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Conventions, especially national conventions,
are usually classed as a good occasion for a lot
of playing and very little work. The recent na-
tional convention of the American Alumni
Council (the national association of alumni
directors'! proved to be something of an ex-
ception.
Naturally one of the foremost subjects of
discussion was that of raising funds for the
schools to enable them to pay more appropriate
salaries to faculty members. That was to be
expected. But what was rather surprising was
the number of alumni directors who were re-
viewing their own organization to justify the
existence of their association. They were not
too sure just what their association was all
about. Some were quick to admit that they had
allowed their alumni to become pure athletic
booster clubs. Others were mere service clubs
for alumni social gatherings; and there were
various other purposes.
But the schools whose alumni associations
have the greatest membership with the most
activities are those whose alumni recognize
that the association of alumni is for the benefit
of the school. They realize that if their only
excuse for existence is to use the facilities of
the school for the gain of the individual alumnus
they are doomed to failure.
Yes, they know that many alumni say that
they paid for their own education and that they
don't owe clear old Siwash a thing; they know
that some say they are too busy to be bothered
with all that rah rah stuff. But they know too
that there are many who don't measure their
interest in their school in dollars and cents or
in Saturday afternoon enthusiasm. The alumni
in the latter group recognize that the job of
educating the young people of America is a
pretty serious business and a highly important
undertaking. They are even more convinced
when they see America's top businessmen and
leaders in government turn their attention and
efforts to improving the educational program
of the nation.
The first step of course is in maintaining their
alumni membership. It is only four dollars per
year. Others send a small contribution to the
University for its development fund. The de-
velopment fund provides scholarship money for
worthy and needy students. (Funds for athletic
purposes are entirely separate.) Other dollars
are used for augmenting the pay of outstanding
professors or to establish a faculty position on
the campus. In case you feel that this is the state
taxpayers responsibility, you should under-
stand that the state does try but that there is
never enough money to go around for all pur-
poses and that state funds must be augmented
from other sources. Now and then there is a need
for workers for a University project but the con-
tribution of time and effort is very small for any
one person.
If an alumni association could look back each
year to a record of service to its school, then
and only then will there be any justification for
its existence. The recent Ford Foundation gift
of $500,000,000 to educational institutions pin-
pointed the answer. The schools which were
doing the most to help themselves received the
largest grants. Your alumni association must
function for the benefit of Oregon. And you,
by virtue of having attended Oregon, are a part
of that alumni association.
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Published by the
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Member American Alumni Council
August-September 1956 Vol. XXXVI, No. 27
COVER
The photos of past stars of the University Theatre smile down
on these players, Kathy and Gail Richmond, as they relax be-
tween acts of the spring Theatre production, "Carousel." Kathy
and Gail, who are sisters, appeared as singers and dancers in
the play. Many of the past stars pictured in the background have
gone on to professional theater work. You can read more on this
and on a Swedish student's impressions of the University Theatre
by turning to page four. (Photo by Ken Merzler.)
THIS ISSUE
Reader's Choice 2
Physicists Convene at Oregon 3
A Swede Eyes the University Theatre 4
Here's a Fellow Who Enjoys His Work 8
Scenic Oregon 11
Educating Tomorrow's Journalists 15
Old Oregon Roundup 17
The Classes 19
Author's New World 27
Editorial Staff
KEN METZLER
Editor
BASS DYER '45
Business Manager
CLAIRE THOMPSON
Class Notes Writer
Executive Committee Oregon Alumni Association
ORVAL THOMPSON '35
President
BASS DYER '45
Director
C. R. "SKEET" MANERUD '22
Vice-President
WILLIS C. WARREN '30
Treasurer
RAY E. VESTER '21
Past President
A. T. GOODWIN '47
JOE McKEOWN '29
RANDALLS. JONES'24
MILTON W. RICE '28
MORRIS H. ROTENBERG '35
ROBERT W. THOMAS '36
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at the University of Oregon Press. Subscription price $4.00 per year. Entered as second-class matter at thepost office at Eugene, Oregon under act of March 3, 1879. Advertising representative: American Alumni
Magazines, 100 Washington Square North, New York, N.Y.
August-September 1956
The following is reprinted from an edi-
torial appearing in the Eugene Register-
Guard. The author is a 1948 graduate of
the University and is associate editor on the
Register-Guard.
Alec Waugh, the novelist, talks about
"The Best Atmosphere in Which to Read."
In the book review section of the New York
Times, he tells about the books he's read
while sailing to the Indies, the books he's
read aboard Dutch boats, the happy hours
with The Old Wives' Talc (a second-hand
copy "picked up ... in Tangier on the eve
of a four-day journey to Southampton"),
and the dreadful airline regulations which
prohibit carrying large numbers of books.
It's an interesting article, although a
little exotic for those of us who rarely buy
second-hand books in Tangier, who will
probably never board a Dutch liner and
who make airplane trips only rarely and
then of short duration. But it does open up
the question of the best atmosphere in
which to read.
The classic atmosphere is that of the
library, hushed and antiseptic. No smoking.
Feet on floor. Visit a reading room at the
University of Oregon library someday. Note
the students, fountain pens in hand, taking
notes. Note the number who have removed
their shoes. Note that the books are flat
on the table and that the chins are propped
on the hands. But these people aren't read-
ing; they're studying.
The reader is comfortable. He lies back
and, if he is a true reader, he elevates the
feet. He smokes. The radio is off. Likewise
the teevee.
Exceptions abound. There is the reader
of our acquaintance who reads in the kitch-
en. He sits on a stool, a high stool, and puts
the book flat on the drain board. A spotlight
illuminates the page. There he sits, jaw in
hands, reading into the night.
Reader's
Choice
By Bob Frazier
The conditions under which a person
settles down with a book
vary tremendously, according to this author.
Of course, it always helps to start
with a good book
A woman, the wife of a dear friend, has
another system, one we've never been
privileged to witness. We understand she's
a bathtub reader who spends hours with
current periodicals and the lukewarm
water. Now and then, when she starts to
doze, the magazine falls. When visiting
in that pleasant home one may often see the
current New Yorker hanging up to dry. Or
perhaps Harper's, which costs 50 cents.
Living in the big city has its advantages.
There one may read while riding subway
or bus to and from work. Even in our little
town, we've found, one may read Time,
cover to cover, in five days of riding the bus
to and from work. But so few of us ride the
bus.
Some, of course, read in bed, although
the faint of heart who fear to smoke in bed
rarely read in bed. And how does one keep
from scooting down in the covers? Yet bed
readers are legion and the envy of those who
just can't get comfortable while the rib,
on the next pillow, keeps bumming matches
in the middle of the second Roosevelt ad-
ministration.
It is considered bad form to eat while
reading, or to read while eating. Yet it is
pleasant sometimes to sit on a stool with a
magazine and a corned beef sandwich and
no conversation. Well do we remember the
box. the whole box, of soda crackers that
went with Of Human Bondage. And those
hot pastrami sandwiches that tasted so good
on Harvard Square with the Journals of
Leivis and Clark!
A housewife, mother of many, used to
keep a book in every room in the house.
When she had a moment she'd open that
room's book and read. In a year she got
through 100 books.
Nor must we forget the music reader
who likes War and Peace and "1812 Over-
ture," a book of nature writings and Beet-
hoven's Sixth, an American political his-
tory and the "New World." But who has
ever found a book that can be read to Beet-
hoven's Fifth? Ah, but we stray. Music
reading is another subject.
Reading is done best if the reader can
create an artificial atmosphere of scarcity.
Europe-bound aboard the Queen Mary in
World War II, we were truly "a man of one
book." That one book was Anna Kare-
nina, which we took to the back porch of
that marvelous vessel and read for five days
while crossing the Atlantic.
The choice of reading atmosphere is per-
sonal. Some read into the night and some
rise early to read as the sun comes up. A
few years ago a Reed College student was
picked up by the cops for wandering around
Portland reading Shelley by moonlight.
Some like the beach sand, some a river
bank, some a mountain meadow and some
the deep woods.
But wherever you read the basic recipe
is the same?get a good book, get com-
fortable, and tell everybody to shut up.
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Physicists Convene at Oregon
B. L. Freemesser
The first meeting of the American Physical Society to be held at the University of Oregon
for 26 years was held during the latter part of June. In this photo discussing plans for
meeting are (1. to r.) W. A. Nierenberg, professor of physics at the University of California
and West Coast secretary for the Society; R. T. Birge, past president of the Society and
for many years head of the physics department at the U. of California; and B. Crasemann,
assistant professor of physics at the University of Oregon, who had charge of local
arrangements.
Pouring coffee for W. A. Nierenberg is
Felix Bloch, of Stanford University, who
won Nobel Prize for work in magnetic prop-
erties of atomic nuclei.
Chatting during break in meetings are W.
H. Brattain (left) of Bell Telephone lab,
co-discoverer of the transistor, and H. D.
Smyth, former U.S. Atomic Energy com-
missioner.
August-September 1956
... because
they went
to their doctors
in time
Many thousands of Americans arc
heing cured of cancer every year.
More and more people are going
to their doctors in time. That is
encouraging!
But the tragic fact, our doctors tell
us, is that every third cancer death
is a needless death... twice as many
could he saved.
To learn how to head off cancer,
call the American Cancer Society
office nearest you or simply w rite to
"Cancer" in care of your local
Post Office.
American Cancer Society
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College Drama
is fun ichether
it's in a Swedish
basement or in
a vast auditorium
like Oregon's
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"I can't understand why they didn't make
it bigger," the critical Oregon student said,
as we entered the University Theatre.
"Why, this is the biggest student theater
I've ever seen," I said and sighed impressed,
when we sat down in the comfortable chairs.
The student looked at me a bit surprised,
for how could he know anything about the
Swedish students theaters. I couldn't tell
him either, because at that moment the
orchestra drowned every sound in the Car-
ousel Waltz.
Probably the Oregon student would
never have believed me, if I had told him
about the student theaters in Sweden, and
a Swedish student, suddenly placed outside
the University Theatre in Eugene would
never have thought that in this modern,
spacious building the students at the Uni-
versity of Oregon act, sing and dance.
In Sweden the students perform tragedies
and comedies, classics and musicals in high
schools, basements and attics. They don't
even dream of their own theater. Instead
of big dressing rooms with dressing tables
for everyone, they have to stand in line to
get a look in the mirror. Their supply of
costumes is little comparing it with the
Oregon students' innumerable dresses and
suits from different countries and centuries,
and the Swedes have nothing like the radio
In top photo, Jack Boone gets a last-minute
assist in adjusting tie from Donna
Davenport before going on stage as
Bascombe in Carousel. Left: A scene from
Carousel. Opposite page: Tru Vosberg
applies final touches to makeup.
eaire
By Kerstin Ahlstrand
and TV department and speech clinic at the
University Theatre.
"Do it yourself" counts much more to the
Swedish students than to the Americans.
The student theaters in Sweden are not di-
rected by any faculty. Hence the Swedes
have no professional teachers, directors
and set designers, but they have as much en-
thusiasm as the American students, per-
haps more, because of the poor conditions
under which they are playing.
