OlJ Oregon DECEMBERJANUARY1956-57
What's become of Harry Newburn?
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Frequently school spirit is assumed to be thai
amount of enthusiasm or emotional display that
we have during a football game or other athletic
event. The fact that alumni and students do or
do not vocally support our team indicates to all
that we do or do not have school spirit, as the
case may be.
Events related to the Stanford game created
considerable comment from the campus and
from alumni. Lack of support of the team was
the basis of the complaint and then too there
was much to be said about effigy hanging.
Basically there were three schools of thought
expressed in the various comments. One was
that we should support our team, win or lose.
Another was the age old plaint, "ft wasn't like
that when 1 was in school".
Perhaps the last group had the best idea of
what all the discussion was about. They looked
a little deeper into what school spirit actually is.
The big point to them was that school spirit is
perhaps best described as school loyalty. That
quantity of vocal support of a team is only a
small measure of obvious support.
Far more important to the lasting interest
and devotion of 'Old School Ties' is the degree
of loyalty to the University. Loyalty is not being
a "yes man" on all matters concerning the Uni-
versity either. When the University is right it
should have your support; when it is wrong it
should have your support in the form of ideas
and effort to correct the wrong.
A loyal alum will be informed about the
University and should be able to accurately rep-
resent it to others. Willingness to promote Ore-
gon and its faculty, administration, coaches,
teams, students, campus, curriculum, alumni,
freedom of thought and expression are obvious
manifestations of real school spirit or loyalty.
Perhaps it takes the penalty of time to ac-
quire those emotions about Oregon which need
no outside stimulus to inspire the same deep
loyalty?patriotism if you wish?which is so
much a part of all of us when we think of
fidelity to our country. It is not sophomorish
to retain a sincere interest, an active interest, in
your University. Nothing can keep you so youth-
ful and ambitious as to mingle, even from a
distance, with the young people of the campus.
They are the ones who have the new thoughts
and ideas which we will be using in the future
and that can never be bad.
School loyalty is healthy for all; individual,
school and community. The effect of one act of
disloyalty is often misinterpreted by some. But
the effect of the mass of interested, well-in-
formed alumni will always offset the misdeeds
of a few.
If you were not here for homecoming you
missed seeing and hearing the finest display of
school 'spirit' seen on the campus for many a
year. The students were behind the team, the
band and all activities of the weekend 100 per
cent. But that was only part of it. Actually they
were acting to display real school 'loyalty' and
for that reason the results of homecoming were,
for all, another cause for pride in the worth of
the Universitly and its program.?BASS DYER
December-January J956-57
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December-January 1956-57 Vol. XXXVI, No. 29
COVER
At the Educational Television Center in Ann Arbor, Mich-
igan, Dr. Harry K. Newburn, ex-president of the University
of Oregon, confers with two other Oregonians, George
Hall '39, director of development, and Glenn Starlin, acting
head of the University Speech Department, who was in
Ann Arbor last summer on a special two-month assignment.
Hall used to be acting dean of men at Oregon. In the three
years since Newburn left the University to assume the presi-
dency of the newly-established center, educational tele-
vision has grown tremendously. You can read more about
this and about Newburn's present activities by turning to
Elsie Schiller's article on page 5.
THIS ISSUE
They Love Her in Oswego! 2
What's Become of Harry Newburn? 5
Behind the Iron Curtain 7
The Wonderful World of Physics 10
Oregon Revisited 12
Old Oregon Roundup 15
Oregon's Hoop Prospects 16
A Policy Report from the Chancellor 22
Huntin' and Peckin' to Success 30
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Treasurer
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Past President
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The University of Oregon has graduated
only one class of elementary teachers, but the
program already is 100 per cent successful,
judging from reactions of 24 enthusiastic stu-
dents in the fifth srade of Forest Hills School
in Oswego, Uregon.
These lucky boys and girls drew Miss Patty
Fagan for their teacher in Patty's first year in
the classroom after her 1956 graduation from
the University elementary teacher program.
Patty is no stranger to education. Her
mother, Mrs. Edwin P. Fagan of Lake Grove
(which is in the same school district as Oswe-
go), teaches the first grade. Patty thus had long
exposure to the desk side of school before she
greeted her students from behind her own desk
September 17. Even so, Patty figures that she
learned more about teaching in her first two
days on the job than in her previous 20 years.
"There are instant decisions to be made con-
stantly through the day," she explains, "and
work as a student teacher cannot prepare you
except to provide a background and train you
in the organizational work required."
As for her students, Patty loves them. "Some-
times the boys are sweet,"" she says, "and some-
times they are?well?boys. And I wouldn't
have them any other way."
Getting ready for the opening of school last fall was
the climax of four years of training for Patty Fagan '56.
Preparing for the opening of school. A ... A mid-morning check of hair-do and lip- ... And a final note to bring the rec-
conference with Principal Robert Rath . . . stick before mirror in teachers' lounge ... ord book up to date before classes . . .
/4s opening draws near Patty
practices tvriting her name on
blackboard and then pauses for
a cup of coffee pensively look-
ing forward to the moment
when the students arrive. To
see what happened when the
kids showed up, turn the page.
December-January 1956-57
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On the big day, the youngsters, their faces freshly scrubbed, await Patty's first words.
Sandra I olm, struggling to find proper
place in history text, gets Patty's help.
By noon the first day of school, Patty has
the situation well in hand. Here she eats
lunch in cafeteria ivith her fifth graders.
4
.?/^ mid-morning the kids pitch in to help water flowers.
What's Become of Harry Newburn?
The former president of the University
is up to his neck in work
in one of Americas fastest growing
fields of education?television
By Elsie Schiller '54
rT~vHREE YEARS AGO H. K. Newburn left his offices in Johnson
-*- Hall, where he had served since 1945 as eighth president of
the University of Oregon, to pioneer in educational television as
president of the newly-organized Educational Television and
Radio Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Commercial television was just arriving in Oregon at the time.
Channels, coaxial cables and George Gobel were still to be added
to the Oregon vocabulary.
Where was this man Newburn going in educational television?
What was educational television? How would ex-President
Newburn and the new center fit into the national education pic-
ture? Were not the men who talked of educational television
dreamers and idealists?
But Dr. Newburn's reputation at the University was one of
practicality. He was widely known as a good administrator. His
accomplishments on the Eugene campus were concrete and prac-
tical and sound.
He was justly proud of the achievements he and his colleagues
had made in acquiring and retaining an outstanding staff for the
University of Oregon. During his administration, faculty salaries
were increased, curricular revision and reorganization was en-
couraged and library facilities were materially increased. And,
because of the foresight of the Chancellor's office, the Board of
Higher Education and the Legislature, it was possible to improve
and expand the physical plant in remarkable degree.
However, those who knew Dr. Newburn knew also that this
man had vision. They knew that no accomplishment brought
more satisfaction than reorganization of the College of Liberal
Arts at the State University of Iowa while he was dean there from
1941 through 1945.
So, to this new field of educational television, Dr. Newburn
brought leadership in the form of a sound educational philosophy
in its broadest sense, an inside knowledge of educational prob-
lems, and the ability to get a job done. What more would this
new job demand?
The history of educational TV was so brief it was almost non-
existent when Dr. Newburn made his move. In 1952 the Federal
Communications Commission had reserved 242 channels for edu-
cational purposes. Educators called this the "greatest event" in
the educational world since President Lincoln signed the bill
authorizing American land grant colleges. But no one knew how
these stations were to be activated, where money would come from
for the expensive TV equipment, where the trained hybrid per-
sonnel needed for television-education would be found, how sta-
tions would be supported once they were on the air, what they
should program to educate and to meet minority tastes.
December-January 1956-57
Harry K. Newburn, ex-president of University of Oregon, dis-
cusses distribution plans for Educational Television Center in
Ann Arbor, with Bart Griffith (center) and George Hall, UO '39.
One reserved channel, KUHT in Houston, Texas, was telecast-
ing in September, 1953, when Dr. Newburn assumed the presi-
dency of the center.
The Educational Television and Radio Center was conceived
by the Fund for Adult Education as a separate entity under a
special Fund grant. It is a non profit corporation established under
the laws of Illinois. In May, 1954, after months of careful prepara-
tion, the center started operations to provide a national "network"
program service for educational TV stations.
The center was not meant to be a production agency in the
direct sense. Rather, it was to develop the finest possible educa-
tional programs using any available production facilities and to
distribute these programs to the non-commercial stations affiliated
with the center. Unlike a commercial network, the center does
not intend to provide a majority of an affiliated station's program
hours. From the beginning the center has followed the theory that
strong local programming is essential to the educational station
both to develop and retain an audience and to serve that audience.
"Strangely enough, it is necessary to constantly reiterate that
educational television must have as its purpose education?educa-
tion in the broadest and richest sense to be sure?but education
and nothing else," says Dr. Newburn. "If such educational pro-
grams also can be entertaining, exciting, or humorous?and there
is no fundamental reason why they cannot?so much the better.
But entertainment, excitement, and humor must be but a means
to the educational objective?not ends in themselves. The pur-
pose must remain educational or there is no educational televi-
sion."
T>UT DR. NEWBURN KNEW that the educational TV station has
?*-* to have an audience; that it could not fulfill its purpose in an
"ivory tower" viewed only by educators and their friends. The ex-
periment must involve something more.
"It is necessary constantly to be aware of the fact that there
must be an audience to educate. There is no point in preparing
the most significant programs, educationally speaking, if there is
no audience to view them," Dr. Newburn told his staff.
Skilled educators in the broadcasting field, among them Dr.
Glenn Starlin, now acting head of the University Speech Depart-
ment, joined the center staff to develop program ideas and to work
with independent producers and individual stations to produce
ETV programs of an acceptable quality.
And it was a struggle to develop these program sources, to
locate producers who could supply films and kinescopes which
could meet the center's twin standards of high educational content
and technical quality.
Like any new movement of this size, financial support has been
a major problem. Even though the $250,000 to $300,000 required
annually to operate a station adequately is less than the cost of a
single commercial spectacular, these funds are hard to find.
And though the center is budgeting more than two million
dollars annually, the amount available for each of more than 1,000
programs produced each year is less than would be paid to a top
script writer in commercial television. So one of the most pressing
problems facing leaders in educational TV is that of securing the
most in educational value for each dollar spent. At the same time,
ETV leaders are searching for way6 to secure the kind of support
demanded for the unqualified success of the movement.
Here Dr. Newburn's experiences as an administrator at Oregon
and Iowa are most helpful?since getting the most for the educa-
tional dollar is a universal challenge.
No one can say that in less than three years the problems of the
pioneering center have been solved. Many of them have not been
dented. And Dr. Newburn, a man who prefers hard truth to glow-
ing hyperbole and generalization, would be the first to admit this.
But accomplishments have been impressive. There are now 22
stations on the air?stretching from Boston to San Francisco?
and five more scheduled to start telecasting before the end of
1956. Stations telecast an average of 25 hours a week, rang-
ing from Miami's eight hours this spring to Pittsburgh's 45. Total
program hours telecast by stations during a typical week jumped
from 197 hours in 1954 to 468 hours in 1956.
Initial reports on teaching by closed circuit television have
been favorable. Students can learn by television. New studies are
being launched to confirm these early findings.
Beginning January 1, the center will increase its regular pro-
gram distribution to 6% hours weekly. By 1959, it will be distrib-
uting ten hours weekly with programs in each of the following ten
broad areas: history and civilization, the individual and society,
public affairs, literature and philosophy, music, the arts, the
natural and physical sciences, child interests, youth interests, and
special interests.
The center, of course, is only a part of the total movement to
make optimum use of television for educational purposes. Success
for the center is inevitably intertwined with the success of the edu-
cational station and with the achievements of closed circuit opera-
tions in educational institutions. Gradually, the center is being
urged to assume a central position in the entire movement as
emphasis has shifted from establishing the physical means of
communication to the intellectual substance of the educational
program.
Now, Dr. Newburn can better afford to repeat what he told
the Association of Land-Grant Colleges in 1954:
"... in spite of the obstacles which must be overcome by a
pioneer movement of such magnitude, it is well to turn attention
to positive elements which sometimes are obscured by the troubled
clouds about our heads."
Very definitely among current "positive elements" is the better
than six million dollar grant received from the Ford Foundation
last December which will support the center's expanded program
service through 1959.
EMEMBERED AS A BUILDER on the Oregon campus, Dr. New-
burn also considers the new home for National Educational
Television, now rising on the outskirts of Ann Arbor, as another
positive element for the center's development. The $200,000 build-
ing, which will be occupied late this year, will provide the grow-
ing staff with adequate facilities and enough operational room for
the first time since the center's organization.
Highest on the list of positive elements, Dr. Newburn privately
lists his professional staff. A genial and friendly man who yet
expects from his staff all that he demands of himself, Dr. Newburn
has surrounded himself with outstanding men to aid in pioneering
educational television. A man who depends heavily upon his staff
and those in education whom he knows and respects, Dr. Newburn
has drawn heavily upon former associates at both the State Uni-
versity of Iowa and the University of Oregon to staff the Center.
Lyle Nelson, assistant to Dr. Newburn at Oregon, accompanied
his boss to Ann Arbor and was instrumental in setting up distri-
bution routines and employing a clerical staff during the center's
early days. He remained with the center until September, 1955,
when he became assistant to the president at San Francisco State.
Dr. Eldon Johnson, formerly dean of the College of Liberal
Arts at Oregon and now president of the University of New Hamp-
shire, spent the summer of 1954 in Ann Arbor working on prob-
lems of evaluation and research for the Center.
And, early this year, when the center received a special Ford
Foundation grant to establish a national information service for
the entire educational TV movement, Dr. Newburn selected an-
other Oregonian, George Hall, to head the new development divi-
sion. Dr. Hall has responsibility for planning the future and
expanded support of the center, station relations, and the distri-
bution activities of the Center in addition to general information
services. He received both his bachelor of science and his doc-
torate in education from the University and was on the campus
as assistant and acting dean of men from 1945 to 1947.
These are the positive elements Dr. Newburn places on the
credit side of the ledger as the president of the Educational Tele-
vision and Radio Center looks to the future?the only direction in
which he can look. With a common sense type of vision and his
traditional desire to get things done, H. K. Newburn is providing
leadership in a tremendously exciting field.
And he already is emerging as one of America's foremost figures
in an entirely new dimension of American education.
Noted California educator, Dr. Frank
Baxter, confers with his director
on the set of a new educational tele-
vision series. Although the center
has distributed Dr. Baxter's famed
"Shakespeare on TV" series, this
is first ETV series he has produced
especially for the center.
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T>OSSIBLY THE MOST significant aspect of
-*- Russian life today is the complete ignor-
ance of its people regarding the United
States.
After visiting Leningrad, Kiev, Odessa,
Yalta and Sochi, and talking at length with
people on the street, this conclusion is in-
escapable.
(Talking with the "average" Soviet citi-
zen is almost impossible, not because of
restrictions but due to the almost impass-
able language barrier and lack of coopera-
tion from the Soviet travel agency, Intour-
ist. In my case it was accomplished with the
help of two friends and a smattering of
Russian, German, French, English and
pantomime.)
The popular Russian attitude toward
America seems based upon patent misin-
formation, inadequate information, or a
steady diet of information which has been
kept deliberately within the party concept
of a degenerate and discriminatory capital-
istic state. This assessment is not based
upon my own necessarily superficial ex-
posure to Soviet thinking, but upon the
statements of almost a score of Russians,
from as many fields of endeavor, and repre-
senting the most important age group in the
Soviet Union?from 17 to 40, the complete
Communists.
We began these sobering interviews on a
park bench adjacent to the Summer Palace
in Leningrad, with a chemistry student in
his early 20s?who chose the park bench
because of fear of "those bad men" of the
MVD.
Bob?and last names aren't used here
for rather obvious reasons^had an amaz-
ing command of idiomatic English and an
Above: The delightful children on a collective farm near Kiev. They had never seen a
foreigner before. Note traditional headscarves on girls. Below: Soda water is sold at
Moscow. Woman "smiling" at photographer Hallock is typical reaction in some regions.
Carrying newly-baked bread, a milkmaid is en
route home with son. She works on collective farm
and is alleged to earn about $300 per month
Here's the ordinary Russian "Man on the Street" seen strolling down the main street
of Leningrad, one of the stops on author's 23-day tour of Russia. Hallock toured behind
the Iron Curtain last summer under the sponsorship of J. Henry Helser and Company.
equal knowledge of some phases of Amer-
ican life, jazz music for example. But when
we asked about which of our authors he had
read, the answer was limited to Howard
Fast, Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Dreiser,
and 0. Henry (and so ran the same thread
through at least six subsequent interviews,
adding only Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis,
and Upton Sinclair to this list of "repre-
sentative" U.S. writers). Bob did read,
daily, in the Leningrad public library, the
New York Times and the New York Herald
Tribune?because he could read and speak
English.
