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The Belles of Saint Mary’s
December 8, 19^^
The Belles
OF SAINT MARY’S
Published every two weeks during
school year by the student body of
Saint Mary’s School.
Entered as second class matter De
cember 7, 1944, at Post Office, Raleigh,
N. C., under Act of March 3, 1879.
Subscription $1.00 a Year
Editor Mary Prances Allen
Associate Editor Virginia Mowery
Eews Editor Eunice Saunders
Feature Editor Jean Lang
Headline Editor..Mamy Jane McDowell
Chief Copy Reader Laura Chapman
Business Manayer Evelyn Oettinger
Circulation Manager Stella Cobbs
Faculty Adviser C. A. P. Moore
Reporters
Xancy Bernhart, Claire Boone, Dot
Crawford, JIargaret Cheatham, Edith
Cross, Sally Dalton, Martha DeHart,
Chris Durham, Xell Eley, Linda Garrlss,
Sally Hagood, JIargo Hester, Martha
Hood, Lou Keller, Ann McCulloch, Alice
May, Dorothy Morris, Kitty Neal, Allen
Loy, Ann Nelson, Jane Nisbet, Julie
Nolan, Ann Patterson, Mary Jo Paul,
Anna Redding, King Risley, Tonia
Rowe, Shep Rustin, Sue Anne Saddler,
Pat Stonham, Barbara Stott, Mary
Sutton, Sabra Swink, Virginia Turley,
A1 White, Nancee Winders, Beaufort
laiw. Sue Harrison, Caroline Cobey,
Mickie Shannon.
Circulation
Julia Steed, Martha McGuirk, Anne
Rixey, Grace Woodson, Sandra Sims,
Peggy Hooker, and Alice Hicks.
MEMBER OF
N. C. C. P. A.
Belles of Saint Mary's
go
late
JANE LANG
Town: Rehoboth, Virginia.
Hair: Brown.
Age: 19.
Eyes: Brown.
Pet peeve: Too much work.
Always heard: “I’ve gotta
study.”
Always seen: Getting up
BELLES articles.
Hobby: Collecting salt and pepper
shakers.
Favorite food: Deviled crab.
Favorite song: Stardust.
Favorite perfume: Woodhue.
Looking forward to: Christmas in
Virginia.
Ambition: To get caught up.
Wild about: Rehoboth!
Offices: Feature editor of BELLES,
YWCA, Sigma.
Remarks: Smart, conscientious,
sweet.
THANK YOU
SANDRA, RIXEY
Editorials are said to be the least read but the most important part of
a newspaper. At least that opinion has held for the BELLES. This
customary neglect makes interest when it is shown all the more appre
ciated. The editor would like to take this opportunity to express her
appreciation to Anne Rixey and Sandra Sims for their response to an
appeal in the last issue of the BELLES.
The appeal previously made to all students was that school spirit he
increased through more and better school songs. Rixey and Sandra have
composed some appropriate words and set them to the tune of the VMI
Ring Waltz.
The new song in its first introduction to the students seemed to be
received wholeheartedly. It is to be hojied that they will remember this
when they gather for song fests or whenever they raise their voices
in song.
Remember these words:
There are stars shining bright above
And below there’s a school that we love.
There’s none to compare with the loyalty there.
As we dream of Saint Mary’s dear.
Of her praises we’ll always sing
^Vnd her mem’ries forever will cling.
As we go through the years
' Through gladness and tears
Saint Mary’s we’ll never forget.
Even if this song is well received and adopted as an official school song,
it will not completely fill the need. There remains a definite demand for
a peppy school song. Saint Mary’s and the BELLES will be deeply
grateful to any student who will help satisfy this need for more school
songs.
CHRISTMAS: GRASP
ITS FULL MEANING
There are no
One can only
Christmas! the very name kindles warmth and good will,
words to describe the very special quality of Christmas,
feel it. The loved, familiar carols wafting over the streets, the snow scenes
in the window decorations, the bustle of the Christmas shoppers contribute
to that feeling that is called Christmas spirit.
This Christmas-tide the world is deeply troubled. The Christmas season,
nevertheless, lends its spirit to people in all conditions. This year an
American’s Christmas spirit should have a deeper meaning because of the
sadness and strife which prevails over all the earth. Because people find
themselves burdened with anxiety for loved ones either in the field of battle
EUNICE SAUNDERS
Town: Lumberton, N. C.
Hair: Brown.
Age: 19.
Eyes: Brown.
Pet peeve: Quarterly tests.
Always heard: “I don’t know.”
Hobby: Collecting stamps.
Favorite food: Lemon pie.
Favorite song: Always.
Favorite perfume: Chanel No. 5
Looking forward to: Christmas
cation.
Ambition: To graduate.
Wild about: Carolina.
Offices: Secretary of senior class,
news editor of BELLES, Sigma,
Canterbury Club, Altar Guild.