Ask a Swedish student the reason for
these conditions and he will answer you:
"We don't have any money." The Univer-
sity of Oregon Theatre did not have any
money either when it started around the
turn of the century. The theater-minded
students had to give away the box office re-
ceipts of the first play to the football team,
and the theater had to struggle through
hard years before the courses listed as
"drama" were accepted in 1913 as the
first in any American university.
It is traditional to give one Shakespearian
play every other year and some of the great
classics that have gone on the U of 0 stage
The author, who at-tended Oregon on a
scholarship, is an artcritic for a Swedish
newspaper. She haswritten numerous arti-
cles for Swedish maga-zines and has co-au-
thored a detective noveltitled "Murder in Vain."
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In dressing room getting ready for University Theatre
stage production, Carousel, are Micky Simmons (left)
ivho plays Carrie and Tru Vosberg, a 1952 UO grad-
uate, ivho takes the part of Mrs. Mullin.
Gordon Howard (right) who plays the lead as Billy in
Carousel, helps Ed Ragozzino apply sideburns for his
role as Jigger. Howard plans to go to New York this
year to try his luck on Broadway.
have included Ibsen, Aristophanes, O'Neill
and Euripides.
Last season's Shakespeare drama was
"Macbeth," and it was the second most ap-
preciated play of the year. The most popu-
lar was?of course?the musical comedy
of the year, Rogers and Hammerstein's
"Carousel" under the direction of Horace
\T. Robinson, the University Theatre's suc-
cessful director since 1948.
The taste for different kind of plays is
rather alike in the U.S. and Sweden. It is
the great classics and the light comedies
and musicales that have the largest appeal.
Perhaps the Swedish students are a little
more aware of the modern drama by the
young play writers in different countries.
If the University Theatre in Eugene were
to give a performance of a modern foreign
play, it probably would have to be a success
on Broadway first.
Some of the Swedes who have acted in
student theaters continue their career in
films or radio, or go to the official theater
schools, but it is not so common as in the
United States.
Among the students who in recent years
have graduated from the Speech Depart-
ment with their major interest in theater
and who have continued their careers in-
clude: Tru Vosburg, Beverly Green and
Mary Krenk wjio appear on KVAL-TV in
Eugene; Glenna Smith Page who appears
on Portland TV; Paul Wexler, Hollywood
character actor in motion picture and TV;
Don Shirley, a scenic designer for NBC
TV; Cliff James, a professional actor in
New York; Larry Barsness, who operates a
summer theatre in Virginia City, Montana;
Don Von Boskirk, who is starring in sum-
mer stock in the East; Gloria Lee, who is
appearing as a dancer in Hollywood and
Las Vegas; Kay Korn, who works in TV
administration in New York; and Jerome
Alden, who is a free lance motion picture
writer. In addition to those listed above
who are making professional appearances,
there are a number of others who are teach-
ing drama in high schools and universities.
The college and university teachers include
Walden Boyle, Eddie Hearn, Faber De-
Chaine, Robert Over, James Price, Richard
Hiatt, and Howard Ramey of the present
Oregon Theatre Staff.
The enthusiasm in theater that was so
common in the twenties and thirties is no
longer to be found on Broadway, the well
known critic Francis Fergusson said in a
speech to the students at the University of
Oregon during last fall term. The new
theater generation is growing up on the
college stages where the Americans are
being educated to see drama. All over the
U.S. the students do as in Eugene. They
tempt the public with musical comedies and
sneak in experimental drama among the
popular plays. People like it and they may
skip some movies to go to the University
Theatre.
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Bridge is a popular pastime in the University Theatre's
"Green Room" as players wait turn to go on stage. The
production Carousel, in which these players appeared,
uas most popular of season.
Enjoying an offstage conversation in the "Green Room"
are these Carousel players?Jack Boone (Bascombe)
Patsy Killgallon (singer and dancer) and Becky Nobles
(who plays one of the Snow family).
Carousel singers relax off stage.
HERE'S A,
Left: Cartoonist Dan Min-
dolovich. Photo ivas taken
when he ivorked for Rose-
burg paper. Top: A sample
of Mindolovich's work for
Oregon Journal.
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The first time I saw Dan Mindolovich he
was sitting at a table at Jefferson High
School, Portland, clutching a cartoon,
laughing wildly.
I walked over and peered over his shoul-
der. The cartoon was a four-panel affair.
The first panel: man standing at edge of
cliff, about to jump. He's saying, "Farewell,
cruel world."' Second panel: the man leaps.
Third panel: a new character shouts,
"Okay, cut." Fourth pane]: men on a movie
set gather up the props.
Not worth going into hysterics over, you
say? Probably not. But to Mindolovich the
cartoon was funny. And who could better
appreciate it than the man who drew it?
This easily moved cartoonist has up-
graded the idea content of his work since
those days at Jefferson, but he's not been
able to improve to any great extent the
drawing which gpes into his cartoons. He
was an unusually gifted craftsman then;
he's good today. His style has some of the
best qualities of the work of Roy Crane,
cieator of Wash Tubbs and later Buz Saw-
yer, a cartoonist whom Mindolovich studied
as a youngster.
He majored in journalism at Oregon be-
cause he'd heard in high school that car-
toonists couldn't make a living. He drew
some cartoons for the Emerald, more for
the Oregana, and went through the mo-
tions of covering downtown beats for his
reporting class in preparation for a news-
paper career.
His fellow students recall him as some-
thing of a character. Jack Billings, then
editor of the Emerald, tells of the time he
phoned his house to ask that the cook hold
dinner in the oven for him. He got House-
brother Mindolovich.
"Hello, Dan. This is Billings."
Before Billings could make his request,
he heard Mindolovich lay down the receiver
and shout, "Hey, Billings! JACK BILL-
INGS!" Then after a wait: "Hello. He's
not here."
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"Why. you character," responded the
Emerald editor, "I'm Billings."
"Oh," said Mindolovich, "you're wanted
on the phone."
Consider the time the cartoonist saw a
coed wearing two pins on her sweater.
"What's that top pin?" he asked her.
"That's my Kappa pin," was her answer.
"What's the other one?"
"That's a Chi Psi pin."
"Well, how come?" Mindolovich wanted
to know. "Do you belong to two sororities?"
His first job after graduation in 1948
was with the Roseburg News-Review as a
sports reporter. No one could have been
more miscast. Mindolovich, no athlete him-
self, although he's built like one, didn't
know a goal post from a "T" square. But,
because he was willing to spend extra hours
rewriting his stories and consulting the rule
books, he managed to hold on. Then some-
one discovered he could draw.
At first there were spot drawings for ad-
vertisers. Then an occasional cartoon to
illustrate a feature story. Finally some edi-
torial cartoons. Somehow, Editor Charlie
Stanton managed to justify employing
Mindolovich full time as a staff cartoonist.
Perhaps no other daily of comparable size
in the country could afford such luxury.
Mindolovich made it pay for the News-
Rcricw. The advertisers liked the decora-
tions in their ads, and the readers liked the
bright spots in the news columns. They
talked about "their" cartoonist. They ap-
preciated the fact that it wasn't "canned"
art they were getting.
Recently a University instructor who
had spent some time in class discussing
such widely-known cartoonists as Fitzpat-
rick of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Her-
block of the Washington Post and Times-
Herald, asked in a final exam for the name
of any living cartoonist and his newspaper
or syndicate. This was the answer given by
one student: "Dan Mindolovich, Roseburg
News-Revieiu."
"He's a remarkable boy," remarked Edi-
tor Stanton at a recent Oregon Newspaper
Publishers Association meeting in Eugene.
"I call him into the office to give him an as-
signment, and with two or three strokes,
right in front of me, he's got a cartoon."
This spring in Portland Howard Fisher
retired as the Oregon Journal's editorial
cartoonist. Carl Bonelli moved up to take
his place. Mindolovich got Bonelli's job.
Now in the news room of the Journal,
way back in the corner where the artists
congregate, sils Dan Mindolovich, working
where he's always wanted to work?for his
home town newspaper. He's still laughing
at his own cartoons. So are 200,000 famil-
ies on the Journal's circulation lists.
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Humorous advertisements drawn by
Dan Mindolovich had wide folloiving in
Roseburg Neivs-Review. Advertisers liked
them too. For some serious work by
Mindolovich, turn the page .. .
August-September 1956
Our Oivn Iron Curtain Year of Destiny
The three editorial cartoons
appearing on this page were
among the best drawn by Dan
Mindolovich for the Roseburg
NciL's-Rcviczv. Mindolovich was
unique at Roseburg; few small
dailies were able to afford a full-
time cartoonist.
Who Will Roll Aivay the Stone?
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TTiree Sisters Mountains are three of the
youngest volcanic peaks of the Cascade
Range. Nearby lava fields are probably
not more than 500 years old. The largest
glacier in Oregon, Collier Glacier, is
between North and Middle Sister.
Numerous cinder cones and lakes are found
around base of mountains.
Photo Captions by
James C. Stovall
Assistant Professor of Geography
It is difficult to find a state more scenic than Oregon, a
point which many alumni have found more obvious the
farther away they move. The outdoor recreational oppor-
tunities in Oregon's mountains, the coast, the valleys or
the plateaus are numerous; the scenic vistas offered are
tremendous. It is a widely accepted phenomenon that the
people who live in and around Oregon's majestic moun-
tains usually go to the coast on a holiday; the people on
the coast, of course, go to the mountains. But so long as
it's in Oregon, how can you lose? ()n this and on the next
three pages. OLD OREGON presents some views of Scenic
Oregon.
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Oregon Slate Highway Commission
To many people, Mt. Hood means Oregon. The highest peak in Oregon's
Cascade Range, the mountain overlooks Lost Lake.
Driving the Santiam Pass one approaches Three Fingered Jack (shown in
background). It is one of the many volcanic peaks of the Cascades.
12
Multnomah Falls, located on the Columbia
River Highway, drop 620 feet over the lip
of an ancient basaltic cliff.
Old Oregon
Tom Burns Jr
Crater Lake, the gem of the Cascade Range
in Oregon, is the crater of an ancient vol-
cano created 6,600 years ago, according to
studies of radio-active carbon formed at the
time of eruption. The Phantom Ship (cen-
ter) is a portion of a ridge extending into
the crater. With no inlet, the lake is fed only
by rains and melting snow; water escapes
through evaporation and by springs at the
base of the mountain.
Fishermen find the white-water McKenzie
River both thrilling and satisfying.
This stream heads in the snow-capped
Cascades and joins the Willamette River
near Eugene
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This is the Cove Palisades State Park
near Redmond. The Deschutes
and Crooked Rivers join in a deeply-
dissected portion of a lava plateau.
Above: Three Creeks Lake is popular fish-
ing lake, located on a forest road south of
Sisters. Right: Ice Lake, in W'allowa Moun-
tains, is one of numerous glacial lakes in
this area.
Oregon State Highway Commission
Sea Stacks at Bandon indicate a recently uplifted shore line. A new
marine platform is being cut into the land by the waves and the sea
stacks are remnants of the former beach surface.
Eugene UJJIIC Library
Eucrene, Or^aon B. L. FreemeBser
Charles Duncan, (right) dean of the University of Oregon School of Journalism, is interviewed by Glenn Starlin over Eugene TV station.
