Conclave Planned
By Beta Theta Pi
Beta Theta Pi fraternity’s an
nual conclave and songfest will
be held this weekend with the
conclave in Eugene today and
Friday and the songfest in Port
land Saturday night.
Registration for the conclave
opened this morning at 9 at the
chapter house. Friday morning
delegates may register at Ger
linger hall until 10 a.m.
A general session will be held
Friday from 10 a.m. until noon,
attended by presidents, house !
managers, rush and social chair- j
men. pledge trainers, alumni ■
secretaries, scholarship chair
men and song leaders from the
five Northwest area Beta chap
ters.
The five include Oregon, Ore
gon State. Willamette. Univer
sity of Washington and the Uni
versity of British Columbia.
A luncheon at the Student
Union will be held Friday, fol
lowed by committee meetings on
the SU 3rd floor.
A Friday-night banquet, also
in the Student Union, will fea
ture as speakers G. Herbert
Smith. Willamette university
president and a past national
president; Donald DuShane. a
national officer of Phi Delta The
ta and Director of Student Af
fairs. and Louis Torgeson, past
alumni chairman and district
chief for the Northwest district
of the fiaternity. Torgeson was
ASUO president here -ia. 1942.
A dance for delegates and their
dates will be held Friday evening
from 9 to 12 p.m.
Breakfast will be held at the
chapter house Saturday morning,
with a general session in the SU
afterwards as the concluding
event of the conclave.
The songfest will be attended
by approximately 2000 people,
according to Andy Berwick, an
assistant chairman of this chap
ter’s participation.
The fest will be held at the
Neighbors of Woodcraft hall in
Portland, beginning with a ban
quet at 6:30.
Competition will be held be
tween eight chapters—the five
members of the Northwest dis
trict plus chapters at Washing
ton State college, the University
of Idaho and Whitman college.
Each chapter will send a 16
man song team to the competi
tion. and house officers will be
official delegates. Alumni and
other delegates to the conclave
may also attend the banquet.
Behind the banquet area in the
hall will be an audience area, ac
cording to Berwick, so that the
general public may attend the
fest.
Trophies will be given to the
chapter winning the songfest,
and additional awards will be
given among the five Northwest
district chapters.
Dick Van Allen, from the lo
cal chapter, is conclave manager.
The songfest is being sponsored
and planned by members of the
Portland alumni club.
Faculty Writes Papers
For Science Meeting
Several members of the Uni
versity faculty will be among the
persons participating in the Ore
gon Academy of Science meet
ing in Salem Friday and Satur
day.
George Gorin, assistant pro
fessor of chemistry, will preside
over a panel on “Producing More
Chemists” Saturday. D. F.
Swinehart, associate professor of
chemistry, will be a member of
the panel. He will talk on “A
Special Section for Superior Stu
dents?”
Papers in the chemistry sec
tion are to be submitted by L.
H. Klemm, assistant professor
of chemistry; Pierre Van Ryssel
berghe, professor of chemistry;
Gorin and R. G. Pilmer. graduate
assistant in chemistry; Herman
A. Johansen, research fellow in
chemistry, and Joseph Weissbart,
research fellow in chemistry.
Submitting biology papers are
IV. R. Fleming, instructor in bi
ology. and Bradley T. Scheer,
professor of biology; J. R. Oren
durff, research assistant in bi
ology, and Fleming; R. R. Hues
tis, head of the biology depart
ment, and Ruth W. Anderson,
teaching fellow in biology; Da
vid L. Jameson, instructor in
biology, and J. A. Shot well, cur
ator of the museum of natural
history.
. In the geology and geography
section, a paper will be given by
Lloyd W. Staples, professor of
geology.
Alpha Lambda Delta
To Entertain With Tea
Alpha Lambda Delta, women’s
scholastic honorary, will enter
tain the 21 freshmen worpen who
made over a 3.5 GPA fall term
at an informal tea this afternoon
in the Carson hall living room
from 4 to 5.
All freshman girls having a
3.5, or better, accumulated GPA
after winter term will be invited
to membership in the honorary.
The purpose of the Oregon sci
ence -group is the promotion of
research in the fields of science
and the stimulation of science
interest. The Academy also col
lects and preserves scientific ma
| terials relating to Oregon.
Themes Released
For Float Parade
Thornes for Canoe Fete floats
were announced Wednesday fol
lowing a meeting of the living or
ganization float chairmen ut
which time the representatives
chose their preferred theme.
Delta Upsilon, Alpha Chi Omega
and Delta Tan Delta will built
their float around the theme “Of
Thee I Sing." "Forestry Fantasy"
will be the theme of the Lambda
Chi Alpha, Chi Psi, Alpha Gamma
Delta and Ann Judson house float.
Other houses and their themes
are as follows:
"La Fete Moderne,” Phi Delta
Theta, Sigma Kappa and Zeta Tau
Alpha: "Where Rolls the Oregon."
Phi Kappa Psi and Gamma Phi
Beta; "Babes in Toyland," Alpha
Tau Omega, University House
and Kappa Kappa Gamma: "Lure
of the East," Sigma Alpha Mu,
Kappa Sigma. Alpha Omicron Pi,
and Phi Kappa Sigma.
"Venetian Nights," Sigma Chi.
Highland house and Chf Omega:
"Alice in Wonderland," Theta Chi. j
Delta Zeta and Orides; "La Fete
Fantastique," Phi Gamma Delta,
Tau Kappa Epsilon, Carson inde
pendents, and Alpha Xi Delta:
"Float of Song." Sigma Nu. Phi
Sigma Kappa and Alpha Delta Pi.
“Arabian Nights," Beta Theta
Pi and,Alpha Phi; "Float of the
Present." Philadelphia house. Re
bec, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and
Delta Gamma: "Spirit of the Sea,”
Sigma Phi Epsilon and Pi Phi.
Delta Tau Delta and Phi Kappa
Sigma have been added to the
Canoe Fete entrys and are listed
with their assigned pairings.
John Pershing was made gen
eral of the Armies (6 stars) in
1919. No other officer has held
this rank.
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