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Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Volume XDC
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1944
Number 3
Trustees, Alumnae,
Students oppose Merger
Students, trustees, and Wake
County alui^ae of Meredith
have come out as “strongly op
posing" the proposed liquidation
of Meredith College and the
undertaking of the building of
a large university on the Wake
Forest campus.
The proposal to establish a
university made up of Meredith
and Wake Forest Colleges on
the Wake Forest campus first
was outlined in a recent issue
of the Biblical Recorder by S.
Wait Brewer, chairman of the
executive committee of the
Wake Forest Board of Trustees.
Subsequent issues of the
Biblical Recorder have con
tained opposition to the pro*
posal; for example, the article
run as Meredith opposition to
the proposed Meredith-Wake
Forest Merger was first voiced on
Monday, October 16, when the
trustees of Meredith met and
adopted an opposing resolution.
The report stated that, "The
Meredith College Board of Trus
tees, acting, we believe, in the
interest of both the institutions
immediately involved and in
the cause of Christian education
represented by them, wishes to
record its un^uivocal and em
phatic opposition to the pro
posal.”
Reasons given for the sound
ness of the Meredith position
were: 1. The "irritation of need
less competition" between the
two school was not created by
Meredith but by Wake Forest
itself when it opened its Junior
and Senior classes to women
students; 2. It would appear
irrational to voluntarily sell an
expensive plant admirably con
structed for educational pur
poses and one free from debt in
order to begin erection of a du
plicate plant elsewhere; 3. The
statement of savings to be gained
by the uniting of the two schools
would be purely arbitrary; 4.
Meredith is fortunate in its
present location in Raleigh
where there are numerous re
ligious, social, and educational
advantages; 5. Those pledging
support to the Meredith Ex
pansion Program have mani
fested a hearty endorsement of
Meredith College where it is
and as it is; 6. The Baptist State
Convention itself at its last meet
ing favored Meredith as a four-
year college for women and ap
proved its campaign for funds
for enlargement; 7. Meredith
has pursued its primary objec
tive of the giving of Christian
education to women.
Weatherspoon Speaks
W. H. Weatherspoon, presi
dent of the Meredith Board of
Trustees, spoke to the students
at the regular chapel program
on Wednesday morning, Octo
ber 18, on behalf of the Meredith
position on the matter saying
that, “Those responsible for the
institution of Meredith would
be deeply disappointed to see
it sacrificed at the very peak of
its success."
“Because of temporary set
backs at Wake Forest, the so
lution does not lie in the push
ing of Meredith over the cliff,”
further stated Mr. Weather
spoon. “The Meredith expan
sion Program has sold Meredith
anew to the people of North
Carolina, and they will not
stand for this proposal to move
Meredith. We propose to show
the convention that Meredith
deserves to live on and to con
tinue its success which is ex
emplified by this year’s large
enrollment.”
Alumnae Meeting
On the night before Mr.
Weatherspoon spoke, the Wake
County Chapter of the Meredith
College Alumnae met in the,
“Hut” and went on record as
being strenuously opposed to
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ORCHESTRA
ORGANIZED
Members of the Meredith
College orchestra are:
Evelyn Kocher, violin; Janet
Ro^r, violin; Lucille Sawyer,
violin; Mary Roland, violin;
Mary Lee Parker, violin; Eliza
beth Davis, violin; Stennette
Graham, violin; Ruth Vande
Kieft, clarinet.
Margaret Westmorland, clari
net; Doris Carroll, fiute; Mary
McCoy, clarinet; Rachel Strole,
saxophone; Betty Linney, trum
pet; Sallie Bowers, horn; Betsy
Jean Holt, piano; Mrs. Robert
Brand, violin; Annie Belle Mc
Coy, fiute.
CALENDAR
October 27
Classical Club, 6:45
West Raleigh Ih-esbyterian Party,
6:30
Day Student Party, 7:00
State BSU Convention, Char
lotte. 27-29
October 28
Tabernacle Baptist Party
First Baptist rarty, 7:30
October 29
Pullen Baptist Party, 9:00
October 31
Education Club, 6:45
November 3
Granddaughter's Club, 5:00
November 4
Palio, 2:00
Stunt, 8:00
November 10
Student League of Women
Voters, 5:00
Classical Club, 7:00
GIRLS ATTEND
CONVENTION
North Carolina Baptist stu
dents, including approximately
40 from Meredith, are finding
new ideas and new ideals at the
B. S. U. Convention, now in
session in Charlotte. Meredith’s
representatives should feel quite
at home since many of the speak
ers and leaders at the convention
were on Meredith’s 1944 Focus
Week team. Dr. George Heaton,
Dr. Claude U. Broach, Dr. Kelley
Barnett, Dr. C. C. Warren, Rev.
J. Winston Pearce, Dick Hower
ton, and M. A. Huggins, some of
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Palio, Stunt Night, Annual Events
Sponsorecd by Athletic Association
Will Be Presented November 4
Horty Liles, president of the A.A., is seated on the front row
and is chief head of the events. Also on the front row is Annaleon
McLamb, vice president of the Freshman Cla^. On the second row from
left to right is Helen Wallis, president of the Sophomores^ Jean Paricer,
vice president of the Sophomores; and Hazel Johnson, vice president
of (he Junior Class. Third row—Lib Dark, vice president of the Senior
Class; Rachel Strole, president of the Seniors; and Marilynnn Ferrell,
president of the Juniors.
