PILOTS KANSAS CITY BOUND AFTER TAKING REGIONAL
Cop Crown for Fourth Straight Y ear
District -NAIB C
Middle: Norm
Acuna, Ben Pitzer,
Bottom row, Jim Winters, Andy Johnson, 31. H. McGilvery, Kay Foleen and Ken Sirode.
Lloyd Bergman, Don Mayfield, Larry Krohn, Nick Trutanich, Coach Torson. Top: Trainer
Hummel, Damien Rocha and Bob Moore.
By JOE KOVACH
James “Mush” Torson’s rip-roar¬
ing, record-breaking Portland Pilots
are on their way to Kansas City,
Missouri, for the fourth consecutive
year to participate in the 141 h An¬
nual National Association of Inter¬
collegiate championship basketball
tournament to be staged March
10-15.
By virtue of their fourth straight
District II triumph this week with
82-65 and 100-77 victories over Lewis
and Clark and Willamette, respec¬
tively, the Pilots enter the colorful
tourney with a 21-9 mark.
Coach Torson, ten players of the
Portland squad and team manager
Norm Chang left today via train
and are scheduled to arrive at the
tournament site Sunday afternoon
in time for the tip-off banquet Sun¬
day night where pairings will be
made.
Thirty-two Clubs Billed
Thirty-two top flight clubs from
every section of the country will
play in the single-elimination meet
billed for the six million dollar
Municipal Auditorium. Eight teams
will be seeded at the banquet.
Starting at 11 o’clock on Mon¬
day, eight games will be played
daily through Wednesday, March 12.
Pour games are on tap for Thurs¬
day and two on Friday night. The
battles for third place and for the
championship are set for Saturday
night. This year the NAIB win¬
ner will meet the NCAA champion
on March 29 on the Municipal court.
Capt. Ray Foleen will be making
his fourth trip to K-C with team-
mates Jim Winters, Andy Johnson,
Million Harvest MclGilVery, Ken
Strode, Lloyd Bergman, Nick Tru¬
tanich, Ed Hummel, Ben Pitzer and
Don Mayfield comprising the ten-
man squad.
Pilot Record, 1-3
The three-year record held by the
Pilots in their participation in the
national meet stands at one win
against three losses. Three years
ago they were edged out by South¬
west Missouri, 59-56. The following
year they sneaked past the highly
seeded Montana university quintet,
48-47, and were eliminated in the
second round by Central Washing¬
ton, 51-43. Last March, the Mem¬
phis State five edged the locals
76-74 in a first round tilt.
During intermission period at
Tuesday's NAIB finale, KGW sports-
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VOL. XLIX UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND, PORTLAND, OREGON, MARCH 7, 1952 NO. 15
Carnival to Open Doors Tonight;
Clubs Construct Colorful Booths
Amusement promoters of the Associated Students of University of Portland will bring to Education hall,
this evening, the first of their two nights of side-show exhibits, the annual ASUP Carnival. The booths will
open for business at 8 p. m. and continue in operation until 12.
All campus clubs have been invited by Chairman Dave Sutherland to prepare booths along the “board¬
walk” and prizes, surprises and extravaganza awards and giveaways have been promised to those who attend.
Pitch-penny, dart and other
shooting-gallery” attractions will be
Calendar
March 7-8— Carnival.
March 12 — Lenten exercises,
12:40 p. m.
March 14— Way of the Cress,
12:40 p. m.
March 17 — St. Patrick’s Bay.
March 19 — Suzanne Bloch, con¬
cert.
March 21 — Smoker.
March 26-29 — Semester examina¬
tions.
AFROTC Officers
Make Inspection
Officers of the Fourth Air Force,
headed by Col. George H. Dietz,
professor of air science and tactics
at the University of Washington, are
on the campus this week-end for
the spring inspection of the local
AFROTC unit. The colonel is ac¬
companied by three assistants.
