THE TWIG
Newspaper oj the Students of Meredith College
Vol. XLV MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C, FEBRUARY 11, 1971 No. 10
“Alien in His Own Land"
This was the sccne last week as the second big ice storm of the winter hit Meredith.
Every building, car, tree limb, light and blade of grass had its own individual coat
- of ice.
Susan Harris Burton Memorial
Established by Her Parents
ARA-Slater Displays Indian Exhibit
Mr. and Mrs. William Burton of
Raleigh have made a $10,000 con
tribution to Meredith College to es-
I. tablish the Susan Harris Burton Me
morial Student Activities Center in
the proposed college residence.
The contribution was given in
memory of their daughter, Susan,
. who was a student at Greenbrier
Collge in Lewisburg, W. Va. Susan
was graduated from Greenbrier
High School and had begun her
freshman year at the college. She
was a member of White Memorial
Presbyterian Church in Raleigh.
In announcing the memorial,
Meredith President E. Bruce Heil
man said, “h is particularly mean
ingful for Meredith to have this
memorial to perpetuate the memory
of Susan Burton, it will provide an
' opportunity for informal interaction
and social activity between Mere
dith students, the president and his
family, faculty and staff, and other
Editor’s Note: The foitowing
stuteinent was made by Dr. Frank L.
^ Grubbs Jr. at a recent faculty
ineefin^. We think his perspective
and impressions will be of interest
to the entire college community.
Therefore, his statement is printed
here in its entirety.
As a Baptist related institution,
Meredith College has dedicated it
self to provide a Christian education
made perfect through the religion of
Jesus Christ. When the Trustees, the
administration and the faculty of
ficially approved this principle, as a
member of the faculty 1 became
obligated to honor the college’s prin-
. cipies, and all members of that in
stitution are bound by these princi
ples when they affiliate with the in
stitution. In the case of Meredith,
this should not be too difficult for
the college docs not hire non-
Christian personnel. Nevertheless, if
this policy were changed in the
future, and indeed the college may
m some day be so disposed, then the
college guests.”
Construction of the college resi
dence, home of the president and
center for formally receiving guests
of the college, will begin shortly.
The residence is being made possible
through gifts restricted for this pur
pose by their donors.
Mr. and Mrs. Burton, owners of
Burtons, Inc., have three other chil
dren: Jeff of Florida; Betsy Ann, a
student at Daniels Junior High
School; and Nancy Lou, a student at
Ravenscroft School.
Dr. and Mrs. L. M. Massey of
Zebulon made a substantial initial
commitment to the college for fund
ing of the residence and have been
influential in its progress. Dr. Mas
sey is a Meredith Trustee and has
served as trustee chairman.
A $10,000 gift from Mrs. Lucille
Lawrence Ellis of Kenly to establish
the Lawrence Memorial Library in
the college residence has been do
nated.
non-Christian affiliating with Mere
dith is as bound as the Christian to
honor the college’s religious princi
ples.
As a faculty member in a church-
related institution, I have other ob
ligations. I should not use my class
room. conferences or interviews to
deliberately undermine the religious
principles of my college. 1 should
not use my own time to publicly
undermine the religious principles of
my institution or attempt in any
other way to deliberately damage or
undermine the declared religious in
tent of my college.
However, the historian at a re
ligious institution may criticize
church history, Christian doctrine,
or any other Christian practices if
this criticism is a part of his pro
fessional duties, lectures or confer
ences provided it is done within a
spirit of truth and a desire to impart
historical knowledge. Criticism in
tended to disrupt, destroy, or under-
(Contlniied on page 3)
"Alien in His Own Land” is the
title of the traveling exhibition cur
rently on display in the Bryan Ro
tunda of Johnson Hall. The exhibit
is sponsored by ARA-Slater Food
Services. Miss Tina Waltz from
Philadelphia, Penn., brought the ex
hibit to Meredith at the request of
BASKETBALL NEWS
The Meredith basketball team is
now in the midst of its 1971 season.
Thus far, the team has a respect*
able record of three wins and only
one loss. The loss was against Caro
lina on February 2 (57>47). The
wins were over Peace on .lanu*
ary 21 (93>27) and February 4 (45-
16) and Duke on February 9 (34-
26).
Tonight (February 11) the An>
gels begin a series of three games
on their new home court, ending in
a two>day tournament on February
25-26 in Weatherspoon. These
games are against St. Mary's (to
night), Campbell (16) and Duke
(18). All games begin at 7:00 p.m.
Members of the 1971 Meredith
Angels are as follows:
Kay Bullock
Vivian Craig
Linda Ehrlich
Cece Evans
Deane Fearing
Kathy Fleetwood
Cindy Godwin
Kathy McNeill
Meredith Nelli
Nancy Newlin
Peggy Stone
Triciu Thrower
Shirley Whitehurst
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Archer are
the coaches.
Meredith Playhouse
Spring Proiluction:
"The Chalk Garden "
The Chalk Garden, a movie which
was produced by Walt Disney, will
be presented as a play in Jones
Auditorium on April 16 and 17. The
Meredith Playhouse production will
be open to the public.
