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Volume XV
MEKEDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., MARCH 28. lf)36
NI'MBER.U
Ruby Barrett Heads Student Body
MEREDITH CHOIR TO GIVE
“KING DAVID” ON APRIL 5
Messrs. Curry, Fletcher, and
Poteat Are To Appear
On Program
Oil Sunday aflernooii, April 5, at
4:15 the Meredith Clioir. under the di
rection o£ Protesaor Le&Iie P. Spel-
man, will present “King Dftvid,” an
outstanding contemporary choral com-
position, written In a distinctly mod
ern idiom. Professor Spelnian heard
it in Paris, eondnvted by the com
poser, and has been stndyin? the score
for several years.
Because this is the first perform
ance of this outstanding work in the
south, Olin Downes^ music critic of
the New York 3'me.v announced it In
the music section of the 8itinlay
Times. March 15. Several groups of
musicians from out of town are com
ing to hear this performance.
The solos will be sung by; Miss
Kagna Otterson, soprano; Miss Ethel
Rowland, contralto; Mr. John Curry,
tenor; and Mr. A. J. Fletcher, barl-
■ tone. Narrators will be Mi’s. Frances
R. Doak and Mr. E. McNeil Poteat.
Accompanists are: Miss Mary Lee,
pianist; Mias Alleen McMillan, pian
ist; MIsa Mae Marahbanks, organist;
Miss Pauline Wagar, Miss Annie Lau
rie Overton and Misa Evelyn Britt,
percussion instrnments.
Little Theatre Announces Cast
For “Charles and Mary"
Recently the cast for Charles and
Mary, by Joan Temple, was announced.
The play, under the direction of T)r.
Florence Hoaslund, Is to be presented
by the Little Theatre on May 5 as the
final production of the year.
The cast for the play is aa follows:
Charles Lamb MIrvIne Gorrett
Mary Lamb Edna Lee Pegram
Mrs. I.aml> Susan Rudlsill
Mr. Lamt) Nina Binder
John Lamb Edna Frances Dawkins
Coleridge Minnie Anna Forney
Wordsworth Flora Kate Bethea
George Dyer Mary Fay McMillan
Mr. Godwin Margaret Kramer
Mrs. Godwin....Annie Elizabeth Coward
Charles Dudley Martha Messenger
Becky Lottie Logan Hamlet
Jane Mary Johnson MacMillan
Hester Betty Claire Jennings
Mrs. Bracebridge ....Catherine Johnson
Annabelle Hollowoll will hav&
charge of the staging, and Luclle
Parker will have charge of the cos
tumes. Pauline Perry will assist Dr,
Hoagland in directing the play.
Miss Pauline Wagar Gives
’Cello Recital March 23
Mias Pauline Wagar. professor of
’cello and theory, gave a violoncello
recital Monday evening, March 23. Miss
Wagar was accompanied by Misa Ai-
leen McMillan. Following the recital
there was a reception for the faculty.
Miss Wagar has studied at Ohio
Wesleyan University, Oberlln Conser
vatory of Music, and was a theory
student of Arthur E. Heacox, Fred
erick J. Lehmann. Normand Lock
wood, and a 'cello student of Fried
rich Gocrner and John Frazer.
The program was as follows;
Grave Ecclea
Intermezzo Vivaldi
Gavotte ....Popper
Andante Grieg
Concerto in B Minor Boccherini
Allegro nioderato
Adagio
Rondo
Variotiona Symphonlques ....Boellmann
Annual Art Evening To Be
Presented By Miss Poteat
On Monday evening, March 30, at
eight o’clock in the college auditorium
Miss Ida Poteat wilt present her Art
Evening. Miss Ida's Art Evenings
have been given once each year over
a long period of time and have always
been a delightful contribution to the
college community.
The programs consist of reproduc
tions of the works of master painters
and sculptors in the form of living
pictures and statues. Various girls
who best portray the types of persons
in the paintings and statue are se
lected from the student body, and
these girls pose In tableau within the
frame of a picture while Mias Ida
chats informally about the picture.
The subject for this year’s Art Eve
ning ia '‘Famous Portraits and Some
Angels." Meredith students, faculty,
alumnae, and friends are invited to
attend. Art Evening is given in honor
of the senior class.
