Who Discovers the Discoverer ? "A professor can never better distinguish himself in his wor k than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers ar e among them, as comets amongst the stars ." CARL LINNAEU S Somewhere in this mighty land of ours, a gifted yout h is learning to see the light of tomorrow . Somewhere , in a college classroom or laboratory, a dedicated teach- er is gently leading genius toward goals of lofty attain- ment. Somewhere the mind of a future discoverer-i n science, engineering, government, or the arts-is bein g trained to transcend the commonplace . Our nation has been richly rewarded by the qualit y of thought nurtured in our colleges and universities . The caliber of learning generated there has been re- sponsible in no small part for our American way of life . To our college teachers, the selfless men and women who inspire our priceless human resources, we ow e more than we will ever be able to repay . Yet how are we actually treating these dedicate dpeople? Today low salaries are not only driving gifte d teachers into other fields, but are steadily reducing th e number of qualified people who choose college teachin g as a career . At the same time, classrooms are begin- ning to get overcrowded . In the face of this, colleg e applications are expected to double by 1967 . This is a severe threat to our system of education , to our way of life, even to our very existence as a nation . Our colleges need help-and they need it now ! KEEP IT ORION , HIGHER EDUCATION If you want to know more about what the college crisis means to you, and what you can d o to help, write for o free booklet to: HIGHER EDUCATION, Box 36, Times Square Station , New York 36, New York . Sponsored as a public service, in cooperation with the Council for Financial Aid to Education Published by th e UNIVERSITY OF OREGON ALUMNI ASSOCIATIO Member American Alumni Counci l April - May 1960 Vol. 39, No. 5 COVER Meet Cover Girl Betsy Lee, the campus queen who stands as a very lovely tribute to the new state o f Hawaii. Betsy's election as Homecoming Queen las fall was something of a landslide, for among fiv e candidates Betsy alone collected more than hal f the votes. For more Betsy and less talk, read "W e Call on Queen Betsy," on page 6 . Photo by Ke n Metzler . Portrait of a Tough Judge 2 We Call on Queen Betsy 6 When Surrounded by Books 7 But Don Stand in Their Way 9 News Briefs TO Old Oregon Roundup 11 Alumni in the Spotlight 15 News of the Classes 17 Banner Year in Sports 24 Through Green and Yellow Glasses 26 Letters 32 Editorial Staf f KEN METZLER 1 JAMES W . FROST 7 Editor Business Manage r PAT TREECE 0 BOB RICHARDSON 0 Assistant Editor Advertising Manage r JEANIE COMPAGNON 3 Editorial Assistan t Executive Committee Oregon Alumni Associatio n MILTON W . RICE . 7 JOE McKEOWN 9 President Vice-Presiden t JAMES W . FROST 7 WILLIS C . WARREN 0 Director Treasure r C. R . "Skeet" MANERUD 2 Past Presiden t WILLIAM DICK, '38 KENNETH POTTS, '32 GREER F . DREW, '36 CARVEL NELSON 0 JUDGE A . T . GOODWIN, '47 RICHARD E . WATSON, 9 DEAN CHARLES T . DUNCA N Faculty Representativ e Published bi-monthly (February, April, June, August, October, December) by the University o f Oregon Alumni Association . Editorial Offices- 1 10-M Erb Memorial Union, University of Oregon , Eugene. Printed at the University of Oregon Press . Subscription price E4 .00 per year. Old Orego n welcomes contributions, but assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts unless ac- companied by return postage . Signed articles do not necessarily reflect the opinions of th e University of Oregon or the U . of O . Afvmni Assoeiarion . Entered as second-class matter at th e post office at Eugene, Oregon, under act of March 3, 1879 . National advertising representatives : American Alumni Magazines, 100 Washington Square N ., New York, N .Y. (GRamacy 5-2039); West Coast (Alumni Magazine) Group-Robert K. Rupert, Alumni House, University of California , Berkeley 4, California (ASHbury 3-6163) . Editorial Board : Malcofm Bauer 5, Portland ; Rober t B. Frazier '48, Eugene ; William L . Mainwaring 7, Salem ; Arthur W . Priaulx '28, Portland ; Marguerite WRtwer Wright '47, Salem . Advertising Advisory Board : William D . MacGibbo n' 42, Richard G . Montgomery Jr. '52, J. Carvel Nelson '30, Richard J . Turner '42 and Willard E . Wilson 6, afl of Portland . CONTENTS From H Erb T HERE ' S A REFRESRING new spiri tamong Oregon alumni this spring . One can feel it, hear it, and see it . Mor e Oregon alumni than ever before are dis- covering the deep-down satisfaction tha t comes from active interest and participa- tion in the affairs of their beloved Alma Mater . In 1959 Oregon alumni-1,428 stron g -gave $43,000 through the annua l Alumni Giving campaign to the Develop- ment Fund so that Oregon can substan- tially step up scholarship, research an d facilities . That was a 50 .2 per cent in - crease in alumni contributions and i n total amount contributed an astoundin g jump of 76 per cent over 1958 . Orego n alumni are finding that they can identif y themselves more closely, whatever thei r individual interests, with their Univer- sity. It 's a new Oregon spirit--clearl y discernible by those close to the scene . Oreffon alumni are supplying super b leadership and support in importan t problems confronting the University : Such as the statewide Colleges for Ore- gon's Future campaign : 1960-70, whic h includes the all-important measure o n next November's ballot to increase th e bonding limits for self-liquidating build- ings ; working with local Oregon studen t committees in the contacting and inform- ing of high school students about th e academic offerings of the University ; forming new Oregon Alumni Clubs i n communities up and down the Pacifi c coast to better mobilize and stimulate tha t wonderful Oregon spirit . And busy Oregon alumni, are deepl y engrossed in comprehensive studies abou t the Development Fund and the Alumn i Association, seeking to relate alumni t o the University, and the University to it s alumni . Finally, a new Oregon spirit is detect - able among the graduates of the mos t recent years . Even the Class of 1960 - seniors on campus-are launching a claw-wide campaign to last throug h spring term that will probably result i n the greatest number of a senior class eve r to affiliate with the Alumni Association . Older, more mature Oregon alumn i will be coming back on campus fo r Alumni Day on June 11 . We hope tha t greater numbers than ever will gathe r for Commencement Weekend to enj oy th e faith and the dreams that they have kep t so long for dear old Oregon . JIM FROS T April-May 1960 'Mao, Edmund Y . Lee PORTRAI T OF A TOUGH JUDGE By Ron Abel l It is doubtful whether anyone who has not had experience aa domestic relations judge can realize the bitter feeling of impotence, the hopeless frustration, the burning outrage thasuch a judge feels as he acts out in the courtroom his part i what are too often tragic farces affecting the lives of children-Virgil Langtry, Oregon Circuit Court Judg e(in the Oregon Law Review, February, 1957 Item : A 12-year-old boy walked int o juvenile court, accompanied by his par- ents . He was small for his age and ha d freckles and tousled red hair . He looke d as though he might have stepped out o f an Our Gang comedy . "You look kind of scared, son," th e judge said . "What'd you do? " "I cut a kid, " the boy said . "What did you cut him with?" th e judge asked . "Oh, a knife, " was the offhand answer . Item : Four husky 16-year-olds amble d into juvenile court, obviously hostile . They had been apprehended for snatch- ing a purse . For two of them it wasn 't their first brush with the law . "Tell me about it," the judge said . He got no answer-just silence and suI - len antagonism . Item : Two boys, the oldest mayb e eight, walked into juvenile court, accom- panied by their mother . They had bee n caught stealing candy . "They only stole it so they could com e back to the juvenile home, " the mothe r said bitterly . "They thought it was lik e a party the last time they stayed here . You can bet I gave 'em a good whippin ' !" Item : A gangly 16-year-old boy walke d into juvenile court . He had long hair , pink cheeks, an unkempt appearance . He twitched and chewed nervously at hi s fingernails while his mother explaine d the circumstances : truancy, fights wit h his parents, an altercation with a younge r boy . "What's your trouble, son?" the judg e asked softly . The boy stood up and screamed, "I April-May 1960 can't stand to be locked up! " They come to juvenile court : delin- quent children, orphaned children, bellig- erent, battered and bewildered children , and they all need help . They come ever y day, every week, every month : a continu- ous twisted procession of youngsters i n trouble . The cases cited above, by no mean s extreme, were preliminary hearings tha t occurred one after the other within a 20-minute period on a recent Frida y morning at Multnomah County Juvenil e Court, Portland . Presiding at the court was Virgi l Langtry '34, judge of the Oregon Circui t Court and the state's most noted jurist o n juvenile and domestic relations matters . Langtry, an earnest, outspoken man , admits to "probably " having a toug h reputation as a judge . He estimates tha t during the last nine years he has hear d between 15,000 and 20,000 juvenile mat- ters and nearly 11,000 divorces . Langtry as much as anyone, knows th e story of broken homes and broken lives . One might think he would be dismaye d and heartsick at the parade of tragedy h e sees every day . On the contrary, he is sincerely grate- ful for the opportunity to .serve. "Lots o f people tell me they would n't have my jo b for anything, " Langtry said . "But now , more than any time in my life, I fee l useful-really useful ." A plaque hanging on the wall of Lang - try 's office bears this inscription : "All that is necessary for the triumph of evi l is that good men do nothing ." Whether this serves the judge as a motto is hard to say . Perhaps it 's a re- minder-to him or to his visitors . It is a n appropriate quotation in any event be - cause Virgil Langtry is a man who i s definitely doing something . T HE OVER-ALL PROBLEM of broke nhomes and juvenile delinquency i s frightening . It forms a tangled web i n which effect gets confused with cause, i n which legislation crosses with morality , in which sociology and psychology mee t with the law, and in which science ofte n turns into blind alleys . The picture, already big and ugly, isn 't made any prettier with its uneasy shad- ings of illegitimacy, mental illness, chil d support, foster homes, and dependenc y and welfare problems . Yet the situation exists and, in a sense , the juvenile and domestic relations court s are society 's dumping ground . Individ- uals get in a position where they are un- able to resolve their problems, but th e court is obligated to act . Often, especially in juvenile cases in- volving dependency, the court must ac t quickly. "A juvenile court has been calle d a refuge," Langtry said, "and often that' s just what it is . People are looking for a quick decision ; these things can 't wait ." The juvenile court at which Langtr y presides is held in the red-brick juvenil e detention home in Portland, in a roo m that resembles a small classroom . Th e court 's proceedings are informal . Langtry sits at a desk and an American flag stand s to one side of him . When the youngsters enter the cour t they are accompanied by a court coun- selor and often by their parents . A coun- selor, trained in social work, is assigne d to each youngster regardless of the dis- position of his case . Langtry is quick to point out that th e court is interested in helping youngsters , not in punishing them . According to law , 3 offenses committed by juveniles are no t crimes, but civil matters . Juvenile court s may abandon many criminal procedures . They may, as in Multnomah County, op- erate with counselors who make investi- gations and recommendations to th e judge in advance of hearings . The phi- losphy behind them is that the court i s acting in lieu of the parents . Langtry, in hearing a case, will almos t invariably explain to the offender that h e is offering help, not punishment . As h e goes through hearings on his busy sched- ule, the word "help " is repeated with a n almost hypnotic effect . "We have no thought of punishmen t for you ; that would be silly," he told on e boy . "But we do have to help you solv e your problems ." To another : "We want to help you s o you don 't have these problems ." He speaks a language that the kids ca n understand, sometimes using words righ t out of their own vocabulary ( "Golly," "You guys, " "Is that a go? ") . He i s kind, but firm, and h e's quick to point ou t that he means business when he sits o n the bench . Juveniles can be remanded to an adul t court, he explained, and in his capacit y as Circuit Court judge he can preside a t an adult court . He mentioned a case he heard recently , in which two 16-year-old boys were charged with armed robbery . "They wer e only 16, " he said, "but they were a s mature as adults and the court treate d them as adults ." They're now under a five-year sentence to the state peniten- tiary . Juvenile cases make up only a part o f Langtry's daily routine . In the afternoo n he hears divorce cases ; in these, too, th e future of the children involved is th e court 's paramount concern . But eve n without children, divorce cases can ge t entangled . "There's probably no court i n the world that hears more perjury than a divorce court," Langtry said . The divorce court is heard under mor e formal proceedings, and Langtry wear s his judge 's robes to hear cases . The court - room has a convenient, though unusual , semi-circular shape . A row of potte d flowers, grown in Langtry's own green - house, stands along the window almost a s a gentle reminder that this is his court - room. Langtry stressed that it is essential tha t the same judge sit in both the juvenil e and domestic relations court . Broke n homes and juvenile problems go hand i n glove and he often sees the parents in on e court and the children in another . The problems that end up in juvenile cour t can often be traced back to problems tha t brought a family to divorce court . A T 48, VIRGIL LANGTRY could pass fo ra decade younger . He has a short , active frame and black hair and dark , penetrating eyes . When he sits on th e bench his appearance at times suggest s that of a bulldog . But he has a sense o f humor, on or off the bench and the re - semblance vanishes with a quick grin . He is outspoken and not a man t o mince words . It 's not hard to see how h e acquired his "tough" reputation . "I thoroughly believe in making every - body face up to the rules of society, " Langtry said . "People can't run awa y from their problems . The only way yo u avoid problems is by meeting them an d solving them . " I'm an individual who probably go t tougher as time went on . Some judge s get softer ." Langtry was graduated from the Uni- versity of Oregon School of Law in 193 4 and went into private practice in Easter n Oregon. From 1941 to 1948, with a brea k for military service, he was a legal con- sultant for the League of Oregon Cities . He was a municipal traffic judge for a short time before going on the Circui t Court bench in the spring of 1951 . As a judge, he sees every day a parad e of shattered lives and ruptured homes . He doesn 't see hopelessness in the situa- tion, however, but rather the opportu- nity and obligation to do somethin g about it . By necessity, his personality is a blen d of philosophy and action, of calm an d indignation . He has great respect for th e law coupled with a desire to make i t better. He served last year as chairman of a governor's committee for adult parol e and probation . The committee made sug- gestions, subsequently adopted by th e Legislature, that will double the numbe r of parole officers within the next fou r years . He is currently serving as vice-chair- man of a governor's committee to stud y the mental health needs of Oregon . Men- tal illness is something that crops up tim e and again in the cases he hears . The committee is compiling extensiv e statistics in order to determine how Ore- gon compares with other states and i n order to make recommendations to th e Governor . The current trend in menta l health, Langtry said, is toward more out - patient work and away from large insti- tutions . Though the committee on menta l health is in the periphery of his spher e of activity, Langtry is currently servin g on another committee that strikes righ t at the heart of many of the problems tha t he sees every day . He is on a new committee formed b y the Board of Bar Governors to investi- gate the possible revision of state divorc e laws. This is a topic about which Langtr y is particularly outspoken and adamant . In an average week there are abou t 50 uncontested divorces in Multnoma h County, of which he hears about half . It takes an average of about five minute s to hear an uncontested divorce . He feel s that there is a great need to slow up th e whole process . In an article in the Oregon Law Review in February, 1957, Langtry said that "the broken home is a fertile field in whic h child delinquency grows ." He said further that, though their chil- dren represent a small portion of all chil- dren, about one-half of all children i n trouble with the law come from parent s who have been divorced two or mor e times . "Until society can reach into and tr y to remedy the troubles coming from un- stable and insecure homes, there is n o great hope for any substantial reductio n in the mounting crime rate among chil- dren ." First, Langtry said, there is a need t o do away with the adversary type of di- vorce proceeding . This is not in the bes t interest of the children involved since i t aligns the parents against each other . "It's also important that some concilia- tion power be attached to the court . Th e couples who need counseling the mos t are usually the ones that won't take ad - vantage of it ." The current condition of marital coun- seling in Oregon, he said, is overloaded . "It's something of an idle gesture to sen d couples for counseling . It might tak e them three month to get in, whereas thei r problems are at a focal point already ." He feels there is a further necessity fo r a "family court " type of arrangemen t and, as in Multnomah County, that th e same judge sit in both the divorce an d juvenile courts . If adopted, these reforms would b e expensive and for that reason some publi c antipathy towards them might be ex- pected. But, Langtry asked, is n't it muc h more expensive to take care of the prod- ucts of the broken home ? EXPENSE ALSO TOUCHES another topi cabout which Langtry is very con - 4 Old Oregon cerned . He has recently had some public- ity in the Portland newspapers for hi s criticism of some of the policies of th e state's welfare services . "The welfare policy is apparently to b e interested only in . need, and not in mor- als," he said emphatically . He cited a case he heard recentl y which invo l v - ing welfare aid . She had 1 .4 children , including three boys in a correctional in- stitution and a I5-year-old daughter wh o already had an illegitimate child . She had nine children still at home , the last four of whom where fathered b y a married neighbor who has five othe r children in his own home . "The welfare people knew about thi s case," Langtry said, "and they didn 't d o anything about it . They were giving he r an increase in money with each child - like an award ! "I finally got the case, and believe me , I did something . I made the childre n wards of the court and I issued an orde r restraining the neighbor from seeing tha t woman . Adultery is against the law an d while the statutes aren 't often enforced , they 're on the book . If he violates th e restraining order he can be in plenty o f trouble ." He explained that the woman was get- ting $260 or $270 a month in welfar e payments and that it was costing $320 a month for the three boys who were insti- tutionalized . The 15-year-old daughte r and her illegitimate child were alread y on welfare and there was still a whol e family growing up . "I estimate that that one family durin g the next 50 years will cost the taxpayer s between one and two million dollars, " Langtry said . "How long do you thin k we as a people can survive with expense s like that? " Another case he heard recently in- volved a 21-year-old girl who already ha s five illegitimate children . They were al l born with congenital syphilis and wil l need institutionalization . "That one girl can well cost a millio n dollars before she's through," Langtr y said . He pointed out that a good majorit y of child dependency cases involve fam- ilies on welfare and that close to half o f all the juvenile cases involve welfar e families . Langtry recently had an unusual ses- sion in court, when 24 welfare cases wer e heard in the same day . The 24 mother s involved had 120 children, with the aver - age maximum age being less than 10 . Of the 120 children, 95 were born ou t of wedlock, from 77 different fathers ! "Welfare funds were supporting all o f April-May 1960 them, " Langtry said, "but welfare didn 't petition the court to act in any of th e cases. Their philosophy apparently is tha t the immoral activity of parents is no t detrimental to the children ." He agreed that there are differences i n philosophy between the schools of soci- ology and of law, and that there is a nee d for both schools . But, he said, in case s like those, which so blatantly violate th e morals of society, the court should b e notified and not have to wait until th e case somehow comes to its attention . L ANGTRY IS KEPT busy : Court, Com-mittees, speeches, television appear- ances. He reads the newspapers and news - magazines and professional publications , and "that's about all I have time for . I don 't read much fiction, and while I stil l do some philosophical reading, most o f it has been in the past ." But when he was fresh out of law school, during the depression, few client s came through the door and he began col- lecting quotations from writings an d speeches . The collection has grown ove r the years and it now fills two scrapbook s which he . keeps in a bookcase near hi s desk . The hooks are well thumbed throug h and they bear quotations from jurists , from statesmen, from writers . from presi - dents and philosophers . Langtry opene d one of the books to a page that had th e prologue to Saroyan 's play, The Time o f Your Life. One sentence seemed to jump out o f the page, though he didn 't specificall y point to it . It said "Remember that ever y man is a variation of yourself ." That perhaps is a necessary bit of phi- losophy for a judge like Virgil Langtry . It certainly doesn 't make his job an y easier, but it helps to draw the lines o f battle . The Langtry personality : a blend of cairn and indignation . . . 5 Homecoming Queen Betsy Le e We call on Queen Betsy S TUDENTS AT THE University of Orego n are forever electing queens, sweet - hearts, moonlight girls and countles s other examples of campus beauty . Bu t the reigning monarch through the year i s always the Homecoming queen, at leas t until displaced by the Junior Weeken d queen the following spring . This year 's Homecoming queen is dif- ferent . Last November, when student s went to the election polls to choose fro m among five candidates for queen, th e winner by a landslide majority was a slim, brown-eyed beauty of Chinese an- cestry named Betsy Adrienne Melelan i Lee-or just "Betsy Lee " for short . She's from Hawaii . Betsy is the first to admit that bein g "different " was to her advantage in th e Homecoming competition . "I'm not exactly a blonde," she say s frankly . Indeed, except for being a lovel y girl, she fails to fit the "campus queen " stereotype at all . This must have delighte d many students, even those who vie w campus queen contests with a great dea l of cynicism . Among the five contenders , Betsy alone polled more than half of th e 1,700 votes cast . Betsy attributes the win to "politics "- and to being different . "It was easy to remember me," sh e explains, and indeed therein lies a clue t o the phenomenon by which Betsy becam e the second Hawaiian girl to achieve a high ranking queen position (Madelen e Lung was elected Junior Weekend quee n in 1956) . In an era when campus queen s are virtually a dime a dozen, being differ - ent and having a catchy name like "Betsy Lee," and having a rip-snorting politica l campaign behind you (largely throug h Delta Tau Delta fraternity, her own sor- ority, and other groups) means you coul d hardly lose . Betsy's concept of "politics, " incidentally, does not include smoke - filled rooms, but does include a breathles s whirl of flying speeches, campaign pos- ters, and promotional events, all directe d by a Deli campaign manager . "I didn 't make any speeches myself, " Betsy admits . "I didn 't have anything t o say." This obviously is an unfair self - appraisal, for Betsy has a great deal t o say if someone will just ask the questions . Ask her about her homeland, Hawaii : "Getting terribly touristy, " she says . "Tourists are fine if you want to rui n your state . Anyone who comes to Hawai i should stop only briefly at Honolulu an d then go on to the other islands ." Born and raised in Honolulu, Betsy i s one of some 150 Hawaiian students o n the Oregon campus . She is majoring i n interior design and describes herself a s "just a typical girl " with a fondness fo r painting, drawing, dancing, music an d travel . Does she have any plans fo r marriage ? "How do I know what 's going to hap - pen? " she says . "Sure I expect to ge t married . After all, I'm a girl ." Although encouraged by her parents t o attend college in the East (she has a sister at Radcliffe), Betsy chose Orego n because of the reputation of its architec- tural school and because it's closer t o Hawaii . "I found it very easy to make friends here," she says . "I was a little bit afrai d at first but I was surprised at how wel l I was received ." Betsy is unique in another way-a s the only Hawaiian girl at Oregon who i s currently a member of a sorority (she's a member of Delta Zeta) . As a beginning freshman, Bets y dropped out of rush after one day . Sh e was asked back to three out of 15 houses , which she thought was a pretty poor aver - age. "I wanted some time to think i t over," she says . The next spring sh e pledged Delta Zeta . Betsy says she woul d like to see a lot more Hawaiian girl s pledge sororities, but she makes it plai n that she doesn't consider herself any sor t of pioneer or trail blazer . "I joined the sorority strictly for sel- fish reasons, " she says . "I knew it woul d be good experience and I knew there 's so much to enjoy at college outside o f books." Betsy is a girl who enjoys life, who ha s a ready smile, often accompanied by a mischievous gleam in her eye, and a quick laugh . Unlike most traditional "campus queens " who, by their very numbers, ar e relegated to a brief flurry of attentio n and then left to admire their newspape r clippings, Betsy retains a bit of Home - coming queen majesty . Even now, half a year later, she feels a sense of responsibil - ity about having been elected and a n obligation to conduct herself accordingly . And even now there 's still no mistakin g her as she walks down a campus side - walk : There goes Betsy Lee, Homecom- ing queen . 6 Old Oregon whe n surrounde d by book s A librarian tell s how to separate th e trees from the fore 4 By Carl Hintz University Libraria n W HEN OLD OREGON asked me to writ ea short article on some of th e hooks which I had read recently I im- mediately thought of some of the readin g studies which have been made along th e lines of "Who reads what? " The readin g patterns of selected groups of high schoo l and college students, faculty member s and prisoners, hospital patients and th e farm population, to name only a fe w special classes, have been reviewed a t certain points in time . Sometimes cover - age has been on a geographical basis t o show what people in Madras, India, o r the state of Louisiana are reading . I t must be remembered that studies of thi s nature, as far as specific book titles ar e concerned, are samples in time, so wit h the exception of certain perennial favor - April-May 1960 ites or classics, 1957 's The Hidden Per- suaders may be replaced shortly b y 1959's The Status Seekers . In some cases , general trends may be identified . Among school children, interest in animal . ad - venture and sports stories, for example , corresponds with age level . Hospital pa- tients prefer books of a positive natur e which will cheer and inspire rather tha n those which create a negative or dissatis- fied feeling . Various methods have been employe d in making surveys including analysis o f library use records, asking people to re - call what they have read recently, or re- quiring them to keep a reading diary fo r a certain period of time . All of these ca n be questioned for reliability because a book borrowed from a library is not necessarily a book read and there ar e other sources of supply . Similarly, mem- ory does not always provide complet e recall and when it comes to keeping a diary there is always the possibility th e subject will cheat . This, however, is not intended to be a serious study but merely a record of som e of the books read within the past fe w months . In this respect, there is no reaso n why the selections should differ particu- larly from those made by anyone else be - cause librarians, like other people, rea d what they are interested in and wha t they have access to . It must be admitte d that librarians do have access to book s and this might be a significant differenc e because it has been demonstrated in var- ious studies that easy availability is th e 7 most important single factor in reading . It is a comforting feeling to know that i f Picasso 's painting comes into the conver- sation at an informal gathering tonigh t it will be possible to pick up somethin g about him tomorrow with a minimum o f trouble . I have been interested in trying t o identify the specific stimuli which cause d me to read certain books . Professiona l literature-books dealing with librar y history, organization, personnel, services , etc.-have been excluded because thes e are a must in the same sense that profes- sional reading is necessary for any prac- titioner . There is this difference though . A librarian should be something of a n encyclopedist so, in a sense, all readin g is grist for the librarian's mill . The mor e books he knows at first hand, the better . The first stimulus which I would lik e to relate to is that of personal experience . In the fall of 1958 I was fortunate enoug h to spend a month in Nepal in connectio n with an official assignment for the Uni- versity of Oregon . This experienc e opened a new and specific field of inter- est which has been reflected in readin g done. Oddly enough, two books of gen- eral interest and with a Nepalese settin g have been published within the past year . The first of these, The Mountain is Young, by Han Su Yin, is a rather medi- ocre novel as far as plot and characteriza - tion are concerned . It has a strong lov e interest which gets unnecessarily lurid a t times . The descriptive background i s well done and most of the characters ar e based on recognizable individuals i n Kathmandu . It is fun to know that Vas- sili, Manager of the Royal Hotel is reall y Boris, proprietor of the Hotel Royal . I t is even more fun after having met Boris . Ericka Leuchtag's Erika and the Kin g is the story of a German physiotherapis t who went to Nepal in 1949 to treat mem- bers of the royal family . According to he r Carl Hintz own account, the author became some - thing of a confidante to the king . She im- plies that she played an important par t in the events leading up to the king 's flight to India and the subsequent over - throw of the Rana autocracy . Again, thi s is a book which has much more meanin g to the reader with some background . I t is very possible that neither of these tw o books would have been read had it no t been for the experience of a personal visi t to Nepal . From Nepal to India is a short step b y air . One of the first books I read o n getting back to Eugene was Alexande r Campbell 's Heart of India . Campbell is a journalist and he gives a good factual ac - count of what he saw and learned durin g the course of his assignment in India . It reads well and one of the things whic h I liked about it was that his impression s and descriptions agreed very much wit h mine. One reviewer criticized Campbel l's hook as lacking in understanding . Thi s may be true, and my seven days in Indi a don 't qualify me as an expert . Neverthe- less I believe it is a good introduction t o this most interesting country and it s people . Another book read shortly there - after was Ved Parkash Mehta's Face t o Face. This is the autobiography of a n Indian, totally blind from birth . As a young man he gained entrance to th e Arkansas School for the Blind, was late r graduated from Pomona College, and re- ceived a scholarship to Oxford . This stor y of his childhood in India with its descrip - tions of family life, the adjustment t o another country and culture, is obviousl y that of a sensitive, brilliant, and observ- ant individual . Rounding out the reading resultin g from this overseas tour were Lederer an d Burdick's The Ugly American and Phili p Wylie's The Innocent Ambassadors . The Ugly American might have been rea d anyway because it has been widely dis- cussed, enthusiastically praised, and jus t as enthusiastically criticized . It seems t o me that it is well worth reading becaus e it does focus attention on a proble m which is of great concern ; namely, wha t kind of impact is the United States mak- ing through its representatives abroad - particularly in Southeast Asia . Wylie 's book is an "account of a trip around th e world and a compendium of data no t found in standard guidebooks ." His de- scriptions of what he and Mrs . Wylie sa w and experienced on their tour are bot h interesting and delightful . Unfortunate- ly, the descriptions are frequently punc- tuated by lengthy discourses on any topi c which comes to the author 's mind . Th e end result is a mixture of quite lively an d accurate reporting coupled with a goodl y dose of preaching a la Wylie. Some books get read because they ar e widely reviewed in the mass media an d because they are talked about . Thre e titles occur to me in this connection - Grace Metalious ' Peyton Place, Robert Traver 's Anatomy of a Murder, an d Vance Packard's The Status Seekers. Pey- ton Place, of course, was first publishe d and talked about some three years ag o but I didn't get around to looking at i t until a few weeks ago . I 'm sure I woul d have been just as well off if I had neve r seen it . Robert Traver, the author o f Anatomy of a Murder, is really Joh n Donaldson Voelker, a justice of the Mich - igan Supreme Court and a former distric t attorney . His novel, built around a tria l for murder, makes fascinating readin g because of the penetrating insights int o the lives of the chief protagonists as wel l as the subtle maneuverings of the law . The author is a skillful writer and hi s legal qualifications are beyond question . The Status Seekers is currently in th e headlines . It is concerned with clas s structure in the United States . Vanc e Packard, the author, feels that we are de- luding ourselves when we claim that clas s distinctions are lessening . True, some o f the older symbols of status are no longe r as effective as formerly because the gen- eral increase in wealth has tended t o make possession of these symbols possibl e for many people . But other measures o f status exist and new ones are constantl y being invented, in some cases with th e able assistance of the mass merchan- disers . Regardless of the degree of agree- ment which the reader may have wit h the theses presented, this is an important , thought-provoking, and very readabl e book. A third stimulus affecting choice migh t be termed incidental . An example of thi s is found in reading which results fro m seeing a movie or even a television pro - gram . A few months ago I saw The Naked Mafa . This is a very colorful Italian pro- duction based on the life of Francisc o Goya y Lucientos and his romance wit h Continued on Page 2 5 8 Old Oregon S UBTRACT 1925 FROM 1960. You get 35.Thirty-five years at Oregon, almos t half of the University 's 84 years . I sit in my office, first floor of Friendl y Hall, the most northwest corner . In th e distance I see the tall, stiff columns o f Johnson Hall, named for President On e and his 17 years of service . There 's th e bronze and bearded Pioneer Father al - ways striding southward, but never get- ting an inch nearer 13th Street . Beyon d him the blunt facade of Fenton Hall, con - verted from the old Library to a nurser y for legal minds, and named for Presiden t Two (nine years) . "Wonder why- " (Phone rings . Student wants to know wh y her grade in Shakespeare isn 't an A ? How should I know? I just give th e course ; she takes it . Anyway, I wonde r what my grade is .) "Wonder why ther e is still no building named for Presiden t Three, Prince Lucien P . Campbell, th e record-holder, with 23 years . After all , I had already started westward on th e Oregon Trail prior to his death in th e summer of 1925, so, technically, I hav e marched under six of our nine presi- dents." But why go on wondering? I alway s tell my students-don 't sit there wonder- ing. Go and get the facts . Get an answer . Hoof it over to the new Library ; dow n in the catacombs ; stacks of bound Ore - ,- gon Daily Emeralds . What was it w e Student theme gets careful reading enroute to committee meeting . Continued on Page 2 8 April-May 1960 9 News Brief s A lightning-quick rundown on what new and important on the campu Tribute to a senator "From his days as a studen t at this University, through his t ault career as a writer, a state legislator, and United States Senator, Richard Neu- berger will be remembered always as a man wholly an d actively engaged with the problems and events of his tim e and of his community . It was his greatest pride to b e permitted to serve, in the Senate of the United States, hi s native state of Oregon which he knew and loved so well ." Senator Neuberger's death came only a day before a fac- ulty meeting at the University . The memorial quoted here - with was written by Hans Linde, associate professor of law , and read to the faculty by Dean Orlando Hollis . "In thi s service, " it continues, "he consistently devoted his atten- tion to values beyond the daily contest over immediat e material issues : the preservation of man 's natural environ- ment, of which he regarded Oregon as the most blesse d example ; the fight for knowledge against disease ; cando r and honesty in the processes of government ; and th e preservation of individual liberty in America and in th e world. In his special concern for education for citizenship , Senator Neuberger