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QUEENS BLUES
Vol. 23, No. 7
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
February 28, 1945
Phi Mu Sorority Wins Scholarship Cup
Latin American
Specialist To
Speak March 14
Queens College is very fortunate
in having Samuel Guy Inman, the
noted specialist on Latin-Ameri-
can relations as its speaker on
Wednesday, March 14, at 8 o’clock.
He will speak on the subject,
“The Relationship of the United
States with Latin America,” having
devoted his life toward promot
ing a friendly feeling between the
two countries.
Samuel Inman was born in
Trinity, Texas, but his activities
have taken him to many other
states and countries. After attend
ing Texas Christian University
and Transylvania College, in Ken
tucky, from which he received his
B. A. degree, he became director of
the social work of two prominent
churches in New York. He then
attended Columbia University
where he received his M. A. de
gree and later received his L.L.D.
from Texas Christian University.
He then became pastor of a church
in Port Worth, Texas.
He has shown much interest in
international relations, being Sec
retary of the Commission on Co
operation in Latin America, in
structor of internatioal law at Co
lumbia, and professor of interna
tional relations at the University
of Hawaii. He has been a lec
turer in many foreign universities
including the Universities of Chile
Santo Domingo and San Marcos
and in Buepos Aires, Panama,
Madrid, Geneva, as well as in
such universities as Duke and
Yale. He is also founder and di
rector of the monthly magazine.
La Nueva Democracia. He has
served on many international rela
tions committees. He has visited
eighteen Latin American coimtries
and has served as chairman of the
Latin America Refugee Fund. Be
sides being a lecturer and work
ing with foreign countries, he has
written numerous books on Inter-
American friendship. Queens Col
lege is indeed fortunate in hav
ing the Charlotte Council of Inter
national Relations bring such an
interesting and worthwhile speaker
to its auditorium.
Founders Day Will Be
Celebrated On Mareh 2nd
A large birthday dinner will be
given at Queens College on Fri
day evening, March 2, by the
Alumnae Association. The event
will commemorate the founding
of Queens College in 1857, then
known as the Charlotte Female In
stitute, and its 88 years of progress
in Christian education for women.
At the birthday dinner, which
will begin at 6 o’clock in Sara
Morrison dining hall, there will
be a large birthday cake holding
88 candles, each of which is to be
lighted by an alumna. Featured
on the program during dinner will
be a musical trio consisting of
Misses Margaret P^owe, Miriam
Dodd Little, and Hazel Ritch, all
alumnae. Miss Edna Adams, pres
ident of the student body, and
Miss Pauline Owen, past president
of the Alumnae Association, will
also take part in the program.
Hollowing dinner coffee will be
served in Burwell Hall and then
Dr. Gilbert L. Lycan, professor of
history at the college and secre
tary of the Charlotte Council on
International Relations, will speak
informally on “Russo-American
Relations.”
The following paragraphs are
from the letter which has been
sent to all alumnae in Charlotte
and its vicinity, inviting them to
the affair:
“Dear Daughter,
I am celebrating my 88th year
with a big birthday party and you
are invited to come.... . . There
will be a huge birthday cake with
88 candles, to be lighted by the
first 88 daughters to arrive. Of
course my younger daughters and
granddaughters who are still with
me and all of my college family
will be there. . . . Emily Post
would frown, I am sure, upon my
mentioning birthday gifts; but
since I have reached the ripe
old age Of 88, I feel that I am
entitled to a few privileges. So,
by way of a big hint, my favorite
gift these days is war stamps. You
can find them on sale in all the
stores and any size fits. They’re
not rationed and I can always use
them in my Gymnasium Fund,
which you started for me. . . .
The first 88 daughters who R.S.V.P.
will light my birthday candles.
Won’t you come back home and
light a candle for me on my birth
day cake? Affectionately,
Your Alma Mater.”
A large crowd is anticipated for
the event, which will be the first
time that Founders’ Day has been
celebrated with a birthday party at
Queens.