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s. G, President ! i Heads B. S. U.
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RUBY BARRETT
MATALINE NYE
Dramatic Production Class
To Give One-Act Plays
Theilade and Romanoff
To Give Dances April 4
The final number of the Raleigh
Civic Music aeries will be given Satur
day night, April 4, at 8:30 o’clock in
the Hugh Moraon High School Audi
torium by Nini Theilade and Dimitri
Romanoff, dancers. Thia promlsisB to
bo one of the best of thia aeries of per
formances sponsored by the Civic Mu
sic Association.
Nini Theilade was in charge of the
ballet foaturod in Max Reinhardt's
production of “A Midsummer Night’s
Dream.” Dimitri. Romanoff,, her part
ner, is ballet maste)' of the San Fran-
claco Opera Company.
The Whitney Trio will appeoi* with
them as accompanists.
Members of Dr. Hoagland's class in
Play Production are working on thi-ee
one*act plays which they plan to have
April 7. The three plays are Trifles by
Susan Gluspell: Lonesome-Like, by
Harold Brlclthouse, and HUlem to the
Sea, by J, M, Synge. Ruth Abernathy
ia director and stage manager of Tri
fles, and members of the cast are
Margaret BlnBham, Catherine Canady,
Dorothy Lowdermilk, Lillian Hughes,
and Katy Sama. Mary Pay McMillan,
director and stage-manager of Love-
some-Like is a membor of the . cast
along with Faith Hlto, Margoret Bul
lard, and Grace Porter. Elizabeth
Jacoiis is director and stage-man-
ager of Riders of the Sea, and mem
bers of the cast are Ruth Privott,
Martha Messenger, Alice Poe, and
Martha Kyle Pittman.
Ina Mae Byrd To Give
First Graduating Recital
On Friday evening, April 3, at 8:00
Miss May Crawford will present Ina
Mae Byrd in her graduating recital.
Miss Byrd is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Byrd of Bunnlevel.
The program will be as follows:
Adagio, E major (from String Quar*
tet in g minor) Haydn
Polanaiae, op. S Beethoven
Allegro from Sonata op. 2,
no. 2 Beethoven
Valick Mokrejs
Ich liebe dich Grieg
Caprice espagnol Mosskowskl
Whims ; Schumann
Nachtstuke in P major. Schumann
Etude, op. 10 no. 9 Chopin
Scherzo from Concerto in g
minor Saint Saens
(orchestral accompaniment on second
piano by Miss Crawford)
Ushers for the recital will be:
'Ethel Byrd, Virginia Lambert,
Ester Mae Lanier, Ethel Knott, and
Rachel Leonard.
Following the I’ecital a reception
will be held in the college parlors.
Those in the receiving line will be:
Ina Mae Byrd, MJaa May Crawford,
Mr. and Mra. J. C, Byrd, Mr. and Mrs.
A. E. Lynch, Mrs. Jack Gibbs, Dr. and
Mrs. Brewer, Mr. and Mrs. Si)elman,
and Miss Caroline Biggers.
Tiiose who will assist In serving
at the recQptlon will be:
Virginia Lambert. Helen Byrd,
Gladys Sandlin, Ethel Uyrd, Esther
Mae Lanier, Emily Bethune, Ethel
Knott, Rachel Leonard, and Margaret
Lanier.
RUBY BARRETT ELECTED
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
PRESIDENT 1936-37
Mataiine Nye Chosen B, S. U.
Head For Coming
Year
COLLEGE CALENDAR
March SO—Art KYcnIni;. •
April 1>4—Briiiiiullc Festlviil in
OiiiiDol Hill.
Api'il S—lnl«riiiit(oii»l lU)IutIun$i
01 ub Hioelliii,’'*
April 4—^hmlnr>ijeiii«r.
April I—Chic Mwsle Concert,
A|nil &-r-“Kljig
Mr. R. H. Brown Speaks On
Purpose and Work of NYA
Mr. R. H. Brown, asslatant director
of the National Youth Administration,
delivered an informal but Impressive
address upon important features of
the NYA Thursday evening, March
18, in the Astro Hall. The speaker.
