RalGi’gn, Moi'i.i c iroiina
THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Vol. XLIV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., NOVEMBER 6,1969
No. 4
What are Meredith girls studying? Many have taken to studying Bealie albums
to see if Paul is dead. An article on page four discusses the rumor and the evidence.
SACS Accreditation Committee
Soon to be at Meredith
It will be inspection time for
Meredith, November 16-19, as an
accreditation committee for the
Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools and a representative
from the National Association of
Schools of Music visit the campus.
The visit is being made as part of
accreditation renewal procedures.
The ten-member committee from
the Southern Association will be
headed by Dr. John A. Fincher,
president of Carson-Newman Col
lege in Jefferson City, Tennessee.
Dr. Fincher visited the campus on
September 23 for pre-visitation con
ferences.
According to Dr. Gloria Blanton,
Chairman of the Long-Range Plan
ning Committee, Dr. Fincher was
“very impressed with the campus
and he is aware that students serve
on the planning committees.”
During their three-day stay, com
mittee members will be involved
in investigating various documents
such as campus publications and
minutes of SGA meetings. They will
also interview both teachers and stu
dents in connection with various
academic departments.
Dr. Blanton notes that the com
mittee “will also be interested in in
formal conversations around campus
with students” in addition to
scheduled meetings.
A dinner at the alumnae house on
November 16 will begin the com
mittee work, says Dr. Blanton, at
which the members will meet with
departmental chairmen, administra-
Bowman-Gray Prof.
To Talk on 'Drugs'
Drugs will be the subject as Dr.
Timothy Fennel addresses chapel on
November 10.
Dr. Fennel, a former Wake Forest
football player and now professor
and surgeon at Bowman-Gray
School of Medicine, is described by
Dean of Chapel, Charlie Parker, as
a “great” speaker.
Mr. Parker notes that Dr. Fennel
is a “widely-heard speaker” in the
area of drugs.
A question-and-answer period is
expected to follow Dr. Fennel’s re
marks.
THE TWIG announces the ad
dition of freshmen Paula Gupton,
Kitty Peak and Debbie Pearce to
its stalT. Any other students wish*
ins (o help on (he TWIG staff are
asked to contact Brooks McGirt on
Second New Dorm or Helen
Wilkie on Third Poteat.
Writer Earl Wilson “to Confess”
In Lecture Appearance Here
tive officers, trustee representatives
and student leaders. Later meetings
of the group will be held in the rare
book room of the library.
Accreditation by the Southern
Association, which Dr. Blanton ex
plains as “assuring that the college
meets certain standards,” normally
occurs every ten years, but the reaf
firmation process has begun one and
half years early at the request of
Meredith officials.
Dr. Blanton explains that the re
affirmation is being held in connec
tion with the self-study recently
completed by the Long Range Plan-
(Continued on page six)
Students Named to
Committee Roles
Seventeen Meredith students have
been named to membership on seven
standing college committees, the
dean’s office has announced.
The students appointed and their
committee assignments are curricu
lum committee — Gail Knieriem,
Sarah Jo Cherry; interinstitutional
committee — Camilla George, Mar
tha Dicus; Instruction committee-
Ann Carroll, Mabel Godwin; and
library committee — Rita Caveny,
Gilda Hardy.
Other committees with student
membership include teacher educa
tion committee — Bonnie Sparks,
Dale Cunningham, Anne Morris,
Phyllis Jeffreys, Betty Alligood;
social committee — Chery Heedick,
Rosemary Moore; and admissions
and student aid — Aimee Oakley,
Linda Griffin.
Student membership on the stand
ing college committees was one of
the items recommended in the self-
study approved by the trustees at
their fall meeting.
Student members were chosen
from names submitted by student
government officers.
Earl Wilson, the most widely syn
dicated newspaper columnist in
America and author of a variety of
humorous books, will speak here on
the topic “Confessions of a Colum
nist or Earl Wilson’s Night.”
He wilt appear under the auspices
of Meredith Concerts and Lectures
Series at 8 p.m., November 17, 1969
in Jones Auditorium. The public is
cordially invited to attend.
The ex-Ohio farm boy has won
fame reporting on world-famous
personalities “in and before the
headlines” — their triumphs and
tragedies, and some of the glamor*
ous and self-portraying facts about
their daily existence.
Earl Wilson relates his personal
encounters with a never-ending
stream of stage, screen, radio and
television celebrities and other
world-known figures in other fields,
as well as gay and humorous ac
counts, whUe they are actually
pleasant, truthful impressions. Fresh
and revealing but never malicious
are his effervescent, candid com
ments on celebrities. He also talks as
he writes, with warm human un
derstanding. His humorous quirks
are directed at making “all men
brothers under the skin.”
Annually, Earl Wilson travels the
equivalent of about four trips
around the world. To keep “in the
know” in the field of entertainment
Chorus Will Sing
For Baptist Group
Monday, November 11, will be a
busy day for members of the Mere
dith College Singers and Chorus.
Seventy-eight girls will leave Ra
leigh in two buses at 8:45 Monday
morning to arrive at the site of the
North Carolina Baptist State Con
vention where they will join choirs
from the six other Baptist colleges in
North Carolina — Mars Hill, Cho
wan, Gardner-Webb, Wake Forest,
Campbell, and Wingate.
