THE TWIG
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Raleigh, Ca;uiina
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Vol. XLIV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C, NOVEMBER 20, 1969
No. 5
Exams Before Chrisfmas?
Shown in rehearsal of a scene from “A Phoenix Too Frequent” arc (left fo right)
Louise Skelton, Stevie Shaefer and Beth Gnimbine.
Meredith Playhouse Presents
"A Phoenix Too Frequent"
The Meredith Playhouse will pre
sent “A Phoenix Too Frequent”
in cliapel, Monday, November 24.
Appearing in the presentation will
be junior Stevie Shaefer in the role
of Dynamene and sophomore Beth
Grumbine as Doto. A student from
. North Carolina State University,
Louise Skelton, will play the part of
• Tegeus.
According to Mrs. Ruth Ann
' Phillips, drama tcacher and director
of “A Phoenix," the play is "a very
healthy story" of a young widow.
Dynamene, who decides to follow
her husband in death. Her loyal
maid, Doto, accompanies her mis-
, tress. While the two women are
waiting in the husband’s tomb,
Tegeus, a young man traveling by
the scene, finds them there and
waits with them.
Sophomore Patsy Brake is as
sisting Mrs. Phillips as student direc
tor.
A second play is set for December
. 10. “Sorry, Wrong Number” will
star Sara Barron as Mrs. Stephen-
Knieriem Takes
Float Competition
Sophomore Gail Knieriem has
been named the winner of a campus-
wide contest to suggest a theme for
the Meredith float entry in the Ra
leigh Christmas parade.
Astro president Carol Clark de
scribes the winning idea as “a
Christmas card wishing the Raleigh
Community a Merry Christmas from
Meredith College.”
The Meredith ensemble will ride
on the float and will sing Christmas
caroles, she explains.
Also riding on the float will be
SGA president Cindy Griffith, May
Queen Cullen Sessoms, winner
Gail Knieriem, Phi president Nancy
Walters, and Carol.
Work on the float was to begin
tonight, November 20. “We have to
• have a lot of help from the student
body. After all, this is the only way
the girls themselves can thank the
Raleigh community, so what we en
ter will be up to them,” Carol notes.
She urges students to come help
with the decoration “any time they
can come out.”
Harry Simmons, Meredith main
tenance supervisor, will serve as
driver of the float in the November
24 parade.
Revised Program
For Elem. Teachers
The teacher education committee
is currently at work on a revised
program for early childhood educa
tion certification.
According to Dr, Gloria Blanton,
coordinator of Long Range Plan
ning, the committee headed by Dr.
Sarah Lemmon “is expected to com
plete work for action by the cur
riculum committee and academic
council in time to provide help for
students at pre-registration.”
The new certification program,
which gives prospective elementary
teachers a choice between K-3
(kindergarten through third grade)
or intermediate (fourth through
ninth grade) certification, will in
volve the program of courses which
this year’s sophomores and fresh
men will take, Dr. Blanton notes.
Senior and junior students seeking
elementary certificates will not be
affected.
The new program will institute
several changes in student teacher
work, says Dr. Blanton. Under the
new set-up, prospective teachers on
the elementary level, in addition to
their regular major and related field,
will concentrate their education
work in one or two of the following
fields: language arts, social studies
or science and math.
Dr, Blanton explains that the
change is being undertaken at Mere
dith at the encouragement of the
State Department of Public Instruc
tion.
She anticipates no major shifts in
courses offered or need for extra
faculty with the new program,
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70-71 Calendar Changes Proposed
son in a psychological “thriller,” as
Mrs. Phillips describes it.
In the play, a telephone provides
the only link between the bed-ridden
Mrs. Stephenson and the outside
world.
At press time, additional minor
parts in the play had not been cast
yet.
A proposed calender for the
1970-71 school year could mean
that Meredith students would begin
classes August 27, complete exams
before the Christmas Holidays, and
observe commencement exercises on
May 16.
The calendar proposal has been
made to the academic council by the
interinstitutional committee in order
to coordinate Meredith’s schedule
with the proposed calendar at N. C.
State, explains Dr. Gloria Blanton,
coordinator of Long-Range Plan
ning and chairman of the psychology
department.
The proposal has been referred to
the instruction committee for further
consideration. Dr. Blanton stresses
the fact that no action can be taken
on the matter by the academic coun
cil until the instruction committee
completes its report.
“It would seem appropriate,” she
adds, “that students should express
their opinions on this proposed
change to the student members of
the committee so they will have an
indication of student thought,”
Students serving on the instruc
tion committee are Ann Carroll and
Mabel Godwin.
