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MEET THE DEAN OF STUDENTS page 3 THE TWIG SEE MILTON ON EXAMS page 2 Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College VOLUME XXXVII January Grads To Begin New Roles By JEAN HEGE Approximately fifteen January graduates will begin new careers as homemakers, carecr girls, and schoolmarms. Most of these Mere dith alumnae will stay in their home state of North Carolina. Betsy Yoric, a sociology major from Asheboro, will work for the Randolph County Welfare Depart ment and also will stay busy plan ning an April wedding. Also planning an April wedding will be Mary Ann Wolfe of Bur- gaw. Mary Ann will stay in Ra- lei^ and teach the first grade at Effie Green Elementary School. Sylvia Rose Warren will travel to the state of Georgia and join her husband in Atlanta. Sylvia is an elementary education major from Snow Hill. Returning in June for gradua tion, Dianne Simmons Squillario will be playing the role of home maker for her husband, Doug, in Greensboro after the semester is over. Beki Griffin, a sociology major from Monroe, plans to “rest for a month” after graduation and then work for the North Carolina Public Welfare Department. Billie Parker Barbee will join her husband in Maysville and teach the sixth grade there beginning the first of March. Norma Hamrick, a religion ma jor from Kings Mountain, is plan ning a March 16 wedding and will also take two corresponi courscs and return for graduation in June. One student will engage in gradu ate study in the field of guidance and counseling. Elizabeth Peterson will be attending classes once more at North Carolina State College. Margaret McGuirt will most likely return to her hometown of Monroe and teach during the spring semester. Donna Yancey Dellinger will join her husband who is doing graduate work at Appalachian State Teach ers College in Boone. She will either teach or attend graduate school. Ann Carol Sanders hopes to teach in one of the Raleigh schools. Plans are in the making for a late February wedding. Jean Hege, a religion major from Wlnston-Salcm, will return to her native city and teach the second grade at Oak Summit Elementary School. Several day students are among the January graduates. Most of these will remain in Raleigh. Sylvia Jeffcoat will be teaching (Continued on page 2) MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., JANUARY 18, 1963 No. 8 Semester Exams Begin Tomorrow First semester examinations will begin at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 19, and will end at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, January 25. Friday, January 18, has been set aside as reading day. Begun two years ago, reading day provides for the students a day free from classes in which they can organize their materials and begin to review for the week of exams which will fol low. So far the reading day has been successful in helping students prepare adequately for the finals. Faculty members find this day a good one in which to grade papers and to complete records. Studcnt'FacuIty Teas Student-faculty teas, which have been a part of exam week in years past, will be given on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, January 21-23. Held in the Blue Parlor from (Continued on page 4) EXAMINATION SCHEDULE JANUARY 18-25, 1963 TTS 12:00 Saturday, Jan. 19 TTS 2:00 Saturday, Jan. 19 TTS 8:30 Monday, January 21 TTS 9:30 Monday, January 21 TTS 11:00 Tuesday, January 22 9:00 a.m. MWF 8:30 Tuesday, January 22 MWF 9:30 Wednesday, January 23... 9:00 a.m. MWF 11:00 Wednesday, January 23... 2:00 p.m. MWF 12:00 Thursday, January 24 9:00 a.m. MWF 2:00 Thursday, January 24 2:00 p.m. MWF 3:00 Friday, January 25 Health Education, — -All Sections, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1963. at 4:00 p.m. READING DAY, NO CLASSES—Friday, Jan. 18. Jack Noffinsinger Heads List of Speakers For Religious Emphasis Week In February During the week of February 11 15, Meredith students will partici pate in the Meredith College Re ligious Emphasis Week, the theme of which is “The Double Search: God’s Search for Man and Man’s Search for God.” Carol Coxe, chair- also take two correspondence man for the week, and the various' committee heads have formulated the following plans for the week’s activities. Noffsingcr to be Main Speaker The double theme will be de veloped separately, one phase In chapel, the other in the nightly semi nars. The main speaker of the week, the Reverend Jack Noffsinger, pas tor of the Knollwood Baptist Church in Winston-Salem will ex plore the theme “God’s Search for Man” during the chapel periods. Mr. Noffsinger is a native of Harnett County. He received his COMING UP January 2»—Commencement Ex ercises Januury 29—Reftislrulion for sec ond semester January 30—Cla^s begin February 2—Cbamber music Februairy 5—nSfudenl league of Women Voters February 6 — Creative Writinc Club Playhouse Sociology Club February 11*15 — Rellftious Em* plissis Week education at Wake Forest College and Southeastern Seminary. In the past he has served as chaplain at North Carolina State Hospital in Raleigh, at North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem, assistant pastor of the Dauphin Way Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama, and in i his present capacity in Winston- Salem. Olher Speakers The Reverend Harry Smith, Chaplain to the Presbyterian stu dents at the Chapel Hill Presby terian Church, the Reverend Tru man Smith, director of student activities at Southeastern Seminary, the Reverend Edgar Christman, Wake Forest College B.S.U. ad visor, Professor Allard Lowenstein of the department of social studies at " ■ - be led by Truman Smith, with the morning speaker, Mr. Noffsinger, conducting a discussion of the theo logical questions involved. All of these seminars will develop