1
I '
I
. i
October 4, 1957
THE TWIG
Page three
Behind the Scenes
WE RECOGNIZE HAZEL WIGGINS
to
girl
'a*.
Hazel Wiggins
-o Behind the Scenes is proud
I present another outstanding
on the Meredith campus. In this
issue we went behind the scene and
selected Hazel Wiggins. Hazel is a
,Junior day student at Meredith this
year. She is active in many ex
tracurricular activities, mainly the
Baptist Student Union. Another im
portant phase of Hazel’s activities
is her church work at Tabernacle
Baptist Church. She is always on
hand to do anything that needs to
I be done . . . making posters, helping
with programs, teaching Sunday
school. In going behind die scene,
we found how much Hazel is ad
mired by her fellow student^. As
one of the«girls so aptly put it,
“She is one of the finest and most
dependable girls 1 know.” Meredith
should be proud to have Hazel
Wiggins as one of its students.
.Vot a Big Hut, but . • .
THE LITTLE HUT
is that
gusher
gonna
HAVE VARIED
SEMMER JOBS
“When
gush?!”
This is just one of the many ques
tions that Nancy Wallace encoun
tered in her summer work at Yel
lowstone National Park. By the way,
the dude (cowboy talk for tourist)
was referring to the geyser “Old
Faithful.”
Nancy worked at a picture shop
which is connected with the park.
Jobs as waitresses, porters, and bus
drivers were filled by 2,000 college
students this summer. (The student
employees are referred to as “sav
ages!”) Some of the things Nancy
enjoyed most during her stay out
West were her trip to Cody, home
of Buffalo Bill; an excursion to
Jackson, Wyoming, where “Shane
was filmed; and a stagecoach ride to
Boot Hill. (It seems'the stagecoach
riders were serenaded with “Dixie
coming home.) Nancy could tell
all The Twig readers some inter
esting stories about N. C. grits,
“rotten loggen,” and a song about
a “pink pot.”
Several of the Meredith girls
traveled away from home this sum
mer and worked as counselors at
camps. Helen Carlton and Carolyn
Barrington went way up North to
Camp Farweil, Vermont. This girls’
camp is nestled in the mountains
near the Connecticut River. Helen
had as one of her seven campers
young Puerto Rican girl who could
not speak English, but during the
eight weeks of camp she became a
real chatter-box!
Sapphire Valley Inn in the heart
of the North Carolina mountains
claimed Lela Cagle for the sum
mer months. She worked as a wait
ress and in her spare time enjoyed
Lake Sapphire, the bank of which is
flecked with pebbles containing little
sapphires.
Back up North again we find that
Joyce Skillman and Marcia Allen
worked as waitresses in the Hot
Shoppe Restaurant in Washington,
D. C. They lived in an apartment
in Alexandria, Virginia. Shopping
" and sight-seeing in Washington
claimed their leisure time.
Sally Newton worked as a labora
tory technician in Newport Hospi
tal, Newport, Rhode Island. She
worked with medical students of al’
races, nationalities, and religions.
An Austrian girl, who was employed
in the hospital, was her roommate
for the summer.
Some Meredith girls spent their
summer working with Bible schools
Sara Fagan spent nine weeks teach
ing Bible schools in rural mountain
sections of Southwestern Virginia
She did this work in connection with
the Home Mission Board in Atlanta
Georgia.
Ann Allred worked for the Bap
tist State Mission Board and taught
eight weeks of two vacation Bible
schools daily. She, in her traveling
had the opportunity to spend some
time with mountain families anc
thus had a chance to get to know
the people and their problems. She
even learned to milk cows'
Mrs. Vera Tart Marsh, registrar,
released on June 10, 1957, the
Dean’s List, effective for the fail
semester of this year. As the cata
logue states, a student must be regis
tered for at least twelve hours and
complete and pass all courses with
number of quality points equal
to twice the semester hours taken
plus three to be eligible for this
honor. During the past semester the
scholastic record of eighty-one stu
dents enabled them to make the
Dean’s List.
