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THE SKIRL
TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1955
THE SKIRL
“THE SKIRL” and the “PINE and THISTLE” are pubUshed
semi-monthly by the Student Body of Flora Macdonald College,
Red Springs, North Carolina.
YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION — THREE DOLLARS
EDITOR Ruth Evelyn Topping
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Dotti Morris
BUSINESS MANAGER Anita Williamson
ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MANAGER Elise Williams
CIRCULATION MANAGER Evelyn Taylor
CONSERVATORY EDITOR Julia Naugle
SPORTS EDITOR Sandra Sweet
REPORTERS Mickie Jernigan, Helma Jean Thomas
Becky Williams, Betsy Fleshman
Dot Hamilton, Rosa Moore
Frances Shaw, Mary Ruth McLean
Pat Clark
BUSINESS STAFF Becky Taylor, Carolyn Austin,
Betsy Brewer, Joyce Ivey,
Pat Farmer, Jean Stuart West,
Barbara Wingate, Shirley Evans
Helma Jean Thomas
PHOTOGRAPHER Shirley Davis
FACULTY ADVISER Mr. Thomas Wright
EDITING COMMITTEE . Miss Harriet Morrison, Mr. David Tatum
Leaders Uphold Ideals
Last week, twelve students
pledged their fealty as lead
ers of Flora Macdonald Col
lege.
That leadership is dominant
in every phase of living has
been realized by animals and
human beings. Leaders are
found in any group — from
migrating birds to nations of
the world.
Humility, obedience, reason,
judgement, courtesy, and mag
netic personality are qualities
of a good leader. Those who
are chosen to lead know how to
follow, how to command a
difficult situation with ease
and how to compel people to
love them.
A person who wishes to be
come a leader must remember
that information, ideas, and un
derstanding will not remain un-
notced forever. One who has
studied a situation thoroughly
and has experienced that situa
tion is well qualified to lead.
THE silRL wishes to compli
ment the new council upon at
taining their positions and chal
lenges them to uphold the stan
dards of learship and to follow
ideally the greatest Leader.
Personality Portrait
by DOT HAMILTON
and ROSA MOORE
“Hello!” she calls in a cheer
ful voice, this friendly lit
tle lass,
This “mystery girl you’re try
ing to guess is in the sopho
more class.
To know her is to love her,
for she loves all others &nd
When she can aid in any
way, she lends a helping
hand.
Her eyes are dark and mean
ingful. her hair is shiny-
brown.
She’s simply dimply and sin
cere: she’ll rarely wear a
frown.
Her voice is poised and
beautiful; she’s filled with
warmth and glow.
Her boy friend calls her
“Christmas” cause she’s
just “so pretty and slow.'
A prayer-band leader; on A.
A. board; are you bec'in-
ning to see
Just who this girl from
Beulaville now might turn
out to be?
Her iitlle bird named “K.e
b'l” in her Vardell room
does flut;
This “mystery” girl’s no
other than our Lou Ann
Nethercutt.
Leadership
We are all blind until we
see
That in the human plan
Nothing is worth the making
If it does not make the man
Why build these cities
glorious,
If man unbuilded goes?
In vain we build the world,
unless
The builder also grows.
—Edwin Markham
Promptness
Robertson’s Ideal
Promptness in getting test pa
pers back on time and prompt
ness in any job she undertakes
accentuates Miss Carol Robert
son’s philosophy of life. She tries
to apply her philosophy in her
teaching through the conviction
that there are religious values
in teaching that should not be
overlooked. She believes that
history lends itself to calling at
tention to those values. She tries
to instill in her students the val
ue of a high scholastic standard
and of making their college ca
reers worthwhile. She firmly be
lieves that college should be
more than just a glorified high
school.
“College women,” states Miss
Robertson, “are due having in
struction pitched on the college
level.”
One should develop lasting
friendships in college and be
loyal to those friends. This is a
quality one can always respect
in others and one you always
hope to find in them. She also
believes that you should get
out of the rut of your everyday
routine and take your vacation
in order to get a change of scen
ery. Says Miss Robertson, “It
gives a lift to the spirit to get
cut of your environment.” In
the light of this conviction, her
history classes are made parti
cularly interesting because of
her travels abroad. She combines
a sense of humor with an inter
esting talk to make her subject
one which students will enjoy.