FIFTEEN SENIORS
PRACTICE TEACHING
High school student teachers
from Meredith are teaching at
the following schools:
Needham Broughton—^Hazel
Grady, English; Margaret Long,
general mathematics; Lois Edin-
ger, history; Lurlyne Woodard,
home economics; Mary Kathryn
Montieth, English; Mary Bryant,
social science; Lois Howell,
home economics; and Carolyn
Bass, social science.
Hugh Morson—Hilda Wilson,
English; Mildred Thornton, soci
ology; Christine Webb, trigo
nometry; Nelda Ferguson, social
science; Edna Lou Lamb, Eng
lish; Margaret Jordan, home
economics; and Cornelia Mims,
home economics.
Margaret Hines, whose name
was omitted from the list of
Expansion Totals Show
Goal Now Half Reached
Expansion Program totals
presented at a recent meeting
of the Meredith Board of Trus
tees come to approximately
$285,500. This includes cash
and pledge totals. During the
morning of the special meeting,
$15,000 in cash and pledges came
in; after the meeting ajourned,
another $500 U. S. (jovemment
coupon bond was given, com
pleting the above-given total.
Not until two hundred years
after the founding of Harvard
in 1636 was a college started
distinctly for women.
primary education student teach
ers given in the last issue, is
teacmng the first grade at Wiley
School.
STUNT AND PALIO HISTORIES TRACED
For years. Stunt and Palio
have been Meredith’s most ex
citing feature. Stunt night, first
held in 191S at the suggestion
of Bertie Brown, class of 1916,
consisted of humorous sldts.
Beginning in 1916, the skits or
stunts were required to be origi
nal and interest was developed
by keen - competition and the
attempt for each class to keep
its ideas secret. By the fall of
1923, rivalry had become so
great that a class would steal
the stunt of another. The Sopho
mores, especially, tried to steal
the Freshman stunt, and it was
the greatest triumph for them to
be able to give an exact dupli
cate of it. As stunts were pre
sented in order from the Senior
class down, the poor Freshmen
were at a loss if the, Sophomores
did steal and reproduce their
stunt.
For a long time, class stunts
followed set ideas, except
Seniors and Juniors follows
any pattern. The Sophomore
stunt was loud and rowdy and
the Freshmen gave high school
types, but each year has brought
changes in ideas until stunt is
now elaborate and highly origi
nal. Class rivalry and loyalty
are the most intense—^regardless
of the extent of trying, one can't
get a word out of a member of
another class about its stunt.
According to old records, the
tradition for a long time was
for Seniors to win stunt, and
they or the Juniors have won
the silver loving cup, first given
for the best stunt in 1923, with
two exceptions when the Sopho
mores won. So great was the
excitement of the Sophomores
when they won in 1939, the
first time in ten years, that they
put out an extra, a one page
issue of The Twio. When the
Juniors won in 1932, they came
to Sunday morning breakfast
with bands on their heads to
keep them from swelling.
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Horty Liles Directs
Festival; Presidents,
Vice Presidents Lead
Class Competition
Palio, followed by Stunt
Night, will be presented by the
student body of Meredith Col
lege in its traditional style on
November 4 beginning with the
Palio procession at 2 o’clock.
This annual event is sponsored
by the school’s Athletic Associa
tion and this year Horty Liles,
A. A. president, will direct Stunt
Night events, and Palio will be
under the supervision of Miary
G. Turner, vice president of
A. A.
The Palio procession will in
clude horses, American flag
bearers and guards, Palio ban
ner, the marshal on horseback,
the band, caricature heads,
clowns, and wagons.
After the singing of the “Star
Spangled Banner,” each class
presents an original clown stunt,
which until this time has re
mained secret. After this each
class marches up the drive and
forms its numerals. The class
with the highest percentage
present will be rewarded by
having reserved seats for the
stunts.
The traditional bicycle and
horse races will follow the class
clown stunts and the Alumnae
stunt, after which will be the
original song contest. Awards
are then presented to the vari
ous winners and Palio is brought
to a close by the singing of the
"Alma Mater.”
The A. A. will honor its past
presidents at a dinner and an
after dinner coffee hour in the
Blue Parlor.
Stunt Night
The original class stunts will
be presented at 8:00 in the col
lege auditorium. The class presi
dents, Rachel Strole, Marilynn
Ferrell, Helen Wallis, and
Frances Thompson, are super
vising the stunts.
Dr. Julia Harris, Miss Anna
M. Baker, Miss Ellen Brewer,
and Mr. John Rembert are mem
bers of the faculty committee for
approving stunts. This year's
judges are Carl Goerch, chief
judge. Miss Leah Goodwin, Mrs.
O. K. Joyner, Fred Fletcher, and
Mrs. W. L. Wyatt.
The name of The Twig was
changed in March of 1928 to
The Oak, with the remark
that the paper, which was the
youngest of the three publi
cations on the campus, had now
grown up and was symbolic of
future plans.
PALIO PRACTICE
Monday, October 30, 8:00 a.m.—
Freshman practice.
Tuesday, October 31, 8:00 a.m.-^
Sophomore practice.
Wednesday, November 1, 8:00
a.m.—^Junior practice,
Thursday, November 9, 8:00
a.m.—Senior practice.
Thursday, November 2—Chapel
period—-All classes.
Friday, November 3, 6:4B pjn«^
All classes and the Palio pro*
cession.
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