QUEENS BLUES
Vol. XXVIII- No. 5
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
December 15, 1949
BOAR'S HEAD IS QUEENS TRADITION
Six Seniors
Are Listed
In Who's Who
Announcement has been made
by the office of the President of
Queens that six seniors will be
listed i^ the 1949-50 edition of
l^ho’s Who Among Students in
^uierican Universities and Col-
l®9es. The students so honored
are; Peggy Barrentine, Grace
lllarie Childs, Eleanor Godfrey,
Belva M,orse, June Patterson, and
Ruth Porter.
Students whose names appear in
this publication are chosen by a
special committee on the basis of
scholarship, leadership, coopera
tion in educational and extracur
ricular activities, general citizen
ship, and promise of future useful
ness.
Peggy Barrentine, of Charlotte,
has served as treasurer of Day
Student Council, as a member of
legislature and S.C.A. committees,
and as Vice-president of S.C.A. She
is now President of the Senior
Class and President of Alpha Kap
pa Gamma. She is a member of
Phi Mu social sorority and has
been in the May Court for four
years.
on s c A active member
tees art’ legislative commit-
Alnh ^ ®^®Diber of Valkyrie and
a Kappa Gamma. She has
Stud and treasurer of
Government and is cur-
of^St Student Vice-president
longs'^ Government. Grace be-
and Omega social sorority
p as been a member of May
three times.
El
eanor Godfrey, Winston-
em, wag freshman representa-
^ye to Boarding Student Council.
® has successively been Secre-
ary and Treasurer of Student Gov
ernment, and at the present time
IS Boarding Student Vice-presi-
has been President of
e Sophomore Class, Vice-presi-
ent of the Recreation Associa-
a member of Valkyrie, Alpha
Kappa Gamma, Legislature and
Honor Council.
Belva Morse, also of Winston-
Salem, has been an active member
of S.C.A. committees and cabinet
and is now President of the Stu
dent Christian Association. She
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Alumnae Meet
In Charlotte
1’he Charlotte chapter of the
®ens College Alumnae had a
Loan Fund
Is Available
The Lily Long Alumnae Me
morial Loan Fund is available to
members of the senior class in the
amount of $150 for each individual
loan. With a view to the fact that
students might be interested in
using the loan fund for the second
semester, the Alumnae Association
is making this announcement. In
formation can be obtained from the
Public Relations Office.
“Miss Lily,” as she is remem
bered, was a member of the faculty
and administrative staff of the
Charlotte Female Institute from
its beginning and continued to
serve when the college came under
control of the Presbyterian Church
in 1901 as Presbyterian College
for Women. She was its president
from 1896 until 1900 and was re
tired in 1910.
In 1925 the Alumnae Association
presented Miss Long with a gold
brooch as a symbol of respect and
esteem. Later she was selected as
its first life member. Lily Long
Dormitory was named in her
honor, and in 1929 the alumnae
established the loan fund in her
memory.
’^heon meeting at one o’clock
Qu
Iuq
®^turday, December 10, in Efird’s
^^Ivate dining room in Charlotte.
alumnae of Charlotte and
y^cinity were invited to this meet-
hig.
'The plans for the luncheon meet-
Were made final at a meeting
the board of directors in the
“rst week in December. It was
ecided that the program was to
® brief and informal. The main
Idea
y^ns to meet and talk with
again. Special guests at
luncheon meeting included
of the Queens College
^inistration Board,
he officers of this alumnae
^re as follows: President
Thomas R. Gregory; Vice-
bo Mary M. Sonne-
—Mrs. Edward M.
oy, ^ ’ Treasurer—Mrs. Frank O.
Jr,
Is There A Santa Claus?
(In the entire history of journalism no one has ever written
an editorial on Christmas that could even compare with that
of Francis P. Church in the New York Sun of 1897. Because
of its appropriateness and charm, the Blues reprints it here.)
Dead Editor: I am 8 years old. Some of my little
friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “if
you see it in the ‘Sun’ it’s so.” Please tell me the truth,
is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon.
IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been
affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not
believe except they see. They think that nothing can be
which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds,
Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In
this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in
his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him,
as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole
of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly
as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that
they abound and give your life its highest beauty and joy.
Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa
Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias.
There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance,
to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoy
ment except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which
childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe
in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch
in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus,
but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what
would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no
sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the
world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did
you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but
that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive
or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable
in the world.
