QUEENS BLUES
Vol. 23, No. 13
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
May 30, 1945
SENIOR
ISSUE
Class Prophecy
1945
Ladies, and gentlemen, this is
your rambling personal reporter,
bringing you the latest news from
all over the world on this the
24th day of April, in the year
1955. Just to refresh your mem
ory a bit, tomorrow will be the
10th Anniversary of the great Uni
ted Nations Conference that was
held in San Francisco, which
gave us a guarantee that we would
live in a world of peace. It is
very significant that exactly ten
years after the opening date of
this famous conference, another
conference equally as great will be
gin here in Raleigh, North Caro
lina. The conference will be made
up of representatives from coun
tries, known and unknown, all
over the world. The purpose of
this meeting is to draw a plan
whereby the future of female in
stitutions may be made secure.
There have been many proposals
coming in to the conference board
that such institutions be aban
doned in favor of the commonly
called “co-ed” institutions. Many
alunmus from colleges all over the
world are gathering here to de
cide the questions “Does the fe
male college have a place in this
new world of peace and security
where men and women have equal
rights? Why should males be de
prived of the privilege of attend
ing these institutions?”
One of the chief debaters on
the negative side of the question
is the outstanding lady known to
the public as Prances Marie Duck
worth Morrow. She takes such
a stand because she believes that
female institutions offer no chance
whatever for young ladies to meet
prospective husbands. Blanche
Stevens Long accuses her of being
hypocritical, because she knew Tiny
attended a secluded girls’ school
and has been married four times
since she graduated. Upholding
the belief that such institutions
should be continued we find such
famous housewives and mothers as
Betty Barrentine Birkner, a star
of stage and screen until her John
nie returned from foreign fields,
and Annelle McCall Wilson, who
has had a very rosy married life.
All the women brought their hus
bands along to the conference
with them to take care of their
young ones. Of course there will
be many arguments both for and
against the questions.
All walks of American life are
represented at this gigantic meet
ing, ladies and gentlemen. From
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, that well-
known metropolis that is the
headquarters for the manufactur
ing of baby carriages with the
automatic dial that may be set to
go any distance, in any direction,
at any speed, and to give the
baby his rattler if he starts cry
ing, while mother is attending her
political meeting, we have Ruth
King Koerner, wife of the presi
dent of the corporation. She
brought with her wives of other
high-ranking officials of the com
pany, the former Elsa Turner,
Betty Howard, Betty McGill, Shir
ley Bowman, and Sue Home. The
men were detained at the plant.
Anna Fluch and Mary Ramsey
are doing intensive research in the
main laboratory on a device that
will heat the bottle and feed the
baby while he is automatically
"Commencement Exercises Will Stort
Tomorrow Morning At 10:30
Tomorrow, May 31, at 10:30 A.M.,
Tentative Candidates
For A.B. Degrees
TO SPEAK TONIGHT—Virginia Nell Smith, Valedictorian,
and Marjorie Dabney Sitton, Salutatorian, will give two of
the principal Senior Addresses at the Class Night Exercises
to be held in the Dell tonight at 7:30.
taking a ride through the park.
Eva Miller and Mary Lacy Bost,
chief . accountants at Oak Ridge,
have reported that the leading
style carriage or the “best seller”
is that designed recently by Carol
Kerchner, great designer of the
day. Other industrial interests
are represented by Marie Sitton
Bullard, owner of the South and
Central American Banana Cor
poration, who brought her devoted
husband with her to Raleigh. She
was glad to meet her old college
friends, Frances Bryan, designer
and manufacturer of “Protect Your
Hair While You Ride With the Top
Down” convertibles: and Polly
Foglesong, who is now well-known
for her latest machine that is
about to disrupt the tobacco in
dustry in the South. The ma
chine that is used universally in
college “Rec Rooms” makes cig
arettes from “ducks” that it picks
from the floor and uses the old
tobacco to re-roll cigarettes and
pack them in packages with the
exclusive Fogelsong label, designed
by Agnes Mason Stanley. During
the ten years that Agnes has wait
ed for her husband to complete
his medical training, she has be
come very talented. She began her
art training at a college in Vir
ginia when she began her married
life. She is confident that in
five more years, her husband will
be ready and fully prepared to
enter the medical profession.
The field of athletics is rep
resented by Claudia Paschall and
Maggie Ezell, co-founders of the
Association of United American
Women Interested in Active Sports.
Jane King Turner was the third
founder, but she had to sever rela
tions to accept a more important
role—that of taking care of all the
little Lew Turners. On the latest
model heliocopter with the exclu
sive Joanna Houchins label, ar
rived Betty Kenyon Gardner, wife
of “Ish,” and Betty Carter Hatch
er, wife of Mac. Their Progres
sive Kindergarten that caters to
youngsters from the ages of 4 to 20
years was founded just five years
ago today in Matthews, North
Carolina. They stopped by Agnes
Scott to pick up Dean Edna
Adams. 'They were detained a few
minutes there, however, for Dean
Adams was teaching her jitter
bug class a very complicated step.
I might add here that Brown
Whitmire, dietitian at the same
college wanted desperately to at
tend the conference to voice her
opinion, but was unable to do so
because her latest joke book goes
to press in two days and she hasn’t
completed the last ten chapters.
