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QUEENS BLUES
December 19, 1950 Dece
QUEENS BLUES
FLORENCE DAVIS Editor-in-chief
NANCY HILL Assistant Editor
MURPHY ALEXANDER Assistant Editor
DESSIE BROADWELL Business Manager
EDITORIAL STAFF
VALORIE SNOOK Feature Editor
GLENNA RAY CHRISTIAN Music Editor
BETTY PRATT Sports Editor
ANN BAILEY Circulation Manager
KATHRYN HICKMAN Make-up Editor
REPORTERS: Wanda Oxner, Dot Spencer, Mary Ruth Talbert,
Emily Shipp, B’ann Hennessee, Dot Ussery, Jean Yandle, Sadie
Mason, Peggy Crider, Davy-Jo Stribling, Carolyn Merrell,
Georgianne Gettinger, Jane Boyd Humphries, Betty Jo Mc
Cormick, Manon Williams, Susan Buskirk, Barbara Carr, Jo
Pat Cooke, Joyce Wallace, Jacquie Otey, Jane Edmonds, Elise
Davenport, Edith Young, Anne Clark.
BUSINESS STAFF
DOROTHY CHAMBERS Advertising Manager
ASSISTANTS: Marilyn Martin, M. A. Coleman, Dot Watson,
Margaret Formy Duval, Carolyn Purcell, Jean Yandle, Carman
Carter, Peggy Crider, Dot "VVatson.
JOYCE TUCKER L’ ' Head Typist
ASSISTANTS: Carole Heer, Jeanne Stevens, Lorraine Murphy,
Jan Purvis, Sylvia Stovall, Ruby Peede, Caroline Upshure,
Anne Clark, Sis Biddix, Kitty Boyd.
The Blues is the college newspaper of Queens College, Charlotte,
North Carolina, and as such is one of the three major publica
tions of the institution . . . the other two being The Quill, the
literary magazine, and The Coronet, the college annual.
Queens College is an accredited senior liberal arts college for
women located in the largest city of the Carolinas. It confers
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science degrees.
Queens is a member of the Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools. The college holds membership in the
Association of American Colleges, Southern Association of
Colleges for Women, Presb3d;erian Education Association of the
South, and the North Carolina College Conference.
THE TRUE SPIRIT
OF CHRISTMAS .
Business Boom to Insure Merchants of a Happy Holiday.
Thus was the prediction of one headline in a Charlotte news
paper last year. The statement is proof positive that our
ideals of Christmas are becoming extremely commercial.
Instead of a celebration of the birthday of Jesus Christ, our
Saviour and Lord, Christmas has become Santa Claus, bright
tinsel, and gifts.
The Christmas Carrousel is another part of this season
in which we cannot see much true Christmas significance.
What do huge balloons, queens, and marching bands have
to do with the nativity? This stupendous parade is merely
advertising in a most effective way what the merchants have
to offer their patrons. Charlotte is not the only city which
holds one of these spectacular displays. They are fast becom
ing THE thing in cities throughout our country.
Stop and listen to the “Christmas” songs being sung
and played all about you. “White Christmas”, “Santa Claus
is Coming to Town”, and “Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer”
seem to be the most popular. What has happened to “Silent
Night” and “0 Little Town of Bethlehem”? Would that we
could once more have musicians who would write as the
carol writers of yesterday.
Look in the current newspapers for evidence of what is
happening to our concept of Christmas. Time is now meas
ured by the number of shopping days until Christmas. Society
pages are full of plans for Christmas parties and pictures of
sponsors for Christmas dances and functions. Advertisements
are more lavish than ever with their gift suggestions.
Some who become too discouraged over all these trends
in our Christmas celebrations might wonder if there is any
hope for finding the real spirit of Christmas anywhere. They
could find this on Queens campus, and they would not have
to look far. Girls here can find time to prepare and give
inspiring programs such as those the Queens Players, choir,
and SCA are presenting during this Christmas season. The
Home Economics Club spends much time and effort in giving
the Alexander Home children a party. Students all over the
campus give gifts to these children. Last Friday the entire
campus joined in the annual White Gift Service. Everyone
here looks forward to giving the servants their gifts after
the Boar’s Head Dinner.
Today all of us are going home for Christmas. Here at
Queens we have found the true spirit of the joyous season
of Christ’s birth. Each of us can carry this spirit home with
us. There we can work to make this spirit permeate the
hearts and lives of our families and friends. Then we will
draw nearer the realization of a celebration of Christmas
in the true spirit—the spirit of Christ. K. H.
