December 12,1968
THE TWIG
Page Three
Students Discuss Summer Travel
Make Plans to Visit Europe
FAVORITE PLACES—England and Switzerland
By BROOKS McGIRT
Tired of your same old dull exis
tence? Bored with the summer job
you’ve taken for three years
straight? Or just plain panicked that
you’ll be doing nothing at all when
school lets out?
Well, now’s the time to start
doing something about your sum
mer. Do what you’ve always
dreamed of, what has always
seemed light years out of your
reach — plan an exciting trip to
Europe!
A year ago this time that is just
what many Meredith students did,
and this past summer their dreams
came true as they crossed the At
lantic by boat and plane to Europe.
Their experiences and thoughts of
fer interesting ideas for the prospec
tive European traveler.
HOW TO GO
First of all, there is the problem
of how to get over there. Most Mere
dith travelers, it seems, chose to
go by tour group. Several girls,
for example, Bonnie Sparks, Mary
Stuart Parker, Betty Wood, Patsy
We’ll Remember the Old Library
By HELEN WILKIE
“I’m going to miss this old place
next semester.”
My mind was suddenly emptied
of all thoughts of The Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle as 1 stared involuntarily
at Martha.
“You mean you’re going to miss
this library when we move into the
new building?” 1 asked her unbe
lievingly.
“Yes, I will. This building is old
and comfortable, and the new one
will be new and formal,” she whis
pered, returning to her history as
signment.
Martha had shocked my mind
into an entirely new train of
thought. For nearly a year much of
the talk around campus had been
about the new Campbell Library
and how soon we would occupy it;
and there sat Martha across the
rickety table from me saying that
she would miss the second floor
Johnson Hall location! How absurd
—but maybe she had a point. After
all, though I am only a sophomore,
I do have many memories (not all
of them fond) connected with that
place.
My thoughts meandered back
through my one year of experience
in that library. Just then a girl
strolled into the rotunda, and her
footsteps echoed through the whole
library.
“Well, at least the new building
will be quieter,” I thought.
But I instantly answered that ar
gument by saying, “Utter silence
can be as distracting as loud noises.”
1 shifted in the rickety chair
(tables and chairs are matched sets)
which creaked like an old man’s
bones. “How dare Martha call this
place ‘comfortable’,” 1 moaned to
myself. “Well, the hard chairs do
keep you awake,” my alterego rea
soned, “and besides, she meant
‘comfortable’ in the sense of ‘fa
miliar’.”
My eyes wandered aimlessly
around the room, which was harshly
lit by the overhead chandelier, and
finally came to rest on the portrait
of Thomas Meredith. Somehow I
could not visualize his portrait
hanging in the new building; he
would seem out of place. My gaze
then shifted to Dr. Campbell’s por
trait. “Even he will not be ‘at home’
in his own building — unless he is
hung over the card catalogue,” I
mused.
Once again, 1 answered myself.
“These things will seem strange to
you because you will remember how
they used to be; but they will look
perfectly natural to the freshmen
next year. The strangeness is in your
mind, not in the new building.”
Suddenly I thought about the
class dolls down the hall toward
Vann. I knew that Misses 1968 and
1967 would fit into the new build
ing, but what about Misses 1902,
1915,1927, and 1933?
The portraits and dolls are tra
ditional — and I was questioning
the possibility that the atmosphere
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Johnson, Cheryl Critcher and Mari
lyn Childress traveled (from differ
ent churches) to Berne, Switzerland
for the Baptist World Youth Con
ference. While there, they toured
other places of interest in the weeks
before and after the conference.
Another tour which seems to
have attracted several travelers
from the campus even had its
base at Meredith, in the form of
Miss Nancy Carroll, a former Dean
of Students and history professor
here. According to Ann Singletary,
a sophomore who participated on
the tour. Miss Carroll received a
free trip for herself by arranging a
tour group of eight other people
through Wholesale Tours, Inc.
Carrie Frampton, Meredith senior,
and Ann Young, transfer from
Peace, also traveled to Europe on a
tour — a PRIVATE tour. Carrie
explains, “They don’t advertise.
They get tourees through people
who’ve been previously,” Ann re
ports that she found out about the
tour from some friends in Richmond
and points out that the tour’s pro
prietress, Mrs. Boggs, usually trav
els to colleges in the fall looking
for interested persons.
Not really interested in traveling
with a bunch of tourists all over
Europe? Then perhaps you should
follow senior Shera Jackson’s
method of going — through a ser
vice called American Students
Abroad she and some friends ob
tained summer jobs as chamber
maids in a Swiss hotel. “It was a
real spur of the moment thing,” she
admits. “All of a sudden we were
going to Europe.”
WHAT TO SEE
Now that you’ve decided how
you’re going for your visit to
Europe, you must be wondering
where are the “must” places to see
there. Here again, the exf>eriences
of Meredith’s summer travelers
should give some hints for this ques
tion. From their responses it seems
that the places to go are England,
Switzerland, and Italy.
Each of these three places has
its own group of supporters. For ex
ample, Carrie Frampton, a London-
lover, exclaims, “It’s just the most
exciting place. There’s so much
going on and the people are so
friendly.”
But it was Switzerland and Italy
which really led in the “favorite
place poll”—Switzerland for “sce
nery” and Italy (especially Venice)
for “atmosphere” and art works ac
cording to Ann Singletary. Sopho
more Mary Stuart Parker adds, “I’d
always idealized Switzerland as such
a beautiful place anyway,” and she
was not disappointed at all.
Of course, other places DID re
ceive some votes for favorite spots.
Linda Hollingsworth, for instance,
cites France as her favorite spot
mainly because, “I’m a French
major and the purpose of my going
was to use my training.”
WHAT TO EXPECT
What can you expect to gain from
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