THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Volume XXVIII
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1954
No. 7
COLLEGIATE CITIZENSHIP AND YOU
Sixty-five Seniors Teaehing in
Schools of Raleigh and Vicinity
There are sixty-five Meredith
girls doing their student teaching in
various schools in Raleigh and the
vicinity. Of these, thirty-five are
teaching in elementary school,
twenty-four in high school, and six
in public school music.
Of the thirty-five in elementary
school teaching, eight are at Myrtle
Underwood School. They are Flo
Powers and Sara Langdon, who are
teaching in the first grade; Dot
Prickett in the second; Sally Dean
in the third; Rebecca Wicker and
Freida Moss in the fourth; Lucky
Bell in the fifth; and Ruth Thames
in the sixth. Jane Condrey and
Dorothy Taylor Morgan are at Boy-
Ian Heights School, teaching grades
one and four, respectively. At Fred
SEmORS El%TERTAm
SISTER CLASS
An informal tea will be held on
Wednesday, March 3, by the Senior
Class in honor of the Sophomore
Class, their “Little Sister Class.”
The tea will be at 4:30 in the Blue
Parlor.
Heading the committees planning
the tea are Jane Teague, refresh
ments; Virginia Corbett, decora
tions; and Betty Hunter, arrange
ments.
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to Phyllis Trible
who has been awarded a scholarship
to Union Theological Seminary.
Phyllis plans to complete three
years of graduate study prerequisite
for the Bachelor of Divinity degree,
after which time she plans to launch
on a career of teaching religion in
college.
Olds School are Becky Haynes in
the first grade, Mary Thorp in the
third, and Zoe Harmon in the
fourth. Betsy Lassiter and Margaret
Edwards are teaching grades three
and four, respectively, at Sherwood
Bates School.
Four girls are at the Francis Lacy
School on Ridge Road. Babs Dick
ens is there teaching grade three,
Jane Cutts teaching grade one, and
Mary Ellen Upchurch and Betty
Rose Owens teaching grades seven
and six, respectively. In the third
and sixth grades at Thompson
School are Deloris Williams and
Ann Carter. Sylvia Deans is doing
her teaching in the kindergarten at
the Methodist Orphanage. Mrs.
Anne Kirkman is at Wiley School,
and teaching the third grade at
Murphy School is Betty Carter. Pat
Byrd is teaching eighth grade at
Broughton.
There are three girls teaching art
this semester. Dorothy White and
Betty Gardner are teaching in the
city schools and Betty Edwards is
at Ravenscroft, a private school.
Also at Ravenscroft are Jane
Campbell teaching fourth grade,
Gennie Keen, the seventh, and Bar
bara Propst, the fifth. Dorothy Rob
ertson in grade one, Carolyn Sawyer
in grade two, and Bobbye Teachey
in grade five are all at Longview
Gardens.
Six of the sixty-five are teaching
public school music at Cary under
Miss Whitaker’s supervision. They
are Pug Blalock, Mary Jane War
rick, Katie Lee Currin, Rose Rum
mage, Carolyn Hall, and Jackie
Ammons.
Of the sixty-five, twenty-four are
teaching in the high schools, and
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MARCH 4 AND 11 SET FOR ELECTIONS
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National Symphony
Concert Scheduled
The National Symphony of
Washington, D. C., under sponsor
ship of the Civic Music Organiza
tion will present a concert on
Tuesday, March 9, in the Raleigh
Memorial Auditorium at 8:00 p.m.
The symphony is in its twenty-third
year, and is directed by Howard
Mitchell. Organized in 1931 by Dr.
Hans Kindler, the group rapidly
gained note as a major orchestra in
the United States in spite of compe
tition from older organizations such
as those of New York and Phila
delphia. Dr. Mitchell began con
ducting in 1941 at open air pops,
and assumed conductorship in 1948
when Dr. Kindler resigned because
of ill health. Since Dr. Mitchell took
over, the orchestra has seen a period
of great expansion, and has taken
annual tours from Canada through
Florida.
CONFERENCES
A state-wide meeting of the
Student Volunteer Movement
will be held at Camp New
Hope near Chapel Hill, March
6 and 7. Miss Shirley Strick
land of Meredith will speak at
the Spring Y. M.-Y. W. Stu
dent Conference at Guilford
College, March 12 and 14.
“Any student who would
like to take part in either of
these exciting co-educational
events may do so by reporting
immediately to the B. S. U.
NO GOWNS, NO DIPLOMAS, BUT SERVICE
PAT DOWELL
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There is one group on the campus
which never marches in academic
processions or receives honorary de
grees, but its members are none the
less an important part of the college.
Our maids certainly deserve recog
nition for their contribution to the
smooth functioning of the college
community.
Dorothy Shepard is one of the
mainstays of the infirmary, and has
been helping there for eighteen
years. Dorothy worked in the State
College infirmary before she came
to Meredith, and says she likes this
kind of work better than any other
type. She comes from Method every
morning to fix breakfast for the
girls, and stays busy all the rest of
the day, but she does find time to
look out for her large collection of
flowers and plants which decorates
one end of the infirmary. She not
only has a green thumb but is also
a skilled cook, and mentions fried
chicken, biscuits, and cocoanut cake
as some of her specialties. Dorothy
is married, and has four children
and five grandchildren.
Arthelia Cole could write a book
about Meredith because she has
been working for the college twenty-
seven years. On Founders’ Day and
other occasions many of the girls
who come back look her up and
show her pictures of their families.
At Old Meredith she took care of
East End, where the girls roomed
Pictured, from left to right, are: Lillie Hayes, Mary Booker; Second row, Sally
Batchelor, Dorothy Shepard, Arthelia Cole and Lou Booker.
