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\ OLUMB XIII
GBKEXSBORO, N. ( DKC'KMBER, 194:J
fiennett College
Oiewifeboro,^^
XUMBKK a
War-Peace Program
Gets Underway
The War-l’eace Committee, which
did such an excellent job last year in
the war effort, got off to an earlier
start this year with an expanded pro
gram. The committee, with Jliss Wilia
Player as chairman and Valeria
Ohappelle as student co-chairman, has
selected Conservation and Salvage,
Nutrition and Child Care, J)iscussion
and Open Forum, Recreation and Hob
bies, and Social Agencies, as the areas
to be explored this year.
The Social Agencies Committee, :viiss
Alice Keid, Chairman, and Eleanor
Chippey and Helen Horton, student co-
chairmen along with its 8ti members
began by helping out in the Christmas
Seals sale sponsored by the American
Red Cross. This was followed by vol
untary service at the I.i. Richardson
Memorial hospital where students help
with trays, read to patients, tell
stories to patients and do special mes
senger service. Twenty others of the
group serve at the Traveller’s Aid
desk in the Southern Railway station
giving much needed information to
service men.
Other Committee chairmen have out
lined plans for the year. Conserva
tion and Salvage has as its chairman
Dr. Jackson, with Anna Atkins and
Hilda Amaker, student co-chairmen
along with 32 other students. Nutri
tion and Child Care, Miss Barbara
, ;^vare and Rose Everett, with 84 stu
dents. Discussion and Open Forum, Mr.
P. A. Wilson and Margaret Hill with
29 students. Recreation and Hobbies
with Miss Nancy MacDowell and Fran-
pps WR’cott. ^:o-chi!'’-»T9>i hfs I'll .stu
dents working.
Secures Red Cross Room.
Probably the most exciting thing
—uoC. by the War-Peace Committee this
year was the setting up of a Red
Cross room on the campus in the room
back of the Science Assembly by the
local chapter of the Red Cross. This
room may be used for knitting groups
of four who will knit sweaters for sol
diers and afghans. The knitting room
has already been started and imme
diately after the Christmas vacation
this room will also be used for the
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Christmas! ilerry Christmas! The
mere word means more to us this year
than evei’ before. Why? Because last
year we did not go home, and each
girl is jubilantly anticipating the f\m
she will have this Christmas.
But while we are busily engaged in
making up for lost time, let us not be
come too engrossed in ourselves that
we forget those who are not so fortu
nate. Be sure to include entertainment
for the n\en and women who are serv
ing our country and who will not be
able to join their families around the
Yuletide fire. See to it personally that
this will be a memorable Christmas for
thenj as the ideal it connneniorates
lives forever.
The Bennett Banner staff pauses to
wish you a most joyous Christmas and
a very happy New Year. Ma.v the ones
to come bring us “I'eace on earih;
good will toward jnen!"
Chairman of the Editorial l?oard,
MARGUERITE POPE '44.
Bennett Students Raise
$448.94 For The
Endowment Fund
Saturday noon, December 11, meant
more than the fact that classes were
over until ]\Ionday morning on Ben
nett’s campus. All classes turned out
*100% for the third time to back the
endowment drive.
Assembled in the Science Assembly
each class had its own unique way of
I^resenting its donation. Miss Catherine
Randolph of the freshman class
crowned Miss Eva Belle Clarke “Miss
Freshman of 1043” for having sold the
largest number of popularity votes
while Miss Rosamond Hogans pinned
on a corsage. The class raised .$188.84,
a per capita of .$1.79.
The Sophomores donated $3fi.C)0, a
per capita of $.33.
The .Juniors raised $109.60, a per
capita of $1.25.
The “dignified” Seniors took the
onp, which was won by the present
Sophomores last year. Before present
ing their gift of $120.50, a per capita
of $2.11; the seniors gave an interest
ing faculty take-off.
Dean Brett presented the cup to
Miss Margaret Hill, president of the
Senior class. The meeting was closed
with ^President^ D. D.
Jones.
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Vesper Speakers
At Bennett
REV. p. A. TAYLOR, formerly
member of Bennett Faculty, now
Head, of the Department of Religions
Education, Ganunon Theological Sem
inary, on October 31. He advocated a
society in which the individual thinks
not in terms of himself but in terms of
others around him.
DR. J. W. NICHOLSON, Professor
of Preaching and Church Administra
tion, Gammon Theological Seminary,
on November 7. In developing his topic
on “Eternity Begins Here”, he advo
cated that the solidailty of all peo
ples can come only when evil is wiped
out. This is the beginning of eternity
here on earth.
MR. MAYNARD CATCHINGS, Sec
retary of Southern Field Council of the
National Student Y. M. C. A. “Chris
tian Love" was the topic. “To evi
dence this love is to obey Christ’s com-
ni:indments ”
Miss Geraldine Patterson, directing,
sang.
