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NO. 136
Oregon Athletes Bring Home Bacon
Dean Gordon Sabine to Take Over
Deanship at Michigan State College
fJordon A. Sabine, dean of the
Journalism *< hool, has resigned
to go tr. Michigan State univer
sity as dean of the school of
communication arts.
Sabine's resignation which was
announced Friday will become
effective July i.
Charles T. Duncan, professor
of journalism, will be acting dean
until formal action can be taken,
according to President O. Mere
dith Wilson.
Included in the Michigan pro
giam are the fields of journalism
and speech. (enrollment this year
in the department is 902 majors
and 1&29 pre-professional majors.
Emerald Petitions
Due T uesday at 12
Gordon Rice, junior in Journal
Um, la the only petitioner ho fai
for next Emerald editor. Peti
tinning for businesn manager ar<
John Radlch. sophomore in bust
ne»H. and Birger Brandt, sopho
more in liberal art*. Petition!
will be accepted until Tuesday
noon for both Emerald positions
The two new executives for the
campus daily will be chosen by in
terviews at the Publications Boar(
meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m. in th<
board room.
Rice, who is currently news edi
tor. has been a reporter, membei
of the night staff, night editor
sports writer, assistant news edi
tor and sports editor of the Emer
aid.
Winner of Award
He was sophomore class repre
sentative, junior class vioe-presi
dent, vice-president of Campbel
club and associate editor of thii
year s Pigger's Guide. He wai
recipient of this year's Maurici
Harold Hunter scholarship award
given at the All-Campus Sing.
Dadich has been a member of
the Emerald sales staff and ad
■ vertislng staff. He i» on the mem
bership of Newman club.
Brandt has served on the adver
1 tislng staff of the Astorian Budget
and was advertising manager of
the Astor Post, the «high school
' paper. He is organist for the Cen
tral Lutheran church and a mem
I ber of the Student Union recorded
' music committee.
5 More Emeralds
Regular publication of the
Emerald for spring term ends
at the end of this week. Fri
day’s edition will be the last
regular publication foe the
year.
One Emerald will be pub
lished next week on Thursday.
The June 2 paper will be the
special Commencement tdition.
Music School Schedules
Chamber Music Program
Tonight at 8:15 in the school of
music auditorium, the school of
music will present a chamber mu
sic program. The program is dedi
cated to the eminent American
composer, Willingford Riegger, on
his 70th birthday. He visited and
lectured here 3 years ago.
• ''Invocation,” written by Dr.
Arnold Elston of the school of
music faculty, will be the first
number and is dedicated to Rieg
ger.
George Broughton, associate
professor of violin, will conduct
students Clarissa Berning, Pat
ricia Riehl, Larry Sowell, Sharron
McCabe, Bob Qroth, Nelson Tan
doc, and Lee Harper in the presen
tation of this number and Exine
Anderson, assistant professor of
voice, will be soprona soloist.
Boughton, violinist, and William
Woods, pianist, will play 2 move
ments from Riegger's "Sonatina
for Violin and Piano,” followed by
Riegger's “The Cry,” with Woods
and George Hopkins, professor of
piano, performing a piano duet.
Next, the world premier of
‘‘Scherzo for Two Pianos,” by
Riegger will be played by students
Mary Louise Hudson and Ailene
Hudson.
Following an intermission thg
program will resume with "Four
Lyrics of Machado,” by Luigi Dal
lapiccola, a contemporary Italian
composer. The next of these songs
was taken from the writings of
Antonio Machado, a modern Span
ish poet. Woods will accompany
soprano Andersan in this selec
tion.
Students Marshall Pallett. James
Albert, Vondis Miller, Marian
Cass, Alan Casebourn, Glenn Ben
ner, Gary Donnell, Don Adamson
and Gary de Broekert, will be led
by Ira Lee in the concluding num
ber, Riegger's "Nonet for Brass."
The program should provide spe
cial entertainment for those music
lovers who are interested in the
presentation of modern music.
Cuthbert President
Of UO Professors
Fred A. Cuthbert, professor of
landscape, has been re-elected
president of the university chapter
of the American Association of
University Professors.
Named as secretary for the 1955
50 offices is Martin Schmitt, cur
ator of special collections in the
university library, and treasurer
is John Soha, associate professor
of business administration.
Ninth largest in the nation, the
university has a total enrollment
over 15,000.
Dean of journalism at Oregon
Mince 1950, Sabine came to the
University in 1018. Before that
he taught in journalism schools
at the Universities of Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Kansas.
Sabine graduated from the
University of Wisconsin in 1039
and got his master’s degree there
in 1041. He received his doctorate
from the University of Minnesota
in 1049.
While on the Oregon campus
Sabine was successful in his ef
forts to build a new journalism
building. Eric W. Allen hall was
finished last summer and dedi
cated during fall term.
This year Sabine has been
president of the American Asso
ciation of Schools and Depart
ments of Journalism, and he is a
past director of the Advertising
Association of the West. He is a
director of the Oregon Newspa
per Publishers association, the
Oregon State Broadcasters asso
ciation, the University of Ore
gon Alumni association, and an
executive officer of the Oregon
Scholastic Press and the Oregon
Association of Journalism Ad
visers.
Freshmen Wanted
As YW Counselors
Lists will be up in freshman
j dormitories immediately for
women to sign up to be YWCA
Duckling counselors, according
to Shirley Parmenter and Joan
Kraus, co-chairmen of the pro
gram.
