Will You Do
Your Port?
Voli^ No. 2
BLUES
Help to Enter
tain Our Army
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C
October 17, 1941
Symphonietta Plays On Wednesday
Junior Class To Sell Christmas Cards
if
Marion Miller
To Serve As
Card Chairman
The Junior class will have as one of
its main projects this year the sell
ing of Christmas cards. The funds
raised will be used to help finance
the Junior-Senior banquet which the
class gives at the end of the year.
Marion Miller was elected to serve
as chairman of the Christmas card
committee. The entire Junior class
has now been divided into committees.
The chairmen are: Louise Brumley,
Irene Hardee, Kathleen Hardee, Mar
garet Hawkins, Lucille Blackburn,
Marge Mason, Elsie Moseley, Lib
Nash, Dot Summerville, Ruth Wilkes,
and Gladys Hartzell. Sample boxes
of Christmas cards from ten different
Companies have been ordered. This
will give the students a large number
of attractive cards from which to
make their selection. Each Junior
will take her turn at using a sample
box and soliciting orders for the
cards.
The Junior class is proud of the
variety of assortments of cards which
it has to offer and feels confident
that there are cards which will appeal
to everyone. The student body is
Urged to co-operate with the class
by ordering their greeting cards
through some Junior. Remember that
Christmas is not so far off. Be sure
to order your cards now and avoid
the last minute rush!
Mary Martha Nixon, president of
the Junior class has announced the
following girls as committee chair
men to serve this year. These girls
Were elected at the Junior class meet
ing. The chairmen are: Lucy Hassell,
stunt chairman; Sue Crenshaw and
Ruth Kilgo, co-chairman for the gal
lery; Elsie Moseley, chairman of the Wednesday morning, October 9,
jacket committee, serving with Sara olvmpiari Circle of Alpha Kappa
. and j^egional Leadership Fratern
ity for Women held its fall tapping
service during chapel.. The following
girls were tapped: Inez Fulbright
of Wilmington, N. C.; Flora Mac
Donald of Dillon, S. C.; Margaret
Harden of Winnsboro, S. C.; Mary
Jean MacFadden of Ellerbe, N. C.;
Ruth Edmiston of Salisbury, N. C.;
Mary Martha Nixon of Lincolnton,
N C.; and Louise Blue of Southern
Pines, N. C.
The program opened with a scrip
ture by Annette Mclver, followed by
a prayer led by Dr. J. M. Gettys. The
history of Alpha Kappa Gamma was
given by Jane Montgomery. The pur
pose and qualifications for member
ship were given by Ann Golden and
Mary Marshall Jones. Following the
tapping the student body joined in
the singing of the college Alma Mater.
Alpha Kappa Gamma was founded
at State Teacher’s college in Farm-
ville, Virginia, on May 12, 1928. At
present there are four chapters: the
Athenian Circle at the University of
North Carolina, in Chapel Hill; the
Florence Nightingale Circle at the
University of South Carolina, in Co
lumbia; the Olympian Circle at
Queens College; and a circle at Co
lumbia College, in Columbia, S. C.
Harriette Scoggin is president of the
Olympian Circle. Other members in
clude Annette Mclver, Jane Mont
gomery, Ann Golden, Julia Miller,
Mary Marshall Jones, Dr. Lucille
Delano, Miss Mary Denny, and Miss
Thelma Albright.
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The 14 men above, led by Harry Farbman, comprise the Farbman Symphonietta which will play in
the Queens Auditorium on October 22.
Alpha Kappa Gamma Taps
Seven Campus Leaders
Five Seniors And Two Juniors
^ Inducted In Impressive Ceremony
Holleman and Ruth Wjlkes; and
Marion Miller, chairman of the Christ
mas card committee.
December brings the fashion show
, which will be sponsored by a well
known store in Charlotte. To model
in the show are girls who will be
■chosen from the different classes.
Louise Blue Heads
New French Club
starting off with a flourish, the
students of French at Queens held
an organization meeting for tlie Cercle
de Francais Wednesday afternoon.
The officers elected were Louise Blue,
president; Marguerite Mason, vice-
president; Mildred Pearson, secre
tary; and Louise Brumley, treasurer.
It was decided that dues would
be collected and that Freshmen would
not be admitted. The president ap
pointed Margaret Hawkins, chairman,
and Idrienne Levy and Margaret
Powell to draft a constitution for
the club to be presented to the Stu
dent Government for approval. Miss
Jo Langford is the faculty adviser.
Several types of programs for the
future were discussed.
Tlie club will meet once a month.
During each meeting only French will
be spoken. Seventeen students attend
ed the organization meeting.
Cooperation with the Cercle Fran
cais at Davidson College is exiiected
to take place. I^ast year Queens
French students were invited to David
son for several occasions.
