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PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENT BODY OP MEREDITH COLLEGE
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Volume XVI.
^ Meredith College, Raleigh, N. C., Friday, February 6,1942
Number 6
Cbmmitt^ ‘Tells
re’s
for Defense Role
Blackout Procedure '
Explained; First Aid
Course Is Begun ^
'Definite plans for civilian de*
fenw at Meredith have been made
by the. Defence Committee. The
• ftret of these plans that has'teen
actually carried out with full: co*
■: bperatiiHii of. the student body and
resident faculty , members was the
test blackout on Thursday night,
- January 29. The Chief Air Raid
Wuden, Margaret Krajncr, an^
nounced that the blackout ^ fair'
ly successful.. She says tl^t a par
tial blackout will be held sometime
soon because - the' moon on the
.liight of January 29th was unusu'
ally bright. A dark night will be
chosen for t^e partial blackout so
that the wardens can check for
sources of light that were not vis
ible in the first blackout, tfow-
eyer, the next full blackout for the
college will be held in conjunction
with the test blackout of Raleigh
according to the plans that now
stand.
The faculty and student body
are reminded that salvage is still
being collected. Collections are
made every Monday after lunch.
Studenu and faculty are urged to
separate their salvagable waste
from food and otlwr - spoilable
waste. Money raised from the sale
of this waste will be spent by the
defense committee where it sees
the greatest need.
Defense stamps are on sale at
the college post office, but sales
are going slowly. Our Govern^
ment needs the help of every indi
vidual. We can help by buying
defense stamps and buying them
often—"For Victory.”
The Monogram Clu5 is spon
soring a Red Cross First Aid
Course which began Tuesday, Feb
ruary 3. The Defense Committee
will sponsor other Red Cross pro
jects such as knitting classes and
groups for rolling bandages if and
when the need arises.
The College Defense Committee
is composed of the following:
Miss Margaret Kramer, chair'
man; Miss Anna May Baker, Miss
Ellen Brewer, Miss Christine
White, Miss Myrtle Barnette .and
Dr. Benson W. Davis, faculty
members; Marjorie Rhen, Molly
Fearing, Ida Mae Pettigrew, Mar
guerite Ward and Eleanor Vereen,
student members.
The air raid system is set up
in a duplicate fashion with a sub
stitute for each officer. The officers
and their students are as follows;
Chief Air. Raid Warden—Mi^
^rpret Kramer; sutotitut^K^
Ha«l Baity.
Assistant Air-Raid Warden —
Miss Christine White; substitute—
actant warden—Miss Ada PfoM;
Administration 'Warden—Miss
Anna May Baker; sulKtitute —
Miss Edna Prances Dawkins;
Infirmary Warden —Miss
Myrtle ^nette; subaUtuter^Miu
Gladys S|iipman;_ A. dormitoiy
warden—Ivin, 'Vera Tart Marsh;
substitute—Miss. Myra Williams;
B dormitory warden-:->^i83 Loul^
; sube^^W. ' Miss .
,#|^_Glarke; C lprmiiory..waSiferi
..'Keith, ^
' Kw Pr^cM;Baile^
MEREDITH CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY
Religious Week
to Be Feb. 9-14
Dr. Winston Pearce
To Direct Emphasis
Period at Meredith
This year Febriiary 9-14 is being
set aside as Religious Emphasis
Week on our campus'. Through the
interest and efforts of the Baptist
Student Union and the Student
Union and the Student Govern
ment Assoqatioh, we are going to
be privileged to have with us as our
guest speaker Mr. J. Winston
Pearce, pastor, the First Baptist
Church of Durham. Mrs. Pearce,
a'former Meredith graduate, and
their small daughter, Patricia, also
plan to be on our campus.
V
Mr. Pearce is a well known
speaker anU r'eligious worker
among young people, being one of
the outstanding speakers at the
North Carolina Baptist Student
Union Convention recently held in
Durham. Every day, Monday
through Friday, Mr. Pearce will
have charge of the religious set'
vices on our' campus. In addition
to conducting morning watch,,
chapel, and vespers, he will meet
discussion groups in the afternoon.
