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THE TWIG
May 2, 1952
ALUMNAE NOTES
Dr. Elizabeth Dotterer, President ot
Meredith Alumnae Association.
The Alumnae News Sheet
will soon be reaching Meredith
alumnae. A beautiful picture of
peach blossoms and spirea sur
rounding two students will
greet them and probably make
them dream of days gone by.
This news sheet is published
twice a year by the Alumnae
Association of Meredith. It con
tains this spring a complete re
sume of news that will interest
a former Meredith girl. Aid in
securing new students for Mere
dith is asked and plans sug
gested for establishing a file on
prospective students. Members
of the Meredith staff who have
been ill are reported better,
among them Miss Lattie
Rhodes, Miss Lulu Watts, and
Dr. William J. Senter. Listed
are the six graduates who
achieved alumnae status at the
end of the first term. Fourteen
DR. JOHNSON
GIVES PICNIC
FOR STUDENTS
On Tuesday afternoon, April
22, the English students who are
taking the Chaucer and Victor
ian Poetry courses were given a
picnic at the chimney by their
professor. Dr. Mary Lynch
Johnson. The picnic is an annual
event when students and mem
bers of faculty meet for an af
ternoon of fun, food, and recrea
tion. Those present for the pic
nic included faculty and stu
dent members of the English de
partment, Dr. Leslie Syron,
Miss Mae Grimmer, and Miss
Nancy Walker of Meredith; Mrs.
L. A. Peacock and her mother,
Mrs. Abbott and Mrs. Carol of
Raleigh; and Misses Jane Knight
and Virginia Herring of the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
Dr. Johnson, acting as chief
cook, served the group ham
burgers, cole slaw, crackers
and cottage cheese, celery, car
rots, donuts, coffee, punch, and
marshmallows.
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this year as second-generation
students. Dates on which pro
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planned are given, and a special
invitation extended to the fifty-
third commencement exercises.
Miss Mae Grimmer, the
Alumnae secretary, keeps a
quite complete record of alum
nae information on marriages
and births. Included are the
marriage of Emma Lee Hough,
class of ’51, from Charlotte, to
Jack Graham McCraken on
March 16; and the birth of a
son, Ralph Clyde, on March 21
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They Went to College. Hav^
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“Princeton Versus Podunk,”
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Student Who Just Sat There,
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students who were financially
“set” and those who worked
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these statistics into the story of
They Went to College.
Random notes from this book
will serve to illustrate both its
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to student and parent. Asked.
‘Would you say that your college
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some, or none in your present
occupation?”, 70 per cent felt
they had helped a lot, and only
two per cent said they had not
helped at all. Men are more sat
isfied with the results of their
college training than women,
but still almost two-thirds of all
the college women did feel that
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college had been helpful to
them. When the graduates were
asked to rate their education in
more general terms, they still
expressed satisfaction with
their college courses. If they had
to do it all over again, 98 per
cent would again go to college,
84 per cent would select the
same college, while 14 per cent
would again go to college but
would choose a different insti
tution. The vast majority would
repeat their major. Whether the
college woman graduated from
a co-educational school or from
a woman’s college seems to have
ittle or no effect upon her ul
timate marriage chances, the
number of children she will
3ear, the stability of her mar
riage, or her outside employ
ment. The results of an opin
ion section in the questionnaire
show beyond doubt that Amer
ica’s colleges are not turning out
radicals. On questions of politics
and government, the graduates
are considerably more conserva
tive than the folklore would
have you believe. They appear
to be fairly tolerant, although
less tolerant of foreigners than
of American minorities. The ma
jority are internationalist, al
though an isolationist element
is certainly present. Graduates
PIANO STUDENTS
GIVE RECITALS
Ella Ann Lee and Audelia Ay-
cock, special students of Stuart
Pratt, head of the Meredith Col
lege piano department, have re
cently given recitals in Recital
Hall here.
Ella Ann Lee of Smithfield, a
high school senior, has been a
student of Mr. Pratt for two
years, during which time she
has received top honors in
many state-wide contests. She
has recently won a scholarship
in piano and appeared as soloist
with the North Carolina Sym
phony Orchestra.
Audelia Aycock, who is a
high school junior at Fremont,
has studied under Mr. Pratt for
three years. Before becoming a
student of Mr. Pratt, she studied
under Miss Helen Ashley Boyce.
Both young ladies, in their re
citals, were assisted by Mr. Pratt
in orchestral portions of their
programs.
who were the best students in
college prove to be the great
source of political independents.
Those who took a broad, gen
eral college course tend to be
much more interested in social
and political questions, to be
less prejudiced, and are more of
ten listed as “independent” vot
ers.
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