December 12, 1952
THE TWIG
Page five
CAROLING TOUR
GIVES UNIQUE
OPPORTUNITY
By JOYCE STEPHENS
Does it seem odd for Meredith
jirls to be roaming around
State College Campus between
11 p.m. and 1 a.m. dressed in-
tormally in turned up socks,
Dlue-jeans, and perhaps flannel
pajamas as a hidden protection
from the cold? It might seem
2ven more unusual to see these
same girls visiting the homes of
the members of the faculty and
administration and other places
— orphanages, hospitals, and
prisons — at hours usually de
voted to the owl. If you find
yourself planning one of these
midnight rendezvous for the
night before Christmas holidays
and wondering if you can really
be a part of it and still uphold
the Meredith “Angel” status,
then just ask any A.A. Board
member. She will tell you that
you are very important in this
rendezvous because every year
the Athletic Association spon
sors Christmas caroling for all
those interested. This year it
will be December 17.
one day a little boy said, “Miss
Buening sounds like Dale
Evans.” That was the day Adele
had a cold and could hardly talk.
Adele’s students have been
studying leaves and have made
curtains for their classroom,
painting autumn leaves on
them.
Athletic Union Head Says Sports
Do Not Produce Mannish Women
With the high school teachers
the story is quite different.
Elizabeth Hamrick was too busy
planning her all day teaching in
chemistry to see anything hu
morous about this teaching
business. Gwen Horne, Jean
Dula, and Phyllis Nottingham
were all in Jean’s room bewail
ing their state. “It takes so long
to grade themes.’’* “I’ll be so
glad to get it over with.” But
then the girls confessed that they
had really enjoyed their con
tacts with the high school stu
dents. Gweh has even enjoyed
reading her students themes.
One boy wrote her one on chang
ing a baby’s diapers. One of
Jean’s student’s, when she asked
him what his trouble was in the
correct usage of shall and will,
summed it all up by saying that
his main trouble was English.
Phyllis admitted that she was
one day the cause of a giggling
class. She went to school with
her skirt unzipped.
Girl’s schools and co-ed col
leges today were urged to co
operate in the development of
more girl athletes in track and
field events so that Uncle Sam’s
chances in the 1956 Olympic
Games will be strengthened.
The plea came from Daniel J.
Ferris, secretary-treasurer of
the Amateur Athletic Union.
Ferris has been at his post for
forty years and has seen the
sons and daughters of the Uncle
take a lot of hurdles in his time.
“As far back as thirty years
ago, schools like Vassar, Bryn
Mawr, University of California,
Florida State College for Wom
en, and other had good wom
en’s track teams, and this effort
paid off as late as 1932 when the
U.S. women dominated the
distaff events at the Olympics,”
Ferris says.
“We have to build up our
strength in the women’s events
and encourage women’s track
and field athletics like the Rus
sians, the French, and the Eng
lish do. Everywhere in Europe
and elsewhere over the map,
women may race up to half a
mile and even beyond. We lim
it ours to 220 yards,” Ferris
states.
STUDENT TEACHERS
(Continued from page three)
caused her trouble. Through a
misspelled word Adele had one
her students eating a desert.
fii, for her name, it’s everything
from Beauty to Cluney to Haw
kins, but scarcely ever Buening.
One little boy asked Adele why
she always wore a kite to school.
“A kite?” “Yes, ma’am, you
know, that kite you wear on
your blouse.” And that was the
first time Adele had ever
thought that an SAE pin looked
like a kite! An example of the
widespread interest in cowboys
and cowgirls was shown when
Trevah Garrett and Jennette
Overby are doing their student
teaching at the Methodist Or
phanage. Their students are now
making Christmas presents —
and talking about their boy
friends.
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The badminton tournament
is nearing the final match. No
winners have been announced
yet, but many contestants en
tered the match, and competi
tion has been stiff.
The badminton tournament is
sponsored each year by the Ath
letic Association. This year’s
manager is Shirley Cliatt.
Connie Moore has an unusual
teaching situation. Most of her
students are older than she is.
