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Volume XLII
Road-E-0, And Beauty
Contest Scheduled
Jaycees Sponsor
The Guilford College Jaycees
have begun two projects, both in
volving the college.
The Teen-Aged Safe Driving
Road-E-O will be held on campus
May 18. Students with drivers
licenses who will not be 20 years
of age by August 10, 1958, will be
eligible to compete for prizes, and
a chance to go to the state contest
in New Bern May 31, and the Na
tional contest in Washington, D. C.
August 10. A written examination
will be arranged prior to May 18
for those interested. Further infor
mation may be easily secured
froim Dr. Norman Fox.
The annual "Miss Guilford"
Beauty contest will be held in
Guilford College May 23. Girls are
qualified merely by being 18 years
old and single by September 1,
1958. They may have permanent
residence anywhere. Some of the
Guilford College girls have already
been called on about this. Anyone
who wants to get more information
about this should contact Bob
Thompson, Chairman of the Beau
ty Pageant. Bob is a Guilford stu
dent living in the Frazier Apart
ments.
President's Reception
To Be Held June 1
For Graduating Class
On Sunday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m.
the annual president's reception for
seniors will be held on the Milners'
terrace. If the Commencement and
Baccalaureate speakers are avail
able at the time, they and their
wives will receive with the Milners
the seniors, their parents, and other
Commencement guests in front of
the doorway. After this the college
marshals will help with the seating.
The choir will sing on the terrace.
Among the numbers to be sung by
the mixed chorus are: "All Things
Are Thine," "The Silent Sea,"
"Little Black Train Is A-comin',"
and 'There Is a Balm in Gilead."
The male chorus will sing
"Awakening," "The Singers' Creed,"
and "This Is the Day of the Lord."
In the yard lit with colored
lights, Mrs. Milner assisted by
Miss Davis, Dr. Williams, and non
senior women choir members—will
serve refreshments.
N. C. Young Friends
To Attend Retreat
This week-end North Carolina
Young Friends will hold a retreat
at Quaker Lake. The theme for the
conference will be "What Will
Tomorrow's Quakers Believe and
Do?"
Beginning at 2:00 p.m. Saturday
it will last until 4:00 p.m. Sunday.
The retreat is open to all young
Friends between the ages of 18 and
30. There will be a cost of $2.50
per person to cover the expense of
the week-end. Attenders should
take camping clothes, sheets, and
blankets.
Among the leaders will be Ralph
A. Rose, Virginia printer, formerly
with the American Friends Service
Committee and Friends world
Committee; Ed Burrows, history
professor here at Guilford; Sarah
Cecil, housewife, nurse, and
Friends leader in High Point; Max
Heirich, AFSC College Program di
rector; Charlie Hendricks, Guil
ford's Director of Admissions;
David Stanfield, minister of Spring
field Friends Meeting in High
Point; and Pete Moore, religion
professor here.
THE GUILFORDIAN
Commencement Exercises Set
Brown, Graham Will Deliver
Sunday and Monday, June 1 and
2, have been set aside for the com
mencement program. Two out
standing men have been asked to
speak. Kenneth Irvin Brown, a
clergyman of national and interna
tional renown, will deliver the
baccalaureate sermon at 11:00 a.m.
Sunday. On Monday at 10:30 a.m.
Frank Porter Graham, an outstand
ing figure in American education
and in international relations, will
give the commencement address.
Dr. Brown
Dr. Brown was born in Brook
lyn, N. Y. He attended the Univer
sity of Rochester and received his
Ph.D. from Harvard University in
1924. He has received honorary
degrees from the University of
Rochester, Wittenberg College,
Denison University, and the Col
lege of Idaho.
Dr. Brown's career in teaching
has been a long and distinguished
one. He served as an assistant in
the English Department at Har
vard from 1921-24 and was Pro
Summer School Set
For June 5-Aug. 5
Guilford's forty - first summer
school session will begin on June
fifth. The nine-week session will
last until August fifth, and is de
signed primarily for students who
wish to continue their studies dur
ing the summer, and for teachers,
doing further work in their special
fields.
Credits in this summer session up
to ten hours may be earned. Tuition
charges are $12.00 per credit hour
plus the $5.00 registration fee. Both
board and room are provided for
$13.50 per week. Women will live
in Founders Hall, and men in
English Hall.
Required freshman courses are
offered for those freshman who
wish to benefit from the smaller
classes, which permit greater indi
vidual attention.
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fessor of Biblical Literature at
Stephens College from 1925-30,
when he became President of Hi
ram College. He held this position
for ten years and in 1940 was made
President of Denison University.
