MAY DAY! ..nnftnrm 'M/A/Jj n Published Biweekly as the Official Organ of the Student Body of Meredith College WELCOME, GUESTS! Volume XVII MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., MAY 7,1938 Number 10 BILL STAINBACK OF WARE FOREST HEADS^DENTS Annual Conference is Held by Students April 28-30 "STUDENT HONOR” IS CONFERENCE THEME MAY QUEEN AND HER COURT Governor Hoey Made Address to Students Friday Express ing Deep Interest in Student Problems and Commending Federation. -The ninth Annual conference ot North Carolina Federation of Stu dents was held April 28, 29 and 30, 1038, in Raleigh with head- quartera at the Carolina Hotel. The theme ot the convention was “Student Honor.” On Thurs day afternoon the women's discus sion of the honor system—organ* Ization, functions, and advantages was led by Margaret Love Clarke of Meredith. The men's discus sion ot the honor system—func tions and advantages In compari son with other systems was led by J. C. Frink of N. C. State Col lege. There followed a tour o( the city, a picnic In Pullen Park, and a theater party. Friday morning further discus sions of the honor system were led by Trudy Rainey ot W. C. U. N. C. and Lyndon Wilson, dele gate from Guilford. Later In the morning Governor Hoey addressed the entire group. He expressed his deep interest in the problems ot Student Govern ment and commended the federa tion for showing early In life an interest In the conduct ot public affairs. He emphasized the Im portance of charactor development even above education. At luncheon Dr. Thurman D. Kitcbln, president of Wake Forest, spoke on the great assistance of Student Government to the fac ulties of American colleges. He said that Indivldualtam was the highest goal of American men and women. Following the luncheon, group discuaalons were held. The day's activity waa brought to a cloae by a dinner and dance at the Carolina Hotel. At the dinner Dr. Hubert Poteat of W6ke Forest, addressed the students. He expressed belief that Student Government was one of the very fundamentals ot de cency and morality in the col leges; he urged student and facul ty cooperation. On Saturday the convention was brought to a close by reporta from committees and election of officers. Bill Stainback of Wake Forest succeeded Alma Hall ot W. C. U. N. C. as president. Other —Continued on page 4. NEWnEHBERSOF B.S.U. imilED Candlelight Service Conducted in Chapel Saturday Id a solemn and im^eas'lve service the- offlcers of the,' Baptist Student193,8^39 were iust^iled on Saturday, April 30, in the college auditorium. The candidllght ceremony was ably di rected by Miss Mildred Kiohllne, B. S. U. secretary. After an organ prelude by Dr. Harry B. Cooper, the Invocation was pronounced by Dr. Cbarlea E. Brewer. The old and new olBcera then, grouped themselves on the stage to the atraina of “Lead On, O King Eternal.” Mlaa Alice Keith, faouHy sponsor for 1637- 1088, read the scripture, after which Katherine Aldridge, the former president. Invested Bar bara Behrmaa with the robes of her offloe. Special m u s I o, *‘I Would Be True," was rendered by Mlaa Margaret O'Brlan. Next followed the Installation of the other B. S. U. officers. After the alnging of the dedication bymn, "Take My Life," Or. L. E. M. Freeman pronounoed the bene- diotJoD. fLSf BERRY YATE5 JULIA VINSON HA2CL BASS fUZABEfH GftU5Ba " DOROTHY euriER May Day Program To Begin At 4:30 This Afternoon In Grove Hazel Bass, May Queen, to Lead Procession, Followed by Elizabeth Elliot, Maid of Honor, and Other Attendants — Theme of Festival is Story of Cinderella — Mrs. G. Sorrell to Direct Program. MEREDITH GIRLS FETE GUESTS BY LiVE_PROGRAM Visitors Enjoy Athletic Contests and Games; Tension Rises Fast as Crook Activities Will End Tonight. VIRGINIA PENNY LUCY ROGERS HARGy\Rrr holiand BEBF DICKENSON Beginning Friday evening, May 6, and extending through Siindny afternoon, May 8. Hospitality Week end will be observed by