Educating Tomorrow's Journalists
they're getting
a broad curriculum
at Oregon's
T school
This is condensed from the script of a
television program, broadcast over the Eu-
gene and Roseburg television stations last
May 27 as part of the "Now You Know"
series ivhich is sponsored by the Oregon
State System of Higher Education. On the
program, Dean Charles T. Duncan of the
School of Journalism was interviewed by
Professor Glenn Starlin, acting head of the
Department of Speech.
STARLIN: Dean Duncan, so that we may
all know just what we're going to talk
about, would you tell us: What is Journal-
ism '(
DUNCAN: Oddly enough, that's a rather
difficult question to answer. Journalism can
he about as broad as you want to make it.
To most people it means newspapers; to
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many it means mainly big newspapers. And
it means magazines, especially news maga-
zines. But the field is actually much broader.
There are certain very important aspects
of broadcasting that fall within our scope,
mainly the news and commercial aspects
of radio and television. And there's public
relations. Last, but by no means least, there
is the whole huge field of advertising.
STARLIN: Is special, formal training re-
quired to become a journalist as it is for a
doctor or a lawyer?
DUNCAN: Well, a journalist is and is not
a professional man, but more on that later.
To answer your question directly?no, spe-
cial training is not required. I would say
that it's highly desirable.
STARLIN: Why is this so? Why doesn't a
journalist have to have a "shingle," a di-
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ploma or a license to practice his profes-
DTJNCAN: For two reasons. First, because
to require licensing, or even to require a
stipulated course of study, we would need a
law or laws to enforce such a requirement.
And such laws would be in violation of the
First Amendment to our Constitution, -which
guarantees free speech and a free press.
Second, a school of Journalism such as Ore-
gon's does not and should not emphasize
"professional" training at the expense of
liberal education, for it is of the very es-
sence of journalism that its practitioners
be broadly-educated people.
STARLIN: Do you imply that your curric-
ulum in journalism needs, or has, a broader,
more liberal program of study than is pos-
sible or desirable in some of the other pro-
fessional schools?
DUNCAN: Yes. In fact, though ours is of-
ficially designated as a professional school,
journalism is not a profession in the sense
that law and medicine, for instance, are pro-
fessions, in terms of the training required,
the restrictions imposed and standards en-
forced, though it is a profession in other
senses. There seems to be a good deal of
misunderstanding on this matter of curricu-
lum or course of study. Actually, the student
who majors in journalism at the University
of Oregon takes only about one-fifth of all
his college courses in the School of Jour-
nalism. The rest is in liberal arts. And even
of that one-fifth, only about half are what
might be called "technique" courses, the
others being themselves essentially of a
liberal-education nature, owing to the very
breadth of journalism itself.
STARLIN: If there is an advantage to ma-
joring in journalism, is the University of
Oregon a good place to get that back-
ground?
DUNCAN: That's a loaded question if I
ever heard one. But seriously, and with as
much detachment as I can muster, the an-
swer can be an honest and emphatic yes.
Fortunately, one doesn't have to take my
word for it. The reputation of the Univer-
sity of Oregon School of Journalism, the
record of its graduates, and its standing
with the national accrediting body all testi-
fy to it. Journalism courses are taught, in
one form or another, at hundreds of colleges
and universities in the United States, but
there are only 40 nationally-accredited
schools and departments in the country. Of
these 40, Oregon's is the only one in the
state and one of only five on the West Coast.
STARLIN: What are the opportunities for
careers in journalism?
DUNCAN: Career opportunities in jour-
nalistic work are better today than ever be-
fore. Many people are surprised to hear
this, but it's a fact that there is a shortage?
a serious shortage?today of journalism
school graduates, not only in Oregon but
throughout the nation. Of course, there are
always more applicants for jobs on the New
York Times than the Times can hire, and
the same would hold generally true for
many of the big, famous newspapers and
magazines, the broadcasting stations and
networks and the major advertising agen-
cies perhaps. The great need is in the small
operations?small and medium-sized dailies
and weeklies, the smaller radio and TV sta-
tions and ad agencies, and in many kinds
of public relations work. Salaries, tradi-
tionally low in journalism, are much better
now, too. For the past several years we have
been chronically short of graduates here
at Oregon and this year it's worse than
ever?or better, depending on how you look
at it. We have a long list of unfilled orders,
so to speak, and it keeps growing. No,
there's certainly no lack of opportunity for
fledgling journalists today.
STARLIN: This tells us of the opportuni-
ties. Now in closing, maybe you'd like to
say something of the importance of careers
in journalism, both as to the future jour-
nalist and to all of us in society as a whole.
DUNCAN: I'm biased on this of course, but
in my view it's hard to beat journalistic
work as an interesting, stimulating occupa-
tion, with unlimited opportunity to make a
valuable contribution to the life of one's
community and even to the national wel-
fare.
As for its importance to society, journalism
touches all facets of human experience. It
bears a tremendous responsibility to all
people. By no means are these responsibili-
ties being fully discharged in all cases, al-
though the press and other media are doing
a much better job than they're usually given
credit for. Many grave challenges and heavy
obligations face tomorrow's journalists.
And the rewards can be equally great. Our
job at the University of Oregon School of
Journalism is to help them get ready.
Neuly-built Eric W. Allen Hall (named
after a former dean) houses University
of Oregon journalism school. Oregon
journalism school is one of 40 such schools
accredited by national organization.
16 Old Oregon
This is architect's sketch of new University of Oregon dormitory to be under construction
soon. New five-unit structure will provide accommodations for total of 329 students.
Plans for New Dormitory
Call for Completion in '58
Football tickets should be no problem for
residents of a new dormitory to be built at 15th
and Agate Streets, because it will face Hay-
ward Field.
At least three units of the new five-unit struc-
ture should be ready when the whistle blows
fall term 1957, with the other two ready by
winter term 1957. This 91,410,000 residence
hall is one in a series necessary to help house
and feed the rapidly-expanding student body
which has grown from 4,063 in 1953 to an ex-
pected 5,925 in 1957 and on to 6,800 in 1960.
The 329 spaces provided in this building will
bring the total permanent dormitory capacity
to 1,498 with the Veterans Memorial Dormitory
providing an additional 362. Even though the
University is getting larger it is very desirable
to keep living units small. Therefore, following
the fundamental Earl Hall design, each unit
will house 65 boys or girls in double rooms.
These pullman-type rooms provide liberal
space for study and storage as well as oversize
80-inch beds for comfortable lounging and
sleeping. The extra long beds were planned after
recent research indicated that 26 per cent of
freshmen entering the University of Oregon
are over six feet tall. Walls of the study rooms,
lounges and dining rooms will be covered with
a tough cloth-backed plastic for easy mainte-
nance. Vinyl-plastic tile will be used throughout
as a floor covering for rooms, corridors, lounges
and dining rooms.
The exterior of this modern building will be
brick trimmed with walls of insulated porcelain
enamel.
Food service will be provided by central cafe-
teria which joins the five dining rooms. Laundry
and recreational facilities as well as coin oper-
ated food and beverage dispensing machines
will be located in the basement area.
All these things are provided for the students
at no cost to the tax payers of the State of
Oregon. No tax money will be used for this
project. The down payment will be made from
dormitory funds with the balance borrowed on
a bond issue to be paid from dormitory earnings.
TOURING RUSSIA
Ted Hallock '48 is due to return this month
from a six-weeks information-gathering tour of
Russia under sponsorship of J. Henry Helser
and Company, west coast investment managers.
Hallock is director of public affairs for the firm.
Announcing the trip, Henry Helser, president
of the firm said in Portland: "We want to re-
main as informed as possible on international
affairs, which have almost as much effect upon
investments as the state of our owiv national
economy. Whenever possible, we should like to
probe lesser-known areas of the world. The
Soviet Union's threat to capitalism has in-
creased rather than diminished, making it the
country about which we should know the most
and about which we actually know the least."
The Helser Company sent Hallock to England
in late 1952, to record a series of broadcasts
analyzing the economic effects of British social-
ism. The subsequent radio programs, titled
"London Calling," won an English-Speaking
Union Better Understanding Award and a cita-
tion from Ohio Slate University.
During his travels through the Soviet Union,
as part of a 20-person study group sponsored
by the World Affairs Council of Oregon and
approved by the U.S. State Department, Hallock
has been tape recording 14 interviews with
Soviet citizens, artisans, and government lead-
ers. The finished broadcasts, tilled "Russia
Today," will be heard in Portland and on other
stations throughout Oregon beginning in Sep-
tember. Hallock will also shoot 1000-feet of
film for a television film to be presented on
various Oregon TV stations.
Prior to entering Russia, Hallock flew to
Amsterdam from New York on July 4 for a
two-day international forum on the Russian
"new look." The study tour was scheduled to
visit Dusseldorf, Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich,
Berlin, Prague, and Copenhagen, entering the
Soviet Union at Riga, Latvia. Traveling through-
out Western Russia, Hallock was making re-
cordings in Kiev, Odessa, Yalta, Sochi, Khar-
kov, and Moscow, returning to America via
Helsinki.
Hallock received his bachelor of science de-
gree in journalism at the University in 1948
and since then has held various radio and pub-
lication positions. He has been with the Helser
firm as director of public affairs since 1952.
During World War II he served in the Eighth
Air Force as a bombardier.
He is a member of Sigma Delta Chi, national
men's journalism fraternity, the Press Club
of Oregon, the Portland Association for Re-
tarded Children, the Portland Junior Symphony
Society, Alpha Sigma Lambda fraternity and
the Urban League of Portland. Hallock is a
founder of the Portland Civic Opera Associa-
tion. He has taught the subjects of special
events broadcasting at Portland State College.
Ted Hallock '48 is ivinding up a six weeks
tour of Russia for ini?estment company. He's
making tape recordings for broadcast.
August-September 1956 17
Jacket design from, the book, Gunlock, by
IT'ayne D. Overholser '34.
BOOKS BY UO GRADS
University of Oregon graduates have au-
thored two books published this summer. They
are Gunlock, a Western novel, written by Wayne
D. Overholser '34, and On Stage Tonight, a
collection of four plays authored by C H.
Keeney '22.
Keeney's book contains two one-act comedies,
Pity the Poor Fish and Once An Actor; a one-
act drama, Major MiUiron Reports; and a
one-act comedy drama entitled Old Shin Flint.
The book was published by Row-Peterson
and Company of Evanston, Illinois. Keeney,
who now lives in Whittier, California, was born
in Jasper. Oregon, and majored in drama and
speech at the University. Employed by the
Federal Treasury Department, he has been
writing and working with local dramatic groups
in his spare time. He has also written for various
magazines and has written lyrics for songs pub-
lished in New \ork. In his work with West
Coast theater groups he has acted roles in more
than 109 plays.
Two of the plays contained in the book,
Major MiUiron Reports and Once an Actor have
won high ratings in the National Playwriting
Contest sponsored by the Little Theatre of the
YMCA in St. Louis, Missouri. The play, Old
Skin Flint, was awarded first prize in the Na-
tional Playwriting Competition conducted by
the Midwestern Writers' Conference.
