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MUS MUSCULUS
^ELL girls i guess this is goodby
^ sure do hate to see you leave
1 liope you wont forget me now
®or look too happy when i grieve
been so nice to knojv you all
tils school year has just flown
^ started out a mere grey rat
Uo\v ive a column of my own
? regular newspaper rat i am
^ get my copy in on time question
mark
t Know the things and tricks of trade
?ud how to get a good by-line
rre struggled hard to find the keys
mat spelled out words for me
®ud bruised my grey paws to the bone
Jumping from o to z
^ud now the awful time has come
,°r me to say my last
^ trust youve liked my little column
and read it in the past
uont worry i will see you srs
^hen you graduate
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If
and
next year when youre on your
Way
u college marriage or some work
^®member what i say
. ° your best and never shirk
? Know the error of my ways
} really am not such a sap
takes an intelligent mouse
° Kun away from a rat trap
®u Woe to those who dawdle
u those who at work do sneeze
unyll wind up left alone and feeling
.me a piece of cheese hush what am
1 Saying i like cheese
0
Is
’er all the hill-tops
quiet now,
In all the tree-tops
Ilearest thou
;mardly a breath;
I he birds are asleep in the trees;
,^ait; soon like these
Ihou too shalt rest.
—Goethe, translated by
Longfellow.
Historical marker in
PLACE
“SAINT MARY’S
Episcopal School for girls,
established 1842 by Rev.
Aldert Smedes on site
ef an earlier school for
hoys which opened 1834.”
Tin
ms reads the marker which the
k Carolina Historical Society
siif hmced in front of Saint Mary’s
house. _
Uia -I J^*®eulties in securing the
itjg included a run-in with prior-
Tiif n'^'^ ^ misprint in the wording.
Set ■ ^’ week, the marker was
m place, consected.
A
great honor is attached to the
ihe historical marker by
Wki for the site must be one
of ^®ully helped make the history
tioji Carolina, and all informa-
about the place must be factual,
tile g®’ .^™ihshank, as a member of
eiety and Head of the school,
are connected with Saint
y all wYo
tile g ^ extremely pleased that
of *1 found the school worthy
^ais recognition.
CAMPUS NOTES
he sitting in the foremost row
'0 make sure your seams are straight
Wanderer’S night song
lA comforting thought for exam and
ninmencement week, espiH'iall.v to the
^aiors and Sophomores.—Ei).]
The student Handbook has been
revised and is ready to go to press,
reports the editor, Lillian Jenkins,
adding that it wiU have much new
material next year.
Seventy-eight new girls have al
ready registered to come to Saint
Marv’s next year.
Those participating in the organ
recital given Thursday, May 7,
wmre Daphne Richardson, Betty
Lou Britt, Alary Ann Crook, and
Kay Roper.
* * *
Nancy Norton has been elected
Chairman of Assembly Programs
for next year.
* ♦ *
Two Physical Education classes,
the 10:00 o’clock Wednesday, and
the 9:00 o’clock Thursday, are
presenting “Captain Jinks of the
Horse Alarines” in peasant cos
tume for the Field Day Alonday
morning.
* if *
The senior Dance Marshals for
next year will be Mary% Burns,
June Bourne, and Alary Liz Varde-
man.
* * ♦
The Circle has elected Sally Mc
Kinley as president and Mary Ann
Dixon as secretary for next year.
At Airs. Cruikshank’s direction.
Miss Jones and Mr. Moore are re
writing the school catalogue com-
pletelv.
'■ - * * *
Mr. Donald Peery, a member of
the Alusic Department here last
A'ear, has been called into the
army, and is noAv at Fort Bragg.
* * *
Those Avho finished the Home
Hygiene class and are to receive
certificates are: Betty Bobbitt,
Carol Cobb, Ann Damtoft, Alary
Branch Henderson, Yi Johnson,
Louise Jordan. Betty Kendrick,
Caroline Long, Alarion AIcLeod,
Dolores Alullett, Alerriette Alac-
Gregor, Nancy Peete, Rhea Holmes,
Helen Riley, Alargaret Shackel
ford, Shirley Shepherd, Jane Sloan,
Olivia Anne Smith, Sarah Wads
worth, Betsey John AVest, Cnrolyn
AVest Flo AVilliamson, Jo Henry,
and Kav Roper. Miss Louise Jor
dan made the highest average and
received a prize of two dollars in
defense stamps.
* * *
A red pulpit hanger has been
presented to the Chapel by the
members of the Altar Guild.
* * *
The French Club ended its work
for the vear with the puppet shows
“ Guignal ’ ’ and ‘ ‘ Le Cuvier A ew
officers will be elected next yeai.
* * *
The faculty presented Mss Jor
dan with a silver bowl at a fare
well party given in her honoi on
the afternoon of Alay i.
Mr. Kloman attended the West
ern North Carolina Diocesan meet
ing in Asheville last week.
* * *
Miss Digges spent last week
end in Charlottesville, Va., with
her family, and niece.
