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Volume XXVI
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1952
Number 6
Board of Trustees
Approves Nine-Year
Expansion Program
The executive committee of
the Meredith Board of Trustees
in session on Monday, January
14, approved initial recommen
dations for a nine-year expansion
program for the college which
will involve some $2,250,000.
The recommendations, includ
ing plans for new buildings,
equipment, and general improve
ments on the campus, were
made by a special committee of
ten, with Dr. L. M. Massey of
Zebulon as chairman, which was
appointed by the board in Sep
tember to work out details of
the program.
Tentative allotments in the
program, for 1952 through 1960,
specify amounts for building
new classroom buildings, a gym
nasium and pool, new dormi
tories, a new infirmary, and a
new student center. Amounts
for buying new equipment and
making general improvements
on the auditorium, the library.
New Staff Members
Join College Family
Miss Mabel Gladin, Mrs. Ken
neth Caddell, and Mrs. Helen
Barham have joined the Mere
dith College faculty and Staff
this month.
Miss Gladin, former consult
ing dietician for the State Board
of Health in Raleigh, will serve
as head dietician, according to
an announcement made on Jan
uary 5. A graduate of the State
College for Women in Milledge-
ville, Georgia, and the Medical
College of Virginia in Richmond,
Miss Gladin received her Mas
ter’s degree in institutional man
agement from Cornell Univer-
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and the campus are also speci
fied, as well as funds for endow
ment and scholarships.
The expansion program for
Meredith is co-incident with the
nine-year program adopted by
the State Baptist Convention in
annual session in November,
through which an estimated
$1,518,750 will be made avail
able through the Co-operative
Program for capital needs at
Meredith.
Chairman of the executive
committee which approved the
recommendations is W. H.
Weatherspoon of Raleigh, pre-
.giding officer at Monday night’s
session. Members are Mrs. J. W.
Bunn of Raleigh, C. T. Council
of Durham, Mrs. Foy J. Farmer
of Raleigh, Dr. L. M. Massey of
Zebulon, Dr. R. Elmore Earp of
Selma, Rev. Eph. Whisenhunt of
Clayton, and Col. Wm. T. Joyner
of Raleigh.
SAI SPONSORS
FACULTYRECITAL
“FIGHT POLIO”
CAMPAIGN OPENS
CAMPUS DRIVE
The 1952 “Fight Polio” cam
paign at Meredith will open on
January 17. For two years con
tributions to tjiis drive have been
automatically handled by the
unified budget program. How
ever, since the unified budget
has been discontinued, Mrs. Vera
T. Marsh and Miss Patsy Spiers
will direct the campaign.
The campus will be divided in
to the following groups for the
drive for four dormitories and
the non-resident students with a
faculty member sponsoring re
ports for each dorm, the mem
bers of the faculty, and the col
lege administration.
Lou Gardner, Betty Allred,
and Nancy Jo Wallace will serve
as chairmen in Jones dormitory
with Miss Phyllis Weyer as re
port sponsor. Bobbie Addy,
Molly Britt, and Ann Lovell are
the Fair cloth dormitory chair
men with Miss Phyllis Cunning
ham as report sponsor. The
chairmen in Vann dormitory are
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The Beta Zeta chapter of
Sigma Alpha Iota, national pro
fessional music fraternity for
women, will sponsor a modern
music recital by the Meredith
music faculty in the small audi
torium January 23.
A major aim of the SAI is that
of promoting modern music.
(Officers of SAI are president,
Jean Miller; vice-president, Bar
bara Bone; secretary, Carolyn
Brady; treasurer, Jane Slate;
chaplain, Shelley Millican; ser
geant-at-arms, Joan Neighbors.
Students taking a major or minor
in music leading to a degree are
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LEO PODOLSKY CONDUCTS THREE
DAY PIANO CLINIC AND WORKSHOP
Meredith’s music department
is sponsoring a piano workshop
conducted by Leo Podolsky,
noted pianist, teacher, editor,
and lecturer. The piano work
shop, which began yesterday,
will be continued through Satur
day morning.
Class sessions, private lessons,
and private group auditions are
included in the piano workshop,
in which Meredith music stu
dents and teachers with their
piano students from Raleigh and
surrounding communities are
participating.
Included in the workshop was
an illustrated lecture last night
in the auditorium by Dr. Podol
sky on “The Musical Atmosphere
and Festivals of Europe.”
Morning sessions of the work
shop are piano clinics for teach
ers and advanced students,
covering phases of musical, tech
nical, and teaching problems,
and recent teaching materials.
