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Volume XV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FEBRUARY 13, 1937
Numbei- 8
Week of Deeper Spiritual
Thinking Held on Campus
NEW MEMBERS SELECTED FOR
SILVER SHIELD FRATERNITY
CHESTER SWOR LIKES
. “THE MASTER’S CALL”
AS THEME FOR WEEK
Afternoon’s Forums Are Popular
With Students
Speaker,
Margaret Kramer and Mary
Johnson McMillan Chosen
From Senior Class
Dtirlng the past .several days, begin
ning Monday, February 8, Meredith
has observed a “Week of Deeper Spirit
ual Tliinking,’’ with Mr. Chester E.
Swor, of Clijaton^ Mississippi as prin-
citial speaker. Mr. Swor obtained his
B.A. degree from' Mississippi College,
and his M.A. degree from the Univer
sity of North Carolina. In 1931 he
attended summer lectures at Oxford
University England.
The speaker has had frequent con
tacts with southern students, lectur
ing and conferring with them on col
lege campuses and in youug people’s
gatherings in a number of states, in
cluding Texas, Louisiana, Florida,
South Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri,
and Washington, D. C. During 1929-
1930 he served as professor of Latin
and Spanish at Sunflower College.
Mr. Swor’s present position is that
of Director of Student Artlvities and
Assistant Professor of English at Mis
sissippi College. In this sapacity he
has general oversight of social, reli
gious, musical, and dramatic activities
on the campus.
Beginning Monday night, Mr. Swor
spoke to Meredith students each eve
ning at 6:45 and each morning, except
Tuesday, at the chapel hour. The eve
ning programs Included special music
by the Meredith octette and other in
terested groups. The speaker’s thoughts
centered about “The Master's Call to
Us.” He endeavored to give to his
audiences a new conception both of
Jesus and of His call to the world.
CHES’IEIt SWOK
TONY SARG’S MARIONETTES
PRESENTED AT MEREDITH
Tony Sarg’s Marionettes were pre
sented in a performance in the Mere
dith auditorium January 19, at four
o’clock.
The pi'ogvam included a presenta
tion of excerpts from Mark Twain's
“Huckleberry Finn” and ‘‘Tom Saw
yer," Faust, “The Wicked Magician,”
and several episodes from “Alice in
Wonderland.”
The Marionettes were also presented
in the evening under the auspices of
the Raleigh Chapter of the AAUW.
TWO CONCERTS DEVOTED TO
BRAHMS TO BE PRESENTED
During the week of February 21,
two concerts devoted to the composi
tions of Johannes Brahms will be
given. The first of these programs
will be presented on Sunday afternoon,
February 21, at four-fifteen In the col
lege auditorium. Those who will take
part on this program are Miss Ragna
Otterson, soprano, the Meredith Col
lege Glee Club, under the direction
of Miss Ethel Rowland, and a trio from
the University of North Carolina.
The second concert will be given
Tuesday evening, February 23, at eight
o’clock in the college auditorium.
Those who will appear on this pro
gram are Miss Ethel Rowland, con
tralto, Mr. Leslie P. Spelman, organist,
and the Meredith College Trio, which
is composed of the following: Mr.
Edgar Alden, violin, Miss Pauline
Wagar, 'cello, and Miss Aileen Mc
Millan, piano.
MENDELSSOHN'S ELIJAH
TO BE GIVEN BY MEREDITH
AND WAKE FOREST CHOIRS
Under Direction of Leslie Spelman
and Lyman Seymour
The Meredith College Choir, under
the direction of Professor Leslie P.
Spelman is now working ou the famous
oratorio Elijah by Mendelssohn. It
is to be presented on the Sunday be
fore Spring Holidays and promises to
be one of the best concerts ever given
by the choir.
Of special interest is the fact that
the Wake Forest Glee Club will assist
the Meredith Choir in this presentation
of the oratorio, The glee club Is
under the - direction of Mr. Lyman
Seymour and three rehearsals are be
ing held weekly. Mr. Spelman Is
present at one of these each week,
Within a very sliort while joint prac
tices will be held-both here and at
Wake Forest.
Accompanying the choir and glee
club will be the string quartet, the
organ, and two pianos.