MISS ELIZABETH LEE, Executive
Secretary of the Board of Missions
and Church Extension, Methodist
Church, November 21. She urged the
good neighbor policy he extended to
Latin-Americans through medium of
Education and Christian Living.
DR. KARL DOWNS, I’resident,
Samuel Huston College, Austin, Texas,
on December 5. He developed Ji philo
sophy of living from four questions:
“What? You are going out to sea and
yon have no stars!”
“What? You are going into battle
and you have no music!”
“What? You are going on a trip and
you have no book!”
“What? You talk about living
vou have no love!”
President Jones'
Daughter Weds At
Bennett College
and
The Ambassadors
Return And Report
Those glowing reports from college
campuses brought back by Kathryn
Davenport, student senate leader;
Margaret Hill, senior class president;
Ellen Brooks, junior class president;
Blanche Graves, sophomore class pres
ident and Gwendolyn Alexander, fresh
man class president, our travelling
emissaries who accompanied Miss
Willa Player, our Registrar and Direc
tor of Admissions, on the goodwill tour
of ten college campuses in the East
were choice morsels on which all can
feast and profit thereby.
House (dorm) organizations, student
dress, extra-curricula activities, schol
arship, rules of discipline, and War-
I'eace activities are essentials. It is
heartening to know that so much at
tention is being given to these
throughout tlie East.
Succinctly, the reports show that
college girls are college girls through
out the East. They dress alike, have
rules of discipline, they study, play and
plan just as vve do here. Reports from
North Carolina State College, Shaw
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'Amid the splendor of the beautiful
ly decorated Annie Merner Pfeiffer
Chapel, Miss Frances Jones was nuir-
ried to Pfc. Charles Douglas Bonner,
of New Bedford, ilass., at Bennett
College on December 18, 1943.
Mrs. Bonner is the daughtei- of
President and Mrs. David D. .Tones of
Bennett College and Greensl)oro, N. C.
She was gradiuited with honors from
Bennett College with the class of 1939.
She will be graduated frmi the Boston
University School of Medicine in De
cember, 1943. Mrs. Bonner plans to in
terne in Neurology at the Boston City
Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Private Bonner did liis undergrad
uate work at f.incoln University in
Chester County, Penn.sylvania, and is
now a senior in the Boston University
School of Medicine. He will be grad
uated in the spring of 1944 and has
been appointed to interneship at Bos
ton City Hospital, J?oston, Mass.
Theater Guild To
Stage Xmas Pageant
Sunday evening, December 12th, the
Little Theatre Guild presented its an
nual Christmas production, “The Liv
ing Madonnas”, in the Annie Merner
Pfeiffer chapel at 7 :.30 o’clock. Some
of the world’s great art masterpieces
of the Ifith and 17th centuries were
reproduced to depict the birth of the
Nativity.
Tableaux pre.sented were: Bot
ticelli’s, “Madonna with Six Angels”;
Massy’s, “JIadonna and Child”;
Raphael’s. “Madonna of the (Jhair”;
Baldovinetti’s, “Madonna and Child”;
Raphael’s “Sistine Madonna”; Bel
lini’s, “Madonna of the Falls” ; Lippi’s,
“Madomia and Child” and P>ellini’s,
“Madonna with the Saints Paul and
George”.
The pageant was supported for its
story of the nativity by the beautifvd
niusical jiackgroiiMl of Vnr.;^”,
scripture readings and the reading of
selected biblical quotations by Nancy
Pinkard, of Mount Vernon, N. Y.
The entire production was directed l)y
Miss Gladys 1. Forde, director of drama
tics. The maintenance department con
sisted of the following: Scenery—Mr.
Law’rence Rogers, Art—Miss Nancy
McDowell, Costumes — iSIiss Mamie
Powell, and rHusic—Miss Geraldine
Patterson.
ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS
AND COLLEGES MEETS
AT BENNETT
Over a hundred leading edticators
met here for the tenth aiumal meeting
of the Association of Colleges and Sec
ondary Schools on December 9th and
10th. A full schedule of reports by
commissions received their full atten
tion.
The meeting was formally opened
Thursday morning with addresses on
the responsibility of the Negro college
by Dr. George Works and Dr. W. Car
son Ryan. President David D. Jones
welcomed the body to tlie campus.
Some of the highlights of this V)n-
ference were the rei»ort of the associa
tion from 19.33-1943 by President T>. S.
Cozart of Bai'ber-Scotia College and
the annual banquet which was given
in the college dining hall at whicli
Dr. Chamiing Tobias was the speaker.
Dr. J. Henry Highsmith of the
Noi-‘ Caroliiui State Department of
I’u. Instruction gave the main ad-
dreh (t the Friday morning session
and conference was concluded with
a husi'. ,.s session Fridav afternoon.
