QUEENS BLUES
Vol. XXVII - No. 3
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
November 18, 1948
WHO'S WHO SELECTS SIX
QUILL ANNOUNCES WINNERS
Two Students
Win Prizes
Doggett, Gamble Receive Awards
Winners of the Literature Con
test sponsored by the QUILL
have been selected. They are Al
iena Doggett, a freshman from
Williamson, West Virginia, and
Rainey Gamble, a sophomore
from Hickory, North Carolina.
The contest entries were divid
ed into three groups for judging.
The first group consisted of poet
ry and translations, the second
was composed of short stories and
one-act plays, and the third con
tained essays and research papers.
Each article was given careful
consideration by the members of
the QUILL staff, who served as
judges of the material submitted.
The winner in each group was to
be awarded five dollars.
Because of scarcity of mater
ial entered it was impossible to
choose a winner in the second
group. However, Miss Doggett
was selected to receive a prize
for her essay on “Hope,” and Miss
Gamble received a similar award
for^her translation from “Catul
lus. These students are to be
commended for their fine work,
as are all those who entered the
contest.
The QUILL staff regrets that
more students did not take ad
vantage of this opportunity to ex
press themselves in writing. They
o wish, however, to thank those
w o have shown their interest
m school publications by submit
ting their entries.
The winning articles will be
included in the fall issue of the
Quill, which will be published on
December 10.
Music Department
Sponsors Messiah
^^riual performances of the
'-'hristmas portion of Handel’s
oratorio “The Messiah,” will be
again sponsored, this year by the
departments of music at Queens
College and Davidson College.
The first performance will be
given on Sunday afternoon, De
cember the fifth, at the First
Methodist Church of Charlotte,
ond the second one, on Monday
evening, December the sixth, in
Chambers Auditorium at David
son College.
Two of the soloists for “The
essiah” have been chosen. They
are Miss Virginia Smith, soprano,
and Mr. Earl Berg, baritone. Miss
Smith is the new assistant pro
fessor of voice at Queens. She is
o graduate of Greensboro College
^od has the degree of Master of
Sacred Music from Union Theo
logical Seminary. Mr. Berg is a
graduate of Concordia College in
Minnesota and has also studied
Union Theological Seminary.
Ho is at present a professor at
Davidson and is director of the
choir at the First Presbyterian
Church in Charlotte.
The chorus and the orchestra
are composed of students from
Queens and Davidson, with as
sisting outside singers and play
ers. James Christian Pfohl, head
of the Davidson College music
department, will conduct.
Smith Appears In
Faculty Recital
Miss Virginia Moore Smith, as
sistant professor of music at
Queens, will be presented in a re
cital in Ninniss Auditorium on
Monday evening, November 22,
at 8:15 P.M. She will be accom
panied at the piano by Mr. John
A. Holliday. This is the first in a
series of faculty recitals to be
presented during the year 1948-49.
Miss Smith is a graduate of
Greensboro College and has re
ceived the degree of Master of
Sacred Music from Union Theo
logical Seminary in New York
City. She taught public school
music in Hampton, Virginia, and
had a private studio in Greens
boro. She has been soloist and
choir director with churches in
Greensboro, Hampton, and North-
port, New York. She has also
done advanced study with Ber
nard Taylor at Julliard.
Miss Smith’s first group will in
clude “She Never Told Her Love”
by Haydn; “Phillis Has Such
Charming Graces” by Wilson;
“When I am Laid in Earth (from
Dido and Aeneas) by Purcell; and
“Oh! Had I Jubal’s Lyre (from
Joshua) by Handel. The second
group includes five songs: “O Del
Mio Amato Ben” by Donaudy; “O
Bellissimi Capelli” by Falconieri;
“Der Nussbaum” by Schumann;
“Standchen” by Brahms; and
“Depuis le jour” (from Louise) by
Charpentier.
The third group will consist of
four French songs, including “Air
de Lia” from L’Enfant Prodigue
and “Beau Soir” by Debussy;
“Les Berceaux” by Faure; and
“Dansons la gigue” by Poldowski.
