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THE TWIG
March 24, 1961
To President Carlyle Campbell
Meredith Delivers A Request
Meaning no criticism to the chapel speakers wc have enjoyed this year,
for we have been inspired on many occasions, and realizing full well the
busy lives which members of our faculty and administration lead in per
forming services to us “above ihe call of duty,” we would like to suggest
or request that we be given more opportunity to hear members of the
faculty speak in chapeC—particularly one member, our own president.
Dr. Carlyle Campbell.
We are given several opportunities during the year to hear Dr. Camp
bell speak. They are important occasions for us, our only complaint being
that they are too few.
It seems that in our search for speakers who “know what college stu
dents are thinking” wc are overlooking someone who can give college stu
dents something to think about.
S.R.
Elections Reveal Need For
Education, Acceptance Of Duty
During the past weeks the process of electing student officers to fill
positions of responsibility for the coming year on the Meredith campus
has been in progress. From this expericncc several trends which wc re
gard as undesirable have become evident.
At the root of much of our trouble seems to be the lack of knowledge
on the part of the student body concerning the offices for which persons
are being chosen and the candidates who are running for these offices.
Particularly concerning the Student Government Council, its place within
the life at Meredith, and the areas over which it may exercise jurisdiction,
there seems to be an appalling lack of informadon.
How many people know the candidates who are running for Day Stu
dent offices and realize that these people will be members of the Student
Government Council? How many freshmen realize that the titles of first,
second, and third vice-presidents of a dormitory simply mean that the
persons elected will be hall proctors on the different floors and that these
titles carry no differentiation between the importance of the three offices?
How large a segment of the student body really understands the demands
of the various offices and the qualifications needed to fill them? What
percentage of this segment makes choices on the basis of this knowledge
and not on the basis of personalities alone? We fear that accurate answers
to these questions would reveal that far too many members of our student
body are uninformed on these basic matters.
Here is a problem in education, and at an institution where education
is ostensibly the purpose for its being. The responsibility for this task
should fall upon at least three organizations: The Twig, the counseling
program for freshmen, and the Student Government Association. An
undeniable challenge is presented to these groups as a fresh beginning is
in the offing.
Through informative articles, thoughtful editorials, and responsible
letters to the editor, The Twig can and should serve as a vital means of
communication on this problem. The potentialities of the counseling pro
gram are unlimited. Through this medium attitudes can be shaped, in
formation given, and minds stimulated. The Student Government As
sociation also has a responsibility which it cannot escape. If in some way
the judicial duties now resting upon the Student Government Council
and claiming the major portion of its time and attention could be lessened,
this group could devote itself to activities far more valuable in the final
analysis than acting primarily as a judicial body.
Not only is there a lack of information, but there is also an insufficient
feeling of responsibility as chizens in a community. Too many of us are
apathetic toward registering, voting, and really caring about the results.
This is a serious dcfect and one for which each one of us needs to examine
herself.
S. L.
MEMBER
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EDITORIAL STAFF
- Suzanne Leath
Associate Editor Sue Rogers
Managing Editor. Peggy Wilkins
Feature Editor Linda Kirby
Music Editor. Susan Leathers
Sports Editor Cris Kress
Columnists Susao Self
Photographer. Barbara Sullivan
Reporters—Toula Bellios, Nickie Childrey, Marcia Davis, Libby Greene
Sally Holbrook, Peggy Klick, Alice Maney, Pat Shuman, Elaine Smith
Faculty Sponsor. Dr. Norma Rose
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Business Manager Mary Louise Hudson
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Mailing Editor Dorothy Maynard
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Rose Lee, Louise Parrish
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such Is one of the three major publications of the institution—the other (wo t>clog The
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Meredith Collese is an accredited senior liberal arts collcge for women located in the
capital cliy of North Carolina. It confers the Bachelor of Arts and Che IJachelOT of Music
degrees. The collcge offers majors in twenty-one fields including music, arc. business and
home economics.
Since 1921 the institution has been a member of the Southern Association of Collcses and
Secondary Schools. The college holds memtiershlp in the Association of American ^Ilexes
and the North Carolina College Conference. Graduates of Meredith Collcge arc eligible for
membership In the American Assoctation of University Women. The institution is a liberal
arts member of the National AssociaUon of Schools of Music.
