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COLUMNS
Saturday, February 8, 1947
Photographer, Richard M. West
eatiii}>', worUius, studies, and religious lit'o are all a vital part ot
Ix)uisburg’s future.
Louisburg College Looks Ahead
Louisburg looks forward: With
a glorious past for a setting, the
beehive of industry enshrouds its
campus at present and suggests the
improvements of the future that
shall make Louisburg a better
place in which to live and work.
The coming days promise the
brightest days in the history of
this institution of one hundred six
ty years. Out of old Franklin Acad
emy and Louisburg College is
growing a new institution. A
school for the enlightening of the
students and the upbuilding of his
mind, and the best possible educa
tion—mandatory for the role the
students are to play in civil, social,
economic, and religious life. Louis-
burg’s aspirations are becoming a
reality; its goal lies in full view.
The advent of veterans to the
campus has brought an increased
enrollment and a demand for more
and better subjects. The United
States Government has shown its
interest by approving a much need
ed science building and cafeteria.
The scicncc building will contain
facilities for biology, chemistry,
physics, and other sciences, includ
ing math. These projects are now
being processed by the proper fed
eral authorities. In addition a unit
for eight married vets is in the
final process of construction, also a
unit for twenty single vets.
Because of the veterans’ insistent
request, summer school will be held
here, July 14-Aug. 16. Previously
summer sessions have seemed im
practical but now are regarded as
another step in the school’s prog
ress.
Major assets already partially
realized are a total endowment of
$350,000 from the Methodist Col
lege Advance, new buildings and
equipment from the government,
and the endowment of $50,000 by
Mr. James H. Gray of Winston-
Salem. One of the most encourag
ing things in the future will be the
raise in the instructors’ salaries.
Louisburg looks forward to the
day when it will be recognized by
the Southern Association of Col
leges. The day is apparently not
far off when Louisburg will assume
a more significant role as a major
junior college.
Louisburg College looks ahead.
Paseant of College to Be NeWS Reporting
Wriiiicn by Dr. Spence Becomes Magic
Where Are They?
“Has anyone seen the Beta Phi
Gamma group?” “Yes, I saw some
of them on the front steps a few
minutes ago.” “Let’s go, Dick. We
must get their picture for The
Oak!” “Where is your coat and
tie?” These have all been familiar
phrases echoing around the campus
these past few weeks. Pictures for
The Oak and for Columns have
kept everyone on the double.
“Change that dress,” someone
says. Someone else says, “Smile”;
Miss Smith Speaks to M S F
Miss Euline Smith, returned mis
sionary from Korea, spoke to the
Methodist Student Fellowship on
present conditions and prospects in
Korea, Sunday evening, Jan. 26.
In 1941, when Korea was in
vaded and overtaken by the Japa
nese, Miss Smith had to leave that
country and the people she loved to
return to America; but now again,
after five years of waiting, she is
ready to return as soon as she can
obtain passage.
She represents the Koreans as
sincere in their Christian beliefs
and earnestly desirous of becoming
an independent people.
Being in control of Russian oc
cupation forces in the northern and
the Americans in the southern half,
Koreans, preferring American con
trol, have crowded into the south
ern area, crossing the border under
cover of darkness or by some other
plan.
Miss Smith uttered a challenge to
youth to enter foreign Christian
service and spoke of the inspiration
the opportunity has meant to her.
and others: “Don’t look so solemn”;
“Hold your chin up—ready?”
“The student counsel pictures are
being taken in the faculty parlor.”
“Click! It’s all over!”—“No, it’s
just begun.”
“All superlatives will dress for
pictures tomorrow.” “Now where
did Butch and Bill go?—they were
here. ... I turned my back and they
vanished.” “Get them while I look
for some more flash-bulbs.”
“Couldn’t we get the Alpha Phi
group in their robes now?” “Where
did Margie go?—I simply must find
her.”
“The cheer leaders are next.”
Thus these past weeks have
brought their hectic moments with
a rush and a hustle, every other
one looking over the entire school
for the other one.
When May arrives we’ll be glad
to get The Oak with a photograph
ic record of the events of the past
—but the vivid memory of them
already belongs to us.
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May Day program of this year
at Louisburg is to be the enactment
of the history of the school dating
from 1787 to 1947. Dr. H. E.
Spence, writer of a number of re
ligious and educational pageants,
and professor of religious education
in Duke Divinity School, is now
writing the script for this drama,
to be given May 2 on the front
steps of Main Dormitory. The cast
will be’composed of students from
both the junior and senior classes.
Plans for the occasion provide for a
May King and a Queen and court
attendants. In place of the usual
dances and stunts the college his
tory is to be enacted.
Dr. Spence was the author of uni
versity historical drama, directed
by him and presented at Duke Uni
versity in the centennial celebra
tions of 1938. Dr. Spence, who
extensively writes religious articles
for various periodicals, has written
also several books, the latest of
which is Holidays and Holy Days,
a collection of religious pageants
that have been given under his di
rection in churches and schools.
Before going to Duke University
to expand the department of relig
ion there. Dr. Spence was in the
Methodist pastorate. He is recog
nized as one of the few in the field
of religious drama furthering the
use of dramatic symbols in the
Protestant Religion. He is now
Chairman of the Board of Educa
tion of the North Carolina Method
ist Conference and a trustee of
Louisburg College.
New Americana Added
To Library
A new 1946 edition of the Ency
clopedia Americana has recently
been added to Louisburg library
shelves. Containing 30 volumes,
the new encyclopedia is beautifully
bound in blue, with silver lettering.