Tryouts for the play were held on
Monday, February 8 at 6:30 p.m. in
202 Jones. The story is of a young
giri who is sixteen years old and
who, because of her past experience
is not completely emotionally ad
justed. The cast of characters in
cludes Laurel, the young giri, and
her grandmother, Mrs. St. Maugh-
aum. Other characters included in
the play are Madrigal, the governess
who seems to be the only person
who is capable of controlling Laurel.
Olivia is Laurel’s mother and Mait
land is a household servant. Minor
characters include a judge and three
women who are applying for the job
of governess.
The Chalk Garden received fa-
vorabel reviews from such publica
tions as the New York Times which
described the play as “sparkling
cut glass.” The New York Daily
News referred to the play as “a
tantalizing, fascinating, and stimu
lating piece of theatre.”
Miss Solomon, head of the dra
matics department at Meredith, en
courages any interested students to
sign up for the various committees.
The next issue of THE TWIG
will be published on Hiursday,
Feb. 25. All contributions should
be brought to 221 New Dorm by
Friday, Feb. 19.
Hoyt Taylor, head of food services.
The exhibit, which depicts histori
cal attitudes toward the Indian, is
part of an extensive collection of
original documents, letters and
prints held by the ARA Historical
Foundation.
“Alien in His Own Land” in
cludes reproductions of nineteenth-
century water colors which John
Cullum painted from oil paintings
by George Catlin. There are also
reproductions from History of the
Indian Tribes of North America
By Debbie Brown
Sunlight streamed through the
window of a small cluttered of
fice — Number 13, Winston Hall,
North Carolina State University —
and enhanced an otherwise in
conspicuous sign which said “Guy
Owen.” The effect was appealing,
however, because this humble office
belonged to Dr. Guy Owen, North
Carolina novelist and poet and the
editor and founder of Southern
Poetry Review, a semi-annual an
thology of North Carolina poetry.
The Flim-Flam Man
A professor of English as well at
North Carolina State University,
Owen stays busy with papers and
lesson plans; nevertheless, he keeps
up with his writing by creating
poems or by taking road trips to his
favorite setting, Bladen County. It
was here that Owen set his most
famous novel. The Ballad of the
Fliin-Flam Man, the story of a pro
fessional “con man.” The novel was
such a success that a movie was
made, and Owen has written a se
quel to The Ballad, which has not
yet been given a title.
Owen’s most recently published
novel. Journey for Joedel, is also
set in Bladen County, the area where
Owen himself grew up. Owen says
his fiction is not autobiographical
"so as not to compete with Thomas
Wolfe”; however, he admits to a
childhood in tobacco country —
part of the subject matter in Journey
for Joedel. In the novel, Joedel won
ders if the tobacco he handles will
ever be smoked by the woman he
will eventually marry. When asked
about this recurring theme, Owen
smiled and said, “I’ll have to admit
I did think about that when 1 was
working in tobacco in my grand
father’s field.”
with Biographical Sketches and
Anecdotes of the Principle Chiefs
Embellished with Portraits, a folio
commissioned by Colonel Thom
as L. McKenny, head of the Indian
Bureau of the War Department.
A reproduction of Harper’s
Weekly and quotations from Carl
Sandburg’s poetry are also on dis
play.
“Alien in His Own Land” will be
on exhibition for a week. A special
meal was served last Tuesday night
in connection with the exhibit.
Besides being a talented writer,
Owen is quite a speaker. At the
January dinner meeting of the Col
ton English Club, Owen related the
pitfalls of beginning a novel. Al
though he sometimes writes chapter
ten before he writes chapter one,
there are certain elements that must
be present in the first chapter of a
novel. Owen says there must be a
very definite appeal to the senses.
In order to create this effect in his
novel Journey for Joedel, Owen
and his son slept out in the backyard
one night. This experience, ex
plained Owen, helped him to include
the sound of the rooster and the
touch of morning dew on the first
page of his novel.
“Bring on (he Bear”
Owen’s second qualification in be
ginning a novel is the statement,
“Bring on the bear.” Season of
Fear, one of Owen’s early novels,
included pages of description before
the main character ever appeared —
a definite mistake when you are
writing to sell. Owen counts this as a
teaching experience, however, and
in Journey for Joedel has introduced
Joedel on page one.
Real People, Places; New Names
Owen gave some other advice for
beginning novelists — most of which
he learned from past experience. A
novel based on a real place with real
people, according to Owen, needs
new names. When Owen changed
his hometown from “Clarkton” to
“Clayton,” many North Carolinians
were sure his setting was Clayton,
North Carolina, and they had even
found a personality to fit the Flim-
Flam Man. One man even informed
Owen that he had put a ^nd in the
Cape Fear River which simply did
not exist!
(Continued on page 3)
Dr. Grubbs Discusses Responsibilities
Connected with Church-Related College
Dr. Guy Owen
From Season of Fear
To Journey for Joedel
Ellen Page, Nancy Ausbon, Guy Owen and Suzanne Reynolds discussed Dr. Owen’s
new book, “.lourney for Joedel” before Dr. Owen addressed the Colton English
Club dinner meeting.