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The Belles of Saint Mary’s The Belles OF SAINT MARY’S Published every two weeks during school year by the student body oi Saint Mary’s School. Editor-in-Ghicf Ann Fripp Jones Circulation Hlgr...Sakaii “Judy” Taylor Faculty Adviser, Mrs. Alvin T. Wallace EDITORIAIi STAFF Neivs Editor Virginia Smith Feature Editor Logan Vaught Column Editor Anne Townsend Betty Beal, Luclle Best, Helen Boyle, Betty Ann Cooper, Etta Craig Dick, Helen Eppes, Katy Evans, Martina Fill more, Luck Flanders, Jane Gower, Gene Hines, Josephine Hoyt, Mary Craig Hunter, Clara Justice, Violet La Rue, Kosa Little, Betty Mardre, Iris Mc- Ewen, Eleanor Hope Newell, Nancy O’Keeffe, Barbara Pope, Mary Lou Pratt, Nancy Biddleburger, Elizabeth “Sis” Silver, Jean Strickland, Susan Taylor, Marilyn Whetstone, Ann Wicker, Martha Best Yorke, Edith Winslow. Headlines....YAAZATSETn “Sande” Childs Proofreading Nancy Pendleton Member Pbsocialed GDlIe6iale Press N. C. Collegiate Press Association YOU CAN STILL HELP “There were thirteen children and their parents all living in one room. On a cot in one corner, a child lay dead, and the others stared at us with listless eyes as they huddled together for warmth.” Our dull imaginations cannot comprehend the picture that Fred G. Sigerst, Red Cross representa tive in Bucharest, Rumania, de scribes. Nevertheless, it is a very true picture. With the cruel claws of famine sinking deep into the Europeans, the number of deaths from war-induced hunger has risen sharply this winter in Eu rope. “The worst catastrophe in this part of Europe for fifty years,” .starvation, is haunting most of the continent. Still the greatest mother in the world, the Red Cross is offering a helping hand to these people. This hand cannot help unless we, too, put food and other necessities into its grasp. The Red Cross drive at Saint Mary’s is over, but the hungry, wide-eyed children and other des perate Europeans are still plead ing for the human right to eat— and live. Could we help more? DON’T WAIT ’TIL IT’S TOO LATE , . . Shirley Smith was the average American girl, full of fun and not thinking much about serious, un pleasant things like tuberculosis. When she went blithely off to school, she studied hard, played hard, and worked as she had never before worked. She lost weight and felt tired; her voice grew husky. When the tubercidosis X-ray trailer came around, Shirley thought it silly to “have her pic ture taken” and ignored the op portunity. Now, Shirley is in a mountain hospital, thin, silent, and bitter under the wlute sheets of the bed that she must lie in for three more years. Shirley did not discover Important, Unusual New Books Arrive At School Library those tiny Spots on her lungs in time. Do you want this to happen to you? Don’t laugh, as Shirley did, for tuberculosis can strike out suddenly at anyone, at any time— at you—tomorrow. The free chest X-ray available in Raleigh now will tell you definitely whether you may be unknowingly infected with this dreaded killer, and if you are not, it will reassure you doubly. So the next time you go to town, stop by the X-ray trailer on Fayetteville Street for just a minute. You do not have to dis robe at all; it’s just like taking a real picture. You may be grateful for the rest of your life. Town Talk Granville Hicks, “ex-communist, writer, editor, and intellectual,” is the author of Small Town, one of the new books received by Saint Mary’s library. Hicks describes the life of people in a small town—what they think and talk about, how they react in various situations, and what their likes and dislikes are. He writes about the life in his small town, which he calls Rixborough, New York, not as an outsider would write, but as one who has taken part in the life of the community. It would be interesting for those of us who live in similar places to read Small Town and then to com pare the lives and emotions of the characters in this book to those of the people we know. Another new arrival, perhaps one of the greatest and most influential books of its kind this year, is F. S. C. Northrop’s The Meeting of East and West, subtitled “An Inquiry Concerning World Understanding.” Northrop, philosophy professor and Master of Silliman College in Yale University, through extensive travel in Mexico, Great Britain, and con tinental Europe, has sought a rea sonable answer to the problem of understanding the idealogical differ ences among peoples and races. The main thesis of the book is “that the traditionally alien cultures of the Orient and Occident are meeting; and that the working out of this meeting so that the values of each civilization complement and rein force rather than combat and de stroy those of the other is the chief task of the epoch just ahead.” Do I WaTe or Sleep? by Isabel Bolton is an unusual novel placed in the background of New York in May, 1939, wlien the World’s Fair with all of its gaieties blotted out of people’s minds for a short time the possibility of the approaching war. The plot of' this novel, cover ing only twenty-four hours, evolves from the