October, 1949
THE DIALETTE
Page 3
Classes And Clubs
Elect New Officers
Classes and clubs have gotten
off to a good start by electing
capable girls as their leaders for
the coming year. The energetic
young women who are to be out
in front for the year ’49-’60 are
follows:
freshman class
President-Sarah Ann Sherman
Vice-President-Mary Ann Smoak
Secretary-Irma Webb
Treasurer-Grace Gay
SOPHOMORE CLASS
Vice-Presi. - Catherine Glenn
Secretary-Willa Dean Glass
Treasurer - Jackie Allen
JUNIOR CLASS
Vice-Presi.-Vernie Pike
Secretary-Jo Ann Gordon
Treasurer - Pauline Hart
SENIOR CLASS
Vice-Presi.-Elorence Buckner
Sec.-Treas. - Mary Lily Burgess
MUSIC CLUB
President - Agnes Godert
SPANISH CIRCLE
Sec.-Treas. - Janet Bound
COLLEGIATE COUNCIL for the
UNITED NATIONS
President-Colleen Story
Secretariat-Mary Catherine Hall
Wandering Witches Wind
Up At Winnsboro Party
^ There were ghosties and gob
lins and witches and skeletons at
the Junior-Senior Halloween party
last Saturday night. In the eerie
light of an open fire and under
the glaring eyes of jack-o-lanters
and hunched-back cats, the witches
stirred their brew in a pitch black
caldron. There were screams of
alarm from the guests when the
witches came at them with bony
fingers outstretched and ghastly
smiles on their faces.
Fear of the witches was di
spelled when the lights went up
and the witches turned out to be
liss Boardman, Miss Steading,
Maggie, and Charlotte Roth. The
ghost was none other than Mary
Ry- After the shaking and
screaming, the line for food form
ed quickly.
One of the witches glided about
~not, however, silently — and
beckoned people into the candle-
it room of the gypsy fortune tell
er. Bewilderment, joy, and stoic-
nm marked the faces of those who
emerged, wondering, “How did
SHE know that?” “Will it come
rue ? ’ Eq jonger will they doubt
f'-iss Hoyt’s wisdom.
SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW OUR FACULTY —
Margery Washburn
So you think you know the fac
ulty! Well, maybe you do some
what. You may know whose class
you can sleep in, and how fast
you must take notes for another,
and where you absolutely can
NOT chew gum. But here are some
pertinent - and impertinent - facts
that you may not have known.
Did you know:
that Dr. Reeves taught at Ging-
ling College in Nanking, China,
and that many of her students are
outstanding in China? One of
them. Miss Woo, is now President
of Gingling. And that she was
acting head of the Biology De
partment at the Unversity of
Michigan at Ann Arbor?
that Dr. Kennedy wrote a his
tory of Spartanburg County under
the Federal Writers Project, and
had a poem last year in the
Teachers’ Anthology, and that this
poem has been selected for two
other anthologies?
that Miss Smith was born in
China and taught at Fairfax Hall,
Virginia? (in that order but sev
eral years apart!)
that Mrs. White, then Dr. Kath
erine E. Wilson, was recognized
by the authors of Hall and Hurl
ey’s OUTLINES OF ENGLISH
LITERATURE for her assistance
in the preparation of the book?
that M'ss Mkes was once chair-
-.lan of the Home Economics Di
vision of the Western District of
the North Carolina Education As
sociation ?
that Miss Hoyt has written arti
cles for the NORTH CAROLINA
HISTORICAL REVIEW, and the
SOUTHERN LITERARY MES
SENGER, and that her thesis was
published by the Amer'can Histor
ical Association?
that Mr. Brewer is a mmician?
Eating, toasting marshmallows,
bobbing for apples, rnd a final
fling at square dancing made t'-.e
party a big success.
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II & W 5 & 10
State Street
Black Mountain, N. C.
He plays the piano and is taking
voice lessons.
that Miss Anderson did home
mission work in Virginia?
that Miss Watkins was prin
cipal of the Montreat Normal
School for a year and a half and
was once a missionary to Cuba?
that Mr. Miller teaches an ex
tension course for nurses at
Oteen? He has taught them his
tory, psychology, sociology, and
economics. But then, he is very
versatile. At one time or another
he has taught everything from
physical education to English.
that Miss Fields studied at
Columbia University in New York
this summer and was in the Li
brary Workshop of the Univers
ity of North Carolina last sum
mer? And she plays the piano,
too. Miss Lord was once her teach
er.
that Miss Kitchens is a gradu
ate of the Boston Institute of
Fine Arts ? And the city of
Rochester’, New York, was named
after her grandfather?
that Miss Arthur used to wear
bangs ?
that Miss Darden cherished the
memory of a commendation from
Dr. S. C. Mitchell when she was
one of his students?
that Miss Lucy Grier was born
in China?
t-'.at Miss Boardman is too mod
est to wear her Phi Kappa Key?
that Virg’nia Bell’s church let-
•■er just received by the Montreat
'Ihurch came written in Chinese
- and could be interpreted by few
'orrons in Montreat ?
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- Superstitions -
Margaret Boseman
Some gave suspicious looks,
some got “pot-eyed”, some grinn
ed sheepishly, and others said,
“Naw, What d’ya think I am?”
when I inquired, “Are you super
stitious?” Some few admitted in
scared whispers that they were.
lOf course, Blandy’s true nature
popped up, and she answered a
question with a question that I
hope will go away with summer
memories, “Why, wot hoppened?”
Blandy can have credit for the
most original reply.
Perhaps Carolyn Williams had
the most romantic answer. “Yes,
I’m superstitious. When I go un
der the tunnel into Asheville I al
ways hold my breath and make a
wish, and it always comes true.”
“Yea, mine did, too — then and
there!” Cordie confirmed.
Willa Whitson had an expect
ant answer, too. “When my left
eye itches, I wait for a letter.”
Norma Cummings has a super
stition that we’d better remember.
“If you sit on the table, you won’t
ever marry,” she warned. Beware
of tables Montreat girls. Don’t
oven lean on them!
Mrs. Mauldin doesn’t want to
lose any of her girls tho! She’s
gonna get a black cat for her
dormitory. “As long as there’s a
black cat around there’ll be no
w'eddings,” she gleefully taunted.
Charlie McLeod must know the
same cat story for when I ap
proached her with my question,
she gasped in one short breath,
“Black cats!”
Jeanette Nash, upon hearing
me question someone, couldn’t re
sist, “Ask me about it.” (Super
stitions, not marriage). “I was
' orn on Frday the 13th.” Unlucky
gh'l! (in superstitions - not mar-
■ iage)
l\liss Smith’s reaction was a
shrug and, “Why should I be
supeiT titious ? Superstitions have
no grounds.”
True, the days of witches have
vanished; but they left some
rtrr.wrs from their brooms behind.
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