Rohinson Leads
Writers’ Club
In a meeting yesterday after
noon in the college parlors, offi
cers were elected for the 1955-
56 Writers’ Club.
Carolyn Robinson, a junior and
editor of PINE And THISTLE
will head the club as president.
Also on the council are Hazel
McLean as vice president, Shir
ley Davis as secretary, and Becky
Taylor as treasurer.
The purpose of the next meet
ing is to install and entertain
the new officers.
Farmer Presides
Members of the Honorary
Math Club in a called meeting
last Wednesday elected offi
cers for the coming year.
Gladys McCain, retiring presi
dent, presided over the elec
tions.
Chosen were Pat Farmer,
president; Carolyn Johnson,
vice-president; Thelma Bender,
corresponding secretary; Sarah
Goodman, recording secretary,
Elise Williams, treasurer; and
Betsy Brewer, finance chair
man.
The Math Club plans an
outdoor party for a future
m e et i n g . Requirement f o r
membership in the club is an
average of B or above.
To The Telephone Bug
You chat with Jean and Jane,
All gossips on your mind.
You parents should get a
phone
That’ll make you pay a dine.
Seminary Students Speak
Mr. Blake Bradely and Mr.
I'an Yinks, students at Union
Theological Seminary in Rich
mond, Virginia, spoke in chap
el on Tuesday, March 22. Mr.
Bradley is from Nashville,
Tennessee, and is a junior at
U. T. S. Mr. Yinks is a midd-
!er U. T. S. and is from New
York.
These two seminary students
are teaching Bible, emphasis
ing “The Life of Christ”, in
the 8th grade at the Red
Springs public school. They
were in Red Springs for one
week. Their work is part of
the Ministerial Exchange pro
gram between North Carolina
and Virginia.
Ml’. Bradley's and Mr. Yink’s
talks in chapel were on Christ’s
influence on their own lives.
They stressed the fact that
Christ must be a motivating
force. They pointed out the
Christ cannot be a form; he
has to make an impact on your
life.
Spring Holidays Bring Joy
Wade Addresses Group
At Business Supper
The Office Management
class of Flora Macdonald spon
sored a dinner in the college
dining room on Friday evening,
March 18, at which time Mr.
Charles B. Wade, Jr., Person
nel Manager of the R. J. Rey
nolds Tobacco Company of
Winston-Salem was the guest
speaker. Guests included stu
dents and facult of the col
lege, the Red Springs Rotary
Club, and office managers of
the community and nearby
towns.
Nell Lennon, president
of the Flora Macdonald Chap
ter of Future Business Leaders
of America and a member of
the Office Management Class,
presided. Guests were wel
comed by President Marshall
Scott Woodson and Rotary
President Cliarles Leigh, Jr.
The Flora Macdonald Choral
Club Ensemble provided music
for the occasion. Dorothy
Morris of Mocksville read
some of the regulations of a
mercantile business in the
1870’s, and Shirley Kiger
of Winston-Salem introduced
the sneaker.
By ROSA MOOKK
There is to be heard on the
halls of Flora Macdonald
around the 7th of April a joy
ous hustle that can mean only
one thing — the girls are
ready to go home for Spring
holidays. There will be heard
time and again the echo', of
“Hope you have a good time;
see you Monday!”
But these are only the
things you hear and the well-
dressed young ladies that you
say good-by to have been try
ing for weeks to decide what
“to wear home’’ and what
clothes to take for that long
week end. There have been
many bedroom conferences 'with
lively discussions concerning
what that new Easter outfic
will be and how to get that cer
tain Tom, Dick, or Harry to
give flowers that match, not
clash, with the carefully
planned “Welcome” to spring.
Roommates have devised
schem.e after scheme aimed at
snaring that lost boyfriend who
the “girl who didn’t go to col
lege’’ grabbed in the minute
:he left.
Not to be forgotten is
the most familiar remark
that you will hear, “We’ll be
home long enough to know
we’ve been thei‘e.” Even, if
to .most children Easter n.'jans
'tunnies and Easter eggs, the
thought is not too remote from
the minds of college students:
so don’t be too surprised to
hear someone say, “ All I want
to do is go on a Easter egg
hunt.”
Societies Elect Officers
Zetesian and Epsilon Chi socie
ties chose officers for the coming
jear at meetings Tuesday night
in their respective halls.
