Belles
Saint Mary’s School Library
POOOOOR
SENIORS!
OF SAINT MARY’S
Vol,
5
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
November 21, 1947
owling Program Haywood Suggests
,Jy^llStimulateNew Vaccine for Girls
Competition
Senior Class Makes Plans For Dance;
Committees Decide on ChristmasTheme
M. Moore Offers Expert
'^iiction for Students
Itist:
T
more Sigma-Mu
to correlate a
for students, the
extr^ _^tub, in co-operation with
ar
and
Pay stimulate interest
)laiii\f^' ^ioore, manager of the
>t» ^„,.^'^’J^owling Center, is olfer-
students
««»t.
the'
elective
duck pin
expert instruction
, , small gold bowling
“ three high scorers of
higlj ^ key or trophy to the
hiem/^^^thly set, and a reduction
ge from 20c to 15c for Saint
Jl;
ary’,
girls.
^aesd-i Pi’ogram in assembly
iherp' ^.-’ sheet will be posted
t^or bowling,
either Tues-
• ^ach ^.^‘^^^loselay afternoons.
given an in-
kay bowling score card, and
^igtna> will be kept by
aud^i\?
compete in a
«ets ,7\ent when the program
, aiider
“Under the best care and treat
ment, about ten per cent of influ
enza cases have complications re
sulting in pneumonia and other
respiratory diseases,” Dr. H. B.
Haywood, the school phj'sician,
has said.
To combat the “unwelcome and
disabling” visitor, he recommends
highly the influenza vaccine that
keeps fin away for over a three-
month period for the small cost of
60c. “Only a small per cent of
the persons undergoing vaccina
tion liave a relatively mild reac
tion with local redness, aching,
and fever for twenty-four hours.”
Dr. Haywood sax’s that the vac
cine is beneficial and retpiests that
girls take it. He asks, however,
that persons “who exhibit a mani
fest allergy to egg proteins re
frain from taking the vaccine.”
Others are encouraged for their
ov.ui good to take it immediately.
The vaccine will be given at the
infirmary.
Th
’"'ay.
i>nerie7'»ber
one indoor sport of
h*’torr-1’ “0"’liiig may trace its
years when the
^ Vej.,, .^'is and Egyptians plaj’ed
h® act Today there
t^k Pi national and state
PUei^ p; associations, a National
f lopni'^ Congress and council,
'^’^sfitiif ^ abs M’hich have set up
and objectives
Carolina Performers
Render Music Concert
The Raleigh Chamber Music
Guild gave the first of two con
certs ’Wednesday in the Saint
Mary’s auditorium. Selections
from Brahms, Mozart, and Duurak
were presented by performers
from the University of North
Carolina.
Local music lovers including a
girls attended
U.N.C. Religion Head
Talks To Students
About Life Purpose
111 a forceful and entertaining
talk in Saint Mary’s assembly Tues
day morning, Dr. Arnold Nash,
newly appointed head of the reli
gious education department at the
University of North Carolina, told
students that there is something rad
ically wrong with our civilization
because we fail to answer the most
important question we are asked :
“'What are we here for?”
Approaching his subject from a
humorous viewpoint, Dr. Nash re
marked that he was at Saint Mary’s
because he was told to come. And
that we were probably here for the
same reason. lie then remarked that
he had been “loaned” from his posi
tion at an Episcopal school in Cali
fornia to a Presbyterian school in
Chicago, but now that he was in
North Carolina he intended to “stay
put.”
The tragic part of education is
that people fail to look at it from an
ultimate point of view. When peo
ple have studied and done all these
things they do not seem to know why
they have done them. Dr. Nash ad
vocates that we must learn to distin
guish between things that are merely
true and things that are true and
worth while; things that are worth
preserving. For what purpose is
this ultimate end?
“You and I are merely creatures
of passing time and circumstance”
. . . looking forward to trips to the
(See page 4)
Roy Cole’s Band From Chapel
Hill Will Furnish Music
Roy Cole, hand leader from
Chapel Hill, and his accompanists
will render the music at Saint
Mary’s annual formal Senior Card
Dance to he held on December 13
from 8:30 until 12:00 in the school
gjunnasinm.
