Happy
Easter
VOLUME XXXVIII
Dr. Purdom Asks For Strong Fourth 'R' At Guilford
Admissions fo College
Above Last Year's
At This Point
According to information re
leased by Mr. John C. Bradshaw,
Jr., Public Relations Secretary of
Guilford College, last week 65 new
students have been accepted for
admission to Guilford College for
the 1952-53 session. Indicative of
a trend for girls to complete their
applications before boys is the
fact that of. this number 40 are
girls and 25 boys. Another trend
noted by Mr. Bradshaw is that the
present number of accepted stu
dents far surpasses the number
who had completed their appli
cations by this time last year.
Thirty-four of the new students
are from North Carolina and 26
from elsewhere in the United
States. Five foreign students will
join the student body next fall:
Jaime Garza of Mexico, Clarita
de la Garza from Cuba, Eric Kout
chak of Alaska, Marianne Mayer
of Germany, and Kay Ota of
Japan. Fourteen of the new stu
dents are members of the Society
of Friends.
An active participation in stu
dent promotional work among
alumni is revealed in that 23 of
the prospective students have been
recommended by alumni. Nine
daughters and one son of former
students are reckoned among the
total. Present students have also
been active in campaigning for
new students. Four of the new
students have been recommended
by Ray Blakeslee, and Howard
Coble has been instrumental in
corralling five students. It is in
teresting to note that Howard's
prospects are all girls. Perhaps he
is dissatisfied with the feminine
pulchritude presently on campus.
Joining brothers or sisters al
ready on campus will be Martha
Ann Shore, sister of John Shore;
Carol Smith, sister of June Smith;
Charles Farlow, brother of Betsy
Farlow; Emily Warrick, sister of
Les Warrick; and Jerry Payseur,
brother of Bob Payseur. The A 1
Connor family will again be rep
resented on campus when Douglas
and Andrew Connor, brothers of
the 1951 graduate, enter Guilford
next fall. Marie Hopkins, sister
of Rachel Hopkins—another last
year's graduate, is also planning
to continue her education at
Guilford.
Concluding his general obser
vations, Mr. Bradshaw stated that
in order to maintain the desired
enrollment of nearly 500 students,
approximately 200 new students
will need to be accepted. Of this
number about one-half would be
dormitory students and one-half
day students. A rapid approach is
being made to fulfilling this quota
since as of March 4 sixteen addi
tional students had forwarded
either their application blanks or
transcripts.
Official Life Guard
To Be Larry Fine
Larry Fine has been appointed
official life guard for the Guilford
College lake by the administration
of the college. In accepting the
responsibility of guarding the
lives of Guilford college students
and faculty, Fine said that he in
tended to make the lake as safe
as possible for swimming. Larry
stated very emphatically that "No
one should go in swimming at the
Guilford College lake or any
where else unless there is a life
guard on duty." He has had many
years of experience at lifeguard
ing and has never had a drowning
occur when he was on duty. The
advice that he gives and the rules
that he makes are not to be
scoffed at. Larry has spent the last
several weeks training a number
of Guilford students in the arts
of lifesaving. They may assist him
in his duties at the lake.
The Guilfortocm
Final Plans Laid
For Junior-Senior
Meeting April 2, the Junior
Class laid final plans for the
Junior-Senior Banquet and Dance
to be held in the college gym
nasium Saturday night, April 19,
at 8:30. Betsy White, chairman of
the invitations committee, an
nounced that 150 students have
accepted invitations to the dinner
and dance. From reports made by
the chairmen of committees, it
seems that rapid progress is being
made on the decorations and pro
gram. Announcing an added high
light on the program, Jo Cameron
revealed that Ed Brooks and
Barbara Money will perform
throughout the meal on the Ham
mond Organ and grand piano.
Charlie Hendricks, who is in
charge of serving the dinner, with
which Mrs. Martin and her kit
chen staff are assisting, reported
that the following freshmen and
sophomores will serve as waiters
or waitresses: James Armstrong,
Charlie Austin, Harold Critcher.
Conrad Mozingo, Joe Marsh, Ted
McEachern, Bill Potter, Trilby
Tucker, Ulle Poldema, Kathryn
Shoemaker, Ann Newton, Bonnie
Ferrell, Bobbye James, and June
Banks.
Marty Hoopes, chairman of the
dance committee, remarked that
the dance to follow the banquet
will be a card dance of which the
first number will be a figure com
posed of the presidents of the
Junior and Senior classes and the
chairmen of the various commit
tees.
Scholarship Society
Adds Ten Members
On Thursday night, April 17, the
Scholarship Society is giving a
party in honor of the 42 stu
dents who are on the honor roll
this semester. The party will be
held in the Hut where games will
be played and delicious refresh
ments served.
The Society has announced the
addition of ten more students
to its membership. They are Zoe
Campbell, Glenna Fulk, Bruce
Morton, Mae Nicholson, Karl
Reinhardt, Morton Salkind, June
Smith, Dick Staley, Betsy White,
and Ann Yarrow. We are all look
ing forward to the time when our
1 Society will become a member
of Phi Beta Kappa.
