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Volume III
LOUISBURG COLLEGE, LOUISBUKG, X. C., JUXE 1, 1944
Numbers 7, 8
COLUMNS HOLDS
BABY CONTEST
A baby contest, sponsored by
Columns and featuring local ba
bies, was held in tlie college audi
torium Saturday evening. May 13.
Jobnny Matthews, the Glee Club
baby, received the largest number
of votes and was awarded a silver
loving cup as a prize. The various
organizations on the campus were
sponsors for the children. Linda
Wilson, sponsored by the Physical
Education Club, and Connie Collier,
sponsored by Columns, were run
ners-up in the number of votes re
ceived. The other children in the
contest and their sponsors were
Frances Key Wheless, Alpha Pi Ep
silon; Marla Gupton, Phi Theta
Kappa; Hamilton Bynum, Beta
Phi Gamma; Billy Lumpkin,
I.R.C.; Bob Alston, YMCA; Beth
Hedden, YWCA; Hazel Ford, “The
Oak”; Sara White, Commercial
Club; Janice Joyner, Dramatic
Club; and Miss Crisp, the Mystery
Baby, sponsored by the faculty.
The purpose of the Baby Contest was
to raise funds for Columns. About
$140 was cleared.
After the contest a home-talent pro
gram was given. Virginia Taylor
Stephenson of the college sang; Tal-
madge Thomas of Louisburg played
two piano numbers; Mrs. James
King of Louisburg gave two read
ings ; and Dr. H. A. Thorson of
Elizabeth City, father of Barbara
Thorson, gave several selections on
the accordion.
Club Presents Play FINALS HELD AFTER 157TH YEAR
The Dramatic Club, under Mrs.
Mizell, director of dramatic arts,
staged a play entitled “The Red Vel
vet Goat,” called a tragedy of laugh
ter and a comedy of tears, by Jo-
sephina Niggoli. The leading char
acters were Mariana, Alice Currin;
Esteban, Talmadge Lancaster; and
Lorenzo, Robert Williford. The
other characters were Ramon, King
Moore Willis; Ester, Nancy Rol
lins ; Carmen, Mary Elizaeth Mid-
yette; Lola, Margaret Barbour; Don
Papey, Fred Davis; Dona Berta,
Elizabeth Turner; and a man in the
crowd, Harold Sherrill. The play
was acted in places with original
and interesting interpretations. The
eccentric family, composed of the
imperious Mariana, her pompous
playwright husband, Esteban; and
their romantic son, Lorenzo, as
played by Alice Currin, Talmadge
Lancaster, and Robert Williford re
spectively, was portrayed with con
vincing absurdity. The supporting
cast contributed much to the suc
cess of the play.
COMMENCEMENT PRINCIPALS
Hioknian Addresses
Students
Photo by Bob Brown.
Hedden, llickninn, Tiitten, Moon.
Speech Choir
Presents Program
The public speaking class per
forming as a vested speech choir
gave a devotional and three other
selections at the chapel hour May
19. The choir was under the direc-
Students Go To
Chapel Hill
Four Louisburg students — Lucy
Lee Braxton, W. S. Gardner, Joyce
Meekins, and Mary Elizabeth Mid-
yette — went to the University of
North Carolina and Duke Univer
sity to attend a national interracial
meeting of the economics classes
May 15. Mary Elizabeth read a pa-j the Moon” (Schubert), by Alice
per that she had written for the Currin; “For Music” and “Out of
tion of Mrs. Mizell. For the devo-1 economics class on the relationship My Soul’s Great Sadness” (Franz),
tional the choir gave “The Lord’s between the Negro and the White | by Jennette Ricks; “The Red Man’
Music Recital Given
The voice pupils of Mr. Moon,
head of the Music Department, and
the piano pupils of Mrs. Jernigan
gave a recital in the auditorium
May 19. The program was as fol
lows: “Scarf Dance” (Chaminade),
“I think that there never was a
time when ambitious oratory was
more out-of-date than it is now.
The times are too serious for such
things,” began the Reverend Frank
S. Hickman, Professor of Preach
ing and the Psychology of Religion
and Dean of the Chapel at Duke
University, speaking at the gradua
tion at the Louisburg Church at
10:00 a.m., May 22.
Referring to personal experience,
history, and literature to set forth
his message, Dr. Hickman presented
four major outlooks on life: natural
ism, pantheism, deism, and transcen
dentalism. Of these he said that only
the transcendental viewpoint could
suggest a steadying belief as to life.
