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•II '!It,~ PURDY, '46 Portland; CRAWFO RD GRAHAM, "~ ,~ '36, Portland; MARGARET FELTHO USE P O ULSEN, '37, Baker; KENNETH KIRBY, ' 46, Hood River; A . H. SMITH, '40, Corvallis; D O N VAN ALLSBURG, '53, Student, O SC; OTTO HERMANN, '22, Portland; J O HN H . GALLAGHER, SR., '00, Corvallis; W . CA RLE ABRAMS, ' 00, Salem.

ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES : The In This Issue American Alumni Council, 100 Washington Square East, New York 2, N. Y.; Duncan A. Scott & Co., Mills Building , San Francisco, There IS much recommended reading in this issue of The Oregon Stater. Calif.; Duncan A. Scott & Co., 2978 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. .,. Speech Clini c. A student spending four years at OSC might think that he THE O REGO N STATER is published monthly except July, August and September by the Ore· has seen everything and perhaps clone everyth ing on campus during th ose years. gon State College Alumni Association at 104 And yet, even to persons on campus year after yea r, th ere is always something Memorial Union Building, Corvallis. Entered as second-class matter at the Post O ffic e at new. This possibly qualifies an article on OSC's speech clinic. Not generally Corvallis, Oregon, October 1, 1940, under the known is the work that goes on behind the walls of Shepard Hall in correcting Act of March 3, 1879. Annual dues of the As­ speech difficulties. David H. Krueger, instructor in speech, does the work with sociation are $4 which includes a year's sub­ scription to THE O REGO N STATER. th e speech defect cases and has gathered the material and has written the story on page three. .,. A regular issue of The Oregon Stater is Campus Glances. Under the assump­ Cover Personality tion that pictures tell the story easie r than a thousand words, we are being lazy Dr. Yerian was born in Missouri hut soon and giving you the inside information at OSC via the media of the picture. Onty'< .. left that state for Montana where he went through school and finally entered Montana this last month student activities leveled off to a minimum. The reason.? Nearing State Col lege as a f res hm an in the School th e end of the term and a general hi bernation and burying of noses for last of Agriculture. He left to enter business minute cramming. college in Portland and then came to OSC where he received his undergraduate degree .,. You wou ld be surprised at the number of Oregon Staters working in their in 1932 in the School of Commerce. Mas­ professions all over the world. We realize more and more that the world is ters degree and Ph.D. in business education sh rinking. On pages five and 16 are the stories and pictures of two of our were received from the University of Iowa in 1936 and 1938 respectively. alumni in India. Dr. Yerian came to O regon State in 1937 .,. An amazing sto ry of personal sacrifice is the one about Jimmie Heartwell, '38. and became head of the department in 19-tZ . He is kept busy by the activities of a mul­ For the last two yea rs Jimmie ha s worked on the OSC basketball hi story and at titude of organi zations. He is co-author of last is nearing the end. The book comes out soon and it will be an outstanding "Typewriting for Personal Use" book; contributi on to Beaver basketball history. It will add immeasurably to OSC's written numerous articles fo r Busi ness Ed u­ continuing basketball tradition. Page 12. cation publications; advise r to Phi Chi Theta (national honorary for women in .,. Not much introduction is needed on this sto ry. Slats Gi ll. Now in hi s Si lve r commerce) and Phi Kappa Tau, men's li v­ anniversary of basketball coaching at Oregon State. Irwin Harris, former ing group on campus; active in Red C ross organ ization, member of Corvalli s 30 S tat er, athletic new director for many years, penned about Slats and hi s basketball Century, Lions clubs. The list of his ac­ career. tivities goes on and on.

Page 2 THE OREGO N STATER JANUARY 1953 Students with speech defects are given test of feeling sounds produced by Clinic Director David Krueger.

Speech Therapy at OSC

The 01·cgon State College speech clinic, With the recent renovation of Shepard now in its thirty-second year, offers students Hall, the clinic has been sound-deadened to with vocal or articulatory difficulties a fac ilitate greater accuracy for audiometic chance for therapy in the newly-refinished (hearing) testing and to insure complete speech clinic located in Shepard Hall. privacy for conference with patients. Much of the growth and service of the Naturally, with the growth of clinical se r­ clinic has come about under the supervision vices, an impressive array of equipment, to and eiTort of Dr. Earl W. Wells, fell ow in aid in the diagnosi of speech disorders, has the American Speech and Hearing associa­ been accumulated. A disc recorder to keep a tion and present chairman of the department permanent record of the clients speech is of speech. David H. Krueger, instructor in part of the clinic equipment, along with a speech, has the clinic under his immediate pure-tone audiometer, wire recorder, desk An oral examination is given each direction. set hearing aid, and extensive equipment for speech exceptional who desires treat­ The clinic was inaugurated in 1920 by oral and aural physical examination . The ment at OSC clinic. C. B. Mitchell, professor emeritu s of speech. efforts of Dr. Wells have been an important It was the first speech clinic to be instituted factor in accumulating much of the diagnos­ in Oregon and one of the earliest on the tic equipment. West Coast. Professor Mitchell served as The clinical services are operated pri­ director of clinical services until 1924. From marily for service to students enrolled at 1924 to 1927 the clinic was under the super­ Oregon State College, although a diagnostic vision of Harold R. Searing and Louis A. service is offered to the public at large. Dr. Mallory, each serving as director for a year Wells has served hundreds of outsiders over and a half. the years, both adu Its and children, and on It was also in 1924 that special quarters many occations has held public clinics when were provided for the clinical services. In the demand seemed to warrant. 1927, Dr. V\1ells assumed the directorship of It may be of interest to follow the pro­ the clinic and has continued in the capacity cedure that the speech exceptional goes to the present. Because of the growth of the through in undertaking the speech therapy clinic, Carl W. Fuller was made assistant program. During Freshman Week of the director in 1946 to be succeeded in 1950 by Fall term, every member of the Freshman Mr. Krueger. class takes a Speech Aptitude and Profic­ As many alumni may remember, the clinic iency test (a service offered by the Speech was originally located on the third floor of Department for the past four years) . From the present library building. In 1938, with this test, it is attempted to determine if the the expansion of the peech department, the student's speech deviates far enough from clinic was moved to special quarters in normal to warrant special clinical attention. Shepard Hall, its present location. (Continued on page 17)

THE OREGON STATER JANUARY 1953 Page 3 Remember this feeling? It was final week on campus recently; much cram­ ming and loss of sleep resulted.

Portland editors met last month on campus with President A. L. Strand and Chancellor of Higher Education Charles Byrne. They were inspecting the state campuses to find out building needs during next few years. Left to right: Strand, Malcolm Bauer, Oregonian, and Tom Humphrey, The Journal, Chancellor Byrne. Fullback Sam Baker received most valuable player award for third time in row at Senior Ring banquet. Sam also was judged the best downfield blocker.

Coach Kip Taylor presented Gap Powell, '21, an OSC ring at the Senior Ring banquet in De­ cember.

Quonset huts near Home Economics building are removed following near completion of new wing.

Oregon's new governor, Paul Patter­ son, made his first appearance at OSC after being picked to succeed Doug McKay, '17. Secretary of State Earl Newbry hands him gavel.

Page 4 THE OREGON STATER JANUARY 1953 MY JOB IN INDIA

"BUT Duke, with all the opportunities (Top picture) Braham and cross-bred were taught in Hindustani. On complet in g in this country, why do you want cows in Institute herd. Dairy building a two-year course, they received only a di­ to spend your li [e half way round the world in background. (Second pictme) Small ploma from the Institute. A littl e later from your friends and relatives?" improved plow manufactured by the In­ when the government added a course in Such were the questions I was asked stitute. (Third picture) Villagers har­ agriculture to its junior college program, when, late in my senior year at OSC, l vesting barley with sickles in a poor and we limited admission to those who had applied for appointment as a missionary in field. (Bottom picture) Wheat on In­ passed high school, enrollment fell to a India. Other questions, concerning deficien­ stitute farm. handful. cies in common sense were doubtless present A Small College in friends' minds, but were kindly left un­ spoken. I have not yet spent my life in We are still a small coll ege, and intend India-onl y about 30 years of it-but per­ to remain so, for the type of education we haps I can now answer those quest ions bet­ want to give seems more likely to be pos­ ter than I could in the spring of 1921. sible with limited numbers. There have been physical limitations also, but we have Opportunities Great not stayed small because of lack of appli­ Opportunities in the U. S. A. there were. cants. Most of the time we have turned I remember three which appealed greatly: away far more than we have admitted, for a chance to work up in one organization in India has gradually wakened to the urgent my native California, editorial and other need of developing its agriculture. At pres­ work in a fruit co-op in the Northwest, and ent we have something over 300 students in a fellowship for further study in horticul­ agriculture, as well as a few in home eco­ ture. Any one could have led to a worthy nomics. There is a two-year diploma course and useful li £c, and I have great admiration in animal husbandry and dairying, conducted for my classmates who chose such oppor­ by the central government, but most of the tunities and have served well in many ways, stud ents have two years of general agricul­ some o[ them with outstandin g success. Yet ture and then eith er two years for a degree I have never regretted that I passed these in agriculture o r three [or the degree in by for an opportunity to do the one thing l agricultural engineering. We were the first had thought r did not want to do-to teach. to give the latter degree in all India. The Where I was to live did not seem very degrees are actually given by the govern­ important to me, provided the need for ment University o£ Allahabad, o£ which we what I could do seemed large, and there form the department o[ agriculture. were many countries where the need ap­ Just now we arc pioneering again, this peared greate1· than in the United States. time in extension work. We have wanted My thoughts had run more to China be­ for a long time to try to learn how to get cause I knew more about it than any other the information scientists have into the vi l­ Oriental land. About India I knew almost lages where it is so badly needed. The nothing. But along came Sam Higginbot­ problem is difficult in any country, but more tom looking for a man to teach horticulture so in India than in most countries because in the agricultural school he had started in for generations the strangers who entered India. A few months lat er [ arrived in villages have clone so la1·ge ly to gel what Allahabad. they could, not to help. With our bank account frequently over­ Institute Then 10 Years O ld drawn to pay for resident instruction, it The Agricultural Jnstitute was then about was difficult to find money f 01· extension, ten years old , with about 30 or 40 students, but some years ago we got started with a two residences, with a third under construc­ modest program. Now a foundation has tion, a dairy, some barns, and a dormitory provided adequate finance for a project of nearing completion. My first teaching was discoyering and demonstrating successful clone in that donn, with workmen overhead methods in some 300 vi ll ages in this area, patiently pounding the flat lime-plaster roo[ of developing materials to usc in such work, to make it water-tight. This year I have and of teaching young men and women again been teaching in a temporary class­ how to do this type o£ work. This caught room in a dorm, with considerable racket us unprepared, like the rest of the country, from workmen overhead. Most of the time but the need was urgent and already much in the intervening years we have been progress has been made. This fits in with c1·ampecl for space and for funds, but we the plans of government f01" what they call have had opportunities galore, and have seen community projects all over the country, a some o£ our dreams become realities. program of tremendous possibilities, but Those first students were a varied lot, also one which can be a t remenclous flop. most o[ them boys with little formal edu­ The greatest danger lies in the lack o£ cation and little chance of getting more. moral integrity and devotion to the welfare Some knew English well enough to attend o£ the common people. lectures in that language while the others (Conti111ted on page 73)

