QUEENS BLUES
Vol. XXVIlr- No. 1
QUEENS COLLEGE/ CHARLOTTE, N. C.
October 20, 1949
Lia Petraviskis Arrives In U. S. A.
Great Books
Course Begins
College officials report a good
enrollment in the two Great
Books courses currently being of
fered as a part of the Queens Col
lege Adult Education Program.
These courses, already under
show an attendance of ap
proximately fifteen in the Wed
nesday afternoon section and
about thirty-five in the Tuesday
evening class. The first course,
which was offered in the evening
last year, is entitled Our Devel
oping Western Civilization. The
second is High Lights in World
Literature.
These courses are conducted on
the discussion method with mem
bers of the Queens College staff
serving as leaders. Cooperating
on the Wednesday program are
Dr. Blakely, Dean Albright, Dr.
Corinne Green, and Miss Hull.
Directing the Tuesday night class
are Dr. Blakely, Dr. Green, and
Dr. McCutchan.
Materials for the two courses
consist of books long recognized
hy students as significant contri
butions in the fields of philoso
phy, religion, history, politics,
biography, and literature. Those
program emphasize
t "Works selected are in-
en ed to be representative of the
os and are not exclusive in
their value.
Authors and works included in
"fhe two courses are:
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Homer, The Iliad
P^ato, Apology, Crilo, and parts of
The Republic
Thucydides, History of the Pelo
ponnesian Wars
Aristotle, Politics. Books I and
II
Aristophanes, Clouds, Frogs.
Wasps
Plutarch, Alexander, Caesar
Isaiah,
Job
St. Paul, Ephesians
St. Augustine, The Confessions
Thomas Aquinas, “On the Gov
ernment of Rulers”
Dante, The Divine Comedy
Machiavelli, The Prince
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Ham
let, King Lear, MacBeth, Mil-
ton, “Areopagitica”, Paradise
Lost
John Locke, “Essay Concerning
Human Understanding”
^^scal, Pensees: Selections
Thackeray, Henry Esmond
Goethe, Faust
Harl Marx, Communist Manifesto
Matthew Arnold, “Culture and
Anarchy”
^bsen, Doll's House, and Hedda
Gabler
Tolstoy, War and Peace
Hostoevski, Brothers Karamazov.
Thoreau, Walden
"Tom Paine, Common Sense and
The Federalist Papers
^alery-Radot, Life of Pasteur
^ark Twain, Life on the Mis
sissippi
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
'^ohn Steinbeck, The Moon is
Down
Home Economics
Club Initiates
The Home Economics Club be
gan its year’s work during Orien
tation Week when it set up a
model room which has since been
changed to the Home Manage
ment House. Betty Ann Pyron
and her committee deserve the
credit for this interesting project.
The week-end of September 30
—October 1 found two girls rep
resenting the Club at the Prov
ince meeting in Gatlinburg, Ten
nessee. Judy Kinney and "Virginia
Easter report that a wonderful
time was had by all with North
Carolina leading in the number of
representatives. The theme of the
convention was “How We Can
Tell When We’re Doing Better
Clubwork,” and it was shown
through four channels of thought-
mechanics of clubwork; improve
ments of programs; improve
ments of publicity; and improve
ment of finances. The highlight
of the convention was a speech
by Miss Hovis, Dean of the Home
Economics at the University of
Tennessee. She used as her topic
“Democracy’s Unfinished Busi
ness,” revealing how people must
work in groups.
October 10 was a big day for
the club as it was on that day
that eight girls were initiated.
These girls are: Beth Dobbins,
Jacquie Davis, Dot Folger, Alma
Hoke, Mary Anne Hamilton, Jane
Mobly, Judith Rayburn, and Jean
Powell. The members of the club
have been given handbooks
which reveal many new and in
teresting plans for the year. Mar
garet Barron edited the booklet
and Helen Mallonee was art edi
tor. The handbook was published
under the title of HEC.
