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HAPPY
MERRY
NEW YEAR
CHRISTMAS
Volume VI LOUISBURG COLLEGE, LOUISBURG, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1946 Number 3
Hold Everything
Holds Audience
Hold Everything, a three-act
comedy by Austin Goetz, proved to
be an outstanding amateur per
formance by the Louisburg College
Dramatics Club on the evening of
Dec. 11. The play was presented
with a convincing ease that credit
ably tended toward an impression
of reality. The setting throughout
was the reception room of a large
tourist home in a sizable city.
The characterization of Niobe, a
colored servant, was thoroughly
and comically done by Marjorie
Peele. Caroline Caruthers, a poised
tourist-home proprietress in dire
financial circumstances, was ably
portrayed by Hulda Lineberry. The
wealthy and unperturbed Mr. Mor
gan, Albany banker and father of
Connie Morgan, was played by
Bradford Fearing in a manner em
phasizing the reserve and equili
brium of a man of the world. As
part of the lighter and more com
ical side of the play Mrs. Julia
Gibbs, an ambitious mother, bubbl
ing over with dreams of success for
her three daughters, was so vividly
played by Betty Thigpen that she
had the audience anticipating their
success in Hollywood. Her three
daughters, Lottie, a singer in the
making, was characterized by Bar
bara Boole; Wanda, a promising
reciter, by Grace Hayes, who re
cited “The Cremation of Sam Mc
Gee”: and Daisy, a young dancer,
by Helen Ayscue.
The mystery was furnished by
two daringly suspicious characters.
Sieve and Andy, robbers of the
Morgan bank, portrayed by Russell
Wilcock and Richard Cole, respect
ively, who gave the characteriza
tions the ring of reality. Tim Mac-
auley, a determined detective in
pursuit of the crooks, was capably
done by Bill Sanders. The milkman
was played by George Laws.
The romantic theme of the play
•—a young man meets a young
woman, and it is love—was center
ed around the characterizations of
Connie Morgan, the spoiled though
charming banker’s daughter, pleas
ingly played by Frances Collawn,
and Courtney Barret, Jr., a dash
ing romantic figure, vividly per
sonified by William H. Melson. The
part of “Bee Williams,” Connie’s
friend and diplomatic adviser, was
completely played by Betsy Bob
bitt.
The play though presented by
amateurs, was suggestive in parts
of the smoothness and color of a
professional performance, and the
audience responded with a spon
taneity expressive of real enjoy
ment.
The play was under the direction
of Mrs. Bettie Tarpey, Dramatics
Club sponsor, and Rachel Haith-
cock, student director.
Between acts Miss Sarah Fos
ter gave two piano selections, “In
termezzo,” by Provost, and
“Through the Years,” by Youmans.
Esther Stalling talked about “Sil-
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CAMPUS lEVENTS MARK CHRISTMAS SEASON
MYF GIVES CHRISTMAS PAGEANT
For Christmas we want:
—all the spiritual happiness
of the Christmas time;
—all our old friends home
for some of the holidays;
—A beautiful snow two
days before the holidays are
over.
For New Year’s we want:
—greater cooperation and
understanding between stu
dent body and administra
tion;
—unwavering faithfulness
to a task assigned and ac
cepted;
—loyalty to what is worth
while in a college opportunity.
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standing, left to right: (). C. >Ielton, Russell A. AVilcock, Jack B. Ijiles, Bill Bonham, C’urtis Wilson, Otha Odom;
kneeling, left to right: Helen Ayscue, as “Mary”; Ix)la Pecdin; Julia Carroll; Jewel lirown, narrator.
PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD M. WEST
SCA Has Christmas Service
The Student Christian Associa
tion met for an informal meeting
in the Social Hall the evening of
Dec. 11. The Christmas spirit was
symbolized by candles, evergreens,
and a Christmas tree.
The group sang Christmas carols
—“While Shepherds Watched Their
Flocks”; “Joy to the World”; “Hark
the Herald Angels Sing”; “It
Came Upon the Midnight Clear”;
‘Adeste Fideles”; and “The First
Noel.”
A humorous-morality reading,
“How Come Christmas,” was given
by the Rev. Roland W. Rainwater,
setting forth a simple genial-spirit
ed Negro interpretation of Christ
mas. A poem, “Christmas Carol,”
was read by Betty Heeny.
The (service closed after the
group gathered around the tree for
the singing of “Holy Night” and
for the benediction by Dean Rain
water.
President Patten Reads Dickens’
Christmas Carol
Faculty-Student Program
Presents Student Government
The purposes and ideals of stu
dent government were set forth by
Dean Rainwater; Betty Thigpen,
president of Women’s Student
Council; Carlton Blackman, presi
dent of Men’s Student Council; and
Talmadge Blalock, president of the
student body, at the chapel hour,
Dec. 6.
Dean Rainwater opened the dis
cussion, citing a quotation from
Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Whether
a man accepts from fortune her
spade and will look and dig, or
from aspiration her axe and cord,
and will scale the ice, the one and
only success which it is his to
command is to bring to his work a
mighty heart.”
Betty thigpen presented the pur
pose of student government: To
help a student in perplexing mat
ters, to enforce laws set forth by
the college. She also described the
Council as not being a Gestapo
organization.
