THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Volume XL MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C, JANUARY 26, 1966 No. 7
Meredith to Celebrate Seventy-fifth
Anniversary with Three Days of Festivities
Twenty-four Seniors to Receive Diplomas
In Commencement Exercises on January 22
January graduates, Marylin Smith, Kate Floyd, Martha King, and Bet Booker,
adjust each other’s graduation regalia in preparation for the big day.
Three Modern Dance Soloists
To Present Oriental TRIAD
Meredith College will celebrate
the seventy-fifth anniversary of the
granting of its charter on February
26-28, 1966. To open the three days
of the commemoration of this event,
the Alunmae will meet on Saturday,
February 26, for their annual semi
nar. The principle address will be
given by former North Carolina gov
ernor Luther H. Hodges.
Dr. Richardson to Speak
The events of February 27 will
begin with a breakfast for the
Granddaughters’ Club at Raleigh’s
Meredith Girls
Anticipafe Rush
February 15-18 will be a special
week for all students at Meredith,
as the annual rush of the Astros
and the Phis will take place. Rush
week is a tradition of the college
and for the second consecutive year
it will be held during the spring se
mester.
Rush begins with Astro day on
Tuesday, February 15. The fes
tivities for the day will include a
serenade to the frosh at 7:00 a.m.,
the decorated court, breakfast sing
ing, the transfer-day student party
at 1:30, the supper club at 6:00,
and the final serenade at 11:00 that
night. On Wednesday, the Phis have
a similar schedule of events centered
around their theme.
Co-operation Day
Thursday is co-operation day.
During co-operation day, the Phis
have their annual Hawaiian Luau
as a part of the closing activities.
Astros will have a combo party fea
turing the Rhythm Kids.
Friday morning is the big day.
This is when freshmen make their
decision as to the society they want
to join. The decisions are made by
halls in the center of the court just
before breakfast. The decisions are
made by wearing the respective col
ors of chosen society. Astro’s wear
yellow while Phis wear blue, then
all students have a family style
breakfast and society week is con-
, eluded.
A new fifty thousand dollar
stable-barn complex for Meredith
College was begun early this month
and will be completed in April. The
equitation facilities will be “the fin
est in the South,” according to Dr,
Velvet Cloak Inn. At 11:00 a.m.
the student body will meet in Jones
Auditorium for a special Founder’s
Day service. The faculty will be
present in full academic regalia. The
speaker will be Dr. Vernon Richard
son, a longtime friend of Meredith
College. Dr. Richardson is pres
ently a Baptist minister in Rich
mond, Virginia, and has participated
in Religious Emphasis Week here.
Also present will be a representa
tive from each of Meredith’s gradu
ating classes. The Meredith College
Chorus will present special music.
The Founders’ Day reception will
be held in Johnson Hall at 4:00.
All friends of Meredith College
have been especially invited.
Acadetnic Convocation
On Monday morning, there will
be a special academic convocation
in connection with the anniversary
of the college from 10:30-11:30
a.m. in Jones Auditorium. Classes
will be dismissed at 9:20 and will
resume at 12:00 noon. The speaker
will be a scholar in an important
position of leadership in American
education. Final details of his
coming are incomplete at this time.
Following the service the trustees
will hold their semi-annual meeting.
Elections Slated
For March 10
In the January class meetings,
classes took the first step in the
nomination and election of officers.
At these meetings the freshmen,
sophomores, and juniors elected
non-voting representatives to the
nominating committee. These repre
sentatives, even though they have
no vote, can play an important role
in discussion and suggestions about
nominees. Representatives from the
Junior Class are Kay Cockerham
and Carol Ann Griffin; from the
Sophomore Class, Jane Waller; from
the Freshman Class, Carolyn Nutt
and Margaret Noffsinger. The next
stage of elections comes on Friday,
January 28, in chapel when a pro
gram will be presented concerning
nominating procedures and the work
of the committee. Also, at the chapel
program sheets will be distributed
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Silver, business manager and trea
surer, and Mrs. Mary Mackay Ed
wards, equitation director. Plans
were designed by Richard C. Bell
of Raleigh and William C. Vick
Construction Company is building
An exciting and unique experi
ence is looming in the near future
for all Meredith students. On Feb
ruary 23, 1966, a new dance form
called TRIAD, will be presented in
Jones Auditorium at 8 p.m. The
program, under management of the
Nationiil Music League, Inc., will
be free to all.
Three young modern dance
soloists, Dick Gain, Kazuko Hira-
barashi, and Dick Kuch, comprise
this new dance company. All three
have studied and appeared with
Martha Graham’s Company, and
have toured with various companies
and appeared in New York City.
Choreography, stage management,
costuming and the tape-sound equip
ment are handled solely by the
members of the group, including the
three dancers and their stage man
ager.
Purpose Is Beauty
TRIAD bespeaks out fast-paced
modern world by translating • its
problems through movement into
objects of beauty. An illustration of
this fact can be found in two of
the group’s repertoire, “To Know
No Shadow” and “Duet for a To
morrow.”
As so often is the case, our pres-
the structures.
The modern oak barn will go up
on a 56-acre plot adjacent to U.S. 1
bypass, just north of the barn. A
ring, a hunt course, and trails will
also occupy the area. In addition to
forty animal stalls and a large wash
ing stall, the barn will house a class
room, a lounge and office area, two
tack rooms, and other storage
areas. A special feature is a thirty
by ninty foot interior concourse to
be used during bad weather and
for special training purposes.
The facilities are badly needed,
for the present stables have been
used for twenty years. Previously,
they were stables for mules which
pulled campus mowing machines.
