"For lo, the
winter is past .
THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
. . , the flowers
appear on the earth.''
Volume XXV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1951
Number 8
Four Classes Present Stunts Tomorrow Mght
Casts, Production Staffs of Stunts
Complete Plans to Compete for Cup
Keeping a firm hold on the Stunt Cup to be awarded to the winner tomorrow night are two sisters who are
elass presidents, while on the right the remaining two class presidents assure each other of who will win.
From left to right above are Shirley Bone, senior class president; Hope Hodges, president of the Athletic
Association, which sponsors the event; Barbara Bone, junior class president; Janet Stallings, sophomore
class president; and Alstine Salter, freshman class president.
College Music Department Plays Host
to Raleigh District Contest Next Week
Miss Forestine Whitaker, head
of the public school music de
partment at Meredith, is mana
ger this year of the Raleigh Dis
trict Music Contest to be held
on the Meredith campus next
week on March 14 and 15.
Music majors of the college
will serve as adjudicators’ as
sistants, event chairmen, guides,
and pages. Students from high
schools and junior high schools
will participate in the two-day
contest.
Divided into two parts, the
event includes a vocal day
which features solos, ensembles,
mixed choruses, and boys’ and
girls’ glee clubs; and an instru
mental day, which will include
music by bands and piano.
Judges for the vocal contest
are Mrs. Virginia Linney of
Boone; Mrs. Virginia Groomes of
Elon College; and Joel Carter
of the University of North Caro
lina.
Judging the instrumental
group are Gordon Nash of Appa
lachian; Robert Gray of Duke
University; Herbert Carter of
Eastern Carolina Teachers’ Col
lege and Robert Carter, Eastern
Carolina Teachers’ College.
Ratings
Ratings from superior to poor
are given on individual merit,
and not on a competitive basis.
With the ratings of superior or
excellent, schools may attend the
state festival to be held in
Greensboro on April 9 through
12.
Approximately 2,000 students
will be on the Meredith campus
during the two-day event. These
students will represent the sev
enteen counties included in the
Raleigh district, which are
Northampton, Halifax, Warren,
Vance, Granville, Person,
Orange, Chatham, Moore, Lee,
Harnett, Johnston, Wayne, Nash,
Franklin, Durham, and Wake.
Meredith Ship Saves
Refugees in Korea
The “Meredith Victory,” a
cargo vessel named for Meredith
College, performed what has
been called “a heroic perform
ance” in rescuing 14,000 Korean
civilians from the port of Hung-
nam during its evacuation.
Under the command of Cap
tain L. P. LaRue of Philadelphia,
Pa., the ship was an anchor in
Hungnam harbor on December
22, when United Nations troops
were leaving the port. The ship
was not designed to carry large
numbers of personnel.
The captain, seeing the crowds
of Koreans left on the beach
head, ordered his ship to the
dock and ordered his crew to
load the ship with civilians un
til the ship was full. Crew mem
bers counted civilians as they
came on board, but the total
number of 14,000 passengers
does not include the babies car
ried on their mothers’ backs.
One of the first men taken
aboard was carrying a violin;
among other strange sights re
membered by American crew
men was a woman trying to
bring a sewing machine on
board, and others who tried to
bring a piano. All the civilians
carried with them bundles of
personal belongings.
“It was a fine humanitarian
act and probably a world record
for the number of people saved
during an evacuation by one
ship,” declared Captain Eaton,
commander of military sea
transportation service in the
North Pacific area.
College Enrollment for
Spring Semester Given
Enrollment figures for the
spring semester have been re
leased by the college registrar,
Mrs. Vera Tart Marsh, this
week. A drop in the total num
ber of students enrolled in the
college since last semester is in
dicated, with 626 as a total in
the fall and 583 this spring.
The senior class last fall had
24 day students and 120 resident
students, making a total of 144;
this spring the class has 23 day
students and 131 resident stu
dents, making a total of 154,
showing a gain of 10.
In the junior class enrollment
last fall were 18 day students
and 92 resident students, a
total of 110; this spring the
juniors have only 14 day stu
dents and 100 resident students,
totalling 114.
Last fall the sophomore class
had in its enrollment 17 day
students and 126 resident stu
dents, making a total of 143;
this spring 14 day students and
106 resident students are en
rolled, with a total of 120.
The freshmen, whose enroll
ment shows the largest decrease
in number, had last fall 19 day
students and 182 resident stu
dents, with a total of 201; this
spring the freshmen class has
16 day students and 157 resident
students, totalling only 173.
The two undergraduate
classes show the loss in number
for thfe spring semester; the
total of resident students on the
campus last fall was 520; for
this spring, 494.
ATTENTION, SENIORS!
All seniors who expect to
complete requirements for the
Bachelor of Arts or for the
Bachelor of Music degree in
June should pay their gradu
ation fee of five dollars to the
bursar’s office immediately,
and should fill out the neces
sary blank in the Dean’s office
not later than March 14.
One chief judge and four class
judges will have the task of de
ciding the winner of the Stunt
Cup tomorrow night, as the an
nual competition between the
four college classes for the hon
or begins at 8;00 p. m. Sponsor
ed by the Athletic Association,
stunts will be presented in or
der, beginning with the seniors
and ending with the freshmen
presentation.
