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QUEENS BLUES
May IL 1950
QUEENS BLUES
FLORENCE DAVIS
NANCY HILL
MURPHY ALEXANDER.
DESSIE BROADWELL.
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Sporting —
Around Queens
An Editoriat That We Would
Prefer Not To Write
The headlines of the Charlotte Observer on Friday, April
28, were of vital interest to the students and faculty of Queens,
for they carried the news of Dr. Blakely’s resignation. We
received this news with mixed emotions of shock and surprise.
President Blakely’s decision to resign shocked us to such
a degree that many of us in our thinking have not gone
beyond a feeling of regret. Yet, we also could be thankful
for the eleven years he has been here. In an article on the
front page of this issue of the Blues there is a list of a few
of his achievements while guiding our school. A glance at
this list will show us how deeply we are indebted to Dr.
Blakely, for under his guidance Queens has come to be one
of the outstanding women’s colleges in the Southeast.
We realize something of what Dr. Blakely means to Queens
when we begin to wonder who will be the new president.
The man who is appointed to the position will have a difficult
job. Who else can give Dr. Blakely’s annual chapel talk on
“The Queen’s Lookout,” and who else can embody the true
spirit of Queens in his everyday life?
The Blues is particularly concerned over President Blake
ly’s decision to leave. He realizes, as few college presidents
do, the power of the press on a campus. Not only has he
shown an interest in the Blues and other student publications,
but also on more than one occasion in the past he has “gone
to bat” for them to save them from threatened extinction.
All Queens students will say goodby to President and Mrs.
Blakely with a feeling of gratitude and appreciation for the
many friendly and gracious ways in which they have made
their college days happy days.
We shall miss the Blakelys, and we shall remember them.
Now Is
The Hour
Two more weeks, fourteen days, two hundred more hours
and we will all be deep in the midst of exams. Two hundred
more hours—why not make those hours study hours? Start
reviewing now, put your notes in order, get your material
organized, and then STUDY. It would be nice to be able to
relax during exam week, to go to bed before the sun peeps
over the horizon, to go to an exam with a good night’s rest
plus a head full of knowledge backing you up. It would be
nice, and you can do it IF you will. Start now and devote
one concentrated hour of review to each of your subjects.
The results of such a plan will amaze you, and it will also
be a pleasant surprise for your professors. Buckle down to
your books and have a most successful exam week. Good
Luck! M.A,
Even though we don’t have a
swimming pool on the campus,
we do have lots of fish. (I hope
the girls I mention have no ob
jection to my calling them fish.)
Even the Charlotte Aquacade
Club recognized the fact that
some Queens’ girls are good
enough for exhibition. On April
the twenty-first and twenty-
second the Aquacade Club pre
sented “In An Old Fashioned
Garden” at the YWCA pool. Pat
Keesling and Holly Lambdin
participated in it; and Mrs. Jim
Magher, physical education in
structor here last year, was one
of the advisors. The numbers
presented were truly in keeping
with an old-fashioned garden.
They were: “In an Old Fashioned
Garden,” “Mistress Mary, Quite
Contrary,” “June is Bursting Out
All Over,” “Red Roses for a
Blue Lady,” “You Wore a Tulip,”
Tango Del La Rose,” “Welcome,
Sweet Springtime, “Orchids in
the Moonlight,” “Tonight We
Love,” “Waiting At the Church,”
“Wedding Samba,” “ Waltz of the
Flowers,” and “Memories.”
Not only do Queens’ girls swim
at the YWCA, they also swin in
the pool at Davidson. Ola Mat-
lock, Lucy Boggs, Frances Harris,
Betsy Cromer, Belva Morse’
Smokey Henry, and Miss June
Holtzendorff have just completed
a five night Red Cross Instruct
or’s Course. These girls were re
newing their Instructor’s Certifi
cates.
Swimming isn’t the only fad
here these days, softball is also
popular—especially since the
days are longer. Miss Squires is
helping thei softball cause by
serving picnic suppers at the
grill on Saturday nights. It’s so
convenient to get to the softball
field from the grill, and it cer
tainly is fun to play softball when
that some special one can’t be
here on Saturday nights. The
tennis courts haven’t been slight
ed either, and with all the en
thusiastic tennis players this year
there should be a good tourna
ment.
