OCTOBER, 1948
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I’age Three
THE INQUIRING
REPORTER
Question: Whom do you think will
be elected as the next President
of the United States? Why?
Answers:
President Harry Truman. He has
shown honesty in his endeavors.
He seems to understand the prob
lems of the common man. Much
has been accomplished since he
has been in office for the pro
gress of the common people.
Euris Smith, ’49.
In my opinion, Thomas E. Dewey
will be the next President of the
U. S. A. I feel this way because
he is the only one of the candi
dates not stressing the racial
question as an issue of nationa'
concern.
Johnnie Lou Nelson, ’51.
I believe Dewey will be the next
President. New York, under his
his governorship, has a Fair Em
ployment Practice. No doubt Mr,
Dewey will press more enact
ments like this to strengthen the
democracy when he becomes
President.
Margaret Pleasants, ’49.
The concensus of opinions ex
pressed by the newspapers, radio,
etc., is that Dewey will win in
the coming election. The Repub
lican platform to me is full O''
glittering generalities which ap
peal to the American public
Truman is too great an appeas-j-
and Wallace is just too liberal,
doubt that the NAM (Nationa
Association of Manufacturers)
will approve of too much liberal
ism.
Gloria Alexander, ’50.
Mr. Dewey will be our next
President. The first factor in de
termining that Mr. Dewey wi^'
be our next President is mainly
because of the Dixiecrat and
Progressive parties. I believe a
lot of the Democratic votes will
be stolen, giving the Republicans
a gerater opportunity.
The second factor that makes it
more inevitable that Mr. Dewey
will be our next President wa
Mr. Truman’s blundering mis
take in sending Mr. Vinson tr
Moscow. This mistake reveal.-
that Mr. Truman shows lack c*'
leadership and incapability of
carrying out the job.
I am confident in saying that ou
next President of the United
States will be Thomas E. Dewey.
Beatrice Walston, ’49.
FACULTY CLOSE-UPS
This year, Bennett College is happy
to welcome to our faculty and cam
pus, two prominent professors of
English, Dr. Miriam Thrall and Dr.
Helen Griffith.
After retirement from Mount Holy
oke in Massachusetts, Dr. Griffith
came to Bennett. Here she is teach
ing Freshman and Sophomore En
glish. She is also instructing a class
in the works of Shakespeare.
Dr. Griffith obtained her Bachelor
of Arts from Bryn Mawr College,
her Master of Arts from Columbia
University, and from the University
of Michigan, her doctor’s degree. Fur
ther study was done at the University
of Chicago and Cambridge University
of England.
In South America Dr. Griffith
traveled for a number of months. She
visited the ruins of olden civiliza
tions in many of the southern Ameri
can countries. Also she has visited
India, New Zealand, and Australia.
Dr. Griffith and Dr. Thrall have
traveled together in Qabador, Can
ada, and in various parts of Spain.
In the United States, they also trav
eled together.
At this time, they are living in the
Home Management House. Dr. Grif
fith’s choice of Bennett was due to
the special emphasis on individual
attention to all students. She had
considered many colleges before com
ing to Bennett and in her estimation
Benentt was the ideal college for her.
Dr. Thrall was also an instructor
at Mount Holyoke College and Hun
ter College in New York.
From Wellesley College she ac
quired her Bachelor of Arts, and
from Columbia her Master and Doc
tor’s degree.
Dr. Thrall has traveled extensively
through many European countries
and Mexico. Some of the countries
she visited are Poland, Yugoslavia,
Great Britain, Spain and Russia.
While in Russia, Dr. Thrall was able
to look behind the ‘Iron Curtain’ to
observe the conditions confronting
youth groups, schools and colleges.
Some of the principal cities visited
by her are Moscow, Kiev and Lenin
grad.
She is now a retired instructor and
at Bennett, Dr. Thrall is teaching
Freshman English.
Her choice of Bennett was due to
the emphasis placed on human rela
tions, the special spirit of real de
mocracy and the kind of student
Bennett produces.
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AUDROSE MACKEL, '49
Student of the Month
Personality! Charm! Ability i.o
lead! One who considers interests and
welfare of the whole student body.
