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For more information, please contact [email protected]. p Root Pacific Remember To Victory AWS Rally And Against USF Elections On Tuesday Next Thursday C.O.P. — STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA FEBRUARY 28, 1958 — No. 3! - Epsilon Celebrates Centennial WUS DRIVE SLATED DR. SAMUEL MEYER NAMED With Open House And DaneDance FOR MARCH 9-13 During the week of March 9-13, ACADEMIC VICE-PRESIDENT I Active and alumnaenlnmnoa mammembers Vui ofaf EpsilonTTr»ci1an LambdaT om VvH i SigmaCiar Soror- students at the College of the Dr. Samuel Lewis Meyer, dean of Central College In Fayette, will begin the celebration of their centennial year with an open Pacific will Join with students and Missouri, will become academic vice-president of College of the vuse tonight and a Centennial Ball tomorrow night at the Stockton faculty in 38 other countries to Pacific on June 15, President Robert Burns announced last Saturday. ^olf and Country Club. contribute to the global program | in the medical department of the of World University Service, Army in the Canal Zone and re­ Drives Commissioner Donna Hud­ entered teaching at Emory Uni­ son has announced. versity in 1945. The following Events planned for the week year he became head of the include the popular WUS auction, | botany department at the_ Univer­ where the services of faculty sity of Tennessee and in 1951 as­ members as hashers, tutors, car sumed the department chairman­ washers, etc., are auctioned off ship at Florida State. to individuals or living groups. Proceeds from this and other The new vice-president Inter­ ill! Li events will be sent through WUS rupted his stay at Florida State to help meet the basic material for a year to serve as executive secretary of the biology division i I I f) u! 11 tl needs of university communities throughout the free world. of the National Research Coun­ WUS offers to American stu­ cil. He was a delegate of the dents a n opportunity t o work council to the eight international with students throughout the Botanical Congress In Paris In free world to help solve basic 1954. material problems and build a Dr. Meyer has had over 70 sci­ The College of the Pacific so" peaceful world. entific articles published in tech­ ^ority is an outgrowth of the Watch for World University nical Journals, and his biographi­ Engineering School Service Week, March 9-13. cal sketches appear in both Kmendia Society, founded a t The new vice-president will suc­ Who's Who In America" and Sponsors Conference ceed Dr. Lloyd M. Bertholf, who anta Clara Female Institute in "American Men of Science." He . The organization, which was A three-day schedule o f lec­ Asian Students Plant has been elected president of Illi­ has won numerous scholarships, nois Wesleyan University. dlcated to "mental and moral tures, demonstrations and discus­ A Sequoia On Campus fellowships, and prizes for his An outstanding biological scien­ Improvement," has been known sions will inaugurate an annual research studies, especially in the A sequoia tree now stands tist, Dr. Meyer, headed the de­ )is the first female literary society Highway Engineering Conference field of plant physiology. north of Irving Martin Library as partments of botany at the Uni­ west of the Mississippi River. for Central California on March 3-5 sponsored by the School of a gift from two COP Asian stu­ versity of Tennessee and Florida Among the many honorary and :MENDIA SOCIETY Engineering of the College of the dents. State University before going to professional societies to which he IKCOMES EPSILON Pacific. The tree, planted by Juan Ulep his present post in 1955. belongs are Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. He was chairman In 1924, the same year that Dr. Adelbert Diefendorf, dean of the Philippines, was donated After graduating from Central of the general section of the Bo­ 'ollege of the Pacific moved to of the Engineering School at by Juan and Rai-Won Pak of College in 1930, the new officer tanical Society of American In Stockton, the Emendia Society COP, will direct the program, Korea, a COP graduate. obtained a master of science de­ radually changed over to its Juan is from San Miguel in the gree from Vanderbilt University 1950 and has served as president which will be attended by 23 out­ of the Southeastern Association iresent identity; and, in 1925, the standing western highway en­ province of Tarlac and will grad­ and a doctorate at the