Students will also have opportun
ity to have private conferences
with Mr, Pearce,
Students in charge of the ar
rangements for the week are as fol'
lows: Lilbourn Minshew, chairman
program committee; Lucille Hay^
wood, publicity; Gloria Anderson,
music; Sarah Jackson, social; and
Cora. Lee Burnette, auditorium
committee. . ‘
BSU Officers Hold
Meeting in Raleigh
On January 30th and Slst. the
St«e Baptist Student Union offi
cers and the B. S. :U. presidents .on
the various cainpuses met, at'Hayes
Barton Church, .-for the Annujil
Planning Conference, The pro
gram ^consisted of a.series of papers
by pfficers on the place of his par
ticular office'in the B, ,S. .U. work.
Each paper was followed’by a dis
cussion period and, insofar as was
possible,-,a depionstration. The piir^
ppse ,. of.. • the conference, was-.to
'make 'pl^M for .the. .reminder rof
the:;y'e.air,-'Meredith:,rep,r^^erifc^
:,were Eli^aba.th-iTucker^^^
sfiri,’' 'and'-Dr,. -hilor^li'Pr'ice.-;r5,
Red'Heade^ . Br.
-'Pi8lV'01ub,.the-;S,
BadBoomers,''' s Gay,. Highland
ai-^{jj8pi9»i^#‘p|a:c?
Deanes List Is
Published for
Present Term ,
At the end of each semester,
there is compiled a list of stu
dents who, while taking twelve
or more semester hours, have
made a number of quality points
equal to twice the number of se
mester hours taken plus three.
This’is called the "Dean's List.”
Upperclassmen whose names are
included in this list are granted
optional class attendance, except
at the last session before or after
a holiday. During the semester,
if her conduct or grades are such
as to make removal advisable, a
student may be dropped by the
Dean from the list.
The following is the Dean’s
list effective for the Spring Se
mester of 1942:
Anderson, Betty Lou; Askew,
Mildred; Ayers, Virginia
Bason, Marjorie ^ne; Baucom,
Clee Ola; Bissette, Dwanda Lee;
Boone, ^uise Vann; Bowers,
Evelyn; Brown, Ethel Louise;
Brownlee, Elizabeth; Bryson,
Ethyleen
Caison, Alice Highsmith, Can-
aday, Mary Ann; .Chappell, Lor-
raine; Cooper,* Mary Frances;
Couch, Geraldine
Daniel, Rowena, Davis, Addie;
(Continued ,on page three)
New Faculty
Is Entertained
Nominating Group
Given Party In Hut
February 3
On Tuesday night, February 3,
at 8 o’clock, the Hut was the scene
of an informal party entertaining
new faculty and administration
members, their wives and husbands.
The nominating committee and its
sponsors—Mim A^na'May Baker,
Miss Louise Graham, Miss Alice
Keith, and Dr. Benson Davis—
served as host and hostesses. The
Valentine theme was used and the
Hut was decorated in red and
white with the traditional hearfe
and cupids. Entertainment con
sisted of a spelling match, with
words ranging from cat to anto-
phylogystins; charades; and the
story of T)ie Croo\ed Mouth
Fatni'iy told by Miss Lila Bell,
Meredith Choir
Sings in Durham
On Wednesday evening, Janu
ary 28, tiie Meredith College
Choir sang a group of numbers for
the Sunday School Convention,
which was in session at the First
Baptist Church in Durham, Miss
Peggie Royster .Jones of Raleigh
was the accompanist, and Dr, Har
ry E, Cooper was the choir direc
tor.
Mrs. Roosevelt^^^
Speaks at Youth
Defense Meet
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt climaxed
a two-day Carohna Political Union
International Student Service post
war planning conference Saturday
night, Januai:y 31st, at Memorial
Hall in Chapel Hill by asserting
that “youth must know what
world they want to live in”, Mrs,
Roosevelt further emphasized that
the “challenge of the future is the
determination to make a reality of
the things which our forefathers
set down when they wrote the
Constitution and Bill of Rights.
