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October 31, 1958 THE TWIG Page three Students Work As Missionaries By PEGGY RATLEY Experiences oC the past summer will long be remembered by four of our Meredith classmates who spent their vacations as summer mission aries for the Southern Baptist Con* ventioo. Helen Parker served as a summer missionary in Memphis, Tennessee. Her appointment through the Home Mission Board of the Convention was to work as a vacation Bible school worker in Negro churches in the city. During the ten weeks that she sf^nt in Memphis she helped with schools in seven different churches, directing most of her ac« tivities toward the intermediate age group. Helen lived at the Y.W.C.A. and was also of service there as she helped establish a Y.W.A. group. Helen Carlton worked in Colum bus, Ohio. She was also appointed by the Home Mission Board and, as all the other girls, was primarily appointed for vacation Bible school work; but she did not work for the churches, but under the Conven tion in an effort to interest people of the area in a Southern Baptist church. After her Bible school work in the morning she took surveys in the afternoon and attended revival services at night. Helen worked with a girl from Florida and two boys from Georgia, and they lived in pas tors’ and missionaries' homes. Of ten they worked in tents or in back yards, and one of Helen’s most memorable experiences is the time that they worked in the Columbus slum area which has the highest crime rate in the city. During this same time Barbara Sue Johnson was working with Spanish-speaking people in San An tonio, Texas, as a student mission ary also appointed by the Home Mission Board. After directing Bible school activities in the morning, she visited during the afternoons in homes in the area. She learned to love Spanish food, for she ate in the homes of people in the churches, and they tried to excel each other in introducing her to their favorite dishes. And imagine going to one church service after another where nothing was spoken but Spanish! Far away was the last of our summer missionaries, Ann Allred, who spent the summer in Hawaii as a missionary for the Foreign Mis sion Board. Ann worked primarily on the two main islands, Oahu and Molokai. The first two weeks she spent in camp, acting as counselor for girls of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ancestry. The rest of her nine-week stay she directed vaca tion Bible schools in Hawaiian churches during the mornings and visited parents of her young peo ple in the afternoons. She usually donned a muumuu for her various activities and gatherings in the evenings. Ann says — as do each of the other girls — that her sum mer work was the most rewarding experience of her life. THE LIBRARIANS' VIRTUE IS PATIENCE By AMY BELL and CAROL PARK The key turns softly but with a definite click on the dimly-lit sec ond floor of Johnson Hall. The huddled masses hover near the double doors. Then the door heavily swings open. ... It is 7:01 p.m. and THE LIBRARY HAS OPENEOr Girls gallop at a pony like pace to the reserve desk where six copies of Marian Evans must be divided evenly among forty - two grabbing hands. As the dust clears, one is able to make out the faint outline of an ob ject draped over the gate in front of the desk. This "object” is the library assistant delegated to aid the library goers of that night. Meanwhile, in from the ranch (dorm) come the stragglers who approach the reserve desl^ with cau tion. The daggers coming from the library assistant’s eyes seem to indi cate that she has an idea that they want to check out one of the books which is in demand, and which will take considerable time to arrange. That problem aside, the next cry is, “What do you' mean, we can’t check Dummelow’s out overnight? It’s 7:30 already! Dr. Mac will die, he’ll simply die ..mumble, mum ble. The assistant snickers quietly to herself, but too soon. Next! “Are you sure this book is in the stacks? I know I’ve asked you seven times, but I just can’t find it.” Looks like a typical evening has begun! A big pat on the back goes to these great gals who can receive our “comments” so gracefully(?) The Last Laugh By MARY ANN BllOWN If you happen to be one of the unlucky Meredith girls who has an 8:30 class every morning, chances are by now that you’re pretty fed up with the whole idea. Forgotten are the favorable aspects of 8:30*5 which you saw last spring — the “if I didn’t have an 8:30 I’d sleep my life away.” (Now you wonder, so what’s so bad about sleeping one’s life away!) and the “I won’t have any afternoon classes, so I can sleep all afternoon.” (Sleep, on your hall? It’s like Grand Central Station — on a particularly noisy day.) For two long months you’ve been fighting the desire to throw your alarm clock out the window, vow ing that you’ll never again sign up for any class that meets at such an unearthly hour, and complaining about the harm that these early hours are doing to your health. Just ignore those so-caUed friends who laught at your troubles. If you’re lucky, next semester will find you fast asleep until chapel time — and they'll be the ones who’re complain ing. So cheer upj I hear the “he who laughs last” experience is very pleasant. ARCHEOLOGICAL FINDS DISPLAYED AT MEREDITH Objects discovered in excavations of a city, in fact, several cities, be neath the smalt Palestinian town of Mizpah, seven miles above Jeru salem, were on display by the re ligion department for several days, and slides of the excavation were shown to religion classes. The city is Tel! En Nasbah, the only site to have been excavated layer by layer. It Is of great significance in the study of the Hebrew religion, for the most prosperous settlement existed in the years after the fall of the United Hebrew Kingdom. Such thin^ as pottery, hand lamps, cosmetic containers, jewelry, tools, and even an old loot bath have been unearthed. They offer understanding not only of the peo ple, but also of the parables and illustrations used in the Bible. SERV-SELF FOOD MARKET 3828 Hillsboro Street MITCHEU'S MIR STYUNG • Cameron Villoge Roleigh, N. C. Phone: TE 4-8221 SENIORS BECOME REAL SENIORS By BOBBIE CARPENTER Now we are seniors! We have our caps and gowns! Meredith’s 1958- 59 seniors donned their graduation paraphanalia for the first time on Thursday, October 30, Founders’ Day. If to the casual observer of that illustrious group of soon-to-be- graduates those roMs seemed sim ply the conventional garb of a graduating class, then the observer has missed a lot. To us they’re symbols. They stand for the com pletion of four years of college life. They mean we’ve completed the course, passed lots of exams, and are embarking — on what we aren’t sure yet, but the robes mean we’ve tried to prepare for whatever it is. Of course, just to be realistic about the thing, they also mean that we spent hours in the gown room try ing to prove the law of averages — that some where back yonder when those robes were bought, there was somebody “just our size.” If Sallie Mae’s gown hangs somewhere just beneath her knees and little Ann's comes by the same proportion closer to the floor, then don’t be critical, there aren’t many six foot one or four foot eight lassies — we just happen to be an exceptional class. And, who knows, perhaps some doctor, or teacher, or mouther put the patch under the left sleeve. We are happy — we’ve almost arrived, to the point of beginning (or continu ing). And all the time and trouble of fitting gowns and going to class and doing homework and sacrificing week ends was worth it. And those gowns symbolize a victory of douWe worth — we’re not only almost alumnae, we’re almost Meredith alumnae. We’re proud, too. Students Beware... Faculty Has Winner An interesting item about the head of the psychology department was recently unearthed. While at tending the Altrusa convention in Tallahassee, Florida, Dr. Tilley en tered a contest and, much to her surprise, won a silver plate. The contest . . . Telling Tall Tales!!! ANNOUNCING “MADEMOISELLE’S” COLLEGE NEWSPAPER-MAGAZINE CONTEST A Mademoiselle award of S125 will be given for the best sludenl-written ar ticle to appear in an alumni magazine or a college magazine during 19S8. The money to be divided as follows; $50 to the magazine in which the winning entry was published. $75 to the author of the article. $150 will be given for the best faculty- or alumni-written article to appear in an atumni or college magazine during 1958. The money to be divided as follows: $50 to the magazine in which the winning en try was publi.shed. $100 to the author of (he article. SIOO will be given for the best student- written piece to appear in a college news* paper during 1958. This could includc editorials, columns, feature stories or even a particularly weli-written “letter to the editor.” The money will be di* vided as follows: $50 to the newspaper in which the winning article was pub lished. $50 to the author. How (o Submit Material Entries no more than three in each category) must be submitted in tear sheet form by the editor of the publication. They must be accompanied by the name and address of the editor and the name and address of the author of each article. Material must have been published dur ing 1958 to be eligible for entry. Entries should be postmarked no later than Janu ary I, 1959, and should be sent to “Col lege Publications Contest, Mademoiselle, 575 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New York.” Decision of the judges is final. The editors of Madetnoiselle re serve the right to publish winning entries with credit given to the college publica tion in which they first appeared and to buy other entries. You’ll Iiove It From The Quill, Queens College Each year college education ma jors venture forth to the battlefields of local grade and high schools — their uniform, a suit and heels; their badge, a bag lunch. Recorded hete are glimpses into the “strange, new life” of daily experiences, joys of human relationships, and the satis faction of mission accomplished . . . or unaccomplished. Eager acceptance of the student tcacher by her class “Hey, teach, how long are you going to be here?” Popularity: "Boy, I sure will be glad when our real teacher gets back.” Expression of confidence from the critic teacher; “I think you’re doing fine, but . . Personal interest of students: “How about a date?” Sympathetic