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IS lightsey, house, MURRAY CONCERTS SOON Vol. XIV, No. 13 Belles OF SAINT MARY’S COMMENCEMENT APPROACHES RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA May 9, 1952 Seniors Entertain Students With ”SMS Through The Ages” ^hole Class Joins In Musical Presentation Senior Class presented Senior Fol- entitle “Saint Mary’s Through he Ages” in the school auditorium ilay 6. ^ii’st scene showed Helen Sanders hs I)r. Sniedes taking the site of ®^nt Mary’s from the Indians hy .Tpiiig a coin. Dr. Smedes lost his , but he promised to return as a gbost. Second scene was a dining room oaint Mary’s when it was a boy’s n with a take-off on Miriali and walena. Scene three was Saint Mary’s hool, transformed into a girl’s during Civil War days. The eiting event was the Yankee raid. ^ Scene four portrayed a weekly .®*'hi'day night dance (girls danced I ^gilds) during the gay nineties ' 11 take-offs on the present Saint ^^jhi'y’s faculty, and scene five show- ^ n hockey game in the Flapper j, six portrayed Mr. Moore’s t)o. 31 class, with Mr. Moore ^h'ayiiig liimself. p W seniors participated in the tile production was under Se, ■ ^’^ipei’vision of Ann Patterson, ’'ll’ class president. ^*chal Is President Doctors^ Daughters itj^^^tors’ Daughters Club elected '8 for the coming year April bj^.j^^hry Michal will succeed Jeanie i2jj..®i'®on as president of the organ- vi^,p°ii- Paula Whitaker is the new f)ej,j'hi'6sident and Deedee Daven- , Is the secretary-treasurer. C') I ’”'D of Boone, is the under- b’oi*’”?ii representative to Honor a member of the Dramatic and Canterbury h; She is a i¥u. ■e»- Of of Kinston, is a member , ^ogisla'tive body. Circle, and She is a Sigma. Next tlig will serve as president of n?’°i' class, and news editor of y^ELLES staff. Caj.y.’^oC’ of Timmoiisville, South W ,”iHj is president of the Mil’s, a N V*' Letter Club, Circle, . ^CA. She will serve as a next year. ® club is planning a banquet Apj,® Keiiilyn House for May 15. have as their guests Miss ^ ^Y^i and Miss S. E. Jones; ■ ’■'-aylor is their advisor. Pat Boesser Reigns As Queen Of SMS May Day Festivities Juniors, Seniors Enjoy Annual Dance Saint Mary’s Juniors held their annual Junior-Senior dance in honor of the senior class in the gymnasium 8:30 through 12:00 Saturday, May 3. Previously the Juniors had se lected Stairiuay to the Stars as the theme and Eoy Cole and Orchestra as entertainment. The decorations followed the star light theme, and under the direction of Syb Hamer, chairman of deco rations, the juniors converted the gym into a moonlight paradise. Couples entered the gym through a silver archway bespeckled with stars and danced under a blue crepe paper ceiling interspersed with strings of silver stars. Hanging from the cen ter of the ceiling was a huge lighted Moravian star. Clouds and stars cov ered the blue walls of the gym and on one of the end walls was a glit tering silver half moon. The center attraction, however, was the band stand around which swung two curv ing stairways reaching to the top of the gym. The stairways, covered with glittering stardust, and the sil ver railing completed the theme. Stairway to the Stars. Composing the receiving line were the presidents of both classes and their dates; Dr. and Mrs. Stone; Miss Alartha Dabney Jones; and Aliss Livernian, junior class advisor. During intermission refreshments of cookies and punch were served from a table covered with embroid ered white cloth and centered with a large bowl of varicolored flowers. The figure took place during the first part of intermission. Those composing the figure were the officers of both classes, the Honor Council representatives, the Student Government officers. Hall Council officers, and the committee chair men. Alumnae Association Head Speaks At SMS Mrs. Lela'nd Miller, of Richmond, Virginia, president of the Alumnae Association, talked to the students in assembly yesterday about Saint Mary’s when she was here and about the girls in her graduating class. Mrs. Miller graduated from Saint Mary’s 38 years ago with .sixteen other girls. At graduation the girls wore white dresses, long white stock ings, and no lipstick or rouge. The rules then were quite different. No boys were present at