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Page two THE TWIG May 20, 1955 AND THUS THEY LEAVE . . . If you can imagine a person jubilant with joy and yet morose, you can imagine a senior at this time of year. Perhaps you are that senior—and in that case, you know that sad-glad feeling. After four years of college, you are about to begin a new phase of your life, similar—yet strikingly different—from your previous experiences. We underclassmen can only imagine and envy your newly-acquired status; that portion of life is still awaiting us. But you. Senior, you are at the peak of a mountain; whether you climb to loftier peaks or slide down into the deepest valley, depends entirely on you. We can only stand back and applaud your every effort and your every success. To say that we will miss you next year is trite and well-worn, but it seems to be the only way to express our regret at your leaving. The Twig is especially going to miss the contributions of the loyal seniors on the staff, but it will also miss recording activities performed by this-or- that senior, now passing into the ranks of the alumnae. The Twig wants to congratulate you and to wish you much success and happiness. May we utter this ancient prayer in your behalf. Traditionally, it is to be said to someone whom you never expect to see again. We hope to see you again, but if we do or not, we can only hope for the fulfillment of this prayer for you, dear Senior. “May the wind be at your back. May the road rise up to meet you. And may God always hold you in the palm of His Hand.” BUT WE REMAIN HERE . . . As we dedicate this last issue of our newspaper to the departing seniors, we must ever realize that we underclassmen are not leaving, too. As yet, we have not fulfilled the time appointed us, for much work remains to be done and it would be folly to gaze upon the end of this year as the end of it all. The end of anything, whether it be a month, a season, or even a day, is a good time to evaluate our work. Have we done our best this year— or have we knowingly and perhaps a little guiltily let things slip—until we realize suddenly one day that things are just beyond our reach and it is too late to retrieve them? Do we realize the seriousness of the under taking of a college education? If we have any worthwhile “stuff” in us at all, we will keep going. We’ll return and we’ll work hard, growing tired, often displeased and irritable, and yet aware (if we have any perception at all) that our task is as yet undone. Just the realization of that fast fact should carry us through many a difficult time. AND WE MUST STRIVE FORWARD . .. The fact that Meredith girls are capable of assuming adult responsi bility to a great extent was demonstrated in the attendance at the Sari Biro recital. In the future, we shall command more respect because a large number of us attended without having been required to do so. It would be remarkable and indeed a great step forward if we could continue to demonstrate our maturity in all our doings on campus, for example, in bettering our chapel conduct and improving behavior in lunch lines. In fact, to ever succeed in having all the privileges we so desire, we must not slacken in our duties but must definitely demonstrate to the faculty time and time again that we are always interested in proving our worth as adults. Fbsodcied CbBaisicte PVwi EDITORIAL STAFF Margaret Anne English Assistant Editor Barbara Sellers Managing Editors Mary Fran Oliver, Millie Harvey, Jane Maynard Feature Editor Pam Hartsell Art Editor Rachel Tumage Music EditorZ'.r. Adair Whisenhunt Sports Editor Cathy Yates Photo Editor Corinne Lowery Columnists Nancy Joyner, Margaret Tucker Day Student Editor to be elected Reporters — Ruth Sperling, Eunice Durant, Sally Crook, Barbara Snipes, Rovilla Myers, Peggy Mott, Bette Smith, Pat Corbett Faculty Sponsor Dr. Norma Rose BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Harriett Andrews Advertising Manager Becky Miles Circulation Manager Margaret Jo Jemigan Asst. Circulation Manager Mary Frances Fulp Advertising Staff — Betty Kellum, Lois Pond, Janet Dodson, Barbara Churchill, Hazel Ayscue Typists — Maxine McRoy, Gertrude Bissette, Doris Daughtry, Polly Rich ardson, Marlene Reep, Ruby Britt, Beverly Roland, Marilyn McArthur Chief Typist Frances Clark Circulation Manager in Charge of Mail Kitty Holt Entered as second-class matter October 11, 1923, at post office at Raleigh, N C under Act of March 8, 1879. Published semi-monthly during the months of October. November, February, March, April, and May; monthly during the months of September, December, and January. Th* Twig is the college newspaper of Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina and as such is one of the three major publications of the institu tion the other two being The Acorn, the literary magazine, and The Oak Leaves, the college annual. ^ Meredith College is an accredited senior liberal arts college for women located in the capital city of North Carolina. It confers the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Music degrees. The college offers majors in twenty-one fields including music, art, business and home economics. Since 1921 the Institution has been a member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The college holds membership in the Association of American Colleges and the North Carolina College Conference. Graduates of Meredith CoUege are eligible for membership in the American Association of University Women. The institution is a liberal arts member of the National Association of Schools of Music. Subscription Rates: $2.45 per year flh bviT a. MaiVs "FeacK ete€4 V,i.s O'Y ijuWa.T’5 a. KeaMc-fi SheN AN igans For Seniors Only Deer Seenyers, It really doesn’t make a whole lot of difference to us whether you leave or not. We can get along just as well without you as with you. Probably better. Just because we freshmen were sort of green when we got here last fall and we thought that that crew of busy people with “Upperclass men” written all over them in neon were gods to bow down to doesn’t necessarily mean that we still think that way. Not necessarily. Even if it was you seenyers who got Phis and Astros off to a bang-up good start this year with that crazy Rush Week, and even if you acted really responsible in those respon sible positions that you held, right from the start there were possibly other people on campus who might have been able to do the job. Possibly. We suppose you know that it hasn’t made any difference to us that you’ve acted just great to every body else on campus, even when you were busy practice-teaching and giving graduation recitals and art exhibits and picking out trousseaus. We suppose. Of course you know that we’ve taken for granted things like your patiently chaperoning the “frosh” at the first of the year and your will ingness to help us get situated in a new situation. Of course. And it is completely irrelevant to us that you seenyers did a terrific job of turning out the three publica tions this year and running all manner of other things that I don’t even know about. Completely ir relevant. Besides all that, you know that I don’t mean a word of it, and we’re going to miss you like everything next year. Thanks for being our Seenyer Class. Sincerely, A Freshmun NEWS FROM OTHER SCHOOLS U.N.C.