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MU’S WIN
BASKETBALL
TOURNAMENT
Belles
OF ST. MARY’S
SIGMA’S WIN
PING-PONG
TOURNAMENT
Vol. XVII, No. 9
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
February 28, 1955
Mm’s Lead
Miss Florence Davis, Dramatic Club
Plaque Race Ably Present The Wisteria Trees
The Mu’s defeated the Sigmas in
•two games last week to* win the an
nual Sigma-Mu basketball tourna-
ttieiit. The Mu’s, with the sharp
^shooting of Harriett Mardre, de-
'feated the Sigma’s fifty-one to
thirty-seven in the opening game of
the basketball tournament Monday
) afternoon.
Harriett led the scoring with
twenty-four points. Mott Butler
lv:as second high with nineteen
’points, and Jean Faulkner scored
‘eight points. For the Sigma’s,
Grlenn Norman was high scorer with
I fourteen points. Ann Morton and
Ann Gillett scored thirteen and ten
tespectively.
Guards for the Mu’s were Betty
'llunt Proctor, Ann Marie Molloy,
and Jane Wrike. The Sigma guards
■'vere Marianna Miller, Sara' Wal-
jters, and Ann Powell.
In the final and championship-
Aeterniining game on Thursday,
Hott Butler led the way for the
'^lu’s with twenty-six points. Har-
.fiett Mardre scored fourteen, and
I Jean Faulkner made eight. For the
^Sigma’s Glenn Norman scored six
teen, Ann Morton scored eight, and
■ Ann Gillett made six. The final
j^ore was forty-eight to thirty.
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bishop Henry Opens
' Lenten Services
As the usual custom during Lent,
'^t. Mary’s has outside speakers at
'the Wednesday evening Chapel
^rvices. On February 22, Ash
Wednesday, the beginning of Lent,
i?tudents had the privilege of hear
ing the Right Reverend •Matthew
beorge Henry, Bishop of the dio
cese of Western North Carolina.
‘ The Bishoj) delivered a most im-
Hessive, delightful sermon. He
**sed for his text “Get thee out of
,'hy country and from thy kindred,
^nd from thy father’s house unto a
Slid that I will shew thee,” Genesis
|2:1, and emphasized that just as
Abraham was called to an unknowm
'•'ountry, ive are called into unknown
^^eriences. Bishop Henry said that
T moving from a “place of security”
a “place of insecurity” a person
?*'ows spiritually and mentally. It
only by this advancement that
AUrnan beings are able to grow at
Jb. Also Bishop Henry stressed the
^ct that all our “good and sweet”
?®eds add up to absolutely nothing
We do not have that inmost
Abii'itual love for God.
The speaker for next Wednesday
''’ill be the Right Reverend Clarence
Alfred Cole, Bishop of the diocese
Upper South Carolina.
— per
formance and were very ably sup
ported by Beth Kemper as a south
ern gentleman, Gavin Andree;
Betty Martin as the poor cousin-
housekeeper, Martha; Grace Boney
as the pretty, young daughter,
Antoinette; Betsy Duke as the
radical poet-intellectual, Peter Whit
field; Martha Williford as the
sprightly and saucy Dolly May;
Nancy Smith as “Mr. Misery’’
Henry Arthur Henry; Louisa Miles
as the faithful old butler, Scott; and
Anne Wallace as the delightful Cas-
sie. - .
Also in the supporting cast were
Aiuie Norman as the friend and
neighbor, Bowman Witherspoon;
Shirley Dees as the sophisticated
Jacques; Ellen Clarkson as the shy
Little Lucy; Mary Louise Howell
and Fairfax and Nancy Crow as the
excited children; and Gail Edwards,
Carolyn Wise, Mary Ruth Divine,
and Nancy McLain as the party
guests. The performance was thor
oughly enjoyed by students, faculty,
and staff.
Miss Davis went to New York a
few weeks ago to see Helen Hayes in
The ^Yisteria Trees, and last week
she received a letter from Miss Hayes
wishing her success with the St.
Mary’s production.
Belles Posts Headlines
To Keep Girls Informed
The headline staff of the
Belles undertakes to keep stu
dents informed of international,
national, and local news by
means of the daily headlines on
the bulletin board across from the
post office. Aubrey Campbell,
editor of the headline staff, re
quests that students feel free to
offer criticisms and suggestions
concerning the present method of
posting the headlines.
From Other Campuses
_A St. Mary’s alumna, Timmy
Timmons, is a new edition to the
staff of the “Gamecock,” the school
paper of the University of South
Carolina. She will serve as a re
porter during the spring semester.
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Newly elected officers of Chi
Omega sorority at UNO include for
mer ^ SMC girls. The president is
Macie Clay; Vice-President is Char
lotte Lilly; Secretary is Mary Wind-
ley Dunn; Treasurer is Alice Bost;
and Pledge trainer is Mary Jordan.
