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LOUISBURG, N.C. 27549
WELCOME
New Students
Volume XI
LOUISBURG COLLEGE, LOUISBURG, N. C., OCTOBER, 1951
Number 1
Spotlight On Home-Coming Weekend
NEW EPISCOPAL
RECTOR SPEAKS
“We must keep alive our own
personal life and religion during
the time of a crisis and so bind
ourselves to God,” stated the
Reverend William C. Latta, rector
of Saint Paul’s Episcopel Church,
at the October 9 chapel program
of Louisburg College.
Emphasizing the present temp
tations, Mr. Latta urged the stu
dents to remain steadfast in their
religion. He said, “Today as we
see so many forces in the world
trying to tempt our faith, we can
remember Polycorp and the ex
perience of Ghandi. We should
stand firm and witness today in
our lives to the power of the Holy
Spirit”.
He explained that Polycorp was
a Christian Bishop of Smyrna and
that in the Book of Revelation he
is called the angel of the Church
of Smyrna. He related also that
when Polycorp was asked, not to
worship Jesus, he refused and
was burned in 155 A. D. at the
stake at the age of 86.
“Ghandi visited Dutch Guinea
and was thrilled when he heard
the Gospel preached, but he saw
others sleeping through it and lost
his interest in the Gospel,” con
tinued Mr. Latta.
Mr. Latta emphasized the im
portance of being steadfast in our
religion.
Mr. Latta recently accepted the
rectorate of St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church in Louisburg. He came
from Erwin.
—Phyllis Bailey
Improvements In
Wright Dorm
Wright Dorm has an improve
ment this year since a small lobby
has been arranged on first floor
beside the stairs. New in-out card
holders have been placed on the
wall, giving the girls more pri
vacy.
Outstanding among thf changes
are the new curtains with a red,
green and yellow floral design. To
make the lobby more comfortable,
two chairs have been placed there
—one green and one red. A desk
and bulletin board have been add
ed also.
The girls of Wright Dorm are
proud to have a small lobby where
they may go to sign those cards
which are familiar to all the girls
JUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS
ELECTED
Lecture Series Being
Given
Talks on International events
will be given by Mr. W. Carring
ton Gretter, Jr., B. A., M. A., head
of the Social Science department
of Louisburg College. The talks
will be given as a chapel program
on the second Friday of each
month.
The first one will be held on
October 30 on the topic, “The Ne
cessity of Founding the U. N.”
The main purpose of these
talks is to show America’s rela
tionship to a changing world and
to make the students more and
more conscious of the world in
which they are living. Students
will have a chance to see them
selves as they really are.
In addition to these chapel
talks, an International Relations
Club will be organized. The club
meetings will take the form of
student debates. The meetings,
to be held in Franklin 105, will
be monthly on the second Wed
nesday at seven o’clock.
Town Churches Extend
Welcome To Students
Paul Bunn of Graham was
elected president of the junior
class at their first meeting. Other
officers elected were; Ed Darden,
vice-president, and Patricia Monk,
secretary. Mr. John York is the
junior advisor.
Representatives of the churches
and town of Louisburg welcomed
Louisburg College students at the
first regular assembly of the year
on Friday morning, September 15.
President S. M. Holton introduc
ed the speakers, W. F. Shelton
the Reverend Aubrey Tomlinson,
W. J. (Pete) Shearin, and the
Reverend Allen C. Lee.
Mayor W. F. Shelton, who is a
Louisburg College alumnus, offic
ially and cordially welcomed the
students to Louisburg.
The Reverend Aubrey Tomlin
son, pastor of the Louisburg Bap
tist Church, extended to all the
students an invitation to attend
the various organizations and ac
tivities of his church.
Representing St. Paul’s Episco
pal Church, W. J. (Pete) Shearin
bid each a hearty welcome and
expressed the desire that each
student would like the town and
would want to stay here. He an
nounced that the rector of the
Episcopal Church would be in
Louisburg soon and would be
glad to have the students call on
him.
The Rev. Allen C. Lee, pastor
of Louisburg Methodist Church,
invited the students to worship,
serve, and play in the Methodist
Church fellowship. He announced
that the church would sponsor a
square dance Friday night, Sep
tember 21.
The program opened with the
singing of a hymn and the read
ing of the scripture. Special mu
sic was rendered by I. D. Moon,
soloist, accompanied at the piano
by Miss Sara Foster.
FRANKLIN LOBBY
NEWS FOR BOYS
At 317 Main, the boys have set
up a room for cooking and iron
ing. The room is ^equipped with
hot plates, an ironing board, and
all the equipment that is needed
for cooking.
This room, the Franklin Lobby,
was set aside because of the col
lege regulation that no food may
be cooked in the rooms.
All the boys interested in donat
ing equipment for this room are
asked to see Glendel Stephenson,
who is in charge of the room.
To Mrs. S. M. Holton, the spon
sor, who assisted in setting up this
room, the boys give their heartfelt
thanks for her assistance.
All of the boys may feel free to
use the room at any time, but each
person is requested to leave it
clean.
Plans For The Oak
Now In Progress
Preliminary plans are being
drawn for The Oak, the Louis
burg College Annual, with Mar
garet Lee as the editor-in-chief
and Phil Johnson as the business
manager. Mr. C. Ray Pruette has
been chosen as the faculty ad
visor.
