QUEENS BLUES
Vol. XXVI-No. 7
QUEENS COILEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
March 4, 1949
LECISIATURE REVISES ELEaiON SCHEDULE
Concert-Lecture
Series Presents
Artists In March
Ella Goldstein
The Concert and Lecture series
wi present both a concert and
a lecture in March. Ella Gold-
s ein, pianist, will be presented
m Ninniss Auditorium on Tues
day, March 15; and Robert P.
Tristram Coffin will give a lec-
ure cm Friday, March 25. When
Miss Goldstein gave her Ameri-
T 1 Hall. March
’ Hew York Times
wro e of her: “One of the most
y endowed young pianists
• • • a virtuoso performance.” Her
unprecedented triumph with the
^oston Symphony Orchestra un-
Rprv Koussevitsky in the
Berkshire Music Festival led P M
to write: “Sure fingered, force-
an musically convincing”
dynamically
exi e and always controlled,
e audience gave her a long and
nf ^°^ation, with ... members
• , ^ ochestra joining heartily
in the applause.”
vwi ^°Hin has been called the
Mn' ^ ° Maine. This is because
in presented so well
latp ^°oks and poems. In his
he s^ys
for a nno 1, ^ 1° 1^®
you get
Mr Cnf. l^°rse.”
well-deserv?d^ro''®''“™^
the Pulitzer Prizrfr’-D
Viac tor Poetry. He
has been a Phi Beta Kappa poet
at many colleges. In July, 1948,
OofT “2 had a Robert
ot which the author
3 rom his poems. More than
two hundred American colleges
sve heard Mr. Coffin read his
own poems and talk about poetry.
Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Seven Students
Enroll For Term
Seven new students have en
rolled at Queens for the second
semester of this year. These
students are: Betsy Crommer
from Charlotte—Betsy is a trans
fer from Furman University in
Greenville, South Carolina, a
boarder, and a junior* with a
major in English; Averill Law-
son of Charlotte, who is a senior
transfer from Converse College,
Spartanburg, South Carolina, and
an English major; Archie Mc-
Gall of Charlotte, a junior, major-
mg in Science, and a transfer
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Queens office. Records will be
kept also in the Graduate Records
office in New York and will be
graduate school.
Seniors Take
GRE In Spring
All members of the senior class
will be required to take a Gradu
ate Record Examination this
spring; it has been announced by
Dean J. M. Godard. This exam
ination is now required for en
trance into nearly all graduate
schools and most of the better
colleges are giving it to all gradu
ates. There are two parts to the
examination. The first is a test
ing of one’s general cultural
knowledge and will sample nearly
all fields of information; the
second division is designed to
test one’s knowledge of her major
field of study. Dean Godard
points out the advantage of tak
ing this examination at the time
of graduation rather than wait
ing until one may decide to enter
graduate school several years
later; one’s score is likely to be
much higher now than after a
few years away from school.
Dr. Ethel Abernathy will be
in charge of the Graduate Record
Examination. Scoring reports will Filmer; Phi Mu, Lois Mann, Eu
be sent to each senior and to the genia Crow, Rosalyn Hardin, June
Five Seniors
Graduate
To many students at Queens,
the end of the first semester only
marked so much work that had
been done and so many courses
that had been completed. To
five girls, however, the finish
ing of first semester meant the
close of their Queens College
days and the beginning of many
new adventures. These. girls
graduated from Queens on Feb
ruary the seventh.
One of those who finished was
a day student, Evangeline Car
penter, a major in the division
of religion and philosophy.
Evangeline plans to be married
within a few months.
Jean Torrence from Gastonia
majored in the division of lang
uage and literature. Torry plans
to travel and play until Septem
ber; then she intends to settle
down with a newspaper job in
Decatur, Georgia.
The other tar heel to graduate
was Phyllis Dorwood from Lake
Waccamaw. Phyllis majored in
business and secretarial adminis
tration.
Louise Johnson of Charleston,
South Carolina majored in the
division of religion and philoso
phy. Louise is planning to be a
director of religious education.
Margaret Gallant from Ander
son, South Carolina, completed
her work in the field of human
relations and intends to do social
work after a short visit at home.
For these five girls each stu
dent wishes the best of every
thing. Queens congratulates them
on a job well done.
Sororities Pledge
Eight Students
Second semester rushing was
held on February 28. Each soror
ity held open house and the
rushees remained fifteen minutes
at each house. Bids were issued
as follows: Alpha Delta Pi; Bet
sy Cromer; Kappa Delta, Lois
De Lamarr, Wanda Oxner. These
houses were open from 10:00
omce in INCW aim VV..X PM to 10:45 P.M. to welcome
availagle upon apphcation to any lo
them.
Queens Students
Aid Heart Drive
Queens students played an active
part in the Mecklenburg County
Drive for the American Heart
Association by participating in
the Queens College junior divi
sion of the organization. Under
the capable leadership of Ida
Hardin and Manon Williams,
Queens students and co-chairmen
of the Mecklenburg County and
the City of Charlotte heart drive
volunteer students from Queens
solicited several hundred dollars
on the downtown streets of Char
lotte and in the stores.
George K. Cutter, chairman
of the Charlotte Drive, publicly
commended the girls for their
effort and the unselfish giving
of their time for this project.
