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March 27, 1931 THE TWIG Thm f I ALUMNAE COLUMN OFFICERS FreMent—Mrs. BbnJ'A»IK W. P*]t- nAM, '14, Uxtoi'd. ytee-J'reiidiJit—Mrs. Randou>S But- liKR, '18, Uocky Mount. Reeordins SMreeari/—MBS. W. L. WvATT, '00, Kaleigh. Commenefment Speaker—Hlfta. C. B. Tavixib, '23, Orcenvillo. Alternalt S Maker—Mart IlxnaiNO, '37, Fuqtiay Springs. AIuDintte Sccretart/—^Mar OUMUBa, '14, Meredith Oolloge, R»Iei;lt. CLASS REUNIONS COMMENCEMENT 1931 ’06 (25-vcar) ’14 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’21 (10-vcar) ’29 LuNCIIKON at ‘MrRKDITH FOR Alumnae TEACiiiiRS Aprii/ 10 Again Alma Mater is glad to welcome you home for the annual State Tcachcrs’ Assembly April 10-11. And the local alumnae Chapter, according to its custom of the past several years, will en tertain the aluinnae who attend this convention at a lunchcon at the college. A notice reading as follows will appear In the tcachcrs’ program pamphlet: “Meredith alumnae (all for mer students) who are attending the State Teachers’ Meeting are invited to a lunchcon in the din ing hall of Meredith College on Friday, A])ril 10, at 1 o’clock. The members of the local alum nae chapter will be hostesses. At 12:4*5 special ears marlced with Meredith stickers or pennants, \vill be attlie various places where sessions arc hold to transport the alumnae guests to the college. The transportation committee will, also, sec that these guests get hack in time for the aftei'noon session.” Let us hope that every alumna who attends this Assembly will honor tlie local chapter with her prc-sencc at this luncheon. IIosiMTALrrY Wkkk-End Last year the College inaugu rated “Hospitality Week-End,” whicli, because of its success, bids fair to become an annual custom. The date set aside for this occa sion tills year is April 11-12, at which time Meredith w'ill be hostess to high school junior and senior girls wlio are coi^templat- ing a college cai'cer. So, alum nae, now’s your op])ortunity to send us all llie girls in your com munity answering this doscri})- tion; and in turn, wo at tlie col lege promise to put our best foot forward in welcoming and enter taining them. Beforehand, just drop a card to the Ahunnae Sec retary at Meredith College, tell ing her tlio names of the girls who are coming and what time to ex- [)oct them. The largei* the crowd, the better we’ll like it. Sampson CouNi'y Alumnae Organikk 0 n Saturday aftei-noon, March 7, at 2:80 o’clock, the aknnnae of Sampson County met in one of the social rooms of the Baptist Chui'ch of Clinton to or ganize a ]>ermanent chapter. Miss Mao Grimmer, Alumnae Secretary, acted as chairman, and in her talk preceding the elec tion of officers, emphasized the necessity for organized alumnae units. She stated it is a recog nized fact that no college, no matter how large, how small, how rich, how poor, can do without its alumnae. Every wide-awiike college is aware it has four esta! es instead of three in its govci’n- ment, administration and devel- ()])ment—the trustees, faculty, students and alumnae. And it is the alumnae which forovcr I'orm a link between the college and outside world. Tlie following officers v/cro unanimously elected: President. Mrs. J. Sebron Royal (Fannie Turlington); Vice President, Mrs. J. Abner Barker (Florence Butler) ; Secretary - Treasurer, Mrs. Richard Herring (Emma Carlton), and Reporter, Miss Donnie Honeycutt. Those pi-esent were: Mrs. T. Perry Bullard (Lula Howard), Mrs. O. E. Underwood (Ethel Shearin), Mrs. J. Abner Barker (Florence Butler), and Miss Juanita Jiutlcr, all of Roseboro; Mrs. C. S. Royall (Ella King), of Saleinburg; Mrs. Edward Seay (Eva Daniel), of Turkey; Mrs. J. Sebron Ro^^al (Fannie Turlington), Miss Donnie Honeycutt, Mrs. Joe R. Best (Lucile Kelly), Mrs. Roscoe Turlington (Mallic Underwood), Mrs. Richard Herring (Emma Carlton), and Mrs. W. B.-Stew art (Florence Hubbard), all of Clinton. The next meeting will be held the early part of June at the home of the president of the chapter. Durs Pink dwt'k I'oriHS u’cre iniiilntl to tli« alumiiiic oil Murch 11-12 us remiiulers tliiit it is iiKiiin time tu the yearly ussockUonut duos of ii>2.00. Although the rcsiJOiisi: liiis hucii in'Ctl]/ good so far, the Ireiisurcr is liopiiig' ti> ruport lii Uiu next issui: tliat it hus been vorg good. Births Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Ricks (Lucile Jones, ’27), of Whitakers, a son, T. E., II, on February 27. Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Boone, Jr. (Louise Parker, ex- ’30), of Benson, a son, “Dan” iNIatliew, on I’ebruary 27. Visrroiis Cbtrissa Poteat, ’27, of At lanta, Georgia, spent the week end of March 6 with friends at the college and in Raleigh. Mrs. Mary Thompson Sim mons, of Mt. Airy, visited the college I'ccent]}'. Eiiiielia Smart, ’30, of Higl Point, and Mai’y Hamby, ’»30, of Castalia, spent the past week end with fricjids at tlie college, having come especially to attend DR. SPILMAW RELATES HISTORY OF MEREDITH {Odnt{7iuc(l from paoe one) eral Assembly of North Carolina took official notice that the baby had been born—and gave it a charter. “The charter was very freely given, which was in striking con- ti-ast to the way Wake Forest College came into legal being. When the application came be fore that body for a charter for Wake Forest College so fierce was the opposition to it that when the vote came it w’as a tie. Senator W. D. Moseley, from my homo county, Lenoir, was in the chair presiding over the State Senate. He cast the deciding vote and gave Wake Forest legal status in the commonwealth. “Such a storm did it create that the professional politicians made it so hot for Mr. Moseley that he left the state and went to tlie wilds of the teiTitory of Florida and was afterwards elected