Glee Club
Broadcast
Feb. 16
THE TWIG
Honor
Society Has
Banquet
Volume X
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FEBRUARY 13, 1931
Number 14
FOUNDER’S DAY OBSERVED AT
MEREDITH COLLEGE LAST FRIDAY
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Rev. ). A. Easley of Wake
Forest Speaks—Faculty
at Home to Many Visitors
Founder’s Day, wliich marked
Meredith’s 32d anniversary was
observed in the College Audi
torium Friday, February 6, at
11 o’clock at wliicU time Rev.
J. A. Easley, pastor of Wake
Forest Baptist church and Chap
lain of tliat College, was the
principal speaker. The faculty
was at Iiome between 4 :S0 and 6
o’clock at which time a special
invitation was issued to the
members of the General As
sembly, their wives, and friends
of the College.
Between 3:30 and 4« o’clock in
the afternoon a radio hour was
planned for the Alumnae of the
College. At 8:30 o’clock the
students entertained their friends
at the annual Student Govern
ment reception.
The morning exex'cises began
M'ith an organ prelude by Isaac
Battin, head of the music depart
ment of the College followed by
scripture reading and prayer by
Dr. I. M. Mercer, also a mem
ber of the faculty. “As Pants
the Heart” _ by Gale w
rendered by the choir.
Dr. Brewer then gave a brief
speech of introduction and read
telegrams and messages which
had been sent by alumnae and
GLEE CLUB TO BROAD-
CAST ON FEBRUARY 16
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Interesting Program at
I. R. Club Meeting
The International Relations
Club held its regular monthly
meeting on last Tuesday evening,
February 3.
After a few remarks by the
president Gerti-ude Bostic, tlie
roll was called and the minutes
were read bjr the secretary. A
very interesting program fol
lowed, in charge of Margaret
Dodd. Reports on recent hap
penings in Spain, France, and
Cuba were given by Louise
Clark, Anne Simms, and Harriet
Mardre, after which the discus
sion was opened to members of
the club.
Miss Herndon, the faculty ad
viser, told about a new shipment
of books for our library. Their
arrival is looked forward to with
much interest-and pleasure.
Due to the guidance and in
terest of Miss Herndon the Club
is having a most successful year.
On Founder’s Day, the Mere
dith jGlee Club sang two num
bers for the Alumnae Radio
Hour, broadcast from WPTF.
These selections were so well re-
reccivcd that the club has been
asked to give a half-hour radio
jjrogram from the Raleigh sta
tion at 8:15, Monday night,
February 16.
The Glee Club is composed of
twenty-two girls, most of whom
are studying voice. Miss Ethel
Rowland, head of the voice de
partment, is the director of the
club under whose leadership
great interest has been taken in
the club by tlie members. Gay-
nelle Hinton is the accompanist.
The Glee Club will give its home
concert in about three weeks, a
special feature of which will be
the singing of a Cycle written by
Ethelbert Nevin, which the club
will dramatize, using appropi’iate.
costuming. It is probable that
later in the Spring a concert tour
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FACULTY ATTEND TEA
GIVEN AT ST. MARY’S
The Meredith Faculty at
tended a tea given, by Rev. and
Mrs. Warren W. Way and the
faculty of St. Mary’s School on
Wednesday afternoon, February
4, honoring the membei’S of tiiie
General Assembly and their wives
and friends of the school.
Guests were received in the
school parlors which were at
tractively decorated with a lovely
an'angement of pink snap
dragons, pink roses and pink and
white sweet peas, ferns forming
a background for the floral ar
rangement. On arrival guests
wei’e received by Miss Nannie
Smith and Mrs.' W. W. Vass.
The receiving line was intro
duced by Mrs. Blanche Manor.
Receiving with Rev. and Mrs.
Way were Lieutenant-Governor
R. T. Fountain, and Mrs. Foun
tain of Rocky Mount;'Speaker
and Mrs. Willis Smith, Mrs.
James A. Hartness and her house
guest, Mrs. Lindsay Patterson
of Winston-Salem; Mrs. B.
Frank Mebane of Spray, and
Mrs. 'E. L. McKee of Sylvia;
members of the General Assem
bly; Mrs. S. G. Bernard of Ashe
ville; Mrs. Thomas Coxe of
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FOUNDER’S DAY CLOSES
WITH S. G. RECEPTION
The Climax of Founder’s Day
on Friday, February (>, was the
annual Student Government re
ception, which is given each year
by the Student Government As
sociation for the students,
faculty, and invited guests. It
is one of the biggest formal social
events of the year.
Tlie reception was hold in the
two society halls and the library,
which were beautifully decorated
for the occasion witli pines and
trailing vines. The effect was
made still more beautiful by tlie
soft glow of lamps and candles.
The guests entered the library on
the west side and were greeted
by the college marshal, Mary
Barber, who presented them to
the receiving line composed of
Dr. and Mrs. Brewer, Miss
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Authority on Vergil
Lectures at Meredith
“In the Footsteps of Aeneas”
was the subject of a most in
teresting lecture given by Dr.
Walton Brooks McDaniel, dis
tinguished Latin professor of the
University of Pennsylvania,
Thursday evening, February 5,
eight-thirty. Tlie lecturc was il
lustrated tlu'oughout with slides,
most of which wove Medieval il
lustrations. In addition to these
however, a number of these slides
were pictures which the speaker
had taken during his travels in
Italy and around the eastern
Mediterranean.
