TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
VOL. XLVIII
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C.
JANUARY 24, 1974
NO. 14
College receives
large single gift
Meredith College has
received the largest gift from
an individual in the history of
the college, President John E.
Weems announced following a
meeting of the college trustees
on Friday, January 11.
The gift was presented to
the college by Kemp Shields
Cate of Chapel Hill, retired
escheats officer at the
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill and currently
an investment and tax con
sultant.
Meredith Trustee
Chairman C. C. Cameron said
in acknowledging the sub
stantial commitment from
Cate that the Meredith Board
of Trustees voted at their
Friday meeting to name the
new College and Continuing
Education Center on the
campus in Cate’s honor.
The $689,200 two-story
brick and cast stone structure
is the last of five new buildings
built on the campus in the past
five years. It contains 21,000
square feet of floor space and
houses the college bookstore,
post office, Kresge Continuing
Education Auditorium, and
student activity facilities. The
building was designed by the
architectural firm of Valand,
Benzing and Associates and
constructed by J. M. Thomp
son Co.
Dedication services for
the College Center will be held
at 2 p.m. Friday, February 22,
as part of the college’s 83rd
Founders’ Day Celebration.
The public is invited to attend
the ^y’s activities.
“We are extremely
pleased to receive this sub
stantial commitment to
Meredith,” Shearon Harris,
general chairman of
Meredith’s advancement
program, said. “Since 1%6,
Meredith has received several
major gifts. The late Herbert
Weatherspoon of Raleigh
contributed $200,000 for the
physical education facility
and C. C. Barefoot of Benson
contributed $150,000 for a
residence hall.”
“These contributions and
this magnificant gift from Mr.
Cate point to the faith and
trust our constituents across
the state and nation have in
Meredith,” Harris said.
Cate is a native of Orange
County. He and his wife live at
102 Halifax Road, Chapel Hill.
His sister, the late Mrs. Julia
Elizabeth Cate Arrowood of
Bessemer City, was a
Meredith alumna, his niece,
Mrs. Jane Cate Fowler of
Zebulon, is a Meredith
alumna, and his great niece.
Miss Frances Cate of Chapel
Hill, is a Meredith sophomore.
Commenting on his gift,
Cate said he was impressed
with Meredith and felt his
resources would be most
meaningfully utilized at
Meredith.
Cate is a business ad
ministration graduate of
Eastman National Business
College in New York. He has
held accounting or auditing
positions with Carolina
Venner Co., Liggett and
Myers Co., Burroughs Office
Machine Corp., Peabody Drug
Co., and the U.S. Treasury.
He joined the ad
ministrative staff of the
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill in 1936 and was
elected escheats officer at
UNC-CH in 1942. Cate retired
in 1962 and formed a private
investment and tax consulting
business in Chapel Hill.
He and his wife are
members of University
Baptist Church in Chapel Hill
and they have one son,
William Roderick Cate, who
lives in Durham.
President Weems, Board Chairman C. C. Cameron, Kemp Shields Cate, and Seby B. Jones pose with
the artist’s rendering at the College Center which will be named in Mr. Cate’s honor, in appreciation
of his gift.
Summer Internship planned
The North Carolina State
Government, in cooperation
with the Institute of Govern
ment announces its Summer
Internship Program.
Governor Holshouser urged
North Carolina college
students interested in state
government to apply for the
program.
Holshouser said 24
students will be selected for
the program. Students will
work for 11 weeks this sum
mer doing meaningful work in
state departments and
learning about various
aspects of state government.
The pi'ogram will begin on
May 27 and continue through
August 9. Interns will be paid
$120 per week.
Interns will live in housing
on the North Carolina State
University campus, College
credit for the program may be
arranged through the Intern’s
own school or three hours
credit may be received in
political science from North
Carolina State after payment
of a registration fee of $57.00.
The Interns work will be to
Meredith sponsors eight-day tour
of Hawaiian Islands in July 11
Meredith College will
sponsor a Hawaiian vacation
tour this summer, departing
from Raleigh-Durham Airport
on July 20 or July 21,1974. The
tour will be escort^ by Mr.
and Mrs. John T. Kanipe, Jr.
of Raleigh. Kanipe is vice
president for institutional
advancement at Meredith.