The girls did not know that their
help was needed until about a
week of the drive had elapsed,
but immediately pitched in to
give their services wherever
needed. For ten days Queens
students, carrying red, plastic
hearts, approached people in
downtown Charlotte, asking them
to contribute.
Miss Hardin and Miss Williams
stated that the help of Queens
students was very much appreci
ated and that they had indeed
rendered a valuable service to
the community and the nation.
Those who were active as
solicitors were: Sarah McMahan,
Martha Cockrell, Gloria Snell-
ing, Judy Kinney, Barbara Burk-
hardt, Peggy Rast, Barbara
Schweizer, Gwenda Ewell, Mar
jorie Holder, Marty Morrison,
Barbara Chiperfield, Ann Staf
ford, Katie Chapman, Lois Mann,
Aliena Doggett, Betty Lynn
Davenport, Dot Wilson, Nancy
Hill, Florence Davis, Dot Brink-
ley, Julia Upchurch, Rachel
Stevens, Mary McRee, Doris
Lawing, Jean Rue, Doris Pons,
Jay Hall, Nina Senn, Jane Blake
ly, Margaret Barron, Jane Ed
monds, Sallie Hood Buie, and
Didid Creighton.
SPRING IS SPRUNG
By Ida B. and Manon B. Inluve
Once upon a time there was a
day and then it stopped being
one on account it gave out of
hours and such. So there was
another day took its place and
it was of a Thursday and was
today.
So I will now tell you all about
it.
Love came on this day which
we will now call Thursday.
Now, Love is represented by a
little Cupid who takes up all
lis time shooting bows and arrows
at folks’ hearts. He is a cute little
fellow and has two tiny cubic
feet.
The youngster isn’t very tall—
I should say he would measure
about two cubits from the tips
of his cubic feet to his head and
then about two cubit feet from
his cubical shaped head to his
feet, making a grand to-tal of
four cubic feet and six if you
count the two he started with on
him.
He enjoys a complete lack of
mal-nutrition because he eats
cube-roots and ice cubes.
This guy makes his first ap
pearance on New Year’s Day
when he ushers m, and takes
over, the infant year. If it ain’t
him, why it’s his first cousin on
account of both of them are
practically un-dressed kids.
By the fourteenth of February,
except in Leap Years when it has
twenty-nine days for some reason
best known to itself, he has
learned to wear his diapers with
a certain swagger. This is no
mean feat—^he is not naturally
mean to anything, especially
feats—because the average pair
of diapers—now quit asking me
why just one cloth, used for
various and sundry purposes, is
called a “pair”—because (gosh!
I just said “Because” right up
there above and pretty soon folks
will think I’m chief soloist in a
wedding), well, anyway, because
the average pair of diapers seem
to be suffering at all times from
a chronic case of droopsey. Then
too, changes are taking place, or
should be at least, from time to
time as occasion arises.
I near ’bout forgot to tell you
that Cupid’s first name is Daniel,
or rather was Daniel. You see,
when he arrived in this world—
it was ’way back yonder even
before the Democrats started
electing a Permanent President
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At the January meeting of
the legislature, the motion was
passed to try out a new system of
voting in the forthcoming elec
tions. The date set for the begin
ning of elections is Wednesday,
March sixteenth, with Installation
on Friday, March twenty-fifth.
This new system of voting will
function as follows: On the first
day of elections, Wednesday,
March sixteenth, a poll will be
taken of the students as to whom
they would like to see in each
office to be filled. The data
gathered from this poll will serve
as a basis for the nominations
that will be made by the Ballot
Committee.
Then on the following day the
actual voting will begin. Every
one will receive an official bal
lot on which he will vote. On the
ballot will be printed the nomina
tions submitted by the Ballott
Committee for the offices to be
voted on that day. Also there
will be a blank space for the
nominations from the floor.
Nominations from the floor will
run against those nominations
made by the Ballott Committee.
The nominee receiving a majority
of the votes will be elected. As
usual each student’s ballot must
be signed and must be handed in
before he leaves the assembly.
The votes will then be recorded
on a tally sheet and the results
will be posted as soon as possible.
It is hopped that this new sys
tem will prove successful and will
result in fairer, more accurate
voting.
The order of elections will be
as follows:
Wednesday, March sixteenth—
Student Poll.
Thursday, March seventeenth—
President of Student Body; Sec
retary of Student Body; Treasur
er of Student Body; Advisory
Committee.
Friday, March eighteenth—
Boarding Student President; Day
Student President; Editor of Cor
onet; Editor of Blues; Editor of
Quill.
Monday, March twenty-fourth
—S. C. A. President; R. A. Pres
ident; Honor Council; Publica
tion^ Board.
Tuesday, Mcirch twenty-second
—Day. Student Council; Boarding
Student Council.
Wednesday, March twenty-
third—S. C. A. Council; R. A.
Council.
Thursday, March twenty-fourth
—Class Officers and Representa
tives.
Friday, March twenty-fifth—
Installation.
CHAPEL SCHEDULE
Friday March 4 Dr. Dan Cald
well from Greensboro
Tuesday March 8 Mr. Crandall—
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Friday March 11 Mrs. Godard
Tuesday March 15 Dr. Blakley
March 16-23 Student Government
Elections
Friday March 25 Installation of
Student Government Officers
Tuesday March 29 Miss Rachel
Wiley from the Assembly’s Train
ing School in Richmond, Va.