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MARIAN ANDERSON
MAY 2
Belles
OF SAINT MARY’S
MAY DAY
MAY 4
Vol. Ill, No. 15
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
April 26, 1940
Rehearsals of May Day
Production Nearing Com
pletion at End of Week
PATRICK HENRY’S OLD WAR-CRY BRINGS
GRIEF TO CHILDREN OF ITS SUPPORTERS Qpp|(;E5 pqr next year
Pinal Rehearsal of John Mase
fields “Cargoes” Takes Plane
Monday; Large Crowd
Expected May 4
THOUSANDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN EUROPE FIND THEM
SELVES WITHOUT HOMES, PARENTS, OR FRIENDS AS
THE DISASTROUS RESULT OF A DISASTROUS WAR
The members of Saint Mary’s stu-
body will present to an audi
ence of friends and relatives the an
nual May Day Festival at four
^’clock Saturday afternoon, May 4.
Should there be unfavorable weather
t’n this date the presentation will be
postponed until May 6 at the same
nour. T.nat wnr ntinroximateh
“pur. Last year approximately 750
'■isitors thronged the campus, and
a
still greater crowd is expected^ this
year. The music will be furnished
oy Miss Haig at the piano and Mr.
hird playing the violin. An ampli-
iying system will be used in order
*nat all may be heard in every por-
hon of the open-air court. The
sets are being made by the
°i’der of the Circle. Photographers
requested to refrain from taking
pictures during the performance,
^ncy will have an ouuortunity to
•holograph the entire Court at the
ond of the pageant.
-file date for the full rehearsal is
for Monday, April 29, at four
clock, and for the final dress re-
icarsal on Friday, May 3. Miss
farvey, who has had charge of the
^eating arrangements, has selected
®;even girls to act as marshals,
hese girls who will be dressed in
' ipte are: Helen Royster, chairman,
. I'l^abeth Adkins, Anne Boyle, Jan-
V,® Fitzgerald, Page Gannaway,
p.^^i'y Huske, Sue Joyner, Sue Noble,
piquet Pate, Ann Neal Pless, Ellen
Ti!'^’ Thorpe,
j fhe complete cast for the May
^j^y pageant of “Cargoes” has been
_ losen from the gym classes and an-
oungg^j Goss, dance instruc-
\forMayDay.
. ^ny Castles was chosen by the
Pijlent body as May Queen, and the
1^**^ from Nineveh are Peggy Pars-
te. r ^rlotte Denny, Gertrude Car-
qi*’yO^ura Gordon, Becky Lockwood,
otidy Boykin; maids from Spain
^ 0 Honey Peck, Helen McDuffie,
O’Keeffe, Annette Spruill,
rdelia Jones, and Sara Nair.
jj hose who dance as Jewels are
Betty Bassett, Hazel
n, ^yaw, Nancy Poe, Marjorie
Helen Ford, and Eleanor
Bettie London Woot-
p) Sue Milliken, Frances Barrett,
U 7^beth Peal, Dorothy McDowell,
Bj.-^^oon Massie; Emeralds: Sue
ep./VFachel Edwards, Betsy Bur-
fQjj’ McKenzie, Nancy O’Her-
R; ^ri^l Alice Yount; Amethysts:
Well Kirby, Margaret G-lide-
®on Galbreath, Sarah Hardi-
L ’I'^fry Strange Collins, and Mil-
Cleveland.
(Continued on page 3)
“Everybody is invited to come to
a meeting to talk about refugees and
see if there is anything we can do
about living up to the Vermont
tradition of sympathy for the op
pressed.” So ran a newspaper notice
in Bennington, Vermont. That night,
in spite of blizzardy weather, the
meeting was jammed—with village
farmers, carpenters, bankers, and
storekeepers—people from all oyer
the country. They decided to invite
fifty or sixty German speaking chil
dren whose families had been driven
out of Germany by the Hitler regime
to spend the summer in Bennington.
The children came. Villagers and
farmers took them into their homes,
and discovered that they differed
from the neighborhood youngsters in
language only. And those neighbor
hood youngsters themselves, realiz
ing how infinitely more fortunate
their lot had been from that of the
little foreign refugees, learned that
democracy meant more than civic
classes and history books.
This spring, led by the novelist,
Dorothy Canfield Fisher, the Ben-
nington move has developed into _ a
great project. Every school child in
(Continued on page 3)
SIX INITIATES TAKEN
INTO ORDER OF CIRCLE
IN SECRET CEREMONY
Mrs. Cruikshank Attends
Southern Association of
Junior Schools Meeting
Honorary Society Chooses New
Members on Basis of Scholar
ship and Citizenship
Mrs. Cruikshank Represents Saint
Mary’s, One of Few N. C. Junior
Schools Accredited in South
The Order of the Circle held its
second initiation of the school year
on Thursday night, April eighteenth.