Many of them are married, and
one has already done ninety
hours of student teaching. It
must seem rather odd to have
one of your students tell you
after class, “You’re doing very
well. Miss Moore.”
Student teachers get tired of
teaching about this time of the
year and begin counting the
hours until they’ll be through,
but they all agree that this se
mester is one well worth while.
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FRESHMAN IMPRESSIONS
(Continued from page three)
Books. Themes. Notes. Teach
ers. Conferences. Dorm cards.
Chapel. Astros and Phis. It is,
indeed, a cruel world! When I
left home for college, I didn’t
expect to do much except go to
class and develop varied means
of using the hours of leisure that
I planned to have. Perish the
thought! The word leisure has
been an archaic term since I ar
rived at Meredith College. If I’m
not rushing to keep from being
tardy for my eight-thirty class,
I’m doing the laundry for our
suite, or sitting in the library
with my teeth chattering be
cause it is so cold, or standing in
this line, or filling out a blank
for that organization. I often
find myself bemoaning the fact
that my room wasn’t clean when
it was checked, or that the Ben-
dix is out of order. When I say
my prayers at night, I some
times beseech the good Lord to
“be a sport and throw in a
couple of extra hours tomor
row.” Between fighting off at
tacks of homesickness that come
with every letter from home,
and trying to hold back the tears
when no letter comes at all, I
don’t know if I’ll survive until
Thanksgiving. Everyone says
I’ll make it yet, and be grateful
for the experience. I’m inclined
to agree, but — oh, rude world
— when? Maude Pow
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The prowess of the Russian
women athletes gave the So
viets a big lead in the recent
Olympic Games at Helsinki, a
lead that the American men
barely managed to overcome in
the eleventh hour.
“There is no secret about the
way other countries develop
more good women athletes in
track and field events,” Ferris
recently said in an article for
Parade Magazine. “The Olym
pics are not intended to pit na
tion against nation. The purpose
of the Olympics is to find great
athletes and it is a shame
America doesn’t give her girls
more of a chance to be great!”
Ferris said that the 1952
Olympics convinced him that
women’s sports, properly se
lected, do not produce mannish
women. “Participation in track
and field events will enhance
rather than dilute femininity,”
Ferris contends.
Commenting upon the splen
did fighting, never-say-die spir
it of the U. S. women’s relay
team at Helsinki, the veteran of
ficial of AAU says, “Sports
have made American boys
strong, strong and even great in
their sense of fairness and cour
age. Sports can do the same for
girls — and even prepare them
better for raising happy, nor
mal-minded families later on.’"
Anyhow, it looks like the
track and field events will have
ceased to be a “men’s club” by
the time the chips are down at
Melbourne, Australia’s Olympic
Games in 1956. They will if Dan
Ferris has any luck in spurring
on the American universities
and girl’s schools in their
Meredith lost both the volley
ball game and the tennis match
at the Greensboro College play
day on November 15. On our
volley ball team were Jean
Pace, captain, and Joyce Bailey,
Alstine Salter, Barbara Bowman,
Kay Johnson, Nancy Hall, Caro
line Byrum, Mary Lane, Ruth
Champion, and Becky Kenzie.
Ruth Dial was time-keeper. The
score for the game was 28-13.
In the tennis match Ann Lov
ell played Mary Schremp of
Greensboro College and lost 4-6.
The final winners of the day
were Woman’s College for vol
ley ball and Salem for tennis.
Christmas lists are being pre
pared by the Athletic Associa
tion again this year. They will
contain the name and address of
every student, faculty member,
and member of the administra
tion. These will be on sale by
December 15.
The Meredith folk dancers are
working hard to perfect their
dances for the concert which
will be held on February 21 this
year. Such dances as the Ara
bian, Egyptian, Swiss Moun
taineer, Scottish Sword Dance,
square dance, and Mexican Hat
Dance will be included in the
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“It is not that our girl ath
letes are failing US,” Ferris
opines; “it is we who are fail
ing THEM by not giving the
same opportunities and training
for track and field that we give
in swimming and golf and ten
nis, where our women athletes
bow to nobody.”
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