April 6, 1951
THE TWIG
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Basketball Varsity, Trophy Winner Announced
Freshman Team
Wins Tourney
Six silver basketballs were
presented to the members of
the honorary basketball varsity
at Meredith and the winner
of the “most valuable player”
award was given a cup at the
recent Basketball Awards Day
held at Meredith. Nellie Bostic,
basketball manager, made the
awards.
Earning a place on the varsity
by skill, interest, and enthusi
asm, were Jean Dula, Faye
Nichols, and Sue Fitzgerald,
forwards; and Hope Hodges,
Peggy Thornton, and Betty Ann
Swindell, guards. Winner of the
special trophy presented for the
first time this year to the most
valuable player by Miss Phyllis
Cunningham was Hope Hodges.
The class tournament trophy
was won this year by the fresh
man class team; captain of the
squad Alstine Salter, who is also
freshman class president, re
ceived the award for the team.
Freshmen members of the win
ning team include Ann Lovell,
who finished the season as high
scorer, with 27 points made in
the final game; Jean Pace; Mary
Ruth Willcox; Catherine Mc-
Rackan; Betty Ann Swindell;
Bonny Morgan; Jane William
son; Sarah Pate; Peggy Mad-
ry; and Margie Stewart.
CLUB WILL PRESENT
(Continued from page one)
III.
European Folk Dances
Daldanz Swedish
Mountaineers Swiss
Csardas Hungarian
Polka (from “The Bartered
Bride”) Czech
Schuhplattler Bavarian
Trepak Russian
IV.
Folk Character Dances
Danse les Egyptiennes Music
by Stepovy
Sicilians Gypsy Danse Music
by Lock
German Trio Music by Mozart
V.
Folk Dances from the United
States
Lancers Oldest Dance
Recorded in America
Varsovianna (“Put Your Little
Foot”) Arizona Version
Polka Wyoming Version
Skaters’ Waltz Cowboy
Version
Square Dance Medley....Cowboy
Version'
Members of the honorary haskethall varsity, who received sterling silver basketballs on the reeent col
lege Awards Day are, left to right, Nellie Bostic, who, as basketball manager, presented the awards; Jean
Dula; Betty Ann Swindell; Hope Hodges, who also received the trophy as “most valuable player”; Peggy
Thornton; Sue Fitzgerald; Miss Cunningham, basketball coach; and Faye Nichols.
Biology Student Teacher at Broughton
Undergoes Many Trials and Tribulations
By BEVERLY BATCHELOR
When March 13 dawned, Jo
anna Pittard made her way to
Needham Broughton with an
easy air. Certainly the 13th was
here, but she wasn’t one prone
to superstitious nonsense; in
fact she was rather looking for
ward to her first day of teach
ing biology. Her lesson was
planned; she had practiced on
all her friends; what could hap
pen?
One half hour later this con
fident young lady was inwardly
quaking and physically shaking
so that she couldn’t even write
the names of those absent. Why
the sudden change? There on the
front row of the biology class
room sat Mr. “Harry K.” ■— ob
serving everything! It shouldn’t
happen to a pickled frog, but it
happened to Miss Pittard. After
the class was over our young
student teacher was unable to
remember what she did or how
she did it. In telling the story
only one incident remained
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with her—some understanding
student volunteered for three
reports. He did a lot of work
that night, but he earned the
everlasting gratitude of Miss
Pittard.
Interviewing Joanna as a rep
resentative of all secondary edu
cation majors was an enter
taining and informative experi
ence. When I confronted her
with a question, she refused to
say a word until each answer
had been thought through care
fully. After several preliminary
queries, I asked, “Why did you
decide to go into secondary edu
cation?”
She pondered a moment. “I
feel that I understand the prob
lems of that age group far more
than I do the troubles of a
younger age. I can remember
the horrors of first dates, of no
date, of adolescent shyness, of
social and physical maladjust
ment. Feeling their sorrows and
rejoicing in their pleasures is a
joy to me; therefore, I chose
counselling and guiding this age
group as my life work.”
“\^at is yoxir aim or objec
tive in teaching biology?”
“That’s a hard one,” she
smiled, “but, you see, eating, for
instance, is a prosaic, everyday
occurrence until one begins to
understand just what happens
to the corn or the meat as it
makes its journey down; then
eating becomes an exciting ad
venture. Furthermore, frustra
tions can be overcome and
avoided by mature understand
ing of body processes; charac
ters and personality scopes can
be widened to an amazing ex
tent. My main concern is teach
ing individual persons through
the medium of biology. Perhaps
I’m aiming too high, but there’s
nothing like trying!”
Joanna has already been
made aware of the small prob
lems that loom large on the hor
izon of a student teacher.
Sometimes she has been a great
success; sometime, a dismal fail
Mrs. Collins Gretter
Is New Instructor
New physical education in
structor on the Meredith cam
pus this semester is Mrs. Collins
Gretter, whose home is in
Louisburg, North Carolina. Mrs.
Gretter is teaching classes in
creative rhythms, beginning folk
dance, body mechanics, begin
ning and intermediate tennis,
archery, volleyball, swimming,
and recreational sports in the
department.
After her graduation from
Woman’s College of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, Mrs.
Gretter taught in the physical
education department in Coker
College in Hartsville, South
Carolina, for two years. Later,
however, she went back to the
University of North Carolina for
a year for work on her master’s
degree. She expects to finish
her thesis in the near future,
and has her course work done
for the degree.
Mrs. Gretter commutes from
her home in Louisburg to her
classes on the campus every day,
with the exception of one day a
week, on Wednesday.
ure. Her biggest flop, she
thinks, came when one of her
advisers asked what she would
do if she were hit on the head by
an eraser thrown by a student.
Joanna’s only reaction was,
“Goodness! Do they do things
like that?” Her adviser seemed
to think she has a lot to learn.
“And what on earth do you
do,” Joanna was firing ques
tions at me by this time, “when
the boys sit in the back of the
room playing tricks with pen
nies and expect you to laugh at
them or when the girls sneak
off to biology lab and have you
painting mascara on the dum
my hula-hula girl who will pre
side at the class circus, or when
you get asked, ‘Miss Pittard,
what’s two and two?’ or—”
I had to stop her at this point
because we were both laughing
much too hard to go on.
“This all sounds terrible, I
know,” the dignified Miss Pit
tard giggled, “but you know—I
love it!”
(Continued on page six)
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