We must convince the world that
we have a philosophy that is better
than theirs." Delegates to this con
vention from Meredith College
were Addie Davis, Marjorie Rhea,
Rachel Lovelace, Marguerite
Ward, Ida Mae Pettigrew, Molly
Fearing, and Marty Jeffreys,
This conference on Youth's
Sta^e in War Aims and Peace
Plans furnished an opportunity for
college students from thirty-seven
colleges to meet and frankly dis
cuss common problems of defense
and postwar measures on an equal
footing under the guidance of ex
perts in each field of interest.
Greatly stressed was the fact that
each individual student, if we are
(Continued on page /our)
Meredith to Celebrate
Forty-Second Birthday;
Address by Dr. Miller
Recommended
Changes in
Election System
Nominating Group
Asks Improvements
•Over Last Year
The nominating committee has
recommended several changes in
the election system of Meredith
College. Most of the recommen
dations make permanent the system
instituted last year, but several
improvements in the system have
aljoljeen recommended. ,The idea
is to make conditions as nearly as
possible like those of a public elec
tion.
They recommend that there be
one poll instead of four. There
will be one registrar, two judges,
and a general chairman who will
preside over the elections. The
nominating committee will serve
as the Electoral Board, which will
set fonh the conditions of elections
and nominate candidates, The
day for elections has been changed
from the Friday after nomination
on Monday to Thursday after the
nomination in order that more peo
ple will be at the school to vote.
Unless two-thirds of tlie registered
voters have been shown as voted,
the votes will not be counted. The
registration will be held the Wed
nesday before the first election,
and no one can vote unless she has
registered. Late registration will be
permitted with the consent of the
eicction officials. Petitions must
be in at ten-thirty on Wednesday;
thus extending the time limit
which was formerly set six o’clock.
Ali students are urged to regis
ter in order that they may vote for
the candidates for office. When
the students are registered, they
are also encouniged to vote. The
day of voting has been moved up
to make it possible for the student
body to have more members on the
(Continued on page four)
MEREDITH-PAST AND PRESENT-A RESUME HIGH
SPOTTING FOUNDER’S DAYS OF YEARS GONE BY
By Mattie Irene Baugh
Each year, with the celebration
of Founder's Day Meredith looks
in retrospect upon its activities
and achievements of the past, and
forward,, too, toward Ihe greater
realization .of its aspirations and
goal! Meredith, past and present,
miglit, well be the, .tlieme.
‘-■-When, .inyl899, the first stu
dents were enrolled .in the Baptist
.Female UniYersi?y,'there were ISO
who applied fof admission. The
Uiiiversity. consisted of an Acad?
cmy which offered preparatory
work.and-the college which offered
instruction', in' the following
Schoolsi .Latin^Literiitu;e.and Lai^'-
^^Bg?.’-vMRderh -.Larjguages, Math-
ej^adcs, .;:_NtiWral Art,
'Music,\;ExpreMi9P.''aiid,!Bw^^^
' (Hat,; ,|hi8 first
^It^ .8pwt;Jn tiie ;Uni3^r;sity,^ey
it had inaugurated many of the
college traditions. Theirs was the
privilege of publisliing the first an
nual, the Oa\ Leaves,' They filled
its 126 pages with their class rolls
and pictures and their class.^his'
torics, witli pictures of the build
ings and the history of. the Uni
versity's institution, with a list of
their , .faculty, original drawings,
articles,, stories, and poems, and
with pictures and accounts of
group activities. Their societies
and organizations were the Young
Women's Christian Association,
Astrotekton and Philaretian Liter
ary Societies, , the Historical So-
ciiity. Athletic Association, the
“Sunny Jim” -piub,' ' Di-amatic
Club, Thursday Afternoon Sketdi
Club,' Mozart Clnb, .Kodak Club,
Chafing
F.,; S., the Blue
e.Go'Q^ipl^'b.'
They also had a basketball team
and a tennis club.
