1 i March 14, 1958 THE TWIG Page three Louise White LOUISE WHITE IS NEW TWIG EDITOR Louise White, newly elected edi tor of The Twig, is no stranger to Twig readers, for her special con tribution for the last year has been a very spicy and enjoyable article entitled “Lou’s Remarks.” Louise is a history major from Morehead City who has also been hall proctor for third Faircloth and secretary of the International Re lations Club. Besides being a mem ber of the Twig staff and a part of the Student Government Council, Louise belongs to the English club, sings in the church' choir, and works diligently as an assistant in the his tory department. Her future plans include—more school, for she ex pects to do graduate work after leaving Meredith. We congratulate Louise and wish her the greatest success for the com ing year. A Visit With Mr. Charles Deane By NANCY McGLAMERY When I had finally tracked him down and cornered him for an in terview, I found Mr. Charles B. Deane a quiet, humble little man, justifiably proud of his first session as president of the Meredith Board of Trustees. The board had made big plans for Meredith, and Mr. Deane was so full of them that it was difficult to get him to talk about himself, but he told me that he was born in An son County, North Carolina, the son of a tenant farmer, who moved to the textile community of Rocking ham where his son grew up. Mr. Deane is a graduate of Wake Forest College and Law School (1923). In college he be came interested in campus politics, the college library where he served as an assistant librarian, and the fascinating debates held by the col lege literary societies. In 1927 he married Agnes Cree who attended Meredith for a year, and they now have three children: the oldest daughter, Cree; Carol, who married John Becker of England and is ac tive in the presentation of idealogi- cal plays for moral disarmament; and Charles, Jr., a junior at Wake Forest. After graduation from law school, Mr. Deane became attorney for the Farmer’s Bank and Trust Co. in Rockingham and soon entered county politics upon election to the position of Registrar of Deeds for Richmond County. After eight years Mr. Deane considered retiring from politics, but his election to the U. S. House of Representatives in 1938 changed his mind. He served in Washington until 1957 and is at PALIO IS A THING OF THE PAST By ANNABEL RAY All colleges are remembered by their graduates for the customs and activities which are peculiar to their Alma Mater. A custom which Mere dith has now abandoned causes many alumnae to think occasionally of their school days here and to remember that custom, Palio. In 1935 the idea of Palio was introduced by two of the Meredith faculty. Miss Marian Warner of the Physical Education Department and Miss Ida Poteat of Art Department, who had seen the original festival in Italy. The proposal was tried under the sponsorship of the Ath letic Association and for some time was an annual event. However, in 1950 changes began to be made in the procedure for this celebration, and for the first time the event was held on the night of Founder’s Day rather than the same day as Stunt. Later, in 1952, the date was changed to the spring. In the same year of these changes there began to be murmurings from the student body against the fes tival because of the work involved in the preparation. An editorial in the Twig of 1952 prophesies “Palio will remain with us, a part of Mere dith.” She was wrong, however, fpr Palio was abandoned in 1953 by vote of the student body because of a lack of interest. ^ The original festival in yienda, Italy, was accompanied by much pageantry and spirit for it celebrated the feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin on July 2, and was associated with the founding of the city. The city was divided into can tons, each with its own banner and customs. In the religious parade the members of the cantons wore their own costumes and carried their i^^The celebration’s most important ' event was the horse race conipcwed of one entrant from each ward. 1 he contestants, accompanied by the singing, banner waving crowd rode their horses down the chapel aisle (vhere both horse and rider were blessed by the priest before the race. The canton entering the wm- ' nine horse was awarded a banner to keep for the following year. The giving of this banner gave the fes tival its name, for Palio, means ban ner in Italian. The Palio celebration at Mere dith was a modified version, but there was nevertheless, a striking parallel. The competition was among the classes which represented the cantons. The celebration began with the classes marching up the drive dressed in costume to carry out an original theme and singing one of the college songs. At the first Palio a ragged crowd of “com mon people” straggled behind to lend the suitable Italian atmosphere. The Grand Procession included the Meredith band, horseback riders, caricature heads of the faculty, class clowns, and the judges wager. The parade ended before Johnson Hall with the formation of the class numerals. The winning themes for the classes in the