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THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
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Vol. XLIII
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., MAY 22,1969
No. 14
Commencement Plans, Speakers Announced
Grant and Lybrook to Lead Exercises
Alumnae to Return
For Big Weekend
Saturday, May 31, will be Alum
nae Day at Meredith with around
400 to 500 former students expected
to converge on campus.
The day will begin with registra
tion for the returning graduates to
be held from 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
in Jones Auditorium. The Alumnae
Association meeting will begin at
10:30 a.m. Presiding will be Edith
Stephenson Simpson, ’48. The
speaker will be Sarah Fox Eddle-
man, ’35. Her topic will be “Sources
of Our Western Heritage.”
Following the Association meet
ing, alumnae will attend the annual
luncheon, scheduled for 1:00 p.m.
Graduating seniors will be inducted
into the association at that time and
will present the 1969 class doll. An
other feature of the luncheon is the
Second Annual Distinguished Alum
na Award to be presented to a de
serving member.
The day’s activities also include
a meeting of Kappa Nu Sigma hon
or society for both former and pres
ent members at 9:30 a.m. in Vann
Parlor, an open house in the Mae
Grimmer Alumnae House at 2:30
p.m., and Class Day Reunions for
‘ the reunion classes.
Awards Day
Brings Honors
Presentation of the long-lost
Crook and a Silver Shield Tapping
ceremony highlighted the May 19
Awards Day.
Seven girls were tapped into
Silver Shield honor society, includ
ing Associate Members Peggy Wil
liams and Cindy Griffith. Other
rising seniors named were Mary
Turner, Barbara Perry, Peggy Tim
merman, Brooks McGirt and Bonnie
Sparks.
Louise Watson presided over the
presentation of the Crook, hung in
senior class colors of blue and white,
and revealed its hiding place behind
Poteat.
Other awards included the As-
trotekton Award, Ann Luter; Eliza
beth Avery Colton Award, Suzanne
Reynolds, Nancy Rouse, and Jane
Cromley; Independent Reading
Award, Susan Flora; and Ruth Ann
Hubbell Award, Cornelia Little.
Winners of the Sigma Alpha Iota
Awards were Patronesses’ Award,
Betty Hunt; Foundation Award and
Honor Certificate, Beth Porter, who
also received the Agnes Cooper Me
morial Award. Music awards also
went to Hulene McLean, Ann Craw
ford, Deborah Ingram, Nan Nance
and Beth Porter.
Other recipients were Carolyn
Lewis, Horsemanship Trophy; Jewel
Christian, Freshman Chemistry
' Achievement Award; Carrie Framp-
ton, Best All Around Athlete Award;
Donna Crocker, Ida Poteat Scholar-
ship; and Olivia Harris and Ann
Bryan, Alice B. Keith Award.
Also on the program was the
presentation of the ’69 Class Doll
and recognition of Who’s Who by
Dean L. A. Peacock.
A special “award,” a silver chaf-
'ing dish, was presented to Mrs.
Harriet Hollar, retiring this year
from her position as dietitian, in
appreciation for her years here.
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Marse Grant...
Baccalaureate Speaker
Sarah Fox Eddleman...
Alumnae Speaker
Sophomores to Pick
Daises in Wee Hours
For Class Day Program
Bright and early on Saturday,
May 31, the Sophomore Class, un
der the direction of Corrine Blay
lock and Mrs. Helena Allen, will
arise, pile into cars and trucks and
start a search for daisies and ivy.
The reason for this madness? Why,
the creation of a Daisy Chain for
their Big Sisters who will graduate
the following day.
Following an old tradition, the
Sophomores will appear in the Am
phitheater at 4 p.m. They will be
wearing their white dresses and
carrying their “creation.” After
serenading the audience, the Sopho
mores will form a “69” on the is
land to honor the Seniors.
1969>1970 Honor
Scholarships
Are Awarded
The college has announced the
selection of eight outstanding in
coming freshmen to receive honor
scholarships.
The eight honor scholars for
1969-70 and their hometowns are
Connie Sue Barfield, Snow Hill;
Julia Carmer Bryan, La Grange;
Angela Clinton, Goldsboro; Gloria
Lee Fussell, New Bern; Rebecca
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W. J. Lybrook ...
Commencement Speaker
Atlantic Monthly Awards
Three Meredith Students
Three Meredith girls have been
honored by the staff of Atlantic
Monthly in that magazine’s annual
creative writing contest.
The three girls, all members of
Dr. Mary Lynch Johnson’s creative
writing class, are Suzanne Reynolds,
recipient of an honorable mention
for her essay “The Appointment”;
Jane Cromley, a certificate of merit
for her short story “Mrs. Murphy’s
Dream”; and Nancy Rouse, also a
certificate of Merit for “A Promise
to Keep.”
