The Belles of Saint Mary’s
May 26, 1941
The Belles
OF SAINT MARY’S
Published every two weeks by the stu
dent body of Saint Mary’s School.
Editor ....
Exchange Editor
Managing Editor
Faculty Adviser .
Nancy McKinley
. . Gale Lamb
Mary-Gene Kelly
. C. A. P. Moore
Sue Harwood
Anne Dunn
Alice Bell
Hannah Bell
Carol Cobb
STAFF
Ida Quintard
Ann Seeley
Bunny Stribling
Margaret Swindell
Elizabeth Toepleman
Ann Castieman Mary Prances Wiison
Helen Ford Sophia Redwood
Kathryn Norman Mary Taylor
Martha Newell Olivia Anne Smith
Louise Taylor
1939 Member 1940
Plssocioled CoU©6iQle Pfgss
N. C. Collegiate Press Association
THE SPAH OF
THE YEAE
“Good-by, School,” rings in our
ears. In one more day we will leave
Saint Mary’s with memories of a
happy year. A cosmic world of
hockey games, choir practices, li
brary classes has formed as small hut
important part of our still formative
lives.
The span of the year has passed
almost too quickly. Time has wait
ed neither for the coquette nor the
horn-rimmed scholar. The bearded
old man has licked his thumb and
turned with rapidity the colorful
pages of Junior-Senior dances, play
days, and the Arahian Nights, stop
ping only momentarily at our aca
demic hlack-out, those dreaded
exams.
We are now on the brink of an
other vacation which will scatter the
student body to the geographical
winds, many of whom will probably
never reassemble. To the Seniors we
look with pride; to the returning
students we look with expectation.
The old school year gives place to
the new.
3. Commencement exercises will co
incide with the Centennial Celebra
tion, May 16-19. At this time there
are at least ten sisters of old girls
expected next year and several times
as many granddaughters.
GEEETIHGS TO
THE alumhh:
Hello there, Alumnse. We students
of Saint Mary’s ask only that you
“old girls” be happy while you are
with us during commencement. We
appreciate all the support you have
given us this year and hope we can
justify your faith and trust in us.
SKETCHES
Musty, blue-tagged, dust-covered
trunks lining the halls—crammed
suitcases open on beds that are
“stripped” for the last time—ivrin-
kled clothes dangling from teetering
dresser drawers—Hygiene’s “study
outline” discarded into the waste
basket beside English notes on the
Spenserian stanza — clean, bare
spaces on walls where pictures and
dance souvenirs had been—corners
cluttered with boxes that overflow
with thumbed volumes—lamps wrap
ped in paper to disguise them until
they can be smuggled home again—
potted plants and miniature gardens
perched precariously on towering hat
boxes—laundry bags spilling forth
curtains, sheets, pillows, and tennis
shoes—empty peanut butter jars,
olive jars, and Johnson’s Baby Pow
der cans on the shelves of bookcases
—odds and ends and souvenirs every
where—paper Coca-Cola cups and
straws from the “little store”— pop-
side papers on the dresser—pro
grams and programs jammed into
open pocketbooks—indistinct tick
ings issuing from among some pack
ed skirts and sweaters—open an
nuals, signed with the words, “Loads
of love. See you next year!”
TONIGHT’S PROGRAM TO IN
CLUDE RECITAL, EXHIBITS,
AND RECEPTION
ALL FOR
NEXT YEAR
Every year must have its ending;
then comes another new year and its
characteristic changes. First, let us
see who will be back and who will
not among the faculty. In the Eng
lish Department Miss Martha Dab
ney Jones, who has been doing grad
uate work at the University of North
Carolina this year, will resume her
position in the English Department.
In the Business Department Mrs.
Marianne Casper will return as head
of the department, and Miss Davis
will remain as her assistant. Mrs.
Casper held the same position last
year. Miss Williamson is leaving for
a year’s further study in library sci
ence. As yet it is undecided who will
take her place.
Now for a few statistics as to next
year’s student body. So far there
are 183 girls enrolled, 91 old girls
and 92 new girls. Miss Tucker re
ports that the school expects a capac
ity enrollment by September 4 when
classes begin again. Next year all
new girls must be here by September
2, and all old students by September
OUR BELLES
SUSAN NOBLE
Nickname—Sue.
Home—Gloucester, Virginia.
Eyes—hazel.
Hair—brown.
Height—5 ft. 7 in.
Is wild about—lobsters.
Hobby—doodling.
Pet hate—Swift.
Ambition—to be a fashion designer.
Is looking for—BRAT.
Favorite music—“Can’t carry a
tune.”
Favorite food—fried chicken.
Favorite article of clothing—Mexi
can sandals.
Favorite book—Wuthering Heights.
Favorite color—red (“don’t tell Miss
Harris”).
Worst faults—blushing and mum
bling.
Is always seen—working on end
sheets.
Spends spare time—working on end
sheets.
A 3-letter name,
letter word, “A-R-T
separable. We are convinced that
Sue’s other home is not in Glouces
ter, but in the Art Building among
the annual’s end sheets. But she
doesn’t spend all of her time on art,
for she smuggles in time to be art
editor of the annual, one of the top-
ranking swimmers, and a member of
the Altar Guild, the Political Science
Club, the Granddaughters’ Club, and
the Letter Club.
