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ALUMNI N EWS
Founders' Day Celebrated By Talk
On "Beginning Of Education In N.C."
Dr. Hobbs, President Emeritus,
Asked To Make Address On
Granting Of Charter
BIG CELEBRATION IN 1934
Dr. L. L. Hobbs, president emeritus
of the college, gave an address Wed
nesday morning, January 13, on "The
Beginning of Education by Friends in
North Carolina." The occasion for the
talk, Founders' Day, the anniversary
of the charter for New Garden School,
was not announced, consequently the
point of the address was lost to many
in the student body.
Founders' Day should mean a great
deal to the students and alumni of
Guilford. It should be the time when
we review the causes back of the
movements, the ideals, and conditions
which motivated the pioneers in the
work which resulted in New Garden
Boarding School, later Guilford Col
lege; also it would be the time when
we recall the pioneers themselves and
the part each of them played.
The first recorded mention of the
interest of the North Carolina Quak
ers in education is in the Yearly
Meeting Records for November, 1830.
A committee "to prepare an essay
of an epistle of advice" as appointed,
and their address, "produced" No
vember 11, 1931, was "We believe
that the Christian, and literary edu
cation of our children consistent with
the simplicity of our profession is a
subject of very deep interest in sup
porting the various testimonies that
we profess to bear to the world, and
even to the very existence and con
tinuance of our Society," (i. e. the
Yearly Meeting). And that was the
purpose of the New Garden Boarding
School.
A subscription was started imme
diately, and in a year SI2OO had been
subscribed, SI 500 being their goal.
The minutes of 1833 tell us that the
committee "met with difficulty in se
lecting a location," finally deferring
the decision to the Yearly Meeting,
which chose to locate the school at
New Garden, on the site of the pres
ent Founders' Hall.
A charter could not be granted to
a meeting of Friends, since the
Quakers were opposed to slavery.
However, George C. Mendenhall had
the incorporation passed in the name
of certain men, whose religious views
were not mentioned. This charter was
secured in 1834, ninety-eight years
ago.
In 1831 the school opened, with
Dougan Clarke, a member cf the |
original committee, superintendent, [
and his wife, formerly Asenath Hunt, I
matron. Another member of the com-1
inittee who later superintended the
school was Joshua Stanley, Jeremiah |
Hubbard, a quarter Indian himself, is
remembered for his trip to Washing
ten with two Cherokee chiefs who
had appealed to the Meeting for aid,
their purpose being to request Presi
dent Jackson to prohibit the sale of
liquor in the Indian territory. David
White, another committee member,
has descendants in Greensboro now;
the other two members were Nathan
Mendenhall and Zimri Stuart. Nathan
Hunt, although not a member of the
committee, was probably the most j
important of all, for his remarkable
eloquence secured a great part of the
subscriptions used in building the
school.
It is hoped that Dr. Hobbs' speech
will create interest in the granting
of the charter, for Founders' Day
1934, its hundredth anniversary of
the charter, will be the occasion for
a big pre-Centennial celebration,
which in turn is to increase interest
in the Centennial program itself.
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Alumna Writes Of
Home-coming Day
"Greater Future For Guilford"
Is The Sincere Wish
Of Old Student
Many of the Alumni and old stu
dents returned to the campus for
Home-coming Day on November 30,
and many others who could not be
present sent their greetings and ap
proval of the plan of setting aside a
day for reestablishing friendships
and living again in memories of
school days.
Among those who could not return
but wanted to send a message is Ada
M. Field. Her letter follows:
Fellow Alumni:
Home-coming Day is a beautiful
idea; many of us who would like to
be present and cannot will be think
ing: of you all.
I have been trying to put into
words for myself just what "Home
coming:" means. I think it means find
ing and sharing' gladness and fellow
ship, perhaps escaping from burdens
for a little while, renewing old friend
ships, re-living for a day our student
selves. That is a rare treat, yet I
hope we shall not miss the rarer one
of knowing the Guilford that is to
day; for Guilford is not her well
known buildings nor her memories,
treasured as those are. Unless we
know the individuals and the spirit
of the faculty and student body now
we do not know Guilford.
The liberal arts college which a
few years ago eeemed on the way to
decadence is young again now and
looks toward a vision of service and
leadership greater than ever before.
It is a new vision for a new day, and
all the accumulated wisdom of her
family is all too little for shaping
policies that shall realize that vision
to the full. So I hope we alumni shall
not be content to relive the past but
that we shall take, or make, the op
portunity to get acquainted with the
students of today, share their dreams
and problems, give what we can from
the best that life has brought to us,
catch a vision and an inspiration for
n greater future for Guilford and for
ourselves. A great "Home-coming
Day" I am wishing for all of you!
Most sincerely,
Ada M. Field,
Newman, Ga.