parade have been varied and quite original. These themes included “World Peace,” “Grandma’s Doughnut Shoppe.” “The Crew of the Meredith Vic tory,” and the class of ’45 “Set the World on Fire” with human matches. After the processional came the horse race with the representatives from each class — “not real live Dobbins, but nags composed of darling ladies stooping gleefully un der hides.” The contestants in this event were cheered on by original class yells. The classes then assembled on the steps of Johnson for the sing ing of their original song. After wMch the judging takes place. The winning class, whose numerals were awarded the Palio banner by Dr. Helen Price who began that tradi tion in 1942. The events of the afternoon were closed with the sing ing of the Alma Mater. That evening each class presented an original stunt, and the class having the highest percentage of their member participating in Palio was awarded with the reserved seats for the evening’s activities. This celebration must have added much to the class and school spirit with the whisperings, secret prac tice at 6:00 a.m., costume making and suspense as the big day ap- (Continued on page five) present concerned with the general insurance company which he estab lished in Rockingham in 1942. Mr. Deane expressed deep con cern for two phases of our national life: (1) defense, and (2) the break ing of barriers between countries, creeds, and races. In this connec tion he has travelled throughout Asia, Europe, and Africa, and re turned with many interesting stories to tell. He cites an experience con cerning a Mau-Mau detention camp as his reason for not signing the Southern Manifesto. Upon asking a Kenyan why he hated the white man, he received an unforgettable answer: “Because the white man considers himself so superior to the black man.” Mr. Deane plays golf — “Not as much as the President” ■— but at present most of his spare time is being used to prepare talks for col lege commencements and various other groups in the state. Mr. Deane has a long history of Baptist work, having served as re cording secretary for the Baptist State Convention for 26 years, as a Wake Forest trustee, and now as a Meredith trustee — the position he now considers most challenging. His eyes lit up again as he called the meeting just ended a “historic meeting” and said it was “a privilege to be a member and president at a time when Meredith is about to make the most far-reaching enlarge ment since its beginning.” ’And it was a privilege for me to talk with such an. interesting and warm hearted man as Mr. Charles B. Deane. LIBRARY RECEIVES RARE BOOKS By LYNDA EVANS A rare book is a treasure to any library. Recently our library at tained just such a mark of discrimi nation, the facsimile edition of the Lindisfarne Gospels, when Drs. John and Elizabeth James Dotterer presented it to the college in honor of her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Augustus James. The story of this manuscript be gan on Holy Island, or Lindisfarne — an island in the North Sea just off the east coast of Northumber land, England — where in 635, St. Ardan founded a church and monas tery, the first establishment of Celtic Christianity in England. About 700, Eadfrid, a Bishop of Lindesgarne copied the four Gospels in round Latin characters. A little later the manuscript was ornamented with exquisite tracery and illuminated by Ethelwald. Another Lindisfarne monk, Bilfrid, made a jewel-studded and metal cover to enclose the book. Over the Latin words, Aldred wrote the Anglo-Saxon translation about 950. Called one of the most beautiful books in the world, the manuscript “Junior Alumnae” Active on Campus . By LELA CAGLE A small but energetic club which has the reputation of getting things done is the Granddaughters’ Club. In an informal talk to the club many years ago. Miss Ida Poteat made the statement that this club has a “unique distinction” and sug gested that the phrase would be a good motto for them. The motto was adopted and has stood through the years for the unique distinction of those students having mothers or grandmothers who attended Mere dith. As a result of their close con nections with the Meredith alumnae, the “granddaughters” have-become known as “junior alumnae.” The main function of the club is to help in assisting Miss Mae Grimmer, the club sponsor and Alumnae Secre tary, with the many alumnae meet ings, seminars, and other functions. Miss Grimmer fondly calls them the “alumnae service club.” Some of the various services which the granddaughters perform are usher ing, paging, registering and even keeping a nursery for the Alum nae Seminar in April and decorating the class dolls for Commencement week end. The first introduction a new granddaughter receives is the deli cious, get - acquainted breakfast given by Miss Grimmer every faU at the Alumnae House. The real “initiation” comes when the grand daughters set to work on the Needle work Guild Drive. This drive is in co-operation with the Raleigh Needlework Guild to raise money for baby clothes to be distributed by the Raleigh Guild to needy babies. Interest