"ALICE IN WONDERLAND' Meredith College RALEIGH. N. e Volume XVIII FACULTY PLAY H MEREDITH COIiLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1944 Number 9 J SOCIOLOGY STUDENTS AID IN GIVING TESTS Serve As Readers For Blind Workers Taking Exominotlons ■ On Saturday afternoon, March 4, the sociology department at Mere dith coo,perated with the IT. C. State Merit System and State Comnussion for the Blind in giving the merit exam for blind social workers throughout the state. The, students of sociology were readers for the blind taking the exam in the Meredith arts building. They were asked to help because the stu dents were known to have some back ground for understanding the prob lems of the blind and also of the type of exam given. This is the first such an exam that has been given in North Caro lina and it provided an opportunity for Meredith to administer service to the State and to the community. Sociology students who served as readers and were aids in helping give this exam were: Mary Lee Wething- ton, Mary Wilson, Ruth Vande Keift, Bai'bara Stevens, Isabel Dil lon, Elizabeth Bowden, Nelda Ferguson, Rebecca Marley, Betty MiUer, Laura Frances Snow, Avi? Branch, Onie Shields, Helena Baker, Margaret Hollis, Hallie Coppedge, Margaret Jordan, Willa Gtej^ I^wis, Laura Frances Peck, Mary Lou Nance, Betsy Watson, Augusta Lee Elmore, Dorothy Reid, Jean Brooks, Mary Rotella, Eliza beth Murray, Olene Sinclair, and Ruth Rautenstrauch. DANIEL W. HICKY SPONSORED BY CLUB The Kappa NHi Sigma honor so ciety will sponsor Daniel Whitehead Ilicky at a college lecture on Friday night, March 24. Mr. Hicky is a young Southern poet and lecturer, who is the author of Bright liar- hor, Thirteen Sormets of Georgia, and Call Bach the SpHng. He is also winner of the first prize of the Poetry Society of America, contrib uting to many magazines among which are Harpers, Scribner's, Sat urday Evening Post, and McGalVs Magazine. This will also be the occasion of the annual banquet at which Mr. Hicky and two new junior members will be honored. Following the lec ture there will be a reception in the parlors for faculty and visitors, also given by the society. Plans for this aifair and the two new junior members to be admitted were discussed at the last Kappa Nu Sigma meeting on Thui'sday, March 2. Ann Ray Kramer is president and Dr. Helen Price is faculty adviser. GLEE CLUB Shown here Is the Glee Clnb, which March 10. sanir In the first of Meredith’s radio series, and which sang at Camp Maekall, FACULTY PLAY TO BE GIVEN MARCH 28 The all-faculty production, Alice in Wonderland, which is given on our campus every four years, will bo given this year on March 28. There is absolutely no student par ticipation ; the building of the scencry, making of the costumes, and all the acting arc rion’ ontively by the faculty. Among the cbaractcrs are; Alice, Mrs. Clarke; Tlic Queen of Hearts, Miss,Baker; The Mad Ilatter, Dr. Canady; The Ducliess, Miss Cren shaw ; The Dormouse, Miss Mc Donald; The March Hare, Miss Brewer; The Gryphon, Dr. Harris; The Mock Turtle, Miss Kramer; and The Knave of Hearts, Mr. Martin. The play is being directed by Mr. Bembert. MAY DAY ATTENDANTS The May Day attendants of the four classes have been elected by their classmates to be in the May Court. They are: senior, Betty Rose Prevatte and Mary Sorrell; junior, ‘Horty Liles, and Grace Patton; sophomore, Julia Matthews and Bobbie Abernathy; freshman, Mar tha and Eliza Stanley. RED CROSS DRIVE ON SCHOOL CAMPUS EXTENDED According to the reports turned in by Saturday, March 4, the contribu tions to the Red Cross are as follows: Freshmen $ 69.71 Sophomores 48.45 Juniors 48.22 Seniors 51.92 Faculty 310.00 Total $528.00 Tlie contributions from the stu dents amounted to 50.4 per cent of tlieir !