VOLUME XXXIX
BLOODMOBILE TO VISIT HERE MARCH 18
Inglis Fletcher
Speaks at Induction
Of Four Scholars
Four months of intensive plan
ning bore brilliant fruit last week
end when Mrs. Inglis Fletcher,
North Carolina's first lady of let
ters, appeared on the Guilford Col
lege campus as guest of the Schol
arship Society. Initial planning
began early in the fall after Mrs.
Fletcher indicated her willingness
to visit the school to help the So
ciety celebrate its sixteenth anni
versary, but final arrangments were
completed early in January when
Richard Staley, president of the
Society, entertained faculty and
student members at a tea in the
Fine Arts Room.
Mrs. Fletcher was first presented
to the student body at Friday morn-1
ing's regular chapel when the So
ciety inducted four new members:
Mabel Benedict, Gary Hildebrand,
Barbara Anson, and Elsa Neitzke.
Introduced by the President, Mrs.
Fletcher drew on her experience
as a writer of three African novels
and seven novels about colonial
North Carolina to give the students
pointers on "Writing Historical Fic
tion." Speaking of characterization,
Mrs. Fletcher said that invented
characters often have a tendency
to get out of hand and "run away
with the story." When such a prob
lem arises, Mrs. Fletcher remarked
that she had no qualms about "do
ing away with such obnoxious char
acters." She referred to her treat
ment of the tutor in Raleigh's Eden,
whom she sent to William and
Mary "to teach Latin."
Following luncheon with Miss
Gilbert, Mrs. Fletcher attended
several of the afternoon English
classes at which she went further
into the techniques of fiction writ
ing. At four o'clock in the after
noon she and Mr. Fletcher were
guests of honor at a tea given in
the Alumni House to which mem
bers of the Society, members of
the Honor Roll, and faculty were
invited. Around sixty guests were
received by Dr. and Mrs. Milner,
Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher, Miss Gil
bert, and Richard Staley. Dr. Eva
Campbell presided at the tea table,
assisted by Joyce Taylor, Glenna
Fulk, Betsy White, Mae Nicholson,
and Zoe Campbell.
Friday evening Dr. and Mrs.
Milner gave a dinner party for
Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher. Other
guests were Bill Yates, Betsy White,
Joyce Taylor, and Dick Staley.
Following dinner, Mrs. Fletcher
returned to the auditorium to give
an address on "The Colonial His
tory of North Carolina." Intro
duced by Miss Dorothy Lloyd Gil
bert, Mrs. Fletcher reviewed the
early history of the state and
pointed out that "North Carolina
is the only state in the Union
with an authentic Elizabethan back
ground."
Always alert for interesting his
torical facts, Mrs. Fletcher looked
over the collection of Quakeriana
in the Library Saturday morning.
She and Mr. Fletcher were the
guests of the students at lunch in
Founders Hall Saturday noon. Im
mediately after lunch, she left for
an appointment in Chapel Hill.
Work Progresses
On Recreation Room
More work has been done on
the recreation room planned for
Guilford College in the basement
of the gymnasium. Joe Floyd and
Ed Jones, physical education ma
jors, have painted the walls and
floor beginning the first definite
action into creating a recreation
room for the students of Guilford
College.
Ray Blakesley, chairman of the
committee for the room said, "that
this was the first in a series of
actions to change the once dark
and dirty room into a bright room
with furniture, ping-pong, games,
television and dancing. This need
for the recreation room is soon
hoped to be accomplished before
this year is over."
The Qui(forS'cw
Quaker Ministers
Here This Week
The North Carolina Yearly Meet
ing's annual "Short Course" for
Quaker ministers was held at Guil
ford College during the past week.
It was under the general direction
of Howard Yow, a former mission
ary with the American Friends
Service Committee in Keuya, Afri
ca, where he did educational work;
Mr. Yow is now pastor of a Quaker
meeting in Mount Airy, North
Carolina.
Discussing the theme "Minister
ing to Spiritual Hunger" were Isaac
Harris, former Executive Secretary
of the North Carolina Yearly Meet
ing, and pastor of Archdale, N. C.,
Meeting, Russell Branson, active
Quaker of Guilford College, and
Eldon Mills, guest speaker for the
short course.
Eldon Mill, a graduate of Earl
ham College in Richmond, Indiana,
is a Congregational minister in
Hartford, Connecticut. His church
was selected by Christian Century
as one of the twelve outstanding
churches in the United States. A
Quaker by heritage, Eldon Mills
has never lost contact with the So
ciety of Friends.
Approximately thirty ministers
attended the short course this year.
Evening session of the course were
open to the public without charge,
and Eldon Mills spoke to the stu
dent assemblies on Wednesday and
this morning, relating religion and
brotherhood to the present - day
world situation.
