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THE TWIG
December 17, 1954
Attention: Young Writers It's Frog Season Again
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The North Carolina Association
of Young Writers! Sounds wonder
ful, doesn’t it? We, students in vari
ous high schools and colleges all
over North Carolina who are inter
ested in writing, have joined to
gether to form this association. But
we represent only a fraction of in
terested students; it is you who com
plete the whole. It is your enthusi
asm which will keep this association
alive and growing.
The idea for this association was
born in the mind of Mrs. Gloria
Cartwright Collins; and the organi
zational meeting, held on November
20, 1954, at Needham Broughton
High School in Raleigh, was due to
the efforts of Mrs. Collins and the
Needham Broughton creative writ
ing class under the supervision of
Mrs. Phyllis Peacock. As a result
of this organizational meeting, we
have:
1.
2.
3.
A name: the North Carolina As
sociation of Young Writers.
A purpose: to stimulate interest
in writing among North Carolina
students and to help them better
express themselves in words.
Officers: President, Alma Gra
ham of Raleigh and Greensboro;
Vice-President, Johnny Cocke of
Asheville; Corresponding Secre
tary, Margaret Starnes of Ra
leigh; Recording Secretary, Cindy
McMichael of Durham; Treas
urer, Jerry Matherly of Greens
boro.
4. Eleven tentative districts within
which to function.
5. Yearly state meetings and at
least two meetings within each
district.
6. A constitution of which the
above are provisions.
At the meeting Dr. William
Blackburn of Duke University spoke
on “Writing and Reading.” A high
school panel—composed of repre
sentatives from Asheville, Charlotte,
Durham, Greensboro, Smithfield,
Winston-Salem, Wilmington, and
Raleigh — and a college panel —
composed of representatives from
Duke University, Woman’s College,
Wilmington College, Meredith Col
lege, and the University of North
Carolina—discussed methods of or
ganizing.
There are eighty-one charter
members representing eleven high
schools and five colleges.
Until officers from the eleven dis
tricts are elected, school representa
tives will be the members of the
temporary Representative Board. If
this board proves valuable, it might
be established officially by a consti
tutional amendment. The purpose
of the school representative is to
carry out the association’s present
concerns: to stimulate interest in
writing in the schools of the state, to
set up writing clubs and classes
where there are none, and to meet
within the district for reading of
manuscripts, discussion, and criti
cism.
Here, at Meredith, although we
have an English club and an aca
demic class in creative writing, we
do not have a club whose specific
and intense purpose is to encourage
and stimulate the writing efforts of
the students. Such a club is not im
possible! It needs only you, the
students, your interest, your en
thusiasm! A further announcement
concerning the organization of such
a club will be made in chapel—
soon; if you are interested, join!
The North Carolina Association of
Young Writers needs our enthusi
astic efforts, and North Carolina
needs stimulated young writers!
Liza Culberson
Carole Whedbee and Erma Styles show their sentiments toward their frog.
By ANNE HOWARD
This month we have with us
special guests visiting us from yon
swamps. These guests are preserved
ones with a strange “air” about
them. These “smelly” visitors can
be seen in the lab of yon science
building where they are now re
siding. One need not go into the
STUDENTS WIN
ART AWARDS
Ernestine Cottrell won first place,
Margaret Brunson second place, and
Sally Drake third place for paint
ings exhibited at the State College
Union Building this past Novem
ber.
With a Little Imagination
Meredith Gires Co-Ed
WAKE FOREST
Mention Wake Forest and most
girls automatically say boys. Of
course, it is co-ed now, but the sign
out front still reads Wake Forest
He never dreamed he’d save so much
going home by GREYHOUND
Baptist College for Men, founded
in 1834.
As you enter the campus through
the big stone arch, the first thing
you see are the magnolias. Many
pinnings have take place under
these trees, and last year when the
benches were moved out from under
the branches, the cry was universal.
Even some of the faculty who re
membered the time they once spent
under “Magnolia 13,” the most
famous of them all, joined in the
fight. Magnolias are so much a part
of the Wake Forest scene that some
of the students who were distressed
about the lack of them on the new
campus journeyed to Winston to
plant a small magnolia.
However, magnolias aren’t the
only trees on campus. According to
one biology professor, “There are
more different species of trees on
the Wake Forest campus than any
other small area in North Carolina.
