Ruth Hollowell to Be
Crowned Queen at
5 O'Clock Today
VOLUME XXX
May Day Festivities Begin at Five/ WA.A. Dance at Eight
Dr. Charles OH and
Floyd Moore Join
Guilford Faculty
New Duties Will Begin
This Summer; Ott to Teach
Science, Moore in Religion
I)r. Clyde A. Milner has announced
the appointment of two new members
to the Guilford College faculty—Dr.
Charles ott, a former member of the
staff, and Floyd Moore, 'HO graduate of
Guilford.
J. Floyd Moore, who has been ap
pointed Director of Public Relations
and assistant professor of religion, is
a native of Greensboro where he was
active in the Cone Memorial Y. M. C. A.
and church work. lie was a leader in
the summer camp, sponsored by the
Y. M. C. A. While here at Guilford,
he took a very active part in campus
activities, being president of the sopho
more class, and in his senior year serv
ing as president of the Y. M. C. A.
and associate editor of the Guilfordian.
He also served as college news corre
spondent for the Greensboro Daily
News as well as other North Carolina
newspapers.
He is now completing his H.I). de
gree at Hartford Theological Seminary.
Before entering there, he sjient a year
at i'endle Hill. I'a.
Dr. Charles X. Ott, from Grinnell
College, lowa, has been appointed asso
ciate professor of chemistry. A gradu
ate of William I'enn College, lowa, he
taught here from 1020-28. He received
his Ph.D. degree at the t'niversity of
lowa and served as research chemist
with the Midcontinent Petroleum Cor
poration in Oklahoma for two years.
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19a Quaker
Anne Schneider, editor-in-chief of
the Quaker, announces that the
1944 yearbook will be ready for
distribution oil May 20th.
Toni Ungar Aids Professor
In Classifying Folk Lore
Thesis Deals With French
Folk Tales; Classification
For Dr. Sfith Thompson
Most of us were brought up on faitry
tales of various sorts iind descriptions,
from the "and they lived happily ever
after" kind to the "giants with two
toes." Few of us, however, have had
to take said stories apart and classify
them—but that is precisely what Toni
Ungar has been doing all semester —
tearing up fairy tales—hut for a worthy
purpose.
There are so many folk tales that
several people have tried to separate
different fixed ideas from the stories
and classify them. The characteristic
details are called motifs —for instance,
"forgotten bride, or cruel stepmother."
A tixed arrangement of certain motifs
is called a type—such as Cinderella.
Antl Aarne made a type index of
European tales but this did not apply
to a larger body of material. Dr. Stith
Thompson, of the University of Indi
ana, has developed a classification 011
the basis of motifs. In this method
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THE GDILFORDIAN
New Faculty ...
/H
I)r. Charles Ott and J. Floyd Moore
who have been appointed to the Guil
ford College faculty for next year.
Amon Receives Scholarship
Senta Anion was recently awarded a
resident scholarship for graduate study
in Chemistry next year at Hryn Mawr
College, l'enasylvaniii. This work will
be towards lier .M.S. degree. She was
eleeted vice-president of the Scholar
ship Society, having made an outstand
ing scholastic record here at (Juilfnrd
College.
Student Affairs Board New
Officers For Coming Year
The members of the Student Affairs
Hoard have elected new officers for
the year '44-'4.">. Virginia Asheraft
was elected president: Helen I.ewis,
vice-], resident: Nancy Nunn, secretary;
and -Marjorie Hoffman, assistant sec
retary.
The S. A. H. is made up of repre
sentatives of the major student organi
zations lai campus. Members for next
year are: Dee Waring Smith, Y.M.C.A.;
Ally 11 I'eters, (Juuhtr; Marjorie Hoff
man, W.S.ti.: Nancy Nunn, Dramatic
Council: Putty Shoemaker, W.A.A.;
Ralph Zimmerman, M.A.A.: Virginia
Asheraft, (Si'ii.fokdian : Helen Lewis,
Y.W.c.A.: Hampton Ilowerton, sopho
more class: Frank Miles, social com
mittee: Hazel Kradsliaw, senior class;
Hetty Anne Anderson, junior class;
I'cgg.v Taylor, choir: and ltay Wood,
M.S.ti. Faculty advisers are Miss
•Jainey, Miss '.asley, and Dr. Newlin.
