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THE CECIL W. ROBBINS ItBRMr
LOUISBURG COU-EG£
l.OUISB'JRG. N.C. 27549
Kinfjdom
Volume IV
LOUISBURG COLLEGE, LOUISBURG,N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1945
Number 4
May Queen
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Uay-llay Fi^slival
Plannrd
Mary Goodwin by popular student
vote becomes Queien, and Vivian
Creech, Maid of Honor for the May-
Day festivities of 1945. The court
attendants are as follows: Mildred
Boney, Mildred Cox, Gladys Dicker
son, Ann Dunham, Helen Hasty, Sue
Hobbs, Louise Huff, Ann Johnson,
Bird Ramsey, Taylor Stevenson,
Emily Taylor, and Charlotte Usher.
These participants for the May Day
festivities were elected shortly after
a student meeting, Jan. 17.
Committees for the festival have
been appointed as follows; Music
committee: Hazel Case, Vivian
Creech, Rachel Jones, Marcelle King,
and Frances Merritt; costume
committee: Katharine Champion,
Frances Hedden, Barbara Howard,
Mattie Sneed, and Ann Whitehead;
dance committee: Jean Fodrie,
Mary Goodwin, Ann Johnson, Helen
IltiGty, ifl(*i’tiia KiHiC, laOiiise
Reeves; program committee; Mar
jorie Averitte, Dorothy Casey, Isa
belle Regan, Daphne Haire, Marion
Smith; properties committee: Cath
erine Cooke, Dorothy Cothran, Mary
Lee Hodges, Jackie Stallings, Ida
Lee White, and Louise Morgan;
publicity committee: Edna Rose
Graham, Margaret Gooch, Mary
Frances Morton, Ruth Strickland,
and Charlotte Usher; script com
mittee: Mildred Boney, Carolyn
Driver, Margaret Ann Hughes, Ida
Lassiter. Emily Taylor, and Helen
Thigpen.
The May-Day Festival is being
sponsored by the Girl’s Physical
Education Club and is under the
direction of Miss Crisp.
YWCA COMMITTEES
CHOSEN
Members of the YWCA were
chosen for the committees on which
they are to serve for the rest of the
year. These committees propose to
furnish opportunity for student de
velopment through interest in per
sonal and campus cultivation, com
munity and race problems, and
world fellowship.
These committees were selected
by the officers and committee chair-
(Con tinned on Page 3)
New Semester’s
Resolutions
I will go to breiikfast every day.
I will skip classes only when
necessary.
I will siH’iid less time (lowii the
street.
I will siKMMl nioi'e Sundays on
the ciimpus.
I will attend at least one church
service each Sunday.
‘I will u.se niy time better—“Play
when I play; %vork when I
work.”
I will give more of my atten
tion to tlie teacher while in
class.
I will six'nd less money at the
bookstoi'e.
I will cooperate when others
have jjlans.
I will go out more for sports.
I will be more careful about get
ting calldowns.
I will go to the show only once
a week.
Students Attain Semester
Honors rn Scholarship
One great highlight of the col
lege year happens four times a year
—the honor roll, "('olunins” is happy
to announce the students who have
won this distinction at the end of
the first semester.
HO.NOU KOMy
Kirst Semester l!)44-4.>
Rank Standing' Students
FRATERNITIES ISSUE BIDS
1
3.00
Whitehead. Anne
2
2.94
Howard, Barbara
2.85
Thorson. Barbara
4
2.82
Thigpen, Helen
4
2.82
Boyd, Peggy
6
2.76
Cartar, Blanche
7
2.71
Usher, Charlotte
8
2.65
Kittrell, Edith
8
2.65
Doxey, Earldine
10
2.59
Dickerson, Gladys
10
2.59
Allen, Jean
10
2.59
Swain, Norma
13
2.53
McGill, Ann
14
2.47
Autry, Elinor
IS
2.3 5
Hasty, Helen
18
2.35
Kennedy, Dorothy
18
2.35
Ward, Mary Stroud
22
2.33
Liskey, Ida Mae
2,3
2.29
Taylor, Emily
24
2.24
Boney, Mildred
24
2.24
Clegg, Mary Margaret
24
2.24
Woodleif, Alice Grey
27
2.19
Driver, Carolyn
28
2.18
Burkhart, Margaret
28
2.18
Carroll, Harold
28
2.18
Casey, Dorothy
28
2.18
Cutrell, Clifford
28
2.18
Cooke, Catherine
28
2.18
Fearing, Mollie
28
2.18
White, Ida Lee
35
2.11
Currin, Marjorie
35
2.11
Taylor, Mary Frances
37
2.10
Eckhoff, Bradley
38
2.06
Stephenson, Taylor
38
2.06
Regan, Isabelle
40
2.05
King, Marcelle
41
2.00
Flythe, James
41
2.00
Morton, Frances
41
2.00
Dunham, Ann
41
2.00
Gooch, Margaret
41
2.00
Mills, Shirley
41
2.00
Oakley, Mary Frances
41
2.00
Whitehurst, Earline
Pains and I’leasures of Reports
Youths Honored
In Program
Boys soon to leave for the armed
services were recognized at the
chapel hour Jan. 8. Students hon
ored were Fred Davis, to be inducted
into the Infantry at Fort Bragg;
Rob Bickle, to enter the Navy, at
Baltimore; and Junius Creech, to
enter the Merchant Marines, at
Norfolk.
