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if' If The Belles of Saint Mary’s January 12, 1951 Sigma-Mu Basketball Season Begins With High Hop es For Coming Games Athletic Department Arranges Games With High Schools Here Sigma-Mu basketball season has begun at Saint Mary’s. It appears that many treats are in store for the student body during the forth coming tournament. The cheerlead ers are brewing secret plans. The athletic department hopes that it can arrange for games be tween Saint Mary’s and Hugh Mor- son and Heedham Broughton high schools in Kaleigh. The department wants the Sigma’s to challenge one, of the two schools and the Mu’s the other. These games would be played before the tournament between the Mu’s and Sigma’s begins. The first game of the tournament will be played February 22, the sec ond February 27, and the last March 1. The team which wins two out of the three games wins the tournament and gains more points toward the plaque. Both Sigma’s and Mu’s have or ganized teams and are practicing each Alonday and Thursday in the gym. So far thirty-two Mu’s and twenty-six Sigma’s have reported to practice. The Sigma potentials are Franky Allen, Jane Berryhill, Pat Boesser, Alice Bost, Martha Bridger, Sally Dalton, Kay Daniel, Kancy Daw- .son, Chris Durham, Mary Faddy, Nell Eley, Mary Fuller, Jean Glover, Peggy Gregson, Gwen Griz- zard, Alice Hicks, Buth Hines, Judy Murdock, Evelyn Oettinger, Jean Page, Marion Page, “Bimbo” Parsh- ley, Eunice Saunders, Ann Stevens, “Timmy” Timmons, and Nancy Woodruff. Some of the Mu’s are Anne Brans- ford, “Beeps” Buchanan, June Bul lard, Laura Chapman, Betsy Clem, “DeeDee” Davenport, Betsy Dunn, Kitty Fisher, Ebba Freund, Juliet Fulghum, Jess Gant, Linda Gariss, Grace Gordon, Sally Hackney, Syb Hamer, Sally Hojie, and Anne Jones. Polly Larkins, Glenn Lightsey, Allen Loy, Louise Milliken, Mary Jane McDowell, Anne Pearson, Lois Perry, Beverly Rutter, Vicki Sted- man, Lou IJrquhart, A1 White, Sue Woodward, Frances Atkins, Mary Dorsett, and Emilye Patton are other Mu’s. Ping-Pong Tournament Will Start Next Week The ping-pong tournament will start Monday, January 15, with Sally Dalton as manager. Anyone interested in playing in the tourney may do so. The Sigma players will play other Sigma’s, as will the Mu’s. Winners of the two teams will play each other for the tournament championship. Ping-pong is a minor sport and counts 15 points toward the sports plaque. Mrs. Guess stated that a badmin ton tournament will start in the near future. The j)ing-pong tournament was won last year for the Mu’s by Nancy D(!rrickson, of Morehead City. Twentyi'Two Girls Begin New Life Saving Course Twenty-two Saint Mary’s girls are now taking a Senior Life Sav ing course under Miss Hilda Liver- man. The course is to take fifteen hours, and there is to be a two hour exam at the end of this [leriod. The class meets every Wednesday after noon from four o’clock until five- thirty. In order to be eligible for the Life Saving course each girl must be at least sixteen years old and be able to dive and to swim a quarter of a mile. Upon finishing the course and passing the final ex amination, each girl will receive forty points in the Letter Club. Registration Begins For Coming School Year Registration for the 1951-52 ses sion at Saint Mary’s has begun. Forty-two returning seniors, eight returning juniors, and eighteen re turning sophomores have registered. Thirty-eight new juniors, five new sophomores, and fifteen new fresh men have also registered. Two new commercial students have registered. Returning students have room preference until March 1, 1951. Raleigh Civic Music Association Presents Cellist, National Quartet V arious Assemblies Entertain Students Second-Year Speech Students Read Works of Deceased Poet The assembly program on Decem ber 12 consisted of poems presented by second year speech students in their study of oral interpretation of literature. Several years ago Edna St. Vin cent Millay gave readings of her poems at Saint Mary’s. In honor of the recently deceased poet, several of her poems were selected for the assembly program. The program began with “A Prayer for Peace” and “Now That the West Is Washed of Clouds and Clear” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, read by Elizabeth Nooe and Suzanne Robinson respectively. The rest of the program consisted of a ballad, “The Boll Weevil Song,” read by Jean Summerlin; “The Home Burial” by Robert Frost, read by Katherine Armistead, and “Christ mas Trees,” also by Robert Frost, read by Juliet Fulghum. The assembly program of January 4 consisted of a talk on the values of the cello by Mr. Grieves, music instructor at the State School for the Blind and violin teacher at Saint Mary’s. The purpose of Mr. Grieves’ talk was to acquaint the student body with the workings and history of the cello as a background for appreciation of the cellist con cert at Memorial Auditorium that night. AT THE THEATERS (January 12-27) AMBASSADOR 12-13 Mr. Mu.sic. Bing Crosby, Nancy Olsen. 