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Volume VI
LOUISBURG COLLEGE, LOUISBURG, N. C„ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1946
Number 1
PRESIDENT PATTEN CITES NEW FRONTIERS
Homecoming Brings
Them Home
Metamorphoses Enacted At Louisburg For Gl’s
Orientation Features
Varied Events
The week end of October 26 again '
found the campus of Louisburg
College lined with its alumni. The
former students began coming in
Thursday evening amid shouts of
glee as they greeted old friends
and met new ones. By Saturday
morning more and more students
had arrived, and had congregated
on the campus talking among
themselves about past days, when
they were classmates and room
mates.
The alumni banquet was held in
the dining hall Saturday at 7:00 {
p.m. The credit of arranging as [
well as decorating the tables with
beautiful bouquets of fall flowers
belongs to Miss Stipe and her
committee. The invocation was
given by Dr. J. Marvin Culbreth;
welcome by Mrs. B. B. Everett, the
presiding officer; response by Mrs.
H. T. Bartholemew. Peggy Von
Canon entertained with vocal se
lections. Dr. Earnhardt, former
president of Louisburg College,
gave the address. President Walt
er Patten spoke briefly.
immeaialeiy after the baiiq.uei,
there was a dance in the local
Armory, Woody Hayes and his
orchestra, of Raleigh, furnishing
the music. Of the 594 people pres
ent, many spent the time socially,
reliving old times until the close
of the dance.
President’s Message
“The war frontier has been
abandoned and left to time and
nature to cover the scars and deb
ris, but the college campus and
classrooms furnish new frontiers,”
declared President Patten in his
address at the formal college open
ing Wednesday morning, Sept. 11.
He challenged the students in
the decided majority veterans, with
the fact that they had chosen their
own frontiers of attack, that they
as students were in a one-man’s
army, being the general to issue
the orders, the captain to relay the
orders to the front line, and the
soldier citizen to fulfill the com
mand and achieve the victory.
“Enter upon these days of cre
ative living,” President Patten
urged, “with faith in yourself,
determined that a better world
shall be established in all the far-
flung frontiers of human living.”
Arrivals Reveal Vets in Majority
The official orientation program
of Louisburg College for the year
men students; (2) table sliortase In crowded dining hall met by adaptation of hospital beds from Camp Butner; 1 Qf 1946-47 featured a three-day
(;j) Franklin seeond-Hoor iM)rcb, formerly enjoyed by Miss Stipe and her girls, invites Gl’s of I’lanklin Dorm. | events With this pro-
Top pictures, left to right: (1) Students in chemistry section .iam classroom on first days, Ix'fore adjustment
of numbers; (2) (il parking space on front campus suggests little vetville; (;?) I'attie Julia AVrlght is again dorm
itory “for worthy girls.” Lower pictures, left to right: (1) Storied front steps of Main become rendezvous for
Library Lights Up
New fluorescent lights were in
stalled in the library, on October
16, replacing the former bulb-type
fixtures.
Student and faculty satisfaction
at this improvement in library fa
cilities has been expressed in re
peated instances, with an added
comment once or more as to the
much increased attraction to visit
the library.
There ai’e eight lights in all, four
in the east room and four in the
west room. Each unit is approxi
mately three feet in length and one
foot in diameter, having four fluor
escent tubes which emit a white
light similar to daylight.
Now is the time to
remember—
(a veteran si)eaks)
—that thoughts were born in
moments of our wartime
solitude,
—that we must exercise not only
the freedom but also the
self-discipline to plan our
days so as to substantiate
our motives and ideals,
—that we are not superior to
other races of human be
ings,
—that those our brothers gave
for us “the last full meas
ure.”
Veteran Housing
Projected
President Patten has announced I
fitcls legaruiiitf tile coiiBlrucLioii ox
the veteran housing units to be
erected at Louisburg College. Two
units have been purchased from
Sebring, Florida. These units are
now being torn down for immedi
ate shipment to the College.
The erection program, contract
ed by H. C. Beck and contractors,
calls for essential completion of
these buildings by November 15,
some details probably to be com
pleted after that date.
The units consist of two separate
buildings, one for married veterans
and their wives and the second for
single veterans. The building for
married veterans is a two-story
construction accommodating eight
couples. It is equipped with the
necessary lavatories and facilities
for modern home comfort. The
building for single veterans is a
one-story construction likewise
equipped with necessary facilities.
Fifteen house trailers have also
been purchased from Jacksonville.
The trailers are now ready to be
pulled and placed at the rear of
Main Building as soon as the nec
essary equipment and labor can be
secured.
Louisburg is thus uniting efforts
with other colleges to meet the
needs of veterans in universities
and colleges all over America.
To counteract the crowded con
ditions resulting from enormous
enrollments of veterans in colleges,
groups of temporary housing units
have become a common sight on
American campuses.
New Members Join
College Staff
Eight new members were added to
I the college faculty for the year.
' 1)1-. IJliimeiifeld
Dr. Anna Bluraenfeld comes to the
Department of Romance Languages
and is teaching both French and
Spanish. She has studied at Erlan
gen, Bonn, and Munich Universities.
At the University of Munich she re
ceived her Ph.D. in Economics. She
also studied at the London School of
Economics. A certificate was awarded
her at Geneva Post-Graduate Insti
tute for Higher International Studies,
Geneva, Switzerland. Miss Blumen-
f;ld has traveled extensively in Eu
rope and is a former official of the
Permanent Central Opium Board of
the League of Nations. She worked
from 1941-1945 in the branch office
of that board in Washington, D. C.
