May 21, 1954
THE TWIG
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Dr. Louise Lanham Retires After
Eighteen Years Service to Meredith
Dr. Louise Lanham is shown above in her classroom.
By VIVIAN BYRD
“Come in,” said Dr. Louise Lan
ham as she smilingly invited me
into her classroom where she was
holding a one-thirty office hour, a
practice that is just one example of
her service to Meredith students.
Dr. Lanham, after eighteen years
at Meredith, is retiring at the end
of this term to return to her large,
old-fashioned home in Spartan
burg, S. C. Here she will take
care of her ninety-year-old mother
who is “remarkably active,” Dr.
Lanham says.
A native of Spartanburg, S. C.,
and the daughter of a country doc
tor, Dr. Lanham journeyed to
Lynchburg, Va., for her college
training. She received her A.B. de
gree with a major in English from
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College.
Her graduate work was done at the
University of North Carolina from
which she received her Ph.D. de
gree in 1936. Dr. Lanham liked lan
guages while she was in college
and took, along with English, as
many languages as she could. Greek
is one of the ones that she studied.
Teaching has always been satis
fying and interesting to Dr. Lanham.
Upon graduation from Randolph-
Macon, she worked as an instructor
in English there. She also taught at
Lander College in Greenwood,
S. C., and at Columbia College in
Columbia, S. C., before coming to
Meredith. At these last two institu
tions she served, as well, as dean of
women.
“It doesn’t seem possible,” says
Dr. Lanham, thinking about the
eighteen years that she has been
here. “My work here has been, as
someone has said, almost the kind
of work you’d pay someone to let
you do.” She has found it satisfying
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and interesting to work with books,
to study poetry, to get to know
authors as one knows people.
At one time sponsor for the Phi-
laretian Society, Dr. Lanham has
for the last two years been faculty
adviser on the Oak Leaves staff.
The Twig extends a tribute to
Dr. Lanham for 18 years of unsel
fish service to Meredith College
and its students. Her pleasant smile
and kindly disposition wilt be missed
on our campus next year.
Horseshow Winners!
Sally Dean, president of the Hoof
Point Club, was presented the Zeno
Martin trophy at the Meredith Col
lege Horse Show on May 1.
Other winners in the event and
the class that they rode in are as
follows: drill-pair class: 1st place,
Mary Alice Simmons and Mary C.
Cole; advanced class: 1st place,
Sally Dean, 2nd, Libby Raynor;
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Given to Juniors
On Friday, May 7, the freshmen
entertained their big sisters at a
breakfast at the chimney. The girls
rose early in order to go by for their
big sisters and get to the breakfast
by seven o’clock. The breakfast,
consisting of orange juice, ham, grits,
toast, pecan rolls, and coffee, was
served buffet style. The big sister-
little sister breakfast is a traditional
affair.
Academy of Science
Held in Greenville
Dr. John Yarbrough and Mr.
R. Tullock attended the North Caro
lina Academy of Science on Friday,
May 7, at East Carolina College in
Greenville, N. C. Dr. Yarbrough is
scretary of the academy. At the
same time, the first meeting of the
Collegiate Academy of Science,
which is sponsored by the N. C.
Academy, was held. Attending from
Meredith were Betty Vance and Hel
en Frye. Betty presented a paper
on “Mass Cultures of Chlorella as
Food Sources.”
WHAT WILL YOUR CLASS GIVE?
pleasure class: 1st place, Maude
Johnson, 2nd, Julia Adcock; inter
mediate class: 1st place, Elizabeth
Jones, 2nd place Pansy Lee; begin
ner (sec. 1) class: 1st place, Fan-
nette Gore, 2nd place, Patty Mel
vin; beginner (sec. II) class: 1st
place, Carol Everett, 2nd place,
Mary V. Newsome; costume class:
1st place, Kay Marshall and Emily
Johnson, 2nd place, Jeanne Greal-
ish and Kitty Brown.
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Gifts to Meredith College from
graduating classes have been ap
propriate indications of the times.
Some examples are as follows: in
1915, the seniors donated to the
Belgian War Relief Fund; the 1918
girls bought an American flag and
$200.00 worth of war bonds; the
seniors of 1928 gave $200.00 to
help the college debt; moreover, the
1932 and 1933 classes had amounts
in the closed Commercial National
Bank; and during World War II
the classes of ’42 and ’43 bought
$300.00 in defense bonds.
Other years the seniors have con
tributed to the need of the college.
The class of 1902 donated $350.00
to start an endowment fund; 1911
girls gave $680 and those of ’19
added $650. An unusual gift was
provided by the ’07 seniors — a
skeleton for physiology class. Two
casts of Greek sculptors were left by
’13. Some benches for the court and
the sundial, which used to be near
Faircloth in the court, were given
by the class of 1917. Two stone
benches were donated by ’22, and
a marble bench was left by 1926.
Two pillars were given for the
gate by the ’27 group, and the ’36
girls left funds for the cement
walks by the Johnson Hall steps.
Also the three classes of ’38, ’39,
’40 contributed to paving what was
called Front Avenue, which we call
“the drive.”
Other than these gifts, there were
funds left for the home economics
department’s library in 1914, a cur
tain for the old auditorium stage
(1916 and 1929), and new furn
ishings for the college parlors
(1921). The classes of 1931 and
1937 provided for furniture for the
rotunda, which a guest speaker has
recently called “the sunken garden.”
Caps and gowns were bought by
’23 and ’41.
But more pertinent to this col
lege generation, the class of 1952
gave furnishings for the foyer of
Jones Hall, and 1953 provided the
speaker’s stand and stage furniture.
A portrait of Mr. O. L. Stringfield
was given by the class of 1912. The
1924 girls followed this thought with
an oil portrait made of Dr. Charles
E. Brewer. This year’s class has
contributed a sum of money to the
fund for the portrait of Dr. Carlyle
Campbell. This project has been a
campus-wide effort.
Thus it can be seen that the
Meredith graduating classes have
shown imagination and feeling in
their variety of gifts.
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