The President, Margaret Parker,
welcomed the following new mem
bers : Annie Hyman Bunn, Gertrude
Carter, Mary Emily Claiborne, Page
Marshall, Carolyn Norton, and
Joyce Powell. She explained to
them that the purpose of the Circle
is to promote a spirit of co-operation
between the faculty and the students
and to assist new students in finding
their jJace in school life.
Qualifications for membership m
the Circle are based on scholarship,
citizenship, fellowship, and service.
Although the Circle’s activities are
“secret,” it is one of the leading or
ganizations on the campus, and mem
bership is considered one of the
school’s highest honors.
Each year the Circle has charge
of the stage setting for May Day.
This year it has the particularly
difficult task of transforming the dell
behind Bishop’s house into an ocean
for Cargoes. Another project of this
year’s Circle is to provide the Chapel
with new altar linens. Money has
already been sent to China to pur
chase the material for the proposed
gift, which will arrive early next
year.
Mrs. Cruikshank attended a meet
ing of the Southern Association of
Cffileges and Secondary Schools held
in Atlanta the week of April 8. She
left Sunday night, April 7, in order
to be on hand for a meeting of the
Executive Committee of Private
Schools Association, which is one
section of the Southern Association.
Both the high school department
and junior college department of
Saint Mary’s are accredited by the
Southern Association, and the junior
college is one of the very few North
Carolina junior colleges so accred-
The meetings consisted largely of
reports and addresses by various
speakers. Each meeting was pre
ceded by a musical program furnish
ed by various high schools and col
leges in Atlanta. A tea on Wednes
day afternoon was given to the mem
bers of the Association by Agnes
Scott College. The outstanding so
cial occasion was the banquet on
Thursday night at which some five
hundred were present. The speaker
for the banquet was John Temple
Graves II, Editor of the Birming
ham Age-Herald. The closing meet
ing was on Friday morning and
was largely taken up with busi
ness matters, reports of the various
committees, and an election of offi
cers. A change in the time of meet
ing was voted; hereafter the annual
meetings are to be held in the fall
instead of in the spring. The place
of meeting will be announced later
by the Executive Committee.
Page Marshall Becomes Chairman
of HaU Council; Elvira
Cheatham Leads Senior
Class
The election of Page Marshall as
chairman of the Hall Council for
the 1940-41 session and Elvira
Cheatham as President of the com
ing Senior Class completes the major
elections for next year. Other can
didates for Hall Council Chairman
were Bettie Vann, Helen Royster,
Margaret Kitchin, but the final vot
ing, which took place on April 24 at
our voting polls, the phone booths,
was narrowed to Margaret and Page.
The election of Senior Class Presi
dent was conducted on April 26.
Page is from the grand town, as
she proudly describes it, of Bedford,
Virginia. She attended Bedford
High School and took a post-gradu
ate course at Stuart Hall for a year.
She came to Saint Mary’s because
she had often heard about it.
The inquiring reporter asked Page
what she thought when she was in
formed, “Gosh, I nearly died I was
so thrilled! Of course, I’m begin
ning to feel the responsibility al
ready.”
“Seriously, though,” Page con
tended, “the Hall Council has been
a great success, but next year it will
still be new. I hope that the stu
dent body will continue to give full
support and co-operation.”
The office of Chairman of the
Hall Council has become the posi
tion next in importance to the Presi
dent of the Student Body. It car
ries a great deal of responsibility
and calls for endless work.
The Hall Council Chairman has
under her authority all the hall
presidents and vice presidents. The
vice presidents, contrary to some be
liefs, are important members of the
hall council. They take charge of
the hall in the absence of the hall
president and they attend the weekly
hall council meetings when the presi
dent is unable to attend. The vice
presidents deserve consideration, re
spect, and co-operation as do the
presidents.
When asked if she had any words
to pass on to the succeeding Hall
Council Chairman about the work
involved, Annie Hyman Bunn said,
“Well, co-operation of the student
body is needed for the success of the
council. The improved respect for
regulations and attitude of the stu
dent body has been plainly seen since
the beginning of the year.”
Last year, there was no hall coun
cil. A dormitory committee corre
sponded to what is the hall council
today, but the two can in no way be
compared.
(Continued on page 3)