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Newspaper of the Sludems of Meredith College
Volume XXXVI
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., SEPTEMBER 22, 1961
No. 1
STATE-MEREDITH
BSU PARTY HERE
On Friday night, September 22,
from eight to ten o’clock, the Mere
dith court will be filled with North
Carolina State College students and
Meredith freshmen and transfers for
the annual Baptist Student Union
Freshman - Transfer Party. Spon
sored jointly by the B.S.U.’s of
Meredith and State College, the
party will afford an excellent op
portunity for new students at both
schools, as well as returning upper
classmen, to meet socially.
Square dancing will be the main
entertainment of the evening, with
a local “caller” to lead the figures.
During the breaks from dancing,
students from Meredith and State
will entertain-in various ways such
as dancing, group singing, and skits.
Decorations will be in keeping
with the informal atmosphere of the
party, and traditional harvest-time
refreshments will be served. Strictly
casual dress, such as Bermuda
shorts, toreadors, etc., will be the
order of the evening.
The Class of 1965 and group guides gather during Orientation Wecic.
CAMPUS LEADERS
ATTEND RETREAT
On September 13, Dr. Norma
Rose spoke to the Meredith College
Leadership Council. The retreat was
held at Umstead State Park.
Challenging the group to leader
ship, Dr. Rose stressed “making the
best of the actual without forgetting
the ideal.”
After refreshments had been
served by Miss Louise Fleming,
Dean of Students, Nancy Ricker led
a discussion based on the problems
of leadership. Feeling the meeting
to be a success, the group decided
to make tentative plans for a similar
retreat at the beginning of next se
mester.
The Leadership Council is com
posed of the presidents of S.G.,
A.A., and B.S.U.; the editors of the
Acorn, the Tweg, and the Oak
Leaves; the presidents of the sopho
more, the junior, and the senior
classes; the president of the Play
house; the presidents of the two
literary societies; the chief counselor
and the chairman of the Social
Standards Committee. Also present
were Mr. Bernard Cochran and
Mrs. Jay Massey.
MEREDITH ENROLLS RECORD NUMBER
College Registrar Names
Students on Deans List
The list of the name^of the ninety
one students who made Dean’s List
was released in June by Mrs. Vera
Tart Marsh, registrar of the college,
and is effective this fall semester.
Included in this list are names
of students registered for at least
twelve hours who have completed
and passed all courses with a num
ber of quality points equal to twice
the number of semester hours taken
plus three.
Those included in the list are the
following: Elizabeth Pate Adams,
Johanna McKevlin Adler, Judith
Leigh Avery, Carol Ann Jones
Barnes, Frances Maria Barton,
Mary Ogie Baugham, Katherine
Scott Beaver.
Joan LaRue Grantley, Elizabeth
Ann Braswell, Barbara Ann Britt,
Anne Elizabeth Britton, Brenda
Frances Bunn, Stella Jean Burrell,
Celia Ann Caldwell, Nancy Carol
Campbell, Meredith Jane Clifton.
Brenda Ann Cole, Etta Joan
Cope, Ann LeStourgeon Covington,
Eugenia Carol Coxe, Rachel Caro
lyn Dailey, Ann Lupton Daniel,
Ronalie Scharff David, Barbara Sue
Ennis, Emily Lureese Evans, Frieda
Jane Farmer, Ann Marie Fisher.
Mary Margaret Fowler, Joyce
Cameron Garner, Crissie Louise
Gurkin, Dalia Haitovske, Julia Ann
Hardee, Jerry Lou Holbert, Betty
Bowman Hooks, Alexa Pauline
Howell, Nora Cauline Howell, Mar
garet Lorene Hurst, Linda Harland
Johnson.
Paula Sue Johnson, Judith Rod-
well Jones, Emily Nelson Dunn
Joyce, Carol Elizabeth Kendall,
Carol Jean Knight, Christine Carol
Kress, Carolyn Suzanne Leath, Zula
Faye Lee, Janice Roberts Long,
Velma Ruth McGee, Anne Elizabeth
Mallard.
Marilyn Katharioe Maner, Peggy
Joan Martin, Sonia Elizabeth Mat
tocks, Linda Mitchell Monsees,
Ruth Avery Moss, Linda Elaine
Motsinger, Ann Fravel Nooe, Caro
lyn English Norwood, Clara Lou
Peacock, Nancy Louise Phillips,
Gwendolyn Mae Picklesimer.
Mary Virginia Irby Pittman,
Kathryn Ann Rice, Martha Red-
fearn Rivers, Margie Sue Rogers,
Rachel Jeanette Rogers, Maggie
Ann Rowe, Barbara North Saint-
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“WHO’S WHO ’ ADMITS MISS FLEMING
This past summer Miss Louise E.
Fleming, Dean of Girls, was asked
to become a member of the Who’s
Who of American women. The
honor comes in a long series of
honors bestowed upon Miss Flem
ing, who is a Meredith graduate.
While majoring in history at
Meredith, she participated in a
variety of activities such as being a
class officer, participating in sports,
being a member of the I.R.C. and
Y.W.C.A., and serving as president
of the Meredith Student Govern
ment.
Having been elected to member
ship on the National Council of the
YWCA, Miss Fleming went as an
American delegate to the World Stu
dent Zion Federation Conference in
Switzerland after her graduation.
Later she returned to Europe, this
time as an American delegate to
the WSCF and ISS conferences in
Switzerland and in Austria.
