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f. WELCOME FRESHMEN VOLUME XVII COLLEGE BEGINS WITH NOTED IMPROVEMENTS IN SEVERAL FIELDS Freshmen Enrollment Numbers 105—Several States Are Represented CLASS ROOMS PAINTED The total enrollment of the Fresh man class this fall is approximately 105. The total number of old students is 285. Many of the new students are from out-of-state and we are glad to see that Guilford is being recognized in more distant sections each year. The ratio of boys and girls is about equal again this year, the Freshman class being made up of 54 boys and 51 girls. To the returning students and to those here for the first time the cam pus in front of the Library and King Hall is a scene of disorder. A deep ditch has been dug across the campus and a new heating line is being in stalled to connect Mem. Hall, the Li brary, and King Hall to the central heating plant and thus assure comfort this year. The class rooms in King Hall have been renovated and have a decidedly more pleasing appearance with their newly painted walls and refinished woodwork. The heavy ivy grown walls of the campus buildings have been freed from their thick green covering and the shrubbery around the Library, King, and Mem. Halls have been thin ned and trimmed, adding neatness to its appearance. Several changes have been made in the dormitories. New Garden has been redecorated, and some new furnish ings added —as has Founders. The boys' dormitories also have under gone some change. Archdale and Cox Halls have been cleaned and their fl ?>rs refinished. The roofs of the buildings have been painted during the summer. The tennis courts at the rear of Cox Hall are now looking better as they are being cleaned off. The girls' courts too will soon be conditioned for play in the fall season. House Party Held At Perisho Cottage Y. W. C. A. Has Eventful Party For Twenty Four Hours— "Ghosts" Appeal- Beginning Saturday, September 6, at 5:00 p. m. the Guilford College Y. W. C. A. held a most enjoyable houseparty of twenty-four, or more, hours duration. The scene was laid in Perisho's Cottage, and the table in the dining room there. After a hearty dinner of their own making, the Y. W's. at a somewhat later hour, gath ered in the parlor of the cottage for a cabinet meeting. The meeting prov ed to be not only interesting but help ful and instructive and the animated discussions highly constructive where they concerned Y. W. C. A. plans for the coming year. Following the meeting all the "Y's ' went to bed —davenports, floors, beside the dining room table —anywhere that an expansive and comparatively smooth surface was available. Every where one looked, a "Y" lay sleeping or trying to. Some few of them, next morning, vowed that they had been visited by ghosts and goblins "in the dark vast and middle of the night." Breakfast, delicious, abundant and satisfying, was served, and then the Y. W. and Y. M. assembled for a joint meeting in the cottage. Many mutual problems were discussed and many decided upon. Again in the evening, after a delightful and informal sup per, a second joint meeting of the as sociations was held at Perisho's Cot tage, and so ended the Y house party. Y. W. C. A. IN FIRST MEET The first meeting of the Y. W. C'. A. was held on the campus hillside be tween King and Founders walk on Thusrday evening. The cabinet mem bers were introduced and each told briefly the dues of her committee. Evening quiet was just falling ov er the spot as Louise Melville, pres ident opened the meeting with a pas sage from the Bible. Silent moments of meditation left the group in a receptive mood for the talks given by the cabinet members. GUILFORDIAN MISS WILBUR HEADS PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC Miss Gail Wilbur, head of the Public School Mu?ic Department, is making great plans for hL'r work this year. Miss Wilbur comes from Waterloo, lowa, and has had four teen years experience in her field of wcrk, having taught in eight of the United States. The majors in this type of work have already tripled since the addition of this department. Miss Wilbur will take charge of all piano work and will also teach music methods, history of music, sight singing, and ear training. The two latter courses are required of those taking choir. This is the first time a major in Public School Music has been offered here. BIG FRESHMANCLASS WELCOMED BY GALA WEEK £ ACTIVITIES Examinations, Stunt Social, Receptions, and Hikes Greet Youngsters ACTIVITIES PRESENTED Out-of-State Group Displays "Gastric Juice" and Wins First In Stunting Freshman week at Guilford College began Friday morning, September 5, with the registration of new students. In the afternoon the comprehensive exams were started amidst many sighs of ignorance. When the exhaust ed Freshmen came from the auditor ium, they shouted for joy as they were refreshed by numberous cups of lem onade. Mr. Noah took charge of a sitifr which was held