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CONGRATULATIONS SENIORS! THE TWIG Meredith College Library RuloehiJiLX, Newspaper of the StueUnts of Meredith College HAPPY VACATION! Volume XXXlIl MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., MAY 22, 1959 No. 9 Over 100 Seniors To Graduate June 1 Annual Alumnae Day Scheduled Miss Mae Grimmer, secretary of the Alumnae Association, has dis closed the plans for Alumnae Day, Saturday, May 30. The members of the Association have been invited to return to Mere* dith for the day’s program, which will begin at 9:30 with the annual meeting ot Kappa Nu Sigma. Thei general meeting of the Association! will begin at 10:30 in Jones Audi torium with Mrs. J. R. Overby, president of the Association, pre siding. The featured speaker will be Mrs. J. W. Reid of Raleigh. During the entire day’s activities, the reunion classes will be espe cially honored. At 1:00 the Alumnae Luncheon will be held in the dining hall. At this time the graduating seniors will be inducted into the As sociation, after which the new mem bers will present the Association with their class doll, “Miss 1959,” dressed in class day attire. “Miss 1959” will then join the dolls of previous classes. The golden an niversary class will also receive spe cial recognition at the luncheon. At 2:30 the Association will attend an open house at the Alumnae House. Afterwards the reunion classes will have individual dinners, parties, and teas. The day’s activities will terminate .at 9:30 with the annual meeting of the Silver Shield. Annual Dedicated To Dr. Reveley The 1959 Oak Leaves has been dedicated to Dr. Reveley, head of the education department. The faculty member is chosen for this honor by the senior class and the Oak Leaves staff. Becky Sawyer, editor of this year’s annual, presented a copy of the Oak Leaves to Dr. Reveley in an assem bly program on May 13. A coffee CLASS DAY PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED On Saturday afternoon. May 30, at 4:30 p.m., the annual Class Day exercises will be held in the court. In preparation for the event the sophomores, the little sister class, will gather daisies early Saturday morning for the daisy chain through which the seniors will pass. In ad dition to the little sister class, the class of ’57 will be present to par ticipate in the festivities of their little sisters, the present graduating class. Program Order At present, the tentative program has been set as follows: procession of the sophomores, carrying the daisy chain and singing; procession of the seniors through the daisy chain; the seniors’ song to their big sister class and their response; the seniors’ song to their little sister class and their response; welcome to all guests by Mary Alice Crusack, president of the senior class; the presentation of the class history and the prophecy; presentation of gifts; the presentation of cap and gown to the rising senior class; the presen tation of wishbones to the sopho mores and the singing of “Dcse Bones Gonna Rise Again;" the singing of the Alma Mater; and the recession to the front of Johnson Hall where the sophomores form the numerals of the graduating class. hour was held in honor of the dedi catee from one to two o’clock in the faculty parlor. The dedication reads: “In a quiet, strong way, he has become a loved and respected member of our college community. Generously he has given his time, his counsel, and the benefit of his knowledge and experience to his students. Because of his service to the Meredith faculty and student body, we humbly dedicate the 1959 edition of the Oak Leaves \o Dr. David R. Reveley.” ANNUAL SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN STUDIES BEGINS JUNE 15 The seventh annual Meredith School of Christian Studies will be held June 15-19, with Dr. Otto A. Piper, Dr. Dale Moody, and Dr. D. Elton Trueblood as speakers. Morning and evening lectures will feature ihe speakers; informal dis cussions and recreation is also planned. Dr. Piper, who will use as his tlieme “The Message of Christ’s Parables,” is Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminary. He studied theology in the universi ties of Jena, Marburg, Paris, and Munich; and he received his Ph.D. from the University of Gottingen in 1920. Before coming to Princeton in 1937, Dr. Piper taught at Got tingen and Munster-in-Westphalia. onfiniieH on nil?''’ fr>'ir' AWARDS TO BE MADE SOCIETY NIGHT; MRS. HARRIS WILL BE SPEAKER The two literary societies will sponsor Society Night, Saturday, May 30, at eight o’clock in Jones Auditorium. The speaker is Mrs. Bernice Kelly Harris, a well-known North Carolina author who is a graduate of Meredith College, At the Society Night program, various awards will be presented. The Astrotekton and Philaretian So cieties will each present an annual award of ten dollars for the best literary contributions from members of their respective groups. This con tribution may be poetry, a short (Continued on page four) Commencement Program Friday, May 29 8:00 p.M Annual Concert Saturday, May 30 9:30 A.M Annual Meeting of Kappa Nu Sigma 10:30 A.M Meeting of Alumnae Association Lois Morgan Overby, A.B., President Address: Elizabeth Davis Reid, A.B., Raleigh, North Carolina 1:00 p.M Alumnae Luncheon 2:30 p.M Open House, Alumnae House 4:30 p.M Class Day Exercises 8:00 p.M Society Night Address: Bernice Kelly Harris, A.B., Seaboard, North Carolina 9:30 p.M Annual Meeting of Silver Shield Sunday, May 31 A-M Baccalaureate Sermon The Reverend Edward H. Pniden, Ph.D., D.D. Minister, First Baptist Church, Washington, D. C. Senior Vespers I' M