Gunlock is the tenth Western novel written
by Wayne D. Overholser. His first full-length
book was Buckaroo's Code which the Macmillan
Company of New York published in 1947. This
was followed by an average of one book a year
ever since.
Overholser, who now lives in Boulder, Colo-
rado with his wife and three sons, is a descend-
ant of Washington pioneers. He received a B.S.
degree at the University in 1934. While at the
University he did work in creative writing under
W. F. G. Thacher, who also numbers among
his students Ernest Haycox and Robert Ormond
Case.
From 1926 until 1945 he taught, mostly at
Tillamook Junior High School and Bend High
School, and did research into pioneer lore and
history. He also began writing Western stories,
novelettes and detective stories of which he now
has had some 400 published in various maga-
Gunlock is the story of Will Beeson, who was
left a legacy of violence when Joe Pardcc was
killed. Joe had taken Will onto his huge Colo-
rado caltle ranch and made him one of the
top cowpunchers in the Wesl. When settlers
came lo the valley some of Pardee's hands
meant to keep things intact in the time-honored
"shoot first, ask questions later" manner of the
frontier. Will could not agree with this and
soon found himself in a deadlock of guns.
SAFETY DIRECTOR
James R. Banks '47 has been appointed di-
rector of the traffic safety division of the Oregon
Motor Vehicle Department to succeed Captain
Walter Lansing. Banks had been assistant direc-
tor of the safely division for the past seven
years. He has also taken over as executive
secretary of the newly-organized Oregon Traffic
Safety Commission. He has served as consultant
for the President's Committee on Highway
Safety in 1949, 1951 and 1956.
Captain Lansing will take charge of a newly-
expanded training program for the Oregon State
Police.
NEW N.E.A. PREXY
Martha A. Shull '25 was elected president of
the National Education Association at its con-
vention in Portland last month.
Elected without opposition, Miss Shull is an
English teacher at Jefferson High School in
Portland. She received her B.A. degree in Eng-
lish literature in 1925 and a master of education
degree in 1947.
On campus she was active on the Emerald
and Oregana, was a member of Kappa Alpha
Theta sorority and was a Phi Beta Kappa her
senior year.
She was vice-president of the Oregon Edu-
cation Association in 1948 and was chosen as
one of the "Women of Achievement" by the
Portland alumna chapter of Theta Sigma Phi,
national honor society for women in journalism.
As president of the NEA, she heads a group
consisting of 659,000 educators.
Martha Shull has been elected the new
president of National Education Association
at a recent meeting held in Portland.
CLASS REUNIONS
Tentative plans have been made to hold re-
unions for the classes of '37, '42, '47, and '52
on October 20, the day the Stanford Indians
will bring their Rose Bowl-favored team to
Eugene.
Heretofore all class reunions have been held
at the time of commencement in June, but they
were reunions for the 25th, 30th, 35th, 40th,
45th, and 50th year graduates. There have been
so many requests by members of the later
classes favoring earlier reunions that it ap-
pears likely that reunions will be held for the
"youngsters" this year. Further details will be
forthcoming in the mail, but if you are a mem-
ber of any of those classes you should begin to
make plans to be in Eugene on October 20
for your class reunion.
BILL DELLINGER DAY
July 9 was "Bill Dellinger Day" in Spring-
field.
Dellinger, '56, who recently won the 5,000-
meter run in the Olympic tryouts and thus a
berth on the U.S. Olympic squad going to
Australia, was honored by his fellow townsmen
and presented a three-foot "key to the city." In
presenting the key, Mayor Edward Harms '47
quipped that it will open "every door to the
city?except those of the banks."
The presentation was made at a meeting of
the Springfield Lions club, at which $102 was
donated by townspeople for the U.S. Olympic
fund.
Main speaker on the program was Track
Coach Bill Bowerman, who said an athlete is a
person "who sets out to compete to the best of
his ability. Winning is important but not every-
one is going to win. An athlete should be
humble in victory and proud in defeat, and Bill
Dellinger is. I've seen him lose some heart-
breakers."
Commented Dellinger: "I want to thank the
community and City of Springfield for being
behind be in my running and want to thank
my coach for being behind me ... My time in
the 5,000-meter run is pretty poor compared to
European runners, but I have one advantage.
I have the best coach."
Special guests at the meeting included Dell-
inger's father, S. D. Dellinger, and brother,
Freddie.
Also speaking was Dr. O. Meredith Wilson,
president of the University, who said Dellinger
has set a good example, both as a student and
as an athlete.
FILM SHOWN
A film produced by three University of Ore-
gon architecture students was shown recently
at the University of British Columbia for Sir
Herbert Read, noted British art critic and
educator.
The film, produced by William Logan, Donald
Rounds and Mel Blevens, is an experimental
study on motions and patterns of marbles under
lights.
ARTICLE REPRINTED
An article written by Dr. H. Harrison Clarke,
professor of physical education, has been re-
printed in the Congressional Record at the re-
quest of Senator Richard L. Neuberger.
The article, written for the Physical Fitness
Newsletter, was titled, "What This Country
Needs: A National Physical Fitness Commis-
Old Oregon
J. CARL BOWMAN
Funeral services-were held in Pacific Grove,
California for J. Carl Bowman, '21, who died
there on June 7. He was 63 years old.
He was former vice-principal of Marina Jun-
ior High School in San Francisco and had
resided at Pacific Grove for the past five years.
He previously was a high school principal at
Lakeview, Oregon. He was a member of the
Masonic Lodge, Eastern Star, Elks Lodge and
Sierra Club, all of San Francisco. He is sur-
vived by five sisters and two brothers.
'MAN OF THE WEEK'
Nombinated for "Man of the Week" in a
Princeton University publication last May was
Claude Everett Robinson '24 board chairman for
Princeton Research Park, Inc., a new research
center.
Robinson, who was graduated from the Uni-
versity of Oregon with Phi Beta Kappa honors,
and took his advanced degrees at Columbia
University, specializing in sociology and de-
voting his doctoral thesis to Straw Votes, a
Study of Political Prediction.
Pre-game Football
Rallies for'56
Pre-game alumni gatherings will be
held in the cities listed below. Alumni
and friends are invited to attend to
kindle your Oregon spirit. Meet your
friends and visitors from the campus.
Athletic Director Leo Harris and pos-
sibly a member of the coaching staff
will be with us to give us the low down
on the prospects for the game.
? Denver?Cosmopolitan Hotel
Sept. 21
? Los Angeles?Town House
Oct. 4
? Seattle?Town & Country Club
Oct. 12
? Pittsburgh?Webster Hall
Oct. 26
? San Francisco?Sir Frances
Drake Hotel
Nov. 2
? Berkeley?Claremont Hotel
Nov. 3
? Portland?Multnomah Hotel
Nov. 16
He became associate director of the Gallop
Poll in 1936 and two years later founded the
Opinion Research Corporation which does re-
search on such items as advertising, public rela-
tions, dealer relations and pricing of products.
NEGRO HOUSING SURVEY
A survey of Negro housing in the Eugene
area was made last month by members of the
University's summer workshop class on inter-
group relations.
The class consisted of 12 school teachers who
attended the two-week session sponsored by the
School of Education. The tour of Negro housing
was conducted by three members of Eugene's
Fellowship for Civic Unity?Mrs. Robert D.
Clark, Mrs. R. F. Jepsen and Raymond Lowe.
Mrs. Clark told the class that "it's one thing
to study about inter-group problems and rate
relations and quite another experience to make
the theories work in your own neighborhood or
community." She added that surveys over the
past 10 years have indicated less prejudice and
that Negro families have been able to buy or
rent in neighborhoods that formerly were all
white.
The class visited low standard Negro housing
in the Glenwood area and also the homes of
three former residents of the Glenwood area
who now live in other neighborhoods.
"We see fresh evidence every year that people
in th Eugene area are growing in their concepts
of democracy and the worth of all races and
religions," Mrs. Clark said.
The Classes
p(T\ff2 C. A. Wintermeier, now 87 years old,
^j/\]f is still practicing law at 1611 Lincoln
St. in Eugene. He was a member of the Univer-
sity of Oregon's first football team and is a
member of the Half Century Club.
PA /p\ Berrian Burke Williams, who re-
JL^J' cently retired from his long-time posi-
tion with the Secretary of State's office, is now
confined to the Veteran's Hospital in Portland
with arteriosclerosis.
'11John Jerry Kestly Sr. is working withAtlas Constructors in Casablanca, Mo-
? A Qk Engineer Lee J. Caufield, who retired
JL/^s1 in 1954 after 32 years with U. S. Bu-
reau of Public Roads, has teamed up with his
son, James D. Caufield, to form a new consulting
engineering firm in Portland, for practice of
civil, hydraulic, structural, sanitary engineer-
ing.
Cloyd Dawson has retired as comp-
troller for the western division of the
Owens-Illinois Company but still has advisory
responsibilities.
f JL ?& W. H. Buell, manager of the Lakeview
JL / branch of the First National Bank of
Portland, has been elected an assistant vice
president of the bank, and Richard D. Proeb-
stel ('36), assistant manager, has been pro-
moted to manager.
John Nellis Hamlin is with the Ab-
sentee voters Bureau of the Republican
Committee in Washington, D. C, which is con-
cerned with getting the absentee vote in Wash-
ington into the 1956 election. He and his family
are living at The Worchester, Apt. 105-A, 4000
NW Cathedral Ave., Washington, D. C.
George B. Wallace, prominent auto-
mobile dealer in Portland, has been
appointed to fill a vacancy on the city planning
commission. He has served as president of both
the Portland and Oregon Automobile Dealers
associations and was regional director of the
national group.
^Oi 1? ^ne new President ?f tne Portland
^v3 Association of Building Owners and
Managers is Arvin A. Burnett.
Edward Stanley Goodell of Portland is
chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee
for the Republican State Central Committee.
General Don Zimmerman has left
the U. S. A. F. Academy where he was
clean of the faculty, and is now in Washington
as Deputy Director of Planning.
Paul DeKoning has been appointed presi-
dent and general manager of Jantzen Incorpo-
rated in Portland. Donald E. Kennedy ('38)
was named general sales manager. Carl Jant-
zen ('40), assistant treasurer and manager of
style development department, was elected to
the board.
'25 Edwin A. Sonnichsen is publisher ofthe Hood River News which wasfounded by his father.
Gordon Edward Wilson is the new presi-
dent of the Life Underwriters of Portland.
Oi tf^. J- Sumner of Portland, has
&\3 just finished a year of service as presi-
dent of the Pioneers of America, an association
of telephone employees who have had 21 years
or more of service with the Bell Telephone Sys-
tem.
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August-September 1956
Robert T. Mautz has been elected a
National Republican Committeeman
for Oregon and will attend the National Con-
vention.
Samuel Rhen Herrick is now director of
Station KLOR in Portland.
Robert O. Officer, University of Oregon
athletic trainer, was elected president of the
Pacific Coast Trainers Association at a meeting
at Berkeley, California.
"CD Q ^ay Nash is head of the Department
& (3 of Art and Archeology at Dartmouth
College.
