GOOD LUCK,
SENIORS
THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
BEST WISHES,
JUNE BRIDES
Volume XXV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1951
Number 12
Pope and Mather Will S^peak at Commencement
MR. C. SYLVESTER GREEN IS FEATURED
ON ANNUAL SOCIETY NIGHT PROGRAM
Mr. C. Sylvester Green, exec
utive vice-president of the
Medical Foundation of North
Carolina, will be the speaker
at the annual Society Night pro
gram next Saturday, June 2,
at 8:00 in the college auditori
um.
A native of Kentucky, Mr.
Green has spent much of his
time in North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Virginia, and was
pastor of Watts Street Baptist
Church in Durham over a pe
riod of years. He has also been
adviser of religious activities at
Duke, and editor of the Durham
Morning Herald and Herald-
Sun.
Mr. Green is a past .president
of Coker College in Hartsville,
and has been associate editor of
the Religious Herald in Rich
mond, Virginia. Besides his
work as a journalist, lecturer,
and clergyman, he has written
New Nigeria and B. W. Spilman
—The Sunday School Man.
Also scheduled for the annual
A.A.U.W. Entertains
Seniors At Meeting
The members of the senior
class were invited to join the
Raleigh chapter of the Ameri
can Association of University
Women at the annual entertain
ment on May 10 in the Hut.
Mrs. Jerry Winfred Brown,
graduate of the class of ’47 and
chairman of the Recent Gradu
ates Group, presented a pro
gram explaining the purpose of
the AAUW. Mrs. Brown an
nounced the eligibility of Mere
dith students to enter this
organization upon graduation
this spring.
Miss Frances Zak described
the program of the group
for the past year, which includ
ed the following: studies of folk
music, modern literature, art,
and homemaking techniques
Miss Anne S. Turner presided
over the meeting and also gave
a report on the AAUW conven
tion which she attended in
Winston-Salem. After the meet
ing refreshments were served.
C. Sylvester Green
Society Night program are the
annual society awards to be
given by the Phi and Astro so
cieties and presented by the
society presidents; athletic hon
ors; and departmental awards.
Awards
The Athletic Association will
present the Monogram Club
award, the Equitation Cup, and
the cup to the most outstanding
athlete of the year on this occa
sion. The English department
will make its award for the
highest achievement in inde
pendent reading, will present
the Albert Stanburrough Cook
prize for the best bibliography
in American Literature, and
will give the Elizabeth Avery
Colton prize for the best con
tribution to the Acorn.
Certificates of achievement
will also be given by the Sigma
Alpha Iota, and the Sigma Pi
Alpha, honorary music and lan
guages fraternities. Students
appearing in Who’s Who Among
Students in American Colleges
and Universities will also re
ceive certificates.
New members will be an
nounced during the program of
the honorary scholastic society,
will also award its freshman
scholarship. The Silver Shield
will also hold its annual tapping
ceremony of new members.
Commencement /Prog.ram
1951
Friday, June 1
8:00 p.m Annual Concert
Saturday, June 2
9:30 a.m Annual Meeting of Kappa Nu Sigma
10:45 a.m Meeting of Alumnae Association
Elizabeth James Dotterer, president
Address: Mabel Claire Hoggard Maddrey, Ahoskie
1:00 p.m.- - Alumnae Luncheon
Toastmaster: Jane Watkins Sullivan, Durham
4:30 p.m
8:00 p.m Society Night
Address: Mr. C. Sylvester Green
Executive Vice-President, North Carolina Medical Foundation
9:30 p.m Annual Meeting of Silver Shield
Sunday, June 3
11:00 a.m Baccalaureate Sermon
ilie Reverend Liston Pope
Dean of the Divinity School, Yale University
4:30 p.m. Recite!
Dr. Harry E. Cooper, Meredith
g.QQ p m - - -Senior Vespers
9:00 piim'.------ Reception for Parents
Monday, June 4
1(1.Oft am - Baccalaureate Address,
^ Dr" Kirtley F. Mather
Professor of Geology, Harvard University
Senior Class
Makes Plans
For Class Day
The senior class has com
pleted its plans for the annual
Class Day program, scheduled
for next Saturday afternoon at
4:30 in the college court. Tak
ing part in the traditional daisy
chain ceremony will be the sen
iors and their sister sophomore
class, led by Shirley Bone and
Janet Stallings as class presi
dents.
Main feature of the afternoon
program will be the senior class
skit, “Evolution,” with LeGrace
Gupton, Marjorie Joyner, Jo
anna Pittard, Bobbie Brewer,
Micky Bowen, B. J. Hedgepeth,
Betty Penny, and Nancy Walk
er as members of the cast.
In charge of staging the skit,
which was written by Micky
Bowen, B. J. Hedgepeth, and
Nancy Walker, is Virginia
Jones; and of properties, Betty
Penny. Ann McRackan is re
sponsible for the Class Day pro
grams.
During the program the sen
ior class president will also an
nounce the gift of the senior
class to the school. Taking part
in the ceremony will be the re
union class of ’49, the sister
class of the present seniors.