Retiring ofliiers are Joan IJipperge:-,
president; Ha:el Key. vice-president;
and Virginia A-hcraft, secretary.
GlIILFOBI) COLLEGE, N. MAY 13. 1944
Alumni Day Features
Reunions, Play, and
Address by (adbury
Scholarship Society Will
Hear Talk on George Fox;
Fifty-Year Group to Meet
Plans for Alumni Day, Saturday,
May 27. have Iteen completed, Miss
Katherlne C. Kicks, secretary of the
Alumni Association, announced yester
day.
The program for the day includes an
alumni meeting at 12:30 o'clock in
Memorial Hall: an alumni luncheon
to be served in Mary Hobbs at I:3ft;
and reunions of classes 18ft4, '!)!), 1004,
'Oft, 'l4, 'lft, '24, '2ft, '34 and '3ft nre to
follow the luncheon. The Fifty Year
group will hold their reunion at this
time. Mrs. R. B. John of Fayetteville
is chairman of the group.
In the afternoon at 3 o'clock in the
library, Professor Henry J. Cadbury
will speak to the Scholarship Society
and friends on "Digging George Fox
Out of His Burrows." At 4 o'clock
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Quaker to Sponsor
Beaux Arts Program
i Shelton, Pell, Miles, Evans,
Taylor, Anderson, Perkins,
Victorius Give Musicale
The Beaux Arts Society, under the
sponsorship of the (Junker will present
a program of semi-classical music on
May 1!> at 8 o'eloek in Memorial Hall.
Among the vocal selections to be
given will be "Ix>ver, Come Back to
Me," sung by Linda Pell, "Tomorrow,"
by Frank Miles, "Through the Years,"
by Anne Perkins, "The Song Is You,"
by Peggy Taylor, and "Delight in Mel
ancholy," by Sue Shelton.
The pianists nre Betty Anne Ander
son who will play "Seller/,o in C
Minor," by Chopin and David Evans
who will play "Pavane pour une en
fant definite," by Havel. I>r. Curt
Victorius will also play two cello
solos.
Cost of admission will lie 25c a
couple and 15c single. All receipts
will go for the benefit of the Quaker.
Grace Siler to Head
Marshals Next Year
Stanfield. Stabler, Wright,
Anderson, Shelton, Gray,
And Sapp Chosen to Serve
Grace Siler has been chosen by the
faculty to head the group of eight
junior marshals. Others are Sue Shel
ton, Christine Stanfield, Betty Anne
Anderson. Aileen Gray, Helen Stabler,
Jack Wright, and Oscar Sapp. They
will serve for the year 1944-45.
The marshals are selected from the
sophomore class and are chosen on
the basis of their scholarship. The
group will usher at commencement and
at other college programs.
For the first time in the history of
Guilfi rd, tlie chief marshal is a girl,
Grace Siler.
Junior marshals who were selected
last spring to serve during the year
1!4.'!-44 were Dave Stanfield, chief:
| Virginia Ashcraft, Mary KUen Jordan,
Judy Nelson, James I.elir, and Frank
j Miles.
May Queen ...
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Until ICdgerton Hollowell who will
reign over the afternoon's festivities.
Public Speaking (lass
To Give Two Plays
Overtones and Suppressed
Desires to Be Presented;
I)r. Furnas Is Director
Two comedies will be presented by
the public speaking class Saturday,
May 20, at 8 o'clock, in Mem Hall.
First will lie "Overtones" by Alice
Gertsenberg. The characters are two
society women who meet for the first
time in several years and although they
appear to be cultured and ultrapolitc
they have inner emotions which are
portrayed by two other women who are
constantly tearing each other aiirt.
Those taking part are Fredda ltatledge,
Until Hollowell, Alice Ekeroth, and
Mary Frances Chilton.
