MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N". 0., SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1943
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THREE COMPLETE BACHELOR’S DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
Helen Best
Gertriiile Hanlisoii
MnrylisheMi Edwnnh
Religious Emphasis Week
To Be Held February 8-12
Win8ton*Salem Pastor
To Lead All Activities
The of February 8 till 12
has been set aside for observing the
annual Religions Emphasis Week.
Dr. Ralph A. Herring of the First
Baptist Church of Winston-Salem
is leading the activities wliieli will
include various talks in chapel,
morning watch, and at meetings
every evening. Individual con
ferences will also bo hold upon re
quest.
Student forums and discussions
will be oiu! of tlie main feuturcs of
the Aveek.
Dr. Herring will stay on flie cam
pus and take liis meals here, eating
Avitli tlio .students upon their making
arrangements with tlie Jkptist Stu
dent Union, which organization is
sponsoring the Week.
Dr. Herring rcccivecl his A.B. de
gree from Wake Forest College and
his Ph.D. from the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary. Wliile in
Kentucky in school, he was pastor
of churches at CrestM'ood and at
Ashland. In 193C ho camc to
Winston-Salem where ho served as
l>astor of the First Baptist Church.
Last year !Mr. and Mrs. J. Winston
Pierce of the First Baptist Church
of Durham conducted tlie services.
With Elizabeth Tuekcr of Winston-
Salem as president of the Baptist
Student Union, the week ^vas highly
successful. A collection of Dr.
Pierce’s addresses and poetry selec
tions -were printed and made avail
able to the stndent body.
Plans For Formal
Jr.-Sr. Being Made
The Juniors will be hostesses to
the Seniors at the annual Junior-
Senior banquet on Saturday, Febru
ary 20, it was announced today by
Miss Virginia Ayers, President of
the Junior Class.
The committees to plan the ban
quet have been appointed and arc at
work. Tliey are as follows:
Decorations — Gloria Anderson,
Ciiairman, Doris Jones, Sue Mc-
iS^eely, Ann TCrnmer, Hicliie Harris,
Mary Elizabeth Wrenn, Rebecca
Maness, Dot Turner, Carolyn Allen,
Elsie Stewart, Julia Hoover, Sadie
Outlaw.
Entertainment — Elizabeth. Mc
Neil, Chairman, Julia Margarette
Bryan, JJeverette Middleton, Mar
jorie Valentino, Fay Chandler, Doris
Jean Leary, Onie Shields.
Program—Frances Moore, Chair
man, Margaret Lassiter, Betty
Knowles, June Baker, Cornell Brunt.
Food—Betty Miller, Chairman,
Annie Merle White, Mollie Melvin.
Invitations — Betty Rose Pre-
vatte. Chairman, Avis Branch, Mary
Hill, Dot Burehette, Oneta Holder,
Barbara Baucom, Fannie Memory
Farmer, Nat Wood\vard, Hannah
Savage.
The banquet will be formal and
will be held in the college dining hall.
THREE GRADUATE
AT MID-TERM
Tliree Meredith College graduates
of 1943 have completed the work for
their Bachelor of Arts Degrees this
month, Doan Davis announced re
cently. They are Helen Best of War
saw, Gertrude Hardison of Green
ville, and Marylisbeth Edwards of
Kinston.
Two will go directly into teaching
jjositaons in the state, Helen Best as
public school music teacher in the
schools of Saint Pauls and Gertrude
to the Raleigh schools. Marylisbeth
will go into a position M’ith the Sey
mour Johnson Air Base in Golds
boro.
Diamonds Begin to Appear
As Meredith Girls Tumble
It has often been said that a col
lege education is a handicap in get
ting one’s man. Another fact quoted
frequently is that the girl in the
South can better catch a man than
one from Now England or the West.
Meredith lassos are rapidly dis
proving the first statement and just
as rapidly confirming the second. As
one local yokel said, Meredith girls
are tumbling like duckpina.
Among the girls with that dia
mond on theiv third finger, left hand
and that gleam in their eyes are
Gloria Downing, Betty Knowles,
Gloria Anderson, Sophronia Jordan,
Catherine Barefoot, Heidi Oaison,
Doris Jean Leary, June Baker, Dale
Marks, Annie Merle White, Anna
Ruth Dixon, Annie Mary Matthews,
and Vinita Penland. Rosetta Pur
vis has quit school, preparatory to
becoming a bride, and Barbara Cas
well lias not returned to school after
being married.
