THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
Vol. XLIV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., APRIL 9,1970
No.12
“Students may now pre-register
for the summer session at Meredith
in the Register’s Office,” Dean Al
len Burris announced recently.
The schedule is as follows:
June 8, Mon .Registration
9, Tues First class day
13, Sat Regular class day
20, Sat Regular class day
July 3, Fri Holiday
4, Sat Holiday
10, Fri Last class day
11, Sat Examinations
The cost will be the same as last
summer: $40 for each semester hour
and $150 for room and board. Stu
dents will be housed in the New
Dorm, and meals will be served in
Belk Hall beginning at noon on
the eighth.
“We hope to make a brochure
. available to students by Friday
April 10 (tomorrow). There is a
list of courses and instructors in the
Four Recitals
Are Scheduled
Four recitals have been scheduled
for the near future by the Meredith
music department, announces Dr.
David Lynch, chairman.
* Deborah Ingram will present her
junior piano recital Tuesday, April
14. The program will be given in
Jones Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Appearing in their Junior recitals
will be Pamela Eure, soprano, and
Andrea Meyer, violinist. The joint
recital will be held Thursday, April
16, in Jones Auditorium and will
begin at 8 p.m.
Performing in her senior recital
on April 19 will be Ann Euliss,
organist. The Sunday afternoon con
cert will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the
small auditorium.
A guest recital by two members
of the Campbell College faculty has
been scheduled for Tuesday, April
.21. On that occasion, Edmund
Winston, clarinetist, and Margaret
Simmons, pianist, will perform in
Jones Auditorium, with the program
scheduled for 8 p.m.
All are invited to attend these
* recitals.
Dr. Pruden "Man of Notable Distinction"
Meredith Welcomes Pastor-in-Residence
/f's a Sign of the Times
One sure sign of spring’s approach at Meredith is the appearance of sunbathers
on the sun dccks. Here, a bevy of Meredith batbing beauties soak up the ultraviolet
rays, hopeful of turning winter's “lily white” into summer’s “bronze beauty” before
beach weekend. Next issue: sign of spring—sunburns!
★ ★ ★★ ★ ★★ ★ ★★ ★ ★★ ★ ★★ ★ ★
Summer School Information
Announced, to Begin June 8
Register’s Office,” Dean Burris con
tinued.
In addition to courses in art, bi
ology, education, English, French,
history, home economics, mathe
matics, music, political science, re
ligion, and sociology, Meredith will
offer, jointly with Shaw University
and St. Augustine’s, a course en
titled “Problems in Black and White:
The Public School.” A team of pro
fessors from all three schools will
teach the course, There is also a
possibility that “independent study”
courses will be offered this summer.
Love, Poetry, Diamonds
The subject is love. The medium
is poetry. And the prizes are dia
monds.
Orange Blossom, the nation’?
leading creator of diamond rings,
today announced its first an
nual poetry contest, open to all
individuals between the ages of 16
and 21.
“This contest is an effort by
Orange Blossom to encourage the
creative talents of young people in
the field of poetry, far too often
neglected in national competition,”
said Carl Bross, the firm’s general
manager.
Contest entries will be judged by
a prominent panel of poetry experts,
including singer-composer Glenn
Yarbrough; Michael Mesic. editor
of Poetry magazine; and Marsha
Lee Masters, poetry editor of the
Chicago Tribune and daughter of
Edgar Lee Masters, poet.
Orange Blossom will present
specifically-designed diamond pen
dants to the five first award winners.
A series of merit commendations
also will be given to runners-up.
Each entrant may submit up to
five poems, a total of 200 lines in
length, Each poem will be judged
separately on its own literary merits,
with individual authorship and
originality being stressed.
Complete contest rules and entry
blanks are available at over 2,000
jewelry stores across the U. S. and
Canada.
Closing date for the entries is
May 15. Winners will be informed
on or before August 15 by telegram.
Meredith’s new college pastor-in-
residence, Dr. Edward H. Pruden,
has been called “a man of notable
distinction with many attributes to
his name.”
Dr. Pruden’s duties in his new
capacity will include what Charles
Parker, College Minister, explains
as, “basically a liason position be
tween the churches and the school,”
Mr. Parker also explains that Dr.
Pruden will be involved in some on-
campus counseling as well. “He will
be around the campus, open to stu
dents and faculty as someone who
will hear , them,” Mr. Parker notes.
Other duties in store for the pas
tor in residence include “some
preaching” and helping to establish
a “minister of the week” program
at Meredith.
