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heavenly
harmony.
THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
this
universal frame
is made.”
Vol. XXIV
Meredith College, Raleigh, N. C., Friday, March 3, 1950
No. 8
COLLEGE GLEE CLUB TO PERFORM IN THREE CITIES
Music Group Plans
Tour For March 12-14
Three Successive Performances Scheduled
For Charlotte, Winston-Salem, and High Point
The thirty-four members of the Meredith Glee Club, under the direction of Miss Beatrice Donley, will
make a three-day tour of the central part of the state next weekend.
Spring Elections Begin
Here on Next Thursday
Registration of all students
for the spring elections of stu
dent offices was held Wednesday
and Thursday, March 1 and 2.
The first elections of the year
will begin on this next Thurs
day, March 9, with candidates
for the presidency of the Stu
dent Government, B.S.U., A.A.,
and the Day Students being
voted on.
The general chairman from
the Nominating Committee in
charge of elections this year is
Alice Tuttle, president of the
senior class. The registrar for
the elections is Mary Bland
Josey. Three faculty members
are also working with the elec
tions committee: Miss Grant,
Miss Peterson, and Dr. Keith.
Polls will be open for voting
next Thursday in Johnson Hall
from 11 A.M. to 5:15 P.M. Elec
tions will be held on the suc
ceeding Thursdays until all
offices are filled.
The two election judges this
year are Pat Smathers and Janet
Tatum. The class election offi
cials are Ellen Goldston, Bettie
Yates, Rosalind Poole, and Jean
Dula.
Candidates for the elections
are chosen by the College Nomi
nating Committee of which
Winnie Fitzgerald, chief counse
lor, is chairman. Students hold
ing major offices on the campus,
including the presidents of all
major organizations, editors of
the three publications and class
presidents are members.
Students now registered for
voting are urged to exercise
their privilege at the polls.
Little Theatre Plans
To Give One-Act Plays
Dr. Delphine Murphy, head of
the Speech Department and ad
visor to the Little Theatre group
on our campus, has disclosed im
portant plans for the spring se
mester.
Already members of the Little
Theatre have obtained and com
pletely redecorated a theatre
room on third floor Jones. Walls
have been painted; comfortable
chairs have been secured; lamps
have appeared; and a small stage
has been constructed. One of the
speech classes is now busy de
signing paper mache masques
which they will use to further
enhance the theatrical air of the
room.
Several productions are sched
uled for the coming months.
Three advanced students are be
ginning their work on the di
rection of one-act plays to be
presented soon in the new audi
torium.
LeGrace Gupton will direct a
play entitled “Overtones.” The
cast includes Feme Stoffer,
Diane Newton, Barbara Cox,
and Dorothy Brown.
“Lima Beans” will be present
ed under the direction of Diane
SIGMA PI ALPHA
TAKES m MEMBERS
Sigma Pi Alpha, national hon
orary language fraternity, is
sued eighteen bids last weekend
to members of all four classes of
Meredith to join the society.
Formal initiation took place last
night.
Chosen on the basis of all
round scholastic achievement
and interest in languages. For
students in advanced courses, a
B average is required in all
language courses taken here, and
a C average in all other courses.
For intermediate language
courses^ SH A. aver-Rgo is r0-
quired, with a C average in all
others.
One senior, five juniors, six
sophomores, and six freshmen
received invitations to join the
organization. Their names were
read in chapel and ribbons
pinned on them at that time. The
fraternity colors are red and
gold, while the flower is the red
rose of Anjou.
Students receiving bids in
cluded Betty Moore, Jane Earl
Burch, Carolyn Crook, Martha
Stough, Doris Champion, Margot
Grimes, Dorothy Miller, Barbara
Bone, Joan Neighbors, Sally
Massey, Dorothy Haight, Virgin-
Newton. She has chosen for her ia Rodwell, Mary Alice Archer,
cast Dickie Phillips, Barbara Edith Bradley, Mary Ann Hor
Dennis, Emma Lee Hough, Fern
Stoffer, and Dot Brown.
A third play, “Will ’O the
Wisp” will be directed by Dickie
Phillips with roles portrayed by
LeGrace Gupton, Barbara Cox,
Alice Champion, and Dorothy
Perry.
The annual spring production
will be Everyman.
PHI SOCIETY PLANS SQUARE DANCE FOR
TOMORROW NIGHT IN OLD ALDITORILM
Let’s go, all you Phi friends
and neighbors! Join in the old-
fashioned hoe-down tomorrow
night at the Phi barn dance. Yes,
we mean it—bring your dates all
rigged out in their best blue jeans
and pretty yourself up in your
brightest calico bib-and-tucker,
’cause it’s going to be one more
big country-style affair.
The time, as we told you be
fore, is tomorrow night—Satur
day, that is, my friend—from
7:30 to 10:30 in the Meredith
barn (called by some the old
auditorium). The theme is very
definite—it’s really a good old
square dance, complete with a
caller, authentic (we hope) cos
tumes for both the boys and
girls, and refreshments to suit
the occasion.
As caller for this big social
event on the campus, Lonnie
Powell will guide the initiated
through their first “grand right-
and-left.” (Note to the shy:
Don’t worry if you think you
don’t know how. Few people
do.) Music will be on the platter,
with plenty of rhythm.
Appropriate decorations will
add atmosphere for the square
dance, and the refreshment com
mittee will be selling juices and
cookies. The faculty is cordially
invited to attend.
