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LOriSBURG COLLEGE, LOUISBURG, N. C., OCTOBEll 30, 1942
Number I
HOME-COMING
OFFERS
VARIED EVENTS
The annual home-coming of Louis-
burg College will be observed on the
week-end of October 31 and No
vember 1.
Miss Lula May Stipe, alumni sec
retary and consulting dean, has is
sued invitations and planned a va
ried program of entertainment.
The alumni will have something
new in the field of athletic enter
tainment this year. Because of the
w’ar situation, intramural games
have been substituted for intercol
legiate games. The athletic contests
are to be tag football, obstacle rac
ing, blind boxing, and archery.
Following the athletic contests, at
six-thirty in the dining hall, the ban
quet will be held. Mrs. James Ma
lone, Louisburg, president of the
alumni association, will be toastmis-
tress. The guest speaker for the
evening will be the Reverend B. C.
Reavis, pastor of the First Method
ist Church, Henderson.
At eight-fifteen in the auditorium,
a play, open to the public, will be
presented by the Louisburg College
Players, under the direction of Miss
Virginia Peyatt, instructor in Dra
matic Arts. The play to be given,
“Fixin’s,” is by the nationally know’n
Carolina playwright Paul Green
and his sister. A special invitation
has been extended the famous writer
to be present at the i^roduction.
After the play, the college wilJ
serve as host at a dance in the social
hall. This climaxes tlie first day’s
program.
On Sunday morning a special ser
vice will be held at the Louisburg
Methodist Church in recognition of
the alumni. The Rt'verend Forest
I). Iledden, pastor, will preach the
sermon.
In spite of transportation short
age, there is a promise of a compar
atively large attendance at the week
end celebration. An especially large
number of former students is ex
pected from E. C. T. C. and Caro
lina.
THEY LEAD OUR CAMPUS LIFE
NWniQO
Y.W.C.A. Holds
Candle-Lighting Service
In an impressive candle-lighting
service the officers of the Young
Women’s Christian Association re
cently recognized new and former
members. Each person who entered
was given an unlighted candle.
The president, Jessica Womack,
opened the service by having the
group sing the hymn “Day is Dying
in the West,” after w'hich Willie
Mae Cherry read a scripture lesson
on love.
Then Dean Hudgins made an in
spiring talk on the significanie of the
Y. W. C. A. as a world organization
and as an agency for personal devel
opment on the local campus.
The president then from her can
dle lighted the candles of the other
officers. They in turn lighted the
candles of several members, who
passed the light on to others.
Soft music followed, and with
candles held high the group bowed
in silent prayer.
Then, with lights still lifted,
“Lead On, O King Eternal” was
sung by all. A noticeable degree of
quiet marked the close of the ser
vice as the audience filed slowly out.
The chapel was lighted wdth white
candles in candelabra, set among
ferns and flowers.
Stiiiidlii^: >rartha Ann Strowd, iiresident. Girls’ Athletic Assoeiation and I’lii Tlieta Kappa; Katon Holden, president,
t'reslinian class; Clarke Stokes, president, Men’s Jlonogrrani riub. Sitting': Wesley Hentry, editor ('OLl'MNS, presi
dent, Draniatic ('liib; Bill Andrews, president, (Jlee ('Inl); Mehin Smiley, president, Men’s Student (Sovernnient;
Muriel Wliiteluirst, president. Women’s Student Government; MoJfeil Ipock, president, \’W'CA, editor, “Tlie Oak”;
Horton Corwin, president, senior class.
Stamp and War Relief
Drive Progresses
Louisburg Honored
at W.C. Anniversary
New Faculty Members
At Louisburg
A special w»ar relief effort was
made at Louisburg College during
the chapel hour October 8. J. E., -
Norris, Jr., was leader, conducting
xlili I.
,iid
the speakers, Charlotte Boone and
McNeill Ij)ock.
