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THE TWIG
February 15, 1957
In Appreciation
Those of us who are fortunate enough to know Dr. Elizabeth Vaughan
know that she is a most wonderful and remarkable person. We in soci
ology know her as being an inspiring professor, a devout Christian, and
as an adviser and friend—always ready to listen to the unceasing petty
problems—academic and personal—of her students.
1 have known her for only two years, but in that time she has been a
great inspiration to me. In spite of failing health, she has been an un
shaken optimist, always cheerful and always looking for and finding the
brighter .side of every situation. Her indomitable courage to keep on
remains unshaken in spite of all obstacles.
I would like to express my personal gratitude, and the gratitude of her
many friends, to a woman who has given so much of herself to Meredith,
and who has been an example to all of us. On her leave of absence from
Meredith, all of our hopes, prayers, and best wishes are with her.
Barbara Nesbitt.
MEREDITH IS IN TRANSITION
It seems to the writer that the trend in modern colleges is to put more
responsibility on the individual student for his academic role and for
his social behavior. At Meredith, too, we can see this process taking
place and most agree that it is a good thing. For when we know that what
■ we do is our own concern and our own responsibility, we can hold only-
one person accountable-—ourselves.
Meredith is in this state of transition at the present time. Rules which
have become outdated are being questioned by the student body, and
attempts at revision are being made by our leaders. To allow unlimited
class cuts for upperclassmen, to let freshment single-date, to permit
college-sponsored dances, and to have a better system of light cuts are all
movements in the direetion of making Meredith a happier place in which
a modern girl may live, study, and become a woman who has already
shown by four years of responsible living at Meredith that she is ready
to assume her role in modern society.
( BRAIN oFbRAWN?
When we came to Meredith College we were required to have not a
certain athletic ability, but a certain academic average high enough to
meet Meredith standards. The same requirements have not been carried
out in the college program. We are required to have not only a certain
amount of brain but a certain amount of brawn. One can learn certain
information for academic courses, but none can cram for a good physique.
The grade that is given, although seemingly very unimportant as com-
f pared to three-hour courses, can keep one off the eligibility or the dean’s
list. To be able to take a “sport” of one’s choosing there may be a fee of
$5 to $40; even then, one may make a very poor grade. It is our belief
that physical education should be required so that students can get away
from their studies and grades. But we do not believe that it is a sound
practice to place grades for these courses on an equal basis with grades
for academic courses. We feel that many students share our opinion.
We would like to hear other views.
Anne Howard
Betty Kellum
Eunice DuRant
F^uodoted CbSc4S(cte’FVan
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HfiPPy UfUENTINES TJBY f
SheN ANigans
By NANCY JOYNER
This griping situation on campus
is becoming pretty acute. Now
we’ve even begun to complain
about complaining. Since one of the
standard things that we fuss about
is not having enough time, I shall
attempt to alleviate that problem
by cataloging the gripes so every
body can refer to them by number,
thereby saving three-fourths of the
time usually wasted in complaining.
TE 10IX (The TE is just to
make it look more impressive —
like telephone numbers.) — THE
FOOD. This category includes
many things such as “The food is
too samey”; “There isn’t enough of
^^aqic ^^omenls
By KAY ELIZABETH JOHNSON
Prayer is not artful monologue
Of voice uplifted from the sod;
It is Love’s tender dialogue
Between the soul and God.
—John Richard Moreland.
Since the beginning of time, man
has searched for and leaned on
some being greater than himself.
Today, we still need this Superior
Being. Our means of communica
tion with God is prayer. Phillips
Brooks tells us that “Prayer, in its
simplest definition, is merely a wish
turned God-ward.” An anonymous
writer has given us this insight: “In
the morning, prayer is the key that
opens to us the treasures of God’s
mercies and blessings; in the eve
ning, it is the key that shuts us up
under His protection and safe
guard.”
John Laurence Casteel has given
us a thought-provoking book en
titled Rediscovering Prayer. Philip-
pians 2:13 is the starting point of
Casteel’s discussion. “Work out
your own salvation with fear and
trembling, for it is God which
worketh in you both to will and to
do of His good pleasure.” The con
junction of God’s initiative and
our response, says Casteel, shows
the limits, the eourse, and the well-
spring of our prayer life. The re
sources, promises, and purposes
God has for us do not free us from
the responsibility of response to
Him. Prayer is part of our response
to God. This book was written not
to make Prayer seem eomplex and
not to make it seem simple and easy
for the immature, but to show that
“prayer is essentially a eommunal
experience, in a kind of sacred
intimacy.”
.In this book inquiry has been
made into the meaning, the content
and the practice of prayer. The
rich possibilities and heroic de
mands which come when one is in
communion with God are seen. Mr.
Casteel’s closing sentence exempli
fies the quality of the whole. He
says: “The rediscovery of prayer
comes down to this: that we come
awake to our own yearning for God,
and rouse ourselves to open our
life to Him; and as we do, we dis
cover His grace there before us, al
ready working in us ‘both to will
and to do His good pleasure’.”
Hoping that you will read this
book and profit by it, I leave this
thought of Phillips Brooks, ex
pressed in his Twenty Sermons:
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray
to be stronger men! Do not pray
for tasks equal to your powers. Pray
for powers equal to your tasks.”
it”; or “I don’t like parsnips.”
TE 102X — THE FACULTY.
There are various complaints along
this line. Call out this number and
you can mean that the teacher gives
too much work, that he doesn’t un
derstand why you simply must cut
class to go to that big week end at
a foreign college, or that he is just
generally crazy.
