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Volume XV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FEBRUARY 15, 1936
Number 9
Founders* Day Commemorated
With Appropriate Exercise
COMPETITIVE SOCIETY PLAYS
TO BE PRESENTED MARCH 6
37th Anniversary of Founding
of Meredith Observed
February 7
Casts For Phi and Astro Plays
Are Announced
Gives History
DR. MARY LYNCH JOHNSON
GIVES HISTORICAL SKETCH
In commemoration o£ the thirty-
seventh analversary of Meredith Col
lege, Founders’ Day -was observed on
Friday, February 7. Exercises which
were scheduled from ten o'clock in
the morutiig through ten-thirty in the
evening were shortened and elmpllfied
to comply with the weather. In the
Inability of Dr. J. W. Klncheloe, of
Rocky Mount, to be present to deliver
hl3 address on "Christian Education,’’
Dr. Mary Lynch Johnson, Professor
of English, efficiently substituted.
IDspecially appropriate was the selec
tion in that Dr. Johnson la the daugh
ter of the late Livingston Johnson,
early helper, supporter, and trustee
of the college. She read her own re
cently prepared account about Mere
dith entitled A Historical Sketch of.
Mereclllh Colleoe.
AC ten-thirty Friday morning,
friends and members of the college
gathered In the auditorium for the ex-
exclses. An organ prelude, “Marcia
Rellgloao," was rendered hy Mr. Spel-
man as the seniors, in their caps and
gowns, entered the auditorium. Fol
lowing tho singing of a hymn by the
audience, the Invocation and reading
of tho Scripture by Dr. Brewer, the
college choir rendered the anthem,
“Lo, A Voice to Heaven Sounding.”
Mrs. Gordon Maddrey, President of
the Alumnae Association, on behalf of
all Meredith alumnae, presented a
bronze portrait medallion of ■ Dr. E.
Delia Dixon Carroll to the college,
eulogizing the beloved doctor who
served the college from Its founding
in 1899 until her death In 1934. The
portrait medalliou is a replica of one
of plaster which was modeled in the
art studio of Meredith by Mrs. Julian
Hughes, of Kinston, when she was a
student, Ethel Parrott, of the class of
1908. Miss Poteat considers the work
a distinct and valuable contribution
to art. In accepting the thoughtful
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Mr. Alden G. Alley To Be
Lecturer On February 17
l>K. MAUY liVNCH JOflJTSON
VIENNESE PIANIST APPEARS
IN CIVIC MUSIC CONCERT
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO
HOLD ANNUAL BANQUET
Albert Shaw, Editor of “Review of
Reviews” to Be Guest Speaker
February 20
Poldl Mlldner, twonty-year-oUl
Viennese wizard of the keyboard ap
peared in Raleigh, Thursday night,
February 13, at 8:30 o’clock in the
High Moi'son High School Audito
rium. This concert was the second
sponsored this season hy the Raleigh
Civic Music Association.
Born in Vienna during the early
days of the world war, Poldl was play
ing tunes on the piano when slie was
only three years old. An aunt taught
her systematically and by the lime
she was eight years old It was ap
parent that she was a ti’ue prodigy.
Though her father was opposed to her
becoming a pi'ofossional pianist, Poldi,
at the age of 11, appeared in public,
playing a Beethoven sonata. Sensa
tional appearances followed all over
Europe and finally arrangements were
made to have her come to this coun
try In 1932. By the verdict of Euro
pean and Amorlcaii audiences, she
has taken her place among the great
est piano virtuosos of the day.
Moat of the girls’ studying was done
with the famous Moritz Rosenthal.
Her European concert experience in
cludes appearances in Holland, Italy,
Roumania, France and Switzerland,
in addition to a long series of appear
ances with the Vienna Symphony.
Casts for the one-act Society Plays,
which are to be presented March 6 at
eight o'clock in tho college audito
rium, have been announced.