Orion tubing to be used as sub
stitutes for the human heart’s prin
cipal arteries has been developed ex
perimentally in the School of Tex
tiles at North Carolina State Col
lege. Professor W. E. Skinn, head
of the College’s Department of Knit
ting Technology has worked on this
experiment which was the sugges
tion of two Charlotte heart special
ists, Dr. Paul W. Sanger and Dr.
Frederick H. Taylor.
The press editor of Mademoiselle
magazine has announced that two
Randolph Macon students will serve
on the College Board this year. The
girls were among the 700 students
who competed with applicants from
colleges all over the country for a
place on the Board.
^ ^
Chancellor Graham and Fred II.
AVeaver of the University of North
Carolina Woman’s College agree
that the students should be able to
publish what they wish. These offi
cials are against advisors for the
student publications. Weaver says,
“a censored student newspaper
would be worse than no paper at
all.” These decisions were made
following the widely published inci
dent of the drawing of a nude man
appearing in an art magazine pub
lished by WC art students.
Seniors Present
Annual Frolics
Miss Florence Davis and the Dramatic Club presented an excellent
prcxluction of Joshua Logan’s The Wisteria Trees on Thursday night,
February It. The play, based on Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, por
trayed a late nineteenth-century, aristocratic southern family which falls
apart when the family plantation has to be sold.
• scene is the family homestead which is run down but lovely with
its b^iitifiil wisteria trees. The watchful guardians of the family are
a staff of emancipated but still faithful servants. When the house is
bought at auction by a ruthless nouveau riche who plans to chop down
the wisteria trees and parcel out the land to truck farmers, the Negro
servants depart to lead their own lives, and the family falls apart. Essen
tially the play is compassionate and heart-breakingly human as it pic
tures the decline of^ a type of civilization. Lucy and her friends and
relatives are on their way out ; they cannot live on beauty, sentiment,
and fine airs alone, for crude commerce is shouldering its way past them.
I he time is just before 1900—long past the time when being a Southern
aristocrat was sufficient excuse for living.
Elizabeth Dent as Lucy Andree
Ransdall and Ann Biachman as
Yancy Loper starred in the
Glass Follies
Receive Praise
_“St. Mary’s was never like this!”
said one of the alumnae portrayed in
the last act of the Senior Follies,
and the rest of the class graphically
demonstrated her conviction during
the evening of February 21 in the
St. Mary’s auditorium. Directed by
Sara AValters, Blanche Robertson,
and Penn Anthony, The Crystal
Ball Revue” showed the members
of the Class oif ’55 in various states
and occupations after leaving their
Alma Mater.
After a hearty greeting by a
chorus directed by Maestro Walters,
Penn Anthony, with the crystal
ball, directed the audience to a
spinster’s home where ten creaking
old maids with Shirley Dees as so
loist sang of their mateless state.
Charm School Portrayed
The curtain rose next on a chaotic
charm school, composed of future
St. Mary’s “ladies,” the daughters
of the Class of ’55. Lane Welsh was
the harrassed teacher, and Mary
Rhea Spivey, Marie Tyler, Margot
Hammond, and Ann Nimooks dem
onstrated their homework with a tap
dance.
Prediction number three found
some of the class in “a place where
no one knows your face—St. Mary’s
Hide-a-way.” Torch Singer Claudia
Peeler rendered “St. Mary’s Blues,”
and Kathy AVhitfield and Sugar
Dudley made an effective dance duo.
The audience found itself in the
midst of Times Square at the Jackie
Gleason Show in the next predic
tion. The Roekettes opened the
show, and Liberace—^alias Carolyn
Seyffert — charmed the audience
with his dramatic rendition of Sep
tember Song. Ann Bynum and Lee
Kohlsaat performed a fast mambo,
after which Carolyn “Kay-Eartha-
Sarah” AAlarlick disj>layed her tal
ent. Next Mary Burgwjm and
Prances Setze “tripped the light fan
tastic,” and Bobbie and Libbie Love
were enthusiastically received in
their sister act.
’61 Class Reunion Enacted
The last act depicted the class
reunion of 1961. Pat McQueen in
troduced the outstanding Dean of
St. Mary’s, Miss Blanche Robert
son. _Nancy Jones next introduced
a distinguished alumna, scholar, and
diplomat—Dr. Faustus Dees. Au
brey Campbell and Anne Wallace,
fresh from the Ozarks, miade a brief
appearance as alumnae. The re
mainder of the class then marched
in for the finale.
Committee chairmen for the pro
duction were Kitty Camjjen, Caro
lyn Seyffert, Kathy Whitfield, Betty
Martin, Ann Bynum, and Anne
AVallace.