—Carl Sandburg, distin guished American author and poet who now resides near Flat Rock, will give the commencement address at the University of . North Carolina on June 6 as Ae final event of a three-day program. Davidson — Metropolitan opera star Blanche Thebom appeared on the artist series at Davidson on May 6. The Citadel — On April 12, President Eisenhower visited the Citadel where he was honored with the presentation of a Doctor of Law degree. Duke — For the second year in a row ' the Duke Debating Team placed first in the Atlantic Coast Conference, winning three of a pos sible four divisions at the final de bate sessions held at Chapel Hill. Twig Subscriptions Available to Seniors Subscriptions to the Twig for next year are now being taken from seniors who would like to keep up with the events of the school in the year immediately following their graduation. Subscription rates are $2.45 per year. Any member of the Twig staff will be glad to take sub scriptions. KAPPA NU SIGMA TO HOLD MEETING On Saturday morning. May 28, Kappa Nu Sigma will hold its an nual spring meeting at 9:30 in the Alumnae House. That night at the Society Night exercises, the winner of the Helen Price Scholarship for freshmen will be announced and new junior and senior members into the society will be recognized. Memorable Quotes (Editor’s note: from Motive) Sir Anthony Eden, speaking at a banquet in New Delhi: “The worst stage for international politics to get into is the stage when there is no true meeting of men’s minds — a stage when for one reason or an other the impact is marked either by conditions of propaganda or of life, whichever it may be ... I am reluetant to mention the fact that I have now been more than ten years Foreign Secretary . . . But if there is one conclusion which more than another has come to me .over that period it is never to allow ... in ternational difficulties of any par ticular problem to convince you that an attempt to solve them is not worth making.” GOOD LUCK ON EXAMS! Open Letter to College Graduates (From Secretary of Labor James Mitchell) My congratulations on the com pletion of your college education. Your country is in critical need of your talents at this juncture of his tory and your position in rendering them is particularly advantageous. The fact is: there are fewer of you this June than in any recent past summer and the demand for your talents is greater than it has re cently been. The general picture of material wealth in the United States remains impressive. Our borders from ocean to ocean, from the Rio Grande to the St. Lawrence, encompass only 6 per cent of the world’s land. The people within those boundaries total only 7 per cent of the world popu lation. Yet of every 100 newspapers in the world 27 are published here. Forty per cent of the world’s electric power is produced here. We drive 76 of every 100 automobiles in the world and use 58 of every 100 tele phones. |Of all the world’s television and radio sets we enjoy 31 per cent. These are just a few items in the vast comparative list. The success of our material ad ventures is founded firmly on the rich tradition of liberty, the ethical and moral values that are part of the American way of life. This tra dition is strong and insists that morality be the measure of all actions, public and private. You are a part of that tradition. It is part of your responsibility to see that heri tage is kept safe and passed on to your children in the same condition in which you received it from your fathers. Our material well-being is the re sult of a scheme of things in which your place is of importance. The creative and inventive talent of a few cannot be translated into use ful objects for the many without an array of experts, skilled workers, specialists, supervisors, management heads, production planners, and the like. It is to the men and women who can abstract, visualize, en vision, direct, promote, and invent that the country turns for continu ing skill and direction. It is on the people who can translate vision into reality the country depends for its future health. Whatever your place is in this dichotomy, it is important. In the steady stream of June graduates that flows into the work ing force each year, your position is unique. Your class totals 264,000. Five years ago the college graduates numbered 434,000 and five years from now they will reach 325,000 —rising thereafter to possibly 600,- 000 in 1970. If you put these figures in graph form, you will see that you are situated at the bottom of a U-curve. You are in demand because job opportunities are high and graduates to fill them are low. One marked change in the economic picture that will affect your working lives continuously is the steadily greater emphasis placed upon the specialist. The population has doubled since 1900, but in creasing skills, new industries, new processes, new materials, and ex panding fields of knowledge have quadrupled the numbers of people in the professions. This growth will continue as our society continues to create demands that only a specialist can meet and as those specialists ex pand the boundaries of knowledge even more. This should make a change in your attitude toward your degree. It is more a calling card to a pro- bility. To become the kind of trained professional person our economy needs and requires, addi tional training is necessary. Some of it will consist in more schooling, most of it in practical experience within your field. Your degree from college marks you as the kind of upon whom greater respon sibilities for the well-being of the country will fall, and those respon- (Continued on page three)
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