For this honor, the girls will re
ceive certificates from Atlantic, and
their names will be published in the
June issue of the magazine.
The Atlantic Monthly offers
limited number of awards in each
of three classes: essay, short story
and poetry. Only one winner is
named in each class, with honorable
mentions and certificates of merit
completing the judging scale.
Christian Studies to
Be Held June 16-19
Three eminent theologians will
give lectures during the June 16-
19 session of School of Christian
study here at Meredith.
Senior Minister of Myer’s Park
Baptist Church, Charlotte, Dr.
R. Eugene Owens is one of the
speakers who will be talking on
such topics as “The People of God,
By God, and For God.” Dr. Owens
taught one year on the Meredith
campus while Dr. Bernard Cochran
was on leave.
Also lecturing during the week
will be Dr. Samuel Terrien, Daven
port Professor of Hebrew and the
Cognate Languates at Union Theo
logical Seminary in New York City.
His best known book is Racism and
Christian Understanding of Man.
His lectures will concern “The Bible
and the Crisis of our Time.”
The last of the three speakers will
be Dr. George D. Kelsey, Profes
sor of Christian Ethics of Drew Uni
versity’s Theological and Graduate
Schools. He is the author of a num
ber of books on Old Testament
studies such as The Interpreter’s
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The Class of 1969, all 160 of
them, will graduate on Sunday, June
1. Forty of these will be January
graduates who are returning for
their diplomas.
The day’s program will begin at
11 a.m. when J. Marse Grant will
deliver the Baccalaureate Sermon.
Mr. Grant has been the editor of
the Biblical Recorder, the official
journal of the Baptist State Conven
tion, since 1960. Prior to 1960, he
was editor of Charity and Children
at the Baptist Children’s Homes for
ten years.
Mr. Grant is the first layman to
serve as editor of the Biblical Re
corder since 1907. A native of High
Point, he is an honor graduate of
High Point College. Mr. Grant is a
member of the North Carolina Good
Neighbor Council and its Execu
tive Committee. He is a member of
the Southern Baptist Convention
Radio and Television Commission
and its Executive Committee. He
served for three years as state chair
man of March of Dimes. Mr. Grant
is the North Carolina representative
on the Southern Committee on Po
litical Ethics (SCOPE), formed in
1967.
He is a director of the North
Carolina Mental Health Association
and a member of its Legislative
Committee. He is also a member of
the State Task Force on the Chroni
cally 111 and Disabled. In connec
tion with his denominational respon
sibilities, he is an ex-officio mem-
By BROOKS McGIRT
What seemed like thousands of
howling boys from NCSU de
scended upon the Meredith campus
Wednesday night, May 14, to stage
a “Panty Raid.”
The raid here was the final stop
for the boys who earlier that night
convocated at girls’ dorms on the
NCSU campus and at St. Mary’s
Junior College.
Chanting “We want panties,” the
students gathered under windows
and around doors for approximately
15 minutes until N. C. State officials
ber of the Council on Christian Life
and Public Affairs of the Baptist
State Convention and is serving his
15th year as chairman of the Bap
tist State Convention Committee on
Publicity.
Mr. Grant is married to the for
mer Marian Gibbs of Greensboro
and they have three daughters, one
of whom is a Meredith graduate.
The Meredith Chorus will sing
“Agnus Dei” by Bizet at the M
a.m. service.
At 12:30 p.m. a luncheon for the
Seniors and their Parents will be
served.
At 5 p.m. William J. Lybrook
will deliver the Commencement Ad
dress. Mr. Lybrook, a graduate of
Duke University, is Vice President
and Secretary of R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company.
Mr. Lybrook was the President
of the William and Kate B. Reyn
olds Memorial Park in 1951, Presi
dent of the Tanglewood Barn The
ater Association from 1959 to 1964.
At present, Mr. Lybrook is Presi
dent of the Z. Smith Reynolds
Foundation; he is a member of the
North Carolina State Board of Edu
cation, the Board of Directors of
the Regional Educational Labora
tory and United Hunts Racing As
sociation. He is Director of the Edu
cational Foundation Commerce and
Industry, N. C., Inc. Mr. Lybrook
is a member of the American and
North Carolina Bar Associations.
At Commencement, the Meredith
Chorus will perform “Allelulia” by
Randall Thompson.
and members of the Raleigh police
force arrived to clear them off the
campus. No arrests were made, and
the raiders’ departure was quiet and
fairly orderly.
Contrary to some reports, none of
the boys actually got inside a Mere
dith dorm. However, they really had
no need to! Students here gathered
on breezeways and at windows to
watch. Several girls were seen do
nating articles of their underwear to
the boys ’ efforts.
Comments overheard during and
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Seniors Brucie Starkey, Carrie Frampton, and Angie Pridgen make ready for the
big day, June 1.
"Raiders" Create Excitement
But Few Panties Are Captured