25 and $2.50 costs apiece
by Justice Walter Collins of But
ton District.
The men were reportedly taken
to Camas, Wash., about 13 milee
north of Vancouver, by freshmen.
The four had walked about two
miles when they were seen walk
ing down the middle of the high
way by a state patrolman.
Told tp walk by the side of tho
road, the men compiled until after
the patrolman had driven a shojt
distance beyond them, when they
again returned to the center, tho
report says. The patrolman then
returned and placed them under
arrest.
Five Frosh Coed
Violators Caught
Five women have been ordered
to report to Fenton pool Thursday
at 12:30 p. m. to receive punish
ment for breaking Junior Week
end traditions. Doug Clement, Or
der of the O president, has re
quested the presence of Carol Aik
en, Janet Filbert, Judy Kirk, Adri
enne McRae and Karen Rice.