the first governor of tliat state. “Everybody %vas glad to sec Wake Fore.st’s little sister ap pear. But the problem to -secure the money for buildings and- equipment was not an easy one to solve. For months the trustees struggled with tliat problem. “I have seen Meredith through every step of its onward way.” *‘Whc7'e were you living when Meredith opened for stiidentsf” “In Raleigh. I was elected Sunday School secretary for the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina in January, 1896. I came to the work April 1, 189(5. I was twenty-five years old. I found two other young men in the city in charge of Bap tist affairs—Mr. Josiah William Bailey had been clccted editor of the Biblical Recorder at the Bap tist State Convention meeting in Greensboro in December, 1895. Mr. Bailey was twenty-two years of age. At that same Conven tion Rev. Jolni E. White, a young pastor at Edenton, was clccted to the jiosition of cor- i'cs])onding secretary of the Ba])- tist State Convention. He was twenty-seven—a veritable Bap tist Boys’ Brigade. “But there was a veteran in the field—Rev. 0. L. Stringfield. He was the agent of the trustees of the newly to-be-established college. He was having a hard pull for it. We three youngsters got behind the movement and helped to push. Before anytliing could be done in the Sunday School M'ork senti ment must bo created for it. So a campaign M-as put on to create an interest in this line of work. A series of meetings was provided and for 3'ears I went over North Caroli2ia campaigning to create a sentiment for the Sunday School woi'k. “Rev. Mr. Stringfield lived five unles south of Raleigh. While the associations were in session he found no difficulty in securing crowds to whom he could speak for the college to be. But they la.sted only during a pei'iod of about three months. When the Associations M'erc not being held Mr. Stringfield and I planned to go together. I provided the meetings and did the advertising and for >\'ceks at a time \\'e went together thousands of miles speaking on the work. I always spoke first in the meetings; then wc took the bridle off and he turned loose for the collei>:e to be. “During the day and often far into tlie night he followed his public appeals with personal visits to the homes and to places of business. I have never seen a man Avith such boundless en thusiasm and such powers of human endurance. He had made ujj his mind that the young wonieri of Nortli Carolina should have the opportunity to go to a school which, flying the flag of Christ at the masthead, should rank in scholarship wdtli the best in the land. “The story of that campaign, could it be written, would read like a romance. In every nook and corner of the state w'c went together. I am glad tliat when came to Meredith for an ex tended stay this time I was as signed a room in the building named for him. “Which reminds me that I spent a night in Old Meredith with Mr. Stringfield. It was the night before Meredith (which was not named Meredith then— but Baptist Female University') opened for students. Mr. Stringfield had come in from a long trip and was not at all well. By the time night came he was really ill. We placed him in a bed in the college and called Dr. Elizabeth Delia Dixon to him. I spent the night with him. The next day eai-ly Dr. Dixon pro nounced it a case of typhoid fever; and Mr. Stringfield was taken to Rex Hospital. “And so the man who more tiian any one man had been re sponsible for the opening of the new school could not be present when it had the formal opening.” “Why ioas the name ehangcd?” “There were several reasons for the chanye. First of all a college cannot bo Baptist—^the first ])art of the name was wrong. Secojid a college cannot have sex —it was not female. It could be a College for Women—or as it was expressed often in those days, for feinales. And it was not a university and we did not wish to assume a thing which was not true. So it became The Woman’s College and tlien Meredith.” ‘‘‘Were you ever o'fjicially con nected jvith the collcgc?" “Onlj' as a trustee. I was a trustee when the call came for mo to take up the M ork as Field Secretary for the Sunday School Board of the Southern l^aptist Convention. I felt that it would perhaps be best not to mix up too much with state affairs when I was an ollicial of the Sunday Scliool Board which is a Southern affair. I recovered from that feeling and have for many years been rather closely affiliated with Nortli Carolina Baptist affairs.” “Do you find much difference in the new hlcrcdith?” “From the college which oyjcncd its doors in September, 1899, I find quite a number of differences. Two new presidents have come along since then. If my memory serves me correctly only two members of the faculty are yet with us—never mind who they are; nobody would ever sus- ]iect it from the elasticity of the stop and the general aj)pearance. If Bailey, White and I were a ]mrt of the Boys Brigade they ^I'cro members of the Girls Bri gade in those days. {ConiinutA on page /cur) Brings Fashion's New At* Lowest Prices COATS — SUITS Dresses :: Millinery Individual Styles Pashion and Value Always at Jean's 108 FAYETTEVILLE ST. J. C. BRANTLEY, Druggist AGENT for ELIZABETH ARDEN’S TOILET PREPARATIONS MEET YOUR FRIENDS AT OUR FOUNTAIN the graduating rccital of liUcile Hamby. -MEREDITH COLLEGE- FOR YOUNG WOMEN Standard Courses in Arts and Sciences, in Music, in Art—Best Equipment Teachers wiLli slumlord degrcos nnd of rccognizcd alnlity and pcrsonalily. Doligliiful environment on a high plateau ou Uiy western boundary of North Carolina’s Capital City. Cliurgos moderate. For ciitalogui: or fiirtlior inCormalioh wrilc CI-IAS. E. BRKWER, Pi-osidi-nt, RAMJlCir, N. C.
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