The combined group will perform
a program of sacred music for the
opening session of the convention at
8 p.m. Monday under the direction
of Paul Greene, head of the fine arts
department, Houston Baptist Uni
versity, Houston, Tex.
Mrs. Jane Sullivan, director of the
Meredith chorus, estimates that the
group will contain over 300 voices.
The Singers, a select group of 35
who auditioned, the seniors and
juniors in the chorus, the sopho
mores who were in the chorus last
year and the freshmen music majors
in the chorus will make up the
group going from Meredith.
The hour-long program will in
clude a variety of sacred music rang
ing from the eariy music of the
church to spirituals. The girls will
have an opportunity to meet and
perform with students from all of
North Carolina’s Baptist colleges
and, according to Mrs. Sullivan, the
day should be a “fun occasion.”
The girls will travel to Fayette
ville on Sunday for rehearsals and
supper afterwards at the Snyder Me
morial Baptist Church. Then the
group will return to Fayetteville
early Monday morning for a day of
rehearsals and the program that
night.
The trip is being financed by each
college.
and among the “luxury-loving” Jet
Set, the fact-searching reporter will
take off at the least hint of a story
Earl Wilson
to speak here.
for Hollywood or Hong Kong, Paris
or Palm Springs or, maybe, just
another walk through the “under-
the-sidewalk tunnels” of the sub
ways of New York.
A local specialist in obituaries,
courthouse news and sports, Wilson
wrote for several newspapers in
Ohio like The Pique Daily Call,
The Tiffin Tribune, and The Akron
Beacon Journal before undertaking
more glamorous assignments in New
York and such other large cities.
Later, he became a copyreader
for the Washington Post and then in
the mid-thirties he became a re
write man for the New York Post.
Afterward he progressed to writing
his widely acclaimed column puliK
lished throughout this country and
in Canada.
Earl Wilson is proud he is from a
small town, though, and feels that
this factor has helped him keep his
very special perspective on indi
viduals, places and things in the
journalistic world.
President's Letter Breaks News
To Parents: $300 Increase
For many Meredith parents, the
old adage, “No News is Good
News,” may have had special sig
nificance recently.
A letter has been mailed out by
the President’s office informing
them of the $300 tuition hike ap
proved by the Board of Trustees at
their September meeting.
The letter reads as follows:
“Dear Parents;
“The expected has happened
again, but not without great con
cern for the students and parents
who pay the bill for education. The
Board of Trustees recently increased
tuition by $300 to become effective
in September, 1970. This will bring
the full charges for room, board and
tuition to $2,400, and the tuition
charges for day students to $1,500.
"Every one of us can understand
that in recent years salaries have
continued to increase to keep pace
with the higher cost of living, and
certainly college faculties need and
deserve substantial increases. This
condition will probably continue into
the foreseeable future. Another fac
tor to be taken into consideration is
a comprehensive two-year self-study
just completed by the entire college
family — faculty, students, trustees,
alumnae and administration —
which clearly indicates the necessity
of increasing resources to upgrade
the college in a number of ways.
Such a program will make it possible
to put into effect those things which
we have determined to be essential
to the future benefit of our students.
“Along with the $300 increase,
the Board of Trustees approved an
increase in student aid so that no
students would be excluded from
Meredith for financial reasons. Stu
dent aid at Meredith has tripled in
the past three years and will likely
continue to advance rapidly as costs
rise, so that the student body will
continue to be a cross section of
girls from every area of the Slate,
regardless of economic circum
stances. The trustees expressed the
hope — and I add mine to theirs —
that during the next several years;
charges will not increase more than
$100 in any single year and we hope
that something else might forestall,
even a part of this.
“I could cite many statistics to-
justify the increase in tuition, but the
simple fact is that quality education
costs money. Statistics show that
80 per cent of the private colleges ia
the county increased their charges
for 1968-69, while Meredith did
(Continued on page six)
Meredith Christmas Will Start
With Float in Raleigh Parade
Meredith girls this year will have
the opportunity to do more than
merely watch the Raleigh Christmas
parade.
The college will this year have its
own float in the November 24 event.
The Phis and the Astros, Mere
dith’s two literary societies, will be
in charge of decorating the float. A
truck has already been made avail
able from November 20 through the
parade date.
Says SGA president, Cindy Grif
fith, “This should be a lot of fun.”
She reminds students that the stu
dent suggesting the best idea for
decorating the float will be asked to
ride in the parade.
Director of Development, John
Kanipe, has already notified Cindy
that two large plastic signs are avail
able for the truck doors reading,
MEREDITH ANGELS THANK
RALEIGH CITIZENS FOR
THEIR SUPPORT. The balance of
decorating the parade entry will be
left up to students.
The parade will begin at 6 p.m.
on Monday, November 24, at St.
Mary’s Street, procede down Hills
borough to Fayetteville Street and
end at Memorial Auditorium.
Anyone interested in submitting
a theme for the float or in helping
with the decoration is asked to con
tact either Astro president Carol
Clark or Phi president Nancy Wal
ters on Third New Dorm, or Cindy
Griffith on Second New Dorm.