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Page two THE TWIG May 4, 1962 WELCOME, VISITORS Each spring Meredith College welcomes to its campus an eager group of high school seniors who will compose the incoming Freshman class for the 1962-63 year. Again this May the college community will do its best lo provide for the guests an enlightening preview of college life in general and Meredith College life in particular. Much hard work and dellgcnt practice has gone into the preparation of the events framing the May Day festivities which have been especially for you, our guests. Sleek well-groomed horses and their habit-clad riders have been seen in the college ring as final plans are made for the horse- show to be held Saturday afternoon. Gwen Cooper, our lovely Queen of May, and her elegant court have smiled their way through many photogra phers’ cameras and are excitedly readying themselves for the spotlight position of the weekend. Lamps have burned late in the music building during the past weeks as the members of the college chorus rehearsed the selections to be sung in the annual spring concert tomorrow evening. With the arrival of Sunday comes the opportunity for each of you to visit in one of the Raleigh churches. Buses will carry girls to churches of various denominations, all of which are anxious to meet you, their future members. Perhaps the most important aspect of your visit is the opportunity which each of you will have to become acquainted with your fellow classmates. Having made several new friends, we hope you will look forward to seeing them again in the fall. All the many things to do and see will keep you busy but don’t let the weekend slip by without pausing to see the abundance of natural beauty which crowns our campus at this season. Finally, to each guest, let us say that we are glad you have come, and we wish you an informative and en joyable weekend. N. W. Sally, You Have A Guest in the Dean of Students Office. V CHAPEL BEHAVIOR If each of us would take one day, go into chapel, sit down in our seats, and without saying a word, listen to the noise around us, we would be horrified. At least, let us hope that we would be disturbed. The noise at the beginning and end of our worship services is astounding. People con tinue to chatter after the speaker sits down on the rostrum. The hymn num ber is unheard over the din. Furthermore, at the end of the service, the sound of hymnals being thrown into the racks drowns out the last half of ihe final verse of the song. Do wc all remember that chapel on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday is a yK'orship service. Chape! services are part of Meredith’s program to foster a Christian atmosphere at the college. At times everyone becomes tired of three such services a week, but don’t we have the common decency to be courteous to our visiting speakers. Wc are women, ranging in age from eighteen to twenty-two. Wc arc supposedly mature young women. Why then, do we persist in acting like six-year-olds in chapel? Mrs. Harris Writes Of Humble N. C. Folk Rolling together the warmth of Ihe summer sunshine as it smiles over a field of ripening cotton and the beauty of young lives melting through love and understanding into oneness, Janey Jeems, a novel by Bernice Kelly Harris, tells the story of real folk dwelling in the Eastern region of North Carolina. Catching up the reader in the _ fej MEMBER Associated Collcgiiitc Press KDITORIAL STAFF Dianne Simmons Assocut. Edilor Managing Editor Managing Fcl.tor Ann Nooe Columnists Betty gjirbara Jones Plioiographcrs... Vicki Johnson, Kappie Wccde Rcporlcrs--Claire Rollon, Nell Cox. Penny Pitlard, Anne Mintz, Millie Sandni Sue Horton, Susan Ross, Libby Bullard, CcirroH Hicks, Margaret McQtiirt ^ FacuHy Sponsor Norma Rose BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Advcrtis.ng Manager Stem Circulrvtion Manager Martha Ballou Mailing Editor ?' T'r; Clark Typists—Mabel Puckett, Dianne Bowers, Ann Dewitt, Ann Carper, Jane Willis, Billie Parker Advertising Stiilf—Martha Spence. Libby Bullard, Nancy Dail, Sarah Ramsey Faculty Sponsor Or. Lok Frazier Entered as sccond^lass mailer October 11. 1923. nt dq« ofriri* doi.uu vi ^ T~ H 4 .PubliBhed semi-monthly during tlie months of Ociober^Nnvi^m'tS.V nionths ot December, “anua ”, Fcbr»mr/ M^ch and Thb Twio is the college newspaper of Merediih Coneoe May. such is one of the ilitee major publications oI the institution—^li^Sthef wo ^ magailne. and The Onk Uavc. tiie collcge annual Meredith College is an nccrctlited senior tibecal arts collcse for women loeiii-rf in rh. capital city of North Carolina. U confers the Bucheior of Arts and the Bachelor of Musfe hSmr’coTomiS. ** '"* tweniy.one fields including music, art. busin^and Since 1921 the institution has been a member of the Southern Assncinflnn «r _ a ™="'ber»i,ip in tl,rSi«R“f ?."meric^^^ Conference. Graduates of Meredith College are e"ioiWe !S? f .t.® AHociation of University Women. The liisUtuHon Is I llLfa^ arts member of the National Association of Schools of Music. ‘«»uiunon is a iiMfai SubscripUoQ Rates: $2.95 per year Y^^nTNew'Y«k!