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LdUISBURG COLLEQE
tOUlSBURG, N.C. 27549
Stand,
Old College
Alma Mater
Through
the Changing
Years Abide
Volume I LOmSBURG COLLEGE, LOUISBURG, IvT. C., JUXE 9, 1942 Number 8
Professors To Join
Armed Forces
Louisburg College Closes 154th Year
Several Louisburg College profes
sors have made plans to enlist in
tlie armed forces at tlie end of the
school year. In general tlieir final
plans are yet to be made.
Mr. "VVoodall plans to enlist about
two weeks after the close of school.
IIis branch, so far as he knows at
present, will be service in the regular
army, though it is i)robable that he
will be assigned to some special di
vision due to his training in the field
of foreign languages. Mr. Woodall
concludes this year four years as
hea'd of the I)e])artment of Foreign
Languages at Louisburg.
Mr. Byerly, who has made in
quiries concerning naval band work,
has been considering also the
marines. His enlistment in the
marines is dependent on his ability
to nuike up a minor technical
deficiency. Mr. Byerly received his
reclassification about the time of
spring holidays and is at present
rated as lA. He also has taught
for four years at Louisburg College,
and during that time has handled
many extra-curricular features of
the I)e])artment of Music, including
the A Cappella Choir and the band.
At present Mr. Clatwortliy is
planning to enter work related to air
plane sighting, and is engaged in
obtaining data necessary to his
TTp has also coiTsidorptl
the marines. In leaving, Mr. Clat
wortliy concludes two years of teach
ing in the Mathematics Department.
Although reclassified as lA im
mediately before spring holidays
Mr. Hancock is not yet certain that
he will be in the armed forces. He
will go before an army board at
some date after June 1. Mr. Han
cock has been head of the depart
ment of history for the past year.
LIFE DYNAMICS FROM
COMMENCEMENT
MESSAGES
There is enough spiritual
dynamic in your senior
class to revolutionize the
world if you only believed
it.
The failure of even one day
in a life can never be so un
twined from that life as to
leave the pattern unmarred.
Perfection is a quality too
great to be realized in the
work of finite beings; yet
anything short of perfec
tion is a goal too unworthy
to be set by any being.
Nobody has a right to live un
less he justifies his existence
by working.
Have enough pride in your
mother tongue to strive to
speak it with correctness
and charm.
“Have you not discovered
that today you are quite a
different person from the
one that came here months
ago?”
A college education should
have helped people to live
with people.
“The human life is the high
est element in nature and is
the supreme medium
through which the loftiest
revelations shall be com
municated.”
No man ever lived and at
tained greatness who left
God out of his life.
Donald Gage
Gives Concert
Donald Gage, tenor, was presented
in a concert to the student body
and faculty of Louisburg College on
April 22 as the last jierfornier in
the college concert series. On this
morning program Mr. Gage in
cluded the following numbers:
“Where ’er You Walk,” Handel;
“The Heavy Hours,” an air of
Iievolutionary days, Endicott; “My
j Lovely Celia,” a time after the old
I English, Higgins; “Aubade,” from
“Le lioi d’Ys,” Lalo; “Apres un
Reve,” Faure; “Songs My Mother
Taught Me,” a gypsy air, Dvorak;
“I’ll Sing Thee Songs of Araby,”
Clay ; “Kashmiri Song,” Woodforde-
Eiden. His last group consisted of
“Home on the Range,” Guion; “The
Road to Aloala,” Massager; “One
Alone,” and “Riff Song,” from the
i Desert Song, Romberg. In res])onse
I to the ovation which followed his
last numbers Mr. Gage sang “The
Rich Man,” by Ilagman, and
; “Visions” by Balogh.
I In his career of varied musical
activities, Mr. Gage has studied in
numerous conservatories, including
I the Fontainebleau in Paris, has
I taught over two thousand students
durii;g his years at tcacliirig, lias
^ conducted choirs of from three hiin-
I dred to three hundred and fifty
voices, has held leads in numerous
' ojierettas, and has studied under
I Rubinstein, Bloc, and a number of
other masters. At the age of
i seventeen he gave iqi a career of
piano concerts and teaching to take j
up voice. I
Upon being requested, Mr. Gage
generously consented to sing once
again in the auditorium in the eve
ning. At this time he began his
program with Chopin’s “Ave
JMaria,” which he sang in German.
His rendition of “I Love Life” im-
])ressed his audience a great deal
for the s])irit and meaning which
he gave it. He repeated several
nTimbers from his program of the
morning.
Mr. Gage’s stay of about two days
at Louisburg College was much en
joyed by the students, who found him
to be a friendly and interesting per
son, as well as a person of wide ex
perience and varied musical back
ground.
Alma Mater, shelt’ring college,
Thou hast been our guiding friend.
From thy fount of flowing knowledge
We would drink until the end.
Dr. Stanbury Speaks
To Graduates
1THIRTY-ONE GET Dl PLOMAS
Greater love and veneration
Be thy portion. Mother dear.
May each coming generation
Bring rich gifts thy heart to cheer.
COMMENCEMENT PROCESSION, 1942
Louishtirg Participates
ill Parade
Louisburg College recently partic-
i ijiated in the “Education for Vic-
I tory” ])arade staged in Raleigh. The
j)ar?.dc wfis t)>e Tln.irsd;',y .fra+uro
' of the sesquicentennial celebration
held in Raleigh during the week of
A])ril 27 to ]\Iay’ 1.