Queens-Davidson
Symphony Will
Give Concert
The student bodies of Queens
and Davidson Colleges are look
ing forward with pleasant 'antici
pation to the concert that is to
be given soon by the Queens-
Davidson Symphony. 'The orches
tra which consists of about forty
members, will give its first pub
lic performance of the year on
Friday, March 9, in the Queens
College auditorium. This group
of students selected from the stu
dent body of the two schools is
under the direction of Mr. James
Christian Pfohl. On March 11 the
orchestra will give the concert at
Davidson. The following numbers
will be presented:
Elegy Faure
Overture of the “Magic Flute”
— Mozart
Symphony No. 5 Schubert
Quartet for String Orchestra
. Stamitz
^Ninth Guesf Will
Be Next Play At
The Little Theater
Charlotte Little Theater mem
bers here at Queens will be happy
to know that the fourth member
ship play will be presented soon.
The piece will be a blood-curdling,
sit-on-'the-edge-of-your-seat mys
tery killer-diller called “The Ninth
Guest” and will open Thmrsday
night, March first. It will run
through Wednesday, March sev
enth, with the exception of Sun
day.
“The Ninth Guest” promises to
be the fourth hit of the season,
for its cast is chock-full of tried
and true trodders of the boards.
The cast includes Martha Akers,
Miriam Kalitz, Nedje Cotton, Henry
Alexander, Arthur Thompson, Jr.,
Marcus Hawkins, Harold Fehr,
Burt Cassady, and Walter Myers.
Tom Humble, director of the
Little Theater for the eighteenth
consecutive year, is very pleased
that so many Queens girls have
become members this year and
is always delighted to see them
flock to the plays. He says, how
ever, that you would simplify
reservation problems by calling
early for reservations and by being
sure of a definite number of seats
for your party when you do call.
Also he asks that you cancel your
reservation or have someone can
cel it for you if you find at the
last minute that you will be un
able to attend the show.
The box office will be open two
days before the performances of i
“The Ninth Guest” begin. You
may call 2-4727 on Tuesday or
Wednesday, February 27 or 28 be
tween the hours of ten and seven.
Be wise; make your reservations
early and be sure of a seat.
Happy murdering!
recently in the Council Chamber
of the City Hall.
Spicer Presents
Ballad Program
On Friday, February 17, Earle
Spicer, ballad singer, presented one
of the most enjoyable of our Con
cert-Lecture series. About the only
acquaintance that the majority of
the people in the audience had had
with ballads was on hill-billy pro
grams so they were agreeably sur
prised at what an excellent bari
tone voice could do with them.
Mr. Spicer made the program very
informal, and there was a word
of explanation before almost every
ballad.
The program began with a group
of English ballads, the most in
teresting of which were two from
Zommersetshire, which Mr. Spicer
“zang in hiz best Zommerset ztyle.”
At the beginning of the next
group, songs from Shakespeare and
Gilbert and Sullivan, he gave a lit
tle informal quiz on Shakespeare,
which proved' to be very amusing.
The audience was called on to par
ticipate on the chorus of “When
I Was a Lad” also, proving that
this was a very unusual program.
The third part of the program
consisted of a group of American
ballads from Vermont to Carolina.
One of the most interesting of
these was “The Tune the Old Cow
Died On.”
For encores Mr. Spicer sang
“To Morrow,” “The Arkansas Trav
eler,” and “Shortenin Bread.” He
asked the audience to join in
on the chorus of the later, so that
they would go out singing. The
autograph hounds that crowded the
music office afterwards, however,
had a special encore of “Franky
and Johnny” which proved to be
one of the best that he sang. ■
Truly Earl Spicer brought to u;
here at Queens a program tha'
was different, educational and de
lightful.
Honey will keep best in a warm,
dry atmosphere.
Thomas Hibbard
Gives Concert
Mr. Thomas Hibbard, our first
famous faculty concert violinist,
on Friday, Feb. 23, at 8:15 P. M.,
presented a brilliant and in
spiring concert which was well at
tended, and enjoyed by all who
came. His program was as fol
lows:
Sonata in A Major Vivaldi
Preludio a Capriccio—Allegro
Corrente
Adagio
Giga
Concerto in E Minor Mendelssohn
Allegro Molto Appassionato
Andante
Allegretto non troppo
Allegro molto vivace
En Bateau Debussy
Cortege Lili Boulanger
The Gentle Maiden __ Cyril Scott
Improvisation Kabalevsky
Danse Espagnole De Falla
Mr. Hibbard began his study of
violin at the age of ten. For
two years he attended Marshall
College in Huntington, W. Va.
As there was no teacher there, he
took private lessons in the city.