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Mere Dither
By RACHEL DAILEY
Summer thoughts, that throughout
the school year sift through busy
minds over and over again as lights
go out at night and thoughtime
comes, now take pre*cmlnencc, and
all otiicr thoughts — term papers,
elections, next year’s roommate —
are forced to sift quickly through
the happy maze of summer
thoughts.
What does summer hold for you?
Will you really read that long criti
cal book you’ve been talking about
lately? Will you seriously settle
down to pen those lyrics, or to com
pose that song, or to paint that pic
ture, or work those problems that
seemed so difficult and insoluble
last fall, or to make that dream-
dress you’ve wanted for such a long
time?
Wfll you sincerely talk with your
parents? I don’t mean chat with
them — 1 mean really discuss those
topics that you used to think they
had never considered. Will you truly
try to get up every morning before
11:00 and work on something
worthwhile every day? Will you take
a walk alone at night when the
world is cool and your mind is
rceeptivc to deep ponderings?
Will you notice the lush green of
the leaves, the beauty of a sea shell,
the sparkle of the sand, the lavender
twilight? Will you hear the crickets’
orchestra, the power of the thunder,
the beating waves, the wind in the
trees? Will you smell the dusty rain
as it begins to fall, the clcanncss
of morning, the odor of violets?
Will you feel the grass beneath
your feet, the sand, the magic of
the water, the sea breeze? And most
of all, will you know — deep down
inside — the beauty of silence, the
strength of darkness, the power of
existence within yourself alone and
unaided?
Some will work hard all summer,
some will play hard, some will
study, some will do nothing. But
there is one thing all can do this
summer. They can see — really
see — and they can hear things
they never truly heard, and they
can rejoice in the summer scents,
and they can feel a breeze with
their hearts. Most of all, they can
sincerely think, and through all their
super-’Sensi'tive thoughts, they can
know their souls.
Why don’t you resolve to make
this summer count for something?
Why don’t you grow this summer
and become a bigger person within?
I assure you that if you do so resolve
and stick to your resolution, it will
be like a day at the beauty parlor
for your personality! I’m going to
make such a resolution—of course,
I do every Spring . . .
Creative Writing
Club Is Ort/mnzed
On Wednesday evening, Febru
ary 22, the Creative Writing Club
held its first official meeting under
the direction of Mrs. Dorothy P.
Greenwood. Officers were elected as
follows: Joan McGranahan, presi
dent; Marcia Davis, vice-president
and secretary; and Sandra Butler,
treasurer and refreshment chair
man.
It was also agreed that the first
fifteen members would be the
charter members of the club. These
include Becky Scott, Rosa Lynn
Gruits, Joan McGranahan, Rachel
Dailey, Anne Britt, Carroll Hicks,
Joy Adams,. Sarah Smith, Belle Hol
land, Marcia Davis, Sandra Butler,
and Mary Alice Westall.
Meeting every two weeks, the
girls read and criticize their own
works. A few members of the group
also attended the Creative Writing
lectures held during the Arts’ Fes
tival at Woman’s College in Greens
boro.
Linda Kirby
Linda Kirby To Be
’61-’62 Twig Editor
Linda Kirby was bom on Hal
loween, but we have reason to be
lieve that she will not “spook up”
the Twig next year, judging from
her past journalistic experience and
her new ideas for the newspaper
in the ensuing year.
In Winston-Salem, her hometown,
she attended Summit School, Ard
more School, Moore School, and
R. J. Reynolds High School. In high
school she served as a majorette for
three years and as an active mem
ber of the school orchestra. (She
played the violin.) She took an in
terest in athletics, joined the Girls
Athletics Association, and was
chosen co-captain of the girls’
basketball team.
Her interest in journalism first
developed when she took two years
of journalism at Reynolds and be
came feature editor of the Pine
Whispers her senior year. Her
achievements were rewarded by her
initiation into the Quill and Scroll,
a national honor society for high
school journalists.
Her interests at Meredith have
ranged from athletics — she served
two years on the Athletic Associa
tion Board — to art — she is a
minor in art and a member of the
Art Club — to journalism — she
has been for three years a member
of the Twig staff and for one year
class editor for the Acorn. Her class
elected her to serve as Junior Class
Stunt Chairman.
In her three years on the Twig,
Linda has been a reporter and an
editor. She has seen the great po
tentiality of the newspaper and
hopes to make great strides next
year in improving its journalistic
standards and in broadening its
possibilities as the organ of student
opinion.
