tr THE GUILFORDIAN
VOLUME XXVI GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., NOVEMBER 25, 1939 NUMBER 5
Play Producers Swing
Into Full Speed as
"Our Town" Dale Is Set
December 15 Is Date
For Dramatic Council's
Presentation
December 15, after much controversy,
has been set ns the presentation (late
for the Dramatic council's fall pro
duction, "Our Town." Rehearsals have
been timed for this date, and are pro
gressing well enough to promise a good
performance.
The cast has become thoroughly fa
miliar with the play as a whole, and
the individual members are performing
their parts commendably. Despite the
lack of veteran actors, the performers,
even this early in the proceedings,
point, with their capable acting, toward
the uncovering of some new stars.
The technical committees, meanwhile,
have been selected by the Dramatic
council. Chairman of the costume com
mittee is Eloise Mitchell, and Charles
Lewis is co-chairman; Arthur and Jack
Lindsay will direct properties and
lighting: Joe Creseenio and Winfred
Meibohm will furnish the necessary
sound effects. Make-up will be handled
by Dr. Lucille Einerick. Publicity and
business managing will be headed by
Americus Woodward and Kalpli Deaton.
Plans are being made to purchase
with the money usually spent for scen
ery some jiermnnent lighting fixtures,
such as spotlights. The equipment will
not only signally aid the production
of "Our Town," but will also be of per
manent value to Guilford play makers.
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Service Group Announces
Thanksgiving Program
Money to provide baskets of food
for people of the community who can
not buy a Thanksgiving dinner will
be collected by the Social Service com
mittee Wednesday, November 29, in
chapel, Nancy Oliver, chairman of the
committee, has announced. This plan,
along with the discussion of the two
visitations which have been made to
homes of the community, was the busi
ness brought up at the meeting held
Monday, November 20.
The boxes for the clothes which
one wishes to give to the committee
have been placed In all dormitories;
however, to date few tilings have been
received. The committee wishes to em
phasize the fact that any clothes —
good, mended, or mcndablc—are ac
ceptable.
Some of the girls, under the super
vision of Margaret Smith, are reading
to blind people of the neighborhood;
boys who can do carpentry will be
needed soon and will lie under the di
rection of Donald l'ndgley.
Miss Laura Worth Restores
Ancient Quaker Records
In a remote corner of the stacks,>
Miss Laura Worth works diligently re-1
pairing and renewing the priceless set j
of North 'urolina Yearly, Quarterly I
and Monthly Meeting records, which
have been accumulated l>y the (iuil
ford college library ever since Miss
Julia White was librarian.
Interest In their renovation began
in 1!>:u when Dr. Charles K. Rush, a
Friend and assistant librarian sit Yale
university, visited (Juilford. On ex
amination of the valuable collection
of manuscript books he took the oldest
one, the Simon's Creek Monthly Meet
ing Records (171.1 to 17t!8) to Yale
Chapel Schedule
November 27—Program by the
German club.
November 29—Thanksgiving pro
gram, music by "A Capella. Choir."
December. I—Mrs. Osceola Adams
of Bennett college, dramatic read
ing.
December 4—Program by Span
ish club.
December 6—'Worship service, led
by E. I)aryl Kent.
December B—"The Messiah," Ex
cerpts and Discussion.
December 11—Christmas carols
and Christmas hymns.
December 13—Christmas worship
service, planned by the Student
Christian asociations.
December 15—Christmas pro
gram by "A Capella Choir."
Y Cabinets Consider
Programs for Christmas
Several future events were estab
lished at the meeting of the Y cabinets
held at Dr. Beittel's on Monday, No
vember 2(1. It was decided that a Christ
mas party would be given on Saturday,
December !). Lucy Gaunt was elected
chairman of planning committee.
A Christmas program will lie given
at the Sunday Vesper service on Decem
ber 3. The Y's also decided to go carol
ing on Sunday night, December 10. A
definite route has not yet been planned.
The possibilities of presenting a peace
play were also contemplated. AVilbert
Edgerton was appointed chairman of
a committee to consider the plan.
Europe and College Students
Discussed by Elmer Davis
News Commentator
Expresses Views on
Campus Attitudes
"That's right," said Elmer Davis
with a sigh, rolling hack in his swivel
chair and staring up at the celling.
