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The Belles OF SAINT MARY’S Published every two weeks by the student body of Saint Mary’s School Editor Joyce Powell Managiiuj Editor Helen Ford Exchange Editor Christine Hatfield Facultij Advixcr Mr. C. A. P. Moore STAFF Cornelia Clark Sue Harwood llECKY Barnhill Mary Taylor Helen Kendrick Virginia Manning Mary W. Douthat Hortense Miller Erwin Gant Katiireen Massie •Julia Booker JIartha Kigiit Page Gannaway Ann Seeley Nancy JIcKinley Martha Newell Margaret Swindell 1939 Member 1940 Associated GoOee»iate Press N. C. Collegiate Press Association THE CHKLSTMAS SPJKIT A.s Cliri.stmas time draw.s near and we think of going- home to our families and friends, inevitably we feel that magic joy known as the Christmas Spirit. It spreads over the campus and invades every corner. Indeed it is good to have Christmas here again and to feel happiness at Christmas time. Yet would it not Ix' still more wonderful to carry our happiness into the coming year? I remember the old lady I read of in the Decem ber Readers' Digest who wouldn’t give gifts at Christmas, hut who one day in January took one of her friends a present with this card, “To my dear friend, Lizzie Osgood, with daily love from Eliza Ann Cha.se.” And again we catch this daily spirit of love in Henry Van Dyke’s words : “I am thinking of you today, because it is Christmas, and 1 wish you happiness. And tomorrow, because it will be the day after Christmas, f shall still wish you hajipiness; and so on, clear through the year. I may not be able to tell you about it every day, because I may be far away; or because both of us may be very bu.sy; or perhaps because I cannot even afford to j>ay the postage on so many letters, or find the time to write them. But that makes no difference. The thought and the wish will be here just the same. . . . Without pretense, and in j)lain words, good-will to you is what I mean, in the Sjiirit of Christmas.” .Merry Christmas to you all, and may you kec[) the (diristmas Spirit throughout the com ing year 1.1 FKESIlEiY-DP WEEK Saint iMary’s has the valuable reputation of having some of the nicest and best-dressed girls in till! South, a reputation it has every reason to be proud of. The term best-dressed, of course, means apiiropriately dressed and well groomed. The “nicest” part remains, but it is the “best-dressed” ]>art wo need to concern our selves with. When a school has a reputation like this, it is often hard to keej) it intact, but this can he done. Katiirally when lessons come thick and fast and there are so many things to do, it is hard to keej) one’s personal appearance from suffering, ft can he done, however', and only a few minutes a day are sufHcient for this purpose. It pays to do away with all the sloppy .Sally Janes. IIow about a Freshen-TTp Week? ‘LOOKING BACKWARD” Although the last few days and even weeks which have preceded Christmas vacation have been trying and somewhat difficult to live through, in years to come we will turn our thoughts back and remember not only our eager haste to be going away from school, but also The Belles of Saint Mary’s the gayety and happiness of Saint Mary’s own Christmas festivities. We will remember marking days off the cal endar and counting the remaining ones with an almost unholy glee; we will remember the first signs of Christmas appearing in brightly be decked and tinseled rooms; we will remember buying train tickets, purchasing “knocks” and presents, Mrs. Marriott’s wonderful Christmas dinner, and the sweet harmonious voices of the servants caroling. We Avill long to be among those who gathered in the beloved, dimly lighted chapel where the Christmas pageant unfolded to the music of the organ, now rolling and swelling, now tender and sweet, and none will forget how the star shone above the altar like the star of Bethlehem. We will feel young again remembering boun tiful feasts eaten on the last night, tumbling into bed for a few hours of fitful sleep and disturbed dreams, and drowsy seniors who sang familiar carols lustily as they shivered in the early morning air. We would even be glad to be among those rising at four o’clock to catch the northbound train, and although we could not eat a morsel, going to breakfast merely to enjoy the con tagious excitement which lighted up everyone’s eyes and wreathed their faces in smiles would be fun. We will chuckle as we remember Miss Davis as she stood on the steps like a flurried hen and shooed her chicklets and their assorted baggage into waiting buses and taxis. And how poig nant will be our memory of our last glimpse of the school as the bus rounded the summer house. LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS Deae Santa, I am a great big boy with luscious brown eyes and a weakness for brunettes. Please bring me some smarter seniors and a muffler for Ilak Kendrick. I would also like a big, red horn for my iddy biddy auto. Thanks loads. Your “cutest” one, Charles Albert Petigru Moore. P.S.