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Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Volume XX
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1946
Number 10
AA Announces Annual
Spring Dance Concert
The Meredith College Athletic Association announces the third
annual Spring Concert by the Creative Rhythms Group and the
Folk Dance Group to be held on March 22 in the College Audi
torium and March 23 in the Raleigh Little Theater. The Folk
Dance Group is managed by Betty Jean Yeager, junior, with Miss
Doris Peterson, Director of the Department of Health and Physical
Education serving as sponsor. Betsy Hatch is manager of the
Creative Rhythms group with Mrs. John Rembert, Instructor
of Physical Education serving as sponsor. A group of sixty stu
dents comprise the two dance groups, each girl meriting her place
by her ability to compose, per-^
feet, and skillfully perform the
dances.
The Folk Dance Group will
dance ten American Dances
ranging from the Colonial days
to the rather recent heyday of
the cowboy. These dances are
divided into groups denoting
both historical periods and geo
graphical location. Six Euro
pean dances will demonstrate
both skill in folk dance tech
nique and the gay, carefree spirit
of the European peasant. Dances
selected are from Russia,
Sweden, England, Moravia,
Czechoslovakia, and Switzer
land. Elaborate and colorful
costuming add to the charm and
beauty of the program.
The Creative Rhythms Group
has selected studies from various
areas. Themes from College
life, American folk music,
poetry, and realism have been
used as bases for the composi
tions. Individual students have
assisted with the choreography
of each number. Scenery ac
companiments will aid the
dancers in their interpretations.
Assisting the groups will be
the Meredith College sextette,
directed by Miss Beatrice Donley
of the music faculty, Doris Car-
roll, sophomore, flutist, and
Evelyn Kocher, senior, violinist.
Accompanists are Mrs. John
Lawhon of the Music faculty,
Dorothy Loftin, junior, and Rose
Marie Yarbrough, freshman.
GROUP BEGINS
NEW COMEDY
The fourth play of the current
season for the Raleigh Little
Theatre group will run from
March 11 through the 15th. The
production is Francis Swann’s
recent Broadway success “Out
of the Frying Pan.” It is to be
directed by Newell Tarrant, who
opened his 1942 season at the
Theatre of the Dunes near
Chicago with this play.
“Out of the Frying Pan” is a
farce-comedy which gives the
experiences of six young stage
“hopefuls” in New York City.
To make things easier, the six
share an apartment—directly
above that of a Broadway pro
ducer who is casting a show.
They rehearse the play he is
producing in hopes that in some
way they can induce him to wit
ness their performance. Fate
eventually steps in and sends
the producer upstairs to borrow
some flour.
To prove their acting abilities,
the six stage a murder scene
which is so realistic that the
place is soon swarming with
police. Needless to say, this
riotous three-act play ends with
six more actors and actresses on
their way to fame.
B.T.U. Plan Study Course for March 18
Plans are now being made for
B.T.U. Study Course which is to
be held March 18 through 21.
The course will be from 7:00
p.m. until 8:00 p.m., Monday
through Thursday.
The books to be used in the
course are Investments in Chris
tian Living, by William R. Rigell,
and What We Believe, by Wil
liam C. Boone.
The course will be held in
seminar form in order that ques
tions may be asked, answered,
and discussed. Although a speak
er has not yet been obtained, an
announcement will be made later
as to who this person will be.
STUDENTS ELECT LEADERS
FOR MAJOR ORGANIZATIONS
VIRGINIA HIGHFILL
President of B.S.U. for 1946-’47
JEAN GRIFFITH
President of A.A. for 1946-’47
Astrotekton and Philaretian Societies
Stage Annual Competitive Plays March 16
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SENIOR TO HOLD
ART EXHIBITION
On Friday, March 15, at 8:00
p.m., the first individual senior
art exhibition of the year will
be held in the Meredith Art Gal
lery. At this time Elizabeth
Shelton, who is majoring in art,
will exhibit paintings in oil and
tempera, and pencil and ink
sketches. Some of the pictures
shown will be for sale. Also to
be exhibited is some sculpture
work, two figures cast in plaster
paris. After the opening an in
formal reception will be held in
the art department.
The exhibition will be shown
in the newly completed Mere
dith Art Gallery and all students
and faculty members are invited
to attend the exhibit and the re
ception afterwards.
Giving an art exhibition is a
graduating requirement for each
senior in the Art Department.
Another senior exhibit will be
given later in the spring. Senior
Majors in the department are
Elizabeth Shelton and Helen
Frances Crain.
ERICH LEINSDORF TO CONDUCT CLEVELAND SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA IN RALEIGH MARCH 18 IN CIVIC PROGRAM
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On March 18 at 8:00 p.m., the
Raleigh music audience will
hear the fifth of the Civic Music
Association concerts. Mr. Wil
liam Henley Dietrick, president
of the Association, has an
nounced the program to be given
by the Cleveland Symphony
Orchestra under the direction of
Erich Leinsdorf at the Memorial
Auditorium.
The Orchestra has won par
ticular fame through its series
of twenty-eight weekly broad
casts which have been presented
during the last two seasons. The
broadcasts were carried by sta
tions in the United States,
Mexico, and Canada, and by
transmitter overseas and were
recorded for re-broadcast. It
has been estimated by experts
that the Orchestra’s radio public
includes from four to six million
listeners.