the students of Meredith College end their guests. Various activities spon> sored by the Athletic Association and the Student Council will pro vide entertainment. At the chapel hour a short play will be given under the direction ot Misa Frances Bailey. On Saturday afternoon the guests are invited to participate in tennis and archery tournamenta. in games of badminton and croquet, and in bicycle races. A father- daughter baseball game, an annual feature, will also be played at this time. Guests, students, and friends will be spectators at the yearly May-Day featival iwglnnlng at four-thirty. Tho day will bo closed by various parties given for the guesta. Meredith-Wake Forest Choir Concert Is Well Attended E.H.ALDEN IN VIOLINRECITAL Mrs. Alden at Piano, College Auditorium, May 13,1938 The violin recital ot Proteasor Edgar H. Alden will be given ]n the college auditorium Friday eve ning, May 13, 1938, at 8:16 p. m. Professor Alden. will be accom panied by bis wife, Mrs. £>orothy Alden. The program consists ot six se* lections. The flrst compoaition will be LocatelH'a “Sonata In G Minor," which conalsts of tour dances, and la one ot the best examples in Loca- telli’s school of music. It datea from the eighteenth century. The music is vital and expressive. Loca* Vlll waa an Italian and lived in the time ot Bach. Second on the pro gram iTlil be Beethoven’s beautiful, flowing mvlody, "Romance In F," which is very characteristic of his work. FollowiL't this comas the “Prelude from Sjosata in E" by Bach • Krelsler. B&ch originally wrote this tor violin aione, but Krelsler later added the plan6\ac> companiment. Except for three Of four measures the notes are all oA the same lengtli. Ur. Alden will follow this with “Meditation" by Qiazounow, a romantic composition full ot rich feeling. Fifth to be played will be Saint-Saen's “Qava- naise," a brilliant concert number full ot many Interesting rhymes and violinlstio display. Professor Alden will close-bla recital with one ot the most beautiful compositions ot the modern day, Cbausson’s “Poeme." Ohausaon, who was a pupil ot Franck, wrote only a tew composltiona as he died very young, but he will be remembered for this splendid composition lor violin and orohestra. Over a thousand people packed the Meredith College auditorium yesterday afternoon to iiear the ora torio, "The Holy City," by A. R. Gaul, aung by tho combined Wake Forest Glee Club and the Meredith Choir. Dr. Harry Cooper, dean of the Meredith music department, conducted, and the alngers were accompanied by Miss Elizabeth Howell, Meredith student, at the organ, by Lyman Seymour, director of the Wake Forest Glee Club, at the piano, and by a twenty-ploce orchestra. Soloists were Misa Ragna Otter- aen, aoprano, Mlaa Hazel Martin, mezzo-soprano, Mlaa Ethel Rowland, contralto, John B. Toms ot Chapel Hill, tenor, and Dr. Hubert Po teat of Wake Forest, baritone. Misses Otteraen and Rowland are members of the music faculty at Meredith, and Toma is a member of the music department of the Uni versity of North Carolina. Over a hundred singers composed the mixed chorus. The performance was distin guished by the excellent ensemble singing and enunciation of the chorus, and the dramatic approach to the finales to both parts ot the oratorio. Particularly effective was the accompaniment by the wom en's voices to the baritone solo, “I Heard the Voice of Harpers," sung by Dr. Poteat In the latter part ot the oratorio. ^ Yesterday’s concert was the sec ond collalMratlon of the two Bap tist colleges In a major musical event Last spring the choir and glofl slub combined for the flrst time to sing “The Elijah" by Men- delssoiin, under the direction of Leslie P. Spelman. In both In- stancus roliwrsala were held many weeks sopar&tely with Lyman Sey mour directing the Wake Forest group, and Dr. Cooper the oombSned organizaltons the last weeks before the performance. "Tho Holy City" was given last SuUday In the