DECEMBER
JANUARY
1958-59
regon
Football comes
to Oregon
A fascinating account of
Oregon's first encounters
on the football field
Eugene Public
, Oregon
duality education
Two professors comment
on education at Oregon
in the first of a series
of observations by
faculty members
014 Oregon
Roundup
. . . Delving into most
anything from traditions
to the Millrace saga
*
President Wilson Answers Your Questions
The president discusses the PCC, future plans, the faculty in tape-recorded interview . . . See page 2
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Richard B. Davis, '38, New Orleans
Fred C. Andretta, '39, Seattle
William H. Gould,"'41, Los Angeles
Robert A. Riehle, '46, Cincinnati
Richard L. Van Cleve, '46, Los Angeles
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COVER
University President O. Meredith Wilson
mulls a question put to him by an alumnus.
The president sat down at a conference
table with four Oregon alumni and the
ensuing discussion was recorded on tape
by the Audio Visual Department. The tran-
script of the discussion appears on page 2
of this issue. Photo by B. L. Freemesser.
THIS ISSUE
Alumni Interview the President 2
Football Comes to Oregon 6
Quality Education 9
Old Oregon Roundup 10
News of the Classes 14
Through Green and Yellow Glasses 23
Homecoming War Dance 25
Letters to the Editor 27
The Final Word 28
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President Vice-President
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Director Treasurer
C. R. "Skeet" MANERUD '22
Past President
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JOHN HOUSTON '21 ROBERT W. THOMAS '36
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President 0. Meredith Wilson answers questions aboutthe future of the University in a recent interview.
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Interview
The President
Several Oregon alumni met in October with
President 0. Meredith Wilson to discuss
the roles and the future of the University.
Interviewing the President were Hope
Hughes Pressman '42, A. T. Goodwin '47
James W. Frost '47 and Ken Metzler '51.
Their discussion was recorded on
tape and follows on these pages.
WHAT ABOUT INCREASED ENROLLMENTS?
MR. FROST. President Wilson, many alumni have been ask-
ing questions about the break-up of the Pacific Coast Confer-
ence and where this leaves the University of Oregon. In your
opinion, what will emerge from the Pacific Coast Conference?
PRESIDENT WILSON. I would like to make my observation
on the basis of what I think the interests of the University are,
rather than what I think may happen. It seems clear to me
that it is in the interest of the University, and I believe that
it is in the interest of the Coast, that there be some restoration
of relations between the major institutions on the West Coast.
In the publicity which was developed about the Pacific Coast
Conference, one of the most unfortunate of the allegations was
that the University's academic standards were not adequate to
permit respectable relations between us and certain other
schools to our south. I think this is a misunderstanding of the
strength of the University, and I believe that time will demon-
strate our academic as well as our athletic acceptability. I
therefore hope and I believe that the healing of time and the
development of a better understanding of the quality of our
institution may bring the restoration of the conference.
MR. GOODWIN. IS there any policy that would preclude the
future scheduling of schools that have for the time being re-
fused to schedule us for athletic contests?
PRESIDENT WILSON. The University of Oregon has no policy
which would exclude any of the schools of the former confer-
ence. I believe it is true that as of now three of the schools do
have policies, which have been adumbrated either by their
boards or by their administrations, which would prevent them
from scheduling us.
OREGON AS A QUALITY INSTITUTION
MRS. PRESSMAN. This statement that you made relative to a
misunderstanding as to our quality as an institution; I would
like to see you develop that a little more if you will.
PRESIDENT WILSOIV. Well, I think that one of the most inter-
esting documents that has come to my hands recently was a
letter from a retired professor of one of the institutions of
which we have been speaking. This gentleman was a distin-
guished professor on his campus. After retirement he was
employed at the University of Oregon to fill a gap caused by
the sudden death of one of our staff members. At the end of
the year, he was beyond the age for employment at the Uni-
versity of Oregon except for one-third time. Negotiation had
to he de\doped to sec if (a) he were interested in teaching
any longer, and then (b) if he would accept employment at
only one-third time, which would keep him away from his
Old Oregon
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES? BETTER FACILITIES FOR FACULTY? THEPCC?
Photos: B. L. Freemesser
own home, his own normal environment, for only one-third
his usual salary. His reply was that it was not the University
that was honored by his employment, but he that was honored
by the offer and he was delighted to be here. He said that,
having been here for this brief time, he now wished that he
had spent his entire career here. He went on to describe the
students he had here as being equally as exciting as in the
place from which he came, and the academic environment as
being as lively and satisfying. I took a great deal of comfort
in the letter because I was getting an encouraging academic
bench mark from an informed observer at the time when it
was being alleged that we did not have adequate standards to
live with the other people.
MRS. PRESSMAN. I was just wondering, does the University
have a policy by which it can attract good scholars in the same
manner that it can attract the good football players?
PRESIDENT WILSON. Well, I think that the key to attract-
ing good scholars as students is to have attracted good scholars
as teachers. I think we have made very gratifying strides in
the last several years. I believe that most of our departments
are proud of their more recent acquisitions and that our
alumni, if they knew them, would also be proud. Another
observation worth making is that last year, while our enroll-
ment grew only five per cent, our graduate enrollment in-
creased by 14 per cent. This is a confirmation of the strength
of the faculty which we have here, and an indication that both
in and out of the state the stature of the University is being
recognized.
MR. GOODWIN. In connection with the growth of graduate
studies, is there any problem that we may have frightened off
some incoming freshmen? Are we now making Oregon too
imposing an educational institution for the high school stu-
dents to choose?
PRESIDENT WILSON. I don't think so. It is my judgment that
young people today are much more mature than we give them
credit for being. There may be some who are frightened by
the challenge of education at an institution which develops a
reputation for quality, but I think there would be others who
were attracted by such an institution. I'd be happy to make
the trade.
MRS. PRESS\JAN. That would be one way of weeding out?
maybe that is an unfortunate term?all the quantities of stu-
dents who?
PRESIDENT WILSON. I think that I'd like to agree with you?
that it is an unfortunate term, and suggest a better way to say
it: Most of the students who determine that they will go to
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college voluntarily, instead of being pressed into going to col-
lege by their parents, are capable of doing adequate and per-
haps even distinguished college work. The importance of a
reputation for quality is not measured by whom it excludes
and whom it includes but by the expectations which it would
engender in the students who come. I don't think that we would
seriously affect the percentile average of the students admitted
to the University by developing a reputation for quality. Stu-
dents coming to Oregon are going to continue to come from
Oregon high schools or from high schools outside the state
where the students are already interested in us. They are going
to be prepared in about the same way. What is most likely to
happen is that once they arrive, having been alerted to the
fact that the institution expects quality performance, they will
be in the posture to give quality performance. Our problem in
education is not so much that students are incapable, but that
they perform far below their ability.
ARE HIGH SCHOOL GRADS
READY FOR COLLEGE?
MR. METZLER: May I ask whether you think the high schools
are doing an adequate job in preparing the incoming fresh-
men for college?
PRESIDENT WILSON. Any answer that I gave to that would
be a bad answer, but I will try by giving two answers. The
high schools in the United States have been ''whipping boys
for a lot of people wrho have argued that we have not had
quality education. There has been in the national press some
publicity which I think is execrable. I think that David
Lawrence's editorial of about two weeks ago [U. S. News and
World Report, October 10] is one of the most irresponsible
pieces of editorializing I have ever read. It is apparent that
his editorial was written as a defense for segregation, and he
picked up the idea of private schools because the southern
schools were going to have to go private, and he argued that
this was the basis for quality. In his last paragraph he com-
ments, "There is no need of course, to do away with the public
schools as such. These schools are required for the huge num-
ber of children who must be given education of some kind,
even if it is inferior"?as though there were a large class of
American society whom America could afford to give an in-
ferior education. This is patronizing aristocratic nonsense.
I am sure that our high schools could do a better job but. in
my judgment, what the high schools have done has been what
the American home has required. And if the American home
had planted in the American child the idea that a great deal
was expected of education, the teachers would have required
a great deal of the students. But the American people haven't
required much, partly because about 10 times as many people
now go through the American high schools than go through
the educational systems of other nations with which we have
to compare ourselves.
If you were to ask me "Do our high schools adequately pre-
pare people?" I'd have to say that there are 90 per cent who
are not always as well prepared as we would like. But of our
total population there is as large a proportion excellently pre-
pared to do college work in the United States as is prepared
for excellent work in any other country of the world. The top
10 per cent in the United States performs as well as the people
who go to college any place else in the world.
MR. GOODWIN. Would higher standards in the state institu-
tions of higher learning result in better preparation from the
high schools?
PRESIDENT WILSON. I think that there is no question but
that part of our problem in the United States is rhetorical,
and if colleges were to place a higher value upon academically
oriented subjects at the time of entrance, high school faculties
would ultimately place a higher value on academically ori-
ented subjects in high school. In the long run this would be
good for American education.
PREPARING FOR INCREASED ENROLLMENT
MR. FROST. What plans are being made by the University
to prepare for the influx of students over the next decade?
PRESIDENT WILSON. We have to think of our future educa-
tional problem not as the University of Oregon alone but as
the University of Oregon in the state system. Our present
judgment is that the regional colleges will need to grow larger
in proportion to the major institutions.
MR. FROST. YOU are speaking of the three colleges of
education?
PRESIDENT WILSON. Yes. I also believe that the State of
Oregon is less well adapted to the development of junior col-
leges than most states. We do not have very many population
complexes in Oregon large enough to support a junior college.
If you have to develop a junior college which has no more
than 250 or 300 students, you are righting a losing battle in
my judgment, because you do not have enough exciting aca-
demic environment to keep the best people there or to en-
courage the best academic work.
To look at the State of Oregon, the Medford-Grants Pass-
Ashland area is large enough, but they have a regional college
there, which it seems to me could also serve the purpose of a
junior college. The Coos Bay-North Bend area is large enough,
and if its local people finally decide that they would like to
support such a program, I rather imagine that they may gel
one. Perhaps there are other places. Salem certainly is large
enough, but Salem has a local university that may make the
people of Salem elect otherwise than to establish a junior
college.
The reason I raise this is that if you do not use junior col-
leges as a device for helping to handle the numbers, then the
institutions that presently exist will need to serve as regional
junior colleges: Corvallis perhaps for Benton and Polk Coun-
ties. Eugene for Lane and Douglas Counties, Eastern Oregon
Collrge for most of Eastern Oregon. In addition to serving as
regional junior colleges, these schools will have to perform as
excellent liberal arts colleges while providing professional
education. Two schools, at least, will have to become distin-
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The interviewers listen carefully as President Wilson
talks about higher standards in state institutions.
guished graduate institutions as well. I think that it is possible
to perform in several roles on one campus, but I think that it
would be easier to do if, for example, we were able to enter-
tain some limitation to 10,000 students.
Now what we are planning to do to take care of these 10,000
students who would come to us is to outline, as other institu-
tions in the system have done, our building requirements for
the next 10 years. I think it would be fair to say that we are
placing emphasis upon faculty office space, on the assumption
that we can make greater use of existing classrooms. If a fac-
ulty member is to have to handle more students, he needs to
have optimum working conditions for his research and for
counseling students. Only under such conditions can we take
the curse off of the great numbers and continue to increase
the quality of education. With good office facilities we may be
able to increase the personal relations of faculty and students
even with a more adverse teacher-student ratio.
THE STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO
MR. FROST. DO you feel that the present facilities and staff
at the University afford a student-teacher relationship to the
extent that you would like to see provided the students?
PRESIDENT WILSON. NO. First of all I'd like to add one more
thing in regard to this problem of numbers. We do not have
any crises in multi-purpose classrooms. We have crises in
large classrooms, in faculty offices and in science space. We do
not now have the kind of faculty office facilities that I think
are required for the present student-teacher ratio. We have
about 65 of our faculty members in double or triple offices
and these are handling about 25 per cent more students than
you would normally expect in an institution that attempts to
do the job we are trying to do. I am sure that office space is a
critical factor and that we need to persuade our alumni and
our legislators that an investment in faculty offices is of first
importance to education.
MKS. PRESSMAN. That brings up another point. What can
alumni or interested people do to help bring in these quality
students and graduate students?aside from the financial as-
sistance provided through the Oregon Development Fund?
PRESIDENT WILSON. If the alumni are persuaded that the
University is maintaining a distinguished academic program,
they can do a great deal to build the reputation by speaking
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A. T. GOODWIN '47 HOPE HUGHES PRESSMAN '42 JAMES W. FROST '47
positively of us. I think that there is a special problem in the
United States right now that relates to your question of money
and also to the question of policy. There are certain prestige
institutions in the United States that attract children of parents
of great wealth and children of parents of great poverty if
they are very bright students. The latter, by a means test that
establishes their poverty, can get a full cost scholarship at
such institutions. The result is that any institution such as the
University of Oregon has some handicap competing for very
poor and very rich brilliant students. We do, however, have
genuine appeal for sons and daughters of middle class
Americans.
I happen to believe that a means test for a quality student
is a kind of insult. I would like to see enough money available
for scholarships to be given without means tests to students
who otherwise qualify for the national merit scholarship, so
that we could bring some of the middle class students here
with scholarship support. I think that it would be good for
them and I know it would be good for us in helping to raise
the academic caliber of our schools. This would mean that we
would need to have a number of scholarships that would pro-
vide from 85(10 to SI500 for students who are in this top two
percentile who had qualified for the national merit scholar-
ship or the General Motors scholarship, but whose parents
were middle class parents whose income ruled out much help.
These bright young students, by the way, do deserve to feel
as though they had earned something for the efforts that they
have invested in academic life. The\ resent the fact that though
they seem to have earned it, they still have to depend on father.
And the self-respect or the motivation they would get from the
fact that they had earned independence by their academic per-
formance, would be good for them and they on our campus
would be good for us.
TOO MUCH EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY
MR. METZLER. I would like to ask a question that has been
asked of me a couple of times. Do you feel that there are too
many extracurricular activities of a non-academic nature on
this campus?
PRESIDENT WILSON. I think that there are too many extra-
curricular-nonacademic activities on all campus-es in the
United States. It is part of the American tradition of educa-
tion to have invented thousands of ways to de-emphasize study.
And one of our difficult tasks is to invent ways to restore it to
repute. I think our student body, by the wa\, has done a
remarkable job in the last 18 months to try and re-evaluate
their non-academic activities, and I was very gratified by their
voluntary development of a program for Homecoming which
was based upon the academic rather than the peripheral inter-
ests of the University.
MRS. PRESSMAN. What would be a practical approach for
eliminating some of the extra activities?
