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READ ABOUT SEE PAGE FOUR BEST-DRESSED 1 M 1 1 ■ FOR NEWS ABOUT CONTEST 1 I I ^ I w W 1 ^ V JANUARY PAGE THREE M M A M ▼ T A GRADUATES Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College Volume XXXVI» MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C, FEBRUARY 16, 1962 No. 7 RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS WEEK ENDS TODAY Nominating Committee Institutes res In Election Procedures Chang( Ann Braswell, chief counselor, has recently announced changes and additions to the 1962 proce dure for registration, nominations, and elections. The changes were agreed upon by the Nominating Committee over which Ann pre sides. Brenda Payne, elected by the Committee as chairman of elec tions, is in charge of elections this year. She will be assisted by the class judges, Betty Hooks and Beverlye Lipscomb, and the regis trar, Mabel Puckett, all three girls being elected by the Committee. Students Will Register And Vote In Dorms The first of the changes is con cerned with registration and voting places. There will be a registration book and a ballot box in each dormitory for the girls living in that dorm. There will be a book and a ballot box in Johnson Hall for the Day Students. More Time For Voting Is Planned In addition to the changes in lo cation, there have been several changes in the time of registering and voting. This year the times of both have been extended from 8:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. The registra tion for the first slate will be on Wednesday, February 28, and Thursday, March 1; tiic first elec tion will be on Thursday, March 8. The second slate election will be held on Thursday, March 22. Candidates Will Be Introduced InCormally A new and different procedure will be carricd out in the way of introducing the candidates to the student body. On March 6 and 7 the first slate candidates will be presented in dorm meetings. These meetings will be held at 7:00 p.m. and at 10:00 p.m. Two dorms will meet at 7:00, half of the candi dates being in one dorm and half in the other. At a designated time the candidates will change places, and thus the students in each dorm will have a chance to meet and talk with each of the candidates. The same procedure will be followed at 10:00 p.m. in the two remaining dorms. The qualifications of each girl nominated by the Committee will also be presented to the voters at these meetings. In order for the petition candi dates to appear in chapel with the candidates nominated by the Com mittee, student petitions should be turned in by Monday, March 5, for the first slate and Monday, March 19, for the .second slate. Petitions will be accepted until 6:00 p.m. the day before each election, but these late petition candidates will not have an opportunity to appear be fore the student body. Each Hall Will Reccivc Returns The Committee has also made changes in the procedure of an nouncing the winners of each elec tion. This year, when the returns arc counted, a list of the winning candidates will be posted on the bulletin boards on each hall and on the Johnson Hall bulletin board. ® During the week of Februaiy 12- 16, the students and faculty of Mere dith College have been participating in the annual Religious Emphasis Week with the theme “Invitation to Pilgrimage.” Beth Woodall, chair man, and Mrs. Miriam Prichard, di rector of religious activities at Mere dith, have worked closcly with other committee chairmen and the steering committee in planning the various phases of this week’s program. Dean Is College Board Member For Magazine Elizabeth Anne Deane, a fresh man day student from Cary, has been appointed to this year’s Made moiselle collegc board. She is one of the 805 students at 335 colleges who will report to Mademoiselle this year of the college scene. As a college board member, each girl will complete an assign ment that will show her interests and abilities in writing, editing, fashion, advertising, or art in com petition for the twenty guest edi torships to be awarded by the maga zine at the end of May. The winning guest editors will be brought to New York for four weeks next June to help edit, write, and illustrate Mademoiselle’s 1962 Au gust collegc issue. They will receive travel expenses and a salary. While they arc in New York, the guest editors will interview out standing men and women in their chosen fields to help clarify their career aims. They will also visit fashion showrooms and advertising agencies, and will be guests of honor at Mademoiselle’s mammoth Col lege Fashion Show in the Waldorf Astoria and at parties that