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A STUDENT PUBLICATION OF FLORA MACDONALD COLLEGE
Volume No. 7
Flora Macdonald College, March, 1959
Number 7
New Council Members
Voice Duty Acceptances
In this issue of the Skirl, we
are concerned mainly with pre
senting to you the new campus
leaders — their ideas and opin
ions on different matters, their
acceptance of the new jobs,
duties, and responsibilities, and
some of the things they plan
to do for you. This is news and
yet it cannot be written up in
true front-page n e w s p a per
style, so we hope you will ex
cuse us for this and wiil be in-
jterested in finding out what
your student leaders actually
3tand for. Please keep in mindl
that these things are all sin
cerely said.
Round, and round sihe goes,
and when she stops, nobody
knows. This nursery-rhyme de
scription aptly fits a job that is
definitely not child’s play —
that of being President of the
Student Association of F.M.C.,
The direction of this organiza
tion that encompasses every as
pect of student life on our cam
pus rests securely in the hands
iof the president,' and is hers
ito hold with honor, dignity, and
with a feeling of responsibility.
This sense of responsibility,
keeps her on the go almost
twenty-four hours a day, but in
constant contact with a fabulousi
group of people — the students,
faculty, and administration of
our school
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New Publications’ Editors
“Glued-ln" By Predecessors
Martha, as you now under
take the position of Editor-in-
chief of the 1960 White Heather,
I send you my heartiest con
gratulations and my very best
wishes.I charge you to be faith
ful to your job, though other
activities may tempt you. I
charge you to be enthusiastic
and to fight discouragement
when times seem darkest. I dare
you to hold tight to your ideals
and ideas and to face your prob
lems with a clear mind and a con
quering attitude. My last charge
to you is to give of your very
best to each phase of the annual.
Remember, you hold in your
hands a link of the chain which
will bind together the hearts of
Flora Macdonald students in the
years to come.
Sincerely,
Adeline Brady
So in your hands, Sally Day,
jthis responsibility is placed.
Hold it with love and honor,
handle it with care, and advance
with the sureness of our con
fidence in you.
Jeanne Flournoy
tion, “Now wlhat do you want to | sign-out card until the last day
see accomplislied?” a girl is on campus, memograph-
More than anything else, I
would like to see the anti-intel
lectual attitude of oxir college
life replaced by an attitude of
respect for the scholar and a
real desire on the i>art of the
student body to take advantage
of our educational facilities. Of
this will !have to be a
When' I was a tiny girl, one
of my favorite past-times was
to sit cross-legged in front of the
bookcase at Grandmother’s ex
amining and reexamining the
shelf of annuals that belonged
to mother’s brothers and sisters.
Recently I have learned to re
gard an annual in quite a dif
ferent light ,realizing the per-
serverance, originality, imagine
ation, the careful attention and
planning that goes into every de
tail, and the hours of hard work
that underlie less noticeable
features.
I pledge my best to the 1960
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The honor of being your pres
ident is challenging but may I
assure you that although the! course.
task ahead is fUled with, ^espon^l gradual process and there is no
j Bitnlities, I accept them aU. withjsingile answer. But I feel that
a willingness to do that which I *** Council wiil play a major
will benefit aM concerned. There roJe — in as much as they en-
will be times when disagree- force the study hour rules re-1 Gwen Hawley, to do the ab^ve
ing the “Election System” and
run out of paper about 10:45 at
night and having to beg, borrow,
and steal another 200 sheets of
paper — oh, there are numerous
other things that make the life
of the secretary unique (?) and
different from all the others.
1 have treated the duties oi
the secretary li^tly but the sec
retary should be tactful, depend-
able, prompt, and considerate of
others. Therefore, I charge you.
ment will enter into our rela-
tionsihip, but it is my hope that
I shall be able to lead you in
;as satisfying a manner as your
ipast presidents have.
After I had accepted the re
sponsibilities, I began to look
abead and I wondered just what
our Council would contribute to
our college life. There, of
course, would be the revision of
the handbook and all the other
jobs that come under the direc
tion of the Council. But I then
turned my thoughts to the ques-
garding freshmen and upper I mentioned duties with a willing
classmen and as they try to em-' spirit and above all - give of your
phasize the academic side of
college activities.
The idea of an all freshman
hall seems to be one answer
that might help in finding a so
lution to this attitude. If study
habits and rules can become an
integral part of the freshman
class and if they are made to
observe study hour, then it
would be my guess that this
feeling would also be fet by the
other students and study hour
would play a much more import
ant role in our college day. Al
so, in the orientation program I
hope that we can stress to the
freshmen and transfers not only
the social life of our campus but
also the academic requirements
that they must meet and em
phasize the high academic stan
dards of our college.
This is just one thought along
the line of what I hope to do
in the year when I will serve
as your Student Body presildent.
But nothing can be accomplish
ed without YOU — the students
— and without your encourage
ment, cooperation and participa
tion.
Sally Day
“WhUe visions of call downs
danced in her head.” This could
well begin the list of duties of
the secretary of the SA. But, of
course, she has other minor wor
ries such as trying desperately to
keep up with a fast-talking presi
dent, attempting to explain to a
4th call-down girl why she got
that 4th one (which of course
wasn’t her fault), forgetting to
put the little yellow tag on the
time and energy
job requires it.
whenever the
—Sally Day
“Tis the night after Council
meeting and all through the room,
left-handed scratches resound from
a plume.” With calloused fingers
and inked hands, I shall endeavor
to “do my duties with a willing
spirit and to give of my 'time and
energy whenever the job requires
it’ — and when it doesn’t. I prom
ise to write fast — if you will
talk slowly: to use a limited num
ber of yellow tags: and beg, bor
row, and steal 200 sheets of paper
anytime the students will bene
fit from my misdemeanors.
I accept your charge, Sally Day,
with humility, anticipation, and
a willingness to be "tactful, de
pendable, prompt, considerate of
others,” and to give of my best
as you have given of your best.
Gwen Hawley
Realizing that our strength and
guidance comes from God, Fran
ces, do you and the cabinet prom
ise to "unite all effort” to ful
fill the purpose and goal of the
Christian Association and carry
out to the best of your ability the
duties which have been assigned
to you? Also in fulfilling your du
ties, will you try at all times and
in every possible way to make
Christ a vivid and appealing char
acter on our campus?
Jean McRae
On behalf of the new cabinet
I accept this challenge. We rea-
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