PRESIDENT WILSON. It would be a sad thing if there were
no queens on campus.
MR. GOODWIN. Some reference was made earlier to the so-
called prestige institutions. I wondered if, in that connection,
you might give us comparative figures on the faculty-student
load between our school and some of the "prestige" schools.
PRESIDENT WILSON. We are budgeted this \ear for a ratio
of one to 15. The prestige institutions that I have known per-
sonally budget for between one to six and one to eight.
MR. GOODWIN. Almost twice the load.
PRESIDENT WILSON. In some cases more than twice the load.
MR. GOODWIN. HOW would our faculty-student load com-
pare with similarly situated state universities?
PRESIDENT WILSON. A similarly situated state university is
precisely the same?but Berkeley, for example, would be
about one to eight as against our one to 15.
MR. GOODWIN. In the schools that have the smaller student-
faculty ratios is it true that the faculty performs some of the
functions that are performed here by non-teaching administra-
tive people?
PRESIDENT WILSON. I don't think so. I believe, however, that
one of the solutions that all of us are going to have to test is
the development of more non-professional aid on the campus.
The problem of ratio, Ted, is not just a problem of money, it s
a problem of availability, though availability affects money
because as soon as there are fewer men available they go up in
price. But one of the reasons the University of Oregon has a
ratio of one to 15?and I am afraid may have to go to one to
16?is not that the Legislature will not give us the money, but
that there are so few well trained candidates for teaching posts.
The result is that one of our answers may be to provide profes-
sors with more secretarial help and with more clerkships, who
would correspond with the technicians and nurses that the
doctors have had in their offices, so that teachers can increase
the number of people that they can see effectively during the
day.
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Football comes to Oregon
Here's the story of those grand old gridiron classics culled from the early history
of the University of Oregon. What happened, for instance, when the owner of Eugene's
only pigskin returned to the East? Football received a five-year setback, of course.
"It was the first football of
modern type we had seen .. .
50 far we had known only
the spherical kind ..."
TN THE LATE '80s the first ovate pig-
skin football found its way to Eugene.
"Jt was the first football of modern type
we had seen," said Frederic Dunn '92,
reminiscing in the April, 1929 issue of
OLD OREGON. "SO far we had known only
the spherical kind, something like the
basketball of today, which we used to kick
around on vacant lots in a free-for-all
knock-out."
Jt was Carl Smith, son of a new grocer
just arrived from New York and a prod-
uct of an eastern law school who dis-
played the first football, the real thing, to
the group of young men collected around
the Post Office waiting for the mail. At
once it was voted to try it out. Two cap-
tains were nominated who in turn selected
their men, naming them alternately in the
good old choose-up style. Some were
named quarterbacks, others fullbacks
and halfbacks. Few knew what the terms
meant. But everyone was prepared to
kick the ball if it came his way. Every
time the ball was put into play there
would be a long pause to find out what
to do next. They would gather around
Carl with much dispute and loud rounds
while he expounded the law to them.
By Inez Fortt
That was the first and only football
game until 1894. Carl left directly for the
east and took his precious pigskin with
him.
Organized athletics were unknown on
the University of Oregon campus. Out-
side of a little baseball, which was con-
fined to impromptu games in nondescript
uniforms with rival teams composed of
the "town boys," the only other activity
was boating in the flat-bottomed skiffs on
the Millrace. The boats were always
springing leaks while the men rowed
valiantly with blistered hands and sweat-
ing brows and the women bailed. There
was also always the danger of being im-
paled or balanced on a stump beneath
the line of visibility.
The students were sons of pioneers,
coming mostly from farm houses around
the state. Many were on scholarships.
There were few overflowing purses.
Not until late in 1893 was the first
desire created for football. At Portland a
few students witnessed Stanford play
the Multnomah Club. Determined to
organize a team they chose Cal Young,
formerly an instructor at the Bishop Scott
Academy in Portland to be coach. Mr.
Old Oregon
Oregon's first intercollegiate
football game, in 1894, was
complete with yell leaders. The
U. of O. emerged victorious
in game with Albany College.
Young, in the butcher business in Eu-
gene, found time to organize the team and
scheduled a game with Albany College.
With no money available for equip-
ment or suits, each man furnished his own
sweater and tacked cleats onto ordinary
shoes. Unable to afford the expensive
athletic hose, they wore women's heavy
ribbed stockings.
It was a lucky day when 11 men turned
out for practice and if 14 or 15 showed
up, the team considered itself one of the
best. They were a sturdy, hard-boiled lot.
Football was a gang sport played by men
who stuck together. The "go" in football
circles centered around the flying wedge,
center rush and tandem rush. On these
tenets, Cal Young built his first grid team.
But as Walter Whittelsey later described
it, "The strength of the team was in their
faith and loyalty to one another. Almost
nobody watched practice. Rooting was
nearly unknown, and the team didn't give
a rap ..." The territorial motto?"Alis
volat propritis" (she flies with her own
wings)?was the slogan of the team.
For a football field a 20-acre wheat
field (where Commonwealth Hall is now
located) was found. Harrison Kincaid,
who was the owner, said he would allow
one corner to be used for $25.
"But," said Dr. Clarence W. Keen
(who played right halfback and acted as
manager for the team) retelling the story
years later in OLD OREGON, "$25 was a
lot of money in those days. Finally Fred
Mulkey talked Old Man Kincaid out of
his rental price with the promise of a few
complimentary tickets."
On March 24, 1894, Oregon's first
intercollegiate football game was played
with Albany College in the southwest
corner of Kincaid Field. There was no
fence around the field, though the vast
campus square was enclosed by a white-
washed board fence with one entrance, a
style of four or five steps, right at the
end of 12th Avenue.
It was a big day for the University and
for Eugene. Two hundred fifty people
witnessed the game. J. S. Laurie, '94, later
a pastor of the Presbyterian Church, sold
tickets for the historic game. There were
no seats and the only real bleachers were
the buggies of the folks who drove out
from town and stood or sat to watch the
game. Non-reserved seats were on the
neighboring housetops.
"Yell leaders and college yells were a
new thing at Oregon," reminisced J. S.
Laurie in the February, 1924 issue of
OLD OREGON. "One yell was concocted for
us that went like this: U! 0! U! 0! Rah!
Rah! 0! Oregonensis! Rah! Rah! 0!"
"This we deemed some humdinger
until Albany unlimbered theirs which
went thus: Boom-a-lacka, Boom-a-lacka,
Bow-wow-wow! Ching-a-lacka, Ching-a-
lacka, Chow, Chow, Chow! Boom-a-lacka,
Boom-a-lacka, Who are We? We're the
boys from Alban-ee!
"After hearing this we were not quite
so cock-sure for a while but our team was
jelled through to a memorable victory."
The score was 44 to 2 in favor of Ore-
gon. The game was won on the merit of
weight and muscle. According to the
Oregon State Journal of March 30, 1894,
the team from Albany displayed more
science in punting, tackling and lining up
than the State University boys, but the
Albany boys were too light. As an Albany
player stated, "I have played in many
games but I never bucked as heavy a man
as the one opposite me in Saturday's
game/' This was in spite of the fact that
President Condit of Albany College had
December-January 1958-59
helped fit his boys by having them pitch
the winter's supply of firewood into the
basement of their main building.
Never was there such a wet and muddy
field. The men wallowed in it. Dr. John
Straub, recalling the first game in the
October, 1926, OLD OREGON, stated that
the grounds were "all adobe mud and five
minutes after the game started, you
couldn't tell one side from the other they
were so covered with mud . . . for the life
of me I couldn't recognize anybody. The
Oregon boys had on new uniforms too,
and you can't imagine what a prejudice
against football that game gave the towns-
people. They thought what a shame to
ruin those nice new suits in five minutes
of play. No one could make much of a
run because he couldn't lift his feet far
enough out of the mud. And when one
"No one could make much of
a run in that mud."
wanted to kick the ball some one would
come up with a stick of wood to scrape
his shoes off."
With an all-time low in gate receipts
in the unfenced football field, the games
were played in the fall of 1894 on the old
Stewart race track grounds located at the
foot of College Hill because it afforded
a fence. Without a fence gate receipts
were negligible.
Not until the fall of 1895 was it pos-
sible to fence Kincaid Field and then
money ran out. Only one side and half
of each end was boarded up. A few
bleacher seats, three high, were con-
structed on one fourth of one side of the
field. Dr. Keene reported the 1895 season
was most successful when the Aggies of
Corvallis were defeated 44-0 and added
that "O.A.C. had a big blacksmith, Phil-
lips, playing end. He was registered as a
music major."
Later there were other notable games
which have gone down into history. When
Oregon beat California in 1900 on their
own field, Walter Whittelsey, reminisced
in the February, 1926 OLD OREGON, "We
'The men rowed valiantly with blistered hands
while the women bailed."
in Eugene surged out of the telegraph
office and up Willamette Street like rag-
ing maniacs. 'Twas a wild nicht, the
nicht!'"
The game at Berkeley had its sidelights
as well. According to an anecdote told in
"Back-A-Bit" column of the January
1928 OLD OREGON, most of the players
had come from farms or small towns in
the state and knew little of large towns
and of cities, nothing. Accordingly, the
football battle over, the group of gridiron
warriors decided to cross the bay and
take in the sights of the city. Among
these was the Call Building, the tallest
building in San Francisco. Entering an
elevator, one of the players who was hav-
ing his first elevation had a new sensa-
tion. He had encountered street cars
which ran parallel to the ground, but here
was a new sort which went up at right
angles. With great presence of mind and
a nonchalant, 'This is my treat, fellows,'
he drew out the requisite street car fare
for the crowd and walking over to the
operator dropped the nickels in his hand.
The operator, with equal presence of
mind, after a glance at his passenger
dropped the nickels into his pocket with
no comment except a bright smile. It is
told that 'Going Up' sensation so pleased
our warrior that he repeated the experi-
ence surreptitiously, riding many times
up and down the elevator, paying each
time his gallant five cents per.
Handicaps were plentiful for the team
in those days: Few men, little equipment,
long distances to travel with not much
gate money assured. On one occasion
when the football players went south to
play, they had to add several games along
the way in order to pay the railroad fare.
Sometimes they crowded four and five
contests into the same week, starting with
Ashland where they met the Southern
Oregon Normal Team. On the way north
the team would play Pacific one day, the
next, Willamette, then on to to Washing-
ton, with perhaps a game on the way
home.
Crowds attending were so small that
expenses could not be guaranteed for any
one trip. A crowd of 500 or 750 was con-
sidered large, the bleachers holding about
a thousand people. For big games the
overflow stood around back of the field,
roped off from the players.
Personal equipment was limited. As
funds grew, one suit and one pair of shoes
were furnished each man?if he made the
team. The suit had to be kept in repair
at his own expense. But the idea of per-
sonal responsibility was strong and the
old Oregon "fight" later to be dubbed
"Oregon Spirit" bubbled on indomitably.
Endless stories illustrated Oregon's
stubborn battling spirit?such as the one
about the fellow with the damaged leg
who finished the runs in the last quarter
practically held up by the player behind
him. Or of tales of strategy, later di-
vulged, how a rival team was thrown off
the scent as to a player's bum leg by
bandaging the other.
But football has not been all brawn
and muscle. At Oregon there has been
the paradox of a professor of literature,
Herbert Crombie Howe, famed far and
wide for his course of poetry. As a sports
writer, Professor Howe, forecast the foot-
ball season and at its end wrote critiques
of its games. On the other hand, Football
Coach John J. McEwan, a former captain
in the Army and football star, taught a
course on literature in the Department of
English.
In football there are some strange bed-
fellows.
Old Oregon
Way
to
Quality
Education?
The subject of quality
education has come up many
times on the University
of Oregon campus.
When fall quartet-
began this year, Old Oregon
queried several faculty
members and asked them to
write a brief essay on the
subject. The first of their
replies appears on this page.
More faculty observations
on quality education will
appear in successive editions.
IVAN M. NIVEN
Professor of Mathematics
The question, "Which way to quality
education?" suggests that there is at pres-
ent no quality education at Oregon. This
is of course not true. The question can
therefore be more properly phrased,
'"What can we do to enhance quality edu-
cation ?" The answer is: Strengthen those
parts of the University that contribute
most especially to the life of the mind.
We are nearing the end of an era in which
there was a tendency to say that one sub-
ject is as good as another in its educa-
tional effect, that learning to make dough-
nuts has as much educational value as,
say, the study of law. This somewhat
anti-intellectual era was also character-
ized by overemphasis on the value of
activities, contacts, and extra-curricular
life generally.
Now activities, contacts, and extra-
curricular life are fine things for every-
body. They are, for example, precisely
the central features of a boat cruise to
Hawaii or a vacation at a resort hotel.
But they cannot be conceived of as the
central features of an education.
Thus there is a need to give support to
the parts of the University wherein a
student learns to analyze and to infer, to
think matters through from basic facts to
significant judgments, and to communi-
cate his ideas. We must find ways to give
this kind of activity more standing with
the students, more prestige in the Univer-
sity. And those students who are devoted
to and skilled at this kind of activity-
should be honored by the University com-
munity, including the alumni, at least as
much as are the expert quarterbacks and
the seven-foot basketball men. The intel-
lectually and artistically gifted students
should be encouraged to bring their great
gifts to maturity, and these efforts should
be at the center of the stage, our most
important educational work.
ARTHUR C. HEARN
Professor of Education
I am of the opinion that quality educa-
tion is available at the University of Ore-
gon at the present time. Administrative
policy has been and is dedicated to the
selection and retention of an outstanding
faculty, and the success of this policy has
been increasingly recognized not only
within our state but throughout the coun-
try as well. Certain it is that the Univer-
sity ranks with the best in many fields and
it is just as certain that determined efforts
will be made to maintain and to enhance
that status.
My work at the University brings me
into close contact with many Oregon high
schools?and the high schools, of course,
have much to do with the extent to which
their graduates profit from a college edu-
cation. Today it is more difficult than ever
before to administer a high school, when
one considers the influence, often nega-
tive, of such other educative agencies as
television, radio, press, and personal as-
sociation. Despite a barrage of recent
criticisms, some deserved and other un-
December- January 1958-59
warranted, most of those who have taken
a careful look at the schools (e.g. James
B. Conant) have found much more to
praise than to condemn.
