WORK ON
STUNT!
THE TWIG
WORK ON
STUNT!
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Volume XXXIII
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., OCTOBER 10, 1958
No. 1
Remodeling Done During Summer
During the summer, the Meredith
CoUege remodeling project was
completed. The rotunda in Johnson
► Hall was filled and the area fur
nished as a lobby for the adminis
tration building. The space that had
been corridor around the old ro
tunda was utilized for extending the
business office, for the new dean of
students offices, and for the new
switchboard. With the new switch
board, the telephone system on
campus changed. No longer is it
necessary to contact the operator
in order to make calls. ^ There is
now a dial system for both on-
campus and outside calls. Space in
the rotunda area was converted into
vaults for records of the Dean,
Registrar and Bursar’s offices. The
Post Office has been moved from
Johnson Hall to a new wing of the
Student Supply Store. The east end
of Johnson Hall is now entirely of
fice space with vice-president Rob
ert Deyton and Mrs. Harry Cooper
of the news bureau occupying the
space resulting from the moving of
the Post Office and switchboard.
The Bee Hive, or Student Supply
Store, has been enlarged, making
a larger social area, a new stock
room, more display space and a
larger office.
Work has also been done in the
dormitories. All the rooms were
painted and first Vann was com
pletely renovated. The three suites
used for the home management
house were converted into student
suites and the old dean of students
office was converted into a suite for
Miss Louise Fleming, dean of stu
dents.
In line with the remodeling is the
work on Hunter Hall, the new
science building. It is hoped that
classes can meet there by the end
of the 1958-59 school year.
Dean's List Released
Following is a list of the names
of 73 students who made Dean’s
List, which was released by Mrs.
Vera T. Marsh, registrar of the col
lege, in June. This list is effective
for the fall semester, 1958. Included
in this list are names of students
registered for at least twelve hours
who have completed and passed all
courses with a number of quality
points equal to twice the number
of semester hours taken plus three.
Balfour, Sheila Mary; Barger, Jan
ice Aileen; Barnes, Mary Eliza
beth; Bass, Madaline Thomasinc;
Beals, Martha Jean Clifford; Booth,
Barbara Jean; Brandon, Lillian
Elizabeth; Britt, Barbara Anne;
Britton, Anne Elizabeth; Brown,
Mary Ann; Campbell, Nancy Carol;
Clarke, Dorothy Elaine Burleson;
Compton, Barbara Ann Martin;
Carpenter, Ellen Harriet Conley;
Cooler, Elsa Louise; Cooper, Mary
Helen.
Davis, Linda Foushee; Dempsey,
Miriam Delores; Dixon, Doris
Marie; Eddins, Glenda Jane; El
lington, Donna Anne; Foy, Belinda
Jane; Gilbert, Emily Anne; Gilles
pie, Rebecca Jane Turner;. Gold
smith, Joy Alice; Haigh, Lois
Elizabeth; ’ Harris, Patricia EUen;
Hoffler, Miriam Baker; Hudson,
Clara Lucille; Hunter, Nancy
Spruill; Hurst, Margaret Lorene;
Hutchins, Elizabeth Anne; Hutchin
son, Penelope Rae.
Johnson, Patricia Ann; Jones,
Lula Mae; Joyner, Nancy Carol; Kel-
Eleven Join
Faculty and Staff
Meredith welcomes eleven new
faculty and staff members to the
campus.
Mrs. Bess Averre, Library As
sistant, graduated from Meredith as
Bess Peeler, class of ’55, and
worked for two summers in the
dean’s office. Mrs. Rose M. Melvin,
daughter of president J. D. Messick
of East Carolina, comes to our art
department from Josephus Daniels
Junior High, where she was art su
pervisor. Mrs. Melvin has also
served as art supervisor of the Ra
leigh City Schools. Mrs. Jeanette R.
Smith, new secretary at the Alum
nae Office is in Raleigh because
her husband is at State.
Mrs. Katharine R. Cate, new
member of the language depart
ment, has been a State Department
translator at the American Embassy
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has
announced radio programs in Span
ish and Portuguese. Mr. James Cly-
burn has just completed graduate
study at the Julliard School of
Music; and Mr. James H. Eads, Jr.,
comes to our biology depart
ment from Murfreesboro, Tennes
see, where he taught at Middle Ten
nessee State College.
Both of our nurses are new this
year. Mrs. Edna Hurst was direc
tor of nurses in the Roanoke Rapids
hospital, and Miss Stella Jones was
at Greensboro College last year.
Phi’s Win Rush
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Bet Taylor and Jane Owen with Mascots.
IRC PLANS MEETING
The International Relations Club
announces that its speaker for the
October meeting will be Dr. Laidlas
Reitzer of the State College history
department. Dr. Reitzer, who
specializes in European History,
will speak on the subject. “What
Should the United States Do in a
Changing World?”
Dr. Reitzer was born in Buda
pest, Hungary, and is a graduate of
tjie University of Chicago. He at
tended law school in Budapest and
is also a graduate of the Institute
of International Affairs in Geneva,
Switzerland. Before coming to State,
Dr. Reitzer taught at the graduate
school of the University of Chicago.
