December 17, 1954
THE TWIG
Page five
HOME MAKING IS A JOB!
How would you like to share
with three other girls the complete
responsibility of keeping house for
a whole month? This is an experi
ence which every home economics
major has. Chances are, you have
heard of the home-economics house,
but you may not have known where
or what it was.
The “house” consists of three
suites on first Van, where groups of
four girls live for four weeks. The
tasks of housekeeping are divided
among a hostess, a cook, an as
sistant cook, and a housekeeper.
The work is rotated, every girl hold
ing a different position each week.
The hostess plans the meals, buys
the food, manages the finances, bal
ances the budget, and does the en
tertaining. The cook has the re
sponsibility of preparing meals and
acts as host at the table. The as
sistant cook helps prepare the meals
and acts as waitress at the table.
The housekeeper has charge of tak
ing care of the rooms.
Plans Are Underway
For Arts Festival
The Annual Arts Festival at The
Woman’s College will be held on
March 29 and 30, 1955. Meredith
students are invited to take an active
part in this event.
The creative writing program will
center around student work in verse
and prose selected for printing in
Coraddi, the college literary maga
zine. The work selected will be
commented on by a panel of dis-
tintinguished writers, including Ran
dall Jarrell, Flannery O’Connor,
Lettie Rogers, and Peter Taylor. In
addition, the students whose work
is selected will have the opportunity
to confer privately with these writ
ers. There will also be lectures and
readings that will be of interest to
you and your students.
Students who wish to avail them
selves of this chance to receive crit
ical commentary on their work from
diverse viewpoints may submit
manuscripts as follows:
1. Send verse of any length; or
complete prose selections, not
over 8,000 words.
2. Send original, creative pieces
only.
3. Mss. should be double-spaced,
typewritten, first copies.
4. They must be received at The
Women’s College not later than
January 5, 1955. (Send to: The
Editors, Coraddi, The Woman’s
College, U. N. C., Greensboro,
N. C.) Mss. vdll be returned
only if a self-addressed, stamped
envelope is sent.
Those students whose work is se
lected will be notified about Febru
ary 5, so that they can make plans
for attending the festival.
If you are interested, please con
tact Dr. Johnson.
MEREDITH GOES CO-ED
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All the students dress up to suit
the occasion—the men in bermuda
shoEts and the girls in peasant
blouses and full skirts. Parades, open
houses, sports events, cabin parties,
the lawn concert, and the formal
dance on Saturday night ends the
perfect weekend. Joe College is the
last social function of the college
year. The next function is an aca
demic one. The students settle down
to study for final exams. It was a
fun-filled year, wasn’t it?
Betty Purvis
Charlotte Cooper
WHERE MEREDITH
AND STATE MEET
ROYS
Emma Lou Chapell, Frances Patterson, and Christie Burns prepare a meal in the
home economics house.
This proiect was begun in 1931
by Miss Ellen Brewer. She took
three suites on first Vann, and trans
formed them into a home-like apart
ment. Rooms 103 and 104 are the
bedrooms; rooms 105 and 106, the
kitchen and dining room, (the con
necting bath was remodeled as a
pantry); and rooms 107 and 108
are the supervisor’s room and the
living room. It is called the Mere-
Ello Apartment. Mere stands for
Meredith; ;E1 — for Miss Ellen
Brewer; and lo for Love, the name
of Miss Brewer’s mother, who gave
the china to the house and furnished
the supervisor’s room.
The house is run on a basis of one
dollar a day per person—seventy-
five cents for food and twenty-five
cents for operating expenses. There
is, of course, a laboratory fee, but
the money for food is refunded from
what the girls pay in to the dining
hall.
The hostess may plan the meals
just as she chooses, so long as the
menu meets the basic daily require
ments. Each week there is one euest
dinner, and the hostess may invite
her family, friends, or faculty mem
bers.
The girls find the month in the
practice house a very valuable ex
perience, for it gives them a chance
to gather up and put into practice
everything they have learned in all
their courses—English and religion
as well as home economics. And it’s
very good preparation for marriage!
