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Government
VOL. 24—NO 8
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
APRIL 23, 1946
OFFICERS FOR '46-'47 INSTALLED
Summer School
Announced
Announcements concerning the
smnmer school at Queens have re
cently been announced.
Dr. Arther Moehlenbrock will be
the direct supervisor and the fac
ulty will be mainly composed of
members of the regular faculty.
The summer school calendar in
cludes June 3, Registration: June
4, classes begin; July 4, holiday:
July 9, last day of classes; July
10 and 11, final examinations.
Science courses will be continued
until July 18. Classes will meet
each day of the week except
Sunday. All lecture classes are to
meet in the morning and all lab
oratories in the afternoon.
Tentative plans have been made
concerning the offerings of courses
in several of the departments.
Some specific courses are listed,
but others may be added upon
sufficient demand. Those that are
listed in the bulletin are:
General Biology.
General Chemistry.
Principles of Secondary Educa
tion.
Technique of Class Control.
English Writing and Reading.
Masters of English Literature.
European History.
American History.
Elementary Spanish.
Intermediate Spanish.
College Algebra.
Plain Trigonometry.
Any students who are interested
in taking courses this summer
should see Dr. Moehlenbrock or
Miss Adams in Dean Godard’s of
fice, either of whom will give
you an application blank to fill
out.
Summer Work Musi
Be Approved
NEW OFFICERS INSTALLED—The 25th anniversary of the establishment of student government at
Queens College was observed with installation of officers for next year in a ceremony in the college
auditorium, recently. Shown, left to right, are Mjss Edna Adams, student government president in
1944-45, Miss Rebecca Nickles, outgoing president, Mrs. H. A. Forbes of Hammond, La., president in
1922-23, Miss Donnie Rhodes, new president, and Miss Anne Hatcher, president in 1943-44. (Observer
Staff photo.)
25th Anniversary Is Observed
Queens students who are plan
ning to attend summer school,
either at Queens or any other
college, should get courses approv
ed in advance by the Dean of the
College, J. M. Godard.
Dean Godard stated that it would
be wise to get a catalogue from
the college where the student ex
pects to go.
According to standards of ac
crediting associations, the maxi
mum credit which can be secure
for six weeks work is six semes
ter hours, and for twelve weeks
work, twelve semester hours.
Queens Alumnae To
Sponsor Job Clinic
Local IRC Members
Attend Conference
Five members of the Interna
tional Relations Club attended a
conference of College Interna
tional Relations Clubs in North
Carolina in Raleigh on Saturday,
April 6. The hosts for the meet
ing were Meredith and N. C. State.
The Queens girls who went were
Mary Lib Martin, Lynn Currie,
Eugenia Shive, Elizabeth Fite, and
Mary Ella Klutz. Dr. Greene, spon
sor for the club, accompanied
them. 3 °l
The outstanding speakers were
Dr. Ervin Hexner, of the Univer
sity of North Carolina, whose sub
ject was Modem Diplomacy, an
E-Governor J. Melville Broughton,
who spoke concerning “A Peoples
P63,CG/’
At this meeting a state ojsani-
zation of clubs was formed
the following officers were elected.
President, Bill Daniels, N. estate,
Vice-President, Leighton McKei
then, Davidson: and Secretary,
Mitchell Lee, Meredith.
The Charlotte Chapter of Queens
College Alumnae will sponsor its
second “Job Clinic” for the college
students on Tuesday evening, April
23, from seven to eight o’clock in
Burwell Hall. The first “Job Clin
ic” proved so successful last spring
that the Charlotte alumnae are
repeating it this year.
Approximately twenty different
vocations will be represented by
the alumnae in various fields and
during the hour students will have
an opportunity to talk informally
with them about their jobs, the
necessary qualifications, s a 1 a i y
scale, opportunities for advance-
mGIlt* ctc»
A wide range of fields will be
represented by alumnae at the
“Clinic,” including library science,
nursing social work, religious edu
cation, Bible teaching, church
music, dietetics, air lines, laboratory
technicians, home economists, per
sonnel, personal secretaries, bank
ing, advertising, teaching, and sev
All students are invited to at
tend the “Clinic” and talk with
the alumnae about their work.
Celebrating the twenty-fifth an
niversary of the founding of Stu
dent Government at Queens Col
lege, the annual student govern
ment installation service was held
in the Queens College Auditorium
on Tuesday noon, with Miss Re
becca Nickles, turning over the
duties of the president to Miss
Donnie Rhodes, who was elected
in March. At this time the five
outgoing officers exchanged robes
with the five incoming officers.
Following the academic proces
sion into the auditorium Miss Vir
ginia Jackson, president of the
Student Government Association
read the scripture and Miss Doris
Skirrow sang the Lord’s Prayer.
Miss Nickles, out-going president,
gave a few words of welcome and
told of the work and of what
student government meant on the
Queens campus. Mrs. H. A. Forbes,
one of the early presidents, gave
an interesting contrast to the rules
and regulations of her time and
today.
Several of the past presidents
of Queens student government
were present, including Mrs. H. A.
Forbes, class of 1923, of Hammond,
La.; Miss Anne Hatcher, class
of 1943; Miss Edna Adams, class
of 1944, both of whom are on the
Queens College staff.
The out-going officers exchanged
robes with the incoming officers.
