The Belles of St. Mary’s
March 26, 1954
Student Government Conducts Miss Emily Kimbrough Speaks
1954-’55 School Elections
Bestf Wallace In
Leading Positions
111 elections held during the third
week in March, the St. Mary’s stu
dent body chose' its chairman of
Hall Council and vice-president of
the Student Government Associa
tion for 1954-’.55.
Elected as chairman of Hall
Council was Jane Best. This ca
pable junior graduated from Fre
mont High School before entering
St. Mary’s this year. During her
first year at St. Mary’s, Jane has
been chosen captain of the Sigma
basketball team and is a member of
the all star basketball team. She is
also a member of the Granddaugh
ters’ Club, the Glee Club, YWCA,
YDC, and Sigma Fi Alpha.
Anne Wallace, an attractive
junior who came to St. Mary’s from
Oxford, was elected vice-president of
the Student Government Associa
tion. Anne, who is vice-president of
the junior class, is also a member
of the Dramatic Club and has taken
leading roles in productions
throughout the year. She is a mem
ber of the YWCA, YDC, BELLES
staff. Stage Coach staff, and is a
Mu.
Before Enthusiastic Audience
Author Stresses
Language Deficit
Miss Emily Kimbrough amused
an enthusiastic audience of student*?
faculty, and townspeople Monday
night, March 22, in the St. Mary*
auditorium. Miss Kimbrough, wha
is the mother of twins, once worked
for the fashion department of Mai'"
shall Field’s department store.
While she was working there, the
manager of the Ladies Home Joui'
nal visited her and asked her ^ to
work for the magazine. Miss Ivnii'
brough accepted the job and did *®
well that she herself soon l)eeaino
manager. She now spends her tune
writing and giving lectures aboin
her personal experiences. MoS;
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New SGA officers (from left to right); Anne AVallace, vice-president;
Harriett Maialre, president; and .fane Best, chairman of Hall t^onncil.
Juniors Announce Students Elect Qood, Welsh
Future Officers ’54-’55 Publications
During the past week the junior
class elected three girls to serve as
its officers for 195L’55. Although
not elected by the whole student
body, these officers will play an im
portant part in student government
next year.
Sara IValters will officiate as
president of the senior class next
year. Sara, a capable Greensboro
girl, is quite active in sports and
is captain of the Sigma volleyball
team.
Toni Briggs and Margot Ham
mond will serve as Honor Council
Xew editors for the 1954-’55
BELLES and Bulletin are Martha
Good, of Eichmond, Virginia, and
Lane IVelsh, of Monroe, respective
ly. Both girls profess a particular
interest in journalism.
Martha is a veteran newspaper
worker, for she was an editor of her
high school paper. She excitedly
claims that her election is the high
light of her junior year at St.
Mary’s. Among her ambitions for
BELLES staff, Martha is a Sigma
and a member of the Sigma Fi
Alpha.
Lane Welsh’s activities include
membership on the BELLES staff,
in the Dramatics Club, in the
representatives from the incoming next year’s BELLES are plans to
senior class. Toni, whose home is achieve a closer relationship between
YIVCA, on the Bulletin staff, and in
the Sigma Fi Alpha. She is a
strong supporter of the ALu’s. Lane
also represents the junior class in
Honor Council. “Being editor of
the Bidlethi pleases me very much,”
she beamed. Since she plans to
major in journalism at the Univer-
right here in Raleigh, is a member
of the Granddaughters Club, YDC,
Sigma Fi Alpha, and is a AIu. Mar
got, another Greensboro belle, is a
(lai)ce marshal, a member of the
Glee Club, the Canterbury Club,
Sigma Fi Alpha, and is a Sigma.
the student
paper. Besides
and
heading
government
that the experience will be invalu
able.
