QUEENS BLUES
May
Twenty-ninth
Mav 21, 1934
Queens-Chicora College, Charlotte, N. C.
Vol. 13 - No. 1|
Baccalaureate Sermon By Dr. Hill
Staff Members
Attend Press
Convention
Raleigh Is Scene of Last Con
vention of School Season
NEXT CONVENTION AT HIGH
POINT
Junior-Senior
Held May 11
A Big Success
Elizabeth Cassells
Was Announced Pres.
Of Sen. Class
Senior Class
To Graduate
60 Members
Class Exercises May 26. Class
Reunion to be Feature of
Day
Representing the college
publications, six students,
Jeanette Malloy and Jose
phine Foard, of the Edel
weiss ; Frances Raley and
Margaret Gilliam, of the Scep
tre; and Molly Mullen and
Betty Manning of the Queens
Blues, attended the Spring
convention of the North Caro
lina Collegiate Press Asso
ciation in Raleigh, May 3, 4, 5.
Approximately sixty-five
students registered, repre
senting Duke University,
Eastern Carolina Teacher’s
College, State College, The
Woman’s College of the Uni
versity of North Carolina,
Meredith College, High Point
College, Wake Forest, and
Queens-Chicora. Joint hosts
for the convention were State
and Meredith.
Informal talks and discus
sions groups led by men in
terested in collegiate publica
tions and active in printing
and newspaper business fol
lowed the business meeting
on Friday morning. Mr. Bell
Bradley, of The Photo Process
Co., Atlanta, Georgia, spoke
to the editors of annuals. Mr.
John Parks, The Raleigh
Times, addressed the editors
of newspapers. Mr. Jona
than Daniels, The News and
Observer, addressed the edi
tors of Magazines. Mr. A.
M. Beck, Edwards and
Broughton Company, of Ra
leigh, spoke to all business
managers.
The chaplain a St. Mary’s
College the Rev. Fletcher,
addressed the convention at
a banquet Friday evening on
the complex war alliances
of Europe when the World
War broke out and the dis
graceful armaments business,
with manufacturers in one
nation selling to another at
war with their country the
guns and shells with which to
slaughter their older country
men. His talk was a full
discussion and explanation of
several references which Dr.
Elliott made when she spoke
here on Nationalism or Inter
nationalism in this Age.
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The annual Junior-Senior
Prom was held Friday eve
ning. May 11. At eight-thirty
the guests met in the recep
tion rooms of Burwell Hall.
Those in the receiving line
wmre Elizabeth Cassels, Ruth
Grover, Hughla Lee McCol
lum, Mary Lindsay, Margaret
Trobaugh, Mrs. Lyons, and
Dr. Green.
At the banquet in Morri
son Hall, an aviation plan was
carried out in the decorations,
in the program, and in the
favors. The hall was decorat
ed with blue and yellow
streamers, the class colors,
and mixed flowers. Balloons
and airplanes hung from the
“hangers.” The table was
arranged in the shape of an
airplane. A two-course menu
was served. Music was fur
nished by Sammie Small’s
orchestra, and a reading by
Laura Black. Elizabeth Cas
sels, chairman of the prom,
was toastmistress. A toast
was made to the graduates by
Ruth Grover, president of the
Tunior olass, and answered by
Hughla Lee McCollum, presi
dent of the Senior class.
It was announced for the
first time that Elizabeth Cas
sels had been elected presi
dent of the incoming Senior
class.
After the banquet, the
proms were held on the cam-
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CLASS DAY MONDAY AFTER
NOON
Literary Societies
Unite To Form
Single Club
New Society Now
To Function As
Four Clubs
Eva HilFs Father
To Address Class
Senior Class
Meeting
The Senior class will hold
its last meeting of the year
at midnight the week of May
28. This is a secret meeting
and the exact date and place
is unknown. The program
is kept a secret from the other
classes with the exception of
the president of the incoming
Senior class to whom the
secrets and mysteries of the
meeting are confided by the
president of the outgoing
Senior class. It has also been
the custom for the Junior
class members to serenade
the Seniors after the meeting.
Plans for the commence
ment program, beginning Sat
urday, May 26, and ending
with the graduation exercises
on Tuesday, May 29, have
been copipleted.
CLASS REUNION
The program opens with
the Alumnae Baby Show at
10:30 Saturday morning. Fol
lowing this will be various
alumnae meetings and class
reunions. The Home-Coming
Luncheon will be at one
o’clock.
