February 13, 1948
THE TWIG
Page Three
FOCUS WEEK LEADERS
SHOW VARIED INTERESTS
During the week of February
15 through 20 the Focus Week
activities will be led by eight
versatile and talented people
whose interests and hobbies
range from theology to palm
istry and party planning. Focus
Week is to be a period of spir
itual growth and enlightenment,
but a lot of real fun is in store,
too, as the students get to know
such interesting people as:
Mrs. R. H. Espy of New York
City, formerly Miss Cleo Mitch
ell, who was at one time Stu
dent Secretary at Meredith.
She has attended W.C.U.N.C.
and Yale University, where she
obtained A.B., B.D., and M.A.
degrees. Her fields of special
interest include Preparation for
Marriage, Program Building,
and Christian Faith.
Mrs. G. Avery Lee, who is the
wife of the minister of Univer
sity Baptist Church, Champaign,
Illinois. She was graduated
from Hardin-Simmons and did
graduate work in religious edu
cation at Yale Divinity School.
She is greatly interested in
community activities and has
worked with the Y.W.C.A. Her
many hobbies include book re
views, palmistry, party plan
ning, and child development.
Dr. Arnold Nash, head of the
Department of Religion at the
University of North Carolina.
He was born in England and
educated at the University of
Liverpool, Oxford, and at the
London School of Economics,
University of London. He holds
graduate degrees in chemistry,
philosophy, and sociology — the
connecting link in his studies
being the nature of scientific
method in the natural and so
cial sciences, history, and the
ology, and the part played in
the Reformation, science, and
capitalism in moulding western
civilization. Dr. Nash came to
America in 1939 and lectured at
the Berkeley Divinity School
and the Yale Divinity School.
He was both editor and con
tributor to Education for Chris
tian Marriage; his latest book is
The University and the Modern
World.
J. C. Herrin, chaplain to stu
dents at the University of North
Carolina, who received his B.A.
degree from Wake Forest in
philosophy and English. He
studied Bible at Hartford Semi
nary, and received his B.D. de
gree from Union Theological
Seminary in Christian ethics
and the philosophy of religion.
His special interests include the
relation of religion to education,
counselling, and pastoral duties.
Herbert W. Baucom, pastor of
the T a k o m a Park Baptist
Church in Washington, D. C.
Mr. Baucom received his B.A.
degree from Wake Forest in
English and religion and also
served as B. S. U. president
there. His special interests are
the church and counselling, par
ticularly on marriage.
Warren Carr, minister of the
Watts Street Baptist Church in
Durham, N. C. He received his
A.B. degree in sociology and
psychology from Transylvania
College, and his Th.M. degree
from the Southern Baptist Sem
inary. He is interested in the
relationship of religion and psy
chology to mental health. Ath
letics and people are his hob
bies.
Wesley Shrader, pastor of the
First Baptist Church in Lynch
burg, Va., who was at one time
a chaplain in the Army. He
likes to read a great deal and
has written many articles. Mr.
Shrader is particularly interest
ed in youth forums and civic
functions.
Completing the list is James
W. Ray of Raleigh, who is well
known throughout the state for
his work with the various col
leges. He is now State Student
Secretary for North Carolina.
He attended Georgetown Col
lege and received an A.B. in
history. Mr. Ray also attended
the Southern Baptist Theolog
ical Seminary in Louisville, Ky.
He is interested in interracial
affairs and student counselling.
With the Class of '47
MEREDITH AND THE ARTISTIC URGE
By DORIS LEE
JEAN BRANCH
Short Course
In Folk Dancing
Held On Campus
On February 6 and 7 the first
combination of college and
recreation group’s folk dance
short course in this state was
held on the Meredith campus
under the sponsorship of the
Physical Education Department
and the A. A. Board. The com
mittees steering the course were
Harriet Neese, Shirley Parker,
Eunice Andrews, and Marty
Davis as over-all chairmen;
Catherine Carpenter, Mildred
Hoyle, Lela Butts and Doris
Witherspoon directing the hos
pitality; Jeanne Dickens, Sarah
Fleming, Jane Middleton, and
Doris Lee heading the entertain
ment; Lefty Pugh, Eloise Lan
caster, and Meredith Liles work
ing with the organization; and
Betty Jean Johnson, Sunshine
Bellamy, and Doris Concha, the
publicity.
The two leading dance teach
ers were Miss Doris Peterson of
our own faculty and Miss Irene
Moll, a member of the Physical
Education Department of
Swarthmore College, Swarth-
more, Pennsylvania. Miss Moll,
who taugh the square dances
and square dance calls is a grad
uate of T. S. C. W., was a student
of Lloyd Shaw at the Cheyenne
Mountain Folk School, and has
taught in schools of Kansas and
Oklahoma. Miss Peterson also
attended Cheyenne Mountain
Folk School where she studied
under Herb Greggorsen, a folk
dance authority.
HOSTESSES ENTERTAIN
AT EXAMINATION TEA
Miss Anna Baker, Miss Lillian
Grant, and Mrs. Claude Rutledge
gave a series of examination teas
on January 26, 27, 28 in the
faculty parlor. They were as
sisted in receiving by Mrs. Car
lyle Campbell, Mrs. C. W. Burts,
and Mrs. Zeno Martin and also
by student council members and
girls who work in the Office of
the Dean of Women.