Roland Davis is back in Portland
practicing law following a Korean tour
of duty with the Marine Corps.
Merrill C. Hagan is with the Gordon Carey
Insurance Agency in McMinnville, Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sullivan
(Gretchen Wintermeier '33) are
now living at 1926 N. Kenmore Street in Holly-
wood, California.
William H. Hedlund, Portland attor-
ney, has been appointed by the gover-
nor as a member of the state civil defense ad-
visory council.
George W. Cherry handles Tropicraft Fur-
niture in San Francisco.
John W. Kitzmiller is sales vice-president
of Gerlinger Carrier Company in Dalles, Ore-
gon.
19
John E. Stafford, Eugene architect, was re-
cently elected president of the Park and Recrea-
tion Commission.
Mr. and Mrs. Ward Wintermeier (Iris
Edmunson '32) have a new home at 1726
Oswald Place in Santa Clara, California.
'qiQ) A daughter, Maribeth Margaret, was
\3& born to Mr. and Mrs. Elber H.
Bush last April 23.
Gibson A. Danes is now dean of the
applied arts division of U. C. L. A. He
received his Ph.D. from Yale, and has taught
at the University of Texas and other universi-
ties. He has held his present position sinte 1952.
Homer G. Lyon Jr., reforestation director
for the State Forestry Department, has been
appointed executive assistant to the assistant
secretary of agriculture.
Robert D. Maxwell, Oregon's only living
holder of the Congressional Medal of Honor,
has been invited by the American Battle Monu-
ments Commission to assist "with the dedication
ceremonies for the Rhone Military cemetery and
memorial in Draguignan, France, July 26. It
was just north of this location that Maxwell's
military action won for him his Medal of Honor
and the Croix de Guerre, France's highest
military honor.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Schnitzer are the
parents of a daughter, their third, born May 13,
1956. She has been named Susan Dee.
'34
'35
printing business in Grants Pass, Ore-
gon, received his Silver Circle Certificate this
spring.
Raymond Hendrickson has been
selected by the Eugene School Board
to be the first principal of the new North Eu-
gene High.
Glen Hieber is Circuit Judge for Washing-
ton County.
Joseph N. Renner has been promoted to the
rank of full colonel and is now stationed at the
U. S. Marine Air Station, El Toro, California.
A fourth daughter, Jennifer Ann, arrived
May 6 to Mr. and Mrs. William K. Shep-
herd.
H. C. Auld Jr., a partner in the Auto-
matic Heat Company of Eugene, has
been elected vice chairman for the far west
on the distribution division board of Oil Heat
Institute of America.
Colonel Kenneth E. BeLieu, has been
named to succeed Maj. Gen. Verne Mudge as
a member of the Senate Armed Services Com-
mittee's key civilian professional advisory staff.
Colonel Delbert L. Bjork, a recent grad-
uate of the Army War College at Carlisle Bar-
racks, Pennsylvania, has received orders assign-
ing him to the U. S. Army Attache in Helsinki,
Finland.
Melvin H. Shevach won a primary
v3 (3 election for city councilman in Van-
couver, Washington. He is running for a second
term.
Artau, founder and dean of
the University of Portland School of
Music, announced his resignation recently. Be-
fore leaving the university, Artau was honored
with a doctor of music degree presented at the
commencement exercises.
Woodrow William Everitt is assistant
manager of the Manila Branch of the Bank of
America.
Guy Hoyt Jr. of U. S. National Bank in
Portland, is the new president of the Portland
chapter of the American Institute of Banking.
Lt. Col. Russell W. Humphreys was
graduated from the Army War College at Car-
lisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, on June 14.
Zane Kemler has been promoted to Sales
Manager for McDonald Candy Company in
Eugene. The Kemlers (Frances Morrison
'41) have four children, three boys and a girl.
Manning S. Moore Jr. is president of the
Ocean Fish Protective Association.
William Lloyd Tupling is now assistant
to Senator Richard L. Neuberger.
Lt. Col. Jack Jennings Wagstaff and fam-
ily have spent three and a half years in Europe.
son' Kennard Worth, was born June
3 to Mr. and Mrs. Kennard S.
Blanding. He joins sisters Catherine and
Deborah.
Denton G. Burdick is a partner in the
newly-formed law firm of Hutchinson, Schwab
& Burdick in Portland.
Mrs. Myrtle E. Lee of Baker has been ap-
Identical twins Dorothy (left) and Ruth
Dundore '30, Portland teachers, are on
campus this summer working for master's.
pointed instructor in elementary education at
Pacific University. She has been superintendent
of schools in Baker County for the past 13 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip B. Lowry announce
the arrival of a daughter, Lisa Anne, born on
May 28, 1956.
Dale Mallicoat is a representative of the
State Tax Commission.
Colonel William B. Rosson recently was
graduated from the Tenth Special Forces Group
Jump School in Germany. He received his para-
chutist's wings after completing the three-week
course. Presently, he is commander of the
Ninth Infantry Division's Thirty-ninth Regi-
ment.
Robert G. Sherwood of Portland is a stu-
dent at Connecticut Mutual's career school of
life underwriting in Hartford, Connecticut.
' A if James Adamson, principal of Baker
4Jfc.lL High School for the past six years, was
selected to head the new high school under
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sun's rays directly into usable amounts of electricity. The storage batteries beside the solar battery store up its electricity for night use.
Bell System Solar Battery Converts Sun's Rays into Electricity!
Bell Telephone Laboratories invention has great possibilities
for telephone service and for all mankind
Ever since Archimedes, men have
been searching for the secret of the sun.
For it is known that the same kindly
rays that help the flowers and the
grains and the fruits to grow also send
us almost limitless power . . . nearly as
much every three days as in all known
reserves of coal, oil and uranium.
If this energy could be put to use ?
instead of going to waste?there would
be enough to turn every wheel and light
every lamp that mankind would ever
need.
The dream of ages has been brought
closer by the Bell System Solar Battery.
It was invented at the Bell Telephone
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efficiency has been doubled and its
usefulness extended.
There's still much to be done before
the battery's possibilities in telephony
and for other uses are fully developed.
But a good and pioneering start has
been made.
The progress so far is like the open-
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glimpse exciting new things for the
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Great benefits for telephone users
and for all mankind may come from
this forward step in putting the energy
of the sun to practical use.
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Three Oregon graduates were among the 200 senior officers graduating from the Army War
College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. They are (I. to r.) Col. Delbert L. Bjork '37,
Lt. Col. Russell W. Humphreys '39, and Col. Norman G. Reynolds '49.
construction east of Milwaukie, Oregon. Adam-
son will serve as vice principal at the present
school during the next school year while the
second high school is being constructed.
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan H. Bold (Clara Mc-
Cormick '44) became parents for the second
time, upon the arrival of Mary Anne on August
8, 1955.
John E. Cavanagh has accepted a position
with Lockheed Aircraft at Burbank, California.
Harold C. Ellicott is serving this year as
secretary of the Oregon Industrial Advertisers.
Neil Farnham recently announced the open-
ing of his own architectural office in Portland.
Major Charles E. Hoagland was graduated
from the Command and General Staff College
at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on June 15. He
was last assigned as Army Attache in Burma.
His wife, Nelda, and children are with him at
Fort Leavenworth.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Nolan Gutierrez (Bar-
bara Jean McGee '41) welcomed the arrival of
their first child, Anna Marie, born on August
14, 1955. They live at 1735 Olive St., Santa
Barbara, California.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester J. Shan (Marjorie
Isler '41) have moved to 1214 NW 25th Ave.
in Portland, Oregon. Mr. Shan is controller at
the Oregon Saw Chain Company.
Richard C. Williams is now with Shelton-
Turnbull-Fuller printers in Eugene.
Wendell W. Wyatt, chairman of the Re-
publican State Central Committee, has been
elected delegate-at-large to the Republican
Convention.
" A CD ^^ Borcher, former head basketball
4t^ coach at the University, has accepted
an appointment as personnel and safety director
for the U. S. Plywood Corporation plant at
Roseburg.
Buck A. Buchwach is city editor of the
Advertiser in Honolulu. He is also editing the
biennial book on statehood for Hawaii which is
prepared for each session of Congress.
Dr. Gerald Heustis is now in the Graduate
School of Medicine at the University of Penn-
sylvania for a nine-month program leading to
his master's degree in surgery. His address is
6220 Catharine Street, Philadelphia 43, Penn-
sylvania.
Lyle Nelson is assistant to the president in
charge of Public Relations at San Francisco
State College.
Nurse, Capt. Wilma Chalmers
has arrived at Tacoma, Washington,
for duty at Madigan Army Hospital.
William Dale Fugit works for Pacific Coast
Borax Company, El Monte, California. He ex-
pects to be moved to a new plant in the Mojave
Desert soon.
Lt. Col. Warren S. P. Henderson recently
took part in LOGEX 56, one of the Army's
largest peacetime logistical exercises, at Fort
Lee, Virginia. Colonel Henderson is regularly
assigned at the Army Medical Service School
in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, where he and his
wife now live.
Robert R. Schott visited the University of
Oregon campus in May prior to leaving for an
assignment as U. S. consul in Meshed, Iran.
For the past year he has taken special work in
the Persian language at the University of
Michigan. His wife and three children will ac-
company him to his new post. Previously, he
was vice-consul at Basra, Iraq, Salonika, Greece,
and Tehara, Iran.
Ray Schrick edits the publication of the
Western Pine Association.
Lt. Col. Charles S. Christianson
recently completed a 34-week advanced
officer course at the Army Medical Service
School, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Lt. Col. Travis Jackson Towson Jr. has
been graduated from the Command and General
Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He
was assigned in 1946 as commander of the 11th
Evacuation Hospital in the Far East.
Winifred L. Casterline, teacher in
Gresham Union High School, is going
to England this month on a Fullbright Scholar-
ship as an exchange teacher. She will teach
classes in English at St. Ursula's Convent in
Greenwich, located on the Thames River in
Greater London.
Eugene George Cecchini, who teaches
political science at Multnomah College, is run-
ning for the legislature in Multnomah County.
Ralph N. Duncanson has announced his
resignation as an assistant attorney general of
Oregon to engage in the practice of law. He will
be associated with Elton Watkins and C. X.
Bolenback in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. John Helmer Jr. (Beverly
June Carroll '47) are the parents of a son,
John Helmer, born May 22, 1956.
Kenneth W. Christianson was the
leader of the Connecticut Mutual Life
Insurance Company's newer representatives, in
number of new life insurance cases written, it
was announced by the home office. He is asso-
ciated with the Edward B. Bates agency of
Los Angeles.
A son, Mark William, joined three older sis-
ters at the home of Lt. and Mrs. Jack C. Ed-
wards (Lee Montgomery '44) on August 29,
1955. Lt. Edwards is in the Navy and is sta-
tioned at Bremerton, Washington.
James H. Pickett is the new president of
the Portland Alumni chapter. He is with Merrill
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, slocks and
bonds, Portland.
Edwin E. Allen topped his class in the
JAG training school before he was assigned to
the job of handling claims against the Govern-
ment following the explosion a few years ago
which destroyed Texas City.