But the news he accepted or rejected
from these papers keyed his political up-
bringing: What about Autherine Lucy?
Why did we have one million unemployed ?
Could Negroes be admitted to any Amer-
ican schools? Was Jim Crow practiced in
the North, too? Incidentally, you might try
practicing the answers to these questions
yourself.
Today, in Sochi's only church (Russian
Orthodox) a woman who has spent 13 years
in a Communist prison for speaking against
the party in the early 40s asked: "Can you
speak freely at all in America?"
A young teacher of law with whom we
spoke on the steamer to Yalta (after refus-
ing to answer my questions as to whether or
not the right of habeas corpus existed in
Russia) asked us if all the cases in which
Harvey Matusow testified falsely had been
reviewed.
A professor of history on the boat from
Yalta to Sochi said he felt America was not
at all socialistic, that social security, un-
employment compensation, etc., were "all
concessions from the monopolies to the
exploited workers," and said it quietly and
without excess fervor?just stating a "fact."
He added that while America did not have
colonies in the 19th century, British sense
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of the word, we had "informal colonies"?
such as all of South and Central America.
Earlier?in Yalta?Vladik, a 17-year-old
boy with whom we talked in our hotel room
(a member of the Communist Youth
League) had said that Venezuela was defi-
nitely an American "colony"?we explained
the difficulty in accepting this thesis due to
Venezuela's treatment of recent U.S. bids
for various types of oil concessions.
Not one of our interviewees could recon-
cile this most puzzling paradox: If, after the
February 20 Party Congress, Russia firmly
believes in peaceful co-existence, how can
she also follow the Lenin-Marxian thesis of
eventual world domination by Communism?
The most adequate near-explanation
came from Nadya, a 19-year-old girl coun-
selor at a Young Pioneer camp near Yalta.
A dyed-in-the-wool, would-be Communist,
she smilingly explained that world revolu-
tion would not necessarily come by force,
but could come peacefully, "without any
intervention by the Soviet Union, and in due
time."
I asked if she knew when the American
workers might revolt and she, again smil-
ingly, retorted "When do you think they
will?"
Everyone we have seen is amazed to learn
from us that there is some free education
in America beyond the grade and high
school levels, and even amazed to discover
that this elementary education is without
cost to the student or his family. One of my
conversationalists was amazed to discover
that all strikers are not fired immediately
by their employers after a strike.
Benjamin asked if it were possible for an
American to testify before an Un-American
Activities Committee and refuse to answer
questions without invoking the Fifth
Amendment. Young Vladik, and the others
we asked, were firmly convinced that the
United States arid South Korea attacked
North Korea.
The professor of history denied flatly that
such countries as Czechoslovakia, Albania,
Rumania, Hungary, Poland, and China were
anything but independent.
"They are not Soviet colonies?" I asked.
"Not in the same economic sense that
America has colonies," he said. We asked
the professor as an afterthought if Russia
would ever allow the reunification of Ger-
many. "Some day," he replied?smiling.
Our friends had all heard of the Ku Klux
Klan ... in fact, to sum up?our friends
have heard in detail about every phase of
U.S. life which could contribute to Com-
munist dogma; which could indicate Amer-
ican weakness or intolerance; which could
serve as propaganda fodder.
They smile, they are pleasant, they want
peace, but as to what America is or what
America believes or says?as a commenta-
tor from Radio Moscow told me?"you only
think you tell the truth."
T?ROM OBSERVATION limited by travel in
?*? only three of the Soviet Union's 15 au-
tonomous republics, I would guess that the
government faces an internal potential for
unrest or (at maximum) revolt in Georgia
and the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, and
Lithuania). The latter appraisal is based
upon personal correspondence with indi-
vidual citizens, prior to my travels, in Riga,
Latvia, and in Vilnius, Lithuania, and on the
Soviet prohibition of travel by westerners
within these areas.
In Georgia, the problem is obvious; dan-
gerously apparent. Our three-day stay in
Tbilisi, capital of the republic and scene
of the March, 1956 riots? following Nikita
Khrushchev's 20th Party Congress denun-
ciation of Stalin on February 25?offered a
virtually unfettered opportunity to talk
with the "man on the street," albeit halt-
ingly?an exposure not arranged by our
hosts, the Soviet travel agency Intourist.
These conversations underlined the poten-
tial explosiveness faced by Russia.
Entering Georgia by train, we could de-
tect immediately the prevalent air of under-
lying strain and tense watchfulness. The
republic is, in a very real sense, an armed
camp, which can be sealed off easily from
Russia. MVD frontier guards?with police
dogs and fixed bayonets?patrol every ve-
hicular artery and railroad bridge; guard
towers and machine-gun pillboxes survey
the border; all communications lines are
under military surveillance (in tunnels,
huge barrier chains hang ready for instant
use in stopping rail traffic). Railway cars
are locked at each end, preventing passage
from one to another.
Three isolated?but to me significant?
personal incidents occurred during my
Georgian tour (also unscheduled by In-
tourist) . At one waystation along the rail
line I had a brief but pleasant discussion
with a middleaged fruit vendor, in broken,
monosyllabic Russian. As our train pulled
Old Oregon
out, I saw two MVD men move toward her.
She said something, one man struck her,
and she was escorted from the siding hur-
riedly. At another stop, in a rather senseless
but romantic gesture of personal diplomacy,
I shouted to a party of Georgians on the
platform "Da sveedahnya" (goodbye") as
we departed. Hearing the school-taught
Russian (Georgian is a more languid lan-
guage), one member of the group threw a
hard pear at my compartment window?and
not as a jest.
At a late hour on Saturday night in
Tbilisi's largest public park, I made the
mistake of asking a pair of militiamen (lo-
cal, city police) the location of the nearest
"live" orthodox church ?"dead" churches
are those which have been converted into
museums or schools. Their answer was
simple and quick; one policeman took my
arm and told me in terse Russian that we
had better move along to the station-house
for an answer. Fast talk from me, while we
walked toward the bastille, fortunately re-
solved the situation and I was dismissed as
merely a "curious American student."
The streets of Tbilisi are patrolled con-
stantly by militiamen during the day, and
at night by Red Army troops (of which
there are large garrisons in the city) and
the uniformed MVD. There are an average
of four to six militiamen per block, carry-
ing sidearms (compared with an unarmed
sprinkling in the average Russian city).
Red Army soldiers, in pairs, walk in the
center of the street, with bayonets fixed.
And all of these "law enforcement" person-
nel are Russian, not Georgian, including
most of the local militia.
We spent an hour interviewing Irakley
Iosofovitch Chkhikvishvili, editor of the
daily Tbilisi newspaper Dawn of the East.
He was quite curious (as were most
average Georgians with whom we talked in-
formally) as to exactly what we knew about
the March rioting. We told him that Amer-
ican correspondents had not had access to
Tbilisi for at least a month following the
upset, and that?as far as we knew?west-
ern newsmen still did not have the full story.
The editor said that he wanted us to have
"the full truth." Following Khrushchev's
20th Party Congress speech, the government
had banned commemorations of Stalin's
death. However, students at the major uni-
versity in Tbilisi insisted on parading to
Stalin's monument on the March 5 anniver-
sary, bearing wreaths to place beneath his
statue. Militia intervened. "The demon-
stration grew; perhaps police did not handle
the matter as effectively as they should
have." But, the editor implied, the "demon-
stration" was largely sound sans fury.
In point of fact, statements of other Geor-
gians indicated that more than words or
flowers were thrown about, with from 10
to 50 persons dead and others injured. And
the "demonstration" lasted at least three
days, possibly two weeks ... the truth was
difficult to obtain.
In Moscow, a sidewalk vendor sells morozhneyeh (ice cream) by the cone. It's delicious,
too, says the author. These vendors, along with others selling candy, magazines or cigar-
ettes, inhabit sidewalks by the dozens. An ice cream cone of the size shown here costs 50c.
Two Young Pioneers at summer camp near Yalta are ready to drum their comrades onto
the parade ground where the group assembles daily to hear speeches pledging faith to the
mother country. They spend 28 days each summer in camp activities, including relaxation.
December-January 1956-57
7/ / ? //?
^Jlieu re exploring everything
from lite tiny atom to the
timitteii universe in the
Wonderful World
Of Physics
By R. T. Ellickson
Head of the Physics Department
A MERICA FACES today a desperate
?*? ^- shortage of trained scientists. Although
well qualified scientists in all fields are in
demand, the greatest need is for young men
and women trained in the field of physics.
The University of Oregon is doing more
than its share in filling this need. Recent
graduates have been placed in teaching po-
sitions in various colleges and universities,
and in research positions in many govern-
ment and industrial laboratories.
Along with their training in the classroom,
an important part of the education of
physics students at Oregon is the experience
they get working on the various research
programs which are being carried on in the
Department of Physics. Here they learn to
work with the complicated and elaborate
apparatus which is characteristic of physics
research laboratories.
Although the University contributes in
a small way to the support of these research
programs, the greater part of the support
comes from various agencies outside the
University. At present the research pro-
grams in the department are being sup-
ported by four such agencies.
For example, the National Science Foun-
dation has contributed substantially for the
past four years to a program of research,
directed by Professor S. Y. Ch'en, in the
field of spectroscopy. By making measure-
ments on the absorption of light by atoms
under pressures up to several thousand
pounds per square inch, Professor Ch'en
and his students are contributing to our
knowledge of the nature of forces between
atoms, a problem of fundamental impor-
tance in physics. A steady stream of papers
describing the results of this work has
Robert Bennett, student, and Professor Ch'en study the
effect of high pressures on absorption of light by atoms.
brought wide recognition of the quality of
work done in these laboratories.
Professor E. G. Ebbighausen, who has
just returned from a year's leave of absence
spent at Harvard University, is the only pro-
fessionally trained astronomer in the State
of Oregon. He and the students working
with him have just completed the analysis
of a great number of photographs of the
spectrum of a star known as Lambda Tauri,
one of the stars in the constellation Taurus.
Most of these photographs were taken by
Professor Ebbighausen with one of the giant
telescopes on Mt. Wilson in California. The
results of the analysis show that this star,
which appears in a telescope as a single star,
is really a triple star system consisting of
one bright star and two dark companions
revolving around each other. This work,
which has attracted wide attention in
astronomy, has been generously supported
by the Research Corporation.
A great deal of attention in physics is
given these days to the giant machines, such
as cyclotrons, which are used to accelerate
electrically charged particles to enormous
speeds so they can be used to smash atoms.
Professor John Powell is an expert on such
machines, and he has been given a generous
grant by the National Science Foundation
so that he and his students can study the
orbits traveled by the particles in these ma-
chines. He works in close collaboration with
the Midwestern Universities Research Asso-
ciation, an organization which has been
authorized by the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion to build the largest such machine in
the world. Professor Powell's results will be
of great value in the design of this machine.
In addition to his many other duties, he also
serves as a consultant to the Hanford Labor-
atories of the General Electric Company.
The experimental work in nuclear physics
at the University is done by Professors
Bernd Crasemann and Harry Easterday.
They and a number of graduate students,
supported by grants from the Atomic Ener-
gy Commission and the National Science
Foundation, have a substantial program
underway studying artificially produced ra-
dioactive isotopes. The students gain valu-
able experience working with instruments
that are part of any research program in nu-
clear physics, such as geiger counters and
scintillation counters.
Professor Francis Dart, who will be on
leave next year for study and research at
the University of Illinois, has had several
students working with him in the study of
some problems in what is called solid-state
physics. This is, perhaps, the most rapidly
developing field of physics today, probably
because it gave rise to the discovery of the
transistor a few years ago. This revolu-
tionary device is thought by many people to
be as important a discovery as the vacuum
tube. Professor Dart's work, which is con-
cerned with the electrical behavior of solids,
has been supported by the Research Cor-
poration.
With the assistance of several students,
the author has a research program in solid-
state physics which is supported by the U. S.
Signal Corps. This work is concerned at
present with the study of certain compounds
which are called semi-conductors. This
means that as conductors of electrical cur-
rent these substances are half-way between
good conductors, such as metals, and in-
sulators, such as rubber and glass. Most
10 Old Oregon
Professor Bernd Crasemann uses geiger counters in his studies of radio-activity.
interest these days in solid-state physics lies
in the study of semi-conductors.
This rather detailed description of the re-
search programs going on in the Depart-
ment of Physics is given primarily to show
that a physics student at the University of
Oregon can obtain, along with excellent
training in the classroom, the kind of re-
search experience which will fit him for his
life's work. The physics staff realizes that
its most important work is the education of
students. But it is also fully conscious of the
fact that that education is sadly lacking if
it does not include participation in the
exciting business of research. The program
of research is broad enough to offer inter-
esting possibilities to any capable student.
Strangely enough, at a time when sci-
entists are in greater demand than ever
before in our history, the number of stu-
dents going into science is decreasing, or
at best holding its own. Many students find
their interest in science aroused only after
they enter college, and are then unable to
go into the field because of inadequate
preparation in mathematics in high school.
Any student who has the aptitude should by
all means be encouraged to take at least
three years of high school mathematics so
that if he should develop an interest in sci-
ence after graduation from high school he
will be able to follow his interests.
Last year the University conferred about
a dozen degrees, bachelor's, master's and
doctor's, on graduates in physics. About
half of these returned for further graduate
work. The remaining six, who were avail-
able for positions, had perhaps sixty em-
ployers bidding for their services, which in-
dicates the tremendous demand existing for
scientifically trained men and women. The
University is proud of the record of its
graduates in physic. It wishes it had more!
Above: Douglas Hunt, graduate stu-
dent in physics, adjusts a scintilla-
tion spectrometer used in studying
gamma rays. Left: Students in gen-
eral physics learn how to operate a
Wheatstone's Bridge for measuring
electrical resistance. Below: Profes-
sor Harry Easterday uses a beta-ray
spectrometer which measures energy
of electrons from radio-active sources.
f
Left: Charles Koyl '11, returning
for his first Homecoming in 45
years, finds some familiar faces in the
gallery of famous alumni at the
Alumni Association office.
Below: Koyl pauses for coffee at
Student Union snack bar.
Photos: Ken Metzler
isited
Left: Homecoming Parade was a
highlight of Koyl's visit to campus.
Here he watches a youthful strutter
leading band down 13th Street.
Above: A tour beside old vine-covered
Villard Hall brings back many
memories of early years.
Old Oregon
Koyl was second alum to register for 1956 Homecoming.
Among the many alumni returning to the
University campus for the 1956 Homecom-
ing, was one who was returning for the first
time in nearly half a century.
It has been 45 years since Charles W.
Koyl, of Ashland, donor of the Koyl Cup,
was graduated with a B.A. degree in econ-
omics in the class of 1911. Although he has
been on the campus several times since
(twice to present the Koyl Cup in person),
he had never been back for a homecoming
celebration.
Mr. Koyl's homecoming was a quiet con-
trast to the gay revelry of some of his
younger colleagues. He was the second re-
turning alumnus to register at the desk in
the Student Union lobby. Then he turned to
locating some old friends (he finally found
Dean of Men Ray Hawk; Graduate Place-
ment Director Karl Onthank was out of
town). He toured the campus, chatting occa-
sionally with students and professors. He
dropped in to see President 0. Meredith
Wilson, talked with Governor Elmo Smith
and browsed through some old Oreganas.
There were only a few old faces, but a lot
of new ones ("the students are getting
younger every year"). He took in the pa-
rade, the bonfire rally, the alumni luncheon
and the football game.
And after it was all over, Mr. Koyl con-
cluded, right along with the Homecoming
theme, that it was fun. "I don't know why
they're talking about Oregon's lack of spir-
it," he said. "These students have got plenty
of spirit!"
President Wilson says hello.
A librarian gives campus directions.
Above: At alumni luncheon, Koyl chats
with Retired Professor W. F. G. Thacher,
a man he remembered from early years.
Left: Trying to find his seat for the
Oregon-WSC game, Koyl gets assistance
from Alumni Secretary Bass Dyer,
behind him.
December-January 1956-57 13
Above: Touring the Oriental Art Museum,
Koyl stops to chat ivith Yoko Hamada, Japanese
student in journalism. Right: A Joe College,
locked in stockade during Homecoming Parade,
is comforted by a young lady. "Lucky boy,"
chuckles Koyl from background.
