flutte.
at
Elm Street
The sun had cone down and the
purple tit dusk was turning to the dark
ot night. A middle-aged man, smok-
ing his pipe contentedly, walked down
tree-canopied Elm Street.
As the man passed number 28,
he saw a light come on in the living-
room. It was a cheerful light that,
somehow, seemed warmer than any
ot the lights in neighboring windows.
The man often walked down Kim
Street and every time he saw that light
in the window he telt the same glow
ot satisfaction. It meant that all was
well within. Mrs. Allen had put her
two children to bed and had settled
herself for an evening ot sewing or
reading. Later some friends would
probably drop in.
Yet how different it might have
been. The woman was alone with two
children, but hardship had not moved
in with them.
The man in the street was a
modest man, bur he could not help
teeling that he had played an impor-
tant part in this story. He remem-
bered the night he had persuaded Mr.
Allen to take the step that had meant
so much to his family just three \ ears
later. He could not help but feel that,
it Mr. Allen could somehow be walk-
ing with him tonight, he would put a
hand on his shoulder and say, "I'm
glad you came over that night."
The man walked on, thinking
back upon his own lite. He had been a
New York Lite agent tor fifteen years
and often ?like tonight, tor instance
? he felt that he had chosen the best
possible career tor himself. He whis-
tled softly as he turned off Elm Street
and headed toward home.
NEW YORK LTFE
INSURANCE COMPANY
r,\ Madiaon Avenue, Now York 10, N. Y.
? LEW occi RATIONS otter a man so much in
the way of personal reward as lite underwriting.
Many New York Lite agents are building very
substantial futures tor themselves by helping
others plan ahead for theirs. It you would like
to know more about a life insurance career,
talk it over with the New York Life manager
in your community -or write to the Home
Office at the address at left.
JUNE 1949
fugitives from Our Tiles
The names appearing below are those of alumni for whom the alumni office has no addresses. We will
appreciate it if you will send any information you may happen to have on the blank provided below.
1922
Beatrice Hensley AbbottGeorge Russell Aker
Martha Watson BairdElsa R. Berner
James Forrest CarterLucile Huston Evans Diteman
William Selman Gassaway
1924
Robert A. Barnett
Gertrude Helen Williams CooperHenry D. Cossmann
Gertrude Black EatonGrace Estella Anderson Eddy
Arthur Fong
1926
Ralph GledhillRoy Goodson Craddick
Ruppert T. GilbertEmerson Ralph Edwards
Stephen H. Ford
1928
William Besley AdamsTed Wood Becker
Myrtle Bemis
Albert S. MoklofskyFrederick Parker Nusbickel
Zelda Miriam Smith PayneLora Anderson Ward
Boyd Yadea
1929
F. Burr AbnerMervyn C. Behnke
Lowell Denair MobleyElizabeth H. Miller
M. Eileen O'Brien
Erma Maye PaulsenMabel Lela Wallace
Wyhet Murle WayneAlice Ann Gorman Weigant
Neva Elinor Yeager
1930
Valeriano S. Abab
Thelma Grace AdamsHomer Davenport Bernard
Vincent BigleyNellie Clare Coverley
Thelma Jane Brock Davis
Ben Gilbert Franklin Jr.
1931
Dr. Maurice Creighton DoakKenneth M. Allen
Reginald Alexander
Gladys Catherine BlakeFrances Weldon Deitderich
Grace Louise CurrieJohn Joseph Dougherty
1932
Nathaniel Dulaney BrownPaston B. Buen
Jackson Dingee BurkeDonald F. Call
Helen Wallace Edgerton
Josephine Katherine FrakesGilbert Melvin French
Camille HaltonHenrietta Fay Helm
Lloyd L. HenniganGarfield Clark Hickman
1933
Myrna Lou Bush
Frances Helene Burgess
Walter Gordon Campbell
Harold Ernest Edwards
Donald Edward Foltz
Katherine J. Frentzel
Lynn Hampton
Richard Henry
1934
Alfred Eugene AbranzRuth Alyne Clarke
Philip Arden DaleThomas Blakely Hamilton
Henry Solon IrelandKenneth Caspell Long
Kenneth Earl WeaverMary Lucille Whitfield
1935
Adelbert Carl AldrichMary Bridgett Codd
Mildred Frances ColemanJohn Francis Daly Jr.
Marian Gertrude Hall
William Franklin HansonVivian Harvey Johnson
Eugene E. MillerWaldo Hall Nye
Frank Leo Waller Jr.
B. Joseph WalshRichard Eslie Walton
1936
Elesa Campbell AddisEvelyne Gretchen Danford
Connie Valai ElliottPortia Booth Green
Alton Leander HakansonAustin Alfred Hall
George Felix InmanRuth H. Jagger
Frank James Keaveny
1937
Margaret M. DaggettMildred Maye Baker Dart
Walter EngleAlice Gray
Robert Loveland GreeneHelen Marie Webber Israel
Richard Wellington Jenney
Henry Erickson JonesDorothy Ann Kane
Douglas Vivian KelbelWilliam O. Kelsay
1938
Dulcie Virginia Aiken
Tom AllenNorman Carl Danielson
John Clifford DavidsonMary Elizabeth Esson
Lloyd George GottliebRobert J. Grant
Harold Thomas HallThomas Jacobs Jr.
Barbara Lee Price Jorgensen
Donald Francis Kessi
1939
Margaret Marian AdairHenry Thornton Ash
George F. BackusTillmer Elmorise Davidson
Clara Davis
Kathleen Marie EganCarl William Gravelle
Edward Livingston HaasMalcolm Holmes Hansen
Dorothe Maye Potter Ireland
Ruth Ann Morgan JacobyMax Frank Jahn
1940
F. Isabelle BakerFred John Dallas
William Elwood DavenportAllison Merlin Eddy
Paul O. Edwards
Jake L. BishopJack Wilson Gorrill
Lydia Hahn
Russell L. Iseli
Marie E. JenningsAmy Johnson
Margaret E. Jossy
1941
Aloha Dee Allen
Chesley S. AllenFrances Clifford Ayres
Barbara Smith BaldingerGlen Howard Damon
Records Clerk
Alumni Office
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
The correct address for_
Gilman DanielsonPaul Whitney Davis Jr.
Lewis FedorEdwin Ferraris
Olive Kingsley FieldGeorge Francis Grant
Jennie Lee HamiltonRoss Dunbar Hargis
Marie Megan ImlerAndrei Leonide Isotoff
Olga Marie Jacobs
1942
Elizabeth Grace BaldwinTrena Belsitto
Clarance O. CollinsByron Winston "Doc'' Henry
Helen Lucille Mitchell
William S. WhymanJoseph Martin Zorich
1943
Betty Bernardine BarrKeith Hill Blanchard
Edgar David BlumenthalDorothy Maye Bottem
Jack Sylvester Boman
Duglas William FabianBarbara Leanora Huggins
Mary Jean McMorrisFrank Charles Meldrum
Jean Esfelle Nye
Betty Canterbury WallsFlorence Mary Walta
Donald Ray WarrenWilliam Oliver White
Carlton Merle Zane
1944
Pierre Frederick BarnettGeorge Pertovich Bolotoff
Carole Camille Bonne
Margaret Ida BresslerAlbert Henry Conyne
Mark Ford CooperHelen Joyce Hansen
Barbaralee Jacobs
Alfred Henry KasmeyerFrank Clark Loomis
Dr. Donald Carl MacDonaldJohn Raymond Ward
Signed,
OLD OREGON
VOLUME XXX JUNE 1949 No. 9
Editor, JIM WALLACE '50
Associate Editor, ANITA HOLMES '51
Business Manager, MARILYN TURNER '50
Managing Editor, BILL WASMANN '49
Contents
1948-49 ASSOCIATION'S BANNER YEAR.... 5
BKOWN TRUST WORK CONTINUES, by June Goetze - 6
MYSTERIOUS OREGON AUTHOR STIRRED 1920 LITERARY WORLD 7
UNIVERSITY STORY?ROAD AHEAD, by Lylc M. Nelson.. 8
GEOLOGIST IN S. A., by Rod Smith.... - ~ 9
WHY A LIBERAL EDUCATION, by Dean Eldon Johnson 10
ALUMNI DEVELOPMENT FIND ESTABLISHED, by Anita Holmes 11
SPORTS: FOOTBALL. GOLF. BASEBALL. TRACK... 12-13
SCIENCE FOR THE AVERAGE MAN. by Diana Dye 14
LONG RANGE BUILDING PLAN by Dean Sidney ff . Little 15
NEW HOPE FOR CLEFT PALATES, by Bill \\ asnumn 17
FOREIGN TRADE KNOW HOW 19
Alumni Offiicers
ROBERT S. MILLER '35, President
ORVAL N. THOMPSON '35
CHARLES R. HOLLOWAY '35
ALENE MAIOAUT PHILLIP* '19
EKMIST HAYCOX '23
FRANCIS HEITKEMPER '31, Vice-President
LES ANDERSON '43, Director
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
WILLIAM N. RUSSELL '35
GORDON WILSON '25
EDITORIAL BOARD
LYLE M. NEIJON '40 ALYCE ROGERS SHEETZ '40 EDWAID H. MILLER '26
ROY VERNSTKOM '40 JOHN MACGREGOR '23
COUNTY DIRECTORS
(Term ending December 31,1949)
Baker?JAMES T. DONALD '15, Baker
Benton?WALTER DURCAN '28, Corvallis
Clackamas?PETER LAURS '37, Oregon City
Clatsop?ROBEHT S. LOVELL '42, Astoria
Columbia?JAMES MASON DILLARD '24, St.
Helens
Coos?GEORGE HTJGGINS '16, Coos Bay
Crook?REMEY COX '22, Prineville
Curry?VERNON F. HANSCAM '38, Harbor
Douglas?GEORGE LUOMA '41, Roseburg
Deschutes?ELBERT H. NIELSEN '36, Bend
Gilliam?ROBERT STRANIX '35, Condon
Grant?ORVAL D. YOKUM '27, John Day
(Term ending December 31,1950)
Morrow?EDWIN DICK '40, Heppner
Multnomah?HOLLIS JOHNSTON '21, Portland
Polk?JOHN KITZMILLER '31, Dallas
Sherman?COLLIS P. MOORE '25, Moro
Tillamook?JOHN HATHAWAY '44, Tillamook
Umatilla?GEORCE COREY '38, Pendleton
Union?RAYMOND D. WILLIAMS '14, La Grande
Wailowa?ASA ECCLESON '22 .Enterprise
Washington?PAUL PATTERSON '23, Hillsboro
Wasco?Russ HUDSON '43, The Dalles
Wheeler?HOWARD S. ZACHARY '25, Fossil
Yamhill?RAND E. POTTS '44, McMinnville
(Term ending December 31,1951)
Harney?DOUGLAS MULLARKEY '20, Burns
Hood River?DAVID BROWNINC '43
Jackson?HARRY SKERRY '43, Ashland
Jefferson?BOYD OVERHULSE '33, Madras
Josephine?JOSEPHINE R. JOHNSON '29, Grants
Pass
Klamath?JOHN HOUSTON '21, Klamath Falta
Lake?RICHARD PROEBSTEL '36, Lakeriew
Lane?OTTO VONDERHEIT '34, Eugene
Lincoln?LAWRENCE HULL '23, Newport
Linn?RALPH CRONISE '11, Albany
Malheur?EARL BLACKABY '15, Ontario
Marion?REYNOLDS ALLEN '35, Salem
ALUMNI CLUBS
BOISE?Lloyd Tupllng '39, president; Belly Blaine P.
rish -38, secretarv.HONOLULU?William B. Sievers '32, president; Louis To
geson '42. vice-president; Mildred Bailey Mack '28, se
ident.
Flet-
clary.
ident; ViHarris '47, .ncretary.
LONG BEACH?James P. Harris '45, president.LOS ANGELES?Robert Byington '30, president; Gleeion
- Payne '41, vice-president; Margaret Jackson '23, secre-
tary; Hoy Herndon '29, treasurer.NF.W YORK?Owen Callaway '23, bellnnger.
DALLAS, TEXAS?James B. Burleson '23, pr
SACRAMENTO?Allan P. Rouse '46, president.
SAN JOSE?DeWitt C. Rucker "44, president.SAN DIEGO?Alfred Edwards '33, president; Ste
Cher '32, secretary- treasurer.
PORTLAND?Herbert J. Darby '23, pre.ident; Roy N.Vernstrom '40, vice-president; Dorothy B. Rice 'SI, sec-
retary; Edward J. Kolar '35, treasurer.
SEATTLE?Forest C. Wataon '21, president.
SAN FRANCISCO -Walt Hempy '23, president; Henry C.Heerdl "25, vice-president; Frances Cart*r "27, aecretary.
SPOKANL-Rubert Crunimeliii '45, president.
WASHINGTON. D. C?Donald C. Beeler '27, president.
The University of Oregon Alumni
Association is a member of the
American Alumni Council.
Published monthly e?cept July, August, and September by the
Alumni Association of the University of Oregon, and entered aa
second-class matter at the post offic* at Eugene, Oregon, mi.(or act
,.( March 3, 1879. Subicription: 13 00 a year.
JUNE 1949
1Q48-4Q Association's Banner Year
By Les Anderson '43
Association Director
5\ T K\CH year's end. The Oregon Alumni
-*-?. Association has used the June issue of
OLD OREGON to carry a report summarizing
past activities and outlining future develop-
ments. This year's review is perhaps the
brightest ever, both in past accomplish-
ments and possibilities for the future.
Much of the brightness of the picture is
due to the fine work and leadership of the
association's presidents. Gordon Wilson "25
and Robert S. Miller '35, who took over the
presidency on January 1. Their work in
furthering the Association has been out-
standing.
The Alumni Association also takes this
opportunity to thank the many alumni who
have served as local club presidents, county
directors, board members and just "handy
men in general" when specific work had to
be done. To these men and women, the real
backbone of the organization, goes credit
for much of the progress of the past.
But more than leadership is needed.
No alumni organization can be success-
ful unless it has a large membership. The
Association's program, magazine and active
support of the University are directly ex-
panded or limited as the membership rolls
swell or decrease.
IN THIS phase of activity the Association
has increased from 3600 to 4400. This is still
somewhat short of our goal of 5000, but at
the current rate of increase this goal should
be surpassed in 1950.
Oregon s ratio of paid membership to liv-
ing alumni (Oregon now has about 23,000
living alumni) is good; but this can't be
taken as a rationalization to slack off on
membership campaigns. The school is
growing larger year by year, and the As-
sociation must more than keep pace with
this increase.
Club activity has been on the upgrade
throughout the past year. More than 100
different alumni meetings were held during
the year. Most of these were in Oregon, but
the number of out-of-state meetings is con-
stantly growing. In 1948-49 new clubs were
organized in Dallas, San Jose and Sacra-
mento.
The Association is continuing the policy
of not organizing local alumni clubs in Ore-
gon. Past experience has shown that such
groups suffer from lack of activity. Instead,
county directors are given the responsibility
of calling together alumni of any given
community whenever there is need for a
meeting. Many such meetings were held
this year as part of the adult education pro-
gram.
The "Football Highlights" film was
another feature of local alumni meetings.
It was shown to more than 60 such groups
this year.B
IGGEST single club activity centered
around the Cotton Bowl game, which
was attended by more than 900 alumni. Spe-
cial headquarters were set up in Dallas and
a full round of pregame and New Year's
celebrations was organized for visiting
Webfoots.
Special credit should be given James B.
Burleson '23, president of the Dallas Alum-
ni club. He shouldered most of the responsi-
bility for the Dallas functions.
Fund - raising campaigns have been
another large field of activity in this era of
Oregon expansion. Alumni played a major
role in the Erb Memorial union campaign
which raised nearly $200,000, plus another
$8000 for the furnishings fund. A Millrace
campaign to raise $4000 is now underway,
with about $1500 already in. Alumni also
have been consistent donors to the grant-in-
aid fund for the athletic department and to
various scholarship funds.
More in the realm of future development
than past activity is the adult education
program. But it was started this year. The
travelling professors visited 12 Oregon
towns, winding up with the First Annual
Alumni institute in Portland (OLD OREGON.
.May 1949). The program met with great
success everywhere it was tried, and will be
considerably expanded next year.
LD OREGON magazine has reflected the
Association's growth. Last year it
ranked sixth in the nation and received
awards for illustrations and cover series.
This year's awards won't be out till mid-
summer, but the magazine should rank well
up among the leaders. Printing costs are
up. and advertising income is down, but the
magazine has been able to carry more News
of the Classes and better articles than ever
before.
