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Volume XXIX
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1955
No. 5
Annual Institute of Religion
Begins Series Monday Night
Exams Loom; Six to Graduate
On Monday evening, January 24,
at 8:00 p.m., the annual Institute
of Religion, sponsored by the
United Church ck Raleigh, will be
gin its 16th year. For six successive
Monday nights well-known person
alities from a cross-section of pub
lic life will speak in connection with
the theme, “Barriers to Freedom.
The first of these speakers will be
Dr. Willard E. Goslin of George
Peabody College for Teachers in
Nashville, Tennessee. In this open
ing session Goslin, who is an out
standing figure in education, an ac
tive churchman and the former
president of the American Associa
tion of School Administrators, will
speak on the 1955 theme of the
Institute, “Barriers to Freedom.”
On the following Monday, Jan
uary 31, the Rev. A. Powell Davies,
minister at the All Souls’ Church,
Unitarian, in Washington, D. C.,
will discuss “For Many People Are
Afraid.” Dr. Davies, known as an
author, lecturer and clergyman, was
recently noted by Drew Pearson for
his position as a promoter of toler
ance and free speech.
Harrison Salisbury, who has re
cently returned from five years in
Moscow as the New York Times
correspondent in the Soviet Union,
will speak on the subject, “Is Free
dom Possible in Russia?” on Mon
day, February 7. His book Russia
Re-Viewed, appeared in condensed
form in the December issue of the
Reader’s Digest.
On February 14, those attending
the Institute will hear Dr. Sherwood
Eddy discuss “Our Atomic World.”
A leader in Y.M.C.A. work and
other religious organizations. Dr.
Eddy has spent much of his life in
travel and work in the East and
draws from much experience in his
analysis of international problems.
Rev. Allyn P. Robinson, former
pastor of the United Church and the
person most instrumental in estab
lishing the Institute of Religion, will
speak on February 21 on “Religion
—Barrier or Bulwark of Freedom?”
He is currently associated with the
National Conference of Christians
and Jews as the Director of the Com
mission on Religious Organizations.
The final session of the 1955
Institute will be addressed by
Drew Pearson, noted writer of the
column “Washington Merry-Go-
Round.” His subject will be “Break
ing Down the Barriers.”
Preceding each of these eight
o’clock meetings will be an hour of
study and discussion which will be
directed by competent local lead
ers. Three classes will be taught at
seven each Monday night and are
open to public free of charge. The
classes offered this year include
“Spiritual Growth in the Home,” di
rected by Hattie Parrott who was
previously with the State Depart
ment of Public Instruction; “Family
Life Around the World,” under the
leadership of Mrs. Roy Anderson
of the International Relations De
partment of the Raleigh Woman’s
Club; and “Segregated Education
As Seen Within Perspectives of His
tory, Law and Ethics,” led by Dr.
Edwin McNeil Poteat and the Rev.
Charles H. Jones.
A Fellowship Dinner prepared by
the women of the United Church
will be served each Monday night
at 6:00 o’clock in the church base
ment. Reservations may be made by
’phoning the church and must be in
before one o’clock each Monday.
Three of the graduating seniors look happily toward the future. They are Ann
Hamrick, Gerry Vaughn, and Carolyn Plowman. Absent when the picture was
made are Clara Bunn, Bobbye Teachey, and Rebekah Way.
O’Steen Presents
Piano Recital
On Tuesday evening, January
11, 1955, at 8:00, in the Mere
dith College auditorium Mr. John
O’Steen presented a program of
piano music. His selections included
“Suite Francaise,” by Poulenc;
“Variations and Fugue on a
Theme,” by Handel; Op. 24 by
Brahms. After a short intermission
the audience enjoyed his rendition
of “Ballade in F Minor,” Op. 52,
by Chopin and “Sonata No. 3,” Op.
46,” by Kabalevol^.
Mr. O’Steen received his A.B. at
the University of North Carolina
and his M.Mus. at the University
of Indiana. He joined the faculty
of Meredith Coolege in 1953.
Contests Announced
By Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle has recently an
nounced two of its annual contests
— the College Fiction Contest anc
the Art Contest, which are designed
to discover and recognize new
talent in these two fields. Any col
lege student under twenty-six may
enter the contests, and the two win
ners of each contest will receive
$500 each for the publication of
their work. Honorable mention will
be given to the runners-up. An
nouncements of the results of the
contest will be made in the August
1955 issue. For further information,
see the editor.
Religious Emphasis Week Planned
Rev. Randolph Gregory of the
First Baptist Church, Wilmington;
Dr. Norfleet Gardner of the First
Baptist Church, Laurinburg; and
Miss Anne Queen, college secretary
for the .American Friends Service
Committee with offices in Greens
boro, will arrive at Meredith on
Monday morning, February 14, for
the 1955 Religious Emphasis Week.
President Carlyle Campbell and
June Vann, student chairman of
the week, will be in charge of the
opening chapel service. The three
visiting speakers will be introduced
at that time.
