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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1956)
VOI. I.vil. UNIVERSITY OF OKEOON, EUGENE, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1?».>6 NO. 133 Awards, Tappings Conclude Junior Weekend Activities Concluding the Junior Week end activities Saturday were hon or:, ry tappings at the all-campus luncheon an<l scholarship pre sentations and awards at the all campus King. Tapped for Friars, senior man's honorary, we're Bill Malnwaring, Doug Basham, Darrel Brlttsan, Bruce Rrenn, I’ll.I McHugh. and President O. Meredith Wilson Moitar Board, senior women’s horo -trv tapped Nan Hagedorn Sally Jo Greig, Marcia Mauney, Shirley McLean, Ann Stearns, Margaret Tyler, Helen Ruth John Ron. Lolly Quackenbush, Jean Kay, Joan Passmore. Agn«-s Thompson and Olivia Tharaid son. Th«- 20 sophomore women tap ped for 1’hi Theta Upsllon, junior women’s honorary Include Lec Blaesing, Arlene Clark. Pat Cuah nie, Mary Jo Fourier, Beverly Landon, Lauia Mot ; is, Kvelyn Nelson. Susan Ryder. Sue Wai ted t. Klcanor Whiti-rett, Cornelia P’ogle, Connie Kenne<|y, Nancy Ma’Kton, Ann Petterson, Gloria Beg«-nti h. Gail Monte, Judy Loucks. Darlene Inland, Dorothy West and Dori- Allen. Chosen for Kwama, sophomore women’s honorary, were 30 fre. h m< n women. They are Kathryn Beatty, Dorothy Gambl'n, Nancy Sue Payne, Nora Walsh, Judy Dwyer, Molly Leu, Jan McMur phey. Sharon Meyer, Dianne Snyder, Nancy Taylor, Sandra Vonderheit, ' Sharon Rafferty. Susan Sandoz, Sharron Wood worth, Jemi Gain, Judy Milne, lJ*KKy Ragan. Pepper Allen, Heien Simon, K/tthy Petersen, Krla Rinehart, Sue HelfrochL Jo Anne Milligan, Cliyre Carter, Anne Heltzel, Dorothy Quinn, Marcia Bishopric, Barbara Pink erlon. Larrilyn Carr and Nancy Castle. Those tapped for Skull and Dagger, sophomore men’s hon o-arv, were Dick Shaw, Jerry Lamer, Jay Bashor. Pete La Moureaux. Boh Sturgis. LeRoy Todd, Fred Nunn. Morris Arn stor. Boh Snyder, Ron Rohner, Tom Hawser. Larry Hughes, Toni llardingi Walt Srhreck, Mike De ; vore. Bud Titus, Jerry Ramsey. Bob Gerding. George Brandt, 1 Duncan Ferguson, Verne Ryles, Phil Hager and Dill Seal. The William Krager Skull and Dagger scholarship was presented to Roger Dlddoek. Asklepiads, honorary for pre medical students tapped Duane T.-iv'o", Robert Bf;itfv, Hornlan Seidcnvcrg, Douglas Burns, James Motile, Edward Schnc.dcr, Mor ton Bcrcn'on, James Fraser, Royal Aubrey, Wi'llam Sinclair. Lon Bergeron, John, Flaxel, I>ee Thornton, Michael Skala, Alan Keaton. B'hard Johnson, Car) Mark, WilMam Stoner. Russell Sloop, Albeit Reams and Asebivo Ashiru. During intermission at the a'l 'ampus sing scholarships and award < were given. The Emerald ^ thletic *t’ophy wa« given to Lon Stiner, 1355 football captain, for the oustandirg s^rior athlete. The M rurice Harold Hunter Lead ership award was awarded to Darrel Britt s;.n. Scholarship Cups A warded The Burt Brown Barker schol arships rtirr. for the houses with the highest scholarship last spring. and fall and wintrr t<-rms w*re given to Pi Kappa Phi and Pi Beta Phi. Winner of the Jose phine r.vars Farpham Library' cup was Gamma Phi Beta. !t is swarded to the house judgr-d to have dor.e the most to stimplntc leading among its members. Sec ond place went to Rebec House (I'Uasc turn to payc six) SING WINNERS Saturday night were Chi Omega, above, and Bata TliHa 1*1, below. The plaid-dad Chi O’s, led by Mary Ann Megale, sang “Waitln For My Dearie," and Rob Roy led the Beta's in “Without a Song." Delta Gamma won women's second-place trophy, and third was Kappa Alpha Theta. Second-place men’s winners were Sigma l’hi Epsilon, and third was Sigma Alpha Epsiion. Individual leader’s awards went to Vondis Miller, from Slg Ep, and Chi O’s Miss Megale. (Photo Bureau picture by Bernard Freemesser) tWO OKI.