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THE TWIG
April 22, 1955
To a New Staff
It is the time of year for us “old-timers” to step down and turn the
Twig over to new blood. At such a time there are many things that can
be said. I could be very sentimental, and certainly I am, at leaving be
hind something that has meant so much to me this year. I could hand out
advice to the incoming staff, or I could use this last chance to present
my pet peeves. The important thing now, however, is not my feelings or
advice, but the Twig itself. The Twig is not a creation for editors and
staffs to enjoy; it was created for all the students and faculty at Meredith.
Consequently, let’s push the sentiment aside and see what is ahead.
Individually, contributors to the Twig will be forgotten, but what they
contribute—ideas, plans, hard work—will be left for the next group ot
workers to build on.
Any college newspaper should present a challenge to its staff and an
opportunity to all students. To my staff, may I say “thanks for accepting
this challenge; and to Mish and the new Twig staff, here is your oppor
tunity and your challenge to carry the Twig forward.
Spring Slump
As you have probably already discovered, April is a particularly
dangerous month for that condition known as the “spring slump.” As the
weather gets warmer, all sorts of outside activities suggest themselves, and
the inevitable happens. We stack our books in the corner more and more
frequently and confidently declare that May is ages away and that catch
ing up will be no problem. In the meantime, our grades take a downhill
plunge and our professors begin to look at us reproachfully. As a further
complication, those weekends which we have carefully earmarked for
concentrated studying, are suddenly filled with interesting other possibili-
ties, and a struggle begins between duty and pleasure. If, as it often the
case, the latter wins, we wake up on Monday morning feeling slightly
desperate and solemnly resolve to do better in the future. The future, it
seems, is May. The rest of the story is old and familiar. There is always
the last minute rush, the resulting wear and tear on nerves, and more
solemn resolutions. The moral, of course, is to keep up with j/our work
and to keep your sanity.
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor: . . ., .
They’re at the posts! Some one hundred rooters wait -breathless tor
the outcome ... the gates are opened—off they go! They pour out in
frantic mobs to what? No, this isn’t the Storming of the Bastille or even
the Kentucky Derby; this is the dining hall of a certain college for young
ladies in eastern North Carolina, on any Wednesday night or Sunday
noon.
Really, it’s no joke. Here we are, grown women, ranging in age from
seventeen to twenty-two, and we can’t even act like civilized human be
ings, for fear we won’t get a chance at some of that lovely starch we’re
always griping about. And we don’t stop at galloping and gobbing, we
just can’t seem to stand calmly waiting for everyone to come in so we
can offer an astoundingly short thanks to God for the blessings of the
day no, we just must get those plates around and our coffee cups tilled,
so we won’t have to wait long to start throwing the bowls of meat and
potatoes at each other.
Maybe I’ve exaggerated some—but not much. The point is this, some
thing has to be done about our conduct in the dining hall before we can
ever even expect to be treated like the intelligent young women we so
violently insist that we are, rather than the half-starved animals we have
shown ourselves to be. Let’s prove what we can be, shall we?
Interested Observer
Editor’s Note: I have heard many comments about our dining hall
behavior, and I am publishing this letter because we need to tear what
it says. However, we prefer for you to sign your letters and hope that
you will do so from now on.
Pbsockied GoBeCicito
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BreaUtast Beauties
(From ACP Parade of Opinion)
Men, if you’ve ever wondered
how your future wife will look early
in the morning, you should get a
job as a waiter at one of the women’s
dormitories.
First there is the type of woman
who gets partly dressed for break
fast. She appears with a scarf tied
around her pin-curled hair, wears
slippers that she donned as soon as
she jumped from bed, wears no lip-
stock or makeup whatsoever
Boyish-cut hair styles are a
definite advantage for dormitoty
women. You see, no combing is
necessary before you go to break
fast.
However, many of those with
flowing locks don’t bother to con
ceal their bobbypin artistry in the
morning. They meander into the
dining room with hairdoes that look
like barbed wire swinging in the
breeze.
Enough of hair fashions. Let’s
consider make-up now. Whoever in
vented lipstick should be given an
honorary Nobel prize. Without this
soft rouge, all women would look
like newly discovered Egyptian
mummies. I don’t mean to discredit
mascara, powder and rouge.
Makeup should be applied care
fully and meticuously to look
natural. Perhaps women wait until
they become more wide awake to
tackle this morning chore.
Then there is the actual dress.
One woman appears daily in a West
Liberty sweatshirt, navy blue skirt,
and slippers. Another has a habit of
slipping oh a skirt over her pajamas.
Footwear consists of slippers or just
plain socks with no shoes.
The only wideawake people in
the dining room are the waiters, so
if you want to get a first hand look
at a situation to be encountered in
your future life, get a job as one
in one of the women’s dormitories
FACULTY
(Continued from page one)
and Miss Grimmer will have cro
quet well under control. Dr. Mary
Yarbrough and Mrs. Collins will be
taking on apy bridge champs . . .
and so down the list of faculty
names. At the volleyball and softball
games the students will meet stiff
competition.
It is also predicted that we will
have 100 per cent participation by
Meredith students! How else can we
beat this faculty group that is con
stantly the WINNER in our Play-
days!