You tear apart a baby’s rattle and see what makes the
noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world
which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of
all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only
faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain
and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond.
Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing
else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God, he lives, and he lives forever.
A thousand years from now, Virginia—nay, ten thousand
years from now—he will continue to make glad the heart
of childhood.
S.C.A. Cabinet
Leads Carols
New students may have looked
at the white, somewhat obscured
picture on page 101 of the Hand
book. If they have, they have prob
ably wondered what it was intend
ed to symbolize, for the picture al
most is not there. To students who
know of the part that S.C.A. has
traditionally played on the campus
the picture is full of meaning.
The origin of the practice is
obscure, but for many years follow
ing the Boar’s Head dinner and the
Christmas party for the servants
in Burwell Hall, members of the
S.C.A. cabinet, dressed in white,
have formed a cross on the front
steps of Burwell. Holding long
lighted candles above their heads,
cabinet members then lead all
students and faculty, who are
grouped in the drive and on the
front campus, in singing carols.
This carol service is the last of the
annual Christmas celebrations on
the Queens camps.
P.H.C. And S.C.A.
Sponsor Drive
It has been traditional for Pan-
Hellenic council and S.C.A. to
sponsor, prior to Christmas, a
white gift service. Gifts have been
collected and distributed through
out Charlotte or have been sent
abroad for the last four years.
This year when Pan-Hell and
S.C.A. met, they discussed many
projects which they might under
take, and their conclusion was to
have a silver gift service, the pro
ceeds of which are to be sent to
the American Mission to Lepers.
It was through an article by Dr.
Kellersburger (who brought “Pete
the Pig” to our campus last year)
that this group realized that the
needs of leper colonies in Africa
and India are as great as ever.
As little as one dollar will take
care of the cost of running the
colony’s farm area for one day;
five dollars will provide medicine
for a leper for a whole year; and
twelve dollars will provide cloth-
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Students Observe
Annual Christmas
Festival Tonight
December 15, 1949, is an im
portant date in the Queens cal
endar, first because it is the last
full day on campus before Christ
mas vacation, and secondly be
cause it is the date of the Boar’s
Head dinner. The Boar’s Head is
an annual tradition at Queens, and
Miss Rena Harrell and Miss Helen
Strickland, who share responsibil
ity for planning the festive ritual,
are the sources for the following
facts about it.
About 1934 Miss Alma Edwards,
then dean of students, collaborated
with Miss Harrell in introducing
the Boar’s Head ceremony to
Queens. The move held special
significance because it had long
been a feature of Queens College,
Oxford. In 1939 Dr. Calvin Linton
expanded and re-wrote the procla
mation in the form which is now
used. So far as can be ascertained,
only two other schools in the
United States perpetuate this serv
ice. One is Bryn Mawr College in
Pennsylvania; the other is Sea-
bury-Western Theological Semi
nary, an Episcopalian institution in
Evanston, Illinois.
This year’s celebration at
Queens, an adapted version of the
longer and more elaborate English
original, will have the following
students as principals; reader,
Kellah Murray; bearer of the
boar’s head. Dot Thomas; trumpet
ers, Peggy Barrentine and Barbara
Ann Jobe. In the past few years
there has been a tendency to re
gard these parts as honors avail
able to seniors.
Selected members of the David
son College band’s brass section
under the direction of Professor
James C. Pfohl supply music and
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Many See
Q. C. Film
The movie on life at Queens that
we have all enjoyed seeing has
been shown in numerous places in
the past weeks. It has been shown
to the Central High School senior
girls, to the Harding High, Tech
High, and ^ Mecklenburg County
High School girls, and in the
Williamsburg Presbyterian Church,
Kingstree, South Carolina. In De
cember it has already been pre
sented at a Chapel Hill Alumnae
Chapter meeting at the Caldwell
Presbyterian Church, Hawthorne
Lane Methodist Church, Avondale
Presbyterian Church, Plaza Presby
terian Church,—all here in Char
lotte; also to a group of high
school girls in Shelby, N. C.
In the future the movie is to
be shown at the First Presbyterian
Church, Blytheville, Ark.; at the
Kenilworth Presbyterian Church,
Asheville, N. C., and St. Martin’s
Episcopal Church, Charlotte, N. C.
In February it is to be shown at
the South Jacksonville Presbyteri
an Church, Jacksonville, Ga.
Calendar Of Events
December 15
Boar’s Head Dinner
December 16
Christmas Vacation
January 2, 1950
Return of the Natives