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Volume XX
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1946
Number 13
CLASSES CHOSE COURT FOR MAY DAY FESTIVAL
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B.S.U., S.G., Sophomore
Class Plan Entertainments
For High School Seniors
Students Go
On May 4 at 4:00 p.m., Mere
dith will fulfill the annual tradi
From left to right the members of the May Court pictured above are Shirley Powell, Doris Harris, Jetta
Funderburk, Jean White, Flora Ann Lee, Emma Southerland, Betsy Hatch, Helen Wilkerson, Dot Clark,
Lorraine Patterson.
COLLEGE GLEE CLUB WILL PRESENT
ANNUAL SPRING CONCERT ON MAY 3
Concert Program To Include
Group of Songs By Sextet
The Meredith College Glee
Club will present its annual
spring concert on May 3, 1946,
at 8:00 p.m. The Club is di
rected by Miss Beatrice Donley,
head of the voice department,
and accompanied by Betsy Jean
Holt, senior piano major. The
college sextet will also sing a
group on the program.
The program follows:
Matona,Lovely Maiden..DiLasso
Adieu, Sweet Amarillis.—Wilbye
The Silver Swan Gibbons
How Merrily We Live Este
Glee Club
The Snow — Elgar
Margaret Spiro and Evelyn
Kocher, violinists
The Cloths of Heaven Dunhill
I Wonder When I Shall Be
Married Kentucky Moun
tain Song
Tally-Ho! Leoni
Glee Club
Four Love Songs,
Johannes Brahms
“A tremor’s in the branches”
“Nightingale, thy sweetest song”
“Bird in air will stray afar”
“Locksmith, ho! a hundred
padlocks”
Sextet
Romance from “The Desert
Song” Romberg
Old King Cole Forsyth
Night Beloved Bachelet
Teachers To Attend
Business Conference
Misses Estelle Popham and
Mable Ellis of the Business De
partment at Meredith will at
tend a conference in Department
of Business Education at Wom
an’s College in Greensboro on
April 27. There will be round
table discussions about problems
of preparing courses of study for
North Carolina. Plans for the
summer workshops for deter
mining the courses of study will
be made at this time. Dr. Pop-
ham, head of the Business De
partment at Meredith, will teach
in one of the three summer
workshops.
On the Friday prior to the
Saturday meeting, Dr. Popham
and Miss Ellis will attend a din
ner sponsored by Delta Pi Epsi
lon, honorary business frater
nity of which they are both
members.
Gute Nacht....German Folk-Song
Glee Club
Dr. Popham Speaks
On Job Applications
To a group of seniors inter
ested in the techniques of apply
ing for jobs. Dr. Estelle Popham,
head of the Business Education
Department, is presenting a
series of three lectures at 7:00
p.m. Tuesday evenings in the
First Floor Jones Social Room.
The first lecture offered sugges
tions for the writing of applica
tion letters. Lectures II and HI
.will present suggestions for per
sonal interviews and a demon
stration of interviews.
Society to Present
All-Brahms' Program
An all-Brahms’ program will
be presented at 3:30 p.m., Sun
day, April 28 in the College
Auditorium, by the Raleigh
Oratoria Society.
The opening number will be
a Sonata for ’Cello and Piano,
played by Emily Porter of
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JUDD, POTEAT TO
GIVE ADDRESSES
AT GRADUATION
To Southern
S. G. Meeting
Meredith Delegates Include
Nancy Harris, Helen Wallis,
Joan Drake and Mary Warren
tion of the May Day Festival, a
celebration occurring always on
the first Saturday in May to
usher in the summer months.
The College has announced
that the two speakers for com
mencement exercises will be
Congessman Walter H. Judd and
Dr. Gordon Poteat.
Congressman Walter H. Judd
will deliver the graduating ad
dress. He is a native of Ne
braska, but was living in Minne
sota when he was elected Con
gressman in 1943. He received
his B.A. and M.A. from the Uni
versity of Nebraska in 1920 and
1923. For a short while he was
instructor of zoology at the Uni
versity of Omaha and then an
interne at University Hospital,
Omaha. Later he was traveling
secretary for the student Volun
teer Movement in colleges and
universities. He served under
the Congressional Foreign Mis
sion Board while he was mis
sionary in China for a number of
years.
Dr. Gordon Poteat, speaker for
the Baccalaureate Sermon, was
born in New Haven, Conn. He re
ceived his M.A. from Wake For
est after graduating from Fur
man University, and his Th.M.
from the Southern Baptist The
ological Seminary in Louisville,
Kentucky. He traveled a year
for the Student Volunteer Move
ment before going to China in
1915, as professor at the Uni
versity of Shanghai. In 1938
he returned to America and be
came professor of homiletics and
ethics at Crozer Theological
Seminary in Pennsylvania. He
is now pastor of the First Bap-
At the 1946 Convention of the
Southern Intercollegiate Asso
ciation of Student Governments
which will meet at East Carolina
Teachers College, Greenville,
North Carolina, on April 25, 26,
and 27, Meredith delegates will
be Nancy Harris, Helen Wallis,
Joan Drake, and Mary Virginia
Warren.
The program opens on Thurs
day afternoon, April 25, with
registration from 2:00-5:00 p.m.
After dinner and a business ses
sion, Carrie Faust of Sophie
Newcomb College will lead the
first discussion meeting on “Stu
dent Government and the Fuller
College Life.”