Great leaders in the United
Association of American Public
School Teachers will arrive to
night. They will include Virginia
Rea Waltman, Beverly Murray,
Virginia Smith, Betty Welche and
Jeanette Wade. These names
should be very familiar to all of
you in the radio audience, because
they have been in headlines for
the past year. ’They are still
working to uphold their rights—
a thirty minute rest-period be
tween each forty-five minute class
in the New York City Schools.
Pause—Messenger.
Excuse me a minute, ladies and
gentlemen, I’ve just had a report
from an old college classmate,
Joyce Carpenter Calloway, head
of the North Carolina Associated
Press, that Scottie Nisbett Fisher
and her missionary husband have
just arrived from Korea. 'They
1 were accompanied by Mildred
commencement exercises will be held
for the graduating class of 1945.
Bishop Edwin A. Penick will make
the address.
In this year’s graduating class,
which began in 1941 with over two
hundred freshmen, forty-nine girls
will receive their degrees. Of this
number, twenty-three will be given
their Bachelor of Arts, and twenty-
six their Bachelor of Sciences.
The sharp decline in the number
of students in this class is synony
mous to the rapid world-shaking
events in their four years here at
Queens. In December of 1941, these
bewildered and confused freshmen
saw their country thrown into the
arms of a terrible war. And this, their
last year, 1945, they leave as matured
and understanding women who have
seen a great deal of sorrow and yet
emerged in the true manner of a
college graduate, and who have
seen the utter defeat of our greatest
enemy and yet have realized their
positions as the Americans of today.
The commencement speaker.
Bishop Edwin A. Penick of Raleigh,
N. C, is a very prominent leader
among Episcopalian churches in the
South. He holds A.B., A.M., and
D.D. degrees from the University
of the South, Harvard University,
and the Theological Seminary of
Virginia. Bishop Penick is also out
standing in the South’s educational
system.
Smith, Doris Robbins, Alice Longe-
necker, and Gloria Sutton, mis
sionary physicians who are doing
research work In the heart of the
jungles of Korea. Another late
arriver is Betty Lou Spears Fow
ler, the great diamond hunter.
She’s still searching the hills of
the state of Missouri for a dia
mond larger than the one she
found ten years ago with the help
of a certain captain. That music
you hear faintly in the background
Is furnished by Conductor Gwyn
Shiflet and her all male orches
tra. ’Those fancy music stands
you see were designed by that fa
mous stage-setting director, none
other than Emmy Wood. Back
to the conference and the great
people gathered here for the open
ing tomorrow—Representing that
Important far-aw'ay island and re
public out in the Pacific, the Isle
of Nowhere, Betty Claywell ap
peared on the scene yesterday
morning. That important person,
who first went to the island as
an ambasador of good will, is now
governor-general of the island. Her
attorney-general, Betty Schaaff who
began her career in the small law
office of Wheaton and May in
our nation’s capital, accompanied
her excellency. The two govern
ment heads were brought here by
that famed military expert. Gen
eral Olin Cook, and his charming
wife, the former Margaret Ballard,
well-known star of Broadway. ’The
two opening speakers of the con
ference, Nadeene Darbyshire Ans-
ley, and Peggy plonk Anderson
have not arrived yet but they are
expected any minute.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, that
little red light is flashing on in
the control room, which means
I’ll have to say farewell. Tune
in tomorrow night at this same
time for the latest reports on the
celebrities gathered here for this
great meeting. BETSY HODGES
Edna Alyne Adams
Elizabeth Ann Barrentine
Shirley Bowman
Betty Thompson Carter
PVances Marie Duckworth
Margaret Cecilia Ezell
Pollyann Foglesong
Joanna Kathryne Houchins
Bettie Gaither Kenyon
Jane Downing King
Ruth King
Marie Elizabeth McGill
Beverly Fontaine Murray
Margaret Scott Nisbet
Claudia Mathilde Paschal
Margaret Louise Plonk
Charlotte Anne Plumlee
Virginia Nell Smith
Elizabeth Louise Spears
Blanche Tabor Stevens
Elsa Mae Turner
Lona Jeanette Wade
Annye Elizabeth Welch.
Tentative Candidates
For B.S. Degrees
Margaret Lou Ballard
Mary Lacy Bost
Frances Richardson Bryan
Joyce Elayne Carpenter
Betty Newland Claywell
Elizabeth Nadeene Darbyshire
Anna Meredith Fluck
Betsy Brown Hodges
Kathryn Sue Horne
Elizabeth Anne Howard
Carol Lois Kerchner
Alice Longenecker
Annie Ellen McCall
Agnes Lorraine Mason
Dorothy Nield Mauldin
Eva Rebecca Miller
Mary Esther Ramsey
Doris Kathleen Robbins
Helen Elizabeth Schaaff
Mary Gwendolyn Shiflet
Marie Dabney Sitton
Mildred Juanita Smith
Gloria Valentine Sutton
Virginia Rea Waltman
Mary Louise Whitmire
Emma Lynn Wood.
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Baccalaureate Service
Held Sunday
The Baccalaureate Service for the
Class of ’45 was held last Sunday,
May 27, at Myers Park Methodist
Church. Rev. A. W. Dick, D.D.,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Spartanburg, S. C.,
preached the impressive sermon.
Following the short devotional of
prayer and the singing of our Col
lege Hymn, Dr. Dick spoke to the
Seniors on their position in this
world that lies before them. He
stressed the possibilities that t he
college graduate can obtain, and told
them of the importance that God
and faith will have in molding their
future lives.
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