f^RCHIVES
Commencement
June 2
THE BENNETT BANNER
“Believing that an informed campus is a Key to Democracy*
■^ennett College
"Medea”
May 30
Chapel Steps
VOL. XXV NO. 6
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
[AY, 1958
Addie Watson Reigns As May Queen
Bennett, Skidmore Have
TwO'Wee\ Exchanges
Six girls from Skidmwrp. College.
Saratoga Springs, New York, recent
ly spent two weeks on the Bennett
campus in connection with ithe stu
dent exchange iprogram ibetween
Bennett and Skidmorp
These girls, most of whom had
never been south before, attended
classe and participated in mam^ of
the college’s activities.
The students were: Andrea Mau-
nier, junior, art major, Westwood.
New Jersey; Kay Carmel, sopiho-
more, art history major, Brooklyn.
New York; Avis Pomeranz. sopiho-
more, chemistry major, Maplewood.
New Jersey; Carolyn Salminen. jun-
ior. history major, Beachers, New
York; Phyllis Kaufman, junior, po
litical science major, Brooklyn. New
York; and Helen Lienhard, junior,
history major, Hartford, Connecti
cut.
The Skidmore girls were particu
larly inter^ted In .soiuthern .educa
tion and racial problems.
BENNETT GIRLS
The Bennett exchange students to
Skidmore were: Fannie Miles, sen
ior, English major, Brooklyn, New
York; Yvonme Wynne, senioi, music
education major Jamaica, New
York; Marion Grant elementary ed
ucation major, Macon, Georgia:
Sarah Lawrence, junior, French ma
jor, Evanston, Illinois; Helen Mc-
Eachern, junior, music major, Ro
land, North Carolina; and Nannie
Poole, j'unior. biology major. Balti-
jnore, Maryland.
Holyoke College, South Hadley,
Massachusetts, and Sarah Lawrence
College, Bronxville, New York are
the 'two other colleges with which
Bennett exchanges students for a
two-week period
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Barbara Ccmpbell
New Banner Editor
Barbara Campbell, ’59, was dect-
ed by the members o fthe ’57-’58
Banner staff as the Editor-in-chief
for the term ’58-’59. The present
news editor was elected unamiously
after two weeks of debate and in
vestigation on the part of the nomi
nating committee of the student body
and the Banner Staff.
Proudly itihe Banner announces its
new editor, as Barbara is capable
and deserving of the post. She is
interested in the area of Journalism
and anticipates this area as her
life’s work.
Barbara has expressed the desire
of maintaining high journalistic
taste and scholarship in the future-
issues of the Banner. An interested,
vivacious person we are sure of a
bigger and better Banner for ’58-’59.
Miss Campbell is a member of
Alpha Kappa Mu, an English Major
and a Commercial Education minor.
She is a gradoiate of Dudley High
School, where she served on the
panthers’ Claw staff.
Christening Services
To Be Held On
Motlier's Day
The traditional Mother’s Day Serv
ice win be held in the Annie Memer
Pfeiffer Chapel on May 11 at 4:00
p.m
At this time, the annual christen
ing service will be held for children
of the Bennett Alumnae. The Bennett
Family respects and upholds this
tradition as one of the most sacred
of the academic year.
The names of the children and
their parents have not been releas
ed. Speaker for this service will be
the Rev. J. S. Thomas, of Nashville,
Tennessee
MOMENT OF INSPIRATION—Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, presi
dent of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga., who delivered the
closing address at the 32nd Annual Homemaking Institute at
Bennett College, talks with one of the visiting Youth Day’s
delegates and her Bennett College friend while another dele
gate, despite warnings, looks straight at the cameraman. Left
to right: Miss Ruth Dobson of Yadkin High School, Yadkin-
ville; Miss Clara Carter. Bennett College junior, also of Yad-
kinville; and Miss Marlene Miller of Carver High School, Win
ston-Salem.
