BELLES OF ST. MARY’S
March 12, 1965
Canterbury Plans Activities
Leon Volkov at a question-answer forum after his lecture.
Russian Speaks At St. Mary’s
Soviet Affairs expert Leon Volkov
spoke to the student body of St.
Mary’s on Wednesday, February 24,
in the Auditorium. His topic was
the new Russian leaders and their
position on Red China and the Rus
sian foreign policy. After his lecture,
Mr. Volkov answered questions for
an interested group which gathered
in Faculty House.
Leon Volkov was educated at
Moscow’s Technical Institute, where
he received a graduate engineering
degree, and at Moscow University,
where he received a degree in history
and literature. During World War
II he was a Lt. Colonel in the Rus
sian Air Force. While flying in Ger
many in 1945, his plane crashed,
and he parachuted to safety into the
French sector. The French announc
ed that no one survived the crash.
No more is heard of him, until he
came to the United States, where he
lived under an assumed name until
1953. But with the change of Rus
sian leaders in 1953, he took his own
name again. The United States gov
ernment conferred citizenship upon
Mr. Volkov in 1954 by a special act
of Congress. Between 1945 and 1953,
he served as a Soviet Affairs con
sultant to the United States govern
ment. Fie acts as host to all Russian
visitors to the United States. In 1959
he accompanied Khruschev on his
tour here.
Associated with Newsweek Maga
zine since he came to the United
States, Mr. Volkov is now Soviet
Affairs Editor. He is noted for his
accurate prediction of Russian action.
In his lecture at St. Mary’s, Volkov
first discussed the future plans of
Alexei Kosygin. Kosygin wants to
establish good relations with the
United States and with Red China,
but Mr. Volkov thinks that there is
little chance of success for such a
plan, since China wants no part of
the West.
Volkov thinks that Russia does not
encourage any thought of war, be
cause the cost of a war for Russia
would be prohibitive. Her economy
is low, and she cannot afford to pro
duce weapons to challenge the Unit
ed States. While the United States
spends one-twelfth of her gross na
tional product on arms, the Soviet
Union is already spending one-fifth
of her gross national product and is
not as strong as the Llnited States.
“Thus it is cheaper to have peace
ful co-existence. Furthermore Rus
sia does not feel that war will be
necessary, since communism will
eventually spread throughout the
world,” said Mr. Volkov.
The speaker talked at some length
about Russian life. The government
tells the people what to do. No one
makes his decisions on vital matters.
Only limited travel is allowed.
He concluded his speech with an
explanation of Khruschev’s place in
history. “Although Khruschev was
not a great hero of all time, he should
be appreciated, since he avoided war
in such places as Berlin and Cuba,”
said Mr. Volkov.
This lecture was informative and
interesting. The question period pro
vided the students and faculty an op
portunity to ask special questions.
St. Mary’s was indeed fortunate to
have such a well-informed speaker,
who was on an extremely rushed
schedule.
Canterbury Club at St. Mary’s
this year has joined with the Epis
copal Church on Campus at N.C.
State for projects, conferences, and
services. Every Sunday evening there
is an Evening Prayer service at Dan-
forth Chapel at N.C. State usually
followed by a program. One of the
guest speakers this winter was the
Rev. William Spong, Chaplain at
Duke Hospital, who spoke on con
temporary drama; he cited the play
]B as an example of man’s attitude
toward death, life, and God. In early
February the Rev. Herbert Tucker
spoke to the group on the whole
scope of existentialism and focused
on Christian existentialism as ex
pounded by Paul Tillich, a leading
contemporary theologian.
Several girls from St. Mary’s go to
State every Wednesday night to par
ticipate in a study session on syste
matic theology conducted by tbe Rev.
Philip Cato, Episcopal Chaplain at
State. The study has been directed
around several questions important
to college students: If there is a God,
then where is He? What is the mean
ing of sin? On what do we base our
beliefs? Several interesting discus
sions were centered around a lecture
given by a member of the group Dr.
