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Volume IV
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Number 1
Halloween Festivity
Affords Fun
A Halloween party was sponsored
by the Phys. Ed. Club, October 21.
The Hall of Horrors led to Frank
lin basement. Rubber gloves filled
with ice hung over the steps and
represented dead hands. Spider webs,
spring cushions, witches, skeletons,
and ghosts were all around. Every
body met Creech, shook her hand
and pulled back with white goo
smeared. Next came the dead man,
Charles Skinner. Girls’ heads stuck
through sheets with blood drooling.
Now nervous wrecks. People were
led out by Talmadge Lancaster.
Mrs. Stanton told girls about their
boy friends, husbands, and length of
life.
All had to see the “World’s Great
est Show,” the glamour girl, a line
from home, glamour puss, and other
sights.
Everybody guessed how many
beans were In a jar filled with over
1,800. Jeane Fodrie won the prize.
A floor show was staged by two
clowns, Mary Goodwin and Ruth
Strickland; four tumblers—Dorothy
Casey, Mary Lee Hodges, Ida Mae
Lassiter, and Allison Modlin; and
girls representing ghosts of famous
people—Helen Thigpen, as Miss
Stipe; Jacquelin Stallings as Dr.
Amick; Edith Rose Kinlow as Min
nie Pearl; Rose Graham, as Lincoln;
and Marion Smith as Roosevelt.
“Butch” Goodwin, with about five
pounds of padding, and Miss McCall,
more miniature looking than usual
(imagine!) jltterbugged. No need to
say that show was a scream!
Couples went cake-walking. Jimmy
XInderdown and Allyne Smith won
the cake. Those who did not win
the cake just the same had their
walk.
Hot dogs, peanuts, lemonade, and
coffee were served.
Orientation Begins College Year
BIRTHDAY PARTIES
PROVE FESTIVE
Students and faculty members
having birthdays in September and
October were delightfully entertained
at Tuesday monthly birthday din
ner, September 26 and October 17.
Forty-seven were seated at the ta
ble of whom twenty-nine were birth
days-guests. Four faculty members—
Mr. Carmichael, Mr. Kilby, Mr.
Moon, and Dr. Patten—had birth
days on the same day, September 13.
The table was exquisitely deco
rated with pink and white candles,
napkins, nut cups, and flowers. A
three-course dinner consisting of
grapefruit juice, tomato salad,
chicken, potatoes, lima beans, ice
cream and cake was served. The
two large birthday cakes served
were baked by the Home Economics
Department.
Thirty-one students and faculty
members were seated at the Octo
ber birthday with twenty-two hav
ing birthdays in October, Mrs. Car
michael being the only faculty birth
day guest.
The dinner consisted of grapefruit
juice, pineapple salad, ham, lima
beans, sweet potatoes, rolls, ice cream
and cake.
The table was charmingly ar
ranged with lavender and yellow
candles, and flowers with napkins
Halloween design.
The student body was dismissed
on both occasions after singing
"Happy Birthday” to the honor
guests.
ONCE YOURS
You .stood here once. You
helped to build a shrine where
you could find ideals for life,
learn there the story of men’s
dreams and deeds — those of Co
pernicus, Shakespeare, and Lin
coln — a shrine that could inspire
love for mankind, appreciation of
their gifts.
“Alma Mater, sheltering college,
Thou hast been our guiding
friend.”
Stanc'injr: Vivian Creech, president. Glee C?ub; Lan^iH Watson, president. I.R.C.; Dorothy Kennedy, editor. THE OAK; Talmadge Lancaster,
president. Dramatic Club; Woodson Fearing, president, Y.M.C.A.; Elva Young, president,. Alpha Pi Epsilon; Hobart Wilson, president’ Boy’s
Monogram Club; Fred Davis, president, Me^’s Student C'ouncil; Alli.son Modlin, president, B.S.II. Sitting: Frances Merritt, president,
Y.W.C.A.; Charlotte Usher, editor, COLITMNS; Dorothy Casey, presic'ent. Physical Education (Uub; Anne Whitehead, president. Women’s
Student Council; Barbara Thorson, president. Phi Theta Kappa; Mary Goodwin, president. Girls* Athletic Association; Mattie Sneed, president.
Commercial Club.
