MERRY
CHRISTMAS
VOLUME XXXX
CHOIR TO PRESENT 'THE MESSIAH' SUNDAY
MJ. Southard
Elected President
Of Library Club
M. J- Southard has been elected
president of the Library Assistant's
club, with Lura Jane Carroll serv
ing as vice-president. The club in
cludes both faculty and student
members of the library staff. At
the present time the club has
twelve members: faculty—Miss Gil
bert, Mrs. Mathis, Mrs. Bailey, and
Miss Farrow: students—Marie Haz
ard, Alice Crow, Betty Busiek,
Betty Rose Franks, Roger Redman,
and Bill Odom. Both officers are
students, M. J. is a senior and Lura
Jane is a sophomore.
The purpose of the club is to
provide an opportunity for the as
sistants in the library to learn
more about the library and to know
each other better so that the staff
will be able to work as a unit. They
will learn how to use the micro-film,
the vault, the Quaker room, and
the stacks.
The club meets once a month on
Sunday nights to discuss the library
work. They are planning an open
house so that all the students will
be able to tour the library.
Hobbs Girls Witness
Unusual Experience
For the past few weeks Mary
Hobbs Hall girls have witnessed
some strange and unusual exper
iences. These experiences are in
the form of telephone calls and
suspected "peeping toms". The calls
have been going on for a couple of
years but in the past few weeks
they have infcreased and this year
vulgarity has been the tone of the
calls. The "peeping torn" has been
noticed late at night and early in
the morning as the girls go to
cook breakfast.
The calls are frequent on Sun
days and the caller usually speaks
to the girls in language unfit for
printing. Attempts have been made
to curb the calls and even the po
lice have been notified to have
the calls traced but as yet they do
not think that the calls are import
ant enough to be stopped although
the Mary Hobbs girls have a dif
ference of opinion. The person call
ing talks in such low whisper that
it is impossible to comprehend
characteristics of the voice, thus
the girls refer to him as the "wflls
per" in polite circles and other
names in Hobbs Hall.
The peeping Tom has been seen
parked behind King Hall near Mary
Hobbs Hall sometimes sitting in the
car and at other times walking near
the dorm. There have been several
attempts to stop the "peeping torn"
by Guilford boys, but as yet they
have been unsuccessful in their at
tempt. The early cooks have noticed
the person driving around Hobbs
circle early in the morning with
lights out.
The Mary Hobbs girls would like
to see these two invasions on their
privacy stopped by the person or
persons doing these deplorable ac
tions as many of the girls are fright
ened and wish that the scare would
cease.
College Employs
Mw Nurse
Ruth Elizabeth Antony, R. N.,
has been employed as college nurse
beginning her services January 5,
immediately after the Christmas
holidays. In addition to her pro
fessional training, she has had three
years of nursing experience.
Miss Antony will enroll for col
lege work beginning second semes
ter as she is most desirous of com
pleting requirements for a college
degree.
The QtiilforScm
The Physician's Son
(A Christmas Short Story)
Joseph, the wealthy councilor
from Arimathea, was tired both in
body and spirit as he turned from *
the heavy stone which he had
placed on Jesus' tomb.
His long colorful cloak was soiled
and torn. The hatta had falling
from his head, showing the grayness
of his long locks.
Without a word his helpers sat
down on the limestone hill beside
him. There were Simon, who had
come from Cyrene, and his sons, i
Alexander and Rufus.
In the background, at an approp
riate distance from these men. were |
Mary of Magdala and Mary, some- j
times called the mother of Joseph, I
but usually designated as Mother j
of the Master.
"Why?" It was the foreigner, j
Simon, speaking, after the pene- j
trating silence which seemed to
unite these five diverse characters
who had come to the grave of their j
Lord.
"Why" he was asking Joseph of
Arimathea, "did you go to Pilate
to claim the body of Jesus? You
are no kinsman. You were not one
of the twelve. You are from the
wealthy class in your town. They
tore me from the crowd to carry
the cross, when I was only a curious ;
spectator. What more were you than
a spectator?"
