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Vol. XXXV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., SEPTEMBER 23, I960
No. 2
New Faculty and Staff Members
Are Welcomed to College Campus
MEREDITH BEGINS NEW YEAR
This fall at Meredith there are
three new faculty members and two
new members of the administrative
staff.
Bernard H. Cochran, a native of
Fort Piercc, Florida, joins the
faculty as Associate Professor of
Religion, replacing Dr. John M.
Lewis. Mr. Cochran comes to Ra
leigh from Durham, where he has
completed his work for the Ph.D.
degree. He received previous train
ing at Stetson University and South
eastern Theological Seminary.
The new professor served as as
sistant pastor of the Congress
Heights Baptist Church in Wash
ington, D. C., and as pastor of the
Raleigh Road Chapel in Hender
son. He was a fellow in the depart
ment of church history at Southeast
ern and a Kearns Fellow in religion
at Duke. He is married to the former
Mary Catherine Browder of Ar
cadia, Florida, and they have a
young son, John Gregory Cochran.
Jeffries loins Art Department
A new member of the art depart
ment is Mrs. Lucy B. Jeffries. She
tills the vacancy left by Mrs.
Rose M. Melvin. Mrs. Jeffries is a
graduate of Virginia Polytechnical
Institute, where she received a de
gree in general sciencc. After being
awarded the Master of Fine Arts
degree at Woman’s College in
Greensboro, she worked with rec-
Raleigh Pilot Club
Sponsors Style Showing
Meredith students are invited to
attend a fashion show presented by
the Pilot Club of Raleigh in the
collegc auditorium on Tuesday,
September 27, at 8:00 p.m. The
Pilot Club, of which Dr. Sarah Lem
mon of the Meredith faculty and
Miss Carolyn Covington of the
Meredith staff arc members and
committee chairmen, is a classified
service club for executive business
women.
Burton’s To Present Fashions
Burton's, a clothing store of
Cameron Village, will present fash
ions, a part of which are for college
girls and a part for girls a little
older.
The club sponsors the program in
order to raise money for hearing
aids for the medically indigent deaf
children of Wake County. Tickets,
which may be purchased from Dr.
Lemmon or Miss Covington, are
priced at $.50 for students and
$1.00 for other adults.
reational and occupational therapy
for the Mental Health Association
of the state of Washington. She
comes to Raleigh from her work in
Seattle, Washington.
Health Instnictor Sccured
Teaching the freshman course in
health education this year is Mrs.
Julia M. Snyder. The Chapel Hill
resident will serve as part time
member of the physical education
department.
Two new members of the staff
are a library assistant, Mrs. Vir
ginia B. Pruden, and a business of
fice and public relations secretary,
Mrs., Ruth Gartner. Mrs. Pruden is
a 1959 graduate of MerediA.
CIVIL DEFE^SE BOARD
TO BEGIN FALL PROGRAM
The first fall meeting of the
Raleigh - Wake County Civil De
fense organization will be a lunch
eon meeting on Wednesday, Sep
tember 21, at the Woman’s Club.
Mrs. Vera Tart Marsh, Meredith
registrar, has been appointed as a
representative to the Civil Defense
Organization. She has served as
chaplain for the organization for
several years and has been re
elected to serve in that capacity this
year. Mrs. Edna Hurst has also been
appointed by President Campbell to
serve as a Meredith representative
on the Civil Defense Board.
In the spring a Certificate of
Commendation was presented to
Meredith College in honor of those
students who completed the first aid
courses sponsored by the Ralcigh-
Wake County Civil Defense Mobi
lization. Other courses of this na
ture will be offered this fall, and
all interested persons are urged to
participate.
EXPANSION PROGRAM
CONTINUES ACTIVITY
Returning students to Meredith
this fall noticed a number of cam
pus improvements, such as the reno
vation of the fourth floor of String-
field Hall and of the breezeways.
These improvements are all a
part of the Meredith Expansion
Program, which was begun in 1891
and which is to be completed in
1966. The present proposals of the
Expansion Program include the
renovation of the existing dormi
tories and dining facilities, and the
building of a library, a physical edu
cation building, an infirmary, a
dormitory, and a student activities
building.