•What's hapitening in Etirope affects lis
every mi mi to. And it doesn't do any
good to pretend that nothing's hap
pening."
"We'll never see the Europe of lust
summer again, faulty as that was." Mr.
Davis continued. "And already, in
this country, with the restrictions
we've placed 011 our foreign trade,
we're feeling directly and intimately
the impact of war."
Mr. Davis was sitting in his little
cilice adjoining the news room of the
'olumlmi Broadcasting system's New
j York studios. Outside the door could
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to have it photostated. l'pon Its re
jturn to (Juilford through the mails,
| lliis handwritten book, including some
I records as far back as HITS, was in
| sured for one thousand dollars.
("poll further investigation, Dr. Hush
found this collection invaluable but
unusable in its multilated condition;
water, tire, insects and decay having
preyed upon the bindings and pages
for literally hundreds of years.
The North Carolina Society of
Friends, which owns the collection,
engaged an expert from the Congres
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Quarter Grades Show
High Individual Marks,
Low Total Average
Campbell, Lewis, Register,
And Smith Make "A's"; 32
Make All "A's" and "B's"
Daniel Campbell, Charles Lewis,
Robert Register, and Margaret Smith,
two freshmen, one sophomore, and one
junior top this quarter's grade list
with all "A" records, according to
Miss Eva I .ns ley, registrar.
Grace Beittel and Americus Wood
ward made all "A's" but one and the
following tliirty-two made all "A's" and
"B's"; Benjamin Brown, Marvin Cavi
ness, Mary Gray Coltraue, Miriam Cum
min, Mnriunna Dow, Wilbert Edger
ton, Armstead Estes, Mary Ellen
Gibbs, Romulus Graves, Maria Jef
fre, Esther Jessup, Margaret Jones,
Itaoul Kami, Roy Leake, Helen Lyon,
Winfred Meibohm, Berniee Merritt,
Theodore Mills, Arthur Kirby Moore,
Frances Neece, Murray Osborne, Eve
lyn Pearson, Elfried Pennakamp,
Stokes Rawlins, Alfred Roberts, Rob
ert Smith, Doris Wanstall, Betty
Warke, Sadie White, William Alpheus
White, Donald Wood, and Phyllis
Yount.
Considering the fact that there are
forty-one more students enrolled at
Guilford college at the present time
than there were a year ago, academi
cally, the student body as a whole is
not as high as it was at the end of
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News Briefs
I .list Thursday evening at 8 p. 111.
the Spanish club entertained former
Spanish students who were guests at
the organization's regular meeting in
the Student hut. Teddy Mills, who
silent the summer in Mexico, gave a
talk on gastronomic phenomena he
low the border. A skit on Spanish
table manners was presented by Paul
Lenta and Harold Hurwitz.
At an earlier meeting of the newly
organized Spanish club held in the
but November !), liia Jeff re presented
to the group an informative report
based on her research paper, "El fid."
Miss (iilliert's Absence
Miss Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert, pro
fessor of English in the college, left the
campus Tuesday morning to visit her
mother, Mrs. John G. Gilbert of Da
mascus, Ohio, who is ill. Mrs. Gil
bert. who lias suffered a stroke of
pint lysis, is a well-known poet, having
written extensivey for the American
Friend.
('ani|)be'.l-Galne.v Accident
]>r. Eva G. Campbell and Miss Maude
1.. Gainey have recovered satisfactorily
after they were hurt in an automobile
accident November 1(1 while on the way
to the freshman fotball game in Mount
Airy. .Miss Gainey. after spending sev
eral days in a Winston-Salem hospital,
is now at home in Fa.vetteville.
Skating Party
The freshman class has joined with
the social committee in sponsoring a
skating party at Oak Ridge tonight.
The whole school is invited to go.
Skaters will leave Founders at six
o'clock and return in time for hot
cocoa and doughnuts in the hut before
ten o'clock.
Six Local Students
Picked by Who's Who
Card Dance Will
Climax Holiday
Under the sponsorship of the
joint "V" cabinet, Guilford will
have its first real card dance in
four years Thanksgiving night (No
vember 30 in this state). The place
will be the Library; the time is
7:45.
The sponsors promise plentiful
refreshments and entertainment
approriate to the season, with a
floorshow' at the intermission high
lighting Hie fefivities.
