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Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
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Vol. XXIV
Meredith College, Raleigh, N. C., Friday, May 19, 1950
No. 12
Buchanan, Ramsey, Commencement Speakers
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Richard Walser, State College English
Professor, Will Speak on Society Night
Mr. Richard Walser, assistant
professor of English at N. C.
State, will be the featured
speaker at Meredith for Society
Night on Saturday, June 3. At
this annual event, sponsored by
the two societies on the campus,
Mr. Walser’s topic will be
“North Carolina As a Source for
Creative Writing.”
Mr. Walser, a native of Lex
ington, N. C., came to the Eng
lish department of State in 1946;
he has edited two literary col
lections—“North Carolina Poet
ry,” published in 1941, and
“North Carolina in the Short
Story,” published in 1948. He
has recently written the preface
to a new book on Thomas Wolfe
by Pierre Brodin, a French
author.
A graduate of the University
of North Carolina, Professor
Walser taught at the Universi
ty before coming to State in
1946; he is the author of sev
eral articles on phases of North
Carolina literature and on the
teaching of English.
Also on Society Night, during
commencement week-end, the
annual society awards, athletic
Junior, Senior Music
Students in Concert
honors, and departmental hono
rary awards will be given. Both
the Philaretian and Astrotekton
society presidents will present
literary awards; the Athletic
Association will present the
Monogram Club award, the
Equitation Cup, and the cup to
the outstanding athlete of the
year.
The English department will
make its award for the highest
achievement in independent
reading; the Albert Stanbur-
rough Cook prize for the best
bibliography in American Liter
ature; and the Elizabeth Avery
Colton prize for the best contri
bution to the Acorn.
Certificates of achievement
will be given on Society Night
by the Sigma Alpha Iota and
Sigma Pi Alpha, honorary fra
ternities; the Kappa Nu Sigma
will announce its new members
and award its freshman scholar
ship. After the Silver Shield
tapping ceremony, the presenta
tion of certificates to students
appearing in “Who’s Who
Among Students in American
Colleges and Universities” will
be made.
PROGRAM
1950
FRIDAY, JUNE 2
8:00 p.m - Annual Concert
SATURDAY, JUNE 3
9:30 a.m Annual Meeting of Kappa Nu Sigma
10:45 a.m Meeting of Alumnae Association
Virginia Branch Pope, A.B., President
Address: The Reverend Elizabeth Jane Miller, A.B., B.D.
Minister Readsboro Baptist Chureh
Readsboro, Vermont
1:00 p.m Alumnae Luncheon
Toastmaster: Marguerite Warren Noel, A.B.
Florence, South Carolina
4:30 p.m Class Day
8:00 p.m Society Night
9:30 p.m.-- Annual Meeting of Silver Shield
SUNDAY, JUNE 4
11:00 a.m Baccalaureate Sermon
The Reverend John H. Buchanan, Th.M., D.D.
Minister, Southside Baptist Church
Birmingham, Alabama
4:30 p.m Organ Recital
Harry E. Cooper, Mus.D., F.A.G.O.
Meredith College
8:00 p.m - - Senior Vespers
9:00 p.m Reception for Parents
MONDAY, JUNE 5
10:30 a.m - Baccalaureate Address
D. Hiden Ramsey, A.M., LL.D.
General Manager, The Asheville “Citizen and Times”
Asheville, North Carolina
cuss DAY PUAS baptist pastor,
AREANNOINCED
One of the highlights of com
mencement week-end will be
the annual commencement con
cert on Friday night in the new
auditorium. Taking part on the
program will be rising seniors,
graduating seniors, and two of
the candidates for the Bachelor
of Music degree from Meredith
this year.
Rising seniors on the music
program include Pat Roberts,
Jean Olive, Jane Stroup, and
Dot Allen; Charlotte Bowman,
a member of the graduating
class; and Susan Graham and
Elizabeth Zulalian will also take
part. The college Glee Club will
perform two groups of songs
during the concert.
The following program for
the June 2 concert has been
announced by the music depart
ment;
Organ
Marche Religieuse....Guilmant
Pat Roberts
Piano
Etude in E major,
Op. 10, No. 3 Chopin
Charlotte Bowman
Voice
An eine Aeolsharfe
Brahms
Standchen
Jean Olive
Piano
Impromptu in f sharp major
Op. 36, No. 2. ...Chopin
Susan Graham
Liebeslied Walser,
Op. 52, No. 6, 9, 11, 18,
15, 13, 12 Brahms
Glee Club
Piano
La Puerta del Vino....Debussy
Capriccio in F
minor Dohnanyi
Elizabeth Zulalian
Voice
Love’s Philosophy Quilter
Iris Wolff
Fairy Songs Besly
Mountains Rashbach
Jane Stroup
Organ
Symphonic Movement..Weitz
Dot Allen
Old Abram Brown Britlen
Mother Goose Suite....Horton
Talley-Ho Leoni
Glee Club
Class day, 1950, has an excit
ing meaning for the ears of
Meredith seniors and for their
sister class, the sophomores,
who will take part in the event
on Saturday, June 3, of com
mencement week-end.
After all examinations are
over and graduation just one
more day away, the seniors
on Class Day will take a survey
of their four years spent at
Meredith. A group of seniors
have planned and written a play
in the style of attic memories.
In the attic of memories, sen
iors will reminisce about all the
fun and problems of their col
lege days together. In past years.
Class Day has been a sketch of
the past and future; this year
the seniors’ presentation will
probably stay within their own
limits of four years.