The most competent, and incidentally
the most severe, critics of the high schools
are the principals and teachers them-
selves. It is a real thrill to observe the
work being done by the faculties of Hills-
boro High School, and of David Douglas,
and Beaverton?to name three of the very
best. These schools, and others like them,
are doing a great deal of self-analysis and
self-improvement. It is encouraging to
note that our high schools are eliminat-
ing study halls, reducing interference
with classwork, developing programs for
the gifted, and in many other ways em-
phasizing quality. Almost unanimously
the high schools welcome the University's
"selective admissions" policy. This, of
course, is a specific approach to quality
education. Many principals report that
"selective admissions" has had a positive
effect upon high school students' attitudes
toward their studies, and the policy of de-
nying college admission to individuals
who present little or no evidence of abil-
ity to profit from college attendance is
widely applauded.
The approach to quality education has
many facets. Continued collaboration
and mutual respect between the Univer-
sity and the high schools promises in the
future an even richer educational experi-
ence for our students than they have
ever enjoyed in the past.
Old Oregon Roundup
Here's news from Oregon . . . about
people you know, professors you have liked
and what goes on generally
on the University of Oregon campus
'?'>%* **& '
Some girls put up a pretty good fight in resistance to tradition enforcing, but others didn't seem to be bothered a bit.
End of an era
Every so often an old tradition falls by
the way-side, dies a reluctant death and is
filed away in the memories of old grads
alongside such antiquated customs as the
hazing of freshmen and dunkings in the
Millrace. The latest one to add to the list
was not really a tradition, but merely the
enforcement thereof. But after 50 years of
penalizing students for not wearing their
green beanies, walking on the grass and
many other such offenses, the enforcement
itself had become a tradition.
In 1909 the hazing of freshman students
was abolished, much to the dismay of upper
classmen who, of course, had had to under-
go the punishment themselves. In the 1910
Oregana, a poem was published lamenting
the passing of this tradition:
"Oh, those good old times have
disappeared
And gloom pervades the air;
The hazing stunt has got its bump;
It's down and out for fair."
This little epic goes on for a few more
stanzas, but the point is that even 48 years
ago, this sort of physical enforcement of
anything was frowned upon by many, but
mostly by the administration.
In 1918 the students evidently did not
have much of a problem with tradition en-
forcement. In fact, they were in a senti-
mental mood about the traditions them-
selves: "We are peculiarly blessed in our
traditions," they wrote in the Oregana.
''From the day of the Frosh Parade to Jun-
ior Weekend; from the day of the green cap
to that of the sombrero?our life is made
fuller and happier by the observance of
these time-honored customs. These are not
iron-bound obligations imposed upon us,
but gentle reminders of those who have been
here before us."
The ASUO Senate would like the present-
day student body to feel the same way. They
abolished the enforcement of traditions this
fall after objections to the physical violence
used were voiced by many. Last spring's
senate decided to continue enforcement,
with barely an argument from any of its
members.
But this year the anti-enforcement side
was well prepared and presented its case
in an intelligent attempt to ban the "strong-
arm routine." That it was successful speaks
well for the members of this year's senate.
But the senators hope that this decision will
not cause the traditions to die out. Bill
Rutherford, sophomore representative, feels
that "ways should be found of encouraging
observance of traditions." In order for a
tradition to be observed, people must want
it. Rutherford said, and "even though there
is no enforcement this year, freshmen
should still follow last year's practices of
wearing beanies, etc. It's a matter of pride?
being a member of the UO 1958 freshman
class."
10 Old Oregon
The senators polled the campus and
found that most students objected to the
enforcement of traditions. Trouble has
arisen almost yearly over some one being
physically harmed or humiliated, and evi-
dently the majority of students has grown
tired of this sort of hi-jinks.
Last Junior Week one irate sophomore
girl was seized by lettermen and thrown in
a large "dunk tank" on the lawn of the Stu-
dent Union. In the hassle part of the young
lady's petticoat was torn, and from her re-
ports, she was handled rather roughly. Al-
though she put up a good fight, eight or
nine well-muscled athletes were a little too
much for her, and she lost the fray. Her
letter to the Emerald might have aroused a
little interest in banning physical enforce-
ment of traditions on this campus?at least
everyone was talking about the problem
just after Junior Week.
President 0. Meredith Wilson had this to
say on methods of enforcing campus tradi-
tions: "Adolescent horseplay . . . the most
indefensible actions that go on here at the
University."
Ending traditions enforcement has not
met with everyone's approval, but after a
long sequence of torn petticoats, drenched
skirts and ruffled hair-do's, the 50-year-old
era of dun-kings and water fights seems to
have plunged to a deserved death.
?SALLY THOMAS.
Mil I race saga
The long, unhappy story of the Millrace
was spelled out by the current ASUO presi-
dent, Bud Titus, in a recent Emerald article.
Noting that the old tradition-bound stream
has been largely defunct since the flooding
Willamette River destroyed the headgates
in 1942, Titus recounted these grim mile-
posts:
? In 1949, alumni, students and property
owners turned over to the City of Eugene
?24,675.08 in Millrace donations. Eugene
voters okayed a $20,000 bond issue for
matching funds, but the bonds found no
buyers.
? The city spent the donation money in
a "half-concerted effort" at Millrace restor-
ation but failed to solve two pressing prob-
lems: (1) sluggish flow due to inadequate
culverts and (2) pollution of the water.
? In 1951 the fund raising drive began
anew. The Canoe Fete resumed in 1955.
after 14 years absence, mostly to plug the
fund drive. By 1957 student-alumni funds
were adequate, but the city still hadn't
raised its share.
? When the city finally coughed up
$24,000 winter's onslaught had halted con-
struction.
? With construction set for June, 1958,
rising costs had forced the construction
estimate to $80,000, of which only $48,000
was available. Plans were revised to lower
the cost.
? Construction was again delayed while
negotiations were made with Southern Pa-
cific Company for a right-of-way covering a
proposed relocation of part of the Millrace
channel.
? Now, barring further complications, it
appears that construction will begin this
December at the latest.
"For nearly 10 years many people have
concentrated their efforts to complete this
project. . . . Now the first positive steps have
been taken toward the actual work on the
Millrace," said Titus happily. "And I can
assure you that every effort by student gov-
ernment will be used to achieve the final
results?a flowing and sanitary Millrace."
Presidential appointment
President O. Meredith Wilson has been
appointed to a nationwide committee to
study cooperative education in American
colleges and universities. The appointment
was announced in New York City by Dr.
Ralph W. Tyler, chairman of the committee
and director of the Center for Advanced
Study in Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto,
California.
This project is supported by a grant of
$95,000 from the Fund for the Advancement
of Education, a subsidiary of the Ford
Foundation.
Principal aim of the study is to investi-
gate the educational merits of the work-
study plan in which students alternate
periods of work in school and in industry
as a regular part of their degree programs.
Approximately 60 colleges and universities
now have programs of cooperative educa-
tion.
Still in halter
Back in private law practice in Eugene
after 29 years on the University's School of
Law faculty, Professor Charles G. Howard
chalked up a milestone last September:
Election to the board of governors of the
Oregon State Bar.
Howard retired from teaching in June
and has joined forces with the Eugene law
firm of Darling, Vonderheit and Hershner.
"I miss the students," he says, "but there
is great relief in not having the burden of
an 8 o'clock. Thirty-five years on schedule!
Now I feel like an old horse in the pasture
without his halter."
Comparing private practice to teaching
he said, "Practice of the law requires quick
decisions on fixed facts. A law teacher in
the classroom can control the facts, change
them to suit a theory and take time for a
discussion.
"When the client is before you either you
know the law or you do not. If you know the
law you can speak it and collect your fee.
If you don't know the law you can tell the
client his case has never been adjudicated,
it is new and novel, and you ask him politely
to return tomorrow."
Howard, who was graduated from the
University of Illinois in 1922, will serve on
the Board of Governors for three years. He
was elected by attorneys in his congressional
district. Besides his new duties, "Charlie"
Howard is very busy in state and community
activities. His real interest in this state and
its people is apparent when he talks about
such things as the Oregon Centennial.
He is Chairman of the Lane County Ad-
visory Committee of the Oregon Centennial
and says that it is his committee's "respon-
sibility to see that Lane County participates
in th.e 100th Birthday celebration of the
stale of Oregon by having a fitting exhibit
of Lane County in Portland at the Centen-
nial and trade fair."
He hopes that when the estimated 4 mil-
lion visitors between June 10 and September
17 troop into this area that Lane County
will have "its front lawn mowed and its
living room in order."
Such enthusiasm is typical of Charles
Howard whether he's talking about Oregon,
law, history or his former students. He may
be rid of the "burden of an 8 o'clock," but
he still has a halter.
The girls and guards
Her Majesty's Grenadier Guards, Bri-
tain's famed royal marching unit which
appeared in a Civic Music Association con-
cert last October, proved to be a double
attraction for the coeds at the Sigma Kappa
house.
It all started during concert intermission.
A tall, fur hat worn by one of the guards
rested atop a fire extinguisher at McArthur
Court and caught the eyes of Sigma Kappas
Mary Jo Stewart and Suzanne Brouillard.
They wondered secretly, according to Su-
zanne's later account, whether the fur mate-
rial was flammable.
Suddenly the hat's handsome owner
walked up, and Mary Jo, who serves as fea-
ture editor of the Oregon Daily Emerald,
quickly visualized a good feature story: Life
in the Grenadier Guards. She talked fast,
made a date to interview Guardsman Peter
Dell over coffee after the concert. Following
the interview she posed another question?
would the Guardsman and some of his
friends care to have "tea and biscuits" at
the Sigma Kappa house the next day?
"Delighted," said the Guardsman.
The next day Dell, along with Grenadiers
Philip Meade and Leon Bonswell, dropped
in for tea with the Sigma Kappas, stayed
for lunch.
"Ah, what paradise," said Meade as the
girls gathered around.
"Life as a guardsman is rather pleasant,"
said Lance Corporal "Boney" Bonswell,
answering the girls' questions. "We aren't
tied down to the Army. Unless we're on tour
or playing for a state function, we only have
to spend three hours a day as Guardsmen.
Lots of the chaps do outside work in orch-
estras. We get to see our families more than
some civilians."
December-January 1958-59 11
"Are some of the guardsmen married?"
chimed the Sigma Kappas.
"Oh yes." answered Bonswell, "Eighty-
five per cent of the guards, whose average
age is 20 to 25. are married." The girls were
crushed, reports Suzanne.
Peter Dell, in the service for 14 years,
was interested in the University's traditions.
"After all," he said, "if a University hasn't
any traditions, the students don't have as
much to remember. I don't think they're a
bit silly."
Before leaving for the depot the three
Grenadiers told the girls a few snappy Brit-
ish jokes and entertained them at the piano.
They all agreed that Eugene "was the first
American town we've ever wanted to settle
down in."
And Suzanne, a foreign trade major who
would like to go to London someday, has a
special invitation from Guardsman Dell to
drop in and see him, and his wife, most any-
time she gets to London.
Lost sales
Retailers are missing out on a sizable
market that they know little about, says
Dr. Robert E. Dodge, assistant professor of
business administration. He has made a
survey in Portland of the shopping prefer-
ences of the older age group and of the
retailer's knowledge of that market. He
found that no retailer had "made a consist-
ent or studied effort to appeal to that
market."
"They do not know what impact it exerts
on their business. They have almost no idea
of the characteristics of the market." Eleven
per cent of Portland's population is over 60,
which represents quite a few sales.
Dodge wrote that "considering the rela-
tively low subsistence expenses of the
majority of the older population, the sub-
stantially large percentage of those having
incomes of more than $2,000 a year may
indicate the existence of a potential dis-
posable income not realized by marketers."
An interesting side light to this was that
older buyers are not greatly influenced by
sales or promotional events. Their first con-
sideration is in the assortment of merchan-
dise, followed by price, quality, availability,
convenience and habit.
News of the faculty
Recently returned from two months in
India is Raymond T. Ellickson, head of the
Physics Department. The trip, taken with
three other professors, was sponsored by the
State Department, for work with Indian
universities on a program to introduce so-
cial studies to science students and science
to students in the humanities.
Ellickson worked with the University of
Mysore, and estimated that "in Mysore
slate alone there are more science gradu-
ates each year than in the entire United
States. It is not unusual to see an entire
On Campus and Quotable
Journalism Dean Charles T. Duncan (addressing a service club on problems
faced by newspapers) : "In my opinion the greatest problem of all?and by far
the most serious?is public indifference, not to the newspapers as newspapers,
but to what the newspapers are trying to tell us."
Washington Columnist Marquis Childs, addressing Charter Day audience:
"America's choice in this nuclear jet age is suicide or learning to live with the
world."
Norman A. Sundberg, director of University's Child Guidance Clinic, point-
ing up need to develop creativity in children: "The creative person is free. He
is free to create without fear, to get out of a rut. He accepts himself and can
conform or not as the situation demands."
college of 2,000 students working for sci-
ence degrees. With their low level of in-
dustrialization this means there is a tre-
mendous unemployment problem."
He added that the students "... seem to
feel that they have a better chance for any
sort of civil service job, even working in a
post office, if they have a science degree."
More universities are expected to follow
the curriculum-broadening program soon,
and this might help to relieve the problem.
Ivan M. Niven, professor of mathematics
at the University, is back from Scotland
with a word about Russian mathematicians:
"Very cordial and sometimes quite jolly."
but "neither they nor the Hungarians could
discuss the recent events in Hungary. This
kind of topic was dismissed with a shrug of
the shoulders."
Niven was in Edinburgh for the Inter-
national Congress of Mathematicians. Rus-
sia was represented by a large contingent.
Bud Titus, ASUO president, gives 810,000
check to Bill Russell '35, vice president of
Development Fund, as student donations to
mil/race. Alumni contributions are sought
and can be sent to 110 Johnson Hall.
most of whom spoke a western European
language, besides their native tongue. Their
major addresses were delivered in Russian,
with pauses after every two or three sen-
tences to allow an interpreter to translate
their remarks.
We are now "groping in the dark" to find
some satisfactory solution to juvenile de-
linquency, says G. Benton Johnson, assist-
ant professor of sociology, who recently
spoke to participants in the Oregon Study
Institute on Juvenile Needs.
Much but not all of the juvenile delin-
quency in our society can be alleviated,
Johnson told the group. Past theories are
being replaced by one that stresses social
as well as psychological factors. "I believe
it is a mixture of both psychic and social
phenomenon" which has a basic place in
causing delinquency, Johnson said.
Dr. John Jacob Landsbury, dean of
music at the University for 30 years, died
in September at his Modesto, California
home. Dr. Landsbury was 80 years old and
had suffered from a brief illness.
He served for years as a president of the
International Music Conference and was
cited by Portland University for contribut-
ing the most to music in Oregon in 50 years.
