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BSU
CONVENTION
THEME:
THE TWIG
"CHRIST
MUST
REIGN"
Newspaper oj the Students of Meredith College
Volumne XXVII
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1952
No. 3
ANNUAL BSU CONVENTION BEGINS TONIGHT
Alumnae of 1952 Become Caseworkers,
Teachers, Housewives, Secretaries
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By BECKY CALLOWAY
Do you ever take time off to
think about those girls who
graduated last year and wonder
who’s married and in what type
of work everyone is engaged?
According to records compiled
in the Alumnae Office, the ma
jority of the 1952 graduates is
teaching, and it seems that the
primary grades have attracted
most of these girls. Almost all
of the music majors are teaching
public school music. There are
some girls in graduate schools,
and the remainder are engaged
as secretaries, caseworkers, ar
chivists, dietitians, librarians,
and of course, housewives.
As for the 1952 class officers.
Dot Fisher, president, is secre
tary to the Director of Special
Education in the North Carolina
Department of Public Instruc
tion here in Raleigh. The vice-
president, Ruth Ann Simmons,
now Mrs. Robert A. Shaw, is
keeping house in Highland Park,
N. J. Lynette Adcock, treasurer,
is now the manuscripts assistant
in the archives of colonial Wil
liamsburg in Virginia. The sec
retary, Mary Evelyn Hensley, is
teaching the fourth grade in
Burnsville.
Marie Edwards, Student Gov
ernment president, is teaching
English in the Junior High
School in Hampton, Virginia.
Last year’s May Queen, Peggy
Poole, now Mrs. Charles G. Buie,
Jr., is teaching the third grade
in Clayton while her husband
is in Korea. The maid-of-honor,
Asha Farrior Watson, is keeping
house in Wallace and teaching
commercial subjects in the local
high school.
Nine more graduates are busy
this year keeping house. Doris
Adlai Defeats Ike
In Recent Voting
Adlai Stevenson defeated
Dwight Eisenhower in a recent
straw vote conducted by the
Student League of Women
Voters. Seventy per cent of the
student body participated in this
vote to give Stevenson a 236 to
158 lead over Eisenhower.
The political campaign began
as interested groups held cau
cuses and distributed buttons for
their favorite candidates. Many
students showed their political
stand by signs and pictures on
their doors.
During chapel period on Tues
day, October 28, a pdnel dis
cussion was presented. Pat
Smathers and Betty Winchester
spoke for Stevenson, while
Sarah Caudle and Anne Hendrix
defended the Ike side. Juanita
Ipock served as moderator.
Four rallies, one in each
dormitory, were held on Wed
nesday night.
This year the Student League
of Women Voters has forty five
members. In addition to con
ducting the straw vote last week,
the League will also prepare and
present a bill at the State Stu
dent Legislature which meets
annually in Raleigh.
Ann Champion (Mrs. Jack Jolly)
is living in Forest City; Jackie
Creef Satterfield has moved to
Norfolk, Virginia, to be with her
husband, James; Faith Frye-Nor
wood and her husband, J. W.
are residing in Lakeland, Flor
ida, and Lois Pritchett Harding
is living at Newport, Rhode
Island, where Chester is now
stationed. Another roaming
army wife is Barbara Cox Har
per, and Louise Horn Laney is
with her husband in San An
tonio, Texas. Jean Joyner
Humljert is living in Asheville,
and Mary Jo Shaw Harrison is
in East Point, Georgia. Besides
keeping house, Pat Sullivan
Harned has a part-time musical
radio program in Nashville,
Tennessee.
CONVENTION SPEAKERS
Two of last year’s graduates
are expecting visits from the
stork. Francene Barber, of
Asheville, is expecting in De
cember, and Virginia Harrison
McGranahan, of Raleigh, is also
awaiting the stork.
If one were to look for the
1952 editors of the three campus
publications he would find the
Acorn editor, Julia Presson,
working as a continuity writer
at WPTF here in Raleigh; the
Twig editor, Jeanne Ramsey,
out in Waterloo, Iowa working
as program director for the
teens at the Y.W.C.A.; and the
Oak Leaves editor, Jane Slate,
teaching music in Wilson. Jane
is also studying for her B.M.
degree here at Meredith and will
finish in the spring.
Patsy Spiers and Mary Ann
Westbrook are rooming together
in High Point while teaching
the third grade and the fifth
grade respectively. Katherine
Sites is also teaching in High
Point and is rooming with
Graham Scott.
Virginia Rodwell and Janet
Smith are both employed as
dietitians this year. Ginny is
with the Presbyterian Hospital
in Cliarlotte, and Janet is in New
Haven, Connecticut at Yale
University.
Connie Bryne is working in
Miss Emily Lansdell
Dr. E. A. McDowell
STUDENTS URGED
ATTEND VESPERS
Students who are attending
vespers in the rotunda every
night are finding there a pause
in the rush of their college life
which is very meaningful.
The topic for the year is
“Dynamic Living in Christian
Faith,” and each month a phase
of our faith is discussed. For
the first month “The Nature of
Our Faith” was the theme. Ways
in which we can best live in our
campus, local, and world com
munities were discussed. For
the second month the theme is
“Dynamic Living in and through
the Church.”
Those who are not attending
vespers are missing a part of
their college life that could mean
a lot in their thinking and work
ing.
the library at Fort McClellan,
and Marlyn Morrissette Up
church is here in our own Mere
dith library.
