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T THE TWIG January 13, 1956 1* MANY THANKS On behalf of the student body, the Twig staff wishes to express ap preciation for the liberal grant given to Meredith College by the Ford Foundation. We are indeed honored to be included in the long list of privately supported colleges throughout the nation that received a portion of this grant. Since the money received will be used to raise the salaries of the faculty, Meredith will be able to maintain its quality of teachers in the future. Again we say “thanks” to the Ford Foundation. MEREDITH MOVES TO WINSTON? Will Meredith College be moved to the Reynolda Estate in Winston Salem? Since this question is pertinent to the student body, the Twig staff feels compelled to state its views on the subject. However, since no definite plans have taken shape, it is wise to exert caution and to make no binding commitments. There is, of course, much to be said for either view, but the Twig staff is inclined to the opinion that Meredith should remain at its present lo cation. One of the “ifs” echoed frequently is “if Meredith moves, will it be united with Wake Forest College?” We think that Meredith and the North Carolina Baptists would suffer from this action, for the state can surely use both institutions. Also we feel that Meredith’s importance lies in its being a small, liberal-arts college for women. There is a decided place in our present-day society for such a school. Of course, the cultural Lpects offered to us in this center of education and the friendliness which we find in the Raleigh community impel us to remain. With the expansion plan underway to make Meredith bigger and better, it would be foolish to move for the sake of a “beautiful campus.” Frankly, we are rather proud of our own campus, and hope that Meredith College will always be located in Raleigh. A Distressing Situation We on the Twig staff are frankly worried because we receive so few Letters to the Editor and hear so little discussion on pertinent subjects from the student body. What has happened to us? Don’t we care any more? Where is our sense of responsibility? There are quite a few problems and situations that could at least be clarified if we would openly express our interest in them. We hesitate to express our ideas in public and thus lose one of our best ways of getting action. The other Thursday in chapel when Betty asked for suggestions to aid the Student Government in their workings on campus, very few people were even interested enough to bring up anything. Letters to the Editor are always gratefully accepted at any time, but we dislike pleading for student response. It is not right to have to beg people to think. Are we mature students or not? Letter to the Editor Knowing that I speak for nearly all Meredith girls, I want to give pen and ink praise to Miss Sparks, our new dietician. I am delighted to break my two and a half year old habits of griping about Meredith food and of making so many pilgrimages to Roy’s, S & W, and the Bee Hive. The variety in our meals since Miss Sparks canfe has been miraculous. I’ve only two requests of her—please keep it up, and please don’t leave! Carolynne Harwell. NEWS FROM THE DAY STUDENTS By BETTE NOCK After a wonderful Christmas va cation, we came back to find three new day students in our midst. Wedding bells rang for Jeannette Saunders, now Jeannette Lucas, and for Betsy Tippett, now Betsy Mal lory. Both are now day students, as is also Mary Lou Harrington. Five day students are the proud wearers of new diamonds. Shirley Olive, who received her ring Christ mas, is engaged to a home-town boy who will return to Germany this week to remain until March of 1957, when he will be discharged from the army. They plan to be married after Shirley’s graduation in May of that same year. Marlene Reep, who became formally engaged this Christmas season, also, has planned no definite wedding date as yet. Her fiancee, Bobby Caulberg, works in Raleigh. ft,? ciub no™ Colton English Club SheNANigans By NANCY JOYNER Happy New Leap Year, girls! Here’s your chance, so don’t neg lect it. You realize, of course, that an opportunity such as this comes only once in a college generation. Of course, there are some draw backs. You ask a boy for a movie date, and what happens? You have to pay for it! I know. I understand that Pat Greene is starting off with a bang. She’s already proposed twice and was refused both times. I only hope that the two proposals were issued to the same lucky guy. Happy hunting ground, everybody. Meredith certainly hasn’t been lacking in publicity from our good morning paper. What with receiving a Ford Foundation grant and this business about Winston-Salem, we’re been managing to make head lines. What is even more exciting is the fact that we don’t have to burn Dr. Campbell in effigy to get in the news. There’s news here on campus, too. Have you ever seen the like of so X many shiny third finger left hands that have been floating Ptosocinlpd GoOefSiate FVo» EDITORIAL STAFF Margaret Anne English Assistant EdVtor Barbara Sellers Managing Editors Mary Fran Oliver, Millie Harvey, Jane Maynard Feature Editor ---Pam Hartsell Art Editor Rachel Turnage Sports Editor ...Cathy Yates Student Editor * Bette InOCK Reporters—Ruth Sperling, Eunice DuRant, Sally Crook, Bartara Snipes, Rovilla Myers, Betty Esther Smith, Pat Corbett, Page Sink, Kay Johnson, Clara Hudson, Ann Griffin, Ann House, Ann Woodside, Polly Ann McLamb _ Faculty Sponsor Dr. Norma Rose BUSINESS STAFF Asst Circulation Managers Betty Lou Walters, Mary Frances Fulp Advertising Staff—Lois Pond, Joyce Foster, Julene Barlow, Patsy Ann Dixon, Pat Kerley, Annie Ransom ^ r, t>- t. Typists Maxine McRoy, Gertrude Bissette, Dons Daughtry, Polly Rich ardson, Marlene Reep, Ruby Britt, Beverly Rowand, Marilyn McArthur Chief Typist Frances Clark Circulation Manager in Charge of Mail ---Kitty Holt Faculty Sponsor Miss Lois Frazier 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, Novembe*, February. March, AprU, and May; monthly during the months of September, December, and January. The 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 ^^Mere’diuf 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 member^ip in the Association of American Colleges and the North Carolina College