Order of Events
After the daisy chain proces
sional by the seniors and sopho
mores, the seniors will sing to
their returning “big sister
class” who will then respond
with a song. The seniors will
present the traditional bones of
an odd-year class to their little
sisters, the sophomores, and will
sing “These Bones Will Rise
Again.”
Officers of the senior class in
clude Shirley Bone as president;
Donna Walston as vice-presi
dent; Evelyn Barden as secre
tary; and Mary Bland Josey,
treasurer. Janet Stallings is
president of the sister sopho
more class; Doril Williams is
vice-president; while Anne Sea-
grove is secretary and Pat Pen-
dergraft, treasimer.
Yale Dean, Harvard Professor Will Deliver
Baccalaureate Sermon, Address Next Weekend
The Meredith commencement
exercises planned for next
weekend will include addresses
by two prominent speakers, the
baccalaureate sermon, to be
delivered by the Reverend Lis
ton Pope, dean of the Yale
Divinity School, and the bac
calaureate address by Dr. Kirt-
ley F. Mather of Harvard.
Addressing the senior class,
the faculty, parents, and guests
on Sunday morning in the audi
torium will be a former North
Carolinian now at Yale Univer
sity, Dr. Liston Pope. Both an
educator and a clergyman, he is
now dean of the Divinity School
and Gilbert L. Stark Professor
of social ethics at the university.
From 1932 to 1935 Dr. Pope
was minister of Wesley Memo
rial Church in High Point.
Since then he has been chair
man of the National Religion
and Labor Foundation, and edi
tor of the Social Action Maga
zine, besides writing such books
as Millhands and Preachers and
Labor’s Relation to Church and
Community.
Baccalaureate Address
Widely known as a geologist,
lecturer, and author is Dr. Kirt-
ley F. Mather, who will deliver
the baccalaureate address on
Monday morning in the service
in which Dr. Campbell will con-
Dr. Kirtley Mather
Dean Liston Pope
Final Plans For Summer School
Announced By Dean L A. Peacock
fer degrees to the graduating
class. The president this year of
the American Association for
the Advancement of Science,
Dr. Mather has traveled widely
as a geologist and as a consul
tant for oil companies.
For the past four summers he
has participated in important
international conferences in Eu
rope, including the World Con
ference of Christian Youth in
Oslo, the International Geologi
cal Congress in London, and
several WMCA meetings in
Edinburgh, Zunich, Geneva,
Nyborg, and Denmark. In 1949
he was a guest of Tito for lunch
eon and a conference.
Program Events
Beginning the weekend of
commencement exercises from.
June 1 to Monday, June 4, will
be the annual music concert on
Friday night at 8:00 p.m. Two
annual meetings of campus hon
orary organizations, the Kappa
Nu Sigma, honorary scholastic
society, and the Silver Shield,
honorary leadership society, are
scheduled for Saturday morning
and Saturday night.
Dr. Harry Cooper, head of the
college music department, will
present his annual organ recital
on Sunday afternoon at 4:30,
Senior vespers will be held on
Sunday night at 8:00, followed
immediately by a reception by
the faculty for the seniors and
their parents in the court.
Registration for Meredith’s
summer school this year will be
held Monday, June 11, with
classes beginning the next day
and continuing through July 19.
Final examinations will be giv
en July 20.
Courses in thirteen depart
ments will be given including
art, biology, education, English,
geography, government, his
tory, mathematics, music, psy
chology, religion, sociology, and
Spanish. The summer school
faculty includes Carlyle Camp
bell, L. A. Peacock, E. F. Cana-
day, Harry E. Cooper, Louise
Lanham, Q. O. McAllister,
Ralph E. McLain, Dorothy G.
Park, Elizabeth H. Vaughn, Lil
lian Parker Wallace, Mrs. Vera
T. Marsh, Mrs. Helen Kelman,
Hazel Baity, Lila Bell, Beatrice
Donley, Stuart Pratt, and Doug
las W. Reynolds.
Students may take a maxi
mum of six semester hours.
Classes will meet Monday,
through Saturday from 7:45
a.m. to 1:25 p. m. with the ex
ception of July 4.
Dr. Harry E. Cooper has an
nounced that a one-week Sum
mer School of Church Music
is to be given June 18-23. The
school is planned for the bene
fit of persons who are working
in the field of church music, or
plan to enter that field, and who
desire further training to en
able them to carry on their
work better. The six-day ses
sion will consist of an intensive
course of lectures, demonstra
tions, and other activities,
including forums in which indi
vidual problems will be ana
lyzed and discussed, and
coaching in voice, organ and
(Continued on page six)
Enrollment of New
Students Announced
An advance enrollment of 149
new dormitory students and 13
new day students in the stu
dent body at Meredith is re
ported as of this week by Dr.
Edwin Preston, public relations
director of the college. Of this
number 29 are transfer stu
dents, and 133 will enter in the
fall as freshmen.
From this grand total of 162
students, 140 are from North
Carolina. Of the remaining num
ber outside the state, 5 are from
South Carolina, 7 from Virginia,
4 from New York, 2 from Geor
gia, 2 from Florida, 1 from
Pennsylvania, and 1 from Ala
bama.
Meredith, which enrolled an
increased number of new stu
dents last year, contrary to the
prevailing trend of college reg
istration, has continued its high
enrollment in its advance regis
tration.