Alumni Lead Panel
Discussion aIFTA
The Guilford College chapter
of the Future Teachers of Ameri
ca recently held spring elections
with the following results: Presi
dent, Marilyn Linhart; Vice
president, John Shore; Secretary,
Glenna Fulk; and Treasurer, Bill
Yates, who was re-elected. They
succeed Lucy Leake Ingram,
William Topping, and Jo Butner.
At the April meeting a panel
discussion on "What I Have
Learned From My First Year of
Teaching" was presented by three
fbrmer Guilfordians: Mrs. Mar
jorie Jardine Williams (Mrs. J. T.>,
Miss Betty Jane Hughes, and Mr.
Gilbert McKee. Mr. Charles Her
bert, Principal of Aycock School
Grensboro, was moderator.
Guilford College became a
charter member of the State FTA
when a conference was held at
Black Mountain College near
Asheville from March 27 to 29.
Our representatives were Lucy
Leake Ingram and William Bax
ter.
The next meeting will be a
picnic held on May 1 at the home
of Mr. Bailey. Further announce
ment will be made and any pros
pective teacher is invited.
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., APRIL 11, 1952
Peace Conference Held
At Quaker Lake
On the weekend of April 5 and
6, The American Friends Service
Committee sponsored a confer
ence at Quaker Lake. The purpose
of the conference was to study
the phamphlet "Steps To Peace"
which was issued by the Service
Committee. Steve Cary who was
chairman of the committee that
wrote the phamphlet, led the
group in its considerations of the
steps that we might take in work
ing toward peace. During the
weekend such questions as "What
are our objectives in international
affairs?"; "Where is our foreign
policy leading us?"; and "Alterna
tive program in terms of American
Friends Service Committee phi
losophy," were discussed.
Among the sixty people who
registered at the conference were
many foreign students enrolled in
various colleges in this area and
who represented sixteen different
countries.
Guilford students and faculty
members who attended the con
ference were Aaron Tyson, Clem
Swisher, Francis Petty, Ann Yar
row, Clyde Branson, Kenneth
Wallace, Hugh Downing, Betty
Jones. Bill Yates, Rico Gilioli, Ed
Buroughs, Charles Hendricks,
Dorothy Anne Ware, and J. Floyd
Moore.
American Chemists
Hear Dr. Colwell
The Central North Carolina
Section of The American Chemical
Society held its regular monthly
meeting here on Friday, March 21.
The principal speaker was Dr. W.
E. Colwell, Chairman of the De
partment of Agronomy at State
College, who spoke on "Tobacco
Research in North Carolina."
Dr. Colwell said that "the to
bacco industry is North Carolina's
greatest," pointing out that, "If
it were stopped many thousands
of people would be thrown out
of work." He stated that it is a
$500,000,000 a year business "ac
counting for 50 to 60 percent of
the North Carolina cash farm
income."
"In 10 years, annual cigarette
consumption has increased 170
percent. We are concerned with
what improvements the North
Carolina tobacco grower can make
so that his product will be tailor
made for the increased world wide
market. Growers must be made
to feel both individually and col
lectively the responsibility as well
as the opportunity that is theirs."
Dr. Colwell has been with State
college since 1942 except for a
two-year period between 1944 and
1946 when he was with the Rocker
feller foundation as a soil scientist
in Mexico. He has been head of
the Agronomy department at State
College since 1948. He has also
written numerous articles on nu
tritional studies of alfalfa, soy
beans, corn and peanuts.
Women Students Install
New Cabinet Members
In an impressive ceremony held
in Memorial Hall on April 7, the
women students installed their
new officers for the coming year.
Dr. Clyde A. Milner spoke on the
Guilford College motto "I am
applying myself to wisdom and
virtue."
Sally Haire, the outgoing presi
dent, thanked the women students
for their cooperation during the
past year and challenged the new
council members to do as well pnd
to serve Mae Nicholson, the in
coming president, and fellow stu
dents, to the best of their ability.
Sally then installed the new
council members by lighting their
candles as she recognized them.
Says Physical Education Is Often
Taken As Course of Least Resistance
Noted Guilford Grad
Visits Campus
A recent visitor to our campus
was Mr. Robert Marshall, who is
now an Associate Professor of
English at Ohio Wesleyan and
lives in Columbus, Ohio. His
novels, LITTLE SQUIRE JIM
and JULIA GWYNN, are based,
however on memories of the
places he grew up in—Greensboro,
High Point, and Mt. Airy, North
Carolina. He was born in Mt. Airy
on October 31, 1901, the son of
Quakers. He received his A. B.
from Guilford College in 1925 and
his M. A. from Haverford in 1926.
He did graduate work at Harvard,
the University of North Carolina,
Ohio Wesleyan, lowa State, and
Northwestern University. His ma
jor studies were English literature,
drama, and philosophy.
While at Guilford he was an
active member of the GUILFORD
IAN staff, serving in various
capacities.
Mr. Marshall started teaching
in 1928. and has taught literature
and creative writing at public and
private schools, colleges, and uni
versities.