thoughts of Millicent Mon roe, one of the three main charac ters. She observes and passes on to the reader the actions and the emo tions of Bridget St. Dennis, who is bound by political obligation to her abnormal, unwanted child in Nazi Austria. Miss Bolton uses her skill in arousing the interest of her readers through incidents which may not be exciting themselves, but the conse quences of which have great signifi cance in the course of the action. Isn’t basketball wonderful? At least Vivian Ellis, Armecia Eure, Mary M. Ragland, “Sis” Silver, Margaret Cummiiig.s, Trina Blake, Betsy Tom Lawrence, Adelaide Linelian, and Anna Lee Smith (former day student) think so. Armecia, Mary, Trina, Betsy Tom, Adelaide, and Anna Lee ivere sponsors for the Basketball Conference. Boy, oh, boy! Spring holidays are almost here. Everybody is going somewdiere. Dot Godwin is going to Sumter, S. C.; Vivian Ellis, to Asheville; Georgia Statli- acos, to Roanoke, Va.; Alargaret Cooper, to Charlotte; Peggy Pow ers, to Winston-Salem; Margaret Cummings, Barbara Pope, and “Sis” Silver, to Washington, I). C.; Shirley Pox, to Manchester, Ga., with Mary Montfort (a boarder). Edith Winslow is headed for High Point this week-end. For the next two iveek-ends she will be at Durham and Rocky IVIount. For the church—she says. Everyone is so excited about new dances, games, and Easter clothing that they can’t spare the time to tell us about their ivonder- ful plans. We hope the Easter Bunny is good to them all. Belles Spotlight Answers Question “Who is Sylvia?” “Who is Sylvia ?” is not a question around Saint Mary’s, for everyone knows that cute senior who’s always full of pep and fun! She’s Sylvia Green, from Williamston! Dance marshal “Sybbe” fills the job of Mu president very capably. She plans to go to Salem next year after graduation. Her pet loves are shrimp, her favorite food, and red, the color she likes best of all. She loves Carolina and the “Zetes”—and quickly added that Nag’s Head was the beach!! She’s fond of dancing and is real ly a “whiz” at knitting. Here’s to a gal who always has a big grin for everybody—“Sybbe”! March 14, 1941 We Campus Notes Miss Alice Bell was a represe®'' ative of Saint Mary’s School College Day at R. J. ReynoM” High School, Winston-Sak’*'' Tuesday, March 4. Miss Mary Ruth Haig, of l'*' music faculty, will take a trip Nassau during spring vacation- Miss Ann Arthur and Martha Wilkinson plan to go ** New York City during spring^'* cation. COl "B tllE "ii He Wt Vo Be tic ani Dr. Julia Harris, a Saint Mai’} ’| graduate, head of the English ! partment at Meredith Colkf^j ivas Mrs. E. B. Simpson’s gi®’* for dinner Sunday, March 2. # * * The Rev. Mr. I. Harding Hug^®^ ivent to Concord, March 4, fork funeral of a friend who was . neighbor during his residence > Concord. ;iti ino Xo Th, lie: lov tilt tic Because of illness. The -Bartram C. Cooper, Episcop* i Chaplain at Chapel Hill, was 'k. able to be at Saint Mary’s Mak 6 for the mid-week service. Bishop Thomas C. Darst, retik Bishop of the Diocese of Bast®'^^ Carolina, was mid-week preacl' i Wednesday, March 12. He Mrs. Darst and Mr. and Mrs. Smith were guests of the sd^, for dinner Wednesday eveiik^ Mrs. Smith, the former Marga'-.! Darst, is a former Saint Ma®! | girl and now lives in Raleigh- I >iUi the Bel hui the th, db b ; her tila teli Saint Mary’s Glee Club sing at the N. C. Interracial tl*’ t toi' vention to be held at the Bdem , Street Methodist Church Ma.f hee V hia Mr. Hughes will address ,, PTA of Broughton High Sch® March 17. hv 'hd tar, A basketball playday held at Meredith College Satui'^i afternoon, March 15. Teams Peace and Saint Mary’s have h® ( invited. ArJ Students Goggle-eyed, Thrilled With Appearance of Bob Walket It used to be Dick Ilaymes, but now it’s Bob Walker. Ever since Bob sang in assembly March 6 for swoonin’ Saint Mary’s, the student body has been waiting for Bob’s “re turn engagement.” Remember? Bob sang “To Each His Own,” “Sweet Dreams, Sweet heart,” “The Way You Look To night,” and “Sylvia,” which, accord ing to Bob, is one of his old favor ites. Although rushing for that all- too-familiar nine o’clock class, he sang “Always” as an encore. Own Radio Program For about two and a half years ton high school, after gradu®‘ jj Bob plans to study theologf Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory- ‘Those .luicy Steaks’ Bob’s favorite is “just drid’’'’j In fact, he admitted, “I’ve mania !” He’s also crazy about sA(|| ming, good thick steaks, beambfe ears* (aren’t we all?), and lookin’ women.” Also, he “rather be in the mountains_ anywhere!” About singing sembly. Bob said gaily, “I reauf |(. like it a lot, and I enjoyed but I’ve never sung for so k girls before!” _ Bob has been studying voice, “If Saint Mary’s was reluctant } to ■ Bob go, and “assembly disini®®jf. didn’t cause the usual stai ” Bob promises to hurry back) you’d call it studying,” he laughed. In January and February he had a local radio program. Now a senior at Needham Brough- staioP^f) ever, “just as soon as I get more songs learned!”
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