THE O REGO N STATER J A NUA RY 1953 Page 5 OREGON STATE COLLEGE By FRED SHIDELER

Y THE time most alums read this the prospective teachers to their campuses and arts set up in Portland on the same grounds. B state board of higher education will to strengthen teacher education prog1·ams, Wilma Morrison, educational editor of probably have made a decision on the And­ the colleges of education expand their pres­ the Oregonian, outlined the OSC position erson report, which may or may not have ent offerings in liberal education to pro­ as follows: "Oregon State College, too, has far-reaching signifi cance to the College and g ram s leading to the bachelor's degree with a stake in whatever decision is made on the stale system of higher education depend­ majors restricted to the broad fields of the liberal arts at the col leges of education and ing on what that decision is or how one may humanities, social science and a science­ Portland Stale because it has all the liberal interpret it. mathematics combination. arts courses but cannot grant degrees. 1f The board will hold final hearings on the 3. Extend the present two-year program liberal arts is given degree status at the report January 5 when some definite action at Portland State Extension Center to pro­ colleges of education and/or at Portland is expected . The report, prepared by Dr. vide undergraduate four-year programs for State it is hard to see how it could be with­ Earl W . Anderson of Ohio State university both elementary and secondary school teach­ held from the state college where the after a half-year's survey in Oregon, was ers with the secondary education program courses already exist." submitted to the board at its December restricted to the areas of the hw11anities, Everyone seems to be agreed about the meeting. social science and science-mathematics on desirability of unified elementary and sec­ While the rather voluminous report con­ the same basis as the colleges of education. ondary teacher preparation in all the schools tains 27 different recommendations for the Another recommendation of the Anderson and the need for strong liberal arts and improvement of teacher education in the report which some observes feel might be­ general education courses to support this state system, its major points are: come a "sleeper" calls for a complete sur­ program. The differences of opinion seem 1. That elementary teacher training be vey of the Oregon state system of higher to stem from granting general liberal arts added to the secondary teacher training now education within the next few years. This degrees at the colleges of education and offered at Oregon State coll ege and the supposedly would be similar to the one eventually at Portland State. It's a matter University of Oregon and that secondary made in 1930 and 1931 when the system was of allocation of major fields, apparently. teacher training, now allocated only to the established. But the board's original allocations made College and University, be added to ele­ The University of Oregon has opposed in 1932 when the system was first estab­ mentary teacher preparation now offered the Anderson recommendation for the gen­ lished have been upset before. Remember at the three colleges of education, with the eral liberal arts degree at the colleges of when the major field of science was allo­ colleges of education limiting their programs education on the basis of its present alloca­ cated to Oregon State exclusively then? .• in secondary education to the three broad tion as tne major in stitution for liberal arts And that the university dedicated less than major areas of the humanities, social science in the state system. It based an objection a year ago a new $1,500,000 science building and science-mathematics. to an original recommendation by Anderson from which bachelors, masters and doctors 2. That as a means of attracting more -later withdrawn-for a four-year liberal degrees flow?

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P age 6 THE OREGON STATER JANUARY 1953 Slats has spa cious coliseum to play in now and excellent prospects for future years.

MR. BASKETBALL'S 25TH YEAR

T 1s defini tcly unusual for a head coach gon State has developed into a national hoop following graduation, Gill returned in 1926 I o£ a major sport to remain at the same power with the finest pavilion west of the as freshman basketball coach and in two institution for 25 years, but Oregon State's Rockies. seasons guided his club to seven wins out A. T. "Slats" Gill is a very unusual coach. Gill's personal history has been repeated of eight starts against the Oregon Frosh. row in his 25th season or silver anni­ so many times that we will summarize it In 1928 he was appointed varsity coach and versary year as head basketball coach of the only brieAy. After earning all-state honors has held the position ever since. Beavers, Gill is almost as much a part of and leading his team to the state champion­ Four years after he took over he pro­ the College as its buildings and other per­ ship at Salem high school, Slats enroll ed at duced his first Northern division and PCC manent fixture<. Oregon State in 1920 and soon earned a championship team in 1933. His first all­ Slats took over at OSC when basketball niche for himself as one of the Beavers' American, Center Eel Lewis, was on this was little more than a minor sport as far as all-time great hoop players. He made the club. Other division crowns came in 1935, spectator interest was concerned and has all-coast team in both his sophomore and 1940, 1942, 19-+7 and 1949, and his 19-+R seen it grow in national scope until it now senior years. club tied with Washington for the title but outdraws football. Through his efforts Ore­ After a brief absence from the campus (Continued on page 13)

THE OREGON STATER JANUARY 1953 Page 7 FRIENDS OF LIBRARY PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE

JBRARTES have from ancient times Library building of Harvard university, the all of them welcome. Cum ulative these gifts, L all racted philanthropy and good will. magnificent new Harvey S. Firestone build­ for the most part small , have been an im ­ \Vhen the invention of printing from mov­ ing of Princeton univ ersity and num erous portant factor in making the library a better, able type, about 1450, made it possible for other college and university library buildings. stronge1·, more responsive in strum ent for the first time to reproduce books in numbers The great research collections that repose in forwarding the teaching and research of the at relatively low cost, libraries began to these buildings, and in many lesser ones, Coll ege. spring up everywhere. These book collec­ have also been brought together largely In 1943 there was organized here, for th e tions were gath ered together by wealthy through gifts. Throughout th e entire cu ltural express purpose of promotion of interest in individuals and some not so wealthy, by and educational growth and development of the library and the encouragement of suitabl e churches, societies, cities, governments, and, America the givin g of books and library gifts and bequests to it , a g roup known as of cou rse, by educational in stitutions. In all buildings has been a powerful leaven. Friends of the Library of Oregon State this growth the giving of books, and often Gifts Are Important College. Groups of this kind, \·ariously of structures to house them, has played an named, have, in recent years, been estab­ im porlanl part. Philanthropy has not, quite und erstandably, li shed in many stale supported colleges and Book-loving men, aware of the funda­ played the large part in the growth and universiti es, not so much to aggressively seck mental role and place of the book in all development of the libraries of tax supported gifts for their respective libraries as to call education, were important benefactors of the institutions that it has in private institutions. attention to, and perhaps a lso to dramatize libraries of the universities of Paris, Ox­ Tax suppo rt ed coll eges and universiti es have, the library, lon g favored by benefactors ford, Camb1·idge, Heidelberg and other s of nevertheless, been recipients of library gifts everywhere, as an agency where persons the great early universities. ln this country in increasing amounts. Some of these, such with wealth to dispose of can put it to last­ too books and library buildings have, from as th e beautiful functional Don Love library ing and highly useful social puropses. the earli est times, been given to our educa­ building at the University of Nebraska, have tional institutions. The first founding act of been among the outstanding library bene­ OSC Has Many Gifts Yale uni\·ersity was, in fact, the assembling factors of the country. While the Oregon Since the organization of ou1· Friends of books hy the Connecticut clergy in a din­ State Coll ege library has had no large gifts group the library has hac! many notable ing room in Saybrook. The g reat structure of this kind (yet) it has, from its earli est gifts. Many of these would have come to us that now houses the Yale Library, so mod­ days in a single room in Benton Hall, at­ anyhow but our Friends have, nevertheless, estly begun, is also a gift, as is the Widener tracted gifts, some of them substan tial and taken an important and hi ghl y valued part in promoting good will for the library and gifts for it. At the founding of the g roup a gift of $300 for the establi shment of a model home library for ch ildren was made and one Friend has been a direct factor in bringing a fine personal library to th e Col­ lege through final bequest. Our Friends began under the chaim1anship of Professor Herbert Childs of the Coll ege Department of Engli sh. Following Profe>sor Chi ld s, we have had as chairman Clyde vVilliamson, '08, of Albany, and Mark McCallister, '05, and M. E. Woodcock, '14, Co rvalli s. The cunent chairman is Mrs. Trene Carl of Portland, '20, who has so generous ly gi vcn of herself: to many enterprises of the College. Ou r Friends group works quietly through its chairman and through a board of direct­ or s and an annual banquet meeting at which th e present state o( the library is discussed and gifts and other important events o f the year summari zed. Notable gifts, since the Friends have been in existence, include the bequest of the 5,000 volume personal library, valued at $15,000, of William H. Galvani of Portland, the personal library of Mary F. (Co11timted on page 18)

Page 8 THE OREGON STATER JANUARY 1953 Mrs. Robert Bacon, the former Winifred This is the new Hoag Memorial hospital which Mrs. Robert Bacon, '26, now Horn, '26, stepped into a man's job when administers. she became administrator of the erection and later the operation of the Haag Me­ morial hospital in ewport Beach, Calif. She took over this position following the death of her husband in May 1951. Mrs. Bacon had grown and developed into this job. After being graduated from the school of home economics with a major Man-Sized Job in foods at OSC in 1926 she taught in a high school and later worked in a hospital as dietician until being married. In 1937 when her daughter was small she became dietician and housekeeper in Pomona moria! hospital serving the people on the contains no wood except for the doors. Valley hospital where her husband Bob was coast from Oceanside to Long Beach. Window sills are of marble and window sash the administrator. When he was called into The Haag Memorial Hospital that Mrs. all aluminum. the service in 1943 she took over his job Bacon has charge of i a memorial by a Though set up for 75 adult patients it can and remained in charge until his return in California woman for her husband. Mrs. easily handle 100 in an emergency and can 1946 whereupon she became his assistant. Haag gave $500,000. The Orange county be increased to handle 150 because of the She had a year's rest when they left Po­ Presbyterians gave $600,000 and the balance large working areas. mona and moved to Laguna Beach for Bob was raised by public subscriptions and cam­ In the X-ray department, which cost to plan, build and administer the Haag Me­ paigns. Its total cost was $1,500,000. Quite $80,000, there are two large diagnostic ma­ morial. The clay following the acceptance a sum for anyone to have under administra­ chines, one portable machine and one ther­ of the final blue print, Bob died, and Wini­ tion. apy unit. A full time radiologist and three fred was asked by the board to becon1e pur­ The hospital has 46,300 square feet and technicians are employed. There are fou t· chasing agent temporarily. But after four is set on 20 acre overlooking Newport har­ operating rooms-two major, one orthopedic months, sensing her efficiency, the board bor and the Pacific ocean. The building is and one cystoscopic, and in addition two hired her as administrator of this new me- of reinforced concrete with a tile roof and delivery rooms. To avoid any possibility of an explosion Mrs. Bacon and John A . Murdy, Jr., president of the hospital board and state of the anaesthetic gases from a spark of senator elect, look over one o f the hospital rooms . static electricity, the floors in these rooms are of terrazzo laid in a manganese base, the light switches are all three way plugs and all equipment i conclucti ve rubber ti red or otherwise grounded. The hospital is divided into three sections: namely, medical, surgical and maternity. Each section has its own nurse station, medicine room, diet kitchen, linen room, and utility room. All patient rooms have oxy­ gen piped to them and are equipped with individual toilet and bedpan washers . The well equipped laboratory covers all divisions -hermatology, serology, general chemistry, and tissue study. After overseeing the building and the pur­ chasing of all equipment and furnishings, and hiring of a staff of 120 per ons it is Mrs. Bacon's job to operate the hospital smoothly, efficiently and in the black. She works eli rectly under a board of 15 people, seven members elected from the Orange county Presbytery and seven from the Haag foundation with one additional member se­ lected by the 1-1.