The Association has expanded its high
school liason work, especially through con-
tacts with alumni teachers, as part of a pro-
gram to acquaint high school graduates
with the University. Yearly enrollment in-
creases show the results of this activity.
A primary function of any alumni or-
ganization is its office service for alumni.
The Association's office organization is now
running in excellent order. Much new
equipment has been added, the records are
in the best shape ever and the staff has been
increased slightly. The office staff handled
more than 300 individual letter inquiries
for information this past year.
M1CH of the information concerning fu-
Alumni council meeting (see page 11).
Here is a partial listing of these plans.
Development fund?to replace the many
fund-raising campaigns and increase alum-
ni support of the University.
Increased membership?by establishing
field representatives throughout the state
for the sole purpose of soliciting Alumni
Association dues.
Summer camp?now investigating the
possibility of a summer camp as part of the
adult education program. There will also
he an increase in the educational tours and
the adult education program in general.
^ A1 ? i , ? , ,? ,, , . / better OLD OKEGON?the magazine isEach dot on the map represents an Oregon Alumni club or a city where Wedfoot alumni , , , , , T
live. In addition there are 150 alumni living in the Hawaiian Islands and 253 who live in now <>ne ot the natlon s best- but "nprove-foreign nations. ((ontinued on page 28)
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OLD OREGON
Brown Trust Work Continues
Success oj 'Human Growth'Film
Further Plans in Sex Education Field
By June Goetze
HUMAN GROWTH." the sex-education t
the University of Oregon in national head-
lines, has been in use for a little over a year.
The headlines haven't stopped, nor has the
work of the Brown trust.
At present there are 310 prints of the film
in circulation; 27 of them are in use in Ore-
gon and the other 283 elsewhere in the
United States and in foreign countries. Cur-
tis Avery, administrator of the Brown trust,
estimates that well over a million people
have already seen "Human Growth," al-
though statistics are not yet available.
The film, designed to give sex education
to junior high school aged children, was a
drastically new development in the popular
opinion of what could be told children
about the familiar story of the birds and
bees.
Because it was a drastic change, con-
siderable criticism was expected. The past
year's showings of the film, however, have
not brought forth any such criticism. "Hu-
man Growth" has been universally praised,
both by educators and the general public.
Its success has also helped formulate
plans for future uses of the trust fund left
by Dr. E. C. Brown of Portland. (Doctor
Brown's will provided that the President of
the University exercise his judgment in de-
termining how the money should be spent.)
-Not to be forgotten are the experts who
produced this film, for they are as much
responsible for its success as anyone.
The University's energetic psychologist,
Dr. Lester F. Beck, who probably has occu-
pied the key spot, is the first to point the
spotlight of credit at others. Among those
he names Dr. Adolph Weinzirl, a former di-
rector of the Brown Trust; Actor Eddie Al-
bert, president of Eddie Albert Produc-
tions, who supervised the filming; Dr. Rex
Putnam, state superintendent of public in-
struction, and Dr. Robert E. Anderson and
Mrs. Dorothea Moore Massey of Dr. Put-
nam's staff.
"ANY of these future plans revolve
around the sex-education film.
Further development and use of the
movie is anticipated. So far the trust has
been concerned largely with ground work.
Before the film is shown to a student group,
it is first previewed by parents and teachers.
So, until March 1, 1949, there had been 388
Oregon showings to 32,013 adults but only
This scene has become a common one in Oregon schools in the past year. It's one of theclassroom sequences from the highly successful sex-education film, "Human Growth."
165 showings to 7520 students. Administra-
tor Curtis Avery expects the parent-child
audience ratio to be reversed by the end of
next year.
He also expects that another year will see
the film being used as standard instruction
equipment for sixth to eighth grade class-
rooms.
Meanwhile the trust is continuing with
other activities. During 1948 alone, it or-
dered 427 books to add to social hygiene
collections in Oregon college and university
libraries. It is training leaders for discus-
sions, providing speakers on social hygiene
and distributing materials. It also finances
summer session courses designed for teach-
ers.
Following release of "Human Growth,"
the E. C. Brown trust sponsored an attitude
study of the relative conservatism or liberal-
ism regarding teaching sex in the public
schools. It has also investigated audience
response to the film.
URRENTLY a study is in progress of the
relationship between the extent of par-
ents' knowledge of the functions of the re-
productive organs and their attitude toward
sex education.
The future will see some changes in the
E. C. Brown trust. Avery has in mind more
serious planning in order to make the trust
what he terms a "basic resource agency."
Future activities of the trust, said Avery,
will be threefold.
1. Conducting research on attitudes,
needs, methods of instruction and aids to
teaching in the area of education for per-
sonal and family living.
2. Developing and distributing of new
materials and instructional aids for par-
ents, leaders and teachers.
3. Training leaders and teachers through
organized courses and through grants or
other aid to colleges, universities and other
organizations.
Avery explained that interest in sex edu-
cation is growing so rapidly that the trust
cannot possibly hope to handle it. Instead
the trust will concentrate on training lead-
ers to educate and distribute information.
However, the trust will continue to dis-
tribute printed materials to the public.
A long-range aim is to develop carefully
planned courses of study for different age
levels, complete with visual aids and print-
ed materials. Included in this will be a
continuation of a series of films in which
"Human Growth" is only the beginning.
Thus, the state of Oregon and the E. C.
Brown trust are bound to hit the headlines
frequently in their struggle to remove the
hush from sex education.
JUNE 1949
Mysterious Oregon Author
Stirred 1Q20 Literary World
By Lorna Larson
MONG the strangest, and yet most in-
teresting, personalities to attend the
University of Oregon was Opal Whiteley
'21, now a patient in a public mental institu-
tion in England.
Opal's name became a byword through-
out the country in 1920 upon publication of
her diary, "The Story of Opal?The Journal
of an Understanding Heart," as a serial in
the Atlantic Monthly. Many readers felt a
personal interest in the young author upon
reading her description of the world sur-
rounding a growing child of six and feeling
the charm conveyed by her imaginative
power.
The young author raised an aura of mys-
tery around herself by maintaining to be
Francoise d'Orleans, a daughter of the royal
house of France. In her book she cleverly
hinted that she was daughter of the un-
married French prince Henri d'Orleans,
taken away from France in shame and even-
tually situated with the family of an Oregon
logger. Although there were those who
scoffed at this story, many believed she was
telling the truth..
Shortly after the publication of her diary
as a book in the 1920s, Opal traveled to Eng-
land and then to India. During her travels
in India she suffered a sunstroke from which
she never completely recovered. Her powers
of concentration were gone, and she could
no longer write. Although she still con-
tinued to delight those who knew her with
her imaginative powers and artistic ideas,
her seemingly bright literary career had
vanished.
TODAY Opal is about 51, penniless and a
was recently found by authorities in dead-
end section of Hampstead, London, living
in a tiny room surrounded by stacks of
books and relics of France and the French
royal family.
Following her unfortunate trip to India,
she was cared for by a circle of friends in
England. Among these were the late Lord
Grey of Fallodon, Britain's foreign secre-
tary at the outbreak of World War I. Many
of these friends are now dead and others
are no longer in a position to support her.
Upon coming to Oregon, Opal made her
home with her parents in logging camps
near Cottage Grove. According to Elbert
Bede, editor of the Cottage Grove Sentinel
for 25 years and now editor of the Oregon
Mason, Opal developed an unusual know-
ledge of astronomy and geology. This
brought her a good deal of publicity while
attending the University of Oregon, al-
though she was indifferent toward her other
studies. She was especially poor in French,
which seems strange as her diary indicated
French had been her native tongue during
her childhood.
Her interest in nature led her to write a
book, The Fairyland Around Us, which she
took to Ellery Sedgwick, editor of the Atlan-
tic Monthly, with the hope of having it pub-
lished. He wasn't interested in her book,
but inquired as to whether she had a diary.
To this she replied that she had one of her-
childhood up to about seven years.
The diary printed on torn scraps of paper
and stored in cardboard boxes in Los An-
geles, was shipped to Sedgwick and the pa-
pers, torn by a jealous sister, were pasted
together into readable form. The diary was
published.
After publication, investigation showed
that the diary was not actually written when
Opal was a child, but was cleverly composed
at a later age. Worn reference books and
plagiarized passages were discovered.
WHETHER true or untrue the diary pro-
"Under the house live some mice. I give
them bread-scraps to eat. Under the steps
lives a toad. He and I?we are friends. I
have named him. I call him Lucian Horace
Ovid Virgil."
In the book Opal refers to an angel
mother and father in her early childhood.
Her father came from a great distance and
her mother was never again seen after they
were all in a shipwreck. It was then, she
said, that she went to live with Mrs. White-
ley.
Mrs. Whitely is referred to as the villain
of the story, while experts say she was really
very kind. She died before publication of
the diary.
Opal's real family was disturbed by her
writings and practically forced into retire-
ment and silence. This helped establish be-
lief in Opal's story, however, as readers as-
sumed that the family was withholding in-
formation. Some claimed that Opal's mother
might have been an Indian princess, since
Henri was said to have traveled in India
frequently.
According to Bede, Opal's trip to India
after publication of her diary was financed
by Henri's mother. While in India she was
accepted as a princess in the family of the
Maharajah of Adaipur.
Upon returning to England, she pub-
lished an account of her travels in India
and disappeared until recently discovered
in her present state.
Last April's Atlantic Monthly reprinted
Opal Whitely, as she was pictured in TheOregonian in 1920. Her diary, with its hints
of royal parentage, focused a national spot-light on the Oregon backwoods girl in the
early 1920s.
a letter written by Barbara Ward, assistant
editor of the London Economist, telling of
Opal's situation and asking for aid from any
friends she might have here in the United
States.
A few remaining friends in England have
decided to try to collect a small fund to
move Opal from the public institution where
she is receiving no beneficial treatment to a
private mental hospital they have located
that will assure personal treatment and pri-
vacy.
Anyone interested in contributing to the
Opal Whiteley Fund may send contributions
to:
Mr. Ellery Sedgwick, treasurer,
Atlantic Monthly,
8 Arlington Street,
Boston 16, Massachusetts.
Robert Boggs Takes Over
Deanskip at NYU
Dr. Robert Boggs '31 is the new dean of
the New York University Postgraduate
Medical school. His appointment will be
effective July 1.
He has served as acting dean since last
November when the school became a unit
of the N.Y.C.-Bellevue Medical Center.
Doctor Boggs was formerly medical officer
of the U.S.S. Wichita.
After graduating from the University,
Doctor Boggs went on to McGill university
and then to Harvard where he was a re-
search fellow in surgery. His home is in
Manhasset, Long Island.
OLD OREGON
University Story - Road Ahead
UOs Enrollment, Faculty, Campus,
Athletic Program on Upward Swing
By Lyle M. Nelson '40
Director of Information
IN past issues of OLD OREGON, the history
Based on this rich heritage, the plans for
the future are being built.
By all standards the future of the Univer-
sity looks promising. Enrollment predic-
tions, even by the most conservative esti-
mates, indicate a continued high student
population for the Eugene campus. Long
range plans are developed and, better still,
in operation to continue the academic pro-
gress made during the past several years
chiefly by continuing to put heavy emphasis
on quality of staff. A ten-year building pro-
gram, including campus beautification, is
laid out. And. with good support. Oregon's
rising star in the Pacific Coast conference
athletic orbit will continue to shine.
Based on continuation of prewar trends
alone, the University's enrollment in 1960
should be approximately 7,200 students
according to a study by the President's Com-
mission on Higher Education. Between now
and then somewhat of a levelling off can be
expected with enrollment staying pretty
close to the present 5,800 to 6,000 figure.
If a program is developed to encourage
all high school graduates who can profit by
higher education to continue their studies,
the University should be prepared for
approximately 11,500 students. This again
is a conservative estimate based on extensive
studies by the President's commission. Such
a program could be one of federal scholar-
ships?now being considered by the Con-
gress?or other aids to outstanding stu-
dents who now find it financially impossible
to attend college.
W'HATEVER the course, it appears cer-
will return to the 3,800 prewar level. Like it
or not, the University has grown up.
In the area of staff, probably more impor-
tant progress has been made during the
past several years than in any other com-
parable period in the school's history. With
modest increases provided by the last ses-
sion of the legislature, the University
moved into a much more favorable position
nationally. Under the new pattern, the Uni-
One of the keynotes of the "Tomorrow" chapter in the University story will be the ErbMemorial union. Work is still ahead of schedule on the building (this picture was made
June 7) and it should be ready for use soon after the first of the year.
versity can just about hold its own with
some of the institutions of the "Big Ten,"
assuming that living in Oregon is worth a
few dollars differential.
The general level still is below that of
institutions in Washington and California,
but important progress has been made in
improving the relative position.
Realizing that it cannot compete in every
area, the University has taken a further step
which has, and will, pay dividends to Ore-
gon's youth. It has used available funds on
a merit basis, making it possible to keep
many good instructors who otherwise might
have been lost and to obtain others who
might not have come. Thus, although the
average still is low, a wide range has been
achieved in each rank which has strengthen-
ed the competitive power for top men.
And make no mistake about it, the key to
quality of staff is the salary picture. Univer-
sity authorities play the beauties of Oregon
and the mild Northwest climate for all they
are worth?someone has estimated about
$1,000?but faculty members must eat too.
THE physical plant, too, is expanding.
construction, represent a total of approxi-
mately $6,000,000. Most of these, such as
the Erb Memorial union and the Women's
Dormitory, are self-financed. But state funds
are making possible the new music school
addition, library addition and addition to
and remodeling of Villard Hall.
Moreover, the session of the legislature
just closed provided funds for two critically
needed buildings?the new heating plant
and the long-awaited science building, plans
for which have been on the shelf for some
time.
The heating plant will cost approximately
$1,000,000. It will go up next to the new
physical plant warehouse across the mill-
race near the railroad tracks. Plans call for
landscaping the millrace property, planting
a row of trees on the far side which will
shield the warehouse and heating plant from
view of the campus. Thus, visitors will see
a beautiful campus with none of the usual
physical plant distraction.
The science building will cost approxi-
mately $1,800,000, having been scaled down
from the original plans of about $2,500,000.
Only $1,800,000 was originally budgeted for
this building, but increased costs would
have made the plans as drawn cost $2,500,-
000. Its site has not been finally determined
but architects are preparing recommenda-
tions and a decision soon will be made.
Future plans center around replacement
of present temporary structures, a new
school of journalism building, an addition
to business administration, a women's physi-
cal education building and general class-
JUNE 1949
room space. Looking toward the future, the
University has been purchasing as much
property as it can get at reasonable prices
in the area east of the campus. The 10-year
line, architect's figure, will carry the cam-
pus just beyond Agate street.
TVTOT to be overlooked are plans for cam-
-L ^ pus landscaping and beautification.
With the millrace again to flow, plans call
for an attractive parkway along its banks.
A beautiful entrance to the University cen-
tering around the dads' gates and the "mall"
already is taking shape. Areas around the
new buildings also will be attractively land-
scaped with emphasis on plenty of "open
space."
Oregon's new place in Pacific Coast ath-
letic circles is directly traceable to the men
who coach the teams. There can be little
doubt but that the University has one of the
best balanced and efficient staffs anywhere.
Head Football Coach Jim Aiken needs no
introduction and he is ably assisted by a
backfield coach who is a long time Oregon
booster, Jerry Lillie. At the line coaching
spot. Bob McClure is new and already has
shared a major part of the coaching burden.
Basketball Coach John Warren is build-
ing a long-term program of top teams. In
two sessions, Baseball Coach Don Kirsch
has worked mediocre material into cham-
pionship contenders. Track fortunes and
enthusiasm have brightened directly with
the appointment of capable Coach Bill
Bowerman. whose teams served notice this
year that they will be in the thick of the
Northern Division fight.
At the athletic helm, Director Leo Harris
has added a flare for big time showmanship
to Oregon contests. Top national teams are
appearing on the Oregon schedules and
plans are laid for additions and improve-
ments to all athletic facilities.
These, briefly, are the plans for a Greater
Oregon. The most essential element in build-
ing such a program has been, and will con-
tinue to be, alumni support. Alumni efforts
have played an important role in athletic
improvements; alumni "came through" to
help with the building program by subscrib-
ing funds to the Union and by helping to put
the facts of other needs before the legisla-
ture; and alumni interest in academic im-
provements has encouraged that progress
and has been reflected in a larger and higher
quality enrollment.
With continued support, there can be lit-
tle doubt that the future will be a promising
one.
Editor's Note: The green light for con-
sruction of the science building was given
by the State Board of Higher Education at
its May meeting. The structure will cost
$1,500,000 and will go in the area between
the present physical and men's pool across
University street from the Journalism build-
ing. University authorities expect to have
construction underway by fall.
