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Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Volume XIX
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1944
Number 1
Meredith Opens Record Year
**■* ★★★ ★★★ ★★★
New Members of Faculty, Administration Announced
Fifteen Join
Faculty Staff
Administrotive Offices
Boast Three New Members;
Additions Well Qualified
This year’s large enrollment
called for additions to the ad
ministrative staff and faculty.
Meredith has been unusually
fortunate in the new members.
Dr. Quentin Oliver McAl
lister, professor of modern lan
guages, who comes to Meredith
from the University of Rich
mond, is head of the Depart
ment of Modern Languages.
Other new instructors in this
department are Dr. Robert F.
Brand, who was assistant pro
fessor of modern languages at
The Citadel, and Mrs. J. LeRoy
Allen, who for some years has
been part-time instructor at
Meredith.
Dr. Clarence H. Patrick, who
was profes^r of sociology at
Shorter. Coi^ge, heads the De
partment of Sociology and Ecor
nomics.
The Department of Chemistry
and Physics has two new mem
bers. They are Mrs. E. R. Col
lins, acting instructor in chem
istry, who was instructor in the
Department of Chemistry, N. C.
State College, last year, and
Mrs. D. P. Harris, part-time in
structor in physics.
New instructors in the De
partment of Music are Mrs. Lila
LeVan Loadwick, who taught
at Elon College, Miss Mary
Hanchette, who was assistant
in the Department of Music at
the University of Wisconsin,
and Miss Marie Green, who was
an instructor in high school at
St. Paul, Indiana.
Dr. Norma Rose, who has been
on leave of absence from Mere
dith, has returned to the Depart
ment of English.
Dr. Kelly Barnett, pastor in
Chapel Hill and the Rev. Lee
C. Sheppard, pastor of Pullen
Memorial Baptist Church in
Raleigh, are acting associate
professors of religion.
Miss Kay Irwin, acting assis
tant professor of art, was in
terior decorator with Staple
Smith Studios, New York City,
before joining Meredith Faculty.
Miss Mabel Ellis comes to the
Department of Business at Mere
dith from Indiana University.
Mrs. J. E. Foster, who has
been a teacher in city schools in
Birmingham, Alabama, is part-
time instructor in physical edu
cation.
New members of the adminis
trative staff include Miss Mar
garet Benton, secretary to the
Bursar, and Miss Grace Brown,
also secretary to the Bursar.
Miss Edna Frances Dawkins re
turns to Meredith as Assistant
Dean of Women after an absence
of two years.
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Shown are the new students of Meredith, totaling 220 freshmen and 51 transfer students. This
brings the entire Meredith enrollment to around 555.
Phi, Astro Societies
Complete Rush Plans
Phi rushing plans began to take shape this fall and will extend
through this entire year.
Rushing this fall began .with a series of posters made by Grace
Patton. The design for the bears on one of the posters was con
tributed by Margaret" Hollis.*^
Rush Week for the Phis begins
Sunday, October 1, but the ac
tivities planed for these days
remain carefully guarded. The
Phi Bonfire was held Monday,
September 25, in the amphi
theatre, with Don Gilkeson in
charge. Everyone went Indian,
arriving in blankets and feath
ered headbands. Apples, hot
dogs, rolls, drinks, and dough
nuts were provided under Mar
garet Long’s chairmanship. Miss
Louise Lanham, Mrs. Mary
Egerton, and Miss Doris Peter
son were judges of the competi
tions.
The Phi Fashion Show is to
be held tonight. Anna Lou Toms
is chairman of the committee
working on this. Some of the
Phis who will model are Emma
Southerland, Carolyn Bass,
Esther Hooker, Jetta Funder
burk, Sheila Kaplan, Milly
Thornton, Don Gilkerson, Jo
Hughes, Willa Grey Lewis,
Grace Patton, Dot Bowman,
Kitty Monteith, and Martha
Hamrick. Julia Margrette Bryan
is to be a guest model.
The most important plans that
have been made are for provid
ing interesting programs the
entire year, and helping the new
students to feel at home. Nancy
Harris and Mary Catherine Mc
Intyre planned a series of pro
grams which they promise will
be the most informal, interest
ing, and worthwhile that can
be provided.
Astro Plans
Astros added another step in
their stairway to the stars at the
annual picnic given for fresh
men on Thursday, September
(Continued on page 5)
Orientotion Week
Brought to Close
New and old students of Mere
dith are finally getting settled
after the full Orientation Pro
gram last week, September 18
through 24.
Freshmen and transfer stu
dents were kept busy with phys
ical examinations, library train
ing, and student government
training. A test was given on
September 19 to all new stu
dents who plan to major in
music.