Freeman Speaks
Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman
lectured to a full house in Nin-
niss Auditorium, Tuesday night,
October 4, on the subject “Con
trasting Youth—^Washington and
Lee.” Dr. Freeman’s address was
the opening number of the cur
rent Concerts and Lectures series.
Speaking from an extensive
knowledge of source material, D^.
Freeman contrasted the two fam
ous Americans from the point of
view of their personal appear
ance, their mothers, and their
wives. On two points Dr. Free
man stressed a similarity be
tween the two men in their youth.
The first of these was rectitude
in moral conduct which distin
guished them from many of their
contemporaries. The second was
a devotion to principle as demon
strated in the detailed perform
ance of small duties required of
them.
Dr. Freeman, who was award
ed the Pulitzer prize for his four-
volume work on Robert E. Lee, is
currently laboring on his life of
George Washington. In addition
to his work as historian and biog-
grapher. Dr. Freeman is well
known as a teacher, editor, and
radio commentator.
Chapel Schedule
October 21
Mr. Crandell, St. Peter’s Episcopal
October 25
Dr. William Boyce, First A.R.P.
October 28
Helen Drennan
College Choir
Begins Work
Whenever you pass by the Mu
sic Building, there is usually
something always going on. From
4:30 to 5:45 p.m. on Monday, Wed
nesday, and Friday, the College
Choir is busy practicing for their
chapel programs and spring tour.
The duo-piano ensemble work is
fast gaining recognition; last year
the duo-piano was very success
ful. If you want to know how it
feels to play duo-piano, just ask
some of the piano students.
Since the Queens-Davidson
Little Symphony has started
functioning again, we can look
forward to exciting programs by
them, such as last year when one
of the foremost piano students
was soloist with the symphony.
Mu Phi Epsilon, the national
honorary music sorority, is going
to play an important role this
year on the campus. For one
thing, the members of Mu Phi
Epsilon are giving a Vesper pro
gram in November.
So sometime, just walk into the
Music Building and listen. You
might hear the mellow tone of the
viola; or the majestic organ, a
famous piano concerto, or an aria
from a well-known opera. If
you try hard enough, you can
just forget you are on the Queens
college campus.
Calendar nf Events
October 21—-First Freshman
Week-end
Davidson Homecoming
Oct. 31—Nov. 5—Rush Week
“Do you have the positive atti
tude?” It was with this question
that the Orientation Committee
greeted both new and old students
upon their arrival on the campus.
Many times since, the same ques
tion has resounded from the chap
el platform, from the floor of
house meetings, and on the camp
us itself.
June Patterson, President of
the Student Body, explains that
the question constitutes an at
tack upon negativism in any area
of college life. “It is not,” she
says, “a ‘new’ philosophy, but a
positive manifestation of a seri
ous appreciation of values and
genuine spirit of cooperation
which have always existed on the
Queens campus. It is the simple
expression of the panel discus
sion by students and faculty of
their aspirations for the coming
year.”
June goes on to say, “College
life should be lived on a more
mature level than is often main
tained in small women’s colleges.
Too often students in colleges of
this type are characterized by a
‘get-by’ attitude. Such an attitude
toward study and social regula
tions often undermines both
school spirit and the student’s
personal satisfaction in her own
college experience. To replace
such an attitude every Queens
student is challenged to accept
individual responsibility in self-
discipline.
“Rules should be regarded not
as means of punishing offenders
but as approved standards of
conduct under which the greatest
number of individuals may en
joy the maximum liberty and
freedom from petty restrictions.
Under the same principle class
assignments come to be regarded
as steps in the acquisition of
knowledge rather than chores
standing between the student and
the required number of quality
points necessary for class stand
ing or graduation.
“Extracurricular activities are
expected to take their proper
place in the life of every student.
Each girl has specific responsi
bilities in the program of the stu
dent body and of interest groups.
At the same time no girl should
become overloaded with activi
ties to the detriment of one ac
tivity or her own study time.
