QUEENS BLUES
Vol. XXVI—No. 7
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
April 22, 1948
Council Removes Major System
Fine Arts Department
Sponsors Week-End
May Day on Friday, April 30,
will begin the third Fine Arts
week-end in the history of
Queens. The festival has been a
part of the spring program for
three years and has been an im
portant feature in demonstrating
student participation in all such
activities on campus.
Friday night, following the
May Day exercises in the after
noon, will be the first presenta
tion of the play “First Lady
under the direction of Miss Helen
Strickland. The second perform
ance of the comedy will be Sat
urday evening. Saturday after
noon the Art Department will ex
hibit work by the students in that
field. They are as follows: Ruth
Smith, Sara Dell Adams, Mayree
Kay Ledford, Betty Norris, Bar
bara Hamby, Martha Cottingham
Dorothy Floyd, Mildred Ann Wil
son, Mrs. E. M. Williams, Betty
McLean, Ann Sloan Dixon, Vir
ginia Graham, Carolyn Hayden
Ann Birmingham, Imogene Isley
Levonde Caldwell, Sue Sykes
Mary Alice Powell, Dare Masters
Betty Jean Barker, Ethel Borden
Marv Burke, Ella Craddock, Mar
ion Fant, Arlene Palmer, Helen
Switzer.
Sunday afternoon at four
o’clock a program of contempor
ary music will be given under the
organization of Mr. John Holli
day. The program consists of:
Sonata Copland
Thomas Hibbard, violin
John Holliday, piano
Two Songs Gerschefski
On His Blindness
The Clock
Joanne Macaulay, soprano
Three Choruses For
Womens Voices — Sravinsky
Queens College Singers
John Holliday, director
Elsie Stokes Moseley, piano
Thomas Hibbard, violin obligato
Three Nocturnes Bloch
Thomas Hibbard, violin
Charlotte Willi^nas, cello
John Holliday, piano
On Monday night, the Queens
Davidson Little Symphony, under
the direction of James Christian
Pfhol will present a program
The symphony is composed of
students from both colleges. This
is the last in the series during the
week-end.
Juniors Plan
Banquet For Seniors
That grand event of the year
has finally come — the Junior-
Senior banquet and dance! Satur
day night at six the doors of Mor
rison Hall will swing open to
welcome the fair lassies of Queens
and their escorts of the evening.
The occasion is semi-formal, but
under the circumstances excep
tions are permissible. From all
appearances the Juniors have a
big night planned that’s well
worth looking forward to. After
the banquet there will be a short
“intermission.” They say “Variety
is the spice.
” and dancing will
be to the lovely music of T. Dor
sey, Stan Kenton, and Tex Be-
neke. (Juke boxes are so versa
tile!) We’re all looking forward to
an exciting evening. It’s the high
light of Senior Week!
Committee Plans
Home Department
Plans for the new program of
education for the home and fam
ily as related to community liv
ing, which will begin at Queens
College in the fall, were discussed
in a recent meeting of the ad
ministrators of the college and a
large committee of Carolina wo
men. This committee, twenty-six
members of which were present
at the meeting, is composed of
women who are considered out
standing Christian leaders in their
respective communities. It is the
plan of the college to develop a
program which will relate the
problems connected with the
home, family, and community to
many courses now given in the
various departments of the insti
tution. The committee was asked
to meet to help in consolidating
ideas for the establishment of
this project.
The executive committee of this
group is made up of Mrs. Can
non, Mrs. Harris, and Mrs. Wm.
H. Barnhardt of Charlotte, and
Mrs. T. Henry Watson of Morgan-
ton.
Alumni Honor
High School Seniors
An outstanding tradition on
Queens campus each year is High
School Senior Day sponsored by
the Alumni Association of the
college.
Invitations are issued to the
three senior High School’s here in
Charlotte: Central, Harding, and
Tech High.
This is merely an introduction
to our lovely campus and the ac
tivities which the college has to
offer. It reveals the opportunities
which any Charlotte girl has right
in her home town.
As the girls arrived on the
campus they were escorted about
the grounds and information was
given to them concerning the
college life, activities, traditions,
and the interesting historical
facts.
After this the Seniors were di-
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Student Leaders
Attend Training
School Program
Queens now has student gov
ernment but to keep it she needs
efficient student leaders. Leader
ship should not apply to just
two or three girls who attempt
to carry all of the work but
should include the personal re
sponsibility of every student in
college. In order to stress this
thought, to arouse interest in the
student body and to teach us how
to make our governing body,
there was sponsored a Leadership
Training School from April fifth
through the eighth.
The program began in chapel
Monday morning and continued
Monday through Thursday nights
from seven o’clock until nine in
the Day Student Building. There
were approximately eighty girls
present at the meetings which
were led In discussion by Miss Al
bright. The organizations includ
ed were the Boarding and Day
Student Councils, the Freshman
Counselors, the Student Christian
Association officers, the Recrea
tion Association officers, the Pan-
Hellenic council, the editors of
publications and business man
agers, class officers. Legislature
members, and Student Govern
ment officers.
Monday night, following an in
troduction Monday morning, the
group was divided into units to
treat problems facing Queens in
connection with world affairs. Al
though the theme was general,
specific plans were made and
brought before the group before
closing the meeting. Tuesday
night reports were made by com
mittee chairmen for the student
counselors’ handbook, the Queens
Cues. Miss Albright talked to the
girls Wednesday refreshing them
on parliamentary procedure and
giving them some very good
pointers concerning such things
as chapel appearance. The group
enjoyed a talk in chapel Wednes
day morning given by Miss Hines
on business orders, principally
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Seniors Honored
This Week
Monday, April 19, began the
week which has become tradi
tional to all Queens College
seniors and it is the week which
is ^always eagerly awaited by
those who are about to graduate.
