VOL. LV1 gWWMWW OK OKKiiON, KI'OKNK, Till HSDAV, FKBKIARY 17, 1955
NO. M
Hoyt to Address
Press at Banquet
The 3flth annua] Oregon Press
conference will open Friday
morning under the Joint sponsor
ship of the Oregon Newspaper
Publishers association and the
University school of Journalism.
Newspaper men and women from
all over the state will attend the
conference.
Registration at 8:30 am. in
Allen hall will open the confer
ence. Conference Chairman Rob
ert Chessman of the Astorian
Budget will preside at the first
general session, in Allen 221 at
9:30 a.m. Jim Weeks, managing
editor of The Dalles Chronicle,
and Ray Anderson, business
manager of the La Grande Eve
ning Observer, will address the
session on "What the Allen Fel
lowship Means to Us.”
At 9:45 a.m. Paul Snider, in
structor of photography at the
University will speak on "Unborn
Newspaper Pictures."
"Getting Young Readers In
Concert Features
Five UO Soloists
A treat la In store for music
lovers this evening, when E. A.
Cykler presents the University
orchestra, featuring five student
soloists, nt 8:15 p.m. in the music
school auditorium.
The concert will open with
Handel's Concerto Grosso per
formed by the complete orches
tra.
Guest student soloists who will
appear in the program are Don
na McQueen, sophomore in mu
sic, who will play Concerto for
Bassoon and Orchestra in B flat
major, by Mozart; Rosalie Bliek
enstaff, senior in music, who will
play Concerto .for Piano and Or
chestra in F flat minor, by Cho
pin, and Donna Schafer, senior
in music education; Marilyn
Stratford, junior in history, and
Ronald Spicer, sophomore in mu
sic, who will perform Concerto
for 3 Pianos in D minor by Bach.
No admission will be charged
and the public is welcome.
terested In the Newnpap<T," will
be the topic of a forum of Ore
gon high school students con
ducted by Ernest Amgurn, direc
tor of the Portland Oregonian's
“Young Oregonians," at 10:15
a.m.
Wilson to Mpcak
“Article I, Paragraph 8” will
be the title of University Presi
dent O. Meredith Wilson’s speech
before the Press conference
luncheon in the SU ballroom at
12:05.
The next general session will
meet at 1:30 p.m. in 221 Allen.
Irving Dilliard, editor of the
editorial page of the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch will give the Al
len Memorial address at this ses
sion.
At 3 p.m., Tom Humphrey, edi
tor of the editorial page, Oregon
Journal, will apeak on “Editorial
Advisory Board Plan.”
At 3:30 p.m., a panel discus
sion, "Editorials and Editorial
pages,” will be conducted by
seven men and women. Willard
Thompson, professor of Journal
ism, will moderate.
At 5:30 p.m., a cocktail hour,
given by the Eugene Kegister
Ouard, will be held at the Eugene
hotel.
Palmer Hoyt, editor and pub
lisher of the Denver Post, will
address the annual banquet at
the Eugene hotel. Dean Gordon
A. Sabine of the journalism
school will preside.
Saturday Events
Saturday, thp conference will
open with group breakfasts at
the Eugene hotel.
The ONPA semi-annual busi
ness meeting will be held at 11
a.m. at the Eugene hotel.
Don Bclding, chairman of the
executive committee of Foote,
Cone, nnd Belding, Los Angeles
advertising agency, will speak on
“Danger Signals of the Fourth
Estate” at the closing luncheon
at the SU ballroom at 12:15.
The ONPA mechanical con
ference, held in conjunction with
the press conference, will open
Saturday at 2 p.m. A series of
seven demonstrations will be con
ducted at the University Press.
Scheyer Talks Twice
For Festival of Arts
“The American Tradition in
Sculpture: The Adams Memorial
by Augustus St. Gaudens” will be
the topic of this week's brows
ing room lecture by Ernest
Scheyer tonight at 7:30 in the
Student Union.
Scheyer is professor of art
history at Wayne university in
Detroit, Mich.
He will also give a Friday
luncheon address on "Universal
Values in a Regional Expression
in Sculpture” in the SU as part
of the Institute of Pacific North
west Sculpture meeting on cam
pus.
