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1 C"' Editorials: Personal Interest Sixth War Loan Quiet After Storm News Articles; Who's Who Fall Production Merger Results Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College Volume XIX MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1944 Number ^ ^ u Stage Door" To Be Presented December 2 Little Theatre^s Fall Production Is Under Direction of Harry K. Dorsett; Twenty-seven Are in the Cast The annual fall production of the Meredith College Little Theatre, Stage Door will be presented December 2, at eight o’clock in the College Auditorium. Stage Door is a three act play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman. The scene is at the Footlight° Club in New York City, a club for stage girls. Stage Door is the story of stage girls—their failures and successes. The cast is: Olga Brandt, Vir ginia Campbell; Mattie, Mary Humphrey; Mary Harper, Anne Hood Hughes; Mary McCune, Margaret Hines; Bernice Neimeyer, Bettie Linney; Made line Vauclain, Helen Wallace; Judeth Canfield, Emily Olive; Ann Braddock, Edith Camp; Kaye Hamilton, Nelda Ferguson; Linda Shaw, Becky Ballentine; Jean Maitland, Helen Frances Crain; Bobby Melrose, Vicky Manty; Louise Mitchell, Frances Thompson; Susan Paige, Dorothy Bowman; Pat Devine, Helen Wilkerson; Kendall Adams, Eleanor Jane Andrews; Terry Randall, Mildred Thornton; Tony Gillette, Caroline Jones; Mrs. Orcutt, Betty Jean Donley; Frank, Alton Wilson; Sam Hast ings, Ivey Collins; Fred Powell, Betty Workman; Lou Milhauser, George Green; Daird Kingsley, Fitz U. Dade; Keith Burgess, Edwin Woodell; Mrs. Shaw, Mitehell Lee; Dr. Randajl, Horace Rawls; and Adolph Gretzl, Ellis Parker. Harry K. Dorsett of Meredith College is the director. Meredith College Merger Rejeeted FIRST OPEN HOUSE OF YEAR IS HELD The Health Committee and the Athletic Association spon sored “open house” in Jones dormitory on Thursday night, November 16, from 7:30 until 9:00. The judges were: J. D. Paulson of the Architectural Engineering Department at State College; Miss Ellen Brewer, head of the Home Economics Department at Meredith; and Miss Kay Irwin, head of the Art Department here at Meredith. They judged the room on general attractiveness, cleanliness, arrangement, and originality. The best rooms were chosen on each floor and from them the grand prize winner was taken. A small potted plant was award ed to the winners who were: Annie Catherine Barden, and Margaret Jordan, grand prize winners, on third floor Jones; Saxe Farmer and Hilda James second floor, and Patricia on King and Elizabeth first floor. Moore for On February 27, 1891, the trustees obtained from the State Legislature a charter for the Baptist Female University. “That Meredith College shall be and remain in its present loca tion as a standard four year ‘A’ grade college for young women, and that its plant, facilities, and curriculum shall be enlarged and expanded to meet adequately the needs of the young women of our state as an institution for higher Christian education and culture” was the decision of the North Carolina Baptist Conven tion meeting in Charlotte, November 13-15. Ending a ses sion of campaigning by the pro ponents and opponents of the Wake Forest-Meredith merger, the 1,500 delegates unanimously adopted the resolution proposed by Rush S. Dickson, Charlotte financier who had previously been in favor of combining the two schools. The convention pledged sup port to the expansion programs cf both-Wake Forest and Mere dith. It also provided that all classes at Wake Forest should be opened to women on an equal basis with men. Previously, only Junior and Senior co-eds were admitted. The entire convention ended harmoniously with a common aim of expanding and greatly heightening the work of all Bap tist schools in North Carolina. WHO’S WHO-—First row, left to right, Rachel Strole, Betsy McMillan, Laura Frances Peck, Vir ginia Maynard, Annie Catherine Barden; Second row—Millie Thornton, Anna Lou Toms, Marty Jeffreys, Christine Webb, Lois Edinger. NOTED LATIN AMERICAN AUTHORITY TO SPEAK Dr. Hubert C. Herring, noted educator and writer, is to speak in the College Auditorium on December 13. Dr. Herring is prominent in the field of Latin American history, having been the Executive Director of the Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America since 1928, and recently having been ap pointed to the chair of professor of Latin American civilization at Claremont College. Dr. Herring obtained degrees from Oberlin, Columbia, and is a graduate of the Union Theo logical Seminary. He was a min ister of Congregational churches in Wisconsin and Kansas from 1913 to 1924, and the director of social activities in the National Congregational Church from 1924 to 1939. In connection with his work as Executive Director of the Committee on Cultural Rela tions with Latin America, he has CALENDAR November 27 Posture Contest, 27-30 November 28 Education Club, 6:45 World Fellowship, 9:45 November 30 Colton English Club, 7:00 Deeember 1 Classical Club, 7:00 December 2 Little Theater Play, 8:00 December 4 B.T.U. Study Course, 4-9, 8:00 December 5 Messiah Concert December 7 Spanish Party, 7:30 Decefnber 8 Student League, 5,:00 Barber "Science Cftib," 7:00 Colton English Club, 6:45 December 12 Education Club, 6:45 Sociology Club, 6:45 December 13 Herring Lecture, 8:00 TEN SENIORS ARE GIVEN NATIONAL RECOGNITION Committee Selects Girls for "Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges" -o Sixth War Loan Drive Begun On Campus Scrap Paper and Tin Cans Are Also On Salvage List Juniors Get Honor At a chapel program last Tuesday morning, the Silver Shield, honorary leadership or ganization on the campus, an nounced the choice of two as sociate members to be added to The Sixth War Loan Drive in the