Baptist Female
University:
1899-1905
THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Baptist University
for Women:
1905-1909
Volume XXV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1950
Number 3
[V
Dr. Edwin M. Potent Is Founders’ Day Speaker
PLANS FOR PALIO ON NIGHT OF
FOUNDERS’ DAY NEAR COMPLETION
Palio, annual homecoming
event of Meredith College, sets
a new precedent in college his
tory in its celebration next
Friday, November 10; for the
first time since its beginning in
1935, Palio will be held at night
—this year, the night of Foun
ders’ Day. Another change, that
of having as presiding magis
trate the president of the
Athletic Association rather than
of the Student Government As
sociation, was recently voted by
the student body.
The lighting situation for
Palio is now one of the main
interests of the students, as final
NOTICE!
All students who have not
picked up their Civic Music
membership cards are re
minded tOido so on Monday,
November 6, between 9:30
a.m. and 1:00 p.m. in the News
Bureau, No. 3 Jones. There
will be no one to give out the
cards over the week-end, so if
you wish to attend the concert
on Monday night, get your
card before 1:00 on that day.
preparations for the event are
being made. Mary Bland Josey,
A. A. chairman of lights, an
nounces that there will be two
flood lights around the circle in
front of Johnson Hall, and more
lights in front of the judges’
stand. Car lights will probably
be used down the drive as the
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classes march up to form their
numerals; classes have been
urged to select a theme that will
be suitable for the night event.
General Procession
Changes have also been made
this year in the general proces
sion, which precedes the class
marching. A representative of
each campus organization and
publication will be in the pro
cession, dressed in an original
costume picturing activities of
the group. More banners will be
used than in previous years; a
banner dance by the creative
rhythms group will be per
formed in the circle. Joanne
LaRue is in charge of this dance.
Serving as Town Crier for the
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Pianist Will Give First Civic
Music Concert on Monday Night
The pianist Leonard Pennario
will be presented in a Civic
Music concert on next Monday
night, November 6, at 8:00 p.m.
in the Raleigh Memorial Audi
torium. This fall concert is the
first of six in the Civic Music
series.
The program for the concert
on Monday night is as follows:
Two Sonatas—Domenico Scar
latti
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring—
Johann Sebastian Bach-Hess
Sonata in B flat minor. Opus 35
—Frederic Chopin
II
Scenes from Childhood—Robert
Schumann
Variations on a theme of Pa
ganini, Opus 35—Johannes
Brahms
III
Prelude in E flat major—Sergei
Rachmaninoff
Etude-Tableau, Opus 33, No. 7—-
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Visions Fugitives, Opus 22, Nos.
7, 8, 17, 5, 9, 10—Serge
Prokofieff
L’isle joyeuse—Claude Debussy
The Maiden and the Nightingale
—Enrique Granados
Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 12-
Franz Lizst
Now on his fifth coast-to-coast
concert tour, Leonard Pennario
has been active in national
music circles since his Carnegie
Hall debut in 1943, when critics
hailed him as a “sensationally
brilliant pianist.” His profes
sional debut, however, was
made at the age of twelve with
the Dallas Symphony, when he
played Grieg’s “Concerto for
Piano and Orchestra.”
Born in Buffalo, Pennario be
gan lessons at the age of six; at
thirteen he moved to Los
Angeles and became a pupil of
the distinguished pianist, Guy
Maier. During the next few
BSD Begins
Sessions of
Convention
Three-Day Meet Opens
Tonight at Pullen
Memorial
Leonard Pennario
years, he performed as piano
soloist with the New York,
Chicago, Indianapohs, Denver,
Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and
San Francisco Symphony Or
chestras.
Leonard Pennario played
hundreds of concerts for service
men during the war, when he
was a member of the Army Air
Corps. After his discharge in
1946, he resumed his concert
career and since has appeared as
soloist with all of the major
sympony orchestras.
His radio career has also been
extensive and varied; he ap
peared for thirteen weeks as
feature artist with Nelson Eddy
on Kraft Music Hall. Recently
he was chosen to record the
score of a film “September Af
fair” in which Joan Fontaine is
seen playing the piano; Pennario
should be given credit for the
performance.
Although serious about his
music career, this young pianist
enjoys sports, especially foot
ball, and is a good swimmer and
golfer. He enjoys his concert
tours because, he says, in travel
ling “you meet so many inter
esting people.”
The North Carolina Baptist
Student Union will begin the
first session of its annual con
vention tonight at 7:30 at Pullen
Memorial Baptist Clhurch. This
afternoon has beep given over to
registration, refreshments, and
home assignments among the
people of Raleigh for students
from state colleges who are at
tending the three-day conven
tion.
Convention Theme
With the theme “The Mission
of the Church in the World
Today” students will hear ad
dresses by two outstanding
North Carolina ministers: Dr.
C. C. Warren, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, Charlotte; and
Dr. E. McNeill Poteat, pastor of
the host church, Pullen Me
morial.
Other addresses scheduled for
the convention during this week
end will be given by Dr. Richard
I. McKinney, chaplain and col
lege minister at Virginia State
College and co-author of “The
Christian Way in Race Rela
tions”; Dr. Preston Epps, of the
Greek department of the Uni
versity of North Carolina; ’and
Miss Emily Lansdell, college
deputation representative of the
Foreign Mission Board in Rich
mond, and a former missionary
to China. Miss Lansdell was at
Meredith for Religious Focus
Week last year.
Discussion Groups
Student and adult panels will
be held, leading some twenty
discussion groups of student
delegates. Material presented by
tire speakers on the program will
be used as a basis for thought
and discussion. Devotions for
each session will be led by Dr.
