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CONGRATULATIONS
NEW OFFICERS!
THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
GOOD LUCK
STUNT CASTS!
Volumne XXVII
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1953
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CLASSES COMPETE FOR STUNT CUP TOMORROW NIGHT
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Class of 1953 Seeks Third Straight Win
In Thirty-eighth Annual Stunt Night
Pictured are some of the characters in last year’s winning stunt. They are Mr. Reinstein, a State Col.ege stu
dent; Mr. Stonefeller, Path Math, and Mr. Hank Boyd Kight —- or Ellen Westmoreland, Kitten James, Kitty
Barbehann, Mary Jo Isaacs, and Mona Faye Caines, members of the Class of 1953.
CAMPUS ELECTIONS COMPLETE;
RECORD NUMBER SEEN AT POLLS
In the campus elections held
on March 12 and March 19, Pat
sy Bland of Greensboro, Doris
Allen of Smithfield, and Ann
Lovell of Clinton were elected
to fill the three major offices of
president of the Student Gov
ernment, president of the
Baptist Student Union, and pres
ident of the Athletic Associa
tion, respectively.
This year the length of elec
tions was shortened from four
weeks to two weeks in order to
maintain the interest of the vot
ers, and in an effort to carry out
the election procedure more ef
ficiently. As a result, the num
ber of students who registered
was much larger than that in
previous years. For the two elec
tions, a total of four hundred
and forty-four students regis
tered, and of these, eighty-five
per cent voted on Thursday,
March 12. Also this year, candi-
Patsy Bland
President of Student Goveriunent
dates who were being consid
ered for two offices were given
the benefit of the week end to
make their decision as to their
preference. This was an attempt
to be as fair as possible to the
nominees, and to get the best
slate of campus officers possi
ble. Even though it is felt that
the policy of a shorter period
of voting worked out well, the
nominating committee plans to
meet again to evaluate the pro
cedure and to make any changes
and suggestions that are deemed
necessary for the future.
Student Government Slate
For the Student Government
Association, Anne Clark was
elected vice-president. Nancy
Doherty and Ellen Moore were
elected secretary and treasurer,
respectively. The new dormitory
presidents include B. A. Alridge,
Stringfield; Ruth Barnes, Vann;
Lou Gardner, Jones; and Cher-
rie Beddingfield, Faircloth.
The dormitory vice-presidents
chosen for the coming year are
Stringfield: Becky Earnhardt,
Mary Dare Moore, and Su
sie Rucker; Vann: Mary Cobb
Dickens and Millie Green;
Jones: Gordie Maxwell, Effie
Sneeden, and Alice Jo Spell; and
Faircloth: Doris McMillan, Ann
Quay, and Bootsey Renfro.
Mary Ann Chandler was elected
chief counselor.
Completing the Baptist Stu
dent Union council for 1953-54
will be: Dottie Garrett, secre
tary; Shirley McLean, third
vice-president; Betty Lou Olive,
first vice-president; Jane Camp
bell, second vice-president; and
Shirley Spoon, treasurer.
Jean Pace was elected vice
president of the Athletic Asso
ciation, with Ruth Jeanne Allen
as treasurer, and Jody Strick
land as secretary.
Heading the Day Students
Organization will be Jackie Nor
ris. Other officers elected were
Dot Hunt, first vice-president;
Betty Smith, second vice-presi
dent; and Jean Puckett, third
vice-president.
Editors Chosen
Editors chosen for the three
campus publications were: Ce
lia Wells for the Acorn, Peggy
Jo Dalrymple of the Oak Leaves,
and Lorette Oglesby of the Twig.
Patty Melvin was elected busi
ness manager of the Oak Leaves
and Barbara Propst was elected
business manager of the Twig.
Betty Lane of Greensboro
was elected president of the As-
trotekton Society, and Lyn Bel
ton of Mount Airy was elected
president of the Philaretia So
ciety.
Run-offs for several offices
were held on Thursday, March
26. For social standards chair
man Brooksie Stone and Jane
Williamson ran. Beth Morgan
and Fay Walker ran for presi
dent of the Meredith Playhouse,
and Margie Barnes and Joanne
Brown ran for college marshal.