This Americana, the only edition
published since 1932, will replace
the old 1920-28 edition.
The new volumes have been
brought up to date regarding the
latest scientific development, and
its biographies have been revised in
accordance with the present day.
Containing 66,000 articles, 6,600 il
lustrations, and a 700-page index,
this new encyclopedia will be
found “especially good in the fields
of applied sciences, technology,
business, and government.”
“The day of newspaper reporters
dashing to the telephones amidst a
scramble for nickels may soon be a
thing of the past,” declares Auto
mobile Facts in a recent issue, “as
more and more newspapers adopt
radio- telephone equipped automo
biles for on-the-spot news coverage.
“First attempted by a daily
paper in St. Louis, the use of mo
bile radio-telephone equipment by
newspapers has spread through the
country.
“In its first full day of use by a
Detroit newspaper, a mobile unit
carrying a reporter and a photogra
pher, was dispatched by the city
editor to the scene of two murders,
a traflSc fatality, a fire, and a
drowning in quick succession.
“In another instance, three min
utes after two convicts had been
captured in an abandoned garage on
the outskirts of Detroit, the story
I was being written in the city room
of the paper.
“Accompanying the searching
party in a mobile unit, reporters
were on the scene as the capture
was made.
“Plugging in the telephone on the
I car’s dashboard, they immediately
dictated an account of the action
as it happened.”
As for the civilians—they have
something to look forward to also.
They will plug their telephones in
on the dashboard of their cars, and
maybe some Sunday while they are
riding, mother will think of the
electric iron she left on in the
Kitchen. All she will have to do is
call her next-door neighbor and ask
her please to go over and turn off
her iron. Then father may call
London, Paris, Berlin, or Holly
wood right from the automobile as
he rides along—Yes, it’s a matter
as simple as that. Apparently it
will soon be ours to add more com
fort and joy to our lives.
STUDENTS ACHIEVE HONORS
(Continued from Page 1)
Hardy Mills
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Bryant, Douglas
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Dixon, Aubrey
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Baker, Walter
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Von Cannon, Peggy
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Collawn, Frances
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Hayes. Grace
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Byrd, Earl
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Burchett, John
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Freeman, Leonard
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Davis, Frances
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Hargrove. Herman
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Johnson, Robert
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Hunt, Gordon
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Hunter, Clyde
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Peele, Margie
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Peedin, Lola
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Sniithdeal, William
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It’s Chow Lines Again
What’s this? No? It can’t be
the line for lunch! Hey, come back
here where I am! How did you
manage to get that far up?
This entanglement was brought
about when for the first time the
cafeteria style of serving was insti
tuted here at Louisburg College be
cause of the shortage of help in the
kitchen and dining hall.
For some this plan proved quite
new and fascinating, but for the
most of us this was just part of the
old life. Having become accustomed
once more to the white tablecloths
and the feeling of home, most of us
were already skeptical as to the
outcome.
However, with more than a week
elapsed, we are becoming used to
the change. Everyone has begun
to see the many advantages af
forded by this style of serving
rather than looking for its disad
vantages, as we are too often tempt
ed to do.
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When I look up from
painting, eyes tired
out,
The walls bee o m e
illumined . . .
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While hand and eye
and something of a
heart
Are left me, work’s
my ware ... ^
♦ • • ♦
One picture, just one
more.
—Browning.
Of course this picture flatters him.
fiut he is a fellow that should be
flattered. Hardy hails from the capi
tal city of North Carolina, from a
tamily wiith three brothers and a
sister. Hardy was attending high
school when World War II started
and left school to join the Army. At
fort Bragg he was put in the field
artillery and later sent overseas to
Italy, whei-e he remained for l.'i
months. When the war ended, he re
turned to Raleigh decided to complete
high school and later go to art school.
Finding that Louisburg College was
giving a refresher course for vet
erans, Han-dy with about twenty
other veterans, came to Louisburg
Hi February, 194 6, and later re
ceived his high school diploma. Find
ing out that the art school w’as filled
at the start of the fall term of 1946.
he decided to come back to Louisburs
to study before entering art school.
As everybody knows. Hardy (some
times called Junior) can really draw
comic pictures: and he loves to draw'
tliem. At first, he seems to have dis
covered and practiced only his com
ics. Now, though, under the instruc
tion of his art teacher, Mrs. Stuart
Davis, of Louisburg, and on his own
initiative, he is launching into vari
ous phases of art: pastel studies;
nature paintings in watercolors’;
charcoal sketches, some of them por
traits: these mediums soon to be fol
lowed by work in oils.
Hardy’s attempts in the different
fields of art are not the main indi
cation of his being an artist. Rather
he is to be judged by the excellence
of his product and perhaps just as
much, or more, by the glow ot inter
est on his face when he modestly
mentions a drawing or painting he
is working on or plans to begin.
Though Hardy is a hard, rapid
vt'orker, he is seldom caught up, for
the demands on his art ability are
constant and insistent: and he is so
generous with his talent that he has
not learned that simple but powerful
little word no.
This readiness to accommodate
suggests other charming traits of
Hardy s nature: unusual friendliness
social adaptibility, originality, and
high principles of character.
If any student, new or old, .has
missed knowing Hardy, that student
has missed a major personality of
Louisburg life — whom COLUMNS
considers it a privilege to introduce
and to honor.
PHILLIPS SPEAKS
(Continued from Page 1)
as “Cousin Jim,” officially as di
rector of the youth assemblies each
summer at Louisburg College.
He announced Troy Barrett,
Louisburg College graduate, class
of ’42, as recently appointed di
rector of student work for the
Methodists in North Carolina.
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