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Students Can Help Expansion Program
For many months we have watched with interest the growth of first
an idea, then a plan, and finally a reality on our campus. We have heard
faculty, administration, and alumnae talk about the Meredith College
Expansion Program, but we could not quite grasp our own parts m
this program. A rccent chapel talk, however, has made the importance
of the expansion program to Meredith College quite clear. More im
portant, it showed us the importance of our college and of our present
student body to the communities in which we do live and will live in
the future.
A Meredith College bulletin on the expansion program quoted the
following purpose and policy as restated by the Board of Trustees
in 1954: “The purpose of Meredith College is to develop in its students
the Christian attitude toward the whole of life, and to prepare them for
intelligent citizenship, home-making, graduate study, and for professional
and other fields of study.” The plan of expansion was launched during
this school year in an effort to insure that Meredith College will con
tinue to lead among colleges of her caliber.
An intensive drive for funds was begun in Raleigh and Wake County
recently; and other areas will be organized later. We, as a part of Mere
dith, can do a great deal more to show the citizens of our state the kind
of contribution our college is making than can any number of brochures.
We participate in many churches, for in the present student body all major
church denominations in the United States are represented. We participate
in cultural activities, often sponsoring or even presenting them.
When the citizens of our area have been challenged to raise funds
to support our college and to improve our facilities, should not we serve
as well? What we do and say gives an impression of the whole college.
This is the best medium for the portrayal of Meredith to those around us.
L.H.G.
WHAT ARE YOU FOR?
In a recent issue of Foreign Affairs, New York’s Governor Nelson A.
Rockefeller warned the American people about being misled by false
choices.
The risk is that a people can become so ob
sessed with what they are against that they may
fail to articulate—per-evcn to know—what they
are for.
Far too many people in the world today, it seems, fall Into the category
of those who know only what they are against.
All nations are against destruction by atomic or hydrogen bomb; all
nations are against foolhardy threats and broken promises—but no nation
has any concrete programs to offer as substitutes. All Christian peoples
arc against useless suffering and aganist persecution; all true Christians
are against dishonest business practices and discrimination—but far too
seldom does a Christian group advocalc positive actions in relation to
world or local affairs.
Bringing this problem down to a chosen level, we can see that college
students too arc guilty of this same error. We as young people are willing
to go on record as being against an honor code in name only, against unfair
discrimination because of color or creed, against the acceptance of medi
ocrity as the norm. We as collegc young people are against countless other
things. Have we, however, failed to set up opposing aims: do we know
what we are for? And, more important, are we willing to work to fulfill
our purposes?
Disapproval, if based on a solid foundation of opposing principle, is to
be encouraged, But disapproval alone can be of no value. We must all take
time for some serious thinking, for a thoughtful examination of basic pre
suppositions, and we must determine to move toward a positive solution of
our problems, large and small, not expecting the impossible but planning
to make definite progress. We should not be afraid to be against; but we
must find some things to be for. M.A.B.
THE TWIG
Music Notes
By ANN SHARPE
Recitals are the news from the
Music Department during the month
of April. Gail Newton, Clara Brin
son, Janice Morgan, Glenda Press
ley, Gigi Padgett, Joan Cope, Becky
Scott, Phyllis Rollins, and Mary Lee
Lassiter are all hard at work on the
pieces that they will perform. Sup
port your friends by attending these
recitals.
On Tuesday afternogn, the organ
class visited the recently-rebuilt or
gan at First Baptist Church. Dr.
Cooper designed this organ, and we
were impressed by the wide variety
of istops and the beauty of the in
strument. Margaret Hurst and Syl
via Cooper played for us, as well as
Dr. Cooper and Miss Hacseler. We
are planning to visit more church
organs in the near future.
Although junior and senior re
citals arc in the spotlight at the
present, many of the music students
are performing in the Thursday
afternoon student recitals. These re
citals are open to ail students, so
come and hear your classmates
play. On April 7, Margaret Hurst,
Glenda Pressley, Sylvia Cooper, and
Nancy Carr were on the program.