The Error Made In
"Vision" Corrected
In a previous issue of the Alumni
Edition of The Guilfordian an article
appeared concerning Eliot Kays
Stone, former Guilford student, whose
book of verse, "He Who Rides The
Sky" has recently been acclaimed by
national critics. "Vision," taken from
the collection of poems, was quoted
in an effort to show something of
the ability of Mr. Stone, but an error
was made so "Vision" is reprinted in
corrected form:
"Come, now, and turn your eyes on
space
And stare the cosmos in the face.
There's more than any eye can see
To be discerned by you and me.
How keen his sight! The man is blind
Who has no windows in his mind!
Sweep out the cobwebs, dust the bin,
And let the air of heaven in,
And when the air pours in on you,
Somehow the cosmos seeps in, too."
Louise Welch, of Mt. Airy, spent
the week-end with her sister, Clara
Belle.
Mrs. J. V. Davis was the dinner
guest of her daughter, Sarah, Wed
nesday evening.
THE GUILFORDIAN
ALUMNI PERSONALS
MAIE HOLLADY, *27, TEACHING
BIBLE IN PITTSBURG
Maie Hollady is teaching religion
in two public schools in Pittsburgh,
Pa. Her address is 500 Holmes St.,
Wilkinsburg, Pa. A letter from her
gives the following interesting de
tails concerning her work:
"I teach in a public school building
two days a week and one day each
week I teach in a church on public
school time (the children being dis
missed from school and sent to the
church). I have thirteen classes of
children (from kindergarten through
the sixth grades) each week. My
classes are large with between 35 and
45 in a class. There are 477 children
all told.
"On Sundays I work at an Epis
copal church where I have twelve
teachers to look after. The first, sec
ond, third, fourth and fifth grades of
this church school have what is
known as the Extended Session which
means that they meet from 9:30 to
12:05. This work is very interesting.
The children often create their own
songs, make prayers and put them to
music, make dramatizations, et
cetera. Each Wednesday evening I
meet a group of these teachers for
conference and to make plans for the
work.
"Tuesday evenings I teach two
training classes here in Wilkinsburg.
The churches go together and have a
community school. You may imagine j
my surprise to find 63 in my class on 1
child psychology. I would have con
sidered twenty a large class in any
training school I have known. The
other course I have is dramatization
and there are about forty in it."
1921-22
Mr. and Mrs. Rawleigh Tremain
of 2148 O St., N. W., Washington,
D. C., announce the arrival of a son,
Rawleigh Lewis, Jr., on September
19, 1931.
1930
Graham Allen recently accepted a
position with the. weather bureau in
Dallas, Texas.
Former Students
Pervis H. Beeson, of Greensboro,
j N. C., a student of Guilford College
I in 1913-14, was married to Miss Mar
j garet Patterson on November 4, 1931.
Mrs. Beeson is a native of Greens
boro, a former student of N. C. C. W.
and a graduate of the Wesley Long
Hospital School for Nurses. For two
years she was instructor and super
intendent of nurses at Martin Me
morial Hospital in Mt. Airy. For sev
eral months prior to her marriage she
was office nurse for Dr. Charles R.
Reaves.
Mr. Beeson is a member of the
state bar, and for several years has
been secretary to Judge James E.
Boyd.
Mr. and Mrs. Beeson are living at
1819 Rolling Road.
Thad H. Mackie is civil engineer
with the State Highway Commission
of Jefferson City, Missouri.
Marie H. Tyson is a teacher in
the public schools of Yanceyville,
N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph D. Richardson
of Wadesboro, N. C. announce the ar
rival of a son, Ralph Dan, on No
vember 23, 1931. * * *
Edith K. Swing received the A. B.
degree from Whittier College, Whit
tier, California, last year, and during
the summer did graduate work at
Whittier. On August 11, 1931, she
was married to Charles D. Chambers.
Her address is 717 N. Prairie Ave.,
Inglewood, Calif.
Mrs. George J. Murdock (Coi-dia
Thompson), who since her marriage
in 1925 has been living in India, is
studying in the School of Religious
Education, Hartford Theological
Seminary. Her husband is a student
there also. Mr. and Mrs. Murdock and
their three children are living at 85
Serman Street, Hartford, Conn.
CURRIE SPIVEY WRITES
FROM ATHENS, GREECE
The following is taken from a let
ter received from Curry Spivey who,
last fall, accepted a position with the
American Tobacco Company in Ath
ens, Greece:
"I had a very nice trip coming ov
er. We were a little over two weeks
from New York to Athens. We spent
three days in Paris, and saw as
many of the interesting- sights as
was possible during that time. I must
say that what I learned in my Fresh
man course at Guilford College was
of great help to me in my visit at the
Louvre. I sadly regret not having
concentrated more on the work when
I was passing over it.
"After leaving Paris we came down :
to Trieste byway of the Simplon-
Orient Express. I enjoyed the trip
through the Alps very much. We
spent two days at Trieste and then
took a boat for Pireaus, the seaport
of Athens. We came byway of Venice '
and spent about five hours there.
"Greece is a very barren country,
but it has several characteristics
which, I think, any other country
would find it very hard to surpass.
The sky is the bluest in the world,
the climate is wonderful and, I think,
very healthy, the atmosphere being j
very dry.