Mrs. John Russell
Sings in Chapel
Mrs. John B. Russell, instructor
of voice and music at Guilford pre
sented a music program on Janu
ary 30, at 10:20 o'clock to the stu
dent body.
Presented by the Fine Arts Club
of Guilford College, Mrs. Russell,
a lyric soprano, sang "O Liebliche
Wangen" by Brahms, "Er Ist's" by
Schumann, "L'Heure Exquise" by
Hahn, "Romance" by Debussy,
"Deh, vieni" from The Marriage
of Figaro by Mozart, "Villanelle"
by Dell-'Acqua, "When I Have Sung
My Songs" by Charles, "The Green
Dog" by Kingsley' and "Sweet
Chance That Led My Steps" by
Head.
Mrs. Russell, the former Peggy
Sue Taylor, holds a bachelor of
music degree in voice from Salem
College, and received her master's
degree in music and music educa
tion at Teachers College of Colum
bia University. A voice student of
Lorne Grant of Greensboro, Mrs.
Russell has also studied with Edgar
Schofield of New York City, and
coached oratorio and lieder with
Charles Baker, also of New York.
While studying, she appeared as
soprano soloist with the Teachers
College choir in concert in New
York's Town Hall. A member of
the Greensboro Opera Association,
she appeared in a lead in that
group's production of "The Beg
gar's Opera," which was performed
for the National Association of
Teachers of Singing at its district
convention at Appalachian State
Teachers College at Boone. She
has alfco performed leading roles
with the Winston-Salem Operetta
Association and the Piedmont Fes
tival Opera Association of Winston-
Salem.
Mrs. Cook son Dies;
Mrs. Milner s Mother
Mrs. Madge Davis Cookson,
82, mother of Mrs. Ernestine
Cookson Milner, died Saturday
morning, February 9. Mrs.
Cookson, a native of Morgan
County, Ohio, had made her
home with the Milners for six
years. Funeral services were
held at the First Methodist
Church of Troy, Ohio, on Tues
day.
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C., FEBRUARY 17. 1953
This little girl was one of the 25,000 children to receive gamma globulin
shots to prevent polio crippling last year. The Red Cross cannot pos
sibly meet the needs of two million children next year, but the by
products of a pint of your blood can protect ONE child through next
summer's epidemic. Protect a Child. Give a Pint of Your Blood
March 18.
For Scholars Only
1. Guilford College seniors ma
joring in chemistry, physics, or en
gineering are eligible for Atomic
Energy Commission-sponsored grad
uate fellowships in radiological
physics for the 1953-54 school year.
Up to 75 fellowships may be award
ed, with fully-accredited graduate
study to be carried out in three
locations. One program is oper
ated by the University of Rochester
and Brookhaven National Labora
tory, another by the University of
Washington and the Hanford Works
of the AEC, and the third by Van
derbilt University and the Oak
Ridge National Laboratory.
In each case, nine months of
course work at the university is
followed by three months of addi
tional study and field training at
the cooperating AEC installation.
The program is accredited for grad
uate level training leading toward
an advanced degree.
Basic stipends for fellows is
$1,600 per year, with an allowance
of $350 if married and $350 for
each dependent child. University
tuition and required fees will be
paid by the Oak Ridge Institute
of Nuclear Studies, which admin
isters the program. Additional al
lowance may be obtained from sci
ence department heads or direct
from the Institute at Oak Ridge,
Tennessee.
2. From June 27 to August 8,
1953, the University of Oslo will
hold its seventh Summer School
for American and Canadian stu
dents who have completed at least
their freshman year in any ac
credited college or university. Com
petitive Scholarships are available
for this study. A full scholarship
($225) covers board, room, tuition,
student and excursion fees. A par
tial scholarship ($110) covers tu
ition and student fee.
3. A brochure listing nearly 200
fellowship opportunities for Ameri
can students to study abroad dur
ing the 1953-54 academic year was
issued this week by the Institute
of International Education in New
York City. The awards, which are
largely for graduate study, are of
fered to American students by
private organizations and by for
eign governments and universities.
Most of the awards are for study
in European and Latin American
universities. Grants are also avail
able, however, at the University of
Ceylon and at the University of
Teheran.
General eligibility requirements
for the majority of the grants are
(1) U. S. citizenship; (2) a Bachelor's
degree; (3) a good academic record;
(4) a good knowledge of the lan
guage of the country of study. The
closing date for applications for
grants given by the French govern
ment is February 1; for most of
the other grants the closing date is
March 1.
Committee Plans
Special Week of
Religious Emphasis
March 1-7 will be the date mark
ing the annual observance of Re
ligious Emphsis Week here at Guil
ford College. The Religious Em
phasis Week committee, headed by
Triby Tucker, has been organized
I and functioning since before Christ
mas. Advisers to the committee
include Dr. Clyde A. Milner, Dr.