Chapel services and evening serv
ices of worship in the auditorium
will continue throughout the week.
Special music will be provided by
Miss Beatrice Donley and the Col
lege Chorus. A special chapel serv
ice on Friday morning, February 19,
at which Mrs. Mary Ellen Wooten
Garrett, Baptist missionary to Ni
geria, will speak, will close the for
mal services of this period of
emphasis.
June Vann and Shirley McLean,
B.S.U. president, student members
of the steering committee, empha
size that personal conferences with
the speakers are not for students
“afflicted with some oppressive bur
den” alone. “Any girl who would
like an opportunity to talk infor
mally with these helpful and ma
ture visitors may do so by making
arrangements with Virginia Morris,
chairman of conferences,” June
points out. “To sign early for a half-
hour or so with the speaker of your
preference is to help the purpose of
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Rev. Randolph Gregory
Dr. Norfleet Gardner
Miss Anne Qneen
these scheduled days benefit the
whole student body.” Speakers will
appear in classes as they are in
vited by members of the faculty.
“We Have This Ministry,” B.S.U.
theme for the year, has been se
lected as theme for the week. Each
of the three team members will meet
in a daily discussion group with in
terested students. It is hoped that
each student will participate regu
larly in one of these seminars.
Both Mr. Gregory and Dr. Gard
ner are natives of Virginia. Mr.
Gregory has studied at the Virginia
Military Institute where he was
graduated in civil engineering and
won letters in football and basket
ball; at Crozer Seminary in Penn
sylvania; and at the University of
Pennsylvania. He has done consid
erable advanced study in clinical
training for a counseling ministry.
Dr. Gardner holds degrees from
the University of Richmond, the
Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary and the University of Chicago.
His work has been a teaching min
istry, including some years as pro
fessor of Bible at Campbell College.
In 1951 he was member of a
preaching mission to Japan and has
had a hfelong active interest in
Christian missions.
Miss Queen, native of Canton in
this state, has studied at Berea Col
lege and the W.M.U. Training
School in Louisville and holds the
Meredith College Library
Raleigh, N. C.
Bachelor of Divinity degree from
the Yale Divinity School. For three
years she was assistant chaplain at
the University of Georgia. She has
directed workcamps for the Friends
in Mexico. Her deep interest in ra
cial and economic justice, her ex
perience in youth projects imple
menting Christian motives and her
unusual gift of rapport with think
ing students combine to make her
especially effective in college pro
grams of this kind.
Mrs. Garrett, wife of Marvin
Garrett of Nigeria and Wake For
est, who is to speak in chapel Fri
day,, comes to Meredith by courtesy
of the state Woman’s Missionary
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None of us are looking forward
to exams; but the six seniors who
are taking them for the last time
can look forward to their gradua
tion which follows immediately.
These six seniors are Clara Bunn,
a chemistry major from Raleigh;
Gerry Brown Vaughan, a religion
major from Fort Mill, South Caro
lina; Ann Hamrick, an education
major from Boiling Springs; Becky
Upchurch Way, an education major
from Raleigh; Bobbye Teachey, an
education major from Rose Hill;
and Caroline Wood Plowman, a
home economics major from Troy.
Winter graduation this year is on
Saturday, January 29. The exer
cises begin at 10:30 a.m. in the
small auditorium, with Dr. Carlyle
Campbell delivering the address
and presenting the graduates with
their diplomas.
Dr. Cooper will be at the organ
and will also arrange special music
for the graduation service.
Recital Given By
LeahScarborough
Miss Leah Scarborough of Mt.
Gilead, N. C., was presented in a
graduation recital on Friday even
ing, January 14, in Jones Audi
torium. The recital, a partial ful
fillment of the requirements for the
degree of Batchelor of Arts with a
majo^r in piano, was well executed
and included such familiar numbers
as “Prelude and Fugue in B flat
Major,” by Bach and March from
Love of the Three Oranges, by
Prokofieff. ^
Leah, an outstanding senior at
Meredith, is a student of Stuart
Pratt, head of the department of
piano. She has been a member of
the chorus, treasurer of Sigma
Alpha Iota, music editor for the
Twig and vice-president of Kappa
Nu Sigma. She has also been on
the Dean’s List since entering
Meredith.
Leah plans to enter the teaching
profession after graduation this
spring.
STUDYING DAYS
UNTIL EXAMS
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Joyner and Tippett
Win ‘Acorn’ Contest
Nancy Joyner and Betsy Tippett
were winners of a short story con
test sponsored by the Acorn. Nancy
Joyner, a freshman and an English
major, won the first prize of $10
with her story “Three Against Aunt
Susan.” Betsy Tippett received a $5
prize for “A Woman’s Intuition.”
Betsy, a transfer from Auburn, Ala
bama, is majoring in sociology.
Each entrant of the contest was
required to begin her story with the
sentences, “Well, after all these
years I’ve finally done it!” “Done
what, Susan?”
The judges of the contest were
Dr. Tilley, Dr. Gardner and Miss
Holland.