All of these proposals are in
cluded in the $5,600,000 Expan
sion Program, under which Hunter
Hall and the EUen Brewer Home
Economics Management House were
built.
New Members Tapped
into Kappa Nu Sigma
The annual meeting of Kappa
Nu Sigma, the Meredith Honor So
ciety, was held last spring during
graduation week-end in the faculty
parlor of Vann Hall.
Lois Haigh Gibbon, last year’s
president, presided over the meet
ing which was attended by former
members of Kappa Nu Sigma and
faculty members of Kappa Nu
Sigma or its scholastic equivalent.
At the annual meeting the new
members of the society who were
received are the following: Ann
Rowe, Anne Britton, Suzanne
Leath, Kathleen Simmons, Kather
ine Rice, Sue Rogers, and Made
line Kleiman. Last year’s senior
members who were received are
Elaine Yates, Patsy Lineberger,
Jeanette McDonald; and Gladys
Rozier.
Dr. Mary Yarbrough gave a re
port on changes of the constitu
tion concerning the admission re
quirements of Kappa Nu Sigma. Dr.
Lillian Parker Wallace gave a re
port on the possibilities of a Phi
Beta Kappa chapter being started
at Meredith. It was also announced
that Velma McGee was last year’s
recipient of the Helen Price Scholar
ship which is given to the freshman
with the highest average.
After the president gave a re
port concerning the year’s work, the
nominating committee presented
the slate of new officers for the year
1960-61. These girls are Anne
Britton, president; Ann Rowe, vice-
president; Sue Rogers, secretary-
treasurer; and Suzanne Leath, re
porter.
Meredith’s new sliidenfs leave Jones Hall during Orientation Week. Seen to
th^c riglil front, about fo enter Johiison Hall, arc President Curlyle Campbell,
Miss Mary Bland Josey, Miss Ann Stallings, and Dean Leisliman A. Peacock.
BSU INITIATES 1960-61 PROGRAM
WITH FIRST FORUM, FALL RETREAT
“Religion and the White House”
will be the topic of discussion for
the first BSU Forum of the year
to be held Wednesday, Septem
ber 28, at 7:30 p.m. in 103 Joyner.
Garrett Speaks
The main speaker for the Forum
is a person well qualified to speak
on this pertinent subject. Mr. Barry
Garrett is connected with the Pub
lic Affairs Department in Washing
ton and is the assistant chairman of
a committee on the separation of
church and state. Mr. Garrett will
also make an address in chapcl.
Panel To Discuss
The Forum will conclude with a
panel discussion in which Mr. Gar
rett will be assisted by Mr. Marse
Grant and Mr. Bill Quick, Mr.
Grant is the editor of the Biblical
Recorder, which has recently pub
lished outstanding articles on this
subject. Mr. Quick, a convert from
Catholicism, is a Methodist minister.
Group Retreats
The Meredith BSU Council held
its annual pre-school retreat at
Camp Kanata near Wake Forest
from Sunday, September 4, through
the following Tuesday afternoon.
The theme, “A Radiant Faith,” was
the center of thought for the entire
retreat period.
Lewis Leads Servicc
The first evening worship period
on Sunday was conducted by Dr.
John Lewis, past director of the
Meredith BSU. He spoke on the
topic “Choose You This Day,”
which is the BSU theme for 1960-
61. Dr. Bernard Cochran, who will
officially take over his duties as Dr.
Lewis’ successor this fall, also ad
dressed the group on Monday night.
Others Talk
Other speakers included the Rev.
W. W. Finhitor, Dr. John Brown,
Mr. James Y. Green, and Mrs.
R. A. Prichard, all of Raleigh; Dr.
Sam Hill, Jr., Chapel Hill; and Dr.
John Eddins, Wake Forest.
Members of the executive coun
cil who attended were Zelma Green,
president; Ann Rowe, Jane Link,
Anne White, Velma McGee, Beth
Woodall, Rachel Rogers, Judy Bul
lard, Sandra Walker, Ann Chand
ler, Sue Rogers, Beth Woody, Susie
Bowers, Pauline Howellj Ellen Mc-
Phaul, and Liz Hill.
