Let's Meet the Quakers (Page 4) Volume XLIII May Day Festivities Scheduled Annual May Dance Starts At 8:00 P. M. "The History of the Old North State," the theme of the 1959 May Day festivities, will be carried out into the annual spring May Dance which will be held Saturday night, May 2. It will take place in the gymnasium and will begin at 8:00 and last until 11:30. Music for "dancing and good listening" will be furnished by Johnny Shields and his Mellotones. Since this will be a flower and a semi-formal dance, the boys are requested to wear either tuxedos or suits. Tickets are $1.25 per couple, and they may be pur chased from any member of the Women's Athletic Association. Claudette Belton, the reigning 1959 May Queen, and her escort, Joe Weston, will be presented with her court and their escorts during the course of the evening. Mrs. Milner Will Speak On "Giotto" In Lecture Tonight Mrs. Ernestine C. Milner, psy chology professor here at Guilford, will speak in the Friday evening lecture at the College Union to night. The program is scheduled for 8:15 p.m. Her subject will be "Giotto." Slides will possibly be shown, and some of the artist's pictures may be displayed. According to legend, Giotto was a child genius, and he stands at the crossroads as a crucial figure in the development of art because he followed the direction of St. Francis of Assisi in naturalism. Mrs. Milner will present Giotto with his pictures as a main in terpreter of St. Francis. This lec ture will go along with the last Friday evening lecture, the 17th, which was presented by Dr. Clyde A. Milner on "St. Francis of As sisi." One special point which will be brought out during he lecture con cerns the Arena Church of Padua, at Assisi. It has been said that when you stand in this church, "you feel as if you were standing in the heart of an opal." SAB Officers Are Chosen: Chase Is Elected President The Student Affairs Board had a joint meeting of the new and the old members two weeks ago, and the officers for the coming year were chosen. Charlie Chase was named president. Charlie is a ris ing senior, and has been in the choir, on the honor board, and was president of his junior class. He is the president of the choir for the coming year, also. Lester Parker is the vice-presi dent. He has been on the football team for three years, and is presi dent of the Men's Athletic As sociation for next year. Barbara Lineberger, who has been the vice-president for the International Relations Club, and president of the Baptist Student organization, is the secretary. Barbara is the president of the Student Christian Association for the coming year, The Quilfordicm Published by the Students of the South's Only Quaker College Claudette Belton, 1959 May Queen, watches preparations being made for May Day. A Cappella Choir Presents Spring Messiah The Guilford College Commu nity A Cappella Choir, in com memoration of the 200th anniver sary of Handel's death, will present excerpts from part two and part three of the "Messiah," April 26th, at 4:30 p.m. The presentation will be in the New Garden Meeting House, Guilford College. Handel's most successful and best known oratorio is given an Representative Of Marine Corps To Visit Campus May 6 Major Charles B. Redman, Ma rine Corps Officer Selection Officer for the Carolinas, announced to day that he would visit Guilford College on Wednesday, May 6th, 1959. While at Guilford, he plans to interview those students inter ested in obtaining a Marine Corps Commission. At present, vacancies exist for both ground and pilot training. Major Redman stated that sev eral excellent programs are offered by the Marines. The Platoon Leaders Class program is available for freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, while seniors may partici pate in the Aviation Officer Candi date Course or the Officer Can didate Course. Marine Officer Training is arranged so as not to interfere with college work and all students will be required to receive their degree before being assigned to active duty. While at Guilford, Major Red man and the members of his team will be located in the College Union from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. All interested students may contact him there. This will be his last visit during the current academic year. Baptists This Sunday, the members of the Baptist Student Union have been invited to go in pairs to private homes of local church members to eat dinner. and also, the BSU president again. Caroline Primm, a rising junior, will be the Assistant Secretary. Caroline is the vice-president of the WAA for the coming year. GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., APRIL 24, 1959 nually at Christmas by the Guil ford College Community Chorus, but this is the first year in five years that the Messiah has been presented by the Chorus in the spring. Carl Baumbach will direct, with Robert Winsor acting as pianist, and Carroll Feagins as organist, accompanying. The leading parts will be sung by Grace Kilkelly, Mary Mclver, Jerry Smyre, and William Head. The program includes twenty songs, and the chorus will sing the following: "Behold the Lamb of God," "Surely He Hath Bourne Our Grief," "And with His Stripes We Are Healed," "Lift Up Your Heads," "Their Song is Gone Out,"' "Hallelujah," "Since By Man Came Death," and "Worthy is the Lamb That Was Slain." NEWS BRIEFS . . . The German Club will put a little spring flavor into the air when they hold a picnic next Tues day, the 28th. It will be at Dr. and Mrs. Feagins' house. The club will elect officers for the coming year of 1959-1960. They meet on Tuesday night regularly through out the school year. o # # Each of the girl's dorms are having as their guests a few girl day students to spend the night the Friday night before May Day. They are to be the guests of the girls in the dorm, and will be able to see Boys' May Day in this wav. O 4 The Quaker has chosen its staff for the coming year. Gaye Burton, the Editor announced