The afternoon sessions are reper
toire classes in which students
of all grades play for construc
tive criticism.
Dr. Podolsky, who has con-
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Committees Begin
Reiigious Focus
Week Preparations
Meredith’s annual Religious
Focus week, headed by Janet
Stallings, general chairman, will
be observed February 18-22 with
the theme, “the Christian Faith
and Our World.”
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Institute of Religion Convenes
January 21 at United Church
This campus-wide program,
which is presented for the pur
pose of obtaining a clearer un
derstanding of Christian faith
and how it operates in daily life,
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“Foreign and Domestic Issues
Confronting Our Democracy”
will be the theme of the thir
teenth annual Institute of Re
ligion which will meet for six
consecutive Monday nights from
January 21 to February 25 at
8:00 p.m. The Institute is a com
munity project sponsored by the
United Church on Hillsboro and
Dawson Streets where the week
ly meetings will be held.
Speakers and their subjects
for the main Institute sessions
which will begin at 8:00 p.m. are
Dr. William Agar, “The United
Nations Today”; Dr. Henry
Field, “New Light on the Bible”;
Oscar Ross Ewing, “Health Al
ternatives Facing the American
People”; Colonel Ben C. Link,
“Can Asia Be Saved from Com
munism?”; Dr. John C. Bennett,
“Christian Strategy in the World
Conflict”; and Elizabeth Gray
Vining, “Young People of New
Japan.” Each address will be
Leo Podalsky
ducted master classes and clinics
throughout the country for many
years, has been guest teacher
representing the United States
at the Mozarteum in Salzburg,
Austria, for the past three sum
mers. His visit to the campus
and the details of the workshop
have been arranged by Stuart
Pratt, head of the college piano
department.
“Spring for Sure” to be Presented by
Carolina Playmakers, Monday, Feb. 11
o-
The Meredith Little Theatre
and the Student Government
council, with the pledged ap
proval of the student body, will
sponsor the Carolina Play-
makers’ touring troup in a pres
entation of the musical comedy
“Spring for Sure” on Monday,
February 11 at 8 p.m.
Featuring songs and dances in
a plot which concerns the tur
moil brought to a group of Ten-
nessess mountaineers by New
York socialites, the folk play is
based on a book by Catherine
McDonald, with music by Wilton
Mason.
“Spring for Sure,” which is
directed by John W. Parker with
the costumes and settings by the
Playmakers group, was first pre
sented in the Playmakers Thea
tre in Chapel Hill in the spring
of 1950. The reception given the
folk play by audiences then has
brought a revival by popular
demand by the forty-fourth tour
ing troup of the Playmakers.
Student tickets for the per
formance are priced at fifty cents
each. Adult tickets are seventy-
five cents.
The box-office will open at
7:15 p.m. for ticket sales.
Chairmen appointed by the
Meredith Little Theatre for work
on the production include Lyn-
ette Adcock and Sally Massey,
co-chairmen of advertising, and
Dott Miller in charge of ticket
sales.
followed by an open forum.
Following a dinner which will
be served at 6:00 p.m. each eve
ning at the Institute there will be
regular class sessions. A choice
of three courses will be offered
during the class periods: The
first, “Judicial Protection of
Civil Rights and Political Privi
leges,” will deal with the con
temporary problems confronted
by the courts, and the problems
will be considered mainly as
they appear to the Supreme
Court of the United States. Lead
ing the course will be Professor
P. W. Edsall, head of the Depart
ment of History and Political
Science of North Carolina State
College.
The second course is “Toward
an Understanding of Interna
tional Relations.” Talks for this
course will include the various
approaches to the attainment of
peace and the barriers which
have blocked the way to it. The
leader will be Charles F. Blanch
ard, a Raleigh attorney. He will
be assisted by experts, not yet
announced.
The third course is “The Re
lation of the Church and State
in a Modem Democracy.” Such
current controversies as the
President’s nomination of Gen
eral Clark as ambassador to the
Vatican City will be discussed,
not as religious issues but as is
sues involving the whole fabric
of democratic society. Among
the speakers for this course will
be Dr. Lillian Parker Wallace
and Dr. Alice Barnwell Keith of
Meredith, and Dr. E. M. Poteat,
pastor of Pullen Memorial Bap
tist Church.
The first of the Institute speak
ers, Dr. William Agar is known
-S a scientist, lecturer and writer.
He received both his B.S. and
Ph.D. in Geology from Prince
ton University and since has held
positions with the American
Field Service and American Ex-
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