Vol
BLUES
No.^li
QUEENS-CHICORA COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
April 23, 1938
Sororities
Elect Heads
Griffin, Davis, O’Hair, Hatcher,
Ward and Alexander
Chosen Heads
Election of officers of the six
national sororities of Queens-Cliicora
college has just been completed.
Phi Mu sorority named as head for
the coming year Alene Ward of
Tryon. Other officers are Dot Alex
ander of Charlotte, first vice-presi
dent; Mary Gilmer, Richmond,
second vice - president; Elizabeth
Imbody of Charlotte, secretary;
Elizabeth Harms of Charlotte, treas
urer and rush captain; Mildred
Thomas of Charlotte, assistant treas
urer and chapter reporter; Amelia
Bradham of Sumter, S. C., librarian;
Carolyn Miller of Charlotte, historian;
Betty Kale of Belmont, activity chair
man; Betsy Springer of Charlotte,
social chairman; Anne Chears of
Pageland, S. C., scholarship chair
man; Carolyn Wolfe of Hickory,
chaplain; and Lois Hodges of Char
lotte, alumnae advisor.
Mary Griffin of Charlotte was
elected president of Alpha Delta
Theta. Other officers are Agnes Rope
Gwaltney of Charlotte, vice-president;
Elizabeth Brammer of Burlington,
secretary; Sara DuRant of Newton,
Iowa, assistant treasurer; Lucile
Gwaltney of Charlotte, historian;
Marjorie Poole of Mullins, S. C.,
chaplain; Frances Poole of Mullins,
S. C., marshal; Frances Ehrhardt of
Pinehurst, Panhellenlc representative;
Ellenore Eddy of Marion, rush
captain; and Nancy Lee Moore of
Charlotte, house chairman.
Theta Gamma chapter of Chi
Omega fraternity has named Eleanor
Alexander of Knoxville, Tenn., as
president. Other officers are Adele
Southerland of Charlotte, vice-presi
dent; Martha Rayburn of Charlotte,
secretary; Nancy Hovis of Charlotte,
treasurer; and Ruth Knee of Char
lotte, pledge instructor. Appointed
officers have not been announced.
Outgoing presidents are: Elizabeth
Calder of Charlotte, Chi Omega;
Lynch Crockett of Tazewell, Va.,
Alpha Delta Theta; Eugenia Lafittc
of Estlll, S. C., Alpha Delta Pi; Lois
Hodges of Charlotte, Phi Mu; Jo
McDonald of Hamlet, Alpha Gamma
Delta; and Jane Wiley of Charlotte,
Kappa Delta.
Beta Iota of Alpha Delta Pi
sorority honored Frances Marion
O’Hair of Rock Hill, S. C., as chap
ter president, Marjorie Timms of
Winnsboro, S. C., was elected vice-
president, Katherine Martin of Max-
ton, secretary; Marjory Rus.sell of
Florence, S. C., treasurer; Katherine
King of Lumberton, rush chairman;
Vera Boulware of Barnwell, S. C.,
assistant treasurer; Margaret Lloyd
of Anderson, S. C., guard; Jean
Miller of Florence, S. C., historian;
Edith Tinsley of Florence, S. C., re
porter; and Anneal Triplette of
Lenoir, chaplain.
Jane Davis of Monroe has been
elected president of Gamma Gamma
chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta.
Other officers are Virginia Duncan
of Glen Rock, N. J., first vice-presi
dent; Eleanor Guyton of Koscuisko,
Miss., second vice-president; Dorothy
Wilkie of Forest Citv treasurer;
Elaine Suber of Hartsville, social
chairman; Betty Deskau of Char
lotte, editor; Annie Laurie Anderson
of Baden, recording secretary; Becky
Auten of Albemarle, house chairman;
Alberta Setzer of Uniontown, Ala.,
summer camp chairman; Sara Raney
of LaFayette, Ala., chaplain; Jessie
Rose Clark of Hamlet, scribe; Cor
nelia Truesdale of Kershaw, chairman
of names; Hazel Adams of Charlotte,
librarian; Kay Duncan of Glen Rock,
(Continued on page three)
Awards Given
To Athletes
Twenty-One Girls Given Let
ters By Athletic Council;
Practice Begins
Twenty-one girls were awarded
Queens-Chicora letters at a special
chapel service on Wednesday, April
13.