Puggie Lindsey Gould, Iris Culler
Creech, and Helen Royal Cooke have
also tottered over the brink and in
habit married girls’ row out in Ra
leigh. They will welcome any neAV
inhabitants. To see how these girls
feel about the whole affair, just ask
Puggie to let you see her rings, and
watch her arrange them with pride.
By the oodles of fraternity pins
and the flocks of silver wings, it
seems as though there will be a num
ber of new diamonds appearing—
don’t you think so?
Improvements Made
By B-Hive Committee
The Beehive commiftoc, which
consists of Sara Jackson, Annie
Mary Mattliows, Sue McXeely,
Rachel Strole, Frances WalUieo and
Mr. Canaday, faculty adviser, has
been making und executing plans for
the improvement of the Beeliive. Be
fore Christmas liolidays a now sec
tion of flooring was put in and the
entire inside of the building M-as
painted. For this last improvo-
nient the customers are indebted to
Mr. Canaday, who being unable to
find someone to do the job did it
himseit. Curtains have been pur-
ohnsed and will bo hung after exams
and a thorough window washiiig has
.boon completed. Also a new system
of keeping the store clean has been
worked out and the clerks are iiow
doing their best to carry out the
plan.
The committee sincerely hopes
that each student will do her best to
help the committee and clerks keep
the Beehive at its best.
Annual Founders’ Day Events
Will Be Held February 5
Music Department
Sponsors Series
On Monday, January 18, Dr. Har
ry E. Cooper, head of the Music De
partment, inaugurated a series of
broadcasts over Station WPTF with
an organ recital.
This year is the second time that
Meredith has sponsored a series of
radio programs. The Music Depart
ment has charge of the series this
year. They will be heard at 10:00
o’clock each Monday night.
The ones appearing during the
next three months besides Dr. Cooper
are _Mr. Edgar Alden, head of the
violin faculty; Miss Dorothy Phelps,
Miss Phyllis Warnick, and Mr.
Stuart Pratt of the piano faoulty;
Miss Beatrice Donley of the voice
faoulty; the Meredith College Choir
under the direction of Dr. Cooper;
the Meredith College Glee Club un
der the direotion of Miaa Donley;
and Individual Music Majors of the
college.
Jan Pierce, Tenor,
to Solo at Concert
Jan Pierce, America’s leading
tenor, who is on a coast-to-coast tour,
will appear in Raleigh to present a
concert at Memorial Auditorium on
the evening of February 5. Since
liis first concert and opera tour six
years ago, Pierce’s itineraries have
become increasingly lengthy, until
this year finds him in forty cities, in
cluding New York, Chicago, Port
land and Toronto, singing that num
ber of recitals. In addition to his
concert schedule, Pierce is heard reg
ularly on the air, and at Radio City’s
Music Hall, making him the busiest
tenor in the country.
Pierce was born in New York, and
at a tender age Avas taking violin les
sons for the weekly fifty cents his
mother managed to pinch together.
The neighbors preferred to hear his
young alto voice.
Nevertheless, it was with his fiddle
that young Jan crashed into the
musical world. He worked his way
tlirough medical school playing with
dance orchestras and singing vocal
choruses. Sometimes he delivered
as many as forty songs a night. Soon
the urge to sing conquered all else,
and he left school and devoted his
time to ti-aining his voice. When
he finally started his training he
did not board the boat to Europe,
but placed himself in the hands of
a New York teacher, for better or
for worse. It was obviously for bet
ter, for only two years passed before
he became the star tenor of our
country’s mecca for entertainment.
Radio City’s Music Hall. Since
then. Pierce has sung in every major
conccrt hall in the United States,
from Carnegie Hall to irollywoocl
Bowl.
Bnrely in his thirties, Jan Pierce
has iilrcndy sealed the heights of na
tional fiimc. “The amazing young
tenor,” is what Samuel Chatzinoff
calls him.
