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Congratulations !
May Court
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THE
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Raleiqh, N. C.
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
- Welcome,
High School
Students!
Vol. XXIV
Meredith College, Raleigh, N. C., Saturday, May 6, 1950
No. M-
Mji.y Queen Will Reign Over Festivities Today
Dance Groups Will Participate In
Traditional May Day Celebration
Snow White ami Rose
Red Is Program Theme
The smiling girls in the convertible pictured above are the members of the Meredith May Court who
will be honored in the exercises today. Lib Holdford, May Queen, is in front; from left to right are
Daphine Stephenson, freshman member of the Court; Sue Bunn, sophomore; Maclyn Mackie, junior;
Marguerite Smith, junior; Doris Concha, senior; Jo Snow, the Maid of Honor; Dot Fisher, sophomore; Willie
Brownlow, freshman; and Bunny Harris, senior.
College Glee Club, Directed By Miss
Donley, Presents Annual Spring Concert
The Meredith College Glee
Club presented its annual
Spring Concert last night at
eight-thirty in the new audito
rium. High school students ar
riving on the campus for Hospi
tality Weekend were special
guests at the first of the events
scheduled for their entertain
ment.
Under the direction of Miss
Beatrice Donley, and accom
panied by Bettie Compton, of
Burlington, the Glee Club pre
sented the following program:
Sound the Trumpet! Henry
Purcell ,arr. Moffat
The Silver Swan Orlando
Gibbons, arr. Mauney
Love Is a Sickness .... Ruggero
Vene
Which Is the Properest Day to
Sing? Arne
II
Liebeslied Walser, Op. 52, Nos.
6, 9, 11, 18, 15, 13, 12—Johan
nes Brahms, arr. Clough-
Leighter.
Rose Stewart at the second
piano.
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Two Eastern Pictures.—Gustav
Holst
I. Spring
II. Summer
The Cloths of Heaven....Thomas
Dunhill, arr. Davis
Waters Ripple and Flow
Czecho-Slovak Folk Song, arr.
Deems Taylor
Drama Class Gives
Two One-Act Plays
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Old Abram Brown....Benjamin
Britten
I Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray....
Negro Spiritual, arr. Gaul
Mother Goose Suite Lewis
Horton
REHEARSALS FOR
EVERYMAN BEGIN
Since the spring production
of the Little Theatre is going to
take place in everyone’s back
yard, it seems that almost the
whole student body will help to
make it a success. The play,
scheduled for May 17, will be
an adaptation of the fifteenth-
century morality play Every
man, which calls for an im
mense cast and technical crew.
Dr. Delphine Murphy is di
recting the play; the role of
Everyman is being done by
Elmer Oettinger, who played
Editor Webb in the last fall
presentation of Our Town. The
cast is completed by members
of the Meredith student body
and faculty, and Dr. LeDeow of
the State College faculty.
Production committees for the
play have been appointed, and
rehearsals are well underway.
The production will be done
under the stars in true medieval
style, on the porch and steps of
the dining hall. There are
twenty-four speaking parts in
the production, plus twenty-
nine extras and the complete
Folk Dance Group, with accom
panist.
Everyman is a play of spec
tacle; the moral truth is as
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FROSH COUNSELORS
ARE CHOSEN FOR ^50-51
Twenty-seven new freshman
counselors have been chosen to
serve next year, under Helen
Brunson as chief counselor.
Eighteen of this number are
rising sophomores, 6 are rising
juniors, and 3 are rising seniors.
These students will be on
hand next fall to guide the in
coming freshmen through
orientation week and serve as
personal counselors throughout
next year.
New counselors include Willie
Brownlow, Joyce Covington,
Janne Dawson, Jean Dula, Re
becca Edge, Betty Faucette,
Elizabeth Hamrick, Marilyn
Hunt, Judy Moore, Ann Partin,
Sally Smith, Lois Webb, Ca
mille Thomas, Annabelle White
hurst, and Mary Ann Godwin,
all rising sophomores.
Barbara Schettler, Anne
Creech, Dot Fisher, Dwan Swin
dell, and Sally Clark are rising
juniors who will serve as
counselors for next year; Re
becca Knott, Jean Taylor, and
Mary Ann Goodwin are the
three rising seniors chosen.
Day student counselors in
clude Barbara Ballenger,
Shirley Stough, and Patsy
Andrews.
As Shakespeare says, “The
play’s the thing!” And our ad
vanced class of drama under the
direction of Dr. Delphine
Murphy will prove this to us
tonight. The curtain goes up at
eight o’clock on “Overtones,”
the first of two one-act plays.
All of you who are interested
in the psychology of a femme’s
personality—this will be choice
entertainment! See in “Over
tones” the split personality of
Hettie and Maggie portrayed by
two other characters, Harette
and Margaret. You see, no one
ever lives as they really are. In
teresting? Why yes indeedy! An
abstract play under the direc
tion of LeCJrace Gupton with
costumes by Taylor’s and the
Meredith College Little Theater
would have to be interesting.
Diane Newton, Feme Stoffer,
Barbye Cox, and Dorothy Brown
make up the cast. Alice Cham
pion will do a dramatic reading,
followed by a presentation of the
“Pied Piper of Hamlin” by the
verse - speaking choir between
the plays.