Wayne Oates, of the department
of pastoral care and counselling
at the Southern Baptist Semi
nary in Louisville, Ky. Dr. Oates
is well-known as the conductor
of the Raleigh Youth Revival.
An autograph party will he
given tonight for Dr. Claude U.
Broach, pastor of the St. John’s
Baptist Church in Charlotte,
whose biography of Dr. Frank
Leavell is just off the press. The
B.S.U. office in Nashville will be
represented by Dr. G. Kearnie
Keegan, Southwide B.S.U. secre
tary.
Presiding over the sessions
this weekend will be Boyce
Medlin, president of the B.S.U.
Convention, and a Wake Forest
student. Various college groups
wijl provide special music for
each session; the Shaw Univer
sity Choral Ensemble will pre
sent a concert of sacred music.
Dr. Wayne Oates, of Louis
ville will teach the Sunday
School lesson on Sunday morn
ing; the sermon on Sunday will
be delivered by Dr. McKinney
in the service to be held in the
new auditorium at Meredith.
This 1950 B.S.U. convention is
a significant one for Meredith.
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Dr. Edwin McNeill Poteat
FACULTY MEMBERS
ATTEND MEETING
Attending the thirtieth annual
meeting of the North Carolina
College Conference in Winston-
Salem on next Wednesday and
Thursday, November 8 and 9,
will be several members of the
Meredith faculty, including com
mittee members for the con
ference.
Serving on the executive com
mittee of the organization this
year is Mrs. Vera Tart Marsh,
Registrar of the college; Dr.
Campbell is a member of the
standing Standards committee.
Mr. Tyner, of the education de
partment, is a long-time mem
ber of the College Admissions
committee of the conference,
while Dr. Wallace is serving on
the committee of Cooperative
Research.
Also attending the conference
from Meredith will be Dr.
Preston, Dean L. A. Peacock,
and Mrs. Tyner. In addition to
an address by the president of
the conference. Dr. Samuel M.
Holton, of Louisburg College,
Dr. T. V. Smith, Maxwell pro
fessor of citizenship and philos
ophy at Syracuse University, is
scheduled to speak on “The
Ideological Issue with Russia.”
ALUMNAE COUNCIL
TO MEET FRIDAY
The fall meeting of the alum
nae executive council, composed
of the permanent class officers of
the reunion classes for the year,
alumnae trustees, chapter presi
dents, Loyalty Fund chairmen,
and any other alumnae who
wish to attend, has been sched
uled for 7:30 p.m. on the night
of Founders’ Day, in the Vann
parlor.
Presiding over this planning
meeting will be the president of
the Alumnae Association, Dr.
Elizabeth James Dotterer, of
Sanford. Because of a conflict
with Palio on the same night,
group meetings for alumnae will
be scheduled at this meeting.
Class officers of reunion
classes this year who are ex
pected to attend the executive
council meetings are those of
the Class of 1949, the “Big Sis
ters” of the present senior class;
the class of ’41, which is observ
ing its tenth anniversary this
year; and those of two complete
college generations of four
years: 1910, ’ll, ’12, and ’13, and
those of 1929, ’30, ’31, and ’32.
PLANS MADE
FOR PROGRAM
ON FRIDAY
Dr. Edwin McNeill Poteat,
pastor of Pullen Memorial
Baptist Church in Raleigh, will
be'the featured speaker of the
college Founders’ Day service on
next Friday morning, November
10, at 11:00 in the new audito
rium. The fifty-first anniversary
of the college is being observed
this year.
Marching in the Founders’
Day processional in the service
will be members of the senior
class in caps and gowns. Alum
nae of the college are expected
to be present for the service and
for the afternoon reception, also.
Dr. Poteat, who will be intro
duced in the service by Dr.
Carlyle Campbell, president of
the college, has written numer
ous books, music, and poetry, in
addition to his preaching and
teaching. He came to Raleigh in
1929 after spending thirteen
years in China; in 1937 he ac
cepted the pastorate of the
Euclid Avenue Baptist Church
in Cleveland, Ohio.
Return to Raleigh
After his pastorate in Cleve
land, Dr. Poteat served as presi
dent of Colgate-Rochester Di
vinity School for three years;
he returned to Raleigh as pastor
CHORUS BROADCAST
A radio broadcast by the
Meredith college chorus of
sixty voices will be made over
WPTF on the morning of
Founders’ Day from the stage
of the new auditorium. The
chorus, under the direction of
Miss Beatrice Donley, will
sing four selections on the
fifteen-minute program.
Students are therefore
asked to be as quite as pos
sible when entering the audi
torium for the Founders’ Day
service, scheduled to begin at
11:00. Classes on Friday will
end at 10:30; whenever pos
sible students should be in the
auditorium before the broad
cast begins.
This annual Founders’ Day
broadcast is sponsored each
year by the Alumnae Associa
tion.
of Pullen Memorial in 1948, and
recently his congregation ded
icated a new church building.
Reception
A reception honoring seniors,
alumnae, trustees, and faculty of
the college is also being planned
as part of the Founders’ Day
observance, scheduled for 4:00
p.m. until 5:00 in the main
parlors. Additional invitations
have been extended to officials
of surrounding colleges and
other friends.
Chairman of the reception
committee is the dean of stu
dents, Miss Louise Fleming;
serving with her are Miss Lila
Bell, Miss Ellen Brewer, Miss
Billie Ruth Currin, Mrs. Mary
Edgerton, Mrs. Vera Tart
Marsh, and Mr. Zeno Martin.
Besides the morning service
and the afternoon reception, an
alumnae executive meeting at
7:30 p.m. and Palio celebration
at 8:00 p.m. on the front drive
complete the schedule of events
for Founders’ Day.
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