in front of Founders after dinner. The old favorites had their turn and the Alma Mater was sung several times with ever increas ing fervor. All of the students were divided into county groups in prepar ation for stunt night. Each group, un der the direction of an upper class man, started work on a prize-winning stunt and song. Saturday morning, at the close of the first exam, games were played on the campus and the Freshmen had a chance to show their agility at being dogs and squirrels, or their enduring strength at being a tree. During ev ery spare moment capacity groups played croquet. In the evening everyone gathered again at Founders for a gala affair. Representatives from the various stu dent organizations spoke briefly of their purposes and aims, each one of fering a cordial invitation to the Freshmen to enter freely into the ac tivities. Six stunts were then presented. "Gastric Juice," performed by the out-of-state group, won first prize. The theme of this tragedy hinted strongly of the inappropriateness of the lemonade served the afternoon be fore. Following close in popularity and receiving honorable mention was "The Guilford Bus" put on by Surry coun ty. This sketch showed the dramatic appeal of a Freshman's ride to col lege with the inevitable tire trouble and anxiety suffered by newcomers. Guilford County took first place in the song contest with a parody on "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" to the ef fect that "Lizzie" is the best little car on earth if Henry Ford did make her. Once more the Carolina moon offer ed inspiration while the songsters plaintively expounded her beauty. Af ter a get-acquainted game, a few fa miliar tunes, and the Alma Mater, the tired and happy Freshmen trouped to the dormitories, r-eady for another fracas. The Sunday afternoon hike and talk by Tom Sykes brought to a climax the main events of the week. On Monday morning the exams were continued. Monday evening Rev erend and Mrs. Peele held a reception for the new faculty members and stu dents, giving the college folk a chance to meet members of the community. That affair was the final entertain ment and left the Freshmen full of zeal for a fine year. Dr. Craven, of the University of Chicago History Department, paid a recent visit to the library and vault. # THE # GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., SEPTEMBER 13, 1930 SUPERVISE NEW FIELD OF WORK Mr. and Mrs. Milner, who are tak college, and head of the Vocational G Additional Shelves Now Being Placed In College Library Miss Ricks Busy Making Other Improvements—New Books To Be Added Soon HEATING PLAN CHANGED For the past month Miss Ricks has been busy making several improve ments in the appearance and usabil ity of the library. During this time she has been checking a "List of Books for the College Library" com piled by Charles B. Shaw. The com parison of this list with books already catalogued in the library proved very interesting and will be helpful in sug gesting books to be used in the vari ous departments. An order was given recently for a second tier of steel shelves to be placed in the stack room. When these arrive a floor and stairway will be erected and many of the books will be moved to the newly constructed second floor and will fill the new shelves which are to be placed there. This change is being made possible by the Advisory Committee and the Guilford College Club. This club has an active campaign on at present for $2.00 memberships to help in this pur pose. During the Yearly Meeting held here this summer several new mem bers were gained by the club due to the interest in the new project which the organization is undertaking. Those of us who can remember the icy days in the library last winter will be glad to know that soon a new heat ing line will be completed which is to connect the library system with the central heating plant and thus assure us a warm place in which to work when the cold days come this year. Miss Ricks is now preparing a list of new books for a fall order to be given some time in November. She will welcome suggestions from faculty or students as to the new books they would like to have in the library. Opening Reception Promises To Be Outstanding Social Interesting Plans Are Being Formu ulated to Welcome Freshman Plans are being made for the open ing formal reception to be given at the library Saturday evening, Septem ber 13, from 8 to 10 o'clock. This event is sponsored by the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. is given in hon or of the new students and new mem bers of the faculty. Under the direc tion of the Social Committee a very entertaining program is being arrang ed. Announcement of this affair may cause various sensations. For the up per classmen, however, such an nouncement will bring back fond memories and quicken fonder expec tations. Too much must not be said about the affair before it happens but it will probably be the talk of