VOL
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NO. 13.
Belles
OF ST. MARY’S
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
May 28,1965
Seven Faculty And
Staff To Leave
The day May 31st will find not
only the seniors leaving St. Mary’s,
but also seven members of the faculty
and staff will say their last good-byes.
Miss Nell Ruth Jewel is retiring
after being resident nurse in the in
firmary for ten years. Although she
has no special plans, Miss Jewel
wants to continue nursing as well as
working in her garden and sewing at
her home here in Raleigh. Miss
Jewel says, “I’ve enjoyed my work.
Everybody has been so nice and
pleasant to work with.”
Miss Ernestine Boineau will leave
St. Mary’s after being head of the
commercial dept, for fifteen years,
and thus will end the commercial
courses offered at St. Mary’s.
In the Registrar’s office. Miss Sadie
E. Walker “retires” after almost four
years as a secretary. Miss Walker re
tired officially upon leaving the office
of the United States Department of
Agriculture and came to us on a
temporary basis. She has no special
plans after leaving St. Mary’s, but
says, “I’ve made nice friends here and
I’ve enjoyed being around the girls.”
Dr. Russell Broughton, for twenty-
five years organist in the chapel and
chairman of the music department,
plans retirement in May.
Dr. Moultrie Guerry, who has been
every St. Mary’s girls best beau (par
don us, “Precious”) for eight years,
says that he had reached retirement
age without knowing it. Dr. Guerry
and “Precious” plan to live in. Nor
folk, Virginia, in an apartment in the
same building they lived in for fif
teen years of their previous stay in
Norfolk. As Dr. Guerry says, “It’s
been home longer than any place
we’ve lived and it has a park in front
to remind us of St. Mary’s campus.
Dr. Guerry also hopes to continue
work with training and examining
young men for the ministry as he
has done in this diocese.
The English department will lose
Mrs. Garolyn P. Poole, a teacher for
twelve years. Mrs. Poole plans to
teach a poetry course at Meredith
next year, among other courses.
Mrs. Laura G. Nicholson will go
to Salem Gollege in Winston-Salem,
after having taught English for three
years here. Mrs. Nicholson com-
rnents, “It has been such a pleasant
and rewarding experience teaching
at St. Mary’s I’m particularly happy
to continue teaching in a girls’ school
and I look forward to teaching St.
Mary’s girls at Salem.
Also leaving this spring will be
Miss Margaret Elizabeth Nichols
who has served as assistant to the
dean for the past year. A St. Mary’s
graduate herself. Miss Nichols also
graduated from Smith Gollege. Miss
Nichols plans to continue her studies
With the possible idea of teaching at
a later date.
St Mary’s Plans 123rd Commencement
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Students Give 'Joan of Lorraine’
Joan of Arc was burned at the
stake exactly five hundred years ago
on May 30th. Yet, on the night of
May 28, she will come alive again
at St. Marv’s in the 1965 commence
ment play'JOAN OF LORRAINE.
According to Mrs. Nancy Stamey,
director, JOAN’s author has made
this into a play within a play. The
outer play shows a group of actors
rehearsing on an empty stage, pre
paring a production about her. The
story is beautifully dramatized, and
there is parallel action which occurs
outside the JOAN play proper show
ing the meaning of faith today, and
the necessity of believing in some
thing. The actress who plays the title
role thinks that the dialogue should
never show Joan compromising her
ideals, and she is ready to quit the
cast because she thinks that it is do
ing just that. However, she learns
that life is made up of many small
compromises and that she—as herself
and as Joan—has to give in on the
small issues to achieve the greatest
good. In carrying her part to the end,
“she learns the lesson Joan taught
the world, of great faith and idealism,
even though compromise ... is some
times necessary.”
Mrs. Stamey says that the cast is
“tremendous.” Of the twenty-two
members of the cast four have at
tended the Governor’s school in the
field of dramatics, and two will at
tend the School of Performing Arts
in New York City next year.
Although the majority of the group
are students, also appearing are Mr.
John Robertson, a Raleigh attorney;
Mr. Alton Buzbee, Director of Re
ligious Education at Campbell Col
lege; and Mr. Robert Connelly.
