CONGRATU-
LATIONS,
WHO’S WHO
THE TWIG
GOOD LUCK
PLAYHOUSE
Silver Shield Taps
Layne and Vance
In an impressive chapel service on
October 26, Betty Vance and Mar
garet Layne were tapped as associ
ate members of the Silver Shield.
The speaker for the occasion was
Dr. Roger Crook who gave a
short history of the Silver^ Shield
and told of some of its ideals. From
each senior class there may be nine
members, six chosen society night
from the rising class and three
chosen sometime during the next
year. Dr. Mary Yarborough and
Dr. Norma Rose are the sponsors
for the Silver Shield, which has
Christian character, constructive
leadership and scholarship as quali
fications for membership.
Betty Vance is a junior from
Macon, Georgia. In Student Govern
ment, she was both freshman and
sophomore representative and is
now the treasurer. She has been on
the Dean’s List every semester, and
is a member of the Barber Science
Club. Also active in sports, Betty
is on the Hockey Varsity and is a
champion tennis player.
Margaret Layne, also a junior, is
from Ca-Vel, North Carolina. She
was the sophomore vice-president, a
counselor, and is now secretary of
Student Government. “Mutt” is a
Kappa Nu Sigma associate member,
a member of the Oak Leaves staff,
and in her sophomore year won the
Philaretian literary award.
Playhouse Presents ""Quality Street
Mr. Pratt Presents
Piano Recital
Mr. Stuart Pratt, member of the
Meredith College music faculty, pre
sented a piano recital on Wednesday
evening, November 3, in Jones Audi
torium. Mr. Pratt’s program was
composed entirely of Beethoven
numbers, including Sonata quasi
Una Fantasia, Op. 27, No. 2; Sonata
Waldstein, Op. 53; Andante Favori;
and Sonata, Op. 57 (Appassionata).
Receiving his A.B. degree from
Hartwick College, Mr. Pratt later
attended the Philadelphia Musical
Academy where he obtained a B.M.
After he had received his Master’s
in Music from the Syracuse Uni
versity, Mr. Pratt studied with Marta
Siebold, Hugo Kaun, Walter Schar-
wenka, and Egon Petri; and he spent
two year^ in Berlin. He has been on
the Meredith faculty since 1942 and
is now head of the piano department.
Two New Members
Join TWIG Staff
With this issue. The Twig recog-
. nizes two new staff members, Bar
bara Sellers, managing editor, and
Barbara Snipes, feature editor. Bar
bara Sellers is a sophomore from
Cherryville, North Carolina, and
Barbara Snipes is a freshman from
\ Dunn.
Do you like to see your writing
in print? If you do, we suggest re
porting for The Twig as a solution.
See the editor if you are interested.
If you and your suitemates are
carrying on a heated discussion
about some matter, why not write
a letter to the editor and get your
views into print?
jThirty-four Seniors
Practice Teach
This Semester
Thirty-four seniors are practice
teaching this semester in seven
teen different schools. Teaching in
high school are Margaret Brunson
at Millbrook, teaching art; Mary
Alice Simmons, Needham Brough
ton, art; Ann Adams, Cary, busi
ness; Kathleen Clemmons, Needham
Broughton, business; Sandra Peter
son, Needham Broughton, English;
Ellen Moore, Needham Broughton,
English; Margaret McArther, Hugh
Morson, history; Raye King, Cary,
math; Clara Bunn, Cary, general
science; Vivian Stanley, Needham
Broughton, home economics; Clco
Jones, Needham Broughton, home
economics; Joan Allen, Methodist
Orphanage, home economics; Lela
Mplyin, Millbrook, home economics;
Virginia Mumford, Garner, home
economics; Patty Melvin, Cary,
home economics; Virginia Kime,
Needham Broughton, home eco
nomics.
The following girls are teaching
in grammar schools: Rebekah Way
at Myrtle Underwood, grade 2;
Marjorie Stowe, Cary grade 1; Mar
garet Ingram, Thompson, grade 2; ■
Dorothy Hunt, Emma Conn, grade 1;
Mary Askew, Boylan Heights, grade
1; Faye Leach, Murphy, grade 2;
Patsy Brooks, Boylan Heights, grade
2; Cynthia Mahler, Fred Olds, grade
2; Sarah Mangum, Cary, grade 2;
Betty Ball, Fred Olds, grade 3;
Betty Best, Eliza Pool, grade 3; Da-
phine Mayton, Cary, grade 3;
Lorna Staples, Longview Garden,
grade 4; Ann Hamrick, Sherwood-
Bates, grade 4; Effie Sneeden, Bar
bee, grade 5; Joyce Bailey, Boylan
Heights, grade 5; Ruth Jeanne Al
len, Wiley, grade 6.
itroTn VprnI'w* *n.‘he play are pictured Ernie Faust as Valentine
Brown, Verna Wooten as Phoebe Throssel, and Ada Lou Worth as Susan Throssel.
Faculty Members
Attend Conference
In Winston-Salem
Members of the faculty attending
the North Carolina College Con
ference, November 3, 4, 5, in Win
ston-Salem, were Dr. Carlyle
Campbell, Dr. L. A. Peacock, Mrs.