"It may seem strange to you, a
Cyrenian, Simon," Joseph began to
speak, as if he were looking back
in time to some important event, j
"It is true that his followers are
mostly not men of wealth. It is also
true that I cast my vote for him
and not Barabbas in the Council, j
Only in recent weeks have I come
to see that he brings the greatest
hope that Judah has ever known, j
Yes, even more than David, or
Josiah, or that Prophet of Babylon.
"You know, Simon, that the
priests were against him. So were
the prophets. So was the Council.
Not Pilate. It was politics with him. j
He wanted to be on the safe side
with the priesthood and with Herod. |
They both want the blessing of,
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C.. DECEMBER 11, 1953
By J. Floyd, Moore
Caesar. The masses, they know,
want a military revolt.
J "But not this man of Nazareth.
He said it must be a different way.
The way of Love. But they do not
! even,understand what he meant."
"Joseph," interrupted Simon,
"how is it that you, a Judean, a
man of income and prestige, have
|come to believe in this man?"
"It is only in these last days that
I seem to have grasped the meaning
of hie words. But it has taken me
i 30 years to do so, for it really start
|ed in Bethlehem, when I was a
youth of 21.
"My father, Bocheru, was the
I physician in Bethlehem. He was a
! man of learning, not a man of re
jligion. He cared naught for the
| priests and their superstitious rit
: uals. And I was trained as a young
i man in this same spirit. I wanted
J everything to be demonstrated. I
I wanted to know how the body func
| tiored and why. J detested the so-
I called magic of religion.
"That night when so many were
| crowding the town—oh, I shall
never forget it! All the Bethlehem
iites returning to register for the
census. A certain Nathan, keeper of
| Inn at the Hebron Road, had come,
! breathless, begging for my father
|to hurry to his stable, mumbling
j some superstitious words about a
| Messiah, one who would grow up to
deliver Judah from the Romans,
i about to be born of a virgin called
Mary, who had just come from
i Nazareth.
"My father was exhausted from
work, what with all the crowds in
| town. It had been after midnifht
when he came in and practically fell
I to his bed in sleep. And it was I
! who heard Nathan—l the son of
Bethlehem's physician—who lied to
Nathan. It had been that way too
often, poor strangers calling for
the help of my father, at all hours
of the night, and with nothing to
j pay. And I lied. My father had not
returned, I had said. I would send
him over as soon as he returned
i home. The idea, a Messiah born
) of a virgin!
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Choir To Join Euterpe Club
At Aycock Auditorium Tuesday Night
The Guilford College A Cappella i
Choir has started the 1953-1954 sea
son with a full schedule. On Sun-,
day afternoon, November the twen- j
ty second, it gave its Christmas pro
gram with choruses from The Mes
siah for the audience in Farmer!
High School, Farmer, N. C. Follow- j
ing the concert, a most plentiful
and delightful buffet supper was
served by the members of the
Science Hill Friends Meeting. Pete j
Moore, '39 pastor of the church and
religion professor here at Guilford,
[arranged the concert.
The Association of American Uni- i
versity Women was hostess to the
choir on Tuesday night, December
second, when the choir again gave
their Christmas program. The same
Christmas program was given at
Magnolia Street Baptist Church in
Greensboro. N. C. on December the
seventh during the evening service.
Light refreshments were served fol
lowing both performances.
The culmination of first semes
ter's work will be presented in the
performance of Handel's The Mes~
siah on Sunday afternoon at three
o'clock in the afternoon in the New
Garden Meeting House. The choir,
in combination with the Guilford
Community Chorus, is under the
capable leadership of Carl C. Baum
bach. Mr. Baumbach, head of the
Guilford music department, direct
ed the large performances of The
Messiah given last year in the First
Presbyterian Church in Greensboro.
The Guilford choir will again join
the Euterpe Club in the presenta
tion of The Messiah on Tuesday
night, December the fifteenth under
the direction of George Dickerson
Legislators Report
Successful
Guilford College's resolution hon
oring Dr. Graham was passed by
the Senate of the State Student
Legislature as presented by Jim
Lomax and passed by acclamation
in the House of Representatives
where it was presented by Jennie
Smith. (Resolution was published
in previous issues of Guilfordian.)
