VOLUME XXXIX
May Day Festivities Scheduled for May 2
'Enchanted Queen'
Theme of Program
Plans for the May festivities,
which will take place on Saturday,
May 2, at 4:00 o'clock, on Guilford
College campus, are under the di
rection of co-chairmen Ann New
ton, President of the WAA, and
Marty Burton. Miss Margaret Rey
nolds is faculty adviser for the
Women's Athletic Association spon
sors of the annual event. Sue Genz
and Trilby Tucker will be featured
dancers for the program which will
include all women students as par
ticipants.
"The Enchanted Queen," an orig
inal fairy tale, depicts the ten-year
enchantment spell of Queen Joan,
during which time her subjects are
changed to roses, daisies, trumpet
flowers and rabbits. A beautiful
butterfly grants the Queen a one
day release from enchantment
when the spell may be broken per
manently if someone will sacrifice
his life. Jack-in-the-Pulpit fights
with the wicked spider and finally
kills hime to break the terrible en
chantment and enables Queen Joan
to reign over her kingdom forever.
To climax the day's activities,
Paul Bell's orchestra will provide
music for the May Day Dance
which will be held in gymna
sium from 8:30 to 12:00 midnight.
Plans for the dance are under the
supervision of Trilby Tucker, so
cial chairman for the WAA.
Choir Celebrates lis
Twenty-fifth Year
The Guilford College A Capella
Choir officially celebrated its
twenty-fifth anniversary last Fri
day night with their annual home
concert in Memorial Hall at 8 P.
M. The choir sang the concert pro
gram of fifteen selections and then
gave the audience an additional
treat by performing, for the first
time in public, a composition which
the director, Carl C. Baumbach,
composed and dedicated to the
choir on its twenty-fifth anniver
sary. Mr. Baumbach took for his
title and lyrics, a poem by Russel
Pope entitled "Jubilee." Pope is
an outstanding Quaker poet.
The annual spring tour usually
extending over the entire spring
vacation period was limited to two
concerts this year, due to extreme
and unusual difficulties in arranging
concerts in Georgia, Alabama, and
Florida. The choir sang very suc
cessful concerts in Lumberton,
N. C., and in Mt. Pleasant, S. C„
near Charleston. The morning of
the third day of the tour was spent
in riding around Charleston seeing
some of the historical azaleas in the
parks through the city. The choir
returned to Guilford on Monday
the 24 and were entertained by
Dr. and Mrs. Ott for a hamburger
supper.
The group sang an abbreviated
concert at Lakeview Memorial Park
on Easter Sunday afternoon in an
open air program before nearly
five hundred people.
During the past week end the
choir sang on Sunday, the 12, at
East Bend, N. C., in the afternoon,
and then that evening at Winston-
Salem Friends' Church. On Mon
day, the 13, the 35-voice aggrega
tion sang in Troy, N. C., home of
business manager and soloist Bea
man Griffin.
Motley Finishes
Hypnosis Thesis
Using the students as subjects,
Watson Motley has now completed
his thesis on hypnosis and extra
sensory perception. Dr. J. B. Rhine
from Duke has said in regard to
Guilford that the faculty here
seems to have an open mind to
scientific experience that you do
not find in all schools.
The Quilfor&cm
Joan Brooking, the Enchanted Queen, and Betsy Bingham, Maid of
Honor, will reign over May Day.
College Courses and Those in
Technical Skill Requested
On March 15. 1953, Greensboro
Evening College became an offi
cial unit of Guilford College. It
was on this date that Guilford took
over the assets and responsibilities
as well as the program of the
Grensboro institution. Guilford
College had for a short time guided
the educational program and had
been making plans for the merger,
but it was not until the 15th of
March that the necessary papers
were drawn and approved. The
idea was originally presented to
Guilford College in April 1952,
when a committee from the Trus
tees of Greensboro Evening Col
lege offered to transfer to Guil
ford College a successful program
of education and all of its acquired
property and assets, provided Guil
ford College would continue and
implement the education projects
established. Greensboro Evening
College, receiving more and more
requests for college courses, con
sidered this the most expedient
way of gaining accreditation. After
careful and sympathetic considera
tion, the Board of Trustees of Guil
ford College, at its regular meet
ing on January 16, 1953, accepted
the offer, and it became official
on March 15.
