May 24,1950
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Staley and Keegan
Reign Over Men's
May Day Festivities
"Roommate, wake me early, I pray,
For I'm to be Queen of the May
today!"
Dick Staley rolled over in 1 his
sack and groaned, "Oh, my good
ness." Peter Keegan woke one eye
to the sound of a siren, cursed his
student adviser, J. T. Venable, and
blithely fell out of bed. A beauti
ful May Day morning greeted the
Queen and King of Boys' May Day.
The birds were singing, the ducks
quacking, and the siren shrieking.
All the freshmen wrapped their
diapers around themselves and
waited for Coach Whip to yell for
the May Day to begin. A crowd
of over 200 roared as the King and
Queen entered the scene with their
freshman attendants. Bud Haworth,
Sam Lynch, Karl Reinhardt, George
Tate, Don Day, and C. A. Holt sat
around their appropriately deco
rated poker table and more or less
announced the different skits as
they were to appear.
Bill "Charlie Ott" Bright and
his boy scouts provided a humor
ous bit of fantasy with their imi
tation of Dr. Ott's boy scout troop.
The Married Vets presented a mock
election of a Guilford president.
"Tut" Sherrill handled the contend
er's speech while "Fuzzy" Yoder
was the incumbent.
George Powell filled Bill Byatt's
shoes as the new Mrs. Milner for
the next few years. Arch Riddick
was his prize pupil giving his proj
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THE T. GiI.BERT PEARSON BIRD COLLECTION located in rear
of Memorial Hall. Inset shows Mr. Pearson.
Mr. Pearson's Collection
Stands as a
By PETER KEEGAN
"From the beginning he knew
what he wanted to do and to the
end of his life he did it. There
were no false starts not even any
thought of turning back." This
tribute was said about T. Gilbert
Pearson, ex-president of the Na
tional Audubon Society, received
of many honors and decorations
and an alumnus of Guilford Col
lege.
T. Gilbert Pearson was born in
the Illinois frontier country on
November 10. 1873. but his Quaker
family moved to Archer. Florida in
1882 with other Quakers to farm
and grow oranges.
In his boyhood, at twelve years
of age, he started collecting birds'
eggs and then birds, but as his
teens went by his natural gifts of
ambition, foresight and courage
made him determined to learn
more of life than was to be found
in the Archer community.
At nineteen he wrote President
Hobbs at Guilford seeking permis-
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NEW WOMEN'S DORMITORY —As visualized by the architect.
Plans for actual construction have not been completed.
Past Year of Improvement
Adds to Campus Beauty
A Guilford College that has for
long been in the minds and hearts
of those who love her has been
for the past year a slowly emerg
ing reality.
Indeed, 1949-50 has been a year
of building; of improvement. Over
crowding of classes and inadequacy
of facilities have almost disap
peared with the utilization of the
new science building. The new li
brary addition, which has been in
construction for the entire year,
promises to furnish Guilfordians
I comparatively one of the most ade
sion to enter by trading his most
valuable possession, his collection
of eggs and stuffed birds, for an
education.
President Hobbs agreed to let
Gilbert Pearson come to Guilford
with his collection and services as
curator for a two-year period. In
August 1891, the boy from Florida
arrived and entered the prepara
tory department.
After two years of service to
Guilford, he managed to talk the
trustees into board, room and tui
tion plus fifty dollars to continue
increasing the steadily growing
little museum, which had started
out as a natural history cabinet.
During the summer vacations he
went to distant cities to see promi
nent ornithologists and thus made
beneficial contacts with people in
his particular field while still in
college.
During his six years at Guilford,
he was quite active as editor
of the Guilfordian. the college
periodical, and president of an ora-
THE GUILFORDIAN
quate library plants in this section.
Seminar rooms, a music room, and
other special units promise future
students an extremely pleasant en
vironment in which to pursue
knowledge.
The King Hall completion, as
well as furnishing modern class
rooms and unexcelled laboratories,
graces the campus and adds to its
environmentof unhampered beauty.
Even now, before the last touches
of plaster and fresh paint are be
ing applied to the library addition,
work has already begun on the
long-awaited renovation of Duke
Memorial Hall.
A well-deserving Miss Lasley is
moving from her present small of
fice to a spacious one at the back
of the building. The renovation is
providing a vault for the safekeep
ing of records. This addition, which
has long been termed a necessity
by Miss Lasley, is to adjoin Miss
Lasley's office.
Also under construction are new
offices for Mr. Parsons, Mrs. Sims.
Mr. Bradshaw, Dean Ljung, and
Mrs. Crownfield.
The maintenance department,
which since Christmas vacation has
been management of Mr.
Gurney Gilbert, has continued mak
ing improvements on the campus
which have heretofore been hin
dered by labor and material short
ages. Many areas, ihcluding those
behind Memorial Hall and in front
of King Hall, have been reseeded
with new grass.
Along with these improvements
made during the past year, two
new bathrooms have been installed
in Archdale Hall, as well as the
addition of four new dormitory
rooms.
Looming additions to the cam
pus are a new auditorium-chapel
and girls' dormitory, as well as ex
panded outdoor physical education
facilities.
The patience and toil of Dr.
Clyde A. Milner, D. H. Parsons,
and those who have for the past
year devoted all for the cause of
a greater, finer Guilford, have been
bearing fruit—and will continue to
do so.
Indeed, the school year 1949-50
has been one of building, and 1950-
51 promises to hold even more in
store for a developing Guilford.
