THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Symphony
Monday
Volume XXIII
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1949
Number 6
Week Filled
With Variety
Having as the theme “Christ
the Great Difference” and as its
purpose—to make a decided im
pact for Christianity upon every
phase of college life and in every
area of the campus activities,
Meredith Religious Emphasis
Week was held February 14-18.
Speakers for the occasion were
Dr. L. D. Johnson, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Danville,
Virginia, and Dr. Clarence
Jordan, Director of Koinonia
Farm, Americus, Georgia.
General activities were begun
with a tea held Sunday after
noon, February 13, honoring the
guests and the committee mem
bers who helped in mapping out
the weeks’ plans. Student
hostesses for the tea were Sylvia
Currin and Joyce Bailey.
Morning and evening chapel
services were conducted by Dr.
Jordan and Dr. Johnson. Some
of the sermon topics were “It
Couldn’t Happen, But It Did,”
“Christ and the Predicament of
Man,” “Are You Doing Busi
ness?” and “Christ and Man’s
Search for the Good Life.”
Seminars were held on “Chris
tianity and the Isms” and “The
Christian Way in Race Rela
tions.” Nightly bull sessions in
the dorm parlors were other
features of the week.
On February 16, the Religious
Emphasis Week party was given
in Phi Hall the direction
of Marjorie Joyner as Gimmie
Napps; a radio program entitled
“Our Mess to Chew” was pre
sented. Assisting her were
Carolyn Massey and Mary Ann
Goodwin. One of the highlights
of the evening was the im
promptu script-reading of “Life
in a Dingy Castle” or “Fie on
Thee, Beanrooster,” the partici
pants being Dr. Julia Harris as
Fair Falstaffa, Dr. L. A. Peacock
as Villainous Beanrooster, and
Dr. Carlyle Campbell as Stal
wart Prince Henry. Guest
speakers of the week also dis
played their talents.
Emily Pool acted as general
chairman for the week assisted
by the following committee
chairman: Esther Green, pro
gram; Betty Hefner, publicity;
Marguerite Leatherman, hospi
tality; Dorothy Patrick, music;
Marjorie Joyner, entertainment;
Winnie Fitzgerald, books and
literature; Betty Brooks, ar
rangements; Lib Jones, informal
discussions; Betsy Ann Morgan,
continuations. Miss Billie Ruth
Currin and Dr. Clyde Parker
served as faculty advisers.
LECTURER IS TO
SPEAK IN MARCH
Mr. J. Donald Adams, New
York Times Book Review colum
nist and author, will deliver a
lecture to the Meredith College
student body on March 3, 1949.
His subject for the evening will
be “The Shape of Books to
Come” in which he will discuss
recent trends in American
creative writing.
Mr. Adams was editor for 17
years of The New York Times
Book Review. He resigned in
1943, but still wrote for the
Review. He now has his own
weekly page.
Mr. Adams has been asso
ciated with literary life of the
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The cagers pictured above recently went to a Play Day at Carolina where they defeated teams from
W. C., Carolina, and Guilford College. First row: Jean Johnson, Martha Lou Stephenson, Jackie Creef,
Jeannette Atkins; Second row: Drake Morgan, Asha Farrior, Faye Nichols, Sue Fitzgerald, Pat Caddell;
Third row: Kathleen Chriscoe, Hope Hodges, Betty Jean Shuler, Nellie Bostic.
Campus March of
Dimes Successful
Meredith students should be
justly proud of the fine record
made in the recent March of
Dimes campaign. During the
recent national campaign, a local
minister, in speaking of the
worthiness of the cause, said that
the campaign should not be
merely the March of Dimes, but
should be rather the “Tramp of
Dollars.” Meredith students took
the statement literally and made
an all-time record contribution
of $234.71.
Not only was this year’s
campaign noteworthy in its all-
time record contribution, but
also in the fact that there was a
hundred per cent contribution
from everyone connected with
the college. Every member of
the resident and non-resident
student body, faculty, admini
strative staff, and maintenance
crew made some contribution to
the drive. The administrative
contribution was $60.65; the
faculty, $34.10; and the student,
$119.96, which made the grand
total of $234.71, a sum which
exceeded last year’s total by a
few dollars.
Mrs. Vera Tart Marsh, regis
trar, was director of the
Meredith division and to her
goes much credit for the success
of the drive. She was assisted in
the soliciting by members of the
student body, faculty, and ad
ministration.
DR. PARK AT SEMINAR
Dr. Dorothy Park, professor of
philosophy and psychology at
Meredith College, was guest
speaker on February 21 for the
State College Psychology Semi
nar which is held each quarter
of the school year. Dr. Park
spoke on the “Cognitive Effects
of Electric Shock Therapy.”
