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h mm Page 2 QUEENS BLUES April 23, 1946 QUEENS BLUES Published Semi-Monthly by the Students of Queens College Suzanne Blackmon Editor Helen Switzer _ Business Manager Miss Betty Huckle Faculty Advisor HONORARY STAFF Members of the Athletic Association Mary Kathryn McArthur President Anne McGirt Vice-President Lois Wilson Secretary Carol Wohlford Treasurer Shirley Warner Publicity Chairman Charlotte Kay Senior Representative Becky Lyerly Junior Representative Ann Teague Sophomore Representative Mary Mac Hood Freshman Representative Miss Mitchell Advisor Miss Hawley Advisor BUSINESS STAFF Helen Switzer Advertising Manager Elinor Byars Asst. Advertising Manager Eleanor Bates, Anne Beatty, Betsy Brown, Lawrle Clark, Patsy Desmond, Margie Ann Edwards, Ann Emerson, Margery Sue Garmon, Nancy Gordon, Nancy Gardner, Adrienne Hartman, Kathryn Hunt, Mary Johnston, Melba B. McLuen, Helen Potter, Nancy Ridenhour, Ruth Sherrill, Betty Stine, Helen Switzer, Nolly Thompson, Betty Sue Trulock, Sue Young. NEW RESIDENT PRESIDENT Miss Donnie Rhodes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Rhodes of Lenoir, has been elected president of the student body at Queens college for next year. She will re ceive her B. S. degree in secretarial administration next year. (Observer Staff photo.) You And Student Government Like democracy, Student Government is what you make it; it means one thing to me — it may mean another to you; and like democracy, it is a test of the individual. Self-government in many institutions is merely an in tangible ideal — a front behind which a few dominant per sonalities work toward their own ends; at Queens it is an existing and working reality, and will remain so just as long as it is recognized as an individual possession accompanied by certain intrinsic obligations and privileges. A student-governed college is a miniature democracy hav ing its judicial body in the Student Government councils and Honor Society and its legislative body in Legislature; thus the preparatory correlation between active interest in student and national government is self-evident. Even though the fact that upon our youthful shoulders rests tomorrow’s destiny by this time sounds like the grating of a broken record, it is still a fact, the facing of which cannot be per petually postponed. Thus Student Government affords an avenue of training toward a more intelligible participation in future national governmental issues. It means also a testing of oneself and a chance at SELF-governing in the choosing between meth ods that are foul or fair, between attitudes that are biased or judicial, and between people that are merely spectacular or ones that are truly deserving. True Student Government means freedom; it means character and personality build ing; and it means that its upholders are well on the road to a sane and integrated adulthood. The takers-for-granted of democracy were supposed to S. C. A. NEWS NOTES On March 26 at 5:00 P.M. S.C.A. have learned a lesson in the four and one-half years since I sponsored a steak fry to Pearl Harbor blasted them from their seats of complacency • members of cabinet and —where are you sitting in regard to Student Government at Queens today? 4: :jc :jc 4c Stop Food Waste the various committees were in vited. This party was planned in honor of the committee members who are the unseen workers of S.C.A. They have done such things as plan programs, put up pub licity, attractive posters and an- At no time during World War H was food as urgently and desperately needed as it is now. All over the world men are I nouncements about other events watching their children’s bodies grow frail and weak while sponsored by s.c.a.; for those of they themselves find their minds occupied primarily with , ^ ^ ways by which they may find sustenance for themselves . . , , and their families. The world is tired from the scourges other gir ecora e the hut, of war; man is also hungry. We are no more excused from Prepare the food you eat and saving man from hunger than we could ignore his pitiable wash the dishes; another job plight during the war years. Men die just as surely and which these workers do is to ar just as horribly from starvation as they do from the ravages range for the prayer meetings of war. Hungry men cannot build well a substantial and last- ^eek in vour dormitow ing peace. Can we afford—have we the moral instabilitv— LT , .L to eat thoughHessly and carelessly and still look into the by tL J™ eyes of the other peoples of the world unashamedly? We s,c.a. without their help have so much — they have so little. Says LIFE magazine; the work of your student chris- “Per capita world food production for the year is estimated at twelve per cent below the pre-war level of production . . . Europe, never able to produce all its needs, is now further hamstrung by lack of farm implements and transport . . . world crops have been steadily failing.” U. S. shipments of food have been failing too. We managed during the war, somehow, to feed the largest army the world has ever known and plenty of other people besides, including