March 4, 1939
N^^nONAL'SORORTflES HONOR INITIATES
Freshman Class
Issues Winning Paper
Stout, Albright, Den^, CommiWM,
Award Five Dollars To First Years
, • f flip OuEENS Blues, published recently in
The freshman issue of the Queens and freshmen, edited by
the annual contest between t le p announced yester-
Ann Peyton and J Dr. Agnes Stout, chairman of
day to be the winner of the contest uy
the committee of judges. ^
Qualities on which the papers ar«
judged from the editorial standpoint
include timeliness, quality and extent
of interest, structure and style, ac
curacy, functional aspect, make-up,
editorials, headlines, and features.
The total of possible points is fifty.
In the totaling of points submitted
by Miss Mary Denny and Miss Ihelma
Albright, instructors in English and
committee of judging, along with those
of Dr. Stout, the freshman paper was
five jioints ahead of the sophomore
issue.
From the business standpoint, the
Sophomores cleared twelve dollars
and the freshmen, thirty dollars.
The sophomores, said Dr. StouJ.
are to be commended for their
make-up and headlines, ^vhile the
freshmen contribution to citizenship
and features were good.
Ermine Waddill was editor of t le
sophomore issue and Elizabeth m
body was business manager.
This contest is sponsored each year
by the Blues, regularly publishe
by the junior class.
Hunter Chosen
Secretary
Attends National Convention
As Queens-Chicora Delegate
Frances Hunter, vice-president
Tournament
Draws Interest
The annual basketball tournament
,,as heM Tuesday and
freshman and junior teams ended up
in a tie. The tie was played
Wednesday night with the Freshmen
winning the game. The final gam
will be played next week after wuc
the members of the winning team will
each receive gold basketball pms as
Home Ec. Club
Will Give Show
The Home Economics Club will
sponsor a fashion show on Ihursday
evening, March 9, at 7:30 o’clock m
the college auditorium.
The clothes will be furnished by
Efird’s Department store in Charlotte.
Those who will model include Ma
jorie Poole, Sally McDowell, Xancv
Hovis, Katherine McQueen *
Marjorie Timms, Sybil Trexler, A e e
Sutherland, Sara DuRant, Annea
Triplette, Elizabeth Porter, and Bar
bara Davis.
Anne McCree Roberts was captain
of the senior team and Frances ei
was cheer leader for the class. Othef
nrembers of the team ---
Craven, Marguerite Craven, Helen
Cumnock, Norma Moore, Mddred
Lowrauce, Kate Brown, and Kath
erine K. Martin.
Members of Teams
Members ot the junior class team
were Martha Stoner, captain, Ann
Fuller, Irene McCall, Elisabeth trreen,
I ucllle Gwaltney, Alice Longenecker
'Pi'iinp Siibcr, Hnd
Betsv Springer, Elaine ,
Hendette Mclver. The junior class
cheer leader is Frances Stough.
Captain for the sophomore class
team was Mildred Taylor and Sara
sale this week
Tickets will be one
for fifteen cents, and prizes u iH
offered for various holders of t w
lucky tickets. The prizes will be
donated by merchants of Charlotte.
Betsy Springer is general chair-
Ulan of arrangements, and her com
uiittees are composed of, decorating
Dorothy Duckett, Doris Raley, Julit
White, and Martha Brandon; poster
Committee, Elizabeth Brandon, Mary
Gunn, Alice Barron, and Bill
tickets, Hannah McNulty, Hilda
uion. Sue McNulty, Marguerite Gam-
brell, Betty Carr; prizes, Dorothy
McCoy.
This is an annual event sponsore
by the Home Economics Club, o
'vhich Agnes Ilope Gwaltney is presi
dent. Mrs. Warren Booker, head o
tile home economics department,
faculty adviser of the club
On Sunday afternoon, Februarj
at 6 o’clock, Mrs. Elsie Stokes Mose
ley conducted a vesjier service o
Uiusic at the Myers Park Presbyteri
an Church,
of the local chapter of the League
of Evangelical Students, was
elected secretary of the national
organization at a convention held
at John Brown University in
Siloam Springs, Arkansas, Febru
ary 17, through February 19.
Frances was sent as a delegate to
the convention from Queens-Chicora.