Inez Fulbright is vice-president of
the Senior class and the president
of Alpha Iota. In previous years
she has held the following oflBces:
vice-president of the Junior class,
treasurer of the S.C.A., and president
of the Sophomore class. She is on
the Dean’s list and is a member of
Phi Mu sorority. ,
Flora MacDonald is president of
the Athletic Association and has been
prominent in athletics since her fresh
man year. She is a member of S.C.A.
cabinet, president of the Kappa Delta
pledges, and a member of the choral
club.
Margaret Harden is prominent in
the phases of music around the
campus, president of Kappa Delta
sorority, a member of S.C.A. cabinet,
and a member of the choral club.
Mary Jean MacFadden is vice-
president of S.C.A., a member of the
fellowship group, secretary of Alpha
Eta Sigma, and has been active in
S.C.A. since her freshman year.
Ruth Edmiston is treasurer of the
senior class, senior representative in
S.C.A., member of fellowship group,
and a member, of Alpha Eta Sigma.
She was treasurer of the Junior class
and secretary of S.C.A. her sopho
more year.
Mary Martha Nixon is president of
the Junior class and a member of
Alpha Eta Sigma. In her sophomore
year she was Rat-day chairman and
on sophombre council.
Louise Blue is treasurer of S.C.A.,
vice-president of the athletic council,
and is on the Dean’s List. She was
president of her Sophomore class.
Camera Club
To Make Cards
Scenic Spots Will
Be Photographed
The Camera Club bad a call meeting
Monday, October 13 at 4:30 o’clock.
New officers for this year were elected.
They are: Sally Pardee, president;
Marion Miller, vice-president; Betsy
Hodges, secretary; and Frances
Bryan, treasurer. Sara Alice Clark
was elected chairman of the post
card committee which plans to take
pictures of scenic spots on the cam
pus and put them on post cards to
be sold in the book store. This will
be a way of giving the college public
ity and also of raising funds for the
club. A contest will be sponsored by
the club to judge the best photo
graphs taken for the purpose.
This year, the Camera club is plan
ning many activities of interest. The
members will learn to develop their
own films and also how to take the
best photographs. Any students who
would like to join are asked to attend
the next meeting. The meetings are
scheduled for the first and third
Mondays in each month. There will
be a notice on the bulletin board con
cerning the time and place for the
next one.
Canteen checks, army scrip honor
ed for purchases at post exchange,
are called “pontoon checks” by one
first sergeant of the 44th Division,
because they’ve kept many a soldier
from sinking when his funds ran out
before pay-day.
F arbmaii Leads
Fifteen Men
In Orchestra
With the presentation of the Farb
man Symphonietta, Wednesday eve
ning, October 22, the 1941-42 season
of the Queens College I^ecture and
Concert Series will have opened.
This musical organization is under
the direction of Harry Farbman and
made its New York debut in Decem
ber, 1940, where it was scored as
one of the outstanding successes of
the concert season. It is composed of
fifteen young artists, many of whom
have given their own Town Hall
recitals.
Harry Farbman, the leader, is a
gifted American violinist. Born in
Cincinnati, Ohio, of musical parents,
he gave evidence at an early age of
his remarkable talent. He has tour
ed South America, Europe and the
United States, and has been greeted
on all sides with most favorable re
views.
The program will begin promptly
at 8:16 P. M. in the Queens College
auditorium and will probably in
clude works by Grieg, Lalo, Dvorak,
Kreisler, Mozart, Debus.sy and Sara-
sate.
All registered students are urged
to go to 'the Business Office immedi
ately and get their tickets.
The schedule for the rest of the
season includes: John T. Whitaker,
November 24; Jeanne Welty, Decem
ber 8; The Madrigalists, February 9;
Eve Curie, February 16; and Prin
cess Paul Sapieha, March 16.
Vogue Offers
Many Prizes
For Contest
NEW YORK.—For the seventh con^
secutive year, the editors of VOGUE
invite the college women of the class
of ’42 to compete in the Prix de
Paris. The purpose of this annual
contest is to discover college girls
with a^'hair for fashion reporting and
the ability to write. First prize is a
year’s job with a salary on the New
York staff of Vogue. Second prize,
a special Vanity Fair feature writ
ing award, is a six month’s paid posi
tion with the fashion magazine. In
addition, five cash awards are made
for the five best contest articles sub
mitted. These are purchased for pub
lication in Vogue. Numerous Honour
able Mentions are also given. Winners
of these awards have the opportunity
to be interviewed by department
stores, newspapers, advertising agen
cies, and other organizations who have
jobs to offer.
The contest is based on four quizzes
and a short article. Seniors who are
on the look-out for a career Hi fashion
reporting or feature writing, should
write to Carolyn Abbott, Vogue, 4JiO
Lexington Ave., New York City, for
further details. Or they may seeure
information and an entry blank from
the College Vocational Service.
The first night in bivouac, one en
listed man of the 119th Quartermaster
Regiment, 4-tth Division, was heard
to remark: “It’s a funny thing. Every
time we go on maneuvers, the mos
quitoes mobilize, too!”
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