While earning her M.A. from Co
lumbia Graduate School of Political
Science, she was pledged to the
Kappa Delta Pi and Pi Lambda
Theta scholastic honoraries. She is
also an honorary member of the
Mortar Board, a national women’s
honor society. Her other affiliations
include memberships in the AAUW,
Raleigh Woman’s Club, YWCA,
National Society of Colonial Dames
of America, N. C. Literary and His
torical Society, and the N. C. Art
Society.
She has done further graduate
work in recent years. In 1958 she
was awarded the Professional Di
ploma in Guidance and Student Per
sonnel Administration by Columbia
after she had completed a two-year
course. Her other graduate work
has been done at the University of
Washington Graduate School of
Social work, the Columbia Univer
sity Graduate School of Psychology,
and the Union Theological Semi
nary in New York. More recently
she has concentrated on the doc
toral program at Columbia Univer
sity where she has finished most of
the course work but has yet to write
the dissertation.
Miss Louise E. Fleming
Crook Addresses
Freshmen; SGC
PlansYear’sWork
The Student Government Coun
cil was attending meetings for its
own betterment even before the
new students arrived on campus
for Orientation this fall. The pur
pose of these discussions was to
recall the responsibility of the Coun
cil to the student body in its over
all plan, in specific legislative jobs
to be done, and in judicial matters.
The first duty of the individual
Council members was to orientate
all new Meredith students concern
ing the Honor Code and the Hand
book. This responsibility was not a
small one since the impression first
gained by the new students con
cerning the college and the basis
for her student government is often
a lasting one. At a service on Sun
day afternoon, the new members of
the Meredith College community
signed the Honor Code, thereby
agreeing to live by it while here at
school. Dr. Roger Crook’s message
at the service helped to impress
upon the students’ minds the seri
ousness of their pledge. The Coun
cil would like to make a plea to the
returning members of the student
body to remember likewise that
they took a similar pledge upon en
tering Meredith. The attitude of the
upper classmen toward the Honor
Code and the rules by which we
live can tear down in a moment an
earlier good impression or may
make that impression live vividly
through four years at Meredith.
Returning students will remem
ber the chapel discussions concern
ing a new call down system. Be
cause the plan was introduced late
in the year, the faculty committee
did not have time to act upon it.
However, the plan is still very much
alive, and any new ideas would be
welcome. The system worked out
by Mary Lou Nichols and her stu
dent commlttce made use of call
downs and lesser penalties or de
merits. Therefore, different mis
takes, such as entering the dormi
tory five minutes after closing time
and omitting the ’61 on the dorm
card, would not be made equal.
The Council would like to wel
come Mr. James H. Eads, Jr., to
the faculty committee on Student
Government. Mr. Eads will be re
turning this year after a year’s ab
sence from the committee.
O Meredith College began a new
year September 6, with the largest
student body in the history of the
college — 762. The orientation pro
gram, designed to acquaint the
freshmen and 35 transfer students
with Meredith, got underway Thurs
day, September 7, with a speech to
the new students by President Car
lyle Campbell.
New Students Take Tests
Freshman and transfer students
undertook a full schedule of tests,
guidance sessions, various group
meetings and social events. The
councils of the Athletic Association,
Baptist Student Union, and the
Student Government Association, as
well as the counselors and other
campus leaders served as guides and
assistants in the execution of the
entire program.
Group Receives Instruction
Classes were conducted by faculty
and staff members in the area of
catalogue training, health orienta
tion, guidance, and library training.
The members of the Student Gov
ernment Council led discussion
periods aimed at explaining the
policies and regulations of the As
sociation.
College Entertains Girls
Thursday night the counselors en
tertained all new students at a
Big Wheel Party in Society Hall
featuring the introduction of cam
pus leaders. Friday and Satur
day nights the students were pre
sented to the college officials in a
formal reception in the Blue Par
lor in Johnson Hall. At the same
time hall parties were arranged by
hali Procters for students not attend
ing the receptions.
The program for Sunday Included
an Honor Code Service and an open
house in the Hut given by the coun
selors for the new students. A bus
tour of Raleigh was arranged for
all new dormitory students on Mon
day.
The orientation program was
planned by the faculty committee
on orientation of which Miss Mary
Bland Josey is chairman.
Freshmen Register for Classes
Registration for classes for the
freshman on Saturday and for the
old students on Monday prepared
the way for the opening of classes
on regular schedule Tuesday, Sep
tember 12.
SENIOR CLASS
HOLDS PICNIC
Pat Walston was elected 5ong
leader by the Senior Class at its
first meeting of the year, Septem
ber 12, in Society Hall. Before the
regular meeting, the girls had
gathered at the Hut for recreational
games such as ping pong and volley
ball and a picnic supper. Later, the
class reorganized in Society Hall for
the business part of the meeting.
This session, led by Peggy Wil
kins, the class president, included
passing the motion that three more
such meetings be held this year and
approving the class budget and
calendar. Then all of the committee
chairmen were introduced. Finally,
Dean L. A. Peacock addressed the
group concerning the new senior
class privilege of unlimited class
cuts. He also explained the scholar
ships available to those qualified
students desiring them in doing
graduate work.
Peggy reports that at the next call
meeting Gwen Cooper, annual edi
tor, will lead a discussion of what
the class wants in the yearbook.
During the same meeting the dedi
catee, superlatives and color of the
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