Strive and
hold cheap
the strain
Volume III
'aRUHi
. HE CECIL W. ROBBINS LIBRAk i
LOUISBURG COLLEGE
LOUISBURG, N.C. 27549
‘Learn
nor account
the pang'
LOnSBURG COLLEGE, LOUISBURG, 1ST. C., MOXDAY, JANUAKY 31, 1944
Nuiiiher 4
PRINCIPALS FOR MAY DAY CHOSEN Students Achieve
Semester Honors
May queen for the 1944 May Day
festival at Louisburg College will be
pretty Edna Moye, eleeted by popu
lar student vote, January 12. Bal
lots were cast in front of the dining
hall after lunch, and the school was
kept in suspense until 10:30 a.m.,
Friday morning, when the new
reigning queen was announced amid
uproarious applau.se.
Betty Mintz was the decided fa
vorite for maid of honor, as evi
denced by an almost unanimoiis stu
dent vote. Xext, the ladies of the
court were elected. They are as fol
lows: Lois Asbell, Margaret Bar
bour, Tilly Eakes, Virginia Floyd,
Virginia Anne Goldston, Mary
Goodwin, Dorothy Harris, Elizabeth
Harris, Annie Louise Sherlock, Shir
ley Smith, Frances Spivey, and Eliz
abeth White.
The committees for the May Day
festival have been announced by the
Physical Education Club spon.soring
the festival, under the direction of
Miss Marjorie Crisp and the general
chairman, Colleen Gillis. The com
mittees are as follows; Costumes:
Lois Asbell, Agnes Harris, Vivian
Creech, Mary Elizabeth Midyette,
and Anne Whitehead; dances : Mary
(ioodwin, Josephine Lassiter, Betty
Mintz, Jennie Warren, Elva
Spruill, Margaret Barbour, and
Elizabeth White; dresses and flow
ers: Tilly Eakes, Margaret Helms,
and Dorothy Cothran; program:
Allison Modlin, Evelyn Ann Gar
rett, Josephine Hight, and Josepli-
in» H«rlison:. proDerties: Mary Lee
Hodges, Doris Jeanne Rountree, Lil
lie Mae (iupton, Joyce Meekins, and
Mary Elizabeth Hodges ; publicity :
Dorothy Casey, Patty Perry, Mollie
Fearing, Ruth Pegram, and Lucy
Braxton ; script: Annie Laurie Cow
ard, Charlotte U.sher, Virginia Ann
Goldston, Elizabeth Harris, and
Shirley Smith.
The May Day festival will be ob-
.served Saturday, May 6.
Siddell Studio
May Queen Elect Edna Moye
The recent honor roll, marking the
achievements of the first semester of
the current year, shows a non-com-
mercial and a commercial student
tying for first place. Following for
the commercial department there arc
three representative.s; and for non
commercial students, five. In the
honorable mention list, the commer
cial students lead the liberal arts
students ten to nine, as does their
total enrollment. From whatever de
partment the scholastically ranking
students come, they are congratulat
ed bj' CoLTMNS as having honored
themselves and set a worthy exam
ple for others.
HONOR ROLL
First Semester 1943-44
SUNDAY SCHOOL
CLASS GIVES SOCIAL
The members of the college Sun
day school class enjoyed their fir.st
social event of the year Friday eve
ning, January 21, in the history
classroom.
The entertainment conmiittee
headed by Josephine Lassiter,
Shirley Smith, Anne Whitehead,
and Talmadge Lancaster led a pro
gram of a short devotional, group
singing, stunts, games, and contests
that kept the group j)articipating
with brain and body activity and
at times an abundance of laughter
for about two hours.
The room was beautifully
decorated in red and white, which
created a warm and friendly atmos
phere. The decoration committee
consisted of Colleen Gillis, chair
man; Charlotte Usher, Mary
Strowd Ward, Edmond Harrison,
and Robert Williford.
Attractive and delicious plates of
fruit salad, ritz crackers, and choco
late fudge were served the group by
the food committee—Marguerite
Clement, Joyce Meekins, and
Mildred Parks.
Mr. and Mrs. Kilby were recog
nized as major host and hostess of
the evening.
Over a period of weeks the two
Sunday school teams had been try
ing to excell each other in attend
ance. This party was given by the
losing team, headed by Mary Eliza
beth Midyette, to the winning team,
headed by Fred Davis.
Representatives
Chosen to Central
Religious Council
Re])resentatives to the Central
Religious Council have been elected
by the two Y’s and the Sunday
school class. YWCA representatives
are Ruth Pegram, ex officio member,
as president of the YWCA, and
Anne Whitehead, recently elected
Y-representative to the Religious
Council; the Y MCA representatives
are Fred Davis, ex officio member,
p 5 of tVl*? \ y
Talmadge Lancaster, recently elect
ed Y-representative to the Religious
Council. The Sunday school repre
sentatives elected are the following;
Mary Elizabeth Midyette, Josephine
Lassiter, Edmund Harrison, and
Joyce Meekins. Miss Merritt, Miss
Stipe, Mr. Kilby, Mr. Moon, and
Mrs. Bagby, composing the faculty
religious committee, complete the
council.