LEST WE FORGET
We are approaching another joy
ful Christmas season and the be
ginning of a new year. This season
is a time of cheerfulness and good
will and also for many people, a
time of reminiscences. We especial
ly miss the smiling faces and
friendly greetings of those who
graduated from Queens last June.
Lest we forget our colleagues, let
us mount the magic carpet and dis
cover their present whereabouts
and their activities.
Helen Alexander and Wilkes
Macauley were married in July,
and they are now living in Louis
ville, Ky., where Wilkes is study
ing at the seminary.
Mary Ann Ashe is studying violin
in New York City.
Lillian Barber is director of re
ligious education in the Presby
terian Church at Kings Mountain,
N. C.
Clara Barnes and E. Lane Cloan-
inger, Jr., both of Charlotte, were
married in June in the Myers Park
Methodist Church.
Peggy Barrentine of Charlotte,
and Kenneth Horn of Upper Darby,
Pa., were married in the Dilworth
Methodist Church in Charlotte on
September 16. Peggy and Ken are
living in Burlington, N. C., where
Peggy is D. R. E. for the Davis
Street Methodist Church. Ken is
continuing his studies at the Duke
Divinity School.
Sara Virginia Blythe, Charlotte,
and William Williamson, Fayette
ville, N. C., were married on Sep
tember 9, and they are living in
Davidson while Bill is finishing
college.
Lucy Boggs is director of reli
gious education in Kirkwood Pres
byterian Church in Atlanta, Ga.
Shirley Byerly is living in Char
lotte, where she is employed as a
case work assistant with the Meck
lenburg County Public Welfare.
Louise Conrad and the Rev. Orion
Hutchinson, Jr., both of Charlotte,
were married on June 24 in Cal
vary Methodist Church. Orion is a
junior in the Duke Divinity School,
and Louise is taking graduate work
in religious education at Duke.
Betsy Cromer and Edward Ford
Byars, of Clemson, S. C., were mar
ried June 24 in Anderson, S. C.
Ed and Betsy are living in Clem
son, where he is a member of the
college engineering faculty.
Adelaide Foil, Charlotte, and
Reid Dwyer Farrell, of Jackson
ville, Florida, were married June
17. They are living in New Orleans,
where “Buddy” is district repre
sentative for the Iselin-Jefferson
Co., Inc.
Mary Jane Gardner, Gastonia, N.
C., and Robert Houston Crockett,
Jr., Gastonia and Demopolis, Ala.,
Sports Around
Queens
were married June 20 in the First
Presbyterian Church in Gastonia.
The groom is employed by the Cit
izens National Bank, and Mary
Jane is commercial teacher at Gas
tonia High School.
Eleanor Godfrey is director of re
ligious education for the First
Presbyterian Church in Greenville,
N. C.
Iva Jean Gordon is director of
youth work at Ardmore Methodist
Church in Winston-Salem, N. C.
Barbara Hamby is doing edi
torial art and production work for
“Electrification Magazine” in
Washington, D. C.
Frances Harris is studying a+
Assembly Training School in Rich
mond.
Eida Faye Kennedy is now on the
staff of Presbyterian Hospital as
Student Health Director.
Faye Langston is teaching the
second grade in Rockingham, N.C.
Doris Gene Lawing is teaching
in the Charlotte Day Nursery.
Mary McRee is an instructor of
Nursing Arts at Pulaski Hospital,
Pulaski, Va.
Ola Matlock is a case work as
sistant with the Welfare Depart
ment in Tarboro, N. C.
Eleanor Miller is teaching the
second grade in Barium Springs,
N. C., this year.
Frances Mims is teaching at
Westville High School in Green
ville, S. C.
Belva Morse is teaching Bible,
history, and speech in the Napson-
ian School in Atlanta, Ga.
Sarah June Patterson is the di
rector of religious education for the
First Presbyterian Church in Mid
land, Texas.
Ruth Porter, Charlotte, became
the bride of Christopher Hood,
Charlotte, in a ceremony in the
Queens Chapel on June 24.
Jean Rue is teaching in the gram
mar grades in the Charlotte Coun
try Day School.
Jeanne Seale is in Louisa, Va.,
this year working as religious edu
cation director for Louisa County,
Connally Smith is teaching this
year in Wilmore School in Char
lotte.
