k
Ilh
i i
Page 2
QUEENS BLUES
April 14, 1945
Queens Blues
Published Semi-Monthly by the Students
of Queens College
Eva Young Editor-in-chief
Beth Deaton Business Manager
Miss Betty Huckle Faculty Adviser
EDITORIAL
Society—Agnes Mason, Betty Carico
Co-Editors
Sports—Ella Dunbar, Kitty Cooper
Co-Editors
Managing Editor Jane Cantrell
REPORTERS: Peggy Kimrey, Mary Lib Martin,
Nancy Lea Brown, Sara Virginia Neill, Lyn Currie,
Suzanne Blackmon, Flora Ann Nowell, Rebecca
Pressley, Mary McGill, Lib Davis, Sarah Jv'> Cra\v-
fard, Mary Lee Flowers, Betty Morrow, Claudia
Paschal, Grace Lyons, Pat Stevens, Maude Dick
son, Wanda Wageley, Christine Carr, Rue Guthrie,
Nancy Gordon, Jane McDowell.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Pat Patton Advertising Manager
Nancy Lea Brown Asst. Advertising Manager
ASSISTANTS—Wilma Head, Lib Davis, Melba
Bailey, Mary Brown Craig, Martha Venning, Wilma
Dean Latta, Nell Poe, Terry Gooding, Eva Miller,
Bonnie Camp.
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
To the Students:
Now that the new student government officers
are installed and have already started on the tough
road ahead, the new editorial staff of the Blues hopes
that you students will recognise your paper, and help
to make it outstanding among college publications.
If the title of this paper has any significance, then
if would be rightly applied to the members of the
staff. For there are no blues any more potent than
those acquired when not enough material is available
to meet the deadline. An article can be stretched just
so far, and then the printer runs out of type large
enough for the "stretching.”
We can and will give you the kind of paper you
want and when you want it, if we have your co
operation. If you like to write — features, news
stories, editorials — or if you have that uncurable
disease "a nose for news” — then we can certainly
use you. It is a wonderful opportunity to try out
your talents, which may in time lead you headlong
into the glorious field of journalism. Or for those who
like to exchange words with Mr. John Q. Public, the
advertising staff will be glad to give you an intro
duction card. There are so many phases of news
paper work, and even our small paper can find a job
for every applicant.
So tell us what you want, send us criticisms
(whether they be constructive or destructive), and
above all, give the members of the staff any data
that you would like to see in your paper. It is up to
you, so what will it be?
Two editors for this year, Billie and Martha, have
done a swell job so far, and your new editor only
hopes she can step into their shoes without rubbing
a blister.
Person Of The Issue
Falling snow made the first lasting
impression of America on her mind,
for Genie Shive was just three years
old when she saw both for the first
time. Together with the year spent
in America when she was ten, her
coming to Queens marks the third
break in her seventeen years spent
in Africa where she was born just
that many years ago. One would
never imagine from looking at her
that she comes from a land so far
away and one so strange and mys
terious, for she wears no animal
skins or war paints and has no ring
through her nose. She’s merely
“Jessie” to her closest friends, with
curly auburn hair, a frequent smile,
and blue eyes that regard you in
tently from behind glasses.
Genie has already been introduced
to most of us as one of three girls on
Queens campus representing Africa.
There she attended boarding school
with Elnora Anderson and Peggy
King, studied the same basic course
that we in America do, and followed
a similar schedule.
When Genie came to America last
fall, she left behind in Africa her
father and mother and three younger
brothers. It seems that Mr. Shive
went as an industrial mission
ary and Mrs. Shive as a nurse.
They met in Africa aind were married
there. Mr. Shive does some preach
ing, Genie says, but his main job is
repair work and the building of new
churches and schools. Incidentally,
he built the boarding school that
Genie attended. Mrs. Shive, with an
other nurse, is in full charge of a
hospital, since there is no doctor
on the post; so she manages to keep
busy with that and raising and par
tially educating a family.