A Christmas theme will be
prominent throughout the gym
nasium. Three of the walls will
be decorated with a freeze of
Christmas cards on which each
senior will be represented by a
card design of her own choice.
The band vdll be situated in Santa
Claus’ sleight drawn by a set of
reindeer. A sky of blue crepe
paper will camouflage the ceiling.
At intermission there will be a
grand march in which senior class
otticers, officers of the student
body, and committee chairmen
will take part, Nancy Hannah,
figure committee chairman, has
announced.
Various committee chairmen,
who are in charge of arrange
ments for the occasion, are Peggy
Swinson, decorations; Armecia
Eure, refreshments; “Bntch”
Pratt music; Daisy Dixon, invi
tations; and Nancy Hannah,
figure.
All seniors, dance marshals, and
pages are iiivited to attend the
dance. Admission will be by bids,
and each girl is allowed three. The
price of each bid is $1.75.
&
Mgo’ Receives Little Praise from Disappointed Governor Will Honor
Mi
Gap,
“V,
ary
Gordon’s new
received a
’s Attenders, Although Actors Perform Well
comedy,
very high
York critics and by
of The Best
ho
k''' *'ke T)U Gie people w.
i). „ Koleigh Little Theatre,
‘ oioiiotonously dull pro-
in the play were
kkY fiiio Turning in an espe-
fp,. ^ ^^Torinance was Miss,
'4 the Greene), who de-
fp ‘"''^^'-’roiance was Miss
'-ai ' ^ke an r® Greene), who de-
•iar 'Jture ‘idoaT^iT'^^' ^‘°'i
1 *^1.0 \ she and
r c G’ wko jirovidcd the
the Gio second act.
•>Gt ,at fij. , file mother over-
*^^^1 ^®^.for settled into
fo cur,, ^^kl mucli better.
1*5 ■“■"■erf
were so
very ivelcome to the sleepy audience.
The heroine, who was supposed to
represent Ruth Gordon herself, did
as well as anyone could do with her
part.
The directing, staging, costuming,
make-up, and lighting were excel
lent. One scene that ivas particu
larly noteworthy, as far as lighting
is concerned, occurred at the end ol
Vet I when the lights flicked ott
first ill the front room, then in the
anteroom, and left a little back
room lighted while the girl made her
exit speech; then that one also was
cut off. The make-up was realistic,
the costumes authentically repro
duced, the staging excellent, and the
direction all that could be wanted—
but there was a flaw in the play.
It seemed to be through no fault
of the director, the technical staff, or
tlie cast that the play did not go over
well as it did in New Vork. I he
fault seemed to lie within the play
itself. There ivere some very good
lines, of course, such as the remark
of the father’s that poverty to him
was “a rotten dark brown” and that
he was “so poor he could not afford
to take a cold.” Such lines as these
were highly amusing but were much
too rare.
The curtain to the first act of
“Years Ago” fell with the audience’s
feeling that the show was not too
bad and perhaps the rest would be
better. The second act, broken by
the intermission, seemed to drag out
interminably. It was the third act
that reduced the audience to yawns
and clock watching. The story—
and the story alone—needed a shot
of the much-talked-of “glass of
moxie” to pej) it uj) and make it
endurable, although by the time the
third act arrived the audience too
would have appreciated at least a
wee sip from the glass I
Grandaughters’ Club
Governor and Mrs. R. Gregg
Cherry will receive at a tea for
the Granddaughters’ Club at the
Mansion sometime in December,
Musette Brown, the club presi
dent, announced recently. The
Raleigh Saint Mary’s Alumnae
Chapter will be in the reception
line with Governor and Mrs.
Cherry.
This Raleigh Chapter plans to
have a meeting at Saint Mary’s
in the near future.
Amidst a bone crushing scrim
mage in the hockey tournament
Monday, both ])layers and referee
were aghast at the sound of a loud
crack. A broken leg, a cracked
skull ? No, for flying through the
air was a mangled ]>ieco of hockey
stick while amazed Logan Vaught
stood with the remains in her
hand. _ It’s a cinch she ate her
wheaties that morninsr
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