I
Belles
OF SAINT MARY’S
GIRL BREAK
SATURDAY
No. 1
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
September 25, 1942
Record Enrollment
For 1942 Session
Ninety-three Returning Stu
dents; 149 New Girls; 46 Day
Students
Saint Mary’s starts her second
^eiitury with a record enrollment.
^2 boarders have registered, coming
I'oin thirteen states, North Caro-
y®a, South Carolina, Virginia, Nmv
orkj New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
'aliforiiia, Alabama, Georgia, Ken-
"®ky, Tennessee, and Florida. As
‘‘^'^al, the greatest number of new
old students come from North
^I'olina, but Virginia runs a close
5?o»d this year, with over forty,
j ^aety-threc girls are returning stu-
while one hundred and forty-
^enter for the first time. Ra-
^'gh’s representation of students
numbers forty-six.
The classification list has been
Posted on the bulletin board, and
^ach gij.i jg familiar with her
'ass. Class meetings will soon be
■. class officers elected, but work
already begun in earnest.
Service Men In the
Families of Girls at
Saint Mary s
This year The Belles is attempt-
ing to list all men in the ^ armed
service from immediate families of
Saint Mary’s girls. Each issue sev
eral halls will be interview.
From 1st and 2nd Floors Holt—
Lt. James II. Kelley, Army
(Joan Stell) .
Capt. Rubyiat B. Castellow, Marines
(Marion Castellow)
Major W. A. Royall, Army
Col. Kenneth C. Royall, Army
Lt. Kenneth C. Royall, Jr. Marines
(Elizabeth Royall)
Lt. Tommy Jenkins, Air Corps
Capt. Jaines Jenkins, Air Corps
(Mary Thomas)
Lt. B. E. Lane Timmons, Embassy,
London
(Peggy Osborne)
Col. A. Norton, Army
Lt. John Norton, Army
(Nancy Norton)
Lt. Ben Kinsey, Army
(See P. 2)
followiiiK letter from a former
Uieiit
member of our music depart-
ev,hui'e to Mrs. Cruiksliank is self-
^*’utory. A few paragraphs have
omitted for lack of space.]
1)
August 10, 1942. w’
Mrs. Cruiksliank:
111
11 very willing response to your
j^jSgestioii, I will try to give you an
^ke life and experience of a
°t(iier i,„„ 1 - -
id
oldier who has been in the army all
1 ®°^dhs. On Ajiril 2, 1942,
>T "Us inducted into the army of the
States.
ti„, we arrived at the “Recep-
\ ^phtcr.” How ironic! After
thj, ^ ^ p* g interminably, we went
Pier'll ^ kuilding, answering innu-
luitit I getting fingcr-
tihg ,'^'*’ tagged, and otherwise^ iden-
P'ait' ^ some more interminaDle
A physical examination
in
’^aiti
iting.
More interminable
Army
is interview. The -
thgi T^Pg tp place men according to
iny special qualifications. With
iiinpiT’^'^^ifications, a degree, and
sic I ^^Perience in the field of mu-
Pla’o^ to the Calvary Re-
I caii’t^*'^ Oenter. You explain it.
Ti
onj. caine the day we received
one ,, After much fitting,
'lafpt down a line just
„A'-toria. b',.„+ •
as in a
iir.s
sock
. v*\;vvil a illiu JUM-
|*h first receiving shoes, troiis-
Coat '(A’*’ skirts, towels, blouse, over-
otbe’r niess kit, and many
^*'uiii When one emerged
I'obe,) ke coni]detely dis-
Pi’hceeded to jmt on every
Pieln,].-"* '‘'othing he had received,
'*‘g overcoat. At that point I
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for hauling horses, we
in tired, hungry, eager, curious
“ineSAtC. ix.C., FortEJe,!
No time was lost
to troops. Mine was D of the 1st
twhatever that meant). I soon
felnTd! Troop D of the 1st Squad
ron. I was to become very Camilla
with all the army terminology. >
we soon learned the hierarchy of
1 frmn Private to the "vaii
“."‘Tdis of Gccrals. We .ro«
Wtere 1.« S‘, ’ ,ta
shilling and went to oeti vwi.
Ef yc' !lc’rutbinVbrusK "tS
ana ^ p i addi-
i-as the familiar K. f • anu i
(we are Calvarnneu) stable
. Yes, I did that too!
Bv the end of our eight ^'’ccks of
• ■ r 1 liad become a squad lead
t,aining I 1 adibc
dSilby. I’- played many times
w
tion
Police
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HUGHES TENTH RECTOR AT SAINT MARY^S;
EDITOR OF North Carolina Churchman
MR. BIRD TO SAINT MARY’S . . •
was nearly suffocated, but was then
told to ascend a platform directly m
front of me with a 60 pound weight
on my back. This was to see it i
would be comfortable in my shoes
■hen marching with full pack.
