Alumnae Supplement to The Twig
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1946
Elizabeth City Division
Holds Regional Meeting
President Campbell Speaks;
Rocky Mount Chapter
Entertains At Tea
The Elizabeth City Division of the
Alumnae Association held a regional
meeting at the First Baptist Church
in Rocky Mount on Saturday, May
11. Annie Sarah Barkwell Abbott,
regional vice-president, was in
charge and a representative group
from the five hundred alumnae in
cluded in the division attended.
The meeting convened at 2:30
o’clock with the Rocky Mount Chap
ter serving as hostesses. Featured
on the program was an address by
Dr. Carlyle Campbell, President of
the College. Marguerite Mason Wil
kins, President of the Association,
also spoke, taking as her subject
“Keepers of the Light,” which has
served as the theme for her ad
ministration
A short business session followed,
after which senior girls from the
high school joined the group for a
special program on college life and
activities presented by a group of
students from Meredith. Ruby
Greene, of Boons Mill, Virginia,
senior in the college, spoke briefly
on campus life. Rebecca Barnes, of
Black Creek, soprano, also a senior,
sang three selections, accompanied
at the piano by Betsy Jean Holt, of
Raleigh.
Following the program, alumnae
and guests were entertained at a
tea given by the Rocky Mount Chap
ter, of which Mary C. Shearin
Waters is president.
This was the first such regional
meeting which the Association has
sponsored, and much credit for its
success is due to Annie Sarah Bark-
well Abbott and others who worked
with her on plans and arrange
ments. Cards of invitation were
sent out to every alumna living in
this district which covers a large
area in the northeastern section of
the state.
REGIONAL VICE-PRESIDENT
Portrait Gift Will
Honor Miss Crawford
Of interest to hundreds of alum
nae who .studied with or knew the
late Miss May Crawford during her
twenty years at Meredith is the an
nouncement that her portrait will
be presented to the College on
Alumnae Day. Miss Crawford, who
came to Meredith in 1922, served as
head of the piano department until
one year before her death in 1943.
During that time she taught three
hundred and fifteen piano students
in the College.
The oil portrait, painted by Isa
belle Bowen Henderson of Raleigh,
will be presented with suitable
ceremony at the annual meeting of
the Association on June 1. It is a
gift from students of Miss Crawford,
who at the suggestion of Ruth
Heatherly Everett of Raleigh chose
this method of commemorating Miss
Crawford’s devotion to her work,
her students, and the College.
Assisting Mrs. Everett in soliciting
funds from former students were
Louise Correll Tripp, Virginia Coun
cil Gibson, and Peggy Royster Jones.
Annie Sarah Barkwell Abbott
of Elizabeth City.
Executive Committee
Meets At College
Eleven Members Make Plans
And Hear Committee Reports
The spring meeting of the Execu
tive Committee of the Alumnae
Association was held in the alumnae
office of the College on Friday, April
26. The following members were
present: Maude Davis Bunn, Maude
Wall Cheek, Foy Johnson Farmer,
Anne Simms Haskins, Margaret
Craig Martin, Elizabeth Hostetler
Ponton, Marguerite Mason Wilkins,
Lulie Marshall Wyatt, Mary Yar
brough, Clarice Bryan Holder, and
Mae Grimmer.
Matters presented to the group
included plans for Alumnae Day
during commencement, the regional
meeting at Rocky Mount, the cou
pon and magazine drive, and re
union class activities. Among items
of general interest was the report
from Lulie Marshall Wyatt of the
Doll Committee that after investi
gating cost of materials and labor,
the Committee deemed it unwise to
proceed at present with plans for
permanent cabinets for the dolls. A
motion was carried that Meredith
have an alumna representative at
each of the ten W. M. U. divisional
meetings in October. Recommenda
tions were drawn up for presenta
tion to the Association at the an
nual meeting in June, and the sug
gestion was made that an alumnae
orientation program in the form of
a talk by President Wilkins be
planned for the College seniors.
A committee was appointed to
select a gift to be presented at com
mencement by the Association to
the faculty. Mary Yarbrough, re
porting on the Ida Poteat Loan
Fund, announced that the fund now
amounts to approximately $3,000.
