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VoL 23, No. 2
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
November 3, 1944
Jesus Sanroma To Be Presented
By Concert Series November 15
On November 15, the second of
the Queens Concert Lecture series
will be presented in the Queens
Auditorium. It will be a piano recital
by Jesus Maria Sanroma.
Sanroma is a Puerto Rican pian
ist who began his musical career
early in life. He received a Puerto
Rican scholarship to the New Eng
land Conservatory of Music.
Sanroma has played many times
with the Boston Symphony Orches
tra, and has . been the only artist
to record with that orchestra. He
has played in all the capitals in
Europe.
Sanroma plays both modern and
classical music. He was a good
friend of the great George Gershwin
and is an admirer of his music. In
cluded on the program of the com
ing concert is Gershwin’s famous
“Rhapsody in Blue.’’
Students and friends of Queens
have a treat in store for them with
the coming of Sanroma to Queens.
Who’s Who
Announced
For 1944-45
On Tuesday morning, October 24,
in chapel. Dr. Blakely announced
the Queens girls whose names will
appear in the 1944-45 edition of
Who’s Who Among Students in
American Universities and Colleges.
The eight students named were,
Edna Adams, Betsy Hodges, Marie
Sitton, Jane King, Frances Bryan,
Annelle McCall, Elsa Turner, and
Betty Schaaf.
This group consists of juniors,
seniors, or advanced students who
excell in character, scholarship, lead
ership in extracurricula activities,
and potentialities for future useful
ness to business and society. They
were chosen by a secret faculty com
mittee.
Jane King is president of Alpha
Delta Pi this year. Last year she
was editor of the Quill, member of
Alpha Iota, S. C. A. Cabinet, Dean’s
List, and has been active in Choral
Club.
Betsy Hodges is a member of
Alpha Iota, Alpha Kappa Gamma,
and Sigma Mu. She was vice-presi
dent of her freshman class, presi
dent of her sophomore class, mem
ber of the War Service Committee,
and Dean’s List. She is this year’s
president of Boarding Student
Body and a member of Phi Mu.
Frances Bryan is president of
the senior class. While at Queens
she has been a member of Valkyrie,
Alpha Iota, advertising manager of
the Coronet, secretary of Student
Government, Dean’s List, and treas
urer of Phi Mu.
Elsa Turner has been a member
of Boarding Student Council her
four years at Queens, holding the
position of first vice-president this
year. She was a member of Valkyrie,
vice-president of her junior class,
and is a Phi Mu pledge.
Betty Schaaf is president of Alpha
Iota, treasurer of the Student Body
and a Phi Mu pledge. She is on the
Dean’s List and a member of S.
C. A.
Annelle McCall is second vice-
president of Boarding Student Coun
cil. While at Queens she has been a
member of Valkyrie, S. C. A. Cab
inet, May Court, Alpha Kappa
Gamma, Alpha Gamma Delta, and
president of the Athletic Associa
tion.
Marie Sitton is president of the
Day Student Body. She was treas
urer of her freshman, sophomore.
SANROMA
Chi Omega
Receives Award
For Research
The local chapter of Chi Omega
Fraternity has received word that
Dr. Florence E. Seibert is the re
cipient of the 1944 National Achieve
ment Award sponsored annually by
Chi Omega. Dr. Seibert, a biochem
ist, has done extensive work in re
search on tuberculosis.
Chi Omega has given this award
every year since 1932 in recogni
tion of a woman who has been out
standing in arts, science, govern
ment, or business. Secretary of
Labor, Francis Perkins, Dr. Mar
garet Meade, Katherine Cornell, and
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek are
among the previous Award winners.
The National Achievement Award
is the only recognition made by
women of women who have become
eminent in fields of distinction.
The Award is presented in the
White House every April. This
year’s presentation was delayed due
to the illness of Dr. Seibert in April.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt serves on
the committee which selects the an
nual Award recipient.
Alpha Iota
Taps Four
Into Group
On Wednesday morning, October
25, the Delta Xi Chapter of Alpha
Iota tapped four girls for member
ship. Those who were tapped at this
time were Betty Claywell, Francella
Craven, Betty Starr, and Virginia
Scott.
Membership in this sorority is lim
ited to women students who have
been enrolled for one semester or
more. They are chosen on the basis
of superior scholarship, personality,
and character. They must be stu
dents, faculty members, or alumnae
of recognized schools, colleges or
universities of commerce and bus
iness and must be a high school
graduate or equivalent thereof.