THE OREGON STATER JANUARY 1953 Page 9 SPORTS

All-northern division guard, Danny Johnston, starts out on his senior year on the Beaver hoop squad.

By JOHNNY EGGERS Athletic Ne-ws Director

Y THE TIME this reaches yo ur mail box, our basketball B Beavers wi ll be all set for the opening of the northern division race-one which promises to be the most thrilling in years. Most everyone has already awarded the title to Washington, with Idaho as a close second, so S lats Gi ll and his young squad will be in a good spot to upset someone. It was clea rl y evident in early pre-season games that the 1952-53 squad will be much improved over last year, and, Sophomore Tony Vlastelica and the promising Wade Hal­ too- don't sell these kids short. They love to play basket­ brook tower over Coach Slats Gill. Tony is 6-5 and Hal­ ball, they're working hard and over the long span, they'll brook is 7-1. "Swede" Halbrook has led his Rook team­ win a good share of games . mates through five undefeated games so far. Vlastelica leads the varsity scorers by reason of his terrific hook At this writing, the team had lost a pa ir to UCLA and shot. one each to both Portland university and Santa Clara. The Beavers had whipped Oregon in a non-counter in Portland, and had edged Santa Clara in the final of a two­ game senes. Promise of better things to come was in evidence in the second Bronco contest, when the Beavers led all the way against a team rated fourth best in the country last year. Remember, for a moment, that these Broncos were the same boys who zoomed through the western regionals in 1952. Santa Clara had a good, sound basketball ma­ chine and it took a good team to upset the Bronco apple­ cart. You all will be interested in the progress of Transfer Tony V lastelica, the hi ghl y-regarded sophomore from Aberdeen, Washington. Offensively, Tony has li ved up to all expectations. The big boy poured 23 points through the net against both UCLA and Portland U., and as we went to press was leading the club in scoring with 73 points in five games. He's a good one, to be sure, and

Page 10 THE OREGON STATER 1 JANUARY 1953 has the potentialities to be g reat. Right now, campus. Paul Valenti's Rooks were unde­ he's working hard to improve on his defense. feated after five games and show promise This is Tony's first experience in the tough of blossoming into the best fi rst-year club Pacific Coast conference, and he realizes it in a long time. won't be easy. He knows what to do with T he Baby Beave rs downed the Oregon a basketball and if his defense improves, we Frosh in the seasonal opener, then fo ll owed may have another Reel Rocha in our midst. up with an impressive victory over Portland Outdoor Store, a strong AAU team. ext Shirtcliff Good came a win ove r Cla rk junior coll ege, pre­ Several new names have appeared in the ceding a triumph over Universal Motors, lineup, too, and deserve mention. Bud Shirt­ the touring AAU outfit f rom Hawaii. I n eli ff, the baseball outfielde r, is one. Bud their last game of th e fall quarter, they has spent most of his co llege court ca reer romped over the Portland U. Jayvees, 69-44. on the jayvee squad, but he'll be hard to keep out of the lineup this winter. He was Halbrook Sensational especially effective against Santa Clara, both Big Wade (Swede) Halbrook, the 7 foot in grabbing the ball off the boards and in inch giant, has been a tower of strength scoring. Shirtcli ff is one of the few senio rs all a long the way. He sco red 118 points in on the squad, and from all in dications he the five games, but even more imp ressive is intends to make his fina l campaign a memor­ the way he controls the boards and plays able one. defense. Another surprise is Reggie Halligan, the Jerry Crimins, Milton-Freewater; Larry Bend sophomore up from the jayvees. Reg­ Paulus, Salem; Ralph Carroll, Klamath gie started slowly, as did Tex Whiteman, Falls; Jim Moya, San F rancisco; and Dick but gets better all the time and is a good W il son, Kali spell , Mont.; all have looked Jim Sugrue, senior forward, is a good prospect for future yea rs. Hall igan plays good in earl y games. I t's no wonder Va­ board man and is expected to aid the the boards like a boy much larger, and be>t lenti sleeps so well at nights. Beavers this hoop season. of all, he can pump the ball through a hoop. Robins a Favorite If there has to be a fan favorite-and usually that is the case-it's little Ron BASKETBALL Robins, the 5 foot 8 inch sophomo re from Marshfield. Certainly no one on the squad NON-CONFERENCE GAMES has been more dependable in every game. And in carrying out individual assignments, Saturday January 3 Portland U . vs. OSC at Corvallis the little guy has no equal. To date, he's Tuesday January 13 OSC Alumni vs. Harlem Globetrotters at Corv. the best set-shot artist on the club, and should be able to hand le any of the "l ittle CONFERENCE GAMES men" in the circuit. You may be wondering why the name Tuesday January 6 Washington State College at Corvallis Danny Johnston has been missing in the Wednesday January 7 Washington State College at Corvallis starting lineup. After all, he was a unani­ Friday January 16 Washington at Seattle mous all-northern division guard a year ago. Saturday January 17 Washington at Seattle The cold truth is-Danny just hasn't shown Friday January 23 Idaho at Moscow enough in practice or in ea rl y games to jus­ Saturday January 24 Idaho at Moscow tify a starting job. Like Slats, we fee l Friday January 30 Oregon at Eugene Johnston will come along better when the Saturday January 31 Oregon at Corvallis conference campaign rolls around, and when Wednesday February 4 Idaho at Corvallis he does it wi ll be of tremendous help to the Thursday February 5 Idaho at Corvallis team. Danny's a swell fellow, and is right Friday February 13 Washington at Corvallis in there pitching, even when riding the Saturday February 14 Washington at Corvallis bench. Friday February 20 Washington State College at Pullman Saturday February 21 Washington State College at Pullman Whiteman Is Better Friday February 27 Oregon at Corvallis At times, Center Bob Edwards has looked Saturday February 28 Oregon at Eugene good, and was a fine replacement for Vlas­ teli ca. Bob has all the experience, speed and size, and should have his best season. White­ man, the boy who developed so much to­ wards the end of last wi nter, found himself Beaver greats each year wi ll be a custom in the Santa Clara series and will be hard 13 Seniors Honored from now on. to keep out. Edwards and Whiteman arc Most valuable player for the third straight both 6-6, and provide a lot of backboard Thirteen senior membe rs of the 1952 OSC time in the estimation of his teammates was strength. football squad were honored December 6 at Full back Sam Bake r. Baker also won the Jim Sugrue went into an early slump, but the an nual Seni or Rin g banquet held in the best down fie ld blocke r award. ] im Cordia l, we all know he's better than that and will Memo ri al Union ball room. 1952 captain and senior end, was honored by get going in time. As for the others-Johnny The 13 seniors to receive their rings from receiving the Sitton award for the "Out­ Jarboe, Bill Toole, John Thomas, AI Patsel Alumn i Association President Mark Cor win standing Lineman". Cordial was also picked and Ron Fundingsland-they'rc still right were Dick Skiles, Jack Gotta, Doug Hog­ as the best defensive lineman. behind the first pack. Team morale is ex­ land, Sam Baker, Clarence Womack, ) im Johnny Carpente r, radio announcer, was cell ent and everyone is working toward the Cordial, Jim Fisher, Bob Redkey, B ill master of ceremon ies and Coach K ip Taylor Storey, J im Norton, Erni e Madsen, Fred same goal. int rod uced the coachin g stafT and team Whether they win or lose, bear with th is Burri, and Cal Moore. members . club--you'll enjoy every minute of every Elected captain for the 19j3 season was game. Laverne Ferguson junio r tack le on this year's team. Gap Powell , '21, was the ex­ For the fourth straight year the Oregon Rooks Undefeated OSC grid sta r who was honored at the State football team defeated the University The most interest in a freshman team at banquet with a ring iden tica l to the graduat­ of Oregon. Coach Kip Taylor has never Oregon State in many years is sweeping the ing seniors. Awarding ri ngs to forme r lost to a Duck team.

