Good Luck,
Seniors
VOLUME XXXV
Largest Guilford Class To Graduate Next Monday
Library Expansion
Project May Begin
Early This Summer
Music, Seminar, Visual
Education Rooms To Be
Provided in Addition
Architects and consultants are
working on final plans for the pro
posed Guilford College library ex
pausion project. The college ad
ministration hopes to be able to ap
prove an early start In excavation
and construction for this summer.
The expanded library' is to cover
a rectangular area made by tilling
iu along the sides of the present
T-shaped structure and building on
to the back of the building. More
thian doubling the present stack
room area, the two story addition
will also provide a seminar room,
a music and visual education room,
several study cubicles among the
stacks, a fireproof Qunkeriana room,
several offices and work rooms In
addition to coat closets, and rest
rooms for students. Kxcavation will
provide large basement area along
the north and west sides of the
building. The main reading room
will be expanded by elimination of
the charging desk from Its area and
by an extension ail along the south
ru side of the remodeled building.
With more apace the library will be
able to shelve the thousands of
volumes from the recently acquired
Lahser collection and the valuable
Troll Rees collection.
Please Return Books
Miss Kicks, retiring librarian,
requested this week that all
-students return books before Fri
day. Several hooks are now out
standing and the library staff
wishes to check in all books as
soon as possible.
Will Address Graduating Class
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I)R. GUY SNAVELY DR. ROLAND BAINTON
. . . Commencement Speaker . . . Baeealaureate Speaker
Guilford Group Attends Student
Legislature; White Opposes Bill
The Guilford College delegation
to the twelfth North Carolina Stu
dent Legislature spent. an eventful
week end on May 13-14 in Itiileigh.
The seven Guilfordians who par
ticipated in the two days of law
making were Jack White, Kldora
llaworth, and Dan Warren in the
Senate: and Margaret Mayer, How
ard Davis, and John Clark in the
House; with Dr. I'eter Dalbert of
the Guilford College faculty acting
as general adviser to the two groups
of students.
The Guilford delegation presented
a bill to improve the public educa-
7T)e Quifforttcm
GUILFORD: Her past can never be as great as her future ...
-—J. Wtn. McCracken
FOUNDERS IIALL: Scene of last meetings of Senior class ami of visiting Alumni gatherings.
McCracken Muses, Looks Back, Ahead,
And Compares Seniors to Pallbearers
By J. Win. McCRACKEN
There the.v come with all the rent
ed splendor, the borrowed grandeur
of the occasion. There, see. The
moving procession passes by with
immobile faces, assumed dignity,
like a group of solemn pallbearers
! burying the class of l!)4i).
The audience cranes its eyes to
get a better look. Wet-eyed mothers
and sisters, and fathers sitting un
comfortably and proud, and broth
ers in their Sunday-best. And still
tion system in North Carolina. Al
though the House passed the locally
sponsored liill hy a landslide, the
Senate—even among the students a
more conservative body—passed the
bill by a one-vote margin, on a
14-13 count. John Clark spoke for
flic bill in the House, while in the
Senate Ehloni Haworth and Jack
White took the lead in urging pas
sage.
According to their res|iective pre
dispositions, some observers said the
student mock group "wrote into law"
a program that was creditably lib
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GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C„ MAY 24, 1949
thpy conip, thp endless, moving
procession of marching feet, trying
earnestly to keep In step, and above
them the minds beneath the inotar
hoards are remembering the flurried
last instructions on the ceremony.
They file and take a seat and sit
in one huge gesture like grass fall
ing behind a mower. And then it
starts —the commencement exercises,
well-planned and patterned after
former days—the long hoped for and
awaited moments of four years.
Four years. Four long, short, long
years of studying, of outside read
ing. of homework, lessons, lab. work :
of dancing, stolen smokes, cokes,
dates, dreams. Four years of sweat,
fun. and gripes, of tests, always
tests, exams. Four years . . .
The sun Is shining. Its heavy,
warm, voluptuous rays shine thru
tin* narrow windows of the audi
torium and a feminine breeze moves
languidly against the heavy
line draperies. Vnfler the robes, it's
hot. The speaker's voice drones on
And beneath the black mortar-boards
and behind the strangely whire faces
under them, the minds move, click,
shuttle, change gears, and move
again. Their eyes are on the speak
er. but it is not he they see. Blank,
staring, because in the labyrinths
of the brain, memories are heintr
born and spunked, or uncovered and
washed in their nakedtiess.
Underwood Had Very
Successful Season
At commencement, Charles Un
derwood will end a successful sen
sun with the A Cappela Choir, which
he took over after the death of
Ezra 11. Weis, late music depart
ment head. Mr. Underwood and his
handling of the choir was highly
praised throughout the annual choir
tour, which went this year to
Dallas, Texas.
