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53 m PERRY LEADS SENIOR CLASS Belles OF SAINT MARY’S BAKER IS NEW CHIEF MARSHAL Vol, XV, No. 12 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA April 10, 1953 Si- 01’, of :ice )ii; iiid :lgS les, sli, iiie .1111 mi- itli, oil, >al, till, iii- ee; ter, :er- iiiii .1116 of ■arf 111(1 ,rts up- 7111* era [iss [iss ist, ei’S, aBi laii, igS) iiiii lise iicy ber, itre of la.f; Old Student Body Elects Thayer Seniors Present Gay Follies, 1953-54 School Marshal You Can’t Take It With You Adams, Baker, Perry, Holt, Cobb Aid Chief Myra Tliayer, Pat Adams, Kay fiaker, Sara Cobb, Trissy Holt, and J'l'ances Perry were elected as mar shals for 1953-54 by the student body April 1. Myra, wlio received the highest number of votes, was au tomatically made chief marshal. The duties of the marshals are to take offering in chaiiel, lead chapel hues, usher at school entertainments, ®U(1 maintain order at all student 6ody meetings. , Myra, of Louisburg, is a member ! 6f the Dramatic Club, choir, Glee ^lub, and Orchesis. She is a Mu. ! Pat, of Fayetteville, is a member ®f the Canterbury Club and Dra- tUatic Club. She is a Sigma. I Kay, of Timmonsville, South ! '-^arolina, is a dance marshal and I * member of the Altar Guild and I ^IVCA. She is a Sigma. Sara, of Goldsboro, is a member ' the Canterbury Club, Doctor’s daughters Club, and BELLES staff, ^he is a Sigma. Trissy, of Ridgewood, New Jer- is a Mu cheerleader. Posture ‘Ueen, secretary of the Glee Club, a member of Orchesis, YWCA, ^nd Altar Guild. Trances, of Windsor, is a dance jj'orshal. Mu cheerleader, and a |oiiiber of the Canterbury Club, 'Tc/iesis, choir, and BELLES staff, ‘he Was recently elected president of 'u Senior class for 1953-54. iS Baker Serves As New Dance JChief . Kay Baker is chief dance marshal T*' 1953-54 as the result of a student ''hy election held April 8. Kay ^hcceeds Sara Fair. The other AUiinees were Virginia Harris, pPssy Holt, Barbara Seaman, l^rlotte Lilly, and Connie Shaner. pKay, of Timmonsville, South jj^i’olina, has been at Saint Mary’s . *‘ue years. She is a member of .bar Guild, YWCA, and is a dance ®*'shal and Sigma. ^^Polina Sigma Nu’s Grown Cowles Queen n ^allie Cowles was elected White Queen for 1953 by the Sigma ^ h fraternity at Carolina. Mr. u Mrs. Roy Armstrong and Mr. , d Mrs. Kay Kyser chose Sallie a group of twelve finalists at White Star Pledge ’ J)® Washington Duke i'ham March 28. ^ullie, of Statesville, is a Formal Hotel at ill mem- 5 (j.uf the Canterbury Club and is Finalists Compete For Badminton Win Laura Ann Travis, Kaney Mc- Iver, Flicka Keane, Sigma’s, Geor gia Moore, Jackie Steed, and Dec- dee Davenport, Mas, arc the final ists in this year’s badminton tourna ment which started March 6. The final games will be played sometime in the near future. Laura Travis, after defeating Pat Flowers in the first game, beat Alice Bost in the second round to become a finalist. Mclver won her games by default while Keane de feated Kelson to take her place in the finals. Other Sigma’s taking part in the tournament were Nancy Smith and Kell Eley. In the first games Georgia Moore, a Mu, defeated Mary Michal to be come a finalist for her team. Proc tor beat Conger, Kemper beat Ha mer, and Atkins beat Callaway. Steed and Davenport won their games by default to become finalists. Other Mu’s taking part in the tour nament were Glenn Lightsey, Char lotte Lilly, Carolyn Landis, and Frances McKeill. As soon as the other games are played, the winners will meet in the finals. Dates have not yet been set. NKW KDITOIIS Ann Scott Andei-son, “linlletin” editor; Irene Emory, ItEIiLES editor; Mary Windley Dunn, “SDis'o Coacli” wlitor. First Year Dramatic Students Present Delightful Short Comedy Thornton Wilder s Play Proves Entertaining Several first year students taking- courses in Speech and Theatre Arts, under the direction of Miss Florence C. Davis, ])resented the one act •comedy. The Happy ’Journey, in assembly Thursday, April 9. All properties, except two, were imaginary but their use was car ried with detailed pantomime. One of the stage props was an automo bile which consisted of four chairs; another was a couch. The play was written by Thornton 'Wilder. Wil der also wrote the Pulitzer Prize play in 1938, Our Town, and Shin o-f Our Tecih, the Pulitzer Prize play ill 1942. He wrote also the novel. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927. The cast of TJie Happy Journey was as follows: The Stage Manager, Elizabeth Allen; Ma Kirby, Mela Royall; Arthur (thirteen), Cor nelia Coleman; Caroline (fifteen), Mary Ann Smoot; Pa (Elmer) Kirby, Virginia Harriss; Beulah (twenty-two), Patricia Adams. Students expressed apparent en joyment in their applause and com ments. Original Songs, Skits Picture Life at SMS ^Senior Follies, You Can’t Tahe It ir//7/_ You. was presented in the au ditorium by the entire senior class last night, April 9, at 8:30 p.m. Gene Overbeck was in charge of the traditional musical comedy,, and Paula Whitakei-, president of the senior class, was her assistant. Committee chairmen were Louise Brand, script; Gene Overbeck, choreography and lyrics; Rachel Brooks,_costumes; and Kancy Booth, properties. Deedee Davenjjort and (iiiict .Harris, were the aceoiupu-' uists. Pom Canit Take It With You consisted of a series of original songs picturing the things the seniors will remember and miss when they leave Saint Mary’s. The first scene pictured Paula Sewell, and Peggy V\ ilhams, relieved at having just received their diplomas. Flashbacks tollowed, beginning with the first day of school when the girls reineni- beied how scared they were they first arrived at college. A scene on Hall Skit Niglit fea tured the talent of Deedee Daven port, Gene Overbeck, Harriet Har ris, Lsabella Mebane, Pat Ff and Barbara White. ^ In the Hall Council scene Ilaffye Sewell sang the solo. I’m Just 1 Chrl Who Can’t Say No. Other scenes followed, including the songs. The Infirmary, .1 Con- /^„TVM,s-,sTOowi, Day Students, and .il n ee/i’ End At Carolina. In the finale the seniors sang 1 ou Can’t Tahe ft With You ami with lighted candles, ended the jiro- witli Uhe .1 Tiny Spark of when lowers. gram Eire. _ Senior Follies is the only activity given by any class in which there ' no outside class or faculty mice. IS issist- Peery’s Piano Students Give Varied Program 1 itUio students of Mr. I’eery 2irc- sented a program of varied musical selections in assembly Ajn-il 7. Kancy Jones played first Arioso by Bach and then Pastoral by 1). Scar latti. Kext, Carolyn Foy jduyed Nocturne by Chopin and No. 5 Pre lude in I) major by Chasiiis. Ra chel Brooks, playing Reverie by De bussy, was followed by Ralph Bryan who played In Deep Wood, by Mac- Dowell, and May Night. Kancy Jones returned to jilay Impromptu by Shiibert. The program closed with Bailie Micham jilaying Noc- turno by Respigi and Whims by Schumann.
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