Volume XXII
THE TWIG
Newspaper oj the Students of Meredith College
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1948
Number 8
. . . Presenting a pertinent
campus controversy for the
benefit of students, faculty,
alumnae, trustees, and
friends of our college . . .
Prerequisite Information: Page
forty of the 1948 Student Hand
book-, “Students do not smoke
while under the jurisdiction of
the college.” Students are under
the jurisdiction of the college
while in the city limits of Ra
leigh.
This college policy has per
sisted for the number of years
that Meredith College has
existed. Other policies and con
duct governing rules have mu
tated with the years under
Student Government guidance.
Community living on our campus
is enjoyable because of this.
Smoking, however, is one col
lege policy that has in the past
and does in the present provide
active conflict. Daily the situa
tion has grown more pertinent.
Climaxing needless years of un
dercover, behind the scenes,
frustrated smoking, has come
our present endeavor.
On February ninth at ten
o’clock in the evening, the Stu
dent Government required with
out notice the attendance of
selected students, a group of
some fifty, at a meeting presided
over by the president. The stu
dents were selected through
“accumulated suspicions.” (This
group was to no extent all-
inclusive.) They were told that
this was their official warning.
No longer did Student Govern
ment members need to see a
student smoking to prove that
she smoked; no longer did the
student receive the usual two
warnings. After this meeting
and warning, official action, con
stituting cradle roll or expulsion,
was to be taken whenever a stu
dent was suspected of smoking,
whenever smoke could be
smelled on the person’s clothing,
in her hair.
The meeting did not end with
these statements. The president
opened the floor for student
opinions and free discussion.
The manner of action seemed
to the girls to be unprecedented.
They could not see the relation
ship of the authority to the
penalty. Realizing that the origi
nal ruling was not made by the
government of the students, and
realizing that it should have
been, the group decided to take
action. Mollie Fearing was ap
pointed chairman of a commit
tee to accumulate information
on smoking that could be taken
by the Student Government or
by a student committee to higher
authorities. A campus poll was
decided upon.
Mollie Fearing, Mary Frances
Keene, Becky Ballentine, Mary
Beth Thomas, Mickie Bowen,
and Nancy Creech composed the
actual questions, which were an
swered by the student body
through secret ballot. The exact
returns of the poll are as follows:
1) Do you disaprove of per
mitting smoking at Mererith
College?
Yes 31% No 69%
2) Do you approve of allowing
Meredith students to smoke in
the dormitories?
Yes 64% No 36%
3) Do you approve of allowing
Meredith students to smoke off
the campus?
Yes 63% No 37%
4) Have you smoked one or
more times while under the
jurisdiction of Meredith College?
Yes 38% No 62%
5) Do you smoke when not
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STUDENTS ELECT
MAJOR OFFICERS
Swanson, Wilson, Davis
Head S.G., B.S.U., A.A.
MARTY DAVIS
President of A.A.
BARBARA SWANSON
President of S.G.
MARJORIE WILSON
President of B.S.U.
Students Sponsor
Formal Dinners
Because in the past many of
the students have felt that we at
Meredith have not entertained
enough, a plan has been devised
whereby we may entertain our
dates at semi-formal dinners.
The plans at present, although
they are subject to change, are
to have three or possibly four
special dinners in the dining hall
each year to which girls in desig
nated dormitories may carry
dates. Two of the dinners will
be semi-formal and the other
one or two will be “dress-up”
occasions.
The plans for the first dinner
which is to be held Feb. 28 are
under the direction of Dot
Singleton. The first dinner will
include the girls in Faircloth
and their dates. If it is possible
to seat any more, the girls in
Jones will be able to invite
dates. The next dinner which
will probably be in March or
April will include the remaining
girls in Jones who wish to ask
dates and the girls in Vann. The
last dinner this year which will
be in May will give the girls in
Stringfield the opportunity to
ask their dates. We hope the
plan will be a success; it is up
to each of us to make it one.
