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Nov. 22
THE DIALETTE
Voi. 3, No. 2
MONTREAT COLLEGE, MONTREAT, NORTH CAROLINA
November, 1947
Thanksgiving Festivities Planned
Montreat Girls
Inspired at Conference
Eleven Montreat girls attended
the fifth annual Presbyterian
Westminster Fellowship Confer
ence on November 1-2, at Bristol,
Tennessee. One of the group,
Virginia Wood, at the Saturday
night session was elected secre
tary of the Fellowship for the
year ’47-’48.
The Westminster Fellowship of
the Appalachian Synod is open to
all Presbyterian student groups
All the delegates need not be
Presbyterian. The purpose of the
annual conference is one of shar
ing together experiences from
college campuses which attempt
to make Christ a major figure in
their school life. The theme this
year was “Christ At Work.”
The girls left Montreat at 6:00
Saturday morning, November 1,
and arrived in Bristol shortly aft
er noon. The conference was of
ficially opened at 2:30. There was
a welcome by the local president
of Appalachia and one by Paul
Corbett, president of the West
minster Fellowship. Worship
services for the afternoon were
under the auspices of Appalach
ian State Teachers’ College.
Other events of the two-day
program were the installation of
the officers, consecration service,
discussion groups, and recreation.
The high light of the confer
ence was reached at the closing
service, Sunday morning. At this
time Dr. Ferguson V/ood, pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church,
Johnson City, Tennessee, brought
the message entitled ‘TIow To Be
Happy In A World That Isn’t.”
This sermon was one which the
girls say they will long remember
because of the inspiration they
received from it. This same feel
ing holds for the entire confer
ence.
Cladvs Goodman, president of
our Youth Fellowship, and Vir
ginia Wood, newly elected socre-
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MISS MARGARET WADE
Dean of Women
DR. MARGARET SPENCER
Dean of Faculty
Oiir Speiliglit Pomis ¥/illi Pride .
By Gordie Hylton
When a Montreat girl uses the
word “versatile,” she usually has
one person in mind—Miss Mar
garet Wade.
In her nineteen years here. Miss
Wade has more than once proved
herself worthy of that title. Al
though she is a mathematics ma
jor, she’s always stepped in to
fill any gap on the teaching staff,
and to do it efficiently. This year,
she’s taken on still a different
job—that of Dean of Women.
Born in Erownsburg, Virginia,
she was graduated from the high
school there. Later, she received
her B. A. from Agnes Scott Col
lege, and her Master’s degree
from Columbia University.
Someone has said that, beneath
that quiet, unassuming exterior,
Miss VvV.de has the memory of the
proverbial elephant. However, a
lot of us haven't realiz-ed that she
is also ma-ly in love with “shoot-
’em-up” movies, cowboys in gen
eral, and P.arluis (and surely you
haven’t been at Montreat all this
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“Di'eams are necessary if we
would live and grow—not idle
day dreams, but visions accom
panied by iiard work and exact
ing plans.”
Dr. Margaret Spencer sat in
’.ier office, and, amid tiie no’se oi
the “slap-slap” of the painter’.'-
brushes and the pungent odo:
from the paint buckets, she top
of her life, and more particular!;
of i;cr worie at Monlreat.
A small town girl, she was b'Oi.
and reared in Gastonia, N. C
After graduating from the higi
school thei-e, siie at(-cnded Ers
kine College where she majored
in science. In 1927 she received
Iier M. A. in Religious Educatior
from the Biblical Seminary o;
New York and New York Uni
versity.
She earned h.er Doctor’s degree
in Administration from the Uni
versity in 1937.
It v/as in 1930 that she first
ame to Monti-eat—knov.m then
,iS Montreal Normal School—as
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DAY’S PROGRAM PROMISES
FUN AND GOOD CHEER
Thanksgiving day at Montreat
will be celebrated in the traditional
way this year, with several spec
ial features added. The program
will be one of thanksgiving, re
creation, and feasting.
Thursday morning, church ser
vices will be held in Gaither Chap
el to worship God in song, sermon
and prayer.
The main sports feature will be
the final games of soccer, the High
School varsity team playing the
“M” Club before lunch and the
college teams playing in the after-
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North Carolina Places
First In Talent Program
Have you ever seen as much
competition, talent, or state pride
as was crowding the atmosphere
the night of the State 'Talent pro
gram?
The State and groups of states
were judged for the originality
of their programs, the talent dis
played, and the sportsmanship of
the group. The judges were Miss
Webb, Miss Woodhouse, and Dr.
Kennedy.
All of the states gave enter
taming and well-prepared pro
grams. The three ranking highest
in the desired qualities were:.
North Carolina’s group number
one; a combined group made up
of Kentucky, I.ouisiana, Alabama,
and Texas; and the Georgia girls.
North Carolina, tlie first honor
winner, gave a skit taking place
m a musical barber shop. The
emplovers and customers kept
perfect time with the music
played by Mary Taylor as they
carried out tlioir various tasks,
Anne Latham was chairman of
the winners.
The pantominc of A1 Jolson
acted out by Mary Belle Combs,
',nd that of “Temptatk)n” acted
■ut by Anne Winburn, Liizabelh
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