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lisheH Weekly By The Students of Queens-Chicora College
OUEENS-CHICORA COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, nTcT
Mav 5, 1939
High School Seniors
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Dr. Archibald Rutledge
Speaks Wednesday, May 10
Dr. Archibald Rutledge, poet lau
reate of South Carolina, will speak
in the college auditorium Wdnesday
night, May 10, at 8:15. He is being
sponsored by the senior class.
A native of South Carolina, Dr.
Rutledge has written stories and
poetry depicting life on the Carolina
coast. His works include 17 books
of prose, 10 of poetry, and numerous
magazine articles.
After 30 years, as a teacher, writer,
and naturalist. Dr. Rutledge has re
turned to his 2000-acre ancestral estate
near Charleston, S. C., to devote
his time to writing. Sometime ago,
he retired as head of the English
department at Mercersbury Academy
in Pennsylvania to assume tbe role
of master of a great plantation.
Dr. Rutledge was born at Mc-
Clellanville in 1883 and attended Por
ter Military Academy as a boy. He
received a bachelor of science de
gree in biology and English at Union
College, New York, in 1904. He then
worked with the Washington Post for
six months, after which he resigned
to take the position at Mercersburg.
In 1907, he married Miss Frances
Hart of Virginia. They had three
sons, W'ho are all now grown and in
professions. His wife died in 1935:
and a year and a half later he mar
ried a childhood friend. Miss Alice
Lucas, of Spartanburg.
Dr. Rutledge was appointed South
Carolina’s poet laureate by the late
Governor Ibra C. Blackwood soon
after the Legislature created the post
in 1932.
The author has been awarded the
degree of Doctor of Literature hy the
University of South Carolina, Union
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College, Franklin and Marshall, and
Washington and Lee. The University
of South Carolina also has awarded
him the Phi Beta Kappa key for
scholarship achievements.
In writing. Dr. Rutledge is said to
observe a sort of literary creed. “A
literary gift is a high trust that ought
to be maintained,” he says. “The legi
timate field of art is beauty and
truth.”
In addition to the books of Dr.
Rutledge that have been ])ubllshed in
America, many of his works have
been published abroad.
Tickets are on sale for the lecture
at 50 cents apiece. After the lecture
an informal reception will be given
by Dean Virginia Miller Agnew, to
which the faculty, English majors of
the college and guests from the city
who attend the lecture will he in
vited.
• • 'Pimms of Winnsboro, May Queen, and Sally
Left to ^ Courtesy of Ckartott. News.
McDowell of Pacolet, S. C., mam
May Day Festivals
Held On Front Campus
The annual May Day festivals at
Queens-Chicora College will be held
this afternoon at 4:00 o’clock on the
front campus of the college.
Marjorie Timms of Winnsboro,
C., will be crowned Queen of the
^ay by her maid-of-honor, Sally Me
trowel! of Pacolet, S. C. Maids of
the May court will be Adele Suther
land of Charlotte, Nancy Hovis of
Charlotte, Elizabeth Brammer of
Christiansburg, Va., Analane Chears
of Pageland, S. C., Brooksie Fdger
of Charlotte, June Escott of Char
lotte, Virginia Hickman of Fort
Smith, Ark., Vashti Gornto of Wil-
oiington, Frances Stough of Cornel
ius, Frances Ehrhardt of Pinehurst,
Sara Durant of Newton, Iowa, Anne
duller of BulTalo, Ala., Gentry Burks
of Charlotte, Mary King of Columbia,
S- C., Frances Lowrance of Barium
Springs, Keller Young of Whitmire,
S- C., Marjorie Poole of Mullins,
S- C., Tiny Waddill of Charlotte,
liecky Tucker of Charlotte, Doris
Italey of Ruby, S. C., Cornelia Trues-
her love
one. Characters in
dule of Kerslmw. S. C., Anne Pnrnel
Charlotte, Snoodie .Matheson of
Bennettsville, S. C., and Mary Cath
erine Martin of Hichhur(r, S. C.
. f Aifiv Dav will be in
The theme of May .
!fi, the old traditional
connection with the ok
Idea that if a lady's (tardea '
affair will he a successful
the skit will be
Winnie Shealy of (iastonia an old-
fashioned lady; Maryaret Flowe of
Derltn, a ra,t(ted scarecrow; Jenny
Linn Wriglit of Landis, ram; and
AnTe Mauldin of Charlotte, a frog.
Other students will portray gard^
ers, flowers, and members of the
^ PeggJ' Bridges, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Kenneth M. Bridges of 130
Cherokee road, will he the crown
bearer. Elizabeth Labouisse, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Labouisse
of 232 Cherokee road, will be the
flower girls.
Miss Cordelia Henderson of Char
head of the physical education
(^Continued on page six)
Commencement Preacher
And Speaker Announced
Dr. John Miller Wells of Sumter,*
S. C., has been cbosen to preach the
baccalaureate sermon of Queens-
Chicora College this year, and Dr.
Howard E. Rondthaler, president of
Salem College, has been selected to
deliver the commencement address.
Commencement exercises this year will
continue through Tuesday, May 30.
The first event of the final' exercises
will be the annual Alumnae Baby
show to be held Saturday morning.
