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Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Voluiiie XXV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1951
Number 9
Folk Dancerfs Give Concert Tomorrow Xight
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Little Theatre Casts
Spring Production
The Little Theatre presents its
Spring Production, “The Silver
Cord,” on Thursday and Fri
day evenings, April 19 and 20,
in the Meredith college audito
rium at 8:00 p. m.
In the play LeGrace Gupton
plays Mrs. Phelps, the domi
neering mother of David and
Robert, who are played by Henry
Odum and Pete Lewis respec
tively. Annie Pearl Brantley as
Hester, Micky Bowen as Chris
tina, and Faye Walker as Delia,
the maid, complete the cast.
Plot of Comedy
The English comedy-drama
tells the story of a woman try
ing to re-establish her hold on
two sons whom she had domi
nated through adolesence and
into manhood. Both David and
Robert have made an attempt
to break away. In their efforts
they have failed to recognize the
hold which their mother has,
and, consequently, conflict devel
ops between the sons’ wives
and Mother Phelps.
The production staff consists
of Ellen Westmoreland, as as
sistant director; Lita Mauldin,
business manager; Jean Pace,
assistant business manager; Bet
sy Cannady, as production man
ager; Elinor Averre in charge of
scenery; Ruth Ann Simmons and
Beth Morgan on make-up; Nancy
Walker and B. J. Hedgepeth, as
property chairmen; and Holly
Howard, as head of costumes.
Committee Discusses
Student Budget Fee
The Student Budget Fee, this
year set at $16.50, is being dis
cussed and evaluated as to pres
ent-day limitations by a general
committee of students and fac
ulty. With Marjorie Joyner,
president of the Student Gov
ernment Association, presiding,
this^ committee, made up of the
presidents and faculty sponsors
of all organizations receiving
money from this fee, has heard
reports from these organiza
tions.
Report on Fee
Rosalyn Poole, treasurer of the
student government, was then
appointed as chairman of a sub
committee to receive estimates
of amounts needed by campus
organizations from the fee next
year and submit the report back
to the next meeting of the gene
ral committee. Serving on this
sub-committee with Rosalyn are
Hope Hodges, Shirley Bone, Vir
ginia Jones, Nancy Walker, and
Alstine Salter.
A proposed re-allotment of
funds or, if necessary, an in
crease of the budget fee will
be decided upon and submitted
for approval to the student body.
The general committee found
that many campus organizations
were having difficulty in balanc
ing their respective budgets un
der the present allotment of the
fee.
Seen practicing their “fight” in the Bavarian Schuhplattler dance, which they will give tomorrow night
in the Folk Dance concert are, above, left to right, Ellen Peeler, Hope Hodges, Julia Parker, and Carolyn
Crook.
STUDENTS TO STUDY VOCATIONS
AS GUIDANCE WEEK BEGINS
Vocational Guidance Week
at Meredith will open next Fri
day, April 13, with a guest
speaker in chapel to discuss
“Choosing a Vocation” and will
close on April 20 after a week of
study of various occupations.
Each student may have a wide
choice of fields in which to
learn opportunities in these vo
cations.
During the chapel periods of
Vocations Week, from 10:30 to
11:05 a.m., a choice of three to
four discussion groups is offered
to students, with speakers in
those vocations explaining and
discussing the field. The faculty
will also be available for group
and individual conference dur
ing the assembly periods.
Beginning on Monday, April
16, at 10:30 students may select
discussion groups on art, educa-
Alumnae at Seminar
See "Sports Parade'
With the theme of “Your
Body Is the Harp of Your Soul,”
the ninth annual alumnae semi
nar closed a successful two-day
meeting on the campus last
weekend, with a program which
featured an address by Dr. C.
Sylvester Green on Saturday
morning.
Alumnae and students partici
pated in a square dance in the
college gymnasium on Friday
night as the seminar opened;
previously the Folk Dance Club
had presented a concert in the
new auditorium. On Saturday
morning, with a theme of “New
Bodies for Old,” the physical
education department presented
a “Silhouette Symphony.”
tion, or in radio, television, and
journalism. With the art group,
which will meet in Arts 16,
designing, interior decorating,
commercial art, teaching, and
cultural art have been an
nounced as topics. For the edu
cation group, meeting in the
auditorium, work in the kinder
garten, elementary, and high
school teaching fields will be
discussed. The radio, television,
and journalism seminar will
meet in the first Jones social
room.
