SOPHOMORE
EDITION
QUEENS BLUES
SOPHOMORE
EDITION
February 9, 1935
Queens-Chicora College, Charlotte, N. C.
Vol. 14-No. 8
Freshman Class
To Edit Next
Issue of Blues
Third Coronet To
Be Issued Soon
The next issue of the Qiieetts
Blues will be edited by the Fresh
man Class with no assistance from
the Junior Class, the publishers
of the paper. After Betty Man
ning, the editor of the paper had
explained to the Freshmen the na
ture of the contest between the
Freshmen and Sophomores in
which each class will issue a copy
of the paper, the editor and busi
ness manager were elected. Hazel
Ritch was elected editor, and Fran
ces Sellers was elected business
manager.
Hazel Ritch is very competent
for this position, and gives prom
ise of continuing her excellent
journalistic work which she start
ed in high school. At Central she
was associate editor of the Ram
bler. Prances Sellers is a new
comer, and has many promising
qualities.
The custom of the Freshman and
Sophomore classes each issuing a
copy of the Blues is a tradition at
Queens. This year there are signs
of very keen rivalry.
Publication to Have Many In
teresting Features
Freshman Class
Elects Officers
The Freshman Class met Satur
day after chapel and elected the
following officers: Lucile Dulin,
president; Mary Currie, vice-presi
dent; Jane Wiley, secretary; and
Josephine McDonald, treasuer.
Lucile Dulin has been for the
first part of the year Chairman of
the class. She has very capably
led the Freshman Class through
the hardest part of the year.
The Freshman Class this year
has an unusual number of ener
getic and capable girls. They
have the co-operation and class
spirit that will get honors for
them on the campus.
The Pan-Hellenic issue of the
Coronet will make its appearance
::omctime this month. The date
previously set is February 12;
how-ever, the publication will be
'elayed due to illness of the
editor.
This issue has many outstand-
’ng features. Several poems writ
ten by members of the Freshman
Class will be published in this
edition. The authors of the poems
are: Mary Hatton, Emma Renn
Jones, and Eugenia Laffitte.
“Purely Personal” is the head
ing given to the section of Senior-
pictures; and “Junior Sketches”
announces the Junior pictures.
Margaret Crocker has written
a very interesting letter for this
ssue, entitled “Legend of the
Founding of Mexico.”
There will be a short write-up
of the Inter-Honorary Fraternity,
by Jeanette Malloy, literary editor.
On the page with this, there will
be a group picture of the members
of this council.
Several pages will be devoted to
Social Sororities. An article on
; he Pan-Hellenic Council will be
included. There will be a group
iricture of the members of each
sorority taken in front of their
house.
Two pages will be reserved for
the Freshman Class pictures. This
issue completes the section devoted
to the business student.s.
DR. ELIZABETH H. BLAIR
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DR. ELIZABETH BLAIR.
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Board To Be
Petitioned To
Rename Union
Dr. W. H. Frazier Plans To
Change Name To Eliza
beth Blair Memorial
Hall
Although our beloved Dr. Blair
was not an alumna of our college,
she partook so act.vely in the chap
ter as to seem one of us. She gave
to us constantly of hei- time, en-
etgy, ideas, and encouragement,
always keeping in mind a greater,
inei' Queens-Chicora through a
sti'ongcr and more active alumnae
organization.
The highlight of an alumnae
progi-am was a part taken by Dr.
Blair. She gave of herself un-
itintingly. After a busy day she
would attend a meeting fresh with
ideas and enthusiasm. Speaking
with her usual poise, she would
outline her plans and hopes; yet
she always made each listener feel
included in them. Her vision was
broad, unbounded by time and
place. No one could doubt her
wisdom and sincerity of ideal for
the college.
One of her cherished aims was
to affiliate Queens-Chicora alum
nae with the A. A. U. W. Given
the time and the funds she would
have made this hope a certainty.
Older members of the alumnae
association have missed some of
her true greatness since they have
not been taught by her. Let us
hope we may strive for the true
greatness she achieved. We have
indeed a firm foundation, for we
have lived with her and have been
loved by her.
Fifty-Six Make
The Honor Roll
1st Semester
Initiation Date
Announced By
Pan-H. Council
The Pan-Hellenic Council held
its regular monthly meeting on
Tuesday night, February 5. The
date of sorority initiations was set
for the first week-end in March,
provided that grades from the re
examinations are available by that
time. A new set of rushing rules
for next year has been drawn up
by the Council. Then rules pro
vide for a large cut in rushing ex
penses and also for most of the
rushing to be done on the cam
pus. Each sorority is to discuss
and pass on the rules by March 6.
The Council is planning a Pan-
Hellenic banquet for the last of
March or the first of April. It
will be the first inter-sorority ban
quet held at Queens College. A
song contest between members of
the six Greek letter sororities will
be a feature of the banquet. At
this banquet the scholarship cup
presented each year by the Pan-
Hellenlic Council to the sorority
making the highest scholastic aver
age will be presented.
Katherine Arey; Mary Frances
Austelle; Anne Batten; Louise
Bickett; Eugenia Brumley; Eliza
beth Cassels; Mae Cook; Margaret
Crocker; Charlotte Couric; Kath
erine Ciowell; Helen Davenport,
Evelyn Drum; Jean Early; Doro
thy Ehrhardt; Mary Frances Ehr-
lick; Margaret Floyd; Mary
Franklin; Ruth Freeman; Esther
Garmon; Maybelle Hard.e; Geoi-
giana Harper; Henrietta Hender
son; Martha Hood; Frances Hun-
sucker; Sarah Hunsucker; Elise
Hunter; Margery Isenhour; Doris
Joines; Adeline Kilgore; Roberta
Kilgore; Thorburn Lillard; Jean
ette Malloy; Betty Manning; May
D. Maiion; Eliazbeth Maynard;
Frances Miller; Mrs. Marie Mc
Millan; Frances Y. Query; Elva
Ann Ranson; lone Smith; Miriam
Steele; Margaret Trobaugh; Laura
Wilkes; Marie Wilkinson; Doro
thy Woodside. Business Students
Peggy Alexander; Olga Blake;
Eleanor Finch; Maxine Gasque;
Juanita Hunter; Dorothy Hutchin
son; Julia Johnston; Virginia
Meacham; Grey McLemore; Fran
ces Sellers; Ann West.