This was not a tedinical
lecture in the least, but one well
suited to the person not intimate
ly familiar with the classics.
After prefacing his journey “In
the Footsteps of Aeneas” by tell
ing something of the life of
Vergil, declaring that he was, un
like Homer, an indisputably flesh
and blood man and that the ob
ject of the lecture was to show
the human side of the long
Vergilian tradition, the speaker
took the listeners to a narrow
strip of coastland on the eastern
Mediterranean. .Here the audi
ence received Nausicaa and tlic
Nymphs, and Moose Island, the
home of the Phaeacions. The
speaker then stopped in the
journey long enough to inter
polate that “the sailor’s yara be
came the Poet’s story” and that
“the lies tliat Homer used to hear
from the Phoenician navigators
becamc incorporated in the Iliad
DEATH CLAIMS LIFE OF BELOVED
DR. LIVINGSTON JOHNSON
STUDENTS PLEDGE AID
BAPTIST STATE BOARD
Meredith students took a verv
definite stand at a student body
meeting last Wednesday when
they decided to aid in some
material way in the raising of
$75,000 to clear the Baptist
State Board of a debt which is to
be met very soon. Mary Curriri,
[n-esideiit of Meredith Baptist
Student Union, led the discussion
on this matter of such vital im
portance to State Ba])tists.
After several influential members
of the group expressed their
opinion, the whole student body
voted unanimously to the pledg
ing of a certain amount of money
Loyal Friend of Meredith
Will be Greatly Missed—
Southern Baptist Leader
Dr. Livingston Johnson, editor
of the Biblical Jtccordcr and
jjioneer worker and leader in tlie
State Baptist denomination for
twenty-eight years, died rtt his
Jiome in llaleigli at four o’clock
Sunday morning.
Altiiough Dr. Jolinson had
been a sufferer from heart disea.se
for many j’ears, he was never a
“quitter” at his post. Even to
the very last ho worked on tlie
Biblical Itecorder, and gave of
iiis best to tiie people wliom ho
(ConfMiictf M SM0V /o«r)
mg oi a cercam amouiit ot monev f
to be sent in to the Board to help ^‘■‘‘'"confined to his bed only u
: --t!-. II ,1. .. \ few days when his death came.
He had lield practically every
office possible of t[ie Baptists of
North Carolina, and it would be
extremely difficult to decide or
say in whicii oflice he excelled.
Everything that Dr. Johnson at
tempted to do, he did and did it
well. He was so modest in his
aohicvemont that he ucvgf-
apart. He was a leader and held
a conspicuous position with the
Baptists for twcnty-eig hty ears.
When Dr. .Johnson was
thirty-one ^-ears of ago, he was
ordained as a Baptist minister.
He served as a pastor of the
churcli in Rockingham first; then
ho went to Lumberton, and
in meeting the obligations of
certain notes.
It was decided that the col
lection of this money be managed
by the four classes. At meetings
of each of them definite amounts
wore promised by the classes as
their Love Gift to Meredith.
A' large box has been placed in
tlie administration building, and
already gifts of money, have !>een
placed in this maroon and white
box as love gifts. Within the
next few days the entire sum will
be raised and turned over to the
Baptist State Board.
FACULTY HAS TEA
FOR RALEIGH VISITORS
The Meredith College Faculty
entertained at tea Friday aftei--
noon in the parlors of the college,
honoring the members of the
General Assembly and their
wives.
The parlors were beautifully
decorated in flowers and foliage
which created a lovely setting for
the reception of the guests. The
guests were received by members
of the faculty and presented to
the receiving line which included
Dr. and Mrs. C. E^ Brewer, Mr.
and Mrs. J. GT Boomhour, Miss
Grace Lawrence, Mrs. B. J. Pai'-
ham, president of the General
Alumnae Association, Mi’S. C. O.
Abernathy, Mrs. W. N. Jones,
Dr. and Mrs. L. E. M. Freeman,
Jliss Catherine Allen, Mr. and
Mrs. S. G. Riley, Sir. and Mrs.
E. F. Canady, Dr. and Mrs.
J. R. Hunter, Mr. and Mrs.
R. N. Simms, Mr. and Mrs. J. N.
Boushall, Dr. J. Y. Joyner, and
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Weather-
spoon.
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Honor Society Entertained
at Annual Banquet
The Kapj)a Mu Sigma Honor
Society of Meredith College held
its annual banquet at the Capital
Club Thursday evening, Febru
ary 5, at six-thirty. The guests
were received by Dr. Price and
Vida Miller, president of the
society. Three alumni members
were present: Mrs. Newcome,
Wilmington; and Dr. Bessie
Lane, and Miss Katherine Mad-
dry, both of Raleigli.
The Gi'eek idea ivas carried
out in the toasts. Dr. Brewer
was toasted as Pericles by
Gei*trudc Bostic; Dr. McDaniel,
as Demosthenes by Ethel Day;
the faculty members, as “our
Philosopher guides” by |,oi.s
Arnette; and tlic Alumni mem^
bers as “creatoi’s of the spirit” by
Elizabetli Bootnhour. Miss
Herndon replied for the faculty,
and Katherine Maddry for the
alumnae.