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THE SKIRL
MARCH 3, 1953
THE SKIRL
Published semi-monthly by the Student Body of Flora Macdonald
College, Red Springs, North Carolina.
YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION - ONE DOLLAR
CO-EDITORS Jean Johnson, Ann McGirt
BUSINESS MANAGER Mary McCracken
PHOTOGRAPHIC EDITOR Mary Ella Mize
ART EDITOR Doris Dunn
ADVERTISING STAFF Gina Gray — Betty Jo Richardson
Sara Reynolds — Becky Ingram
Betty Hamilton — Dot Anderson
Ellen Howard — Connie Boykin
Shirley Hudgins — Mary Sue Williams
Elmira Stanford
CIRCULATION MANAGER Jean Morris
REPORTERS DeLanie Boney — Barbara Hill
Nancy Andrews — Mary Ella Mize
Dot Hamilton — Lucille Graham
Elizabeth McIntosh
TYPISTS Bobbie Brown — Dottie Shaw McGraw
Jeannette McNeill — Janis Garrett
Mary Jewel Short — Mary Hale
FACULTY ADVISOR Mr. Thomas E. Wright
We Salute
Under The Dome
By GINA GRAY
Because of a heavy semester schedule, Betty Lou Lamb
has found it necessary to resign as editor of The Skirl. We
all regret that Betty Lou had to do this, and the entire student
body joins the staff in expressing appreciation to her for the
fine job which she has performed during her editorship. Al
though being the first editor of a newspaper and getting it
organized properly is certainly a tremendous task, Betty Lou
has truly worked diligently and thus done much to establish
our newspaper—which we hope will be a growing asset
through the years.
Incidentally, Betty Lou is still very much interested in
the newspaper and is constantly giving valuable help and
guidance to the staff.
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Let*s Take A Walk
Although the calendar says spring isn’t due for quite
sometime yet, the weatherman has been coming up with some
mightly lovely days. If you’re one of the many here on the
campus who haven’t visited the gardens lately, why not take
advantage of this spring-like weather by taking at least a
short walk through them. They are filled with not only well-
known flowers but also many rare varieties of camellias,
azaleas, and others. Our gardener spends a great deal of time
rebuilding the paths and working the flower beds and is most
willing to make your trip enjoyable by showing you various
kinds of plants.
Come on; let’s go to the gardens!
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One Student Expresses It For All
I think that I can speak for all of the FMC girls when I
say that we’re glad to have Evelyn Boyd back with us. It’s
mighty nice to pass her in the halls, see her warm smile and
exchange a few words of greeting after such a long time.
We hope that you’re feeling as well as you look, Evelyn. We
missed you and we’re glad to have you back!
—Nancy Wilkinson.
Hammond Grocery Co.
“For the Best—
Use Camel Flour”
Laurinburg, N. C.
McNeil Shop
“Ladies' Ready-tc-Wear”
Laurinburg, N. C.
LUMBERTON MUSIC STORE
Home of Baldwin Pianos — Grand Spinet Studios
Piano Repairing and Tuning
Phone 3730 Lumberton, N. C.
Compliments Of
McDuffie furniture co.
Lumberton, N. C.
This is the second of a series of
articles dealing with the cabinet
members, associates and assist
ants of the Eisenhower adminis
tration. In this column we hope
to bring to the reader a broader
knowledge and insight regarding
the present status of national af
fairs. , In this issue we will dis
cuss Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor
and Secretary of Interior Doug
las McKay. These members are
not necessarily run in order ac
cording to their importance.
Lieutenant General Maxwell
D. Taylor has assumed the post
of Commander of all U. N. ground
forces in Korea. This 51 year
old successor of Gen. Van Fleet
assumed his duties after numer
ous consultations with President
Eisenhower.
Gen. Taylor, as commander of
the 101st Airborne Division in
WW II, made quite a good show
ing in Normandy. Since then he
has become well acquainted with
the people of the Orient, in addi
tion to his more recent posts as
superintendent of the Military
Academy, and Deputy Chief of
Staff of the Army.
We all know Gen. Taylor has
many problems to face and try
to defeat. Among them are
those of troop rotation and the
training of troops to fight offen
sively.
What Gen. Taylor can do about
Korea, depends on the dicisions
of our president. In the mean
time, however, the proficient
handling of paratroops may be
causing the Communist generals
in Korea a few headaches and a
bit of uneasiness these days.
As Secretary of Interior, Eisen
hower chose the former governor
of Oregon, Douglas McKay, 59,
who is responsible for the con
serving and developing of the
rich natural resources of the na
tion.
McKay has made his position
clear. He favors the greatest
possible development of resour
ces . . . through the cooperation
of Federal and state governments
and private enterprise. He be
lieves in leaving the policy mat
ters and final operating control
in the hands of the “People who
live in and love the region.”
The statehood for Alaska and
Hawaii are strongly recommend
ed by McKay. From the turn of
events and opinions regarding
this matter, we can expect Hawaii
to add the forty-ninth star to our
American flag in the very near
future.
McKay, who considers himself
wholly “in the employ of Gen
eral Eisenhower,” says that all
comments on irrigation, reclam
ation and public power will have
to come from his chief.
Choral Club Sings
At Fort Bragg
Service Club 4 on Smoke Hill at
Fort Bragg was host to the Flora
Macdonald College Choral Club
Saturday evening, February 21.
The girls were carried by bus
to the post, and escorted gallant
ly by M. P’s. to the service club.
