"Submerged" Wins First Prize In Salem Meet DOLAN LEADS FIVE ACTORS TO VICTORY

I 1941 Contest Awarded to Vol. XXXVI , PORTLAND, , FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1940 No. 18 Portland By Thespic I I Gathering; Four Sshools Compete in Meeting

Takmg an initial flyer into the competitive dramatic field Portland's student director Mike Dolan, senior from Detroit, Mich., led a small but able cast to first place in the state competition of the Oregon UNDERGRADS J Drive For State Minor College Histrionic As- Mathews Named sociation Tuesday at Salem, with the one-act play "Submerged" as the Log Snaps winning vehicle. DOMINATE'40 No StandGut Announced Tourney Leader No one actor stood out In the presentation but all working as a HONORGROUP At an emergency meeting Wednes- Unexpectedly called upon to play host to the National Intercollegiate team offered the Cottman and Shaw piece with polished thespianic abil- day faculty representatives and stud- Championship for District No. 2, slated for February 26-28, Portland will ity. The play, which takes approx- Crommie Highest Ranking °nt leaders together with Tony Ger- furnish eight teams with a gym and better than average competition. imately twenty minutee, deals with hard, editor of The Log, Portland Following acceptance by Portland officials of his plan to make Portland the impending fate of six men trap- Scholar in Straight "A" yearbook, decided that drastic action the host school for the district eliminations, Jean Eberhard, athletic dir- would be the sole solution for the ped in a submerged submarine some- Selection ector of Southern Oregon College of Education and chairman for District ; Seniors Earn picture situation threatening that where in the depths of the ocean. No. 2, drafted Coach Robert L. Mathews as tournament director. publication. Impossibility of rescue shows the Three of Fourteen Spots Eight Oregon schools will send teams to the three day meet. These in- Students have not responded to (Continued on Page 6) oclude Southern Oregon College of I Fourteen intellectuals were select- Gerharz's pleas to have themselves snapped and as success or failure of Education, Eastern Oregon College ed this week by Rev. Theodore J. To'i41 "t ne'•y Ch I of Education, , Mehllng, C. S. C., Dean of Studies, the annual publication is dependent upon individual pictures of the var- Oregon College of Education, Lin- SLOW PROGRESS as the cream of the Portland mental field College, Mount Angel College crop for the first half of the current ions classes it was decided by the group that punitive action would 1 and Portland. year. —e Wifiamette MADE ON HOUR Grades Basis have to be taken. No The SAC, The Log staff, and the Tre another poe- Grades are the basis for the selec- ible entrant and three time loser to Tentative plans concerning the respective class officers will make tion, each of the fourteen attaining . the Pilot aggregation voted not to Sunday Social Hour are progresing one final attempt to achieve results A grades in all subjects. Members tiend the tournament and Mult- slowly, according to Jack Hope, vice- it was announced by the group. A of the group who have received a 9 nomah College of Portland is a poe- president of the S. A. C., who pie- special meeting of the SAC was average for two consecutive semest- s:ble late entrant. In the advent sided at Monday night's meeting in called for Monday by President Jack er.s are eligible for Portland's Honor that Multnomah College's entry is the absence of Jack Shaw, president. Shaw, junior from Portland, to en- Society, highest scholastic award on ea5 accepted, Oregon College of Educa- Di:cussion of the proposed plan re- able discussion of plans for picture the campus. 1 on has consented to meet them in a vealed that the College of Nursing taking compulsion. Sophomores led in the scholastic game prior to the tournament for was ready to give material assistance race by placing six men on the rolls the eighth spot in the bracket in as to the completion of the program. but the greatest single achievement Either reciprocal hours could be - much as eight entrants facilitate went to Robert Cromnile, freshman tournament play in such a short held, one Sunday at the College of PILOT DEBATERS from Portland who received an aver- &_ time Nursing, the next Sunday on-camp- age of 97 1/3. us; or permanent establishment of , - Winner of the affair will become a List Follews ENGAGE LIN FIELD .ontender for national honors in the the hour at an as yet unnamed Following is a list of the fourteen, I ball could be made, the S. A. C. con- - Tational Intercollegiate Chaninion- the colleges in which they are en- held at KansasCity, Mo., March eluded. Permanent adoption of the rolled and grades : Freshmen—Ed- Eleven cami3iis debaters entrained Thursday 11-16. Winner of District No. 2 will plan has not been ratified by the ward McCbrystal, from Salt Lake for Linfield College to represent Portland in the annuat 1 compete against winners from the council. City, Utah, Arts and Sciences, 97; thirty-two other districts in the and Robert Crommie, from Portland, Linfield Invitationai Debate Tourna- ment. United States. Business Administration, 97 1/3; I Robert L. Mathews Three Draw Sophomores - Harry Bowlen, Arts The Pilot debaters compete with ______Sing Series forty colleges representing 130 corn- Wednesday morning Coach Math- and Sciences, 9616 ; Otto Emig, Pre- ews with George Bertz arid Harry Medics, 95 2/5; Alden Vognild, 96 1 plete teams from the entire West for /_-; the coveted trophies presented 'eeding, sports editor and sports (Continued on Page 6) by Q RATO R T I T L E