Harriet Brown, President of Ath
letic Council, in her speech said that
the primary requirement for a letter
is a sum of four-hundred points, one
hundred points being received for
each team, and fifty additional points
for captain; and, eighty per cent of
the practices must be attended for a
girl to qualify for the team. Miss
Brown also said, “One of the main
aims of the Atliletic Association is to
promote sportsmanship as well as
skill in sports.”
Elizabeth Gammon, Vice-President
of Athletic Council, presented the
Q-C’ letters to the following girls:
Seniors, Louise Crane, Mary Currie,
Martha Grey, Sara Paxton, Margaret
Register, Lib Calder, Jo McDonald,
Ruth Morrison, Harriet Brown, and
Alice Crowell; Juniors, Marguerite
Craven, Mildred I.owrancc, Norma
Moore, Cree Roberts, Elizabeth Gam
mon, Helen Dumnock; So])homores,
Dot Alexander, Betsy Springer, Ann
Fuller, Martha Stoner, and Madeleine
Lotterhos.
Athletic Council composed of
Harriet Brown, president; Elizabeth
Gammon, vice-president; Madeleine
Lotterhos, secretary; Anne Fuller,
treasurer and class representative,
Alice Crowell, Helen Cumnock, and
Martha Stoner were in charge of the
program.
Softball teams have begun to jirac-
tice, and tennis is a current interest.
Honor Students
For Senior Class
Are Announced
Edith Gallant of Charlotte will be
valedictorian for the commencement
exercises of Queens-Chicora college,
it was announced yesterday. Miss
Doris Joines of Mooresville was
named salutatorian.
Edith has made an outstanding
record. She is a member of Sigma
Mu national honorary scholastic fra
ternity, honorary math club and
French club. International Relations
club, and the Spectator Literary so
ciety. Miss Gallant worked on the
senior class stunt night program. Her
scholastic average for her four years
at Queens-Chicora is 96.
Miss Joines has also accomplished
an unusual college record. She is
a member of Sigmas Mu national
scholastic fraternity and of the hon
orary math club. Miss J'Joines is
vice-president of the senior class.
She has served for two years on
the stunt night committee and is
now working on the senior class play
committee. For her four years of
college work, she has attained an
average of 95.30.
New Officers
To Be Elected
New Degree
Offered Here
B.S. in Business Administration
To Be Taught By Inglis
And Watkins
Beginning next year, according to
present plans, there will be offered to
students of Queens-Chicora the privi
lege of taking a four-year business
course to receive a Bachelor of
Science degree in business when they
are graduated.
'Hie first two years of the course
will be similar to tliose of the Bache
lor of Arts student's course. The
last two years will be taken up with
an intensive business course, includ
ing a teacher’s course and ])ractice
teaching for those who ])lan to teach
commercial subjects. Courses in of
fice management and procedures, sec
retarial practice, accounting, and ad
vanced shorthand will be offered.
Tbe course will be training for
secretaries, who need more than steno
graphers, in the way of business
training.
Miss Mary Inglis, head of the busi
ness department, with Dr. James M.
Godard, has worked out the jila'ns
for this new course. She will be as
sisted next year by Mrs. Elizabetli
Watkins, and one other teacher not
yet selected.
Queens Host To
Federation Of
N. C. Music Clubs
This morning elections will be con
ducted in chapel for day student
council, S.C.A. Cabinet, editorship of
the Queens Blues and of the annual,
and the business managers of these
publications. Day Student Council
will be under the supervision of
Eleanor Jenkins, who has recently
been installed as day student presi
dent. Mildred Lowrance will head
the Cabinet, w’hich has charge of re-
(Continued on page four)
On Saturday, April 17, the Junior
Festival of the North Carolina Fed
eration of Music Clubs met on the
Queens-Chicora College campus. Two
weeks prior to this time contests
were held in six i)arts of the state
and superior performers in these con
tests came to Charlotte for the state
contest. Apj)roximately four hun
dred people from all sections of the
state were here Saturday.