Survivors include a sister. Anne Lands-
bury Beck of Modesto, and two nephews?
Robert W. McKnight of Modesto and John
W. Beck of Santa Cruz, California.
Karl Onthank '13 has been named to the
State Water Resources Board by Governor
Robert D. Holmes. While Mr. Onthank is
well known for his interest in wildlife and
forest conservation and recreation, he feels
that "one must take a broad view of what
to do with water." The water resources
board has the responsibility of determining
the proper use of waters in the state.
Onthank works for the University on a
part-time basis since his retirement in 1957.
He had been on the faculty 41 years.
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'96
Charles A. Wintermeier, known to his
friends as Judge Wintermeier, is the county's
oldest practicing lawyer and has had an office
in Eugene since 1898. Ninety years old, he
works every day at his Lincoln Street home in
Eugene.
'08 Secrplarj : Mozelle Hair,1361 Ferry Si.. Eugne.
Paul G. Bond from San Francisco sends
along some news notes from that city. Although
he majored in physics at the University, his
activities now are far more diverse, ''one trustee-
ship, two partnerships and management of my
own portfolio of stock investments." Mr. Bond
also built and managed the San Francisco
Sports Center in 1942.
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Henry N. Fowler, veteran Oregon news-
man, ended 42 years association with the Bend
Bulletin this fall. He will devote his full time
to his printing business in Bend, Oregon. Fow-
ler is recognized as one of Oregon's top tax ex-
perts, and in 1953 was director of Oregon Busi-
ness and Tax Research. A former president of
the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association,
Fowler was once on the Journalism School staff
at the University.
'23 >fcrelary: Mrs. Aulis Anderson Callav55 Barnard Road, New Rochelle, .NY.
William J. Collins is the new president of
Waverly Country Club in Portland. E. Stanley
Goodell is first vice-president and Frank F.
Dickson is secretary treasurer.
'24 Secretary: Georgia Benson Patte326 E. Jackson St., Hillsboro.
Nancy Wilson Ross, one of America's out-
Thc Richard Sundelmfs '23, here for Home-
coming and dedication of neiv Kappa Sig
house, which Sundeleaf's firm designed.
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Here for Homecoming, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Meek, '24, saw the Student Union for the
first time. "It's beautiful," they said.
standing novelists and historical writers, was a
recent Pacific Northwest visitor while appearing
at a conference of writers at the University of
Washington. In private life she is Mrs. Stanley
Young, a member of the publishing firm of
Farrar, Strauss and Young. The locale of two of
Mi-s Ross' must famous novels, Westward the
Women and Farthest Reach is Oregon and
Washington. Her shorter articles and stories
have appeared in many well known national
magazines. She lives now in Old Westbury,
Connecticut.
Secretary : Mrs. Anne Runes Wilson,
3203 E. Burnside St.. Portland.
Colonel George R. Eckman was honored
October 30 at a retirement ceremony and
parade at Fort Myers,
Virginia, on his retire-
ment from the Regu-
lar Army. He was pre-
sented with a second
Legion of Merit (oak
leaf cluster) at cere-
monies held in the
Pentagon earlier in
the month. In addi-
tion to this most re-
cent award. Colonel
Eckman has received
16 other awards and
decorations including the Distinguished Service
Medal with Silver Star of the Republic of Korea
and The Order of the British Empire.
George (Stub) Allison and his wife Glad
have returned to Eugene. They own and operate
the new Allison's Coffee Shop in the Gilbert
Center at Bethel. Stub is w-ell known through-
out athletic circles in Oregon for his many years
of coaching in Baker and MeMinnville High
Schools. The new restaurant has a dining room
Col. Eckman
Honored at the Homecoming football game,
John C. Higgins '97, was a member of first
football team at the University in 1895.
with a capacity for one hundred and a cocktail
lounge for 30.
'28 etary: Mrs. Alice Douglas Burns,N.E. 28th, Portland 12.
Mell Carter has resigned from her post as
city librarian of Lebanon. Miss Carter came to
Lebanon from Albany, where she had worked
with the public library. Formerly she was the
Toledo High School librarian, Lincoln County
Schools librarian and supervisor of the Toledo
Public Library.
'30 Secretary: Mrs. Lou Ann Chase Tuft,1938 Edgevv.,,,,1 Rd., S.W., Portland.
Colonel Frank S. Ison is the new com-
manding officer of the U.S. Army Transportation
Terminal Agency at Seattle. Colonel Ison has
had 28 years of commissioned officer service
and 20 years of commercial traffic experience.
'31
Colonel and Mrs. Raymond L. Bell, sta-
tioned at Amarillo Air Force Base in Texas,
were among the Oregon rooters at the Okla-
homa-Oregon game October 4. On their return
to Amarillo they wrote the Emerald Editor on
some of their thoughts concerning the game.
"Oregon has a great team," they said. "Okla-
Rolf Klep, recent visitor to the campus,
chats icith Skeet Manerud '22. Mr. Klep,
'27 illustrates for national magazines and is
now living at Surf Pines, on Oregon coast.
14 Old Oregon
Richard M. Jones '29 (left) director of the
Blue Cross Commission, receives an award
from Dr. K. If ells, Freedom Foundation,
for the school-room discussion program.
homa is accustomed to romping all over its op-
ponents, and to taking victory for granted. They
were stunned at the Oregon performance."
"Their coach, the fabulous Bud Wilkinson,
said "W e were lucky to win. That's what it takes
against a team as good as Oregon.'
"All of this leads us to the first point we
want to make: Oklahomans are great sportsmen.
Both before and after the game their attitude
toward their opponents was one of utmost
friendliness. Our car was perhaps the only one
there with an Oregon license, and people would
honk at us and wave a welcome. We sat on the
Oklahoma side, two lonely Oregon fans amidst
about 30,000 of that crowd of 61,000, and all
around us they wrould lean over and say, 'That
was a beautiful play,' or 'Folks, you've got a
great team.'
"The main purpose of this letter is to say
this: You have a team that deserves every bit
a? much loyalty as Oklahoma get* from its fans.
If the Oregon fans don't get out and exhibit
the same spirit and give the team complete sup-
port at all times, regardless of everything, then
they don't deserve a good team ever again."
Lt. Col. William H. Fowler has been
named inspector general of the 6th U.S. Army
Corps, with headquarters at Ft. Benjamin Har-
rison, Indiana. Entering the army in 1941,
Fowler was once head of military science and
tactics at the University. One of his three chil-
dren, Bill Jr. is now a junior at the U. of O.
'32 Secretary: Mrs. Hope Shelley Miller,1519 N. 20th, Boise-. Idaho.
"When I left Eugene after the war," Attorney
Winsor Calkins commented recently, "there
were only 20 practii ing attorneys in town. To-
day there are between 100 and 120. Not all of
this increase has been due to the growth in liti-
gation, but a substantial part of it has." Calkins,
who has practiced law in Eugene since 1932,
made the remarks in addressing a safety con-
ference in Eugene attended by some 400 repre-
sentatives of Oregon electric utilities.
William E. McKitrick is head of the ex-
ploration and development department for the
Shell Oil Company, in the states west of the
Rocky Mountains. His business address is 1008
West Sixth Street, Los Angeles, and he lives in
Whittier with his wife and son.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tracy (Helen Chaney)
and their three children spent the month of
June vacationing in Hawaii. The family home is
in Bremerton, Washington. Their oldest daugh-
ter, Kathleen, is a freshman at Stanford.
Harrison R. Kincaid has recently become
vice-president of Allied Properties, real estate
investors and managers. With this change in po-
sition chines a new address. He has moved from
Portland to 250 North LaPeer Drive, Beverly
Hills, California.
Sri-retary : Mrs. Jcssir Steelc Robe
3520 S.E. Harold Ct., Portland.
Colonel Harlow E. Allen of Bend, who be-
gan his military service as an ROTC second
lieutenant at the U. of
O., has been named
director of operations
in the Army Trans-
portation Terminal
C o m m a n d, Pacific.
The command, with
headquarters at Fort
Mason, California, op-
erates all Army ship-
ping terminals on the
West coast. Colonel
Allen entered the
Army in 1940 and by Col. Allen
1944 had become a lieutenant-colonel, and has
seen service in the Mediterranean, Europe,
New Orleans and the Pentagon in Washington.
Colonel and Mrs. Allen and their daughter,
Susan, are presently living in Fort Mason.
'34 Secretary: Mrs. Frances P. Johnston Dick,1507 E. 18th St., The Dalles, Ore.
Gene C. Brewer is the new president of
United States Plywood Corporation, and will
make his headquarters in New ^ ork City. Mr.
Brewer started working for the corporation in
1937 at a Seattle mill and then went to Orange-
burg, South Carolina as manager of a company
plant. Later he worked for the firm in Redding,
California and became a vice-president about
four years ago. He and his wife and teenage
daughter will move from Redding to New York
the first of the year. The Brewers also have two
sons now attending the University: David, a
senior in history and Robert, a sophomore ma-
joring in Business Administration.
Three Oregon alumni have been elected to
important offices in the Oregon State Bar Asso-
ciation. Heading the group will be George L.
Hibbard, president, who has served on the
board of bar examiners and board of governors
of the Oregon State Bar. He is associated with
Beattie, Hibbard, Jacobs and Caldwell in Ore-
gon City. Vice president is Carl G. Helm, Jr.
('39), also a member of the board of governors
for the last two years. Helm is associated with
C. Richard Nelly in La Grande. Paul A. Sayre,
('24) of Portland was elected treasurer of the
association, and is with Shuler, Sayre, Winfree
and Rankin.
Been in the news lately?
Old Oregon readers are encour-
aged to send news items about them-
selves or their Oregon alumni friends
to their class secretaries (listed with
each class) or direct to Old Oregon,
University of Oregon Alumni Asso-
ciation, Eugene. Photos are also wel-
come.
Secretary : Mrs. Pearl L. Base,
2073 S.W. Park Ave., Apt. 217, Portland.
Dr. Ben Saltzman is the new president of
the Arkansas Tuberculosis Association. Dr.
Saltzman has served for several years on the
executive committee of the association, repre-
senting Baxter County. He practices medicine in
Mountain Home, Arkansas and has his own
clinic and hospital in that city.
Colonel James K. Watts is the new pro-
vost marshal for Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Col-
, ^^^ onel Watts, a native of
I San Francisco, comes
I to Fort Sam Houston
I from Fort Bragg,
North Carolina, where
he was special assist-
ant to the chief of
staff, Headquarters
First Logistical Com-
mand. He entered the
Army in 1934 and had
had foreign service in
Europe and in the
Philippines, besides
duty during World War II. Colonel Watts was
a director of athletics and principal of Rose-
burg High School before entering the army.
With Colonel Watts at his new post are hi*
wife and son.
Col. Watts
'37 Secretary: David B. Lowry,Colver Road, Box 321, Talent, Ore.
Colonel Patrick F. Cassidy is the Seventh
Army's new G-3, in charge of operations, plans
and training. A veteran airborne officer, Colonel
Cassidy was chief of staff of the 11th Airborne
Division before coming to Army Headquarters
in 1956. The Cassidys, who have six children,
will make Stuttgart, Germany, their headquar-
ters.
William C. Reif, assistant chief architect
in the Portland FHA office since 1946, has been
appointed chief architect in the San Francisco
FH \ office. Mr. Reif was in private architec-
tural practice in Portland before joining FHA.
'38 Secretary: Mrs. Gayle Buchanan K;irshner,653 15th St., Arcata, Calif.
Dr. and Mrs. Richard R. Carter are being
congratulated on the birth of a second son, Rich-
ard Rutledge Jr., August 27. He joins Stewart
Lee, age 4.
On campus for the first time since 1939,
Lt. Col. Bob Findtner '39 plans to retire
from active Marine Corps career next year.
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'39
Photo: Oil., Ellis
Socrctnr\ : Mrs. Harriet Sarazin Peterson,
6908 S.W. 8th Ave., Portland.
G. Burton Wood holds the unique distinc-
tion of holding degrees from both the Univer-
sity (bachelor's) and Oregon State College
I MS, 1940). Now head of the department of Ag-
ricultural Economics at Oregon State, Wood
professes loyalty to both Oregon's and OSC's
football squads. "I'm proud of both teams,"
says he. In addition to his degrees from Oregon
schools, Wood has a Ph.D. from the University
of Wisconsin.
'40 SeinM.u\ : Roy N. Ye3838 N.F.. Alamcda Dr Portland 13.
Daryl L. Evans is leaving the position he
has held since 1947 with Alcoa Aluminum. For-
merly the district traf-
fic manager for the
company's Vancouver
operations, Evans will
be superintendent of
the traffic-shipping de-
partment of Alcoa's
Massena, New York,
operations. Evans
started his Alcoa ca-
reer in 1940, during
the construction of the
West's first aluminum
smelter. The Evans
Gary, Cathy and Steven,
who all started at new schools in New York.
George B. Schwieger Jr. traveled to Los
Angeles in October to take part in Farmer's In-
surance Group's 30th anniversary event at the
home office. The trip was won for insurance sales
performance. Mr. and Mrs. Schwieger (Dor-
othy M. Bates) live at 303 Lariat Drive, Eu-
gene and have a son and a daughter.
Daryl Evans
have three children,
'42 Secretary532 Jerom Robert S. Lovell,e Ave., Astoria, Ore.
The September mail brought a post card
from Larry Chelsi with a new address and
news of his activities. He sang at the Tangle-
wood and Marlboro festivals this summer and is
now doing "Student Prince" in New York. His
address is 117 East 60th, New York.
Dr. Gerald Huestis and his wife were in
the East during October, where he finished the
requirements for admission to the American
College of Surgeons. He finished his four year
residency at Santa Barbara, with a fifth year at
the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School
of Medicine. He has practiced surgery in Santa
Ana, California, where the family now lives,
their address is 1307 West Santa Clara, Santa
Ana, California. By-the way, when we say fam-
ily, we mean the seven Huestis children, ages
ranging from one to 12.
'43 Secretary: Mrs. Nancy Lewis Moller,Kt. 3, Box 738, Hood River, Ore.
Major and Mrs. Donald H. Campbell are
now living in Auburn, Alabama, where Major
Campbell is an instructor in military science at
Alabama Polytechnical Institute. The Camp-
bells, who have a boy and two girls, would en-
joy hearing from their old friends. Their ad-
dress is 144 West Magnolia, Auburn.
From Edgemoor Orchard in Hood River
comes news from Nancy (Lewis) Moller. She
says ". . . if you are interested in alums political
activities, you can add these to your list. Dave
Browning is new Hood River county Republi-
can party chairman, and I'm his vice-chairman.