The Central Religious Council is
a student and faculty committee,
which considers questions concern
ing the religious needs of the cam
pus. The council does not exist pri
marily to execute plans and pro
grams, but to try by suggestion to
make a contribution through agen
cies suitable to direct various activi
ties. It helps direct Religious Em
phasis Week. At present the speaker
and date of Religious Emphasis
Week are under consideration.
A major aspect of uniqueness of
th{; Central Religious Council is that
it is the one cam,pus group that
functions officially with both faculty
members and students acting in
jointly purposed and jointly planned
endeavors.
The council was formed in Feb
ruary, 1942, and has included some
of the highest officers of student ac
tivities.
Rani-
—
ding Student
1
2.»4
Sherlock, Annie Louise
1
2.94
Smith, Shirley
3
2.81
'I’horson, Barbara
4
2.76
Whitehead, Anne
4
2.76
Usher, Charlotte
6
2.65
King, Marcelle
7
2.56
Suits, Doris
8
2.50 Spivey, I'rances
Honorable Mention
9
2.41
Asbell, Lois
10
2.39
Robf'rson, Nannie
Moye, Edna
11
2.38
12
2.37
Hudgins, Mary
13
2.35
Fulcher, Beatrice
14
2.29
Rollius, Nancy
15
2.25
Davis, Fred
15
2.25
Willis, King Moore
Ward, Mary Strowd
17
2.24
IS
iiardncr, W. S.
18
2.33
Harris, Elizabeth
20
2.21
Kennedy, Dorothy
21
2.18
Gooch, Margaret
21
2.18
Parks, Mildred
23
2.06
Corwin, William
24
2.05
Mann, Marjorie
25
2.00
Joyner, Arneta
25
2.00
Price, Hope
25
2.00
Tucker, Patricia
25
2.00
Young, Elva
‘‘HAPPY RIRTHRAY
TO YOU”
‘‘llap})y birthday to you!” was
the keynote of the six o’clock dinner
in the college dining hall on January
21 under the direction of Miss Stl[K>,
chairman of the social committee
and dean of women.
Following the custom initiated by
Miss Sti|)e four years ago, each fac
ulty member and student having a
birthday in the current month were
invited guests at the three-course
birthday dinner.
For the January birthday party
the table was decorated with indoor
plant gardens. Surrounding these
gardens was an array of lighted can
dles of pastel shades, and colorfully
set in the winter green were designs
of birds of various kinds. Place cards
in bird design marked each plate.
At the end of the second course
Miss Sti|)e introduced the birthday
guests and the other honorees of the
occasion. Those not at the birthday
table then joined in singing to the
honorees “llappy Birthday to You.”
The birthday guests were Miss
Jeanne Owen, Master Bobby Joe
Kilby, (Jeorgia Bass, Cornelia
Broome, Dorothy Casey, Mildred
Cox, Woodson Fearing, Evelyn Anne
Garrett, Janet Griffin, Marcelle
King, Mildred Parks, Patty Lee
Perry, Doris Jeanne Rountree,
Mattie Snead, and Elizabeth Turn
er. The other guests at the table were
Dr. and Mrs. Patten, Miss Stipe, Mr.
and Mrs. Kilby, Mrs. Perry, Mrs.
Parks, and Oscar Fuller of V-12,
now at home on a ten-day leave from
Bainbridge, Maryland.
YMCA Holds
Dedication
The YMCA held a dedication
service on Thursday evening, Jan
uary 20.
The president, Fred Davis, called
the meeting to order. Then all sang
“In Christ there is no East or
West!” Talmadge Lancaster led the
group in prayer. Then the president
dedicated himself to his office; he
was followed by the vice president,
Harold Sherrill; treasurer, Robert
Guin; secretary, Robert Williford;
the chairman of each committee : Ed
mund Harrison, of the Worship
Committee; King Moore Willis, of
the International and Race Rela
tions Committee; Talmadge Lancas
ter, of the Publicity Committee; and
(Continued on page four)
Siyn in CoImmcma
Register
Inside the heavy wooden
covers of a hook with lur^e
raised noodeii letters spelling
“(’oliinins,” is hetfun a record
destined, it woiiid seem, to hold
I a N 11 n interest. “('olunins
Kefristel^ was designed esj^e-
cially to he a means of perma
nent record of our Louishur;:
hoys in service, as they return
to Alma Mater from time to time.
The hook was inirchased l»y gifts
of students now at Louisburg.
It Is especially appropriate
that Eaton Holden, the elected
editor-in-chief of “t'olumns” for
1943-44, now In the Army, was
the first to sign In the register;
and that Oscar Kuller, elected
editor-in-chief of “The Oak” and
soon after, inducted into the
Navy, was the second to sign.
One section of the hook Is heing
used for the registering of former
members of tlie staffs of
“('olumns” and “The Oak.”