Holds Doctorate
Scheyer, born and educated in
Germany, has been active in art
circles in this country and in
Europe. He has a doctorate in
economics and philosophy. He
has been a lecturer at the Prus
sian State Academy of Fine Arts
at Breslau and the chief cura
tor of museum in the West Ger
man republic.
In 1936 Scheyer became an in
structor of art history at Wayne
university, and in 1947 he be
came professor of art and hu
manities. Since 1947 he has held
the position of visiting professor
of the history of art at Cran
brook Academy of Art, and at
the University of Michigan.
Was Consultant
In 1950 he became a consultant
to the office of cultural rela
tions and education of the US
High Commissioner for Germany.
His most recent assignment is
that of chief curator in the Min
istry of Education of the West
German republic.
Scheyer is here in conjunction
with the second annual Festival
of Arts. Discussion leader for the
lecture will be M. R. Sponen
burgh, assistant professor of art.
Bracewell Plans
Lecture Tonight
Ronald N. Bracewell, Austral
ian physicist, will lecture to
night at 8 p.m. in the Dads'
lounge of the Student Union.
Bracewell, now visiting assist
ant professor of radio astronomy
at the University of California,
will speak on the general topic
of "Radio Astronomy.”
He has been carrying out re
search on the ionospheric propa
gation of long radio waves. He is
on leave from the division of
radio physics of the Common
wealth Scientific and Industrial
research organization of Austra
lia.
Previous to 1945. the soienast
was engaged in the development
of microwave radar in the radio
physics laboratory at Sydney.
Radio astronomy deals gener
ally with the radio waves recent
ly revealed to be coming from the
sun, moon, and the milky way.
Radio waves coming from ob
jects in the sky previously un
known to astronomers are also
studied, enabling scientists to
study extra-terrestial regions.
Canoe Fete
PairingsTold
The Canoe Fete steering com
mittee announced Wednesday
that four living organizations
had accepted invitations to build
the queen’s and comic float for
the Canoe Fete.
Campbell club and Kappa Al
pha Theta will build the Queen's
float and Alpha hall and Delta
Delta Delta will construct the
comic float.
The committee also released
the house pairings for the other
*Canoe Fete floats. Houses were
contacted earlier and asked if
they wished to participate in the
Fete. Pairings were made on the
basis of the number of house
members. Freshmen will work
with their houses on floats.
Canoe Fefe pairings are as fol
lows: Delta Upsilon and Alpha
Chi Omega; Lambda Chi Alpha,
Chi Psi, Alpha Gamma Delta and
Ann Judson house; Phi Delta
Theta, Sigma Kappa and Keta
Tau Alpha; Phi Kappa Psi and
Gamma Phi Beta; Alpha Tau
Omega, University house and
Kappa Kappa Gamma; Sigma
Alpha Mu, Kappa Sigma and Al
pha Omicron Pi; Sigma Chi,;
Highland house and Chi Omega.
Other* Lister
Other pairings are: Theta Chi,;
Delta Zeta and Orides; Phi Gam
ma Delta, Tau Kappa Epsilon,
Alpha Xi Delta and Carson hall
independents; Sigma Nu, Phi
Sigma Kappa and Alpha Delta
Institute of Sculpture
Opens With Luncheon
The Northwest Institute of
Sculpture, part of the Univer
sity's Festival of Arts, will be
opened today at 12 noon with a
luncheon at the Student Union.
The Institute will consist of
several technical, historical, and
theoretical papers. Among the
historical papers to be presented
io “Arrivals by the Oregon Trail"
Sculpture Show
Opens Friday
The Exhibition of Pacific
Northwest Sculpture will open
Friday at the School of Architec
ture and Allied Arts at 4 p.m.
This exhibition will be displayed
in the school until March 11.
The display, which is in con
junction with the Institute of
Pacific Northwest Sculpture and
the University’s Festival of Arts,
presents a survey of the sculp
tural production of the region
from prehistoric times to the
contemporary period. Included in
the display will be sculpture of
the prehistoric, aboriginal, the
19th and 20th century periods,
and the work of contemporary
artists.
Collections from Willamette
university, Portlpjnd Art Mu- I
seum, Lane County Pioneer Mu-'
seum, and Museum of Natural
History of the University have
been donated for the exhibit.
