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QUEENS BLUES
Vol. XXVIl-No. 2
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
November 4, 1948
STUDENTS ELECT MAY COURT
SENIORS CHOOSE SUPERLATIVES
Class Honors
Ten Students
Cornelia Ditto, President of the
Senior Class, announces the fol
lowing students who were elected
as Senior Superlatives:
Most Attractive, Dot Floyd;
Most Athletic, Phyllis Johnson;
Best Dressed, Virginia Allen; Most
Efficient, Virginia Gray; Most
Likely to Succeed, Cornelia Ditto;
Most Original, B. Jean Fant; Most
Popular, Kiff Knight; Most Scho
larly, Hazel Ann Fraser; Most
Versatile, B. J. Booream; Most
Sincere, Jean Sprunt Douglas;
Faculty Advisor, Miss Helen
West.
These girls have held and are
holding many offices and have
been very outstanding in extra
curricula activities.
Dot Floyd, of Newberry, South
Carolina, is a transfer from Hol
lins College. She is a member of
Kappa Delta Sorority and is
House President of Frazer Hall.
She is on Dean’s List this semes
ter.
Phyllis Johnson is from Mocks-
ville. North Carolina. Her sopho
more year, Phyllis was the class
representative to Athletic Asso
ciation and was a member of the
Religious Life Committee. During
her junior year, she was Vice
President of the Athletic Associa
tion, on the Social Standards
Committee, the Sports Editor for
the Queens Blues, and a member
of the Coronet staff. During her
senior year she is serving as presi
dent of the Recreation Associa
tion. She is a member of Phi Mu
Sorority.
Virginia Allen, of Charlotte, is
a member of Alpha Iota, honor
ary business sorority and Alpha
Delta Pi Sorority.
Virginia Gray, from Clinton,
South Carolina, was the Fresh-
aian Representative to Boarding
Student Council her first year,
tapped into Alpha Iota her sopho-
inore year. Secretary to Student
Government and tapped into Al
pha Kappa Gamma her Junior
year, and the President of the
Student Body her senior year,
■^so, she has been in the May
Court for three years and is a
member of Phi Mu Sorority.
Cornelia Ditto, of Charlotte,
Was treasurer of the Day Students
and co-chairman of Stunt Night
her sophomore year. Diuring her
junior year, she was Vice-Presi-
®at of S. C. A., tapped to Alpha
appa Gamma, and on Dean’s
1st one semester. Offices she
olds at the present are the presi-
. the senior class, vice-pres
ident of the Day Student Body,
and vice-president of National Al
pha Kappa Gamma. She is a
member of Phi Mu Sorority.
. Joan Fant of Atlanta, Georg
ia. Was Stunt Night Chairman for
Per freshman Class. She is a
member of the Queens Players,
president of Alpha Eta Sigma,
member of the Quill staff, liter-
editor of the Coronet, and
mature editor of the Queens
Blues.
Kiff Knight of Sanford, was a
typist for the Queens Blues and
on the Coronet staff her sopho
more year, editor of the Queens
ues her junior year, house presi
dent of Carson Hall and music
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Queens Students
Present Program
At Plaza Church
A program entitled “Meet the
Undergraduate”, will be present
ed at the Plaza Presbyterian
Church, Tuesday, November 9,
1948 at eight-fifteen P. M. Mr.
Howard Snow, the Adult advisor
of the Fellowship group at the
Church, is in charge of the ar
rangements there; and Miss Helen
Strickland and Miss Mildred Mis-
cally are working on the program
here at Queens. Its purpose is to
better acquaint the members of
the Plaza Chlirch with the col
lege.
Several students and faculty
members will present the pro
gram, which will represent five
important phases of life at Queens.
First, Mary McPherson will speak
on the subject “The Christian Col
lege”. A miniature chapel service
will then be conducted by Vir
ginia Gray, the Student Body
President. Mrs. Dana Robinson
will lead a discussion typical of
a Sociology Class. Kathryn Robin
son, the editor of the Queens
Blues, will introduce the campus
newspaper to the group. A group
of students from the Folk Danc
ing Class, taught by Mrs. Ruth
Magher, will demonstrate a Pol
ish Folk Dance. Lastly, the Queens
College Choir, under the direction
of Mr. John Holliday, will pre
sent a group of religious numbers.
