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OllWiON, BI’OENE, MONDAY, Al'ICII, 4,
1955 NO. 101
Assembly Shown
In SU Tuesday
More than iO Univeralty stu
dents will participate in the an
nual A8UO exchange assembly
which will have Ita firat allow
ing Tueaday at 1 p.m. in the
Student Union ballroom.
Publicity Chairman Dick Cole
man aaid Sunday that thia year’s
show will be presented at least
10 different tiinea at three Ore
gon collegea and aeveral high
schools in the state in the next
month. In addition to ita per
formance on campus the troop
will also appear at Oregon State
and Willamette university.
The assembly, which will be
a type of variety show, will make
ita first off-campus appearance
at Bend high school Thursday
afternoon. Other dates have only
been tentatively set at present.
Chambers Directs
Bob Chambers is director of
the show which will be built
around the portrayal of a tele
vision program. The assembly
will last about 30 or 35 minutes.
Coleman said that, as in the
past, the primary function of the
University-sponsored show will
be to "create good will between
Oregon and other colleges and to
introduce high school students
to the University."
Planning for this year's as
sembly started late last term
and many student* have been
working on their individual acts
ever Mince that time. Group prac
tices got undei-way last week.
The first complete rehearsal of
the show was held Sunday night
and a dress Rehearsal has been
scheduled for tonight.
.Make Arrangements
Handling arrangements for the
show have been Jackie Pond,
business manager; Kay Johnson,
music; Jim Schull, set design;
Patti McCann and JoAnne Rich
mond, costumes, and Coleman,
publicity.
Dick Janick will act as master
of ceremonies for the all-student
assembly. Bill Moore will handle
commercials for the mimiced
TV program.
Two of the top attractions of
the show will be the appear
ances of "The Combo," directed
by Kay Johnson, and the "The
Club Four,” Campbell club’s bar
bershop quartet champions.
Another important member of
the cast is Colleen Moore, who
will be the show's card girl.
Putting on individual acts in
the assembly will be Don Holt,
Helen Johnson, Tom Waldrop
and Rita Yuzon.
Coleman announced that the
show will be free to students at
all of the group's appearance*
Gardner Named
Wilson Fellow
Joe Gardner, senior in jour
nalism, has received a Woodrow
Wilson Fellowship for the aca
demic year 1955-56 to the grad
uate school of the University of
Wisconsin.
Gardner will receive $1250 in
cash and remission of non-resi
dent fees. He will be doing grad
uate work in history with Amer
ican foreign relations as his spe
cial field.
The Woodrow Wilson Fellow
ship program is designed to re
cruit for the teaching profession
at the college or university level
young men and women who pos
sess the highest qualities of in
tellect, character and personal
ity.
The Fellowship is sponsored
by the 37 universities compris
ing the Association of American
Universities and by grants from
the Carnegie corporation and the
General Education board.
Gardner is a member of Friars
and served as editor of the Ore
gon Daily Emerald the first half
of this year. He is a member of
Sigma Delta Chi, professional
journalism fratej-nity, and Phi
Eta Sigma, freshman men's
scholastic honoraiy.
Senes of Symposium Speeches Planned
For Presentation Before Schools, Groups
Chief spring term project for
the University forensic squad is
a series of symposium speeches
to be given before Oregon high
school* and civic organisations.
The symposium squad com
posed of ten members is the sec
ond part of the University for
ensic program. Debating in com
petition is the first part of the
program and has already taken
place.
The symposium program is an
annual event of the forensics
team. Last year the squad made
about 35 different trips around
the state, speaking before a to
tal of 12,000 people. Three mem
bers of the squad and a modera
tor usually go on each tour,
speaking before several groups
in one trip.
Each member of the sympos
ium studies and prepares a set
speech on each of the three sym
posium topics. Speeches are
adapted to each individual audi
ence and are concluded with a
period of questions from the audi
ence.
Symposium Topics
This year's symposium topics
are as follows: “Should the Unit
ed States Recognize the Commu
nist Government of China?”
"What Effect Do the Mass Media
of Communications have on Pub
lic Opinion?” and "Should Al
bert Einstein Become a Plum
mer? (Is Intellectual Freedom
Being Threatened in the United
States Today?”)
The first symposium tour
around the state took place dur
ing spring vacation, when three
squad members, Loretta Mason,
Liz Collins and Dick Bronaugh,
and Jim Wood, assistant direc
tor of forensics, spoke before six
groups in eastern Oregon. Wood
was moderator for the group
which spoke before a total of
about 400 people altogether.
The group addressed the Har
ney county Chamber of Com
merce at Burns, the Umatilla
PTA, the Hermiston Rotary club,
the Hermiston Business and Pro
fessional Women’s club, and
audiences at Monument and
Umatilla high schools.
^ ' v ' .1
THHEK MEMBERS of the University symposium sqund addressed
eastern Oregon audiences during Spring vacation. Pictured above
as they spoke before the Hermiston Business and Professional
Women’s club are Loretta Mason and Liz Collins. Dick Bronaugli
is standing.
'Easter Egg'
PlansReleased
House pairing* for Operation
Easter Egg were released Sun
day evening by general eo-ehair
men Martin Brandenfels and Bud
Hinkaon. The Raster egg hunt
for Eugene children will be held
Saturday afternoon.
The children, first, second and
third graders in the Eugene ele
mentary schools, will arrive at
the living organizations at 1:30
p.m. The paired organizations
will serve ice cream and cookies
to the youngsters. Each living
organization will be asked to con- i
tribute 75 cents to offset the cost I
of the ice cream.
