The Belles of Saint Mary’s
The BELLES
OF SAINT MARY'S
Published every two weeks by the student body of Saint
Mary’s School
. . . Beppy Hunter
Exchange Editor
. . . . Erwin Gant
Business Manager
. . Miss Kate Spruill
Faculty Adviser
STAFF
ViEQiNiA Allison
Helen Kendrick
Theresa Anderson
Mary Kistler
Sue Berry
Martha Lewis
Julia Booker
Trick Martin
Betty Brandt
Mary Lily Moore
Cornelia Clark
Lucy Pittenoer
Mary W. Douthat
Joyce Powell
Page Batman
Aylett Putney
Mary Gault
Mallib Ramsey
Vivian Gillespie
Ernestine Rich
Katherine Hardison
Dorothy See
Merrib Haynes
Hallie Townes
Althea Hooff
Virginia Trotter
1938 Member
1939
Pissocided Cblle8iate Press
N. C. Collegiate Press Association
“IN THE SPEING . .
The Spring and everything that follows can be yours
this season for the asking. And" this means a complete
change as you can see from the marvelous things that
are going on in the ^^new” world. There is the usual
flood of poets murmuring about a young man’s fancy,
and the essayist inspired by bugs and hay fever, writes,
“Why I Don’t Like Dandelion.” Current magazines
j)ublish articles that tell of the new vitamins in the
latest Spring vegetable and the up-to-date cosmetics add
a new “element” to their contents. Second Grade read
ers have two and a half pages devoted to tales of little
birds flying homeward. Even the radio programs play
more “ ‘Tweet Tweet,’ Said the Chicks” numbers. Now
all of this leads directly to a lesson and very pertinent
moral! . >
Spring must also be the time for Saint Mary s to get
out and do things. The pool is open again and a swim
a week will give your crawl stroke a professional twist
for the summer. Concentrated work on the May Day
dancing is an infallible recipe for gracefulness. Tennis
is beginning and you might just as well spend that re
laxed hour on the court. Tan your face on the volley
ball field instead of the roof. As a last resort there are
twenty acres of campus and a long street for walking.
And finally, if nothing energetic appeals to you, at
least come out with that Spring look in your face. They
are wearing smiles underneath the orchid lipstick this
year. Why hesitate? Why stand we here idle? Al
ready our comrades are on the field—Springing.
TO ONE ANOTHEE
Professor Koch stood before the members of the Caro
lina Dramatic Festival and told them that the success
of their sixteen years of annual gatherings could be
attributed to the one word Encouragement. Such a
statement astonished us at first. It seems hardly feasi
ble that a small group of people could develop an or
ganization that has reached the proportions of the
Carolina Dramatic Association through encouragement
alone.
Here we strive for our goal seldom thinking of any
one’s ambitions but our own. We are too wrapped up
in ourselves to see another person’s desire and to encour
age her in her moments of depressions. We never stop
to think how much encouragement would mean to all
of us, how much it would help us if we were willing
to spend a few words helping or inspiring someone else-
If such an organization as the Carolina Dramatic
Association could be formed with encouragement as its
basis, think what we could do for one another if we
applied the practice of encouraging someone else instead
of complaining about our own hard luck. We will, »
we accept this practice, be able to mould our lives into
a smooth-running pattern that is not snarled and jagged
with complaints.
NEW EDITORS ERECTED
Erwin Gant has been elected Editor of the Stagf^
Coach for next year; Mary Willis Douthat, Editor of
the Bulletin; and Joyce Powell, Editor of the Belles by
a unanimous vote of the student body in assembly last
Friday morning.
Erwin is from Burlington, N. C., and her record at
Saint Mary’s has often been described and commended.
She entered Saint Mary’s as a freshman and in her
three years here has made herself more than a vital part
of the school. A leading singer in both the Choir and
Glee Club, an active member and exchange editor oi
the publications staff and editor of the Handbook last
year, a member of the E. A. P. literary society, and
of the Circle, an active participant in physical educa
tion, Vice President of the Student Body and a member
of the Honor Council, and a member of the Dramatic
Club, Erwin enters into every student activity with a
cooperative and energetic spirit. Erwin was also the
only underclassman to receive a monogram last year.
Mary Willis Douthat, from Weyanoke, Virginia, en
tered Saint Mary’s as a sophomore last year. Her
writing ability has been proven through her election
this year to the E. A. P. literary society and her excel
lent work on all the publications. Too, her artistic tal
ent is evident in the pictures she drew for the annual
last year and through her position as art editor this
year. She also has an excellent scholastic standing and
is a member of the “Honors” English section.
Joyce Powell is a newcomer from Eocky Mount to
Saint Mary’s this year, but in her short time here she
has distinguished herself in a number of different ways-
The student body ivas first called attention to her as one
of the Dramatic Club’s best actresses in “The School for
Scandal.” She also had a prominent part in “Culbin
Sands.” Joyce has shown her literary ability through
her election in the fall to the Sigma Lambda literary
society. .
The Editors of the Belles and Bulletin will begin
their work this spring. The Editor of the annual wiU
have complete charge of it next year.
MUSIC NOTES
Our Music Department seems to be one of the busiest
in school these days. On top of two performances ot
Patience they seem to be doing a little of everything else
too! On the twenty-eighth of this month. Miss Horn,
accompanied by Miss Scott and Miss Haig, presented a
program of songs before the Eound Table Book Club-