|'433 quota. The faculty filled Cfi.4 per eeuf of their $467 quota. Snrely tlie Red Cross deserves to be given more eoiisideration and support in order to enable it to do the most and best work possible! It’s still not too late to mnke a eon- ti'ibution to the Red Cross if you failed to do so when the drive was first begun. LIBRARY NEWS Some time ago Miss Louise Watkins of Durham sent a collection of books to the library. These books are biographies and made quite an addition to oiu* library. They were given in memory of her father. Rev. George T. Watkins, D.D. For the past week these books have been displayed under the topic “In spiration.” With the theme from Longfellow: “Lives of great men ail remind us—” a representative list of the books is as follows: Freeman, His lAeutenantsj Johnson, Along This Way; Halt, George Washin-g- lon Gai’ver; Smith, Life of Henry Drummond; Van Loon, Lives; Wil liams, Forever Young, Life of Keats; and Galstor, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth. Another improvement was made in the library when the Periodical and Reading Room received a new coat of piiint during the Clivisfmus Ijolidiivs. MUSIC DEPARTMENT GIVING SERIES OF RADIO PROGRAMS The music department of Mere- ditli is giving a series of five radio programs over WPTF. Tlie series began March 1 and will last through the mouth of March. The programs can be heard every Wednesday night from 7:30 until 7:45. The first pro gram was given by the Glee Club and the second was given by Dr. Cooper and Mrs. Alden. On March 15, Mary Elizabeth Wrenn, organ, Beverette Middleton, piano, and Mary Lee Holder, voice, will be pre sented. On March 22, a faculty pro gram will be heard and on March 20, the choir will sing. PUBLICATIONS HEADS HONOR MR. MINTER WHAT DO YOU READ FOR FUN? If the comic hooks have invaded your home, these statistics may be revealing: Members of three of every four American families read comii) books, a Fawcett nationwide survey states. And 96 per cent of boys and girls under eighteen go for them. Half of all men and women betvreen eighteen and thirty are comic maga zine readers. An average of 67 per cent of our armed forces read seven comic booha a month. Significantly, 8$ per cent of the adidts surveyed believed comics provide good clean fun for everybody. Sixty-one per cent found them educational. Eighty-nine per cent of oxi/r seroice men pans their boohs along. —Ualeigh Times, ’Tis rumored Meredith girls like such things as funnies. Tch! Teh! The above clipping speaks for it self; Meredith girls are only being like every one else when they read fuimies. How many Meredith girls read much in the paper besides the comic strips? When you hoar a Meredith girl chuckling over her reading, is she reading a comedy like Moliere, Rostand, Gilbert and Sul livan, or any contemporary play wright? Is she reading the spark ling wit of Oscar Levant, Dorothy Parker, or any of a thousand others? It’s five to one she’s laughing over Henry, or adorable Li'l Abiier (the lovable dope), or Dagwood, etc., ad infinitum. What holds hei- breath less attention from day to day? Is it Shakespeare, or is it Smiling Jack, Ella Cinders, Wash Tubbs, Dick Tracy, or SuperniHn? All the Meredith girls questioned admit I'oading comics and enjoying them. (A surprising number of Meredith girls could also tell you any day what is ha))pening in “When H Girl Marries,” or “Portia Faces Life.”) S,peaking of expansion campaigns, wJiy don’t we have a cam paign to expand our readiiig field? And while wo are about it, let’s take advantage of the good progi'ams on the air, to whicli oiu‘ attention was called in chapel the other day. Lot it not be said that Meredith is ad ding to the huge number of people M’ho ^vasto all of their leisure time. Meredith Expansion Program Meets Quota Rig news from the expansion pro- grnm was tliat Raleigh and Wake County had gone over tlie top for their quota. For a goal of 00,000 the workers collected money and pledges of $104,502. Lending workers for the men’s army were Reid Martin, J. F. Danielson, and A. B. Kirkpatrick. Mrs. Graves Vann, Misa Kate Matthews, and Miss Olive Hamrick were the leading workers for the women. Work for the expansion program is still going on throughout the state. COMMITTEE PLANS SERIES OF