“In a similarly balanced way
students are encouraged to as
sume responsible parts in com
munity activities, for example in
local churches. In this way they
will live a more normal life than
if they restrict themselves to the
‘tidy little enclosure” of campus”
problems.
“The emphasis this year is on
enabling each student to regard
every area of her college life as a
potential field for greater de
velopment. Each individual is
urged to devote those moments,
frequently and unprofitably
spent in complaining, to creative
action.”
The girls who served on the
Orientation Committee this year
were chosen on the basis of a
particular responsibility that was
theirs during the week. This com
mittee included: Helen Alexand
er, Murphy Alexander, Florence
Ashcraft, Ann Bailey, Clara
Barnes, Peggy Barrentine, Joan
Baucom, Bonnie Blue, Nancy
Blue, Janet Brunson, Mildred
Butler, Betty Byerly, Shirley By-
erly, Deanie BerryhiU, Grace
Marie Childs, Joyce Crosland,
Marion Christopher, Birdie Crow,
Cornelia Dick, Helen Drennan,
Rainey Gamble, Iva Jean Gor
don, Adalaide Foil, Lucy Guion,
Dot Folger, Babs Hamby, Mildred
Hancock, Smoky Henry, Pat
Keesling, Mayree Kay Ledford,
Fay Langston, Doris Lawing,
Sara Little, Maritza Linares,
"Virginia Love, Ochie Matlock,
Eleanor Miller, Ruth Mitchell,
Claribel Moles, Lorraine Murphy,
Betty Norris, Wanda Oxner, June
Patterson, Ruth Porter, Jeanne
Seale, Suzanne Scheer, Nina
Senn, Connally Smith, Dot Spen
cer, Bootsy Stafford, Rachel Stev
ens, Lou Ellen Thompson, Jeanne
Walker, Mildred Wilson, Betty
Mae Woods, Betty Wayne Wil
liams, Ann Woodson, Belva
Morse.
Student
En Route
To Queens
The walls of 40 South will no
longer echo only the voice of our
little redhead Dot Folger; for her
roommate, Lia Petraviskis, ar
rived in the United States yester
day, October 19th and will be
here at Queens very soon. It will
be only a matter of time now be
fore all of our questions about
Lia Petraviskis will be answered
by Lia in person. Perhaps there
are a few questions that can be
answered about Lia before she
arrives.
In her own words Lia says of
herself, “I am born on the 14th
of April 1927 as daughter of a
businessman in Riga, Lativa. I
learned in Elementary School at
Riga until 1939. In 1939 I passed
the examinations and entered to
the 2nd Gymnasium of Riga
studying there until 1944, when
our native country was occupied
by Soviet Russia and I fled to
gether with my parents to GeQ
many. I was forced to work until
the surrender of Germany (May,
1945).”
Lia continued her studies in
the autumn of 1945 and entered
the Technical University at Karls
ruhe in 1946. After 2 years there,
she began to work for the Inter
national Refugee Organization in
Nellinger where she has been
until the present time.
Miss Petraviskis will enter
Queens as a student in natural
sciences in her sophomore or
junior year. She speaks, reads,
and writes Latvian, German, Eng
lish, and French.
Lia has faced the strain and
turmoil of war. She, as one of the
displaced persons of Europe, has
gone through much to come to
the United States to study and to
make her home here in our un
scarred country. It is with open
hearts that we welcome her to
her new home on Queens Col
lege Campus.
Training Program
Enters , Sixth Year
The Queens-Charlotte Leader
ship Education program entered
its sixth year with its 1949 fall
program. The School of Religion
is sponsored interdenomination-
ally by Queens College and the
churches of Charlotte. The pur
pose of the school is to strengthen
the quality of Christian teaching
in the community. This year the
school will be open to all church
members who want to know
more about the Bible and the
various phases of Christian liv
ing. The program presents a fine
opportunity for guidance in spir
itual development and Christian
service.
This fall the School of Religion
will be held at the Caldwell Me
morial Presbyterian Church each
Tuesday evening from October
25 through November 29. Every
church member is invited to at
tend.