Two of last year’s graduates
are. engaged in work at State
College. Dru Morgan is an as
sistant in the Student Supply
Store, and Honore Parker is
working in the research division
(Continued on page six)
Left to right are Sarah Coxe and Lillian Betts, keeping the polls, and
Janne Dawson and Edith Bradley, voting in the Student League spon
sored straw ballot.
SIGMA PI ALPHA BEGINS YEAR
WITH ELECTION, OPEN HOUSE
The first meeting of Phi Kappa
Chapter of Sigma Pi Alpha,
national honorary language fra
ternity, was held Thursday
night, October 30, at 7:00 p.m.
in the hut. Business included
the election of the following
officers for this year: Beth Mor
gan, president; Alstine Salter,
vice-president; Doris Knott, sec
retary; Anne Moore, treasurer;
Joyce Stephens, publicity chair
man. Miss Lucy Ann Neblett
was named sponsor for the
organization. Keys were pre
sented to those members who
had not already received them.
Later in the evening the for
eign students from State College
and members of Alpha Chapter
at State joined the Meredith
students for an open house,
which was an attempt to intro
duce our way of life to them.
SENIORS ELECT
SUPERLATIVES
On Wednesday night, October
29, the senior class gathered in
the auditorium to pick out its
beauty, intellect, wit, versatility,
and originality so that the girls
selected could be photographed
for the Oak Leaves. Ten Super
latives were chosen: wittiest,
most athletic, most popular,
friendliest, cutest, most intel
lectual, most attractive, most
versatile, most original, and
best-all-around town student. __
The wittiest senior was chosen
by acclamation. She is that tall-
tale-telling Bernie Limer. Most
athletic was also chosen by ac
clamation. She is that hog
calling Bess Francis. Jean Dula,
president of the senior class was
selected the most popular mem
ber of the class. The friendliest
is little Phido’s keeper, Connie
Moore. One of the student
teachers, Betsy Brooks McGee,
was chosen the most intellectual.
The cutest is that little Duke fan,
Martha Baird. The tall, dark
haired Mary Ann Godwin, was
chosen the most attractive mem
ber of the senior class. The New
Jersey Navy-loving art major
and Oak Leaves editor, Kitty
Barbehenn, was rightly chosen
the most versatile. Another one
(Continued on page six)
"Christ Must Reign" is Thieme
of Twenty-third Convention
Tabernacle Baptist Church
will be host to more than 1,000
Baptist students in the Baptist
Student Convention which opens
at 7:30 Friday evening, Novem
ber 7, and continues through the
worship hour on Sunday morn
ing, November 9. These stu
dents, representing more than
forty colleges, business colleges,
and nurse training schools of
North Carolina, will follow the
program theme, “Christ Must
Reign,” under the leadership of
the following key speakers;
Miss Emily Lansdell, Presi
dent of the Woman’s Missionary
Training School, Louisville,
Kentucky; Dr. Edward A. Mc
Dowell, Professor of New
Testament Interpretation,
Southeastern Seminary, Wake
Forest, N. C.;Dr. J. Neal Hugh-
ley. Professor of Economics,
North Carolina College, Durham,
N. C.; Dr. Robert L. Humber,
Lawyer, Founder of the Move
ment for World Federation,
Greenville, N. C.; Miss Maxine
(Jarner, Director of Religious
Activities, Meredith College, Ra
leigh, N. C.; Miss Ann Tunstall,
Student at State College, Ra
leigh, N. C.; Miss Nan Leonard,
Department of Religious Educa
tion, Wake Forest College, Wake
Forest, N. C.; Miss Billie Russell,
Associate in Southwide BSU
Office, Nashville, Tennessee; Dr.
J. A. Ellis, pastor of the host
church, Raleigh, N. C.
Panel Planned
Miss Lansdell will speak Fri
day evening on “Christ Must
Reign through Missions.” Dr.
McDowell will relate the con
vention theme to personal ethics,
and Dr. Hughley to the social-
economic field on Saturday
morning. On Saturday after
noon, Dr. Humber will discuss
the role of a Christian in govern
ment and politics.
Forums will be held following
the keynote speeches to discuss
the ideas presented and to an
swer any questions stimulated.
On Saturday evening there will
be a panel discussion with the
main speakers participating. The
floor will be open to students for
questions that arose from the
forums. This is the first time in
the history of the convention
that such a panel has been used.
Families of Raleigh churches
are opening their homes to
entertain student guests on Fri
day and Saturday nights. Meals
will be taken in public restau
rants. The registration fee is
$1.00 per person.
CnORVS BROADCASTS
01% FOCKDEMVS’ DAY
In celebration of Founders’
Day, the Meredith College
Chorus recorded a program for
WPTF radio station to be broad
cast at 6:30 p.m. Friday, October
31. The Chorus, under the direc
tion of Miss Beatrice Donley and
accompanied at the organ by
Dr. Harry Cooper, sang “Lo, My
Shepherd is Divine” by Haydn,
“With a Voice of Singing’’ by
Martin Shaw, and the College
Alma Mater. Miss Carolyn
Mercer of Raleigh, president of
the Meredith College Alumnae
Association, gave a brief greet
ing. President Carlyle Campbell
also made a brief address.
Meredith Libiar>