May 27, in the college auditorium,
and will be followed by the alumnae
home-coming luncheon at 1:00 o’clock
in the Morrison hall dining room.
Sunday evening at 8:00 o’clock Dr.
Wells will preach the baccalaureate
sermon. Dr. Wells is the pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church of
Sumter. He was formerly pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church of
Wilmington and afterwards president
of Columbia Theological Seminary.
He has been moderator of the general
assembly of the Presbyterial Church
of the United States, and is one of
the outstanding ministers of the
South.
The board of trustees will hold a
meeting in Burwell hall Monday
morning. May 29. Monday afternoon,
the senior class will have class day
e.xercises on the front campus. Mar
jorie Timms is president of the
senior class.
The final commencement exercises
will be held in the auditorium of the
college Tuesday morning. May 30, at
10:30 o’clock. McAlister Carson of
Charlotte, chairman of the board of
trustees, will preside. Dr. Rondthaler
{Continued on page six)
Dorothy Carson^s
Senior Recital
Miss Mary Wharton, head of the
jiiano department of Queens-Chicora
College, presented her senior pupil,
Dorothy Carson of Mooresville, in her
graduating recital in the college audi
torium, Tuesday evening May 2 at
8:15 o’clock.
Dorothy’s program was as follows:
“Twm Love Waltzes” for two Pianos
by Brahms-Maier, Miss Wharton at
the second piano; “Gay But Wist
ful” by Grainger, Miss Wharton at
the second piano; “Prelude and Fugue
in B Flat Major” by Bach; “Etude
G Flat Major Op. 25, No. 9” by
Chopin; “Nocturne, F Major Op. 23,
No. 4” by Schumann; “Andalucia”
by I^cuona; “The Girl With The
Flaxen Hair” by Debussy; “En
Bateau” by Debussy; “Turkey in the
Straw” by Guion; and “Concerto in
D Minor (First Movement)” by
Rubinstein, Miss Wbarton at the
second piano.
The ushers for the recital were
Eleanor Guyton of Kosciusko, Miss.,
Eleanor Alexander of Knoxville,
Tenn., Enid Waggett of St. Charles,
S. C., Natalie Niven of Charlotte,
Victoria Hammond of Kosciusko,
Miss., and Annie Laurie Anderson
'Rodin.
Dorothy possessed beautiful, pian-
istic talent, demonstrated fluent
technique, fine tone, excellent rhythm,
and variety of shading. The program
embraced compositions of tbe Classic,
Romantic, Impressionistic and Mod-
Guests View
Exercises of
May Festival
Queens-Chicora has as its visitors
today high school students from North
Carolina and South Carolina. They
are here to witness the May Day
exercises and to see the college.
Members of Alpha Kappa Gamma,
national leadership fraternity, will
greet the high school students and
register them in Burwell Hall this
morning, At 1:00 the visitors will he
honored with a luncheon in the Mor
rison Hall dining room. After lunch
they will make a tour of the campus
and buildings. Members of Alpha
Kappa Gamma will conduct the visi
tors on the tour.
At 3:00 o’clock they wdll assemble
in the auditorium where Dr. W. H.
Frazer, president of the college, will
give them an official welcome. A short
program will follow at which time
Miss Ethel King, head of the dram
atics department, will present mem
bers of her department in a one-act
play.
The main event of the day will he
held on the front campus at 4:00
o’clock when the girls wdll see Mar
jorie Timms crowned queen of the
May. Immediately after the corona
tion the six national sororities on
the campus will entertain at open
houses at the sorority lodges for tlie
guests.
Dean Agnew is in charge of the ar
rangements for the entertainment of
the visitors and she is being assisted
hy Alpha Kappa Gamma of which
Eleanor Alexander is the retiring
jiresident and Virginia Smith is the
newly-elected president. Other mem
bers of Alpha Kappa Gamma who will
help entertain the visitors are Helen
Hatcher of Winchester, Va., Anne
Fuller of Buffalo, Ala., Olive Cros-
well of Asheville, Helen Cumnock
of Davidson, ^Mildred Lowrance of
Mooresville, Sallj" McDowell of Paco
let, S. C., Sarah Durant of Newton,
Iowa, Georgie Hurt, I.ucille Gwait-
ney. Sue Mauldin, and Ermine Wad-
dill, all of Charlotte.
The six sororities which will enter
tain the guests at open houses are
Tlieta Gamma chajjter of Chi Omega,
Alpha Omicron chapter of Kapjja
Delta, Gamma Gamma chapter of Plii
Mu, Beta Iota chapter of Alpha Delta
Pi, Gamma Gamma chapter of Alpha
Gamma Delta, and Psi chapter of
Alpha Delta Theta.
ern Schools. Particularly enjoyable
were the charming double-piano num
bers with Miss Wharton at the second
piano. The high light of the program
was in the playing of the First Move
ment of Concerto in D Minor hy
Rubenstein, with Miss Wharton at
the second piano. In this movement
she demonstrated a masculine power,
bravura technique, and excellent con
trol. In short, she proved her mastery
of the instrument.
A large audience was generous in
their applause of the young student
who has chosen the field of teaching
as her profession.
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