VOLUME XXVII
May Queen To Be Crowned Today In Historic Pageant
Milner Toastmaster At Banquet; Alumni Dinner To Feature 3 Awards
Captains of Baseball,
Basketball, Tennis,
Track Will Be Named
The animal spring achievement ban
quet, to be helcl in Founders hall this
evening at 0:45, will honor participants
in basketball, baseball, track, and ten
nis. Dr. Clyde A. Milner, president
of the college, has been named toast
master.
Captains for next year's teams,
chosen by the present teams, will be
announced at this time.
Awards will be made in women's
athletics, letters being awarded to
those girls having 750 activity points,
and numerals to those having only 500
points. The points are cumulative from
year to year and are earned by par
ticipation in organized sports and by
hiking.
Girls who will receive letters are:
Julia Fussier, Audrie Gardham, Fran
ces Johnson, June Frazer, Frances
Xeeee, and Jane Faulkner. Virginia
Conrad, Frances Johnson, June Frazer,
Mildred Fegrain, Dorothy Edgerton,
and Ophelia Davis will receive nu
merals!
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Margaret Jones Elected
For Overman Scholarship
Margaret Jones, Junior with a 2.72
quality average, was elected from a
list of 13 candidates by students and
faculty to receive the William F. Over
man scholarship, in class and faculty
meetings bold Thursday, May (!, ac
cording, to Miss Era l.asley, registrar.
The award is given annually to the
junior who has an average of 2.io or
above, and who has. in the opinion of
the voters, done the most in Improving
student-faculty relations.
Other candidates for the scholarship
were: Martha Ann Abelein, Miriam
Cummin, l'hilip Dewees, Elizabeth
Flinn, Joyce Fry, Marie Grumbrecht,
Hern ice Merritt, Elfried Pennekamp,
Stokes liawlins, DeAnnas Smith, loris
Wanstali. and l'aul Pearson.
May Day Mechanics: Prop,
Costume, Crown and Lyre
Bows, lyres, biology, crown. MAY |
I>AY, French, paint, Greek temple,
honeysuckle—those are the thoughts
of ;i weary property manager as she
collapses in lied early in the morning
two days before the blessed event.
And what of the costumer? She
nightmares of scissors snipping through
her precious piles of materials, and
bulky sewng machines that refuse to
peddle.
Scarcely an hour goes by that one
or the other doesn't grab an idle
student (a potential worker) and set
him to some odd job such a stringing
bows, or cutting out costumes, or
whittling lyres.
Many are the comments of the fash
ionably-minded coeds who contemptu
ously name their dignified and grace
ful Grecian robes "potato sacks." Great
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THE GUILFORDIAN
Senior Week Schedule
.Monday, May I!)—I)r. Harvey A.
I-Jung to preside; speakers, Dr.
Clyde A. Milner, faculty; Hob Wil
son, senior; Dan Young, freshman.
Tuesday, May 20— T. Ross Fink
to preside. S|>eakers, Dr. K. Gar
■less I'urdom, faculty; Hazel Moil
sees, senior; lletty l.oeke, sopho
more.
Wednesday, May 21—Dr. Ray
mond Hinford to preside. Speakers,
William O. Suiter, faculty; Hubert
Register, senior; Herbert Pearson,
junior.
Thursday, May 22—Day of study
(no classes).
Friday, May 23—Final examina
tions begin.
Winners of Library
Contest Announced
Merritt, Jeff re, Pollock
First in Their Divisions;
Prizes to Be Awarded Soon
Bernice Merritt, junior who prepared
a list of books in a specialized library
I mi art. won the first prize in tlie library
: contest which closed May 5. according
to Miss Katherine C. Kicks, librarian.
| Mis Merritt. who eliose sculpturing
land painting as her subject, will re
ceive six dollars' worth of books.
Philip Dewees, whose list consisted
i of book on sociology, will receive four
I dollars' worth of books as second prize.
These two were the only juniors en
! tering.