Mr. Underwood was born in Nova
Scotia, studied in France, and led
choirs in the large cathedrals there.
He litis been associated with Greens
boro College for the past few years,
and only last winter he journeyed
to the Metropolitan Opera to watch
the debut of one of his students.
At present, it is learned that three
of his pupils at Greensboro College
are recipients of scholarships which
will carry them to Italy for music
study.
The day of freshman arrival three
or four years ago, the first blank,
empty prisoness of the bare rooms
in the dorms, the roommates, the
close appraisal and slight disapoint
ment of first meeting are there. The
first classes, the confusion, the fear
of rules, the super-human upperclass
men. the hard, cold feel of new
books. The P.O. which lent a touch
of home. The gradual transition.
Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and
Finals and it was over. At last it
was over.
Better the second year, yep, it was
better then. You knew more, did
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'Big Sister' Program
Adopted by W.S.G.
Since spring vacation, the WSU
has taken on quite an extensive
program of special projects. Sally
Goodrich and Ann Stabler directed
tlic Freshmen Iniation program, Sat
urday. May HO. It proved to be very
successful with both dorms coopera
ting together. Next year, the Coun
cil plans to hold this orientation
program in the fall with three days
devoted to iniating the freshmen
girls.
The Junior Class of girls is giving
a party for the senior girls, Mon
day evening. May Hi. in Founders
Hall. Peggy Twedtleil is general
chairman.
Another project undertaken by
the \VS(J is the "Big Sister" pro
gram which was formerly part of
the XCA work. Pinkie Fischelis and
Sally Haire have been named chair
men for this work. They plan to
expand the work of a "Big Sister"
next year.
At the monthly meeting of all
women students Wednesday, Elea
nor Corneilson. president, announced
the new rules, which are now in
effect. Sophomores have been given
12:IM> P.M. permission Saturday
night, and all students will receive
11 :30 P.M. permission after home
football games. Other changes are
small and have bearing on former
stated rules.
Eleanor then appealed to the
girls to lie careful about smoking
on the campus. The council has
taken a definite stand on the issue.
The members feel that as long as it
is a rule of the school, reason for
adhering to it is large enough.
Eight Pages
This Issue
NUMBER 19
Dr. Roland Bainton,
Dr. Guy E. Snavely
Will Address Seniors
The commencement exercises at
Guilfona College this spring will
begin on Saturday, Slay 28, which
is Alumni Day. Registration will
begin at 11:30 and the class reunion
luncheons will be held in Mary
Hobbs Hall at 12:30. At 9:00 A.M.
of the same day the seniors will
have their commencement rehearsal
in .Memorial Hall. Saturday night
at 7:00 the annual Alumni Banquet
will be held in Pounder's Hall.
Sunday, May 29, Dr. Boland Bain
ton of Yale Divinity School will de
liver the Baccalaureate Sermon. Dr.
Sainton was born in England and
came to this country in 1902. During
World War I he served with the
Quaker unit of the American Red
Cross. He has taught at various
schools and colleges. He is a dis
tinguished author of five books pub
lished between the years 1935 and
194:5. The father of five children, he
lives on Amity Road, Woodbridge,
Conn.
On Sunday night, the Milners are
giving the reception for all seniors
at their home, following the vesper
services at 5:00 P. M. sponsored by
the Student Christian Association.
Monday morning, May 30, will
mark the final commencement exer
cises. The academic procession will
begin at 9:45; at 10:00 the com
mencement exercises and conferring
of degrees, followed by the com
mencement speaker, Dr. Guy E).
Snavely, Executive Director of the
Association of American Colleges.
Dr. Snavely has had a long teach
ing career in academies and col
leges. He also served in World
War I with the American Bed Cross.
He was dean of Converse College
in Spartanburg, S. C. t and presi
dent of Birmingham Southern Col
lege. He has held his present posi
tion since 1937.
Miss Ricks Ends 27
Years Library Service
Miss Katherine C. Iticks who for
27 years has served as Guilford Col
lege Librarian lins announced her
resignation effective in June. A stu
lent nt Guilord beginning in 1901,
Miss Iticks returned in 1922 to be
come the fifth person to hold the
librarian's chair.
Professional preparation was
taken by Miss Rick? at the Univer
sity of Virginia and at Columbia
University. Under her guidance the
library has grown from around 8,000
volumes in 1!>22 to today's total of
51,000, a number of student assis
tants have entered the Held of libra
ry work, and plans for library ex
pansion in the .near future have
been completed. Closely associated
with Alumni work and the promo
tion of the school. Miss Kicks has
served as hostess for the rennovated
Itagsdale Alumni House since 1948.
MISS KATHKRINK KICKS