Kenneth Abraham ('38), our Hood River
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Now at Orange High School, near Santa Ana
California, is Len Surles '43, coach and
teacher in Klamath Falls for many years.
With him are his wife (Muriel Stevens '46)
and two sons, Dennis 10, and David 13.
county district attorney is running for re-elec-
tion on the Republican ticket."
"Latest addition to our community is Don
Shelton and his wife (OSC) and three chil-
dren. He has taken over the position of superin-
tendent of Hood River County Unit system. His
last assignment was a similar post at Newport,
Oregon".
In a ceremony August 30 in Eugene Abbie
Jane White was married to Leo Irwin Bakony
of Seattle. After their wedding trip to Hawaii
the couple went to Seattle, where Mr. Bakony
is an assistant professor at the LIniversity of
Washington.
Raymond V. Packouz has been granted
the Charter Life Underwriter designation from
the American College of Life Underwriters in
Dallas, Texas. He has been in the insurance
business in Portland for a number of years.
Chuck Pressman, former advertising direc-
tor for the Eugene Register-Guard is now asso-
ciated with Zilka, Smither and Company. The
Pressmans live at 1644 E. 27th Street in Eu-
gene. Mr. and Mrs. Pressman (Hope Hughes
'42) have three children.
'44 Secretary: Barbara J. Lamb,252 E. 74th St., New York 21, N.Y.
Rand Potts, formerly sales administrator for
National Hospital Association in Portland, has
moved up to executive sales director. Mr. and
Mrs. Potts (Mary Jane Rabbe '45) have two
children.
'46 Secretary: Lois McConkey Putnam,1438 Marietta Ave., Sherman Oaks, Calif.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gelinsky are being
congratulated on the birth of a second daughter,
September 18. The baby, Kristin Lyn has an
older sister, Jody. The Gelinskys are living in
Beaverton, Oregon.
Four University of Oregon Medical School
graduates have been admitted to the American
College of Surgeons. They are Dr. Joe Clark
Keever, Dr. Robert Francis Anderson
('43), Dr. Allan L. Ferrin ('44), Dr. How-
ard L. Cherry ('44).
Dr. G. Duncan Wimpress, formerly as-
sistant to the president at the Colorado School
of Mines in Golden, has been elected president
Dr. Wimpress
of Monticello College,
Alton, Illinois. He will
assume His new post as
soon as a successor
has been appointed at
the Colorado engi-
neering school. Be-
sides a degree in jour-
nalism and a master's
degree from the Uni-
versity, Dr. Wimpress
received his Ph.D at
the University of Den-
ver, and has served as
director of public relations and instructor in
journalism at Whittier College California. Ac-
tive in civic and professional affairs, Dr. Wim-
press has twice been elected national vice-presi-
dent of the American College Public Relations
Association and has served on committees for
both the Community Chest and the American
Red Cross. He is also a veteran of World War
II and served with the U.S. Army military in-
telligence team in France, Belgium, Holland
and Germany. Mrs. Wimpress (Peggy Skerry
'46) and their two daughters Wendy Jo and
Victoria Jean, will be with Dr. Wimpress in
Alton, where he will be the college's ninth
president. Monticello is one of the nation's old-
est women's colleges, and held its first classes
in 1838.
William W. Bristow Jr. has been named to
the State Apprenticeship Council by Governor
Robert D. Holmes. The council is designed to
encourage apprenticeship training of Oregon
youth in the skilled trades and crafts in indus-
try. Bristow, a Eugene jeweler, will also be
working with industry to establish apprentice-
ship standards.
'47 Secretary: James B. Thayer,7800 S.W. Brentwood Dr.^ Portland.
Howard V. Applegate was appointed
United Press International sports editor for
Oregon early in October. Applegate joined UPI
in 1947 in Portland and later served as the Ta-
coma, Washington bureau manager for two
years and as Seattle night manager before re-
turning to Portland in 1952. He was sports ed-
itor of the Oregana during his college days.
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Disney (Jean Adams)
are the parents of a daughter, Virginia, born
October 3 in Portland. She is their first child.
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Sterrett (Dorothy
Ellen Pauling) are parents of a son, Clay
Roger, born September 14 in Portland. The Ster-
retts have a daughter, Sally, also.
From the American Embassy in Asuncion,
Paraguay comes the news of a fourth daughter
for the Doyle Caseys. Cynthia Ann was born
in Asuncion on June 8. Mr. Casey tells us that
he and his family visited in the States "during
the months of November, December and Jan-
uary (1957-58) but unfortunately time and
weather did not permit us to visit in Eugene.
Consequently, we extended our visit into Ore-
gon only as far as Medford and will have to
wait until 1960 for our next visit at which time
we hope to be able to be in Eugene for Home-
coming. If we do make it in 1960, that will be
our first football game of any description since
1949, although we have in the meantime, seen a
number of futbol (soccer) games."
'48 Secretary : Gloria Grenfell Mathews1933 S.W. Illinois, Portland.
Bruce T. Davis, CPA, has announced the
formation of a partnership with Fred W. Jar-
rard, for the practice of public accounting. The
Old Oregon
firm name is Bruce T. Davis and Company and
the offices are located at 401 Executive Building,
Portland.
Kevin March, a son, was born to Rev. and
Mrs. Wallace C. Bradley, of Hillsboro, Ore-
gon, October 5. The baby has an older sister.
'49 Secretary: Mrs. Olga Yevlich Peterson1537 Lake Street, San Francisco
Actor Clifton James has been given another
top role. He'll appear in J.B., the story of Job in
modern dress, a play that will open in New
York at the ANTA theater December 11. Be-
sides many television appearances, James has
had a top role in Cave Dwellers on Broadway,
and was seen last season in The Strange One.
He has had several film roles including one in
the recently completed Last Mile starring
Mickey Rooney.
James plans to fly to Brussels to appear as
the bartender in Time of Your Life before re-
hearsals start on J.B. He appeared in this Thorn-
ton Wilder hit in the University Theater.
Playing the role of Big Daddy, he also toured
recently with the road company of Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof, and was seen in a role on Gunsmoke
October 11.
Norman Van Brocklin, formerly with the
Los Angeles Rams, is now playing pro football
for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Congratulations are due for Dr. and Mrs.
Harold D. Phelps (Nancy Baughman) of
Winner, South Dakota, whose fifth child was
born September 5. It's a boy this time, Michael
Daniel, and little Mike joins 4 sisters: Nancy 7,
Vicki 51/-;, Sandra 4, and Judith 18 months.
George C. Crakes assumed the duties of
postmaster of Harrisburg, Oregon, September 3.
Crakes was manager of the Veterans Memorial
Building in Eugene for three years. He has
served as city recorder in Harrisburg since early
1955. His wife, Judy operates a local beauty
shop and they have two sons, Gary, 13, and
Mike, 7.
William F. Rau has been elected president
of the Eugene-Lane County Insurance Agents
Association for the coming year. Rau said that
the association is continuing its activity in safety
and fire prevention work in Lane County.
News was received of the arrival on Septem-
ber 18 of Walter Eugene Quincy, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Quincy (June Goetze). The new
baby joins a brother, David, 3 and a sister, Anita,
2. Mr. Quincy is a statistician for the U.S. De-
partment of Agriculture and the Quincys live
at 2671 Wright St., Sacramento, California.
'50 Secretary: Mrs. Dorutliy E. Orr Cole,7 ll.-llewn.Ml Circle, N. Ssracu.se 12, N.Y.
Dr. William E. Alexander was installed as
president of the Lane County District Dental
Society at the society's first meeting this fall.
Dr. K. B. McGillivary ('47) is the new presi-
dent-elect; Dr. M. Kolstoe ('55) is editor; and
Dr. Richard Rogers Jr ('46) became imme-
diate past president.
A son, Robert Lewis, was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Holman Barrett (Jacqueline
Lewis '53) September 21. The baby has two
sisters. The Barrett family lives at 1220 Vista
Drive, Eureka, California.
Frank W. Rei has been named director of
training for Bankers Life Insurance Co. of Ne-
braska. He had been with the company's home
office staff as assistant director of training since
September 1954.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin H. Feinstein are the
parents of a second daughter, Marcia Ann, born
October 14 at Emanuel Hospial. She joins a
sister, Joni.
'51 Secretary: Mrs. Florence H. Higgir1 Duane St., Redwood City, Calif.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. William
A. Wall on the birth of a second son, Septem-
ber 22. Jonathan Spencer joins two year old
David. The Wall family lives at 5723 N. Kerby
St., in Portland.
Glen A. Holden has ben appointed state
finance chairman for the Oregon Republican
Party. Mr. Holden majored in political science
and business administration at the University,
and now operates the Glen A. Holden Agency
of the National Life Insurance Company of Ver-
mont. Mrs. Holden (Gloria Ann McClintock
'50) was once a teacher in the Lorane School
District. The Holdens have two children, Glen
Jr. and Georganne and are living in Oswego.
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Pacini (Margaret Ed-
wards) are now living in New York. After
attending the American Institute for Foreign
Trade in Phoenix, Arizona, Mr. Pacini is work-
ing for International Company of Colgate-
Palmolive Corporation, training for a position
in overseas management. Their new address is
2331?116th St., Apt. 3-E, Kew Gardens, Long
Island, New York.
Dr. John B. Shaw has established his prac-
tice of osteopathic medicine and surgery in
Azusa, California. He won his D.O. degree after
four years' study at the College of Osteopathic
Physicians and Surgeons in Los Angeles with an
externship at the Los Angeles County Hospital.
Following internship at San Gabriel Valley
Hospital," California, he formed a partnership
with Dr. Ben F. Keller '50.
Ellen-Margarete Liebe and Mr. Vernon
Rozelle Dunlap Jr. were married July 19 in San
Francisco. Mrs. Dunlap taught music in the ele-
mentary schools in Newberg and in elementary
and junior high schools in Long Beach, Cali-
fornia, and has traveled quite extensively in
Europe.
Newly appointed to position of stale budget
administrator was William Bass, formerly in
the management research division of the State
Finance Department. Bass served for more than
four years as controller for the State Tax Com-
mission and later was a member of the state
auditing stall.
Two University of Oregon graduates were
awarded master of arts degrees at the University
of Denver this summer. They are Duncan
Philip McGillivary and Stanley Neal Ruck-
man C58). McGillivary, from Klamath Falls,
received his B.S. degree in political science and
Ruckman has a bachelor of education degree.
Bruce A. Bishop has resigned as editor of
the International Woodworker, official publica-
tion of the International Woodworkers of Amer-
ica. He has accepted a Fulbright scholarship at
the University of Nottingham in England.
'52 Secretary: Ann Darby Nicholson,1930 S. Hartford St., Kennewick, Wash.
Dorothy Ann Edblom became the bride of
Vincent B. Daal of Denver, August 23, in Ever-
green, Colorado. For their wedding trip Mr.
and Mrs. Daal traveled to Jasper National Park
in British Columbia, and are now at home in
Kittredge, Colorado.
Don Stevenson of Oswego has joined the
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ton. The 7-by-40-foot mural in the Student
Union lobby was painted by Don as part of his
work at the University for a master's degree.
Ann Denman and Clarence W. Hultgren
were married in September in Medford. The
groom is chief therapist at the University Med-
ical School Hospital, and Mrs. Hultgren is a
senior nursing student at the University of Ore-
gon Medical School. After a honeymoon at
Payette Lakes in Idaho, they are now at 10720
S.W. 30th in Portland.
J. T. Hamilton took as his bride Miss Bar-
bara Ruth Nye, August 23 in an evening cere-
mony. The newylweds are at home in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Gibbons have a new boy
in the family. Tt's Michael Grant, and he joins
two sisters, Molly and Kathy. The Gibbons live
at 3250 Royal Ave., Eugene, and Ted teaches
at Willamette High School.
John William Loughary received his Ph.D.
degree from the State University of Iowa in
August. 1958.
Now living in Eugene are Elaine Belle Rigas
and Ronald J. Weitzel who were married in
Portland September 20. Ronald is attending
the University again, after receiving a business
degree six years ago.
A son, Bruce Eric, was born Sept. 24, 1958,
to Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Thompson
(Kathleen Stryker). The baby has a two-year-
old sister, Debra Lee.
Dick was recently promoted to superintend-
ent of the Fidelity-Surety Department of the
United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company
in Portland. He has been associated with the
company for the past four years.
Alene Ziolkowski and Albert Powell were
married September 20 in Eugene. The newly-
weds took a wedding trip to Sun Valley before
coming home to Portland.
Phyllis Rich left October 15 for Teguci-
galpa, Honduras, where she is working as a
member of the staff of the United States Em-
bassy. She received her appointment with the
Foreign Service and reported for duty in Wash-
ington, D.C. last December, and has been train-
ing at the Foregin Service Institute until
receiving her first overseas assignment.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Cunningham
(Patricia Dominey '53) are the parents of
twins, Jan Rae and Jay Richard, born October 8
in Portland. The twins have three older broth-
ers, Donald, James and Thomas. The Cunning-
ham clan lives at 3004 NE 61st St., Portland.
'53 Secretary: Jean Simpson O'Donnell,3287 Walnut Lane, Lafayette, Calif.
A daugher was born to Mr. and Mrs. John
R. Faust Jr. (Alice Belt '56) September 29
in Portland. Jack and Alice have named the
baby Barbara Louise.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Fahlman (Dorothy
Pederson '54) are the parents of a boy, born
September 16 and named David Milton. The
Fahlman family also includes a daughter, Kathy,
aged 2%.
It's a daughter, Kirsten Sue, for Mr. and
Mrs. Dick Newstrum. The baby, born Sep-
tember 30, has an older brother, Stephen.
'54 Secretary: Mr?. Jean Mauro Karr,127 Lr-,ter Roarl, Park Fnrcm, III.
Betty Suzanne Chatterton and Capt. Her-
man Campbell Engles were married Sept. 27 in
Merced, California. A reception was held the
day after the wedding at the Officers' Club at
Castle Air Force Base. The Engles are living
in Mr reed.
In a simple ceremony September 13, Arlene
Maher was married to Norman Lee Weekly.
After a wedding trip to Banff and Lake Louise
in Canada, the couple returned to Eugene.
Lawrence C. Maves has returned to Eu-
gene after two years military service and two
years at the Juilliard School of Music in New
^ oi k. He is now an instructor in the Univer-
sity's School of Music. He is violinist in the
University Trio, which has given concerts sev-
eral times on campus. The other two members
of the trio are William Woods, piano, and
Jerome Jelinek, cello.
