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J HAIL TO THE MAY COURT THE TWIG WELCOME, VISITORS Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College Volume XXX MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1956 No. 10 Jean Puckett to Be Crowned May Queen IRIS MERRITT WILL BE MAID OF HONOR Meredith Is Host To New Students May 5 and 6 is Hospitality Week end on the Meredith campus, when new students will be the guests of the college. The old students will act as hostesses to the guests for the events of the weekend. The girls will arrive on the cam pus Saturday morning and will reg ister between 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon. Following lunch there will be a horse show at 12:30 p.m. At 4:00 the May Queen and her court will be presented, followed by the crowning of the queen. 5:30 p.m. will mark the dinner hour for the guests and resident students. Sunday morning the guests will go to church with their hostesses on special buses leaving between 9:00 and 9:30. Sunday dinner will mark the official ending of the weekend. The various committees are: general chairman: Mickey Porter; open house: Annette Lee; hostesses: Mary Edna Grimes;, placement: Nancy Young; registration: Marcia Horrell; invitations: Nancy Reece; programs: Hilda Myers; and name tags: Martha Bone and Eunice Du- Rant. B.S.U. Conference Held in Asheboro The North Carolina B. S. U. spring planning conference was held April 20-22 at the First Baptist Church in Asheboro. The theme of the conference was “The Chris tian Student in a Community of Learning.” Conference speakers were: Dr. J. Glenn Blackburn, pastor of the Wake Forest Baptist Church at Wake Forest; Dr. D. Swan Ha worth, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Lumberton; Dr. Robert Kicklighter, pastor of the Blackwell Memorial Baptist Church in Eliza beth City; Dr. Sam Cannata, an in tern at Columbia Hospital, Colum bia, S. C.; David K. Alexander, Stu dent Editor, Baptist Sunday School Board, Nashville, Tennessee; and Dr. Roger Crook, one of Meredith’s faculty members. Workshops, led by state B. S. U. directors and student workers, were conducted Saturday morning and afternoon for the various campus officers to plan for next year’s ac tivities. During the business con ference Saturday afternoon, the state officers and summer mission aries to Alaska, Mexico, and to the Indians in the far \yest were elected by the student body. Ronnie Crow of State College was elected president of the State B. S. U. Council and Nancy Young, Meredith’s B. S. U. president, was elected secretary. Meredith is proud of Lois Dobson, who received ap pointment as summer missionary to Mexico. Saturday evening. Dr. Bruce Whitaker, state B. S. U. sec retary, led the installation service for the new state officers. •vTi'- ' - ■ ■ ■ 0 Jean Puckett will be crowned May Queen tomorrow afternoon at four o’clock in the college court. Iris Merritt is her maid of honor, and the other members of the court are Mickey Porter and Lorine Smith, Lucy Meade Atkinson and Jeanne Tong, Bettye Sue Knott and Peggy Mewborn, and Eleanor Cox and Caroline Miller. Queen Jean will be crowned on a flower bedecked platform in front of Brewer dorm. The crown bearer will be her little brother, Steve Moore. The flower girl will be Mary Lib Grantham, niece of Iris Mer ritt. WUNC-TV will televise the proceedings. The classical Greek theme will be carried out in the decorations 1 and in the dances under the direc tion of Dr. Claire Weight. Jean, a home economics major from here in Raleigh, was an at tendant last year. She is in Who’s I Who in American Colleges and Universities and is president of the Day Students. This year she re ceived the senior superlative of “Best All Around Day Student.” She has taken an active part in all phases of campus life and has, in the last few weeks, become a resi dent student. Iris, her maid of honor, is an elementary education major from Chapel Hill. She is chief marshal this year and also treasurer of the Tyner F.TA. Chapter. 5 .» In the center, the May Court surrounds Queen Jean Puckett. Comer insets depict various May Day activities at Meredith. Let’s all hope for fair weather! New Counselors Make Plans For the Coming School Year Dr. Quentin Q. McAllister par ticipated in a symposium in Cleve land, Qhio, on campus of Case In stitute of Technology on March 29, 1956. The subject was “What Are the Needs in Professional Educa tion for the Next Ten Years?” Par ticipating were leaders in education and representatives from industries and various pubUcations. The sym posium was held jointly by Case In stitute and the College English As sociation. ' Jo Ann Selley, chief counselor for next year’s freshmen and transfers, met with the new counselors on Thursday, April 19, to instruct them in their duties. The group worked with suggestions left by this year’s counselors as to improve ments for next year’s work. It was decided that more emphasis would be put on social regulations in the handbook studies and that study units for council meetings will be revised to include more varied and suitable topics. Another meeting for the , new counselors will be held on May 7 to plan for