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NEWS:
Commencement Functions
Little Theater Ploy
Alumnae Day Plans
FEATURES:
Senior Will and Testament
Anthology of the Week
Foreign Correspondence
Npwsvaper of the Students of Meredith College
Volume XX
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY, 24, 1946
Number 15
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Pictured above are commencement figures. First row, left to right:
Dr. Carlyle Campbell, president; Lt. Betty Brown MacMillan, alumnae
speaker; Dr. Gordon Poteat, the Hon. Walter H. Judd. Second row.
left to right; W. H. Weatherspoon, president board of trustees; Jo
Hughes, senior class president; Marguerite M. Wikins, alumnae presi
dent; and Dr. Harry E. Cooper, Sunday recitalist.
COMMENCEMENT FEATURES POTEAT AND JUDD
Congressman and
Pastor to Speak
The comemncement exercises
for the 1946 term will begin on
Friday, May 31, and will con
tinue through Monday, June 3.
The program includes:
I May 31
8:00 P.M Annual Concert
June 1
9:30 A.M._.Annual Meeting of
the Kappa Nu Sigma
10:45 A.M. Alumnae Associa
tion Meeting
Marguerite M. Wilkins, A.B.
President
Address
Lt. Betty Brown MacMillan, A.B.
Washington, D. C.
1:00 P.M Alumnae Luncheon
Toastmaster
Madge Daniels Barber, A.B.
Ardmore, Penn.
4:30 P.M Class Day Exercises
8:00 P.M .Society Night
9:30 P.M...Annual Meeting of
Silver Shield
June 2
11:00 A.M Baccalaureate
Sermon
Gordon Poteat
A.B.,M.A.,Th.M.,D.D.
Minister, First Baptist Church
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
4:30 P.M Organ Recital
Harry E. Cooper
A.B., Mus.B., Mus.D., F.A.G.O.
5:30 P.M Step Singing
8:30 P.M Senior Vespers
9:30 P.M...Reception for Parents
June 3
11:30 A.M Commencement
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Hon. Walter H. Judd, A.B., M.D.
Member, United States Congress
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Dr. Gordon Poteat, who will
deliver the Baccalaureate Ser
mon, was born in New Haven,
Conn. He received his A.B. de
gree from Furman University,
where his father, Edwin M.
Poteat, was president, and his
M.A. from Wake Forest. He
then attended the Southern Bap
tist Theological Seminary in
Louisville, Kentucky. He
traveled a year for the Student
Volunteer Movement before he
went to China in 1915, where he
was a professor at the University
of Shanghai. After his return
to the United States, he became
professor of homiletics and ethics
at Crozer Theological Seminary.
Now he is pastor of the First
Baptist Church in Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania and professor at
Bucknell University. Dr. Poteat
is the nephew of Miss Ida Poteat,
who was head of the Art De
partment here from 1899 until
her death in 1940, and the father
of Mrs. Ramon Rose of the Eng
lish Department.
The speaker for the comence-
ment address. Congressman
Walter H. Judd, was born in
Rising City, Nebraska. He re
ceived his A.B. and M.D. from
the University of Nebraska and
for some time was instructor of
zoology at the University of
Omaha. From 1920-1924 he was
traveling secretary of the Stu
dent Voluntary Movement, and
later he served as a medical mis
sionary under the Congregational
Mission Board. Upon his return
to the States, he lectured on the
American foreign policy and in
terests *in the Pacific. He was
physician and surgeon in Min
neapolis until he was elected to
Congress in 1943. He is a mem
ber of the American Medical As
sociation, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha
Omega Alpha, and Phi Rho
Sigma.
Little Theatre Enacts
"Our Town" Outdoors
The Raleigh Little Theatre
presents Thornton Wilder’s Our
Town Thursday, May 23 and
Saturday, May 25 in the amphi
theatre. In case of rain either
evening the performance will be
repeated Monday, May 27. The
amphitheatre, one of the most
beautiful places in Raleigh, is
especially suited to the produc
tion of this drama. With its
capacity for seating 3,000 people,
it will not be necessary to re
serve seats. There is a reserved
section for members and their
guests. Admission for non
members, states the director, has
been reduced to 50c in apprecia
tion for a good season and for
the cooperation of the people
and schools of Raleigh.
Our Town is staged and di
rected by L. Newell Tarrant,
who says there is no scenery
except the novel lighting effect
especially designed for the play.
Among the cast are W. E. Deb-
nam, radio commentator from
station WPTF in Raleigh, who
did outstanding work in the
Pacific area during the war; L.
Blake Bevil, director of the
Meredith Little Theatre; and
Miss Eloise Whitwer of the
Meredith College faculty. Miss
Whitwer plays the part of Mrs.