Below: Receptionist in President's office helps
Koyl search through old Oreganas for photos
of Koyl Cup awards. The latest recipient,
Bill Mainwaring, was the only one to write a
letter of thanks, Koyl says.
Old Oregon
President 0. Meredith Wilson addresses Charter Day assembly.
Oregon's 80th Birthday
The 80th birthday of the University of Ore-
gon was commemorated October 16 and 17 at
the third annual observation of Charter Day.
Dr. Lee DuBridge, President of the California
Institute of Technology, was the speaker at the
principal Charter Day Assembly. Dr. Robert
Redfield, of the University of Chicago, was
speaker at the evening meeting of Charter Day.
Dr. Redfield's speech is reprinted in a special
insert in this issue of OLD OREGON.
Three men were presented the University
of Oregon awards for distinguished service.
They are:
Charles A. Sprague, editor and publisher of
the Oregon Statesman, and former governor of
Oregon. The citation reads, in part, "As gov-
ernor of Oregon he worked in the public inter-
est without regard for his own fortunes or
future political career. As alternate delegate to
the general assembly of the United Nations he
spoke stoutly for the freedom of all peoples. As
editor of the Oregon Statesman, he has provided
wise guidance to the people and their governing
officials and by his standards of excellence
lifted the quality of journalism throughout the
Northwest."
Ernest Bloch, composer and music teacher.
"A native of Switzerland, and a citizen of the
United States, he has been for many years a
resident of Oregon. Internationally acclaimed
for the excellence of his works in all fields of
musical composition, he has kno.wn further re-
nown as a conductor both in Europe and in
America. As a director of music schools and
conservatories here and abroad, he has been
teacher to a generation of composers."
James Henry Gilbert, professor emeritus of
economics and former dean of the College of
Liberal Arts at the University. "He has given
a lifetime of service to this University, its stu-
dents, its community and the commonwealth.
For his contributions to the field of economics,
his understanding counsel, his creative and
imaginative instruction, he is remembered and
loved by more than two generations of Oregon
students. His 50 years of service to the Univer-
sity of Oregon, including years of his unfailing
courage and strength at a time when its exist-
ence was threatened, were characterized by
high intellectual quality, resourcefulness, vigor
and loyalty."
ALUMNI MEETINGS
Opportunities to visit "displaced Oregon-
ians" are not too frequent so we took good ad-
vantage of the occasion of our game with the
University of Pittsburgh to sandwich in alumni
meetings in Chicago, Washington, D.C., New
York City and, of course, Pittsburgh.
Tuesday night, October 23 was Chicago's
Oregon night. Pat Cloud '43 had arranged a
meeting for us there and we found a great inter-
est in establishing a solid Oregon Club there
around the nucleus of Pat, Dick Jones '29, How-
ard Anthony '50, Jessie Olds '25, and Tom
Wildish '36. Another meeting is coming in Jan-
uary and more will be held in the future.
Jim Sharp and Ken Hamaker and their
families spent a lot of time on the telephone and
in planning a fine gathering in Washington. Jim
and Mrs. Sharp invited everyone to their lovely
home (Ken was the architect) for a wonderful
dinner and were almost disappointed that only
35 Oregonians attended. Dean Bill Jones and
Mrs. Jones were also present to bring a refresh-
ing report from the campus.
Thursday night, October 24, Phil Bergh and
his active New York Club assembled for a fine
social hour, dinner and film meeting. Dean Art
Charles A. Sprague Ernest Bloch James H. Gilbert
December-January 1956-57 15
Oregon ?s Hoop Pro$pect&
This is going to be one year that an Oregon basketball coach can look any news-
paperman in the eye and tell him that it will be a building year. That's the picture
you get when you go over season prospects with Steve Belko, the Webfoots' new
head man.
Belko, who guided the Idaho State Bengal hoop successes for the last six seasons,
is the man with the construction job cut out for him. But building or not, Oregon
basketball for 1956-57 still promises some colorful action for Webfoot followers.
Back to form a base for Belko's building job are six lettermen, including three
who helped make last year's "sophomore splash" in Pacific Coast Conference play.
Charlie Franklin, the 6'3" forward who was rated at the top of the sophomore
standouts last season, will probably not see too much action for the first few games,
but he's expected to be one of the key building blocks in the Oregon setup when
January and conference play roll around.
Franklin has been ineligible to practice with his teammates until Dec. 6 due to
lack of credit hours, but Belko says the Los Angeles junior will certainly see some
pre-conference action, and probably quite a bit, "depending on how badly we need
him."
Guard Wimp Hastings and center Hal Duffy are the other two ducks who took
part in the second year splash and both are back this season. Forwards Bill Moore
and Ed Bingham and guard John Lundell?all seniors?round out the letterman
picture. Phil McHugh, the talented football end and grid captain, is a two year letter-
man at guard, but may not turn out for his final year of basketball.
Additional sparkle in the Webfoot year may be provided by some junior college
transfers. Rollo Gould, 5'10" guard from Grays Harbor; Henry Ronquillo, 6'3"
forward from Los Angeles, and Dick Valentine, 6'1" Santa Maria guard, are all
expected to aid the building job.
Pete King, who played JC ball after graduation from one of Eugene's state
championship clubs, is a 5'10" sophomore guard. Don Steen, a 6'2" junior forward,
rounds out the list of men making their first appearance in Oregon basketball
uniforms. Steen is more noted for his track abilities for the Webfoots and is the
holder of the Canadian decathlon record.
Biggest problem area in the Duck program is the height situation. Only three
men were lost by graduation from the 1955-56 squad, but 6'7" Max Anderson, 6'5"
Ray Bell and the springy-legged Jerry Ross will be sorely missed. Anderson led
scoring with a 15.4 points per game average for the season. Ross was second and
Bell fourth in squad totals.
To replace that rebounding and scoring corps, Belko has 6'6" Duffy, non-letter-
man Paul Tuchardt, a 6'5" junior, and Eli Morgan, a 6'6" sophomore who played
frosh ball for Oregon in 1955. Duffy played 243 minutes in 1956, third among
returnees, and Tuchardt was the scoring power of the 1955 freshman squad. Morgan,
an all-city selection in his prep years at Portland's Grant High, is expected to be a
key rebounder.
Belko has been doing "lots of experimenting" in workouts with personnel, but
says he will probably settle with a double post offense, working the ball for shooting
situations. Contrary to previous Duck years the fast break offense will not be a
top feature of the 1956-57 Oregons, but Belko says "we'll be able to run when we
have to."
In the speed department the new Webfoot mentor will be well-stocked when it
comes time to use the runners. Hastings and Lundell have always been noted as
hustlers, and Valentine has natural speed and a jump shot that reminds a lot of
onlookers of Jerry Ross.
Returning non-lettermen Rich Costi, who was kept out of action by a broken
wrist last season, Roger Diddock and Don Delbon all have fair speed and should
contribute to the outside shooting feature of Belko's new offense.
Fast and a deadly shot, Bud Kuykendall, the ex-Eugene prep all-stater, is the
only member of last year's so-so freshman team to make the 1956 varsity. Kuyken-
dall had a 12.8 average to lead the Frosh last season, despite a broken ankle which
kept him out of the last four games.
The Ducks open their season with a couple of the popular Willamette Valley
double-header weekends. Oregon meets a powerful Portland University quintet at
Corvallis December 7 in the first of the series, then tackles intersectional visitors
Texas and Rice in Eugene on December 8 and 18 and closes against Missouri at
Corvallis December 19. The Webfoots take a tour of their own in later December,
swinging into Oklahoma and Kansas before returning to the coast to open their
PCC slate at California, January 11.?CHUCK MITCHELMORE
W. H. Brattain, who received master's de-
gree at Oregon, was one of three awarded
Nobel Prize for development of transister.
Esslinger of the School of Health and Physical
Education participated as did Dean Jones. With
us were George Nash '36, Evelyn Johnson '42,
Donna Anderson '52, Anne Ritchey and Leo
Graham both '56, Larry Opedal '32 and his son
Larry Jr. '63, Larry Chelsi '42, Gladys '49 and
Marty Pond '46, Dr. Laura Kennon '11, Jim and
Mary Ann Wallace '50, Ina Jaqua '15, Helen
Johnson '44, Beth Ann Johnson Kelly '32, Mc-
Gowan Miller '33, Leon Culbertson '23, 'Bud'
Johnson '45, George Taylor '19 and of course
John MacGregor '23. The "youngest" and live-
liest one present was Ed Shattuck '97, senior law
partner in the firm of Shattuck, Bangs and
Davis.
In Pittsburgh we found a long lost Webfoot,
Jack Mulder '36 and his lovely wife Helen and
their sheer joy in being with an Oregon group,
their enthusiasm and interest were a rich re-
ward for a year's alumni activity.?BASS DYER
16
Herb Kimball '31, executive at Lockheed
Aircraft Corporation, is new president of
Southern California Alumni Association.
Old Oregon
Prof. Robert Redfield
of the University of Chicago
ranks with the greats of
our time, having served
his fellow men with uncommon
devotion. His address,
"The Genius of the University"
was delivered as a part of
Charter Day Observances
at the University of Oregon
October 17, 1956
"The Genius or the University"
FOR MOST of the same span of years my lifeand that of my university have run alongtogether, and it occurs to me to say one
thing about any man's life and that of any univer-
sity. For the most part both are busy doing what
there is to do, and not what their own better natures
would have them do. In human being and in insti-
tution there is a natural bent, a power of right
growth, that is hard to discover in life as it is lived.
If, however, an observer stands off a little way from
the growing thing, he may perceive the outline of
direction and symmetry, as he sees a vine grow in
all directions and yet grow upward. This outline is
the bent of the thing, its essential right nature.
You and I, who have been so close to a university
that we have been parts of it, know that we have
lived the life that is peculiarly appropriate to a
university, as a special kind of thing, only once in
a while. Much of what we have been doing might
as well have been done elsewhere, at a club, per-
haps, or at home, or somewhere down at the corner
with the boys. Much of it was pleasant, a good
deal of it was necessary, and only a small part was
downright bad, but it did little to make stand forth
the direction and symmetry of our own essential
natures or that of our university. I could join you
in personal admissions that would support what I
have just said, but from now on I leave the man and
talk only of the university.
The ordering of life, in a university as in any-
thing else, is most immediately a matter of just
keeping things running. We are all housekeepers.
Housekeeping is a universal preoccupation, an un-
avoidable distraction. It is no wonder that we have
dignified it with a Greek name and made a science
of it. In the case of the university, it is the professor
as well as the comptroller and the registrar who is
busy keeping house. He records grades, tries to get
placed on reserve the books for his classes, and
argues with his colleagues as to required courses or
permitted sequences. It sometimes seems as if the
realistic organization chart of a university would
show all the arts and sciences depending from the
Department of Buildings and Grounds, the office
of student records, or the investment committee of
the Board of Trustees. Students too keep house, in
the sense that they must eat, sleep and more or less
dress, and must manage the routines of study.
I have felt this inversion most strongly when our
faculty representatives have come together to dis-
cuss university affairs. The talk is so often about
how the house is to be kept. I think of arguments
as to the competing claims of faculty groups for
pieces of the pie of the student's working time, of
talk about faculty housing, and of long reports on
a choice of plans for retirement allowances. Yet
there was a period in the history of my university,
to which I can look back, when at such meetings
there was occasional talk about education. I can
still recall the exhilaration of such unusual mo-
ments. There was aroused a joyful surge in the
breast; one felt something grow within, something
essential and true. It was exciting, hopeful.
Together with housekeeping, other ways of pass-
ing the time deflect the university's natural bent.
The activities on and around our campuses are so
varied and mixed that I am sure I mention only
some of them when I name play and recreation,
academic politics?a very serious matter?perhaps
some participation in civic affairs, and the usual
private and domestic life. It is so long since I have
myself seen at close range that great sector of the
powers and the passions of a large university that
begins with spring practice and ends with a bowl
game or, perhaps, a penalty from the Conference
Board, that I dare not speak of it here. I believe that
it exists, and has more than a little to do with the
confusion of the natural bent. All these things
take our time and our strength, lead us in a variety
of directions of enjoyment or disappointment, and
make a university as difficult to characterize in
single terms as the shows now playing in New
York, or the people of the United States'
And yet a university is one kind of thing, or
would be, if it grew rightly. Before it grows at all
its true outlines may best be seen?with the mind's
eye. When Paul Henry Newman spoke so elo-
quently of the idea of a university, the one he came
to found in Dublin was not really in existence. So
he could see it as it should be, "a place to which a
thousand schools make contributions; in which the
intellect may safely range and speculate, sure to
find its equal in some antagonist activity, and its
judge in the tribunal of truth." And he continued:
"It is a place where inquiry is pushed forward, and
discoveries verified and perfected, and rashness
rendered innocuous, and error exposed, by the col-
lision of mind with mind, and knowledge with
knowledge."
There you have it. A university in fact and not
merely in name, is a place where people meet to
expose knowledge and ideas to the test of other
people's knowledge and ideas. Words Newman
uses are speculation, error, rashness. In a university
the mind is encouraged to take reasonable chances,
to ask questions that are difficult and far-reaching
and perhaps a little outrageous; and this is done
safely in a true university because it is a place of
critical examination of all significant ideas and
pieces of knowledge, because the others who have
joined in the concourse of minds will test and judge
what is put forward.
Newman writes also of the passion that goes
along with the thinking and the reasonable discus-
sion. He speaks of the professor as a missionary
and a preacher, not meaning that he promotes~re-
ligious or other doctrine, but that the works of the
mind are conceived in devotion and even love, and
one who sees some part of truth that others may
not have seen pours it forth, as Newman says,
"with the zeal of enthusiasm." The zeal is the mov-
ing engine of the exploring intelligence. It is gov-
erned by the communications with others. And it
is restrained by the humility and habit of doubt
that are part of the discipline and tradition of uni-
versities. The missionary of the mind's adventures
puts forth ideas and conclusions in enthusiasm,
but, if he serves truly, he welcomes the tests and
checks that come Upon him in the meeting place of
knowledge.
To say, as we often do, that the university is en-
gaged in education, scholarship and research, is to
say what is true but incomplete. What has to be
added is this: A university is carrying on a special
kind of life, the life of the mind. This life is intel-
lectual and passionate. Its exercise takes place in a
community arranged for that purpose. Its partici-
pants are provided with opportunities not found
elsewhere to carry on such a life. Insofar as they
take part in it, they make the assertion that such
a life is important. They say, in effect, that the life
of the mind is a part of the good life for anybody, in
the university or out of it. The education and the
learning are the business of the university; they are
its ways of doing things that are needed by all the
people. But by doing these things those of the uni-
versity community do something that is a good in
itself, and so keep that kind of good alive and pos-
sible for other people too. The people of the univer-
sity carry on their conversations and their investi-
gations for two reasons: that the knowledge gained
may be put to use, and also that the life of the mind
may flourish, as one among many of the great
goods that are good for their own sake, like music,
prayer and the joy of living. The life of the mind is
work, and it is delight. It is men and women, young
and old, coming together in an activity human and
angelic.
Fine words. But are they true? Does this really
take place in a university? How can it be said that
it is true, when all the other things that I have
mentioned, the housekeeping and the distractions,
the lesser pleasures and the small tasks, make up so
much of what goes on? The main business of the
university, the teaching and the advance of scholar-
ship, by no means takes place always in a spirit of
joyful adventure. Much of what is necessary to
research is a mere repetition of small tasks. Much
teaching has become only routine. I am sure that
in the classroom and in the workroom a great deal
goes on that is perfunctory, tedious and wasteful.
And yet I am here to say that the mind's adven-
tures are pursued in a university. I say that it does
happen that there, young people and older people
exchange with one another their insights and dis-
coveries in the library or the laboratory in a spirit
of delight in the effort, of commitment to the end-
less search. I have seen it happen. I have taken a
small part. I recognize the moments or the hours in
which the life of the mind is lived. Sometimes they
happen as the student listens to the occasionally
effective professor. The professor is talking about
something that he feels deeply to be important,
and on which his intelligence is working. To the
student he communicates the importance, the in-
dications of the means whereby the new under-
standing may be reached or confirmed, and the
sense of a struggle to cross a frontier. Maybe the
student cannot yet fully join in the effort, but he
sees that one can join, and that the effort is a good
thing in itself; and the frontier beckons to him.