Daren Pierce is associated with the New
York firm of William Pahlrnann, interior de-
signers.
Mr. and Mrs. Conrad B. Schmick are
parents of a son, Conrad Burris, born April 16,
1956.
The Reese Stevensons (Eloise A. Mul-
hausen '46) of White Salmon, Washington, are
parents of their fifth child, and third son, David
Winfield, born on May 8, 1956.
' A ^f Jonn R- Kelty has joined the Port-
4fc / land office of New England Mutual
Life as an associate general agent of Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Munro are parents
of a daughter, Martha Suzanne, born April 3,
1956.
Gilbert H. Roberts operates a loggers' sup-
ply house at Springfield, Oregon.
Howard J. Weddle's new address is Ala-
meda County Tuberculosis and Health Associa-
tion, 121 E. 11th St., Oakland 6, California.
" A <? Howard R. Lemons is now general
4t(3 manager of the Westfir Division of
Edward Hines Lumber Company. .
It's a girl, Lisa Beth, for Dr. and Mrs. Gor-
don C. Myers, born on May 18, 1956, in Port-
land.
Mr. and Mrs. Larry R. Ohlson of Oswego
welcomed the arrival of a third son, Peter Law-
rence on April 9, 1956.
Dr. Carolyn Taylor, doctor in internal
medicine and captain in the U. S. Army, has left
Portland for a trip to Paris and an assignment
in an army general hospital in Europe. Dr.
Taylor has completed studies for her American
Board of Internal Medicine examinations and
needs only two years of practice to qualify for
the top test in the medical profession.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley N. Boquist
Jr. are the parents of a daughter,
Debra Jane, born on May 5, 1956. She has an
older sister and brother.
William Baldwin Burnett is practicing
architecture in Eugene. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett
(Dorothy Davis '47) now live at 1810 Fair-
mount Blvd.
Betty Joyce Ditto and Robert Dean Custer
were married on June 10 in the Church of the
Wayfarer at Carmel, California. They will be
at home in San Jose, where he is a staff an-
nouncer for Radio Station KLOK.
Robert J. Fugit is working for Goss Motors
in La Grande, Oregon. The Fugits (Joyce
Louise Hansen '48) now live at 502 M St.,
La Grande.
Dan Garza, the former Texan who was an
outstanding end for the University of Oregon
football team and who played in the Cotton
Bowl game of 1948, is now a lieutenant in the
U. S. Marines at San Diego. He will be assist-
ant football coach for the Marines next fall.
Thomas B. Kay now manages the Kay
Woolen Mills, in Salem, Oregon.
Alexander T. Murphy's new address is
1610 Maxine Ave., San Mateo, California.
Dr. Gerald Rae Patterson, instructor in
22 Old Oregon,
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medical psychology has been appointed to the
faculty of the University of Nebraska School
of Medicine. He was admitted to membership in
the American Psychological Association in 1955
and was presented as guest lecturer at the
meeting of the American Orthopsychiatry.
Robert S. Reed of Seattle has gone into a
publishing partnership in California. He and
Thomas G. Congleton of Eugene are the new
owners of the San Leandro Morning News, the
only morning newspaper in the East Bay area.
Congleton will act as co-publisher and business
manager, and Reed will be co-publisher and
executive editor.
Colonel Norman G. Reynolds has been
graduated from the Army War College at Car-
lisle Barracks. Pennsylvania. He received orders
assigning him to the TJ. S. Army European
headquarters in Germany.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Ringo of Corval-
lis, are the parents of a son, Robert lrvin, born
April 27, 1956.
A daughter, Julie Nadine, was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Charles R. Stamper (Lucille
Margaret Bellinger '49) of Coos Bay on June
8.
Richard D. Stoinoff is in the family grocery
business in Portland's Eastmoreland district.
Roger C. Wiley, head basketball coach at
Springfield High School, is now president of
the Oregon Association of Health, Physical
Education and Recreation.
Richard B
(Dorothy L. Dougan) welcomed the
arrival of their first child, Deborah Leigh, on
May 26, 1956. They live at 416 Argyle St., Elm-
hurst, Illinois.
James R. Dunlap '50 has been promoted to
a sales representative for the Hyster Com-
pany in San Francisco. He formerly was
ivith Hyster in Portland office.
Laurence E. Davidson is on the staff of
Botsford, Constantine & Gardner Advertising
Agency, in Portland.
Albany will be home for Ruby Bienert and
Robert Don Jr., whose marriage took place
June 12, in Portland.
A first child, Andrea Gayle, was born May
19, 1956 to Mr. and Mrs. Burton Gevurtz
Gifts for friends and children
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Sizes 2-14
White Terry Cloth Oregon "T" Shirts $1.29
Yellow Cotton Oregon "T" Shirts $.98 to $1.19
Sizes 2-14
Yellow, Heavy Cotton Shirts $1.89
Sizes 2-6
White Oregon "Coffee Mugs" $.98, $1.89, $3.25
Brown Oregon Mug $3.95
Black Oregon Mug $1.35 and $1.98
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EUGENE, OREGON
'51
of 210 S. W. Morrison St., Portland, Oregon.
The wedding of Katharine Ann Angerstein
to William Alfred Grenfell Jr. was an event
of June 9, at the First Presbyterian Church. The
couple will be at home in Portland.
Lawrence Lynn Hamilton is out of the
service and living at 925 S. 13th St., Salem.
Janet Kathleen Hunt and Richard John
Lozo were married in late May at St. Michaels
Catholic Church in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Pierson (Joan La-
Roche Mimnaugh) wecomed the arrival of a
son, Michael David, April 28, 1956.
Emmett Ritter has accepted a teaching post
at Baker High School. He previously taught at
Illinois Valley High School at Cave Junction,
Oregon.
Captain Alvin A. Saxton has been grad-
uated from the Infantry School's Officer Com-
munications Course at Fort Benning, Georgia.
He was trained in the techniques and main-
tenance of infantry communication systems.
It's a son, Steven Donald for Mr. and Mrs.
Donald M. Sharpe (Earlene Helen Smith
'53), born on April 1, 1956.
Donald Wesley Smith received an assist-
antship in the College of Commerce, at the
University of Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Walker (Shir-
ley J. Day '53) have welcomed the arrival of
their third baby. Mr. Walker is a partner in the
Oregon Rug and Mattress Company in Port-
land.
John O. Brown is a paper salesman
for Blake, Moffet and Towne. The
Browns (Donna Jean Babb '51) now live at
8125 S. W. 85th, Portland, Oregon.
Lt. and Mrs. Stephen A. Church have wel-
comed their first child, a son, Scott Stephen,
born in Denver, Colorado.
Arthur Raymond Engstrom was recently
elected treasurer of the Southern Ducks, an
alumni organization in Southern California. The
Engstroms (Beverly F. Krueger '53) live at
920 Arroyo Drive, S. Pasadena, California.
A third child, J. Kelly Jr., was born on May
23, 1956 to Mr. and Mrs. J. Kelly Farris
(Barbara Jones '52).
Einar Budd Gronquist has been appointed
head basketball coach at Roosevelt High School
in Portland.
T. Melvin Holt, director of accounting
training at LaSalle Extension University, and
his family, Mrs. Holt, Kenneth, Kathleen, and
Alan, now live at 539 E. 8th Ave., Naperville,
Illinois.
Richard H. Portwood is now working in
the commercial department of Pacific Tele-
phone and Telegraph in Portland.
Curtis Smith has been named assistant su-
perintendent of Terminal No. 4 at the Commis-
sion of Public Docks in Portland, Oregon. He
has been in the operations department of Ter-
minal No. 1 for the past two years.
John Carson of Carson Oil Company of
Portland, recently attended an annual conven-
tion of the Oil Heat Institute of America in
New York.
George Fred Taylor is back in the Air
Force and living in Tacoma.
Donn W. Thomas has been working for
Booth-Kelly Lumber Company since he left the
service. He was recently promoted to night fore-
man of the green chain at the Booth-Kelly mill
in Springfield.
Patricia Johann Fugitt became the
bride of Theodore Raymond An-
tonsen on June 2, in Portland.
24 Old Oregon
Eugene Public Libran
-tuqene, Cr ~on
C. P "Cork" Mobley '51 has been appointed
to position of sales promotion and public
relations manager for Blitz Weinhard Co
Plan Now To Attend
HOMECOMING
NOVEMBER 10,1956
? Homecoming Luncheon
? Sign Contest
? Noise Parade
? Bonfire Rally
? Homecoming Dance
? Oregon-WSC
Football Game
Order your football tickets
through the Ticket Office
Athletic Department
University of Oregon
Make up a party of alums for
HOMECOMING
Patricia Ann Grathwohl and John R. Bent-
ley were married on June 9 at College Hill
Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. They
have made their home in Boston, Massachusetts,
while Mr. Bentley continues his studies at Har-
vard University.
Delores Jean Smethurst became the bride
of Richard Edwin Bjorklund May 11, 1956
in Portland.
Arne Magnus Borgnes was graduated from
the American Institute for Foreign Trade at
Thunderbird Field, Phoenix, Arizona on June
1, 1956.
Donald H. Brooks former accounting office
supervisor for a large drugstore company in
Portland, has moved to J. Henry Helser Com-
pany.
Mr. and Mrs. David Dunkelberger are the
parents of a daughter, Linda Eileen, born on
June 15 at Emanuel Hospital in Portland. She
is their second child.
Robert N. Funk is going to Baltimore for
training in the Army counter intelligence unit.
Pvt. Max A. Ingerson is scheduled to
leave the U. S. for Germany early in August
as part of Operation Gyroscope, the Army's unit
rotation plan. Pvt. Ingerson is an intelligence
clerk in the battalion's Headquarters Battery.
It's a daughter, their second, for Mr. and
Mrs. Baylor M. Lowes. The baby, born on
May 13, 1956, has been named Michele Ann.
Carl B. Meehan of 3344 N.E. 32nd Avenue,
Portland has been graduated from the Amer-
ican Institute for Foreign Trade at Thunderbird
Field, Phoenix, Arizona. Specializing in Latin
America, Meehan has taken the school's in-
tensive training course in preparation for a
career in American business abroad.
From "Washington, D. C, came details of the
wedding April 14 of Coralie Ann Nelson to
Richard Paul Duval. Both are presently em-
ployed in the Department of Defense in Wash-
ington.
St. James Lutheran Church was the scene of
the late May wedding of Charlotte Ruth Brandt
and Don Gilbert Nordling. The couple will
live in Portland.
Thomas R. Nudd has decided to leave the
insurance business and return to the University
for graduate study in personnel work.
Donald W. Onthank was married in Bang-
kok, Thailand, to Joan Antonia DeMino, of
Hartford, Connecticut, on April 5, 1956.
The Jack M. Smiths' (Barbara Burke)
new address is 504 West F St., Ontario, Cali-
fornia.
John Palmer Smith is now living at 2123
Aurora, Seattle 9, Washington.
Their second son, Bradley Bruce, was born
April 1, 1956, to Mr. and Mrs. Werner Stork.
First Lt. Keith A. Taylor has been grad-
uated from the military medical orientation
course at the Army Medical Service School, at
Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He has received or-
ders assigning him to Fort Carson, Colorado.
