The Belles of Saint Mary’s
SAINT’S SALLIES
Seems Saint Sallies hasn’t been
^uite up to par the last week. Never
Wore have we had such' a serious
ftreat to our big week-ends. Just at
1^6 time when they were really need
ed to help us forgive and forget, all
our marvelous plans, the only
^^ings that kept us alive during
Ihose fatal exam sessions, were taken
down with that dreadful, unpredict-
®We pest, the “flu”! Finally, after
^ long, tedious illness, they (Plans)
have recovered, and the list of those
Pertaining to Carolina this week-end
’s so long that it makes up an epi
demic that greatly out-classes “flu.”
So-o-o it would be practically impos-
^'hle to try to name all of the girls
Wo are going over the Hill (though
Would be a good way to fill up the
Wumn). State Mid’s next week-end
CAMPUS NOTES
I'&ve taken their usual toll among
ll^e State enthusiasts with a few new
additions. Sue Milliken and Mary
Chambers have their invites to
^We Forest’s “fourteenth and fif-
Wnths,” and Margaret Little and
1^—Virginia ! Outside of this
Nothing has happened of great note
■ ■ • Unless you haven’t heard these :
had
Guess (to “Stucky” after she
rather vaguely answered a ques-
hon); “Oould you give the example
the lawyer and his secretary ?”
Stucky: “Sorry, I haven’t heard
*hat one!”
Wd then in the “Ten Cent Store”
^Mary Alec Wells and Dizzy Deane
j^^rt had been waiting at the counter
cashews for minutes without at-
^cting any attention whatsoever,
j, ■ • Pinally the clerk, who seemed
ce busy, yelled to another clerk,
n come over here and wait on
j^®®c nuts”! Mary Alec and Dizzy
Cane couldn’t do a thing but blush.
dj,"^W other day in English M Mil-
WitU having a hard time
coili ^ certain diagram—she just
w dn’t decide where to put a few
*'ds so Mrs. Greenwood had some-
tr® ®how her how to do it.
men:
And
iff Ureenwood : “Mildred, you’ve
jUst
The class roared!
IhC fu learn where to draw the
print
t i
jleard at the table :
>>cubelle Montgomery (earnestly) :
anyone seen “The Man I Mar-
in desperation we
favorite poem 1
State Pledges
Carolina German
Guke Dances
But I go with Herman.
Berman’s smart
rho’ no one knows it.
fact it’s true
He seldom shows it.
H^man Avorks
Back home in Spray
le s growing fat
And old and gray.
Mr. Kloman, Avho has been con
fined to his bed due to influenza
and bronchitis, is steadily improv
ing. Throughout his sickness Mr.
Moore has officiated in Chapel dur
ing the morning services. Among
the ministers who have taken
charge of services on Sunday are
Mr Kenneth Cameron, Professor
of English at State College, and
Mr. J. M. Dick of the Church of
the Good Shepherd.
# # #
Mr. Moore gave a party at the
Shack on the evening of January
26, entertaining members of the
faculty and town friends. The oc
casion was his birthday.
* # *
WRAL, a local radio station in
Raleigh, is planning f fiHeen-niin-
ute program of the highhghts of
coUege life. This program wdl in
clude discussion of general news
fashions, and social affairs at Saint
Mary’s, Peace, Meredith, ^mfe
College, and other nearby schools.
Later the program may include in
dividual interviews with repre
sentatives elected froni the vari
ous schools. Kelsey Crocker, a
business student at Saint Mary s
is in charge of program an
has asked that students at Saint
Mary’s aid her in collecting news
by placing suggestions in the Ra
dio News Box in lower Smedes
Hall. ^ ^ ^
Visitors of the week: Carolyn
Norton, Octavia HeRae, Sara Nau,
and Phoebe Withers from Mary
Baldwin College, Staunton, Vir
ginia; Annie Hyman Bunn from^
ialem College; Page Han^jJ
and Mallie Ramsey from LjnUi-
Cg, Virginia; Lucie Meade from
Arlington, Virginia.
# * *
The Raleigh Piano Ensemble,
under the direction of Miss Ruth
Scott presented a successful con-
5rt in Raleigh. The Ensemble
consists of six pianos and twehe
pianists. Two of whom aie Miss
Geraldine Cate and M .
Bird, of the music facultj at Saint
Mary’s. * , *
Mr. Donald Peery, of the music
faculty, has been i l mth
during the past Aveek.
# * *
The Raleigh Music Club, under
,Jtocc.ioUfMi.sRrt^ScoH.
«nonsoring a series of m e nour
of music study. The “^«tin^ are
lield once every Aveek in the Sa
Mary’s voice studio.
* * *
Miss Ruth Scott Pi-fsented ^
nunils in a student piano recit^
n n’clock on February 3,
took part.
s,.i,,t Mary’s her
heartiest welcome^ January
Sh t'r begin second semester
studies. The newcomers are Miss
Betty Waring from West Point,
Virginia, and Miss Martha Frye
from Hickory, North Carolina.