COLLEGE CHOIR PRESENTS
ANNUAL CHRISTMAS
CONCERT
The Bemiett College Choir, under the
direction of Orrin Clayton Southern,
II, presented its amiual Christmas con
cert Sunday, December 19, in the An
nie Merner I’feiffer Chapel at 4:00
p.m.
The i)rogram consisted of Fi'ench and
English carols. Misses .lanet White,
Priscilla I5rown, and Berthenia Stevens
the Sernor Choii-, compo.sed the trio
for the occasion. The Freshman Choir
sang two selections. Miss (ieraldine
Patterson, of the music department,
highlighted the progriim with a rendi
tion of “And Suddenly There Was
With the Angel”. Otlier high points of
the well rounded program were the
renditions of the “Hellelujah Chorus”
by Handel and Pergolesi’s, “(ilory To
God In the Highe.st”.
Bennett College
Observes 70th
Anniversary
“JIake love your aim and then set
your hearts on spiritual gifts," was the
slogan which Jlrs. J. D. Bragg, Pres
ident, Woniiin’s Division of Christian
Service, Board of Missions and Church
Extension of the Methodist Church,
prescrib(*d for faculty, students and
visitors at the 70th Annual Founders
Day exei'cises held in the Amiie Mer
ger Pfeiffer Chapel, Tuesday, Decem
ber 14.
And what fitting words they are.
Something which will carry on into all
■nreas of life and the uttermost parts
of the world.
There is a unicjueness about Found
er’s Day i)rogranis here at Bennett.
First, the seventy years of the college’s
existence adnut division into .53 years
as a co-ed school and 17 years as the
Bennett College for Women, the col
lege which we as students know So
well. The heritage of those first 53
years just had to be rich in wholesome
values for the college to have come
through the past 17 years to today’s
meridian.
Secondly, the college, as it stands to
day, is a monument to the specific
labor, sacrifices and toil of two great
Christian personalities working as a
single entity—our beloved President
David D. Jones and his equally be
loved wife, Mrs. Susie Williams-Jones.
For, under theii' guidance and since
1920, the college has grown from its
10 student bodv, and seven ...bn iid”.Y«;-
valued at $500 000 to a 400 student
body from thirty states, 23 buildings
valued at approximately $1,400,000,
and a sizable endowment.
Alunmi, faculty and students ex
pressed their opt'u appreciation fortius
pi’ogre.ss when they contributed to the
endowment fund on this Founder’s
Day approximately $2,300 in cash, as
an expression of their faith in the in-
sitution, and its administrators and as
a token of love and respect for all
those bcmefactors, who, in the past,
have given so generously to the college
as an investment in the future educa
tion of womanhood.
It isn’t skill and dexterity alone
that’s responsible for the fine record
the college has made and will continue
to make. We refuse to believe this be-
cau.se we are a young college, only 17
years, and have not had the experience.
It’s the SPIRIT that counts. Everyone
on the program—Mrs. (1 (J. Weaver,
President, Wonuui’s Division of Chris
tian Service, Western North ('arolina
Conference; Mrs. J. 15. Caldwell,
I’resident, Woman’s Division of ('hris-
tian Sei'vice, North Carolina (.'onfer-
ence; Mrs. (iilberta .leffries-Mitchell,
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STARS OF “POROY AND BESS”
VISITS BENNETT CAMPUS
The Bennett Family considered itself
fortunate in having ;is guests on its
campus November 17 the star of
“Porgy and Bess”, Mr. Todd Duncan,
Mrs. Alma Lillie Hubbard and ilr.
George Randol, also of the cast.
At the regular chapel ilr. Randol,
who was introduced by President
.lones, made a few remarks after
which Mrs. Hubbard played and sang.
And last, but not least, Jlr. Duncan
gave a most delightful and enlightening
talk.
Having the opportunity of meeting
these persons face to face was indeed
jin experience to Ije remembered.
FAME AND FORTUNE
BECKON SONG WRITERS
Can you write THE song of World
War II? Vou know, something like
“Over There” or “Tipp(“rary” of World
War I fame, or any other popular song
that will start America and the world
singing it.
ilagazine Digest, of New York, in
cooperation with Raymond Paige and
bis NBC “.Salute to Youth” orchestra
is .spon.soring a war song contest in
high schools and colleges throughout
the United States and Canada. Ray
mond Paige, Frank Sinati-a, James
Melton, Helen Jepson and Arnold Eidus
will act as judges.
Winners will receive $250.00 IN
(JASH, a trip to New York for an ap
pearance on “Salute to Youth”, and na
tionwide imblicity and promotion of
winning song. And the best yet is that
YOU retain all i-ights, royalties, and
monies resulting from publication.