“LADIES OF CRANFORD” TO BE
GIVEN AT MI^PHY SCHOOL
Edna Frances Dawkins, president
of the Little Theatre has announced
that the Little Theatre will again pre
sent The Ladies of Cranford, this time
at the Murphy School auditorium on
February 16. A slight change in the
cast has taken place; Mary Fay Mc
Millan has the role t]ia.t Lettie Ham
let had, and Iris Rose Gibson will take
Mary Fay's part.
During the chapel hour, Thursday,
February 4, Mary Johnson McMillan
of Thoniasvllle and Margaret Kramer
of Elizabeth City were tapped for
Silver Shield, the campus honor fra
ternity. The tapping was done by
Mary Fay McMillan, and Annabel
Hollowell, who became members at
the end of last year.
The tapping of those two new mem
bers completes the number of mem
bers from the present senior class.
Bases for selection are Christian
character, leadership, and sei'vice to
the school.
Both of the new members have been
outstanding since their entrance to
Meredith four years ago. Margaret
Kramer Is now editor of the college
annual, the Oak Leaves and Mary
Johnson McMillan Is associate editor
of tiie Twiu and Senior Editor of the
Acorti. Both have been outstanding
for their scholarship.
Senior members of the Silver Shield
are Ruby Barrett, Flora Kate Bethea,
Ruth Abernathy, Sue Brewer, Mary
Fay McMillan, ' Annabel Hollowell,
Margaret Kramer, and Mary Johnson
McMillan. Junior members are Ann
Poteat and Mlrvine Garrett who were
tapped during the fall semester.
Meredith Honors Thirty-eighth
Birthday In Usual Manner
MEREDITH COLLEGE HOSTESS
RALEIGH YWA ORGANIZATIONS
Theme of Program “The World in
Our Hearts”
MEREDITH STUDENTS AND
FACULTY CONTRIBUTE
TO FLOOD CONTROL
During the past two weeks, the fac
ulty and students of Meredith have
contributed generously to funds for
the relief of flood sufferers. Approxi
mately one hundred dollars was given
in the form of personal contributions
from Individuals, and one hundred in
the form of a check from the Student
Government Association. The student
body provided the latter amount by
dispensing with a part of the enter
tainment customarily provided at the
annual student government reception.
On Monday evening, February 1, the
Meredith Y. W. A. was hostess to the
Y. W. A. organizations from all the
Baptist churches in Raleigh. At the
banquet which preceded the program
in Phi Hall, the theme of the evening
was introduced as "Tlie World in Our
Hearts.” The theme was carried out
In the table decorations by programs
in the shape of hearts and l;y the cen
terpiece formed by a globe and red
candles.
During the banquet, Edna Frances
Dawkins, the president of the Mere
dith Y. W. A. welcomed the guests and
Introduced the Meredith octette who
sang several old familiar spirituals.
After the banquet, the guests met in
the Phi Hall for the remainder of the
program ou which Miss Inabelle Cole
man was the chief speaker. In her
talk. Miss Coleman spoke of the
Y. W. A. girls in Japan and in China
and also the Baptist girls schools
there.
The. visitors were next entertained
by a skit about Ridgecrest presented
by Ruth Yates, Kathleen Johnson, and
Edna Frances Dawkins.
After this, the program was brought
to an end by the presentation of a
plan by Miss Mary Currin for the estab
lishment of a city-wide Y. W. A.
council.
MR. KINCHELOE USES
“CHRISTIAN EDUCATION”
AS TOPIC FOR SPEECH
FRESHMAN CLASS
REFURNISHES SOCIAL
ROOM IN STRINGFIELD
The Freshman' Class, under the di
rection of its president, Lessle Scholtz,
has transformed the social room on
second floor of Strlngfleld into a com
fortable recreation parlor.
To the furniture already In the
room, has been added two tables, a
radio and leather hassock. Red chintz
drapes figured with dirigibles and aero
planes, a red rug, and several lamps
complete the new furnishings.
MISS TILLERY AND MISS
GRIMMER RETURN HOME
Miss Mae Grimmer and Miss Mary
Tillery, members of the faculty at
Meredith College, have left Rex Hos
pltal where they have been patients
since December 19. Miss Tillery and
Miss Grimmer were Injured in an auto
mobile accident as they were leaving
school for the Christmas holidays.
Both teachers were taken to their
homes by ambulance on January 11.