Tory club, the Websterian Literary
Society. In athletics he was active
as captain of the football team and
manager of the baseball team. He
also founded the Athletic Associa
tion at Guilford in his sophomore
year and kept its finances until he
graduated.
After graduating he spent two
years at tl?e University of North
Carolina and worked during the
summers at the Marine Laboratory
at Beaufort.
In 1899 he returned to Guilford
as professor of biology. He found
the biology equipment consisted of
only what he had left in his stu
dent days, but he was soon award
ed $75 from the Board of Trus
tees to buy a microscope and other
supplies to start what is now our
biology department.
In the fall of 1901 he left Guil
ford to join Woman's College as
Professor of Biology and Geology
at a better salary.
Cooking, Beloved History
Prof's Favorite Pastime
By GENE KEY
Seldom has a person invaded the extremely critical atmosphere
of a college campus and captivated the respect, love, and admi
ration of a student body as has Edward Burrows during his two
years at Guilford College.
Future Tom Edison,
Petty, Has Fingers
In Numerous Pies
By DARRELL PEELER
Herbert Clinton Petty, Jr., is a
campus genius who modestly ad
mits it. This young man, the 6'
sVfc" answer to a tall maiden's
prayer, has so many irons in the
fire that there is danger of putting
out the fire.
While carrying three majors—
physics, mathmatics, and chemis
try—Herb is quite active in cam
pus and outside affairs. He is
official sound man for school
affairs, the custodian of the Cox
Hall intercom system, movie pro
jectionist, and helping hand extra
ordinary. An amateur radio en
thusiast, he is currently assisting
Pat "Peevo" Russo in the construc
tion of an amateur radio station.
The son ot devout Quaker par
ents, Herb has always been a
precocious child, frequently to his
parents' dismay. Always one to
find out things for himself, he be
gan his investigation into the na
ture of the world at a very tender
age. In fact, at nine, he blew off
the furnace door with a gunpowder
bomb concocted in his small base
ment lab, and he has been at it
ever since. When he couldn't get
anyone to develop some odd-size
film from a camera he had come
across, he secured an old pan and
proceeded to develop it himself.
The pictures were a complete suc
cess. In junior high school, he
didn't like the student newspaper,
so he became editor, publisher,
and newsboy of his own news
paper, which folded after one issue
for lack of subscribers —the only
failure in an otherwise brilliant
career.
A bad but enthusiastic pianist,
Herb may be heard presenting a
nightly concert in the parlor of
Founders Hall, where he will exe
cute your favorite number on the
slightest urging.
"Nobody else likes it, but I do,"
he says, "so I keep it up. I have
fun." Others apparently enjoy his
music, too, because there is usually
a fair sized crowd gathered around
the piano to listen to his versions
of The Man I Love, Alexander's
Ragtime Band, Rachmaninoff's Con
certo in C Sharp Minor, La Golan
drina. and a specialty number that
is really You Are My Sunshine
played in a minor key, but sounds
more Russian than Ivan Ivanovitch.
A pre-engineering student,
Herb plans to go into electronics.
"Because." he said, "I like to mess
nrou nd with vacuum tubes and the
gimmicks that go with them."
When asked how he finds time
to study, Herb replied, "Well. I
lon*t like I ought to, but who
does?"
He says he doesn't study, but he
nulls down A's in subjects like Cal
culus 11.
The fates are Herb's undoing;
however, seldom does one find a
oerson who is so completely a
child of circumstance. If a golf
ball ricochets off a tree. Herb is the
man it conks. Everything he
touches falls, apart. He thinks
a little gnome follows him around,
thinking up fiendish little things to
have happen.
In case of lightning storms, don't
stand under a tree or near Herb.
You may be next.
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Mr. Burrows, who is leaving in
June on a leave of absence to con
tinue studying for his doctorate in
history, has not only come into
close, friendly contact with Guil
ford students through his survey
course in World History, but also
through his work with the Honor
Board, attendance at social gath
erings, and participation in infor
mal discussions on campus.
Mr. Burrows, fondly (but not to
his pleasure) known as "Eddie,"
has a method of teaching which
pleases his students. "He teaches
subject matter and facts so they
are meaningful, and leads you into
thinking about things. He relates
past happenings to the present,"
they say.
History students also tell of oc
casional sermons they hear in Mr.
Burrows' classes—"He just closes
his book and starts telling you
things to think about—about your
self." Also attributed to Mr. Bur
rows is the feat of "putting the pop
quiz on Guilford campus to stay."
Born in a farm community near
Sumter, S. C., the young history
professor was reared in that rural
environment. He received his A.B.
degree at Washington and Lee in
1939, and received his Master's
from Duke in 1941. Throughout
most of the war he served in Civil
ian Public Service, and in 1947-48,
prior to his coming to Guilford,
he studied at the University of
Wisconsin.
His major field of study and in
terest is political and cultural re
lationships between people on the
personal, community, national, and
international levels; and he is also
deeply interested in sociology and
race relations.
Mr. Burrows has time for only
one hobby—cooking. Conflicting
reports of success and failure in
this field prohibit a scientific con
clusion as to his achievements,
but the people who have dined
with him (and they'should know)
say he is a very good cook.
Mr. Burrows comes from a fam
ily of six—four boys and two girls.
Only he and a lone sister remain
unmarried.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Charlie Hen
dricks believes the probabilities are
great that soon only a sister will
remain unmarried.
EDWARD F. BURROWS
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