QUEENS BLUES
Vol. XXVI—No. 8
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
May 6, 1948
Shive Is Valedictorian For 1948
Art Department
Gives Exhibit
On the afternoon of Saturday,
May the first, the Queens College
art lab was the scene of the an
nual exhibition of the work of
the art students during the year.
The students are under the guid
ance of Mrs. Rebecca Bryant
without whom the exhibition
could not have been held.
On entering the exhibition one
was overwhelmed by the arra}'^
of pictures decorating the walls,
There were all kinds of mediums
—oil, watercolor, charcoal, pas
tels—and all kinds of subjects
birds, boats, animals, flowers,
people and statues. Upon closer
observation of the artistic dis
play, there was detected a decide-
ly different trend from the exhir
bitions of preceding years. The
trend has changed from the nat
uralism to the modernistic art of
today. Modernistic art consists of
abstracting or deriving from
some object the mood which the
object expresses. This process is
accomplished through use of line
and color which are taken from
the actual object. The display of
charcoal abstractions taken from
samples of modern art. These
studies were done by Katherine
Flake, Marye Kay Ledford, Dot
Floyd, Ruth Kinney, and Martha
Cottingham.
Next we turn to the oils. Of
these works “Nude” by Lib Dietz,
“Horses” by Babs Hamby, and
“Angel” by Ruth Smith stand out
for their excellence of color and
texture. One corner of the ex
hibition was devoted to the
classics and contained oil paint
ings of statues by old masters.
There were commercials by
Betty McLean, Ruth Kinney, and
Martha Cottingham; there were
flower studies in oil and water
color by Marye Kay Ledford;
there were watercolors by Sara
Adelle Adams and oils by Mild
red Ann Wilson, Betty Norris,
Arlene Palmer. Dot Floyd had a
panel of charcoal studies all her
own.
The works of all the art stu
dents under the direction of Mrs.
Rebecca Bryant, were combined
to make an outstanding exhibit
which will be long remembered.
Dr. Hottel To Speak
At Commencement
Dr. Althea Kratz Hottel, dean of
women and lecturer in sociology,
University of Pennsylvania, will de
liver the commencement address in
Ninniss Auditorium on May 28. Dr.
Hottel will be remembered by many
alumnae as “Dean Kratz”, dean of
instruction at Queens, 1935-36.
Dr. Hottel received her B. S.,
M.A., and Ph. D. degrees from the
University of Pennsylvania and has
since been awarded the honorary
degrees. Doctor of Laws and Doctor
of Letters. She is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa and in 1947 received
the Gimbal award. Dr. Hottel is a
member of numerous professional
and civic clubs and organizations,
and at the present time is serving
as national president of the Ameri
can Association of University
Women.
Hottel was one of the speakers at
During the summer of 1946, Dr.
the British International Student
Service Conference at High Leigh,
Hoddesdon, England, and was a
delegate from the national Y.W.C.A.
at the World Student Christian
Federation Conference at Gwatt,
Switzerland. She observed at the
World Student Congress in Prague.
As a representative of the Ameri
can Association of University
Women, Dr. Hottel confered with
members of the Federations of
University Women in England,
France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, and
Czechoslovakia regarding the in
ternational study and relief grants
which are avilable through the
American Association of Universi
ty Women for women scholars in
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New Teachers
Announced
Dr. Blakely has announced the
appointment of two new teachers
to the faculty next year. They are
^iss Summers Tarlton and Mr
William Green Burks.
^iss Tarlton is to be associate
professor of religious education, anc
in addition to her teaching duties
will direct the future schools of the
Queens-Charlotte Leadership Ed
ucation Program, sponsored by
Queens and the churches of the city.
A native of Lexington, Kentucky,
Miss Tarlton attended private
schools there and graduated from
the University of Kentucky. She
graduated from the Assembly’s
Training School, Richmond, Vir
ginia, and received the M. A. degree
from the College of Bible at Tran
sylvania University, Lexington.
She is a member of the Associa
tion of Directors of Religious .Ed
ucation for the Presbyterian
Church, U. S., and a member of
the American Association of Uni
versity Women, having served as
president of the Memphis, Tennes
see, chapter. For a number of years
Miss Tarlton was director of re
ligious education for the Synod of
Kentucky, and was director of re
ligious education at the Idlewild
Presbyterian Church in Memphis,
before going to the Highland Park
Presbyterian Church, Dallas, where
she is now serving in that capac
ity.
