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East Carolina
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VOLUME XXXIX
Choir Enters Silver Anniversary Year; Tour Planned
Guilford Enrollment
Up Again, Number of
Women Increases
Guilford enrollment for the first
semester 1952-53 is up again this
year, for a total of 497 students.
The tentative figures prepared by
Miss Era Lasley, registrar, indi
cate a total of 154 women students
and 343 men. Last year's figures
were 141 and 334, respectively, for
a total of 475.
A good proportion of the new
students Were from foreign coun
tries. Five are from Jordan, three
from Japan, two each from Italy
and Cuba, and one each from
Mexico, Finland and Estonia, for
a total of fifteen.
Twenty-four of the States are
represented, as are 53 counties of
North Carolina.
The number of veterans con
tinues to dwindle, there being 51
veterans as opposed to last year's
68, but the number of married
students has increased from 57 to
59.
(lass of 1913
Renovates, Equips
Registrar's Office
Students who have had con
ferences with the college registrar
will have noticed that her office
has been rebuilt and refinished.
As a present to the college, mem
bers of the class of Guilford Col
lege of 1913 decided to furnish
and equip this office. After the
carpentry had been finished, the
room was finished in light green
along with the other administrative
offices. New furnishings, a large
metal desk, chairs for the regis
trar and persons consulting with
her, and other necessities such
as a lamp, were given by the class.
Draperies which blend with the
furnishings were carefully selected
and hung.
To give the office a Hved-in
effect, a large plate mirror was
given Ijy the class of 1913 to hang
on one wall. Furthermore, a pic
ture of the New Garden Bord
ing School, Guilford's predecessor,
was found and enlarged. It is one
of a series of drawings by John
Collins, who, when he came to
a yearly meeting in 1869, drew a
series of paintings and described
them in his notes. The painting
chosen shows the boarding school,
which is now founders Hall, just
after the War Between the States.
A photostat machine was also
donated by the class of 1913, and
has already been put to extensive
use. Reports of final marks last
year were not sent as usual: stu
dents received photostatic copies
of their entire records. Likewise,
transcripts sent to other colleges
are made on the same machine.
Faculty advisers are also provided
with copies of the records of their
advisees. As time goes on, more
and more use will be made of this
photostat machine.
Coming Up
Founders Day, Wednesday Oct.
22. All day program featuring
special chapel on the theme of
"The Relationship of North Caro
lina Yearly Meeting and the Five
Years Meeting." Forum discus
sions in the afternoon on the work
of the various boards of the Five
Years Meeting. The annual J. M.
Ward lecture will be delivered at
8 p.m. by Clarence Pickett of
Philadelphia, distinguished Quaker
and for twenty years executive
secretary of the American Friends
Service Committee.
Goilford vs: East Carolina at
Greensboro, Saturday, October 25.
First Quarter ends. Saturday,
November 8.
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Silver Anniversary Year officers of the Guilford A Cappella Choir include (left to right) Dorothy Ann
Ware, pianist. Rachel Grogan, Jane Ott, Hugh Downing, Beaman Griffin, Andy Hughes, and Director
Carl Baumbach.
Emily Warrick Rules
Homecoming Fete
A gala dance climaxed a festive
Homecoming Day October fourth.
The dance, sponsored by the
Women's Athletic Association,
featured the well known Duke
Cavalier's Dance Band.
Preparations Committee
Ann Newton, chairman of the
W.A.A. social committee, was in
charge of preparations and plans
for the evening. Colorful decora
tions, carrying out a football
theme, converted the gym into a
gray and red room.
Miss Betsy White, W.A.A. presi
dent; Miss Margaret Reynolds,
W.A.A. advisor, and Mr. and Mrs.
Stuart Maynard greeted the guests
at the door.
Queen Presented
The presentation of the Home
coming queen and her court high
lighted the occasion. They were
Miss Emily Warrick, queen; es
corted by Mac Privott; Miss Betsy
Bingham, escorted by Grady Lakey;
Miss Sue Ginz, escorted by Leslie
Warrick; Miss Jean Pleasants, es
corted by Earl Tyson; and Miss
Carol Smith escorted by Robert
Ralls. A special dance was then
held for the queen, her court and
their escorts and for the football
players and their dates.
Well over two hundred alumni
and students attended the dance
which proved to be a great success.
The Homecoming Dance is an
annual event designed to climax
the homecoming get-together.
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GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., OCTOBER 15, 1952
Clarence Pickett To Deliver
Third J. M. Ward Lecture
The third annual J. M. Ward
Lecture will be delivered at 8
p.m. October 22 by Clarence Pic
kett of Philadelphia, honorary sec-
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CLARENCE PICKETT
retarv of the American Friends
Service Committee.
The lecture, which is a yearly
Founders Day feature at Guilford,
is expected to draw representa
tives from every section of the
North Carolina Yearly Meeting.