gave many scholarships to students i n Oregon colleges, including this University ; he establishe d an internship program on his Senate staff for young grad- uates from this state ; he often took time to visit the Univer- sity to share his experience with students in government , journalism, and other fields ; and he spoke with pride o f the high national records of the graduates of Oregon 's schools and colleges ." Long route to the presidency . Approximatel y 60 names of leading educators have been dropped into th e hopper as candidates to succeed President O . Meredit h Wilson who leaves to assume the presidency of the Univer- sity of Minnesota in June . A committee of faculty member s is studying and discussing the prospects, but don't hol d your breath for an announcement . Consensus is that it' s going to take awhile . No announcement has been made a t this writing as to the acting president during the interim . How to ease your tensions . The procedure fo r relaxation was demonstrated on agray, drizzly day in th e midst of winter term by a group of coeds suffering fro m dormitory fever . Dressed "grubby, " they plastered eac h other with huge gobs of slimy mud until everyone wa s thoroughly coated, then headed happily for the showers . Sheer pleasure, they reported . Educational hands across the border . As March began President Wilson returned to his desk from a four and a half week observation of Latin American edu- cation . Tanned and unruffled by the mountains of wor k piled up on his desk, the president said he had been in Lati n America "to learn" not give advice, pointed out that an y generalizations he might make about schools there wer e only that . He had found, however, that many were "a series of professional schools resting upon a high school base, " noted that Columbia 's University of the Andes and Chile 's University of Concepcion were striving for more . The pres- ident was most emphatic on the question of aid . It woul d be much more compatible to the Latin American student i f it came through American educational sources rather tha n governmental officials . Fears of American dominatio n would vanish only if aid were placed on "a university-to- university basis ." I85,OOO-gallons The new me n's swimming pool wa s dedicated in March . Named for the late Ralph Leighton , second dean of the Health and Physical Education School , it holds 185 thousand gallons of water, is 42 feet wide, 7 5 feet long, has a capacity with its deck to accommodate 8 4 swimmers . Completed in June, 1959, the pool cost $52 5 thousand with its bleachers, scoreboard and other equip- ment necessary to organized swimming . The sport whic h had been discontinued at the University from 1956-58 be - cause of the bad condition of the old pool is once again i n full swing, the weekend of dedication also witnessing swim - ming's Northern Division Championship meet held o n campus . Fire at PiKA . Loss estimated at $10,000 was suffere d by the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house during a winte r term fire . It was the fourth fraternity on campus to have a fire since last summer . The others : Sigma Nu (destroyed ) and Alpha Tau Omega and Delta Tau Delta (damaged) . Paying off a debt . "We publicly acknowledge ou r debt to Orlando John Hollis . . . for the example he ha s set before us . . . that we may be best prepared to fulfil l our obligation to society ." With the presentation of thi s proclamation to Hollis the students of the Law Schoo l turned an assembly on "The Role of the Law School a s Preparation for Service to a Profession" into an occasio n to honor their dean . Presented with the scroll and tw o books, Hollis '26 was praised for his 30 years of service t o the school, 15 of it as dean, by students and Circuit Judg e A. T. Goodwin who the dean thought was there to give th e service speech . The late Senator Neuberger '35 is shown in recen t photo of former U .O. Emerald executives . With hi m are (from left to right) Larry Hobart '52, Charle s H. Mitchelmore '57 and Lloyd Tupling '39 . 10 Old Oregon Old Oregon Roundu p The latest word from Oregon on discrimination, cycling fad, skydivers and a testimonial on advertisin Yasumasa Kuroda, grad in political sci- ence, figured 'in . discrimination issue. ters of all 16 Oregon sororities askin g whether their respective charters hav e had exclusion clauses . Of nine that re - plied, none had racial discriminatio n clauses, but one charter, that of Alph a Delta Pi, contained a clause stating tha t its members must be Christians . As the term drew to a close and stu- dents delved into final examinations, th e focal point of the issue seemed not s o much whether discrimination should g o (all agreed that it should), but on wh o should move against the remainin g clauses. The fraternities insisted tha t Discrimination dilemm a R ACIAL AND RELIGIOUS discrimination ,always a touchy subject, flared int o open controvery during winter term . Be - fore any signs of calm were visible, th e Student Senate, the Interfraternity Coun- cil, the Emerald (via articles and letters) , the administration, student body-an d even the State Board of Education ha d gotten into the act . In addition to letters, countless indi- vidual arguments and a student debate i n the Student Senate, the action include d the following developments : be The State Board of Higher Educatio n which voted down in 1959 a bill to "with- draw recognition" from living group s that practice discrimination, had re - quested University President O . M . Wil- son to make a report of the discrimina- tion situation on this campus ( a simila r directive was also issued to OSC Presi- dent Strand) . - The Student Senate unanimousl y passed a motion expressing disapprova l of discriminatory clauses in the charter s of living groups . However, a motion pre- sented by Yasumasa Kuroda, graduat e student representative, calling for com- pulsory abandonment of race and relig- ious clauses by all fraternities by 196 5 was not acted upon . Instead a committe e was established to make a study . "The Senate is not aware of the rea l situation and does not really have th e power to remove a fraternity from th e campus, " says Jud Taylor, president o f the Interfraternity Council . Taylor sai d the fraternity system at Oregon is "defi- nitely against discriminatory clauses ." pointing out that of the 21 fraternities a t Oregon, only four had such clauses . Five clauses had been removed since the 1956 - 7 school year, and Taylor said he felt th e rest would eventually be withdrawn . The sororities organization, Panhel- lenic, maintained that none of the U O sororities had discriminatory clauses an d therefore remained quiet . Dean o f Women Golda Wickham doublechecke d by sending letters to national headquar - April-May 1960 their housecleaning was their private af- fair ; another group of which Yas Kurod a was a spokesman . felt that the issu e should he dealt with by all students, sinc e the living organizations received th e recognition of the University . And as far as University officialdo m was concerned, the issue was "still unde r investigation ." We tell facts, namename s O NE DOES NOT pick up his alumn imagazine expecting to find therei n a startling expose of administrative prac- tices at his old Alma Mater . However, i t is with a burning sense of obligation an d duty to the finest traditions of highe r education that we must respectfully dra w the public 's attention to a situation upo n which the press and the public have re - trained silent far too long . As one walks into the main entranc e of the Erb Memorial Student Union an d treks up that famous marble stairway h e is greeted, upon arriving at the secon d floor gallery, by a portrait of Donald M . Erb . Mr. Erb was president of the Univer - sity of Oregon from 1938 until his deat h in 1943 . The building is named in his honor . Here, quite obviously, is a portrait o f a strong personality, unyielding in th e pursuit of the finest ideals in higher edu- cation . This is a point confirmed b y reading the plaque beneath, which quote s Mr . Erb thus : "Do not be tolerant of mis- representation, of superficiality, of th e On Campus & Quotabl e Kenneth MacGowan, author and drama critic, addressing a Universit y assembly : "1'm sure the motion picture theater will never disappear becaus e people like to go out to escape (ram the home . . .especially the young, an d especially when they go out in heterosexual pairs ." Yasumasa Kuroda, graduate student from Japan, who stirred up somethin g of a fuss when he brought up the fraternity-sorority racial discrimination issu e in the Student Senate : "The University becomes dull and useless when the stu- dents cease to make a fuss about something ." 11 parading of false issues as though the y were real issues . Tolerance does not ex - tend to intellectual dishonesty or inepti- tude ." Beneath this plaque is a planter bo x containing an attractive arrangement o f what appear to be growing plants . Onl y the closest examination reveals that the y are (brace yourself) artificial ! Artificial flowers throughout the whol e building? The explanation of Studen t Union Director Si Ellingson when w e cornered him : "My only comment is tha t it would cost $800 a year to replace th e plants if they were real ." Lawyer at loss for word s J IM LIGHT, president of the Law Schoo lstudent body, noted upon occasion o f a surprise assembly honoring Dean Or- lando Hollis, "Dean Hollis, this is th e first time we have seen you at a loss fo r words." Only temporarily stunned, Holli s recovered enough to pronounce : "One learns day by day . Today one has learne d never to turn over an assembly to the la w school president ." Advertising works for yo u CAN You EVER remember having 2 3girls call you for a house danc e date? Rich Cass, a senior Phi Delta Thet a at the University, can make that claim , but then he had something you probabl y didn 't to help him the following Emer- ald classified : SERVICE S F Prat men available for hous e o, dance date January 16 . No t particular . Phone Rich Cass , ext. CM, "YPING-DI 5-7106 Desperate? Well, more of a joke say s Rich . "The guys were kidding me be - cause I 'm a senior and had never gone t o a girl's house dance" (note the pas t tense) . "One of my fraternity brother s secretly put this ad in the paper for a joke ." Twenty-three girls called making vari- ous offers, among them to furnish th e car for dates and a proposal that Ric h act as the chaperon for a sorority doings . The only one Rich believes truly serious , however, was a girl calling to get a dat e for her friend . Which one did Rich take? Ironically , none of them . A friend fixed him up . It's nice to have friends . Like sleeping on a clou d T HE ART-or call it a craze if you wil l-of "skydiving " is not sweeping th e campus, nor even taking it by storm . At the University of Oregon, the slim toehol d of two practicing skydivers has now bee n narrowed to one with the graduation o f Dave Slagle '60 last December . If you can stand the suspense an d have nerves of steel, let us go aloft wit h the University 's remaining skydiver , Troy Cook '62 . Just call him Ted . You are flying in a Cessna 140A at a n altitude of 3,500 feet and . having determ- ined the direction and velocity of th e wind, you ask your pilot to put you int o the position from which you hope to hi t a landmark, the airport or perhaps a large field, below . When you reach this position, yo u step out into space, and then the fun be - gins. During the first second you fall a mere 16 feet . You are attempting to as- sume a "spread eagle " position face down, arms outstretched, belly jutte d forward . In two seconds you have fallen 64 feet . You are steadily gaining speed, until i n 5.4 seconds you have reached "termina l velocity" (183 feet per second, or abou t 125 miles per hour) and you hav e dropped 465 feet . You are now undergoing a delightfu l sensation, if you can just believe it . Yo u have lost all sense of falling, even thoug h you are vaguely aware that the groun d is coming up slowly . It 's just like sleep- ing on a cloud . It's a shame to have to end it all b y pulling the ripcord . But if you are a pru- dent man you will after about 10 second s pull the cord, and then undergo abou t three seconds of agony, wondering i f your parachute is going to open . For i f something like a parachute doesn't brea k your fall, you have just 12 seconds left . (-[f this were a TV script, this woul d Ted Cook, preparing to go aloft for sky - diving venture, gets assist from pilot . he a wonderful place for a commercial .) The parachute streams out behind you , blossoms out, and brings you back to re- ality with something of a jolt . If it does- n't, you still have about five seconds i n which to make up your mind whether t o pull the cord on the reserve chute whic h you have thoughtfully carried along . "Five seconds may not seem very long, " Ted Cook tells us, `"but it 's plenty of tim e as long as you keep a clear head ." You are now comfortably floating t o earth . concerned only with the means o f landing on the ground . It can be as ligh t as a feather or seemingly as hard as hit- ting a diesel locomotive, depending o n wind and other conditions . Since you ar e a mere beginner, we 'll let you down easy . Always remember to collapse, or do a sor t of back-over-flip, when you hit th e groun d All this we learned over a cup of coffe e without ever having left the ground . Ted Cook, a serious young man who plans t o study sociology and who spends his sum- mers as a Forest Service "smoke jump- er," thinks skydiving is a great sport . He 'd like to see a University of Orego n skydiving club started . Russia, he point s out, is far ahead of the United States i n its skydiving program . Return of a golden er a The following is an editorial appearing originally in the Eugene Register-Guard . A FTER A 10-YEAR dry spell, a few luck yUniversity of Oregon students ma y again savor the delights of living i n boarding houses . The dormitories are s o crowded that the University has to impos e a new set of rules squeezing some student s out . There was a time when the boardin g house was important on the campus . And may that time come again . Students wh o didn 't live in fraternities or in coopera- tives had a choice between the dorm an d the boarding house . The only men 's dor- mitory at the time was John Straub Hal l and it had all the homey atmosphere of a medieval castle . The prudent chose th e boarding house, there to be the payin g guest of some nice old lady whose hus- band had long since passed on . The privilege of living in the mor e select establishments was not to be take n lightly . A chance to move into Stansby 's Stables, on Alder around the corner fro m Woody's Oregana Cafe, was equivalent t o being pledged to the snootiest fraternit y on the campus or to the Arlington Club . Morale was high, life was good and th e 12 Old Oregon Charles T . Duncan, dean of Journalis m School, considers himself a "fair-weathe r cyclist," seldom braves the winter storms . James Kezer, associate professor of bi- ology, has ridden many miles on bikes since newspaper boy days in high school . year was perpetual spring . Scholarshi p flourished . So did conversation . So di d the independent spirit that scorned pad- dles and rituals and imposed socia l schedules . Then the blow fell . After the war Au- thority moved in . Freedom loving schol . ars were herded into dormitories wher e they had to elect presidents and to par- ticipate in things . Something precious , the flame of freedom, vanished from th e campus . But now it may come back, to th e greater glory of the commonwealth, t o the advantage of scholarship and culture , and to the economic salvation of thos e nice old ladies . Campus an wheel s SOME FADS SEEM to run in cycles . In amanner of speaking this is true of th e latest fad at the University of Oregon , bicycle riding . Campus pedestrians ar e stepping aside to make way for thes e newcomers, but this is probably don e with their own safety in mind . Bicycles aren't completely new at Ore- gon, but they were previously used onl y by certain professors or by occasiona l students who rented them for recreation , but never rode them to class . At presen t the faculty hasn 't given up serious bi- cycle riding, but for some reason th e students have joined them . Until three years ago student cycler s were few and far between ; but last year , especially during spring term, bicycle s started literally to roll into the campu s by the dozens . Crowds of bicycles gathe r in front of the halls during class hours . In certain places the grass is marked u p with tire tracks and footprints wher e either cyclers were forced off the walk s to avoid running into pedestrians o r pedestrians were forced off the walks t o avoid collision with the cyclers . It 's a new form of the teenage game of "chick - en," where two cars race towards eac h other to see who can wait the longest be - fore swerving out of the way . I have personally been a great bicycl e fan ever since last spring when I bough t my own . In fact, even before then I ha d been getting rides with my boy frien d on his bicycle until the law caught u p with us one night and gave us a ticke t for riding double . This was very sad sinc e one of my best skills was to balance o n the seat of his bicycle without usin g hands while he stood up and pedaled . We even came home from a formal dance o n his bike once . At present I'm working on a few spe - .4pril-May 1960 cial tricks . Riding without hands is muc h too simple . The real test is to ride wit h your hands crossed so that your righ t hand is on the left side of the handlebar s and your left hand is on the right side . It's like learning to ride all over again, onl y worse. We certainly can 't overlook the pro- fessors at the University of Oregon wh o have been riding bicycles on campus fo r years. It's a familiar sight to see Jame s Kezer of the Biology Department on hi s bicycle. He first rode one when he had a paper route in high school, but where h e really became interested in the sport wa s in England during the war . England is a very good country for bicycles since ther e are many small lanes that have littl e or no traffic . Mr . Kezer took a number o f long bicycle trips in England and Franc e and also in America when he got home , but our highways make bike riding les s pleasant and more dangerous because o f the traffic . In spite of this he has had a bicycle everywhere he has been since th e war and claims that he wears them ou t like clothes . D. S. Willis, who teaches oriental lan- guages, is another well-known bicycle - riding professor . He too started out b y faithfully delivering papers in all type s of weather, and he proudly claims tha t even now he rides his bicycle at all time s during all seasons . Wallace Baldinger, director of the Ar t Museum, is probably the professor wh o has been riding a bicycle on campus fo r the longest time . When he first came t o the University of Oregon his wife needed the car so he bought a second-han d woman's bicycle to get to the campus . This was about 1944 and he's been rid- ing them ever since . One of his special - ties into carry a projector or a typewrite r around with him on the bike . Mr . Bal- linger has a valid complaint, though . The University doesn 't have enoug h ramps on campus . It 's hard to get place s without having to stop every so often be- caue of curbs or steps . Last fall Charles Duncan, dean of th e School of Journalism, bought a new bi- cycle after trading in one he had use d since 1937 . He claims that he isn 't a fanatic when it comes to bicycle riding , and, unlike Mr . Willis, he doesn 't brav e all types of weather on his bicycle . Mr . Duncan rides for three reasons . It's good exercise ; it's convenient, and he enjoy s it. He is very pleased to see that more an d more students are starting to use bicycle s and feels that there should be fewer car s on campus . It certainly is ridiculous, i n his opinion, for students to drive five o r six blocks to class and then have to fin d a parking place which may still be a couple of blocks away from where the y want to go . Whatever way you look at it, a bi- cycle is certainly less expensive than a car and by far easier to park . The Uni- versity is starting to recognize the im- portance of the bicycle rider . Bicycl e racks are starting to appear . Now, i f they'd only put in ramps as Mr . Ballinge r suggests then everything will roll alon g smoothly and bicycle owners will be rid- ing high .