Campus elections will be held on
March 4 and 11 from 11:00 a.m.
until 5:15 p.m. The pictures of the
candidates for the first slate of of
ficers will be posted in Johnson Hall
on March 2. On March 4, during the
chapel hour, these candidates will
be presented to the student body by
Mary Ann Chandler, chairman of
the nominating committee. Candi
dates for the three major cam
pus organizations, S.G., A.A., and
B.S.U. will make brief speeches
at this time. The polls will be open
directly after chapel. Petitions for
added nominations must be in by
6:00 p.m.
Registration for the elections was
held February 24, 25. In prepara-
KAPPA NE SIGMA
LECTURE IS MAR, 4
On March 4 Kappa Nu Sigma,
Meredith’s scholastic society, will
present Dr. Sturgis E. Leavitt of the
Department of Modern Languages
of the University of North Carolina
as its lecturer for this year.
Preceding the lecture in the col
lege auditorium at 8:00 p.m., there
will be a formal banquet at the
Woman’s Club for the members of
the society. This banquet is given in
honor of the speaker and the two
juniors with the highest scholastic
ratings in their class will become
members of the society at this time.
At the lecture two sophomores will
be recognized as associate members.
A reception will follow the lecture
which is a required one for the stu
dent body.
tion for the voting, “Attention All
Voters” forms, which list the duties
and qualifications for each office
were distributed earlier this week.
Mr. Harry Dorsett spoke to the stu
dent body on February 23 on the
importance of campus elections as
training for later citizenship.
Members of the incoming Senior
Class will be elected to fill the fol
lowing offices of the first slate: S.G.
president, A.A. president, B.S.U.
president, “Acorn” editor. Twig
editor, “Oak Leaves” editor, chief
counselor, Vann president. String-
field president, and Day Student
president. From the incoming Junior
Class will be elected candidates for
S.G. secretary, “Oak Leaves” busi
ness manager, and first vice-
president of Day Students. A sopho
more will be nominated for A.A.
secretary. Candidates for B.S.U.
secretary, third vice-president of
B.S.U. and third vice-president of
Day Students will be from either of
three upper classes. Nominations for
Vann vice-president and Stringfield
vice-president will be juniors or
seniors.
Included in the offices to be
filled by the second slate of elections
will be Social Standard chairman.
Playhouse president, S.G. vice-
president, A.A. vice-president, col
lege marshal, Faircloth president.
Brewer president, business manager
of Twig, Phi president. Astro presi
dent, all of which are to be filled by
incoming seniors. Also on this slate
will be candidates for second vice-
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Guest Editorial
who were helping to send themselves
through college, and now she is in
charge of the first floor of Johnson
Hall. Among other things about
Old Meredith, Arthelia remembers
square dance sessions with banjo ac
companiment by one of the maids,
and she also remembers going out to
meet the boys who came calling. In
that day and time the boys sat in
the parlor, and the maids went to
get the girls. If she had a choice
though, Arthelia says she would pre
fer this generation because the girls
are friendlier and more enthusiastic.
Arthelia is married and has one son
and an eight-month-old grandson
she hasn’t seen yet.
Lillie Hayes, who works in String-
field, had always wanted to work in
a college and has been working at
Meredith for almost nine years now.
Lillie is particularly attached to the
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ARE YOU RELATED TO CITIZEN X?
Certainly not. We know that “Citizen X” is an imaginaty character
originating in an equally imaginary place called Wistful Vista, U.S.A.
But what kind of citizen are you? What daily contribution do you make to
the community in which you are now living—Meredith College, U.S.A.?
If you can not answer these questions, you do resemble “Citizen X” whose
very name indicates the unknown, the uncertain, the indifferent.
Last spring an emphatic question concerning responsible citizenship
was raised in the minds of Meredith students when it was discovered that
only sixty-five per cent of the student body had voted in the 1953 campus
elections. This question was continued when an interested friend estab
lished the FRESHMAN CITIZENSHIP AWARD; and after the first
presentation of this award on Society Night during Commencement Week,
there was much discussion as to what constitutes good citizenship.
Here at Meredith, I believe that we should evaluate citizenship in the
light of the Christian ideals upon which our institution was founded and
which are simply expressed in the first verse of our Dedication Hymn:
We build our school on Thee, O Lord,
To Thee we bring our common need;
The loving heart, the helpful word,
The tender thought, the kindly deed.
The first line includes us as co-builders with those Christian citizens of
more than a half-century ago who dreamed and worked and sacrificed
to make Meredith College a reality. To us they left the opportunity and
the responsibility of continuing the plan which they began. Are we willing
to accept the challenge of the current Nine Year Expansion Program
which begins with the prophetic statement: “THESE ARE THE YEARS
. . . NOW IS THE TIME ... TO BUILD FOR TOMORROW?” If we
are, then we can have a share in building an even greater Meredith than
our Founders planned.
One “common need” which exists in our community as we approach
the season of campus elections is individual acceptance of citizenship re
sponsibilities. It has been said that the ballot is a symbol of freedom; yet
how many of us accept, as a part of our heritage, the privilege and duty of
casting our vote in every election? Remember, your ballot speaks louder
than words, so think before you vote. We must realize that the consistent
use of the ballot in college elections is not only important in maintaining
campus democracy, but is necessary training for intelligent decisions in
after-college years. When the ballots are finally counted let us hope that
the best offices have been won by the candidates best fitted for the jobs;
yet regardless of the way we have voted it is always a test of good citizen
ship and good sportsmanship to give loyal co-operation to the duly elected
officers.
The beatitudes of “the loving heart, the helpful word, the kindly deed”
are often felt and heard and seen on our campus. Yet there are times when
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