Pickett received his bachelor's
degree from Penn College, Oska
loosa, lowa, in 1910. He studied
for the next three years at Hart
ford Theological Seminary, where
he received his B. D. degree.
In 1922, after several years as a
minister, he studied at Harvard
University and became professor
Dr. Vicky Brushes Up
At Summer Seminar
Dr. J. Curt Victorius, Guilford
Professor of Economics, was one
of the fifty top-flight economics
teachers selected to attend the an
nual economics summer seminar
held at Case Institute of Technol
ogy in Cleveland this past summer.
The seminar, which is sponsored
by Republic Steel in the interest
of an exchange of ideas between
academic and business leaders on
current business problems, feat
ures the top thinkers and speakers
in both fields.
of Biblical Literature at Earlham.
He joined the AFSC in 1929.
During the following years he
worked in the Department of In
terior as consultant in the Re
settlement Administration, the
Farm Security Agency, and the
National Housing Agency.
Pickett served as executive sec
retary of the service committee
from 4930 to 1950, and has been
a member of the Quaker team at
the United Nations during the past
two sessions of the General Assem
bly.
He also traveled in Egypt, Israel,
and Palestine during 1949 for the
service committee in behalf of
the United Nations Relief for
Palestine Refugees.
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Leads Scoring
Washington's Redskins opened
their professional football season
with a 23-7 upset victory over the
Chicago Cardinals in Chicago; and
scoring the 'Skins only second-half
touchdown was Sam Venuto, for
mer Quaker all-conference back.
Venuto, playing both offense and
defense during the fourth quarter,
carried the ball off tackle for three
yards and his first professional
touchdown. Then he led his team
on another drive, only to have
the game end with the ball on the
eight yard line.
Venuto is playing in fast com
pany: on the same team are Sammy
Baugh (as spry as ever in his six
teenth year), Harry Gilmer, and
Billy Cox (of Duke and Mt. Airy).
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East Carolina
Saturday
NUMBER 1
Extended Midwest
Tour Contemplated
The Guilford College A Capella
Choir has opened its silver anni
versary year. Sporting an enlarged
membership of over sixty-five
members the group hopes to make
its twenty-fifth year one of the
best on record.
Ably directed by Mr. Carl C.
Baumbach, the choir is adding
many new selections to its repetoir,
as well as retaining a number of
old favorites of past years, in an
effort to make its programs ap
pealing to all listeners.
New officers were elected in the
first two weeks of the semester.
In addition to William Utley, choir
president, who was elected last
year, nine new officers were nomi
nated and elected. Beaman Griffin
was elected to fill the difficult
position of business manager, left
vacant by the resignation of Ver
non Tyson. Other officers elected
were as follows: Hugh Downing,
Publicity Manager; Jane Ott, Sec
retary; Colin Edwards, Transpor
tation Manager; Bobby Wall and
Andrew Hughes, co-stage Mana
gers; Rachel Grogan, Librarian;
Bob Ralls, Senior Class Repre
sentative; Bobbye James, Junior
Class Representitive; and Bobbie
Grantham, Sophomore Class Rep
resentitive. To date the Freshman
Class representative has not been
elected.
Preliminary plans for concerts
and programs show that the Choir
will be quite busy this year. Early
hints indicate that the annual tour
will transport the Choir to the
mid-west and Chicago this year,
possibly in a sense returning the
visit that Senator Bob Taft paid
us last year. Speculative arrange
ments are also being made in an
effort to have a recording of the
choir made and sold to the stu
dents of the college and to alugpni
members of the choir, and anyone
else who is Interested, for that
matter. The theme to be used
would point up the Choir's silver
anniversary and its twenty-five
years of national fame.
The choir is, unfortunately, weak
in men's voices and issues an ap
peal to any and all male students
who can sing and who might be
interested in joining the choir, to
please come on out and do so.
Frosh Come Out With
Dress and Song
Now you can see the color of
the Freshman boys' hair. Home
coming ended the period that the
freshmen had to wear their "but
tons" and furnish gum, toothpicks,
and matches for the upperclass
men; but some sophomores still
chanted, "The worst is yet to
come." The following Tuesday was
the Freshmen girls initiation day.
Founder's girls, with teddy bears
and costumes of little girls in the
nineteen hundreds, recited nursery
rhymes at the request of sopho
mores.
The Hobbs girls proved that
freshmen really love sophomores
by singing to them their songs of
admiration at si* o'clock in the
morning. Each freshman girl had
written her own song.
Joyce Fingado had another song
to repeat during the day:
I'm not peaches,
I'm not cream,
I threw water,
On the team.
To combat any evil effects that
too much free time might produce,
the upperclassmen have kept the
freshmen boys busy shinning
shoes, sweeping floors, cleaning
rooms, and answering the tele
phone. At the end of this semester
they will be qualified valets, if
nothing else.
Tuesday ended the period of
distinction between classes for the
girls. For the boys, no one will
venture to say.