Married Students Enjoy Apartments (Page 2) Volume XLIV Beatniks Gather for KKK Dance The annual KKK dance spon sored by the Monogram Club will be held May 7 in the basement of the college gymnasium. This season's dance will involve a Beatnik theme with decorations, entertainment, refreshments, and costumes to carry it out. Charles Lindsey's Combo from A&T Col lege will provide music for danc ing. The boys in this combo ap peared in the recent Monogram Variety Show. Intermission enter tainment will include the reading of appropriate Beatnik poetry by talented members of the M.A.A. Tickets may be purchased for SI.OO drag or $.75 stag. The pad opens, and the fun begins at 8:00 p.m. As one member commented, "Like man lt'll be the swing ingest dance of the year." : : iwflnra|^^M| . . . Charlie Morrison 'Dukes' Play Jazz Frank and Fred Assunto and their Dukes of Dixieland will ap pear in person in Memorial Audi torium at the Greensboro Coliseum (his Thursday at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale at the Coli seum Box Office and Ellis Stone. All seats are reserved and are priced $1.50, $2.00, or $2.50. This group records exclusively for Audio-Fidelity records. Spring Lake Repairs are Complete Spring has sprung a leak in the lake and left Millie Marshall and Jo Ann Hanks sitting high and dry on an old water-worn tree stump. The lake has been drained in order to make improvements which according to Mr. David Parsons, business manager, have been com pleted. 1 The bank has been cut down. A retaining wall and cement floor have been built around the non swimming area. "This will help The QuilforScm Published by the Students of the South's Only Quaker College TALK ENDS; WORK GETS UNDERWAY ON GUILFORD'S BUILDING PROGRAM After concerted effort on the part of the Alumni and Business offices and a great many private talks and conferences, the Guil ford College Building Program has gone into high gear construction wise. The architects have received the final "go ahead" signal to complete all essential drawings and specifi cations for the Religious Educa tion-Auditorium-Music Building to Social Committee Plans Activity In Outdoor Recreation Area To lighten the study-ridderi minds of many students and to pro vide an outlet for much stored up spring fever, the social committee has resumed the evening recrea tion program at the outdoor rec area. The time will be from 6:30 until 7:30 p.m. on Mondays and Thurs days. Two members of the committee will be there to organize games in volley ball, shuffle board, and horse shoes. Dancing music will be pro vided, and the lower courts will be available for tennis. Jim Boles, co-chairman of the committee, in speaking of the pro gram said, "We had this program in the fall and all the students seemed to enjoy it, so now that the weather is pretty again we are go ing to continue it." Any suggestions for additional activities should be made to Jim Boles or Lynn Hundley, social com mittee co-chairmen. Hayride Something different is in store for this Saturday night. Plans have been made for a hayride out to the battleground. The hayride will begin at 8 p.m. Students should meet the wagons in front of the gym. Then, pulled by two tractors and loaded with hay and students, the wagons will roll away. keep sand on the beach and help people in and out," Mr. Parsons said. For fishermen's interest, the lake will be restocked with fish. When it was drained, the largest fish taken out was 8 lb., 9 oz. A 4 lb. goldfish was also found. "I can't say how long it will be before the lake can be used," said Mr. Parsons. "The weatherman de layed us and besides it takes a long time to fill a lake with 2 x /2 million gallons of water." GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., APRIL 26, 1960 be located where the Music Build ing and Hobbs Field now are. With this last obstacle overcome it is predicted that the new building will be completed and ready for use by September, 1961. According to Gene Key, Alumni Secretary, this is nine months ahead of previous hopes. "The dream," he said, "has been voted into con struction." Mr. Charles A. Dana, Sr., New York Industrialist, has donated $700,000 toward this project. The At the battleground another event is in store a marshmallow roast. Afterwards there will be dancing. "We hope we will be able to dance at the battleground," said jimmy Boles, co-chairman of the social committee, "but if we can't, we'll come back to the recreation area." SSL Delegates To be in Chapel Guilford College delegates to die 23rd session of the North Car olina Student Legislative Assembly will speak in chapel on May 3 and 4. The session, which was held in Raleigh just before spring holidays, was attended by representatives from approximately fifteen North Carolina colleges. Summer School Policy Changed A new policy concerning the transfer of credits for work taken during summer school sessions at other institutions has been an nounced by Dean Harvey Young. "Any student wishing credit to ward graduation at Guilford Col lege for summer work at another institution or correspondence work must have the approval of his major advisor and the academic dean at Guilford and must do the work in a fully accredited institu tion," he said. No credit will be given in a course in which a grade of less than "C" has been earned. Moreover, grades transferred from another college are not considered in com