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OLD OREGON
VOL. XXIX FEBRUARY 1948 NO. 5
Bert Moore '48 EditorJordis Benke '49 Business Manager
Jim Wallace '50 Managing EditorSusan Me Carrel '48 Associate Editor
Bill Wasmann '49 Associate Editor
Student editorial staff this issue: Kirk Braun, Mal-colm Epley, Virginia Fletcher, June Goetze, Anne
Goodman, Anita Holmes, Pat King, Donna Klet-zing, Larry Lau, Joan Mimnaugh. Jo Rawlins, Bob
Schade, Fred Taylor, Roger Tetlow, Stan TurnbullSally Waller '50 Office Manager
ALUMNI OFFICERS
Gordon Wilson '25Portland President
Ruth Stewart Caldwell, '23Cottage Grove Vice-President
Les Anderson, '43Eugene Director
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
John Houston, '22 William N. Russell, '35
Charles R. Holloway, '35 Ernest Haycox, '25
COUNTY DIRECTORSJames T. Donald, 'IS, Baker; Peter Laurs, '37,
Clackamas; George Huggins, '16, Coos Bay; RemeyM. Cox, '22, Crook; Dr. H. C. Staples, '23,
Deschutes; George Luoma, '41, Douglas; GenevieveDuniop Holland, '34, Gilliam; Orval D. Yokom, '27,
Grant; Douglas Mullarkey, '20, Harney; KatherineBaker Button, '22, Hood River; Harry Skerry, '43.
Jackson; Dr. Victor S. Howard, '10, Jefferson;Richard Proebstal, '36, Lake; Sidney Milligan, '38,
Lane; Lawrence Hull, '23, Lincoln; Ralph Cronisc,'11, Linn; Earl Blackaby, '15, Malheur; Edwin Dick.
'40, Morrow; Gordon Wilson, '25, Multnomah; Johnkitzmiller, '31, Polk; Paulen W. Kaseberg, '37,
"22, Wallowa; George Stadelman. '30, Wasco; JohnF. Putnam, '31, Wheeler.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Alene Margaret Alyce RogersPhillips, '19 Sheetz, '40
Ernest Haycox, '23 Lyle M. Nelson, '42Tohn MacGregor, '23 Roy Vernstrom, 40
Edward M. Miller, '26
The University of Oregon Alumni Association is amember of the American Alumni Council.
Editorial Page 4
Life Membership Plan 5
Fourth Estate Training Camp 6
It's Become Our Cemetery 8
They Race Against a Stopwatch 9
Trainer Tom Hughes 10
'Incurable,' A Challenging Word 11
Oregon's Catalog Revisited 12
Student Personnel Director 13
New England Was Never Like This 14
Gou&iin i4Jvuk
A short history of the old IOOF ceme-
tery is given by Susan McCarrel on page
eight.
Published monthly except July, August, andSeptember by the Alumni Association of the Univer-
sity of Oregon, arid entered as second class matter atthe postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, under the act of
March 3, 1879. Subscription price; $3.00 a year.
WUkut Ute
To THE EDITOR:
On page 16 of the exceedingly interest-
ing November issue of Old Oregon is a
paragraph which reads as follows:
"The date when Oregon first fielded an
organized football team is a controversial
issue ..."
A subsequent paragraph . . . reads:
"According to C. E. Wagner '01 the first
organized University of Oregon team
played in 1894. On March 24 the Ducks
slam-banged their way to a 44 to 2 victory
over Albany college to put the first mark in
the Webfoot record book ..."
There is no reasonable room for contro-
versy as to when or where the first foot-
ball game was played. Old Oregon historian
C. E. Wagner is correct when he says that
the first game was played on March 24,
1894. Judge C. A. Wintermeier, who played
end on the first team, resides in Eugene,
and Cal Young, who was the coach, lives a
short distance north of Eugene; each of
them confirms historian C. E. Wagner.
In March 1894 the University campus in-
cluded only that area bounded on the North
by 11th, on the West by what is now Kin-
caid Street, on the South by what is now
13th Street, and on the East by what
is now University Street extended. The
game was played in the southwest corner of
the then campus. A white plank fence sur-
rounded the entire campus at that time.
A picture of the game is among the files in
the department of the history of the Uni-
versity of Oregon in the library.
... I was a member of the Class of 1893
and I know that there was no such thing
as a football team prior to June, 1893. I
witnessed the game between the University
team and Albany College and that game
was the first football game I ever saw.
Very truly yours,
LAWRENCE; T. HARRIS '93
New YOYU Alumni HeaY Aiken,HaYY1S
Owen Callaway, "bellringer" of the New
York alumni association reports that a
"fine meeting" was held on January 10th at
the Town Hall club in Xew York City.
Main speakers were Leo Harris, athletic
director, and Jim Aiken, football coach, who
were also attending the annual meeting of
the National Football Coaches association.
Allen Eaton '02, founder of the original
alumni organization in New York City
thirty years ago, gave a brief talk on local
alumni activities and their progress through
the years.
Laura Kennon '11 handled the arrange-
ments for the dinner. Among those present
were Elaine Cooper '22, Arthur S. Rudd
'24, Loye L. DeVore '23. June Johnson '47,
John W. Titus '47, Alice Carter Koyle '32,
Carolyn Collier '42, Barbara Hood '47,
Leonard F. Bergstrom '47, Leon A. Cul-
bertson '23, George W. Taylor '19, Helen B.
Maurice '18, MacLeod Maurice '19, Philip
Bergh '27, Mrs. Philip Bergh, Fenna Van
Gelder '47, Rolf Klep '27, Alyce Klep, Laura
H. V. Kennon '11, Owen Callaway '23,
Aulis Anderson Callaway '23, Allen Eaton
'02, W. S. Watson '39, Mary Jane Bowles
'25, Lt. Col. Lyle C. Grimes '30, Guinevere
Grimes '28, Louis R. Salinardo '47, Robin
Flavelle '42, Helen Harper Caldwell '25,
Marjorie Titus Lubanko '41, and David S.
Lubanko '46.
Another recent activity of the New York
alumni association was the organization of
a special section for all alumni at the Ore-
gon-Long Island university basketball
game in Madison Square Garden on De-
cember 22nd. June Johnson '47 sang
"Mighty Oregon" over the public address
system prior to the game.
Idaho Alumni Meet
At Hoise Banquet
Oregon alumni in southwestern Idaho
held their first postwar gathering January
26th at the club room of the Hotel Boise.
Coach Jim Aiken was the featured
speaker at the dinner meeting. Following
his talk on gridiron prospects for next
season, movies of the last Oregon-OSC
game were shown.
Other speakers included Dean Paul B.
Jacobson, director of high school teacher
training, who reported on academic prog-
ress at the University. Earl Murphy, sec-
retary of Idaho's state chamber of com-
merce was toastmaster.
Arrangements for the dinner were
handled by Lloyd Tupling, publisher of
The Idaho Stateividc, his wife Gladys
"Happy" Battleson, Mrs. Betty Blame Par-
ish and Lois Hulser.
MRS. HARPHAM
Josephine Evans Harpham has pre-
sented the University library a silver cup,
to be awarded annually to the living or-
ganization showing the greatest interest
in its house library. Mrs. Harpham is an
active member of the association of pat-
rons and friends of the University library
in Eugene.
New Life Membership Plan
Installed ay Alumni Association
Effective February 1st of this year, the
Oregon Alumni Association is offering a
life membership plan to all graduates and
former students of the University. The dues
for such a membership will be sixty dollars.
Such a plan was the result of action taken
at the general meeting held on the campus
last fall.
Life memberships are not new to the as-
sociation. During the twenties, a plan was
adopted which lasted for several years.
Because it failed to receive adequate sup-
port, and the income was not sufficient to
meet the financial burdens of a relatively
small association, it was soon dropped.
iHowever, now that Oregon alumni num-
ber more than 20,000 and because of con-
siderable demand for a life membership,
the alumni office last year made a survey
of all major colleges in the country to de-
termine the feasibility of such a plan. The
findings indicated that more than eighty
per cent supported one, and in most cases,
it was found to be very successful.
Supplementing the life membership offer,
it was also decided to establish a rate for
memberships of two or more years. Thus
the following rates were approved:
1 year - $3.00
2 years - 5.50
3 years - 7.50
4 years - 9.00
5 years - 10.00
FEBRUARY 1948
Basketball Game
To Entertain Dads
Dads' Weekend this year will be high
lighted by an Oregon-Idaho basketball
game and by campus-wide open houses for
the visiting fathers on February 14 and 15.
Also on the agenda for the weekend is a
dads' luncheon, business meeting and house
dinners.
Invitations have been left to individual
students or living organizations, but judging
from hotel reservations already made the
event will be well attended without its
usual fanfare of publicity.
Registration is scheduled for Johnson
hall and in the lobbies of the Eugene and
Osburn hotels. Awards will be presented
to the living organizations having the high-
est percentage of dads in attendance, an-
nounced Bev Pitman and Art Johnson, co-
chairmen of the affair.
It's a
Qaad
- - - that's why I'm buying a LIFE
MEMBERSHIP in the Oregon Alumni
Association.
SIXTY
DOLLARS
"Be a member of the Webfoot family for LIFE'
Checks should be made payable to the Oregon Alumni Association, and mailed to the Alumni Office,
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
OLD OREGON
Fourth Estate Training Camp
The Abilities or Its Graduates
Are Known Around tne World
by Jim Wallace
YOU don't have to look far on theshelves of your favorite newsstandbefore picking up a paper, book or
magazine that shows the work of a grad-
uate of the Oregon school of journalism.
In all probability an average reader
wouldn't know, or care, that he was being
entertained or informed by a writer who
had developed his skill at Oregon's jour-
nalism school?but that doesn't detract
from the great record of the school or its
former students. It is the destined lot of
the professional journalist to be unknown,
or at best to be known only as a byline,
to the reading public.
Of course there are the exceptions, the
men who have become exceedingly well
known through their journalistic work.
There's Palmer Hoyt, former publisher
of The Oregonian and now editor and
publisher of The Denver Post; Ernie Hay-
cox, movie writer and author of "Canyon
Passage;" Ken Youel, public relations
executive with General Motors.
And there's Robert Ormond Case, top-
ranking western author; John Deardorf,
vice-president of Pacific Power and
Light, who came up through the public
relations department; Charles Gratke, for-
eign news editor of The Christian Science
Monitor. There are newsmen of the cali-
ber of Ed Miller, Robert W. Lucas, and
Fred Colvig. Two generations of jour-
nalism students have seen the picture of
Palmer Hoyt, Phil Brogan and Jay Allen,
renowned foreign correspondent, that
hangs in the journalism building's news
room.