Wake Forest Baptist OUurob with Sey mour oonduotlng. ') \. SENIOR RECITAL BYMISSJOHNSON Program Followed by Reception in Blue Parlor Misa Kathleen Johnson of Fair mont was honored at a reception given Friday evening, April 29, 1938, at Meredith College following her senior piano recital. Floor bas kets of caila lilies and white snap dragons decorated the blue parlor where the guesta were greeted by Mlaa Ruth Yates ot Apex, chief recital ualier, who presented them to Misa Johnson, who wore a for mal dreaa of white marqulaette and carried an arm bouquet of old fash ioned red roses. Receiving with her were Miss Mae Crawford, her teacher, Mrs. J. F. Johnson of Fair mont, mother of the honoree, Wil liam Johnson ot Fairmont, brother of the pianist, L. V. Waldrop ot Ciiarlotte, President Charles E. Brewer, and Mrs. Brewer, Dr. Har ry Copper, dean of the music school, and Mrs. Cooper, Misaes Katherine Bide, Ethel Rowland, and Aileen McMillan, from the music faculty; Mlaa Anna May Baker, dean of women, Mrs. Vera T. Marsh, assistant dean, and Misa Mildred Kiohllne. Miss Barbara Bebrman of Greens boro poured punch from a bowl banked with Ivy, and serving cakes and mints In a red and white motif were Misses Jocelyn House of Zebu- Ion, Maude Sawyer of Belcross, Dorothy Lowdermilk ot Valdese, Katherine Covington of Thomaa- ville, Emily Bethune of Bunnlevel, Betty Parker of Marian, Evelyn Britt of St. Pauls, Louisa Biggs of Lumberton, and little Miss Lorena Gaddy, daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Claude Gaddy of Raleigh. Ushers who wore evening dreasea in pastol shades and had shoulder corsages of roses and sweet peaa were Mias Lois Johnson of Lumber ton, cousin ot the pianist, Mrs. diaries Rawls ot Fairmont, and Mlases Ruth Yates, Elizabeth How ell of Suffolk, Va., Mary Lee Earn est ot OreenTllle, Ala., and Edith —Continued 6& page 4, GIVES RECITAL KATHLEEN JOHNSON COMMITTEE HARES HANDBO^CHANGES Juniors and Seniors to Have Equal Privileges; Academic Work to be Considered Many new social and academic privileges have been granted to Meredith students In tho new hand book tor the year 1938-39. Tiie main change that has been made is that class absences and social privileges will be given ac cording to academic and scholastic standing. Juniors and aenlora will havo the same social privileges grouped as general upper-classmen privileges, and upper-ctaaamen making the first honor roll will bo given unlimited social privileges and optional class attendance. Next year each room will be per mitted one light cut a week, In com parison with the three light cuta for each six weeks allowed now. Another new change concerns tho playing of radios; they may Iw played at any time, providing they can not be heard outside of the room. Another change that has been made is in the regulations on rid ing; upper-classmcn will be allowed to ride with young men In the aft ernoon. The handbook committee con sisted of MIrvlne Garrett, president —Continued on page i. ALDENS ATTEND ASHEVILLE MEET Meredith Places Two Members on Raleigh String Quartet The Raloigh String Quartet, ot which Meredith takea g'^at pride In claiming two of Its members, went Friday, May G, to the Notable Music Convention iieid at Asheville. The convention lasts three days; Raloigb's String Quartet played yesterday. Also Tuesday night, May 10, the quartet will bring to a closc a series of broadcasts over WPTF. Last Monday, May 2, they played at tho Golden Wedding An niversary ot Ambassador and Mrs. Josephus Danleia, Pi'ofeasor William H. Jones, head ot the music department ot St. Mary’s Junior College, was quoted In The Hetps o>id Obsei-uer. "The playing ot string quartettea is gen erally considered to be the most dllDcult form ot ensemble music, each player must nave comploto control ot his Instrument, and be able to interpret his part as It ho were playing a solo, while at tho same time blending his with tho other three, and giving