GOOD
LVCK
ON
EXAMS!
Volume XVIII
MEREDITH OOLLEQE, RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1944
Number 6
EIGHT SENIORS WILL
GRADUATE AT END
OF THIS SEMESTER
Meredith College, in keeping with
the war-time program in education,
had its first summer school session in
1942. This gave girls a chance to
take subjects and get oi¥ hours which
they needed towards the completion
of their courses. Lots of girls have
taken advantage of such an oppor
tunity, if not at Meredith, at other
schools. As a result of their extra
summer, work, we have eight seniors
graduating this semester. They are
Georgia Brewer, Cornell Brunt,
Audria Finney, Margaret Lassiter,
June Rawlins, Etta Taylor, Ann
White, and Nathlie Woodward. The
sociology department is represented
by four girls, the education depart
ment by three, and there is one from
the biology department. Some of
these girls have jobs waiting for
them, and others are going to con
tinue their schooling.
Margaret Lassiter, from Raleigh,
is a primary education major and
plans to teach the first grade, but
she is not sure where. She is graduat
ing early because she went to summer
school in 1940 at Mars Hill and in
1943 to Wake Forest. She plans to
begin her work on a M.A. degree in
education this summer at the Uni
versity of Connecticut. She would
like to do work with refugee chil
dren. Margaret has written a child’s
book this past year for Miss Bell,
and she has done secretarial work
for Miss Clark, former French teach
er. When asked whnt she thought of
graduating early, she said, “I think
it*a a good idea to finish early if you
know what you want to do, but if
you don’t, I think going the regular
four years is better.”
Georgia Brewer, from Pittsboro,
is also a primary education major
and plans to teach the second grade,
but she is not sure about the place.
Georgia took extra work several se
mesters and attended one summer
school at Meredith. She has worked
in Miss Baker’s office every year
except her senior year. She says,
“It’s wondei-ful to be gi-aduating, but
I’ll be glad to come back in June to
see everybody.”
June Baker Rawlins, from Del-
mar, Delaware, is an education ma
jor. She plans to resume her activi
ties as housewife in her Baltimore
apartment. She took two summer ses
sion’s work at a school in Maryland.
Nathlie Woodward, of Anderson,
South Carolina, is a sociology major
and plans to begin her graduate
work in social research at the Uni
versity of Maryland on April the
seventh. She is graduating early as
the result of two summer schools at
Meredith and one correspondence
course. She has done extra work at
State College for a year. She says,
“I am graduating early so that I can
get started in my graduate work. I
believe in the accelerated program.”
Cornell Brunt, from Winston-
Salem, is also a sociology major, and
she has a job in her home town
with the navy in a mystery plant.
She took extra work at Carolina.
She plans to go into personnel work
later. While at Meredith she has
done work in the bursar’s office. Cor
nell says, “I like the idea of gradu
ating early, but I hate to leave my
friends here.”
Ann White, from Wilmington, is
likewise a sociology major and has
been accepted for graduate work at
Cornell University. She graduates
here in January and starts school on
March 3. Ann has taken extra hours
each semester and attended no sum
mer schools. She is going into the
field of statistics. She has been stu
dent assistant in the sociology de>
partment for the last two years. She
says, “I think the accelerated pro
gram is a wonderful id6a.”
Etta Taylor, Whitakers, is a bo-
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Meredith Girl Wins
National Contest
Mary Susan Crump, a senior busi
ness major, from Wagram, recently
won first place in a national letter-
writing contest, sponsored by the
Business Education World maga
zine. The prize consisted of three
dollars. Mary Alice Turner, of Ham
let, and Don Gilkeson, of Fisher-
ville, Virginia, won certificates of
merit.
The prize-winning letter will be
published in the January issue of
Bxisiness Education World.
Spring Registration
Students are to register Monday,
January 31, in the gymnasium. Sam
ple schedule cards are posted on the
bulletin board and in Jones and
Vann halls. Students may register
early if they see the bursar first.
Meredith is cooperating with the
war effort by using old cards in ordei-
to save paper during the shortage.
Club Entertained at Tea
The Granddaughters’ Club at
Meredith was feted at a tea in the
faculty parlor, Sunday afternoon,
January 7, from 4:30 to 5;30, by
Miss Mae Grimmer, the club spon
sor. The senior members composed
the receiving line.
Mrs. Carlyle Campbell and Mrs.
Zeno Martin poured coffee. Other re
freshments were sandwiches, cook
ies, nuts, and candy.
Education Class
Visits Model School
The education administration
supervision class, with Mr. B. Y.