Dr. Patten led in prayer and read
the Scripture. Taylor Stephenson
sang “The Star.” Mr. Kilby told
the purpose of the program.
Charlotte Usher paid tribute to
Fred Davis as one possessing sterl
ing character, and she mentioned
his many campus offices: during his
first year, president of the YMCA
and of the junior class; member of
Phi Theta Kappa, of Beta Phi Gam
ma; sports editor for “Columns”;
member of the Central Religious
Council, and of a Cell Group, and a
junior marshal. To these junior
honors were added new senior
(Continued on Page 3)
Holden Honored
by Beta Phi
Eaton Holden, former Louisburg
student and Beta Phi Gamma mem
ber, now serving in the armed
forces, was honored at a function
given by Beta Phi (iamnia in the
Faculty Parlor at the chapel hour
Jan. 11. Carol Bessent read “Ode
to Louisl)urg’' to a l)ackground of
nriisic played by Ida Liskey. Re
freshment.-; of ice cream, cakes, pea
nuts, cheere crackers, and olives
were served. Charlotte Usher, presi
dent of Beta Phi Gamma, presented
Eaton a box of air-mail stationery
from the fraternity.
Invited guests were Clara Lee
Bailey, Carol Bessent, Tilly Eakes,
Mollie Fearing, Woodson Fearing^
Evelyn Anne Garrett, Mary Good
win, Dorothy Kenendy, Talraadge
Lancaster, Ida Liskey, Allison Mod-
lin, and Hobart Wilson. The Beta
Phi (iamma members were Miss
Merritt, sponsor; Miss Peters, asso
ciate member; Charlotte Usher,
president; Barbara Thorson, vice-
president; Mary Strowd Ward, secre
tary; and Mary Lee Hodges, treas
urer.
FRANKLIN IS THEME
OF CHAPEL
PROGRAM
Benjamin Franklin’s birthday was
commemorated in chapel on Jan. 19.
Mr. Carmichael had charge of the
program. He led the devotional with
the reading of Hebrews 12 and a
short prayer written by Franklin.
He gave a brief sketch of Franklin’s
work in the field of public service.
Mildred Cox and Langill Watson
were the student speakers. Mildred
described the early life of Franklin;
his birth into a Puritan environ
ment; his education in grammar
school and later in England; his
habit of avid reading; his love for
writing; and, notwithstanding his
father’s desire for him to become a
minister, apprenticeship to his
brother in newspaper work and later
his starting a newspaper of his own.
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Peace Plans
Discussed By I R C
The Atlantic Charter and the
I)uml)arton Oaks Conference as
means of future world peace were
discussed at the meeting of the IRC
on Jan. 11.
The members of the YWCA were
special guests at the meeting.
Frances Merritt, president of the
VWCA, read the Scripture; and Miss
Merritt, sponsor, lead in prayer.
The discussion was opened by
liangill Watson, president of the
IRC. Floyd Evans spoke and led
the discussion on the Atlantic
Charter. He emphasized that tlie
principles of tlie Atlantic Charter
were the ideal and Christian prin-
cj-ples oii which to base wurif? peace'.
Clifford Cuthrell spoke and lead the
discussion on the Dumbarton Oaks
Conference. He said that the At
lantic Charter was the ideal prin
ciple of future peace and that the
Dumbarton Oaks Conference was
held to work out a i)lan for future
world peace based on the principles
of the Atlantic Charter.
Lively discussion follow'ed. The
group concluded that there was still
work to be done before future peace
would be secure.
Mark llnffiiiaii
(iiv€5S Concert
Mark Hoffman, distinguished pi
anist and dean of the school of
music at Greensboro College, was
the guest artist in the second of the
annual Concert Series, Jan. 10.
The artist’s selections were taken
from Alkan-McDowell, Beethoven,
Chopin, Debussy, Grandos, and
Scarlotti-Tansy.
The concert was attended by a
large number of the students and
by guests from the town.
The hearty applause given by the
audience implied the success of the
concert. The numbers were pre
sented with a precision and under
standing interpretation that won the
enthusiastically evidenced apprecia
tion of the hearers.
