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QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
April 29, 1944
Senior Week Begins With Formal Dinner
NEW MEMBERS OF LEADERSHIP GROUP. These students of Queens College were tapped for membership in Olym-
ninn rirrie of Aloha Kaopa Gamma, national leadership fraternity, in services held at the college yesterday morning. They
are left to rie-ht as follows, front row. Misses LaRue Allison and Mary Kate Kornegay of Charlotte; back row, Betty
Howard of Memphis, Tenm, Edna Adams of Winston-Salem, Frances Bryan of Charlotte, Betsy Hodges of Gnfton,
and Marie Sitton of Charlotte. (Observer Staff photo).
Many Parties
Planned By
Other Classes
Choral Club
Ends Season
With Concert
The Queens College Choral Club
presented its annual Spring con
cert in the Ninnis auditorium on
April 21, under the direction oi
Miss Grace Robinson and James
Christian Pfhol.
The club was assisted by the
Queens-Davidson Little Symphony
orchestra. The orchestra will
sent the premiere performance of
“Chimney Rock” by Austin C. Love
lace of the music department, who
won the state award of the Nation
al Federation of Music Clubs witn
this composition. j f r
The concert was presented for
the public and all guests were in
vited to a reception in Burweii
Hall immediately after the con
cert.
The Program
The National Anthem.
Echo Song— .
Madrigal: Orlando di Lasso
My Bonny Lass—
Madrigal; Thomas Moriey
The Choral Club
Seguidilla from “Carmen” -- Bizet
Miss Hem’y
The Blessed Damozel—
Claude Debussy
Adapted to the original poem of
Dante Gabriel Rossetti by
Frank Damrosch.
Misses Shiflet, King, and the
Choral Club.
Amour Viens Aider from p
and Deliah” - Saint Same
Miss Skirrow
Chimney Rock Sketch for Little
Symphony Orchestra
Austin C. Lovelace
The Little Symphony
Literary Staff Dr. Marshall
^ - Guest speaker
For S.C.A. Week
Spring Retreat
The annual Spring Retreat ^
the Student Christian A^ociaBon
Cabinet will be held on AprU
30 1944 at sunny Acres North
rnrolina At this time the old
new cabinet membe.^ wni
meet to discuss decide
vpar The cabinet will aeciae
^^on the theme an^ proi^t^ for
Tn S'raUoLl ' speaker for the
Is Completed
Flections for publication editors
and bSess managers for the year
1944-45 have recently been com-
nleted Billie Luck was elected by
the Student Body as Editor of The
Blues The Publication Board ap
pointed the following as business
Sfanneers: Joyce Carpenter—Coro-
SS: Sarah Bobbitt—Blues; Beth
^BmS”’Luck ’ is from Hamlet, N.
C and will be a Junior next year,
qiie served as Managing Editor
of Blues this year. Sophomore class
cheer-leader, .and was a member
°*Jow CaSenter is a Junior from
CoSd, N."c. Laat year she was
nn the business staff of Coro^t
and this year associate editor. She
was also advertising manager of
Blues a member of Alpha Iota,
and on the Dean’s List this year
Sarah Bobbitt is from Charlotte
and ^11 be a Junior next year.
Ihe was secretary of Sophomore
class and a member of Valkyrie
^^Beto Deaton is from Statesville,
N C. and a transfer this year
from WCUNC. She was a mem
ber of IRC and served on the ad
vertising staffjof_the_^net.
Alpha I>elta Pi
Wins Sing Cup
Alpha Delta Pi won the Pan-
hellenic cup presented the soro^y
gfving the best sorority song The
Ivent! sponsored by the Jumor
Class took place Friday, April 14
in ttie college auditorl^. Alpha
iSa Sigma won the prize offered
Miss Thelma Albright. Dean
of Students, for the most original
school song. The sorority cup was
won by Phi Mu last year when
Sorority Sing was first held on
the campus.
Each of the six sororities on
campus gave two sorority songs
and one original school song. Other
rules were set up by the Junior
Class Selection of the winners
was made by three judges chosen
by the office of the Dean.
Buy War Bonds
Dr. Peter Marshall, eminent
Christian leader and minister of
the New York Avenue Presbyte
rian Church in Washington, D.
C., was the guest speaker of
j Queens Spring Religious Emphasis
I Week sponsored by the Student
Christian Association during the
week of April 17-21. Dr. Marshall
spoke at all Chapel periods and
led discussion groups during the
afternoon. Also in Charlotte to
conduct a series of religious serv
ices at Caldwell Memorial Pres
byterian Church, Dr. Marshall
was unable to spend as much time
on the campus as was hoped and
planned by the students.
Dr. Marshall was born in Coatb
ridge, Scotland. He entered Co
lumbia Theological Seminary at
Decatur, Ga., upon coming to this
country and was ordained by the
Atlanta Presbytery in 1931. He
served two years as minister in
Covington, Ga., and then became
minister of Westminster Presbyte
rian Church in Atlanta, serving
there from 1933 to 1937.
He has been minister of the
Washington church for five years.
Share Clothes
Campaign Begun
The State of North Carolina is
promoting a “Share Your Clothes
With the Russians” campaign. It
is sponsored by the State Depart
ment of Education, North Carolina
Education Association, and North
Carolina Congress of Parents and
Teachers. The campaign will offi
cially begin on May 1 and end on
May 14.
