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QUEENS BLUES
March 20, 1940
QUEENS BLUES
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STAFF
Ebmink Waddili. Editor-in-chief
Elizabeth Imbody Business Managei
Aokeb Stout, Ph.D Faculty Adviser
EDITORIAL
Judith Killiak Associate Editor
Jeak Neu News Editor
Sabah Thompsoit Feature Editor
Alice Barhox Society Editor
Akne Peyton Sports Editor
Gentry Burks Exchange Editor
Harriet Scoooin Poetry Editor
Frances Riddle Music Editor
Naomi Rouse Typist
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Elizabeth Summerville Assistant Business Manager
Geneive Hosmer Advertising Manager
Elizabeth Taylor Circulation Manager
Mary Alice Petteway Asst. Circulation Manager
REPORTERS
Ellen Hardee, Mary Payne, Nelle Bookout, Eliza
beth Brammer, Ann Mauldin, Pete Munro, Mary Jane
Hart, Patsy Niven, Mary Maynard Spencer, Rac
Shanklin, Alice Payne, Maurine Latta, Annette Mclver,
Susanna Millvree, Irene Davis, Norma Humphies, Nancy
Jane Dandridge, and Charlotte Williams.
ADVERTISING STAFF
Esther Vause, Elizabeth Meyer, Jean Brown, Betty
Love, Mary Lsizenby, Margaret Holland, Ruth Civil,
Mildred Taylor, Martha Baldwin.
THANKS
Now' that all the elections for the officers to
serve for next year are being completed today,
The Blues staff would like to take this oppor
tunity to express its appreciation to those who
have so capably served for this year.
First, there comes Anne Fuller who has served
as a most efficient and energetic president of our
student body. Anne has backed everything w'hich
has been sponsored on the campus and her enthu
siasm has been responsible for the success of many
projects. She has been an ideal for others to look
up to and has helped the freshmen no end from
the time of orientation up until now when they
are almost full-fledged members of the rising
sophomore class. Thanks, Anne, for a good year
with a lot of good times!
Scottie McNulty has served as an unsurpassed
president of the boarding students. She has led the
boarders in following the “straight and narrow
path” and everyone will hate to see her come to
the end of her path. Thanks, Scottie, for all the
privileges you have given us!
Dot Duckett has been in office as the president
of the day students. She has pushed all day stu
dent activities and we are sure the day student
spirit has improved one hundred per cent. Blair
Union has received good care under her direc
tion- Thanks, Dot, for bringing up the student
school spirit!
I.ucille Gwaltney, who has served as president
of the Student Christian Association, certainly de
serves words of commendation. Her inspiration
has been responsible for several projects success
fully carried out in S.C.A. The Y Hut has under
gone a complete redecoration and the spring serv
ices certainly w'ere a high note in the school
year. Thanks, Lucille, for keeping up the Chris
tian ideals on this campus !
Martha Stoner, })resident of the Athletic As
sociation, has ])ut all she had into her job. She
was right down there in the gym for every game
and tournament played. This year, we feel that
much has been accomplished in the athletic de
partment. Interest in the department has risen
to high degrees. Thanks, Martha, for making us
more athletic conscious !
In closing, w'e would like to say that we have
tried to co-operate with all of you, and the help
you gave us has certainly been appreciated. Good
luck to you all, and best of luck to the incoming
officers!
FROM ONE CUZ
TO ANOTHER
Dear Duty Dodger;
Today, when I was spying around trying to
get some last minute dope to send you to read
while you are dodging work, I was stopped by one
of the girls asking me if I knew that a “slow leak
is a steady drip.” I thought of you immediately
and tried even harder to hear a few forbidden bits
of tripe.
I never could find out just exactly what it was
she was trv'ing to work out the other day, but
Ruth Wilkes was sure trying to figure out some
thing. They tell me it was something in con
nectioii with John Stuart. She has been seen
with him quite frequently lately and likes him a
lot.
Several other girls in the student body have
acquired rings in the past two or three weeks or
so. They all declare that Leap Year has had
nothing in the world to do with it, and I will surely
take their words for it. I can’t decide whether
the faces of Callie McElroy and Dot McCoy
are beaming brighter these days or whether it’s
the reflection of the beautiful rings they are wear
ing on their left hands.