Geologist in South America
Combines Work, Vacation Life
By Rod Smith
IN Managua, Nicaragua, geologist Ford
most American businessmen would term
"vacation."
He and his wife live in a home provided
by his firm, Gulf Oil company. His office is
next door to their home. The weather is
sunny the year 'round (average tempera-
ture is 55 degrees) and Ford says that if it
weren't for the pressure of work, every day
would be a golfing day.
He also says that they're high on the
Nicaraguan social scale?three servants, a
cook, laundress and serving girl, all of
whom work for a combined salary of $36 a
month in American money.
Young is manager of the South American
offices of Gulf Oil company, a position he's
held for the past year and a half. His back-
ground includes work in geology on two
continents and teaching at the University of
Oregon and at Columbia university.
The golf angle isn't wishful thinking.
Ford reports that there are many excellent
courses in Nicaragua. Not long ago he
travelled to San Salvador with the Gulf Oil
team to compete in the Central American
championship playoff.
When not working or golfing, Young puts
in his time as director of the American li-
brary in Managua, and president of the
American Society of Nicaraugua. He's also
working on a thesis for a doctorate in geol-
ogy.
W HEN he first went to work for Gulf
jungles of Columbia, making his home base
at Bogata.
Before that he was a partner in the Ram-
sey-Young gem-cutting laboratories in New
York. There he perfected a cutter for quartz
crystal which was used extensively during
This young Maiz (corn) monkey isn't atall sure he likes his perch on Ford Young's
shoulder, but to Ford it's all part of a day'slife in Nicaraugua.
the war by the signal corps in the manufac-
ture of radio equipment.
Young did his first geology field work at
the Horse Heaven mercury mines near
Madras.
Dr. Warren D. Smith, famous Oregon ge-
ologist, recommended Young for the P. J.
Kemp fellowship at Columbia, where Young
earned his master's degree in 1941. He also
did additional educational and research
work as a special assistant to Dr. Paul Kerr
of Columbia. It was Doctor Kerr who inter-
ested Ford in the gem cutting business.
While at Oregon, Ford played on the var-
sity golf team (he held the Eugene Country
club course record), was a member of Sig-
ma Chi socail fraternity and was elected to
membership in Sigma Xi. national science
honorary fraternity.
Emerald Rates All American
Ten times a winner, the Oregon Daily
Emerald has again been named Ail-Amer-
ican superior by the Associated Collegiate
Press at the University of Minnesota. Judg-
ing was done on fall term issues.
Fourteen other dailies in the United
States received the same rating. Newspapers
were classified according to method of pub-
lication, type and enrollment of school and
frequency of issue.
All-American superior is the highest rat-
ing given by the Collegiate Press. Pace-
maker award, previously the highest, has
been discontinued.
In 1938, the Emerald rated Pacemaker,
placing it among the six top college news-
papers in the nation. Past All-American
years for the Emerald are 1948, 1947, 1944,
1942, 1941, 1940, 1938 and 1933.
Judging is based on the quality of news
values and sources, writing, editing, typog-
raphy, headlines, makeup, department
pages and special features.
William Yates, Hillsboro, was editor of
the 1948-49 Emerald. Virgil Tucker, Burns,
was business manager.
OLD OREGON
Why a Literal Education?
By Eldon Johnson
Dean of Liberal Arts
WITH some justification, a cynic has
make it unnecessary for a college graduate
to carry a diploma to prove that he is edu-
cated. Unless he attends a college that en-
ables him to combine general education
with his special training, the graduate in
X-ology or Y-ometry may need to have the
corner of his sheepskin conspiciously pro-
truding from his lapel.
A university is society's only institution
primarily devoted to thinking and learning.
A liberal arts college is the university's only
unit primarily devoted to thinking and
learning in general, without professional
specialization.
Justification of a liberal education was
never so easy as it is today. The more di-
visive the influences in the world, the more
obvious the need for unifying factors. To-
day the world is plagued with discord and
division. Its conscious forces are centri-
fugal. Its awareness is of differences, not
similarities. It is a seething cauldron of
conflicting ideologies, national sovereign-
ties, racial prejudices, and economic inter-
ests.
This world-wide disunity is finding its
counterpart in American higher education.
It shows the trend, at least in years past,
toward dismantling the liberal arts college
and scattering its parts among the pro-
fessional schools. The liberal arts college is
one of the few remaining centers of unity
and cohesion, the special task of which is to
see man and life whole. To permit its being
torn asunder is to hasten the disintegration
that we agree we wish to avoid.
Dean Eldon L.Johnson
A liberal education provides a sorely
needed integrated view of man and his en-
vironment. It is humanistic. We have
enough ways of seeing man as this, that or
the other interest. We have too few ways of
seeing him as a composite that transcends
all these specialties.
We take elaborate pains to train him as
a doctor, lawyer, nurse, chemist or engineer
but we give less attention to training him as
a man and as a unit of society. We often
lose sight of the fact that even in earning a
living, one does so as a whole being and as
a man among men, or as an associated be-
ing.
Man truly does not live by bread alone.
Every student, regardless of his special
interests, needs to have a synoptic view, a
knowledge of relationships, and a chance
to see the parts and the whole. He needs to
know the heritage of the past. But we should
hasten to add the often-neglected corollary:
he needs to know present-day problems and
issues that will inevitably project them-
selves into the future.
He needs to get his bearings in terms of
past, present and future. In other words,
the traditional classical education, or a
repetition of the studies which were con-
sidered liberal arts in the Renaissance, is
hardly enough.
LIBERAL education should give the stu-
dent a public awareness as a counter-
weight to his private interest. It should give
him familiarity with the physical environ-
ment in which he lives. Furthermore, it
should develop in him the art of communi-
cation, because that alone can bring him
out of himself and into full participation in
society. The "community" must obviously
rely on communication.
A liberal education provides a broad and
common base on which professional train-
ing can be built. The professions are merely
the branches of the main tree. They are
merged and subsumed in a common trunk.
Regardless of profession, everyone is a man,
a citizen and a member of society. That
fact is more important than his profession
because it makes the common ground on
which he meets all other people and on
which he and all others must work out their
common problems. A liberal education pre-
pares for such an approach.
In addition, it makes sure that those who
prepare to teach have something to teach;
that those who prepare for journalism have
something to write about and to appraise
events with; that those who prepare for
business administration understand the
public and social setting in which private
enterprise operates; that those who prepare
for scientific specialization understand not
only the impact of science on the atom but
also on man; and that those who prepare
for medicine understand more about life
than anatomy.
THIS education adds understanding to
enough. That is President Conant's point
in his insistence that knowing a subject is
quite different from understanding it. Facts
are important. But their relationships, their
implications and their contexts are much
more significant. It is the house, rather than
the pile of bricks, that we want.
Liberal education does not aspire to pro-
duce "quiz kids." It seeks to develop skills
and attitudes that will assure the fullest use
of pertinent facts, and shifting facts, in
terms of life's constantly changing prob-
lems, without assuming that college must
pour the student full of enough factual fuel
to fire him the rest of his days.
A college must perpetually fight to keep
from becoming cluttered up with curricula
imparting insignificant knowledge and with
courses developing unnecessary skills?that
is, insignificant and unnecessary as com-
pared with the alternative uses to which a
student could put his limited time. It was
Solomon who said: "Get wisdom: and with
all thy getting get understanding."
A complete education develops significant
values. Values give life its needed direction.
They determine what we do with facts and
opportunities. They explain the quite differ-
ent decisions arrived at by sincere men
viewing the same problem. They determine
what each of us brings to the scene of action
and thus, in large measure, what action we
ultimately take.
Bishop Oxnam had this in mind when he
said culture is that which remains after we
have forgotten all the mere information that
we have ever learned. It is the residue, the
outlook on life, the attitudes and the system
of values.
Education can be positively diabolical un-
less tempered with human values.
No college or university ever attains its
ideals. Its task is that of approximating its
ideals. A laboratory section may develop
gadgeteering skill without illuminating the
principles of science or the scientific meth-
od. A history course may merely describe,
without analysis, criticism, application or
any other reasoning process. A foreign lan-
guage course may emphasize style and
grammar without catching a glimpse of
another culture. An examination may test
absorptive power, without reference to
thinking power.
But a liberal education at least keeps
striving to do what no other kind of educa-
tion attempts?to specialize in man as man
and to develop those sciences and arts pe-
culiar to man as a creative animal and a
social being.
10
JUNE 1949
Part of the alumni leaders who attended the May conference are pictured on the steps ofJohnson hall. First row, left to right; Gordon Wilson '25, George Huggins '16, Elbert
Nielsen '36, Francis Heitkemper '31, Lawrence Hull '23, Second row; Orval N. Thomp-son '35, Otto Vonderheit '34, Reynolds Allen '35, William Haseltine '18, Charles R. Hol-
loway Jr. '35, Third row; Herbert J. Darby '23, George Corey '38, William N. Russell'35 and President H. K. Newburn.
Alumm Heads Establish
UO Development Fund
By Anita Holmes
ALUMNI won't be giving a dollar to this
after a new development fund goes into
action. The fund will end bothersome
sporadic drives by centering them in one
all-inclusive program every year.
This campaign and fund will be under
the thumb of the Alumni Association.
Money collected will go for the develop-
ment of educational opportunities such as
research grants, scholarships and promotion
work at the University of Oregon.
The development fund was only one
action taken at the second annual alumni
leaders conference held on the campus late
in May. Twenty-five county directors met
with Alumni Director Lester E. Anderson to
work over a 12-point agenda.
They also took time to talk with Univer-
sity administrators, watch the spring foot-
ball game and tour the campus.
Outgrowths of the conference included a
field representative plan, a summer camp
idea and constitutional changes. However,
most of these were dwarfed by the proposed
development fund.
THE LEADERS approved the fund idea and
mine actual organization of it. Committee-
men will answer such questions as:
1?When will solicitation begin?
2?What shall be the general purpose of
the fund, and how shall it. be administered?
3?How shall close co-operation between
the fund's governing body and the Univer-
sity administration be carried on?
More than 160 institutions across the
country support alumni "community chests"
such as this one. Administrators have dis-
covered that one central fund or foundation
stimulates alumni interest by giving them a
chance to direct contributions toward a par-
ticular phase of the college's program.
Another new streamliner of the Alumni
Association is a field representative plan,
introduced and approved at the May meet-
ing.
Representatives will be named in every
area where large numbers of Oregon alumni
live. Their job will be to solicit additional
association memberships.
A new twist on membership fees was
brought up at the conference by George
Huggins '16. He wondered why a 45-year-
old alumnus should pay as much for life
membership as a 30-year-old. A suggestion
that life fees be payable acording to age was
given to the membership committee?one of
four new bodies appointed at the confer-
ence.
Charles Holloway Jr. '35, William Rus-
sell \3T and George Corey '38 make up the
membership committee. They were named
by Francis Heitkemeper '31, vice-president
of the Alumni Association, who was pinch-
hitting for President Robert S. Miller '35.
H EITKEMPER appointed Otto Vonderheit
Thompson '35 to the finance committee.
Hollis Johnston '21,Gordon Wilson '25 and
Dick Reed '23 will work on athletics. Activi-
ties committee includes Roy N. Vernstrom
'40, Kenneth Erickson '41 and Bea Milligan
Titus '30.
One more committee will be appointed to
work on a proposal for an alumni summer
camp. The camp was suggested as another
arm of the Association's adult education
program.
A few outdoor classes plus plenty of
recreation and entertainment would be the
camp program. Speakers would be mem-
bers of the University faculty. The site: a
local resort or camping ground with accom-
modations for alumni and their families.
A more orthodox educational program
was established by the alumni leaders at
their May meeting. This one set up a
scholarship program to help freshmen
entering the University. All interest derived
from investing life memberships will be ear-
marked for this program.
Changes in membership rates were pro-
posed at the conference. The 25 county
directors recommended the following
amendments on rates for approval at the
general meeting on June 18:
1?Life memberships may be paid in six
annual installments of $11 each. Present
plan provides that the $60 fee must be
paid in one sum.
2?The $10 rate which covers a period of
five years shall be changed to cover a four-
year period.
3?The following rates be abolished:
$7.50 for 3 years and $9.00 for four years.
ANOTHER proposed amendment would
alumni officers from December 30 to June
30. If passed, this will affect president, vice-
president, executive committee members
and county directors. Those now in office
will remain until June 30,1950.
Homecoming date for 1950 was also on
the conference agenda. Action on it was
postponed following a suggestion from Leo
A. Harris, director of athletics.
Harris was one of the University admin-
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11
OLD OREGON
Grid Clinic Draws Prep Coaches
By Fred Taylor
"ORE THAN 160 Oregon high school
football coaches journeyed to Eugene
for the Third Annual Spring Football clinic
held by the University of Oregon athletic
department May 27 and 28. The clinic start-
ed with a noon luncheon on Friday, and
ended Saturday afternoon with the spring
intrasquad football game, viewed by 6700
people.
Purpose of the clinic was to help the
states prep coaches with their football prob-
lems and to display the system which Coach
Jim Aiken has found so successful. Assist-
ing Aiken were Assistant Coaches Bob Mc-
Clure and Bob Sullivan, and newly hired
Backfield Coach Jerry Lillie '30, Oregon
graduate and former Willamette university
athletic director and grid coach. (OLD ORE-
GON, April 1949).
The visiting coaches' time was fully ac-
counted for. with classes being conducted in
all phases of the grid sport. After the open-
ing luncheon, movies of the 1949 Cotton
Bowl game were shown. The coaches then
moved outdoors to bleachers set up on the
practice field. The rest of the afternoon was
spent explaining and demonstrating offen-
sive football play, with Sullivan handling
the center and guards, McClure the tackles
and ends and Lillie the backfield. Coach
Aiken wound up the afternoon's discussion
by combining all the units into a general
offensive pattern.
Friday night the coaches were guests of
the athletic department at a banquet at the
Eugene hotel. Guest speaker was L. H.
Gregory, sport editor of The Oregonian,
who spoke on "The Men and Boys in Pacific
Northwest Football." Gregory divided
Northwest football coaches into two cate-
gories?the men and the boys, according to
Coach Jim Aiken uses some of his burly linemen to demonstrate offensive football tomore than 160 high school coaches who came to Eugene for the second
annual football clinic.
their achievements. Jim Aiken was rated as
one of the men.
T'HE clinic opened again early Saturday
methods and problems by Tom Hughes,
Oregon's trainer, and a lecture on equip-
ment management problems by Bob Sulli-
van, who doubles as equipment manager for
the athletic department.
But the real climax of the clinic, and of
spring football practice, was the annual in-
trasquad game held on Hayward field Sat-
urday afternoon. The Oregon team was di-
Golfers Upset in ND Playoff
Oregon's golfers, handicapped by the loss
of such stars as Lou Stafford and Rod Tay-
lor, registered an up-and-down season,
winding up the year in fourth place in the
Northern Division championships, despite
the fact they were beaten only by Washing-
ton in dual match action.
Under the guidance of Sid Milligan, vet-
eran Eugene golfer, the Ducks swept
through their first five matches, and seemed
on the way to the division crown. Victoria
College. Idaho, OSC, WSC and OSC again
fell before the long-driving links squad in
successive matches.
Then the Oregon team entrained for Seat-
tle to meet the defending champion Wash-
1?
ington Huskies. A warm-up match was
scheduled with College of Puget Sound, and
the upstart Sounders knocked over the visit-
ing Eugene team.
University of Washington proved equally
inhospitable, whacking Oregon 18x/2 to 8y2.
Hard-working little Johnny Eckstrom fired
a 68 over the Seattle course, only to be beat-
en by the Huskies' Jim Mallory, who blazed
a 65.
All the early dope went out the window in
the finals, however, as Washington State
captured the title, with Washington second,
Oregon State third and Oregon fourth. Dom
Provost, John Eckstrom, Jim Donahue, Red
Omlid and John Prince carried the load for
the Ducks during the year.
vided into two units, the Whites and the
Greens. The Whites were composed of the
first and fourth teams, and the second and
third elevens made up the Greens.
The largest crowd ever to view an Oregon
spring game pushed into the Hayward field
stands on a cool overcast day, and watched
the underrated Greens whip the Whites 31
to 26, behind the spectacular passing attack
of Earl Stelle, former Medford star who is
top candidate for Norm Van Brocklin"s post
at quarterback.
Stelle threw 26 passes and completed 17
of them, for 171 yards gained through the
air. For the Whites, Jim Calderwood and
little Joe Tom handled the aerial chores and
did creditable jobs but didn't perform quite
as spectacularly as Stelle.
