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DUKE-CAROLINA
OCTOBER 16
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VII, No. 2
A^gatha Ghipley Elected
l^resident of E.A.P.’s
Societies Ask Students to try
Per Membership
Agatha Chipley, of Raleigh, was
I'eceiitly elected president of the E.
A. P. Literary Society for this year.
Agatha served as a dance marshal, a
lieniber of the Legislative Body and
the Granddaughters’ Club, and as
f'litor of the 1943-44 Ilandhook this
year.
The new constitution for the E.
A. P. and Sigma Lambda Societies
"’as approved at a joint meeting
last week. Attendance at the meet
ings this year will he voluntaiy, ut
aach member is expected to take an
active part in the jirograrns. Hie
Societies have planned their year s
Schedule, which consists of book le-
"iews, essays, poetry, debates, shoi
stories, and outside speakers.
. New members will be initiated
Alto the societies on October
Aiij^ student is eligible for meinbei
sliip who submits a composition
"’vitten especially for the societies.
These compositions will be judge
V a special committee compo^d ot
the two faculty advisers, Aliss Euck-
att and Mr. Moore, and several oia
members. The candidates who sub
mit the best compositions wiU be
i Invited to become a member of either
^ nf the societies. .
Belles ’ first issue sells
$88 IN WAR STAMPS
1 Friday night two weeks ago vas
' nveutful in that the first copies ot
T/ie Belles were distributed, and
I nloiig with them went many defense
^fatnps. It was the first of a series
m stamp sales initiated so that every
8irl could put at least 5% of her
monthly allowance in stamps each
^^bie they are sold. On the vho e
Ihere was splendid co-operation,
.'23i girls bought 351 stamps, tota
*ng $88.00. This is an average ot
*^bout 35c per student. The record
far has been set by first floor
jtolt, and a very good record it is,
‘?r the 15 girls living there bougnt
^mty-two 25c stamps, averaging over
^ dollar for each person.
, The amount of sales on the othei
^nlhs is as follows:
^nd East Rock...
West Rock ...
^ml West Rock...
East M^'ing ...
^nd East Wing...
■^nd East Wing...
^*nl ^Smedcs
"^nd Smedes
AVest Wing...
^*id West AVing.
^nd West AVing...
mid Holt
•^'■d Holt
$3.50
5.25
6.00
6.25
4.25
1.50
6.00
7.00
5.75
7.75
4.25
8.25
5.25
Many S.M. Girls Worked
During Vacation
Most Students Held Secretarial
Positions
Returning Saint Marys’s girls have
wondrous tales to tell about their
summer vacations. _ Alost of them
drifted in blissful idleness. Others,
not having got their fill of academic
studies, spent part of the summer at
school The rest ventured out into
the business world. The summer
jobs were in various fields.
' The majority tended toward sec
retarial occupations. Fanny_ Lee
Brooke says filing is “interesting—
von get paid.” Sally Ramsey thinks
operating a telephone is a nice job
if you like sitting down all day.
Frenchie McCann secretarmd to a
lawyer, Mary AHrginia Freeman
worked for her father and I oily
Blanton typed and filed at Cheiiy
Point, Alarine Air Base; her com
ment : “I love it”—the work natur
ally. Jeannette Parker worked for
an insurance company, Clara Eeigh
Kemper was a typist at a textile
mill, and says it was a wonderful life
while it lasted. AHdette Bass worked
ill an office in AATlmingtmi, Helen
Batchelor helped keep the^ county
tax books in order. Pinky Butle
was handy girl around ^er c^sin s
office for a couple of weeks, Liz
Petesch typed and filed, -Barbam
Kay was secretary to her fathei,
and Amy AVarner was secretary to a
lawyer who was “rather young and
rather cute.”
More individual was Margaret
Winslow as X-ray technician at a
hospital just for the experience.
Sister Smith worked in a hospita
laboratory “doing
ibiiiP-s” Alary Louise Alai tin was
pen-isor of a playground for litt e
children, Foxie Clarke was lifeguaid
and “ran the swimming pool too,
and Gladys Cherry substituted foi
a first grade teacher. Chnstine
Krusen worked in the P°®^
a week till she “got fired Charlotte
Crawford worked m a
ery and tea room where she did ai
sorts of things and had a wonderful
time” Peggy Cates was secretary
1^’ coiiJlor at a camp, and
Frankie Shainburger taught arche y
to the “little kids” and says it was
quite exciting.”
neav senior officers
Chinkie Martin was elected secre
tary-treasurer of the senior class a
the^ first meeting of the year las
week. Bettie Gaither was elected
senior representative on the Honoi
Cmincil- and Carol Talbot a senior
Lounc , Spveral days later
tl,e officer,
" ,hc Al..r oliM. Alma Young
? , .psident, Charlotte Crawford is
vice-preilent, and Amy AA^arner is
secretary. The chairmen of the
\ltar Guild Committees are Alice
C aig, books; Clara Leigh Kemper
brass; Betty AVinslow, linen; and
Lib Shaw, silver.