On Tuesday groups discussing
library work, music, home eco
nomics, and religion are sched
uled to meet during the chapel
period. The group for library
work will meet in the library;
for music, in the recital hall; for
home economics, in which die-
etics, home demonstration work,
clothing, teaching, and interior
decorating will be discussed, in
the home economics room; and
the religion seminar, discussing
missionary work, religious edu
cation work, and religious music
work, in the auditorium.
(Continued on page four)
COMMENCEMENT
SPEAKERS
Dr. Carlyle Campbell, col
lege president, has announced
the principal speakers for
Meredith commencement this
June. At the baccalaureate
sermon on Sunday. June 3,
Dean Liston Pope, of the Yale
University Divinity School,
will deliver the sermon.
Dr. Kirtley F. Mather, pro
fessor of geology and curator
of the geological museum at
Harvard University, will make
the baccalaureate address on
Monday, June 4.
Classes Elect
New Officers
Class officers of the rising
senior, junior, and sophomore
classes were elected in class
meetings this week. Leading the
senior class as president next
year will be Patsy Spiers; the
rising junior class has elected
Betty Ann Highsmith as presi
dent, while Patsy Bland will be
president of the sophomore
class.
(Continued on page four)
Club Will Present
Twenty-three Dances
The eighth annual spring
Folk Dance concert is scheduled
for tomorrow night, April 7, at
8:00 p.m. in the auditorium. The
Folk Dance Club, with a mem
bership of sixty-seven girls, will
present twenty-three dances,
representing fifteen different
countries.
Dances from the pre-classic
French court, the British Isles,
Mexico, and the United States,
as well as other countries, will
be on the' program. The group
here at Meredith is the only
group of its kind in the colleges
of the state.
All of the costumes for the
many different dances were de
signed by Miss Doris Peterson,
director of the dance group, and
were made on the Meredith cam
pus. Faculty assistants for the
program are Miss Phyllis Cun
ningham, Miss Judith Mayes,
and Mrs. Collins Gretter. Stu
dent manager of the Folk Dance
Club is Barbara Pearson.
Admission for the concert to
morrow night will be thirty-five
cents for all students on the
campus who are not enrolled in
physical education classes, and
fifty cents for all adults.
Over two hundred girls have
taken part in the seven previous
performances by the group at
Meredith; several dances are be
ing presented this year for the
first time.
Program
I.
Pre-Classic French Court Dances
La Fleur de Champ Music
by Ghys
Pavana Music by Sharpe
Princes and Princesses Music
by Tschaikowsky
II.
Folk Dances from the
British Isles
Bean Setting English Morris
Dance .
Irish Lilt Irish Couple Dance
Highland Fling Scotch
Military Dance
(Continued on page five)
Sigma Pi Alpha Receives Twenty-four
Students as New Members of Fraternity
Twenty-four Meredith stu
dents have been recognized for
their achievement in the study
of modern languages by being
elected to membership in the
Phi Kappa chapter of Sigma
Pi Alpha, national honorary
modern languages fraternity.
President of the college chapter,
who conducted the ceremony to
receive these new members, is
Frances Almond.
The new members included
Lois Turpin, Virginia Waldrop,
Elinor Averre, Rebecca Wicker,
Dot Briggs, Faye Walker, Mary
Jean Wilson, Beth Morgan, Me
lissa Matthews, Marilyn Mor-
rissette, Anne Moore, Nancy
House, Venetia Stallings, Mary
Ida Fisher, Elizabeth Hamrick,
Ann Ipock, Anne Clark, Betty
Jo Welch, Allen Hart, Celia
Wells, Jean Wrenn, Janne Daw
son, Junlin Wong, Flor de Maria
Munoz, and Laurice Hlass.
Requirements for membership
in the college chapter of the
honorary fraternity include the
maintaining of a high scholastic
average in all subjects, and
especially modern languages,
with an interest shown in that
particular field.
Other officers of the chapter
are Jane Earl Burch, vice-presi
dent; Barbara Ballenger, secre
tary; and Julia Presson, treas
urer. Miss Lucy Ann Neblett is
faculty sponsor for the group,
which recently sent three dele
gates, Julia Presson, Barbara
Ballenger, and Grace Autry to
the Sigma Pi Alpha Congress
meeting in Greenville on March
17.
The delegates registered upon
arrival at the convention, which
had a greater representation this
year than at any previous con
gress. An initation service was
held, as well as a tea, and new of
ficers were elected by the dele
gates. After a business session, a
formal banquet was held for the
representatives, at which merit
certificates to the college stu
dents who had made achieve
ments in modern language
courses.