14-16 Watch the Birdie. Red Skelton. Breakthrougli. Siiniiiier Stock. Gene Kelly, Judy Garland. 24-27 All American GI in the Philip pines. Tyrone Power. 17-20 21-23 WAKE 12-13 Conflict. Holiday Rhythni. 14-18 Fortune of Captain Blood. 19-20 Blondie’s Secret. King of the Bulhvhip. 21-25 Good Humor Man. 2 6-27 Backfire. Hold That Bahy. 12-13 14-16 17-18 19-20 21-23 24-25 COLONY Tea for Two. I’ll Get By. The AVhite Tower. >Iy Friend Irma Goes West. Jackiiot. Jimmy Stewart. Here Come the Co-eds. STATE 12-13 Marine Raiders. Pat O’Brian, Ruth Hussey. 14-17 Born To Be Ihid. Zachary Scott, Joan Fontaine. Right Cross. Dick Powell, June Allyson. 21-24 Walk Softly, Stranger. Joseph Cotton, Valli. 25-27 A.sphalt Jungle. Louis Calhern. 18-20 12 13 VARSITY Die Fledermaus, a German opera in technicolor. Music in the Moonlight. Vera Vague, Jerry Colonna. 14-17 Convicted. Glenn Ford. 18-19 Let’s Dance. Fred Astaire, Betty Hutton. 20 Gun Ho. 21-26 Macbeth. Orson Welles. Audience Hears Entertaihi®^ Music at Memorial Audltoriu® Many new improvements were made around the campus during the Christmas holidays. There is a new covered way between West Wing and the Chapel. This covered tvay replaces an old deteriorating frame structure. The gym floor and the floor on second Smedes have also been reworked. Several alumnae visited the cam pus during the past weeks. Beth Harris, ’50, was a visitor January 5. She is from Wilmington, N. C. Vir ginia Ann (Ginny Ann) Landis, ’50, and “Sissie” Rhodes, ’50 H.S., visit ed the campus January 6. Both “Ginny Ann” and “Sissie” are from Charlotte and attend Queen’s Col lege. Miss Hilda Liverman became en gaged to P. C. Bryant, Jr., over the Christmas holidays. He is from Woodland, N. C. Mrs. Munger, representative of Sweet Briar, visited Saint Mary’s January 8 to talk to students inter ested in going to Sweet Briar. Mrs. Munger is director of admissions at Sweet Briar. hlehee by Rimsky-Korsakolf. _ j intermission the Natio^^ After iiiicimissrun me Male Quartet presented first by Handel, a majestic number, R, lowed by Scarlatti’s Gia il sole Gan^'e, a dawn song. , Omnipotence by Schubert was 0’^ quartet’s next piece, which sho"^ great dignity. j More popular numbers fofio''.j These iiich“> j on the program. iiiese luci^- ^ Passing By by Henry Purcell a" Where’er You Walk by Handel, O' romantic numbers. Tally-ho "■ Franco Leoni was a fine presentaO®" b.v of hunting. The Two Grenadie^e ^ Schumann was martial and paP''°*Jj, All Through the Night was fully and tenderly performed. ^ rack and Old Man River, two ® favorites, were also presented. quartet also sang On the Rood Mandalay by Oley Speaks. The quartet returned for fou*’ ell' tR cores, Soyne Enchanted PoeninU’^ Donkey Serenade, Big Broivn ’ and the Lord’s Prayer. Miss Jones Speaks Students In Assern^^*^ Miss Martha Dabney Jones the speaker at the assembly ,jc on January 9. She took as her tol the necessity of an education j,{ illustrate her point used this Greek quotation, “The difference tween an educated person j|,e uneducated person is the same a® ^ difference between a broken h and an unbroken horse.’ This simile was eharacterisy her talk. Miss Jones pointed self-control as a quality to be c'^ Abated by all who wish to be oi a® society. • til® There are three ingredients i’ good life: learning, earning) yearning. pill®’ cycle: safety A girl’s life fraternity pins, clothespins, pins, safety pins. The Raleigh Civic Music Associa tion presented Baya Garbousova, cellist, and the National Male Qu®!' tet at the Raleigh Memorial Audi' torium Thursday, January 5. Aliss Garbousova first played a sonata by Henri Eccles, which coff' billed somber, measured moveineid® Avith vivacious, more lively ones. Next on the program was TscDa koAvsky’s Variations on a Theme. This was comprised of theme and seven variations, shoAViU? all the range and contrasts of t®® cello. Next was A Young Maiden’s by Stravinsky, which showed tfl® moods of a young girl from mel®” choly to sudden passion. La Jota by Manuel de Falla AA’a’ next presented. It Avas played AVid) all the traditional fire and beauty Spain, as was the next nuinbc’’' Spanish Dance by Pablo de Sarasat®' Miss Garbousova was called bac for two encores, .a haunting meloV by Gluck and the Flight of the Vo; Si 1 tea: for 8ig and ieii for I Seci of Do( kiei Gri Clu a V tile I the "lii Tin Hiei of, tioi: jeai 'ons tot this I oeec Mtl ^ro ary of Jfu Pail «f f II t'ill to l'( Pior T ’’an 'otn ^iv’e Ve ais 'ta. 0 Mt, een ill tils ‘\e c Hr a, ■>ll Si
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