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Volume XII
MEREDITH STUDENT
TO HEAD SOCIAL
WORKERS' GROUP
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., MAY 13, 1933
Conference of Stote Students
Division Held Recently
ot Greensboro
At the North Carolina Social
Service Conference held April
twenty-third, twenty-fourth, and
twenty-fifth at G r e e n s b o r o,
N. C., Eliza Briggs, a member
of the Junior Class was elected
president o f the Student
Division o f Social Workers
for the coming year. Miss
Nettie Herndon of the Mere
dith faculty and the follow
ing students attended the con
ference: Eliza Briggs, Bill
Harrelson, Grace Sale, Helen
Bennett, Majel Kelly, and
Martha Wallace.
The theme of the entire con
vention was the effect of the
present depression upon social
work. Among the speakers of
ihe conference were: Frank
Bane, of Chicago; H. W. Odum,
of the University of Noi*th Caro
lina; Howard E. Jensen, of Duke
University, and Miss Bertha
McCall of Washington, D. C.
Miss Mary Tillery Wins
Cup for Oil Pointing
Miss Mary Tillery, of tlie
Mereditli Art Department, won
the J. Westley White loving cup
for the best landscape painting
in oil at the exhibition of the
work of North Carolina artists,
which was sponsored by the art
department of the North Caro
lina Federation of Women’s Clubs
at their annual convention held
at the Hotel Sir Walter, May
3-5.
Number 10
Receives Honor
Elisa Briggs, of Raleigh, who was recently
elected head of the Student's Division of
Social Service Conference.
W. F. Morsholl Addresses
the Colton English Club
Friday night, May 5, Mr.
W. F. Marshall addressed the
Colton English Club on the sub
ject of John Charles McNeill and
liis works. Mr. Marshall pointed
out the background out of which
the genius of McNeill arose; cer
tain reminiscences that throw
sidelights upon the personality
and methods of the writer (his
associates, environment, and liis
individual characteristics) ; cer
tain criticisms, their validity or
non-validity; and lastly, a phase
or two illustrating some of the
traits of McNeill’s mind.
All tliese points Mr. Marshall
specifically illustrated either by
answos at wliicli he had arrived
after his study on the subject or
from the actual poems of Mc
Neill. Mr. Marshall concluded
by saying that the keynote of
McNeill’s entire life and works
might be summed up in the words
“Night vast with her star,” for
it was at night wben McNeill
would get the inspiration for the
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The election of officers for
next year and a debate to decide
the respective values of Latin
and Greek were the features of
the Classical Club meeting on
Friday, May 5. Peggy Tilgh-
man, program chairman this
year, was elected president of the
Club. Other officers are:
Vice president, Isabel Morgan;
secretary-treasurer, Inez Poe;
reporter, Norma Rose; program
chairman, Katy Sams.
The debate, the.query of which
was: Resolved that Latin is. more
valuable than Greek, was won by
the affirmative debaters, Anne
Bradsher and Mary Laura
Vaughan, because, as the judges
announced, they had at least
three more laughs than their op
ponents, Inez Poe and Carolyn
Wray. Some very amusing argu
ments were offered by each side,
one of the chief points of argu
ment being whether a knowledge
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Hunting for Crook Proves
To Be New Fad On Campus
No! It hasn’t become quite the
thing for “crooks” to bang
around Meredith; but one cer
tainly made its appearance in
a rather unusual way Sunday
nightj
Somehow or other, it became a
usual occurrence to see people
stealing around (I don’t mean
literally, either) in tlie darkness
of the night with a flashlight
liere and there. Bushes and
trees seemed. to serve as good
habitations, for it wasn’t un
usual at all to sec girls climbing
up and down.
In other words—tlie crook
(what it means no one knows)
had been hid since last fall and
those proverbial juniors were
seeking diligently for it. Luck
must’ve been playing around on
the red letter night for a junior
and freshman brought out the
crook from its lengthy hiding
place (almost seemed like the
ground hog, wasn’t it?)
Much whooping and hollering
took place on the part of every
body when the long black grue
some shepherd’s crook- headed
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Classical Club Officers
Elected for Next Year
Mary A.-Treadwell Wins
Prize at Textile Show
Mary Alice Treadwell of
Myrtle Beach, S. C., member of
the freshman class, won the
grand prize for the most attrac
tive costume in the sixth annual
style show of the State College
Student Textile Exposition held
at State College Thursday, April
27. This makes the sixth succes
sive time Meredith has been the
winner of the honor of grand
prize.
The individual Meredith hon
ors were won by the following
girls; Bee Cotner, Raleigh, first;
Helen F. Parker, Woodland,'
second; Henrietta .Castlebury,
Raleigh, third; Elizabeth Ja
cobs, Scottsboro, Ala., fourth;
and Lillian Ulier, New York
City, fifth.
