VOLUME XXXIX
OFFICE SAFE ROBBERY STILL A MYSTERY
Hinshaw Takes
Over Executive
Secretaryship
Seth B. Hinshaw, pastor of
Asheboro Friends Meeting, has as
sumed duties as executive secre
tary of North Carolina Yearly
meeting, succeeding Isaac Harris,
who has accepted the pastorate of
the Friends Meeting of Archdale.
The new executive announced
this week that he finds it neces
sary to conduct the business of the
Yearly Meeting from his Asheboro
address temporarily, until the Ran
dolph County meeting Is able to
make new pastoral arrangements.
Later he will move into the home
of the secretary at Guilford head
quarters for the denomination in
the state.
Randolph Native
A native of Randolph, Hinshaw
is a graduate of Duke University,
where he also received his theologi
cal training. Although serving earl
ier in Mt. Airy, he has provided
leadership for the growth of the
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SETH B. HINSHAW
Friends Meeting in Asheboro,
where it has become one of the
most influential of all Tar Heel
Friends' meetings.
He has served on important
boards of the Five Years Meeting,
has been active in the North
Carolina Council of Churches
and Asheboro Ministerial Associa
tion, and was serving as clerk of
North Carolina Yearly Meeting at
the time of his selection by the
permanent board as executive sec
retary.
His predecessor resigned after
five years of service in order to
return to pastoral work, from which
he had been called into executive
laadership.
May Court Chosen
At its first regular meeting of
the year, the Senior Class nomi
nated ten of its best exponents of
feminine pulchritude to the 1953
May Court. From the following
girls the May Queen will be select
ed by the student body in the near
future: Betsy Bingham, Joan
Brookings, Jo Cameron, Glenna
Fulk, Marty Hoopes, Marilyn Lin
hart, Elsa Neitzke, Mae Nicholson,
Betty Venable, and Betsy White.
At the same meeting Richard
Staley was elected class repre
sentative to the Alumni Associa
tion. A further item of business
was the planning of a complimen
tary buffet dinner for the seventy
odd seniors and their faculty
sponsors. Invitations to the dinner,
which will be held November 14,
will be mailed within the week,
and all those wishing to partake
of some of the culinary achieve
ments of Dick Staley are requested
to reply promptly.
The Quiffor&on
M
CLARENCE PICKETT
Elizabeth Vining,
'Windows' Author,
To Speak Here
When you were still a child in
grammar school reading such books
as Tilly-Tod, Tangle Garden, and
Younger Walter Scott, did you ever
wonder if the author was like the
little girl in the story, and if she
actually did those things when she
was a girl? If you did such rem
iniscing, then your childish dreams
will come true on November 21
when Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining
speaks in Memorial Hall at 8:00
P.M.
Born in Germantown in Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania in the fall
of 1902, Miss Gray was "a very be
lated addition to a family that had
long since considered itself com
plete." Being a member of a Qua
ker family, she attended the
Germantown Friends School, later
receiving her B. A. degree from
Bryn Mawr College and her B. A.
in Library Science from Drexel
Institute in Philadelphia.
To make use of her formal edu
cation Miss Gray ventured into the
South, accepting a position with
the University of North Carolina
as assistant in the Catalog Depart
ment. It was there in Chapel Hill
that she met and married Morgan
Vining, a faculty member. Four
years later, after the death of her
husband in an automobile accident,
she returned to Germantown.
Her short story in the South in
fluenced some of her later writings.
In 1943 Miss Gray received the
Newberry Award for Adam of the
Road.
In 1945 Miss Gray accepted the
position as tutor to the Crown
Prince of Japan. During her four
years stay she created within the
young boy an interest in reading,
both in English and Japanese, of
Listog and novels. On her depar
ture she was recipient of an un
precedented honor for a Westerner
—The Third Order of the Sacred
Crown.
Her latest book, Windows For
The Crotim Prince tells of her ex
periences and friendship with the
young boy.
Eisenhower Won
Straw Vote 184-131
General Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Republican nominee for President,
was favored in the straw vote of
students taken at Guilford Friday,
but the 12 faculty members par
ticipating gave Gov. Adlai Steven
son a slight majority in a separate
poll.