Esi)eclally former students now
In service are urged, when on
the campus, lo go i»y the Kngilsli
office and write in “(’olunins”
Register.
The itook will doubtless more
and more endear itself to us as
it Increasingly becomes a record
of former students who made
their contrihution while at Alma
Muter and who lH*yond college
walls are offering an even
greater gift of service and
sacrifice.
EXAMS, EXAMS, and Still More EXAMS!
Several forlorn and despondent-
looking students gathered around the
bulletin board and gazed dolefully at
the sad news posted there—exam,
schedules!
“Three hours for each one!” some
one said hoarsely. “I don’t know
enough on all my subjects combined
to write three hours.”
Another despairing student:
“Trig, and English on the same day !
That’s enough to kill anyone who is
human—what will I do?”
Such were the remarks of dejec
tion and gloom from January 13 to
January 18. Exams again!
With shaking hands, faltering
steps, and low spirits, most students
took their first examination on the
morning of the fourteenth. A few
exams were short and sweet—most
were long and gruesome. Sometimes
it was the exam, itself; other times
it was such directions as the follow
ing that drove students frantic:
“Now put the second part of the
third question under Roman numer
al one, little a, under five, in the
third exam, book on the sixth page
on the fourth line from the bottom.”
Warning signs hung on doors,
lights burned until late hours, and
radios were disconnected ; the dormi
tories were quiet except for an occa
sional moan or sob. One had only to
punch a trig, student to hear, “Sine
(AB) — Sine A Cos B Cos A Sine
B”; a typing student to hear, “space
once after commas and twice after
periods”; or an English comp, stu
dent to hear, “The subject of the
infinitive is in the objective case,
page 16, sentence 11.”
Finally, however, the days of gru
elling torture ended. It is hard to
say whether final exams, were fin
ished by students, or students finished
by final exams.
FRATERNITIES
ISSUE BIDS
The three honorary frntcrnities of
Louisburg College—Beta Phi (5am-
ma. Alpha Pi Epsilon, and I’hi
Theta Kajipa — have marked the
close of the first semester by bidding
and initiating members. Official and
social events have featured the sea
son.
Beta Plii Guiiiiiia
Taps New Members
The Rho Chapter of Beta Phi
Gamma, the junior-college college
division of Alj)ha Phi (ianima, a Na
tional eo-ediu*ational journalijtic
fraternity, held its first tapping of
the currei't scholastic year at *he
chapel hour Friday morning, .lan-
uary 21.
The stage was decorated in the
fraternity colors, black and white,
with the Greek letters for Beta Phi
Gamma displayed on a banner at the
center back of the stage. At the cen
ter front was a table bearing tokens
of journalism: pen, blotter, newspa
pers, annual, Bible, and a volume of
literature.
The j)rogram began with a pre
lude followed by the audience
singing “O Young and Fearless
Prophet.” The local Beta Phi Gam
ma ritual was read by the three
members: Mary E. Midyette, presi
dent of the chapter; Eaton Holden,
on furlough from the army, and
1 Ruth Pegram. These then tapped
eleven students who were invested
with academic robes as preliminary
to initiation to membership in the
fraternitv.
The pledgees were the following:
from the staff of Columns, Douglas
Bryant, Elizabeth Harris, Mary Lee
Hodges, Joyce Meekins, Mildred
Parks, Barbara Thorson, Charlotte
Usher, Mary Strowd Ward, and Rob
ert Williford; from the staff of The
Oak, Lois Asbell, acting editor-in-
chief, and Shirley Smith, literary
(editor.
The initiation date is due in ap
proximately three weeks.
Alpha Pi Epsilon
Initiates Members
Alpha Pi F^psilon, national honor
ary secretarial fraternity, has in
ducted twelve new members: Wil
liam (Jorwin, Beatrice Fulcher,
Margaret Gooch, Mary Hudgins,
IIoj)e Price, Nannie Roberson, Nan
cy Rollins, F'rances Spivey, Doris
Suits, Patricia Tucker, Shirley Wil
liams, and Elva Young. The first
meeting was held Saturday after
noon. Tuesday morning in chapel the
new members were formally present
ed to the student body.
The program consisted of a song
by the audience, devotional and pray
er by Louise Turner, the history of
Alpha Pi Epsilon by King Moore
Willis, the history of the Lambda
Chapter by Annie Louise Sherlock,
and the recognition of the new mem
bers and presentation of their keys
and scrolls by Barbara Thorson. The
program was concluded with the sing
ing of the official club song of Alpha
Pi Epsilon by the members and ini
tiates.
The ceremony was observed in a
suggestive setting of candlelight and
a huge design of the fraternity key
centered above the table in the mid
dle of the stage. Each of the girls
wore a white Grecian robe.
Friday afternoon the official ini
tiation with members of the faculty
present was held in the faculty par
lor, Barbara Thorson, president, pre
siding.
Friday evening a formal banquet
was given by the old members in
honor of the initiates at the home of
Mrs. V. R. Kilby.
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