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NO. 82
Peter Seeger, Renowned Folk Singer,
Will Entertain in Todays Assembly
feter Beeger, well-known Amer
ican folk Hlnger and banjo artist,
will appeur today at 1 p. m. In the
Student ballroom In conjunction
with the current Unlveralty Fcstl
val of Arts.
Following the festival program
theme of "The American Heri
tage," Sceger will present a lec
ture-recital on "American Folk
aongH." Although he plays several
instruments, including the re
corder, the banjo player leans
most heavily on the long -necked,
five string banjo for concert i
work.
Now in his middle 30 s, Seeger
French Professor
Has Book Printed
A University professor is the
author of a new French text
book which will be released Feb.
16.
Carl L. Johnson, associate pro
fessor of Romance languages,
wrote the book which is en
titled “First Year French."
The text contains all the im
portant principles of grammar
of the language and is illustrated
throughout.
The book will be used as a be
ginning text for college courses
in French.
has had little formal music educa
tion. What he known of Kinging
and banjo playing he has picked
up by liHtentng, first to records in
the library of Congress where he
worked with Alan Lomax as a folk
archivist; and second, to the real
thing, the people of the nation who
»ang and played their instruments
across the mid-western and south
ern parts of the country.
Thtimbrr Across Country
Seeger quit Harvard in the 30‘s
to thumb his way across the coun-!
try, Earning the American folk
music first-hand from its original
performers. It was on the road'
that he learned to play the old
fashioned long necked banjo.
The folk singer is the son of j
Charles Seeger, leading musicolo
gist, and Ruth Seeger, violin
teacher and compiler of children's
songs. Presently engaged in a
study of American folk instru
mental techniques, he has spent
the last 15 years touring the coun
try.
He has sung on picket lines, on
radio and television, at rallies, and
at formal concerts, in the class
room and in night clubs. He first
appeared with the Almanac sing
ers I Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays,
and Milliard Lampell) in the early
40's.
Made Records
Later with the Weavers, Seeger
traveled across the entire country
UO Students Will Lead
ISA Discussion Groups
Three Oregon students will
lead discussion groups at the
regional Independent Students
association convention here Fri
day and Saturday.
Sam Vahey, junior In business,
will lead the discussion on fi
nances Friday afternoon. Hollis
Hansom, graduate in political
science, will head the Saturday
morning meeting on student gov
ernment, and Connie Drury,
sophomore in music, the discus
sion on off-campus students Sat
urday afternoon.
Other discussion periods, to he
led by delegates from other
schools, include parly organiza
tion, dormitories, co-ops, public
relations, relations with the ad
ministration, and social planning.
Delegates are expected to at
tend the ISA convention from
Washington State college, Uni
versity of Washington, Wiliam
ette university, Pacific univer
sity, Idaho State college, Uni
versity of Idaho and Oregon
State college.
Registration will begin at noon
Friday in the Student Union. The
meetings will be open to all Ore
gon independent students.
The second annual United In
dependent Students’ dance will
be held Friday night for conven
tion delegates and also will be
open to all Oregon students. The !
UIS dance will begin at 8:30 p.m.
oithe third floor of Gerlinger
hall. Admission will be 50 cents
per student.
Convention chairman is Len
Calvert, senior in journalism, and
UIS president. Assisting him are
Joy Bellarts, sophomore in music,
secretary, and Ray Westenhouse,
senior in chemistry, assistant
chairman. Miss Drury is in
charge of the UIS dance.
Championships, Trophies,
Money Offered in Contest
Two Northwest championships,
five trophies and 1350 silver dol
lars will be put on the line at
Forest Grove, Feb. 24-26, in the
All-Northwest Barber Shop Bal
lad contest.
Crack male foursomes will
match their vocal talents for the
Northwest crown, being defended
by the "Forceps Four” from the
University of Oregon medical
school in Portland.
For the first time in the his
tory of the event a women’s quar
tet contest will be held jointly
with the men's competition.
Men’s and women’s quartets
will be judged by the same rating
system. Technique, blend, pitch,
tonal quality, diction and pre
cision will take up 35 percent of
the rating. The rest of the judg
ing will be based on barbershop
style, 25 percent; showmanship
and personality, 20 percent; ap
propriateness of selection, 10
percent, and appropriatness of
costume, 10 percent.
The University of Oregon will
have one entry in the event,
Campbell club’s quartet, winner
of the University’s title on Dad’s
weekend.
making records and giving per
formances until he and his driving
banjo are now a familiar sight in
America today.
Seeger is probably best-known,
in popular music circles, for his
recordings of “On Top of Old
Smoky," "Good Night Irene,” and
"Wim-O-Weh,” made with the
Weavers. He, with three others,
Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred
Hellerman, formed the folk sing
ing group in 1949,
The Over 6' folk singer frequent
ly gets his audience to sing along
with him in some of the better
known folk numbers. One of his
better known record albums, a
Stinson recording entitled, "A
Seeger Concert,” is the reproduc
tion, in part, of one such concert.
In it are such folk song favorites
as, "Winnsboro Cotton Mills," the
Knglish traditional "The House
Carpenter,” “Paddy Works on the
Railroad," and "Long John.”
Junior Petitions
Available in SU
Petitions for Junior Weekend
committee chairmen are now
available in Student Union .103,
according to Bud Hinkson, junior
class president. Regular ASUO
petition forms will not be accept
ed.
Members of the junior class
will be given preference for the
chairmanships, Hinkson reports,
but petitions will be accepted
from members of all classes.
Chairmen are needed for the
all-campus sing, junior prom, all
campus luncheon, terrace dance,
all campus cleanup, queen con
tests and coronation, promotion
and public relations, and public
ity committees.
Deadline for submission of the
petitions is 5 p.m. Feb. 22.
