VOLUME XXXIX
FRESHMEN SCHEDULE DANCE FOR MAY 16
La Traviala To Be
Presented Friday
Friday night, at eight o'clock, the
Greensboro Opera Company will
present "La Traviata" in Duke Me
morial Hall. Violeta, the heroine, is
played by Mrs. John B. Russell, in
structor of voice and music here.
Harry Logan Smith plays Alfreda;
Nollie Neal, a Guilford student, the
Baron; John Truilt, Germont the
father, and Harold Moag will play
the Marquis.
The opera will be sung in Eng
lish. Mr. Baunmbach, associate pro
fessor of music and director of
the choir is directing the opera.
George Sills from Greensboro de
signed the costumes.
The opera in four acts is the
story of Violeta, a poor lost girl,
who because of her excess mood of
life has contracted tuberculosis.
As she is finally in reach of happi
ness with Alfreda she dies of the
disease.
Tickets are $.40 for students and
can be purchased from members of
the freshman class. They will re
ceive a ten percent commission for
all they sell. The proceeds they re
ceive they will use to finance the
Freshmen Dance.
The Greensboro Opera Company
is composed of business men and
women, and teachers in the Greens
boro area who have had profession
al or semi-professional training
in music. Many of them are pro
fessors or instructors of music in
schools or in private instructions.
Seniors Present
'The Past Is Now'
May 18 and 19 the seniors will
take over Guilford College with
their annual senior days. On a
special chapel program on Monday,
May 18, eminent seniors and people
interested in the senior class will
be Yoyo Yates and Dr. Eva Camp
bell.
On May 19th at eight in the
evening the senior class will pre
sent a play entitled "The Past is
Now". The entire class will have
a part in the dramatic presenta
tion which wll bring to focus
some of the outstanding events of
the past four years.
Dorothy Kiser to Give
Senior Piano Recital
On May 15 at 8:00 P. M. Miss
Dorothy Louise Kiser, a gradu
ating musical education major, will
present her senior piano recital.
She will vary her repertoire
among the best in classical, ro
mantic and modern pieces. In
cluded in the program will be
Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B flat
Minor, Beethoven's Sonata, Opus
No. 26, a mazurka, waltz and noc
turne by Chopin, and two modern
pieces, Debussy's Arabesque No. 2
and The Cat ond The Mouse by
Copland.
SCA Schedules
Retreat May 8, 9
May 8 and 9 the S. C. A.
will have its Spring Confer
ence at Quaker Lake. The con
ference will include the old
and new officers, and com
mittee chairmans, the advis
ers and interested members.
This years program will be
evaluated and plans made for
next year. The new committee
chairmans are: Joyce Pate,
worship; John Church, pro
gram; Margaret Wooten, re
freshments; Betty Humble and
Charlie Farlow, recreation;
Marty Goetschius and Kip
Hale, hut facilities; Willard
Payne, publicity.
The Qui(forScm
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Mrs. John B. Russell, instructor of voice here, will play the part of
Violeta in the opera, La Traviata Friday night.
North Stale Student
Council Meets Here
Saturday, April 25th, Guilford
was host college for the biannual
North State Student Council Meet
ing. Attending the conference were
delegates from Appalachian At
lantic Christian, East Carolina and
Elon. Bob Ralls, Council President,
presided at the meeting and Bob
bye James, Secretary of the Coun
cil recorded the minutes. Gary Hil
debrand and Barbara Anson were
Guilford's official delegates.
After a luncheon served in the
hut, the business session was held
in King Hall. At this meeting, the
problems of the different college
governments were brought up and
discussed, and suggestions were
offered for improvement. The
chief items discussed were the
Honor System and its advantages,
and disciplinary problems. The
highlight of the meeting was the
presentation of the John D. Mes
sick Sportsmanship Trophy. This
trophy is presented each year to
the college, in the North State
Conference, which is voted to have
shown the best sportsmanship the
previous season. Guilford was
voted winner of the trophy and the
presentation was made to Bob
Ralls by Bill Whitesides of Appa
lachian since the Student Govern
ment of Appalachian was previous
possessor of the trophy.
