THE DIALETTE
SEE YOU
NEXT FALL
Vol. 12, No. 8
MONTREAT COLLEGE, MONTREAT, N. C.
May, 1947
SENIOR COLLEGE CLASS WILL PRESENT
“AUNT ARRY ANSWERS AN AD”
High School Juniors And
Seniors Spend Evening
"Roughing It"
. The High School Junior-Senior
was held April 28, at Camp Se
quoyah, a summer camp for boys,
owned and operated by Mr. C.
Walton Johnson, the father of
Karen Johnson, the Junior Class.
President.
The camp is located near Weav-
erville, N. C., and is in a very
beautiful part of the mountains.
As the buses followed the dirt
road up the side of the mountain,
with every chug, we began to
wonder if we could make it. But,
before too late, we could see a
totem pole loom up in the dis
tance, and we were there. Excit
edly we piled out of the buses:
(We don’t know whether we were
excited in looking forward to the
coming events, or just at the
thought of being out of Montreat,
but we were excited.) As soon as
we got a little quiet, Mrs. Johnson
told us where different things
were to bo found, and introduced
us to the “Chief,” Mr. Johnson.
We were given the run of the
camp, and soon we found our way
to the swimming pool, where
somehow, quite a few of us man
aged to get accidentally (?)
pushed in. Soon, by trading of
swimming suits, and borrowing
of shorts, nearly all got to go in.
Brrrr. That water is as cold, if not
colder, than Lake Susan. By the
time we got warmed up, a softball
game was on the way. And what
a game! The “Chief” took some
movies of us, and we hope some
day we shall see them. Soon the
supper bell was ringing, and
quickly we lined up, only to be
told that there was a little (?)
walk to take before we could eat.
So, we trudged, and trudged, and
trudged, and finally got there.
What food! Hamburgers, hot dogs,
coffee ,coca cola, potato salad,
olives, pickles, ice cream, cookies,
—and all we could eat. And, we
ate. But then, so did Miss Collette,
with the aid of Anne Elliot, and
a few more. Poor teacher, she
Continued on Pago 4
Left to right, first row: Jo Gregg, Vivian Mabe, Mary Catherine
Hall. Second row: Mildred Bailey, Dorothy Jean Sandefer, Bar
bara Stephenson, Azielee Kepley and Jo Clyburn. Not in picture:
Sue Burney and Sarah McGill.
FIRST CLASS GRADUATES FROM
MONTREAT SENIOR COLLEGE
Commencement Program
Planned
May 26, 1947, will be a date
prominently placed in the annals
of Montreat College, for on that
day the first class will graduate
from our four-year college. The
class is small, but certainly qual
ity is of greater importance than
quantity. That quality the ten
members of the graduating class
possess—they have proved it in
their four years at Montreat Col
lege.
The festivities that go along
with graduation get off to a rol-
icking start Friday night, as
“Aunt Abby Answers An Ad.”
At a special program Saturday
morning the awards—Bible, Ath
letics and Scholarship — will be
presented.
Saturday at four o’clock Azielee
Kepley ,our lovely brunette queen
from Hopewell, Virginia, will
reign at the May Day celebration,
as we are carried deep into the
Southland with characters from
the beloved stories of Uncle Re
mus, songs of the South, folk
dances of the South and the tra
ditional May Pole dance. Jane
Hubbard, of the Senior High
School class, will be the Maid of
Honor, and little Margaret John-
Senior Hi Production
Thrills Audience
Murder was committed May 10,
in Anderson Chapel, when the
High School Seniors gave the
play. The Other Ghost, by Helen
A. Monsell. No, I don’t mean that
the play was that bad; I mean
that it was a murder mystery,
chuck full of all the suspense pos
sible.
The story ,which centered about
Dr. Hester Thorpe, played by
Louise Peterson, Eudora Benning,
played by Sara Medlin, and Syl
via Kirkland, a blind girl, played
by Anne Cooper, told of the mur
der of Eudor’s and Sylvia’s aunts
who had a large amount of money
to leave one of them.
Suspicion moved from one char
acter to another, and no one knew
until the end who the murderess
really was. The suspense kept the
audience on the edge of their
seats, not knowing what to expect
next.
The other characters were Ta-
bitha, Barbara Anne Wilson; Liz
zie, Chinky Liddell; Joyce, “Coot
ie” Siddle; Nancy, Elizabeth
Lockridge; Annette, Annette Fol-
mar; Grace, Nancy Allison, and
Lucy, Edoleen Curry.
Dignified Seniors "Let Down
Their Hair" To Present The
Laugh Riot of the Year
On Friday night. May 23, at
8:00 p.m. in Anderson Chapel the
Senior College Class will present
a comedy, “Aunt Abby Answers
An Ad.”
The cast includes Abby Ainsley,
a dyed-in-the-wool old maid. Dot
Jean Sandefer; Lucindy Lovejoy,
her maid-of-all work, Sarah Mc
Gill; Horace Harter, her unwel
come suitor Sue Burney; Anna
Ainsley, her niece from the city,
Millie Bailey; Lillian Lorraine,
Anna’s chum, Azielee Kepley;
Billy Boberton, engaged to Lil
lian, Jo Gregg; Bobby Barrington,
Anna’s boy friend, Barbara Ste
phenson. Mrs. Purviance ,a tour
ist, Vivian Mabe; Horace Hark-
well, a lonely widower, Mary C.
Hall; and Essie Ebbesale, a tattle
tale ,Jo Clyburn. And just to give
you a hint as to why it’s one of
the funniest plays ever written.
“Aunt Abby Ainsley, a confirmed
old maid and man hater, is .co
erced into answering an adver
tisement in the “Lonely Hearts’*
column of a magazine. The ad has
been put in by an old widower
who wants a wife, and Aunt Abby
feels that she will meet all of the
requirements specified in the ad.
But Aunt Abby’s niece and niece’s
chum discover Aunt Abby’s letter
and make some plans of their own
which set the ball of fun rolling.
A good, hearty laugh is like a
tonic and this laughing tonic is
guaranteed by the Senior College
Class to have you rocking with
mirth.
son, crown-bearer.
On Saturday evening the Col
lege Choir and individual students
will present a concert of instru
mental and vocal selections.
Dr. J, R. McGregor will deliver
the baccalaureate sermon on Sun
day morning.
Dr. R. C. Anderson has been re
quested to deliver the commence
ment address to the graduating
classes on Monday morning.
Silence is more eloquent than
words.
Carlyle,