At 2 p.m. the hunt will take1
place between Kincaid and Uni-1
versity streets on both sides of i
13th. The streets will be blocked j
off during the' afternoon.
Prizes will be awarded for
special eggs at 3 p.m. At 3:45 f
p.m., members of the paired
living organizations will escort
the children to McArthur court i
for a variety show. Parents will
pick up their children at Mac
court.
“Houses will be responsible
for the children all afternoon.
They will remain in the same
groups until their parents ar
rive,” according to Brandenfels.
Operation Easter Egg is be
ing sponsored jointly by the ju
nior class and the Eugene Ac
tive club. The Active club do-'
nated the eggs to be used in the
hunt.
Pairings for the afternoon in-.
elude:
Alpha Tau Omega and Alpha
Chi Omega; Delta Tau Delta at;
Alpha Delta Pi; Hale Kane and 1
Lambda Chi Alpha at Alpha j
Comedienne
ToDanceHere
Iva Kitchell, world-famous j
dance comedienne, will appear in
a Eugene Civic Music associa
tion program at McArthur court
Wednesday at 8 p.m.
Called the great American
spoof. Miss Kitchell is known as
a brilliant dancer and a deft cari- j
caturist of serious dance.
Miss Kitchell began her career
as a serious dancer with the Chi- j
cago Opera Ballet and later
toured with a Russian ballet
company. Admitting that seri-,
ous modern dance is sometimes
ridiculous, she switched to dance
satire. Since then, she has given
more than 600 performances in
the United States, Canada, and I
South America.
Gamma Delta; Kappa Sigma at
Alpha Omicron Pi; Sigma Phi
Epsilon al Alpha Phi; Phi Kap
pa Sigma, Rebec house and
Philadelphia house at Alpha Xi
Delta, and Sigma Nu at Arui
Judson house.
Chcmey, Hunter and French
halls at Carson 2 and 3; Nestor,
Sedcrstrom and Sherry Ross
halls at Carson 4 and 5; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon at Chi Omega;
Sigma Chi at Delta Delta Delta;
Beta Theta Pi at Delta Gamma;
Phi Sigma Kappa and Pi Kap
pa Phi at Delta Zeta; Phi Gam
ma Delta at Gamma Phi Beta;
Phi Kappa Psi at Hendricks
hall; Highland house, Orides and
Yeomen at Tau Kappa Epsilon,
and Pi Kappa Alpha and Delta
Upsilon at Kappa Alpha Theta.
Alpha, Omega and Gamma
halls and Barrister Inn at Kappa
Kappa Gamma; Phi Delta Theta
at Pi Beta Phi; Chi Psi at Sig
ma Kappa; Theta Chi at Susan
Campbell hall; Campbell club at
University house, and Sigma
Alpha Mu at Zeta Tau Alpha.
Men’s living organizations
may arrange Easter egg-col
oring desserts with the wom
en’s living groups, according’
to Bud Hinkson, general co
chairman of Operation Easter
Egg. The additional desserts
won’t count on the social cal
endar.
Dick Lewis Named
Finalist in Contest
Dick Lewis, senior in journal
ism, is one of 25 finalists in the
"Most Outstanding Journalism
Student in the United States”
contest, sponsored by the Foster
Parents Plan for war children.
The winner of the contest will
be selected in two or three week^
by a panel of magazine editors,
wire service heads and news
men.
The winner will travel to
France. West Germany, Greece
and Italy in June to see the fos
ter parents plan in action, and
to write a series of stories for his
hometown paper.
Lewis was the winner of a
local contest sponsored by the
Eugene Register-Guard. He
W’rote his story for the Register
Guard on heart surgery in Eu
gene, one of the latest advances
in medical science.
Associate editor of the Emer
ald, Lewis is a member of Sigma
Delta Chi, professional journal
ism honorary, and Sigma Chi.
UO Duck Preview Housing
Lists Due by Next Monday
Men’s housing preference list
for Duck Preview are due at 2
p.m. next Monday in the student
affairs office of Brad Blaine,
men’s counselor, according to
Don Peck, chairman of men's
housing for the weekend.
All houses have been informed
of the requirements for these
lists. Any list not turned in on
time in the correct manner will
not be accepted, Peck said. They
must be submitted in triplicate
and in alphabetical order and. in
the case of fraternities, legacies
shoufd be listed first.
Hometown to Be Listed
The hometown of each visitor
must be mentioned following his
name. Letters from the high
school seniors confirming that
they will stay at that house must
accompany each list and also be
in alphabetical order.
“Let's Go Oregon" is the theme
for the 1955 Duck Preview.
Registration for the visiting
high school seniors will begin
in the Student Union lobby April
22 and will continue until noon
of the following day. "What to
Take” sessions will be held Fri
day night to assist the next
year’s freshmen in planning their
course schedule. The All-Cam
pus Vodvil will follow these
meetings at 9 p.m. in McArthur
court.
Program Includes Tours
Saturday morning’s program
consists of the orientation as
sembly, adviser meetings and
tours of the campus. For after
noon entertainment visitors may
attend the Amphibian aquacade
in the men’s pool at 2 p.m. or
various athletic events.
Exchange dinners will precede
the Duck Preview dance which
will be held from 9 to 12 p.m. in
the SU ballroom.
Church and dinners at living
organizations on Sunday will
conclude the weekend's activities.