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SENIOR ISSUE
Volume XIV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. 0., MAY 4, 1935
Number 14
’35 MAY DAY FESTIVAL TO
BE PRESENTED MAY 4 BY
MRS. GERTRUDE SORRELL
Margaret Davis Presi'fes Ove"
Court Comoo^ed of Members
of Four Classes
Four-thJrty o’cloch of the afternoon of
Saturday, May 4, will usher in the tenth
May Day festivities to bs presented on
the present Meredith campus.
This year, according to Mrs. Gertrude
Royster Sorrell, director of the festivi
ties, the theme is the unfolding of a
May Day from dawn to sundown.
The day begins with the dance of the
dawn clouds and the Sun Prince, sym*
bolizlng the driving bach of the clouds
by the sun. Dances typifying various
phases of nature revealed as the day
progresses are followed by the dancing
of colorful groups of young people,
happily paying homage to the Queen
and her Court The traditional May
Pole Dance by a group of eighteen
sophomores Is followed by the drill of
the Queen’s Guard. Throughout the
program the jesters, Doris Moon and
Ella Ruth Perry, will entertain the
Court and strive to win the Queen’6
favor with their antics.
Margaret Davis, May Queen of 1935,
will preside over a Court composed of
her maid of honor, Elizabeth Davidson;
eight attendants from the four classes,
Jeannette Dunn, Margaret O'Brian,
Sadie Leigh Blount, Catherine Canady,
Dorothy Dockery, Frances Jones, Ruth
V. Morgan and Stuart Weatherspoon;
Crown Bearer, Alma Kee; Heralds,
Hazel Faulkner and Reba Parker; Train
Bearer, Clotllde Crow.
Mrs. Sorrell, the director of the Ma^
Day presentation, has personally com*
posed all the nature dances, while even
the music of one of the dances of the
grasses is original, having been com
posed by a student, Emily Bethune.
ALCESTIS TO BE PRESENTED
BY LITTLE THEATRE MAY 7
Alcestis, the second Greek tragedy
to be presented at Meredith, under the
direction of Dr. Helen Price, Dr.
Florence Hoagland, and Miss IV|arlon
Warner, will be given In the court.
May 7.
The play is being sponsored by the
Little Theatre. Plays are presented
each year under the direction of this
organization, Alcestis being the major
production of the spring semester.
“Apollo, being banished for a season
from Olympos, played the herdsman to
Admetos, King of Thessaly. Yet the
God loved his earthly taskmaster and
obtained from the Gods this boon for
him; that he might gain release from
death would any, in the appointed hour,
die for him. Then Alcestis, his wife,
alone was found willing, and on her
fell the hand of death. But ere she
was borne forth to burial came Her
acles, son of Zeus, on his Journeyings
to the House of Admetos, and of him
was wrought a great deliverance.”
The cast of characters is as follows:
Alcestis Elizabeth Lee
Admetos Mamie Lou Forney
Heracles -Kafy Sams
Pheres MlrvJne Garrett
Apollo Grace Porter
Thanatos Mary Fay McMillan
Handmaid to Alcestis Faith Hite
Bumelus Ruby Barrett
Cup-Bearer Edna Frances Dawkins
Chorus Leader Olive Dame
(Guards Frances Pittman,
Luclle Parker.
I *35 May Queen |
Makoarbt Davis
PROGRAM OF EVENTS
Sntorday
I3:S0—Chapel in the nuditorinm.
1:00—Lunch.
3:80—F B t h e r-])aiighter ball
game.
4:30—May Day In the grove.
6;00>—I>lnner.
6:80—InterclAss Hoop>rolllng In
the drive.
8:00—Society Program in the
society hnlls.
10:00-—Formal reception in the
parlors.
12:00—Bringing ont of the crooli.
Sunday
7:80—Breakfast.
9:00—Chnrch. Buses in front of
Administration Building.
1:16—Lnnch.
I S. G.
President
Ann Bradsiier
Meredith History Has Shown Steady Progress Since
Difficult Beginning in 1835
By FRANCES PITTMAN
In 1835 at a meeting of the Baptist
Convention in a country church, the flrst
recorded spoken work on behalf of the
present Meredith College was spoken.
The committee appointed reported ad
versely at the following session on the
advisability of a seminary for young
women. For sixty years thereafter,
the ambitious and apparently optimistic
project was laid to rest. According to
Dr. R. T. Vann, long-time president of
Meredith, poverty was assigned as the
cause for the failure of the plan to
materialize. Also according to Dr.