Servant Shortage at S.M.S.;
Students Volunteer to Help
Mrs. Rembert’s First
Invasion of Europe
Airs. Augusta Rembert, the new’
art teacher at Saint Alary’s, has
taken a trip to Europe as all good
art teachers should. This trip she
took w'ith tliree friends, none of
whom could speak French and all of
whom were “perfectly ignorant and
very young.” They had what Airs.
Rembert called a “rather _ Our
Hearts Were Young and Gay time.”
Their exjieriences, she said, w’ere
“awTiilly dumb—but, you see—we
•were dumb!”
Airs. Rembert and her party, after
landing in Holland, W’ent to The
Hague and to Amsterdam, wdiere
they saw Rembrandt’s “The Night
AVatch.” Airs. Rembert called this
hnge picture the painting in Europe.
From Holland the friends went to
Brussels, w’here the three were so
eager to take the inexpensive third
class coach rather than the second
class recommended by the porter,
that they failed to realize this third
class coach gave them a day’s jour
ney rather than a few’ hour’s ride.
Consequently they arrived in Paris,
alone and lost, at one o’clock in the
morning. Only by chance did they
find a hotel.
STUDIES AT LOUVRE
As the purpose of her trip w’as to
study oil painting under the re-
now’ned artist, Andree L’Hote, Airs.
Rembert enrolled in L’llote’s class
only to find that her teacher could
not speak English! Alost of her
studying Airs. Rembert did in the
Louvre.
After six w’eeks in Paris, Airs.
Rembert and her three friends rent
ed a Ford and took a month’s trip
through southern France. Travel
ing, Airs. Rembert said, “off the
track of the beaten tourist!” They
went anywhere they pleased, “for
some obscure reason or for no reason
at all” The south of France, Airs.
Rembert decided, was as different
from the north of France_ as our
south is from our north. Life there
W’as carefree, very delightful, and
entirely different from anything she
had ever seen. People were friendly;
now’here but in southern Franee, she
thonght, w’ould one find a duke who
w’ould personally show’ strangers
through his fairy-tale-like, medieval
castle. Often one could ride for
four or five hours before coming to a
town. The most striking thing Airs.
Rembert found about these remote
little towns was the monument to
their native soldiers, killed in the
first AVorld War. It seemed to Airs.
Rembert as though there were more
dead than living in such places. The
(See P. 4)
Eight Students Aid in Library;
Gym Next in Line for AVork
One of the recent w’ar crises to
pinch Saint Alary’s is the present
servant shortage. Airs. Cruikshank
recently suggested that girls volun
teer to w’ork in the library, the gym
nasium, and anywhere else they
might be needed. Not only are
servants hard to get, but those avail
able are usually inexperienced and
often only temporary; this fact puts
a heavier burden upon the rqliable,
good servants w’ho have been here
for many . years. xVs a result of
Airs. Cruikshank’s plea, tw’enty-one
girls volunteered to help in keeping
Saint Alary’s clean and orderly.
Eight were allotted to the library to
dust books and keep the tables and
chairs in order. Because the situa
tion W’as not so severe in other
places, the other girls have not yet
been called into service, but their
names will be kept on record. It is
hoped that any others W’ho would
like to will list their names with
Airs. Cruikshank so she can call on
them when they are needed. Of
course, girls thus helping will he
offered pay for their services.
Never before in the history of
Saint Alary’s has a situation arisen
when the girls were called on to do
volunteer w’ork. The fine response
to the request shows the patriotic
spirit of the girls.
Alany schools and colleges have
suffered much more drastically than
Saint Alary’s from the servant short
age, but a survey of the situation
show's that Saint Alary’s girls are
equal to any occasion. Innumerable
ones have said they w’ould wait on
tables, clean rooms, or do w’hatever
else might be necessary to keep Saint
Alary’s going.
Regardless of their background.
Saint Alary’s girls seem determined
to fill in and complete any work
the servant shoi’tage would leave
undone.
Sigma’s, Mu’s Cavort,
Burlesque Faculty
Colorful figures in blue and white
and in red and white flitted about
the dim campus last Saturday night
as though things really w’ere afoot!
Excited whispers of “Sigma’s and
AIu’s—what’s the last line of that
song . . .” broke the darkness as the
girls gathered in their respective
places to march into the gym.
Sigma’s entered the gym first
marching in single file as they sang
“Sigma’s AVill Shine Tonight.”
When the Sigma’s settled down, the
AIu’s marched in chanting “Sigma’s,
the AIu Team Is After You Today.”
(See P. 4)