Vera Tart Marsh, Mrs. Lillian
Parker Wallace and Miss Louise
Fleming. Dr. Campbell is president
of the College Conference this year.
He is also president of the Southern
Association of Colleges and Second
ary Schools, which is an honor to
him and to Meredith College.
On Thursday Mrs. Marsh at
tended the annual meetine of the
AJ^^UAL PLAINS
ARE EIVDERWAY
Work on the Oak Leaves is go
ing on in full force. The artist is
now making tentative sketches from
which the cover will be selected.
During November Dr. Cooper will
take pictures of various clubs and
organizations.
Snapshots of students and faculty
are being collected for use on the
snap-pages. If you have any which
you would like to have used, give
them to Peggy Jo Williams or Betty
Ball. ^
North Carolina Registrars’ Associa
tion of which she is a past-president.
This year she served as chairman of
the Nominating Committee.
Tonight the Meredith Playhouse
opens a two-night presentation of
James M. Barrie’s comedy Quality
Street.
The leading roles are held by
Verna Wooten as “Phoebe Throssel”
and Ernie Faust as “Valentine
Brown.” Cathy Atkins as “Patty,”
the maid, and Ada Lou Worth as
“Susan Throssel” have the other
main roles. Rounding out the cast
are James McKay as “Ensign
Blades,” Susan Moss as “Miss Marj'^
Willowby,” Shirley White as “Miss
Fanny Willowby,” Kay Johnson as
“Miss Henrietta Turnball,” Edith
Johnson as “Miss Charlotte Parrott,”
Joseph Hall as the “Recruiting Ser
geant,” Jack Ferry as “Lt. Spicer,”
Donnie da Parma as “Arthur,”
Salem Bullard as “William” and
Carol Peacock as “Isabel.”
The following summary of the
play appears in the play books:
“Quality Street is a cup of ex
quisite comic-delight. Set in Eng
land, about 1SOO, it is alive with
elegant humor and wit. There are
several maiden women in the action,
some of them a bit sour and curi
ously officious. But the one named
Phoebe, with the plain face, is a
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Founders’ Day
Is Observed
Eiqhl- Seniors in Who's Who
Handrails Given
To Meredith
Mr. J. D. Wilkins of Greensboro,
a member of the the Board of
Trustees, recently donated several
pairs of handrails to Meredith. The
handrails, of black iron, have been
erected by the steps which lead to
the ground floor of Jones Hall.
TOP, Hpp.,
Allen, Ball, Earnhardt,
Calloway, Cottrell, MeLean,
Peeler, Peterson Chosen
Ruth Jeanne Allen, Betty Ball,
Phoebe Barnhardt, Becky Calloway,
Ernestine Cottrell, Shirley McLean,
Bess Peeler and Sandra Peterson
were chosen by the Student Govern
ment Council and the faculty to
be included in Who’s Who in Amer
ican Colleges. They were chosen
on excellence and sincerity in schol
arship, leadership and participation
academic ac
tivities, citizenship and service to
the school, and promise of future
usefulness to business and society.
Ruth Jeanne Allen, an education
major from Creedmoor, is president
of the Athletic Association and the
Silver Shield. She has previously
been secretary and treasurer of that
organization, a reporter for The
Twig, and vice-president of the
Granddaughters’ Club. Senior versa-
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Harmonica Playing
Delights Audience
On Tuesday, November 2, the
Meredith student body, faculty,
alumnae, and friends observed the
46th annual Founder’s Day of the
school. In the absence of Dr. E. Mc
Neill Poteat of the executive
committee of the college trustees.
President Campbell led the opening
devotion. Pointing out that all who
have had a part in the promotion
of the spirit and meaning of a true
college are in a great sense among
its real founders, he called attention
to the alumnae who have passed
away since last Founder’s Day.
Chancellor Robert B. House of
the Univepity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in his address spoke of
the three distinct factors which have
made Meredith what it is today.
These important factors are the
spirit of pioneering, of work and
of play. He delighted his audience
by accompanying his themes with
these appropriate “notes” on the
harmonica—“O Suzanna,” “Casey
Jones” and “Peek-a-boo, You Ras
cal You.” In the course of his speech.
Chancellor House showed that, hav
ing been bom one year after the
founding of Meredith, he had been
associated with the school from its
beginning.
Dr. Mary Lynch Johnson, head
of the English department and
author of a forthcoming history of
the institution, presented a page
from this history. In it she paid trib
ute to Thomas Meredith, Baptist
leader, whose name the college
bears. In 1838 he presented to the
Baptist State Convention a reso-
ultion concerning the establishment
of a “female seminary of high
order.” However, not until many
years later was anything done about
the resolution.
Miss Beatrice Donley, director,
led the chorus in special music and
responses for the service.
Late in the afternoon, new faculty
members and the Senior Class were
entertained at a formal reception in
the college parlors. Of special in
terest to the guests was the portrait
of President Campbell, presented by
the student body last spring and
recently placed in the Rose Parlor.