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The Uc2«t college May Coort b.glna the proeesaional In the May 7 fest
ivities. They are: Garlene Seagie, Beth Register, Nora . j ^ guugr
Mrs. Jo Ella Bennett, Robbie Stubbs, Mrs. Mary Moser. Frank.e Sagester, Boiler,
and Shirley Lyda.
SENIOR HISTORY— From Page 1
following three years, and soon it was
Spring. We elected Kathryn Mull as our
representative on the May Court and Jo
Ella Dunaway became Mother Goose in the
May Day pageant. Olivia Bishop was se
lected to be a Marshal at Commencement
time.
As Sophomores the following year, we
Were no longer strangers, but friends
among friends, and many in our class had
taken their places on the Cabinet, Council,
Board, and Staff, to help welcome another
group of Freshmen to Montreat. Our class
president that year was Leta Miller, and
our advisors were Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Frantz.
While several of our members did not
return, we had five new transfer students
join our class: Helen Daniels, Doris Rog
ers, Dottie Todd, Mary Williams, and the
coed of the campus, Clingman Capps. We
lost Mr. Capps the first semester, how
ever, to one of the freshmen girls—for
matrimonial purposes.
One of the big events of this year was
our Christmas party. Most of us became
rather earthey angels as we enacted the
. story of “The Littlest Angel,” and only
one person in the class could qualify in
size for the leading role—Freida White.
Helen Daniels was our selection for the
May Queen’s court, and for the Graduation
exercises, Dottie Todd was the Marshal
from our class.
As rising Juniors, (how we loved that
name!) we elected Helen Daniels to be
may, 1955
our class president and with all of our
ingenious members working diligently, we
planned a Junior-Senior banquet long to be
remembered.
Our class took on further distinction
that year when Mary Greene became Mrs.
Bill Moser, and Jo Ella Dunaway, Mrs
Lnley Bennett. Jo Ella was also the
Junior representative to the May court and
Olivia Bishop was chosen again, to be a
Commencement Marshal.
And so we became Seniors! This year,
Betty Blount came back to Montreat after
a year’s leave of absence, and Mrs. Mar
garet Clark also joined us, making our
final number to be seventeen.
What else can be said about our Senior
Greek Myth
Presented As
May Day Pageant
By Shirley Nash.
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is
over and gone; the flowers appear on the
earth; the time of the singing of the birds
is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard
in our land.—Solomon 2:11-12.
Saturday, May 7, tradition publicity mo
tivated the conduct of several scores of
homo sapiens—students, instructors, and
alumnae. This demonstration was quite en
tertaining and informing (I never before
knew a mortal to refuse a god). Realizing
full-well that new groups must be instruct
ed every year regardless of all the pre
ceding successful presentations, thanks go
to Miss Smith, who directs and bears the
burden of the outcome of the May Day
festivities. Gracias and Merci beaucoup
also to the students for their work which
culminated in a delightful presentation of
The Story of Idas And Marpessa.
The epitome; Marpessa, a Greek maiden,
spurned the love of Apollo, the sun god,
as she loved Idas. Consequently, Apollo
(Garon Driggers) pronounced a curse on
Marpessa.
Jupiter (Beth Braford) permitted her
to return to earth. The nymphs dance to
awaken Marpessa (Doris Wehb) and re
lease her from the curse. Idas (Becky Jo
Cooper), “the strongest of men on earth,”
and Marpessa are reunited.
The Dialette wishes to add its thanks and
admiration of Miss Smith to those of the
SUN DIAL staff. THE 1955 SUN DIAL
IS DEDICATED TO MISS SMITH.
year? It is a year that has passed away
much too soon; the year that has given
us the wonderful memories of the arrival
of caps and gowns, of parties in our honor,
of a Junior-Senior banquet on a southern
plantation, of showers for the prospective
brides, week-end trips for interviews, and
the hectic preparations for the Senior play.
It is also the year that has brought to our
hearts the over-whelming realization of
what Montreat means to us, and surely we
cannot deny the words of Emily, that Mon
treat is “ours, our present, our future, what
we believe, how we live, and something we
love.”