it its proper place In relatlonslilp to tho whnlo. Not every solo player has tiUs abil ity to cooperate and successfully merge his Individuality with others. “The four artists that make up the Raleigh String Quartette have so far succeeded in fulfilling these demands that I predict for them a high place in the musical world. In accuracy of intonation, steadi ness ot rhythm, subtlety of phras ing, and blending of beautiful tone, they compare favorably with well- known quartettes that have played many seasons before the publlo." Members ot the quartette are Meredith's Professor Edgar H. Al den, Orat violin, and Mra. Dorothy Alden, necond violin. The other two are Major 0. D. Kutschlnakl, viola, and Miss Katherine Elde, violon cello, This afternoon Meredith will hqld its thirteenth annual May Day festival in the grove at 4:30 o’clock. Mrs. Gertrude Royster Sorrell, director of physical education, will have charge of the festivities. The procession will be led by the May Queen, Hazel Bass of Farm- vllie and Elizabeth Elliot of Eden- ton, maid ot honor. Their attend ants are Elizabeth Grubbs, Hot Springs, Virginia Penny, Cary, sen ior attendants; Margaret Holland, Nassawadox, Va„ Lucy Rogers, Wil mington, Junior attendants; Bebe Dickenson, Kinston, Dorothy But ler, Cherryvllle, sophomore attend ants; and Julia Vinson, Wliltevnie, Else Berry Yatea, Suffolk, Va„ fresh men attendants. Dorothy Crawford ot Goldsboro is the crown bearer and little Betsy Willis Jones of Farmvllle the train bearer. After the Queen and her court have been seated the entertainment will begin. The theme of the enter tainment is based on the story of Cinderella. It wllf be given in three acenes. In the flrat sccne Cinder ella (Carolyn Parker) Is sitting In her stepmother’s kitchen wishing that she could go to the ball when her atepmothor (Louise Pope) and her two daughters (Frances Spil- man and Mary Martin) come in to daunt their Dnery before Cinder ella. They leave and after their de parture the lalry Godmother (Jerry Tuttle) comes in with Iwo sprites (Betty Vernon and Dorothy Greene). The sprites dance for Cinderella and then call the fairies to dance tor her. They alt run off leaving Cinderella robed in a beau tiful dress, Then Cinderella dances for her Godmother and they go off together to tho ball. Scene two Is the ballroom scene. The Prince (Lois Avant) enters the ballroom accompunied by two cour tiers (Marjorie Thomas and Mary Belle Bullock). He and a courtier dance with the two step-sisters. The Prince then sees Cinderella and goes to dance wliii her. Tiie clock strikes twelve and Cinderella runs away leaving a slipper and a be wildered prince. Tiie Varsovlenne and the Minuet are done by aophomorea In this scene, In tho third scene the Prince seeks to llnd the owner ot the slip per and discovers that it belongs to Cinderella, He then claims her tor his bride. Tho peasants are happy that their prince is to marry and dance. The freshmen do several —Continued on page 4, HOME EC. GIRLS IN STM SHOW Grand Prize Awarded to Alma Lee Becton of Louisburg Tho eleventh annual Style Show at North Carolina State College waa held at 2:00 o'clock, April 21, in Pullen Hall. One hundred forty-seven girls from 11 North Carolina colleges, including Meredith modeled out- nts made by themselves from fab rics designed and woven by State College textile school students. Alma Lee Becton ot X^ulsburg College, won grand prize, and ICazue Murata was awarded flrst prize from Meredith with a blue Japanese klmona embroidered in pink, rose, and blue and white. Her award consists of hose from Grant's, and a miniature from Sid- dell's. Mary Frances White woa second prize with a white dress and bolero jaoke(, piped la plaid with a plaid sash, Jean Beddlng- fleld placed third Meredith with a blue suit. Immediately after the Style Show, the participants were enter- —Continued on page 4. \

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