Charlotte’s speech emphasized the
dire need of the besieged country of
China. McNeil set forth the oppor
tunity and need for Tinselfish giving
and challenged the lx)uisburg stu
dents to contribute to the w'ar effort.
Miss Mildred Hudgins, dean of
women, informally gave an im
pressive description of the ruin and
destitution she had seen in the Chi
nese section of Shanghai.
That night at the regular ten
o’clock hour the bookstore was
opened—not, however, for ice cream
and the like, but for offerings to re
lieve human need. Just outside the
shop w'as a table with white cover,
on which was placed a white marble
offering bowl between white candles
in korean brass candlehoklers. For
about thirty minutes hymns were
sung and sacred record music was
played. In manner informal but
sacred, students appeared and
contributed the sum that they usu
ally spent at this hour for “eats” or
“drinks.” The offering came to
$23.70, four times the usual book
store spending at this hour.
In still further efforts, the two
athletic organizations announced
that they were going to sponsor a
campaign and campus-wide stamp
drive. Horton Corwin, secretary
and treasurer of the Monogram
Club, led the devotional part of the
meeting.
The athletic program and the
drive w’ere presented by Martha Ann
Stroud, president of the Girls’ Ath
letic Association, and Clark Stokes,
president of the Monogram Club.
The speakers related how necessary
a college program of athletics was to
the nation at present and how fitting
it was that Ix)uisburg keep its in
tramurals and physical education up
to the current demand.
The Athletic Association, in or
der to help our war effort, is re
quiring an admission of a defense
stamp to the faculty soft ball game.
Honor was conferred upon Louis
burg College W’lien the president, Dr.
as invited as a dele-
+li pc1e^>^’a-
tion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of
I the Woman’s College of the Univer
sity of Nortli Carolina.
In the opening j)rocession of dele
gates from the universities and col
leges Dr. Patten was eleventh in
line. The order of the ])rocession
was determined by the date of the
founding of the institution rejjresent-
ed. Thus Louisburg College, found
ed in 1787, occupied a place just af
ter Salem College and immediately
before the University of North Car
olina. The place was the first of the
Methodist institutions in the state,
the second of North Carolina insti
tutions.
The Colleges and Universities pre
ceding Louisburg were the follow
ing: Harvard University, the Col
lege of William and Mary, Yale Uni
versity, the University of Pennsyl
vania, Washington and Lee Univer
sity, Columbia University, Brown
University, Rutgers University,
Dartmouth College, and Salem Col-
lege.
One event of the program w^as the
presentation of the official delegates,
including Dr. Patten, to Dean Jack
son, by Miss Jane Summerell, chair
man of the faculty committee on the
anniversary celebration.
This Will Be a More
Successful College
Year H . . .
—I make choices in terms of
years, not moments.
—I budget my time to suit my
courses and other needs.
—I realize that each daily
lesson is a stepping stone
to knowledge.
—I do not allow outside in
terests to monopolize my
time.
—I think more of the part I
can contribute than the
favors or rights that might
be given me.
Six new members have been add
ed to the Louisburg faculty for the
current year.
^iliss Mildred Hudgins, dean of
women, received her A.H. def^ee at
Kandolph-Macon Woman’s ('allege,
Lyncliburg, and her M.A. from
Sc
ers
at Union Theological Seminary,
New York, and Teachers’ College of
Columbia University, New York.
Miss Hudgins served one year as di
rector of religiotis education at the
Edenton Street Methodist Church,
Raleigh. From to 1941 she
was a missionary in Ja])an. While
there she taught English in the
Palmer’s Woman’s English Insti
tute at Kobe, Japan.
Miss Vivian McCall, teacher in the
Commercial Departnuuit, is from the
Wonum’s College of the Universi
ty of North Carolina. She holds an
A.B. degree in Secretarial Adminis
tration. Last year she taught in
Sanford High School.
Mrs. A. Paul Bagby, teacher of
Frcnch, holds an A.B. degree from
(ieorgetown College, Georgetown,
Kentucky, and an M.A. degree from
Peabody College, Tennessee.
