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THE BELLES OP ST. MARY’S October 29, 1954 Editorials Oh, Give Us Schools, Lots of Schools Where Week-ends Are Week-ends; Don’t Fence Us In Although college faculties and officials .are sometimes reluctant to admit it, week-ends are one of the most important times in school life. Ceitainly girls are interested in their studies, but life can become pretty dull when a girl has stuck faithfully to her books for five or six days in succession. This is where week-ends come in; in fact, this is when week ends are needed. The opinion of the Belles and of many girls picked at random on campus is that week-ends at St. J^fary’s are restrained hv assigiunents which are given Thursday to be handed in on Saturday or Monday. If a girl has planned to leave school on Friday for a week end,y is humanly impossible for her to prepare a big assignment given on Ihursday, the day before her scheduled departure, and to hand it in on Fiiday before she leaves, leachers who make such assignments seem to forget that besides her inalienable rights of having time to pack and groom herself for the short leave, she also has a daily assigTiment to prepare for each of her classes Friday. Ill view of the fact that girls are allowed only one week-end a semes ter, it seems only logical that the privilege of being able to take a week end would be accompanied _hy. the privilege of being allowed to take it in a considerable state of leisure and peace of mind. Many a week-end, long anticipated, has been ruined by the thought of a test missed on Satuiday oi of an important paper due on ^Monday. Even when week ends are spent on campus, they should be times “when students could have a chance to do the inevitable “catching up” or getting a little ahead, rather than laboring over “stiff” Thursday-Saturdav or llonday assieii- ments. - “ r t, This is not complaining for the sake of complaining. It is a sincere effort m the interest of the students to point out to teachers an injustice of which they are more than likely unaware. Students want to get their work done, and they want to do their best on it. Neither the accomplish ment nor the success of their work is allowed fair treatment when all is piled on them at once. Human nature must be considered' here—of course, there will be a certain amount of excitement on the part of the week-ender. The combination of excitement and a last minute gruelino- assignment produces unsatisfactory results. This problem is brought to light to try to “get students out of any thing,” but to ask teachers to refrain from inakiiig big, grade-influencing assignments on Thursday to be due Saturday or Monday, particularly when the weekend is the kind St. iMary’s girls refer to as “big” UNO German dances, for instance. In case of two or three girls being absent for Saturday classes, no teacher can imagine the appreciation the whole student body would feel if allowance would be arranged privately when girls who are taking weekends are in the minority, and publicly when girls ,who are taking weekends are in the majority. In behalf of the students. Belles wishes to say that neither it nor the“students hold radical convictions on the matter, but that we all do feel deeply about it We are more than eager to hear another side to the problem. W Q St. Mary’s Observes Founders’ Day; Birthday Marks Changes in Sehool Life Founders’ Day, November 1, is the day appointed to observe the birth day of St. Mary’s. St. :ilary’s is one hundred and thirteen years old this year. ^ Birthdays, as you know, are milestones—times for looking back and times for looking ahead. With a great deal of pride, and yet with a smile, we recall the opening days of this “school for young ladies in the city of Ealeigh.” The original thirteen scholars were provided “. . . a thorough and elegant education, equal to the best that could be obtained in any Northern school.” Among the courses offered was ornamental needle work. In stead of a fast set of tennis these first students exercised by walking daily five times around the grove. Saturday evenings were spent at “musical exercises.” _ How different it seems today! But changes in the physical plant, in organization, in administration, are signs of growth and adjustment’ not of alteration of purjiose. St. ]\Iary’s gTows finer as the years go by.’ At this anniversary, we look back over the gTeat contributions alumnae have made to civic, family, and national life. It is right that on rounders’ Day we should take stock and review with pride the accom- phshments of this school, but this is not enough. We should also look forward with anticipation and make plans as to how we can cooperate with the school to enable it to have an even greater future. We feel a responsibility to take full advantage of the abundant oppor tunities offered by the Chapel, the classrooms, the athletic fields, and other phases of St. Mary’s life so that we, as St. Mary’s girls of the past have done, may lead lives of high purpose and of service to others. An abundant heritage is ours for the taking. Let us give of ourselves us a birthday present to St. Mary’s. ]\I. p_ disCHORDS by Anne Norman There’s good news in store for Stan Kenton fans and all lovers of jazz. Raleigh will play host to Stan Kenton at Memorial Auditorium on Thursday night, November 11. Art Tatum will be featured on the piano; the Charlie Ventura Quintette and vocalist Mary Ann McCall are additional highlights in the performance. Kenton will con duct the large orchestra, and the “Festival of Modern American Jazz” should reach its usual level of outstanding entertainment. Performers Panic Here’s an interesting sidelight on the show featuring Peggy Lee which played in town recently. An ambu lance owner from Durham drove a Johns Hopkins-bound patient to the train station in Raleigh. Just as the driver waved good-bye to the sick man, the train bearing Miss Lee and the other performers pulled in at the station. The show people descended to the platform where they found neither a welcoming committee nor any means of imme diate transportation. Spying the nearby ambulance, the ingenious en tertainers told the driver of their plight and begged his assistance. The obliging ambulance owner thereupon piled Miss Lee and the others into the vehicle. The ambulance, with lights flashing and siren wailing, quickly carried them to their desti nation. After depositing the grate ful performers at the Auditorium, gratis, the driver headed back to Durham. A few days later this unlucky man was hauled into court. It seems there is a law which states that ambulances carrying people who are in a sound state of health are not expected to tear through towns with open sirens and flashing red lights. For his thoughtless (and fee-less) good deed this ambulance owner will probably pay accordingly. He is re- f)ortedly bitter about the whole epi sode, but under what circumstances could he have obtained a more inti mate glimpse into the harried life of show business? Spooks of Smedes Listen my students, and if you heed I’ll tell of the night walks of Dr. Smede. Just before daybreak his chains start to clank. The sounds make you shiver from shoulder to shank. With hisses and rattles and bang ings and bumps, Hp from the basement to the attic he stumps. Was there a knock at the window? A creak on the stair? Feel his breath on your neck? There’s a gleam—He’s right there 1 For on each anniversary of All hallows Eve, He makes his inspection, his mind to relieve. So you’d better be good, belles, and not stay out late. For the - Smede’s ghost will get you if you don’t play it straight. The Belles OF ST. MARY’S Published every two weeks-' during sehool year by the student bod.y of St. Mary’s Junior College. Entered as second class matter De cember 7, 1944, at Post Office, Raleigh, N. C., under Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription $1.00 a Year Editor-in-chief Maetha Good Associate editor Anne Noemax Assistant editor Anne Wallace Neios editor ....Mabel Maetin AVhedbee Feature editor Penn Anthony Headline editor Aubrey Cambell Chief copyreader Mary Ruth Mitchell Circulation manage?'....Jajse Westbrook Business ??ianager Anne Harmon Jones Eccchafige editor Ann Baebeb Adviser c. A. P. Moore Headline Bett.y Dou Dawson, Mar,y Spainhour, Margery Lindeman, Jane Mathis, Cole man Jenkins, Ann Elliott, Kitty Cainpen, Carol Carolyn Seyffert, Anne Winslow. News Keporters Nancy Jones, Ann Ruffin, Jenny Dayis, Marjorie Crumpler, DeeDee De- Vere, Sarah Mercer, Pat SatterfleUl Val McMillan, Coleman Jenkins, Jo-Ann Knott, Marianna Miller, Mary Elise Bridger, Martha Brooks, Emily Cater, Betsy Duke, Jo Smithwick, Lane Welsh- F'eature Writers Betty Hontz, Dianitia Hutcheson, Martha Brooks, Dewey Owens, Blanny Robertson, Barbara Buening, Kathy Whitfield, Betsy Duke, Dottie Foster, Marianna Miller, Susan Patman, Caro lyn Seyffert, Lane AVelsh. Circulation Helen Mason, Martha AVilliford, Bitty Dent, Pat Huske, Nancy Jones, Ls® Kohlsaat, Patsy Moore, Shelley Smith, Jane AA’alker, Ruth AA’’atkins. E.vchanges Emma Biggers, Patsy Aloore, Jnh® Best, Alary Burgwyn, Jessie Aileh, Alickie Crumpler. Alail Circulation Susan Donald, Alice Pittman, D®® Kohlsaat, Florence Dodd, Norali Smith, Florence Blount, Alartha Gay Burns. Alake-up Ann Ruffin, Billie Thomas, Dianitia Hutcheson. Copy-reading ■ Jane Best, Nancy Jones, Barbara Buening. Typists Jeanne Ogburn, Jenny Dayis, ADL' Ruth Alitchell, Kitty Campen, Bmfly Cater, DeeDee DeA'ere, Pat AIcQu®®®’ Shelley Smith. MEMBER OF N. C. C. P. A. AT THE theaters (Oct. 31-Nov. 23) AMBASSADOR 7-13 A Star Is Born Judy Garland, James Mason 14-20 Drumbeats. Alan Ladd COLONY 31-12 Brigadoon Gene Kelly, Van Johnson 12 Beau Brummeii Elizabeth Taylor Stewart Granger STATE 7-13 Sitting Bull Dale Robertson, Mary MurpW VILDAGE 7-20 It’s a Woman’s World Clifton Webb VARSITY 3- 6 Roman Holiday ^ Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepi*^ Stalag 17. William Holden 7-10 Gone AA'^ith the AA'^ind Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh c '(
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