BACK of these men, and other success-
tion, is the Oregon school of journalism.
It is a school that became known not for
it* expensive physical plant or its large
endowments but for its faculty and grad-
uates, the human element of the school.
Oregon's journalism school had its in-
ception in the spring of 1912 when Eric
\V. Allen came to Eugene from Seattle
to confer with President Prince L. Camp-
bell on journalistic and publicity prob-
lems of the University. Campbell was so
impressed with young Erie Allen, then
news editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligen-
cer, that he asked him to return to the
University the next fall and start a de-
partment of journalism.
A year before this, however, there had
been a class in journalism organized to
train correspondents for papers in the
"state that wanted news of the University.
Arthur M. Geary, graduate manager,
taught this first class. According to Em-
erald reports for that year the class met
once a week and gave the student one
hour credit.
But it was with the arrival of Eric
Allen in 1912 that professional journalism
as such came to the Oregon campus. The
school as it is today grew largely from
the conception and ideas of the long-time
dean, who guided it until his death in 1944.
r I "'HE first classes were held in the
-*- northwest corner of the McClure hall
basement. Among the students in that
class were Karl Onthank, then editor of
the Emerald and now the University's
dean of personnel administration; Carlton
Spencer, professor of law at the Univer-
sity; Henry Fowler of the Bend Bulletin
and Harold Young, Portland tax special-
ist.
Bill Yates shows Connie Jackson how toset up a headline. Every journalism student
can get practical mechanical experience inthe school's backshop.
Interest in journalism grew, and soon
the classes became too large for their
basement corner. The students moved to
a wooden shack that stood on the site
of the present journalism building. In
1913 Harrison Kincaid, early-day pub-
lisher, greatly added to the physical set-
up of the school by giving it his press and
type when he quit publishing his paper,
the Oregon State Journal.
This equipment, the beginning of the
University press, had the distinction of
having been used in the publication of the
first paper west of the Missouri river,
the Oregon Spectator. This old Washing-
ton hand press marked its 100th anniver-
sary in 1946.
In 1915 Colin V. Dyment, news editor
from Portland, came to Oregon as a pro-
fessor of journalism and the next year the
department was made a school with Eric
Allen as dean. Also in 1916 George S.
Turnbull, present dean, came to the Uni-
versity from the Seattle Times to replace
Dyment, who had moved on to become
dean of the Washington school of jour-
nalism.
T* IGHT from the start Dean Allen be-
?"?^?lieved in working with journalists in
the practical field, and in 1913 he helped
establish a council of newspaper editors
of the state to advise the journalism
school and help outline courses. In his
first year at Oregon he had begun the
practice of having his students do rewrit-
ing and night copy desk work for the Eu-
gene Guard. Copyediting labs that used
copy from the United Press and Emerald
were started in 1915 for both upper and
lower division students.
By 1914 there were approximately 100
students, not all of them journalism ma-
jors, however, taking the courses offered
by the school. Oregon's journalism de-
partment, although still in its infancy, was
ranked among the top six in the nation.
A growing interest in the mechanical
aspects of journalism brought Robert C.
Hall to the University in 1917 to teach
and to direct the University press. The
first press building was a wooden shack
that vibrated when the linotypes were in
operation. A cement floor helped, but still
the press facilities were not adequate for
the growing school.
r I ^ODAY'S press plant, despite a serious
A fire in 1946, ranks with the best shops
in the state in equipment and serviceabil-
ity. The press now has enough linotypes,
presses and supplementary equipment to
satisfy the University's printing needs,
plus putting out the Emerald and Ou> ORE-
CON. That the University press is well,
organized and efficiently operated is
FEBRUARY 1948
proved by the fact that" all of the new
equipment has been paid for with the
plant's earnings.
In 1916 the journalism school spread
to the old extension building along with
the Emerald offices. The school used the
wooden shell building that had previously
served as a gym until a fire on the last
day of summer session in 1922 again left
the student journalists without a home.
The present brick building that houses
the journalism school and part of the
chemistry department was opened in the
spring of 1923. It was constructed at a
cost of $40,000, one-fifth of which was con-
tributed from the University press fund
on the understanding that eventually the
entire building would be devoted to jour-
nalism. When the chemists spread to the
ground floor of the journalism building
last fall the Emerald staff was forced to
pick up its typewriters and traditions and
move to an adjacent quonset hut.
The school continued to grow and in
1933 and 1934, when all school budgets
were being slashed, the journalism
school's had to be upped. Although gen-
eral college enrollment, feeling the pinch
of the depression, was dropping, the num-
ber of journalism students at Oregon was
on the upgrade.
"BASIC reason for the growing fame of
??-* the University's journalism school,
has been its faculty, which was described
as "always good" by Dean Turnbull. Eric
W. Allen, head of the school for 31 years,
was ranked with the elite of American col-
lege journalists. His staffs included such
top-flight men as William F. G. Thacher,
Ralph Casey, Colin V. Dyment, Raymond
D. Lawrence and Charles M. Hulten.
William F. G. Thacher, who retired
last June, taught advertising and fiction.
In Thacher's classes have been some of
the top novelists and short story writers
of the country. He was active in Alpha
Delta Sigma, men's advertising frater-
nity, and once served as national presi-
dent of that group. Thacher was also in-
strumental in organizing the local chapter
of Gamma Alpha Chi, women's advertising
society.
Ralph Casey is now head of the Min-
nesota journalism school and Charles Hul-
ten became one of the three top men in
the office of war information, serving un-
der Elmer Davis.
A T present the staff is headed by Dean
?**? George Turnbull, who served as act-
ing dean from the time of Eric W. Allen's
death until 1946 when he was appointed
full dean of the school. When "Mr. T."
retires next spring, his 31 years of ser-
vice will be within a week the same as that
of ex-Dean Allen. In addition to guiding
the school in general George Turnbull
now teaches a popular course in editing
and other upper division journalism
courses.
This fall another full professor, Lau-
rence R. Campbell, was added to the staff.
Campbell, a nominee for president of the
American association of teachers of jour-
nalism this year, came to Oregon from
Syracuse university where he was acting
dean of journalism. He has also headed
journalism departments at California and
Temple.
Holder of a Ph.D. from Northwestern,
Campbell is author and co-author of sev-
eral books including "Exploring Journal-
ism" (Wolseley and Campbell), one of the
most widely used elementary journalism
texts. He was Pacific coast editor of the
Wall Street Journal and has done con-
siderable magazine work. Campbell is one
of the nation's top authorities on high
school journalism. At present he is teach-
ing reporting, copyediting, articles and
features and comparative journalism.
T TARRY Heath, a specialist in radio
??? ?*? and sports writing, is another recent
addition to the staff. A graduate of Tulsa
university, where he also has taught,
Heath received his master's degree last
summer from Northwestern. He is teach-
ing news editing for radio while devel-
oping other radio news courses.
Warren C. Price, described by Dean
Turnbull as "one of the most versatile
men in the field," has been at the Univer-
sity since 1942. Price has a master's de-
gree from Wisconsin and teaches law of
the press and a course in journalism and
public opinion.
Carl Webb, also an associate professor,
came to the University in 1943 and now
devotes half his time to the job of man-
aging the Oregon newspaper publishers
association. His field is the mechanical
side of journalism and includes such
courses as newspaper problems and shop
management. He also teaches the graphic
journalism class which was started in 1937
to provide instruction in news photog-
raphy.
Under Webb's direction the ONPA has
been more active and successful than at
any previous time.
A NOTHER journalism school veteran
?**? is Robert C. Hall, who also retires
this spring after 30 years at the Univer-
sity. An associate professor of journalism,
Hall is also superintendent of the Univer-
sity press. Hall is primarily responsible
for the growth of the plant from one hand
press to its modern efficiency.
R. D. Millican teaches the advertising
courses, many of which give credit in
either the journalism or business admin-
istration schools. Millican is an associate
professor, having received his doctor's de-
gree last summer at California.
Rounding out the staff are Jack L. Bill-
ings, Lester J. Schlangen and Bernard
Engel. Billings, now a graduate assistant,
edited the Emerald in his sophomore year at
Oregon. Schlangen, also a graduate as-
sistant, teaches elementary journalism
courses. Bernard Engel, city editor of the
Register-Guard, supervises some of the
(Continued on page 26)
?photos by W. Kirk Braun
Carl Webb, graphic journalism instructor, shows Doug Fetsch the proper camera
technique to capture on film the smile of La Verne Gunderson.
OLD OREGON
Through the Years
It's Become 'Our' Cemetery
by Susan McCarrel
AS much a part of the University as "ThePioneer Father," as traditional as theO" on Skinner's Rutte, as picturesque
as the millrace?the old cemetery south of
the campus is a landmark that has been
familiar to three generations of Oregon
students.
But those three generations of students
and Eugene townspeople know the ceme-
tery in its two natures:
Rain pours from the glowering clouds
and drenches the sheltering trees; black
skies intensify the solitary mood of the
huddled tombstones. Swiftly falling rain-
drops glisten on sharply defined holly leaves
and splatter against the cold stones that
stand kneedeep in brown and tangled weeds.
All is still save for strange small rustlings
underfoot and the vari-toned plops of rain-
drops. Oregon's wet winter night settles
over all.
Vet with the dawn the cemetery reverses
moods to match the day the crimson clouds
are promising.
Bright sun-rays point warm fingers at the
damp, brown lanes and lure with their heat
the droplets laying on the overgrown paths.
Elaborate monuments stand erect in heavy-
set dignity, basking in the morning sun-
shine; lower stones lift newly-washed faces
to the sun.
Tt is later that the students begin to take
?*? over the cemetery, for the roadways af-
ford a scenic shortcut from McArthur
court to the veteran's dorms, education and
music buildings and the library. The well-
worn roads lead among the lots just south
of Gerlinger hall and the library, leaving
the more southerly and newer portions of
the cemetery untrammeled.
When athletic or academic activity brews
in the Igloo, the graveyard roads double
as parking space for the audiences. Every
campus has a favorite spot for sweethearts,
and Oregon's lies here, adjacent to the cam-
pus, along the quiet paths snarled with
weeds and entwined ivy.
As often as students have roamed
through the cemetery, they can have little
idea of the layout, hidden under matted
weeds and cemented lots. The north area
is symmetrically arranged around an open
square just south of Gerlinger. The square
is framed in statuesque pines that form a
dark green canopy over the opening. The
entrance gate was on the west side and the
road ran into the square; it now runs north
of the vet dorms.
Just southwest of the square is a mem-
orial presented by John C. Covell, A
8
15-foot monument topped by a Civil war
soldier in military dress is dedicated to his
"Comrades of the Civil War, 1861-1865."
