YOLI'ME XXVIII
Campus Poll Shows Fanning Leads Race for May Queen
Dr. Harl Will Deliver
Baccalaureate Sermon
In Exercises, May 31
Duke Professor Is
Veteran Commencement
Speaker At Guilford
Hi - . Hornell Hurt, professor of soci
ology anil of Christian ethics nt I Mike
university, will officiate fur Hit' third
time at Guilford commencement exer
cises.
He will deliver the baccalaureate ser
mon here on May 31.
Dr. Hart gave tlie commencement
addresses at Guilford in June of 1936
and 11*38. He also lectured here from
January 21 to 2S in 11(3!), as the main
ligure in a special Emphasis week spon
sored by the campus Christian asso
ciations.
Dr. Hart graduated from Oberlin col
lege in 11110, and received liis l'li.D.
from the State I'niversity of lowa in
11121. He was professor of sociology
at Hartford Theological seminary from
1033 to 11138. He was a professor at
Hryn Mawr for a period of nine years
prior to that.
Guilford Library Acquires
800 Volumes Among Gifts
The Guilford college library has been
left the library of Clara I. Cox, of High
Point, it was stated by Miss Katharine
C. Kicks, Guilford librarian, after a
meeting of the Library committee on
March 7.
The Cox library, which has been left
to the college library and for the use
of North Carolina Yearly Meeting min
isters, includes 800 hooks and numerous
pamphlets and periodicals, of which
the library will have tirst choice, the
rest being catalogued in a special col
lection for the use of the ministers.
Mrs. Edward B. Henjaniin, of Friend
ly road, has given the library a number
of books by and about Jews, including
a valuable Jewish encyclopedia.
Robert Straker, of Longman, Green
and Company, has donated 36 gifts to
the library.
The committee discussed the possi
bility of opening the library to those
of tlx- community who wished to use
its periodicals. It was decided that
Saturday and Sunday afternoons ami
evenings would be the best times for
this. The plan will go into effect only
if there is sufficient demand.
1942 Quaker Will Feature
Staff, Layout Innovations
lt.v HKTTK HA II.ICY
Five-lifted! ' f ii Saturday afternoon.
Outside, the en lupus eehcus with the
laughter cf fun-loving tiuilfordians,
while behind n swinging 'lour supported
by one loose screw, sils ;) silent group
of four, whose long faces are marked
with lines of deep concentration and
much deliberation over a sheaf ot
smudged papers and glaring photo
graphs—your yearbook in the raw!
This grim quartet is (lie backbone,
the rewriting machine, the censor, and
the day and night laborer who in the
fii nil of Robert Kohl* (editor), Itette
Bailey (managing editor). Corky Field
and Nancy (iraves (editorial stall I
trails scandalmongers, reporters, fac
ulty. and friends (also students) to
track down the "best to print' in the
'-12 Quaker.
THE GUILFORDIAN
Monogram Club Schedules
Dance Saturday, April 25
The Monogram club has sched
uled its spring danre fir April 25.
In order to have an orchestra, it
will foe necessary Tor the club to
charge an admission of S!> cents
a couple, including tax. Men will
foe asked not to fouy corsages for
their dates.
The club is anxious to know if
the students want the dance under
these conditions, and will support
it. If there is not a sufficient num
ber ef students in favor of the
dance, it will not he given. Guil
fordiaas are requested to express
their opinions concerning this mat
ter to members of the Monogram
club.
Herbert Pearson, Herbert Schoell
kopf, and Henry Aushand make up
the committee in charge of the
dance.
New Garden Singers
To Present 'Passion'
Collegium Musicum Will
Accompany Performance
Of Music For Holy Week
Members of the choir of New Garden
meeting will present a series of selec
tions from Bach's St. Miittluir I'asnion
on Sunday, March in Memorial hail j
at 7 p.m. They will be accompanied ]
by the Collegium Musicum (if Guilford
college under the direction of lr. Curt
Victnrius.
Soloists of the group will be Mrs.
William 11. Kdgerton, Mrs. Algie I.
Newlin. Miss Joualeen llodgin. Miss
Cora Worth I'arker, and Michael Caf
fey. K. I>aryl Kent will read the I'as
ston Story from the Gospel Arctiriliiiii
In si. Mutthor, between the musical
selections.
John Rich, a member of the Ameri
can Friends Service committee, will
give the message at this vesper pro
gram.
The program is a cooperative effort
to bring to (Juilford College community
music especially written for Holy
Week.