NEW MEMBERS
ADDED TO
COLI.EGE FACULTY
Mr. James Walter Carmichael
comes to the department of English.
He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
He did his undergraduate work at
Bethel Bible Institute, Spencer, Mas
sachusetts, and Hilldale College at
the University of Michigan, where he
received his A.B. and M.A. degrees,
respectively. He spent one year of
study in the University of New York.
He has traveled in Europe, on the
continent and in England. Also in
the latter place he made an exten
sive study of Shakespeare at Strat-
ford-on-Avon. He has worked in the
Veteran’s Bureau in Washington,
D. C., and has since taught English
and speech at Bowling Green, and
the University of Ohio, and last year
was teaching servicemen at Texas
A. and M.
Mrs. Mae MacKinnon Carmichael
is the college nurse and teacher of
Nursing Arts. She also is a native of
Sydney, Nova Scotia. She received
her R.N. at St. Joseph Hospital in
Sydney. For nine years she was su
perintendent of the staff at New
Netherford in Nova Scotia. She has
also done private nursing, to con
siderable extent in Chicago, Boston,
and Sydney.
Miss Bessie Harding, of Washing
ton, N. C., comes to the Commercial
Science Department. She did her un
dergraduate work at the Woman’s
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Vs Hold
Campfire Service
The Y’s held the animal Indian
Campfire on the evening of Oetober
19, Mr. Iledden playing the role of
the big chief.
Students met on the front steps of
Main and in single file to the west
campus circling around a big pile of
wood laid for the fire. Abner Askew,
Bob Bikle, Jim Flythe, Stanley
Lewis, four of the Indian braves, ap
proached the fire-wood to preside
over the lighting, which occurred
magically, spontaneously. Y.W.C.A.
officers, including Frances Merritt,
Mary Lee Hodges, Carol Bessent,
Barbara Howard, Pat Perry, and
Charlotte Usher, gave the symbol-
i.sm of the fire. Officers of the
Y.M.C.A. Woodson Fearing, presi
dent; Langill Watson, vice presi
dent; Robert Mercer, secretary; also
Fred Davis, member, gave the mean
ing of the winds. Some of the Indian
maidens Lynn Ballentine, Kay
Champion, Jacqueline Collie, Barbara
Eatman, Helen Hasty, Cornell Honey
cutt, Elsie Jenkins, and Taylor Ste
phenson, members of the Glee Club,
were led by Squaw Stanton in a song
about the fire. Mollie Fearing, in
colorful Indian costume, told the
story, “The Latch String.” An In-
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MANY ALUMNI
EXPECTED FOR
HOMECOMING
The animal Homecoming of
Louisburg College will be held Octo
ber 28 and 29.
Invitations have been issued to
former students by Miss Lula Mae
Stijje, alumni secretary and dean of
women. Miss Stij>e has planned the
following program for the returning
alumni.
The opening event will be the ban
quet held in the dining hall at 6 :.S0
p.m. Following this a danco will be
held in the social hall at 9 :00 p.m.
to which alumni, students, and
guests are invited.
Letters and other messages from
alumni indicate that a representa
tive number will be present for
Homecoming week-end at Alma
Mater.
To the college worship service at
the Methodist Sunday school at the
church at 9:45 p.m. alumni are in
vited. Mary Lee Hodges will lead,
and Taylor Stephenson will sing.
Mr. Kilby will teach the class.
Alumni are Invited to the memo
rial service at the church at 1:00
a.m. for Seaman 1/c J. H. Joyner,
who lost his life in the invasion in
France. His brother A/c Douglas
Joyner, of the Louisburg College
class of 1942 and now in the Air
Corps, will be present from Pensa-
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NO LETTER TODAY
“No letter today. I’ve waited so
long.”
You should go by the post office
sometime at mail time and watch the
long faces some of the students put
on. You would think Hercules had
taken them by the hair with one
hand and the chin with the other
and pulled with all his might. But,
there are the lighter moments of life
also.
One girl will give you her version
of Saint Vitus’s dance, and you
know immediately that she has a let
ter from Ma, the first in two whole
days.
