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.”

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