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Raleigh, North Carolina
THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Volume XL
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., APRIL 28, 1966
No. 11
Fleming, Jones, Peak, and Carroll Affend
Personal and Guidance Assoc, Meetings
Miss Louise Fleming and Mrs.
Elizabeth Jones attended the North
Carolina Personnel and Guidance
Association meeting on March 18
and 19 in Charlotte, North Caro
lina.
Theme 1$ Growth
The theme of the convention was
“Our Growing Profession.” Miss
Jones was especially interested in
■the group counseling session in
which the speaker. Dr. Merle M.
Ohlsen of the University of Illinois,
chose members of the audience to
portray the student and his prob
lems. Miss Fleming was elected sec
retary - treasurer of the College
Personnel Association, a newly
formed organization.
NCAWDC Meet
Miss Fleming, Miss Nancy Car
roll, and Miss Lucile Peak attended
the spring meeting of the North
Carolina Association of Women
SOPHOMORE CLASS
HOLDS SPRING DANCE
Saturday, April 2, was a red-letter
day for about eighty sophomores
and their dates, for this was the
day of the sophomore dance. The
theme being “April in Paris,” the
Carolina Hotel was appropriately
decorated with a miniature art gal
lery, the Eiffel Tower, and a paper
fence strewn with flowers. Adding
to the atmosphere of Paris were
red-checkered tablecloths and can
dlelight. The “Rivieras” combo fur
nished the musical touch. As favors,
the boys were presented with car
nation boutonnieres at the door.
Refreshments were served buffet
style. Guests attending the dance
were Miss Lucille Peak and Dr.
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Deans and Counselors on March
17, 1966 at Pfeiffer College. The
theme was “Frontiers in Student
Personnel Work” and the program
consisted of a panel of administra
tors, faculty, and college students.
The participants discussed current
issues facing student personnel
workers; students’ role in policy
making; different types of students,
including creative and academically
talented; and the problems expected
in the next ten years. Miss Martha
Peterson, University Dean of Stu
dent Affairs at the University of
Wisconsin and president of the
NCAWDC, spoke on “Frontiers
on the National Scene.” She ex
plained the effect of equality on
women deans and emphasized
woman’s role as a female. Miss Peak
was on the program planning com
mittee and Miss Fleming was in
charge of constitution revision.
AWDC in Washington
Miss Fleming also attended the
national meeting of the Association
of Women Deans and Counselors
in Washington, D. C.
Ropp to Lecture:
"Age of Violence'
Dr. Theodore Ropp, professor of
history at Duke University, gave an
illustrated lecture on the “Age of
Violence, 1918-1945” on April 25,
1965 in Jones Auditorium. This lec
ture was given at 4:00 p.m. for the
freshman history classes, but all
guests were welcome.
Popular Lechire
Dr. Ropp, a military historian,
has given this lecture on television
and it has become a popular lec
ture with college students.
Meredith Represented at
Carolina s Conference
Bull sessions, discussions, and
folk singings were a part of the ac
tivities students shared during the
1966 Carolina’s Conference.
Aside from the activities men
tioned above, a series of planned
lectures, panels and addresses were
given at the conference. The basic
theme around which all the ac
tivities stemmed was “Student
Values on the Campus.” Involved
in the program was a theologian, a
philosopher, a sociologist, and a
psychologist. Some of the topics
dealt with were “The Value Crisis in
the University,” “New Ethics and
Campus Realities,” and “Resources
for Making Ethical Decisions.”
Meredith’s First Year
This year’s conference, held April
2-3, was sponsored by YMCA’s and
YWCA’s in the two Carolinas.
Schools invited to attend were
Duke, Wake Forest, State, Ca
tawba, and Meredith. This was
Meredith’s first year to be repre
sented at what proved to be one of
the liveliest conferences in the area.
Students Honored
For Scholarship
At the annual spring lecture of
the Kappa Nu Sigma, March 31,
three juniors were named as as
sociate members of the Meredith
honor society. Janie Bostick, a piano
major from Wilson, N. C.; Susan
Grant, a religion major from Ra
leigh; and Sandra Hobbs, a Spanish
major from Raleigh, were recog
nized at the 8:00 lecture. Two other
girls, sophomores Ann Hill and
Karen Jenkins, were recognized as
the two girls with the highest scho
lastic record in their class.
Beauty, soundmindedness and in-
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Judy Hamrick Leonard and Husband Plan Work
In South America as Peace Corps Workers
By BLUE McKETHAN
All seniors are busy this time of
year making plans for next year —
marriage, graduate school, teach
ing. But one couple familiar to most
Meredith students, Mr. & Mrs. Greg
Leonard (for those who don’t know,
Mrs. Leonard is the former Judy
Hamrick), have made plans some
what out of the ordinary. They have
been accepted for Peace Corps
training to begin June 19.
After three months training, they
will be located in Colombia, South
America. The training period may
be held in Colombia also. During
this time, they will spend 60 hours
per week studying Spanish in ad
dition to their other studies. They
must pass the training to be ac
cepted officially into the Peace
Corps.
After training, they will spend
ten days at home and then will be
sent to their location for two weeks
of orientation and further language
Botb Judy and Greg are looklog forward to their work in Colombia.
study. Then they will spend 24
months either in rural or urban com
munity development. Their job will
be to settle down in their own house
and get to know the people so
that later they can suggest changes
which need to be made. Judy said
that they would begin by making
improvements in their own home
and then show the people in the
community how to do the same.
