BELLES OF ST. MARY’S
April 14,
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Gcza. De RosMter
SSit^s His Praises
Of St. M^ary’s
F emi ninity
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(Editor’s Note: Mr. De Rosner spoke
to us on March 13 about the Incas.)
Dear Ladies,
Being a lecturer-on-the-move, roam
ing all across our land and Canada
season after season, I have an excel
lent opportunity to see, to visit with
our youth on all sorts of levels an
nually. Not only can I witness the
year-by-year changes, but often sense
the change from one tendency to
ward another because most youth
movements are obvious.
Mod fashions . . . blue-jeans . . .
the raggedy-Ann look, fun-clothing,
and all the other names of the cur
rent vogue is nothing more than an
other variation of the flapper or hip
ster of other years. In fact, the very
rebellious spirit which makes them
spring up . . . when the movement
is in its full swing . . . makes it all
just another uniform, the straight-
jacket of the DAY.
Thus, when I came out onto your
platform the other night to present
my SAGA OF THE INCA EM
PIRE to you, and looked all around,
scanning the row after row of well-
groomed, combed, most of the time
very pretty audience, I cannot begin
to tell you how pleasing it was to
behold all of you. None of the usual
ly motley, unwashed youth, but
young women with a tendency to
ward elegance.
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EDITORIAL
The lovely lines of the long white
dresses of your ushers, the epitome of
femininity, were a sort of promise
that even today there are young wo
men of decorum and good, womanly
common sense. You see, friends at
St. Mary’s, like your mothers and
their mothers, the time will come
when the mod-fashion of yesteryear
will look ridiculous to you . . . be
cause every temporary and extreme
vogue de-facto is ridiculous. It never
stops to amaze me that young people
of otherwise excellent common sense
do not recognize that in their effort
to keep in step with the fashion of
the day they become apes of the few
who started it and made tremendous
fortunes from being copied. (Like the
Beatles, or alike).
PLEA FOR SPECIFIC EXAMPLES IN
FUTURE LETTERS TO EDITOR
Like my good friend, the famous
Maurice of France, I too felt like
bursting into the song “Thank
Heaven for little girls ex
cept at St. Mary’s I would have to
change to “for Young Women” quite
obviously. Yes, I am from a genera
tion that is way passed to ‘take an in
terest, or even notice a mod’, but no
man ... if he is a man ... is
ever t(X) old to notice a charming,
well-groomed young woman whose
contribution toward the overall civil
ization of our world is her intention
to be clean, wholesome, and elegant.
In the last issue of The Belles a
letter was written to The Editor
which was entitled “Plea for Sym
pathy from Infirmary. A group of
girls, who felt disturbed about the
infirmary, submitted the letter with
the intention of presenting construc
tive criticism.
In recent probings into the issue it
has been discovered that one of their
main reasons for writing the letter
was based on misinformation. As a
result there has been open criticism
about the contents of the letter; some
readers have agreed and some have
disagreed with the article.
The statements made in this letter
were strong and direct.
In order to end the open criticism
caused, it has been suggested that
those who continue to have griev
ances towards the infirmary' discuss
the facts with the Dean of Students,
the President of the college, or the
college physician. Each of these
jxjople is willing to listen and tiy to
solve the problems.
In addition to urging the girls to
take criticism to the proper author-
ities, we urge that they include spe
cific instances in future letters to The
Editor. When letters are w’ritten ex
pressing adverse criticism, little ac
tion can be taken if the authorities
do not know exactly what is bother
ing the students. General statements
arc of little use in producing effective
results.
Flichs of tfte Fttttire
Ambassador— In Like Flint"—James
Coburn, Jean I File
Colony-“A Man For All Scasons’’-
Paul Scofield
State-"Deadlier Than The Male"-
Richard Johnson, Elko Sommer
Varsity-"W/!o’s Afraid Of Virginia
Woolf’-Elizabcth Taylor, Rich
ard Burton
Tennis Team Is
Victorious In
Recent Matches
Thus . . . thank you for the plea
sure you have given me by being just
what all of you have been. No doubt
some of you want to join the rebel
lion of today, but the most important
rebelj.ion of young American women
should lx; directed toward REgaining
the charm, the femininity of woman
hood which will be your strength in
Villagc-“B/orv I/p”-Vanessa Red
grave, David I lemmings
years to come and will lead toward
fulfillment of your reason of having
been lx)rn a woman.
With thanks and lx;st regards.
Yours sincerely,
Gcza De Rosner
1 he St. Mary's Tennis Club play
ed matches with Meredith College
on April 6 and 9. We won both
matches which consisted of two
singles and two doubles matches.
On Tuesday St. Mary’s placed
Carolina and won by a score of 4-1
1 he girls who represented St. Mary’s
in the above matches were Dale
Lambdin, Betty Davenport, W^eejie
Martin, Susan Slover, Nanq- Fore-
man, Connie lohnson, Cathy Cline,
Keith Richardson, and Cissv Fitz
patrick.
On Tuc«lav April 18 St. Mar^•’s
will play Duke. On the following
1 liurscby our tennis teams will plav
1 cacc College on our campus.
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taff, Paula Johnson, Martha Vaugha® ■■
Lyndee Wall. '
FEATURE STAFF J
Jessica Gillespie. Cissie HobgoB| J
Molly Leary.
CARTOONIST
.Merrie England.
TYPISTS nd C
Claudia Davis, Nelson Glass, Llg
Godwin, Frances Georgia Herbert, *> , .
Smith, .Martha Vaughan. '^^'1
PROOFREADER
Susan Byars.
CIRCULATION :.ibba
Jennie Andrews, Mindv BelL heir
Brother, Lu Dixon, Marv Holden
Arabella Nash, Martha Vaugha®
Nanej- U’ideman. C(
ADVISOR In
.Mr. John U. Tate
REPORT FRofc""j
LEGISLATIVE niana
BODY '"Z..
This year the Legislative
been very busy. The studentUNi
active interest and concern K®nd c
college’s rules and regulation^ Jne j
been much appreciated,
many of the petitions recei''^ As
repetitious in their aims, their'■‘•niatio
approaches and suggestions nr^ igrabb
ful in understanding all of ''f-ittle
pects of the petition. , rnfon
One of the most often
matters was about the Icngthc'’, VP a
telephone hours. After checkin.^ «om
all those involved with our tdT Du
regulations, the petition vva^ ^ ®rl six
and immediatelv acted nrt ^°or
lengthen the telephone hours dry r,
the weekday afternoons from ‘' Oher
5:55 p.m. It is hoped that n0'\ ’■^'orn
"■ill be less congestion with Jul
phones at night and that '«8 si
friends will be able to conl^^ bonn'
students more easily. group
.Another petition passed
as long as there are other p W;
Rirls present at a function 1"J^
fraternity house, upper class'^ In
St. .Marys need not be acem'^r ^Penc
by another St. Mar\-’s studenj’ ( ^d! V
This petition was passed
to alleviate the problems J’ .’i *^.8 d
upper classmen who date at P-
houses where other St. Bu
may not have Ixen invited- , ^®Hra
.Niany petitions have l ° th
more people than just the ^ S
.At times the college lx)ard. ' ”^are
ulty. the administration, or
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