Pact® Pmir QUEENS BLUES AC, i: Page Two 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 ,nnt ent 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 E 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 ^ Tl on V Ola I'he; Pair ed ii togg ehoc Sum K, l>efc One key Ooas that is read. Well, I will not wori'^ P about that,” he grumped on. 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 it 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 1 ^nd On kt on I'oa ^le f'o] Soi Ch; ine On ^n( Sh oac Sp On 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 iei> 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. Ch ka Uq oa: Cl nr th Remember you’re going to hav of spare time during Christnu why not spend part of it playir* qi “I lo

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