-MARJORIE BURNS 13 shaping another su n 7000 degrees. . . an inferno approaching that of the sun surface has been created by the scientists of Union Carbide . The energy comes fro m the intensely hot carbon arc. Through the use of mirrors, the heat is reflected to form a single burning image of the electric arc at a convenient point . Called the arc-image furnace, it extends the limits of high-temperatur e research on new materials for the space age. For years, mammoth carbon and graphite electrodes have fire d blazing electric furnaces to capture many of today metals from their ore s and to produce the finest steels. But, in addition to extreme heat, the carbo n arc produces a dazzling light that rivals the sun. In motion picture projectors, its brilliant beam floods panoramic movie screens with every vivid detai l from a film no larger than a postage stamp . The carbon arc is only one of many useful things made fro m the basic element, carbon. The people of Union Carbide will carry on thei r research to develop even better ways for carbon to serve everyone . Learn about the exciting wor k going on now in carbons, chem- icals, gases, metals, plastics, an nuclear energy. Write for "Prod- ucts and Processes" Booklet I , Union Carbide Corporation, 30 E. 42nd St., New York 17, N. N.Y. In Canada, Union Carbid e Canada Limited, Toronto. . . .a han d in things to come ED HARMS 9 : STRON G ON LEADERSHI P \IIAT DOES IT TAKEto be a political leader ? If you ask that question in Eugene 's neighbor city , Springfield, more than likely the reply will be, "Why it take s someone like our mayor, Ed Harms ." Graduated from the U .O. Law School in 1949, young alu m Harms is a man who has revitalized a city . When he ran fo r mayor in 1952 at the age of 26, he ran unopposed because fe w in this rapidly growing, unorganized community really cared . Most of them, like himself, were new settlers anyway . Rut Harms cared . And gradually he awakened the interes t of his fellow citizens . He began the practice of organizing citizens ' advisory com- mittees of 15 to 20 people on questions of importance to th e community . He has also sought to maximize communicatio n between city government and the citizenry . As part of this h e not only prepares an annual message to the people, but report s on things as they come up, giving both his views and hi s reasons for them . Commented the editor of the Springfiel d News, "he writes and speaks very well, presenting very well - organized and logical explanations for his views . This get s support ." Under his guidance the city has been a forerunner partici- pant in the national urban renewal program . Typically, Harm s first appointed a citizens ' committee to look into the idea ; then insisted over opposition that an election be held to allo w the citizens to express whether they were for such a project o r not . The vote was favorable and Springfield will have a 150 - unit low rent housing project this year as part of the result . The city is also getting a new drainage system to handle it s flooding problem under a city-county drainage agreement- - the first of its kind in Oregon . His leadership has also been felt in the construction of a new city library and more mundane improvements such a s paving of many of Springfield's traditionally rutty streets . To accomplish these improvements and the others of hi s two terms, Harms has had to let his law practice, his onl y source of income (the mayor 's position is not salaried), tak e second place . That he has done so time and time again is th e unanimous opinion of his co-workers . He decided at the en d of his first term, however, that for the sake of his growin g family (wife Pat and three daughters), he should not ru n again . He reckoned without the strong feelings of his constituents , however. Ten days before the election, as the two announce d candidates were battling it out full swing, someone quietl y started a write-in campaign for Harms . When the votes wer e counted, in spite of having made no public appearances o r speeches in quest of the office, the man who wasn 't in the rac e had won . Re-elected to an office he didn 't want, Harms typ- ically placed Springfield first and plunged into four mor e years of service . Harms is also constantly in demand to address groups , clubs and other gatherings, has been called "one of the bes t speakers in Oregon ." Success, however, has not come to Ed Harms only in hi s role as mayor . A precocious only child, he was in college be - fore turning 17, an officer at the Iwo Jima invasion at 20 an d mayor at 26 . Mayor Harm s For relaxation with his family the mayor enjoys "campin g out" and "spectator sports ." For personal day to day relaxa- tion he reads . .A fast reader, he usually polishes off two t o three books a week during the late evening hours "helps m e unwind for sleep after a city council or some other meeting, " he explains . He favors non-fiction, especially books on th e Civil War, American government, and Franklin Roosevelt . On Sundays the family troops to the Springfield Baptis t Church where Ed teaches a high school age Sunday Schoo l class. A man who finds spiritual values of deep personal sig- nificance, Harms embraces Christianity "because I see th e great need in the world for love in the relationships of people ." When he says something like this the mayor 's face become s very serious . Most of the time, however, Ed Harms is smiling . Talking with him, one perceives that his thoughts retur n often to consideration of various aspects of leadership . In fact , all his evaluations and opinions appear influenced by concep- tions of what a leader ought to do and how he ought to do it . Franklin Roosevelt, a fellow Democrat, is his great her o because of the late president's "obvious ability to lead people . . . His character and personality represent to me the qualitie s of leadership the president should have and should exercise," Harms said . Speaking to a gathering of municipal officials, he gave thi s definition of leadership : "fit is] a state of mind, not a magica l quality . . . attained, not inherited . . . an educational proc- ess." Then he admonished his fellow officials : "It is your dut y to see that your city government is administered progressive- ly, responsibly, competently, honestly and with good grace ." Typical of his deft light touch was his conclusion (borrowe d from Mark Twain) : "Always do right ; this will gratify a fe w of the people and astound all the rest ." "Ed Harms has an acute knowledge of municipal govern- ment and a strong desire to serve-even if it means persona l sacrifice, " a co-worker says of him . Of all such tributes th e one which would please Harms the most, however, is prob- ably the one that began, "He is exceedingly strong on l e a d e r - s h i p . . "- PATRICIA TREECE " Ore ' April-May 1960 15 Dr . Paul E . Spangler '19 and the S . S. Hope, a former Navy hospital ship, are both ready fo r Southeast Asia trip under project HOP E (Health Opportunity for People Everywhere) . PAUL E . SPANGLER '19 has spent 3 5years in general surgery, much of i t patching up the victims of man 's inhu- manity to man . Stationed at Pearl Harbo r when World War II opened, he is cred- ited with having performed the first oper- ation performed by a member of the U .S. armed forces in the war . Today the retired Navy doctor is pre - paring to patch up people as part of a unique humanitarian venture which ma y help prevent catastrophes like the las t war . Selected as chief medical officer o f Project HOPE from over 1,000 appli- cants for the post, Dr . Spangler is cur- rently readying himself to sail late i n August or early in September for Indo- nesian waters . Project HOPE, recently instituted b y members of the medical profession in re- sponse to a call by President Eisenhowe r for more people-to-people aid programs , is a privately controlled, voluntarily fi- nanced attempt to help improve the medi- cal welfare of citizens of underprivilege d nations by aiding the medical profession s of these countries . The 3 .5 million dollar s necessary to finance its first year 's oper- ations is currently being raised by volun- tary contribution s It will go only to countries where in- vited, and will work primarily from a great floating hospital currently being converted from a Navy-leased ship . It i s scheduled to begin operations this fall . Dr . Spangler predicted that during th e first year Indonesia and South Viet-Na m is as far as Project HOPE would get o n the long list of Asian, African, and Sout h American countries that have extende d invitations . Indonesia, he pointed out , has only one doctor for each 68 .000 peo- ple in comparison to one doctor for ever y 800 people in the United States . Dr . Spangler's personal responsibilitie s will be those of chief surgeon and directo r of the project 's professional activities i n the field . Having been chief surgeon a t five naval hospitals, he comes well-pre- pared to the task, but may find ver y strenuous the hopping back and fort h necessary to simultaneously supervis e ship operations and those of satellite hos- pitals to be set up in the back country . On the ship a staff of 15 doctors, 2 dentists, 20 nurses and 20 auxiliary medi- cal personnel will work under his direc- tion. Additionally, teams of 35 doctors , "highly specialized groups in many case s from our leading medical schools an d clinics," will be flown out on a rotatin g basis, one every four months . These me n will form "the backbone of our teachin g staff," explains Spangler . The ship will be primarily a school, a training center for doctors, nurses, tech- nicians, hospital attendants . corpsmen and other medical personnel . "We want to train more hands to hel p the doctors so that their skill can b e spread over a greater area of the popula- tion, " Spangler continued . "The actua l care for patients is incidental to ou r major mission of helping the medical pro- fession to do a more adequate job an d acquainting them with medical practice s as we understand them ." When you recall that past medica l "missionary " efforts have tended to con- centrate on curing people instead o f equipping them for curing themselve s and those who will need help after th e westerners are gone, Project HOP E seems sure to produce excellent funds o f good will for the U .S. However, Dr . Spangler said that thi s factor is "entirely incidental " to the proj- ect's aim of promoting the health an d welfare of the countries it visits . However, he added, "if the people o f the countries we visit can see American s at work trying to help them to help them - selves, teaching their people the ways an d means to better health, training mor e hands to heal them, they can 't help bu t believe we are their friends and are reall y interested in them as persons . " . . . If this should convince thes e people that perhaps the West is not . . . (an} imperialist devil . . .that would b e so much the better ." 16 Old Oregon the Council of Rural Health of the America n Medical Association . He is in practice a t Mountain Home, Arkansas Dr. Mary Kennedy Turner is a physicia n and surgeon at the University Medical School i n Portland . Secretary : Ann Reed Burns Boles , 2610 S.W. Vista Ave ., Portland .6 '14 Norton Cowden is state president of Cali- fornia Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals. His address is P .O. Box 1.319, Santa Barb - ara, Calif . Secretary Mrs . Beatrice Lock Hogan , 9219 Mintwood St .. Silver Springs . Md . Henry V . Howe, director of the School o f Geology, Louisiana State University, Bato n Rouge, Louisiana, has been chosen to receiv e the Sidney Powers Memorial Medal, highes t honor in petroleum geology, for his "distin- guished and outstanding contributions" in thi s field . Secretary ; Georgia Benson Patterson . 326 E. Jackson St ., Hillsboro . Russell Gowans is now vice-president o f Crown Cork Seal Company and general man- ager of the western division with headquarter s in San Francisco . Touring Europe and northern Africa thi s year, on sabbatical leave from his position a s associate professor of history at Oregon Stat e College, is Norborne Berkeley . He has visite d Holland, Scotland and northern England an d will spend the remainder of the year in the Hol y Land, southern Europe and England . secretary : Mrs . Ann DeWitt Crawford , 8517 S.W . 58th St., Portland . Ronald H . Beattie is now chief of th e Bureau of Criminal Statistics under the offic e of the Attorney General of California . Durin g February and March he was consultant in th e field of criminal statistics and records in th e Administrative Office of the Federal Courts i n Washington, D .C. He is the son of the lat e Willa Hanna Beattie 95 and W . Gilber t Beattie 1 . Secretary : Mrs. Anne Runes Wilson , 3203 E. Burnside St ., Portland . Helen Hershner Diebold has been pro- moted to the position of administrative Assist - ant at Muir Woods National Monument, Mil l Valley, California . Secretary : Mrs . Luola Bernie Bengtson, 1760 E. 23rd Ave., Eugene . Fashion director for Marshall Field Com- pany in Chicago is Kathleen Tharaldsen Cat- lin. Secretary ; Mrs . Lou Ann Chase Tuft , 1938 Edgewoe,d Rd., S .W., Portland . William M . McNabb, formerly vice presi- dent of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bankin g Old Oregon welcomes news items about Ore- gon alumni. Send items to your class secretar y or to the editors, 110M Erb. Corporation of Cali- fornia, has bee n named a director o f the bank . Before join- ing "The Hongkon g Bank," he was execu- tive vice president an d manager of the Sa n Francisco main offic e of First Western Ban k and Trust Company . George P . Stadelman has been elected a director of First National Bank of Oregon . Stadelman, a native of The Dalles, is associate d in operation of Stadelman Fruit Company prop- erties at a number of points in the Northwest . He is a former mayor of The Dalles . 1 Standard Insurance Co. of Seattle has an- nounced the promotion of Robert V . Cum- mins to sales director and vice president . H e was previously manager of their Willamett e Agency, Eugene . He and his wife have two son s and a daughter . Recently named director of the First Federa l Savings and Loan Association of Salt Lake City , Utah, was Anton (Tony) Peterson . He i s manager of both Salt Lake City newspapers . Cedric Northrop M .D., is director of th e Division of Tubercolosis Control in the Seattle - King County Health Department at Seattle , Washington . Secretary ; Mm. Hope Shelley Miller , 1519 N. 20th, Boise, Idaho . Frank E . Shafer has joined Walston an d Co., investment brokers in Salem as an invest- ment broker and advises . He and his wife liv e at 1373 High St . SE, Salem . Secretary : Mrs. Jessie Steele Robertson , 1528 S.E . Harold Ct ., Portland . E. S . Morgan, genera] manager of Roger s Super Tread Tire . Company in Yakima, Wash- ington and a former professional football player , was one of five more men appointed by Wash- ington governor to the State Sports Advisor y Council . Secretary : Mrs . Pearl L . Base, 2073 S.W. Park Ave ., Apt . 217, Portland . Roland R . B l a n t z, formerl y manager of trainin g and safety for Port - land General Electri c Company, has bee n appointed assistan t manager of the utili- ty industrial rela- tions department . Dr . Ben N . Saltz- man has been electe d regional director of Deputy chief of mission at the America n Embassy, Karachi, Pakistan, is William O . Hall, He, his wife and family expect to be bac k in the U .S . in about two years . Dr. James R . Evans, superintendent o f Baker public schools, has been selected as on e of 20 school administrators in the United State s who will make a two-month study of schools i n Finland and France under a Fulhright grant . Secretary : David B . Lowry , Coker Road, Box 321, Talent, Ore . Formation of a new law partnership wit h offices at 1374 Willamette St ., Eugene has bee n announced by Hale G. Thompson, Georg e J . Woodrich 0 and William P . Mumford . Teaching mathematics at Milwaukie, Orego n high school is Katherine Stevens . She als o advises Milwaukie Future Teachers Club an d is president of Delta Kappa Gamma, an inter - national teacher s honorary . Salem, Oregon City Council has appointe d Ernest J . Savage alderman of Ward 4 . Th e new councilman is owner of the Junior Booter y there and lives with his wife and family at 179 6 Winter St . S.E. in Salem . Secretary : Mrs . Gayle Buchanan Karshner , 653 15th St., Arcata, Calif . Ronald E . McNutt of the Earl L . McNut t Company, Eugene, was elected first vice presi- dent of the Associated General Contractors a t their annual meeting in Portland . Secretary: Mrs. Harriet Saraain Peterson 6909 S.W. 8th Ave ., Portland . James W . Wells, Jr . has assumed manager - ship of the Portland branch of Chase Bag Corn - party. He has been with the company as sale s manager since 1948 . Secretary : Roy N . Vernstrom , 3838 N.E . Alameda Drive, Portland 13 . Ray Hunsaker, superintendent of school s at Coquille, is resigning at the end of the schoo l year to go to Klamath Falls where he will b e superintendent at the Union High School an d elementary district . He has been associated wit h the Coquille school system for 13 years . Attorney at law in Liberty Lake, Washington , is George J . Tiehy . He is also general counsel , secretary and manager of Timber Product s Manufacturers, and secretary-treasurer of th e Roosevelt Lake Log Owners Association . li e and his wife Charlotte Hewitt 5 live at Lib- erty Lake with their three children . Secretary : Mm, Majeane C . Wersehkal , 737 S.W. Westwood Dr ., Portlan d Mrs . Darlene Warren Wolff was honore d as Senior Citizen by the Klamath Falls PTA i n February . She was cited for her work in churc h activities, Camp Fire girls, wome ns clubs, yout h activities and other community projects . Pat Erickson Stewart has been name d librarian at the Baker, Oregon city library . Secretary: Barbara J , 252 E. 74thSt., New York 21, N .Y . Now on the staff of New Riverview Hospita l and Clinic at Raymond, Washington is Dr . Donald C . MacDonald . Previously he wa s '16 4 6 7 9 0 McNab b 2 3 5 7 8 9 0 1 4 April-May 1960 17 associated with the American Board of Radiol - ogy and was resident physician at Grace Hospi - tal in Detroit for three years . 