Surrounding the monument are the graves
of men who fought in the struggle between
the North and the South. Stars designating
members of the grand army of the republic
stand before the tombstones.
The whole pageantry of life and death
can be found on the headstones on the
grounds. Severely plain markers stand in
tribute to some, while ornate monuments
rise in sculptured pride over other lots.
Many of the older markers are wooden
boards rounded at the top and so weather-
worn all inscription is illegible.
A favorite inscription on the older stones
is the traditional "Rest In Peace," but
personal thoughts and familiar quotations
are carved on many. A bit of verse stands
in script on one monument, perhaps the
most original tribute to be found in the
? I'liietery:
"A Husband Kind
A Father Dear
A Faithful Friend
And Buried Here."
Some of these sentiments date back into
the historical days when Oregon and Eu-
gene were new and progressing with the
west. On June 24, 1873, the IOOF trustees
of the local lodge aproved the purchase of
the ten east acres of land of Thomas M.
Gale, recording secretary. The land was
to be used as a fraternal cemetery; the
Odd Fellows were taking literally their
code . . . ."to relieve distress, bury the
dead and educate the orphan."
The following July division into lots was
approved and a recommendation made for
the construction of a "'good, substantial
fence" around the area, "in the best in-
terests of the lodge." In July, 1873, the
price of lots was graded; in November the
first two purchases, by A. Y. Zumwalt and
J. J. Walton Jr., were recorded.
T7*irst burial in the cemetery was Zum-
wait's two-year-old son Hermon, on
Sept. 15, 1873. His tiny grave is sunken
now and only a smooth, weather-beaten
board marks the spot.
The three trustees of the lodge?E. L.
Rristow, S. W. Friendly, and F. B. Mason?
later approved maintenance and a tool
house was constructed. A sexton lived there
all year round. Then, the cemetery .vas
really out in the country, so often the lodge
hired two Eugene city streetcars to trans-
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The roads through the old cemetery have long been used as shortcuts for students who
live "on the hill." Here" (1. to r.) Bud Johnson and Bill Gregg skirt a common hazard on
their way to lunch at the Theta Chi house.
FEBRUARY 1948
They Race Against a Stopwatch
by Pat King
POTENTIAL Esther WilHamses andEleanor Holms on the University ofOregon campus are readying them-
selves for the coming big event in women's
competitive swimming, the national inter-
collegiate telegraphic swimming meet, Feb-
ruary 25 and March 3. Not having been
publicized a great deal, the women's swim-
ming event is not generally known on the
campus outside swimming circles. This can
probably be attributed to the fact that the
meet is not held on an intercollegiate com-
petition basis. That is, teams from different
schools do not meet at a common pool to
race against each other, but swim in their
own respective pools against time and their
own teammates.
This type of meet has a decided advan-
tage for the University of Oregon, which
doesn't sponsor a women's swimming team
as it does for the men.
"The main goal of the telegraphic meet
is to encourage a wide participation of all
girls interested in swimming to try out,"
explained Miss Jeannette Massilionis,
swimming instructor and advisor for the
event. "Usually, however, most of the
swimmers who are selected are members
of Amphibians, women's swimming hon-
orary, to which most of the best swimmers
at the University belong."
HTVHIS emphasis on a basis of individual
competition brings forth the reason
for the rather unusual title "telegraphic
swimming meet." Each school entering the
meet telegraphs the best timings of its
participants to a national headquarters
where they are compared against the re-
sults for the same relays held all over the
country in other colleges and junior col-
leges between February 15 and-March 15.
The winning schools who rate the first five
places in their region and who place among
the first five in the national results are in
return also notified by telegram.
The country is divided into four regions:
eastern, southern, central and western, with
a rotational method of determining which
region will be the national region for that
year. Last year the honor of being national
sponsor of the meet was conferred upon
the University. Besides playing host to
the meet, the University bettered its time
in 13 places and equaled it in one of 23
places. This put Oregon at the top in the
western region, fifth in the national listing,
and represented a fifty per cent improve-
ment for the team.
Miss Margaret Brewster, swimming in-
structor and last year's advisor for the meet,
was recognized as having been responsible
An Oregon Co-ed Takes the Plunge
for much of the success of the University's
national sponsorship. A tremendous
amount of paper work accompanied the
honor as Maryanne Hansen, student man-
ager of the team last year, will testify.
"TT was an all year job that started in the
?*? fall and finished in the spring," said
Maryanne, "and all the members of Am-
phibians did a good job of seeing it
through."
Maryanne, a senior in health education, is
a famous swimmer in her own right as a
champion member of the Multnomah ath-
letic club's Cody Kids. Last year under the
University banner she streaked home with
her teammates Sylvia Branden and Har1-
riet Minot to win first place in the 60-
yard medley relay. Although she is noted
for her free style, she didn't enter free
style competition but chose instead to
enter the 100-yard back crawl in which
she came in second.
Sylvia Branden, a sophomore in liberal
arts, whose swimming abilities were de-
veloped in the fine pool at The Dalles,
was offered an opportunity to turn pro-
fessional which she declined for personal
reasons. Harriet Minot is one of the vet-
eran members of last year's team return-
ing to compete in this year's meet.
The other members of last year's team
besides Misses Hansen, Minot, and Bran-
den were Birdella Ball, Beverly Bennett,
Joan Smith, Betsy Moffitt, Janet Rattray,
Shirley Sault, Coralie Thomson, Helen
Heustis, Louise Hastrup, Flora Mulkey
and Meredith Nichols.
T? ACH school is allowed to enter cer-
?*-"/ tain events according to the size of its
pool. Having a 60-foot pool, the Univer-
sity's lady ducks compete in the 40-yard
and 160-yard front crawl, the back crawl
and breast stroke, the 60-yard medley re-
lay and the 80-yard free style relay. Rec-
ords of the meet, which usually are "not
to be sneezed at," according to Maryanne,
are sent to all the colleges for their files.
The girls who are training for the meet
do it on their own time and initiative.
They start practicing fall term and then
the following Christmas vacation enter
concentrated training before the meet in
February and March.
"The women's pool during the free
swim hours is too crowded for concen-
trated training. So Sylvia and I had our
workouts in the men's pool where lanes
were kept free for swimming laps," said
Maryanne. "Prior to the telegraphic meet,
however, the girls' pool is blocked off to
enable the girls in training to practice."
Maryanne, who was in training for the
senior women's nationals, and Sylvia
practiced by swimming the last 20 laps
of an 80-lap relay against the men's swim*
ming team to help put themselves into
condition.
Looking forward to this year's tele-
graphic meet with an almost entirely new
team, one may not be as optimistic about
Oregon's chances to outshine last year's
performance. There is the possible return
of only two veteran team members, Bir-
della Ball, now student manager in charge
of the event, and Harriet Minot. Blonde
Miss Massilionis, not easily distinguished
from her students, predicts an abundance
of hard worl
OLD OREGON
Tramer lornT,
He Works All Day With Bumps,
Sprains, Bruises ana Pains
by Fred Taylor
BASKETBALL, as played on the Paci-fic coast, is a rugged, fast-movinggame requiring players to be in peak
physical condition at all times. Besides suf-
fering injuries from melees on the court,
hoopsters are as nervous and tense from
the pressure of competition as a string of
racehorses, and must be constantly doc-
tored. The man who is in charge of keeping
Oregon's stable of hoopsters in action is
youn g, mild-mannered Tom Hughes.
guardian of the training room and general
of the tape and pills.
As athletic trainer Hughes has to care
for all the bumps and bruises suffered by
the Webfoots, ward off the colds, and
make sure that all the cagers are able to
play when called upon. Playing nursemaid
to fifteen active college men calls for a big
man, and the University has that man in
Hughes. As reluctant as a school girl to
admit his weight. Tom attests only that he
is "just above" his college grid weight of
200 pounds.
The soft-spoken trainer is also reluctant
to admit his birth date, saying that he was
born and received his preliminary education
in St. Louis, but the husky Missourian has
a solid background as an athlete to guide
him in his University position.
His first real taste of athletics came dur-
ing his prep school days at Roosevelt high
school of St. Louis. Here Tom turned out
for the two positions, catcher in baseball
and tackle in football, that he stayed in
through the rest of his playing career. He
earned three varsity letters in each sport,
and capped his football action by being
elected captain of the team during his
senior year.
TTPOX graduation from high school in
^ 1939 Hughes enrolled in Missouri uni-
versity. He completed a year and a half at
.Missouri before the war intervened with his
schooling. Joining the marine corps, Hughes
was sent to Purdue under the service V-12
training, and stayed there long enough to
Two Duck cagers seem to have virtually a monopoly on this reboundin the Oregon-Washington game in Mac court.
Athletes' Trainer
get in a year's action in both baseball and
football in the Big Xine.
Big Tom went into the corps in 1942,
and performed in the Boilermaker uniform
during the 1943 baseball and football sea-
sons. Hughes made short stops at various
other posts after being moved from the
Purdue campus, and saw a tour of duty
overseas before receiving his discharge. He
came out of the corps as a second lieuten-
ant in the late summer of 1944.
Hughes received his discharge just in time
to hurry back to the Purdue campus and
start practicing for the coming grid season.
After turning in a creditable job as back-
stop for the Purdue baseball team in the
spring of 1945 he started off the football
season early by performing on the college
all-star eleven in their August game with
the professional Chicago Bears.
Tom filled the tackle post again that fall
for the Boilermakers, and again topped the
season by being chosen co-captain of the
East eleven in the Shrine game in San
Francisco. Incidently, captain of the West
team in that game, the plaver who flipped
the coin for the kick-off, was Oregon's Jake
Leicht.
Hughes completed his college activities
in the spring of 1946 by being named All-
Big Nine catcher. Upon graduation he
received the medal awarded to the out-
standing student, both athletically and
scholastically, each year.
Tom earned the bachelor of science de-
gree in physical education at Purdue. His
career as a trainer began while at college,
as he acted as an assistant trainer in ad-
dition to his playing.
Tom Hughes has worried our gridders
through two campaigns, doctored the ath-
letes in spring sports, and is currently
watch-guarding the condition of the basket-
ball team for the second year. As long as
the easy-going wizard of the training room
is mothering Oregon's athletes they can be
sure of good care.
10
FEBRUARY 1948
Incurable, 'a Challenging Word
by June Goetze
DR. EDWIN E. Osgood and his as-sociates at the department of experi-mental medicine of the University of
Oregon medical school in Portland are now
investigating the causes and possible cures
of two blood diseases?polycythemia and
leukemia.
Polycythemia is the condition in which
the patient has an over-abundance of red
corpuscles in his blood. It is not believed to
be strictly cancerous in nature, although it
has some of the characteristics of cancer.
