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THE SKIRL
TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1956
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Be the Best of Whatever You Are
We all dream of great deeds and high positions, away from
the pettiness and humdrum of ordinary life. Yet success is not
occupying a lofty place or doing conspicuous work; it is being
the best that is in you. Rattling around in too big a job is worse
than filling a small one to overflowing. Dream, aspire by all
means; but do not ruin the life you must lead by dreaming pipe
dreams of the one you would like to lead. Make the most of
what you have and are. Perhaps your trivial, immediate task is
your one sure way of proving your mettle. Do the thing near
at hand, and great things will come to your hand to be done.
from Best Loved Poems of the American People
If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill.
Be a scrub in the valley—but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.
If you can’t be a bush be at bit of grass,
And some highway happier make;
If you can’t be a muskie then just be a bass—
But the liveliest bass in the lake!
We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be crew.
There’s something for all of us here.
There’s big work to do, and there’s lesser to do.
And the task you must do is the near.
If you can’t be a highway, then just be a trail,
If you can’t be the sun be a star;
It isn’t by size that you win or fail—
Be the best of whatever you are!
Douglas Malloch
Calendar Stars Events For Next Weeks
March 13 — Election of vice
president of the CA.
March 14 — Election of sec
retary of the SA.
March 15 — Election of sec
retary of the CA.
“The Madwoman of Chaillot”
—8 o’clock.
March 16 — Election of
treasurers of CA, SA.
March 17 Junior-Senior
dance.
March 19 — Election of
class presidents. Red Springs
Religious Emphasis Week be
gins.
March 20 — Election of so
ciety presidents.
March 21 — Election of
Skirl editor and Day Student
president. Red Springs Religi
ous Emphasis Week ends.
March 24 — Chorus home
I concert, Music Federation.
Personality Profile
ersonality Likes
Recreation, Scouts
by Sarah Jordon
Our personality this month is
an only child. She doesn’t live
too far from here, either. Rock-
fish, her home, is only a few
miles from Red Springs, and in
the second semester of her
freshman year she was a day
student. She is very interested
in science, and even considered
teaching it, but now she is a
Bible and Christian Education
major.
She is quite good at sports,
especially volleyball and bas
ketball, which she enjoys play
ing. Another favorite ipastime
of hers is reading. Among the
top ones on her “reading for
enjoyment” list are movie mag
azines and Mad Comi'c books.
She is also fond of sleeping
and studying.
Good at Sports
She has worked on the Pine
and Thistle staff, and was Girl
Scout leader on the Westminis
ter Fellowship council.
She is very conscientious
about her work, and, as all
B-ble and Christian Education
majors, she spends hours in the
library. It is a gooid thing she
likes to study. Perhaps she will
leave some of this valuabi
trait behind for some of us
when she graduates tliis year.
Works in Camps
She has spent very interest
ing summer vacations woirking
ftu camips. Doesn’t this sound
like fun? She thoroughly en-
icys this part of the year I am
told.
Her favorite foods are hom-
'ny. coffee, and Mars bars. (Not
at the same time, though.)
Charleton Heston is her fa
vorite movie star and Duke is
the School she pulls for. Her
ni'Cther, another favorite, is
frequent visitor here.
Plans DCE Work
She plans to v/ork as a Di
rector of Christian Education
"'e'+ year, and with her ex
perience working in camps, she
v/ill be a good leader.
This vivacious and versitile
‘gal’ who was a class officer
in her junior year is none other
than Pat Ritter.
From The Circle
Oiitping Counci! Looks Over Past Year
wards have been many. It has
been a great privilege to serve
by Betty Joe Hatcher
Elections are well under way
now and the old council looks
over the past year with mixed
emotions. We have had a great
year but we wonder if we have
done our best.
To the new council we say
good luck and we hope you have
a good year. Thanks to the ad
ministration for their work with
us. Thanks to the students, they
have really made this year a
great one for us. To sum our
work this year the main projects
have been the establishment of
the student store and the pur
chase of the filing cabinet and
secretary’s file.
I think I speak for the coun
cil when I say thanks to every
one for making our year on the
council a great one. It has been
a year filled with joys, sorrows,
and disappointments. It has
meant long hours in the Spanish
classroom. These were things
we knew would come when we
accepted the job a year ago.
Our joys have outweighed our
disappointments and our re-
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you.
Members of the out-going
council make their observations;
“The year was one of hard
ships and triumphs, discourage
ment and encouragement, sad
ness and happiness—all blended
to make it a wonderful year. I’ll
always remember,” Hazel Mc
Lean, treasurer of the student
body.
