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Vol 24—No. 13
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
May 31, 1946
Top Honors Are Announced
Mu Phi Epsilon Sorority
Installed On Campus
Mu Phi Epsilon, national music
sorority, was installed on the
Queens College campus recently,
with ten persons, one faculty mem
ber, and nine students being in
itiated by Mrs. Lee O. Case, na
tional president, and Dr. Char
lotte Klein, national second vice-
president and music advisor of the
sorority.
The new members at Queens are
Miss Emma Neal Black, faculty
member, and Miss Doris Skirrow,
East Orange, N. J., Miss Travis
Wylie, Charlotte, Miss Charlotte
Maffit, Charlotte, Miss Laura San
ford, Hendersonville, Miss Kitty
Cooper, Blackey, Ky., Miss Beth
Deaton, Statesville, Miss Martha
Venning, Mount Holly, and Miss
Doris Turner, Raleigh and Miss
Janie Mitchener, Edenton, students.
The officers who have worked
to have Mu Phi Epsilon installed
at Queens are president Doris Skft-
row, and secretary Doris Turner.
They were instrumental in having
the chapter become national. Miss
work in piano in Italy and in New
York, with Artur Schnabel, and
concertizes extensively throughout
the middle-west as soloist and ac
companist.
Dr. Klein, music adviser of Mu
Phi Epsilon since 1942, is at present
a member of the faculty of the
Mary Washington College of the
University of Virginia at Fred
ericksburg, Va. She is a graduate
of Peabody Conservatory in Balti
more, is a concert organist and a
member of the American Guild of
Organists.
Mu Phi Epsilon is a National
Music Sorority which promotes
musicianship and friendship among
women students and graduates of
American Colleges and Schools of
Music throughout the coimtry. For
a new chapter to be established
the school must meet the require
ments of the National Association
of Schools of Music. Membership
elections are based ilpon scholar
ship, musicianship, character and
personality, with faculty recom-
Grace Robinson is faculty adviser' mendation in the major subject,
and initiations take place from
the sophomore through the grad
uate classes.
for the group.
The new chapter. Epsilon Beta,
which was installed at 3:30 Satur
day, will have as officers for the
coming year, president, Travis Wy
lie; vice-president, Laura Sanford;
secretary, Doris Turner; arid treas
urer, Kitty Cooper, and warden,
Charlotte Maffitt.
On Saturday evening at eight o’
clock a musicale and reception was
held to which the music faculty of
MISS HOLDER
Valedictorian
MISS DARROW
Salutatorian
Valedictorian
Salutatorian
Miss June Holder of Charlotte
will deliver the valedictory address
and Miss Estelle Darrow is to de
liver the salutatory address at the
Class Recognition exercises in the
amphitheater at 7:30 on Thursday
evening, May 30.
At these exercises the juniors
will receive the senior caps and
gowns from the graduating seniors,
and will present to the honor class
the daisy chain. Another feature of
the exercises will be the exchanging
of class colors.
June is a member of Sigma Mu,
honorary scholarship fraternity on
the campus and has been on the
And
dean’s list every semester since
her freshman year. This year she
has been president of Sigma Mu.
She plans to go to graduate school
next year and do work in English.
Estelle is a member of Alpha
Iota, Sigma Mu, Alpha Kappa
Gamma, and has been president
of the day student council this
year. She was selected for Who’s
Who Ajnong College and University
Students. For two years she has
been the recipient of the sociology
award presented by Chi Omega.
Both Estelle and Jime read for
honors this year.
National projects include the Mu
Phi Epsilon School of Music at
Gad’s Hill Settlement in Chicago,
biennial composition contests and
annual research awards, contribu
tion to the Yoimg Artists’ Con
tests and the Edgar Stillman Kelley
Junior Scholarships sponsored by
the National Federation of Music
Clubs, and also to the MacDowell
Queens and Davidson and others colony at Peterborough, N. &
interested in music were invited, j Mu Phi EpsUon holds
_ , . *• nrM- ships in the Music Teachers JN
Mrs. Case has been national pres The Music Edu-
ident of the sorority since 1942, National Conference, the
and is assistant professor of piano National Federation of Music Clubs,
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Commencemeni'
Sunday—May 26
4:30 P.M.—Concert by Queens Choir — Ninniss Audi
torium
8:00 P.M.—Baccalaureate Sermon __ Myers Park Meth
odist Church
Thursday—May 30
3:30 P.M.—Alumnae Board Meeting
4:00 P.M.—Alumnae Baby Show
5:00 P.M.—Association Meeting
6:00 P.M.—Alumnae Dinner
7:30 P.M.—Class Night Exercises—May Day Dell
8:30 P.M.—President and Mrs. Blakely’s Reception
Informal
m the School of Music at the Uni- the National Music Council and j 4.' TTYoi'n' -nt’ • A /l •
vertlty ot her alma the Professional PanheUenic Asso-. 10.30 A.M.—Graduation Exercises — Ninniss Audi-
mater. She has done post-graduate elation
torium
Plans For
Comnentontenl
On Sunday afternoon the com
mencement activities for the class
of 1946 will begin.
At 4:30 P. M. on , Sunday after
noon the Queens College Choir un
der the direction of Mr. Holliday
will present a program of sacred
music in the Ninniss Auditorium.
On the program with the choir
will be Robert Noehren of the Dav
idson music faculty who will play
a group of selections on the organ.
In the evening at the Myers Park
Methodist Church, Rev. Paul Tudor
Jones, Jr., pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church of High Point will
deliver the Baccalaureate sermon
at 8 P. M.
Thursday is to be homecoming
day, with many activities planned.
After the alumnae dinner the class
recognition exercises will be in the
May Day dell. At this time the
juniors will give the daisy chain
to the seniors, who in turn will
present the caps and gowns to the
rising seniors. The rising seniors
will receive the school colors. The
valedictory and salutatory will be
given by June Holder and Estelle
Darrow.
Following these exercises Dr. and
Mrs. Blakely will honor the seniors
and their families at a reception
at their home on the campus.
The commencement address on
Friday morning will be delivered by
Dean C. Clement French, of Ran-
dolph-Macon Woman’s College, of
Lynchburg, Va.
The class officers for the senior
class are President, Mary McGill;
vice-president, Elinor Bell; secre
tary, Sarah Virginia Nell; and
treasurer, Betty Starr.
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PL AN OF FUTURE QUEENS
Summer School
Wheh. you go home for vacation
and crawl into your hammock do
not lie there with your apple and
a book and picture the campus here
at Queens as one dead place with
only a squirrel or a chipmunk as
a sjgn of life. You may sit up and
wish you had remained a few
weeks longer when you learn that
the laughter of handsome G.I.’s and
the smiles of summer at Queens
will keep the place lively. Digni
fied professors will continue to
thread through the chatter of
friendly groups in the halls as
classes change during morning
hours.
Through open doors in summer
time the classes in Algebra and
Trig, Biology, Chemistry and Span
ish will give the Science Building
its familiar hum. Burwell Hall will
resound with phrases of English
and History and answers to ques
tions on how to teach.
All play and no work makes Jack
a dull boy — to say nothing for
what it does for a girl. Maybe you
would like to stay with us for
the first half of your summer;