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Dec 14, 1956
THE TWIG
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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
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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. Barbara says, “In spite of the
bad weather, a lot of interest was
shown. Everyone had a good time
knocking each othef around.”
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rita” Lucy Ann Neblett in Street
car. No one who went could have
missed noting how much the fine
set added to the production. Also
effective were lighting and sound
effects.
Androcles Well Received
The Carolina Playmakers with
Androcles and the Lion have come
and gone. One of Shaw’s wittiest
plays, Androcles was very well
acted and produced, and well re
ceived by the audience.
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.”
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