She left here on Wednesday before
th.e convention and returned Satur
day, February 25. She was elected
secretary of the national organization
and other officers elected w'ere Theo
dore Hunt of Temple University,
president; and Ralph Hofmeister of
Dallas Seminary, Dallas, Texas, vice-
president.
The I.,eague of Evangelical Stu
dents is an international organization
and the international convention will
be held in England this July. There
will be another national convention
next February. Westminster Univer-
^ ^ sity in Philadelphia, Pa., has been
set as a tentative meeting place.
Frances will meet with other mem-
Banquet To Follow
Initiation Services
TTiirty-eight Girls To Be Initiated
This Afternoon Into Five Groups
Five of the six national social sororities represented on the
Queens-Chicora College campus will hold initiations today followed
bv banquets tonight in honor of the new initiates. Thirty-eight
girls will be initiated. Lists of intiates and plans for banquets
follow:
Alpha Delta Pi
Beta Iota chapter of Alpha Delta
„TtT‘rtlm“were Olivia Gillespie
Dorelby Longenecker. Helen
Eliaabelli Brammer, Vn-gima G
son, Jeimie Lynn Wright, Lillian
Sample, anil Frances Kerr.
j.,„e Watt Montgomery vaptain of
,l,e freshman class team and Nan
Walker was class a'-'"„
,l,e team were Ines Malone, Flora
MacDonald, Margaret Alexander
IL Peyton, Lonise Collins, Sarah
Baylor, Mary Katherine Martin andp
Cora Wayland.
Miss Mavis Mitchell, member of
the physical education facul y a wonderful work
Central high school, referee e growing all the time.”
The basketball tournaments
cheer leader. Members
bers of the executive council at a
meeting in Philadelphia in June. Plans
for next year’s convention will be
discussed at that time.
There are now fifty-two chapters
in the league which is strictly for
college, seminaries, and universities.
Four new chapters were installed at
the convention. The league was
founded by Dr. J. Gresham Machen
and is around fifteen years old. This
was the fourteenth national conven
tion. Two boys from leagues in
Switzerland were at last year's con
vention but there were not represen
tatives from abroad this year.
Two guest si)eakers at the conven
tion were R. V. Kuiper from West
minster University and Dr. Clarence
Bonma of Calvin Seminary in Grand
Rapids, Michigan. They spoke at
meetings and services held at various
times during the day. Business meet
ings were held in the mornings and
at night after services.
I When questioned about the work
of the leagues, Frances said, “The
National League of Evangelical Stu-
Eight Students
Attend Meet
Eight Queens-Chicora students at
tended a conference of the Young
Women’s Christian association which
was sponsored by the Y. W. C. A.
of Winthrop college in Rock Hill, S.
C., February 24 through February 26.
Queens-Chicora students w'ho at
tended the meetings are Eleanor
Alexander, Anneal Triplette, Imcillf
Gwaltney, Anne Fuller, Olive Cros-
well. Sue Mauldin, Frances Reins
and Katherine McQueen Martin. Dean
Agnew accompanied the group to the
conference.
Miss Anne Tilghman of Winthrop
college was chairman of the confer
ence and president of the Winthrop
association. Miss Elizabeth Stinson,
general secretary, sent invitations tc
18 North and South Carolina Colleges.
Around 100 students attended the
meetings. The conferences were held
in Johnson Hall and consisted of ad
dresses, symposiums, forums, and dis
cussion groups which were led by
well-known religious leaders from the
Carolinas. The theme of the confer
ence was “The Adequacy of Christ
for Youth Today.”
The Y. W. C. A. of Winthrop col
lege sponsored the meeting in co
operation with the pastors and church
secretaries of the six leading denom
inations represented at the college as
follows: Baptist, Methodist, Presby
terian, A. R. P., Episcopal, and Luth
eran.
Centr
r:;o„r::a-‘;::;b;B;eAib-
letic Association of which Cree Rob
erts is president this year, and by
Miss Cordelia Henderson, head of
pbyslcai education department and
lach for the teams.
CO
c- t^Itvcts. ^Il^cctccl
The Queens 1 layers.,
Ethel M King will enter the annual
state dramatic contest at Chape
March 22 through March 25.
The club will present the one-ac
mystery drama “Anti-Clockwise for
the dramatic meet.
