RELIGIOUS
EMPHASIS
WEEK THEME:
THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
"UNDERSTANDING
OUR
CHRISTIAN FAITH"
Volume XXV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1951
Number 7
Arnold IVash Lecture
Dr. Theodore Adams of Richmond Arrives on Meredith Campus
Next Week to Begin Religious Emphasis Week Services
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StudentChairmen
Complete Plans
■ “Understanding our Christian
Faith” is the theme of Religious
Emphasis Week on the Meredith
campus, and the featured speak
er for the chapel programs and
discussion groups will be Dr.
Theodore F. Adams, pastor of
the First Baptist Church of
Richmond.
Student chairman for the
week, Sally Massey, has an
nounced that the morning chap
el service on Monday, to open
the events, will be in charge of
students and that Dr. Adams
will conduct services for three
other days of the week, Tues
day, Wednesday, and Thursday,
with the usual schedule of
morning chapel, a chapel ad
dress at 7:00 p.m., and a dis
cussion group at 8:00 p.m. in the
faculty parlor.
Dr. Adams, who served Bap
tist churches in Cleveland and
Toledo before going to Rich
mond in 1936, received his B.A.
from Denison University, where
he was a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, and attended Rochester
Theological Seminary. At pres
ent he is a member of the South
ern Regional Council, a mem
ber of the World Peace Com
mittee of the Southern Baptist
Convention and a member of
the board of directors of the
Baptist Hospital of the Southern
Baptist Convention.
Besides being a frequent
lecturer on marriage and home
problems. Dr. Adams has had
several sermons selected for
publication in “Best Sermons of
1944” and 1945.
Student Chairmen
Under the drection of Sally
Massey and Miss Billie Ruth
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University Professor Takes As Topic
"Discerning the Signs of the Times
UNDERCLASSMEN
WIN ART AWARDS
Art students whose work won
recognition in the semester art
exhibit by underclassmen have
been announced by Douglas W.
Reynolds, head of the college
art department. Seniors major
ing in art enrolled in the phil
osophy of art class in the de
partment selected the first,
second, and third winners in be
ginning composition, design,
drawing, oil painting, and pub
lic school art work.
Winning first place in be^n-
ning composition was Marilyn
Hunt; second place, Katherine
Barbehenn; and third, Dorothy
White.
Camille Turner, Sally Clark,
and Ardine Lewis were first,
second, and third, respectively,
in design. In drawing Ann Mc-
Gugan took top honors, while
Jane Murphy was second and
Mary Ida Fisher third.
In the oil painting class Ruth
Cole was awarded first place,
Ann Seagrove, second, and
Alice Heonis, third. Honors in
public school art went to Faye
Nichols, who won first and
third places, with Lou Griffin in
second place.
Featured speaker for the chapel programs in the morning and evening
services for Religious Emphasis Week is Dr. Theodore F. Adams, who
will also lead discussion groups on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
INSTITUTE OF RELIGION PRESENTS
FOREIGN POLICY EXPERT MONDAY
The fifth in the current series
of Institute of Religion lectures
will be given on Monday night
hf Dr. Vera Micheles Dean,
whose topic will be “United
States Policy in Asia.” A native
of Russia, Dr. Dean is the author
of several books and reports on
American foreign policy; her
latest, published in May, 1950,
was Europe and the United
States.
During the late winter and
spring of 1949 Dr. Dean gave
a series of fifteen lectures in
French on “American Foreign
Policy” at the University of
Paris. She also visited Western
Germany, Prague, Warsaw, and
London. Recently she was a
delegate to the Lucknow confer
ence in India on Pacific Rela
tions.
In the series of courses taught
at 7:00 p.m. in the Institute
Allan Bone, of Duke Universi
ty, and Leonard Ballou, of St.
Augustine’s College, will pres
ent nineteenth century compos
ers of hymns in “Church Music
for Everyone.” Miss Geraldine
Cate is general leader of the
course, which meets in the gen
eral auditorium of the United
Church.
“The Meaning of History in
the Judeo-Christian Tradition”
will be discussed in the course
on “Toward An Understanding
of History” led by Dr. Edwin
McNeill Poteat. Dr. Elizabeth
H. Vaughn, head of the Mere
dith department of sociology
and economics, will discuss
“The Economic Basis of Human
Rights” in the course on “Im
plementing Human Rights”
which meets in the auditorium
of the Raleigh Woman’s Club.
Now in its twelfth year, the
Institute of Religion at the
United Church has as its cur
rent theme for the six lectures,
ending on February 26, “The
World Wide Struggle Between
Democracy and Communism.”
On previous monday nights lec
tures by Senator Paul Douglas,
Dr. Harry D. Gideonse, Norman
Thomas and Dr. Liston Pope
have been given.
On the last Monday night of
the Institute, February 26, Mr.
Francis H. Russell, director of
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Two juniors will be received
as new members of Kappa Nu
Sigma, honorary scholastic so
ciety, tonight at the annual ban
quet in their honor proceeding
the college lecture at 8:00 p.m.
Dr. Arnold Nash, head of the
department of religion at the
University of North Carolina
and James Gray, professor of
history of religion, will deliver
the lecture in the new audi
torium on “Discerning the Signs
of the Times.”