He has entered, though silently, into the life of the
mind. Sometimes these luminous hours occur as
the student too makes his contribution, talking to
the professor and to the other students. He can
himself frame the words, point out the facts, sug-
gest the difficulties and the doubts. The conversa-
tions of intelligence are widened and refreshed. The
young go oftener astray, perhaps, as they struggle
toward the frontier, but on the other hand they
are bolder; they will ask questions that the more
experienced man has forgotten; they will propose
an apparent irrelevance that suddenly turns out to
be a challenge. A collection of professors without
students could continue scholarship and research,
but the rot of routine would become a greater
danger than it is with the participation of students.
And, further, in this account of the moments in
the life of the mind, I have seen them occur as one
professor listens, really listens, to another. I think
this is relatively rare, but when it does occur, it is
splendid. I have seen a half a dozen professors from
different departments and with different specialties
talking, seriously, with one another about a
thoughtful question which all of them found im-
portant and to which each found his special knowl-
edge relevant. A good university is not a collection
of private offices. It is a meeting place, a coming
together of many kinds of seekers and searchers.
In these moments or hours the enquiring bent
of man's nature, disciplined by reason and learning,
moves forward, upward. It then seems to me that
some important part of the human spirit has found
its voice. It is as if an indwelling being had an-
nounced itself. Before the word "genius" came to
be applied to anyone with conspicuous talent, it
had reference to such a being: the tutelary god or
attendant spirit presiding over one's destiny in life,
a personification of the characteristic inclination of
man, institution or people. If the Roman people
recognized their genius, so, with as good reason,
may the university. Pagan and Christian have had
this conception of a presiding and guiding inner
being: guardian angel, daimon, genius. I am talk-
ing of the genius of the university.
When its influence is felt, the life of the mind is
lived. This life is a kind of communion. It is inter-
course, intellectual and, in its own way, spiritual.
The communion may be with a mind recorded in
a book, with the observations and the thoughts of
Charles Darwin or Henry Adams. It may be the
communion of the face to face, in classroom or lab-
oratory. I have spoken of the mind's efforts, of the
sense of importance, of the feeling that one or
several together can make clearer what is confused,
or may push knowledge beyond the line of doubt
and difficulty where now it stands. I add that in
this effort, at its most intense and best, the self is
lost. In this respect?I hope that the comparison
will not seem strained?-the life of the mind is like
love. One is forgetful of one's selfish interests; one
merges with that toward which one strains; the
understanding, the truth. But in the works of this
particular genius, belonging to the inner life of the
university, that toward which one moves is not
singular but universal. I think it was Michael
Polanyi who described the propositions of, science
as made "on behalf of everybody." The proposi-
tions of all scholarship and learning, scientific or
humanistic, are made on behalf of everybody.
They are offered for all to accept, if they will, or to
take so that better propositions can be made, again
on behalf of everybody. In the work we do with col-
leagues and students I feel this movement toward
selfless communion. Teaching and talk may begin
at that level where one is aware of Brown's tend-
ency to over-generalize, of Smith's argumentitive-
ness, and of, perhaps, one's own disposition to talk
too much. But if the discussion advances, these
things are forgotten; student and professor, as
selves, begin to disappear as the question clarifies
and the search gets keener. All the minds that now
participate are upon the question, the idea, the im-
pact of fact on theory. The genius presides.
In trying to describe the manifestations of this
presiding spirit of the true university, I talk about
something that is not much talked about. It is not
the aspect of the university that "makes the news-
papers," nor that to which its proud alumni or the
parents of its students commonly refer. When the
President invites a gift of money, he is more likely
to mention the need for a building or to suggest
the possibility of finding a cure for some disease
through research than to say that his university
should be helped to keep going, for the sake of all
of us, an important kind of life, a habit of truth-
seeking, a choice among values. Moreover, it might
be thought unseemly for him to do so should it
occur to him. A man does not talk easily and nat-
urally about his own personal genius, and I suppose
it is hard for those who speak for a university to
speak of its inner and better nature. Maybe I am
unseemly in trying to talk about it now.
I make the attempt beause I think this genius is
a good genius, and because I think that its presence
is to be recognized and welcomed. Its appearances
are to be encouraged, and its influences gratefully
received. I do not make any claim to special su-
periority in academic people. The university is
only one among many institutions each of which
strengthens some component of the good life. The
judges do not talk much of how their work makes
all of us more firm in maintaining the rule of law,
justice and equity; they are mostly busy hearing
and deciding cases. But in hearing and deciding
cases they exemplify and make stronger in any who
are by them influenced, the great principle of the
rule of law. The doctors show us, more firmly and
exactingly than do other people, the obligations to
guard life and health. The Marines are tougher
than most of us can be, and the extra fortitude
they show in danger helps us all to show some of
that quality. So too the craftsman strengthens the
responsibilities of workmanship, and the artist the
power and value of the creative imagination. Each
who does well the kind of work that is his not only
gets that work done but, in the doing of it well,
makes firmer, for us all, that virtue which his kind
of work demands. So it is with those whose busi-
ness and happy fortune it is to carry on in a com-
munity the search for truth and the extension of
learning. They make discoveries and they learn
new things, and these achievements are good be-
cause they are useful. Also good is the activity it-
self by which the learning is reached and the truth
approximated. It is good because this life of the
mind, like making things well and like judging
cases justly, is a right manifestation of human pow-
ers and delights. It is strengthened by its exercise.
When theoretical research in the sciences is sup-
ported by argument, it is usually said that many
unpredictable practical applications are likely to
come from research that appears purely theoretical.
This is a good reason for carrying it on, but there is
another reason equally good. It is that theoretical
enquiry, in scientific and in humanistic fields alike,
is a good thing in itself, one of the important
themes in the human symphony. It too calls out
virtues: clarity, intellectual rigor, respect for the
facts, humility before the advance of truth, free-
dom of thought, and boldness in the search for
understanding. When I hear the suggestion that
research in the physical sciences be checked or lim-
ited because we may destroy ourselves with its
fruits, I am troubled, because I feel that such re-
straint upon the enquiring mind is the wrong way
to protect us from ourselves. It is wrong because
the search for further understanding, of all the uni-
verse and everything in it, is a desirable part of the
human spirit. To prevent the mind frem exercising
this essential nature of mankind would be to deny
the human genius.
In great universities the genius is encouraged. In
others it is denied. How shall we tell the one from
the other? We may look to those formal signs of
distinction in science and scholarship: the listings
in American Men of Science, the memberships in
academies and societies, the prize awards. But these
are only signs, and they do not always point accu-
rately to that community of scholars in which the
life of the mind is really carried on. For one thing,
achievements by professors, as individuals, do not
always prove the presence of those exchanges
among professors and students wherein the genius
rises to full power. Some universities arc collections
of men working alone. Others are such men guid-
ing and stimulating one another. For another, the
genius is at work not only in specialized research
and scholarship, but also in the teaching of young
students, and there are few formal signs of success
in undergraduate instruction. One must experience
the difference between the teaching where the
genius presides and that where it does not. The
movement toward selfless struggle to understand,
the difficulty and delight of the effort shared, ap-
pear in one classroom and not in another, though
what happens in both is recorded identically in the
books of the registrar and in the salary checks of
the teachers. Yet if one happens to enter the one,
it is as though the air were charged with electrical
excitement, while in the other there are only the
hiss of the radiator and the low buzz of sleeping
minds.
If it is difficult for academic people to recognize,
for their own lives and purposes, the work of their
genius, and if it is improper and uncomfortable to
talk about it if they do recognize it, how much
harder it is for the rest of our American people to
see what really that genius is, and to comprehend
what obscure and yet immense good, may be going
on in the true university when the genius is encour-
aged to prevail! I do not have to remind you that
the two communities, academic and lay, do not
always understand each other. University people
are regarded by some people as futile, or as danger-
ous. In recent times of unusual uncertainty and
peril, the misunderstanding between academic peo-
ple and other people has, in some places, taken on
the aspect of a small cold war. We all know of the
questioning of professors with regard to their polit-
ical attachments or opinions, of jobs threatened or
lost as a result of such challenges from outside the
university, or legislative investigations or universi-
ties, and of attempts to reassure the general com-
munity as to the university by the requirement of
that dubious symbol, the oath.
In these events it is not easy to separate the
suspicions as to the loyalty of some one academic
person from the more general distrust, that some
people entertain, as to any community that sets
itself up to think and to question. And this is just
what a true university is set up to do. In carrying
on its proper duty and function, the university
arouses suspicion. The position of the professor is
comparable with that of the soldier or the judge.
A soldier may be criticized by other people for
exposing others to risks, so as to develop forti-
tude,?risks that the civilian thinks unnecessarily
great. Even our highest judicial officer is today
criticized for doing his duty in developing our law
within the unfolding principles of our Constitu-
tion. But it may be that the misunderstanding of
the intellectual, especially of that man of the mind
who is employed in one of the universities, is an
even greater misunderstanding.
If the misunderstanding is real and serious, I
should think that the first responsibility to do what
can be done to remove it lies with the academic
person. It is his business to clarify, to communicate.
He is in a better position to see the differences in
interest and viewpoint between the citizen outside
the university and himself, because it is his habit
and his task to look objectively at things and to
present their nature for the understanding of every-
one. People who study and who think should be
able, if anyone is, to understand, for one thing, that
the current tearfulness of people about war and
Communism exaggerates whatever tendency they
have to distrust people whose job it is to think and
question. The man who travels where thieves are
about is fearful of his honest companion. And the
man of the university can probably see more clearly
than the troubled citizen outside of it that the mis-
understanding in part arises from the fact that town
and gown have different questions in mind. If the
professor talks about Karl Marx, his question may
be: What did Marx mean? Or, what became of
Marx's views in the light of later events? If the
professor studies the Fifth Amendment, he may
ask: What rights of the citizen did its framers seek
to protect? But the man outside of the university,
who feels himself threatened by war and by Russia,
may be asking, of the professor quite different
questions, such as: Is he teaching my child to fol-
low the Marxists? Or, is he soft on Communism?
Moreover, there are unhappily those fellow citizens
whose real questions about what goes on in uni-
versities are indeed ignoble: these men are really
asking, privately, if I attack this outspoken profes-
sor, or that research associate who pleaded the Fifth
Amendment, will it get me a headline or a vote?
But these men too may be understood. Of course I
would deny a false charge. But it is even more im-
portant to make plain what the professor's job is,
to show that he is put where he is to pursue truth
by questioning and searching, for the good of
everybody. The best reply to charges and mis-
understanding is to be but what one can best be,
and to make it known that that is what one is. For
the university this is to live the life of the mind
when it can be lived, and to show it forth, in word
and deed, making known to others the nature of
its goodness.
As I state these bases for the misunderstanding
of the university?misapprehension of its intellec-
tual functions; a certain lack of sympathy in this
country for the life of the mind; the confusion of
examinatio'n of an idea with its endorsement and
propagation?they seem to me insufficient to ex-
plain all the distrust directed toward the university.
There are deeper troubles. I should like to try to
state one of these. The questioning and considering
which is so much of the business of the university
leads to the raising of a kind of question which
other people do not easily raise. Most people in
most places, when they at all ask questions of gen-
eral interest, ask questions as to how something can
be done. How are schools or roads to be financed?
How is industrial production to be maintained or
increased? How is this threat of war to be averted?
Our talk and our newspaper comment are filled
with "how-questions." It is natural and necessary
that "how-questions" be the kind of question
usually asked. They have to be answered if we are
to live at all, or to live with enough freedom to let
us think of other matters. The practical and activist
bent of American life has given them a special
prominence in our country. An East Indian or a
Latin-American is likely to think us too much con-
cerned with these how-questions, even while he is
eagerly learning from us the technical answers to
many of them.
There are, however, questions other than how-
questions. There are the very many what-ques-
tions". These are questions as to the nature of
things. They ask, "What is this that I look upon?"
The questions are asked because one wants to
understand, whether or not one may do something
that needs to be done with the knowledge. These
questions are the ones mainly asked in science and
scholarship. Other people ask them, too, but less
systematically and pcrsistingly. And now I come
to thpse of the "what-questions" which arc also
"why-questions". These are the questions as to
why any of the things we do, or might do, should
be done at all. They are the questions as to final
ends. They may be asked in small words, but they
are very large questions indeed. They include the
following: Who am I? Why am I here? What is
the meaning of human existence? What is the na-
ture of the good life? These questions are dis-
tinguishable from the how-questions in that the
answers to those questions depend upon the an-
swers one gives to the why-questions, so that, for
example, the question as to how to increase produc-
tion seems to stand aside and wait as soon as one
asks why production should be increased at all, and
pursues the reply given back to the point at which
some choice of ultimate goods, some conception
of the meaning of life, is stated. They differ also in
that the why-questions are questions that are the
same for all men. Not the answers?of these there
are innumerable. But all men confront these same
questions, and they have been asked for thousands
of years. In the communities of primitive men,
answers are given in the myths, the ceremonies,
and the teachings of the young by the old. In civil-
ized societies they have also been the central ques-
tions of reflective people, and the struggles with
these questions are recorded in the books that we
recognize as great.
I think that one of the sources of the certain
uneasiness that is felt about the university arises
from the fact that these why-questions are con-
sidered more often, and more characteristically, in
universities than they are considered in factories,
offices and homes. Much of the thinking in uni-
versities, too, takes up how-questions; this I recog-
nize. But I think it is also true that the why-ques-
tions get considerable attention. From time to time,
ever and again, in classroom and in study, the
marshalling of facts to bear on idea and of ideas
to bring order in the facts, and the clash of mind
with mind moves away from questions as to how
to do things to questions as to why things should
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be done at all. The university is a philosophical
kind of place, in its central tendency, not in that
many men there are professional philosophers, but
in that it is philosophical to ask the largest and
most fundamental questions.
I think it makes some people uneasy when the
why-questions are asked. It makes especially un-
easy those whose own habits of mind are with
how-questions, and those who feel insecure when
that which they take for granted is held up for ex-
amination. The living of life requires that on the
whole the ends of life be taken for granted, so we
can get on with other things. To raise these ques-
tions is to lift the stones of the pavement on which
we work. The university is subversive, not, of
course, in the special sense of trying to overthrow
our government, but in the simple sense that in ful-
filling its special duty it turns the stones over to
look on the other side. It is the human genius never
to forget that the why-questions are the ultimate
questions and to try, from time to time, to answer
them. Here the genius of the university serves the
very heart of our common human nature: our
essential, questioning spirit.
I will say again how I think of the duty and the
goodness of the university. Ours is not a society in
which the underlying morality, to which all more
or less adhere, is expected to be maintained equally,
each man being as brave, as carefully just, as per-
sistingly questioning and truth-seeking, as every
other man. Courage, justice and the freedom of the
mind are common virtues, yes. But we have special
occupations and special institutions in which these
virtues get special attention, where certain of them
are more highly in connection with some task nec-
essary to our society?the armed forces, the law
courts, the universities. The man outside of any of
these activities and institutions will not understand,
as he will not fully share, the standards of per-
formance, the special dedication to the particular
appropriate part of the common morality, of these
various specialists and special institutions. It follows
that as the judge and the soldier must expect occa-
sionally to be criticized, so too must the man of the
university. The criticism, in each case, will come
about as a consequence of the doing of just that
which the criticized is put there to do. I will put the
matter in another way. If a university is never
criticized for being just a little dangerous, it is no
university.
We must all take these consequences, or fail to
do what we are here to do. It seems impossible to
avoid reference, in this connection, to that hack-
neyed advice that Polonius gave. If the university
is true to itself, it cannot be false, though it be
called false by others. Falsity arises when the uni-
versity pretends to be something other than it is.
In an effort to please those who expect that a uni-
versity be something other than it is, something to
which they are probably more used, I have seen a
prospectus, addressed to high school graduates and
parents, that made a college course look like a four-
year visit to Sun Valley or Coral Gables. The pleas-
antness of life at many a university is not its essen-
tial nature; it is, at most, a secondary feature. If too
much goes to pleasantness, the genius of the uni-
versity will be, I think, at least a little thwarted. A
university that represents itself as just like other
agreeable places to spend time, either is no univer-
sity, or is deceitful. A true university cannot reflect
the total society, in its tastes and interests. It has
made a somewhat different emphasis in choosing
among the many goods open to man. On behalf of
one university I heard it declared that its admin-
istrators were seeking to bring to it "well-rounded
students." I am not sure I know when a student is
well-rounded, but if the word means that the stu-
dent desired is to be like the average American,
then I say that it is the nature of students, like
other people in universities, on the whole, to be-
come not well-rounded. If he is perfectly round
when he comes into a university, he will not be so
when he comes out. In his composite nature the
academic person is just a little elliptical. The bent
of growth pulls him in the direction of the life of
the mind. This student may not be pulled that way
at all, and that professor may long ago have re-
signed all attempt to live such a life, but the uni-
versity of which I am proud is that one in which
the glorious and helpful ellipticallity exists, and is
made known. The possibility of realizing its genius
is open to every university as to every man. Before
our failures I am humble; before our successes, such
as they are, I am even more humble. For whatever
sector of the good life is ours to maintain, the op-
portunity to do so is a gift granted, a blessed boon.
