VOLUME XXIX
Faculty Chooses Six
Seniors For 1942-'43
Issue Of 'Who's Who'
Pope, Jeffre, Brown,
Young, Victorius, Leake
Recognized By Publication
Dr. A. 1). Belttel lins announced tile
selection of the six students to repre
sent Guilford College in the I!' - edi
tion of Who'* Who Amonff Students
ill Ann lien n ColUijes and I 'nl certifies.
Tliey are: Virginia Pope, Itin Jeffre,
Hen Brown, ltoy Leake, Dun Young,
mid Clans Victorius. Requisites for
jneinbership in Who's Who are char
acter, scholarship, and leadership in
extra-curricular activities.
Virginia Hope lias to her credit the
presidency of the Student Affairs
hoard ami Dramatic council. In her
junior yesir she was a marshal and
representative to the Student legisla
ture at RaTwgli.
Hia Jeffre is vice-president of the
Scholarship Society, psychology lab
assistant, instructor in reading classes,
and served last year as a marshal.
Ben Brown captains the men's ten
nis team and is a member of the Mon
ogram Club. Last year he served as
secretary of the Y.M.C.A. and junior
marshal.
Claus Victorius has maintained a
three point average throughout his
school career. He lias been a reporter
011 the Guilfordian staff, played in the
chamber orchestra, and is serving this |
year as marshal.
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College And Community
Sponsor Lecture Series
The Guilford College community, co
operating with the college in presenting
the regular Friday evening programs
in Memorial hull, will present a repre
sentative from the E. 1. DuPont de
Nemours company on October 30. lie
will talk about and demonstrate plas
tics and other materials manufactured
by that company.
Mark Hoffman, dean of the school
of music at Greensboro college, will
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Daring Donors Play Leads
In Drama Of Bloody Chills
ISy Itiri'TK ItAILKY
Slowly, resolutely, the doctor tics
(lie rubber hose around your upper
arm, while you clench a limp, per-j
spiring hand into a list to accentuate;
those long blue veins from which the
blood will soon lie drawn. With a keen,
professional glint in his eye. the M.l', j
ehorses a large, healthy-looking vein,
unties the hose, and instructs you to
lie down on the cot. Feeling faint
from the necessary lack of breakfast
this morning, you are only too glad to
succumb, and as you lie motionless I
listening to clinking bottles and watch
ing the hurried feet of the white-gown
ed technicians, your only reaction is
one of complete exhaustion. The doc
tor only laughs when you tell him
ycu've decided you can't spare a pint
of blood because he knows you've got
more than you need anyway. He swabs
alcohol and iodine over the chosen vein
and while he rubs vigorously, he pro
nounces your doom with equal vigor,
"Needle going in."
It sounds to you like, "Curtain com
ing down," as with tight-shut eyes
you face the other way. Hut suddenly
coming out of your tremulous, lethar-
THE GUILFORDIAN
Chapel Schedule
Monday, October 26—I)r. Aigie I.
Newlin.
Tuesday, October 27—Meeting for
worship on the basis of silence in
(lie Hut.
Wednesday, October 28—Repre
sentatives of Army, Navy, Marine
Corps.
Thursday, October 29 Class
meetings.
Friday, October 30 —Fine Arts
Club.
Monday, November 2 Arnold
SrhifTman.
Tuesday, November 3 Meeting
for worship oil (he basis of silence
in (lie Hu(.
Wednesday, November 4—Kabbi
Fred Hyping.
Thursday, November 5 Class
meetings.
Friday, November (i I nscbeil
uled.
Choir Presents First
Concert October 31
Dr. Weis To Direct
Program For Meeting
Of Federated Clubs
The Guilford College A Cnppella
choir, under the direction of l>r.
K. 11. P. Weis, will present its first
concert of the school year on Satur-
I day, October HI, in Odel Memorial au
ditorium, Greensboro college. The choir
is taking part in a program to l>" pre
sented there before the Federated
Women's Clubs District meeting.
About 50 members of the choir will
take part in the concert. The program
is as follows:
Russian and English numbers— (loil
fs a Spirit, Kopyloff: I/car the Vo ice
mid I'raiicr. T;illis; Praise the Lord,
Ye Cliililrn. Dr.' Christopher Tye.
