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Published Weekly By The Students of Queens-Chicora Colleg^
No.^
OUEENS-CHICORA COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
February 18, 1939
Annual Day
At Davidson
Is Observed
Queens - Davidson Day Held,
Sponsored by O. D. K.
For Third Year
QUEENS SUPERLATIVES
The annual Queens-Chicora College-
Davidson College Day, sponsored by
Omicron Delta Kappa, national
orary leadership fraternity, was hel
on Tuesday, February 14.
The girls left the campus on special
buses at about 2:30 o’clock. Upon
arrival', they met tbeir dates through
the dating bureau on the campus m
front of Chambers building. At 4
o’clock, boys and their guests at
tended the basketball game between
Davidson freshmen and Danville Mili
tary Institute in the gymnasium.
After the game, groups explored
the campus until 6:30, when dinner
was serv'ed in the banquet hall of
Chambers, when the girls were guests
of the college.
Following dinner, the guests and
their hosts attended the presentation
of the opera “Martha” in concert
form, participated in by the Davidson
Glee Club and tbe Queens-Chicora
Choral Club. James Christian PfoW,
direction of music at Davidson, di
rected the opera. The Michigan
Little Symphony and the Davidson
Symphony Orchestras gav'e concerts
before the opera.
Eleanor Alexander of Knoxville and
Franklin Hiker of Davidson sang the
Solo parts in the opera.
Others from Queens taking part
Were Anne McCree Roberts, Frances
Stough, Sarah Durant, Frances
Hunter, Frances Riddle, Ann Peyton,
Esther Love Hillhouse, Helen Cum
Hock, Marguerite Craven, France?
Marion O’Hair, Claire Wishart,
Ermine Waddill, Maujer Moseley,
Betty Gardner, Mary Payne, June
Escott, Sarah Lee Steiger, Virginia
Smith, and Marie Roseman.
Davidson boys taking part included
James Ballard, David King, James
Crooks, Pat Rudolph, Pete Shacke-
ford, William Hamilton, John Wilson,
Victor Hollis, James McDonald, Har
per Beall, Stuart Oglesby, Charles
Sherman, Richard Aycock, Hazel
Quinn, Joseph Robinson, and Sout 1
gate Jones.
S.C.A. Begins
Home Project
The Student Christian Association
lias launched its big project of the
year. It is a home mission project
connected with Highland Institute,
one of the home mission mountain
schools. The student body has taken
it upon itself to buy two cows for
this mountain school. Each cow wi
Cost $75.00 which means $125.00 mus
i'c raised.
Highland Institute is a school in
the mountain chih^ren of tha
district work and get their education.
Tile boys work on tbe farm and the
girls do the domestic work. There is
indeed a great work going on there
^nd it is an opportunity to have a
hand in the progress of this school.
Last year the student body re
sponded nearly one hundred per cent
fn the big foreign mission project. It
is hoped that each girl will vyant to
^'Hp get the two cows for Highland
institute.
Musical Play
Sponsored By
Newspaper
Boys’ Glee Club Appears Here
In Amusing Playlet
On Wednesday
Party Finns
Begun Here
Broadcasts
Continued
Phi Mu Gives
House warming
The Queens Blues, official weekly
lublication of Queens-Chicora Col-
ege, sponsored the presentation of
musical playlet, “Meeting to Mu
sic,” given b}"^ the eighth grade Boys’
Glee Club of Alexander Graham
Iiinior High School on Wednesday,
February 15, during the regular
chapel hour in the college auditorium.
Miss Lela Tomlinson, instructor in
voice at Alexander Graham, directed
the boys in the take-off on a meeting
of a Woman’s Club.
This is the first of two programs
to be sponsored by the newspaper in
an effort to arouse campus-wide in
terest in the paper and to put it be
fore the student-body. Plans are in
progress for the other program, to
be an original play written and en-
icted by members of the staff.
Boys who took part in the produc
tion on Wednesday include, bassos,
Pat Wilson, IJoyd Todd, Charles
Keith, Tom Moore, Kenneth Archer,
Ralph Williams, Milton Vandiver,
John Howard, Wesley Henderson,
Wardlovv Norsworthy, and Eugene
Doar.
Tenors were Robert Dellinger,
Beverly Young, Leslie Heath, Jr.,
John Brown, Ben Douglas, Billy
Harkey, Carter Haley, Clayton Wil
liams, Ross Baker, Justin Burke, Jake
Moss, Ralph Cox, Wallace Orr, Jim
my Jamison, and Will Carpenter.
Committee, for I"™'
quet plans Iw'e
Betsy Springer, recentlj
chairman of tlie committee m charge
of arrangements. Work will begin ,m-
nieillately to make this year's bamiuet
one of the best to date.
The program committee chairman is
Virginia Smith, with Annie Mae
Brotn, Dorothy Muse, Elaine Sober,
and Claire Wishart on the corainitlee.
Decoration committee chairm^
Elisabeth Harms,
riettn Mclver, Donnye Cos, •
Adams, and Jessie Rose Clark.
Chairman of the food committee s
Han 1 McNulty, with her commit
tee composed of Dorothy Duckett,
Lisabeth Porter, Dorothy McCoy, and
Elizabeth Brandon.
