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STUDY FOR
EXAMS
Belles
GIRL BREAK
SATURDAY
OF SAINT MARY’S
/ol. IX, No. 7
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RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
January 18, 1946
' Old Clothes Drive Sponsored
By Circle Is Great Success
1 300 Pounds of Old Clothing Is
I^onated by School
drive for old clothes sponsored
by the Circle was held Thursday
; ®ight, January 17, to collect clothing
the desolate people of Europe.
Eli^tiss Mabel Morrison opened the
brive by giving a short talk in assem-
y Thursday morning on the con-
'•itions in Europe and the desperate
rio®eed for warm clothing for the peo-
P _ Miss Morrison’s earnest speech
I t^ispired the students to make gener-
donations. A friendly letter of
na sympathy will accompany the clothes
,uf' ° give encouragement to the people
® 'vhom they go.
j "Approximately 300 pounds of old
f ° '''SI’S donated by students and
acuity. Around 113 sweaters, 30
pairs of shoes, 13 coats
^jackets, and many scarves, hats,
^blo undergarments, and
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Were given.
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tj bhe Circle expresses its apprecia-
bo the school for everyone’s
earty
co-operation in making the
a success.
Partrick Will
Bible Course At
ugious Conference
ha^^by churches here in Raleigh
yg ® Teld for the past six or seven
bate^* ''’biat is known as The Insti-
Peld Religion. This conference,
*'aa in January and Eeh-
®®tin^’ to Raleigh many inter-
jcouuf *t*cakers from all parts of the
Th'^^'
h k y®®^' the city-wide conference
bemn, u.n n , y United Church
EGON PETRI WILL PRESENT
PIANO RECITAL JAN. 22
Petri Is Great Teacher As Well
As Master of Technique
Egon Petri, pianist, will present
a concert at the Memorial Audito
rium on January 22 under the aus
pices of the Raleigh Civic Music
Association. Although Mr. Petri
has appeared several times in North
Carolina, it will be his first concert
in Raleigh.
Mr. Petri, a native of Hanover,
has made tours in the United States
and almost all of the European coun
tries. He has studied under Buch-
maver, Carreno, and Busoni. Hav
ing recently become a citizen of the
United States, _ he is at present a
teacher of music at Cornell Univer
sity. He is acclaimed as being a
very great teacher as well as a mas
ter of technique in his playing.
Among the numbers that he will
play on January 22 are: Chaconne
by Bach-Busoni; Sonata Appassion-
ata by Beethoven; Prelude Chorale
and Fugue by Cesar Franck; a Rus
sian group of Rachmaninoff pre
ludes ; and some of the shorter pieces
^by Prokofieff.
RECREATION ROOM WILL
BE IN HOLT BASEMENT
New Boiler System Will Be In
Operation Next Fall
Many improvements are being
made at Saint Mary’s now after the
long wait for the end of the war.
The improvement of perhaps the
greatest interest to the students is
the decorating of a recreation room
in the basement of Holt Hall. This
basement is of an excellent size for a
recreation room for the student body
and it has long been the plan of the
school to convert this into an attrac
tive room for relaxation. Now that
supplies and workmen are available,
the work has been started and the
room may be ready for use by
spring. The electricians and plas
terers are at work now, and when
they complete their job, the floor will
be tiled. After that it is only a ques
tion of finding suitable and attrac
tive furnishings for the room. The
plans are to have bright colored
leather upholstered sofas and chairs,
a milk bar in one corner at which
will be sold drinks and candy, a vic-
trola for dancing, and other means
of recreation.
A contract has also been made for
complete new boiler equipment at
Saint Mary’s, which will include a
100-foot brick stack. This new
plant should be in operation by next
fall.
Plans have also been made for im
provements in the kitchen and on
the roads.
Do’s and Donts for Exam Week
•• •'«
.'ISDOro Rtrpof
ijUU‘*®boro Street. Beginning next
fej.g^^y night, January 21, the con-
i^„ nrill last for six weeks, meet-
a Monday night. Each year
tbig nn the Bible is taught, and
stufi; i-he New Testament is being
^iblft ’ ^Ars. Theodore Partrick,
Latin teacher of the Saint
®ourg ^nculty, will teach the Bible
as r ®nd Mrs. Partrick has chosen
Pel ®®^iect “Readings in the Gos-
coafg John.” Besides the Bible
tbej.g®’ Mrs. Partrick stated that
as ^ *^^'0 varied courses given, such
lioiig on international rela-
^ouiirf 1 course for the parents of
"'ig children.
ctice^k .Monday night the confer-
''vith a fellowship dinner
''ario,,'^ % one hour classes on the
®ei(t V,* courses being taught. The
file ^L® meeting is held in
church where
®P6aker^^^^ given by a selected
Mtb a meeting is concluded
*''®Hiberperiod in which
are given
V ^tunity to ask questions.