Most significant note of the game, besides
proving that Oregon will have three good
passers next season, was the host of hard-
running backs which the Oregon team pos-
sesses. Right half George Bell, who ran for
the Whites, gained 166 yards on 12 carries,
and Bob Sanders exhibited his usual power.
DeWayne Johnson, who has played purely
defensive football for two years, smashed
through the line repeatedly as fullback
All in all, the theories discussed and
demonstrated during the clinic to the high
school coaches, were adequately proved dur-
ing the spring game. Most of the coaches
left Eugene with the feeling that the Aiken
system would work?a fact that most of the
PCC already believes.
JUNE 1949
Rain Settles Baseball
Flad lor Second Year
"jfpOR the second consecutive season Coach
?^ Don Kirsch's Oregon baseball team lost
out to the weather, winding up its Northern
Division season in second place behind
Washington State college. The Ducks were
rained out of two crucial games, just enough
to give the edge to the Cougars who played
all 16 scheduled contests.
Oregon won 10 games and lost 4, to
WSC's record of 12 victories and 4 loss-
es. Three of the Cougar defeats were by the
Oregon team.
Last season both WSC and Oregon were
rained out of games, but the Cougars were
luckier, winning the crown on percentage
points. Each team lost two games, but Wash-
ington State played only 11 games,
while the Oregon nine played 15, so the
Pullman team won the pennant on points.
It was actually the third consecutive year
that the Ducks finished second to WSC. In
1947 the Cougars won a clear-cut victory
over Oregon, then piloted by Howard Hob-
son.
Oregon had a surprising year, however,
despite the second place position. Only one
Northern Division team, Washington Husk-
ies, managed to win more than one game
from Don Kirsch's squad. The Huskies took
two games, one in Eugene and one in Seat-
tle. The other three squads had to be satis-
fied with one victory over the second-place
team.
Starting the season with a double victory
over the visiting Idaho Vandals the Ducks
went on to capture a pair from the colorful
Buck Bailey's WSC barnstorming nine.
Kirsch's pitching staff, composed of untried
sophomores and juniors and several former
relief hurlers. was shaky, but with good sup-
port managed to outlast the opposition until
the marauding Washing-
ton Huskies blasted four
pitchers for a 9-4 victory.
The second Husky game
was rained out.
Then Oregon took the
always dreaded Inland
Empire tour, playing six
games in seven days. The
Ducks split with WSC,
took two from Idaho,
and dropped one to
Washington before win-
ning the last.
After the tour only
Oregon State stood in the
path. Four games
loomed, and Oregon had
to win all to capture the
pennant. The first tilt was a tight affair,
Oregon finally winning 7-6 in the tenth in-
ning, to tie Bailey's team for first.
But the next day over in Corvallis the
Beavers took revenge, pounding out a 15-7
victory. The Ducks won the third game 10-7,
but it was no use, as the Cougars clinched
the crown with straight victories. The last
OSC-Oregon game was rained out.
Five veteran players wound up their col-
legiate baseball careers in the final OSC
game. Four-year men Walt Kirsch, brother
of the coach and top-notch second baseman,
and shortstop Al Cohen bowed out. Homer
Bropst, Oregon's top hurler with three vic-
tories and no losses, and outfielders Don
Dibble and Norm Henwood also graduated.
A few days later came the news that Out-
fielder Johnny Kovenz, top hitter on the club
with a .434 average for fifth place in the
Duckman Johnny Kovenz hits the dust route for the winningrun, on a sacrifice bunt by Hal Zurcher (No. 4) who put the
tap down so skillfully the Salem Senators couldn't handle it.This broke a last minute tie in the bottom of the ninth to give
the Webfoots a 4-3 victory.
league, and the division's top scorer, had
turned professional, forsaking his last year
of eligibility. The speedy outfielder signed
with the Cleveland Indians, and was ordered
to report to Bakersfield in the class "C"
California State league. Wimpy Quinn,
former Oregon firstbaseman, is manager
and firstbaseman of the Bakersfield team.
Bropst was the leading Oregon hurler,
although he started only one game. Sopho-
more Mel Krause was runnerup, with four
victories and two losses, followed by rotund
Sid Mills, a junior with two seasons of jun-
ior varsity action, who had a three and two
record.
Kovenz led Oregon's hitters, followed by
Al Cohen, the division's runs-batted-in lead-
er.
Walt Kirsch was the only other Duck to
bat over .300 for the season. He closed out
his career with a .302 average.
Tkinclads Win Second Spot
George Rasmussen, top ND pole vaulter.
"NDER the masterful guidance of Ore-
gon's fledgling track coach, Bill Bower-
man, the University's undermanned squad
of thinclads captured second place in
Northern Division competition. The Ducks
defeated every conference school in dual
meet action except the champion Washing-
ton State Cougars, and placed second in the
championships behind the Cougars.
It was Bowerman's first season as head
mentor, and he piloted his charges to out-
standing performances. Although he indi-
cated early in the year that 1949 would be
dedicated to rebuilding Oregon's diminish-
ing track forces, the youthful Oregon gradu-
ate surprised critics with a fine job.
Oregon gave early indication that it in-
tended to do much better than the third or
fourth place allotted to it by the prognosti-
cators. After losing to Oregon State in the
annual OSC-Oregon relays, 5-3, the Web-
foots started moving. But for a default in the
880-yard relay when officials ruled that an
illegal pass had been made Oregon would
have captured the relays for the first time in
11 years.
Idaho was the first to fall, as the Duck
harriers raced over the Vandals 76"V^ to 54V2
on the Eugene track. Five meet records were
shattered by Oregon as the Webfoots regis-
tered surprising early-season performances.
Dave Henthorne in the 100-yard dash,
Walt McClure, son of a famous Oregon dis-
tance runner, in the 880-yard run, Woodley
Lewis in the broad jump, Bob Anderson in
the discus and pole vaulter George Rasmus-
sen all set new marks.
(Continued on page 25)
13
OLD OREGON
Science tor the A vera
Condon Lecture Series Interprets
Scientific World for Mass Audience
By Diana Dye
EVEN the best scientific work falls short of
average man.
This was the idea that prompted the late
Dr. John Campbell Merriam to ask the
state board of higher education for the Con-
don lectureships in 1944. He was sure that
a series of interpretative lectures would
make science understandable to the layman.
Doctor Merriam's convictions were well-
founded. Attendance at the Condon lectures
increased yearly after the state board estab-
lished them five years ago. Interest in the
subjects has become more widespread with
tbe appearance of each lecturer.
These fast-growing audiences are hearing
the results of scientific experience presented
in everyday terms. Doctor Merriam believed
such interpretation came first?then the av-
erage person could use the results of science
in his own thinking and activities.
One speaker is chosen each year to do this
interpreting. He discusses a pertinent scien-
tific problem before audiences in Portland,
Eugene and Corvallis.
The all important choice of the speaker
lies with a committee of three?Dr. 0.
Larsell, Dr. E. L.
Packard and Dr. L.
S. Cressman. Spon-
soring and financ-
ing of the lectures is
done by the Oregon
State Board of
Higher Education.
Doctor Larsell is
a representative of
the University of
Oregon Medical
School in Portland;
Doctor Packard is a
committee member
from Oregon State
college; Doctor
Cressman. chair-
man, is head of the
anthropology department in the University
of Oregon.
When considering topics and speakers for
the annual lectures, the committee has look-
ed for the most competent man in a given
field. They have to remember Doctor Mer-
riam's purpose and find a man who can ex-
plain a scientific topic to a non-scientific
audience.
MERRIAM set up this goal after
doing research in the field of scien-
tific interpretation. Results of such re-
search led him to recommend the lecture-
ship.
Condon lectures were so named in honor
of Dr. Thomas Condon, the first professor of
geology in the University and the first geol-
ogist to focus attention on the now famous
John Day fossil beds.
The man behind the lectures, John C.
Merriam. retired from the presidency of
Carnegie Institution in Washington, D. C.
before coming to Oregon. His desire to bring
practical science to the Oregon layman was
but a continuation of the work he had start-
ed in Washington.
An appointment t<> the University of Ore-
gon enabled him to continue research in the
field of scientific interpretation.
Doctor Merriam contributed to the inter-
pretative aspect of his work with numerous
articles and addresses. He also wrote two
books. THE LIVING PAST and THE GARMENT
OF GOD.
While working as "Consultant and Lec-
turer on the Human Values of Science and
Nature" at the University, he looked for
ways to convey his vast knowledge of pa-
leontology to the interested layman. It was
only natural that his attention should fall
to a lectureship program as a means of con-
veyance.
It was originally planned to center the
talks around the earth sciences and life of
the past. However, later developments have
extended the range of subjects.
In addition to the earth history, the com-
mittee has included in its subject matter the
different aspects of human adjustment to
natural and cultural environment. Attention
has been focused on the position of Oregon
in the Pacific area.
kPENir\G topic for the Condon series was
"Ancient Volcanoes of Oregon." It was
presented by Dr. Howell Williams, chair-
man of the department of geological
sciences at the University of California.
The next series of lectures featured Dr.
Faye-Cooper Cole, chairman of the anthro-
pology department at the University of Chi-
cago. His topic concerned "Malaysia,
Crossroads of the Orient."
"Ancient Forests of Oregon" were con-
sidered in the 1946-47 series of talks. Dr.
Ralph Chaney, professor of paleontology at
(Continued on page 25)
Dr. Thomas Con-don, for whom Ore-
gon's interpretativescience lecture ser-
ies was named, ex-plains "geology on
the scene" to anadult class. (From
an o'd print).
JUNE 1 949
CAMPUS MAP
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
Long Range Building Plan
Reshapes Oregon Campus
By Sidney W. Little
Dean of Art and Architecture
BY THIS TIME, OLD OREGON readers have
plexity of campus planning. It's a problem
similar to that of shifting cars on a moving
train without altering forward progress.
Planning complexities are a continuing
challenge to the architect who must consider
existing situations in relation to future prob-
lems. But he must also recognize "tradition"
as opposed to "obsolescence" when working
toward a final result which he will probably
see in its last detail.
It is seldom possible to make complete
and final plans for distant periods when
they involve undetermined needs, unknown
funds, doubtful land areas or any of many
other qualifying factors. One major defect
of many long-range plans is that, they at-
tempt to crystallize detailed solutions for
unknown needs.
On the Oregon campus, for example, who
could have forseen even a single decade ago
the necessity for a spech and drama de-
partment the size of the one now in opera-
tion?
How futile now were the labored efforts
of those who, many years ago, built the
elaborate scale model for the proposed Uni-
versity of Oregon Campus. That model be-
came obsolete with the first building as-
signed after the model was completed.
No attention was paid to it because the
needs even then had changed beyond the
model makers fixed ideas. The University
science staff is welcoming the opportunity
to revise the science building plans, even
though they were completed only two years
ago.
The successful long range plan is a series
of studies under constant revision. Such
studies take into account changing require-
ments as they become effective, as they are
contemplated and as they are hoped for.
The campus plan for Oregon will probably
never again be only a single sheet of paper
with precisely indicated future structures,
roads, paths and landscaping beautifully
drawn and colored. For that reason it is im-
possible to reproduce "the plan" or even "a
plan" for the future University of Oregon
as a terminal future of this series of articles.
This does NOT mean, however, that there
is no plan for future campus development.
It means that the plans for the future cam-
Blacked-in areas on this campus map repre-sent proposed developments of Oregon's
physical plant. Key to the numbered areasis as follows: 1. New heating plant; 2. Ex-
tension and expansion of school of businessadministration; 3. Expansion for school of
journalism; 4. Rehabilitation and expan-sion for school of architecture; 5. Proposed
site for new science building; 6. Proposedsite for administration and business offices;
7. Alternate site for administration expan-sion; 8. Expansion for infirmary; 9. Pro-
posed site for new women's gym and play-ing fields; 10. Future expansion men's
dormitories; 11. Balcony for Me ArthurCourt (athletic department); 12. Exten-
sion of seating for Hay ward field; 13. Newmen's swimming pool and new ROTC drill
hall; 14. Proposed site for auditorium; 15.Expansion of Condon Hall for Natural
History museum; 16. Suggested site forprivately financed memorial tower; 17. Ex-
pansion of Oriental Art museum; 18. Fu-ture expansion of women's dormitories; 19.
Future University greenhouse; 20. Mill-race development.
pus as being developed by the President's
committee involve so many drawings,
sketches and analysis charts that it would
be impossible to reproduce them here. It
means that the University plans are being
carried forward with the existing campus
as a base and that the future plan is a liv-
ing, flexible idea instead of a static state-
ment of fact.
Building sites for the future are desig-
nated as areas assigned to the specific activi-
ties. They are so assigned on transparent
overlays for purposes of study.
H overlay represents a development
'period. The first is the emergency period
which was represented by the detailed re-
quests for the coming biennium. The next
overlay covers projected plans for a ten-year
period which can be determined now with
reasonable accuracy. The last overlay in-
cludes hopes and dreams for the future?
1965 and onward.
When fastened together over a lighted
table, these overlays show a composite pic-
ture of the campus?present and future.
Where overlapping of buildings occurs it
means that the existing building will have
become obsolete by the time the new struc-
ture is ready for construction. If the over-
lapping is on property not now belonging to
the University, it means that the site must
be purchased before the proposed building
can be built.
In addition to the plans for siting new
buildings, there are other transparent over-
lays being prepared to cover landscaping,
parking and traffic, living organizations,
land acquisition studies, temporary build-
ings and obsolescence of permanent build-
ings. By making prints of a selected group
of overlays almost any combination of cir-
cumstances can be available for study for
an emergency or in case the State Board is
unexpectedly generous.
HpHE overlays of the campus landscape are
-I*- now in the process of completion. They
will be an interesting and valuable addition
(Continued on page 27)
15
OLD OREGON
Strong... Independent Citizens
On Sunday night, June 19, the University wroteanother record in its great history book. One by one,
gowned men and women walked across the stage ofcrowded, silent McArthur Court until 1606 seniors
and graduate students had received their diplomas.It was the largest graduating class in the 72-year his-
tory of the University. To each of the graduates itmeant the beginning of a career in business, science,
journalism, music. To all of them it was the abruptend of "those days at Oregon." * From the Presi-
dent's charge to the graduating class. Additionalstory on page 30.
16
JUNE 1949
New Hope for Cleft Palates
University speech expert
Dr. Kenneth S. Wood uses
a soda straw to teach cleft
palate victims proper
speech.
By Bill Wasmann
COMMON every-day soda straw holds
the secret of a faster treatment of
cleft-palate speech, according to a Univer-
sity of Oregon speech expert.
The straw isn't for a chocolate soda. In-
stead, the patient blows through it with
the sounds he finds hardest to say correct-
ly, in accordance with a method originated
by Dr. Kenneth S. Wood, speech expert at
the University.
Treatment of cleft-palate speech begins
after a series of surgical operations have
closed an opening in the soft palate. Once
this is done, there remains the job of
strengthening the muscles of the soft pal-
ate to react as in normal speech.
Using Doctor Wood's method, the pa-
tient puffs the sounds of p, b, d, t, k and
g. The air goes through the soda-straw
mouthpiece into a rubber tube, and from
there into a large glass jar. Stretched
across the mouth of this jar is a bathing
cap, holding some small glass marbles. A
strong pronunciation through the straw
begins to inflate the bathing cap. Repeated
performances will spill the marbles, and
the patient can see his exercise.
For variation, Doctor Wood sometimes
runs the straw to a diaphragm arrange-
ment that expands against a telegrapher's
key when the patient exerts the oral pres-
sure required for one of the difficult
sounds. The key acts as an electrical
switch. With good pronunciation, the pa-
tient hears the result of his exercise be-
cause the key operates a system of buzzers
and bells.
BLOWING exercises are designed to im-
palate muscles so that the patient can
close the nasal port in speaking. If this is
not accomplished, words may "mush out"
through the nose in soft snorts.
An important point in Doctor Wood's
method is that it relates the exercise to
the actual muscle movements of speech.
The muscular exercises actually are
speech exercises.
This is quite an improvement over some
of todays methods, Doctor Wood declares.
"Playing toy saxophones, blowing up
balloons or tooting whistles may be all
Dr. Kenneth S. Wood demonstrates his soda straw speech corrector for cleft palatetrouble. The letter "P" on the chart is one of the most difficult for persons
with a cleft palate.
right for some exercises," he says, "but
they don't help as much as the soda-straw
idea. Older methods didn't allow normal
movements of the lips and tongue, and
consequently didn't permit the combina-
tion of speech exercises and muscle-
strengthening practice."
