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Belles
OF SAINT MARY’S
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TOMORROW
Vol. V, No. 1
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
September 19, 1941
Saint Marys Girls
To Become Pilots
Caro Bayley, ’41, Earns Pilot’s
License. Margaret Shackleford
Completes Six Solo Hours
Tucker.Webb Wedding CAMPAIGN FOR NEW BUILDINGS AND
1 o Be Held In Chapel
EQUIPMENT TO BEGIN IN FEBRUARY
Caro Bayley, class of ’41, com
pleted her C. P. T. training and
received her pilot’s license on Au
gust 20.
Mrs. Cruikshank received this
letter from Mrs. Bayley:
Springfield, O.
September 5, 1941.
My dear Mrs. Cruikshank,
It is with great joy that I write
you—not to agonize over Caro’s
English grades, fatal spelling, or
conditions in French—but to say
that when I got hack from North
Carolina, I found her gaily wav
ing a pilot’s license.
Caro took the same “Con
trolled Course” that the Govern
ment gives its C. P. T. students at
our local airport, along with the
government’s class of ten hoys and
one other girl, with ground school
every night at Wittenberg Col
lege for six weeks. She was one of
the first four to pass her Flight
Test; receiving her license on
ilugust 20.
Since then she has managed to
log quite a few hours. Some by
^craping together every available
^iiekel—and yesterday one of the
Instructors asked her to fly to
Columbus with someone to bring
plane back to the airport here.
''6 are quite proud of her record.
Caro hopes to get a job and
heep on flying.
With best wishes always,
Sincerely,
Caro Gray Bayley.
Maria Tucker, ’36, to be Married
By Presiding Bishop Tucker
Saturday. Bishop Tucker
to Preach Here Sunday
Would Campus Store
Win Your Support?
^ new Saint Mary’s girl, Mar-
l^ret Shackleford, is following in
„ ®ro’s footsteps. Margaret, who is
I'om Martinsville, Virginia, started
Joking flying lessons August 7. She
completed six hours of solo work
has twenty-nine hours to go.
1 Saint Mary’s aviatrix will resume
lessons at the Raleigh airport
NOTICE ALUMN.®
, This first issue of The Belles is
being given to the last several
S^aduating classes of Saint Mary’s
the hope that many old girls
''’fll wish to receive copies of the
paper regularly. The cost of mail
ing The Belles to you is one dol-
bb a year.
. The payment of Alumnae dues
I also one dollar) entitles alumnae
° each copy of this year’s Bulletin.
5, Send your two dollars to Miss
(,apah Vann, Alumnae Secretary,
P,aint Mary’s School and Junior
^mlege, Raleigh, N. C.
Miss Maria Washington Tucker,
former Saint Mary’s student, will be
married to Mr. Paul Hamilton War
ing Webb, of Columbia, South Caro
lina, on Saturday, September 20, at
five-thirty o’clock in the Saint
Mary’s Chapel, Presiding Bishop
Henry St. George Tucker officiating.
Maria was a student at Saint
Mary’s from 1931 to 1936, finishing
her college work at the University of
North Carolina. Following her
graduation there, she went to New
York, where she has recently gradu
ated from St. Luke’s School of
Nursing.
Her four attendants are all Saint
Mary’s girls. Annie Cheshire Tucker,
’35, is her sister’s maid-of-honor, and
two other sisters, Elizabeth Toole
Tucker, ’40, and Sarah Frances
Tucker, ’43, and a cousin, Alice
Cheshire, ’36, will be bridesmaids.
Bishop Tucker is an uncle of the
bride.
The Tucker-Webb wedding will be
a small informal ceremony, per
formed in the presence of family and
close friends. A reception will fol
low immediately at 1616 Ambleside
Drive, Raleigh.
On Sunday morning Bishop
Tucker will hold service in Saint
Mary’s Chapel at 10 ;00 rather than
at the usual 11:00 o’clock hour.
Do You Think the Student Who
Suggested a Little Campus
Store Has a Good Idea?
New Dormitory, Chaplain’s Home,
Science Building, and Various
Other Improvements Are
Being Considered
A member of the student body has
made a suggestion to The Belles
which the Editorial Staff wishes to
place before the students.
Most of us spend at least fifty
cents a week at the little store. Why
couldn’t we students install and man
age a little store—a campus store—
of our own. The nickels from our
“cokes” and “nabs” would then be
contributing toward the New Build
ing Campaign, because the Drive
Committee would probably run the
store.
What about it? Would you be
willing to support your own store?
No more “gulping” of drinks be
cause the clock says your time is up!
No more dodging cars on Hillsboro!
Our little store privileges would re
main the same.
We may not get our store this
year, but in order to show that you
are interested, will each of you mark
these ballots and drop them in the
Belles Box on the bulletin board
near the post office?
DO YOU PLEDGE TO SUPPORT OUR
STORE IE WE SHOULD GET IT?
YES.,
NO.
WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST THAT
THE LITTLE STORE CARRY?
SIGNED.,
There is nothing definite or plan
ned about this project yet. This
canvass is merely to see if the girl
who brought this plan to our atten
tion has the support of the student
body behind her. Has she ? It’s up
to you!
Caro Bayley completed her C. P. T. Training for a Pilot’s License on
^ August 20, in Springfield, Ohio
Some time in February Saint
Mary s will begin one of the largest
campaigns ever to be undertaken
"®*’®~^hat of raising money to be
used for the construction of new
campus buildings, for the remodel
ing of some of the older ones, and
for buying all sorts of new and
much-needed equipment. Of course,
with the drive so far in the future
not many definite plans have been
made. However, the authorities
have decided on several improve
ments if the necessary money can
be obtained.
The first and most important need
of Saint Mary’s is a new science
building with laboratory equipment.
In this budding would be included
le Home Economics department as
well as the Biology and Chemistry
laboratories and classrooms. Other
pressing needs of Saint Mary’s are
new furniture all over the school
renovation of all
tiie buildings.
. A new dormitory like Holt is be
ing seriously considered. This how
ever, would not necessarily mean
that the enrollment of the school
would be increased, since the two
Rocks would probably not be used
for student living-quarters. Instead,
It IS hoped that East Rock can be
reconstructed and made into an Ad
ministration building, since an in
crease in office space would be very
desirable West Rock might be used
as an A umnas building as well as
to provide faculty dormitories with
reception rooms.
The creation of a scholarship fund
to provide financial assistance to cer-
tein students has been considered.
Ihis would enable more people to
attend Saint Mary’s than the present
scholarships now provide for. An
endowment fund for the school is
also being considered.
Besides all these improvements
the officers of Saint Mary’s have
made a list of many of its less im
portant and secondary needs. Some
of these are a new residence for our
chaplain, the replacement of the
present worn-out laundry equipment
a retmement plan for the faculty
and officers, better fire protection, a
telephone switchboard, the installa
tion of a modern stage for the audi-
torium and other equipment for this
building.
How far this building and recon
struction program will go will be
determined entirely by the amount
of money raised by the drive. Rep
resentatives from the Ward, Wells,
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