Epsilon Chi chose as presi
dent, Barbara Arrington; vice
president, Frances Shaw; secre
tary, Macel Cox; treasurer, Pat
Farmer; chaplain, Jean Stuart
West; censor, Shirley Kiger; pi
anist, Shirley Kerns.
Zetesian leaders are Jane
Jane Wood, president; Mac Cal
houn, vice president; June Jar-
rett, secretary; Lucy Richardson,
treasurer; Gwen Fussell, chap
lain; Mary Willie Thompson, cen
sor; Sarah Goodman, pianist.
Retiring presidents are Betty
Jo Hatcher, Zetesian and Kath
leen Murchison, Epsilon Chi. The
two societies plan outings in the
spring.
The two societies will jointly
plan a stunt night with the fac
ulty as participants. They will
begin work this summer on orien
tation week.
Monday afternoon and Tues
day morning the greetings will
be just as joyous (almost, any-
Vv'ay) as they were Thursday
noon, only something new wi!!
be added — the famous “I
simply can’t wait to tell you”'
Beneath all the mentioned
frivolity and carefree airs,
there has been the ever pre
sent thought that this period
of freedom from scholastic
worries marks the freedom of
men for at this time, “He died
that we might live eternally.”
Student Council Becomes
Installed, Initiated
Flora Macdonald Coun
cil for 1955-56 was installed
on Monday, March 21. Betty
Lou Lamb opened the service
with prayer. She then spoke
a few words of tiianks to the
Student Body and charged
the new council. As each girl
took the oath, the old coun
cil member left her robe on
her chair on the stage and the
new council member took her
place. Mary Archie Brown then
spoke a few words charging
the Student Body, and closed
the sei'vice with prayer.
At 10:15 there was fun for
all in the Rotunda. The theme
of the initiation was “The
Greatest Show on Earth.” Bet
ty Lou Lamb was mistress of
ceremonies. Mary Archie
Brown was the fat lady; Sal-
lie Ann Munroe a midget; Ma
ry McLean and Norma Pittard
were Siamese twins; Barbara
Arrington was a juggler. Bet
ty Joe Hatcher a trapeze ar
tist; Jane Wood a seal: Hazel
McLean a strong man; Frances
Ann Williams a ballet; Bon
nie Bunn bearded lady; Shir
ley Chadv/ick, Jake the Ape;
Marian Stuckey a clown. After
this one group of the council
har to go to Senior Bridge and
find some Easter eggs another
group to the cabin on the
athletic field and compose a
poem in praise of the Old
Council, and a third group had
to clean out the swimming
pool.
Term Paper Blues
A term paper isn’t born of
praying;
It’s built of hair that’s slow
ly graying.
And fingers cramped from
all their writing,
And jagged nails from ex
cessive biting.
And tingling nei*ves and hor
rid rages,
A stroni desire to tear up
pages;
It’s built of doleful perse
verance.
And a frightful yen for dis
appearance,
And flesh that pound by
pound keeps dropping.
And time that could be
spent in shopping;
It takes to make a worth
while study
A human head — unbowed,
but bloody.
Strange that when these
should make it lusty,
A term paper is so dry and
dusty.
It Really Happened
Jean Morris has found a new
way to teach students to read.
Really it is very simple. Just
take a couple of your love
letters and leave them some
where. The students wall find
them and begin to read with
i?:reat joy and interest. (Let's
hope that Joe doesn’t find out
about this!
At the beginn'sng of the
year Annie Byrd thought that
she was being very clever. She
was beginning to teach a new
student and Annie wanted to
start her off right. She made,
with her own hands, two beau- '
liful rhythm, .sticks but they
lacked something. They had to
be painted and the only paint
Annie had was finger nail po
lish. The next morning Annie
went proudly to the lesson.
When she gave the little girl
the sticks came the '’tartled
reply, “These are rhythm
sticks?”
Dot Hamilton was asking her
class the meaning of “statue”
in the Bible verse, ‘And Jesus
grew in statue, and in wis
dom, and in favor with God and
man. One little girl volunteered,
‘Well, it’s not like the Statue
of Liberty.”
To The Brain
You brag about your grand
A grades
To anyone who’ll hear you
Your poor friends feel inferior
So they try not to get near
you.