ourselves. Through selfishness and greed, are we going to let starve tian Association could not have gone forward as it has. To them we say, thanks! The installation of the new S.C.A. Cabinet officers took place Sunday, April 7. This service was held during the regular vesper before our very eyes the very people for whom we fought hour, and an impressive ceremony and agonized and died? LET'S DO ALL WE CAN TO HELP FEED was presented. At this time the Light was passed on to the new S.C.A. officers by the retiring cabinet. An inspiring message was presented to the student body by Tonnie Ferguson, the new president, who challenged the stu dent body to hold high the torch which had been given them. STARVING PEOPLES. Dr. Jack Marion, pastor of the Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Va., was the guest of our college during the week of April 9-12, at which time he conducted a series of services. Dr. Marion spoke each morning at the chapel service and each evening at a vesper service; he also led our thinking in Fellowship on Wednesday afternoon. Dr. Marion also met with the new Cabinet at their regular meeting to give them helpful suggestions in their work for the new year. Dr. Marion’s talks have been a source of inspiration to each one of us and we hope they will con tinue to guide our thinking throughout the remainder of the year. The date of the spring retreat for old and new Cabinet members has been set for the week-end of April 28. Assembly Inn at Montreat is to be the meeting place of the group. Suzanne Blackmon, chairman of the project, has announced that we have exceeded the goal which was set for the Fairview Homes and World Student Service Fund. This is indeed wonderful news espe cially when we realize the value of the causes which were supported so willingly by students and fac ulty. The goal set was $400; your contributions raised it to $486! And this thought I leave with you: “Put all thy trust in God. let Him be thy fear and thy love; He shall answer for thee, and will do all things well, and is best for thee.’’—THOMAS A. KEMPIS. Pictures have been pasted i n scrapbooks, telegrams sent, flow ers received, and Donnie Rhodes has rolled up her sleeves and gone to work after having received the gavel in the traditional installation service on Tuesday, April 12. Donnie’s victory in the recent student election has its unusual aspects in that she had been “missing for two years” (as she puts it). Having completed her freshman year in ’42-’43, she post poned her education to become a business woman as secretary to Mr. James Christian Pfohl, Music Department Head at Davidson Col lege. And with what consequences for as everyone knows—it was there that she met Drew! You know — Drew — President of the SPE’s, President of Student Body, AND Annapolis cadet! Not unrecognized during her freshman year, Donnie was elected to Valkyrie, honorary sophomore organization, and was active in orchestra and choral club work. During the present school year in spite of carrying an extra heavy course of seven subjects, Donnie has been unusual in her interest and cooperation in campus activi ties and organizations. How about the Student Body’s catching a little of her enthusiasm for getting things done toward the making of a more progressive stu dent government and the spread ing of a spirit of cooperation, unity of purpose, and of upholding and raising the standards of Christian womanhood fostered by Queens women? Election Results At the recent student body elec tions the following were elected to serve next year: President of Student Govern ment, Donnie Rhodes, Lenoir. Boarding Student Vice-President, of student government, Shirley Warner, Greenville, N. C. Day Student Vice-President of student government, Mary Yandle, Charlotte. Student Christian Association: President, Florence Ferguson, Char lotte; Boarding Student Vice-Pres ident, Doris Turner, Raleigh; Day Student Vice-President, Eleanor Bates, Charlotte; Secretary, Betty Sue Trulock, Climax, Ga.; Treas urer, Jane Davis, Charlotte. Athletic Council: President, Lois Wilson, Stevenson, Md.; Vice- President, Ruth Ewart, Cornelius; Secretary, Ann Teague, Winston- Salem; Treasurer, Goldie Barron, Seneca, S. C. Boarding Student Council: Pres ident North, Lucy Pate, Gib son; President Morrison, Peggy Miller, Jefferson, S. C.; President Frazier, Laura Sanford, Hender sonville; President South, Jean Campbell, Savannah, Ga.; Secre tary, Betty McMurray, Swannanoa; Treasurer, Emily Kimrey, Sanford; Senior Representative, Ruth Ewart, Cornelius; Junior Representative, Cathy Leeper, Elkin; Sophomore Representative, Mildred Hollings worth, Brownville, Fla. Day Student Council; Vice-Pres ident, Mary Jane Love, Charlotte- Secretary, Travis Wylie, Charlotte! Treasurer, Cornelia Ditto, Char lotte. Student Government: Secretary, Nancy Gordon, Washington, D. C.; Treasurer, Jacqueline English, Spruce Pine; Honor Council, Mil dred Hollingsworth, Brownville, Fla., Mary Katherine Nye, Con way, S. C. Editors: QUILL, Betty Barber, Savannah, Ga.; CORONET, Ann Perry, Charlotte; BLUES, Suzanne Blackmon, Kershaw, S. C.
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