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THE TWIG
October 1, 1954
Foreign Students Like Meredith
Students from Chino, Fin
land, and Panama Compare
Their Countries with the U.S.
There are many new students at
Meredith this year, but three are
exceptional in that they have come
from other countries. They are Mar
tha E. Martellari, from Panama,
Marjotta Saikkola, from Finland,
and Jeanne Tong, from Singapore.
Martha Martellari has close ties
with our vicinity because her mother
is from Dunn, and her father went
to George Washington University.
The climate of the Republic of
Panama is much different from ours.
They have no spring or fall, and
their summers are much hotter than
ours. Schools run from May until
January because of the humid, rainy
winter.
In Panama girls are not allowed
to go anywhere alone with a boy
unless they are engaged. A relative
who acts as a chaperone must always
be present. Martha described how
mothers and grandmothers would go
with their daughters to dances and
sit around the room while they
danced watching them.
Most of their movies have Span
ish titles but there are also many
French, Italian, and German pic
tures. Panama has no television yet,
but hopes to have it soon. Swimming
is one of the favorite sports because
of the climate, and bowling is well
liked.
The population of the Republic
of Panama has not reached a mil
lion yet, but has almost reached
that number. Spanish is the spoken
language, but about 90 per cent of
the people can also speak English.
About 95 per cent of the people
are Catholic.
Martha has traveled over Central
America and Europe and is not
new in the U. S. With a major in
business, she hopes to get a job
with an Insurance Company in Pan
ama.
Marjotta Saikkola is our foreign
student from Finland. She plans to
teach English and German in her
homeland after college. Already she
knows Finish, Swedish, Latin, some
Italian and French, and is now tak
ing Spanish.
Here, Marjotta said, our schools
teach more racial subjects, while in
Finland, languages are the main
curriculum. There' are no residential
schools in Finland, therefore, Mere
dith is completely new and strange
to her. However, she likes the U. S.
and our school system very much.
In Finland the p>eopIe*are much
quieter than here. We are inclined
to be gay and lively.
Marjotta was surprised at the
amount of make-up worn by Amer
ican girls. In Finland, school girls
arc not allowed to use make-up.
Also she said girls were older when
they started dating in her home
land.
There the holidays are much as
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Enjoying a chat by the fountain are Marjotta Saikkola, Martha Martellair and
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ours. Christmas includes Santa
Claus, a big dinner, and almost al
ways snow. School is out for almost
a month for this occasion.
When asked about recreation
Marjotta replied that it was much as
in the U. S. The theater and ballet
shows are favorite forms of amuse
ment, and dance music can be heard
at almost any time.
There are not enough school
buildings in Finland. They are being
built, but at the present only about
60 per cent of the youth can go to
high school.
Jeanne Tong from Singapore has
been in the U. S. since the summer
of 1953. Last year she went to San
Francisco College for women in San
Francisco, California.
Originally from Shanghai, Jeanne
left in 1946 just before the Com
munists entered. Her home now is
in Singapore. .
Singapore has but one University
and they refuse to recognize a grad
uate of a Chinese high school at this
University.
Jeanne says that the American
girls are more sociable and indepen
dent than the Chinese. The Chinese
girls are prone to be shy and un-
talkative. She had much to learn
when she came to the U. S. Having
had servants at home, Jeanne had
to learn to iron, make beds and do
many other chores that she had
never done.
In China the climate is much as
in the U. S., but Singapore has a
tropical climate. New Year’s Eve is
celebrated one month later than
here, but Christmas is much the
same.
Movies and badminton are favor
ite forms of recreation in Singapore.
Jeanne is unsure about the fu
ture, but she may go back to teach
with a major in Home Economics
WHERE MEREDITH
AND STATE MEET
ROYS
MEREDITH WE’RE HERE
(Continued from page three)
you literally fly out of class at 1:00
to scramble for another line in order
to put that recital to an end. In
the lunch line, while upperclassmen
are reading movie magazines, we
are loyally studying the “Alma Ma
ter.” But of course we could just
learn that in our spare time. . .
