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HELP THE
RED CROSS
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WORK FOR
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Vol. ^ No. 12
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
February 28, 1941
Junior Class Raises
Money With Affairs
Fashion Show And
Fun Night Coming
Continuing a program of raising
rnoney to pay for the Junior-Senior
banquet, the Junior class will spon
sor a Fun Night on March 14 and
a fashion show March 27.
More about these tAVO events Avill
be announced in the next issue of
The Blues. Wednesday night the
class presented a three act pl^y
entitled “No Men Admitted.” Be
tween the acts the other three
classs presented skits. The senior
class won the prize for the best skit
which was a Professor Quiz pro
gram. The cast consisted of Ann
Martin, Nelle Bookout; Cherry
Martin, Winnie Shealy; Susan,
housekeeper, Emily Seitter; Olga,
maid .from Sweden, Nancy Gaston,
Dr. Janet North, Flora MacDonald;
Margorie North, invalid, Harriet
McDonald; Miss Chloe Banning, the
poetess, Jean Rourk; Mrs. S. Thad-
deus Uphan, grass widow, Ann
Golden; Miss Bina Saddler, detec
tive, Elizabeth Isaacs; Mrs. Lela
Preston, politician, Jane Montgom
ery. Dorothy Funderburk and Har-
fiette Scog.gin were co-directors.
The play opened with the disap
pearance of the Martin sisters
(Continued on page four)
Girls Elect
Candidates
For Offices
Nominations for possible officers
of next year’s student Government
were made in student government
chapel on Wednesday. This group
of forty girls will begin a two weeks
study of parliamentary law and
council duties on Monday night.
Miss Jean Orr will teach parliament
ary law for the first week and the
Executive Council will take over for
tlie second week.
The girls who were nominated
were: Mary Marshall Jones. Yvonne
Williams, Margaret Chandler, Juba
Miller, Mary Katherine Martin,
Esther Love Hillhouse, Anne Gold
en Jane Montgomery, Flora Mac
Donald, Winnie Shealy, Harriettc
Scoggins. Kitty Sue Harvin, Ruth
Edmiston, Jean Rourk, Nancy Gas
ton. Mary Jean McFayden, Mar
garet Thompson, Harriette Mc
Dowell. Vivian Baker, Billie Har
mon. Inez Fulbright, Annette Mc-
Iver. Mary Elva Smith, Ann Mauld
in, Nancy Claire Allen, Doris Raley
Dot Funderburk, Elizabeth Summer-
(Continued on page two)
Maurois Speaks On
France’s Downfall
Exp resses Lack of I
Planes and Tanks
Impressing his audience with his
undaunted optimism, Andre Maurois,
noted French author and army of
ficer, told his story of the fall of
France to a well-filled auditorium
St Queens College on February 19.
Mr. Maurois, considered one of
the world’s great writers and one
of the most famous men of France,
held the attention of every person as
he told his version in a clear slightly-
accented voice. After the lecture,
his unaffected and unassuming man
ner to those who came up to speak
to him was particularly noted.
He accredited the defeat of France
mainly to the lack of equipment and
to the overwhelming odds of su
perior forces of Germany. Several
times Mr. Maurois repeated “just
five thousand tanks and ten thou
sand more planes and the war
"'ould not have been lost.” He de
scribed the surprise movements of
the Blitzkrieg in attacking the rear
line of communication and the
towms, leaving the battle lines cut
off.
“Britain will not fall because now
she is well prepared.” said Mr.
Maurois. “Every house and village
’s prepared to defend itself.’ He
then went on to speak of the “Molo-
toff cocktails,” special hand bombs
with which every English home is
equipped. But, in his opinion,
Dritain must have more and more
planes with whicli to win the war.
“One plane in the air is w'orth two
m appropriations,” he said. He con
cluded his talk by speaking of the
France that would arise in th«
future. French culture and civiliza
tion could not die and be crushed
to the earth not to flourish again
because of this war was his opinion.
These things w'ere too deeply im
bedded in the hearts of every
Frenchman. With deep feeling he
spoke of how^ France would stand
as an example to the surviving de
mocracies.
Before his talk in the college
auditorium. Mr. Maurois was en
tertained at a dinner at the Bar
ringer Hotel given by the L’Alh-
ance Francaise. Thursday after
noon he was the luncheon guest of
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart W. Cramer at
their home in Cramerton. Miss Jo
Langford, instructor in French was
also a guest of the Cramers at that
time.
Mr. Maurois is famous for his
biographies of Shelley, Dichus, By
ron, and Disraili. He has written
more than twenty books. Currently
his "Tragedy in France” is a best
seller in the United States.
WILL YOU DO YOUR PART TOO?
These three girls were among the first to volunteer
to help in the aid to Britain program just started
at Queens. The girls are from left to right: Elsie
Mesely of Charlotte standing, Betty Sue Goforth of
Charlotte seated at the sewing machine, and Eloise
Pickard of Durham seated knitting,
—Courtesy of The Charlotte News
Blakely Appoints Committee
To Handle British Bundles
Four Teachers
Supervise Charity
What part can Queens College
play in the program for National
Defense and Aid to Britain? To
answer this question Dr. Hunter
Blakeley, president, has appointed
a committee composed of Dr. Ethel
Abernathy, Dr. Dorisse Howe and
Mrs. J. L. McEwen.
Classes in first aid will be taught
by Miss Cordelia Henderson. First
reports from the committee say that
the drive has a successful start.
Between thirty and forty garments
have already been collected. Re
quests are still being made, however,
for clothing of all kinds in good
condition to be turned over. The
committee is asking that this be done
before March 7.
Numbers of students and faculty
members are already taking part
in sewing and knitting. Twelve
baby dresses have just been com
pleted. The American Red Cross
is furnishing knitting materials and
complete instructions for making
sweaters and scarfs of all sizes.
The freshman class is planning a
benefit project for Red Cross and
Bundles for Britain. Further in
formation about this and the dates
will be announced later.
Noted Painter Conducts
Art Classes In Afternoon
i
Gregory Ivey Offers Extension Course From
University of North Carolina To Thirty-Five
“I want no sweet lady-like work,”*
said Gregory Ivey, noted artist and
member of the faculty of the
Women’s College of the University
of North Carolina. “Use bold, even
crude strokes.”
Every Tuesday afternoon from
2:30 to 5 :30 Mr. Ivey reigns supreme
over his tliirty-five students in the
art laboratory. Among these pupils
are Queens girls, school teachers,
and interested art patrons. Tlie
latest assignment was a soft por
trait to be done in “vivid and ex
citing colors indicative of the
painter’s personality.”
During his classes Mr. Ivey il
lustrates his points often by exe
cuting a water-color scene in a very
few minutes. He is considered one
of the foremost teachers and is of
fering this course as an extension of
the University of North Carolina.
Mr. Ivey was invited to have a
one-man sliow of Avatercolors at
the Morton Gallery in New York
City during the World’s Fair. He
has exhibited this year in New York
City, Chicago, St. Louis, and his
work has received very favorable
comments in the leading art maga
zines and newspapers. In 1939 and
1940 he was invited to show at the
Watercolor International Exhibit,
which is the greatest honor that
can come to a watercolorist.
In addition to his artistic achieve-
Gregory Ivey
ments, Mr. Ivey is also one of the
country’s leading art educators, be
ing the liead of the art department
at \\ Oman s College. He lias eight
instructors working under him, and
with this department be has offered
the South a very progressive out
look in his field. In 1939 Mr. Ivey
was president of the Southeastern
Art Association. In 1938 and 1939
he was president of the art section
of the North Carolina Education As
sociation.