WELCOME
FRESHMAN
BLUES
VoL 17, No. 1
QUEENS CHICORA COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
OCTOBER 1, 1937
QUEENS HAS RECORD ENROLLMENT
Cut System Is
Announced By
Dr. Godard
Five Cuts Per Semester Wil
Be Given; Credit Rated
By Quality Points
Dr. Godard, dean of instruction
has announced a new cut system anc
a “quality point” system of schol
astic credit to be effective beginning
this fall. The cut used for the first
time last year was unsatisfactory
and it is hoped that the new one
will be an improvement.
This year five cuts a semester wil
be allowed in each three-hour class
Any cuts necessary for sickness wil'
be included in this number and ex
cuses will not be submitted to the
dean’s office. Overcutting will result
in loss of quality points or some
credit for the course.
The quality point system replaces
the old system of merit hours. The
faculty thinks the necessity of a stu
dent’s meriting one-third of her
courses for graduation was a stand
ard a little too exacting. Therefore
the office is now requiring 124 qual
ity points for graduation. Three
quality points are given for each se
mester hour of a course in which
she makes distinction, two for each
in which she makes merit, and so on.
The new system means that a student
must have a general average of high
pass to graduate.
Smith Chosen
Chairman of
Frosh Stunt
Stunt Night Committee Will
Be Made Up of Losing
Candidates
On Wednesday, September 29, the
three upper classes elected their
stunt night and gallery chairmen re
spectively. Stunt night is an annual
inter-class event sponsored by the
Athletic Association.
In the Senior class Jane Wiley of
Charlotte and Lillian Smith of Greer,
S. C., were elected as leaders.
The Junior class elected Frances
Marion O’Hair of Rock Hill, S. C.,
and Eleanor Alexander of Knoxville,
Tennessee, as its stunt night and
gallery chairmen. The Junior class
also elected Ruth Knee of Charlotte
as financial chairman for the year.
Virginia Smith of Charlotte was
chosen stunt night chairman for the
Sophomore class with a committee
helping her in making plana.
Girls On Deans
List Announced
Dean’s list for the first semester
of 1937-38 was recently announced by
J. F. Godard. Requirements for ad
mission to the dean’s list differ ac
cording to classes. Once a girl is
dropped she cannot be on the list
again.
Girls with this distinction for thia
semester are Alice Crowell, Edith
Gallant, Elizabeth O. Green, Helen
Hatcher, Doris Joines, Sara Little,
Elizabeth Martin, Hilda MacManus,
Katie T. Rorer, and Jane Wiley.
These girls are allowed unlimited
class cuts because of their high av
erage.
Richardson
Given Post
At Catawba
Chosen Head of Violin
Department Beginning
October Fifth
Don Richardson, familiar to Queens
girls as head of the college’s violin
department, has recently been chosen
head of the violin department of Ca
tawba College at Salisbury. Mr.
Richardson will take up his new du
ties on October 5, retaining also his
position at Queens. Tuesday will be
tbe day for his classes in Salisbury
and he hopes to organize a symphony
orchestra there also.
Richardson has announced that the
Queens-Chicora Civic Orchestra will
begin rehearsals near the first of
October. This organization was suc
cessful under his leadership last year.
Mr. Richardson conducts violin
classes in several towns near Char
lotte, besides teaching in the two
schools. He is a member of the Na
tional Academy of Musicians and has
beeen teaching in Charlotte for many
years, having instructed over 3,000
boys and girls in North Carolina.
Seven Added
To Faeulty
And Staff
Home Ec, Music, and English
Departments Add Mem
bers; Staff Increased
Mrs. Agnew Speaks
To Frosh On
College Life
“Building Your College Life” was
the subject chosen by Mrs. Virginia
Miller Agnew, dean of women, as her
welcoming address to the Queen’s
freshman class on their first college
day.
Stressing four phases of building
life to which freshmen should give
thought, Mrs Agnew pointed out first
the “building site,” which is the en
vironment during college years; the
“architect’s plan,” or the blue print
and plans for each personal life;
and “the builder’s guild,” which is
congeniality and companionship with
others; and “building sunrooms” in
their lines, which are sources of hap
piness.