Congratulations to Dr. and Mrs. Dennis
McCafferty (Estelle Greer '50) on the birth
of a daughter, Leslie Ann. The baby was born
September 10 at Oregon City hospital and joins
a sister, Page, age 2.
Albert and Jean Karr have moved to De-
troit from Park Forest, Illinois. Their new ad-
dress is 2446 Ewald Circle, Apt. 218, Detroit 38,
Michigan.
Audrey Bugher was married to John Irvin
early last fall in Portland. The bride and groom
are both attending the University.
Western Reserve University has sent word
that Irene Myrle Hudleson, who received her
bachelor's degree in nursing education, has
been awarded a master of science in nursing.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Charles Bucklin
(Marlene Cross '55) are now living in Sem-
bach, Germany, where Lieutenant Bucklin is
serving as a pilot with the 512th Fighter Inter-
ceptor Squadron. Their two boys Daniel and
Douglas are with them. Before their move to
Germany the Bucklins were stationed in Man-
ston, England. Their new address is APO 130,
New York.
Seattle was the scene of the September
marriage of Audrey Elizabeth Jones to Wil-
liam Oium Behnken. A reception at Washington
Athletic Club followed the ceremony. The
Behnkens honeymooned in Hawaii and are now
living in Seattle.
We just received word that James W.
Wooden, draftsman at White Sands Missile
Range in Las Cruces, New Mexico, was recip-
ient of an award check from the White Sands
Signal agency. Mr. Wooden submitted a sug-
gestion that will save the Missile Range an esti-
mated $20,000 a year. Mrs. Wooden (Sharon
Lee Anderson '53) has been busy, too. She
received her master of arts degree in education
and psychology at New Mexico College of A &
MA May 31. She was supervisor of elementary
music in Junction City a few years ago. The
Woodens' address is 724 W. Court, Las Cruces,
New Mexico.
Craig Beairsto is now attending the Amer-
ican Institute for Foreign Trade in Phoenix.
While Craig was in the service he spent quite
some time in the Far East and is now specializ-
ing in that area, taking an intensive training
course in preparation for a career abroad. Mrs.
Beairsto (Becky Fortt '56) and young son
Mark are at Thunderbird, too.
'55 Secretary: Mary Wilson Glass,1267 Ferry St., Eugene, Oregon
Jack Patera, former Oregon football star,
has been added to the Chicago Cardinals pro
football team. Previously with the Baltimore
Colts, Jack is starting his third season in the
league.
Patricia Dae Hudson '('58) became the
bride of Dr. John Charles Misko in an early
September wedding. John is an interne at the
Stanford University Hospital, specializing in
surgery and the Miskos are living at 10 Lupine,
in San Francisco.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Pollock '55, attended
the Homecoming luncheon. Bob and the for-
mer Sandra Palmer were married in August.
It's a boy, Daniel Philip, for Mr. and Mrs.
Philip E. Draper (Nancy Lee Adams '57).
The baby, born August 30, joins a sister, De-
borah, 2. The Draper family is living at 3843
N.E. 32nd Place, Portland 12.
Married in October were Bernadette McCor-
mick and Vance Louis Taylor. The wedding
was held in Tacoma. The Taylors went to New
York on their honeymoon and returned to Port-
land the last of October.
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick M. O'Brien (Alice
Hodges) are the parents of a fourth child, their
first boy. He was born October 3 and joins three
sisters. The O'Briens are living in Salem.
Janet Ann Miller was married to James R.
Day September 27 in Portland. Janet is from
Oregon City and her new husband is from Den-
ver, where the couple is living.
Dick Lewis writes about his Poor Richard's
Guide to San Francisco from his new address in
New York. "You might be interested to know
that we are into our third printing and have
sold about 13,000 copies altogether."
''Have just gotten moved into a Greenwich
Village apartment in New York City, but have
not started out on the long job hunting tramp.
Anyway 1 feel it may be a long cold winter."
We've had a few suggestions that perhaps Dick
and his co-writer Ron Spores could compile a
Poor Richard's Guide to New York. Then may-
be New Orleans.
Carmen Yuzon became the bride of Carl
Shonk August 30 in Honolulu. The Shonks are
now back in Eugene where Mr. Shonk will con-
tinue his studies at the University.
Paul Edward Peterson and Carol Cross
were married this fall. They are living in Port-
land.
'56 Secretary: Jill Hutehings Bramlenfels,1515 E. 13th, Eugene.
Miss Carol Elinor David and Dr. Arthur
Oscar Schilp were married early this fall in
Portland. Dr. Schilp is from Leiden, The Neth-
erlands.
Robert O. Porter is now associated with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Porter, at the
Nutrition Center, 175 E. 8th Ave. in Eugene.
The Nutrition Center specializes in health
foods. Since graduation Bob had worked at the
Bon Marche.
It's a dauether for Marion and Veronica
18 Old Oregon
Buchholz. The baby, born July 27, was named
Karen Evonne and is their fourth child.
Sue Colburn and Richard Bach were mar-
ried late this summer. After the wedding the
Bachs made a trip to the Oregon coast, and are
now in Eugene, where Sue and Dick both teach
in Eugene high schools.
Barbara Callaghan has received an over-
seas assignment from the State Department.
Barbara was sent to Berlin, Germany, following
five months training.
Anita Margaret Allen C58) and Dale L.
Oderman were married August 23 in Reno,
Nevada. The couple is living at Novata, Cali-
fornia, where Lieut. Oderman is stationed with
the U.S. Air Force.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. James E.
Buckley Jr. on the birth of a son, Richard Mc-
Dowell, October 10, in Portland.
Alice Gentle ('59) became the bride of
James Leroy Alleman August 23 in Eugene.
After a wedding trip to the Oregon coast they re-
turned to Eugene, where the groom is working
on his master's degree.
Miss Diane Lynch and Larry Gubrud were
wed in a double-ring ceremony August 2 in Eu-
gene. The couple made a wedding trip to Car-
mel, California. While Larry completes his
senior year at the University, the Gubruds will
live at 2550 Chula Vista St., Eugene.
Merle S. Brown, owner of an accounting
firm in Eugene, has been licensed by the state
as a public accountant. He has operated a tax
service and bookkeeping business and will now
specialize in public accounting.
Pete Maffei was married August 23 to Joy
Dunham in Grand Island, Nebraska. The newly-
weds are living at 2618 East 16th St. in Oakland,
California, where the groom has been trans-
ferred by Safeway Stores.
Gerald Jones has moved to Washington,
D.C., where he is now associated with the Fed-
eral Housing Administration. He is also doing
graduate work toward a master's degree in po-
litical science at The American University. He
received his B.A. from Oregon in anthropology.
The new address for him is 1825 "T Street, N.
W., Apartment 405. Washington 9, D.C.
'57
Recently vacationing in Honolulu was Sally
Allen of Portland. Sally studied at the Sor-
bonne Louvre in Paris and later taught French
and art at Grant High School in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Dahlquist (Mary
Ann Platt) are parents of a girl, Teri Ann,
born September 12. Gordon is employed by the
Bank of California in Portland. The Dahlquist
home is at 6636-A S.W. Beaverton-Hillsdale
Hwy., Portland.
In late August Mi*s Carolyn Ann Forde be-
came the bride of Lawrence H. Hansen. The
ceremony was read by the same minister who
had married the bride's parents more than 20
year' ago. After a wedding trip to Hawaii, the
couple returned to Portland, where Mr. Hansen
will complete his senior year at the University
Medical School and Mrs. Hansen will finish her
last year at the Dental School in dental hygiene.
Mary Ann Fowler was a bride of Septem-
ber 7 in Portland. The groom, Francis Walton,
is from Macon, Texas.
Janet Lucile Wakeman and William Law-
rence Bryant were married August 23. They will
live in Eugene while Mr. Bryant attends the
University.
Harry E. Lester sends word from Kensing-
First Lieutenant Harrison J. Bradley '56
receives the silver bars of his new rank.
ton, Maryland that he is now teaching English
and Social Studies in the school system of
Montgomery County, Maryland. Besides teach-
ing, Harry is also a graduate student at George
Washington University. "I expect (at the rate
I'm going) to receive my degree by 1961?an
M.A. in educational administration." Harry
adds that "it gets a little lonesome out here in
the suburbs of Washington, D.C. and any infor-
mation you can send on to me concerning old
Oregon ... I would be most pleased to accept
and pass on to the two other Oregon grads I
have managed to run into." The Lesters live at
3712 Farragut Ave., Kensington, Maryland.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ruggles (Beverly Jones)
are parents of a son, Thomas James, born Oc-
tober 9. The Ruggles live at 2545 N.W. Mildred
St., Portland 10.
A bride of August 23 was Patricia Jean Koch,
who married Richard A. Romaine. Both the
bride and groom are students at the University
of Oregon Medical School, and are living in
Portland.
Karen Leslie McDaniel was married to
David C. Englehart in September. Karen has
been a caseworker for the State of Oregon in
Portland and a professional staff worker on the
Girl Scout Council as district director. She was
a sociology major.
Mary Anne Ziniker became the bride of
Giles Wilson Maloof (M.A. '58) in an eve-
ning ceremony September 5. Both the bride and
groom are attending the U. of O. this year as
graduate students, and are living in Creswell.
Jo Anne Rogers married William Veatch
August 17 in Independence. The couple trav-
eled to the coast for their wedding trip. The
Veatch es are living in Portland where Jo Anne
is teaching at Franklin High School and Mr.
Veatch is studying at University of Oregon Med-
ical School.
Mrs. Bruce Marvin Haston was Annie
Laurie Quackenbush before her wedding in
August.
Delma Ann Herington became the bride of
Jack Thomas Smith in Dallas. They are living
in Salem after a wedding trip to Mexico, Palm
Springs and Las Vegas.
Gordon L. French has been appointed
Traffic Manager of station KNXT in Los An-
geles. He was formerly in the operations depart-
ment at CBS Radio Pacific Network in Los
Angeles. Gordon's address is 6759 Yucca, Los
Angeles 28, California.
It's a boy for Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F.
Taylor. The baby, their first, was born October
7 and lias been named David Ward.
Pieter Vos is with the Ralston Purina Com-
pany in Barbados, British West Indies. With
him since November are his wife, Harriet
(Meyers) and their new daughter. After grad-
uation from the University in business, with a
foreign trade major, Pieter and his wife en-
rolled at the American Institute for Foreign
Trade in Phoenix, and graduated from there
this last June.
Professor Alfred Lomax from the business
school says that "Pete's origins are in Holland,
and like most Dutchmen, (he) is proficient in
languages." Five, to be exact.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Stearns (Nan Hage-
dorn) are living in France, where Peter is sta-
tioned with the Army Engineers. The Stearns
were married in June and left immediately for
this overseas assignment. Their address is 89th
Engr. Co. (P.O. APO 217, New York.
'58 Secretary: Mrs Sue Walcott Kjome,H40 S. E. H3rd, Portland.
Jerry L. Kershner and Margaret Ann
Henderson were married August 31 in Klam-
ath Falls. Jerry is now enrolled in officer's can-
didate school, U.S. Marine Corps, Quantico,
Virginia, Margaret joins him the first of Decem-
ber.
Earl Kurtz has joined the staff of Oregon
Technical Institute at Klamath Falls. Kurtz, a
former Portlander, instructs in the school of
First commercial passengers to land at new air terminal in Portland ivere Mr. and Mrs
Gene H. Knutson '56 (Marion Baum '58). They were presented with the keys to the city.
December-January 1958-59 19
allied arts and sciences in the physics depart-
ment.
Marsha Jolene Kelly and Donald Lee Mc-
Neill were married September 6 in Portland.
The McNeills are living in Portland while Don
attends the University Medical School.
Elizabeth L. Poage was awarded an $1,800
grant for advanced study at the University of
Denver. She received her bachelor degree in
sociology, and is a member of Alpha Kappa
Delta, national sociology honorary.
In an August afternoon wedding Sally Anette
Shaw married William Franklin Smith of
Stockton, California. Mrs. Smith is from Port-
land and from the last reports we had, Bill is
attending the American Institute1 for Foreign
Trade, in Phoenix.
A double-ring ceremony was performed in
July for Beverly Jean Cripe and Robert R.
Shumway. The Shumways took a honeymoon
trip to San Francisco and returned via the coast.
They are now living at 911 Hill St., in Bend.
wrhere Mr. Shumway is employed at a dairy.
Ronald V. Savage of Ontario is doing grad-
uate study and research in Costa Rica this year
under a grant from the International Education
Exchange Service of the Department of State.
Savage was one of a selected group of students
chosen to receive the annual grants for a year of
graduate study in a number of Central and
South American republics and the United
States. He plans to work in the area of Central
American literature.
Jim Shanley, ex-U. of 0. football whiz sur-
vived the final cuts and is a regular member of
the Green Bay Packers pro football squad. This
is quite an accomplishment for Shanley, who
was thought to be too small to play professional
ball. But he proved his value to the team by av-
eraging more yardage in carrying the ball in
pre-season games than any other back. To make
room for him on the squad the Packers dropped
their number three draft choice, Ail-American
Dick Christie. The Packers will play some tele-
vised games, so perhaps we can see Jim in action
December 7 against the 49ers and again Decem-
ber 14 against the Rams. Jim is married to the
former Mary Jo Fourier.
Sandra Annalou Olsen became the bride of
Joe Stanley Tillman August 9. The Tillmans
are living in Portland.
Janet Woodroffe and Scott Taylor were
married September 20 in Salem. Since Novem-
ber 7 they have been in Fort Lee, Virginia,
where Scott is beginning his Army service.
Nora Drew Walsh became the bride of
John B. Souther September 9. The late after-
noon wedding was held at Our Lady of the Lake
Catholic Church in Oswego.
Robert and Julia Lawry had an exhibition
of their paintings and prints in October and
November at Henry Ford's in Portland. He is a
graduate of the Museum Art School and his
wife graduated from the University of British
Columbia besides doing work at the Museum
Art School.
New assistant dean of men at the University
this year is Bruce M. Brenn. A Phi Beta Kap-
pa football player, Brenn made hanor roll
grades consistently during his three years on
campus. Now he and Mrs. Brenn (Lucinda
Randall) are Jiving at 973 Hilyard St. Apt 4,
Eugene. They were married last June in Rose-
burg.
Second Lieutenant David G. Moursund,
recently completed the nine-week officer basic
course at the Army Ordnance School, Aberdeen
Ensign Jack W. McBrien received his ivings
in. October after advanced flight training.
He is stationed in San Diego, California.