the sec ond half of the theme, “Man’s Search for God.” Day Student Activities There will be discussions for the day students at one o’clock in the hut led by Mr. Christman, Mr. Exercises, To Be January 26 Degrees will be conferred upon those seniors who have completed the work toward their graduation at II a.m. on January 26, 1963, in the small auditorium of Jones. This is the second of such exer cises to be held in several years. Before this January service was held, it was customary for those graduating early to return for the June services. At the exercise, which will be at tended by family members and close friends of the graduates, ap proximately thirteen seniors will re ceive their dipplomas. The major address will be delivered by Dr. Car lyle Campbell, President of the col lege. Mrs. C. Brewer, Wife of Former President, Dies Mrs. Charles Edward Brewer, wife of the late Dr. Charles Ed ward Brewer, who was president of Meredith from 1915 to 1939 died on January 5, 1963. A graduate of Chowan College, Mrs. Brewer was originally from Shawboro. Living in Raleigh, she was quite active in the First Bap tist Church. For a time she was president of the Woman’s Missionary Union and for many years taught a Sun day School class of young women. Mrs. Brewer served at one time as State Chairman of Community Mis sions for the W.M.U., and she had Noffsinger, and Professor Lowen-1 the executive committee of ^ _.1 — n ^ *11 « A stein. Dr. Carlyle Marney will speak to the faculty on Tuesday evening at eight o’clock in Joyner Lounge. More informal activities will be provided in order that the students and the speakers may become bet ter acquainted. At (en o’clock on Monday night in Society Hall, there . — will be an informal parly at which North Carolma State College, the faculty members, the speakers. January graduates, Jean Hege, Bekt Griffin, D«f^ Yoik, Sylvia Ruse Warren, and Mary Ann Wolfe discuss their after'graduatioa plans. Dr. James Warren, assistant minis ter at Fairmont Methodist Church in Raleigh, and Dr. Carlyle Mar ney, pastor of the Myers Park Bap tist Church in Charlotte will also serve as speakers during the week. Morning Perspective Each day will begin with “Morn ing Perspective” held in the Rose Parlor and led by Dr, Warren. This informal devotional period, which will begin at eight o’clock will be preceded by coffee and doughnuts at 7:40. “God’s Search for Man’* “God’s Search for Man,” the topic of the morning chapel services, to be presented by Mr. Noffsinger will relate the need.) of the contem porary Christian student to a God relevant in the age of science. The Meredith College Chorus under the direction of Miss Beatrice Donley will provide special music for the services. Evening Seminar The evening seminars, which will be held from 7:00 to 8:00, Mon day through Thursday will feature various topics. There will be semi nars on contemporary literature conducted by Harry Smith, Com munism led by Professor Lowen stein, and Existentialism under the direction of Edgar Christman. In addition, the seminar entitled “Con cepts of Life,” which will deal with the questions of capital punishment. and the members of the Religious Emphasis Week committee “will display their various and unusual talents.” Tea is Planned On Wednesday afternoon in the Blue Parlor, there will be an in formal tea for guests, faculty and staff members, Raleigh ministers, and students. In addition, students this organization. Her daughters, Miss Ellen Brewer and Miss Ann Eliza Brewer teach here in the home economics and foreign language departments re spectively. BSU To Hold Retreat Feb. 1-3 Lectures, discussions, and recrea tional periods will highlight the Baptist Student Union retreat to be held on February 1-3. The theme of the retreat, which is to be held at the Terraces, an Episcopal re treat area in Southern Pines, is “A Study of the South Through Litera ture and Religion.” To lead the literature phase of will get a chance to meet the speak- ,h. r.rS.7 P^ase of ers at dinner each evening they will sit at various tabks in the f j u Or. Sam Hill, head of the religion dcpart- they will sit at various tables in the dining hall. Books pertaining to the theme of the week will be on display in the library and on sale in (he Bee Hive, Committee Heads The following committee heads helped Carol Coxe with the week’s plans: Worship, Polly Finan; Pro- ment at the University of North Carolina, will be in charge of the religion phase. On Sunday afternoon, the group of approximately sixty students from North Carolina, State, and Meredith Colleges plus a number of students from other college cam- gram, Mary MacManus; Student i ®''“^“2te the work of the Seminars, Kitty Kelly; Faculty | semester. Seminar, Judy Wicker; Publicity, Mary Ruth Dobbins; Social Func tions, Freida Harkness; Arrange ments, Virginia Browning; Music, Elizabeth Holland; Books, Nancy Jane Spenser; Hospitality, Clarene Roberson: Day Students, Virginia Costner. A steering committee un der the direction of Carol Coxe and Joyner Art Gallery Displays Student Work An exhibit of art work from the first semester students will be shown January 21-February 2 in the art gallery in Joyner. Works from painting, creative design, drawing, ; beginning art, and sculpture classes with the advice of Mrs. Miriam'will be on exhibit, birth control, and mercy killing will Woodall. Prichard, Meredith College B.S.U. Advisor, co-ordinated the program. Serving on this committee were Sue Ennis, Nancy Williams, Frieda Farmer, Betty Sodeman, Scott Beaver, Nicky Childrey, and Beth On exhibit February 6-20, spe cial projects from the class in studio problems may be seen. These proj ects consist of library research coupled with the giris’ own experi mental work with techniques and media.
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