Reunion of the classes of
1884, 1904, ’05, ’06, ’07, 1914,
’15, ’16, ’17, 1924, ’25, ’26, and
’27 will be held.
BACCALAUREATE
SERMON
Rev. P. B. Hill, D.D., pas
tor of the First Presbyterian
Church in San Antonio, Texas,
will preach the baccalaureate
sermon Sunday night at eight
o’clock.
CLASS DAY
Class day exercises will be
held at four o’clock Monday
afternoon. On the program
will be the class song, written
by Martha Frazer, assisted
by Alice Rankin; the poem,
written by Katherine McLes-
key; the history by Florence
Moffett, the last will and tes
tament by Dot Foard, and the
prophesy by Eve Hill. Ann
McLaughlin and Jo Dan-
dridge will present the gift
to each senior.
The Art Department will
hold its exhibit from three to
six o’clock in the afternoon.
In the evening at eight o’clock
the annual concert will be
held.
GRADUATION EXERCISES
Graduation exercises will
conclude the program on
Tuesday morning at 10:30
o’clock. Dr. Samuel Mc-
Pheeters Glasgow, pastor of
the Independent Presbytrian
Church of Savannah, Georgia,
who recently held a series of
sermons at Queens, will make
the address. Mr. McAlister
Carson, chairman of the
Board of Trustees will deliver
the diplomas.
The two literary societies
0 f Queens-Chicora have
united into one organization,
in an effort to form a club
that will function as one of
the most important on the
campus.
Membership will not be
limited, and each student is
urged to become a member.
The organization will func
tion as four groups, each one
having a leader, who is to be
chosen each semester. Each
member will belong to one of
these groups, having the op
portunity to change to a dif
ferent group at the end of the
semester. The following are
the groups: Book Tea Club,
Debating Council, Dramatics
Club, and Creative Writing
Group. Each is responsible
for one program given in the
auditorium each semester. A
cup will be awarded to the
group accomplishing the most
outstanding work.
The new name for this so
ciety has not been chosen yet,
but will be made public soon.
The officers for the ensuing
year are: Mary Frances
Austelle, president, Ann Bat-
ton, vice-president; Thorburn
Lillard, secretary; Alva Ran-
son, treasurer.
Dr. P. B. Hill, A Well-Known
Author, and Lecturer, Is
Texan Minister
Senior Class
Entertained
The Senior class has been
and still is enjoying the dis
tinctions and the special de
light which come only to
Seniors.
They were entertained by
the Elks at the Elks’ Home on
Tuesday afternoon. May 8, at
4:30. The Faculty members
were also guests of the Elks’
at this time. They were en
tertained by an orchestra,
songs, and recitations. The
Senior class color scheme of
yellow and blue was carried
out in the decorations, and
refreshments were served.
Mrs. Lyon, the Senior class
sponsor, gave the Seniors a
breakfast at the S & W Cafe
teria on May 17, at 8:45.
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Dr. Pierre Bernard Hill,
father of Eve Hill, one of
Queen’s students, who is to
preach the baccalaureate ser
mon this year, is a well-known
clergyman and author.
He was born in Richmond,
Virginia, and educated in his
home state, receiving his A.B.
from Richmond College (now
the University of Richmond),
his D.D. at Hampton-Sidney
College, and his B. D. at
Union Theological Seminary.
His work, according to
Who’s Who in America, has
been varied and helpful to
humanity. While still a stu
dent, he did religious work in
the mountains and coal fields
in Virginia. After becoming
an ordained minister in the
Presbyterian church, he was
pastor successively at St.
Elmo and Lookout Mountain
churches in Lynchburg, Vir
ginia, and West End Church
in Roanoke. For four years
he was missionary to Korea.
He returned to America in
1916; and after having sev
eral charges, now resides in
San Antonio, Texas, where he
is pastor of the First Presby
terian Church.
Dr. Hill has made many
improvements in First
Church, which maintains
notable institutional features,
including a system of re
ligious education for young
people and children’s face
clinic.
During the World War, Dr.
Hill served with the Y. M. C.
A. He also lectured at muni
tion plants and railroad
shops.
He is now a trustee of the
Carnegie Public Library in
Austin Presbyterian College,
chairman of the committee
on men’s work for the Texas
Synod, chaplain of sheriffs
and marshalls of Texas and
a Mason (32° Shriner).
The books which he has
written are: The Question
naire, Studies on Korea, The
Truth About E v olution.
Handbook for Personal Work
ers and A Morning Prayer,
and Other Poems.
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