Introduced by C. A. McIntosh, was
formerly in charge of the guidance
: and counselling of public schools in
[ Denver, Colorado, and has made an
intensive study of the youth move-
menta in Europe.
Having related how the NYA was
established, Mr. Brown proceeded to
summarize the aims of the organisa
tion. According to his statement, the
administration has a threefold pur
pose: (1) to aid needy college stu
dents, (2) to aid needy high school
students and (3) to provide work for
needy young people who are neither
in high school nor in college. The
NYA was not designed to solve the
youth problems, emphasized Mr.
Brown. “For these," he declared,
“thero is no simple panacea, and they
are inherent in the problems of the
adult.”
Following the statistics of the
speaker, of the 50 millions of dollars
which have been allotted to the NYA
administration, 29 million are being
devoted to aiding college students, and
30 million to the work program. At
present there are 255,000 young people
in the United States employed in NYA
work, of which number 123,000 per
sons are college students.
In deciding iipoti projects, declared
Mr. Bi'own, the various directors have
endeavored to go Into a connnunity,
perceive the need, and adopt the work
program accordingly. A total of C7.-
• 000 projects have been registered in
I Washington, which tabulation Includes
; such varied tasks as employment as
I an interpreter, working In parks, the
[preservation of records, partleipatlon
in flood control and management of
coastal areas and ski-jolnts.
The outlook for the organization,
continued the speaker, is obviously
i'not optimistic, Its fate rests upon the
'action taken upon the bill pending in
Congress. .
Mr. Brown concluded his speech
.with ,a few words of counsel to those
anticipating getting employment. Hav*
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At a chapel election. Saturday,
March 14. Ruby Qai-rett of Laurin-
burg was elected President of the Stu
dent Body for 193G-37. The two nomi-
inees were Ruby and Sue Brewer,
both nominated by the Nominating
Committoe. The election was fea
tured by no discussions and was car
ried off very quickly and quietly.
Ruby has taken an active part In
campua activities since coming to
Meredith. Her sophomore year she
was class representative of the Stu
dent Council, and also tlie only sopli-
omore member of the International
Relations Club of which she is vice
president this year. She is President
of the junior class, house vice presi
dent of A dormitory, and a member of
the Little Theatre, having taken a
leading role in the Astro play this
spring. She is one of two junior mem
bers of the Silver Shield.
Sue was vice president of the fresh
man class, president of the sophomore
class, and Is now secretary of the Stu
dent Council. Both Ruby and Sue are
included in the Who'.f of Amer
ican Colleges.
On Saturday, March 21. Mataiine
Nye, of Lumberton, was elected presi
dent of the Baptist Student Union for
1}I3Ct37. She was the nominee of the
Nominating Committee and opposing
her was Ruth Abernethy, nominated
by a sufllcient number of students.
Prominent in religious activities dur
ing her three years at Meredith. Mata
iine is second vice president of the
B. S. U, this year. She has held va
rious offices in the different divisions
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J. A. Salter Selected As
Swimming Pool Architect
At an Important meeting of the
Swimming Pool Committee ou March
11, bids for the pool were considered
and the architect was selected. Mr.
James A, Salter, a prominent archi
tect, has been authorized to proceed
with the plan for the pool. His wife,
Mrs. J. A. Salter, formerly Claire
Stalnback is a Meredith graduate. Mr.
Salter was the architect for one of the
llnest swimming pools in the state of
North Carolina, that of the State
School for the Blind. He was also
State Architect for several years and
designed some buildings at W. C. U.
N. C. In Greensboro. A number of
homes and inibllc biiildings in Raleigh
have also been planned by Mr. Salter.
In order to facilitate and speed up
work on the swimming pool plans, the
general committee decided to divide
Itself into a building committee con
sisting. of Miss Doris Tillery, chair
man. Mrs. Wingato, Johnson of Win
ston-Salem. and Miss Harriet Herring
of Chapel Hill, and a fluance commit
tee consisllng of Miss Marguerite Ma
son, chairman, Miss Ktliel English,
and Miss Mary Lee of the Meredith
faculty. Enthusiasm and a unanimous
decision to keep going forward were
manifested at the meeting.
To date the college family, including
faculty, students and alumnae have
pledged or given about $4,000. 'The
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