QUEENS BLUES
October 5, 1935
QUEENS-CHICORA COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Vol. 15, No. 1
78 Pledge As Pan-Hellenic Rushing Ends
Thursday Lecture
Series Begun For
Coming Session
Kratz, Edwards, Abernathy
Arrange Program; Faculty
Members and Charlotte
Citizens To Speak
The faculty of Queens-Chicora Col
lege under the direction of Dr. Althea
Kratz, Dean of Instruction, Miss
Alma T. Edwards, Dean of Women,
and Dr. Ethel Abernathy, Head of
the Psychology department, have ar
ranged a new lecture course for the
students. A series of lectures on
“Everyday Problems of the College
Student” began Thursday, September
26, during the student assembly hour
and will be continued throughout the
semester on Thursday of each week
at the chapel period.
The lectures will be delivered by
Queens-Chicora College faculty mem
bers and by various prominent Char
lotte citizens who are especially well
fitted for discussing their respective
topics.
At a recent chapel period Dr.
Abernethy explained to the students
the initiation of this new lecture
series, and on Thursday, September
26, Dr. Frazer, president of the
college, opened the course with a short
introduction about the subject-mat
ter of the coming lectures and the
speakers who are to present them.
In the near future Dr. Kratz, will
discuss “Citizenship In The College
Community.” Three lectures, “What
College May Do For The Student,”
“Making Friends In College,” and
“Personality Traits Necessary For
Fine Friendships” will be presented
by Dean Edwards. Miss Marion L.
Frazer, Dean of Girls at the Char
lotte High School will talk on “Desir
able Study Habits.” “How To Take
Notes” will be explained by Dr.
Agnes Stout, Head of the English
Department at Queens. Dr. Kratz
will give the “Good Student’s Atti
tude Toward Tests and Examina
tions.” Dr. Oren Moore, a prominent
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Collegiate Digest
A Supplement To
Queens Blues
Students Receiving Weekly
Pictorial Magazine
Kratz Chosen In
struction Dean At
Queens-Chicora
Pennsylvanian Appointed By
Trustees to Important Position
A regular pictorial review of the
news of the college world will be
featured each week in The Collegiate
Digest section of The Queehs Beues.
Featuring exclusively lively features
written especially for its wide col
legiate audience in addition to the
regular news of the week “in picture
and paragraph”. Collegiate Digest
brings to the readers of The Queexs
Blues the most complete pictorial
review of college. A new and out
standing feature of the issues this
year will be the unusual Speed Graph
photos taken with the “Magic Eye”
camera and depicting the continuous
motions of athletes in action. The
remarkable photos have been made
possible recently by the invention of
a camera which “stops” the various
movements of people in action.
Then, too. Collegiate Digest will
continue in The Sjjotlighter,, its bright
and lively stories of the great and
near great who graduated from or
attended college. The first issue fea
tures the biography of America’s
greatest humorist. Will Rogers, pre
senting many heretofore unpublished
facts about his life.
Students of Queens-Chicora College
are urged to send photos to the editor
of Collegiate Digest at P. O. Box 472,
Madison, Wisconsin. Regular news
paper rates are paid for all photos
accepted for publication.
Queens’ Girls Hear
Miller - Myers Park
Charlotte Observer Editor
Addresses Sunday School
Class of Queens Students
“An intimate relationship obtains
between education and religion”, said
Dr. Julian Miller in addressing the
Queens class of Myers Park Presby
terian Church.
Upon investigation it is easily dis
covered that education is not one
thing and religion another—they are
“twin companions.” The primary de
sign of education is to bring the best
in humanity out. The primary pur
pose of religion is to put the best in.
The educational program of our
schools today is designed to bring out
three main qualities: self-reliance,
self-expression upon which modern
psychologists lay so much stress, and
self-discipline. However, education
that does not draw upon those “sterl-
qualities of life that are con
cerned with religious motives is little
better than a “temporary polish.” It
succeeds in getting the best in human
ity out, but overlooks what must be
put in.
Coronet Will Make
Debut First of Nov.
Smith, Batten, and True Head
Publication. First Issue
To Feature Freshmen
CHI OMEGA PLEDGES
ELECT OFFICERS
The Chi Omega pledges have
elected the following officers; presi
dent, Helen Malloy; treasurer, Eliza
beth Gammon; and secretary, Ruth
Knee.
DR. AI/THEA KRATZ
Dr. Kratz of Lansdale, Pennsyl
vania has recently been appointed
Dean of Instruction by the Board
of Trustees of Queens-Chicora Col
lege. Dr. Kratz will begin her active
service in this capacity on Septem
ber 1.
Dr. Kratz received her doctorate
from the University of Pennsylvania
in the Spring. She did her graduate
work in Sociology with allied work
in Political Science, Psychology and
Economics. Dr. Kratz also received
her B. S. in Education from the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. While doing
her graduate work at the University,
she was a Medical Social Case Worker
on the Social Service Staff at the
Graduate Scliool of Medicine.
Ur. Kratz was very prominently
connected with the student activities
as an undergraduate. She was presi
dent of the Junior Class, and during
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Under the supervision of May
Lebby Smith as Editor-in-chief, with
Anne Batten as Literary Editor, and
Margaret True as Business Manager,
The Coronet will make its first ap
pearance on the campus about the
first of November. This first issue
will have the usual contributions of
poetry and short stories and many
special features. Contributors are
lone Smith, Margaret Anderson, Sue
Mauldin, Lois E. Thompson and Lura
Coffey.
Contrary to last year’s plan of
placing some pictures from every
class in each issue, this edition will
feature the Freshman class.
