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THE TWIG
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song of old."
Number 5
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f lmviis Will Present Christmas Mwsic Sunday
JUNIORS TAPPED AS ASSOCIATE
MEMBERS OF SILVER SHIELD
Sally Massey and Marie Ed
wards were tapped for associate
membership in the Silver Shield,
honorary leadership society at
Meredith, at a recent chapel
program. The two juniors were
chosen on the basis of construc
tive leadership, Christian char
acter, and service to the school.
Presiding over the chapel pro
gram and tapping ceremony was
Silver'Shield president, Carolyn
Massey, who introduced the
speaker. Rev. Warren Carr, the
pastor of the Watts Street Bap
tist Church in Durham. He em
phasized the two different kinds
of honor: that which is bestowed
on an individual from without,
and the honor which is part of
the personality.
Increased service and accep
tance of responsibility, the
speaker pointed out, go along
with the receiving of an honor
from society; humhity and n^-
turity by the individual must be
gained to achieve the personal
honor to balance outside hormrs.
The two associate members
treasurer. Other members of the
organization are Patsy Emory,
Virginia Jones, Nancy Walker,
and Betty Jane Hedgepeth.
CAROL SINGING IS
BEING PLANNED
Plans for the annual Christmas
caroling in Raleigh by Meredith
students on December 15 are
now being completed by Bettie
Yates and Bess Francis, co-
chairman of the event sponsored
by the A.A. Boa^d. Chartered
busses will be on hand to take
students for two hours of singing
carols on Friday night between
11:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. at the
cost of twenty-five cents per
student. . • +
A special program of Christ
mas music is scheduled to be
given during the Christmas
formal dinner on Friday night
in the dining hall. The music
program and the dinner are be
ing sponsored by the S. G.
The two assoeioto I A°’A'Board ^ ^ ah t e
the Chnsttnaa mail,
MEREDITH'S BILL TO AID JAILERS
PASSED BY STUDENT LEGISLATURE
sociates until the spring when
they will be eligible for perina-
nent membership, along with
other rising seniors.
Serving as vice-president ot
Silver Shield is Marjorie Joy
ner; Drake Morgan is secretary-
J_jl2>LO V_»X
ing addresses of all registered
students will go on sale next
week by the A. A. Board, for
twenty cents. Addresses of fac
ulty members and the college
staff are also included on the
mailing list.
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A joint concert by Raya|
Garbousova, cellist, and the;
National Male Quartet will be:
presented in Memorial Audi-;
torium on January 4 as the third |
the current Civic Music;
in
series. This is the first joint
concert of the season.
Miss Garbousova is renowned
both as a cellist and as the only
woman who has ever achieved
an important career as a solo
cellist. Born in Tiflis, in the
Russian state of Georgia, she
has been on tour either m
Europe or America since her
graduation from the Tifhs Con-
lervatory of Music in 1925. An;
American citizen today, sne;
made her debut in this concert
in a Town Hall recital m 1935.
On her current concert tour
and her subsequent European
tour. Miss Garbousova will play
the Cello Concerto, which she
introduced with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra under
Serge Koussevitzky and which
was written especially for her
by the American composer,
Samuel Barber.
The National Male Quartet
has won distinction by a varied
repertoire which includes op
eratic numbers, American
ballads, familiar classics ar
ranged especially for them, and
selections from modern com
posers. They also , vary their
straight quartet numbers with
trois and duets.
Members of the quartet in
clude Attilio Baggiore, tenor;
Gene Tobin, tenor; Vernon
Sanders, baritone, and Bruce
McKay, bass. Baggiore is an
Italian who made his debut in
Rome; the other three members
of the quartet are Americans.
In the thirteenth annual North
Carolina Student Legislative As
sembly, which met from No
vember 30 to December 2 at the
state Capitol, the bill presented
by Meredith College was passed
overwhelmingly by both houses
of the Student Legislature.
This bill, which will be sent
as a recommendation to the
State General Assembly, advo
cated the establishment of a
salary rather than a fee basis
for North Carolina jailers. At
present, jailers receive a certain
fee for each prisoner which they
keep. Out of this fee, the jailer
must feed and care for the pris
oner and may keep the remain
der of the money as his salary.
This practice often leads to
abuse of the prisoners by giving
them insufficient care, in order
that the jailer may keep a larger
portion of the fee.
Meredith’s bill proposed to
eliminate this abuse by paying
each jailer a fixed salary which
would not depend on the num
ber of prisoners; money for care
of the prisoners would be given
separately.
