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THE SKIRL Pago Three mm These Hallowei Hails Kept B| Odessa M Ll'i: There are two ladies who work side by side with us here from six-thirty in the morning until three forty-five in the afternoon each day. In the morning as we start out to that first period class, either half asleep or wide awake with dread, their cheerful face= and greetings encourage us t'- do our best. The mere fact that they take time to wish us a goo^ day gives us a little better out look, a-d we begin to forget our uncertairiities because of this ca’m of the their seeming unanxiousness makes us wonder at our own per plexities. At noon we see them in the vicinity of the tub rooms on sec ond floor. Yes, these ladies are Odessa Brown and Jithel Johnson. We see them many times every day, but do we really know them? Both of them are married and live in Red Springs. Odessa used to live near Antioch. But, Ethel has always lived in Robeson County; she lived at Buie’s Sta tion. At one time, when Odessa was a child, she lived on the place belonging to Mrs. McPhaul’s father. She came from a family of six, but Ethel was the baby of a family of sixteen. Ethel has three children of her own now. They’re all girls ranging in age from eighteen to twenty-two. Odessa has two children, aged twelve and sixteen. Their duties include not only the second and third floors of the main building, but also the faculty house. Part of the time they work together, but at other times one is responsible for one thing, and the other is responsi ble for something else. Odessa works mnre on the second floor a'ld Et^hel works more on third flrKvr Thev have every Saturda’’ aftprnnon and every other Sund;’' off. of thpm heard ahout v' heT"" in 1947. Thev for if’hs stated wr^rkii? gqrno v^"^ Stran^f^'v en"!'"’ neither of them knew nt’-'' pprnin® here to work, bu* fhov’vo worked \rr^'^rci fhev’^^e frionds, THov work totfofher p’’ winto-r, hilt thf'v rarolv see eac'- otV'or in tVif* sj-immertime. Thvy both sav they enioy th-' work. like the people whor'' thf" iob hrinffs them in contact with — the rirls. Miss Oiiery, an--' Wrs. Pate. They know quite a few of the girls by name. Mrs. Pate received their highest, “She’s a wonderful person to work for. aiir a fine woman.” They say that they have gain ed some things by working here I for which they are grateful. They 'appreciate the girls having he’p- jed their children by giving them ! clothes. They have received church i literature, which has been help ful to them. Since Ethel is a Presbyterian, she has been able to use jt with her circle a"d share it w'ith some of th° ladies at her church. Odessa is T Free Will Baptist, but has read '^he literabjre for her own bene- 'it. They both think the girls are floing a fine job in helping need’' people at Thanksgiving '^hristmas. Ethel said that sh'O has used some of the ^ame ideas H he’' own church and communi ty work. Odessa added that th“- certainly appreciate the Chns*^ toys from th" Toy Workshop. I don’t believe two people could be found with a more Christian attitude toward their everyday Job. ■; Hijey Tredition strong At FMC .Tnno ^vjio has probably been busily preparing her homework or maybe has just awakened from an pf*-“""oon nap, enters the din- ■vrr r-'Or’^ and makes her way ‘r, as usual. Just before rp-’ohinnr it she observes some- •^bint» siirnrisingly different; her fnWcv Ts »q,iy dccorated and cen- a swirlv chocolate c^kiy; 0’!''“ there she finds to her name on the nlace card at the regular hostess’s At tv,'' same tim° sh» hears '' of voices sindng “Hanpy p.i-thdav” to her. She is filled with excitement; she then looks around and sees the same thing happening at other tables. This is a typical scene to be found in the dining room of F. ''/T C, o!ic'i Wednesday ri®ht. This is ^ir‘hdav Ni?ht, a TOla occasio" nnd miichlo'''ed^ tradition, datin? ba-’k to some time v'ithin the pist fiftee" years. Unt'l ^he time that this was started, parties were '^ivon almost every ni^ht, for someone was always having a individual tables r.p.ipt^r.^t^H tViose on anv nisht they fon"d s'n'toh'fj. The resuH was vorrr n^ic;y dinincT -p^pm plnrne:* PTror^T- AXsO. JIO Sn^ci^l m'^^l Wiis r>rf'n-iror)_ and, the hostes*^ oftf>n boiif^ht somethiTiT extra: sh’ hoijoht th“ cake or had snme ici- flv in town to bake it for the occasion. In order to lessen the noise and also to provide a special dinner, it was decided that one night each week be set aside for birth- Vlystery Observer Returns To Post (Editor’s note; After a summer along the halls of West when the rest, our columnist, THE BIRD, class beU rings. WATCHER, has returned. You will | One small group of the Fledg- be interested to learn that THEjii^gg occasionally appear to BIRD WATCHER spent his vaca- belong to the sub-group known coi tion studymg the schizophrenic loquiaUy as the Red-eyed Flossie tendencies of the Mocking Bird.) Dear Editor: Once again, greetings from the fifth floor of the Rotunda, where I have resumed my post as of- Icial EMC BIRD WATCHER! Af ter a four-month lapse, I am ea- "^er to make my first report of the new birdwatching season. Ready? To be quite truthful, the 'fMC area has been so thoroughly in undated with new and unusual species that your Bird Watcher has had a busy time of it. And, despite my vast ornothological knowledge, I have been forced to resort to scholarly research in or der to identify