This play is one of tense ^ama and
traoedy. The group will compe
Gth some 15 or 20 college groups
its kind and there will be much
competition and rivalry.
growing
Officers of the local chapter are
Anneal Triplette, president; Frances
Hunter, vice-president; and Martha
Stoner, secretary-treasurer.
The local league will sponsor the
vesper services Sunday evening,
March 19, when they will have a
deputation here from the Columbia
Bible school. This program will in
elude speakers and a male quartet.
In order to raise money for the
event the junior class sponsored the
first of a series of projects on Thurs
day night, March 2, in the auditorium.
The Frye Entertainment Company
was presented in a program of
sleight-of hand tricks, and a ventrilo
quist act featuring Henry and Susie,
dummies, was given.
Kirby Page Speaker
Kirby Page was one of the main
speakers. Friday night the subject
of his speech was “How Can I Be
the Kind of Person Needed in this
Age of Socical Conflict?” Saturday
morning he spoke with his subject as
“How Can I Make the Most Effec
tive Use of My Life?” Saturday af
ternoon his topic was “In What Ways
Can Religion Help Me to Know and
To Be and Do Good?”
Others who were invited to hold
symposiums and discussion groups
were Bishop R. E. Gribbin of the
Western North Carolina Diocese, Dr.
Sj’lvester Green, president of Coker
college in Hurtsville, S. C., Dr. W.
Taliafero Thompson, head of the re
ligious department of the Union The
ological seminary in Richmond, Va.,
and Dr. N. C. McPherson, head of
the ministerial vocation department
of the Methodist Church, South.
Pi will initiate five girls at the home
of Miss Jane Steele Hannon, former
province president, on Providence
Road, at 2:00 o’clock this afternoon.
Tonight the actives will entertain at
a banquet in honor of the new initi
ates at 7 o’clock at 'I’hacker’s. Miss
Marian Boyle, president of Gamma
province, Avill be a special guest. Miss
Grace Robinson, faculty adviser, and
Mrs. Virginia Miller Agnew will' be
guests.
Initiates will be Nina Brown, Anne
Cromartie, Esther I.ove Hillhouse,
Mary Katherine Martin, and Helen
Pope.
Officers of the chapter include
Frances Marion O’Hair, president;
Marjorie Timms, vice-president;
Katherine McQueen Martin, secre
tary; and Catherine King, treasurer.
Alpha Delta Theta
Psi chapter of Al))ha Delta Theta
will initiate four pledges this after
noon at 2 o’clock at the house on
Sorority Row. Tonight the banquet
in their honor will be given at the
S & W Cafeteria at 7 o’clock, with
Mary Griffin toastmistress. Decora
tions will be in the colors of the
sorority, turquoise blue, scarlet, and
silver.
Initiates include Mildred Taylor,
Margaret Holland, Cornelia Davis,
and Jean Neu.
Officers of the chapter are Mary
Griffin, president; Agnes Hope
Gwaltney, vice-president; Elizabeth
Brammer, secretary; and Frances
Ehrhardt, treasurer.
Alpha Gamma Delta
Gamma Gamma cha])ter of Al])ha
Gamma Delta will initiate ten girls
at the house on Sorority Row at 2
o’clock this afternoon. Tonight the
chapter will entertain at a banquet
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The annual junior-senior banquet
this year will be held on Saturday,
May 6, it was announced this week by
Betsy Springer, chairman of the com-
nalttee of arrangements, at the Hotel
Charlotte.
at 7 o’clock at the Hotel Charlotte,
at which Miss Virginia Neely will be
toastmistress. . Red and buff roses
will be used in the decorations.
Initiates will include Virginia Gar
rison, Frances Trulock, Elizabeth De-
armon, Victoria Hammond, Keller
Young, Edith Northrup, Carolyn
Williams, Anne Golden, and Louise
Lowe.
Officers of the chapter incl'ude Vir
ginia Duncan, president; Eleanor
Guyton, vice-president; Annie Carr
Powers, secretary; and Dorothy
Wilkie, treasurer.
Chi Omega
Theta Gamma chapter of Chi
Omega began initiation last night
and will finish this afternoon at the
house on Sorority Row beginning at
1 :.30 o'clock. The banquet will be
given tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the
Hotel Charlotte. Nancy Flovis is in
charge of arrangements, and Frances
Stough is toastmistress.
Those to be initiated include Anne
Harris, Anne Peyton, Betty Carr,
Dorothy Meyers, Dorothy Branon,
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