1956 RuIes
(1) all students must go directly to the
^ce and may not leave the dance before
it is over, excq)t to return to college
(2) if attending dance, in Raleigh or
After removing her daily bl(Hise and elsewhwe, a 48 hour advance notice to
skirt attire for her morning classes, a students is required.
Meredith student quickly changes into an students required to wear hose from
appropriate dress with matching gloves change fall wardrobes to spring
and hat. she is getting ready for her clothes.
tonight. The student has alr^y asked for sunbathing on campus grounds
the special permission from the Dean of between dorms (no sunbathing on
Students allowing her to attend the play in Sundays).
Durham. She leaves at 6pm, and makes (5) a senior could have a car at Meredith
sure her date brings her back to Meredith good academic standing and has
before the “lights out” call at 11:15pm. peraiission from her parents.
The previous scenario may sound a bit (^studentsexpectedtobeintheirrooms
strangetothosewhoarecurrentlyinvolved (11:15pm) to rising bell
in Meredith’s campus life; however, in (7*15am); to spend night elsewhere then
1967, attending Meredith College was an student’s own room required special per-
incredibly different experience than it is *^‘ssion from hall proctor,
today. From the time preceding 1953 to the
days of 1967. our college contained strict PRODER AnlrtF
laws on dancing, telephone calls, chapel ^
attendance,dailylifeatMeredith,anddating .
off campus. ^ne handbook also explains the appro
priate wardrobe for classes: a skirt with
matchine sweater or blouse and hose.
1955^1967
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All students’ bedrooins and bathrooms
had to be clean and in order by 10:00am
every morning.
Dorm CarcIs
Even after the late sixties Meredith stu-
d^tswererequired to keepdormitoiy cards.
These cards had to be signed before the
student left her hall, upon returning to her
hall,andwere turned injbthe “hall proctor”
by six in the evening on Mondays. The
1967 handbook students had to sign their
names and the visitors’ names, as well as,
when they were leaving.
DANciNq
“Students do not give dances at
Meredith, and no dancing with men is
permitted on the campus,” states the
handbo(^ of 1966. It seems Meredith
students still had great fun dancing at State
College fraternity parties, chaperoned by
their house mothers, of course.
PfiivilEqES
1. After getting permission from home
and checking with the Dean of Students, a
Meredith giri could...
•take an overnight trip
-drive outside the thirty»five mile
radius surrounding Raleigh
•stay at a frat house past api:n}ved
hours.
2. A new privilege in 1967, students
could Slay out to lam Friday and Saturday
nights. They gave a 48 hour notice to the
D^ of Students, and if the party was not
outside Raleigh boundaries.
3. Freshmen, after Thanksgiving, and
upperclassmen could go “single dadng”
(go out with just herself and her date).
It's Our Move
excerpt from editorial. May 1966 Twig
We who are Baptists have been consid
erably disturbed by the furor caused by the
Baptist State Convention. The dancing
question is not particularly important, al
though no amount of legislation will in
duce us to believe that dancing per se is in
any way “demoralizing.”