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LOUISBURG COLLEGE
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Volume VIII
LOUISBURG COLLEGE, LOUISBURG, N. C., SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1949
Number 5
162nd Commencement Draws Near
Miss Averitte and her fiancee,
These Are Our Leaders for ’49’-50
Brantley And Cooley To Speak
Class Day Planned
“Memories of Old Louisburg”
will be the theme of the class day
exercises to be held on Saturday
afternoon, May 28. In the absence
of Dan Wynn, president of the sen
ior class, Anne Jones, the vice-
president, will preside. Featured on
the agenda for the program are
Harry Tucker, class prophet; T. H.
Harris, composer of the class song;
Betty Marie Hardwick; class poet;
Walton Bass, class historian; and
Wilbur Jones, class testorian.
Baccalaureate Sermon
Rev. Allen P. Brantley, pastor of
the St. Paul Methodist Church in
Goldsboro will deliver the Bacca
laureate Sermon Sunday morning.
May 29, at 11:00 in the Louisburg
Methodist Church. The title of the
sermon will be “In the School of
Coercion.” Mr. Brantley is a mem
ber of the board of trustees of
Louisburg College and he spoke at
the YWCA-YMCA Commencemenv
vespers in 1943 here at the college.
The Glee Club under the direction
of Miss Foster will sing two num
bers; “Now Let Every Tongue
Adore Thee” by Bach, and “The
Green Cathedral” by Haln.
Marshals will be Vivian Proc
tor, chief; James Dickens, Zelda
Coor, Betty Strother, and Rachel
Modlin.
Cooley to Speak
Representative Harold D. Cooley
of North Carolina’s 4th congres
sional district will be the guest
speaker at the graduation exer
cises to be held Monday morning,
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Phi Theta Kappa
Entertains Beta Clubs
The Gamma Upsilon chapter of
Phi Theta Kappa, national co-edu-
cational honorary fraternity at
Louisburg College, entertained the
members of the Beta Clubs of
Franklin County and their faculty
sponsors, at a come-and-sit tea,
Thursday afternoon. May 12, from
4:30 to 5:30.
The guests were greeted by Fen
ner Spivey, Ina Evans, and Bur-
well Evans. Fenner Spivey, presi
dent of the fraternity, gave a brief
welcome address. A get-acquainc-
ed game was led by Anne Jones,
followed by the introduction of the
members by chapters. Mary Ruth
Edwards gave her characteriza
tion of Minnie Pearl of “Grand
Ole Opry” fame, and piano music
was furnished by T. H. Harris
during the afternoon.
Refreshments of lime punch,
cookies, salted nuts, and mint waf
ers were served to the approxi
mately 40 guests present by mem
bers of the fraternity. Schools in
Franklin County from which mem
bers attended were Edward Best,
Gold Sand, W. R. Mills, Epson
and Bunn.
Speak, Chums, Speak!
With this issue, we, the staff
of COLUMNS of ’48-49, bid
you, the students, a fond fare
well. The last two issues have
been entirely without faculty
supervision. If the students can
tell the difference between a
faculty-supervised and all-stu
dent paper, and like the all-stu
dent one, let someone know it.
Perhaps this will be a turning
point in the history of COL
UMNS, from whence a faculty
advisor will be known only as a
person to be used in cases of
special need. Speak up, chums.
Let your opinions be known!
Y’s Hold Retreat
The “Y” cabinet and several
members of the “Y” held a retreat
at Murphy’s cabin at Mitchner’s
pond May 14, from 10:15 a. m. un
til 9:45 p. m. Mr. Bower', “Y” ad
visor, and Miss Merritt were chap
erones.
The group of about twenty left
on the “Blue Goose” at 9:45 a.
m. and arrived at the cabin at
approximately 10:15 a. m.
After looking around the cabin
and grounds and pond for a few
minutes, all gathered in the large
parlor in a circle. In the absence
of Dick Cannady, Mr. Bowers led
in the devotional. After reading
the scripture, he read a paper pre
pared by Cannady. In this he
stressed, “Forget self and think of
others.” After the termination of
this portion of the devotional, Mr.
‘ Bowers led the group in prayer.
Immediately after the devotion
al the group began an informal dis
cussion led by President Elmer
Best. The discussion concerned the
“Y’s” good points and also its mis
takes of the past year. This was
done in order to show the
new “Y” officers how to improve
the “Y” of next year. Many good
points were given on how to im
prove the organization, programs,
and how to make the Thursday
night devotions more interesting
to the students of the campus.
This discussion ended at 12:30 p.
m.
After the discussion, lunch was
prepared by the students. The
afternoon was spent in sun bath
ing, swimming and walking
around the pond. The swimmers
went to Jackson’s pond to splash
about a bit.
About 5:30 the group gathered
out by a fire and had a weiner
roast.
