THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Volume XXII
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1947
Number 2
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JOIN-THE-CHURCH SUNDAY'
MARKS AN IMPORTANT DAY IN
MEREDITH COMMUNITY LIFE
O
SG Week Stresses
Student Honor
Sunday morning will find Meredith students in entering the church of their choice. Helen is a trans
churches throughout the city. Here we see Evelyn fer student from Campbell College; Evelyn, Dot, and
Barden, Helen Carr, Dot Allen, and Marjorie Joyner Marjorie are freshmen.
BSU PLANS
CONVENTION
This year the State Baptist
Student Union Convention will
be held at the First Baptist
Church in High Point, N. C.
Over five hundred students are
expected to attend the conven
tion, which lasts from Oct. 31
to Nov. 2.
Don Shropshire, State B. S. U.
president and a student at the
University of North Carolina, is
planning the program. The Rev.
James W. Ray, the new state stu
dent secretary, will open the pro
gram with a message on Friday
night at 7:30 p.m.
Louvene Jordan, of Meredith
College, state social chairman,
will be the recreational director.
The worship programs are under
the direction of the state devo
tional chairman, Warren Turner,
of Campbell College. Tommy
Stapleton of Wake Forest Col
lege will direct the music. One
of the special features in the
program is sacred music by the
choir of Shaw University.
Some of the leaders appear
ing on the program are Dr. San-
key L. Blanton, head of the De
partment of Religion at Wake
Forest College; the Rev. Lee C.
Sheppard, pastor of the Pullen
Memorial Church of Raleigh; Dr.
Frank H. Levell, executive sec
retary of the Baptist Student
Department at Nashville, Tenn.;
Dr. Fred A. Brown, pastor of
the First Baptist Church at
Knoxville, Tenn.; Dr. George D.
Kelsey, director of the Depart
ment of Religious Education at
Machouse College, Atlanta, Ga.;
Dr. Robert A. Dyer, professor
of Religion at Gardner-Webb
College in Shelby; and Dr. John
D. Wayland, pastor of the First
Baptist Church at North Wilkes-
boro, N. C.
ART CLUB REORGANIZED
On Wednesday night, Oct. 15,
the Art Club was reorganized.
All students on the campus who
are interested in art, whether
they are taking courses in art
or not, are invited to join the
club. Other information may be
secured from the Art Depart
ment. Bulletins will be posted
as to time and place of the next
meeting.
A.A. To Entertain
Tomorrow Night At
Cornhusking Bee
The Athletic Association will
entertain the student body at the
annual corn-husking bee on the
night of Oct. 18 from six to eight
o’clock. After supper in the
dining hall, contests and folk
dancing will be held on the lawn.
Faculty members will judge the
winners.
Five bushels of corn will be
husked in the corn-husking con
test with representatives from
each class competing for the
prize. A hog-caller and a chick
en-caller from each class will
compete in another contest.
Entertainment by a group of
folk-dancers, under the direction
of Miss Doris Peterson, will be
provided during supper. The
dining hall will be decorated for
the event by the Association.
Later, all the students will join
in the folk dances on the lawn.
Classes of smaller groups from
each class will participate in a
sing-song of American folk
songs.
Prizes will be offered for the
best-dressed couple among the
students and also for the faculty
couple judged best-dressed for
this occasion. Photographers will
be there to snap the winners of
the various contests, and these
pictures will appear later in Ra
leigh newspapers.
ANNUAL STAFF
ANNOUNCE PLANS
Hewitt and Baldwin
Join Meredith Staff
There have been two recent
additions to the administrative
staff at Meredith. It has been
announced that Mrs. Coy Hewett
has been appointed Dietitian.
Mrs. Hewett is a graduate of
Woman’s College of the Univer
sity of North Carolina.
It was also announced that
Miss Mabel Baldwin has accept
ed the position of Secretary to
the Dean of Women. Miss Bald
win was graduated with the de
gree of Bachelor of Arts with
Meredith’s Class of ’47.
The Oak Leaves is underway!
The individual class pictures are
being made now, and the staff is
busy making plans for a better
yearbook. This year’s staff in
cludes Virginia Campbell, edi
tor; Doris Carroll, senior editor;
Jane Lassiter, junior editor;
Winnie Fitzgerald, sophomore
editor; Frances Land and Ellen
Skinner, photographic editors;
and Marjorie Williams, art edi
tor. The business staff is made
up of Marie Snelling, business
manager; Catherine Campbell
and Betty Davis, senior assist
ants; Victoria Harrell and Re
becca Spake, junior assistants;
Roxie Valias and Gazelle Moore,
sophomore assistants, and Mary
Frances Keene and Margaret
Westmoreland, typists.
The Oak Leaves staff plans to
have the annual come out ear
lier and to have a more repre
sentative picture of college life
here. They are striving for more
writing and more informal pho
tography.
ASTROS TAKE LEAD
ON DECISION DAY
That period known as Rush
Week terminated on Saturday,
October 4, with the victorious
Astros carrying the day.
The day opened with the cus
tomary Decision Day family-
style breakfast. The dining
hall was decked out in festive
colors of gold and purple, and
original favors made by the so-
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COLLEGE TO HONOR
FOUNDERS ON NOV. 7
President Carlyle Campbell
has announced that the College
will honor her founders on Fri
day, Nov. 7. Classes will be dis
continued at 10:30 that morning,
in order that all may attend the
eleven o’clock service in the
auditorium. Dr. Howard E.