"The soda-straw method provides the
right combination of genuine exercises,"
he adds, "and as a result, the period of
treatment is shortened."
Pointing out the advantages of the soda
straw method over older methods, Dr. Wood
said that when a large oral appliance is
used, the patient is far away from the
muscle set required for consonant speech
sounds. A soda straw is small enough to
permit shifting in the mouth so that all
sounds may be practised. The soda straw
method permits muscle-movements that
duplicate all the muscular activity used in
actual speech.
Last November in Seattle, western
speech correctional* heard a report on
Doctor Wood's work at the University of
Oregon. Their eagerness was reflected in
press reports over the United States.
Only one thing was missing?statistics.
How did old and new compare? Actu-
ally, no one knew, not even Doctor Wood.
Two years ago when he first began using
his new method, he was so sure his treat-
ment was superior to older methods that
all his patents were treated by the new
method. Cleft-palate cases differ so much
that it would be almost impossible to make
a valid comparison.
But after the Seattle conference, parents
all over the United States were convinced
that Doctor Wood had something. The
publicity wasn't splashy, there were no
great headlines, no pictures, just routine
press releases popping up in papers from
coast to coast. Irom Connecticut and Cali-
fornia, from New Jersey and Massachu-
setts they began writing letters, seeking
information and hope.
Some place out west?at the University
of Oregon?was a man by the name of
Wood. He gave hope to those afflicted with
cleft-palate speech. It was not a hope that
would grip the heart of every man, woman
and child, but to those few?about one
child in 2500 is born with a cleft palate?
it was important, just as important as a
new cancer treatment to a cancer patient.
It was another kind of "straw" to break
another kind of camel's back.
17
OLD OREGON
Three Webfoots dominated the 1949 Los Angeles Matrix Table banquet. They were (leftto right) George Turnbull of Stanford university, Palmer Hoyt of the Denver Post and
Floyd Maxwell of the Los Angeles Newspaper Publishers association.
Webxoots Snine at Annual
Matrix Tame Banquet in L.A.
alumni practically took over the
program at the Fifteenth Annual Ma-
trix Table banquet in the Beverly Hills
hotel May 14. Palmer Hoyt and Floyd Max-
well, both from the class of '23, were listed
on the program and George Turnbull was a
judge in the editorial contest.
The banquet is sponsored by Los Angeles
alumni of Theta Sigma Phi, women's Jour-
nalism society. The society celebrated its
fortieth birthday at the banquet.
Palmer Hoyt, well-known editor and pub-
lisher of the Denver Post, was principal
speaker. He taJked on "Newspapers in the
Atomic Age." Hoyt was publisher of the
Portland Oregonian before taking over the
Denver paper.
During the war he served as domestic di-
rector of the OWI in Washington, was chair-
man of the War Bond committee in Oregon,
and was on the President's Air Policy com-
mission from July, 1947 to January, 1948.
Hoyt has been a director of the Associated
Press and president of the Oregon News-
paper Publishers association. Mrs. Hoyt is
the former Cecile Faye DeVore '23.
Floyd Maxwell, chairman of the Los
Angeles Newspaper Publishers association,
presenter] contest awards to Southren Cal-
ifornia writers from metropolitan and com-
munity papers who contributed best news
and best feature stories. The LAN PA, con-
II
sisting of four Los Angeles papers?the
Times, the Examiner, the Herald-Express
and the Daily News?sponsored the contest.
Maxwell was editor of the Emerald in his
undergraduate days at Oregon. He and his
wife, the former Mildred Lauderdale '23,
have a 19-year-old daughter, Judith.
Oregon's retired dean of the school of
journalism, George Turnbull, greeted Hoyt
and Maxwell. They were both students of
his at Oregon. Dean Turnbull is now acting
professor in journalism at the Leland Stan-
ford University Institute for Journalistic
Studies.
Mrs. Turnbull is a Theta Sigma Phi from
Oregon.
Also present at the banquet was Alyce
Rogers Sheetz '40. She takes over next year
as editor of the Theta Signal, the society's
official bulletin. Her last four years were
spent as editor of International Steward, a
restaurant and hotel trade magazine for
Jaffe publications.
At Oregon, she was a member of Theta
Sigma Phi, Amphibians, Master Dance,
wrote on the Emerald and the Oregana,
was a Junior Weekend princess and was
secretary for both the junior and senior
classes.
A feature of the program was Master of
Ceremonies Kay Kyser, who conducted "his
own college of journalistic knowledge."
New Radio Outlet
Serves Students
KDUK, "voice of the Ducks," is now
coming to Oregon students over radios in
two campus living organizations. It is the
University's own station, operating on the
phono-oscillator principle.
Power is carried on regular wires to John
Straub hall and the veterans' dormitories
where it is spread by oscillators. Officials
of KDUK hope to have it covering the cam-
pus in the future.
First words came over KDUK on June 1.
Since then, it has carried mainly a musical
program, emphasizing "music for study-
ing."
Practical training for radio students is
the purpose behind the low-power station.
It will neither compete with Eugene stations
nor carry commercial advertising.
Studios are on the third floor of Villard
Hall, which has been completely remodeled.
The entire floor is finished in white acous-
tical plaster with colored walls in the indi-
vidual studios.
Four of these studios surround a central
control room. Two of them have baffled
walls painted with a striped effect. Slam-
proof doors, cork floors, and special light-
ing are the other features of the professional
type studio.
KDUK went on the air because of the
work of Robert L. Davy, instructor in
speech, Norman Lamb, Portland, and Rob-
ert Litten, Eugene, students. Way for the
station was paved by R. C. McCall, head of
the speech department, and D. G. Starlin,
associate professor of speech.
Academic Calendenaar
Drops Spring Recess
Spring vacation of 1950 has been slashed
to four days and the end of the school year
moved back to June 10 by the University
board of deans. Student protests, including
a petition with 975 signers, failed to revoke
these changes.
Vacation will last from Thursday, March
22. to Sunday, March 27, instead of the
usual ten days.
The deans said the change was necessary
to keep spring and winter terms nearly the
same length and still finish the year on June
10. This early closing date will leave a week
between the regular academic year and sum-
mer session.
A petition with 975 student signers asked
the administration to begin spring term
later, thus leaving a ten-day vacation. It was
refused.
Pre-registration will be continued under
the new academic calendar.
JUNE 1949
Foreidn Trade Know Who'
Advisory Board
Provides Contact
In Trade Circles
FOREIGN trade students in the University
"too much textbook . . . too little contact
with leaders in the field." These students are
doing much of their learning outside the for-
mal lecture and assigned text words.
This out-of-the-classroom education is
coming from the Foreign Trade Advisory
board?21 men and 1 woman hand-picked
from the field of commerce. All Portlanders,
these business people provide -first-hand
knowledge of the field for foreign trade
students.
Four of the board members especially en-
joy their informal work with a part of the
University. They are Oregon alumni John
G. Barnett '18, Charles E. Haney '24, Velma
Scholl '26 and Hermes Wrightson '16.
Barnett, now an exporter from the port of
Portland, has strengthened the board for al-
most 15 years. Haney has had more than
five years service with the foreign trade stu-
dents. He is manager for the F. P. Dow and
Company, customs house brokers.
The distinction of being the only woman
on the board belongs to Velma Scholl, ex-
port manager for Jantzen Knitting mills.
She has been advising Oregon students for
seven years. Wrightson, too, has been a for-
eign trade adviser for more than six years.
He is Portland manager for Coastwise
Lines.
Full-time jobs leave the advisory board
only a minimum of time to spend in Eugene.
Coordinating on the campus is done by Pro-
fessor A. L. Lomax, instructor in foreign
trade.
H E BEGAN working with the Portlanders
fancy. Only one meeting had been held
when Professor Lomax replaced Harry
Hawkins as campus link with the profes-
sional leaders.
Hawkins, formerly foreign trade instructor
in the University, created the board in the
late twenties. He wanted to build closer re-
lations between Portland trading and ship-
ping experts and foreign trade classes. He
later became head of the trade agreement
division of the State department and is now
teaching at a Massachusetts college.
Only a handful of students studied for-
eign trade when Hawkins was at Oregon.
Now more than 100 are enrolled in this
phase of the business administration school.
Professor Lomax has 75 students in for-
eign trade technique and 25 in the senior
course, foreign trade marketing. In normal
prewar times, 40 students made "a whale
of a class," Lomax remembers.
The war definitely stimulated interest in
this field. Students came from the length
of the coast, Seattle to San Francisco, to
learn the export-import business at Oregon.
ALL THESE prospective foreign traders,
board through seminars, dinner meetings
and examinations. Everything is kept on an
informal basis.
Probably the least informal are written
exams given to seniors by board members.
The student scoring the highest number of
points in the written test, along with an oral
one, receives a wrist watch from the Port-
land Shipping club.
Certificates of merit are given to the win-
ner and two students next in line by the
Foreign Trade Advisory board. The exami-
nations and certificates are annual spring-
term projects.
One of the board's year round activities
involves seminaring with the students on the
campus. Another is a series of dinner meet-
ings and discussions in Portland.
Advice is the board member's greatest
offering. Their practical experience helps
Oregon's young foreign traders in every-
thing from "how to get a job" to writing a
term paper.
These off-the-campus educators include
Mark Beach, Harold K. Cherry, Frank
Clark, Arthur J. Farmer, E. J. Griffith,
Larry Harris, John F. Johannsen, Walter
Johannsen, Capt. D. J. McGarity, Harold
Sanford, Carl Schenker, A. M. Scott, Ed-
ward A. Valentine, Howard Waterbury,
Lloyd Wentworth, William L. Williams, E.
E. Shields, K. C. Conyers and the four alum-
ni previously named.
Awarded Scholarship
Jessie May Smith, assistant professor of
business administration, will attend Teach-
ers college, Columbia university, next year
on a president's scholarship. She was one of
31 persons to win the scholarships.
Miss Smith received her M.A. degree
from the University in 1946. She has been
on the business administration staff for six
years, but is now on leave of absence study-
ing for a doctor of philosophy degree in
business and vocational education.
Her bachelor of science degree in busi-
ness administration was earned at Oregon
State college, where Miss Smith was an
honor student in her graduating class. She
also won the Adolphe Wolfe prize as the out-
standing senior woman.
She is a member of Sigma Delta Pi, Beta
Gamma Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Chi
Theta and Kappa Delta Pi.
"Port" and "starboard" aren't confusing terms to these Foreign Trade students. Theylearn to test the international economic pulse beat, but they also learn a thing or two
about cargo space, loading and the practical techniques that help makeworld business possible.
19
OLD OREGON
AletuA oj the GlaAA&i
1895
Dr. E. DeWitt Connell and his wife have
recently returned to their Portland home after
an extended tour through New York, Southern
California and the Panama Canal Zone. Dr.
Connell retired from the practice of dentistry
about four years ago.
Oregon City is now the home of Mrs. Laura
Beatie Carter. Mrs. Carter has been attending
Bible classes in Portland.
Herman Linn is now living at 2343 Colum-
bia street in Eugene. He taught in Lane county
schools for more than 40 years, serving both
as a teacher and principal. Mr. Linn was also
on the University faculty for ten years as attend-
ant of the museum of natural history.
Although Frank B. Matthews has retired
from the pastorate of the Highland Baptist
church in Portland, he has remained active in
many church affairs. He received a doctor's
degree from Linfield collge.
A member of the class still living in Eugene
is Mrs. Edith Kerns Chambers. Before her
marriage Mrs. Chambers taught school in Lane
county and has been very active in civic affairs
in Eugene.
Miss Anna Ruth Eaves and her sister have
been living in Brookline, Massachusetts, for
about 25 years. In Boston Miss Eaves has
attended University extension classes. She also
has met many Oregon graduates at meetings of
the Oregon club there.
1903
(Class secretary: Dr. James H. Gilbert, Rt. 4, Box580, Eugene.)
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Hames. recently. She is the great grand-daugh-
ter of Ralf G. Starr.
1904
(Class secretary: James O. Russell, Turner.)
A letter received recently tells of the where-
abouts of several members of this class. Mrs.
Margaret Goodnall, Ralph S. Shelley and
Miss Pauline Walton are all retired and liv-
ing in Eugene. Mrs. Lulu W. Currin is living
in Cottage Grove, and Mrs. Rosa Dodge
Galey is in Ashland. Mrs. Pearl Lucky East-
ham has returned to China with her husband.
Three are living in Portland: Louis Jones, re-
tired, Mrs. Lulu Holmes Plummer and J.
Frederick Staver, realtor. John B. Platts is
an engineer in Wallace, Idaho, and James O.
Russell, retired, is living in Turner. Stockton,
California, is the home of Benjamen F. Wag-
1907
Since her retirement from hospital work in
Portland Miss Faith Johnson has been living
with her brother in Eugene.
News was received recently of the death of
Mrs. Ernest Oberg (Antoinette Burdick)
in Hoaquiam, Washington. She was buried in
Cottage Grove.
1909
Mrs. Harriet Lane Hempstead, 4619 N.
Michigan street, Portland, has been visiting her
daughter who Jives on Puget Sound.
10
1911
(Class secretary: Mrs. Jessie Calkins Morgan,Nyssa.)
Harry A. Swart died of a heart attack
March 8 in Portland at the home of his daugh-
ter. Mrs. James K. Neill (Bettylou Swart
'40). He was president of National Mortgages
company at the time of his death. He is survived
by his wife, Mrs. L. K. Swart, a daughter and
two grandchildren.
Clarence R. Hotchkiss was recently elected
president of the Oregon Society of Sons of the
American Revolution. The annual meeting was
held at the University club in Portland on April
19.
1913
(Class secretary: Carlton E. Spencer, 689 W 12thAve.. Eugene.)
Mrs. L. L. McCoy, (Lena Newton) died
at her home in Seattle in early January after a
long illness. Her husband is a practicing physi-
cian in Seattle. Two sons, Leyton and Lincoln
are attending the University of Washington.
1916
(Class secretary: Mrs. Beatrice M. Locke Hogan,6423 Montgomery Pike, Cincinnati 13, Ohio.)
A full page article in the Oregonian on last
December 19 tells of Don Orput, who is the
author "The Dean's Bible Bee", which is now
syndicated and appearing in newspapers all
over the country. The "Bible Bee" is the result
of a hobby of Mr. Orput's of collecting Bible
references and applying them to current events.
He and his wife (Margaret Jones '21) are
living at 2566 S. W. Vista in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Cicero F. Hogan (Beatrice
Locke '16) have moved from Cincinnati to
Washington, D. C, where Mr. Hogan is director
of claims for the Disabled American Velerans.
They ask that mail to them be sent to 1701 18th
street NW, national service headquarters of the
DAY.
1919
(Class secretary: Mrs. Helen J. McDonald McNab,815 Spruce St., Berkeley, California.)
The address of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace H.
Hannah (Melba Williams) is 2308 Columbia
street, Vancouver, Washington. Mr. Hannah is
supervisor of music in the public schools there.
Marble, Minnesota, is the home of Mr. and
Mrs. David H. Wilson. Mr. Wilson is assist-
ant chief mine inspector for the Great Northern
Iron Ore properties. They have three daughters,
two in high school and one in college.
Dr. Ivan M. Wooley has a son, John, who
will graduate from the University this spring.
His daughter, Neil, is a junior at Northwestern
university school of speech at Evanston, Illinois.
Dr. Wooley is president of Pacific Northwest
Radiological society. The society includes Ore-
gon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, British
Columbia and Alberta in Canada.
1921
(Class secretary : Jack Benefiel, Waldport.")
Mrs. Maryanne Hogan is living in Peoria,
Illinois. Her husband, Carlton M. Hogan. who
was at one time a member of the Oregon faculty,
died last year.
Beckett Retires From
John W. Beckett '17, Oregon football
great and former marine colonel, retired
from the corps with the rank of brigadier
general on June 1. Leathernecks at Mare
Island, California, paraded in honor of the
general's retirement. He had been their
commanding officer for two years.
A 32-year marine corps career ended with
General Beckett's retirement. He fought
through two world wars after enlisting in
1917.
Only one year before enlisting, Beckett
had been battling his way to the Rose Bowl
as a tackle on Oregon's famed 1916 football
team. He filled the line position for two
years. Football didn't end when the Oregon
tackle joined the marines. He played for
two years on the Mare Island Marine team
of 1917 and 1918.
As player and coach, he next joined the
Quantico, Virginia, marine football squad.
He also coached the line at the Naval Acad-
emy for three years, and later took over the
San Diego Marine team.
Between football games, he served with
General Smedley Butler in France during
the first war. World War II took him to
Saipan and Iwo Jima.