PROGRAMS The vocational guidance commit tee is planning a series of chapel programs on various vocations in which Meredith girls will be in- tei'osted. As a preview to the series, Mr. Tyner spoke in chapel March fi, tolling the purpose of the faculty vocational guidance committee and emphasizing the fact that mombers of the committee as well as all of the teachers are glad to help any girl who is trying to choose a vocation. Those vocational information programs will be presented onco a week, People in diflferent lines of Avork will speak on their chosen work, giving facta about it and the opportunities available in the various fields. 'riie editors and Imsincss nutnagcrsi of the threo^jublieation.s entertained Mr. and Mrs. John Mintor at the 'I’ally-Ho Iiin Saturday niglit, February 26. Mr. Mintcr is the representative of .Edwards and Broughton Co., with whom the pub lications woi'kers deal. He is goin^ in the navy .shortly. Mr. aiul Mrs. Minter, Catherine Powell, Laura Frances Pock, Pago Rankin, Eleanor Vereen, Fannie Memory Farmer, wero present. MARY LEE HOLDER WINS Mary ]!,ee Holder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. IT. A. Holder of Garner will represent this district at Cleveland, Ohio in the Hour of Charm Contest for '‘the undis covered voice of America.” She will represent us by a recording of Leg Fille de Cadiz by Delibes. Mary Lee is a sophomore at Mere dith College and a major studying under Miss Beatrice Donley. TWO SENIORS TO BECOME SILVER SHIELD MEMBERS The Silver Shield will be in chargc of the chapel program on next Tues day, March 14. Two seniors will be chosen as new members of the society. Each year two members ol' the senior class aro tapped, in chapel, soniotimo during the second semester. A dinner will be held in the dining hall Tuesday night honoring the now members. Dr. Freeman, Dr. Harris, and Mr, Riley aro faculty sponsors of the Silver Shield. SINGERS GIVE CONCERTS The Glee Club of Meredith Col lege gave two- concerts at sei'vice- clubs 1 and 2 -of Camp. llackall, Friday evening,. March 10.' The program was as .published, in the last issue of Thb'Twig. The date for the concei-ts had to be changed because of a death in the family-:of' the director, Miss Beatrice Donley. The Glee Club has been singing in various places for the past few days. Monday, February 28 at 1:30 it sang at the Rotary Club at the Sir Walter Hotel and at -7:00 p;m. of that same day, it saii'g at the Ex change Club at the Carolina'Hotel. The program included: Visions ...Sjoberg-Balogh-Davis The Song is You Jerome Kern The Sleigh Richard Kountz The Glee Club began the series of concerts to be gi^'en by the music department from 7:30-7:45 p.m. on Wednesday evenings over WPTF. 'I'lio pi’ogi’am Avas as follows: I’raycr from “Hansel and G retel” Humperdinck Visions Sjoberg-Balogh-Davis Coquetry Tin* Clothes of Heaven T. F. Dunkile The AVinds in the Soutii John Prendle Scott I.R.C. CLUBS HOLD GREENSBORO CONFERENCE Tho International Relations Clubs Conference is being held March 10- 11 at Woman’s College in Greens boro. Representatives from all the colleges and universities of the south eastern part of tho U. S. are attend ing. Page Rankin is the recording secretary for the conference. Marilynn Ferrol is Meredith’s of ficial representative. She prepared a paper on the feeding and adminis tration of countries occupied by the United Nations. The conference is sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for Intei"- national Peace. Highlights of the program aro round table discussions and talks by prominent sjieakers. Other representatives of Meredith aro: Onie Shields, Lois Edinger, Grace Alexander, aiid Mrs. Wallace, wlio is faculty advisor to ono of the round table discussions. B-HIVE MANAGER CHOSEN Majorie Blum from Middleburg, N. C., has been elected by the B-Hive Committee to serve as manager for the coming year. Majorie has been working in the B-Hivo this year and began her duties as manager Maroh

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