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THE BENNETT BANNER
MAY, 1943
THE BENNETT BANNER
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Editor VALENA MINOR
Reporters:
MYRTLE BROWN THORA KELLY
UOROTHV DEVAUGHN MARGARET CALDWELL
lUMiERTA FAVORS NANCY PINKARD
HELEN JIORTON
Special Features:
EDITH WHITEMAN
Business Manager _ . MARGUERITE POPE
Adviser . DR. FREDERIC A, JACKSON
Photograiiher MR. A. C. DUTTON
EDITORIALLY SPEAKING
()ME(;A — THE EDITOR’S LAST WORD
Exams are over—the last Banner of the year goes to pres.s,
In the midst of all the hustle and hurry can’t help but feel oddly
detached. The room is stripped of its personality already—the
room that once was plastered with collegiate signs, ornamented
with dance souvenirs, inhabited by fuzzy creatures that pass for
monkies and teddy bears—that room is ,iust four walls, two bed
spreadless beds, and a couple of big packing boxes to throw last
minute odds and ends in. And here I sit pounding out my last
editorial for the Bennett Banner.
Had tci stop and listen a minute—the sounds in a dormitory
are fascinating especially when you realize you’re listening to
them as a part of them for particularly the last time. Down the
hall a bunch of sophomores are playing pinochle—“Who’ll take
the wait? Melt!” General confusion—but oh, such good natured
confusion! Right outside the door a bunch of Mr. Banner’s best
students are living tomorrow’s Religion test ahead of time—and
incidentally berating our departing faculty member for the kind
of tests he makes a habit of giving. The bell is ringing—three
shorts and three longs—-whose ring is that? It can’t be all those
people’s that answered! The noise of a turntable grinding out the
“Worried Life Blues” is accompanied by several off-key but fer
vent sopranos (?) ! The sounds of a dormitory are interesting—
very interestirig; funny I never noticed before.
• Yes, I’ve done most of my packing. As I took the formals out
.ot^he closet I couldn’t help thinking about the good times I as
sociate with each—frat dances, birthday dinners, proms, con
certs, yceum programs. I never thought I’d feel that way as I did
my last bit of packing. You know, when I got to my scrap books
1 just had to sit dow'n and go through them page by page. Now
that it’s all over I’m so glad I kept scrap books—there was the
resume of that speech Prexy made our sophomore year—remem
ber? . . . the one about “w^hat’s your ‘purpose’”!—there was that
pressed corsage from the last Kappa dance—there were a lot of
lovely collegiate memories that I never want to lose. And on the
front page of the first scrap book was that weird picture made
for the records office the second day after I had landed on this
campus. I looked at that picture a long time. I couldn’t believe
that it was really I—not that I’ve changed so much physically
. but I’vei learned so much, that the kid in that picture didn’t
know. ’Twas an odd sensation—like looking at your owtn corpse.
’Phe:i I pasted' the senior picture Mr. Dutton took for the records
a couple of weeks back in my last scrap book. I had to look at
that last picture a while, too. All I could say to myself was “0.
K., kid, what now?” So beneath the picture I placed a large ques
tion mark in India ink . . . and I closed my scrap book and packed
it away with the others. Just so it seemed I closed my college
career . . . thence the detached feeling. Can’t shake it!
The next few days wiU be busy ones for all of us. I probably
sha:i’t have occasion to think quietly by myself again until I’ve
been home for a few weeks—but already I realize that college has
given me a group of experiences that no textbook, no tutor could
ever drive home. Already I realize that despite the times I’ve
raved about that glorious day of final departure from the cam
pus, there’s going to be an emptiness at not being a part of the
life here next fall. I’ll think of you eating breakfast in the din
ing hall, sitting in chapel—I’ll want to come back to Homecom-
ijig in the years to coime—Bennett does that to you. I’m glad.
The noises in the dorm have quieted down—almost in com
plete silence I type a farewell somehow not as a retiring Banner
editor but as a Senior sister going out to find what that question
mark under her picture in her scrap book is going to stand for.
'Bye now, kids—catch the torch thrown to you by the class
of ’43—and light the way for others to follow in the Bennett
tradition. I’m happy to have had the privilege of editing your
paper.
VALENA E. MINOR, ’43.
President Jones Announces
Awards In Honors Assembly
AWARDS.
CHENILLE “B”.
Mary Randolph, Rosa Lomax,
Minnie Miller, Marian McLaughlin.
Certificates
Constance Shoffner, Helen Mc-
Lure, Marjorie Cox, Laurita Ash
more, Margaret Sims, Vivian Sum
ner, Valena Minor, Beulah Whit
field, Sara Harris.
Intra-Mural Tr oph ies.
Baslkietbail—Freshman Class.
Volleyball—Freshman Class.
Softball—Freshman Class.
LITTLE THEATRE GUILD
AWARDS.
Theatre Guild Keys To Seniors.
Marian McLaughlin, Sarah Lou
Harris, Fannie Strickland, Edith
Whiteman, Valena Minor, Rosa Lo
max, Melba Lea, Helen Clark, Vir
ginia Holder.