Scenes around the music build
ing: students challenging teachers
for play day activities . . . Julius
carrying chairs . . . Joan and Becky
doing a rain dance . . . Dr. Cooper
punning . . . SAI pledges working
hard ... the chorus at work on the
spring concert.
ed. notes
More of the senior class is getting
plans “settled” for next year. Edu
cation majors arc signing teaching
contracts or haunting superintend
ent's offices. Prospective graduate
students are wondering if they know
“enough.” Maybe we’ll make it. . . .
April 15, 1960
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MEMBER
Associated Collegiate Press
EDITORIAL STAFF
Mary Ann Brown
Associiite Editor Lois Haigh Gibbon
Managing Editors Peggy Ratlcy, Faye Lee
Feature Editors Amy Bell, Carol Park
Music Editor Anne Sharpe
Sports Editor. 1 Anne Britton
Columnists Cynthia Dcnoy, Nancy Shearin, Nancy Whcdbee
Photographer Linda May
Keportcrs—Toula Bellios, LeDhu Gillespie, Joy Goldsmith, Libby Green,
Donna Hollamon. Mary Carolyn Hawlcins, Sally Holbrook. Suzanne Leath,
Korma LocVaby. Ellen Macdonald, Marilyn Maner, Janet Moore, Ann
Travis, Beth Wood
Facility Sponsor. Dr. Norma Rose
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager. Corinne Caudle
Advertising Manager..™ Carolyn Jones
Circulation Manager Linda Jenkins
Mailing Editor Mary Jo McDonald
Chief Typist Barbara Booth
Advertising Staff Betty Orr, Nan Owen, Betty Stanford, Larnette White
Typists—Jeanelle Baker, Fay Corbett, Mary Louise Hudson, Stephanie Leslie
Scott, Louise Parrish, Elizabeth Webster
Faculty Sponsor. Miss Lois Frazier
Entered .'>s second-class matter October 11. 1923. at post office at Raleieh.
N. C., under Act of ftjarch B. 1870. Published semi-monthly during the months
of October. November, and April; monthly durins the months of December
January, February, March, ana May.
The Twtc is the college newspaper of Meredith College, naleigh. North Caro-
Una. and as such Is one of the three major publications of the InsUtution the
other two being The Acorn, the literary masazlne. and The Oak Leaves the
college annual.
Meredith College is an accredltfid senior liberal arts college for women located
in the capital city of North Carolina. It confers the Bachelor of Arts and the
Bachelor of Music degrees. The college offers majors in twciity>one fields
Including music, art, business and home economics.
Sincc 1921 the Institution has been a member of the Southern Asboctation Of
Colleges and Secondary Schools, The college holds roembersltip in the Associa
tion of American Colleges and the North Carolina College Confcrcnce. Gradu
ates of Meredith College are eligible for membership in the American
Association of University Women. The institution is a liberal arts member of
the National Assciation of Schools of Music.
Subscription Rates: $2.9) pet year
Thb Twia is served by National AdverUsing Service, Inc.. 420 Madison Ave.
New Yoric 17. New York.
There has been some staff dis
agreement as to the “punch line” of
this issue’s Campus Comedy. Some
feel the humor lies in the similarity
of the two students to the Smith
Bros, (of Smith Bros. Cough
Drops), whereas other people seem
to think the idea of anyone so “far
out” as these two students bothering
with so mundane a thing as cough
drops is hilarious. Take your choice,
or try another idea. We don’t want
to be arbitrary.
BACK OF FINALITY...
By NANCY SHEARIN
Back of this spring of endings and
beginnings,
Back of the real and hurtless, world
of
A hundred thousand peanut-butter
crackcrs,
Lost bobby pins,
Dog-earred books,
Dirty socks and chipped nail polish
and “lights-out”;-
Back of the real and lovely world of
Ch'arco-burgers and twisted straws,
Checsey moons and back-seat mur-
murings,
Answered questions and sudden un
derstandings,
Violets and daffodils and lace and
tea»
Keys and golashes and ice-scraped
knee;
Back of the real and weepful world
of
Weary scholars and weary lessons
learned too long,
Too well;
Seen Around Campus
Term paper flurries: freshmen with
amazed we-got-them-done looks
and upperclassmen with deter
mined if-they-can-do-it-so-can-we
expressions.