women’s colleges of Raleigh is under the direction of Mrs. Vera Tart Marsh. Faculty mem bers appointed as solicitors for the staff and faculty of Meredith College are: Mrs. LeRoy Allen Miss Anna May Baker, Miss Myrtle Barnette, Miss Lila Bell, and Mrs. Mary McCoy Egerton. Students are asked to pledge for the purchase of their bonds with Mrs. Marsh, in order that the classes may receive credit therefor. Meredith War Savings Stamp Committee has been organized as follows: Senior class, with Rachel Strole as Sponsor, has Hallie Coppedge, Captain; Helen Beckwith and Dorothy Bowman, Lieutenants; Junior class, with Marilynn Ferrell as Sponsor, has Frances Wallace, Captain; Kitty Johnson and Ruth Vande Kieft, Lieutenants; Sophomore class. the group. The two Juniors, i tit n- o who were chosen on the basis • with Helen Wall^ as Sponsor, of scholarship, leadership, and Christian character, were Flora Ann Lee and Nancy Harris. Other members of the Silver Shield are Annie Catherine Barden, Marty Jeffreys, Chris tine Webb, Betsy McMillan, Vir ginia Maynard, and Millie Thornton. been a director of annual seminars in Mexico since 1926 and in the Caribbean and Central America since 1931. He is the author of And So to War, 1938; Good Neighbors, 1941; and Mexico, the Making of a Nation, 1942. He has edited The Genius of Mexico with Katherine Terrell, 1931, and Renascent Mexico with Herbert Weinstock, 1935. MEREDITH REPRESENTED AT STUDENT LEGISLATURE The Eighth Annual North Carolina Student Legislative Assembly was held at the State Capitol on November 17, 18. Governor J. Melville Brough ton, Secretary of State Thad Eure, and Professor Edwin H. Paget, founder and faculty dir rector of the assembly, addressed a joint meeting of the Senate and the House on Friday afternoon. Ten or twelve North Carolina colleges including Carolina, Wake Forest, Meredith, W.C.U.N.C., Campbell, Atlantic Christian, Brevard, Eastern Carolina Teachers’ College, Lees-McRae, and Lenoir-Rhyne were represented at the conven tion. The Meredith representation introduced the bill, “The Gov ernor should appoint his council instead of having it elected by the people.” Lois Edinger and Kitty Monteith introduced the bill in the House of Representa tives, and Mitchell Lee and Flora Ann Lee introduced it in the Senate. Meredith girls who attended the assembly were: Mary Cur- rin. Hazel Grady, Betsy Paul Yelverton, Katherine Hudson, Louise Bass, Miriam Batten, Anne McLendon, Amy Wyche and Anne Hood Hughes. has Jessie Leigh Davis, Capain; Pauline Formyduval and Betty Jean Donley, Lieutenants; Freshman class, with Frances Thompson as Sponsor, has Mary Beth Thomas, Captain; Mary Humphrey and Anna Jo Morgan, Lieutenants. Scrap Paper Drive The Scrap Paper Drive Cam paign has been set up by dormi tories and is non-competitive, but faculty, staff, and students are actively cooperating in this campus-wide activity, with col lections of scrap paper every Saturday morning. The names of managers for this drive are listed: Jones Hall, with Louise Sanderson as Captain, has Mary Rotella and Patricia King as Lieutenants for First Floor; Martha Ipock and Lucy Norville as Lieutenants for Second Floor; Wilba Stanfield and Hilda Liles as Lieutenants for Third Floor; Faircloth Hall, with Peggy Hay wood as Captain, has Betty Bul lock and Gwendolyn Krahnke as Lieutenants for First Floor; Dorothy Massey and Carol Bray as Lieutenants for Second Floor; Becky Lassiter and Jetta Funderburk as Lieutenants for Third Floor; Vann Hall, with Lucille Sawyer as Captain, has Jean Olive and Marie Kinlaw as Lieutenants for First Floor; Martha G. Murray and Sallie (Continued on page three) Students of Meredith who are to have their biographies appear in the 1944-45 edition of Who’s Who Among Students in Ameri can Universities and Colleges have been selected. They are Annie Catherine Barden, Lois Edinger, Martha Jeffries, Betsy McMillan, Virginia Maynard, Laura Frances Peck, Rachel Strole, Mildred Thornton, Anna Lou Toms, and Christine Webb. The nominations were made by a faculty and student committee on the basis of character, scholarship, leadership in extra- curricular activities, and potent' tiality for future usefulness to business and society. Annie Catherine Barden, editor of the Oak Leaves and president of the Silver Shield, has served on both the Student Government and the B.S.U. Councils. She was Junior editor of the Oak Leaves, vice presi dent of the Home Economics Club, a member of the Creative Rhythms Group, and was a transfer counsellor. Lois Edinger is Y.W.A. pres ident and president of the In ternational Relations Club. She has been Superintendent of the Cary Street Mission for three years and on the B.S.U. Council two years. She is a member of the Student League of Women Voters and Education Club. Martha Jeffries, president of (Continued on page three) ART DEPARTMENT HOLDS OPEN HOUSE AND EXHIBIT By Laura Ellen McDaniel Open house was held by the Art Club November 10 in the Arts Building honoring Miss Kay Irwin, the new head of the Art Department, and exhibiting some of her own paintings. Elizabeth Shelton received the guests, and the punch bowl was presided over by Helen Frances Crain. After informal talking, the guests gathered in the lecture room for a gallery talk by Miss Irwin which dealt with the artist and his problems of fitting into society today. A note of interest in the talk was that the WPA art projects have been very im portant in arousing interest and in the revitalizing of art in America. Most of the pictures were character sketches, and all the situations painted “came out of the past of my own experience,” said Miss Irwin. She first makes a sketch of the model or friend and later makes a painting from the sketch when she feels the “urge.” The exhibition is to stay up until December 1.