Jean Branch’s recent promo
tion to editorial assistant and
circulation manager of the
North Carolina Education Mag
azine comes as no surprise to
Meredith College. Since her
graduation, she has worked on
the staff first as secretary to the
editor and now in her new posi
tion with the same enthusiasm
and alertness that made her
college life a success. For the
interest of all who may be en
tering Jean’s field of work after
graduation, she gives a brief
survey of her activities which
include taking letters for the
editor, typing, sending copy to
the press. . . . Her regular con
tributions to the magazine are
four features, “Personalities,”
“Book Review,” “Looking
Back,” and “Treasure Chest.”
Jean is interested in a career
of journalism, but she is not
sure of the opportunities that
“free-lancing” within itself of
fers to those who need to make
a living. She plans to attend
Carolina summer school this
summer and continue her study
in English; but she does not
want to leave Raleigh for any
great length of time. The rea
son? Not a hard question to
answer, says Jean, “I like being
in Raleigh because I always see
so many people I know.”
Freeman Leads
Institute Course
The Folk Dance Club mem
bers served as hostesses and as
sistants in demonstrating the
dances to the 60 representatives
from Virginia and North Caro
lina. Colleges represented here
were E.C.T.C., Duke, U.N.C.,
Wake Forest, Flora McDonald,
and W.C.U.N.C. Recreation de
partment members from Raleigh,
Winston-Salem, and Fayetteville
were present. Some major stu
dents and teachers of physical
education also came.
Because of the popularity and
educational use of folk dancing
as a recreational activity, the
courses were designed to provide
opportunities to learn twelve
square dances, three singing
quadrilles, and several round
dances including the Oxford
Minuet, Belen Schottishe, Mili
tary Schottische, and the Mc-
ginty. Other dances practiced
were the Spanish Circle, the
Harvest Song, Western Polka,
Varsoviaan, and the Skater’s
Waltz.
At the end of the folk dancing
period for each day, teas were
given in the parlor.
Each year the faculty and
students of Meredith College
have a very large attendance at
the meetings of the Institute of
Religion. This large attendance
indicates the recognition of its
value and inspiration as a proj
ect. Every year many of the
faculty members participate in
the work one way or another
because they firmly believe in
the Institute.
This year the most prominent
feature headed by a member of
the Meredith faculty is the
course “The Religious Issue in
America,” which is taught by
Dr. L. E. M. Freeman at 7:00
p.m. on Monday nights. In ex
plaining the course. Dr. Free
man said, “This course will be a
fair, objective, and impartial
presentation of the issues in
volved in Protestant and Cath-
Meredith’s art department has
come out like a spinister during
leap year and taken possession
of the arts building, thinking,
more than likely, that the build
ing must be made to live up to
its name. It seems that everyone
at Meredith who does not come
in the category of smock-wearers
or brush-wielder at least falls
into the classification of wistful
admirers. Budding artists are
now in full bloom; evidence of
their handiwork is found in
liberal amounts at the far end
of our third little white building.
Such a variety of artistic talent
has come to bless us. The design
ing class displays designs that
range from elephants and pen
guins to a mass of form and color
that please the eye, but puzzle
the brain. Interior decoration
sports before-and-after pictures
of dormitory rooms; not vitamin
pills but good taste bring about
the improvement. Even more
fascinating are the tiny furnished
rooms designed and made by
students of the same class.
Minature bed rooms, living
rooms, and kitchens, complete
with Thom Thumb furniture,
even to potted plants and the
latest edition of Better Homes
and Gardens might help solve
some fairy’s housing shortage.
Pictures and paintings of every
discription adorn the walls in
everything from oil paint to pen
and ink drawings. A few pic
tures have under them the in
scription “This was chosen third
best in its class,” making the
on-looker wonder if the judges
olic religion, as related to edu
cation, religious liberty, and
affairs of government in Amer
ica. The series of open discus
sions include the following top
ics: (1) The End of a Protestant
Dream; (2) Some Catholic Doc
trines that Protestants Should
Know; (3) More Catholic Doc
trines that Protestants Should
Know; (4) Church-State Rela
tions and Religious Liberty; (5)
Protestantism, Catholicism, and
Education; and (6) Compara
tive Advantages in the Appeal
to America. Dr. Ralph McLain,
who taught last year, is on the
planning committee for the en
tire program. Mrs. Wallace,
who has for many years con
tributed to the work, is this year
in charge of the finances.
o
were afraid to exhibit the first
and second choices of it perhaps,
a special glory room is reserved
for the works of these honored
few.
Sculpture was not omitted in
our artist’s display: soap dogs,
paper mache puppets, and crea
tions, other materials which
should be left to better informed
minds to describe. The most
fascinating figure was that of a
nude woman doing pushups.
Even the doors are victims of
the artistic urge, but very pretty
victims. For the amusement of
all, some master of the art of
cutting square corners has deco
rated the bulletin board at the
end of the building with cartoons
about art scaoenged from The
New Yorker and The Saturday
Evening Post. In other parts of
the long hall hang pictures more
renowned by time and fame, to
remind, perhaps, that artists
have sprung from other sources
than Meredith.
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