Also passed by the legislature
was a bill to eliminate segrega
tion on public carriers presented
by Livingston College. A resolu
tion to give the United Nations
General Assembly the right to
use the atomic bomb at their dis*
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'Ceremony of Carols'
Included on Progrom
The sixty members of the
college Chorus, under the direc
tion of Miss Beatrice Donley,
will present their annual con
cert of Christmas music on Sun
day afternoon at 4:30 p.m. in
the new auditorium. The pro
gram will include the first
performance at Meredith of
Benjamin Britten’s “Ceremony
of Carols” in which several
songs are sung in Old English.
Accompanying the Chorus for
the Christmas performance will
be Joan Neighbors. The program
for the concert is announced as
follows:
: Processional
' nvocation...-Dr. Ralph McLain
Carol of the Sheep
Bells Richard Kountz
How Far Is It to
Bethlehem? Geoffrey Shaw
At the Cradle Cesar Franck
The Christ-
ChilcL -Peter Cornelius
The Christmas Story
from St. Luke and
St. Matthew-.Dr. Roger Crook
A Ceremony of
Carols Benjamin Britten
Soloists:
Barbara Bone, mezzo-soprano
Jean Miller, soprano
Jean Olive, soprano
Jane Slate, contralto
Betty Jo Smith, soprano
Jane Stroup, mezzo-soprano
Stille Nacht,
Helige Nacht..-Franz Gruber
Benediction--Dr. Ralph McLain
“THE mGHT BEFORE
HOLIDAYS” COmYG
Little Theatre Gives
Book Club Program
KAPPA All SIGMA
AAAOEACES CHAPEE
mVA QAMOUSpVA
Featured speaker for the an
nual chapel program presented
by Kappa Nu Sigma, scteduled
for Tuesday morning, Decem
ber 12, will be an alumnae mem
ber Dr. Norma Rose, of th®
college department of English.
Announcement of the speaker is
made by Mary Bland J°sey,
president of the college chapter.
Dr. Helen Price is faculty
sponsor.
Besides the annual Aapel
program. Kappa Nu Sigma
sponsors a spring lecture, pre
ceded by a formal banquet for
student and-faculty members at
which two juniors are chosen
as associate members.
Vice-president of the chapter
is Betsy Goldston; Dot Allen is
secretary, while Martha Stough j
'serves as treasurer.
Betty Penny Attends
Washington Conference
Betty Penny returns today
from Washington, D. C., where
she attended'the Mid-Century
White House Conference on
Children and Youth.
One of two North Carolina
college girls appointed by Gov-
Members of the Meredith ernor Scott to attend the five-
run o, Thpatre nresented a day meeting held in the
Oiristmas celebrations in today, had as
“e rS a'Healthy Pertonality.” Del^
TF^„c?lrPaStine" grps^aJdlfsc^iTsLns"'°ex-
“The Juggler of Our Lady ition theme. q+
was given^by Micky Bowen, Betty had made plans to at-
was given oy ^ Little tend groups concerning adoles-
Eue a°s f^eTectfon "irom rents,"sinc'’e she plans to teach
mpdieval France. Laurice Hlass, in that age group next y _ •
a native of P^lestme, S YaSurg
Sd d’esoribed Christmas scenes. High School, Betty has worked
in American Christmas was two summers as assistant IK-
nresented by Margot Grimes, reation director ^
FiS SinS
Rest Ye Merry,” The Christmas of the International Relatmns
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closed by the reading of the
Christmas story in English by
Micky Bowen.
sociology fraternity; the Little
Theatre; and the Student Gov.
ernment Council.
That last night before Christ
mas vacation those Meredith
angels go from the sublime to
the ridiculous in clothes
changes. At the formal dinner
everybody looks his party best,
all adorned in frivolous “but
tons and bows” they really look
like six hundred well-fed Christ
mas presents.
But wait an hour or two later
and what a transformation!
Blue jeans and saddle shoes have
replaced the hoopskirts and
rhinestones, as the girls boarej
chartered city busses to spread
an early bit of Christmas cheer
around Raleigh.
A few days before that final
night (when all the angels can
shout with vigor—“one more
day ’til we get out”) the whole
student body tunes up on favor
ite Christmas carols under the
able direction of Miss Donley.
We really have the talent! The
A.A. Board extracts a quarter
from all the students who plan
to go caroling, ’cause who can
sing without peanuts?
At a later hour the convoy of
busses rolls up the front drive
and all the warmly-clad angels
clamber aboard. A songleader is
assigned to each bus to keep the
pitch “on pitch.” After the last
latecomer has piled in and the
routes are assigned to each
group, the wheels start to roll.
’Cause long about then some
body strikes up “Jingle Bells”
and somebody gives out the bags
of peanuts; then you know the
caroling is underway for
another “night before Christ
mas” or rather before school is
out.
When the busses approach a
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