the magazine is planning for them. Meredith Has New Members This Semester Meredith College enrolled nine teen new students at the second se mester registration. Six of the stu dents are living in the dormitories, and thirteen are living in town. Freshman Class Gain Two Of the dormitory students, two arc members of the Freshman Class. Judy Cornelius from Moores- ville is a transfer from Catawba College. The other freshman is Bonnie Sue Creech who attended Meredith during the summer ses sion of 1961. Bonnie Sue is from Smithfield. Two Sophomores Transfer The Sophomore Class has also gained two new members. One is Brenda Frietsche from Haverford, Pennsylvania. Before coming to Meredith, Brenda attended Roa noke College in Roanoke, Virginia. The other sophomore is Clay Stokes, who is a transfer from Peace College. Clay is originally from Hertford. Two Enter Junior Class Two students have also enrolled as members of the Junior Class. One of the new students, Jane Riggan, is not so new to Meredith. Jane attended Meredith her freshman year and transfered to Chowan Col lege her sophomore year. She also attended Chowan the first semes ter of this year. Jane is originally from Littleton. The other new mem ber of the Junior Class is Gwen Short from Ellicott City, Maryland. She is transferring from Western Maryland College. Morning Perspective Is Held Morning perspective has been held each morning at 7:50 a.m. in the Rose Parlor under the leader ship of Mr. Bill Smith, an associ ate in the department of student work for the State Baptist Conven tion in chapel each day the theme of the week, “Invitation to Pilgrim age,” has been presented by Dr. Thomas E. McCollough, who is at present a visiting professor at Duke University. Students Attend Evening Seminars Evening seminars have been held for the past four nights from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. The major topics have been — “Christianity and Contem porary Literature” led by Dr. D. W. White of the Duke religion depart ment; “Christianity — So What!,” led by Dr. McCollough; “War and Peacc,” presented by Mr. Vance Barrow, minister of First Presby terian Church in Chapel Hill; and “Christian Ethics,” led by Mrs. James Counsler, wife of the direc tor of the BSU at the University of ART EXHIBIT OF ANNE SfflELDS IS BEING SHOWN FEBRUARY 5-26 Anne Kesler Shields, a native of Winston-Salem, is widely known in the field of art. She studied at Hol lins College in Roanoke, where she rcccived her A.B. degree, and at Woman’s College, where she re ceived her MFA degree. She did further study at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and at Hans Hoffmann in Province- town, Massachusetts. She has ex hibited in North Carolina, South Carolina, Connecticut, Massachu setts, Alabama, Georgia, and Okla homa — all of which were juried shows. The art exhibit which began at Meredith February 5 and will con tinue through February 26 is com posed entirely of her works. It is made up of color wood cuts, oils, and caseins which depict abstract landscapes. Mrs. Shields has stated that, “The artist seeks to create works which have a life of their own. He draws from inspiration, not from a void, but from life, whether it be from figures, from landscape, or from within himself. At the pres ent lime I see these life forces more fully at work in the landscape than In any other form of nature.” This is Mrs. Shields’ fifth one- man show, the other four being at the Arts Council Gallery in Win ston-Salem, the Chapel Hill Art Gal lery of Chapel Hill, and in the Fine Arts Foyer of Hollins College. The gallery will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. except on Sundays. INTERNTIONAL RELATIONS MEMBERS TO ATTEND MODEL UNITED NATIONS The annual North Carolina Model United Nations will be at tended by five members of the Meredith fnternational Relations Club, Betty Adams, Salic Smith, Judy Shouse. Brenda Corbett, and Sarah Ramsey. The assembly, re ceiving delegates from schools all over the state, was held at Duke last year and will be held at N. C. State College this year on Febru ary 15.