WELCOME
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WELCOME
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Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Volume XXXII
MEREDITH COLLEGE,.RALEIGH, N. C., MAY 2, 1958
No. 9
GUESTS ARRIVE
FOR WEEKEND
Martha Fasal To Be Crowned May Queen
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Over 100 prospective Meredith
students will be visiting the campus
Hospitality Week-end, May 3 and 4.
The various planning committees
have done diligent work to make
the week end an enjoyable experi
ence for these visitors. It is the first
official opportunity for the girls to
meet Meredith, its students, and its
faculty.
Registration will be from 9:00
until 12:00 Saturday morning.
May 3. Events scheduled are the
Horse Show at 12:30 and the crown
ing of the Queen at 4:00. Satur
day night there will be an inforrnal
party in the hut. The two societies
will provide the entertainment; the
A.A. will be responsible ' for the
decorations; the B.S.U. will furnish
refreshments; and the S.G. will
serve as hostesses. The girls will
leave Sunday afternoon after at
tending church in Raleigh with their
hostesses.
Remodeling Plans
Are Announced
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In accordance with the general
program of improving campus fa
cilities, the executive committee of
the Board of Trustees has au
thorized certain remodeling, per
haps to be done during the sum
mer, of the first floor of Johnson
Hall. This work will complete the
project begun two years ago with
the removal of the steps to the li
brary floor and their subsequent re-
piac.ement with the ground floor
front entrance.
The rotunda is to be floored oyer
and used as a lobby or reception
room for visitors entering the build
ing. An additional room will be
added to the business office, and a
vault for the storage of financial
records will be built; the registrar’s
office will also receive a vault for
its permanent records. The bank
window is to be transferred to the
hall running lengthwise through the
building and it will be in an outer
alcove of the business office, in
stead of opening directly into the
haU as it now does.
The Dean of Students offices will
be moved from their present loca
tion on first Vann to this more cen
tralized position. Telephone and in
formation service, a modification of
the present switchboard system, will
also be located here.
Plans are being developed to
move the post office to the Bee
Hive building, after certain addi
tions and changes have been made
there. The space left in Johnson
Hall by this move would then
be used for Mr. Deyton, Director
of Public Relations (whose office
is now in Joyner Hall); Miss Josey;
and the News Bureau (now located
on the lower floor of Jones Audi
torium). This arrangement would
place all the administration offices
in Johnson Hall.
Betsy Lane Will Be
Maid of Honor
May Queen and Court
COLLEGE VISITATION DAY
HELD AT MEREDITH
College-.Visitation Day, sponsored
by the Council on Christian Educa
tion of the Baptist, State Conven
tion, was held at Meredith College
on -Tuesday, April 24. The purpose
of the meeting was to discuss the
Baptist colleges in the state as in
stitutions of Christian education. Be
ginning this year, the Council on
Christian Education plans to hold
one such meeting e.very year at each
of the seven Baptist colleges in
North Carolina.
The program for the Meredith
College Visitation Day was open to
the public. Especially invited were
alumnae and friends of the Col
lege, particularly'those from Wake
and surrounding counties.
The Reverend James S. Potter
Faculty Mahes News
Senior Art Exhibit
Is Now On Display
Melba Virginia Burgess and Pa
tricia Gail Barnes, Meredith’s two
senior art majors, now have their
graduation exhibit on display in the
art gallery in Joyner Hall. The ex
hibit, which will be up until May 10,
began with an informal opening on
Tuesday afternoon, April 29.
Melba’s portion of the exhibit is
devoted entirely to fine arts. She
has paintings in oils and caseins
as well as several pen and ink draw
ings. Patricia is showing commercial
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gave the devotional which was fol
lowed by a welcome to the visitors
and an introductory talk by Dr.
Carlyle Campbell, President of
Meredith College. The report from
Meredith was given by Mr. Rob
ert G. Deyton, vice-president of the
college; Mrs. William M. Watts,
president of the Alumnae Associa
tion; Dr. Ralph E. McLain, head of
the Department of Religion; and
Miss Inez Kindrick, president of the
student body. The Meredith Ensem
ble presented the special music for
the meeting.
The other six Baptist colleges also
presented reports. Speaking for
Campbell College was Dr. Leslie H.
Campbell; for Chowan College,
Bruce Whitaker; for Gardner-Webb
College, P. E. EUiott; for Mars HiU
College, Hoyt Blackwell; for Win
gate College, Budd E. Smith; and
for Wake Forest College, C. Syl
vester Green. Claude Gaddy of Ra
leigh announced Christian Educa
tion Day to be observed by the
Baptist colleges on June 15, 1958.
After the various speeches, there
was a general discussion. The meet
ing was followed by lunch in the
Meredith College Dining Hall.