Mrs. Agnew put into the minds
and hearts of the beginning class
much food for thought, and helped
the freshmen gain a clearer insight
into plans for building their college
life beneficially.
Queens-Chicora is glad to welcome
several new faculty and s’taff mem
bers. Miss Thelma Albright of Win
ston-Salem is a new edition to the
English department. For the past
few years she has been teaching in
the R. J. Reynolds High School.
While there she was head of the
dramatic society “Harlequin”
well as the council. She is a graduate
of Greensboro College and Duke
University.
To the Home Economics Depart
ment comes Miss Lycia M. Payne o#
Claremont, Ga. She is a graduate of
York State College and Peabody.
She was head of the I^me Economics
departments at Choane, Elon, and
Central Colleges.
Mrs. Charles Moseley is returning
to Queens-Chicora as head of our
music department. She is organist at
the Myers Park Presbyterian Church.
Miss, Mary J. Lebby of Charlotte
is now in charge of the college in
firmary. She has been with Dr. Ad
dison G. Brenizer for a number of
years and she has had several years
experience with the medical pro
fession.
Mrs. Annie Watson of Anderson,
S. C. is back with us as housekeeper
after her summer vacation.
In the bookroom we have
manager and bookkeeper. Miss Vir
ginia Hutcheson of Arburn, Ky.*For
the past year she. has been book
keeper at Espiritu Sante Springs and
Hotel near Clearwater, Fla.
Our own Frances Smith of Greer,
S. C., is now secretary to Dr. J. M.
Godard, dean of instruction.
S. C. A. Cabinet
Elects Officers
Candlelight Service
Held By S. C. A.
On Sunday Night
The Student Christian Association
held recognition service for the new
girls last Sunday night in the audi
torium at 6 o’clock. This was the
traditional candlelight service of the
organization.
Miss Louise Crane, president of the
S.C.A. Cabinet, introduced the mem
bers and explained the function and
organization of the body. Response
from the freshman class was made
jy Miss Jean Ferguson of Chicago,
llinois.
The service closed with a proces
sion of new students, dressed in
white, to the front of the auditorium,
where Miss Crane lit each candle in
the annual ceremony.
At the S.C.A.’s first meeting of
the year three new officers were
elected. Alice Longinecker, chairman
oP church work; Margaret Duckett,
co-chairman (with Barbara Shatzer)
of social work; Virginia Smith,
sophomore representative on social
cabinet.
Plans were discussed for fixing the
back rooms as a foreign mission con
ference room with material from
Africa, Brazil, and China. The cabi
net has bought new books for the
room—mission study books and
others, among them How to Win
Friends and Influence People. Ves
per plans for the year were dis
cussed. The work of the cabinet has
always been worthwhile and it will
undoubtedly be so this year.
427 Girls Register
Festival To
Be Held On
October 5th
Famous Musical Artists To Be
Presented at Armory By
Goodfellows Club
Tuesday, October 5, both morn
ing and afternoon, seven great art
ists will be presented in the city
auditorium of Charlotte, N. C. The
Charlotte Musical Festival will pre
sent four artists on the afternoon
program and all seven at night, com
posing a musical event that is almost
breath-taking in its significance.
Musical history will be made by
the combined performances of Jose
Iturbi, the master pianist of his day;
Elisabeth Rethberg, one of the great
operatic singers of our time; John
Charles Thomas, acclaimed as Amer
ica’s leading baritone; Kathryn*
Meisle, that young woman with the
marvelous contralto voice and de
lightful personality; Charles Hackett,
of the Metropolitan and a singer of
delightful songs; Jeannette Vreeland,
the famous American soprano, ac
claimed for her beauty and her art;
Iso Briselli, the young Russian vio
linist, who is rapidly coming to the
front as one of the greatest violin
ists of his day. Mr. Briselli has al
ready made a name for himself, and
was acclaimed great when he ap-
peared with all the leading sym
phonies last season. Elisabeth Reth
berg is taking the place of Gina
Cigna, the Metropolitan’s new sen
sational dramatic soprano. She is
not allowed to come to this country
due to her being held by Mussolini
in Italy.
