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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1963)
S17V r01.E.\, freshman in physical education, is a candidate for th - Mb Cumene title. Emerald photo by BiRham Museum Grants to Aid UO Students in Pacific Grants from two museums will help finance the scientific expedi tion of a group of University graduate students to the South Pacific Walter M. Fredericksen. teach ing assistant in anthropology, has received notification of grants from the Kon Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway, and the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii Amounts of the grants were not disclosed. FREDERICKSEN and his wife. Demaris, also a teaching fellow, accompanied by Richard E. Ross, teaching fellow, and his wife, Bar bara, will sail for the South Pac ific in late June or early July aboard their unusual three hulled trimaran. The Fredericksen's 5 year-old son, Krik, will also be along on the expedition. Under the Bishop Museum grant, the group will do archaeo logical work on Washington and Fanning islands in the Line Is land group, not far from Johnston and Christmas islands THE CROUP is due in the Marquesas Islands in September to do an archaeological survey under the Kon Tiki Museum grant They will be working on behalf of Thor Heyerdahl, Nor wegian anthropologist and author of the best-selling book, ‘ Kon Tiki.” They plan to sail from Port land to San Francisco and leave from there for Hawaii. Frederick sen estimates that it will take about a week to sail to Hawaii, about three to live days to reach Washington and Fanning islands, and another five or six days to reach the Marquesas. They plan to be gone about eight months The graduate stu dents will thin return to the campus to prepare their doctoral dissertations based on their ex pedition. THE TRIMARAN was built in Eugene and launched uv the Wil lamette River at Corvallis on March 18 The boat is now at Bart’s wharf in Portland, under going final fitting The Trimanan has "worked fine —even better than we expected.” according to Fredericksen. Its main hull is 40 feet long, and each of the outboard hulls is 85 feet long. It has a 22-foot beam and draws only two and a half feet of water Poet-in-Residence To Give Reading A poet in residrnee at Reed College, James Dickey, will give a public reading of his poetry at 4 p m. Thursday in the SU. The poet will be at the Uni versity for reading and consulta tion, sponsored by the Depart ment of English and the Univer sity Assembly and Lectures Com mittee. A native of Atlanta, Ga , Die key was educated at Clemson and at Vanderbilt University. He has worked in advertising agencies in New York and Atlanta. Dickey has taught at Rice In stitute, the University of Florida, Wesleyan University and the Uni versity of Washington. His first book of poetry, “Into the Stone" was published in I960. "Drowning With Others,” pub lished in 1962, has won him many awards and a nomination for the National Book Award in po°try. Other poets sponsored by the English Department this year were Donald Justice, William Stafford, and Brother Antoninus. "Duck Those Washday Blues" - 13th AVE. LAUNDROMAT 365 E. 13th FEATURING • Washers • Dryers • Hairdryers • Laundry Service • Ironing Service We Never Close — Open 24 Hours Reality, Make-Believe Mix In Rehearsal of Opera' By ALENE SHARFF Emerald Entertainment Editor, The University Theatre is dark and eerie without an audience. On stage, a lamppost flashes on and off while a spotlight turns blue, then red, then white. Uni versity students seem transform ed by costumes into London’s un desirable characters, until one hears them speak of college activ ities: mid-terms, vacation plans, etc. The rehearsal for “The Three penny Opera” is momentarily de Tiekets are still available for the Three Penny Opera for week nights. The weekend per formances have been sold out. Tickets are available at the Uni versity Theatre box office. layed because of lighting diffi culties. The instructor shouts in structions about the curtain to an unseen worker. A STUDENT clad in jeans and a stained sweatshirt is painting a ramp in the middle of the stage. A "fallen woman" strides over to him, regards the wet paint, and Composer Sets Browsing Talk A noted American composer who formerly studied with Igor Stravinsky will present a Brows ing Room Lecture and demonstra tion at the University Wednes day. Ingolf Dahl, who also is pro fessor of composition at the Uni versity of Southern California, will discuss “European Music in the 1960’s—An American Com poser’s View from Abroad.” The lecture will be at 7:30 p.m. in the ballroom of the Stu dent Union, and will be open to, the public. Dahl's lecture - demonstration will include his impressions of European music as gained from his sabbatical year abroad. Com positions by Dahl have been per formed irt both the United States and Europe. Born in Hamburg. Germany, he spent several years as coach and conductor at the Municipal Opera House in Zurich, Switzerland He came to the United States in 1938 and has been on the USC faculty since 1945. He has made numerous concert appearances in the West as con ductor and pianist, specializing in contemporary music. Robert S. Vagner, professor of music at the University, will be | discussion leader for the lecture. Dahl also will be guest com i poser-conductor at a concert by the University Symphonic Band Thursday at 8 p.m. in the SU ball room. No admission will be charged. Judge Fort to Speak At Dinner Wednesday William Fort, circuit court judge, will be the guest speaker at the senior banquet for the graduates of the School of Health, Physical Education and Recrea tion Wednesday with the theme “Reflection Amidst Anticipation.” The event will be held at Bev’s Steak House at 6:30 p m. Wednes day. Tickets are available for $2.25. CAMPUS BRIEFS • Homecoming interviews for Special Kvents will he at (>:3G-8:00 p m. anil in terviews for secretaries at 8-9:30 p.m. toilax in 315 SI'. • The Architecture student wives have elected new officers. The> will hold a meet ing at S p.m. Wednesday in the Lawrence Hall faculty lounge. • A special biology seminar will feature B.S. Dorai Kaj on the topic of "The Cen tial Control of a Proprioceptive Sense Or gan" at 4 p.m. Thursday in 123 Science. • Kwama initiation will be at 5:15 p.m. today in the SC Cafeteria. No-host dinner; old members wear uniforms and new mem bers wear white. mumbles about having to walk down the ramp. “Must you re paint it black just before I enter in white shoes?” The lamppost flashes on. The spotlight turns blue. Other characters in various at tire wander about, break into small groups and then gather to gether as the director calls their attention. Somehow, he and the painter seem out of place among the array of characters, mostly beggars and prostitutes in various stages of decay, which surround them. A POLICE commissioner, one of the few fairly well-dressed personalities seen, sits on the floor, intent on lacing his high boots, while an old lady attempts to pat her gray hair into place. Finally she pulls off the wig and pats her own hair into place. The lamppost winks off again. The spotlight turns red. A policeman uses his billy club r to conduct a musician practicing organ music in the orchestra pit. Suddenly the music switches from a show tune to jazz, and two cast members begin an impromp tu soft-shoe routine on one side of the stage. AT THE other end, a well dressea gentleman wages a one man battle with his cane as a rifle against a hunch backed beg gar and an ashen-faced woman earnestly involved in conversa tion about their biology mid-term. The lamppost flashes back on The lights change color. “Stand by for prologue” booms over the PA system. The cast, now completely trans formed into undesirable London characters, is cut from view as the curtain lowers. REHEARSAL has begun. Tickets for the finished product are currently on sale for $2 at the UT boxoffice. 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