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The Belles of Saint Mary’s Faculty Corner In each issue THE BEEIiES de votes one column to faculty mat ters particularly, and toward this end asks a different faculty member to write this column entirely as he or she pleases. “Why,” a Saint Mary’s girl re cently asked me, “don’t teachers room together? Could they if they wanted to ?” Then in typical school girl hyperbole, “I’d die if I didn’t have a roommate!” she exclaimed. I refrained from saying “I’d die if I did,” and answered her instead with a smile of professorial supe riority. But I began to wonder. Why should solitude be odious to her, delightful to me? It is not the unbroken solitude of the hermitage that charms me, any more than the intolerable unrelieved sunshine of our Western deserts or the eternally dripping climate of England. I should hate to live be hind dark glasses like the Western motorist, or to carry an umbrella al ways like Mr. Chamberlain. Rather I find myself at home in a Dixie cli mate of warm sunshine alternating with refreshing showers, and in a varied life of warm human coijtacts alternating with nourishing periods of solitude. My solitude, like my dark glasses and my umbrella, I want occasionally, not constantly. But why do I want it at all ? That is what my readers may be asking. Am I not afraid of becoming like young Dr. Ditten in Escape?—Dr. Ditten with his “solitary face whose edges were sharp, as though they hadn’t been worn down by the con stant pushing and rubbing of other personalities.” Ho. That need not he feared by people who live in each other’s pockets (Miss Digges’ de scription of West Rockers). A greater danger is the opposite even tuality, a face so worn by too con stant contact with other personalities that it has reached the blank incon sequence of a stone angel in an eight eenth century cemetery. A Dr. Ditten or a stone angel— I don’t want to be either. So I’ll take decent doses of both companion ship and solitude. A kind of solitude of which I now and then enjoy a dose is that of being alone in a crowd of strangers, of traveling alone. “Traveling alone!” my student reader exclaims in horror. “Surely she is not going to defend that. Why, half the fun of traveling lies in shar ing one’s experiences with a friend.” Half the fun, yes. But what of the other half? For me it lies in occasionally leaving my traveling companion and jaunting off on my own. Then it is that I find myself making contacts with strangers, see ing things in the life about me that I missed when I carried my home environment along in the form of a companion. Even after the journey is over, having been alone has its advantages. Reserved for the soli tary traveler is the complete satis faction of embroidering his experi ences without contradiction or cor rection. But all this is quite different from the kind of solitude implied by my Saint Mary’s questioner, the solitude of being out of other j)eoj)le’s con versational reach, the solitude of the single room. That also has its values. —l-'hoto by courtesy News and Observer Ann Seeley, Italeigh, N. O., Editor of next year’s BULLETIN, and Nancy McKinley, Cleveland, Ohio, Editor of next year's BELLES. and they are greater than the advan tages of solitary traveling. First among them is physical rest. Wise is the mother who has her daughter rest during the afternoon before a dance so that both her muscles and her personality may be alive for the evening. Second is the intellectual value. Few students will deny the difficulty of concentrating on work during a radio ])rogram of a room mate’s choosing. Finally, the spirit ual oj)portunity of rightly used pe riods of solitude is inestimable, a fact universally recognized but in frequently acted upon. Physically, intellectually, spiritually, solitude has much to contribute toward mak ing us what we would be. Why, then, does full appreciation of it conie, in academic life, only with the individ ual’s passage from the status of stu dent to that of teacher? The answer is not far to' seek. You students and we teachers are at Saint Mary’s for opposite reasons: you to receive, we to give. And if we are to continue to give, Ave must also receive. We must maintain the physical resilience, the intellectual vigor, the spiritual de]>th that you require of us and that we set as standards for ourselves when we chose our profession. Your youth helps us keep them, even while it often exhaustingly uses them up. But we also need our solitude—both kinds—to rechisel the blunted edges of individuality, and at the same time to add new and significant lines. Hot lightly would I relinquish the blessing of a room of my own. M. D. Jones. . . . Betsy Burgess in a yellow flan nel suit and a'natural straw bonnet. . . . Betty Harris looking very cri§p and neat in navy and white; navy fitted coat with white reverse, white gloves and a white straw sailor Avith