Betty Schaaff, president of the
local chapter, presided during the
chapel period.
Relations Club
Meets Nov. 14
In Auditorium
Queens is very fortunate in hav
ing on its campus each month the
meetings of the Charlotte Council
of International Relations. As the
name indicates, this is a group of
local citizens which organized last
December to study questions aris
ing out of international relation
ships. Their purpose is to inform
themselves with regard to these
questions and to do what they can
to further the ideal of world organi
zation based on law and justice.
This month’s program, which will
be held on Nov. 14 at 8:00 in Queens
College Auditorium, will consist of
an address by President John A.
Mackay of Princeton Theological
Seminary. His subject will be “The
Church in the Post-War World.”
With Dr. Mackay on the platform
will be a panel of Charlotte minis
ters, consisting of Dr. G. Ray Jor
dan, First Methodist Church; Dr.
John A. Redhead, Jr., Second Pres
byterian Church; Dr. George D.
Heaton, Myers Park Baptist
Church, and Rev. M. George Henry,
Christ Episcopal Church.
After Dr. Mackay’s address, he
and the panel will lead a discussion
on the subject and answer questions
that the audience may ask. The pub
lic is invited to attend and to tike
part in the discussion.
Judge Parker is chairman of this
group. Dr. Hunter B. Blakely and
Mr. Frances O. Clarkson are vice-
chairmen, and Dr. Gilbert L. Lycan
is secretary.
and junior class, member of Alpha
Iota, Phi Mu and Sigma Mu.
Edna Adams is president of the
Student Body. She has been active
in Choral Club, Valkyrie, May
Court, and War Service Committee.
She is a member of Alpha Delta Pi
and was president of last year’s
junior class.
Trustees Meet,
Revise Chapter
Of College
Last Thursday, October 19, the
Board of Trustees met here at the
college. They put into effect a re
organization of the board, and a
revision of the charter. The present
charter now provides for ten trus
tees to be elected by the Synod of
North Carolina, eight trustees to
be elected by the Synod of South
Carolina, and . six trustees to be
elected by the Board of Trustees
with the approval of the two synods.
The present Board of Trustees is
as strong and influential as any
college could hope to have.
The members are as follows: H.
J. Allison, president, Allison-Erwin
Co., Charlotte; J. J. Harris, presi
dent, James J. Harris Insurance Co.,
Charlotte ; Luther Snyder, president,
Charlotte Coca-Cola Bottling Co.,
Charlotte; H. L. Dalton, Southern
Representative, American Viscose
Co., Charlotte; Mr. Rush S. Dickson,
president, R. S. Dickson Co., Inc.,
Charlotte; McAlister Carson, presi
dent, Carson Insurance Co., Char
lotte ; Howard Holderness, vice-pres.
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance
Co., Greensboro; T. L. Wilson, Sec.-
treas.. Ruby Mills, Gastonia; Rev.
George Mause, D.D., pastor, First
Presbyterian C h u r c h, Winston-
Salem ; David Ovens, vice-pres. and
gen. manager, J. B. Ivey & Co.,
Charlotte; Ivey Stewart, president.
The Commercial National Bank,
Charlotte; Rev. James A. Jones,
D.D., pastor, Myers Park Presby
terian Church, Charlotte; Mrs. R.
C. Everett, Durham; Mrs. William
C. Cannon, Concord; Mrs. S. P.
Stowe, Belmont; Hunter Marshall,
attorney and secretary. North Car
olina Cotton Manufacturers Asso
ciation, Charlotte; Rev. A. W. Dick,
D. D., pastor. First Presbyterian
(Continued on Page 4)
Dance To Be Held On Nov. 11
For 150 Students And Dates
Service Fund
On Part Of
S.C.A. Drive
With a goal of $500,000 and a staff
of eight traveling secretaries, the
1944-45 campaign of the World
Student Service Fund is well under
way. “Never have we faced such
needs,” reports the Fund’s office in
New York. “Our relief committees
overseas could spend ten times as
much as we can supply.”
News from the China front is ser
ious. Recent cables from Chungking
tell of the continuing advance of
the Japanese armies in southwest
China, the destruction of universi
ties which had already migrated four
or five times, and the trek of thou
sands of students still farther west.
Many students were killed or cap
tured in first attacks. One eye wit
ness account says: “At midnight
the Japanese came when we were
all asleep. In the light of their
torches they looked fierce and ter
rible. Our guide Mr. Chen asked
why they had come. This angered
them so that they brutally stabbed
him to death. None of us dared to
say a word. Then those robbers be
gan to open all our trunks and took
away the things which they liked.