There is no known cure. Leukemia is a
cancer of the blood. It, too, is an incurable
malady. Indications are that the work with
leukemia may throw light not only on that
disease's cause and cures, but also upon the
mysteries of other forms of cancer.
Two principal "tools" are being utilized
in the medical school experiments. They are
a method of culturing human bone marrow
in test-tube fashion, developed by Dr. Os-
good in 1936, and the use of newly available
radioactive isotopes.
In Dr. Osgood's marrow culture tech-
nique, living human marrow is taken from
the bones of patients. According to the re-
nowned physician, the operation for ob-
taining the marrow from the breast bone is
relatively painless and can be performed
under a local anaesthetic.
HPHE LIVING marrow is put in test
-*- tubes, where it is mixed with a specially
prepared medium. Substances and condi-
tions in these tubes are prepared and con-
trolled so that they closely approximate
those surrounding the living cells in the
human body, even to the functions of the
lungs, the blood circulation, and the kid-
neys.
The advantage of this method is that
identical specimens of marrow may be
used for experiment. Previously, samples
could be only approximately the same.
There were definite limitations to the ex-
periments that could be performed. Now
the marrow can be kept alive for months so
that its functions may be studied.
It has only been during the past year that
radioactive isotopes have been available for
medical experimentation. A few months
ago, when President Truman announced
their availability, it was revealed that the
Portland physician had been carrying on
experiments for some time with radioac-
tive phosphorus in the treatment of the
various forms of leukemia.
One of the new pieces of equipment
in the lab is a Geiger counter for mea-
suring radioactivity in blood samples from
patients undergoing the method of treat-
ment.
Actually the radioactive isotopes are used
in two ways for treatment. Research work-
ers may introduce "tracer" atoms into
medicines and food so that they can be fol-
lowed through their entire course in the
body. These radioactive materials also
have shown great promise as direct cura-
tive agents. They provide a highly selective
meansof applying therapeutic rays to spe-
cial tissues and cells which cannot effec-
tively be reached by other methods.
Harold Tivey, who was a student at the
University in 1935 and 1936, is the physicist
for the group engaged in the project. Al-
though he has received extensive training
in both chemistry and physics, he is now
attending other classes at the medical
school to broaden his scope of knowledge.
Dr. Jack Jacobson, who received his B.
A. from the University in 1943 and his M.D.
in 1946, is now doing special research on
the effects of hormones from leukemia pa-
tients. Since July he has been connected
with the department of therapeutics of the
Bellevue hospital in New York while doing
the research in the Portland medical school.
His research has indicated that hormones
from patients having various types of leu-
kemia produce corresponding effects when
injected into rats.
Dr. Osgood has something of a distinc-
tion in having received B.A., M.A., and
M.D. degrees from the University without
ever having set foot on the campus at
Eugene. His degrees were awarded in 1922,
1923, and 1924, respectively. In 1927 and
1928 he did additional study in Vienna.
In 1940 he announced that the "magic
bullet" previously used for treatment of
syphillis could be used for effective treat-
ment of serious staphylococcic infections,
which are the cause of boils, bone infections
and blood poisoning.
Funds for the extensive research in the
two blood diseases have been provided
jointly by the state board' of higher educa-
tion and the medical research foundation,
an Oregon non-profit corporation organ-
ized under the auspices of the Portland
academy of medicine.
University of Oregon alumni are also
active in the board of directors of the med-
ical research foundation. John C. Higgins,
vice-president, was graduated from the
University in 1897. John L. Day Jr., trea-
surer, received his B.S. degree in economics
in 1926. Dr. Howard Stearns was awarded
his M.D. from the medical school in 1929.
He is now a member of the medical school
faculty.
Dr Edwin E. Osgood takes a reading from his Geiger counter in the Portland medicalschool before continuing his experiments in blood diseases.
11
OLD OREGON
on
by Larry Lau
THE University of Oregon, its back-stiffened by higher scholastic stand-ards and a president who knows Tru-
man, is being championed by an ever in-
creasing number of people throughout the
nation as the Princeton of the West. Oth-
ers, less esthetic in their description, stoutly
maintain it is merely a collection of anti-
quated buildings, seldom used, more or less
attended by a student body made up of
class-conscious progeny of the idle rich and
veterans who couldn't get into any othei
school.
Whichever side of the argument you take,
it is known that Oregon students spend at
least half their time off campus, "broaden-
ing their education." With this in mind, any
analysis of the University involves at least
a brief inspection of the extra-curricular
surroundings.
Eugene, the University city, is a wicked,
Nevada-type town, featuring a brush-filled
millrace, a 129-inch rainfall and restaurants
operated by men no longer agile enough to
rob trains. The four theaters consistently
run movies of Grade A caliber featuring
such stars as Maude Adams, Janet Gaynor,
Charles Farrell, Maurice Chevalier and
Norma Shearer.
Such bistros as Taylor's, the College Side
and Robinson's serve as makeshift class-
rooms during the afternoons and evenings.
Since the turn of the century certain of
the science labs have been conducted atop
Skinner's Butte or within the confines of
Hendricks Park. Fortunately, over a period
of years, the local constabulary has become
almost completely inured to such practices.
Opening the Oregon catalog we find
several pages devoted to University history,
one of which includes this fascinating bit of
information, "was established by an act of
the Oregon legislature in 1872, but did not
open its doors to students until four years
later, in 1876." Historians have long been
puzzled as to just what went on behind
those closed doors for four years.
Under the general heading, LIBRA-
RIES, we learn that the University has a
grand total of 449,331 volumes. Of these
Catalog Revisited
Attic Oratory
Trial and Error Learning
as many as 64 have been checked out in
a single term by knowledge-hungry Web-
foots.
Browsing through the Oregon catalog
and its long listing of completely impracti-
cal courses, we find that the smart set is
subjected to at least four years of mental
hazing before being awarded the pink rib-
bon of achievement. Underclassmen malin-
ger through such courses as THE AMER-
ICAN INDIAN (for people from Klamath
Falls), LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS (so
the people from Coos Bay can learn to
understand the people from California),
OREGON FLORA (the original red hot
mama) and PRIMITIVE THOUGHT
(shame!).
Because of their odd behavior, Oregon
students are beset by problems not found
at great centers of learning like Vanport
and OAC. As a remedial measure, courses
in CONSTRUCTION I (how to make
ponies for midterm exams) and CON-
STRUCTION 2 (how to make ponies for
finals) are available to the numerically
strong obtuse members of the student body.
Other courses, such as FIELD PRAC-
TICE (teaching picnic behavior, with bi-
weekly labs at selected riverside spots),
OFFICE PRACTICE (teaching how to
do the same thing within the confines of
an office) and COLOR THEORY (or,
why eyes are redder on Sunday) enable
the student to leave the University with a
well-rounded education.
Once past the first year, when they're
permitted to wear sleezy cords or knee-
length bobby sox, it's horizons unlimited
for the yellow and green-faced Webfoots.
Courses like ATTIC ORATORY (for
people too shy to speak at ground levels),
HISTORY OF CAPITALISM (how
Keith Fennel made his money) and PLAY
WRITING (advanced diary writing) are
all available for those not too busy
picnicking.
CARTOONS BY MALCOLM EPLEY
Unlike Vanport and OAC, studying at
Oregon is something to be done only when
all the available girls have dates. A few
Webfoots evidence a change of heart during
final week, but the percentage is small.
Also offered is MODERN THEORIES
OF SOCIAL REFORM (explaining
briefly the 10:30 closing hours), REFOR-
MATION (required next year), CAMP
COOKERY (for men who washed out of
the boy scouts), CHILD CARE AND
'TRAINING (how to get along with fresh-
man girls), TRIAL AND ERROR
LEARNING (what that glint in her eye
really means), and ELEMENTARY
LOGIC (or why three couples can't have
a good time in a club coupe)..
For graduate students, Oregon offers
ARGUMENTATION AND PERSUA-
SION (for old timers who haven't had a
date since 1939), PROBLEMS IN DIS-
TRIBUTION (for women only) and
TRACK AND FIELD (for especially in-
telligent bird dogs.)
Oregon boasts of a building known as
Deady Hall, which is reputed to be the only
one west of the Mississippi built before
1700, and a new million dollar science
building which may be seen on only the
very foggiest of days.
A parting word: Let not the reader think
that this article was written with tongue in
cheek. For centuries, civilization has been
upheld and even strengthened by dancing
instructors, shyster lawyers and crooked
accountants. These, we might say, are an
integral part of what we call "the American
way of life". Let the reader then, accept
this article in the spirit in which it was
offered, as an intra-state gesture of good-
will to the 5800 gnomes who roam the
University of Oregon campus.
Editor's Note
Last month we published Larry Lau's
appraisal of the OAC catalog, a piece which
irritated many staunch Beavers. An editor's
note foretold this page, and held that it
would be funnier (and more vicious) than
the first burlesque. Without apologizing,
we hope that the reader's sensitiveness to-
wards all things connected with the Univer-
sity will not interfere with the reaction of
his funnybone.
STASSEN TO SPEAK
Harold E. Stassen will highlight the
annual banquet of the Oregon Press con-
ference February 20 when he speaks on
"The Struggle for Freedom."
Stassen was three times elected governor
of Minnesota before he entered the navy
in 1942. Since his release in 1945 he has
spoken to groups throughout the country.
12
FEBRUARY 1948
Donald M, DuShane Selected
For Student Personnel Orrice
by Bill Wasmann
THe appointment of Donald M. Du-Shane of Lawrence college, Apple-ton, Wisconsin, to the newly-created
office of director of student personnel ser-
vices has been announced by President
Harry K. Newburn. The office was founded
on the philosophy that "A college educa-
tion as nearly as possible should be a com-
pletely integrated experience," said the
president.
The president, in outlining the program
which is to be carried out under Mr. Du-
Shane's office, said:
"Coordination of all student personnel
services on the campus, including the func-
tions now carried on by the offices of the
dean of men and dean of women will be
involved in the program to be carried out
under Mr. DuShane's direction. The dean
of women, Mrs. Golda P. Wickham, and
the assistant dean of men, Mr. V. S. Fog-
dall, will become members of the staff in
the office of student personnel services and
will continue working essentially with
present activities. The program will in-
volve an effort to integrate such activities
as the University counseling program; the
service aspects of the speech and reading
clinics; the procedures involved in ad-
mission, registration and recording student
progress; the complete student activity
program; student housing, including dom-
itories, fraternity and sorority groups, the
cooperative houses and non-campus hous-
ing."