Conference. Graduates of Meredith College are eligible for membership in the American Association of University Women. The instituUon is a liberal arts member of the National Association of Schools of Music. Subscripton Rates: $2.45 per year The Twig is served by National Advertising Service, Inc., 420 Madison Ave., New York 17, New York. around here recently? I understand that at Western Carolina there is an annual “Sadie Hawkins Day.” In the afternoon they have a race, and that night the Daisy Maes drag their Li’l Abners to a party. Ac cording to recent statistics, some thing like that around here is not only impossible, it’s unnecessary. Speaking of statistics, did you know that twenty-five per cent of State College students are married? Student chapel last week was pretty good, wasn’t it? I like the idea of being able to voice opinions and suggestions. And I thought that it was a mightly good suggestion about getting a TV in one of the parlors. Maybe if we voice that opinion loud enough somebody will hear it. Well, gals, exams are coming, but I would just as soon not comment on them. In fact, I would prefer to forget all about ’em. For you who are taking French, remember the little 57 variety dog who, when he met two French poodles named Fifi and Mimi, introduced himself by spelling out his name, P-h-y d-e-a-u-x. During the year the Colton Eng lish Club has been studying regional literature. Programs on this theme have been planned by Liza’Culber son, the vice-president. Dr. Mary Lynch Johnson told of her trip to England at the first meeting and since then literature of islands, Greenwich Village, and Christmas in Shakespeare’s time have been topics of interest. The members of the English Club decided at their November meeting to plan a Christmas project that would be in keeping with the spirit of Christmas as well as one that would be of literary benefit. They collected twenty books and twenty- one dollars which they donated to the Richard B. Harrison Library in Raleigh on the occasion of the. library’s twentieth anniversary. The club officers are Connie Woodall, president; Liza Culberson, vice-president; Helen Frye, secre tary and treasurer; and Cathy Yates, publicity director. Sociology Club Students Attend Eeumenieal Conferenee By SHIRLEY SPOON “You mean to say you spent half of your Christmas holidays going to a conference? I don’t see how you could!” This exclamation from an acquaintance made me stop and think of tht purpose of the Ecumeni cal Student Conference on the Christian World Mission, held De- eember 27 through January 1, 1956, on the Ohio University campus in Athens, Ohio. Three thousand five hundred stu dent delegates from 400 colleges and universities were called to con sider the place of the Christian Chureh in the present world situa tion. The delegates from Meredith were Katherine King, Shirley Craft, Gwen Maddrey, and Shirley Spoon. We realized that every area of the world, including the United States, is in revolution. Each country is torn by social, political, economic, and religious factors. There seems to be no reconcilation between men —except through the love of God as revealed through his Son. The task of the Church, the community called together by God, is to pro claim His Gospel of reconciliation to the peoples of this world. This conference was made mean ingful as a study of world condi tions because there were 1,275 international students from 80 countries of the world. They could speak for their lands because they knew of the situations there. There was no emotionalized ap peal at this conference. We studied world conditions and we saw the responsibility of the Church. The results were personal dedication in accordance with one’s knowledge of the needs of people and our ability to help them through service in the Church and through our vocation. There were many activities at the conference — worship, addresses, Bible study, discussion of different areas of the world, vocational semi- The conference is held once The Soeiology Club and the YWA met together fcfore Christmas and entertained ten children from the Goodwill Center in the Hut. The girls from both organizations read stories and acted them out for the children, and later they joined with the children in singing Christmas carols. During the evening, Santa Claus came and gave out gifts. Many of the members of the Soci ology Club dressed dolls which were distributed by the Raleigh Lion’s Club to children of needy families for Christmas. Earlier, the club had prepared a basket of food to be sent to an elderly couple in Raleigh. nars. in each student generation—allow ing four years for planning the con ferences. Two of the speakers were Kenneth Scott Latourette, professor of history at Yale Divinity Sehool, and Dr. John MacKay, president of Princeton Theological Seniinary. The music included spirituals, hymns from many nations, and music from an international choir. One of the special features was the Dramatic Episode; one of the five presentations was a scene from Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot. The films Martin Luther and Cry, the Beloved Country were shown during the afternoons. Each afternoon the Ohio University Play- shop presented Everyman—the best college production I have seen. We shall never forget this con ferenee. The results will undoubted ly be world-wide in scope as these students continue to convey the message of reconciliation through their campus days and through their life vocation. Mademoiselle Holds Fiction Contest % Student League The Student League of Women Voters held its January meeting on Thursday the 5th of January in first Faircloth parlor. Lewis Bromfield and David Reid from the University of North Caro lina and David Hanna and Harry Haven from Duke University were guest debaters. The debate was, re solved “The Merger of the AFL- CIO Unions Constitute a Threat to Present Political Allignment in America.” Pat Bowen conducted the debate. Now under way is Mademoiselle Magazine’s College Fietion Contest for 1956, open to any woman un dergraduate under twenty-six years old who is regularly enrolled in a degree-granting college. The two winners will receive $500 each for the serial rights to their stories and publication in Mademoiselle. f
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