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RELIGIOUS FOCUS WEEK BEGINS NEXT SUNDAY
8 Speakers On
Varied Program
Marjory Joyner Heads
Planning Committees
Shown above are four of the speakers who will be leading the Focus Week services which begin on Sunday: Rev. E. T. Clarke, Miss Emily
Landsdell, Mr. Maxie Collins and Dr. Edwin M. Poteat.
SYMPHONY WILL
PRESENTCONCERT
Piano Soloist is
Featured
Featuring Seymour Lipkin as
piano soloist, the Buffalo Phil
harmonic Orchestra, conducted
by William Steinberg, will come
to Raleigh on Tuesday, February
28, to present another in the cur
rent series of Civic Music con
certs.
Seymour Lipkin launched his
music career after winning the
Rachmaninoff Fund contest of
1948-49 and is now considered
by many critics as “one of the
topflight pianists of his genera
tion.” Already he has appeared
with the nation’s leading sym
phony orchestras and has toured
the country making solo per
formances.
Although the orchestra is only
twelve years old, the Buffalo
Philharmonic’s rise to promi
nence has resulted from an ef
fort to produce music that can
be appreciated by the masses of
music lovers. The orchestra has
played an important role in de
veloping an appreciation of mu
sic among the citizens of upper
New York State.
William Steinberg, director,
was the founder and first con
ductor of the Palestine Sym
phony Orchestra, regarded as
one of the world’s greatest sym
phonies. He was also associated
with Arturo Toscanini in the
founding of the NBC Symphony.
The program for February 28
is as follows:
THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Vol. XXIV
Meredith College, Raleigh, N. C., Friday, February 17, 1950
No. 7
67 Students’ Names
On New Dean’s List
Committee Of 150
Plans Focus Week
Symphony No. 38 in D major
(K.504) “Prague” Wolfgang Mozart
I. Adagio; Allegro
II. Andante
III. Rondo
Tone Poem; Don Juan Richard Strauss
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
in E Flat major, No. 5 “Emperor.”
Opus 73 Ludwig van Beethoven
I. Allegro
II. Adagio un poco moto
III. Rondo; Allegro
Prelude to
“Die Meistersinger” Richard Wagner
Jnniors Plan Party
For Sister Class
Christmas has long been gone,
a new semester has begun, and
Valentine’s Day thoughtfully
appeared on the February cal
endar this week to liven things
up. But how? The juniors con
sidered this momentous and im
portant problem and have come
up with plans for a Big Sister-
Little Sister party for tonight.
The juniors have had a whole
semester to get acquainted with
their Little Sisters, collectively
and individually, and plans are
underway to show the freshmen
j proof of a successful and genial
■ acquaintance tonight. Juniors
will don their trusty dungarees
and an old shirt and personally
escort their Little Sisters to an
evening of fun and food at the
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Sixty-seven Meredith stu
dents’ names appear on the
Dean’s List for the fall semester
just completed. Of that number
13 are seniors, 31 are juniors, 10
are sophomores, and 12 are
members of the freshman class,
besides one special student.
The list, which is effective
through this spring semester,
includes the names of all stu
dents taking twelve or more se
mester hours who have made a
number of quality points equal
to twice the number of semester
hours taken plus three. The list
is as follows:
Dorothy Allen, Frances Al
mond, Frances Altman, Mary
Alice Archer, Grace Autry,
Joyce Bailey, Beverly Batchelor,
Peggy Benbow, Beth Boggs,
Shirley Bone, Charlotte Bow
man, Jennett Bramble, Eliza
beth Campbell, Doris Champion,
and Shirley Cliatt.
Joyce Covington, Carolyn
Crook, Marie Edwards, Patsy
Emory, Eloise Fretz, Ellen
Goldston, Betsy Jordan Golds-
ton, Susan (Traham, Margot
Grimes, Nancy Hall, Elizabeth
Hamrick, Virginia Henry, Eliza
beth Holdford, Mary Ann Hor
ton, Emma Lee Hough, and
Mary Bland Josey.
Carlene Kinlaw, Rebecca
Knott, Barbara Marshall, Caro
lyn Massey, Sally Melvin, Doro
thy Miller, Jean Miller, Betsy
Mills, Betty Moore, Drake Mor
gan, Betsy Ann Morgan, Anne
Marie Morton, Ernestine Nance,
Jean Olive, Ellen Peeler, Betty
Penny, Joanna Pittard, Julia
Presson, and Nell Rankin.
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Twelve steering committees
under the direction of general
chairman Marjorie Joyner and
Miss Billie Ruth Currin, reli
gious education director, have
been in charge of plans for Fo
cus Week, which begins on Sun
day. Sally Massey is general
treasurer.
Two Final Sessions of
Institute of Religion
Emma Lee Hough and Dr.
