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THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Raleigh, N. C.
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Vol. XXIV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C. ,FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1949
No. 2
Clean-Up Campaign Is Inaugurated on Campus
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AA Cornhusking Bee
Scheduled For Tonite
The annual Cornhusking Bee,
sponsored by the college Ath
letic Association, will get under
way tonight at 6:15 p.m. in the
dining hall. Featured during the
evening’s program will be con
tests, folk dancing, group sing
ing, and prizes for costumes for
both students and faculty.
Representatives from the four
classes and the faculty will com
pete in the various contests
held on the dining hall steps
after dinner, and the Folk Dance
Club under the direction of Miss
Peterson will teach folk dances
in the court afterwards.
Calling chickens for the honor
of the senior class will be La-
Verne Austin and Maggie
Leatherman; for the juniors,
Velma Trott and Crystal Stan
ley; for the sophomores, Janet
Tatum and Nellie Bostic; for
the freshmen, Betsy Leonard
and Ann Moore; and for the
faculty. Dr. Harris and Dr.
Lanham.
In the hog-calling contest will
be Louise Yarbrough and Mar-,
tha Lou Stephenson from the
senior class; Faye Nichols and
Rebecca Knott for the juniors;
Mary Faye White and Fannie
Carr, sophomores; for the fresh
men, LiAnne Bland and Emma
Jean Maddrey; and from the
faculty. Miss Gregory and Miss
Hill.
Husking corn fast and furi
ously will be Dr. Canaday and
Dr. McLain, for the honor of
the faculty; Frances Williams
and Gwen Wilson, seniors; Mar
cella Winn and Helen Brunson,
juniors; Jean Johnson and Sue
Fitzgerald, sophomores; and
Gwen Snell and Kathleen Mc
Gowan for the freshmen.
Taking part in the tail-story
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This is one of the areas on which the clean-up campaign needs to be enforced most rigidly. Let’s get
to work and make it look like an “after” instead of this “before.”
Chapel Programs of
Interest Announced
On next Monday morning,
October 24, Miss Sonia Grodka,
the traveling secretary of the
World Student Service, will
speak in chapel, according to
an announcement by Dr. Camp
bell, who has planned many
interesting chapel programs for
these morning worship services
throughout the school year.
Mr. Allan Richardson is sched
uled to speak in chapel on the
morning of November 21; and
on November 23, the day before
Thanksgiving holidays. Dr.
Howard Powell of the Edenton
Street Methodist Church is
scheduled to speak to the stu
dents and faculty members.
60 Meredith Students Will Attend
B.S.U. Convention, Winston-Salem
Korean Native Will Deliver Lecture
To Meredith Students Tuesday Night
o-
Mrs. Induk Pahk, a native
Korean, will lecture at Mere
dith on Tuesday evening, Octo
ber 25. Mrs. Pahk has made
several visits to America in the
past and is internationally fa
mous for her lecturing ability.
In her homeland of Korea
Mrs. Pahk takes an active part
in the Adult Education Move
ment. She also participates in
such group activities as the Wo
men’s Patriotic League, the
Returned Women Students’
Club, the Business and Profes
sional Women’s Club, and the
Women Employees’ Club of
Military Government.
While Mrs. Pahk was in Korea
she also worked for the United
States Military Government as
a radio lecturer on “Democracy
and the Women of Korea.” In
addition to her travels as a lec
turer, she has written such
books as Danish Folk High
School, My World Travels, and
Pointers in Rural Education.
She has also translated into
Korean From Jerusalem to
Jerusalem.
Mrs. Pahk is a graduate of
Ewha College for Women in
Seoul, Korea, and of Wesleyan
College in Macon, Georgia. She
received her M.A. degree from
Teacher’s College of Columbia
University.
Judging from various com
ments on previous lectures by
Mrs. Pahk given elsewhere,
Meredith students have much in
store for them on Tuesday eve
ning. Perhaps after hearing the
lecture some will agree with
the statement of Georgiana
Sibley, United Council of
Church Women: “One unavoid
ably judges a country by the
people one knows, and from
now on we shall think of Korea
as a most vital, humorous, in
telligent and forward-looking
country.”
Mrs. Pahk’s lecture on Tues
day evening is expected to
prove of interest not only to
those students interested in in
ternational relations but also to
those interested in learning
more about the customs and
people of Korea.
After the lecture a reception
for the speaker will be held in
the Faculty Parlor in First
Vann, in order that faculty
members may meet Mrs. Pahk.
Dr. Ralph McLain is chairman
of the college lecture committee
which has planned various
ectures throughout the school
year. Other members of the
committee are Miss Neblett, Dr.
Price, and Dr. Yarbrough.
Approximately sixty girls
have signed up so far to attend
the annual State B.S.U. Con
vention opening next week-end
in Winston-Salem. The char
tered busses will leave Mere
dith at 1:00 p.m. next Friday
afternoon and will return Sun
day night.
When the B.S.U. bus driver
yells, “All aboard for Winston-
Salem” be positive that you’re
the first to scramble to your
seat, because after he shouts,
“We’re off,” you can’t afford to
miss one moment of excitement.
The State B.S.U. has the pro
gram, beginning with Friday
night, filled to capacity. Those
attending the meeting, to be
held at the First Baptist Church
in Winston-Salem, will hear Dr.