Vann, the real reason, he suspected,
was the common belief In the incapaci
ties and inabilities of women—not to
mention the superiority of the male
sex.
In 1889 the second milestone was
reached when Thomas Meredith's idea
materialized Into a Board of Trustees.
This illustrious and energetic group
met and began by producing a name or
I might say, the name, "The Baptist
Female University,” every word of
which,' Dr. Vann admitted was a “mis
nomer.”
0. L. Stringfleld became the agent
of the committee and he surmounted
difficulties Impossible for a practical
person, and in 1899 the trustees decided
to open the school since the Main
Building was almost finished. Dr.
Blaslngame was elected as the flrst
president, but he resigned after his
flrst years of service. A surprise
to ail was the enrollment of one
hundred and eighty girls the flrst
day and two hundred and twenty before
the end of the session. This necessi
tated the purchase of East Building and
North and South Cottages. By Feb
ruary of 1904, by a superb rally and
Industrious work of the school’s sup
porters the $43,000 debt was paid. Ttien
Faircloth Hall was erected, and the
enrollment increased one hundred. At
commencement of that year a celebrated
Orator, P. H. Henson was secured for
the address.
In 1906 a pipe organ, long desired
and needed was secured, and conse
quently the chapel bad to be enlarged
to accomodate the Instrument. In the
session of 1907-1908, the enrollment sur
passed four hundred. By 1914, $98,600
of a desired sum of $100,000 for endow
ment had been raised.
Second to the material growth of the
college came the Internal growth. There
was no patterns of a similar school to
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MEREDITH HOSTESS TO
N. C. STATE STUDENT
FEDERATION APRIL 26
Campus View of Meredith
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’35-’36 Student Government Head
Chosen Secretary of State
Organization
The North Carolina Federation of
Students held its sixth annual con
gress in Raleigh, April 26-28 with ap
proximately seventy-five delegates from
colleges all over the state in attendance.
Meredith College acted as hostess to
the convention, most of the meetings
being held at the Sir Walter Hotel.
Kenneth Qoodson, of Duke University,
president of the Federation, presided.
New officers were elected at the
final Plenary Session Saturday after
noon, April 27. Ann Bradsher of Rox-
boro, president of the student govern
ment of Meredith College for the year
1935-36, was chosen secretary. - Other
officers are: president. Jack Poole, of
the University of North Carolina;
vice president, Bill Aycock of State
College; treasurer, Annie Laurie New-
some of Duke University.
The delegates were welcomed by
Catherine Moaeley, president of the
'student government of Meredith Col
lege, Dr. Charles G. Brewer,- president
of Meredith College, and Governor
J. C. B. £hrlnghaus. At the Plenary
session Friday, Kenneth Goodson dis*
cussed the history and purpose, and
Harper Barnes^, the administration of,
student government. A resolution wjis
passed to prevent faculty intervention
once the student council had made a
decision concerning the guilt of a stu
dent. Friday night Dr. Shelton Smith,
of the School of Religion of Duke
University, discussed "Liberalism in
Retreat.", The delegates were enter
tained in the afternoon by a tea given
In their honor by the faculty of Mere
dith College.
Dr. R. H. MacDonald, a member of
the State Legislature opened the Sat
urday morning session with a speech
on “The Present Education System la
North Carolina." In the open forum
groups Jack Poole and Margaret Mc-
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PLANS COMPLETED FOR ’35
MARS HILL SUMMER UNIT
Final arrangements have been made
for the approaching session of the
Mars Hill unit of the Wake Forest-
Meredlth Summer School which will
begin June 10, according to an an
nouncement by Mr. B. Y. Tyner, direc
tor. There are to be two sessions;
one of nine weeks, the other of six
weeks. The six weeks session closes
July^ 10; while the nine weeks ses
sion will continue until August 9.
There will be twenty-four mem
bers on the factuly, made up largely
of professors from the three colleges,
seven teachers going from Meredith.
They will teach subjects which lead
to the Bachelor's degrees. Credit may
be obtained on all teachers’ certlflcates
Issued by the State Department of
Public Instruction.
The officers of administration for
the Mars Hill division are as follows:
Mr. B. Y. Tyner of Meredith, director;
Mr. Isaac N. Carr of Mars Hill, as
sociate director; Miss Caroline Big-
gers of Meredith, dean of women; Mr.
John W. Huff of Mars. Hill, registrar;
Mrs. Edna S. Moore of Mars Hill, bur
sar; Miss Gladys Johnson of Mars
Hill, librarian.
A like unit will be held at Wake
Forest under the direction of Deaa
D. B. Bryan.