STUNT
Volume XVII
BSU Convenes
At Raleigh With
600 Students
General Theme Was ‘‘Keep
Christ Preeminent’^; Twenty
N. C. Collides Represented
Tlie annual North Carolina Bap
tist Stxidoni Union convention
opened Fiiday evening, October 23,
at 7:00 and continued through the
Sunday morning sei-vice at Taber*
nacle Baptist Church in Kaleigh.
About 600 Baptist students repre
senting twenty North Carolina col
leges attended.
The general theme of the conven
tion was ‘‘Keep Christ Preeminent.”
I>r. Louis D, Newton of Atlanta,
Georgia made the keynote address
on this theme Friday night.
John McMillan, president of the
N. 0. Baptist Student Union, pre
sided over all the sessions. Serving
with him as program planning com
mittee were the other state officers,
Sarah Jackson, Cline Ellis, Manley
Tobey, Ed Glazener, Helen Sul
livan, and. Dorothy Bowman. Act
ing as adviser for the committee was
Dick Howerton, North Cai'olina
Student Secretary.
Among other outstanding speakers
was Dr. M. T. Rankin, who returned
recently from China on the Cfrip-
eholm after having been interned
for several months in Stanley
Prison Camp; W. 0. Somerville,
prominent Negro ^ Baptist; Dr.
Hornell Hart, professor of Sociology
at Duke University; J. Winston
Pearce of Durham; Dr. Forrest C.
Fooaor, v-pagtor of—Tabernacle
Church.
_ Five topics of great interest were
discussed in forums both Saturday
morning and Saturday afternoon.
They were: “Interracial Under
standing” by Mr. Somerville, “Com
bating Alcohol in Social Action” dis
cussed by Mr. William Hall Pres
ton. The third topic “Planning a
Christian Home” led by Mrs. Owen
L. Herring, “Keeping Faith Today''
by Theodore F. Adams, and ‘‘Build-
ing a Peaceful Post War World” by
Mr. J. Martin Eiigland.
Saturday evening the eonvention-
ox’s embarked upon a banquet cruise
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MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1942
SI" ^ Solle, ClHirlotte Green, Ell«*bcth Shelton.
.one Evel^
Defense Courses
Opened On Campus
Nutrition, First Aid,
Nursing, Lifesoving
With Miss Margaret Kramer, in
structor of chemistry, as chairman,
the College Committee. on Civilian
Defense is making available to
those who are interested in the fol
lowing courses:
Nutrition, taught by Miss Ellen
Brewer, professor of home econom
ies.
Horae Nursing, taught by Miss
Myrtle Barnette, head nurse.
First Aid, taught by Miaa Chris
tine White, associate professor of
health and physical education.
lifesaving, taught as a prelimi-
niary traiiung for senior lifesaving
by Miss Elizabeth Cameron and Miss
Eliza Dickinson, assistants in the de
partment of health and physical
education.
It is still possible to enroll in one
of these classes.
Students and faoulty members
have been appointed to assist in
practice black outs and air raid
drills. These wardens will ultimate
ly be trained in fire and gas defense.
Plans are being proposed to sot up
first aid posts on the campus in
case of casualties.
Tlie committeo is also backing the
collection of scrap nietal niound the
campus.
PSA CONFERENCE
HELD IN RALEIGH
Peace College Hosts
To Student Assembly
The Presbyterian Student Asso
ciation of North Carolina held its
fifth annual meeting October 23-25
at Peace Junior College iii.liileigh.
North Carolina. The theme of the
conference was “Working with tlie
Living Christ.”
Tlie main speaker for the confer
ence was Dr. Clifford E. -Barbour,
pastor of the Second. Presbyterian
Church, Kno.xville, Tennessee. The
topics for his addresses were: “Chris
tian Faith in a Warring Woi*ld,”
in which he said that we should
have a long view, a kind view, and
a spiritual'view, and also that we
should be calm and without bitterT
ne^; “Refugee, Resident, or Pil
grim,” in which he pointed out that
the pilgrim, the real Christian, trav
els on the great highways to Life
Eternal, wlxile the refugee and the
resident, who may seem to be Chris
tians but ai'onH really, travel on
dead-end streets; “The Last Best
Hope of Earth” which is Jesus
Chi'ist. Each of Dr. Barbour’s ad
dresses were followed by discussion
groups led by: Priestly Conyers, of
Davidson; Tom Purcell, of State;
and Wayne Kernodle, of Carolina.
On Saturday afternoon two im-
poi’tant discussions were held. The
first of these 'was “Boy-Girl Rela
tionships” led by Dr. 0. T. Biukley
of Wake Forest, and Dr. P, H.
Gwynn of Da^’idson. Then Dr.
John Grey, Jr., pastor of the West
Bfileigh' Pi'osbyterian Church and
Adult Adviser for tlie P, S. A., and
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“Who’s Who” To
List Ten Seniors
Chosen By Faculty and
Student Committee
Ten Meredith girls were recently
chosen to be listed in “Who’s Who
Among Students in American Uni
versities and Colleges.” The girls
who were thus honored are Mattio
Irene Baugh, Elizabeth Haywood
Brownlee, Evelyn Hall Dillon, Row-
eiia Carolyn Duke, Laura Evelyn
Hampton, Sarah Gx*eeuwood Jack
son, lone Kemp Knight, Rachel
Margaret Lovelace, Elizabeth Brink-
ley Riggs, and Ruth Lytton Tixxglcy.