TAey'ff do It Every Time
(Revised for College Campus)
Throw the cover over the bed, will you, roommate? We’ll clean up the room next period. Now
to throw on a kerchief and dash down to history before the last bell rings. Horrors! My pen
is out of ink. Everything happens to me on Monday. Swish! down the stairs—past the da^-
keeper: ‘Hey! Hold that bell just a moment, will you?”
Safe at last! Just inside the classroom door and the bell rings its mournful tune. No Mr.
Kilby—and all that rushing! Well, I’ll dash into the next room and trim my pencil. Five min
utes later—still no Mr. Kilby! Do you suppose? No! Nothing so good could happen to me—not
when I haven’t prepared my assignment. Eight minutes passed! Nine! Oh, my stars! I forgot
to read the article he assigned in the library. Then, on the ninth minute and the forty-ninth
second—“Good morning!” Yes, Mr. Kilby! Oh well; too late now. I can at least read over my
notes while he checks the roll—The title of the chapter is—No! That can’t^be! Ohh! “Mr.
Kilby, may I be excused just a moment? I brought the wrong notebook down.” So, up to the
room to exchange notebooks! Now, where is that book? I had it last night—Here it is. But the
notes! They aren’t in here! Mr. Kilby must have finished the roll ages ago, and here I stand in
the middle of a haystack of—of stuff trying to find a needle. “I was in the bed when I took
the notes, but I wrote letters after. Here they are—under the teddy bear!”
At last! Back to class—as if nothing has happened. That question Mr. Kilby just asked—
“What did Nap—Nap—” anyway, what did he do? I remember writing it in my notes some
where. Let’s see—Well, this is the last straw! Botany notes!
New-Semester Activity
Enlivens Campus
The three honorary fraternities^
Meta Phi Gamma, Alpha Pi Epsilon,
and Phi Theta Kappa, have Issued
bids to students with outstanding
achievement for the first semester.
Uchi Phi Gcimiiici
The Rho Chapter of Beta Phi
(iamma, the junior-college division
of the national honorary journalistic
fraternity of Alpha Phi Gamma,
tapped new members for the fra
ternity Fel). 2. The new members
were chosen for tapping in view of
work done in the journalistic field
on “I’olumns” and The Oak. The
new pledgees were scholastically In
the upper two-thirds of the student
body. Preceding the lapping the
old members of the club conducted
the adopted chapel pre-tapping cere
mony and also referred to the
history of the fraternity in Louis
burg College and the bases on which
members are chosen.
A large Beta Phi Gamma banner
was suspended at the rear of the
stage and tables hearing symbols of
journalism were used as speakers’
stands.
The students in the order of tap
ping were Dorothy Kennedy, Mar-
celle King, Ijiingill Watson, Mary
Frances Oakley, Allyne Smith, Jean
Allen, Talmadge Lancaster, Dorothy
Casey, and Barbara Howard.
Bob Bickle, who had left to join
the Navy, had been tapped at a
“Columns” staff meeting the previous
week and later given the secret
initiation. Bob was assistant editor
of “Columns.”
The" niTie~iIew pledgees were initl~
ated with the official ceremony held
in the Faculty Parlor at 8 p. m.,
Feb. 7. Charlotte Usher, president;
Barbara Thorson, vice-president;
Mary Strowd Ward, secretary; and
Mary Lee Hodges, treasurer, con
ducted the initiation ceremony. Bob
Bickle conducting the pledgees to
the entrance. The secret vows were
given. A so('ial hour followed, when
informal conversation and recorded
music furnished entei’tainment. A
bullet supi)(n- was served. Those
Ijresent besides the initiates and of-
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Mrs. Bailey Speaks
AtY
Mrs. R. G. Bailey of Mills High
School faculty led forum discussions
at the YWCA meeting .fan. 4 and IS.
Mrs. Bailey centered her discus
sion around’ an "Oi)inion Test”
which included questions on such
problems as personal ethics, race
adjustment, and war.
The leader declared, “As we think
of these things we must bring in
the word discipline. Discipline in
Christian living will help us to solve
these problems.”
In her second discussion Mrs.
Bailey took those (luestions not
finished at the first meeting and ex
plained more definitely the task con
fronting young college students for
today and tomorrow.
In the first discussion Alice Ma
rie Woodlief read the Scripture and
led in prayer, after which the
speaker was introduced by Mary Lee
Hodges, In the second discussion
Louise Huff read the Scripture and
introduced the speaker. Carol Bes
sent sang a solo, “My Task.’’
(please
in Golumns Register
Alumni of Ix)uisburK Colloffe,
both in service and in civilian
life—all of you, plea.s« remem
ber, when visit inK the campus, to
sign in X)IjIJMi\S IteRlstcr in
order to l-avo for Alma Mater a
cherished I’word of yourself.