THE OREGON STATER JANUARY 1953 Pag e 11 Tremendous Basketball History Completed

AN AMAZING STORY OF AN OREGON STATER'S DEVOTION TO A TASK THAT TOOK YEARS TO COMPLETE AND EDIT

HA KS to the enthusiasm and per­ most of all, it was motivated by an admira­ T sistence of one of S lats Gill's former tion for the highly respected individuals who squad members, Oregon State College now have played a part in OSC's rightfully proud has the best a nd most complete histo ry of history, outstanding of whom is Oregon its 50 years of basketball of any college or State's own All-American player and All­ university in the United States. American coach, Amory T. "Slats" Gi ll , In fact, it is probably the only complete who still believes that, in this skeptic world story of a major sport on any coll ege cam­ of ours, building character is even more im­ pus and certainly the only one that explores portant than winning basketball games." every conceivable angle through long-hidden Jimmie's exceptional enthusiasm for OSC's facts and anecdotes and assembles for the court fortunes may possibly stem from his first time a surprising array of complete early disappointment at being unable to con­ records and statistics of OSC basketball tinue in active participation in the sport. since the first game was played back in He enrolled at Oregon State in 1928 and 1901. played rook basketball along with Dick Ly­ While the 200-page history is a fabulous man, Tom Duffy, Ken Fagans and Howard piece of work and as fascinating to an OSC Merrill, who was also from Long Beach. alum as any sports fiction ever written, the He suited up for 1930-31 home varsity story of its author is a close rival for games but saw no action. He got into 10 interest. varsity games the following year and was The history has been written over the the subject of one of the humoro us inci­ past two years by Jimmie Heartwell, '38, of dents that the old-timers still talk about. Long Beach, Calif., who was robbed by ill Ed Lewis, one of OSC's all -time great> health from playing on OSC's coast cham­ and a team mate of Jimmie's, writes about pionship team of 1932-33 and the Korthern Jimmi e Heartwell loves the g a me o f it in J immie's book. lt was a close Idaho Division champs of 193-1-35. But Jimmie basketball. game at Moscow. Suddenly and without has been accumulating facts and stories in warning, the lights went out with three his mind and in his files for the past 20 minutes to play. years or more. He has been intensely in­ Originall y, Jimmie planned to cover only Pep Talk fo r Idaho terested in OSC basketball and in Slats Gill the first SO years of OSC basketball, but ever since he saws Slats captain Coach Bob the history has been expanded to include a "Seconds before the lights faded," Ed Hager's team in an invasion of Southern resume of the 51st year in 1951-52 and a recounts, "Slats sent Jimm ie Heartwell into California in 1923. He has made many spe­ preview of the prospects for 1952-53-thus the lineup with instructions to call timeout cial trips to Corvallis from Long Beach just bringing it strictly up to date. and outline a plan of strategy to be used to see OSC basketba ll games or for specia l The author divides the history into eli f­ during the remaining minutes. Heartwell occasions such as the Golden Jubilee celebra­ ferent eras with chapters reviewing each reported to the scoring bench just at the tion of basketball here and the ded icat ion of yea r's incidents from 1901-02 through a pre­ time the lights went out. When power was the new Coliseum. view and prediction for 1952-53. Additional once again restored to the pavilion, to our amazement, Jimmie was sitting in the Idaho No Easy Task parts of the book cover various phases such as the dedication of the Coliseum, Slats huddle giving out his best brand of pep talk From this quarter of a century of basket­ Gi ll 's 25-year record, a section of incidents to the Idaho players. Although OSC fi­ ball interest and his natural knack for hand­ w ritten by former OSC basketball greats, nall y won the game, it was noted in the ling and remembering sports statistics, Jim­ all-star selections, complete OSC basketball final three minutes that Idaho outscored mie has turned out what promises to be­ records and outstanding performances, in­ OSC 2 to 1. " come a best-sell er among OSC spor ts fa ns. dividual and team scorings, individual play­ Jimmie adds a footnote to this, explain­ It hasn't been an easy ta k. During the ing times , rosters, and numerous miscella­ ing, "this story certainly has grown better past two years, Jimmie has written mo re neous items and pertinent anecdotes. through the years ." than a thousand letters to former players, Jimmie had two more years of eligibility coaches, sports w riters and others in pur­ J immie Was Sports Editor left and was looking forward to being a suit of elusive information that seldom found Jimmie himself disclaims any tendency to­ member of the potent 1932-33 team . But its way into newspaper stories in the early ward perfection in writing-even after a on an eastern trip that summer he suddenly days of the cage sport. couple of jou rn alism courses at OSC and a became ill , was unconscio us fo r five days He has dug into old files in newspaper stint as sports editor of the Daily Barom­ and finally felt lucky to be alive after a office and libraries up and down the coast. eter-but he has produced a truly remark­ last-resort shot of adrenalin jumped his He has personall y ta lked with scores of old­ able, fascinating, lucid, and interesting vol­ heart. But this was the finish of his bas­ timers and scanned priceless scrapbooks of ume that will become the bib le for OSC ketball playing days . He returned to OSC former players. He has spent several thou­ basketball in the future. later, however, and was graduated in 1938 sand hours in research and writing, adhe r ­ This history, Jimmie says in his preface, although his class is 1932. ing to a more or less rigid schedule that "was motivated by a fascinating interest in He turned his interest to basketball rec­ occupied most of his even ings at home after a progr essive, American-originated game. o rds. His ill ness now is just a memory. He a day's work at his job with the Farmers Likewise by a desire to see one's alma mater since has been a leader in numerous Long and Merchants Bank of Long Beach. agai n serve as a basketball pioneer. But Beach sports organizations, especially the

Page 12 THE OREGO N STATER J A NUARY 1953 Long Beach Sports Boosters, Kid Baseball Gill has proved that it is possible to build association, Junior Football league and Long character at the same time he is construct­ HEN you want quality Beach Poly High Alumni association. ing championship teams. More than one Jimmie Heartwell did not write the Ore­ boy has come to Slats as a spoi led high W student supplies gon State College Basketball History to school athletic star and has left Oregon Gifts and Novelties . You'll find make money. He will not be disappointed State a well-rounded individual as well as them at in this connection because its publication a fine athlete. will cost him considerable. But this is the In the community itself, completely apart Stiles Book Shop way he wants it. In addition to countless from his coaching position, Gill is a highly hours of time, he has spent an unestimated respected citizen because of his tireless work Monroe at 26th Tel. 3-3695 amount of cash out of his own pocket on on civic and charitable organizations . He the project. has served as president of the Corvallis The book has been printed by the Cascade Rotary club and has headed numerous com­ Printing company of Corvallis which through munity welfare drives. Stan Wallace has cooperated to the fullest His coaching success which brought about in making such a book of somewhat limited a rapidly growing popularity in the hoop circulation available m printed form at a sport resulted in the construction in 1949 SI-IUPE reasonable cost. of the beautiful OSC coliseum, generally The history may be obtained for $3 .00 regarded as one of the finest basketball Furniture Company from the OSC Alumni association. plants in the country. A lthough there is a " L ea ding Furni ture L i n es" policy against naming state buildings after living men in Oregon, it is impossible to 252 M a d ison St. Mr. Basketball's 25th Year keep sportswriters and the hoop fans in general from calling the structure Gill (Co11tinucd from page 7) Coliseum. lost a playoff battle. The 1947 and 1949 As Johnny Eggers, OSC's athletic news quintets went on to cop the PCC title with eli rectors, says in his 1953 basketball press the latter team finishing fourth in the na­ book, "Oregon Staters everywhere salute nl.f.UJoodcock &Sons tion in the NCAA playoffs. Slats Gill on his 25th anniversary year as In addition to Lewis, all-Americans devel­ head Beaver basketball coach." oped by Gill include Wally Palmberg, 1936; John Mandie, 19-lZ; Don Durdan, 1943; Lew Beck, 1947; Reel Rocha, 1947; and My Job in India .. Cliff Crandall, 19-l9. (Continued from page 5)

And that brings us to one of the eli ffer­ Cadillac ences between the Institute and a govern­ ment college. We are not an exclusively • Christian organization. There are non­ Christians on our staff, and the majority of Complete Service of the students are Hindus, with a sprinkling of Moslems, Buddhists, and others. It is All Makes of Cars only because we draw students from all over India and from other countries that we can 0 fficial have about a third of the student body Christian. But there is a eli fference in the atmosphere. Non-Christian graduates tell us that we have unfitted them for govern­ ment service, but they say it with gratitude, for they find it impossible to take their part in a system of graft and intellectual dis­ TOWING honesty. Many, both Christian and non­ • Christian, leave us with a sincere desire to and serve their people to the best of their abil­ ROADSIDE SERVICE ity. It is on such persons that a successful Head Coach Slats Gill program of extension, or any other form of public service, can be built. And many coaching honors have come to But what of my own field of horticulture, rn. f.lUoodcock &Sons the popular Slats. In 1950 he was named Obviously, as a fresh graduate, I was ill­ to the Helms Hall of Fame as one of the prepared to teach that subject in India, and 235 N. 2nd St. Corvallis, Ore. all-time great basketball mentors in the na­ my further education has been slow, but con­ tion. That same year he was chosen to tinues. The subject had been largely ne­ Call Corvallis 3-7381 coach the Western all-stars against the East (Continued on page 22) in the Madison Square Garden . And in 1947, after guiding his team to an upset vic­ tory over UCLA in the PCC playoffs, the Bruins did their best to lure Gill to Los Angeles as their head coach. Wilhelm & A very But there is much more to Gill's popu­ larity and stability on the Oregon State campus than merely his coaching genius. He Shell Service is one of the most respected men on the college faculty and in the Corvallis com­ Lubrication-Washing munity. The veteran hoop boss is a per­ sonal friend to every boy he coaches and Goodyear Tires and Batteries that friendship lasts long after the athlete leaves college. He is a wise counselor to 3rd and Jefferson Phone 3-3520 all of his players on matters other than bas­ ketball.