One of the most vivid of Genie’s
memories of Africa is that of her
visit to a king. Most of Africa is
divided into tribes with one chief
ruling each, but there is one group
of tribes which has a king ruling all
of them. Genie’s uncle, an evangelis
tic missionary and a good friend
of the king, took her to visit him
one day. It would have been a treat
to hear Genie and the African king
conversing together in his native
tongue; and quite characteristically,
Genie says, he promptly asked her
why she wasn’t married!
Genie says that it was just nat
ural that she come to Queens, be
cause two other girls she knew came
here and all of her mother’s people
live in North Carolina. So when the
time came, she took a Dutch freight
er from Africa to South America
and completed the trip from there
to Miami by plane.
Although she has only recently ar
rived in this country, Genie very
definitely has her American fav
orites. Topping her list are ice cream
You ve Got Your A. B. So What?
(This is the first in a series of articles to be
run in the Blues that will strive to give the
students some guidance in choosing their fu
ture vocations. The material will be compiled
from information given by workers in the
various fields, and from all periodicals avail
able. Each of the columns will be written by
students who are majoring in special courses,
or those who are interested in obtaining data
on the particular subjects).
SOCIAL SERVICE WORR
By EVA YOUNG
Does your interest in social service work extend
only as far as men and bridge clubs go; or is your
vision broad enough to see the long road ahead, that
is a highway full of Mr. and Mrs. Americas crying
for help and understanding in their jig-sawed lives?
If you are among the latter group then perhaps you
will be one of the thousands of persons that is needed
every year to go into some phase of Social Service
Work.
Miss Dorothea Dolan, the chic and charming little
red-head who is a Psychiatric Social Worker at the
Mental Hygiene Clinic here in Charlotte, is quite a
press agent for the profession of social work. She
emphasizes her work as a "profession” because it is
comparable to medicine, law, and teaching in its need
and importance today. She says that for a life-time
investment, the interest paid off in social work is
tops — not in round figures, but in that inner sat
isfaction gained when you’ve given the other fellow
a hand. Also, Miss Dolan stresses the fact that unless
you plan to stick to social work, you will be of little
value to anyone, for social work is like an athlete—
he gets stiff and stale unless his "work-outs” are
constant.
Before this present war the social service workers
were finding that the pressure of our progressing,
world was creating problems of humanity requiring
more experienced people than any had ever before
realized. Today the need has multiplied ten-fold
because of the veterans and their families, and it is
essential that the intelligent and humane people of
America help them to find "their place” again.
If you are sincerely interested in people, regardless
of their race, creed, color, and problem; if you have
faith in mankind; if you love to be with the public;
and if you are in "sound physical and mental health”
—then the following facts may answer those ques
tions you ask yourself when considering "shall I go
into social work?”
What types of agencies actually need social service
workers?—Departments of public welfare and assist
ance, bureaus of social insurance, public recreation
centers, juvenile courts, prisons and correctional
agencies, mental hygiene clinics, farqily and child
welfare societies, Gammunity Chests and councils,
institutions for handicapped. Red Cross, and U. S.
Service organizations.
What are the educational requirements, and what
will be my standing upon completion of my social
studies? — In the undergraduate school it is most
profitable to get your A.B. with a major in the social
sciences (economics, government, sociology, history),
and minors in the Biological sciences (biology, phy
siology, psychology) or English. There are 42 lead
ing universities in the U. S. that have graduate social
work schools, where upon completion of 2 years
of advanced work you receive your M.A. or a certifi
cate of social work. The tuition in these post
graduate schools ranges from $10 a quarter to $125
a semester, and most of them offer scholarships and
fellowships to students with promising futures.
Is there any specialization in social work, or is the
field generalized? In graduate school you do specialize
in some particular branch among the following:
(1) Case 'Work—With Family and Child Welfare
bureaus; Medical Social workers (usually attached to
a hospital staff, and deaL with patients and their
problems); and the Psychiatric Social Workers .who
work in clinics and hospitals with the emotionally
instable.
(2) Group Workers—Recreation and informal ed
ucational groups such as social settlements, community
centers, churches, camps. Boy and Girl Scouts, Y. M.
and Y. W. C. A.’s, and War Agencies.
(3) Research—Specialized staff that collects sta
tistics and facts for social planning and control.
(4) Administration—Executive heads and leaders
with experience are now needed to fill vacancies left
during wartime.
