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4 BLUES Vol. 4^ No.^ High School Seniors Are Guests Here QUEENS-CHICORA COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C. May 6, 1938 HospiteJity Day Is Observed In Connection. With May Day Affair Today, in connection with the May Day festivities, is Hospitality Day on the Queens-Chicora College campus, an annual affair at the college. High school students from all sec tions of North and South Carolina have been invited for the day to he guests of the college. Activities wfil begin at twelve o’clock in the audi torium with Mrs. Virginia Miller Agnew, dean of women, presiding. Mrs. Agnew will introduce Dr. AVilliam H. Frazer, president of the college, who will welcome visitors. Dr. James M. Godard, dean of in struction, and Mrs. Frank Brandon Smith, field secretary, will speak briefly to the high school seniors, after which Helen Cumnock, presi dent of the student body, will talk to them on extra curricular activi ties of the college, and Lillian Smith, president of the senior class, will outline Senior Week plans for them. A one-act play will be presented by the dramatics department under the direction of Miss Ethel King. Several selections will he sung by the Choral Club of the college under the direction of IMiss Grace Robinson, after which organ, piano, and violin selections will be heard. Concluding the program will be the singing of the Alma Mater by the student body. Luncheon will be served to the guests following the auditorium pro gram in front of the Morrison Hall dining room. Members of Alpha Kappa Gamma, national honorary leadership fraternity for w’omen, will conduct a tour over the campus and otherwise entertain the visitors until time for May Day. Following May Day festivities, the visitors will be invited to attend the open house celebrations in each of the six national sorority houses on the campus, Chi Omega, Kappa Delta, Phi Mu, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Gam ma Delta, and Alpha Delta Theta. Leadership Group Elects Officers for the coming year of Alpha Kappa Gamma, national hon orary leadership fraternity for wom en, were elected last Saturday. Eleanor Alexander succeeds Nancy Mclver as president. Other officers are Helen Hatcher, vice-president; Mildred Lowrance, secretary; Sally McDowell, treasur er; Sue Mauldin, editor; and Helen Cumnock, historian. Retiring officers other than the president are Mary Currie, vice-pres'i- dent; Lillian Smith, secretary; Louise Crane, treasurer; Elizabeth Calder, editor; and Elizabeth Calder, histori an. Members of the zoology class went on an expedition to Beaufort, N. C. two w’eeks ago. They were accom panied by Dr. Howe, teacher of the class. The girls w’ent especially to visit the laboratories of Duke University and W. C. L". N. C. which are lo cated there. They found many vari ous marine forms of \vhich they studied the structure, physiology, habitat and economic importance. They brought back some of their specimens and put them on exhibit in the laboratorv. May Court First Row: Betty Fayssoux, Frances Stough, Martha Wise Alexander, Brooksie Folger. Second Row: Marjorie Poole, Margaret Lloyd, Helen Jenkins, Jane Wiley, Grace Clark, Nancy Thompson. Third Row: P-edie Bijrke, Dell Sutherland, Evelyn Me- CrackeiC Betsy Mountcastle, Martha IJb Alexander, Sybil Trexler, Billie Frazier, Nancy Havis, Elizabeth Gammon. Association Publications Councils Are Meeting Here Heads Chosen Elected Here May Day Is Observed At Queens Today Jenkins To Be Crowned By Wiley On Front Campus This Afternoon Annual Spring Convention Of Collegiate Press Group Now In Session The annual spring convention of the North Carolina Collegiate Press Association is now in session in Char lotte with headquarters at the Hotel Charlotte. Queens-Chicora and Dav idson Colleges are hostess and host. The program began yesterday with registration at the Hotel from 2 un til 5 o’clock, at which time each dele gate was presented with a theatre pass for the evening. Delegates met at the Hotel before going to the the atre in order to “get acquainted.” This morning a business session fs being held, after which lunch will be served at Queens. This afternoon discussion groups will meet under various editors for any problems which may confront an editor or busi ness manager of the college news paper, magazine, or annual. Tonight at 7 P. M. the delegates will be en tertained with a banquet at the Hotel Charlotte. Saturday morning the election of officers will be held for the coming vear at the regular business session. D. Hiden Ramsey, editor of The Asheville Citizen-Times, will speak at this time. Other speakers include Jake Wade, sports editor of The Charlotte Ob server. who will lead the college news paper editor’s discussion; Cameron Shipp, of The Charlotte News, who will have charge of the open forum for magazine editors; Harrie Keck of the Observing Printing Plouse; The delegates have been invited to the Carolina Book Fair in Charlotte. Among the well-known authors who will he in Charlotte for the fair are Dubose Heyward, Thomas Wolfe, and others. Officers of the Association are Charlie Dunnagan, business manager of The Technician, State, president; Warren Stack, Duke, first vice-presi dent; Bill Staton, editor Old Gold and Black, Wake Forest, second vice- president; Georgie Underwood, busi ness manager of The Coronet, Queens, secretary; and Dick Vowles, editor of The Davidsonian, Davidson, treasurer. Mauldin, Knee, Brown, And Springer To Publish Annual and Paper Recently elected were the editors and business managers of the two publications of Queens-Chicora Col lege, The Queexs Blues, weekl,v newspaper of the college, and The Coronet, annual publication of the college. Heading The Cornet staff are Sue Mauldin, as editor, and Ruth Knee, as business manager. Other staff members will he announced at the beginning of next year. Annie Mae Brown and Betsy Springer^ editor and business man ager of The Blues, have announced their staff for the two issues to he printed before the close of school. Ad ditional members will he announced next year from the freshman class. Editorial staff' is Henrietta Mclver, associate editor; Madeline Lotterhos, assistant editor; Ermine Waddill, news editor^ Virginia Smith, feature editor; Peggy Williams, society edi tor; Elizabeth Brammer, sports edi tor; Mildred Sneeden, exchange edi tor; and Sara Thompson, poetry edi tor. Reporters are Catherine Raeford, June Escott, Maujer Moseley, Ellen Hardee, Pegg}^ Harrison, Judith Kil lian, Frances Hunter, and Marguerite Craven. Business staff consists of Georgie Hurt, assistant business manager; Betty Purser, advertising manager, Brooksie Folger, circulation man ager. Advertising staff members are Mary Payne, Sue Welch, Olivia Gillespie, Mary Alice Petteway, Hilda Mc Manus, Dorothy Alexander, Lucielle Gwaltney, Bonnye Cox, Harriet Don nelly, Dorothy Muse, Lucy Williams, Elizabeth Imbody, Carolyn Edwards, and Julia Edwards. The Rev. Herbert Spaugh, pastor of the Little Church on the Lane in Charlotte, has been substituting for the past two weeks in the history de partment for Professor R. V. Ken nedy, who has been confined to his home because of illness. Leaders Of Organizations Are Announced For Coming Year Elections of the councils for the Day Student Association, Student Christian Association, Boarding Stu dent Organization, and Athletic Council were held April 23 and 27 in chapel. Helen Cumnock, newly- elected president of the Student Gov ernment Association, presided. President of the day students is Eleanor Jenkins; vice-president, Mar garet Duckett; secretary, Lucielle Gwaltney; treasurer, Caroline Ed wards; senior representative, Martha Rayburn; junior representative, Dorothy Duckett; and sophomore rej)resentative, Maujer Moseley. The Student Christian Association is headed by Mildred Lowrance. Of ficers include Olive Croswell as hoarding student vice-president; Agnes Hope Gwaltney, day student vice-president; Sara Durant, secre tary; and Helen Hatcher, treasurer. Others serving on the council will be Mildred Sneeden, boarding student representative; Virginia Smith, day student representative; Anneal Trip- lette, senior representative; Anne Fuller, junior representative; Dorothy I.ongenecker, sophomore representa tive; Frances Reins, hostess of the Plut; Katherine M. Martin, church work chairman; Jean Ferguson and Sue Mauldin, publicity; Alene Ward, Mary Louise Spratt, and Jane David, program committee; Eleanor Alexan der, Dorothy Carson, and Enid Wag- gett, music committee. Those elected to Athletic Council, of which Cree Roberts is president were Jean Craven, vice-president; .\nne Fuller, secretary; and Elizabeth Brammer, treasurer. Boarding student council, of which Sally McDowell is president, is made up of three house presidents, Sara Durant, in Morrison; Marguerite Craven, in North; and Katherine M. Martin, in South; secretary, Hannali McNulty; treasurer, Eleanor Eddy; senior representative, Marjorie Timms; junior represent.ative, Elaine Suher; and sophomore representative, Virginia Cothrane. May Day festivities, annual climax of the spring season, will take place on the Queens-Chicora campus this afternoon. Using a medieval theme, tlie (jueen will he crowned amid a throng of dancing peasants and ladies of the court. Dorothy Carson will he the accom panist and will provide the opening music to which the maids of the court will enter, followed closely by the flower girls, Rosa White, (laugh ter of Dr. and Mrs. T. Preston White, and .fane Crane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. 11. Crane. Tlie maid-of- honor, Jane Wiley, of Charlotte, will j)recede tlie Queen of the day, Helen Jenkins, of Charlotte, who will he crowned by Miss Wiley. The crown- hearer is to he Billy Erwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. ,J. Erwin of Great Fall, S. C., while the two little train- bearers are to he Sara Clark Bullard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Bul lard, and Virginia Anne Green, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Green. Following this crowning, the queen and her court will watch the enact ment of a peasant story. The tale, which centers around the little princess, June Escott, and the prince, Sara Shelton, begins with a ribbon dance of gaily dressed peasants, in celebration of the betrothal of the princess to the prince. The princess, who does not know her future hus band, disguises herself and mingles with the dancing peasants. There the prince finds her and falls in love with her. There is great rejoicing when her true identity is disclosed. Jennie Linn Wright, as a peasant girl, and Margaret Flowe, as a peas ant boy, will execute a special dance. Court musicians will be Ermine Wad- dill, Marie Roseman, and Vera Boul- ware. Carolyn Hartman will be court jester. Tlie leading ladies of the court of the princess are to be Nancy (^Continued on page four) Cadets Come To Colleg e While attending a convention here in Charlotte last week, a group of ten Salvation Army cadets from the Atlanta training school presented a program in chapel Tuesday morning, April 20. In addition to talks on the founda tion, meaning, and work of the Army, several sacred songs were sung by the group. This unique program made clear the many services that are quietly carried on by the great army of Sal vation workers. The cadets were traveling with Captain Eunice Ward, a teacher in the Atlanta training school. The rising junior class elected its officers for the coming year. Thurs day morning, April 28, in chapel. The respective officers are Anne Fuller, president; Lucielle Gwaltney, vice-})resident; Carolyn Hartman, secretary; and Martha Stoner, treas urer. Retiring officers of the class are Eleanor Guyton, president; Hannah McNulty, vice-president; Anne Full er, secretary; and Madeline Lotter hos, treasurer.