(.ON DEMOCRATS, Mcnior Senator VVavnc Morse and third-year law student Rill Frye, greeted one another Friday when lh«* senator wan in Eugene for the Canoe Fete, election day and to have some campaign pictures made. Frye is a past president of the campus Young Democrats. ’Alice Float Wins 1956 Canoe Fete By Carol Craig Emurald Feature Writer "Alice in Wonderland ’ floated down the Milirace Friday night to collect firr-t prize in the 1956 Canoe Fete. "Alices's" trophy was awarded to her originators. Zeta Tau Alpha, Oride.s, and Campbell club. “Alice" was presented to a ca pacity crowd Friday night as she stood on a toadstool talking to her friend the Caterpillar. Cater pillar calmly smoked his pipe de spite the crowd's watchful eyes. Second prize went to Alpha Delta Pi. Sigma Phi Epsilon, and Alpha Gamma Delta who pre sented "Bambi." "Bambi” floated down the Milirace as h's story was told, greeting first Thumper, them Mrs. Possum and her chil dren. and as a finale the skunk ’’Flower.’’ Drinks front Champagne Glass “Dumbo,'' who came down Mill race drinking from a champagne glass with a pink elephant at his left ear, won third place for his creators. Highland house. Kappa Alpha Theta, and Phi Kappa Psi. Friday night's weather was clear but a cool breeze blew steadily to chill a good portion of the crowd of over 5.000. An even chillier group, how ever, must have been the group which presented a show of canoe ’’lousts." Six canoes, manned by Oregon students of both sexes, splashed about the milirace for the amusement of the crowd be fore the Fete began. Needless to say, not a canoe came out dry. Minor Mishaps Occur Only two small mishaps occur red during the Fete. The first, the burning of “Willie, the Singing Whale" built by Sigma Alpha Ep silon, Delta Zeta. and University house, happened as “Willie" UT Holds Tryouts For Summer Play Tryouts for “The Country Girl," University Theatre sum mer production, will continue this week. Tryouts will be held tonight at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday from 3:15 to 4:45 p.m. and Wednesday from 2:30 to 5 p.m. in Villard 207, according to Daniel Krempel, in structor in speech, who will di rect the play. reached the end of the parade. Burning oil in large cans which had been used to represent foot lights set fire to the napkins decorating the float and soon con sumed the float, ‘‘Willie.” and all. The air was filled with large cin ders for some time following “Willie’s” "misfortune.” The second mishap was entire ly unintentional. “Merlin” nar rator for the Fete, began to de scribe the carriage of "Cinder ella” and the four white horses pulling the carriage to the ball as the legendary submarine “Nau tilus.” The crowd roared and "Merlin” scanned the script and cleverly ad libbed his way out of the situation. $162,500 Grant Awarded to UO The University has been award ed a grant for $162,500 by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation for the purpose of continuing a research * program in educational admin istration. The program here is headed by Donald E. Tope, professor of edu cation Other Northwest schools participating in the program are Montana State and Washington State colleges. The University is one of 29 uni versities and educational agencies in the United States to be given grants for this program by the Kellogg foundation. The new com mittments total over two and one third million dollars. Since 1951 more than o'i million dollars has been appropriated for aid to American schools for improved preparation of school administra tors. The continued program will in tensify pre-service and in-service activities centering upon school administrative problems. Atten tion will be given to the mos^ serious and difficult problems during the four-year period of the research. During the five years of its existence, the Co-operative Pro gram in Educational Administra tion has established eight centers around the country. At present over 140 colleges and universities are participating in the project.