Monday evening the week be
gan with the annual senior dinner
at which time the class poem,
will, history and prophecy of the
class of ’48 were presented. Tues
day afternoon Mrs. Blakely play
ed hostess at a delightful lunch
eon at which time the seniors
were the honored guests.
On Wednesday morning. Miss
Squires and Miss Albright serv
ed breakfast at 9:00 to the delight
of their guests and was followed
by a senior chapel program at
which time the permanent presi
dent of the class of ’48 was elect
ed. The rest of the day was spent
at the river sun bathing and rec
reating.
Thursday afternoon at lunch
the Kiwanis Club of Charlotte
added to the gaiety of the occa
sion with their presence and the
luncheon seemed to be enjoyed
as much by the gentlemen as the
girls.
The sophomores will hold a
party for the seniors Friday and
the week will be climaxed by the
Jr.-Sr. banquet and dance at
which time a week of fun and
frolic will have ended for the
seniors.
Dramatic Dept.
Presents Plays
At the last meeting held by the
Queens Players the officers for
the coming year were elected. The
new president is Meredith Henry
under whose leadership the club
has great expectations of much
progress.
First Lady is well underway. A
superb cast, has been selected.
This play will be presented the
first week-end in May. There will
be two performances—one on Fri
day night the 30th of April, and
one on Saturday night the first
of May.
Queens students were given the
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JEAN FANT
You see it there, nestling in the
rather dusty (darn him) corner
of your mail box and, as Miss
Tillet might say, your heart leaps
up. A package slip, oh joy! The
sun shines, the birds sing, the
sausage tonight will taste like
steak, you know you couldn’t
have made less than a “B” on that
Bible test, and all’s right in your
ittle world.
Then for one utterly ghastly
second your hand trembles as you
open the box and take the prec
ious thing into your inky little
band—what if, oh horror of hor
rors, what if it’s merely your
clean clothes? Trembling, you ap
proach the door; breathlessly you
open .it; bewildered, you search
for your name; and with a sigh
of relief you pounce on an un-
mistakeable box of food.
Now the great game begins—
mind pitted against mind and
friend against friend in the most
difficult of all tasks—making a
box of food last longer than one
day. Thanks to the rainy weather
you have a raincoat. You slip it
off and place it carefully over the
arm upon which the box is hang
ing. Ah hah! You crafty individ
ual, you clever person—no one
will ever suspect your true motive
for walking back to the dorm in
a pouring rain with your coat over
your arm. You walk four feet and
two girls who have cut you dead
for a month rush up to you, pound
you on the back and tell you of
their plans to come to your room
right now in a few minutes.
Great! You are as happy as if
you had just been campused for
two weeks.
Your friends spy you from the
window. Things have been a little
strained since this morning when
you found the ink on your suede
shoes, but you have the feeling
all will be well now. You are
right. You shoot one furtive
glance behind you because noth
ing less than Greg Peck’s entrance
would cause such a rash of smiles
and outstretched arms. No, they
mean you. Your entrance into
your room affects your pals as
Rod Cameron did the frosh.
Grinning from ear to ear you
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Boarding Student
Council Presents
New Penalty System
Boarding Student Council an
nounces today the discontinuance
of the Major System. Two weeks
ago a special committee from the
Council was appointed by Emily
Kimrey, President of the Council,
to study the major system and to
submit its recommendations for
revision of the system. Members
of the committee were Betty Jane
Booream, Katherine Knight,
Emily Kimrey, ex officio, and
Eleanor Godfrey. The Committee
worked in consultation with Miss
Albright.
Concerning the Major System,
the committee submitted in its
report an opinion that it was no
longer effectual in that it did
not have the co-operation of the
students, and that the method of
penalizing was non-corrective in
most instances. The committee
pointed out that while for the
sake of all resident students it
was necessary to have a system
for enforcement of the rules of
Student Government that any
plan must hold the respect of the
students and be conducive to
their maturity.
The following plan recommend
ed by the Committee was adopted
by Boarding Student Council and
will be put on a trial basis for the
remainder of the school year:
Section I. House Councils
1. There shall be a House
Council in each dormitory con
sisting of the House President,
other residing Boarding Student
Council members, and appointed
Councillors. The House Presi
dent and the residing Boarding
Student Council members will
appoint as many girls in the
dormitory as they deem neces
sary to act as members of the
House Council; however this will
not make them voting members
of Boarding Student Council.
2. Duties. The House Council
shall assist the House President
in administering the dormitory
regulations and settle, or refer to
the House Presidient, all cases of
house discipline. One member
shall act as Secretary and will be
in charge of the students’ records
in the house file.
3. Meetings. The House Coun
cil shall meet each Monday prior
to the Boarding Student Council
meeting. Records are to be check
ed at this time and reports pre
pared for presentation at Board
ing Student Council meeting.
The House Council shall con
sider for action the following in
fractions of dormitory rules:
1. ) failure to keep phone duty
2. ) talking too long on tele
phones
3. ) breaking closed study
4. ) out of room or spending
night out of dormitory without
permission from House President
5. ) excess noise
6. ) church book
7. ) late lights
8. ) failure to attend house meet
ings.
There has been a classification
of offenses into serious and minor
and the penalties for offenses
will be according to degree and
up to the discretion of the House
Council. For instance, failure to
keep phone duty will carry an
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