Starts Soon Linfield each year. Portlanders are 0ntic on Page 6) also represented in the extempor- Next Wednesday, February 28, the aneous, impromptu, after dinner, FORENSIC PRIZE first of a series of exchange concerts Student Artists and oratorical contests held in con- I with other colleges will be held in Big junction with the actual Debate Elimination for Portlands fourth Sundial Howard Hall. Marylhurst, this year Exhibit Efforts Tournament. participation in state forensic com- as lat, will open the series. Those representing Portland in I petition will occur February 26, in the 12lub The Treble Triad of thirty-five Last week the hallway of the third cieoat.e, acorcting to kev. Charles Lee. Rose Room of Campus Commons. Feature voicee will provide the bulk of the floor in West Hall was converted into C.S.C., Debate Advisor, are: Alden The finals of the contest will be con- program. Several numbers will be an art museum when students of Vognild and Bob Hooper; HaITY rection of a campus sundial by ducted in Howard Hall before an the Engineer's Club will be compieted sung by the Marylhurst Choralists. H. E. Heywood, art instructor, Bowlen and Jim Riopelle; Francis all-college assembly thE following m the near future it is announcea A special feature wil be a scene mounted nearly thirty paintings and Walsch and Bill Donnelly; and Wednesday. from the opera 'The Bartered Bride" wood carvings as evidence of their Glenn Owens and Bill Allen. L by Jack Jennings, junior from Port- by Smetana, sung by Miss Miriam The oration contest is open to any- land, who is in charge of the project. ability. Paul Striecher, Dale Hilts, and one wishing to enter and offers three Pozzi, soprano, and Robert Soule, The sundial will be constructed tenor, freshman from Portland. Paintings were contributed by Wil Frank Perry will represent Portianl prizes for first three place winners around the flagpole. The letters, 11am Allen, Emmet Barrett, Victor in the public speaking contests. .: This series of concerts is proposed $10 first; $7.50, second; $5.00, N E. S. W. and the numerals are of Neugebauer, Ed Ritz, Marion Seid- third. to bring in the next few months ow, Frank Steinke, and Don Greiner. S. A. C. MEETING cast bronze and will be set into con- choruses from Reed, Linfield. Pacific, Twelve minute limit on the crete. The concrete will be poured Crayon drawings were made by An extraordinary session of the Willamette, and Albany colleges. speeches has been set but no word : to a depth of one foot, the outside Leonard Conway, George Harty, and SAC will be held Monday night, 8 1 limit. The series was launched last year Jack Cadwell. 3. m. All insist attend. diameter will be 20 feet and the in- by Father Dum to facilitate better First prize winner in the local ternal diameter 18 feet. Approxim- musical understanding and appre- contest will automatically win the ate weight is near 8400 pounds or ciation. award of "Portland Orator of 1939- I 4.2 ton. - . 1940," and v.'ill represent the insti- -_ I U I I 0 IVI B 0 P [ N F B LI U I L L L V tution in the state contest to be held - shortly after the local finals. Placement Unit By Gordon Littig irnately $6000000000, junk dealers SefllOT.c------'-. Propose Although you might be lead to prices'hesmiled. : Signs for Tours believe the "superman" could open scientists in Engineers Date Social Function tombs in the Holy Land with nothing the party, or about 42 counting na- - The Campus Placement Bureau but a teaspoon, a case knife, a paint tive excavators,' he went on. "Out Spring } rolic Complete Senior Class photo- crgecl students to sign immediately brush, and numerous vials and bet- of the 22, two are living, one of graphic coverage in The Log, campus for educational tours through var- tles, still less would you expect a v-horn is myself. All have died ol yearbook, was urged by Tom Leine- bus Portland industries, department skilled scientit to recommend the the same ailment, a strange undiag- Second Post-Lenten dance of the veber, class president, Wednesday. stores and businesses this week. use of these articles. Hov.'ever, Dr. rosecl pneumonia, and strangely social year will be the Engineers' an- The class of 1940 is the largest yet If twelve indicate their willing- J. 0. Kinnaman, official representa- enough, in almost the order they iJul01 spring semi-formal it was an- to be graduated from Portland, he ness, a party will be made up and tive of the Palestine Exploration entered the tomb. Di. F. H. Hall of ; flounced be Joe Scott, senior from stated, and should have full pictorial the selection of the firm and the Society, recently described these very the British Museum is the other liv- Portland, president of the Engineers listing in the yearbook. time will be decided upon by the tools as the ones he used to open ing member." chub. Tentative plans are bg made students. King Tut's tomb in Palestine. "There is nothing supernatural The dance, long a campus social for erection of a memorial on the Purpose of the tours is to acquaint "If the tomb had not been ran- about the so called curse," he ex- highlight, will be held April 12, in campus which might perpetuate the students with various firms through- acked by robbers, there is no telling plained. "The iriests in those days Howard Hall. name of the class. Also on the cal- out the city, and establish friendly how much we would have found; always set traps for tomb robbers in Decorative exhibit and orchestra endar of Senior activities is a c1as relations with businessmen. is it was the tomb contained approx- (Continued on Page 6) plans have as yet to be outlined. pee-commencement get-together.