Miss Grimmer going to Cape Charles,
Virginia, and Miss TlHery to Scotland
Neck, North Carolina. Tiiey were re
ported to have arrived safely that night
and to be resting comfortably.
Rocky Mount Minister Gives the
Rounders’ Day Address
“Christian Education” was tlie topic
of the thirty-eighth annual Founders’
Day address given by The Rev. Mr.
J. W. Kincheloe, pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Rocky Mount, .on
Friday morning at 10:30 o’clock.
Rev. Kincheloe said that with
the growing feeling by many that
Christianity should be removed from,
the field of education there arose sev>
eral questions to be considered. The
first was a question of what force
was to be substituted in Its place If
Christianity were eliminated from the
educational field. Christianity through
its representatives not only furnished
the Inspiration for educational begin
nings, but it has continued to refresh
the streams of thought and develop
ment in the educational realm up to
the present hour. The church and de
nominational schools and colleges have
set the pace for the state in her ef
forts to dethrone ignorance and to
grow a citizenship crowned with a
working knowledge of those things that
relate to both the social and spiritual
order. The character and expression
of private and state institutions of
learning have been and are greatly af
fected by the spirit of Christian edu
cation.
Rev. Mr. Kincheloe stated tiiat the
training received by the rising genera
tion in the educational institutions of
our land determines the fate of Amer
ican civilization. A stabilizing force is
necessary in the changing world of
today and where is this stabilizing force
coming from if not through education?
One of the major problems facing the
world today is that of international
peace. Everyone realizes the part
played by education in producing the
situation which existed in 1914 and
plunged the nations into the most
devastating war ever experienced.
On the other hand general education
lias made a great contribution to Chris
tian education according to Rev. Mr.
Kincheloe. The tendency of Christian
ity for a time was towards e.xtreme
conservation which leads to stagnation
followed by fossilizatlon, but general
education “opened the door to new
fields into which Christian education
has not only been invited, but in which
our leaders of thought and action find
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An Interview With the Statens **First Lady**
By KATHERINE SHUFOKD
Mrs. Clyde R. Hoey, who has, for
little more than a month, been the
state’s “First Lady,'' still, she told a
TwiQ reporter, cannot quite believe it.
“‘This can be none of I'!” she laugh
ingly quoted. “1 haven’t quite taken it
in yet that this fuss is all being made
over me. Maybe I'll get used to It In
time, though.''
Mrs. Hoey was charmingly but sim
ply dressed in green silk; (she ex
pressly requested that her shoes, which
were quite comfortable looking, not be
described). Her lovely white hair and
her most “listen-atable’' voice and
laugh are her most distinctive features.
Mrs. Hoey needed no leading ques
tions, “Some people,” she said, “think
that women are as old as they look.
But my idea is that they are as old
as they think.” One thing that keeps
her thinking young, she declared, Is
her interest in people. She enjoys
greatly the social functions she, as the
governor's wife, must attend. “Every
one," she said, “Is an opportunity to
meet new people. I lihe people." And
later, “Bntertalning's no chore tor me.
Our house has always been the gather
ing place for both mine and my hus
band’s families. We like that."
“I am a child of experience,” she
said, by which she meant that she
gained her education through travel
rather than in college. But she had a
career, too. “I taught school in a one-
room house,” she said. “It was only a
four-months school, and I only received
twenty-two dollars a month, but I en
joyed it. And would you believe it,"
she added, laughing, “the little com
munity where I taught was only two
miles from my home, but I lived there
and came home only tor week-ends be
cause the roads were so bad!”
Mrs. Hoey is an enthusiastic gur-
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EMILY BETHUNE AND BILL
BARNARD FEATURED
IN BROADCAST
Emily Bethune, Meredith junior, is
now on the air every Thursday eve
ning at 7:45 in a radio program with
Mr. Bill Barnard, State College stu
dent.
The program originated a month ago
when Mr. Poyner, production manager
of WPTF, expressed his desire tor a
program combination of piano and
organ. Miss Bethune plays the piano
while Mr. Barnard plays the organ.
The theme song for the program is
Emily’s lovely “Lonely," for which
she has just received a copyright.
The programs are composed of pop
ular requests, and are expected to con*
tlnue Indefinitely.
Considerable fan mail has been re
ceived, some from distant states.