The proposed calendar changes
as presented to the academic council
call for registration of returning stu
dents on August 26, with classes
beginning the following day. Exams
would be held December 11-21.
Second semester would begin
with registration January 6. Exams
would end May 11, and commence
ment on May 15-16. Summer School
would open June 8 and close July
17.
Another change inherent in the
new calendar is in the proposed
spring break from March 3-15. Stu
dents would also have a holiday on
Easter Monday, April 12.
Opening and closing dales and
holidays in the proposed calendar
match those set up in the proposed
State calendar. NCSU President
William Friday was expected to give
Meredith Receives
$1,000 Library Grant
Meredith College recently re
ceived a $1,000 grant from the Sears
Roebuck Foundation.
The grant, which is to be used to
supplement the normal book ac
quisition budget of the college, was
presented by W. H. Hessee, local
representative of the Foundation, to
Miss Hazel Baity, head librarian of
the Carlyle Campbell Library.
Other colleges in the Raleigh area
receiving grants are Shaw, St. Aug-
ustines, Peace, St. Mary’s and Louis-
burg College.
In North Carolina, 40 colleges
and universities will receive grants
totaling $43,900. More than 950
private, accredited two- and four-
year colleges will be receiving grants
totaling $ 1,5 million.
In addition to the grant program,
the Sears Foundation will invest
more than $700,000 during the cur
rent year in various student financial
aid and other educational programs.
This will bring higher education
expenditures by the Scars-Roebuck
Foundation to more than $2,225,-
000 in 1969.
final approval momentarily to the
State proposals at press time, as the
NCSU trustees had previously ap
proved the changes.
An advantage of the new Mere
dith calandar, notes Dr. Blanton, is,
“It would enable students at both
institutions to take courses on each
campus,” as has been school policy
for two years. Of course, she goes
on, “It wouldn’t be impossible to
take courses at State even so — the
Meredith student would just have to
come early.”
Meredith has traditionally opened
in mid-September and closed near
the first of June.
City-College Council
Formed In Raleigh
Raleigh Mayor Seby Jones, has
initiated the formation of a council
of student government presidents
in the capita! city.
Meredith SGA president Cindy
Griffith attended a luncheon-meet
ing November !4, along with the
five other college student body
presidents in Raleigh, to establish
the city-college council.
Purpose of the council, says
Cindy, will be “to consider campus
problems which affect the city itself
and vice-versa.”
The group plans monthly meet
ings to discuss “any problems that
arise,” Cindy explains.
She urges students to contact her
if they become aware of problems in
which the council may be able to
help.
Meredith Students Join V\^ashington Marchers
In Anti-Death Demonstrations Against Viet War
By Emory Farris
Two Meredith girls, Kitty Peak, a
freshman, and Karen Anderson, a
sophomore, joined the March
Against Death on Washington on
November 14 and 15. The girls left
for Washington on a bus with a
group of students from N. C. State
at midnight Thursday, November
13.
Charles Parker, Meredith College
minister, was to have joined the
girls, but was unable to make the
trip clue to a meeting out of town.
The March Against Death at
Washington began at 6:00 p.m. on
Thursday, November 13. The
March, originally scheduled to have
begun at midnight, was begun earlier
to provide needed extra hours for
organization and maximized press
exposure. The March Against Death
was divided into nine time groups,
four hours long. North Carolina was
in Group 4 with Georgia, Indiana,
Maine, and South Carolina. Group
4 marched from 8:00 a.m, until
noon, Friday, November 14.
The headquarters for the North
Carolina delegation was the New
York Presbyterian Church. The
group from North Carolina as
sembled at the church two hours
prior to the beginning of the march.
They then boarded a shuttle-bus
that took them to Arlington Ceme-
tary for final preparations preceding
the march.
Each person in the march carried
a placard bearing the name of a
North Carolina soldier killed in the
war. The Raleigh group was re
sponsible for making alt the placards
for this state.
The first group of people who
walked in the March Against Death
were members of families of service
men killed in action, bearing the
names of their own sons, husbands,
or brothers. Many notable personali
ties such as Mrs. Martin Luther
King, Jr., Senators Goodell of N. Y.,
and McGovern of S. Dakota, and
Dr. Benjamin Spock, participated in
the March Against Death.
Marchers were permitted to wear
whatever they liked. Black clothing
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Kittj' Peak (left) and Karen Anderson pose prior to their departure for Washington
and ttie November 14 “March Against Death.”