Green Eyes From Romany, by John
Kirkpatrick, is a comedy which will
keep the audience "roaring.” "Win
nie, played by Ruby Barrett, la not
quite so dumb as Fanny Meadows,
played by Flora Kate> Bethea, takes
her to be. Winnie and Fanny are sup
ported by the following cast:
Josephine Tarr Margaret Kramer
Lucy Guilford ....Edna Lee Pegram
Emily Prescott Mary Fay McMillan
Madge Annie Mae Taylor
Louise Annie Elizabeth Coward
Christine Adams, president of the
Astro Scxilety, is general chairman of
the committees working on the play,
Annabolle Hollowell Is stage manager,
Nell Choate, business manager, Mary
Johnson MauMillan, costume manager,
and Norma Rose has charge of the
malce-up.
XJvUtUwj Sadie, by Alice 0. D. Riloy,
the Phi play, Is another comedy In
which Kate 'Covington playing the
role of Sadie, reveals her keen ap
preciation for the poetry of Lady Fitz
Roy, plaj’ed by Faith Hite. Other
members of the cast are as follows:
Miss Clive Carolyn Parker
Dinah lluth Abernathy
Mrs. Splurge .— Katherine Martin
Mrs. Smith - Nina Binder
Mrs. Jones Martha Messenger
Mrs. Cutting Dorothy Dockery
Mrs. Gatling Catherine Canady
Mrs. Price Martha Ann Riley
Mrs. Green Eleanor Edwards
Mrs. Blum Frances Pittman
Mrs. Standish Mildred Eaton
Dorothy Dockery, president of the
Phi society, is general chairman of
the committees working on the play.
Pauline Perry Is stage manager; Lu-
cile Parker, costume manager; Mar
garet Andrews, makeup; and Ethel
Knott, business manager;
Dr. Florence Hoagland ia directing
the play. The new members who are
to be taken into tho Little Theatre
at an early date will be announced at
the presentation on March G.
Meredith Speaker
Second Address of The
On Present World
Affairs
Year
MK. ALDEN ALLEY
W. A. A. PLAN FOR STUNT DAY
APPROVED BY STUDENT BODY
Academic Council To Consider
Proposal For Whole Day
Program Next Fall
The student body in assembly Feb
ruary 7 voted to petition the Academic
Council for an entire day on the
school calendar of next year, which
may be devoted to a program of rec
reational activities.
Meredith College held its first Stunt
Day on November 3, 1D34, under the
direction of Mias Marian Warner, as
sistant Director of Physical Educa
tion and Miss Mae Marshburn, presl- j
dent of the Athletic Association. Tlie
day was spent in Interclass contests
and in contests between alumnae and
students.
In the fall of 1D35, the Athletic
Board, upon reqiiest of the student
body, recommended to the Academic
Council that the students bo granted
a play day, on which occasion they
might have a holiday from class work.
The organization proposed this day for
three principal reasons: first, to stim
ulate In Meredith alumnae a greater
Interest In the college and to afford
them a specific opportunity for re*
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SPEAKER OF EXPERIENCE
AND EXTENSIVE TRAVEL
Ml', Alden G, Alley, representing the
National Council for. Prevention of
War. will be the second lecturer of the
season on Monday evening, February
17,' jn the college auditorium.
Mr. Alley, a graduate of Harvard
University and formerly a Professor
of History at Dana College and Mas
ter at Milton Academy, served as
lieutenant in the United States In
fantry In France in 191S-1919. His
extensive travel in Europe before the
War and his fourteen trips abroad
since 1920, during which he has at
tended ten sessions of the League of
Nations Assembly in Geneva, have
qualil^ed him as an exceedingly well-
informed lecturer on International af
fairs. During thirteen visits to Ger
many he has followed from the begin
ning the rise of Hitler and the past
summer has observed on the spot tiie
reactions of the German people to the
Nazi rogimo,
Mr, Alley has a variety of lecture
subjects, among which are: The New
Hitler? Sanctions and Peace, Amer
icanism and Fascism, The Economic
Causes of War, The Problem of the
Munition Maker, Danger Spots in Our
World Neighborhood, America's New
Kind of Neutrality, Can We Keep Out
of Another European War? and Mus
solini’s Place ia the International
Picture Puzzle.