Martin Brandenfels '56 receives award for
class having the most alumni (77) at Home-
coming. Jean McDaniels presents award.
Convening at Webster Hall in Pittsburgh prior to the Oregon-Pittsburgh game were these
University alumni: (Around the table from left to right) L. S. Anderson, Jim, Hubbard, Mr.
and Mrs. R. 0. MacLaren, Alumni Director Bass Dyer and Mr. and Mrs. John R. Mulder.
ALUMNI GIVING PROGRAM
A program of Annual Alumni Giving will
be undertaken within a few weeks by the
Alumni Association of the University.
Planned to provide the University with sup-
port beyond the restricted limits of state funds,
the new program is expected to mark a new
era in development of the school.
The plan for the program was presented at
the recent meeting of the Executive Board of
the Alumni Association and was approved at
that time. C. R. Manerud, president of the asso-
ciation, was asked to name a committee to head
the program.
Under the new program all alumni will be
asked to contribute to a special fund to be
used in extending the services and advancing
the genera] program of the University. Contri-
butions may be earmarked for given purposes.
Pointing to the need for such a program,
0. Meredith Wilson, president of the Univer-
sity stressed that the funds would be used in
areas in which state funds were either not
available or so limited as to be wholly inade-
quate. Such areas include research, faculty
travel, library acquisitions, museums, scholar-
ships, and others.
Programs of Annual Alumni Giving are not
a new thing; other state-supported schools
throughout the nation have used them with
great success to help reinforce limited budgets.
TROUBLES WITH TAXES
Members of the University's Interfraternity
Council were girding themselves for battle with
the announcement of a ruling that fraternities,
cooperatives and sororities were subject to a
personal property tax that might reach $400
per house annually.
At a meeting of the Interfraternity Council
and its advisors a special committee was ap-
pointed to study the problem. As this is written
at least one further meeting has been scheduled
to hear the committee's report.
Similar groups at Oregon State College were
already working on the problem and were re-
ported to be planning a protest before the
Benton County assessor.
Oregon's living organizations have received
personal property forms, for use in taking in-
ventory (as of January 1, 1956) on which the
tax would be based. At present, living organiza-
tions pay a real property tax said to average
$1,300 to $1,500 annually. The personal property
tax would apply to equipment, such as furniture.
Attorney Joe Richards suggested during the
meeting that the local committee await the out-
come of the protest by Oregon State College
groups.
However, Lane County Assessor W. W. Smith,
in a letter to Dean of Men Ray Hawk has said
that "all tangible personal property owned by a
fraternity house is subject to assessment and
taxation. A fraternity is not an exempt institu-
tion."
Members of the committee appointed to study
the problem are Bass Dyer, alumni secretary;
Si Ellingson, representing the cooperatives;
Ray Hawk, advisor to the Interfraternity Coun-
cil; Chuck Slemons, Don McClain, Rusty Kim-
sey, Chuck Larsen and Jim Frost.
About 40 persons attended the original meet-
ing November 15 to discuss the situation.
Those attending cited the possibility of
legislation to clear up the problem which, ac-
cording to Dean of Men Hawk, apparently arose
from a misunderstanding.
FELLOWSHIPS
The National Science Foundation has an-
nounced plans to award approximately 800
graduate and 175 postdoctoral fellowships for
scientific study during the 1957-1958 academic
year. These fellowships will be awarded to citi-
zens of the United States, selected solely on the
basis of ability. They are offered in the mathe-
matical, physical, medical, biological, engineer-
ing, and other sciences including anthropology,
psychology (other than clinical), geography,
certain interdisciplinary fields, and fields of
convergence between the natural and social
sciences.
Further information and application materials
may be secured from the Fellowship Office,
Oregon Alumni enjoy chat during meeting
in New York: Leon A. Culbertson '23, Dr.
Laura H. Kennon '11, and Bass Dyer '45.
At New York Meeting, Dr. William C.
Jones, (right) briefs Dr. Allen Eaton '02 on
the latest events on the University campus.
At San Francisco Meeting, Ken Oliphant
'43, Coach Len Casanova and Jim Ferguson
'34 discuss Oregon's football prospects.
December-January 1956-57 17
National Academy of Sciences-National Re-
search Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W.,
Washington 25, D.C. The deadline for the
receipt of applications for postdoctoral fellow-
ships is December 24, 1956; for graduate fel-
lowships January 7, 1957.
NEW LAW EDITOR
Charles C. Howard, University of Oregon
professor of law, has resigned as editor of the
Oregon Law Review, a publication he has
edited since 1929.
He has been succeeded by Kenneth J. O'Con-
nell, another professor of law on the University
faculty. Howard will continue his present posi-
tion as a member of the Law School faculty. He
has been at Oregon since 1928.
O'Connell heads a staff of four student edi-
tors. The Law Review reaches some 2200 prac-
ticing lawyers in Oregon and several elsewhere
in the nation.
KUNZ RETIRES
Professor Adolf H. Kunz, who has been a
member of the University faculty for nearly a
quarter of a century, has retired from active
teaching because of an illness.
Dr. Kunz had been head of the Department
of Chemistry since 1942 and first came to the
University in 1930 from the California Institute
of Technology where he had been a research
fellow. Later, he taught chemistry for two years
at Oregon State College, returning permanently
to Oregon in 1934.
Dr. Kunz had been on a leave of absence for
several months and Dr. F. J. Reithel has taken
over the departmetn as acting head. Dr. Reithel
has been at the University since 1946.
JESSE H. BOND
Jesse H. Bond '09, retired University profes-
sor of business administration, collapsed and
died October 24 while attending a lecture on
Barbara J. Wolfe '45 has been promoted to
rank of Captain in Women's Army Corps
while serving with Eighth Army in Korea.
the campus. He was 75 years old.
He had been with the University's School
of Business Administration from 1928 until his
retirement in 1947. A Phi Beta Kappa, Dr.
Bond worked his way through the University
of Oregon by waiting tables and other work.
He was class president his senior year and win-
ner of the Failing-Beekman speech award that
year.
He did post-graduate work at Columbia Uni-
versity and received his master's degree at Ore-
gon and his doctor's at Wisconsin. He held
several faculty positions at other schools before
joining the Oregon staff
Surviving are his widow, Elsie, a daughter,
three brothers and a sister.
Pre-game bonfire rally kindled the spirits of students and alumni alike at Homecoming.
The next day the Webfoot team fought the Washington State Cougars to a 7 to 7 tie.
DR. CLARK APPOINTED
Robert D. Clark, professor of speech at the
University, has been permanently appointed
dean of the College of Liberal Arts. The ap-
pointment was announced by President 0.
Meredith Wilson following confirmation by the
Oregon State Board of Higher Education.
Dr. Clark had been acting dean of the col-
lege since mid-1955, and has been on the Uni-
versity faculty since 1943. He was assistant dean
of the College of Liberal Arts when former
Dean Eldon L. Johnson resigned to become
president of the University of New Hampshire.
Clark is a graduate of Pasadena College and
took his master's and doctor's degrees at the
University of Southern California.
ARCHITECT HONORED
Earl T. Heitschmidt '20, a Los Angeles Ar-
chitect, has been selected by the State Depart-
ment to supervise the design of an eight million
dollar exhibition building which will contain
America's exhibits at the Universal and Inter-
national Exposition to be held in Brussels, Bel-
gium in 1958.
In 33 years as a practicing architect, Heit-
schmidt has designed a number of prominent
buildings in the Los Angeles area?the newly-
built Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Build-
ing, the Hollywood Stars Ball Park, the seven
million dollar Furniture Mart, hospital build-
ings, and many other school and industrial
buildings.
ALUMNI IN JAPAN
From Bunji Kobayashi, an assistant professor
at Nihon University in Tokyo, comes a report
of the first Oregon alumni meeting October 6
at International House at Tokyo.
"Yesterday, in the Saturday afternoon," he
writes, "we got together for the first time and
ten alumni joined at the International House.
To my surprise, older alumni were quite active
and told us their interesting experiences in both
campus and town."
Those attending were Kenneth G. Hendricks,
Tetsuichi Kurashige, Charles Hisao Yoshii, Yo-
shiko Seki, Tsuneo Ushiyama, Fumiko Kurata,
Yasuo Kurata, Namiko Ikeda, Bunji Koba-
yashi, all of Tokyo, and Joseph Kazuto Sato of
Yokohama.
JOSEPH R. McCREADY
Joseph R. McCready '25, Forest Grove, Ore-
gon businessman and attorney, died last Sep-
tember from a heart attack at Walla Walla,
Washington.
After his graduation from the University of
Oregon, he attended Harvard University and
rceived a law degree in 1928. He served as city
attorney in Forest Grove for 18 years, and also
was attorney for a school district and for a local
bank. He was also active with his brother, W. J.
McCready in a lumber firm.
Survivors include his widow, Laura, his
brother, and two children.
AUSTIN F. FLEGEL
Austin F. Flegel '13 of Portland, one-time
candidate for governor of Oregon, died last
September after an illness of several months. He
was 66.
Flegel served for 28 months as chief of the
U.S. Technical and Economic Mission to Thai-
land and was prominent as a Portland attorney
and businessman.
He was admitted to the Oregon bar shortly
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Can your child go to your college?
Every one of us has the hope that his son or
daughter may be so well prepared that the ad-
missions officer will say: "Your application is
accepted. We will look forward to seeing you in
the fall." But sometimes plans go amiss.
We at General Electric have for years been
urging youth to aim high, work hard, master
the basic subjects, and go on to college.
Recently, we sent a questionnaire to 100 col-
lege-admissions officers. We asked: "What are
the reasons some high-school students are ad-
mitted and others rejected?" The 78 replies we
received contained a great unanimity of opinion.
We have summarized those replies in a book-
let, Start Planning Now for Your Career; the
illustration on this page, taken from the booklet,
gives a clue as to its content.
We believe that the alumnus can work for the
best interests of his college by sending to that
college young people prepared to receive a
higher education.
We further believe that our summary of
opinions of admissions officers is so persuasively
compelling that the boy or girl who reads it must
ask himself whether he is choosing his courses
wisely and getting high enough marks.
Perhaps with this booklet in hand and sup-
porting its thesis with your own experience, you
can help persuade your child, or another child
in whom you have an interest, to prepare against
the day when an admissions officer will review
his record. We invite you to write for a copy (or
copies) to Dept. 2-119, General Electric Com-
pany, Schenectady, New York.
GENERAL ELECTRIC
after his graduation from the University. He
served variously as U.S. Attorney for Oregon,
attorney for the Oregon Liquor Control Com-
mission, and as state senator from Multnomah
County. He became president of the Willamette
Iron and Steel Corporation in Portland in 1945.
In 1952 he was the Democratic candidate for
Oregon governor, losing the election to Douglas
McKay.
He is survived by his widow, Catharine, five
brothers and two sisters.
The Classes
^(T\/r\ Homer Angell, ex-congressman, was
^y/^J/ given a testimonial dinner in his honor
in Portland on September 25.
Lawrence Dinneen, whose address is
1333 S. W. College St., Portland, reports
the arrival of his seventeenth grandchild.
"CD Q) ^e appointment of George Royer to
&\J) the position of manager of the ply-
wood department of the new Dant and Russell,
Inc., forest products sales organization, was re-
cently announced.
"dl (fyi George N. Belknap, University ed-
&%3 itor, is author of an article on the work
of George Law Curry, first public printer to
the Oregon territorial government and also its
governor. The article appears in a recent issue
of the Pacific Northwest Quarterly.
Musical director for TV station WKY in
Oklahoma City, is Allan M. Clark.
Thomas W. Dant is the new board chair-
man foT Dant and Russell, Inc., of Portland.
*CJi <? ^r" Harmon M. Chapman of Cow
^CP Hill Road, Clinton, Connecticut, has
been named chairman of the Department of
Philosophy in the University College of Arts
and Science of New York University.
An item from the July issue of the Dart-
mouth Alumni Magazine discloses that Profes-
sor Ray Nash was a recipient of the Gold
Medal of the American Institute of Graphic
Arts?top award for service and achievement
in that field.
Election of Wilda E. Parrish to the newly
created post of Eugene savings officer at Pacific
First Federal Savings and Loan association, has
been announced.
^QJCD Army Lt Col- Arthur p- Ireland
vJJ/^y has been assigned as a staff judge ad-
vocate at the U. S. Military Academy, West
Point. His wife, Kathryn Perigo, is with him
at West Point.
Mrs. Alice H. LaFollett (Alice Hesler)
is an assistant statistician at the California
State Department Highway Patrol.
Pf^rjk Mrs. Elma Matson Yeomans and Ken-
v3O) neth E. Proctor were married on
Seuptember 1 in Eugene. They are at home in
Eugene.
9 Hi A Charles L. Burrow is sales promo-
J>4fc tion manager for WBZ-WBZA in Bos-
ton, Massachusetts. He and his wife (Phoebe
Greenman) and family live at 26 Normandy
Rd., Auburndale, Massachusetts.
Robert L. Gantenbein is manager of the
tax department at Consolidated Freightways,
Inc. His wife (Nan S. Ruonala '35) is teach-
ing at El Portal, a cerebral palsy school in San
Mateo, California.
Col. Joseph A. Gerot, his wife, and two
sons were recent visitors in Eugene. Colonel
Gerot has spent the past two years with the
Operations Division of NATO's Land Southeast-
ern Europe command. His new assignment will
William, P. Hutchison
be as head of the Military Science and Tactics
Department at the University of Dayton, in
Ohio.
Col. Emery E. Hyde recently participated
in a command post exercise of the Allied Forces
in Southern Europe. In the Army since 1933, he
is chief of the general section in ground plans
and operations branch of AFSE headquarters
in Naples, Italy.
Mrs. Marcella Settle Pape sends as her
new address: 450 Fairway Lane, Kirkwood,
Missouri.
George F. Brice, Jr. has been elected
to the board of directors of Insurance
Company of Oregon. He is president of Oregon
Mutual and Brice Mortgage. He and his wife
(Virginia Mae Van Kirk) now live at 1750
S. W. West Point Court, Portland.
Gerald S. Calhoun of Portland has
I been appointed a field representative
of Lutheran Brotherhood, the second largest
fraternal life insurance society in the United
States.
Colonel Patrick F. Cassidy has been as-
signed as chief of training in the General Staff
Section, Headquarters staff, Seventh Army, in
Germany. He holds the Bronze Star Medal with
cluster, the Silver Star and the Purple Heart
among his decorations.
Paulen W. Kaseberg of Wasco, Oregon
has been elected chairman of the Oregon Wheat
Commission. He has been a member of the com-
mission since October, 1949.
'1L <& Donald E- Bailey of 540 Park Lane,
U) (3 Orange, California, is a sales repre-
sentative in the Santa Ana district for CIBA
Pharmaceutical Products, Inc.
Harold H. Berg has assumed the position
of assistant manager of the Eugene Branch of
Pacific First Federal Savings and Loan Associa-
tion.
Frank G. Breuer is in the legal department
of Georgia-Pacific Corporation of Portland.
Donald E. Fry is district manager for the
Social Security Administration for four counties
in north central Washington.
Fergus Wood, science editor of the Ency-
clopedia Brittanica and Americana, his wife
(Doris Hack '41), and two daughters recently
visited Eugene for the first time in four years.
They now live at 2400 Starcrest Dr., Silver
Springs, Maryland.
Donald E. Bailey
" Ht (T\ ^ane Kemler was incorrectly re-
?utzjr ported as being newly promoted to the
position of sales manager for McDonald Candy
Company in Eugene. Mr. Kemler is general
manager of the company and makes his head-
quarters in Eugene.
Lt. Col. and Mrs. Allen G. Long (Mar-
garet Mae Chase '38) are now living in Eng-
land where Lt. Col. Long is a pilot with the Air
Force.
Frank B. Emmons is new sales man-
ager at Pierce Freight in Portland,
William P. Hutchison has been elected to
the Council of the American Institute of Ac-
countants. The Council is the governing body
of the 28,000-member national organization of
certified public accountants and is composed of
CPAs from all parts of the nation. Mr. Hutchi-
son is principal in the firm of William P. Hutch-
ison and Company.
