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THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
unto Him gifts, gofd,
and frankincense, and
myrrh.—Matt. 2:11b.
Volume XXVI
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1951
Number 5
SEVENTY-SIX PARTICIPATE IN ANNUAL CONCERT
Chorus Presents Christmas Program on Sunday
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A.A. Sponsors
Annual Carol
Singing Tour
Tuesday, December 18, the
Meredith student body will con
duct its annual caroling tour of
Raleigh. The event, which will
be preceded by a formal Christ
mas dinner in the college dining
hall, will begin at 11:00 p.m.,
Chartered city buses will be sent
out in groups of two on routes
planned by the Athletic Associa
tion, which is in charge of the
caroling.
Some of the places to be
visited are the N. S. State Pen
itentiary, Rex Hospital, Meth
odist Orphanage, St. Luke’s
Home, N. C. School for the Blind,
N. C. State hospital, Shaw Uni
versity, St. Agnes hospital, the
Governor’s mansion, Mary Eliza
beth hospital and the homes of
the faculty, administration, and
trustees. A small fee of twenty-
five cents will be charged per
person to cover the cost of the
buses. This year a new system is
being inaugurated which enables
students to sign up for the bus
on which they wish to go. The
day students have been asked to
serve as guides for the buses, and
the music fraternity on the cam-
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The Meredith College Chorus will present a program of Christmas music Sunday, December 16, at 4:00 p.m.
in the college auditorium. Included in the program will be Benjamin Britten’s “Ceremony of Carols” which
is to be performed for the second year by special request by the chorus of seventy-six voices, directed by
Beatrice Donley.
STUDENT LEGISLATURE PASSES BILL
REGARDING JUVENILE COURT
Delegates converging from
twenty-four colleges and uniyer
Civic Music Association
Presents Gina Bachauer
Gina Bachauer famous Greek pianist, will be sponsored by the
Raleigh Civic Music Association in the Memorial Auditorium on
January 3.
Miss Bachauer, appeared first in the United States in New
York’s Town Hall on October 29, 1950, where she performed Bach,
Brahms, Haydn, Liszt, and Ravel. Her success led to her im
mediately, engagement as soloist by the New York Philharmonic
• Symphony for this fall.
Because of popular demand,
she returned to New York for a
second Town Hall recital on
January 26, 1951, after having
presented a full season of fifty
European concerts.
Immediately following her
second town hall recital. Miss
Bachauer returned to England
where in six weeks she per
formed eleven different con
certs. Following the series, she
toured Italy, Egypt, France, and
Greece, where she rested briefly
with her family.
Miss Bachauer made her
orchestral debut during World
War II in Athens as soloist un
der the baton of Dimitri Metro-
poulos. From that time until the
invasion of Greece, she was a
guest soloist with orchestras in
France, Italy, Austria, Yugos
lavia, and Greece. After the in
vasion of her country, she fled
with her husband to Alexandria,
Egypt, where she spent the war
years giving concerts for the
Armed Forces.
In 1946 Miss Bachauer re
sumed her concert tours on the
continent and made a sensational
debut in England, where she be
came one of Great Britain’s
coveted pianists, being engaged
by every major orchestra.
Now presenting her first
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sities across the state of North session of the fifteenth annua’l
State Student Legislature. The
session which was held here in
the State Capitol building closed
with the afternoon session of
December 1
Election
Election of officers for the two
GINA BACHAUER
Peggy Poole, Asha
Farrior Will Lead
May Day Festivities
The 1951-52 May Court has
been selected. In a student body
meeting the following girls were
nominated from the floor: Sue
Bunn, Carolyn Ballentine, Faith
Frye, Lynette Adcock, Louise
Horn, Peggy Poole, Asha Far-
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Carolina tried their hands at
legislating during the three day
houses of the legislature was one
of the biggest items of business
undertaken by the group.
Lynette Adcock, a senior at
Meredith from Oxford, was
elected recording secretary o?
the Senate. Other officers elected
SILVER SHIELD
The Silver Shield will hold
its annual tapping ceremony
on Monday, December 17, dur
ing the regular chapel period.
At that time two girls will be
chosen from the Junior Class
as new associate members of
this organization.