Dr. Byrd has four girls in his economics class
who are wearing rings and thev' have certainly
been good about a lot of teasing when the class
was discussing budgets and home ownership, 'riie
two girls I mentioned above and Gioi Brandon
and Elaine Suijer have all had their times in
that class. Vihoinia Spoon is still wearing that
ring she got last Christmas and he still comes
to see her every week-end.
Keller Young has had a visitor whom she seem
ed quite glad to see. I think his name is John
but I can’t promise, when I have to get my news
in the way I do- She is going to New York to
morrow with Miss Robinson, Frannie Riddle,
and Miss Williams. They certainly have planned
a full week of holiday entertainment.
One of the gals told me to get on the trail of
Snoodie Matiieson and try and find out what
she is so happy about but she keeps mighty smug
about it all. I guess everybody has a right,
though, to be happy in this pretty weather. I’ll
leave it at that, anyway.
Jean Dulin, who came here from W.C.U.N.C.
after first semester, is of the firm belief that you
should never trust one of your good friends. She
says not to turn your back and be absent from
said friend for too long a time!
Bert Setzeh is making big jilans for that wed
ding she’s going home to be in in April. Sounds
plenty good to me and I’m going to get a per
sonal interview with her afterwards to see if some
of her plans worked out the way she hopes they
will.
If you ever have any trouble getting an answer
from a particularly good friend at a boys’ school
not far from here, ask Tina Ghainger how she
ffot around the obstacle. It seems there was al-
most a break-up there but a 1(5 page letter straight
ened things up, I hear. ('Uiat boys’ school doesn’t
always have to be Dav’idson! There are several
around here.)
Jean Ferguson has been seeing an awful lot of
that Davidson lad latelv. Bv the wav, in connec-
tion with that, she is the chairman of the junior-
senior banquet which is supposed to be given April
27, but the date is indefinite because some David
son dances are being given that same week-end-
Helen Pope went to P. C. two week-ends ago
for a set of dances. She bought a lovely new
evening dress and brought it back a “little worse
for tlie weai\” She says people just wouldn’t
stay off' the hem of her dress. She reports that
she left him all right and has high hopes of seeing
more of him in the near future.
Well, everybody is leaving tomorrow for spring
holidays. I’ll write you again as soon as they get
back and I have a chance to see who all makes up
and breaks up. You know, when spring is in the
weather, there’s nothing like all the things that
may happen!
Best of bunnies to you in the Easter Parade,
Your Hear-All-Tell-All Cousin.
My First Year
As A Golf Official
By Ciiari.es Evans, Jr.
(Former National, also Western,
Open; National Amateur, also West
ern Amateur Champion; Chairman,
National Collegiate Athletic Associa
tion Golf Ckimmittee.)
There is an untold story of the
dramatic happenings of my golf life
after I lost my championshij) equal
of a present day novel in action, in
drama and in heart throbs, and could
apply ])robably to all exchamjiions
of every sport.
From the very earliest days of
my tournament playing, I cherished
a great desire to be a golf official.
My mother and 1 agreed, however,
that no person who jilayed in an event
should ever, in the most indirect way,
have anything to do witli decisions
large or small of the playing of a
tournament in wliich he participated.
.lust about a year ago when I was
wondering whether perha])s my pos
sessions of more knowledge of golf
than anyone else in America would
die with the increasing cares of busi
ness, from nowhere, as it were, came
an offer to he Chairman of the Na
tional Collegiate Athletic Association
Golf Committee. 1 was convinced
while thinking it over that here would
make an interesting place of pilgrim
age for an aging golfer with a rever
ent admiration for the shrines of
sport. ,
It may be that one reason I now
so long to see college golf get ahead
has grown out of the history of Cad
die Scholarships, for there are twenty
odd Evans' Scholars going tlirough
Northwestern University at the pre
sent time; but there is something
about College Golf, in spite of its
general (piite, that always gives me
the feeling of the home for the true
imateur spirit of the game. It may
be too there is the feeling of gratitude
to the National Collegiate Athletic
Association who received so kindly
an unknown official, one who had
tried his puny strength against jioliti-
•al golfing giants for thirty years.