There will he no stags allowed
and campus girls will fill out cards
both for themselves and the off
cainpus dates.
Supper Program Held
For Friend Students
Samuel Haworth Presides at
Program; Representatives
From Meetings Present
Forty-four out-of-state Friends stu
dents and 12 who atend Friends meet
ings were entertained Wednesday eve
ning by the New Garden monthly meet
ing and North Carolina Friends stu
dents at Guilford. The outing was the
second in a series of three that n eo
operating committee comprising mem
bers of the college and* the meeting are
giving Guilford students. A few weeks
ago North Carolina Friends students
were entertained in homes of the com
munity. The whole student body will
next be feted.
A Brunswick stew supper was served
in the meeting house at 5:30, after
which there was an informal and enter
taining program. Professor Samuel
Haworth, on leave of absence from the
Guilford religion department, presided
over the activities. A member from
each of the yearly meetings represented
at the party was introduced in the
order of his Yearly Meeting's founding.
Each one spoke briefly and introduced
other members of liis meeting.
Patsy Wheeler represented New Eng
land ; Lucy Gaunt, Philadelphia; and
Donald Badgley, New York. Margaret
Smith presented notes on interest about
the 15tli Street meeting of New York
and Nancy Oliver spoke of the work of
the Montclair meeting. Michael Porter
told of the London yearly meeting.
Others who spoke were Helen Louise
Brown, David Porter. Margaret Van
Hoy, Isaac Harris, and Mary Gray Col-
Freshmen Literary Tastes
Revealed by Library Quiz
Guilford freshmen prefer American
authors. A questionaire prepared un
der the supervision of .Miss Katharine
I'. Kicks for tlie library and submitted
to the class of '4.'! in September has
revealed this interesting fact and a
wide and varied range of other prefer
ences in books, magazines, newspapers,
and authors. Six of the first eight au
thors prefeml were American writers.
The largest freshman class in Guil
ford history named no less than I7
authors in answer to the question con
cerning favorite writers. The premiere
short story writer of this country,
Parker, Lenlz, Price,
Edgerlon, Foster, Dow,
Are Signally Honored
Guilfordians Will Get
Place in Exclusive
Publication
To one co-ed and live men this week
came blue inked forms from WHO'S
WHO AMONG STUDENTS IN AMER
ICAN UNIVERSITIES AND COD
LEGES. These students are: Marianna
Dow, Paul Eentz, Hampton Price,
Wilbert. Edgerton, Bernard Eoster, and
James Parker.
Selected unotticially for recognition
in this WHO'S WHO, these Guilford
ians will he a few inches in the book
that is published through the coopera
tion of over 500 American educational
institutions. The three-fold purpose of
WHO'S WHO, which will be released
in February, is to serve as an incen
tive for students to get the most out
of their college careers, as a recom
mendation to the business world, and
as a standard of measurement for
students.
Senior from East Taunton, Mass.,
Miss Dow lias achieved success in both
extra-curricular and scholastic areas.
Among other things she is president
of the V. W. C. A. and a member of
the Scholarship society. "Killer" Lents:,
another senior, a four letter man and
one of Guilford's best athletes, is
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Choir, Orchestra to
Give "Messiah"
Farrell, Mercer,
Edwards and Jensen
Will Be Soloists
At three o'clock 011 Sunday after
noon, December 10, 1 !>:!!> Handel's
Messiah will be presented in Memorial
hall under the direction of Dr. Ezra
H. F. Weis. Ilie choruses of this
pereninl rendition will be sung as
usual, by a group of college and com
munity enthusiasts including the a
capella choir.
The soprano solo" part will he taken
by Mrs. 1!. Dewey Farrell, choir mem
ber at the Greensboro Presbyterian
church : the alto by Mrs. Armistead L.
Mercer, soloist from the Jewish syna
gogue : tin tenor by Thomas Edwards
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Kdinir Allan I'm-, was chosen the fa
vorite author of the voters, receiving
1N ballots. By far tlie most popular
magazine was Readcr'n Ditjcxt which
polled Hh votes. The Ureensboro Ihtil/i
\firs was the most frequently read
newspaper, ami fiction the most popu
lar kind of literature.
Two other American writers closely
followed I'oe as the class's choice.
Mark Twain was second choice and
Booth Tarkington, third. Tied for
fourth were Shakespeare and North
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