There was a discussion of the pos
sibility of changing the Fund from
loan to scholarship and a commit
tee was appointed to investigate
the matter and present recommen
dations to the Association.
1946 REUNION CLASSES
Elizabeth Hostetler Ponton
General Chairman
1906-1911-1912-1913-1914
1921-1930-1931-1932-
1933-1936-1944
CHAPTERS REPORT
VARIED PROGRAMS
Varied programs have been fea
tured in reports of chapter activi
ties since the last issue of the Sup
plement. Chapters have entertained
high school girls, heard visiting
speakers from the College, and held
elections for new officers. Eight
chapters have reported meetings.
Brotherly Love Chapter
The Brotherly Love Chapter
(Pennsylvania) had a luncheon
meeting on Saturday, April 27, at
the home of Fannie Paul Malpass in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Five
members attended. Informal dis
cussion of chapter projects and
Meredith news constituted the pro
gram, and plans were made to send
clothes and gifts to the student at
Alexander School, Union Mills,
N. C., whom the chapter is helping.
The next meeting will be held in
June, at which time Madge Daniels
Barber will report on Commence
ment activities at Meredith.
Come one! Come all! Commence
ment time is here again. Let every
alumna begin today to plan to be at
Meredith for Alumnae Day, Satur
day, June 1. It will take real effort
on the part of some of you. There
are husbands to be left, children
with measles and mumps to be
cared for, meals to be prepared, and
houses to be kept. Let me urge you
to make whatever effort is neces
sary in order to be with us at Mere
dith. Make some arrangement about
the children! The rest can always
wait. We need you at Meredith,
and you need the inspiration of
youth and high ideals. So come!
The program is already planned,
and bids fair to equal those won
derful Alumnae Days of recent
years.
Bring coupons with you! Maude
Wall Cheek, chairman of coupons,
is urging that every chapter finish
its quota. Then, if every individual
who comes to Alumnae Day will
bring a few extra ones along in her
hand bag, we can swell the total
a great deal. Remember, there are
lots of coupons on other products
besides soap!
We chose a theme for our alum
nae activities this year. At every
meeting we have talked about this
theme: “Keepers of the Light.” Be
cause you and I spent some years
of our youth in a Christian college,
we forever have a light to keep
burning brightly. We have the light
of high scholarship. Have we kept
our minds alert and busy in recent
days by reading and studying some
of the best books? We have the
light of high ideals of Christian
living. Are we living up to those
ideals in our homes, churches, and
communities? We have the light
of Christianity itself. “Let your
light so shine before men that they
may see your good works.
Burlington Chapter
The most recent meeting of the
Burlington Chapter was held on
Founders’. Day at the home of Dolly
Byrd Vernon with Melba Hunt
Greene as co-hostess. Twenty-five
alumnae were present. The pro
gram, arranged by Sarah Elizabeth
Vernon Watts, consisted of a history
of the College from its earliest days.
The following officers were elected
for the year: Melba Hunt Greene,
president; Helen Plybon Bailey,
vice-president; Sallie Cates Vernon,
secretary; Estelle Wilkins Riden-
hour, treasurer; Prue Choate Ed
wards, reporter.
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Occupational Survey
Made By Secretary
Alumnae Day Activities
Are Scheduled For June 1
Smithfield Alumnae
Honor Senior Girls
The alumnae group in Smithfield
entertained the high school senior
girls at a dinner and program on
May 9 at the Gabriel Johnson
Hotel. Lois Morgan Overby was in
charge of arrangements, and eight
een high school guests attended.
Featured on the program were
Elizabeth Warrick, Evelyn
Straughan, Peggy Parker, and
Christine Kornegay, students from
the College who talked about cam
pus life and presented a musical
program. Movies of college activi
ties were shown by Mae Grimmer,
who accompanied the group. The
decorative scheme used Meredith
colors, and each guest was pre
sented a miniature corsage.
