PEACE
ON EARTH
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louisburg college
LOUISBURG.N.C. 27549
GOOD WILL
TOWARD MEN
Volume III
LOUISBURG COLLEGE, LOUISBURG, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1943
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STUDENTS RUN Christmas Season Brings Various Activities To Campus
WAR FUND DRIVE
Louisburg College, under tlie
direction of Miss Stipe, dean of
women, witli Josephine Lassiter as
chairman, is united in a War Sav
ings Drive. This local effort is a part
of the nation-wide program spon
sored by the Education Section, War
Finance Division, Treasury De
partment, Washington, D. C.
The college drive was initiated in
a rally of the entire student body of
the college at 10:15 p.m., Tuesday,
November 30. The students met in
the auditorium where they sang pa
triotic songs: “The Star Spangled
Banner” and “My Country ’Tis of
Thee.” The social hall and the
stage were 'patriotically decorated.
In the center of the stage was the
service flag; also on the stage was a
list of alumni now in service and
of those who have been reported
missing in action or killed in action.
Miss Stipe presented the program
as planned by the War Finance Divi
sion. She mentioned interesting facts
concerning the campus drive last
year, when students of the college
sold $2,700 in bonds and stamps.
This was more than the amount sold
by students of one college that she
mentioned with a much larger stu
dent body than that of Louisburg.
Josephine Lassiter presented the
plan to be followed in the local
drive: the senior and junior classes
compete in the drive to sell bonds
and stamps.
After the rally Josephine Lassiter
and Shirley Smith were in the bond
*'ootli ro^idy tn sell t]ieiv l^oiula and
stamps. Miiiutemen of the two
classes, dressed in patriotic colors,
were in the social hall telling stu
dents about the drive and selling
their bonds and stamps. The minute-
men of the senior class were Colleen
Gillis, Mary Goodwin, Josephus
Lassiter, and Shirley Smith. Minute-
men of the junior class are Fred
Davis, Margaret Helms, Talmadge
Lancaster, and Charlotte Usher.
The goal originally was to buy a
jeep priced at $1,165, which would
be named the “Louisburg College
Jeep.” The students have far ex
ceeded their original goal. Sales on
the first day amovmted to approxi
mately $1,300.
The student body has responded
with apparent enthusiasm to the
drive. Also sizable sales have been
made by the college students to citi
zens of the town. The minute men
are working. Up to the present date,
seniors are leading. Mary Goodwin’s
sales exceed those of any other min-
uteman. Students have expressed the
belief that sales this year will even
exceed those of last year.
Fuller Honored By
"The Oak" Staff
Oscar Fuller, editor in chief of
The Oak, was honored at a social
given by the stalf in the English
classroom on Thursday evening, Oc
tober 18. The occasion for the event
was Oscar’s call to enter service in
the armed forces. The group sang
songs and conversed informally. Re
freshments were then served.
Besides the honoree those present
were the following: Miss Ruth Mer
ritt, faculty adviser to Tlu' Oak
staff; the Reverend Forrest D. Hed-
den, who serves as college chaplaui;
Robert Earl Williford, junior edi
tor; Shirley Smith, literary editor;
Anne Whitehead, junior literary ed
itor ; Douglas Bryant, sports editor;
Billy Lewis, photographic editor;
Colleen Gillis, business manager;
Gibson Strickland, assistant busi
ness manager; Virginia Ann Gold-
ston and Agnes Harris, advertising
managers. _
Scene from Y,M.C.A.~Y.If .C.A. Christmas Pageant
Traditional aiil Non-
Traditioiial Chri^tliiias
Planned
—Bob Brown.
Koadin^ lel’t to right; —Talmadge Lancaster, Robert Giuii, Fred Davis, Hubert Earl Willil’ords “Mary,”
■Viine Whiteheiul; “Joseiili,” Kdmuiid Harrison; “Wise Men”—Harold Slierrill, W. S. (lurdncr, Herbfrt Retfuii.
Y^s Present Meaning COMMERCIAL
of Membership CLUB SOCIAL
Getting Ready
to Live"
program pretieniiiig tlie mann
ing of YWCA membershiii was
held in the college auditorium, De
cember 2.
The procession of the four officers
and eight committee chairmen en
tered to the music of “Follow the
Gleam,” played by Elizabeth Harris.
Each in the procession carried a
lighted white candle and took a trian
gle formation at the center of the
stage, unfurling and holding blue
streamers, each carrying one of the
words: Body, Mind, Spirit. The
group sang “Father of Lights,” and
Anne Whitehead led in prayer. Then
the officers and chairmen took a
semi-circular formation and gave in
succession words explaining their
different types of work and express
ing dedication to their tasks. Char
lotte Usher then led in a litany of
worship.
Miss Merritt made a brief talk
based on the story of the Rich
Young Ruler. “Good Master, what
shall I do to inherit eternal life,”
she quoted from the story, then
challenged her hearers so to make
and live their choices that they need
not “go away sorrowful” at the end
of the college year.
Lois Asbell read a poem, Frank
Mason North’s “The World’s Astir,”
to the music of “Finlandia.”
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social in Mr. Kilby’s classroom on
Wednesday evening, November 24. ^\nor.rrh,.cr +rv fl.n
Virginia Floyd gave a poem,
“Thanks.” Molly Fearing gave a
short talk on Thanksgiving. Jean
nette Ricks led the group in singing
“Come, Ye Thankful People,
Come.” Different games and contests
followed.
