I Final Civic
I Music Concert
GENEYIEVL' CHIlTi'EtLE
A3i-V KAY KRAMER
Elections For
19434^Held
S.G., Publications^
Societies, B.S.U.
Positions Filled
The spring eloctions of the major
oflicos on the Morpflith oompus fov
the yoai- 1843>44 continue witli re
sults fls given here. Betty Rose Pre-
ratto, of Liimbei'ton, X. 0., has lipon
elected vice president of the Stu
dent Government, the other (>an]i-
dates being Avis Branch, of Em
poria, Va., and Graec Alexander of
Goldsboro, H". C..
Fr^nni-^ Mopio-’-y Ff’-’nor. T?n-
ll, X. |i!;v luTlJ
""'Vivil editor of Tit>' Twrrj,
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'Lr/v'-'i. llli. I.lhii li--
ins Atm ('arolyji Wh.'V'. of Wil-
Uliiifttoil, A. C.
Page Ilanhiii of Riolimond, Ta.,
has been elected editor of 'I'ho Acorn,
the other candidate being Betty
Miller, of Irvington, X J.
Jane Odom, of ifaysville, Ky.,
has been unaiiimoiisly elected presi
dent of the Agtrotekton Society.
Julia Margi’ette Uryan, of Garner,
N”. 0., has been nnanimously elected
president of the Philaretian So
ciety.
Sue McNeely of Arlington, Va.,
has been elected president of the
Little Theater, the other candidate
being EHxHbeth !Mc.N"ei]l, of Elkin,
N. C.
Xaura Frances Peek, of Albe
marle, C., liHs been, elected busi
ness manager of the Oah Leaves, the
other candidate being I3etty Cuth-
rell, of Lexington, IN', C.
Carolyn Kenyon, of Haleigh, has
been unanimously elected business
manager of Tjib Twig.
Eleanor Vereeii, of Raleigh, X. C.,
has been unanimously elected busi
ness manager of The Acorn.
Martha Jeffries, of Raleigh and
Hamlet, 2^. C., has been elected sec
retary of the Student Government,
the other candidate being Annie
Catherine Barden, of Rose Hill,
N. C.
(Ooatinued on page 2)
Phi Society Wins
Red Cross Drive
llie Philjiretian Society won the
(■ontcst between the two literary so
cieties to raise the greatest contri-
Imtipn in tlie Red Cross drive that
WHS held fit Meredith on March 15,
Ifi, and 17. The total amount col
lected was $380.24, (dthough addi-
tioiuil donations nro still coming,
[lihln M^ilsoii, the captain of the
sophomore Phi team collected more
tliaii any of (he other cnptains. Other
captiiins on the Phi side M'cre Anna
RiiHl Dixon, Margaret Hollisj Willa
(iniy Lewis, Mary Jo Williamson.
Afrs. Ivy WHS the head of the Mere-
!ith ]{ed Cross dx*ive.
A 5 U s'si ii' j “J (i 5 p V ivO t
Mogksar? Morv.h VI
i'!.'.o . frii.'ifsi rl.f;
■ V-! •piv'-i-'iK. i! it' i!ie
Mr'iedith auditorium Friday night,
Mjirc'h 32, reaped its profits of
!i>fi.OO. Altliough the Alumnae Asso-
j eiation spon.sored the entertainment,
tlie i»rofits M-ent to the Day Student
organization iu repairing thdir
rooms. Sixty per cent of tho profits
went to Wullace and the remaining
forty to the day students. Members
of tho faculty who had not been able
to attend the show wanted to round
out tlic profits into an even nine
dollars.
Th> last conecrt of tho Civic Mu
sic .\sROciation series will be pre
sented April 5 in the Memorial Au-
ditorinm. Two iretropolitan artists
will appeal—Dusoliiui Gitinnini and
Lansing Hatfield.
Diisolina Giannini is nn Anieriuan
liy birth, though she is of Italian
parentage. She was born iu Phila
delphia.
Lansing Hatfield was born in Vir
ginia, but raised in Xortb Caroliua.
He was graduated from Hickory
Higli Scliool when he was only four-
tpen. He won the Federal'Music
Club contest, but the Metropolitan
.\uditions of the air refused him in
For tiie next four years he
gained success. In 104], he'won the
Metropolitan Auditions and was giv
en a coutrjict.