TE 103 XXXXXXX (The fore
going is unprintable.) — RULES.
This category has so many ramifi
cations that it would be paper
consuming to go into them all.
TE 104X — EXTRACURRI
CULAR ACTIVITIES. Gripes in
this classification include such
things as S.G., B.S.U., A.A., de
partmental elubs, and men. Take
your choice.
TE 105X — THE GENERAL
ATTITUDE OF THE STUDENTS.
They complain too much. »
There, girls, is the gamut of com
plaints. Many other things can be
added but they will possibly fit into
these large groups. If everyone is
going to keep earrying on as she
has the last few weeks, perhaps it
would be wise to clip this article
and post it on your bulletin board
for easy reference. Personally, I
think it’s a lot of foolishness. After
all this rigmarole you may not be
lieve this, but / like the place.
Musical Notes
PAT GREENE
goodness
By
“Thank goodness exams are
over!” This could well be called the
“theme” of the month for all the
music students and faculty. (And
by “exams” we mean applied music
exams, not the easy kind.) Those
five or ten minutes spent before the
“jury” can be pretty exhausting, be
lieve me — pretty revealing, too!
At any rate, we have a whole new
semester before us, and a clean
slate to start with. We begin again
that sometimes grueling round of
practice, perform, practice, per
form. . . .
Most of the recitals, both junior
and senior, have been scheduled;
and we have those dates to look
forward to, both as nervous per
formers and as an attentive audi
ence. Annette Kahn’s senior piano
recital, the first of the year, was
presented last Saturday night, and
Annette did a remarkable job. Her
program consisted of selections by
Franck, Brahms-Busoni, Chopin,
and was concluded by a Kabalevsky
sonata, which was especially good.
Annette, you reeall, applied for a
Fulbright Scholarship, and is really
an outstanding pianist. Her recital
was one we will long remember.
The Chorus has again resumed
its rightful place on the stage each
Tuesday, ’Wednesday and Thurs
day afternoons at 5:00, and is cur
rently engaged in preparation of the
special music for Rehgious Em
phasis Week. Although the Chorus
is relatively small this semester.
Miss Donley has announced that a
spring tour is in the making, in ad
dition to that annual chorus con
cert to be held also in the spring.
There are still some vacant chairs
which could and ought to be filled
by some of you who can sing, and
who enjoy singing. (There is such
a thing as “auditing,” you know!)
The recital presented by the
The Green Room
By DONNIE SIMONS
One of the busiest organizations
on campus is the Playhouse. With
the spring production only about
six weeks away, tryouts and com
mittee line-ups are busily going for
ward. At a recent meeting. Play
house members voted to present
The Cradle Song, a two-act comedy
by Gregorio and Maria Martinez-
Sierra. The English version is by
John Garrett Underhill. There are
two male and eleven female roles,
plus extras. This play is no stranger
to Meredith, as it was presented by
the Meredith Little Theatre in No
vember 1941. The scene is a Span
ish convent. The Twig for October
18, 1941, gave the following syn
opsis of the play: “The story is
about a child, left at the gate of
the convent, who brings about a
great change in the lives of the
nuns, bringing to them a tenderness
unusual to those who spend their
lives as sisters. Later she grows up,
falls in love, and leaves the home
the nuns have made for her.” Those
interested in reading The Cradle
Song will find it in the library. It
is included in The Best Plays of
1926-1927.
March has been designated as In
ternational Theatre Month, and the
Meredith College Playhouse will
participate in that movement. The
dates for the spring production are
March 22-23, and the play itself
has something international to offer.
Dr. Vaughan Patient
At Walter Reed
Dr. Elizabeth Head Vaughan,
who since 1950 has served as head
of the department of sociology in
the College, is at present a patient
at Walter Reed Hospital, in Wash
ington, D. C. She has been granted
a leave of absence for this semester,
during which time Dr. Leslie
Syron, associate professor of soci
ology, will serve as acting head of
the department.
Filling the vacaney in the teach
ing staff created by Dr. Vaughan’s
illness are two professors from N. C.
State College, who will conduct one
course each at Meredith. Dr. San
ford Winston, head of the sociology
department at State, is teaching Dr.
Vaughan’s course in urban soci
ology; Dr. Elmer Johnson, associate
professor of sociology at State, is
conducting the course in crimi
nology.
music faculty last Tuesday night was
certainly a most interesting and en
joyable one, to say the least. Spon
sored by the S.A.I.’s, the program
consisted of selections by mod
em American composers. Ineluded
were a piano duet by Miss Suzanne
Axworthy and Mr. Charles Turn;
vocal selections by Mr. Edwin K.
Blanchard, accompanied by Miss
Axworthy and Mrs. Phyllis Gar-
riss; a piano selection by Miss Ax
worthy; and an organ selection by
Miss Belle Haeseler. A unique pro
gram, the selections ranged from a
somewhat sophisticated sonatina by
Kubik to an unusually “unsophisti
cated” rhumba for the organ by
Robert Elmore. We have quite a
versatile little musie faculty, we do!
They appreciate ALL types of
music (with the exception of “Pres
ley,” naturally).
The Pittsburgh Symphony was
heard by many Meredith students
Monday night, and as always this
Civic Music Concert was thor
oughly enjoyed. What an oppor
tunity to have the advantage of all
this musical culture via Civic Music
Series!
Since I can think of nothing else
“musically noteworthy,” I shall say
... but wait! There IS one other
thing! I would like to add, on be
half of all of us in the musie de
partment, that we are very happy
to have “Peanut” in our midst. We
feel sure she will be a credit to our
profession.