However, the bill which was drawn
up to give women equal rights was
defeated in the Senate, but tabled
indefinitely in the House of Repre
sentatives, being presented most
competently and convincing by Les
lie Warrick, who argued the male's
viewpoint, and Jennie Smith, who
argued for the females. The bill
entailed a great amount of discus
sion, and it was quite ironic to
Freshmen To Go
Caroling Tonight
The freshman class of Guilford
College will hold their Christmas
social tonight December 11. The
social this year is in the form of a
Christmas carolling.
All class members will meet at
Mary Hobbs Hall at seven p. m.,
and there they'll begin their carol
ling journey to the professor's
homes as well as the community
homes. Following the singing the
group will proceed to the Founder's
dining room where refreshments
will be served. There will also be
dancing.
COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN
Anne Hulin, Annie Watkins, Pat
Ritchie, and Barbara Tilley are in
charge of the refreshments for the
event. Mary Ella Clark, Barbara
Hart, Bill Shelton, and Bob Isko
witz compose the program commit
tee.
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
NUMBER 4
with the Greensboro Symphony
Orchestra.
The choir which will be in charge
of the chapel program on Friday
December the eighteenth will give
its Christmas program for the last
time this year.
The holidays do not terminate the
plans of the choir, however, full
scale work is being done in prepa
ration for the spring tour, which
will take place from March twenty
first to April first. This year, as in
1952, the tour will carry the forty
choir members above the Mason-
Dixon Line into such strategic
places as Albany, N. Y.,
sie. N. Y., Mount Holyoke, N J.
Baltimore, Maryland. Alexandria,
Virginia, and others with the main
highlights being Philadelphia and
New York City. Definite concerts
have already been arranged in the
above mentioned, and by January,
the entire tour program, with at
least ten stops, will be completed.
The program includes: The Negro
j Bell Carol with Evelyn Cline and
Anne Timberlake as soprano solo
ists; Beautiful Savior , with Buddy
Wade and Reva Watson doing alter
nate solo work; Carol Noel with
j Anne Timberlake, Marjorie Talley,
' and Thelma Buckner forming the
soprano trio; Christmas Day with
Reve Watson contralto, Hugh Down
ing bass. Buddy Wade Baritone, and
Neva Watson soprano; The Holly
and The Ivy with Evelyn Cline as
soprano.
Enthusiasm is high, and the choir
in doing some of the best work in
j several years. The co-operation be
-1 tween the director Mr. Baumbach
and the choir—individually and as
a whole—seems to be on a firm
base.
note that the women as a whole
; were not in favor of equal rights
for women and actually argued
| against the equality bill.
j The six representatives of Guil
jford divided into parties of three.
;Jim Lomax, Mary Ella Clark, and
j Don Rockwell became senators
I while Edwin Brown, Jennie Smith,
! and Les Warrick became represent
jatives in the House of Representa
tives. The delegates were enthusi
; astic about the State Student Legis
lature, stating that such an exper
ience is beneficial to a college stiv
ident. They are looking forward to
attending the spring session of the
(legislature if tentative plans for a
I second session of the legislature
materialize. Jennie Smith and Ed
Brown were appointed to serve on
the Interim Committee for the
coming session.
Pleasure is not to be combined
with business; however, there is a
time for both. Les Warrick's father
certainly took this into considera
tion and entertained his son and the
other five delegates in grand style.
On Saturday afternoon after the
legislature had convened, Mr. War
rick took them aU out to State Col
lege to see the football game played
between State and West Virginia.
And, of course, he couldn't allow
them to go home without a delight
ful steak supper and without going
to see the Globetrotters play basket
ball in the Coliseum at the college.
Junior Class Plans
i Minstrel Show
The junior class in order to raisr
money for the junior-senior ban
quet, have decided to present' n
ministrel show in the beginning of
the second semester. The committee
in charge of planning the program
is headed by Don Precise; those
assisting Don are: Morris Hail,
Marty Burton. Andy Hughes, Betiy
Humble, and Mary Colie.