The group will repeat their presenta
tion of the I'assioii in Jamestown on
Wednesday evening, March 25, under
the auspices of one of the civic clubs
there.
( Ever since last spring editor ltohr
| and photographer Kay Tanneiibauni
| have been planning and "snapping"
respectively freshman-sophomore pic
I nic. May day. graduation exi rcises, and
i this year football, basketball, clubs,
dancing- all a kaleidoscope of lite at
(!ui!ford. No mere scrambled arrange
ments of candid shots —rather, short
stories told in pictures. And more than
that gone is the day of the visiting
photographer who last year staggered
around this campus under black hood
and tripod in an attempt to photo
graph our clubs and other organiza
tions whose members were never at
the proper place at the scheduled time.
No, our own photographers, lielire and
Tanneiibauni, are taking charge of club
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Gt ILFOKD COLLEGE, N. MAKCII 14. I!) 42
Council To Consider
Plan For Bus Route
In Hearing, March 17
Proposed Route Will
Serve Friendly Road,
Guilford Community
Although 110 official release concern
ing a bus route from Guilford college
to Greensboro is available, it is known
that a public hearing will be held be
fore the city council on March 17, and
if tlic plans are approved, the bus ser
vice will start 011 the following morn
ing. March IN.
A 25-passenger bus will make six
trips daily, leaving Guilford College
station and following a route past the
Guilford Cash store, along Friendly
road to Gaston street, from Gaston to
Westover, up West Market to the cor
ner of East Market and Davie streets,
and from there to the Southern railway
station.
The fare will be 15 cents a ticket,
two for '25 cents, or a commutation
ticket of ten for a dollar.
The schedule is as follows: the bus
will leave Guilford College station at
(1:30 a.m., 7:30 a.m.. 12:30 p.m., 4:30
p.m., 5:45 p.m., 7 :30 p.m.; it will leave
Greensboro at 7:15 a.m.. 8:15 a.m.,
1 :15 p.m., 5:15 p.m., (5:15 p.m., and
! 10:15 p.m.
I This schedule is subject to change.
I It is thought likely that the 12:30 bus
leaving Guilford station will lie changed
|to accommodate Guilford college stu
dents and members of the community.
Robert Roth To Present
Illustrated Talk On Mexico
Robert E. Roth, world traveler,
will present a lecture, "Picture Stories
of Old Mexico," in Memorial hall 011
Saturday evening, March 21, at 8 p.m.
Mr. Roth is an authority 011 Mexico,
and has just returned from his fourth
visit to that country.
His talk will be supplemented by mo
tion pictures in color which he has
taken to show the historic and scenic
wonders of Mexico.
Mr. Roth is being sent here by the
Southeast School Assemblies, a booking
agency in Pennsylvania.
Class Plans Raleigh Trip
j The Criminology class, under the di-
I reetion of Dr. A. I>. Beittei, is sttuly
j ini; the sociological relationship of
crime, and the attempts to meet the
problem, ns well as the steps each indi
| vidual takes to become a criminal.
' | .Members of the class are hoping to
i go to Raleigh with the Abnormal Psy
• | chology class to visit the State Peni
tentiary and the clinic at Dix Hill.
1 They also plan to visit the county conrt
' 1 house, jail, and the Federal courtroom
. | and offices.
In further connection with this study,
- j Dr. Beittei is making plans to have
'Thomas 1). Stokes, the Supervisor of
i the Probation department, speak to the
r! class.
I
Deafen Enters School
( Ralph I>'iiton. Greensboro boy, iind
Guilford graduate of 1 !)4() with 21 B.S.
j degree. luis been accepted for the* fresh
man class of the Vanderbilt rniversity
School of Medicine. Deaton attended
Duke university after leaving Guilford.
FKANCESCA FANNING
Rufus Jones To Speak
At AFSC Meeting Here
Group Will Meet
At New Garden,
Saturday, March 21
Kufus M. Jones, well-known Friend
and writer on Quaker subjects, will
address the American Friends Service
committee in a public meeting to be
held at New Garden Meeting house at
7 :30 p.m. lll March 21.
The meeting, the second of its sort
to be held here in recent years, is de
signed largely so that as many members
as possible of the Society of Friends
can attend : other meetings of the com
mittee are usually held in Philadelphia.
Tentative agenda schedule the open
ing of the meeting at 10 a.m. Differ
ent sections, including Peace. Social In
dustrial, Civilian Public Service, and
Foreign Service—4lll branches of the
committee's work—will meet during the
day, with recess for lunch and supper.
