Eugene’s own Olympic event: The Olympic Scientific Congress
Public events slated
By Chris Hazen
Of the Emerald
The upcoming Olympic
Scientific Congress is ex
pected to provide a forum
for athletes and trainers
worldwide, but it also
should appeal to the
public’s curiosity, says
Dan Tripps, executive
director of the congress.
“What’s special about
this year’s event is that
we’ve planned many ac
tivities for the public as
well as for the delegates,”
Tripps says. “You don’t
have to be a scientist to
enjoy the congress.”
The Olympic Scientific
Congress comes to Eugene
and Springfield today and
continues through Thurs
day, fulfilling Oregon’s
5-year-old wish to host
the event.
Three evening presenta
tions in McArthur Court,
a film series and the open
ing ceremony are
especially oriented
toward the public.
•The topic of the first
presentation, set for 8:30
p.m. Saturday, is “Peak
Experiences, Peak Perfor
mances.” Olympic swim
mer Don Schollander will
discuss mental preparation for the
maximum athletic performance.
Madeline Manning Mims, an Olym
pic gold-medal winner, will present a
speech called “The Hope of Glory.”
Bob Beamon, the world-record holder
in the long jump, will talk about the
Olympic experience.
•“The Health and Fitness Revolu
tion” will be the theme of the second
session set for 8 p.m. Monday.
Richard Simmons, whose television
fitness program has won the Emmy
award four times, will lead people in
exercises and talk about his
philosophy of fitness and diet.
At the same session, Orville
Bentley, assistant agriculture
secretary for science and education,
will discuss the relationship between
agriculture and health. Also, Henri
Dieuzeide, a member of the United
Nations Educational Scientific and
Cultural Organization, will consider
the role of physical education in
world-wide health.
•The final evening session, at 8
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p.m. Wednesday, will focus on the
theme “The Future of International
Sport and the Olympic Games.”
Speakers include )ohn Richardson,
president of Youth for Understan
ding; former astronaut Russell
Schweickart, whose presentation is
entitled “There Are No Frames, No
Boundaries”; and Craig Ritchey, an
athlete, attorney and lecturer who
will discuss the relationship of the
Olympic Games to war.
•Throughout the week-long con
gress, films dealing with the theme
“Sport, Health and Well Being” will
be shown on campus and in the Hult
Center for the Performing Arts as part
of an international film festival. For
more information on the film festival,
call the Hult Center ticket office at
687-5000.
•A free opening ceremony is
scheduled for 4 p.m. today in Mac
Court. Gov. Vic Atiyeh, University
Pres. Paul Glum and Dieuzeide will
speak.
Former Duck athlete honored at birthday luncheon
By Mike Sims
Of the Emerald
Mack Robinson’s 7()th birthday luncheon
Wednesday had all the earmarks of a class reu
nion or a gathering of old friends. About 35
University and media representatives and local
track aficionados gathered at the Eugene Hilton to
share food, drink and camaraderie with the
former Duck track star.
But the gathering also was a testimonial to
the life of the man who ran four-tenths of a second
behind Jesse Owens to capture a silver medal at
the 1936 Olympic Games and then vowed to set
an example of clean living and fair play for the
children of the world.
“Youth have been important to me since 1
visited an aunt right after the Olympics," Robin
son said. “There were two kids racing around the
house. One was saying ‘I’m Jesse Owens’ and the
other was saying.‘I’m Mack Robinson.’ It hit me,
right then, that there’s a kid and that’s what they
were looking up to."
Since that moment more than 40 years ago,
Robinson has tried, by his example, to show the
youth of America what they can achieve in their
lives. He currently is serving his first year as
Youth Ambassador for the Atlantic Richfield
Corp., which sponsored the birthday luncheon
and has sponsored the ARCO Jesse Owens Games
since 1964.
As ambassador, Robinson has appeared at the
Owens Games regional championships at various
sites throughout the United States.
Owens set an Olympic record (20.7 seconds)
in the 200 meter run at Berlin, defeating Robinson
by a nub, literally — the spikes on Robinson's
running shoes were worn down to practically
nothing.
But Robinson finally got new spikes Wednes
day, 48 years after Berlin. Former University and
Olympic track coack Bill Bowerman (who observ
ed that in 1936 “they didn’t pass out shoes the
way they do today”) presented Robinson with a
new pair of running shoes.
“If I’d had these then, no one would have
beaten me,” Robinson beamed.
Robinson’s alma mater had other luncheon
awards for him. Acting Athletic Director Bill
Byrne told Robinson, “You serve as a real exam
ple of what a student-athlete is all about.” Byrne
made the remark as he gave Robinson a plaque on
behalf of current University athletes — a plaque
bearing a photograph of their 1938 counterpart,
Robinson, as a young Duck runner.
The young Robinson lived with his first wife
and their son in a small house on Beech St., “two
doors away from the railroad,” while attending
the University. “There’s been some changes in
this town and the University since 1 was here,”
the older Robinson noted Wednesday.
Changes aside, Robinson had difficulty ex
plaining how it felt*to return to the University and
receive the honor he was accorded. “I wasn’t ex
pecting this type of program,” he said. And he
pointed out that he didn’t receive such awards in
his hometown, Pasadena, Calif., when he came
home from the Olympics in 1936. “It feels good,”
Robinson said of his Eugene reception.