Charlotte Terhune is doing grad
uate study in laboratory technolo
gy this year in the Bowman Gray
School of Medicine.
Margaret Wikle is taking train
ing in laboratory technology this
year at Memorial Hospital in Char
lotte.
LOWLY PEANUT
COMPARES TO
HUMAN MALE
I have always enjoyed eatin?
peanuts on a train trip. The crack'
ing of the crisp shell seems to re*
lease the fingers from idleness. 1
the peanut is spoiled rather
fresh, I frown and anticipate
covering the perfect peanut.
yet, I realize that the perfect
nut would be as difficult to
find
as the perfect man. Each pen
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has been planted with a differ
touch; consequently, each is reP' ^
resentative of diverse characteris
tics. Likewise, God has given ,
individualities that make him dm
-erent from his fellow-man.
yes, I may be able to develop a ser
mon with such a contrast in min • i
If all men were alike, there
uld
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be no variety in occupations. I
der what the occupation of the on®
sitting across from me is. “I
there. Sir, would you care to jn*''
me in a peanut crunching?”, I sal' j
A book was lowered, eyes
lifted, and a sharp reply of “n°'
thanks,” was given. There was ®
pause, and then an outburst °
“The dreaded season is approach
ing us! It is enough to drive nnJ
salesman to distraction. Hundred®
of orders for Christmas cards nr®
before me. I wish the sending
Christmas cards could be postp^”'
ed until after Christmas. Our
man declares he is overworked dnr
ing the holidays. The buyer of
cards usually dreads the ordeal e
addressing them, and I bet my
tom dollar that the name of
sender is, nine times out of teni ^
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long as I sell my ideas, I will ea^'
Christmas!” was the last slurring ^
, Jdat
A frown dominated the sales f
man’s countenance as he returne'
to his reading. I was stunned.'
dared not reply because I was '
too well aware of the tightness®^
my collar. Thoughts of others’
actions to Christmas flooded
mind. I
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Ann Woodson, Brazil, became the
bride of Robert Orr Crawford, Jr.,
Gastonia, in the Queens College
Chapel on June 5. The groom is
now studying in the Bowman Gray
School of Medicine.
Never let it be said that Queens
is null and void of sports and that
there isn’t a sport to fit your par
ticular personality. The skit which
the Recreation Association council
gave in chapel certainly proved
that. Everyone learned very quick
ly that the Recreation Association
sponsors just about every kind of
sport there is.
Since basketball usually is the
favorite sport, it was decided that
there would be a fall tournament.
The tournament was held in the
early part of November, and Mor-
rison-Frazier was defeated by
North-South.
Something new has been a/lded
this year! By the time you are read
ing this the Recreation Association
Council will have a new program
under way. It is a program of in
door sports including table tennis
and shuffle board, and there will
be tournaments. This program can
not be successful unless students
make it so, and that means that ev
eryone must participate. Whenever
life gets dull or when you need a
little exercise, dash down to the old
rec room and see how many things
you can find to do.
There are a few times when up
per classmen wish they were Fresh
men, and last Saturday night was
one of those rare times. The Recre
ation Association Council gave
their annual party at the Y. W.
C. A. for the Freshmen, and I’ve
been told that it was a rolicking
success. I don’t know who had more
fun—the council or the Freshmen!
The first Christmas gift
given to mankind by God. The 0^^
of His only Son was given throng
love. Some accepted the
Christmas gift, and others did P®
Likewise, other gifts are
through love and are not accept®
with the correct attitude.
times gifts are given because
viduals feel that they are oblig^'t®
to give. The celebrating of tk
glorious event of Christ’s birth
the significance of Christmas,
this idea is lost, Christmas is
ly an excuse for pleasure, finan®*®
profits, and a holiday.
If people could discover the
portance of a cheerful and
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structive attitude, they would
greater happiness in life. PersO
often choose the wrong road
walk upon it with as much enth'^
iasm as if it were the right
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This wrong road has been cho®.
because these people have lost th®*^
sense of values.
I chuckled to myself as I becs^^
aware that my peanuts had
from my lap. The train was slo^^,
ing down, and the salesman be^®j
to gather his many bundles. M ^
reached down to pick up the ba^ ®g
peanuts, a peanut fell and
crushed under the feet of the
man.
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of spare time during Christnu
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