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QUEENS BLUES
May 18, 1935
QUEENS BLUES
Member North Carolina Collegiate Press Association
Pounded by the Class of 1922
Published Semi-Monthly by the Students of Queens-Chicora College
Subscription Rate: $2.50 the Collegiate Year
EDITORIAL
Editor-in-Chief
-Business Manager
Faculty Advisor
Assistant Editor
News Editor
Feature Editor
--Exchange Editor
Society Editor
^ A lumnae Editor
STAFF
BBtTTY Manning
Margaret Gilliam
Agnes Stout, M.A., Pii.D
Anne Batten
Martha Ware Pitts
May Lebby Smith
Louise Holland
Margaret Trobaugh
Dorothy Ehrhardt
Virginia Senn Sports Editor
Margaret True Day Student Editor
Mary Louise Davidson._ Assistant Day Student Editor
Jean Stough Circulation Manager
Caroline Wharton Assistant Circulation Manager
Virginia Senn and Mary Lindsay Copy Readers
Elizabeth Maynard and Roberta Kilgore Proof Readers
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Catherine Jordan Assistant Business Manager
Carolyn Hodge Assistant Business Manager
Elizabeth Sullivan Assistant Business Manager
Rose Ellen White Assistant Business Manager
Elizabeth Maynard Assistant Business Manager
Reporters
Martha May Asbury, Mary Currie, Sarah Hunnsucker, Elizabeth
Faison, Helen Stroupe, Frances Query, Mary Elizabeth Moore,
Frances Sellers, Georgia Underwood, Sarah Lily Liles, Thornburn
Lillard, Frences Miller, Hazel Ritch, Eugenia Laffitte, Nancy
Timberlake Ruth Morrison, Lura Coffey.
AND WHO ARE THESE STUDENTS?
A Dream Come True
Her name tells you many things
about her—of her petiteness for
one thing and of her daintiness for
another. She’s one of the loveliest
girls that ever hit the Queens-
Chicora campus . . .'Gravity con
tests are hers for the asking. She’s
as inconsistent as champagne
bubbling in a beer stein . . . she’s
like a fragile, Dresden China
shepherdess playing a saxophone
. . . you’d like to wrap her in
tissue paper and pink ribbon, but
she prefers blue with silver stars.
Those long lashes were just made
to look coyly under, but you
should see her wink at a football
captain. She’s a lover of the
classical, but she can sling a
smooth line on a dance floor . . .
sweet . . . lovable . . .
She’s capable- an honor student
and a leader of honorary clubs.
She should be able to converse
fluently with Latins, Frenchmen,
or Englishmen. Perhaps she con
templates a life of travel . . .
meeting fascinating peopole and
seeing things.
The gal has writing talent too
. . . publications . . . Coronet . . .
one of the founders of the poetry
club. She’s a dream come true—
beauty and brains combined in
harmony.
A Diplomat At Heart
She’s nonchalant . . . wears a
tan polo coat and a brown toque
matching the fiery brown of her
eyes . . . grunts acquaintances
with a casual “Hey” . . . blonde
hair and brown eyes ... a peppy
swing to her walk ... an exciting
voice . . . maybe a rose scarf or a
blue one . . . and you remember
her.
She’s alive and vibrant with
:deas . . . She writes with zip . . .
whenever ye editors congregate,
she’s among those present. She at
tends journalistic conventions at
Carolina with much more than
writing enthusiasm . . . great
things are expected from her
writing talent.
She’s a diplomat at heart . . .
knows everything about every
body, (but she won’t tell) ... an
individual . . . should like “Christ-
mast Night in Harlem” and “She’ll
Be Coming Around The Moun
tain.”
She is a leading “socialite” of
Charlotte and has more fun. She’s
the rare individual who can mix
business and pleasure and be “the
top” of both.
A painting by Rembrandt—
Martha Ward.
Turn to Page 4, Co!. 3, for the names of
these Students
A TRIBUTE TO THE DESERVING.
Just now everyone seems to be facing all the new officers and
workers, and the retiring ones are slowly receding into the dimming
background of 1934-1935. But befoi’e the change is complete, I want
to pause and give a cheer for the out-going staff of the Queens-Blues.
There has been no time in our hectic staff meetings to sing praises,
but the staff does deserve all that I can give. They have been the
backbone, the essentials, in this year’s newspaper work. Without
them the Blues could never have been.