Christinas numbers Nurhin. Harkcn
Mother Dear. Czech Carol; liar!;,
Itcthlchcm. Polish Carol; Uuxhiag
Carol i American), lUchard Kountz.
The first group of numbers is taken
from the regular program of the choir,
and are all new numbers. The second
group is made up of extra numbers
which were used last year.
I gic state, you begin to ask questions.
'"Why (1 esn't it hurt V I didn't feel
anything."
i You glance at the iioor where a
! glass bottle already contains a cupful
of your own juice. Incidentally, yon
j always faint at the sight of blood,!
j lint now, seeing everything under per-
J feet control, you don't even fet I
squeamish. Sli wly and evenly the blood
runs its course through the rubber
hose into the bottle, and after some!
painless -0 minutes during which you
i joke and laugh with your fellow Guil-
I lordian who serves as moral support
during the crisis, the bottle is tilled.
With one swift stroke the needle is
un-,jabbed from your flesh, and a band
aid applied to the wound.
Then with a grand flourish, a tech
nician thrusts a bottle of ice cold Coca-
Cola into your nose. You surprise your
self by sitting up. whereupon the doc
tor suggests that maybe your friend
who has mentioned some hopes of
"painting the town" this afternoon,
won't have to leave you all doubled up
in a gutter after all. You are now
fully convinced that you can nianipu
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GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., OCTOBER 24, 1942
Dramatic Council Will Present
'Letters to Lucerne 7 November 14
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Students, Members
Of Community Will
Present 'Messiah'
Dr. E. H. F. Weis To Direct
Large Chorus In Sixteenth
Annual Performance
The Guilford College A Cappella
choir, assisted by other students aiul
members of the community, will pre
sent Handel's oratorio, The Messiah, on
I December 13 in Memorial hall at 3:00
p.m.
The chorus, under the direction of
I Dr. Ezra H. F. Weis, head of the
| music department, will present the
I following choruses: And the (Horn, "
! Thou Thill TeUest (load Tidings to
| /.ion, i nto i s II Child Is Horn, (Horn
|to (lod, His Yblcc Is Easu, I'or Hehold,
; X II rel 11, Anil With His St lilies, Lift Up
Your Heads, All ll'c Like Sheep.
Worthn Is tin■ Lamb, and the Hallelu
jah Chorus. The chorus All TFe Like
sheep is being sung for the first time
at Guilford college.
Musical accompaniment for the |
chorus will be furnished by piano, j
I organ, and the Guilford College or-1
I chestra. Dr. Weis has not yet chosen
I the soloists.
j This is the 16th performance of the l
| oratorio at Guilford college, and the j
; ll'tli performai.ee with the orchestra.
; Since the Hrst presentation in I!>U7. '
I with Max Noah directing, the oratorio
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News
Discussion Group
Students and faculty members will!
meet to discuss the topic, "Should j
Xegroes He Segregated," jin October 20, |
from 7 ::{(> to p.m. in the Ilut.
A student will preside over the gen
eral discussion.
This is the tirst in a series of dis
cussion groups to be sponsored by the
I'eace committee of the Christian asso
ciations. Coriane Field is the chair
man of the committee.
Mr. Elbert Kussell
I)r. Elbert Russell, Dean Emeritus [
j and professor of the Divinity School
>f Duke university, was on campus on i
October --ml and 23rd. In an address
j to community folk and students last {
J evening, Dr. Kussell spoke about his!
bonk, I llistorii of Qmiirrimn. reci ntly |
published by the MacMillau company. |
He told how he came to write it, and
a bout collecting material for it.
Dr. Kussell is a prominent member
j of the Society of Friends, and a liiein
j Iter of the Heard of Trustees of Guil
i lord college.
Dramatic Council
Sarah Gray lias been elected presi
dent of the Dramatic council to sue-1
j coed Virginia I'ope. Roy I .cake is vice |
| president and Ruth Knier, secretary- j
| treasurer.
j Faculty advisers of the council are
! Daryl Kent and Dr. l'hilip W. Furnas.
Fine Arts ('lull
Graham .Mead succeeds Mary Belle!
| Clark as president of the Fine Arts
club. Working with him will be Robert
Beyt r, vice - president, and Wilma
Is night, secretary-treasurer.
The club will meet In the music
building on the tirst and third Monday
of every month.
J President . . .
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. . . Sally Gray, who Is in charge of
the Dramatic council's fall production,
j "Letters to Lucerne."