Carlton Blackman pointedly said,
“Don’t be at the wrong place at the
wrong time.” Blackman then ap
pealed to the student body for full
support of student government to
create a fine school spirit.
Talmadge Blalock presented him
self in sincere humbleness as a
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Svery One
Calendar of Christmas Events
Dec. o—Deoember I?irtlulay
Party.
Dec. 14—Reading of Dickens’
CHRISTMAS CAROIi
by I)i'. Patten, followed
by coffee hour.
Dec. 17—White Christmas at
chapel hour.
Athletic Club Party.
Dec. 18—Christmas Tree, 7: SO
p.m. Veterans’ Dance,
0:00 p.m.
Student Legislature
Meets In Raleigh
Better health and higher econom
ic standards for North Carolina
were stressed in the various bills
presented and discussed by mem
bers of the Tenth Student Legis
lature, which convened in Raleigh
Dec. 6 and 7.
The General Assembly Session
opened with an address by the Sec
retary of State Thad Eure followed
by a brief message from Chancel
lor Harrelson of State College, host
to this year’s assembly.
At a separate meeting the ofiic-
ers of the assembly were elected. A
former Louisburg student, Ira
Helms, now a student at State Col
lege, was chosen president.
The first bill discussed in the
Senate and later in the House was
“State Help for Hospitals,” present
ed by Paul Jernigan, of Guilford
College, brother of the Louisburg
Jernigan students—Russell, Hor
ace, and Harold. With very little
discussion the bill was passed
unanimously.
A heated discussion rose over the
question of liquor control. The bill
was tabled, later reconsidered, and
finally thrown out; and a substitute
resolution was adopted.
The session was brought to a
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The traditional reading of Dick
ens’ Christmas Carol was given by
Dr. Patten on the evening of Dec.
14. Slides accompanied the reading
showing Victorian engravings used
in an early edition of the book and
reproducing the England of Dick
ens’ day. The transformation of
Scrooge and the reward for the
I courage of crippled Tiny Tim were
climaxed by Tiny Tim’s “Gc/d bless
us every one.” Before the reading,
Christmas carols were sung. The
reading was followed by a college
family get-together in the social
hall, where, amid decorative effects
in Christmas motif, doughnuts and
coffee were served.
AIVF (JIVE.S ( HHISTM.IS PAtJKA.VT
The chill breeze of late autumn
rippled across the campus, faintly
visible, through the maze of bright
ly colored leaves that had cascaded
from the numerous old oaks. Some
thing is in the air; for months it
has been sensed; now like good
tidings borne on a lusty wind it is
here: the Yuletide season and the
day of days.
Christmas carols fill the air, soft
and melodious, ascending into in
finite space, there to be received by
a host of angels and to gain volume
like a great symphony, filling the
hearts of all with rapture. Now the
very sky seems to be filled with the
essence of Christmas. These same
skies have echoed to the strains of
“Peace on Earth Good Will Toward
Men” for two thousand years. The
Glory of God has resounded
through the ages and throughout
the universe.
Lights begin to appear. . . . Late
grows the evening: Fathers hurry
home—expectant children wait for
a story of Christmas—the family
gathers around the Christmas tree,
crowned with a shining star sym
bolic of the star that guided to the
manger where the infant Jesus lay;
the father tells the story of the
wonderful birth, so many years
ago, beautiful in its simplicity. The
hearts of all are touched with the
century-old tradition of Christmas.
The day is over; listen, you can
hear the chimes, softly, softly; now
louder—from earth to heaven the
glory of God! And the Angelic
chorus sings, “Peace on earth and
good will toward men” as the Yule-
tide season returns.
“Christmas Pageant,” a pan-
tomine play by Dr. H. E. Spense,
professor of Biblical literature and
religious education of Duke Uni
versity, was given by the MYF in
the local Methodist church on the
evening of Dec. 15. The cast was
as follows: “Mary,” Helen Ayscue;
“Joseph,” Otha Odum; Inn-keeper,
Bert Smith; the Three Wise Men,
Jack Liles, Bill Bonham, Curtis
Wilson; three shepherds, O. C. Mel
ton, Oliver Howell, Russell Wilcox;
two angels, Lola Peedin and Julia
Carroll; narrator. Jewel Brown.
Louise Swain directed the play,
assisted by Miss Edith Rose, teach
er in Mills School, and Adelaide
Bledsoe, Louisburg College student.
This is a traditional Christmas
pageant, the one presented each
year in the Gothic chapel at Duke
University.
The Glee Club, directed by Miss
Foster, furnished music; Rachel
Lee Haithcock sang as a solo, “0
Holy Night.”
WHITK (HKISTMAS SPOXSOItKD
BV ('OHMXS
A White Christmas, sponsored by
Columns, was observed at the
chapel hour Dec. 17. Gifts of school
supplies for overseas students suf
fering the postwar dearth of such
materials were offered by students
and faculty.
The effort was sponsored by
Columns for the local branch of
the American Association of Uni
versity Women, of which a number
of Louisburg College faculty are
members.
Numbers on the White Christmas
program included the music by the
Glee Club. “The First Christmas
Morn” (Newton) ; “While Shep-
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