Dr. Pruden is a native of Chase
City, Va., where he graduated from
Kappa Nu Sigma
Taps New Members
Kappa Nu Sigma honor society
Tuesday night inducted four junior
associate members into the organi
zation.
Named to membership were
Suzanne Reynolds, Mary Stuart
Parker, Anne Bryan and Gail
Gaddy.
Membership in Kappa Nu Sigma
is based on scholastic achievement.
Members are taken into the society
during their junior and senior years,
with full membership restricted to
the top two per cent of the senior
class.
The new junior associate mem
bers were honored Tuesday by a
banquet and recognized at the lec
ture by visiting speaker Mr. Paul
Engle later in the evening.
Chase City High School in 1921. Heties include having been President of
then went on to graduate with a
B.A. degree from the University of
of Richmond in Virginia, from
Southern Baptist Seminary with a
Master of Theology, and a PhD
from the University of Edinburgh
in Scotland. Dr. Pruden also did
graduate study at Yale Divinity
School.
He has served as pastor at the
First Baptist Church in Petersburg,
Va., and the First Baptist Church
in Washington, D. C. Dr. Pruden
also served as guest professor of
English at the University of Shang
hai in China.
His denominational responsibili-
American Baptist Foreign Missions
Society, past President of American
Baptist Convention, past President
of District of Columbia Baptist Con
vention, along with having served as
a member of many Foreign Mission
Boards, Executive Committees, and
Boards of Trustees of various in
stitutions.
Dr. Pruden’s ecumenical activities
include being a member of the
Board of Directors on the Washing
ton Council of Churches, being
President of the Washington Coun
cil of Churches, serving as delegate
to the World Council of Churches
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Spring Student Teachers
Assume New Positions
The spring student teachers have
recently assumed their new posi
tions. This semester Meredith girls
are located throughout Wake Coun
ty-
Judy Eddins and Sarah Bradsher
are at Aycock Jr. High; Claudia
Gore is at Broughton; Linda Morse
is at Daniels Jr. High.
Other Jr. High student teachers
are -Jane Buchanan, Barbara Car
roll, and Margaret Morris at Carroll
Jr, High.
NOTICE
The next issue of THE TWIG
will be the last issue published by
the 1969'70 staff. All ideas and
contributions for the April 23 edi
tion should be turned into the
TWIG room on First Brewer, 201
New Dorm or 313 Poteat by April
18.
Enloe High has Mary Anderson,
Phyllis Blackman, and Margaret
Grady. Betty Bryant and Mary
Turner are at Ligon High. Carolyn
Wethington and Carolyn Wheeler
are at Central Office.
In the county, Betty Burchfield,
Linda Haddock, and Lynn Younger
arc at Cary Senior High. Lois
Fowler and Eloise Webster are at
West Cary Junior High. Fuquay-
Varina has Kay Taylor; Garner
High has Joy Johnson: Garner
Sr. High has Cliery Heedick;
Knightdale has Sarah Jo Cherry.
Phyllis Jefferies and Nancy Wal
ters are at Millbrook Senior High.
Betty Becton Bryant, Cathy Moran
Winstead, and Martha Watson are at
Vaiden-Whitley.
Wake Forest Elementary has Pat
Armstrong, Florence Glover and
Becky Liles. Faye Scott, Cathy
Sykes, Nancy Williams, and Priscilla
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"Squaffy Body” and "Blackie
Pets Provide Touch of Home
By Brooks McGirt
One of the saddest things about
going away from home — be it to
college or anywhere — for many
girls is not leaving mama and daddy;
it’s not saying so long to brothers
and/or sisters; it’s not even waving
farewell to boyfriend. To many
girls, the hardest thing to bear is
leaving the family pet — the cat or
dog which has become so much a
part of home life.
For some giris whose “pet” hap
pens to be a horse, the problem is
not so acute — if she attends a
school like Meredith; she can pack
up the animal with her other school
supplies and, for a reasonable fee,
board him at the college stables. But
most schools, like Meredith, frown
on the keeping of pets in the dorm
— except for goldfish or turtles —
and do not take kindly to the stu
dent who brings her home menagerie
with her when she arrives in Septem
ber.
But here at Meredith, the problem
of pet-sickness has been relieved to
some extent by the presence of cer
tain “pets-in-residence” which have
adopted the campus and the giris on
it as their own.
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Squatty Body (R) and friend, Senior Ruth Talton.