Of the 328 persons voting, 184
preferred Eisenhower, 131 Steven
son and 13 undecided. The faculty
was 7-5 for Stevenson.
Among students under 21, 125
voted for Eisenhower and 82 voted
for Stevenson. Over 21, the figure
was 54-42 for Eisenhower.
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., NOVEMBER 5, 1952
C. E. Pickett Traces Friends'
Role In World Affairs
On * Wednesday, October 22,
Guilford observed its annual
Founders Day. This year was one
of special emphasis and elaborate
planning in commemoration of the
Fiftieth Anniversary of the es
tablishing of the Five Years Meet
ing of Friends on October 22, 1902.
The program officially began at
the eleven o'clock chapel period
with a lecture by Dr. Clyde Milner
on the beginning and development
of the Five Years' Meeting and on
the relation of the North Carolina
Yearly Meeting to it.
In the afternoon four dis
cussion groups were held from
two to four o'clock for all visitors
and interested persons. They con
cerned Church Extension and Out
reach, Christian Education, Home
and Foreign Mission, and Friends
and Higher Education. Following
these meetings a tea was given in
the Library.
Ward Lecture
The climaxing event was the
Third Ward Lecture given by
Clarence E. Pickett, Honorary Sec
retary, American Friends Service
Committee, at 8 o'clock in Mem
orial Hall. His theme for the eve
ning was "Friends and Interna
tional Affairs." He traced the be
ginnings of the early Quakers and
their participation in government
and world affairs from the 17th
century to the present day.
The efforts of the early Friends
to live up to the full significance
of their great discovery "That
there was that of God in Every
Man" were ones of great courage
and diligence. It is true that they
were unsuccessful in many of their
attempts, but it was through these
continuous and ardent attempts
Evening College Merger
With Guilford Backed
A proposed merger of the
Greensboro Evening College with
Guilford College last week receiv
ed encouragement in the form of
a promise of financial assistance
from directors of the Greensboro
Chamber of Commerce.
The merger proposal was pre
sented to directors by Huger King,
chairman of the Greensboro Ad
visory Board of Guilford College.
Be Greensboro Unit
If the evening college is merged
with GUilford, he explained, the
night school would be an actual
Greensboro unit of the college. It
would continue to offer courses
that answer needs of the com
munity.
The merger was proposed by
trustees of the evening college,
Dr. Milner said. Guilford submit
ted the idea to the Greensboro Ad
visory Board, which approved it
and suggested that the chamber
of commerce, as evening college
sponsor, be consulted.
Yesterday's endorsement came
at a monthly meeting of chamber
directors, C. C. Fordham, Jr.,
chamber president, was in charge
of the session.
Dr. Milner said that Guilford
College trustees would act on the
proposed merger either at their
next regular meeting in January
or a special called session during
the next two months.
The resolution promising finan
cial aid to Guilford College if such
a merger is accomplished stated
that directors would recommend
to the chamber that members in
clude the project on their list of
benevolences, "building a Greens
boro Fund to become a part of the
that the beginnings of Democracy
were born, he said.
America then became a great
nation, gained power, and added
responsibility, Pickett continued.
We have fought two World Wars,
and won them, but how do we
stand today? Are we still respected
and loved? We have a Peace
Treaty with Japan, but will the
tragedies of Hiroshima and Naga
saki ever be forgotten?
He went on to say that our ex
ternal powers are growing, but are
they enough? Can we rely upon
the tanks and bombs in these times
of fear and peril or is it time to
resort to the "Sword of the Spirit?"
We believe that no power is strong
enough to defend us against the
growing strength of an increasing
Communist World.
It is here that there is a call
to Friends to participate in inter
national affairs as intelligently,
with as much dedication, and with
as much unity of concern as we
can muster.
Work of Friends
The Missionary efforts of the
Friends, the work of the American
Friends Service Committee, the
delegation to the United Nations,
combined with the private missions
of traveling Friends have helphed
and are helping to prepare the way
in releasing the power of a new
spirit and a new hope which alone
ic more powerful than bombs.
