'College Graduate'
VOLUME XXXVI
Dr. W rightT o Give Commencement Address
Development Fund Nears Mark Set in 1944
Fund Tops $700,000;
Auditorium • Chapel
Plans Near Reality
Dr. Clyde A. Milner, college
president, announced that the
Guilford College Campus Devel
opment Fund has reached $703,-
000 or over 90% of the original
goal.
With this sum past the $700,000
mark of the minimum objective of
$761,000 set in 1944-1945, the com
ing school year promises to be an
other year of construction. Last
reports showed that over 2,500
friends of Guilford have contrib
uted and worked in the extensive
fund-raising program.
Included in the "Guilford —For
a Better Tomorrow" program, intro
duced in 1944, were plans for the
construction of an auditorium
chapel, women's dormitory, an addi
tion to King Hall, a rear SIOO,OOO
addition to the library, complete
renovation of Memorial Hall, and
general repairs to the college plant.
To date Guilford has realized the
last three phases of this complete
expansion program—the new King
Hall addition, which was completed
and dedicated last November, and
the library and renovation which
are now in the final steps of com
pletion and should be in use by
next September.
Final architectural plans and bids
for both the auditorium-chapel and
women's dormitory haven't been
completed, but they are expected
to be within the near future.
Since the actual development
program began, subscriptions to the
improvement program have been
flowing in steadily. College officials
stated that "it seems only yester
day that the fund was around the
$200,000 mark." In fact, last No
vember at the dedication of King
Hall, the fund had reached $612,-
163 or 80% of the goal.
Plans for the construction of the
new dormitory have already been
drawn by A. C. Woodroof, Greens
boro architect. The building to be
erected on the northwest corner of
the college quadrangle is designed
to house 50 women students. (See
picture on Page Seven. President
Milner said that SIOO,OOO was al
lotted for this building. But, he
said, the original bids ran over that
amount. He said college officials
plan to get new bids on the project,
possibly within a few weeks.
f Continued on Page Eight)
Job Outlook (or College Grads
In 1950 Is Improved Over 1949
The outlook for permanent jobs
in this area is good, but for sum
mer jobs you have to take your
chances, an investigation made by
the Guilfordian showed.
When it's said the job situation
is good, it means it is better than
in '49, but there are still a lot of
people looking for employment.
Those who are considering me
chanical trades, architecture, retail
ing and merchandising, nursing,
laboratory work, social service, sell
ing, public relations, chemistry and
physics, have bright prospects for
full time careers.
The fields that are becoming in
creasingly restricted with opportu
nities already limited are law. en
gineering, journalism, commercial
art and photography, accounting,
advertising, radio, television, and
pharmacy.
The investigation showed that
everyone who is interested in office
work, especially girls, are strongly
advised to know typing and some
stenography, even for a summer
job. For college boys who wish
to get in the out-of-doors, Fire Con
p Quilforftcm
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GUILFORD COLLEGE AUDITORIUM-CHAPEL—Architect's con
ception or building on which construction is scheduled to begin soon.
Ann Raiford Crowned
Queen; Setting Sparkles
With the sun shining and a back
ground of gay music echoing across
the campus, Guilford crowned her
May Queen of 1950, Miss Ann Rai
ford. The annual event took place
Saturday, May 6.
"Alice in Wonderland" was the
theme of this years presentation,
and all Guilford women students
participated in the elaborate cele
bration which is sponsored by the
Women's Athletic Association.
Under the direction of Miss
Doris Hitchinson, assistant profes
sor of women's physical education,
the program consisted of effective
and* elaborate decorations, and
commendable folk dancing.
The day's festivities began with
the traditional May Day procession
which featured Miss Raiford and
her escort Mr. Harry Roeske; Chi
zu Watanabe, the queen's maid of
honor, with William Kornegay;
Eleanor Corneilson, escorted by
Lee Stackhouse; Charlotte Fland
ers with Wes Atwood; Esther Lowe
with Carl Erickson; Barbara Pear
son with Garrett Pettingell; Vir
ginia Toole with Donald Wolff and
Marianne Victorius with Tom
Goertner completed the May
Court.
trol Aid in any of the national
parks have openings for those 18
and over. Write Personnel Office,
National Park Service, U. S. Dept.
of Interior, Washington, D. C.
