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THE TWIG
October 1, 1954
CONGRATULATIONS
For beginning the'year with determination and friendliness! Freshmen
can hardly believe that they are at college; sophomores feel decidedly
superior as they direct new students; juniors are now in the “upper half”;
and seniors have at last acquired that enviable state. No matter what class
we’re in, we all face similar problems.
Is there resentment when your teachers assign long lessons? Do you
feel ashamed of yourself because you haven’t kept your clothes and room
in order as your mother urged you to do? Are you already tired of people
trying to make you join clubs, serve on committees and attend functions
in town? Do you have the feeling that someone is always pushing you
along and never letting you do as you please?
If you have that feeling, as most of us do, take a deep breath and
you’ll realize that you have a backbone of your own. Try to develop a
real interest in your classes; challenge yourself to take care of your
clothes and room; investigate the clubs and join the ones you are in
terested in. Don’t be a puppet for others to govern, but be your own
governor and rule with a purpose. With the continued interest, enthusi
asm, and happiness that this attitude will produce, we will all wake up
to greater possibilities in ourselves and in Meredith.
Love Impels Saerifice
What does the word “sacrifice” call to your mind? A burnt offering
on a mountain peak? Slain calves and sheep? Or perhaps a martyr? At
any rate, sacrifices are a thing of the past, aren’t they? Unfortunately,
to too many of us, they are. And because we have failed to bring the
word “sacrifice” up to date, we go blithely on our way, aware of the
substandard, conditions of most of the people in the world, but unaware
of any responsibility of ours to minister to those needs.
Perhaps we should look at another word—“love.” Is love just some
thing which exists between you and your family and between you and
Tommy Jones? Or is love a larger thing—does it stretch until it includes
the whole world?
Now if we think of the two words “love” and “sacrifice” together, we
find that, in our day and age, love impels sacrifice toward every need.
It is on this axiom that the LISTEN project is based. Members of the
B.S.U. in North Carolina colleges, seeing the need in the world about
them, decided to try a systematic plan for giving money, which could
in turn be translated into physical, spiritual and technical aid to those
in need. Last , year $2,391.60 was collected through this plan. This
money was used to pay for promoting the LISTEN campaign, to send
half a car-load of dried milk to India and to enable two students to go
as summer missionaries to Jamaica.
The program is being continued this year. Won’t you join in it? Con
tainers for your offering have been distributed. They will be collected
as the first offering at vespers on October 4. The sacrifice on our part
is small—too small. The need of the world is great. Listen with your
heart to the needs of the world. Anne Parr
New Students—The Choice Is Yours
By the time this paper reaches yoti, the campus wil be in a considerable
stir over the Yellow-Purple, bear-goat issue known as Rush Week. But
stop and think for a minute about the situation as a Meredith student
and not from the one-sided viewpoint of a member or a prospective one.
There are girls in both groups who are worthy of your friendship and
respect, and each group will be happy to have you become one of them.
The societies are not bitter rivals but are really one in spirit and pur
pose—the promotion of ideals and happiness for the good of all Mere
dith. So, new girls, wake up tomorrow with a feeling of pride in your
decision; and. Phis and Astros, lead them with unity and pride toward the
goals you uphold and the betterment of everybody.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor Bess Peeler
Assistant Editor P^t Dowell
Managing Editor Neil Hampe
Art Editor Sally Drake
Music Editor Leah Scarborough
Sports Editor - Mary Jon Gerald
Photo Editor Virginia Morris
Columnists Pat Allen, Margaret Ann English
Reporters — Jeanne Grealish, Joyce Herndon, Barbara Stanley, Anne
Tunstall, Janette Honeycutt, Marjorie Jackson, Deloris Blanton, Julia
Abernathy.
Typists — Mary Lib Delbridge, chief; Frances Carr, Anne Middleton,
Joyce Jones, Mimi Royster, Myra Bristol, Ophelia McLean.
Faculty Sponsor Dr. Norma Rose
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Peggy Smith
Advertising Manager Kathleen Clemmons
Advertising Staff—Nancy Cochrane, Mamie Alice Shutt, Nancy Corzine,
Betty Ann Smith, Pat Hanes, Becky Miles, Alma Lou Pierce, Lois Pond.
Circulation Managers..— Kitty Holt, Maxine Grant
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Hi, everybody! And a special
welcome to all you new students
—we’re awfully glad you’re here!!!
Well, looks like we’re off to
another school year, doesn’t it?
Usually we old students hear or
read so many discussions on what
the new year means, etc., that such
remarks, however fine they may be,
fall on deaf ears and we soon settle
down in our old complaisant way,
forgetting that this particular year
might in some measure be quite
different from the preceding one.
Perhaps if we tried to imagine we
were freshmen again and listen with
the eagerness and almost despera
tion to every word people said, then,
maybe we’d become possessed of a
new outlook. With freshmen and
transfers, being at Meredith is a
new experience, even if the glow,
as one might call it, lasts only a
short time! Wouldn’t it be wonder
ful if we all would be inspired to
greater things? Boy, things surely
would be changed around here!