Flowers, breezeways filled with sun-
bathers, tables on the Bee Hive
patio — signs of SPRINGf
Tennis equipment and bicycles
being used more and more.
Girls entered In horse shows trying
to make sure they establish suf
ficient rapport with their mounts.
People practicing for Play Day. We
are going to have some good
stand-on-your-head challengers.
Student teachers making May calen
dars while their suites chorus,
“But it’s still April!”
Iced tea on the supper tables.
Convertibles with the tops down.
Lots of activity taking place on a
Campus usually hard hit by Spring
fever.
A recent copy of the Breneau /1l~
chemist carried the following front
page banner head: ‘The Senior
Class Challenges the Junior Class
To FIND THE SPADE!” The chal
lenge was emphasized by a large
black "You’ll NEVER Find It!”
A similar tradition was popular
in .Meredith’s past: the senior class
would hide a shepherd’s crook for
the juniors to find and the juniors,
finding it, would in turn hide it for
the seniors. The class in possession
of the crook at the end of second
semester was the winner. Many com
plicated rules applied to “crooking,
and the experiences which have
been told about crook-hunting make
it sound tremendously exciting.
Back of surrendered dreams that
could not endure
An education;
Back of regrets that would not be
regretted
Because we were too young . . .
Back of it all:
The science and the art,
The song, the brick, the ser
mon.
The chicken and the beans;
Back of the known — the not
necessarily so—
There is a truth — an April truth
— a reason
For the being and the learning and
Even for the endings . . .
Back of finality is faith.
Back of what we face-to-facers can
not see,
Still looking at the sun,
There is a better light just flickering
in the canyon of a soul.
Back of the real endings of it all—
The tears,
The speeches,
The engraved honor on the scroll.
The goodbye and the boxing up of
books,
There is an endlessness that we will
never see
Until time’s master, sweetheart or
inquiring'child.
Requires it of us — requires more
than we have
And gets it out of light we did not
know was ours.
Back of this spring of endings and
beginnings,
Back of the April and the May,
Back of the real, yes, back of the
everything,
We are most grateful for the truth
we will not know
Until tomorrow . . .
The truth yet unrevealed of:
Learning and unlearning
Seeking and finding
Dreaming and waking
Asking and receiving . . .
Being answered by an open door
Before we dared to knock.
Quotations Selected
rom Pocus Week
Confribuled by Dr. John M. Lewis)
Rev. W. W. Finlator:
Honest doubt is often the forward
of deeper faith. ,
The dark night of the soul comes
just before the dawn.
Dr. Raymond Brown:
Everything nailed down is coming
loose.
Every security of man is insecure.
There is no way on our terms by
which we can settle the ultimate
questions of life,
He knew all the little answers of
life, but none of the big questions.
Some people lock themselves in
themselves and can never get out.
We become real persons when we
have a great care.
Christianity is not a philosophy to
be studied but a life to be lived.
What we love most tests us and
molds us. /
In a real home a person is never
lonely.
Marriage is giving yourself away to
someone else.
If you want to get married and stay
married, begin now to develop
patience.
Marriages fail because people fail;
people fail because they forget
God.
Christ calls today for bridge-build-
ers, not fence-menders.
Make your Christian faith more
than a hobby.
I would rather wrestle with a big
idea and get thrown than wrestle
with a little idea and pin it.
Every man’s life is a journey into
night or light.
The point of view with which you
look at the world is more impor
tant than the way the world looks
at you.
Don’t let the world make you just
another domino .in the box.
The time has come for the old
staff to step aside and let the new
people take over the runnings of this
newspaper. Those of us who will not
be working on The Twio again can
look back on our work with feelings
of pride for the few things we did
right, and disappointment and cha
grin at the many things we did
wrong.
Putting out The Twig takes a
great deal of work by many people.
Such work is worthwhile if The
Twig can fill its responsibility on
the Meredith campus; with student
support, it can. We wish, therefore,
for the new staff the support of
the student body and for the editor
a year of staff co-operation, articles
in on time, a complete absence of
misspelled names and incorrect
dates, and days at least 48 hours
jlong. Good luck!
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