The inspection, which began yes¬
terday and which will continue
through Saturday, has as its pur¬
pose to check on the state of train¬
ing of individual students.
The visitors will note the dis¬
cipline of the cadets, the care with
which the uniform Is worn, the drills
and will visit all classrooms. They
will also examine the supply rooms
and offices of the administration.
Today, as part of the week-end
program, the inspectors will hold in
the AFROTC offices in Education
hall a special conference during
which complaints, recommendations
and suggestions may be registered
by the cadets.
lettermen Prepare
For Annual Smoker
Ten matches, each a three-round
affair, will be the fistic entertain¬
ment of the Monogram Club
Smoker, scheduled for March 21 in
Howard hall. The announcement
was made this week by Willie Kang,
president of the lettermen.
Contemplated at present are bouts
in the following divisions: Bantam,
feather, light, welter, middle and
heavy. Each round will be of two
minutes’ duration. Intermission at¬
tractions under consideration are
mostly variety acts.
Trophies will be awarded to each
of the ten winners in the boxing
maches, while the losers will each
receive meal tickets to the Pilot
House. Tickets are priced at 75 cents
general admission, $1.00 ringside and
reserve.
Officials will bo Ed Wallo, ref¬
eree; Floyd Simmons, timer; Mike
Tichy, counter after knockdowns,
and Larry Manion, judge. Tickets
will be on sale next week.
Speakers Enter
LU Tournament
Bob Page and Lee Paves lead a
group of seven speakers attending
the Linfield tournament being held
at McMinnville this week-end,
March 6, 7 and 8. Others attend¬
ing the speech convention include
Dave Sutherland, who will enter
"Interpretative Reading” and “Ex¬
perimental” and Dick Wrublik who
will enter “Extemporary” and “Im¬
promptu.”
Sara Potts, Gloria Bradbury and
Eugene Crew will all enter “Ora¬
tory.” with Miss Potts doing some
interpretative reading and Crew also
doing “Extemporary.”
Page and Paves have not only
enrolled for “Acting” and ‘Interpre¬
tative Reading,” but will be in the
talent show being produced tonight.
Portlander speakers will also en¬
gage representatives from St.
Mary's, California, in debate March
18. The debate will be held before
Prof. Paul Ouellette's class-room
audience, and visitors at 9 a. m. The
subject for the contest will be.
"Should There Be a Republican
President in 1952?" Dick Wrublik
and Lloyd Weisensee will be the
debaters for Portland university.
Catalogs Reach Binders
School colors and the shield of
the university will decorate the
cover of the 1952-53 catalog which
was printed this week and is now
in the hands of the binders. For the
first time in the history of the
college, the publication is under the
supervision of a catalog committee.
Chairman of that committee is Rev.
Charles F. Hamel, assisted by
Arnold B. Feterschmidt, G. Robert
Boehmer and Bernard T. Walls.
Completely re-written this year,
the catalog will have a new index¬
ing system and a new style of run¬
ning heads. Newly devised abbrevia¬
tions are another innovation.
Nine students were listed as
“Straight
on the first semester
Honor Roll, which was released
from the office of the registrar this
week. Those with the four PGA
rating were Robert Bruechert,
Charles Camarata, Ivan de Husskv-
szky, Kasper Marking, Frank Milli-
can, Long Tran, Martin Vanden-
berg, Nancy Vincent and James
Weber.
Seventeen others rated a 3.80 or
over: A. J. Bennett, Robert Corri-
De Paul Groups
Meet on Campus
Ninety-six men from the down¬
town “conferences” of the St. Vin¬
cent de Paul society met on the
campus last Sunday for a day of
recollection. The exercises began at
8:30 a. m. with a High Mass in
Christie hall chapel and continued
imtil 4 p. m. Rev. Joseph L. Pow¬
ers, C.S.C., was the retreat director
for the day. He gave four talks dur¬
ing the day.