Dr. Sarah Lemmon has recently
been chosen as Pilot of the Year
for North Carolina by the Pilot
Club, a civic organization. Dr. Lem
mon was chosen for her outstanding
work in organizing new Pilot clubs
and planning committee work for
all of the clubs. This summer she
will attend the international meet
ing in Philadelphia where she will
present phases of committee work.
Because of her honor, Dr. Lemmon
was invited to appear on recent tele
vision program from W.C.U.N.C.
Dr. Ethel Tilley has been elected
to serve as vice-president of the
Wake County Phi Beta Kappa
Chapter. Dr. Lillian Parker Wallace
was re-elected as secretary of the
organization.
Dr. Leslie Syron who is the presi
dent of the North Carolina State
American Association of University
Women presided over a meeting of
the organization held in Winston-
Salem on April 18 and 19. Other
members of the Meredith family at
tending were Miss Mae Grim
mer, Raleigh branch president of
AAUW; Mrs. Ira Jones, a delegate;
and Dr. Ethel Tilley, who presented
for the evening program of the con
ference, a historical sketch of the
North Carolina State AAUW which
she had written.
On April 18, Dr. Sarah Lemmon
and Dr. Alice B. Keith attended a
meeting of the Historical Society of
North Carolina in Greenville. Dr.
Lemmon was on the program com
mittee for the meeting. Dr. Keith
took part in the program at the
meeting of the Social Studies Section
of Baptist Colleges in North Caro
lina last month at Wingate College.
Dr. Lillian Parker Wallace has
been invited to act as subject mat
ter field specialist- in the field of
social studies by the North Carolina
in-School Television Experiment
Workshop which will be held in
August.
HORSE SHOW
TO BE HELD
One of the events of the Meredith
College May Day festivities will be
the annual horse show presented by
the riding classes under the instruc
tion of Mrs. Edwards. The show will
be held Saturday afternoon. May 3,
at the riding ring.
Opening the'show will be an ex
hibition given by Molly Stevens,
Peninah Powell, Anne Fuller, and
Mona Fay Horton. These girls will
be putting their horses through the
different paces in a drill-like form.
The emphasis will be mainly on
uniformity.
After the drill opening, the judg
ing of the riders will begin. They
are divided into different classes
according to their experience —
beginners, intermediates, and ad
vanced riders. Some of the girls who
are planning to ride in the show
are as follows: Willilou Mason,
Evelyn Simpson, Anne Fuller, Eliza
beth Tucker, Linda March, Julia
Forbes, Jo Robinson, Molly Stevens,
Mona Foy Horton, Peninah Powell,
Martha Fasul will reign as Queen
of the annual May Day festivities
at Meredith College on May 3. May
Day Activities will begin with the
traditional early morning serenade
to the Queen by the sophomore
class. The serenade will be followed
by the annual May Day breakfast
in the dining hall, with the sopho
more class in charge of plans and
decorations. Again at breakfast the
sophomores will serenade the May
Queen.
Afternoon activities will begin
with the Spring Horse Show at the
riding ring. The highlight of the
May Day celebration will be the
presentation of the May Court and
the crowning of the Queen which
will take place in the court Satur
day afternoon. At this time, a
pageant of singing and dancing will
be presented for the entertainment
of the May Court and guests.
The attendants to the Queen are
Betsy Carole Lane, Maid of Honor;
Kay Banner and Joyce Herring,
senior attendants; Hazel Hale and
Kathryn Godwin, junior attendants;
Suzanne Hunter and Peggy Wil
liams, sophomore attendants; and
Donna Taylor and Mona Reid,
freshman attendants. Joe Crook,
son of Dr. Roger Crook of the
Meredith Department of Religion,
will serve as ring bearer.
The Meredith Ensemble under
the direction of Miss Beatrice Don
ley will provide the music for the
occasion. Mary Carol Warwick and
Bet Taylor are the pianists. Gelynda
Thomas, Betty Galloway, and Jen
nie Turlington are chairmen of the
costume committees. The sopho
more class, with Carolyn Pegg as
chairman, is responsible for decora
tions. The program was written by
members of the Physical Educa
tion Methods class. Mrs. J. D. Mas
sey, head of the Physical Educa
tion Department, is directing the
dance groups.
Annabel Ray, Mary Alice Cusack,
Mary Ann Brown, Lorraine Storey,
Betty Lou Kennedy, Anna Faye
Jackson, Lois Haigh, Judy Scaggs,
and Betsy Burney.
Miss Ginger Whitley, a Meredith
graduate, will be the judge for the
horse show. While at Meredith, Miss
Whitley won first place honors in
the advanced group in the horse
shows of 1956 and 1957. She will
judge the riders on their handling
of their mounts and on their riding
form.
Cynthia Denny and Sparkle Ever