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THE TWIG
October 22, 1954
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“The Budding Generation”
Who’s Doing What From the Class of ’54
A glance at Miss Grimmer’s rec
ords of the 1954 class of Meredith
graduates indicates that many of
these girls are engaged in interest
ing work and activities.
Eleven of the intelligentsia are
now working towards graduate de
grees. Bonny Morgan and Charleen
Swanzy remained in North Carolina
and are studying at Chapel Hill
while the other nine migrated to
foreign territory. Florida claimed
Celia Wells for Florida State Uni
versity in Tallahassee and Jackie
Norris for Setson University in De
Lane. Salty Salter ventured west to
Denver, Colorado, where she is to
student teach, and Pat Lofton struck
out for Vanderbilt University in Ten
nessee. Betty Miller, a former music
major, is continuing her training at
Louisville, Kentucky, at our semi
nary’s School of Church Music. The
other graduate students have flown
north — Ruth Barnes to Radcliffe
where she has a scholarship to study
in the Management Training Pro
gram, Phyllis Tribble to Union
Theological Seminary, Dot White to
Boston’s School of the Museum of
Fine Arts, and Barbara White to
Columbia University to continue her
work begun there this summer.
A great host of last year’s angels
have already acquired the degree of
MRS since graduation in June.
Dot, one of the Knott twins, mar
ried Ed Preston, Jr., who will soon
go in service, and Mary Jane War
rick is now the wife of George W.
Brannon. Three of the newlyweds
from first Faircloth are Dot Rob
ertson Brown, Cherrie Beddingfield
Blalock, and Alyce Epley Walker;
Alyce is a private secretary in Ra
leigh while her husband is at State
College; During the summer months
Nancy Brown became the wife of
James R. Jenkins. Pug Blalock and
her husband, James Lassiter, are
making their home in Weldon. Last
year’s May Queen, Joanne Brown,
is now Joanne Herring and is quite
enthusiastic about cooking and
housekeeping in her apartment in
Lumberton. Maryville, Tennessee,
is the home of Mary Olive Spivey,
now Mrs. Robert P. Sugg, Jr., while
Bootsy Renfro Tucker is with her
husband in Georgia. Two new wives
who now hail from the deep south
are Janice Witherington Cannon of
Pensacola, Florida, and Jean Pace
Warren of Louisiana. Two other
travelers with MRS degrees are
Carolina Jackson Rogers, presi
dent of the Class of ’54, now of
Burlington, Vermont, and Mary
Ruth Wilcox Coss who is with Jack
on the west coast.
Gordie Maxwell, a DRE in
Franklin, Virginia, collects data from
WAY BACK WHEN
(These articles are quoted from
1927 copies of The Twig.)
AN EDITORIAL
The statement was made recently
by a student of a nearby college for
truthful young men, to the effect
that only approximately 25 per cent
of Meredith graduates had married
within the 15 years following their
graduation. We do not have the
facts in hand to prove or disprove
the statement made apparently in
jest — thus the statement remains
true for the time being.
However, we beg to remind the
student of that same institution that
Meredith is no matrimonial bureau.
The majority of girls enter here with
the idea of receiving training for
life — not particularly for making
some man comfortable. That same
majority is graduated with some de
gree of preparation for living their
own lives successfully. Why should
they necessarily go in search of some
member of the opposite sex to help
them do what they themselves are
prepared to do?
All of which reminds the writer
of an article written a few months
ago on “Why so small a per cent
of women college graduates as a
whole are married?’’ The author at
tributed this situation to three cir
cumstances: first, girls, who are
educated demand more of a man
than they otherwise would, and thus
proper husbands are often rather
difficult for her to find. Second, men
do not cater to the girl with more
intellect or a more extensive educa
tion than he commands, therefore,
the college graduate is not always
most desirable to men. Third, girls
who have one time launched upon
the broad sea of knowledge, are not
always eager to desert it for the nar
row walls of a kitchen.
Perhaps this “word to the wise”
will offer some explanation to the
curious opposite sex as to why a
great number of Meredith graduates
still are clinging to their maiden
names. There is a reason!
GOOD NEWS FOR THE CLASS
OF ’28
Word has just been received to
the effect that the Senior Class of
Meredith College will be the guests
of the Senior Class of Wake Forest
College, at a reception to be given
in the Meredith Society Halls. The
date which has been set for this
event is Saturday night, Decem
ber 3.
The Class of ’28 ,of Meredith is
looking forward to the event with
keenest anticipation, for they are
conscious of the delightful enter
tainments the Wake Forest boys
are accustomed to giving. During
their Sophomore year, this same
class of W.F. boys entertained the
Sophs at Meredith. A similar event
was attempted last year, but the
plans were never completed. We are
delighted that after having enter
tained us as “Triger Sophs,” they
should a second time invite us to
be their guests.
The Seniors are declining any
other engagement for that night, in
anticipation of the great times that
will be had when these two fine
classes meet.
these ’54 girls and publishes a
monthly. The Budding Generation
—a most pufid publication. Mrs.