GRADUATE RECORD EXAMS
WILL BE ADMINISTERED
Tests of the Graduate Record
Examination, required of appli
cants for admission to a number
of graduate schools, will be ad
ministered at examination cen
ters throughout the country four
times in the coming year. Edu
cational Testing Service has an
nounced. During 1948-1949
nearly 15,000 students took the
GRE in partial fulfillment of
admission requirements of grad
uate schools which prescribed
it.
This fall candidates may take
the GRE on Friday and Satur
day, October 28 and 29; in 1950,
the dates are February 3 and
4, May 5 and 6, and August 4
and 5. Since the GRE is not
required by all graduate schools,
ETS advises each student to in
quire of his prospective school
whether or not he is expected
to take the test and, if so, on
which dates.
Application forms and a bul
letin of information, which pro
vides details of registration and
administration as well as sam
ple questions, may be obtained
from advisers or directly from
Educational Testing Service,
Box 592, Princeton, N. J., or
Box 2416, Terminal Annex, Los
Angeles 54, California.
Claude Broach from Charlotte,
Dr. Olin T. Brinkley from Louis
ville, Dr. Franklin Young from
Durham, Dr. Richard T. Hower
ton from Lincolnton, Mr. Bob
Poerschke from Charlotte, and
Dr. Ralph Hereuy and Mr. J. C.
Herrin from Chapel Hill.
Major addresses, group dis
cussions led by both students
and adult leaders, and fun and
fellowship are in store for those
attending.
Meredith will be well repre
sented at the convention. Caro
lyn Massey is one of the state
officers — literature chairman;
Betty Jo Smith and Jean Miller
have their places on the pro
gram, too, listed as “Special
music (student).”
CALENDAR 1949-1950
First Semester, 1949
Nov. 19 — Saturday — Mid
semester reports due.
Nov. 23 — Wednesday — Last
day to file applications for
degrees.
Nov. 24-27—Thursday-Sunday
—Thanksgiving holidays.
Dec. 17 — Saturday — Christ
mas recess begins, 12:30
p.m.
1950
Jan. 2—Monday — Christmas
recess ends, 2:00 p.m.
Jan. 30-Feb. 4—Mon.-Sat.—
First semester examinations.
Second Semester, 1950
Feb. 7—Tuesday—Registra
tion.
Feb. 8—Wednesday — Classes
begin, 8:30 a.m.
Feb. 20-24—Mon.-Fri. — Re
ligious Focus Week.
Feb. 22 — Wednesday — Last
day for class schedule
changes.
March 15—Wednesday—Last
day to file applications for
degrees.
April 6 — Thursday—Mid-se
mester reports due.
April 6 — Thursday — Spring
recess begins, 1:00 p.m.
April 12—Wednesday—Spring
recess ends, 8:30 a.m.
May 6—Saturday—May Day
celebration.
May 8-12 — Mon.-Fri. — Ad
vance registration for 1950-
51.
May 27-June 2 — Sat.-Fri.—
Second semester examina
tions.
June 2-5 — Fri.-Mon. — Com
mencement exercises.
Drive To Clean
Campus Starts
A clean-up campaign starts
today on our campus. This cam
paign will have no official termi
nation but will draw to a close
whenever our campus gets to
the point that no improvement
can be made. There is a great
need for this campaign, and as
soon as each student looks
around she will see that need
looming before her.
The place for the campaign
to begin is in each individual’s
room. The sooner girls stop
sweeping the trash out of their
rooms into the halls, the sooner
one part of this campaign will
be finished. The maids can not
sweep the halls but once a day;
if a girl sweeps her trash out
into the halls after the maid has
cleaned the hall for that day
then the trash remains where it
was left until the next morning,
or worse still, it blows from one
end of the hall to the other.
No one likes to wade through
lint to get where she is going,
so remember to sweep the trash
on a piece of paper or into a
dust pan, and do not take the
course of least resistance which
is through the door and into the
hall.
There are containers placed
all over this campus for the pur
pose of receiving trash. These
containers themselves do not
add in the least to the attractive
ness of our campus, but their
purpose if fulfilled would make
Meredith look like a new place.
Especial attention to this
phase of clean-up is needed
around the Bee Hive. Use the
trash cans provided in there;
do not wait until you get to the
dorm and then dispose of the
trash in shrubbery or along the
paths. There are times when
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NEW DESIGN CHOSEN
FOR COLLEGE RING
A red stone will appear on
the class ring of this year’s
senior class for the first time, ac
cording to Alice Tuttle, presi
dent of the senior class.
The new ring design, selected
by a special student committee
and approved by each of the
classes, will replace the old ring
which has been in existence
since 1941. A four-year con
tract signed by the school pro
vides for each of the classes now
at Meredith to have this new
ring.
With the aid of a represent
ative of the company, the com
mittee has selected an oval syn
thetic ruby, set in a gold band
of military finish. On the shank
will be the Meredith shield sur
rounded by oak leaves and the
year.
Febraary has been set as a
tentative date of delivery for
the 1950 class rings, on the in
side of which will be ingraved
the name, degree and the date
of graduation of the student.
Besides the class rings, class
pins, necklaces and bracelets
will be available to any student
who may wish to place an order
for these.
Serving on the ring committee
with A. G. Tuttle are Bunny
Harris. Nancy Walker, Betty
Jane Hedgepeth, Jean Miller,
Sally Massey, Pat Smathers and
Nancy House.