RBW Chairman
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Raleigh, Worth Carolina
THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Student Teacher
Recalls Experience
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Vol. XLII
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., FEBRUARY 8, 1968
No. 8
Advancement Staff
Establishes Offices
In Downtown Area
The Meredith College Advance
ment Program has recently opened
offices in Suite 904 of the Branch
Banking and Trust Company Build
ing in downtown Raleigh. From this
location, a four-member staff, as
sisted by the Board of Associates
and Board of Trustees, will direct
the campaign for $5,000,000, the
total cost of the new Carlyle Camp
bell Library, the proposed physical
education-recreatlon building, two
dormitories, and other capital im
provements. The kickoff for this
campaign is set for early March.
Mr. Glenr^ L. Essex, fund-raising
consultant, is in charge of the
downtown office, assisted by his as
sociate, Mr. Paul Stephani. Mr. W. S.
(Bud) Bailey, Jr., is office mana
ger, and Mrs. Dorothy Petty is
secretary. In addition to this staff,
Mr. John Kanipe, Meredith Co-
Ordinator of Development, will
’ also maintain an office at the down
town operation as well as on cam
pus.
In a statement to The Raleigh
Times, Mr. Shearon Harris, chair
man of the Board of Associates and
Mr. Victor Bell, campaign chairman
for Raleigh and Wake County, spoke
of the expansion of the Advance
ment Program. It is, they said, "in
dicative of our intention to make the
campaign for Meredith succeed not
only for the college but for the good
of the community as well.”
REW Speakers Explore
“The Taste of New Wine”
Mr. Jesse Helms
Helms to Speak
On Censorship
Jesse Helms will be the third
speaker in the college Concert and
Lecture Series. Helms, executive
vice-president of Capitol Broadcast
ing Company, operators of WRAL
television and radio, will speak on
censorship in the news media,
Tuesday, February 13, at 8:00 in
Jones Auditorium.
A native of Monroe, Helms at
tended Wingate College and Wake
Forest College. He served in the
United States Navy from 1942 to
1945 and is a former city editor of
The Raleigh Times.
In 1942 he received the North
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“To search for meaning in your
own existence so that you can
really live before you die,” is Dr.
Jack R. Noffsinger’s purpose as
Religious Emphasis Week speaker.
In chapel Monday, February 5, he
traced the meaning of the “New
Wine” theme and compared new
wine to current problems in mod
ern society which cannot be put
into the old wineskins of traditional
customs and thoughts.
Also on Monday, “The Taste of
New Wine,” a film made at Mere
dith by students, was shown.
Monday night students witnessed
the “Tonight Show” in the dining
hall. Dr. Noffsinger portrayed Ed
McMann; Mr. Edgar D. Christman,
Baptist Student Union director at
Wake Forest University, played
Johnny Carson; and Dr. Charles E.
Boddie, president of the American
Baptist Seminary, represented Duke
Ellington at the piano. Charles
Parker and Mrs. Mary Ruth Phil
lips presented a dramatic reading.
In chapel Tuesday, Dr. Boddie
advised students to “drink the new
wine rather than just to taste it,”
He characterized love as “an ad
venture in a new relationship” and
cited Rebekah, Ruth, and Esther
as examples. He also spoke of the
high cost of loving, “The taste of
new wine may result in spilling of
your blood.”
Also on Tuesday, another film,
Language Professor Dies January 18
Dr. McAllister's Death Saddens College
By GINNY SUTTDN
Dr. Quentin O. McAllister,
head of the department of foreign
languages and professor of French,
Dr. Queatin O. McAllistcr
died January 19, 1968, during his
twenty-fourth year of devoted
service to Meredith College. After
giving a final examination on Fri
day afternoon, he returned home,
where he suffered a heart attack.
Dr. McAllister was known by all
of his students not only as a brilliant
scholar, but also as a genuine and
concerned teacher. Language ma
jors and non-majors alike found
him sympathetic to their problems.
According to one of his own pro
fessors and a life-long friend, Dr.
Felix Wittmer, Dr. McAllister’s
“kindness to humans and animals
alike knew no limits. In our present
world, in which the survival-of-the
fittest craze has spread cut-throat
manners even throughout the aca
demic world, he stayed the same:
tender of heart, of a quiet humor,
I Home Economics Majors
i To Sponsor Career Day
I The Meredith Home Economics Club will sponsor a career afternoon
^ Tuesday, February 20, from 3:00 to 5:00 in the home economics parlor
in Hunter Hall.
According to Judith Alexander, president of the club, “both majors
and non-majors will be introduced to professions in the home economics
V., field of which many of them may be unaware.”