-17. Registration Begin Thursday The week end begins with regis tration Thursday, followed by a general assembly and an address by the president of State College. On Friday, February 16, com mittees on various United Nations problems will meet. Each school delegation will present its resolu tions for discussion, consideration, and approval. The unique charac ter of the Model U. N, will be brought out in these committee meetings, for each school represents its appointed country not only by knowing the problems it has but also by taking on its actual view point and aims. Meredith girls will represent Japan. Committees Discuss Issues The topics for discussion in com mittee meetings are: Economic As pects, which will include such prob lems as that of refugees and relief; Control of Outer Space; Legal As pects, which will include charter and treaty revisions and bound ary adjustments; and International Crises, including discussion of trouble spots and policy toward the countries involved. Fmally, there North Carolina. The speakers have rotated in the Johnson Hall and Vann parlors so that the students could remain stationery each night and btill hear cach speaker. Speakers Entertain In Society Hall On Monday evening speakers and faculty members provided enter tainment at an informal party in Society Hall, and on Wednesday afternoon an informal tea was given in order that the students might meet the visiting speakers and talk with them. Throughout the week, books pertinent to Christian life and meaning have been on display in the Meredith library through the courtesy of the Baptist Book Store. Day Students Also Participate Besides the visiting speakers al ready mentioned, Don Niswonger, assistant pastor of First Baptist Church in Raleigh and pastor ad visor for the Meredith BSU coun cil, led the day student discussion group each day; and Dr. Warren Ash% of the department of philoso phy at Woman’s College was the speaker at the faculty seminars on Monday and Tuesday evenings. Faculty Members Receive Degrees During the past year, three mem bers of the Meredith faculty have completed the work necessary for the attainment of the Doctor’s de gree. Miss Lois Frazier of the business department rcccived her Doctor of Education from Indiana University. Her dissertation dealt with The Pral^lems Befiimi}tff Secretaries Ex perience with Office Dictation. Miss Frazier did her undergraduate work at Woman’s College in Greensboro and received her Master of Science degree from the University of North will be the Ad Hoc committee, which will discuss all general prob lems and major world issues. Committee discussions and all ^ , ,t „ - other meetings of the weekend will I be strictly regulated as to proper' ofhcial in June, 1961. parliamentary rules of order, oper-' \l O^ojer of the same year Mr. ating as nearly as possible exactly I ^’'thiir C. Downs, a newco^^^ as the United Nations does. I Meredith faculty officially received I his doctorate, the dissertation of General Assembly Meets Last I was written on Resoim-es for . ) the Teacliifii’ of Jewelry. His under- The General Assembly will meet | graduate work was done in Phila- on the final day, February 17, when idelphia at the Philadelphia Museum final resolutions of the committees College of Art. He received both will be presented to the whole body. Nations will vote by roll call, each delegation voting according to the aims of the country it represents. his Master's degree and his Doctor’s degree at Columbia University. The third member of Meredith’s (Conlintied on page 3) Meredith College Playhouse To Present Greek Tragedy, Electra, March 23-24 On March 23-24 at 8:00 p.m. in Jones Auditorium, the Meredhh College Playhouse is presenting Electra, a Greek play by Sophocles. The drama is the story of Elec tra, the daughter of Agammenon, the famous conmiander of the the youngest child of Agamemnon, was entrusted by Electra to the care of a faithful friend who took him away and watched over him until he grew to manhood. Aegisthus made Electra utterly wretched in every way possible until her whole Greek forces at Troy. Before 1 life was concentrated in one hope, Agamemnon could sail to Troy, he was faced with the necessity to sac rifice his daughter Iphigeneia in or der to please Artemis and obtain a fair wind for the voyage. Because of Tphigeneia’s death, Agamemnon’s wife Clytaemnestra took Aegisthus as her lover, and to gether they planned to kill Aga memnon on hi,5 return. The deed was done, and Aegisthus reigned in Agamemnon’s place. Electra and her sister Chrysothe- mis remain in the house with Cly taemnestra and Aegisthus. Orestes, that Orestes would come back and avenge their father. She spent her life in watching for the brother who would bring her the only thing life held for her. The play tells how Orestes came. At first he was not recognized by Electra, and then he revealed him self to her so that they were able to kill their father’s murderers. Miss Velma Corsage, a member of the English faculty and faculty advisor for the Playhouse, is direct ing the play. Celia Ann Caldwell is president of the Playhouse.
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