I learned the meaning of the ex-
iire.ssion that a soldier can sleep any-
ime, anvwhere. I was utterly tired
and e.xhausted at the end of a day
To proceed in a big bound, I
icmcl .nysell brigl'* «>}f
Saturday morning, April U •»«
ened at 6:00 a.m. from my Pullman
berth, on a siding at Junction Ci y,
Kansaa. After tiding “J™* ,“^1)
■ « largo '.ratlor
A NevF Girl
Goes to a Party
Saturday night, hot though it was,
and tired though I ivas from my
trij) to town with my. “big sister,”
I squirmed into an evening dress,
squeezed my walk-weary feet into
sliiipers of the same category, and
trijiped down to the gym on the arm
of my staggering, but still sweet,
“big sister.” The reason for this
noble effort was a good one; all the
new girls ivaiited to meet all the
teachers and old girls, and idee versa.
When I first saw the receiving
line stretched halfway ’round the
gym, I wanted to turn tail and run
home, but after Sallie McKinley
greeted me so graciously at the door
and Mrs. Cruiksliank remembered
my name, I felt so good that I want
ed to stay and meet the rest of the
people. Besides, when I started
thinking the thing over, I decided
that I should consider myself lucky.
All I had to do was to walk around
the line, while the poor teachers
stood and smiled and talked for over
an hour.
With the formalities over, every
body who didn’t stand up sat down.
Before long, Sallie McKinley (I
like her so much), announced the
program for the evening. “Bootsie”
McDonald, a new girl, whose tap-
dancing was really “on the beam,”
held everybody’s attention until mu
sical requests and singing of school
songs provided other diversion. Soon
dancing became general, especially
when I tried to keep up with the
jitterbugs. Then at exactly the. right
moment punch was served. This
managed to cool me off, and soon I
found myself strolling slowly back
to my hall after a good time with
the old girls.
at the Service Club, over the radio
and in various near-by towns.
Finally that day came when I
had finished my basic training.
Practically all of my fellow trainees
dej)arted for parts unknown. I re
mained. To play the violin and
entertain? No! to be a Jeep teach
er! Yes! What’s that got to do
with the Calvary? It has been said
that a Jeep will do anything a horse
will do except turn around and go
home by itself.
It may sound as though my ca
reer, so far as a soldier, has been on
the light side, but through it all I
can assure you we think of the seri
ous side. We know why we are here.
War is a terrible thing. Many peo
ple have ideas of planning for the
future to avert wars. Let us heed
them and be thankful that we are
(See P. 4)
Leaves Concord to Become
Chaplain and Professor of Re
ligion Here
The Rev. I. Harding Hughes
comes to Saint Mary’s this year as
chaplain and j)rofessor of religion,
to fill the vacancy left by the Rev.
Henry Felix Kloman, who died this
summer. He resigned from All
Saints’ Episcopal Church, Concord,
N. C., in order to return to teaching
school, which he calls his “first love.”
Mr. Ilughes has been connected with
three schools. Saint Mark’s School,
Southboro, Mass., Saint George’s
School, Newport, R. I., and' Saint
Nicholas’ School, Raleigh, N. C.,
and the Kanuga Summer Confer
ence in the past.
“Parson” Hughes, as his parish
ioners affectionately call him, re
ceived his A.B. degree at the Uni
versity of FTorth Carolina in 1911
and his B.D. degree at the Episcopal
Theological School, Cambridge,
Mass., in 1914; in the same year he
also did graduate work at Harvard
University. He was rector at Holy
Trinity Church, Greensboro, N. C.,
for five years before becoming rector
at All Saints’ Church, where he was
for fourteen years.
Since Mr. Hughes has been at
Saint Mary’s, he has been appointed
chairman of the Consumer Educa
tion Program for this school in co
operation with the Ofiice of Price
Administration. He will continue
editing the Hortli Carolina Church
man from Raleigh.
Mrs. Hughes is the former Jose
phine Bowen, who attended Saint
Mary’s in the past, and Mrs. Charles
E. Perkins, Mr. Hughes’ aunt, was
Lady Principal here at one time.
The Hughes’ have one son, I. Hard-
iiig, Jr., a sophomore at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina and a mem
ber of the Naval R. O. T. C. there.
Saint Mary s Beloved
Chaplain Dies
The faculty and student body of
Saint Mary’s deeply regretted to
hear of the death of the Rev. Henry
Felix Kloman, chaplain here since
1934. Having retired last year as
chaplain of Saint Mary’s, he was
serving in Orange, N. J., when he
died from the effects of a stroke
August 29. Mr. Kloman was 72.
Mrs. Kloman, the former Eleanor
Marshall Trapnell, of Charles Town,
W. Va., died last Christmas Day.
-they are survived by three children,
the Rev. Edward Felix Kloman, rec
tor of Old Christ Church, Philadel
phia; Joseph Trapnell Kloman,
New York artist; and Mrs. Mark
Jenkins, wife of the rector of Cal
vary Church, Fletcher, N. C.