Caricature Artist Wanted
Here's your chance to make good,
you potential artists! The Quaker
staff is soliciting your talent for
yearbook sketches. Just fake thai
last "prize creation" around to Hob
Hiihr, editor, or Hebe Hai!ey, manag
ing editor, and if they think you're
| promising you'll be pui to work
rai icaturing your fellow students
and faculty.
Don't delay—your annual needs
j you today!
Y. W. President Will
Ailend Conference
Margaret Townsend Will
Serve As Co-Chairman
At Interracial Meeting
Margaret Townsend, president of the
Y.W.C.A., has been elected to serve as
co-chairman with John Anderson, of
I Morehouse college, Georgia, at the
' Talledega (Alabama) Summer Student
ci nfereuce.
j This is the only interracial confer
ence sponsored by the Southern Field j
Councils of the Y. M. C. A. and j
iY. \V. ('. A. It is attended by stu- j
J dents fri in Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
i Louisiana, Kentucky, North Carolina,]
J South Carolina, and Tennessee,
j Margaret Tmvnsend was chosen In J.
recognition of her interest in the Slu-j
ilint Christian movement and her
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Enlisted Reserve Corps
Prepares Boys For Service
■
By DICK SCIIAFEIt
I Probably I lit' most generous gesture
jon the part of our government in the
execution of this horrible war is the
allowing of the students of college age
to complete their secondary education.
The formation of an Army. Naval and
Marine Reserve Corps has enabled
thousands of boys between 17 and 20
to remain in school.
These men must pass a rigid physical
examination for enlistment in any Re
serve, and if accepted, these students
may remain in school with certain re-
MMBHR 1
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Klepper, Edgerlon,
Thomas And Pope Fill
Leading Roles In Play
Tlio Dramatic council will present
its fall play, "Letters to Lucerne," by
Fritz Hotter and Allen Vincent, 011
November 14 in Memorial liall. The
east includes seven freshuien and six
npperclassmen. Of these, three have
appeared before 011 the Guilford stage
—Sarah Gray, Virginia Pope, and Win
ifred Ellis.
The scene of the play is laid in a
girl's hoarding school in Switzerland
at the time of the German invasion
of Poland, and concerns a German girl,
Ernn, who is made a symbol of the
German people by her classmates.
Krna is played by Renate Klepper,
a freshman. Virginia Pope takes the
role of Felice, a very realistic and
patriotic French girl, and Ruth Edger
ton plays Bingo, Ema's champion.
Christy Hersey is Sally, a thought
less American girl. Iris Thomas plays
Olga, a Polish girl in love with Ema's
brother Hans; Sarah Gray is Marion,
an English girl. Ilarry Walker is
Hans; Lee Poole, a Swiss policeman,
and Neil O'Lear.v, Francois.
The school is under the direction of
Mrs. Hunter, played by Winifred Ellis,
and her assistant Miss Linder, Jean
Hathaway. Martha McLennon and
Henry lirickell play the roles of two
old servants, Margarethe and Gustave.
Richard Sanger will be in charge of
lighting for the play. Shirley Ware,
Ruth Knier, and Hette Bailey are in
charge of sound effects.
X Locator Indicates
Interests Of Students
Some "it* students, .'{B girls and 12
boys, indicated their desire to join
the Christian associations through an
interest locator which brought response
from I>2 Individuals.
The "Y" Social Service committee,
under the chairmanship of Mary Belle
Clark and Brad Snipes, had the larg
est number of recruits, 00. Thirty-seven
students pledged themselves to work
on the Vesper committee with Ilazel
| Kay; lili signed up to paint posters
under the direction of Corky Field
and Dali Young; 23 wished to attend
meetings of tile Greensboro Intercol
[ leglate Interracial commission, the of-
J lieial Guilford representative being
I'liil Ilunvitz.
I Tabulation of Vesper interests brought
these results: for first choice, com
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I strietions pending:. One stipulation
states that an average equal t> or bet
[ler than the required graduation aver
| age is necessary for a reservist to re
main at school. Consequently, the gov
ernment secures the grades of the re
serve members every report period.
Although no specific curriculum is
prescribed. Uncle Sain exjM'cts his
future officers to have certain qualities
after their completion of college. A
reservist must have a capacity for good
expression of the English language;
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