He has been to Europe twice,
where he traveled by foot, bicycle
or horse, and only when absolutely
necessary by train, car, or plane.
LITTLE SQUIRE JIM won the
Ohio fiction award for the out
standing book of 1949 bv an Ohio
resident. It is a folk novel based on
a North Carolina mountain legend.
A tea was held in the Fine Arts
Room of the library in honor of
Mr. Marshall. At that time, stu
dents and faculty members were
given an opportunity to hear Mr.
Marshall discuss his newest novel,
JULIA GWYNN, in which he has
attempted to portray the impact of
modern life on old South culture.
Honor Roll
Releasing quarter grades. Miss
N. Era Lasley, College Registrar,
announced last week that five
students had perfect records:
Joyce Fulk, Betty Jones, James
Montgomery, Mac Nicholson, and
Richard Staley. Ten students
made all "A's" but one: Sam
Baker, Julian Culton, James Hamil
ton, Karl Reinhardt, Gwen Rich
ardson, Morton Salkind, June
Smith, Kaye Williams, Ann Yar
row, and Billy Yates.
Referring to an extensive
scholastic record going back to
1926, Miss Lasley said that this
quarter's grades compare very
favorably with those of other
years. A 2.67 per cent increase
in the number of students making
all "A's" and "B's" is noted over
last year's record. A more credit
able improvement is revealed in
a decrease of 6.99 per cent of
students passing less than nine
hours with a "C" average.
Recalling the record-breaking
number of students on the Honor
Roll last semester, it seems that
a new interest in academic ac
complishment is taking place on
the Guilford campus.
Dr. Milner Speaks Before
Headmasters Association
This week Dr. Milner went north
to attend the annual meeting of
the Quaker Headmasters Associa
tion, a meeting of the Friends'
Council on Education, and a
Guilford College alumni dinner
in New York.
The meeting of the Quaker
Headmasters Association was held
at Sidwell Friends' School in
Washington, D. C. and Dr. Milner
spoke there. He was the main
speaker Friday, April 11, for the
alumni dinner at the Parkside
I Hotel in New York.
Support Your
Baseball Team
NUMBER 6
Speaking before the Guilford
College assembly on Friday, April
4th, Dr. E. Garness Purdom. Pro
fessor of Physics and Chairman
of the Physical Education Com
mittee, called for improvement
in the athletic program of the
college. Using his twenty-five
years of experience on the faculty
of Guilford College as a back
ground, Dr. Purdom reviewed
some of Guilford's athletic
achievements as well as upsets.
Dr. Purdom said that it was his
wish to see the Guilford College
Physical Education Department,
which comprises approximately
fifteen percent of the student
body, made as strong as any of
the other seventeen departments
in which majors are offered. "Un
fortunately," Dr. Purdom said, "I
do not think that is true of Guil
ford today." He pointed out that
a major in Physical Education is
often taken "as the course of least
resistance."
Commenting upon the values of
athletics in building character,
Dr. Purdom said, "Despite the
opinion shared by many, sports
alone cannot build character. It
can teach humility, but character
building comes only from a. syn
thesis of sports with academic
subjects."
Dr. Purdom is not in favor of
the recent trend toward "putting
athletics back into the hands of
the faculty," and expressed the
hope that colleges will produce
more competent coaches who will
be properly trained to manage
athletics.
Outlining a program of im
provement, Dr. Purdom favored
the cutting out of all gate receipts
and financing the physical educa
tion program entirely from en
dowment funds. This, he feels,
would relieve a good deal of the
pressure and criticism brought to
bear on the physical education
department from supporters when
things go wrong.
Another reform foreseen by Dr.
Purdom is the reduction of the
number of games played on suc
cessive nights.
While favoring the awarding of
athletic scholarships to deserving
students. Dr. Purdom does not
feel that the pooling of funds pro
vides the best answer. He deems
it best to have a close tie up be
tween the recipient of scholarship
aid and the donor since this pro
cedure provides an added incen
tive for the boy who knows he is
being backed by people at home.
Although Dr. Purdom is a
physicist and mathematician by
profession, he has been actively
engaged in Guilford's athletic
program during his quarter-cen
tury here.
Juilliard Professor
Presents Concert
Mr. James Friskin, noted inter
preter of Bach, composer, ancl
teacher at the Juilliard School of
Music, presented a piano concert
in Memorial Hall Auditorium on
Monday morning, April 7th. Num
bers by Bach, Beethoven, Schu
bert and Brahms were presented
to an appreciative audience. Mr.
Friskin is on tour in this area,
and on Tuesday presented a con
cert at Duke University.
James Armstrong Elected
Chief Marshal for 1953
Dr. Eva Campbell, College
Marshal, has announced that the
new wearers of the tuxedoes and
white dresses at college functions
have been selected by the faculty.
Elected on the basis of scholar
ship and character to this lauda
tory position were: James Arm
strong. chief; Donald Rockwell,
Bill Marshburn, Barbara Anson,
Christina Gidynski, Mabel Bene
dict, and Nancy Lou Herring.