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THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith CoUege
Legistafive Board
Coitsiders Proposals
To Revamp SGA
See Sfory, Page 2
Volume XLI
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., APRIL 27, 1967
No. 13
Campaign for Organ Begins
As Alumna Gives $20,000
The Meredith Office of Development announced last week an alumna gift of $20,000
to be placed in a fund to help pay for the piurchase and installation of a $75^000 organ in
Jones Auditorium.
The alumna donor is Mrs. Robert £. Pomeranz of Sanford. The former Annie Laurie
Overton, Mrs. Pomeranz graduated from Meredith in 1941 with a degree in music.
School To Award Scholarship
To National Merit Finalist
Seated at the pi«no Is Mrs. Robert E. Pomeranz, who recently made a $20,000
Gonbributioa to the organ (imd. The gift b a trlbate to Dr. Harry E. Cooper, who Is
pictured with Mrs, Pomennz.
Miss Mary Bland Josey, director
of admissions, has amiounced that
the college has founded a Meredith
CoUege National Merit Scholarship,
which will be awarded to an incom
ing freshman who is a finalist in the
National Merit Scholarship Com
petition. Since there are usually sev
eral National Merit finalists in each
freshman class and the college has
funds available at the present for
only one Merit Scholarship, the re
cipient will be chosen on the basis
of high school grades and achieve
ment, as well as by her score on the
National Merit Scholarship Quali
fying Test.
Afternoon Frolics Include Cornivol, Sports, Parades
Spring Brings Play Day
By ELIZABETH MAYNARD
To the festive sounds of cheers
and songs. Play Day 1967 came to
the Meredith campus on Thursday,
April 20.
Lynn Dodge, Meredith Recrea
tion Association president for 1967-
68, began the afternoon’s activities
by announcing the names of the
Duke and Duchess who would reign
over the afternoon of frolics. This
year the student body elected Mimi
Holt, editor of The Twig, as
Duchess, and faculty member Mr.
James Stephens of the math depart
ment as Duke. Following the crown
ing of the royal pair, the costume
parades, songs, and cheers were pre
sented by each participating group.
The parade of history’s great
lovers staged by Stringfield Dormi
tory won much applause from the
audience and first place from the
judges. ‘The Pepsi Generation” was
depicted by the sophisticates of Po-
teat, who captured second place.
Faircloth’s “Beach Bound” parade
took third placc in the competition.
Vann’s circus theme. Brewer’s his
tory of sports, and the faculty’s
Parramore-led song completed the
“organized” entertainment.
Frustrating Races
Then to the races! A sack race,
golf-ball-and-spoon relay, three-
legged race, and other equally frus
trating trials of skill and endurance
provided entertainment and amuse
ment during the second phase of
competition.
Individual challenges included
bridge games (one of which was dis
gracefully/ lost by certain sharpies in
&e religion department), croquet,
hopscotch, and a more recently
popular game, “Twister,” which was
agilely won by a gentleman who was
enjoymg his first Play Day. Presi
dent Heilman further showed his
athletic prowess in both the volley
ball and softball games. In keeping
with Play Day tradition, the students
lost both volleyball and softball
games to the faculty. Maybe next
year. . . .
An addition to the regular Play
Day activities was a carnival spon
sored by the Library Fund Commit
tee under the direction of Mary
Arakas. Booths were set up which
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A student becomes eligible for a
National Merit Scholarship first by
taking the NMSQT in the spring of
the junior year. Those who score in
the top two per cent in each state
become scmifinalists. Semifinalists
then must submit biographical data
and verify their scores by achieving
comparable scores on the SAT.
Their schools must also endorse
them. At least ninety-seven per cent
of the semifinalists become finalists
and arc eligible for Merit Scholar
ships.
The Merit Scholarships may come
from any one of three sources. First
the National Merit Scholarship Cor
poration, which is financed largely
by the Ford Foundation, awards
approximately SOO scholarships each
year. Other scholarships are spon
sored by corporations such as R. J.