THE OREGON STATER JANUARY 1953 P age JJ Alumni 'RtutH.Ci the 'WOJJJ. • •

at OSC. It seemed like old times to see an Oregon '85-'00 State football team on the field this fall, but I was ~Irs. David H . Looney, '94, the former Lona unhappy that the Beavers didn' t continue their good George of Salem was on the campu s fall term to work during the second ha lf of the ball gam e. Any· attend a state board meeting of the DAR. She is a way "we" beat Oregon.!" regent of the Salem Chemeketa chapter. \\'hile at the meeting she visited the alumn i office. '36-'40 Barton H. Brown, '39, was recently promoted to '01-'05 Traffic Tall Line Engineer for the Pacifi c Telephone company in O regon. Barton lives in Portland. )fr. and )Irs. John W. Carlson, '05, live at i\Irs. Richard R. Murray, '39, the former M ary 2020 Spring Garden in Portland. :\Irs. Carl son is Holaday, is teaching junior hi gh school in Eatontown, the former Una Stewart. She used to play basket­ N .J. but she wrote that she expected to join her ball for the College and remembers the champion­ husband in France after the first of the year. ~fr s . ~hip game in Portland. John was an early electrical 1\furray's address in 1\ew J ersey was 24 Borden engineering graduate. Place in Little Silver, 1\'. J. H er husband, Major John E . Smith, '02, and E. B. Beaty, '03, have Hichard l\Iurray is in the signal divi s ion. They been doing research work the past summer on expect to be abroad for the next three years. pioneer history in Benton county. K. W . Lange, '39, is contracting en gineer for th e Claude Buchanan, '03, lives at R t . 3, Box 513, Chicago Bridge and lron company in San Francisco. Corvallis. 1\frs. Lange is the former Mary Lois Driggs, '38. They live at 10 Corte Alegre, Millbrae, Calif. '06-'10 Jim Edwards, ' 39, wrote the alumni office recently. H e said: "Thought some of our alumni friends woulrl Died be interested to know that we have a new arriva l in Brown-L•rie E . Brown, '10, died recently, H e the family ... Lucie B eth Edwarcis. This makes l a~t lived in Spokane, \\'ash. H e was formerly from three gi rl s for Grace and I ... no boys. I have been Kellogg, Idaho. here in Tulare, Calif. for three years with my famil y and we would like to get back to see our old friends ... but it will be a year or two ye t with the new I 11-'15 arrival before we can make it." Dr. Sha n g Ying Wu, who attended OSC m Leaton A. Rice,'I 8, r ecently visited hi s mother, 19 12- 13, recenly was on campu s as one of the main Mrs. Gertrude Sturdevant and friends in CorvaTii s. '41 speake rs for the third annua l Institute on the Far 1\Ir. Rice has been with the St. Joseph Lead com pany East. Dr. \ Vu was a cabinet minister and secretar y at Bonne Terre, 1\Io. as a chemist and assayer for Mrs. W illiam Morris (Helen H asl tt) recently gen eral of the Chinese National legis lature. the past 28 years. wrote the alumni office. She said her husband Bill Dr. \\'u came to Canada in 190i as a student, Dale E . Richards, '16, and wife, the former was still in Korea a nd in the l\'larine corps artillery. studying liberal arts at Columbian coll ege at New Maysel Sanderson, '16, live at \Varren , Ore. where He hoped to be home in January or F ebruary. ]n \\'estminister, affiliated with Toronto universi ty, Mr. Richards is busy as manager for the Joe Fisher Kovember he had five day's leave and on his way \\"anting to see more of the country, he came to OSC, Hereford ranch. Thei r daughters are married to back from Japan th e pilot could hardly see to la nd. enrollin g in the schoo l of commerce for a year. Oregon Staters. Jean A nn, '44, is th e wife of The next plan e to la nd crashed . .. killing all 44 \\'hen he returned to China he became a teacher in Edward R. Griggs, '48. Mr. Griggs is F.F.A. on board. ~Ir s. l\Iorris said that she is kept busy with a normal school in Canton and a few years late r was instructor at H alway, Ore. They have three her two year old son, Gregory. 'The y liv e at 2 122 made dean of the government law school in Canton. daughters, Karen, six; Gayle, four; Ruth Ann, three. S.E. 35 Pl., Portland. For a few years he joined the Chinese national The other Richard's daughter, Eleanor, '46, is the Born assembly in a movement to uphold the constitution;:tl wife of jerry Bateman, who is now a senior in government which was violated by the Pekin govern. electrical en gi neering at OSC. They have one Painter- Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Painter (Doro­ ment. daughter nine months old . thy Ericson, '41) are the parents of baby boy, In 192-t.25 he joined with Sun Yat-Sen in the Charles Edward Painter II, born July 14, 1952 in expedition against the Pekin government. A s is well Berkeley, Cali f . The Painter's address is 2 10 Ridge­ known, S un Yat.Sen's death in 1925 General C h ai n ~ '21-'25 way Ave., Apt. A, Oakland, Calif. Ki-Shek headed this expedition. In 1928-29 Dr. \Yu R ussell M . Colwell, '23, is vice )>resident of the joined the Chinese national assembly, he took a gen­ First Nationa l Bank of Portland. '42 eral tour of Europe, America, and Canada studyi n g Dr. Frank E. R ossman, '25, wrote the alumni land programs. And it was after this tour that he office recently that: "As a g raduate of OSC, class of llfr. and ll!rs. 0. V. Chenoweth (Donna Head) returned to China to write the Chinese land law. 1925, I'm proud to report that my daughter, Trudy, and two daughters, Susan and Patty, moved to Port· Dr. \\' u visited in Moscow in 1937 asking for is n ow a freshman at our Alma M ater. She is land in July. l\'Ir. Chenoweth is with the govern­ help for China. Later, Dr. \Vu said, he discovered planning a H ome Economics major and was recently ment, :Indian Affairs, as soils s pec ialist. that the help recei ved from Russ ia was subvers ive, pledged to Delta Delta Delta sorority. Trudy grad­ Herb Ballin is now in the general insurance working not to help one cause but to overthrow the uated from Tamalpais high school, ]\[ill Valley, Calif. bu siness of \Vhee ler·Boyd and company in Portland. entire country. last June." The Rossmans live at 232 E. Blithedale l\1ajor Karl Berman recently r eturned to the U. S. In 1948 Dr. \\" u became l\linister of Lands, a Ave., l\Iill Valley, Calif. after serving in the Far East area as a reca ll ed cabinet post he held until th e communists carne in Dr. Linus Pauling, '22, was the senior installing r ese rve officer. 1949 and Xanking fell. After that he le ft for B a n g­ officer for a new chapter of Simga Xi at the Univer ­ Mac L . Fleming, now on the sta ff of the U ni ver· kok, traveled in southeaskrn A s ian countries until sity of O regon medical school. H e is a senior m embe r sity of Indiana, r epresented OSC at inaug-uration o f 1950 when he came to visit the U . S. and Canada. of Sigm a Xi's national executive committee. the new DePauw university president at Green· H e planned to return to China last year but said he "Spec" Keene, '21, OSC's athletic di rector, was castle, Ind. As the Oregon State representative, thinks things are goin g from bad to worse there. honored last November at \Vill am ette university's Fleming marched in the inaugura l procession for new " 1 seem to be s tranded here." he said. 3 1st annua l homecoming. "Spec" was \Villamette president Dr. Russel J . Humbert a long with repre­ Horace A. Cardinell ts a member of the 1\Iichigan coach from 1926 to 1943 . H e coached footb a ll, basket­ sentatives from 2 15 othe r coll eges and universities. State College agricultural exten s ion service ifl horti­ ball , and baseba ll. 0 . C. W heeler was rece nty promoted from sulphite culture and has gone to Brazil to carry out ]?oi nt Mr. and l\Irs. W illiam Evans (Alice Kidder , '24) mill shift foreman to a ss istant superintendent in Four assistant in that country. a re living at 201 llighland avenue in lthica, N .Y. charge of sc reening, stock segr egation, wet room, R. Earl Riley, '11, who became a Packard dealer kamyr, filter plant and water supply for the Camas, four years ago after leaving the Portland mayor's \\'ash. division of the Crown Zellerbach mill. Wheele r office is new president of the Autornotobile Dealers '31-'35 has held positions in the mill as technical department A ssociation of Porliand. W arren 0 . Gibson, '35, was recently elected 19 53 h elper, test e r, junior chemist, technical assistant to s ulfi te mill shift for eman. \ \ ' hee ler, hi s wife a nd D ied chairman of the H awaii a n sectio n , Association of Agricultural Engineers. H e is head of the depart­ one daughter live at 392 Hidgeway, Camas, \ Vaslt. Tooley- ;\Irs. Joy Tooley (Joy M ason, '14) died ment o f indstruial en g in eering of the Ewa Sugar recently in her home near The Dalles. She was 6 1 Plantation company. years old . She is survived by her husband, a The a lumni office received a letter from Ruth E . '43 daughter, and a brother. W arnke, '33. She is at \Vashington State College. )frs. Donald Turnham, (Dawn Dunton, '43) Her address is P.O. Box 183 , College Station, wrote the alumni office recently. She is working Pullman, \Vash. Ruth sa id she has met several three days a week at l\feie r and Frank company '16-'20 Oregon Staters in the short time that she has been at in l)ortland. D on is a chemist in cha r ge of the )fr. and ~Ir s. ] . M. Smith (Pearl Gates, '16) Pullman. She said: "I have met a couple of OSC laboratory at Swift and company's north Portland recently sold their ranch and are now at home at grads while here, a nd one of the girls in Davis H a ll , plant. They have three girls: Judy, 9!; J oan, 7 ; 206 North 30th in Corvalli s. of which I am head counselor, spent severa l years Kathy, 4.

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to the ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

or PHYSICIST

with experience in Hughes Research and Develop­ RADAR ment Laboratories, one of the Robert L. Jensvold, '52, has been recently nation's leading electronics commissioned with the rank o( Ensign, U. S. or organizations, are now creating Coast Guard Reserve, after successful com­ a number of new openings in pletion of an intensive four month cou rse at an important phase of their the Coast Guard academy at r ew London, ELECTRONICS operations. Conn . He was graduated from OSC with a degree in forestry and he en li sted in the Coast Guard on January 24, 1952. Ensign ,, Jensvold is now on active duty. ' ' , ' , , ' ' , Food Packer-a national magazine in the ' , , food industry-featured Professor E. H. ' ' , Weigand as Man-of-the-Month in its No­ ' vember issue. Using his picture on the Here is what one of these positions offers you : cover and a f ull page story the magazine paid tribute to Ernest H. Wiegand at Ore­ gon State College. "The guest list of this famous Oregon T HE C OMPA NY T H E T RAINING Hughes representative at a scienti st looks like a gazetteer of faraway Hughes Research and De­ On joining our organiza­ military base in this coun­ places or a compi lation of names drawn velopment Laboratories, tion, you will work in the try or overseas (single men from Who's Who in the world of food pro­ located in Southern Califor­ Laboratories for several only). Compensation is cessing. P rofessor Wiegand has a distin­ nia, are presently engaged months to become thor­ made for traveling and moving household effects, gui shing history," is the reader's introduction in the development and oughly familiar with the production of advanced equipment which you will and married men keep their to the story of "How did Ernest H. Wie­ families with them at all gand get there?" radar systems, electronic later help users to under­ computers and guided stand and properly employ. times. The article was written by Jo Roach, re­ missiles. If you have already had search assistant in the Food Technology radar or electronics experi­ YOUR FUTURE Department, at the request of the magazine THE NEW OPENINGS ence, you will find this ed itor. It tells the story of Wiegand and the In one of these positions The positions are for men knowledge helpful in your you will gain all-around ex­ contribution of Oregon State's Food Tech­ who will serve as technical new work. perience that will increase nology department to the training of stu­ advisors to government your value to our organiza­ dents for the food industry and to th e agencies and companies WHERE YOU WORK tion as it further expands in g rowth of the food processing industry in purchasing Hughes equip­ After your period of train­ the field of electronics. The the Northwest. ment-also as technical con­ ing-at full pay-you may next few years are certain to sultants with engineers of ( 1) remain with the Labor­ see large-scale commercial other companies working atories in Southern Califor­ employment of electronic '46 on associated equipment nia in an instructive or systems. Your training in administrative capacity, (2) Marshall Turner is director of the Escuela de Your specific job would be and familiarity with the Ingenieria Forestal of the Universidad de los Andes essentially to help insure become the Hughes repre­ most advanced electronic in ~Ierida, Venezuela. He recently accompanied five successful operation of sentative at a company techniques now will qualify graduates of the 1952 class on a tour of North Hughes equipment in the where our equipment is be­ you for even more impor­ American forestry scenes. They spent three days at field. ing installed, or (3) be the tant future positions. the Tropical Forest Experiment station in Rio Pied­ ras, Puerto Rico. Two of the g raduates remained there to work a year in silviculture and forest recrea­ tion. Visits were made with the other three graduates to New York City, School of Forestry at Yale Uni­ How to apply: versity, pulp and paper lab of the University of 1\{aine, headquarters of the United States Forest ,•, Service in \Vashington, D.C. the Southeastern Ex­ , , ' ' ' perimental station in Ashville, N. C., and the Forest ;~, I ', Products laboratory in :Madison, \\'isc. One student , ' ' remained at each of the last named places to work , , ' ' a year for experience. \Vith the last graduate, the , ' tour ended in Portland, where the ti mber structures plant was visited. The Oregon Forest Products lab HUGHES If you are under thirty-five and the School of Fore~try were also visited. This RESEARCH AND years of age, and if you have last student will remain in Oregon for six months an E.E. or Physics degree, with timber structures and the forest service. :Mar· DEVELOPMENT LABORAT ORI E S shall returned to Venezuela after visiting in Los write to the Laboratories, giving Angeles and 1\fiami. His wife (Joan Lowry) and Engineering Personnel Department resume of your experience. two sons, ~far~hall Reed 11 and Stephen Alan, ag~s Culver City, Assurance is required that four and two, are visiting with her parents, :\1 r. and }.Irs. R. \\'. Lowry, in Inglewood, Calif., and Los Angeles County, California relocation of the applicant will return to Venezuela in Decemher. will not cause disruption of Eleanor Richards Bateman is living in Corvallis an urgent military proiect. (Colllimtcd on page 19) • • THE O REGO N STATER JANUARY 1953 Page 15 India's Problems Concern Stater More Than 37 Years of