Mrs. Edwards says that riding
students will now have the advan
tages of regular lecture and riding
classes. About two hundred college
students take riding instruction each
year. An additional one hundred
and twenty boys and girls are town
students. A summer riding program
for young girls will also benefit
from the new structures.
Persons interested in the equita
tion program contributed to the
building fund, which was handled
separately from the general college
fund.
ent generation looks back for en
lightenment into past cultures.
What other age could possible
surpass the most highly developed
and refined, most logically and
anesthetically atuned Oriental cul
ture? TRIAD is acutely cognizant of
our Oriental endowments. Miss
Hirabayashi, a native of Japan, the
center of Oriental culture, has
choreographed for TRIAD several
vignettes oased on traditional Japa
nese folk tales. For these works,
music in the contemporary idiom
is employed. This bears out the trend
of combining with the future the
beauty of the past.
Personal Glimpses
Dick Gain came to New York in
the fall of 1957 and immediately
began dancing on all major tele
vision networks, including a season
as one of the Garry Moore Com
pany. Since then, he has appeared
in the Broadway productions of
“First Impressions” and “Camelot.”
He has also appeared as soloist
with Jerome Robbins’ “Ballets
U.S.A.,” and Martha Graham Com
pany, the Robert Jeffrey Ballet
Company and the Pearl Lang Com
pany and has gained critical ac
claim both in Europe and the United
States with these companies.
Kazuko Hirabayashi received a
degree in Law from the Meiji
University in Tokyo. After turning
to dance, she studied at the Julliard
School of Music and with Martha
Graham. Miss Hirabayashi had
been a recipient of the AGMA prize
and the Doris Humphry Fellowship
at Connecticut College. She has
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COLLEGE CALENDAR
January 26—Registration
January 27 — Classes begin, 8:25
a.m.
February 3—Straw ballot, chapel
Friends of the College, Reynolds
Coliseum, 8:00 p.m.
February 4—Friends of the College,
Reynolds Coliseum, 8:00 p.m.
February 7*11—Religious Emphasis
Week
Morning Perspective, Rose Parlor,
7:45 a.m.
Art Gallery Display
Book Display, Joyner Lounge
February 7 — Symposium, Jones
Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
February 8 — Last day for class
schedule changes
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On January 22, 1966, at 10:30,
twenty-four seniors received ihcir
diplomas and became alumnae of
Meredith College. The commence
ment program, in which Dr. Camp
bell spoke and presented the cer
tificates, look place in the main
chapel in Jones Auditorium.
The graduates and their home
towns include the following: Alice
Priscilla Atwill, Richmond, Va.;
Mary Elizabeth Booker, Smithfield;
Janice Ann Haton Covington, New
ton; Mary Elaine Collier Cromar-
tie, Fayetteville; Martha Louise
Evans, Norfolk, Va.; Mary Kate
Floyd, Fairmont; Dianne Hollowell
Foreman, Raleigh; Billie Anne
Hartsell Freeman, Raleigh; Libby
Ann Hatley, Durham; Mary Gay
Howell, Greenville; Particia Herring
j Hurst, Wilmington; Barbara Ann
Johnson, Four Oaks; Martha Ade
laide King, Nashville; Betty Glyn
Kirkpatrick, Southern Pines; Shir
ley Kriegel, Raleigh; Martha Eliza
beth Lester, Kinston; Judith Liles
Maynard, Harrells; Margaret Anne
Parker, Winston-Salem; Ruth Knott
Peenney, Raleigh; Kathryn Shaw
Pruitt, Raleigh; Rebecca Reich
Russ, Winston-Salem; Marylin Sue
Smith, Asheboro; and Phiiecta
Clarke Staton, Raleigh.
Plans After Graduation
The graduates have many am
bitions after graduation. Typical of
many, Martha Louise Evans and
Margaret Anne Parker plan to work
outside of North Carolina. Martha
Louise will be employed at the
Navy Exchange Ship Store in Nor
folk, Va., and Anne will be at Gen
eral Electric in Schenectady, New
York. Judith Liles Maynard and
Martha Elizabeth Lester plan to
work with mathematics in industry
or business.
Likewise, many will teach. Re
becca Reich Russ will teach the
third grade, while Barbara Ann
Johnson will teach history. Betty
Glyn Kirkpatrick will teach the first
grade in Southern Pines, and Pa
tricia Herring Hurst will go to Wil
mington to teach the fourth grade.
Others, also like Janice Ann
Eaton Covington, are undecided
about their immediate future.
Copley Discusses
"God Is Dead”
From eighty to one hundred stu
dents from State and Meredith at
tended the second series of the
State-Meredith Exchange Program
which was held Tuesday night,
Janua^ the eleventh. The discus
sion in the Hut, which followed
dinner in the dining hall, was led
by Dr. Derek CopJey, a chemistry
professor at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. The topic
which Dr. Copley chose to discuss
was “God is dead — or is He?”
A summary of the “God is Dead”
movement was first presented by
Dr. Copley. The movement, which
was begun by Friedrich Wilhelm
Nietzsche, has centered mainly in
the United States under the leader
ship of Altizer, Hamilton, and Vaha-
nian, but is receiving some atten
tion in foreign countries.
The second part of his talk cen
tered on his own personal convic
tions which are contrary to this cur
rent movement. Dr. Copley then
opened the floor for comments and
discussion from the students.
^ PEPSPECTIVC W\SW STABLE
A perspective view of the bam gives the student an idea of what to expect.
Long-Awaited Meredith Stables
Will Improve Riding Facilities