ALUMNAE GROUP
IS ACTIVE
Miss Grimmer and Mary Bland
Josey attended a come-and-sit-tea
on Saturday afternoon, Decem
ber 11, at the home of Mary Lou
Culler, ’49, of High Point. The
Meredith Alumnae of High Point
had the tea for high school senior
girls.
The Apex Alumnae chapter had
a bake sale on December 4 to raise
money for a new classroom build
ing, which is part of the Expansion
Program.
Interested in Browsing'
It is doubtful that many students
are aware that recently the science
section of the library has been
moved to the balcony of the library
rotunda. These shelves may be
reached by mounting the small stair
case in the northeast corner of the
library.
Also, if you have not yet made
your acquaintance with Room 3 of
the library, you would be wise to do
so. In this small, sunny room are lo
cated stacks upon stacks of invalu
able information—not only useful
for research but for very interesting
reading; for not only does it contain
books on home guidance, children’s
training, and pulpit and Bible com
mentaries, but it also is full of col
lections such as the novels in foreign
languages, files of classical music,
even all Meredith annuals and rec
ords of the State Baptist Conven
tion.
Ask at the librarian’s desk for
the key to Room 3.
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Finger-Paint Sets
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Easels
In Fact, Everything for an Art Student!
Water Color Sets
Brush Sets
Water Color Pads
Draining Tables
Drawing Boards
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Leah Scarborough, Music Editor
“I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play;
And wild and sweet . . .”
Yes, I have heard the bells and
I’m sure you have. But it’s not
Christmas Day, and the bells don’t
play old familiar carols, and the
sounds are just wild—not wild and
sweet. Don’t be alarmed. It’s the
new ‘“bell system” for Jones Hall,
home of the music department. If
Meredith Teachers
Attend Convention
Dr. Claire Weight, Miss Helena
Williams, and Miss Phyllis Cunning
ham attended the State Convention
of the N. C. Association for Health,
Physical Education, and Recreation
in Chapel Hill, N. C., on Decem
ber 3 and 4. The convention began
at noon Friday with a luncheon at
the Carolina Inn for the men and
women college physical education
teachers. The Eastern North Caro
lina Board of Officials for Women’s
Sports met on Friday afternoon.
Miss Cunningham is the chairman of
this board. Besides the general meet
ings which were held at intervals
during the two-day convention, sec
tion meetings on health, dance,
therapeutics, and other varied ac
tivities proved interesting and stimu
lating to the group.
TOURNAMENTS
NOW UNDERWAY
The badminton tournament is still
underway. Everyone is urged to
play her games off right away!
Volleyball season is in full swing!
The girls who come out to play in
the gym every Tuesday, Thursday,
and Friday afternoon think it is
loads of fun. The tournament will
be played off between the dorms,
so come out now and get in practice
to help your dorm come out as the
Champ!
you think its sweet and melodious
sound is just a little like the ring of
a rustic cow bell—a large copper
cow bell—guess what! It is a cow
bell. Promptly at five minutes be
fore the end of each period you’ll
hear it ring if you are near the
building. It is unmistakable. We are
hoping that Santa Claus will hear it
ring up at the North Pole and bring
us a new bell—preferably an auto
matic one.
Have you seen the notice posted
entitled “Policies Concerning Grad
uation Recitals”? It gives a tingling
sensation at the pit of the stomach
to all the senior music majors. All
too soon we realize we will be reach
ing the point of no return. With
this in mind for the seniors and ap
plied music exams in the near future
for other music students, we are all
hard at work.
At Christmas more than at any
other time of the year, music is a
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MUSIC OF CHRISTMAS
Percy Faith & His Orchestra
All traditional carols including
Silent Night, Joy to the World,
It Came Upon the Midnight
Clear, God Rest Ye Merry
Gentlemen and many others.
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Selections from W. Chrstnor
with Bing Crosby and
Danny Kaye
New High Fidelity recording
from sound tract of movie.
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MUSIC CO.
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