Southeastern Meeting
Held At Meredith
LEAGUE DISCUSSES
BEVERfDGE PLAN
Sociology Club
Chapel Program
Students of Deportment
Doing Volunteer Work
In Community Centers
The Sociology Club was in charge
of (lie cbapel program on Tuesday,
Mdrch 10, with Elizabeth Riggs pre
siding. Members of the club gave
brief summaries of varied activities
of the soeiology students which give
'them practical experience to supple-
inent their classroom work,
Cornell Brunt reported on the spe-
The Student League of "Women
Voters met Wednesday, March 17,
at 5:00 in the rotunda. Iris Creech
pre^ded over the meeting. After the
business had been completed, Doris
Hami’ickj program chairman, intro
duced the speakei', Grace Alexander,
Grace spoke on the article; “Bev
eridge Report is Not Enough.” The
discussion centered around tho Bev
eridge post-war plan.
Twentieth Conference of
IRC's Meet; Senotor
Elbert Thomos Speoker
, l.nited States Seiiator Elbert D
Thomas of Utah will be the prinei-
pnl speaker of the I'wentieth Annual
Conference of Southeastern Inter-
uationnl Relations Clubs being held
al Arcreclit , College, March 3« and
27. Dr. Clyde Eagleton. Professoi'
ot Intprnational Law, New York
Universify, will speak and Miss Amy
Hemingway Jones will conduct the
meetmgs called to discuss the cluh
work.
The conference this year ivill be
unt reported on the spe-o,,r.„c.«. it wi ‘■“‘® oe
Hal project of the Sociology Chib LiS
10 geoei-aphical location
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dc!-^i*n 's tvom Ah-iviUr.^
vV)l]of.'v5 .-n'f? tiv-.'ing,' Cir:
Eastern Speech Tournament at
Charlotte, N. C., April 7-10. The
touruament is sponsored by the
Strawberry Leaf Society of Win-
tJirop College at Roek Hill, S. C.
This is the first time that Mere
dith has entered the tournament.
Delegates to represent the college
are Ruth Rantenstrauich, Marjorie
Ailstock, Betty Lou McClure, Nan
Davis, and Patsy McLawhorn.
Open House Held
In Stringfield
open house >\’as held in String-
field donnitory Thursday evening,
March 18, from seven till eight
o’clock. The student health commit
tee, of which Mary Francos Comer
is chairman, sponsored tho event.
Faculty members and students visit
ed the girls in Stringfield.
Judges for the occasion were Dr.
Lunham, Miss Rhodes, and MIph
Browdi’, Mildi’ed Blackman and
Kitty Johnson, who live on second
fioor, won tho grand prize. Melba
Long and Gwendolyn Krahnke, on
first floor, won 23 cents each in war
stamps, and Sue McNeely and Avis
Branch, on third floor, also won S3
cents each.
Day Students Play Their Part
The day students of Meredith con-. Silver Shield and Kappa Nu Sig-
sulcr themsolvos a very definite part I ma members, ajid as class officers,
of this school. Officially, they are Day students also have been some of
housed in two southeast rooms on the the superlatives of the past senior
sccond floor of Johnson Hall. The classes. Always they have played
first room is a social room, and
tbi.' second lins been-designated as
the quiet, study room. More than
one person going up the hall to the
library has stepped in to watch the
inevitable bridge game in progress
in these rooms.
Particular problem of tho girls
for the post two years has been the
redecoration and furnishing of their
rooms. The social room has newly
painted floors and furniture and new
drapes and slip covers. The second
room has been fitted with new coat
racks and pigeon holes for books.
Threo reproductions from the paint
ings of contemporary American art
ists are being purchased now for
these rooms. No small part of the
work of helping establish funds and
other labor for these rooms has been
done by the Wake County Associa
tion of Meredith Alumnae. Dr. Mary
Vr«rborough, tho girls’ faculty spon
sor, has done a great deal for them,
too.
Once a month tho glrlg meet in a
private group to dieouss thoir prog
ress; but otherwise, these girls are
full-fledged members of the Mere
dith student body. The day student
group is well represented on publi
cation etafl's, as society marshals, as
proininwt parts in the scholastic or
ganizations and continue to do so,
despite the added handicap of gas
and transportation rationing.
Dr. Campbell’s offices are directly
beneath the day student rooms. The
constant fear of some of the inhabi
tants of those second-floor rooms is
that the president will some day
leaA'o his office ^^'ith his head cov
ered with plaster, knocked down by
some excessively exuberant day stu
dent overhead.
The students iu the lihraxy are
constantly being reminded of the
presence of the day students by the
sounds of the noon-time hannony
group; not only that, they get fre
quent glimpses of frantic town stu
dents making a last dash for the bus
by means of the front library steps.