Men who are interested in work
ing in national parks, especially on
blister rust control work, should
write to the Bureau of Entomology
and Plant Quarantine regional of
fices, the investigation showed.
Jobs on farms hereabouts, in
North Carolina, are usually done
by professional migrant* workers,
and such jobs are found at points
of actual work. Jobs on beaches
and resorts are also to be found
on location and not usually in the
state employment offices. The op
portunities in this line are good,
officials revealed.
The graduate or student desir
ing permanent employment should
go to his nearest branch of the
state employment office. There is
one in Greensboro at 231 V 6 North
Greene Street. You will find this
a friendly office which will be glad
to help you with your job-hunting
problems.
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., MAY 24, 1950
Following the procession, cos
tumed women students set the
stage for the Wonderland story
with several folk dances as Polly
Edgerton, who played the part of
Alice, in her dreams and various
enactments of animal characters.
Included among these were Mar
gery Anderson, Thelma Clodfelter,
Mary Ruth Williams and the wom
en's tumbling classes.
The outstanding feat of the day
was that of the tumbling class,
which formed a huge caterpillar.
To the amazement of the large au
dience, after wriggling onto the
scene, the class shed the caterpil
lar costume and performed seve
ral stunts.
Purdom and Feagins
Speak at Jr.-Sr. Fele
In the Parish Hall of St. An
drew's Episcopal Church, on May
4, the Junior Class entertained the
graduating class with the tradi
tional Junior-Senior Banquet.
After an excellent dinner, Scott
Root, the Master of Ceremonies,
passed an alarm clock around to
see who the speaker for the even
ing would be. The idea was that
the person Caught when the alarm
went off would speak. It never
went off. Then Mr. Carroll Feagins
was called upon to give a farewell
greeting to the Seniors.
The Senior Class furnished two
speakers, Eleanor Corneilson and
Carl Cochrane who entertained the
guests by reminiscing through their
years at Guilford.
Dr. E. Purdom, the main speaker
for the evening, was then intro
duced, and spoke on the intriguing
topic of "Science, Semantics, and
Sanity." He read a number of en
tertaining poems which were writ
ten especially for the occasion.
Thirty-third Summer
Session Starts June 5
Registration for the 33rd summer
session at Guilford College for 1950
will be conducted by Dr. Harvey
Ljung. Dr. Clyde Milner will be
on hand to teach the senior philoso
phy course. Mathematics, chemis
try, biology, English, religion, soci
ology, economics, physical educa
tion, and Spanish are courses of
fered.
Marshals Appointed
The appointment or Mar
shals ror 1950-51 have been
announced by Miss Lasley,
Guilford College Registrar.
They are Polly Edgerton,
Chief; Lucy Leake, Virginia
Joyce Fulk, Sally Haire, James
Alspaugh, Sam Baker, Aaron
Tyson, and Julian Culton.
Marshals are selected by the
faculty on the basis or academ
ic standards, leadership and
personality.
Successful Dance
Climaxes Annual
May Day Celebration
Guilford's annual May Day
Dance, sponsored by the Women's
Athletic Association on Saturday
evening, May 6, proved a success
ful climax to the May Day festivi
ties.
Many students, alumni, faculty
membbers, and guests crowded in
to the gymnasium to mingle and
dance from 8:00 to 11:30 for the
crowning event of the year. At the
door, W. A. A. President Ann Stab
ler introduced a small receiving
line, wihch included the head of
Women's Athletics, Miss Hutchin
son, under whose supervision the
May Day activities took place.
Then within the pink and green set
ting, the orchestra led the whirling
dances, highlighted by many new
dresses in the colors of spring.