PARTICULAR attention will be givento the over-all counseling services of
the University in an effort to coordinate
the following elements:
1. The work of the faculty as advisors,
particularly on the academic side;
2. The work carried on by such person-
nel officers as the present dean of men and
women in advising and counseling the
students in broad areas of interest and;
3. The activities of the technically train-
ed personnel officers in areas such as the
examination services, the reading and
speech clinics, and the health services.
Lawrence college is widely known for
its outstanding fraternity program and the
contribution of this program to high ed-
ucation ideals. At Oregon, Mr. DuShane's
office will be concerned with not only a
fraternity program, but with all campus
living organizations; cooperatives, in-
dependent and veterans' units so that all
living organizations on the campus will
be contributing as a unit to the common
good.
R. DuShane's administrative duties
are planned at present to encompass
the work now under the offices of the dean
of men and the dean of women. "Beyond
that it is a matter of working out any
further administrative responsibilities, of
which we want him to have as little as pos-
sible in order that he may be free to work-
informally with the various people involved
in student activities," President Newburn
said.
The new director, who will be respon-
sible to the president's office, is expected
to visit the University early in March to
assist with the development of the budget
and to meet members of the staff. Mr.
DuShane's appointment will become ef-
fective May 1, 1948. He will study the pro-
gram at Oregon after his arrival and make
such recommendations for modification in
the organization and administration as ap-
appear necessary to the effective operation
of such activities.
At Lawrence, Mr. DuShane is dean of
men and an associate professor of govern-
ment and shares responsibility for the act-
ivities usually found in the offices of the
dean of men and dean of women. From
1931 to 1935 he was an instructor in gov-
ernment at Columbia university, Xew York
City. He holds a master's degree from Col-
umbia, his graduate work having been in
the fields of public law and jurisprudence.
TTE received his bachelor of arts degree
?"??*? from Wabash college, Crawfordsville.
Indiana. He was a reporter and desk editor
for the Columbus Evening Republican,
Columbus, Indiana, and later held the pos-
ition of office manager with Earl W. New-
ton and associate, Chicago.
Mr. DuShane was elected to Phi Beta
Kappa in 1927 and served as president
of the Lawrence college chapter during
1943-44. He also holds memberships in Phi
Delta Theta; the national association of
deans and advisers of men; the national
yiterfraternity conference; the National
education association, department of higher
education; the American political science
association; the American society for pub-
lic administration; the national municipal
league, academy of political sciences; and
Rotary International.
Professor DuShane is 38 years old, mar-
ried, the father of two children, a daughter,
8, and a son, 4. He was born.at South Bend,
Indiana.
In Confirming Mr. DuShane's appoint-
ment to the University of Oregon, Presi-
dent Nathan M. Pusey of Lawrence pub-
lished the following statement in the Laiv-
New Director
rcntian, official Lawrence student publica-
tion :
"Acceptance of this position by Mr. Du-
Shane will take from Lawrence a man who
has served the college with exceptional abil-
ity and skill for more than ten years, and
from our community one of its distin-
guished and warmly loved citizens. It rep-
resents a considerable, and richly deserved
advancement for Mr. DuShane, and an op-
portunity for enlarged service for which he
is exceptionally well qualified. The Univer-
sity of Oregon has chosen extremely well,
and Dean DuShane will do an excellent job
in the important work they have in mind for
him. His going will leave us with a dif-
ficult place to fill. Our best wishes go with
him."
Oregon Second on
Coast Rhodes List
Rhodes scholarships have been awarded
to 15 Oregon alumni since 1904, thus rank-
ing Oregon second highest in Pacific coast
representation.
The University of Washington leads
with 16 scholarship recipients. Other coast
colleges with 10 or more Rhodes scholars
are California and Stanford, with 14 each,
and Reed, with 12.
Leading the nation are Princeton, 72.
Harvard, 51, and Yale, 48.
Oregon's name appears 14th on a list of
41 schools. Colleges with under ten names
number 174.
LIFE MEMBERSHIPS
FOR DETAILS OF PLAN
SEE STORY ON PAGE 6.
13
OLD OREGON
Boston Was Never Like This
LATE last spring Georgia McKenney'sgreat aunt Matilda began to whisperin tones of consternation among her
other relatives that Georgia had accepted an
instructorship in English at the University
of Oregon and in September was joining
Florence Sheehan in the "Wild West."
With inflections that hinted disgrace to her
family, her "adventure" was disclosed to
one relative after another until even the
neighbors heard and lost no time inventing
for her a broken heart which the recom-
mended climate of Oregon would likely re-
pair. From proper Boston cousins she got
only suspicious glances and the sympathy
due a pioneer to Oregon.
In true New England fashion Georgia's
mother explained to her friends that "Flor-
ence's idyllic descriptions of spring begin-
ning in February had lured Georgia to the
Pacific Northwest." Believing firmly in the
eternal order of the universe, her mother
knew that spring would never be indecent
enough to appear anywhere in February,
not even in Oregon.
And had not the practical and sagacious
Daniel Webster proclaimed, "What can
we do with the western coast, a coast of
3000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, unin-
viting and not a harbor on it? I will never
vote one cent from the public treasury to
place the Pacific ocean one inch nearer
Boston than it is now." However, Georgia
was not to accept even Mr. Webster's
judgment without investigation, and held
fast to her decision to see the West.
FROM Bread Loaf School of Englishin Vermont, Janet Moore had come to
the University in 1945 and had written Flo-
rence of the jasmine, the rhododendrons,
and the magnolias. In the fall of 1946
Florence had come from Hartford, Con-
necticut, to see for herself. In "the first,
fine careless rapture" Florence had per-
suaded Georgia to make the third link in
the Bread Loaf chain and come to the Uni-
versity in the fall of 1947.
As Georgia approached Eugene, she kept
saying aloud "Oregon" in an attempt to
conquer the Boston accent and adopt the
When the Misses Florence Sheehan and
Georgia McKenney, two members of the
University faculty, were asked to give us
their impressions of our school and the
nearby country, they responded with this
breezy, third person sketch that partly de-
picts the strangeness of West to East.
Miss Sheehan received her A. B. from
Smith, Miss McKenney is a graduate of
Bates, and each has received an M.A. from
Bread Loaf School of English in Middle-
bury, Vermont.
14
clipped final syllable of the natives. She
had been warned! She had scarcely mas-
tered this pronunciation when Florence
met the train and introduced her to the
Wil-lam-ette river. Caught unawares, she
still says Will-a-mette as her geography
teacher taught her.
In the station at Eugene she read the sign
that Florence had written her of: "Eugene,
lumber capital of the world." That ought
to impress Boston and Hartford with the
prosperity and civilization of the West,
she thought. The next week she realized
what little impression it had made when
Florence received a letter addressed to
"Oregon," the street and city having been
filled in by the postal authorities. Some
of her friends evidently thought Oregon
still a territory even though they had been
sent all available publicity from the cham-
ber of commerce and the beautiful litera-
ture issued by the highway commission at
Salem.
TX FACT, two months of letters about
Oregon last year failed to convince her
family that the West had really been set-
tled, and early November brought an in-
quiry from her mother to know if "they"
celebrated Thanksgiving in Oregon. Intui-
tive as usual, the Register-Guard the next
day carried the headline, "Lane County
Will Celebrate Thanksgiving." Even this
year when Florence wrote an account of
the old Portland Hotel and, in an attempt
to give her family a description of one of
the old landmarks, told of brass beds, oaken
wardrobes and cuspidors, her mother com-
mented, "Why, my dear. I thought the
hotels in Portland at least would be mod-
17OR these New Englanders the Willam-
?*? ette valley savoured of the Connecti-
cut in its gentleness and its grandeur. The
buttes standing like sentinels at the north
and south of Eugene gave a sense of protec-
tion and made them wonder if they had
come to the wide open spaces after all.
Sitting over coffee at the Anchorage and
watching the logging trucks pass sharpened
the contrast between the academic atmos-
phere of the University that they had come
to know and the atmosphere of the hustling
industrial world that lay on the edge of it.
The state university for both was a new
institution of learning, and they came to feel
that it was less an ivory tower than the
colleges "back east"; they were constantly
made aware of an informality that was for
them a new experience.
On an October day, they took a trip
through the McKenzie pass across the
Cascades to the high plateau of Bend where
a raincoat is not a necessary part of civil-
ization and an umbrella is an unwelcome
gift. The miles of slate-gray lava beds were
(Continued on page 18)
North and Middle Sisters mountains thrust their snow-capped peaks abovethe central Oregon lava beds near McKenzie pass.
FEBRUARY 1948
Port/anas Junior First Citizen
/CHARLES R. Holloway Jr., president
of the Portland junior chamber of com-
merce and an active Oregon alumnus, has
been named Portland's junior first citizen
for 1947 in the jaycee's annual contest.
Members of the secret board which made
the selection stressed that it was Hollo-
way's personal qualifications and his civic
record of participation in more than three-
score organizational activities, not his pos-
ition in the junior chamber, which influ-
enced their choice.
A man of many interests, Chuck Hollo-
way's activities vary from the vice-presi-
dency of the Oregon amateur athletic as-
sociation to membership on the board of
directors of the Portland summer sym-
phony. Through his business position as
sales manager of the Liberty Fuel and Ice
company, Holloway has become promin-
ent in several fuel business organizations.
He has also tried his hand at journalism as
editor of The Booster, the official junior cham-
ber publication, and has long been sought to
speak or act as toastmaster at civic affairs.
Holloway is the type of alumnus who
doesn't lose interest in his university with
the passing of years. As president of the
Duck club, member of the board of dir-
ectors of the Portland alumni association
and president of the Sigma Chi alumni of
Portland, he has kept in close contact with
Oregon graduates and Oregon activities.
For winning the junior first citizen honor,
he received the distinguished service award
key from the United States junior chamber
of commerce. His name will also be entered
for consideration as the outstanding young
man in the state and one of the ten outstand-
ing young men in the country.
Holloway was honored at the seventeen-
th anniversary banquet of the junior cham-
ber January 8, when he received national,
state and local honors from Senator Wayne
L. Morse, Governor John H. Hall and
Mayor Earl Riley of Portland.
Tnienes Elected to L. A. Council
Dr. Clinton H. Thienes, A. B. '18, M.A.,
M.D. '23, was recently elected to the coun-
cil of the Los Angeles county medical as-
sociation. Recog-
nized throughout
the nation as a lead-
ing medical author-
ity, he .has authored
textbooks on toxi-
cology and pharma-
cology.
Although he re-
signed his full-time
relationship with the
University of Cali-
fornia, Dr. Thienes
retains his position
as professor of phar-
macology and toxi-
cology. In addition
Dr. C. H. Thienes
he teaches several
courses in the graduate division of the
school of medicine and lectures in pharma-
cology at the Watson and Birmingham
veterans hospitals.