146 S,cretary : Lois McConkey Ceorgso n 2100 V .s Sonoma, Palos Verdes, Calif E . Claudine Biggs Mullins tells us she i s now attending night classes at Portland Stat e College working towards an instructorship i n Secondary English . After this she will begi n work on her master 's degree . She is also a sec- retary at Northern School Supply Company dur - ing the day . Her address is 6520 S .E. 89th Ave., Portland 66 . Secretary : James D. Thayer , 1.99555 S.W. Butner, Beaverton,Ore. Named vice president and sales manager fo r the new Midwestern region of the Joseph an d Feiss Company, national clothing manufac- turers, is Bert G. Cox . He lives in Kirkland , Washington. Janet C . Southwell is a secretary in marke t research with Stricker and Henning researc h organization in New York City . She flew hom e to Oregon at Christmas and had a reunion wit h several of her classmates . Mr. and Mrs . Mark Hattan (Margare t Williams) are parents of the first baby of 196 0 horn on the Monterey Peninsula . Rogan is a brother to Heidi, 4 . The Hattons live at 1 5 Lower Circle, Carmel Valley, California. Now serving as information officer and per . sonnet services officer with the Air Force Logis - tical Group in Instanbul, Turkey is Capt . Joh n Landis Hartig . He and his wife and two child - ren expect to be in Turkey for 30 months . Secretary: Gloria Crenfell , 1933 S.W . Illinois, Portland Named "Junior First Citizen" of Portlan d for 1959 during January was Paul B. Bender . He is manager of the central service departmen t at Standard Insurance Company in Portland . The award was sponsored by the Jaycees an d was given to Bender for his "most oustandin g contributions to Portland during the year ." Edwin M. Baker of Eugene, is the ne w president of the six-county Oregon Trail Coun - cil of Boy Scouts of America. Now with Cole & Weber advertising agenc y in Portland as account executive is Richar d M. Wilkins . He was formerly with Georgia - Pacific's Portland advertising and public rela- tions office. Kenneth L . Morin of Stafford and Mori n Architects, Eugene, has been elected presiden t of the Southwest Oregon Chapter of the Ameri - can Institute of Architects . He, his wife, an d family live at 310 East 17th Avenue, Eugene . Thomas E . Brownhill, district attorney i n Astoria since 1950, is now associated with th e Eugene law firm of Riddlesbarger and Pederson . Nancy Bedingfield has joined the staff o f Goodrich and Snyder, Portland public relation s firm. She formerly worked for The Oregonia n and also was a free lance writer and a public re - lations consultant . Secretary . Olga YevtichPeterson 1072 Tulane Dr ., Mountain View, Calif . Robert C . Bennett has been installed a s president of the Eugene Real Estate Board fo r 1960. William S . Prescott is now in the Philip - pines working for the Episcopal Church . He i s the administrative assistant and personnel offi - cer of St. Luke' s Hospital in Manila . Named dean of the school of business admin - istration at Pacific Lutheran College recentl y was Dr . Dwight Zulauf . The college will be - come a university next fall . Dr . Zulauf taugh t at PLC from 194953 and returned last year a s head of the Department of Economics and Busi - ness Administration . William F . Rau of the Smith and Crake s Insurance Agency, Eugene, is teaching a cours e in casualty insurance during winter term in th e university's School of Business Administration . Rau served as president of the Eugene-Lan e County Insurance Agents Association durin g 1959. William J . O'Conner has been name d supervisor at the Portland general agency o f Aetna Life Insurance Company . He joined th e company in 1956. Dr . Stanley Pierson has received an Amer- ican Philosophical Association award on whic h he will spend next summer in Britain doing re- search for a beak on "Ethical and Religiou s Aspects of British Socialism ." Lloyd Bond, Eugene landscape architect , has been retained by Hummel, Hummel an d Jones, Boise, Idaho architects, to prepare land- scape development plans for an 820-family fed - eral Capehart housing project at Mountai n Home Air Force Base, Idaho . The facility i s being developed as a permanent Strategic Ai r Command base . The January 1960 issue of The Journal o f Taxation includes an article on profit sharin g plans by Harold W . Chatterton . Harold is a member of the firm of Maier and Chatterton , CPAs in Portland . He and his wife, Doris, hav e two children, Ronnie, 5 and Sandy, 2 . Clay Myers has been appointed manager o f the Portland, Oregon agency of Connecticu t General Life Insurance Company . He joined th e company in 3953 and since 1956 has been a staff member at the Portland agency . He an d his wife have two children and are living a t 1063 S.W. Douglas Place in Portland . SecretaryMrs . Dorothy E . Orr Cole 7 Bellows,,d CircleN . Syracuse .Y . Loren C . Downey, principal of Bailey Hil l Elementary School in Eugene is to take ove r principal 's duties at a new school to be buil t this year . William Dugan '48 will replac e Downey as principal of Bailey Hill . Principal of Central Point Elementary an d Junior High Schools, George A, johns, ha s been presented the Central Point Jaycee's an- nual Distinguished Service .Award. 151 Se : Mrs H . Higgins 441 Merritt Ave 10, Calif Richard John Prasch was one of the judges at the Pacific Gallery Artists annual show i n Tacoma, Washington during February . He i s a former Tacoman who is now art instructor a t Portland State College . New executive vice-president and manage r of the Chehalis (Washington) Chamber o f Commerce is Kenneth S. Hodge of Hoquiam , Washington. He is also secretary of the Ho- quiam Chamber of Commerce, and was previ - 7 8 '49 '50 The Buchwach legend : how t o appease the rain god s T HIS SPRING the Emerald, if it doesn 'tattempt to defy tradition, will run a n editorial entitled "To the Gods, " an edi- torial plea for cloudless (or at least rain - less) skies during Junior Weekend . And , if things go according to tradition, i t won ' t rain . It 's just that simple . "Somebody told me the Emeral d skipped running the editorial only thre e years since I originally wrote it-and al l three years it rained," writes Buck Buch- wach '42, now managing editor of th e Honolulu Advertiser and author of th e 1941 editorial . Replying to an OL D OREGON query he continued : " 1 don't think that could be accurate, but it 's th e only legend to which I'm joined, and I 'll cling to it! " Buchwach was a junior that year, an d an admirer of the "nature " type editor - ials written in The Oregonian by the lat e Ben Hur Lampman . "It had been raining steadily on Mon - day, Tuesday and Wednesday of th e week, " explained Buchwach . "All kind s of events were planned for Friday, Satur- day and Sunday . "I decided I'd make a plea for the rai n to cease and use Lampman 's style there - by filling a space in the Emerald and a t the same time putting a little collegiat e pressure on Jupiter Pluvius ." The rest is history . The rain stoppe d Friday afternoon, the day the editoria l was printed . Saturday and Sunday wer e perfect . Sunday night, after that Junio r Weekend had closed the hook, the rai n resumed with renewed fury . But by then , no one cared, for the Buchwach legen d was established . Ruch Buchwach '42 of "rain editorial " fame, now serves as managing editor fo r newspaper in Honolulu, Hawaii, wher e weather seldom calls for pleas to the gods . 18 Old Oregon Space-age careers at Boein g This year, engineering and science alumni will find mor e challenging and rewarding careers than ever at Boeing . Advanced missile and space-age programs are expanding, an d the proportion of engineers and scientists to Boeing's total employment is growing steadily . Boeing programs include th e Dyna-Soar boost-glide vehicle, Minuteman solid-propellan t ICBM, BoMARc defense missile system, B-52G missile bomber, KC-135 jet tanker-transport, the Boeing 707 jetliner, an d lunar, orbital and interplanetary systems and advance d research projects. A few of the many immediate openings ar e listed below: ADVANCED CONFIGURATION DESIGN WICHITA ARE A M.S. or Ph .D. in A.E. to create configuration of new vehicles pro - posed by potential military or civilian customers . Creative desig n of vehicles based on general parameters of missions (payload , performance, etc .). In addition to configuration, special feature s such as handling payload (i .e., cargo, passengers) and compariso n with competitors proposals are investigated . INFRARED SEATTLE ARE A Electrical engineer or physicist with advanced degree to set-u p and direct an Infrared System Group involved in : (1) Studie s and analyses of infrared systems, techniques and phenomena , (2) Definition of models and parametric relationships, and (3 ) Synthesis of advanced infrared sub-systems (search, track, termi - nal guidance, mapping, surveillance, and scientific instrumenta- tion) for integration into larger systems . ELECTRONICS-RELIABILITY SEATTLE AREA Electrical engineer with B .S . degree minimum (graduate work o r equivalent experience desired) to organize and manage reli- ability programs ; to establish requirements, evaluate reliabilit y data and initiate corrective action for missile components an d tactical test equipment . ELECTRONICS-DIGITAL COMPUTER SEATTLE AREA Engineers with advanced E .E. degree or particularly applicabl e experience to design and integrate digital computers in advance d military and space programs, involving internal logic design o f the computers and the external organization of the associate d equipment used in the guidance and control system . ENGINEERING ANALYSIS PROGRAMMING SEATTLE Mathematicians or engineers with B .S. to Ph .D. degrees to wor k in engineering computing and analysis areas . Analysis position s involve correlation and conversion matrix studies, trajector y simulation programs, error analysis and simulation studies an d many others . Computing positions involve programming a wid e variety of complex engineering problems to be solved with high - speed electronic data processing machines-digital and analog . PLASMA PHYSICS SEATTLE ARE A Experimental physicist with Ph .D. in physics for the staffof th e Plasma Physics Laboratory, Boeing Scientific Research Labora- tories, to conduct studies in the field of Basic Experimental Micr o Wave Plasma Physics, Basic Transport Properties of Plasma s and in Theoretical and Experimental Quantum Plasma Physics . OPERATIONS WEAPONS SYSTEMS ANALYSIS WICHIT A M.S . or Ph .D. in math, physics, electrical or aeronautical engi neering to obtain data on the anticipated operational environmen t of the devices under study by Advanced Design Staff . Devis e analytical models of procedures describing operation of the de - vices in order to estimate the operational utility of same unde r study . Studies compare Advanced Design products with othe r companies and demonstrate anticipated utility to the customer . ELECTRONICS-TELEMETRY SEATTLE ARE A B.S .E.E. with good knowledge of telemetry systems, transducers , and systems providing inputs into telemetry systems, to work o n telemetry systems integration . This requires ability to represen t the company in meetings with the customers and associat econtractors . ELECTRO-MAGNETICS SEATTLE ARE A Ph .D. in electrical engineering or physics to direct and partici- pate in the work of a research group engaged in the theoretica l and experimental investigation of the propagation and reflectio n of electro-magnetic waves in the presence of a plasma . WELDING ENGINEERING SEATTLE ARE A Engineers with degree in Met .E., Mech .E., E.E. or equivalent, t o maintain weld equipment, design tools, develop techniques an d direct proper use of this equipment, and establish processes fo r all types of welds used in the unit, including weld settings fo r qualification programs . PERFORMANCE STABILITY CONTROL ANALYSIS SEATTLE AREA Aeronautical engineers at B .S. and M .S. level to conduct perform - ance analysis and stability and control analysis . Each field i s intimately associated with flight testing and wind tunnel testing . Performance assignments include preparation of sales presenta- tions, operating instructions and preliminary design work i n connection with new aircraft ; stability and control assignment s cover wing and tail design as well as studies concerning detaile dcontrol systems . GEOASTROPHYSICS SEATTLE ARE A Theoretical physicists or astronomers with Ph .D. in physics or astronomy on the staff of the Geoastrophysics Laboratory, Boein g Scientific Research Laboratories, to carry out theoretical researc h studies in the field of Geoastrophysics, particularly in connectio n with the phenomenology and physics of the planetary system . Excellent support is available for research in Solar Physics, Sola r Terrestrial relationships and Upper Atmosphere Physics . Advantages you 'll enjoy at Boeing include up-to-the-minut e facilities, unexcelled research equipment, insurance an d retirement programs, and a company-paid graduate stud y program (M .A. and Ph .D.) designed to help you get ahea d faster. For further information write : Mr . Stanley M. Little, Boeing Airplane Co ., P . O. Box 3822- UOR, Seattle 24, Wash . BOE/A ously manager of the Redmond, Oregon, Cham- ber of Commerce . Fred P . Thompson Jr ., formerly sale s manager of Boise Cascade Container, has bee n promoted to general manager for the Wester n region, Expanding Paper Division of Boise Cas- cade Corporation , Robert E . Perrin has joined the Massachu- setts Mutual Life Insurance Company as a re - presentative in its Portland agency, He and hi s wife live at 1631 N .E . 25th, Portland . Thomas F . Young became a partner in th e Baker, Oregon law firm of Banta, Silven, Horto n and Young January I . He has been associate d with the firm since 1957 . He, his wife Patricia , and their three children live at 214 Hill cres t Place, Baker . Burns, Bear, McNeil & Schneider, Portland architects, have announced the appointment o f Robert L . Bloodworth as associate architec t in their office . His principal work with the fir m has been on the Portland International Airpor t Terminal . Doris L . Wagner, field supervisor for th e Tacoma-Pierce County Health Departmen t since 1955, has joined the Pacific Lutheran Col- lege nursing faculty . She is also president-elec t of District 3, Washington State Nurses Associ- ation . Secretary : Ann Dar-by Nirdio!xon, t939 S . Hartford 3i ., Kennewick, Wash . Born to Mr . and Mrs. B . L . Freemesse r September 14, was a boy, Mark, their first . Mr . Freemesser teaches photography at the Uni- versity . Lawrence Marvin Dean has become a part - net in the law firm of Norhlad, Wyatt and Mac - Donald in Astoria, Oregon . He has been wit h the Norhlad law firm since 1958 . Herschell Plummer has been appointe d construction engineer by the Sheraton Corpora- tion of America . He will work in the chain' s Bost n, Massachusetts headquarters . Plumme r previously practiced architecture with the Port - land firm of Church, Newberry & Schuette . Dr . Eugene Bowman, formerly professo r of mathematics and education at Southern Ore- gon College . has left for Quito, Ecuador for a two year administrative position . Dr . Bowma n was chosen as a teacher education advisor wit h the International Cooperation Administration , an agency of the State Department . Sccrcrary : Jean Simpson Uonn ell , 3`!67 walnut Lane, Lafayette, Calif . 2 3 Coming Events on the Campu s April 6 Senior Class Meeting, President Wilso n Varsity Baseball, Willamette U at Eugen e 7 Sandwich Series Lectur e Concert, University Tri o Varsity Baseball, Portland State at Eugen e 8 Varsity Golf, OSC at Eugen e Oregon Association of Broadcasters Conferenc e 8-9 Oregon High School Speech Leagu e 9 Fresh Leaders Conferenc e Varsity Tennis, Portland State at Eugen e Varsity Track, Fresno State at Eugen e Delta Zeta Conclav e 10 Choral Union, "Messiah " 12 Varsity Baseball, Linfield College at Eugen e 13 Varsity Tennis, Willamette University at Eugen e Varsity Baseball, Linfield College at Eugen e 15 Varsity Baseball, OSC at Eugen e 16 Varsity Tennis, OSC at Eugen e 20 Varsity Baseball, Pacific University at Eugen e 22 Varsity Tennis, University of Idaho at Eugen e Varsity Baseball, Washington State at Eugen e Creative Arts Worksho p 23 Oregon Education Association Conferenc e American Physics Teachers Conferenc e Varsity Track, Stanford U at Eugen e Varsity Tennis, Washington State at Eugen e 24-25 Oregon Retail Distributors Conferenc e 26 Friends of the Museum Banque t 30 Varsity Track, Washington State at Eugen e 28-29-30 Amphibians Water Sho w 30 Varsity Tennis, Reed College at Eugen e May 2 Varsity Baseball, University of Washington at Eugen e 3 Assembly, C . Northcote Parkinso n 4 Varsity Golf, UBC at Eugen e 6 Varsity Baseball, San Jose at Eugen e 7 Foreign Languages Field Da y Varsity Golf, Portland State at Eugen e State Division Women's Sports Da y Varsity Baseball, San Jose at Eugen e Varsity Track, OSC at Eugen e 12 Office Management Conferenc e Foreign Students Farewell Banque t 13 Canoe Fete, Millrace Olympic s 14 All-Campus Sin g 13-14 Junior Weeken d 18 Varsity Tennis, Portland State at Eugen e 21 Varsity Basketball, CSC at Eugen e Varsity Track, Northern Division Championships ar Eugen e 24 Varsity Golf, Seattle University at Eugen e 26 U of 0 Band Concer t June 4 PE Swimming Conferenc e 6-10 Final Examination s 11 Alumni Da y 12 Graduatio n 13-18 American Association for Advancement of Science Appointed in January as assistant attorne y general assigned to the State Industrial Acci- dent Commission trial staff in Portland wa s Noreen Ann Kelly . She has served two term s as the first woman municipal judge in Medford . Daniel J . Hendrickson has been appointe d technical and service representative in Port - land by Oaktie Products, Inc ., manufacturer s of chemical compounds for industrial cleanin g and sanitizing . Mr . and Mrs . Robert Metz IDonna Krauspe '59) became parents of a daughte r Christmas Eve . The family is living at 286 0 Pearl St ., Eugene . Bob Bauder's insurance service at Cottag e Grove has merged with the Young Insuranc e Agency there . Bob has .served the area as re - presentative of the State Farm Mutual for 1 0 years . Don S . Denning has been made an associ- ate in the earlier law firm of Lytle and Schroed- er, in Vale, Oregon . The new firm is Lytle , Schroeder and Denning . Ernest J . Haycox is now executive assistan t to the general manager at Port of Portland . Formerly he handler) public information an d research there . Ronald M . Spores will be listed in th e 1959-60 edition of Who's Who in America n Colleges and Universities . He was one of 1 1 students chosen from Mexico City Colleg e where he is doing graduate work in anthropolo- gy 4 2446Ewald t ircln, Apt . 21a, Detroit, Mic h Alan Oppliger was honored recently wit h Enterprise, Oregon's First Junior Citizen award . He was cited by the Jaycees activities in com- munity and organizational affairs . Gailerd Sidney Smith is publisher of a n aviation magazine, Pre-Flight News at Oakland , California . He and his wife, Elaine Olson ' 53 live at 3248 Hyde Street, Oakland . Recently appointed General Manager of Ele e tric Storage Battery Company in Monterrey , Mexico was Craig J . Dudley, The internationa l company has estathlished a new factory there . Audrey Jones Behnken is now a secretar y for United Airlines in Seattle . Her husband, Bil l is a Pacific Northern Airlines sales representa- tive . They live at 219 Boston Street, Seattle 9 , Wash . As professor of Bible and Christian educatio n at Northwest College, Eugene, Dr . Lawrenc e M . Bixler was a member of the faculty of th e Family' Life Clinic held in Eugene durin g January under the auspices of the Council o f Churches . Clement Y. Arnold, science departmen t 20 Old Oregon Profit : the Key t o Telephone Progress and Low Cos t M aybe its about time somebod y stood up and said a good word abou t profits . For the opportunity to earn a satis - factory profit is part of the ver y spirit of a free America . It is one o f the basic things that have made thi s a great country . Today, more than ever, the prog- ress and prosperity of communities , states and nation are dependent o n the number and the prosperity o f their companies . So the profit motive is important . Actually it is one of the great driv- ing forces that stimulate inventions , new products, new services and ne w plants . And more and better jobs ! That is just as true of the tele- phone business as any other . . . and of added importance because of th e vital nature of the service . It is a satisfactory profit-and th e hope of its continuance-that gives us the money and the incentive t o go ahead on a long-pull basis instea d of in a more expensive short-ter m manner . It is profit that enables us to orig- inate and take advantage of all th e technological advances that improv e your service and hold down the cos t of providing it . 