General Beckett holds the bronze star and
presidential unit citation, along with other
campaign and service decorations.
Marmes
General John W. Beckett '17
He has one son, John W. Beckett Jr., who
is continuing the family tradition as a lieu-
tenant in the marine corps. A daughter,
Sally, finished her first year at the Univer-
sity of Oregon this spring. She is a member
of Alpha Phi sorority. General Beckett was
a Sigma Nu.
JUNE 1949
Chalmer N. Patterson recently sent a let-
ter telling of his three brothers. William Pat-
terson is with the naval supply depot at Oak-
land, California. He has three children. Dorian
Patterson is with the Portland postoffice. He
also has three children, the oldest of whom is
now at Oregon. Vincent Patterson was dis-
abled by menengitis while in the marine corps
during World War I. He later graduated from
OSC after receiving rehabilitation training
there. He is now completely recovered and is
located at Searcy, Arkansas.
At a recent teachers' convention, Dr. Harold
Benjamin, dean of the college of education at
University of Maryland, shared speaking
honors with Miss Helen Heffernan, assistant
chief of public instruction in California. They
were the principal speakers for the opening
session of the two-day meet at the public audi-
torium in Portland.
1922
(Class secretary: Mrs. Helen V. Carson Plumb,3312 Hunter Blvd., Seattle 44, Wash.)
Mrs. John R. Noyes (Eunice G. Zimmer-
man) recently returned to her home in Juneau,
Alaska, after visiting her sister. Mrs. Donald
D. Smythe (Erma Zimmerman '19) in
Santa Cruz, California.
1923
(Class secretary: Mrs. Aulis Anderson Callaway,74 Lord Kitchener Rd.. New Rochelle, N. Y.)
Mr. William J. Yunker left on an extended
trip May 19 to visit New York, Palm Beach,
New Orleans and Salt Lake. He is manager of
J. C. Penney department store in Vancouver,
Washington. His son, Richard W., is now
attending the University as a pre-med student.
1924
(Class secretary: Frank G. Carter, 1530 Willard,San Francisco, California.)
Both Mr. and Mrs. Rex Underwood
(Aurora Potter '21) are members of the music
faculty at the University of Portland. Mr.
Underwood is head of violins and strings sec-
tion and Mrs. Underwood is on the piano facul-
ty. Their son, Rex John, is now a junior at
Stanford university.
1929
1926
(Class secretary: Mrs. Anna DeWitt Crawford,1022 Corbett Bldg., Portland.)
After living in Eugene for five years Rever-
end and Mrs. Hugh N. McCallum (Helen
M. Goodwin) will move to Oakland, Califor-
nia, this summer. Rev. McCallum will become
pastor of the Fruitvale Avenue Christian church
there. He plans to attend the Pacific School of
Religion at Berkeley to study for his master's
degree.
1927
(Clais secretary: Mrs. Anne Runes Wilson, 1640NE living. Apt. 71, Portland 14.)
According to a clipping sent in by Mrs.
Lydia Yoakum Horsfall '96 of Coos Bay, her
daughter, Miss Marion Horsfall, was recently
elected president of the California Association
for Childhood Education. Miss Horsfall has
taught in the Horace Mann grade school in
Glendale for several years.
1928
(Class secretary: Mrs. Alice Douglas Burns, 2235NE 28th, Portland 12.)
Mr. and Mrs. William Calder McCall and
their son sailed June 15 on the Queen Elizabeth
for a three-month vacation in Europe.
(Class secretary: Mrs. Luola Benge Bengston,Heppner.)
Hiroshi Tsuboi is now a staff member of
the Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. He is a
councilor and chief of liasion in the shipbuild-
ing yard. Mr. Tsuboi has been in Japan since
1933. He asks that any alumni interested in the
country, or working in Japan, write him in care
of the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Yard, Kobe,
Japan.
Dan MacPherson Jr. is now probate judge
and district attorney in Albuquerque, New
Mexico. Mr. MacPherson has also served as a
naval officer.
1931
(Class secretary: William B. Pittman, Jr., 25Fillmer avenue, Los Gatos, California.)
The new address of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Ruder is at 310 South 22nd, San Jose, Califor-
nia. Mr. Ruder is retail sales manager of the
local Borden Milk comppany.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. McCormick (Dor-
thy Franklin '29) are now living at 7938 Se-
ward Park avenue, Seattle.
1932
(Class secretary: Mrs. Hope Shelley Miller, 191Lawrence St., Eugene.)
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Holmquist
(Thelma Nelson '33) are the parents of a
daughter, Sally Ilene, born January 30 in San
Francisco. They have two other children.
1933
(Class secretary: Mrs. Jessie Steele Robertson,6425 SE 40th Ave., Portland.)
The address of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred H.
Schmidt is 3717 E. 10th street, Vancouver,
Washington. They have two children, Charlotte
Ann and Gregory.
1935
("Class secretary: Pearl L. Base, 5732 N Inter-state, Portland.)
Lakeview is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Wells (Jean McDonald).
Major and Mrs. Erwin G. Nilsson
(Kathryn J. Buck, '38) are now living in
Bamberg, Germany, where Major Nilsson is
with the 26th infantry regiment. His current
tour of overseas duty extends until August 1950.
A son was born to Dr. and Mrs. Harry C.
Smith Jr. May 3, at the Emanuel hospital in
Portland. He has been named Harry Charles
III.
Lieut. Col. Joseph N. Renner is now sta-
tioned in Washington, D. C. His address is 4777
East avenue SE. Since 1943 Colonel Renner has
been stationed at five different bases.
1936
(Class secretary: Ann Reed Burns, 2610 SW Vista,Portland.)
Mr. and Mrs. Rollin H. Boles (Ann Reed
Burns) were married at Palm Springs on
March 6. Mr. Boles is an architect in Portland
and Mrs. Boles is an Associated Press editor.
Their address is 2610 S.W. Vista in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Hilton Jr. (Mary
Nelson) recently returned from Budapest,
Hungary, where Mr. Hilton had been with the
foreign service for more than a year. The Hil-
tons have recently been visiting Mrs. Hilton's
parents in Junction City.
1937
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AN ALUMNUS who has visited most of the l
folders is now back in the United States?
minus his "itching feet," he says.
He's Geologist Donald D. Smythe '19.
Since 1941 Smythe has prospected for
mica in Brazil's interior, investigated min-
ing possibilities in Nigeria, French Came-
roons, French Equatorial Africa, Angola
and the Congo and played bureaucrat in
Washington, D. C.
In a letter to retired professor of geology
Warren D. Smith, Smythe tells of how he
was calLed away from his exploration job in
Utah when the war began in 1941, to work
in Washington, D. C, for the copper produc-
tion branch of the War Production board.
"I did not make a very good Washington
bureaucrat." wrote Smythe. Soon he accept-
ed a government job prospecting for mica in
Brazil. At this time mica was a top strategic
mineral because danger existed that the
Japanese would cut off the main source of
supply to the western hemisphere by invad-
ing India.
Mica mining is a small operation, carried
out by "little" prospectors in quickly ex-
hausted deposits. It was hard even for ex-
perts to find mica in the interor of Brazil,
for rocks seldom outcrop through the deep
layer of soil.
BUT during his time in that South Ameri-
od of prospecting for mica which he wrote
up into simple directions for prospectors on
the job. His method proved very successful,
as did a mission to Washington to obtain
money grants for the prospectors.
His work completed in 1944, Smythe re-
turned to the States. He was sent to Liberia
in Africa to make a mineral resources sur-
vey of the country.
"This I attempted to do," he wrote, "but
so many obstacles were placed in my path
that it soon became evident that I was wast-
ing my time and government money."
As it was apparent that the war would
soon be over, Smythe sent in his resignation
to the government?a well-timed move for
the papers went through just eight hours
before the Japanese surrendered.
Smythe then was free to find another job,
and he soon left for Africa as chief geol-
ogist of the African operation of Ventures,
Ltd., one of the largest Canadian mining
concerns.
FOR the next three years he made his
point he made frequent trips into the Rho-
desias, the Union of South Africa, the Con-
go, Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Nyasa-
land looking over mining possibilities. Most
of the prospects the company dropped, re-
ports Smythe, but they kept one gold mine
in Southern Rhodesia that has now been de-
veloped into one of the largest in the coun-
try. They also secured very promising cop-
per property in Ruwenzori, the Mountains
of the Moon and traditional headwaters of
the Nile.
Last July Smythe returned to the United
States, because "An assortment of African
micro-organisms took up their abode in my
carcass."
He spent last summer with his family,
whom he had not seen for three and a half
years, and now is with the Kennecott Copper
corporation working out the regional geol-
ogy of certain areas in the United States.
Mrs. Smythe is the former Erma McKee
Zimmermann '19. They were married in
1920. They have three children, Virginia
(died in 1946), William Ralph and Ken-
neth Gordon.
New-i ajf the
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Coronado Friday News Weekly is Richard H.
Watkins. Mr. Watkins is also correspondent
for the San Diego Union and Associated Press.
Mr. and Mrs. Watkins have two daughters.
1938
(Class secretary: Mrs. Gayle Buchanan Karshner,653 E 15th, Arcata, California.)
Partner in the public accounting firm of
Sawtell, Goldrainer and company of Portland
is Donald B. Carmichael. Mr. and Mrs. Car-
michael have a daughter, Kathleen.
Jewel L. Leinan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. A. Leinan of Newburg, graduated in the
June 1949 class of the school of nursing at the
University medical school in Portland. Mr. and
Mrs. Leinan are public accountants in Newberg.
Pendleton is the home of Mr. and Mrs.
George H. Corey (Joan Hoke '41). Their
second child, Susan Carrie, was born February
26. Mr. Corey practices law in Pendleton.
The address of Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Bil-
lington, Jr. (Evelyn Beebe '36) is 217 Massol
avenue, Los Gatos, California. Mr. and Mrs.
Billington have three children, Jim, six; Lyn,
four; and John, one.
1939
(Class secretary: Mrs. Harriet Sarazin Peterson,3316 SW 12th Ave.
p Portland.)
A son, Terry Acklen, was born May 10 to
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Taggart (Annabel Ack-
len '41). They have two other children Joanne
and Charlene.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard Wintermute
(Marjorie E. McLean '41) have a daughter,
Lynn Ellen, born April 9 at Emanuel hospital
in Portland.
1940
(Class secretary: Roy N. Vernstrom, % PacificPower & Light Co., Public Service Bldg., Portland.)
On April 20 in Eugene Miss Sybil Ross
Scroggie married Russell Evans Tucker of St.
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JUNE 1949
Bot Dod^e 34 Directs Famous
Asnlana Shakespearean Group
By Pat Arrowsmith
N Bob Dodge '34 was a student at
at the University, he decided that the
school's theatre wasn't getting enough
recognition. He also decided to do some-
thing about it, so he became its business and
publicity director. Dodge also made another
decision; he decided to stick with theatre
work.
Today he's still with the theatre, but on
a considerably larger scale. As president of
the Oregon Shakespearean Festival he runs
a $10,000 theatre that is regarded as one of
the outstanding Shakespearean groups in
the nation.
The theatre is located in Ashland, but
players and directors come from all over
the country to produce Shakespeare's plays.
Every summer also sees thousands of vis-
itors cowding into Ashland to see the result
of the work of Dodge and his assistants.
Dodge's list of co-workers reads like an
honor roll for Shakespearean theatre. This
summer the directors will be Richard
Graham from New York and Allan Fletcher.
Dr. James Sandoe of the University of Colo-
rado and Stanford's Dr. Margery Bailey will
be advisers. Douglas Russell is in charge of
costumes and student workers will be select-
ed by permanent director Angus Bowmer.
BOB DODGE went directly to the Ashland
theatre group when he graduated from
Michaels, Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. Tucker will
live at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Now living at Timberline Lodge, Oregon, are
Mr. and Mrs. Erie Swanson Jr. They were
recently married in Berkeley. Mr. Swanson is
assistant manager of Timberline lodge.
Willamette university has announced the ap-
pointment of A. Freeman Holmer to reinsti-
tute a program of studies in public administra-
tion in the college. Mr. Holmer has been teach-
ing at New York university since 1946 while
doing graduate work at Columbia university.
Mr. and Mrs. Holmer (Marcia Wright '41)
have a son, William, who is three.
Services for Wallace B. Caufield Jr. were
he'd recently at the Mountain View cemetery,
Oregon City. Mr. Caufield was killed January 1,
1945 in Luxembourg while serving on a mission
as technical observer for the war department's
office of scientific research development. He
was awarded the bronze star medal post-
humously for meritorious achievement involving
operations against the enemy and for outstand-
ing work in his field of science. Memorials were
established in his name at the University of
Oregon and at Stanford university.
The engagement of Miss Hulda Pedroni to
Marshall Glos was announced recently at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Harris in Eugene.
The bride-elect is employed in the athletic de-
partment of the University. The wedding is set
for July 30 in Portland.
A recent marriage is that of Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel V. Bergman at Chicago. The couple
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the University. His first job was business
manager. Now, he's officially known as
President of the Executive Council for the
theatre. More informally, he's "the boss."
In addition to boosting the University
theatre while on the campus, Dodge was a
member of the National Collegiate Players
and the glee club. His major was economics.
Dean Victor P. Morris selected him to at-
tend a Japanese-American business confer-
ence in the Orient.
Dodge hasn't slowed the pace of his
activities since leaving school. He has been
active in "Keep Oregon Green" campaigns;
he is a prominent promoter in Red Cross
drives; an active participant in the Repub-
lican party of Lincoln county; and a leader
in the Oregon Historical society.
One of his favorite jobs is teaching a class
in Elements of Marketing at the Southern
Oregon College of Education. He likes to
teach because he likes the course, and be-
cause he likes people. His activities keep
him in contact with people of all types,
personalities, and people in all fields of
work. He enjoys his work and his contacts;
he even finds time for a little golf and swim-
ming.
kODGE also helped found radio station
KWIN in Ashland, and still is director
of the project. He also runs the Carter
Height subdivision. He gives a good many
of his crowded hours to Masonic work,
which he describes as his pet and special
interest. He was elected to the Grand Chap-
ter in 1940.
The Dodge family has been in Ashland
since 1883, when Bob's grandfather first
settled there.
Shortly after graduation, Bob Dodge met
and married a girl from the University of
California. The family now includes his
wife. Rae, a ten-year-old daughter and a
son who is seven.
Bob has a constant smile that reflects the
warmth of his personality and his wide-
awake wit. The smile also reflects some-
thing else, perhaps the key to the Dodge
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will make their home at 6444 South Woodlawn
avenue while Mr. Bergman completes his grad-
uate studies at the University of Chicago.
A third daughter, Christine, was born to Dr.
and Mrs. Frank LeCocq, Jr. in the Emanuel
hospital, Portland.
La Grande is now th home of Mr. and Mrs.
L. A. Fisher (Miss Jane Williams). Mrs.
Fisher has been teaching in the public schools
at La Grande. Mr. Fisher is employed by the
Union Pacific railroad as a civil engineer.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald "Jay" Graybeal
are the parents of a daughter, Nancy, born in
Pendleton last October. Mr. Graybeal is asso-
ciated with the firm of Hyatt and Brawn,
clothiers in Pendleton.
Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Sawtelle (Nadine Koeh-
ler) became the parents of a son, Robert Craig,
in Santa Barbara, California, recently. The Saw-
telles have two other children, a boy and a girl.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Carmichael
(Bettie Hendershott '45) were married early
this month. Mr. Carmichael is an attorney in
Springfield. His wife formerly taught in the
Eugene schools.
District attorney Ed Luckey recently appoint-
mented Roland K. Rodman, 29-year old Eu
gene lawyer, as deputy district attorney for
Lane county. Mr. Rodman has been in private
law practice in Eugene since his admission to
the Oregon State Bar in 1947.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Beggs reside at 134
Pine street. Auburn, California. Mr. Beggs is
editor of the Lake Tahoe Journal and California
Ski News. They have two children, Marcia,
three, and Michael, two.
Auburn, California, is also the home of Mr.
and Mrs. William Cassidy (Jeannine With-
ers '41). Mr. Cassidy is employed by the
Auburn Journal. Their address is 120 College
way.
Paris, is the home of Miss Thelma C. Bou-
chet. Miss Bouchet is doing graduate study in
romance languages.
The residence of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Rob-
ert Skelley is located in Riverside, California.
Mr. Skelley is the representative for the Pacific
Mutual Life Insurance company there. They
have one son, Robert Douglas.
1942
(Class secretary: Robert S. Lovell, 607 11th St.,Astoria.)