Tlie student body, in a recent
chapel, made known their unanimous
approval of, and appreciation for,
May Lebby’s beautiful selection of
Coronet covers which are to be dark
and light blue leather with the seal
of Queens-Chicora.
Frosh Organize
Choose Leaders
Jane Davis Made Class Chair'
man; Margaret Land, Tempe
Speegle, Stunt Night Leaders
Saturday, September 28, Loise
Thompson conducted the election of
the Freshman class officers. J ane
Davis was elected Chairman and will
serve in that capacity until February.
Margaret Land was chosen as Stunt
Night chairman, and Tempe Speegle
will act as Gallery chairman. Dr.
Howe was chosen as Sponsor of the
class of ’39.
Silence Tabooed;
Pledge Ceremonies
Climax Two Week
Period of Gaieties
Six Queens Chapters of Na
tional Sororities Bid Girls;
Chi Omega Pledges 24;
Alpha Gaunma Delta and
Alpha Delta Theta 15; Kappa
Delta 11; Alpha Delta Pi 8;
Phi Mu 5.
Phi Mu—Mayme Ingram, Eleanor
Jenkins, Betty Kale, Virginia Knapp,
Alene Ward.
Alpha Gamma Delta—Annie Laurie
Anderson, Virginia Cagle, Jane Davis,
Elizabeth Freeman, Margaret John
ston, Anna Margaret Riggs, Ann
Roberts, Nell Sadler, Tempe Speegle,
Harriet Truesdale, Kathryn Walton,
Dorothy Wilkie, Lucy Williams, Lois
Wilson, Mary Wilson.
Alpha Delta Pi — Elizabeth Cran
ford, Margaret Jagar, Pidge Laffitte,
Margaret Land, Dorothy Morrison,
Sara McDowell, Marjorie Tims, Caro
line Wearn.
Alpha Delta Theta—Elizabeth Corn-
well Lynch Crockett, Sara Durant,
Frances Ehrhardt, Frances Garrett,
Marie Griffin, Mary Elizabeth Griffin,
Carmalt Hartman, Margaret Hun-
sucker, Sudie Lowder, Catherine
Meares, Margaret Morton, Frances,
Poole, Nanette Sherard.
Kappa Delta — Marilyn Brittain,
Roberta Brown, Jennie Ann Efird,
Emily Ferguson, Doris Gambrell,
Helen Hatcher, Margaret Mont
gomery, Josephine Rankin, Sarah
Sprott, Katherine Stewart, Mary
Whitmore, Martha Alexander.
Chi Omega — Margaret Anderson,
Elinor Burris, Margaret Calder,
Eleanor Carr, Louise Crane, Helen
Garmon, Courtney Jones, Sara Keiger,
Ruth Knee, Sara Lillard, Helen Mal-
ley. Sue Mauldin, Betsy Meek, Mary
Mickley, Carolyn Morris, Charlotte
McAden, Martha Rayburn, Charlotte
Stanley, Alice Stough, Adele Suther
land, Johnny Walker.
BOHUMIR KRA'L AND HIS SYMPHONW ORCHESTRA BAND
Queens-Chicora Students to hear Band of Great Kryl, noted Bohemian Virtuoso, Oct. 26
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Bohumir Kryl, with his Symphony
Band comprising an exceptional per
sonnel of artists, will present a con
cert at Queens-Chicora College on
the afternoon of Saturday, October
26.
Kryl and his organization, now en
tering on the thirty-first consecutive
season, have been enthusiastically re
ceived by music critics everywhere.
During its year of activity Kryl’s
band has given over twelve thousand
concerts and has traveled over a mil
lion miles. The educational value of
the concerts is attested by the repeat
ed engagements year after year by
colleges and universities where the
band lias appeared. The schedule has
included more than one hundred col
leges and universities annually.
Of great interest is the colorful
career of Bohumir Kryl which began
in a little Bohumir village. His first
public appearance was made in early
youth as a trapeze flyer with a cir
cus. Using his violin to pay his way
to America, Kryl became a sculptor
with the late General Lew Wallace.
At this time John Philip Sousa heard
him, and he became cornet soloist
with the March King’s Band. His
rise to international fame as con
ductor of his own band followed.
The famous bandmaster has been
described as a good showman who
knows how to blend art and enter
tainment, to win the respect of the
serious music lover and to amuse the
casual listener.
With such a recommendation every
member of Queens-Chicora campus
sliould take advantage of this cultural
opportunity which is being sponsored
by Alpha Kappa Gamma, national
leadership fraternity and Alpha
I.ambda Mu, musical fraternity. The
tickets may be purchased by faculty
members and students for fifty cents
and by all others for seventy-five
cents.
Music Department
Adds Instructors
Grace Robinson, Voice; Mary
Wharton, Piano; Join
The Faculty
Two new instructors have come to
tlic Music Department at Queens this
year; Miss Grace Robinson, Voice;
and Miss Mary Wharton, Piano.
Miss Robinson has had training at
the Institute of Musical Art and the
Julliard School of Music, both in New
York City. For two years she studied
in Paris. She taught for four years
in the Birmingham School for Girls,
Birmingham, Pennsylvania; and, also,
in the Greenville Woman’s College,
Greenville, South Carolina, where she
was very active In organizing a cliil-
dren’s chorus. Since she has been in
Charlotte, Miss Robinson has sung for
the Kiwanis Club with great success;
and was also very enthusiastically re-
received when she sang at one of the
first Queens chapel programs.
Miss Wharton comes to Queens
from Belhaven Conservatory in Jack-
son, Mississippi, where she was the
Director of Piano for fifteen years.
As a pianist, she is very outstanding.
She was the pupil of William H.
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