(Above) t h e s up e rvisor d ir e cts b read preparation u s ing smokeless s t ove and (right) scientific farming b y the " d irty Service hand" method. REGO STATERS have traveled far soon be seeing many new tube wells in well 0 and wide over the earth in their chosen cultivated fields, many new power lines and to occupations but few have probably had more then an area of sand dunes. There in the interesting work than Elizabeth Currie, '27. sand dunes is the United Christian Schools. Elizabeth was graduated in vocational edu­ But those sand dunes are being subdued. No cation with a major in physical education and longer do we laughingly call ourselves the OREGON a minor in home economics. She is, at pres­ United Christian Sandhills. The school acres ent, in charge of the Girls' High section of are being cultivated. The United Christian Schools, Jullundur City, Goal Is Leadership Punjab, India . STATE Miss Currie came to India in 1932 under The aim of the school, which was set up the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions through the combined efforts of the American and has done both rural work and girls' school Presbyterian and the Methodist missions, was work in the meantime. She says she is very to train Christian children from villages and much interested in helping to develop leaders economically handicapped homes along the for the rural church in the Punjab. best educational, vocational and religious lines. The goal was for the more efTective lay and She isn't too alone either because M. L. ordained leadership in the Church of the "Mac" Kumler, '41, was there from 1944 to Punjab. 1947 and now Kaz Kawata '49, and his wife The present site near J ullundur was finally Marian Sammis Kawata '49, and their young selected. This included good land, sweet wa­ son, David Gordon Kawata, '73, are there. ter, electricity, main road, a nearby railway Kas will eventually be supervising construc­ station and easy access to a large Christian tion and working on school and village sani­ community. The government education de­ tation problems and Marian and David will partment he lped to acquire the land because have the projected nursery school as their re­ even then they were interested in this type sponsibility. of school for the Punjab. The land of this Has Good Lan d site is a good sandy loam and was really on ly available because there was no provision on But now in her own words let Elizabeth it for irrigation . osc Currie tell you of their job in The United In 1944 the Boys high school was started Christian Schools, Jullundur City, Punjab, across the road from this site and in 19-l.'i India. we took possession of this land. On it there Jullundur is an old town. Since partition is room for accommodation for 700 boarders, the population has doubled and Jullundur is school farm, orchard, dairy arid poultry, work­ Cooperative becoming a "city" in something more than shops and crafts buildings as well as exten­ name. Situated on the sub-montane alluvial sion service center. plain of the Punjab, it is surrounded by good farm land. The farmers of this area are more Girls Are Next alert to progress than those in some parts Girls Town is the only part of the outfit of the world. The great upheaval of the par­ that can still be cal led the United Christian Association tition has helped to tear some of the ties with Sandhills. That will be developed in the next the past and they are willing to adopt new step. In the meantime SO high school girls Memorial Union ways. try to squeeze into the hostel in Jullundur If you drive out of Jullundur on the Grand City bui lt more than a hundred years ago for Trunk Road, going north and west, you will boys.

Page 16 THE OREGON STATER JANUARY 1953 Our girls arc in the ninth and tenth program is undertaken. Tt should he pointed students who desire to prepare themsci\'CS classes with about 15 in the special Engli sh out however that no two cases arc identical for speech correction work. These courses , class. These gi rl s either failed in English and procedures vary somewhat. a long with other speech courses, partially in the eighth class or did not take that exam­ Various types of speech deviations arc meet the requirements for ce rtifi ca ti on by ination. The "Middle" schoo l girl s are in treated at th e OSC clini c. Currentl y the the Stale Department of Education. schools in Ambala City, Hoshiarpur and His­ speech deviant is classified, basically, in sar. '1/1/c have the largest group of Christian cit her the organic or functional (emotional) boys and girls in high school classes of any category, regardless of the way in which the school in the Punjab, India. We usually send speech problem manifests itself. up the largest group of Ch ri stian young peo­ Perhaps th e largest number of speech pl e for the matriculation examination of the devian ts fall into th e classification of articu­ l'unjab University. latory di sonler s. Such probl ems as li spin g, Preparing their ow n meals and caring for cleft-palate speech, hard of hea ring speech, their own hostels a nd classrooms is part of and foreign accent speech, arc among the the training of om young people in "sclf­ common problems of articulation. Aphonia snflicicncy." The boys are given opportuni­ (inabil it y to produce voice), cerebral palsy ties for training in agriculture and weaving, speech, delayed speech, and dysphonia (a 238 S. 2nd P h. 3-3631 iron work, and eli fT erent technical jobs. The symboli c disturbance) arc less well known, girls' course in domestic economy (as the hut represent some of the most chall engin g Corvallis university ca ll s it) is the only one offered in cases that confront the clinician. Stuttering, any high school in the province. Home science perhaps, is the most widely known speech and health education we offer the girls. disorder. The therapeutic procedures vary Our equipment is meagre and a person depending on the type of speech deviation, trained in domestic science at home feels lost and th e undertaking by the cli ent of therapy For in our situati on. But improvisation has clone docs not assure alleviation of th e speech wonders and we continu e to improve. problem. Some of our girl s get married, some be­ Perhaps the g rea tes t problem, oth er than PRINTING come teachers and more become nurses. It is th e alleviation of thei r speech dilticulty, that thrilling to have seen some of these boys and the speech deviants face is one of social O F ANY KIND girl s in their village homes and then in school. ambarrassment. This is parliculat·ly true of COME T O US One gi rl , the youn gest ch ild of an illitaerate the stutterer, si nce hi s problem is heightened coupl e, did very well in high school and has hy, and more easi ly noticed in social con tacts. gone on to nurses training. She is doing • Publications Because of our desire to be helpful, or some­ well there too because she is an intelligent • S tationery times because of impatience, in conversation girl and is really interested in becoming a with a stutterer, we supply a word, or avoid • Programs nurse. he ·wants to go back to her village looking at them. Rather than helping them, a nd run a dispensary for people who have no • O ffice Forms we are only increasing the embarrassment medical care. Her village is at the end of a sanel y track with little com muni cation with th e they feel and adding pressure to an already outside world. diflicut situation. The calm acceptance of the difficulty that the st utterer is having in talk­ ing- to us can do much to help th em. ln addition to handling cases in the clini c, Speech Therapy at OSC Mr. Krueger also teaches courses in speech pathology and speech clinical practices for (Colllillurd from page 3) If the student's speech docs deviate suffi­ 1555 Monroe St . cientl y, he is encouraged to enroll in th e Corvallis, O regon clinical course. At the beginning of therapy, he is given an oral and aural physical exam­ T-BONE ination. His voice is recorded, an audio­ B E V E RAGES p~uuu, 3-8615 metric test is g-iven, and pertinent back­ Go r do n an d M ary, P ro prietors g round information is coll ected. If a diag­ 122 S. 2n d Corvallis nosis is possible at thi s point, the ret rainin g

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THE OREGO N STATER JANUARY 1953 Page 17 by Jo R oach N clson, Paul ]{i tcher, Eva Seen, Gordon l\fost of them agreed to come back for Food Technology Department (;ilkey, Glenn Bakkum, Fred Shideler, Mar­ another experimental run on taste testing, garet Fincke, Herb Sinnard, George Cox, pitting their taste buds against the smug N Tll E premise that "the proof of the D. E. Bulli s, and Warren Hovland joi ned whi teness of mashed [Jo1a1oes. A nd by 0 pudding is in the eating," the Food members of the ir stafT in the "Operation tasting, they will be contributing va luable Technology department called in 286 staff Taste Test." Even Arnold Ebert and Gladys data to the cooperative research project. members and students to taste test. And Chambers from KOAC came over to gel in Statistician Dr. Jerry Li has gathered the from every corner of the campus-Educa­ the show. They all scratched their heads 286 ballots to put them into a pattern which tion Hall to Withycombe-a stream of curi­ over scoring the five samples, and berated tells a story about the taste sensitivity of ous tasters came for the new experience. their tasting ability vigorously. a good portion of the OSC stafT. Despite Two full days-December 11 and 12-werc And on down to the coffee room, the con­ the reality of hi s answe1·'· "a good time was car-marked for the operation . versations continued about the relative sa lti­ had by all" in the nove l ma's taste testing These volunteers were called to partici­ ness of the potato samples. experience. pate in an important research project in which fi\·e departments arc cooperating­ Horticulture, Entomology, Plant Pathology, Agricultural Chemistry and Food Technol­ ogy. The Food Technology staff has been 'Tater' Testers taste testing a variety of Oregon-grown fruits and vegetables four times a day since early fall. But in order to get a broader pattern of taste semitivity on flavor difTcrences, the inner sanctum of the taste test booths were opened to the OSC family . With faint re­ semblance to the courtesy in a doctor's office or the Red Cross blood bank, a receptionist ushered each volunteer into the waiting room, prior to receiving instructions and a ballot for scoring the food samples. Then, seated alone in one of the six iso­ lated taste test booths, each volunteer was faced with a glass, a spoon and five colored -...... paper cups filled with mashed potatoes. After tasting the five samples and evaluat­ ing them for differences in saltiness, he emerged from the booth, wondering if he had ranked them correctly. The reactions were varied: "I like mo1·c salt. I don't like salt at all. I think the pink cup had the most salt, don't you, and the white cup, the least? Ah, they're just fooling; all the samples were the same! I Tater testers in mass experiment by Food Techno lo g y department are di shed u p don't like potatoes anyway." spuds and must distinguish degree o f differenc e. Second pict ure shows taster Deans Dan Poling and Mary Bash, de­ reaching f o r his mashed p o tatoes from his little booth . Most testers ca me a w ay partment heads Henry Hartman, Herbert with r emarks like: " When are they going t o e xperime n t o n so m e thing rea lly good."

FRIENDS OF LIBRARY

(Continued fro /II page 8) mouth, a special memorial book plate was inspect. Jt is the hope of the Friends 1hat Burrell, also of Portland, of some 4,000 developed and since then numerous memorial this annual library clay, in conjunction '' ith volumes valued at approximately $6,000, books have been placed in the library, Mothers Week-end, will become an OSC largely given during her lifetime, in memory amounting in one recent year, to more than tradition. of Norva_l Craigie Carnic, OSC '17, the be­ $1,700. Altogether memorial books, to a Remember the L ibra r y quest of Mrs. Burrell's residual estate, not value of more than $4,600, have been placed We like to th ink that om entire alumni yet settled, hut with a probable cash value in the library. Included in this amount is a family constitutes, in an informal and la rger of ten to twelve thousand doll ars, and more Porter, Jr. The plan grew by word of way, a Friends of the Library group. We recently the professional landscape archi­ gift of $285 coming to us from a Southern sincerely hope that all our students leave us tecture library of the late A. D. Taylor, of California alumnus as a result of an article with a friendly feeling for the library and CleYeiand, Ohio, consultant on the OSC on the Friends appearing in the Oregon with its welfare at heart. By thinking of our campus plan and landscaping. The Taylor Stater in March, 1950. All alumni arc invited library, when books or other property is co llection, valued at $7,000 by Professor to use this memorial book plan as an approp­ being disposed of, either by themselves or by Martel of the Landscape Architecture De­ riate, dignified and lasting way of honoring others, members of the alu mni group can be partment, when added to the substantial deceased friends and relatives. an important factor in the further clcvclop­ holdings the library already has in this field The Friends also sponsor and promote a ment and strengthening of the library and gives the Library one of the strongest land­ student personal library contest each spring. through it, of Oregon State College. I l is scape architecture libraries on the Coast. Awards totaling $100, donated by the Co-op conceivable that such alumni interest may Bookstore, arc made to the winning libraries, some clay bring us gifts as important and Memorial B ook Pla n and student winners are guests of the outstanding as those which have been re­ One successful program sponso red by the Friends at the a nnual banquet. This contest ceived by the libraries of some other state Friends is the Memorial Book P lan through is gaining increasing student participation supported university and college Iibrarie.:;. which books are placed in the library in and some very fine libraries have been en­ \'-/hether this transpires or not \\·e want the memory of deceased faculty members, stu­ tered. For the past two years this pcn:onal alumni to know that we deeply Yaluc their dents and Friends. This plan was begun in library contest and the annual Friends ban­ friendship and goodwill and that the facili­ 19..(3 by D. W. Porter of Palo Alto, Calif. quet has been timed to precede ::\fothcrs ties of the library are always at their dis­ with a gift of $100 for the purchase of Week-end so that the student libraries will posal, either through the mails or by visit to books 111 memory of his son Durham W. be on display for the visiting Mothers to the library.