*^ National Advertising Service, Inc.. 420 Madijon Ave., New End of Semester Is Frantic Season By CARROLL HICKS With less than a month left in school, many students have been seen hurrying around campus with worried looks on their faces. Others haven’t been seen for the past week and probably won’t be for another week or more. The library has never done so much business (except at the end of last semester). Because of all the rush now, Stu dent Inventory Day has been of ficially set up so that we can find out how much is left to do. There is no particular day set aside for this — any free moment will do. However, there is one rule — you must try to remember what you have done already and what is left. After appropriate matters have been decided upon, the students are urged to devise study schedules for the remainder of the term. However, considering how far behind we all are the time has come when no moment can be spared. Wc must be busy cramming in all possible work. Therefore, a sort of study schedule must be made out in which several things can be sand wiched in at the same time. You have to remember to leave a free hour to watch “Dr. Kildare” and then “Ben Casey” on Fridays. The schedule will also have to be moved around l.F.C. and May Day week end. Then, there may be a trip or two to the beach which will neces sarily take time. So when you gel right down to it, you might as well give up or stay up all night. As the old proverb goes: He who hesitates is lost — and he’ll wish his grades would be! 3 SENIORS PLAN MORE SCHOOLING flavor of the land and its people, Mrs, Harris binds her folk by an intangible magic known to story tellers—to all people who have ever known the true joys and sorrows of life. The story of these hard work ing, God-fearing folk opens in the spring of the year with the newness of life pushing and pulling to be bom. In the midst of the activity stood Jeems West. Owning his own land. Jeems regarded the soil as a symbol of the promise and produc tiveness of the future —a future which he and Janey would build. Marrying Janey when she was just fourteen, Jeems “had sensed it to himself that Janey was neither a woman nor a girl, on the exact balance, and time was needing for her.” But time seemed to have no limit, and there was time enough for Jeems and Janey. The corn grew straight and tall and the years passed taking with them into memories Janey’s bap tism, her loneliness for Jeems when he went away to work with the Forrestburg Lumber Company, and the birth of her first child. Most days were happy ones for Janey who was no longer a mix ture of girl and woman but full woman and wife. There were times when the floods of despair broke loose and ru.shed down upon the two. Each comforted the other in times of need, and the bond of unity deepened. Together Janey and Jeems watched the children of their mar riage grow from chubby babies into mature men and women with lives of their own to lead. Suddenly, it seemed, the house which had been bursting with youthful activity grew quiet with age. A peaceful sadness Ungered over the fields as the har mony of Janey and the rhythm of Jeems merged to sing out the hum ble story of Jimey Jeems. GLIMPSES By BARBARA JONES Have you seen beauty? Have you really — or does your self-assured compliancy leave no room for such sentimental trivialities? For instance, has your whole being been stirred in reverent awe of that simple sunset clothed in hues of blue and mauve as it slowly sank into the oblivion of dusk? Have you had your heart leap with joy as you observed a little child bear ing to his mother a lone and in significant fragrant rose crushed in his tiny wet hand? If not, perhaps your sight and thoughts of beauty lie in a different vane such, as a rippling creek flow ing gently over your long slender toes (or were they fat and stubby). Then again beauty might have been captured for a moment Ihe time you saw that creative art student in the court expressing all the beauty which you felt but could not openly express. If none of these catch your fancy, perchance freshly fallen snow does. Maybe its light even dances and sparkles in your eyes. Still—with even such ah array of beauty in nature there seems to be something lacking. This aspect of beauty is far more beautiful but like so many important things it is far t(W often ignored. This concept of beauty of which I speak is that secret inward beauty. of a human being. Life immortal breathes in all who pass us by yet too often we seek to change this individual to satisfy our own selfish needs. Just as there is a difference in splendor between a storm rock ing the earth with its thunder and the innoccnt violet so too is that difference in human beings. We bring much beauty into the world from a simple act of kind ness to the ultimate joy of bearing a child. Too frequently, however, we are loo busy to see that inward beauty which lies in hidden depths of eternity in simple laugh, a smile, a song. Have you seen beauty to day? EDITOR’S NOTE The new Twig staff would like to thank Linda Kirby and her 1961- 62 staff for a job well done. We only hope we can be worthy suc cessors. New S.G.A. Members Complete Training By BETTY HOOKS For the last month student gov ernment meetings on Monday night have been more full than ever be fore; this increase in attendance was due to the fact that the last month was a "training period” for new members. Student government representatives for next year at tended the weekly meetings and were allowed to take part in dis cussion, but they could not vote be fore being installed. Some new members were also instructed indi vidually in certain jobs, such as checking dorm cards, etc. In answer to request of the stu dent body, a committee was pro- vided to check further into the pos sibility of getting radio station, WKNC on campus. Work on this request gives the new Student Activi ties Board its first duty. On Monday, April 30, old and new student government members had a picnic at the hut. After eat- mg, the_ three boards separated and met officially for the first time. Rachel Dailey and Hilda Maness, two Meredith seniors, will be par ticipating in the Master of Arts of Teaching program at Duke Uni versity after graduation. These two girls will attend school through out the summer; then they will teach and commute to several night classes during the next school year. At the end of this period, they will receive their MAT degrees in their field of concentration, English. Peggy Wilkins, president of the senior class, has received a scholar ship which will aid her in h-^rl h 11111 liiMiii iiMiiii' iwyi—■ graduate work at Tulane Univer- Th«. nrri»..t t i . sity of Louisiana. blooitilng buds skyward and a young girl’s dreams to (h« ou(*of-doors.
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