Belles
Saint Mary’s School Library
OF SAINT MARY’S
^ol.
Xll, No. 6
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
December 9, 1949
Expands Membership
^Ti'istmasiConcart
Saint Mary’s Glee Club will
annual Christmas con-
ui 1 the auditorium Thursday
So« ^®?ember 15, at 8:30 o’clock,
aj "'^ich the Glee Club will sing
}>^u following: Carol Of The
Of Mary
Tq V Ruggero Vene; Glory
V Handel; Susanni a 14th
with a solo sung by
Westbrook; Behold That
y Burleigh; Say What Is This
Blagstad, Norwegian so-
'‘8h in concert at Ba-
Monday
'''®8iiar’ 28. The great
*'''^0^(1 Soprano presented the
Big current series
^'•atioa*^' Bie Civic Music Asso-
Tlr ■
attracted a capacity
hc'al]y hich a])]>lauded enthusias-
familiar Wag-
rernian songs, as well
lier
'*cr r, •
flip f.®®. "'g11 known Grieg sung
nf N'orwegian and a
i 'CVr'’’''"'' ““s-'-
h-p„,„ ^d^stad’s greatest appeal is
^’’^cip),.| **' voice, one of the few
>fial /y powerfnl to fill the .Me-
ai'Hst' ’foi'iuuin without strain.
I’^'^suali^ j’^'BGcted her tones with
to 'Betion, but her ten-
^I'Deir ° fo pitch was not
B.e lower regis-
tl'' ^'ieh • voice was warm
'Vao,’ ”}. B'g U])i)or registers
“ « slight stridency.
*’ R^gst.ad’.s i‘R(K;i{.A>r
litoRrni
h> Lci),, .•/ '»
Miss
'^'lip
V,.
';ort.
Ba di
am was as
aum,” from
agner; “Du hist
bv
'11^ ” f f,'*'  ,
• "'oiu Die Wulkure
111.-’ Oer 1/ Mtisik. by Scbu-
Schubert;
Ip.'*aia; 1, . >neiiie (ledanken. bv
'"^Olte), I'^tndc, by Strauss;
; I) ■'•■'c >>oJten, by
•DBjner enhaad pa
^jp o''®’ cii Vandliljc.
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D Srane,
J^iedei T’
^-aafer,,' )}‘‘>gaer; ^ow
1, Kramer; Rain
;V Barber: The Happy
;iiaa
|Si
'J\ly, It > *'^^,7 '' iHll 16 1 ni6
by T'j Compelling; arranged
; Tour Slovak Christ-
V Kountz; 0, Come 0
soa„. f^^nuel a 15th century plain
bv't) frod Our Father a duet,
Kifp. Two French Carols by
Tr^g 1 ’ ^ Sat Under A Sycamore
horf^ y Warlock, Say Where Is He
kp „ y Hendelssohn and Dame Get
‘' ® carol.
Flagstad Sings
Raleigh Audience
Ic \ ’ by fi ,*-“**); Song in Lonc-
and Sight, by
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Pictured above is a sroup of the decorating coiiiinittee working liard to com
plete tlieir work before tlie senior dance tomorrow night. Shown are Monie
Rowland, Hellig Hainey, Cjnthla Davis, Duke Hill, .Joann lales, and Lila
Rousseau, cliairman.
Seniors Give Yearly
Christmas Pageant
Saint Mary’s senior class will pre
sent its traditional Christmas pa
geant in the chapel, Sunday, Decem
ber 11, at 5:30 p.m. “Message to the
Shapherds,” “Holy Family,” “Jour
ney to Bethlehem,” “Joseph’s Dream
and Flight into Egypt with Mary”
will be the four of the scenes in the
pageant. The student body will join
in singing the processional, 0 Come,
III Ye Faithful, and in the reces
sional. Hark the Herald Angels
Sing.
The cast includes the following:
narrator, Helen Brundage of 1 ryoii,
the Virgin ilary, Rosalie Huske of
Fayetteville; J o s e p h, Elizabeth
Brown of Biderwood, Miir^^ltiiid,
l)ages, Shirley Fox of Raleigh and
Katherine Boyette of Caithage;
angel messengers, Sylvia^ Xewson of
Charlotte and Anne Frank Stro-
snider of Goldsboro; angels, Eucile
Best of Clinton, Anne (''ahoon of
Burlington. Aurelia Fulton of \Val-
nut Cove. ^largaret M'ilkins of Dur
ham. Suzanne Dawson of Craniei-
ton. Eunice Bizzell of Goldsboro,
Elizabeth Harriss of 'Wilmington,
Patty Starr of Xew])ort. Tennessee,
Edmouia Rowland of Sunitei, S. (..,
Patsy Ann Davis of Diez.
