WELCOME
VISITORS
THE TWIG
HAIL TO THE
MAY COURT
Joanne Brown To Be Crowned May Day Qneen
Meredith Is Host
To New Students
May 1 and 2 is Hospitality week
end on the Meredith Campus at
which time new students will be the
guests of the college. The old stu
dents will act as hostesses to the
guests for the events of the week
end.
The girls will arrive on the cam
pus Saturday morning, and will reg
ister between 9:00 a.m. and 12:00
noon. Following lunch there will be
a horse show at 1:00 p.m. At 3:30
the May Queen and her court will
be presented, followed by the crown
ing of the queen. Five o’clock will
be the time for the day students’
picnic, and 5:30 p.m. the dinner
hour for the other guests and resi
dent students.
Sunday morning the guests will
go to church with their hostesses
on special buses leaving between
9:00 and 9:30. Sunday dinner will
be served between 12:30 and 1:15,
officially ending the weekend.
The various committees are:
placement, Betty Vance, chairman,
Emily Newman, Raye King, Beth
Morgan, Barbe White; tags and pro
grams, Becky Barnhardt, chairman,
Ada Lou Worth, Joanne Selley,
Peggy Bennett, Ruth Jeanne Allen,
Ann Cashwell, Ernestine Cottrell;
invitations, B. A. Aldridge, chair
man, Elizabeth Jones, Sara Sue Rob
erts, Mimi Royster, Myra Bristol;
day students, Jackie Norris and
Joyce Burns, co-chairmen; open
house, June Vann, chairman; and
hostesses, Susie Rucker, chairman
CONCERT POSTPONED
The annual Spring Concert of the
. Meredith Chorus, which was sched
uled for May 1 at 8:00 p m., has
been postponed. Miss Beatrice Don
ley, head of the voice department,
announces. It will be held on
-May 28.
Music Majors
To Give Recitals
Seven graduating music majors
are planning to give their recitals
during May.
Mary Bryan Reid of Whitakers,
N. C., a voice major, will hold her
recital on May 7 at 8:00 p.m.
Among the songs that she plans to
sing are “Ah, Perfido” by Beetho
ven, “Ave Maria” by Schubert
“Hymne Au Soliel” from “Le loq
d’Or” by Korsckoff, and “Ah, Je
Veux Vivre” from “Romeo et Juli
ette” by Gounod. Also on her pro
gram will be “Four Children’s
Songs” written by Joan Neighbors,
a Meredith graduate. She will con
clude her program with “A Feast
of Laterus” by Bautock. Her ac
companist is to be Hortence Wiggs.
Mary Bryan is president of the Mc
Dowell Music Club, and soloist at
West Raleigh Presbyterian church.
Carolyn Hall, who has a double
major of public school music and
voice, will give her recital on May
11 at 8:00 p.m. She will sing five
groups of songs, some of which
are “Stizzoso mio stizzoso” by Per-
golesi and “Sei Mia Gioia” by Han
del, “Hear ye Israel” from “Elijah”
by Mendelssohn, “Will o’ the Wisp,”
by Spross, and “Floods of Spring”
by Rachmaninoff. Her accompan
ist will be Betty Miller.
Three majors of public school
music will hold their recital on May
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Miss Schwartz Plans
Visit to Meredith
Miss Margaret Schwartz, assistant
dean of students at Meredith, 1950-
53, will be a guest of the college
during Commencement Week, Mrs.
Vera T. Marsh, college registrar, an
nounces. Miss Schwartz’s room will
be in either Stringfield or Vann
where she will be glad to receive
friends on campus.
Miss Schwartz is the donor of the
Freshman Citizenship Award, an
award which she is sponsoring again
this year. Jo Workman was last
year’s winner of this honor. Infor
mation about qualifications for the
award may be obtained from Mrs.
Marsh.
On June 1, Miss Schwartz will be
leaving with a group of Meredith
girls for a tour of Europe. Those
Meredith girls on the tour will be
Nancy Hall, Ruth Jeanne Allen, Pat
Bowen, Dot White, and Brooksie
Stone.
Juniors Plan Banpef
To Honor Seniors
Plans for the annual Junior-Senior
Banquet are under way. Co-
chairmen of the committees work
ing with Susie Rucker, general
chairman, are as follows: theme,
Sandra Peterson and Bess Peeler;
menu, Vivian Stanley and Frances
Patterson; program, Ann Cashwell
and Margaret Brunson; decorations,
Becky Barnhardt and Ernestine Cot
trell; entertainment, Mary Dare
Moore and Hortense Wiggs; wait
resses, Carolyn Riddick and Sally
Drake; and arrangements, Ruthe
Tyson and Nina Ruppelt.
