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Volume XLVIll, Number 1
October 1988
Parent’s Weekend
By Kelsea Parker
Prepare yourself for two activity-filled
days with your parents. On October 28 and
29 you can show off Saint Mary’s. Of
course, they have already seen the campus
from walking tours or pamphlet pictures,
but now your parents can intimately get to
know the school and not just admire its
bricks.
After having coffee, juice and sweet rolls,
your parents can go with you to your
classes on Friday. This will provide your
parents with the opportunity to meet your
teachers. Mom and dad will also experi
ence a likeness of your usual classroom
activities.
Not only can your parents attend class
sessions, but they can also attend perfor
mances by various clubs and classes. Ms.
Dugger plans to have Sea Saints swim in
synchronicity to music. Their theme will be
the r Age otAquariusJ.'Jifltexaniooklocward_.
to seeing our graceful advanced syn
chronized swim team impress our parents.
In addition to "aqua ballerinas,” you can
also witness Ms. Beh’s dance groups per
form. Her theme will be “The Many Colors
of Dance she has named it this because
of the various types of dance she has plan
ned for us to see. According to Ms. Beh,
this will be a “presentation of some of the
work on dance styles that they have been
working on since the beginning of the year.”
Expect to be dazzled by our modern dance,
tap and Scottish folk dance groups on Fri
day.
Mr. Windam's Chorale Ensemble is pre
pared to tickle our ears with sweet
melodies. His ladies have been rehearsing
music from broadway and rock shows.
These songs revolve around his theme of
the “fifties and sixties music.”
Focus your eyes on Ms. Adam's student
art show. She plans to display large paint
ings, graphics, and work from the Basic
Design class in lower Smedes. Extra, smal
ler pieces will be awaiting your attention in
the Language Arts Building.
You might want to lead your parents to
the library where you can show them the
. £eramics.you ox.yQur.jciend have.made.
These fragile art pieces will be enclosed in
glass cases throughout the Kenan Library.
These will be the works of Ms. Anderson’s
beginning ceramics class. You can observe
coil pots and coil building, slab construc
tion, sculptures and pottery spun on a pot
ter’s wheel.
After you have learned about ceramics
in the library, you can give your parents a
tour since the library will be open to
everyone. You may want to give your par
ents a tour of the tennis courts and the day
student house also. Note that the day stu
dent house will have a raffle. The prize
being raffled is not yet known, but come
on by October 28 and find out what the
mysterious object will be.
Chaplain Watrous has planned a ves
pers service for Friday evening. This will
be a short, meditative time for parents and
students. Come relax in our little Saint
Mary’s Chapel. If you can recall some of
the interesting details of the Chapel, tell
your parents.
I am sure that you and your parents will
be quite entertained and better informed
during this particular October weekend.
Hopefully, they will go home knowing that
. you arahaving both an exciting and educa
tional experience here. You will probably
go to your dorm room or home, if you are
not a boarder, thinking of all the possibilities
for the next semester. Maybe you will want
to learn a new art form or join a new club.
Come and enjoy the excitement from all
these clubs and classes.
SGA Makes Plans
By Katherine Cloninger
The highlight of the fall season at Saint
Mary’s is approaching us soon. In case you
haven’t heard, this is the Student Govern
ment Association’s Fall Semi-Formal. The
date is set for Saturday, November 5, so
you have plenty of time to start looking for
(or stressing about) a date. It will be held
at the Raleigh Civic Center, on Salisbury
Street, as it has been in years past, and
will last from 10 p.m. until 2 a.m.
However, high schoolers will be turned
into pumpkins after the breakfast, which
will be held at the Saint Mary’s cafeteria
(with President Jenkins and Dean Hack
serving). In other words, all high schoolers
must be safe, sound and in their rooms by
3:00 a.m. Entertainment for the evening will
be announced by the SGA members at a
later date.
Renovations Of ’88
Honor
Week
By Cathy Thompson
and Jenny Caine
Each summer renovations are being
done in the dorms at SMC so the students
are provided with better living facilities. The
renovations this summer were done on the
second floor of Smedes, and the results
are fantastic!
This year, second Smedes has a whole
new look. First, the plaster was torn out o
the walls and was replaced. Next, the hall
and the rooms were painted and the 'Stating
was replaced. New carpet was put in the
and vice-president Su-Pei Slew have many
mother’s rooms. Other things, such as the
roofing and the gutters, were redone. Work
ers also washed the bricks on the outside
of Smedes to improve the outward appear
ance.
These renovations are being done for
the students at SMC, and everyone should
help keep these things in good condition
for the students who will be using these
facilities after you. President Jenkins has
emphasized how costly these projects are
and how they hope to keep improving SMC
tor years to come. Next summer, they are
hoping to redo the first floor of Smedes
and, if time permits, they hope to renovate
West Rock.
By Ellen Zimmerman
The honor system is a very important
part of life at SMC. To remind everyone of
just how important the honor system is to
all of us we had Honor Week September
12-16. This week was filled with lots of
events. We started off the week with an
honor assembly. During the assembly we
were told about our honor system and how
we must help make the system work. On
Wednesday night students watched the
movie “Wall Street ” and had a discussion
about the movie. Both high school and col
lege students had Honor Chapel during this
week. In chapel every student signed the
Honor Code and promised to help keep the
honor system at SMC working.