STUDENT BODY
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GLEE CLUB
ELECTS
PRESENTS
OFFICERS
"lOLANTHE"
OF SAINT MARY’S
VoL. I, No. 12
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
Apeil 21, 1938
Helen Montgomery elected student body’
PRESIDENT
In primary and final elections field on April 12 and
13, Saint Mary’s student body elected Helen Mont-
gomery president of the Student Body for t e
1939 session.
“Teeny” is from Riclimond, Virginia, and before
coming here was graduated from Saint Catfierines
School. At Saint Mary’s she has distinguished lierse
as an excellent athlete and a beautiful singer as lyell as
an industrious scholar. She is a member of the Sigma s
first team in basketball and is outstanding in tennis
and other gym departments. She played a lead in the
fi^lee Club production, “lolanthe,” and is a soprano in
choir. She is also a member of the May Court,
acting as one of the train bearers.
The method of election was entirely new. Here
tofore, in assembly the students have signed a wjitteii
'’ote and handed it in to the marshals. In order to
provide secrecy and prevent discussion during voting,
tfie telephone booths in Smedes were employed as poll
fipoths and the surrounding area was roped in. Each
Sirl was given a ballot and went into the booth, where
ahe could vote, uninfluenced and fairly.
The student body unanimously elected Beppy Hunter
the editor of the Belles for 1938-1939.
I^eppy is from Vienna, Virginia, edited her school
helper there, and further distinguished herself as an
outstanding student. At Saint Mary’s, she has pr^'ed
*fiat she is an excellent scholar by making Honor Roll
grades, by being elected to the E. A. P. Literary Society,
to the Publftations Staff; and she has established
fierself as a student leader by her initiation into the
lonorary Order of the Circle.
. Luckily, dependability and talent do not depend on
The Publications Staff, which nominated her and
‘fie student body, which readily accepted her, testify
‘fieir confidence in her ability to do a hard job well,
^fie has accepted one of the most exacting positions^ in
e^tra-curricular activities and will welcome the assis
of the students in improving and developing the
^^les into an excellent, informative, and interesting
*iewspaper.
Congratulations are in order for Virginia Allison for
,V»ig elected editor of the 1938-39 BiiUetin. Hailing
Schenectady, N. Y., “Jinny” won a position of
®®teeia in the hearts of the student body at the begin-
Vug of school, and her name is very likely to be found
every worthy organization on the campus. This
she has been one of the most dependable and valu-
uiembers of the three publication staffs, and we
that we are justified in expecting each of next
year’s issues of the Bulletin to be individual, intellec
tual, and altogether satisfying.
Saturday night, April 16, Mary Louise Riddick an
nounced at dinner that Marianna Hancock _ had been
elected president of the Young People’s Service League
for next year at the election held in Holt Parlor.
klarianna was chosen because of her executive ability
and experience in this line of work. Last year in
Oxford, N. C., her home, she was president of the
League there and attended the state conventions as a
representative. This year, she carried on this work by
serving on the Council where she was an active and
valuable member, representing Saint Mary’s at the
meeting in Greensboro.
At the election held Saturday morning in Holt Hall
parlor to choose the annual editor from the nominees,
Martha Lewis and Merrie Haynes, Martha Lewis was
chosen to be the 1938-39 editor of the Stage Coach by
the student body. Martha brings much experience to
this position, having been a member of the publication
staff of the Durham High School and the editor of their
annual. The Messenger. In addition to her duties as
editor, she assisted in the art work, designing the cover
herself. With Martha’s record of ability and ingenuity,
the student body is to be congratulated upon this happy
selection.
BISHOP DARST AND REV. J. B. WALTHOUR SPEAK
AT LENTEN SERVICES
On Wednesday afternoon, April 6, the Rev. J. B.
Walthour, of Tampa, Florida, spoke briefly and infor
mally about the ever-present importance of youth’s
activities in the world and the resulting necessity for
youth to be guided by religion. The problem, he pointed
out, was how to find God.
After dinner, he spoke to a larp group of girls in
the parlor on the subject of Christian Alarriage. Both
talks proved to be most interesting, and the majority of
the students acknowledge him to be the most inspiring
speaker they have heard. He made a marked impres
sion on a rather unimpressionable student body.
On Wednesday, April 13th, as the last in the series
of Lenten speakers, the Right Rev. Thomas C. Darst,
Bishop of the Diocese of East Carolina, gave the in
spiring and comforting message that we are fortunate
in living in this period of restlessness and strife, be
cause, like Jesus, we have a definite purpose in life, and
like Him should say, “Father, save me from this hour.
But for this cause came I unto this hour.”
Bishoj) Darst stayed for dinner with the Klomans.
.U1 the students, particularly the East Carolina girls,
were delighted as always with his friendliness, his grand
sense of humor, and his youthfulness; for, as the Bishop
has often said, he’s growing younger every day.