Louise D. Ingle is teaching first grade at
Prospect, Oregon.
Richard H. Olcott has a position with the
real estate department of Commerce Investment,
Inc., in Portland.
^r' an<* ^rs* Jay Ambrose announce
the arrival of a daughter, born on July
25. They live at 1646 Walnut Creek Parkway,
West Covina, California. Mr. Ambrose is an
executive with Sears Roebuck and Company.
John E. Cavanagh, after a ten years' resi-
dence in Washington D. C, has joined the Lock-
heed Aircraft Corporation in Van Nuys, Cali-
fornia as an assistant counsel in the legal office.
Harold C. Ellicott is advertising manager
of specialty products for Georgia-Pacific, Port-
land.
H. Russell Hulett is head of electronic re-
search at Detroit Controls in Redwood City,
California. He and his wife (Iva Lee Prevett
'42) live at 455 Buena Vista, Redwood City.
Richard J. Seufert sells insurance for the
Tewksbury and Duncan Agency in Seaside,
Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Arnold Smith (Mavis
Jones '43) now have six children with the ar-
rival on August 6 of Corey Arnold. They live at
5090 Westraoor Rd., Salt Lake City 17, Utah.
A son, Peter Joseph, eight, pounds two ounces,
was born August 16 to Mr. and Mrs. Richard
C. Williams (Marjorie Kellogg '42) of Eu-
gene. Peter joins brothers Jerry 14, Tommy 13,
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transmitters, communication systems for
"Texas Tower" radar outposts, battle-
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For Industry: "XY"? Dial telephone
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GENERAL DYNAMICS
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Bobby 11, Dick Jr. 4, and John 2 and a sister,
Amy Lee 8. The Williams are living at 331 Pearl
Si., Eugene where Mr. Williams, former direc-
tor of educational activities on the campus, is
now part owner of Shelton-Turnbull-Fullcr
Printers.
Kenneth L. Bowes is sales manager
' of the newly-formed wholesale lumber
sales department of the Ostrom Lumber Com-
pany wtih offices in Marysville, California.
James H. Rathbun, formerly assiVtant sales
manager of sportswear for Jantzen, now has
charge of the Northwest sales division with
headquarters in Portland.
A new addition to the John C. Veatch
(Elizabeth Feasley '47) family is Marilyn
Jane born on August 27 in Portland. They live
at 4024 S. W. Seymour St., Portland.
'Alt Robert F- Moller, Medford, Oregon
4ll:vj) orchardist, was chosen Oregon's Junior
Citizen of the year by the Chamber of Com-
merce last February in Corvallis, Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Rentschler (Jean
Hayes) recently moved into their new home at
4529 Fran Way, Richmond, California. They
have three children, Ricky 10, Roddy 7, and
Ann Melinda 16 months.
Mary Ann Campbell visited her sister and
brother-in-law and their three sons in Portland
from Japan where she has been working as a
civilian employee for the Army.
Announcement has been made of the mar-
riage of Mrs. Virginia Anderson to Theodore
L. Bouck. The couple was married on August
11 in Reno. Mr. Bouck is the University's ath-
letic business manager.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh B. Muir (Patricia E.
Gray '44) now live at 6522 Danbury Lane,
Dallas, Texas.
Dr. C. Russell Perkins has been recalled
to the Air Force and is now with his family in
England, where they will remain for two years.
John A. Williams and Elizabeth Weldon
were married on August 26 in Reeltown, Ala-
bama. They are now living in Auburn, Alabama
where Mr. Williams is a faculty member of the
Alabama Institute of Technology.
"A A Mr' and ^rs' John N- Matschek
41:411: are parents of their fourth son, Peter
Anton, born on August 22 in Portland.
Frederick C. Robison operates his own
commercial fishing boat at Depoe Bay, Oregon.
Recently promoted to the position of regional
sales manager for the San Francisco division of
Bemis Brothers Bag Company, is Albert Sil-
vernail, Jr. He and his wife (Annabelle Dow
'42) now live at 1474 Ernestine Lane, Moun-
tain View, California.
Betty Jane Soules is currently employed in
Europe as a civilian member of the Special
Services program for the U. S. Army. As crafts
director, Miss Soules is responsible for super-
vising three crafts shops and five photography
laboratories in the Saar River area in Germany.
Dr" an<* ^rs- Ju^es F. Bittner
(Vida Everts '48) of Pendleton, Ore-
gon welcomed the arrival of their second daugh-
ter, Nancy Lynn, on September 21. The Bittners
live at 716 N. W. Johns Place, Pendleton.
Mrs. Donald W. Peters (Nancy Ann Boles)
recently moved from Ann Arbor, Michigan to
35 Dome Lane, Wantagh, L. 1., New York.
Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Dodson, Jr. (Phyl-
lis Lehman '47) are now living in Memphis,
Tennessee, where Dr. Dodson is a chief resident
in urology at the University of Tennessee Hos-
pital. They have two children, Mary Jo 5, and
Tommy 2.
Mrs. Margaret Barrett Shiers is in Japan
with her husband who has been working tempo-
rarily as an advisor to the aviation industry.
' A (f*. Gloria R- Campbell recently became
4ltO the bride of Ralph G. Day on July 28
in Hillsboro, Oregon. They live at 146 E. Dart-
mouth Place, Claremont, California.
c ifw Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Bryant
411: / (Janette M. Williams) are parents of
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A Policy Report from the
The following is condensed from Chancellor
Richards' address to the City Club of Portland
September 28.
Since my arrival in Oregon in 1953, the state
system of higher education enrollments have
risen from 12,000 to 18,000, a gain of 50 per
cent. By 1960 the population of our public col-
leges will have doubled. By 1970 we will be
approaching the 30,000 mark. These, in gen-
eral, are the figures on which we are basing our
budget request to the 1957 Legislature.
At such a time as this it seems logical to
some people to begin excluding students on the
basis of their parents' residence. The argument
is made that a resident student is excluded by
the admission of a non-resident. However, this
argument is valid only when one assumes that
Oregon may lead a life entirely apart from other
states, and it ignores the fact that we already
practice selective admission on out-of-state
students through requiring a high admission
standard for him and a high tuition from him.
Actually, we should be proud that students
are attracted to us from other states and we
should be pleased by the prospect of their
continuing residence in our state. The economy
of Oregon is dymanic and we should count each
new resident, whether he remains with us for
the four-year college course or for a lifetime,
as an asset rather than a liability.
SELECTIVE ADMISSIONS. Some public-
ity has been given to the introduction of more
severe admissions policies as they apply to our
own residents. Because of the general lack in
Oregon of post-high-school study opportunities
in our school systems, a tradition has developed
that all high school graduates who are so im-
pelled will be admitted to any one of the public
colleges upon application. This worked fairly
well in days of smaller enrollments and when
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the compulsory school attendance law was 16.
But since the age was raised to 18, the percent-
age of high school graduates has increased, and
this factor, plus the birth rate plus in-migration,
spells out our problem.
Clearly the best criterion for determining
aptitude for college is college work. Yet it is
clear that not all high school graduates should
contemplate four years of college. Many would
be served by enrollment in a 13th or 14th year
in their home communities or entry into a
technical institute. We would agree with Walter
J. Murphy, who said:
"A well educated America need not fear the
economic future of this country. There are no
boundaries, no frontiers, as long as we continue
to educate all those who have the potential ca-
pacity to use such knowledge intelligently."
But we would also submit, with Lowell, that
"there is only one thing that will really train
the human mind, and that is the voluntary use
of the mind by the man himself. You may aid
him; you may guide him; you may suggest to
him; and above all else you may inspire him.
But the only thing worth having is that which
he gets by his own exertions."
JUNIOR COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT. A
recent report of the junior college study com-
mittee in this state found that ideally the
junior college should be an upward extension
of the local school system rather than a pro-
gram run directly by the state. Many of us have
been hoping for such a development of post-
high school educational opportunities. It will
be difficult to exclude students from the fresh-
man year in our colleges when no substitute
educational opportunity is available.
Nevertheless it seems to me we can no longer
temporize with this problem. The foremost obli-
gation of the State Board of Higher Education
is to maintain an excellence in collegiate in-
struction. If the weight of sheer numbers of
students threatens college instructional quality,
then it is our clear obligation to control
numbers.
The time has come when the board must
deny admission to those Oregon high school
graduates whose record and test scores?and I
emphasize the combination of both ? indicate
that they are poor risks to complete at least
two years of satisfactory study. We would not
suggest that we are turning our backs on the
young man or woman who frittered and flut-
tered away his high school experience, but in
most instances the college potential is determi-
nable. Out of this, it is to be hoped that im-
pulsion will be given to movements setting up
13th and 14th grade opportunities in various
localities.
RESEARCH. Another principal expansion
lies in the field of applied research. This growth
has come about not only because the scientists
were available in the universities and colleges,
but also because of a planned program of re-
lating instruction and research. Obviously the
educational utility of a government laboratory
will be greater if it is placed on a campus than
if it is programmed in the magnificent isolation
of a Los Alamos.
Some college administrators argue that the
attention devoted to applied research diverts
staff time and university facilities from the
priority job of instruction. I would argue that
these administrators do not allow full weight
for the investigatory function within education.
Our college teaching today is related far more
closely to exploration than to rote learning. In
my opinion, the college teacher who is not in-
volved in investigation of any sort must per-
force be a sterile and ineffective teacher. Wil-
liam Donaghy put it this way:
"Education which is simply intellectual taxi-
dermy?the scooping out of the mind and the
stuffing in of facts?is worthless. The human
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a daughter, Laureen Janette, born on Septem-
ber 1. The Bryants live at 429 Butler Rd., N. E.
Warren, Ohio.
Major Arnold W. Seeborg recently re-
ceived a master of science degree in journalism
from the University of Utah.
Shirley Ann Stow and Donald W. Jones
were married on August 18 in Oakland, Cali-
fornia- They live at 516 Merritt Ave., Oakland
where Mr. Jones is doing free lance photog-
raphy.
John Kelty has joined Gordon Orput as a
partner in the Portland agency of the New
England Mutual Life Insurance Company. The
agency under the new partnership, is known
as Cordon Orput and John Kelty, general
agents.
D. Donald Lonie, Jr. has resigned as sales
manager at KPTV television station in Port-
land, to join Hancock and Associates as a public
relations consultant.
Dr. and Mrs. Donald E. Olson are the
parents of a daughter, their third child, Kathy
Ruth, who arrived on September 25 in Port-
land. Their home is at 2148 N. E. 20th Ave.,
Portland.
Virgil A. Parker is a partner in the pur-
chase of radio station KRSN at Los Alamos,
New Mexico.
Roy R. Seeborg is the new school superin-
tendent in Seaside, Oregon.
Richard O. Ward is sales manager for Cur-
rier Realty Company in Sunnyvale, California.
Stanley E. Watt, Portland representative of
Lincoln National Life, has qualified for partici-
pation in a company training school at Fort
Wayne, Indiana.
* A o Eugene H. Bird is serving as vice-
TC(3 consul at the consulate general in
Jerusalem, where he expects to remain for two
years.
William H. Boyer has completed require-
ments for a doctor of education degree at Ari-
zona State College and has accepted a teaching
position as assistant professor of education at
Milwaukee-Downer College, Wisconsin.
' A (flk ^?*' Norman G. Reynolds, former
TT ^J' instructor in military science and tac-
tics at Oregon State College, has assumed com-
mand of the 188th Airborne Infantry (Eagles)
Regiment at Augsburg, Germany.
Recently elected assistant secretary and as-
sistant manager of the Clackamas County
branch of the Title and Trust Company, was
Kenneth G. Bakkum. He has been with the
Title and Trust Company since 1948 and is vice
president of the Oregon City Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
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Chancellor
mind is not a deep freeze for storage, but a
forge for production. It must be supplied with
fuel, fired and properly shaped."
It is true, of course, that all things must be
kept in balance. There is real evidence that our
emphasis today upon the directing of research
into specified channels and anticipatory to cer-
tain well-defined conclusions has grown too
rapidly in relation to the support available for
the scholar working alone with his thoughts.
To achieve a better balance, we certainly should
think in terms of increasing the support for the
latter rather than to decrease present efforts in
applied directions.
In the cooperative development of research
in all broad areas nationally, it sometimes hap-
pens that a given state is reluctant to undertake
its clear share. By reason of this fact, the na-
tional effort is harmed. But the real loser is
the state itself. For in the process of denying
appropriate support for research efforts, that
state deprives itself of the service of distin-
guished scientists or of even potentially distin-
guished scientists; it is able to maintain only
ineffective communication with the tide of
learning. As an example, Oregon, by reason of
its distinguished medical center, has attracted
to local medical research millions of dollars in
gifts and grants.
I do not mean to suggest that Oregon should
ever be required to support, say, one of the
most important applied research programs in
the nation. Rather, I propose that our level of
contribution, considering our size and wealth,
should be increased if we are to realize returns
to the state in terms of improved scholarly
communication and in terms of more effective
college instruction. The returns will more than
compensate us for the funds spent.
SPACE REQUIREMENTS. Not the least of
our problems is the continuing increase in the
proportion of students enrolling in the upper
December-January 1956-57
By John R. Richards
Chancellor, State System of Higher Education
classes of our colleges and in graduate work.
The costs of instruction at these levels are con-
siderably higher than in the lower divisions.
But we would not have it otherwise, for only
as students continue through the junior and
senior years to graduation and on through to
professional graduate training can we hope to
replenish the supply of college instructors and
to increase their ranks to meet the load ahead.
As an example of another expansion of our
program, note should be taken of the increas-
ing involvement of college staff members in the
ordinary concerns of our communities. More
each year, our staff members are called upon
as experts to help in the operations of society.
All of these expansions mean growth in staff
and physical facilities. We are hard pressed
for both. The Legislature will be asked to des-
ignate this next biennium as a "catch-up" pe-
riod caused by both our growth and the small
building appropriation of the current biennium.
While the rest of the state gradually draws
back to a 40-hour week and people from the
Vice President to Walter Reuther talk of the
four-day week, we intend to make increasing
use of night and weekend hours. This means
that parents who have become used to Johnny
reporting home for long weekends will hence-
forth miss many of these visits.
INSTRUCTION BY TELEVISION. An in-
triguing development of recent years has con-
vinced most faculty members that instruction
by television is feasible and, if properly man-
aged, without loss of instructional quality. In
some areas of instruction, such as surgical ob-
servation, television can be superior to tradi-
tional methods. In all teaching areas, television
can be used, but costs are likely to be higher as
quality improves. In no sense is television magi-
cal. It is just a potentially great teaching tool
that can be developed by great teachers and
only by them.
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cal education at Arroyo High School, in San
Lorenzo, California.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Glasgow (Mary
Lau Renard) announce the arrival of a daugh-
ter, Jane Marie, born on August 19 in Portland.
They live at 2021 N. E. Ridgewood Dr., Port-
land.
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Felker (Mary
Harrison) welcomed the arrival of their third
child, Sally Jo, born on June 16.
Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada has
named Edward Henry John as district repre-
sentative in the Lane County area. He previously
represented the firm in the-Roseburg, Oregon
area. His office is in Eugene.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. McLaughlin
are being congratulated on the birth of their
third child, Thomas Hugh, born on August 23
in Redwood City, California.
Robert R. Morgan, Jr. is sales manager of
the Hibbard Medical and Surgical Supply
Company in San Francisco. He and his wife,
Allene M. Amacher, now live at 435 Waverley
St., Menlo Park, California.
Mr. and Mrs. LeBron C. Preston (Char-
line Harmon) have moved from Washington,
D. C, where Mr. Preston was employed by the
Railroads' Tariff Research Group, to San Fran-
cisco where he has assumed a position in the
office of vice president of traffic of the Western
Pacific Railroad.
William Rex Stevens is a salesman for
Western Equipment Company. He, his wife
(Shirley Miller '47), and four children now
ive at 317 Lynnwood Ave., Medford, Oregon
\ Catherine Eileen Maloney became the
J bride of Arthur William Anderson,
Jr. on September 15 in Portland. The couple is
at home in Portland.
Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Braymen an-
nounce the birth of a daughter, Cindee Gail,
born on September 18 in Portland. The Bray-
mens may be reached at 220 American Bank
Bldg., Portland.
Stephen Paul Dotur is stationed in Europe
with U. S. Army. Last summer he toured Aus-
tria, Yugoslavia, and Italy.
