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Mtrl A STUDENT PUBLICATION OF FLORA MACDONALD COLLEGE Volume No. 7 Flora Macdonald College, November, 1958 Number 3 ' ' ' t,:,. ^'-v' * .V. iSA m Thanksgiving Baskets TraditionofMuchWorth These girls enjoy fun and fellowship as they decorate their Thanksgiving basket. Nf- NEWS SREFS Christian Association Plans Announced To begin the tapping of seven semors into WHO’S WHO IN AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UN IVERSITIES, Dr. Charles VardeU tapped Addine Brady. Then Eliza beth Ann Clark, Susan Currie, Jeanne Flournoy, Jean McRae, Gay Mother^ed, and Betty Jo Trent were tai^>ed in succession. Dean Pijice H. Gwynn concluded the program Friday, November 14. Volleyball “season” was noisily opened when the annual mascot search began at 9:00 and a pep rally for the classes began at 10:15 on the back campus Friday, November 14. The rally included songs, cheers, a crackling bon fire, andi marshmallowsi galore. Practicing housekeeping are Su san Currie, Elizabeth Ann Clark, Sarah Jwdan, and Ddla Evans, who are spending six weeks in Oie Home Management house. Their six weeks of using all the talenfci they’ve learned as H(Hne EconMnics majors will be over diortly before tiie Christmas holi days. Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Gusta- vson were entertained at a “Hal lowe’en Party” by the sophomwe dass October 31. Skits and songs were presented to introduce the members of the dass. Mr. Gusta- vam is the nevdy elected sopho more class advisor. Next year’s “Big Sisters” say they were pleased with tihe re sponse to tfaeir coffee hour wl^ dosed activities planned for the Houseperty, Sunday, 'Nanttiber 6. Busy days are ahead for the Christian Association, headed by Jean McRae as president and Mrs. Elbert McPhauI as faculty ad visor. The C. A. contributes to many worthwhile causes during the year, but at present it is at its peak of activity insofar as planning is amcemed. A yearly project of the C. A. is the delivery of Thanksgiving baskets to indigent families in and around Red Springs. These baskets are fixed and filled with anything and everything from the Walter Courtney of NadivjHe, Ten nessee. ^ Plalos are also being made for the annual toy workdwp and Friendship party for the colored help here at the college. Soon the C. A. will be asking each stu dent to bring old toys from home. Then everyone will be invited up to the C. A. Library to help mend them to give to the children of the colored helpers at the Flrienii- ship party hdd for them right be fore Oiristmas. On the Sunday ni^t preceding grocery stwe by each of the twen- ;the Christmas holidays the beauti- ty prayer bands. Then every stu dent who so desires can go along on the big trudc to help deliver these to the particular families designated as needy. Just to note the reactions of the redpients of these baskets in.«di11g within one the Thanksgiving spirit. Following the Thanksgiving holi days the twenty Prayer Band Leaders, the ten members of the Cabinet, plus the chaperones, Mr. and Mrs. Gustavson, will attend a Prayer Band—C^»net Retreat at White Lake. This will be the first time they have made an ful and impressive ¥^te Gift Service will be presented. The C. A. is responsible for this, alsa The town people attend and enjoy this with us. Afterwards, every body wraps up ti^tly and goes caroling. Upon the return Mrs. Gambill serves cocoes and hot chocolate. Another functi» of the C. A. Cabinet is to be in charge of the Dome Service which follows Oie Christmas Banquet The Cabinet and Prayer Band Leaders know that the students serve as the final link in their overnight trip like this. The pur-1 wwk. The degree of co-operation pose of this retreat, being held December 6, is to help them make definite plans for l^iritual En richment Week February 10-12. The Cabinet and Prayer Band Leaders are very enthusiastic about this and hope that with careful planning it will be an ef fective week of spiritual enrich ment for every student. The ^leak er for these services will be Dr. from us as students will deter mine the success or failure of their efforts. They are doing their part in meeting spiritual needs— are we? Two other items of interest about the C. A.: Cedlia Heins replaces Martha Kessler as secretary, and Betty Barnes is now treasurer instead of Nancy Ritter who will graduate in January. Christmas Dance — Blue and Gay Bells, beils, sOver bdls, every where rate looks— that’s what it will be like at the annual Christ mas dance, co-sponsored by