Tin- second play will be "Suppressed
Desires" by Susan Glasphell. A case
where a limitel knowledge of psychol
ogy and suppressed desires almost
broke, up two happily married couples.
The cast of this play is John Barney,
Charlotte Pearson and Ethel Perry.
Dr. Furnas is the director and Bob
Beyer is the prompter of the two plays.
Democracy Plays Important
Role in Collegiate Life
The purpose of the following is to
further t f ie idea that Guilford l>e run
on a democratic basis, to the extent
that all campus Guilfordians—faculty
and students—are equally a part of
the government of college life. At this
suggestion, three main questions arise:
1. What, more fully, is meant by
democracy 011 the Guilford College cam
pus? 2. Is it advisable that we should
have this form of government? .'l. If
so, how can it lie successfully attained
and maintained? These three questions
will be answered, and possible objec
tions to the idea will lie discussed.
1. Democracy on the Guilford Col
lege campus means a cooperative gov
ernment of all activities by the whole
campus body, probably through the
centralized leadership of faculty and
students, proportionately represented on
the organization for inure harmonious
living here at college. This council
j would eliminate the necessity of the
four main governing bodies now in
existence: the Women's Student Gov
ernment, the Men's Student Govern
ment, the Student Affairs Board, and
the Personnel Committee. In answer
May Day Dance Tonight
at Eight; Everyone
Swing Out!
NUMBER 7
Hollowed to Receive
Crown in Traditional
May Day Ceremony
The traditional May Day festival
will be presented this afternoon 011
Founder's lawn at "> o'clock at which
time Rutli Hollowell will be crowned
queen of the festivities. Her attend
ants include: Joan Ilipperger, maid of
honor; Barhnra Anderson, Marv Belle
Clark, Kathleen Kirkuian, Kdith
Swisher, Hetty and Shirley Marshall.
Their escorts will be: John 11aworth,
A/S C'hnrles I-ewis, Jack Wright,
Jim Lehr, Norman (ioodridge. David
Stanfield, A/S Fred Taylor, and John
Tate. Buddy Fisher will carry the
queen's crown anil I'eggy Phillips and
Eva I'urdom have been chosen for
flower girls.
The Junior class will perform "The
Pied Piper of Hamelin" under the
direction of Toni Ungar. Virginia
Weatherly will take the part of the
piper who rids the city of rats and
then charms the children away; Patty
Shoemaker is the "littlest child of
all." Pat Loekwood is their accom
panist.
M. J. Martin and Helen Stabler are
directing the Sophomores in "The Wal
rus and the Carpenter" from "Alice
in Wonderland." in this Sue Shelton is
the carpenter, Helen Stabler the wal
rus, Marjorie Conrad the sun, and
Mabeth It a i ford is the moon. In ad
dition to the dancers, there will be
a chorus reading the poem.
Etlle Shifferli and Nita Young are
showing the freshmen how to do
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Eat Much!
Are you hungry? We are speak
ing only to Sophomores. If you
are eligible in both these respects,
set your alarm clock and on Sun
day morning he out at the college
pasture at :80 o'clock.
Anyone ran eal breakfast in a
lorm—but "wise-fools" can com
mune with nature while guzzling
coffee!
to the question, should we have this
democratic system incorporated at Guil
ford, there appear three positive an
swers :
(a) An individual can develop most
fully into a competent, self willed per
sonality when he, himself, is an essen
tial part of the controls placed on his
educational experience. It is obvious
that we become more real individual
people with thoughts of our own if we
are fostered in a cooperative rather
than authoritarian society. The first,
reason for democracy, then, is the
growth and enrichment of the indi
vidual personality.
(I>) As is hinted above, authoritari
anism and strong individual characters
do not go together. We live in a
country which professes, not authori
tarianism lint democracy, as its philos
ophy of government. If it is not
actual')' a democracy, it is not the
country's fault, but the people's—they
are, in truth, the makeup of the coun
try. Belief in our professed form of
government and desire to live in it.
should lend 11s to practice it—now is
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