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January 18, 1957
Student Teachers
Tackle Problems
THE TWIG
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“Miss Joyner, what’s this word?”
“Somebody hit me. Miss Joyner.”
A certain student teacher of the
second grade at Fred Olds School
comes wearily home to Meredith
each evening with such words still
ringing in her ears. “1 know they
all have wiggle worms and jump
ing beans for breakfast,” she says.
“The only way to keep things under
control is to read to them or keep
them very, very busy.” According
to this young teacher, though, de
spite the trials and tribulations, it’s
a wonderful experience to see the
different personalities children have
and the ways in which they react
to various situations.
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Another student teacher over at
Broughton High (she doesn’t want
her name mentioned on the grounds
that it might incriminate her), who
teaches plane geometry and busi
ness math, says her pupils don’t
say “Teacher, somebody hit me.”
They just slug back! She keeps a
wary eye out for the one who carries
a switch blade on his belt and
breathes more easily now that the
one she thought was taking dope
has straightened up. She has
several romances going great guns.
Adding these characters to the fas
cinating gossip of the teachers, she
gets a sum total of no dull mo
ments.
Miss Hiatt, who teaches history
at Daniels Junior High, has several
interesting reports on her progress.
After giving a test which a large
proportion of the class failed to
pass, she asked them to write why
they thought they had “flunked.”
One girl wrote, “I thou it was the
frish charter.” Interpreted, that
reads, “I thought it was the first
chapter.” Another of her pupils likes
Spanish because she just loves
“foreign English.”
Also at Broughton, teaching typ
ing, is Mrs. Williams, who had her
pupils type invitations. One girl
made hers an invitation to a bar.
“Now,” as Dr. Reveley would say,
“what does the teacher do in a case
like that?”
Miss Herndon is teaching home
economics at Broughton and sup
plying in the courtship and mar
riage class. She says, “In that de
partment, I should be learning, not
teaching.” She has had her embar
rassing moments, too, such as the
time the boy asked if she thought
student teachers should date stu
dents.
And so it goes — lots of “downs”
but plenty of “ups” to make it all
worth while.
THEY FIND TEACHING WORTH WHILE: In the top picture, Jackie Little
assists her second graders in learning to write. In bottom left, Mary Virginia
Broughton offers suggestions while her first graders work on a rocket and a frieze.
In the lower right. Iris Faye Sullivan teaches first grade reading. See story at left.
Brokenness and Unity
Davidson Group Studies the University
By GWEN MADDREY
0. T. Binkley Speaks
To Home Ec. Club
On January 10, 1957, the Home
Economics Club met in Wake For
est in the newly remodeled Student
Union Building of the Southeastern
Seminary with Mr. and Mrs. Ken
Thornton as host and hostess.
The Club had as its speaker Dr.
Olin T. Binkley, professor of social
ethics, whose subject was “Building
a Christian Marriage.” He stressed
the characteristics which he felt
each mate should possess in order
to live successfully with others.
There followed a question and an
swer period and a social hour.
The theme of the U.S.C.C. Con
ference was “Our United Witness
in the College and University.”
Stated more simply it was “our
brokenness and unity as Chris
tians.” In a study of brokenness on
the college campus, we delegates
felt that the conference was any
thing but broken. The planners had
made sure that as we dis
cussed racial, social, and intellec
tual brokenness on our college and
university campuses we would not
feel that our present fellowship was
disunited, for delegates included
Negroes and whites, faculty and
students, Baptists and Presbyterians
plus many other denominations,
college students from denomina
tional schools and university stu
dents from state-supported in
stitutions, North Carolinians and
Georgians, as well as many others.
This unity of the entire program of
the conference made such an im
pression on me that I would like
to give you my impressions of it.
Many camps and conferences
you and I have attended have been
termed “mountain top” experi
ences, where we were never able
after we reached home to recap
ture the spirit of the conference
when we left the camp or confer
ence grounds. It was the aim of
the Davidson Conference that it be
not a mountain top experience that
we left at Davidson, but that it be
so close to our own campus situa
tions that we might take with us
back to Meredith or Carolina the
spirit of the conference. The con
ference was unique in that it was
not a series of platform addresses
like we hear at our State B.S.U.
Conventions; rather we had one
platform address per day and then
after individual study, wrestled with
ideas presented. Therefore the in
formation was not just something
we heard from Dr. Beach but be-
The Club met in December at the
home of Mrs. Mary Farrior Baker
and her two sisters, the Misses Far
rior, alumnae of Meredith. The
topic of the meeting was the North
Carolina crafts with a demonstra
tion of the making of ceramics. Es
pecially impressive were the display
of Christmas articles and the serv
ing of punch and candies from
Santa Claus dishes.