Work of some Oregon students
in sculpture will also be dis
played.
Captain Salemi Goes
To Air Force Confab
Captain Matteo Salemi, profes-1
sor of Air Science, is at Max-:
well Air Force 'base, Montgom- j
ery, Ala., for a series of discus-j
sions concerning qualification
tests for students who wish to
enter the advanced AFROTC
program.
by Dr. Wallace Baldinger, asso
ciate professor of art and cura
tor of the Museum of Oriental
Art at the University.
Principal speaker for the con
ference will be Dr. Ernst Sehey
er, division of humanities, Wayne
university, Detroit, Mich. His
first address will be given to
night at 7 in the Student Union
and is entitled "The Adams Me
morial by Augustus St. Gaud
ens." He will speak at a luncheon
Friday on "Universal Values in a
Regional Expression in Sculp
ture."
The institute will officially
open at 1 p.m. with the presen
tation of technical papers and
films at the school of architec
ture under the leadership of
Fredric Littman, Portland Art
Museum School. At 4 p.m. the
Pacific Northwest Sculpture ex
hibition will be opened.
The section on historical pa
pers, under the chairmanship of
Mark Sponenburgh, assistant
professor of art, wi^l open at 9
a.m. Friday. In this section three
papers on Pacific Northwest
sculpture will be presented and
discussed. Theoretical papers will
be discussed in the section meet
ing at 10:30 a.m. in the Student
Union. Phillip Gilmore, South
west Oregon Chapter, AIA, is
chairman far this section.
KVAL-TV Series
Gets Sponsorship
The Oregon state system of
higher education will sponsor a
series of television shows to be
presented over station KVAL
TV in the next few weeks.
The first program will be Sun
day evening at 6:30.
Charles D. Byrne, chancellor of
the system of higher education,
will be the host for the shows.
On the first program he will have
as his guest Mark Sponenburgh,
assistant professor of art at the
University. Sponenburgh will
speak on sculpturing.
Pi; Beta Theta Pf and Alpha
Phi; Philadelphia house, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon, Delta Gamma and
Rebec house; Sigma Phi Epsi
lon and Pi Beta Phi.
Float Chairmen Requested
The float committee has re
quested houses to select a rep
resentative to act as float chair
men to work in conjunction with
the float committee. The repre
sentatives should have some ex
peiience with art work in order
to advise the houses on construc
tion of the float.
General instructions concern
ing the floats will be released
when definite information about
the building of permanent barges
is obtained.
The house float chairmen will
work directly with the steering
committee in keeping the costs
and work within the budget and
plane of the entire Fete program.
The Canoe Fete theme will be
announced next week.
'Ball' to Follow
Modern Theme
"Black Light” will color the
wails of the Stud*it Union ball
room Saturday night for the 1955
Senior ball “Dreams of Tomor
row.”
The walls will be completely
covered by gaily painted designs
in "modern” colors, according
to Lons Larson, class represen
tative and decorations chairman.
This will be the first time that
“black lighting” has been used
for an all-campus dance. "The
decorations are modern in keep
ing with the theme of the dance,”
Mis^ Larson said.
Completing the decorative
scheme will be two large mo
biles suspended from the ceiling
of the ballroom.
Tickets for the ball, the only
major all-campus dance this
term, are currently on sale at
the main desk of the SU at SI.80
per couple.
Dick Schwary’s orchestra will
play for the dance, which will be
formal.
Programs made in the shape
of non-symmetrical stars, will
be given as mementos of the
dance, according to Dorothy
Kopp, class representative and
chairman of the program com
mittee. The programs were de
signed to harmonize with the
other decorations, she said.
New Athletic
Offices Ready
The athletic department plans
to move into the new general of
fice building just north of Mc
Arthur court early in March,
according to Ted L. Bouck, ath
letic department business man
ager.
Interior work in the new build
ing is almost complete now.
The $25,000 structure will
house about 15 rooms and of
fices for the coaches, ticket and
athletic business offices.
Each office has plastic tile
flooring and walls of wood pan
eling and green fibreboard.
The new balconies in Mac
court took space formerly used
for storage thus necessitating
expansion into a new building,
according to Bouck.
A Lettermen’s lounge and tro
phy room will occupy the space
now used for the ticket and busi
ness offices.