» * #
Mr. M. B. Prescott, chief proba
tion officer of the United States
District Court for eastern North
Carolina, Avill address the Political
Science Club on February 16. Mr.
Prescott has spoken to the club in
other years on the work of Fed
eral probation officers, and by cit
ing actual case histories has given
an accurate and comprehensive
picture of existing conditions.
The Political Science Club meet
ing of February 2 discussed briefly
current Avorld events, and more
especially national affairs.
# * #
Miss Brooke Allan, a former
member of the Saint Mary’s fac
ulty, now at Saint Catherine’s,
visited Saint Mary’s recently to
collect more material for the chap
ter of Centennial History of Saint
Mary’s that she is Avriting.
# « #
Miss Florence Slater, alumna
and active in alumn* Avork for
many years, died in Winston-
Salem on January 23d, 1941.
# # 4ic
Dr. T. W. M. Long, husband of
Mrs. Long, President of the Alum-
nm Association, died on February
3d at Rex Hospital in Raleigh. Dr.
Long was in Raleigh as a member
of the Legislature.
# # #
Matilda Ehringhaus, daughter of
former Gov. J. C. B. Ehringhaus,
is in Detroit for a month’s train
ing before being assigned to her
duties as a hostess for Pennsyl
vania Central Airline.
mm*
Mr. John Valentine, the “sing
ing adventurer,’’ Avill give a lec
ture-recital in Saint Mary’s Audi
torium on February 10.
* * *
Mrs. Cruikshank spent last
Aveek-end in Eastern Carolina
(Hyde County) as the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. C. L. Mann.
# # *
The tennis fans of Saint Mary’s
had the thrill of a life time Wed
nesday night in Chapel Hill Avhen
they Avitnessed a professional ten
nis tournament betAveen Alice Mar
ble, Avoman’s champion of the
Avorld, and Mary HardAvick, Eng
land ’s gift to tennis, Donald
Budge, of California, and William
(Big Bill) Tilden, veteran of the
courts. Miss HardAvick dropped her
match to Miss Marble 6-4, 6-4. Mr.
Tilden Avon the first set 11-9 and
Mr. Budge the second 7-5. Due to
insufficient time they did not play
a third set. Miss Marble and Mr.
Tilden stood Miss HardAvick and
Mr. Budge in one set of doubles
Avinning 6-2.
Editor’s Note: For those Avho
question the ‘‘hhicked-in” editorial
opinion in this AVt'ek’s BELLES,
we add that it is based on events
of the past Aveek.
EPITAPH FOR JANUARY
We are now prepared to state Avith
certainty that exams are OA^er. It is
also a new month (Day Students
may now begin a new list of Chapel
cuts)—the very short month between
exams and Spring vacation. And
unless you are a very peculiar per
son, there is every reason to suppose
that you have not sat down and neat
ly catalogued the events of January,
1941, in your memory. Granted that
feature Avriters are of necessity pecu
liar, we shall take the liberty of hit
ting a few high spots in that month
for you. And if you proceed in your
usual form, to quote Miss Lalor,
“letting nothing circulate above your
ears,” you can read this entire arti
cle as intelligently and carefully as
you read The Science Neivsletter,
and you can get just as much out
of it.
If it lays no other claim to fame,
January is notcAvorthy because it
brought us exam books Avith thirty-
two pages instead of sixteen. This
momentous change is not only en
couraging to students brimful of mis
information, but surely to teachers
as Avell. Think of the feeling it must
give a faculty member, bleary-eyed
and half-crazed at two A.M., who
turns to her last examination paper
only to find that it consists of three
thirty-two page books in a hand
writing all too reminiscent of the
amazingly individual scrawl which
decorates the War Relief bulletin
board in the covered-way! Indeed,
exams at Saint Mary’s are as tradi
tional as Smede’s ivy: there’s that
mysterious, unexpected clank of the
Study Hall clock at three minutes
past the hour; there is always the
cheering warning when Ave are on
the second of ten questions, that any
one Avho Avishes to leave at the hour
and a half mark may do so; and let
us not forget the nonchalant demoi
selles Avho shriek from East to West
Rock, “I just CAN’T go to toAvn
NOW!” or the inevitable automobile
horns about three forty-five.
But the most magnificently suc
cessful of all January’s bids for
glory Avas—^yes—the flu. If one
didn’t have flu, one just simply
Avasu’t in the swim. The nice thing
about flu is that because of its uni
versal importance, while quietly dy
ing oneself, one can read the neAvs-
paper and magazine article accounts
of the optimistic graybeards AV'ho
predict, Avith luridly detailed cer
tainty, just Avhat Avill happen AA’hen
the flu flies into a European air-raid
shelter. Tavo of these articles are
guaranteed to be as effectiAi’e as a
doctor. Another nice thing about
the germ is its variety of forms: the
ear kind, throat kind, cold kind,
cough kind, any kind you like—to
suit your personality. And no one
ever really decides just Avhere she
got flu. Here today, flew tomorroAV.