WELCOME
WORKSHOP
DELEGATES
THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
GOOD LUCK
FOLK DANCERS
VolHme XXVIII
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C„ FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1954
No. 8
State Home Economics Workshop
Meets Here Today and Saturday
The North Carolina Student
Home Economics Club workshop
is meeting on the campus today and
tomorrow. The workshop is com
posed of the state officers and two
student delegates and a faculty ad
visor from each of the college home
economics clubs in the state. Pres
ent officers are Patty Hankley, Ap
palachian State Teachers College,
president; Mary Jo Griffin, Mere
dith, vice-president; Sybil Lennon,
Mars Hill, secretary; and Edna Lee
Page, Campbell, treasurer. Faculty
advisor for the state-wide, group is
Miss Marian Adams of Appalach
ian State Teachers College.
Friday’s program will consist of
registration from 4:00 to 5:00, a
get-acquainted tea at 5:00, dinner
in the college dining hall, and an
evening meeting which begins at
7:30. Miss Frances Urban, field sec
retary of the American Home Eco
nomics Association, will be the
speaker for this session, which will
be followed by a social hour in the
Hut.
At the Saturday morning busi
ness session the group will hear re
ports from the two N. C. dele
gates to the national convention in
Kansas City last summer: Jane Wil
liamson Teague of Meredith and
Marceline Aycock of East Carolina
College. A coffee hour in the faculty
parlor will follow lunch.
The afternoon session will include
two addresses, “Responsibilities of
the Home Economist Today,” by
Miss Ruth Current, state home
demonstration agent, and “Our
State Association—A Goodly Heri
tage,” by Miss Ellen Brewer, of the
Meredith College Home Economics
Department.
The group will visit homes of in
terest in Raleigh later Saturday and
close their convention with a ban
quet at the S&W. Miss Catherine
Dennis, president-elect of the
American Home Economics Asso
ciation, will bring the greeting at
the banquet which will be followed
by installation of officers for the
coming year.
The delegates will be guests at
the Folk Dance program on Satur
day night.
The general committee in charge
of arrangements for the convention
is composed of Virginia Mumford,
FOLK DANCE CLUB PRESENTS CONCERT
Four of the girls who will perform in the Folk Dance Concert Saturday are
pictured above. They are Patsy Bland, Lynn Belton, Dot White and Bonny Morgan,
all seniors.
Millie Green and Virginia Kime.
Other committee chairmen include
Evelyn Taylor, president of the lo
cal club; Mary Jo Griffin, vice-
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Campus Officers for 1954-55 Elected
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Jeanne^Allen, B^ky Calloway, Joyce Bums, and Shirley McLean. Standing are Susie Rucker, Mary Cobb
l^t^n?**^’ Emeshne Cottrell, Phoebe Bamhardt, Bess Peeler, Ellen Moore, Betty Ball, Jean Forbes, June Vann^S^dra
In campus elections held on
March 4 and 11, Becky Calloway,
‘ of Concord, a rising senior, was
' elected president of the Student
Government Association. Becky has
served as president of the Junior
Class and has held numerous other
i offices since she has been at Mere
dith. Ruth Jeanne Allen, of Creed-
moor, was chosen president of the
Athletic Association. Ruth Jeanne
has previously been both secretary
and treasurer of the A. A. Elected
.as president of the Baptist Student
, Union was Shirley McLean, of Max-
ton, who served as chairman of
Religious Focus Week this year and
who has been active in other B. S. U.
work since she has been at Mere-
. dith. Joyce Burns, of Raleigh, was
elected next president of the non
resident students. Joyce has taken
, an active part in the work of the
Athletic Association and has been
on the Dean’s List.
Editors of the three Meredith
-‘publications were also elected.
Betty Ball, of Scotland Neck, is to
edit the Oak Leaves, the college
annual; Bess Peefer, of Raleigh, will
be editor of the Twig; and Jean
Forbes, of Morrisville, is to edit the
DR. G. PRIESTLY
TO DELIVER LECTURE
HERE OY APRIL 13
Dr. S. E. Gerard Priestley will
deliver a lecture to the student body
on April 13, in the auditorium at
8:00.
Dr. Priestley was born in the Roy
al Borough of Windsor, England,
not far from where King John
signed the Magna Charta in 1215.
Educated at New College, Univer
sity of London, he received his M.A.
and Ph.D. in history and interna
tional economics from the Graduate
School of Arts and Science, New
York University. Dr. Priestley holds
also the degrees of bachelor of di
vinity from the Hartford Theologi
cal Seminary, master of sacred the
ology from the Kennedy School of
Mission, Hartford, Connecticut, and
the advanced degree of master of
social science in international rela
tions.
Dr. Priestley’s travels, which have
taken him over wide areas of the
world, have afforded him personal
contact with many of the problem
situations of the world. He is espe
cially interested in the fight against
illiteracy, disease, hunger and pov
erty in the under-developed areas
of the world and in the problems
of land reform.