Tyner, Mr. Harry K. Dorsett, and
Miss Lila Bell visited the Crosby-
Garfield grammar school on Wednes
day, January 19. This school for
colored children is located in Chavis
Heights. Crosby-Garfield is a model
school, noted for cleanliness and
well-kept equipment. The class vis
ited practically all of the rooms and
inspected the heating plant.
Glories Anderson’s
Wedding Plans
Meredith’s Student Government
president, Gloria Anderson, will
marry Cadet Harold Cranford, Feb
ruary 11, at 5:00 o’clock, in the First
Methodist Church of Asheboro, N. C.
Dr. Smathers will officiate, and the
double ring ceremony will be used.
Attendants will be Betty Rose Pre-
vatte and Ruth Anderson. Max
Cranford will serve as his brother’s
best man.
Wedding music will be furnished
by Mias Ethel Johnson, organist,
and Mrs. Neely Hunter, soloist.
Selections will include: “My Heart
at Thy Sweet Voice” and the “Lord’s
Prayer” as benediction.
Cadet Cranford is a graduate of
Asheboro High School and attended
University of North Carolina three
years before going to the Air Corps.
He is now in the final phase of his
pilot’s training at Dothan, Alabama.
He is a member of the Alpha Tau
Omega fraternity.
Badminton Practices
Badminton has become a major
Athletic Association winter sport.
Practices are scheduled for Tuesday
and Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. and
Thursday at 7:00 p.m. in the gym
nasium. AH girls interested in bad
minton should plan to participate
in the practices in order to be eligi
ble for the big singles and doubles
tournament which is scheduled for
the first week of March. The college
and A. A. has new badminton equip
ment ready and waiting to be used.
Focus Week Chairman
Millie Thornton, a junior, was
recently elected by the student body
to serve as the general chairman of
Religious Focus Week, whiclx begins
February 20. She is to supervise all
of the activities for the week. Millie
is the third vice president of the
Baptist Student Union. She has
served on the B.S.U. all three years
she has been at Meredith. Millie is
also vice president of the junior
class.
Annual Observance of Founders’ Day
To Be Held Friday, February 4
Gorernor J. Melrille Bronghton wilt
be the speaker on Founders* Day,
February 4.
FOURTH WAR LOAN
COMMITTEE MAKE PLANS
BIB YOU EVER GET HOJ^ESICK
FOR IHEREBITH?
Did _ you ever get homesick for
Meredith? No, if you were home on
a week-end or during the holidays
you were having too good a time, you
say. During the summer you might
miss your Meredith pals, but you
were pretty busy and didn’t have
time to think much about it.
You can have a real homesickness
for Meredith—a lonesome ache, a
longing to be “in things” again, a
worry that you’ve been forgotten,
that you’re not really as important
as you thought you were. It’s a home
sickness as real as any you can have.
You’re not on a desert island; you’re
on the campus — but in the in
firmary.
Sure, you know you have to get
well, and you don’t feel like being
anywhere else but the infirmary. The
nurses take better care of you and
you have more of peace and quiet
than you’d have downstairs. But—
you hear the girls going to lunch,
and you’re homesick. You hear high
heels click down the hall below.
You hear the class hell ring, that
used to make you jump, and you’re
homesick. Once in a while, you hear
voices clear and distinct floating up
from the valley that is the court. You
try to personalize the voices, and a
wave of nostalgia hits you. You’re
homesick for Meredith, everyday
Meredith.
In the .infirmary you are taken
care of, your cold, or whatever ails
you, is cured and you are able to live
a normal life again without danger
to your health or to other people’s
well-'being. To get you well, the in
firmary uses necessary inethods, pre
scribed by all medical authorities—
quiet, rest, isolation, softer diet,
plenty of water and fruit juices,
and well-chosen medicines. You’re
glad to get the attention and every
thing in order to be cured. But you
begin to appreciate what you had
when you were well—and you won
der if the girls who are well do ap
preciate it!
In the infirmary you live for
meal-time, three welcome breaks in
a day of reading and sleeping, per
haps writing a letter or two for va
riety. The rush you used to be in
downstairs seems hazy and like a
dream. Did you really used to long
for a day to do nothing in? Now
that you have several of them you
realize you prefer the busy kind.
The infirmary makes you appre
ciate Meredith. You learn to value
things you never used to notice be
fore — things like clean pajamas,
shampoos, the opportunity to get
your own mail and telephone calls,
the B-Hive, noise and conversation
Avith your meals, lipstick, just “being
dressed,” and the ability to study
your assignments on time. You also
realize the importance of being
around where you can remind your
friends that you’re still alive.
Why girls ever complain about the
“convent rules” of Meredith! Just
living the life of a normal healthy
girl,^ observing all the rules, is heav
en, is complete freedom. The infirm
ary makes you appreciate Meredith.
