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Louisburg College, Louisburg, N. C., May 20, 1953
Number 5
MAY DAY FESTIVITIES IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Paul Childers, Jr., Lucy Burgess
Named Heads of Student Councij
Stainback-Farrow Vice-President';
Brooks Secretary-Treasurer; Harris
Secretary of Women's S.G.; Hunter New
Treasurer; Broome House President
Mrs. Gretter Announces
The Commencement
Marshals for 1953
Mrs. W. Carrington Gretter,
Registrar, announced recently the
Commencement marshals for 1953.
This is an honor for these fresh
men who have during the year
made the highest scholastic rec
ord. All the students just so hap
pened to be Liberal Arts students.
These marshals will usher and
hand out programs at the music re
cital, the Sunday service, and the
graduation program. The jnarshals
are: Average
R. A. Baxley, Jr., Chief Marshal
3.842
Alice Lea Dennis 2.609
Jacqueline Farrow 2.490
Weldon Lucas 2.361
Elizabeth Broome -- 2.336
Commencement
Speakers
President Samuel M. Holton has
announced that two members
of the Board of Turstees of Louis
burg College will be the featured
speakers at Commencement Exer
cises of Louisburg College on May
24 and 25.
On May 24, the Commencement
Sermon will be delivered by Rev.
M. W. Lawrence, pastor of Queen
Street Methodist Church, Kinston,
and on Monday morning. May 25,
the address will be given by Dr.
Herbert J. Herring, vice-president
of Duke University.
Mr. Lawrence attended Duke
Divinity School. He has served the
Methodist Conference as Director
of Young People’s Work and Dean
of the Christian Adventure Assem
bly.
Dr. Herring, vice-president of
Duke University since 1946, at
tended Trinity College and did
graduate work at Columbia Uni
versity. He received the LL. D. de
gree at Juanita College in 1948.
Dr. Herring has been active in ed
ucational work since 1922, hav
ing served as teacher of English,
teacher of speech, president of the
North Carolina Association of Col
legiate Registrars, Chairman of
Academic Deans of Southern
States, Assistant Dean at Duke, and
Dean of Men at Duke. He is a
member of several honorary fra
ternities including Phi Beta Kap
pa.
“Was your girl pleased with the
bathing suit you gave her?”
“Yeah. You should have seen
her beam when she put it on.”
The election of the new student
government body was held later
this year than last. The new
presidents of the men and wo
men’s student government took
their oaths in chapel several weeks
ago. Paul Childers, Jr., son of a
Baptist minister, is the president
of the men’s student government.
He is a conscientious young man
who believes in concentrated work
when necessary. He is a friend
of the entire student body, and
he is has a friendly attitude to
ward others. Lucy Burgess, pres
ident of women’s student govern
ment, is from Belhaven, North Car
olina. The main qualification that
she possesses is her understand
ing nature. She has a mind of her
own, and she uses it to everyone’s
advantage. Both Childers and Bur
gess are excellent students when
responsibilities are cast upon them.
Both have a self-governing spirit
as well as a group governmental
attitude.
Robert Stainback and Jackie
Farrow are two excellent people
when it comes to being at a meet
ing promptly and cooperating in
group discussion. They do not
force themselves into a situation,
but they tactfully enter into
friendly conversations.
The other officers who have been
elected to office are just as worthy
as those who have major positions.
Those who work behind the cur
tains are just as necessary as the
points of an automobile. Evelyn
Rae Harris, Mattie Hunter, and
Libby Broome have been three
willing girls to help anyone in
need. Jack Brooks is an energetic
young man who tackles a task with
zest and aspiration. He works well
with a group.
The Student Government Coun
cil has had a successful year, and
the members of the 1953-54 will
probably have a wonderful year
as well. Everyone will be waiting
to help when needed.
COLUMNS staff takes this
small space to thank all those
who have so graciously aided
in the publication of these five
issues of the paper. Also, the
staff asks the apology of
those who feel that some im
portant event has been omit
ted during the school year.
Those who work with Columns
do not claim to know all that
happens; therefore they must
have let several items of im
portance pass without notice.
Accept our thanks, however,
for the honest criticism of our
paper. When I say our paper,
I mean your paper and mine.
We only hope that the next
staff will have as understand
ing readers as this year’s staff
has had. We thank you.
I
LORINE SMITH — Queen of May
Chinese Missionaries
Visit Campus, Tell of
Communist Imprisonment
“No real practicing Christian
has ever become a communist,” de
clared one of the two interesting
persons who visited Louisburg
Campus for a short time. Misses
Janet Surdam and Luella Koether,
friends of Miss Mary E. Bethea,
were the two Methodist mission
aries who visited our campus.
Misses Surdam and Koether ser
ved as missionaries in China doing
religious education work. The work
was called a Christian education
program of activities and was con
cerned mostly with children and
youth.
During the latter part of Misses
Surdam and Koether’s stay in Chi
na, they were made prisoners by
the Communists. The prison term
lasted for 200 days; the first 13
weeks were solitary confinement—■
without paper, pencils, books, or
anything that might help time pass.
The foreword written by Miss
Koether for a collection of songs
entitled Songs in the Night por
trays in a few words her solitary
confinement:
“Solitary confinement in a Chi
nese jail seems an unlikely set
ting for the composing of music.
