56th Year of Publication
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NO. 87
Wildenhain Pottery Exhibit
Now On Display in Union
An exhibit of the pottery of
Marguerite WiUlenhain, head of
the ceramics department of the
Pond Farm Workshops In Gucr
nevllle, California, i« now on dis
play at the University's School of
Art. The display will be shown
in the ceramics studios of the art
building until February 24.
The display includes a variety
of pieces. some of which will be
on sale during the exhibition.
Among those on display is one
place setting of a breakfast set
that was done entirely by hand.
Mrs. Wlldenhain received her
art training at the Bauhaus under
the direction of Walter Gropius
in Weimar, Germany. She re
ceived her degree of master-pot
ter there after seven years of
training. From Weirmar she went
to Haile where she was head of
the Ceramic Department of the
Municipal Art School. After com
ing to this country In 1940 she
taught for nearly two years at
the California College of Arts and
Crafts at Oakland. She has had
her workshop at Pond Farm since
then.
During the summer months she
gives a pottery course that at
tracts students from all over the
United States. She usually con
Petitions Ready
For Duck Preview
Petitions for general chairman
of Duck Preview are due Wed
nesday at 5 p m. in the ASUO
petition box.
This year's Duck Preview the
weekend that sees high school
seniors from throughout the
state visiting the Oregon cam
pus will be hedd April 23-24.
Petitions are available on the
third floor of the Student Union.
ducts three or four, two-week
seminars (luring the year. She
will be on the University campus
for only a week In which she will
conduct demonstrations, give lec
tures, and help the students in
the pottery classes.
Additional Junior
Weekend Petitions
Available Today
Additional Junior Weekend
committee chairmen petitions
have been printed and arc now
available in the Student Union,
according to Bud Hinkson, junior
class president.
The petitions are to be re
turned to committee headquar
ters in SU 303 or to the special
box provided in the Co-op by
5 p.m. today.
Selections of the committee
chairmen will be made by the
junior class officers: Hinkson,
Gordon Rice, vice-president, and
Don Bonime and Mary Sweeney,
representatives.
Only the special Junior Week
end petition forms are to be used.
The regular ASUO petitions will
not be accepted, Hinkson has re
ported.
Preference will be give to jun
ior* in the selection of chairmen,
but members of all classes are
eligible to petition. Each peti
tioner is to submit a theme sug
gestion for the weekend on the
back of his petition.
Chairmanships open include
publicity, terrace dance, all-cam
pus cleanup, all-campus lunch
eon. promotion and public re
lations. all-campus sing and
queen contest and coronation.
Rally Petitions
Due Today at 4
Petition* are due at 4 p.m.
today for the 1035-36 rally
hoard. Standard ASl'O peti
tion blank* should tie used, and
may lie picked up on the third
floor of the Student Union. Ap
plicant* should return them
to the third floor of the SL' or
give them to any member of
the present rally board by the
deadline today.
Position* open are skit chair
man, special events chairman,
publicity chairman, secretary
treasurer, and rally chairman.
Petitioners should indicate
which position on the hoard
they are applying for.
Interviews for petitioners
will t>egin at 6:30 p.m. tonight
on the first floor of the SU.
The room number will be post
ed. If all candidate* can not be
screened tonight, the inter
views will continue during the
lunch hours of the following
days.
Invitation Extended
To OSC Carnival
An invitation has been extend
ed to all Oregon students to at
tend the carnival sponsored by,
the Associated Women Students
I of Oregon State college following,
the Oregon-OSC basketball game
in Corvallis.
The carnival will be held in
the Armory Friday night from
9:30 to 11:45.
The theme of the carnival is
"Make Mine Music.” A "Mr. Hi
Fi” contest will be held, the
candidates being nominated by
campus living organizations.
Admission to the carnival will
be 35 cents.
Foreign Correspondent Lectures
Today at University Assembly
Surindar Suri, foreign corres
pondent, lecturer and author from
India, will apeak at today's Uni
versity assembly at 1 p. m. in
the Student Union ballroom.
The correspondent will speak
in the situation in India today.
He is at present employed as a
reporter by several Indian periodi
cals, including "Independent In
dia," in Bombay, and "Mysindia"
ih Bangalore. He writes on Amer
ican and on international affairs
for these magazines. Suri is also
a research consultant in East
Asiatic studies at the University
of California.
Suri’s journalistic experiences
have put him in contact with
many underlying currents of In
immediately seen by the casual
dia’s social and political life, not
observer.
He is a graduate of the Univer
sity of Punjab and received his
M. A. at the University of Luck
now, both of which are in India.
Suri also holds a Ph.D. from
Northwestern university and has
been a research scholar for Har
vard university.
During world war II, the cor
respondent worked with the Far
Eastern bureau of the Ministry
of Information. In 1948 and ’49
he was a press correspondent at
SUKINDAR SURI, Indian foreign correspondent, pictured above,
will speak today at 1 p.m. in the Student Union ballroom.
United Nations headquarters,
covering- the activities of all its
different bodies.
In the summer of 1953, Suri
attended the UNESCO confer
ence.in Paris. He has also cov
ered many other significant inter
national meetings. At one time
he was also editor of "New Life”
magazine in Lucknow.
Campus Co-eds
To Vie for Title
It will be the army against the
air force in an extensive ROTC
contest in the next two weeks to
sec just which branch will have
its candidate for Little Colonel
reign at the Military Ball.
Both the army and air force
military units on campus will
have a Little Colonel selection of
their own to be decided by vote
of the respective units next week.
But just which one of the two
branches gets the final honor of
having the true Little Colonel
will depend entirely on ticket
sales.
