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FOLK
CREATIVE
RHYTHMS
DANCE
Volume XVni
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. 0., SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1944
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Juniors Triumph
Over Senior Class
On Monday niglit, April 17, at a
midriight meeting of the students
in the auditorium, the tiiuniphant
juniora hroiight out the crook. The
annual traditional race began three
weeks ago at breakfast when Ann
Ray Kraraer, president of the senior
class, gave the first clue to Horty
Liles, president of the junior class.
Since then, two additional clues,
have been given to the juniors, the
second being, placed on the bulletin
board and the third, in a reagent
bottle of sand in Miss Margaret
Kramer’s office.
The crook hadn’t been found since
1939, when it was hidden again and
found by the senior class. Those
juniors finding the crook this year
were Joyce Williams and Irig Phil
lips.
The juniors, who with the aid
of their little sisters in the fresh
man class, had a week in which to
find and decode each of the clues,
this year were a week late in de
coding the second clue but gained
on the third one, finding and decod
ing it in a day’s time.
Crooking was begun in 1906
when Miss Carolyn Berry Phelps
gave the crook as a prosent .to the
senior class in order to create class' employees’
spirit and to be handed down from
senior class to senior class. In 1913
the tradition wna stopped but at
the commencement of 1929, it was
brought forth again. The crook, a
shepherd’s crook, is hidden by the
president of the senior class each
JHercdUh Expansion
Program Progresises
H. R. Hadcock, director of tlie
Expansion Program, Thursday an
nounced the appointment of W. H.
Weatherspoon, of Raleigh, as chair
man of the State Executive Commit
tee, recently set up to continue the
drive to raise $565,000.00 for new
buildings and additional endowment
funds for the college.
The goal of $100,000.00 for Ra
leigh and Wake County has been
“more than reached,” according to
Hadcock, and on Monday the cam
paign will be carried into other sec
tions of iTorth Carolina.
In assuming the chairmanship of
the committee, "VTeatherspoon de-
dared that “it is the duty of the
alumnae and friends to develop and
expand the good work being carried
on by Meredith Oolite.”
‘W^catherspoon said that plans now
are to promote vigorous campaigns
in the High Point - Greensboro-
Winston - Salem area within the
next three iveeks. Simultaneously,
other drives will be pushed in the
Charlotte section and in other areas,
ho added,
Assisting Hadcock and Wcathor-
spoon in the state-wide campaign is
the folIo^ving executive committee
in Raleigh: LeRoy Martin, vice
chairman; President Campbell;
Claude Gaddy, general chairman- of
the Wake Comity campaign; Clyde
A. Dillon, representing other de
nominations; R. G. Duyton, State
representative; Zeno
Martin; Dr. Carl M. Townsend, and
Dr. Lee Shepherd, Baptist pastors’
representati^'es; Thompson Green
wood, public relations; Mrs. L. R.
Karrill, alumnae president; Mrs.
J. S. Fanner, State W.M.U. presi
dent ; Mrs. J. W. Bunn, former alum-
Faculty and Students
Hold Annual Playday
Meredith faculty and studenta
participated in another annual play-
day Tuesday, Api'il 18. The Duke
and Duchess, Mr. Martin arid Ruby
Greene, were selected by the student
body and were crowned and highr
lighted the afternoon of play. The
welcome was given by Genny Chif-
fello.
First of all, the Duke and Duchcss
led the procession of attendants to
the place of the track meet. Hero
the faculty and students had a cheer
leader to lead their respective
groups in cheering contestants. The
faculty cheer leader was Miss
Kramer and the students’ leader was
Jane Watkins.
The program, from 2:45-4:15,
consisted of badminton, shttfflehoard,
horseshoes, box hockey, tennis, table
teniiia, croquet, deck tennis, archery,
and a scavenger or treasure hunt;
From 5:30-6:00 there was a picnic
supper.
During supper there was a song
contest. The faculty and each class
participated.
Announcement Made of
Commencement Speakers
3Irs. Margaret Hines Early, an
AlB. graduate of Meredith, now
affiliated with the WABC network.
Radio City, Ifew York City, is to be
Shown here ar« several members of the CreatlTc lUiythnis Groiii). wlilch
will present a recital In the naAltorimii foniirlit.
Creative Rhythms and Folk
Dance Groups Give Concert
The Atlilotic Association of Mere
dith College ^vill present the Crea
tive Rhythms and Folk Dance groups
ill their premiere concert Saturday,
April 22, at 8:00 in the College
Auditorium.
The Creatii'e Rhythms Group,
comprised of students and faculty
will present Pnrt I of the Concert.
Part II, Colonial Dances of Ameri
ca, will be danced by the Faculty
Folk Dance Group. The Student
Folk “
Elizabeth Cameron.