The decoration committee is
headed by Betty Jo Smith and
Jean Miller; the refreshment
committee by Hazel Williamson
and Jane McDaniel; the publici
ty is in charge of Betty Finklea
and Frances Williams. i
ton, Grace Autry, Shirley Cliatt,
and Peggy Langston.
Initiation of new members
was held at State College last
night, with new members from
Meredith, State, Peace, and St.
Mary’s taking part in the joint
service.
For the next meeting of the
organization, plans are being
made to sponsor a talk by Dr.
Juan Castellano, a professor at
Duke University, on Alejandro
Casona, the author of the con
temporary drama now being
studied by classes in interme
diate Spanish. The meeting is
scheduled for next Thursday
night, March 9.
Officers of Sigma Pi Alpha in
cluded Emily Stacy, president;
Fran Almond, vice president;
Joyce Bailey, secretary; and
Mary Bland Josey, treasurer.
Miss Neblett serves as faculty
sponsor.
At the last program, a dinner
meeting at the S&W, Friedrich
Mueller, a German student from
Chapel Hill, spoke to the Sigma
Pi Alpha on “The Philosophy
and Aspirations of Contempor
ary German Youth.”
The meeting next Thursday
night is expected to prove of
special interest to all Spanish
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The Meredith College Glee
Club, under the direction of Miss
Beatrice Donley, plans a three-
day tour in the piedmont sec
tion of the state, beginning on
Sunday, March 12, through Tues
day, March 14.
In Charlotte on Sunday the
first in their series of concerts
will be given. After the per
formance the members of the
Glee Club will go to the homes
of the First Baptist Church mem
bers, in whose church the con
cert is given, and of Meredith
alumnae as overnight guests.
On Monday the Glee Club will
give another concert in Winston-
Salem, also in the First Baptist
Church. The last performance in
the itinerary for the club’s tour
will be given on Tuesday at the
Green Street Baptist Church in
High Point. After the concert
the club will return to Meredith
in their special bus.
Later in the month separate
concerts of secular music are
planned for Salisbury and Ox
ford. Officers of the Glee Club,
which is composed of thirty-four
voices, include Jo Snow, presi
dent; Bettie Compton, vice-pres
ident, who is also the accom
panist; and Mary Evelyn Brown,
secretary-treasurer.
Sopranos are Dorothy Brown,
Mary Evelyn Brown, Nancy
Hall, Roberta Holcombe, Mary
Beth Hord, Rebecca Knott,
Emelia Kutschinski, Jean Miller,
Jean Olive, Joanna Pittard, Bet
ty Jo Smith, Nancy Tatum, and
Dot Thomas.
Second sopranos include
Barbara Bone, Nellie Bostic,
Barbara Cox, Jackie Creef, Ad-
die Elliot, Emma Jean Maddrey,
Joanne Mason, Faye Nichols,
Martha Smith, Doris Stainback,
Carolyn Stevens, Jane Stroup,
Helen Walker, and Ellen West
moreland.
Altos are Evelyn Barden, Em
ily Pool, Lois Pritchett, Cora Lee
Sawyer, Jane Slate, Jo Snow,
and Martha Scott.
This is a representative pro
gram of the secular music to be
sung in High Point and Winston-
Salem. The Charlotte program
will consist of sacred music.
Sound the Trumpet
The Silver Swan
Love Is a Sickness
Which is the Properest
Day to Sing?
Purcell
Gibbons
Vene
Arne
Agnus Dei Bizet
Nancy Hall, soprano soloist
Dunhill
Britten
The Cloths of Heaven
Old Abram Brown
Waters Ripple
and Flow Czeck-Slovak
Folksong, arr. Deems
Taylor
Duet:
A Heart That Loves Gounod
Betty Jo Smith and
Addie Elliott, sopranos
I Couldn’t Hear
Nobody Pray
The Orchestra
Song
Spiritual arr.
Gaul
Traditional
Austrian, arr. Schuman
Mother Goose Suite Horton
The Wind’s in the South Scott
The Glee Club makes its an
nual tour in the spring, usually
making appearances in cities and
towns in eastern North Carolina.
The cooperation of Meredith
alumnae and church members
in the towns included in the tour
aids greatly in making the per
formances successful.
MEREDITH ARTIST SERIES WILL PRESENT
HAROLD HAUGH IN CONCERT TUESDAY NIGHT
Harold Haugh, tenor of the
music faculty of the University
of Michigan, will be presented in
concert next Tuesday, March 7,
at eight o’clock in the new audi
torium.
Haugh, for several summers
prior to World War II, was a
soloist and teacher at Duke Uni
versity and, last year, performed
in Handel’s oratorio directed by
Paul Young at Chapel Hill.
Music critics have highly fa
vored Mr. Haugh. A Cleveland
critic wrote of him: “The clarity
of diction and the fine sense of
proportion always in evidence
made this one of the most satis
fying voice recitals this review
er has heard.”
Haugh is an ordained minis
ter. He received his A.B. degree
at Hiram College in his native
city of Cleveland and his Bache
lor of Divinity degree at Union
Theological Seminary in New
York City. Later the School of
Sacred Music of the same insti
tution awarded him the Master
of Sacred Music degree.
During his college career and
Harold Haug:h
afterward, Haugh was engaged
as special soloist in various
churches and later did consider
able work in radio with such
programs as Fred Allen’s, Rudy
Vallee’s, and the Show Boat.
His career has included exten-
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