upturned brim.... Margaret Kitchin in black and white plaid skirt Avith black top and a pert red sailor. . , . Lucille Mitchell in poAvder blue coat OA'er a j)ink, dress and a saucer of Avhite straAv for a hat. . . . Fiquet Pate looking very cheerful in scarlet skirt, gold jacket and red straw sailor. . . . “Tootie” CroAv in a pink fitted coat, poAvder blue dress and a lush little hat of blue flowers and wisj) of A'eil. . . . Marilyn Reaves in a fitted navy coat Avith Avhite piquet petals for a collar and a Avhite rough straw sailor. . . . Barnet Branson in a tailored beige crepe dress Avith brass button, a straight coat of beige, broAAUi and blue plaid, and tan alli gator bag and beige hat. ... “Pop” Holt .ill a sweeping white sailor, and a haA'y coat, full at the top and bot tom and nipped in at the waist with a wide belt made into the coat. . . . “Smitty” Smith in light blue and Avhite silk print Avith matching blue angora jacket and AAude brimmed iiaA'y straAv hat. . . . Margaret Par ker ill a grey and Avhite vertical stripe silk tailored dress Avith iiaAw and red accessories, and Fannie Cooper in beige avooI suit trimmed in red fox. Thus did Saint Mary’s Belles trij) over tlie snoAV to hail Merry Spring. CAMPUS COMMENTS CLOTHES LINE You had to step liA'cly to keej) iij) with the Saint Mary’s Easter jia- rade! Marching in best form Avere: Hortense Miller in a black crepe skirt Avith a black and AAdiite striped silk jersey blouse and short red jacket ])liis black patent hat, shoes and bag. . . . Joyce PoAvell in a fitted mustard yelloAv coat, shiny, black straAv button of a hat pierced Avith a yellow quill, and black accessories. . . . “Tootsie” Sherrod in a poAvder blue suit, a Avhite straAV hat with iiaA’^y ribbon, and high heel toeless and heelless AA'cdges in nav'y suede. Ill a city library, some odd re- ([uests liaA’e heeii coming in. One lady Avanted a eppy of Dickens’ Picmr Papers. Another asked for Thomas Wolfe’s A Time on the River. And Avorst of all, someone put doAAUi to read overnight, for Franz Werfel’s popular Forty Days of Mvsa Dayh, Forty Ways to, .Amvse a Dog. Oh well, “Giillibles Travels.” From a college newspaper Ave get a lesson in English for the boys: “You see a beautiful girl Avalking doAvn the street. You cross the street changing to A^erbal and then hecome dative. If she isn’t objectiA'c, you You go home f become plural. gether. Her brother is, an indefinif article, and her mother is accusati and becomes imperative. You ta about the future and she changes t! _ subject. Her father becomes pi'£ ent, and you are past tense.” ~ They tell me that Saint MarJ girls are actually beginning to tat _ note of the proverbial Golden RiJ Avith a slightly different twist to i f “Woo unto others as you Avould ha' them AA’oo unto you.” lYritten in one of the Holt H* AvindoAvs Avas a large finger-print sign: “Dust be my destiny.” Tk „ Avas before the holidays . . . yes, i’ ” still there. ... Ho slams intendf just a passing ohserA'ation. I think of everybody in seb® there are three people Avhose acceJ seem to sound above the croA'* Tibbie Tucker’s, Louise Colemat ti and Tay FoaaTs’. You never D' C any real Su’thern draAVAVAVAVAVA*! Q Avhich is rather odd considering lA jj many we haA’e to listen to in a , movies. But there are no hoff ■ chiles in this section of the counb 'W Exactly nine Aveeks from tod* 'e( and some of you Avill be on pai'^ J for three months . . . but the rest' j us! We’ll be off to some otl* , school; SAveet Briar, Hollins, Cf Averse, Salem, and Carolina are go'* to get most of our Saint Mafl graduates. . . b Spring fever has taken its t«l you can tell it by the increased g her of day-dreamers on the sclA . list. Well, as Confucius say; “'A' can’t get an education by studyio? , S' I’ll leave you noAv to finish * “ your job of recuperating from much vacationing. Was fun, thoi'f y 1 * I li ' •' Avasn t it? , 11 AT THE THEATERS AMBASSADOR ilarch 30: “Young Tom Edisoi* y e: P 0 March 31; “Shop Around the Corner” April 3-5 : “Virginia City” A])i-il 6-9 : “Little Old HeAv Yorl: April 10-13 : “Primrose Path ST.LTE 1 March 30 : “Geronimo” i March 31-April 2 : “Rulers of ft'’: Sea” ' ° April 3-6: '“Raffles” ■ e: April 7-8: “Earl of Chicago” I April 9: “Courageous Doctoi' ' b Christian” h Stage ShoAv ■■■ fi April 10-13 : “Man From Dakot"' “ . b W.\KE , 0 March 30 : “Smashing the Spy Ri*'/ e March 31-xVpril 1; “Blondie Bd’*- - b Up Baby” c April 2: “Wizard of Oz” ,, ' P April 3: “On BorroAA’ed Tim^ H April 4: “The Starmaker” B April 5 : “Oklahoma Kid” April 6: “Pack Up Your Troi>>i'‘ o April 7-9 ; “Barricade” ' ® e, P.\L.\CE . P March 30: “The Big Guy” March 31-April 1-2: “Young T** Edison” (holdoA’er) ? .Vpril 3-4: “Shop Around tU Corner” (holdoAmr) J $ April 5-6: “Knights of the . April 7-8-9: “Virginia City” (I*" - J over) i' ; April 10-11; “Little Old Hew " (holdoA’er)
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