Seventy million men, women and
children were stripped of their
clothes by the Nazi invaders of
Russia. They call for help through
the Russian War Relief. We are
asked to give CLEAN clothing and
UNBROKEN shoes. The shoes
should be tied in pairs, and the
clothes wrapped and securedly tied
for handling.
This campaign has already begun
here at Queens College. Dr. Delano
is in charge of collecting the ar
ticles. Boxes have been placed in
Miss Albright’s office.
New Officers
Are Installed
Bv Sororities
Election of Sorority officers has
been completed and announced for
the coming year. Jane King will
serve as president of Alpha Delta
Pi. Mary Katherine Bain wih
lead the Alpha Gamma Deltas.
The Chi Omegas will have Betty
Ann Gravatt as their president,
and the Kappa Deltas will have
Charlotte Fair. Betty Barrentine
will be president of Phi Mu.
These presidents will take over
their duties this term with the aid
of other officers. Alpha Delta Pi
has chosen Doris Nunn, vice-presi
dent: Mary Louise Whitmire, sec
retary; and Francella Craven,
treasurer.
Alpha Gamma Delta completes
its roster with Elizabeth Holmes
Carter, vice-president; Emily Hor
ton, secretary: and Lily an Smith,
treasurer.
Betty Howard, Betty Claywell,
and Sara Bobbitt have been elected
vice-president, secretary, and treas
urer, respectively, of Chi Omega.
Martha Venning will serve as
vice-president of Kappa Delta with
Prances Wells as secretary, and
Elizabeth Andrews as treasurer.
Phi Mu elected Polly Poglesong
to the office of vice-presidency,
Agnes Mason, secretary; Frances
Bryan, treasurer.
Fashion Show
On April 17 the War Service
Committee sponsored a fashion
show. The attractive clothes
shown were made and modeled by
members of the Home Economic
Department under the direction of
Miss Jane Miller. The purchase
of a 25 cent war stamp was the
admission charge.
Miss Linwood Gisclard, the 1944
“Maid of Cotton,” was present to
assist in selling war bonds and
stamps.
Miss Gisclard was named “Maid
of Cotton” for this year in the an
nual contest conducted in the Na
tional Cotton Council of America
and is the official goodwill ambas
sador of the entire American tex
tile industry.
She had a prominent part in
the inauguration of the Fourth
War Loan drive in Washington in
The formal dinner on Monday,
May 1, will open the traditional
Senior Week at Queens. This week
is set aside to honor the outgoing
Senior Class. Many parties and
festivities have been planned by
the various classes and faculty
members. The schedule runs as
follows ;
May 1, 6 P. M., Formal dinner
in the dining room. Will and his
tory of the Senior Class.
May 2, 1 P. M., Luncheon at
the home of Mrs. Blakely.
May 3, Breakfast: 9. Given by
Miss Squires, Miss Purcell, and
Miss Albright.
May 3, 7 P. M., Junior-Senior
banquet at Myers Park Club. Given
by Junior Class.
May 4, 6 P. M., Supper at out
door grill given by Sophomore
Class.
May 5, May Day.
May 5, Hospitality Day.
Queens 'Charter
Is Changed
By Presbytery
Mecklenburg presbytery met in
spring session at Sharon Presby
terian Church and approved a
change in the charter of Queens
College so that it may be spon
sored by the two synods of North
Carolina and South Carolina,
elected Rev. R. E. Watts of Albe
marle as moderator, elected Rev.
W. T. Smith as nominee for mod
erator in the summer session, and
licensed two young men and or
dained Carl G. Howie as a chap
lain of the armed forces of the
Navy.
The Presbytery also heard its
best home mission report for many
years, and approved an increase in
salaries of 12 pastors.
Dr. H. B. Blakely, president of
Queens College, besides preaching
the opening sermon as retiring
moderator presented the request
of the board of trustees of Queens
College for a change in its charter.
At present the college is sponsored
by 15 trustees of the synod of
South Carolina and trustees from
three Presbyteries, Mecklenburg,
Kings Mountain and Granville, 35
in all.
This request followed the action
of the synod of North Carolina last
fall in which it granted colleges the
privilege of asking the synods to
be sponsors instead of Presbyteries.
The new plan provides for 10 trus
tees from North Carolina synod,
eight from South Carolina synod to
be selected by the board of trustees
from members of evangelical
churches, and the president shall
be ex-offlicio a member of the
board. This will make 25 trustees
in all.
The Presbytery accepted the
change, and it was reported Kings
Mountain Presbytery has already
accepted it, and Granville will be
asked. Then the petition will be
made to the state of North Carolina
for the authorization of the mew
charter. Dr. W. H. Frazer, former
president of Queens, spoke in ap
proval of the change.
Miss Thompson: “Did they take
an X-ray of .your husband’s jaw
at the hospital?”
Mrs. Harris: “They tried to but
all they could get was a moving
picture.”
God made the earth, then rested.
God made man, then rested.
God made woman; since then no
body’s rested.
January and made a tour of seven
states in promotion of the cam
paign before beginning this pres
ent tour. She has a citation for
distinguished services from the
Secretary of the Treasury for her
work in connection with the bond
drive. She has been officially
credited with inspiring the sale of
approximately $2,000,000 in war
bonds.
As a special feature of the pro
gram, she modeled a $1,500 war
stamp dress.