VOLUME XXVIII
W. A. A. Presents Continental May Day Today at Four
Spring Activities Banquet Tonight Will Honor Students
Achievement Awards
Will Be Presented;
Newlin, Toastmaster
Guilford will gather this evening nt
7 p. in. to toast her athletes, and stu
dents who have been outstanding in
other activities this past year.
Dr. Algie I. Newlin will act as toast
master at the banquet to be held in
Founders hall. There will be no other
shakers as the list of awards is un
usually long this year.
Coach Charles D. Smith and Coach
Paul Lentz will make the awards to
their resi>ective teams. Miss Christine
Foster, director of Physical Education
for women, will present the Women's
Athletic association awards, which she
states are four times as great this year
as ever before.
Dr. Ezra 11. F. Weis will make the
choir awards, and Dr. Philip W. Furnas
will present the Dramatic council award
to the senior who has made the most
outstanding contribution in the field of
dramatics during his four years here.
Ernest Morris is presenting a special
athletic achievement award to the
senior member of the Monogram club
who has made the most outstanding
record in all sports during the past
four years.
Men receiving letters are: Tennis—
Haul Ueddiek, James Ferris, William,
Itowman, Benjamin Brown, and Her
bert Pearson. Track—Walter Kucker,
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Choir To Hold Annual
Dinner Here, May 23
Informal Dinner To Take
Place of Traditional
Spring Banquet
The Guilford College A Cappella
choir will hold an informal dinner on
May 2.'!. at 7:00 in Founders hall.
This dinner, for members and former
members of the choir, is taking the
place of the formal banquet usually
held by the organization during the
spring. I*r. Ezra 11. I'*. \\cis and Mrs.
Wels, ami other members of the facul
ty, will lie guests at the banquet.
After dinner, dancing in the gymna
sium will be open to all students.
The committee in charge of the din
ner is composed of Mildred Hagan,
Mary I.oil Stafford. Jim I.elir, and
Charles Lewis.
Dancing Coeds To Perform
In Gay European May Day
I! 11 BKTTE 11A1 LEY
Vibrant, compelling waltz-time, whirl
ing dancers in Viennese dress, flashing
red boots beating a Hungarian moun
tain dance. It's May l>ay on the Dan
ulie!
This afternoon at four o'clock on
Founders lawn, Guilford co-eds take us
dancing down this swift-flowing river
to the world of Austria, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, and Vienna, the capital
without a country.
Piloted by Miss Foster and the
W. A. A., these continentals will relive
the gay life of nineteenth - century
THE GUILFORDIAN
Senior Week
Chapel Schedule
Monday, May 18—Dr. Aigie I.
Newlin, I)r. Eva (i. Campbell, Fred
Taylor, Cora Jane Wallers .
Tuesday, May 19—Dr. Philip \V.
Furnas, Dr. K. Garness I'urdom,
Tobey Laitin, Robert McAllister.
Wednesday, -May -o—Dr. Harvey
A. Ljung. Clyde A. Milner,
Charles Lewis, Paul Curruthers.
Alumni To Hold (lass
Reunion; To Fete
Seniors Al Banquet
Schedule To Include
Luncheon, Scholarship
Meeting and Tea
Clyde K. Shore, president of the
Alumni association, will preside at (lie
general recognition of classes to he
held on Alumni day, Saturday, May
30, after registration in Memorial hall
at 11:30 a.m.
Dr. Milner will welcome all mem
bers and l'r. Edward M. Wilson of
the fifty year honor class will speak.
The program for the day will lie as
follows. 1 :00 aiuiuni luncheon at
Mary Ilolibs liall: 2:00 —class re
unions. with classes at live-year Inter
vals from IK! 12 to 1!K17 being represent
ed: !! :0O —a meeting of the Scholarship
society in the library, with l)r. Paul
lSeynolds scheduled to speak; :i:.'!o—
class of INN! I to IN!i,"i will be at the
home of l'r. Virginia Rngsdale; 4:00
to ,"i:3o—Alumni tea in the gymnasium.