Robinson transferred to the University from
Pasadena City College in 1937. He won division,
conference and national championships in the
low hurdles, the long jump and the 220-yard run.
He said that he would have participated in tha
1940 Olympics, but World War II dashed those
hopes.
“If they could just get politics out of the pro
gram and just let us sportsmen have a ball
amongst ourselves,” Robinson mused, referring
not only to cancellation of the 1940 games but
also to the recent Olympic boycotts.
Robinson believes that Adolf Hitler’s role in
staging the Berlin Games as a showcase for Nazi
philosophies and white supremacy was
“something blown up in the media.”
I don t think the athletes had any feelings
about humiliating Hitler," Robinson said. “It was
a thrill for me just to be there.”
Bowerman gave Robinson another kind of ac
colade to go with his new shoes.
“People like Mack and Jesse Owens are help
ing to open doors,” Bowerman said. “Black
athletes today have opportunities they didn't
have 50 years ago. . . due largely to the efforts of
Mack and the others who hung in there.”
Robinson noted that his younger brother
Jackie’s success as the first black to play major
league baseball “basically turned the aspirations
of all minorities.”
There were no blacks playing major league
professional baseball or basketball until 1947,
Robinson noted, but blacks now have leaders in
all facets of American life. He drew chuckles and
applause when he added, “We almost had a
president.”
The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s success in national
politics is, in Robinson’s words, “another shot in
the arm we all appreciate.”
Robinson will take part in an Olympic Scien
tific Congress panel discussion on “Peak Perfor
mance,” Friday at 4 p.m. in the EMU Dad’s
Room.
Photo by John Widder
Mack Robinson received a new pair of running
shoes for his birthday Wednesday.
Community and University benefit from conferences
tsy Mike iJuncan
Of the Emerald
Eugene, the site of two international con
ferences and numerous national and regional
events, lost its usually quiet atmosphere this
summer.
But, as most residents, businesspeople,and
University faculty members agree, the increased
activity has been beneficial for the city’s
economic welfare and its reputation as a West
Coast convention center and for the University’s
academic image.
From the end of May through mid
September, 17,230 delegates will have been in
the community and will have spent more than
$0.4 million, said Linda Weston, director of sales
for the Eugene-Springfield Convention and
Visitors Bureau.
This figure is considered conservative since
it excludes hotel accomodations and includes on
ly a variety of miscellaneous expenditures.
Weston noted that the number of delegates ap
plies only to the conferences and does ' delude
the tourists that come into the Eugene-S^. gfield
area for other reasons.
Frank Howard, information services manager
of the state tourism division, said there is a
multiplier factor of 3.2 involved in the re
spending of these outside dollars brought into the
community by tourists and visitors.
“What this means is that money brought into
the state will be spent more than three times
before it disappears.” Howard cited an example
of a waiter spending additional income from tips
on clothing, benefiting in turn the clothing store
employee who will again spend the money
somewhere in the community.
Tim McNeilly, sales manager for the Eugene
Hilton Hotel, said that the summer events have
kept the hotel busy so far this summer. “Our
rooms have been filled and our restaurant and
banquet facilities have been very busy,” McNeil
ly said.
The conferences have been beneficial for the
hotel in other ways. McNeilly noted that “a
reputation is built by hosting conventions. Then
the word, good or bad, spreads. The delegates
said that they were very pleased with their
choice, and they were from many national and in
ternational places, which helps our reputation
worldwide.”
The University will be gaining tangible
benefits from the conferences this summer in
cluding, $300,000 worth of high-tech
biomechanic and physiology equipment donated
by Tektronix to the Olympic Sceintific Congress.
“The equipment,” says Celeste Ulrich, dean
of the University’s College of Human Develop
ment and Performance, “will make us one of the
top biomechanic and sport physiology labs in the
North American continent.”
Dan Williams, University vice-president for
Administration says he thinks that the economic
benefits are good but “I think it’s important that
we don’t overplay them. The activities this sum
mer are things we would do without the
economic pluses.”
The University also has hosted many high
school programs. “These programs are good
because they introduce pre-college students to
the University,” Williams said.
“And, if they have a good experience here,
they often will enroll later. This is especially im
portant for the gifted and talented students who
may otherwise think that they must leave Oregon
to get a good education.”
Citing additional benefits, Williams says that
the conferences “enhance the reputation of the
University. It speaks well of us that professional
groups choose to come here.”
In reference to the scientific community at
tracted to the University, Williams said that facul
ty members benefit through conversation and
cooperation that occurs. ‘‘They share ideas and
otherwise do things that they might not be able to
without the conferences,” he said.
Bill Sloat of the Business Assistance Team of
the Shaping Up ‘84 campaign said the efforts of
the campaign “are difficult to measure, but we
see a definite awareness of our program’s goals.”
The Shaping Up ‘84 program is a coordinated
Eugene-Springfield effort designed to prepare
local citizens and communities for the summer’s
conference delegates and tourists.
“The Parks Department has done a tremen
dous job with the planting of flowers and ground
covers around the cities,” Sloat said.
“Our goal was partly to improve the
grounds, but an equally important objective was
to prepare the citizens for the tourists,” Sloat
said. “We’ve received many letters commenting
on the friendliness of the people in the towns —
both professional people and citizens.”
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