Usually 3 or 4 months is needed
to establish rapport with the people.
Then they will try to recognize what
they need in their community. It
might be a school, a hospital, a
road, or an aquaduct. The Peace
Corps worker, however, does not do
all the actual work on the projects.
The Leonards will not build the
school or hospital, but they will
help the people get started doing
things for themselves that can be
carried on after the volunteers
leave.
After the Peace Corps
The couple is excitedly looking
forward to this experience. They
are both sociology majors (Greg is
at U.N.C. at Chapel Hill), and they
are not sure just what phase of
work or career they want to go into.
They believe that after this period
with the Peace Corps they will be
able to dedde. Meanwhile, they also
believe that these next 27 months
will be the most beneficial months
of their whole lives.
Blanchard Gives Lecture;
Second in Faculty Series
Edwin K. Blanchard
History Faculty
Lecture on TV
Channel 4, WUNC, has been
asking members of the Meredith
history department to give lectures
in American history for the high
school level. The procedure has
been for high school teachers
throughout North Carolina and for
5,000 high school students to re
ceive the program, directed by Miss
Lola Parker. Besides Dr. Sarah
Lemmon and Dr. Frank Grubbs,
other guest speakers have been such
known spokesmen as Dr. Theodore
Ropp and Dr. Robert Crane of
Duke.
Second Lecture
Dr. Frank Grubbs was asked to
do a second lecture on the Treaty
of Versailles for the University of
North Carolina education television
program on American History. The
lectures are live from Raleigh at
WUNC television on Western
Boulevard. Recently, both Dr. Lem
mon and Dr. Grubbs have found it
more convenient to do the lectures
on tape in advance. The lecture
is shown the following week. Dr.
Grubbs was able to watch himself
give a lecture on the Treaty of Ver
sailles on March 24, while teaching
a political science class. One of his
students was kind enough to bring
a portable television to class.
Methods Class Attends
To take advantage of these lec
tures, Mrs. Grubbs took her history
methods class to observe the taping
of the program, to learn the taping
techniques, to watch the program,
and to see the studio. Next year, the
same tape of March 24 will be used,
so Dr. Grubbs will not have to
make a new lecture, each of which
costs from $200 to $300.
The department feels highly hon
ored to have been asked to do the
lectures for the North Carolina Net
work because it adds a certain
amount of prestige to Meredith Col
lege. Many high school students
have written letters saying they
were interested in coming to Mere
dith; therefore, the program shows
considerable influence in making
Meredith College known.
Publishes Article
Dr. Grubbs has also received
word from Milton Dantor of Am
herst University that his article
“Labor Propaganda 1917-1919”
which was accepted for publication
last year by Labor History Maga
zine will be published in this fall’s
issue.
Dr. Ralph E. McLain, chairman
of the committee on faculty lec
tures, recently announced the spring
lecture of 1966. On Tuesday,
April 26, at 8:00 in Jones Audi
torium, Mr. Edwin K. Blanchard
spoke on “Jephathah and His
Daughter in the Solo Vocal Music of
Carissimi and Handel,”
Dr. McLain described the sub
ject as an “analysis of a widely used
type of motif in music, a study of
which Mr. Blanchard has worked
on for a number of years.”
Faculty Lecture
In discussing the lecture, he con
tinued, “The Meredith Faculty Lec
ture Series was inaugurated two
years ago under the leadership of
Dr. Campbell for the purpose of
fostering and sharing academic re
search in the total Meredith Com
munity.”
Dr. McLain invited all interested
people to attend the lecture. Special
invitations were extended to former
music majors and fellow musicians
in the schools of North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Virginia. Every
one was also cordially invited to the
reception after the lecture in the
parior. The lecture will be printed
at a later date for distribution.
Spanish Majors Plan
Visits to Spain, Colombia
Candace Crumly, rising senior
Spanish major, has been selected by
the Experiment in International
Living in Putney, Vermont to spend
two months living with a Spanish
family in Spain this summer. Candie
will leave New York June 23 and
return from Spain on August 27.
In addition to living with a family,
she will be in a small organized
group to study Spanish language,
culture, and history and to travel
to cities of cultural and historic in
terest throughout Spain.
Judith Dean, rising junior, will
also spend six or seven weeks in
Spain traveling with the Mary
Washington College group. Their
tour takes them over most of the
nation with special sight seeing tours
and lectures on literature and cul
ture in Oviedo, Sanitago de Com
postela, Madrid, Toledo, Malaga,
Valencia, Granada, and Sevilla with
a three day finale in Paris. The tour
offers three hours of college credit.
Beth Smith, rising junior, will
spend the month of August in Spain.
She is traveling with her family who
flies first to Lisbon for three days;
then they will take a grand tour of
the Peninsula. The tour takes them
from Burgos to Madrid, which will
be a home base for seeing various
famous sights of Segovia, Avial,
Toledo, the Fscorial, Valley of the
Fallen (modern chapel and ceme
tery which honors those fallen on
both sides of the Spanish Civil War
of 1936-39).
From Madrid she travels south to
Granada and Cordoba and historic
Cadiz. From there a flight to his
toric Valencia and the picturesque
beaches of the Mallorcan Islands.
The trip ends in bustling and in
dustrial Barcelona after a three-day
stay there.
Anne Young, another rising ju
nior, will have a visit to Spain in
cluded in her European trip of six
weeks. Most of her time in Spain
will be spent in the Spanish capital
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