Jarvis McMillan, formerly Jane
Campbell, is working as Kinder
garten Director and Minister of
Education of St. John’s Baptist
Church here in Raleigh. Doris Al
len, B.S.U. president, has gone back
to her former unit after a summer
of graduate work at Duke and is
the Director of Christian Educa
tion at St. Paul’s Methodist Church
in Goldsboro. Alice Spell is the Pro
motional Secretary of the Moores-
ville Baptist Church; the Franklin-
ton Baptist Church of Lynchburg,
Virginia, called Jean Bate to the
dual role of Minister of Music and
Youth Director. Betty Lou Olive,
Jean’s suitemate on first Brewer,
is Director of Music in the First
Baptist Church of Rockingham.
The Meredith College Depart
ment of Education furnished the
schools of North Carolina with many
new teachers this fall. Mary Ann
Chandler, Meredith’s “Miss Student
Teacher,” is teaching in Burling
ton. Also teaching in the Burlington
public schools are Lucky Bell and
Dot Prickett. The McCracken Twins
—never let it be said that they
parted — are teaching the second
and third grades in Laurinburg.
Three teachers from first Faircloth
are Doris Page, Rich Square; Betty
Rose Owen, Sanford; and Margie
Stewart, Clayton. Betty Rose is
wearing a diamond now, and Mar
gie wll be married this week end.
Others teaching are Lynn Belton,
Sylvia Deans, Vivian Byrd, Bob-
bye Rice, Charlotte Taylor and Ann
Ipock.
Working for the News and Ob
server are Lorette Oglesby, librar
ian, who will marry in May, and
Pat Eberhart, who writes society
news of Raleigh. Ann Quay is math
ematical computer at Langley Field,
and Jeanette Scott, another math
major, is in the Treasury Office of
the Foreign Mission Board in Rich
mond. B. A. Aldridge is employed
as secretary to Dr. Carroll, State
Superintendent of Education. Serv
ing as home demonstration agents
in Emporia, Virginia, and Colum
bus, North Carolina, respectively,
are Sarah Dale and Shirley West.
Word from Pete Hampton in New
York indicates that she is quite
happy as editorial assistant of The
Christian Scholar, a publication of
the National Council of Churches.
Back from her exciting tour of Eur
ope, Mary Brooks Stone is engaged
in welfare work in Charlotte. Peggy
Jo Dairymple has the position of
Editorial and Research Assistant at
the Raleigh Public Health Institute.
Ann Lovell, last year’s A.A. presi
dent, has the fun of being puppeteer
for Little Jack, a feature of the
Where Meredith and
State Meet
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Congratulations to the ten sopho
more and junior music majors who
were recently invited to become
pledges of Beta Zeta Chapter of
Sigma Alpha Iota. Sigma Alpha
Iota, as most of you know, is not
an organization functioning just at
Meredith, but is a national honor
ary music fraternity for women with
chapters all over the United States
in our colleges and universities. The
only other student chapter in North
Carolina is at U.N.C. in Chapel
Hill. Invitation to membership is
extended not only on high scho
lastic standing, especially in music,
but also on approval by faculty and
present S.A.I. members. We are glad
to extend this invitation to Ann An
thony, Verna Wooten, Annette Lee,
Jeanne Grealish, Marilyn Greene,
Dianne Morris, Faye Wheeler,
Carolynne Harwell, Becky Miles
and Kay McCosley.
New music students were honored
on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 7, at
4:00 in the S.A.I. chapter room at
a get-acquainted “come-as-you-are”
tea. Guests were greeted by Miss
Hortense Wiggs, president' of the
chapter, and Mrs. Stuart Pratt,
newest patroness for the fraternity,
presided at the punch bowl. About
fifty new music students attended.
Did you enjoy the last Civic Mu
sic concert presented by Miss
Blanche Thebom? Miss Thebom’s
warm and gracious personality was
apparent early in the performance,
Oral Hygiene Division of the State
Board of Health.
If there are any other questions
about the Class of ’54, consult Miss
Grimmer or Gordie’s Budding
Generation for who’s doing what.
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est appearance throughout the week.
The A.A. presented a Silhouette
Symphony in chapel on Tuesday,.
October 11. Both good and bad pos
ture were illustrated by different
members of the board and other
members of the student body. The
posture forms ranged from those of
grandma’s day to our own school
girl stride. The program proved to
be both humorous and enlightening
to the posture-conscious girls of our
campus.
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and it had a special warmth for a
small group in the audience. The
following letter was received by Hor
tense Wiggs, S.A.I. president, from
Miss Thebom, who is an honorary
member of S.A.I., acknowledging
the rose of greeting sent her by the
chapter:
“How very kind of you to send
the S.A.I. rose to brighten my hotel
room and welcome me to Raleigh.
I won’t have an opportunity of greet
ing all my Sisters tonight, but will
ask you to do so for me and to
thank you all for your thoughtful
ness.”
Mrs. Helen May, of Arlington,
Virginia, was a guest on our cam
pus on Monday and Tuesday of
this week. Mrs. May is province
president of S.A.I. and visits the
chapter here annually. She was pres
ent for installation of the new
pledges on Monday night, a musi-
cale presented by members of the
fraternity followed by a social hour
at the home of Mrs. Carlyle Camp
bell, chapter patroness, a formal
business meeting, and a general
meeting at which she presented the
program.
Have you been wondering when
the civic music concerts are sched
uled this year? Here is a list of
them: Nov. 16, Thomas; Jan. 13,
Gulda; Jan. 19, London Ballet;
Feb. 3, St. Louis Symphony; Feb.
16, Singing Boys; Mar. 7, Campoli.
I’ll see you there.
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