The various contests lasted
throughout the day and luncheon for
the contestants and judges was
served in the college dining hall.
Chairman of the Festival was Mrs.
H. M. McCalester of Lumberton.
N. C. Judges of the contest were:
Plano: Miss Mary Wharton of
Queens-Chicora College, Dean Hough
P. Williamson of Flora McDonald
College, and Mr. Powell Everhart of
Limestone College. Violin: Mr. Edgar
A. Alend of Meredith College. Voice:
Mr. Paul Oncley of Woman's College
in Greensboro, and organ: Mr. Thane
MacDonald of Davidson College.
Part of the morning activities of
the festival were broadcast from the
College Auditorium in a half-hour
program over Radio Station WSOC.
For the past two weeks the Queens-
Chicora College programs over radio
station WSOC have been ])resented
by the music department. On
Wednesday, April 13, Miss Cornelia
Truesdale and Miss Claire Wishart
gave a joint organ recital. On
Wednesday, April 20, Mrs. Mosely's
pupils were heard in a recital with
two pianos and the organ.
The management of Radio Station
WSOC has announced that they ex
pect to broadcast a j)ortion of the
Commencement Exercises from the
college Auditorium in May.
The college programs from Station
WSOC will continue to be j)resented
weekly until the close of school, how
ever, the time of the program will be
changed on April 27 from 3:30 to
2:30 on Wednesday afternoons.
On last Monday evening the con
cluding program in a series of
Queens-Chicora College radio pro
grams was broadcast over Radio Sta-
Davidson Is
Host To Queens
Anniversary of Brother School
Made Gala Occasion
For Queens Girls
On Tuesday, April 12, nearly
two-hundred Queens-Chicora girls
were guests at Davidson College at
the annual Queens-Davidson day.
This day was also Davidson’s one
hundred and first anniversary.
The six special busses left Char
lotte at 1:15 P. M. and arrived in
Davidson about 2:30. The girls were
met by their dates at the six dating
bureaus and these escorted to the
athletic field where a baseball game
was played between Davidson and
Lenoir Rhyne College.
After the game tlie Davidson men
escorted their dates to various social
centers on the campus for entertain
ment until 6:30. Then the girls
separated from their dates to he
served supper by the college in the
banquet hall of Chambers along with
members of O. D. K.
At 8 o’clock tl;e boys escorted
their dates to the performance of
Colin the Magician in Chambers
Auditorium; at the conclusion of this
show punch was served in front of
Chambers Building and informal
singing was enjoyed by all. The
busses brought the Queens-Chicora
girls to Charlotte about 11 o’clock
P. M. at the close of a very enjoyable
day of entertainment.
Spring Speaker
Sponsored Here
By S. C. A. Cabinet
Spring services of the Student
Christian Association were held on
April 11 and 15, with Rev. Carl R.
Pritchett of Smithfield, North Caro
lina, sjieaking.
Rev. Pritchett spoke to the Bible
Classes on 'I'liursday, April 11. That
night he spoke in the auditorium of
Queens on “Religion of Power,” after
which discussion groups met in the
S.C.A. hut on the campus to discuss
any jirohlems.
Friday morning, at 7:00 o’clock, the
Easter sunrise service was held on
the stc])s of Morrison Hall. Later,
Rev. Pritchett S])oke to the student
body in cha])el on “How a Christian
Lives.” Discussion groups met Fri
day afternoon. Friday night. Rev.
Pritchett made his final talk on the
“Crucifixion,” asking that we rededi
cate ourselves to Christ at Easter
and begin anew.