Sunbathing can’t quite be
classed as a sport, but it seems
to be a favorite pastime about
this time of year. There certainly
should be something in the cata
logue about the wonderful op
portunities to get suntans here.
Any time from lunch on the
Queens’ girls desert the dormi
tories and head for the athletic
field.
Blakely
Sheer and Blue
(Continued from page 1)
Here, between sea and sea,
in the fairy wood,
I have found a delicate,
wave-green solitude.” Arthur
Symons, Miss Scheer.
Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes,
Crist; Lady-Bug, Baby is Sleep
ing, What the Old Cow Said, Pat
a Cake; May-Day Carol, arr.
Deems Taylor; Knock on the
Door, Crist; Miss Blue.
Counselors . . .
(Continued from page 1)
olger, Lynn Campbell, Harriet
iVIcInnis, Sallie Hood Buie, Eu
genia Harris, June DeLamar.
The Day Student Counselors
are:
Lucy Dunn Guion, Alice Rey
nolds, Helena Hunter, Valorie
Snook, Betty Ann Pyron, Jean
Harrison.
(Continued from page 1)
the reference collection.
Queens has been granted mem-
ership in the National Associ-
tion of Colleges of Music and has
received recognition from the
General Education Board in the
form of a grant aiding in the im
provement of the Science Build
ing.
Other miscellaneous improve
ments might be mentioned,
among them the remodeling and
refurnishing of Burwell Hall and
the dormitories, the erection of
the statue of Diana, the estab
lishment of the rose garden, and
extensive landscaping about the
campus.
These are the more tangible
and concrete benefits Dr. Blake
ly leaves to Queens College. It is
impossible to list or to limit the
effect of his personality, char
acter, unflagging interest in stu
dent and faculty, his concern for
the present and future welfare
of the college, and his never-tir
ing optimism. Evidence of all
these was manifested in the
shocked and surpised reception
in all quarters of the news of his
resignation.
Dr. Blakely will take a posi
tion as Secretary of the Commit
tee on Higher Education in the
General Assembly of the South
ern Presbyterian Church. He and
Mrs. Blakely plan to make their
home in Richmond, Virginia. The
best wishes of the Queens com
munity go with them.
Before coming to Queens Dr.
Blakely had served as Acting
Pastor of the American Church
in Berlin, Professor of New
Testament* Interpretation in
Columbia Seminary (Decatur,
Georgia), and as Pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, Staun
ton, Virginia. He was for many
years a member of the Board of
Trustees of Mary Baldwin Col
lege.
No announcement has been
made regarding plans to meet
the emergency occasioned by Dr.
Blakely’s resignation. It is as
sumed that the Board of Trus
tees have already commenced a
study of the problem.
Home Ec Dept.
Tries New Course
For Non-Majors
A new step was taken by the
Queens Home Economics Depart
ment when four non-majors were
given three weeks training in
the Home Management House
this semester. Three of these
girls, Ann Woodson, Betty Mor
ris, and Peggy Barrentine, had
taken the one semester non
major cooking course. The other,
June Patterson, had had no previ
ous training in home economics.
So in rotating turns as cook, as
sistant cook, hostess, and house
keeper, these four seniors “play
ed house” and managed not to
starve.
At a summarying conference
with Miss Sarah Burton Jenkins,
the supervisor, the girls enthu
siastically agreed that while they
still had much to learn, the ex
periment had been a great suc
cess and experessed the hope
that more seniors could be given
such an opportunity. In outlin
ing the objectives for such a
program the attitudes of confi
dence in one’s potential ability
to learn to manage a home,
knowledge of basic skills, the
acquaintance with the many
areas of a home maker’s re
sponsibility, and the experience
of learning to accept respon
sibility and to show in common
projects were listed as advant
ages of the home management
training to non-majors.
The girls learned that ’tis no
small miracle to have everything
ready to serve just at the right
moment, that there are time sav
ing ways to dust and clean and
set a table, that peas and beans
are not the only vegetables and
that Miss Jenkins doesn’t like
pan ^ cakes for breakfast—she
didn’t confess until the fourth
time.
Such a program is unique with
Queens and is of great interest
to people in other schools and
communities. It is in such pro
grams that a small girls’ school
can offer distinctive advantages
to its students. Even girls who
have taken the one semester
cooking course.
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