1 2 Dec 14, 1956 THE TWIG Page three Curtains Up! English Club Spends Domestic Afternoon By EDITH JOHNSON New curtains went up in the Browsing Room and all on a Satur day afternoon. Members of the Col ton English Club gathered needle and thread and white nylon ma terial along with a record player and plenty of records in an am bitious effort to improve the sur roundings in the second Brewer social parlor, known as the Julia Hamlet Harris Browsing Room. This domestic afternoon’s numer ous diversions gave the air of a real social event. Sara Lee’s hi-fi set reverberated with all the B’s from Bach to Brahms, including Bela- fonte, the uncontested favorite of Cathy Yates. And there’s always Shakespeare when English majors get together. The contest was on (initiated by one professor Rose) to see who could remember her lines from English 53-54. One of these diversions, the “eats” ac counts for an occasional brown spot of coffee or chocolate on the new curtains. Dr. Johnson prepared a table laden with the best of Satur day' afternoon nibbles. Indeed, the cups seemed to remain full of hot tea or coffee the whole afternoon. The faculty members turned out to be, as usual, indispensable. Dr. Rose machine-hemmed the curtains with the same precision and care she exhibits in correcting a fresh man theme. Miss Holland directed the putting together of more dif ficult portions of the curtains. Dr. Knight seemed to be everywhere, hemming here, basting there. And Miss Gorsage is really a virtuoso with scissors. Current interest in developing and making use of the browsing room dates from summer school, 1956, when Ruth Putnam (presi dent of the Colton English Club), Carol Gunter, and Dr. Johnson took time to give the room a good clean ing. They added greenery- and other items to improve the looks of the room. Making these curtains was another step toward creating a pk.xsant atmosphere for reading. However, these new curtains seem to point out the dingy, frazzled rug and the awkward, paint-chipped furniture which is far from comfort able. Let’s hope these new cur tains don’t rot away before a new rug and more comfortable furni ture can be added. Nevertheless, we hope you’ll come see our handi work, and, while there, look over the collection of books and maga zines. Don’t let this opportunity to get acquainted with new books pass you by. Farris, Kipp To Serve On Student Legislature Council At the close of the Student Legis lature which met here in Raleigh November 15-17, two girls from Meredith were selected to serve on the Interim Council for next year. They are Anita Farris and Faye Kipp. Each of the twenty-three member schools of the Student Legislature have two representa tives on the council. The Interim Council will meet in the spring to plan the Student Legis lature for 1957. George Copland, a student at N. C. State, will serve as the president of the council next year. MISS FRAZIER SPEAKS TO BUSINESS CLUB On November 20, Miss Lois Frazier spoke to the Tomorrow’s Business Women’s Club on the “Op portunities of the Business World.” She told of chances in teaching, ac counting, retailing, management, and ownership of business. Helpful hints and advice on what one has to offer in applying for a job, where to work, and average salaries were offered by Miss Lazier. A.A. ROUND-UP By “PEANUT” SWINDLEI^ Basketball Well, girls, it’s here — basketball season, that is. It’s here, and, uh . . . it’s awaiting your interest. I was talk ing to it the other day — Tuesday, I think, and it told me it was feeling right nice, because such nice people had been to visit the gym. (Basket ball lives at the gym.) Every Tues day and Thursday at 5:00 basket ball comes out to play. I believe it would be a nice little thing, and that basketball would be very much happy if you would come out and . . . uh . . . play with it. I noticed when I talked to basket ball the other day that it seemed to be bouncing around unusually happy-like, so I, of course, had to ask why. Basketball explained that it had been on a trip to Wilson, North Carolina. It said it rolled out of box about 8:00 and sh^uffled on over to Atlantic Christian College for a little sport. Basketball went with six nice girls and was being very happy until something bad happened. The six girls hadn’t been down to play with basketball be fore, so the Atlantic Christian girls won the sport — by two points. The girls then entered into another game with the nice girls from East Carolina, who had lost their game to Campbell. The Campbell girls won the sport — by one point. Basketball was not sad, though. It had had a good, happy time, and it knew that soon all the nice girls would come to its house to play. Will you help make basketball a happy ... uh ... it? A. A. Awards It was a happy day in chapel when the A.A. early year awards were made. “The presentation of the hockey stick is an annual award made to the freshman who has shown the most interest and im provement in hockey during that season. The award goes to Anna Fay Jackson.” That was quite an announcement, and it made “Sandy” glad she had gone to all those practices to learn about this sport that was so new to her — hockey. Congratulations, Sandy! That same chapel period was the scene of another announcement of great importance to all students — and especially to the freshmen. Carolyn Barrington was named to represent the freshman class on the A.A. Board. This is an honor that Carolyn can be proud of. She earned the unanimous election by the A.A. Board as a result of her participation in hockey and volley ball, and because of the interest she has shown in all phases of the work done by the A.A. We con- Maynard Elected Religious Emphasis Week Chairman I i-4.' Jane Maynard Jane Maynard, a junior from Cary, North Carolina, who is 'ma joring in English, has been elected chairman of Religious Emphasis Week, which is to be held Febru ary 18-22. Jane, now Social Vice- President of the B.S.U., also be longs to the Colton English Club, the Price Latin Club, and the newly- formed Creative Writing Club. While there are many duties con nected with the position of chair man of Religious Emphasis Week, Jane’s first task is to appoint the heads of all the committees which will function during the week. She wUl also preside over the first chapel assembly during that week. The Green Room By DONNIE SIMONS “Streetcar” of Interest to Meredith Many of you no doubt saw the recent Raleigh Little Theatre of fering, A Streetcar Named Desire. Really splendid were Laura Worth, as Blanche, and Charles Kahn, as Mitch. It was with much interest that Meredith students saw “Seno- Four Meredith Girls Plan Christmas Weddings By JIMMIE RUCKER “He loves me, he loves me not” — that game is no longer necessary for at least four lucky Christmas brides from Meredith! They’ve hooked their “one and only” and are ready to tie the nuptial knot. Of course, we who are left in that awkward “unmarried” stage are fast becoming green-eyed. (Oh well, at least the color will fit in with the Christmas season!) Three of the girls with the “glow” are seniors. Marjorie Jackson, who is marrying Talmadge Wiggins, a senior at State College will be mar ried December 15 at the Mount Elam Baptist Church, near Dunn. The couple plans to live in a house- trailer on Jones Franklin Road here in Raleigh. Incidentally, they met in the college Sunday school class of Tabernacle Baptist Church. Mary Virginia Newsom and her fiance, Tal Broughton, a Sigma Phi Epilson fraternity mepiber and football player at Davidson College, will be married December 28 in the First Baptist Church of Salisbury. Theirs was a case of “love at first sight.” At the time they met, during the summer after Mary Virginia’s junior year in high school, both were going steady, but their attrac- tion for each other caused immedi ate changes to occur along the dating line! Martha Ann Roberts’ wedding to Thad Prevatte will take place on a very important and sentimental day — December 21, — for it marks the first anniversary of their be coming engaged. They will be mar ried in the First Baptist Church of Lumberton, and they plan to live in an apartment in Wilson. By the way, their hobby is collecting toy elephants — you ask Martha Ann why. Our fourth bride-elect is a junior — Molly James. She will become the wife of Conrad (Connie) Sloan, a teacher at Daniels Junior High School in Raleigh, on December 28 in Sharon Baptist Church of Chin quapin. They will make their home in Raleigh on West Lenoir Street, and they are now busily engaged in painting and making curtains for their apartment. This happy couple met at junior choir practice when Molly was thirteen and began dating when she was fourteen.. gratulate Carolyn, too. The volleyball and hockey var sities have been announced. Those on the volleyball varsity as named by manager Hazel Ayscue for this year are: Hazel Ayscue, Margie Boyles, Cathy Yates, Carolyn Bar rington, Mary Edna Grimes, Ann Hobbs, Willa Sawyer, and “Peanut” Swindler. The hockey varsity was named by manager Barbara Browning. The girls from the field of field hockey and cold noses are: Margie Boyles, Carolyn Barrington, Arma Fay Jackson, Cathy Yates, Barbara Browning, Tommie Bass, Hilda Myers, Myrl Kinkead, Ann Hobbs, Mary Edna Grimes, Sandra Stan di. 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O’Neill’s Play Is Broadway Hit The big news of the season on Broadway is that Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night has opened and is expected to have a long and very successful run. Of Long Day’s Journey, The New Yorker says the following: “Brilli antly directed by Joe Quintero, and beautifully enacted by a cast that includes Fredric March, Flor ence Eldridge, Bradford Dillman, and Jason Robards, Jr., this post humous work by Eugene O’Neill, which explores the tragedies of his youth, is as impressive a play as we’re likely to see this season.” Bosse Jewelers feotures North Carolina's outstanding Costume Jewelry Department 333 Fayetteville Street You feel so new and fresh and good—all over—when you pause for Coca-Cola. It’s sparkling with quick refreshment... and it’s so pure and wholesome—naturally friendly to your figure. Let it do things—good things—for you. CAPITAL COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.

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