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THE TWIG
October 6, 1950
MRS. McLAIN JOINS
RELIGION FACULTY
FROM THE MUSIC WORLD
Dr. Elizabeth Vaughan, new head of the sociology department at
Meredith, gives an interview about her war experiences to Louise Britt,
reporter for the campus Sociology Club.
Dr. Vaughan Relates Experiences As a
War Prisoner; Miss West Interviewed
By LOUISE BRITT
Meredith has acquired a vi
vacious lady with many an
interesting tale to impart as the
new head of the department of
sociology and economics. She is
Dr. Elizabeth Head Vaughan,
native of Athens, Georgia, who
received her A.B. and M.A. at
the University of Georgia,
studied at Vanderbilt, and re
ceived her Ph.D. at the Uni
versity of North Carolina. She
taught for three summers at
Georgia, one year in the Uni
versity of the Philippines in
Manila; and, since 1947, at
Winthrop College in Rock Hill,
S. C.
Dr. Vaughan’s hobbies, travel
ing and gardening, have proved
to be very significant in several
ways. While making a trip
around the world in 1936 she
met Milton James Vaughan in
Manila, and in 1937 she married
him in the Philippines. Mr.
Vaughan was an American civil
engineer; when war broke out
in the Far East in 1941 he
enlisted in the army. After being
captured by the Japanese on
Bataan, he died in the Cabana-
tuan military prison.
Japanese Prisoner
With her two children, Eliza
beth and Clay, Dr. Vaughan re
treated with the natives of
Negros Island back into the
hills, where they lived for
several months before surren
dering to the Japanese in June
of 1942. The prisoners were kept
in a small camp of about 147
for about nine months; during
this time they received no food
except that which they could
furnish themselves. In March,
’43, they were moved to Manila,
where there were over four
thousand other civilian prison
ers. There they stayed until
February of 1945, when they
were released by American
forces. In April of that year
Elizabeth and Clay sailed for
the United States, and are now
living in the duplex house on the
Meredith campus.
Out of these experiences
which Dr. Vaughan says are her
only “claim to distinction,”
came her doctoral dissertation.
Community Under Stress, pub
lished by Princeton University
Press in 1949. In her book she
discusses such problems as the
patterns of survival and adjust
ment, and the effect of previous
cultural background on reac
tions to calamity. Dr. Vaughan
found that women held up bet
ter during internment as prison
ers of war than did men, and
points out that all of the suicides
and most of the mental break
downs during the imprisonment
occurred among the men.
Miss Doris West
Another interesting person
has been added to the staff of
the sociology department at
Meredith; she is Miss Doris
West, a native of Cleveland,
Ohio. Miss West received her
A.B. from Earlham College and
her M.A. from Ohio State. She
has held graduate assistantships
at Ohio State, Duke, and the
Bureau of Applied Social Re
search at Columbia. She has
had one year of teaching at
Bowling Green State University.
Although her hobby is horse^
back riding. Miss West says she
is not the “sports type” and is
not a football or baseball fan.
Miss West says she “just loves
Meredith.”
A newcomer on the staff of
the religion department this fall,
but a familiar and well-known
person on the Meredith campus,
is Mrs. Ralph E. McLain. Since
her arrival in Raleigh, she has
been busy as a homemaker—al
though she still holds her love of
teaching. She has taught or
worked in schools, churches,
recreational, or mission groups
since high school days.
Though close ties for her are
in North Carolina and Georgia,
Mrs. McLain was born in Zanes
ville, Ohio. She received her
A.B. at Mushingum College,
where she majored in religion,
with about as many other
courses in German, literature,
and French. Incidentally, while
there she acquired her teaching
certificate.
Instead of teaching, however,
she went on a scholarship to
Peabody Teachers College,
where she received her M.A. in
the field of religious literature.
Since that time she has had
several graduate courses at
Union Theological Seminary,
where she was privileged to
have work under James Mofhtt;
and at the University of Chicago
divinity school. She has, by the
way, had all of. Dr. McLain’s
courses except one.
As the wife of a college pro
fessor, “Mrs. Mac” says that
events are always exciting-
“You never can tell what is
going to happen.” Her main in
terest currently is her work as
superintendent at the junior
department of Pullen Memorial
Sunday School. She is also chair
man of the Good Will Center
Board. Sewing, cooking, decora
ting, and weaving, her newest
hobby, are evidence of her
domestic touch.
Mrs. JdcLain is quite pleased
to be on the staff at Meredith,
for, in her own words, “I love
teaching college girls.”
Enrollment Figures
Given By Registrar
As released by the office of
the registrar September 29, the
total enrollment of Meredith
for the 1950-51 session is 617.
This total includes 204 freshmen
and transfers, 314 former resi
dent students, 78 nonresident
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Pianos bang, voices screech,
the organs thunder—the music
for the year of ’50-’51 is well
under way. The new year brings
with it two additions to the
music faculty: Miss Whitaker,
head of the public school music
department, replacing Mr. Wil-
mot; and Mrs. John S. Town
send (Rebecca Barnes, ’46) as
assistant in voice. Another new
face to be seen around the music
building is that of Mr. William
Zimmerman, who is taking the
place of Mr. Pratt during his
absence.
With the merger of the choir
and the glee club, a new and
larger chorus is the music
organization on our campus.
This chorus, under the direction
of Miss Donley, now has ap
proximately sixty members. (I
might add that we really have a
good time in rehearsals and we’d
like to have some more of the
new students come join us. “The
more the merrier!”)
Of great interest to many of
the student body will be the re
duction in the price of the
Chamber Music Guild tickets
this season. These are exactly
half-price for students—now
only $1.80. That’s quite easy on
your pocketbooks, but please
don’t get the idea that the con
certs are also of a lesser quality.
Believe me, the four concerts
to be given this year feature
top performers, including the
Paganini String Quartet. Watch
the bulletin board for ticket
sales.
The exact date for the recital
of Mr. E. Power Biggs, organist,
has not been set, but I might
tell you that he will be the first
to give a recital on our organ
since a new console and new
additions to the tone structure
have been added.
In closing the music news for
now, I call attention to the
recital of Miss Martha Hamrick
tonight in the new auditorium.
It is to be the first of the season
and I can think of no finer way
to begin the music year at
Meredith. Two of the numbers
on the program will be the G
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Poems of the Sea, by Ernest
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