These, in a broad sense, characterize
Miss Audrose Mackel who has been
unanimously chosen as our first stu
dent of the month. Her informal way
of presiding over meetings, and her
keen sense of humor help her win
the cooperation of the entire student
body.
Miss Mackel, who is from Natchez,
Mississippi, is a senior at the college
and is majoring in Clothing and min-
oring in Art. However, Miss Mackel is
extremely interested in music, mostly
for her own entertainment. Almost
any morning as one passes the parlor
in Merner Hall one will find Audrose
seated at the piano arranging her own
styles to some of her most famous
musical pieces. Though she devotes
quite a bit of time to playing popular
music, she also does a pretty swel'
job at such pieces as “Claire de
Lune” and “Moonlight Sonata.” You
should hear her.
Audrose entered Bennett in the
year nineteen hundred and forty-five.
She wa.s; president of her class in her
junior year and served as counselor
to freshmen. She is now the presiden'
cf the Student Senate. She is affili
ated with the following organizations:
a member of the Senior Choir, the Y.
W. C. A., a member of the Omi Chron
Eta Chi, the W. A. A., a member of
Ihe Senior Theater Guild, a member
of the newly-formed Art Club called
the Y O. P.’s club and also a mem
ber of Alpha Kappa Mu.
After spending the past summer as
housekeeper, Miss Mackel seems to
feel that housewives do not get
enough praise. She is more convinced
than ever that the housewife has a
great responsibility. The importance
of the job of a housewife is not real
ized until one has served in the ca
pacity of housekeeping. Audrose finds
that it takes a great deal of time and
energy in preparing daily meals and
doing the chores involved in family
life.
When asked about her ideas as to
what should constitute a strong stu
dent government. Miss Mackel replied
“objective thinking and a clear un
derstanding of the aims, purposes,
and responsibilities of the organiza
tion, are sufficient to make the or
ganization more efficient, more alive
and more serviceable.” She realizes
that there is a need for a more effec
tive student government, and it is her
sincere hope that the students now,
and those who will come later wi'
possess a greater realization of the
importance of a more workable, and
a stronger student government. This,
she feels, calls for worthy and capable
followers as well as leaders.
Our sincere appreciation goes to
Miss Mackel for a most interesting
mterview. Here’s hoping that she
will become a successful housewife
and dress designer, her future antici
pation. Yes, they too have a respon
sibility.
KALIEDISCOPE
I have always been profoundly in
terested in famous quotations, espe
cially those which give one food for
thought and those which can be used
as a pattern of life.
As I mention the word “quotation”
Shakespeare immediately comes to
the minds of many, for he is perhaps
the most quoted writer of the day. To
me his most advisory words are:
“This, above all, to thine own-
self be true; and it must follow
as the night the day; thou cans’t
not then be false to any man.”
People so often make a grave mis
take of refusing to face facts. They
are reluctant to admit even to them
selves their own shortcomings; there
fore, they find it difficult to be com
pletely honest with their fellowmen.
Being true to others will be a natural
process if one is first true to himself.
Robert Browning’s most quoted
lines give inspiration to strive for
greater heights. The challenge lies
before you as you read:
“A man’s reach should exceed
his grasp, or what is heaven for?”
Equally as challenging is Tenny
son’s inspirational line,
“To strive, to seek, to find, and
not to yield.”
We should never be satisfied until
we reach our ultimate goals. As each
success comes, we should continue
striving for something a little higher.
It was John Keats who introduced
the idea that
“A thing of beauty is a joy for
ever; its loveliness increases; it
will never pass into nothingness.”
This idea can be applied to edu
cation. It is definitely a thing of last
ing beauty. As material things pass
away into nothingness, knowledge
will be a permanent possession unti’
death.
Thomas Carlyle wrote,
“An endless significance lies in
work; a man perfects homself
by working.”
This idea has been elaborated upon
on numerous occasions, and its sig
nificance should be kept in mind. Th:
working man is in despair.
Advice is a wonderful thing, but
many of us resent it. But who can
resent it when it’s given in the way
that the ancient writers have given
it? In memorable lines these writer.'
have stirred us, advised us, and chal
lenged us.
“We are not here to play.”