A and T Drill Team
Honor Guard
Members of the A&T Air Force
ROTC driU team 'guarded the May
Queen Addie Watson, and her court
during the annual May Day exer
cises on May 7.
Her attendants were: Joan Cooley
and Loretta Richmond, seniors,
who wore green dresses; Theoria
Houston and Mary Shoffner, juniors,
who wore blue dresses; Bar
bara Pendargraph and Catherine
Lawson, sophomores, who wore pink
dresses; and Gloria Adams and
Lynda Hill, .freshmen, who wore
yellow dresses.
Agatha Ricks announced the
many exercises — the square
dance, tap dance, driU team,
wrapping of the may pole, parade
of sports, skating, tumbling, and
dance group numbers.
Music was furnished by Wil
lie Jackson and Sandra Whitfield.
Mrs. Dolly Turner and Miss Joyce
Jtihnson. directors of the phy.sical
education d^artment, stated that
all the numbers on the program
were taken directly from the oo-
ourricular and regular classes of
the physical education department.
Each group was responsible for its
own make-up, costumes, scenery,
and properties
Pennsylvania Methodist Youth Group
Studys Bennett’s Activities
A Methodist Youth Fellowship
group from Old Forge Pa., visited
the campus recently on a field trip
as a part of their study in the area
ot race relations
A four point program was the
Senior Vesper Set
For May 18
May 18 has been set as the date
for the traditional Senior Vesper
Service.
During the usual Sunday four
o’clock services, seniors have the
full responsibility of the regular
participants.
Seniors were elected to serve in
the medium of the president, the
coUege Chaplin, the choir directress
and a speaker. Sonia Louden will
serve as the speaker, Frances
Thruston will conduct the devotions
in the stead of Rev. Bryan and Ge
neva Baldwin will read the scrip
ture lesson, a regular senior re
sponsibility.
Eleanor Bell and Delores Jack
son will serve as choir directresses.
All marshalls for this occasion will
be seniors.
groups’ means of studying and com- volved in better Christian race re-
ing to Bennett. The points were— lations and 4, to learn wthat the
I To understand the curriculum ,''^®thodist Church is doing i"
of the school. 2. to share in ourla'^as of race relations and higher
living experience, 3. to attempt to i * fv,ot
learn some of the problems in- K ^as interesting ^ note tot
i these thirteen youth and four adults
are from an area of Pennsylvania
completely void of a Negroid popu
lation. In an interview with the
group, this reporter learned that
this was the first time south for
the youth.
Among the comments the group
made about the institution were
those of the general and informal
atmosphere of the campus, the food,
the classes and the entire school
situation.
■Riose persons in the group were
Miss Evelyn Mann, advisor, the Rev.
Stanley Menking, Mr. and Mrs. Ed.
Grzvwinski and the following youths.
Joyce Rowlands, Frances Castel-
lani. Janet CasteUani. Pat Thomas,
Pearl Petro, Sandra Tyler, Judy
Marsih, Joan Miller, William Sea
man. George Colbum, Wayne Phil
lips Johnson Miers and Frank
Richards.
Dances Commence
Spring Social Life
The 1958 spring social activities
got underway with the Senior Class
I Dance, however the ‘Frosh’ stole the
I .show with their Annual Spring
j Dance. The theme was the “Whirl-
i ^ ■ pool of Lovers.” It was a gala af-
TEA FOR A QUEEN—^Miss Add e Watson (extreme right) . a senior, of Charlotte, N. C., this fair with the camipus cuties decked
year’s May Queen at Bennett College, is served by Miss Carolyn Purvis of Greensboro at a [out in their cool cottons The dance
tea Piven in her honor. The tea was a “Performance Examination” for the Family Life section was a success and was enjoyed by
of the freshman education course taught bv Mrs. Louise Streat. Others in photo, left to right, the Freshman and the many high
are Misses Kay Henry, Greensboro; Linda Brown, Akron, Ohio; and Carole Watson, Castalia, school seniors who were on campus
jyj ^ for the Youth Day Activities