NOTES ON RELIGIOUS
EMPHASIS WEEK
to discover tho geogi-aphical location
the homes froni which Meredith
students come and to trace changes
over a forty-year period. To present
the findings concretely, six pliarts
and five maps were prepared. The
years selected for studv were
1001-02, lDJO-12, 1921-22, 1031-34,
and 1941-42, since 1941-42 was the
moat recent year for*'which com
plete data were available and 10-
year intervals were desired. The
most striking fact aboivn by the
charts is the increasing proportion
of students which come from out
side the State. In 1941-43, 12 per
cent of the student body came from
virliur
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Joii'ii'ja oi t.lu- of Civ-
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iu Introduction to Social Work was
reported on by Evelyn Dillon. This
project Ti'as set up to discover the
extent to which husbands in modern
urban apartments contribute to the
work of running the home. The
findings show that they assume few
domestic responaibilities, even when
their wives ivork, and that their help
i? usually irregular at best. A total
of 182 families were interviewed by
eight students. The study gave prac-
ii(!e in setting up a schedatle and
making the necessary tabulations. It
also provided valuable experience in
interviewing techniques and learning
to adjust to varied situations.
The ^'olunteer activities of sociol
ogy students in the community were
described by Fay Chandler. Since
t'Hi'ly last fall students in the de
partment have been acting as leaders
of Girl Reserve Clubs in the city
elementaiy schools. At the present
time Elizabeth Coleman directs the
Thompson 8^ool group and Dae
Bullock ia taking over the Murphy
School group. This work comes un
der the direction of the Young Wom
en’s Christian Association. Another
YWCA activity in which various
students have participated has been
supervision of recreation for high
school students on Friday night.
Three students, Elva Oreech, Etta
Taylor, and Margaret Hollis, have
been giving one-half day a week to
the Wake County Welfare Office un
der the direction of Mrs. Josephine
Kirk, county superintendent. The
girls act as receptionists and per
form other routine tasks, leaving the
case workers free for more special
ized services.
Notes of Dr. Herring’s epeeohes
mado here during Religious Em-
phasia Week were taken and con.'
piled in book form. They were di^
tributed in chapel and put in John
son Hall for any to take them. There
are still.some left. If anyone wants
the booklet, see Marjorie Allstook.
Wake Forest is the chairman of the
Soiitheostein International Rela-
tjons Clubs, and Evelyn Hampton
ot -Uereditli i« secretary.
Senator Thomas is a g]*aduate of
tho University of Utah and received
Ins Ph.D. degree from the Tlniversi-
|y of Califoraia. From 3907 to 1912
lie was missionary nnd president of
the Japan Mission, Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints. In
3924 Senator Thomas returned to
the University of Utah to teach po
litical science. He was a member of
the Cai'iiegio European Conferenca
of American. Professors in 1926; a
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xvuiieui Absocxaiion.
During his professorship Senator
Thomas became more interested in
the practical aspects of political sci
ence and began to attain a state
wide reputatiou for both scholarship
find shrewdness in tho field of politi
cal science. In 1932 he was elected
Senator from Utah, and in 1938 he
was re-elected as the senior Senator.
His activities in the Senate have in
cluded membership on committees
of widely different interests.
The Univei-aity of Southern Cali
fornia conferred an honorary LL.D.
on him in 1935 and he received an
honorary Litt.D. from National
University in 1937. Senator Thomas
is a member of the Chinest Political
and Social Science Association; ■Ae
American Academy of Political and
Social Science; the American Asso
ciation of University Professors;
and of the advisory board of the
East and West Association.
Dr. Clyde Eagleton is a graduate
of iUistin College, Sherman, Texas,
M’here he also received his A.M. de
gree. Ho has also studied at Prince
ton, receiving his A.M. degree in
1914; A.B. from 0::ford University,
England, where lio was a Rhodes
scholar iu 1917; and Ph.D. from
Colmnbia University in 1928.
Professor Eagleton has been a fre-
que)it visitor to Europe, having spent
the summer of 1938 in Switzerland
attending the Annual Conference of
the International Student Service, of
which he ia Chairman of the U. S.
National Committee. He is a mem
ber of the Editorial Board of the
(Continued on page 4)
Woman's Club Hears
Art Professor
On March 19 Mr. Clayton
Charles, head of the Art Depart
ment of Meredith College, gave a
lecture on “Oil Painting as a Hob
by.” This was the fourth in a series
of leoturoa on art appreciation spon
sored by the Woman’s Club.
Art Exhibition
Held By Students
The Art Department of Meredith
College hold its student exhibition
on March 16. To this exhibit the
faculty, students, and public were
invited.
Among the most interesting phases
of art exhibited were: Interior deco
ration, commercial art, model houses,
and floor plans.