Imagination sets the stage for
Thornton Wilder’s “Happy
Journey!” If you have, as
Coleridge suggested, a willing
suspension of disbelief, you will
be able to accompany this
amusing family on a delightful
journey. Fun plus comedy! This
comedy adds men for extra in
terest! They are Norman Acker
of Raleigh, and Paul West of
Wake Forest College. The others
making up the cast are Dorothy
Perry, Emily Lee Hough, and
Barbara Dennis.
The traditional festivities of
May Day in the court this after
noon at 4:30 will carry out the
theme of the fairy tale of Snow
White and Rose Red. Dancers
from the Folk Dance group, the
Creative Rhythms group, and
physical education classes will
present the story in entertain
ment of the May Queen, Lib
Holdford, and her Court.
The sophomores sang to the
May Queen early this morning,
honoring the Queen chosen
from their sister class. The
Queen and her Court are also
entertained at the May Day
breakfast; here the seniors pre
sent their May Day basket to
the president of the college.
Order of Procession
First in the afternoon pro
cessional in the court this after
noon are the college marshals,
followed by the troupe of May
Day entertainers. Entering in
the May Court, heralded by
garland bearers and flower-
girls, are the representatives by
order of their classes.
FACULTY-STUDENT
PLAYDAY ON MAY 10
Faculty and students will
participate in their annual
Playday on the campus next
Wednesday afternoon. May 10.
Under the direction of the A.A.
Board, various sports will be
played, with challenges offered
from students to faculty. The
four dormitories will also com
plete for awards.
The Duke, to be chosen from
the faculty, and the Duchess, a
student, will rule over the Play-
day. Names of the Duke and
Duchess, elected last Thursday,
will be revealed on Wednesday.
Senior attendants in the
Court are Bunny Harris and
Doris Concha; juniors, Maclyn
Mackie and Marguerite Smith;
sophomores, Dorothy Fisher and
Sue Bunn; and freshmen, Willie
Brownlow and Daphine
Stephenson.
The Maid of Honor, Josephine
Snow, follows the class repre
sentatives, and the flower girl,
Melinda Pridgen, and the crown-
bearer, Gretchen Morgan, pre
cede the Queen herself.
Carrying the Queen’s train
are the official train-bearers,
Tim Overman and Edward
Clark. After the Queen enters,
the sophomores again sing to
the Queen, and she is crowned
Queen of May.
The theme of the fairy story
will be carried out by the groups
of dancers performing for the
Queen. Pat Bales and Joanne
LaRue will play Snow White
and Rose Red; Marjorie Tolan
and Barbara Pearson are Prince
Charming and his brother.
High School Seniors
Are Guests On Campus
Today is a red-letter day on
the Meredith calender, for the
college is honoring guests from
North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Virginia. Around eighty
high school seniors were wel
comed to the campus yesterday.
Plans to make these guests
enjoy their week-end at Mere
dith are in charge of members
of the Student Government, and
the appointed hostesses, who are
under the direction of Frances
Altman, student chairman. Upon
their arrival, guests were di
rected to the Dean of Women’s
office, where they received
name-tags.
On the program for the week
end of hospitality by the college
was the Glee Club concert in
the auditorium last night. Fol
lowing this program, a reception
was given in the Blue Parlor,
honoring the members of the
Glee Club, the hostesses, and
their guests.
Dances Given
The dances are then given in
the following order:
I. Dance of Snow White and
Rose Red
II. The Wishing-Ring
III. Lullaby
IV. Dance of the Elves
V. Dance of the Wood
Nymphs
VI. Fairy Dolls
VII. Joy Dance—Snow White,
Rose Red, Prince Charm
ing and his brother
VIII. Village Festival
IX. Maypole Dance
The reader, Dorothy Perry,
will narrate the fairy story as
it is enacted by the dancers.
May Day Breakfast
Today, however, is really the
big day.” At 7:00 A.M. the
annual May Day breakfast be
gan, when the seniors presented
the May Day basket to Dr.
Campbell. All guests who ■wished
to attend classes are visiting
the classrooms this mornihg
with their hostesses. '
This afternoon the college
Horse Show will get underway
at 2:00 in the riding ring. Next
on the agenda and highlighting
the week-end will be the May
Day exercises at 4:30 P.M. in
the court, featuring the crown
ing of the May Queen.
Vesper Service
Tonight all week-end guests
on the campus and members of
the student body are invited to
attend a candlelight service to
be held around the fountain in
the court. This vesper service is
being sponsored by the Baptist
Student Union, with the Sigpia
Alpha Iota, honorary music
fraternity, in charge of the
music. 5
“Be Still and Know ThatTi
Am God” is the chosen theme of
the program tonight; this out
door service promises to be both,
impressive and inspiring. Elain^
Saunders, devotional chairman'
of the B.S.U., is planning the’
program, which will begin at
7:15. ^
Promptly at 8:00 in the new
auditorium the two one-act
plays by the play production
class will be given. Saturday
night s events are the last of the
scheduled program for the en
tertainment for guests at Hospi
tality Week End.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
FOR TODAY
A crowded schedule has
been planned for May Day
today; in order that you and
your guests may get to all
events in time, the following
times and places should be
kept m mind:
7:00 AjM.—May Day Break
fast, in the Dming Hall.
—Horse Show, at
the Riding Ring.
4:30 P.M.—May Day Exer
cises, in the Court.
sino Service.
8.00 P.M.—Two One-Act
Plays, in the New Auditor-
lum.
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