General Curriculum
It will be the policy of Guilford
College to continue the general
curriculum already established by
the Evening College. They will
maintain the courses in technical
skills and will strive to increase
their number and variety, as em
ployers make known their needs
and wishes. High school courses
will be offered in the evening for
those who wish to complete their
high school education, and cultural
courses will be offered in the field
of adult education.
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., APRIL 17, 1953
It is in the offering of standard
college credit courses that Guil
ford College will make its greatest
contribution. The College is now
offering regular basic core curri
culum and major courses in the
evening schedule. These will be
rotated so that progress toward a
degree may be made. This aca
demic work will be taught as far
as possible by the regular faculty
members and as a unit of normal
teaching load. As interest and de
mand warrent. additional courses
will be established and fully quali
fied teachers will be added to the
faculty.
Dr. Tomlinson Awarded
Fulbright Scholarship
It has just been announced that
Dr. Muriel Tomlinson, Associate
Professor of French and Spanish
at Guilford College, has been
awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to
Belgium. It is a teaching fellow
ship and will probably take her to
Gilly, Belgium, where she will be
an exchange professor, teaching
English in a school at Gilly.
Plans are that she will leave in
September for her new position,
which will engage her until the
following autumn. An exchange
professor from Belgium will fill
her place at Guilford for the en
suing year. Other details of the
award were not available at this
time.
To Graduate Twice
In Three Months
Jim Vogel, a senior at Guilford
will not only graduate here in
June, but also from Rock School
in August. He will then be an
Ensign in the Navy.
North Stale Student
Council and Editors
Meet Here in April
The Spring meeting of the North
State Student Council will be held
on the Guilford Campus Saturday,
April 25th. Bob Ralls, conference
president, will preside over the
meeting, and Bobbye James, con
ference secretary, will record the
minutes. The presidents of the Stu
dent Government Associations
from the nine colleges of the North
State Conference will attend. Gary
Hilderbrand and barbara Anson
will represent Guilford. The pur
pose of this biannual meeting is to
establish better relationship among
the colleges and to exchange help
ful ideas about student govern
ment problems. The John D. Mes
sick Sportsmanship Trophy will be
awarded to the college receiving
the highest number of votes.
Under the initiative of Bill Nor
mant. Editor in Chief of The Ca
tawba College paper, and Bob
Ralls, there has recently been
formed a Newspaper Editors As
sociation for the conference. The
Newspaper Editors from all over
the conference make up this group.
They will meet at the same time
here at Guilford: Bill Normant
will preside. This first meeting for
this association will consist of
drawing up a constitution and the
organization of an effective pro
gram. Janice Corneilson and Darrel
Peeler will represent Guilford.
Campus
Commentary
by Hugh S. Downing
Ah, Spring is with us once again
. . . How do X know . . . My room
mate made his bed, changed his
sheets, straightened his desk and
swept out the room, completely of
his own accord ... I didn't have
to ask him a single time. Amazing
what a change of weather will do
for a person, isn't it? I always look
on Spring as the time of year
when I justify the laziness that
has -been with me during the other
three seasons of the year. In
Spring I can just chalk it up to
that lovely malady—Spring Fever.
The young ladies around have been
blossoming out in a delightful ar
ray of gayly patterned skirts. I
have noticed, though, an amazing
similarity between the patterns on
the skirts and the designs one sees
on a great many table tfloths.
I think it is due time that the
GUILFORDIAN gave official recogni
tion to its esteemed competition,
Yankee Stadum's brilliant literary
weekly, THE YANKEE REBEL.
Although it's viewpoint may be a
bit one-sided, the Commentator
must admit that he looks forward
quite eagerly to the regular Fri
day publication.