'We can act instead of hesitatin g to act . We can go forward instea d of standing still . We can move fro m one achievement to another in th e best interest of everybody . The evidence is overwhelmin g that companies that show excellen t profit records do the best job for their customers and employees and , as corporate citizens, contribute the most to the community . The day-by-day benefits for tele- phone users are better service at a lower price than would he possibl e in any other way . WINGS FOR WORDS . It so easy to tak e the telephone for granted! But what in th e world would you ever do without it? Al l the many tasks of the day would be harder . You miss its priceless help and comfort i n emergencies . So much would go out of you r life if you couldn reach out your hand an d talk to friends and those you love. BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM K. R . Hickenbottorn 55, manager of Grants Pass Firestone store, is enjoyin g fruits of expense paid vacation, a resul t of his store having won western sale s contest. Fish placed first in contest. head at Philomath, Oregon junior-senior hig h school, was a participant in the National Con- ference of High School Biology Teachers held a the University of Chicago. Gail Savage Orell reports she and her hus- band are now at 3760 Summer Place, Pensacola Florida, where he is instructing in helicopters a Ellysen Field. They have two children, Kare n and Barry. Serretarr : Mary Wilson Glass , 2211 Olive S,., Eugene, Orego n Appointed superintendent auditor of the Ore gon Pacific and Eastern Railway Co . is Alle n S. Stanley . He was formerly general freigh t agent and auditor. John M. Hess is new technical director of Douglas Fir Plywood Association in Portland . He has been assistant technical director the pas three years and is now directing a departmen t with five laboratories and 90 employees. Gordon Ware was graduated from th e American Institute for Foreign Trade, Phoenix, Arizona during January. He specialized in Latin America. Albert B. Hopkins is now educational ad- visor to the government of Thailand in coopera- tion with the United States government . For- merly he was dean of education at the Eastern Montana College of Education in Billings, Mon tana. He, his wife Phyliss Munn 53, and their two children have as their address O 146, San Francisco, California. Phillip Kenneth Settecase, a member o f the 9414th Air Reserve Squadron, has been pro moted to captain in the Air Force Reserve . Theodore R . Richards, Seattle, territor y manager for Johnson Johnson, has bee n named regional sales trainer. He will train al l new salesmen who join the company Mr . and Mrs. James Gwaltney are the par- ents of a baby daughter, Janet Marie. She was born December 3. They are living at 2547 W . Alantosa Court, Roseburg, Oregon Parents of a new daughter, born February 2 in Eugene, are Mr Mrs. John Robert Coe- field. Their address is 2316-4 Patterson drive , Eugene Serretnry : ]ill tt utehings nran den lets, 21902 Palterenn Drive, Eugene, Orego n Mr. and Mrs. William Frank Frye (Helen Jackson 53) are the parents of a daughter , born January 16 y St., Eugene. Robert Giersdorf, former Portlander no w living in Fairbanks. Alaska, has been appointe an Alaskan slate senator by the governor to fil an unexpired term . Giersdorf is district sale s manager for Alaska Air Lines at Fairbanks. Theodore (Ted) Levine is warehouse man- ager of a company manufacturing industria l tape in New ork City . He is also going to school four nights a week working toward a master degree in business administration 7 Gordon Dahlquist and wife, Mary Ann Plutt Dahlquist are living at 8185 S.W. Birch- wood Road, Portland, with daughter Teri Ann . Gordon is with the Bank of California and Mar Ann is a case worker for the State Welfare De- partment. Wallace D . Russell was recently promote d to district sales manager for Matson Lines i n Portland. His employers, Alexander and Bald - win, Ltd., are Pacific Northwest agents for th e steamship company Donna 5 6 Marriage s 2-Linda J. F j a l s t ad to Jame s Charles Williams November 28 in he r parents home. The bridegroom is a pre-me student at the University 61-Julie Ann Johnson to David W . Urell during December in First Luthera n Church in Astoria . The couple is living i n Eugene at 1378 Ferry Street. 1-Valerie Deanna Gardner to Floyd Vike December 26 in First Congregationa l Church, Eugene. The couple lives at 97 9 Ferry Lane, Eugene. 0--Evelyn Victoria Sowa to Paul Clark December 19 in Eugene . The couple is at home at 262 High Street, Eugene. Mr. Clark will continue studies for his masters degree at the University. 0-Elaine Dolores Porritt to Alonz o P . Stiner December 29 in St . Mary Cath- olic Church. They are now at home at 48 2 E. 16th Avenue, Eugene and are continuin their studies at the University 0-Virginia Rice 3 to jack L . Yage r December 27 in Our Redeemer Luthera n Church in Eugene . The couple is at 150 1 Irving Road until Mr . Yager completes hi s senior year. 0-Carlyn Jo Compton to Michael A . Hollister during January at Central Pres- byterian Church in Portland . The two ar e completing their senior year at the Univer- sity. 0-Barbara Faye Knox and Thoma s M . Doggett in December in the chapel o f First Congregational Church in Eugene e couple is at home in Eugene at 612 E. 19t Avenue. They are both completing thei r senior years at the University 0-Patricia Shackleford to Howar d E. Will, Jr . in Central Presbyterian Churc in Eugene February 12. The couple is no w at home at 1163 W . 0-Carol Jean Thiel to Thomas Le e Zuvich 1, December 22 in Cottage Grove . The bridegroom is serving with the U .S. Army in Honolulu, Hawaii . 0--Abbie Lee Riggs to Gary Malcol m Stewart November 25 in Los Angeles . The couple is now at home in Eugene at 2358-3 Patterson Drive. The bridegroom is a pre- med student at _ -1 .iversity. 0--Page Bleak Mahler to Larr y Dean Jones last August in First Congre- gational Church. They are continuing thei r studies at the University 0--Doreen Scott to Donald S . Free - man August 18 in Westminster Presbyteria Church. The couple is living in Eugene . 9-Dorothy M . Norquist to Ronald Le e Stover, December 20, at Trinity Episcopa l church in Portland. 9--Rita Gae Hazen to Dr . J. Anthon y Oney during the Christmas holidays i n Clatskanie, Oregon, Methodist Church e couple is living in Anchorage where Dr . Oney is practicing dentistry - 9-Ruth J . Hess to Robert W . Larso n October 24 in Central Presbyterian Church, Eugene. The bridegroom will attend th e University as a graduate student e is living at 769 E. 17th Avenue. 9-Judith Fern Jeff eris to Roy Dwye r December 27 in Central Christian Church , Walla Walla, Washington . The bridegroo m is attending the University Law School . 9-Jeane Elaine Larsen 0 to Samue l T . Bennett in Portland during January . The groom is a third year medical studen t at the University Medical School there. The couple is at 805 S. W. Vista Ave ., Apt . 307, Portland. 9-Barbie J . Lorentz to David R . Bing- ham December 28 in St . Monicas Church, Coos Bay. The couple is in Coos Bay . 8-Marveene Adelle Cline to Pau l Anthony Vincent Weller, December 12 , at Our Lady of the Lake Church, Oswego , Oregon. 8-Nancy Ann Marston to Richar d Charles Vanderpool December 27 in th e Arlington Methodist Church, Arlington, Ore gon. 8-Rosemary Sullivan to Robert Fran k Loomis January 2 in Westminster Presby- terian Church in Portland. 7--Jeanne Alice Scales to Hanley E . Heyden in January at First Christian Church in Portland. 57-Carol Ann Aiken to William Don- ald Domenighini 5, December 26 in St . Joseph Catholic Church, Portland . Th e couple is living at 2220 SE Nehalem St ., Portland. 6-Helen Rasmussen to Alan Desmon d Dale in January at First Methodist Church in McMinnville. 6-Marie Jeanette Cockerham t o Rafael Francis Jimenez in Christ the Kin g Catholic Church, Richland, Washington on January 30. The couple is at 1307 Cotton - wood, Richland. 5-Wilma La Rec . Haffner to Laird L . Sullivan, December 20, in River Road Bap- tist Chapel, Eugene. The couple is at hom e at 907 Chambers St . 53-Elizabeth Pflueger to James Nixo n Crittenden January 16 at St - pal Church in San Francisco . The bride - groom is in the banking business there 6-Maxine Miller to Stanley E . Kin g in St. John Chapel, Boise, Idaho, Februar 25. The couple will live in Boise . 22 Old Oregon Hart Russell 54 and son, Scott, live at 91 5 S.W. Oak St., Oswego, Oregon. Ken Kesey is one of three recipients o f awards from the Eugene F . Saxton Memoria l Trust, established by Harper Brothers to un- cover new literary talent and to enable prom- ising writers to have free time in which to finish books. Kesey studied the Stanford creativ e writing program after graduating from the Uni- versity. He and his wife, Faye Haxby 9 liv e at Menlo Park, California . First Lieut . Gilbert E . Jones Jr . is a platoon leader with the 287thilitary Polic e Company of the U .S. Army Garrison, Berlin . He and his wife, Patricia Dameron 8 an d their two children live in the American Secto r of Berlin. Mr. and Mrs. Donald A . Hick are the par- ents of a new daughter, born February2. Their address is 146 N ., Springfield, Oregon. Richard B . Lyons, senior medical studen t at the University Medical School, has been se- lected as one of the 10 recipients of the Dr . Laurence Selling student research scholarships. The scholarships are to encourage the develop- ment of researchers, teachers and leaders i n clinical medicine. Le Roy G . Harwood has been appointed a police judge at Snoqualamie, Washington. Now employed as sales representative for th Revlon Corporation is Charles W . Kay . H e lives at 4I28 Beachwood Drive, Tacoma, Wash- ington. Thomas A . Rhodes is now eastern Oregon representative for Shell Oil Company . He, hi s wife and their two children are living at Pendle- ton, Oregon. Thomas E . Edison has been appointe d Clatsop County district attorney . The Astori a man has been practicing law there since 1958, and in 1959 was secretary of the Clatsop County Bar Association. Secretary ; Mrs . Sue Walcott Kjome , 1440 S. E . 143rd, Portland . Dale Alan Russell is completing work o n his master degree in paleontology at Univer- sity of California at Berkeley and workin g toward his doctorate in the same field . He re- cently joined the California Academy of Sci- ences on a two-week expedition to the Peninsula of Lower California . The party hunted fo r dinosaur bones, collecting them for the Amer . lean Museum of Natural History in New Yor k City. Mr . and Mrs. Norman R . Brekke are the parents of a baby daughter, born January 22 . Mr . Brekke teaches at Stowe Schoolin Duluth, Minnesota. Their address is 1312-101st Avenue West, Duluth 8. Ralph Vranizan has been graduated from the American Institute of Foreign Trade a t Phoenix, Arizona . He specialized in Lati n America. Lawrence R . Wilson is assistant-manage r of the boy section in the Roseburg, Orego n J. C. Penney store. Spending a year in Europe are Beverl y Laaksonen and Judy Anderson 9 . Both are now in Stockholm, Sweden where Beverly is an English secretary at a Swedish engineering firm and Judy is a cook and English teacher for a Swedish family. Jack E . Morris has completed his second season with the Los Angeles Rams. He and his wife, and daughter Dana Kay, are living at 353 W. Madrone, Roseburg, Oregon during the off- season months. Second Lieut . Courtney H . Kurtz ha s April-May 7960 completed the officer basic course at the In- fantry- School, Fort Binning, Georgia. Secretary: Pepper Alle n PO Box 5131, Eugene, Ore . Christy Schoellenbach Zenger was chose n hostess for theUniversitys Dads Day activities in February. Her husband is a law student a t the University. Promoted to Group Field Representative fo r Standard Insurance Co. in Portland recentl y was Richard C . Easton . He and his wife . Marilyn Poston, live at 2374 S.W . Montgom- ery Drive, Portland. William W . Muessig reports he is em- ployed as a Foreig n Service Staff Office r with the Departmen t of State at the Amer - ican Embassy in Ma - nila, Philippines . Hi s address America n Embassy APO 928 , c/o Postmaster, Sa n Francisco, California. Robert L . Wilder has been named new su- perintendent of River Road Park and Recrea- tion District near Eugene Cecil L . Wilder has joined the news staf f of the Madras (Oregon) Pioneer . Irvin H . Luick has been added to the staff of the West Coast Lumbermen Associatio n traffic department. He has worked for LeDuk e Lumber Company, Siuslaw Lumber Compan y and the Eugene Plywood Company. Exhibits by Emanuel Piladakis were in- cluded in a recent display of the Coos Artist s League. His w a t e r colors, lithographs and wood cuts wer e from the Oregon Ar t Alliance and State Ex- tension Services s now teaching Art a t Oregon State College . Participating in a 12-week Officer Candi- date Course at Ma- rine Corps Schools, Quantica, Virginia, i s Thomas A . Hend- rick. Now working in Los Angeles are Mr . and Mrs. Roger Nudd (Peggy Regan) . Peggy i s teaching at Pilgrim School, a private schoo l with a special accelerated program . Roger , working for his Ph.D., is director of housing for UCLA . Their address is 1453 Brockton, Lo s Angeles 25, California. Robert L . Ackerman and his wife, Barbara, are the parents of a baby girl, born Januar y 8. The couple is at home at 2374 Patterson Dr., Eugene. Carolyn Clogston has accepted a positio n with the United States government as an em- ployee of the European command in Paris r work is in the office of the Secretary of the Army as a civilian employee. William L . Bryant has joined Pacific Na- tional Advertising Agency in Portland as Pro- duction Manager. He had previously been work- ing for the Lake County Examiner, Lakeview, Oregon. William J . Brooks now has law offices with Milligan and Brown at 1188 Olive St ., Eugene as an associate of the firm . He and his wife , Wanda, live at 1990 Friendly St. with their three children. English instructor at Chukyo University , Nagoya, Japan is Shezo Takemoto . His ad - dress is 171, 1-Chome, Ogikube, Suginami-ku, Tokyo, Japan. James D . Staffney has accepted a positio n is physicist with the Radiation Laboratory i n Livermore, California . His work will he i n nuclear research Paul Harvey has interrupted his news - paper career to take the basic training program of the Air National Guard at San Antonio , Texas. He then expects to be assigned to Cha- nute Air Force Base, Illinois. Second Lieut . Richard L . Mayer is no w assigned to U.S. Air Force primary pilot train- ing at Malden Air Rase, Missouri. Kent D . Kitts ha s joined the staff o f HRB-Singer, Inc ., a State College, Penn- sylvania electronic re- research and develop- ment company . H e was with Abar T V Cable in Eugene, Ore- gon previously. David Eccles i s taking basic flight training at Pensacola, Florida and has taken his first solo flight . A recent graduate of the U .S. Army officer basic course at the Infantry School, Fort Ken- ning, Georgia, is Second Lieut . David R . Beach . Blaine Whipple has been named to direc t activities at the Democratic State Office in Port- land. He will work with party organization pub- licity and public relations and plans to trave l throughout the state sentative Charles O. Porter campaign in 1958. Larry Keith Kromling is now sales rep- resentative for Burrough in Portland. Sylvia Rawlinson is in the advertising de- partment of Meier Frank Company. George A . McElveny is enrolled in th e American Institute for Foreign Trade at Phoe- nix, Arizona. He is specializing in Latin Amer- ica. Deaths Circuit Judge Howard K . Zimmerma n 13 died during a visit to Long Beach, California January 1. He was enroute to a hospital fro m the home of a sister . Death was caused by a heart attack. The judge had left his Orego n judicial post of over 30 years on December 3 , his 70th birthday. His resignation and retire- ment became official January 1, the day of his death. Born in Norcatur, Kansas, he lived i n Kansas and Nebraska until 1904 when his family moved to Salem, Oregon. After graduation from the University, he obtained his law degree a t Stanford and practiced law in Atsoria, Orego n until 1928. At this time he defeated the in- cumbent circuit judge in what was considere d one of the biggest upsets in the area politica l history. He was re-elected to the judgeship five times, the last one in 1958. William A . (Bert) Ruth 3, died i n January in Wilmington, California - time owner of the Red Cross Drug Store in Eu- gene and moved to California in the late 1930s. He was a charter member of Eugene Post, Amer ican Legion and organized the Eugene Band of 23 8 9 Hendrick Eccles Banner year in sport s By Art Litchma n A BRILLIANT YEAR for University o fOregon athletics rolls into it s final phase during the next thre e months, and the prospects for contin- ued success appear to he very bright . The Webfoots started what may be - come the greatest year in their histor y last fall with a wonderful football sea - son. Coach Len Casanova's hustlin g squad surprised the whole nation b y winning 8 of 10 games and winding u p the year with one of the top 15 record s in the country . Coach Steve Belko's basketballer s took over then and again the Duck s surprised the nation . First came th e hard-fought regular season which wa s climaxed by the bid to the NCAA 's western regional tournament, and the n followed the victory over New Mexic o State, Border Conference champions . The climax came in the semi-finals o f the western playoff when the Duck s thoroughly trounced Utah, Skylin e Conference champions and fift h ranked team in the country . The Wehfoots lost the next night t o defending champion California, bu t still finished in second place, whic h left them among the top eight amon g the NCAA teams nationally . Coach Dan Van Rossen's swimmer s also had a fine year, winning six dua l meets in a row after opening with a pair of losses, and then scrapping thei r way into second place in the divisio n finals, held at the beautiful new Leigh - ton Pool on the campus . Now comes spring sports, and th e Ducks have been traditionally stron g in this competition for years . Coac h Bill Bowerman's track team won fou r of the last seven pennants, and th e golfers under Coach Sid Milligan hav e won 12 of the last 13 division dua l match titles and added a runnerup i n the PCC and fourth place in the NCA A finals to their laurels last spring . In addition to spring sports, foot - ball goes into spring practice in lat e April and Coach Casanova will hav e a change on his staff . Brad Ecklun d resigned to join the Dallas Rangers o f the NFL and he was replaced by Joh n Robinson, who had been a graduat e assistant