Reynolds and may be restricted to
the children of employees or resi
dents of a certain area. The third
group of Merit Scholarships ;
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Mrs. Pomeranz said that she and
her husband hope others will join
the special gift campaign for the
organ so that it may be installed
before the scheduled retirement of
Dr. Harry E. Cooper, chairman of
the music department, in 1970.
In making her contribution, Mrs.
Pomeranz indicated her wish that
the organ "be a tribute to Dr.
Cooper, who has done so much to
keep Meredith in a nationally com
petitive position in the field of
music.”
Grover J. Andrews, director of
development, said Mrs. Pomeranz’s
gift is being made over a three-year
period.
Mrs. Pomeranz, active in Sanford
civic and church life, is the mother
of five children. She also helps her
husband at times in the operation
of his business, a textile and yam
machinery company.
NOTICE
The next tssue of THE TWIG wfll
be published on May 11 and will be
the first edition by the 1967«19S
staff. All contributions and sugses-
tioB§ should be ^ven to the editor by
May 4.
Annual May Day Festivities
Are Scheduled for May 6
Chorus Plans Spring Concert
Games and ruces are a tnidltiooal part of Play Day. The broom and volleyball
nice U pictured above.
May Day festivities are scheduled
for Saturday, May 6, at Meredith
College. The college will welcome
prospective freshman students as
guests for the weekend.
The main event of the day is the
presentation of the May Court at
4:00 in Mclver Amphitheater.
Reigning queen is Beverly Scar
borough, and Maid of Honor is
Carolyn Bennett. Carol Ann Griflin
and Bess Ward represent the Senior
Class; Mary Harper Freeman and
Mary Helen Harris, the Junior Class.
Sophomore representatives are Ev
elyn Carter and Sheryl Deal, and
Lisa Oates and Evelyn Hogden arc
freshmen representatives.
Students in dance classes will pre
sent entertainment with the theme
“Dance Through the Ages.” Their
Summer To Reveal Basic Human Ideals, Fallacy of Prejudice
Jeannie Sams Chosen for "Crossroads Africa"
By JANE LEONARD
With her usual enthusiasm, Jean
nie Sams eagerly awaits her adven
tures in Africa this summer. Partici
pating in "Operation Crossroads
Africa,” she will spend eight weeks
there, five of which will consist of
work on work-camp projects such
as Building hospitals, gymnasiums,
and other needed facilities. The re
maining weeks will be spent in
meeting with ambassadors and with
student and government leaders.
She will also travel to the capital of
at least one other country to meet
and talk with leaders there.
Jeannie became interested in
“Crossroads Africa,” a privately-
sponsored program, through Dr.
G. W. Bryan of the Wake Forest
College religion department and was
selected from applicants from all
over the United States and Canada.
Referring to her reasons for par
ticipating in the program, she com
mented, “To relate to persons of
another culture on a grass roots
level enables one to relate more ef
fectively to those of his own cul
ture.” She also seeks to dispel the
many “prefabricated ideas about
‘the dark continent’ ” which are "en-
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presentation will trace the history of
dance from* the primitive through
the folk and the soft shoe to the
contemporary or modern dance.
Preceding the crowning of the
May Oueen, a horse show will be
held at the new Meredith College
stables. On Saturday night at 8:00
in Jones Auditorium, the Meredith
College chorus will present its spring
program. The Glee Club from the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill will be guest performers
rendering a medley of songs from
West Side Story. A reception in the
Blue Parlor will follow the concert.
New Library Begun
As ‘‘Old Meredith”
Is Being Torn Down
A coincidental note in the history
of Meredith College was sounded
on Friday, April 14. Ground was
being broken for the Carlyle Camp
bell Library on Meredith’s “new”
campus at the same time a wrecking
crew began tearing down “Old
Meredith” in the center of Raleigh.
Sixty-six years ago the dignified
old building was alive with activity
as the students of Baptist Female
Seminary moved into “Old Main,”
which is located across from the
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