So much for philosophy or sober
remarks or whatever you might call
it. It is good to be back and feel as
if one is in the swing of things again.
Congratulations to the new fresh
man class officers and also to the
secretary of the S. G. and to the
president of the Playhouse. May
you all have a successful year!!
Usually I have a gripe about
something but I must feel good or
something because I don’t have
anything! Or maybe we haven’t
been back long enough to get into
any mischief!! On the other hand,
everybody has been quite impressed
with the freshmen — seems as if
you have a very talented class.
‘Course, we Juniors are slightly
prejudiced because you’re our “little
sister” class.
Well, Rush Week is about over
and I sincerely hope that this Rush
Week has progressed more con
genially than the one last year. I
asked some people who know what
the original purposes of such a week
were and it seems that becoming
acquainted with new Meredith girls
and in turn giving them an oppor
tunity to know us is and always has
been one of the main, if not the
main, reason for Rush Week. Please
think about this seriously. This is a
Christian school and back-biting
and malicious gossip have no place
in it.
NEW FACULTY AND STAFF
(Continued from page one)
Our new assistant dean of stu
dents, Miss Madge Aycock, earned
her A.B. at Westhampton, then
completed two years of study at the
Medical College of Virginia, a year’s
study at the School of Social Serv
ice, College of William and Mary,
and received her M.S.S. from the
University of Pittsburgh. She has
had experience in social service at
Duke Hospital, Walter Reed Hospi
tal, and at the Rehabilitation Center
in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mrs. Martha Holland George,
library assistant, graduated from
Meredith, where she majored in
history.
Miss Martha Lamb, one of our
two new nurses, is from Reidsville,
N. C., but lived in Florida before
Letter to Editor
Dear Editor,
After standing in line for an hour
and a half at the bookstore to buy
new books, we think everyone will
agree that this situation should and
could be improved. The present
system of buying textbooks results
in the following things: wasted time,
assignments not done, short tem
pers, and the thought that this situa
tion should be remedied. Not only
does it cause a hardship among the
students but also on the staff of the
bookstore. We are not criticizing the
Bee Hive staff for we feel they are
doing their best, though in our
opinion they might be able to use
some more workers. At present, a
student has to fill out order blanks,
then return to the Bee Hive—not in
an hour, but usually on the next
day. Upon returning, the student
does not simply walk into the book
store and purchase her books; she
waits — and waits — in a long line
under the hot sun. Sometimes, even
after she has gone into the book
store, she is informed that her book
has not arrived.
We would like to suggest a pos
sible solution to the above problem.
The bookstore should remain open
all day, for at least the first three
days of classes. Signs should be
posted when new texts arrive, so
that people will know when their
particular book has come. Also,
time might be saved if the student
did not have to wait for her order
to be filled. Ideally, she should be
able to step into the bookstore, and
ask for the book that she wants.
We are sure that, all students
would be grateful if buying books
were made a more pleasant chore.
Joyce Herndon,
Mary Lois Cadle,
Virginia Corbett.
coming to Raleigh. She is a grad
uate of the Baptist Hospital in
Winston-Salem.
Miss Doris Hauser, who comes
from Winston-Salem also grad
uated from the Baptist Hospital
there. Both are taking several
courses here.
Mrs. Anne McGuire, secretary
for the Registrar, is from Brevard,
and attended Brevard Junior Col
lege and Furman University.
The business office has two new .
staff members. Miss Elsie Proctor
and Mrs. Carl Orders. Mrs. Orders,
bookkeeper, comes to us from the
Great American insurance Com
pany. Miss Proctor is the new sec
retary.
CURTAIN CALLS
Hi-ho, angels! It’s so good to be
back and to see all of you — and
especially you new and talented
freshmen! The freshmen really have
it if their skits at our recent “On
Stage Party” is any criterion for
judging.
I certainly hope that all of you
will come out and share your great
theatrical abilities with us in the
Playhouse whether you’re just an
old shoe at back-staging (and it’s
an art!) or a budding Sarah Bern
hardt. We’ve a top-notcher coming
up in about a month, James Barrie’s
Quality Street, and it takes more
than just a few to really produce
a “hit.”
Speaking of “hits,” the Raleigh
Little Theatre has really had them
throughout the past 18 seasons of
its existence. It will mark the be
ginning of its 19th season with the
opening of The Moon is Blue on
October 8. This show will run
through October 14 and I’m sure
that director-manager David Bowen
has another “great” in store for us.
Tickets are $1.80 if bought individ
ually, or $7 for a season ticket en-'
titling you to the five plays to be
produced. Such plays as Stalag 17,
Point of No Return, and others are
scheduled for this year.
So, you see kids, we’ve plenty of
opportunities to see good drama this
school year here on our own
campus and on Pogue Street.
Pat Allen.