understanding on the part of the class: “Miss Floyd, are you going to be in here all alone today?” Interest in learning: “Mr. San ders never gave us a pop quiz.” Humorous insight: “Miss Sharpe, is that Handel’s Water Music Suite music to bathe by?” Critic teacher’s concern for the student teacher’s development: “The first thing you should become acquainted with is the grading sys tem. Now, here are sixty-five term papers . . Display of intellectual curiosity: “Miss Rolston, is that a sack dress?” MAN-MUR SHOE SHOP Invisible Shoe Repairing TROY D. SMITH, Owner Dry Cleaning Service PHONE TE 2-7330 2516 Hillsboro Street Relaxed classroom situation in which progressive discipline devices may be employed: “Shut up!” Innocence of high school stu dents: “Me? I didn’t say anything.” Interest in assignments: “What was our homework for today?” Refreshing candor: “Miss Wag ner, you don’t like me, do you?” Response of attentive student: “I don’t know.” Favorite classroom game: “Guess Who’s Whistling, Miss Summer ville?” Critic teacher’s willingness to give the student teacher a free hand: “These are the lesson plans which I would like for you to use this week.” Enthusiastic goal of the student teacher: “Four more days, two more hours and fifteen more minutes.” When the next century passes on, much about college life will have changed: for the student teachers all may be a utopia — fried chicken in the bags every day and television in the classroom. But one stimulat ing, irritating, exasperating element will remain constant — the student. And it will be in spite of him and because of him that the education major will continue to say for an other one hundred years, “Practice teaching? You’ll love it!” Problem Solved What does Harvey think I am, the president of the Meredith Date Bureau? The very idea, calling out here on Thursday and expecting me to come up with a winner for this week end. He isn’t at all particular, of course; any girl will do, IF she’s KRAMER'S 'The House of Diemonds" MerHn & Sflliibury Streets THE EYEBALL By WHEDBEE “A witty saying proves nothing.” Voltaire. While in summer school I had the opportunity to attend portions of the School of Christian Studies which featured among other excel lent theologians George Buttrick who proved to be both a delightful and inspiring speaker. He told this story to illustrate patriotism?????? An old woman crossed the street against the light and a young man had to drag her from under the bus. After he had dusted her off and handed her back her bag of gro ceries, he reminded her, “Mother, not against the light!” The answer came back, “Free country!” Recently a professor was dis cussing with her class the works and life of Bede. The question was asked, “Can any of you tell me something about Bede’s life, es pecially since you are students at Meredith,” implying that the Vener able Bede was a teacher. But the signals did not come through clear enough to the one student who an swered, “He lived in a monastery.” Another question was asked re lating to the distasteful activites of some of the officials of the church of the Middle Ages. “How is a monk out of cloisture like a fish out of water?” suggesting that both were out of their proper environment. A somewhat puzzled student on the back row mumbled, “Dead?” From Ogden Nash So Columbijs said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it. And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else. “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, ds well as if a promontorie were, as well as if a manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death dimin ishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.” — John Donne. The lights dim and quickly thirty- two little boys walk on the stage. They look not so different from little boys anywhere. They respond to their director’s graceful and hypnotic hands and begin to sing. I recognize then that this is a group of thirty-two with selected and beautifully - trained voices. I sit silent and attentive as the Ninos Cantores Choir sings its repertoire ranging from ancient church to mod em Mexican folk music. I come home and I ponder. How calming and lovely their blended talents are. I look at myself and shrink. Then across from the hall I hear the sounds . , . rhythms from Mabel’s bongos. . . . Somehow I feel better. (Printed with the bongos’ permis sion.) “I shall return” . . . maybe. good looking, has a marvelous per sonality, can dance like Ginger Rogers, and doesn’t expect a boy to spend all his money on her. (Know ing Harvey, I realize that by. “all his money,” he means anything over two dollars. That boy should be a trillionaire by the time he’s thirty.) Anyone who dated him would have a good time, though. He can dancc; he’s nice looking; he has a white T-bird . . . wait a minute. He sounds pretty good, even if he has lived next door to me for years. H-m-m-m- . . . this late in the week I might not be able to find him a date. And, since I’m respon sible, 1 might just have to go my self — just to keep him from having to go to the game and the party by himself, of course — Well, that’s settled; what will I wear?
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