Mary Lynch Johnson head the
program committee for the
I week; hospitality is being
! planned by chairman LaVerne
‘ Austin’s committee, with the aid
of Mrs. Covington as advisor;
classroom visitation during the
week is in charge of Carolyn
Massey, with Dr. Lillian Parker
Wallace and Mr. Dorset! as fac
ulty advisors of the committee.
The “Pause for Power” is in
charge of Dickie Phillips, while
entertainment and recreation
for the week is being handled
by Sonny Burnham and Miss
Carey. Books and literature for
the week are in charge of Bar
bara Cox, working with Miss
Baity and Miss Greene.
The daily seminars are
planned by Rosalyn Pool, with
Dr. Rose as faculty advisor to
the committee, while the in
formal discussions are the re
sponsibility of Pat Lawrence.
Addie Elliott is in charge of the
music for- the week, and the
publicity committee is headed
by Nancy Walker, working with
Mrs. Jim Reid.
Rosalind Knott’s committee
plans the continuation for Focus
Week, with the aid of Mr. Ty-
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The Institute of Religion has
two outstanding speakers in its
last two sessions: one in the
field of philosophy and religion
and the other in the field of
education.
D. Elton Trueblood, who will
appear at the Institute on Mon
day, February 20, has gained
national and international sig
nificance through his outstand
ing analysis of the crisis or
breakdown of our present so
ciety in such books as The Pre
dicament of Modern Man and
Alternative To Futility.
Of the first work Rienhold
Neibuhr has said, “An able and
profound analysis of the spirit
ual situation of our time.” In
his last book. Signs of Hope,
Trueblood has made a great con
tribution in presentation of
trends and movements which
are pointing to a way out of the
present day crisis in society. He
has also made a provocative
study of the ten Commandments
which he has presented in his
book. Foundations of Recon
struction.
Trueblood is also the author
of several other books and at
present is Professor of Philos
ophy at Earlham College. His
topic next week will be “The
Christian Faith in the World
Civil War.”
The other Institute speaker of
the 27th is Robert Hutchins,
who is president of a large uni
versity, the University of Chi
cago. He has led this university
on the embarkment of a new
educational plan. He has been
called “the rebel of education.”
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Religious Focus Week, an an
nual highlight on the campus,
gets underway next Sunday af
ternoon and will continue
through next Friday. Eight
speakers will visit the Meredith
campus to take part in the
week’s varied activities, center
ing around the theme of “Reli
gion—Its Reality and Reve-
lance.”
The Focus Week Team, which
will lead in morning and even
ing chapel services, seminars,
informal discussions, devotional
periods, and classroom discus
sions during the Focus Week,
includes Rev. E. T. Clark, of
Winchester, Virginia; Rev. Rich
ard Young, chaplain of the Bap
tist Hospital in Winston-Salem;
Miss Emily Lansdell, of Hephzi-
bah, Ga., a missionary of the
Southern Baptist Foreign Mis
sion Board, and Rev. Glenn
Blackburn, of Wake Forest.
Other leaders include Mr.
Maxie C. Collins, the executive
secretary of the South Carolina
Federated Forces; Dr. Edwin
McNeill Poteat, of Pullen Me
morial Church in Raleigh; Mrs.
J. Winston Pearce, of Durham;
and Rev. James W. Ray, the
secretary of the State Baptist
Student Union.
The activities of the week,
planned by a committee of 150
under the direction of Margie
Joyner, will begin on Sunday
afternoon with a coffee for the
committee members and the
speakers who have arrived.
Chapel services will begin Mon
day morning, featuring a dif
ferent speaker for each service
during the week.
Besides morning and evening
chapel services each day, a
“Pause for Power” devotional
period will be held in the ro
tunda at 1:40 each afternoon.
Seminars, featuring such sub
jects as “Religion in Labor and
Government,” “Tomorrow You
Marry,” “Dedicating My Voca
tion,” and “Christian Faith To
day,” will be held in assigned
rooms at 8 P. M. each night, fol
lowing the evening chapel ser
vice at 7 P. M. in the auditorium.
At 10 P.M. each night in
formal discussions with no as
signed subject given will be held
in the social rooms of the dormi
tories, as a question-and-answer
discussion period between stu
dents and the speakers. Class
room visitation, upon request of
the faculty members, will also
be featured during the week.
Besides the coffee on Sunday
afternoon for the committee
members and speakers, three in
formal teas will be held during
the week. On Monday and
Thursday the teas will be held
for the students and the speak
ers; on Tuesday the faculty is
invited to meet the team. On
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Mrs. J. Winston Pearce, Mr. Richard Young, Rev. Jimmy Ray and Dr. Glenn Blackburn, pictured above, will also be on the
campus durmg Focus Week.
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