In the evening an Alumpi banquet
will he given at Founders ball with
the members of the class of 1802 and
the present seniors as guests. President
Shore will give a report, after which
Br.vse Holt, of Greensboro, will speak.
The senior class will be voted into
membership, and Dr. Edward M. Wil
son will extend them a welcome. The
following alumni awards will be an
nounced -athletic award, improvement
award, and the announcement of the
Key mail and Key woman of the class
of ML'.
Continuing the graduation activities,
Dr. Iloruell Hart, of Duke university,
will deliver the Dacca lan rente sermon
on Sunday, May Ml, and Dr. John W.
Nason. president of Swarthmore col
lege. will give the Commencement ad
dress i n Monday, June 1.
lCnrope—days gone but not soon to be
forgotten.
Chief prop for the setting is n musi
cal one- the Collegium Musk-tun grown
up to l-'t players to constitute the Vien
nese ensemble. Garbed in somber black
chintz, these musicians, waving their
tails behind them, will swing into
Strauss, Dvorak, and others to accom
pany our fair I'avlovas 011 the campus
green.
it's a day of gaiety and triumph
when Kill seamstresses frown upon
their costumes, with a secret sigh of
bliss and relief, fervently praying that
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GIII.IOKD COLLEGE, N. C„ MAY l(i. 1942
Hungarian Dancers . . .
. . . Phyllis Barker, Ruth Barnes,
Barbara Anderson, Elsie Kerlee.
Helen (iilmore who will take part
European May festival.
New Board Members
Choose Pope As Head
Tannenbaum, Townsend
Easterbrook In Office
To Serve 42-43 Term
Virginia Pope, of the class of '4.'!,
will act as president of the Student
Affairs board for the year 1942-43.
The other officers elected at the
meeting in May 14 are Kay Tannen
liaimi vice-president: Mildred Easter
ly secretary; Margaret Townsend
—assistant secretary.
Other members of the Student Af
fairs Hoard are Marie Craven, repre
sentative for the A Cappeiln choir;
Malcolm ('rooks, for the social com
mittee; John I'owning, for the senior
class: Winifred Ellis, for the Gun.-
I OIIOIAN ; 'orinnc Field, for the Quaker:
Clyde Frye. for the Men's Athletic ns
sociatii 11: I'hilip Ilurwitz, for the
V. M.C. A.: Frances Xeece, for the
Women's Athletic association: Mildred
I'cgram. fur Women's Student govern
ment : Clark Wilson, for the sophomore
Virginia I'tpe represents the I>ra
matic council, Kay Tannenbaum, Men's
Student government, Mildred Easter
brook, the junior class, and Margaret
Townsend, the V. W. C. A.
Faculty members of the Student Af
fairs board are Miss Era I.asley, Miss
Maude 1.. Gainey, I>r. E. Garness I'ltr
doiu. l'r. Algie I. Xewlin, and William
(). Suiter.
Evelyn Pearson, Michael
(affey To Give Recital
Miss Evelyn Pearson, organist, and
Michael Caffey, tenor, will give a joint
recital in Memorial hall on Sunday,
May 17, at p.m.
The program includes: I— Prelude
anil Fugue, N'o. 2, Baeli; Air for the
1 Hiring, Kncli: Reverie, Dickinson;
If llinii of (Horn, Yvon; by Miss Pearson
at tlie organ. Prayer; I Walked Today
Where Jesus Walked, O'Hura; In a
Monastery Garden, Ketelhey; The
Awakening, Stross, by Michael Caffey.
Margaret Anderson, Ann Schneider,
Hazel Key, Jane McOullough, and
in the Hungarian section of today's
Distribution ot New Quaker
Scheduled For Next Week
The Guilford college yearbook,
the ()l AKEIi, should be ready for
distribution to the students some
time during the coming week, it
was announced by Kohcrt Kolir,
I'ditor-ineliief.
