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Belles
OF SAINT MARY’S
VI, No. 2
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
October 9, 1942
feigeti to Perform in BARNES, LUCAS, SHERRILL, SUITER, SOAR WIN PREXY OFFICES
Civic Concert
Szigeti One of Four Great Vio
linists ; Fame Grown Steadily in
this Country
Joseph Szigeti, the noted violinist,
trill _ „ ^ ■ ,1 rt i
^vill perform next Friday in the first
a series of concerts sponsored by
ae Civic Music Association. The
'Concert will be held in the Raleigh
■^iernorial Auditorium.
For fifteen years Mr. Szigeti’s
,aiUo as a violinist has been steadily
'ncreasing in this country. Most
'^'’dics rank him as one of the four
§>‘eatest violinists of the day.
He was born in Budapest on
pPfember 5, 1892. From childhood
showed talent. His father and
uncle taught him until he had
°dtgrown their knowledge. Then he
j ddied under Jeno Ilubay, the great
luiigarian violinist and teacher.
,,lichen he was thirteen he made his
obut at the Royal Academy of
ddapest, and thus started his career
Elizabeth Barnes, Charlottesville, Va.; Betty Suiter, Wel-
V C • lauirie Lucas, Greensboro, N. C. Back row: Ruth Sher
rill, Charlotte, X. C.; Sallie SIcKinley, Birmingham, Ala.; Marjorie
Soar, Raleigh, X. C.
Front row
don, N
® a concert artist, for when he was
teen he had already played in Ber-
da and Dresden. lie spent six years
England giving concerts, some-
'kies appearing in joint recitals
dh Melba and sometimes with the
/^Qiposer Bosoni. From England he
jq'^j’ed France and Germa,ny. In
^ II Szigeti succeeded Henri Alar-
as professor of violin virtuosity
. the Geneva Conservatory. He
^Yed here until 1924. lie became
(See P. 2)
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PENDER LOOKS AT THE NEWS
The Youngest Belle
Stalingrad Stands; Stalin Declares Second Front ObUgations of AUies
Siege
Sl£
fills
Stalingrad still stands. As the
passed its 46th day, the Rus-
Sia ^^7 -
+1 Army Red Star came out with
comment: “There is
11 T^utious
a chance to hold and repulse
Perhaps the highest
oji given the Russians wm the
Sh'V ^ German military
s„m.°®uian who said, “Against Soviet
there is no chance of weak-
■ ^'g their moral —hit
ter
resistance by bit-
aj. ®^Periences. . . . The Russians
ij)g of both taking and giv-
Stalin, in his only direct
foj. utterance thus far to the
_ 'gu press, said Monday that
their drive without encoui^tering
Japanese opposition.
has apparently ceased all aloi g
Ja tanele supply trail to the coa^al
invasion base of Buna.
dium bombers were reported u have
attacked an airdrome at Buna and
other enemy island bases. L or tne
firS time in any land operations in
Sm Pacific, the Allies possess air
sunremacy over the Japanese.
T^Bie Aleutian Islands American
V™v for es have .dvanc.d 250
;io™ mile, nearer Japanese bases m
the North Pacific. The advance—
the first in this area since ‘F®
Inese occupied islands in the Wes -
Aleutimis in early ^ Jmi^wm
iVioiKiay inau a Aleutians m cany o,—.-
fion primary obliga- ^.aluable hours of flying time off
°f the Allies. “As compared ^ound trip bombing
givi fFe Soviet Union —
itgpip® fu tbe Allies by drawing upon
hian )) ® main force of the Gor-
Alli aid of the
fg,, fu the Soviet Union has so
fifiii little effective. Only one
fiiat^/i” I’equired to make it more so:
fionUr Allies fulfill their obliga-
r Hilly and on time.”
^omit^*'*fifi'iis advancing in the
uiiis of New Guinea continue
and* offers possible jump-
fngmff points for an actual amphib-
not identify tlmm «pec ficalH-
President Roosevelt last weeK
gned and wrote into law the anti-
^ (See P. 4)
SI
The youngest girl at Saint Mary’s
is one of the most talented. She is
serious, brown-haired Janet Rosser
from Vass, N. C., who just turned
fourteen October 3.