Proving Ground, Maryland. The course is de-
signed to provide basic branch training for
newly commissioned officers.
LaVelle Lee Schillings and David Brands-
ness were married in September and are now
living in St. Paul, Minnesota. Mrs. Brandsness,
an OSC grad, is teaching elementary school
while Dave studies for his master's degree at
the University of Minnesota.
Loretta Schelske has a position as assistant
health director at the YWCA in Schenectady,
New ^ ork. Her new address is 44 Washington
Avenue, Schenectady 5.
Three Oregon alums are beginning graduate
work this year as Woodrow Wilson Fellows.
They are Robert W. Coffin, Ken E. Kesey
('57) and Donald G. Swanson. The Ford
Foundation recently gave the Woodrow Wilson
Fellowship Foundation $25,000,000 to aid out-
standing first year graduate students who plan
to go into teaching at the college level. Each
followship carries a living allowance and also
pays full cost of tuition and fees.
Coffin has entered the graduate school of the
University of Oregon to study zoology. Kesey is
studying creative writing at Stanford Univer-
sity, and is now at work on his second novel.
Swanson is doing graduate work in physics at
the California Institute of Technology.
Miss Amanda Chiang of Formosa became the
bride of Daniel Dao of Hong Kong September
23. The wedding was performed in Wesley
Foundation Chapel on the University campus,
and was followed by a reception held in Chris-
tian House. The Daos will live in Eugene where
Mrs. Dao will continue her studies in mathe-
matics and Mr. Dao will work on a master's
degree in business administration. Their ad-
dres is 1358 E. 13th Ave., Eugene.
Miss Darlene LaRose Snodgrass became the
bride of James Loren Cain in an early fall
wedding in Portland. While Jim is stationed at
Fort Lee, the Cains are living in Petersburg,
Virginia.
Barbara Borchers married Arnold W. Col-
well August 24 in Portland. The bride and
groom have both been attending the University
of Oregon Dental School and will live in Port-
land after a honeymoon in the South.
Married in McMinnville were Carolyn
Courtemanche and Patrick W. McNamara Jr.
Carolyn and her new husband are living in Ev-
anston, Illinois.
Melville C. Murray has received his com-
mission as a Navy ensign at the U.S. Naval Offi-
cer Candidate School, in Newport, Rhode
Island. Ensign Murray has been assigned to
further training at the Naval Supply School,
Athens, Georgia.
Kellogg, Idaho was the scene August 17 of
the wedding of Marienne Muir and Darrell
Hunsaker. The couple is at home in Portland.
\ trip to Canada followed the wedding of
Shirley Mae Mertz and T. Richard Wayne.
The Waynes were married August 31 in Eugene
and are now in Portland where Mr. Wayne is
attending school.
Nancy Ann Lidbeck and Ronald L. Travers
were married late this summer in Salem.
The Daniel G. Lees (Susan Roberts '59)
are parents of a son, Cameron, born July 13.
Dan is now working on the Blue Mountain
Eagle, weekly newspaper, as news editor. Their
address is Box 512, John Day, Oregon.
Darlyne Dey Robinson became the bride of
Jon E. Jacobson August 23 in Portland. The
groom, a voice and music teacher, sang at the
wedding. The Robinsons are at home in Alsea,
Oregon.
Myrtle Mae Johnson and Ralf Norman
Hakanson were married in Cottage Grove, Ore-
gon August 31. The couple is now at home in
Portland, where Mrs. Hakanson is a senior at
the University of Oregon school of nursing.
Keith Edward Hedeen and Denise Mae
Bryant were married September 6 in Oregon
City. The newlyweds will live in Eugene.
Cornelia Fogle writes from San Francisco
about her new job. "I'm editorial assistant
(which actually means Assistant to the Direc-
tor) in public relations and sales promotion at
West Coast Life Insurance .. . Competition was
terrific, and I'm thankful to have such a good
job." She also had this to say: "The main
reason I'm joining (the alumni association),
aside from sentimental ties, is because I want
copies of OLD OREGON. I got into the habit of
reading it last year, and now I miss it.'
Married September 13 in Elizabeth, New-
Jersey, were Valerie Gilman and Lt. (jg) Gard-
ner Allen Gage, USN. Lieut, and Mrs. Gage
live in Newport, Rhode Island. He is an officer
on the USS Wagner.
Mrs. James G. Clayton was formerly Mar-
beth Anne Hjort of Vancouver. The Claytons
were married September 13.
Marjorie Davis has been named state pro-
gram consultant of the Oregon Heart Associa-
tion. Her main duties will be to organize heart
councils in counties of Western Oregon and to
assist councils already in operation. She is from
Bellevue, Washington.
Lisa Louise is the name the John A. Palos
(Roberta McLean) picked for their new baby
girl. She was born October 13, in Eugene, where
her father is attending the University. Mr. and
Mrs. Palo recently moved from Astoria, Oregon
to 2227-3 Patterson Drive.
Maureen Day became the bride of James
W. Bernard at an afternoon ceremony Septem-
ber 6, in San Mateo, California. The Bernards
spent their honeymoon in Carmel and are now
back in Eugene, where the groom is a senior in
chemistry. Their address is 1790 Ferry St.
Two Oregon graduates are studying abroad
under Fulbright scholarships. They are Roger
M. Hagglund from Redmond and R. Craig
Philips from Medford. Hagglund is studying at
the University of Poitiers in France, while
Philips will be at the University of Edinburgh
in Scotland.
The wedding of Sharron Lea McCabe and
Myron Jerome Smith was an event of Septem-
ber 27 in Portland. The newlyweds are living in
Coos Bay, where Myron is in business.
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'59
Marjorie Denny became the bride of Leon
Umsted in a fall wedding in Cottage Grove. The
groom is a graduate of Pomona College at
Claremont, California. The Umsteds are living
in Mexico City while they both attend Mexico
City College.
Muriel Joan Petersen and William Aaron
Knutson were married this fall in Portland.
Mr. Knutson is a bookkeeper at the First Na-
tional Bank in Portland.
Patricia Ann Strader carried an heirloom
prayerbook when she was married August 24 to
\^ illiam E. Byrne in Medford. The couple took
a wedding trip to the coast and are now living
in Corvallis where the groom will complete his
senior year at Oregon State College.
Ruth Poston was married August 24 to
John Ruberg, in a double-ring ceremony. The
Rubergs took a trip to the coast before settling
down in Eugene, where the groom is a senior
at the University.
Now living in Los Angeles are Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest E. Ettlich (Sheila Marie Ruppel).
They were married in an early fall wedding in
Eugene and are now both seniors at Los An-
geles State College.
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'60
Karen Loy Holmes became the bride of
Donald F. Hartung September 14 in Portland.
Karen was employed at the Federal Reserve
Bank in Portland.
From several sources has come the news of
the death of Dr. Arthur Patch McKinlay
('93) in September. Dr. McKinlay, who earned
the friendly title of "Mr. Chips of Westwood"
during his more than two decades as professor
of classical languages at UCLA, had been ill for
some time. He had retired in 1941 but was a
familiar figure around the Westwood campus
for many years, and kept in touch with campus
activities even after his retirement. He lived in
Los Angeles with a younger sister, Miss Muriel
McKinlay, now the only surviving member of
his family. A brother, Roslyn, was in the class
of 1895 at the University and a sister, Alice C.
McKinlay Miller graduated in 1903. His old
friend W. Gilbert Beattie ('01) tells us that
"Dr. McKinlay taught Latin for years in Lincoln
High School, Portland. He also substituted for
the late Professor Fred S. Dunn, '92 as head of
the Latin Department at the University of Ore-
gon, while Professor Dunn spent a year in Eu-
rope."
Dr. McKinlay began rhyming words as a
pastime at the age of 62 and became a prolific
sonnet-writer. He published several books, in-
cluding The Passing Show, a book largely about
the outdoors. Last February he was interviewed
on the television program, Confidential File.
George W. Joseph, Jr. ('26) prominent
Portland attorney, died July 11 at the age of 53.
He received his bachelor's and his doctor of
jurisprudence degrees at the University, and
then attended Harvard Law School. He was ad-
mitted to practice in 1928. Mr. Joseph was the
son of the late George W. Joseph ST., Republi-
can nominee for governor in 1930, who died a
few months before the genpral election.
Mr. Joseph served in the U.S. Coast Guard
during World War II and was prominent in
various Masonic organizations.
He is survived by his wife, Pauline Y.; four
sons, Jon A., Ronald Y., Michael D., and George
W.; and his mother, Mrs. Bertha Joseph, all of
Portland.
Dr. William P. Chisholm, ('27) well-
known Oregon physician, died in July at the
age of 61. In 1948 he became chief medical
officer at the Veterans Administration Domi-
ciliary Center at Camp White, and had lived in
Ashland since that time. He had practiced medi-
cine in Portland, Coos Bay and for 15 years in
Lakf-view.
Dr. Chisholm served with the U.S. Marines
in World War I and was a Navy commander in
World War II. Survivors are a son, William
Alan of Detroit, Michigan; Mrs. Jill Wells of
LaMirada, California; two sisters, Mrs. James
Stovall of Eugene and Mrs. George Wachtel of
Stanfield; three brothers, Dr. 0. G. Chisholm
of Yakima, Washington; J. J. Chisholm of
Walla Walla, Washington, and J. M. Chisholm
of Ventura, California.
Dr. James L. Wooden ('06) died October
7 at Emanuel Hospital in Portland, after several
months of ill health. Dr. Wooden had practiced
medicine in Clatskanie for moie than 50 years,
and was honored last year on "Dr. J. L. Wooden
Day" by men and women at Clatskanie whom
he had delivered as babies. One of the "Wooden
Babies" present was born on the day he began
his practice.
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A native of Kansas, Dr. Wooden came to
Oregon in 1889 and attended the University of
Oregon Medical School a few years later. He
was an officer in the army medical corps during
World War I, and was active in civic affairs in
Clatskanie. For many years director of the First
National Bank, he helped in the 1927 construc-
tion of the Clatskanie Medical Building.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Marshall
Fancer, Phoenix, Arizona; two sisters, Mrs.
Viola Wilson and Mrs. Evelyn Herman, both of
Portland; a brother, Roy, Dexter, Oregon; and
two grandchildren.
As his good friend G. Homer Billings ('06)
said, "He was a great fellow and greatly loved
by the people of Clatskanie."
Roscoe S. Krier ('30) died this fall in a
Seattle hospital where he had undergone brain
surgery for a tumor. He was 50 years old, the
son of a well-known family in The Dalles and
for the past 12 years a railroad attorney in Se-
attle. For some time he was trial lawyer of the
Northern Pacific Railway, and was a member
of the Oregon State Legislature in 1935, elected
from Wasco County. Mr. Krier was district
attorney for Wasco County in 1932 and 1933 and
a member of the law partnership of Galloway
and Krier until he entered military service in
1942. After service with the Navy during the
war he returned to The Dalles for a short time
to practice law, but left for Seattle soon after
that.
Surviving are his widow, Eleanor Lewis
Krier ('32); two daughters, Susanne 19, and
Elizabeth, 16, and one son, John, all of Seattle;
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Krier, and a
brother, Malcolm Krier, all of The Dalles.
Aage B. Anderson ('31) died in August
following a heart attack at his home. Mr. Ander-
son was born August 8, 1900 in North Dakota.
Fifteen years ago he went to Silverton and for
nine years was superintendent of Silverton
schools. He resigned to take a position as in-
structor at MacLaren School for Boys at Wood-
burn. Survivors are the widow, Inga, who
teaches in Silverton schools; a son, Aage Jr.,
and a daughter, Rebecca, all of Silverton; a
sister, Mrs. Ethel Peterson, and a brother, Mark
Anderson, both of Portland.
Rex Tussing, ('31) died in October at
Berkeley, California. Originally a resident of
Hnlsey, Mr. Tussing received his degree in
journalism and did newspaper work in Portland,
Hrants Pass and in California. He was at the
University of Minnesota as a graduate assistant
in iournalism at the time he was stricken with
cancer, and left there to return to Berkeley. He
is survived by his wife (Mildred Johnson '31);
two sons, Arlon and Dale; and a daughter,
Karen.
In September John C. Beard ('34) died at
Swedish Hospital in Seattle after an extended
illness. His home had been in Portland until
five years ago when he moved to Seattle. Mr.
Beard was born in Sioux City, Iowa, April 27,
1910 and came to Portland with his parents
when he was two. He was an active outdoorsman
and horseman and with his two brothers com-
pleted a horseback trip over the Old Oregon
Trail to Missouri a number of years ago.
Owner of Beard's Frosted Foods in Seattle,
he was a member of the Western State Restau-
rant Association and the Washington Stewards
and Caterers Association. Surviving are the
widow, Vernitta, Seattle; two daughters, Na-
dine lieard and Mrs. Nancy Caterline, Santa
Monica, California; his mother, Mrs. Lulu
Beard, Lancaster, California; and two brothers,
Paul and Robert, of Lancaster.
Old Oregon
Through Green & Yellow Glasses
... A student-written column about most anything
By Barbara Burns'59
TT IS THE GENERAL OPINION of Oregon
-*? students that the age that invented the
Charleston and the first sack dress was as
much alive on our campus as it was through-
out the United States. But after some in-
vestigation I've begun to have my doubts
about the spirit that pervaded this uni-
versity during the 20's. From the tales of a
few alums, it seems that gin and jazz were
not so much of the Oregon scene as they
were of less conservative institutions.
To be sure, there were some raccoon skin
coats and a few jalopies: and the flapper
look was achieved by most of the coeds, but
altogether it was a pretty staid existence
compared to our squirrel cage today.
Women were forbidden to smoke on cam-
pus, for instance, and the Eugene movie
theaters closed their doors every Sunday.
Likewise, married students attracted much
more attention than they do today, their
appearance on campus creating something
of a scandal. I admit that all of this in-
formation is strictly by word of mouth, so
if any alum would like to come to the de-
fense of Oregon's quiet past, I'll be more
than willing to stand corrected.
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However different the university looks
today, there is one aspect of the campus
that has probably changed very little since
the flapper days or before then for that
matter, and that is the long-standing tra-
dition of the campus dog. Dogs are indis-
pensable at football games or any big event,
and they have managed to become as much
a part of the school as Commonwealth itself.
I've been fortunate in making the acquaint-
ance of a few members of our canine popu-
lation, and I am sure that any true Oregon
alum would like being up to date on some
of the outstanding personalities of recent
years.