Mr. and Mrs. Davin A. Trulsen (Patricia
Ann Holder) were recently married at the All
Saints Catholic church in Eugene. They are
now living at 245 N.E. 61st avenue in Eugene.
Mr. and Mrs. Truman W. Collins (Maribeth
Wilson) are now living at 225 SE Lynnridge
avenue, Cedar Hills, Beaverton. Their twin
sons, Timothy and Terry, were one year old
this month.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Kincaid (Dorothea
Guistina) were married in Oakridge on April
29. Mr. Kincaid is a graduate of OSC and is
now employed as a forester at Oakridge.
Mr. and Mrs. William D. MacGibbons
(Islode Eichenlaub '42) are the parents of a
son, theirt hird, born April 13. He has been
named Evan Charles.
Mrs. Carmen Williams Boyd and son
Tommy reside at 15131 Burbank boulevard, in
Van Nuys, California.
Montebello, California, is the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Gene Brossia (Marie Wright Nys-
teen). They have a daughter, Martha Gail, one
year old.
The third child of Dr. and Mrs. Clinton S.
McGill, Jr. was born at the Emanuel hospital,
Portland, May 9. She has been named Susan.
James Emmett is the name of a son born to
Mr. and Mrs. James H .Rathburn on April
5. Mr. and Mrs. Rathbun have recently moved
to 3109 South East Bybee boulevard in Port-
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ran into the Cougars next, and
what Bowerman termed "the strongest
Northern Division team ever assembled"
outran the Ducks 812:! to 49y3, despite vic-
tories by Henthorne in both sprints. Lewis
in the broad jump and Rasmussen in the
polevault.
Oregon entrained for Seattle and the
Washington meet a slight underdog. Statis-
ticians juggled times, heights and distances
around beforehand to determine that the de-
ciding factor would be the mile relay.
Coach Bowerman proved to be a good
juggler himself, as he shifted his squad
around to obtain a winning mile relay
squad, and the Ducks brought back a vic-
tory over the Huskies. 70 to 61. Diminutive
Dave Henthorne proved the thorn in Wash-
ington's side, as he captured the 100, 220.
and ran a fine anchor lap on the relay to
clinch the victory.
The Oregon State dual meet found the
Webfoots determined to capture the match
to make up for the earlier relay loss. Mc-
Clure set another new meet record in the
880, and Henthorne switched to the 440.
letting his running mate Al Bullier win the
100 and 220. But Woodley Lewis was the
star of the afternoon?he captured the high
jump, tied for first in the high jump and
took third in the 100. Oregon won 66 to 65.
By this time the Ducks had attracted a
host of followers, but even their strongest
supporters conceded them little chance of
capturing the Northern Division champion-
ships. WSC grabbed the pennant as sched-
uled, with 62 points, and the Ducks took
second with SOYo. Henthorne grabbed both
sprint titles, Rasmussen captured the pole
vault, and Lewis won the broad jump.
In the Pacific Coast conference cham-
pionships only Rasmussen was able to garn-
er a first, tieing with John Montgomery of
USC for first at 14 feet 4 inches. The Ducks
finished sixth, with IOV2 points.
Earlier in the year George Rasmussen
traveled to the Texas Relays where he cap-
tured the meet with a vault of 14 feet 21/4
inches. Rasmussen, Henthorne and Jack
Hutchins, a freshman who was a member of
the Canadian Olympic team, have been in-
vited to several important meets in Califor-
nia this summer to compete against the na-
tion's top performers.
Science for Average Man
(Continued from page 14)
the University of California, was the guest
speaker.
The lectures were cancelled in 1947-48
due to the illness of the scheduled speaker,
but they were held again in March 1949. Dr.
Kenneth Scott LaTourette. authority on Far
Eastern history, gave a series of lectures on
"China."
The Condon lectureships had a small be-
ginning. Topics were limited in scope, but
now each year brings speakers with a wider
appeal.
(Continued from page 24)
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle M. Nelson (Corrine
M. Wignes '43) became the parents of a
daughter, Judith Lee, on May 18. Mr. Nelson is
director of information for the University.
Miss Ruthanna Winchell and Francis
Toussaint Worrell of Ann Arbor, Michigan,
were married late in May. Mrs. Worrell has
cently been assigned to Olmstead Air Force
base, Middleton, Penn., for reassignment as a
medical officer with the station hospital.
JUNE 1949
Auburn, California, is the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Lee E. Layton (Bette Cassidy). Their ad-
dress is 161 College way.
A son was born April 10 to Mr. and Mrs.
been on the faculty of Emma Willard school for
the past two years as a remedial reading teacher
and psychological tester.
A daughter, Lynn Allyson, was born to Mr.
and Mrs. G. L. Rossiter (Nancy Riech) of
Berkeley, California. Mr. Rossiter is a member
of the class of '37 of University of Washington.
A wedding in midsummer is planned by Miss
Ernest F. Hinkle was recently appointed
as an accountant executive in the Portland
(Continued on page 29)
to return alumni ticket
applications
To assure alumni football ticket preference, mail back your
application as soon after July 1 as possible*
Sept. 24?University of Idaho
Oct. 15?University of Colorado
Nov. 5?University of Washington (Portland)
Nov. 19?Oregon State (Homecoming)
Sept. 16?St. Mary's at San Francisco
Sept. 30?UCLA at Los Angeles (night game)
Oct. 8?Washington State at Pullman
Oct. 22-USC at Los Angeles
Oct. 29-lowa at Iowa City
Nov. 1 2?California at Berkeley
Mail ticket applications, with check or money order, to
Howard Lemons, Athletic Business Manager, McArthur Court,
Eugene.
'If you haven't received your application, don't worry, it'll be in the mail
within a week.
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PE Workshop Scheduled
WORKSHOPS in physical education andhealth education for Oregon element-
ary and high school teachers will be held at
the University this summer by the schools of
health and physical education.
Both programs, open to men and women,
are being held to show teachers how to work
out and organize physical education and
health programs for their own schools. The
work will cover materials, methods, daily
assignments, class activities and evaluation
or measurement. Each program will be ad-
justed to the conditions found in the par-
ticular school.
The Health Workshop will cover units on
structure and functions of the human body,
first aid and safety, choice and use of health
services and health products, personal hy-
giene, nutrition, community health, sanita-
tion, physiology of exercise, communicable
and noncommunicable diseases and mental
health.
Classes in the physical-education work-
shop will be held from 8 to 12 noon. Pre-
requisites are: certification as a teacher or
consent of instructor.
Classes in the health-education workshop
will be held from 8 a.m. to 12 and 2 to 4 p.m.
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Coal: King and Royal
Oil: Standard Fuel?Burner and Stove
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Booklets ? Catalogs ? Publications
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Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene.
A teacher's certificate is a prerequisite.
Nine hours university credit will be given
for each course.
NUMBER of outstanding speakers will
address the classes during the sum-
mer session. Scheduled are: Curtiss Everts,
head of the environmental sanitation de-
partment of the Oregon State Board of
Health; Dr. David Piper, head of the health
education section of the Oregon State Board
of Health; Richard Evans from the San
Francisco branch of the American Red
Cross; Thomas Magee, health education
consultant of the Oregon Health and Tu-
berculosis association; Dr. George Gibson,
director of the State Board of Health can-
cer section; Miss Beryl Scothorn, Oregon
Dairy Council, Dr. Samuel Osgood, head of
the venereal disease control commission of
the Oregon State Board of Health; Dr. W.
W. Baum, past president of the Oregon
State Medical society; and Dr. Maurice
Vest, director of the dvision of maternal
and child welfare, Oregon State Board of
Health.
Mrs. Jennelle Moorhead, associate pro-
fessor of health education at the University,
will direct the health workshop. Assisting
her will be Harris Olson, health education
instructor at Corvallis High school.
The physical-education workshop will be
under the direction of Miss Myrtle S. Span-
de. associate professor of physical educa-
tion at the University. Assisting her will be
Paul Johnson, athletic director and coach
at Springfield High school, Rosamond
Wentworth, associate professor of physical
education at the University, and William
Bowerman, instructor in physical educa-
tion and track coach.
Tennis Squad Betters
Past Years Mark
Saal Lesser, veteran Oregon tennis play-
er took over the Webfoot court squad this
spring, combining coaching and playing,
and led the Ducks to their best season in
several years, the team compiling a record
of seven victories and four defeats.
Lesser arranged a heavy schedule for his
charges to augment the regular Northern Di-
vision matches. The Ducks won all the non-
conference matches. The Eugene Tennis
Club, Whitman, Lewis and Clark were Ore-
gon victims, and Willamette fell twice.
In Northern Division action the Webfoots
won two matches, from Idaho and Montana
State, and narrowly lost out to Washington
State, 4 to 3.
Washington, perennial Northern Division
champions, defeated the Oregon team in
dual match competition, and Oregon State's
Beavers won a pair.
Unlucky drawings in the Northern Divi-
sion finals pitted Oregon men against either
Beaver racket-wielders or Washington's
stars, and the Webfoots failed to win a
point.
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JUNE 1949
Phi Beta Kappa
Selects Eighteen
Journalists prevailed in the list of Phi
Beta Kappa members chosen at the Univer-
sity this spring. Four of the eighteen seniors
were from the journalism school.
Former governor Charles W. Sprague
spoke at the initiation banquet for new
members. It was held jointly with Sigma Xi,
national science honorary.
New Phi Beta Kappas at Oregon are:
\v arren Webster, Eugene, general social
sciences; Glenn G. Morgan, Astoria, politi-
cal science; Robert Stuart Wright, Eugene,
physics; Olga Yevitch, Portland, and Low-
ell M. Campbell, Roseburg, both psychol-
ogy.
George Ernest Wright, Port Orchard,
Washington, biology; Morris Jerome Galen,
Portland, law; Abraham Perlstein, Eugene,
and Anders H. Laurene, Port Monmouth,
New Jersey, both in chemistry.
Robert George Goffard, Portland, his-
tory; Catherine Anne Woodworth, Eugene,
general arts and letters; Shirley Gale Luki-
ens, Salem, and J. C. Ellis, Eugene, both
in English.
William H. Buckley, Springfield, Roberta
Lee Brophy, Burns, Miriam Sullivan White,
Eugene, and Daniel D. Wyant, Eugene, all
in journalism; and Frederick Warren Lov-
ell. Astoria, liberal arts.
LONG RANGE PLAN
(Continued on page 15)
to the building studies. On this campus are
many valuable trees and shrubs which are
constantly growing, dying or in need of at-
tention. These overlays will tell where spe-
cial items are located, their conditions and
all details in connction with them.
If a new building is planned, the shrub-
bery in the site can be moved at a proper
time well in advance of construction. Plant-
ing plans by season and by financial years
can be prepared, campus bare spots relieved
and overgrowth adjusted.
Studies on living organizations and stu-
dent traffic help in long-range building sit-
ing. Parking studies show whether cars are
being concentrated in certain areas causing
traffic congestion or whether parking areas
are well distributed to serve both need of ac-
cessibility as well as being broadly located.
The sketch reproduced in this issue shows
only the area studies for the buildings con-
templated during the next ten years. The
base map has recently been revised to show
locations of buildings now under construc-
tion for use as the campus guide for the
official catalog.
There is still much work to be done on
the existing campus and vastly more for the
campu- of a Greater Oregon. With an under-
standing board and a knowing legislature
there should be even greater facilities for
the next generation of Oregon graduates.
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Now as you complete your college
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you and your ability to succeed.
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Alumni Organise
Interf raternity Council
Alumni have recently formed an Inter-
fraternity council of the University. It will
act as a coordinator between the under-
graduate Interfraternity Council and the
college administration.
All local chapters will be represented in
the new group, which was organized at the
suggestion of the undergraduates.
Three Eugene alumni are council officers.
They are Claire Kneeland '27, president;
John N. Elder '18, vice-president; and Nat
Giustina. secretary-treasurer.
Psch Meeting Planned
Faculty members and graduate students
from leading colleges west of the Rockies
are coming to the Oregon campus June 24
and 25 for a Western Psychological associa-
tion meeting.
Oregon drew the meeting previously in
1931 and 1938. It will include election of
officers, a banquet and business sessions.
Forty-three papers will be presented.
Four of them will be given by members of
the University psychology department.
Seattle Al-umni Meet
Seattle alumni met late in May to hear a
talk by Coach Jim Aiken and see movies of
the 1948 football season. The Oregon Fed-
eration's movie, "Life at the University,"
was also shown.
Forest C. Watson '21, president of the
Seattle club, was master of ceremonies and
toastmaster for the dinner meeting. Jim
Crissey '32 supplied floral decorations.
More than 60 people attended the meet-
ing.
Banner Year Closes
(Continued from page 5)
ment is always the goal of the magazine's
staff.
Establishment of more alumni clubs?
Chicago, Boston, Denver. Salt Lake, Phila-
delphia, Tacoma, Olympia and Fresno are
ready for organization.
In closing, it should be said that the key
to both past and future is general interest
on the part of the alumni. And this interest
has been better than ever before. Meetings
were well attended, participation in activi-
ties has increased, membership is up and
there has been more attendance at football
games.
With this interest to build on, the As-
sociation will undoubtedly do better in
1949-50 than ever before, helping to build
a truly Greater Oregon.
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JUNE 1949
Afeiud, a? the
(Continued from page 5)
office of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane.
He was formerly with the secretariat to the
allied economic council in Berlin.
Patricia Brownell and Dr. Gilbert P. Lee in
Portland. Miss Brownell is a graduate of Reed
college.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Val D. Culwell
(Meri E. Huber '45) is in Los Gatos, Cali-
fornia. They recently returned from a trip to
Detroit, Michigan. They have two sons, Tom
and Mike.
1943
(Class secretary: Mrs. Nancy Lewis Moller, Rt. 3,Box 360, Hood River.)
Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Treadgold
(Alva Granquist JD '47) are the parents of a
son. Warren Templeton, born April 30 at Ox-
ford, England. Mr. Treadgold is at Oxford uni-
versity on a Rhodes scholarship. Next year he
will go to the University of Washington as an
associate professor of history.
Captain and Mrs. Harris M. Pope Margaret
Amelia Hoffman) are now at home at Fort
Lewis, Washington. They were married on
March 13.
A daughter, Deborah, was born to Mr. and
Mrs. W. Price Dickey, Jr. of Westwood,
California.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin James
Gorrie is San Bruno, California. Mr. Gorrie is
a first pilot for Pan-American World airways.
They have a son, Thomas Charles, two.
Dwight Caswell is a graduate student in
the Stanford physics department. He is working
on the development of the linear accelerator.
A daughter, Carolyn, was born to Lt. and
Mrs. William Rapson (Shirley Gravley '45)
of Oakland, California on May 11 at Oak Knoll
hospital in Oakland.
1944
(Class secretary: Barbara J. Lamb, 40 E 6.'td St.,
New York, 21.)
A second daughter, Kathryn Jean, was born
to Mr. and Mrs. James C. Ricksecker (Jean
Gallo) on March 10. Their first child is named
Diane.
Springfield is the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.
Scott Wright. Mr. Wright is employed by
the Wright and Sons Hardware and Home Ap-
pliance store.
A son, Frederick William, was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Roger Jayne Jr. (Georgia Adams
USC) on January 30. They also have a daugh-
ter, Catharine Lovell, who is now two years
old.
A daughter, Sally Jane, was born recently to
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Otten at the Eman-
uel hospital in Portland.
Major and Mrs. John J. Neuer (Jean Nor-
ton) live at West Point, New York. They have
three children, Lee Ann, four, Patricia, two;
and an infant son John J. Jr.
A recent marriage is that of Mr. and Mrs.
Sylvain Louis Tour (Edith Ann Onthank).
They were married in Washington, D.C. Mrs.
Tour is aregistered occupational therapist. Mr.
Tour was graduated from Ecole Turgot, Paris
in 1941 and is now a recreational therapist and
portrait painter in Washington, L). C. They are
now at home at 2615 Thirteenth street, N.W.,
Washington, D. C.
A second child, Jay Alan, was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Robert C. Johnson (Carol W.
Read '43) March 23 at the Emanuel hospital
in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Cameron are the
parenls of a daughter, Leslie, born April 29 at
the Emanuel hospital in Portland.
1945
On May 14 in the First Congregational
church in Eugene Miss Donna L. McEwen
'51 was married to John W. Titus. They will
live at 1315 High street in Eugene.
New manager of advertising and sales pro-
motion for Montag Stove and Furnace company
in Portland is Joe D. Montag. H
in Portland is Joe D. Montag. He will head
an expanded advertising and merchandising
program for the firm in Portland and other
Northwest cities. Mrs. Montag is the former
Margaret Black '44.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bailey (Edith Newton)
now live at Mobile, Alabama. Mr. Bailey is an
insurance adjuster for Crawford and company.