“S-U-E”—a _3-
’—they are in-
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tels. One section is devoted to some
of the posters which were made for
posture week. This, the biggest art
event of the year, is made up of sub
jects from portraits to modernistic
designs and surrealism. Each art
student mounts and prepares her own
posters. This year a vote is going to
be taken for the most popular pic
ture. The pictures are numbered,
and everyone who goes to the exhibit
has a chance to pick out his or her
favorite one. Cheek by jowl to the
art exhibit is the home economics
exhibit in the biology lab. It will
include household and personal lin
ens made by Miss Bason’s domestic
art group. There are also “recovery”
robes for the British soldiers and
baby bathrobes which the girls made
from material donated by the Ameri
can Red Cross. The dresses which
some of the girls made from material
woven by State College textile stu
dents and modeled at the style show
will have their place in the exhibit.
At 9 ;30 the Seniors will be hon
ored at a reception in the parlor.
Mrs. Cruikshank will be with them
in the receiving line. Parents and
friends are invited to this reception.
WINIFRED ROSENBAUM
Nickname—^Winnie the Pooh.
Home—Tarboro, North Carolina.
Age—won’t tell.
Eyes and hair—^green and brown.
Height—5 ft. in. (almost 2 in.).
Pet hates—sitting still, writing let
ters, and reading.
Ambition—to be another Alice Mar
ble.
Odd likes—math and history and 1st
floor Holt.
Is looking for—a millionaire.
Favorite music—“Ich Liebe Dich.”
Favorite article of clothing—white
shorts.
Worst fault—being late to every
thing.
Hobby — keeping scrapbook and
drawing.
Favorite school—M. I. T. (it isn’t a
girls’ school, either).
Favorite food—everything.
Always seen—^laughing.
Spends spare time—going to practice
music for Mr. Peery.
Favorite book—Quote: “I don’t like
books!”
Our petite 5 foot IV2 inch (almost
2 inch) “hater of books” just march
ed her 5 feet (and a little more) into
the tennis tournament and walked
away as the “champ.” We caught
her just as she was trying to roll a
camping pack of a quilt, a blanket,
pajamas, and a tank suit (which she
decided also was a “pet hate”); and
between contagious laughs and rest
less squirms, she told us about “Win
nie the Pooh.” Besides being a hap-
py, good-all-around senior and the
tennis champion, Winnie is vice-
president of 1st floor Holt and a
member of tbe Altar Guild, the Po
litical Science Club, and the Letter
Club.
In Japan, there has been ama^
If curiosity is fatal, a great many
people will be dropping off as a re
sult of the amazing one-man invasion
of Great Britain by No. 3 Nazi)
Rudolph Hess. This bizarre inci'
dent has overshadowed news fro®
other quarters. But tremendous
events have been taking place all
over the world.
In Russia, Joseph Stalin, who has
been dictator of Russia for 19 years,
but held only the position of General
Secretary of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party, suddenly
demoted Viaeheslav Molotov to Vice
Premier and Foreign Commissar ai®
took the Premiership himself.
In Spain it is believed that Ilitle’'
is pressing Franco for a permit to
send troops to Gibraltar and North'
ern Africa through Spain, ano
Franco, in an effort to make Spai’^
“a corridor for Germany rather tha"
a living room,” has been appointing
army officers who are not so pro-Xa®
to cabinet positions in place of the
currently powerful Falangists.
France and Germany have made
an agreement that is having gra''®
repercussions throughout the capital®
of the world. The terms of th®
agreement are not known, but it
believed that in return for lowe®aS
maintenance cost of the Germaji
army of occupation, France will aj'
low German troops to march through
and establish bases in Syria, a kcP
stone in the Near Eastern situation'’
The E. A. F. has bombed airdi'O®®®
in Syria that German planes wc’’®
using, and there have been reports 0
British troops massed on the Syria®
Trans-Jordan border ready to
in.
In the United States Preside®*
Roosevelt condemned the Fre»®
move, and there was talk that t®
republics of the Western Hemispb®^j
might be forced to set up provis^®®^
governments in the French V'c®
Indies and French Guinea, as the,
are able to do under the Ha^a®
Conference of 1939.
M
talk of ending the China “Incideu)’
The Japanese, except for the i®*
tary caste, are sick of war and t ^
cost that it entails. It is rurnoi®^
that Japan wishes to concentr®
more on the territory to the soU ’
French Indo-China, Thailand,
the Malay Archipelago.
In North Africa, the British
fenders of Tobruch are holding
against great odds. The Xrniy , ^
the Nile is beginning to push
Nazi war machine back out .
Egypt, perhaps in an effort to
Nazi interest to that point
Iraq- gs
The Battle of the Atlantic
with unabated fury, and the
question of convoys is before
pie of the United States. I®
land, Nazi bombing increased
the full moon. The British jp-
Westminster Abbey, and
ster Hall, seat of Parliament, ''
all bombed in one night. .g
And, as all conversations do ®^g,
days, we get back to that great fl y
tion: Why did Hess leave Ger®*
and fly to Scotland ?