Students Take Part
in B.S.U. Conference
The First Baptist Church of Lex
ington, North Carolina, will be the
lost church for the annual BSU
Spring Officers’ Planning Con
ference, April 22-24. The program
begins at 7:00 p.m. on Friday even
ing with the theme “Baptist Dis
tinctives.” Dr. Culbert G. Rutenber
of Eastern Seminary in Philadelphia
will speak about “What Baptists Be
lieve.” The devotional periods will
be led by Dr. E. M. Poteat of Ra-
eigh. Dr. Stewart Newman of South
eastern Seminary in Wake Forest
will discuss “The Role of Baptists in
Modern Christendom.”
Meredith students are taking an
active part in the program. Nancy
Drake, Joyce Hamrick, and Mar
jorie Jackson are serving as ushers.
Shirley MacLean and Ann Tun
stall have planned the Installation
Service to be participated in by the
new state officers on Sunday morn
ing. Shirley Spoon has charge of the
fellowship hour on Friday night.
Shirley MacLean and Nancy Young
will be conference conveners. Anne
Parr is Meredith’s nomination to the
new state council for the office of
publicity director. There will be 24
Meredith students attending the
Conference, both retiring and new
council members.
ISH’S
ESSIN’
It is with a mixture of sadness
and joy that I undertake to write
my last column — sadness because
have really enjoyed poking non
sense and a few solemn ideas at you
for the past two years — joy
because the girl who is taking over
will perhaps revive this corner some
what!! So don’t be too jubilant that
I’m leaving, ’cause I’m really not,
you know, as I fully intend to haunt
you next year — although I’ll be
writing (if you call it that) under
the guise of editorials. You’re not
escaping me after all!!!
Since this is my last column, I
don’t think I’ll gripe as I usually do,
although I certainly have seen some
crazy things going on around here
lately. Oh, well, ’tis spring — and
people always act nuttier than usual
at this time of year. The spring
weather is nice, isn’t it, or rather
wouldn’t it be nice — that is, if it
would ever stop raining!!! The other
day — the day we got back from
spring holidays, in fact — I over
heard one freshman tell another,
“Well, just like I thought — it was
raining when we left and here it is
raining when we get back!!” I think
we’d all agree to that, but believe it
or not, Easter Sunday was a beauti
ful day in Raleigh — which proves
that sometimes it is nice. So, don’t
give up hope.
Now that Vocational Interest
Week is just over, I hope that we all
profited from it. We’re lucky to have
such a program set up and the more
we take advantage of it, the better
it is for us.
In the midst of these very rushed
days, when one brief glance at the
college calendar is sufficient to as
sure one that this Meredith College
is indeed a busy place, it is to be
hoped that we don’t become so im
mersed in sun-bathing and other
extracurricular activities that we
forget our studies.
Well, the days of Mish’s-Messin’
are over, so I’ll take my leave and
let another, who will undoubtedly
be more .capable, take over. ’Bye
now!
A Hillsdale College sorority
scheduled an informal party recently
starting at 5 a.m. and extending un
til 9 a.m.
The coeds called for their dates in
the wee hours of the morning, en- -
tertained them with a floor show,
danced to recorded music and then
served orange juice, doughnuts and
coffee.
CHORUS PRESENTS
(Continued from page one)
spring concert consists of four
madrigals: “How Merrily We Live”
by Michael Este (arr. by Holst);
“The Nightingale” by Thomas
Weelkes (arr. by Leslie); “The Sil
ver Swan” by Orlando Gibbons
(arr. by Manney); and “Matona,
Lovely Maiden” by Orlando di
Lasso (arr. by Saar).
Three French numbers comprise
the second section: “Le Rossignol”
by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco; “Si
tu le veux” by Charles Koechlin; and
“Chere Nuit” by Alfred Bachelet.
Randall Thompson’s Rosemary
cycle is next, consisting of four
choruses for women’s voices:
“Chemical Analysis,” “A Sad
Song,” “A Nonsense Song,” and
“To Rosemary: on the methods by
which she might become an angel.”
Following this are: “Hymn to the
Night” by Richard Donovan; “Bal
loons in the Snow” by Jeanne Boyd;
“What a Plague are Women” by
Gerald Kechley; “Wake Thee, Now, '
Dearest,” a Czecho-Slovak Folksong
arranged by Deems Taylor; “Bread
Baking” by Bela Bartok; and “Fog”
by Louise Stone.
The concert closes with “Music”
by Gardner Read and “The Magic
Hour,” also by Gardner Read.
CURTAIN CALLS
By PAT ALLEN
We’re coming into the home
stretch, angels, and before we know
it, the school year will be at an end.
The Playhouse has had a good
year; its officers and members have
worked hard, but you have helped
it to be what it is today, too.
We’ve carried out many plans;
we have grown, but we haven’t
carried out all of our plans and we
haven’t finished growing! . This
year’s president, Anne Jane Bar-
brey, has done a commendable job,
and hats off to her! Many thanks,
too, to Mrs. da Parma, our adviser,
director, and guide, for the hours'
she has spent in helping us.
It is a good feeling to know that
next year the Playhouse will be in
good hands with Cathy Atkins hold
ing the reins as president. Let’s give
her our support and wholehearted
co-operation during the coming
year. Good luck!