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Belles
UNO, SMC
TO GIVE
JOINT CONCERT
OF ST. IVIAR Y ’S
Vol. XVII, No. 12
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
Annual, Paper
Appoint Staffs
The new editors of the Stage
( ottcli and Belles have appointed
their assistants and nnder editors for
the coming year.
Nancy Crow has been chosen
assistant editor for the Stage Coach
’for 1955-66. She is a dance mar
shal tliis year and has l)een elected
a inarshal for next year. She is
’also in the Dramatics Club and Or-
ehesis and is chairman for the May
pay costume committee and a mem
ber of the honorary fraternity,
Sigma Pi Alpha. On the Stage
Coach this year she worked on the
faculty news and helped with com
piling.
A day student, Ellen Johnson, is
filling the ])osition of business man
ager for the Stage Coach. She has
been in the Glee Club for the past
Cvo years and participated in May
Gay last year. She is also a mem
ber of the Sigma Pi Alpha.
Both of the girls hope they have
a different and interesting theme to
entertain next years subscribers.
Martha Brooks and Ann liuffin
have been named under editors for
Hie Jieltes staff. Martha holds the
Ijosition of feature editor, while
'Ann is the news editor.
I Ann has had experience as editor
jOf _ her liigh school iiaper and in
Ipriting a teenage column for her
jhome town pajier. She belongs to
;jhe YDC, and acts as a Sigma cheer-
jleader. Martha, who is a very ac-
live student in her second year at
»t. Mary’s, was written up in the
last issue of the Belles.
April 15, 1955
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Students Elect New Marshals;
Watkins, Smith Hold Offices
Juniors Select
H. C. Members
In a recent election tivo members
of the J iinior Class, Ginny Dawson
and Ginger Walser, were chosen as
Honor Council representatives for
next year. That same week the
Honor Council chose Ginger Walser
from the two to serve as secretary
of the Student Government in the
year ’55-56.
Ginger, who hails from High
Point, is a member of the YWCA
a Hall Ee])resentative, and a iVic
Last year at High Point High
School she was a member of the
National Honor Society and the Na
tional Beta Club and was a writer
for the school paper.
Ginny, who has been at St. Mary’s
for three years, is a member of the
Honor Council, YWCA, Altar
ppild, and the YDC. Ginny is a
Sigma.
The two girls will be installed
formally in May.
Easter Services
Climax Holy Week
Holy Week at St. Mary’s was
. Hghlighted and climaxed Easter
' ounday in two services, one a Holy
-'oimnunion service at 7:3Q,a.m. and
-be other a service of worshi]) at
:00 a.m. Preceding the Easter
•lay observances several services
"’ere held in the chapel.
A service of Holy Communion
''’as offered every morning during
file week except Thursday, when the
■■ast Supper was commemorated with
special Communion service that
light.
On Good Friday most students at-
feiided the service held at school
■Hile others attended the churches of
;heir choice in town.
; Adding to the inspiration and im-
A'essiveness of the Easter services
Ms the beautiful music sung both
cy the choir and the congregation.
I articularly lovely was Wipe’s Vic-
Amae Puschali, an Easter sequence
fating back to early church days.
Mso sung were Mr. Eussell Brough-
Pn’s Easter anthem. Hail Festal
pays, and other songs and chants
grace the ever beautiful Corn-
Minion service.
Euth Watkins has been recently
elected chief marshal and Lenore
Smith, another new marshal, has
been chosen as chief dance marshal.
Other members of Euth’s staff are
Ylary Louise Bizzell, Sumner Par
ham, Nancy Prow, and Coles Cath-
cart.
Euth has been an active student
at St. Mary’s for three years, and
this year she is in the YDC, Grand
daughters’ Club, and the Dramatics
Club. She is a member of the 2Iu’s.
the annual staff, and in her junior
year she'is acting as a dance mar
shal.
Lenore, also a third-year student,
hails from Tallahassee, Florida. She
participates in the YDC, Choir, and
the Sigma Pi Alpha. She is a Mu
and a member of the May Court.