Although a few Saint Mary’s girls
are still recuperating, the majority
of us have recovered from the shock
of getting back to work after vaca
tion. A few sad souls, however, still
drag themselves from class to class,
occasionally gazing at a new identi
fication bracelet or some other new
acquisition to remind them of the
long-past Christmas.
The more ambitious ones have al
ready started marking off the days
in anticipation of spring vacation
(incidentally there are about 61
more days, 1,464 more hours, and—
oh well, who’s passing algebra any
way).
But before spring vacation there
is the little matter of exams, which
really aren’t so bad (that’s a joke,
a joke that is!). The lucky girls
who can go home afterwards are al
most looking forward to them.
But as a whole the halls are al
ready becoming quieter and quieter
during study hall, more and more
“Do Not Disturb” signs are up, and
Roger Gant Donates
),000 To St. Mary’s
everyone is miserly saving her late-
light.
About the only thing one can do
to keep herself alive during exams
is to stock up on candy, doughnuts,
etc., and go to see a “Van Johnson”
picture the Saturday before.
Seriously though, about these
exams. There is a right way. Fig
ure’ out how many hours you’ll need
for study for each one and make out
a schedule, and don’t just make it
out, follow it. Get your three meals
a day too, ’cause no matter how hale
and hearty you are you’ll begin to
feel the lack of good substantial
food. Those late lights are perhaps
the biggest thing. Don’t take any
more than you have to because they
really make for a groggy mind and
that hangover feeling when you face
those blue books in the morning.
As for a little more adviee about
exams—^keep calm, don’t cram at the
last minute, and don’t burn the mid
night oil—Oh wait! What am I
saying?
This Is Largest Single Gift to
Centennial Fund Yet
The Saint Mary’s Centennial
Fund has received a gift of $40,000
from Roger Gant, a member of the
Church of the Holy Comforter, Bur
lington, Bishop Edwin A. Penick,
chairman of the board of trustees of
Saint Mary’s School, announced a
few days ago.
Two years ago Mr. Gant gave
$2,000 to the Centennial Fund in the
names of his two daughters, Erwin
and Catherine, who attended Saint
Mary’s School.
Mr. Gant, who expressed a hope
that the $42,000 he had given could
be used in the erection of a building,
will be further consulted by school
authorities as to his wishes, it was
learned.
This gift of $40,000 is consider
ably larger than any other single
gift so far contributed to the Saint
Mary’s Centennial Fund.
In commenting on Mr. Gant’s gift,
Bishop Penick said, “I earnestly be
lieve that such a magnificent contri
bution as this will quicken the inter
est and generosity of other benefac
tors of Saint Mary’s School within
the owning Carolina dioceses.”
MB’S ARE VICTORS IN
HOCKEY TOURNAMENT
Mary Moulton Scores Four Out
of Nine Goals Made
There seems to be unusually keen
competition this year between the
Sigma s and the Mu’s, the hockey
tournament proved. The tournament
consisted of three games, the first
being played on December 3, the
other two games being played on
Monday and Thursday of last week.
The Mu’s won the first game by a
score of four to two, with Helen
Barnes the high scorer. The second
game was won by the Sigma’s with
the score five to one. Moulton and
Lee were the high scorers for this
game. The Mu’s won the tourna
ment by defeating the Sigma’s in the
final game by the score of five to
two. Des Champs was the high
scorer of this game. For the three
games Mary Moulton succeeded in
scoring four goals out of nine.
Members of the Sigma team are as
follows: Royall, Cooper, B.A., Lee,
S., Moulton, Williams, R.L., Daw
son, Campbell, Strickland, Wilson,
N., Lewis, A., Norfleet, DeBerry!
Members of the Mu team are: Des
Champs, Johnson, K., Barnes, H.,
Smith, V., Dickey, J., Bowler,
Green, S., Pratt, McLaughlin, An
drews, C., Smith, B., Barnwell, H.
The hockey manager is Jean Strick
land.
Twenty-five points toward the
(See P. 3, Col. 3)