Others working on the commit
tees are as follows: theme, Jean
Forbes, Nancy Hall, and Anne Jane
Barbrey; menu, Lela Melvin, Patty
Melvin, and June Vann; program,
Jane Spence; decorations, Ruth Jean
Allen, Virginia Mumford, Joyce
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SENIORS TAKE
GRADUATE EXAMS
Seven seniors are taking gradu
ate record examinations Saturday,
May 1, in preparation for graduate
school either next year or later. Tak
ing the examination in history are
Ruth Barnes, Salty Salter, Koris
Knott, Barbara White, and Pat
Loftin. Lorette Oglesby and Vivian
Byrd will take the examination in
English literature. Besides the test
in the individual’s field of concen
tration, each girl will take a general
intelligence and knowledge test.
The examinations will be given at
Shaw University.
Several other girls will take the
examination in July. j
! MEREDITH GALLERY
DISPLAYS ART
The graduation art exhibit of Bet
ty Gardner was given April 14 in
the Meredith art gallery. Her pic
tures ranged from oils to pencil.
The work was both realistic and
abstract, showing a diversity of tal
ent. Betty plans to teach art after
her graduation from Meredith.
Dorothy White also gave an art
exhibit April 21 in the Meredith
art gallery. The majority of her work
was semi-abstract and divided al
most equally in number into oils,
water colors, casein and others.
Betty Edwards’ art exhibit was
April 30. Betty is a realist al
though a few of her paintings are
abstract. Betty plans to teach art
after her graduation from Meredith.
Barbara White’s art exhibit is to
be May 13.
Lib Crenshaw to Reign
As Maid of Honor
Joahne Brown will be crowned
May Queen tomorrow afternoon at
four o’clock in the college court;
Lib Crenshaw is her maid-of-honor,
and other members of the court are
Evelyn Taylor and Jane Campbell,
senior representatives; Jo Bond
Brock and Dorothy Swisher, juniors;
Iris Merritt and Pat Riley, sopho
mores; and Janet Fulcher and Sal-
lie Roberson, freshmen.
Train bearers are Benny Sim
mons and Wingate E. Swain, Jr.
Marsha Ruth Taubenhouse is crown
bearer, and Frances McPhail Keith
is flower girl.
This year’s theme is “A Pretty
Girl Is Like a Melody,” and this
theme will be carried out with mu
sic from Irving Berlin and dances
by the Folk Dance Club. The pro
gram will also include the Maypole
Dance and the traditional song by
the sophomore class in honor of the
queen.
Miss Doris Peterson, head of the
health and physical education de
partment, is the director of the exer
cises, and the sophomore class is
in charge of decorations.
Joanne, our brown-haired queen,
is a religion major from Southport.
She is a member of the Freeman
Religion Club, the Sextet, and the
Playhouse, is chief marshal of the
Phi’s, and is president of the Col
lege Chorus. She lists horseback rid
ing, boating, reading, and Chapel
Hill as her chief interests.
Lib Crenshaw, the maid of hon
or, was a member of the May Court
during her sophomore year. Lib is
a business major, is golf manager
of the AA., Astro Marshal, a typist
for the Acorn and a member of To
morrow’s Business Women, and en
joys the leisure time activities of
reading and cooking. She is from
Lockhart, S. C.
Jane Campbell, a religion major
from Fieldale, Va., is a member of
Silver Shield, the Education Club,
and the Religion Club, and is third-
vice-president of B. S. U. Her name
has appeared in Who^s Who in
American Colleges. She is interested
in music, and, we might add, furni
ture manufacturing.
Evelyn Taylor, the only married
member of the court, is a home
economics major from White Plains,
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Horse Show Scheduled May 1
A parade will start the annual'
Meredith horse show at 1:30 p.m.
on May Day. Some of the classes to
be in the show are the pair class,
the beginners’ class, the interme
diate class, the advanced class, and
the costume class, in which the horse
and rider both will be in costume.
A naming contest for the new
colt whose parents are Kenmare’s
Sensatim Dimple and Captain Dan
ger will be part of the show. The
winner and the winning name will
be announced at the end of the
show.
The girls that will ride in the
show are Betty Jean Blackman,
Mary Cole, Lela Melvin, Patty Mel
vin, Becky Sawyer, Fannette Gore,
Suzanne Davis, Janet Miller, Susie
Roberts, Jeanne Grealish, Mary V.
Newsom, Pansy Lee, Emily John
son, Patsy Grigg, Kay Marshall,
Betty Rand, Carolyn Reid, Kitty
Brown, Ann Barwick, Mary Alice
Simmons, Lo Rae Taylor, Eliza-
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Pictured as they get Silver IV^e in shape for the May 1 show are Lihby Wehunt
standing; and Liz Jones. ’
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