Now the greatest difficulty for the
"olf official is lack of time. But
this was partly remedied in my case
by an invitation to play the 1939
Chami])onship at the Wakonda Club,
Des .Moines, Iowa. 'I'lie college
golfers were invited to go to many
other cities whose invitations were
regretfully declined.
Before setting forth fully upon the
voyage of officialdom, Mr. L. W. St.
lohn, the father of N. C. A. A. golf,
arranged a meeting with Professors
W. B. Owen, President of the N. C. A.
A., at San Francisco. 'I’lie jiresident
kindly received me and allowed me to
tell him my views and aims. He
wished me luck on my official golf
ing quest and gave me assurance of
his support while on the work. He im
mediately wrote some useful letters
on my behalf. He is a fine man. It
was easy with his support and advice
and I jiledged my best efforts. 'I'lie
N. C. A. A. stands squarely behind
the movement for more and better
golf in the colleges.
Prejiarations for the National Inter
collegiate then began under the N. C.
\. flag. 'I’liey reached into the
four corners of the nation. A vote of
thanks should be given bv college
golfers to a committee of Mr. St.
John, Mr. Payseur and Mr. Bushnell
for preliminary work.
All went well even to answering
official question. In every instance I
spoke candidly from long, hard e.x-
jieriences. I boarded the plane for
Des Moines carrying my precious jms-
ssssions of a life time of golf know-
{Continued on page four)
A Letter To
The President
The following is a reprint of a
letter sent to .\nne Fuller, president
of the student body,.Mrs. J. R. Snell,
formerly Florence Moffett who serv
ed as president of the Queens stu
dent body in the class of 1935. 'rhe
plant she mentions in the letter has
arrived at the college and has been
on display in Dean Slaton's office.
'I'he letter follows:
Dear President of the (Queens col
lege student body,
I am so very far behind on the
Queens news that I don’t even know
your name! Nevertheless, I recently
sent you a small jiackage and it is
about this that I am writing.
I have been down here since Decem
ber ])ast with my husband who is
doing Sanitary Engineering work for
the Venezuelan government. The ])ast
month he had to go up into the in
terior to plan water supply systems
for several cities and work on a
chlorinator for yet another. Knowing
that he would be gone some time, I
treked along too.
During the course of our journeys
we decided to endeavor to climb the
highest point of the Venezuelan
Andes, 'I’he Peak of Bolivar, which
is 1(5,200 ft. — and that is higher
than any point in the States. Inciden
tally, we missed the top by several
hundered feet due to the fact that we
really weren’t properly equijiped. The
snow was frozen hard on top and was
as slick as glass. One pair of sun
glasses got broken and we had no
rope. But it was all lots of fun, and
maybe another time we can actually
achieve the well-nigh impossible.
What I am getting around to is
this: We made camp about six hun
dred feet from the toj), right in the
midst of a plant which at first I
thought totally new to me — as are
most of them down here. 'I'his I
had never seen down here, and yet
its blossom looked familiar. Finally,
my old powers of recall got to work
ing and I fetched up a vision of two
dried-uj) Edelweiss flowers which
used formerly to rejiose in a show
case in Burwell Hall, I believe.
By the time my samjilings reach you
I fear they too will will be dried-
u]L But I write this to tell you that
those beautiful blossoms up there be-
vond tbe timber line and next to the
blue-white snow gave me a thrill I
have seldom felt before. I was all
mixed uj) with recollections of class
meetings, the back camjuis at sunset
time. Dr. Sommerville and a lot of
wonderful friends.
Don’t bother to answer this because
I know you have plenty to do—what
with the elections probably coming
off soon. I am hearing great things
about (Queens under her new presi
dent, and do pray that ABOVE ALL
else she is teaching her girls how to
live fearlessly and honestly. Ameri
ca needs women who can do that. I
)>rohahly sound to you to be a million
years old—but honestly I finished in
193-U
Best of luck to you. You might
tell the gals some time that if they
don’t fully appreciate QC now, they
will eventually—that’s what the alums
used to tell us but I never believed
it until I got away either!
Just another alum,
FLORENCE MOFFE'Cl' SNELL.
American Ckmsulate
Caracas, Venezuela, S. A.