“Fun and fellowship together
with long hours and hard deci
sions—all these have made the
council much to me,” Jean
Flournoy, president of the fresh
men class.
“The council is an experience
that I’ve been thankful for and
I express to the student body
many thanks for the support
given by them!” Jane Wood,
president of Zetesian Society.
“It’s been interesting working
with the council and all F.M.C.
students—quite an experience,”
Barbara Arington, president of
Epsilon Chi.
Traditions
Odd Incidents Make Scliolarshlps Fun
by Betsy Fleshman
There are many different
kinds of scholarships at F.M.C.
Theiy can be interesing and lots
of fun at times. Some may say
that work in the dining hall is
not very interesting. It is always
iun when a boy comes to eat
with us or comes to the door
of the dining hall and asks for
iiis date. Last week a snake
pins, pencils, paper clips and
anything else that helps t-3
make a big noise? Once in a
while a library girls finds to
her horroT that she has locked
someone in. And there are al
ways “strange” noises from up
stairs to keeip things lively.
Working in Mrs. McCain’s of
fice is plenty exciting says
Hatcher. There was the time
she spilled a bottle of ink on
was found there and caused a new desk blotter with about
little excitement. Howe>ver, our
dining room hostess says that
the most exciting thing she can
think of hapipening is for ev
eryone to come to breakfast on
M o n d a :y morning. The table
girls always enjoy talking with
the cooks. One of them has
nicknames for many of the
girls.
Library work is not all check
ing out books and dusting
shelves. Can you imagine how
twenty-five cut slips on it.
Then the time she put the week
end cards in alphabetical order
and drojpped them over the ro
tunda also when she jerked
open the door of the big file
and' had to rafile everything.
Working at the phone desk can
be interesting, such as the times
when boiys come in and ask for
some girls who want dates to
please come down. These are
only a few of the interesting
much fun it would be to drop- incidnts in the lives of some
a desk drawer, with money, of the “scholarship” girls.
Hig^hland Hearings
Humorous Happenings Fil! Column
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ruth Evelyn Topping
BUSINESS MANAGER Elise Williams
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Dotti Morris
ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER Shirley Evans
CIRCULATION MANAGER Evelyn Taylor
SPORTS EDITOR Sandra Sweet
ART EDITOR Mary Ruth Matze
CONSERVATORY EDITOR Pattereon Yeargin
BUSINESS STAFF Lib Guinn,
Shirley Guyer, Betsy Brewer, Carolyn Austin, Jean Stuart
West, Barbara Wingate. Pearl Powell, Marie Potter,
Becky Taylor, Dii»a Brown. Betty Joe Hatcher, Pat
REPORTERS Betsy Fleshman, Becky
Williams, Mary Ruth McLean, Sue Blakely, Joyce Owens,
Betty Bridges, Jean McRae, Dot Hall. Jeanne Flournoy.
• Gay Mothershed, Frances Sbaw, Della Evans, Betty
- Barnes, Frances Morton, Becky Browning, Juanita
• r Nurttberger, Peggy Perry, Dee Jordan Betty Joe
i I Hatcher. i
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Personality Pat Ritter loung
es in the tea bole.
by Gay Mothershed
In the last issue of the Skirt,
I told you a few of the jokes
which have appeared in the vari
ous exchange papers which we
receive. From here at FMC
comes the following from Helen
Carapatian. Incidentally, Helen
knows quite a few of these stor
ies and enjoys collecting them.
Many thanks to her for her
bits of humor.
A middle aged women lost
her balance and fell out of a
window into a^ garbage can. A
Chinaman passing remarked,
“Americans velly wasteful. That
woman good for ten years yet.”
And then there was a woman
traveling by train who was talk
ing with the man in the next
seal. In describing her holiday,
she said that she had visited
San Jose.
“You prorlouce that wrong,.’
said the man. “It is San Hosay.
In California, you should pro
nounce all J’s as H’s. When were
you there?”
The woman thought a minute,
then answered, “In Hune and
Huly!”
It’s amazing what humorous
information may be found in
other collegiate papers.
From the Missippian comes
this economic discovery. “Rus
sian housing experts visiting
the United States say the walls
of American homes are far too
thin. They don’t realize there
are some advantages in having
thin walls, as, for example;, be
ing able to drive a nail into the
wall and hang two pictures on
it — one on each side of the
Wxili.”