Crowded Social Calendar Promises Gala Year
Fans react to exciting moment in Sunday’s All-Star game at
Multnomah stadium.
Enrollment Figures Show
Sophomores Largest Class
Business College Tops
With 838; Science 507
and Liberal Arts 402
Business administration students,
numbering 838, make up the largest
college on the campus this year, ac¬
cording to a final breakdown of en¬
rollment figures just released by
Rev. John J. Hooyboer, C.S.C., dean
of studies.
Five hundred and seven men are
enrolled in the science college and
402 in the college of liberal arts.
The school of nursing with 170 and
26 graduate and special students
complete the total adjusted enroll¬
ment of 1947.
The senior class, now 143 strong,
promises possibility of the largest
graduating class in school history.
Fifty-six last year men are enrolled
in the college of business adminis¬
tration, 32 in the college of science
and 22 in the liberal arts college.
Thirty-three nurses are beginning
their senior year.
Juniors number 258, with 142 in
the college of business, 64 in the
college of science and 52 in the
college of liberal arts. Twenty-three
nurses make up the class total.
Largest class in the school, tne
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Delegates to
Hear of Trip
Joe Byrne and Jim Thielen, jun¬
iors, 1947 delegates to the Pacific
Northwest College Congress with
Grant Skelley, senior, chairman of
last year’s planning committee, will
attend a Portland Junior Chamber
of Commerce luncheon Tuesday. Oc¬
tober 14.
Guest speakers at the affair will
be delegates Phyllis Garrison,
Whitman college, and John Lauc,
Oregon Law school, chosen last
spring to represent the congress be¬
fore the American delegation at the
United Nations assembly.
Miss Garrison and Lauc, who
have just returned from their trip
to Lake Success, sponsored by the
junior chamber, will tell luncheon
guests of their visit.
Staffroom to
Aid Yearbook
Publication
Organization of the 1948 Log staff
got underway this week with a pre¬
liminary qualification survey of the
many students who reported to the
publication's office to offer time
and talents to the year book, ac¬
cording to Steve Voorhees, junior
class president and mam driving
force behind a campaign to put
publication of the volume back into
student hands.
Temporary quarters for an "Editor
and Staff room” have been located
in Education hall, into which the
student publishers will move early
next week. Along with them will
go an assortment of desks, tables,
pastepots, T-squares and other tools
of the trade, Voorhees said.
Conferences are now going on to
arrange for the purchase of paper
stock, covers and official portrait
photographer, printer, budget and
other preliminary groundwork which
will be completed in time to allow
the staff immediately to begin act¬
ual layout and planning prepara¬
tions.
Though basically a junior class
function, Voorhees is anxious that
freshmen and sophomores apply for
staff jobs so that they may have
the needed training to advance them
to editorial responsibilities in their
junior year. All men interested in
this student activity are urged to
report to West 204.
Hawaiians Quests
At Ad Club Dance
Hawaiian All-Stars were guests of
the Business Ad club at their dance
last Friday night in Education hall.
Among the group enjoying the
juke box jump were over 150 girls
from Marylhurst college.
Responsible for the success of the
dance was Ren Castner and his
committee, according to Lee Rob¬
bins, Business Ad club president.
Pep Parade Takes Our Town
By GRANT SKELLEY
The drums did bang and the
cymbals clang as an estimated 400
Portland students and friends tem¬
porarily took over downtown Broad¬
way last Saturday night in what was
termed as “one of the most success¬
ful and certainly one of the nois¬
iest” Pilot parades that local metro¬
politans have witnessed for many a
season.
Led by a relic-on-wheels of the
Ford automobile dynasty, followed
closely by the university band play¬
ing from a flatbed truck, six blocks
of players and rooters, in car and
afoot, served with amiable precision
to waylay traffic and draw pedes¬
trians to the curb for the better
part of a half hour. When the Ford
wasn’t running, willing h a n ds
pushed, and the noisy caravan
tooted, hooted and hollered its way
from Burnside to Market, where it
turned to rendezvous for a rally in
the darkness and seclusion of the
park block behind Lincoln high
school.
This rally, first public effort of
the yell leaders, was louder-lunged
if not better attended than the pre-
All-Star celebration last year. In
the absence of yell-king Jack Vi-
doni, who of necessity was detained
in other parts rallying another kind
of support, his assistants, Bob Stark
and Cliff Cross, became gravel¬
voiced with their fireball exhorting
and song leading and cheering. In
the absence of any light by which
to read their music, the un-uni-
formed band, or at least a nucleus
thereof, heroically groped its way
through the Fight song and "On
Pilots, On”.
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The Beacon
Retreat Ends
As Students
Attend Mass
Volume XLV October 10, 1947 Number 3
Student Councils
Plan Activities
Week-ends Seen Filled as Marylhurst, School of Nursing,
Cliffdwellers Join to Schedule Varied Dances,
Rally, Campus Day
Student body representatives from the college of nursing and Maryl¬
hurst met with members of the SAC last night at the nurses home to
make settlement of dates on the 1947-48 social calendar. Preference
dates had been previously submitted to council recreation manager, John
Mares, senior from Portland, before this tentative scheduling of the year’s
activities was made.
The calendar, as submitted, is
printed below. Those events marked
“closed” allow, because of their
limited drawing capacity, other
activities to be scheduled on the
same date.
October
10 Marylhurst Green Prelude.
17 Ski club, dance.
24 Sophomore class, dance.
31 Nurses, Halloween dance.
November
10 Cultural series, Katja Andy.
12, 13, 14 Midsemester exams.