Qrientation Week next fall. The transfer counselors are: Mary Ann Braswell, Janet Fulcher, Nancy Long, Peggy Mott, Ruth Putnam, Gail Ward, Becky Mur ray, and Marlene Reep. The freshman counselors are: Lillian Brandon, Betsy Bullock, Eunice DuRant, Glenda Eddins, Sandra Evans, Ann Fry, Betsy Greene, Joyce Hargrove, Jo Anne Kendall, Carolyn Lane, Jackie Lewis, Mary Hannah Lewis, Bobbie Meeks, Barbara Muzzelwhite, Sally New ton, Jane Gwen, Gerry Parham, Jane Reid, Page Sink, Ann Sompayrac, Phyllis Spence, Iris Faye Sullivan, Peggy- Swain, Ann Thomas, Donna Ellington, Virginia Jones, Margaret Paris and Martha Dean. Freshman Enters State Speech Finals Barbara Sue Johnson, a fresh man from Danville, Virginia, has advanced to the state contest by virtue of winning three speech con tests. Her presentation of her origi nal speech, “Living Your Convic tions” gave her a victory at her local church. Forest Hills Baptist on March 11. The next step to wards the finals was at Tabernacle Baptist on March 30, where was held the associational contest, rep resenting seventy - one churches. After coming through this competi tion, Barbara won at the regional contest at Siler City on April 20. The state contest will be held at Fruitland, a Baptist camp, on June 21. HORSE SHOW SET FOR TOMORROW As in previous years, the horse show will be on May Day as a part of the Hospitality Weekend pro gram. This year, plans have been made to begin the show at 12:30—■ a little earlier than usual. Miss Barbara Cole, a writer for the Saddle and Bridle, will serve as judge; Miss Miriam Rabb will be the announcer; and Mr. Belcher, the ringmaster. The show will consist of Begin ner, Intermediate, Pleasure, and Advanced classes. Wilma Owens, and Kitzi Miller will be among those in the Beginner class; Lou Winstead, Mary Edna Grimes, Frances Taylor, and Ann Fry, in the Intermediate; Corine Lowery, (Continued on page three) School of Christian Studies To Be Held At Meredith in June The School of Christian Studies, a meeting that occurs only once a year and at only one place in this area will be held on the Meredith College Campus, June 11 through 15. The purpose of these Christian studies is to bring thoughtful min isters and laymen together in study and discussion with leaders who are making major, scholarly contribu tions to Christian life and thought. Three outstanding speakers have been chosen for this summer’s study. Dr. J. B. Weatherspoon, a professor at Southern Baptist Theo logical Seminary at Louisville, is one of them. He was born in Dur ham County and attended Wake Forest College and the Southern Seminary, where he earned several degrees. He is a professor, a pastor, and an author. The theme of his discussion is undecided. Dr. Wilhelm Pauck, professor at Union Theological Seminary, is the second of these speakers. Dr. Pauck was born at Laasphe, Germany. He has served as a professor and has written several books. His topic will be “The Religion of the Prot estant Reformers.” The third of these speakers is Dr. John A. Mackay. Dr. Mackay, now serving as President of Princeton Theological Seminary, was born in Irverness, Scotland. He has at tended four colleges, founded one college, received fourteen honorary degrees, including one from Seram- pore College in India and another from Budapest Reformed Theologi cal Academy in Hungary. He is the author of books in both Spanish (Continued on page three) Other Attendants The senior attendants are Lorine Smfth, a sociology major from Louisburg, and Mickey Kimbrell Porter, a math major from Char lotte. Lorine has served as a trans fer counselor and is a member of the Tyner F.T.A. Chapter, the So ciology Club, Y.W.A. and Sigma Pi Alpha. Mickey, social standards chairman on the Student Govern ment Council and senior marshal, is on the deans list, in Who’s Who, and active in the Canaday Math Club. Lucy Meade Atkinson and Jeanne Tong are junior attendants. Lucy is a primary education major from McKinley, Virginia, and is ac tive in the Spanish Club, the Tyner F.T.A. Chapter, Y.W.A., and is next year’s chief marshal. Jeanne is from Singapore, Malaya, and is a home economics major. She is a member of the Sigma Pi Alpha and the Home Economics Club. Gxford and Goldsboro are the respective home towns of the sopho more attendants, Bettye Sue Knott and Peggy Mewborn. Bettye Sue, a business major, served this year as Phi sophomore marshal and is a (Continued on page two) COLLEGE CHORUS TO GIVE CONCERT Qn Saturday evening. May 5, 1956, at 8:00 p.m., in Jones Auditorium, the Meredith College Chorus will present its annual spring concert. The chorus is under the direction of Miss Beatrice Don ley and is accompanied by Nancy Perkins. For the first three numbers, the chorus will present Sound the Trumpet, by Purcell; We Hurry With Tired, Unfaltering Footsteps, by Bach; and God, Have Mercy, from Psalm 51, by Hosse. These numbers will be followed by music of a lighter vein. The Ensemble, ac companied by Mr. Charles Turn and Miss Suzanne Axworthy, will sing the Leibesliedes Waltzes, by Brahms. The concert will climax the May Day festivities. College library Raleigh, N. C.
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