Janet comes from a music loving
family; so it was quite natural that
she should start taking music lessons
at an early age. Her parents and
all her older brothers played the
violin, and when she was four Janet
expressed a desire to follow the fam
ily tradition. Her father, hearing
of a good violin teacher in near-by
Southern Pines, promptly engaged
him to teach his daughter. From
that time on until Janet came to
Saint Alary’s this fall, F. H. Ponish,
an Austrian by birth, has been her
teacher. During these years Janet
showed remarkable progress, making
several amateur records and giving
three recitals.
Last spring a friend, hearing that
Rubinoff, the great violinist, was
going to play in Raleigh on Alay 16,
suggested that Janet come to hear
him. When she arrived in Raleigh,
she went straight to the Sir Walter
Hotel where Rubinoff was staying.
After waiting an hour, she was able
to secure an interview. Rubinoff
came down into the lobby and asked
her about her studies, requesting
that she play for him later on in the
day. That afternoon after the con
cert, Janet went to his apartment
and played a number of scales and
Fritz Kreisler’s “Schom Rosmarin.”
Rubinoff enthusiastically admitted
that she “had talent and absolute
pitch.” He advised her to work
very hard to develop her technique
before she was fifteen if she wished
to get anywhere in music.
Janet is studying freshman work
in school and taking violin lessons
(See P. 4)
McKinley Elected President of
Seniors last year; Three New
Presidents Former Class Offi
cers; Three Former Students
This week the three underclass
men classes elected as their presi
dents, Betty Barnes, Junior Class;
Laurie Lucas, Sophomore Class; and
Ruth Sherrill, Freshman Class. All
three of the girls had been class
officers before entering Saint Mary’s.
The Business Class elected Betty
Suiter, president, and the day stu
dents voted Alarjorie Soar their
leader. Sallie Alclvinley, Birming
ham, Ala., president of the Senior
Class, was elected last spring.
Last year Betty Barnes, of Char
lottesville, Virginia, was a student
at Saint Margaret’s, Tappahannock,
where she was president of the
junior-senior class. When asked
what she thought of Saint Alary’s,
she instantly replied, “I love it. I
like the people, but I wish it were
in Virginia.”
Laurie Lucas, whose home is in
Greensboro, was very active in stu
dent affairs_ at Saint Alary’s last
year. She is the former freshman
class president, and was outstanding
as a dance marshal, captain of the
second basketball team, a AIu, and a
member of the Glee Club. Before
entering Saint Alary’s, Laurie at
tended Greensboro Central High
School, where she was president of
the student body and also president
of the Girl Reserves Intersehool
Council, a civic organization.
Ruth Sherrill, of Charlotte, is a
former student of National Cathe
dral School, AVashington, D. C.,
where she was vice-president of the
sophomore class. She was also prom
inent as a cheerleader, a member of
the choir, basketball team, hockey
team, and tennis team. Architecture
and laboratory technique interest
Ruth most. Ruth was very hesitant
in speaking of herself, but when
asked how she liked Saint Alary’s,
with a definite air replied, “I’m
crazy about it. I love it to death.”
Betty Suiter, AVeldon, N. C., was
a student at Meredith, where she was
treasurer of the Astro Literary So
ciety and golf manager, before she
entered Saint Alary’s. Here she is
a member of the Doctors’ Daughters’
Club, Altar Guild, and Political
Science Club. Betty volunteered,
“I’m wild about the business course
I’m taking. I like it better than
anything else I’ve ever studied.”
Marjorie Soar, of Raleigh, N. C.,
entered Saint Alary’s last year from
Needham Broughton High School.
In high school she was secretary of
the senior class, president of the Girl
Reserve, and a member of the honor
council. At Saint Alary’s she is a
member of the E. A. P. Literary
Society and the Dramatic Club.