14 Engineers club, barn dance.
15 Football, Willamette, homecom¬
ing.
19, 20 Portland Players, play.
21 Marylhurst sophomore class,
formal.
22 Campus club, dance (closed).
28 Monogram club', dance (closed).
December
2 Sophomore class, card party.
10, 11 Portland Players, play.
12 Cultural series, Donald Gramm.
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Becker , Alstock ,
Under dahl Named
Ski Club Officers
Highlighting a Ski club meeting
held October 1 in West hall was
the election of officers for the 1947-
48 school year with Barney Becker,
sophomore, named president.
Bob Alstock, senior, was elected
vice president, and Lief Underdahl,
sophomore, secretary-treasurer.
Campus Bills
Major Speech
Meets Soon
At a conference of Oregon college
speech department heads in Salem,
Saturday, plans were com¬
pleted for a program of inter-col¬
legiate speaking activities with Port¬
land selected to play host for two
meets during the coming year.
First contest will be held on the
Portland campus November 8, with
representatives from eight colleges
and 30 high schools competing in
a series of non-decisional debates,
extemporaneous and impromptu
speeches, according to Richard
Clemo, head of the campus speech
department.
Portland speech students will
serve as critics for the contest, on
both the high school and college
level with Wayne Durrell and Ker¬
man Sheckler as co-chairman. Both
are juniors.
Second contest slated for the
Portland campus will be the Oregon
state extempore meet, dated Decem¬
ber 9. Speaking subjects for tills
meet were selected at the Salem
session and are as follows: “Com¬
munism and the United States” for
women contestants and “Human
values as they pertain to the in¬
dividual” for men.
Annual Event Attracts
Large Crowd as 2-Day
Affair Ends Thursday
Witli Spiritual Exercises
Solemn High Mass, celebrated last
Wednesday by Rev. Francis P.
Goodall, C.S.C., vice president of
the University, in Education hall,
officially opened the annual all¬
student retreat.
Assisting Father Goodall were:
Deacon, Rev. Clarence Durbin,
C.S.C.; subdeacon, Rev. Robert Bey,
C.S.C.; master of ceremonies, Rev.
Regis Ritter, C.S.C.; choir master,
Rev. George Dum, C.S.C.
The Common of the Mass was
sung from Ravenello’s “Mass of the
Holy Father,” by the glee club, di¬
rected by Father Dum. The Mass
Proper was also sung in Gregorian
chant and accompanied by Sal
Mardesic, organist.
Retreat master, Rev. John B. De-
launey, C.S.C., dean of men, deliv¬
ered the sermon as well as the
morning and afternoon conferences.
His theme of spiritual betterment
inspired the crowd of 700 men, the
largest number ever to attend a re¬
treat on the campus. All Catholics
and invited non-Catholics re¬
sponded well to the spiritual exer¬
cises.
High Mass Thursday, celebrated
by Father Riter, prefect of religion,
saw numerous students lining the.
communion rail as impressive in¬
dication of the success of the re¬
treat.
A holy hour at 2 p. m. Thursday,
followed by Benediction of the
Blessed Sacrament, terminated the
two-day period of moral inventory.
‘Pilot SpeciaV
Pilots Pilot Fans
Faithful Pilot football supporters
will take to the air tomorrow morn¬
ing at 8 a. m. when a twin-engined,
14-passenger "Pilot Special" will
leave the municipal airport en route
to Reno, Nevada, where its cargo
will witness the Portland-Nevada
gridiron tilt in the afternoon.
The plane will leave Reno at 8
a. m. Sunday, and will arrive in
Portland three hours later.
Don Rochon, Room 23, Christie
hall, is handling arrangements.
INSPECTORS BAR SMOKING
Violators Endangering Safety of Student Body
Rev. Philip Schaerf, C.S.C., club
adviser, addressed a welcome mes¬
sage to the club stressing the im¬
portance of cooperation between
club officers and members and con¬
cluding with a divine blesing.
The club roster was increased to
well over the 100 mark by the ac¬
ceptance of 75 new members, the
majority of whom are freshmen.
New president Becker promises a
well organized club. With his staff,
he has laid plans for many inter¬
esting activities. These include ski
lessons, transportation pools, and
lectures on the mechanics of skiing.
Violation of the “No Smoking”
rule in West hall is jeoardizing the
safety of the student body and has
brought repeated warnings from the
local fire inspector, according to
Rev. Clement Kane, C.S.C., prefect
of discipline.
In asking the Beacon to remind
students of the “No Smoking” rule.
Father Kane pointed out that oiled
floors and wooden construction
make the building highly inflam¬
mable.
“We do not wish to deny anyone
a smoke,” he said, "nor to stand
police duty, but cognition of the
damage which could be caused by
one smoldering cigarette should
make observance of this rule a mat¬
ter of personal responsibility to
everyone.”
Father Kane also deplored the un¬
sightly condition of the grounds
around West hall. He announced
that proper utilization of trash re¬
ceptacles placed at all entrances
to the building should remedy this
situation.
Book Written
By Ex-Instructor
A former Portland professor. Rev.
T. Meagher, C.S.C., now a parish
priest at Watertown, Wis., recently
published a book entitled “A Century
at St. Bernards”.
The book is a history of that fa¬
mous Holy Cross parish and is being
read with keen interest on the cam¬
pus, for many community members
now on the faculty are mentioned
in it.
New ski heads, left to right: Lief Underdahl, secretary; Barney Becker, pres¬
ident; Rev. Philip Schaerf, C.S.C., faculty adviser; Bob Alstock, vice-president.