There was play as well as
work. Monday night an infor
mal gathering of all new girls
with campus leaders was held
in The Hut. Morning watch has
been on the program for seven
o’clock every morning. Fresh
men and transfer counsellors
and advisers met with new stu
dents Tuesday night in the Phi-
laretian Hall. Then, on Wednes
day night the Baptist Student
Union had their annual party
for new students.
Orientation of the new stu
dents into Meredith life was
brought to a close last Saturday
night when a formal reception
was held in the College parlors.
Dr. Hickman
is Featured
Forty-sixth Session Is
Under Way Having Largest
Enrollment in College History
By Fay Champion
Formal opening exercises for
Meredith College’s Forty-sixth
Session were held Thursday
evening, September 21, in the
College auditorium welcoming
one of the largest enrollments
in the history of the College.
Registered are 554 students rep
resenting 13 states, the District
of Columbia, and three other
countries—Hawaii, Ecuador, and
Costa Rica. The Forty-sixth Ses
sion also boasts a record class
with a total of 220 freshmen.
Dr. Frank S. Hickman, pro
fessor of psychology and religion
and Dean of the Chapel at Duke
(Continued on page 6)
Major Organizations
Honor New Students
At 8 p.m. September 23, a
formal reception was given by
the major organizations in the
blue and rose parlors. In the
receiving line to welcome the
faculty and the students of Mere
dith were: Isabel Dillon, Chief
Marshal; Martha Jeffries, presi
dent of the Student Grovernment;
President and Mrs. Campbell;
Hortense Liles, president of the
A. A; Dean and Mrs. Davis; Mil
dred Thornton, president of the
B. S. U; Miss Anna M. Baker,
Dean of Women; Miss Edna F.
Dawkins, Assistant Dean of Wo
men; Betty Cuthrell, president
of the Astro Literary Society;
Mary Catherine McIntyre, presi
dent of the Philaretian Literary
Society; and Mrs. Lillian Wal
lace, chairman of the orientation
committee.
Those girls that helped with
the refreshments were: Jo
Hughes, Mary G. Turner, Mitzie
Roddick, Mary Jo Clayton, Liz
Shelton, Jean Griffith, Doris
Gene Bowman, Ruth Martin,
Mary Katherine Montieth, Peggy
Parker, and Eleanor Loftin.
About five hundred girls at
tended the reception.
JUNIORS ENTERTAIN
TRANSFERS AT COFFEE
The Junior Class entertained
the transfers and their *‘big sis
ters” at an after dinner coffee
in the blue parlor on Tuesday,
September 26 at 7:00 p.m.
Marilynn Ferrell and Hazel
Johnson poured while Delano
Hall, Hazel Goodwin, Melba
Long, Jo Hughes, Emily Knott,
Peggy Majette, Mary Jo Clay
ton, Mitzie Roddick, Helen Burt
Mauney, and Lib Davis served.
Guests were Dr. and Mrs.
Campbell, Dean and Mrs. Davis,
Miss Anna Baker, Miss Edna
Dawkins, and Mrs. Lillian Wal
lace, class sponsor.
EXPANSION PROGRAM PROGRESSES
Campoign Extended
Throughout the State
During the summer the work
ers of the Meredith College Ex
pansion Program have divided
North Carolina into ten districts
so that the campaign can be
carried on throughout the state.
W. H. Weatherspoon, leader of
the drive, has ten chairmen
under him who are as follows:
Rev. Oscar Creech, Ahoskie;
Major George Davis, Farmville;
Howard Penton, Wilmington;
Rev. J. Winston Pearce, Dur
ham; Dr. I. G. Greer, Thomas-
ville; J. B. Efried, Charlotte;
T. E. Story, North Wilkesboro;
Thomas P. Pruitt, Hickory; Rev.
Perry Crouch, Asheville; and
Dr. H. T. Hunter, Charlotte. G.
M. Martin has been appointed
assistant to Director H. R. Had-
cock and has recently opened
headquarters in Winston-Salem.
In August, the leaders of the
campaign held a meeting in the
Meredith College dining room
and discussed the plans for open
ing the campaign in each of the
districts. The drive opened in
some of the smaller sections dur
ing August, but others will con
tinue to open throughout the
fall. Approximately $200,000 is
now available.
A local paper states that com
plete reports were presented at
a recent meeting of the State
Ten Districts Set Up
Under W. H. Weotherspoon
Executive Committee of the
Meredith College Expansion
Program and show that $144,000
has been raised thus far toward
the $565,000 goal, it was an
nounced by Director H. R. Had-
cock. Vice-Chairman LeRoy
Martin presided at the meeting.
The Ahoskie committee has
raised $2,260, or $1,160 more
than its quota of $1,100, it was
announced. Merrill Evans is
chairman of the Ahoskie com
mittee. The Rev. Oscar Creech
is regional chairman, and Mrs.
Gordon Maddrey is associate
regional chairman.