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Kappa Nu Sigma
Taps New Frats
The Kappa Nu Sigma Honor
Society presented a lecture given
by Dr. Martha B. Lucas, presi
dent of Sweet Briar College, on
Thursday, February 25, at 8:00
p.m. Dr. Lucas received her A.B.
degree from Goucher College,
Baltimore, Maryland, A.M. from
George Washington University,
Washington, D. C., Ph.D. in the
fields of philosophy and religion
from the University of London,
and LL.D. from Alabama College
and Goucher College. She has
been an instructor of philosophy
and English literature at Briar-
cliff Junior College, associate
professor of philosophy and
religion at the University of
Richmond, and associate dean of
Radcliffe (College. Dr. Lucas has
been president of Sweet Briar
College since 1946. She has had
a part in the UNESCO movement
and was one of six delegates
from the United States to the
Utrecht Conference last summer.
She is also interested in the
Fullbright resolutions, and at
Sweet Briar the practice is to
send some girls in their junior
year to study in a foreign school.
She is now a member of the
American Philosophical Society,
National Association of the Uni
versity of Women, Phi Beta
Kappa, and a member of the
Episcopal church.
Each year the Kappa Nu
Sigma presents a lecture at
which the two members of the
junior class having the highest
average in their class are tapped
into the Society. Those tapped
into Kappa Nu Sigma on Thurs
day night were Josephine Snow
and Ellen Goldstein. A dinner
was given in honor of Dr. Lucas
and the two new members before
the lecture at the Reinlyn House.
All members of the faculty and
administrative staff who are
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Famed Orchestra
To Play in City ''
As announced by the Raleigh
Civic Music Association, the
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
will appear in concert at the
Memorial Auditorium on Febru
ary 28. The brilliant young
American, Leonard Bernstein,
who is the guest conductor with
the Pittsburgh Symphony Or
chestra, will conduct the concert
to be heard here.
Now in its twenty-second
season, this symphony orchestra
is firmly established as one of
the foremost musical organiza
tions in America. Although the
old Pittsburgh orchestra was
founded in 1896, the present
symphony was founded in 1927
with Elias Breeskin. Then in 1937
the orchestra was re-established
as a major symphonic organiza
tion. During the 1937-38 season
Fritz Reiner was selected to be
the permanent conductor, in
which capacity he has remained
until his recent resignation.
The Orchestra has won nation
wide fame partly through a
series of extensive tours with
guest conductors, among whom
this season are Artur Rodzinski,
Victor de Sabata, Charles
Muench, and Leonard Bernstein.
It is during their four-weeks
tour through Ohio, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey,
and Pennsylvania, with Mr.
Bernstein as conductor, that the
Pittsburgh Symphony is appear
ing in Raleigh.
Rubinstein To
Perform Here
Artur Rubinstein, whom
critics have called “one of the
greatest pianists of all times,”
will appear in concert tonight
at eight o’clock in Memorial
Auditorium under the auspices
of the Raleigh Civic Music As
sociation. Tonight’s concert is
the second in the series of six
Civic Music concerts this season.
A native of Poland, Artur
Rubinstein’s renditions of
Chopin have been hailed by the
music critics for “a sensitiveness,
taste and poetry hardly to be
surpassed.” A master of Russian
music, his Rachmaninoff’s Piano
Concerto No. 2 was RCA Victor’s
best-selling classic album; in
German music he has been con
sidered a master interpreter of
Beethoven, Liszt, and Brahms
since his American debut in
1906.
Currently on his eleventh
consecutive concert tour across
the country under the manage
ment of S. Hurok, Rubinstein
will give almost eighty concerts
during this season and will
appear as soloist with a dozen
major symphony orchestras. His
tour which will last into May
this year will take him across
the United States several times
with a total of 30,000 miles.
Everywhere, to quote a New
York critic, his performances
“have left his audiences cheer
ing and his pianos limp.”
Coming to Hollywood after the
Germans entered Paris in the
second World War, Rubinstein
became an American citizen in
1946. When not on tour, he lives
at home with his wife and four
children — his “international”
family.
In recent years Artur Rubin
stein has had notable successes
in movies; he recorded the piano
sound track for Republic’s “I’ve
Always Loved You” and for
MGM’s “Song of Love.” He has
appeared recently in RKO’s
“Night Song” and United Artists’
“Carnegie Hall.”
Rubinstein returned to Europe
in the fall of 1947 on his first
concert tour since 1939. Con
cerned about Europes’ needs, he
became the founder-president of
the Frederic Chopin Fund in
December 1946; this fund spon
sors concerts to raise money for
needy artists and furnishes
musical instruments, books, and
scores to impoverished musicians
on the continent.
The Pittsburgh Symphony Or
chestra will be heard in the third
of the Civic Music Concerts on
Monday night, February 28.
CONCERT TO BE
PRESENTED HERE
SENIOR PRESENTS RECITAL
Jean Daniel Scarborough, or
ganist, was presented by the
Meredith College Department of
Music in a recital on Saturday
evening, February 12,1949. Jean
is a graduating senior in public
school music. She chose as her
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The joint concert of Barbara
Troxel, soprano, and Claude
Watson, bass baritone, will be
heard in the Meredith College
Auditorium on March 8 at 8:00
o’clock. This appearance will be
the second in the series of
Meredith College Music Con
certs.
Miss Troxel, praised by the
New York Times as being gifted
with great technical skill and
expert delivery, received her
Bachelor of Science and Master’s
Degree in Musical Education
from Pennsylvania State College
and also graduated from the
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