October 11, 1963
BELLES OF ST. MARY'S
New Girl’s
First Impression
Uy Virginia Collester
The blur of the trees along the
driveway, the shouted directions
of the parking committee, the long
walk up the front steps of Smedes
Hall, and the flurry of a thousand
first-day a'ctivities all mingle to
gether in one’s mind to form the
first impressions of St. Mary’s.
The “new girl’s” first concrete
impression is that of her room and
her roommate. When she finally
finds her room, a task which is not
easily accomplished, she has en
tered unconsciously her new role
in life. The fun then begins. Be
tween griping about her room and
carrying in loads of all her
“earthly possessions,” she makes
her college friends. The atmos
phere is one entirely diffea’ent
from home, and the spirit of in
dependence is strongly felt. The
girls tend to lean to one another
for security in their new experi
ence, and in these closely knit
groups one begins to feel for the
first time the meaning of “being a
St. Mary’s girl”.
FACULTY TRAVELS GLOBE
St. Mary^s
Finds Pam
^^All American”
To this reporter’s surprise, no
Spanish dictionary or interpreter
was needed in interviewing St.
Mary’s new girl from Panama.
Pam Newberry is as American as
any other St. Mary’s girl.
“People expect me to wear nose
rings and run around in skins,”
was Pam’s distraught remark.
“You’d think I were some ^sort of
Aborigine or something. Pam,
however, lived in North Carolina
until she was fifteen when her
parents moved to Brazil. Natural
ly a few years in the .iungle
haven’t turned her completely say-
are and she does have a phobia
about those twelve inch jumping
spiders!
Living in the interior took a lot
of adjusting. Not only did she
have to learn Portuguese, but her
It is later in a quiet moment have to 5°™^"®oken Eim-
Ivt* IS'"so P.m had to more or leee
•'diau sue IS aoie to leei uic nawa
lion of St. Mary’s. The buildings
present her with the ideas of wis
dom and stability, which have
existed through the years. The
“new girl” has only to walk
through the Chapel to understand
'rhy it is the heart of St. Mary s
^nd the foundation of her life and
school.
The girls, the campus, and the
atmosphere all serve to make her
feel at home in her new environ-
ttient, where she is given the
''rarmth and security which is
deeded to make her love St.
Mary’s.
Cold Cuts Tap
Fourteen Seniors
Fourteen new members of the
^old Cuts were inducted in assem-
oil Tuesday, October 1. With
these new additions the Cold Cuts
" tal twenty-one. The new
's taken in were Lola Kear
now total twenty-one
niembers taken in were Lioia rveai-
, Kate Smoot, Betsy Ross, Ann
^heatham, Kathv Cannon, Beth
ganders, Mary ‘ Quern, Macon
enisburg, Margaret Eason, Mar
tha Powell, Elsie Ives, Tay Ash-
ord, and Sue Spangler. Old mem
bers are Roses Watson, Martha
Weeks, Cindy Schwartz, Gaye
tiarris, Beverlv Bailey, Nancy
^°well, and President Susan
*^hringhaus.
^ lliis senior musical group is
“imposed of girls wearing clod
pants and madras shirts and plaj'-
S anything from tamberines to
^ome-niade wash boards. Each
_ aar the group plays for the
^ aol at assemblies and also at
.any other school social fune-
' ons. There is also a demand for
^aese girls to play at functions
ocuring away from the campus.
I'eady this year the Cold Cuts
^^6 been asked to play at a
paieiiLo ^
lish so Pam had to more or less
“socially adjust.” Obviously, she
conformed.
Since Brazil does not abound in
educational institutes, Pain’s par
ents sent her to the Canal Zone to
live with her aunt and uncle,
where she went to the Balboa
School and Canal Zone College,
the third best high school m the
United States, during her senior
year.
When asked about her social
life she remarked, “Who has time
for’social life in the third best
high school in the United States?”
Actually if one wants to date be
fore she is twenty-one, she has to
take along two or three brothers
or uncles. “This doesn’t handicap
the natives, however,” Pam com
ments. “You wouldnt believe
some of the sombrero parties they
have.”
“It realy isn’t too foreign in the
Canal Zone,” she said, “but those
riots are rather harrowing. The
Panamanians are having a revolt
about the American flag, and 111
protest demonstrate rather vio-
leiitlv Living only two blocks
froin the border presents a rather
anger.,,. ' o
have all sorts of Cml uetense
firills ” Pam said, “and would go
in the basement and pump the air
hoses. It was great fun.
Pam is really grateful to be
back on the mainland near all her
old friends and family. ‘ I really
love St. Mauv’s. It’s so good to be
able to talk to people again.”
inncheon at tb^ Carina Co^
Club, at a Boy Scout Jamboree, at
D X Hill, and at several fratonity
houses in Raleigh and in Chapel
Hill.