The Silver Shield is the
honorary leadership society
on the Meredith College cam
pus. Members of the society
are chosen on the basis of con
structive leadership, Christian
character, scholarship and
service to the school. The
group seeks to create right
attitudes and to promote de
votion to the ideals of Mere
dith College.
in the Senate were Joe Mason,
State, president; George Lynch,
Duke, president pro-tem; Char-
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Studtots Express Desire To Play
Santa Claus to College
. By BETH MORGAN
When Christmas rolls around each year, most of us sit back
and dream about the things we want most and the things that we
family. Many times we think
of gifts that we would like to give, but all too often we realize that
^ power to present them to anyone.
we have endowed some Meredith students
with the power to do anything which they pleased about gifts and
then asked them what
Little Theatre
Stages ‘The Mousetrap’
For Shaw Sorority
The cast of “The Mousetrap”
were the special guests of the
Beta Lambda Sigma Chapter of
the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority
at the Crosby-Garfield Audi
torium, December 3. They pre
sented “The Mousetrap” in
the program, “Out of the
Past,” which featured students
from Shaw University, Gar
ner High School, Berry O’Kelly
High School, Fuquay Springs
High School and the St. Agnes
Nursing School in skits contest
ing for the yearly dramatics
prize awarded by the sorority.
Other special features were tap
dancing and ballet by the high
school students.
their
Christmas present would be to
Meredith College.
Many girls thought about the
definite need for new classroom
buildings and, out of the gener
ousness of their hearts, said that
their gift would be some of the
most modern buildings styled for
classroom use. Nancy Hall said
that she would have them styled
along the same lines of archi
tecture as our beautiful audi
torium.
You could guess that a music
major would want everyone to
have the chance to enjoy some
thing musical! Jean Batten
planned on giving a four-manual
organ for the large auditorium
so that everyone might enjoy it
at chapel time or at concerts.
Quite a .number of students
thought that it might be a good
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Program Includes
‘Ceremony of Carols’
T-he Meredith College Chorus
directed by Miss Beatrice Don
ley, will give its annual concert
of Christmas music Sunday, De
cember 16 at 4:00 p.m. in the
auditorium. Seventy-six mem
bers will participate.
The program will include:
I. “Rise Up Early” by Richard
Kountz; “Go Tell It”—spiritual,
arranged by John W. Work, with
incidental solo by Betty Jo
Smith, soprano. “Italian Shep
herd’s Carol” arranged 3 by
M. P. Ingle.
II. “Ceremony of Carols”—
Benjanin Britten, Soloists: Bar
bara Bone, mezzo-soprano; Jean
Miller, soprano; Barbara Morris,
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Freshmen Sponsor
Project to Improve
Chapel Conduct
A “Mind Your ‘P’s’ and ‘Q’s’ ”
campaign with special emphasis
on chapel conduct will be the
first major project undertaken
by the freshman class. The pro
gram, headed by Ginny Barbour,
will be inaugurated December
10 with a special skit written
and performed by members of
the class. Present plans include
having audience participation in
the skit.
“It is hoped that the freshman
class will take the lead in
eliminating the chapel conduct
problem,” said Nancy Doherty,
president. “It is embarrassing to
the speaker to look down and
find fifty per cent of his audience
knitting, reading, writing or
passing notes. Surely thirty min
utes a day is not too long to allow
oneself to indulge in a little
serious thinking.”
Officers of the freshman class
are Nancy Doherty, president;
Ginny Barbour, vice-president;
Betty Wells, secretary; Patsy
Cromartie, treasurer; and Geor-
geanne Joyner, student govern
ment representative. Miss Doris
Peterson is the faculty adviser.
F reshmen-Transf ers
Hold Christmas Parties
From December 10-19, the
freshmen and transfers will be
having Christmas parties given
to carry out instructions received
through their council groups in
connection with Social Emphasis
Week and the social behavior
unit taught by the counsellors.
At council group meetings the
new students were instructed in
correct manners, appropriate
dress, and in planning for parties
and other social gatherings.
At the November meeting,
each joined one of the following
committees: invitations and
hostess, entertainment, or re
freshment and arrangement.
Mrs. Vera Tart Marsh, Miss
Doris Peterson, and Miss Ellen
Brewer are directing these com
mittees.
Two or three council groups
are going together to form a
larger group to give the parties.
Each larger group plans its own
refreshments and entertainment.