In the concluding group are “Noc
turne” by Curran; “Christopher
Robin Is Saying His Prayers” by
Fraser-Simson; “Ah, Love But a
Day” by Robert Lee; and “Song
of the Robin Woman” from Shan-
ewis, by Cadman.
Walker Wins
AAusic Award
The Music Department has an
nounced the awarding of the
James Ninniss Scholarship to
Jeanne Walker, of Spenser, West
Virginia. This scholarship is pre
sented each year to an putstand-
ing junior or senior piano stu
dent, who has been found eli
gible and has taken a competi
tive examination. Jeanne, who
is a junior this year, is also pres
ident of Mu Phi Epsilon, national
honorary Music Sorority. In addi
tion she is Junior Representative
to Boarding Student Council,
a member of the Queens College
Choir and of Kappa Delta sorority.
Committee Plans
Chapel Programs
The members of the Religious
Life Committee, both faculty and
students, have worked together
this year to plan a series of chap
el programs which they hope will
be truly inspirational.
The speakers who have been
scheduled, with few exceptions,
are those who have been request
ed by students. In extending an
invitation to those to come, the
committee has asked them to
speak only fifteen or twenty min
utes. Student participation in re
gards to chapel is being encour
aged by having different students
to invite speakers, to call them
the day before they are to come
to remind them, to introduce
them at chapel, to see that the
stage is properly arranged and to
write thank you letters to them.
The Religious Life Committee
is not just a committee, but it is
an organization that is here to
help the whole student body.
Members need and want any sug
gestions that will help to promote
the type of programs that will be
most beneficial to everyone. Sug
gestions may be turned in to Belva
Morse, Mary Jo White, Patsy Mil
ler, or Frances Thompson, stu
dent members of the committee,
or Mr. McCutchan, who is the fac
ulty chairman.
ALPHA IOTA
TAPS THREE
Alpha Iota sorority held a tap
ping service on November 10,
1948, at which time three young
women were invited to become
members. Those tapped were Miss
Marion Lambeth, who was wel
comed this year to the business
department of the Queens faculty.
Miss Joan Baucom and Miss Bet
ty Anderson, both of whom are
members of the student body.
Alpha Iota is an international
honorary business sorority which
includes in its membership stu
dents, alumnae, and women fac
ulty members. The purpose of
this organization is to encourage
and to assist the members in high
attainment of increased efficiency
and highest standards, and to rec
ognize outstanding scholastic
ranking. Alpha Iota was estab
lished on the Queens campus in
May, 1939.
CLASSES PLAN
STUNT NIGHT
Stunt Night, the night of keen
est class competition and highest
spirit, will be observed on No
vember 23, 1948. The four classes
have been hard at work since the
first weeks of school, and many
secret committee meetings have
kept the air vibrating with plans
for a hilarious evening of com
petition.
The freshmen this year were
among the first to begin work on
their stunt. Manon Williams is
chairman of the committee. Alma
Hoke, Betty Mauldin, Beth Dob
bins, Barbara Chipperfield, Reid
Regan, Gloria Sproch, and Juny
Major are chairmen of the sub
committees. Ruth Porter, vice
president of the Junior Class, has
served as Freshman Class advis
or.
Ann Birmingham, chairman,
“Birdie” Crow, Rainey Gamble,
and Anne Bailey were elected to
write the Sophomore stunt.
The juniors chose Connally
Smith, Babs Hamby, and “Smok-
ey” Henry to create their share
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Outstanding Girls
Are Recognized
Who’s Who among Students in
American Universities and Col-
eges has notified Queens College
of the nomination of six Queen’s
students to membership.
Recognition by “Who’s Who”
means that a student was both of
ficially recommended by his col-
ege and accepted by the organiza
tion. College juniors, seniors and
graduate students are eligible for
nomination. Selection of nomi
nees is conducted by anonymous
campus student-faculty commit
tees. Each college is assigned a
separate quota based on a per
centage of its senior class, and
this quota is purposely made
small enough to confine nomina
tions to an exceptional group of
students.