Tbe Charlotte Musical Festival is
a very rare opportunity for the peo
ple of the Carolinas. Few ^ill ever
have this privilege again. It is hoped
that the Queens-Chicora students
will take advantage of this unusual
chance. Mr. David Ovens, of the Char
lotte Goodfellows Club, which is
sponsoring the festival, states that
blocks of seats are already held by
Davidson, Winthrop, Queens, Con
verse, and Coker Colleges.
Growth of Queens - Chicora
Over Period of Eighty
Years Is Amazing
Brown Elected
Athletic Head
Due to the fact that Josephine
McDonald, last year elected to the
office of president of the Athletic
Association, has resigned from her
office, Harriet Brown is president of
the association for this year. Jo was
elected president of Gamma Gamma
chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta and
could not hold both offices. Harriet
has been active in athletics and will
discharge her office creditably.
Godard Speaks
At P!.T.A. Council
On Character
Dr. Godard, Queens’ dean of in
struction, spoke last Saturday be
fore the Charlotte Council of Parents
and Teachers’ school of instruction
on Essential Problems in Education.
The general theme of the meeting
was “The Best Possible School for
the Best Possible Child.”
Dr. Godard laid much stress on
character. He said that “character is
the most important nucleus in the
home,” emphasizing fact that educa
tion must be tbe result of combined
efforts of parents and teachers in the
home and school respectively. Dr.
Godard stated that there are two
types of objectives for improved edu
cation. “They are the remote future
and the current needs of the pres
ent. We are prone to look into the
future and fail to see that which is
around us.”
Others prominent in Charlotte edu
cational circles were speakers at the
meeting.
A total enrollment of 427 girls,
boarders, Charlotte girls, and com
muters, makes history at Queens
this year. This is the first time in
the existence of the college that the
number of students has been so large.
The number of new girls, including
transfers, totals almost 200. The
dormitories are full to overflowing.
Dr. Frazer, the president, states that
the total enrollment from September
to May last year was only 40t. He
says that if the number comes up
to the precedent of previous years,
he expects this year’s gross enroll
ment to reach 450 by commencement.
This is a surprising and gratifying
increase, a justification of its eighty-
one years of hstory.
Eighty-one years ago, Queens-
Chicora College was the dream of a
few ambitious Presbyterians who
realized the necessity of an immedi
ate educational center for young
women. In the year 1856, a stock
company was organized to meet such
a need and Reverend and Mrs. Rob
ert Burwell were selected to head a
small institution in Charlotte called
Charlotte Female Institute.
In 1901, the name of the college
which had now been taken over by
the Presbyterians of the vicinity, was
changed to the Presbyterian College
for Women; and in 1912, when the
college was moved to its present lo
cation in Myers Park, the name was
again changed to Queens College.
Eighteen years later Chicora Col
lege in Columbia, S. C. was merged
with Queens and the present name,
Queens-Chicora was decided upon.
With this merger, Queens-Chicora
was now owned and controlled by
tbe Synod of South Carolina and
three of the Presbyteries of North
Carolina. With Dr. W. H. Frazer as
president, Queens-Chicora set out to
make herself a leading women’s col
lege of the South and in 1933 a part
of this goal was attained when she
was admitted into the Southern As
sociation of Grade A Colleges.
From then on, she has seen rapid
development and unceasing progress.
National organizations are prominent
on t^e campus; improvements in the
plant are made yearly and every
year, more and more students enroll
and we know that our college is out
standing among Southern institu
tions.
Sophomores Will
Elect Officers;
Plan Rat Week
On Wednesday, September 22, the
Sophomore class elected Hannah Mc
Nulty, treasurer, and Georgie Hurt,
chairman, of Rat Week.
The president will be elected at a
future date. It is to be regretted
that Marguerite Buffman, elected
last spring to the presidency, due to
illness, is unable to return to her
office this year. It has been decided
that the officers will not move up to
fill the vacancy as previously an
nounced, but that the class will elect
a new head.
Rat Week, an annual affair, plan
ned and conducted by the Sopho
mores, will be held in about a month.
Georgie Hurt will announce the com
mittee to serve with her at a later
date.