Immediately following the
lecture tonight a reception for
the new members and the
speaker will be held in the Blue
Parlor, to which faculty mem
bers and members of the senior
class are invited. The Kappa Nu
Sigma banquet at the Woman’s
Club proceeding the lecture will
be attended by the eleven mem
bers of the society at Meredith,
the sponsor. Dr. Helen Price, Dr.
and Mrs. Nash, and all faculty
members belonging to either
Kappa Nu Sigma or Phi Beta
Kappa.
The lecturer tonight was born
in England and was educated at
the University of Liverpool,
Ripon Hall, Oxford, and the
London School of Economics at
the University of London. He
holds graduate degrees in chem
istry, philosophy, and sociology.
Career in England
From 1932 to 1935 Dr. Nash
was secretary of the London
Council of the British Student
Movement, and after his ordina
tion he became joint-secretary
of the Church of England Coun
cil on Marriage and the Family.
He lectured frequently in the
United States, and, before com
ing to the University of North
Carolina, was professor of
church history in McCormick
Theological Seminary in Chica
go.
Having attended the Commis
sion of the World Council of
Churches in 1946, Dr. Nash later
made a tour of Europe, speaking
in 1948 at the Quadrennial Con
ference of the British S.C.M.
Dr. Nash was editor of and
contributor to “Education for
Christian Marriage” in 1939 and
1940; his best known book is
SPRING SEMESTER
SCHEDULE
February 19-23, Religious Em
phasis Week.
February 21, Last day for class
schedule changes.
March 14, Last day to file appli
cations for degrees.
March 22, Spring recess begins,
1:00 p.m.
March 28, Classes resume, 8:30
a.m.
April 5, Mid-semester reports
due.
May 5, May Day celebration.
May 7-11, Advance registration
for 1951-52.
May 26-June 1, Second semester
examinations.
June 1-4, Commencement exer
cises.
Dr. Arnold Nash
The University and the Mod
ern World, published in 1943.
Along with John Dewey, Ken
neth Sills, and Alexander
Meiklejohn, he contributed to
the symposium in “The Amer
ican Scholar” in 1944 on the
future of higher education in
North America.
Mary Bland Josey, president
of Kappa Nu Sigma, will an
nounce the two new junior
members having the highest
scholastic average at the lec
ture. Betsy Goldston, vice-pres
ident of the society, is in charge
of arrangements for the recep
tion.
Senior members include Dot
Allen, Frances Almond, Beverly
Batchelor, J e n n e 11 Bramble,
Betsy Goldston, Mary Bland
Josey, Martha Stough, Jean
Taylor, Jean Olive, Evelyn Wil
son, and Nancy Walker. Mem
bers are admitted on the basis
of high scholastic standing over
a period of two years.
The honor society takes its
name from three Greek words
meaning beauty, soundminded
ness, and intelligence. In the
spring the society awards to the
freshman having the highest
scholastic standing a scholarship
for the following year.
Jennett Bramble was recent
ly elected treasurer of the or
ganization, replacing Martha
Stough, who was graduated in
January. Dot Allen serves as
secretary.
NAMES OF SEVENTY-EIGHT STEDENTS ARE
INCLVDED ON SPRING DEAN’S LIST
A total of seventy-eight stu
dents at Meredith were included
on the Dean’s List released on
February 12 by Mrs. Vera Tart
Marsh, college registrar. In
cluded on the list are the names
of students taking twelve or
more semester hours who have
made a number of quality points
equal to twice the number of
semester hours taken plus three.
The seniors had a total of
forty on the list; the juniors, six
teen; the sophomores, nine; and
the freshmen, thirteen. This
Dean’s List is effective for the
entire spring semester.
Students whose names appear
on the list are Dorothy Alice
Allen, Nancy Miriam Allen,
Frances Elizabeth Almond, Eu
genia Gray Atkinson, Verla
Grace Autry, Vivian Joyce
Bailey, Nellie Ruth Barnes, Bev
erly Thorne Batchelor, Myra
Jean Batten, Elizabeth Estella
Boggs, Shirley Sue Bone, Jen
nett Bramble, and Nancy Frank
lin Brown.
Caroline Merritt Childress,
Shirley Elizabeth' Cliatt, Ada
Eugenia Corn, Mary Carolyn
Crook, Barbara Orr Daniel,
Patsy Robinson Emory, Mary
Elizabeth Goldston, Margot
Irvin Grimes, Anne LeGrace
Gupton, Elizabeth Ann Ham
rick, Allen Wilkinson Hart,
Betty Jane Hedgepeth, Dorothy
Lee Helms, Laurice Jiryes Hlass,
Melva Hope Hodges, and Nancy
Elizabeth Hoftse.
Sarah Margaret James, Mary
Bland Josey, Jeanette Whitfield
Joyner, Marjorie Rominger
Joyner, Frances Eugene King,
Iris Carlene Kinlaw, Rebecca
Knott, Ann McRacken, Joanne
Marie Mason, Carolyn Vivian
Massey, Sally Ross Massey,
Jessie Melissa Matthews, Sally
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