Reception for Parents Monday, June 1 10:30 A.M Baccalaureate Address Theodore A. Distler, A.M., LL.D., L.H.D. Executive Director, Association of American Colleges Washington, D. C. Conferring of Degrees HUNTER HALL OPENS SOOH 11:00 8:00 8:45 Last week Hunter Hall was in spected by college building commit tee members and by the architects. These saw a building whicli will be finished and ready for use in the near future—probably during the early part of the summer session. Already the landscaping is in the final stages of completion and most of the laboratory equipment for the ;ompleie building has been delivered :uid is being installed. Sidewalks, which were laid by the pattern established when Joyner Hall was built, have been completed, and an extra sidewalk has been laid be tween Hunter Hall and the breeze way between Stringfield and the cafeteria. An extension of the road behind Joyner is also being built to join the one to Ridge Road, and this will provide space for faculty mem bers to park their cars. Also behind Stringfield there will be an area de signated for the convenience of load- ing and unloading cars as students leave and return to the college. The riding ring will be moved during the summer to a new location nearer the center of the hay field in from of the stables. Some of the faculty hope to have enough equipment in stalled for students to have some small part in the moving into the WhifA new building although no clas.ses can be held there before the close of school. PRUDEN AND DISTLER TO DELIVER ADDRESSES More than 100 Meredith seniors will receive degrees at the gradua tion exercises on Monday morning, June 1, at 10:30 in Jones Audi torium. The principal speakers for com mencement week end. May 29- ^ne 1, will be Dr. Theodore A. Distler, executive director, Associa tion of American Colleges, from Washmgton, D. C., who will deliver the graduation address on Monday; H. Pruden, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Wash mgton, D. C., who will give the baccalaureate sermon Sundav morn ing at 11:00. Dr. Distler, originally from Brooklyn, New York, received his B.S., M.A., and L.H.D. degrees from New York University and his LL.D. from Dickinson College. After experience in student and personnel welfare work, Dr. Distler served as dean of Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania and later as president of Franklin and Marshall College Smce 1954 Dr. Distler has been executive director of the Association of American Colleges. A native Virginian, Dr. Pruden holds an A.B. degree from the Uni- versjty of Richmond, a Th.M. from Southern Baptist Theological Semi nary, and a Ph.D, from the Uni versity of Edinburgh. A trustee of the University of Richmond and a member of the board of founders of the University of Shanghai, Dr, Pruden is a member of the Federal Council of Churches and of the ex ecutive committee of the Baptist World Alliance. He has made con tributions to The Christian Century, various other religious journals, and books of sermons, and is at present the minister of the Washington, D. C, First Baptist Church. Commencement week end will begin with the chorus concert on Friday night, May 29, at which time (Contimied on page four) Dr. Otto A. Piper Dr. Dale Moody Dr. D. EKon Trueblood Six Depunmenis Housed Hunter Hall will be occupied by six departments, The Home Eco nomics wing includes area for cloth ing laboratories, a kitchen with six separate units, a reception room, and a dining room which opens onto a terrace which will face the home management house. The biology de partment will also be located on the first floor and will include several modern laboratories. A greenhouse for research is located behind the building. Second Floor On the second fioor the business department wifi occupy the wing above the home economics area, and it will include space for several rooms among which is a typing room area for twenty-four students. The departments of chemistry and phys ics are to be located above the biol ogy room, a special part of this area will be a combination chemistry library and seminar, which will be in Jionor of the late Dr. Lula Gaines Winston, a former chairman of the department of chemistry. The math department with ample blackboard area will also be located on the second floor. During the summer months the ^ old science building will be dis- ! mantled. Receives Grant To Tulane Louise White, senior history ma jor, has been awarded a fellowship by Tulane University in New Or leans for the 1959-1960 school year. Louise hopes to complete her work for a master’s degree in history dur ing the coming year. She has not yet decided upon a field of concentra tion, in which field she will center her study and in which she will do her thesis. Louise also plans to take as many hours as possible in English. Eng lish has been her related field at Meredith, Meredith Senior Wins Language Appointment Margaret Atkinson, a language major, has been appointed to a graduate teaching assistantship at the • State University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. The assistantship will involve teaching Spanish classes in the liberal arts department of the University while pursuing graduate courses in the romance languages leading to the M.A. degree. Margaret, a .senior from Kenly, will be graduated in June with an A.B. degree in Spanish and a minor • in French and German. She has been secretary of the Spanish Club this year and a member of the Ger man Club and of the Astrotekton Society. Meredith College Library Raleigh, N. Ci
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