dances and a girl was shii^ped for walking down to the “Little Store.” After Mrs. Miller left Saint Mary’s she real ized that even in strange cities there was a bond of friendship among Saint Mary’s alumnae. Mr. Hughes Chooses Chapel Officers Rev. Mr. I. Harding Hughes chose the chapel officers for next year May 3. Acolytes are Becky Gordon, Lucille Overton, and Anne Peo])les. Bebe Correll, Haffye Sew ell and Virginia Timberlake are Servers. Crucifers are Georgia Moore and Emily Urquhart. Rachel Brooks is Choir Mother. Becky, of South Hill, Virginia, is a dance marshall, business man ager of the BELLES, a member of the YWCA, and is a Mn. Lucille, of Newport News, Vir ginia, is a member of the Glee Club and is a Sigma. Anne, of Pittsboro, is a member of the Canterbury Club, Altar Guild, Granddaughters Club, and is a Mu. Bebe, of Laurinburg, is a member of Canterbury Club, choir. Altar Guild, Granddaaighters Club, and is a Mu. Haffye, of Erwin, is a Sigma cheerleader, a member of the choir. Glee Club, and Canterbury Club. Virginia, of Roxboro, is a' member of the Canterbury Club and is a Sigma. Georgia, of New Bern, is a mem ber of the Altar Guild, Canterbury Club, Granddaughters Club, and is a Mu. Emdy, of Woodville, is editor of the BELLES, vice-president-elect of the Canterbury Club, a member of the Altar Guild, Orchesis, Grand daughters Club, and is a Mu. Rachel, of Roxboro, is secretary of Honor Council and is a Mu. Margo Hester Heads SMS Canterbury Club Saint Mary’s Canterbury Club elected officers for the 1952-53 ses sion A2)i'il 29. The members elected Margo Hester president; Emily Ur quhart vice-president; Genua Tini- berlake secretary; and Nancy Booth treasurer. Margo, of Tryon, is a member of the BELLES staff. Circle, Dramatic Club, Stage Coach staff. Beacon, and xVltar Guild. She is Saint Mary’s representative to the North Caro lina' Canterbury Commission and a Mu. Emily, of Woodville, is 1952-53 BELLES editor. She is a member of the Altar Guild, Orchesis, and Granddaughters’ Club. Emily is a Mu. Genna, of Roxboro, is treasurer of the junior class and a Sigma, Nancy, of Charlotte, is a member of the BELLES news staff and typ ing staff, nominating committee. Stage Coach business staff, and Al tar Guild. She is Hall Representa tive and a Mu. Members Of Orchesis Sponsors Annual Event Saint Mary’s held the annual May Day festivities Saturday, May 3, on the oast campus. The theme was “Toyland.” Members of Orche sis, under the direction of Miss Peg gy Cameron, sponsored the event. Pat Boesser reigned Queen of May Day, and Myra 'I'liayer at tended her as Maid of Honor. The court included Nancy Boston, Nancy Bowles, Barbara Carter, Margaret Cheatham, Syb Hamer, Eve Har grave, Libby Huffman, Flicka Keane, Catherine Morrison, Lois Perry, Anna Redding, and “Peeps” Williams. The princesses wore strapless bouffant evening dresses in i)astel shades with net stoles and sheer matching garden hats. They car ried boiKiucts of snaj)dragons and fern with trailing variated ribbons. Maid of Honor, Myra Thayer, wore the same styled dress as the princesses but in aqua with a pink garden hat trimmed in aqua. She carried a bouquet of j)ink carnations and snapdragons. ()ueen Pat’s dress was made of white tiered ruflled tulle with au un derskirt and bodice of white satin with cap sleeves. The bodice was trimmed in hand-made white satin roses, silver sequins, rhinestones, and seed i)earls. Her dress had a train thirty feet long and a Queen Eliza beth ruff. 'I'he Maid of Honor crowned the ()neen with a coronet of satin and lilies of the valley. Pat carried a bouquet of white lilies of the valley. The i)ageant opened with the ar rival of Grandfather, Bimcy, and Bill, portrayed by Alice Hicks, Gene Overbeek, and Helen Setzer, in Toy- land. Jan Winders, as the mis chievous imp, welcomed them and called the toys from the Doll House to dance. After the court’s arrival, toy fairies si)rinkled the land with fairy dust, and the Teddy Bears had a picnic. Next Buncy and Bill eag erly watched the puppets dance and the soldiers march. After the pretty French Dolls danced, the toys formed a corridor for the departure of the queen and her princesses. When the toys went back to their storybook pages, Buncy and Bill regretfully left Toyland.