They are as follows; Julia Isa
dora Abernathy, Marcia Jeannine
Allen, Patty Swann Boyer, Marjorie
Ann Boyles, Mary Ann Braswell,
Mary Ann Brown, Dorothy Eileen
Browne, Barbara Jordan Browning,
Dorothy Elaine Burleson, Johnsie
Diehl Choate, Mildred Lee Clay
ton, Eliza Lee Culberson Cocke,
Ellen Harriet Conley, Carol Phillips
Cooke, Margaret Leigh Creech,
Glenda Jane Eddins, Carolyn Vir
ginia Edwards, Donna Anne El
lington, Lynda Ann Evans, Belinda
Jane Foy, Clara Wright Frazier,
Thelma Joanne Gibson, Emily
Ann
Dean’s List
Announced
No, dear freshmen, you’re not just
seeing things. There really is a log
cabin behind the auditorium, and
it’s not Abraham Lincoln’s either.
It is yours (No, you can’t move in)
for you and your friends to enjoy.
Take a look around now. After
you’ve crossed the lawn and entered
the hut via a rough-hewn stone step,
you’ll realize how lucky we are to
have such a place on our campus.
Charmingly rustic, the living
room is equipped with a large stone
fireplace at each end. Decorated
with student work and hung with
college pennants, they can have the
warmest, cheeriest fires ever.
Pennants also enliven the cart
wheel chandelier that is the main
source of light in the log-lined room.
On the walls are interesting prints
and paintings, both copies of mas
ter works and some by our own
people.
Appropriately styled furniture
can be arranged to suit the needs
of the group, with either television
or fireplaces as centers of attrac
tion.
Passing through the hall, one
comes to the smaller room. This,
too, has a rustic stone fireplace and>
is decorated with some student work.
1 recall in particular a mural of
dancers in pastel shades. In here are
The Fifth Column
Anne Gilbert, Joy Alice Goldsmith
Grealish, | Betsy
Sammy Jeanne
Carol Greene, Marilyn Letitia
Greene, Mary Edna Grimes.
Lois Elizabeth Haigh, Patricia
Ellen Harris, Nancy Carolynne Har
well, Joyce Wilson Herndon, Joyce
Marie Herring, Marcia Dewey Hor-
rell, Clara Lucille Hudson, Nancy
Spruill Hunter, Suzanne Hunter,
Penelope Rae Hutchison, Barbara
Sue Johnson, Patricia Ann Johnson,
Dotty L. Phillips Jones, Lula Mae
Jones, Shirley Ann Jones, Nancy
Carol Joyner, Caroline Garrett
Kelley, Katherine Chungho King,
Mildred Rebecca Knight, Betsy
Carole Lane, Jacqueline Lewis,
Mary Slessor Long, Eleanore
Jeanine McGee, Edna Gwendolyn
Maddrey, Amanda Jane Maynard,
Bobbie Artis Meeks, Mary Margaret
Morgan, Vivian Yvonne Morris,
Margaret Gertrude Mott.
Sally Stephana Newton, Wilma
Grace Owens, Geraldine Ruth Par
ham, Margaret Lucy Paris, Lois Lee
Pond,. Glenda Annette Pressley
Gladys Ann Rozier, Jimmie Irene
Rucker, Harriette Ann Seals, Jo
Ann Selley, Joyce Williams Skill
man, Barbara Elizabeth Smith, Zi-
grida Smith, Jane Shelton Stem-
bridge, Anne Louise Thomas, Lois
Peedin Thompson, Rachel Juanita
Watkins, Bertha Bell Weston, Ruth
Carole Whedbee, Marjorie Jackson
Wiggins, Gloria Cox Williams,
Peggy Anne Yancey, Nancy Morgan
Young, Ruth Allers Young.
who also conducted a vacation
Bible school at the Negro church of
her hometown, can give you many
reasons why this was particularly
beneficial to her own education anc
growth.