and scout for the past tw o seasons . The Ducks will he very strong i n track, headed by world record holde r Roscoe Cook in the sprints, worl d ranked Dyrol Burleson in the middl e distance races . national decathlo n champion Dave Edstrom . and a hos t of other stars . Oregon's baseball team has a stron g group of lettermen headed by Capt . Ron Walp, all-league first basema n Jim Hollister, hard hitting Walt Bar- anski and pitchers Denny Peterso n and Fred Ballard . and the rookie cro p appears to be capable of furnishin g adequate replacements for the veter- ans who graduated . In golf the Wehfoots have anothe r very strong group headed by To m Shaw, Keith Gubrud, Tom Jacobse n and Capt . Chuck Siver . This foursom e spearheaded the great season th e Ducks enjoyed last spring, and they'l l have stiff competition from a goo d sophomore group headed by Jerr y Cundari . The track season at Hayward Fiel d will be the best in history with th e Northern Division relays, Fresn o State, Stanford, Washington State , Oregon State, Northern Divisio n championships, the Oregon AAii an d the National Decathlon champion - ships all scheduled here . In addition to Cook, Burelson . an d Edstrom . Bowerman can count on ex- cellent help from Jim Norval . Ji m Puckett and Jerry Stubblefield in th e sprints, John Mack and Sig Ohleman n in the 440. Ohlemann and Burleson i n the 880 . George Larson and Burleso n in the mile, Larson and Dick Mille r in the two mile, Edstrom in the hurdle s and high jump . Jerry Close in th e broad jump, Phil Paquin in the pol e vault, Jack Slocornhe in the shot an d Stubblefield in the discus . The baseball outlook is strengthene d by the return after a year 's absence o f outfielder Dick Occhiuto and infielde r Pete Gumina, plus lettermen outfield- ers Butch Nyssen and Jim Bode, re - serve infielders Ed Davidson an d sophomores Ray Haroldson behind th e plate and Jim Cloutier in the outfield . All in all, the spring outlook i s excellent. American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps Garnet L . Green'17 died in Astoria,Ore-gon February 1] after a two-year illness nin Pomeroy, Washington, April 20, 1891, he opened a law firm in Astoria] in 1919 d four terms as district attorney for Clatso pCounty from I937 to 1952 and as deputy districtattorney from 1952 to 1958 when ill healt hforced his retirement Lloyd Ward Crow '26, died February 1 in McMinnville, Oregon 1903 at Great Bend, Kansas he came west to do undergraduatwork at Stanford. After graduating from th eUniversity Law school he was admitted to the Oregon bar in 1926. Crow has been active in McMinnville civic affairs the past 30 yearshaving served as both city councilman andmayor. Dr. George Harold Adler '27 died in February at Portland. He was 61. Born in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Adler served a sKlamath county coroner from 1932 to1957 whehe moved with his family to Medford to become medical officer at the Camp White domiciliary. He was later transferredto the Veteran's Hos- pital in Vancouver, Washington Harold T . Hunnicutt '28 died recently a t Oakland, California 63. A native ofEugene, he traveled widely for the United Cigar Stores. Later he was a supervisor for the Rail- way Express Agency for about15 years. Dr. H . Lewis Green 8 died durin gFebruary on a vacation in Arizona. He was59.The prominent orthopedic surgeon had bee npracticing in Madison, Wisconsin, previous to his death. Margaret Spencer Lockwood 8 died January21 at St. Vincent Hospital in Portland. She was receptionist at the Portland Art Mu-seum and had been active in the Civic Theatre. She also worked with the Children's Theatre o the radio. Rena Anderson '31, a retired Portlan dschool teacher, died February 26 at Good Sa-maritan Hospital in that city. Born in New Yor kCity in 1886, she taught at Coquille and Hood River, Oregon, before going to Portland in 1919. Marion M. (Bud) Powell 2 died Januar 16 in The Dalles, Oregon after a short illness. He was a wheat farmer in Sherman County. Born at Moro, Oregon in I910, Powell attendeschool in Portland. Allen Dunbar 6, a onetime Portlander,died February 4 at ht. h ome in Arcadia, Cali- forniafornia the past 18 years Joseph McClelland Devers Jr . 8 waskilled February 24 in a car crash near Eugene. The Salem, Oregon attorney was born in Eu- gene July25, 1917 but had lived and practicelaw in Salem most of his life. W. Vernon Gilmore '47,director of health, recreation and physical education for Salem,died recently of a heart attack. He was 52. He was a leader in state physical education and rec. creation circles and spent years in the Sale school system Lois Nathan Holden 3 died February3at St . Vincent Hospital in Portland. She wasborn Feb. 3, I931, in San Francisco and had lived in Oswego the past three years Donald Vincent Adams '58, resident phy-sician at Physicans & Surgeons Hospital in Port- land, died there December following a heart attack. He was 27. Dr. Adams took his intern- ship at St . 24 Old Oregon Surrounded by Book s Continued from Page 8 the Duchess of Alba . My curiosity wa s aroused as to the historical accuracy o f the characters and events portrayed . This led to the reading of a Iife of Goya an d one of Godoy . Manfred Schneider' s Goya ; a Portrait of the Artist as a Ma n is a fictional study but stays rather close- ly with historical fact . Translated fro m the German it was published in the Unite d States in 1936 . Jacques Chastenet 's Go- doy ; Master of Spain, 1792-1808, trans- lated from the French, is an historica l study of a man who rose from rathe r humble beginnings to a position of grea t power and influence at a critical perio d in the history of Spain . Viewed from th e perspective of these two books, the movi e gets a good grade for being colorful bu t a very poor one for historical accuracy . Another kind of incidental stimulu s comes from actually seeing and handlin g books at first hand . In many libraries , patrons have the opportunity to do thi s only on a limited scale although librari- ans have freedom to roam the stacks . I n the University of Oregon Library patron s have virtually the same opportunities t o walk past, to notice, to browse and to se- lect as members of the staff, because of our open shelf policy . In addition, th e New Book Shelf provides an overview o f books coming into the Library ; the Sev- en Day Shelf calls attention to fairly re - cent, timely, and readable books of a general nature in a wide selection . While walking through the stacks no t too long ago I happened to notice Cath- erine Drinker Bowen's Yankee fro m Olympus ; Justice Holmes and His Fam- ily. This was first published 15 years ag o and fell into that large group of book s "to be read one of these days ." This tim e I picked it up and read it . As the ful l title indicates, this is to some extent th e story of a family--beginning with th e parson, Abiel Holmes in 1809, and endin g with his grandson 's-C h i e f Justic e Holmes'-death in 1935 . In between, o f course, there came "the autocrat of th e breakfast table, " Oliver Wendell Holmes , doctor and writer . Chief Justice Holme s is the central figure in this excellent al - though somewhat fictionalized and'anec- dotal biography . Many of the conversa- tions are imaginary but plausible never- theless. The Seven Day Shelf is a frequen t source of reading . Another Bowen boo k -The Lion and the Throne ; the Life an d Times of Sir Edward Coke {1552-1634 ) -came from there . In this woik, pub - lished in 1957, Mrs . Bowen seems to hav e avoided some of the fictionalizing foun d in her earlier work . This is a fine stud y of an interesting man whose name is a household word among men of law i n countries which have derived their ju- dicial codes f r o in the Anglo-Saxon . Coke's contributions toward the develop- ment of the English Common law an d the ascendancy of Parliament over Crow n are landmarks in history . The Seven Day Shelf also yielded Irv- ing Levine 's Main Street, U .S.S.R. abou t the time of Chairman Khrushchev 's visi t to the United States . Levine went to Rus- sia in 1955 as NB C's Moscow correspond - ent. 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None, that 's what . So as long as everything is fine here , let's not talk about us ; let's talk abou t you alumni-type people . The truth is that being myself a n alumnus of sorts (and never mind wha t sort) I sometimes feel a real empath y with you folks . Sometimes I feel just lik e I'm one of the crowd . And take my word for it : it's a hor- rible feeling . It drives me to cold shower s and cool drinks . The fact is that one of the reasons I' m in Eugene is because I wanted to pu t some real distance between me and th e alumni of my alma mater , I'm 900 miles away from the old plac e now and though I feel a little more se - cure, once in a while I still -get a lette r from the asphalt barrens of Souther n California that serves to remind me tha t while to my loved ones I may be "Goo d Old Ron, " to good old Drive-In Univer- sity I 'm just just another Good Ol d Checking Account . And that's a bitter pill to swallow i n this, the winter of my life . I mean I 'm willing to admit that while I was in at- tendance the college and I were hardl y what you would call close friends . Th e truth is that I 'm one of the few student s that the school ever arranged to hav e drafted . But I thought that with my graduatio n we had buried the hatchet . Why, I n o sooner had flipped my tassel from left t o right for however it went) than I foun d myself in receipt of a letter from th e alumni organization . I remember ripping it open eagerly . "Dear Money, " it began, and suddenl y I knew what it meant to he a colleg e graduate, Now don 't get me wrong . I 'm not on e to get offended by an honest appeal fo r alms, because to tell you the truth I 've been a mendicant myself from time t o time. The thing that scared me off reall y wasn't money ; it was when I sat dow n and gave a sober consideration to the type of person I 'd have to associate wit h if I joined the alumni club . I mean let's be honest . Anyone wh o hasn 't had enough after four years o f college and has to keep running back t o the old campus for annual reunions an d the endless retelling of boyish escapades , well, let 's put our cards on the table , folks : that person has a serious problem . He needs help . And I'm not so well-balanced mysel f that I can afford to submerge myself i n a group like that . I mean when I got out , 1 was glad to get out . A number of u s felt that way . Once in a while, though . I run into a familiar face from my past and I ca n tell that another old buddy has sold ou t to the ranks of the joiners . We do our best to annoy each other . The first thing that gives this fello w away is the complacent odor of diaper s that clings to him ; no amount of deter - gent can ever wash it away . Another giveaway is his lapel button , usually from the Rotary or Kiwanis , though an occasional down-and-oute r will try to sneak by with a breakfas t cereal premium . Such a fellow usually greets me with a cry of "Ron babe!" and claps me on th e back like he was killing a tarantula . "Hello, Sam, " I answer, picking my - self up from the floor . "You're gettin g fat." This doesn't faze him . "Good livin' , Ron babe," he explains, giving me th e big wink and a nudge with his elbow . "I'm up to 12 Gs a year now, pals y walsy." "Oh," I say, "then you 're still workin g for your father ." About then the fun begins . He tells m e about the football team's chances an d the latest marital trouble between Ski p and Barbara and whatever happened t o good old Harry, and in between I mak e comments about mortgages and tim e payments and people who get bald . The part I really like though is whe n I ask him whatever happened to that ugl y girl he used to go with, because nin e times out of ten she turns out to be hi s wife. Then he gets a crestfallen look on hi s face and he says, "You're trying to mak e me feel bad, aren't you? 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One of the senior debaters is no w dean of the Law School ; and another i s an appellate judge in Los Angeles . A t least T must not have stood in their way . D EEP DowN, I feel that here's the rea lanswer about teaching . Do all yo u can to get them into motion, but don 't stand in their way . Encourage withou t flattery and raising false expectations . Be happy when they fly high, but don' t take any credit for it . Be there when the y need you ; listen and even suggest ; bu t above all, get out of their way . Don 't hang onto them, and don't encourag e parisitism . Leave the satellites to Soc- rates . The adoring circle of adulator y cultists. Never like it . Best to keep i n mind that my best students must alway s have included many who probably shine d up a nice, bright antagonism every tim e they came to class . The total of all those Professor Horn is shown as he delivere d lecture on Shakespeare on KOAC-T V classroom project . Photo was taken b y one of Horn 's students as he watche d program on television set at home . who have survived my teaching mus t number thousands, something like 5,000 . Might almost fill Mac Court . I'd like t o assemble them all, and deliver a speech : Friends, Roamers, and Fellow Students- I am grateful for this opportunity to, now tha t you have afl gone out to all parts of thi s world, and many even to the next-this op- portunity to, to-well make this belated apol- ogy for doing so little for you, and at th e same time gaining to much from you . Believ e me I never looked upon you as mere ra w material, though we must admit that some o f you were a little raw when we first met . Without hesitation 1 can say that through m y classes-something like 600 of them, wha t with extension, honors and now TV-ther e have passed many of the most promising an d now most successful young men and the mos t refreshingly, devastatingly beautiful youn g women that . . . But that seems a bit wordy . What did I want to say Ask the chairman , He just putting a glass if Millrace Water int o my trembling hand . Oh, yes, I just wante d to say, Thanks Kids . Please forgive my mis - takes. I believe I haven repeated all of them , and it was nice knowing you all . It was in - deed . Where have they gone, all those flock s of lovely girls and husky lads? There' s that appellate judge, and there 's a na- tionally known artist, and a sea-goin g radio operator who raises bees and hone y in the winter . There 's the couple who fel l in love in one of my classes, if not wit h it, and went to work for the State De- partment . Of course many have gone int o teaching . Then there is the growing lis t of foreign students, some of whom 1 hav e visited as far away as Vienna and eve n Athens, and many who write fro m France, Holland, Norway, Denmark , Brazil, Japan . I have been stopped b y them on the streets of London, Paris , New York, San Francisco, always wit h reminders that we had a class together . M Y STUDENTS WHO have gone int oteaching will understand what sat- isfaction there is to those who are doin g things quite remote from the subject mat - ter of the courses, if that is possible . I have, I recall, given courses in almos t every area : the first specialized course s at Oregon in Milton and the 17th Cen- tury, in the textual study of Shakespeare , in Chaucer, the novel and drama, Englis h and American, and much else besides m y special field of the 18th Century . It is nic e to know that level-headed former stu- dents are transmitting the best of thi s material to others ; but there are doctors , lawyers, judges, businessmen who, if the y are to be believed, have found that stud y of literary works is of positive value i n their professional pursuits . 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I like to feel tha t from our joint efforts they discovere d that the world of Wordsworth and Thorn - ton Wilder, of Pope, Milton . and abov e all Shakespeare, is our world, every - body's world . We talk of Hamlet's solilo- quies or Viola's frustrated love passion ; but we do this in an environment of shift- ing clouds and tall trees . where we ca n hear crows cawing, roosters and robin s and dogs proclaiming their share in exist- ence, the sounds that tie the poetry of th e great ones to the poetry of the earth . I hope my students have sensed that th e human truth that is in Falstaff, Dogberry , the Gravediggers in Hamlet, in Con- greve's Millamant and Lady Wishfort , Dicken's Micawber and Sairey Gamp , Sam Weller, in Beowulf, Sir Gawain . and Lemuel Gulliver and indestructibl e old Robinson Crusoe, in Milton 's Ly- cidas, Gray's Elegy and Shelly's Skylark , and Fielding's Tom Jones that thi s truth is also all about them . When the y were here it was to be found in the night - walking campus custodian . the landlady , in the faculty and, for heroism . in th e coaches and players who make sport s more than a mere distraction . I hope the y have continued to correlate the maste r conceptions of the poets and dramatist s with their post-graduate experiences i n human stuff . If my students learned anything fro m me it was because I was learning fro m others, from the poets, from my col - leagues, but also from them, my students . I have been asked what I mean by sayin g that I can tell how good my students ar e by how much I learn from them . Thi s conviction must he out of my subcon- sciousness ; it seems so obvious . Educa- tion is a mutual affair . If my students ' eyes don 't light up with awareness, o r darken with aroused scepticism, I kno w nothing's happening . From teaching I have learned that all we really know i s what is in our minds, not what is in th e books . Knowledge is not inert facts : it i s the spark struck by the conjunction o f fact and living mind . It is not a thing, bu t a way of living, a projection of life itself . From my students I learn much abou t human nature . confirmation and illum- ination of what we study in literar y works. From them I am frequently re - minded that there is no substitute fo r knowing one 's material and for meanin g what one says, of conviction of value , artistic and intellectual, and that substi - En route to the Library for a bit of re - search, Professor Horn stops to chat wit h one of his students, Quentin Johnson , who is a graduate student in English . tutes will usually be quickly, thoug h politely and silently, detected . O F COURSE IT A . mild absurdity t ospeak of "tny" , students . They ar e only fractionally mine, and it is hig h time to mention that one of first-rate sat- isfactions in teaching at a university i s to know that you are part of a team o f scholars and teachers . Even as I write, I am reminded that Oregon has the benefi t of some of the best men in the country . So now President Wilson has been tappe d for Minnesota ; kind of an educationa l Sputnik-jolt . Nothing that "Met" Wilson has done at Oregon, and he has don e much, deserves more credit than the ma- ture and balanced attitude he has brough t toward advanced education, and the mod- esty with which he has viewed his ow n services. He has always shown kee n awareness that anything and everythin g a president does has value in what h e helps to bring about in the classroom an d laboratory, or rather in the minds an d ultimate lives of the students . He has hel d to the principle that a university mus t grow and develop in terms of its ow n origin and personality . Presidents incline to be either Men o f Growth or Men of Change . The Changer s are men in a hurry ; they throw up build- ings, institute curricular upsets, plac e their emphasis on organization, importe d