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SEE MAY DAY 'I'MIT 'T\A7ir' SEE PLAY DAY FEATURES 1 1 1 wr ^ 1 WW 1 1 V FEATURES PAGE FIVE PAGE FOUR Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College Volume XXXV MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., MAY 5, 1961 No. 11 QUESTIONNAIRES REVEAL STUDENT DISSATISFACTION WITH PROCEDURE A Survey of Student Opinion on Elections recently brought out the general feelings of the student body with regard to the procedures of nominating and voting. The Nomi nating Committee, realizing a lag in students’ interest in elections, asked the questions during chapel on Monday, April 24. After learning the opinions of the student body, the Nominating Com mittee in a meeting on Tuesday night, April 25, took action to open voting from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. They also made plans to open five polling places, one in each of the four dormitories and one near the Day Students’ Room. The dormi tory students will vote in their re spective dormitories, and the Day Students at their assigned polling place. The Nominating Committee decided to follow the students’ de sire, if it is at all possible to have voting machines again in the future. An overwhelming .number of the students wish to maintain the policy of having a first slate run-off be fore the second slate. The Nominating Committee is now taking action, to make this a permanent policy. A group of student volunteers are now working on the idea of cam paigns with Anne Braswell, Chief Counselor for 1961-1962. The re sults of their discussion will be sub mitted to the Nominating Commit tee next week at their second evaluation meeting. There are 340 students who feel that open-floor discussion of many of the qiiestions about election pro cedures would be a valuable part of the student body meetings on Thursday mornings. In addition to the facts, there are several trends of thought that may be traced from the answers on the questionnaires. One of these is the desire on the part of most students to know more about the entire elec tion procedure. They wish to know who makes up the Nominating Committee and how those members arc chosen. They are interested in the Committee’s procedure in nomi nating and the criteria on which it makes its selections. They want to Guests Arrive For Week End know more about the real qualifica tions of the candidates and to be in formed of the results of the elections as quickly as possible. More pub licity of registration and voting times and days is needed, the students feel. Not only do the students wish to know more about the elections and the procedures, but they also want to feel more a part of the entire process. Many freshmen are dis satisfied with their half-vote, and Day Students feel that they alone should elect all or at least some of their officers. All of the feelings and suggestions of the student body will be con sidered for progressive action in next week’s evaluation meeting. Art Students Present Works At N. C. State By invitation from the Student Union Gallery Committee of N. C. State College, the Meredith College Art Department exhibited paintings in the Student Union Building April 9-ApriI 27, 1961. The paintings were selected from all levels of i painting classes. The eleven stu- ! dents represented and their paint ings are as follows; Beth Woody, “Equation No. 1”; Martha Biles, “Pin Wheel”; Gail Stroupe, “Un titled” and “Deluge”; Helen Ncb- lett, “The Street”; Sara Shoaf, “Chris”; Barbara Wenburg, “Table and Flowers” and “Movement in Yellow”; Molly Stevens, “Ocean Wave,” “Conflagration,” “Spacc Time,” and “Spring Flowers”; Madeline Kleiman, “Red Rain,” “Still Life,” “City Scape-Chicago,” and “Mountain Rhythms”; Kay Simpson, “Study Table”; “Martha McMillan, “Exodus”; and Barbara Anne Britt, “Still Life” and “Un titled” (casein). Four of these paintings were chosen for the Third Carolina’s Col lege Art Annual. Madeline Klei- man’s “Red Rain” and “Still Life,” Barbara Anne Britt’s “Untitled,” and Helen Neblett’s “The Street” were included in the annual. “The Street” received one of the five Honor Awards. May 6, 1961, Meredith College is playing hostess to all students, now seniors in high school, who have been accepted to the college as freshman or transfers for the 1961 fall semester. The girls, totalling over one-hundred, have been in vited by the school. Invitations were sent out by a committee under the direction of Sarah Smith. The guests will stay on campus during the week end with the resi dent students. Cille Benton, Place ment Chairman, has assigned them rooms in co-operation with Brenda Payne, Hostess Chairman. Outstanding Senior Is Awarded Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Suzanne Leath, a senior religion major from Shelby, North Carolina, has been awarded a fellowship by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. TTtc first Meredith student to win one of the awards, Suzanne will do her gradu ate work in history at Tulane Uni versity, New Orleans, Louisiana. Editor of the Twig for 1960-1961, a member of the Silver Shield and Kappa Nu Sigma,. she is also in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities. In her four years in Meredith, Suzanne has been on the Athletic Association Board, vice - president of the Student League of Women Voters and the Latin Club, and a member of the nominating committee. In order to be eligible for the Woodrow WilsoQ Fellowship, the student must be an outstanding sen ior nominated by one of his col lege professors. This year there were 10,453 nominees and 1,333 winners in the nation. Each winner receives 51,500, and the foundation pays the tuition and fees directly to the school that the winner chooses to attend. These fellowships are issued with the purpose of en couraging college teaching as a career. Suzunnc Lcalli The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation arose from a program that was established at Princeton University in 1945. In 1952 the program was put on a nationwide biisls, and a Ford Foun dation grant in 1957 aided in in creasing the total number of fellow ships to 1,000 each year. Issued to students in fields of social scienccs and humanities, these financial aids