OTHKR (’.\.ST MKMHKHS
Other cast members are: wise men,
Anne Shuford of Arden, Carolyn
Kizer of Brevard, Barbara )\ ooten
of Gastonia; shepherds, Katie Un
ion of China hake. California Sara
Anne Proctor of Marion, Betty-
Brown Lewis of Charleston, West
Virginia. Alice AVik-^on of Ihomas-
ville. Binford Chew of 'Waynesboro
vwinhi. .Toscphiiie Gaither ot
Seniors Anticipate
Christmas Dance
The animal Senior Dance will
take place at 8:30 p. m. in the
Saint Mary’.s gymnasium on Sat
urday, December 10. AValter
Plemnier’s eight-piece orchestra
will provide the music. Mij Plem-
nier is from Tarboro, North Caro
lina ; he has played at the Dunes
Club at Morehead Beach and at
one of the debutante parties this
year.
Virginia Ann Landis, chief
dance marshal, ivill lead the fig
ure. Others i)artici])ating in the
figure will be as follows: Rosalie
Huske, class president; Beth Ilar-
ri.ss, vice-president; Anna Frank
Strosnider, secretary; Eunice Biz
zell, treasurer; and Alice Wilson,
Legislative Body Reiiresentative;
Barbara Wooten, President of the
Student Government; Aurelia
Fulton, vice-president; Anne
Badgei- Smith, president day stu-
(Cont. on P. 4,
Charlote, and Betty Ray of Faison.
At intervals an iiivi.sible choir will
be heard singing Christmas music.
The so))ranos are Carolyn 'West
brook of Dunn, Betty Ann IVilliam-
son of Cerro Gordo, Suzannah Dell
of Hickory, and Suzanne Friday of
Charleston, S. C. The altos are La-
Xelle Edwards of Goldsboro and
Elizabeth Kent of Kings])ort, Ten
nessee.
The i)ageant is jjroduced under the
direction of Miss Florence C. Davis
and Mr. Russel Broughton, assisted
by the production staff: Elizabeth
Everage of A])palachia, Virginia,
Jean Lutz of Hickory. Martha Nash
of Bluefield, 'West Virginia, and
Julia Scott of Leaksville
National Honorary Fraternity
Increases Membership By Nine
Sigma Pi Alpha, national honor-
ary language fraternity, has added
nine new members to its member
ship. Three of the nine are new girls
here at Saint Mary’s. The new mem
bers are as follows: Mimi Lynch,
Katherine Armistead, Virginia Gil
liam, Lucile Best, Alice Wilson,
Elizabeth Everage, Carolyn Kizer,
and Frankie Strosnider.
XEAV MEMBEltS
Mimi Lynch, of Winston-Salem,
is a member of the BELLES and
Stage Coach staffs, the Glee Cluh,
Canterbury Club, Altar Guild, and
a Mu.
Katherine Armistead is from Kin
ston and a member of the Glee Club,
Dramatic Club, Canterbury Club
and a Mu. ’
Virginia Gilliam is the third new
girl to be taken into the society.
Virginia is a day student.
Lucile Best, Clinton, is a mem
ber of the Letter Clnb, a hall coun-
ciler, a Mu cheerleader, and a mem
ber of the Canterbury Club. Lucile
is editor of the Stage Coach and
president of the Circle.
Alice 'Wilson is from Thomas-
ville. She is in the YWCA, on the
BELLES and Bulletin staffs. Alice
is the swimming assistant and chair
man of the Legislative Body.
Carolyn Kizer, of Brevard, is a
member of the hall council, the Can
terbury Club, and on the Stage
Coach staff.
Underclassmen Choose
New Beacon Members
Four new members were taken
into the Beacon, underclassman
honorary society at six o’clock on
the morning of December 5. This so
ciety took in Jnlia IMcCutcheon,
Georgia Baxter Kennedy, Frances
"Wyatt Johnson, ami Xedra Gil
more.
Julia MeCuteheon, of Durham
IS a member of the YWCxV the
BFILLES staff, the Doctor’.s Daugh
ters Club, and a ilu.
Georgia Baxter Kennedy of Wil-
iiiGinber of the
llLJ.t.ES circulation staff, a Mu.
and the sophomore L(>gislative Body
K(‘]iresentative.
Frances Wyatt Johnson of Belle
Haven, Virginia, is a member of the
Dramatic Club, the YM^CA, and a
Mn.
Xedra Uveridge Gilmore of Xi-
e lots, S. C., is a member of the
Granddaughters Club, the YW(’A
the BELLFIS circulation staff a
higma, vice president of the Doctor’s
Daughters Club, and the treasurer of
tiu* sopiloniore class.