Volume XVIII.
MEllEDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, If. 0., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1044
Number 8
3farty Jeffreys
mille TliontoM
S.G. and B.S. U.
Heads Are Elected
Marty Jeffreys^ Homlel-, N. C.
Is Student Gov't President;
Milly Thornton, B.S.U. Heod
Martha, or better known as
“Marty,” Jeffreys Las been elected
president of tlio Student Goveniment
Association of Mercditli for next
year. Marty, whose borne to%vn is
Hamlet, N. C., is majoring in chem
istry and Las as her related fields,
biology and mathematics.
She has played an active part in
the school organizations throughout
her three years at Meredith. During
lier freshman year she was chosen as
class president. On the Student
Government Council she has held the
positions of sophomore class repre
sentative, and secretary, which office
she had this, her junior year. On
The Twig staff she was a reporter
her freshman year and during her
sophomore-year was columnist. She
is now vice president of the Ba»-bcr
Science Club and president of the
Art Club. Marty is also a member
of the Astrotekton Literaiy Society
and the Sigma Pi Alpha language
chib.
After graduating, Marty hopes to
be either a laboratory technician or
a chemist for a plant.
For Baptist Student TJiiion presi
dent for the coming year, Mildred,
or “Milly,” ''J'hornton has been elect
ed. She is from Garden City, Long
Island, Xew York, and she has a
double major—religion and sociolo
gy. She began her otRces on the
B.S.tr. Council her freshman year
when she was chosen as freshman
representative. She has also held the
office of program chairman, and is
third vice president of the B.S.U.
Council. Milly, in regard to the
World Fellowship group, has been
secretary and extensioii director.
This year she is vice president of the
junior class. Other clubs to which
she belongs are tlie Sociology Club
and the Philaretian Literary So
ciety.
After finishing Meredith, Milly
wishes to do either educational work
in a church or teach Bible and social
science in a high school.
Fourth War Loan Report Made
Meredith College pledged $7,-
407.00 to the Fourth War Loan. The
faculty and administration pledged
i$6,4S6.25 and the students pledged
$918.75.
Miss Bel], Miss Donley, and Mrs.
Alien were solicitors for the faculty
and administration, and Margaret
Webb was general solicitor for the
students. Mrs. Vera Tart Marsh was
in charge of the drive as chairman
of the Women’s College Division.
War savings stamps will be sold
all year. The sale of stamps totals
$100.00 to date.
Meredith Expansion
Program Progresses
The Meredith College student
body, staff, faculty, and other em
ployees have pledged a total of
$14,445.50 to the Expansion Pro
gram, according to information re
ceived today from the Bursar’s
Office. Of this amount the student
body pledged $3,750.00. Many of
the pledges have not as yet been
made, and it is expected that the
total amount will run well over
$15,000.
This is the first report to he made
by any group working in the fund
raising campaign, and this infor
mation was presejited at the gen
eral meeting of all the leaders and
workers held at the Rialeigh
Woman’s Clu'b on Tuesday night
of this week. This meeting, which
was attended by over 250 residents
of Raleigh and Wake County,
offtcially opened the campaign to
raise $565,000.
The meeting Tuesday night
proved to be possibly the most en--
tJiusiastie gathering of friends of
Meredith College ever held in the
State. Practically all religious de
nominations in the city were repre
sented, and one of the appeals for
funds for the college was made
on the basis of Meredith being a
^vorthwliile business enterprise for
the city of Raleigh.
Present plans for solicitation of
fiinds call for the completion of
the drive in Wake County within
the next two or three weelts. The
remainder of the State will be di
vided into districts and an organi
zation similar to tliat used in Ra
leigh will be perfected in each of
these districts before solicitations
in tho.se districts are begun.
Valentine Tea Given
The high school girls of the senior
cla8{?ea of Wake County public and
private schools were honored at a
Valentino tea by the Wake County
Chapter of Meredith Alumnae on
Monday afternoon, Feb. 14, from 5
to 6 o’clock at the Woman’s Club
in Raleigh.
The receiving line was composed
of Dr. Carlyle Campbell, Mrs. J.
Melville Broughton, Betty Rose Pre-
vatte, Marty Jeffreys, Ann Ray
Kramer, Mary Jo Clayton, and
Jfancy Gates.
Guests were introduced to the re
ceiving line by Mrs. L. R. Harrill,
president of the Alumnae Associa
tion, Miss Anna May Baker and Mrs.