They have a son, Paul. Mrs. Bailey was a former
Oregana editor.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Shuster (Frances L.
Smithson) were married early in June in
Eugene. Mr. Shuster is a graduate of Mt. Angel
college. He has also done graduate work at
oscr
A recent marriage was that of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert L. Russell (Mrs. Frances Frizell
Meyers) in the First Christian church, Port-
land. On their return from a wedding trip to
New York City, Mr. and Mrs. Russell will be
at home at 1609 S. W. 10th avenue in Portland.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fitz-
patrick (Margaret Wright) is Phoenix, Ari-
zona, where Mr. Fitzpatrick is employed by
American airlines. They have a daughter, Cathy
Lynn.
1946
(Class secretary: Mrs. Charles S. Putnam, 1144Sonoma Ave., Santa Rosa, California.)
A daughter, Christine Ann, was born recently
to Mr. and Mrs. Royal S. Denton (Merlene
E. Peoples '49) in RosHiurg.
Captain Millard E. Jones MD'46 has re-
James E. McManigal (Dorothy Godknecht)
of vSeattle.
The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Peter B.
Hill (Helen C. Steele '48) was an event of
February 26. Mr. Hill is now apartner in the
Jahns-Hill company, manufacturers of pistons
and British \1G parts.
1947
(Class secretary: James B. Thayer, 2336 SWOsage Dr., Portland.)
Chairman of the Eugene branch of the Uni-
versity of Oregon Co-ed Housing Alumnae as-
sociation is Miss Winifred B. Romtvedt.
Miss Romtvedt recently returned to Eugene to
work in the division of information of the state
system of higher education. She was formerly
(Continued on page 32)
To the Class of
'49-
We extend our heartiest con-
gratulations and wish you the
very best of luck for future suc-
cess and happiness.
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Decrees During Commencement
YOUR graduating class may have been
competition to the class of 1949. This year
marked the first time in University history
that more than 1600 seniors and graduate
students were candidates for degrees.
Commencement processions were espe-
cially long when this over-sized class filed
into McArthur court on June 19. Most of
the seniors had registered in that same
auditorium in 1945; many of them were
just returned from the war that had delayed
their education two to four years.
They heard the traditional "Charge to
the Graduating Class" delivered by Presi-
dent H. K. Newburn. And most important
of all. they received their diplomas.
Baccalaureate degrees were given to more
than 1200 men and women. A year ago, only
939 received degrees at the same ceremony.
This was about a hundred higher than 1947,
and almost double the total of 1946.
Almost every state in the nation, plus a
few foreign countries, was represented by
the degree receivers. Out-of-staters came
mostly from Idaho, Washington and Cali-
fornia, but New York, South Dakota and
Minnesota were not unfamiliar addresses
of the graduating seniors.
Several of the advanced degree winners
came from cities in China, and Hawaiian
hometowns were scattered through the
graduation list.
kREGONiANS received the bulk of the
degrees, with Portland and Eugene
topping the list. Both of these cities were
centers for University of Oregon gradua-
tion exercises during Commencement week.
Future doctors, dentists and nurses took
part in ceremonies on the Portland cam-
puses of the University. Eleven certificates
for public nursing were given, along with
85 doctor of dental medicine degrees and
approximately 50 degrees from the medical
school.
However, activities of the seventy-second
annual Commencement were confined al-
most completely to the Eugene campus.
The benefit tea for the Pauline Potter
Homer Memorial collection opened the
program for its sixteenth year. Proceeds
from it will buy books for a collection
which was established in 1919 in the mem-
ory of Pauline Potter Homer, a library
staff member.
The collection now numbers 850 volumes.
Most of them have been bought through
the benefit tea which is sponsored by the
American Association of University Wom-
en, the Slate Association of University of
Oregon Women and the University library
staff.
Outstanding senior orators in the Uni-
versity competed in the Failing-Beekman
contest Friday night, ending the first day
of Commencement Weekend.
Alumni stole the program Saturday.
Women of the 50-year class of 1899 and
the graduating class of 1949 were honored
at the annual breakfast of the State Associa-
tion of University of Oregon Women Satur-
day morning.
REUNION CLASSES of 1899, 1904, 1909,
1919 and 1924 met for the annual Uni-
versity luncheon at noon, and later for spe-
cial dinners at Eugene hotels.
Semiannual meetings of the Alumni As-
sociation and the president's reception
rounded out the day.
Baccalaureate began Sunday for the class
of 1949. The Rev. George Herbert Swift,
rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church in
Salem, discussed "Living in a Post-College
World" at the services.
His listeners included George H. and
Jean Swift, graduating son and daughter
of the Salem rector. The entire family, in-
cluding Mrs. Swift, had a busy weekend.
She is president of the state organization of
the University of Oregon Mothers.
The Pioneer Mother was the center of
the Flower and Fern procession Sunday
afternoon.
Commencement services climaxed the
weekend. The final program included pre-
sentation of a gift from the Alumni to the
University. It was a life-size portrait of
Abigail Scott Duniway, pioneer champion
of women's rights in Oregon.
Students from the college of liberal arts
received the lion's share of degrees at the
ceremony. Approximately 450 candidates
for baccalaureate degrees came from this
division of the University.
Next to the top was the school of business
administration with 415 degree candidates.
They definitely outnumbered the profes-
sional schools, of which the school of edu-
cation rated highest with 120 candidates.
The schools of journalism and law were
tied for the next place in line with 76 sen-
iors apiece. Architecture and allied arts
had 66 candidates, the school of health and
physical education 40, and the school of
music was not far behind with 34.
Two graduate students were candidates
for doctor of philosophy degrees, while
seven earned doctors of education. Other
advanced degree candidates included two
for master of music, seven for master of fine
arts, six for master of business administra-
tion, 50 for master of education, 50 for
master of science and 49 for master of arts.
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JUNE 1949
Ralph Moore Heads
Grants Pass Alumni
Ralph T. Moore Jr. '42 has taken over the
presidency of the Grants Pass Alumni club.
He was elected late in May. Mrs. James
Stinebaugh (Jean Taylor '45) was elected
secretary.
Fifty members attended the meeting held
at the Grants Pass Golf and Country club.
Mrs. Harold Johnson (Josephine Ralston
'29) presided. She is alumni director of
Josephine county.
The Rev. Leslie Dunton '38 showed Ore-
gon football and campus films after the
meeting. Alumni decided to repeat the ses-
sion next fall to listen to a University foot-
ball game.
The committee in charge was headed by
Mrs. Johnson, assisted by Mrs. Stinebaugh
and Mrs. Moore '40.
Sig Eps Complete
Student Union Pledge
A dollar a month for two years from every
member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity has
fulfilled a pledge made in 1947, when the
group promised $1000 for the Erb Memo-
rial union.
This month the $1000 check was turned
over to Richard C. Williams '41, student
union director and member of Sigma Phi
Epsilon. He formally accepted it from Wil-
liam S. Barnum '49, James A. Snell '48 and
Francis Mahula, this year's fraternity presi-
dent.
The pledge was made as a memorial to
members of the local chapter who were
killed during the war. They were Ehle H.
Reber '41, Hugh 0. Hoffman '41, Alfred N.
Nysteen '42, Burton H. Osborn Jr. '43, A.
Kendall Lottridge '36 and Loya B. Hopkins
Jr.
Honolulu Alumni Will Fete
Oregon's Traveling Coeds
The Honolulu Alumni club will entertain
40 co-eds from the University and other Ore-
gon schools within the next month. The col-
lege women are going together to the Islands
for summer school and vacationing.
They will leave here June 20, to arrive in
time for opening classes at the University
of Hawaii. Three housemothers from Uni-
versity living organizations will chaperon
the group.
Joe Howard, a graduate of the University
of Hawaii and former Oregon student, has
helped plan the trip. Paul Hillar '41 is mak-
ing arrangements for entertainment by the
alumni club.
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Ne4AAi 0/ the. GlaAA&i 1948
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with the Sentinel-Mist in St. Helens, Oregon.
Roy Carlson, who belongs to the New York
\ ankees baseball chain, has been signed to a
contract by the Salem Senators.
Byron W. Mayo is now with the advertising
firm of Foote, Cone and Belding in Los Angeles
as an account executive. He was formerly em-
ployed in Portland.
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Harriet Ann Tozier is teaching at Haight
school in Alameda, California. She will attend
San Francisco State college this summer to
work on a masters degree in education.
During a two-weeks vacation from her job in
Mexico City Miss Elizabeth C. DeCou visit-
ed her family and friends in Eugene and Port-
land.
Twin girls were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cam-
eron Mallory (May Bignell '49) on March
18. The girls names are Michele Ruth and Pa-
tricia May.
Ex-University of Oregon and professional
football player, Charles J. Elliott, has been
named head football coach at Oregon City high
school for the 1949-50 school term.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Peterson (Deane
Bradshaw) were married last winter. Mr.
Peterson is now working for the Boeing com-
pany in Moses Lake, Washington. Mrs. Peter-
son was a teacher in Vancouver before her
marriage.
An August wedding is planned by Miss
Helen Hicks '48 and Robert L. Mitchell.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Skibinski are now
living in San Francisco. They were married late
this spring.
A recent engagement announcement is that
of Miss Wanda Landauer to Charles Alvin
Paulsen. No wedding date has been set. The
bride elect is a graduate of the Oregon medical
school department of nursing. Mr. Paulsen is
now a student at the medical school.
THROUGHOUT THE STATE
YOU OFTEN HEAR . . .
"When you want the BEST engravings
go to Hicks-Chatten"
HICKS -CHATTEL engraving co.
115 S. W. 4th Avenue, Portland 4, Oregon
(Class secretary: Mrs. Gloria Grenfell Matthews,1729 S. W. Market, Portland).
Kenneth H. Jones recently returned to his
home in Ashland from Hartford, Connecticut
where he spent three months of intensive insur-
ance training int he Hartford Accident and In-
demnity company school. He is now associated
with S. C. Jones & Sons, with offices in Medford
and Ashland. His address is now 94 Third
street, Ashland.
Miss Gladys Stone is now completing her
first year as music teacher at Elmira high
school. Under her direction, the high school
band received a superior rating at the state
music contest in Klamath Falls this spring.
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Welborn (Janice
Seymour) were married at the Piedmont Pres-
byterian church in Portland on March 4. They
are now living at 5106 NE 16th street in Port-
land.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul King Thompson
(Helen Tims '47) were recently married at
the Rose City Presbyterian church in Portland.
A son, Kenneth Scott, was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth W. Lomax (Bernice Gran-
quist '46) on February 20. Mr. Lomax is on
the announcing staff of Eugene radio station
KORE.
Warren E. Miller, graduate assistant in
political science at the University of Oregon,
has received a $1000 grant from Syracuse uni-
versity in New York for the 1949-50 school year.
The award is from the Maxwell graduate school
of citizenship and public affairs. Mr. Miller has
a choice of either having a teaching assistant-
ship at Syracuse or studying for a doctorate in
social science. He is now a candidate for his
master's degree at the University.
An article written by Donald H. Coulter
was recently published in the Oregon Law .Re-
view, journal of the State Bar association.
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Lee (Margaret
Kingman) were married in St. Patrick's
Chapel of St. Mary's Catholic church early
this month. The Very Rev. Francis P. Leipzig
officiated at the ceremony. The Lees will live
in Springfield where Mr. Lee is a member of
the fire department.
A wedding of March 19 was that of Miss
Marie DeVos to Wenzl L. Evans. The
couple is now at home in Eugene where Mr.
Evans is attending school.
A daughter, Lyrine Marie, was born Febru-
ary 1 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Peterson Jr.
(Patricia Bright) of Earlington, Washington.
1949
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Lee (Margaret
Kingman) were married in St. Patrick's Chapel
of St. Mary's Catholic church early this month.
The Very Rev. Francis P. Leipzig officiated at
the ceremony. The Lees will live in Springfield
where Mr. Lee is a member of the fire depart-
ment.
A wedding of March 19 was that of Miss
Marie DeVos to Wenzl L. Evans. The couple
is now at home in Eugene where Mr. Evans is
attending school.
A daughter, Lynne Marie, was born Febru-
ary 1 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Peterson Jr.
(Patricia Bright) of Earlington, Washington.
A bylined story by Laurence LeSage, profes-
sor of French literature at the University, was
recently printed in the Sunday drama section
of the New York Times.
32
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State Board Approves
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The State Board of Higher Education has
approved the site for a new science building
on the [fniversit) campus.
The proposed $1,500,000 building would
be located on University street between
Thirteenth street and Franklin boulevard.
This location would necessitate moving
the present heating plant to a new location.
Several other sites for the building had
been considered. The University street lo-
cation was chosen, said President Newburn,
because it would provide a more central lo-
cation than any of the previously considered
sites. It would also allow for a considerable
saving in utilities connections, which will
be needed in great numbers in the science
building.
At the same meeting, the board approved
the location of a cyclotron building for the
Oregon State college campus,
o?
OH the Campus
Allan Hugh Smith, assistant professor of
law. will leave the University this summer
to work with the Economic Cooperation ad-
ministration. He has been appointed assist-
ant general counsel to Ambassador Averill
Harriman. special United States represen-
tative in Europe.
Smith's permanent headquarters will be
in Paris, but his work will carry him
through most of western Europe.
Last summer Smith served as consultant
on strategic material problems in Washing-
ton. D. C. Paris and London. From 1942 to
1945 he was on the staff of the general
counsel of the War Production board. He
has been at the University school of law
since 1946.
Smith is a graduate of the Harvard law-
school. In 1941-42 he served as president
of that school's legal aid bureau.
* * *
i lie University band will make one out-
of-state trip and one Portland trip each
year under a new schedule released by Ath-
letic Director Leo A. Harris. These trips
will be made in conjunction with football
games. Beginning with next fall, the band
will travel every other year to Berkeley,
California, for the Oregon-Cal game. This
has been made possible by the University
of California designating the Oregon game
as homecoming on those years. The band's
other trip in the odd-numbered years will
be to Portland lor the Washington game.
On even-numbered years, the band will
travel to Seattle lor the Washington game,
plus appearing for some game in Portland.
This schedule will not affect the band
trips to Corvallis for the OSC game there.
The regular travel schedule was worked
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# # #
The Maurice Harold Hunter leadership
award for this school year has been pre-
sented to Stanley A. Pierson, junior in his-
tory from Torrance, California.
Honorary Chancellor and Mrs. Frederick
Maurice Hunter and Dr. and Mrs. Francis
Hunter make the award annually in honor
of their son and brother, Captain Maurice
Hunter '41, who was killed in Burma in
1945.
The award goes to a junior in liberal arts
who makes the greatest contribution to-
ward leadership among his fellow students.
* * *
Four "Oscars" were presented this month
for outstanding work in the University The-
atre.
Geraldine Hettinger, senior in speech
from Boise, Idaho, received the award for
the best female lead performance. She won
the trophy for her portrayal of Amanda in
"The Glass Menagerie."
Lewis Vogler, graduate student from
Klamath Falls, won an Oscar for best male
lead. He played Tom in "The Glass Mena-
gerie." Vogler has won the University The-
atre award twice before.
Tennessee Williams' play made a clean
sweep of the awards when Mary Ester
Brock, English major from Pendleton, was
given the award for the best supporting
role, Laura, also from "The Glass Mena-
gerie."
Fourth award went to Don Smith of Port-
land for greatest contribution to the theatre
in a non-acting capacity. He was the the-
atre's boxoffice manager.
ALUMNI ESTABLISH FUND
(Continued from page 11)
istrators who talked at a general session of
the conference. President H. K. Newburn
presented a picture in words of the Univer-
sity today. Others were Lyle M. Nelson '40,
director of information, and Donald M.
DuShane, director of student affairs.
Alumni leaders in Eugene for the meet-
ing were:
Francis J. Heitkemper '31, Charles Hollo-
way Jr. '35, Gordon Wilson '25, Harry
Smith '22, William Haseltine '18, Hollis
Johnston '21, Herbert J. Darby '23, Blair
Holcomb '17, all of Portland; William N.
Russell '35, Lynn S. McCready '20, Otto
Vonderheit '34, Karl W. Onthank '13 and
Dick Reed '23, all of Eugene.
Orval N. Thompson '35, Albany; Elbert
Neilsen '36, Bend; George Huggins '16,
Coos Bay; Rand E. Potts '44, McMinnville;
Collis P. Moore '25, Moro; Lawrence Hull
'23, Newport; George Corey '38, Pendleton;
Reynolds Allen '35, Salem.
34
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