After their departure there was
much confusion, mourning for the
innocent dead, crying over lost
property, hatred, revenge, fear all
mingled together.”
The task of the World Student
Service Fund’s administering com
mittee in China is of course greatly
increased as they face the emergency
needs of thousands of students.
From Europe comes news of the
beginnings of the post-war program
as the first student services are
initiated in liberated countries. A
cable just received in the W. S. S.
F. office tells of two staff members
already in France, opening a re
habilitation home for 100 French
students in the Savoie mountains.
A representative of the French stu
dent resistance movement is already
working in the Geneva office. Plans
are being made for tfie first student
relief workers from overseas to go
to Europe.
The program among prisoners of
war keeps its primary place in the
European student relief program.
Despite disrupted, communications
in Germany, thousands of books go
each month from Geneva to indi
vidual prisoners. This work must
continue long after V-E day, for the
repatriation process will be slow.
The W. S. S. F. reports that its
aid to American students of Japa
nese ancestry continues, with the
work soon to enter its third year.
“There is no doubt that American
students can raise $500,000 for the
relief of their fellow students who
are victims of war. They can raise
more than that if they set their
, TIME: November 11, 1944-8-12
P. M.
PLACE: Queens College, Char
lotte, North Carolina.
SETTING : Dining Room—Please
note: We are to use the main doorl
CHARACTERS: The Receiving
Line, consisting of several members
of faculty and students, with Dr.
and Mrs. Blakely and Miss Al
bright heading it.
The Executive Committee will be
the official chaperones.
All of the faculty is invited to
attend the ball.
The Figure—consisting of girls on
the Social Committee and the Stu
dent Government Officers. A spe
cial dance will be played at the end
of the figure for the girls and their
dates who participated.
We will have the Cadet Orchestra
from Davidson to play for us.
Last, but not least, will be those
150 couples who are attending the
dance, the ones for whom it is
given.
PLOT: The Social Committee has
made plans. We are to have “S. I’s;”
(special invitations) to issue to our
dates, i.e. as soon as we know they
are coming.
The programs are dreams! Yes,
it is a card dance and the programs
are to be made out in school colors.
There will be 18 dance sets on the
program, so plan with whom you
want to exchange dances.
There will be an intermission of
thirty minutes during which re
freshments will be served. Yes, all
this and food, too!
Let’s plan to make this first dance
at Queens a memorable one.
Tea Is Held For
Granddaughters
Of Alumnae
On Wednesday afternoon, Oc
tober 25, twenty-one daughters of
Chicora and Queens alumnae were
entertained at an informal tea given
in their honor. From 4:30 to 5:3(}
o’clock guests were received by their
hostess, Miss Virginia Smith, Alum
nae Secretary, at the home of Mrs.
Gayle Rogers at Westminster Place.
The purpose of the tea was to
enable the girls to become better
acquainted with each other and with
the Alumnae Association, and to
make plans for assisting at Alumnae
functions in the future.
j^The president of the Alumnae
Association, Miss Sarah Locke
Blythe, was present; and the follow
ing girls were guests:
Misses Helen Fraser, Walterboro,
S. C.; Mary Elizabeth Tucker',
Waynesboro, Ga.; Ann Laura Aber
nathy, Lincolnton; Louise Fink,
Lincolnton ; Mary M c K 1 e 11 a n ,
Mooresville; Jo Anne King, McBee,
S. C.; Rebecca and Ruth Pressly,
Belmont; Betty Howard, Memphis,
Tenn.; ^lary Brown Craig, Chester^
S. C.; Mary Lacy Bost, Harrisburg;
Bonnie Caldwell, Concord; Laura
Martin, Marion, S. C.; Annelle Mc
Call, Florence, S. C. Girls from
Charlotte were Sarah Bangle, Betty
Ann Camp, Ruth Harding, Nancy
Stitt, Kathryn Goode, Florence
Hamilton, Ruth Neal, and Cora Ann
Parks.
Old Maid: So the waiter says to
me, “How would you like your rice?”
Friend: “Yes, yes, go on.”
Old Maid: So I says, wistful-like,.
“Thrown at me, my man, thrown at
^ >»
me.
minds to it!” says President Meta
Glass of Sweet Briar College, Pres
ident of the World Student Service
Fund.