Women selected as counselors
will write to incoming fresh
man women during the summer,
and tell them about the Uni
versity and some of its aetivi
ties and projects.
One training meeting will be
held, in the Student Union dads'
lounge, during the last week of
I classes. Full information for pro
j cedure will be given.
Honorary Selects
Outstanding Soph
Richard Connett, sophomore in
business administration, has been
selected by Beta Gamma Sigma,
, national honorary for business
administration, as the outstand
ing sophomore pre-business stu
dent at the University for 1954
55.
Connett’s name will be in
scribed on a plaque which is dis
played near the business school
office in Commonwealth hall. He
has maintained a 3.75 GPA in
his two years at the University
and plans to specialize in the
field of merchandising.
Tyler Attends Meeting
Leona E. Tyler, associate pro
fessor of psychology, left Friday
to attend a meeting of the Am
erican Phychological association
in Chicago.
Ducks Champions
In Track; Baseball
By Jerry Claussen
Emerald Co-Sports Editor *
Oregon spring sports teams cap
tured two team championships
and tied for second in another
event in Northern Division compe
tition Friday and Saturday,
Coach Don Kirsch’s baseball
team won its third straight con-1
fcrence title as the Ducks beat out
Oregon State by a narrow margin.
The two teams played two double
headers Friday and Saturday and
Oregon's two wins were all that
was needed.
A strong Webfoot track team
also repeated its Northern Divi
BILL DELLINGER
Wins Another Mile
Honorary Initiates
23 Frosh Women
Twenty-three freshmen wom
en have been initiated into Alpha
Lambda Delta, scholastic honor
ary for freshmen women.
Grade requirements for the
honorary are a 3.5 grade point
average for the first two terms.
Initiates are Lee Blaesing,
Alice Cashman, Sharron Me-1
Cabe, Mary McCroskey, Jean
McPherson, Claudia Wurtz, Mar
ion Baum. Sandra Schori, Marsha
Meyers, Shirlee Warren, Mary
Jo Fourier, Myrtle Johnson, Le
ola Lorenzen, Dorothy McBroom,
Mollie Monroe, Donna Nickols.
Susan Ryder, Loretta Schelske,
Esther Strom, Margery Ziniker, i
Annette Rowland, Donna Bell
and Helen Ann Knight.
sion first place of 1954 in the an
nual league meet at Seattle. The
Duck team won by less than three
points over Washington, with
Australian sophomore Jim Bai
ley’s winning finish in the mile re
lay sealing the victory for Coach
Bill Bowerman's team.
Tennis Team Ties
The Oregon tennis team im
proved over its third-place finish
of last year as it tied for second
with OSC in the ND tennis meet,
won by Washington for the 16th
time since 1937. The Duck golf
team was fifth in the tournament
at Moscow, an event also won by
Washington.
The baseball championship gave
Oregon the right to meet USC in
Los Angeles this weekend in the
Pacific Coast Conference playoff.
The track team will host the PCC
meet Friday and Saturday here at
Hayward field.
The main star in Oregon's two
victories in four games with the
OSC baseball team was Pitcher
Terry Maddox, who was the win
ner of both Oregon victories and
pitched in three out of the four.
Five Winners
Oregon had five first place win
ners in the division track meet.
Ken Reiser, Bill Dellinger, Bailey,
Martin Pedigo and the relay team
brought home blue ribbons in lead
ing the Webfoots to the victory.
Reiser was the top performer of
the day when he broke both the
meet and Oregon school marks in
the tw'o-mile run with a clocking
of 9:11.3. He and Dellinger were
repeaters as winners, Dellinger
taking the mile for the second year
in a row. Bailey won the 880 and
Pedigo captured the high jump.
The baseball victory w?as de
cided in the second inning of Sat
urday’s game when the Ducks ex
ploded for seven runs. Oregon had
won Friday's first game, then lost
the next two. But the final 10-4
win was decisive.
Details on sports pages.
Brittsan Elected
To Senate Position
Darrell Brittsan, senator at
large, was elected ASUO Senate
parliamentarian at the first
meeting of the Senate held
Thursday night. Brittsan is serv
ing his third term cn the Sen
ate.
Also elected was Richard Mc
Daniels as sergeant-at-arms. Mc
Daniels is also a senator at large.
NAACP Legal Council
Speaks in SU Today
Thurgood Marshall, legal coun- ,
sel for the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, will speak at the 1 p.m.
assembly Tuesday in the Stu
dent Union ballroom.
Segregation will be the subject
of his talk.
Marshall has appeared before
the U. S. Supreme Court and
federal and state courts, particu
larly in the South. He has won
11 of 14 cases in which he has
appeared before the Supreme
Court.
His recent victory was the
Court's decision of May 17, 1954,
which held that “separate but
equal” facilities in education were
unconstitutional.
Other successes of Marshall
include the right for Negroes to
vote in primaries in the South
and the right of Negro passen
gers to travel freely between
states.
Marshall was admitted to the
bar in the state of Maryland in
1933. He was appointed special
counsel in active charge of legal
cases to secure and protect full
citizenship rights for Negroes in
1938.
Ho has received the Springarn
medal from the NAACP, the
Russwurm award from the Na
tional Newspaper Publishers as
sociation, the National Bar as
sociation award and the Balti
more Afro-American National
Honor Roll award.