May, 1949
THE DIALETTE
Page
Most Sentimental Movie
Of The Year
By Elizabeth Miller
To Montreat College students,
Miss Elizabeth Hoyt has long
been known as a teacher who
really knows history and how to
teach it. But anyone will tell you
that Miss Hoyt doesn’t live in the
past; she keeps up with the very
latest developments in our mod
ern world of today. And would
it be at all surprising if, some
Tuesday morning when we enter
Gaither Chapel for her regular
news report, we should see before
us a modern movie screen ?
And who would be shocked,
when the student body had filed
into the darkened room and sound
of recorded music has faded away,
to see the words, HISTORY OP
the class op 1949 appear on
the screen? (After all. Miss Hoyt
has been sponsor of that class for
all of its four years of college,
and the members seem to have a
fooling that she just belongs to
them!)
Beautiful scenes of Montreat
are flashed before us — in tech
nicolor! (Not surprising to those
who know Miss Hoyt.)
Girls, girls, girls are appearing
from everywhere. Pour hundred
of them surge down the steps of
Alba and into the dining room,
many of them for the first time.
“This is September, 1946;” ex
plains the narrator. Miss Hoyt,
and 110 of these laughing, tired,
homesick, excited girls are fresh
men in college.”
You hardly recognize them as
the same young ladies when you
see them next with “big sisters,”
all dres.scd up in their formats and
Soing through the reception line
in the Assembly Inn lobby.
Here they come noisily out of
Gaither Chapel after their first
class meeting. The smiling, dark
haired girl is Diddie Sams, newly-
olectcd president of the class,
hiancy Brunson is vice-president;
Prances Balsley, secretary; and
Edie McMullen has begun her long
career as class treasurer.
Wailing hopefully in the long
m.ail line in the Alba lobby, hang-
ing curtains in their rooms, mark-
mg off days on the calendar until
oug Weekend, getting really ex
ceed at the Thanksgiving soccer
^0’ c, going to the library to work
on that f rst term paper, getting
at 5.30 to study for Bible exam.
wading through snow to the taxi
when Christmas vacation begins,
searching among the ashes of Al
ba, — each scene awakens mem
ory.
Some of the talents of the
Preshman class shows up at the
Pestival of States in January, but
the “Preshman Piesta” in March
shows the rest of the school that
this class really has something.
Look at those colorful Spanish
costumes, will you!, Next, they are
entertaining the sophomores with
a Jr. - Sr. banquet at the Inn and
climbing on trucks to go to the
movie afterward. May Day, 1946,
is one of the highlights of the
commencement season; and the
freshmen representatives to the
court are Nancy McAlister and
Mary Katherine Wood.
In September of 1946, wo see
Mary Katherine Wood presiding
over the sophomore class. Other
officers are: Nell Watts, vice-
president; Martha Hughes, secre-
teary; and Edie, treasurer. The
class elects Evelyn Wallace to the
May Court.
At commencement time, these
sophomores watch their sister
class receive their diplomas as
the first graduates of Montreat
SENIOR College.
The seventeen juniors who re
turn in the fall of 1947 have al
ready established a reputation for
going on breakfast hikes, and you
can see that they’re living up to
it this year, too. Here they are,
early in the morning, at the grill
back of Anderson. That’s Miss
Hoyt, in the plaid shirt, frying the
e"gs. Vickie Samburg, class pres
ident this year, feeds the fire.
,''nno McClintock, vice-president,
daintily pours cream for coffee.
Tmcille Vaught, secretary, is a
transfer from Wingate and is
hist getting used to such things.
Edie is still treasurer, and wond
ering what this is going to cost.
That girl leaning out the win
dow in College Hall is cleaning
windows for .Junior Talent Week;
here are others selling Christmas
cards, making beds, typing, pol
ishing shoes. Looks hard, but not
when you see the results — a Jr.
Sr. that they’re proud to give. In-
vitafon.s, decorations, and pro
gram carry out a theme of “birth
days.” Notice the table decora
tions especially; one represents
each month of the year. Every
'unior is wearing a red carnation,
the class flower.