Friday morning will be given
over to another discussion on
“College Honor Meetings” led by
Caroline Allison of Florida State
College for V.A-men and to an
address on “Faculty Attitudes
and Comments on Student Gov
ernment.” After lunch Friday,
student delegates will give views
on “American College Students
As World Citizens.”
From 3:00-6:00 p.m. on Fri
day, a recreational tour has been
planned, and after a formal ban
quet at 7:00 p.m.. Dr. Almont
Lindsey, Professor of American
History at the University of Vir
ginia, will speak on “American
Foreign Policy.”
The Conference closes on Sat
urday after a last discussion
meeting on “Methods of Broad
ening the Outlook of College Stu
dents.”
Officers of the Convention this
year are president, Jacqueline
Parden of Farmville State Teach
ers College; vice president,
Betty Messenger of Randolph-
Macon Woman’s College; secre
tary, Peggy Witherington of
Salem College; treasurer, Ida
McKinnon of Georgia State
Woman’s College.
tist Church in Lewisburg, Penn
sylvania, and Lecturer in Re
ligion at Bucknell University.
Dr. Poteat is the father of Miss
Ann Poteat of Meredith English
Department.
Juniors Fete Seniors At Banquet
The annual Junior-Senior ban
quet at Meredith College was
given last Friday night, April 13,
from half past seven until twelve
o’clock. The “Angel Farm”
theme was carried out in the dec
orations, the menu, placecards,
and the program. An elaborate
carnival, featuring side-shows
including fortune telling, a photo
shop, magicians, a fun house, a
wonder booth, weight guessing,
and a lemonade stand, followed
the banquet. The “Hut” remained
open during the evening.
As the seniors and their dates,
honor guests of the juniors, en
tered the “Heavenly Gates,” “St.
Peter,” better known as Mr.
Zeno Martin, checked the roll.
The little “devil” (Miss Cun
ningham in real life) furnished
competition for “St. Peter” by
tempting the would-be callers at
the “Angel Farm.”
Dr. Campbell read the invoca
tion. Miss Joan Drake, chief
“angel” of the juniors, welcomed
the following special guests, or
“arch-angels” of the evening:
Dr. and Mrs. Carlyle Camp
bell, Dean and Mrs. J. E.
Burke, Dr. and Mrs. Harry E.
Cooper, Dr. and Mrs. Ernest
F. Canaday, Mr. and Mrs.
Zeno Martin, Mr. and Mrs. R. H.
Satterfield, Harry Dorsett, Mrs.
A. M. Howard, Mrs. Hardy Mills,
Misses Ellen Brewer, Doris
Peterson, Anna May Baker,
Edna Frances Dawkins, and the
presidents and incoming presi
dents of the three guest classes—
Misses Jo Hughes, Mary Virginia
Warren, Jean Gaddy, Dorothy
Singleton, and Aileen Belton.
Miss Stella Lassiter, “vice
angel” of the junior class, pre
sented a toast to the senior class,
with Miss Jo Hughes, chief
“angel” of the senior class, giv
ing the response. Miss Jean Grif
fith presented the toast to the
dates, with Percy Wall giving
the response.
Special music was rendered by
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The Festival is the highlight of
Hospitality Week-end, which is
set aside for the entertainment
; of high school seniors,
i Hospitality Week-end formal-
I ly begins Saturday, May 4, at
noon and extends through Sun
day. Guests, high school seniors
invited by Meredith students,
will be greeted and registered as
guests of the College by mem
bers of the Student Government
Council on Saturday afternoon.
The Council will offer refresh
ments and entertainment in the
“Hut” for guests and their host
esses from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. pre
ceding May Day.
May Day festivities will be
staged again this year on the
court greens. The processional
includes Emma Southerland,
May Queen, Flora Ann Lee, Maid
of Honor, Betsy Hatch and Jean
White, senior attendants; Jetta
Funderburk and Dot Clark, jun
ior attendants; Helen Wilkerson
and Dot Harris, sophomore
attendants; and Lorraine Pat
terson and Shirley Powell,
freshman attendants. The Queen
will be attended also by two
children train bearers and a
crown bearer. The Queen will
carry in her bouquet the school
flower, iris, gathered from the
campus.
Following the processional,
members of the Physical Educa
tion Department entertain the
Queen and her court with dances
on the greens, including the tra
ditional May Pole Dance. The
festivities are based on the theme
“Waltz and Flowers.”
The Sophomore Class ushers
in the May Day celebration by
serenading the Queen outside
her window at 7:00 Saturday
morning, singing the traditional
May Day song. Breakfast on
May Day morning will honor the
Queen. At the breakfast, also,
the Senior Class president pre
sents to Dr. Campbell the May
Day basket.
In the evening, visitors for the
week-end are to be guests of the
Little Theater.
To conclude the festivities of
the day, the B.S.U. plans to hold
a candle-light service in the
court around the fountain at
11:00 p.m., for the visitors on
the campus. The old and new
B.S.U. Council members will
participate in the service.
Hicks Gives Lecture
In Current Series
The Fairmont College Class of
Wesley Foundation will sponsor
Dr. Hicks in the last lecture of
his series Sunday, April 21, in
Pullen Memorial Auditorium.
The lecture entitled, “Christian
Ideals and Marriage,” is the last
of the series which was begun
March 31. Other talks were made
on “Friendship and Dating,”
“Courtship and Engagement,”
and “The Crucial First Year of
Marriage.” Everyone attending
the lecture is invited to the open
ing service at 9:30 a.m. in the
auditorium.
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