Immediately after supper all
gathered by the pond for a few
moments of meditation led by Miss
Merritt. All returned to the cabin
and continued their discussion.
The discussion ended on the pro
grams and how to make them
more interesting. Many ideas for
next year’s projects were brought
up by the group. Mary Ruth Ed
wards, incoming president, closed
the discussion by the benediction.
Mr. Thomas Hobgood and the old
Women’s Students Council Associa
tion officers were honored by Miss
Stipe at a dinner served at the
home of Mrs. James B. King on
North Main Street in Louisburg on
May 15 at 6:45 p. m.
The decorations consisted of
V hite cut flowers and small trink
ets of the bridal theme.
A three course dinner was serv
ed which consisted of fruit cock
tails as the appetizer, white sliced
tomatoes and chicken salad on let
tuce leaves. Baked apples, potatoe
chips, olives, ritz, hot rolls, butter
and iced tea made up the main
course. Strawberry shortcake was
served for dessert.
The old student council members
are Thelma Manning, president;
Erlene Jordan, secretary-treasur-
er; Jenny Tyson, senior represen
tative; and Mary Ruth Edwards,
junior representative. Other
guests present were Miss Averitte,
Mr. Hobgood, Miss Stipe, Dr.
Blumenfeld, Mr. and Mrs. Moom,
Dr. and Mrs. Amick, Rev. and Mrs.
Bowers, Mr. Griffin, Miss Hill,
Mr. Holton, Miss Quinton Holton,
Miss Charlye Arnette, Miss Foster,
Mrs. Tarpey, Mrs. Perry and Mr.
and Mrs. Boyd.
L. C. Finally to Have Gym
(This is a statement publicly issued by President Holton May
23, 1949.)
At a meeting of the Executive Committee and the Buildings and
Grounds Committee of the Board of Trustees of Louisburg Col
lege, held this morning in Raleigh, I was authorized to announce
that the contract for building the gymnasium has been approved
by there committees, and it is planned to sign the contract next
y afternoon. May 30, 1949. SAMUEL M. HOLTON, Pres.
Annual Alpha Pi
Epsilon Banquet Held
Tlie tenth annua, home-coming
banquet of Alpha Pi Epsilon was
held at six p. m. on May 7 in the
dining hall. A color scheme of crim
son and silver, the club colors, were
used throughout the dining hall.
There were forty members and
guests present. The program in
cluded vocal selections by Bill San
ders and John Oldham,and an ad
dress by Rev. Dan Bowers, experi
ences of off-campus members, and
excerpts from letters received from
old members not present. Musical
accompaniment was furnished by
Miss Sarah Foster. At the close,
Mrs. Perry , club sponsor, present
ed Mr. Holton with $75 to be
added to the club’s endowment
fund.
Alpha Pi Epsilon is the campus
coeducational commercial fraterni
ty. To gain membership in the
fraternity one must be enrolled in
the commercial class and have an
average of “B” or better.
This past Tuesday night was an
important night for Miss Merritt
and nearly all of the English Lite
rature students. At 6 o’clock Tues
day evening the Louisburg College
bus, known as the “Blue Goose,”
was loaded and ready for a
“speedy” trip to Duke University,
where Shakespeare’s famous
“Hamlet” was being shown. It was
quite a trip over to Duke. Anyone
viho has ever ridden on the “Blue
Goose” knows exactly what is
meant by the preceding statement.
Strange as it may seem, the old
“Goose” made it to the University
without mishap. The students eag
erly limped out of the bus and
while a few lay collapsed on the
ground just outside the bus door,
the others gazed at the beautiul
buildings on the campus. Most of
the students had recuperated from
the bus ride by the time they got
their student tickets. Anticipating
two hours and a half of relaxation
a
and enjoyment, the group rushed
to the Quadrangle Theatre where
they hoped to get soft comfortable
seats on which to rest their bat
tered bones. A kind usher started
the search for the student's seats.
Like little lost lambs they followed
the usher up a few flights of
stairs. With ears popping and
some of the students gasping for
air, they struggled up the stairs
to the third balcony. Third, that is!
The seats were not exactly what
one would call comfortable. They
were hard-bottomed and the rows
of seats were so close together that
some of the unfortunate long leg
ged students had bo pull th,eir
knees up into their chests. It was
quite difficult to hear and under
stand all of what was said, in
spite of this everyone seemed to
enjoy the movie more than had
been expected. The movie lasted
about two and a half hours, and
after it ended it took the students
From left to right are Velma Hall, president of Women’s Student
Council; Robert Gayman, president. Men’s Student Council; Mary
Ruth Edwards, president, YWCA. Thomas Patterson, President
YMCA is not pictured.