them as follows: Assistant Editor, Geri Waldrop; Business Manager, Doug Kerr; Feature Editor, Kay Burton; Administration Editor, Lynn War ren; Sports Editor, Sidney Hart; Photographer, Dwight Thomas; Activities, Sue Drake; Class Edi tor, Judy Stancil; and Typists, Ann Shelton and Frazier Smith. O 0 The Guilford Baptist Church is sponsoring an adoption day pro gram April 26. The Baptist stu dents of Guilford College will be "Adopted" for the day. Each student's adopted family will take him to Sunday School and Worship and then home for dinner. Each family is adopting two students. Boy's, Girl's May Day; Crowning Of Queen Set For The traditional May Day cele bration that goes back in the history of the college more than twenty years, will be presented next Saturday, May 2. It consists of Boy's May Day, Girl's May Day, and the presentation of the 1959 May Court, and the crowning of the Queen. The first event of the day is Boy's May Day, which begins somewhere between five and six in the morning. No definite plans have been disclosed as to what will happen, but a great deal of noise and amusement is guaranteed. A slightly more sedate time fol lows at four that afternoon, when Girl's May Day is held on front campus. The women's athletic As sociation is in charge of this pro gram. The theme for this year is, "The History of North Carolina." Each physical education class will present a dance tying in with the theme that has been worked out beforehand. Before the dances, the May Court and Queen will walk down the path and onto the grass. The style and color of the dresses that the Court will wear will be kept a secret until that day. The flower girls will be Glaudin Holder and Sandy Bergman, and the crown bearer will be Jeffery Schoellkoph. The queen, Claudette Belton, will be crowned. Her escort will be Joe Weston, also of Winston-Salem. Her maid of honor is Janet An drews, of Goldsboro, and will be escorted by Warren Nichols of White Plains. The court consists Business Office Announces SIOO Tuition Increase The business office recently an nounced a hundred-dollar increase in the tuition for the 1959-1960 school year. This increase is in tended to contribute to the,better ment of the Guilford College faculty and facilities. This improvement will help in troduce the Phi Beta Kappa chap ter and will make the college more appealing to other such organiza tions which might come to this campus. These organizations would be beneficial to the student and the college alike. Seventy-five dollars of the raise in funds will go to educational ex penses. This is intended to increase faculty compensations and fringe benefits. This raise in pay will be able to entice more and better qualified professors to come to Guilford. In this way, there is hoped that the total education status can be improved. A part of the funds will be used to enlarge the program of tutors. These faculty assistants will be chosen from the outstanding juniors and seniors. Educational equipment, particu larly visual and auditory aids, will be purchased with part of the extra funds. The fee was raised as a re flection of the constantly increas ing operational costs and also in order to increase the library bud get. Twenty-five dollars of the total increase is divided between the dormitory department and other non-educational expenditures. Child Psych Class Is Testing (Page 2) of: Gertrude Murrow of Pleasant Garden, escorted by David Sillman also of Pleasant Garden; Becke Blackwell, of High Point, escorted by Lee Andrews of Trinity; Louise Beasley of Mount Airy, escorted by Harold James of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Pat Estes, also of Mount Airy, escorted by Groome Fulton of High Point; Jo Ann Hundley of Francisco, escorted by Lester Parker of Murfeesboro; Mary Ruth Shropshire of Ridgeway, Virginia, escorted by Dave Hardin of Lans down, Pennsylvania; Janet Smaith of Lexington, escorted by Christo pher Johnston, VI, of Durham; and Coreen Case, of Charlotte, es corted by Woody Finley of Mexico. The celebration of May Day goes back in history hundreds of years and is found in many differ ent cultures. It can be found in ancient Rome and in medieval and Tutor England. There it was con sidered a public holiday when people went into the woods and gathered branches and flowers. They carried them in a procession of which was the May Pole decor ated with ribbons and flowers. The May Day dances this year will be as follows: The Maypole Dance, the Scottish Dance, the Honky Tonk, the Pirate's Dance, the Industries' Dance, the Jitter bug, the Indian Dance, the Square Dance, the Charleston, the Minuet, and the English Dance. The girl's May Day program is sponsored by the Women's Athletic Association. President Kaye Burton is in charge, with Mary Ellen White being the chairman of the program. Helping Mary Ellen, is her assist ant, Gaye Burton, Narrator Larry Holland, and Technical Assistant, Harold Burrows. Choregraphy will be done by Bobbie Wilson, Carolyn Phipps, Sara Lou Phillips, Helen Brown, Linda Newlin, Julie Trimble, Geor gia Childress, Barbara Lineberger, Cathy Coble, Sara Jane Robertson, Judy Myers, Pat Baughan, Linda Goble, Norma Jean McMillian, and Adrene Andrews. Costuming will be done by Gail Olt, Anne Dean Stratton, Millie Marshall, Jane Coltrane, Ann Shel ton, Anne Carmicheal, Betty Lou McFarland, Lee Stoddard, Nora Hamrick, Robin Holland, and Tn grid Kolls. The program cover designer is Geri Waldrop. Duke Mock Trials Set For Next Week Have you ever participated in a mock trial? About twenty Guilford students plan to attend the mock trials at Duke University May 4 and 5. Those who attend are on the jury and perform the same duty as a real jury. These cases are under the direc tion of Dr. J. S. Bradway. He and other professors make up the cases which are only civil cases. If you are interested in attending these trials, please contact Dr. Newlin or Dr. Burrows. Number 12

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