Dorothy Alexander is dial man o
the invitation committee, with Mar
ic Poole, Elisabeth Green, and
Alice Longeneeker as her commit-
. nf tlie time and place
“'“ris GeoSe Hurt, and I.u-
“.rowaltney and Callie McElroy
are her committee.
Projects to be sponsored bv the
iunior class are now under wav
order to raise the necessary monev
for the banquet.
Proctors for chapel were announced
at a recent student body meeting by
Helen Cumnock, president of the stu
dent government association.
Proctor for the senior class is Dor
othv Carson. Elaine Suber and Martha
Stoner are the junior class proctors.
Enid Waggett and Amelia Bradham
will check on the sophomore chapel
attendance. Freshman cl^pel pro-
tors are Lela Hughes and Ida Mae
Walkiip.
The regular Queens-Chicora College
broadcast over WBT last Tuesday at
10:30 P. M., featured three colorful
compositions by Eleanor Guyton and
Dorothy Carson, piano pupils of Miss
Mary Wharton.
Dorothy Carson rendered “Anda-
luza” from “Sweet Espagnol” by
Lecuona, and an arrangement of
“q’urkey in the Straw” by David
Guion. Eleanor Guyton played “On
The Banks of the Sacred Ganges”
from “The Magic Book” by Nilmann.
Last 'I'uesday from 9:00 to 9:30
a portion of the opera “Martha”
presented by the Davidson and
Queens-Chicora Glee Clubs at David
son, was broadcast over tbe Columbia
Net Work through the facilities of
radio station WB'T. The WBT pro
gram next Tuesday the 21st will in
elude violin selections by Marie
Roseman and vocal arrangements
by Frances Riddle. On the 28th of
February Miss Ethel M. King will
present the first of her series of
radio plays dramatizing some strange
happening in the history of the Post
Office. This play, “Mail in Exile”
will include in its cast Miss King,
Dr. J. M. Godard, Dr. J. M. Gettys,
and others.
The Queens-Chicora program over
WSOC on the 16th included vocal
selections by Clare Wishart and violin
arrangements by Marie Roseman. The
sorority broadcasts will begin on
Tuesday, March 7th when the Alpha
Gamma Delta’s will be featured. The
order of sorority programs which
was decided by lot is as follows
Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Delta
Theta, Chi Omega, Kappa Delta, Phi
Mu, and Alpha Delta Pi. These
programs will not be consecutive as
there will be breaks in between.
Senior boarders majoring in borne
economics have moved into the prac
tice house to begin their six-weeks
training in the art of making a home
They will take turns about being host
and hostess, cooking, cleaning the
house, and doing various other house
hold duties.
'I'hose who are in the house now
include Frances Poole, Jean Craven,
rVnneal 'Trijilette, Sally McDowell,
Katherine McQueen Martin, and
Emily Ferguson.
Day students who will move in for
the last six weeks of school are
Agnes Hope Gwaltney, Laura Query,
Elsie Rowe, Stacie Orr, Norma Moore,
and Evelvn Smith.
Altos were Billy Arthur, Kinlock
Riv'ers, Jack Goode, 'Tommy Pastelle,
Bill Strange, Douglas Moore, Henry
Turner, Joel Martin, Ricluird 'Town
send, Don Clinard, and Jack Royal.
Sopranos were John Gilbert, Her
bert Small, Jimmy Radimacher,
Angelo Coutras, Keely Grice, Ray
mond Wilson, and Walter Quick.
Pianists were Jeanne Howie and
Elizabeth Helms.
Noted Leader
Speaks Here
Mrs. Warren Booker, head of the
dejiartment at school, is sujiervising
the training period.
Gamma Gamma chapter of Phi Mu
national social sorority entertained
last Friday afternoon with a tea and
house-warming at the house on So
rority Row. 'The interior and ex
terior have recentlv^ been redecorated.
Dr. Roberta Ma, former member
of the faculty at Sun Yat Sen Col
lege in Canton, China, was guest
s]ieaker at chapel yesterday in the
auditorium at the regular chapel
hour.
She spoke on China relief, giving
vivid descriptions of tlie plight of the
Chinese people.
Dr. Ma is a well-known Chinese
leader. She is a graduate of the Uni
versity of 'Texas and speaks fluent
English.
Invited guests included members
of the college faculty, alumnae of Phi
Mu, and the patronesses of the local
chapter, including Mrs. C. N. Peeler,
Mrs. John A. Redhead, and Mrs.
William Sherrill, of Concord.
In her talk. Dr. Ma said that fifteen
dollars in American money will pro
vide food, clothing, shelter, and school
for one year for a Chinese orphan,
and twelve dollars a year will give
one livelihood.
Officers of the chapter received
with the faculty advisers. Miss Cor
delia Henderson and Mrs. Esther
Wright Huffman. Alene Ward is
president, Dorothy Alexander, vice-
])resident, Elizabeth Imbody, secre
tary, and Elizabeth Harms is treas
urer.
“China is the field on which the
battle of democracy is being fought,”
said Dr. Ma, “and Christianity in
the world is at stake.” It all de
pends on how the war between China
and Japan is ended as to which shall
be foremost in the world, democracy
or totalitarianism.
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