Mrs. O. Y. Yarborough, teacher
of piano, attended Greensboro Col
lege ; Peabody Conservatory, Mary
land; Asheville Normal; and the
University of North Carolina. For
a number of years she has taught
music and directed the glee club at
Mills High School, Louisburg.
Stanley Patten, a graduate of
Louisburg College, taught for the
first few weeks of the college year as
supply in the Science Department.
Mr. Patton has attended State Col
lege, Raleigh, and expects to receive
his B.S. degree in Chemical Engi
neering.
Mr. P]. C. Dresser has arrived to
become head of the Science Depart-
I ment. As a graduate student he has
had experience in the instruction of
{ undergraduates at Iowa State Col
lege, the University of Mississippi,
and the University of Vermont, in
the fields of chemistry and bacteri
ology. He has had industrial ex
perience as bio-chemist and bacteri
I ologist at Lanteen Medical Labora
1 tories, Inc., of Chicago and as Chem-
I ist with the Anderson Priehard Oil
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ORIENTATION
PRESENTS
CAMPUS LIFE
With nmch of the uncertainty of
the times and yet with serious pur
poses, Louisburg College on Sep
tember 7 oj>eued its doors for its
one huiulred fifty-fifth consecutive
year.
An increased enrollment in com
mercial and engineering students
has been cited as a fact related to
the present war period. Also, with
many of the nation’s youth in ser
vice, there is a decrease in boys’
enrollment.
The first evening found an appar
ently bewildered group of boys and
girls assembled in the college chapel.
They were mostly freshmen from
various parts of the state, though
mostly from eastern Carolina, and
in a few cases from other states:
Virginia, Tennessee, and South Da
kota.
They had been rained on all day
while being housed, but their spirits
seemed undampened, if one could
judge by their look of expectancy
toward the stage. Dr. Patten, Dean
Hudgins, and Dean Kilby took their
places. Dr. Patten .spoke, welcom
ing the students and encouraging
them to make the best of their op
portunities this year.
Student Life Discussed
The deans presented tbe ideals of
tbe self-government and stn-
dent speakers were introduced. Mu
riel Whitehurst in simple Imt im
pressive words expressed the hope
.■ . 1 I that this year would ho most suc-
,carritt (’ollege for Christian Work-1 {o/each of the students. She
rs, lennessee. Also she has studied
dent council to making life worthily
enjoyable for the girls. The boys
were told by the dean that the dor
mitory was primarily their respon
sibility and that he had faith
enough in youth to believe that they
could make a good situation for
student living. Ira Helms set forth
an ideal for life on the campus by
emphasizing the aim of working in
harmony with the council and mak
ing student life cooperative gener
ally.
Yarborough and Kilby Speak
Mrs. Yarborough, librarian, laid
the store of knowledge of books be
fore the group and showed how im
portant the library was and how
much more important it was that it
be used profitably.
Mr. Kilby then spoke, dramatic
ally throwing himself into his talk.
A college education,” he said,
“serves to make one become intellec
tually independent, socially depend
able, morally honored.”
Students Speak
On Tuesday morning the orien
tation program continued with the
])resentation by Phi.Theta Kappa
of the extra curricular activities,
Martha Ann Stroud, presiding.
Speakers on the program were Sue
Margaret Harris, speaking on the
Young Women’s Cliristian Associa
tion and the Athletic Association;
Ira Helms, on the International Re
lations Club and the Young Men’s
Christian Association; Wesley Gen
try, on the Dramatic Club and
Columns; J. E. Norris, Jr., A. Ca-
pella Choir and Christian Service
League; Christine Shearin, Alpha
Pi Epsilon, and Martha Ann Stroud
on Phi Theta Kapi>a.
Emphasis was placed again and
again by each of the speakers on the
budgeting of time in order for the
student to get the most possible from
activities outside the classroom. The
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