Miss Rebecca Nickles, Charleston,
S. C., exchanged with Miss Donnie
Rhodes, Lenoir, newly elected pres-
Members Of Queens Int-ernational
Refations Club Speak At Davidson
Members of h?d
tematlonal ’’S.e
Currie spoke on Russia and the
Iranian Situation. Maude Dixon
presented the place Russia has
played in the United Nations.
After these talks an informal dis
cussion about Russia was carried
on by the members of both clubs
ident of student government; Miss
Carolyn Hobson, Clio, S. C., pres
ident of day-student council, ex
changed with Miss Shirley Warner,
Greenville, N. C., the new board
ing student vice-president of stu
dent government. Miss Estelle Har
row, president of day student coun
cil, exchanged with Miss Mary
Yandle, day student vice-president
of student government. Miss Vir
ginia Jackson, Bluefield, W. Va.,
with Miss Florence Ferguson, Char
lotte, newly elected president of
the Student Christian Association,
and Miss Mary Kathryn McArthur,
Charlotte, with Miss Lois Wilson,
Stevenson, Md., who is the new
president of the Athletic Asso
ciation.
The other former presidents of
student government at Queens,
include Miss Ruth Herron, Char
lotte; Mrs. Frank Strait, Rock
Hill; Mrs. Robert W. Taylor, More-
head City; Mrs. J. M. Sheaffer,
Shippensburg, Pa.; Mrs. T. M.
Paris, New Orleans, La.; Mrs.
Emmett H. Morton, Carthage, N.
C.; Mrs. J. Fred Hartness, David
son, N. c.; Mrs. W. L. Hartzog,
Wilmington, N. C.; Mrs. Prank
Westerlund, Albemarle; Mrs. Wal
ter G. Corrie, Florence, S. C.; Mrs.
Wm. C. Meredith, Jr., Atlanta, Ga.;
Mrs. J. Walter Smith, Morristown.
Tenn.; Mrs. E. C. Bailey, Jr.
Alexandria, Va.; Miss Mary Louise
Currie, Wallace, N. C.; Mrs. Ivan
T. Mann, Jr., Charlotte: Mrs.
Glen McClendon, Lafayette, Ala.;
Mrs. Jack Baker, Garden City,
Kas.; Mrs. Dolph M. Young, Jr.,
Charlotte: Mrs. Alfred A. Tay
lor, Lincolnton, N. C.; Miss Anne
Hatcher, Winchester, Va.; Miss
Edna Adams, Winston-Salem, N.
C.; Mrs. Ernest V. Hancock.
Calendar 01 Events
April 23-30
Tuesday—7-8 P.M.—Job Clinic
Sponsored by the Alumnae
Wednesday —8:15 P.M. — Ru
dolph Serkin, Charlotte Com
munity Concert Series
Thursday—8:15 P.M.—William
Lydgate, Queens Concert and
Lecture Series
Monday—Beginning of Senior
Week.
Gallup Poll Editor To
Speak On April 25
The answers to scores of ques
tions which trouble “the man on
the street” are at the fingertips of
William A. Lydgate, editor of the
Gallup Poll and right hand man
to Dr. George Gallup of the Ameri
can Institute of Public Opinion.
Mr. Lydgate will speak on “The
Home Front” on Thursday evening,
April 25, as the last number of
the Concerts and Lectures Series.
Few men in America have a bet
ter understanding of the public
mind and how it works, Lydgate
is the man who decides what to
ask the people. These questions are
put to a vote in various nation
wide Gallup surveys and the find
ings are interpreted for over one
hundred leading newspapers
throughout the country.
Lydgate, who is 34, stands six feet
four inches in stocking feet. For
years, this colossus has conducted
a one-man crusade to get the Pull
man Company to construct sleep
ing berths four inches longer. He
looks as though he might have
been a football player in college,
but claims he is “physically lazy.”
At Yale, where he graduated in
1931, he avoided sports and ran
the “Yale Daily News,” instead.
The son of a minister, Lydgate was
born and educated at private
schools in Hawaii, and attended
the University of Hawaii before
he enrolled at Yale.
Before joining the Gallup Poll,
Lydgate was a writer on Time and
Fortune, and has written many
feature articles for leading mag
azines. His book, “What America
Thinks,” analyzes and interprets
main currents of public opinion as
revealed in more than 2,000 polls
taken in recent years.
The Gallup editor has great faith
in the common people. He likes to
quote Samuel Johnson, the 18th
century writer, who said: “About
things on which the public thinks
long, it commonly attains to think
right.” He has lectured on public
opinion before more than 200
different audiences in the last
four years.
He believes that public opinion
is vital in a democracy but is
quick to point out that polls of
public opinion are far from per
fect. “We’ve made mistakes,” he
says, “and will probably make them
in the future. But ‘sampling’ polls
are the best means of discovering
quickly what the nation thinl^
about any important public ques
tion.”
Lydgate ^ tells many stories of
his experiences as a poll-taker.
When interviewers for the Gallup
^11, of whom no less than one
thousand itinerate throughout the
country, were sounding opinion on
lend-^ase, one interviewer an-
^ woman voter and asked
Madani, are you familiar with
the lend-lease program?” Hesitat
ing a moment, she replied ’ “No
I m not. But if you’ll tell me whS
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