In the sophomore contest. Kin Jeff re,
with her list of forty books for a gen
eral library, won first place, and will
receive six dollars' worth of books,
I Roy Leake, with second place, will
receive four dollars, also in books,
j Although a third prize was not plan
| lied. Grace McMurray. because of het
selections, will receive u copy of "Guil
i ford: A Quaker College," written by
Miss Dorothy Lloyd Gilbert. Thelma
Edwards and Annie Spencer, other en
trants in the sophomore contest, will
! each receive a copy of Dr. Russell
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Freshman Dance Tonight
The freshman class is sponsor
ing a semi-formal dance to he helil
in the gym tonight after the ban
quet. All classes are invited;
there will be no admittance charge.
According to Jane Marshall,
chairman of the freshman social
committee, music will consist of
"all the latest jam and jive, fur
nished by the well-known 'juke
box,"' and requests will be in
order.
Other freshmen on the social com
mittee are Mildred McCrary, Jean
t'alderwood. Joan Ripperger, Ben
Rankle, and Kay Tannenbaum.
Henry Ausband. president of the
class, is helping with arrangements
for the dance.
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., MAY 17, 1941
14 Reunions Will Be
Held Here in Annual
Festivities, May 31
Recently innovated feature of the
annual Alumni (lay, May 31, is the
three awards which will he presented
hy I>r. Clyde A. Milner, president of
Guilford college, at the Alumni din
ner.
A key man will be named from the
senior class, chosen previously by vote
of faculty and senior class; an award
will lie made to the outstanding ath
lete, chosen by secret ballot cast by
all lettermen; and a scholarship will
lie awarded to that member of the
freshman or sophomore class who has
made the most improvement during the
year, as chosen by the President of
the College, Dean of Men, Dean of
Women, and Student Governments.
1!. Clyde Shore, president of the
Alumni association, will give a yearly
report. The dinner will conclude with
a forum, which will discuss problems
facing the association.
The day will feature the reunion of
12 classes: IX! Kj ( fiftieth anniversary),
iikh, loot;, ion, 1910, loai, iti:n, 19:10,
1040. Former students of New Garden
Boarding school and those of Guilford
Preparatory department who enrolled
between 1902-100S, will also reunite.
An assembly program, arranged by
Miss Katharine Ricks, secretary of
the association, and ltussell Hranson,
minister of New Garden meeting, will
lie presented at 11 a. 111. in Memorial
hall.
Afternoon events include a tenuis
match of alumni vs. a college team, a
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Campus Organizations
Will Edit Handbook
'Y' Groups to Sponsor
Informal Book Written
For Incoming Students
A freshman handbook, to bo edited
and written by a committee of members
from nil the campus organizations, is
being sponsored by the Y. M. ('. A. and
the Y. W. ('. A.
This handbook is intended to sup
plement the college catalogue and to
give the new freshmen more intimate
information of how to prepare for
Guilford and of what they will find
when they reach Guilford.
111 an informal manner, it will try
to answer the questions freshmen are
prone to ask about details. It will ex
plain such things as this: how to get
here from Greensboro once they arrive
there: how to got into Greensboro once
they arrive here; how to arrange
wardrobes to suit the climates: and
what to expect in the way of social life.
Even the question of what kind of
rooms we have is to he taken up.
The idea for this handbook was sug
gested in the meeting of the Y cabinets
on April 28. It has been brought up
in the student governments, and ap
proved by them.
The committee in charge of organiz
ing and writing the materials includes
Pat Lockwood, Mary Winter, Corky
Field, Nancy Graves, Bette Bailey,
Winifred Ellis, Frances Neece, Bob
Rolir, Phil Dewees, and Henry Aus
band.
MISS CIIRISTIXK FOSTER, director
of physical education for women, has
trained the groups of dancers and ath
letes in today's festivities.
Trustee-Faculty Room
Under Construction
Gift of Eunice Parker
And Children in Memory
Of I). Ralph Parker
A trustee-faculty room on the sec
ond floor of the gymnasium, to be known
|as the I>. Ralph Parker Memorial
I room, made possible by a gift of $3,000
' received from Eunice Parker and her
I children, is now being constructed.