Zeta Tlieta Psi and Epsilon Chi socie ties, Saturday, December 13. Theme and theme song of "Sil ver Bdls” will be carried out in the rotunda witb a myriad of sil ver bells suspended from a blue canopy, a belled bhie ribbon cur- taia at tbe entrance to the ball- On the afternoon of Tuesday, November the twenty-fifth the tra ditional delivering of the Thanks giving baskets will take place. At three forty-five aU the students who wish to help to deliver the baskets will gather on the back platform from which they wiU pile onto the back of trucks. With much singing and holiday spirits they will fdlow Claude, will be in the college trui laden with the gaily decorated baskets as they are delivered to some needy families here in Red Springs. This i^ an annual project of the Christian Assodation which originated practically the same time the assodaticm did. No one remembers when it started for it has always been oas of the tradi tions on the campus. It is through this phase of the Christian As sociations activities that the help on the halls, in the kitdien, on the campus grounds, and in the laundry can take part in our Christian activities. Each of the help has the privilege of sug gesting the name of someone or some family to receive one of the baskets. From these names plufe a few of the old servants who served the coUege so faithfully i4 the years past the recipients of our baskets are carefully chosen. Each of the twenty prayer bands are in charge of fixing a basket. Not to be left out are the faculty and day students each fixing a basket making a total of twenty- two baskets. The baskets are fill ed with staple groceries such as flour, sugar, coffee, dry beans and peas, potatoes, and every kind and brand of canned goods imagi nable. There is usually an assort ment of fruits and vegetables and occasionally even soap and wash ing powder to make for a well fill ed basket. The baskets themselves are decorated with crepe paper leaves, streamers, and pictures to make each one gay and festive. Eadi of the baskets is a synAol of Flora Macdonald’s spirit of ■nianksgiving. As the girls help to deliver them the songs which they sing and the smiles on their faces bring the spirit of Thanksgiv ing into the hearts and live# of sorne of those less foirtujiace. Harpsiclionfist Next On Concert List On Tuesday evening, December 9, the second performance in our concert-lecture series will be pre sented. Artist for the evening is Canadian-bom Claude Jean Chaisson, harpsichordist, who has won eminence in the entire musical world of America. Mr. Chaisson is devoting his life to the harpsichord, and in recent years to returning ^s instrument to its rightful i^ace in American musical circles. He has studied harpsichord teduiique and liter ature with Dr. Putnam Aldrich and later with Wanda Landowska. The artist has centered his mu sical life in Boston for a number of years, but now calls New York home. Wlule in Bost(»i he present ed a very successful series of room and within the b^Uroom, a blue backdrop with “Merry Christmas” lettered in silver, and silver bells. Swaying from the center of the ceiling of the ball room will be a buge mirrored bell with mistletoe. Other featiu-es o( the dance de cor mclude blue angel hair twined ^bout the white cotumns in the ballroom, an enormous candle draped in angd hair, blue punch and bell-shaped cookies, and small tables decorated with blue cand les and silver magnolia leaves or white ivy. As yet the name of the band for the dance has not been made public. Co-chairmen Janice Page, of Zeta Theta Psi. and Sylvia Wil- Kams, of E^>siIon Chi, urge whole hearted support by tbe student body so tfiat the dance win be a great success. concert-lectures at the Museum of Fine Arts in that dty. Periodically, Mi*. Chaisson has interrupted his concert-lecture ac tivities to build harpsichords, and to date has completed eighteen such instruments. Although his inspiration in instrument design is derived from the ancient mas ter builders of Belgium, France, and Elngland, Chaisson has recog nized the contempory demand for fuller dynamic range and variety of color. In his own concerts Mr. Chaisson perform on his gord harpsichord with two keyboards, four separate sets of strings (I sixteen foot, 2 eight foot, and 1 four foot pitch) with six pedals. Besides playing the standard Bach, Couperin, and Scarlatti, Chaisson is continually surprising his audiences with many rarely heard compositions of lesser known composers. CLAUDE CHAISSON
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