P age 18 THE OREGON STATER JANUARY 1953 Dr. and Mrs. Mack G. W oodward ( Ruth Curry) 1\!r. and Mrs. Thomas ]. Barbour (Ruth 1\Iell­ are now living in Palmer, Alaska. 1tiack has go ne bye) a re living al 4738 S. E. l\Iitchell in Portland. Morrice Kaegi Dies into gene ral practice there starting December l. In Dean L . Still has been appointed school treasurer addition to their 19 month old daugter, J a net, the at Jefferson high in Portland. Dean said that " lots \Voodwards are taking with them their newest daugh. of OSC g rads now at Jeff. Tom DeSylvia, ' 50; ter, Karen Thiarie, born October 24, 1952. Harry Richards, '49; Shirley W yss, '51; Roy Malo, Another cou ple outside of the U . S. is Mr. and '47." Mrs. Allen Carter. 1\Irs. Carter is the former Horace Doust is manager of the \Vesten Coop Patricia Mitchell. The Aliens have been setting Hatcheries at Kent, \\'asl1. He recently attended up and operating a chemical laboratory in Felton, the convention of Associated F~dera.tion of Poultry Cuba, since last August. The laboratory is for the and H atcherymen in San F rancisco. United States Bureau of )lines. George Hube r is now working for the National Earl C. Reynolds is employed at the B oise, Idaho, Bureau of Standards in Corona, Calif. J[i s address branch of the Corvalli s en g ineering firm of Cornell, is 10 56 Ford S t. , Corona, Calif. Howland, H ayes and 1\Ierryfield. Glen Kerrebrock was recently comm iss ion ed as 1\Ir. and 1\Irs. Ray Hansen (Edna R ytting) and 2nd Lt. in the Air Force stationed at Lackland Air daughter Deborah Ray are now living in Rexburg, Force base, San Antonio, Texas. lie was employed Idaho. by Boeing Airplane company engineering depart· Carolyn A. Wacker is now Carolyn \\'. l\Ioon ment before joining t he Air Force early in 1951. and is living at 2 11 6 30th St., Sacramento, Calif. Glen is now stationed at Chanute AFB, ]llinois. Born Reiman Mr. and 1\Irs. Hobert R eiman (Jean '50 Smith) had their fourth son , Tl10mas Allan, on Oc· ] ames Rodgers recently transferred from the m e· tober 12, 1952. They live in Corvalli s. chanica! en gineerin g section to the product en g ineer­ ing section at the \Veyerhaeuser's development ce n · M arried ter at Longview, \Vaslt. Gerber-Cushman- Alice Gerber became the bride Cal Curtz is the own er of the Electric Lunch on of Kenneth Cushman recently in a wedding at ihe l\fonroe street in Corvallis. Cal rtcently remodeled First 1\fethodist church in Portland. ~Ir. Cushman the "L." was graduated from Northwestern unive rs it y in Evanston, 111. H e is employed as farm editor of the Albany Democrat-Herald in Albany, Ore. Morrice C. Kacgi, '20, died December 12 SUNNYBROOK DAIRY in Portland. He was born February 6, '48 1898. Grade "A" Alex Petersen is now head football coach at Mr. Kaegi had been active in Oregon Southern Oregon College of Education at Ashland, Stale College afTairs since his graduation Ore. Petersen was a star forward on the Beaver's Dairy Products from the school of pharmacy. He had last PCC championship basketball team and at SOC£ he wi II assist the basketball squad. operated his own pharmacy in Portland The ] . S. O livers (Beverly Withers) a r e still [or many years. In 195 1 he was p::-esident living in \Vhittie r, Calif. Hroace Doust, '49, and o[ the OSC Dad's Club. H e was also presi­ fami ly of Kent, \Vash., recently visited them. dent of the OSC Federati on. His two sons, Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Griggs (Jean Ann Richards, '44) are living at H alfway, Ore. Ed is John and Richard, graduated in 1950 and FFA instructor. They have three daughters, Karen, FLOWERS 1952 respectively. six; Gayle, four ; Ruth Ann, three. For All Occasions Born Pallay-Mr. and Mrs. Hal Pallay a re the parents Blum Candy Shipped Anywhere Mrs. McCoy Retires of a second son, Mark Alan. They live in Portland. 1\Irs. Pallay was formerly Phyllis S haver, '5 1. Mrs. Bess Jackson McCoy, known to Married thousands of alumni fo r her work in the Hodapp-Pachin-Mary Elizabeth H odapp was MATT MATHES, Flowers registrar's office, retired from campus work married to John Pachin in Portland on November December 11 after 29 yea rs. 15, 1952. John is a ser geant in the Air Force. They live in \Vashington, D. C., where John is stationed. 2013 Monroe Mrs. McCoy sta rted work at OSC in the They drove back to \Vashington through California, Coop Bookstore in 1918 and stayed there Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, and up the for five years before transferring to the eastern seaboard to the capital. W est-Norris-A. L. Norris o f Yakima, \VasiL, registrar's office in 1923. H er job there was married Fern H. W est on May 10, 1950. Mr. Nor­ as clerk where she made all public contacts ris is employed as weed speciali st at the \Vasliington Tops in QUALITY with that office and students and facu lty. State department of agriculture with offices located She was the expert on the rules and regula­ at Yakima. tions of the College catalogue. '49 Mrs. McCoy spent the Ch ri stmas holidays DuBois with her daughter in Fullerton, Calif. She 1\lr. and Mrs. Charles Hefty (Christina Trapalis, 'SO) are now living in their new home that they re· will return to Co rvalli s in mid-January, cently purchased. They live at 4060 Earl Avenue. Cleaners, Tailors, seeking employment in a non-college job. 1\fr. a nd Mrs. Stuart W ells (Lucille Heesacker) She is a past matron of the Co rvalli s are living in Forest Grove. Their address is Ih. 2, Box 160 B, Forest Grove, Ore. & Furriers Eastern Star and for years was active with Mr. and 1\frs. Donald Allison (Goldie Dumas) the Rainbow girl s. She is past president of a re living in Portland. Goldie is recreation director Roisen Bldg. and the Corvallis Business and Professional for Portland park bureau. Her husband is in the Next t o Whiteside Theater Womens club. At present she is stale radio sales department of the National Biscuit company. chairman of the O regon Federation of the They were married September 6, 1952. BPWC.

while her husband, Jerry, finishes his senior work in electrical engineering. They have one daughter, nine month old Jerrie Ann. HOLMAN'S RESTAURANT M a rried Allen-Robocker- November 15, 1952 was the date of marriage of Cathryn Jean Allen to Eugene E. Robocker of Creston, Mont.

'47 119 S. 3rd St. Corvallis, Oregon In Japan is Lt. and Mrs. Lanar Coverston (Jean Royse). They live near Tokyo. Jean wrote that "A good place to eat" they can see rice pacldies out their back door. She said the only things in Japan that are more abundant Lenn & Miriam Macpherson Holman than rice are children and dogs. Jean said they would be returning to the U. S. thi s spring.

THE OREGON ST AT E R JANUARY 1953 P age 19 1/owers by Leading Floral Co. Brent Nyden, '48 Clyde Plants, '47 By Lucile Davis, '53 458 Madison St. Phone 3-3424 ORE THA ' ISO chi ldren from the honorary; and Alpha Delta Sigma, na tional ..1.M Corvallis Chi ldren's Farm Home were men's advert ising honorary. H e gave tips entertained by the women of Waldo hall at to the journalists on writing materi al es­ their annual Christmas party. After a tour peciall y fo r the Pacific coast. Two forme r th rough the hall the children returned to a O regon Staters, J an john son, '5 1, and Lou CORVALLIS HARDWARE loun ge decora ted as "Candy Cane Lane" for Seibert, '52, a re currentl y employed in th e their party. Games, entertainment, refresh­ home economics division of the magazine's 137 S. 3rd, Corvallis ments, and presents from a Corvallis Santa .Men lo Park, Calif., headquarters. Claus added brightness to the day for the * * * * * * OFFE R S fami lyless little chi lei ren. The fourth annual presentation of T HE F OLLOWING SALE S * * * * * * Handel's "Messiah" was given just be­ AND S E RVI CES : A safety congress, which is the center fore Christmas time in Gill coliseum. of a state-wide safety drive being con­ The two-hour musical was presented Frigidaire ducted by the secretary of state's office by the Oregon State college music de­ Hardware-Appliances over the Christmas holidays, was held partment and was directed by Robert Walls, chairman of the music depart­ Plumbing-Heating on the OSC campus recently. "United Effort-Effective Action" was the slo­ ment. For the first time choristers Electrical Supplies gan for the first annual Oregon coordin­ from Corvallis, Albany, and the a cap­ Housewares-Dishes ated congress. The goal of the two-day pella choir and college chorus of OSC took part in the program, making a Radio-Television session was to develop methods of re­ ducing the Oregon holiday accident toll. total of more than 300 voices in the Sporting Goods ****** group, to tell the musical story of Dupont Paints The de l'aur in fan try chorus, returning Christ's life. to the campus for its thi rd engagement, ****** drew a crowd of over 3000 students and A student leadership seminar has been townspeople. As on previous occasions, the made available to O regon State studen ts in­ music was excell ent and the selections were terested in receiving leaders hi p traini ng. received en th us iastica ll y. The program in­ T he sem ina r may be taken as an accredited cluded songs by contemporary composers, two-hour course. P rerequ isites fo r the folk songs from Latin America, songs from seminar requi re that each student must he CHOOSE vVorld \11/ar J I, ?\egro spirituals and work in a definite leadership position on the cam­ songs, and songs of faitb . Outstanding ar­ pus, or be looking for\\'a rd to such a posi­ rangements hy the director, L eona rd de tion in the fut ure. OSC is one o[ the few "AN OREGON BANK I'a1n·, added new color to th e fam il ia1· songs. schools in the Unit ed States that ofTen; such an acnedit ed l eade r ~d 1 i p course. ****** T he students sel up the cu rriculum f01· SERVING OREGON" The story of Oregon State's unique the course \\'hich is di rected by M rs. T racy women's pistol team has received wide­ Johnson, M.U. program consult ant , and Dr. for e'rery banlclng need spread attention. Included in the Assoc­ E . \ A/ . Warrington, professor emeritus of iated Press N ewsfeature, mailed to all philosophy and religion. The class pe ri ods its papers in the nation, was a three­ consist of discussions led by students. Each f column picture and a story on the one presents an analysis of hi s particul a r " pistol packin' coeds." Four attractive leaders hi p position and a special 1·e port on IIANCHU THROUGHOUT OREGON members of the team are included in a part icu lar phase of leade rshi p. T he in­ the photo. The story points out the fact terest shown by both students ami facu lty that the OSC women's pistol team is members seems to indicate that the sem ina 1· ~ the only one of its kind in the country. gives va luabl e trai ni ng to Oregon State The OSC news bureau prepared the campus leaders. UNITED STATES story and photographs for the AP. ****** ****** The Portland Symphony Orchestra, L. W ill iam Lane, .I L , advert ising manager under the direction of James Sample, NATIONAL BANK of Sumet magazi ne, was guest speaker at a paid its annual visit to Gill coliseum AN OREGON lANK SERVING OREGON journalism luncheon meeting in the Me­ this term. Highlighting this year's morial Union tearoom recently. Lane spoke concert was the " Grand Canyon Suite" M.ernber federal Deposit lnurance Corporatlo• to a joint meeting of Sigma Delta Chi, na­ by Ferde Grofe. More than 5000 spec­ tional men's journalism honorary; Theta tators thrilled to the orchestral suite > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 D 0_ !1_0 Sigma Phi, national women's jou rnali sm describing in sound some of the scenes and atmosphere which Grofe observed during a visit to the Grand Canyon. Also worthy of comment was the "Rus­ LEW BROADBENT MOTORS tic Wedding Symphony" by Carl Gold­ e~-Pt,HUUdlt. mark which comprised the first half of the program. The suite described mu­ Telephone 3-411 4 3rd and Monroe sically the festivities connected with a Middle-European country wedding.