Mr. and Mrs. William 0. Scarth (Donna L.
Worden) welcomed the arrival of Kent Wil-
liam, born on May 17, 1956.
t p=< r*\ JoAnne Hewitt '52 was married to
<J) d> Lowell J. Aplet on March 17, 1956 in
Glendale, California. The couple have made
their home in San Francisco.
Mr. and Mrs. George T. Boehnke greeted
the arrival recently of a son, Michael Lee. Mrs.
Boehnke (Charlene Rose Shorack '56) was
to have been initiated into Phi Beta Kappa the
same day that her son was born. Mr. Boehnke
is associated with his father in the printing
business in Eugene.
Lost Alumni
The following list of alumni are "lost"
from our files. Anyone knowing the cor-
rect address of any person listed please
advise the Alunmi Office, 110M Erb Me-
morial Union Building.
1. Mr. Meldren D. Anderson '42
2. Mr. Millroy A. Anderson '18
3. Mulvina H. Anderson '25
4. Mra. Nancy Brenneman Andcreon *5
5. Mr. Norman L. Anderson G43
6. Miss Phyllis M. Anderson '49
7. Mr. Reynold Anderson '49
8. Rhea B. Anderson '43
9. Thoda E. Anderson '24
10. Mr. Robert E. Anderson G49
11. Mr. Robert H. Anderson '29
12. Mr. Robert S. Anderson G51
13. Mrs. Ruby Yutzler Anderson G32
14. Mr. Uno E. Anderson '28
15. Mr. William Anderson '49
16. Mr. William A. Anderson '34
17. Winnifred E. Anderson G29
18. Dorothy M. Andrade '35
19. Alex F. Andraieff '23
20. Mrs, Florence Hurley Andraieff G28
21. Mr. John P. Andreassen '51
22. Mrs. Crissie Burlingame Andreini '34
23. Mrs. Phyllia Seabrook Andres '42
24. Mr. Malcolm K. Andresen G47
25. Mrs. Rhoda Cougill Andresen '35
26. Mr. Douglas D. Andrews '34
27. Mrs. Eileen Morelock Andrews '29
28. Dr. Elizabeth Torrey AndrewB G23
29. Mr. R. Eugene Andrews '53
30. Mr. George L. Andrews G42
31. Madeline L. Andrews '29
32. Mr. Philip M. Andrews G40
33. Mrs. Rosalind Lorenz Andrews '31
34. Mr. William E. Andrews G47
35. Mr. Leonard W. Andrus G39
36. Mr. C. Robert Anet G39
37. Mary E. Angell G39
33. Mr. Robert E. Angell '42
39. Mrs. Ruth Karlstrom Angell '28
40. Helen B. Arikeny '30
41. Mr. Clarence T. Anspach '27
42. Mr. Samuel D. Anstein '53
43. Mr. Edwin R. Anstey '32
44. Mr. Paul W. Anthony '35
45. Mr, Richard V. Anthony G38
46. Sherry Anthony '53
47. Mr. Ted R. Antonsen '52
48. Mrs. Alice Tuthill Aoust G25
49. Doris L. Applegate G43
50. Mr. Sanford W. Applegate '22
51. Mr. James A. Archer G55
52. Mrs, Susann Hunter Archer '55
53. Mr. Sixto M. Arellano '31
54. Mr. John W. Arens G46
55. Mrs. Margie Durham Arenton '50
56. Mrs. Mary McAdam Arenz '43
57. Mr. Donald J. Armpriest '39
58. Mr. Kenneth Armstrong G22
59. Patricia G. Arnold '50
60. Jeanne B. Arnot '52
61. Mrs. Sally Mitchell Arnstein G41
62. Mr. Calvin A. Arpke G14
63. Mr. Earle F. Arrell G36
64. Mr. Florencio V. Arroyo G30
65. Mr. Louis P. Artau G39
66. Mrs. Alice Striker Arthur '20
67. Betty G. Arthur '38
68. Mrs. Frances Jack Asher '33
69. Mr. Charles L. Ashlock '29
70. Mrs. Renee Mattingly Ashlock G38
71. Mrs. Mercedes Hadley Ashton G51
72. Mrs. Georgia Johnson Aslvworth G25
73. Marcella J. Ashworth '49
74. Mrs. Betty Barr Atkinson '38
75. Mr. David C. Atkinson '42
76. Dr. Rosser P. Atkinson G33
77. Bertha Atkinson G24
78. Mrs. Jane Sanborn Alwater '28
79. Mr. Clayton W. Atwood '40
80. Mr. William W. Auld '42
81. Mrs. Anna Keenan Ault G22
82. Mr. Percy S. Ault G22
83. Dorothy Austen '32
84. Mr. Edward F. Austin G47
85. Mrs. Allexine George Ausve '39
86. Barbara P. Avenell '47
87. M. Virginia Avery '49
88. Mrs. Katherine Watson Avison G16
89. Mrs. Marion McEachern Avison '23
90. Mr. Richard B. Avison '20
91. Mr. Gordon S. Axelson '56
92. Jesse C. Ayers G09
93. Mr. George W. Ayres G30
94. Mr. Leonard H. Ayres G30
95. Mrs. Lovisa Youngs Ayres G35
96. Mr. Alan D. Babb G53
97. Juanita Babbitt '31
98. Mr. Roy D. Babcock G50
99. Mr. Howard P. Backus '42
100. Mr. Glen Bacon '53
August-September 1956 25
These Oregon men have completed phases of military training. At left is Army Pvt. Edward
E. Beeler '55 who was graduated from military police school at Ft. Gordon, Georgia.
Theodore H. Gehrman '58 (center) and John T. Radich '57 (right) have finished Naval
pre-flight training at Pensacola, Florida.
A first child, Myrna Sue, was born on May 30
to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Cosby.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Davis welcomed
the arrival of a daughter, Karen Lynn on May
14, 1956.
George Melvin Erickson has left Fort
Lewis, Washington, and is now at Rt. 1, Baker,
Oregon.
Stanley A. Goodell is now with the Herbert
A. Templeton Lumber Company in Portland.
First baby for Mr. and Mrs. F. Leigh
Hales is a girl, Elizabeth Jean, born on June 2.
Nancy Anne Fisher became the bride of
Robert Eugene Harrison in Portland on May
20, 1956. Mr. Harrison is in the radio and tele-
vision business in Roseburg, Oregon.
Ernest J. (Jim) Haycox was with the Ore-
gonian for a time after returning from the serv-
ice. He is now doing public relations for the
Port of Portland.
Gordon Howard has finished his year as
assistant in speech and drama in which he has
produced, and carried leading roles in import-
ant productions. He and his wife plan to go to
New York soon to give Broadway a try.
James H. Jolly of Portland, has been award-
ed the General Petroleum Fellowship for grad-
uate study in geology at the University of
Oregon.
A second child, Bradley Boyce, was born on
June 2, 1956 to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Lind-
stedt. He has a sister, Norvella.
Mike Popovich has accepted a physical edu-
cation and coaching position at Eugene High
School. He will assist in both football and bas-
ketball.
Sgt. Vernon E. Raper is participating in
field training exercises with the Sixth Infantry
Regiment in Germany. He has been in Europe
since February, 1955.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell R. Sara (Allison K.
LeRoux '56) are living in Portland where Mr.
Sara is a salesman for the National Cash Regis-
ter Company. They were parents for the first
time upon the arrival of a girl, Robin Lynn,
born on October 2, 1955.
Mavis Moltzau ('51) was married to Don-
ald G. Schmidt on May 19, 1956 in Our Re-
deemer Lutheran Church in Portland. The
couple is at home in Mt. Clemens, Michigan,
where Mr. Schmidt is a first lieutenant in the
U. S. Air Force, stationed at Selfridge Base.
Lt. Robert A. Shetterly recently qualified
as expert in firing the carbine at Fort Riley,
Kansas. Lt. Shetterly, a platoon leader in Com-
pany M of the 1st Infantry Division's 16th Regi-
ment, completed basic training at Fort Ord,
California.
Kenneth L. Torgerson is expected to be
out of the Army by June. He spent most of his
two years as non-commissioned officer in charge
of troop information and education program at
the Army Intelligence and Police School of the
University of Maryland.
Janice Maurine Whipple, teacher for the
past two years at Beaumont School, and Gary
Harlan Searl, Portland State College student,
were married on June 9 at the First Baptist
Church in Portland. The couple will be at home
in Milwaukie, Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack N. Adair (Patri-
cia L. Finnegan '55) are now living
at 605 Grand St., Salt Lake City, Utah, where
Mr. Adair has a position with White Stag Com-
pany. They have a ten-month-old baby boy,
Jackie Jr.
Winona Fishback was named by the United
Christian Missionary Society in January as
sales literature field representative. She will
work with the national director of sales litera-
ture.
Craig C. Beairsto completed his basic at
Fort Orel, California last summer. Upon comple-
tion of his basic training, he was appointed to
the C. I. C. school at Fort Holabird, Maryland
where he finished seven months specialized
training. He is currently stationed in the Far
East with the C. I. C. Corps. His wife (Becky
Fortt '56) is presently employed by the Uni-
versity in the Office of Student Affairs.
Sally Thurston Clark is working for the
Department of Internal Revenue in Seattle,
Washington. She and her husband, Thomas
Earl Clark, have moved there from Washing-
ton, D. C.
Keith Farnam, ex-University of Oregon bas-
ketball player, is the new varsity basketball
coach at Grant Union High School in John
Day, Oregon. He will also be junior varsity foot-
ball coach for the coming year. Along with his
coaching duties, Mr. Farnam will teach boys
physical education and ninth grade science
classes.
Patricia Elizabeth Hartley was married to
Lt. Thomas Peirce Sexton on September 4,
1955 in Spokane, Washington. The couple are
living at 917 East 30th., Spokane 36.
The marriage of Marilyn Cockerline and
Dennis M. Johnson took place on April 27 at
Leaburg Presbyterian Church. The couple is
now at home in Eugene at 1535 W. 11th Ave.
Shannon Lee Jones, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Jones (Susan Fitzgerald) cele-
brated her first birthday this June. Mr. Jones
is engaged in farming at Hillsboro, Oregon.
Second Lt. Alan F. Mundle recently ar-
rived at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and is now a
member of the Army's Armor Training Center.
His wife, the former Doris Ann Stenshoel
('56), is with him at Fort Knox.
Alan F. Oppliger has left Montgomery
Ward, and is going to work as an accountant.
Mary Amelia Raysik became Mrs. Marvin
Bernard Crouch on June 15 at Trinity Baptist
Church in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Crouch will
be at home in Portland.
The latest address of Ronald Leon Chev-
rier who is now serving in the Navy, is USS
Haverfield (DER-393) c/o FPO, San Francisco,
California.
Captain Robert G. Scherz completed the
company-level officer course at the Army Med-
ical Service School, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
He has received orders assigning him to Walter
Reed Army Medical Center in Washington,
D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry A. Stamper (Carolee
Robinette) are now living at 2000 Kings High-
way, Apt. 5D, Brooklyn 29, New York. Mr.