The International Relations Club
invites the faculty and students to
hear Dr. Reitzer at 7:00 p.m., Oc
tober 16, in the Alumnae House.
Miss Lu Leake, the Assistant
Dean of Students, comes from Wil
liam and Mary in Virginia, where
she was B.S.U. Director. Dr.
John M. Lewis, who serves as
B.S.U. Director here in addition to
his teaching duties in the Religion
Department, was at Southern Bap
tist Theological Seminary in Louis
ville before coming here. Meredith
also has a new House Director, Mrs.
Tom Walters.
Meredith College Board of Trustees
Faculty Travels
This Summer
Meredith contributed to the num
ber of Americans abroad this sum
mer. Mrs. MaBelle Smith, assistant
dean of students, and Miss Vivian
Farlowe, who taught biology last
year, left at the close of summer
school for a European tour. Dr. and
Mrs. Harry Cooper, heads of the
music department and news bureau
(in that order) were in London the
last six weeks of the summer where
Dr. Cooper studied with his former
organ teacher. The Coopers took
week-end trips to European spots
of interest, but lived in London
the entire period. The modern lan
guage department also traveled. Dr.
Suzanne Freund visited her brother
in Rio, Brazil, for a month. Miss
Lucy Neblitt, on a year’s leave of
absence to study, was in Italy. Mr.
William R. Ledford traveled in the
Latin American countries.
Back in the States, Dr. Norma
Rose of the English department and
Dr. Leslie Syron of the sociology
department studied at Columbia.
Dr. Ethel Tilley of the department
of psychology and philosophy at
tended a two-week conference on
“The Philosophy of Religion” at the
University of Michigan. She spent
the rest of the summer at Lake
Chautauqua, New York, writing
and studying. Dr. Lillian Parker
Wallace, head of the history de
partment, attended the National Phi
Beta Kappa convention in New
/York and assisted on the program.
Dr. Wallace also attended a two-
week work-shop for In School Tele
vision teachers at the University of
North Carolina. She was consultant
for the world history group at the
planning session.
TRUSTEES MEET
The Meredith College Board of
Trustees met at the college Tues
day, September 30. The group dis
cussed the budget for the year and
reviewed the expansion program.
The board voted to raise Dr. Leslie
Syron of the sociology department
from assistant to full professorship.
The Committee of Seventeen
from the North Carolina State Bap
tist Convention met with the trustees
and administration. Also, members
of the delegation met with a group
of students for an informal discus
sion of student ideas and sug
gestions.
Decision Day
Ciimaxes Rush Week
The Philaretian Literary Society
claimed the most freshmen and
transfers and was named Decision
Day winner. At chapel Bet Taylor,
Astrotekton president, and Jane
Owen, Philaretian president, wel
comed new members into their
societies. Old society members filled
the middle of the auditorium and
new members, each wearing a bit of
yellow or purple, her chosen so
ciety’s color, entered the auditorium
to the society song.
The week before Decision Day
was filled with activities sponsored
by the societies, each hoping to win
new students.
Rush activities began Friday with
an Astro picnic in the hut with en
tertainment and group singing fol
lowed by the Phi Carnival in Society
Hall where all the earmarks of a
real carnival were present and fra
ternity boys were special guests.
Monday and Wednesday were of
ficial Phi days and the Phi’s began
their activities with an original play,
written by Susan Lewis, and pre
sented Monday evening in the col
lege dining hall. The theme was
“Southern Charm” and the setting
was a lawn party on a Southern
plantation during the days of the
Civil War. The highlight of the pro
gram was Miss Philaretia’s capture
of Colonel Milton’s heart. On
Wednesday Phi juice was served all
day on the breezeways and enter
tainment by Kay Johnson in the din
ing hall evidenced the Phi rush. The
big event of the day was a bonfire
held in the hut. The Phis closed
their rush Wednesday night by a
candle serenade in the halls and by
singing the Philaretian song around
the fountain in the court.
The Astros began their Tuesday
and Thursday rush functions with
morning serenades. They closed
Tuesday’s activities by a circus,
complete with clowns, balloons,
loose-rope walkers and purple peo
ple eaters, held in the dining hall.
Late that night freshmen received
refreshments in the halls and at
tended family altars given by the
Astros. Thursday afternoon a day-
student and transfer coke party
was held in the blue parlor.
Joanne Penny entertained with
songs during the evening meal. Boys
from their fraternities and the so-
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Home Management
House Rented
Due to the increased enrollment,
it was necessary to convert the home
economic? practice house on first
Vann into student suites. The col
lege has rented a house in the 1700
block of Hillsboro Street for the
home management class. The girls
in the class and Miss Jennie Hanyen
of the home economics department
live in the new practice house and
commute to class.
ENROLLMENT TABULATED
The Registrar announces the to
tal enrollment figure for the 1958
FALL SEMESTER as listed below:
Seniors 113
Juniors 140
Sophomores 165
Freshmen 217
635
Special Students 36
671
Resident students 555