At present Dr. Brown is the execu
Outdoor Recreat
Planned For
A proposed outdoor recreation
area for Guilford College has been
approved. It will be a lighted area
with a surface sufficiently smooth
for contests such as basketball,
volley ball, and badminton and
will be constructed in a suitable
area near the gymnasium to pro
vide activities for students.
In order to fulfill the anticipated
needs of first year students, this
recreation area will be 90 feet in
length and 60 feet in width. Its sur
face will be of asphalt or smooth
finished concrete. Lighting fixtures
will be mounted on metal poles at
sufficient heighth to bathe the en
tire area in light after dark. Six
DR. BROWN
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Foundation.
In 1948-49 Dr. Brown served as
President of the Association of
American Colleges. He is a mem
ber of Phi Beta Kappa and an au
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such fixtures, one at each corner
and one at the center on each side,
should be sufficient.
In this area it will be possible to
lay out two 40 by 60 feet basketball
courts and two shuffleboard courts.
Also, within the area covered by
the basketball courts, it will be
possible to lay out three regulation
size badminton courts and two
volley ball courts. In addition to
these courts, there will be a hand
ball backboard 16 feet high and 20
feet wide, and a putting green for
practice golf will be laid out be
hind the gymnasium.
Spanish Club To
Sponsor Barbecue
On Thursday, May 15, the
Spanish Club will hold its annual
and traditional Spanish "Bar-b-q
Pig." This is the second of the two
main events of the Spanish Club
during the year. The first one was
the Christmas Party, and the club
members are working hard to pre
pare the second big affair.
The lake has been chosen as the
cite for this barbecue, and the time
will be 6:00 p.m.
Entertainment will be provided
by records of Spanish music and
singing of popular Spanish songs
under the direction of Ernestine
Williams, program chairman.
Chaperones for this event will be
Dr. and Mrs. Milner and Mr. and
Mrs. Hunt. The sponsor of the club
is Mr. Hilty.
Besides barbecue pig, the meal
will consist of potato salad, slaw,
rolls, ice tea, cookies and different
types of Spanish food.
Organizing this affair are Miriam
Almaguer, Spanish Club presi
dent; Pat Garner, vice-president;
and Ginette Bourderaeu, secretary
treasurer.
Admission price is and
tickets can be bought from Mr.
Hilty, Mrs. Hunt, and Spanish Club
members.
This affair is not limited to stu
dents of Spanish, but all the faculty
and student body are invited.
Alumni Day
May 31
June 1-2;
Addresses
Campus Decade in 1940, and Not
Minds Alone in 1954. He was the
editor of Character: Bad, the war
letters of a conscientious objector,
published by Harpers in 1934.
Dr. Graham
Dr. Graham, the commencement
speaker, was born in Fayetteville,
N. C. He attended the University
of North Carolina, graduating in
1909. He received the A.M. degree
from Columbia University in 1915
and the degree of Litt.D. in 1931.
Honorary degrees have been con
ferred upon him by numerous col
leges and universities.
Dr. Graham served as President
of the University of North Carolina
for many years, and in 1949 he was
appointed United States Senator
from North Carolina. He was an
organizer and the first president,
in 1946, of the Oak Ridge Institute
of Nuclear Studies and held this
position until 1949. At present Dr.
Graham is a mediator for the
United Nations. He has served on
various UN committees and has
been the UN representative for
India and Pakistan since 1951. He
has been a member of numerous
national advisory boards and com
mittees, including the National
Consumers' Advisory Board and
the National Emergency Council.
He also served as Chairman of the
National Advisory Council on So
cial Security.
"The New Republic"
Is Offering Contest
For Young Writers
The magazine, The New Re
public, is extending an invitation
for young writers, members of both
the student body and the faculty,
to submit essays in its present
"Competition for Young Writers."
One thousand dollars in awards
for the best essays on the state of
American fiction considered in
general terms or in terms of a
single younger novelist, and for the
best essays on any aspect of pres
ent-day television viewed as a
medium for enlightenment or en
tertainment will be given.
The awards will be distributed
as ten awards of one hundred dol
lars each—five in each category.
Any writer under twenty-seven
years of age is eligible for com
petition. Essays should be fifteen
hundred to three thousand words
in length. The manuscripts will be
judged by the editors of The New
Republic, and should be submitted
by October 1, 1958 to: Awards
Dept., The New Republic, 1244
Nineteenth Street, NW., Washing
ton, D. C.
WAA Banquet To Be
At 5 P.M. Monday
The Mayfair Cafeteria, in down
town Greensboro, will be the scene
of the annual WAA Spring Banquet
to be held Monday evening, May
12th. The banquet is sponsored by
the cabinet of the Women's Ath
letic Association and is for all the
women students of Guilford Col
lege. The banquet is scheduled
from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., and
the transportation will be provided
by the WAA.
Carol Mcßane and Pat Estes are
in charge of the program for the
banquet.
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