Air. Burks will fill the position
of professor of modern languages.
He succeeds Dr. R. L. Wharton,
visiting professor of Spanish this
year, who for forty-two years, un-
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Music Department
Gives Concert
As one of the outstanding events
in the third annual Fine Arts Fes
tival presented at Queens on the
weekend of April thirtieth through
May third, a concert of contem
porary music was presented on
Sunday afternoon. May the second
at 4:00 in Ninniss auditorium. This
was the second of these annual con
certs, which are sponsored by the
Queens College chapter of the In
ternational Society for Contempor
ary Music. Air. John Holliday, mem
ber of the faculty at Queens, is
regional advisor for the society and
was in charge of arrangements for
the concert.
The International Society for
Contemporary Music was formed
as the result of a festival given
by a group of young Viennese com
posers at Salzburg in the summer
of 1922. It was then decided to form
a permanent organization, in order
that the works of contemporary
composers may be presented to the
public and recognition given to
these composers. The constitution
of the Society was settled at a
congress in London in January of
923. National sections were formed,
and annual festivals are held in
several continental cities. Russell
Harris, head of the theory depart
ment at Baylor University in Waco,
Texas, will represent the United
States at an international conven
tion to be held in Rotterdam this
summer.
The concert Sunday afternoon
was presented by a group of stu
dents and members of the faculty.
To open the program, Thomas Hib-
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Eleanor Huske
Is Class
Saluditorian
Sigma Mu
Holds Convention
The annual convention of Sigma
AIu, honorary scholastic fraternity,
was held at Queens on Saturday,
April 24. Delegates from the Alpha
chapter of the fraternity at Emory
and Henry College at Emory, Vir
ginia were guests of the local chap
ter. The meeting was held Saturday
afternoon in Blair Union. It con
sisted of an initiation service and
a short business meeting followed
by refreshments.
Geneva Applewhite is president
of the local chapter. The other
members are Eleanor Huske, Alary
Katherine Nye, and Eugenia Shive.
The new initiates are Sara Lee
Cochrane, Jean Douglas. Alargaret
Fowler, Hazel Anne Fraser. Lynn
MacLucas, Alary Lynn Haigler.
Alarilyn Sailers, Betty .Ann Smith,
and Gloria Snelling.
Basking In The Snn
You never paid any attention to
her till the other night at the party
when Jack commented on her
beautiful tan. From that moment on
you not only disliked her but fcr
vently hoped she’d blister and peel
or become allerbic to starches or
something. While musing over the
possibilities of getting her to take
a bath in quic-lime you decide un-
on a course of action. The situation
calls for clear scientific thinking
much research—how does one
acquire a tan in one afternoon?
After consulting your many
friends (both of them as brown as
driven snow) you refer to all the
little brownies up and down the
hall. Their methods range from
the smearing on of compounds
vaguely reminiscent of the witch’s
3rew in Alacbeth to a simple pro
cess of sun and blind faith.
.Armed with this knowledge which
is about as helpful as finding an
answer after you leave the exam,
you set aside the afternoon and
proceed to gather the impedimentia
necessary. Quite a struggle comes
up over whose quilt you will use
to recline upon but your roomie
makes very few objections to your
using hers as she lies there in a
pool of her own blood. You borrow
Kat’s swim suit because 3'ours is
so conservative even your grand
mother would think it proper,skin
(literally) into it, grab up sun glass
es, lotion, kerchief, and pillow from
wherever you can find them, take
stationer, texts (in case you want
to study), movie magazines (in
case you really want to study), anc
stagger toward the tennis courts
On the way over you meet other
girls all sporting a beautiful brown.
This is encouraging. You remem
ber various before and after” ads
and picture yourself a golden beauty
as of tonight. After greetings are
exchanged and prayer rugs spreac
the sun worshippers all prostrate
themselves. You soon discover that
you re lying on a rock or rather,
several rocks, because every time
you move you find you’re still on
top of one. You pull your quilt over
and find that you are settled in the
spot that has not dried up since the
last rain. You utter a horrible
sounding oath (it means “I ate the
apple! Tuesday,” but German is a
very expressive language) and move
again.