Also, the home economics girls
were asked by the Lions Club of
Raleigh to make wardrobes for dolls
to be given to underprivileged chil
dren. They were on display during
the science fair.
came ours.
There was unity in the whole
program of the conference in that
each phase of the daily program
attempted to show our brokenness
and disunity as Christian students.
Our individual brokenness from
God was surplanted by unity when
on New Year’s Eve more than three
hundred students knelt in the audi
torium of Davidson College and re
newed our covenant as Christians
with our Maker. Submitting our-
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World in Revolution
selves to Him we prayed, “I am no
longer my own, but thine, put me
to what thou wilt, rank me with
whom thou wilt; put me doing, put
me to suffering; let me be em
ployed for thee or laid aside for
thee, exalted for thee or brought
low for thee; let me be fuU, let
me be empty; let me have all things,
let me have nothing; I freely and
heartily yield all things to thy pleas
ure and disposal.”
In Bible study groups we at
tempted to discover the broken--
ness and unity of the early Chris
tian Church in the New Testament.
We looked at the brokenness and
unity of the apostles of Christ.
Mark points out how the apostles
troubled Christ to find out who
would have the greatest place in
His Kingdom. The brokenness and
unity of the Church was shown in
the Acts. We see brokenness in the
Church when the Jewish Christians
rebuked Peter for visiting and eat
ing with Cornelius, a gentile. Paul
described the brokenness of the
Church at Corinth whose members
quarrelled over whether the speak
ing in tongues was a gift of more
or less prestige than other gifts of
the spirit. Paul explained that for
the health of the whole Body of
Christ, the Church, each part and
each talent is essential. The broken-
nes's and unity found in the early
Church we applied to the fellow
ship of students who call themselves
Christians on the college campus.
The platform addresses by Dr.
Waldo Beach of Duke Divinity
School confronted our disunity.
“The Christian Student in a
World of Crisis” was the theme of
the quadrennial conference of
Southern Baptist college students.
Culbert Rutenber, well-known theo
logian, set the pace in his keynote
address. As he interpreted the
theme he gave us a picture of the
world in revolution. He ably com
pared Communism to Christianity,
saying that the world is threatened
with a malignant growth that could
undermine the Christian pattern of
living. Throughout the conference
the impressive array of speakers
elaborated on the responsibility of
our generation to confront the ma
terialistic threats in our world. The
congress inspired the 2,360 students
to think through these issues.
Besides that, we had fun! Two
jam-packed busses bearing the
North Carolina delegation roared
into Nashville proudly emblazoned
with our signature on the sides. We
toured the Sunday School building,
one of Nashville’s most modern and
lovely buildings. Everyone rushed
to see the gigantic nativity scene.
One Saturday night some of our
number slipped away from the
meeting to see Nashville’s highlight
— the “Grand Ole’ Uproar.” (I
went to the meeting. Couldn’t get
a ticket.) On the return trip we
made a leisurely stop at the Hermit
age, home of Andrew Jackson. With
the linspiring messages and discus
sions and the downright fun of the
trip, it was hailed by all as an out
standing success.
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Day Student News
By BECKY SURLES
Many of the married students
went to their parents’ homes for
the holidays. Among these were
Norma Riffe, who went to West
Virginia; Nannette Ryan, to Vir
ginia; Bobbie Ann Brown, to Gas
tonia, North Carolina; Eunice
Leird, to South Carolina; and Lynn
Davis, to Sanford, North Carolina.
Faye Kipp went to Chicago to visit
her future in-laws.
From the threshold of Meredith
College have come many outstand
ing and well-known alumnae. This
column is devoted to the recogni
tion of a few of the women who
have entered the field of writing.
Mrs. Harriet Herring, a 1913 gradu
ate of Meredith and the aunt of
one of this year’s freshmen, Harriet
Herring, has been for many years
a professor in the department of
social science at the University of
North Carolina. She has written
several studies in the field of soci
ology, one of her books being Pass
ing of Mill Village.
Of national acclaim is Mrs. Ber
nice Kelly Harris, also a 1913 gradu
ate and aunt of sophomore Alice
Kelly. Mrs. Kelly was the first
woman in North Carolina to be
awarded the Mayflower Award
wjiich she received in 1939 for her
book Purslane. Other works by this
outstanding Meredith alumna are
Portulaca, Sage Quarter, and Wild
Cherry Tree Road.
Dr. Mary Lynch Johnson gradu
ated from Meredith in 1907 and
began writing books and pamphlets
on religious subjects. These have
been used extensively for study
groups in the Woman’s Mission
ary Union.
Edith Taylor Earnshaw is another
outstanding alumna of Meredith
College. Since-'her graduation in
1905, Mrs. Earnshaw has achieved
renown in the field of poetry. On
looking in the News and Observer,
one can often find poems on every
day subjects which are examples of
her extraordinary expression of
thought.
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