We have an insufficient knowl
edge of understanding and cour
age to meet the opportunities that
are open to us, he continued, but
we must dedicate mind, body,
and spirit to completely follow the
Christ whom we profess so that
our prevailing sentiment would
not be fear of Communism, but
love of people.
permanent capital endowment fund
of Guilford College."
It also pointed out that Greens
boro Evening College "can render
an even greater service to the
comnfunity if it is made an integral
part of an accredited college."
Downtown Branch
The resolution urged trustees of
Guilford College to accept all the
properties and other assets of the
evening college and to continue
the operation of the institution as
a downtown campus or branch of
Guilford College, offering courses
of instruction at a college level
and for which college credits may
be given.
Dr. Milner said that the Greens
boro Advisory Board of Guilford
College was set up in 1944 to help
the college increase its services to
the area.
"It has been most helpful during
the years in making Guilford Col
lege Greensboro's home college for
men," he said.
Campus Chest
Over the Top
Of considerable satisfaction and
pride to Guilfordians should "be the
fact that last week's Campus Chest
Drive went over the top, both from
the standpoint of student partici
pation and financial contributions.
Bill Yates, President of the Stu
dent Affairs Board and chairman
of the drive, announced Monday
that $354 had been collected—a
figure representing almost 100 per
cent participation on the part of
students and exceeding the origi
nal of S3OO. This amount will in
evitably be increased since money
is still coming in.
NUMBER 2
Burglars Crack Safe
For $4,050 Cash
A sheriff's investigation had
produced no arrests last night to
the $4050 safe robbery at Guilford
last Wednesday night.
Sheriff Joim E. Walters is lead
ing the investigation into the third
safe-cracking in Guilford County
educational institutions within the
month.
The Guilford robbery was dis
covered early Thursday morning
by janitor Henry Morehead when
he went on duty in Memorial Hall.
The thieves first gained the hall
way by breaking a window, but
failed to break open the business
office door. They then entered the
office by another window, and
sledge-hammered the lock off the
six foot safe to over S4OOO in cash.
Among the loot were the proceeds
of two football games, $350 in
Campus Chest funds deposited
with the college, and an unspeci
fied amount belonging to the col
lege bookstore.
The loot also included 3,000
pennies and S3OO in change. The
rest was in currency. The safe also
contained valuable papers, but
these were undisturbed.
About three weeks ago, thieves
got $1,500 from a safe at Palmer
Memorial Institute in Sedalia.
Earlier, a small amount was stolen
from a small safe at McLeansville
School.
War Problems
Conference Meets
A Christian Youth Conference
on the Problem of War was held
at Guilford College October 31 to
November 2, with speakers from,
New York, Durham, and High
Point.
Co-operating in this venture
were a group of pacifist students,
the S.C.A., the Social Committee,
Guilford College, New Garden
Friends Meeting, and members of
the community who helped with
Lousing.
The three day conference began
Friday morning with words of
welcome by Charles Thomas and
Dr. Milner, singing led by J. Floyd
Moore and the address "The Moral
Dilemma of the Christian in a
World at War" by Professor Neal
Hughley of North Carolina College.
Saturday morning activities be
gan with unprogramed worship in
the traditional manner of Friends,
led by Charles Hendricks. The
morning address was given by
James Mattocks. Chairman of the
Peace Committee of North Caro
lina Yearly Meeting on "The Paci
fist approach to Moral Dilemmas
of Our Day."
Following the question period
the conference divided into simul
taneous discussion groups to ex
plore the problems that arose dur
ing the two addresses.
Saturday afternoon A. J. Muste,
Executive Secretary of Fellowship
of Reconciliation, addressed the
group on "The Areas of Responsi
ble Christian Action."
After a forum led by B. Tartt
Bell, Executive Secretary of the
American Friends Service Com
mittee of the Southern Region, the
group participated in square danc
ing led by Miss Reynolds in the
College Gymnasium.
Bathroom Door Opened
The Reveler's Club presented a
one act comedy entitled "The
Bathroom Door" a few chapel per
iods ago that caused Old Mem
Hall's walls to shake. The delemma
involved a hotel bathroom door
that wouldn't open. It was stuck.
This probable solution never oc
curred to the half-awakened
guests, but rather visions of sui
cide were more conceivable.