University uate from Pacific in June with of Biologists. Dr. Meyer, an active Epsilon Lambda Sigma house was gineering experts. of Virginia. He taught at all three a major in political science. of these institutions before enter­ Methodist churchman, also is instructed on the local campus. The conference is planned to Coeds currently active in the Pak graduated in 1956 and re­ ing World War n. serving now on the Missouri Con­ offer information in recent ceived his master's degree from Dr. Meyer served for two years ference Board of Education. sorority will be hostesses at to- progress in modern highway de­ light's open house, which is open COP in 1957. He currently is He w 111 be accompanied to sign, construction and mainten­ studying for his doctorate at the o all students and faculty mem- ance to engineers, contractors, COP DEBATERS Stockton by his wife and their >ers at Pacific, as well as alum- University of Nebraska. sons Samuel, 13, and James, 7. equipment dealers and operators, PLACE IN MEETS lae, parents, and guests. construction supervisors, materi­ SATURDAY BALL als manufacturers and distribu­ Donald Duns and Dennis Day, 282 Enrolled Here Mmes. Harry Hedburg and tors, transportation managers and LATE HOURS GIVEN COP seniors, 1 e d Pacific to a ( Earner Holden, Stockton alum- safety engineers. FOR USF GAME third place berth in the senior For Post-Grad Work iae group members, are co- Leaders for the conference rep­ division debate tournament held chairmen of the Saturday night resent county, state, and federal Rally Commissioner Jack here last Friday. Placing behind A total of 282 graduate students >all which will be attended by highway engineering divisions; Willoughby announced today USF and Stanford, the team de­ are enrolled in the college during bated on the "National Right to "uples from the active and alum- industrial representatives of ce­ that everyone will be able to the present semester. Dean Wil­ iae membership and guests. ment and asphalt concerns; attend the USF-COP BASKET Work Law." lis N. Potter of the Division of COP was also well-represented ';mmy Limbaugh's Orchestra will equipment manufacturers; safety BALL GAME next TUESDAY, graduate studies has reported. Of in the Stockton College Tyro irovide music for the formal engineers; and others. MARCH 4. Thanks to Dean Da­ these students. 61 are registered Tournament which was held con­ 'vent from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. vis' acceptance of "Moose" My­ for a full-time program (12 units Three luncheon meetings be­ currently with the senior division Invitations for the ball were ers' suggestion, all women stu­ or more), and 221 are classified ginning Monday will be address­ tourney. Receiving awards were ssued last week to alumnae dents will have extended hours ed respectively by Elliott J. Tay­ Sheila Thompson and Ginger as part-time students. vhose current addresses are In order that they may attend lor, COP director of admissions; I vers, debate; Ron Loveridge, ex­ Many of the graduate students mown. A large contingent from the game. Miss Knauf has also C. M. GiUis of Sacramento, state pository speaking; and Ginger are candidates for an advanced de >ut of town is anticipated. made arrangements for dinner director of public works; and I vers. Horace Wheatley, and De- gree, while others are working to be served at 5 p.m. in the CELEBRATION TO CONTINUE state senator Randolph Collier of nise Fedigan. Interpretive read­ toward a teaching credential in Yreka. Dining Hall on Tuesday. either secondary or elementary Epsilon's Centennial Year cele- Tickets will be available at ing. The next big event on Pacific's education, or toward some other >ration will continue through the the Athletic Ticket Office on FUND TO BE SET UP debate calendar is the 27th an­ professional goal. Pring and summer, to be cli-. Monday and Tuesday. PSA r nual Linfield Invitational Debate *axed with more social events IN HONOR OF TATTON cards must lie presented to ob­ Asian studies, education, and Meet, to which COP Is sending 15 'uring Homecoming next fall. tain the tickets and to be ad­ physical education have the larg­ Gifts in memory of Kenneth contestants. The meet to be held Each area alumnae chapter, mitted to the game. est number of the full-time ad­ j Tatton, a 1955 graduate of COP near Portland, Oregon, will be at ch as those in the Bay Area, Miss Davis said that all wo­ vanced students, with nine each; who was killed recently in an tended by about 40 colleges.