The Eelles of Saint Mary’s
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Sallie MacNider still pays us her short visits. She
was here November 22 and again on December 10.
(Sallie loved the decorations for the Senior Dance!)
Peggy Holmes (Carolina) dropped by to see everyone
last Saturday, December 10.
Penelope Lewis has recently been elected Vice Presi
dent* of the Sophomore Class at Sweet Briar. Congratu
lations!
The engagement of Virginia Brock, Chicago, to Mr.
Bill Johnson, also of Chicago, has been announced.
The wedding will take place on December 28.
Ellen Taylor has pledged Alpha Omega Pi at Ran-
dolph-Macon.
“Toppin” Wheat made her debut in Richmond last
week*
Becky Tucker sponsored the S. P. E. dance at David
son last week.
A TRIP TO SEE THE PRESIHENT!
After supper on Sunday, December 5, the Political
Science Club met to make plans for a trip to hear
President Roosevelt speak in Chapel Hill the next day.
Leaving promptly at 2 :50 in two special buses the girls
had a very pleasant trip until they arrived at Chapel
Hill, where ended the pleasure.' Kenan Stadium had
been abandoned because of rain, and Woollen Gym
nasium was hopelessly overflowing. After standing for
half an hour in the rain, some saw the President as his
car passed, loaded with bodyguards. A dash was then
made to the buses, but they had disappeared. Our
valiant Mr. Guess walked a mile and a half to get
them, only to find that for the protection of the Presi
dent a large area around the gym was marked “No
Trespassing.”
Not knowing what was taking Mr. Guess so long, the
girls waited on a corner as the rain beggn to fall harder.
Mary Connally’s squirrel coat was soaked; Helen Jean’s
hat ran and dyed her coat pink; Anne Hooe gave up
thumbing to sit in a State Cop’s car.
Then the bottom dropped out of the sky. Miss
Harvey, Miss Goss, and all trouped back to the gym to
squeeze inside for shelter. What a sight they were!
Jane Emerson had taken off her shoes to run faster.
Hats drooped, shoes oozed. A few girls were ad
mitted for a short while to see and hear the President.
Finally he completed his talk, and the crowd trampled
the already bedraggled Saint Mary’s girls in getting to
the door. Political Science Club, which was fortunate
in being able to go to hear the President’s speech
(school girls in their rooms heard it over their radios
while most of those in Chapel Hill heard not a word)
headed for school, hungry, cold, wet, tired, and sleepy.
Word had been sent ahead to school that hot food
would be in demand, and after a quick change to com
fortable clothes, the girls enjoyed a delicious hot supper.
Mrs. Marriott and the waiters were very kind, serving
until eight o’clock.
TOWN TOPICS
The grand and glorious football season is over and
we still kinda regret missing some of those games, but
all the others we saw make up for them. In the Day
Students’ room the other day we were reviewing some
of the highlights of the gridiron tilts. The papers are
full of all-Southern, all-State or all-something football
teams; so we selected our all-star belle team. We had
to have a coach and so we decided upon Jean Cooper.
Here’s our line-up and if you don’t believe they are ,
good, just wait until you read this: Ends, Mary Olsen
and Betty Hill; tackles, Emily Schenek and Betty Sex
ton; guards, Winifred Vass and Virginia Lee Kirby;
center, Charlotte Miller; halfbacks, Margaret Hargrove
and Betty Ellington; fullback. Flora McDonald; and
quarterback, Ann Christian. There you are girls, a
championship team!
The Piccadilly Club is planning to give a dance after
Christmas. We’re all looking forward to that. There
are many other clubs and organizations in the Capital
City that are giving dances during the holidays or ini'
mediately following.
Trips to many out-of-town places are planned by the
day students. While most of us will spend Christmas
Day in Raleigh, we’re all looking forward to a short
visit with friends or relatives out of town. Some of
the girls will even visit the families of best beaus and
“Sheppy” Quintard’s love is coming to spend Christmas
in Raleigh.
Dashing hither and yon in that mad Christmas rush
on Fayetteville Street, we see Saint Mary’s girl every
time we turn around. Mary Watson Prince dashes from
store to store, dropping books and papers at every turn.
“Tokie” Thiem has the right idea—she stays inside a
certain store uptown and waits on those hard-to-please
shoppers. The thing about it is, she gets paid for help'
ing them! Lucky girl. Besides shopping for trinkets
and small gifts, lots of the girls and their families are
going in for big things. Have you seen that ne^
Packard that Jane Forbes has been driving? Virginia
Foster knows how to get through the dime-store—she t
uses her elbows. Pauline Ponton, Julia Vinson, Dotty
Bunn, Katherine Hardison, and Mary Nash are also
among those gals whom we have seen with their arms
laden with bundles.
Overheard in the Day Students’ room the other day-
“Have you seen that gorgeous new evening gown that
Peggy Davis bought?” it’s really a lovely thing—-an
white taffeta. And with Peggy’s brunette coloring;
don’t you know it’s stunning ? Modest Miss Cheshiro
insisted that she was the best-dressed gal at the Senior
Dance. Jennille Harris had her Christmas a littlo
early; she purchased a beautiful brown three-piec®
suit. It’s made in that popular fashion and looks grand
on ’Neal. Have you noticed Wyc Allen’s tweed coat?
She had spasms telling us all about it—and it’s just as
wonderful as she said it was. As for trinkets, wc so®
that Sue Berry is wearing a spoon wound around her
wrist. We wonder how long it’ll be before the other
gals start robbing the silverware drawers and folloir
suit.
We’re going to lose one of our fellow-students after
Christmas—Helen Jordan is leaving. Her family has
already gone to New York where she is to join them
before the New Year. We’re terribly sorry, Helen.
Remember in the last issue when we said something
about the town girls eating at school with Miss Davis^
Well, the girls are really enjoying it. Miss Davis and
her girls are grand hostesses and the town students feh
perfectly at home with them. Keep an eye on the bull®'
tin board so you won’t miss your day when it comes-
You’ll regret it if you don’t. If you don’t believe ns,
just ask Ann Bratton, Martha Ellen, Rebecca AtkinS;
or some of the others who went.
A I.ETTEB
’Twas the night before Christmas (Santa procrasti'
nated a little this year) and Santa Claus yawned one o*