In the interest of the Fourth War
Loan, Mrs. Vera Tart Marsh, head
of Raleigh’s college division, has an
nounced that the faculty solicitors
for Meredith will be Mrs, LeRoy
Allen, Miss Lila Bell, and Miss Be
atrice Donley.
Students who have completed their
war savings stamp books are asked
to pledge for the pm*chase of bonds
ivith Mrs. Mai’sh, or with Margaret
Webb, who is student chairman for
the War Finance Committee on this
campus. It is important that faculty
and students pledge for bonds
through the representatives named,
in order that Meredith College may
'be credited with these bond sales.
Mrs. Marsh entertained student
members of the War Finance Com
mittee on Monday at a coffee hour.
Gloria Anderson presided over the
coffee table and Mrs. Marsh was
assisted in receiving her guests by
Fannie Memory Farmer. The guests
were Margaret Webb, Ann Ray
Kramer, Etta Taylor, Virginia Mel
vin, Hortense Liles, Laura Frances
Peck, Eiileen Hoggard, Dorothy
Shealy, Mary Jo Clayton, Mary
Davis, Deleano Hall, Jewell Eat-
man, Nancy Gates, Etra Page, Ruth
Martin, and Betsy Paul Yelverton.
Combined with the social hour was a
pep meeting sponsored by the com
mittee in the interest of the sale of
stamps and bonds during the fourth
war loan. The last official report
stated that the sophomore class still
leads in the sale of war stamps at
Meredith.
Governor Broughton
To Speak; Two Receptions
Will Be Given
Four Seniors
Entertain Frieds
On Thursday night, January 20,
from 8:00 to 9:30, four of the seniors
who will graduate at the end of this
semester gave a tea in the Hut.
Cornell Brunt, Georgie Brewer, Nat
Woodward, and June Baker Rawlins
were hostesses to about 150 faculty
and student friends.
Elections Offi,cial»
Elections officials for the spring
elections are: Virginia Maynard,
chairman of elections; Jewel Hyatt,
registrar of elections; Mary Cuxrin
and Mollie Ruth King, judges of
elections; and Claire Van Sant,
freshman representative, Ruby Lee
Spencer, sophomore representative;
Mary Lou Nance, junior representa
tive, and Virginia Melvin, senior
representative.
This year, the observance of the
founding of Meredith will be held at
11:00 in the auditorium on Friday,
February 4. Governor J. Melville
Broughton will make the Founders’
Day address.
The faculty and trustees will be at
home to the seniors and friends of
the college in the parlors from 4:30
until 6:00. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford
Winston, Miss Louise Lanham and
Miss Mae Grimmer will greet guests
at the door and Mrs. B. Y, Tyner
and Mrs. LeRoy Allen will introduce
them to the receiving line. The line
for the reception will be composed
of: Governor and Mrs. J. Melville
Broughton, President and Mrs. Car
lyle Campbell, Dean and Mrs. Ben
son W. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy
Martin, Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Weatherspoon, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Bunn, Mr. and Mrs. Z. M. Caveness,
Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Council, Mrs.
Foy J. Farmer, Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Simms,
Mr. and Mrs. Eph Whisenhunt, Mr.
and Mrs. S. R. Harrill and Miss
Anna M. Baker. The new faculty
members will form a receiving line
in the rose parlor.
The Alumnae Association will
sponsor a broadcast over WPTF
from 4:30 to 4:45. Mrs. L. R. Har
rill, president of the Alumnae Asso
ciation, will introduce the speakers;
President Carlyle Campbell and Mr.
W. H. Weatherspoon, chairman of
the Board of Trustees, who will
speak on the expansion program.
The Glee Club will sing, the Alnui
Maier.
In the evening, the Student Coun
cil will give a reception in the par
lors for the student body and guests.
On Friday, classes will be sus
pended at 10 ;25 for the remainder
of the day.
Examination Teas
To Be Given
This year, as in past years, a se
ries of examination teas will he
given for the students and faculty.
On Tuesday afternoon, from 4:30-
5:30 o’clock. Miss Lanham and Miss
Forbes will entertain in the faculty
parlor. They are the sponsors for the
literary societies and are entertain
ing in honor of them. On Wednes
day afternoon at the same hours, the
Baptist Student Union will be hos
tesses in the Hut, and Thursday
afternoon, Miss Baker and Miss God
win will give a tea in the faculty
parlor.
Dot Shealy Is saoceedloff Carolyn
Kenyon as business manager of
Twlff.” Oleo Glover la taking Dot’s
plaee as assistant business maneger.