Apprentice Members Promoted To
Key Members.
Amelia Addison, Laurita Ash
more, Oria] Banks, Mildred Bethea,
Winifred Dominick, Gloria Foster,
Mary Foster, Gwendolyn Gayle,
Blanche Graves, Margaret Hender
son, Claire Johnson, Irma Latimer.
Sallie Leach, Cleo Nerson, Deioves
Newsome, Yvonne Peeler, Nancy
Pinkard, Grayce Pollard, Christelena
Purefoy, Frances Spurlock, Margie
Timmons, Naida W'illette, Pauline i
Williford. ^
I Theatre Guild Honorable Mention. ,
Davator Williamson, Mary Lou
Hayes, Mary Ella Drake, Muriel j
Gayle, Fannie Belle Lea, Gloria Me- i
Cottery, Mildred Glymph, Vivian !
Ayers, Helen Horton, Bettye Wade. I
THE COLLEGE CHOIR AWARDS. !
Choir Keys To Seniors. j
Daisy Alexander, Mary Catherine |
Bell, Georgia Brooks, Lucille Ed- i
wards, Ruth Galloway, Wilma Gor- '
ham, Sara Harris, Euphemia John-;
son, Inez Lawhon, Maxine Lawson, |
Frances Lindsay, Elestae Merrick, ^
Minnie Miller, Beatrice Moore, Helen i
McLure, Alease Nevitt, Edith White- |
man, Hattie Vv'illiamsdn, Vivian!
Plunkett, Fannie Stewart, Annie [
Valentine. [
THE COLLEGE ORCHESTRA !
AWARDS. i
Orchestra Pins To Sniors. j
Mary C. Bell, Georgia Brooks, j
Johnetta Holloway, Ida L. Jenkins, |
Inez Lawhon, Melba Lea. j
Marshal’s Award. |
Laui-a Alston, Ruth Everett, Fran
ces Fonvielle, Virginia Holder,
Valena Minor, Joan Perkins, Peggy
Toatley, Gloria Jackson.
JUNIOR COUNSELORS TO
FRESHMEN.
Wilhelmina Hoffler, Olivia Wright,
Alice Holloway, Gertrude Ball, Etta
Hogan, Myrtle Brown, Gloria Dix,
Thora Kelly, Carol Carter, Vermelle
Kelly, Fannie I,ea, Blanche Nelson,
Roberta Favors, Mary Wagstaff.
APPROVED SENIOR CHAP
ERONES FOR 1943-1944.
Delphine Geddes, Mary Taylor,
Evelyn Fripp, Carol Fripp, Bettye
Wade, Helen Horton, Ruth Dowdell,
Mary Rink, Kathryn Davenport,
Shirley Franklin, Elestae Merrier,
Jean Kennedy, Mary Lou Hayes.
ASSISTANTSHIPS.
Assistant in Biology: Ellen Brooks,
1945.
Assistant in Chemistry: Goldwyn
A. Foster, 1945.
Assistants in Office of Dean of
Students: Gertrude Ball, 1944; Etta
Hogan, 1945; Blanche Graves, 1946.
Assistants in Records Office;
Annabelle Knight, 1944; Irma Lati
mer, 1946; Jennie Lawrence, 1946;
Virginia Lyles, 1945; Delores New-
somie, 1946.
DORMITORY ASSISTANTS FOR
1943-1944.
Alice Holloway, Carrie MacDon
ald, Margaret Hunter, Margaret Hill,
Bettie Cook.
PRIZES.
Harriet G. Brock Prize — Alice
Hargrove, 1946.
R. B. McCrary Prize—Amelia Ad
dison, 1946.
Belle C. Tobias Scholarship—
Camille Dunham, 1946.
Class of 1942 Prize—Frances
Fonvielle, 1943.
Browning Chapel Prize — Alice
Holloway, 1944.
SENIOR HONORS.
Valedictorian—Ruth Everett.
Salutatorian—Frances Fonvielle.
ELECTIONS TO ALPHA EPSILON
HONOR SOCIETY.
In Junior Year (1942).
Laura Alston, Ruth Everett, Fran
ces Fonvielle, Helene Jacobs, Rosa
Lomax, Helen McLure, Valena Mi
nor, Victoria Morrison.
In Junior Year (1943).
Gertrude Ball, Valeria Chappelle,
Kathryn Davenport, Evelyn Fripp,
Wilhelmina Hoffler, Alice Holloway,
Marguerite Pope, Mary Rink, Bettye
Wade, Frances Walcott, Vashti
Warren, Olivia Wright.
In Senior Year (1943).
Helen Cobb, Lucille Hall, Minnie
Miller, Miriam White.
Thomas F. Holgate Awards.
Inez Lawhon, 1943; Gloria Jack
son, 1943; Mary Gre)j'ory, 1943;
Bettye Wade, 1944; Marian Mc
Laughlin, 1943.