To start with, there was a German shep-
herd named Heidelberg, an eccentric figure
who loved nothing more than to ride in the
front seat of a red sportscar, pipe in mouth,
and Ivy League cap on his head. He rivalled
for attention with Skannon who originated
a famous strolling act. It was Skannon's
characteristic performance to approach a
student, take his hand in a pair of big New-
foundland jaws, and gently lead him about
campus, bearing down whenever his com-
panion (who was likely to be led right past
December-] anuary 1958-59
his class) took a mind to leave. A further
result of this amiable nature was his habit
of creeping into classrooms to give a wet
and adoring kiss to the back of a coed's
neck.
An even more incurable showoff was
Waldo, the Theta Chi mascot who outdid
them all with his tree climbing stunt. This
ability won him so many admirers that he
managed to win a seat on the ASUO Sen-
ate, bringing recognition not to himself
alone, but to the entire campus dog world
as well.
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One of the latest subjects of conversation
is the addition of the statue "Prometheus"
between the Co-op and the Oriental Art
Museum. He stands in relative isolation in
the midst of a stretch of green lawn. After
some contemplation, I discovered that it
was fire, not fingers, reaching up from his
arms, and that his head isn't a head at all
but something more like a blast furnace.
There has been a good deal of speculation
in regard to what look like his ribs. They
could be his broken chains, but whatever
their purpose, they offer infinite possibili-
ties to pranksters who see them as ideal
hooks on which to hang any number of
stolen articles. In this respect the new
statue is a refreshing addition to the scene.
The Pioneer Mother has suffered from near-
ly every possible degradation, and the
Pioneer Father has never shown much
promise to begin with. But "Prometheus"
has great potential and should serve as an
inspiration to some of the more imaginative
students. By Spring Term there should be
positive confirmation of this.
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The number of campus beauty queens
and popularity prizes seems to double every
year. For the past week campaign leaflets
have been falling faster than the autumn
leaves. Already this term we have elected
a Sig Ep Swamp Girl and a Homecoming
Queen, and now we are in the midst of
freshman class elections. But it doesn't end
here. There is a Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
yet to come, not to mention Joe College and
Betty Coed. Tn our close little world these
contests take on as much importance as the
national election; and since we've been on
the subject of campus traditions, I'll end
by remarking that this last characteristic
(of self-sufficiency) is probably as univer-
sal a one as can be found in the college
world.
Sacred dances of India were presented by
Lakshmi Iyer during museum dedication.
A Museum
Is Dedicated
r I "*HE GERTRUDE BASS WARNER
-*- Memorial Reference Library was
dedicated October 21. The newly fur-
nished room, in the Museum of Art,
houses a reference library for studies in
Oriental art which the late Mrs. Warner
established. Composed mainly of Chi-
nese and Japanese art material, the col-
lection also contains some works on Rus-
sian. French and German art. Some
works on related art fields, such as the-
ater and drama are also included.
Two years ago. under the direction of
Abbot Lawrence of Portland. University
physical plant employes started working
on the room. Mr. Lawrence s father had
designed the museum, so he had a special
interest in the work. Ivan Collins. Uni-
versity designer, and the museum staff
cooperated on details of construction and
furnishings.
James F. Colley, museum curator, says
that the library is valuable for its his-
torical and rare books as well as for the
reference material it offers.
''Many of the books are out of print,
rare, or simply unequalled by anything
in any other collection I ever have seen."
Colley said.
Following the dedication ceremony a
gallery reception was held, featuring se-
lections from the Murray Warner Col-
lection of Oriental art. Mrs. Warner gave
this collection to the University in T)21
as a memorial to her husband. Major
Murray Warner, and it contains art ob-
jects the Warners collected during their
years in the Orient.
New acquisitions to the University art
collection and the Aegis Collection of
Egyptian art were also shown. The final
event of the dedication program was a
dance recital by Lakshmi Iyer, a Bharata
Natyam dancer, who presented sacred
dances of India.
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"Bill Harrison was graduated from Princeton the year
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Castleman, General Agent of New England Life in
Louisville, Kentucky.
"While we haven't always agreed on the comparative
merits of our colleges, we found ourselves in complete
agreement on the Taylor Employees' Security Plan I
helped develop for Bill's company."
Harry Castleman worked closely with Mr. Harrison,
president of T. P. Taylor & (.0., in installing a New
England Life plan for that well-known 7()-year-old sout tern
drug store chain. The result was a top-notch program that
was enthusiastically received by company management
and employees alike.
In much the same way, many executives from coast to
coast turn to our representatives for consultation on the
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Ithough the 1958 Homecoming
festivities advertised the "New Look on
C|mDus," notably the scholastic
sidec^We University, some things
haven't changed and probably never
will. Take the Homecoming bonfire,
for instance. There will always be
a Homecomincj-bonfire. This year's
bonfire was graced by dancing
rally girls, but whether this is a war
dance or a rain dance wasn't clear at
press time. In either event its main
success was in producing a striking
picture for Photographer Nathan
Bull. The next day Oregon lost the
"war" to WSC 6-0 and the rain slashed
down in solid sheets.
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The 6-0 score of Washington State game is reflected in the faces of this trio
of cheer leaders. They are Carol Buono, Mimi Kearney and Linda Peterson.
Ruling over Homecoming weekend was
lovely Carlyn Cornpton from Portland.
English Professor Robert D. Horn presents
humorous monologue during variety show.
Old Oregon
Letters to the Editor ...
FROM A SCRAPBOOK
To THE EDITOR:
With Homecoming in the air, I thought
these old snapshots might interest you.
They came from the scrapbook of my
friend. Merle W. Ellis, class of 1927. who,
as a freshman, helped to build this, the 1923
homecoming bonfire.
Merle appears in the "before" photo (top
row left, hands in pockets).
The fire stood near the center of what is
now the quadrangle, and generated enough
heat to crack windows in Oregon Hall.
P. S. Oregon won the game.
V em Hammond '50
Marysville, California
REMOTE CORNERS
To THE EDITOR:
Thought you would be interested in know-
ing that OLD ORECON reaches even this re-
mote corner of the globe. I have just finished
reading the June-July is-
sue and enjoyed it very
much from the comments
on "The Silent Genera-
tion" to Mr. Bingham's fine
article on books on the Pa-
cific Northwest.
As for myself I have
been assigned to the
United States Military
Training Mission to Sau-
dia Arabia as an Infantry
Adviser to His Majesty's Royal Guard Regi-
ment since February of this year.
It goes without saying that my present
assignment has been by far the most inter-
esting and beneficial of a still brief Army
career. Working with a people such as these,
particularly in these times, in a land which
until 25 years ago was virtually unknown
to the outside world is an experience and
an education one would find hard to dupli-
cate.
Bob Shaw '55
Riyadh, Saudia Arabia
A BIG ORDER . . .
To THE EDITOR:
Your nice October-November issue just at
hand. Nice going.
Sometime I would like to see written up
vnme of the incomparable and splendid
deeds and community efforts and successes
of a large number of Oregon grads such as
Roy N. Vernstrom. Don Belding. Robert S.
Lovell. Otto Frohnmayer, Philip Lowry. La-
mar Tooze, Judge Roy Herndon, Malcolm
Bauer. William J. Moshofsky. Judge How-
ard Zimmerman. Judge Martin Hawkins.
Several outstanding members of the fac-
ulty of my time and students* best friends
and counselors not lately mentioned are Dr.
Stafford. Professor Frederick Dunn, and Dr.
They built their bonfires
huge at Oregon back in '23.
Joseph Shafer. Eternal blessings on them
and on many others. Their influence still
abounds.
Best of success to the new alumni direc-
tor, James W. Frost "47. His job will be a
heck of a lousie one unless a great many
alumni get going with their cooperation.
Charles W. KoyVW
1639 Jackson Road, Ashland
MISINFORMATION
To THE EDITOR:
In the October-November issue of OLD
OREGON, it was stated in the "Class of '57"
that my husband, Mr. Teater. is in the Navy.
How this misinformation was printed I do
not know.
For the records, we want the mistake
corrected. Mr. Teater is in the Air Force
Reserve in Portland, Oregon, and he works
for the Clackamas County Planning Com-
mission.
Mrs. IT. X. Teater '57
Portland
OLD OREGON regrets an apparent mixup
in the alumni records.?EDITOR.
DISAPPOINTED ALUMNUS
To THE EDITOR:
I'd like to say something about alumni
of the University and the annual Alumni
Giving Program.
Frankly, I'm disappointed. According to
what I have learned from those in charge
of the program, returns are relatively slim
if you think in terms of the total alumni of
the school. Last year 955 alumni out of
more than 29,000 contributed to the fund.
Giant bonfire ignites Ore-
gon spirit for homecoming.
This year the returns are slightly better,
but not good by any measure.
Alumni of other universities have long
recognized the debt they owe to their alma
maters. Iowa State University, for example
?a school not much larger than ours?re-
ceived gifts from more than 6,000 alumni.
These totaled more than $200,000.
Other schools have similar records of
alumni support. In each instance it is a
case of alumni recognizing that they owe a
debt to their school, and that they can best
repay that debt by helping present and
future students through their Alumni Giv-
ing programs.
If the University is to develop its fullest
potential?then these gifts from alumni are
essential. Only our gifts can make possible
the scholarships, loan funds, research activi-
ties and all of the other worthwhile pro-
grams for which state funds are not avail-
able.
I gave to the program last year and I'm
giving again this year. My gift isn't a large
one?I've eight children to support. But the
important thing, I'm sure, is not the size
of the gift, but the fact that you've given.
I know that almost every alumnus of the
University can give at least something to
the program.
I think it's our obligation to give.
If each person gives in proportion it
means the central purpose of the annual giv-
ing program?"helping to build a greater
University"?is certain to be achieved.
But we can't do it by sitting dead in our
chairs and "letting George do it."
Dick Williams '/i
Eugene
December-January 1958-59 27
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you have to
hold on
Linda can't stand alone be-
cause she was born with a mal-
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work very well. The March of
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Linda, crippled by such birth
defects and by polio and arthri-
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The final word...
"EVACH THURSDAY without fail, the
?*-/ ladies who run the Eugene Register-
GiHtnTs women's section publish a tender
little saga of domestic bliss among Eugene's
first families.
The Thursday format runs us through a
gauntlet of first meetings, subsequent ro-
mances, marriages, children?right on
down to mama's favorite recipe for upside
down orange biscuits or lemon sponge pud-
ding. Hardly a detail is lacking: "She want-
ed to be an airline stewardess, but a hand-
some young naval lieutenant changed her
mind . . . she switched her college major to
home economics. They were married before
the close of their senior year."
I gather that the recipes are the impor-
tant things and that the romantic lead-in is
designed merely to whet your appetite for
fluffy date muffins. If that's the case, then I
think the ladies are missing a good story
if they don't interview my wife about her
baked beans.
As you may know, the art of baking beans
is a lost one. The people who can coax the
true flavor out of each cubic centimeter of
bean are fewer than the legendary whooping
cranes. It's an art handed down from gen-
eration to generation and much too time-
consuming in today's frenzied era. This
makes my wife a rare bird indeed, and in
my prejudiced opinion, the best bean baker
in the west.
At our house, a typical baked bean day
starts the night before, because the beans
must soak overnight. Next morning the
complex business begins in earnest: Wash,
boil, rewash, reboil. wash again. Evidently
this puts the beans in a happy frame of
mind, ready to receive the brown sugar,
salt and sliced bacon (the latter being a real
touch of culinary genius). Then they go into
the oven for four hours, an ordeal the beans
not only survive but thrive on. As a final
touch, 20 minutes before the fire is put out
(this recipe is a real classic) a bit of tomato
soup is sloshed on to soak in and permeate
every bean.
The final result, ladies, is pure ecstasy
at 13 cents a meal. It could even save a
marriage.
A new professor on campus, Clyde P.
Patton of the Geography Department, is
quoted by the newspapers as saying he'd
hate to see Oregon's scenic grandeur adver-
tised too widely. "It will get too crowded,"
siys he. "California is already a lost cause."
Makes good sense. After all, we don't
want to get the place overrun with tender-
feet. We don't say half enough about rattle-
snakes and mosquitoes.
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We freely admit to certain thieving ten-
dencies whenever a good idea is involved.
Once, when we gently lifted an idea from
The Arkansas Alumnus, we wrote a letter to
the editor confessing our guilt. "Let's face
it," replied Editor Reba Wilcoxon, "we all
steal from each other when the need arises."
Our latest misdemeanor is the theft of an
idea from The Emory Alumnus, and you
see the result on page 23 of this issue. Stu-
dent-written columns have appeared not
only in the Emory magazine but in many
other alumni magazines as well.
We are pleased to present the work of
Barbara Burns, a senior student in English,
whose column on student and campus ac-
tivities will appear throughout this school
year.?KEN METZLER.
28 Old Oregon
How the Bell System's Transistor
Has Created Business and Jobs
in Many Industries
It has been just a little over ten
years since the Bell Telephone Lab-
oratories announced the invention
of the Transistor.
This amazing little electronic am-
plifier was recognized immediately
as one of the big breakthroughs in
science that come only at rare inter-
vals. Even' year since its birth it
has opened new fields of use and
progress.
Developed originally for teleph-
ony, where its first use was in Direct
Distance Dialing, the Transistor has
enabled many other industries to
bring out entirely new products and
improve others. It has also made it
possible for a number of new busi-
nesses to get started and to grow.
There is no doubt that the Tran-
sistor has been one of the leading
forces in an electronics boom and is
in considerable part responsible for
raising the electronics industry from
a two billion dollar level in 1946 to
over thirteen billion dollars in 1958.
NEWS FROM OUTER SPACE. One of the many uses for the Transistor is in the radio
transmitters in satellites. Some other uses of this mighty mite of electronics, in addition to
its growing use in telephony, are in hearing aids, personal radios, automobile radios, portable
TV sets, phonographs, clocks, watches, toys, computers, data processing, machine tooling
controls and even a guidance system for a chicken-feeding cart. A most important use is in a
wide range of military equipment, including radar and guidance systems for missiles. Though
little larger than a pea, the Transistor can amplify electric signals up to 100,000 times.
The Bell System has licensed
more than seventy companies to
make and sell transistors. More than
50,000,000 will be made this year.
The Transistor is just one example
of how the basic research of the Bell
Telephone Laboratories contributes
to the economy and progress of the
country. Frequently this constant
search for new knowledge to im-
prove communications brings forth
discoveries of great value to other
industries and the whole field of
technology.
For telephone users, the Transis-
tor has made possible advances that
would have been impossible a brief
decade ago.
In the years to come it will bring
many new ways to make telephone
service more convenient and useful
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