Then he transferred to the Cin
cinnati Conservatory where he
studied for one semester under
Julian de Pulikowsky. Next he
went to Eastman School of Music,
University of Rochester in New
York City, where he studied under
Gerald Kunz. While there he was
chosen as one of the twelve out
of 500 music students to become
a member of the Phi Mu Alpha,
music fraternity. He lived in the
chapter house and was supreme
councilman—that is in charge of
the local chapter. In New York
he was also tapped into Pi Kappa
Lambda honorary music frater
nity, which is equal to Phi Beta
Kappa.
Mr. William Clendenin is to
present an organ recital on Tues
day, March 6th at 8:15 P. M.
Watch the bulletin boards for no
tices and what is to be on his
program. It should really be good
—so come one and all, and take
advantage of these opportunities
to hear your music faculty per
form.
On Wednesday, Feb. 21st at 5 P.
M., a few of Mrs. Moseley’s and
Miss Robbie’s pupils presented one
of their short by-monthly re
citals. Those on the program were
Frances Cumnock, Coleen Cole.
Eleanor Johnson, Beth Deaton,
Jenny Lee Sommers, Nancy Blan-
and Kitty Cooper. These recitals,
as indicated above, will be held
twice a month on Wednesday at 5
P. M. The purpose is to stimulate
interest in the pupils and to help
them overcome nervousness when
playing or singing before an au
dience. Different ones will be on
the programs from time to time,
and the whole student body and
faculty are invited and encour
aged to come. They are under
the direction of the new music
club, consisting of music majors,
whose president is Doris Skirrow.
*Chi Omega Wins
Second Place -
Phi Mu sorority will again re
ceive the Pan-Hellenic scholarship
cup, according to the sorority aver
ages received from Miss Helen
West, registrar. Chi Omega soror
ity rated second.
The total averages of the five
sororities for 1944-45 semester are
as follows:
Phi Mu 1.685.
Chi Omega 1.364.
Alpha Gamma Delta 1,234.
Kappa Delta 1,179.
Alpha Delta Pi 0.807.
The winner of the cup and the
runner-up for the year with the
averages are:
1st Phi Mu 1.651.
2nd Chi Omega 1,336.
The scholarship cup is awarded
each year to the sorority having
the highest scholastic average for
two consecutive semesters. ’This
cup which was purchased by Pan-
Hellenic council several years ago
will be presented to Phi Mu sorority
at a special chapel service in the
late spring, at which time the
sorority ladership cup will also
be awarded.
Congratulations!
Reverend and Mrs. Wade Ham
ilton Boggs Jr., announce the birth
of a son, Wade Hamilton Boggs,
III, on Feb. 21 at the Presbyte
rian Hospital.
As of Jan. 1, 1945, there were
about 42,000 nurses in the U. S.
Army.
Central High Girls
Are Visitors Here
No doubt you have wondered who
the sixteen guests were at dinner
the past few Friday nights. No,
they are not new second semester
students, but senior girls from
Central High School.
Since so many of the girls at
the high school have never visit
ed Queens it is necessary that they
be given an opportunity to be
shown around the campus in or
der that the some two hundred
girls can visit, sixteen will be in
vited every Friday night.
Each visitor has a Queens girl
as a hostess, chosen by Elsa Tur
ner, chairman of the Social Com
mittee. The hostesses escort the
visitors to dinner, after-dinner-cof
fee and a tour around the campus.
The first Friday night the visi
tors were entertained at movies
in the parlors of Burwell Hall. The
technicolor moving pictures gave
th^ girls a perfect picture of a
girl’s life at Queens, showing pic
tures of the May Day, the senior
luncheon, graduation and other
college activities.
The second Friday night the
Alpha Delta Pi’s served after din
ner coffee in the Day Student
building, giving the visitors a
chance to see their building in
action. The guest were entitled
to attend the concert featuring
Earle Spicer afterwards.
Even though all of these girls
may not attend Queens next year,
it is a marvelous opportunity for
them to see just what the college
in their city is like. So many
Charlotte girls wish to be a Day
Student after they have been off
to school a year and already they
will be familiar with Queens. Too
all Charlotte girls' shotUd have a
thorough knowledge of the advan
tages of having a college in their
own hometown.
A frequent remark made by a
Central girl after visiting Queens,
I would like to come to Queens!”
The world’s highest suspension
bridge spans the Royal Gorge of
the Arkansas River at a height of
1,053 feet.