The role of Joan is played by Su
zanne Deas. This will be her first
performance at St. Mary’s. She has
done dramatic work at Ashley Hall.
Other characters are: Al, the stage
manager — Jody Burton; Assistant
Stage manager—Carol Erskine; Marie
the costumer—Joan Wickham; Pierre
d’Arc — Linda Stott, Jean d’Arc
—Jean Muchmore (brothers of Joan);
A poet at Court of Dauphin—Frances
Lewis; A scribe at the trial—Linda
Connelly; The director — Andy
Wood, State College; Duke of Tre-
moille—Jerry Pritchard, State Col
lege; Dunois—David Fore, Brough
ton; The Dauphin —Trip Plymle,
Broughton; Archbishop of Reins—
Neill Watson, Broughton; La Hire—
Mr. John Robertson; Bishop of Beau
vais—Mr. Robert Connelly; Father
Massieu—Mr. Alton Buzbee; Durand
Laxart—David Stevens, Campbell
College; Two soldiers—Randy Rick
man, Mark Ramsey (both from local
high schools).
The cast deserves the praise of the
whole student body of St. Mary’s
for the time and effort they have put
into making this an inspiring and
memorable play.
On Sunday, May 25, Dr. Guerry
presented a meaningful sermon on
the play, which will be produced for
the student body May 28.
Dr. Guerry spoke on the method
and the mood of the play, and show
ed how each of these things contrib
uted to the success of the play. He
cited several sj^eeches in which there
were references to the Bible. The
main purpose of the play, he re
marked, was to show, through Joan,
the courage and faith one must ex
hibit in the small occurrences of life
as well as the major events.
This sermon did much to broaden
each student’s awareness and enjoy
ment of Joan of Lorraine.
Graduation Plans Are
Announced
This year St. Mary’s will have it’s
one-hundred and twenty-third com
mencement exercises. The ceremon
ies will begin on Friday, May 28,
when the Dramatics Club will pre
sent the play “Joan of Lorraine ” in
the auditorium at 8; 15 P.M.
On Saturday, May 29, at 10:00
A.M., the Sophomore Class Day ex
ercises will take place. The same day
at 4:00 P.M., the Senior Class Day
exercises will be presented. That
night, at 8:30, there will be a con
cert given by the Glee Club.
On Sunday morning, at 8:00
A.M., there will be a celebration of
Lloly Communion in the Chapel.
At 11:00 A.M., there will be the
Morning Prayer and the Baccalau
reate Sermon. The sermon will be
git'en by the Reverend Thomas Eu
gene Bollinger, Rector of The
Church of The Lloly Comforter,
Burlington, North Carolina. At 4:30
P.M., the parents and graduating
classes will attend the President’s
tea at Dr. Stone's home. At 6:00
P.M., there will be step-singing in
Smedes Hall.
The Graduation exercises will take
place Monday morning. May 31, at
10:30 A.M. in the auditorium. The
speaker will be Raymond J. Seeger,
Ph.D., D.Sc., National Science
Foundation. At the end of the ser
vice, the chief marshal, Marie Kirk-
sey, will drop a white handkerchief
signifying the end of the academic
year.
In Mef
Orchesis 'Walks
Orchesis inducted five new mem
bers on May 5. They were: Drew
Brooks, Jody Burton, Laura Fonville,
Ann James and Amey Parsons. These
girls were selected in a candlelight
walk climaxed by initiation and a
party in the gym.
Sophomore Banquet
The Sophomore Class Banquet
was held at 6:30 on Tuesday, May
18, 1965, at the Angus Barn. Among
the Sophomores’ guests were Dr. and
Mrs. Poole, Miss Richardson, and
Dr. and Mrs. Stone. Following din
ner, the class sang folk-songs.
St. Mary’s Girl Bound For
France
Mary Ravenel has been accepted
for study at the Institute for Amer
ican Universities in Aix-en-Provence
France. In addition to her studies,
she will also make either field trips
or independent tours to Italy, Spain,
Germany and Switzerland.
The senior class held their annual
class day May 6. The classes were as
signed distinguishing colors to wear
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