^ This music com])osed by a Mere
dith student furnishes a variety of
moods and rhythms. This dance sim
ply tries to transpose fhefeeling of the
music into mpveinent. It rises from
a slow, stately form to a lilting,
floiving mood and on to an exuber
ant, gny passage. The pattern is
completed by a return to the lilting
and finally to the stately strain,
colored no\\’ by some of the gaiety of
tbe »pe„ke, at the annua, meeting Sfnanr’0/“LS. cS
Dance Group will conclude the ^he previons section.
ram with Part III, Sectional’ Spiritual,” arranged by J.
year on the campus with some part nae president, and Miss Mae Grim-
o£ it showing. jmer, alumnae secretaiy.
Before Meredith Came to Country
{The mformation-for (his aiiicle
was contrihiiled hy Miss Latlie
Rhodes.) .
Do you e^'or wonder what the
Meredith campus looked like before
it was the Meredith campus 1 The
buildings we see every day wore not
always here, but this land wasn’t
bare befo^'e Meredith College moved
here. Did you know there ore still
remnants left of what was here be
fore that?
On the day that Mr. Dan Allen,
real estate agent, arranged for the
Baptist State Convention to buy this
land for Meredith, Lizettc Bashford,
whose father had previously lived in
ft little house (now the B-Hive) on
the Tucker plantation, had prob
ably never dreamed that girls would
be biiying cokes and ice cream in
her father’s homeplace or that she
herself ivould one day go to eollego
where her father’s backyard had
once been.
Can you imagine what Meredith
was like on that dayl Look toward
the gate first. Try to imagine a big
house ut die highway. It has been
moved directly across the road and
now stands left of the bakery. That
was the "Big House” on the Tucker
plantation. The barn was near the
big oak on the trail near tlie high
way. A tenant house across the high
way (wliero the bakery is noiv) has
been torn down, and the material
used to build the house where Mr.
Luther now lives. Another tenant
house still stands in its original po
sition, to the right of tlie bakery.
Do you SCO those spirea bushes by
the gate? The Tuckers kept pigs in
a mulberry grove thot was there
then. The pigs wore watered from
a tank whose stone base now excites
curiosity from Meredith girls and
visitors. JTear the tank was the
Tuckers’ well, which has been only
partially filled in and covered with
boards. The two springs that , pro
vided water for the tank are behind
tho stage of our amphitheatre.
When tlie Tucker estate was
bought, a Mr. McConnell was living
in tho “Big House.” His cotton
was bought, plowed under, and the
building was started immediately.
One hundi'ed trees were cut down
of the Alumnae Association. The
baccalaureate sermon will be de-
li^'ered by Dr. J. B. Weatherspoon
of tho Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Louisville, Eientucky.
Dr. Weatherspoon is the brother of
Mr. W. H, Weatherspoon, chairman
of the board of trustees of Meredith
College. Dr. Gerald W. Johnson of
Baltimore, Maryland, will give tho
baccalaureate address. Dr. Johnson,
until his recent resignation, was
one of tho editors of the Baltimore
Sun; and ho is the author of several
books, including Dictator
or Deinooratf and American Heroes
and Hero Worshi'p.
Etiteieeu Carr PMays
Graduation Recital
given.
BETTY ROSE PREVATTE
Etheleen Carr, pianist, student of
Stuart Pratt, will be presented by
the music department in playing her
senior recital Monday evening, April
for our main drive. The road that 24, at 8:00 in the auditorium. This
the farmers had used still exists, in will be the third in the series being
part, as tho trail, or “short-cut,” '
through the grove.
The fig bushes and the apple tree
at the Chimney were left from the'
days when the land around there PRESENTED IN RECITAL
was a twenty-five acre farm belong'-
ing to a family named Pulley. The
Chimney got its name from a real
chimney, which was all that was
left standing of the Pulley farm
house. Douglas Dunstan (Harry’s
brother) used the material of that
house to build himself a home iai
Method (the little settlement on the
highway just west of Meredith).
Behind the rose arbor at the Chim
ney is the Pulley family graveyard,
containing sis gi-aves.
The .Western boundary of tho
campus was extended by buying
from tho State of North Carolina
0 large tract of land, from the high
way north to the pines, and from
the tennis courts M'est to beyond Mr.
Cole’s house.
Now as you look at our campus
in the beautiful spring-time, you
con imagine what the Tucker farm,
and the Pulley fai*m, were like in
spring. Perhaps twenty-five years
from now, Meredith girls on the
enUrged Meredith campus will he
trying to imagine what our Mere
dith was like.
Betty Rose Prevatte, pianist,
played her gradimtion recital Fri
day, April 21, at 8:00 in the audi
torium. Betty Rose is a pupil of
Stuart Pratt, who assisted her on
the last number of the program.
Her progi’am follo^va:
Siciliano, Bach.
Prelude and Fugue in D Major,
from the Well-Tempered Clavi
chord, Bach.
Papillons, Schumann.
Rhapsodic in E Flat, Brahms.
