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The Hallowe'en
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VOLUME XXXVII
Big Hallowe'en Carnival Is Set For
Dramatic Council To Present' Our Town 7 Soon
Play To Be Staged
Before Christmas,
Wall Announces
Bob Wall, president of the Guil
ford College Dramatic Council, has
announced that the annual Fall
production will be "Our Town."
"Our Town" is a three-act play by
Thornton Wilder that has been very
successfully presented on various
professional and amateur stages
throughout the nation.
The Dramatic Council decided
this year to forego the usual com
edy and replace it with a warm,
human interest drama that would
get into the heart of the audience.
"Our Town" is such a play. It has
real emotional value and plenty of
subtle humor.
Uniqueness
This play is unique in that it has
no stage setting. The clever dia
logue of the stage managers and
characterization are the prime fac
tors in making the play the success
it has been for the past several
years. In a play of this type there
is a striking effect on the imagina
tion of the audience. This is an
other instrumental factor for the
nationwide success of the play.
Plot of Play
"Our Town" is portrayed as a
typically picturesque little town in
New Hampshire, inhabited by typi
cally picturesque people, who live
typically picturesque lives. How
ever, the play and the people, and
the lives they live are not so typical
that they have to have their setting
in Grover's Corners, New Hamp
shire. They are just typical enough
to take place anywhere in the imag
ination of anyone in the audience.
The cast for "Our Town" con
sists of 26 characters. Tryouts are
being held this week. Any inter
ested in dramatics whether experi
enced or inexperienced is asked
to try out.
Hay ride!
The S. C. A. and Social Com
mittee will hold a hayride Sat
urday night. All are welcome.
South American Tomboy Has
Been to More Places than Mrs R.
By Darrel Peeler
Bobbie Hunt has done more
traveling in her nearly twenty
years than most people can crowd
into a lifetime.
This active young lady was born
November 27, 1930, in the govern
men hospital at Conception', Chile.
She ran away three days later,
and has been hopping around the
western hemisphere like a flea on
a hot stovelid ever since.
She comes of a family of globe
trotters. Her father, Charles Hunt,
was born of well traveled mission
ary parents, within sight of Egypt's
pyramids. He grew up in this coun
try. and eventually wound up at
Wooster College. Ohio, as an Eng
lish major. There he found a kin
dred spirit in Evelyn Chaffee, who
joined him and became Mrs. Hunt
as soon as he was firmly establish
ed as the Chilean representative
of Standard Oil.
Things were Idyllic for the young
Hunts, even as they skipped from
on flea-bitten little Chilean oil
town to another. Little did they
realize the momentous changes that
sunny November cay would bring.
At first young Barbara was like
any other little girl, and her par
ents fairly glowed with pride. How
ever, she soon became the tomboy
ringleader of whatever district her
father was developing at the mom
ent, and took great delight in the
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GUILFORD'S WHO'S WHO—pictured above are the nine chosen for Membership in the Who's Who in
American Colleges and Universities. First row, left to right, they are Hardy Carrol, Dot Kiser, Margie
Edgerton, Anne Stabler, Audrey Smith. John Schopp. Second row, Hayes Ratledge, Gene Key and Ben
Baker. — Staff photo by Metzner
Sadie Hawkins Day Dance
To Be Held November 18
By Marjorie Jardine
Mark Saturday, November 18, on
your calendar and set it aside for
the Sadie Hawkins Barn Dance!
This year it's going to be bigger
and better than ever. The cabinet
of Women's Athletic Association is
making colossal plans for the sec
ond annual presentation of the
unique girl-ask-boy dance.
Fellows, you better be on your
good behavior, so your "best gal"
will be sure to ask you. It's all
going to happen in the Guilford
Gymnasium at 8 p.m., Saturday.
Square Dance
Arrangements have been made
for the veteran square dance caller,
Jake Welker, of Greensboro, to
guide and direct the festivities. Mr.
Welker will bring with him Gurley
South American equivalents of
Cowboys and Indians, gang battles,
football, and whatever else her
cunning little mind could devise,
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GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C„ OCTOBER 27, 1950
I Wyrick and his string band who
will insure a good time for all.
In the making are elaborate plans
for the enhancing of the barn dance
atmosphere, with the decorating of
the gym in autumnal regalia.
National Hawkins Day
Incidentally, if you have kept up
with "Li'l Abner," you are already
aware of the fact that November 18
has been made "offishully" Sadie
Hawkins Day. That means that
Daisy Mae will be around asking
Li'l Abner while all you Guilford
gals are asking your best beaux.
Tickets will be on sale in the
near future, and hurry, girls, so
you won't be in the last minute
scramble for a partner.
Prizes will be awarded for the
"best dressed" square dance cou
ples and also there will be many
surprises in store for you at the
gym—including refreshments.
'Quaker' Staff Gels
Underway Early
The staff of The Quaker, the
Guilford College Annual, has al
ready begun to get underway. Its
biggest job is to get the pictures
of each individual student. Photos
have been taken and by the end
of this week all retakes will have
been completed.
Co-editors-in-chief Jean Kirkman
and Dorothy Demos should be duly
credited for the way they have got
ten their staff together and work
ing this early in the year and for
the work that they themselves have
done.