Page 20 THE OREGON STATER JANUARY 1953 Plans arc being laid for this year's In­ cecdcd by f, reside discussions in campus ternational Week to center the spotlight on living g roups to generate more widespread a cu ltural and sociological view of the in­ interest for the week's activ iti es. These GORDON HARRIS ternat ional scene. Members of the planning events will include an all-school convoca­ Men 's Wear committee feel that a program of this type tion, an international banquet, movies, lec­ will present a new and refreshing facet of A Store for Student Men international life to Oregon State's essen­ tures, forum discussions, and an interna­ tially technical campus. The week is sched­ ti onal dance to depict th e international A rrow Shirts uled for ea rl y next term, ami will be pre- theme with a cultural fla\'Or. Lord Jeff Sweaters Hart Schaffner & Marx Pendleton Sports Wear Wellsher Bldg. Madison between 4th and Sth HARMONY AT 80 Corvallis

CHfVROLfl OLDSrTIOBILf Sales - Repairs Service O'TOOLE MOTOR CO. John Starr, class of 1891, back left, and fellow O ctogenarians. 244 N. 2nd Phone 3-6641 Corvallis, O re. By all laws of nature it should take young a life of hurry, worry, and personal ex­ men to do all the bustling around that the pense, for people at large don't sloJl to Octogenarians do. Yet the four men over think, when they request us to give them a 80 keep on harmonizing in what they call few numbers, that we come to practice the World's Oldest Active Male Quartette. twice each week w ith one of our members And the first tenor of thi s outstanding li ving 25 miles from Eugene. group from Eugene is an Oregon Stater, John says that "In time this organization class of 189 1, with the name of John H. will necessarily be compel led to change, for There's convenient and com­ Starr. time won't wait and we won't be able to plete banking service for John Starr was born on a ranch one mil e keep singing forever unless we gel a pro­ you at the First Corvallis from Monroe, O re., on September 12, 1870 . motion, reaching that eternal home where In 1881 he came to Corvalli s and la ter en­ singing won't be an occupation but a real Bank. Branch located at tered college in the pre-coll ege department pleasure." Philomath. in 1886 and began his work for his degree With all this activity John sti ll claims he in 1887. has littl e to do except "to lean back in an After coll ege came a siege of wandering easy chai r and enjoy li fe with the wife who through newspaper, hotel management, and took a chance at living with me after my catering to the public. 'In November of wife died in 1940. This new wife is well 189 1 j ohn married Alice Hayes, daughter known in Co r valli s as Martha S loc um , th e of the then master of the state grange. She mother of a good fami ly, the younger part FIRST CORVALLIS died four years later. consisting of some 11 great-grandchildren. After her death John was a bookkeeper John philosophizes about the West as he and dabbled in press cor respond ence for a looks back over his long li fe. "I have seen BANK g roup of Oregon newspapers during sessions this great West come out of its shell and of the Oregon legislature. He later married get going, so that other parts of the coun­ Afli/iated with 'orah Copenhaver in 1901. Later his work try have been glad to follow in its new foot­ The First Na tional Bank changed to a representative of the Modern steps. It has come out of the mud, shinin g Woodmen of America for 17 yea r s. In as a bright si lv er dollar, while the little of Portland 1920 he entered the service of the treasury cities have come into fu ll bloom, making department and later transferred to the some of the towns in the East and Midwest posta l se rvice from which he was separated look to their laurels. Yes, the \Vest is all Member Federal Deposit in 1935 because of the 65 age limit. American and bel ieves in the ideals of our Insurance Corporation John is a member of the I OOF, member forefathers. Therefore I am an American." of the Modern Woodmen of America, a past department commander of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and sec­ 0 . S. C. Faculty and Student Body retary of the Retired U. S. Civil Employees. etuUM~J KINGWELL AGENCY In 1950 John became eligibl e fo r mem­ bership in the "Octogenarians of Eugene, H O MES, FARMS, BUSINESS Oregon the world's oldest, active, 135 S. Second Corvallis Phone 3-3629 ma le quartette." John says, "Here began

THE O REG O N STATER JANUARY 1953 Pa~e 21 There is another tremendous field for ser­ My Job in India vice in learning and popularizing the best (C ontinurd from page 13) methods of g rowi ng a nd usi ng them. glected, both in research and in leaching, Trained men in this subject arc very few in and ,-cry little material was in print. With India, and we arc anxious to add to our 133 N. 3rd Corvallis what information I could gather, I started staff a good man in this field, whether I n­ to teach. Cradually my notes grew, and as dian or foreign. Know anyone who would no suitable textbook was available, in 1945 like the job? 1 published one, Fruit Crowing in India. The government has hccn slow in recog­ Your Campus Headquarters The small first edition was sold out a couple nizing the importance of fruit and vege­ of years ago, and the paper shortage has tables in feeding the country, partly be­ held up the vublication of a revised edition cause there has been so much said about which may be out by the end of 1952. The their mineral and vitamin content that peo­ fact that in order to contain the new infor­ ple forget that they often produce much mation which has been published, it will be more carbohydrate per acre than do the about half again as long as the original, is grains on which the government is laying evidence of the increased interest in horti­ emphasis. Our Horticultural Society o[ in the M.U. culture in recent years. India has been trying to educate the govern­ M a ngo the Best ment on this subject, but so far with on ly Oregon State College partial success. The fruits I have been working with arc India and the world have finally awakened not those of Oregon. Perhaps most im­ Hours 7 :30-10 :30 to the fact that there is a serious f ooCf prob­ portant locally is the guava, which like a lem in this country. We are grateful for number of our fruits, came originally from the aid being given hy TCA, and for the tropical America. The mango is grown all fine character and ability of the America n over ] ndia and is generally considered our experts now serving in this country. Rut it he,;t fruit, and one of the most delicious in is too had that it took actual [amine, and the world. \1\'c have a large number of the threat of sp reading communism, to make citrus fruits, including some without Eng­ people aware o[ the need. Generations ear­ lish names. Not all do equally well, but I lier Christians, interested in men as men, would put up our grapefruit against any in not just as pollical pawns, realized that pov­ the world. The banana does not do as well erty and inadequate food stood in the way here as in Bengal and the south, nor does of a full life, and gradually, with thcit· li m­ the pineapple. The papaya produces large ited means, began to do something about it. crops of delicious fruit, beginning a year It is a satisfaction to be part of one of the or 18 months after the seed is sown . A institutions which are helping to !

Oregon State alumni and graduates of the University of Oregon gathered together Since 1884 . Friday night, November 21, in the Rose Bowl Room of the Multnomah hotel in Port­ land for the first combined rally ever held NOLAN'S before the traditional "Civil War" game. Coaches hom both schools spoke and the DEPARTMENT STORE OSC marching band serenaded each school.

Corvallis, Oregon R. L. Weatherford recently died at his home in Albany. He was the son o[ one Merchandise ofQuality of the early regents o[ Oregon State and a member of a pioneer Willamette vall ey family.

Page 22 THE OREGON STATER JANUARY 1953 Promise of a golden future

Yellow uranium ore from the Colorado Plateau is helping to bring atomic wonders to you

Long ago, Indian braves made their war paint from the col­ ergy, scientists also see a vision of unkn own power-which orful sandstones of the Colorado Plateau. someday may heat and light yo ur home, and propel sub­ marines, ships, and aircraft. The Indian's war paint is on THEY USED URANIUM-Their brilliant yellows came from the march again-toward a golden future. carnotite, the important uranium-bearing mineraL Early in this cen tury, this ore supplied radium for the famous scien­ UCC TAKES AN IMPORTANT PART-The people of Union tists, Marie and Pierre Curie, and later vanadium for spe­ Carbide locate, mine, and refine uranium ore. They also cial alloys and steels. operate for the Government the huge atomic materials plants Today, this Plateau-stretching over parts of Colorado, at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Paducah, Ky., and the Oak Ridge Utah, 1ew Mexico, and Arizona- is our chief domestic ational Laboratory, where radioisotopes are made. source of uranium. Here. new communities thrive; jeeps STUDENTS and STUDENT ADVISERS: Learn more about the many and airplanes replace the burro; Geiger counters supplant fields in which Union Carbide offers career opportunities. Write for the divining rod and miner's hunch. the free illustrated booklet "Products and Processes" which de­ From hundreds of mines that are often just small tunnels scribes the various activit ies of UCC in the fields of ALLOYS, CAR­ BONS, CHEMICALS. GASES, and Plastics. Ask for booklet B-2. in the hills, carnotite is hauled to processing mills. After the vanadium is extracted, the uranium. concentrated in the form of "yellow-cake," is shipped to atomic energy plants. A NEW ERA BECKONS-What does atomic energy prom­ UNION CARBIDE ise for you? Already radioactive isotopes are working won­ AN.D CARBON CORPORATION ders in medicine, industry, and agriculture. In atomic en­ 30 EAST 42ND STREET 00 NEW YORK 17, N.Y.

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THE OREGON STATER JANUARY 1953 Page 23 DO YOU KNOW ANYONE HERE?

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