in others led the club to invite “Bibi” Sporre, student from Sweden, to speak on her home en vironment and education in Sweden in contrast to American customs. Bibi made an interesting observa tion — the young people in both countries are much alike, only their customs differ. The granddaughters have also sponsored a faculty-student tea as part of the program to promote better faculty-student relations. Perhaps you wonder why the club is called the Granddaughters’ Club. The idea, as explained by Lou Win stead, president, is that Meredith is the Alma Mater or “mother Mere dith” to the girls’ mothers, making the daughters the “granddaughters” of Meredith. The officers for the year are: President, Lou Winstead; Vice- President, Pat Maynard; Secretary, Alice Jo Kelley; Treasurer, Lelia Davenport; Co-Chairmen of Nee dlework Guild, Liz Miliken and Willilou Mason. is preserved in the British Museum, and the Meredith College Library is the proud owner of one of the few editions of the Lindisfarne Gospels. Book Auction Is Successful By SUE MATZNER Meredith has a new activity which should join its time honored “tra ditions” such as Stunt, Corn Husk ing, and Playday. This new event is called a Book Auction which was sponsored by the Colton English Club and held on March 6. Sounds boring, doesn’t it? Believe me, it isn’t. Certainly seeing Dean Peacock in a garish green shirt and straw hat is far from being boring. He was there, gavel in hand, carrying on in the proper auctioneer fashion. The selling was hot and heavy — so much so that he was forced to quit at 8:00 and let Mrs. Allen of the physical education department take over. By the way, the sale went on at a feverish pitch from 7:00 to 9:00 — an hour longer than ex pected. The high spot of the evening was the financial duel between Miss Josy and Dean Fleming over T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. Dr. Rose and Miss Holland dropped out long before Miss Josey reluctantly let it go to Miss Fleming for $1.60! The book wasn’t a quarter of an inch thick and ordinarily would cost about ninety-eight cents. It was worth the extra sixty cents to see the fun. Most of the books went at a bar gain, however. Buyers went away no less pleased than the members of THANKS! The Colton English Club takes this opportunity to express pub licly their sincere appreciation of the books donated to the club for the book sale by faculty members, students, and friends of the col lege. The amount and quality of the books given exceeded our greatest expectation. Such gener osity must not be overlooked. The Fifth Column By JUANITA Our fair campus is just bursting with excitement these days. The Hunter Hall is making itself known on West Campus, and one can ob serve Mr. Belcher already running out at lunch hour and other free moments to check on his new “in fant phenomenon.” This whole new expansion pro gram is something to get excited about, but a member of the Class of ’58 considered the year 1966 and lamented that she would be 30 years old by then. “Oh, night will no see thirty again. Yet soft her wing, Miranda; Pick up your glass and tell me, then— How old is Spring, Miranda?” Ogden Nash. Incidentally, Meredith was fairly well represented at the recent Og den Nash program held in the State College Student Union, but for those of you who were not fortunate enough to hear the witty man of verse, this excerpt: He described an early stage in his career as one of C plus success — similar to that of a lady wrestler. . . . But then, Nash, famous for his play with words and ridiculous rhyme schemes, can be replaced should the necessity arise, and Dr. Rose could get the nomination. She recently told her bibliography stu dents, “Indentation is always an in dication of subordination. ...” Have you made plans for the summer? Its’ true . . . Love Impels Sacri fice Toward Every Need, I mean. Many changes have taken place at Meredith during the last four year period, and evolution has been such as that from the Dark Ages — like maybe the freshmen don’t have to be chaperoned by an upperclass man for a semester any more, and like maybe also there are many week ends to be had. BUT . . . Most colossal of all is this “do” — Sunday breakfasts are no longer served at the ungodly hour of 7:30 to 8:15, but, as you know, at the later time. The memories of trudg ing to the Sunday breakfast with the roosters will disappear with the senior class. From the department of theology: J. B. Phillips has made modern speech translations of the letters of Paul and of the Gospels. Should he prepare similar translations for the remaining books of the Bible, an appropriate title might be, “Phil lips’ 66.” Tizzy says, “I’m making progress in trigonometry — today I learned how to spell it.” Another senior has a car on cam pus. It’s a big, sort of hard to handle car of the Buick variety, and be cause of its obstinate nature has been christened “wretched gret- chen.” Editor’s Note: Even this name. Peanut, does not compare to Pea body, the Green Giant. the English Club, who found that such a money raising venture can be successful. mM Our Venerable Dean