the cam pus for weeks afterwards.. There was once a rule at Guilford that only the Juniors and Seniors could sit in the middle pews at church on Sunday morning.. The lower class men were supposed to sit across the aisles in the side pews. *v *S i \ ing over the positions of dean of the uidance Department, respectively. ' Annual Class Hike Proves Inspiration To New Students Social Committee Provides "Neccessary Accessory" For Beginners 1 REVEREND SYKES TALKS i I Last Sunday afternoon the Fresh- r men were introduced to the hiking j tradition of Guilford and our "neces- s sary accessory," Tom Sykes. Profes- ] sor Purdom and the elated group ex- , plored the college pasture, and sue- ' cessfully navigated the brooks and | barbed wire fences. Just as some of ] the chubby ones began to puff, un ashamed, an observing youngster spied people on a neighboring hillock, for the Freshmen decried their green ness and had heard rumors concern ing punch. The discovery spurred lag ging steps and soon everybody was settled in the shade of some old beech trees, happily cooling off by the aid of a refreshing drink. Dr. Binford then presented Tom Sykes. Mr. Sykes declared that this year's (Continued on Page 4) Recent Additions to; Guilford Faculty Fraulien Huth, Mrs. Meining 1 and Mr. Fleming Here— 1 Well Recommended i Among the new Guilford College faculty are Fraulien Mary Louise 1 Huth who is a former teacher here, 1 Mr. James Fleming, head of the t French department, and Mrs. Eliza- i beth O. Meinung, assistant in Home f Economics. ( Fraulien Huth was a member of 1 the music department in 1925-26. She is a graduate of Liepzic and has 1 studied at Munich, Berlin and Ham- ' burg, which is her home. She is not 4 only a German professor but is ex cellent in organ and piano music. • f Mr. Fleming is a graduate of Wake ( Forest College and has studied at the c Alliance Francaise, the Institute i Phonetics in Paris and at the Uni- i versity of Paris for two years. He i has just returned from France to take t charge of the Guilford College French i department. > Mrs. Meinung, of Salem College, will assist Miss Bruce in the home economics work. She comes well f recommended. s GUILFORD'S TWO PEACE VAGABONDS PROVE TO BE STRONG ADVOCATES OF THE QUAKER IDEALS Hearing lectures on and meeting young men who were inter ested in that subject was quite a change for me from my ordinary habit of rushing down the street to greet and interview men and women 1 who have swam around Manhattan Is land or some individual who was an advocate and leader by the tree-sit ting contest. The boys whom they interviewed were Edward Blair of Greensboro and Allen White of Belvidere, N. C. Both are students at Guilford College and were sent out to discuss war and to spread the Quaker's idea of peace. The American Friends Service Committee sends out boys and girls each summer as member's of the Peace Caravans. They go in teams of two Mr. and Mrs. Milner Are V alued Additions toFaculty MABEL INGOLD MADE ENVIABLE RECORD Mabel Infold, one of the mem bers of the graduating class in summer school was perhaps one of the most outstanding young wo men to finish here recently. While in school Miss Ingold did a great deal of work to defray expenses nnd at the same time, kept up her high scholastic record for which she is noted. CENTENNIAL PROGRAM STILL MOVING FORWARD The Guilford of 1937 Will Be Better In Many Fields of Equipment ALUMNI PROVING LOYAL In 1937, Guilford will be a very dif ferent place. The Guilford College Centennial Club, which is fast grow ing, is the kind god-father who will bring about the very desirable change. This club will make possible new and improved class rooms, laboratory, mu seum, new equipment of various kinds, and numerous other improve ments for the convenience of students. The beginning of the renovation can be seen in the form of a new pipe line for heat from the central heat ing plant to Memorial Hall. In addi tion to these things, there will be an endowment of $1,300,000.00. To use the more brief working of Mr. Hole, financial secretary of the college, the Centennial Club will, by 1937, have "put the college not only on a better financial footing, with an adequate en dowment, but with a better equipment as to buildings and otherwise." A number of contributors to the centennial fund are people of New York. The committee in charge there has said that these club members will be able to give one-half of the amount needed yearly until the one hundredth anniversary of the college to make the total for endowment, buildings, equipment, and improvements, sl,- 250,000.00. They have already raised around $6,000.00 for the current year —that is, one half the required an nual amount for their group. Alumni and old students of the col lege are proving loyal supporters. Very soon they, with other friends of the college, will hav eequalled, and perhaps surpassed the contributions of Guilford's friends of the North. College