do not .includc professional fields in theii scope. Mins Louise Fleming, Dean of Students, cliats with 1960 incoming fresiinicii, Judy Reese, Judy Stone, and Sandra Craft during Hospi(alit>' Week End. Faculty Members Participate In Inter-Collegiate Conferences The broad interests of the Mere dith faculty are evidenced by the participation of many of our pro fessors in inter-collegiate confer- cnccs this spring. Three members of our faculty — Dr. Ernest F. Canady, Mr. James H. Eads, Jr., and Dr. John A. Yarbrough will attend the North Carolina Academy of Science meeting to be held at North Carolina State College the week end of May 5-6. Dr. Canady, •who is chairman of the mathe matics section of the Academy, will preside at the session on Saturday morning, at which time papers on various mathematical subjects will be presented. The Southern Golden Mouse, or Peromyiviis Nultalli Aiireolus, will be the subject of a paper presented to the biology section of the Academy by Mr. Eads. Another member of the biology faculty. Dr. Yarbrough, has the distinction of being secretary-treasurer of the en tire North Carolina Academy, which is composed of approximately 575 members keenly interested in scientific studies, the majority of whom are college professors of science or math. In this official ca pacity Dr. Yarbough will travel to Washington, D. C., on May 6 to represent the North Caro lina Academy at a meeting attended by the directors of projects spon sored by the National Science Foun dation in various state academies of science. In Washington Dr. Yar brough will present a paper on re search for under graduate students, noting specifically how such re search can be stimulated. “This is an outgrowth of the fact,” he pointed out, “that the North Caro lina Academy has a very activc col legiate section. One of our students, Alice Currin, is secretary of this section.” “This Fair Defect of Nature” is the intriguing topic selected by Dr. Ethel Tilley for her address to the American Association of University Women April 29 in Jacksonville, Illinois. She spoke at the annual luncheon given by the Association for senior women of MacMurray College and Illinois College. Mrs. Clarke and Mrs. Jeffries, representatives of our art depart ment, attended the Southeastern College Art Conference in Florida the week of April 19. CHORUS TO GIVE ANNUAL CONCERT May 6, 1961, the Meredith Chorus will present their annual spring conccrt in Jones Auditorium at 8:00 p.m. The forty-three mem ber group is under the direction of Miss Beatrice Donley. The program will be begun with a sacred number, “Miserere,” by Johann Adolf Hasse. For an other selection, Randall Thomp son’s “Pueri Hebracorum,” the chorus will be divided into two groups, thereby achieving an un usual effect. Three French numbers are included: “Si tu le veux” (If You Are Willing), Charles Koech- lin; “J’ai pleuri en rove” (In My Dreams I Sorrowed), Georges Hue, “Le Rossingnol” (The Nightin gale), Mario Oastelnuovo-Tedcsco. Several selections from the Broad way production “The Sound of Music” will add a popular note lo the program. Concluding the program will be a group of four F.nglish numbers: “Two Eastern Pictures,” Gustav Holst; “Go, Lovely Rose,” words by Edmund Waller, music by Eric H. Thiman; “Hymn to the Night,” Richard Donovan; and “The Build ers Dance,” words by J. Uksenberg, melody by M. Vilenski. The public is cordially invited to attend. Guests To Arrive Saturday The prospective students will ar rive Saturday morning. Registration for dormitory students is between 9:00-12:00 a.m.; for day students it is between 11:00-12:00 a.m. Anne Braswell and Kathy Roberts are in charge of the registration for the dorm and day students respec tively. Festivities To Be Attended After registration the giris will have lunch in the College dining hall, after which they will attend the annual May Day festivities, in cluding the crowning of the May Queen, enlertainment by the En semble and Modern Dance classes, and the Annual Horse -Show. Saturday evening the day stu dents will be served a supper in the Hut at 5:30. All the guests have also been invited to the Spring Con cert by the Meredith College Chorus and to an open house in the Blue Parior, sponsored by the Stu dent Government Association. Pro grams for all the proceedings are being designed by a committee un der the direction of Jill Littlefield. Guests lo Learn Of College The May Day week end is de signed to give new students a chance to become acquainted with the col lege, their future professors, and their classmates. It is a week end to which the Meredith College com munity looks forward each spring. The success of the week end is ac complished by the work of many. We are happy to reccive our guests as members of the college family. BRASWELL NAMES NEW COUNSELORS The freshman and transfer coun selors for 1961-1962 have been an nounced by Anne Braswell, chief counselor. They are as follows: Sara Bryan, Kay Bums, Sandra Butler, Carol Christian, Meredith Clifton, Linda Copley, Brenda Corbett, Mary Lou Davis, Jane Dayvault, Sue Ennis, Peggy Fish, Mary Alice Gibbs, Donna Holloman, Betty Hooks, Margaret Houghton, Fran cos Knight, Jill Littlefield. Janice Long, Ann Nooe, Martha Osborn, Nan Phipps, Peggy Pruitt. Barbara Radford, Martha Rivers, Karen Roberts, Amy Robinson, Susan Rouzcr, Jennie Lind Roy, Penelope Senter, Sara Smith, Judy Stone, Joyce Ellen Stainback, Judy Swain, Ann Waters, Francine Wilker- son, Pat Williams, Judy Bullard, Anna Cartner, Peggy Deloatch, and Sallie Graham. The new counselors will return to school the day before Orientation Week to review immediate plans. The next day they will register the freshmen, take them to their rooms, and introduce them to their hall proctors. The counselors will sponsor a “Big Wheel” parly for the purpose of acquainting the fresh man with the main officers and leading organizations of the college. They will also be in charge of the Open House, held on the Sunday afternoon during Orientation Week, and the annual bus tour of Raleigh. The selection of girls as freshman counselors is based on the opinions of their freshman counselors, faculty advisors, and hall proctors. Library
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