Miss Helen Strickland will be on
hand as mistress of ceremonies.
The student body and faculty
of the college are invited and en
couraged to “Meet the Under
graduate” at the Plaza Presbyter
ian Church next Tuesday night at
eight-fifteen.
LOCAL SOROR
ITY COMPLETES
SYSTEM
Alpha Eta Sigma, local Queens
sorority, has completed plans for
first semester rushing. Those who
wish to be rushed for 'this sorority
will sign up in the Dean’s office
by noon Saturday, November 6 on
a separate list from that of the
nationals. Each girl who signs
up wiU receive invitations to two
parties, one on Tuesday, Novem
ber 9, and one on Thursday, No
vember 11. This in no way obli
gates either the girl to join or
the sorority to pledge her. If a
girl wishes to become a member
after being rushed, she wiU sign
up in the Dean’s office after the
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Skinner Delights
Large Audience
Social Committee
Announces Plans
Calendar of Events
November 5—Homecoming at Da
vidson
November 8-12—Rush Week
November 13—Pledge Banquets
November 19—Faculty Stunt
sponsored by Senior Class
The social committee has made
definite plans concerning the first
big formal dance of the year. The
dance will be held on December
11 in Morrison Hall from 8:00 un
til 11:30 o’clock with Billy Knauff
and his orchestra playing. Im
mediately after intermission the
figure will be formed consisting
of members of the social commit
tee and student government. The
theme is “Winter in Wonderland”
and many details are to be kept
secretive until the night of the
dance. As in times before, the
dance wiU be a card dance, and
each girl will be given a card with
which she can arrange her dances
as she chooses. Invitations will
be on sale soon for $2.00 each.
During the dance and intermis
sion refreshments will be served.
The social committee chairman,
Marilyn Diggers, and the follow
ing committee members: Helen
Civil, Dot Thomas, Helen Alex
ander, Clara Barnes, Ashley
Jones, and Mayree Kay Ledford
wish to extend to each and every
girl a very hearty invitation.
They have many exciting events
in store and are hoping that this
will be a very successful dance.
With a program of character
sketches that delighted her highly
appreciative audience, Cornelia
Otis Skinner, actress, writer, and
monologist, opened the Queens
College Concert and Lecture ser
ies on Tuesday evening, October
26. Her monologues, portrayed
more than a dozen different char
acters in a manner that was sub
tle and highly effective. Her skill
was highlighted by the fact
that she used no stage settings,
and only a few props. But with a
gesture, an accent, or a phrase,
she could portray a character in
a manner both convincing and
entertaining.
The sketch which drew the
most laughter from the overflow
audience was the one portraying
a harrassed surburban house
wife trying to follow the orders of
her young son’s progressive teach
er and tell him the facts of life. It
is only after much hedging
around with references to birds,
bees, and puppies, that she finds
to her great surprise that her “in
nocent” little boy already knows
the whole story—and could prob
ably tell her a thing or two!
One of Miss Skinner’s most
convincing sketches was her por
trayal of a Boston dowager—a
typical Beacon Hillite. It was in
teresting to note how she gave the
impression of extreme old age
without the use of any addition
al makeup, using only the voice,
the gestures, the little habits so
characteristic of old age. Miss
Skinner truly gave a demonstra
tion of great skill and artistry in
this characterization
Her great versatility was shown
in a monologues called “Times
Square,” in which she showed a
few of the characters to be seen
on Broadway at the theater hour.
With a scarf as her only prop she
switched personalities with a
speed and perfection that was
amazing to watch.
As an encore Miss Skinner gave
her interpretation of a French
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DUST and DITHER
B. Jean Fant
Your roommate has been giv
ing you rather dirty looks ever
since she lost her green suede
shoe in the general direction of
the table. For two weeks now.