(Montreat Music Club
Has Final Recital
On Monday, May 9, the Mon
treat Music Club ended its year
of activity with a formal recital
held in Gaither Chapel. At this
time twelve members gave a pro
gram of vocal and piano music.
Those appearing on the program
were Mary Lily Burgess, Cather
ine Byrum, Pat Woody, Jean
Spellman, Alice Warlaw, Irma
Ricks, Myrta Borges, Lilia Espin
osa, Mary Ann Holler, Betty Gib
bs, Agnes Godert, and Peggy
Huskins.
FINAL MUSIC RPCITAL
One of the highlights of com
mencement this year will be the
annual concert of the Montreat
College music pupils and choir.
This concert will be given on Fri
day evening. May 20, in Gaither
Chapel at 8:00 o’clock.
The program will consist of
choral numbers by members of the
Music Club under the direction of
Misses Ann Arthur and Elizabeth
Woodhouse and Mrs. Miriam Mays
Miller.
Spring elections bring added
importance to this class; Anne
McClintock is in the May Court;
everyone brings the brand new
green-backed SUN DIALS to the
final outdoor breakfast party of
the year; the last taxi speeds
through the gate and toward
Black Mountain.
This is it — their senior year.
The thirteen seniors meet in Miss
Hoyt’s room and president “Lou”
Vaught has plenty of business to
bring up. How many class rings,
invitations, and calling cards to
order? What size caps and gowns
to get? Don’t they owe a big vote
of thanks to those who made the
Christmas party in the Home Ec.
lab so delightful? Do they want
dates for the Jr. Sr. banquet? Will
there be a class trip ? When will
the six seniors finish with prac
tice teaching so that play prac
tices may begin? And, of course,
when will there be time for a
breakfast hike ?
That never-to-be-forgotten Jr. -
Sr. banquet when they were the
guests for a change, choir recital,
senior play, baccalaureate, com
mencement — they are all flashed
before us.
Then we see the words, “THE
END”; the lights come on again;
chapel is over; and it’s time for
class again.
— REMINISCENCE —
By Jerry Ford
Montreat Seniors wear blank
looks when asked, “What would
you do if you were a freshman
again?” After a few, “Oh, I don’t
know’s,” they immediately say,
“I’d do just what I did.”
When urged to think about it
some of them said this:
“Learn to talk louder in class,
and read the bulletin board three
times a day.” — Virginia Wood.
“Pay closer attention to Miss
Anderson’s lectures.” — Carey
Lee Pratt — “and stop blushing,”
she added.
“Try out for the choir! But I
would never start doing the Olive-
Oil Dance,” says Pat Cox.
Lucille Vaught’s advice to
Freshmen if she were one again
would be “Study more. Spend less
time rambling down the hall when
the monitor wasn’t looking.”
Paulina Hagan would “hire Mr.
Mooney to run the Business Office
so he would be here four years.”
“Be neater,” says Home Ec.
Major, Betty Whittle. “Eat less
between meals. Take Spanish
FVeshman and Sophomore years
instead of Junior and Senior
years.”
Anne McClintock and Mildred
Jones recall memories of the old
“Alba” with pleasure, for Anne
would, “Sign up to room in Alba
all over again,” and Mildred would
“Have just as much fun making
Water traps’ in the Alba again.
But,” she adds with a smile, “I’d
study more.”
Sj^lvia Sanchez would “Take
more subjects her freshman and
sophomore years.”
“Be a better all-round Montreat
girl,’” says Lib Miller.
“Live in Alba with Lib, and read
Stalker’s LIFE OP CHRIST by
light from the street light,” says
Vickie Samburg. She adds, “I’d
realize I didn’t know as much then
as I thought I did.”
Without taking time out, oven
to think, Edie McMullen says, “I'd
still come to Montreat.” Then she
added remembering, “and have
that perfume fight, and still go
out at midnight to play in the
snow. By the way. I’d still wear
pajamas in the dining room. Wo
didn’t have the honor system
then.”
Editors’ Note: The DIALETTE
awards an “Oscar” to the Senior
Class, Producer, and to Mias
Hoyt, Director, for their outstand
ing production of the year’s best
cinema.