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Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1953
No. ^
Folk Dancers Present
Tenth Annual Concert
Group of Fifty-five
to Entertain at 8:00
Tomorrow Night
The Meredith College Ath
letic Association and department
of physical education will pre
sent the annual Folk Dance Con
cert in the college auditorium at
8:00 p. m., on Saturday, Feb
ruary 21.
These folk dances are ready for their concert Saturday night. They are, left to right: Edith Bradley John
son, Jane Williamson, Ann Ipock, and Sandra Peterson.
Nominating Committee
Meets Monday Night
Religion Emphasis Week Theme
Is “What Doest Thou Here,... ?”
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The Nominating Committee,
composed of Betty Jo Welch,
Chief Counselor, Pat Smathers,
Janet Stallings, Bess Francis,
Connie Moore, Adele Buening,
Betsy Cannady, Kitty Barbe-
henn, Doris Perry, Phyllis Not
tingham Tuck, Jean Dula,
Miriam Allen, Mary Lane,
Nancy Reece, and Daphine Ste
phenson, will meet February 23
to make plans for the election
of campus officers on March 12
and 19.
Each student is urged to regis
ter, vote, and feel the impor
tance of making wise choices for
campus leaders. The dates for
registration are Thursday and
Friday, February 26 and 27,
from 11:00 a.m., to 5:00 p.m.
Students must have registered
before they can vote. The
slate drawn up by the Nomina
ting Committee will be posted
by Monday night before the
election on Thursday. Pictures
and other identification of the
candidates will be on the bulle
tin boards Tuesday. Thursday
(Continued on page four)
Students Observe
Day of Prayer
Meredith students observed
the Universal Day of Prayer for
Students at chapel exercises
Tuesday, Feburary 17. Al
though most Christian student
groups took part on the preced
ing Sunday, Tuesday was the
regular B. S. U. chapel date and
the nearest open date for such
a service on the campus. Doro
thy Prickett, program chair
man of the B. S. U., was in
charge of the meeting, in
which the student body took
(Continued on page three)
Chairmen Announce
Program and Members
of Committees
The theme for Religious Em
phasis Week, March 2-6, will be
“What Doest Thou Here, . . .?”
The messages throughout the
week will be designed to help
the student to answer this ques
tion. Book displays in the li
brary and on the BSU table will
feature books of interest. Per
sonal conferences will be ar
ranged with the speaker. Dr.
E. H. Pruden, for all who are
interested.
Dr. Pruden, is pastor of the
First Baptist Church in Wash
ington, D. C. He studied at the
University of Virginia, the
Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Yale Divinity School,
and the University of Edin
burgh. For a year he and Mrs.
Pruden taught at the University
of Shanghai.
Some of the topics on which
Dr. Pruden will speak are “Life
EIGHT RECEIVE
DEGREES IN
FEBRUARY
Frances Altman, Ellyn Royer
Easterling, Carolyn Getzman,
dairy Gouma, Christine Hayes
Kochhar, Mary Ann Palmer,
Graham Scott, and' Frances
Carlton received their degrees
from Meredith at the end of first
semester.
Three of the graduates,
dairy Gouma, Ellyn Easterling,
and Graham Scott, majored in
primary education. Majoring in
religion were Mary Ann Palm-
(Continued on‘ page five)
as a Divine Trust,” “Vast Pos
sibilities of the Individual,”
“The Christian and the Social
Order,” “The Christian and
World Peace,” and “The Chris
tian and His Government.”
The program for the day dur
ing Religious Emphasis Week
will follow this outline:
8:00 Morning Perspective
10:20 - Chapel
1:40 - Pause for Power
7:00 Worship Service
8:00 Discussion Periods
Morning Perspective will be
held especially for Emphasis
Week committee members and
chairmen. At this time there
will be a devotional period fol
lowed by the making of plans
and announcements for the day.
The morning chapel service will,
(Continued on page six)
Jean Wrenn Andrews
Gives Senior Recital
The first of the annual senior
music recitals will be given on
Wednesday, February 25 at 8:00
p.m., in the small auditorium.
At this time, Jean Wrenn An
drews, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. C. Wrenn of Siler City, will
present a program of organ mu
sic.
Jean was married to
George H. Andrews of Pittsboro
prior to the Christmas holidays.
She has completed her formal
studies at Meredith, and will re
turn to Siler City following the
concert.