Charles D. Grell has become city editor of
the Roseburg News-Review. He has worked on
newspapers in Ashland and Grants Pass before
joining the News-Review staff as a reporter in
February, 1953.
Leonard B. Kimbrell of Portland has been
named assistant professor of art at Eastern Ore-
gon College of Education, La Grande, Oregon.
John A. Lucas is working toward a doctor
of education degree at the University of Cali-
fornia and is also vice principal at North Tor-
rance High School, Torrance, California.
A new addition to the Raymond Muessig
family of Longview, Washington, is James Brad-
ford, born on September 27 in Longview. He
joins an older brother, Scott. Their address is
1028 19th St., Longview.
Robert George H. Robinson is presently
the manager of the Hawaiian Village Beach
Club at the Hawaiian Village Hotel in Hono-
lulu. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson (Joan Dysart
'53) live at 2132 Kapiolani Blvd., Honolulu.
A Portland accountant, Ralph B. Strat-
ford, was named on August 28 to head a 49-
member citizen's committee which is evaluating
the need of new physical facilities for commu-
nity service agencies.
Madeleine Millicent Young and John
Baptista Madden were married last September
in Portland, where they now live.
Arlene June Miller and Milton O.
Brown were married on August 31 in
Portland. The couple has made their home in
Portland.
David Dardano, Portland attorney, has
been appointed Oregon department judge advo-
cate of the American Legion.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley W. Hargrave
(Genevieve Colton) welcomed the arrival of
twin daughters, Lyn and Lee, born on March 7
in Santa Rosa, California. They live at 924 Gay
St., Santa Rosa.
Dolores Jeppesen left in mid-August for
her second trip abroad to serve as a teacher with
the U. S. Air Force. Her position as teacher to
children of Air Force personnel has taken her
previously to Drew Air Base in France; Mil-
denhall, England, and Oslo, Norway.
A son, Daniel Christopher, was born on Aug-
ust 15 to Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord E. Krahn of
Portland. Their address is 3816 S. E. 32nd Ave.,
Portland 2.
Mrs. Gloria Frances Grimson Lyon re-
cently returned from a two year round-the-
world trip and has settled in Salt Lake City,
Utah.
Mr. and Mrs. John Leiter Newell of Ar-
cata, California, are the parents of a son, Paul
Gilbert, born on September 27. Their address is
1042 16th St., Arcata.
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What happens when a man joins the Uni-
versity faculty and leaves his wife at home?
Well, Wickes Shaw provides the answer in
her sprightly column, "The Editor's Corn-
er," in the weekly Curry County Reporter
at Gold Beach, Oregon.
Shaw joined the law school staff at the
University last fall and Mrs. Shaw remained
temporarily in Gold Beach to publish her
newspaper.
"There are a lot of consolations about
having your husband away from home," she
says in her column. "You don't eat as much
and your grocery bills go down because
there's nobody to eat with, and anyway
what woman wants to cook for herself? The
kitchen floor stays cleaner?less traffic. The
house doesn't get all cluttered up with
papers, pipes, slippers, books, stray articles
of clothing and other masculine impedi-
menta. You work harder, because there's
nothing else to do. And you can still find
time to curl up with a good book. That is,
if you want to curl up with a book.
"Oh, these nice, long evenings at home
alone. Not a thing to worry about. Except
where he put the key to the food locker and
how you're going to chop kindling for an
open fire, and what you'll do if the water
line gets plugged or the fuses blow, and
whether that scruff on the dog's back is
mange and when, if ever, you can get your
check book balanced. And whether he can
really manage to make it home this week-
end.
"I really don't mind being alone at all.
Not much!"
Old Oregon
Meet New England Life's
"Rookie-of-the-Year"
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY '53
A champion athlete as well as a champion salesman,
Bud W alien is a member of this year's World Champion
Indoor and Outdoor Water Polo Team.
Each year, New England Life's Leaders
Association elects its most outstanding new-
comer "Rookie-of-the-Year1\ Last year's win-
ner, William L. "Bud" Wallen, sold over a
million dollars worth of life insurance. Be-
fore joining New England Life, Bud worked
for a nationally known manufacturer, where
he set a sales record that still stands.
Characteristically, men come to New Eng-
land Life to find greater opportunity and satis-
faction. Through efficient training and super-
vision, and generous financial backing, they
soon develop the professional status to handle
important estate planning assignments.
To find out more about a career with New
England Life, write Vice President L. M.
Huppeler, 501 Boylston Street, Boston 17,
Massachusetts.
A BETTER LIFE FOR YOU
As symbols of his award, Bud Wall en ivears a baseball cap and holds a bat ?
ire addition to the trophy ? after being named "Rookie-of-the-Year" during
the annual meeting of New England Life's Leaders Association at Sun
Valley, Idaho.
NEW ENGLAND
THE COMPANY THAT FOUNDED MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE IN AMERICA ? 1638
A career with New England Life attracts men from many fields
? banking, teaching, business administration as well as selling.
Some of our most successful agents have technical backgrounds.
John R. Kelty, Gen. Agt., '47 Portland, Oregon
Dean H. Connoway'37 Portland, Oregon
Clarence D. Newman '52 Portland, Oregon
In Los Angeles it's the
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2961 Wilshire Blvd.-Los Angelet, Cal.
DUnkirk 2-7171
"Where your
visit will
be received
with the
same cheerful
hospitality of
Homecoming"
Edward J. Crowley
General Manager
Member of University of Oregon
Alumni Association?Class of '28
Alicia M. Peters has just completed two
year?' work as an air line stewardess for TWA
and has taken a trip to Europe.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Thompson
(Barbara Williams '52) announce the arrival
of their first child, Susan Ruth, born on August
22 in Portland. The Thompsons are living in
Portland at 5135 S. W. Nebraska St. Mr.
Thompson has been employed at the Halton
Tractor Company as sales promotion manager.
Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne S. Angst (Dorothy
Thorssell) are the parents of a daughter,
Debra Ann, born on August 14 in Eugene. Their
address is 726 Fremont St., Eugene.
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Wall are the
parents of a son, David Wright, born on August
15 in Portland. Their home is at 2431 N. W.
Johnson, Portland.
I Dr. Morris Aderman has been ap-
y pointed to the staff of Illinois Institute
of Technology, Chicago, as a psychology in-
structor. Aderman joined the Institute's faculty
after working as a teaching assistant at the
University of Texas for two years. He is a mem-
ber of the American Psychological Association,
Sigma Xi, scientific honorary society, and Psi
Chi, psychology honorary society.
A daughter, Michelle Diane, was born on
August 31 in Gresham, Oregon to Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas 0. Morgan, Jr. (Joan Avery). They
live at 456 N. E. 4th, Gresham.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo G. Plinski, Jr. (Martylou
Coffey) and their three year old son, Leo G.
Ill, now live at Apt. 22, Spartan City, San Jose
State College in San Jose, where Mr. Plinski is
a senior in police administration.
Elaine Suzanne Hartung ('53) became
the bride of Robert Patterson Craig on Sep-
tember 8 in Portland. The couple is at home
at 2500 N. E. Couch St., Portland.
Kenneth Cushman is with the information
service of public relations at Colorado A. and
M., Fort Collins, Colorado. He is in charge of
publicity for special experimental work.
It's a daughter, Cynthia Ann, for Mr. and
Mrs. Robert L. Howard (Mary Knox '51).
The baby, born on August 15 in Portland, has
two older brothers. They are living at 4725
S. W. Vermont Dr., Portland.
Sandra Rae Weitzeil was married on August
30 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Dale H. John-
son. The couple is now at home in Berkeley.
Lois Patricia Graf and Carl J. Kubin were
married on August 24 in Portland, where they
have made their home.
Jim O. Lafferty is now a salesman for
Great West Life Assurance Company, Portland.
Carl B. Meehan has begun a training pro-
gram in the export department of Brown and
Williamson Tobacco Company, Louisville, Ky.
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Muntzel are the
parents of a son, Eric John, born on September
14 in Portland. They live at 3334 N. E. 17th St.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Pfeffer announce
the arrival of their third daughter, Kathy Anne,
born on September 21 in Portland.
John G. Ranlett is an instructor in eco-
nomics at Whitman College in Walla Walla,
Washington. He was a research and teaching
fellow at Oregon for the past three years.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack M. Smith (Barbara
Burke) are living at 135 E. American Ave.,
Claremont, California, not 504 W. F St., On-
tario, California, as reported previously. Mr.
Smith is track coach and social studies teach-
er at Fremont Junior High School, and Mrs.
Smith is a sixth grade teacher at Madison
Elementary School, Pomona, California.
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A daughter, Debra Lee, was born on Septem-
ber 5 to Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Thompson
of Portland.
The marriage of Edie Mae Lawyer to Jerry
D. Vitus took place on September 9 in Belle-
vue, Washington. The couple now is at home
in Seattle where Mr. Vitus is booking-depart-
ment manager for a theater company.
' ^ it Alice Caylev Belt c56)became tne
<J)d> bride of John Roosevelt Faust, Jr.
on September 8 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The new-
lyweds are living in Eugene where the groom
is continuing his studies at the University's
Law School.
Carol Barbara Craig ('57) and John
Hale Foster were married on August 25 in
Portland. The couple lives in Eugene.
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Scott Hobart (Ju-
dith M. McLoughlin '54) are the parents of
a daughter, Jennifer Mary, born on September
7 in Salem, Oregon. They live at 375 Salem Hts.
Ave., Salem.
Ellis H. Neal is city school superintendent
of Dallas, Oregon.
Howard M. Nicholson is superintendent
of Live Oak Union High School District, Mor-
gan Hill, Colorado.
New account executive at the Portland office
of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Beane, is
James F. Rippey, who has been transferred
there from the firm's New York office where he
completed a two-year training program.
A son, Mark Roger, was born on September
27 in Portland to Dr. and Mrs. Robert J.
Schulstad. He is their second child. Their
home is at 2222 N. Pacific St., Portland.
Dr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Semler wel-
comed the arrival of a daughter, Shelli Joy,
their first child, on August 15 in Spokane,
Washington.
Lt. and Mrs. Stanley R. Swanson (Mar-
garet Randolph Phelps) send news of the
birth of their first child, a daughter, Victoria
Charlotte, born on April 28, in Fairchild,
Washington.
A wedding on September 18 in Portland was
that of Winona Lorene Woolley and Melvin
Richard Thomas. The newlyweds are now at
home at 4444 N. E. Hoyt St., Portland.
Roger W. Truesdail is an account execu-
tive for radio station KNX in Hollywood. He,
his wife, Audrey, and daughter, Pamela, now
live at 1645 Poppy Peak Dr., Pasadena, Calif.
Yvonne Joyce Heppley ('52) and Gar-
land Arthur Trzynka were married on Au-
gust 11 in Eugene. The couple is at home in
Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Warren
(Karen Jacobson) have settled in Fresno,
California where Mr. Warren is with Radio
and TV Station KFRE. The couple has two
children, Kenny Lee and Carol.
William L. Weinberg is a clinical psy-
chologist in a child guidance clinic in San
Francisco. He and his wife welcomed the arrival
of their first child, Stephen Jay, on July 16.
They live at 2730 Summit Dr., Burlingame,
California.
Lt. and Mrs. Richard E. Adams
(Patricia Ann Gustin) of San An-
tonio, Texas, are parents of their first child,
Stephen Rowe, born on September 14. They live
at 2410 W. Woodlawn, San Antonio, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Courtwright
(Ellen Quibell) send news of the birth of
their second child and first son, Michael James,
who arrived on March 7 at Parks Air Force
Base Hospital in Pleasenton, California.
Old Oregon
'54
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even in amethyst and many other semiprecious stones.
In fact, of all the elements, silicon is second only to oxy-
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Modern science has made silicon one of our most
versatile and useful servants, but at the same time has
followed nature's pattern of keeping it out of sight.
You can't see the silicon in metals, but steel is strong-
er and more uniform when it contains small amounts of
silicon. Larger amounts of silicon are added to steel
used in generators and transformers, and in motors that
bring us the magic of electricity. Silicon adds to the use-
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For many years, the people of Union Carbide have
been extracting silicon from its hiding places in nature
for use in metal-making. And now they are working
with silicon's exciting chemical offspring?silicones,
used for everything from improved furniture polishes
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Kathleen E. Evans
Kathleen E. Evans recently arrived in
Nurnberg, Germany, for assignment as a service
club director with the Army's Special Services
staff in Europe. Special service workers provide
entertainment and recreation for Armed Forces
personnel.
George T. Frey is an apprentice architect
with Skidmore Owings & Merrill in Portland.
He, his wife (Venita L. Roberson '53), and
two sons live at 6126 N. E. 13th Ave., Portland.
Lt. and Mrs. Frederick G. Gent (Donna
Donahue) are parents of a son, Terence Pat-
rick, born on March 11. They live at 752 Spruce
St., Apt. 4, San Francisco.
Lt. and Mrs. Robert P. Glasson (Shirley
Ann Johnson '56) send news of the new addi-
tion to their family, Mark Pearce born on Au-
gust 4. Lt. Glasson, stationed in Schwienfurt,
Germany, was joined by his wife and son last
October.
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Hollis Hendricks
of Honolulu welcomed the arrival of a son, Rod-
ney Charles, born on August 14.
Robert E. Hooker, Jr. has accepted a posi-
tion on the sports staff of The Wisconsin State
Journal, Madison, Wisconsin. Previously he had
done post graduate work at the State University
of Iowa, covering Iowa's 1955 Big Ten basket-
ball championship team and had been sports
editor and had handled the photography depart-
ments of daily papers in Marshall, Minnesota
and Piqua, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert R. Karr (Jean A.
Mauro) are living in Madison, Wisconsin,
where Mr. Karr is working for a master's de-
gree in history at the University of Wisconsin.
Don L. Manley has been appointed assist-
ant professor of physics at Whitman College in
Walla Walla, Washington. Prior to this posi-
tion, he had been an assistant physicist under
an Atomic Energy Commission research grant
at the University of Washington, and was an
AEC radiological physics fellow at the Univer-
sity of Rochester and Brookhaven Nationa.1
laboratory.
Lt. and Mrs. C. Richard Peters (Jean
Marie Petersen) are parents of a daughter,
Katherine Marie, born on August 4 in Frank-
furt, Germany.
Thomas F. Shepherd received his master
of arts degree in Public Administration from
Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio on
Old Oregon
There's a new idea in gifts and
it's one of the best in a long, long
time. It's the idea of giving tele-
phones for Christmas.
Few things are so sure to be ap-
preciated by everybody. For when
you give someone an additional tele-
phone you give three of the greatest
gifts of all?comfort, convenience
and security. And "it's fun to phone."
So this year, make it something
different and "give the gift you'd
like to get."
Save steps and work for Mother
by giving her an additional tele-
phone for the kitchen or bedroom.
Help Dad avoid puffing up the
stairs (they may be getting a little
steeper, you know) by giving him a
telephone in his workshop.
&>6
If you order early, we'll do our best to install
your gift telephones before Christmas. If that
isn't possible, then we'll come around after
Christmas and install them wherever you wish.
Reward the teen-agers who are
growing up so fast with a telephone
for their very own. (That could be
a break for you, too!)
Easy to do. The cost is moderate.
There's a choice of eight handsome
colors. Ivory, beige, green, blue, red,
yellow, brown and gray. Just call
the Business Office of your local Bell
telephone company.
Working iogeiher to bring people together
BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM
Eugene Public
Eugene,
Huntin' and Peck/n' to Success
W. Gilbert Beat tie
Reminiscences about years gone by
form a large part of the occasional re-
flections of most people who have reached
their 80's. To the average person they're
a pastime, an enjoyable, thoughtful
recreation that whiles away the hours.
But W. Gilbert Beattie '01 of Sacra-
mento, California, has done more with
his memories than pass the time of day.
He followed up his own knowledge with
a couple of years of research and had
his first book published a little over a
year ago. Marsden of Alaska is a striking
portrait of Edward Marsden, Alaskan
Indian, who rose to a position of emi-
nence among distinguished world figures
of his generation.
Beattie became acquainted with Mars-
den when he had graduated from the
University and had taken a job as teach-
er and superintendent of the Sitka Train-
ing School, now the Sheldon Jackson
Junior College, in southeastern Alaska.
In 1909 the Sitka school graduated its
first class?three Indians.
In 1954 Beattie returned to the school,
as commencement speaker, 46 years
later, when the graduates included both
junior college and high school classes.
Beattie spent 15 years in educational
work in Alaska and knew personally al-
most every one mentioned in the book.