All the girls felt as observed as
if “all eyes of all Texas were up
on them”. After a few general
intro(Juctions, and the stage was
put in order, the Choral Club
presented a concert, the first
part of which consisted of a few
sacred numbers and the second
part of the program depicting
some of Flora Macdonald’s heri
tage by singing of some Scottish
songs and lighter numbers, fol
lowed by four of the Scottish
dancers doing the Foursome
Reel and the traditional High
land Fling. The program seem
ed well received. The confirma
tion of the last statement comes
About
Ogden Nash ...
Any Flossie Mac-er nourish
ing the idea that she must pain
fully suffer through a “stuffy
old lecture” here on the evening
of March 10 will be quite “a-
lama-ed” when she beholds and
hears the personality hailed as
“America’s uncrowned poet lau
reate”—Mr. Ogden Nash.
To quote the ATLANTIC MON
THLY, Ogden Nash is “God’s gift
to the United States”—^genuine
comic talent is nearly priceless.
Mr. Nash is our best literary
comedian since Will Rogers. He
has become, in a strictly Shake
spearian sense, America’s num
ber one fool, though in any other
sense he is nobody’s fool.
This American humorist and
poet was born Frederic Ogden
Nash in Rye, New York. After
going to St. George’s school in
Newport, Rhode Island, he be
came a student at Harvard.
He spent some years in the edi
torial and publicity department
of the publishing firm of Double
day, Doran and Co. In 1931 he
published two books of verse,
HARD LINES and FREE
WHEELING, both of which won
immediate recognition because
of the poet’s amusingly-free style
of writing. In that same year he
married Frances Rider Leonard
and made his home in Baltimore.
His wife and two daughters,
Linell Chenault (now Mrs.
John Marshall Smith) and Isa
bel Jackson, have been subjects
of many of his poems.
Retiring from publishing work
to devote his time to his own
writing, Nash became very noted
for his humorous verse which
appeared in a dozen periodicals
and in Hearst’s New York Jour
nal. He wrote more books: Hap
py Days, The Primrose Path,
(verse). The Bad Parents, Gar
den of Verse, I’m A Stranger
Here Myself, Face Is Familiar,
Good Intentions, Many Long
Ago (verse) and Versus. He be
came co-author with Kurt Weill
and S. J. Perelman in writing the
musical comedy entitled One
Touch of Venus. Today Nash is
a member of the National Insti
tute of Arts and Letters. He
still frequently contributes verse
to leading magazines.
It is said of Nash that he can
write not only verse with exag
gerated sprung rythms and fear
less rhymes but poems of deli
cate lyrical feeling or deep in
tensity. As Christopher More-
ley uniquely puts it, “He has be
come a social necessity”. . . .1 have
only one criterion for judging
authors; how many are there
without whom I could not pos
sibly have lived until now? Og
den Nash is one of them.”
Poems by Ogden Nash:
THE PARENT
Children aren’t happy with
nothing to ignore,
And that’s what parents were
created for.
THE OCTOPUS
Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,
Is those things arms, or is they
legs?
I marvel at the, Octopus;
If I were thou, I’d call me Us!
“MEM”
Remembers
You girls had better watch
how your coat labels are sewed
in from now on. Mr. Sinclair de
clares that ladies buy expensive-
name labels from stores and sew
them in coats—even sew them up
side down so they can easily be
read by the person sitting be
hind them when their coats are
thrown over a chair. He didn’t
say how he got his information
however.
And what’s this about that
laundry girl who’s going to bor
row an article of clothing from
one of the faculty members to
plan her house by? ? ?
“Horse” said she wouldn’t
really recommend walking up
the stairs with books stacked on
the head for health any more.
Just look what it did to her. Put
her in the infirmary for ah, so
long. Don’ know what effect it
had on Gina. She was still
around at the last checking-up.
Doris Tucker says there’s no
place Uke Raleigh for seeing
your school-mates whom you’re
always too busy to see at school.
She and Mary Haygood ran into
each other at the Ice Follies last
week-end.
“What would happen if Kath
erine McNeill stayed off the ro
tunda railing just one whole
day?” Hec, that’s anybody’s
guess. If it ever happens please
let this one know.
Hammond finally came out of
hibernating and joined civiliza
tion again. She’s really alive
and breathing and “just touch me
if you don’t believe it.”
That loud scream and yell over
on Morgan II wasn’t because Dot
tie Shaw pulled over the fire ex
tinguisher again. It was just
Nona welcoming Nell Ruth back
from Georgia. Nell Ruth said it
was snowing down there when
she left. Wish our neighbor
state would be generous and
share her blessings with this
section.
Norma Jean was about to be
too sure nobody could break in
to the T. Hole or coke machine
when she locked both those keys
up in the coke machine.
Some of the girls on Vardell
II have trouble sleeping nights.
Seems that Barbara C. talks all
the time—even when she’s asleep.
Some folks are still wonder
ing about that box of candy Bet
ty Jo Hatcher got for Valentine.
That was mighty fancy to be from
a friend of the family they tell
me.
That was a mighty good vol
ley ball serve Dr. Woodson gave
at the College Cook-out last week.
Too bad one of the classes can’t
sign him up for next year’s team.
Compliments Of
BelfcHensdale
fBclte
Red Springs, N. C.
from the fact that the service
men entertained the Choral
Club in fine fashion after the
concert by the music of Hal
Gore and band, and dancing.
Light refreshments were enjoyed
throughout the evening,
The evening was evidently a
success, as there have been num
erous comments pointing to the
fact that “a good time was had
by all!”
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Wife: “Do you have a good mem
ory for faces, dear?”
Husband: “Of course, I have.”
Wife: “That’s good. I just drop
ped your shaving mirror.”
McKellar Radio Service
Radio-Television Servic«
Red Springs, N. C.
Compliments of
J. C. Penny Co.
Fayetteville, N. C.
Compliment of
Louis J. Essey
Maxton, N. C.