Students Choose ’49-’50 Leaders
Velma Hall, Robert Gayman,
Mary Ruth Edwards, and Thomas
Patterson were elected by the stu
dents of Louisburg College for the
office of presidents of Women’s
Student Government, Men’s Stu
dent Government, Y. W. C. A., and
Y. M. C. A. respectively. Other of
ficers are Katherine Long, Secre-
^ry; an.’ Jimmy Sugg, Treasurer.
Formerly, the “Y’s” had planned
to merge into one organization and
elect officers correspondingly.
Later, however, the cabinets receiv
ed information from national head
quarters that if they were to
change their organization, they
would also have to change their
name. The “Y’s” changed their
plans in order not to sever rela
tionships with national headquar
ters and decided that there would
have to be two presidents. The
cabinet decided to put the vice-
president, Thomas Patterson in as
president of the Y. M. C. A., and
leave the office vice-president in
both the Y .M. C. A. and Y. W. C.
A. open for next year’s incoming
Freshmen.
The “Y” presidents were install
ed Thursday night, May 19, in a
candlelight ceremony down by the
old wishing well. Mr. Bowers, “Y”
advisor, gave a short talk on the
opportunities of the young people
of today after which the old pres
idents, Martha Shearon and Elmer
Best, took off their academic
gowns and placed them on the new
officers, Mary Ruth Edwards and
Thomas Patterson.
The Women’s Student Coun
cil representatives will be as fol
lows: Velma Hall, President;
Daisy Byrd, Vice-President; Elea
nor Best; Secretary; and Rachel
Modlin, Treasurer. The Men’s Stu
dent Council representatives will
be as follows: Robert Gayman,
President; B. T. Harris, Vice-Pres
ident; and Ernest Gaster, Secre-
tary-Treasurer.
The responsibility of their offic
ers was placed on the new execu
tives Friday, May 13, at the chapel
hour. The retiring president, Dick
Cannady, read the scripture and
made a short speech concerning
his accomplishments and failures
of the past year. He said that he
hoped the new council would ac-
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Students Take Outing
Approximately 45 students of
Louisburg College went on a com
bination weiner roast-hamburger-
fry at Lake Mirl Saturday after
noon and night, May 21. The ma
jority of the students went in con
nection with Delta Psl Omega and
the Dramatics Club and a smaller
group went in a private party. The
Delta Psi-Dramatics group were
chaperoned by Mrs. Betty Tarpey
and the smaller group by Mr. and
Mrs. Dan Bowers. The purpose of
the occasion was to have a last
get-together before the close of
school.
The gi-oup left the campus at ap
proximately two p. m. in the col
lege bus and private cars. After
arrival at the lake, the groups
combined for several hours of
swimming, playing horseshots,
and softball.
The groups again combined at
“chow-time” and ate hamburgers
and hot dogs and drank cokes.
The known record for eating that
day was nine hot dogs, two ham
burgers, one pint of milk, two
cokes and an endless number of
ice-cream cones. The “chow” hour
lasted until about seven p. m. at
which time everyone seemed to
be full of hamburgers and that
all-American delicacy, the hot
dog.
In spite of the danger of stom
ach cramps, a small portion of the
students again went swimming in
the lake. When darkness came the
students retired to the beach house
for a few hours of dancing. An
old-fashioned square dance was
started; and almost every student
participated in what seemed to be
a fun-filled, most enjoyable dance.
In between square dances other
numbers were played on the juke
box and couples danced and “jit-
terbugged.”
The students left the lake in
time to return to the campus at
10:30 p. m.
only about fifteen minutes of mas
saging to get the circulation back
into their cramped legs. They got
on the bus and started back for
dear old Louisburg. The old
“Goose” was making a brave effort
but about six miles from Louis
burg she sputtered to a stop. Af
ter close inspection of the gas tank
with matches and cigarette light
ers, it was found to be empty. Af
ter several unsuccessful efforts to
stop passing vehicles, the cheerful
little group was not quite so cheer
ful. But, as luck would have it,
a student pulled up to a screeching
halt with his car and came to the
rescue of the stranded group. A
short while later the “Goose” was
off again for home. She rolled in
at the college at about one-thirty
Wednesday morning. In spite of
the adversities, everyone enjoyed
the trip and affirmed that they
would not have missed it for any
thing.
The Oak Presented
And Dedicated
The OAK was presented in
chapel, Friday, May 6, by Editor
Wilbur Jones and the rest of THE
OAK staff. The 1949 edition of
THE OAK was presented as a sur
prise to the student body. No one,
save the staff, knew that it had
returned from the printer.
THE OAK of this year was ded
icated to Dr. E. E. Randolph, pro
fessor of chemistry and physics at
Louisburg College. After the pre
sentation, Anne_ Jones, associate
editor of THE C)AK, escorted Dr.
Randolph to the stage, where the
dedication was made and an annual
presented to Dr. Randolph. In a
short speech of gratitude, Dr. Ran
dolph included these words, “I
treasure this token very grate
fully,” he said, “and shall keep it
carefully.”