QUEENS B LUES
Happy
New Year
Vol^No. 7
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
December 12, 1941
Godard States New Defense Program
Pease Heads Advancement Committee
Work To Begin
On Buildings
For Campus
John Norman Pease was chosen
as general chairman for a $385,000
building campaign at a meeting of
the board of trustees held at Queens
College on Friday evening, December
6.
Various committees were named to
study the needs and problems of the
college. Tlie chief problem at present
is space, Mr. Pease said. There was
not enough classroom space and the
books in the library were placed so
high because of crowding that they
were almost inaccessible. The audi
torium, too, was too small, having
room for very few townspeople to
attend concerts and lectures.
By the construction of a new arts
building with an auditorium, the pres
ent music building could be used to
house classrooms, leaving the science
building free for science and the third
floor of Burwell Hall for the expan
sion of the library. With an audi
torium of adequate size. Queens, with
its lecture series and the co-ordinat
ing music departments of Queens and
Davidson, could invite its friends to
share these with them. It is with this
aim in mind that the committee
launched its $385,000 campaign.
“The trustees have approved the
plan,” Mr. Pease sad, “our executive
committee is organized, other com
mittees are being enlisted, and we
are going to move as rapidly as pos
sible to the accomplishment of this
undertaking.” At the meeting earlier
in the week, Mr. McAlister Carson,
chairman of the board of trustees, re
ported the decision of the board that
no building or construction work
would be started until the money was
on hand.
Mr. David Ovens ended the meet
ing with an inspirational address,
urging that Queens be enabled to
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Soloists Give
’Messiah’ Arias
Charlotte Artists
Sing Selections
The students and faculty of Queens
College were privileged to hear cer
tain parts and arias of the famed
Oratorio, Messiah, by Handel, pre
sented in chapel Tuesday, December
9. The tenor and baritone parts
were taken by members of the Queens-
Davidson music faculty, tenor, Ev ry
Valley Shall Be Exalted,” by Frank
Numbers and baritone “But Who May
Abide?” by Earl N. Berg. The
soprano aria, “Rejoice Greatly, was
sung by Mrs. C. M. Hassell, of Char
lotte, and the alto arm “Then Shall
The Eyes of the Blind be Opened”
by Mrs. E. D. Davis, also of Char
lotte. The soloists were accompanied
by members of the Queens-Davidson
Little Symphony orchestra, directed
by James Christian Pfohl, head of
the Queens-Davidson music depart
ment.
At the beginning of the chapel serv
ice, Mrs. Elsie Stokes Moseley, of
the music faculty, played Th6 Star
Spangled Banner” on the organ. Gor
don Sweet, also of the music depart
ment, presented the soloists.
MR. PEASE
Annual Dinner
To Be Held On
December 17
The Christmas dinner will be held
in the dining hall on Wednesday,
December 17. The occasion will be
a lovely formal dinner which is always
looked forward to by Queens girls.
This annual dinner will furnish a
fitting ending to our school days be
fore Christmas.
The traditional Boar’s Head Cere
mony will be observed. A procession
of candlebearers, readers, and carrier
of the boar’s head will make a color
ful scene.
An old English reading, “Nativity”
will add to the evening’s entertain
ment' Carols will be sung, led by the
orchestra under the direction of Mr.
Pfohl.
A number of distinguished guests
will be present for the gala occasion.
Students will be seated by classes,
as bas been the custom in the past.
Spanish Club
Meets Tonight
Tonight the newly-formed Spanish
club, Las Habladoritas, will have its
first formal meeting, at which time
a Spanish supper will be given in the
Phi Mu house!
Officers elected at a preliminary
meeting are: Jeanne Love, president;
Lucy Hassell, vice-president, and
Mary Jane Hart, secretary-treasurer.
The adviser is Dr. Lucille Delano;
other members include Fay Kimel,
Marjorie Imbody, Nancy Isenhour,
Eleanor Lazenby, Elizabeth Porter,
Virginia Prunty, and Franz Rummel.
Special guests for this meeting are
Mrs. G. S. de Roxlo, who was born
in Spain and who has lived in several
Spanish speaking countries, and Miss
Martha Akers, who teaches Spanish
at Central High school.
The purpose of the club is to bring
its members in closer contact with
the customs of Spanish speaking peo
ples, and to create a greater under
standing of their way of life.
The supper will begin at 6:30 p. m.
and will include the Christmas motif
as it is celebrated in Spain.
IT’S HERE... LET’S FACE IT
[Reprinted in Part from an Editorial in The Daily Tar Heel]
Less than 24 hours after Japeui had declared war on the
United States, the college youth was looking to the future
with a bit more sincerity, a bit more realism. Still more
important, he was meeting face to face a problem that he
had hoped and prayed would never touch him. Active
Warfare. Some of the more serious-minded students had
realized what was coming, but the average Joe College
was shocked. He was still living in a world where a date,
a set of dances, a football game, were most important.