What are the salaries usually earned by social
workers? Most positions offer from $1,500 to $2,500
a year, and graduates of social work schools begin
with a monthly salary of $125 to $135 with no
experience. Those with experience make from $145
to $175.
Miss Dolan will be glad to talk to any of the
Queens students who are interested in social work as
a career, and for further information write to the
American Association of Schools of Social Work,
4200 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Mauze
Spring Service
Guest Speaker
The Annual Spring Services were
held at Queens College April 10
through April 13. The guest min
ister was the Rev. George Mauze,
D.D. Dr. Mauze is the pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of Win
ston-Salem, N. C., and is also on the
College Board of Trustees.
The spring and fall services are
under the sponsorship of the Student
Christian Association. Arrangements
were made to have Rev. Mauze
speak at chapel each morning and
at evening services each night. Con
ferences were in Dr. Blakely’s
study in his home.
Wednesday afternoon. Dr. Mauze
and the faculty were honored at
a tea given by the Student Chris
tian Association Cabinet. Religious
Emphasis Week was brought to
a close with Communion ' Service
Friday night in the auditorium.
and all she can get of it, Spencer
Tracy, reading, movies, and tennis;
but she still carries on her coin
collection with her father.
In looking to the future, Genie
shyly confesses that her plans are
“just what every girl hopes for—to
get through school and find the
right man.” But she isn’t forgetting
Africa, and plans to spend some of
her vacations there after the war.
Most everybody knows Genie by
this time, having become familiar
with her quiet friendly way and easy
smile in class, or in the dormitory
or at the hostess’ desk in Burwell.
But if you’ve missed meeting her,
be sure to look her up; because
Genie Shive from Africa, we think,
is very definitely one of Queens’
queens.
This week’s question which is so
often ignored by college students,
but which should rate first-place in
the aims of every one of us is,
“What obligations should college
girls assume during this war?” It
is essential to our nation’s welfare
that we realize our present position,
and do all in our power to bring
V-Day to the United States. Here
are the answers given by some of
our students—read them, and then
it is up to every individual to reach
an understanding of their own ob
ligations.
ELEANOR BATES: “I think we
should make the most of the op
portunity we have in going to col
lege, because we will have to carry
on the work of the nation while the
boys who have been fighting finish
their education.”
BEA POTTER; “Lend support as
best we can to such causes as bond
drives. Community Chest, and Red
Cross, where each individual is
counted on to help. Our boys are
giving their individual selves, and
we can do likewise to some degree.”
TONNIE FERGUSON; “I believe
that our first duty as college stu
dents is to prepare ourselves to be
useful citizens of the future, and to
add something creative to a world
so in need of well-trained minds and
bodies, disciplined wills, and broad
vision. This does not, however, free
us from the obligation of supporting
war bond drives and war work
whenever we have a chance.”
ANN PERRY: “I believe we
should keep alive here the things
for which the boys are fighting, and
try to fit ourselves for the lives we
^lARY YANDLE: “Give as much
time as possible to war activities—
Red Cross, entertainment for sol
diers, War Bond drives, scrap paper
and tin-can drives, etc. Remember
the sacrifice the service men are
making, and be willing to do our
part. Write friends and brothers in
the service, and always keep them
cheerful. College girls should realize
that they are privileged, and we must
take advantage of our opportunities
to be leaders in the post-war world.”
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The import
ance of this question is vital, and
it is time every one of us should
wake up, and realize how little we
have been doing. After all, we are
the ones who will profit after the
war, and most of us have not suff
ered in any way. It is up to us to
let our boys know how much their
sacrifices mean to us. Let us face
the facts, and then go “all out for
the war.” If we do what is expected
of us now, then we may be able to
face our returning veterans after it
is all over, and say “I was behind
you all the way.”)
will lead after we get out of [
college.
PREVIEW OF EVENTS
April 1*1—Sorority Sing
April 18—Miss Crecraft, Recital
April 20—Junior Class Fashion
Show
April 30—Miss Kimbrough’s Lec
ture
April 30—Senior Week begins
May 2 —Miss Peck’s Recital
May 4 —May Day
(Clip this out and keep a copy
in your notebook. Keep informed
on events at Queens.)