Remarks: Cute, baby talk, depend
able.
va-
The world is divided into' three
groups; the small group who makes
things happen, the larger group
who watch things happen, and the
multitude who never knows what
happens.—Donis Barnard.
AT THE THEATERS
(Dec. 8-31 )
8- 9
Great minds discuss ideas; nor
mal minds discuss events; small
minds discuss persons.
—Paul Flowers
AMBASSADOR
To Please a Ijady.
Clark Gable,
Barbara Stanwyck.
10-12 Sunset Boulevard.
William Holden,
Gloria Swanson.
14-21 King: .Solomon’s Mines.
Debora Kerr, Farley Granger.
COLONY
The Sheriff’s Daughter.
Two Flags West.
A Life of Her Own.
The Flame and the Arrow.
Burt Lancaster.
17-19 The Petty Girl.
8- 9
10-12
13-14
15-16
8- 9
10-12
13-14
15-16
17-19
WAKE
I Shot Billy the Kid.
Tough As They Come.
Popeye Makes a Movie.
Caribou Trail.
Blonde Bombshell.
Bagdad.
Iroquois Trail.
Fighting Command.
8- 9
STATE
One Way .Street.
James Mason, Dan Duryea.
10-14 All About Eve.
Bette Davis, Anne Baxter.
Undercover .Story.
Cargo to Capetown.
Brian Crawford.
15-16
17-19
VARSITY
Prince of Foxes.
Tyrone Power, Orson Welles.
Under the Red Robe.
REMEMBER THERE
WILL BE OTHER PETITIONS
Christmas Spirit!
Ain’t It Wonderful
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While roaming about one
recently, trying to find out an
signment, I bumped into
Christmas Spirit personified. ^
certain Saint Mary’s junior
“visiting” and leaving luscious UP®
red apples as calling cards.
The Christmas spirit is truly
the air again. It’s wonderful! Tt
perfumes of good will, cheer,
osity, anticipation, and happD®®;'
are spreading their scents. Exch®,
babble of what’s gonna be doi"
during the holidays is everywlFi®'
It’s the Christmas spirit
makes the Christmas season,
instance, the most wonderful P**"
about Christmas presents is ®
what is inside the wrapping, ®
the Christmas spirit that pnt ^
pretty paper around it and tied t,
pretty bow. This same spi'i
prompts us to do the many Id
things during the Yuletide seas>^
Avhich make it the happiest seas')
in the year.
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It’s this spirit which
those surprise gifts that can t c®.
;0]U^
from Santa in
stocking,
llkf
.your
having your mail brought up on
urday morning, or a coke ^
downstairs after nine-thirty, ^
piece of pie from the Toddle
when you’re taking a meal ®
(when even a ham biscuit from
dining room is welcome), or
your laundry hunted out
pile and carried upstairs. ,
Christmas spirit does aina^'
- - rese»d
things! And the nicest pi'*’
don’t always come in packages
Sense of humor: What m»
you laugh at something which
make you mad if
‘“6 " 1 te
it happened
you.
-Quoted by Virginia Tomli>
Stubbornness does have if®
fill features. You know what }
help'
■ou
are going to be thinking tonioi
10-12
13-15
16
17-19
19-20
The Wonderful Lie.
F'aney 1‘aiits.
Bob Hope, Lucille Ball.
Hii;h Seas.
Adam and Evelyn.
Three Came Home.
vllO
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Undoubtedly there is no one in the Saint Mary’s student body ivl-
acquainted with the recent petition presented to Doctor Stone concei’|.^.j
an earlier departure from school for Christmas holidays. This is tl*®
petition in many years which the entire student body considered an
id ®«1>'
ported. Each class met individually and decided to support this
A committee composed of highly outstanding girls presented the petite®’*
Doctor Stone and explained its contents.
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This petition was rejected and naturally there were many girls
disappointed. Consequently many girls have carried their disappoim^j^
to criticism. There have been those who have said, “We’ll just get g,”
the school by not studying the Monday and Tuesday before we go
Of course there are many who were disappointed who thought the P®*
even though not passed, achieved for the students a moral victory i®
ing that they could co-operate in something they wanted very badly. ^
- _ the kind of spirit that should be commended, the kind of spirit that
or about to enter it, and burdened with their fear for the preservation of a school and makes the students who show that they can work togeffi^jj pc
civilization and our way of life, more and more of them are unconsciously a common goal. Although this petition was not accepted, there '"'’Lye
seeking for something in which they can find strength and consolation. many more petitions for Dr. Stone to consider. Since the student® 'g,jc
As a result of celebrating the birth of Christ, many will feel comforted showed their ability to organize and co-operate the faculty"and (H
and strengthened. Through the ages He has been for Christians the hope may be able to consider further a petition which might come uP ”
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