/ Those In the home economics professions who will talk informally with
Meredith students include the following: Mrs. Richard Barnes, nursery
school director; Miss Harriet McRae, teacher; Miss Cleo Jones, Four-H
' specialist in the Wake County Extension office; Mrs. Gwinn Farrier, gradu
ate dietitian. Also speaking with the students are Mr. Bob Bandsuch, sales
promotion director for Burton’s; Mrs. Arliss Moore, interior decorator;
• Mrs. Marjorie Gilbert of the National Dairy Council; Mrs. Carolyn Over
ton with Carolina Power and Light; Mrs. Loree Keen, fashion designer at
L’Nanz in Durham; Mrs. William R. Stuart, buyer at Belk’s in Charlotte;
e and Mrs. Elizabeth Jukes, nutrition specialist for the North Carolina Pub
lic Health Department
SCHOLARSHIP PLANNED
As a memorial to Dr.
Quentin O. McAllister, (he
faculty and students of Mere*
dlth are receiving contributions
in his honor to establish a
scholarship for a Meredith stu*
dent in modern languages.
A member of the language
staff will discuss the scholar
ship in chapel on February 15
and explain how students,
faculty, alumnae, and other
groups can share in this tribute.
“It’s about This Carpenter,” was
shown. As on the other days during
REW, morning vespers and nightly
dorm discussions were held.
On Wednesday, Dr. Noffsinger
again addressed students and facul
ty during the chapel period.
Another film, “Study in Color,” was
shown in the afternoon. Dr.
Ethel M. Nash, clinical associate
professor of obstetrics and gyne
cology at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill Medical
School, spoke Wednesday night.
Afterwards, a psychedelic trip was
planned.
Mr. Christman addressed stu
dents and faculty during the chapel
period on Thursday, and later the
film, “A Look Towards Tomor
row,” was shown. In the evening,
a folk worship and commun
ion were planned for the coffee
house.
On Friday, the last day of REW,
Dr. Noffsinger will again speak
during chapel.
tolerant, and quietly doing the right
thing as he met the daily challenges
within the framework of his, as it
seems to me, pleasant existence in
the lovely beauty of southern life.”
Dr. McAllister’s scholarly pur
suits were numerous. During his
twenty-three years as head of the
department of foreign languages at
Meredith, he taught advanced
courses in French, Spanish, and
German. His knowledge of lan
guages extended to Portuguese,
Italian, Russian, and some Slavic
and Oriental languages. Among his
written works are Business Ex
ecutives and the Humanities, a
biography of Andre Gide, and
numerous commercial and scientific
translations from French and Ger
man.
His competence was appreciated
throughout the academic world, for
from I\965 to 1967 he served as
President of the South Atlan
tic Modern Language Association,
having already been their treasurer
and bulletin editor. He served on
the executive board of the Modern
Language Association of America
and was President of the M.L.A.
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Speakers for Religious Emphasis Week meet members of the Meredith Christian
Association. Pictured above are Mary Helen Simms, Dr. Edgar D. Christman, Dr.
Jack Noffsinger, Susan Chapman, and Dr. Charles E. Boddie.
Camilla George Selected
For Crossroads Project
Camilla George, a sophomore
from Laurens, South Carolina, has
been chosen to participate in a
unique experience in international
understanding, Operation Cross
roads Africa 1968.
Camilla has recently received
her assignment, which is the
country of Sierra Leone on the coast
of West Africa. Here a group of
ten to twelve students will live and
work with African students and
villagers on an urgently needed
and social organizations. The Mere
dith Christian Association has
contributed $200 toward Camilla’s
trip.
Orientation for the project will
begin June 9 in New York City.
The group will leave for Africa
June 13 and return home Au^st
16. The Crossroads Africa project
does not stop here, however, for
upon their return from Africa, par
ticipants have agreed to share their
new insights and knowledge with
other Americans by making twenty-
five talks a year for a period of two
years.
Camilla became interested in the
program through Jeannie Sams,
who participated in the African
poject last year. She was selected
from applicants from all over the
United States and Canada.
Camilla George
project which has been requested
by the community of African gov
ernment. Her project may be the
completion of a new hospital
needed by the people of Sierra
Leone.
In preparation for her participa
tion in this project, Camilla will be
learning about Africa in gen
eral, as well as studying her spe
cific country through reading and
through writing a research paper.
Funds for Crossroads workers
are raised through the interest
shown by contributions of fellow
students and friends, church groups,
Five Additions Made
To Faculty, Staff
Five additions have been made
to the faculty and staff at Meredith
for the second semester.
Dr. Suzanne Freund, who pre
viously taught French and German
here, has taken over Dr. (Quin
ton McAllister’s classes. Replacing
Mrs. Caroline Happer, Mr. Daily
Derr teaches political science. Mrs.
Nathen Brooks, who is connected
with the Baptist Children’s Homes,
teaches part-time in the department
of sociology. Also teaching part
time in the sociology department is
Mr. Wayne Paulson.
Working part-time in the library
is Mrs. Frances Holloway.