B. Y. Tyner received at the entrance.
Miss Godwin and Mr. R. H. Sat
terfield received at the entrance of
the dining-room. Mrs. Carlyle Camp
bell and Mrs. Benson Davis presided
at the tea table. Assisting them were
Alice Greene, Dorothy Stell, Emily
Ferguson, Geraldine Winfree, Albor-
tine Rozar, Jane Isley, and Frances
Tucker.
The decorations carried out the
Valentine theme.
GLEE CLUB TREKS
TO CAMP MACKALL
March 3, the Meredith College
Glee Club will go to Camp Mackall
to give two concerts on that evening
at Semce" clubs One and Two re
spectively. The progi'am will in
clude :
A Brown Bird Singing. Haydn Wood
Rain Pearl G. Curran
Prayer from "Hansel and Oretel"
Humperdinck
The Sleigh Richard Koiintz
The Song Is You Jerome Kern
Will You Remember. Romiberg
Smoke Gets In Your Eye6..Jerome Kern
When a Maid Comes Knocking
at Your Heart Romberg
Night Beloved Alfred Bachelet
The Clothes of Heaven....T, P. Dunkill
The Wind's in the South
John Prendle Scott
Business Club
Institutes New Service
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the department of business.
The profits will be given to tho
Eixpanaioii Program fund.
Focus Week Ends
Intensive Work
Just concluded yesterday was the
first Focus Week of activities on the
Meredith campus, a week of inten
sive religious activity. The week
included two chapel addresses each
day, seminars, guest speakers at the
Pause for Power worship services,
gi'oup meetings, and personal confer
ences.
Student chairman for the affair
was Milly Thornton, incoming
B.S.U. president, and she was as
sisted by the Committee of One
Hundred. Sunday, February 20,
started the week. that day mem
bers of the Focus Week team visited
various Sunday schools and churches
in the city. In the Sunday schools
wero'Dr. Everett Gill, Pullen Memo
rial; Mr. Howard D. Rees, Hayes
Barton Baptist; Dr. Claude U.
Broach, First, Baptist; Miss Mary
!Jfance Daniel, Tabernacle Baptist;
and Dr. J. W. Marshall, First Pres
byterian. Preaching Sunday morn
ing sermons were Dr. Claude U.
Broach, Pullen Memorial, and Mr.
Howard D. Rees, Calvary Baptist.
B;T.ir. speakers that night were
Miss Mary Nance Daniel, West Ra
leigh Presbyterian; Dr. Everett
'Gill, First Baptist; and Dr.
J. itV. Marshall, Tabernacle Bap
tist. Speaking at the evening services
were Mr. Richard D. Howerton,
Edenton Street Methodist; Dr. J. W.
Marshall, Hayes Barton Baptist;
Dr. Everett Gill, Tabernacle Bap
tist, and Mr. Ilo^vnrd D. Rees, Pul-
leii Baptist.
The Monday morning chapel ad
dress, “Maxiiuum Christianity and
Analysis,” was 'gi^’en by Dr. Claude
U. Broach, and that evening’s “It is
tho Christian Faith*' was by Dr.
George D. Heatou. On Tuesday Dr.
J. W. Marshall spoke on “The Chris
tian Imperative” and Dr. Edward H.
Pruden, on “Christians at Their
Best.” Wednesday’s speakers were
Dr. Everett Gill, “The Adequate
Answer,” and Dr. George D.-Heaton,
“Jesus is Lord.” Mr. Howard D.
Rees spoke on “College Life at Its
Best,” and also Miss Mary ITance
Daniel and Mr. Richai-d T. Hower
ton spoke on Thursday morning.
That evening Dr. J. Morris Trim
mer talked on “My Utmost for the
Highest.” On the final day Mrs. J. 0.
Williams took “The Power to Be
come” end Mr. J. Winston Pearce
spoke on “A Person to Person Call.”
There were two sets of seminars.
Those on Monday and Wednesday
and Friday nights wero “Interna
tional Relations,” led by Dr. Edwai*d
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Chonges Mode in the
B.S.U. Constitution
At a recent meeting of the student
body, the following changes were
made in the B.S.U. constitution:
1. That a day student be elected
to one of the general offices, thereby
eliminating the office of day student
representative.
2. That a uoa-Baptist girl be
elected to one of the general offices,
eliminating the office of interdenom
inational representative.
3. That the office of freshman rep
resentative be eliminated.
4. That the office of poster chair
man and reporter be combined.
3. That the office of president of
Wox'ld Fellowship be eliminate
from the B.S.U. Council. (That she
be represented on the Y.W.A. Coun
cil as chairman, of community mis
sions.)
DR. WINSTON GIVES TEA
Dr. Ellen Winston will entertain
the members of the faculty and the
faculty ^vives at an infonnal tea this
afternoon, from four to six.