White Peacock, Grii^e.
March from Love of Three Or
anges, Prokofieff.
Concerto in G Minor, Mendels
sohn.
Mary Louise Holmes, of Woman’s
College and Lumherton, and Gloria
Cranford were co-chief marshalls.
Other marshalls were Fannie Mem
ory Farmer, Margaret Hollis, and
Virginia Maynax^.
After the recital an infomal re
ception was given in the Hut.
and elaborate costumes will add to
the effectiveness of the dances. Each
group has developed a high degi-ee of
skill in the relatively short time the
gi'oups have boon organized and the
concert should merit the attendance
of every Meredith student and staff
member.
The progi-am for the concert is as
follows:
Rus
sell Johnson.
Elizabeth Cameron, Betty Cuth-
rcll, Mn]-y Davis, Nell Forbes, Jean
Griffith, Laura Ellen McDaniel,
Margie Perry, Wilbo Stanfield.
Choral Group: Jean Davis, Ruby
Lyon, Ruth Lyon, Jane Watlfins.
Showing contrasting movement of
two groups who work on difl:’erent.
levels, varying speed and directions,
significant in that it typifies, the
Part I—Creative Rhythms—Cre-' and dynamic response to
ive Rhythms Group. nnmc of the Nepo race
Choreography by Loll Forbes and
ati\’C Rhythms Group
“Peter and the Wolf,” Prokofielf.
Peter, Sue McN’eely.
The Bird, Nancy Gates.
Tho Duck, Jean Griffith,
The Cat, Margaret Long.
Grpndfathcr, Betsy Hatch.
The Wolf, Laura Alien McDaniel.
The Hunters, Betty Cuthrell, i
Mary Davis, Wilbo Stanfield.
An orchestral fairy tale brought
to life by pantomime and rhythmi
cal movements. Wo seo in Peter a
typical, carefree boy who, in spite of
Grandfather’s training, isn’t afraid
to play in the meadow where there
are wolves and other animals. He is
even able, with the help of the bird,
to_ capture the wolf and lead him ofl^
triumphantly to the zoo.
“Primitive,” percussion.
Betty Cuthrell, Nell Forbes, Jean
Griffith, Betsy Hatch, Becky Lassi
ter, Laura Ellen McDaniel, Margie
Perry, Betty Jean Yeager.
An experiment wth rhythm, in
which the sounds are made hy pei"-
ciissive movement accompanied by a
drum.
“Polka,” Shostakovich. ■
Noll Forbes, Elizabeth Cameron.
Accompanied by Mildred Bla^man.
A humorous version of an old folk
Elizabeth Cameron.
“Peter and the Wolf” eostumcs by:
Onie Shields, Betsy Watson, Mer-
flith Cash. Advised by John Rem-
bert.
Staging by John Rembert of the
art department.
Part II — Colonial Dances of
America — Faculty Dance Group,
“Oxford Minuet” — An American
dance which shows the influence of
the Frcnch court dances.
"Tho Lancers” — The oldest and
most stately of the American quad
rilles.
Part III — Sectional Dances of
.zbncrica ?— Student Folk Dance
Group.
“Spanish Circle” — A progressive
Circle dance used quite extensively
in tho Southwest as a “Mixer.”
“Jlilitary and McGinty Schot-
tiehes” — An interesting combina
tion of two of Americans seven dis
tinct folk schottisches.
Singing Quadrilles — “Couple
Down Center,” “Captain Jinks,”
“Flower Girl Waltz,” “Little Log
Cabin in the Lane,” “Waltz that
Girl.” ^
Singing quadrilles were forerun-
.V VW.XUU uuoiuioi^ American square
daiico by a contemporary ItuBsiui. only (ur-
composer. Tho Danoo is ohavao er- „„lj.\ocomp.nimont in
...od by a gay and somo^vhat froliGk-
’"“So”Waltz,” Stim.63. for tho joy of singing itsol*;.
Annie Catherine Barden, Mary
Davis, Marilynn Ferrell, Joan
Fleischraann, Nancy Gates, Jean
Griffith, Jo Hughes, Caroline Jones,
Sue MoNeely, Wilbo Stanfield,
Eliza Stanley, Martha Stanley,
Betty Jean Yeager.
Accompanied by Eileen Hoggard.
A colorful interpretation of
Strauss’ Artists’ Life, Avith the tradi-
tionol waltz step modified to foi'm
figures ond patterns.
“FantasjV’ R®tsy Jean Holt.
“Hulls Victory” — A Southern
Highland version of one of the most
popular of tho New England long
ways dances.
Cowboy Dances — “Adelina
Polku,” “Skaters Waltz,” “A Med
ley of Western Squares.”
Cowboy dances of the West have
a quality and style all their own.
While mony of these dances are
fast, A'igorous, and sometimes bois
terous, a gi'aceful, smooth, delight
ful waltz is often found to be un-
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