Other members of the Quaker
staff are: Joyce Fulk. managing
editor; James Dobbins, business
manager; Henry Maclin, assistant
business manager; and Dorothy
Cheek, art editor.
The powers that be are not di
vulging any information concern
ing such things as color scheme,
dedication, or general layout. These
facts must remain secret until pub
lication.
Close Race
Freshman officers elected for
1950-51 were: president. John
Lomax; vice-president, Dick
Brown; secretary, Max Ballin
ger; treasurer, Marvin Owens.
'Comedy of Errors'
To Be Presented
By Barter Troupe
Robert Porterfield's Barter The
atre of Virginia will present its
gala costume production of "The
Comedy of Errors" by William
Shakespeare in the Guilford Col
lege auditorium on Monday, No
vember 20, at 8:15 p.m.
This production features the
most elaborate costuming to be
used by. the Barter Theatre thus
far this season. The gay comedy
is written with a light-hearted spir
it of fun and the players make the
most of its Elizabethan revelries,
according to the critics.
Ample Music
The play will be under the direc
tion of Margaret, Perry and Woody
Romoff will handle the musical ar
rangements. Although it is short
in comparison with other Shake
spearean production, "The Comedy
of Errors" has forty music cues and
five dances including a Maypole
caper.
Based upon a merry confusion of
shipwheck and mistaken identities,
the comedy will be carried out in
a Greek m'otif along lines similar
to Barter's "Twelfth Night" and
"Much Ado About Nothing" of past
seasons. The Barter troupe is the
only troupe that writes its script
out in prose instead of verse so
that the lines come evenly and
clearly.
All of the properties, scenery and
costumes for "The Comedy of Er
rors" are new. Fabrics in nylon
and taffeta from Burlington Mills
have gone into the costumes. A
series of platforms which can be
changed quickly and easily to give
varied effects.
I. R. C. Plays Host To
Greensboro College
On Thursday night, October 19,
the Guilford College International
Relations Club was host to the
I. R. C. from Greensboro College
for a discussion on "Korea—What
Next?"
Mr. Elvin Strowd summarized the
events leading up to the Korean
crisis, and the events that have
taken place since. Mr. David Staf
ford gave background material
growing out of his experiences in
China. The main problem dealt
with what what shall be done with
Korea after the United Nations vic
tory.
Beat
Lenoir-Rhyne
Next Saturday
NUMBER 2
Tuesday
Monogram Club To
Presenl Carnival
In Gymnasium
Fifteen Big Thrill
and Fun-Packed Acts
Step right this way, folks, and
get your tickets to the greatest
show on earth. Yes sir, ladies and
gentlemen, the big day is Tuesday,
October 31, Halowe'en night; the
place is the gym, the time is 7:30.
What is it? Why, it's the big Hal
lowe'en Costume Carnival spon
sored by the Monogram Club.
Everyone is invited down to the
gym for one of the grandest nights
of entertainment and fun ever pre
sented. Admission is just one thin
twenty-five cents. Tickets can be
obtained from any Monogram Club
member. Everyone come in the
fanciest costume you can muster,
as there will be a big prize given
to the boy and girl wearing the
best ones. No one will be admit
ted unless he is wearing gym shoes
or socks.
Fifteen Big Acts
The carnival will feature 15 big
acts packed with fun and thrills.
An old - fashioned square dance
called by a famous surprise hill
billy; not one, but two big cake
walks will be held, with delicious
cakes going to the winners; games
of skill such as a golf putting con
test, a basketball goal shooting con
test, apple bobbing, and many oth
ers with prizes for all; a few num
bers by Guilford's own famous Four
Sharps quartet of television fame;
a side show featuring a dance by
the most beautiful girls in the
country, Madame Zombi the fam
ous fortune teller; and of course
there will be plenty of good food on
hand including cider and dough
nuts.
This is just a few of the big
attractions that you will enjoy at
this big show. Get your tickets
now; they are going like hot cakes.
See you all at the Carnival!
Library Dedication,
Founders' Day Set
Tentative plans for the annual
Guilford College Founders Day pro
ceedings to be held on November
10 have been completed, according
to college officials.
A large number of invitations
to educators and alumni will be
sent this week. Dr. Clyde A. Milner,
college president, said.
The feature attraction of this
year's program will be the dedi
cation of the recently completed
SIOO,OOO library addition, and the
first annual Jeremiah Montgomery
Ward lecture on an important phase
of Quaker thought.
Dr. Alexander C. Purdy, profes
sor of New Testament literature at
Hartford Theological Seminary, will
give the Ward lecture at 8 p.m. He
will speak on "An Able Leadership
for Friends' Meetings."
The lecture is authorized in the
Ward Permanent Trust Fund of
$250,000. This fund also provides
scholarships to Guilford foj stu
dents from North Carolina, "Ohio,
and Tennessee, who display quali
ties of leadership for the Society
of Friends, for research grants, and
for Friends community service.
Help Other Nations,
Says Robert Frazier
Robert Frazier, secretary of the
Guilford College Board of Trustees
and Greensboro attorney, told the
student body on October 14 that
"If we, as Americans, can have the
understanding and courage to help
other nations enjoy freedom while
maintaining our freedom at home,
we can extend indefinitely the reign
of Western democracy in the
world."