These students were chosen on the
basis of character, scholarship, lead
ership in extra-curricular activities,
and the possibility of future useful
ness to business and society. A coxn-
mittee of students and faculty made
the selections.
According to the editor of “Who’s
Who,” H.'Pelitxxs Randall, “the main
purpose of this 'publication is to
bring the names of the' outstanding
stxidents of America before the busi
ness woi’ld and before others who
annually recruit students.”
A qxiestionnaire, always sent to
the stxxdents whoso biographies ap
pear in the edition, will be published
in the current issue, giving the trend
of American student opinion.
Monogram Chib
The Monogram: Club met October
7 with Willa Lee Joyner presiding
at the meeting. That being the fii'st
meeting of the year the. plans for
the school yeai', 1942-43 were dis
cussed.
LITTLE THEATRE
PRESENTS PLAY
Miss Bailey Directs
^’‘Letters To Lucerne**^
Thirteen In Ctut
Thursday, October 29, at 8:00
P.M., (he Little Theati'e, under the
direction of Miss Fi-axices Bailey,
presented its annual fall pi’oduetion,
“Letters to Liieerne” by Fritz Rotter
and Allen Vinceixt.
The east was as follow:
Olga Kirinski .... Charlotte Greene
Gustave James Allen*
Erna Schmidt, Betty Rose Prevatte
Gretchen Linder Mitchell Lee
Hnns Schmidt .... Stanley Teiser**
Margarethe Jessie Utley
Mrs. Hunter Glox’ia Anderson
Bingo Hill Elizabeth Shelton
Fehce Renoir .... Evelyn La, Salle
Sally Jackson .... Nelda Ferguson
Marion Ourwood Marjorie Valeixtine
Francois Bill Thompson*
Koppler R. 0. Everett**
’"Needham Broughton High School.
*‘^State Collie.
The play itself was set in a girls’
school in Switzerland at the out-
bi'eak of the present war. Obvious
ly, it is a recent play axxd has just
completed a run on Broadway.
Lilbourno Minshew was business
manager and the chairmen of the
committees were as follows;
Stagiixg Rosetta Pux'vis
. Shirley Dickenson
Properties Carolyn Kenyon
OostuniGs Doris Jean Leary
„ . Betsy Watson
11'ogranis Graco Alexander
Prompter Margaret Hollia
Make-up Margaret Long
Palio Program
Changed; New
Plans Secret
Banner Awarded To
Palio Winner, Stunt
Begins 8 p.m., Nov. 7
fl'om today at 2:00
p.m. Meredith’s annual palio and
stimt night will begin. The pro
cedure for palio will remaiix the
same, but according to unan-
n.ouaic«d plans of the Athletic Asao-
ciatxon, there are a number of
added features to palio activities.
A gexieral palio committee, consist-
mg of Dorothy Turner of Erwin,
Dorothy Winstead of Elm City,
*^T-r Richmond, Va.,
and Hortenae Liles of Goldsboro
has been working with Mr. Clay-
tou Charles of tlie art department.
Ihey have added many new ani
mals and several caricatures to the
paho parade.
to lowe Kemp Knight
of Madison, president of the Ath-
ietie Association, a banner will be
pven to the class that ^vins palio.
1 he class numerals will be placed
on the banner which will be handed
down to the palio winner every
^ar. This banner was donated by
•ii L Price. Palio winners
''mi, 8-nnoune^d at step singing.
- The Athletic Association is re
luctant to disclose its plans for
addmg variety to palio because
these plans are to come as a sur
prise to the student body, Their
naysterious attifrixde indicates that
tliere is something worthwhile in
stoye for those who participate in
palio.
The vice presidents of each class
are m charge of their class palios.
They are as follows: Kathryn Sut
ton of Monroe, senior class; Ann
Itay Kramer of Elizabeth City
.^nior class J Carolyn Creech of
Clayton, sophomore class; and
Elizabeth Shelton of Washington,
freshman class.
Othp activities of the aftenxoon
of paho are toe horse race, bicycle
race, step-siniging, and alumnae
sports event. These events are
gonxg to follow one after the other
without a lapse of time between as
has been the case in tiie past.
Each class has a clown to add
extra touch of gaiety. This year
the clowis ai*e as follows: Mai*y
Frances Kerr of Tanceyville,
senior class; lone Shields of Scot
land Neck, .-junior class; Anna Lou
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OAK LEAVES WINS
NATIONAL AWARD
Meredith Annual First
In Notion In Its Class
In the All-American Yearbook
Coutost, the Meredith College an
nual, The Oah L$a,v6s woix first place
in its class. Annuals from all col
leges are divided into classes accord
ing to student enrollment. Meredith
IS in class B which is made up of
colleges with an enrollment of 600.
The staff of the winning 1941-1943
annual included Martha Olive of
Wade, editor; Evelyn Bowers of
Saut^'d, business manager; Eliza
beth Riggs of Durham, associate edi
tor; Gretchen Fanney of Scotland
Neck, art editor; and Eleanor Gibbs
of Seven Springs and Charlotte
Green of Oghomosho, Nigeria, West
Afnea, photographic editors. Class
editors were Katherine Kerr of Yan-
^yvillo, senior editor; Florence
Olivo of Wade, junior editor and
Martha Ann Allen of Gaiuier, soph
omore editor.
Dr. Julia Hamlet Harris and Dr.
ii;. i!. Canady were the faculty ad
visors.