I Beginning at the caj)itol and
moving down Fayetteville Street to
Memorial Auditorium, the parade
contained floats from a large num
ber of high schools, colleges, and
universities in Xorth Carolina. The!
Louisburg College float was the first
of the college floats, as Louisburg i
College was the oldest school re2>re-
sented. The float suggested the wars I
through which the college has passed
against a background of columns
with representatives of the present
day. The date 1787 was represented
by Helen Matthews and Gertrude [
Fearing in colonial costumes; 1861-1
65 by Sarah Davis, in jieriod dress; [
1917-18 by Gean Sasser and Ella
Lewis as nurses of the days of the
first World War; and Frances Ter
rell as the'Red Cross nurse of 1942, j
with two khaki-clad soldiers beside
her.
The Louisburg College commence
ment for 1942 came to a close yes
terday with the commencement
address to the graduating class by
Dr. W. A. Stanbury of Winston-
Salem, and the presentation of di
plomas and honors by President
Walter Patten.
Dr. Stanbury stressed the need
of working, and “not being satisfied
with merely working, but going on
toward the iinattainable perfection
in achievement.”
The commencement exercise
opened Friday evening when the stu
dents of the voice and piano de
partments were presented in recital.
Jessie Mary Willson, Jane Moon,
Gean Sasser, and Dan McFarland
were jiresented by I. I). Moon, in
structor in voice; and Sarah Davis
and Xancy Hayes were presented at
the piano by J ames E. Byerly.
Saturday afternoon on the north.
; campus of the college the Class Day
' exercises were presented. Virginia
The annual state style show was Spivey, Louisburg, was the saluta-
held at Xortn Carolina State Col- torian of the class, and the iirst
lege on April 30,^1942^ >,'tate Collie gp(.aker. The superlatives as elected
vxi.^ io file jxoj-jc Dt- j,y cJass wei'e presented by
partments from colleges in the state, pj-anees Terrell, Beuna Vista, Va.,
The May Queen of Louisburg, class pi'esident. Wilbur PajTie of
Ella Lewis, was adjudged also queen Stum2)y Point, read the class poem.
HOME EC. GIRLS
CHALLENGE STYLE
Sarah Davis
Valedictorian
ViHOiNiA Spivey
Salutatorian
AN McFarland, Sarah Davis
Brantley Medal Winners
all-round boy, best all-round girl
among graduates
of Louisburg dressmakers by the
stylists. Lillian Harris won second
])rize, and Oleta Odum the third.
Other Louisburg students to parti-
cii)ate in the contest were Jennie
Cheatem Alston, Katherine Lewis,
Jane Murjihy, Jean McKinnon, Ann
Hinton, Eleanor Phillijis, Jessie
Mary Willson, Helen Harris, Mar
garet Wiggins, and Eva Deanes.
The girls were accompanied to
Raleigh by' their instructor, the head
of the Home Economics DejJartment,
Mrs. Moon.
After the show, pictures were
taken of the winners and of the
entire group. Later a recej^tioii was
held in the Textile Building for all
the guests. Here also they were
shown how the different weaves in
materials are made and also the dif
ferent parts of the machines that are
used.
Other schools contesting were in
the order of their appearance as fol
lows : Elon, Flora Macdonald,
Greensboro, High Point, Meredith,
Peace, Queens - Chicora, Saint
Mary’s, and Appalachian State
Teacher’s College.
A plan has developed at State
whereby early in the year the Tex
tile School there makes dress goods
as one of its projects. These goods
are sent to various colleges of the
state for use in the Home Economics
Departments. Each girl in the de
partment is given a piece to make
for herself whatever garment she
may choose. The girls ajijiear at
State College in the spring at the
style show and model the garments
which they have made from the ma
terial thus i^rovided.
Persons, qualified in various ways,
judge the garments and award three
prizes for the three best costumes
in the contest. Then an additional
three prizes are gizen to the makers
of the three best garments from each
college.
his own composition. Dan Mc
Farland, Salisbury, read the class
])roi)hecy; and Beatrice Lew'is of
Hobgood, read the class w'ill. Sarah
Davis of Louisburg, valedictorian,
closed the exercises with the
valedictoi'y address.
Alumni Elect Officers
Saturday evening in the college
dining hall the college alumni as
sociation held its annual banquet.
Reports were heard as to the activi
ties of the organization, and officers
were elected to serve for the ensuing
year as follows: Mrs. John Malone,
Louisburg, jjresident; Mrs. M.
Stuart Davis, Louisburg, vice pres
ident; Miss Lula May Stipe, Louis
burg, secretary; and Mrs. Genevieve
Perry, Louisburg, treasurer.
The Rev. Forrest D. Hedden,
j)astor of the Louisburg Methodist
Church, spoke to the group on the
purposes and possibilities of the col
lege and ways in wdiich an alumni
group might further the areas of
service of the school.
The baccalaureate sermon was de
livered by Dr. Walter Patten, pres
ident of the college, Sunday morning
in the Louisburg Methodist Church.
His topic was “Living Witnesses.”
Sunday afternoon from 4:30 to
5 :30, President and Mrs. Patten as
sisted by members of the faculty,
received in their home in honor of
the members of the graduating class
and their parents.
Sunday evening on the north cam
pus of the college the annual
Y.M.C.A.-Y.W.C.A. vesper service
was held. Dr. R. E. Brown, pastor
of Hay Street Methodist Church,
Fayetteville, was the visiting
speaker. He spoke on character as
an agency in building a Chris
tian world, and stressed the need for
vigilance and caution every moment
of every day, lest the work of a
lifetime be undone in a brief
moment.