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The Guilfordian
PRESS
Published Bi-monthly during the collegi
ate year by the students of
Guilford College
Entered at Greensboro, N. C., as second
class matter under Act of Congress,
August 24, 1912
Editor-in-Chief Margaret Haworth
Managing Editor Lillian Burrow
Business Manager Bill Smith
EDITORIAL STAFF
Associate Editor Andrea Rogin
Sports Editor Sidney Hart
Sports Staff —Bill Wearmouth, Charles
Watson, Lynn Hundley
News Editor Anne Taylor
Reporters —Betty Jean Steele, Louise
Bunker, Mary Greenwood, Ira Ross,
George Passes, Marilyn Gainey, Fern
Landenslager, Jackie Glisson.
Art Editor Carolyn Nimitz
TECHNICAL STAFF
Advertising Manager Miles Frost
Exchange Editor Jo Ann Cook
Photographer Dwight Thomas
Typing Manager Janet Andrews
Typists —Barbara Fichman, Sara Jane
Robertson, Betty Pake, Judy Wolff,
Ellen Horr, Donnie Bodenheimer,
Fraser Smith, Ann Shelton, Betsy
Winesett.
Circulation Manager . . Betsey Russell
Circulation Staff —Wanda Carter, Betty
Brown, Sara Lou Phillips, Bill Rhoads,
Bill Wearmouth, Tom O'Briant, Betty
Jean Steele.
BUDGET TIME ARRIVES
This year, as every year, the
Guilford College student body will
groan with boredom on finding
out that a chapel period has been
set aside for discussion of the bud
get. There is no getting around it—
budgets are dull things, especially
when they don't involve one's own
money. And they are absolutely
unpleasant when an increase in
fees becomes necessary. The last
few times that the budget has been
submitted, a general state of con
fusion has occurred. This seems to
be the fault of both the student
body as a whole and the budget
committee. If both groups have
learned a lesson from last year's
finances, this time the problem can
be discussed in an orderly and rel
atively painless manner.
It seems that there is no need for
anyone to read the allocations to
all the organizations and to men
LET'S VARY CHAPEL
Recently the programs in chapel
have seemed to be more interest
ing and varied. For this improve
ment, thanks should go to the pro
gram-planning committee. Too of
ten speakers are dull, topics are
boring, and chapel is monotonous.
This should not be tine.
Why not have even more varia
tion? Last year several chapel
periods were given over to talent
shows, light entertainment, etc.
This year, until recently, all the
programs have been on the serious
side. There's no necessity for this.
Instead of forcing monotany on
students and turning them against
the thought of chapel, there should
be a variety of interesting pro
grams for students to enjoy. In
other words, students shouldn't
become immune to chapel.
Little
Arnold
Danny Carr Visits Cuba For Personal
Interview With Liberator Fidel Castro
Danny Carr, a Senior Spanish
major here at Guilford, left Fri
day, January 23, on his way to
Cuba. The object of his trip was to
see and speak with Fidel Castro,
leader of the successful Cuban re
bellion against Batista.
Circumstances were against this,
but he did get as close as next door
to Castro. Danny returned from
Cuba last weekend with the tales
of his adventure.
Had Danny gotten to Cuba one
day earlier or one day later, he
would quite likely have been al
lowed to speak with Castro person
ally. As it was, luck was against
him.
On the day Danny arrived in
Cuba, Castro left on a two-day
trip to Venezuela. When he re
turned, he slept a whole day to
make up for a three-day lack of
sleep. Then, unfortunately, one of
Castro's best friends died and the
day was spent in mourning. On
the fifth day it was necessary for
Danny to leave on his return trip.
However, Danny talked to two
of the chiefs of the rebel army in
the room beside Castro's bedroom.
These men, Camelo Ciensfuegos
tion where increase has occurred.
The budget handed out explains
all this very clearly. However, a
logical explanation of why certain
organizations have received more
money would be a good idea. This
will give the students time to con
sider the budget and decide if they
have any questions. Questions and
debate are, of course, in order; but
they should be intelligent and care
fully thought out. The budget com
mittee can avoid certain problems
by saying specifically what hap
pens to any extra money.
If the committee thinks an in
crease in student fees is necessary,
and if they have logical reasons
for the increase, it seems that it
should be given. After all, the rise
in the cost of living affects Guil
ford College as well as the rest of
the world, and a few dollars won't
be that painful.
Naturally students will always
unthinkingly complain about re
quired chapel attendance (even if
programs are excellent), but if the
recent trend in programs keeps up,
their complaints will be unfounded.
Elections Are Coming
Elections will be coming up
sometime around the first of
March. Now is the time to begin
thinking about likely candidates
for each office. Remember that
offices are more than a position
and a title. They are a job and
as such involves real work. Don't
vote on popularity; vote on capa
bility.
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and Eresto Gueuara, told him
about Castro's life and about some
of the battles of the revolution.
