"1
THE QUEENS BLUES
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C
April 25, 1941
Senior Week Gets Into Full Swing
Eleven Girls Win Honors In Contest
Old South Is
Motif For The
Junior-Senior
Traditional senior week success
fully opened Saturday evening, April
19, with the annual Junior-Senior
banquet, which was held in Morri
son dining hall, on a gayly decorat
ed campus resembling an old South
ern plantation. Mary Marshall
Jones and Dot Funderburk co-chair
men, served as toastmistresses.
Special guests at this initial event
were Miss Laura Tillett, junior class
sponsor; Mrs. Howard MacGregor,
senior class sponsor, and Mr. Mac
Gregor; Dr. and Mrs. Hunter B.
Blakely; Miss Clara B. Slaton, dean
of students; Miss Jean Orr, assist
ant to the dean, of women; James
Godard, dean of instruction, and
Mrs. Godard; Louise Blue, presi
dent of the sophomore class; Julia
Frances Scholl, president of the
freshman class; and the Rev. James
A. Jones and Mrs. Jones, Mr. and
Mrs. Eddie Jones; Mr. and Mrs.
Hunter Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Mc
Alister Carson; and a group of un
derclassmen who helped with the
entertainment.
Harriett Scoggin was announced
as the newly elected president of the
rising senior class.
Sunday morning, the entire senior
classs attended the church services
at the Myers Park Presbyterian
Church. Rev. James A. Jones de
livered the serman.
f
The sophomore class entertained
its sister class on Monday morning
with a breakfast, held at 7:30 o’clock
at the S & W Cafeteria. Mary
Martha Nixon, president-elect of the
rising junior class, was chairman in
charge of the event.
Mrs. Hunter B. Blakely enter
tained the graduating class on Tues
day with a luncheon, at her home
on Ratcliffe Avenue.
Senior day fell on Wednesday, at
which time all seniors were excused
. from their classes. They spent the
day at Rozzell’s Ferry and were
guests of Mrs. Howard MacGregor,
at a Weiner roast, on their return.
The Charlotte Kiwanis club hon
ored the seniors with their annual
luncheon Thursday, April 24, at 1
o’clock. C. S. Reid was in charge
of the affair.
Climaxing the entire week, was
the senior banquet, which was held
Friday evening, at 6 o’clock, in Mor
rison dining hall. A program was
given by the class day officers of
the graduating class who are: Tera
Bailey, lawyer; Julia Edwards, poet,
Elizabeth Brammer, historian, and
Mary Payne, prophet.
Essay Contest
Is Now Open
Sigma Mu, national scholastic fra
ternity, has announced its annual
essay contest. Dr. Dorisse Howe,
secretary of the chapter at Queens,
made known last week. Two prizes,
each of $5.00, are ogered, one for
the best research paper, the other
for creative work.
No work for which credit has been
given in class is eligible for entry.
WHAT'S FUNNY, JEAN
The happy young lady above is Jean Ferguson, president of the
senior class. She is escorted by Ralph Monger. They are seen entering
the Junior-Senior Banquet.
Press Association Meets
In Atlanta Over Week-End
Brimmer, Jones, Mauldin, Golden
Payne And Miinroe Go For Queens
The Southern Federation of Col
lege Students and Publication Rep
resentatives is being held Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, April 26 at the
Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta, Ga., with
Agnes Scott College and Georgia
Tech as hosts.
Attending the convention as dele
gates from Queens are Elizabeth
Brammer of Christiansburg, Va., re
tiring president of the student body;
Mary Marshall Jones of Char
lotte, newly elected president of
the student body; Ann Golden of
Carthage, retiring editor of the
Queens Blues and new editor of the
Coronet; Ann Mauldin of Charlotte,
new business manager of the Coro
net and retiring business manager
of the Blues; Alice Payne of Char
lotte, newly elected editor of the
Blues; and Pete Munroe of Char
lotte, newly elected business man
ager of the Blues.
Registration for all delegates took
place Thursday from 9 until 12
o’clock. At 12:30 the opening lunch
eon was held, and the welcoming ad
dress was made by Robert Chinn,
president of the federation. Then
Mr. Chinn introduced the speakers,
Mayor Roy LeCrew, mayor of At
lanta and Dr. Martin Luther Brit
tain, president of the Georgia School
of Technology. Also at this time
detailed plans of the convention were
explained by the convention chair
man.
At 2:30 o’clock business sessions
of the newspaper, annual and stu
dent government sections were held
and this was followed by a sight
seeing trip about the city which in
cluded the cyclorama, Agnes Scott,
Emory University and the resident
ial section of Atlanta.
Dinner was held at 7 o’clock and
Mike Conner, former governor of
Mississippi and commissioner of
Athletics for the Southeastern Con
ference was the speaker.
Today business sessions are being
held from 9 until 12:30 o’clock at
which time O. B. Keeler of the At
lanta Constitution will speak.