If such a sampling is indicative,
Meredith “Angels” had busy anc
varied vacations.
folding card tables and, I believe,
ping-pong equipment. Lamps and
couches complete the furnishings.
The kitchen, roomy and well-
equipped, lends itself well to serv
ing either a small or good-sized
gathering. It has both an electric
stove and a refrigerator, not to men
tion kitchen utensils.
But now the fires and fireplaces
of the hut can be used to add at
mosphere only! The College has re
cently let a contract for the installa
tion of a heating system. It will be
a forced warm-air type ^stem and
will be heated by fuel oil. Installa
tion should be completed by the
middle of October.
Later on in the year — soon, I
hope — hostesses will be provided
to keep the hut open for you and
your date. Arrangements may be
made with the dean of students to
reserve it for parties, dates, and
club meetings. Using this cabin is
a privilege and to keep that privi
lege each one of us must do his
part by carrying out the regulations
as stated in the Student Handbook.
As you can see, the hut is a fine
place to visit on the campus. Take
advantage this year of the variety
of entertainment it has in store. See
you there.
“The world is so full of a number
of things,
I’m sure that we all should be happy
as kings.”
Robert L. Stevenson.
Amid the many crises of school
and nation, a major problem has
manifested itself — how do one-
engined planes get back from
Europe against those heavy winds?
Suggested: they go around the
world.
Seen around Joyner Hall—upper
classmen looking wildly around for
classrooms, while the “inexperi
enced” freshmen, having consulted
the chart of rooms, breeze easily
to their classes. Lesson; Think.
If you have a few hours to spare,
find out about another interesting
3art of the world from two roving
editors — Jane Stembridge or
Nancy Joyner.
What is it about uninhibited peo
ple that is so galling and about in-
libited people that is so unnatural?
Could it be their ways?
mEREDITU ALEMNA’S
PLAY OY TV
An adaptation of Bernice Kelly
Harris’s novel. Hearthstone, was the
September 26 color production of
Matinee Theatre, the daily NBC-
TV dramatic program presented live
from New York. Mrs. Harris, a
Wake County native and a Meredith
graduate, first published the story
in Collier’s as “Yellow Color Suit”
and later expanded it into the novel
published by Doubleday.
The play, “Yellow Color Suit,”
written for production by the
B.S.U. Retreat
Proves Success
Despite Mud
was
Woman’s Club of Seaboard and was
given in Seaboard. The original cast,
again under the direction of Mr.
George W. Harris, presented the
play by request at the 1956 Caro
lina Drama Festival at Chapel Hill.
Scouted for television at the Drama
Festival, Hearthstone has its set
ting in North Carolina in the fall of
1941 and is the absorbing story of
an army deserter who must fight
within himself before he can fight
for his country and the people he
comes to love.
CURTAIN CALL
m
By SUSAN MOSS
Meredith students are fortunate
having the opportunity to see
professional plays at bargain prices
here at the Raleigh Little Theatre.
The first production will be the
Broadway hit. Pajama Game, be
ginning October 21 and running
a week. This is the first musical
the RLT has attempted and, if one
may judge by past productions, it’s
sure to be a delightful evening’s
entertainment for all.
The movie Pajama Game be
gins a run at the Colony Theatre
here Sunday. Time says it’s a
“bouncy and bawdy musical about
congenial labor-management strife
in a Dubuque nightwear factory,
even better than the stage hit.”
There are many of the original
Broadway cast in the movie and
plenty of the popular tunes, such
as “Hey There” and “Hernando’s
Hide-away.” Doris Day and John
Raitt head the splendid cast, which
includes Carol Haney and Eddie
Foy, Jr.