On the same evening, the Smith-
field group organized a chapter,
electing Lois Morgan Overby, presi
dent, and Dorcas Stanley, secretary-
treasurer. The following alumnae
were present for the occasion: Sadie
Massey Aycock, Nora Tew Baggett,
Mattie Lassiter, Elizabeth Johnson
Lassiter, Evelyn Little Reynolds,
Lois Morgan Overby, Sara Oliver
Skinner, Dorcas Stanley, Mildred
Oliver.
Betty Brown MacMillan and
Madge Daniels Barber Will _
Be Featured On Program
Chapter Is Organized
By Elorida Alumnae
A recent mailing from the alum
nae office to all Meredith alumnae
is the postal questionnaire concern
ing occupations. The alumnae sec
retary reports that a file will be set
up in the office for the use of any
one desiring information on the
training, occupations, and activities
of the alumnae. The survey is being
made on the recommendation of the
Executive Committee, presented to
and adopted by the Association at
the annual meeting in June 1945.
The questionnaire was prepared by
Frances Pittman Woodard of Selma.
Three Alumnae Receive
Advanced Degrees
Three Meredith graduates en
gaged in advanced work in the
fields of music and of religious edu
cation have received degrees in
recent months.
The W. M. U. Training School at
Louisville, Kentucky, at commence
ment exercises on May 2, conferred
the Master of Religious Education
degree on Marjorie Ailstock, ’43, of
Covington, Virginia, and Olene Sin
clair, ’44, of Clinton, N. C. In Au
gust Olene will assume her work as
full-time associational fieldworker
in the South Fork Association with
headquarters in Newton.
Mary Brockwell, ’28, of Raleigh
received her M.A. degree in music
at Columbia University in Febru
ary of this year. Miss Brockwell,
a violin major, received her B.S.
degree from Meredith in 1938. She
is now serving as head of the De
partment of Violin at Connecticut
State Teacher’s College in New
Britain, Connecticut.
Coupon and Magazine
Drive Needs Support
At a recent meeting of the Execu
tive Committee of the Alumnae
Association, Maude Wall Cheek,
coupon and magazine chairman, re
ported that this year the Associa
tion had realized $51.00 from maga
zine commissions, but that coupon
collections had been small. Alumnae
are requested to make a special ef
fort during the next few weeks to
meet their quotas in this drive. At
present only one chapter, the
Brotherly Love (Philadelphia), has
reached its goal for both coupons
and magazine subscriptions. The
Greensboro Chapter has sent a
check for $4.00 in lieu of its quota
of 1,000 coupons. In order to keep
the matter before alumnae a prize
will be offered at commencement to
the person bringing the largest
number of coupons, and a special
display of the coupon-bearing prod
ucts will be set up in the rotunda.
The Florida Alumnae Chapter
was organized on April 26 at the
home of Emily Boyd Garrison in
Sanford, Florida. Mrs. Garrison,
assisted by Gladys Boyce Cooper,
entertained the group at a buffet
luncheon. The morning was spent
in informal discussion of college
experiences, and the formal organi
zation of the chapter was completed
in the afternoon. Emily Boyd Gar
rison was elected president and Ivy
Horne Rucker, secretary-treasurer.
As a special feature of the pro
gram Annie Brackett of St. Peters
burg reviewed the history of the
College. Plans were made for a
meeting in April, 1947, at the home
of Bernice White Goodman in Lake
Alfred, Florida.
Florida alumnae attending were
Louise Bennett Satterwhite of Seb-
ring; Ruth Williams Bragdon of
Leesburg; Mattie Griffin Clark of
Deland; May Baldwin Turlington
and Bessie Howard Wynn of
Gainesville; Gladys Byrum Book-
hardt of Winter Park; Gladys Boyce
Cooper and Ivy Horne Rucker of
Sanford; and Annie L. Brackett of
St. Petersburg.
Alurnnae Day, June 1, at the Col
lege will feature Lt. Betty Brown
MacMillan, USNR, as the speaker
for the annual meeting of the Asso
ciation, which will be held in the
Phi Hall at 10.45 a.m. Her subject
will be “The Fields Shall Blossom.”
Marguerite Mason Wilkins, presi
dent of the Association, will pre
side at the meeting.