Summertime is travel time and
several of our teachers took ad
vantage of this summer to take
extensive trips.
Many Cities
Claim St. Mary’s
Debs
During the summer, various
Belles of St. Mary’s made their
first formal bow to soeiety, and
became officially “young ladies.”
The North Carolina State Debu
tante Ball in Raleigh, sponsored
b.v the Terpsichorean Club, claim
ed the largest number of St.
Mary’s girls. The.y are: Katherine
Duncan, Inez Coke, Gaye Harris,
Eleanor Stowe, Bets.y Ross, Terry
Barnes, Janie Judd, Macon Rems-
burg, Kim Marsden, Tay Ashford,
Susan Ferebee, Mary Stallings,
Nancy Baker, Mary B. Ball, Susan
Becton, Glenda Bowers, Susan
Ehringhaus, Elsie Ives, Elizabeth
Ponton, Janie Stronach, Sally
Strong, Susan Strong, Aryne
Weeks, Martha Weeks, Judy
Perrv, Anne Cheatham, Kate
Smoot, Ann Hundley, Beverly
Baile.v, and Alexa Draxler. Ann
Huncile.v and Tay Ashford had the
added distinction of being assis
tant leaders.
Other debutante balls in the
South this summer, where St.
Mary’s girls came out, were:
Chattanooga, Pam Allison and
Jane DeLoach; Greensboro, Mary
Hart Ellison, Betty O’Bryan, and
Marilyn Stadler; Richmond, Anne
Chapman and Burwell Reid; San
ford, Cindy Schwartz; and Char
lotte, Mary Quern. At the Shelby
Snb-Debutante Ball, Linda Con
nelly and Betsy Rudisill were pre
sented, and at the Snb-Debutante
Ball in Lexington, Perry Grimes,
Jackie Myers, and Martha Hardee
made their bow to soeiety.
Later on during the year, the
following girls will also be pre
sented : Gwen Nolan, Spartan
burg; Ginny Willets, Durham;
Jane Thompson, Orlando; Peachy
Lee, Florence; Kathy Cannon,
Charleston; Sue Spangler, Dan
ville; Ellen Senrry, Columbia.
Sigma-Mu Cheerleaders
Selected
Following tryouts yesterday
in the gym, the new cheerlead
ers for the two athletic teams
were chosen. The new Mu cheer
leaders are Hannah Vaughn,
Ruggie Gooding, Nancy Hicks,
Martha Blanchard, Martha
Hoot, Ann Adair, Tully Croc
kett, and Eva Lister. The Sig
mas cheers will be led by
Audrey Well, Charlotte Smith,
Jackie Myers, Jan Robinson,
Sandra Gizzard, Dixie Thomas,
Ann Conrad, and Carol Sum
merlin.
Miss Lou Jones traveled to Is
rael for the months of July and
August as Raleigh’s Community
Ambassador. She first went to the
Peace Corps Institute in Vermont
for training. Prom there she went
to Greece, Israel, and Jordan with
eleven other Americans.
Miss Jones remarked that Israel
is a land of contrasts. People
from a hundred nations now live
in Israel, and they speak seventy
different languages. They are held
together by a common bond, the
Old Testament.
Mrs. Sterling Nicholson took a
group of seventeen girls and boys
on a seventy-day tour of Europe.
They visited fifteen countries in
cluding Communist Yugoslavia.
Mrs. Nicholson plans to take an
other group next year.
Miss Teresa Barling went to
Alaska this summer to teach Va
cation Bible School for the Epis
copal Church. She was joined by
sixteen college men and women
and they were flown to Port Yu
kon for training. Along with
teaching, they went into the in
dividual homes to conduct family
worship. Miss Barling remarked
that the priests were a great help
both spiritually and practically.
Dr. and Mrs. Browne also made
a trip this summer. ’They traveled
to Puerto Rico, where they visited
their daughter who is a doctor
there.
New French
Teacher Joins
Staff
This year St. Mary’s has a new
member of the French depart
ment, Miss Anil Eliza Brewer.
Miss Brewer was raised in Wake
Forest, where her father was dean
of Wake Forest College. She re
ceived a Bachelor of Arts degree
at Meredith College and a Master
of Arts degree at Columbia Uni
versity. She has also studied a
year at the Sorbonne in Paris and
has done graduate work at Duke
University.
Before coming to St. Mary’s,
Miss Brewer taught at Brenau
College in Georgia for thirty years
and at Meredith College for two
years.
Miss Brewer is an ardent phila
telist. She says that she learns a
great deal about the people of
other countries and their history
from stamps. Also she is an avid
sports fan. Miss Brewer says, how
ever, that most of her spare time
is spent in church activities. She
is a Sunday School teacher at the
First Baptist Church in Raleigh.
Miss Brewer finds St. Mary’s a
“lovely, friendly place with a dis
tinctive Southern atmosphere.”
She added, “It is a delightful
place to work.”