Although the staff has not been
completed, it will be composed of
both seniors and juniors. The as
sociate editor will be a junior.
The Oak will be published by
Roebuck and Sons, of Baltimore,
Maryland, and will be issued in
the spring.
Students Guests Of
Louisburg Theater
Louisburg College students were
guests of the manager of the Louis
burg Theatre, W. F. Shelton, at a
moving picture, “Go For Broke”,
on Thursday, September 13. This
is an annual custom inaugurated
by Mr. Shelton some years ago.
The free movie was a gesture
to aid students in becoming ac
quainted with the town of Louis
burg.
Send the Columns home regu
larly.
New Masthead
COLUMNS extends hearty
thanks to Hardy Mills who
furnished the new masthead
for Columns. Mr. Mills is a
former Louisburg College stu
dent and is now a commercial
artist in Raleigh. He designed
and donated the new masthead.
Mother Of Year
Attends Meet Here
Dr. Mary Sloop of Crossnore,
American Mother of 1951, attend
ed the Sixth Dsitrict meeting of
the North Carolina D. A. R. held
at Louisburg College on October
4. Dr. Sloop is president of Cross
nore school, a school for under
privileged mountain children.
During the meeting. Dr. Sloop
gave a review of her trip to New
York City to receive the Ameri
can Mother of 1951 Award. She
also stated that her husband sup
ported her family and that she
had never been paid for her work
at Crossnore School.
Mrs. M. W. Person, regent of
the Major Greenhill Chapter,
Louisburg, conducted the meet
ing. The invocation was given by
Dr. D. P. Smithwick, Franklin
County historian and S. A. R.
member.
Greetings from Louisburg Col
lege were given by President S.M.
Holton.
After the morning session
luncheon was served in the col
lege cafeteria. Ninety-seven repre
sentatives from seven counties.
Orange, Franklin, Vance, Warren,
Durham, Wake and Granville, at
tended the district meeting. .Mrs.
Donald Gulley of Wake Forest is
district director.
The state regent, Miss Virginia
Horne, vice-regent, and twelve
other state officers were also
present.
Commercial Department
In New Quarters
The Commercial Department has
been moved from the top floor of
the cafeteria to the basement of
Franklin, formerly the location of
the Home Economics Department.
This move is a convenient one
for the students who now do not
have to rush from the cafeteria
class rooms to the other buildings;
there is plenty of time for all stu
dents to be prompt for each class.
Another advantage is that stu
dents are away from the distract
ing noise, clatter and aromas of
the cafeteria.
Mr. W. G. Leeper is head of the
Commercial Department.
SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS
ELECTED
Billy Alford, a native of Zebu-
lon, and one of the most outstand
ing students of the college, was
elected as president of the senior
class in the first meeting of the
year. Glendel Stephenson was
elected vice-president, and June
Tew was elected secretary. Both
Glendel and June are from Erwin.
Treasurer for the coming year
will be John Robert Nelson, a na
tive of Prospect Hill, N. C. Mr.
Willard Leeper was elected sen
ior advisor.
Dinner Honors Alumni;
Crowning of Student
King-Queen at Dance
Alumni of Louisburg CoUeg*
will return to the college on tho
week-end of October 27 for the an
nual Home-Coming festivities.
Plans for the week-end include a
dinner and dance. President of the.
alumni association is Joe Newsom
of Littleton.
The festivities will get underway
on Friday, October 26, with a chap
el talk ijy Seymour Holt, class of
’49. Mr. Holt is now a student in
the School of Pharmacy at the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
The alumni dinner at six o’clock
Saturday evening will inaugurate
the week-end activities. Immed
iately after the dinner, there will
be a business meeting of the alum
ni in the auditorium.
Climaxing the alumni festirities
will be a formal dance on Satur
day evening in thhe college gym
nasium irom 9-12 midnight. Mu*-
ic for dancing wiU be provided by
Sid Davis and his orchestra. As
admission will be charged.
During the dance, the king and
queen will be crowned. These two
royal personages will be elected
by the student body.
College committee heads ai«
planning home-coming week-end.
Alumni fmm the state as well as
out of the state are expected t«
attend.
Smoke But No Fire
In Girls’ Dorm
A careless match thrown into a
filled paper basket in Wright
Dormitoij caused considerabl*
smoke and panic but very littla
damage on September 21.
The smoke was detected by one
of the girls of the second floor ot
the dormitory. A hasty check fail
ed to reveal the origin of the fire,
and an alarm was sent to the
Louisburg Fire Department. Prior
to the arrival of the firemen, boys
at the college checked the dorm
itory but they were unable to de
termine the cause of the smoke.
No material damage was caused,
but several of the girls were al
most in hysterics just shortly after
the smoke was detected.
67 NEW STUDENTS
5 SPECIAL, 111 OLD
Total registration for the 1951-
1952 Louisburg College school
year totaled 183. Of this number,
111 are new students; five ar«
special students and sixty-sevea
are upper classmen.
The registration was slightly
lower than that of last year, but it
was explained that the absence of
a large number of veterans on the
campus accounted for the lower
enrollment.