Each student who becomes a
member receives a certificate of
recognition awarded by the or
ganization, recognition in annual
publications of the school and of
the organization, and benefits of
the Student Placement Service
provided by the organization, if he
needs assistance in making em
ployment contacts or in supplying
recommendations. In addition.
Who’s Who among Students in
American Universities and Col
leges is designed to inspire great
er effort in those who may not in
nately perform to the best of their
ability, to compensate students
for outstanding effort and achieve
ment, to remind students that
time must be used intelligently
to bring the best results from
one’s college experience, and to
serve as a standard of measure
ment for students comparable to
other recognized scholastic and
service organizations.
Queens College is proud to
have recognized six outstanding
members of its student body:
Misses Goldie Barron, Cornelia
Ditto, Virginia Gray, Emily Kim-
rey, Lillian McCulloch and Shir
ley Tison.
You announce with clenched
fist and set jaw that you are go
ing to bed early and nothing short
of Montgomery Clift can stop you.
You set the alarm for seven forty-
five, push your roomie in the gen
eral direction of the “Y” store
and turn out the light. You trip
over the chair you forgot to move,
and as you lie prone on the floor
Connie bursts in to announce that
you have company in Burwell.
Since she is not wearing her
glasses, it is hard to convince
her that it really is you on the
floor and that the shape on the
bed is only pillows. With her
friendly assistance, you hurried
ly dress with all the speed of a
Frazer girl on her way to dinner
and, in no time at all, you are fly
ing over to see if it can be that
Johnny has saved enough money
to buy gas for his motor scooter.
Since you are as sharp as a
mashed potatoe and as bright as
a lump of coal, it only takes you
twenty minutes of fast thinking
to realize that Burwell is com
pletely empty and someone has
pulled a funny. Armed with the
leg you have gently wrenched
from Mrs. Brown’s desk, you
stroll gaily back to the dorm de
termined to be a good sport about
the thing even if you have to pay
their hospital bills. None of your
playful pals are in sight but the
cup of water that falls on your
head as you enter your room re
minds you that their thoughts are
with you always. Groping for the
liight, you feel something that
vaguely resembles cold cream but
you are as certain as a pre-elec
tion poll that your lovely chums
would not stoop so low. When the
light beams forth you feel as hap
py as a Republican, for hanging
from the light to every part of
the rom is a memento of your
good natured comrades. The mir
ror is covered with lipstick, and
you suddenly realize that things
still look rosy only because of the
finger nail polish on the light
bulbs.
Clean-up can start tomorrow,
but right now those two consecu
tive night of “three A.M. themes”
help you ignore childish things
by making it impossible to hold
your eyes open. Automatically
you undress and head for bed.
Ah, the bliss, ah, the joy, ah, the
peanut hulls left over from the
party. Calmly you sweep them
from the bed, hopefully you climb
back between the covers and hap
pily you contemplate, as you drop
off at last, the features of your
buddies as they feel the salt you
so thoughtfully put in their beds
during your free period.
Queens Faculty
Presents Stunt
You just can’t miss it! ! On No
vember 19, 1948, the faculty of
dear old Q. C. will present their
star-studded stunt night, which
will be sponsored by the Senior
class. Now the Senior class is far
from being mercenary, but it
will be necessary for them to
sell tickets at thirty-seven cents
per person. This money, of course,
will go to a great cause—the Sen
ior Class. Bring a date and come
to faculty stunt night; it’s really
the laughing spree of the year—
faculty hey day!
Chapel Schedule
November 12 — Mr. Ficklen
from Westminster
November 16—Mr. Nelson from
Dilworth Methodist
November 19 — Music faculty
program
November 23—Dr. Blakeley
November 26—Mr. Miller from
Hawthorne Lane Methodist
November 30 — Mr. McLean
from Avondale Presbyterian.