.Ah, sweet repose! Ah, beaming
rays of yon glimmering sun! Ah,
hours of warm delight! Ah, why
don t those ants crawl on somebody
else? Several of the creatures bog
down in your lotion and you spend
some five minutes getting them
o • Quiet settles over the assem
bled multitude except for the wail
of someone’s portable radio and
the occasional ring of an alarm
clock. Somehow or other you drift
into a fitful sleep in wdiich you
c ream of James Alason in a munch-
kin costume dancing with Doris
Gene Lawing while somebody re
peats your lines in the play back
ward and Romeo and Keeter chant
“Yours not to reason why, yours but
to stew and fry.”
You are awakened some two
hours hence by the screams of the
girls and a rather large foot which
is planted firmly in your back. Grad
ually you gather that all is lost and
we are evacuating and finally your
razor-keen mind understands why—
it is raining cats and dogs. Well,
you decide, that it is better than
hailing taxis and start staggering
toward the room.
Your roomie greets you with her
usual enthusiasm—“Oh, you here?”
and you begin for the first time to
notice a certain stiffness in your
movements. Quickly you back
toward the mirror and then observe
your beautiful tan w'hich looks like
a garden of scarlet roses in full
jloom.
Are j’ou bitter, disillusioned and
cynical ? Will you alw'ays loath
anyone who is remotely brown ?
dave you forgotten that life can be
)eautiful? Are you going to scream,
throw things, and act like an ado-
escent? Heavens no, you haven’t
the'strength. You barely make it
to >our bed where you immerse
yourself in Noxema, resolving that
rom now on you are strictly the
lothouse variety.
The announcement came from the
Office of the Registrar that the
valedictorian and salutatorian of the
graduating class of 1948 are Eugenia
Shive and Eleanor Huske respec
tively. Eugenia Shive completes
four years of college with a 2.56
average and Eleanor Huske with an
average of 2.55.
Eugenia Shive, widely known as
“Genie” is being graduated with
an A.B. degree in Bible. She has
been on Dean’s List every since
her arrival at Queens from Luebo,
Belgian Congo, Africa. She served
as a marshall her sophomore j’ear
and as chief marshal her junior
year. Besides these scholastic
lonors, Genie has gained recogni
tion in other activities at Queens.
She served as treasurer of l.R.C.
during her sophomore year. Sigma
AIu, honorary scholastic fraternity
tapped Genie during her junior year.
Also during this year she served as
a committee member of S.C.A. As
she served on Boarding Student
Council as house-president of Alor-
rison dormitory and was voted the
senior superlative “most scholarly.”
Eleanor Huske, voted “most like
ly to succeed” by the members of
her class, has been on the road to
success throughout her college
career. Huske, as she is known
to all, is getting an A.B. degree in
Religion and Philosophy. For the
last four years when the Dean’s List
has been posted, Eleanor Huske’s
name has appeared on it. Besides
having Brains, Huskie is a posses
sor of Beauty. She has been in Alay
Court all four years. Huske has
taken part on S.C.A. Cabinet and
in the Choral Club, has served on
Honor Council since her sophomore
year and on Legislature her sopho
more and senior years. As a member
of Phi AIu, social sorority, she
served as Vice-President her junior
year. The Valkyrie, an honorary
club for outstanding leaders chosen
from the rising sophomore class,
selected her as a member. In her
junior year Huskie was tapped into
Alpha Kappa Gamma, national
honorary leadership fraternity and
Sigma AIu, honorary scholarship
fraternity. During her senior year
Huskie was selected to represent
Queens in “Who’s Who Among
Students in American Universities
an Colleges.” As President of Stu
dent Government she distinguished
herself as a leader. Announcement
of Eleanor’s approaching marriage
to Jim Alexander has been made
>y her parents, the marriage to be
an event of August.
Lommencemenf
Calenidar
Sunday, May 23
8:00 P. AI . — Baccalaureate
Sermon, Alyers Park Alethod-
ist church. The Rev. Calvin
Grier Davis will speak.
Thursday, May 27
11 :00 A. M. —Alumnae Bab}^
Show in Burwell Hall.
4:30 P. M. .Alumnae meeting.
6:00 P. AI.—Reunion Dinner.
8 :30 P. AI.—President’s Recep
tion.
Friday, May 28— Commencement
Day
10:30 A. AI.— Graduation Ex
ercises.
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