puting the quality average at Guil ford. The quality average is de termined only on work taken at Guilford. "The reason for this," said Mr. Bill Yates, registrar, "is for the pro tection of students to assure their courses being accepted." It is the student's responsibility to request an official transscript of his work to be forwarded to the Registrar at Guilford College. Betty Lou Chilton Will Give Recital Betty Lou Chilton, a music major and an education minor, will present her Senior Piano Re cital this Friday, at 8 p.m. in Me morial Hall Auditorium. Her selections will include "Waldstein" Sonata in C Major, Op. 53 by Beethoven; "Dance of the Blessed Spirit" from "Orfeo" by Gluck-Friedman; "Polonaise," Op. 53 by Chopin; "Allegro Appas ionato," Op. 70 by Saint-Saens; "Valse Triste" by Sibelius; and "Impromptu," Op. 90. No. 4 by Schubert. A reception will follow the re cital in the College Union. total cost of this building will be $722,000. Off the local campus, construc tion has begun of the science ex tension of the Greensboro Division. This three-story addition to the existing building on Washington Street will provide facilities for physics, chemistry, biology, and and special research study on the third floor. The second floor will be de voted to psychology, language and art laboratories and classrooms; while the first floor will contain special audio-visual classrooms and equipment. This extension was made pos sible by another contribution from Mr. Dana of $150,000 on condition that a similar amount be contrib uted by Greensboro business and industrial leaders. Construction is expected to be completed so that the addition can be occupied at the beginning of the fall term in 1960. Mr. Dana has contributed V* million dollars for both projects combined as a challenge gift. A grant of SIOO,OOO has been given by the Reynolds Foundation to ward the auditorium-chapel. A meeting of the administration and student leaders is being planned for the near future to dis cuss the stipulations for the two foundation grants, so that the fac ulty and student body will be come acquainted with and inter ested in the project. SBpL . '%x?>^ p • ISHHHHHi^XB&&&SKM3£!£SSH^^^S^9 Pictured are the vice-president, Jimmy Boles, and president, Jimmy Childress, of the Student Affairs Board. The secretary and assistant secretary will be chosen at the next meeting. IRC TO COLLECT CLOTHING FOR NEEDY CHILDREN MAY 2-8 The Internatonal Relations Club is sponsoring a campus-wide cloth ing drive May 2-8. Clothes col lected by the I.R.C. will be sent to The Christian Children's Fund Headquarters in Missouri. From there they will be sent where they are needed most. Members of the Methodist group and the New Garden Friends Meeting, which meet here on cam pus, are also participating in the drive. There will be representatives in each dormitory to collect the cloth ing, and a place will be set up in the College Union for the day stu dents to leave theirs. Representa tives in die dorms are as follows: Miriam Almaguer, Frances Dan ley, and Carol Hunter Mary Hobbs; Georgiana Bollard and Star Sisk Founders; Sandra Fos ter and Hilda Warfford Shore. Representatives from the boys' dorms are Bill Snell and Charlie Baker Archdale; Maurice Rai Redmon Interviews Star in New York (Page 4) Faculty Member Earns Doctorate "I've already been dubbed 'Dr. Pete,'" said the newly-titled Dr. J. Floyd Moore, speaking of his successful defense of his disserta tion which allowed him to join the ranks of the Ph.D.'s. Dr. Moore ap peared before the examining board of Boston University on March 25 to be questioned on his manuscript which he entitled, 'The Ethical Thought of Rufus Matthew Jones, with Special Reference to Biblical Influences." He will be officially awarded his sheepskin and Doc tor's Degree during Boston Uni versity's graduation exercises on June 5. "When we finished college, my wife and I decided that overseas work for the Friends, a family and teaching for a while came before the final completion for the Ph.D.," said Dr. Moore; "although it has Fellowships Given Wade Macey, who will gradu ate in June, has been awarded an assistantship to Florida State Uni versity to do work toward a mas ter's degree in mathematics. His work will consist of teaching one or two general math classes while he pursues his own studies on the graduate level. Chris Suitor has been awarded a $450 scholarship to Duke Law School. He ranked in the 98th per centile on the Law Entrance Exam. After the first year he will be eli gible for a full fellowship. ford and Howard Braxton Cox; and Charlie Chase English. Judy Day will be responsible for collect ing the clothing in the Student Union. Members of the club committee spearheading the drive are Mar garet Seymour, chairman; Penny Smith, Miriam Almaguer, Lucy Garcia, Carole Hunter, Robin Hol land, Patty Gibbs, Linda Shep pard, and Giap Vu. Now, when you are separating your clothes and packing them away, is a good time to donate the ones you have outgrown to some one who will appreciate them and need them. Clothes are urgently needed, taken a long time, we aren't sorry it was done this way." "This work combined my three main fields of interest Quakers, ethics, and the Bible," he ex plained, "and I feel that I owe a great deal to Dr. Milner for his encouragement and help in this accomplishment." Number 10

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