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PLAYDAY!
THE TWIG
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JUNIOR-SENIOR
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Volume XXX
MEREDITH COLLEGE. RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1956
No. 9
Vocational Interest Week
Held Here, April 13-20
Vocational Interest Week, which
began April 13 and ended today,
April 20, was opened last Friday
at a general session in the audi
torium by Dr. Neill A. Rosser, who
spoke on “Choosing a Vocation.”
This week was designed to help
all the students choose a voca
tion suited to their interests and]
abilities and was set up so that the
students could hear one speaker
each day from 10:20 until 11:05.
Throughout the week the faculty
was available for group and indi
vidual conferences.
The following groups met during
the week:
Monday, April 16 — Art — De
signing, Interior Decoration, Teach
ing, Commercial Art and Art for
Culture. Education — Kindergar
ten, Primary Education, Elemen
tary and High School Teaching.
English — Radio, Television and
Journalism.
Tuesday, April 17 — Home
Economics — Dietitics, Teaching
Clothing, Home Demonstration, and
Interior Decoration. Religion
Missionary Work, Religious Educa
tion, Religious Music Work. For
eign Language.
Wednesday, April 18 — Music
Teaching and Public School
Music. Mathematics — Statistics
and Teaching. Sociology — Social
Work, Recreation, and Civil Serv
ice.
Thursday, April 19 — Business
— Secretarial, Accounting, Re
tailing, Buying, Advertising, and
Teaching. Physical Education —
Therapy and Recreation. History
— Archives, Teaching, and Gov
ernment Service.
Friday, April 20 — Armed Serv
ices. Psychology — Clinical, Psy
chiatric Work, and Personnel Work.
Science — Laboratory and Medb
cal Technicians and research. Li
brary Work.
Crowning
Highlights
of Grimes
Ploy Dov
and Reveley
Activities
STUDENTS ATTEND CONVENTIONS
Glenda Eddins has returned from
Mississippi State College for Women
in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where
she represented Meredith at a con
ference of the Southern Intercol
legiate Association of Student Gov
ernments. The meeting was held
April 12-14. The S.I.A.S.G. is com
posed of Southern girls’ schools and
Meredith is a member. This is the
meeting for which the planning con
ference was held on Meredith cam
pus this past fall.
The National Student Association
Carolinas-Virginia Regional Con
ference is being held at North Caro
lina State College April 19-21.
Meredith is not a member of this
group but will send Anita Hiatt,
Glenda Eddins, Shirley Strother, Jo-
Ann Selley and Faye Wheeler as
delegates. Others are planning to
sit in on the discussion groups. The
theme for the conference is “Cain-
pus Problems and the Student’s
Role in These Problems.”
® Mary Edna Grimes and Dr.
' David Reveley were crowned Duch
ess and Duke, respectively, of the
annual Faculty-Student Play Day,
which was held yesterday, April
19, in the court and on the athletic
field.
The crowning which took place
at 2:00 p.m. on the dining hall
steps opened the day’s activities.
Next, members of each dorm, the
faculty, and the day students com
peted in the best cheer and best
song contest which preceded the
volleyball game.
During the afternoon, individual
and group challenges were played
off with the softball game conclud
ing the matches.
A picnic supper in the court was
followed by the potato and sack re
lay races and announcement of win
ners in all events of the day.
After the day’s release from stress
and strain (books, lab, practicing,
etc.), everyone returned to her
studies with memories of the day
and happily anticipating next year’s
Play Day.
“You bet I can stand on my headi-longer than ^ (This contest is
t3^ical of those taking place yesterday.)
Mary Jo Pinner and Lenora Nye
were Meredith’s representatives at
the NCEA meeting in Asheville,
March 22-24.
They attended general meetings
and F.T.A. meetings which pre
sented a panel on problems in stu
dent teaching and how to solve
these problems. They also attended
the F.T.A. banquet and the square
dance after the-general session on
Friday night.
In addition to hearing many
good speeches concerning educa
tion, Mary Jo and Lenora enjoyed
the beautiful mountain scenery!
Speakers During Commeneement
Are Announced
Plans Made For
Hospitality Weekend
- Society Night
John Angers McLeod, A.M., Mars Hill College
^^l^OO^m^^ - Baccalaureate Sermon
’ The Reverend Vernon B. Richardson, A.B., B.D., D.D.
Pastor, University Baptist Church
Baltimore, Maryland
- .Baccalaureate Address
Edwin E. Aubrey, Ph.D., D.D.
Department of Religious Thought
University of Pennsylvania
Neptune’s Court Is Theme of
Annual Junior-Senior Banqnet SPRING FEATURES RECITALS
Two junior piano majors, Pat
Corbett of Kenly and Diane Morris
of Creswell, will give a joint recital
on April 21. They are both students
of Stuart Pratt.
Guests at the head table busily engaged in conversation at the Junior-Senior Banquet.
