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THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
VOL. XLVIII
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C.
DECEMBER 6, 1973
NO. 12
Events set for
Advent season
Beginning December l,
Christians around the world
observe the Advent season in
preparation for the coming of
Christ.The Meredith com
munity, too, has planned
special activities for Advent
this year. On December 11,
the annual Moravian Love
Feast and candle service will
be held in the Rotunda of
Johnson Hall at 8:00 p.m. This
Moravian tradition goes back
to 1727 when the early
Christians met and broke
bread together to signify their
union, fellowship and love.
Every person is given a
lighted candle to remind him
that Christ said “Ye are the
light of the world.” The ser
vice will be highlighted with
traditional Christmas carols
by the Meredith College
Chorus.
The following morning,
December 12, a special
Christmas worship service is
planned. Mrs. Elizabeth Reid
will present “The Meaning of
Christmas” through a slide
presentation of painting and
sculpture. Mrs. Reid, married
to a former mayor of Raleigh,
works with the North Carolina
Museum of Art.
TWIG newshriefs
CAROLING
All Meredith students are
invited to participate in the
Christmas caroling this
Thursday night. The annual
event, sponsored by MRA, will
follow the President’s Dinner.
Five bus loads of students
with MRA song leaders in
each will visit different
faculty members’ homes and
spread the Meredith
Christmas cheer. Carolers are
to meet in front of Johnson
Hall at 8:00. Come and catch
the Christmas spirit before
exams!
State Fairgrounds, Raleigh,
December 7, 8 and 9.
Hours will be as follows:
Friday, Dec. 7 6:00-10:00PM
Saturday, Dec. 8 10:00 AM-
9:00 PM
Sunday, Dec. 9 12:00 noon-
6:00 PM
DIRECTORIES
General admission is $1.00.
Students and senior citizens
with I. D. cards, 75 cents.
Children under 12 free when
accompanied by parent.
Sixty-five professional
craftsmen will exhibit and
sell.
The public is invited.
Plentiful free parking.
The 1973-1974 Student
Directories are now on sale!
Directories include students
and faculty members home
addresses and school phone
numbers. C. C. A. members
will sell the directories door to
door this week. The direc
tories will also be sold in the
Beehive until Christmas
vacation.
COMET
CRAFTSFAIR
The fourth annual
Carolina Designer Craft
smen’s Fair will be held in
Dorton Arena, North Carolina
On Christmas Eve this
year, the brightest comet of
the century. Comet Kohoutek,
will swing by our sun as part
of a 50,000 year-long
revolution through the
universe. Astronomer Charles
T. Kowal reports in the
November SCIENCE DIGEST
that Comet Kohoutek is ex
pected to exceed even
Halley’s comet in brightness
and may be visible during
daylight hours.
i.asl weeks' Home Ec. Bazaar was Meredith’s first harbinger
that the Christmas season liath commenced.
The Meredith College Chorale, under the direction of Mrs. Jane Sullivan was part of annual
Christmas concert, held last Sunday, in Bryan Rotunda. The large crowd of guests were entertained
afterwards with a reception in Belk Hall.
Basic Grants available
through Education Office
Students still have time to
apply for some of the $122.1
million that is available in the
Basic Educational Op
portunity Grants program for
the 1973-74 school year.
Basic Grants, which are
funded by the U. S. Office of
Education, are available to
first-time students who began
their post-high school
education or training after
July 1, 1973, on a full-time
basis. These grants can be
used at any eligible institution
including regular colleges,
universities, community or
junior colleges, vocational or
technical schools, and hospital
schools of nursing - both
public and private, profit and
non-profit.
Grants are based on a
formula which takes into
account the cost of tuition,
fees, room, board, books,
supplies, and incidental ex
penses, and the amount the
student and his or her family
can contribute. The formula is
applied consistently to all
students throughout the
country for the 1973-74
academic year. Awards range
from $50 to a maximum of $452
for each eligible student.
Grant through their financial
aid officer or guidance
counselor, or by writing to
Box G, Iowa, City, Iowa 52240.
Variety to appear
in fali issue
of ACORX
by Susan Stone
John Ottina, U. S. Com
missioner of Education, said,
“Money that students receive
under this program is free and
clear; it is not a loan that has
to be paid back.”
Students may obtain an
application form for a Basic
Home Ec bazaar garners
funds for 1974 projects
Anyone walking through
the Student Center November
26th or 27th was sure to notice
the second annual bazaar
sponsored by the Home
Economics Club. Open to the
public, the bazaar featured
such items as crafts,
Christmas ornaments,
arrangements, gifts, and
baked goods contributed by
approximately forty of the
Home Ec. Club members.
Arrangements for the bazaar
were handled by Beth Kim
ball, president of the club, and
Ann Laney, vice-president.
The $200.00 made on the
bazaar will be used to take
care of Home Ec. Club
meetings and projects.
The major goal of
the Home Ec. Club this year
has been to obtain a greater
degree of professionalism.
The club will be sponsoring a
Career Day in February
which will bring to our
campus career people from
various home economics
fields. There will be
representatives from such
areas as power companies
and extentions departments.
Although there will be an
emphasis on careers in the
home economics field, all
students will be invited. 'There
is a possibility of a club
sponsored trip to the National
Home Economics Association
Headquarters in Washington.
There is also a conference in
New York next year to which
the club hopes to send a
representative. At the end of
spring semester the Home Ec
Club will be having a formal
banquet in the President’s
dining room where they will
have a speaker and in
stallation of the new officers.
Beth Kimball extends her
thanks to all the girls who
have taken “time and care” to
work with the Home Ec. Club
this year.
One thinks of the typical
student publication as being
filled with sugar-sweet love
stories, tear-jerking suicides,
a few moralistic tales, and lots
of candy-coated poetry. Th6
Acorn, Meredith’s literary
publication, can be ap
preciated because there’s no
nutshell way of summarizing
its contents. Editor Rosalie
Gates says that tentative
publication date is the second
week of December.
Besides short stories and
poems, this issue will be
complemented with wood
block designs and
photographs. Susan McGee
designed the cover, a
modernistic oak limb etched
in romantic black. For those
who remember childhood and
“how simple life used to be,”
there’s Judy Farrior’s “The
Dolls”. (Life isn’t just hop
scotch at nine years old for
some, it seems.) There are
satirical insinuations about
the male-female roles in
Rosemary Stankwyth’s
poem, “Replay”.
Also, editor Rosalie Gates
bids all students to keep their
memory shelves stocked, for
that is what a special Spring
issue is all about - memories.
Students are urged to recall
the humorous moments, the
sad ones, the embarrassing
ones, that certain guy,
professor, roommate, etc.,
and contribute them to the
■Acorn for the Snrine issue.