Rondthaler, President of Salem
College, will deliver the address.
In the afternoon the faculty and
trustees of the institution will
be at home to friends of Mere
dith College.
Last week was set aside in the
college calendar as Student Gov
ernment Emphasis Week. The
purpose of the week was to re
mind the student body of their
responsibilities and duties to
student government. The week’s
activities included individual
class meetings on Wednesday,
Oct. 8, and a general student
body meeting on the following
night. Wednesday night the
three upper classes met separate
ly at 9:30 for a study of the
handbook.
The Senior Class met in the
Rotunda, and Gloria Mayer pre
sided. Ella May Shirley, Betty
Hefner, and Bobby Richardson
led the session for the Junior
Class, which met in Phi Hall.
Lib Holford presided over the
Sophomore Class meeting, which
was held in Astro Hall. At each
of these meetings, a general re
fresher course was given in stu
dent government handbook reg
ulations and privileges, and the
College policies and Honor Code
were discussed. Open discussion
followed.
On Thursday night all four
classes met in the auditorium.
Frances Thompson, president of
the Student Government Coun
cil, president; and Mary Virginia
Warren, vice president of the
Council, led the devotional serv
ice. Frances introduced, as the
guest speaker for the night. Miss
Anna May Baker, Dean of Wom
en. As Miss Baker, herself,
pointed out, her talk, like a
woman’s skirt, was “short
enough to be interesting, but
long enough to cover the sub
ject.”
Miss Baker pointed out the
fact that the governmental sys
tem here is democratic in princi
pal—that it is based on “equal
commitment to a common good”
and involves “sharing responsi
bility to the fullest.” Our stu
dent government is democratic
in election, we elect the best per
son for an office with no idea of
personal gain in mind. Govern
ment here by the students is
progressive. Miss Baker remind
ed us that we have come a long
way towards independence from
the days when a handbook regu
lation required Meredith stu
dents to wear high-topped shoes
and undershirts with long
sleeves. Best of all. Miss Baker
said that our government is
Christian. We carry out here,
to the best of our abilities and
with the guidance of God, the
spirit of helping others and car
ing for their welfare rather than
our own.
Following Miss Baker’s talk,
the student body read in unison
the pledge which contains, in a
sense, the very essence of the
spirit and purpose of Student
Government Emphasis Week.
“I have read the Handbook con
taining the regulations of the
Student Government Associa
tion. I realize my personal re
sponsibility as a Meredith girl,
and I promise to uphold the Hon
or Code, ideals and principals of
student government to the best
of my ability so long as I am a
student here.”
By BARBARA SHELLSMITH
When a girl leaves home to
go away to college, she packs her
trunks full of clothes, takes
along her favorite pictures,
stuffed animals, and all the other
beloved belongings that she
wants to keep close to her, for
she knows that nine out of every
twelve months during the next
four years will be spent in a
new community. Sometimes,
however, that girl leaves one of
her most important possessions
back home—her church letter.
She doesn’t realize that she will
now want to transfer her serv
ice, her activities, and her loyal
ty to a church near her college
community.
To help girls away at college
to realize the importance of be
coming a member of the church
attended regularly while in
school, the Southern Baptist Stu
dent Department introduced
“Join-the-Church Sunday” in
hopes that by that day, which
falls on October 19 this year, all
students would have joined “a
chur ch-away-f r om-home. ’ ’
A word about some of the
churches here in Raleigh might
help you to decide which you
want to join. The First Baptist
Church has a college department
for students of Meredith, Peace,
and N. C. State. Frances Alex
ander of Meredith is superin
tendent of that department. Dr.
Broadus Jones, pastor, and Miss
Virginia Overman, educational
director, take active interest in
work with students. B. T. U.
each Sunday evening is for both
college and local young people.
Pullen Baptist Church, of
which the Rev. Lee C. Sheppard
is pastor, also offers college
classes at Sunday School and
B. T. U. for college and local
young people. Miss Elizabeth
Murray, a graduate of Meredith,
is the educational director there.
Dr. F. Orian Mixon is pastor
of Tabernacle Baptist Church,
and John Holmes is the director
of young people’s work there.
Both the Sunday School classes
and B. T. U. are very active or
ganizations in this church, and
many interesting things are
planned throughout the year for
college students.
Many Meredith girls can be
found each Sunday morning and
evening out at Hayes Barton
Baptist church. Miss Celeste
Porter is the educational direc
tor, and Mr. Howard Hicks is
superintendent of the college de
partment.
To move into another denomi
nation, we have Edenton Street
Methodist Church downtown
and Fairmont Methodist on State
College campus. Dr. A. J.
Hobbs and Rev. A. L. Thompson,
respectively, are pastors of those
churches. Both have regular
college Sunday School classes
and fellowship programs, includ
ing worship and recreation on
Sunday evening. The Wesley
Foundation, a national student
organization, is also found at
Fairmont.
At West Raleigh Presbyterian
Church there is another active
student group meeting for col
lege Sunday School classes and
fellowship meetings and month
ly suppers at night. The Rev.
Edward J. Agsten, pastor, and
Miss Gladys Jaskson, educa
tional director, work extensively
with student groups.
The programs in the Sunday
schools, training unions, and
fellowship groups of all the
churches in Raleigh have the
purpose of helping to train the
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