Plans are being made by Dr. W.
H. Frazier, President of the Col
lege, to present a petition to the
Executive Board at their next
meeting to change the name of the
Union to the Elizabeth Blair Mem
orial Hall in memoriam to Dr.
Elizabeth Blair, Dean of Instruc
tion.
Dr. Blair was born at Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, the daughter of the
late Andrew Blair and. Mrs. Net
tie Woods Blair. After graduat
ing at the local high school, she
entered Dickinson College, from
wh'ch she was graduated with an
A. B. deg: es. Following her gradu
ation she was a member of the fac
ulty of public schools in Carlisle,
Johnstown, Latrobe, Braddock, and
Dormant, Pennsylvania. Later
while studying for an M. A. degree
at the University of Pittsburgh,
she was an instructor in English.
After receiving her degrees she
continued as assistant professor in
English at the university.
In 1927 Dr. Blair moved to Char
lotte and taught at Piedmont
Junior High School. In 1928 she
became head of the department of
education at Queens-Chicora. She
was granted leave of absence in
1929-30 and went to the Univer
sity of Pittsburgh, where she com
pleted work on a Ph.D. degree in
education. She returned to Queens
and became dean of education.
Dr. Blair was active in civic
movements and enterprises. She
was a frequent speaker on club
piograms and before parent-teach
er units and was active in the work
of the American Association of
University Women. She was a
member of the scholarship frater
nity, Phi Beta Kappa, and of the
Pi Delta Phi sorority.
Betty Manning
Maid of Honor
In May Court
Betty Manning has been selected
by Clare Hazel, May Queen, to be
maid-of-honor in the May Court
to be held May 1. This is an
honor bestowed upon a popular,
capable, and prominent junior each
year and is one of the highest
honors which can be obtained by
a junior.
Betty is editor-in-chief of the
Queens-Blues, a junior publication.
She is a member of the Cabinet;
of Kappa Omicron, honorary Eng
lish fraternity; of the French club;
and of the Literary Society. She is
treasurer of the Chi Omega Sor
ority. Last year she was elected
into Alpha Kappa Gamma, being
one of the very few sophomores
to have this honor.
It is hard to imagine where this
splendid student finds the time
to handle her many and varied
duties. She is always willing to
lend a helping hand and her proj
ects are always highly successful.
This, the sophomore issue, wishes
Betty utmost success in her fu
ture literary ambitions.
By Alma T. Edwards
Department to Have
Musical Recital
The music and vocal depart
ment of Queens-Chicora College
is going to present pupils in a
recital sometime in the following
week. Miss Murphey, Miss Starr,
and Dr. Ninniss are working to
gether to give a delightful and
worthwhile program of music, or
gan, and vocal selections for stu
dents of the college and the public.
It is with deep gratitude that
I accept the opportunity offered
here of expressing, as best I can,
something of what Elizabeth Blair
has meant to the Faculty of
Queens-Chicora College through
these years of high service to
gether. One almost feels that the
“Perfect Tribute” would be silence,
so adequate are her works among
us to render to her fame and mem- •
ory an acceptable honor; and yet
if by recalling some of her noble
characteristics, her abundant com
mon sense, her deep insight into
the problems of those with whom
she worked I can impress them
more upon our minds, I shall at
least feel myself a little closer to
her creative spirit.
Throughout her life, youth and
its perplexing world were Dr.
Blair’s interest. She possessed
the rare talent of being able to dis
cover the hidden possibilities of
young people, of finding concealed
characteristics of personality, and
of somehow challenging youth to
see beyond their horizons into her
own. This, I think, marked her
as a genius in the class room, and
it was this quality too that en
deared her to the rest of us. Alert
and eager to see the best achieve
ment, she was an inspiration to
us in our teaching, a tireless
worker in our common cause.
Never have I seen her enthusiasm
lag or her patience wane where
her work was concerned.
Another quality which opened to
her a great field of usefulness was
her ability to catch almost at the
very beginning of an undertaking
a vision of its completion, and her
faculty of making a whole out of
the parts of the pattern about her.
Her ear was always open to fac
ulty and to students alike wher
ever a new idea, or an opportunity
for improvement in the college cur
riculum or in the campus activi
ties, was laid before her. Her of
fice was the clearing house for
our ideas and visions, and how
many we were who found our
visions enlarged and our hopes
brightened by our contacts with
her there.
Her friends were sometimes puz
zled to know how she found time
and energy to do so much. The
secret was, I think, her great sym
pathy for and her understanding
of people. Eager to help wher
ever she was needed, she answered
calls that came for her service
from Parent-teacher groups, edu
cational meetings, book clubs, wel
fare groups—wherever she could
lend help or inspiration. Her
warm personality, her keen mind,
her broad culture, her gift for
friendship made her a vital force
in the life of her community.
One almost feels that Dr. Blair’s
work was scarcely begun, so full
of life was she, and so many the
opportunities ahead for the real
ization of her hopes. Surely one
whose days were so full of accom
plishment will continue to inspire
us who have known her presence
to fulfill the promise of her life.
She is but removed to a larger
world.
“I know translated human worth
Will bloom to profit, otherwhere.”
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