Campus
Notes
First-Year Girls
Give Voice Program
Three of Miss Geraldine Cate’s
first-year voice students gave an as
sembly program on Tuesday, March
16. Mary Louise Miley sang The
Bitterness of Love by Dunn. Caro
lyn Warlick’s selections were Vergia
Tutto Amoji by Durante and Zueig-
nung by Richard Strauss. Feggy
Sullivan, a special student, is a
junior at Keedham-Broughton High
Mai-tha Anne Horne and Ralph
Bryant, piano students of Donald
Beery, won first places in this dis
trict in an all-state high school con
test. They are now entitled to com
pete in the finals which will be
lield in Greensboro in April.
Mr. Beery served as a judge in
the same contest for the Salisbury
district held at Catawba College,
March 20, 1954.
AMBAS.SAHOR
23-27 Host* Marie. Howard Keel.
28-3 The Naked .Jiinsle.
Elenore Parker.
J- 6 Phantom of the Hue Jloi-f^e.
Patricia Medina.
The ^Vlumni Council will meet
here at St. Mary’s March 26. The
School and will soon take part as president. Miss Elizabeth Smith, of
the leading lady in her high school’s
production of Down, in the Yalley.
Beggy sang “Lonesome Dove” from
that opera.
The students were accompanied
at the piano by Mrs. L. S. Winton.
Goldsboro, tvill preside oyer the
meeting.
VARSITY
23-26 Jlr. Potts Goes to Moscow.
George Cole.
2 7 Skirts Ahoy.
Esther Williams.
28-29 AValking My Baby Back Home.
Donald O’Conner.
30-31 Titcfleld. Thunderboat.
1- 2 An American in Paris.
Gene Kelley.
3 To the Shores of Tripoli.
John Payne.
There will be a Civic Music Con
cert IVednesda’y, April 7. Gina
Bachauver, pianist, will perform.
VHjBAGE
23-24 Saskatchewan.
2 5-31 The Bigamist. Ida Lupino.
1- 7 .Inhilee Trail. Forest Tucker.
popular of her books about hw’se
is Our Hearts Were Young
(lay, written with Cornelia Oh’
Skinner.
Miss Kimbrough first assured h*^*
audience that the things she writf*
about really happen to her but
answer to a popular question.
slic
admitted that she does not kuo^'
why such incidents befall her.
told many anecdotes about hei'SC ^
and her family, including storiP-''
about her travels. She cikUhI ^
a story about her trip to IraiW
with her twins. She said that
though her twins had taken I
li
while in school, they were unable
speak the language fluently eiioui-^
to be understood. After the stok
she emphasized the fact that a vek
ini])ortant part of our education
day should be learning to speak
foreign language. She pointed o'_
that many jobs are open to s]ieake>'
of a' foreign language. j
Miss Kimbrough’s talk pi’oA'
most entertaining.
sity of Yorth Carolina, she feels
„■ tli^
AT THE THEATERS
Officers have been elected foi’
Young Democrats Club, which .
formed here at St. Mary’s ear M
isideiit
' virf'
lUl'
COLONY
23-25 .Ala.ska Seas. Jan Sterling.
26- 1 Martin Luther. Niall McGinnis.
2- 3 Overland l*acifie.
4- 6 .Julius Caesar. Marlon Brando.
Dawson, of Stantonsburg.
C. A. B. Moore is the faculfiV
viser. The officers were instalw'
Thursday night, March 25, by -. ^
Mary McGhee, a Yorth Cai’O •
Yational Committee Woman-
The purpose of the Young
crats Club is to help the j
Democratic party in any way ‘
to help young people uudei'S
the aims and policies of the
yself 1
Newly FormedYV^
Announces Officeif^
this month. The new presni
Jessine Hart, of Goldsboro; , , .
president, Judy Rice, of
secretary, Grace Alston, of V an j
ton; treasurer, Ginny Dawsoik ^
Stantonsburg; and chairman of ,
membership committee is
j
The St. Mary’s club now has o
sixty members, some of ^v'holn
attend the Democratic rail)
in .
la"’
Charlotte on April 2. Other P
of the club include bringing g(,
])ortant Democratic speakers '
Ginonlr lipforA HiP
Mary’s to speak before the - ,j-
The YDC brought Adlai St"'
son to St. Mary’s last Tuesday-