Miss .Johnson
Miss Elizabeth Johnson, who had a
mathematics class of G. I.’s last
spring, has joined the Department of
Mathematics. She is an alumna of
Louisburg College and has an A.B.
and M.A. degree from the University
of North Carolina. She has taught in
Wadesboro, Thomasville, and Louis-
biirg High Schools. She spent part of
the summer at Toronto, Canada, while
there attending the Chiropractic Con
vention.
>Ir. Kainwater
The Rev. Roland W. Rainwater,
Jr., Is the new dean of men. He is a
graduate student of Louisburg Col
lege of the class of ’38. He has an
A.B. degree from Wofford College,
Spartanburg, S. C., and B.D. degree
from Duke Divinity School, Durham.
During the war he was a member of
the Naval Chaplaincy, from 1943-46.
His assignments in this country were
at William and Mary College, Wil
liamsburg, Virginia; Naval Construc
tion Training School, Camp Perry,
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Y^s Effect Partial
Merger
I Recently, the YMCA and the
iv^VP A Toint ?T}
I an effort to combine their resources
and their ideas. A number of the
students on the campus have
pledged their membership to the
Y’s. The officers for the YWCA
are Francis Davis, president; Pru
dence Cobb, vice president; Helen
Asque, secretary; and Sally Ed-
mundson, treasurer. For the YMCA
they are Carlton Blackman, presi
dent; Oliver Howell, vice president;
Bradford Fearing, secretary; and
Lenwood Sherlock, treasurer.
Several members of both the
YMCA and the YWCA attended
the World Student Service Fund
Rally at Greensboro Oct. 12. Those
attending the rally were Katie
Blanton, Mary Jane Brown, Bettie
Eason, Francis Davis, Carlton
Blackman, Oliver Burton, Burt
Smith, and Dean Rainwater, fac
ulty sponsor.
Various types of programs are
being planned for the year, includ
ing group participation programs
and talks by guest speakers.
Veterans Enrolled
The 208 veterans, including two
WACS, enrolled in Louisburg College
this semester garnered on the gen
eral intelligence test a median raw
score of 117 as compared with the
non-veterans’ raw score of 114, as re
vealed by statistics released through
the registrar, Mrs. Kilby.
The average age of the male stu
dent is approximately 21V4, years.
Facts show that 195 veterans are
from North Carolina while 13 hall
from other states.
Surprises Qalore: None Can Foretell
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The tires of the Big E (my
antiquated limousine) seemed to
sing as I rolled along: “Louisburg,
Louisburg, there ain’t no burg like
Louisburg.” Happy as a baby with
a new teddy bear, I whistled as we
crawled along. A long journey for
anything as old as the Big E! Ah,
I thought of the radiant counten
ances of the fairer sex that had so
abounded in recent years — the
place was simply crawling with
them what a life! Oh, boy, grad
uate? Never! The lone Marine on
the Isle of Women faced almost the
same problem as we.
Almost there now! “Ain’t life
grand!” Am I in for a surprise?
Brother, wait and see.
The monstrous beast of burden
came to a creaking halt, its job
well done (wish I owned an oil
well for my beast).
Then to my amazement my be
wildered eyes see only one lone
girl. Surely the girls must be here
by now. What are all those fellows
hanging around for? I wonder.
Slowly it began to dawn upon
me. The GI’s had landed. Thy
armed forces had been merged and
were now marshalling at Louis
burg. The girls acted as hostesses
—all that were here. Why only
last year the place reeled with
girls! Now of all things — men!
more than enough for every girl
—and were they having a field
day! If it were possible to turn
back the pages of time, surely I
would; or, better still, enlarge the
burg—make it like old times.
gram came the new students’ in
troduction to the Louisburg family.
Upon arrival September 10 stu
dents were directed to their respec
tive rooms by the deans. Student
Council officers, and members of
ihe YMCA and the YWCA. ivieii
students far outnumbered women
students, and veterans were in the
decided majority in the total.
Events on First Evening'
A general assembly of all stu
dents was held in the auditorium
at 7:00 p.m. The program included
group singing; a Bible reading and
prayer by Dr. Culbreth; a solo,
“The Ninety-first Psalm” (James
G. MacDermd ) by Professor Moon,
head of the Department of Educa
tion and Applied Arts; a welcome
to the students by President Pat
ten, emphasizing the cordiality of
his feeling in greeting them.
An informal .social followed. Stu
dents gathered on the steps of
Main, where they were led in a
period of group singing and other
entertainment. Betsy Bobbitt at
the microphone served as leader
for the events. Various students
were called upon to report to the
microphone, where they entertain
ed their audience with varied
stunts and humor.
A meeting of all students with
their respective deans followed, the
men students with Dean Roland
Rainwater, and the women students
with Dean Lula May Stipe. Each
dean presented to the respective
group the rules and regulations by
which college life was to be pat
terned.
Student Induction, Faculty
Presentation
President Patten was the prin
cipal in the first general meeting
on Wednesday, Sept. 11. He gave
the call to worship. Dean Rain-
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It is time to remember to—
(a non-veteran speaks)
—be willing to tackle any worthy
task given me,
—live by the ideals of the insti
tution of which I am a
part,
—be a good sport,
—be a friend to all,
—take an active part in student
organizations,
—live temperately,
—be broad-minded.