We of the Twio weleomc Linda
Kirby as editor for 1961-62!
SVMMER MISSIONARIES
APPOINTED FROM IS, C.
By LIZ HILL
Three students enrolled in North
Carolina institutions have been ap
pointed by the North Carolina Bap
tist Student Union to serve as sum
mer missionaries during the coming
year.
James Oldham, civil engineering
major at Duke University, from
Amarillo, Texas, will participate in
a European Work Camp; Jane Price
senior at Watts Hospital School of
Nursing in Durham, will serve in a
Baptist Hospital In Ghana, West
Africa. Miss Price is a native of
Durham. George Grigsby, Jr., from
Holly Springs, a pre-med student at
the University of North Carolina,
will do Vacation Bible School and
lay church work in Alaska.
Students Sponsored by LISTEN
At the statewide BSU Leadership
Training Conference, Wake Forest
Baptist Church, Winston - Salem,
April 21-23, the three students will
be presented, in a special program.
These students are being sponsored
by the Baptist Student Union of
North Carolina. Student contribu
tions to world missions are made
Music Notes
By SUSAN LEATHERS
Spring has hit the music building
with its annual visit. Attesting to
this fact are the many open win
dows, the discarding of winter coats,
girls singing as they walk along,
and cases of spring fever already
in advanced stages.
The S.A.I. music fraternity has
pledged four new members this
semester. T^ey are Anne Sharpe,
senior; and Scott Beaver, Mary Alice
Bell, and Jean Tate, freshmen. The
pledge service was held Tuesday,
March 7, in the chapter room. A
short social hour was held in honor
of the pledges after the service. A
period of training in fraternity ways
will continue for several weeks,
culminating later in the initiation
service.
Advance sale of tickets for next
year’s Friends of the College Scries,
sponsored by N. C. Stale College,
has begun. There will be sbi very
delightful concerts on the agenda.
Interested students may contact
Mrs. Phyllis Garris or Dean Louise
Heming.
Seen around the music building:
girls in bermudas . . . nervous sen
iors before their hearings . . , voice
students trying to arrange practice
hours with their accompanists . , .
the brains of sophomore theory stu
dents bulging with major, minor,
diminished, and many other types
of 9th chords , . . perpetual pleas
from Miss Swanson to please re
member to raise the seventh tone
in every minor scale . . . play prac
tices ... a ban on jazz . . . students
counting the days until Spring Holi
days!!
PLAYHOUSE
PRESENTS
"YEARS AGO"
On 'Friday and Saturday evenings
of March 17 and 18 in the Jones
Auditorium at 8:00, the Meredith
Playhouse presented Ruth Gordon’s
Years Ago. The play, a family
comedy set in Wollaston, Massa
chusetts, in 1913, is the auto
biography of Miss Gordon as a
young girl aspiring to a theatrical
career.
June Leonard, a sophomore art
major, played the part of Ruth Gor
don Jones, the stage-struck girl of
sixteen from a moderately low in
come family. Ruth’s mother, the
family mediator, was pre.sented by
Ann Peters, a senior history major.
Alton Buzbcc, Director of Religious
Education at Pullen Memorial Bap
tist Church and a man active in
Raleigh dramatics, portrayed Ruth’s
necessarily penny - pinching but
loving father.
Two of Ruth’s friends were pre
sented by Melinda Corpening and
Molly Stevens. Belle Holland was
a physical culture instructor from
Brookline. Bill Wade and Allan
Eckard from N, C. State College
and Charles Reavis, a teacher from
LeRoy Martin Junior High School,
took supporting parts of community
men who figured in this episode
from the life pf Ruth Gordon Jones.
through a program of missionary
education and concern called LIS
TEN (Love /mpels iSacrifice To
ward Every A^eed).
Meredith Contributes To Prt^ram
Members of the- BSU on the
Meredith College campus are con
tributing to help send these summer
workers and to send scholarships,
medical supplies, and food to
especially needy groups including
refugees. More information about
BSU world missions can be obtained
from Liz Hill, local BSU missions
chairman, or BSU president Zelma
Greene.
Plans for emphasizing world
needs on this campus include of
ferings cach month on every hall,
and it is hoped that students will
witness to their personal concern
for world need through sacrificial
giving, not just left-over change.