Frederic L. Crownfield, and Dr.
Gordon W. Lovejoy.
The theme of the occasion will
I be centered around campus ethics,
and though only one week has
been set aside for its observance,
it is hoped that the effects of the
program will carry over through
out the year. The faculty is gra
ciously supporting the sponsoring
group by scheduling their work
according to the plans of the week,
and also by bringing religion into
classroom discussions as much as
possible.
A special event has been planned
for each day of the week. The
regular compulsory Wednesday
morning chapel will be changed
to Monday morning. Dr. Crown
field will give the schedule for the
coming week, while plans for the
remainder of that" morning's as
sembly have not yet been disclosed.
Tuesdy night will find the dorim
tories on campus busy with "bull
sessions" in which guided discus
sions will be held among small
groups with a faculty adviser with
in the dormitory.
A non-compulsory chapel will be
held Wednesday morning by substi
tute campus leaders. Dick Staley
and Bill Yates will be the main or
ganizers behind this event.
Thursday afternoon, Dr. Lovejoy
will lead a forum on segregation.
Representatives of both the Negro
, and the white races will be pres
ent.
Bringing the week to a close,
Dr. Clyde A. Milner will speak
during the Friday morning chapel
period on integrating the past
week's program into the entire
school year. On Friday night, the
A. & T. choir will present a concert
in Mem Hall, thus terminating the
final program of Religious Empha
sis Week.
Signs of Maturity
In chapel, John Pipkin gave his
three signs of maturity:
1. Willingness to accept respon
sibility for your own choice, in
cluding reason-centered judgment
not emotioned-centered.
2. Ability to look ahead beyond
to consequences of your actions.
3. Non-conformity. Don't let the
world squeeze you into its mold—
Do your own thinking.
NUMBER 5
Officials Hope for
150 Pints Donated
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will
be in Greensboro on March 18 and
19. On invitation of the college
authorities, it will be set up in our
gym on the first day of its two
day visit. Burlington Mills will
sponsor the second day.
Red Cross officials hope for 150
pints of blood from the college and
community at large, since this is
the daily minimum essential to
meet the needs of the blood pro
gram. The blood is provided free
of charge to the armed forces,
civilian hospitals, the Federal Civil
Defense Agency, and as a source of
the gamma globulin used to pre
vent crippling after-effects in polio.
Supplies for the latter use are criti
cally inadequate.
Pledge cards will be distributed
to students and members of the
college community in advance of
the collection date in order that
pledges may be given and appoint
ments made. Bloodmobile officials
point out that at least 220 pledges
must be made in order to secure
the 150 points, since not all pledges
can be filled.
Age limits for donors are from
18 to 50 inclusive. Donors under 21
must either have the written per
mission of their parents, be mar
ried. self-supporting, or members
of the armed forces. Cards will
be distributed in time for donors in
this group to secure the necessary
permission.
Since the Bloodmobile and its
staff must come from Charlotte,
the first day's donations will begin
at 11:00 o'clock and continue un
til 5:00.
Medical checkups will be made
to be sure that the individual donor
can give blood without ill effect.
Trustees Approve
Evening College
Merger lor March IS
The Board of Trustees of Guil
ford College decided in a special
meeting, called on January 16, to
merge Guiiford College and Greens
boro Evening College. The merger
will consist of placing the two in
situtions under a single govern
ing body, that body being the Guil
ford Board of Trustees. All build
ings, finances, and equipment of
the Evening College will come
under control of Guilford.
The move was instigated by the
Board of Trustees of the Evening
College. They felt that they need
ed increased facilities and funds
if they were to continue to render
a valuable service to the City of
Greensboro. Guilford, with its en
dowment of $1,121,000, with its
library of over 31,000 books, and
classroom and laboratory facilities,
offered the additional equipment
needed to satisfy this need. The
merger does not become official
until March 15, although the pro
gram is well under way. Dr. Pur
dom and Dr. Ott are already teach
ing courses in the Evening College
sessions. Four courses from the
regular Guilford curriculum will
be offered in the Evening College
Division this summer. English 36
and 49, Shakespeare and The Short
Story; Philosophy 24, and Soci
ology 20, will be given. Greensboro
residents taking courses will
receive regular college credit for
their work. Non-credit courses will
be taught by carefully selected
specialists from in and around
Greensboro.
Three civic organizations, The
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce,
The Greensboro Merchants' Associ
ation, and Greensboro Industries,
Incorporated, are backing the move
and will lend financial assistance
to the program.
Members of the Evening College
Board of Trustees will be invited
to become members of the Greens
boro Advisory Board of the Col
lege after March 15.