He emphatically affirmed his faith
in a God who has the power effec
tively to work in His world and
the wisdom and love to work for the
eternal good of his creatures. Pray
er, he said, is not man’s act of in
forming God, but his search to know
God’s will.
The great war between science
and religion is not how man arrived
but whether God did it. Science, ho
said, attempts to answer the ques-
by Frances Powell; “Fuer Elsie”
(Beethoven), by Bernice Dixon ; tion of how*man has developed;* but
On Sunday” ^(Brahms) and “To j religion holds the answer to the why.
The speaker compared the laws of
life to the laws of the loom, describ
ing man as weaving his pattern ac-
Phi Theta
Officers Elected
The Gamma Upsilon Chapter of
Phi Theta Kappa met on the eve
ning of May 10 and elected officers
and a sponsor. The following were
elected: Barbara Thorson, presi
dent ; Marcelle King, vice president;
Dorothy Kennedy, secretary; Mil
dred Parks, treasurer; and Fred
Davis, corresponding secretary.
V. R. Kilby was elected sponsor
to succeed Dr. T. C. Amick, found
er of the club and sponsor since its
beginning.
ECHOES
The laws of life are like the
laws of the loom: each weaves
his own patterns.—Db. Hick
man.
God’s gift to us links us
inseparably to Him.—Presi
dent Patten.
We must face life with rea
son, with resourcefulness and
with responsibility if we are
to give our best.—Db. Hill
man.
Prayer is not man’s act of
informing God but man’s
search to know God’s will.—
Dr. Hickman.
If something studied be
comes the source of even one
pleasant memory, the effort
has been worth while.—Mother
of a graduate.
Those who have left us to
enter service are permanently
woven into our thoughts and
memories of two full and happy
years.—Salutatorian.
God flecks with wondrous
beauty the dust of a butterfly’s
wing.—Dk. Hickman.
The realized value of a
course is sometimes not in the
present but well in the future.
—Mother of a graduate.
Prayer,” witli W. S. Powers spealt
ing the solo part. Mary Goodwin
gave the solo lines for “Leave Her,
Johnny, Leave Her.” The next num
ber was “Thirteen Sisters,” a ballad
with the thirteen sisters represent
ing the original states that fought
to free themselves but forgot to free
their slaves. In giving “The King
of Yellow Butterflies” the choir was
divided into three groups speaking
the parts as “Volga Boatman” is
sung. Members of the choir were
the following: William Corwin,
Mary Goodwin, Lillie Mae Gupton,
Marcelle King, Ruth Pegram, W. S.
Powers, Mariam Shearin, Barbara
Thorson, Anne Whitehead, and
King Moore Willis.
Hospitality Offered
Hospitality Week-End, a Louis
burg College tradition, was celebrated
the week-end of May 6, 7. Guests
from various high schools were in
vited to visit the campus and partake
of Louisburg College hospitality.
Students from six high schools were
present. They were entertained at
the Saturday May Day festival and
the evening’s entertainment.
Special invitations were given the
guests to attend the Sunday morn
ing college worship and class hour,
and those attending received tokens
for the coming Mother’s Day.
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Sherlock
Smith
Corwin
STUDENTS ACHIEVE HONORS
Annie Louise Sherlock, Shirley
Smith, William Corwin, and Nancy
Rollins are the students who received
honors at commencement.
Annie Louise Sherlock graduated
as valedictorian of her class, deliv
ering the valedictory address at the
Class Day exercises May 20. At the
graduation exercises, May 22, Annie
Louise was presented with the
magna cum laude ribbon for schol
arship and the Brantley Medal by a
majority faculty vote for the best
all-round woman student. Annie
Louise was president of the Wom
en’s Student Council this year,
president of Alpha Pi Epsilon the
past semester, class secretary her
first year in college, member of the
YWCA, the Athletic Association, the
Commercial Club, the I.R.C., ideal
student among “The Oak” superla
tives of 1944, and an attendant in
the recent May Court.
(Sousa), by Lillie Mae Gupton;
■‘The Flatterer'’ (Chaminade), by
Dorothy Cothran; “By the Bend of
the Hirer” (Edwards) and “Fou
Leaf Glover” (Coombs), by Lillie
Mae Gupton; “Souvenir” (Drala),
by Marcelle King; “Sea Gardens”
(Cooke), by Edna Moye; “When
Dreams Were Set to Music”
(Straus) and “My Love is Like a
Red Red Rose” (McDermid), by
Virginia Stephenson; “Postillion”
(Godard), by Agnes Harris; “Min
uet” (Paderewski), by Virginia
Stephenson; “The Nightingale Has
a Lyre of Gold” (Whelpley), “Ho!