Edward Marsden was a full blood Tsim-
shean Indian, born in British Columbia
about three miles from the present Prince
Rupert.
This colony migrated to southeastern
Alaska when the Indian was in his teens.
Inexplicably, this Indian whose parents
were member? of a barbaric tribe in their
youth, had a great yearning for education
and became the first Indian from Alaska
ever to take college and theological train-
ing in the States and the first to become
a citizen of the United Stales. He came
to feel that the native peoples of Alaska
should be aroused to a consciousness of
their own capabilities in order to adjust
to thf. new way <A life thrusi upon them
by the white man, and was their leader
in southeast Alaska for many years. He
was really the Pioneer Citizen among
native Alaskans.
By the time of his death in 1932, Mars-
den had contributed immeasurably to
the progress of his own people?and to
the advance of the entire native popula-
tion of Alaska as well.
Beattie taught at the University of
Oregon until he retired in 1947. About
the time of his retirement, his wife passed
away, and Beattie occupied himself with
preliminary work on his prospective
book, in an effort to occupy his mind and
thought. He did quite a lot of traveling
in the next few years. He went to Met-
lakatla, Alaska, and spent some time as
a house guest of Marsden's daughter, go-
ing through correspondence and records.
Following that stint he drove to Marietta,
Ohio, where Marsden had attended col-
lege, and later to the Library of Congress
in Washington, D.C., which yielded a lot
of information on Marsden's people.
All this material, of course, took quite
a while to digest and put into an inter-
esting, readable narrative. And from
what the reviewers say. Beattie did a
good job.
"Though more than five years de-
voted to gathering, sorting and assem-
bling materials, and publishing my book
have brought no financial gain," says
Beattie, "they have yielded much value
to me, mentally, spiritually, and even
physically, through revealing facts, set-
ting forth truth and throwing light on an
old controversy which involved Edward
Marsden, a talented Indian who accom-
plished much for his people,"
Beattie says he types his own manu-
scripts using the "hunt and peck" sys-
tem. He has some ideas for further hunt-
ing and pecking that have to do with the
Alaska scene. So those around his neigh-
borhood in Sacramento who hear a type-
writer beating an uneven staccato can
well imagine that another volume will be
on the way.
?Margaret Kreiss,
Suburban News Shopper
Beattie '01 poses with his niece, Roberta
Schuebel Caldwell '20, her son, John C.
(.al dwell '48, and grandson David ('74?).
June 13, 1956. He is now with the United States
Army at Fort Ord, California.
Lt. and Mrs. Richard C. Sowell of Hono-
lulu, Hawaii announce the arrival of a son,
Thomas Richard, on September 3.
Jeremy P. Taylor, formerly with Bell
Laboratories in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is
now with Lockheed Missile Division in Palo
Alto, California.
Claude C. Turner has been appointed
principal of Lakewood Elementary School in
Oswego, Oregon.
Second Lt. Kenneth D. Wegner recently
participated in the Army resupply of isolated
radar stations of the "DEW line" in the Eastern
Arctic. The "DEW (Distant Early Warning)
line" is designed to provide warning against the
possibility of a transpolar air attack.
/ g< ?=? A son, James Edward, was born on
<j)<j) September 1 in Portland to Lt. and
Mrs. Jerry E. Beall (Beverly J. Kreick '54).
Lt. Beall is serving with the Army in Korea.
Ann Blackwell was married to Robert
Marshall Lenihan on September 14 in the Way-
farers Chapel in Portuguese Bend, California.
The couple is now at home at 3609 Vista Drive,
Manhattan Beach, California.
Nancy Ann Gilbert was married to Dee
J. Guilford on September 7 in Eugene. The
couple is living at 4505 N. E. Prescott St. in
Portland where Mr. Guilford is employed by
Trans-Pacific.
New superintendent of production for Port-
land General Electric Company is Arthur H.
Greisser. Greisser is in charge of operation and
maintenance of PGE's power generating plants.
He also supervises direct power operations.
Norma Rae Hamilton and Raymond G.
Martin were married on September 29 in
Salem, Oregon.
Jerry D. Harrell is stationed at Ft. Myer in
Arlington, Virginia, where he is a clerk typist.
Army Private Robert R. Helber recently
completed a course in Microwave from Fort
Monmouth, New Jersey.
Betty M. Leach sends news of her change
of name and address. She is now Mrs. Edwin
K. L. Langford, 1705 S. E. 139th, Portland.
Sally Anne Officer and Gerald P. Leake
were married on August 25 in Portland. They
have made their home in Portland.
Dr. and Mrs. William McChesney, Jr.
are the parents of a son, Steven Lee, born on
August 16, in San Francisco.
Daryl B. May is employed by Mick and
Anderson, Landscape Architects in Oakland,
California. His present address is 2335 Parker
St., Apt. 3, Berkeley 4, California.
Mr. and Mrs. Randolph E. Middleton
(Maureen Eve Rice) are serving the Golden
Congregational Church, Ryan, Iowa, as stu-
dent pastorates while Mr. Middleton finishes
his two and a half years at the University of
Dubuque Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa.
Nancy Louise Moore and William Robert
Warner were married on September 9 in Eu-
gene. The couple is at home at 973 Hilyard St.,
Eugene, and Mr. Warner is a senior in journal-
ism at the University. Mrs. Warner is employed
by United Air Lines.
September 15 was the date of the wedding
of Patricia Joan O'Brien and Arthur A. Van-
bellinghcn in Portland.
Second Lt. Alan H. Packer is assistant
transportation officer in the 11th Transportation
Terminal Command B in France. He arrived
in Europe last March and previously had been
stationed at Fort Eustis, Virginia.
30 Old Oregon
In a ceremony performed on August 24 in
Eugene, Marjorie Lyn Beard was married to
James Gordon Pengra. They are at home at
1160 Emerald St., Eugene.
It's a son, Jay Hjalmar, for Mr. and Mrs.
Hjalmar J. Rathe. The baby, born on August
22 in Portland, has an older sister, Karen. They
live at 3110 N. W. Luray Terrace, Portland.
A bride of September 7 was Yvonne Elaine
Schaefer whose marriage to David Lee Kirk-
land took place in Portland. The newlyweds
are living in Portland.
Mary Ellin Moore Stigum received a cer-
tificate in the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in
Business Administration from Radcliffe College
in June, 1956.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Taylor (Janet Wick)
welcomed the arrival of a son, Kent Edward,
last July. The Taylors live at 10235 10th Ave.,
Apt. 4, Inglewood, California.
Carolyn Marie Wiley became the bride of
William B. Nitzel on August 19 in a ceremony
performed on the campus of Lewis and Clark
College near Portland. The newlyweds have
made their home in San Francisco.
~ A wedding which took place on August
9 11 in Laguna Beach, California, was
that of Susan Edith Benedict ('58) and
William Clyde Baker, Jr.
At an afternoon ceremony performed on
August 25 in Milwaukie, Oregon, Ann Blatch-
ford became the bride of Frank M. Mallory.
Lt. Lee R. Boles is an instructor with an
advanced training unit at the Naval Air Station,
Corpus Christi, Texas.
Charmayne Lea Charley and Conrad El-
don Stewart were married on September 8 in
Eugene. They live at 97 W. 36th Ave., Eugene.
Beverly Jean Anderson ('58) became the
bride of Ronald Lee Christensen on August
26 in Eugene. The couple is living in Dubuque,
Iowa where the groom is attending Wartburg
Seminary.
Phyllis Carolyn Averill became the bride of
Robert Preston Doughton on September 1
in Portland. The newlyweds have made their
home in Portland.
Elizabeth Ann Frey and E. Blakney
Boggess were married on September 2 in Port-
land. The newlyweds are living in Sacramento,
California.
Barbara Joan Geyer and Elvin Duane
Reeves were married on September 8 in Port-
land. The newlyweds will be at home in Seattle,
Washington until January when the groom will
report for duty to Lackland Air Force Base
in Texas.
Brice Gregerson is with Robert Feyder,
Landscape Architect, Richmond, California.
Nancy Virginia Hagglund became the
bride of James A. Wood on September 9 in
Redmond, Oregon. They are at home in Ithaca,
New York where Mr. Wood is employed in the
speech department at Cornell University.
From Grants Pass, Oregon comes news of
the marriage August 11 of Hanna Sue Han-
sen and Peter Chase Harvey. The couple is at
home in Portland.
First Lt. Darrell E. Hawkins, who was
graduated from the University's Dental School
last June, recently completed a military medical
orientation course at the Army Medical Service
School, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Lt. Hawkins
has received orders assigning him to Fort Lewis,
Washington.
Harvey E. Henneman, Jr. is a sales
trainee for General Petroleum Corporation in
California. He and his wife (Bonnie Polley
December-January 1956-57
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Beverly Anne Jones and Lt. James Wil-
liam Ruggles were married on September 6 in
Portland. They live in Panama City, Florida
where Lt. Ruggles is stationed with the Air
Force.
Clark H. Lyman is attending Stanford
University and will graduate in political science
next June. He plans to enter the Stanford Law
School the following fall.
A wedding which took place on August 25
in Eugene, was that of Dixie Lee Miller and
Donald Dean Schwartz. They live at 1359
Pearl St., Apt. 6, Eugene.
Peggi Louise Roush became the bride of
James Joseph Mizner on September 15 in
Portland.
Susan Muncy Morris and Donald Reid
Holman were married on September 1 in Port-
land. The couple is living in Eugene while Mr.
Holman attends the University's Law School.
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis G. O'Neel are the
parents of a son, Michael Scott, born on Sep-
tember 5 in Portland. They live at 4307 N. E.
Flanders, Portland.
Dolores E. Paullin has won the silver
wings of a United Air Lines stewardess. She
now serves aboard mainliners flying in and out
of Boston.
Phyllis E. Pearson became the bride of
Lt. Andrew S. Berwick, Jr. on September 9
in Portland. The couple has their home in
Houston, Texas where the groom is stationed
with the Air Force.
Nancy Quinn became the bride of Richard
W. Hughes on September 15 in Portland. The
newlyweds are living in Portland where the
groom is with the U. S. National Bank and the
bride is engaged in public health work under
the University's School of Nursing program.
Ann Ritchey has joined the staff of Today s
Living, a section of the New York Herald
Tribune.
Sally J. Ryan has accepted a position as
social news editor of the Farmville Herald in
Farmville, Virginia.
First Lt. Gene Sargent has been gradu-
ated from the military medical orientation
course at the Army Medical Service School,
Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The course stressed
medical service in combat.
Sally Elfriede Scott and J. Jefferson
Davis were married on September 9 in Hood
River, Oregon. The couple is living in Eugene.
A wedding on September 8 in Portland was
that of Suzanne Silverthorne and Charles
Ernest Carlbom. The newlyweds are living
in Eugene.
Jean Singleton is now training for a posi-
tion as stewardess for American Air Lines.
Jean was one of three girls chosen from one
hundred applicants for the job.
The marriage of Nina Graber to Wesley J.
Stewart took place on August 30 in Ashland,
Oregon. The Stewarts have made their home in
Riverside, California.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee W. Tucker (Judith
Johnson) welcomed the arrival of a daughter,
born on September 14 in Eugene. They are
living at 1841 E. 15th Ave., Eugene.
Married on August 25 in Portland, were
Claudia Margaret Zorn and Newton Jasper
Thornton. The newlyweds are at home in Eu-
gene where the groom is a graduate student.
Adele Gerda Hedin and Jon Alan
/ Hall were married on September 8 in
Portland. They have made their home in San
Jose, California where the groom is attending
San Jose State College.
Roselyn Lee Welch became the bride of
Gerwin E. McFarland on September 8 in
Portland. The couple is at home in Eugene.
Elizaketh Ellen Church and Donald
Charles Ameling were married on Sep-
tember 16 in Oswego, Oregon. The couple is at
home in Portland where the groom is a third
year student at the University's Dental School.
Jo Ann Eggleston and Fred Albert Weber,
Jr. were married on September 6 in Eugene.
The couple is living in Mankato, Minnesota
where the groom is studying veterinary medi-
cine at Mankato State Teachers' College.
Sharon Anne Bowens became the
bride of Francis L. LaPierre on Sep-
tember 15 in Vancouver, Washington. The
couple is living in Portland while Mr. LaPierre
attends the University of Portland.
An event of September 8 in Portland was the
wedding of Mary Alice McCloskey and Wil-
liam Glynn Roberson.
A wedding which took place on September 8
in Portland was that of Jeanette M. Sather
and Frank Edward Baker. The couple lives in
Seattle, Washington.
Necrology
Frank B. Harlow '98, native of the Eugene
area, died on August 29 at the age of 79. Among
his survivors are his widow, L. Gertrude Stev-
ens; one grandchild, Shirley Jean Harlow; a
daughter-in-law, Florence B. Harlow; several
nieces and nephews.
Stuart A. McQueen '07, passed away on
August 22 in Portland. His home address was
7025 S. E. 17th Ave., Portland.
Mrs. Edith M. Woodcock Whittlesey '11
passed away in September of this year in Port-
land. She was a member of Gamma Phi Beta
sorority, the YWCA, the American Association
of University Women and the Piedmont Presby-
terian Church. Her husband, Frederick J.
Whittlesey '10, two sons, Frederick J. Whit-
tlesey, Jr. '37, and Peter C. Whittlesey, a sis-
ter and two brothers survive her.
Mrs. Minnie Bernice Jackson Koyl '14
of Ashland, Oregon passed away on August 25
on the Jackson family ranch north of Ashland.
Mrs. Koyl was active in many civic and fraternal
groups, including charter membership in the
Medford Rose Society, Alpha chapter of the Or-
der of Eastern Star, Southern Oregon Historical
Society, College Women's Club of the Rogue
River Valley, and the Jackson County Republi-
can Women's Club. She is survived by her hus-
band, Mr. Charles W. Koyl '11.
Word has been received of the death of Dr.
Richard Gwyn Watson who passed away in
Oakland, California in 1953. Dr. Watson re-
ceived his B.A. degree from Oregon in 1914 and
his M.D. from Columbia University. While at
the University he was a pole vaulter on the track
team and a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity.
Robert E. Will '43 of Portland was killed
in a two-car collision near Bend, Oregon last
September. Mr. Will recently passed the Oregon
State Bar examination and was on his way to be
sworn in as an Oregon attorney when the acci-
dent occurred. He is survived by a brother,
John, of The Dalles, Oregon.
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117 E. Broadway Phone DI 5-7141
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EUGENE INSURANCE AGENCY
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Sam Bronaugh Wm. J. Wheeler ('39)
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27 E. Broadway Ph. DI 4-6221
Eugene, Oregon
RETAIL
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BILL BAKER'S MEN'S WEAR
on the Campus of the University
881 13th Ave. East Ph. DI 5-7742
Eugene, Oregon
Manerud-Huntington Fuel Company
"Keep Warm & Happy"
SHY ('24) - SKEET ('22) - BILL
997 Oak St. Ph. DI 4-1211
Eugene, Oregon
INDUSTRIAL
The Central Heating Co.
Burner Oils ? General Construction
Asphalt Paving ? Excavating
865 Olive Street Phone DI 4-3281
Eugene, Oregon
GLENN A. BYRNES, ('33) Mgr.
Coast Cable Co.
Mill & Logging Supplies
lames Hubbard '37 Wm. E. Loud '43
Sterling Patterson '22
4430 Franklin Blvd. Ph. DI 5-0555
Eugene
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Eugene Travel Service
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Koke-Chapman Company
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Wedding Announcements and Invitations
73 E. Broadway Phone DI 5-0103 Eugene
TITLE ABSTRACT COMPANY
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EDWARD T. GARDNER, MGR.
858 Pearl St. DI 5-8701
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76 W. Broadway
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Intercommunication and
Public Address Systems
Radio and Television Service
Decorative Lighting
Rentals ? Sales ? Service
790 8th Ave. West Phone DI 5-6561
CHARLIE
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University Barber Shop
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LEN, OLE, BILL and CHARLIE
1239 Alder Eugene, Oregon
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ED DEKEATER '45, Mgr.
476 E. Broadway Ph. DI 4-5233
Motel Flagstone
"The West's Outstanding Motel"
1601 Franklin Blvd. Ph. DI 4-3324
Eugene
AUTOMOTIVE
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JACK C. DANNER ('32) Prop.
1509 Willamette St. Phone DI 4-8374
SPORTSMAN'S HEADQUARTERS
Jack and Ernie Danner '49
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390 W. 11th Eugene
Phone DI 4-3218
Geo. K. Lowe '31 G. David Lowe '55
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