The unit which sells the larg
est percentage of tickets for the
dance will have its candidate de
clared the winner. In the event
that the tickets arc completely
sold out, the deciding factor will
be which branch sells its allot
ment first.
Tickets for the March 5th
dance, which are selling for $1.65
per couple,, went on sale to stu
dents in the advanced corps Mon
day. Freshmen and sophomores
in the ROTC program will have
an opportunity to buy their tick
ets Thursday afternoon.
Interview^
Candidates for the Little Col
onel contest will be interviewed j
by a board of judges Wednesday (
and Thursday nights.
The interviews will be held in j
the Student Union starting at 7 i
SU Browsing Room
Holds Open House
Open house for the Adelaide
Church Memorial Room, better
known as the SU browsing room, ;
will be held Thursday, Feb. 24.
from 3-5 p.m. Coffee and dough- j
nuts will be served to those view
ing the book collections and dis
plays centered in the browsing
room.
Classic volumes, and signed
first editions from the Ethel R.
Sawyer, and Pauline Potter Ho
mer book collections will be open
for inspection. A large print col
lection, started by Mrs. Marion
F. McClain in 1928 when she sent
to the Alinari Brothers in Vati
can City, Italy for reproductions,
will also be available. Included
are four copies of the Sistine
Chapel series by Michelangelo,
and modern painters such as
Cezanne, Manet, Picasso and
Renoir and biagraphical sketch
es.
The Silver Cup awarded at
the All Campus Sing, Junior
Weekend in memory of Josephine
Evans Harpham, to the living or
ganization with the largest list
of high quality reading, will be
shown, according to Miss Bernice
Rise, browsing room librarian.
The Rebec house won the cup last
year. The Friday Evening Coffee
Hours, and Lecture-Forum series
held in the browsing room are
among the special interest activi
ties of the Student Union.
WLJS Chairmen Attend
Sessions in SU Today
Training sessions for WTJS
committee chairmen and house
representatives will be held to
day at 4 and at 6:30 p.m. in the
Student Union, according to Gail
West, WUS general chairman.
Gladys Lawther, WUS region
al director from Portland will be
at the sessions. She will show
slides on WUS projects in India
and other foreign countries.
Chairmen and representatives
should attend only one of the
training sessions, Miss West said.
p m. Wednesday and at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday night. The interviews
will be spaced at six-minute inter
vals .
The interviewing board will be
composed of Lt. Col. Karl Ralf
of the army ROTC staff, Robert
Arnt arid Neil Dwyer represent
ing Scabbard and Blade, Law
rence Takahashi of the Air Com
mand Squadron, and a faculty
member yet to be announced.
Candidates
Candidates and their interview
appointments arc as follows:
Wednesday interviews — Alma
Owen, Alpha Chi Omega, 7 p. m.;
Gloria Lee, Alpha Delta Pi, 7:06;
Pat Johnson, Alpha Gamma Del
ta, 7:12; Roberta Toner, Alpha
Omicron Pi, 7:18; Kay Partch,
Alpha Phi, 7:24; Diana Skidmore,
Alpha Xi Delta, 7:30; Beverly
Jones, Carson 2, 7:36; Mary Con
stance, Carson 3, 7:42; Janet
Wick, Carson 4, 7:48; Dorothy
Kopp, Carson 5, 7:54; Ruth Jo
seph, Chi Omega, 8:00; Charlotte
Britts, Delta Delta Delta, 8:06;
Janet Sayre, Delta Gamma, 8:12.
Thursday interviews include:
Nancy Gale, Delta Zeta, 6:30 p.m.;
Pat Leonard, Gamma Phi Beta,
6:36; Rita Y u z o n, Highland
House, 6:42; Joan Hunter, Kappa
Alpha Theta, 6:48; Marilyn
Knapp, Kappa Kappa Gamma,
6:54; Marcia Dutcher, Pi Beta
Phi, 7:00; Delores Eachus, Rebec
House, 7:06; Laura Sturges,
Sigma Kappa. 7:12; Diane David,
Susan Campbell, 7:18; and Lynn
Bodding, Zeta Tau Alpha, 7:24.
Six Finalists
From these candidates, six will
be selected as fihalists. These six
will be further divided into two
groups by drawing lots. Each
branch of the ROTC program
will then have three, candidates
upon which to vote. When the
vote is completed, each branch
will then have one candidate for
Little Colonel.
The military department an
nounced this week that there will
be two bands playing at the
dance. A special 20-piece air force
band from Washington and the
Baker’s Half-Dozen from Eugene
will both play, the latter during
the intermission.
Sigma Chi's
Plan Reunion
Beta Iota chapter of Sigma
Chi, the local chapter, will hold
an alumni-reunion this Saturday
and Sunday in observance of the
fraternity’s 100th anniversary
and the 45th year of Beta Iota
chapter.
Alumni of the chapter as well
as Sigma Chi members from all
over the state and the area will
attend the reunion, which will
be climaxed by a chapter meet
ing Sunday morning followed by
a banquet at the Osburn Hotel.
Speaker for the banquet will
be Federal Judge George Boldt,
of Tacoma, Wash., a member of
the board of grand trustees.
Events scheduled for the week
end include registration at the
chapter house Saturday from 9
a.m. until noon, and a basketball
game Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m.
between Beta Iota and Beta Pi,
the Oregon State chapter.
A buffet supper will be held
Saturday at 5 p.m. at the chapter
house, with all members to at
tend the Oregon-Oregon State
game that evening in a reserved
seat section. A stag party will be
held at 10:30 p.m. at the Osburn
Hotel.
Also at 10:30 p.m. Saturday
there will be a Sigma party given
by members of the Sigma Chi
wives’ club, at the chapter house.