If you watch the boy when he
gets his letter from Mom, you’ll see
that at first he is grinning from ear
to ear. Mom has written she is send
ing him something to eat. Sudden
ly, the grin disappears. Mom has
added that Dad is on the war-path
because of that last twenty-dollar
check. ^
The boys are not always in a hur
ry to get to their boxes. They take
it for granted that they have two or
three letters in blue stationery with
a faint scent of perfume on them.
Oh, how do they sigh when they
begin these letters! When a boy
starts reading in a hurry and docs
not take a good breath until he has
finished, you know right away that
she started off with “My Dearest
Darling,” and that the letter gets
from better to still better. Now,
when a boy reads the salutation and
a small frown appears on his face—
w’ell, she started off with simply,
“Dear John,” no Darling’s or Dcar-
est’s. The boy who stops and takes
a deep sigh with a far away look
in his eyes—well, started off his
letter with, “My One and Only.”
Mail comes to Louisburg campus
thirteen times a week, and you may
get thirteen letters a week, but then
you may not. In either case, do not
let your face get too long if these
letters do not come twice each week
day and once on Sunday.
In conclusion, take this ob.serva-
tion from a fellow student: we all
get mail sometimes, but we cannot
all get mail all the time.
The orientation program at Louis
burg College extended from Sept.
19 to 21. Students arrived on the
eighteenth and nineteenth and were
directed to their rooms under the
supervision of the student councils
and the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A.
with assistants. Also Y.M.C.A. and
Y.W.C .A. members met incoming
buses. A general assembly was held
in the auditorium, Tuesday evening,
Sept. 19. Songs were sung by the
grou]), and prayer was offered by
Mr. Hedden. Dr. Patton welcomed
the students. He then introduced
the faculty. Two talks followed:
“The Good of College Education,”
by Mr. Carmichael, new member of
the Department of English, and
“Opportunities for Development Of
fered a Sudent in College Life,” by
Anne Whitehead, j)resident of the
Wonuin’s Student Government Asso
ciation. A general get-together in
the social hall was directed by the
Social Committee.
A general assembly in the audito
rium for all new students was called
Wednesday morning. Mrs. Kilby ex
plained the nature and purpose of
the intelligence test, after which
Miss Alerritt made announcement
concerning the English placement
test for all first year students. The
intelligence tests and the English
placement test followed. During the
course of the morning a meeting of
I second-year students was held in the
1 auditorium to plan the giving of the
“College Life” skit ami group so
cials for the first-year students. Stu-
dent.s planning to work off part of
their tuition met in the auditorium
at 11:00 a.m. A general assembly
at 12:00 o’clock followed when Dr.
:Vmick explained the nature and pur
pose of the Liberal Arts Course, and
Mrs. Kilby, the Commercial Science
Course.
At a general assembly in the audi
torium at 2:00 p.m., a varied pro
gram was given. Dr. Patton talked
on “Living as the Louisburg College
Family.”
The following phases of student
life were presented by different stu
dents: Student Government, by Fred
Davies; the Y’s, by Frances Merritt;
Dramatic Club, by Talmadge Lan
caster; Choir, by Vivian Creech;
Girls’ Athletic Association, by Mary
Goodwin, I.R.C., by Mary Lee
Hodges; Phi Theta Kappa, by Bar
bara Thorson; Alpha Pi Epsilon, by
Margaret Gooch; Beta Phi Gamma,
by Mary Strowd Ward; Columns
and the Oak, by Mildred Parks; Cell
Group and Central Religious Coun
cil, by Charlotte Usher.
Ten-minute talks in group meet
ings were then given by six members
of the faculty; namely, “Your Re
ligious Life in College,” by Miss
Merritt; “College Loyalty,” by Miss
Finister; “The Value of Time and
the Necessity of a Schedule in Col
lege,” by Mr. Kilby; “What a Col
lege Student Owes His Physical
Body,” by Miss Crisp; Niceties in
Living,” by Mrs. Moon; “The Place
of the Library in College and in
Individual Life,” by Mrs. Yar
borough.
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NOW OURS
We stand here now. From that
shi’in; you helped build we learn
the thlng.s you leai iied; we dream
the dreams you dreamed — and
other dream.s, beciiu.se you onco
were ln^re. We’r? (grateful to you
for the Nhrino you helped to build;
.so our hearts sln>{:
“Stand, Old ColleKe, Alma Mater;
'I’hrouKh the chanKlnK years
abide.”