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Volume XXVI
THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Meredith College, Raleigh, N. C., Friday, October 26, 1951
Raleigh, N. C,
LITTLE THEATRE
FALL PRODUCTION
NOVEMBER 16-17
Number 2
A.A. Sponsors Corn Hnskin^ Bee on HaBoween
Little Theatre
To Give Fall
Produetion
an-
The Little Theatre has
nounced the cast and production
staff for its fall production,
“Take Care of My Little Girl.”
The play will be presented on
the nights of November 16 and
17 in the new auditorium.
Miss Judith Mayes, instructor
in speech and dramatics and
sponsor for the Little Theatre
and Alpha Psi Omega, will di
rect the performances.
Beth Morgan will act as the
assistant director with Betsy
Cannady as production man
ager, and Patsy Bland as busi
ness manager.
Cast
Included in the, cast are Bar
bara Cox Harper as Liz; Faye
Walker as Becky; Betsy Can
nady as Ad; Mary Cobb Dickens
as Merry; Mary Jo Isaacs as
Marge; Peggy Poole as Dallas;
Bobbie Addy as Casey; Lynette
Adcock as Mother Apple; Ellen
Westmoreland as Mrs. Bellows;
Joyce Bailey as Alice; Anne
Ipock as Grace; Becky Calloway
as Marie; Ruby Wiggins as Jus
tine; Jackie Creef as Polly; Mary
Evelyn Brown as Marilyn; Joan
Haithwaite as Thelma; and Bet
ty Winchester as June.
The leading male role, Joe,
will be played by Paul West. The
roles of Chad and Sam will be
taken by Jesse Capel and George
Thomas.
Plot
“Take Care of My Little Girl”
tells some of the experiences of
a college freshman, Liz and her
best friend, Becky, when it is
discovered that the first impor-
PROGRAM INCLUDES
FOLK MUSIC, CONTESTS
tant decision to be made is the
choice of a sorority. Liz’s moth
er, during her college days, was
member of the Queens, so of
course Liz wants to follow in
her mother’s footsteps. Liz is
right in her element during rush
week, but Becky finds it hard
to live up to the requirements
of the sorority. Ad, a girl from
Tuscon, Arizona, does not even
care to become a member of a
sorority, but she becomes a very
close friend of Liz’s. Merry, the
president of the Queens, Marge,
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VOLUNTEERS PARTICIPATE IN DIX HILL SOCIAL WORK
BAPTIST STUDENT UNION HOLDS
ANNUAL,CONVENTION IN CHARLOTTE
o-
The annual North Carolina
Baptist Student Convention will
be held this year at the First
Baptist Church of Charlotte,
N. C. on November 2, 3, and 4.
The opening session is set for
Friday night at 7:30 p.m., and
the convention will close on
Sunday at noon. Lindy Martin,
state B. S. U. president, will
preside at the meetings.
“Christian Frontiers” is the
theme of this year’s conven
tion. These frontiers of worship,
sonship, friendship, and stew
ardship were emphasized in the
October issue of The Reveille,
the state B. S. U. magazine and
symbolized in a drawing by Mar
jorie Joyner, B. S. U. secretary
at the Baptist Hospital in Win
ston-Salem. The speakers at the
convention will speak about
these frontiers.
Speakers
Addresses will be given by
Dr. Frank Graham, Dr. John
Way land. Dr. George Kelsey,
Dr. J. B. Weatherspoon, Miss
[nabelle Coleman, Miss Bev-
Since the talk given to the
Sociology Club on October 4,
1951, by Miss Nita Green, psy
chiatric case worker at the State
Hospital, Meredith sociology
students have responded to the
social work project at Dix Hill.
The work thus far has been
with the epileptic children in
the Cherry building and with
post lobotomy cases in the
Brown building. The two-hour
weekly visits consist of card
playing, checker games, mag
azine reviewing, and convers
ing with the patients.
The girls work in co-operation
with the gray ladies of the
American Red Cross. This work
has afforded an opportunity
for the volunteers to delve into
the broad fields of sociology anc
psychology.
The Meredith workers are.