"I like my work very much. We j
have very good facilities for recrea- ,
tion. Golf and tennis are inexpensive
and the tennis courts are very good."
ALUMNI NOTES
Continuation of the History of the
1911 Graduating Class of Guilford
College Covering the Period
From 1911 to 1931
John Gurney Briggs
High Point, N. C.
i Married—Hazel Harmon, of the j
Children—John Gurney, Jr.; Mar- j
j garet Ragan (names for Margaret
Rutledge), and Mary Sue. Margaret
and John are in high schol. John will
Ibe senior editor of the .high school j
j paper next year. Margaret will be a i
I sophomore next year. Mary Sue is in I
i the sixth grade.
In the summer after graduating he j
went to Lake Forest, 111., to attend J
the Student Y. M. C. A. Summer
I School. He then became Y. M. C. A. j
i Student Secretary, in Charleston, |
| S. C., for two years. His work there j
| was in the Citadel, Porter Military \
Academy, College of Charleston, and
; the Medical College. He also assisted
j in the City Y. M. C. A. and sang in
the historic St. Michael's Episcopal
i church in a quartette. He returned
' home expecting to attend Columbia
University, but married instead.
He accepted a position with the
High Point Branch of the Wachovia
j Bank and Trust Company which he
held until 1918. Then he served as
assistant secretary of the city Y. M.
C. A. in Columbia, S. C., until after
the war. While in Columbia
he sang in the choir at the Trin
ity Episcopal church and at the First
Baptist Church. After the war he
came back to High Point where he
accepted a position which he has held
until now, with the Beeson Hardware
Company. He had charge of the choir
at the High Point First Baptist
! Church from 1918 to 1923. From 1923
to 1925 he had charge of the West
, Market Street Church choir in
Greensboro. From 1925 until now he
has had charge of the High Point
Wesley Memorial Church Choir.
Gurney has made an unusual suc
t cess with his music. He sang the ten
, or solos in the Rose Maiden, at the
. Rock Hill Music Festival some years
j ago and received $150.00 for about an
[ hour's time. He still possesses his us
t ual amount of energy and has enjoy-
I ed much success.
He and Hazel have as their hobby
"Music."
January 20, 1932
CHARLES BOWLES WAS
FORMER SWT HERE
Speaks In Chapel On "Dare
To Be Different"
PASTOR IN GREENSBORO
Rev. Charles T. Bowles, pastor of
Holts Chapel, Greensboro, and a for
mer student of Guilford, was the
Chapel speaker on Tuesday, January
12. His subject was "Dare to Be Dif
ferent!"
"We are prone to be slack along
the line of being individualistic; we
miss too much with the crowd. We
are living in a Machine Age and tend
to become like a machine. The steam
roller typifies the average college
student. We place ourselves in front
of the steam roller of Convention and
Custom and are crushed into the
same pattern by it."
The history of the world has been
made by those who have dared to be
different. Our own country was dis
covered by a man of no peculiar gen
ius, but he dared to be different, and
took advantage of his surrounding.
Alexander Bell was called a dreamer,
an idealist, but he dared to be differ
ent. Charles Lindbergh quietly ac
cepted the challenge, and contribut
ed his life to the world.
All progress is made by accepting
the challenge and being different. If
progress is to be made one can't de
pend on society, and be bound by
convention and custom. This is equal
ly true in the spiritual world.
As American students and citizens
we should guard against the steam
roller of Convention and stand alone
as an individual.
Lillie Bulla
310 Wood Street, Burlington, N. J.
Single.
She has lived from Miami to New
York—not at either place but at
many points between.
From 1913 to 1917 she taught a
little of everything in high school,
j Had two years stenographic work at
; lfadin, North Carolina. She taught
i three years in Florida and three
I years in Roanoke Rapids, N. C. She
j has studied some in the University
I of Florida, University of California,
; and finally got ambitious and went
j to .Johns Hopkins. At present she is
at the head of the History Depart
j merit at Burlington, N. J. Her hobby
I is "dramatics."
She says: "I used to think that ex
istence would become monotonous as
one grew older, especially if one did
not marry and settle down, and I
still have a feeling that the monotony
is just around the corner but it stays
out of reach. Tilings get more inter
esting to me as the years go on. Rich
and deep and full have I found the
spring of joy. I am sure the other
members of the class have found the
same thing true. 1 once wrote and
gave the pageant called 'The Living
Road.' Now I seem to see the Class
of 1911 moving their several ways,
some stumbling over rocks and
brambles, others marching straight
- shouldered ahead."
Mrs. K. I*. Edwards (Flo White)
N. C. C. W., Greensboro, N. C.
Widow.
She has one child, "Betty Phil"
Edwards, 10 years old.
Flo is rather stingy with her his-
J tory.
| Nursed in Spartanburg, S. C.
Studied two years in the University
■of Chicago and has been teaching
i since then in North Carolina College
for Women, at Greensboro.
Rumors have it that she has other
| interests besides teaching.
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