—Please give me some advice on child p.sychology, for some of my English .luniors are really getting me down. Dear Saint Kick, I am just a pleasing plump maiden with jilenty of “OOMPH.” Of course, you’ve heard of my Turk. Well, please bring him a new collar and some tiny shoes to wear in the library. Don’t forget your vitamins! Your good little friend, Marjorie Lalor. P.S.—Please inject some life into my- Biology students. Dear Mu. Cl Airs, Whew! What a year! I’m a very busy little girl who lives a tough life. Please deliver to me in person (if possible) some girls who can keep their slips straight. How about a few expression students with a little life? On the way- out jilease disconnect the jihone. Thanks, Big Boy-, “Flossie” Davis. Dear Santa Claus, We are just a bunch of little girls with all the characteristics of the feminine sex. Please bring us some noiseless radios, mouth zippers, and “an angel” tread. If you don’t run out of jdumbing, how about a few baths? A M-M-crry Christmas, Second Floor East Wino. Dearest Santa, Ilohum! Say, Big Boy, would it be asking too much if you could bring us more sleeping })rivileges and fewer test weeks? Also, slow u[) the clocks about 7 .-llO. We would also like to have another gifl-break dance, and a couple of Dekes of K. A.’s in our stockings. Unanimously, TURKEY He’s a very- remarkable dog. He looks like Kudy Yallee in the face, because his eyes slant downward and his lashes are very- long. But his bark isn’t the least bit musical, only he doesn’t bark much. He’s a dog of amazing patience, and he’s beautifully behaved. You probably don’t know him very well, for he is iliss Lalor’s heart and soul. He doesn’t- care a thing about any- other person on the campus and is constantly- at her beck and call (though she doesn’t even need to call him: she just wiggles her finger and up dashes Turkey) Mainly- Turkey likes to walk, and as for mountains. Miss Lalor says he would rather climb them than eat his dog biscuits. He is anything but “facetious” (that’s why Miss Lalor likes him), and she forgets he’s in the lab, he’s so good. The other day he was there for two whole hours without her knowing it. He is the only individual allowed to make noise in the library. Everybody envies Turkey- his permanent wave, and to Miss Lalor he is invaluable, for| Turkey is always being invited out to supper and she “of course must go along.” CAMPUS NOTES A box of Christmas gifts has been sent to: Sewanee, Tennessee, for the underprivileged! children in the neighborhood of the Sewanee! missions. V ^ V J Annemarie Dunnzelmann has gone home to recuperate from an illness. She is expected to- return after Christmas. Dr. Harry Taylor, missionary to China.; sj)oke to a combined meeting of the Woman’s, Auxiliary of Saint Mary’s and the Y. P. S. L-l Sunday night, December 10. i The Doctors’ Daughters’ Club had charge ofi the sale of Christmas seals to the student bodj; during the past two weeks. * * Dr. Hornell Hart, of Duke University, wi i the delightful speaker in church Sunday, De-; ceniber 10. ”' \ * * « i On Thursday afternoon, December 7, MBs Scott’s pupils gave their first studio recital The following girls played: Dixie French Mary Guy Boyd, Ann Geoghegan, Daisj Shankle, Anna .lean Rodgers, Laura Gordon, and Edla Walker. iirs. Marriott entertaineil the faculty at ai> informal party after Miss Horn’s recital. GYM NOTES Since Xoveinber 1 a beginners’ tap dancinF class has been meeting on Friday at four o’clock under the direction of Mi.ss Goss. The ineiiv hers of the cla.ss are: Mary Martha Cobh Alice Yount. Bettie Londoix Wooten, Mar.f Huske, Winifred Rosenbaum, Sarah Lancey Elizabeth Peale, Margaret Parker, and Pegg?f Arrington. After Christmas a class will be open to thos^ who are interesteil in more advanced work. Saint Mary A j(ing-pong tournament is now in progre4 between the Sigma’s and the !Mu’s. Margare' Kitchin manages the tournament in which 31' girls are taking part. C t I ihe Y. P. S. L. Council has elected two netf; members, Helen Ford and Marie Watters.J Other members of the council are Laura Gor-; don. Alary Guy Boyd, Agnes Hayes, Tibbie. Tucker, Caroly-n Xorton, Page Alarshall, Adc-i laide Curtis, Catherine Gant, Gray AYoodard,’ and Alary- O’Keeffe. The orphan the Y. P.l S. L. has formerly been taking care of has left; the orphanage, and the council has a new pro-! tege, Ruth Pendleton. Hosm
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