Commencement
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Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1947
Number 15
CommeiiceEiieiit PTOgram Begins Friday, May 30
Exercises Include Annual Concerts,
Class Day, Baccalaureate Addresses
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Pictured above is Edward Allison McDowell, who
will deliver the Baccalaureate Sermon on Sunday,
June 1. Walter H. Judd, right, will give the Bacca
laureate address Monday, June 2, at 10:30 a.m.
Council Holds
Op en House
On Saturday, May 17, at 7:00
p.m., the Student Government
Council sponsored an open house
in the Hut. The purpose of this
function was that of letting the
students of Meredith College
know just what has been done in
the way of making our Hut more
livable.
Students who went down for
a look-in saw among the recent
additions built-in cabinets in the
kitchen, an electric stove and re
frigerator, cooking utensils,
dishes, silver, and new curtains.
In addition to this kitchen
ware, the living room was
adorned with new draperies and
a floor lamp given by the B-Hive.
The front hall, a project of the
Senior Class, was complete with
coat racks, new shelving on both
sides of the window, and wall
lamps.
Further making the student’s
visit to the Hut enjoyable were
the girls who acted as hostesses
for the evening. Those girls who
are largely responsible for these
improvements in our Hut and
who are on the Hut committee
are June Patterson, Joyce
Thomas, Marianna Worth, Mary
Virginia Warren, and Gayle
Wells.
SENIORS MAKE PLANS
FOR CLASS DAY MAY 31
Plans are being made for the
1946-47 Class Day exercises to
he given Saturday afternoon.
May 31. The chairman is Joan
Drake; Stella Lassiter and Ruth
Martin are her assistants. Col
leen Brown, acting president of
the Sophomore Class, is planning
the activities for her class. The
sophomores will carry the daisy
chain as they march to the
grove singing the traditional
song. They will form two lines
and the seniors will march be
tween them. The class history
will he given in the form of a skit
entitled “Red Letter Days” and
will include the events of the red
letter days of the seniors during
their four years at Meredith. The
prophecy will he given out in the
form of newspapers. The seniors
of the odd class of 1947 will pass
out to the sophomores the tradi
tional bones.
Teas, Picnics
Fete Seniors
Even with examinations and H:00 a.m.
term papers to cope with, gradu
ating seniors will still find time
honor of the seniors. At this time
the “induction” ceremony initia
ting the seniors into the Associa
tion as full fledged members will
take place.
to attend the parties and picnics
that are being given in their
honor. The first of these was an
open house given by Mary Mar
tin, a member of the Senior
Class, from four to six o’clock
on Saturday, May 10, at her
home, 1709 Hillshoro Street.
Several other seniors who assist
ed in greeting and serving guests
were Dorothy Howerton, Helen
Wallis, Dorothy Maness, Carolyn
Lockamy, and Nancy Middleton.
Dr. Ellen Brewer and Dr. Mary
Yarborough of the Meredith Col
lege Faculty presided at the
punch bowl. Approximately one
hundred and twenty guests were
there.
Other events have been
planned for the Senior Class. Dr.
Ellen Brewer invited the seniors
to a “Calico Tea” at the Cedar
Chest on Saturday, May 17
from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Dr.’
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The commencement exercises
for the 1947 term will begin Fri
day, May 30, and will continue
through Monday, June 2. The
program is as follows:
May 30
8:00 p.m Annual Concert
May 31
9:30 p.m Annual Meeting of
Kappa Nu Sigma
10:45 p.m Meeting of Alum
nae Association
Margaret Craig Martin
A.B., A.M., President
Address:
Eunice Edmundson Johnston
A.B., A.M.
Tallahassee, Florida
1:00 p.m Alumnae Luncheon
Toastmaster
Ruth Leary McRackan, M.B.
Morehead City, North Carolina
4:30 p.m Class Day
8:00 p.m .Society Night
9:30 p.m—Annual Meeting of
Silver Shield
June 1
Baccalaureate Ser
mon
Edward A. McDowell, Jr.
A.B., Th.M., Ph.D., D.D.
Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary
Louisville, Kentucky
4:30 p.m Organ Recital
Harry E. Cooper
A.B., Mus.B., Mus.D., F.A G O
Meredith College
5:30 p.m Step Singing
8:30 p.m Senior Vespers
9:30 p.m Reception for Par
ents
June 2
10:30 a.m Baccalaureate Ad
dress
Walter H. Judd, A.B., M.D.
Member of U. S. Congress
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Conferring of Degrees
Edward Allison McDowell,
Jr., is a native South Carolinian,'
the son of a Baptist preacher. He
was graduatedfrom Furman Uni
versity and received his Ph.D.
from the Southern Baptist Theo
logical Seminary. For three
years he served as a reporter on
the Greenville, S. C., newspa
pers and from 1923-25 was pri
vate secretary to Governor Mc
Leod of South Carolina. During
his stay in Louisville he served
pastorates in Kentucky and later
in Virginia. In 1935 Dr. McDow
ell became instructor in New
Testament Interpretation at the
Seminary and was promoted to
Associate Professor, a position
which he now holds. He is the
author of the book. Son of Man
and Suffering Servant. Dr. Mc
Dowell is now on sabbatic leave
teaching in the Greek depart
ment of Union Theological Semi
nary, New York City and study
ing at Columbia University.