Sophomores will be up early
to pick the daisies for the daisy
chain which they will carry in
the Class Day procession to the
grove; later they will make their
class numerals on the steps of
Johnson Hall and sing to their
sister class.
Alice Gordon Tuttle is general
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Finals Speokers Are From
Birmingham and
Asheville
Speaker, Luncheon, Reunion of Twelve
Classes Feature Alumnae Day Here
At the annual meeting of the
Alumnae Association of Mere
dith on Saturday morning, June
3, in the new auditorium, Mrs.
Hunter Pope will preside and
the Reverend Elizabeth Jane
Miller, pastor of the Readsboro,
Vermont, Baptist Church, will
be the featured speaker.
For the alumnae luncheon
in the dining hall, following the
meeting, the toastmaster will be
Mrs. George Noel, Jr., of
Florence, South Carolina, who
is a member of one of the twelve
reunion classes meeting here
during commencement week
end.
Mrs. R. Bruce Wilkins of Dur
ham is general chairman of the
reunion classes which will be
featured at the luncheon after
the business session and address
during the morning. Mrs. Law
rence Cooper of Clayton is gen
eral chairman of the social com
mittee, in charge of arrange
ments for the luncheon.
The Meredith Granddaugh
ters’ Club, of which Chris Wil
liamson is president this year,
will also take part on the pro
gram and will present the mem
bers of the club, with their
mothers, in a feature during the
annual meeting.
Chairman of the hospitality
committee, which will welcome
the returning alumnae, is Mrs.
William S. Goodwin of Apex.
The speaker for the morning
session was graduated from
Meredith in 1944 and was from
Irvington, New Jersey, when a
student. The Reverend Miller is
now pastor of a Vermont church
and received her B.D. from Yale.
PROP RICHARD WALSER
Mr. Richard Walser, assistant pro
fessor of English at State College,
will speak on “North Carolina As
A Source For Creative Writing”
at Society Night on June 3.
Meredith Reports
Enrollment Rise
Contrary to the prevailing
trend indicated in recent na
tional surveys on college enroll
ment for next year, Meredith
College reports an increase in
enrollment for next year’s stu
dent body of approximately 10
per cent above the advance reg
istration at this time last year.
The following figures are an
nounced by Dr. Carlyle Camp
bell, president of the college.
To date, 194 new students
have been accepted for the 1950-
51 term which will begin next
September 18. Those students
represent 57 North Carolina
counties, 11 other states, and
one foreign country (Costa
Rica). Of the number, 27
are students transferring from
junior and other colleges.
According to the national sur
veys, most colleges are report
ing decreases in the student
bodies expected for the fall
semester.
BETTY ROGERS RECEIVES
STATE HOME EC. OFFICE
The Merdith Home Economics
Club has been honored by hav
ing one of its members, Betty
Lou Rogers, elected President
of the North Carolina Clubs
Division of the American
Home Economics Association.
The Meredith Club is one of the
eighteen N. C. College Clubs
holding membership in this or
ganization. The election occured
at the recent State Workshop of
College Clubs held at Mars Hill
College. Other officers for next
year are:
Vice-President, Mary Lee
Roberts, Woman’s College.
Secretary, Lu Jean Deidman,
Flora McDonald.
Treasurer, Catherine Sloan,
Appalachian State Teachers Col
lege.
Reporter, Winnie Luffner,
Mars Hill College.
Meredith was represented at
the workshop by Betty Rogers
and Nell Rankin as delegates,
and by Miss Hanyen.
The commencement exercises
which will begin on Friday,
June 2, and continue through
Monday, June 5, will feature two
prominent speakers. The Rever
end John H. Buchanan, pastor
of the Southside Baptist Church
in Birmingham, Alabama, will
deliver the baccalaureate ser
mon. Dr. Buchanan attended
Mississippi College and the
Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary from which he re
ceived the degree of Th.M. He
later received two D.D. degrees
from Howard and Ouachita Col
leges.
Dr. Buchanan has been an
outstanding leader in both the
State and Southern Baptist Con
vention affairs, and for a num
ber of years was president of
the executive committee of the
Southern Baptist Convention. In
addition to heading drives for
raising funds for Baptist col
leges and speaking on a state
wide radio network, Dr. Buchan
an has acted as trustee on
a number of denominational
boards, such as Howard College
Board of Trustees, and the Ala
bama Baptist Executive Board.
Speaking at the graduation
exercises on June 5 will be
D. Hiden Ramsey, general man
ager of the Asheville Citizen
and Times. Dr. Ramsey, a na
tive of Gretna, Virginia, at
tended the University of Vir
ginia, from which he received
the degree of A.M. in 1913, and
the University of North Caro
lina, from which he received the
degree of LL.D. in 1946.
From 1914 to 1915 he was in
structor of economics at the Uni
versity of Virginia, and from
1920 to 1925 editor of the Ashe
ville Citizen and the Times. In
1940 he held the position of
temporary chairman and key
note speaker of the North Caro
lina Democratic Convention. He
is at present a prominent mem
ber of the North Carolina Board
of Education, the Southern
Newspaper Association, and the
North Carolina Press Associa
tion. He is also a member of the
Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Delta
Chi, Delta Sigma Rho, and
Omicron Delta Kappa.
D. Hiden Ramsey, general manager
of the Asheville “Citizen and
Times,” will deliver the commence
ment address at the exercises on
Monday morning, June 5.
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