Preceding the stunts in the
new auditorium an informal
dinner in the college dining
hall, honoring the past presi
dents of the Athletic Associa
tion, the stunt judges, and other
special guests will be held, with
Bettie Yates, social chairman of
the Athletic Board, in charge.
An after-dinner coffee for these
guests will follow.
Stunt Committee
A stunt committee, composed
of Miss Louise Fleming, chair
man, and Dr. Julia Harris,
Miss Ellen Brewer, Miss Doris
Peterson, and Miss Judith
Mayes, has approved the stunts.
As chief judge tomorrow night
Miss Evelyn Straughan of Ra
leigh will work with Mrs. Jack
Wardlaw of Raleigh, freshman
judge; Mrs. J. Leroy Allen, Ra
leigh, sophomore judge; Miss
Catherine Wyatt, Raleigh, jun
ior judge; and Mrs. Eugene
Turner, Greensboro, senior
judge.
Miss Peterson is serving as
faculty adviser for the event,
while Hope Hodges is student
chairman. Sally Massey is offi
cial time keeper. There will be
an admission charge of fifty
cents.
Competing for the cup this
year will be two sisters who are
class presidents: Shirley Bone,
senior class president, and Bar
bara Bone, junior class presi
dent. Janet Stallings and Als
tine Salter as class presidents
are in charge of the sophomore
and freshman class stunts, re
spectively. The sophomore class
will have reserved seats for to
rn o r r o w night’s performance,
since they had the highest per
centage of participation in Pa-
lio last fall.
Included in the cast of the
senior stunt, which is directed
by Micky Bowen, are Jeanette
Atkins, Annie Pearl Brantley,
Sylvia Currin, Joyce Bailey,
Virginia Henry, Beverly Batch
elor, Micky Bowen, Anne
Fouche, Nancy Walker, LeGrace
Gupton, Stella Matthews, Emma
Lee Hough, Betty Jane Hedge
peth, Sunny Burnham, Rosalind
Knott, and Rebecca Knott.
LeGrace Gupton is in charge
of staging the senior production;
Marilyn Mills, make-up; Betty
Penny, costumes; and Virginia
Jones, lighting.-
Junior Stunt Cast
The cast of the junior stunt
includes Barney Schettler,
Frances Carlton, Jean Miller,
Lucyann Liddy, Ruth Ann Sim
mons, Emily Boone, Carlene
Kinlaw, Evelyn Krause, and
Anne Creech. Dott Miller is in
charge of staging the junior
stunt; Jane Luther, costumes;
Janet Tatum, lighting; Dot Fish
er, make-up; and programs,
Jane Slate.
Cast in the sophomore pre
sentation are Janette David
son, Eleanor Henry, Ellen West
moreland, Kitty Barbehenn,
Betty Ann Highsmith, Elizabeth
Hamrick, Adele Buening, Nancy
House, Nancy Kistler, Shirley
Cliatt, Pat Smathers, Dot Stell,
Melrose Canaday, and Joanne
LaRue.
In charge of staging and prop
erties for the sophomores are
Holly Howard, Ann McGugan,
and Ann Winslow; of programs,
Ruth Cole, Ann Seagrove, and
Marilyn Hunt; of costumes,
Jeanette Leopard, Celia Wood,
Joan Langley, Doril Williams,
Joyce Brown, and Lillian Gar
nett; of lighting, Joyce Coving
ton and Ann Baucom; and of
make-up, Betsy Canaday and
Camille Thomas.
In the cast of the freshman
stunt are Betty Miller, Lillian
Wooten, Miriam Allen, Barbara
Austin, Peggy Madry, Melissa
Mathews, Mary Ann Chandler,
Faye Walker, Dot Taylor, Mary
Ruth Wilcox, Lois Turpin, Bar
bara Propst, Caroline Jackson,
Ann Lovell, Doris Allen, Pat
Loftin, Dot Prickett, Jean Pace,
Margelee Stewart, Celia Wells,
and Shirley West.
(Continued on page three)
PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
SPONSORS ANNUAL ALUMNAE SEMINAR
Under the sponsorship of the
physical education department
of Meredith, the annual alum
nae seminar will be held on the
campus on Friday and Saturday,
March 30 and 31. With the
theme of health education for
the two-day event, the seminar
will begin on Friday night and
adjourn after the Saturday af
ternoon program.
An exhibition by the college
Folk Dance Club is scheduled
for the opening event on Friday
night; the exhibition is under
the direction of Miss Doris Pe
terson, head of the health and
physical education department.
After the program a square
dance will be held in the gym
nasium, with both alumnae at
tending the seminar and stu
dents in the club taking part.
Speaker
Two Saturday morning class
es, carrying out the theme of the
seminar, are scheduled for Sat
urday morning at 9:30 and at
11:00, when Dr. Sylvester
Green of the medical foundation
of the University of North Caro
lina will speak on “Implement
ing Health Progress in North
Carolina.”
At noon the alumnae will be
the guests of the college at a
luncheon in the dining -hall. La
ter in the afternoon another ex
hibition of physical education
activities will be presented as
the closing event of the seminar.
Committee
Mrs. Gordon Poole is chair
man of the arrangements com
mittee for the program; mem
bers of this committee of Ra
leigh are Mrs. Albert Haskins,
Jr., Miss Carolyn Mercer, Miss
Alice Gordon Tuttle, Mrs. How
ard White, Jr., and Mrs. Henry
Hilton, of Lexington.