Rev. Pritchett was graduated from
the Union Theological Seminary in
Richmond, Virginia, after having
been voted the most outstanding man
at the Seminar}" for the last ten years.
He is pastor of the Smithfield Pres
byterian Church.
Mildred Lowrance, newly-elected
jiresident of S.C.A., presided over the
services.
tion WBT. The ])rogram consisted
of the presentation of the play 77ie
House on IJalsted Street which was
given by the dramatic department
under the direction of Miss Eythel
King. This radio play dealt with the
life of Jane Addams, the noted wel
fare worker, and her work at the
Hall House in Chicago.
On the previous Monday night
the WBT ])rogram consisted of a talk
by Dr. Frazer and a grouj) of Easter
songs sung by the small Choral Club.
On Tuesday, April 26, at 3:15 and
8:00 P. M. in the auditorium of Cen
tral High School, the French de
partment of that school will present
a picture, the “Lives and Loves of
Beethoven.”
Queens Girls
Attend Meet
Currie, Cumnock, McDowell
Represent College; Mrs.
Agnew Speaks
The twenty-third annual conference
of the Southern Inter - Collegiate
Association of Student Government
was held on April 14, 15, and 16, at
The College of William and Mary
at Williamshurg, Virginia. Mary
Currie, Helen Cumnock, and Sally
McDowell attended from Queens-
Chicora College with Mrs. Virginia
Miller Agnew, dean of women at
Queens.
The program opened Thursday with
greetings from Jane Speakman, presi
dent of the student body of the host
ess college, and from Dr. Grace War
ren Landrum, dean of women at the
College of William and Mary. After
dinner, the various delegates were
welcomed hy Dr. John Stewart Bry
an, president of the college, after
which discussion groups were led by
Mary Dyer Teague, of the Mississippi
State College for Women, on the sub
ject, “Systems of Student Govern
ment.”
On Friday, a discussion group met,
led by Alma Pack, of Brenau College
to discuss “The Technique of Presi
dency.” At 10:30, Mrs. Agnew spoke
on “Student Government Paralleled
With Society.” Mary Calvert Dey
of Randolph-Macon Women’s College
led a discussion following that on
“Honor System.” After lunch a dis
cussion on “Orientation” was led hy
Laura Coit, of Agnes Scott College.
From three until six o’clock the
visitors enjoyed a tour of the Restor
ation in Williamsbury. Dean Land
rum spoke Friday night at the formal
banquet, after which I.ouise Gehan of
Florida State College for Women led
a discussion on “Student Government
in its Broader Aspects.” An open
forum was led hy Betty Jean Brown
of Duke University until ten-thirty
o’clock.
On Saturday, Dr. J. E. Walmslcy,
of Farmville State Teachers’ College
made an address. Following this, the
business meeting of the conference
was held, at which time the question
was brought up as to whether the
S.I.A.S.G. should join in the South
ern Regional Conference of the Na
tional Student F'ederation of Amer
ica, but it was decided that it should
not. The conference concluded with
luncheon Saturday in Trinkle Hall at
the College.
Outgeyng officers of the Association
are Mary Curry, Queens-Chicora,
president; Jane Speakman, William
and Mary, vice-president; Nancy
Peery, Hollins, secretary; Elizabeth
Morris, P’armville, treasurer. Incom
ing officers are Betty Jean Brown,
Duke, president; Patricia Wood-
worth, Sophie Newcombe College,
secretary; Tommye Walker, Miss-
isssippi State College for Women,
treasurer; and Mary Currie, Queens-
Chicora, graduate adviser.
It is the custom for the outgoing
and incoming presidents of the stu
dent body and of the boarding stu
dent body to attend this conference
each year.
Ihe music for this feature was
prejiared in the Conservatory of
Paris. It is said to be a splendid
opportunity for local students. There
is an accompanying English explana
tion.
Louise Crane has charge of the
tickets for Queens. Admission is
twenty-five cents.
In Daze of Olde
“Has Sir Richard asked for your
hand yet?
“No, but the knight is still young.”
—Baker Orange.