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“A CLOUDED STAR”
By ANNE PARRISH
Ann Parrish, in her novel, “A
Clouded Star,” carefully establishes
the mood and emotional fervor of the
pre-Civil War days. The struggles of
escaping slaves and the leadership of
Harriet Tubman came into sharp
focus.
Harriet Tubman, a fearless. God
fearing and courageous woman was
“The Black Moses” and leader of her
people in the days before the Civil
War. Through the Underground Rail
road, she brought more than 300
slaves into the so-called “Freedom
Land.” Continually in danger of her
life, cursed by slave-owners and
praised by the enslaved, she served
as conductor on “The Railroad,” later
as nurse and spy in the Civil War.
Harriet Tubman rules her people
with an iron hand, prays, mocks them
for their weakness, and she prods
them with her rifle. To one of the
slaves about ready to turn back, she
makes the classic reply; “On my
underground railroad, I never run
a train off the track and I never lost
a passenger. But I wait for no one.
Anyone start with Moses, end with
Moses. You go on or you die.”
Through Harriet Tubman’s indomit
able spirit, she carries them through
many pitfalls and hardships but they i
finally reach their destination which j
is the Canadian border.
Very few authors have attempted
: to write about the great leadership of !
Harriet Tubman and when the chron- j
' icle of that period is fully and ac-
j curately written, Harriet Tumban |
will emerge as one of the greatest ^
' leaders of the Abolitionist movement. i
KAMPUZZATIONS
Hello everybody!!! Having had a
wonderful summer, we are back,
eager to share our responsibilities on
the campus. Since everyone is bub
bling over with new ideas for the
betterment of campus life here at
Bennett, some organizations are not
ready to present their ideas to us.
Some are giving a preview of their
purposes and aims for the year.
The Sigma Rho Sigma, a recogni
tion society, marks its beginning and
it is for those persons interested in
the field of social sciences. It en
courages and promotes professional
growth and development among the
students in this field. Girls, strive
hard to become a member. The offi
cers for 1948 are as follows: Mary B.
Debro, president; Katheryn Barber,
vice-president; Gloria Alexander,
secretary-treasurer, and Mr. Logan,
adviser.
The International Relations Club
has big plans for this year. They
are planning to make the entire cam
pus more world-minded through
world relief projects. They began
this year Wednesday, October 20,
1948, with an intense membership
campaign which ended in a marsh
mallow roast and folk dances.
The Marshall Board at Bennett
College is a very important organiza
tion consisting of twenty-eight girls
from all the classes. The board con-
si.^its of girls with poise, dignity, de
pendability and cooperation. These
girls serve every Sunday — seating
people comfortably and receiving the
collection. Each year the Board spon
sors a Brithday Dinner and it also
gives parties. The officers are: Presi
dent, Elizabeth Rviera; vice-presi
dent, Ida Mitchell; secretary, Wilma
Vestal; assistant secretary, Erline
McLeod; treasurer, Beatrice Walston.
Tlie Board has big pdans that each
girl has promised to help carry out.
The W. A. A. would like the coop
eration of the student body in carry
ing out the jam sessions on Saturday
afternoons that we all enjoy. We are
very proud in that we have gotten
off to a good start and we have po
tentialities in making great improve
ments on the campus. Let’s all be
good sports, cooperate!!
The junior class started the year
off with a bang by giving the first
dance on the campus. It was enjoyed
by everyone.
This dance was considered as a going
away affair for the former president,
Theda Johnson, and a welcoming for
Bennie Gragg.
We intend to win the Endowment
Drive by different activities that we
are sponsoring on the campus. The
main attraction for the year will bo
the Snack Bar that will be open each
Saturday at the gymnasium.
The sophomore class started the
year off with a bang! “Superior” isn’t
the word to describe reactions to ini
tiation week. We weren’t hard on
the Freshmen, however, a lot of them
took advantage of their superiority.
To show the Freshmen how nice we
could be, we ended the week with a
party and a dance. Now we take
pride in saying, “We made the Fresh
men and they are better than ever.”
What really put the sophomores in
the news is the fact that we had a
pre-Halloween Ball in the Wilbert F.
Steele Dining Hall. Sophomores are
still in the Bennett News. This year
more than ever we are planning to
make the headlines. This is our story
and this is our song. What do you
think of it? As for me, ”I Love the
Sophomores.”
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