Erich Leinsdorf, who succeed
ed Artur Rodzinski as con
ductor of The Cleveland
Orchestra in 1943, served as
Corporal in the Army of the
United States during the follow
ing year. He was honorably
discharged in the autumn of 1944
and reassumed his duties with
The Cleveland Orchestra in
April 1945. Before returning to
the Orchestra, he conducted a
number of performances of
Wagner and Mozart operas for
the Metropolitan Opera Associa
tion, and apeared as guest con-
Sricli Leinsdorf
ductor of the Havana, St. Louis,
and Los Angeles Orchestras. He
is now again in full charge of
The Cleveland Orchestra.
Mr. Leinsdorf was born at
Vienna on February 4, 1912. His
father died when he was still
very young, but his mother in
sisted that he continue his musi
cal studies, even though the
financial burden meant serious
deprivation for herself and the
rest of the family. He gradu
ated from the State Academy in
his native city, having won
honors in harmony, counter
point, composition, piano, violin
and violincello. For three years
he conducted the Academy Or
chestra.
Of Leinsdorf Carl Gehring in
The Ann Arbor News said of
one of his performances: “The
musical statements were voiced
with an honesty and a directness
which compelled. Certain prima
donna conductors, who distort
scores unduly in trying for the
utmost in effect, might learn in
tegrity from Leinsdorf.”
Each year the societies com
pete with each other in a short
one act play presented in the
College auditorium, and this
year these plays, together with
the freshman play, will be pre
sented on the night of March 16.
A silver loving cup will be pre
sented to the society presenting
the best play. In the past, this
cup has been passed from one
society to the other, but the tra
dition is that three straight wins
entitles complete possession of
the cup. Jane Watkins, president
of the Phi Society, has selected a
Samuel French production of
“The Tale of a Shirt” by Leon
Edward Joseph. The setting is
the living room of a late Vic
torian mansion which has been
converted into a hand ironing
room of a small commercial
laundry. The play consists of
eight characters. The plot is the
story of a man’s shirt and of a
girl who is in love with this man.
One question carried throughout
the play is “Why is Life like a
shirt?” Nancy Resch is chairman
of the staging committee and
Dorothy Howerton is chairman
of the program committee.
Elizabeth Davis and Josephine
Hughes have charge of the cast
ing and direction of the play.
Helen Hall is chairman of the
lighting committee.
Mary Jo Clayton is assisting
in the selection and presentation
of the Astro Play. The play
titled “Cakes for the Queen” is
by Lealon Jones. The chairman
of the committees that have been
thus far selected are as follows:
Betsy Jean Holt, make-up; Re
becca Barnes, programs; Betsy
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SINGERS TO GIVE
RADIO CONCERT
The Meredith College Glee
Club will present a program over
station WPTF on Thursday,
March 14, at 6:45 p.m. This pro
gram is in the Raleigh Music
Club radio series.
The Club is directed by Miss
Beatrice Donley, head of the
voice department, and Betsy
Jean Holt is the accompanist.
The program is as follows:
The Silver Swan Gibbons
Think On Me Scott
The Little French Clock..Kountz
The Sleigh .Kountz
Soul-Star Bantock
Visions ....Sjoberg-Balogh-Davis
Gute Nacht....German Folk Song
Highfill and Griffith
To Head B.S.U., A.A.
The heads of all three major
campus organizations for 1946-
47 have now been determined,
with the election of February 28
of Virginia Highfill as president
of the Baptist Student Union and
of Jean Griffith as president of
the Athletic Association.
New B.S.U. head, Virginia
Highfill, is from Winston-Salem.
This semester ends her second
year on the B.S.U. Council, she
having served as superintendent
of the Cary Street Mission,
sponsored by the Council, since
her sophomore year. The steps
into her new responsibility with
the following aim: “I would like
to see more student participation
in the religious activities on the
campus and a greater manifesta
tion of the spirit of Christ in
every phase of campus life.”
Virginia’s major is in English,
and her minors are in religion
and sociology. She plans, after
graduation next year, to enter
Louisville Training School for
graduate study in religious edu
cation, and to go into full-time
church work.
A favorite hobby of Virginia’s
is collecting poems, not entirely
of any one especial kind. And
she enjoys reading—particularly
Shakespeare’s comedies.
During her three years at
Meredith she has served in the
folowing capacities on the cam
pus: Y.W.A. circle officer, vice
president of the college Sunday
school class at Tabernacle, libra
rian and reporter for the sociol
ogy club, and chairman of the
continuation committee for
Focus Week this year. In the
summer of 1945 she worked with
Mr. L. L. Morgan in Sunday
school field work.
President of A. A.
Jean Griffith, of Lexington,
begins her fourth year of active
membership on the Athletic As
sociation Board. Since her fresh
man year she has served suc
cessively as freshman represent
ative to the Board, secretary,
vice president, and now presi
dent of the Association. In look
ing forward to next year’s work,
she says her big aim is “to
awaken in the student body
more active participation in
athletic activities in general.”
“We’re going to have shorter and
more effective sports seasons,
and some real tournaments with
other schools.”
Jean is majoring in chemistry
and minoring in biology and
physical education. After next
year, she plans to enter the scien
tific world in the field of analyti
cal chemistry. There is, she
says, a “possibility” of graduate
school work, but nothing
definite.
Her favorite sports are tennis,
hockey, and riding, but she’s
“awf’ly fond of all of them.”
Other offices which Jean has
held on the campus are the fol
lowing : secretary for the Barber
Science Club, sergeant-at-arms
for the Astro Society, and mem
ber of the business staff of the
Twig for two years.
These officers will not take
over their new duties until May
of this year. However, plans are
already being made for next
term’s work. Retiring officers
Liz Shelton and Mary G. Turner
predict a successful year under
their leadership. Messages from
our present officers are these;
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