HOME ECOmMICS CLUB
RESUMES ACTIVITIES
The Home Economics Club
started this year’s meetings with a
picnic in the Hut to welcome all
the new home economics students.
After supper several of the mem
bers told about their summer jobs.
Betsy Benthall had glowing reports
of her job as a camp counsellor at
Camp Robindale, an all - Jewish
girls’ camp in New Hampshire.
Gene Davenport also worked as a
counsellor at Crestridge in the
mountains of North Carolina.
Both Janice Capps and Jennie
Lou Taylor put their home eco
nomics training to excellent use by
working as home economics agents
in Statesville and Greenville, respec
tively. At the close of the meeting
Jeanette Worthington, president,
said that future meetings would in
clude guest speakers and demon
strations.
Present Enrollment
Totals 739 Students
Summer is gone, skies are grey,
and school rooms are full again.
The 1960 Fall Semester began of
ficially at Meredith Collegc on Sep
tember 7 as the freshmen and trans
fer students began to arrive. Four
days of orientation followed before
upperclassmen returned for registra
tion on September 12, and for
classes which began the next day.
Mrs. Vera Tart Marsh, college
registrar, states that the total en
rollment at this time is 739 stu
dents. This number includes more
than 200 freshmen; however, the
registration is still Incomplete for
special students. On Tuesday, Sep
tember 13, Dr. Carlyle Campbell,
president of Meredith, presented an
opening address in the chapel as
sembly program.
Summer Improvement Noted
Upperclassmen are sure to have
noticed or heard about the improve
ments which have been wrought on
the campus during the summer. The
most outstanding of these is the
lovely new fourth floor of String-
field dormitory. The large rooms,
spacious closets, built-in desks, and
extra storage space combine to
make an ideal collegc room. Also
in Stringfield the bathrooms have
been given a spring-like touch with
the addition of flowered wall-paper,
bright new paint, and shiny new
fixtures.
Elsewhere on campus, one may
take note of larger, more conven
ient sign-out desks; rooms for drink
and cigarette machines; and the
beauty-operator hair dryers on the
first floor of each dormitory. The
breezeways between the dormitories
have received a new look from the
cinder-block designs of new rail
ings. These are only a few of the
more noiicablc improvements on the
Meredhh campus.
Registrar Releases
New Dean’s List
Mrs. Vera Tart Marsh, college
registrar, has released the following
names of students on Dean’s Lis't
for the spring semester, 1960, to be
effective during the current fall se
mester. Requirements for Dean’s
List arc that students be registered
for at least twelve hours and that
they complete and pass all courses
with a number of quality points
equal to twicc the number of se
mester hours taken plus three.
Barnes, Carol Ann Jones; Barnes,
Mary Elizabeth; Baugham, Mary
Ogie; Biles, Martha Theresa; Booe,
Helen Sharp; Boyette, Andrea Ca
mille; Brandon, Lillian Elizabeth;
Braswell, Elizabeth Ann; Britt, Bar
bara Anne; Britt, Brenda Lee; Brit
ton, Anne Elizabeth; Brown, Hen
rietta Bo; Brown, Mary Ann; Bunn,
Brenda Frances.
Campbell, Emily Sue; Campbell,
Nancy Carol; Carroll, Mary Anne;
Carter, Priscilla Faye; Chick, Sara
Catherine Atkins; Comer, Sylvia
Lorene; Covington, Ann LeStour-
geon; Cowles, Donna Gay; Dam-
eron, Dorothy Christian; Daniel,
Ann Lupton; Daniel, Celia Jane;
Edwards, Nancy Jayne; Fisher,
Janis Kay; Frazier, Gallic Joan.
Gibbon, Lois Elizabeth Haigh;
Gillespie, Rebecca Jane Turner;
Goldsmith, Joy Alice; Goodwin,
Eleanor Pauline; Greene, Zelma
LaRue; Harris, Patricia Ellen; Har
rison, Carol Cheavens; Haywood,
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