Danny interviewed people on
the streets and found that veryone
seemed content with the revolu
tion's outcome and the now exist
ing government. According to
Danny the soldiers that he saw
didn't look at all like a victorious,
well-pleased group. They weren't
in uniform and appeared just the
same as anyone else.
Danny hoped to see one of the
trials but there were none while
he was down there. He has been
promised that if he writes to Cas
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Makes Television
Recently one of Guilford's gradu
ates made his television debut on
the Lowell Thomas show. He is
John "Jack" Lindsay, one of Dr.
Purdom's boys who graduated with
a major in math and physics (and
then received his Ph.D. from
UNC). His wife, Joyce Frye Lind
say, is also a math and physics
major and graduate of Guilford.
John, one of the senior research
men in the Navy Solar Research
with tickets, was sent to a small
island in the Pacific to send up
rockets and test atmospheric con
ditions during an eclipse visible
only from that island. Lowell
Thomas went along on this expedi
tion to take shots of the island, the
inhabitants, and the naval group
on the project. As the film turned
out, approximately three-fourths of
it was about the navy project with
much of it certering around John.
According to Dr. Purdom, with
out the "'rocket boys" the trip
would have been made in vain
because on the day of the elipse,
it rained "cats and dogs," and the
cameras were of no use.
The January Alumni Journal has
this to say about John:
"One of Guilford's alumni has
tro, he will receive a personal reply
since the fact that an American
went all the way to Cuba to see
Castro is an honor to him.
Danny has been studying about
and writing his thesis on the Batista
regime and the rise of Castro for
two years now. Besides giving him
valuable information for his thesis,
this trip has helped Danny further
his study of the Spanish language.
Danny has followed the Cuban
situation closely. Last year he gave
his Junior speech in Spanish on the
"Rise of Batista" and began out
lining his thesis.
recently made headlines in Hono
lulu, Paris and Washington.
"John C. 'J ac k' Lindsay '4O, a
scientist with the Naval Research
Laboratories, has recently been in
Paris for an international Geophysi
cal Year conference. At this meet
ing he was one of the U. S. scien
tists who reported the discovery
of intense X-rays bombarding the
earth from huge explosions on the
sun. This was reported in the Paris
Herald Tribune.
"The Washington Post and Times
Herald featured an article telling
of the study of Dr. Lindsay and
two other scientists of the relation
ship between the green clouds in
the sun's corona and conditions in
the upper atmosphere which affect
radio waves. The group traveled to
Danger Island, a remote speck in
the South Pacific, to observe an
eclipse. Subsequently, a picture of
the scientists appeared in the Star-
Bulletin of Honolulu and in Feb
ruary Lowell Thomas, famous
news commentator who filmed the
eclipse, will show the films on his
CBS television program."
Since the time the television pro
gram was filmed in September,
John has transferred from Navy
Research to Air Space Research
Agency.
FEBRUARY 6, 1959
History & Theories
Of Valentine's Day
There are various theories about
how the name of "Valentine" came
to be connected with the day on
which lovers send tokens to one
another. One is based on the be
lief throughout Europe during the
Middle Ages that the birds begin
to mate on February 14. Chaucer
referred to it this way:
"For this was Seynt Valentyne's
day.
When every foul cometh ther to
choose his mate."
Some suggest that the association
between "St. Valentine" and Feb
aruary 14 grew out of the similar
ity between the Norman word
"galantin," meaning a lover of
women, and the name of the saint.
They think that Galantin's Day
with the initial "g" frequently pro
nounced as V led to confusion.
Another theory is that the lover's
custom is a survival and a Chris
tianized form of a practice in the
Roman feast of the Lupercalia oc
curring in February. The names of
young men and women were put
in a box from which they were
drawn by chance, an arrangement
under which a young man became
the gallant of a young woman for
the next year. As this drawing oc
curred on February the 14, the day
of the saint, the association with
Valentine was established.
But no matter what the origin of
Saint Valentine's Day, with all it's
customs and theories, it is a day
that can be described and ex
pressed in four small letters:
"L - O - V - E."
Charles Snow To Be
On Television Panel
Charles Snow, a senior here at
Guilford, has been selected to be
one of the eight panel members on
the first in a series of television
Talk Back" programs this Sunday
afternoon at 3:00. This 13-week
series is to be a two-way communi
cation series concentrating on
problems which concern Ameri
cans the most. It will appear over
Greensboro's TV station, WFMY
TV.
This program, which Charlie is
helping with, will deal with every
day pressures. The probems of
pressure will be posed in a 12-
minute filmed drama fetauring pro
fessional actors. Afterwards, a stu
dio group gets a chance to "talk
back" and discuss the problem and
means of solving it.
The Talk-Back series is being
presented on Channel 2 as a public
service by WFMY-TV and
Churches in the area in co-opera
tion with the N. C. Council of
Churches.
Mary Hobbs Open House
Mary Hobbs Hall will hold an
open house next Saturday, Febru
ary 14, from two until four o'clock
in the afternoon. Everyone is in
vited to come over and tour the
dorm.
Refreshments will be served and
the dorm will be open and deco
rated from first floor to third.