The set of rooms, located in the
southwest corner, will consist of a
formal trustee-faculty room, an inform
al lounge, a kitchenette, a serving room,
I ladies' room, men's room, and cloak
j room.
Plans for furnishing these rooms
have been made and show long tables
for board discussions, comfortable
chairs and sofas, and built-in book
cases. The furniture is being made
by W. T. Powell of High Point, a for
mer associate of Mr. Parker in the
furniture business.
In the northwest corner of the build
ing there will be a lecture room.
The contractor for the project is
John 11. Honitz of Greensboro.
Poll Books Reveal History
Of Guilford As Township
By CORKY FIELD
Perhaps you heard the rustle of
legal documents on May f> as the
eighteen qualified voters of Guilford
college (the town) prepared to cast
their ballots for a mayor and three |
couiicilinen.
Forty-six years ago that very day. |
May ii. 1805, faculty members of the
newly-founded Guilford college elected
Ih\ 1.. Lyndon Hnhhs, tirst president
of the institution, to the office of
mayor. Serving with hint on the gov
erning board were three eomntssion
ers and a road observer. Why?
It was the privilege of the county at
that time to enlist any able-bodied
1111111 eighteen years of age or over to
help repair county roads. Guilford
college furnished a goodly supply, and
frequently faculty and students would
NTMItKR IS
Competitive Events
To Include Athletic
Races, (lass Dances
Virginia Conrad, Guilford senior,
will be crowned Queen of the Slay
this afternoon in the traditional Guil
ford college May day ceremony, to be
gin on center campus at 4 o'clock.
The coronation will lie preceded by
music presented by Dr. Curt Vic
torius, of the Guilford faculty, leading
the Collegium Musicum.
The Queen will be attended by a
court of nine seniors: Eileen Dorn
self, maid of honor; Madeleine Hew
lett, Charlotte Tjewis. roily Morton,
Dolly White, Edna Earle Edgerton,
Hazel Monsees, Grace Beittel, and Re
becca Wagoner.
Theme of the celebration, which is
is under the direction of Miss Chris
tine Foster of the girls' physical edu
cation department, is the Greek festi
val. Alto Phyllis Barker, as High
I'riestess, will sing an invocation to
prayer.
Athletic events —hurdling, torch race,
! discus throwing, and hoop rolling—
! will be the tirst of the competitive
activities.
| Each of the undergraduate classes
| will present a dance dedicated to a
| specific god or goddess. The junior
j dance will lie in honor of Ilelios,
| Greek god of the sun. and will portray
the myth of Phaeton, who tried disas
trously to drive (lie sun chariot. Phae
ton's part will lie danced by Phyllis
Meadows.
The sophomore dance, with Eleanor
Clinchy and Jane Faulkner leading,
will depict the dawn of light coming
in over the dark earth with the sea.
The freshmen will dedicate their
dance to Winifred Ellis as Diana,
goddess of the moon and the chase.
Athletic events will be judged by
Dr. E. Garness Purdom and Dr. Har
vey A. I Jung. of Guilford's natural
science department; Miss Dorothy
I.loyd Gilbert, professor of English
here, and Mrs. J. Roddy Miller, of the
Guilford community, will judge the
dances. High priestess Phyllis Barker
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lose several (lays of school work re
pairing roads in the vicinity.
For this reason trustees of Guilford
decided to seek a charter incorporat
ing tile town of Guilford college,
which would thereby be given the
powers of a town. The charter was
granted: Guilford college became an
incorporated town with Founders hall
the center of a circle one thousand
feet in radius. Today this boundary
line includes all of the new gym, part
of tiie road behind Mary Hobbs, and
territory a few feet beyond the music
building.
On April 10, IIMJO, the board of com
missioners carried on its first, piece of
(recorded i business aside from the
mere form of election, in the words
of George W. White, secretary, "It
was moved and carried that after
April 12, 1900, there he an annual tax
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