Active in campus activities while at the
University of Oregon, Dr. Thienes held a
two-year scholarship at the medical school
at Portland. Following his graduation he
was appointed instructor in pharmacology,
later securing the position of assistant pro-
fessor. He received his Ph.D. from Stan-
ford university in 1926.
Dr. Thienes established the teaching of
pharmacology at the University of South-
ern California, and under his leadership a
department of pharmacology was inaugu-
rated in 1931.
Dr. Thienes is a charter member of the
University of Oregon chapter of Phi Beta
Kappa, is a charter member and was first
president of Theta Kappa Psi, medical fra-
ternity at the medical school at Portland,
a member of Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Al-
pha and Alpha Epcilon Delta.
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Anson B. Cornell's resignation as ath-
letic department business manager has
been accepted by president Harry K.
Newburn and will become effective March
1 if approved by the state board of higher
education. Since 1936 Cornell has been as-
sociated with the University.
Business connections with the Eugene
and Roseburg New Service laundries
prompted his resignation.
Cornell is credited with raising the stand-
ards of the athletic department during his
12-year tenure. Originally hired as graduate
manager of athletics, he became business
manager last year after reorganization of
the department.
An Oregon graduate of 1916, he lettered
four times in basketball and baseball, and
was an all-coast quarterback in his sopho-
more year. Cornell and Howard Hobson,
former basketball coach, are the only men
in Oregon history to captain two major
sports in one year. The resigning business
manager is considered one of the lightest
quarterbacks ever to play on an Oregon
team.
His athletic work at other colleges in-
cludes 17 years at the College of Idaho
where he was athletic director and football
Claude Robinson
Author or Article
Author of a recent article appearing in the
January issue of Readers Digest is Claude
Robinson '24, president of the Opinion Re-
search corporation in New York City.
Originally published for Look magazine^
it was condensed under the title "The
Strange Case of the Taft-Hartley Labor
Law."
The article decribed the results of a re-
cent survey undertaken by the Opinion Re-
search corporation in the industrial areas
of the East and Middle West to find work-
er's reactions to the new labor act.
Dr. Robinson lives with his family in
Stockton, New Jersey, and maintains his
office in the Chrysler building in New York
City. He holds a doctor's degree from Co-
lumbia university, and is the recipient of an
award from the national association of pub-
lic relations for his establishment of the
public opinion index for industry. He has
also maintained an active interest in alumni
association affairs in New York, and re-
cently headed the student union campaign
in that area.
ANSON B. CORNELL
and basketball coach. Cornell did similar
work at Pacific university from 1933 to
1935.
Hall to Retire
Retirement of Robert C. Hall as superin-
tendent of the University press in July
will open his position for Fred A. Beard
of Chicago.
The appointment of Beard was an-
nounced by President Harry K. Newburn
and will have to be confirmed by the state
board of higher education.
Hall began here under the late Dean
Eric \V. Allen in 1917, six months after the
founding of the press.
Beard, now superintendent of the press at
Moody Bible institute, has had experience
in college printing and publication at the
University of Chicago and Iowa State col-
lege. He will be an assistant professor of
journalism at the University.
L. A. Alumni Meet
Colored movies of the Oregon-Oregon
State football game were the main attrac-
tion at a stag party held at the Beverly
Hills Club on December 13th. More than
100 attended the party, which was spon-
sored by the Southern California Oregon
alumni association.
A short business meeting was held dur-
ing the late supper. Douglas Farrell '23
headed the committee on arrangements for
the gathering.
16
FEBRUARY 1948
btatus ot bcnools an
With an eye to enriching the back-
ground of entering students, three schools
within the University have changed their
status, it has been announced by President
Harry K. Newburn. The school of law, ef-
fective with the 1949 first year law students,
will require three years of pre-law for
admission; the schools of journalism and
education will be changed to upper-division
beginning fall term of this year.
Orlando J. Hollis, dean of the law
school, expressed the belief that the move
would give the law school "students of
greater maturity and richer cultural back-
ground." Hollis explained that many lead-
ing schools already follow this system, but
that the University had felt it to be in-
advisable up to now because of the great
number of returning veterans who might
have been handicapped. Individual con-
sideration has been promised any cases of
hardship due to the ruling.
The law school, which up to now has re-
quired but two years of pre-law, will also
require a total of 138 hours, 125 of them
solid, and 36 hours in social science. A
standard 2-point cumulative G.P.A. will
still be necessary.
The change of the schools of education
and journalism to the upper-division level
is in keeping with a general trend through-
out the country. Its purpose is' to broaden
the liberal arts background of the students
in these schools.
Dean P. B. Jacobson of the school of
education pointed out that the change will
provide opportunity for prospective teach-
Gratlee To Lecture
Charles E. Gratke '23, foreign editor of
the Christian Science Monitor, will give the
second annual Eric W. Allen memorial
lecture to the University late this month.
He will also meet with journalism students
and will address the Oregon press confer-
ence on February 20, 21.
Before 1937, when he joined the Monitor
staff, Gratke freelanced in New York, wrote
for The Oregonian, and worked on the Oregon
City Enterprise.
The Sigma Delta Chi award for foreign
correspondence was presented him in 1946.
Sharing the program will be William O.
Thorniley, J. Walter Thompson Co.,
Seattle; Clifford Kaynor, publisher of the
Bllensburg Daily Record; Quincy Scott, The
Oregonian cartoonist; Fred Lockley, Ore-
gon Journal columnist; William L. Blizzard,
publisher of the Oswego Review; David
Eyre, assistant news editor of the Oregon
Journal; Dr. Lawrence R. Campbell, profes-
sor of journalism at the University; and
Dr. H. K.T Newburn.
ers to get background work in liberal arts.
"Many will be able to major in the subject
matter they wish to make their specialty
in teaching," he added.
The school of education has had no
lower division courses, so no changes will
be necessary in the curriculum. Lower-
division students intending to make edu-
cation their major will be assigned advisers
from the college of liberal arts.
In journalism, pre-journalism students
will be classed as liberal arts majors for
their freshman and sophomore years, but
will be assigned advisers in the journalism
school.
"We believe that under this system the
journalism student will be greatly aided in
securing a background which will be of
benefit to him in his upper-division journal-
ism courses," Dean George Turnbull com-
mented.
Freshmen now in school will be eligible
for admission to the journalism school upon
obtaining their junior certificates. New
students will need a cumulative G.P.A. of
2.25 at the end of their sophomore year.
The present lower-division courses will be
classed as pre-journalism.
The action in both of these schools was
made upon the recommendation of the
faculties.
Enrollment Declines
Despite a drop of 269 students, the en-
rollment of 5636 for winter term is one per
cent higher than last year's enrollment at
the same time.
Men enrollees have increased four per
cent while women decreased three per cent.
Associate Registrar Clifford L. Constance
reported that these changes leave 382;.
men and 1815 women.
The junior class showed the greatest
change from last year at winter term when
397 students registered. This year there an
593 juniors.
There are also more sophomores am
seniors, but less freshmen than a year ago.
AVALDORF GIVES TRIBUTE
Lynn O. Waldorf, head football coach at
the University of California, spoke in honor
of the late Colonel Bill Hayward at the
annual Eugene Realty Board banquet last
month.
He told how Colonel Hayward helped
bring American sports to the golden era
they are now approaching.
Messages were read by Waldorf from
Brutus Hamilton, athletic director at the
University of California, and Walter
Christie, former track coach of the same
school.
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Civic Leader, Dies
" \ ny ^dividual who only lives off a
?^*- community, refusing to contribute to
make it a better place, is failing in his duty
to his fellow man."
With this statement, Mahlon E. Sweet
'13, summed up the philosophy which
helped make him a nationally-known figure
in aviation up to the time of his death on
December 24, 1947.
Best known in Eugene, where he had
lived since 1909, as the city's patron saint of
aviation, he was honored as Eugene's
"first citizen" for 1945.
He led the way in promoting automobile
roads leading from Eugene to the coast,
north and south, and finally over the Mc-
Kenzie Pass. In 1921, Sweet was the first
man to drive over the pass.
He was named chairman of the Eugene
chamber of commerce aviation committee
when it was first formed in 1918 and held
that post until the time of his death. In
recent years, he also served on the board of
directors of the Oregon aviation council.
With Major H. H. (Hap) Arnold, re-
cently retired commander of the army air
forces, whom he met while serving with
the forest fire patrols near Eugene in the
early '20s, Sweet helped plan the first air-
plane flight around the world. This flight
was accomplished in 1924.
In 1939, Eugene, largely because of the
insisting of Sweet, became convinced that
the original airport was outmoded and
moved to acquire the field now in use. Ap-
propriately, when the new field was dedi-
cated in May, 1943, it was named "Mahlon
Sweet Field".
From the time of the new field's comple-
tion, he served as its unofficial, unpaid, but
full-time manager, doing everything in his
power to see that Eugene realized the full
benefits of the field.
His promotional work for Eugene was
never tiring. An example of this was his
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successful efforts to have the entire UN
rostrum covered with Lane county daffo-
dils for the opening session of the United
Nations charter meeting in San Francisco.
He was born at Western Springs, Illin-
ois, in 1886. As a boy, he attended the Lick
high school at San Francisco, and entered
the University of Oregon in 1909. He was
married to Nina Nicklin in 1912. After
leaving the University in 1913, he took over
a partnership in a local automobile agency.
From this time forward, he set about his
self-appointed duties of advancing Eugene's
transportation facilities.
He is survived by his widow, a brother
and two sisters .
Boston Different
(Continued from page 14)
a curiosity that provided interest for letters
home.
Other trips furthered the "education" of
the new instructors. Vacations at Bates
had been the signal for a mass exodus to
Boston, and all of Smith had boarded the
New York train. Florence and Georgia
would not be outdone in the West; unlike
the "Proper Bostonian" they went not un-
willingly to San Francisco and were well
able to tolerate the "effete climate" which
Cleveland Amory says is so offensive to
residents of Boston's Back Bay.
Both newcomers are enthusiastic about
this country and are proud to form two
links in the Bread Loaf chain that connects
the Indian summer of New England with
the flowering of the West. The links are
closer than Aunt Matilda would imagine,
for Aunt Matilda is the "Proper Bostonian"
who, as Mr. Amory has so rightfully said,
"has little geographical curiosity outside
her own suburbs."
18
FEBRUARY 1948
oj tke
by Donna Kletzing
1912
Dr. S. Earl Childers, ex-Eugene minis-
ter, is now pastor of a Santa Cruz church.
Rev. J. Hunter Howard is pastor of the
Londonderry Baptist church, Londonder-
ry, New Hampshire.
