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I ■' li^ march 21, 1946 Queens Blues Published Semi-Monthly by the Students of Queens College ^ ^ _ Editor Miss Betty Huckle Faculty Auvisor EDITORIAL T — Feature Editor _ . Sports Editor „ News Editor Maude Dickson Circulation and Exchange Editor REPORTERS: Virginia Harrington, Edwina McDill, Barbara Seigel, Louise Johnson, Virginia Gray, Mary Jo Dorse>, e«y o Rogers, Mary Eva Flake, Ruth Kinney, Wanda Wageley, Nancy Gordon. Jean Thompson Photography Editor Staff Typists Ann Bigham, Lo.s Todd BUSINESS STAFF _ Advertising Manager Helen Switzer Advertising Manager Eleanor Bates, Anne Beatty, Betsy ^e^Gamo^ Desmond, Margie Ann Edwards, Ann Emerson, Nancy Gordon, Nancy Gardner, Adrienne Hartman, widen- Mary Johnston, Melba B. McLuen, Helen hour, Ruth Sherrill, Betty Stine, Helen Switzer, Nolly Thompson, Betty Sue Trulock, Sue Young. An Ex-Wave At Queens Writes Of A Great Experience QUEENS BLUE S Dr. Moehlenbrock Receives Honor Dr. Moehlenbrock, associate pro fessor of German and education has received an invitation to mem bership in the American Council on College Study in Switzerland. This membership will be for five years. This council is a national com mittee encouraging college study in Switzerland. It sponsors and op erates The Intercollegiate Junior Year in Zurich, Switzerland, as a part of the American Junior Year movement, recognized and approved by leading American colleges and universities and established in sev eral countries. This movement en- comrages the exchange of college and universities during' the junior year of the college career. The object of this council shall be to provide, supervise and man age a program of study and Jiving for students of American colleges and universities who go abroad as members of groups under the direction of this coimcil. Boot training is the fundamental . weeks a Navy career and mine was spent with . at Hunter College, Bronx, Nerw York. . ^nd the history of the Navy, its ranks and , ’ basic principles we were examined for p to determine for which we were b^t suiwm . classified for yeoman work, so from New We went to Oklahoma A. and M. College a Water, Oklahoma to spend three . . aioj, college campus studying business z-^gH Upon the completion of the course, I was ® ▼ to Naval Communication in Washington. TO went to work in the inner sanctum of comm^ca tion where we helped to carry on ^^e operation Of the war. But that is all I am about my work of the two years in Washtogton. Rather I will tell you briefly about the experience Of living in Washington among the center of an government activity. It is needless to enumerate the places of We saw, the concerts and plays ^e enjoye^ fine restaurants we visited. We saw all the 8?ov - Oient buildings, the museums, and histone sp^. Watergate Concerts were a rare experience, on ®nnuner nights we sat on the banks of the Potomac and heard the National Symphony as they P^ayea from a barge anchored on the Potonme. As the concei-t began we saw the sunset and this combina tion of nature and music was a true worehlp ex perience. Then there was the afternoon at the wmee Rouse having tea with Mrs. Roosevelt and seeing the beautiful East Room, Green Room, state ninine Room and other parts of the mansiem. Even the newspapers made us realize that we were in the center of our nation. The accounts of happenings within the government circles are more detailed through the Washington press than through our local papers. We visited some of the embassies, saw many of the dignitaries, and were a part of the throng which lined the street to pay homage to the late F>resident Roosevelt. We were glad to be there during the great events of 1945. Never have we seen anything to equal the happiness and celebra tion on VJ Day, as we saw the President the lawn of the White House to rejoice with the oeople that the war had ended. Another advantage of being in Washington is Its convenience to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and "Virginia. These places were so accessible that we were able to visit all many times on our forty-eight hour passes. I can’t say that I agree with Captain McAfee Horton’s statement that regimentation would be an asset to all college campuses for I must admit I was happier when given permission to move out of Wave Quarters and therefore could have more freedom. Having an apartment with four other girls was a fine experience and much like college life. Living in a home-like atmosphere was more enjoyable than life in WAVE quarters. We were Independent and free to make decisions, and could gain maturity more rapidly than those who had all decisions made for them. —ELLENORA SPRATT. Choral Club Gives Program The following program was pre sented by the Queens College Choral Club in the college audi- ^rium, March 12. . ^enek Motet - Rarest Lord Jesus '^ere Are TOose "Who Long Have Striven? Schubert Poor Wayfaring Stranger Jackson and Gatwood The solo part was sung by Coieen Cole. John M. Little JEWELER 221 N. TRYON ST. Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry and Silverware The Darling Shop for Skirts and Sweaters ^Latch Onto These^* SMITH BOOK STORE Largest Stock of Books, Pictures and Frames In the South 402 W. TRADE ST. P. O. BOX 1314 CHARLOTTE, N. C. Make Efird's Your Headquarters FOR COLLEGE FASHIONS COMPLIMENTS OF CHARLOTTE FQH & OYSTER CO. The Minute Grill Pamout For Good Food Charlotte — Gaotonia CtU^RLOTTEtN-C* -Tki Friendly Store in a Friendly CitiT buy u. s. victory bonds Famed Violist To Play Tonight Universally acclaimed as “the world’s greatest violist,’’ William Primrose, who will play here to night, March 21, has done more than any other man to persuade the public that the violin’s con tralto big sister deserves a place with the violin, piano and ’cello as a solo instrument. Right now, the Glasgow-born vir tuoso is in the midst of one of the busiest concert schedules on record, fulfilling almost a hundred engage ments from coast to coast and in Canada, after having completed a two-months summer tour of eleven Central and South Ameri can