Influenza Siege
Hits UO Campus
A record of 23 infirmary pa
tients was established Monday,
according to hospital records.
Only 12 patients were confined
to infirmary beds Sunday, with
an overwhelming influx of 11
patients Monday.
So intense was the increase,
that infirmary personnel were
forced to post no visitor signs
on all doors in order to keep
others from catching an extreme
ly contageous influenza (flu)
which is said to be the cause for
this extreme amount of illness.
This flu bug has been a menace
to University students for ap
proximately thr^ weeks.
Those confined to the infirm
ary are: Sharrel Houfek, Mar
lene Perry, Georgia Adams,
Marilyn Stratford, Dorothy
Griffith, Georga Lee Gayer, Rose
Marie Bruce, Gwendolyn Ellis,
Maureen Naylor, Elizabeth
Church, Jeannette Amick, Ronald
Carlson, Row Schlesser, Richard
Church, James Imbrie, David
Mackin, Thomas Whatley, Larry
Bruce Kenyon, Walt Ching, John
McCall, Don Rotenberg, Willard
Starnes, Don Schwartz.
Seeger also is heard on another
Stinson album entitled, ‘'Ameri
can Folksay,” with other folk
singers including Guthrie, Lead
belly, Sonny Terry, and Josh
White. He is also the author of
several books on how to play the
five string banjo.
He made one other informal ap
pearance in Eugene Monday night
at Eugene high school, under the
sponsorship of the Oregon Folk
lore society.
Alpha Hall Picks
Three Finalists
Misses Williams, Hay,
Bartz Still in Contest
Selection of three finalists for
the title, “The Toa^t of the Al
phaholics,” was marie Monday
night at Alpha hall by three
University officials, invited by
hall members to judge the six
semi-finalists.
Bette Kartz, sophomore in lib
eral arts; Joan Hay, junior in
political science, and Mary Helen
Williams, freshman in business,
are the three finalists chosen by
Mrs. Golda Wickham, dean of
women; Si Ellingson, Student
Union director, and Brad Blaine,
head counselor for men.
The six semi-finalists were en
tertained at dinner and a dessert
at Alpha Monday night, in the
fourth gathering of the contest.
The “Toast of the Alphahol
ics” will be announced March 5
at the hall’s formal dance. Hall
members will vote on candidates
by secret ballot this week.
Democrats Set Time,
Place for Convention
WASHINGTON (AD—Demo
cratic leaders announced Mon
day that they have decided pro
visionally to open their national j
convention in Chicago on July 23
next year, but Republicans are
still debating a time and place
for their session.
President Eisenhower met with
his political lieutenants to dis
cuss the question. Traditionally, i
the GOP nominates its presiden
tial ticket before the Democrats, j
The last three GOP conventions
have been held in the same city.
Leonard W. Hall, Republican
national chairman, reported aft
er Monday’s White House meet
ing that Eisenhower expressed no
preference among three cities
contending for the 1956 GOP con
vention but favorert-as late a date
as possible and a short cam
paign.
Liked Idea
Democrats liked the idea of a ;
late date and a short campaign, j
too, but they found it was im- !
practical because some states!
require certification of presi
dential candidates 70 to 90 days
before the November election.
If the election laws are chang
ed in time, Democratic Chairman
Paul M. Butler announced, his
party will delay its nominating
session until Aug. 13. That was
the date tentatively chosen
earlier.
Ike Not Committed
Hall told reporters he is “go
ing on the assumption” that Eis
enhower will accept nomination
for a second term, although he
said there was no discussion of
that Monday. The President has
not committed himself one way
or the other.
A subcommittee headed by
Hall will meet Wednesday to
recommend a Republican con
vention site. The full national
committee will convene Thursday
and probably will make its selec
tion then.
Chicago and Philadelphia have
offered to underwrite the GOP
meeting with $250,000 funds. San
Francisco got into the running
over the weekend. Hall said the
West Coast city has given as
surances that it can match the
Chicago and Philadelphia offers,
but its bid is not yet “in as defi
nite a form."
Sculpture Topic
Of Browsing Talk
"The American Tradition in
Sculpture” will be the topic of
the browsing room lecture given
this Thursday, Feb. 17, at 7:30
p.m. in the Student Union. Dr.
Ernest Scheyer, professor of art
history at Wayne university, will
give this week’s lecture.
Dr. Scheyer is being brought
to the University in conjunction
with the second annual Festival
of Arts. The'fKeme for this year’s
festival is "Our American Herit-^
age.’’ Discussion leader for the
lecture will be M R Sponen
burgh, assistant professor of art.
County Scientists
Meet Wednesday
Science students, prospective
science teachers, and science in
structors are invited to attend a
meeting of the Lane County
Science and Mathematics Teach
ers Association Wednesday at 8
p.m. at Eugene High-School.
Several major supply companies
of science equipment will present
displays, according to Jim Mc
Nabb, president of the association.
Civic Music Sponsors
Evening Violin Concert
Tossy Spivakovsky, violinist,
will appear in concert Wednes
day at 8 p.m. in McArthur court
under the auspices of the Civic
Music association.
Spivakovsky has been appear
ing before the American public
for only ten years and in that
time has established himself as a
master.
He first attracted attention in
America when he performed the
difficult Violin Concerto by Bela
Bartok with the Cleveland and
Pittsburgh orchestras so success
fully that Artur Rodzinski, then
leading the New York Philhar
monic Symphony, invited him to
appear with that orchestra in the
fall of 1943.
He was born in Odessa in south
ern Russia but moved to Berlin
at the age of tv. o to study violin
under Arrigo Serato and Willi
Hess. >
Spivakovsky made his first
public appearan e at the age of
10.
-The artist plays a Stradivarius,
made in 1721.