1913
Glenn B. Conwell is an officer of Kan-
sas Gas and Electric company of Belle
Plaine, Kansas.
Carlton E. Spencer returned to the law
school staff this year after serving as as-
sistant director of selective service for Ore-
gon since selective service began in 1940.
His son, Douglas, is in his second year at
Harvard law school.
Mrs. Helen Koyl Calkins is society edi-
tor and assistant publisher of the Ceres
Courier and Modesto Journal, published by
her husband and son.
1914
John W. Shaver is editor of Concrete, the
construction magazine serving the con-
crete industries.
1916
W. J. "Bill" Montgomery is associated
with the Champion Paper company. He re-
sides at Hamilton, Ohio.
William Robert McMurray is vice-pres-
ident of Commonwealth, Inc., of Portland.
His family consists of Gertrude Taylor and
son William Robert Jr., who graduated in
"42.
1917
Harold Hamstreet, married to the former
Mona E. Dougherty '16, is copy editor of
the Oregon Journal in Portland.
1920
Herman Lind is a member of the board
of governors of the Investment Bankers
Association of America. Mr. Lind is one of
two members from the Pacific Northwest.
1922
Clayton "Tubby" Ingle writes from Fred-
erick, Maryland, that he is located at Camp
Detrick on a chemical corps research and
development installation. Ingle has fol-
lowed engineering and construction work
since he left school and had a commission
in the Seabees during World War II.
Ian Campbell is professor of petrology
and associate chairman of the division of
the geological sciences at the California
Institute of Technology, Mr. Campbell and
their son, Dugald Robbins, live in Pasade-
na.
Miss Emily Perry MacKinnon is profes-
sor and director of health and physical ed-
ucation at Beaver College, Jenkintown,
Pennsylvania. After graduating from Ore-
gon, she studied at Wellesley, the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, and Columbia. She
received her doctor's degree from Colum-
bia.
Verne Blue, who received degrees from
the University of California and the Un-
iversity of Paris after leaving Oregon, is
now historian with the department of
state, in Washington D. C.
1923
Clyde Schenbel is the inspector of region-
al offices for the civil service commission
with his headquarters in Washington, D.C.
1924
Shirley Edwards is public housing auth-
ority officer for the San Francisco regional
office in the Humboldt Bank building. He
and his wife also run several East Bay
stores.
1926
Ted R. Gillenwaters is head of the heavy
equipment division of O'Keefe and Merritt
company in Pasadena.
Mrs. Helen Hershner Plant, who some
years ago was secretary to the dean of
women at Oregon and was later assistant
dean at California state college in San Jose,
is now head of the Prentice-Hall publish-
ing company office in San Francisco.
1927
Richard L. Collins is budget officer for the
Oregon state system of higher education. He
served in World War II as a lieutenant
commander in the navy. Mr. and Mrs. Col-
lines (Margaret Knapp' 29) and their young
son live in Eugene.
J. Francis Cleaver of Portland is a hydraul-
ic engineer for the United States geologic
survey. He and his wife, Beth A. Sutherland
'29, have two daughters. He writes "after 15
years in the Southern California oil fields,
it is good to be back in Oregon".
Phil Bergh is merchandise manager of
the lastex yarn and thread division of the
United States Rubber company in New
York. Mr. and Mrs. Bergh (Margaret Hol-
brok '30) live at Forest Hills, Long Island.
Hugh Biggs has been admitted to prac-
tice before the United States supreme
court in Washington.
Guy W. Brace is a professor of chemistry
at Yakima Valley junior college.
1928
Fred West is an official in the San Fran-
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1929
Ivan B. White has been specializing in
financial aspects of United States rela-
tions abroad and has been serving in the
financial section of the Paris embassy as
first secretary. In this capacity, he has had
much to do with loans negotiated by Europ-
ean countries.
Morris Bocock is an investigator for the
United States department of labor at San
Francisco.
W. W. Biggs is field engineer for the
bureau of reclamation in Grand Lake, Col-
orado.
Merrill Hagan is associated with the Gor-
don-Carey Insurance agency of McMinn-
ville. Sharon L. and Marilyn D. comprise
the rest of the Hagan family.
Ronald Hubbs is now in the home office
of the St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance
company of St. Paul, Minnesota. He is
married to the former Margaret Jamie '35.
1931
Bill Whitely is now with the Hercules
Powder company in Wilkes-Barre, Penn-
sylvania. Frances Lee and William F., Ill
make up the rest of the Whitely family.
1932
Hal Waffle is with the Griffith Rubber
mills of Portland.
Jack Stipe, formerly head of social ser-
vice for the veteran's administration in
New York and Puerto Rico, is now director
of social service for the V.A. at the central
office in Washington, D. C.
Robert K. Allen is a partner in the Per-
man-Xeil advertising agency in Seattle. His
wife is the former Velma Ruth Farnham
'26.
1933
Roy Craft is employed by Life magazine
in their "Sunset Strip" editorial offices in
Hollywood.
John Marrs is affiliated with the Bur-
roughs Adding Machine company in Port-
land.
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1934
Joe E. Franz is production manager of
the United States bakery in Portland.
Mark Temple manages an electrical ap-
pliance store in McMinnville. He married
the former Frances J. Sperce and they now
have two children, Jack F., and Richard
Boyce.
1935
Bill Berg operates the Eugene Feed and
Supply store. His son, Bradley, is now four
years old. Mrs. Berg (Marjorie Louise
Bates '39) died in April.
1936
Bud Jones is head of the retail depart-
ment of the Zellerbach Paper company of
Portland; the former Margaret D. De-
Young '36 and Buddington B, Jr., make-up
the rest of the family.
Tom McCall is news commentator for
KXL, Portland.
Ralph Schomp is with Bluebell foods,
Inc., of Santa Ana, California. His family
consists of the former Imogene J. Wyllis
'38 and their children Sarah and Halcyon.
John S. Bailey has been named deputy in
the office of the Multnomah county district
attorney, John McCourt '22. Mr. Bailey was
a member of the army judge advocate de-
partment which investigated the slaying of
the Doolittle fliers.
1937
Clair Johnson has left his AP post at
Washington, D. C. to return to the Salt
Lake Tribune where he is executive news
editor. Johnson is married and has a girl,
Carolyn Ann.
1938
Doug Milne is manager of the Southern
company, merchandise brokers and manu-
facturers' agents in the food business. Mr.
and Mrs. Milne and their two children,
Doug Jr., 41., and Mary Susan, 2, live in
Jacksonville, Florida.
1939
With United Airlines in Los Angeles is
Miss Mabel Ann Turner.
Structural engineer with the Chicago
Bridge and Iron company is John Winfield
Allen.
Miss Donna Davies is employed by Un-
iversal-International studios in Hollywood
as a secretary.
Bob Parke is coaching at Jordan high
school in Lonp Beach.
1940
Kenneth "Mickey" Vail represents a
number of eastern book publishers, and
covers the territory west of Denver. His
home is in Portland.
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FEBRUARY 1948
1941
Mrs. Cecil Crafts (Doris Murphy) is
teaching in Alhambra high school in Calif-
ornia.
Wendell Wyatt is now practicing law in
Astoria with the Norblad firm. His wife
is the former Betty Buchanan.
Kenneth A. Erickson is assistant to Vice-
president Hopkins of Washington State
college. His many responsibilities include
faculty housing and studies of staff effic-
iency. The Erickson family consists of the
former Lois Nordling '42 and two daugh-
ters, Sharon Marie and Carol Ann.
Mr. and Mrs. Hal Larson (Signe Ek-
lund '46) have returned from Sweden where
they attended school last year. Mr. Larson
has re-entered the army.
Scott Corbett is a salesman for the Nel-
son Equipment company of Portland. Mr.
and Mrs. Corbett (Carol H. Nelson) have
a son, Nelson Hunter, who is now one year
old.
1942
Lloyd C. "Bugs" Thomas has left Flor-
ence and is operating a retail lumber yard
at Oakridge, where he resides with his
wife, the former Jane Warlick, and their
two children.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Barker (Yvonne
Torgler '44) are the parents of a son,
George. Their home is in Eugene.
Mrs. Carl V. Miller (Betty Jane Meats)
does secretarial work for Boyle Midway
Manufacturing company in Los Angeles.
Program director with KSOB in Stock-
ton, California, is Earle Russell.
Bob Adrian, Lt., U. S. N., is an instructor
in the navy R. O. T.C. program at Alabama
Polytechnic Institute at Auburn.
Fred Farrior is now office manager for
the Green Alountain division of the San-
tiam Lumber company at Sweet Home. His
home is in Lebanon.
Dean Forbes is an instrucor of psychol-
ogy at Oregon State college.
1943
Pat Cloud is with the Schmidt Litho-
graph company of San Pedro.
Wilbur Bishop is now advertising mana-
ger for the San Carlo, California, Examiner.
Mr. and Mrs. Bishop have two children,
Wilbur Jr., 2 years old, and Betty Vina,
age 9 months.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Closson (Charlotte
Marie Gething '46) are the parents of a
daughter, Linda Diana, born July 17.
1944
Miss Barbara Lamb, former senior class
president, is working as a fashion copy
writer in Xew York.
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Williams (Mar-
ibeth Rodway) are the parents of a son.
Mrs. Lois Welborn Hoffman and James
\V. Needham of Texas were married Nov-
ember in Kcw Haven, Connecticut. Mrs.
Needham recently received her master's
degree from the Yale school of nursing,
and is a graduate nurse in pediatrics at the
New Haven hospital. Mr. Needham is fin-
ishing his fourth year at Yale's school of
medicine.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Dickenson (Janet
Ross) announce the birth of a son, Wayne
Ross, born in December.
At home in San Francisco are Mr. and
Mrs. Jacques W. Em rick (Audrey Lynds),
who were married last fall.
1945
l'aul H. Johnson, a graduate of Ore-
gon State college, and Miss Leota White-
lock were married October 17 in Eugene
and are now living in Portland where Mr.
Johnson is an engineer at the Oregon
Journal.
1946
Continuity chief at station KGRA in
Sacramento is Fred C. Beckwith.
Miss Shirley Walker has established a
baby shop in Ontario, Oregon.
Miss Mary Margaret Ellsworth is now
secretary for her father, Representative
Harris Ellsworth. Both her father and
mother (Helen Dougherty) are Univer-
sity graduates of 1922.
Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Prichett (Ann
Scripter) are the parents of a baby girl,
born in December.
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Lt. Kathleen Brady of the Waves is
now at the Minneapolis naval air base,
where she is chief disbursing officer.
Emerson Hoogstraat was recently ap-
pointed instructor of economics at Van-
port college.