College life was a country club.
Japan's declaration of war woke up a lot of college students.
For the first time since the war started, they wanted to know
what to do, where to turn, who to go to about doing their bit.
We’ve been thinking about the problem for sometime, and we
want' to get our say off our chest. Take it for what it’s worth.
Fellow student, our first impulse is to tell you to keep your
shirt on, take things easy, and think the thing through clearly.
Forget about being a play-boy.
If college students continue to play the lotus-eaters,
if they keep up their shallow superficial, pseudo-sophisti
cated attitude of unconcemV if they continue to defer
consideration of the war and the after-war, the time Mrill
come when they are called upon to help determine the
policy of their country, and they will have to answer.
Not prepared.
It is not only desirable, but it is imperative that American
university students begjn immediately to prepare for what is
ahead. With a little effort by their parents, directed by the
universities, and a new outlook on the part of the students
themselves, we believe they can do it.
WHAT THE STUDENT CAN DO
Students can realize their importance in the world of
tomorrow. They can become aware of the fact that there is
no other George-to-Do-It but themselves. They should stay
here and prepare themselves, realizing that when the war is
over, win or lose, boom or depression, there will be a tremendous
shortage of trained, sensible leadership.
They should realize that the university is no Country
club, no four-year vacation, before they begin living; but that
it is, and has to be, the training ground of the leaders of the
future, and that it is not their privilege but their duty either
to make the most of their training or to get out and quit wasting
the state’s money.
They should see that it is not “smart” but foolhardy, selfish,
and criminal to fritter away their time, to refuse to consider
the problems ahead of them, and to laugh at those who do not.
The university can plan for the future. No matter who
'wins, for a long time after the war, this is going to be a
sick world, and will continue to be sick unless there are
trained and sensible college graduates ready to help cure it.
Sociologists must begin to study post war sociological
conditions, psychologists to lay plans for restoring the war-
broken citizenry, economists to seek ways to ease the
impact of a disrupted war economy. In almost every field
which contributes to the direction and government of the
country, work should be done now to make this peace a
better one.
So that’s what students need today, and that is what' can
be done about it. They need a realization of their own position,
and that can come only from themselves; they need a hope
of the future, and that comes only from men now in power;
they need the training for the future and that comes only from
the universities. All must work together, and all must carry
out their immediate tasks. They must tackle their new job
with a clear conscious, not act without thought, a,nd keep their
shirts on so that when it is over this time there will not be
a recurrence of what took place after the last war.
Educator Says
Defense Plan
Is Essential
College students have an unusually
important function to perform in
this time of national crisis. This 'was
explained to many students Wednes
day by Dean James M. Godard, when
he also said that a football game
cannot be determined by the first
quarter. Japan has struck a terrific
blow to the United States, but the
war is still to be fought and the
United States will undoubtedly win.
Is there cause for hysteria and
fear at this time of national crisis?
Should college students in a state of
strong emotion attempt to change their
course of life? Indeed not! It is
the college student who is best able
to get perspective on how present
events fit into the total story of hu
man progress. The college student
therefore and especially students of
pschology should be able to under
stand the emotional excitement of
the times in a more impersonal way
than other people.
One of the greatest dangers is that
we may again win the war and lose
the peace and reconstruction that
follows unless there are enough think
ing people in every community not
only to guide us through the present
stress but also to help us think out
the way the world should be rebuilt
after the crisis is over. The democ
racies may be unable to re-establish
the world in a way in which people
can be practical.
The best course for college stu
dents to follow is to try to under
stand the present in the light of the
knowledge that they are getting in
their various courses.
Mr. Godard explained to his stu
dents that there will be plenty of
people to volunteer for the routine
tasks that must be done. There will
be fewer who are thinking out the
problems to be faced in the light of
history, psychology, philosophy, sociol
ogy, etc., which the students are now
studying.
Queens-Davidson
Gr6ups Perform
Accompany Central
In Handel’s ‘‘Messiah”
Thursday night, December 11, at
8 o’clock, the Queens-Davidson or
chestra and choral club again joined
those of Central High school to per
form Handel’s famous Christmas
Oratorio—“The Messiah.”
This year the soloists from New
York were: Larra Browning, soprano;
Jeanne deNauIt, contralto; Myron
Taylor, tenor; Raoul Nadeau, bari
tone—each nationally famous oratorjo
singers. Miss DeNauIt was the con
tralto soloist last year and was back
this year because of popular demand.
L. R. Sides, director of music in
the city schools, directed the chorus,
James Christian Pfohl, music super
visor at Queens and Davidson Col
lege, conducted the orchestra which
accompanied the soloists. Merle
T. Kesier, violin instructor at Queens
and Davidson College, was concert-
master.
Proceeds are to go for the Observer
Fresh Air Fund. The performance
was at the Armory Auditorium.