Firm To Publish
Anthology of Poetry
An anthology of poetry by Ameri
can collcge students will be published
early in the spring, the Editors of
Harbinger House, New York pub
lishing firm, announce. Work on
the compilation of the volume has
already begun, and manuscripts are
noM' sought.
•Verso by all students, whether
graduate or undergraduate, will be
eligible for consideration. Any stu
dent may submit an unlimited num
ber of poems, but no single poem
should be more than 60 lines in
length.
Manuscripts should he submitted
prior to January 30, 1943. They
should be addressed to Editors, Col
lege Poetry Anthology, Harbinger
House, 381 Fourth Avenue, New
York, N. Y., and must bo accom
panied by return postage.
TRAINING COURSES TO
RECEIVE COLLEGE CREDITS
Eight midwestern colleges ruled
this week that men and women in the
armed services may receive college
credits for some of the work they
are doing in the course of their mili
tary training. Colleges taking part
in the program are: the University
of Iowa, Iowa State College, Uni
versity of Illinois, University of
Indiana, Michigan State College,
University of Minnesota, Ohio State
University, and the University of
Chicago.
Wilmington Pastor
To Speak Friday
Morning
Meredith College Avill observe its
animal Founders’ Day on Friday,
February 5. Dr. Sankey L. Blanton,
who is pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Wilmington, will be the
speaker. The servico is to be held
at eleven o’clock in the morning.
_ The speaker is a North Caro
linian, having graduated from Wake
Forest College.
Two other events of the day will
be the reception in the afternoon
^'om 4:30 to 6:00. The committee,
College Functions Committee, has
charge of it. Those on this com
mittee are: Miss Anna M. Baker,
dean of women; Mrs. Mary
Edgerton, Miss Ellen Brewer, Mrs.
Vera 1 art Marsh, Miss Dorothy
Phelps, and Miss Lila Bell. The
receiving lino in the Blue Parlor
wxll consist of Dj*. and Mrs. Carlyle
Campbell, Dr. and Mrs. Sankey
Blanton, Dr. and Mrs. Benson Davis,
Miss Anna M. Baker, Mr. and Mrs.
W. Herbert Weatherspoon, Mr. and
Mrs. LeRoy Martin, and Mr. and
Mrs. L. R. Harrill. The new mem
bers of the faculty and administra
tion will receive in the Rose Parlor.
Also, the alumni will have a special
broadcast to reach the various other
alumni groups in North Carolina.
This will be Radio Station College
News in the form of a skit to he given
at 4:45 o’clock over WPTF.
On this Founders’ Day classes will
be attended. However those classes
from ]1_;00 o’clock imtil 2 o’clock
will be dismissed.
The speaker last year on the
Founders’ Day program was Mr.
Julian Miller, editor of the Chariot!e
Ohseroer. On that day special ob-
sorvanco was given to Dr. Charles
E. Hrcwer and Dr. R. T. Vann, past
presidents of the college who had
died during the year. Other speakers
lutve^ been Gerald Johnson of the
IkiHhmre Sun and Dr. Frank Gra
ham of the University of North
Carolina.
Dr. _ Blanton is a Wake Forest
alumni; ho took his graduate work
at Andover-Newton Seminary in
Massachusetts. He served as pastor
of_the^Calvary Baptist Church, just
oti:_ Yale University campus, of
wliieh the famous teacher, William
Lyons Phelps was a member.
Dr. Blanton is very active in
Baptist activities, especially so in
social service work.
ORGAN RECITAL
GIVEN JANUARY 8
Dr. Harry E. Cooper, head of the
Department of Music of Meredith
College, presented an organ recital
in the college auditorium on Friday
evening, January 8, 1943. This re
cital was the second faculty concert
of the 1942-1943 series.
The program for the recital was:
Symphony for Organ Weitz
Reign of Peace
Snowing Mother
Star of the Sea
First Choral, in E. Major (First
c 1 Franck
bcherzo in G Minor Bossi
Clair de Lune Vierne
Toccata on “Fi'om Heaven
; Edmundson
(Second Christmas Suite)
REGISTRATION
The college is enrolling high
school graduates now for the new
weshman term, opening February 1.
Examinations will be held the week
of January 25, the second semester
to open on Monday, February 1.