Pat has been a member of the
AA Board, the Monagram Club, the
McDowell Music Club, the MENC,
the Playhouse, the College Chorus,
and the Twig and the Oak Leaves
staffs. Diane is a member of the
SAI musical fraternity.
Pat will play numbers by Mo
zart, and Chopin while Diane has
chosen Bach, Mozart, Bloch, and
Chopin.
Marshals for the recital include
Ann House, Sanford; Alyce Pickel-
simer, Leaksville; Ruth Haines,
Parkton; and Erma Styles, Burns
ville.
Wide-eyed freshmen watched
from their windows as upperclass
men and their dates walked through
the court to the Junior-Senior Ban
quet last Saturday night, April 14.
A sign above the dining hall
door welcomed them to ‘ Neptune s
Court.” Big green sea horses and
various other forms of underwater
life were placed all about, and oc-
topi (you call them octopuses?) —
pink ones, red ones, green ones,
and blue ones — graced the tables.
Each Meredith mermaid received a
red rose corsage and each boy
matching boutonniere.
Junior Class President Faye
Wheeler gave a toast to the seniors
and Senior Class President Charlene
Smith responded. Nancy Young
welcomed the dates and Bobby
Noel gave the response for the
dates. The invocation was given by
Dr. Campbell.
The Statesmen of N. C. State Col
lege furnished music during the din
ner. A scene from Neptune’s Court
(Continued on page four)
On Monday evening, April 23,
Marjorie Thore of Pilot Mountain
will give her graduation voice re
cital accompanied by Margaret Ann
English of Cary. Marjorie is a stu
dent of Miss Beatrice Donley.
During her stay at Meredith,
Marjorie has been Sergeant-at Arms
of the Astro Society, vice-president
of the SAI musical fraternity, secre
tary of the Sigma Pi Alpha language
fraternity, president of the German
Club and College Chorus. She is
also a member of the French Club,
Triple Trio, McDowell Music Club,
Granddaughters’ Club, MENC, the
American Guild of Organists, anc
is on Dean’s List.
Marjorie’s program includes in
the first group: “Non Piu di Fiori”
from La Clemenzo Di Tito, Mo
zart; “O Sleep, Why Dost Thou
Leave Me?” from Semele, Handel;
and “The Sailor’s Song,” Haydn.
The second and third groups
will include “Verborgenheit,” Wolf;
'Wie Melodien Zieht Es Mir,”
Brahms; “Ein Traum,” Grieg;
Marienlied,” Marx; “Caecelie,”
Strauss; “Automne,” Faure; “Deux
Melodies Hebraiques,” Ravel;
Pleurez, Pleurez mes yeux,” from
Le Cid, Massenet.
“A Feast of Lanterns,”* Bantock;
E’en as a Lovely Flower,” Bridge;
“A Nun Takes the Veil,” and “Noc
turne,” Barber; “Canterbury Fair,”
Leslie - Smith; and Rachmaninoff
“Floods of Spring” comprise the
group preceding the closing selec
tion which will be “Dich, Teure
Halle” from Wagner’s Tannhauser.
Marshals for the recital will
be Ann Cashwell, Parkersburg;
Marilyn Green, Albemarle; Carolyn
Hall, Goldsboro; Elizabeth Jones,
Asheville; Kay McCosley, New
Bern; and Margaret Tucker, Cleve
land, Ohio.
On April 27, the graduating pub
lic school music majors, Maxine
Grant, Marshville; Margaret Jo
Jernigan, Tabor City; and Margaret
(Continued on page four)
Along with preparations for
Meredith’s May Day celebration
have come those for her annual
Hospitality Weekend, May 5-6, for
which time high school seniors in
terested in attending Meredith next
year have been invited to be guests
of the college. Most of these girls
will arrive and register Saturday
morning, and they will be en
tertained by a horse show early in
the afternoon, in which the college
equitation students will perform,
followed by the traditional May Day
ceremony. The Meredith College
Chorus will present its annual spring
concert that night, after which the
student government is planning an
open house honoring the prospec
tive Meredith students.
The visiting girls will be acconi-
panied the next morning by their
hostesses for the weekend to the
churches of their choice.
As the month of May draws
closer, everybody is thinking about
the big annual event. The high
school students who will be our
guests on that weekend will form
an integral part in helping us cele
brate May Day.
Meredith Graduate
To Appear in Play
Becky Calloway, who was presi
dent of the student government at
Meredith College last year, will ap
pear in the Raleigh Little Theatre’s
new comedy. The Fifth Season,
April 27 - May 4.
The play by Sylvia Regan cen
ters around the wholesale dress firm
of Goodwin-Pincus. Menasha Skul-
nik and Richard Whorf were seen
in the Broadway version in 1953.
Miss Calloway will take the role
of Miriam, a young but very under
standing bookkeeper. Off stage, she
is employed as a copy supervisor
for Radio Station WPTF.
For the first time in the history
of the United States, the number
of students registered in American
colleges and universities will pass
the 3,000,000 mark this year, ac
cording to the commissioner for edu
cation.
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