A definite date for distribution
cannot yet be set.
Academy Elects Dr. Eva
Campbell To Two Offices
Dr. Evn J. Campbell, associate pro
fessor of biology, has been elected vice
president of the Xortli Carolina Acad
emy of Science, and secretary of the
section of zoc logy.
At the same time that Dr. Campbell i
wns elected to these oliices. Dr. Harvey
A. I Jung, professor of chemistry, pre
sent! d Walter Pnt/.ig's thesis to the
chemistry section of the academy.
The thesis deals with a new method
for the quantitative analysis of the
bromide ion. Although not as sensi-;
live as other tests, it will give a spe
cilic test of the bromide ion in the
presence ef other interfering ions that
commonly appear. This is especially;
valuable in student work.
A. C. P. Gives Guilfordian
First Class Honor Rating
The (ii II.I(IUI)IAN ranks among other I
college newspapers its size as a first
class publication, according to the rat
ing received yesterday from the Asso
ciated Collegiate press.
The I'ress criticizes college news-1
papers and rates them in groups ac
cording to the size of the newspaper
und of the school.
The (1 u i LFORD IA N received 730 points,
or a rating of excellent. This is 20
points less than is required to make
Ail-American, or a rating of superior.
The Associated Collegiate press sends
the newspaper a criticism along with
the rating. It said that announced
speeches should he followed by a re
port of the speech, and that human
M MUER IS
Festival To Feature
Nineteenth Century
Music And Dances
'"A May Day on the Danube" will be
the theme of the annual May Day fes
tlval to lie presented by the Women's
Athletic association on Founders lawn
this afternoon at 4 o'clock.
The festival will feature nineteenth
century dances from Austria, Hungary,
anil Czechoslovakia. Music and cos
tumes will be of die same century.
In keeping with traditional custom,
Franeesca Fanning will lie crowned
Queen of the May. Her attendants are
Evelyn Pearson, maid of honor, and
Martha Ann Abelein, Miriam Cummin,
.Mary Anna Jessup, Frances I.ioytl,
Elois Mitchell, Alice Ott, Mary Lou
Stafford, and Doris Wanstall.
Their escorts are Bill Nafe, Robert
Andrews, Jr., Lacelle Cockman, De-
Armas Smith, Malcolm Crooks, Percy
Wall, Daniel Young, Jack Hartley,
Charles Lewis, Jr., and Paul Curruth
ers. Christopher Suiter will be the
Crown Bearer, and Eva I'urdom and
Betty Ann I'ringle, the flower girls.
Participating in the program will be
the girls' physical education classes,
the Collegium Musicum of Guilford col
lege, under the direction of Dr. Curt
Vietorius, and Bossie Andrews and
Betty Fiinii, pianists.
Christine Foster, director of Physical
Education for Women, is in charge of
the production staff, with Frances
Xeeee as her assistant. Others on the
staff are Corinne Field programs,
with cover sketch by Annnbelle Brunk
bardt and Walter Patzig; Phyllis
Meadows make-up: Winifred Ellis
dance assistant: Sarah Gray—public-
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Students, Faculty Vote
Scholarship To Ben Brown
The student b dy and members of
the faculty this week elected Benjamin
Brown to receive the Overman scholar
ship.
This scholarship is awarded the jun
ior with more than a -.00 average who
lias made the most outstanding contri
bution to any one field of campus life.
Each class lias one vote in choosing
the person to receive the scholarship,
and the faculty have two votes.
interest, stories on speakers coining to
the campus might be good lent tire pos
siliililies.
The news writers linve not mastered 1
the technique of writing a good lend to
the stories—there should he more in
formation in the tirst paragraph of the
story.
The paper is mechanically attractive,
that is, in the type of print used for
the various stories and heads, and the
make-up of the front page shows wise
and careful planning. However, the
paper lacks variety in this field.
Sports page coverage is excellent,
hut is not exploited enough there
should he more Hash to the make-itij,
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