To the staff I say—just two words, but I mean them sincerely—
“THANK YOU.” BETTY MANNING.
FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW.
It’s all been a great adventure editing the Blues this year. It’s
been a venture too, and an even changing one. It has been fun and
work, pleasure and pure agony. It has been comical and tragic. But
it has always been interesting. Editing the paper has been an ex
perience and a unique education for each of this year’s staff. We
hope that for the new staff it will always be as interesting and
never unpleasant.
And as we pause now in the midst of Exams to view the year’s
journalistic work before we hand over the dummy sheets, we recog
nize some success, some failure. We can be moderately proud that
we have broadened the news field of the Blues. There is satisfaction
in knowing that we have raised the standard of our journalistic
expression and have developed a ti'ue newspaper style. We can take
pride in the six-page issues we have published. We can boast of our
scoops and rush editions. But the greatest satisfaction comes with
the knowledge that we have some constructive ideas to pass on to
you. But we see so many gaps that stand for our failures. And yet
there is consolation in the fact that these are landmarks and markers,
not pitfalls, for the new staff, for we can tell them and show them
why we failed.
There is, however, cne thing that turns our eyes from the past to
the future—The New Staff!! Under the leadership of Thorburn Lillard
and Martha Petteway, the Queens Blues is certain to become an
improved college paper. Both of the staff heads for 1935-1936 have
proved their ability and tact, their leadership in executive positions.
Everything which they have managed has been a success.' Both seem
to possess that rai'e gift of organizing the jobs and the people.
And to make the year seem even brighter, the team of Lillard and
Petteway and the entire editorial and business staffs have that
famous Sophomore Pep!!J
The temptation is great to say, “Godspeed and Bon 'Voyage!!’ but
instead weTl cry, “It’s forty words to the inch, and copy must be
in on time.!!” “Bottoms up” then, and here’s to you. You are bound
to win, for you have what it takes—spirit, ability, the will to do,
an appreciation of co-operation, and The headers!!!
JUST SO MUCH INK
TO THE RETIRING STAFF.
Here’s to the retiring editor and staff of the Queens Blues. For a
year we have watched you at your work, scouting the campus for
news, madly pursuing tardy reporters, reading copy and proof, con
tacting advertisers, and making up the paper. We have admired the
skill, efficiency, and perseverance that you have shown on all oc
casions. Especially do we wish to congratulate Betty Manning, re
tiring editor-in-chief of the Blues, on her splendid work this year.
She has truly done her share to aid in the progress that Queens-
Chicora has made this year. Under her leadership, the Blues has taken
some very definite steps forward in accordance with the plan of the
In Dr. Tom Sykes’ address the
other night he mentioned one Sir
Phillip Gibbs. He forgot to men
tion the fact, however, that this
Gibbs was one of those who did
not see the war from the battle
ground at all. He held a com
fortable seat on the side lines and
frlm that point described its
panorama so convincingly that he
received a knighthood from King
George. We are told he later re
lieved his conscience by writing
what is now an almost unknown
book. I mean Now It Can Be
Told. I wanted to ask Dr. Sykes
has it been told. I don’t believe
it has. I doubt whether it ever
will be. I mean, told so that peo
ple will listen. Journey’s End told
the English side; What Price
Glory, the American; All Quiet
On the Western Front, the Ger
man. But have we listened? I
think not. I have heard it said
that if any one has told it, it was
Siegfried Sassoon. But who reads
Sassoon? The English? Perhaps?
Very few. All I know is that it
should be told. All of it should be
told in such a way that we would
listen and not fail to understand.
Four years ago, William Lyon
Phelps published an Armistice
Day challenge that should be read
by every American. “In the next
big war, for which the world is
now eagerly preparing,” said Pro
fessor Phelps, “those who die will
be the lucky ones; for the con
ditions which follow the next war
will be worse than the war itself.”
He gave his ideas of the two
Campus Comment
Congratulations to the creative
writing group, Martha Dulin and
Mrs. Lyon. The play was a beau
tiful success, dignified, stately,
and charming. Clare made anoth
er lovely queen, her third. Elsie
Setzer was a handsome George.
The Duchesses were ridiculous,
and I think more movements such
as these should be sponsored on
Queens’ campus. The students
should be blessed out good and
proper, for not supporting the
play. Charlotte citizens were more
responsive than the college girls.
strongest indivi dualities that
emerged from the World War:
Lenin and Mussolini. “The best
thing we ecan say of Mussolini is
that he saved Italy from Lenin- | fuss at ”
ism. If I had to choose between
the present Italian dictatorship
and the present Russian dictator
ship, I should not hesitate a mo
ment. But there is something bet
ter than either: “Liberty.”
