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OF ST. MARY’S
VOL. XXVI No. 1
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
October 12,1962
St. Mary's Begins 121st Year
improvements
Made on campus
now iiiiprovoinonts wore
‘*(le on the St. Mar.v’s oainpus
past suinnioi' in oitlor to bet-
t'r the physical appearance of the
j*^‘*ool iind make life more eoiii-
”*'**'l>le for the stmlents.
'In seooiul floor .Smedcs, new
bathroom facilities, including six
' jowers and sinks, were installed,
tile former home economics
tlx* basement of Smed-
'> with a stove, refrigerator, and
. !0*’**ning board, was made avail-
V,’ ® foi" all students in Sinedes,
l^ovk"*"^’ " an'l West
In Holt the parlor was repainted
‘ nd repapered. Also, more paint-
S Was done whei'e it was needed,
tl Syni the walls, floor, and
swimming pool were repainted
“ wight St. Mary’s blue.
^ Hutside imiirovements at St.
included the repainting of
'n infirmary and the eonstruction
w new
’ *nedes I’oreh.
BALLET MARJO TO APPEAR
^^chesis Chooses Members
j. Wednesday, October 3, in the
c ^^ional ceremony, Orchesis in-
,j. new members into the
T^' members are Frances
, ^Lanahan, Harriett Williams,
Loach, Lynette Smith, Flo
Ppm Harris, Mary Roper,
Susie Nagel.
Ilrcliesis is the modern dance
; "'Ip at St. Mary’s. It jiresents
grams during the year and is
^ charge of the dancers at May
The Ballet Marjo, an exciting
import from Holland, will appear
at St. iMary’s Junior College Audi
torium for a performance at 8:30
p M on October 17,1962. The com-
panv, which was founded in No
vember 1953 and is one of the
youngest and sprightliest m Lu-
rope will visit colleges and uni
versities for its fall tour under the
auspices of the Association of Am
erican Colleges’ Arts Program. The
itinerary includes campuses m
New England, the Middle, South
ern and North Central States.
To show something of the rigor
ous training and control demanded
of ballet dancers, the performances
will be preceded by a brief lecture-
demonstration. This feature has
been highly successful m Europe
and Great Britain m heightening
audience appreciation and under
standing of ballet.
The Ballet Marjo is a non-sub-
sidized group of five dancers, and
all of the present company are m
their early twenties.
Directress and choreographer of
the group, who will direct the lec
ture-demonstration, is Aladame
Goekoop-Santhagens. She was edu
cated in ballet by Darja Collin,
Alexei d’Ornlesson, David Grey
and Igor Schwetzoff, and in mod
ern dance by Gertrud Leistikow
and.Hertha Westman of the Alary
Wigman-Schule in Dresden, Ger
many. Every year Aladame Goe-
koop goes to Paris as a hospitante
to Olga Preobajenska and Aladame
Nora.
The Ballet Alarjo has performed
in all major cities of Holland, in
Belgium, West Germany and Great
Britain. In the summer of 1961 the
group performed at three Dutch
festivals in Hastings, Scarborough
and Croyden, England.
Following its tour in the United
States, the Ballet Alarjo will visit
Curacao for performances in the
Netherlands Antilles.
During the summer, members of
the troupe have participated in
daily training and rehearsal per
iods which last five hours. The
headquarters of the company are at
the “Catshuis,” Aladame Goekoop’s
seventeenth Century estate in the
Hague.
alumnae achieve honors
Several former St. Mary’s stu
dents have made their mark at
the schools which they are now at
tending. Alartha Pound Temp e
(HS-’61) was one of fourteen girls
in the freshman class at Hollins
to be honor students last year. Lau-
rinda King of Greensboro, (HS-’59)
a student at Sweet Briar, ivas on
the Dean’s list the first semester
of last year, was one of two jun
iors initiated into the Phi Beta
Kappa last spring, and is at pres
ent president of Student Govern-
CCUN ACTIVE HERE
St. Alary’s is one of over 300 col
leges taking part in the program
of the Collegiate Council for the
United Nations. This program, be
gun in 1946, is dedicated to the
study and support of the U. N.
Participation at St. Alary’s is open
to interested students of all classes.
In mid-February the St. Alary’s
campus group, whose advisor is Dr.
Alorrison, will send a' five-member
delegation to a C. C. U. N. Alodel
General Assembly meeting. The
delegates will represent a selected
nation at the Assembly taking place
at the University of North Caro
lina. To be a delegate, a student
must have a “B” average.
Last year Bert Bradshaw, senior,
was chairman of the St. Mary’s
delegation which represented Peru.
The other delegates attending the
Assembly held at State College
were Sally Stevens, Nancy Baum,
Alary Henry, and Karen von Lehn,
The C.C.U.N. is organized on the
campus, state, regional, national
and international levels. Its mem
bers belive that the U.N. is the
best hope for a just peace and that
nothing is more important to the
success of the U.N. than the intelli
gent support of an informed public.
The C.C.U.N. group here exists to
promote these beliefs.
ment. Laurinda also served as edi
tor of the college yearbook, the
Briar Patch. At Agnes Scott Col
lege, Virginia Allen was elected
chairman of the Lecture Commit
tee for the 1962-1963 session.