Tonight We Launch ARCHIVES THE CECIL W. ROBBINS LIBR''' LOUISBURG COLLEGE Where Shall We Anchor? 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, (Continued on page 3) 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- (Continued on page 4) 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.”

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