Mary Louise, a graduate from
Goldsboro High School, is a Sigma
Awrleaderj^^YWHyme^^
Miss Gate’s Pupils
Sing in Assembly
In an assembly program Thurs
day, April 7, the voice students of
Miss Geraldine Cate presented their
annual recital. The students par
ticipating were Ina Gee Eidley,
Valentine McMillan, Patsy Moore’
Lemma Baucom, Carolyn MMrlick,
and Carolyn Wise. ’
To begin the program, Carolyn
Wise sang “Little Shepherd Song.”
Ina Gee presented “Spirit Flower,”
and Val sang “There Cried a Gull”
and “I Heard a Piper Piping.”
Patsy Moore sang “The Little
French Clock” and “Bitterness of
Love.” “Un Bel Di” was rendered
by Lemma Baucom, while “Neath
the Southern Moon” was sung by
Carolyn Warlick.
Val and Patsy won superior rating
in the North Carolina Federation of
Music Clubs at their annual contest
in Durham, Friday, A])ril 7.
Coach staff^ member, and a YDC
member. She also jiarticipates in
the Doctors’ Daughters’ Club activi
ties.
Sumner Parham came to St.
Mary’s as a freshman from Ilender-'
son. Sumner, a ihi, is a member
of the Granddaughters’ Club and
YWCA.
Coming to St. Mary’s from Hous
ton, Texas, Nancy Crow is a mem
ber of the Belles staff, YEC, and
Orchesis. For the coining year she
will be assistant editor of the Stage-
Coach. Nancy’s only comment on
her election to the jiositiou of mar
shal was, “I just hope I won’t dro])
the collection plate!”
As treasurer of the junior class.
Coles Cathcart comes to St. Mary’s
fiom Columbia, S. C. She is a mein- ■
her of the Choir, Orchesis, May
Court, and the YEC.
Former SMC Student
Presents Recital
Harriett Harriss, a former St.
Mary’s student, presented a voice
recital in an assembly jirograni
Tuesday, April 12. Harriett is" HOW
a^ student at Woman’s College in
Greensboro.
In Imr program Harriett sang
“Twentieth Century” by Duke,
“Poiirqiioi” and “Soiirire”' by Mes
siaen, “Two Swans on a Lake” and
“My Heart Ever Faithful” by
Bach, an aria from “La Forz a del
Destin” by Verdi, and “Steal Me
Sweet Thief” by Menotti from “The
Old Maid and the Thief.”
On April 19, Harriett will sing
as soloist with the Greensboro Sym-
jihony Orchestra. While at St.
Mary’s she sang in “The Old Maid
and the Thief” and ])resented a cer
tificate recital. She was also secre
tary of the hall council and a mem
ber of the May Court.
Glee Club Gives
Concert April 20
I he St. Mary’s Glee Chub under
the direction of Miss Geraldine Cato
will present a joint concert with the
Men’s Glee Club of the University
of North Carolina in the school au
ditorium on Wednesday night, Ajiril
20. I he Men’s Glee Ciiib is directed
by Mr. Joel Carter of Carolina.
^ The St. Mary’s Glee Club will
suig two groups of songs, and the
Carolina Glee Club will sing two
groujis. Then the two Glee Clubs
will combine to sing The Foundling
Hospital Anthem l>y George Freil-
eric Handel. Handel composi’d this
anthem in 1749 for a concert to he
given in the (‘ha])el at the Foundling
Ilosjiital. The money that was
raised by the concert was used to
complete the chajiel. The work con
cludes with the “Hallelujah (’horns”
from Handel’s Messiah.
The St. Mary’s Glee Club will
sing six Liehslicdu Waltzes by Jo
hannes Brahms, London-derri} .\ir.
Summertime by George Gershwin
Pastoral by Gustar Holst, The Don
key Serenade by Eiidolf Friinl, and
In the Still of the Night by Cole
Porter.
Mott Butler Becomes
Sec. of Hall Council
Mott Butler’s reward for two years
of loyal service to St. Mary’s was
presented to her this week in the
form of an election. “Surprised to
death,” Mott was elected by her fel
low students to the jiosition of Secre
tary of Hall Council.
An athlete as well as an executive,
Mott is a key member of the All Star
volleyball and basketball teams. She
was invited to join the Letter Club
this week. She is a YWCA mem
ber, a Alu, and a Young Eepiibliean.