Barbehenn and McGugan
To Give Art Exhibits
In the next few weeks Mere
dith students will have the op
portunity to enjoy two art
exhibits. The first to be held is
that of Kitty Barbehenn on
Tuesday, March 31.
As editor of the Oak Leaves,
Kitty is well-known on the Mer
edith campus. Art is her major
field of study, while history and
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For several weeks now there
have been whisperings and sur
reptitious meetings among the
members of each class. It seems
that no class knows exactly
what the other three are up to.
Actually, each is out to win the
stunt cup tomorrow night, and
that is about all that can be
said. The seniors, of course, are
working especially hard to win
this year, since they have won
for the last two years.
History of Stunt
First held in 1915 at the sug
gestion of Bertie Brown, class
of 1916, stunt night featured hu
morous, not necessarily origi
nal, skits. The next year the
skits were required to be origi
nal, and interest was developed
by keen competition and the at
tempt of each class to keep its
idea a secret. By 1923 rivalry
had become so great that a class
would steal the stunt of an
other. The sophomores especial
ly would try to steal the
freshman stunt, and it was the
greatest triumph for them to be
able to give an exact duplicate
of it. As stunts were presented
in order, from the Senior Class
down, the poor freshmen were at
a loss when the sophomores
stole and reproduced their stunt.
In 1935 Palio, patterned af
ter a similar celebration in Italy,
was introduced and was held on
the same day as stunt until 1950.
At that time it was decided that
Palio would be held in the fall,
and stunt night would occur in
the spring. However, this year
Palio was abandoned altogether
because of a general lack of in
terest on the part of the student
body. Now that stunt alone re
mains, the interest shown by
each class has become quite in
tense. Each class seems to think
that their idea is the very best.
Judges for stunt this year will
be Mrs. Jim Reid and Santford
Martin, Jr. Stunts are judged on
originality of plot, setting, pro
grams, acting, and appropriate
ness.
WESTMORELAND
HAS LEAD IN
PRODUCTION
The Meredith College Play
house will present Tennessee
Williams’ play. The Glass Me
nagerie as the spring produc
tion on April 24-25.
The story itself is simple
enough in essence, but the au
thor has captured a brief poig
nant period in each of the four
lives, no negligible accomplish
ment on any stage.
Described by the author as a
‘memory play,’ the play opens
with Tom (played by Marcel
Martin) in the role of narrator,
giving the background of the
four characters who are the
complete cast. His mother,
(characterized by Ellen West
moreland) is a vain, pitiful,
domineering former belle of the
South, a victim of circum
stances, simultaneously infur
iating and pathetic. The play is
primarily hers.
Tom’s sister, Laura (por
trayed by Fay Walker) is a
cripple doomed to live in a world
of illusion, symbolized by her
collection of glass animals;
hence, the name of the play.
Tom, himself, a futile seeker
of adventure and happiness, ran
away from the shabby reality
of his St. Lotus home as did his
father before him. He escapes
St. Louis, but not the memory of
his home.
Then, of course, there is Jim
(played by Leonard Rubin)
who is a friend of Tom, the so-
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Bowman Gray Student
To Serve in Hawaii
Mr. Spencer Thornton, of
Charlotte, now a student at
Bowman Gray School of Medi
cine in Winston-Salem, has been
chosen by the Baptist students
of North Carolina to serve a
missionary internship in Hawaii
during the summer of 1953. Mr.
Thornton is a medical mission
volunteer and will complete his
M.D. degree next year. He is a
graduate of Mars Hill and Wake
Forest Colleges. He has done ex
tensive work with Boy Scouts
and Civil Air Patrol Cadets as
well as being active in all re
ligious activities in his home
church and in college. He was a
member of the staff at Caswell
for two summers and at Ridge
crest for one summer.
The program of Summer Mis
sions is jointly sponsored by the
Foreign Mission Board, the
Southwide Student Department,
and the North Carolina Student
Department. Students from
Southern states will serve this
summer as short-term mission
aries in the following places:
Hawaii, Nigeria, Argentina,
Alaska, Cuba, Panama, and with
the Mexican an(i Spanish speak
ing people in the West. Each of
these students will serve under
the direction of missionaries
under appointment by the Home
and Foreign Mission Boards.
Funds for transporting these
students to their fields of work
are provided by the Baptist
students of the several states.
Spencer Thornton
Meredith College Library
Raleigh. N. C