students figure in the cam paign to a surprisingly large degree. Their pledges for the year amount to approximately $1,000.00, which is practically the same figure as the to tal contributions of faculty members. $25,000.00 a year will reach the goal of $1,250,000.00 in 1937, when Guilford College is a hundred years old. Under the leadership of the Pres ident of the College, the financial sec retary, and Mr. Edwin W. Vose, who is heading the campaign in New York, the Guilford College Centennial Club is steadily growing, until seven years will find the work completed. Dr. Binford spoke briefly in the first chapel of the year using as his subject the "Friendly Road" we live on. ana are assigned to two states. Blair and White were sent to Kan sas and Arkansas. Their headquarters were Wichita and from there they traveled to all towns and gave ad dresses to church congregations, civic clubs, Chambers of Commerce, and young peoples organizations. They were equipped with an old Ford which served as a means of transportation. These boys can discuss such books as Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "The Case of Sergeant Grieska." While in Phila delphia they visited with Remarque. From this chat they saw war and peace from a different angle and hence were able to see other people's viewpoint more clearly when discus sions took place. WELCOME FRESHMEN NUMBER 1 Come Here From Earl ham With Splendid Record HEAD NEW TYPE OF WORK Dean Milner Received His M.A. From Haverford— Studied Abroad at Marburg NOTED PUBLIC LECTURER Allow us the honor of presenting the new Dean of the College, and the Dean's charming wife! Mr. and Mrs. Clyde A. Milner come to us with de grees from more than one part of the globe. To begin with, Mrs. Milner was graduated from Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, where she took both her A. B. and B. S. degrees. Following this she served as Y. W. C. A. secre tary there, and also at Ohio State University for four years. During one summer she acted as Dean of Wo men at the latter institution. Her Master's degree she received from Wellesly in Massachusetts. At Par son's College, Fairfield, lowa, and also at Earlham, Mrs. Milner has served as Dean of Women and assist ant professor of Psychology. For a time she studied at the National Training of the Y. W. C. A. At Ohio State University and Columbia she has done work toward her doctorate. Incidentally Mrs. Milner's is the cov eted honor of Phi Beta Kappa mem bership. Dean Milner is a graduate of Wil mington College in Ohio. He spent his Junior year in Woodbrooke, Eng land, where he did relief work for the American Friend's Committee. Mr. Milner received his M. A. degree from Haverford and his B. D. from Hartford Theological Seminary which awards a John Welles fellowship to one member of the class. Mr. Milner was granted the fellowship and studied on it at the University of Marburg in Europe. Dr. Jaensch was his instructor in Gestall Psychology. At Burich, Switzerland, Mr. Milner took a course in psycho-analysis under Dr. Oskar Pfister. Our new Dean is a candidate for a PhD. degree at the University of Geneva where he studied under Badovin, whose special ty is "suggestion." For six years Mr. Milner served as dean of Men at Earl ham—the first three years as assist ant professor and the last three years as professor of psychology. He has also studied at both the University of Chicago and Columbia. Mr. Milner is well known as a pub lic lecturer and will preach in Greens boro until the arrival of the new min ister. The Dean attended both the State and National Y. M. C. A. confer ences during the last year, and is on the National "Purpose" Commission for the Y. M. C. A. as well as the National Committee for student-fac ulty conferences to be held during the coming Christmas season. Music Department Expects Big Year A'Capella Choir Promises to Be Most Popular Phase of the Department The outlook for the Music Depart ment in Guilford this year is most promising. Many students have enter ed Guilford this fall because of the experience they will receive in mu sic. Two very capable leaders will have charge of this field of work— Miss Wilbur and Mr. Noah. Mr. Noah has full charge of the voice and choir department. The A'Capella Choir is proving to be one of the most important and most popular phases of the depart ment. A membership of over 50 is ex pected for the year. The choir plans to appear in Chapel every Monday, Wednesday and Friday to help with the singing. Besides rendering special music in the Meeting House once a month, it will go on week-end trips in nearby towns. The greatest event of the year will be the extended tour of the choir through Richmond, Va., Baltimore, Philadelphia, and other northern points. All persons interested in sing ing the Messiah at Christmas are asked to meet next Thursday night in the Music Hall at 8 o'clock, p. m.
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