The Executive Committee has
drafted the following recommenda
tions for the year 1946-1947 to be
presented to the Association:
Wake Chapter Presents
Gift To College
A recent gift to the College from
the Wake County Chapter is the
large service sink to be installed in
the serving room at the west end of
Johnson Hall. Laura Weatherspoon
Harrill was chairman of the com
mittee which investigated needs at
the College and recommended the
gilt at the April meeting of the
chapter. Additional funds were
raised at that time, and the sink
was purchased and delivered imme
diately. Arrangements have been
made by the College to have it in
stalled.
1. That the Loyalty Fund in its
full significance be stressed.
2. That the goal for active mem
bership remain at 40%.
3. That the Association publish
its own magazine four times
a year rather than the eight
issues of the Alumnae Sup
plement to the Twig as of this
year, 1945-1946.
4. That the alumnae continue to
help with student enrollment.
Other matters slated for discussion
are the Swimming Pool Fund and
the possibility of converting the Ida
Poteat Loan Fund into a scholar
ship fund.
Special music for the occasion
will be furnished by the College
Sextette, composed of Rebecca
Barnes of Black Creek, Jean Davis
of Selma, Betty Jean Donley of
Davistown, Pa., Virginia Holcomb
of Winston-Salem, Jane Watkins of
Durham, and Jean White of Cole-
rain. The Sextette is directed by
Miss Beatrice Donley of the Depart
ment of Voice and will be accom
panied by Emily Hine of Winston-
Salem. As an added feature on the
program the granddaughters will be
presented with their mothers.
The annual luncheon will be held
in the dining hall of the College im-
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Nominating Committee
Announces Candidates
The ballot for officers of the
Meredith Alumnae Association for
1946-1947 is being made up by the
alumnae secretary and will be
mailed out in the near future to all
members of the Association. There
are four general officers to be
elected this spring for a two-year
tenure. The following nominations
have been presented.
President of the Association: Mrs.
Zeno Martin (Margaret Craig, ’30)
and Mrs. J. C. Woodward (Frances
Pittman, ’37).
Vice president of the Greensboro
Division: Mrs. D. Glenn Auman
(Henrietta Castleberry, ’36) and
Mrs. James Gerow (Betty Kichline,
’37).
Vice president of the Charlotte
Division: Mrs. Frank Fulghum
(Erin Bloodworth, ’30) and Mrs.
Herbert C. Dixon (Lucille John
son, ’32).
Alumnae-at-large: Mrs. Hilary E.
Bryson (Amorette Byrd, ’34) and
Mrs. Guy Phillips (Annie Craig,
’17).
The Nominating Committee is
composed of Melba Hunt Greene
of Burlington, Lois Sawyer Pritch
ard of Greensboro, and Prue Choate
Edwards of Burlington.
FUND CHAIRMAN REPORTS
Margaret Craig Martin
I cannot realize that this is May
and that commencement is fast ap
proaching. Our Loyalty Fund has
done very well, but we still have a
long way to go before we reach that
coveted 40% goal. However, I be
lieve we can make it—if we try.
Those of you who plan to pay at
commencement, send in your money
now, please, because it really will
help us to see how we stand.
You know there aren’t many in
teresting and exciting ways to ask
for money, especially when we are
all so scattered. But when we send
in a contribution, that makes us
feel as though we are a vital part
of Meredith today, which, of course,
we are. So send in your Loyalty
Fund now during these next few
weeks so that we’ll have a really
wonderful report to make at the
alumnae meeting in June. Don’t
forget the awards at that time, too.
Please let me thank all of you
who have helped in raising our
Loyalty Fund, particularly you
class chairmen who have so dili
gently prodded your fellow mem
bers to swell our Fund. We are
hoping to see you at commence
ment, so be sure to come. The plans
sound most interesting.
May each of you have a grand
summer and may you feel just a
little closer to those old school days
by having a part in Meredith-Liv-
ing-Loyalty Fund.
The following names have, been
added to active chain of names
since the last issue of the Supple
ment: Madeline May Allen, Vir
ginia Gilliland Bailey, Barbara Bau-
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