Acorn, the college literary publi
cation.
Chief counselor for next year will
be Sandra Peterson, of Clinton, who
will also be chairman of the nomi
nating committee. June Vann, of
Washington, N. C., was elected
chairman of the Social Standards
Committee.
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BETTY MIEEER
PRESENTS RECiTAL
Betty Miller, a senior organ ma
jor, will present her graduating re
cital Monday evening, March 22, at
8 o’clock. A reception will be held
in the Blue Parlor after the recital.
Her recital program will consist
of the following selections: Bach,
Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor;
Franck, Prelude, Fugue and Varia
tion; Vierne, Clair de Lune; Lang-
lais. Chant de Pais; Mendelssohn,
Sixth Sonata.
An active member of Sigma Al
pha Iota, Betty has been manager
of the music store for two years. In
addition to her activities in Sigma
Alpha Iota, she is this year pro
gram chairman in the organ class.
Betty is also on the Dean’s List.
The eleventh annual Folk Dance
Concert will be given March 20,
1954, at 8:00 p.m. in Jones Audi
torium. The program, presented by
the Meredith College Folk Dance
Cldb, is being sponsored by the
physical education department and
Athletic Association of the college.
Miss Doris Peterson, head of the
physical education department, is
director of the production with Miss
Phyllis Cunningham, Miss Mary
Mackay, Miss Helena Williams and
Mrs. J. T. Lynn, accompanist, as
sisting her. Members of the Mono
gram Club will serve as marshals
for the concert. Admission will be
35 cents for students, 50 cents for
adults.
The Folk Dance Club, under the
direction of Miss Peterson, is the
only concert group of folk dancers
in the state. Last year the group
presented eighteen performances
off the campus, in Raleigh and in
various parts of the state. The club
library contains 1,070 dances, and
the list of former members now
numbers 288. Seventeen dances will
be presented by the fifty members
of this year’s Folk Dance Club. The
program includes the following
dances: L’Amour Isigane, a Rom
any folk dance; Pragska Polka, a
Cech folk dance; Cherry Blossoms,
a Japanese dance; Inca Princess, an
Indian ceremonial; Brahms 5th
Hungarian Dance, a Hungarian
Czardas; Irish Lilt, an Irish couple
dance; Jarabe Tapitio, the national
dance of Mexico; Minuet de la
Riene, a French court dance; Iota
Arazonesa, a Spanish bolero; Fliska,
a Norwegian folk dance; Melinka
Marurka, a Polish folk dance; Ani-
tra’s Dance, an Arabian dance; Mo
ravian Dance, the national dance of
Moravia; Sword Dance, a Scotch
ceremonial; Schuhplatter, a Bava
rian mock fighting dance; Bean
Setting, a Morris Stick dance; Wyo
ming Varovianna, a Western cow
boy dance; Cowboy Square, a
Western cowboy dance.
RECKY CALLOWAY,
YAXCY DOHERTY
ATTENfD S. G. MEET
Becky Calloway, president-elect
of the S. G. Council, and Nancy De-
herty, president-elect of Brewer
Dormitory, are attending the meet
ing of the National Association of
Student Government at Florida
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Classes Compete in Stunt
On March 27, one chief judge
and three class judges, chosen from
Meredith faculty and staff, along
with one class judge, chosen from
Meredith alumnae, will have the
task of deciding the winner of the
Stunt Cup, which is presented an
nually to one of the four classes on
Stunt Night. The stunts will be pre
sented in order, beginning with the
Pictured are four script writers for stunt. They are Mary Cobb Westbrook, Ruth
Barnes, Jeanne Grealish, and Margaret Layne.
seniors and ending with the fresh
men. They are judged on the basis
of originality, appropriateness, and
presentation. Stunt Night, which has
been a part of Meredith since 1913,
is sponsored by the Athletic Asso
ciation.
A stunt committee composed of
Miss Fleming, Mrs. da Parma, Dr.
Rose, Miss Brewer, and Miss Peter
son has to approve each of the
stunts. This committee is also pres
ent at the dress rehearsal.
The freshman committees are as
follows: Script — Jean Grealish,
Carolynne Harwell, Edith Johnson;
Programs — Mary Helen Cooper,
Annie Ransome, Pat Swan, Becky
Miles, Anita Hiatt; Props — Martha
Ann Roberts, Mary Edna Grimes,
Nancy Corzine, Gwen Maddrey,
Eleanor Clark, Pat Kerley, Peggy
Jo Williams; Costumes — Nancy
Young, Mary Jo Brown, Jo Ellen
Williams, Lucy Atkinson; Lighting
—Ann House, Kitty Brown, Kitty
Holt, Libby Raynor, Barbara Chur
chill; Scenery — Annette Lee, Jo
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