Dr. R, T. Vann was the first
President of the' University, In
191J he resigned to become educa
tional secretary of the Baptist
State Convention, and Dr. Charles
E, Brewer was elected as his suc
cessor. Under the direction of
these beloved leaders Meredith
made many advances. Just a
glance at its later publications gives
a picture of its growth and
interests.
In 1921 under the column “Stu>
dent Opinion" in 'T/ie Twig was
.the decision of the Student. Gov
ernment Association to abolish
compulsory Sunday School and
churcli attendance. One of the
items in The Twig for October 7,
1921, was the equal division of the
di,e new girU fln ^socle^ decision
dayl-'In. the sa^,? ,iM_ue, i« an
entitled “College News," was the
following item;
"Miss Ellen Brewer, daughter of
Dr, and Mrs, 0. E, Brewer, left
September 21 for Columbia Uni
versity in New York, where slie
will study this year for her M. A.
degree in Home Economics. Miss
Brewer is an A. B,, of Meredith,
being a member of tlie class of '18
and last year slie received lier B.
S, in Home Economics from Co
lumbia University."
In a later issue of The Twig we
read that “a crowd of date-less had
the 'cutest' time in the ‘Y Room’
last Saturday evening." On No
vember 18, 1921, Meredith cele
brated her third Armistice Day in
Chapel with the singing of some
of the ffivorite war-time songs, and
reading'certain, appropriate poems
such a8s"In Flanders Field.”
One- of. the .topics of tl\e day for
WPTF to Carry
Alumnae Meet
Memorial Services,
Address at 11 With
Tea, Reception Later
Today Meredith College will
celebrate her forty-second academic
year, the forty-second anniversary
of her actual founding. Classes
will be suspended for th^d^y in
order that students may attend ittv
morning service at eleven o’clock,
a faculty tea for friends of the col
lege in the afternoon, the alumnae
broadcast from the auditorium,
and a student Government recep
tion in the evening.
The morning service begins aC
eleven o’clock in the college audi
torium. There wil^ be memorial
services for the two past presi-
presidents of Meredith, who died
during tlie past year. Dr. Richard
Tilman Vann and Dr. Charles Ed
ward Brewer. Mrs. S. J. Everett
of Greenville, N. C., the former
Margaret Shields of the class of
1902, will preside over the brief
memorial service for Dr. Vann,
who was president from 1900 to
1915. Dr. Mary Lynch Johnson
of the English faculty of the col
lege and a graduate of the class of
1917 will hold the 'memorial serv
ice for Dr. Brewer, president of
the school from 1915 till 1939.
Dr, Carlyle Campbell] president
of the collcge, will introduce the
speaker. Dr. Julian S. Miller, edi
tor of the Otarlotte Observer, who
will deliver the principal speech of
the day. Dr. Miller has been on
the staff of the Char]otte Observer
since 1906, and editor since 1935.
He is director of Public relations
for the Federal Relief Administra
tion in North Carolina. He is also
president of the North Carolina
Conference of social service; he is
democrat and a Presbyterian.
Dr. Miller attended the University
of North Carolina and Erskine
College where he receieved an
Ll.D. degree. The college choir
will sing at the morning service.
The Senior Class will enter in
processional in tlieir caps and
gowns.
The trustees, faculty and admin
istration are at home Friday after
noon in the college parlors from
four-thirty till six o'clock to friends
of the college. The senior cl^
has been invited to attend. The
receiving line will include Dr. and
Mrs. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Mil
ler, Dr. and Mrs. Benson Davis,
Mrs. Everett, Miss Johnson, Miss
Anna May Baker, Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Weatherspoon, Mr, and
Mrs. L. A. Martin, and Mrs. Ray
mond Parker, who is taking the
place of Mrs. Sim Wells in repre
senting the alumnae. The rest of
the members of the faculty and ad
ministration are assisting in enters
taining the guests. .
At six-thirty, WPTF will carry
the annual alumnae broadcast., Dr,
Campbell, President of the colle^
and Mrs. Raymond Parker, .fQrm*
erly Sallie'Calvert, wHo'k
vice-preadent of the ^en^al
nae Associatioo, wilVi^^-r'*^