Now that we have been here for
some time, things have more or less
fallen into routine (mostly less).
We have discovered that the pro
fessors do not bite (at least between
meals), and there are a few times
a year when one can work into
one’s schedule an afternoon in town
or a ballgame. We have realized
too late that we should have brought
a fold-up cot from home for those
who spend rather late hours in the
library. Most of our families have
been up at least once, only to swim
home in our homemade floods. We
have learned that mail plays a very
important part in our lives (as we
hear one girl speaking tenderly of
her lover, “I’m going to kill him if
he doesn’t write . . .”).
Yes, our first days at Meredith
have been trying ones, and maybe
they included some of these thoughts
and ideas; but for the sake of your
beloved hide, don’t tell it, Nellie,
or you’ll get shipped.
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A new semester always brings to
Meredith many new faces, and to
the music building it brings new
voices and sounds that soon blend
into the medley of organ, piano, and
voice practice. We are happy to
welcome twenty-three freshman mu
sic majors and eight transfers. Of
these, eight are majoring in piano,
seven in voice, seven in organ, and
nine in music education.
Do you remember the excellent
Chamber Music concerts of last year
presented in the Meredith auditor
ium? Two of the groups appearing
last year will 'return this year, the
Budapest String Quartet and the
New Art Wind (Quintet. Student tick
ets for this Chamber Music Series
are now available for $2 from Mrs.
Phyllis Garriss in room 111 of the
music building. The program for
this year ineludes the following
groups: Duke Chamber Orchestra,
October23; Quintetto Boccherini,
November 20; Budapest String Quar
tet, January 29; New Art Wind
Quintet, February 26. These con
certs offer a form of enjoyment not
to be found elsewhere in Raleigh.
As we enter a new musical year
—the last here for some of us and
perhaps the first year of a musical
career for otliers—I leave with you
a thought. expressed by Charles
Kingsley in the hope that when you
think music has ceased to be ce
lestial, you may think of these
words:
“There is something very won
derful in music. Words are wonder
ful enough: but music is even more
wonderful. It speaks not to our
thoughts as words do: it speaks
straight to our hearts and spirits,
to the very core and root of our
souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up;
it puts noble feelings in us; it melts
us to tears, we know not how:—it is
a language by itself, just as perfeet,
in its way, as speech, as words; just
as divine, just as blessed. Music
has been called the speech of an
gels; I will go further, and call it
the speech of God Himself.”
GIRLS FIND EUROPE
(Continued from page three)
Europe will return with a greater
awareness of God. After you have
lived through a storm at sea you
will realize the insignifieance of man,
and as you view the natural beau
ties of Europe you will be drawn
closer to the Almighty, My feelings
are well expressed in a prayer I
read in St. Paul’s Cathedral in Lon
don.
“Heavenly Father, as we view
the many beauties of Thy universe,
help us to look beyond these earthly
things and see Thee. For it was
written long ago,
‘Thine eyes shall see the king in his
beauty:
Thou shall see the land which is
afar off’.”
REGISTRAR RELEASES
(Continued from page one)
Roberts, Nina Ruppelt, Alstine
Salter, Leah Scarborough, Ellen
Scofield, Jo Ann Selley, Betty
Louise Smith, Dorothy Elizabeth
Smith, Effie Sneeden, Mary Qlive
Spivey, Barbara Leigh Stanley,
Mary Louise Stephens.
Evelyn Taylor, Shirley Taylor,
Phyllis Lou Trible, Margaret
Tueker, Mary Ellen Upchureh, Re-
bekah Upchurch, Elizabeth Vance,
Celia Wells, Shirley West, Adair
Whisenhunt, Barbara White, Doro
thy White, Rebecca Wicker, Hor-
tense Wiggs, Janis Elizabeth With-
erington, Carolyn Marie Wood,
Ada Lou Worth, Nancy Young.
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