Margaret Gillies, Pat Dula, Bet
ty Finklea, Carolyn Little, Bil
lie Mizelle, Mary Evelyn Brown,
Dwan Swindell, Dorothy Thom
as, Betty Edwards, Honore
Parker, Joyce Phillips, Lane
Robertson, Mary Alice Bailey,
Vlary Lou 13ooker, Allene Brown,
Jane Condrey, Lib Crenshaw,
Louise Horn, Alice Milton, Mary
Brooks Stone, Nancy Jo Wallis,
Sonnya Hamilton, Ruth Lennon,
Lucy Morrison, Evelyn Wallace,
and Shirley West. I
The annual Corn Huskin’ Bee
sponsored by the Athletic Asso^
:;iation, will be held this year on
October 31. That night all the
Meredith family will don hill-
costumes to help celebrate
ilalloween.
^ This year will mark the ninth
-om Huskin’ Bee held at Mere-
iith. The event is held in hon-
)r of all the new students, but
the entire school is invited.
Program
The program will officially
begin at 6:15 p.m. when the
students and faculty will attend
dinner in couples attired in hill
billy costumes of blue jeans and
plaid shirts or gingham dresses.
During the dinner meal enter
tainment will be furnished by
girls from the Folk Dance Club.
After dinner students will go
over to the old auditorium where
representatives from the four
classes and the faculty will com
pete in various contests. The
first of the contests will be the
sing-song, followed by the tail-
tale contest in which the winner
will be the one who teUs the
story most impossible to believe.
Corn husking, hog calling and
chicken calling contests will
follow. Prizes will be given to
the faculty or student winners
of tne contests, and also prizes
for the best costumes for both
faculty and student couples.
After the contests, the audi
torium will be the scene of a
square dance. Miss Peterson
with the aid of the Folk Dance
Club members, will lead the folk
dances.
A. A. Board
All of the A.A. Board are pre
paring for this annual evening,
Sally Massey, president of the
A.A., IS making general prep
arations. The general steering
(Continued on page three)
FIFTY-FOUR TRANSFERS
JOIN COLLEGE FAMILY
LINDY MARTIN
erly Neilson, and Dr. C. C. War
ren, pastor of the host church.
Dr. Graham, former president
of the University of North Caro
lina and recent United Nations
arbitrator in Pakistan, will ad
dress the convention on the topic
(Continued on page four)
Thirty colleges are repre
sented this year in Meredith’s
list of transfers. Twenty-eight
of these colleges are in nine dif
ferent states, and two are in
foreign countries. This year as
last year, there are fifty-four
transfers.
The majority of the new stu
dents are juniors, having trans
ferred from junior colleges, but
there are also 18 sophomores,
1 senior, 2 freshmen, and 1
special student.
Mars Hill leads the list of
former colleges attended by be
ing represented by 18 students.
Campbell sends 4 students and
Woman’s College sends 3. From
Averett in Virginia and Cho
wan come 2. One girl represents
(Continued on page three)
Dr. J. Winston Pearce Is Speaker
For Founders’ Day Celebration
Dr. J. Winston Pearce, pastor
of the First Baptist Church of
Durham, will deliver the annual
Founders’ Day address in the
Meredith College auditorium on
Wednesday, November 7, at
11:00 p.m.
The speaker. Dr. Pearce, is
well qualified to speak at the
fifty-third anniversary of Mere
dith. He is a native North Caro
linian from near Youngsville.
He is a graduate of Campbell
College, Wake Forest, of the
Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Louisville, and of
the University of Chicago. He
also studied at Yale and Edin-
3urg.
He was pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Nevada, Mis
souri for three and one-half
years. He has been pastor of the
Durham church since 1940.
He has been of service to the
Baptist denomination as a mem
ber of the executive committee
of the Southern Baptist Con
vention and as vice-president of
the North Carolina Baptist Con
vention.
Dr. Elizabeth James Dotterer,
M.D., of Sanford, N. C., is presi-
DR. J. WINSTON PEARCE
dent of the Alumnae Associa
tion and will be here for the
events.
This is the fifty-third anni
versary of Meredith since the
founding in 1899. The morning
service is traditional each year.
The Meredith chorus of seventy-
^x voices under the direction of
Beatrice Donley will present
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