countries. As if this were not enough to occupy him. Primrose also finds time to teach at the world-famous Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. What re mains of his life is divided between Mrs. Primrose and between Phila delphia and New York. Although just turned forty, Prim rose has known what it’s like to be in the spotlight for more than q quarter of a century. He made his debut as a violinist when he was ten years old, playing the Men delssohn Concerto. His father was proficient on both the violin and viola. Moreover, he owned a pre cious Amati viola which he kept under lock and key. Primrose was then just In his teens, at the curious age, so by picking the lock of the case, he learned to play the viola first on his own, later under the instruc tion of Eugene Ysaye, one of the world’s foremost violin virtuosi. Ysaye’s prediction that a brilliant career awaited the boy as a violist was all his family needed. The great artist’s opinions were law in a musical household, and young Primrose toured Africa before he was twenty as a violist. Upon his return to England, there was awaiting him a cable from the London String Quartet. Their violist was ill; would Primrose consider joining them so they could fulfill concert engagements in America? Primrose would, and did. He arrived in New York for the first time, in 1930, and stayed for five years, during which time he gave several series of recitals in South America. In 1937 Primrose was engaged as first violist for the NBC Symphony Orchestra when it was being organized for the broad casts by Arturo Toscanini. ’This post he also held five years, leaving the orchestra in 1942 to begin his first full-length concert season. “I’ve been busier than a bird dog ever since,’’ he adds. Roseland Florist Beautiful Flowers For All Occasions 300 N. Tryon St. Phone 8191 Page 3 A Leller From Dr. Barnes Dear Friends of Hazel: The mail situation is much bet ter now, and I am already begin ning to receive your answers to my last mimeographed letter. They are all so kind in their expressions of interest that I am now inspired to write again. I am writing this on the last day of the old year. It is one of the very darkest periods for Greece, and for that I am deeply unhappy. But in every other way I regard this as the best year of my life and am so deeply con tented as well as superficially joy ous that it almost makes me feel guilty to be so in the midst of So much that is sad and utterly wrong. My health is still excellent in every way and I have gained more than eight p>ounds. WELCOME CHANGES! TOere has been a change in my situation since I last wrote. If you could see me now, I imagine that you would wonder just how I can be so well satisfied, but it is all due to what preceded it. In the middle of November I moved to the British Y. W. C. A. I live in a room with Eilene and an English girl. The room is as unattractive a one as I have ever seen. Our three little hard beds stand in a row beneath one glaring overhead light, and the only decorations we have are branches of holly and mistletoe and some Christmas cards we have stuck up. But in the first place, we have a moderate amount of heat on for most of the time. In the second place, we have hot water several hours every morning (though I can never stay home to use it more than twice a week), and we are allowed a hot bath in the tub once a week. And in the third place, we have good meals in abundance at regular hours. TOose things may not sound very exciting to you, but I wish for the sake of enlarging your own experience and appreciation that you all had to live without them for a week. We had to for about three weeks, and I emerged with both a greater understanding of what the Greeks are going through and a much less favorable idea about my own ability to rise above material cir cumstances. TOe thing which brought about the change was the fact that the inflation grew so bad that we simply could not afford to pay what my former landlady had to charge us in order to buy even the most simple meals of rice and macaroni and fruit, which was about all we could get for a little while. So now we have permission to have British rations at very low rates, and that food is really good. It was certainly fortunate for us that we could do some thing of the sort. I shudder to think what the winter would have been like otherwise. I think it was the cold which bothered me most of all. The climate here Is warm, even warmer than North Carolina. But it gets cold enough even so, and we have had a lot of chilly rainy days. A stone house with absolutely no heat can put one in the very lowest depths of de pression. It seemed to me when I was continually cold with no way whatsoever to get warmed up, that it was just impossible for me to think at all. I could not get my mind to function or to be concerned about anything except just that. I enlarge on this, not in a spirit of self-pily. I am glad I had the ex perience, and it is all past now. But it certainly did make me real ize how, important physical com fort is to us, and I really realize a little more than intellectually now what the Greeks are going through. TOe electricity was an other point. Everyone in Athens was without it three nights a week. We had no light at all save for a little dish of olive oil with a wick in it. Eilene and I finally bought a small kerosene lamp for ten dollars (most of them were twen ty), but it was not bright enough to read by. Since we never knew in advance which nights the lights would be off, we were constantly having our plans interrupted. But where we are now there are so many important public buildings that we are allowed by special dispensation to have our lights off only in the daytime, Instead of both day and night. Our heat goes off when the light does, but it works out fairly well even so. On the purely social side I am having a wonderful time here at the Y. I don’t always or even usually approve of English im- (Continued on page 4) PAUL & GRYMES 415 S. Tryon Street SPORTING GOODS Phone 2-4517
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