The eight-day tour, the
Aloha Carnival, is the same
tour North Carolina State
University has sponsored in
recent years and will be held
in conjunction with the NCSU
tour.
Meredith alumnae,
students, parents, faculty,
staff and immediate families
are eligible to participate in
the Hawaiian tour. Par
ticipants will stay at the
Hawaiian Regent, one of the
finest deluxe hotels at Waikiki
Beach, and enjoy a luxury
vacation in Hawaii for only
$499 complete per person,
double occupancy, plus 10
percent tax and service.
“Mrs. Kanipe and I en
joyed the NCSU Hawaiian
tour in 1972. It was a fan
tastically well organized tour
which provided maximum
convenience, flexibility and
service,” Kanipe said.
For reservations and
additional information on the
tour, write to John T. Kanipe,
Jr., vice president for in
stitutional advancement,
Meredith College, Raleigh,
N.C. 27611.
help state officials research
problems or improve state
services.
Work in the State agencies
will be supplemented by a
series of seminars designed
for the Interns. Internship
coordinators have also
planned tours of state
correctional and mental
health facilities for interested
Interns.
To be eligible for the in
tern program, students must
(1) be residents of North
Carolina, (2) be currently
enrolled in a college or
university, and (3) have
satisfactorily completed three
years of college by June, 1974.
The Internship program is not
limited to students headed for
public service careers.
The governor noted that
applications must be mailed
to the Institute of Government
by February 1. Application
forms and brochures
describing the program may
be obtained from college and
university departmental and
placement officials, local
offices of the North Carolina
Employment Security
Commission, the State Per
sonnel Office in Raleigh, and
the Institute of Government in
Chapel Hill.
Bamford announces Pulitzer Prize-winning MARIGOLDS
for spring production 5 tryouts set for January 29
The Effects of Gamma
Rays on Man in the Moon
Marigolds (hereafter cited as
Marigolds), a true power-play
will be presented at Meredith
College March 26th and 27th.
The play is great for
production by Meredith not
only because it has an all
female cast, but what a cast!
“Parts diversified” is the
summary of the cast of
Marigolds stuck at the top of
some blurb in a play direc
tory; it’s an understatement.
Beatrice, the mother, has
dreams of being in “a long
street with all the doors
shut”; she is always sear
ching for ways to escape her
decrepit storefront home but
she is only exercising her
futility as she always
rationalizes excuses for
staying. She is just as she
always was; the only thing
about Beatrice that has
changed since high school is
that she now has two
daugthers and she resents and
stiffles both of them. Ruth, the
oldest daughter, is an
epileptic who explains herself
“I exaggerate and tell stories
and I’m afraid of death and
have nightmares.” Tillie, the
other daughter, has the happy
talent of being able to ignore
the world; she is totally im
mersed in science. They have
a boarder, Nanny, an in-
nocous, senile centarian prune
whom Beatrice would gladly
have dead. Janice Vickory, a
school-mate of Tillie’s is of
fensive, smug, irritating and
conceited.
A cast like that should
make a fantastic play. And
Paul Sindel’s Marigold
characters did. The play
looked so good on paper that it
won a Pulitzer Prize. It was
equally effective on stage
where it was first presented in
New York on April 4, 1970. It
was hailed by critics as “one
of the most significant and
effective plays” and was
presented the New York
Drama Critics Circle Award
as the Best American Play of
the season. From a stage
winner, the play was made
into a movie success starring
JoAnn Woodward.
This full-length play will
be the major production of the
Meredith drama season. Mrs.
Linda Bamford will hold
tryouts Tuesday, January 29th
in room 202 Jones at 6:30. She
emphasizes that no previous
acting experience is
necessary and neither is
preparation for tryouts. If
unable to attend tryouts at the
scheduled time, contact Mrs.
Bamford. If you don’t wish to
be a member of the cast, be a
member of the official
audience body in Jones
Auditorium (?) March 26th or
March 27th.