The wedding of Miss Betty Rose '46
and Carl Hayes was an' event of last-
fall in Medford.
1947
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilbur (Charleen
Jensvold '45) have a baby boy, Charles
Gregory, born November 14. Mr. Wilbur
is studying for his master's degree at the
University.
Mr. and Mrs. Shiras M. Jarvis (Christ-
iane Lamoreaux), now living in Eureka,
California, have announced the birth of
a son, David, born October 12.
Miss June Carnes is teaching physical
education in Grants Pass high school.
Miss Nadya Ramp and Miss Barbara
Weisz are employed by the public wel-
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Miss Grayce Dunagan is teaching in
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Miss Harriett Lozier is teaching in Sea-
side.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Morene (Pat
.Darby) are at home in Milwaukie after
their marriage during the Thanksgiving
vacation. Mr. Morene is completing his
last year of pre-dental school at Lewis
and Clark college. Mrs. Morene is teach-
ing history at Jefferson high school in
Portland.
Rollin B. Wood will open his law office
in McMinnville this month.
Fred Kuhl is assistant director of pub-
lic relations for the Alcoa Aluminum plant
in Vancouver, Washington.
Miss Frances Bennett is working as a
junior bacteriologist at the Oregon bio-
logical laboratory in Portland.
Miss Fenna Van Gelder is doing per-
sonal secretarial work for Miss Vivien
Kellems '18, president of Kellems Co.,
and an outstanding American women in-
dustrialist.
Paul J. Marcotte and Miss Eloise M.
Rockwell '47 were married in mid-August
and are now at home in Portland.
The marriage of Miss Marilyn Sage to
Don Mayne was solemnized in Portland
during the Christmas vacation. They will
be at home in San Francisco.
Mrs. James Morrell (Joan Jacoberger)
is teaching in Portland's Franklin high
school. The Morrells were married Aug-
ust 23 in Portland.
James Girkin and Miss Margery Skor-
dahl are residing in Sioux City, Iowa, after
their marriage last summer.
Miss Ada Anderson is now an assist-
ant buyer at Olds, Wortman and King
in Portland.
Miss Virginia Scholl is studying med-
icine at Vanport college.
Martin Schedler is employed in the
legal department of Standard Life In-
surance company of Portland.
Miss June Johnson sang the Oregon
pledge song at Madison Square Garden at
half time when the Oregon basketball
team played Long Island university on its
eastern trip. Miss Johnson is living in
Xew York.
1948
Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Gray (Leslie
Brockelbank '45) are now living in Den-
ver, where Mr. Gray is attending the Un-
iversity of Denver. They have a baby
son, Frank Howard, born last March.
Miss Betty Skofstad was married re-
cently in Portland to David La Verne
Meier.
Miss Dawn Carson and Don Sipe were
married in San Francisco, December 24.
Both have returned to school.
1949
Mr. and Mrs. James Kern (Josephine
Kennedy) are now at home in San Fran-
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FEBRUARY 1948
cisco where she is modeling and he is
working as an architect.
Jack Shafer and Miss Julie Holman
were married November 29 and are now
living in Portland where he is stationed
with the navy.
George Dugan and Miss Marjorie Fis-
her '47. were wed in September in Port-
land and are now at home there.
Lucille Bellinger and Betty Spangler
are now attending nursing school in Port-
land.
Living in Eugene after their recent mar-
riages are Mr. and Mrs. Birch Sprick
(Marjean McElvain) and Mr. and Mrs.
Cliff Giffin (Audrey Kullberg).
James Koltz and Miss Dorothy Kien-
holz '47 were married July 3, and are at
home in Eugene while Mr. Koltz attends
the University.
Bill Hutchison is in the U. S. Naval
Academy at Annapolis and is heading the
plebe class there.
A December wedding was that of Miss
Dorothy Samuelson '49 to Roscoe Bryant.
They are living in Eugene while Mr.
Bryant completes his work at the Un-
iversity.
A Christmas marriage united Mercer
Brown and Miss Nancy Fitzhugh '49
in L,os Angeles. They are now at home in
Eugene while Mr. Brown finishes his
studies at the University.
Married during the Christmas vaca-
tion were Miss Arlene Larson and Bob
Hagerup. Both are now attending Pacific
university.
Oregon Authors
In New Book
Robert O. Case '20, and Ernest Haycox
'23, have written parts of "Northwest Har-
vest," a record of the Writers Conference
on the Northwest held in Portland last year.
Other contributors who were formerly
connected with the University are Harold
G. Merriam, professor of English in 1939
and 1940, and Richard Neuberger, who
studied here the same years.
Dr. Dan E. Clark of the history depart-
ment is quoted several times in "Northwest
Harvest."
CUP WON BY SAM CHAPTER
Sigma Tau chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu
was awarded the Founder's Day cup pre-
sented at a convention of house chapters
in Chicago.
The cup, awarded annually to the house
excelling in grades, activities, house organ-
ization, and finances, was accepted by
Harry Glickman, University of Oregon
SAM delegate to the convention.
Al Popick is president of the winning
house, which received more points than any
previous winner.
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our extra services. The Co-op gives prompt and
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BILLIJEAN REITHMILLER
President of Kwama - - sophomore women's
honorary. The white - sweatered Kwama
girls are chosen at the end of their freshman
year for outstanding- dependability, scholar-
ship, and service to the University.
Miss Billijean Reithmiller
where 13th meets Willamette
FEBRUARY 1948
It's Bee ome Election Will Decide
'Our' Cemetery Faie ?fMi1h race
(Continued from page 8)
port the cortege from the church to the
cemetery, free of charge. Following Decor-
ation day lodge members and those who
owned the 1-ots cleaned the grounds, for
there were no funds then for perpetual up-
keep.
As the years passed, two additions were
made south of the original area. The burial
records, written in a neat, thin hand, show
the names, dates and ages of all persons
laid to rest there. Also recorded are the
birthplaces of each person, including almost
all the states of the union and such often
repeated countries as England, Germany
and Scotland.
In the 1920s an Oregon state law was
passed requiring any newly created or any
addition to cemeteries to put up a trust
fund from lot sales for perpetual upkeep.
As the IOOF cemetary had no such fund,
having been created prior to the legislation,
the Lane county court in 1922 appointed a
three-man commission to check the area.
The property passed from the hands of the
IOOF and Spencer Butte lodge now owns
only the roads into and the runways
through the graveyard.
Legalty, the old cemetery may wholely
belong to no one, but theoretically it does
belong to the generations of Oregon
students who have known it and its moods.
It has had a distinct effect upon the campus
in its way?by imbuing carefree college life
with a silent, steadying reminder of the
value of time.
Tax Surplus Eyed
Income tax surpluses should be used
for construction of buildings on state school
campuses according to Governor John H.
Hall, who spoke in Eugene late last month.
The $14,000,000 which he said was "now
gathering dust in the state treasury" could
be used if the voters took initiative action
to place the plan on the November general
election ballots.
Hall backed up his plan by saying that
Oregon college enrollment has increased
76 per cent from the pre-war peak of 9902.
However, only $100,000 was spent for col-
lege buildings from 1930 to 1945, said the
election ballot.
XEW TELESCOPE GIFT
Astronomy instruction at the University
will be supplemented soon with a 15-inch
reflecting telescope.
Dr. A. E. Caswell, head of the physics
department, said the $2500 telescope was
entirely paid for by private donations. It
will be housed in temporary quarters pend-
ing completion of the new science building.
A measure which would permit Eugene
to sell "up to" $20,000 worth of city bonds
for the repair of all dams, waterways and
viaducts necessary to restore water to the
millrace will be put before the voters May
21, it was recently decided by the Eugene
city council.
It is planned that monies raised from the
bond issue will be matched by the mill-
race committee and the city will not be
able to purchase millrace rights of way.
Work on the millrace will begin im-
mediately after the election if the issue is
passed and sufficient funds are offered by
the millrace committee. The city had pre-
viously set aside $10,000 for millrace repair.
EUGENE LEADS CITIES
Eugene, with 1565 students, sent more
people to the University of Oregon for fall
term than any other city. A close second
was Portland with 1512 representatives.
Curtis E. Avery, registrar, said that Ore-
gon was the home state of 4206 students,
followed by California and Washington.
Foreign students attending the Univer-
sity came from Canada, Panama, Chile,
China, Columbia, Guatemala, Egypt, Korea
and Norway.
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(Continued from page 7)
copyediting labs for the journalism
school.
Mrs. Mary Lois Lothian (nee Mary
Lois Dana) has taken over the position
of secretary of the journalism school. She
replaces Mrs. Marie Brown, who endeav-
ored daily to answer every one of the 1001
questions asked of her by journalism stu-
dents.
'T^HE long-established policy of the
-?- school is to maintain a high standard
of liberal arts preparation for future jour-
nalists. The school, Dean Turnbull ex-
plained, has never overemphasized the
technical journalism courses but rather
has tried to improve the cultural and schol-
arly background so vital to present day
publishers, writers and editors.
The actual journalism courses are those
that are calculated to prepare students to
do good work on the first day they step
out of school and into a job. This purpose
has been well achieved, judging from the
Oregon publishers and editors who com-
mend the work of the school most
highly.
The school also follows a policy of
keeping up with the newest developments
in all departments and phases of journal-
ism. It attempts to prepare students for
newspaper work, both editorial and ad-
vertising, and also for magazine work,
public relations and the news and adver-
tising branches of radio. The school does
this by giving its 390 students the advan-
tages of the latest improved methods and
advanced standards of journalistic teach-
ing.
T1UT the school of journalism is look-
?^mg ahead. Next fall it is going on an
upper division basis. As outlined by Dean
Turnbull, the new system will require a
student to have a junior certificate and a
2.25 grade point cumulative to enter the
school. Most of the actual journalism
courses will be taught on the upper divi-
sion level. The lower division work will
be devoted to liberal arts study.
The dean said that the program was
being worked out in line with a country-
wide move to strengthen preparation for
a higher type of journalistic work. Among
typical changes already in effect is the re-
quirement of backgrounds of publishing
for all majors and the re-establishment of
freshman English composition require-
ments.
The past success of the Oregon school
of journalism cannot be doubted when one
looks at the imposing list of graduates.
Future success seems assured by im-
provements now underway and by present
students who are putting out all-American
publications and achieving top honors
whenever collegiate journalists are com-
pared.
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for new telephone facilities
in the last two years
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improvement of your telephone service in the last
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invested this year.
Investors put their money in the telephone busi-
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Every telephone user shares the benefits in more and
better telephone service.
In the Bell System, the term investors means hun-
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of life and in every section of the country?men and
women just like yourself. The telephone business
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