A suggestion to the Building and
Ground crew . . . Why don't you
admit defeat and lay a gravel walk
across the center of the circle in
front of Mem hall, and across from
King Hall to the corner of Mem.
I fear that despite all of you and
Mrs. Milner do in an effort to
keep people from walking along
those paths, they're going to do it
anyway, so you might as well do
what you can to make them
navigable.
I have it from the horse's mouth
that the noble and renowned Sen
ator Leake dated over at W. C.
13 times in one week . . . must
be nice if you can do it.
I received quite a few comments
on the excerpt which I quoted
from my great-grandmother's cook
and remedy book in the last issue,
so many in fact that I have de
cided to include another one. This
one is for the girls . . .
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NUMBER 7
Speakers Announced
For June Exercises
The names of the speakers for
both the Baccalaureate Sermon and
the Commencement Exercises of
this year have just been released
by the Office of the President.
Baccalaureate Speaker
The speaker for the Baccalaure
ate Sermon, which will be at 11
o'clock on Sunday morning, May
31, is Raymond F. McLain, A.8.,
A.M., D.D., LL.D. A few of his most
outstanding achievements have
been: General Director of the Com
mission on Christian Higher Edu
cation of the National Council of
the Church of Christ in the United
States of America since 1951; Pres
ident, Eureka College, 1936-1939;
President, Transylvania College
1939-1951; Lt.-Commander, U. S.
Navy, World War II; Director of
the nation-wide study on "What Is
a Christian College?" Author of
a book just completed, on the
findings of this study, to be pub
lished by Harper & Brothers this
summer.
For the Commencement Exer
cises, to be held at 10:30 o'clock
on Monday morning, June 1, we
have one of the most outstanding
Quaker speakers, Frank Aydelotte,
A.8., A.M., B.Litt., LL.D., L.H.D.,
D.Litt., D.C.L. He, too, has many
thing to his credit: President,
Swarthmore College, 1921-1940;
President, Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton, N. J., 1939-1947;
American Secretary to Rhodes
Trustees, since 1918; President, As
sociation of American Rhodes
Scholars since 1930; Trustee, Car
negie Foundation for Advance
ment of Teaching since 1922; Phi
Beta Kappa Senate, since 1931;
Vice-President, Phi Beta Kappa,
1946-1949.
; Annual Reception
The Seniors will have an op
portunity to meet and talk with
both of these leaders at the annual
Reception given in their honor by
Dr. and Mrs. Milner. This will be
Sunday night. May 31, at the
home of the President, and will
be, as is customary, for the sen
iors, their families, and their
friends. Dr. McLain and Dr. Ayde
lotte will be present as guests of
the Milners.
Juniors Set Banquet
For Saturday Night
Final plans have been set for the
1953 Junior-Senior banquet and
dance to be held Saturday night
April 18, at 7:00 in the gymnasium.
Work is well underway on the
event, which according to replies
from formal invitations will be at
tended by 170 students and faculty
members and their wives.
A local dance band has been ac
quired to play for the dance which
will last from 9:30 until 11:30. The
theme and detailed plans are to be
kept secret until the event comes
off. This will be the second time in
the history of Guilford College that
both a banquet and a dance will be
held at the same time at a Guilford
College Junior-Senior affair.
Officers for the Junior class are:
Leslie Warrick, president; Secre
tary, Anne Newton; and Treasurer,
Bobbie James. Committee chairmen
include: Decoration chairmen,
Bobbie James, Donald Percise, and
Willard Payne; food co-chairmen,
Betty Martin and Bob Ringwald;
entertainment co-chairmen, Anne
Newton and Barbara Money, in
vitations chairman, Christine Gid
ynski; furniture co-chairmen, Bod
die and Bill Redfearn; table prep
arations chairman, Ruth Burton;
waiters chairman, Janet Sumner;
lighting and sound co-chairmen,
John Carr and Hugh Downing;
bandstand chairman, Jim Lomax;
program chairman, Margaret Work
man; supplies chairman, Marvin
Owens.
The cleanup committee will be
composed of the entire junior class.