LARGE NUMBER OF FLU CASES
REPORTED IN INFIRMARY
‘ Albert Shaw, editor of the Review
of Reviews, will be the guest speaker
at the Chamher of Commerce Annual
Banquet, which Is to be held in the
collage dining hall. Thursday night,
February 20. Since 1926 the Cham
her of Commerce has been meeting at
Meredith College for Its annual meet
ing, at which time the new officers
are installed and recogtiition is made
of tho recognition of those men who
have been outstanding during the past
year.
In 1926 there wero nearly eight hun
dred men from all over North Caro
lina wore present, and In 1928 there
was a crowd composed of seven hun
dred men to hear Roger Babson speak.
During the depression the numbers
have decreased to about three or four
hundred! and It is estimated that this
year Meredith •will be hostess to about
three hundred promlneiit men from
all over the state.
Alumnae Presidents Tribute On Founders* Day
By MRS. GORDON MADDREY
Friends, wo have assembled hera
this morning for the initial event on
this day of many events, to pay tribute
to two whose names hold first place
on the list of founders and frionde
of Meredith.
First, in. terms of ■years; for of the
faculty for that opening year of 1898,
only two names are known to the
Meredith graduate of 1936—Elizabeth
Delia Dixon and Ida Poteat. It seems
entirely fitting, therefore, that the
fli'st gesture of honor, on this day of
honoring Meredith's friends of .yes
terday, should be tendered these two
whose names and that of Meredith
have been Inexti’icably associated dur
ing the 37 years of Meredlth'e exist
ence: and that this courtesy should
be the planting of evergreens, as me
morials to these two whose names
and memories shall continue to 'be
fresh on tho lips and in the hearts of
each succeeding generation of Mere
dith students, even as those holly
treoa shall keep alivei and beautiful
with the changing seasons,
First, in ^eryice to Alma MaLer; for
to tliese two the words of Frank Crans
are sublimoly true: "The Title, 'Serv
ant of All,’ Is Greater then ‘King of
Kings'." Our thoughts fly to these two
unsung heroines when we read the
w'ovds of an anonymous writer:
“Not all the heroes fall on fields of i with a keener appreciation of the
Hide deep within tlieir breasts their
weight o£ woe.
And then, with faces shining, lift the
load
’Neath which another staggers on the
road,”
Just as the holly tree servos as an
ornament of tho British park, and
reaches the zenith of Its decorative
value In America at the eeason of
“Good-will to Meu”: so have Delia
Dixon Carroll and Ida' Poteat made
more attractive the campus on which
they walked, and imbued Its studeuts
For the past few weeks an epidemic
of flu lias been spreading over tho
state. There have been approximately
thirty-five cases of flu at Meredith,
according to a report from the Infirm
ary. On Monday, February 10, there
woro twenty-three cases, the highest
number for any single day so far. Up
until that time there had never been
more than fifteen cases reported on
any ono day.
Miss Nora Kelly, R.N., is efficiently
and patiently caring for those who
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ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
SPONSORS TALK AND
COLOR FILM ON ITALY
glory;
Not all brave deeds are told In song
and Btoryi
But they are heroes who, with hearts
aglow
beautiful, 'because of tho aesthetic,
boauty*lovln^ nature that was theirs.
First, ill the hearts of Meredith girls
since 189D. To “Miss Ida,” the Mae-
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H. R. Huse, Ph.D., professor of
Romance Languages at the University
of North Carolina, spoke on “Italy—
Past and Present,” at a program
sponsored by the Athletic Association,
February 11, in the Phi Hall,
Following the lectui'e, Miss Ida Po
teat, of the art department, described
tho Pallo, an ancient religious festival
in which Roman costumes are worn
by tho participants. This festival has
taken place in Sienna, Italy, for five
hundred years, with the exception of
two years during the World War.
In addition to these two attractions.
Miss Miriam Warner, Assistant Ath
letic director of Meredith College,
showed pictures taken on her trip In
Europe last summer. There were
snai^shots of Munich, Rome, Capri,
Florence, and Oxford Including two
rolls of colored films of which the
snapshot of the theatre of Milan waq
one of the best.