Miss Tighe has been getting
rather vague answers from you
due to the fact that your French
book has been misplaced some
where in that pile of magazines.
Taking everything into consider
ation, you decide to take drastic
measures and clean the room.
During your free period you
dive in and find that beating your
way to the bed is as easy as find
ing Livingstone. You have been
wondering for quite sometime
about that hard bulge in your bed
and now you discover it’s that
novel you were reading for Eng
lish last week (sure would have
come in handy while you were
writing your report). After fur
ther investigation amongst the
covers, you come across last Sun
day’s funnies and now you re
member why you wrote your
mother “Is this lot of hot hair; or
you rilly minnit fromm you hart?”
and signed it “Liddle Noodnik.”
This is so extremely clever that
you must call Beans and tell her
and she laughs like she’d just
been called to Miss Albright’s of
fice.
Having dismissed this from the
room, you start hanging up those
clothes you had to try on this
morning before you found a slip
and a dress that could be worn
together. In this heep, you rim
across the shirt that boy who
looks like G. P. gave you last Au
gust. This puts you in a reminis
cent mood and you decide to re
read your diary and wonder idly
if it will count in your outside
reading for History. The diary is
on the table but so are about
twelve of the more expensive
books from the library (some still
wrapped up) all the materials
for your latest Bible chart and
four scripts for plays which have
good parts for you. After mulling
through these things, you notice
that it’s raining cats and dogs out
side. Well, you think that is
better than hailing taxicabs and
you start looking for your boots.
When you pull everything off
the top shelf and knock your
shoebag down, look up into the
kindly, friendly face of your
roommate who, apparently, is
trying to smile through a severe
attack of appendicitis. Her words
you never mention to anyone, es
pecially not to Bible majors but
the next time you see Mrs. McKoy
she commends you on your es
pecially neat room and the blood
will probably wear off the floor.
Gray Reigns
as May Queen
Allen Serves As
Maid of Honor
Many of Queens’ beauties have
been chosen as members of the
spring’s May Court. During chap
el on Wednesday, October the
twenty-seventh, thirty-seven of
Queens’ loveliest girls were pre
sented to the students, and the
student body was instructed to
vote for seventeen of them—plac
ing two checks by the one they
wanted for May Queen and one
check by the ones they wanted
for the court. The ballots were
tabulated, and the results are as
follows! (The one with the high
est number of votes was to be the
Queen; the one with the second
highest number of votes was to be
the Maid of Honor.) Virginia
Gray and Virginia Allen will be
the leading figures in the court
with Virginia Gray as the Queen
and Virginia Allen as the Maid of
Honor.
Virginia Gray is from Clinton,
South Carolina and is the daugh
ter of Mr and Mrs. L. R. Gray.
She is certainly well known by
everyone for she is now the Presi
dent of the Student Body. Virgin
ia, lovingly called by all “Jinky”,
is well qualified, both in beauty
and in experience, to be May
Queen for she has been a maid in
the court since her sophomore
year. She is a member of Phi Mu
Sorority and Alpha Kappa Gam
ma Fraternity.
The Junior class led in the num
ber of girls elected for the May
Court The attendants that were
chosen are as follows:
Freshman Class
Ida Hardin
Patsy Ray
Myrna Smith
Sophomore Class
Carol Bishop
Jean Chaplain
^ Marion Christopher
Junior Class
Clara Barnes
Peggy Barrentine
Pinky Kibler
Betty Norris
Rachel Spangler
Dot Thomas
Senior Class
Bee Jay Booream
Kate Ebert
Dot Floyd
Shirley Tison
Those who have served in May
Court in previous years are Carol
Bishop, Clara Barnes, Peggy Bar
rentine, Betty Norris, Rachel
Spangler, Dot Thomas, and Kate
Ebert.
Bee Jay Booream,^ May Day
chairman, and her committee in
cooperation with and under
the guidance of the physical edu
cation department are to work to
gether in planning the May Day
festivities. With such a good start
and with such a lovely court,
Queens is looking forward to a
beautiful and successful May Day.