Since freshmen have to learn both
the common and scientific names of
each specie, it’s not unusual to find
a sign bearing the name tacked on
a tree.
The oldest building on campus is
the library, but its builders in 1876
probably never realized the use fu
ture students would find for the sec
ond story. All winter the lights burn
late as law students cram for exams,
but with the coming of spring the
lights are turned off, and the law
students, aided and abetted by bi
noculars, spend their time observing
the co-eds sun bathing on the
balcony.
Next to the library is Wait Hall,
the administration building. During
football and basketball season this
is the scene of great activity. The
night before big games pep rallys
are held in the circle out front. After
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everyone has given three cheers for
each team member and assured the
cheerleaders at least six times that
the Deacs are going to win, they all
grab torches, form snake dance and
bunny hop lines, and parade around
campus singing “Oh, Here’s to Wake
Forest.” The next night, if the Deacs
win, everyone piles back to Wait
Hall to take a turn at ringing the old
bell which was once used to call
students to the fields back in the
days when entrance requirements
stated that each student should
bring a hoe and shovel.
Basketball is the sport at Wake
Forest, and right now that’s about
all you’ll hear. A lot of jokes have
been made about the “crackerbox,”
Gore Gymnasium, but in the past
two years the cry of ‘“Poor Cow
College” and “Poor Carolina” have
echoed out across campus several
times. This year the Demon Dea
cons didn’t do so well at their first
meeting with the Wolfpack, but you
can count on the fact that they’re
already saying, “Just wait till next
time!”
I could go on and on with my
reminiscing, but most of mine would
mean nothing to you. My advice to
you is to get out and get to know
some of the Wake Forest boys. Not
only will they be wonderful friends,
but through them you’ll get to know
the college and have some wonder
ful memories of your own.
Joy Curtiss
DUKE
When, in April, 1925, Mr. Duke
first visited the forest in search of a
suitable location for the university,
he remarked, “Here is where it
ought to be.”
So there it was located and here
we are in 1954, with a glorious
science building, however, to know
that they are aboding there. You
can just walk in the vicinity of the
science building, and the awareness
of their presence will hit you in
your “external nares.” In case you
haven’t guessed by now, it is frog
season.
Each table in the laboratory is
given at least four frogs. Each frog
has two lab partners to give him the
works. Each two frog surgeons, or
shall we say biology students, have
a special name for the stinking pa
tient. The one which really “scent”
me were Absess, Stinky, Cavity,
Pop-eyed, Gruesome, and Fatty
Body.
One day one of our visitors who
is alive, or maybe I should say was
alive, had an episode with Betty
Vance, the chief frog surgeon. She
grabbed him around the throat,
stuck her finger down the poor one’s
glottis and demanded that he chug-
a-rum. Who ever heard of a frog
chug-a-rumming? The statement that
really startled me and may bring
about an evolution was when Dr.
Lowry made the statement of the
year, and I quote, “Frogs cannot
carry on a conversation because
they cannot talk.” What a brilliant
deduction from our science depart
ment.
Seriously, though, we have
learned much about our little stinky
friends, and we who have carved
them to a fine pulp are hoping that
their little frog souls will go to the
happy frog hunting ground.
aREYHOUN
And to all
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football season behind and a trip
to the Orange Bowl in Miami yet to
come.
During the football season, social
life is in full swing at Duke; the
fraternity pledges are trying des
perately to please their brothers, so
that they may receive a few extra
pledge points; the open houses at the
fraternity section after the games
highlight the evening, and couples
dance to the ever so romantic music
of Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey at the
Shoe and Slipper dance.
As the weather gets colder and
football becomes just a memory un
til New Year’s Day, the students still
have another favorite pastime —
basketball. Duke Indoor Stadium
always has a full house; and, need
less to say, the students really put
fteir support behind the Blue
Devils.
Like any other college student,
the one who makes Duke his insti-
tution of learning must take time to
study. I m sure, however, if you will
stop a Duke student, he or she will
be more than pleased to take the
time to tell you about Duke Chapel
and the Sarah B. Duke Gardens
which are the pride and joy of every
^udent who attends Duke. The
Chapel draws many thousands of
visitors each year, who come from
to see
this Gothic structure.
the attraction
when the flowers are in their fullest
bloom m the early part of May. It
makes a romantic setting for the
biggest weekend of aU at Duke -
Joe College.
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