Mr. Piper” (Curran) ; “Down in the
Forest” (Ronald), and “Love, I
Have Won You” (Ronald), by Jo
sephine Lassiter; “Spring Dawn”
(Mason), by Annie Louise Sher
lock.
The performances were evidence
of both musical interest and talent
on the part of the participants.
Shirley Smith was salutatorian
of the class. Her salutatory was also
given on May 20. At graduation
Shirley was presented with the
cum laude ribbon. Other distinc
tions were being a member of Phi
Theta Kappa, and acting president
this year; a member of the Athletic
Association, Beta Phi Gamma,
Dramatic Club, Science Club, Choir,
YWCA, president of the senior class,
literary editor of “The Oak” and a
May Court attendant.
William Corwin was presented
with the Brantley Medal for the
best all-around boy of the class; In
his two years in college he has been
president of the Men’s Student
Council, member of the YMCA,
Monogram Club, Alpha Pi Epsilon,
acting senior-class secretary, and
best liked boy among “The Oak”
superlatives of 1944.
HARPIST GIVES
CONCERT
Miss Gertrude Hopkins, concert
harpist, who delighted her Louis
burg College audience in her con
cert of 1943, again appeared in
harp numbers in the college audi
torium, May 19.
With grace and charm Miss Hop
kins played several well-known solo
parts from familiar operas and a
number of other harp selections.
Before each group of selections
on her program, the artist told of
the relation of certain subjects to
her art, of the mechanism and the
sensitiveness of the harp, and of the
care she took with her hands and
her musical instrument.
Students remarked upon the ease
with which she strummed her harp,
and they expressed interest in the
wonder of the instrument.
Miss Hopkins again proved her
self to be a decided favorite among
the artists of the college concert
series, and students have already
expressed the hope that she will re
turn the coming year.
cording to liis choices, lie affirmed
liis faith in tVie individual care of a
God who lieeks in wondrous beauty
even the dust of a butterfly’s wings.
Diplomas were presented by
President Patten to the following
students: for the degree of Associate
of Arts, Lois Lorena Asbell, Wil
liam Martin Corwin, Edna Colleen
Gillis, Virginia Anne Goldston,
Agnes Earle Harris, Elizabeth Tay
lor Harris, Mary Illizabeth Mid-
yette, Edna Altha Moye, Ida Marie
Parker, Ruth Ola Pegram, Annio
Louise Sherlock, Shirley Mae
Smith, King Moore Willis, Daphne
Elizabeth Winstead, Kathleen Eliza
beth Wooten, and Jessica Amelia
Womack.
Secretarial certificates were pre
sented to the following: Margaret
Barbour, Shirley Alease Carver,
Dorothy Casey, Mary Pauline
Chaney, Mildred Joyce Cox, Alice
Grey Currin, Mary Frances Fox,
Beatrice Love Fulcher, Marie Fair-
cloth, Margaret Gooch, Josephine
Hardison, Josephine Hight, Doro
thy Holder, Mary Hudgins, Frances
Eloise Leonard, Mamie Louise Med-
lin, Louise Oden, Elynor Hope
Price, Jennette Weston Ricks, Nan
nie Margaret Roberson, Nancy Mar
garet Rollins, Doris Jean Rountree,
Mattie Sanders Snead, Frances
Wheless Spivey, Doris Duke
Strange, Doris Suits, Patricia Love
Tucker, Jennie Louise Warren,
Shirley Williams, Lola Windsor,
and Elva Young.
Honors and scholarships were an
nounced for the following: Annie
Louise Sherlock, magna cum laude;
Shirley Smith, cum laude; Joseph
ine Lassiter, sixty-dollar scholar
ship presented by Greensboro Col
lege; and Charlotte Usher, twenty-
five dollar scholarship presented by
Louisburg College.
Annie Louise Sherlock received
the Brantley Medal for the best all
round girl, and William Corwin the
Brantley Medal for the best all
round boy.
The marshals were Barbara Thor
son, chief; Anne Whitehead, Char
lotte Usher, Marcelle King, and
Fred Davis.
(Continued on page four)