It will be interesting to see the
movie and then attend the Little
Theatre production. You’ll be
pleased by the excellence with which
the local version compares with the
Warner Brothers’ spectacular. See
Margaret Paris for a season ticket
to the Raleigh Little Theatre and a
season of fine theatre entertainment.
Eighteen members of the Baptist
Student Union council and their ad
viser. Dr. Maxine Garner, took to
the woods on September 9 for their
annual pre-school retreat, held this
year at Camp Kanata, the YMCA
boys’ camp near Durham.
A bit of difficulty was encoun
tered along the way when a muddy
hill on the road to the camp caused
two of the cars driven by the bravest
drivers this side of Indianapolis to
slip and slide perilously and barely
make i,t to the top in safety. The
other two drivers were less coura
geous, and Miss Garner turned
around and went in search of
man.” The man came to the rescue
but not before a school bus full of
squirming children and three or four
other cars had joined the caravan at
the bottom of the hill. A half an
hour later, by another road, four
carloads of muddy and bedragglec
BSU'ers arrived at Camp Kanata
to begin plans for the school year
After a good supper (except for
the lukewarm tea), things got un
der way as each council member re
ported on her summer and her plans
for the year. Next morning the
council got down to details, and be
tween thunder showers, guests be
gan to arrive to take their parts on
the program. The Reverend James
Potter, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist
Church and pastor adviser to the
BSU council, and Mr. Hal Shoe
maker, educational director and
minister of music at Tabernacle,
came to speak and to sing respec
tively. In the afternoon Mr. Harolc
Cole, new state BSU secretary, and
Jim Powell, president of the state
BSU, came to speak about state
wide BSU activities for the coming
school year.
Wednesday, September 11, it was
time to turn all eyes on Meredith
and a new school year. Beginning
with Orientation Week there were
many busy moments ahead, and the
council had to bid farewell to Camp
Kanata, but it took with it the plans
and the goals and the spiritual revi
talization it had gained there.
“If you can keep your head when
all about you are losing theirs . .
you just don’t understand the situa
tion.
Hearsay: Our professors should
not resent being laughed at by the
students. In Moscow one doesn’t
hesitate to hang the professor —
with a red bandana. I’ve heard.
Overheard; Freshman complain
ing of homework over the week end.
Here’s one approach: One girl
going SAI instead of Phi or Astro
- good idea, but it’s not quite so
easy.
Red-headed sophomore said she
didn’t take Asian flu vaccine —
would rather have the real thing.
A philosophical day student has
this suggestion for life: “When you
walk through the jungle, look out
for the animals.” A musing profes
sor, rather instructor, adds that one
might also remember — “When you
walk through a church, look out for
the congregation.”
Some of the upperclassmen who
spend innumerable hours in the li
brary are echoing the puzzlement
of Dr. Rose’s seven-year-old friend
who wondered—“Who ever thought
up this reading business any way?”
Think patiently: We fought about
dancing. . . . What are we doing
about integration?
G R E EXAM
DATES DISCLOSED
If you feel dog tired at night
maybe it’s because you growled all
day.
The Graduate Record Exami
nations, required of applicants for
admission to a number of graduate
schools, will be administered at
examination centers throughout the
country four times in the coming
year, Educational Testing Service
has announced. During 1956-57
more than 12,000 students took the
GRE in partial fulfillment of ad
mission requirements of graduate
schools which prescribed it.
This fall candidates may take the
GRE on Saturday, November 16. In
1958, the dates are January 18,
April 26, and July 12. ETS ad
vises each applicant to inquire of
the graduate school of his choice
which of the examinations he should
take and on which dates. Appli
cants for graduate school fellow
ships should ordinarily take the
designated examinations in the fall
administration.
The GRE tests offered in these
nationwide programs include a test
of general scholastic ability and ad
vance level tests of achievement in
sixteen different subject matter
fields. According to ETS, candi
dates are permitted to take the Ap
titude Test and/or one of the Ad
vanced Tests.