May Queen Elections
Set for Chapels
Volume XLIII
INTERNATIONAL FAIR TO DISPLAY
CULTURE OF VARIOUS COUNTRIES
The International Relations Club
is sponsoring a Fair to be held in
the Student Union tomorrow from
11:00 A.M. until 4:00 P.M. The
foreign students are primarily in
charge of it, and will operate
booths displaying products of their
own individual countries. There
will be exhibits of jewelry, litera
ture, and pottery from the various
nations represented on campus.
Some of the countries to be in
cluded are Cuba, Greece, Finland,
France, Japan and India. All in
all, there will be at least eleven
booths with a special section honor
ing the United Nations. Refresh
ments from each country will be
served.
The Young Friends Organization
is planning to provide the enter
tainment with games and prizes
for all who are interested. There
is the possibility that A & T Col
lege in Greensboro will also help
in the presentation. The Fair is
open to all members of the Guil
ford College community as well
as regular college students.
This is a co-operative effort on
the part of all International Rela
tions Club members to promote
Student Legislature
Representatives
Are Nominated
In a recent meeting the Student
Affairs Board selected Bob Burns,
Joyce Hannaum, John Hewlett,
Larry Holland, Jo Ann Hundley,
Bonnie Lewis, Brad Little, Jamie
Mathews, Bruce Stewart, Chris
Suiter, and Howard Walton as
nominees for representatives to the
annual State Student Legislature.
In Tuesday and Wednesday chap
els students will elect six of the
above as representatives of Guil
ford College. The six delegates
will meet in Raleigh with repre
sentatives of all other colleges and
universities of the state in a model
legislative body. The students will
then discuss and debate contro
versial issues which have recently
presented themselves to the state
and to the nation.
Freshman Class Officers
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Freshman Class officers are (I to r) Evelyn Copeland, song leader; Tommy
Kemp, treasurer; Jimmy Boles, president; Tom Bowers, vice-president; and
Judy Allen, secretary.
Today Is United Nations- Day
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Published by the Students of the South's Only Quaker College
knowledge about the various back
grounds of our foreign students
here on campus and a further
understanding of the purposes of
the United Nations. The president
of the organization, Heea Haider,
extends an invitation to all who
are interested to come to the Fair
tomorrow.
IRC Will Present
Chapel Program At
Jamestown High
The students at Jamestown High
School will have a chapel program
Thursday, presented by the foreign
students of the International Rela
tions Club. This program will be a
climax to boys and girls work
sponsored by a Jamestown civics
club and will be an attempt to help
the young people see more of the
ways of life in other lands.
The program is to be about
twenty minutes long and will con
sist of entertainment in the form of
song and dance done according to
the native fashion of the performer.
Those foreign students who can
will be dressed in the attire of their
homeland.
It is the hope of the I. R. C. that
this variety presentation will help
to widen the minds of the viewers
on the world wide situation at
hand.
WSG Council Establishes Committee
To Investigate Academic Interests
The Women's Student Govern
ment has established a Scholarship
Committee within the Council to
investigate ways to carry out the
findings in elevating the academic
interests of the women students.
This committee was first formed
in the Spring semester and this
semester the committee has started
working on a definite plan. This
committee will be a permanent
part of the W.S.G. and will attempt
to keep up with the problems pre
sented each year. It will thus con
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., OCTOBER 24, 1958
'59 May Day Court Selected
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Selected by the Senior Class for the 1959 May Court are these 10 girls. First row (1 to r), Pat Estes, Jo Ann Hund
ley, Janet Andrews, Cerdie Murrow, Mary Ruth Thropshire. Second row, Janet Smith, Claudette Belton, Coreen Case,
Louise Beasley, Becke Blackwell.
tinue to function as a planning
committee as well as a working
committee.
This year's committee members
are Coreen Case, Clara Mont
gomery, Co-chairmen, Jinette Bou
dereau, Anne Taylor and Julie
Trimble, each representing the
different dormitories.
The plans for this year cannot
be told yet since the committee's
report has to be approved by the
W.S.G. Council, but it is hoped
that in the next issue of the Guil
fordian, the committee will be able
to announce its plans and projects.
However, there is one thing that
can be said: One of the main pur
poses of this committee is to make
available a student committee with
which women students can feel
free to discuss problems in connec
tion with their academic life.
Young Friends Print
Quaker Newsletter
Beginning with the October is
sue, the Young Friends group on
campus will undertake the publica
tion of "The Young Friend," a
newsletter concerning the Young
Friends of North America. They
will continue this job for six
months.
Co-editors will be Dorcas White
and Millie Marshall. Lee Andrews
is business manager, with jim Chil
dress and Robin Heritage serving
as subscription editors. All mem
bers of the group will combine
efforts to assemble the paper. Sub
scriptions cost SI.OO.
Publication of the paper is a
six months rotating affair.
Queen To Be Chosen Soon
Members of the 1959 May Court
have been announced by Dave
Hardin, Senior Class President.
The ten girls on the court were
elected recently by the entire Sen
ior Class; the May Queen will be
selected from the group later. Elec
tions for the Queen will take place
in chapels on November 4 and 12.
The following make up the court:
BECKE BLACKWELL: Becke, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. P.
Blackwell of High Point, is an edu
cation major who plans to teach
next fall. Becke was maid of honor
in the 1958 Homecoming Court,
president of the F.T.A., and is a
choir member.
PAT ESTES: Coming from Mount
Airy, Pat is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. M. Estes. She is a
past member of the Homecoming
Court and is now a member of the
History Club and the W.A.A. Pat
Held in suspense until
the last moment, the
crowd at the homecom
ing game cheered loudly
as Harry Chesson crown
ed Janet Andrews from
Goldsboro, N. C., Home
coming Queen for 1958.
Another surprise was the
announcement of her
Maid of Honor, Becke
Blackwell of High Point,
N. C. The four members
of her court were Betsey
Winesett, Coreen Case,
Lucy Garcia, and Mar
garet Haworth. The
queen and her court
were formally presented
at the homecoming
dance.
Honors for homecom
ing decorations went to
the freshman class for
the best float, Shore Hall
for the best girls' dorm,
and Old South for the
best boys' dorm.
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Choir Begins Practice
for "The Messiah"
plans to teach history "somewhere
in North Carolina" next year.
JANET SMITH: Janet, from Lex
ington, is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. French H. Smith. She is an
education major, senior represen
tative to the W.S.G., member of the
Quaker staff, and plans to teach
in an elementary school next year.
GERTRUDE MURROW: The daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Murrow,
of Pleasant Garden, Gertie is chief
cheerleader and president of the
W.A.A. She is a member of the
choir and plans to teach next fall,
after being married in the summer.
COREEN CASE: A native of Char
lotte, Coreen is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Case. Coreen
transferred to Guilford from War
ren Wilson College at the begin
ning of her junior year. She was a
member of the 1959 Homecoming
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