Where do we stand as stu
dents ? Are we looking backward
or forward? Are we for Ameri
canism and all that it stands for;
“religion, morality, liberty, repre
sentative government, domestic
and international peace,” or are
we against all this? In one of
Thoreau’s speeches he exclaimed,
“There’s a good time coming!” A
man in the audience cried out,
“Can you name the date? Thor-
eau replied, “Will you help it
along ”
There’s nothing like doing a lit
tle investigating when you want
to find things out! For three
years now, I’ve heard little side
remarks about “plain ole veg
etables,” “same ole meat,” “noth
ing different,” etc. Evidently some
one was displeased about some
thing. I looked around and, not
finding anyone anaemic on the
campus, decided that everyone
was eating heartily, anyway.
Well, by way of making a short
column long, I appointed myself
to lunch of the bread and water
(?)—and found, to my surprise,
desserts, salads, soups, and even
.spring onions! Now, maybe I
haven’t hit any off days, maybe
I’m starved at home, maybe Tm
just not particular, but I do know
good food when I eat it. And I’ve
noticed quite a few of the—er—
dissatisified lingering at the
tables. Or is the reason for that,
the sight of so many merry class
mates ? Anyhow, why don’t you
pick on some one your size to
AROUND THE CAMPUS AND
IN THE CLASS ROOMS: Spoke
Pidge Lafitte to Dr. Delano:
“You’re just trying to make a
problem child out of me”
Isabelle Read took her first cut
this year and spent the hour down
at the union playing and singing
hymns for consolance .... Mrs,
Townend advised her class to
put their misspelt words in their
mirrow so they could take a peep
It them now and then. Edith Creig
informed her that if she put all
her words up, there would be
no room left to see herself
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This year, as all years, has
brought to light certain unfor-
getable characters—unforgeta b 1 e
not because of what they’ve done,
average, but because of what they
are, too. I shall remember Marg
aret Crccker as I first saw her
in September, speaking Spanish
hurriedly. I shall remember the
boom of Mary Phillips’ voice in
the Junior stunt. I shall never for
get the click of knitting needles,
which in turn remind one of
Martha Ware Pitts. When I think
of Dr. Delano, I see her waiting
for Dr. Ninniss’ signal—and then,
like a little girl, joyfully turning
the organ switch on in chapel. I
always associate books with Em
ma Renn Jones—books of poetry
and songs. And Trobough doesn’t
make me think of Morristown—
she reminds me that she has a
giggle I like—because she laughs
as if it were loads of fun. I can’t
forget Sara Lily Liles, because she
doesn’t suit a name like that. And
Doodle Dulin does. We have the
characters, all right, but where is
the successor to Sue Tyler Jop-
ling?
college that it and everything about it shall grow and Improve. We
hope that we shall be able to “carry on” in a' manner worthy of
the example set for us by our predecessors and continue to make
the Queens Blues a newspaper of interest and value to our college.
HERE’S TO YOUR SUMMER.
The Queens Blues wishes every Queens-Chicora faculty member
and student a most enjoyable and entertaining summer vacation
To the seniors first of all, we are saying au revoir, not adieu for
we expect them to visit us often next year and in the succeeding
years. However, we advise them to undertake first of all to rest
for believe us, they will need it after all their entertainments, exam
inations, and graduation exercises.
To the faculty and students who will return next fall, we also
say an revoir. We wish them a happy vacation whether m Florida
or m Mame, in the mountains or at the seashore. And, In about a
month s time, we will be looking forward with great anticipation to
meeting here again in the fall. ^
Oh why, oh why, don’t we di
something about the campus in
front of Morrison? It could be a
beauty spot, if given a little atten
tion. Perhaps the benches that
were on back campus could be
put there, and the side door to
the dining hall used some. I’d like
to see girls using that lawn for
something other than scenery from
a Morrison window.
And, not as a post-mortem, but
as a finishing touch to a well
rounded year, may I sing the
praises of Betty Manning, our
editor ? She has worked those
blonde curls almost off this year.
There wil never be another edi
tor quite like her, quite as pa
tient, or as methodical, or as per-
servering. She has upheld the
highest standards of journalism
and deserves handshakes, back-
slaps and hats-off!