Folk Dance Club
To Give Coneert
On March 19 and 20 the Folk
Dance Club will present its an
nual spring concert, under the
direction of Miss Doris Peterson,
and will include European and
American folk dances. Members
of the group are Lois Harmon,
Harriet Neese, Sarah Fleming.
Susan Fleming, Mary Lou Saw
yer, Frances Land, Jacqueline
Knott, Billie Hart, Mary Lou
Dawkins, Dot Swaringen, Rita
Britt, Harriet Ashcraft, Frances
Ward, Becky Lynn, Lefty Pugh,
Eloise Lancaster, Frances Smith,
Jolene Weathers, Frankie Ward,
Vickie Harrell, Sara Davis, Lib
Weston, Jane Lewis, Judy Pow
ers, Ann Boykin, Fran Thomp
son, Ruth Hall, Jeanne Dickens,
Jeanne McLamb, Jerry Miller,
Genie Jo White, Mary Beth
Thomas, Betty Hefner, Margaret
Hope Smith, Gennett Bramble,
Betsy Ann Morgan, and Mary
McCoy. More details will be an
nounced at a later date.
Pianist Plays
Concert Here
Alexander Brailowsky, genius
of the piano, will appear in con
cert this coming Monday night,
March 1, at 8; 00 p.m. in Me
morial Auditorium. This pro
gram is the fifth in a series of
six concerts presented by the
Civic Music Association.
Mr. Brailowsky, the greatest
living exponent of Chopin, has
played 15 times the entire cycle
of Chopin’s music, consisting of
172 pieces. His first performance
of this cycle in New York was
in 1938, since then he has pre
sented it in 1943 and 1946. When
he played the Chopin’s cycle in
Paris, he played on Chopin’s
own piano.
He has played on every con
tinent and in almost every coun
try and has played repeatedly
with every major symphony
orchestra in the United States.
He has toured South America
10 times; on one of those tours,
while in Buenos Aires, he played
17 recitals in eight weeks with
out repeating anything.
Brailowsky was born in Kiev,
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Plays To Be Given
Tomorrow Night
Tomorrow night, Feb. 28, three
one-act comedies will be pre
sented in the college auditorium.
The plays will be given by the
Freshman Class, the Phi Literary
Society, and the Astro Literary
Society.
A comedy by Harriett Ford
entitled Are Men Superior? Will
be given by the Freshman Class.
Marjorie Joyner, class president,
and Beverly Batchelor will serve
as directors. The cast will in
clude Daphne Yelverton, Donna
Walston, Mickey Bowen, Betsy
Ausbon, Kathy Deane, Stella
Matthews, Emma Lee Hough,
and Martha Smith. Com.mittee
chairmen are properties, Sylvia
Currin; scenery, Catherine Car
penter; Staging, Shirley Bone;
Prompter, Lydia Davis; cos
tumes, Betty Jane Hedgepeth;
programs, Beth Boggs.
On the same night the Phi
Society will present The Dab
blers, a farce, by John Kirkpat
rick. Louvene Jordan, assisted
by Mr. Harry K. Dorsett, is di
recting the play, and Chris Bor
deaux is stage manager. In the
cast are Janet Roberts, Sally
Lou Taylor, Frances Almond,
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TEAS, PARTY HONOR FOCUS WEEK TEAM
Teas were given on Monday,
Tuesday, and Thursday after
noons of Focus Week in the Blue
Parlor for the team members on
the Meredith campus. The teas
were given on Monday and
Thursdays for the students,
faculty, and team members; the
Tuesday afternoon tea was for
the faculty and team members.
Doris Concha, who served on
the entertainment committee for
Focus Week, was in charge of
the tea given on Monday after
noon. Marty Davis and Marjorie
Wilson poured tea, and Bunny
Harris, Bertha Wilson, and Win
nie Fitzgerald served. Also, Bet
ty Moore assisted at the tea.
Pouring tea at the faculty tea
for the team members on Tues
day were Mrs. Carlyle Campbell
and Mrs. Ralph McLain. Serv
ing were Miss Ruth Woodman,
Miss Helen Ashley, Miss Leslie
Syron, Miss Helen Parker, Miss
Cynthia Wells, and Miss Lucille
Higgs.