Thomas Guion, a professor at State.
He spoke on the four aspects of love
as given in The Four Loves by C. S.
Lewis.
Acolytes’ Duties Deseroe Respect
Much of the serenity and tradition
of our daily and Sunday Chapel ser
vices is owed to that group of girls
comprising the Acolyte Committee.
This committee may be composed of
girls of any denomination, although
a knowledge of the Episcopal service
is necessary. “New” acolytes, after a
period of training under the super
vision of Dr. Guerry and the ‘old’
acolytes, begin to function in their
role.
Although the duties and functions
of the Acolyte Committee are not at
first apparent, they are extremely im
portant and significant to the tradi
tional ceremony of the Episcopal ser
vice. It had originally been the boy
or man in the Church who assumed
the responsibilities of acolyte and cru
cifer, but here the girls serve very
well. The acolytes at St. Mary’s work
closely with the Altar Guild in the
preparation for services and in the
maintenance of the Chapel, al-
This year the Chairman of the
Acolyte Committee is Mary Wright
who was appointed by Dr. Guerry.
Those on the committee include:
Carol Cantwell, Tully Crockett,
Mary Stuart Dent, Barbara Hall,
Leah Osgood, Betsy Price, Chini
Smith, Ann Straight, June Hall,
Margie Bates, Joanne Crawford,
in the spring; last year the trip was
to Beaufort, N. C., for the weekend.
There are three conferences sched
uled at St. Cyprian’s Conference
Center at Hampton, Virginia. One
will be under the leadership of Josh
White, guitarist and jazz singer, on
March 19-21. From April 2-4 Brooks
Hayes, former Congressman from
Arkansas, will speak on “Power Pol
itics in the Twentieth Century-
Margaret Meade, renowned anthro
pologist and sociologist will speak on
“Culture: Lias it shaped man or has
man shaped it?” on April 23-25.
St. Mary’s Canterbury will
ticipate in an inter-collegiate confer
ence March 27-28. Malcombe Boyd
the “expresso” priest and the author
of several books will be the speaker
for the conference. The colleges in
volved are N.C. State, Meredith,
Peace, Shaw University, Rex Hos
pital School of Nursing, St. Augi^'
tine’s, and St. Mary’s. The Rev. R-
A. L. Walker, chaplain at Meredith,
will speak in chapel concerning the
weekend conference.
Movie To Be Shown
The main interest in the past few
weeks has centered around The
American Folk Song Mass which was
composed by the Rev. Ian Douglas
Mitchell, former chaplain at North
western University in Illinois. In
1960 with the help of the North
western Canterbury Choir, he record
ed parts of the Holy Communion
service: Kyrie Nicene Creed, Sursum
Corda, Sanctus, Benedictus, Lord’s
Prayer, Angus Dei, and Gloria. The
Kyrie accompanied by an organ and
two guitars is sung at the Sunday
morning service at State.
During the remaining months of
the year several activities are sched
uled. There will be a beach trip later
though these two groups are clearly
separate and distinct.
The duties of the acolytes are
many and are specialized. The
candles on the altar are lighted and
snuffed at the beginning and the end
of the services by the acolytes. On
Sundays, the vested acolytes dis
tribute and collect the alms basins
during the Offeratory. Also, during
special services, such as communion,
these girls closely assist the officiating
ministers. The Acolyte Committee
forms an important part of our wor
ship services at St. Mary’s.
Acolyte.s Betsy I’rice, Mary AVrigl**^’
and .June Hall.
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March 13 the movie “Please Don t
Eat the Daisies” starring Doris Dav,
David Niven, and Janis Page will
be shown in the St. Mary's audi
torium at 7:00 p.m.
This movie is a domestic comedy
based on the book by Jean Kerr. The
hero is David Niven, a New York
drama critic, whose wife, Doris Day,
decides to rebuild a fallen down
house in the suburbs for their fom'
small children. To escape the reno
vation the husband goes back to
New York where he must escape a
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