During her four years of
study at Meredith, Jean has
been quite active on the cam
pus, particularly in the field of
her major. This year she has
served as president of Sigma Al-
(Continued on page three)
This is the tenth Folk Dance
Concert at Meredith. Over three
hundred girls have danced in
one or more annual concerts in
their years here. Since its be
ginning, the folk dance group
and its facilities have grown ,a
great deal. The first folk dance
group had a membership of only
sixteen people. Now there are
fifty-five members of the club.
The costume room has grown
from a meager collection of fif
ty-four pieces to over two thou
sand costume items. At present
the folk dance group averages
about fifteen programs a year.
This year there will be seven
teen dancds on the program. Of
these, eleven will be new to the
audience, and the six remaining
dances have been requested as
“repeats.” The dances include
both authentic dances of the
various ethnic groups as well as
some which are not really au
thentic, but are best termed as
character dances, because they
give characteristic steps and
costumes of the nationality. The
dances on the program were se
lected from the one thousand
dances on file at Meredith.
The faculty director of the
concert is Miss Doris Peterson,
and the faculty assistants are
Misses Phyllis Cunningham,
Mary Makay, and Helena Wil
liams. The folk dance student
managers are Mary Ann God
win and Nancy House, and the
accompanists are Maxine Grant
and Mrs. J. T. Lynn.
The dances being presented
this year by the folk dance
group are the Happy Holland
ers; Pragska Polka, which is a
Polish dance; Sing Lee, a Chin
ese dance; Moravian Dance;
Swiss Mountaineers; Gypsy Fes
tival; Les Egyptiennes; Fete
Hongroise, a Hungarian dance;
Arabian Dance; Los Matlan-
chines, which is a Mexican In
dian religious ceremonial; La
Feria, a Spanish dance; Lan
cers, the oldest dance of Amer
ica; Jarabe Tapitio, which is the
Mexican National Hat Dance;
Japanese Dance; Oriental Dance;
Square Dance, including the
Cattle Call Waltz; and Scotch
Sword Dance.
Houser to Speak on
Christian Pacifism
Mr. George Houser, secretary
of national projects of the Fel
lowship of Reconciliation, will
speak on Christian Pacifism in
the Hut Saturday afternoon,
February 28, at two o’clock. Stu
dents from Shaw, the Uni
versity of North Carolina,
Woman’s College, State, Duke,
and Wake Forest will also at
tend this meeting. Any inter
ested student is invited to come
to this discussion, which is spon
sored by the BSU.
JUNIOR CLASS USES
GREEK THEME IN
OPEN HOUSE
The Junior Class sponsored
an Open House on Sunday
afternoon, February 8, from
2:30 until 4:30 in the Hut. Fra
ternity members from State,
Carolina, Wake Forest, and Duke
were invited, and approximate
ly sixty boys attended this event.
The Hut was decorated in a
Grecian theme in accordance
with the origin of fraternities.
Gold letters of the Greek alpha
bet were placed on the walls.
Busts of Greek heroes were sit
uated at different corners of the
main room. The two mantles
were attractively decorated with
ivy and gold torches.
Fruit punch, assorted sand
wiches, nuts, and cookies were
served to the ^oup by Dr.
Alice Keith, Junior Class spon
sor, and Miss Wanda Baumgart
ner of the biology department.
The committee chairmen re
sponsible for the open house
success were Jane Williamson,
general chairman; Mary Jo Grif
fin, refreshments committee;
Mary Bryan Reid, entertain
ment committee; Patsy Bland
and Pat Eberhart, decorating
committee; and Pug Blalock, re
ception committee.
Ninety "four
on Dean’s List
A total of ninety-four stu
dents at Meredith College were
included on the Dean’s List re
leased on February 14 by Mrs.
Vera Tart Marsh, college regis
trar. Included on the list are the
names of students taking twelve
or more semester hours who
have made a number of quality
points equal to twice the num
ber of semester hours taken
plus three.
The seniors had a total of
thirty on the list; the juniors,
thirty-five; the Sophomores,
fourteen; and the freshmen, fif
teen. This Dean’s List is effec
tive for the entire spring
semester.
Doris Irene Allen, Nancy Mir
iam Allen, Ruth Jeanne Allen,
Emily Frances Altman, Betty
Joan Ball, Katherine Anna Bar-
behenn, Faye Horne Barnes,
Nellie Ruth Barnes, Phoebe Jean
Bamhardt, Myra Jean Batten,
Florence LaVerne Bell, Rebecca
Edge Bideaux, Patricia Setzer
Bland, Jettie Rea Bradshaw,
Barbara Brantley, Ethel Joyce
Brown, Nancy Franklin Brown,
Adele Anne Buening, Clara Ray
Bunn, Patricia Ann Byrd, Vivian
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