Announcements Made
For Commencement
FRIDAY
4:00 iMH.—Senior Art Exhibit,
SATURDAY
9:00 a.ni.—Societies—Open House.
10:00«.ni,~Alumnae Association
Meeting.
1:00 —Alumnae Lnnekeon for
Seniors at Woman’s Clab.
4:00 p.m.—Class Day Exercises.
6:80 pan.—Step Sln^ng:.
8:lop.ni.—Awarding of Medals.
8:80 p.m.—Annual Concert.
SUNDAY
11 tOO a.m.—Baccalaureate Sermon by
Dr. J. Clyde Turner, Pastor First
Baptist Cbnrch, Greensboro.
4:00 p.m.—General Art Exhibit.
8:00 p.m.—Missionary Sermon by Dr.
Turner.
MONDAY
0:00a.ni.—Meeting of Kappa Nn
Sigma Society.
I0:30a.m.^—Commencement Exercises.
Lit«rary Address, Dr. A. W.
Beaven, President Colgate • R«>
Chester Dhinlty School, Ro
Chester, N. T.
Conferring of degrees.
Presents Fete
Mrs. Gertrude Royster Sorrell, physical di
rector of Meredith, who directed the
annual May Dcey Fete
Pauline Barnes Gives
Groduoting Recital
Friday evening, May 6, at
8:30 o’clock, Miss May Craw
ford presented Henrietta Pauline
Barnes in her piano graduation
recital in the college auditorium.
The following enjoyable pro
gram was rendered:
Concertstiick, Schumann, In
troduction and Allegro Appas-
sionata (Orchestral accompani
ment on a second piano by Miss
Crawford).
Nocturne, Op. 15, No. 1,
Chopin; Waltz, Op. 70, No. 1,
Chopin.
Sonata, Op. 22, Beethoven,
Allegro con brio, Adagio, Rondo.
Aus dem Carneval, Grieg; Ich
liebe dich, Grieg; Momento Ca-
priccioso, Weber.
Following the recital, a de
lightful reception was held in the
college parlors.
Mai'shals for the recital were:
Annette Donavant, Eleanor
Lamm, Nancy McDaniel, Beu
lah Whitbeck, Nancy Blanton,
Lois Hartness.
MRS. SORRELL
PRESENTS ANNUAL
MAY DAY FETE
Morgoret Briggs of Raleigh
Crowned Queen of Moy
Yuesdoy, Moy 2
With the theme of the four sea
sons being carried out in the
dances, Meredith’s annual May
Day, presented by the Physical
Education department under the
direction of Mrs. Gertrude Roy
ster Sorrell, was held Tuesday
afternoon, ]Way 2. The proces
sion, led by the heralds, Helen
Bennett and Speck Harris, was
composed of Nancy McDaniel,
prologue; Alma Kee, crown bear
er; Rufus Hunter, Jr., train
bearer; Margaret Briggs, May
Queen; Jessie Martin and Mary
C. Shearin, Maids of Honor; and
Kate Allison, Alyne Reich, Kath
erine Davis, Zellah Washburn,
Cornelia Atkins, Sara Harrill,
Elizabeth Davidson, and Edna
Taylor, attendants from the four
classes.
The program opened with a
solo dance by Lib Barker who,
in a costume of brown, orange,
and yellow, represented the spii-it
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Virginia Garnett To Be
Secretary of the N.C.F.S.
The North Carolina Federa
tion of Students, which met at
Chapel Hill April 5 and 6,
elected Virginia Garnett, as their
secretar3'. Other N. C. F. S.
officers elected for the next year
are Wendell Horne, of Duke,
president; Margaret Plonk, of
W. C. U. N. C., vice-president;
Howard Phillips, of Wake
Forest, treasurer.
Fifteen schools in the state
are members of the N. C. F. S.
Tlie delegates from Meredith
were Virginia Garnett and
Elizabeth Lee.
Meredith Students Attend
Collegiate Press Association
Two Meredith publications,
The Twig and the Acorn were
represented at the Spring con
vention of the N. C. C. P. A. in
Winston-Salem, May 5 and 6 by
Cornelia Atkins, incoming busi
ness manager of The Twig, and
Grace Lawrence, incoming editor
of the Acorn.
Registration of press repre
sentatives began at 11:00 o’clock
at Salem College. At 2:30 o’clock
a general meeting was held, at
which the group was welcomed to
Salem by Miss Josephine Court
ney. Dr. Rondthaler was the
principal speaker of the after
noon. At 3:00 o’clock group
meetings M'ere held.
“You are coming out of col
lege at an opportune time to ren
der the world a great service,”
L. B. Weathers, editor and pub
lisher of the Cleveland Star, of
Slielby, told members of the Press
Association at the banquet Fri
day night at the Woman’s Club.
He Pressed the fact tliat the life
of a newspaper man or woman is
not one which always leads to
wealth, but one which is filled
wit)i service, education, and ad
venture, and an opportunity for
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