Members cf the campus society,
under their president, Tom Gen-
nette, were hosts for the visiting
charity organizations. Members of
the local group are Mario Monaco,
Ed Highberger, Larry O’Connell, Joe
and Tom Keating, Howard Kosel,
Gottlieb Baer, Barry Hagan, Ed
Kane, Robert Saltvig, Leon Yragui,
Frank Reichert, Henry Pfenning,
Jack Tovey, John Tierney and Ben
Daltoso.
gan, Joe Gardner, Anthony Gia-
comini, Jerry Gregoire, Matthew
Kraus, Kiem Ly, Jack McLeod, Vera
McVanner, Norm Morrison. Temple
Naylor, Peter Olsen, Jaoqueline
Feterson. Walter Schmitt, Madalyn
Tuvian, Frank Watkins and James
Willmarth.
Others winning a place on the
honor roil with
а
3,25 GPA or over
were the following (arranged alpha¬
betically by paragraphs): Virginia
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featured at the booths. Ed Hughes
has been appointed director of dec¬
orations for the two nights and will
be the coordinator of the color trim¬
mings of the affair.
At the beginning of the week, 16
concessions had been signed for by
campus organizations. The latter
included the Business Ad men, the
Boarders, the SPURS, the Biologists,
the Dramatists, the Blue Key, the
Monogram Club, the Inter Council
and the Greek letter groups.
Publicity for the event is being
handled by Ed Castagna. The
SPURS will endeavor to contact
each student on the campus to in¬
terest him or her in the “biggest
show of the spring season ”
Philosophers Se!
Convention Dotes
Philosophers from the University
of Portland will attend a meeting
of the Northwest Catholic Phil¬
osopher's Association to be held at
Gonzaga in Spokane, March 21.
Rev. Jerome M. Boyle, C.S.C., and
Rev. Michael J. Gavin, C.S.C., will
represent the faculty from the Port¬
land campus.
The following day, March 22, the
group will go to Pullman for an¬
other philosophers’ convention. Rep¬
resentatives of all the Northwest
colleges, public as well as private,
will attend the latter meet.
“Problems of meaning” will be
discussed at both places. Father
Boyle will be on a panel at Gon¬
zaga, discussing metaphysics.
Catholic colleges planning to at¬
tend include Seattle, Gonzaga, Holy
Names colleges in Spokane and St.
Edward’s of Seattle.
Today the philosophers celebrate
the feast of their patron, St.
Thomas.
Thespians Clear
DeckforComedy
Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Con¬
quer,” the practical-joking classic
of English comedies, will be pre¬
sented in the University theatre,
April 3-6, according to an an¬
nouncement of Director Paul E.
Ouellette this week.
Tony, the mischief-maker of the
story, and constant frequenter of
“The Three Jolly Pigeons” will be
played by Bob Barron. Mrs. Hard-
castle, the doting mother who spoils
Tony, will be acted by Jean Gros-
venor.
The role of Marlow, hashfulest of
comic characters and victim of the
prankster Tony, has been awarded
Carl Markigraf. His “conqueror,”
Miss Hardcastle, who takes advant¬
age of Marlow’s shyness to repre¬
sent herself to him in two guises,
is Joan DuGay.
Pat Connors will act the part
of Miss Neville, involved in a par¬
allel love affair. Her suitor, Hast¬
ings, will be played by Bob Page.
Others in the cast are Pete How¬
ard as Sir Charles Marlow, Don
Carpenter as Jeremy, Dave Suther¬
land as Roger, John Wostli as Dick
and John Hayden as Diggory.
Biologists to Hear Mason
On Geology, Hood Glaciers
Ralph Mason of the State De¬
partment of Geology will address
the Biologists on “The Geology of
Oregon” at a meeting to be held
March 11. The talk will be illus¬
trated with slides.
Of special interest at the meet¬
ing will be a general discussion of
the glaciers on Mt. Hood and the
volcanic origins of Crater Lake.
Nine Students, Sfraighf-A’s
On New Semester Honor Roll