some of the birds that have winged in from all parts of the southeastern United States. May I begin the season on a cheerful note? Allow me to point out for your edification and ad miration the Flora Mac Fledgling (Freshmanus typicuis), an abund ant and enthusiastic species new to the area. The species is dis tinguishable by its strong, and as yet undisciplined, voice, and by its apparently inexhaustible supply of sand-piperish energy Too. the Flossie Fledglimj oc casionally appears to be slightly addled by all that is expected of it, and can be seen (and heard) Math Majors Attend Conference On October 31, three senior math majors, along with Mrs. Wade Mobley, will be seen leav ing the F. M. C. campus to at tend the Mathematics Teacher’s Conference which is held at the TJniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HiU each year. Attending the conference wdU be Kathy King, Jeanne Flournoy, and Sarah Hat cher. This conference is sp?nsored iointly by the Mathematics De partment of U. N. C. and the i N. C. E. A. and is especially •^or teachers of high school math ematics. The main speaker this year will be Dr. J. W. Carr of the Univer sity of Michigan. Dr. Carr has inst returned from Russia and 'vill speak on “What Russia is Doing With Electronic Comput- ors”. Other discussions will be concerned with teaching plane and solid geometry simultaneously in •ligh schools, and new methods in teaching algebra. days. The idea developed into a _ . , . tradition that has continued to hysterically the present. This weekly event still creates great anticipation among the girls because of the special dinner, including ice cream and cake, plus the gay time, fun, and fellowship afforded while cel ebrating some unsuspecting girl’s birthday. Each girl looks forward to the night when she will be the honoree, even if her birthday comes during the summer. Long live this tradition at F. M. C.! Fledglings (homesickus plenteous) but this group is very much in the minority. In fact, the bird Watcher has not observed any honest-to-goodness Red-eyed Flos sies save among those Fledglings who came with preconceived tend encies in that direction. Shame on them! The clear-eyed variety fs far more attractive! The Fledgling is at this stage tremendously domestic and works during every spare moment to make her new nest more habita ble. (“Gracious Living,” you know.) Nest-mates become ac quainted, and birds who were total strangers a few days ago now lie awake after light beU and cackle and giggle (bird fash ion) until far into the night. This species has, in the early fall, a most charming mixture of naivete, self-confidence, inse curity, and enthusiasm. The old er FMC birds (particularly the second-year birds) will see fit to eradicate much of the naivete the first English, music theory, the self-confidence; the Big Sis- and chemistry classes may jar ters may dispel the insecurity; but let us hope that the enthus- ir>sm' will remain intact! Yours from the Dome, THE BIRD WATCHER wiU move Into the Home Manage ment House for six weeks experi ence in the planning and managing of a home. Miss Charlotte Wom- ble. Professor of Home Economics will stay vidth the girls. During the six weeks the girls are responsible for planning and buying food, planning and prepar ing meals, and attending to the other duties involved in manag ing a home. To make things a little more interesting the girls give themselves names which signify their indiviidual duties. The four girls make up a family consisting of Mother or Hostess, Father or Host, Daughter or Cook and Son or Housekeeper The duties of the mother are to plan the menus and to see to the i Memories Wiii Long Remain With Student Teeohers by Marion Davis Practice in Family Living On November 3, the Senior ^ome Economics majors, Eliza- f>th Ann Clark, Susan Currie, Della Evans, and Sarah Jordan, ing, another may still be observ ing, and still others may be anxiously awaiting the day when they will start this phase of ftheir college work. I dare say j '-that there must be mingled feel ings of excitement, anxiety, and perhaps fear for some as they face this new adventure, a very chalknging one. Those who have general well being of the house-! tardv bell has rnn^ th« seem to be a hold. The Father is the host and eli7,«eady been stted^ actu^ly asks the blessing, at meals. He the roll has been checked with practice what they too se^ to the running of the »ne student missing. It’s the (Contnued on Page 4) home. The daughter 15 in charge usual excuse given by her of the cooking of the meals and ij-oommate. Ann White comes He that is good at making the son is in charge of the general running in — her pretext isi excuses is seldom good for any- housekef«ping and cleaning. Student Teaching; the car thing else. All these activities serv^e to wouldn’t crank, or else she had —Benjamin Franklin tnain the pirls how to live and to walk back from school, so olan as a family. j she’s late again. | Undue procrastination indi- Talk to almost any Senior cates that a man does not see If the power to do hard work these days, and the subject of his way clearly; undue precipl- is not a talent, it is the best Student Teaching will come up. 1 tation, that he does not see it possible substitute for it. One may be already in the pro- at all. —James A. Garfield cess of doing her practice teach —Sliakespeare
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