Stamper is assistant manager of Elias Manufac-
turing Company and Mrs. Stamper is legal sec-
retary for Columbia Records.
? W W Mr. and Mrs. Roland F. Banks Jr.
vj) v3 became parents of a daughter, Kathryn
Mary, on May 19, 1956. They are living in Rich-
land, Washington where Lt. Banks is stationed
at Camp Hanford.
Army Pvt. Edward E. Beeler was grad-
uated from the Military Police Training Center
at Fort Gordon, Georgia.
Robert B. Chambers is in New York with
a small group which writes the scripts for TV
shows. He will also direct a "Summer Theatre,"
which presents a dozen plays.
Second Lt. John H. Akers has been award-
ed silver observer's wings and a second lieuten-
ant's commission at James Connally Air Force
26 Old Oregon
Base, Texas. He has been assigned to Mather
Air Force Base, California.
John Coefield has been appointed a con-
sultant in physical education at the Physical
Training .School in Walton, West Pakistan.
Second Lt. Ward V. Cook recently arrived
in Korea and is now a member of the 24th In-
fantry Division.
W. P. Edwards has resigned as superin-
tendent of schools and principal of the high
school at Sisters, Oregon. Edwards will leave in
August for Northern Italy, where he will instruct
youngsters of American armed forces families.
Raymond H. Hempy is working in the
business department of Guy F. Atkinson Com-
pany in San Francisco while attending San Jose
State.
Janet Dorothy Hodgman is working for
the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service.
Presently, she has a position with the American
Embassy in Bonn, Germany.
Don Holt who has been assisting in baseball
at Benson High in Portland is now head base-
ball coach there.
Dean Hostetter formerly head football and
track coach at Pleasant Hill, has left the coach-
ing ranks to join United States Plywood at
Roseburg, Oregon.
Second Lt. William B. Loch has been
graduated from the Army's Transportation
School at Fort Eustis, Virginia. Second Lt.
Harold A. Swarthout, a classmate of Lt.
Loch, also completed the course.
Bob McCollum, track coach at Douglas
High School at Roseburg, Oregon, is resigning
to continue his schooling. He will coach at a
junior high school in the Eugene area, while
continuing his studies at the University of Ore-
gon for a master's degree.
Private Paul E. Peterson has left for Ger-
many in connection with Operation Gyroscope,
the Army's unit rotation plan.
Ron Pheister is assistant coach at Grant
High School in Portland. He and Mrs. Pheister
were parents for the first time upon the arrival
on June 18 of Michael Ronald Pheister.
Merrill E. Samuelson a member of the
Kansas State College technical journalism staff
has been awarded a $4,000 advanced behavioral
science fellowship for study at Stanford Univer-
sity this coming year. He will enroll for course
work leading to a Ph.D. in communications
research.
A daughter, Kathleen Louise, was born on
June 4, to Mr. and Mrs. William Schwabe
of Newberg, Oregon.
Second Lt. Robert E. Sogge was grad-
uated from the Army's Transportation School
at Fort Eustis, Virginia.
Second Lt. Robert E. Southwell, after
completing a course from the Army's Transpor-
tation School at Fort Eustis, Virginia, arrived
at Fort Story, Virginia, and is now assigned to
the Fifth Transportation Terminal Command B.
Robert S. Summers is working for Morri-
son-Knudsen on Snake River Dam, this sum-
mer. He will attend the Harvard Law School
this fall on the scholarship he won last spring.
Second Lt. Robert G. Toilefson recently
was graduated from the Army's transportation
school at Fort Eustis, Virginia.
William A. Yates is city editor of the Bend
Bulletin.
Robert Aiken has joined the Inter-
national Business Machine Company's
Salem office after completing the electric type-
writer sales school at company headquarters in
Poughkeepsic, New York.
First Lt. John E. Bowles recently partici-
pated in battalion training tests in Southern
Germany. Bowles, assigned to Battery A of the
Tenth Infantry Division's Thirty-fifth Field Ar-
tillery Battalion, entered the Army in November
1954 and arrived in Europe last July.
After promotion to first lieutenant in Ger-
many, John E. Bowles '56 (left) of Van
Nays, California, receives silver bars from
Lt. Col. Robert L. Mayer.
August-September 1956
Authors New World
At 60 author Edison Marshall
figures that "like Ulysses, it is not too
late to seek a newer world."
The widely-known novelist (Yan-
kee Pasha) who attended the Uni-
versity of Oregon for two years start-
ing in the fall of 1913, says his next
novel, which he has just started, "will
probably make my agent and pub-
lisher tear out handfuls of hair."
While attending college at Oregon
Marshall wrote several stories for
pulp magazines and later, at the age
of 21, sold stories to The Saturday
Evening Post and the American Mag-
azine. In 1919 he wrote his first book,
The Voice of the Pack, which he
terms a "delirious chant to the Out-
doors."
"I don't know why I had such a yen
for the Outdoors," he adds. "I am
certainly not naturally an outdoor
man, in fact a born tenderfoot who
can't make a fire in a rainstorm, let
alone by rubbing sticks.
"People felt this terrific enthusi-
asm and I went on writing adventure
romance of the outdoors, first for the
pulp magazines and soon for the so-
called slicks."
Marshall soon became one of the
highest paid serial writers in the
country, earning more than half a
million dollars in this phase of his
career.
Marshall's smash hit was Yankee
Pasha, which, according to estimates,
sold nearly two million hardback
copies. In 1951 the Library Associa-
tion listed it as one of the 50 over-all
best sellers of the last 50 years.
Marshall notes that "It had some
love scenes that probably increased
in a notable degree the human birth-
rate about that time."
"Recently," he adds, "it was made
into a motion picture with Jeff Chand-
ler and Ronda Fleming, and with
great strength of will I kept from
crawling out of the theater on my
hands and knees."
Marshall was married in 1920 to
Agnes Flythe in Augusta, Georgia,
where they live now.
"We have two children, a dog, and
'Breethholm' which is the name of
our domocile, after the manor-house
in my first real novel, Benjamin
Blake. I have a farm in the country
and a fish pond and until recently I
thought that would be the pattern of
my life?a new historical novel every
year, with a very wide readership, in-
cluding translations in Norsk, Dansk,
Svade, Spanish, French, Italian, etc.
It ought to satisfy me but it don't."
And thus Marshall has begun a
new novel, and though he doesn't say
exactly what it is, it should be dif-
ferent.
"It isn't a safe job of story telling,"
he says, "it is even far more of a ven-
ture than The Viking was. Maybe if I
can write it, I can say, 'Well, damn
it,' and settle down again. However,
I've got to get it out of my system and
my soul."
27
Beverly Rose Braden was married to John
Williams Lally on June 13, at St. Michael and
All Angels Episcopal Church in Portland. The
couple plan a home in San Francisco.
A bride of June 16 was Marilyn Margaret
Call whose marriage to Jerry Donald Hamil-
ton took place in All Saints Episcopal Church
in Portland. Eugene will be home for the newly-
weds.
Carol Rogene Peter was married to Roy H.
Day Jr. on May 11 in a double-ring ceremony
at the United Lutheran Church. The couple are
now living at 123M> Elkay Drive in Eugene.
Norma Kay Krause became the bride of Ron-
ald Raymond Isaacs recently. The newlyweds
have made their home in Portland, Oregon.
Jean Elizabeth McMichael became the
bride of Gerald Lawrence Winn on May 19,
1956 in Portland.
Pvt. Wilbur W. Haase is bowling
for the Third Battalion Headquarters
Company of the Seventh Division's Thirty-first
Infantry Regiment in Korea.
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Bernard Lucia are par-
ents of a daughter, Margaret Helen, born April
21, 1956.
Mary Ann Simmons was married on May
19, 1956 at Hillsboro Christian Church to
Duane E. Bahnsen.
'Kn Private Royal C. Brown recently
0) Q) completed the communications center
operation course at Fort Gordon, Georgia, sig-
nal school.
Necrology
David Chalmers Nooe '29 of Lakewood,
California, died recently of a heart attack. He
was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity.
James George Stangier '37 recently passed
away in California. He is survived by his wife,
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Betty Amestoy Stangier, a son, James, and a
daughter, Jan.
Mark Peter Miller '46 was a fatal victim of
an airplane crash on June 21, near Seattle,
Washington. Mr. Miller, who was president and
treasurer of the Terminal Flour Mills Company,
is survived by his wife, the former Florence
Ingals of Dallas, and three children.
Delbert G. Finnigan '25, died on December
11, 1955, at St. Vincent's hospital in Portland,
He was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity.
He was the husband of Phyllis Coplan '27.
He had been in the insurance business in
Portland since leaving college, and for the last
21 years had been in the office of Sam H. Cox
and company.
John C. Emmel '29, widely known in musi-
cal and radio circles in Portland, Oregon, since
1929, died recently at the Multnomah county
hospital, where he had been confined since early
December, 1955.
Mr. Emmel was born May 17,1907, in Naper-
ville, Illinois. He was a graduate of Hood River
high school and attended the University of Ore-
gon. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma
fraternity. Fie moved to Portland in 1929.
He was employed at various radio stations.
He was musical director at KLOR-TV from its
opening until late last spring. At the time of his
death he was choir director and organist at All
Saints Episcopal church.
He was a Shriner and was vice president of
the local musicians' union. In 1951 he recorded
six sides for RCA Victor.
Survivors include the widow, his mother, a
brother, and two sisters.
Willard A. Elkins '30, a retired minister of
the Christian church of Eugene, Oregon, and a
former member of the Eugene school board
died recently.
Mr. Elkins' ministerial career covered al-
most a half-century and included service at
Pleasant Hill and Cottage Grove churches.
He was born on May 25, 1875, near Morx-
mouth, Oregon, and was a graduate of North-
west Christian college and the University of
Oregon. He was an Oregon volunteer in the
Spanish-American war, served two years as a
chaplin in "World War I, and for 10 years was
chaplain of the Oregon National Guard.
Survivors include his widow, Beulah, whom
he married at Roseburg in 1900; three daugh-
ters, one son, a brother, 14 grandchildren, and
four great grandchildren.
Johnny Pastega '39, well known Klamath
Falls, Oregon, businessman and outstanding
athlete during college days, died December 31,
1955, after a three months illness. A native of
Dorris, California, he attended Union high
school, Southern Oregon college and the Uni-
versity of Oregon. Survivors include his wife,
Coleen Kathrine; a daughter, Nicki Ann; his
mother, Mrs. Angelina Vogel; a sister, Mrs.
Irene Durbin, and a brother, Louis Pastega, all
of Klamath Falls.
James Goodhew, Jr. '42, was killed this
summer in an automobile accident near San
Jose, California. He had been living in Los
Angeles, California. His wife and son survive
him.
Mrs. Kathryn Oakes (Kathryn Wood-
son) '55, was killed in an automobile accident
on July 25, 1955, in Toledo, Oregon. She had
recently been married to Donald Oakes.
Mrs. Woodson majored in nursing and got
her B.S. degree from the University of Oregon.
She also attended Southern Oregon College of
Education. She was a member of Alpha Tau
Delta honorary.
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EUGENE INSURANCE AGENCY
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