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CALENDAE
Dec. 12 Christmas Dinner
“The Juggler”
Dec. 13 Examinations begin
Senior Sing
Dec. 14 Special Carol Service
Dec. 16 Gladys Swarthout
Belles
OF SAINT MARY’S
V, No. 7
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
December 12, 1941
Saint Mary^s Adopts ” British Children
Gladys Swarthout
^0 Present Concert
Music Students Give
First Recital of Year
Star of Radio, Screen, and
Opera to Give Concert in Audi
torium on Tuesday, December 16
Advanced Students from Voice,
Piano, and Violin Departments
Present Recital on December 2
Gladys Swarthout, star of opera,
and radio, will ])resent a
'ivic Music Series concert at the
Raleigh Auditorium on Tuesday,
^®cember 16.
Arriving on December 25, 1904,
Q/oys Swarthout was a wonderful
f !J'^®trnas present to her mother and
^ her, Ruth and Frank Leslie. She
all'll"" Up just as other children do
u graduated from Central High
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in Kansas City, Missouri, in
p o- She then studied at the Bush
nr
u^nservatory of Music in Chicago
^ni l920 to 1923. In 1925 she was
^g^iod to Harry Kern, who died in
In 1932 she married her pres-
(See P. 2)
IS THERE A SANTA GLAUS?
FH.AXK r. CHl'KCH
die ^^.^“iiowing was reprinted from
^inrial page of the New York
Kditou; T am 8 years old.
is a niy little friends say there
.Vou^ ^unta Claus. Papa says, “If
pn it in The Sun, it’s so.”
me the truth; is there a
"ta Claus ?
ViKGINIA 0’IIaNI,ON.
Yir
tvroji y°ur little friends are
thg u iiave been affected by
They 1 of a skeptical age.
7? .uot believe except they see.
Miieh • Giat nothing can be
iittlp comprehensible by their
^vhefjj^^D'ls. ^ All minds, Virginia,
^ litti
ihey he men’s or children’s.
cUr
. In this great universe of
childhood fills the world would he
extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! \ou
might as well not believe in fairies.
A"ou might get your papa to hire men
to watch in all the chimneys on
Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus,
but even if they did not see Santa
Claus coming down, what ^uld tha
nrove? Nobody sees Santa Claus,
but that is no sign that there is no
Santa Claus. The most real things
worKI arc .h».e .ha. ne.ther
children nor men can see. Did you
ever see fairies dancing on the lawn.
Sf course not, but that’s no proof
that they are not there
can conceive or imagine
ders there are unseen and unseeab
in the world
liis uu u's u mere insect, an ant, in
compared
as meas-
ulmut him,
Rrao.,,-^ Gie intelligence capable of
Paspij; “ueiiigencc capame oi
^Uo'wled’ whole of truth and
iige.
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!cve
iau.s.
^mginia, there is a Santa
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1st
and
exists as certainly as
generosity and devotion ex-
b an 1 ” “'-‘ OP
?'i(l know that they abound
^’^auty .f, your life its highest
« «/ clnH » 1 I « I
:vlas! how dreary
>d(f ly“'’
U ‘"I be +1
’^antji pi World if there were no
'dau.s. ’ —
would be as dreary
''auld hr ^ no Virginias. There
tmr.r ' ”0 110 ei,;i,ii;, . r ,.,
childlike faith then, no
*hi« .’'oinanee to make toler-
'lo tlii„ .‘oinanee
^ W(; should have
’Sht. except in sense and
'c eternal light with which
Student Body Plays Godmother to
British Children in Aid to Britain Drive
Christmas Doings
Begin With Banquet
Saint Mary’s first student recital
of the year took place in the audito
rium on the afternoon of Decembei
2. The program was short but va
ried, containing numbers from the
voice, the piano, and the violin de
partments. The recital drew all
music students and many outsiders.
The girls playing piano pieces
were Meredith Johnston who opened
the program, Elizabeth Hackney,
Jane Hurt, Mary Ann Dixon, Essie
Bryce Evans, Mary Coons, wjio was
also student accompanist, and Mary
Drewry Estes.