Dr. Ralph McLain headed the
faculty committee for the week,
and Miss Grant, Miss Brewer,
Mrs. Egerton, and Miss Price
served on his committee.
On Thursday afternoon Betty
Jo Pitman was in charge of ar
rangements for the tea. Pouring
tea were Mary Frances Carpen
ter and Grace Brown. Those
serving included Mary Lou Daw
kins, Marjorie Wall, Barbara
Francis, Magdaline Clinard, Ann
Stowe, and Peggy Mitchell.
Also, honoring the team mem
bers of Religious Focus Week,
the Meredith College student
body, under the leadership of
Marty Davis, staged a cowboy
party Wednesday night. Work
ing with Marty on the entertain
ment were Barbara Swanson,
mistress of ceremonies, Lois
Harmon, Margie Williams, Elsie
Corbett, Shirley Powell, Jane
Middleton, and Barbara John
son.
Group singing was led by
Nancy Hall after which a hum
orous skit on typical western
“ladies” was presented. Down
from the hills came the voices of
the Freshman Gold Dust Quartet
who sang “Clementine” and
“Down in the Valley.”
A contest to discover the most
typical cowboy was won by
Psggy Patrick. One of the most
hilarious features of the evening
was the trying on of feminine
hats by the team members, as
well as Dr. Campbell, Mr. Tyner,
and Dean Burts.
Mrs. Avery Lee, disguised as
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Election time has come again
to the Meredith campus with
the presidents of the major
organizations having been
elected on February 13. Friday
13 was not an unlucky day for
newly elected presidents Bar
bara Swanson of the Student
Government Council, Marjorie
Wilson of the Baptist Student
Union, and Marty Davis of the
Athletic Association.
Barbara Swanson has been a
member of the hockey team and
was captain of her hockey team
her sophomore year. She has
been treasurer of the Astro
Society, sophomore represent
ative to the S. G., and secretary
of the S. G. She is also a Little
Theater pledge, associate mem
ber of the Silver Shield, and a
member of the Sociology and
International Relations Clubs.
Marjorie Wilson is an Astro
and a religion major. She has
been treasurer of the Freeman
Religion Club, secretary and
devotional vice president of the
B. S. U. She is an associate mem
ber of the Silver Shield.
Marty Davis was a winner of
the freshman hockey stick, cap
tain of the hockey team, and
freshman representative to the
A. A. board. Her sophomore
year she was secretary of the
A. A. and is nov/ vice president.
Marty is an Astro and a psy
chology and education major.
Elections were omitted last
week because of Religious Focus
week but have been resumed
this week. Ann Wallis is chair
man of the nominating commit
tee.
Newman Appears
In Piano Coneert
William S. Newman, assistant
Professor of Music at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, ap
peared in a piano recital in the
College Auditorium, Wednesday
evening at eight o’clock, I'ebru-
ary twenty-fifth. Mr. Newman’s
program consisted partially of
some of the lesser known
sonatas, among which were
Sonata in E minor by Johann
Joachim Agrell, Grande Senate
Brillante in E-flat major by
Jogann Carl Loewe, and Sonata
per pianoforte by Ernest Bloch.
Other numbers were an original
composition—Chromatic Passa-
caglia. Nocturne in A-flat major
by Gabriel Faure, and Malaga,
tenth scene from Iberia, by Issac
Albeniz.
Mr. Newman has been soloist
with the Cleveland, N.B.C., and
other Symphony orchestras. He
has given concerts and lecture
recitals in many educational in
stitutions, including Western Re
serve, Harvard, Columbia, Ohio
State, Illinois and North Caro
lina universities. As a musicolo
gist he is author of a forthcom
ing book History of the Sonata
Idea and editor of a critical edi
tion of Twelve Keyboard Sonatas
of the Eighteenth and Nine
teenth Centuries. Mr. Newman
is collector of one of the world’s
most comprehensive sonata libra
ries.
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