After the meeting a reception
was held in the hut for the dele
gates.
Betty Yenable to Visit
Mexico This Summer
This summer, soon after school
is out, Betty Venable is going to
Mexico to work with the Ameri
can Young Friends Service Com
mittee. Maybe this will explain to
all the bewildered Founder's girls
why Betty only talks in Spanish
these days.
After the summer session, Pro
fessor Hiram Hilty, Willard Payne,
Bob Ringwald and Ed Brooks are
also going to Mexico, but as tour
ists.
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., MAY 6, 1953
Faculty Attends
Five Years Meeting
Four members of the Guilford
College faculty last week attended
the board meetings of the Five
Years Meeting at Richmond, Indi
ana. Meeting with other leaders of
| the Society of Friends were: Dr.
Clyde A. Milner, Miss Dorothy Gil
bert, Dr. Algie I. Newlon and Mr.
Hiriam S. Hilty. Following the
regular board meetings, the chair
men of the various boards met
with the Executive Council. Includ
ed in the latter meeting were the
President, as Chairman of the
Board of Education and Dr. New
lin, as a member-at-large.
The Board of Education of the
Five Years Meeting, of which Dr.
Milner is the Chairman, strives to
develop the interest of Quaker ed
ucational institutions. It is through
these schools and colleges that the
leaders of the Society of Friends
are developed and by these schools
that they are furnished. While
Quaker institutions are not restrict
ed, by any means, to producing
leaders just for the Society of
Friends, they furnish almost all
of the Quaker leaders. A check
of the delegates to the Five Years
Meeting this year showed a large
percentage of them to be products
of Quaker institutions. The ad
vance and support of these ed
ucational insaitutions is the princi
ple purpose of the Board of Edu
cation.
The Leadership Training Pro
gram for Friends to be held at
Guilford College from June 3 to
August 5, 1953, was announced to
the Five Years Meeting at this
recent meeting and was highly
commended. This, too, is in the
field of Quaker leadership.
Honor Board Elects James
At the meeting of the Honor
Board, Bobbye James was elected
president for the coming year. Bob
bye, a rising senior is President
of the Women's Student Govern
ment, and Vice-President of the
Women's Athletic Assoc ation.
Student Building
To Be Constructed
The Program and Development
Committee of the Board of Trus
tees of which N. C. English is
chairman recommended proceed
ings for the Class of 1926 project to
provide a Sturent Union Building
to be built in the near future on the
Guilford College campus at a
recent trustee meeting. The class
also hopes to work on plans for an
infirmary to be built to take care
of the college needs. Remodeling
the college dining rooms and kit
chens is also planned.
Plans for the Student Union
Building are incomplete, but it is
hoped that it will include a soda
shop, offices for student organiza
tions and space for dancing. This
summer has been mentioned as a
starting date.
The Class of 1911 is planning
to furnish the Fine Arts Room this
summer and have it ready for use
by next school year.
Mary Hobbs Hall will be com
pletely refurnished this summer if
plans are carried out, and two new
tennis courts will be constructed.
Elementary Majors
Offered Fellowships
Twenty fellowships for graduate
study in elementary teacher train
ing are available at Goucher Col
lege for 1953154. The fellowships,
in varying amounts up to $1725,
are open to women graduates of
liberal arts colleges who have no
prior training or experience as
teachers.
The new program, which has
been made possible by a generous
grant from the Ford Fund for the
Advancement of Education, will
lead to a degree of Master of
Education in one year.
Goucher College will work in
close cooperation with the Balti
more City public schools in the
graduate program. The accent of
the course of studies will be on
practice teaching and semiuar dis
cussions of problems met in the
classroom. Purpose of the program
is to provide elementary teachers
equipped with a rich liberal arts
beckground as well as fine techni
cal training.