experts, with their statistical and fact - finding reports and machinery . Thei r service lies in looking toward the future . The Growers, more patient, are sensitiv e to the built-up resources of an institutio n and its built-in laws of development . They carry their resources in their head s and are attentive to the minds and sensi- bilities of others . The Changers, tight - lipped, brief-case burdened, carry thei r strength in their muscles, in externals . Oregon has benefited from both types , and both have contributed to her wel- fare and tradition . It was my original in- tention to try to summarize what I con- sider this tradition to be . However, rathe r than attempting an appraisal of the bod y of dedicated service and conviction . o f sentiment and ivy leaves . I find the im- pulse taking form in many names an d faces and voices that pop into mind . Names of faculty : John Straub, with hi s wit and warmth and wing-collars ; Jame s Gilbert, tough oak and strong, unyield- ing loyalty ; George Rebec, blendin g Greek wisdom . Teutonic idealism, an d Slavonic intensity in a philosophic cen- ter of gravity for the entire community ; Henry Sheldon . incisive, wry Scotch - Irish, and astringent, bringing the his- torian 's cutting scepticism ; Russel l Moore, combining scientific method an d kindly, at times wrathful, concern for a better intellectual standard . B UT TRADITION, as preservation of th epast, is also the responsibility of th e alumni, the body that grow delta-lik e with the addition of each new graduatin g class . The Oregon alumni body is stil l a sleeping giant, rather passive and gen- ial, inclined to be stirred to action by th e Big Threats, particularly to discomfor t and humiliation in athletic defeats . It i s typical of alumni of state-supported uni- versities . But state support isn't all . nor i s it enough . Happily, Oregon has a grow- ing body of steadily concerned, loya l alumni supporters . To describe thei r participation in the life of the Universit y would be to give one of the best defini- tions of her tradition . Again man y names leap into mind . Three in athletics : Don Zimmerman, who went on to Wes t Point and the top post in the recentl y established Air Force Academy ; Bo b Mautz, captain of the football team i n 1925-26 when the going was tough an d muddy ; "Iron" Mike Mikulak, who wa s among the first to play without any sus- picion that Oregon needed to lose a game , and who went on to a general 's stars i n the Army, Three writers : Ernie Haycox , Nancy Wilson ; and well, Goodwi n Thacher, who though a teacher of writ- ers, in being so identified himself wit h writing at Oregon . Three in art : Rol f Klep, nationally known illustrator ; To m Hardy, who has welded metals and East - April-May 1960 29 ern Oregon animal forms into a sensa- tional career in sculpture ; Clifton James , among many in the field of acting, wh o has steadily shaped a place in the Ne w York stage . In music, Marie Rongdahl , winner of a national competition with th e Spitalny chorus, and many others . I n science, technology, management . poli- tics, many names pop up ; and in schol- arship, the most silent and unacclaime d of services to society and tradition, man y more . Of course tradition is an imponder- able, a potential ; the less said about i t the better . The stated tradition at my ow n university seemed to be summed up i n two principles . A Michigan man doesn 't paste labels on his baggage for travelin g to and from Ann Arbor ; because, second , he himself is the best expression of wha t the University stands for . Leave the ad- vertising to those who are less sure o f the value of their school . B UT THIS IS 1960. What about 1925 ,when I said good-bye to Ann Arbor ? Return to the Emerald file reminds me o f three dominant impressions . One : sur- prise at the beauty, at the very existenc e of the campus . Like many who join th e faculty, I had hardly heard of Oregon . Tossed here by fate and my pioneerin g instincts, I would not have been surprise d to find classes meeting in log huts, an d did hope to find my office a lean-to shel- tered by the giant redwoods . Two : m y chagrin at finding football a losing mat - ter. Three : a University in the adolescen t stage, almost touchingly naive (as I wa s too), eager to grow but not quite know- ing how, abashed, ethically and intellec- tually at about the Boy Scout stage . Fa r from being contemptible, this I soon dis- covered to be a kind of frontier virtue . The professional schools seemed to b e in miniature ; but this meant that th e total atmosphere of the campus wa s friendly, and that members of variou s schools and departments could be inti- mately acquainted . Quite evidently Oregon was destined t o grow intellectually, or else die on th e vine. It has grown, and is on the verg e of tremendous advance in the near future . Men like Len Casanova and Bill Bower - man have solved the problems raised b y my Astonishment Number Two, athleti c defeatism . I have never belittled sports , partly because I do enjoy them, but mor e because I consider them an effectiv e gauge of campus and alumni morale and , I am happy to add, because I have at Ore- gon never found that our coaches an d players have belittled what they too knew A 35-year veteran of teaching at Orego n Professor Horn recalls many an illustri- ous alumnus when he struggled with lit . to be our prime activity, classroom stud y and learning . In the fall of 1925, the Emerald from Wednesday to Saturday proclaimed new- ly aroused determination to win thi s week's game . Then Tuesday brought th e usual grim announcement . Well, the sea - son ended 0-6 . I began to feel that Orego n should be spelled with a zero instead o f a big O . The mud of Hayward Field even go t into the Emerald sports writer 's style . The October 6 build-up, prior to th e Idaho defeat, stated that "The team re- sembles a mass of clay which has to h e molded into shape ." The Tuesday issu e offered comfort with the rather mudd y rhetoric of this headline : ASALITY TO SCORE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR DEFEAT . ELEVEN UNHURT BY VANDAL VICTORY . Well I was hurt . I was nobody of course , but already I felt a deep-purple humilia- tion . I RECALL THAT dismal year for on ereason, well two . I like to remembe r dear old Professor Howe, with his larg e umbrella and rubbers, footing it down t o watch the team practice each afternoon . He gave a course in reading poetry alou d with the unshaken conviction that me n with good chests and leg muscles wer e destined to read the heroic lines of Home r and Shakespeare as few others could . Mr. Howe was a fine, scholarly, poetic spirit . He also felt that the purpose of playing a contest was to win . The other reason the dismal year of complete defeat is a vivi d register of what Oregon has climbe d to, not in sports alone, but in many othe r aspects. The old hangdog, we-haven't- got-a-chance-itis has given way to self - respect, but also perhaps too much of th e complacent acceptance of wins, actuall y more than we have a right to expect . Jus t for the record Washington was unde- feated in my induction year . I make n o hones about wanting to lick Washingto n and most any team south of the Fruit In- spection station on the California border . It isn 't just cheap pride and the urge t o feel superior that lies hack of the desir e to have winning players . We all gro w together, academic attainments, publica- tions . student government, musical an d dramatic activities, and of course build- ings. To be sure, almost any one of thes e may get out of proportion, but not athle- tics, where you have coaches with th e standards of Casanova and Bowerman, t o mention those I happen to know . Whe n George Shaw was in my Shakespear e class he was among the best, especiall y for interest and initiative . Currently, m y best reciter, both for ready knowledge o f the text and for sound thinking, is a sophomore guard . I've never joined thos e who have time to sit around and bemoa n the lavish recognition of athletes, or eve n their financial support within reason . Pindar wrote odes to athletic prowess , for bodily health and physical skill ar e not only admirable, they are also essen- tial to our security as a nation . Of cours e athletics has become a business, but it' s a realistic and toughening business, lik e charity or the church, I've never discov- ered that any student, or professor, ha s been kept from his study or laborator y because other students were out in al l weathers, training to break the four-min- ute mile or the egomania of UCLA . Also I take a dim view of most academic hon- ors, that is awards other than intelligent- ly advanced loans and fellowships . Th e academic honors lie in the sharing in th e great intellectual tradition, of Homer , Sophocles, Dante ; of Erasmus, Chaucer , Shakespeare, Moliere, Goethe . No cup s or badges are needed to affirm the posses- sion of an awakened and cultivated in- telligence . A UNIVERSITY, like a nation, grow sout of challenge, conflict, and tri- umphs . Athens had its Sparta, Assisi it s Perugia, San Francisco its Los Angeles , and Oregon, in the quiet little valle y town of Eugene, has had its problems . This I discovered again in the 1925 Em- erald . It appeared that there was a school , known as Oregon Agricultural Colleg e or OAC for short . (They beat us 24 to 1 3 that ) ear.) Concern was being show n over the encroachments beyond its leg - ally established areas of study . Thes e were prescribed as technical, engineer - 30 Old Oregon ing . forestry, and as the name implied , agricultural . For some mysterious reaso n these noble utilitarian contributions t o social welfare and more certain avenue s to financial self-advantage were looke d upon as inferior . Particularly puzzlin g for a state which depended so much upo n its agriculture . anything that had to d o with the care and breeding of stock an d the raising and harvesting of crops wa s considered an embarrassing secret, lik e indigent relatives . The function of pre - serving our first pride as a state . our for- ests of Douglas fir, or even that estimabl e service of bringing a better, juicier sir - loin steak to the table-well . it has be - come common knowledge that no center s of esteem for culture, pure and disinter- ested, quite equal our titular schools o f technology . Hence we suffered throug h the period of the Zorn-Macpherson Bill , which had the noble purpose of movin g the University 40 miles northwest to a n overcrowded campus which still cheer - fully found it could put up any number o f extra guests, or captives . I had been her e for seven years by then, not long enoug h to burn with partisan resentment, bu t still long enough to be struck by the fac t that commi rcial interests never valu e the presence of the University so muc h as when there is the likelihood that sh e might step out with somebody else . In fact, please consult the 1925 Emer- ald again ; a citizen's committee wa s formed to protect the Millrace from com- mercial exploitation or complete annihi- lation . I wish only that the item coul d also have preserved something of wha t was at stake . The Millrace in those day s of the Tender Twenties! I see it yet . Lit- tle groups of faculty and students, spotte d about at bare tables on the railed terrac e of the old Anchorage . Relaxing in th e mellow autumn sunshine as they watche d the canoes plying the smooth-flowin g stream, paddles dipping and dripping , fish darting and leaping for the crumb s the watchers flung to them, the very sou l of friendly, unassuming Oregon . "Oh Oregon, we pledge to thee . . . " No pledge was needed . Here was life, its own affir- mation, warming itself quietly while th e gigantic Southern Pacific locomotive s thundered past with their mile-long train s of cars . Beyond, up the bank, the tree s sheltering the gray walls of old Villar d Hall . It warmed the heart ; and to cool i t again were the subdued greens of the lil y pads and the willows, trailing their hai r in the sliding water and the thick surfac e scum that floated above the oozy botto m gardens of water-weeds . I have visited a hundred campuses, and I have found onl y April-May 1960 one to equal the humane, soul-satisfyin g charm of the old Millrace . Of course tha t is Cambridge, with its Cam, which is on e of the glories of England . Commercialis m has destroyed much, and perhaps engi- neering ineptitude more, of what used t o make visitors to Eugene catch thei r breath . But much has been saved, eve n though no campus poet has come along t o express it . One can always go back to th e fervent lines of Rupert Brook 's Gran- chester, which celebrates the Cam as i t slides down its curving way to the cluste r of colleges that knew Milton, Gray , Wordsworth, and Byron . ,4h, Gad! to see the branches stir Across the moon at Granrhester ; To smell the thrilling sweet, and rotten , Unforgettable, an/orgotte n Hiner smell. O NE MORE GLANCE at the October ,1925 Emerald, one more link be- tween then and now . On the dark side ; the post office warned students agains t putting notes in their laundry packages . Doubtless these were their main weekl y messages home . On the bright side : A Russian student declared that "America n university education is much better tha n that of Russian universities ." In 1960 w e face the pressing question whether tha t "is" will have to be changed to "was." If not, it will take something other than de- ploring athletics, or activities, or any - thing else that deplorers happen to dis- like. It will take conservation of traditio n and resources . of the state and its educa- tional institutions, of trees and water - sheds and of brains and hearts . It wil l take efforts of men such as Don Z . Zim- merman, who left the University as I wa s arriving, but to go on to take memorie s of Hayward Field Clay and 13th Stree t to West Point, and to his career in th e Air Force . Zimmerman never found ou t that you have to lose, and he would quick - ly point to a growing list of Oregon grad- uates who never found it out, men in th e line of Baz Williams, Shy Huntington , Skeet Manerud . and Karl Onthank wh o are still active on the Oregon team . Th e University community now reaches roun d the world ; it includes more and more peo - ple who are concerned about what is hap- pening on the Millrace, concerned abou t new buildings, new policies, the next ne w president, but above all concerned abou t the old spirit . Oregon has grown, steadil y and soundly since 1925 . Now that physi- cal growth has become unavoidable, I hope we may avoid the perils of oversize , the loss of sensitivity and above all friend - liness . Koke-Chapman Company Nish (1) Phil Tom (1) Dick (2 1 Stationery Supplie s e Office Furnitur e Printers-Lithographer s Wedding Announcements and Invitation s 73 E. Broadway Phone DI 5 .0103 Eugene Your KODAK Stor e DI 4-2201 Eugene 76 W . Broadwa y H. T. WILTSHIRE 1015 High Stree t Join the Honor Rol l of LIFE MEMBER S of th e OREGON ALUMNI ASSN . Write ALUMNI OFFICE, University o f Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, today fo r details how you, too, can become a LIFE MEMBER! 31 Alumn Memories Are pleasantly recalled whe n you visit Seymour Cafe, whil e in Eugene . Alumni before 1930 knew i t as the "Peter Pan" and since 1930 , it has been Seymour Cafe . Dale Seymour, Class of 2 an d partner Glenn Fackrell, welcom e all alumni to visit Seymour Caf e and re-live college memories . Se m 0U r Mai ;IC . ru,.n lo, T eel r ...JIIL :weiamsums .w p , at] Letters to the Editor . . . 3 Convenient Location s 1950 Frankli n 8th Willamett e 1 50 Coburg Roa d We give S H Green Stamp s DEL REY 845 Willamett e The Family Restaurant o f Eugene Parkside Loung e For Your Favorite Cocktai l THE PANCAKE RESTAURAN T 652 E . Broadwa y featurin g STEAK S CHICKE N PANCAKES Favorite Professor s To THE Lmion : My favorite Oregon professor is Paul Dul l because he attempts to create a personal bond between each student and himself-and he ha s the ability to make his subject matter live an d breathe within the mind of the student cern for the student never ceases nor do hi s academic objectives diminish-even at his ow n personal expense a fine human being Morris Sahr 1, MA53 Falls Church, Virgini . . TO THE EDtron: It was my privilege the other day to be a member of a seminar group conducted by on e of Harvard great teachers . The participant s were astounded, not at the great man basi c knowledge of child development, the philosoph of the American public school system, and ho to deal with children in the classroom-of hi s abilities in the field of education they were al - ready aware through his authoritative writings butathis feeling for words, his respect for clar- ity and directness of expression, his proficienc in French, German, and Latin, and his familiar- ity with both the world of the classics and th e world of today in which his interests seeme d endless He was equally at home in mathematics, psy- chology, and all the social sciences . He wa s articulate, even earthy in his speech t rationally and objectively, and knew the differ- ence between fact and opinion f his mind commanded respect m tolerant of their views, respectful of sincerity , and not afraid of ideas. He was human, kindl in all student-teacher relationships, and skillfu in group dynamics At noon of the first day as were on our way to lunch, one of the seminar participants said t me, "Isn this a nce in a lifetime experience ? Ie never known anyone to equal this man s mind or his skill in teaching." The speaker was himself a literate man with a doctor degree My reply was an expression of a though t which had been in my mind all morning . "Youe right," I said, "it is a `once in a lifetim e experience but for me it is not a new experi- ence. I have been more fortunate than you fo r I have already encountered just such a liber- ally-educated man The man of whom I spoke is a professor i n the school of journalism at the University o f Oregon. In his courses copyediting, law of the press, and history of journalism, he brings t o his students all the qualities and abilities exhib- ited by the great educator in his seminar When the man from Harvard said, "A ma n hasnt lived until he has been batted around by a really good research man at the graduat e level," I thought of Warren C . Price and hi s seminar in foreign journalism . He knows th e principles of research . Facts to him are onl y important when related to knowledge of th e past, present, and future e in his students an appreciation of good researc and its techniques Like the man from Harvard, Warren C. Price knows his field for he has long and recent ex- perience at the typewriter and the copydesk . He knows the literature of journalism, perhaps better than any other journalist today e cities a referenec fur his students, he not only gives accurate information on author, title, pub- lisher, and date of publication but includes a stimulating annotation ing from his special field, and outside the field as well. And his name like the Harvard man s is found frequently in the literature of hi s chosen field Yes, Warren C . Price is one of my favorit e professors ! (Mrs .) Mildred Baker Burch rt 9 870 E e Salem, Oregon Class of 4 Report s To THE EDITOR Belatedly, I wish to report on the Class o 1914. Our Reunion last June was sparsel y attended-chiefly because we have lost al l four class presidents, and our permanen t secretary, by death The small group re-organized, selectin g the writer as class president, and Raymond 0 . Williams, as class secretary . 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