Soames.
Horace I. Seeley, president of
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Meredith Plans For Capacity Enrollment
It has been announced that around 50 per cent of the new
students enrolled for next year are from out-of-state. This is due
to the fact that there are fewer high school graduates in North
Carolina this year because of the addition of the twelfth grade
in many of the schools. There will be students from fifteen states.
Cuba will be represented, and it is interesting to know that General
Clair Chennault has sent enrollment papers and room fee for a
Chinese girl.
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION PREPARES
ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT MEET
Dr. Carlyle Campbell an
nounces the appointment of
Dr. Charles W. Burts as the
new dean succeeding- Dr. J. E.
Burke who had a one year ap
pointment. Dr. Charles W.
Burts, assistant dean and head
of the Psychology Department
at Furman University, has
recently resigned in order to
take over as dean of the
Meredith College academic de
partment during the summer
session.
Lt. Betty Brown MacMillan,
U.S.N.R., will speak at the an
nual meeting of the Alumnae
Association in Phi Hall on June
1, at 10:45 p.m., her subject be
ing “The Fields Shall Blossom.”
The President, Marguerite
Mason Wilkins, will preside at
the meeting of the association.
The following recommenda
tions for the year 1946-1947,
drafted by the Executive Com
mittee, will be presented to the
Association:
1. That the Loyalty Fund in
its full significance be stressed. I
2. That the goal for active!
membership remain at 40 per
cent. ;
3. That the Association pub-'
lish its own magazine four times
a year rather than the eight is
sues of the Alumnae Supple- i
ment to the Twig as of this year, i
1945-1946.
4. That the alumnae continue i
to help with student enrollment.
Discussion also will be held con
cerning the Swimming Pool
Fund and the possibility of con
verting the Ida Poteat Loan
Fund into a scholarship fund.
Special music for the occasion ;
will be furnished by the College |
Sextet, which is composed of
Rebecca Barnes of Black Creek,
Jean Davis of Selma, Betty Jean i
Donley of Davistown, Pa., Vir
ginia Holcomb of Winston-
Salem, Jane Watkins of Durham, I
and Jean White of Colerain. Miss !
Beatrice Donley of the Depart
ment of Voice will direct the
Sextet, and Emily Hine of
Winston-Salem will be the acom-
panist. An added feature to the
program will be the presentation
of the granddaughters by their
mothers.
Following the morning in Phi
Hall will be the annual luncheon
held in the college dining hall.
Various presentations and cita
tions will be made during the
luncheon by the toastmaster,
Madge Daniels Barber, ’20, of
Ardmore, Pennsylvania. The
chairman of the reunion classes,
Elizabeth Hostetler Ponton, will
be in charge of a special feature,
the recognition of those classes
which have made active mem
bership quotas. She reports an
increase of interest among the
reunion groups.
Anne Simms Haskins, chair
man of the committee on ar
rangements for the luncheon, re
ports that definite plans have
been made but that the decora
tive scheme will not be pub
licized in advance. Assisting her
with the arangements are the
following committee members:
Gaynelle Hinton Cooper, Mar
garet Craig Martin, Eleanor
Layfield Smith, Martha Ruth
Kendall Murray, Stuart Wea
therspoon Upchurch, and Virgie
Egerton Simms.
Alumnae headquarters will be
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COOPER TO GIVE
ORGAN RECITAL
Dr. Harry E. Cooper, professor
of organ, will present his annual
concert June 2, at 4:30 o’clock.
He holds an A.B. degree from
Otawa University, a B.M. degree
from Horner Institute of Fine
Arts, and a Doctor of Music de
gree from Bush Conservatory.
He has studied with Guy Weitz
in London and is a Fellow of
the American Guild of Organists.
While head of the Meredith
Music Department for the past
nine years. Dr. Cooper has been
active in Raleigh music circles,
serving as conductor of the
Oratorio Society, president of
the Civic Music Association, and
organist and choirmaster of
Christ Church. His program is
as follows:
Christus Resurrexit
Oreste Ravanello
Toccata and Fugue in D minor....
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prieret from Suiet Gothique
Louis Boellmann
Marche Champetre —
Andrew J. Boex
Etude for the Pedals Alone
Eugene deBricqueville
Pastorale Paul Wachs
Chimes of Westminster...
Louis Vierne
STUDENT HANDBOOK
GOES TO PUBLISHER
1 An order for seven hundred
j and fifty copies of the 1946-47
handbook has been given to the
Bynum Printing Company. The
new handbook, according to
Flora Ann Lee, has been com
pletely rewritten and has been
j reorganized into five diff erent
'sections. The first section is on
orientation, the second on stu-
Ident government, the third on
'regulations, the fourth on or
ganizations and the fifth on tra-
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