The Convention Dinner, a high
spot of the meeting will be held to
night in the formal dining room and
the annual dance will follow in the
Pompeian Room. At the banquet
Dr. George Lang, dean of Alabama
University will speak.
Events on Saturday will consist of
business sessions and the election of
new heads for the respective divi
sions. The closing luncheon will be
held at 12:30 o’clock and at this
time the announcement of the new
officers will be made Also the an
nouncement of the next year’s loca
tion for the convention will be given.
Sophs Present
Annual Affair
For Seniors
Art Works To
Be Exhibited
Until April 26
The sophomore class this year up
held the tradition at Queens College
of giving a breakfast in honor of
the senior class. The seniors were
entertained at the S. & W. cafe
teria at 8 :00 o’clock Monday morn
ing, April 21. During the breakfast
class songs were sung. A delightful
breakfast course was served. Appro*
imately one hundred and fifty girls
attended the affair planned in honor
of the seniors. This was one of the
many events given for the seniors
during senior week.
Louise Blue is the president of the
sophomore class. Mary Martha
Nixon, president-elect of the rising
junior class, made the arrangements
for the breakfast. On the committee
for the breakfast were Elsie Mose
ley, chairman; Lucy Hassel, Louise
Blue, Pete Munroe, Louise Brumley,
Catherine Greene, Ruth Baker,
Mary Harriet Hurst, Louise Griffin,
Elizabeth Nash, Maurine Latta,
Emily McKay, Mary Lorene Jones,
and Lucille Blackburn. In charge of
transportation were Ann Wiley,
chairman; Betty McClintock, Peggy
Thompson, Eva Johnson, Marion
Miller, Dorothy Summerville, Sara
Holleman, Mary Stevenson, and
Jean Petteway.
In the fourth annual art contest
which is sponsored by the Univer
sity of North ICarolina, eleven
Queens girls won honors for vari
ous works. These will be exhibited
along with other state selections at
the Person Hall gallery, Greensboro,
and also at Chapel Hill until April
26.
Girls from Queens, the honors
won, and the division they entered
are: Eloise Pickard, first prize, cos
tume design; Helen Duncan, honor- '
able mention, costume design; Eliza
beth Lael, first prize interior de
sign; Mary Agnes Cochran, second
prize, interior design; Mrs. Dorothy
Lawson, honorable mention, interior
design; Alice Barron, honorable
mention, pencil drawings.
Also placing in this contest were:
Jane Grey, first prize, crayon draw
ing ; Sarah Pardee, second prize,
crayon drawing; Eloise Pickard,
honorable mention, chalk and pastel;
Harriet Henderson, first prize, water
color painting; Jane Grey, second
prize, water color painting; Karleen
Lassiter and Ann Branen, first prize,
advertising design; and Karleen
Lassiter, honorable mention, textile
design.
Famous Doctor Will Speak
On Chapel Program Tuesday
Dr. Grier To Tell
Of Foreign Missions
Dr. Nettie Donaldson Grier, med
ical missionary to China will speak
to the student body of Queens in
chapel on Tuesday, April 29. She
will give a talk on foreign missions
and her experiences in this field.
Dr. Grier was born in New York
in 1869, and graduated from Wom
an’s Medical School of New York
City. She went to China as a medi
cal missionary, arriving there in 1893.
Three years later, she^ married Rev.
Mark B. Grier, and the next year
moved to Suchowfu. During the first
five years they lived in small Chinese
mud huts for a home; the hospital
and dispensary being similarly hous
ed in a crowded courtyard. The
monotony of the long winters was
rarely broken by a visitor from
the outside world. Sometimes, two
years would pass without a single
visitor.
DR. NETTIE GRIER
Dr. Grier is not a specialist, of
course, but the reach of her opera
tions is very wide. Eye diseases
are probably the commonest of all.
Take one year of her work, for in
stance. The hospital, which prac
tically means Dr. Grier, gave 13,457
treatments; performed 362 opera
tions, major and minor, all under
anaesthesia, general or local; there
were 541 inpatients, and 131 outcalls.
Multiply this by 25, and you will
have some idea of the great humani
tarian work that the Mary Erwin
Rogers Memorial hospital is accom
plishing. Many of the little chil
dren, especially those with the big
spleen, a disease said to be peculiar
to the East, have been treated there.
A new treatment, recently discov
ered, was given by Dr. Grier, which
completely heals them.
After her husband’s death Dr.
Grier worked with undiminished vig
or. A doctor in China must be a
surgeon, administrator, trained
nurse, employer and bookkeeper,
and a trainer of nurses. Dr. Grier
was well qualified for all these. But
Dr. Grier had rather be known for
her evangelistic work than for any
thing else. She considers this funda
mental.
“One of my greatest joys on the
mission in China was to gather the
patients who are ^ble to come into
the prayer room of the hospital
every morning at 8 o’clock, have
prayer with them, and hear them
repeat what they learned the day
before, in addition to teaching them
so that they may learn to love and
know their Saviour before they leave
the hospital.