Most recent development in the work
of the AFSC concerns the establish
ment of branch offices in California, to
help those Japanese 011 the Pacific coast
who are being moved inland by the
I'nited States government. Not only
enemy aliens among the Japanese, but
some who are loyal citizens are sub
ject to this policy. The committee is
impartially attempting to help them
adjust to the new situation.
The Fellowship council will meet at
New Garden 011 Friday, March 20, at
7 :30 p.m. A chief concern of this group
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Bicycling Sweeps Campus;
Personnel Takes to Wheels
By TOBKY LA I'l l \
Steady cyclists, like Paul Uahcnkamp
and Morris King, must find traffic-on
J11 ilforl walks and roads highly con
gested these days.
The jam was so great—or perhaps it
was just a playful Piedmont breeze
that played havoc with one of the most
recent converts to the bicycling rage—
that Aunt Melissa Powell abandoned
her wheel in a m st unceremonious
fashion one day the week before last.
If we didn't have a subject for our
senior thesis and we happened to lie
in any of William 1. Edgerton's or
K. Dairy I Kent's c asses, we WJ.uhl cer
tainly submit to our major professor
(rough draft due sometime in April
or else). The iff n't (if liiciirlists' l\m
an Hi* I'crinf/of/ic I'oircrx of I'rofrssars
M'MBEB 10
Ten Organizations
Submit Candidates
For March Elections
According ti a straw vote conducted
by the Guilforciian, Francesca Fanning
leads by a wide margin in Guilford
students' choice for May Queen.
Others on the May Court are Martha
.Vnti Ahelein, Miriam Cummin. Mary
Auiia Jessup, Tobey Laitin, Frances
Lloyd, Elois Mitchell. Alice Ott. Eve
lyn I'earson, and Mary Lou Stafford.
The entire ten were chosen by the sen
iors in a class meeting. March 5, out
|of 17 possible candidates.
I The following nominations have been
submitted for offices on campus:
| Women's Student government: pres
ident—Mildred Pegram, Sadie White;
secretary—Edith Swisher. Mildred Eas
terbrook : treasurer —Virginia Ashcraft.
Dorothy I'eele: Founders house presi
i dent—ltia Jetfre, Mildred Kagan : sen
! ior representative from Founders—Ma-
I lie Craven, Eleanor Beittel: junior rep
resentative —Winifred Ellis. Ruth Bab;
sophomore representative Barbara
Williams, Mary Sowter: Mary Hohbs
house president—Mabel Daniels, Co
j rinne Field : senior representative from
Mary Hohbs—Frances Xeece, Margaret
Townsend : junior representative—Mary
Belle Clark, Anne Schneider: sopho
more representative—Marjorie Hoff
man, Helen Lewis.
Men's Student government: president
—Raymond Tannenbaum, by petition,
Clyde Frye, I'aul Carruthers: vice-pres
ident—Kingston Johns, Marion Ralls,
by petition.
Y. M. C. A.: president—Philip Hur
witz, Roliert liohr (candidate polling
second highest number of votes will Ik>
vice - president) ; secretary -treasurer —•
David Stautield. Mradshaw Snipes.
(Continued on l'uge Three)
A Cappella Choir To Sing
Home Concert April 12th
The Guilford College A Cappella
choir will give its annual home concert
on Sunday. April 12. in Memorial hnll
at 3:30 p.m. The group will sing the
complete tour program.
The choir is planning to hold its
yearly banquet on April 11.
The North Carolina Council of
| Churches, which will meet at tturling-
I ton on April 8, has invited the college
choir to sing at its convocation.
or llmr to licroiiH Mind, Mood mul
, M iisclc-Hoinid.
Iteligion professor Kent is an old
hand at cycling. Tire rationing was
just a good excuse for liim to indulge
in a secret weakness and now lie com
mutes a la bicycle to and from the
■ Doily Madison well.
.Modern language professor Kdgerton
lias also indulged. The new fad em-
I phasizes a facet of the Kdgcrton char
i acter —the Kdgerton hive of thorough
ness. It's all or nothing, says William
• I!. Consequently Mrs. Kdgerton has
. joined Mrs. I'owell in attempting to
. master her metal steed and Mr. Kdger
. ton has rigged up a seat with stirrups
on his wheel for Susan.
I Whin tin' alarm sounds for a blown
fuse, a leaky roof, or hot water at the
(Continued an l'agc Four)