9K * ♦
The Sextet will sing for the
alumnai luncheon.
« 3fC 9N
Miss Harvey has been appointed
adviser to the Hall Council for
next year.
9N * *
Mrs. Naylor has been conduct
ing a Home Hygiene Course for a
group of toAvnspeople in the ab
sence of their regular instructor.
* * *
Those who are coming back next
year and wish to buy furniture,
please see the Seniors.
* *
Nancy Poe is beginning a new
series of broadcast for the next
three Sundays at 1:15 over WPTF.
This Sunday Meredith Johnston
will assist with a piano solo. Aliss
Ruth Holmes Scott will accompany
Nancv.
« ♦ *
A group of students from Saint
Alary’s are planning to go to Nbav
York with Aliss Geraldine Cate for
three weeks in June to study voice
under Belle Julie Sandant of the
Juilliard school voice faculty.
They will live in an apartment on
Riverside Drive. The girls plan
ning to go are Jane Hurt, Pattie
Ross, Marie Hodges, and Nancy
Poe.
* ♦ *
The Letter Club will camp out
in the Hut tonight and have break
fast there tomorrow morning. The
group plans to initiate its new
members and give out Letter Club
pins New members are Anne
Dunn, Pat Bell, Neville Gumming,
Alirginia Pou, Jenny Woodard, and
Anna Fluck. TAventy girls made
the Letter Club this year.
* * *
Alembers of the tennis All-Star
team are Jane Wideman, Jean Ful
ton, Mary Bums, Anne Russell,
Sammy Pou, and Jenny Woodard.
* * *
Lib Adkins, Kitty Archer, Pat
Bell, Ruth Bond, Betty Anne Drys-
dale, Anne Dunn, Anna Fluck, and
Polly Lindsay make up the All-
Star Swimming team.
* * *
The Mu’s Avon over the Sigma’s
in class sAvimming this year. Polly
Lindsay and Anna Fluck Avere the
only girls Avho completed the Ad
vanced SAvimming course; thirteen
students passed off all the Inter
mediate tests, and 113 girls finish
ed the beginner requirements. Last
year only sixty-five sfudents Avere
beginner swimmers.
* ♦ «
It is interesting to note that
forty-five girls received Athletic
Stars this year. This means that
they made one All-Star team.
* * *
During the past year 178 girls
went out for extra-curricular ac-
Orchesis Gives
Destiny” for Pageant
Dance Explains Religious,
Social, Economic, and Political
Activities in Relation to Time
All five groups of the Orchesis
have combined into one unit for the
May Day part of the Centennial
Pageant. The dance, “Destiny,” ex
plains that the religious, social, eco
nomic, and political activities of man
are subdued by the ceaseless pendu
lum of time.
Each group has been Avorking on a
quality of movement. The religious
group shoAvs sustained movement;
the social, jerky; the economic, per
cussive; the political, collapsing;
and time, pendular. Time is the
'ever present and controlling group.
The interesting and varied musi
cal score has been composed by Airs.
Sarah Cooke, accompanist for the
dancing classes.
Girls participating in the dance
are: Religious group, Alartha Battle,
Carolyn West, Vi Johnson, Sara
Thornton, Kitty Archer, Alarion
Thomas, and Virginia Alanry; So
cial group, Polly Lindsay, Sally AIc-
Kinley, Frances Williams, and
Louise Eggleston; Economic group,
Peggy Beale, Anna Fluck, Alinkie
Clarke, Betty Willcox, and Cecelia
Dicks; Political group, Ruth Bond,
Alildred Lee, Gene Neff, Neville
Gumming, and Jeannette Simpson;
and Time group, Ellis Barnard,
Betty Walters, and Cora Lucas.
Costumes for the dance were de
signed by a committee of Orchesis
members headed by Polly Lindsay.
tivities as compared Avith 149 stu
dents in 1940-41.
« * *
Kitty Archer has been elected
president of next year’s Letter
Club.
« « *
So far the only changes in text
books for next year are the hy
giene and American government
textbooks. HoAvever, incoming
Seniors are urged not to buy the
English N textbook. Eleven Bri
tish Writers, if the copy has been
marked up.
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM
(Prom P. 1)
a short business meeting and an ad
dress by Airs. Alary Yellott Denny.
Airs. George V. Denny, of Scars-
dale, NeAv York, was graduated from
Saint Alary’s in 1920 as Mary Trail
Yellott. While here she won the
Niles Aledal, aAvarded each year for
the highest scholastic aA'erage.
At 12 :30 the alumnaj will go to the
dining room for the alqmnse lunch
eon. All other students Avill be serA'ed
in the gym. A tea on the front cam
pus at 4:30 in the afternoon Avill
give an opportunity for the Avelcome
and registration of guests. This tea
takes the place of the usual senior
reception.
At 8 :30 in the evening an histori
cal pageant of Life at Saint Mary’s
Avill be presented on the stage in
front of Smedes.