Deadline for applications in June
15, 1953. Address Director of Ad
mi Istong, Towson, Baltintore 4,
Md.
Bill Kindley Qualifies
As Aviation Cadet Pilot
Moody AFB, 17 March—Mr. Wil
liam D. Kindley, Physical Educa
tion Student at Guilford College,
lettering in Football and Track
was found fully qualified as an
Aviation Cadet-Pilot by the United
States Air Force Aircrew Classifi
cation Testing Detachment at
Moody Air Force Base, Georgia.
Mr. Kindley's home is Thomas
ville, North Carolina.
Guilford Host to Institute
Of International Relations
Guilford College will be host
June 8-12 to the twentieth annual
session of the Carolina Institute
of International Relations. It will
bring together a distinguished
group of experts to discuss the
problems of peace. The faculty
will be headed by G. H. Mehta,
Ambassador of India, Frank
Rounds,, Jr., formerly with the
American Embassy in Moscow, and
Amiya Chakravadty of Kansas Uni
versity.
Cecil Hinshaw, well-known Quak
er leader, was speaker for a series
of eleven one-day Institutes in the
major cities of Florida during
March. His proposals for creative
alternatives to war were well re
ceived.
NUMBER S
Music from Movies;
Greenwich Village
Decoration Motif
The Freshman class is sponsoring
a movie dance at 8:00, May 16, in
the basement of the Gym. This
type of dance has never been
tried here before and we hope
it will prove successful. You
will dance to the music of
big name bands, watch star enter
tainers as you swing and sway to
the rhythm of their songs. It is a
gay and different type of enter
tainment. No tuxedos and ties are
needed, just informal dress and
plenty of fun.
Tickets for this dance are only
.50 stag or drag and can be secured
from members of the Freshman
Class.
If you have never been to a
movie dance you will thoroughly
enjoy this one and if you rave we
know we will see you there.
Bill Gibson is chairman of the
dance. Peggy Wells, Emily Warrick
and Bill Mikles are in charge of
decorations; Anne Speers and
Marty Goetchius, refreshments;
Judy Downs and Joyce Fringads,
publicity; Charlie Strader and Mar
vin Gothes, tickets.
Robert Dough Wins
Graduate Fellowship
Robert Lyle Dough of Baltimore,
Maryland, and a Senior at Guil
ford College, was the recipient of
a Fellowship in Radiological Phys
granted by the Oak Ridge Institute
of Nuclear Studies, Inc., for the
year 1953-54. Operating through
the Atomic Energy Commission,
the Insstitute each year offers
about 60 graduate fellowships to
deserving Seniors. It was awarded
to Dough, "... in recognition of
your present scientific achievement
and your desire to receive special
training in radiological physics".
Dough became, with the assistance
and advice of Dr. Purdom, one of
the 20 picked from this area.
The Fellowship is for study at
one of three universities in the
country for a period of nine
months, followed by three months
at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It Is
worth $1,600, plus $350 for each
dependent, and includes tuition,
lab fees, etc. Dough will start his:
work at Vanderbilt University on.
September 15th of this year.
Dough plans to. go on in the
field of Radiation and Theoretical
Physics after his completion of the
year's study.
Miss Marlefte to Serve as
Dean of Summer Session
For the summer session. Miss
Mildred Marlette, present Dean of
Women, well be acting in the ca
pacity of Dean of the College. This
will include the positions of Dean
of Men ond Women in the absence
of Dr. Ljung and Dean Dent who
are both scheduled for vacations
this summer. Miss Marlete will also
be on duty as assistant professor
of English and will teach in the
evening college.
Dr. Crownfield Elected
At the southern sectional meet
ing of the Society of Biblical Liter
ature and Exegesis at Emory Uni
versity, in Atlanta, held April
12-14, Dr. Frederic Crownfield,
head of the religion department
here, was elected president for
1953-1954. For the past year he has
served as vice-president of the
Society.
Editor's Note
This will be the last issue of
THE GUILFORDIAN this
year.