The violinists were Shirley Shep
herd and Mary Belle Woolery. Mary
(See P. 4)
Orchesis Club to Give “The Jug
gler of Notre Dame”; Sextet
to Present Two Selections
The Christmas spirit has had
Saint Mary’s girls in its grip for a
long time. But beginning today, the
actual Christmas activity will take
over, and tonight the school cele
brates with that long awaited Christ
mas dinner. The excitement of
decorations, and the candle light,
and the long dinner dresses add to
the thrill and high spirits of stu
dents and faculty. Immediately
after dinner, the students go to the
auditorium for a performance of
“The Juggler of Notre Dame _ by
the Orchesis Club under the direc
tion of Mrs. Guess. Miss Cate will
present the sextet, which includes
Nancy Poe, Fonnie Ferguson, Mane
Hodges, Jane Garrett, Pattie Ross,
and Pat Coder, in the singing of oW
Christinas songs, and Mr. Brough
ton plans to lead the audience in
Christmas carols.
SENIORS CAROIi SATURDAY
A"ou may tear apart [
rattle and see what makes the noise
inside but there is a veil ^oieri g
h world 'Vl-A ”»U
oitrongest man. nor even the unitea
strength of all the strongest men
Imt ever lived, could tear apart.
Onlv faith, fancy, poetry, lo\e, r
mance can push aside that curtain
;;;:r Aw ah ,.10™..»s»po™'>
brmity and ,vorId
nl ? Ml Virginia, in all this
rio i' iotidh •!-
' Xo Santa Clan,: Thank God
"'1'Z;.'fr .'.rnt^n-dginl. nay.
the heart of childhootl.
Late Saturday night, at eleven
o’clock, the Seniors will make their
rounds singing familiar Christmas
carols. At five o’clock in the after
noon Christmas celebrations at Saint
Mary’s will reach a climax with a
special Vesper Service. The servme
will include “Carol of the Advent,
an old Besancon tune, sung by the
choir; an organ selection, “Offertoire
pour la Messe de Minuet ; Prahm^s
“ \ Rose Breaks Into Bloom by the
vocal ensemble; “Greensleeves,” an
old English air of Henry the
Eighth’s time, sung first by the choir
and then presented as a violin solo ;
the choral “How the Morning Star,
bv the choir; and then the modern
carol, “The Kings,” sung by mem-
bLs of the Vocal Ensemble with
violin and organ.
Soloists on the will be
Mr Bird, violinist; Mr. Broughton,
organist, and members of the Saint
Mary’s Vocal Ensemble under the
Lec^tion of Miss Cate. This pro
gram will precede the usual 5.30
chapel service.
Circle Project Is Taken Over by
Entire School in Effort to Raise
Money for Fifteen Children
.The Order of the Circle at Saint
Mary’s annually sponsors a project
for a worthy cause. This year a
drive is being made for the Save the
Children Federation of America.
The Federation is a sister organiza
tion to the Save the Children Fund
of Great Britain, which was found
ed at the close of the last war when
hundreds of children were starving
in war-ravaged countries. The Brit
ish Fund is now appealing to the
American Federation for help in the
present crisis in Britain. In order
to give this help, the Federation
needs the co-operation of all. Saint
Mary’s Student Body has decided to
contribute enough money to provide
necessities for fifteen children.
Help is indeed needed. These are
children whose homes and parents
have been taken from them by the
war. These children must be pro
vided for; they must be evacuated
to a safer place and be given as
nearly as possible a normal life.
The evacuation of such great num
bers of people even in peace-time
would present a difficult problem,
and, with conditions as they are to
day, the difficulties are doubled and
tripled. , Children arrive at their
destinations without food or clothing
and with few prospects of getting
either. Also there are children in
Britain who have come there as refu
gees from other countries and who
must be provided for.
SPECIAL “ADOPTION” SCHEME
Miss Harvey, while preparing He
girls for their first Civic Music Con-
fert, warned them, ‘Don’t leave
your seats until the audience passes
out.”
A special scheme of sjionsorship
has been evolved by which an indi
vidual or an organization can pro
vide a year’s essential needs for one
child for only thirty dollars. Thirty
dollars, of course, can provide only
the barest necessities, such as butter,
eggs, milk, shoes, and clothes; but
these provisions may save the life (if
a child. Thirty dollars is a small
sum when thought of in terms of
life and death.
So far, $81.50 has been paid on
pLdges, almost enough for three
children. In assembly Tuesday,
Marion McLeod jiresented a poster
she had made. Every time enough
money is collected for another child
a baby will be placed in the pink and
white bassinet poster. It is charac
teristic of Saint Mary’s that, with
one hundred years to look back upon,
she is looking toward the future.