The Thanksgiving color scheme
was used.
Shirley Carver, Mary Chancy,
and Marguerite Clement assisted in
serving ice cream and cake to the
guests.
^ jopous;
Bless
Every-
Noveml)er 26. According to the
S))eaker, many ])eoplo miss j)roper
j)reparation for life by assuming
that the matter of major importance
is making prej)aration for death.
Too few j)eople prepare in a
Christian manner to live on earth,
he afiirmed. They are more inclined
to prepare for life in the hereafter
than a good life on earth that will
make them better Christians. “We
should apply Christian ideals not
only in preparation for death but for
a fuller, more Christian life,” said
the minister, adding, “If a person
prepares to live and lives a good life,
when the time to die arrives, he will
be ready.”
Dr. Bagby said that the lives
worth living could be classified in
three ways: first, the unselfish busy
life; second, the happy busy life;
third, the Christian life. If a person
lives these. Dr. Bagby maintained,
he need not occupy himself with pre-
])aring for deatli, since living well
will properly have prepared him for
death.
The talk occasioned expression of
student appreciation that indicated
its being a favorite among the chapel
talks heard by students this semes
ter.
Cljis; Ctrisitmas
The Christmas schedule of Louis
burg College for 1943 includes a
variety of events s])onsored by cam
pus organizations and committees
representing various activities. Some
of the scheduled events, such as the
Christmas party given by juniors to
faculty and seniors and the formal
December dinner for all faculty and
students, are a tradition of some
years; other events, such as the
Christmas pageant, represent an
addition to former campus observ
ance of the season.
The Other Wise Man
I To Be Real
Mrs. Lauryn Mizell will bo in
charge of the chapel hour at 10:30
o’clock on Friday morning, Decem
ber 10. At this time she will read Van
Dyke’s The Other Man, which,
she describes as u 8])ecial favorite
of her.s. The reading has been given
by her on other occasions elsewhere.
Dr. Knight To Be Spt'aker
Al F«>riiial Dinner
The faculty-student formal din
ner will take place in the college
dining hall on Friday evening, De
cember 10. Dr. E. W. Knight, pro
fessor of education at the University
of North Carolina, will be the guest
I speaker. The dinner will be served in
courses, and the dining hall will bo
decorated for the occasion in Clirist-
I The Ihicoiiihcr birthday dinner
will also be included in this celebra
tion. The birthday gtie.sts are to be
seated at a s])ecial table and the fol
lowing students are to be honorees:
Shirley Bartholomew', Bob Brown,
Annie Laurie Coward, Vivian
Creech, Agnes Harris, Mary Lee
Hodges, Hoyt Medlin, Aima Mae
Morton, and Earlino Whitehurst.
A Christmas Carol To Be
Bead By Presileiit
Oti Saturday evening, December
11, President Patten’s reading of
Dickens’ A Christmas Carol will
mark his fourth reading on Louis-
Inirg campus of this Christmas favor
ite of English literature. Interpret
ing the reading will be stereopticon
slides of Victorian engravings used
in an eai’ly edition of the story.
A social hour for students will
follow the reading when coffee and
doughnuts will be served.
Christmas Pageant To Be
Presented By Y’s
A pageant of the first Christmas,
sponsored by the YMCA and the
YWCA, will be given on Monday
evening, December 13, at 7:00
o’clock. The program will consist of
instrumental music, Christmas car
ols, choric S])caking of selections
from the Old and the New Testa
ments suggestive of the Christmas
theme, the monologic reading of
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Laughter, merry-making, songs,
snow, sleigh rides, and festivity char
acteristically accompany thoughts of
Christmas. This year, again how
ever, there will in many countries
be little festivity. In our own nation
the usual sounds of gaiety will be
somewhat stilled. There will be emp
ty places at tables — empty because
the men and women who filled them
are now engaged in the nation’s fight
for freedom and peace. On the snow
capped mountains of Iceland, in the
hot, steaming jungles of New
Guinea, on the endless sands of the
Sahara, or in ships amid the vast
unknowns of seas or skies—in these
places and others service men and
women will doubtless blink back a
tear and cast aside a wave of nos
talgia threatening to engulf them
on Christmas day so far away from
home. Naturally their memories will
be of past Christmas days spent
among loved ones ; and their dreams,
of hoped-for Christmas days that yet
should come.
There is one blessing, however,
that wars nor any circumstance can
ever take away from Christmas:
that is, the thought and ideal of
peace. Today even in countries en
gaged in actual warfare the hope
and dream of future peace still lives.
Through all the darkness that envel
ops the earth the light of hope still
shines. Through all “the shouting
and the tumult” of war the angels’
song still echoes.
Perhaps, then, Christmas even in
the tragedy of war will lead peoples
of the world of today as of yester
year, toward their ultimate goal:
“Peace on earth, good will toward
men.”
Y's Hold Sing
A vesper service for a brief time
just after supper on Sunday eve
nings is being conducted weekly alto
gether under student sponsorship in
connection with the YMCA and the
YWCA. At the meeting the leader
first reads the Scripture and loads
in prayer. A general singing of
familiar hymns follows. The hymns
are not previously selected, but are
informally chosen according to fa
vorites of those present.
Two such sings have been held,
and attendance the second time sur
passes that the first time.