Toward the middle of the dance
appeared the beautiful May Day
figure. One by one Jimmy Finch,
master of ceremonies, introduced
the May Queen and her court and
their escorts, who stood in the tra
ditional May Day formation. Then
the May Queen, Ann Raiford, and
her escort Harry Roeske, danced
until they were later joined by the
Maid of Honor and the other
members of the court.
Featuring this year's Alice in
Wonderland May theme, the gym
was made spring-like with stream
ers of pink and green Handfash
ioned roses and green foliage were
twined into a swag that stood be-
fore the refreshment table and in
to the backdrop behind it. At the
far end of the gym stood the band
stand, decorated with real grass,
and backed by a huge painting of
Alice in Wonderland and Humpty
Dumpty. Overhead gleamed a mir
ror-studded "star reflector," which
caught the light and reflected it
around the room.
'Garbage Piles' Subject
Of Mr. Moore's Talk
"Garbage piles," said assistant re
ligion professor "Pete" Moore in
chapel on May 5, "are the arche
ologist's means of looking into the
future." He gave many examples
of ancient garbage piles, such as
those along the Nile River in Egypt,
and those in the Tigris-Euphrates
valley in Arabia, from which we
have gotten much information con
cerning the past and from which
we can figure trends in the future.
Mr. Moore went on to speculate
about what would be likely to be
found at Guilford College if it was
to become suddenly a garbage pile
today. He cited examples of what
might be found at Guilford College
to show us how easy it is to mis
interpret a document or manuscript
of an extinct culture or civilization.
He compared his imaginary arche
ological exploration to our religious
excavations, and the artifacts and
excavations.
Eight Pages
This Issue
NUMBER 12
Hartford Prof. Will
Give Baccalaureate
Sermon to Seniors
Graduation Exercise
Begins Sunday, May 28
Continuing the policy of having
distinguished graduation exercise
speakers; Guilford will introduce
to this year's graduating class Dr.
Harry N. Wright, president of City
College of New York, and Dr.
Moses Bailey, professor at Hartford
Theological Seminary. Dr. Wright
will deliver the main commence
ment address on Monday, May 29,
on campus. Dr. Bailey will speak
at the baccalaureate exercise on
Sunday.
President of City College of New
York since 1941, Dr. Wright, who
is a member of the Society of
Friends, received his B.S. degree
from Earlham College and M.S.
from the University of California.
He is the former president of Whit
tier College and introduced the
first course in the theory of num
bers.
Dr. Bailey, also a member of the
Society of Friends, is Nettleton pro
fessor of the Old Testament at
Hartford. He received his doctor's
degree from Boston University in
1926. Besides working with Amer
ican Friends Service Committee in
Palestine and administering United
Nations relief, he has taught at
Friends School, Ramallah, Pales
tine, and at American University
at Beirut.
The commencement exercises at
the college this spring will begin
on Saturday, May 27, which is
Alumni Day. Registration will be
gin at 11:30 and the class reunion
luncheons will be held in Mary
Hobbs Hall at 12:30. At 9 a.m.
Saturday the seniors will have their
commencement rehearsal in Memo
rial Hall. Saturday night at 7 the
annual Alumni Banquet will be
held in Founder's Hall.
Sunday, May 28, Dr. Bailey will
give the Baccalaureate Sermon. On
Sunday night the Milners are giv
ing the reception for all seniors
at their home. Monday morning.
May 29, will mark the final com
mencement exercises. The academ
ic procession will begin at 9:45;
at 10 the commencement exercises
and conferring of degrees, followed
by the feature speaker, Dr. Harry
Wright.
At the Baccalaureate service on
Sunday the invocation will be given
by Isaac Harris, and the devotional
will be given by Hiram Hilty, as
sistant professor of Spanish.
DR. WRIGHT
Overman Scholarship
Goes to Hardy Carroll
By an election held by the
student body, Wednesday, May
10, Hardy Carroll was award
ed the William-Overman
Scholarship for the year of
1950-1951.