Not permitted to sing, or cry, or
speak, and without writing ma
terials, how can one remember a
song, even if one did succeed in
“listening in on God’s music?” Jan
et and I, Methodist missionaries,
were prisoners of the Chinese Gov
ernment for two hundred days,
separated and in solitary confine
ment for the first thirteen weeks,
with no reading matter, not even
the Bible.
Under these circumstances, Jan
et heard songs in her heart, each
song a spiritual victory over dis-
pair, loneliness, fear, and suffer
ing. She remembered these songs,
twenty in English, and more than
thirty in Chinese, by rehearsing
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Chemistry Award Winner
Presentation of the annual chem
istry award to the student of inor
ganic chemistry with the highest
average went to R. A. Baxley, Jr.
Eddie Lee Elks, last year’s award
winner of the chemistry award;
Eugene Dickerson; and Riley God-
ley also were presented awards for
their outstanding work in organic
chemistry. Also, Eugene Dickerson
and Eddie Lee Elks received phy
sics awards. Mr. C. Ray Pruette,
head of the chemistry and physics
department, made the presentation
during the chapel period on May 8.
New Faculty Member
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Louisburg is fortunate in hav
ing Mr. Allen A. Norberg as a
member of the faculty this year.
He is a professor of the business
department.
Mr. Norberg came from Rosell
Park, New Jersey (The Garden
State). For two years he worked at
a Chemical plant but decided that
he liked teaching better; so, he
went into the teaching field.
This veteran of World War II,
who graduated from Rosell Park
High School, entered Montclair
College in N. J. He completed a 4-
year course in 2 years. He also at
tended N. J. Teachers College. Up
on graduating from college, he
went to O. M. I. (Ohio Military In
stitute) where he taught book
keeping, geography, mathematics,
and several other business subjects.
When he left O. M. I., he came
to Louisburg College, his second
place of teaching. Here at Louis
burg College he has taken an active
part in all activities. He teaches
journalism, accounting, business
machines, and typing. He has been
coach of the junior varsity bask
etball team and has umpired sever
al intramural softball games.
Mr. Norberg has been very co
operative this year with the faculty
and student body, and everyone is
proud to have him as one of the
teachers here as Louisburg College.
Lorlne Smith Is Elected
Queen of May
Program Includes
May Day Pageant
and Dance
A balmy spring day broke over
the Louisburg College campus,
complete with March winds and
April showers on May 2, 1953.
Cheery greetings could be heard
ringing through the air, for many
of the alumni had returned for
May Day.
May Day exercises began at 3:30
o’clock at the Louisburg College
gymnasium. While Miss Sarah Fos
ter played appropriate music, the
May Court began the exercises as
they slowly walked from the door
to the stage. The girls of the May
Court were attired in blue evening
dresses, blue picture hats, and a
bouquet of red roses; and their es
corts wore dark pants and white
dinner jackets. The Maid of Honor
wore a yellow evening dress and
picture hat, and the May Queen
wore a white dress. The May
Court consisted of- Lorine Smith,
Queen, and Jerry Williams; Mar
tha Davis, Maid of Honor, and Ju
lian Gonzalez; Janet Bailey and
Bill Sadler; Betty Lou Brown and
Rodney Nelson; Alice Lea Den
nis and C. W. Strother; Bonnie
Green and Turk Morrisette; Rae
Harris and R. A. Baxley; Sue
Manning and Robert Stainback;
Mary Lee Mason and Hugo Hodgin;
Patricia Monk and Billy Hurley;
Fern Tharrington and Ed Driver;
Betty Twisdale and Hugh West.
The trainbearer was Claudia
Speed, and the crownbearer was
Emma Ruth Bartholomew.
After the Queen was crowned,
the theme “Happy Holiday” por
trayed eight holidays. The Fourth
of July depic’ted a “1776 spirit”
with the marching of soldiers and
the beating of drums. Participants
were: Wayland Adams, Charles
Johnson, Marvin Baugh, Braxton
Overby, Dick Kelvansky, Tommy
Shutt, and David Scott. Halloween
was represented by a dance by
three girls—Jean Fairey, Malvina
Crawford, and Mary Hassell,
dressed in black cat costumes.
Characterizing Thanksgiving was
a harvest dance. The girls were
dressed in autumn colors, and the
cast for this scene was: Kathleen
Neal, Ellen Marks, Ann Mann,
Clyde Culbreth, Ann Long, Ann
Tucker, Adele Gales, and Jackie
Farrow. Christmas pictured Santa
Claus and his reindeer, including
Rudolph. Participants were: Jean
ette Yates, Phyllis Bailey, Tillie
King, Betsy Everette, Laura Hor
ton, Rosalyn Crews, Lucy Bur
gess, Faye Dillard, Frances Nor
man and Irene Hamlet. Valentine
dance was by Jean Fairey, Malvi
na Crawford, and Mary Hassell,
dressed in white evening dresses,
with red hearts and red parasols.
A dance by Dorothy Hood, Marie
Gupton, Dor(^thea Draughon,
Frances Hales, Idalyne Batchelor,
Irene Herring, Frances Baker, and
Jean Wrenn, flashed the color of
green to represent Saint Patrick’s
Day. Easter bunnies hopping gaily
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