ORCHESTRA MAKES
SUCCESSFUL STATE-WIDE
APPEARANCE
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the Meis'tersingers”; Beethoven’s
excerpt from the Fifth Symphony,
and “March from Tannhauser” by
Wagner.
When the trustees of Bennett Col
lege were guests on the campus, the
orchestra again got busy and added
to the various contributions by
playing on the student activity re
view of the year.
Then came the biggest event of
all, the Fort Bragg trip. On Satur
day, May 1, at 3 o’clock the orchestra
and Modern Dance Group piled in a
special bus sent. Amidst the confu
sion of getting seated and the pack
ing of various and sundry instru
ments and costumes they were
squeezed like veritable sardines. Aft
er lots of fun on the bus, they ar
rived at the U. S. O. center at Fay
etteville. about 5:30. Dinner was
served at 6:45 and the pork chops
(imagine even seeing them in this
day and time) were fine indeed! The
program was rendered at 8 and over
at 9:10 o’clock. The audience, com
posed mostly of “boys in khaki”,
showed each young lady the most de
lightful time possible. The dance
afterwards was truly fine. They left
for home about 1:30 a. m., tired and
sleepy, but truly happy.
Other ti'ips that the orchestra has
made were to Palmer Memorial In
stitute at Sedalia, N. C., and to
Booker T. Washington High School
in Rocky Mount, N. C. They were
just as successful as the others had
been. Tharihs to the untiring efforts
and enthusiasm of our director, Mr.
Gatlin, the orchestra has this past
year enjoyed some of the most pleas
ant experiences that can be gained
from any extra-curricular activity.
CYNTHIA McCOTTRY,
Reporter.
LITTLE THEATRE GUILD.
“The Medea” Greek tragedy by
Contee Cullen will be presented in
the Little Theatre Guild Saturday,
May 22, at 8:15 p. m. The play is
under the direction of Miss Gladys
Inez Forde. Members of the cast are
as follows: Edith Whiteman, the
title role; Nelson Galloway; Leon
Johnson; William Skelton; Vivian
Plunkett; Fannie Belle Lea; Hattie
Williamson; Myra Mclver; Ruth
Harvey; and Sara Lou Harris.
The Inquiring
Reporters
Ramblings
Although the school year is at an
end there are many basically sound
j values to be gained from carrying
over school activities, both acad-
j emic and extra-curricular, into
I community life. A good example of
'such an activity is the War-Peace
(Program recently launched in the
college. Everyone has seen the ef
fects of this infant organization—
but does everyone realize the poten
tialities of transferring it to indi
vidual community situations? Some
of this year’s leaders and next year’s
elected leaders were approached on
the subject and here’s what they had
to say:
MARIAN McLAUGHLIN, presi
dent of the class of ’43: Our sum
mer vacation ia only a matter of days
now! Girls, let’s make this a real va
cation—one we can be proud of.
Let’s help others and at the same
time help ourselves! Here at Bennett
we have stressed the War-Peace
Progi'am. We’ve worked in various
areas and have ultimately enjoyed
it. Let’s carry it over into our com
munity.
There are so many ways of initiat
ing a War-Peace Program at home.
For example, in the area of point
rationing. How many of our par
ents and friends truly understand
the system so as not to waste the
stamps or lose their share of the
rationed goods? Or, do we still throw
our old clothes away? You’re right!
That’s perfect nonsense! There’s
another chance for you to do some
thing about this war in your com
munity. Then, too, what about that
victory garden you’ve heard so much
about. Some of us had experience
right here on the campus working in
one. Well, let’s share our knowledge
with our community in all the areas
we pQSsifcly '-ca'n:—r—-tttTiT’irTTeed* to""
enumerate in detail just how many
things we CAN do. Once you start
such enumeration won’t be neces
sary, anyway. So come on, girls!
Back up your friends, relatives and
brothers in the armed forces by
helping your own community to
stand on its feet.
ELLEN BROOKS, president of '
class of ’45 for the school term 43-
44: The War-Peace Program can be
carried out on a large scale.
Through discussion groups the gen
eral public can be informed on spe
cial phases of current events, such
topics as point rationing, consumer
education, and various other partic
ularly pertinent issues.
Althou'gih this late in the season
the victory garden idea can not be
developed to a larg-e degree if it has
not already been started, some edu
cation can be given those who do
have victory gardens on subject of
cultivation, harvesting, and preserva
tion.
RUTH DOWDELL, house presi
dent for school term 43-44: The
War-Peace Program may be carried
on very effectively in my commun
ity during the summer, Hartford,
Conn., is an industrial center and
woman labor is being pushed to an
all-time high. This means that the
nursery school phase of the War-
Peace Program can be organized to
fill a very definite need. Girls who
are interested in this field may en
ter it or it may be carried on by
women unable to work in the indus
tries. This relieves the tension of
working mothers and, indeed, makes
it possible for many of the women
to go to work at all. Everyone
whether directly employed in making
muntions or airplane parts or not is
helping in this war. The nursery
school angle can very well be pro-
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