Congressman Walter H. Judd,
the speaker for the Commence
ment Address, who also deliv
ered the address at Meredith last
year, was born in Rising City,
Nebraska, and received his A.b!
and M.D. degrees from the Uni
versity of Nebraska. For some
time he was instructor of zoology
at the University of Omaha. He
*vas' traveling secretary of the
Student Volunteer Movement
from 1920-1924, and later he
served as a medical missionary
under the Congregational Mis
sion Board. When he returned to
the States, he lectured through
out the United States on the
American Foreign Policy and In
terests in the Pacific. Until 1943
when he was elected to Congress,
he was a physician in Minneapo-
A ' ^ member of the
Arnerican Medical Association,
Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega
Alpha, and Phi Rho Sigma.
Meredith Alumna Made
President of Penn Hall
MEREDITH ALUMNAE
ENTERTAIN SENIORS
The Meredith Alumnae Asso
ciation will entertain the Senior
Class on Saturday, May 31, at
1:30 p.m. Each year at gradua
tion the Alumnae give a lunch
eon in the College dining hall in
B-Hive Completes Twenty-seeond Year
The student body, the facul
ty, and the administration feel
deep regret in the recent death
of our nightwatchman, Mr. S.
Talmadge Pearce. Mr. Pearce,
who had served faithfully at
Meredith for over a year, died
of a heart attack in his sleep
on Thursday, May 14, at noon.
The funeral was held May 16
at 2:00 p.m. at the Flatrock
Baptist Church near Youngs-
ville. Before coming to Mere
dith, Mr. Pearce had served on
the police force in Wilmington
and as a guard at a prison
camp near Raleigh.
Occasionally someone asks,
“What does the B-Hive do with
its profits?” Here is the answer,
but first a little history.
At old Meredith, where the
Mansion Park Hotel now is, the
YWCA girls sold candy bars
from a closet under a stairway
for about an hour each day.
When Meredith moved to its
present campus in 1925, the
YWCA store was organized.
Mary Blount Martin was the
first manager, and the store
started with nothing except
$12.50 borrowed from the
YWCA. One-half the present
front room of the store was used,
there being a partition which has
been removed. That first year
sales were principally candy
bars, paper, and pencils. The
store was then, and still is, under
the control of the committee con
sisting of one representative
When the BSU was organized,
the YWCA ceased to exist, and
a prize was offered for the best
suggestion of a name for the
store. “The B-Hive” was selected
as the most appropriate name.
The committee in charge of the
store was given authority to de
cide on the distribution of the
profits.
Since its organization, the ma
jor use of the profits of the
B-Hive has been to support first
the YWCA and later the BSU.
For several years, during the de
pression of the thirties, all profits
were needed by these organiza
tions, and in at least one year the
amount paid exceeded the
profits. As business grew a fund
was accumulated for the purpose
of building a new store building.
Then came the time when the
college needed to put the present
hard surface and curb from the
college to the highway. The store
elected by each college class and turned over its saving of $2 500
a faculty adviser, Mr. Canaday. to help with this project, and in
return the trustees promised to
provide new space for the store.
Each year the committee has
planned to make a gift to the
college which will benefit the
college and students. Two years
ago $400 was set aside for a new
cement walk running East and
West across the court. Scarcity
and high price of materials has
delayed the work. This year an
electric water cooler has been
ordered and should soon be in
stalled in the Arts Building. The
payment to the BSU this year
was $300. Also, the store has
given $50 to assist the Colton
English club in publishing a col
lection of poems by Meredith
students. Finally, the committee
plans to contribute to the cam
paign to furnish the Meredith
Hut.
In general, then, it may be said
that the profits are used as fol
lows :
(1) A substantial sum is giv-
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Meredith College
Baleighf C#
Dr. Sara W. Briggs, formerly
of Raleigh, has recently been ap
pointed president of Penn Hall
Junior College and Preparatory
School, succeeding Dr. Frank H.
Magill, who is retiring July 1.
Dr. Briggs has been the aca
demic dean since 1944, serving
as a faculty member since 1935;
she taught English, creative
writing, journalism, and philoso
phy. She is a graduate of Mere
dith College where she was
president of her freshman class,
and editor of the college maaga-
zine.
She got her M.A. and later
the degree of Doctor of Phi
losophy in English at Cornell
University. While at Cornell she
held a graduate scholarship and
was assistant director of social
activities in William Straught
Hall and in the Student Union
Building.
She is a member of the Ameri
can Association of University
Women. Before her recent ap
pointment, Dr. Briggs served as
vice president of Penn. A. J.
College.
Dr. Briggs is a daughter of
W. G. Briggs, a prominent Ra
leigh attorney and the late Mrs
Beulah S. Briggs. Dr. Briggs,
born in 1911, attended Hugh
MorsoRgi|^chool in Raleigh.