COMPOSERS
ENTER CONTEST
Norman Lockwood, winner of the
Prix do Rome in 1929, has come to
this state and is the music leader of
the First Annual Arts Forum at
Woman’s College in Greensboro on
the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth of
this month.
There are two students and three
faculty members from Meredith who
will have their compositions heard.
The students are Dorothy Shealy,
playing her piano composition, “Sou
venir,” and Rebecca Barnes, singing
her composition, “Day,” accompa
nied by Betsy Jean Holt at the
piano.
The compositions by tho faculty
are a suite by Mr. Stuart Pratt; a
song, “Love’s Reverie,” by Mrs, Hal-
pera, sung by Mary Lee Holder, ac
companied by Betsy Jean Holt; and
“Voices in the Mist,” for four-part
women’s voices, by Sgt. Edgar
Alden, now of the Signal Corps.
Others attending are Connie Red-
wine, Willa Grey Lewis, Jane Wat
kins, Virginia Holcomb, Jean White,
Jean Davis, Margaret Hines, Misa
Beatrice Donley, and Dr. Harry E^
Cooper.
Girls Go to WMU Meeting
Six Meredith girls will appear on
the program of the annual meeting
of the Woman’s Missionary Union
to be held in Charlotte March 7-9.
Ruth and Ruby Lyon will speak on
what the orphanage has meant to
them. They, with Jane Watkins, Re
becca Barnes, Willa Gray Lewis, and
Mary Lee Holder will sing as a bene
diction at the close of each day-time
session, “Prayer.”
Among the other speakers are two
missionaries who are Meredith alum
nae, Miss Pearl Johnson of Shang
hai, China, and Miss Sophie Lan-
eau of Soochow, China.
JOIN THE WAVES!
The Navy Department has set
aside these two Aveeks—from Febru
ary 21 to March 4—for special em
phasis on the WAVES. Quite a few
Meredith girls have already joind
this branch of service and “are now
serving admirably in many impor
tant billets.” WAVES have released
enough men to man twelve warships,
and Meredith has been doing her
part. But thousands more WAVES
arc needed; Meredith girls are need
ed, especially as officers.
WliAt will the N’avy do for me?
you ask. You will be trained iji vari
ous skills wliich will be of immense
value to you after tho war. You will
get good pay: enlisted women, .$50
to $138 per month, with allowances
for food, shelter, medical and dental
care, and $200 worth of clothing;
officers, $150 to $200 per month base
jjay with allowance for necessities
listed above. You >von’t have to pay
an income tax; you can buy life in
surance at low government rates;
you will have the privileges of free
mail, reduced transportation rates
and other benefits accorded to service
men. Also you will derive a warm
satisfaction from the knowledge that
you are helping your country in a
vital way.
College graduates are welcomed
and urgently needed as officers. For
officei's, the Navy wants women who
have proved their ability to absorb
training and put it to constructive
use, who are responsible, adaptable,
enthusiastic, with high standards of
character and conduct. Tho Tequire-
ments are easily met by any Mere
dith gr^uate, no matter what field
she majored in.
Meredith is proud of her WAVES.
The following girls are all Meredith
graduates:
Tempie Ricks Brantley (’31), of
Whitakers, now travelling all over
Alabama recriiiting women for the
WAVES, had her M.A. in Math.
Norma Lee Dawson (’38), of Wil
mington, ft materiel officer stationed
in New York City, was a home eco
nomics major.
Margaret Lanier (’38), of Wal
lace, now an aerographer’s mate,
stationed in the “central weather bu
reau” of the world, was a major in
primary education.
Betty Brown MacMillan (’41), of
Thomasville, ia stationed iu Wash
ington, D. C., doing “secret” work,
and meanwhile working on her M.A.
at Gteorgo Washington University,
hoping to have her M.A. by Januaiy
of '46. Ensign MacMillan majored
in English at Meredith.
Howard Mumford (’28), of High
Point, is now on duty in Washing
ton, D. C. She majored in Latin and
minored in English at Meredi^.
Aileen Rogers (’42), of Walce For
est, was a home economics major,
is now stationed in Georgia.
Julia Moore Scat'borough (’29),
of Aulander, stationed in Miami,
also doing work that is “very inter
esting but highly confidential,” ma
jored in Latin and English here,
Hazel Stewart (’48), of Lilling-
ton, is now stationed in Hollywood,
Florida. She was a Meredith ohemia-
try major.
Nai^ Vicoelll'o {’34), of Chat
ham, Vlrgiui^ is now stationed at
the Bureau of Naval Personnel in
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